What's up with some empires without founder species?

[Sinister2202]

I see at least half a dozen empires made up of bunch of different species, but not a single founder species in sight. Has anyone seen this?

Also, what makes the game decide to prioritize other species to grow, other than your own? This seem to be very common and my founder species almost got overrun by foreigners.

 

[Saviour of Galaxy]

"Hey, I've got an hilarious idea: lets remove that filphy humans from Earth and beyond!" - some random alien citizen of UNE

 

[Slynx]

maybe they sold most their founder species on a market? AI loves doing it. and the rest are scattered across the galaxy on some random planets

 

[AlanC9]

Also, what makes the game decide to prioritize other species to grow, other than your own? This seem to be very common and my founder species almost got overrun by foreigners.

The new pop growth system seems to be the rare Stellaris feature that is universally hated.

 

[Gratak]

The new pop growth system seems to be the rare Stellaris feature that is universally hated.

Well the idea is decent, the implementation could hardly be worse...

 

[Baron Jukaga]

Yeah, kinda glad I decided to hold off the new update till it's sorted out. Sounds like quite the mess for now. I'll surely return to it in a few months, for now there are many new releases to play.

 

[Magdaki]

Well the idea is decent, the implementation could hardly be worse...

Yes, this. Almost exactly this. I have confidence that Paradox will fix it of course (they are good at listening to us), and to be fair sometimes it is hard to know exactly how a design decision will be received until it is out in the wild. But it is bad. Really bad.