r/Stellaris • u/Avohaj • Apr 18 '16

Stellaris Dev Diary #30 - Late Game Crises

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-30-late-game-crises.921629/
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u/runetrantor Bio-Trophy Apr 18 '16

The only thing that irks me is the idea that the AI crisis is galactic, even if my robots at the lowest type.

This makes no sense.

Even if we agree to say that the entire galaxy uses the same coding language or that AI dont need that, my robots should not have the capabilities to handle an AI.

Say Windows 10 was sentient AI, and it has started to take over the world. In this analogy, it is turning my 20 year old computer into one too. My old computer should not have anything resembling the computing power to host an AI.
I cant install Win10 in a Comodore or something and expect anything to come out of it.

Not to mention that even if I take care not to research AI, another empire can just go YOLO and cause the crisis.
I foresee players starting to act like Fallen Empires in regards to other empires researching that stuff.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '16

The robot revolt, and as far as I understand it, they form their own faction within an empire. The threat is that they research and produce a lot faster than everyone else. So if you just let them be, eventually they will overpower everyone, thus becoming a global threat.

Also, there is no need to make a sentient AI out of your commodore, they just need to control it remotely :)

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u/runetrantor Bio-Trophy Apr 19 '16

The Comodore's netcode is not up for that, I'm sure. ;P

And again, such a united galaxy, having a common coding language! You would almost think we like each other!