How will AI play hivemind?

[Bubol Bloodhand]

How will the npc's use hiveminds? what playstyle will they have, will they all be hyper aggressive monsters or?

[Azunai]

good question. i could see several viable paths.

they can't really integrate or use migration (since the pops aren't compatible with non-hives), but i guess they could still join a federation with non-hives.

don't know if liberation will be possible (would have to turn the liberated specied into a hive mind, too. otherwise they'd die out)

they could use normal empires as vassals or tributaries, though.

or they could purge them, since they can't make any use of the pops anyway, but might have a use for their planets.

or they could play isolationist and not mess with non-hive empires at all, unless forced into action.

i guess we'll have to wait and see. maybe they'll just get a random AI personality (excluding the ones that have high focus on migration?)

[SkullKraken]

I don't think that the hive minds have unique personality types, so I'm guessing it will entirely depend on what sort of personality they get. A fanatical purifier hivemind will probably play a lot different than a federation builder hivemind.

[Bubol Bloodhand]

Originally posted by Dash Harber:

I don't think that the hive minds have unique personality types, so I'm guessing it will entirely depend on what sort of personality they get. A fanatical purifier hivemind will probably play a lot different than a federation builder hivemind.

but the personality types are based on ethics, hivemind empires only have one and thats hivemind

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Originally posted by Army Pea:

Yes.

Hive mind requires all the ethic points to pick so it's a singular choice.

The AI plays very aggressive against other empires as a hive mind but can still engage in diplomacy and trade where as a fanatical purifier cannot.

This. There is already a hive mind AI personality so I don't see why proper hive minds wouldn't use it in Utopia.