insightful achivement help.

[HpgOT!?!@efifixtO]

Can someone tell me what kind of civic and origin I need to go for the "insightful" achivement. I says I need to discover 12 pre ftl insights.

[ShandoKhan]

The achievement says: Research 12 pre ftl insight technologies.
That a special rare techs, you get them slowly with observing pre ftl species.
While observing them, you get a situation where slowly get insights, after you get enough insights, the situation ends and the next time an event happens at the observing planet, you get 1 random insight techs.

This techs are in the biology research option, they give you for example 0.5 envoys and your insults get so good, that you get a small empire wide bonus, when you insult another empire.

You need to research 12 of these special techs.

[veryinky]

I got this on a large galaxy and while waging a war with an empire who had pre-ftl observation posts. So they don't have to be pre-ftl worlds in your territory, just within your control even if it's temporary.

[gn_fighter]

for some reason i don't get two of the engineering-insight-techs.

[Terijian]

the techs are in all three trees, not just biology

[mister_lobos]

you should get it eventually with just about any empire and civic if you just build a few observation posts at pre-ftl worlds (or take them from other empires)

if you want to speed up your chances a bit..
try a 1000 star galaxy, max out the pre-ftls of course (might want to drop the inhabitable worlds tho, or you will have to many planets around) and set zero other empires and marauders, 1 fallen empire won't make much difference.

for the empire i'd say machine empire (rogue servitor makes sense) and take exploration protocols for a civic..
+3 Monthly Unity from Observation Posts
+50% Observation Insights situation progress
you start with 2 (science) exploration ships and 1 (construction) engineer ship... they don't have hyper drive, so they can do short jumps and it has to recharge for about 100 seconds, it's both an advantage and disadvantage, you can jump past some systems, but they can't auto explore..
so you might want to research hyper drives before building to many more ships.

https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Civics#Machine_Intelligence_civics

[Bored Peon]

One of the trader caravans sold me an insight. I forget which it was and has only happened once so far.

No, it was not the Garbage Disposal or Numistic tech.