• Sector Shipyards - Centralise Production (updated)
  Each spaceport in a sector contributes 50% of its build speed to the sector capital. Reduces the micro involved in building large fleets.
  
• Sector Edicts - Centralise Commands (new, inspired by thread)
  Allows you to enact sector-wide edicts from the capital for 250 influence. Currently only covers edicts related to energy/minerals/ethics/happiness. I'm not sure whether to expand it to cover things that aren't affected by the sector tax...?
  
• Overharvest - Unsustainable Development (updated)
  Adds a policy that lets you get +10/+20% to Energy/Food/Minerals, at the cost of adding unremovable tile blockers over time. Lets you play a locust swarm that has to keep moving or die. The update makes nomadic/double-jointed pops automatically resettle to another planet if a blocker appears on their tile, and adds a 50% chance for non-sedentiary/bulky pops to do so.
  
• Starvation - Rationing & Death (new)
  Makes it so starving countries start to suffer pop die-off after 6 months (1 pop/mtth 6 months). Also adds a rationing edict starving empires will use. This should help stop countries getting locked in perpetual starvation where starvation causes, unrest, causes no production, so they can't afford to redevelop buildings into farms.
  

• No Change
  The trait removes itself, leaving the pops unmodified. You can then apply whatever you want to them later.
  +: Simple, straightforward, gives the player maximum control.
  -: The 'unmodified' pops were included in the cost to perform the project. That could be months or years worth of Society research that ended up not changing anything.
  
  
• Backstop List
  The trait is replaced by Conservationist (if applicable), or Talented, or Quick Learners, or...
  +: Least effort for the player. One trait, that will always have a positive effect.
  -: The desirability of each trait will vary wildly by playstyle. For example, adding Talented to a slave species is a bit pointless. There's no single backstop list.
  
  
• Smart Modification Options
  Instead of a single 'Smart Modification' trait, there's a bunch - 'Smart Modification - Talented', 'Smart Modification - Conservationist' etc. They specify what trait will be added to the species if the food/minerals/energy traits aren't appropriate.
  +: Gives players control over what the backstop trait is.
  -: Not that obvious, lots of clutter, doesn't support modded-in traits.
  

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			type = energy
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Talkie Toaster fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Nov 8, 2017

Talkie Toaster fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Nov 10, 2017

• Platform: 10k minerals, 300 influence, Technological Ascendancy AP, deep space stations.
  
• Stage 1: 20k minerals, all level 3 lab technologies.
  
• Stage 2: 20k energy, have survey data on all systems in the galaxy.
  
• Stage 3: 300 influence, give up 3 level 6 scientists to staff the enclave.
  
• Stage 4: ???
  

• Find a precursor homeworld: Even if it's fixed in 2.0, it's sort of folded into the 'have survey data on all systems' stage. You're likely to have already scored this by the time you get to Stage 4.
  
• Learn expensive techs: E.g. all the power/armour/shield upgrades or special new ones. Seems a little bit underwhelming? You already have research gating on stage 1, though it's not very severe.
  
• Explore a difficult new anomaly: E.g. you have to scan 3 different black holes and then the SMBH at the galactic centre. You'll have given up your 3 best scientists in stage 3 and will have a hard time getting more up to level 5 to do the projects, which seems a bit dickish.
  
• Finish a Leviathan research project: Neatly ties into the Enclave habit of giving out info on how to beat Leviathans, but it's also a midgame thing and worse one you can potentially be permanently locked-out from if you're unlucky.
  
• Have X Research Agreements: If you're an enclave, you should be sharing your knowledge. Slightly hard to manage given the amount you want would change with galaxy size.
  

Talkie Toaster fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Feb 16, 2018