Clone Army Origin

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

How many planets should I colonize if I go the ascension path considering I'm limited to only 5 ancient clone vats?

[CBR JGWRR]

It's 5 vats, at 20 pops each. So, the options are:

5 at 20
3 at 20, 1 at 40
1 at 20, 2 at 40
2 at 20, 1 at 60
1 at 20, 1 at 80
1 at 100

Take your pick.

The optimal strategy is to get another colonisable race as quickly as possible; the Clone Army origin is best suited for rushing.

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

Originally posted by CBR JGWRR:

It's 5 vats, at 20 pops each. So, the options are:

5 at 20
3 at 20, 1 at 40
1 at 20, 2 at 40
2 at 20, 1 at 60
1 at 20, 1 at 80
1 at 100

Take your pick.

The optimal strategy is to get another colonisable race as quickly as possible; the Clone Army origin is best suited for rushing.

Could robots supplement the population fast enough?

[Vovarush]

no

[Taloon]

Originally posted by 143rdtxOedipus's Stepdad:

Originally posted by CBR JGWRR:

It's 5 vats, at 20 pops each. So, the options are:

5 at 20
3 at 20, 1 at 40
1 at 20, 2 at 40
2 at 20, 1 at 60
1 at 20, 1 at 80
1 at 100

Take your pick.

The optimal strategy is to get another colonisable race as quickly as possible; the Clone Army origin is best suited for rushing.

Could robots supplement the population fast enough?

robots are build after the clones. they are both in the "assamble" slot, just like regular clone pops.
normal bio pops are in the "growth" slot and are "build" parallel.
So the robot assambly plant only becomes viable after your clone soldier pops are full.
my personal favorit is the 5 at 20, so you can recruit faster.
But the reanimator perk is gold too. undead army of super soldiers that replenish slightly after every planet fall.
started a war with only 20 troops and had like 30 at the end.

[CBR JGWRR]

Originally posted by 143rdtxOedipus's Stepdad:

Could robots supplement the population fast enough?

No, for the reasons listed by Taloon. In addition to what they said, there's also the issue that robots are produced much slower than clones from Ancient Clone Vats, where if you bang five on your homeworld you can grow new pops quicker than you can build buildings and districts to employ them.

The utility of robots comes in once you either go beyond 5 planets (because you use robots to colonise the sixth and beyond planets) or once the 20 per clone vat are made in order to continue adding pops on those starting 1 to 5 worlds once they have gotten the clones they can have.

[R131]

Just use the clone vats for fast early rush, then take the path of fixing your species DNA so you get normal growth, the lesser clone origin buffs are still nice.

[Danny]

Or just rush down some empire
Then go Synth and have ALL pops you get, be turned into immortal robots.