Knights of the Toxic God are a completely Painless Experience

[@A_Spec]

Practical? No. Hilarious? Absolutely!

[@bahemutking12]

Nice but that crime and low housing situation gonna send my OCD into nightmare mode... Was able to get 6k science by 2297 with the new traits(less lifespan) thingy. Gene tailoring pops on each planet is M-azing!!!

[@nurilnuril4372]

@@bahemutking12 Anywhere I can get a rough guide on this? Only been playing a month, but want to experiment with something new, but don't know the game enough to just 'wing it' on your information.

[@Saboras95]

You can always take catalytic processing as 3rd civic with the gov reform and then go crazy with Alloy production too. :)

[@CrimsonReaper189]

i figured this out on my first playthrough took me a while to get lucky with rng to be able to run it but omg is it amazing when u get to the point i was at with 1100 pops no crime over 100 knights and due to running catalytic bio ascension my ecu was pumping out allows for days and non of the slaves dared do anything because nerve staple kept them so happy along with about 80 servent slaves to also keep amenities high i know that makes no difference but i hate red numbers

[@scavenger6268]

So @ASpec is this gonna be another run of your broken utopian abundance? Or we placing prisoners with jobs into the commisariat?

[@purin6792]

I absolutely love that you can be an actual company of knights by choosing to be a mega corp.

[@chankljp]

Well, the historical Knights Templar did took part in money lending and banking, so the knighthood being backed by not just a mega corp, but one that even have a special branch office building unique to them would 100% make sense! :D

[@unclekanethetiberiummain1994]

Basically adventurer's guilds

[@acheron16]

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that. The game start blurb even accomodates this.

[@LaughingBat]

My first Toxoid empire was a Mega Church dedicated to spreading the word of the Toxic God lol

[@zeehero7280]

When YOU need knights in shining spaceships, you know who to hire! reasonable prices, reliable results! Knightcorp!

[@l0rf]

I have the beautiful mental image of your serf acquisition fleets not even bothering to dock with the habitat but instead connecting a high pressure umbilical to just inject additional pops onto the habitat. They cannot work, they have no house, they have no belongings and quite frankly, they are not even able to move but gosh darnit, serf life is just so fulfilling that they're happy while the combined pressure of the pops forced into the habitat is creating enough heat to actually power the station.

[@Krogahn]

and all this scietific knight are dedicated to find why the habitat dont collapse on itself and become a black hole

[@Krogahn]

btw your comment is magic i laughted so much while visualising the absurd scene

[@japanesedriftmachine2140]

man i spit out my coffee laughing didnt even make it to the second sentence

[@theautisticveteran2466]

"Subscribe for more janky-ass builds." This is exactly why I'm here and love your content! And this game for that matter.

[@theautisticveteran2466]

Also, likely going to have the stability modifier nerfed at some point.

[@IExcelsior]

Ascension gives appropriate bonuses, Paradox just forgot to make the changes in the description of planetary designation. If you check knights, they are producing more with each Tier.

[@A_Spec]

Oh jesus

[@truthteller6116]

Im getting the "Food does not matter. Consumer goods DO NOT matter" vibes

[@Grothgerek]

I'm a huge fan of this origin. I played many different games with them and tested different builds. They are just awesome and I really hope that they dont change/nerf them, or atleast not that much. And a small tip for everyone that had problems in the early game (which I heard quite many had). Go for the Mercantile tradition. Trade Value isn't affected by the negative energy modifier, so you can avoid it entirely. Especially "Commercial Enterprise" is good, because it gives you 1 Merchant on Trade Districts. Which you actually can build, because you start with a free tier 2 habitat (which easily offsets the lower number of pops, thanks to the doubled growth). Its also worth going for the "Consumer Benefits" Policy and switch you economy policy to militarized (+25% alloy -25% consumer goods). This way you get consumer goods from trade and offset the negative alloy production. Btw. if you go heavily on slaves, I also recommend the Noxious Trait (get it later with genemodding, because of the negatives). Having you ruler jobs taken by noxious pops means, that you have always high stability. Because they have way higher political power. You can even ignore amenities, because they only boost happiness, which the noxious trait already does. 100% happy rulers and 0% happy slaves is completly normal ^^

[@POKENAR]

From my experience, the knight output is well worth the very early game hit, especially if you know just enough about the game to rather easily offset it. I think I ran the high-funding option after like 5 years and never turned it off, I barely noticed a hit to my alloys. Intending to keep the knights, I found by the time I finished the quest, my tech tree was almost complete and I took the science genning options, so I instead opted for the toxic god so I could save on an ascension perk, I feel if I was on a higher difficulty or I wasn't playing the standard MP gamerule of 75% tech cost, I'd have probably killed the god.

[@himbalodzodenever]

taking the god HALVES your knight number, its terrible

[@francisharkins]

So its like Clone Army where its a double edged sword to work around.

[@himbalodzodenever]

@@francisharkins no its just terrible. You get a D tier colossus for halving your knights+ no relic

[@the_fenix_3247]

@@himbalodzodenever They mean the Origin not grabbing the toxic god

[@wolfianius6037]

I roleplayed my first game with the Knights of the Toxic gods was, interesting. At first I found a shroud enclave near my capital and saw them as mages, guiding my steps through a dangerous future by the help of the shrout. Next I found some Bards for my empire, a Enclave full of Artists. While I was busy finishing of the cult of heretics, oposing my knight order, I made contact with another Empire. They had the same political allignment and ethics as me, so I handled them like another honourable Order. Sadly, they had a small problem, wich would become a bigger one for me: They had a swarm of driven exterminators beating them up. The second I noticed this, I send my fleets out to purge this Evil. My valiant Knights took one after another planet, but I was too slow and the game forced a white peace. It was kinda annoying at the time, but something interesting happend, before I could go to war with them again. The swarm exploded into smaller empires, all friendly and not out for blood. As the honourable knight my leader was, he saw that the once violent swarm changed it ways to create a peaceful future, so he left them alone. With that the first crusade was over. Meanwhile borders between empires became clear and some fortress habitats were built on chokepoints, just to be safe. Some empire opened the L-Gate, just to find some friendly people, who really didn´t want to talk about nanites, so I left them be. There were some empires, who needed the protection from the dangers of the galaxy, so they were offered subjugation and became Bulwarks for the next crusade, all with a network of Gates to conect to shipyards of the Order, also around the same time a Hegemony alliance was formed, with another overlord and it flurished, it was a golden time. The galaxy respect the Order of Knights who swore to destroy every evil that may come over it. But there where mistakes made. One of the Knights on hs quest was killed by a Gate Guard, for having the wrong answer to a question, but the witty squire showed his worth and completed the quest. Another Knight opposed the feeling of Lust and would have doomed the Empire, if it weren´t self replecating Lithoid who ascended to perfect Gene manipulation. Of course, since it was a medieval based society, there were flaws with it. Every species not deemend worthy (all of them), weren´t able to climb the ranks and stayed peasents (slaves), but they got the gift of beeing modified to be better suited for that role and were thankful for that. But then it happend, right after the Order reached it´s goal, of killing the Beast, that has damaged it´s homeworld and took it´s head home as a Throphy, interdimensional Invaders came and threatened the galaxy. Luckily for the Galactic community, their Portal was right next to one of the Borders of the Knights Fortresses and were efficently dealt with in the second crusade. Even though, the humble Knights never really took a stance in galactic politics, the galaxy decided to decleare them their custodians. That was just in time, as after that the next threat rose on the horizon. A ancient MAchine Intelligence swore to destroy all biological life forms. A fallen Robot empire, corrupted by these Exterminators, joined them and the few robots inside the Orders Empire also got influenced and stood up against their creators. In what became known as the Third Crusade, wich lasted for 5 years, the order proved once more to be capable to shield the galaxy from vile creatures. Sadly, many lives where lost, as three planets from peaceful empires got completly destroyed. After that, a new system, only reachable through a jumpdrive was found and the Lord Commander called his knights for another Quest. Only time will tell, what these brave Knights will find there.

[@St4rTr3v1Ut10n]

I loved this origin. It really felt like you were a crusading empire, I was constantly at war with other empires, whether for humiliation, subjugation, or at the behest of my militaristic vassals. When I found the Toxic God I opted to control it rather than kill it, which made the midgame a breeze since it can tank midgame fleets by itself while toxifying a capital world. So badass.

[@ryannguyen7466]

Stellaris is a perfectly balance game without any exploits

[@alexs818]

I'm not sure if that's a bug or a feature, but buildings that grant flat buff to farmer and miner jobs also grant the same buff to livestock, although their descriptions don't state this. Upgraded miner purification plant, for example, gives +2 minerals to your yummy lithoid pops doubling their basic production. Bon appetite!

[@majdavlk649]

nice, but bio livestock is still more useful

[@Draythix]

The crazy thing is that there are ways to get more knights without overpopulating that one habitat. It isn't nearly as overpowered, but if you defeat the toxic entity you get a decision that lets you add knights and squires to other habitats.

[@EJ_Red]

Thanks Aspec, the first 10 seconds just gave me three different notification sounds for my phone! Video was good too

[@Mouse2379]

All sorts of interesting stuff going on behind the scenes for this origin. Even without exploiting anything they get access to to crazy stuff. Have yet to see anyone mention the knightly policies or the branch building. One of my favorite origins so far.

[@Kae-k96]

Looks like in the 3.6 beta build this has been changed so that the event gives your knights amenities instead of stability and your keep gets a flat bonus of 15 stability

[@Zotok990]

The fact that you can have that job as a robot puts this into the ludicrous sphere.

[@Dan19870]

This has to be one of the craziest builds I've seen in a long while. Thank you.

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

This origin has a lot of roleplay potential. I’d love to play as a genuine feudal society with this and go all out with aristocratic elite or maybe instead of feudal society be an imperial cult. Also definitely a missed opportunity to call yourself the Sons of Nurgle.

[@Wargamer-sw8yh]

My experience has been a bit mixed. It’s been generally difficult for me to keep my economy stable. Especially in my second game when a damn criminal syndicate spawned next to me.

[@Grothgerek]

Try trade value. Its not affected by the -20 (-30)% Energy production. If you go for the trade tradition, you can get extra merchants from buildings and the trade habitat district. Which allows for huge amounts of energy (and consumer goods).

[@Maddogg500]

when they put holdings on your world u can invade them for control

[@karrackhalcyon8826]

I love having OP things in games, this is beautiful

[@Malino8835]

my favorite way to destroy my opponents: "borbital bombardment"

[@АлексейПопов-н8щ]

Planetary ascension works on Knights with Capital designation. Another 35%. My favorite outcome of "Whitch in the woods" event is 3 organic pop asembly on every planet. Essencialy free cloning vats everywhere. Slap budding on top. Whith cultural workers "cheese" you can get unlimited housing, amenities and 0 pop upkeep. Unlimited Knights. Unlimited POWER. Combine with utopian abundance, and all unemploed pops will also produce research and unity. And this how Adventure Guild of the Friendliest Blorgs was created...

[@kareningram6093]

Wow. I didn't even know you could fit that many pops without housing in one place. I assumed there was a limit.

[@TheDrexxus]

They stop growing as you approach and run out of housing, but nothing stops you from transferring limitless amounts to a single location. Whenever I get lazy and forget to put on population controls and get too many pops, I cram them all on a single planet and cut it lose, then go to war and bomb the shit out of it until they're all dead, then conquer the planet again for the next purge. Rather silly you have to jump through so many hoops just to keep your population levels stable. But pop BUILDING never stops. So robots and cloning facilities produce forever, regardless of housing. So if you get mushroom people slaves and give them budding, the more that are on that habitat, the faster they reproduce at a linear rate. Eventually you can have so many that you get new pops every single month.

[@ace-kz9id]

your only "limit" is houseing or accepting the cost of increased consumer goods and crime if you just force a TON of pops in a area without enough housing

[@stalincat2457]

I imagine the homeless at the top of the homeless-pile might have to deal with the lack of oxygen so high up.

[@gyulajakab5852]

I really hope that paradox doesnt change this origin. Its janky and fun, offering a different way to play. Its not overpowered, by 140 years in you can get a meta empire to be more powerful than this easily. It doesnt cause problems for multiplayer since the early debuffs make the origin a bad choice for competitive play with the standard 30 year truce, while for roleplayer mps it offers a really fun alternative.

[@TyrMcDohl]

Change that empire name in to the Order of the Toxic Clown Car.

[@MrMaddy24]

Slaps habitat, this bad boy can fit so many slaves and undesirables

[@EvilShade82]

This sounds cool. Is it still possible, or have any updates ruined this build?

[@ares106]

Never understood why we can’t have hard caps for populations on planets and stations (like we used to). You can’t physically cram more entities in a space that can’t handle them. It’s always makes me feel like I’m not optimizing if there is virtually infinite space on any object. Feels bad man.

[@npierce14]

Yea I was thinking the same thing I come across situations where I have no more jobs with a popualtion of like 60 but the planet says it can handle having 120 so I’m just supposed to let 60 pops be unemployed?

[@heinz8233]

Why would you want a hard cap on pops? What do you know about habitats in stellaris and their size or capacity? Its an abstraction like everything else in the game, and soft caps are always always better and more fun. It just happens that the +3 stability for knights is a tiny bit broken, thats it. No other way would you be able to cram so many pops on any planet. Its really fun though.

[@justinthompson6364]

Now to combine this with montu's zero housing, zero amenities pops

[@lazysnake160]

This man literally created the imperium of man from Warhammer 40k

[@A_Spec]

That corpse starch ain't gonna make itself.

[@AutumnThe_Toaster]

I decided to use that that origin for a Imperium of man playthrough

[@silentdragon1]

"space detroit" lmfao breh. i lost it. this level of fuckery is what makes memories in video games. and subscribed.

[@xavierdoesntmatter]

All it needs is a rather small patch so if(popType == livestock) { do not count towards special effects like new jobs }

[@sowscrowler245]

I love this origin reminds me of the Dark Angels before the Horus Heresy.

[@nicholasthompson6152]

Cause they're Knights?

[@jnelson4765]

Space Detroit indeed. I'm imagining the inflatable habitats they're trying to develop IRL - but jumbo sized.

[@fatwe1992]

Was doin a run as an imperial cult toxic god and the amount of u cool dialog this generated was surprising, then we breached the shroud and there was even more special dialog (also met the end of the cycle, politely declined)

[@Herbertti3]

Excellent. This will be my next playthrough.

[@Classic_Frog]

That gives me WH 40K vibes. Basically a hive planet.

[@Hasus16]

More like Drukhari and Dark City of Commorragh.

[@mattmark94]

best faction to roleplay as deathguards

[@archades115]

The blessings of the Grandfather... I mean... The Composer of the Strands are kind, indeed!

[@machionrender6409]

Knights of the Utopian Abundance Toxic God

[@humanhaggis]

If you combine this with the 0% pop upkeep, 0% housing build, you can use unemployed utopian abundance citizens instead of livestock. The best part is that they don't even need the stability bonus as they will always have enough housing and amenities to stay happy, and they will be generating science for you instead of just covering upkeep costs.

[@koolunit]

This seems a lot like The Order, which harboured the MOST loyal Primarch(Mr El Johnson) on a galactic scale. Well done Aspec!

[@A_Spec]

Praise the Primarch of the Rock

[@ProfilGesperrt-gk8xc]

How do you have so much resource production at the start? I just started a knight playthrough and I produce jack shit

[@pierre-andrelecomte9384]

I wonder if there is a way to get that stuff... on a birch world

[@A_Spec]

Yes, yes you can.

[@JimPekarek]

Wait, is 8k science a lot by 2341? Last Rogue Servitors build I played was pulling in around 20k science/month by that point. And unity to match. Hilariously overpowered. 😆

[@A_Spec]

Post the build

[@JimPekarek]

​@@A_Spec Starting out: Traits: Logic Engines, Emotion Emulators, Mass Produced, High Bandwidth, Bulky Trophy traits: Docile, Traditional, Conservationalist, Slow Learners, Fleeting Civics: Rogue Servitor, Rapid Replicator, later added OTA Updates & Galactic Sovereign Origin: Remnants Improved traits: Logic Engines, Streamlined Protocols, Emotion Emulators, Mass Produced, Luxurious Tradition order: Expansion -> Discovery -> Prosperity -> Synchronicity -> Unyielding -> Domination -> Supremacy Ascension Perks: Tech Ascendency -> Imperial Prerogative -> Synthetic Age -> Grasp the Void -> Master Builders -> Galactic Wonders -> Machine Worlds -> World Shapers (should have gone for more ecus instead) Relics: Javorian Pox Sample (ugh), the Rubricator (hell yes), later got Prethoryn Brood Queen Edicts: Fortify the Border, Expanded Breeding Program (later), Research Subsidies, Machine Learning Campaign, Living Metal Mega Construction, Ambition: Scientific Revolution, Ambition: Architectural Renaissance, Ambition: Will to Power General strat: Playing on Grand Admiral. Immediately become a Scholarium, as fast as possible. Maintain zero fleets, very low alloy production, but stockpile it. Buy every single slave you come across and pamper it. Rely on your wonderful overlord friend to protect you. Do zee SCIENCE. My overlord imploded in 2279 when a neighbor destroyed it. At that point I had higher starbase cap than fleet cap, lol (26 starbases, 0/25 fleets). At that point, I was well into repeatables (Focusing Arrays V, Administrative Efficiency VII, High-Density Munitions III). Had 45k alloys saved up, immediately bumped my naval cap, built a fleet, and steamrolled neighbors one at a time, making them protectorates. Altered the deal as soon as possible for max basic resource tax & buildings, ignoring their loyalty. Then took out the fallen empire next door, claiming their territory. Pamper the fallen. Once we had ~4 protectorates + Dyson sphere + matter decompressor, there's so much basic resource income we can afford to remove all energy + mineral + food jobs. All planets are now research worlds or refinery worlds. Terraform half into gaia worlds, the other half into machine worlds (should have gone for Arcology Project instead). Build ringworlds as fast as possible and optimize all of them for research. Pay attention to anyone in the galaxy building a science nexus or mega art installation, and nab them as soon as possible. You want several of each. And then make sure the Galactic Community values science above all else. Eventually almost every planet will need to be a refinery world to keep up with the thirsty ringworld researchers. I was playing Ironman, but had a copied save from 2279, so here's 2 data points: Results as of 2279: +5k Science, +791 unity (700 over edict fund), 11 planets, 566 pops, level 3 Scholarium, 0 fleets, +1k alloys Results as of 2418: +37k Science, +46k unity (10k over edict fund), 125 planets (54 ring world segments, 2 ecus), 4596 pops

[@A_Spec]

Impressive, will need to give that a go.

[@danielgloyd4529]

Livestock don't need homes or toasters, they are meant to roam the fields and plains grazing. Sir, this is a habitat we don't have fields and plains.

[@michaelsutherland5848]

I knew serfs were powerful, but I had no idea that serves were so OP!

[@RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg]

Remember Delicious titans, Mining Fungal, gas fungus? Yeah. I hold research feral behavior, turn in to ECU, then research let it live to get infinite gas.

[@A_Spec]

Yes, I was originally going to try the gasworker approach for infinity gas. But this worked much better

[@apollogamer8758]

Cool video! Loving your content lately :)

[@Archon3960]

To be fair, you're acting pretty much mike the Death Guard, so it fits. x)

[@blitzkrieg8776]

They really need to add in plagues or what not to prevent this many pops being on a world.

[@A_Spec]

You're totally right, disease attached to carrying capacity would be a good fix in general for these sort of builds.

[@machixius]

Is the "how many pops can I cram on this colony, and is it worth it" neuron universal? Cus I’m starting to think it is.

[@BAGELMENSK]

You can cram infinite pops in it.

[@tylerarmstrong2855]

I played devouring swarm once and I just got the strongest fleet and began consuming any empire that was vulnerable and as a result I had so many species being used as food I was making 8k food and supported my crashing economy with just food but then there was one empire left and I had ate everyone else (including the crisis) and I almost lost the game because I couldn’t support anything

[@Reoh0z]

ASpec brings us the finest of Cheeses.

[@isaacgorski6054]

I love that you took that toxoid portrait for the knights just like me

[@Reclamation-]

If you move your capital to the habitat does it give the +%resources from jobs to the knights?

[@A_Spec]

Didn't think of that but yes

[@tba3625]

This build was taken from reddit.

[@Cray93]

For honor! (and science!)

[@AsbestosMuffins]

ya I noticed this the other day, I thought "hey free habitat" and was going to just spam traders but then looked at what knights produce and figured something was up

[@islandwills2778]

With all those pops next you need to set it so unemployed pops also produce research

[@ATHFShakeZulah]

I had to juggle like hell and sell relics to push ahead with building a couple of colonies.

[@CrimsonReaper189]

i have to say im surprised u did not take one point in to materialist as the academic privileges does effect the knights with it being just plus research output how ever thats added to the base output so i dont know if specialist pop out put is after all those modifiers making it more impactful or not

[@majdavlk649]

if it works, its probably just +10% of the base output, most of these modifers are additive

[@CrimsonReaper189]

@@majdavlk649 the 10% from privilege is base output the bit where im not sure on is if specialist pop output is also applied to the base or if its applied to the output after the modifiers

[@majdavlk649]

@@CrimsonReaper189 my guess would be alongside them

[@Tessicaria]

How to create a better science nexus in three easy steps: Knights of the- OH NO THEY'RE LIVESTOCK "You have HOW MANY pops on the knight's orbital station??" "You picked science in how many situation events???"

[@jonathansweet2230]

I definitely had a sensible chuckle watching this video.

[@A_Spec]

My favourite magazine

[@SgtCookie111]

I kinda want to do this strat, but with a Barbaric Despoiler/Scavenger start. Free raiding stance, smacking down fools who stand against you *and* you get a free Mercenary Company for Knight-Mercenaries? Fuck yeaaaaa!

[@thibs2837]

6:30 Livestock dooesn't mean they are in the field making food, it means they are the food.

[@A_Spec]

Really?! Is that what it means? My God.

[@thibs2837]

@@A_Spec well I guess 🤔

[@tomasmurphy9888]

I fucking saw the slavery option coming a mile away and was still slightly surprised.

[@nomadiclineage3131]

Not that other videos are bad but I really enjoyed this one lmao

[@A_Spec]

You'd love the playlist at the end.

[@furiouskaiser9914]

Haven't messed around with knights yet, but out of curiosity, do you at least get some knight army units?

[@euengelion]

What a mad lad I was loling at how crafty you are gg

[@MaFo82]

So to be clear all Paradox needs to do is to remove the +stability modifier event. The Knight would still be one of if not the best specialist pop (hard to beat science+fleet cap+unity) but it wouldn't be stupid.

[@memwyvern]

Pretty sure one could easily get around that by gene-modding their knights with noxious trait. I don't mind silly powerful origins like this. Scion and clone army are still a thing after all, this is just another of the same silly fun.

[@wanheda0408]

How do I get the stability buff? It never showed up :(

[@ComeAtMeBro2010]

Got nerfed sadly. not sure why because its not a meta origin

[@wanheda0408]

@@ComeAtMeBro2010 ohh sad. But ty anyway 😁😔

[@GamingWithGeo]

When I tried to replicate this my knight, and squire, population never increased on my habitat no matter what I tried. Tons of livestock but only six knights and twelve squires. Obviously I missed a something somewhere along the way.

[@plmokm33]

This origin is basically Void Dwellers light without any of the habitability downsides.

[@Negawisp]

This build needs Catalytic alloy production as a third tradition

[@A_Spec]

Agreed, the lifestock variant synergizes very well

[@accessdenied5998]

My man creating space necromunda

[@tranquil2159]

Watched this after i made my mege corp knights yesterday, i fucking love them and this helped me augment them

[@Nemo2342]

I achieved similar science numbers via Knights, but I had to do it by filling up multiple habitats after defeating the Toxic God. I would have never considered doing it by just cramming everyone into one habitat.

[@TheGuardianofAzarath]

Serf 1: Who are you? Ruler: I am Arthur, King of the Sludge Dwellers. Serf 2: Oh, King eh? Oh that’s very nice. And how’d you get that eh? Be exploiting the workers? My cramming us all into this god-foresaken station with no room, no housing, no basic needs being met? Ruler: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! Serf 1: Order eh? Who does he think he is? Ruler: I am your king! Serf 1: Well I didn’t vote for you! Ruler: You don’t vote for kings! Serf 1: How’d you become King then? Ruler: The Heavily Mutated Lady of the Glowing Septic Lake, held aloft Excruciator, signifying that by Devine Providence of the Toxic God that I Arthur was worthy to rule. THAT is why I’m your king. Serf 2: Listen, strange abominations laying in pools distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Ruler: BE QUIET! Serf 2: You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because the woman you were spying on taking a bath threw a sword at you! Ruler: SHUT UP! Serf 2: Governance comes from a mandate from the masses, not from some vast aquatic ceremony! I mean, If i went round, sayin’ I was the Galactic Overlord just because the Dimensional Horror lobbed a Scimitar at me, they’d put me away! Oh! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed! Ruler: BLOODY PEASANT!

[@klankungen7794]

I've been looking for a build like this in ages! I love eating pops but they become a bit to anoying after a while. This solves all my problems!

[@briwanderz]

i finally decided to try this origin yesterday... only around 25 years in, not exactly loving it, not hating it either, just meh, but mostly because i like playing hive mind, rogue servitors or genocidal empires more... finally decided to check this video and see how ASpec built his empire, come to find out it's almost exactly the build i did, except i didn't start with distinguished admiral, i started with meritocracy and masterful crafters, but i was thinking i might eventually switch out meritocracy for distinguished admiralty.

[@alexs818]

This is how I found out that there is a maximum cap for monthly trade, which is 20000 :)

[@coyotism8563]

Plantoid knights with the pop building based off of how many there are

[@thegaminglord1777]

Finally, a new way to make spiritualists tech priests

[@oldomen3788]

I like that the holy company of knights kill you by farting too hard

[@bombedbox]

What should I replace Master Crafters with if I dont have it, Meritocracy, Functional Architecture, or something else? Thanks for any feedback.

[@A_Spec]

Functional Architecture is quite good, even though it got nerfed from 2 slots to 1. Do you have Diplo Corps?

[@bombedbox]

@@A_Spec I just bought the dlc pack outright, I figured it was finally time lol. If anything I am having trouble getting the stability special event quest for the "Knightly Duty - Herald Knights" option. Thanks for the feedback! Ill look into Diplo Corps, I have all the "main" DLC and story packs, not all of the species packs though. This is the first species pack I bought and I am loving it. Are you recommedning Diplo Corps cause of the envoys and diplo weight effect? Thanks for the vids, you are awesome!

[@cp1cupcake]

This is exactly what I expected to happen.

[@roberthenry424]

Something in my mod setup is causing the Order's Keep to not spawn, and there's nothing I can do to get it (well, except play without my mods). And it's driving me up the wall.

[@BAGELMENSK]

My reddit post beat you Aspec. I will have the clout forever, for all eternity.

[@A_Spec]

:( imma need a link to share the wealth.

[@BAGELMENSK]

@@A_Spec if I receive reddit gold I have to kill myself so I cant do that, son

[@beaawsome2211]

Well as a science person...I love this. Since I truly love running machine researchers this is a little between my usuals.(aside from winning via megacorp BS)

[@A_Spec]

You're gonna love the next video then

[@thepunkster]

@@A_Spec Oh god, when can we expect it if I may ask

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

Combine this with the perfect pops, for even more bonuses

[@swedizzle12]

did they do a patch for this? I didn't get the stabilizing for every 3 ability...

[@Reece_Hart]

Praise be to the squalor knights

[@ryancraigt]

Balanced as all things should be. This is as it was intended

[@dunklerKurfurstDesDeepstat]

"more janky-ass builds" ok ok, I subscribe

[@vegaman3096]

Is this build impossible now as of 2023

[@dominiqueyoung7628]

You can’t get the stability buff. Try Egalitarian, and Utopian abundance to offset that

[@Findsman]

I've been enjoying playing a "Good Guys" build with this origin, but......*runs off to the create screen to make an exploitative Megacorp* Mwahahahahahahaha!

[@NKGerydos]

It looks like they've fied it. My livestock does not count towards the number of knight jobs. It would be cool if i could stack it with the buff from the Eater of Worlds. :D

[@acheron16]

Just go Equalitarian and use Utopian Abundance

[@triplebog]

Space Detroit cracked me up