I hope they'd make it much faster to build POPs if you go down this path.
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The robots grow at a set rate and it is faster then normal pop growth depending on habitability, food surplus, and pops already on the planet.
So presumably you would want a body that looks different than the default synth?
Sure. So would everyone. My entire point is that having a single portrait for the synths of any species is unrealistic because half the point of uploading is that it frees you from the prison of limited biology. You could have a dozen bodies for different purposes- you could jump between them, you could fork yourself across them, you could modify and retrofit and change them out as you wanted. Your bodies could be as specialized or as generalized as you'd like.
But that's not exactly plausible to depict on an art-design level. So I have zero issue with Paradox having one portrait for all synths as shorthand for "this is an artificial, robotic POP unit" at a glance.
Will we hate our new bodies if we are xenophobic?
"When you complete the Synthetic Ascension Path in Utopia, you will be able to choose the name of your now gloriously post-biological people." - Wiz
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I'm going to name my species Talos Principle.
EDIT: Woops, today is march the 1st... Sorry people... I just really forget what day it is after uni exams and... Things like that... Sorry, lol.
Let's not forget one problem with using a single graphics for all robots - if multiple empires finish synth ascention then we'll end up with multiple species looking identical.
That can already happen though. It's just rare- same as a completed Ascension Path will likely be.
Arguably if you are trying to take over the whole galaxy, then you might be a Crisis from the PoV of the other empires.
Surprisingly he chosen least obvious name for digitalised ones instead of usual "post-human".
Just because it's rare does not mean it should not be discouraged (in fact, there were tons of justified complaints about this before the Devs limited reusing portraits somewhat), and I don't think ascensions are going to be all that rare, especially on 1000 stars maps, as that's just 4 ascention slots, one of which can be gained via tech.
I'd say being able to side with a Crisis could be an interesting twist to sometimes pull off.
It would provide an interesting end-game, as while yes the bonuses are rather absurd it would quickly become you vs the entire galaxy; win or lose, the game is ending. Though it would require a way to make wars slog a bit less... specialized war goals, perhaps?
Given how fast they went through the traditions tree during the stream (even if not final numbers are not final), I wouldn't say that. There's nothing that seem to block Ascension Paths, so eventually every empire has a chance to choose one. I think it's rather safe to assume that at least 3 empires will choose the same path in a big galaxy - that's still 3 identical robotic pops. Even a bit of colour variation would be welcome.
But really... robotic fungus! Mycelium with terminator eyes! Blorgs made of friendly and adhesive meta-silicate particles! No one could escape the friendship anymore...
There are more than enough Perks that you could absolutely choose not to take the ultra-specialized Ascension Path ones- on top of which, the Ascension Paths are highly-involved event chains requiring multiple steps and many resources to complete.
I very sincerely doubt repeats of the same Path are something worth worrying about or that Paradox will bother with it- at least beyond, as you suggest, colour variations. That's easy (the "playable synth" mods already tend to include a few palette swaps). Pretty sure we wont be seeing species-specific variants though.
Ok, so that generic synth potrait means i will never ever choose that ascension path. Damn it sucks.
It was pretty clear the art was far from done as many traditions and a few techs didn't have icons yet.
Well that's wrong, the artists work on the portraits, so they would waste no time in the game itself. I wont be that guy, but the expansion costs 20€, few more portraits would not be out of the reach, just few humanoids and few "strange".
I'll hold my breath until today's diary, hope dies last. This is the case for humanoid Synth Path after all.
Do you think the artists only work on portraits? Or is it not more likely they have many art assets to be working on- event title banners, ship textures, etc?
I would however change the bulb collour of the transcended spiecies just to differenate them from regular synths.
At the moment, there are no ship textures planned nor title banners.