#STELLARIS LIMBO HIVE MIND PLUS#

It also means production of resources just increases the more you take.ĭownside is that Total Wars can take multiple tries to win completely, meaning that you'll have to surround the 'defeated' empire that you failed to completely destroy to contain them.

#STELLARIS LIMBO HIVE MIND PLUS#

On the plus side, capturing Starports becomes permanent and will become part of your empire as soon as it is captured, given that there aren't any occupied planets. If you go down the Devouring Swarm route, make sure to try to surround smaller empires at the start of the game to slow their growth whilst building up your fleet and supporting it, going for the kill as soon as you can safely do so.Ī major benefit and possible downside about being a Devouring Swarm is that EVERY war counts as a 'Total War', meaning that victory can only be obtained once all territories and planets are taken. The bonuses to everything plus the fact that you'll purge everyone, using them for food is amazing in the short term and setting higher food stockpiles can kick ass! Stepping up a notch, the Devouring Swarm Civic turns your Hive Mind into a rapid breeding menace, being able to declare war with anyone just by having a connecting border.

Combine the surplus food bonus that you'll definitely get from this as well as the base growth speed of Hive Minds and any other traits and you'll find that colonising new planets is a breeze as all your files are filled slowly. As you can only study the biological ascension path (since you're already psychic enough and can't be mechanical), this should be easier to do than with other empires.Īlternatively, due to the need of food, a tactic is to annex primitive worlds by invading them or taking the worlds of your enemies and setting them to livestock slavery rights for 6 units of food per slave pop. Organic Hive Minds can't support other forms of life that aren't hive minded and you CAN assimilate them, though this requires biological modification.

This means any allies you want need to be thought through carefully. You can still make Non-Aggression-Pacts and Defensive Pacts, though it'll take longer and require some bribery down the line. Organic Hive Minds are naturally vilified by other empires and as such you'll suffer a natural malus to your opinion with any non-hive mind empire. Now, as forementioned, you don't have to worry about happiness or factions, so taking bonuses to your influence and mineral production can REALLY help you out, especially since you can't get any bonus influence from factions and you are unable to gain bonuses to production via happiness. These guys aren't doing the Hive Mind Gameplay Justice so now I'm stepping in to help you out, so strap in for your beginners guide to Hive Minds!Īlong with the +1 Monthly Influence and the +2 Core Systems, you've got some bonuses from both Authoritarian and Pacifist Ethics as well as being able to do a large chunk of what the other ethic types can do (such as Purging, Displacing, Enslaving, The ability to use Indiscriminate and Armageddon Bombardment policies, etc) whilst not needing to worry about factions (a double edged sword, as you can't get any bonus influence but you don't need to worry about unrest and uprisings for the most part) nor about happiness as all your population thinks with a unified mind!

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