Virtual Entertainment Studios

Manufacturing building

Virtual Entertainment Studios is a manufacturing building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 500 Minerals, 10 Influence and takes 360 days to build, with an upkeep of 2 Energy Credits a month. It adds Artisans, Artisan Drones and capital_trader jobs, depending on the empire.

Cost: 500Minerals10Influence
Upkeep: 2Energy Credits
Build time: 360 days
Housing: —
ID: building_virtual_entertainment_studios

Jobs Virtual Entertainment Studios adds

Jobs come from the building's job modifiers; 4.x counts jobs in hundreds (a district adds 100). Variants for other kinds of empires are listed with their condition.

200 Artisans
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
200 Artisan Drones
Gestalt Consciousness; Not: Wilderness empire
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness
  - Not: Wilderness empire
200 capital_trader
Civic: Mastercraft Inc.
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Mastercraft Inc.
200 capital_trader
Civic: Media Conglomerate
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Media Conglomerate
200 capital_trader
Civic: Corporate Thinktank
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Corporate Thinktank

Cost, upkeep and output

Base values from the building's resources block; conditional variants (nomadic empires pay other resources, for example) open with their condition.

Cost: 500Minerals10Influence
50Volatile Motes — Nomadic empire
Nomadic empire
10Influence — Megacorporation
Owner
Megacorporation
Upkeep a month: 2Energy Credits
Produces a month: +6Consumer Goods

What Virtual Entertainment Studios does

Only in some cases

- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Artisans
when…
- Always
- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Artisans
when…
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Mastercraft Inc.
- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Artisans
when…
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Media Conglomerate
- +0.1Trade Produced per 100 Artisans
when…
- branch office owner
  - Civic: Corporate Thinktank
- +5Minimum Crime
when…
- branch office owner
  - Is criminal syndicate

How to unlock Virtual Entertainment Studios

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Has branch office
branch office owner
- Is legit or legal criminal

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

branch office owner
- Is illegal criminal

In the game

Using nano-transaction systems and neuro-chemical retention algorithms, these development houses bring the latest in virtual entertainment software into the homes and lives of billions of sapient consumers.

ID

building_virtual_entertainment_studios

Virtual Entertainment Studios: questions

How much does Virtual Entertainment Studios cost in Stellaris?

500 Minerals, 10 Influence, 360 days to build; upkeep 2 Energy Credits a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Virtual Entertainment Studios give?

Depending on the empire: Artisans, Artisan Drones and capital_trader.

What is the ID of Virtual Entertainment Studios?

building_virtual_entertainment_studios (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/14_branch_office_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.