You seem to be resisting the fact that a society of slaves is still functioning and has to take care of its own needs.


You seem to be purposefully operating under the mis apprehension that slaves are only of use in the location they derive from, which is of course nonsense.

Slaves are property ...

Dad, given we have just conquered the the xeno scum and given we are a hive mind and have a completely different ontology of being, consciousness and sentience to the xeno scum, how long would it take to integrate them fully into our culture so they have the exact same rights and privalleges of the ...

Hey guys Spartacus is revolting.

Great, just what we wanted????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Ok, but purposefully provoking rebellion is always going to seem cheesy and like an exploit and I am really struggling to think of any real world example of this concept or even a context in which it makes any sense.

Sure crushing rebellions should lead to easier slavery, that is not an exploit.

What is clearly an exploit is purposefully angle shooting so that those rebellions happen in the first place.

Maybe OP if you use an exploit.

Also other game play elements dont have to remain static, seems reasonable that slavery should highly nerf research from colony population, if that is not already the case, it should be and that could easily balance gains from slavery if balanced correctly.

This idea has come out of the slavery thread but I dont think it should be buried in that thread.

Currently The Bos have a -40% malus on assimilation, which makes sense, who wants spider overlords, no one welcomes them amirite?

However The Bos have slavery as a win condition but no content ...

, and I don't think it reflects how it would be if it were realistic. Not that we should discuss how it would be if it were realistic- that's totes beside the point and is irrelevant.


Even in pure game play terms, slavery needs to be balanced for Boskara as it is a win condition for them, they ...

You need to maybe step back and accept that criticism of this game can be valid because you are going into bat for it at an insane level.

Is not the fact that a DLC race get a slavery specific building enough to elucidate how empty and shallow the slavery mechanics are in this game for OG races ...

So yes the revolt trick is an cheesy exploit and at best slavery is a press button get more revenue button. So a placeholder.

Also dont try and hand wave my observation that slavery works better after assimilation is contradictory as a vision, I am applying universal concepts that are not unique ...

The AI does okay with the cost of invasion, and I regularly see games where a few empires are eliminated before mid-game is in full swing. The ones doing it are typically among the more powerful empires, by the time I run into them.

All you have to do to take advantage of slavery is to manually ...

AK_icebear just shared an effective way to Slave on the Steam forums. I didn't realize the effective use of slaves before this.

1) Invade a planet.
2) Immediately after invasion, set colony troop levels to manual and garrison troops - to prevent automated transports from taking them away.
3 ...

1) Check your automation settings, the AI might be building military ships, recruiting troops, or building planetary facilities at colonies for you. And it will do so as soon as enough cash is available

2) Have you ordered any ship construction through Fleet templates? That works the same way as ...

Playing as Boskara, slavery is a very empty game play mechanic.

I just invaded a planet in my first run on extreme difficulty, which btw after only one run I can tell you now is the only way to play. Anyway, the invaded planet is a huge strain on my economy, negative numbers I assume that are much ...

Tankers do work, just not supper efficiently.

For example, I am playing on extreme difficulty and facing a major Caslon crunch, my star ports hardly if ever have any Caslon.

However when I built my first Battle Cruiser, it rolled out of the starport empty of fuel because SP had none, no worries ...

This has been going on for several years of in game time. I have a positive cash flow of around 7-10K often bolstered by bonus income, yet my balance bounces around all over the place up and down and I have no clue why and wont get above 20K before dropping, that is if it even reaches 20K before ...

Garrison all button.

Also some checkboxes for colonies, make ships here yes/no, load/dont load troops here. etc.

Hi could you explain what you mean by maintenance always gets payed? This is a counter intuitive statement. I can set tax to zero and it still gets payed?

I have the option to change funding to ships and facilities etc, what does this achieve? Nothing?

I dont really understand what you mean in a ...