Meh. The last thing Stellaris needed was more micromanagement. I mostly liked the concept of the update months back with consumer goods and so on, except that it substantially added to the management burden in a not particularly enjoyable fashion.Gethsemani said:
I get the rationale, to see that minority races don't just get swamped to almost nothingness. But it was incredibly, stupidly extreme. The minute I admitted a new species, the pop growth on pretty much every single planet became the newly arrived species for a decade or two (assuming same habitability). One of the annoying things, of course, is that you pick your starter species because you want its characteristics - signing a migration treaty shouldn't be signing up to the massive outbreeding of the species you handpicked by others.
Also, do those pop mechanics work for everyone? When I last played, the irony was that as a democracy, I wasn't allowed pop controls, yet the devs had created one for me: effectively they had banned my starter species from breeding for decades at a time with one, ill-considered algorithm.
