Okay, so I finally ran full synthetic ascension just for the fun of it. I've won the game without a problem, and I didn't even have to attack the FEs. (I did for fun, though.) We're militarist, xenophile, egalitarians. We will make you free whether you like it or not.
But there is something I can't figure out.
I have a number of overpopulated worlds with significant unemployment. Fair enough. Years of organics growing alongside robot construction will do that. I have a number of mostly empty worlds (including an ecumenpolis) that could use a few hundred POPs.
Here's the thing: I have plenty of migration listed in the tooltips for my planets. With unemployment and a lack of housing, there's plenty of push going out from several worlds. But what makes no sense is that migration seems to only affect the organics in my empire. I have a few scattered organics on various worlds (migration treaties) that are growing (and assimilating). So, I technically have POPs moving around. But the production of synths seems unaffected by any of these factors. And as a synth ascended empire, I don't have the ME decision to stop producing robots. I'd have to just turn those capital jobs off (creating more unemployment).
Put another way, if I didn't have any organics in my empire at all, would I even be able to have any benefit from internal migration? Are some synth POPs moving themselves around when I'm not looking? Or should I really just shut down all those robot production jobs on over-filled planets, since free synths won't bother to move? If none of these things are possible, then does it even make sense to turn all organics into synths if you ascend? Or should you keep some organics around just to benefit from immigration and emigration?
But there is something I can't figure out.
I have a number of overpopulated worlds with significant unemployment. Fair enough. Years of organics growing alongside robot construction will do that. I have a number of mostly empty worlds (including an ecumenpolis) that could use a few hundred POPs.
Here's the thing: I have plenty of migration listed in the tooltips for my planets. With unemployment and a lack of housing, there's plenty of push going out from several worlds. But what makes no sense is that migration seems to only affect the organics in my empire. I have a few scattered organics on various worlds (migration treaties) that are growing (and assimilating). So, I technically have POPs moving around. But the production of synths seems unaffected by any of these factors. And as a synth ascended empire, I don't have the ME decision to stop producing robots. I'd have to just turn those capital jobs off (creating more unemployment).
Put another way, if I didn't have any organics in my empire at all, would I even be able to have any benefit from internal migration? Are some synth POPs moving themselves around when I'm not looking? Or should I really just shut down all those robot production jobs on over-filled planets, since free synths won't bother to move? If none of these things are possible, then does it even make sense to turn all organics into synths if you ascend? Or should you keep some organics around just to benefit from immigration and emigration?
