Primitive Hive Minds and Robots

[Xero_Daxter]

how you guys think about this idea seeing them as a primitive.

[Elitewrecker PT]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145901593
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1157475146
Cool idea.

[cooltv27]

I would love it

[Locklave]

Hive minds is logical as they should exist. Not sure about robots.

The Hive minds should be core game, infact.

[cooltv27]

Originally posted by Locklave:

Hive minds is logical as they should exist. Not sure about robots.

The Hive minds should be core game, infact.

pre space robots makes sense only if they are early space age. anything eariler doesnt

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Originally posted by Locklave:

Hive minds is logical as they should exist. Not sure about robots.

The Hive minds should be core game, infact.

I don't see any reason for hive minds to be core game, nothing they offer is necessary for vanilla Stellaris to be good.

They're just an extra feature that adds to the main game, i.e the perfect DLC material.

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

how you guys think about this idea seeing them as a primitive.

I agree, primitive hive minds would make perfect sense and hopefully the devs will add them eventually.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by cooltv27:

Originally posted by Locklave:

Hive minds is logical as they should exist. Not sure about robots.

The Hive minds should be core game, infact.

pre space robots makes sense only if they are early space age. anything eariler doesnt

Check out the Glitch race in Starbound. They are a race of robots spread out accross the galaxy but trapped at a medieval level of technology.

The thing with robots is they are obviously always artificial, and as such could have been designed for any sort of purpose. Maybe some ancient space-faring empire dedicated a planet to some sort of hunting game where primitive robots were spread out around the surface and hunted for sport. Maybe they had some basic replication/repair functionality programmed into them to keep their population at a certain level without outside interference. Maybe after being abandoned for thousands of years eventually their programming degrades enough to break free from their restrictions and achieve true intelligence, albeit a very limited and primitive intelligence that has to learn everything first hand. A robot could be programmed with knowledge of rebuilding itself, and yet not understand the basic concept of fire.

[galadon3]

Wouldnt make robots as standard randomised pre-FTL species but for a special planet with a bit of backstory that explains them they'd be fine.

[Astasia]

Honestly I feel like the odds of finding an ancient mining planet populated by long abandoned mining drones is probably a lot higher than finding a planet where intelligent life naturally evolved.

[cooltv27]

Originally posted by Astasia:

Originally posted by cooltv27:

pre space robots makes sense only if they are early space age. anything eariler doesnt

Check out the Glitch race in Starbound

you mean one of my favorite history for a race ever? I already know.

still though, robots as any primitive empire less than early space doesnt make sense. it could work as a unique spawn rather than random, but unless you can somehow learn the reasons primitive robots exist then its not going to work. early space age robots work cause machine empires exist

[Xero_Daxter]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1145901593
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1157475146
Cool idea.

thanks for the offer, i was kinda late in checking what your guys opinion was. Now you guys made me really intrerested in it.

[Xero_Daxter]

Also it would be interesting if you could find a way to capture the hive or machine main leader in a pre-FTL and somehow find a way to control their population as a vassle or puppet.

[Meewec]

You can find some robots working away at the jobs their creators had them doing. Don't think they're sentient though.