How do you manage tons of different species in an empire?

[HollowKing]

I enjoy sometimes playing xenophile empire and getting tons of different species in empire but in these games I don't attempt to modify species at all because it's just too much to try to manage all of them.

When I play any other empire I avoid getting other species like the plague because I like min maxing all my empires species for different tasks and this is just too hard to do when there are lots of different species. And as soon as you get a single pop from any other species it infects the planet its on like the plague as the growth system heavily favors any new species and if migration controls aren't on that pop (Which you can't turn on if you are Egalitarian really) then the pop will infect your whole empire.

It's not getting different types of alien pops that I am adverse to it is being unable to properly manage and genetically modify them to suit whatever planet they are on. Are there better ways to manage them?

For example, if I have a research planet I will create a template for the my species that has intelligent, and other beneficial research traits and apply it. But if I have 10 different species living on the research planet I have to do this 10 times just for that planet and it really isn't realistic.

[Ryika]

Some ascension options bring order to the chaos, but generally speaking, you don't. Focus on the big species and that's about it.

[cybermastah]

Yes! Genetic modification? Yes, there is in fact a powerful thing you can research! It's called targeted gene expressions! It gives you a trait you should put on *all* your pops; this 3 point trait *automatically* gives them the relevant trait *to their job* on the start of the next month; are they working in mining? They'll gain the trait that boosts mining! Do they work in research? It'll give them the trait that boosts research output! Etc!

This frees you up whatever trait you'd given them that boosts their production in a specific field, allowing you to choose something else!

Problem though is it's a rare research, but you should absolutely get it when it shows up!

[Kufesska]

go for synthetic ascension:
species of the galaxy, unite!

[Råb!d]

enslave or eat them?

[Sabaithal]

Play xenophobe and you won't have to worry about it

[Speed Malus]

Mostly automated,

make default as undesirables.

If you spot species that match your Habitat or are simply based. Just put them as accepted. Easy.

Play hivemind and go Genetics Tradition to assimilate those who you deem worthy into your hivemind.

[Kalemenos]

If you invest the time to make each species specialize in something, the payoff is huge. But it is a ton of nitty-gritty work. With synthetics, you take ALL the species and boil them down to just two or three favorite builds. You can even automate (Rights/citizenship/assimilate) the turning of one build (like the one specified for the robot factories) into the main build, and it gets even simpler.

Sythetics has another advantage. If you want to play megacorp, you can't really start as a robot, as far as I can tell. If you chose the robot species when you design the empire, it only allows for hive mind, IIRC. But you can have a megacorp with robots by synth, and very little species-design micromanagement.

[JustSmile]

Feed the Lathe.

[Kufesska]

Originally posted by Kalemenos:

Sythetics has another advantage. If you want to play megacorp, you can't really start as a robot, as far as I can tell. If you chose the robot species when you design the empire, it only allows for hive mind, IIRC. But you can have a megacorp with robots by synth, and very little species-design micromanagement.

since The Machine Age DLC you can run individualist machines empires - e.g. megacorp, just like any bio species, with bio-species civics