Expanded Hive Minds [2.2]
Expanded Hive Mind is a mod aiming to improve and expand the gameplay and possibilities of the Hive Minds.
The 2.2 patch went into the right direction, but there are still some things to improve!
Big features:
– The Infestation: Conquer other races, and turn them into new Hosts for your Controllers, and expand your Hive!
– The Living Hosts: The races you conquer would be put to better use serving as new hosts for your drones. Sure, they will die in the process, but your species will spread.
– The Closed Collective: Your Hive took control of your homeworld after a series of very violent conflicts. As such, it feels a great distrust towards other empires and species.
– The Symbiosis: Instead of integrating new species to your Hive, focus on making the strongest symbiotic relation of the galaxy. Will the symbiots cooperate or compete? Shape your Hive over time, and reach the Perfect Symbiosis.
Smaller features:
– New civics: Play as a Starvation Fearing Hive Mind, or a Hive Mind with Underground Drones. Most of these civics give a bit of flavour without altering your gameplay too much, and their main goals is to put the Hive Minds on par with the Machine Empires or the regular ones.
– Unemployed Drones Usage: Some of your drones might wander without purpose. The will of your Hive should not let them drift off.
– New government forms: The Resource Collecter Hive and the Knowledge Driven Collective
– Bio-Alloys Production Nests: A building to turn food into alloys
Features to come (some were already in the previous versions of the mod, but will still need to be adapted to 2.2):
– The Protector of the Organics: Dark times are ahead. Genociders, galactic invaders, and machines abominations are preying on organic life. It is your duty to protect them.
– The Perpetual Evolution: To survive is to adapt. To adapt is to change. To change is to evolve.
– The Genetic Amalgation: Most of the organic species are too different from one another to exchange genetic material. There must be a way around that.
– Smaller civics, such as a Hive-Mind version of the Syncretic Evolution and of Life-Seeded
Vanilla content overwritten:
diplomatic_actions/00_actions.txt
can_generate_leader_from_pop (game_rules)
simple_drone (pop_categories)
has_total_war_cb (scripted_triggers)
species_rights/00_citizenship_types.txt
