So I'm nearing the final turns of a fast game with Horatio and i'm on a mad blitz to stop other factions from getting eco or science victories by snatching away huge chunks of their population to slow them down.  I'm now at 12 successful splices and I THINK I may be able to secure two more (if the game would cooperate and stop moving all its citizens away from besieged planets.)  A thought occurred to me in all this.

What's your personal record for most splices in a single game?  What's the theoretical (or even proven) maximum?  Fifteen?  Twenty?  Thirty?  Surely It's more than the 12 I've secured now...

I never had more than 14 splices on normal speed. Micromanaging becomes too annoying at that point. But you can do more for sure.

I did splice everyone(36 pops available for splicing before last patch, 38 after) several (3 times at least) times (not in the last patch tho) with the vanilla splicing formula. The amount of micro and time it takes is beyond any sanity honestly. But what's sanity for true Horatio.

Damn... What FIDSI were your pops producing after all that splicing?

 Smth like that(36 pops spliced). Sry old screenshot from the old bug report. Got nothing fresher on me atm.

Over 81 total FIDSI per pop, that is impressive.

So you did a custom faction with depletion and no sowers?  bold move sir.  Also: holy Horatification, Batman...

So splicing sowers doesn't work properly?  Or was that an old bug?

Behold my creation - the perfect lifeform (for 1.3.9 patch)!

Very perfect.

In some other thread I noticed some faction called "Guardian Guides". They are not-searchable, I tried wikias, and searching here and there and nothing comes up.  I guess some of you found this faction, but I know perfectly nothing about them - how they look, how you get them etc. 

Guardians and those GGuides are not splicable. I wonder why, as I guess they are Unfallen.

also - there are 40 races, 38 spliceable, 31-32 organics, 5-6 robotics and 3 "others". How Horatio splices genes of robots and rocks? A  Shouldnt it be called something different like "Dissasemblage?" or B just removed from the pool of splicable factions? That way Horatios,, whith B in-game, would eg ignore and completely forego Riftborn/Vodyani, some other bonuses thus make the game more challenging and lore immersion friendliy?

Why would Horatio care about them? 

“This population must be built in the construction queue” 

Wut? lol... You must assemble your Horatios now after all those splicing?

He made a faction with "continuum sculptors."  They inherit the riftborn trait of not growing naturally.