Units Firaxis forgot about.

[Callonia]

Note that there is no affinity upgrade for....

Workers.
Colonists.
Explorers.

They get left completely behind by the fervor that grip their factions completely and retain their useless tier 1 traits. They have yet to adapt to the new world they're on.

 

[Zenstrive]

How do you upgrade workers? They still have bonuses from wonders and building quests...
explorers I agree, need some beefed up, now that we're encouraged to explore.

 

[Callonia]

How do you upgrade workers? They still have bonuses from wonders and building quests...
explorers I agree, need some beefed up, now that we're encouraged to explore.

Harmony Workers: Won't be attacked by the bugs.

Supremacy Workers: +10 strength when attacked by bugs.

Purity Workers: Gain Hovering.

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Harmony Explorers: Can leash the bugs.

Supremacy Explorers: Has short ranged teleport.

Purity Explorers: Gain Hovering.

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Harmony Colonists: Can be escorted by the Xeno of planet.

Supremacy Colonists: Gets a short ranged teleport.

Purity Colonists: Also gains Hovering and looks fabulous with all those pink floatstones.

 

[The_Cebador]

That really is a good idea, since Firaxis made affinity variants for some units, why not go all out?

 

[ShaggyCan]

100% agree, especially explorers, now that they made them viable for the whole game, they should upgrade as well.
Once again I really find that they haven't integrated the expansion into the base game very well. The virtue tree doesn't even integrate any of the new stuff.

 

[Polycrates]

I think hovering for all workers later on would be a nice idea, to allow building bridges over canyons

 

[Beastfeast]

Yes, but like other units they should change appearance and form when upgraded. Worker starts off as he is (a human piloted hydrolic machine) and becomes:
Harmony: worker becomes an alien-hybridized drone of some kind. (heals in miasma and ignores terrain movement costs. Also aliens won't attack it).
Supremacy: Human operated suit becomes an autonomous worker drone (self repairs and has extra movement speed)
Purity: Worker becomes a remotely operated battlesuit. (can defend itself in combat and gets a slight boost to improvement creation speed).

And of course hybrid affinity units could be interesting as well

 

[HughFran]

This is a great idea - workers from each affinity should be able to construct things that are unique to that faction.

How would you upgrade colonists though?

 

[Gorbles]

Workers shouldn't be upgradeable, they have enough to do without introducing Affinity-specific benefits into the mix.

Explorers, sure. Still need to find the time to update my mod. Not even sure if Hybrid units are exposed in the new code.

 

[Kutuzov]

Sure. Why not? But what would you have given up to make way for this new feature?