how to play stellaris lithoids on high sierra

Volatile Excretions: Each pop creates 0.01 Volatile MotesĠ.01 Motes with only 12 starting Pops is almost useless however it does let you buy Motes in the market (something you can't do for many years unless you find the Mote Trader). One potential other choice would be Charismatic but we have a better solution to generate Amenities. Seeing as you want your Rocks working only as Specialists or Rulers there aren't that many traits you can choose from. Each lab increases your research by a base of 24, this is almost 50% of your total science output at the beginning of the game. Research is always important and in this build you will very rapidly increase your Population and depending on your start you will either add 1 or 2 very early research labs. The Army Health doesn't matter much in Stellaris but I'm not complaining. The Lifespan bonus isn't really 50 years because your leaders start older but it is still about a 20 year bonus which is really all you need because by the time they start dying from old age you will likely have found ways to increase their lifespan even further.

Every 1% of Habitability under 100% increases the Pop Upkeep and Amenity Usage by 1%, reduce their job output and Pop Growth by 0.5% and happiness by 0.25%. Any planet you colonize within the same climate has 100% habitability right from the get go. The Pop Growth penalty is painful, however +50% habitability is huge. Lithiod: -25% Pop Growth, +50% Habitability, +50% Army Health, +50 Leader Lifespan

Most Machine empires are probably still stronger but they really need to be nerfed.

This is a very strong Build/Guide I have been working on.

How to play stellaris lithoids on high sierra