The ULTIMATE Stellaris Empire | 300x Crisis Full Playthrough

Описание: Hey everyone! In this playthrough-guide I'll be showing you every step to fully synth ascend by year 10 in the new patch. Although Bio Ascension is the new go-to for most people, Machines are still very powerful. I was delaying recording this build because it was very broken due to the Identity Repository building not accounting for the new pop system and also the factions exponential production. Now that the Devs have fixed those issues in the previous update, we can finally test this build with the intended features. This way, everything that you see here will most likely stay this way for an extended period of time. We'll continue this playthrough so you can still learn after the early game and replicate some strategies to improve your own gameplay. This was our ninth video on this playthrough, the rest of them you can find here on the playlist:    • 10th Playthrough - Lokiarian Coalition  

Link for the Precursor Tutorial Video:    • Which Precursor Should You Choose For Your...  

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Here is our detailed build:

Origin:
Synthetic Fertility - The main pillar of our build. Our pops start to decline from the very first day and we need to hurry and find a way to save our kind from extinction.

Government:
Democratic - It's necessary to have the Parliamentary System, a core part of our build, and it also gives bonuses to our factions, which is very helpful to improve our pop happiness and unity production. After we change our ruler, we also have the option to reform our government. This flexibility works really well with the Synth Modularity ascension, since we can modify our civics and have the Dark Matter Engines trait be fueled by the Dark Matter Consortium civic.

Ethics:
Fanatic Egalitarian - Increases our Faction Output by +50% and Specialist Output by +10%. Overall very nice bonuses, specially the faction one for the unity output. On top of this, it allows us to pick the Utopian Abundance living standards, which greatly increases our pop political power and thus increases our factions' production even further.
Materialist - Grants us +5% Research Speed and -10% Robot Upkeep. Very handy to tech rush and later on will help us maintain our robotic population. It also allows us to have the Academic Privilege living standards, which improves our researchers' efficiency. Ideally, later into the game we want to shift away from Utopian Abundance to this for more tech output.

Civics:
Parliamentary System - +40% Faction Output and factions are formed right at the start of the game. It's the best regular civic for unity rush, making it possible for us to divert all resources into building research labs and supporting our early fragile economy whilst we still gain the unity necessary to finish our traditions.
Technocracy - Replaces politician jobs for Science Directors which increases our research output and help us finish the engineering techs required for our ascension. On top of that, all scientists gain a random expertise and if we have the Industry Expertise on any of our councilors, we'll have a tremendously good progress towards our synth ascension.

Traits:
Intelligent - Not much to say here, very important for tech rushing empires
Conformists - Now this one is quite unique, I went with this to increase the amount of population occupying our factions and thus increasing our unity output. You can swap it for any of the resource production traits and it'll be good too, I just wanted to diversify a little bit.
Natural Engineers - Very important for this build, since the ascension technologies fall on this tech field and you want to maximize it's output for finishing the ascension quicker.
Unruly - It doesn't really matter which negative you pick, since after you ascend you'll get rid of all of them. This one is pretty free since you'll never have more than 100 Empire Size before ascending anyways, since your population is also declining.

Ruler:
Scientist- Spark of Genius - Increases our research speed by +3%. Pretty standard for a tech rush empire.

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