They certainly can and have been the downfall of many of my colonies. The highlige meme for instance. Have them take psicite(sp?) Tea every 3 days for a basically free mood buff with little. But if you do run out of the tea you are in trouble. That’s why I like the ideology you can change as you go. You can reform and make it meet your current situation. Did you get a sunblocker off map and you can easily go hydroponics? Reform and take the darkfighting memes to boost your combat ability and hamper your enemies.

A plague take out your goose flock? Reform and remove the rancher memes to stop the downsides.

There is a lot of new stuff. I’m looking forward to playing odyssey because we get to visit more maps. Who cares if my toxifier generator pollutes the area of I’m leaving in 10 days :D

I don’t think ideology is for RP. I can see how that could be a thing. I look at it more as easy mood management. Stack the buffs and minimize debuffs. Converting isn’t hard if you don’t mind imprisoning your pawns for a bit. If you are recruiting prisoners just break their will, convert and recruit.

I’ve tried all DLCs except odyssey. Unfortunately I’ve been away for the past couple of days, it looks amazing. I would recommend biotech DLC if you are looking for a suggestion. It’s very player driven in it’s consumption. You don’t need to play a genetically altered vampire mechanitor lord. You can just play with mechs and dip your toe into it. Maybe mess around with some genetics later in the play through. To be honest I still have not fully played a successful vampire run. It doesn’t appeal to me as much

Ideology adds flavor to your plauthrough and can make your playthrough infinitely easier as drugged up, cannibal, raiders or infinitely harder as secular, tree hugging, ranchers that need to cut down trees for their sky lantern festivals but worship trees and get upset when they cut trees down. Not that I accidentally did that at all.

Anomaly is a horror expansion that adds more events and a little to the base game. It’s under royalty in my recommendation.

For us tall people the California king is bigger in all the right places