Slime Worlds

With a slime-themed civic, starting you on a Slime World. So I can use the Slime portraits mod to good use. Make the Slime worlds come in different colors (green, blue, pland pink)

Maybe Elemental Traditions to enhance your element too?

Civic: Driven Slimers- gains unique CB and Bombardment stance to slime worlds, only available to Driven Slimers.

Civic: Necromancy- bring back dead leaders with empire edicts! Allows recruiting of Skeleton armies

Civic: Eternal Flame- ruler is immortal (must be Imperial or Dictatorial authority), can Hellfire bombardment to turn worlds molten after bombing for a while

Civic: Necromancy- bring back dead leaders with empire edicts! Allows recruiting of Skeleton armies

Civic: Eternal Flame- ruler is immortal (must be Imperial or Dictatorial authority), can Hellfire bombardment to turn worlds molten after bombing for a while [/quote]

I don't know about all the slime stuff, but I am DEFINETLY adding Immortality and undead stuff. Because it's cool and why not. Love the idea for skeleton armies. That's going in.

Flame-Infused- this species is genetically infused with elemental fire
Rock-Infused- this species is genetically infused with elemental rocks
Ice-Infused- this species is genetically infused with elemental ice

Holy- this species is considered holy by a Spiritualist FE (bonus opinion with Holy Guardians)

Civic:Lord of the Cauldron - Necromancy permates the worlds touched by these species, as the species dies due to the oversaturation of black magic but rise from the grave as undead. This would essentially turn you pops into undead by triggerable events, could be an interesting undead alternative for Robots; Menial Undead could be Zombies and Skeletons which act similiar to base robot while higher level undead gets bonuses associated to them by type; for example a Lich gives large bonuses to research tile production and there could be expanded undead army options for the players that have the civic. The name is a reference to the movie the Black Cauldron.

Civic:Death is but a Door - With this civic it turns your leader into powerful undead lich which is immortal for as LONG as his phycaltery which holds his soul isn't destroy (could be represented by your homeworld bieng taken from you with a chance of it bieng destroyed or it magically returning to its owner depending how good or bad the war went for the player). This can give special edicts to planets, where by worlds could become Cemetery Worlds which gives bonuses to undead pops and defending undead armies. Could introduce a unique tile structure which replaces the administration building with a Cathedral of Bone which holds his your lich leader's phycaltery and could give bonus & special royal army options. Events could trigger when waging war on other worlds where you could rise the population to turn that world into another Cemetery World under your control or rise them as addition armies from a price.

With both of these are taken the species government type changes to benefit it, Democractic - Unavailable, Oligarchic - Black Magocracy, Dictatorial - Deathless Dominion, Empiral - Necromantic Hegemony. My two cents on necromancy ideas. :)

1. What about mixing the elements Naruto-style? Could it work?
2. Regarding Magical Ascendancy: Maybe try to make it work with 2 and half ascension mod? It would be funny to have species who are psionic, magical, cyborg and have complete mastery of their own genotype. On which note: Genetics could make mixing the elements easier/possible, Furthermore it could help leveling out social tensions linked to the elemental affinity
3. Alchemy: one way or another, it should be implemented
4. Non-elemental magic: something akin to Necron Plasmancers: dealing with energy in its raw, unbidden form and/or binding it directly into form without using the elements
5. Time manipulation: Soft and Hard Magic may have it covered, but messing with time should be its own special category accessible mid-to-late game and it should have very heavy consequences.

I like a lot of the ideas presented in this mod, especially the addition of undead of all kinds. my suggestion is a small rebalancing of the trait bonuses/costs:
Most of the elemental magic traits are just fine where they are, with naturally balanced being slightly cheap for 2pts (maybe make it 3pts)
Racial minority is only -1pt when iirc the vanilla -5% happiness trait is also -1, maybe increase racial minority to -2pts. and finally:
Hard and soft magicians are both very strong for their cost, soft magicians (6pts) is more valuable than the 3 +15% food/energy/mineral traits PLUS the +5% happiness trait PLUS the 10% all science and +10% unity traits (all of which are worth 6 picks and 10pts), having it be 6pts in 1 pick is really really cheap, hard magicians has a similar problem as although its bonuses are lower, its cost is also a lot lower, in fact at 3pts its still only 5% worse in food/energy/minerals compared to the previous 10pt trait combination, so some serious tweaking of those two traits in particular is needed.
Magocracy civic is pretty alright too, its good late game when energy is plentiful, but early game the +leader cost can cause problems, it forcing hard magicians isnt really a drawback, given how powerful that trait is

Techomancy.
as a form of magic for machine empires a starting civic that gives the machines a base knowledge of magic in the form of cyborg sorcerers with which they can convince spiritualist races that they are more then empty shells.
while working somewhat like D.A. machines but their "cybermagi" are A. unable to reproduce and B. must spend time and unity in a planetary project to raise the "prospective acolytes"

Ascension Perks

Enchanted Frost- Use ice magic to freeze worlds! Unlocks a Colossus weapon to turn worlds into Frozen worlds.
Ground Breaker- Use your rock powers to get minerals! Unlocks edict which cracks the world it’s used on but reveals a ton of minerals (like 40-60 minerals)

new chaos magic, or dark magic, but just magic that will like scream "evil", maybe just make it opposite of life magic and call it death magic!

um Seti necromancy is death magic

while yes, necromancy is death magic, I do think I'll add additional "evil" magics, such as blood cults (that actually work) and daemon summoning

yeah just saying that the name "death magic" was kind of not available oh can we see a deamon summoning end crisis?

my god, a new crisis. While I'm sure it's possible, I'm just gonna hold off on massively complicated things, but if I get around to figuring out how, then yes there will absolutely be a deamon summoning end crisis, though it will probably be more like the end of the cycle than a real crisis