Mind stem?

[Why not Zoidberg?]

What does the building "mind stem" do?

[Dinsdale]

Its part of the Harmony victory, it speeds up the production of the wonder you have to build to get the victory. (Transcendance victory to be more exact.)

[BardicKnowledge]

Well I built 6 mind stem after completing the "Mind Flower" and the turn countdown didn't move, so I'd say they're pretty useless.

[SamBC]

Yeah, they're supposed to make the countdown speed up, but I've not noticed any effect.

[Lyle]

The description says it yield 1 point toward the transcendence victory every turn. The Trans victory doesnt have any counter on it so theres that.

So yeah, the description is a lie.

[SamBC]

There's a counter counting down for Transcendence victory. The Mind Stem doesn't seem to affect it.

[Lyle]

Originally posted by SamBC:

There's a counter counting down for Transcendence victory. The Mind Stem doesn't seem to affect it.

I cant see any counter. Does it appear after youve built the 3 prerequisites?

[Jim Jones flavoured Slurpee]

Originally posted by Dino swe:

Originally posted by SamBC:

There's a counter counting down for Transcendence victory. The Mind Stem doesn't seem to affect it.

I cant see any counter. Does it appear after youve built the 3 prerequisites?

click the mindstem itself.


Another broken thing. wtf

[Lyle]

Sigh...

The Trans victory says nothing about a mind flower as far as I can tell. Well, it does in the manual, but not on the objective.
And in the tech web descriptions, some of the required techs say that they are required for the trans victory, while others do not, like Swarm Intelligence... Soooo many inconsistencies and confusing hidden objectives.

[JasonS]

Originally posted by Dino swe:

Sigh...

The Trans victory says nothing about a mind flower as far as I can tell. Well, it does in the manual, but not on the objective.
And in the tech web descriptions, some of the required techs say that they are required for the trans victory, while others do not, like Swarm Intelligence... Soooo many inconsistencies and confusing hidden objectives.

The steps to the Transendence victory are
- Research the technologies that it lists in the quest log thing
- Reach level 13 Harmony
- Build Mind Flower
- Wait until Mind Flower blooms

I don't think it was all that cryptic.

And yeah, none of the buildings that are supposed to speed up the Transendence Victory do anything. They're totally worhtless. Just one more thing that's wrong with this game, it really feels rushed. Most of the problems people are finding on day 1 should have been caught in testing.

[Lyle]

Originally posted by JasonS:

. Just one more thing that's wrong with this game, it really feels rushed.

I Agree :(

[Why not Zoidberg?]

o wow that sucks

[Ryika]

The ingame-description is really misleading. From what I see in the game files, the victory itself has a countdown of 30 turns and each mindstem reduces it by 1. As far as I can tell the building does actually work, but it reduces the timer on the turn AFTER it was built. At least I think that's what they did in the game I played around with them, although I'm not 100% sure on that.

[Lyle]

So it only reduces the timer once?

[JH]

What if I've built mind stems in every city BEFORE starting the flower ?

When I did that the flower took 14 TURNS to build.

Is that the same or less than the time taken by others ?

If it is then maybe that is the order it has to be done in.

[Kayeka]

Originally posted by Darth Fish:

What if I've built mind stems in every city BEFORE starting the flower ?

When I did that the flower took 14 TURNS to build.

Is that the same or less than the time taken by others ?

If it is then maybe that is the order it has to be done in.

I had fewer mindstems and Xeno sanctuaries than you did, and my counter started at 23.

So it's possible that the effect only works if you build the stems and sanctuaries before placing the mind flower. Mostly useless unless you have pretty darn great production.