Merge different robot species.

[Aussiehawker]

I'm playing a conqueror game, where I now have a bunch of different robot species. Its a mess, and its frankly getting worse, as they start growing on other planets.

Please add an option to convert other robot species, into the empires main robot species. It would be a big QOL help, and its likely help the performance of the game, if there are fewer errant species running around.

 

[Nebbie Zebbie]

They are clearly not the same robot - they have a different paint job!

On a serious note - pretty please let us merge these into 1 thing. I assume it would also improve performance - less species to cycle through.

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Had something just like this recently as Fanatic Purifiers. It wasn't until I decided to try to kill all the robots that I realized I had like a dozen species of them sitting around because all the places I conquered had them. AIs hardly ever don't build robots, so there's guarantees you'll just be stuck with these.

Yeah but that's every thread here.

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And yet some suggestions do make it into the game, so clearly some threads are being read in secret.

It's like some kind of self-espionage operation.

Pretty sure they just didn't implement the implemented flag marking. Ironic...

 

[Calimora]

I'd love to be able to merge my robots and to be able to downgrade their AI functions. If I can nerve staple my bio-pops then I should be able to build my toasters with Pentium i3 processors. If I intend to keep my AI shackled in servitude the obvious answer is to restrict the technology that goes into them.

 

[StrangelySmooth]

I don't know everything above.. but yes, if they're just robots.... they should be able to be merged.

 

[Armed Avacado]

Allow a robo-modding template to be applied to any and all "species" of robot (but maintain the difference between mechanical and machine pops).

The next time you robo-mod, you can merge them all into one species.

 

[Rodmar18]

Allow a robo-modding template to be applied to any and all "species" of robot [...] The next time you robo-mod, you can merge them all into one species.

Either:

1. Consider appearance as just another trait (as you say), or
2. Make change of appearance an exclusive modding act that requires both robot models to be strictly equal beforehand (more costly in resource and time as it requires two modding projects).

 

[StrangelySmooth]

I'd love to be able to merge my robots and to be able to downgrade their AI functions. If I can nerve staple my bio-pops then I should be able to build my toasters with Pentium i3 processors. If I intend to keep my AI shackled in servitude the obvious answer is to restrict the technology that goes into them.

Deleted scene from Terminator 2... Go look for it. lol That would keep the machines down.

 

[jmpveg22]

Deleted scene from Terminator 2... Go look for it. lol That would keep the machines down.

Special edition T2 makes a great movie... into a perfect movie!!!

 

[zlorg]

Year 2024 and we are not allowed to merge robots.

 

[rylasasin]

Honestly, robots should all be one species to begin with, with every variant being a subspecies of the main one. Though note I said 'robot' species, not 'machine' or 'synthetic'.

 

[HFY]

Honestly, robots should all be one species to begin with, with every variant being a subspecies of the main one. Though note I said 'robot' species, not 'machine' or 'synthetic'.

There's a mod which does that:

Steam Workshop::Unified Robotic Species

steamcommunity.com

I'm using it now and it works.

 

[GhostDanny]

There's a mod which does that:

Steam Workshop::Unified Robotic Species

steamcommunity.com

I'm using it now and it works.

I guess that doesn't work with achievement compatible, right?

 

[HFY]

I guess that doesn't work with achievement compatible, right?

Yep, you're stuck just enjoying the game more, rather than being paid in fake trophies to suffer tedium.

Quite terrible, very sad for us mod users to enjoy the game more.

 

[GhostDanny]

Yep, you're stuck just enjoying the game more, rather than being paid in fake trophies to suffer tedium.

Quite terrible, very sad for us mod users to enjoy the game more.

I might be masochistic for achievement hunting.
Already spend so long trying to get the clone army one to destroy a fallen spiritualist empire.
I thought I had it once, it was MY army to destroy their final planet, but I didn't get it.

 

[HFY]

I might be masochistic for achievement hunting.
Already spend so long trying to get the clone army one to destroy a fallen spiritualist empire.
I thought I had it once, it was MY army to destroy their final planet, but I didn't get it.

Nah it's a common human behavioral pattern to respond to rewards, even totally fake ones. That's why they use them.

But you can always turn mods off later if you feel the urge to try for one of them again.

 

[GhostDanny]

But you can always turn mods off later if you feel the urge to try for one of them again.

I'm ALWAYS going for them XD

 

[Anemetius]

here we are in 2024 still stuck with 1234 robots in species tab

 

[GOLANX]

New dev diary says this will now be possible

 

[Skeletr0nKing]

That's for robotic empires I think?
I hope this new DLC/free update also adds the capacity to choose one "standard" robot species and allow you to give assimilation rights to all other robots even if you're an organic empire

 

[Darkrenown]

I asked in the DD if other races could assimilate their robots too, but no answer