your hive mind
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Since we have zero idea what any of the hive mind civics are it is impossible to say
Yes but there has been no information on what the different hive mind only civics do.
You will inevitability kill off all the non hivemind aliens anyways. They will end up on a big plate. Hope they are all tasty. Then there is no point in any fanatic purifiers. And maybe we get a different hivemind civic that does the same thing.
Unless you want to go out of your way to avoid being one you will basically play as a fanatical purifier anyway.
But then you don't get the nice bonus from the fanatical purifier civic. As well as the greatest perk, of not having to deal with all these pathetic diplomatic requests from weakling empires, on a monthly basis.
So you want, apart from all of the other bonuses that hive minds get, one that gives you enormous rewards for a playstyle that you will already have with fairly negligable penalties as well (considering how most empires probably won't be all that amused at you annyway), is that right?
i always wondered why hiveminds can't access Psionic (looks like a logical evolution path) or robotics(they are already building drones...why not take a step further?)
But the point is that you can, and probably will, roleplay like a fanatical purifier anyway so it will just give you a bunch of really big bonuses while not actually restricting your playstyle a lot.
Zerg or flood expy. Since they seem the most compatible with the way stellaris will simulate them. Autonomous drones == Cerabrate, Proto gravemind
Psionic link like how they are described in stellaris is also quite compatible. Since that's how the overmind and gravemind communicate with their drones ,People complain about the lack of psionic ascension, but the Zerg don't fight with Jedi (psionic warriors, come on guys that is what they are) so I think it's a silly complaint, also zerg are experts at bio evolution stuff since that's how they got everything anyway.
Psionic link like how they are described in stellaris is also quite compatible. Since that's how the overmind and gravemind communicate with their drones ,People complain about the lack of psionic ascension, but the Zerg don't fight with Jedi (psionic warriors, come on guys that is what they are) so I think it's a silly complaint, also zerg are experts at bio evolution stuff since that's how they got everything anyway.
The hive mind I was thinking of is basically an ecosystem who have has grown an intelligence.
In the lore (see post above) they are pariara's because they lack the ability to speak and hear. (make for hard communications)
They/it became intelligence by turning the giant jungle in one giant brain. a bit like the idea if a lot of computers could spawn an intelligence being but this time with a lot of trees and plants.
In the lore (see post above) they are pariara's because they lack the ability to speak and hear. (make for hard communications)
They/it became intelligence by turning the giant jungle in one giant brain. a bit like the idea if a lot of computers could spawn an intelligence being but this time with a lot of trees and plants.
How would it be logical? The Hive Mind is already existing psionically, giving mindless drones psionics if it's even possible would be pointless.
Because they control their drones biologically, and if those drones become robots there is no reason that they could control them anymore. It would be like if you cut off your arm to use as a club, sure it works but why would you mutilate yourself?
My Hive will be flytraps from a spiritual collective called "The Melon Patch."
At first merely our roots were entwined, but with time our minds and souls became entwined as well. Together we learned to walk, then strive across the world. Now on our world there is only the Melon Patch, That Which Fuels It and the Holy Path that leads the former to the later.
At first merely our roots were entwined, but with time our minds and souls became entwined as well. Together we learned to walk, then strive across the world. Now on our world there is only the Melon Patch, That Which Fuels It and the Holy Path that leads the former to the later.
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because hive mind is some connection between species. some variants of hiveminds described in sci-fi uses telepathic links or psionic fields to achieve this.
so ascensions looks like a logical growth of powers of the hivemind.
again depends on your interpretation. in a generic case we can imagine synthetic-based hiveminds (geth?), biologic hiveminds(zerg?) and psionic hive minds(illithid)
not drones. everyone became partly synthetic as described in ascension path
increase of computing power? faster reaction to allow more precise control on bigger area. for example. idk...it mostly depends on your idea of what your hivemind is. after all it's not only min-max. some storywise decisions can fit too. even if they are non optimal
Right but just because both are psionic does not mean they're compatible, fluff wise Paradox has decided they aren't.
No, I'm talking about actual Stellaris hive minds which are biological and linked together via psionics.
Why? The only everyone in Stellaris hive minds are drones and autonomous drones neither of which would significantly benefit from complete roboticization, sure cybernetics wouldn't be antithetical but turning into robots would likely kill the hive mind.
The hive mind is psionic, there is nothing to suggest that turning its drones into robots would do anything other than kill it. It just doesn't work IMO for Stellaris hive minds.