I fucked up my whole playthrough by terraforming the wrong planets I didn't know the details of hive worlds, I thought they were just outright better than regular planets, and they ARE, for non-resource-extraction research, unity farming, forgeworlds, etc. are all significantly better on hive worlds But, turning it into a hive world removes all the resource extraction options, replacing them with districts instead, which is very, very bad when you accidentally terraform, a process that can not be cancelled, your resource worlds into hive worlds and just have to watch the clock tick down, knowing you're about to hit a fat -300 or more a month in every resource
but you live and you learn, and now I know to be more careful, and also that terraforming a populated planet, once you have the tech for it, is seamless and not a problem at all So it's a new run, and I'm gonna expand like crazy, build WIDE, focus down research like never before, and get fucking cracking
It's a shame I never got to try out my stellar cannon, built around a pulsar star and supposedly having serious destructive potential, but I was kinda dealing with a lot of issues and didn't have the time for a war once it got up and running I am gonna fire that thing though, next time
Surprisingly I never found the fallen empires, well I found on e of them, this time around I wonder where the other one was hiding out
and, of course, I'm gonna be more attentive to the research tree I NEED climate restoration by the time I get my third ascension perk, or I can't pick hive worlds in the first place And because vassal empires are so powerful, I should probably work towards a powerful fleet asap so I can force my neighbors into submission it might actually be a good idea to only push my tech up to the point I can make another empire d- Wait no, resource vassals are actually way better gains, thinking about it My research-focused, max level vassal empire in this previous game only really put out like 50 of each science, which my stations alone dwarfed by that point, but my resource vassal, despite hating my guts and being about as loyal as a skaven would be, was feeding me like 300+ of each resource, which I can turn into a staggering amount of science myself
