Stellaris – Unlimited Potential Tall Build

Unlimited Potential Tall Build with Limitless Wide Capacity

Just be virtual, create lil sectors, and release those sectors as specialized vassals, if you reach the max vassals/subjects, just release them and form a federation, this can then scale basically infinitely and you’d have a sprawling multi-empire nation of semi-independent systems under your control (especially with a hegemony).

Cuz virtual is awesome tall, but only if you are restricted to a small handful of planets, but if you have any room to grow you are just limiting your maximum potential growth, however, if you evade this restriction but just building subject virtual micro empires, then can each specialize and afford you the access to more virtual worlds, without impacting your virtual productivity bonus.

Additionally, you could theoretically also use this to avoid the megastructure cap, but just building a megastructure, then releasing that sector as a vassal, and that should allow you to build more megastructures right? Limitless tall growth!

To be more specific, you can do this with planets, habitats, or ringworlds, some systems have 3 planets which 3-4 planets is the optimal virtual empire, and ringworlds have 4 planets in one system, meaning you can create a powerful micro-empire with a ringworld, otherwise, you can basically populate every single system you have and turn those otherwise useless, uninhabitable low resource systems into a micro virtual empire using habitats, which that micro empire could then be a specialized vassal or a member of a federation. with this, you could then basically just ally yourself with only your microstates and just keep expanding your boarders, continuing to create new microstates.

To explain the optimal virtual empire planets capacity:

Each planet costs 25% productivity bonus, so every planet you add past 4 planets is a hit to your overall productivity because you are adding less than 25% productive capacity in exchange for -25% productivity bonus. With this you could theoretically build a super wide virtual empire to negate the max -90% productivity bonus, but it’d be far more efficient to just build lots of micro empires that each have +100% productivity assuming they each only have 3 planets.