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The video examines the intricate process and benefits of achieving cybernetic Ascension in the game "Stellaris" during the Machine Age. It introduces the necessary steps to start this process, including completing three Traditions and selecting key Ascension perks like "flesh is weak" and "synthetic Evolution." The cybernetic Ascension path involves researching integrated cybernetics technology and completing the cyberization situation within specific time frames based on different approaches.
The roleplay experience is enhanced by decisions on regulating the augmentation industry and building augmentation centers, which provide amenities and boost various aspects of the empire's efficiency. Key technologies like Robo modding and gene editing are essential for further modifying cyborg species to optimize traits for increased happiness and efficiency. Completing cybernetics traditions grants increased resource output, reduced upkeep costs, and the capability to assimilate new populations into cyborgs.
Various government authorities and their impacts are discussed, including individualist and collectivist paths, which present different advantages such as increased resource outputs, enhanced stability, and cyborg happiness. Authoritarian approaches using implants for crime control and resource extraction in a cyber-dictatorial empire are also covered. Additionally, the benefits of different ruler and corporate structures are explored, noting both the enhancements and drawbacks they bring to cyborg populations.
Lastly, the importance of securing a Gestation World for driven assimilators is emphasized for its significant pop growth speed boost. Overall, the video thoroughly explores the strategic advantages and considerations for developing a cybernetic empire in "Stellaris."
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In this segment of the video, the discussion revolves around the changes to cybernetic Ascension in “Stellaris” during the Machine Age. It details the steps required to achieve cybernetic or synthetic Ascension, starting with the necessity of completing three Traditions and selecting two other Ascension perks. The video explores the differences between the “flesh is weak” cybernetic and “synthetic Evolution” trees, particularly focusing on cybernetic Ascension.
To start cybernetic Ascension, players must research integrated cybernetics technology, which can be expedited by the “flesh is weak” agenda. Completing this agenda facilitates faster progression to integrated cybernetics, providing a significant progress boost. Unlocking the cybernetic tradition tree further grants access to the cybernetic Advantage agenda, enhancing pop growth speed and reducing cyborg upkeep.
The cyberization situation, key to this Ascension, takes a base time of 100 months to complete, which can vary based on chosen approaches: streamlined, cautious, or overdrive, each altering the speed and effects on research. These choices can lead to different outcomes, including beneficial or challenging events for the Empire.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on enhancing the roleplay experience through the process of cyberization, deciding on whether to deregulate or maintain regulations on the augmentation industry. The necessity to build an augmentation center is discussed as a prerequisite to advance in cyberization, providing amenities and engineering research at the cost of some resources. The outcome of the pilot project can influence the augmentation centers to boost resource output for different worker categories.
The video also explains the benefits of having specific technologies like the machine template system with Robo modding or genetic technology for gene editing, enabling further modification of cyborg species to enhance traits. Key trait combinations for cyborg empires are recommended for increasing happiness and efficiency, such as combining loyalty circuits and durable traits.
Additionally, the segment covers the benefits of completing cybernetics traditions, including a significant resource output boost, the ability to assimilate new populations into cyborgs, reductions in upkeep costs for cyborgs, and the option to select cyborg traits in species modification. This helps to maximize stability and citizen happiness within a cybernetic empire.
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In this part of the video, various benefits and pathways are discussed for enhancing a cyborg population through modular cybernetics and the subsequent Future Shock event. The event introduces new advanced government authorities, allowing paths of individualism or collectivism for a cybernetic empire. For the individualist path, benefits include enabling real-time cyberbrain voting, reducing empire size and leader costs, increasing resource outputs, boosting cyborg happiness, and gaining the legislative chorus edict. The oligarchic overclocking authority type enhances cyborg counselor lifespans, ruler resource outputs, and provides stability increases, although it may reduce the happiness and political power of specialists and workers.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on adopting an authoritarian approach to enhance stability, reduce crime, and boost resource output in a cyber-dictatorial empire. This involves using implants to monitor and report crimes, thus enabling enforcers to extract more resources from cyborg populations. Commanding numerous enforcers can significantly increase resource production from cyborgs. For individualist Imperial Empires, additional benefits include noble jobs, reduced happiness penalties outside the core sector, and enhanced leader attributes. Activating ruler relics can further boost these bonuses. Additionally, the Corporate neuro-commerce authority gains advantages in trade value and cyborg happiness. The segment also covers collectivist government advantages post-cyberization, such as policy cooldown resets, hive mind-like stability, and increased resources from cyborg pops at the cost of slower population growth.
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In this segment of the video, various buffs and debuffs associated with cyborg populations, oligarchic authorizations, and different ruler classes are discussed. Cyborgs can provide enhanced resource output and stability but face a decrease in happiness. Oligarchic leadership extends cyborg lifespans and offers features like faction extortion, affecting pops’ resource outputs. Dictatorial alignment offers bonuses based on the ruler’s class, such as improved worker output, stability, fire rate, and research speed. The Love Letter virus edict enhances cyborg happiness and resettlement chances but increases amenities usage. Imperial Network and corporate Kaizen Authority bonuses and trade-offs related to job resources are also covered. Finally, it mentions that both biological and driven assimilator machine empires can undertake cybernetic ascension.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on the benefits of the memory aggregator authority and its various features when playing as a driven assimilator. The key points include:
1. **Resource Increase**: Assimilating organic pops yields more resources, with pop growth reduction improving from -50% to -25%.
2. **Aggregated Memory Edict**: This provides faster counselor agenda speed and counselor experience gain, along with a small boost to unity from cyborg pops.
3. **Pop Growth Speed**: Cyborgs grow the fastest possible due to the removal of reduction in pop growth speed for cyborg paths.
4. **Gestation World Tradition**: Essential for driven assimilators, providing Gestation drone jobs that offer an empire-wide pop growth speed bonus. Only one Gestation world is allowed per empire, but it significantly boosts pop growth speed.
5. **Hive Minds Adaptation**: Hive minds can also follow the cyborg ascension path with different cyberization situations based on their individualist or collectivist paths. They can unlock advanced government authorities that enhance organic pop assembly speed.
The segment emphasizes the necessity of securing a Gestation World for its powerful benefits in boosting pop growth across the empire.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the benefits and drawbacks of following a collectivist path in a hive mind authority setup within a game. Key points include gaining plus two amenities from maintenance drones on hive worlds and a negative opinion debuff from other nestal Empires. It highlights an increase in organic pop assembly speed, a significant reduction of 50% in the Empire size effect, and a caution that this does not alter the edict upkeep cost. Additionally, the hyp stimulant offers increased evasion and a 30% boost to menial drone output at the cost of a 10% reduction in complex drone output. The mega structure edict is also available for advanced hive mind authority. The video then suggests watching another video for more details on machine Ascension paths like virtuality, modularity, and nanotechnology.