Stellaris thread
How is making space great again going?
>>337339759
Pretty good.
Wacky scientist guy talked to me a dozen years later and told me that my death was inevitable.
I called him a poop and hung up.
>>337339902
ITS JUST A PRANK BRO
Threadly reminder that you can change the amount of core planets you can control directly to anything you want by opening up the defines.lua file in wordpad. You don't have to put up with the 5 planet limit or the sectors system if you don't care for it.
>>337339759
WE WILL BE WATCHING, COMMANDER
>>337339902
Ayyyyyyncient Aliens lmao
>>337339992
does it bug out if it goes too high?
>>337339759
>mfw finding aliens who live in black holes
Is my galaxy about to be fucked?
>Fourteen different nations floating around that I'm aware of
>The number of rivalries and embassies and friendly alliances is starting to get legitimately hard to follow
>Starting to spend more time on the diplomacy tab than any of my development ones
>I've only experienced half the galaxy
Why is diplomacy considered so shit right now?
Big map and less races should mean easier game, right?
>>337340095
lets just say that crisis events doesnt come up until about 150+ years in
Unbidden are broken though. AI cant fight them at all, dont kow about other crisises.
>>337340271
Because they all play xenophobe and everybody hates them too much for that screen to be useful beyond the declare war option.
>Awful combat
>Civ V tier diplomacy
>Bad micro-management
>Bare bones as fuck
>Tedious and uneventful mid to late game
>Gets boring 5 hours in
>No replay value
>Make sure to buy all the DLC to expand on the content :^)
Yeah, nah. Fuck you, Paradox.
>>337340271
There's not a lot you can do with diplomacy despite the fact that you have a pretty wild web that can be woven in terms of alliances, protectorates, vassals, and everything.
I do like how the different ethics interact as well as the various titles they get.
>>337340343
only reason to ever take xenophobe is if you want to purge shit, literally no reason otherwise.
Torrent up yet!!!!??????????? ^_^ -_-
>first run
>full xenophile diplomat, figured would be able to win over planets culturally by Swedening them to submission, à la Galactic Civilisations
>bordered by 7 civilisations, none of which have free migration
>get thrashed by big bully races
Should've just stuck with my original plan of blobbing the whole map my colour
>>337340310
>crisises
DAMN, SON!
Check a dictionary sometime.
>>337340419
I've already seen one major religious schism, and another despotic empire break away from a confedracy
The schism is doing alright for itself because it joined the up and coming alliance but the despotic empire pissed off literally everyone in power
Meanwhile I'm sucking up to the super mega federation building super corporation and I'm thinking of becomign their vassal.
>>337340396
>No replay value
you could claim that it has no "play-value" but the replay value is almost infinite for these games, IF you like them.
Who full theocratic - ethic diversity run? everyone just become fanatic spiritualists and become happy little aliens.
>tfw when your main race is minority in your empire while upplifted cockroaches that have tomb world preference forms a strong 30% majority
i for one welcome our cockroach overlords
>>337340634
havent slept for 20 hours, and i am not really a english native.
no spell checking for me right now kek
Why wormholes so broken and fast?
>>337339759
early into my first run it's going okay. I love Slave armies with Psy warriors
Does kinetic/energy/explosive damage even mean anything
>>337340562
>Go around being Democratic blob
>Vassal and integrate 2 other empires
>Apparently this is cool enough for me to be invited into a federation
>My blob is bigger than the rest of the federation combined
Best of both worlds!
Even better is that the rest of the federation is between me and the fallen empires, so if shit gets real they get hit first.
>>337340271
I have the exact opposite problem. Nobody wants anything to do with me until it's time for war.
>>337340452
yes
So I was playing through minding my own focusing on researching and colonizing not causing any trouble then out of the blue some faggot Ai way out there declares war on me.
I thought hell, fuck you bring it on bitch my fleet is maxed out, I changed my tone the moment I noticed his 2k shitter blob entering my territory.
I immediately started building defenses around my home planet, he was scouting around then decided to fuck up one of my planets, had to let it burn because his fucking fleet would bitchslap my puny 0.9k fleet without a defending advantage and win the war.
He fucked off after capturing so I decided I'll sneak an army in to liberate my planet back, and low and behold my fucking ships decked out with mining lazers couldn't bombard so my army got its shit wrecked.
Moments later my neighbor decided to join in and declare war on me, as if one shitter wasn't enough. Thought I'd take out his fleet with comparable strength quickly while the other guy was busy fucking around before I get a double wamming but nope failed hard and ragequit.
next playthrough,
PURGE
BURN
KILL
EXTERMINATE
ENSLAVE
OBLITERATE
REMOVE XENO
>4 neighboring evangelical zealots have allianced up
>pretty much have to federation up with all the other nearby empires
war just broke out and god damn are they annoying
>>337340452
The day it came out mate XDXDXD :))))!!!!
>>337339992
>theres a 5 planet limit
What
I've played some multiplayer with my friend, and one AI we were playing with definitely had more than 5 planets.
How in the world could you conquer the map. otherwise?
>>337340761
>dreamlands
are you gay?
>>337339759
Is it actually hard to create the eye of terror with jump drive?
>>337340986
sectors
>>337341060
i had it happen randomly on the other side of the galaxy, but the AI can't kill it so they will just blob until you go to stop them.
>>337340986
You can manually control 5 planets at a time (unless you pick certain government types), the rest are automated
I'm not really sure about the point of forcing you to use AI control other than to give the game a reason to dump Sector politics onto you
>>337340986
It's a sector limit, not a total world limit
You can have more than that, but you start taking penalties due to the amount of bureaucratic bullshittery you have to deal with in running multiple planets
The only way to mitigate said penalty is to start splitting your empire off into sectors, and assigning governors to head them. On one hand, they run themselves and save you a lot of micromanagement, which is a massive relief by that point. On the other, you start running the risk of politicking bullshit and an open rebellion/uprising if you don't treat them right
>>337340986
There is a 5 core world limit, as in worlds that you have direct control over in terms of micromanagement.
You can have special government types that increase that amount as well as different research upgrades.
If you want blobs however, you need to make sectors, which is basically you giving up direct control to an AI. And so far I haven't seen a size limit on how many planets/systems a sector can be.Protip: If you have Frontier Stations that are sapping your influence, put them in a sector. Still get the same effect but no cost to you.
>>337340452
torrents have been up for ages
>no /v/ game up
>>337340923
I was chilling out exploring doing my own thing and same neighboring space bug declares war on me. I said fine you little faggot my 7k fleet will wreck your shit. Off travelling towards them and notice he has three allys. Fine I;ll fuck them up next. Few years into the war some other faggot on the other side of my zone declares war on me and he has 1 ally. Oh shit. They go straight for my homeworld. I get there after it's been fucked and occupied but lose the battle. No ships left. Galaxy is pissed with me. Reroll
>>337340923
>2k
>blob
It's not a blob even in the beggining
>>337339759
workshop downloaders not working
I gotta disable the crisis events
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682741626
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682736030
I need these files or learn how to do it myself. Cant get an access to super secret bug report sub forum on paradox
I find the mid/late game incredibly boring. It doesn't help that it's ridiculously hard to get faggots into your alliance because of crazy relations modifiers and other members refusing. Seems like once again Paradox have fucked Singleplayer and balanced the entire game around multiplayer.
I'll come back to it in six months when some mods are out and try a slaving/purging blob.
>tfw roll up some spiritualist space buffalo
>tfw everyone you meet so far is also spiritual
"Howdy neighbor! How was church today!"
>>337341545
but the invasion are easy
where is ork bro and his sexy ork
I need to start RPing
>>337341553
Mid game is boring until war with someone who actually can fight back starts
>>337341637
tyranids broke my best game thats all I need urgently
I heard people saying the other civs dont give a fuck about chaos leaving all the burden to you. So I thought I should play safe
>>337341630
TFW nobody even wants to invade each others' worlds
>>337341538
welp didn't research enough tech or build enough spehss ports, spread myself too thin racing for territory serves me right
>>337341630
>take charismatic
>diplomacy is now 'how can i keep everyone off my dick'
Holy shit I thought that you guys were bullshitting me, there really are no human men characters hahahah. Refunding this shit game.
>>337341743
yeah unbidden is annoying, but i stomped them with a 40k+ fleet easy.
>>337341630
>Run into the Holy Guardian type Fallen Empire
>I'm a Materialist
>>337340830
Yes
>>337341016
no just insane
>>337341763
wat
>>337341763
>Playing game
>Default Human graphic was female
>Run into an event where some of my people decide to genetically modify themselves
>Call themselves Ultra-Human
>It's a smug as shit dude as the graphic
>>337342381
>
>off 4chan
No.
>>337342473
meme arrows belong to the world now
slowly building my empire on a corner of the Galaxy. Directly opposite of me on the other side of the Galaxy is the Tyranid invader looking motherfuckers, and they are wrecking shit fast. I hope I have a large enough fleet ready by the time they finally make it over here. Fanatic Militarist Theocratic Oligarchy reporting.
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>>337339759
I havent pirated it yet, maybe this weekend.
How does it play? How does it run?
>tfw watching a bunch of despotic empires and theocratic oligarchies form a harmonious pact
>tfw watching my allies, a bunch of confederacies, form a Celestial Axis
>start recalling my embassies from one set of losers who joined the Pact
>Carefully land the now-free embassy onto one of the members of the Axis
>Watching the battle lines get drawn
The big player is very protective of me. Should I keep trying to join the alliance, or become their vassal?
>>337342754
it plays smoothly. The criticisms all seem to be about lack of content, not UI or ease of play. Whoever designed the ergonomics deserves a promotion but the design team needs more time to put in real meat. Think of this as a beta test.
>>337341148
Do you really want to micromanage 40 planets?
>>337339759
Pretty good, using the default Commonwealth of Man.
Whenever I meet a new race I have been conquering them and then purging all alien life and replacing it with Man and robotic servants.
End game is to purge all non-human sentience from the galaxy.
>>337342943
If I can, yes.
>>337343057
You will change your mind within an hour.
>>337342718
I doubt it, but good luck m8. Try and build an alliance if you can, you'll need all the help you can get.
>>337342754
A bit slow, there's a bit of lack of content you'll notice after 20hrs or so.
Good game with great potential.
My influence point is -1 because of some bad decisions how do i increase this?
>Unbidden arrive
>Create Federation to fight them
>Leader of federation declares war against another federation
>More than half of whole galaxy plunged into war
>None cares about Unbidden
I wonder who might be behind this war
>>337343185
easiest way is to declare a rivalry with another empire
>>337343185
declare rivals, give frontier outposts to sectors
>>337343090
But alliances directly hurt my influence points senpai
>>337341545
guys I need help
how do I disable the crisis events
>>337343426
you don't, you little shitter
>start new game
>scientists have; 5% research speed, 10% research speed, 10% research speed
Well. That makes things easier.
>>337340739
They seriously limit how much of the map you can reach, unless get get military/civilian/station access from people across the map. Even then they cripple your energy gain early-game if you have more than a few.
They are amazing for turtling, awful for conquest.
>Science ship just went 'missing in action'
what do?
>>337343526
enslave everybody
>>337343592
enslave strong/super strong. Exterminate everyone else
>>337343526
It probably was in the zone of influence of other empire when you contacted them, soon they will return to you
>>337339902
What is your fleet compositions?
>>337341763
But there are though.
>>337343526
it'll show up again later. Hopefully.
>pic
WHYYYYYYYY it's too perfect
>>337343526
It'll come back m8, just be patient.
Or this, I support this >>337343592
These avian ship desings are sleeeek as fuck. Dominating lesser beings in style.
>>337343718
Enslave the fallen
>>337343592
agreed
WHY CAN'T I MANUALLY UPGRADE THE PLANET ADMIN OF IN A SECTOR
So how do I do alien slavery?
Iv taken xenophobe so I can do it, I just dont know how
>>337343718
>letting the fallen bully you
eeeeeeeh
Is this game worth torrenting for someone who plays Civ sometimes but sucks at it, enjoys AOE2 but only played it with his dad as a kid for building walls and cool battles because he hates macro meta mouse click spamming warcraft gameplay?
I want to play on easymode and make an empire. Is this better than Beyond Earth?
>>337343839
capture alien planet and click with right button on pop, pick "enslave pop" and all of them, this way every alien of this race on that planet will be enslaved. They are good for minerals and food but worse in everything else
Can I scuttle frontier outposts once the system is under my territory or the territory will go away if I get rid of them?
>>337343943
>Is this better than Beyond Earth?
How could it not be?
>>337343985
Sweet, thanks anonThey shall all answer the call of Cthulhu.
>>337344006
Do you mean 'can I build them and then destroy them and keep the space' or 'can I demolish them once I have planets nearby projecting my borders over the system'. Because it's the latter.
>>337344006
Unless you've expanded beyond them, I wouldn't try it no.
>>337343526
Do this
>>337343592
>>337343815
because sectors are broken and need a rework. You can only grant autonomy once you've developed the Colony
>>337343943
>is this better than Beyond earth
what isnt?
>>337339759
I'm getting really bored of it desu. I'm modernizing my ships to crush the last non-elder civilization, merged in and integrated my last vassal, but the preceding hundred years before that shit was just me choosing the next technology to research on Fast Speed.
I always thought EU and CK was shit and that Paradox games were garbage, but I took a risk on this one after hearing that it was more 4X (i.e. a game and not a map painting simulator). Sadly it's so barebones and boring that not even the fastest speed is enough to plow through it.
Strategy games that are not RTS-tactics should be turn-based. Everything else has pacing problems. Every strategy game that has a speed setting is cancer. I'm not going to waste money on another Paradox game ever again.
will make all W40k factions in stellaris art style plus popular /v/ factions into the game, they are pretty easy and quick to make.
which ones do you like to see? I'll make protoss and maybe some mass effect ones too.
any suggestions?
Also which difficulty do you play?
I vassalized the first alien race I ran into after stomping them with my far superior ancient alien shipyard ships, was this a good call or should I have just conquered them completely? I'm in super early game (our armies were 500 and 350 in size).
>>337344187
That looks awesome anon, nice job.
>>337344187
what's your workshop link bro?
>>337344268
bisho bola but right now just dota 2 stuff
>>337344150
>tfw can't purge populaces that constantly keep trying to rebel
>have to constantly spend influence on propaganda campaigns and reeducation
There must be another way
>>337344187
>No repugnant
>No Strong/Very Strong
>>337344187
>>337344332
Dude these look really good.
Keep it up!
>>337344302
OP asked me how it was going, and I responded.
Not every opinion has to be positive, fanboylad.
>>337344338
Just put them in a sector and ignore them
>>337344187
>plus popular /v/ factions into the game,
remake civ4chan
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/civ4chan
>>337344187
Make kerbals
also i would love if somebody could separate humans into their ethnic groups (european, asian, african/middle eastern, etc)
>>337343815
you can't manually do shit in sectors.
>>337343943
It's super boring and pointless, unlike Civ.
At least in civ you can actually manage things. In this game if you have more then 5 planets you have to put them in "Sectors" and hope for the best.
>>337344006
You need a colonized planet to project the borders so if the Outpost is actually on the borders of another civ, and you kill the outpost, they will take over any stars on the border :^)
>not building an empire on robot workforce then have to deal with the eventual uprising
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rI9L0WGUro
>>337343185
rival some guys, make sure ur not in an alliance that you dont need to be research techs that give you influence
>>337340923
>>337341527
>Those first lines
Sectors should be option desu
Is there any way to just completely bulldoze a planet?
My faggot ally settled a stupid ocean planet that is on the same star as a nice arid planet.
I went to war with him but now I own this shitty ocean planet that I don't want.
WHATS THE COMBAT IN ENDLESS SPACE LIKE GUYS??
>>337345001
YOUR GRANDCHILDREN ARE GONNA NEED GRANDCHILDREN LAWYERS
Okay guys serious question here, what do you need to have to be liked by the galaxy? Should I go with xenophile?
>go with xenophobe
>instantly hated by most of the galaxy
>just gonna make myself a huge fleet and no one will mess with me anyway, whatever
>colonize a planet that has some non-sentient creatures on it
>they take all the good land for themself
>purge some of them to make lebensraum for my race, nobody will care about some non-civilized beings in my borders
>suddenly relations are at -100 with everyone besides my 2 closest friendsI shouldnt accept migraton from other races if im a xenophobe r-right?
>>337344187
While Balmarians are super space jews humans in SRW, i like the helmets so much to let the opportunity passthe spanish translation feels strange
>>337345037
Card based.
Also it's not a very good game, feels sterile to the extreme.
>>337344628
This is really stupid, there is no reason I shouldn't still be able to build in a sector.
This or Endless Space?
>>337345016
Just go in to the lua and change the core planet amount. Shit's wack, i'm microing twenty planets.
>He needs a spredsheet on top of his blobs-growing game to have fun
>>337345226
Neither to be honest
>>337345231
Ama do that when i get back to my PC later today.
>>337345147
>building a big army
Bad
>purging
Extra bad
Couple of tips;
Take charismatic, its a huge buff and help for being liked
Use your embassies, put them in any new empire you meet, switch them to more hostile factions if you find them.
Use trade; give them your star data, or 1 mineral a month or something
Dont declare war, defending yourself is okay, attacking is not
Dont purge
Dont do anything that could be considered 'mean' to other aliens like taking away rights
You should be able to keep at least 10 factions or more on your side fairly easily.
>>337339992
Why would you want more than 5?
Sectors are so comfy and you don't have to micro 50 fucking planets at once.
>>337345147
Build the biggest army so everyone is afraid of you
>>337345001
laughed really hard at this
>>337344187
>>337344606
OH god yes I second this. I would love to play as Kerbals in Stellaris
Maximum science and peace, to the stars!
RACE WAR NOW!
>>337345026
purge the whole pop
>>337345440
>being a cock to other inferior races
look at this tentacle lover, do you need more hentai material while you let fallen empires jerk off all over "holy" worlds in your dominion?
>>337345769
>s-stop playing differently!
Im sorry you are so bad at this casual game you cant into diplomacy.
>>337341716
Nah, the combat is pretty boring too.
So is the 1000 max naval capacity? How am I supposed to have a nice big fleet
>>337345440
>>337345603
So very big fleet or small fleet? kind of confused now.
I did used the embassies, but the proble is that even when they gave me they maximum relations points other aliens never wanted to have an alliance with me.
>no purge
so what happens if i meet those non-civilized beings that take all of the planets space?
I hope they give more options for sector control.
If you allow redevelopment, AI likes to waste ressources that are not the sector speciality.
If you forbid it, some planets end up with a massive surplus in food that is a total waste.
Also: Anyoen figured out if you can take back planets form the Phytarian Scourge? I wrecked all of their armies but bombardment is pointless since it won't allow my gene sodliers (fucking Astartes) to invade.
>>337345837
>wants to diplomacy so he never has to fight
>no you are the casual!
>>337345748
I had this too with my Slurpanors and Super-Slurpanors
>>337341553
>Seems like once again Paradox have fucked Singleplayer and balanced the entire game around multiplayer.
that's the same conclusion Three Moves Ahead came to, like word for word
https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/stellaris
>>337339759
I suck at this game. 20 minutes in following the tutorial robot and i'm poor as fuck and have to speed up the game to earn money to build resource stuff.
>>337345897
Fighting is easy as shit, anyone can win at conquest in this.
Keeping everyone happy with you is infinitely harder. Sorry you suck at Stellaris.
Anyway to deal with the constant hungups after playing a while?
I realize my CPU isn't that good, but it's starting to kill the game for me.
Every single first day of the month the game hangsup for 2 or 3 seconds.
Can I create a smaller galaxy with less people in it? I don't remember seeing that option, so I'm guessing I gotta edit a file somewhere.
Endless space suffered from this too, but not nearly as much.
I'm from planet Unity and i say kill them all.
>>337345174
Ironic. So does this game.
OI GUYZ OW DO YA GET ZOGGIN INFLOOENCE?
>>337346024
Declare rivalries
Build sectors
It's not quite enough to keep you from constantly being starved of it, so hopefully they fix that in the future
>>337345964
Yes, you can edit the galaxy size however ya want. The devs showcased it by making a 4k star galaxy.
>>337345954
>take a couple modifers
>establish embassy for ezy 100 relations
>guys diplomacy is hard!
>>337339759
>Trying to massively spread humanity across the galaxy
>Have four core planets with a ton of food
>Take a new planet, migrate it quickly to capacity
>Sector it off and onto the next
This honestly seems to bring in resources faster than trying to make planets balanced, nothing else can keep up with you.
>>337340396
I don't think anyone cares
>>337345440
>play like a fag
>>337345147
That guy is an idiot
you should
>build fleet and pick smaller enemies
>either devide their empire on two smaller or take away suitable planets
>Make aliens slaves on planets you can't live on, on suitable one purge them all
>do this step by step, else you will be targeted by other ayys
It doesn't matter if they hate you, what matters if they are willing to fight
>>337346128
That only works for at tops 6 factions, if you took fanatic pacifist, and charismatic only takes the edge off factions not liking you.
Not that you would understand any of this, thats alright you keep playing Stellaris casually while the big boys play the real way.
>>337346132
While i think sectors are horribly made they could be modded into having better A.I
>>337346247
>guys it's okay to play diplomacy it's actually hard!
>guys it's okay to be friendly and if you get surrounded by 4 empires to just sit there and stagnate!
>guys it's okay because it make the game harder! can't you see this is amazing game play and you're just too bad to understand!
>guys I'm totally not working for the unseen!
purge them all for the good of the galaxy
>Have more ships than the enemy
>Have better technology
>Lose anyway
I don't get it. How the fuck do they keep winning?
>>337345875
You dont need, (or even want) alliances early on, you'll only piss off more factions.
Bigger fleet will lead to them disliking you more if they are hostile, its only useful if you are already friends with them as they will want to be your ally
>so what happens if i meet those non-civilized beings that take all of the planets space?
Build an observation station, elevate them, then annex them once they become your vassals
>>337346390
they are countering your weapon types or armor.
>>337346010
aye aye, captain
>>337346390
They got larger muscles that you anon.
>>337346374
>Not being a benevolent tentacle swarm enslaving the entire galaxy and spreading happiness to all
>>337346374
>The point
>Your head
Im sure you get this all the time but you're really stupid.
>>337342473
It's a common way to quote or bullet long before 4chan
>>337346374
>I suck at diplomacy
>therefore its bad!
Yeah no. Its bad, but not for that reason. Git gud.
What should I do with the sanctuary ring world? Heard that there is a possible endgame crisis from it, should I just destroy the defenders and annex the small ayys into my empire?
>>337346414
I meant those that cant develop a civilization, just a random ayy tile that spawns more good-for-nothing ayys.
>>337346374
The diplomacy in this game is kind of 8 or 80 kinda deal.
You either go "Charismatic Peacefull Super Star" or you build the biggest ship you can find en masse and don't care about opinion.
They can insult me all they want, their words don't pierce armor.
My guns do.
>>337346445
Man, that is bullshit. This shit happens every single time. The aliens must all be fucking psychic or something.
>>337346606
uplift them and gain a new world
>>337346606
You just have to keep them
Can defense platforms be repaired?
>>337346606
I found a ring world that was already destroyed.
Says that there was cybrex or something there.
I did all the quest chain, but it still shows up in the situation log and nothing appears on that system.
Does it come into play later, or did the game bug out on me?
>>337346679
jst build half and half fleets
>>337346672
>their words don't pierce armor.
>My guns do.
You should probably get that checked out, you are not supposed to be killing yourself.
It's going alright I guess
I have no idea how these cunts, the rackudon empire are expanding so fast though
>>337346492
>>337346560
>hello I like to suck the dicks of my overlords numnum btw you are just bad at the game unseen pls go, you won't repress my powerful race
>>337346606
>a random ayy tile that spawns more good-for-nothing ayys
Instead of purging (that's very mean anon, and xeno's don't like mean people) you can enslave them and disable Slave Procreation.
There, xeno's contained with the power of Trojan condoms.
It's still considered a mean thing to do, but as mean as before.
>10 observation posts so far
>8 of them have had catastrophical results and civilizations either wiped themselves out, or reverted back to stone age due to my meddling
Guess I should have spared some scientists to those places.
Oh well, thanks for the research, primitives!
Can you do anything with stone age primitives?
>>337346775
Dunno man, discovered that thing with my research ship and a window popped up with a message that said to do not come close to the ringworld.
Came back later with a 16k fleet and wiped the system, discovered 4 inhabited "planets" there
>>337346869
>getting this upset your got schooled on diplomacy in a game that hardly has it
Thats just sad.
Game is retarded about war. Diplomacy is incredibly limited, especially during war time where some of the options are grayed out.
You can't opt out of a war that your ally dragged you in. And if you get attacked by a superior foe than that's pretty much it for you, good luck waiting 35 years for them to finish you off while you try to salvage whatever you can with no way of talking you way out of it because your ally is a fucking braindead AI who is fighting on 6 different fronts
>>337345016
they should just make sectors auto like in total war games except you can still build shit in there and control everything when you want to. Sectors basically become vassals with no army
>>337343718
>allies start colonizing the holy world
>ffffffff-
never mind, bye old allies. I'm not gonna get dragged into this war lol
>>337346818
how do you add planets to that side bar on the right?
What's the benefits of hyperspace and warp aside from them being free?
Wormhole seems to be far superior.
>>337346953
>thinks I'm upset when I'm simply defending my race from the meddlings of others
>implying your not an unseen supporter
get back to the slave camps xeno, while you play your "real game" I'll be saving the galaxy
>>337345440
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET INFLUENCE WITHOUT DECLARING RIVALS. I DONT WANT TO PISS OTHER EMPIRES OFF JUST TO ENACT SOME FUCKING EDICTS ON MY OWN PLANET
>>337347024
by adding planets to your core worlds
>>337346906
I only annexed one planet to this time and it was a true pain in the ass.
Fucking rouge agent and his ayy qt.
Bombarded him from orbit and called it a sudden meteor.
>>337347098
You're mad, we get it.
>>337346809
Mainly a joke.
I don't know what I did exactly yet, but my naval capacity reached 500 so far, right at the time I unlocked Battleships.
I hotkeyed 5 starports from 1 to 5, and I'm currently building them up to shit Battleships out the wazoo.
I mean, I was only using 100 of that naval capacity with destroyers, and everyone was already afraid of me.
I don't think I very much care about their opinion after I fill those 500 Naval cap with Battleships.
>>337346938
Colonize and enslave. Look at their traits.
One thing I found out is that it might be usefull to enslave new species if they are adjusted to a new planet type that you haven't.
One question: how profitable is terraforming?
I noticed it's gonna be a pain in the ass to manuall build to 80 Terraforming stations over the planets that need it. Should I convert everything to Tropical Jungles for my space bugs?
>>337347117
Tech upgrades and upgrading your main settlement in planets.
And stop building so many posts
>>337345954
>Keeping everyone happy
pssssssthththhtht
this game is memes.
How 2 raise planet limit?
>>337347149
>One question: how profitable is terraforming?
I'd say only bother with the 20% planets to get them to your 60% habitability.
Takes like 10 years to terraform anything. So unless you are going for full blown happiness it's just to much pain to bother.
>>337347147
>ayy u mad?
diplomats: all talk all xeno
>>337339759
well, i have to admit that this game is so good i'll even give paradox shekels for it even if i am still buttmad about their shitty "we charge for patches" practices.
Back to not suffering the xenos to live.
>>337347391
>Still this upset he didnt understand diplomacy
Its okay, I forgive you for being ignorant. Here is your last reply because I know you'll keep replying to try and save face.
>>337347365
the defines file.
>>337346782
and that means?
>>337344187
Might be a real pain but if you make a Shivan mod you'll be my eternal nigga.
There ain't a better race of heavily armed genocidal aliens than these guys.
>>337347475
>implying a diplo unseen-lover can resist the urge to respond
here's your ayyyy youuuuuuu. Don't forget to submit your mineral creds to your fallen Whip master
>>337339759
I can only play the game 2 hours per day because i spent the nights with a girl so it's pretty sad to me can't play it longer...
What is the toppest tier government form guys?
Im still learning the game and need something good for start
Is there any other playthrough style other than god emperor?
Everything else seems...trivial
>>337347543
>Shivans
>not terrans and vasudans>not making shivans the lategame extragalactic invasion
>>337345907
>call themselves "super-"
>expect no racial tensions
>expect me to not purge them all
Freaking heretics
>snek tits
Also, since you need to use armies to kill off the machine consciousness they get stuck when you finish them off if there were only ais on the planet
>>337347660
Military Dictatorship
>>337347660
the technowhatever, the research bonus is just too sweet. also see >>337347689
>>337347721
Just nuke the city after you find him
Best ending
>>337347703
>not wanting to be the Shivans
It's like you don't want to casually fly into an enemy system with your Sathanas armada and blow up their sun.
>>337347808
Okay then, so how do I achieve the god emperor playthrough, I mean what traits do I pick for that.
Judging by your post i should pick tech and military something.
>>337347946
well i am on my second try myself but i'd say go militarist-colectivist-materialist and take the venerable trait.
>made my own Portrait generator
>only White men are leaders
>made a name list
>German ship names,german city names, german names, Armies are called Schutz Staffel and Sturm Abteilung.
>/pol/ simulator
>>337339759
>Control half the galaxy
>Already killed off two fallen empires
>Got basically all the late game tech from their wreckage piles
>So strong my main fleet completely eats AI federation fleets before they can even get in rage to fire once
>Alien swarm from another galaxy slams into me
>Its about damn time
>They take one planet only because my main fleet was so far away and I'm using hyper lanes
>My 58k fleet utterly destroys them
>Lose 4 corvettes but gain a swarm queen
That was the most anti climactic shit ever. I thought it was supposed to be an event that utterly fucks empires like mine and resets the board?
Also how the fuck do you get rid of infested planets? I cant invade because its "uninhabitable" and bombarding it to 0 does nothing.
How do I get mods off the workshop?
>>337348224
same problem about the planets, how do i glass the planet?!
>In a bro alliance with the like 6 other most powerful empires.
>Anyone declares war on us, I get literally like 50k worth of ally ships following me around.
>Though can't expand at all because I'm stuck in the middle of my 6 allies.
Kind of stuck in a rut now, also can't leave the alliance because those 6 will still be allied and will fuck me up.
Also
>All those political ideologies
>No space Communism
Wut.
>>337347365
Apart from editing game ata, different governmentns also change the limit. Democracy can have 7 off the bat for example.
>>337348152
Give me please i want it
>>337348224
Yeah, had the Scourge come too. Now I just fly into the area to farm up xp for my new admirals. My gene soldiers have nothing to do there, which is a shame.
Was more interesting since I'm not even close to kill a Fallen Empire (they are still considered superior in military), but I hoped for a bigger fight.
Also how did you get a swarm queen?
>>337346956
Until they expand on it I'm not dealing with trying to reason with alien scum.
Militaristic Fanatic Xenophobe, build the biggest fucking fleets in the galaxy and slowly enslave everyone around me. Garrison a huge defensive army on every planet under my control.
If you're bored playing this game it's because you're not living dangerously enough. Start some wars.
Peaceful play styles aren't really supported yet, wait for an expansion for that.
>>337348345
>>No space Communism
>what is fanatic collectivists?
>>337341545
But the swarm was easy as shit. They are all spread out. Their biggest fleet was only 28k.
>>337347536
rock paper scissors
build 1/2 rock and 1/2 scissors
>>337341630
Is that a fucking Yahg
>>337348503
But that's what I'm doing. I already had vassals under my control and I wasn't planning on going to war with the bigger guys until I had a better fleet. then i got dragged in to a conflict i couldnt get out of, my ally was fucking useless and for some reason everyone kept attacking me only and that was it
>>337348475
file-upload.net [slash] download-11568395 [slash] Deutsche.txt.html
Put this into your namelists folder of stellaris.
You want the portrait thing to?
>>337341842
Do they attack?
I killed off mine when the time was right and got their ringworlds
great stuff
>>337347069
Hyperspace is good for early game expansion where you are not cock-blocked by other empires. Warp is inbetween, the slowest and nerfs your ships slightly to use.
>>337348703
Yes since i plan on making a pan-germanic playthrough (Scandinavian, german and british are all germanic) i want to edit a bunch of scandinavian and anglo names in there.
is there any way to get purges if I chose the wrong ethos?
for some reason I thought the militarism has more to do with purges than collectivism
anyway, I dont want to start again just because of this shit
>>337348609
i guess so. Paradox keeps putting in references to random shit like game of thrones. The galaxy is dark and full of terrors.
>>337348646
>having allies
That was your problem right there.
Decline all trade, refuse to open communication channels. Be the asshole you know you can be.
>>337344150
if you thought all of their other games are garbage why did you decide to buy it you cuck
>>337348345
YOU WILL NEVER WIN, /pol/
>>337348515
doesn't work.
Collectivism in the game is more around destroying the individual and being more like a borg entity. Collectivism bonuses are around literal slavery of workers especially Xenos, something most Socialists/Communists wouldn't be for also if you chose collectivism, you're stuck with despotic Government choices, while "individualism" which specifically mentions free markets, unlocks all the democratic choices.
How would I then make my glorious Star Trek Federation?
>>337348917
thats no fun
>>337339759
>start game on hard
>two factions are butt close to me
>throw an embassy on both
>time passes, both get about +30 with me
>both declare me a rival
Fuck you too. Now i have to waste time building up my army rather than expanding.
>>337348975
Is English not your strong suit?
>but I took a risk on this one after hearing that it was more 4X
I hope somebody makes an "Advanced Diplomacy" mod later on.
