Cosmogenesis/Obsessional Directive Cheese

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

I am in the process of finishing up my first game as an "Obsessional Directive" machine empire, aiming for the related achievement with the Cosmogenesis ending.

I have built the Horizon Needle, a spaceship that is supposed to embark all of my population (by visiting each of my planets and stations) and then plunge itself into a black hole. The dilemma right now is that I have settled the whole galaxy, and there is no way that the Horizon Needle can visit all of my planets within 10 years. That timeframe is relevant because in order to get the achievement, I cannot miss a single consumer goods delivery, and each embarkment reduces my CG production, obviously.

I have started to counter that problem by resettling most of a planet's population to a space station in my core sector, developed as a factory nexus, before the Horizon Needle took the last pop on board, so production would not be harmed too much. However, this micromanagement process is very tedious.

Right now, I was thinking of cheesing the whole thing and releasing all of my sectors but one as vassals. I my mind, that should mean I would only have to visit the remaining planets, since my new vassals pops do not count as "my population", and jump into the black hole before those 10 years run out.

I am on Ironman, so I cannot just try-and-error this thing. Is there anything wrong with this plan? Would there be a better one?

[Speed Malus]

What I did was turn my Capital into a mass FE Storage planet to hold the last 1.6mil or so Consumer goods.

Get the Main Consumer Goods production spots second to last.

Also, as I went, I migrated some smaller planets COMPLETELY into the planet that was being Needled.

I did the challenge in a legit game, It was coop but that was honestly a handicap, not to mention I also ran terrible Rogue Servitor shoved in there as well.

You could VERY easily cheese it, but that would be lame af.

Biggest Mistake one could make for this is making every planet contribute to the Consumer Goods, instead of just 2-3 Hyper Focused Machine Worlds

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

Storage space is no issue. Production is. And I cannot store any overflow, because every delivery date takes all of Consumer Goods away no matter how much I have. I need to meet the production quota within 10 years.

Also, abandoning a planet by resettling the population "COMPLETELY" costs 200 influence, so I can only do that five times before my inf storage is empty.

[RCMidas]

Can you manipulate sectors and then just release a bunch of them as vassals? That way you avoid having to gather up their populations and just bug out of this universe all the quicker.

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Can you manipulate sectors and then just release a bunch of them as vassals? That way you avoid having to gather up their populations and just bug out of this universe all the quicker.

Did you read what I wrote at all?

[RCMidas]

So that's a yes. Simplest solution it is.

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

So that's a yes. Simplest solution it is.

No, it is not a "yes". Please work on your reading comprehension skills.

I just tried that solution: As a machine empire without any conquered species, I cannot release any sectors as vassals.

[RCMidas]

Huh, I thought it was only non-Progenitor Hive Minds which were limited in that regard. So Machine Intelligences still share that restriction, do they? I know Individualist machine empires received a fix regarding their released subjects becoming gestalts, so I mistakenly assumed gestalt machines could do the same thing. Guess not. Good to know for the future.

OK, do you have any other empires around you which could be drawn into a Total War? Then you just let your worlds fall to them, including disbanding all defense armies on the world once the starbase falls. That would be the most elegant available solution. Otherwise, as many regular wars as you can manage that you deliberately lose so your claimed colonies are taken away from you.

Maximising Influence production would let you decolonise an extra world or two, perhaps, along the way to make it even easier.

[✠ Sigmar ✠]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Huh, I thought it was only non-Progenitor Hive Minds which were limited in that regard. So Machine Intelligences still share that restriction, do they? I know Individualist machine empires received a fix regarding their released subjects becoming gestalts, so I mistakenly assumed gestalt machines could do the same thing. Guess not. Good to know for the future.

OK, do you have any other empires around you which could be drawn into a Total War? Then you just let your worlds fall to them, including disbanding all defense armies on the world once the starbase falls. That would be the most elegant available solution. Otherwise, as many regular wars as you can manage that you deliberately lose so your claimed colonies are taken away from you.

Maximising Influence production would let you decolonise an extra world or two, perhaps, along the way to make it even easier.

So, you did not read my sentence "The dilemma right now is that I have settled the whole galaxy". "Pattern detected", as my control hub unit would phrase it.

[EDIT: Got the achievement now. Keeping production up long enough by tweaking planetary buildings again and again while evacuating 50 planets and habitats one by one (by the Horizon Needle as well as manual resettling) was a truely obsessive endeavour. Would not recommend...]