machine uprising question

[gegejake]

this is kinda stupid. played for 120 years and suddenly, the ai machine uprising chain starts. i try and give them full rights but the situation progresses, until the empire takes half of my planets (including my capital and the first five/ most industrialized systems)??

what was i supposed to do?? no warning and all of a sudden the empire has not only the same tech and economy as me, but overwhelmingly strong naval power with the capacity to make more.

seems silly to spring this on me 120 years in with no way of stopping it. from what i've read the only way to prevent this is to build less robots, which kinda defeats the purpose of the synthetics dlc?

[Vovarush]

You can only prevent it. the ways are: 1) dont research synths 2) give ai full rights immediately after researching synths 3) take synth/cyber ascention
Edit: dangerous techs are marked as such for a reason.

[Razorblade]

There are many ways to prevent the AI Uprising Situation. That being said, I'm not sure which, if any, work once it has already started.

1. Give robots full rights
2. Take the The Flesh Is Weak ascension perk
3. Synthetical ascend via the Synthetics tradition tree and associated Special Project

On top of that, in my experience, the uprising is always pathetically weak. I'm going to guess you under built fleets because the AI empires on a lower difficulty weren't giving you enough trouble to justify doing so.

So an easy solution next time is to just build a bigger fleet, have more allies, or if you think you're going to lose, take the decision to become the uprising.

[Cinnamoon_dragon]

At this point it is too late to give civil rights to the AI, you should do it immediately as soon as you can. If you play for the Spiritualist Empire, you need to either abandon the robotic servants completely or keep them dumb and not study advanced AI technologies.

[Big mean bunny]

completing research for synth leaders and enabling it has always nipped that event chain for me.

[gegejake]

i was playing xenophobe (first time in a while and this is what happens) so perhaps that is why. they could not get full rights
at the same time, i was the most powerful in the galaxy on captain setting, so i'm unsure how i could have been militarily underpowered - but we'll see next time i suppose

thank you all