u/Haunting-Sport3701

I am looking at the effects and it seems pretty good, faster claims, faster colony development and less empire size from districts and planets.

I’m thinking of going Expansion/Mercantile for my one two, so as to substitute factory planets with trade planets and get early utopian abundance.

Also, are there any benefits to Adaptability past the +10% habitability, I’m doing a Broken Shackles run and the habitability is enticing but I’m not sure if it’s worth a while tradition slot which could be used for Discovery and faster surveying or Prosperity and more resources.

I was looking through people's ideas for custom empires and really liked one suggestion of a UNE where instead of closing the CoM wormhole started letting through the Abandoned Hatchery, leading to them becoming more militarist going into the Starlit Citadel origin.

What I know I want to use is the origin, humans, and the Sovereign Guardianship civic, since they seem complimentary. However I'm unsure what other civics, traits and ascension is considered good for Tall builds, I'm new to Stellaris as a whole and even moreso to playing tall.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

Habitability and job efficiency on my capital.

I've finished the Mutation tree and expected a big jump in job efficiency due to the cap going to 250% and me getting the baol meaning that I get 200% of the gate with Gaia and Gaia preference, however it seems to cap at 125% and +6 efficiency.

As the first Empire added to the game UNE doesn’t make us of a lot of interesting content created after it.

If you were to improve UNE, be it through origins, civic, race traits, ethics etc. Not just mechanically but also as to provide a more interesting narrative experience.

(And since we’re already talking about humans what changes would you make to the CoM as well.)

It makes no sense, I can only assume the game tries picking high level leaders but the whole story premise doesn’t work with paragons, and losing a level 8 scientist I just got is extremely irritating.

Is there some way to protect a paragon from this event?

If not, does anyone know the command for the Scru event?

I want to try out some more unique ascension perks but am missing space for them with all the must-takes, so I’m thinking of replacing the usual 1-2 One Vision + Tech Ascendancy with Voidborne + Xeno-compatibility.

I tried it once and got Gene Tailoring in time before unlocking the third ascension perk (I want to start biomorphosis as soon as possible), but the Habitat tech just wouldn’t appear, is there anything I can do to speed it’s appearance up?

Ps.

I don’t have that much experience with the game is: Supremacy - Diplomacy - Harmony - Statecraft - Discovery - Expansion + Ascension, a good set of tradition trees or would you replace some.

Pps.

In which order would you pick them?

https://preview.redd.it/2i2fvlekib0h1.png?width=1041&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa9ee21e98f99e8431da3e33224feff13bd2d284

Would this be a good start for a machine empire going virtuality?

I get that I won't be able to rebuild the relic world but it's here for the roleplay, and I thought I might be able to use it to make this an archeotech build.

I'm new to both MI, and playing tall so any advice you have to share is wanted.

I’m thinking of trying out a machine empire for the first time.

Maybe going virtuality, maybe going morally grey cosmogenesis.

I’m gonna take the Ringworld origin and roleplay as if that moss-covered machine portait is a sub-species of the Cybrex who were shut down and left behind only to reawaken millennia later with no memory data.

Now for the question, I really wanna do tall this time because spending a 150 years just claiming systems became a chore in my last wide playthrough.

I’ll have the origin Ringworld and Cybrex Alpha, but I’m thinking it’d be cool to get Cybrex Beta too, but since it’s tall I don’t know what the chances are to get it close to a relatively small empire.

Ps. Any suggestions you may have for playing machines would be appreciated.

Just watched the old Cosmogenesis trailer, it was metal af, and got me trying to recreate the species from the trailer.

What do you guys think it would be like; origin, traits, civics and even neighbour, how do you think things would be set up for it?

For those who use the default empires, what is your favourite way to reunite UNE and CoM?

Conquest/Integration?

Vassalage?

Federation?

Extra: If you do fully merge do you change your empire name or government type?