Robot Pops
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It seems they are available early on, as the blorg passed over the technology to begin their tech branch within 1-2 techs, but I believe they require more teches to gain more colonization types, and efficiency. In other words they are available early, but take investment to become truly worth while (compared to just using other races)
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Depends entirely on tech research. In that Super Bird MP game, Henrik already has Robots at 2271. FYI, game start date is 2200, and the latest Blorg stream ended at 2267.
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WOW! WOW! ONE robot pop need TWO POINT ZERO Energy Creds Maintenance?
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Keep in mind that there are likely techs that'd lower the maintenance cost. Besides, Robot POPs have 100% Habitability and 100% Happiness, which leads to 100% Efficiency and 100% Productivity. Look, they're even happier than the Super Birds themselves!
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Well an organic Pop working on a standard farm can feed itself and one other, while a robot Pop working on a power plant can power itself and half of another. Sure, robots get less efficient compared to organics as you get better facilities, but it's not awful. Organics would, of course, be preferable to robots if it was at all possible to have them.
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I hope Sectors don't start mass producing Robot Pops because this can easily derail your economics
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Not really, as sectors manage their own economics and you tax them. So, I would assume, if they had no energy surplus, they wouldn't produce robot pops.
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Okay. Second question: can I give Robotic AI equal rights and prevent Rise Of Machines? Or AI still be considering filthy meatbags as a threat/lesser?
Why is another matter entirely - the soulless machines ought to know their place.
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Like voting for the Candidate that gave them the vote
Losing the popular vote? Build more voters who will support you.
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That was the rational behind President Zhy-!^dar (bird-noise) of the Nephinian Confederacy giving the AI in his nation voting rights. Unfortunately, he gave them too much freedom, and it caused them to resent him for implying that they owed him anything. It was the most spectacular loss in Nephinian history.
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What I would like to know is if robots have to be rebuilt when you research a technology that improves them.
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I look forward to sending robotic soldiers to fight all of my enemies. They will be given full rights in my regime, naturally.
I would really like it if we could choose to build robots for each generalized tech level.
Why? because of the risk of sentient rebellion, I'd like to be able to build 'toaster' grade robots on some planets, moderate level on others (where I think I could handle the rare chance of them revolting) and super advanced robots only where I either know I can control them, or don't care if I lose.
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Or you could include them as regular citizens and not worry about any of it. Well, you would still worry about it of course, just not anymore than standard, organic citizens.