Whats your favorite build?

[Zairev]

You know it, everytime you try to make something different than ussuall, in few minutes you end up with same good ol build as always.

In my case, it ussually go like this:
"Mkay, this time lets try some... Lost colony... of democratic... umm.. spiritual birds... focused on.. umm... factions and unity and..."

*5 minutes later*

"Overtuned Terravore Lithoid swarm" ... again.
God d*mn it.

Whats your fav build u always return back to when you wanna try hard?

[steven1mac]

I usually just go for a generic militaristic authoritarian build, usually with a more story focused background. I usually save the OP builds for the custom enemy empires.

[Geoff]

Originally posted by Zairev:

You know it, everytime you try to make something different than ussuall, in few minutes you end up with same good ol build as always.

In my case, it ussually go like this:
"Mkay, this time lets try some... Lost colony... of democratic... umm.. spiritual birds... focused on.. umm... factions and unity and..."

*5 minutes later*

"Overtuned Terravore Lithoid swarm" ... again.
God d*mn it.

Whats your fav build u always return back to when you wanna try hard?

Materialist, egalitarian, xenophile, democracy.

[jodnus]

I usually have some axis of authoritarian, as I have a special place in my heart for Nihilistic Aquisition - milking free pops from a weakened empire without the mess of unnecessarily expanding territory is too much of a siren's call

[Zairev]

Originally posted by jodnus:

I usually have some axis of authoritarian, as I have a special place in my heart for Nihilistic Aquisition - milking free pops from a weakened empire without the mess of unnecessarily expanding territory is too much of a siren's call

Could be funny if hives had some equivalent of that. Why eat enemy pops in hostile place, when i could just doordash them to my planet and eat them home :)

But on the other hand, i couldnt eat their whole planet as Terravore like that, so i guess its fine.

[HappySack]

Devouring swarm, don't have time to think or care, only eat.

[Kalemenos]

Fanatic materialist for the sci boost.
Militarist because it always seems to get down to war, now doesn't it?
Lithoid aquatic: --- good for armies and refinery-type goods bonus;
--- aquatic has a fabulous bonus when on an ocean world, and perks to terraform to ocean more affordably.
---Aquatic's Deluge Machine on the Colossus can quickly solve problems especially if occupying a machine world of something like that - free terraforming!
---Aquatics have habitability penalties, and the lithoid makes up for it until you can terraform everything.
Genetic - I enjoy micromanaging all the bonuses of different species.
Traits: - Technocracy and mining guilds to start.
Oligarchic - I like the various perks different candidates offer (i'm on 3.7).

I'm like Zairev, I occasionally start other builds just to see, and then just don't enjoy them.

[Zairev]

Originally posted by HappySack:

Devouring swarm, don't have time to think or care, only eat.

Hell yea, swarm powa !

Originally posted by Kalemenos:

Fanatic materialist for the sci boost.
Militarist because it always seems to get down to war, now doesn't it?
Lithoid aquatic: --- good for armies and refinery-type goods bonus;
--- aquatic has a fabulous bonus when on an ocean world, and perks to terraform to ocean more affordably.
---Aquatic's Deluge Machine on the Colossus can quickly solve problems especially if occupying a machine world of something like that - free terraforming!
---Aquatics have habitability penalties, and the lithoid makes up for it until you can terraform everything.
Genetic - I enjoy micromanaging all the bonuses of different species.
Traits: - Technocracy and mining guilds to start.
Oligarchic - I like the various perks different candidates offer (i'm on 3.7).

I'm like Zairev, I occasionally start other builds just to see, and then just don't enjoy them.

Wait what? How do you combine lithoid with aquatic ? You mean like you have 2 different species, right?

I played both of them, but in the end i decided to go for lithoid swarm, as they can literally eat planets, offset low lifespan of overtuned, have strong armies, big bonus to habitability and also remove need for food, which is great as you can focus just on minerals. Their only weakness low pop reproduction is fully offset by hive mind.

For traits i like overtuned because i can super minmax pops for each world type.

Also its largest research focused build i could think of as it start with 40% bonus to all 3 research types, which can be boosted to 70% with edict.

[World's best Fox]

while not really a build. I love gestalt consciousness and almost always play it.

[Androzin]

Aristocratic Elite + Warrior Culture Void Dwellers. That 2 alloy upkeep really isnt much in the grand scheme of things even though people like to make a big deal out of it.

[Mettle]

Remnant start Rogue servitors are hard to beat. It's not insanely powerful but it has strong RP narrative and it's very strong if you're just looking to play a conventional build (one that doesn't revolve around exploiting bugs).

They get the Gestalt economy, access to releasing vassals, great diplomacy perks, and then access to Ecu worlds AND machine worlds in the later game. 10/10 overall, even if conventional play style isn't always meta.

bonus points if you start with a lithoid servitor species, so can put off all food production until later-game.

[Pizza_0786]

Originally posted by cutewolf:

while not really a build. I love gestalt consciousness and almost always play it.

Same here.

[Kalemenos]

Originally posted by Zairev:

Wait what? How do you combine lithoid with aquatic ?

I think i figured that out by accident. You pick a lithoid species, then you chose "ocean paradise," and bada-bing-bada-boom you have both. Piles of fun, really. I feel the same as you about lithoids: they're great.

I enjoy reading everyone's favorite builds: they're not my favorite, but I see the point, and it shows how adaptable the game is.

[arronax06]

Not my favorite, but a build that turned out more fun than expected:
Step 1: Create a Post-Apocalyptic Radiotrophic Relentless industrialists species.
Step 2: Colonize everything and turn every planets into a 100% habitability Tomb world in a few years.
Optional step 3: Get Astrocreator Azaryn to terraform barren planets into Gaia worlds to turn them into Tomb worlds (sorry Azaryn, your sacrifice will probably be remembered?)

Other than that, my favorite recently has been the Under One Rule origin, there are so many variations, so many hidden bonus to find, it has been fun to explore every paths during my last few playthroughs :) . But now I'm waiting for the new Individualistic Machines build :) .

[akuro]

Originally posted by arronax06:

Not my favorite, but a build that turned out more fun than expected:
Step 1: Create a Post-Apocalyptic Radiotrophic Relentless industrialists species.
Step 2: Colonize everything and turn every planets into a 100% habitability Tomb world in a few years.
Optional step 3: Get Astrocreator Azaryn to terraform barren planets into Gaia worlds to turn them into Tomb worlds (sorry Azaryn, your sacrifice will probably be remembered?)

Other than that, my favorite recently has been the Under One Rule origin, there are so many variations, so many hidden bonus to find, it has been fun to explore every paths during my last few playthroughs :) . But now I'm waiting for the new Individualistic Machines build :) .

how do you turn worlds into tomb worlds when u can bormbard them?

[yuzhonglu]

Try a Necrophage Lithoid Terravore. It's even more OP due to necrophage purge and getting two Hive Mind species that you can grow.