honestly the arc and swarm are so powerful its stupid. the origin its self is just so gd if u are a waring nation in 20 years u can get a max level arc and be pumping out hundreds of alloys a month. a lot of people seem to think its really bad because of the opportunity cost but honestly I think its well worth it being able to just focus all ur pops on tech because space is funding all ur fleets and tech

Arc Wielders+Astro Mining Bays+Cybrex Drills=$$$$

Prosperity is very strong first/second pick with Arc Welders/Astro-mining drones since it has adoption effect of +20% mining station output. It has building/district upkeep reduction as well, which is honestly not that good up until late game so you could just pick it and switch to another tradition.

The Machine Age brings also new achievements

arc furnaces produced a weird meta. it is now meta to choose the sol system as a start. because sol has by far the most celestial bodies for arc furnace to create deposits on. it may not be a huge difference for other origins, but they, too, will eventually unlock arc furnaces and having a sol system reserved for it gives you a small leg up.

One of the first custom empires I made when the machine age came out was an arc furnace empire as it looked super interesting. I didn’t make it too strong, but it was still super fun to play. I have waited for someone to do a video on it to guide people because I want the full power. Thank you for doing this!

You missed something important with nanites. Swarmers ships don't have an upkeep and don't count against naval cap. You just keep getting more and more. And they auto create on the capital. Subsume world is wicked strong too, as a nanite world just gives you max mining and energy districts.

The adoption effect for prosperity gives you additional mining station output!

Cybrex Precursor is redonkulous when paired with Arc furnace (Cybrex gives a +100% to mining station outputs which stacks ontop of the +100% that Arc furnace gives at max). Also a way to bypass Arc furnace limit (untested) is to build it to max and then abandon the system and reconquer later and then restore it.

“Is prosperity good? Is there anything that buffs mining from space? No?” Prosperity opener is Mining Station buff… “not playing optimally!”

Why did u take logic engines? The adaptice frames would have just given u the logic engines to ur researchers

Go with this for one system challenge and nanites are BONKERS, go brrrrr

You can build a dyson swarm in the same system as an arc furnace. There is even an achievement for it. Of all the synthetic ascention paths, virtuality is by far the strongest, especially if you only have a few planets. It gives a gigantic (175%!!!) Extra job produciton, a 90% housing reduction and every job you create instantly creates a pop to fill it. The only issue is that Every colony give you negatives. The sweet sport is usually around 5-7 planets. Although you can cheat by making and releasing vassals. It plays super well with arc furnace origin because you can have pretty much all your basic ressource production off-world. It also gives you an early access to the megastructure technology to build stuff like science nexus. It mesh well with the ecumenopolis ascention perk.

Maybe try syncratic evolotion origin with indivitualist machines for a video. It gives u a starting pop griwth of 11

Could you post what bagground music you use? Nice video btw i really like the new nanites!

Message in bottle arc site creates a minor artifact deposit on the star, put a dyson swarm over it and you get +30 MA every months, not necessarily strong but funny as f. Also in my playthroughs one of my stars produced 7 minerals for some reason. There're just so much you can do with dyson swarm

You can tell a player has been spoiled by vassals lol Prosperity is one of my 1st picks because I love playing genocidal empires and buffing your space resources is crucial to early game survival

RS might actually not be anymore best for unity, Resource Consolidation now with the machine world changes might be better actually

Arc furnace one system empire with the strange surveyor relic

Arc welders and virtual makes going tall both fun and powerful

I wish to see that ark furnace in an ancient mining drones' system

That minerals from jobs tech is also minerals from constructions

Honestly idk why logic engines and adaptive frames don't stack in some way, because adaptive frames just makes all those old traits obsolete otherwise.

Finally, a proper Protocol Droids portrait for Ep3o

Just out of curiosity: Other than astro-mining being available, is there any particular reason to pick gestalt over individualist?

Can you do a video about your ship designs? I can never make my own, and your ships usually stomp the other empires

I had trouble with energy production with this build.

Cool vid

The arc furnace sometimes doesn't buff some astroids and planets

Systems go brrr!

Would running a trade focused economy be better for energy production to pop ratio? The 50%less from menial jobs would matter depending if the trade producing pop is a worker or specialist though

I've used the exact same build last week. I loved it but you qhould never construct a dyson swarm around a 4 or lower energy star, done it twice. At least 5 energy and if lucky 9 or 12

I had my arc furnace super system get rushed by the enemy AI. It crippled my entire economy.

Know what im using in the next community game now

Logic engines don't work with Adaptive frames btw. Edit: nvm im idiot :3

Casually crushes the galaxy, meanwhile im just trying to maintain my position as 3rd most powerful in the galactic community, a little behind the other two and one war is gonna work me lol

what portrait mod is he using

Shouldn't you have went ocean paradise to make the "ultimate system" for the massive planet and nebula :p

wOW

😮

When will you do more achievement runs? 😅

hi

Nice, that E3po still thinks that robots are bad at generating unity... try trade robots with marketplace of ideas

Using this origin i do its weird Buy notiing trade value wont fix

Petition for Ep3o to Play HELLDIVERS 2 ||

why adaptive frames AND logic engines together? you’re wasting points

A million views in half a second ? Bro fell on

That is weak af. Get artifact from mining bots, have one system and spam it on CD. Dyson swarm energy output and special resources output are absolutely disgusting. If you ever use this tip in any of your videos. Put my lovely face, not even my name. That is all I ask.

Does adaptive frame stack with logic engines? I thought adaptive added the trait of logic engine not an equivalent