#Idea for a new faction

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wraith pond
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?roadmap

hearty pathBOT
wraith pond
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maybe have their gimic be one of the two siad on the road map

pine rune
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Really hit him with the roadmap

wraith pond
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drones would be funny for a soviet style

pine rune
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any drones lol

wraith pond
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though dont know how the Monolith would be the opressors, there literally owned by the workers.... thus making bthem the most soviet like iirc

pine rune
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railgun drones

calm gull
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hmm, definitely soviet ideal

wraith pond
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ah yea
"But due to their desire not to dilute their own shares, the employees of Monolith have mandated hiring standards so strict that only about 5% of the population under Monolith's governance are actual employees, many of whom only become so out of nepotism. Much of the remaining population lives in extreme poverty, and Monolith-governed colonies have by far the highest wealth inequality of anywhere in the galaxy."

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very soviet style

severe lynx
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putting specifically socialist is too on the nose i think

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go for galactic union or someth

calm gull
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Galactic People's Union

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GPU

topaz stratus
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This faction idea is as subtle as a brick through a window

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Monolith is truly socialist; there was quite the wealth inequality in the soviet union too

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The reason for the wealth inequality within monolith is probably the exact same reason as the wealth inequalities within the USSR

plain fractal
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you made this after our faction war, eh?

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@devout stirrup

safe shale
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Monolith

topaz stratus
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"a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

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even a clear google search shows that monolith is a socialist organization

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definitely not traditional socialist

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but it isnt imperialist in the slightest

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at least the "ideal" of the monolith

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Average communist explaining how their ideology wouldnt doom the entire world to poverty and obsoletion

safe shale
calm gull
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can we not get in an argument about political ideologies

safe shale
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if you wanna mod in a faction then cool man, but this one is not nearly as nuanced or interesting as any of the other factions in game and certainly reads moreso as a fan fiction than anything
"""""""rescued colonies""""""""
""""""""""extreme patriotism""""""""""

Congratulations, you have been freed from tyranical oppression, please enlist or be subject to second class citizenship and thusly subject to harsher sentencings not limited to and exceeding conscription

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Don't you see, they're just extremely patriotic, we're not forcing them to be soldiers

uneven comet
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There’s no way that creating a faction based off a real life superpower in a game like this would go over well

safe shale
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The whole premise of the in game factions is that they're extreme and fantasical in some ways and that makes them fun and interesting

one faction literally worships the sun,
one is democratic to a superstitious and religious extreme,
one is the totalitarian endgame of corperate control

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and then you got fringe but they're pushovers anyways

wraith pond
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🍿

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We done arguing over meaning less things now?

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It's game about blowing things up

frail summit
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imo, I just dont think cosmoteer should have factions tied to the real world

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aside from the cabal of sol maybe being one of those ancient sun religions, no nations and current history are ever mentioned in the cosmoteer lore. and it should stay that way.

ripe briar
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Theres gotta be a better way to make a sorta anti-corporate faction than just "le epic soviet union!!!1"

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Even though already fringe exists and also already pirates

uneven comet
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Yeah, I think fleshing out fringe a bit more might make it the anti power imbalance we are looking for

ripe briar
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Like the idea isn't even tongue in cheek, its literally USSR with an i in it and just idealized communist stuff lol

calm gull
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that'd make sense for the drone stuff

pine torrent
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space russians

tidal glacier
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I would suggest that fictional factions can be loosely based on, but never be just outright, a certain nation or superpower in history. Fictional factions are meant to be interesting and fun. A science-fictional reskin of what we already know well isn't interesting enough for the role.

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Since drones are already on the roadmap, it's natural to build another faction that makes use of them when they come out. What makes drones and T-34 vehicles different is that drones are unmanned. I expect more a faction that is benevolant to its people, not wanting anyone to die in battles, or simply because they have a small population, possibly because many of them died in battles.

safe shale
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Maybe they're transhumanists who believe that the Human being is far too valuable to expend in what they believe is pointless conflict, but are willing to fight in an effort to end future loss of life, hence drones

wraith pond
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id like to see non-human faction honestly, Drones could be Rough AI or Trans"Human"ist aliens

tidal glacier
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Or fully autonomous combat ships remotely controlled or AI controlled?

plain fractal
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something something engi race

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maybe nanite regeneration module somewhere?

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that slowly repairs parts?

safe shale
wraith pond
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DLC cringe

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Expansions only

safe shale
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thats

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thats the same thing but aight

wraith pond
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DLC are usualy paid

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or that's what ive noticed

calm gull
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there are some free dlc, but the vast majority are paid

safe shale
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Expansions and DLC are essentially interchangeable terms for what is just additional content, often in the form of some kind of paid bundle

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They could be free tho

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But I wouldn't be opposed to paid DLC content, provided it was of some kind of substance

onyx minnow
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so long as it's not paradox dlc, which is just releasing the base game in overpriced slivers

safe shale
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paradox

calm gull
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i mean, they make at least 1 good game

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citation: over 1600 hours in stellaris

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but yes, definitely wait for sales on the dlc

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either that or get people to get you the dlcs as christmas or birthday presents

safe shale
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The game is only fun when you actually have said DLC

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Base game just feels incomplete

frail summit
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ship commanders are considered the only beings between the AI and all other humans on the hierarchy because they translate the AI's wishes onto all ships

wraith pond
onyx minnow
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I'll always be the one rooting for a tyranid/zerg faction with biological ship modules and parts, but I doubt that would happen

wraith pond
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Only paid "DLC" I'd be down for is the OST

frail summit
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biological ship parts would be cool as fuck but would also be like making a cosmoteer 2 task wise

wraith pond
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We should probably move the conversation back on track or somewhere else

onyx minnow
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I want to see the mouth of my ship unleash a wall of flesh that smacks into another ship and begins overtaking it until it's infested under my control

wraith pond
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Same thing?

topaz stratus
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Mfs be discussing politics with a furry pfp and thinking theyre smart

calm gull
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how is someone's pfp relevant to anything here

topaz stratus
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Its kinda like having a pokemon pfp

wraith pond
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Transhumanism is just teh belief of evolving humans beyond where we currently are, usually through technology

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Why the hell does everything have to be political with you?

thick copper
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tbh cabal of sol kinda reminds me of the karsites from mercades lackey

safe shale
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Transhumanism is literally just the idea of artificially developing the human being, there are zero political connotations about it

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It's just a concept

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Transhumanism is by far cooler than cringe posthumanism anyways

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technological enhancement is based

frail summit
safe shale
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you have nitro, no room to criticize

frail summit
topaz stratus
sour flax
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as a fellow soviet union appreciator, please stop posting cringe and using a game suggestion to agitate for what you believe in

frail summit
wraith pond
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Internet arguments be like