This is absolutely cursed.

Oh god

anti necrophage be like

Your profile picture makes it so much better lol

Ouch

Me: three corvettes

Me: 0 Corvettes - due to doorway :D

@@iso1molly1iso I raise you 3 corvettes but with no weapons because I used the alloys earlier.

indeed, trades won't bring your credits to 0 and the usefulness of it really doesn't click until you make trade juggling part of your routine. Keeps you from having energy credits doing nothing in your stockpile and topping up other resources. I am usually too focused on other tasks to buy the minerals or alloys i need till the game says I don't have enough for something I need, which makes it take longer to do things like expand or build a fleet. But if you set up those trades in advance, you'll almost always have enough minerals and alloys to do things at the soonest possible moment without having to juggle jobs too much, and the advantage compounds on itself as you get into the mid game. Now that I have tried it as well, there will definitely be some better games ahead.

@@randymotter51 how do u trade juggle

Living Tombstones? Sounds familiar...

I had the same problem. Gene mod them to their first pattern then delete the problematic pattern and re assimilate and mod them. Problem is often solved like that.

Based and rockpilled

I've started to essentially do "builds" in livestream format. For the past few months, whenever I came up with a strong build I shared it on stream rather than an edited vid. Not everyone has the time to watch a stream though, so Im going back to making build vids as well.

This is still an interesting idea. You could say that Progenitor is self symbiotic.

This...I have no clue how he was able to get that much alloy. I want to see a how-to vid on that.

You have to see it diffrently. you dont even want your main pops, in mid/lategame they are only for ruler jobs and if you ever run low just put a species you conquered on purge. Ive done a few things with bio ascention and what you can do is make every species you conquer the same with all bonus traits and put them on indentured servitude (way less micro than chattered slavery and nerve staple) if you manage to get some pops with special traits (racket with psionic and tomb world habitability are the best) put all others on population controls and have them grow on every planet. you will have awesome pop growth, great traits, full habitability everywhere and clonevats dont require pops working there (as opposed to roboticists) which means they scale better when pop cost goes through the roof and food becomes super efficient to produce. Now synth ascention is still stronger because of the +20% productivity from robots, the extra districts from mineral/energy buildings and the increased base energy production. both of them are not worth delaying "become the crisis" for your third pick though which is so overpowerd it could cost 3 ascention perk slots and still be overpowered.

it's easy, just wait until 9 years after you unemploy them, so on year 9, 19, 29, and so on, and then re-employ them, in other words, just pause the game on year 9, then employ them again, and then repeat it every 10 years.

@@DaDeadDuck So is it every tenth in game year or 10 years from the last ritual? Say I build a second building on my colony in year 5. does that mean it will have the ritual on years 15, 25, 35, and etc? Or will it still be based on the 10 year game mark of year 10, 20, 30, and etc? Because the more planets you have the harder it will be to keep track of when each of them is having their ritual which was my whole point. How can you keep track of it across multiple planets on when this even is going to take place? It seems like a massive amount of micro once you got a couple dozen planets going and keeping tabs on that in MP would be a nightmare cause no pausing.

@@PyroMancer2k yes it's every 10 years from the start of the game and for multiplayer, good luck!

There is a higher chance of a necrophage being a worker than a planet not having enough housing (due to me playing optimally and gunning for extra planet carrying capacity whenever possible), so I use solitary.

@@Stefan_Anon Thanks for answering! I usually play laid back tree of life hive mind , so i was thinking about playing something different. 😁

Indentured servant pops can colonize

I believe its an intended feature

It's intended and happens automatically once you've learned glandular acclimation.

Yes it is, there should be the link in the description

You just had big palnets. You can always build city and industrial districts. Only Agri minerals and energy are limited.

Oh and what about fanatic purifiers?

Not really, first of all, this is based on slavery and Fanatic Purifiers purge other aliens on default which you only want to do if it’s a big amount of pops or a hivemind. Otherwise, you’re going to get destroyed. Devouring swarm is a hivemind, which has completely different civics, so no.

@@AlliedMastercomputer1967 I meant solely for fleet strength, the economy is by far the easiest aspect of the game, I just want to stack modifiers to make doomstacks more doomy

I think I sat a bit further away from the mic than ususal

Clerks are one of the worst jobs you can use your pops on, clerks are 4 trade and 2 amenities vs technicians who make 6 energy and gets upgraded with tech, also you dont need to have them in trade range.

@@mso2013 Can trade value increase that amount? Like thrifty and xenophile? .... I honestly don’t know

@@LCInfantry F Xenophile is +20%. this is equal to the +20% starting tech that is repeatable or in ohter words it is only worth 2000 tech points. as for thrifty vs Ingenious, if i understand right they increase the base number so if we do the math. Thrifty + Xenophile: (4*1,25)+20% = 6 trade first repeatable energy tech (nothing else): (6)+20% = 7,2 energy as you can see even without Ingenious (+15% base energy) trade is not worth it after the first tech stage energy wise. the only great thing about Trade is that it can help you getting the galatic market in a multiplayer game (which is really good) ohter than that, it is equal or worse. that being said, you dont have to play optimaly in a singleplayer game to have fun.

Commercial zones are bad investment as you only want them for 10 years. And while clerk does not suffer from resource from job penalty, trade value is affected by stability.

thats irrelevant here as xenophiles cant enslave and you cant chose traits for the conquered pops. also you have to calculate with energy edict, generator world specialization and maybe 1 or 2 +20% output techs which stack +95/+115% more energy output. with stellar culture shock thats still 10+ energy produced per technician. (low stability is completely offset the secobd you upgrade the main building)

Chattel slavery can only do worker job. Indentured can also do specialist. But chattel produce more ressource. So it depend, if you don't have enough necro pop you should consider going for indentured.

@@MonsieurJo yes, but stefan makes default xenos rights to be Domestic Servitude. Why not just chattel?

domestic unemployed slaves produce ameneties. the second you take a primitive world it will have like 4-8 unemployed pops, which will drop stability to 0 and can rssult in slave revolts. Domestic servitude is only untli you dont have any unemployment. its also why it has to be default, if you manually set them to domestic servitude you cant change it for 10 years but if its default you can.

never mind, im supposed to resettle pops TO the planet. thanks for the vid!

The 50% habitability of lithoids IS the main reason. That's a massive boost to ruler and specialist output on almost any planet. You also don't feel the pop growth penalty since you convert and the starting lithoids blockers to remove and get extra main pops is nice. But habitability is king for resource output. That's why you don't colonize planets below 60% most of the time.

They're paid DLC's.

This build is meant to use other xenos as your pop growth.

@@AlliedMastercomputer1967 your prepant species is still growing, though with the xenophobe you get 20% bio pop growth, just would think you'd want more growth from your workers, I tend to not allow too many of the primary species with this build as they consume a lot more upkeep and I don't always have ruler jobs they can work, as with necrophage you have reduced effectiveness in those jobs...

@@krazykaz1983OG necros get increased ruler AND specialist output. So it's usually going to be worthwhile to produce the extra consumer goods needed to support all of your specialist and ruler jobs being worked by your main species.

@@gerardstoney really good point, I just tend to end up with less of the prepatent species early game, but I solved it by being more aggressive early with the build. My biggest issue these days is mid game, not ending up with too many of my main species on some worlds that they end up in worker tier jobs, lots of micro ends up being needed, the auto resettlement doesn't seem to work much with this build.

@@krazykaz1983OG You control the rate of how many main species pops you get through the elevation chamber and purging. When conquering a planet, I'll always keep enough of the native species around to fill out the worker jobs and stop the purging or converting process around then. You can just reduce the number of neophytes for example, to 1 instead of 3 and every 10 years its only going to create 1.

I think you mean fleeting, solitary is the negative Resetelement trait

lithoid start usually old, which can cause some problems.

Leaders also start out a lot older so it's effectivly less than a hundred. Still more, just not more than a hundred.

@@Regunes It doesnt with necrophage though. Ive literally never seen a lithoid necroid leader die of old age even with fleeting, you get to repeatables by year 60 and likely have an ascention done by then. even with normal empires you can usually get immortal pops through technology before your starting leaders die.

@@leobastian_ Read the comment again

I actually made a build using the Leader Life Span + 80 years trait on my Lithoid species and went a Technocracy Warrior culture, my leaders literally never died before I synthetically evolved and made them immortal, the max you can get is actually close to 300 years, my longest lived leader before synth ev was able to live until 295 years before even having a death chance!

Still have to test that build on admiral or higher tho, not sure if it's a viable build yet

@@DaDeadDuck Yeah, i sometimes pick up Venerable, you can actually still combo it with Intelligent and two -2 traits. People consider it fairly worthless, but for me, it keeps my good Scientists alive and gets WAY more done in terms of research as each level improves Research and Research Assist by 2%. And since you only have four traits, as soon as you get a Gene-mod point you can pick up the +15% research speed trait of your choice. I actually like the combo.

@@Amyante That's actually what I did, I did intelligent, repugnant (bc Warrior culture), Unruly (bc basically free), and Venerable (couldn't remember the name before lol)

@@Amyante and there are 5 picks and you start with 2 points free

Get raiding bombardment

How does rock people work? Better yet, how does undead people work?

They are Tombstones !!!!!!

How does undead carbon based work

Sentient kidney stones.

Yes.

Unfortunately the devs don't see it as an issue

Sciene and Tech Rush is extremely OP just like in reality.

@@crosselsmith776 yep, guns beat sticks pretty consistently.

Good old technocracy slaver guild fanatic materialist authoritarian with a species that is unruly, deviant, rapid breeder, intelligent and natural ingénieur or traditional.

@@MonsieurJo don't forget ring world/scion origin

thanks guys! Much love!

The frozen starting homeworlds tend to have more mineral deposits. The wet ones have more farms and the dry ones have more generator districts usually.

Arctic (and cold worlds in general) have a higher chance for more minerals, and considering his primary species is lithoid i think that’s why he picked Arctic

You can choose erudite if you wish.

Gweetings

I believe that it replaces GUARANTEED habitable worlds with Primitive Worlds, not habitable worlds that appear randomly, so he might have just been lucky.

Console necroids just came today, having fun?

he already did a few weeks ago and no, it doesnt. its also extremely powerful and better in science but lacks the bonus pops to reach 18k fleetpower in year 30. necrophage really is the strongest year 30 origin.

@@jackthemapper yea if you play artificial 30 years peace rule LOL.

He is on grand admiral, no?

Diplo corps and the 3 envoys should help of you have diplo problems

it does. ive done it multiple times. just turtle, delay first contact, send envoys for improve relations, and if you get fanatic purifiers just pump out a bunch of destroyers in year 15. with this build you can afford it.

if you take diplo corps this build instantly gets alot weaker. its not like you have a civic slot to spare. and you already have 2 envoys, no need for more. also you dont need it. ai is terrible at the moment and you will have more rech and more alloys then them. This build can also be used for a year 15-20 destroyer rush which will be stronger than what g.a. ai can do atm.

@@LCInfantry yes, but not advanced ai

Well, we are also watching the best Stellaris nerd play the game. I’m too dumb to know what I’m doing. They should add more difficulties so that the game becomes almost unbeatable honestly.... at least early on

Its not even hard rush....... Hard rush is DA ring world that have 400-500 pop in 2230 with 30k+ fleet and 1k science. And thats on GA with STARNET

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