
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a civic in Stellaris 4.5.2. Requirements: Does NOT have a Fanatic Ethic. Not with Gestalt Consciousness, authority Corporate and civic Decentralized R&D or Parliamentary System or Media Conglomerate or Secret Societies or Influential Cartel. It gives +60 Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls. DLC: BioGenesis.
What Crowdsourcing does
The game's own effect text (the civic's description key), then its modifier lines as the game prints them.
- Factions produce
Research instead of
Unity
- Factions will form in your empire shortly after the game starts, but Faction Output is reduced for the first ten years
- +60Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls
Requirements
Read from the potential and possible blocks (the game's list rules: ethics, authority, civics, origin, species); the wording is ours, the quoted rule texts are the game's.
- Not: Ethic: Gestalt Consciousness
- Not: Authority: Corporate
- Does NOT have a Fanatic Ethic
- None of
Cannot be taken with Crowdsourcing
Civics that forbid this one or that this one forbids.
In the game
This society has realized that individual inspiration is the root of true innovation. Open-source patents, open-mindedness, spontaneous collaborations and innovation bounties pave the way to progress.
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Crowdsourcing: questions
What are the requirements for Crowdsourcing in Stellaris?
Does NOT have a Fanatic Ethic. Not with Gestalt Consciousness, authority Corporate and civic Decentralized R&D or Parliamentary System or Media Conglomerate or Secret Societies or Influential Cartel. DLC: BioGenesis.
What can't Crowdsourcing be combined with?
Parliamentary System, Decentralized R&D, Media Conglomerate, Secret Societies and Influential Cartel — each forbids the other in the files' rules.
What does the Crowdsourcing civic do?
It gives +60 Add Attunement with the Cradle of Souls, plus the effects its description lists.
Can Crowdsourcing be changed after the game starts?
Yes — it can be added or removed later when a civic slot opens or the government is reformed, if its requirements still hold.
What is the ID of Crowdsourcing?
civic_crowdsourcing (Stellaris 4.5.2).
Source: common/governments/civics/00_civics.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).