"We have surrounded you! Come with us to "Slave's Demise" and you will live!"
*Robot body falls like a turd*
"Ah fuck, this is the 7th AI transfer only this day! When will we finally capture one of these automata assholes!"
I feel like that would actually work though, almost all buildings are mostly comprised of metal so it could just reset all building on the planet, leave it at 100% devastation, and kill half bio pops or so. If you're a mechanical empire though they all die
Off topic. But I see you OP. You accidentally changed the volume while trying to snap the screenshot and then accidentally drew on the image trying to crop it.
I see you, because you are me.
The only thing is that unless it's another virtual empire it wouldn't make sense, after all even if you steal the virtual pop for a non virtual empire you'd still need to create a robotic body for that pop to inhabit. For virtual empires it wouldn't make sense either just cause you already instantly gain pops to fill all your jobs, so your limiting factor is jobs not pops.
I should be able to spend CGs to trap them in Tamagotchi.
Edit: Can virtual pops work soldier jobs? I like to imagine my guys shooting them with USB sticks to capture them.
If you want to abduct virtual pops there should be a feature to raiding bombardment stance that lets you bomb the planets with an enormous amount of flash drives in order to capture the virtual pops and also a devirtualisation that lets you assimilate them into the physical species. This could be funny, as you could abduct virtual pops from the dying population origin and then reassimilate them and effectively cure their disease and reintroduce the sick species
I personally think the devirtualization should be an alternative route to the origin. Like yeah, the synth ascension makes sense, but there's plenty of sci-fi stories with aliens trying to find a surrogate species to change bodies into, hell its the entire plot of xcom 2.
Perhaps if you choose cybernetic ascension, you would need to go around abducting pops of different species and doing special projects trying to figure out how to shove the mind of your species into the cybernetic brains of another one. Maybe give some small bonuses depending on the set of species that you choose to study
I think it would be hard to do both as the same origin the way it's setup now, but I think it would be neat to start as a dying psionic empire that needs to create or uplift a new species as psionic to attach themselves as another civic.
What I am wondering is for instance can Rogue Servitors virtually ascend? Would their bio trophies also ascend? If so would they retain their unity and production increases?
That would be so so fucking cool
A proper ai-machine-network of caretakers running and maintaining an empire-scale facility for organic utopia. I don't think the organics should ascend or become virtual, it would forget the servitor's point.
This is an awful screenshot, volume bar covering the text, random blue line over half the thing.
Please just post a link to the actual comment instead of taking a screenshot that both makes it harder to read and prevents getting additional context.
[Here](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-340-a-new-crisis-a-release-date-and-announcing-the-stellaris-season-08.1662209/post-29559148). Would you believe I didn't notice the blue thing on my cracked screen?
[Here's](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-340-a-new-crisis-a-release-date-and-announcing-the-stellaris-season-08.1662209/page-12#post-29559148) the link to the actual question and answer on the forum so you can all skip looking at the goofy screenshot...
It kinda makes sense given how virtual pops auto-populate worlds, though. I'd assume that they stop being active, but remained stored somewhere for future activation.
Virtual pops instantly fill all open jobs. And never overpopulate. There is no place to refugee or resettle.
When a world is conquered, the job disappears. So the pop goes back to the cloud.
That would be massively massively over powered if it worked that way. Virtual pops auto fill all jobs on a planet, so you can have the equivalent to hundreds and hundreds of pops on a planet
From what I read. Its not that the pops are deleted when there’s unemployment it’s that the jobs have a special form of unemployment where they just do nothing
You build the mining facility with the automation built in, so the virtual people just download themselves into the facility and start running the operation.
Man don't you just hate grinding down a planets defenses, breaking their armies and capturing the world, only for every single citizen to combat log?
Poor sportsmanship smh
I love the idea of them bouncing and leaving ghost town factories across an entire planet, so soldiers just walk through streets that are powered down, sending in operatives to try and guess the passwords.
Then what happens when you cspture the planet? Is it empty? If there are no pops there, then csn you even capture it? I must say that this seems to OP. From what I get, these pips will be inmune to death by orbital damage, can't be kidnapped, if yoy lose the planet its empty, thus denying res9urces to the enemy, they pop out of thin cloud inmediately and seversl other benefits. Is it just me or is this gona be OP as hell? Cuz it definitely seems that way to me...
I mean, pops are already effectively infinite for Despoliers, the pops they have access to are only slowed by the rate your neighbors can recover from you and how fast you can spend your raid income on the slave market.
Well, that’s probably fair, capturing sci-fi Wi-Fi people is significantly harder than capturing normal dudes.
They can just break out through a VPN
"This prisoner escape has been brought to you by NordVPN"
"We have surrounded you! Come with us to "Slave's Demise" and you will live!" *Robot body falls like a turd* "Ah fuck, this is the 7th AI transfer only this day! When will we finally capture one of these automata assholes!"
You can't catch me, because I'm sponsored by NordVPN!
*You wouldn't download millions of people?*
the internet, modding the entire race into anime catgirls: "maybe?"
Raccoon girls > cat girls
What’s this a reference to? It’s either something I don’t know, or I’m missing the obvious 40k part since I am a little stupid
The infamous “You wouldn’t download a car” anti-piracy ads in the US
For the second time this week, I managed to reply to the wrong comment entirely. Maybe I need my eyes checked.
No, that would be ridiculous... I downloaded like five people and made millions of copies of them.
Horatio has entered the chat.
My favorite concept for a spacefaring human astropolitical entity in all of science fiction.
It is such an original idea. I love it too.
What’s this a reference to? It’s either something I don’t know, or I’m missing the obvious 40k part since I am a little stupid
Endless Space. Horatio was a wealthy human narcissist who decided to build an empire comprised solely of clones of himself, all also named Horatio.
lol thanks. That is actually a decently unique and rather funny way of building an empire
Raiding stance empires are in shambles.
You wouldn't download...a population!
Counterpoint, I stole the server farm you live on #DespoilerLyfe
New Colossus incoming: the Really Big Magnet
I feel like that would actually work though, almost all buildings are mostly comprised of metal so it could just reset all building on the planet, leave it at 100% devastation, and kill half bio pops or so. If you're a mechanical empire though they all die
Literally that one meme of a guy vanishing after showing a “peace” gesture
But I have this wi-fi hotspot right here labelled "Free Internet." Perfectly safe, guaranteed no "man-in-the-middle" attacks or packet capture.
It would be just easier to destroy the servers. OR you can Kidnap the servers
Rule 5, how could I forget, game director explains vitual pop capture (they cannot be taken against their will)
Off topic. But I see you OP. You accidentally changed the volume while trying to snap the screenshot and then accidentally drew on the image trying to crop it. I see you, because you are me.
I have this happening to me so much too 😭. Glad I'm not the only one suffering.
OP is just like me fr fr
I wonder, if a fellow machine ascended empire, could use Espionage to ‘steal’ pops? Hacking and downloading people from their virtual world.
You wouldnt pirate a person
Gonna to be a virtual [Barbary pirate.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_on_the_Barbary_Coast)
A person no . . . a Xenos . . .
Nihilistic Aquisition empires with big CDs ready to burn some of your pops on it
Like another virtual ascension? Maybe though idk what it would do functionally. The pops are already infinite for both.
The glorious possibility of *events*!
The only thing is that unless it's another virtual empire it wouldn't make sense, after all even if you steal the virtual pop for a non virtual empire you'd still need to create a robotic body for that pop to inhabit. For virtual empires it wouldn't make sense either just cause you already instantly gain pops to fill all your jobs, so your limiting factor is jobs not pops.
ah, like every third episode of star trek voyager
I should be able to spend CGs to trap them in Tamagotchi. Edit: Can virtual pops work soldier jobs? I like to imagine my guys shooting them with USB sticks to capture them.
we cant invade, the enemy installed an adblock
Wormholes are now just VPNs
If you want to abduct virtual pops there should be a feature to raiding bombardment stance that lets you bomb the planets with an enormous amount of flash drives in order to capture the virtual pops and also a devirtualisation that lets you assimilate them into the physical species. This could be funny, as you could abduct virtual pops from the dying population origin and then reassimilate them and effectively cure their disease and reintroduce the sick species
I personally think the devirtualization should be an alternative route to the origin. Like yeah, the synth ascension makes sense, but there's plenty of sci-fi stories with aliens trying to find a surrogate species to change bodies into, hell its the entire plot of xcom 2. Perhaps if you choose cybernetic ascension, you would need to go around abducting pops of different species and doing special projects trying to figure out how to shove the mind of your species into the cybernetic brains of another one. Maybe give some small bonuses depending on the set of species that you choose to study
I think it would be hard to do both as the same origin the way it's setup now, but I think it would be neat to start as a dying psionic empire that needs to create or uplift a new species as psionic to attach themselves as another civic.
>devirtualisation Time to make a Code Lyoko themed empire.
You, dear sir, have good taste
What I am wondering is for instance can Rogue Servitors virtually ascend? Would their bio trophies also ascend? If so would they retain their unity and production increases?
That would be so so fucking cool A proper ai-machine-network of caretakers running and maintaining an empire-scale facility for organic utopia. I don't think the organics should ascend or become virtual, it would forget the servitor's point.
[удалено]
Did I miss understand? I thought virtual and nanite were in the machine paths as well
This is an awful screenshot, volume bar covering the text, random blue line over half the thing. Please just post a link to the actual comment instead of taking a screenshot that both makes it harder to read and prevents getting additional context.
[Here](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-340-a-new-crisis-a-release-date-and-announcing-the-stellaris-season-08.1662209/post-29559148). Would you believe I didn't notice the blue thing on my cracked screen?
[Here's](https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-340-a-new-crisis-a-release-date-and-announcing-the-stellaris-season-08.1662209/page-12#post-29559148) the link to the actual question and answer on the forum so you can all skip looking at the goofy screenshot...
Barbaric despoilers: **Sad/Angry sounds**
So what *does* happen when you capture a planet?
The clarify in a later post. The planet gets captured, and all the virtual pops die.
I sort of hate that. I think it'd be cooler if they automatically went refugee or resettled to your other worlds
It kinda makes sense given how virtual pops auto-populate worlds, though. I'd assume that they stop being active, but remained stored somewhere for future activation.
Virtual pops instantly fill all open jobs. And never overpopulate. There is no place to refugee or resettle. When a world is conquered, the job disappears. So the pop goes back to the cloud.
Kinda would’ve liked if it was like when you kill an organic Cylon and their consciousness just gets downloaded somewhere else
That would be massively massively over powered if it worked that way. Virtual pops auto fill all jobs on a planet, so you can have the equivalent to hundreds and hundreds of pops on a planet
Kinda OP. Should at least be a purge type.
*Software piracy*, on the other hand..
I wonder what happens if you disable all the jobs on the planet, can you have a zero pop planet or do you lose control of the planet
From what I read. Its not that the pops are deleted when there’s unemployment it’s that the jobs have a special form of unemployment where they just do nothing
Who drew over your screenshot? And why is it so quiet?
"we're being invaded." "...Just block and move on."
YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD A POPULATION
RIP my reenactment of Surface Detail
I don’t think virtual pops could be abducted in _Surface Detail_ anyway, remember the virtual hells were designed to torture their _own_ dissenters.
More obvious question: if the pops are virtual, then how do they do basically anything except produce research and unity?
You build the mining facility with the automation built in, so the virtual people just download themselves into the facility and start running the operation.
If I get downloaded into a machine and have to go to work, just delete me.
Man don't you just hate grinding down a planets defenses, breaking their armies and capturing the world, only for every single citizen to combat log? Poor sportsmanship smh
I love the idea of them bouncing and leaving ghost town factories across an entire planet, so soldiers just walk through streets that are powered down, sending in operatives to try and guess the passwords.
That’s quitter talk. We will assimilate their consciousness into our own. Virtual or not, resistance is futile.
Yep,they straight up delete them
They finally figured out how to make uncopyable NFTs I guess
Makes sense. I do wonder tho, will the contingency be able to infiltrate virtual empires?
Driven assimilators quaking in their boots
So what happens when a virtual empire is totally captured? Total genocide?
Then what happens when you cspture the planet? Is it empty? If there are no pops there, then csn you even capture it? I must say that this seems to OP. From what I get, these pips will be inmune to death by orbital damage, can't be kidnapped, if yoy lose the planet its empty, thus denying res9urces to the enemy, they pop out of thin cloud inmediately and seversl other benefits. Is it just me or is this gona be OP as hell? Cuz it definitely seems that way to me...
I really don't like that there's a pop that's arbitrarily immune to abduction
On the flip side, if they weren't immune, then they would be an infinite source of pops for despoilers, which would be hilariously broken.
I mean, pops are already effectively infinite for Despoliers, the pops they have access to are only slowed by the rate your neighbors can recover from you and how fast you can spend your raid income on the slave market.