Conquered species as loyal followers

So this might be way too much in the way of complexity, imbalance, and micromanagement... but are there any plans to have a conquered/converted species retain their traits? I was noticing (unless I am missing something big...) that when you culturally "flip" or conquer a planet, they seem to magically gain all your traits and loose what they had before.

What I would like to see is if you say conquer a Yor planet, they would retain their synthetic abilities and drawbacks, and colony ships from that planet would be loaded with more Yor who would now carry your peoples' banner as loyal subjects (or maybe have an approval penalty?).

IMO, it would add another layer of strategy and realism.

... and might be a nightmare to balance and manage? Not sure, but wanted to ask.

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Not in the base game, but one day.

Posted by Brad in the Steam forums:

They've heard it from me. A lot.

I can tell you how it's eventually going to be during the GalCiv III series.

Eventually you will train divisions of soldiers on your planets where planets are populated by different species so you will want Drengin soldiers if you can get them (or breed them into your own Korath). Then you take them to another planet and invade with those legions and make tough choices between taking out their military versus infrastructure versus population centers each with its own pros and cons.

But that won't be in the base game but rather one of the expansions in the future.

In the longer-term (as in, over the next 3 years) we plan to do a LOT more with the different aliens.

That is, every planet will keep track of what species are living on it and what you do with it will matter. Obviously longer term but this sort of thing is what will make invasions a lot more interesting.

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