Warn Players of Downsides of taking Ascension options...

[MGSteve]

I love Stellaris, I really do. But occasionally, it really, realllllly annoys me.

One such example, at 2400 I decided to go down the Synth route & finally started the 20 odd month special project to do this.

What do I get as a result - a crashed economy thanks to the number of empire species undergoing assimilation.

Thankfully I've got a Dyson Sphere nearing completion and I should be able to sell enough resources to get me until that point, but had I known this would happen, I would have stockpiled more in the mean time.

Not exactly what I need with a 25x Crisis looming in about 75 years and the mid game crisis overdue...

 

[JagoTheFanaticalPurifier]

This looks to be a bug. The project is supposed to completely enhance every one of your pops with cybernetic implants, not by assimilation, but ounce the project is complete, they all should have had the "Cyborg" trait.

 

[Mastikator]

This has been very buggy for a very long time, it's not unusual for already cyborg aliens to become re-assimilated and then seemingly get stuck in that mode forever. I've seen cyborg pops get replaced by empty portraits that never go away and never do anything. Entire species just turn into ghosts.