Unity Production, how much?

[I Killed Kenny]

Hi Guys,

I'm in my first game of Utopia and I wonder, if I'm producing too much or too little unity.

Right now it is 2275, with a scientific minded empire, with 8 planets and I'm producing 26 unity.

How am I faring?

 

[-Marauder-]

That seems, very low? Then again, your empire might be small and you might have passed on perks to increase unity generation.

 

[BrokenSky]

If you stack huge unity generation you can get all he traditions. It's actually very unsatisfying to do though, since the whole idea of traditions is to give different types of empire bonuses. It kind of flies in the face of the whole thing to be a specialist at everything, like if you could take every idea tree in EUIV.

Anyway so the important questions really are: what type of empire are you running, and what traditions do you have? If you're science you probably want to have finished the science tree and be somewhere through the third one, assuming you're not focusing on unity, I think?

But to be fair the main run I did was unity heavy and I had ~5 done by ~2300, before my population and planet number exploded (terraforming and all that) and the whole machine slowed down a lot, so I'm back-projecting for what I think a non-unity empire should have done?

 

[-Marauder-]

Wait, we are not meant to do that? I kinda rushed through the entire thing so I had it done by 2350. It's directly related to the ascension perks etc afterall.

 

[BrokenSky]

Wait, we are not meant to do that? I kinda rushed through the entire thing so I had it done by 2350. It's directly related to the ascension perks etc afterall.

On your first play-through or generally?

 

[krios41]

8 planets and I'm producing 26 unity.

that's... low....
90 years into the game i produced 200 unity a month with 6 planets

 

[-Marauder-]

On your first play-through or generally?

First game, kinda rushed through the entire thing to see what's up.

 

[Cagliostro]

I *think* that the idea is that you're supposed to be able to go hogwild with unity and make that your win strategy, or basically treat it as a perk and play the game the way it was before Utopia.

 

[bot9k]

that's... low....
90 years into the game i produced 200 unity a month with 6 planets

That's pretty much from the other end of the spectrum then isn't it? I mean that does sound pretty high. I'm 69 years into a game and producing +83 unity a month with 14 planets. I try to have both Temple and Autochton Monument on most planets. Playing with Kingdom of Yondarim preset race and I've taken One Vision + Consecrated Worlds as my first two perks, so not going too Unity heavy either. I would imagine this is kind of quite mid-tier gain?

 

[krios41]

That's pretty much from the other end of the spectrum then isn't it? I mean that does sound pretty high. I'm 69 years into a game and producing +83 unity a month with 14 planets. I try to have both Temple and Autochton Monument on most planets. Playing with Kingdom of Yondarim preset race and I've taken One Vision + Consecrated Worlds as my first two perks, so not going too Unity heavy either. I would imagine this is kind of quite mid-tier gain?

I dunno. perhaps it's because i placed down every unity building i could (except on my homeworld, only have the holotemple there, and i didn't use the visitor center anywhere). it wasn't my goal to accumulate so much unity each month tbh, it just kinda...happend...

 

[bot9k]

I dunno. perhaps it's because i placed down every unity building i could (except on my homeworld, only have the holotemple there, and i didn't use the visitor center anywhere). it wasn't my goal to accumulate so much unity each month tbh, it just kinda...happend...

Kinda funny, but actually now that I'm 93 years in the game with same amount of planets (14) I'm making +167 unity a month. So not too far. I'm making some extra from a consecrated planet and two federation allies too.

 

[-Marauder-]

Kinda funny, but actually now that I'm 93 years in the game with same amount of planets (14) I'm making +167 unity a month. So not too far. I'm making some extra from a consecrated planet and two federation allies too.

There is a lot + unity within the system itself, aswell as techs that reduce the Unity increase per planet.