Okay guys, I can take their armies easy, but how do I get rid of these fuckers now?
Also Stellaris thread.
>>337371961
You don't.
They're bugged too.
>>337373067
>They're bugged too.
Aw jeez, how bad is it?
>6.3 was accurate
>0-52 energy
>>337373140
bombarding their planets down to 0 does nothing, and the queen mission is broken
it seems like at a certain point they just stop attacking and circlejerk too, but i can't confirm that
>>337373194
>anime
>>337373475
Can confirm that, can't invade planet and queen quest is broken, points me towards the centre of my universe.
>>337371961
>1 planet
>0 energy
nigga what
How the fuck do i get more of these purple niggers? I have two ships and planets without leaders because of this.
>6/5 planets
Will purging fix this?
>>337374005
I don't even know why this ressource exists
Its only purpose is to forbid you to have fun and make big empires
That's why I always pick military fanatic and rival everyone, so I get plenty of +'s
>>337373987
The single fleet of 37k power and 272 ships not being in orbit might have something to do with it.
>>337374267
Just make a new sector.
Is this bad?
So question on fleets. Is it better to have one massive one or a bunch of smaller ones that can be spread out more? Also is there any downside to having nothing but battleships or should you have a balance of smaller and bigger ships?
Cybrax or whatever that precursor robot name was quest line is broken too? I found their home, scanned anomaly for 2000 energy and 500 into research and that's it. Quest just hangs in there.
>>337374447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muqYPFCJhM0
Johan loves his mjana.
>>337374447
>>337374005
Because of that influence bs pacifist is even more useless
I ended up using console commands because of this shit
What is the point of vassaling someone instead of just allying? I don't see them paying me anything and they're gonna stab me in the back at their convenience.
>>337374798
Have one massive fleet for most of the game. Only until mid game does having two fleets make sense. One to fight wars, the other to deal with neutrals harassing your science ships.
>>337374786
you spam planets too fast, they slow down research, just build frontiers if you need additional terrain
>>337374786
It's a fallen empire, just don't go near them if they are fanatic xenophobes and they won't fuck with you.
>>337374676
How is this accomplished? I've fucked up so many things on my first save, sectors sound important
>trade insults with space slug neighbors for hundreds of years
>stuck in an arms race with them being "equivalent" strength the whole time
>they're finally at pathetic strength
>about to declare war when I realize that they're part of the only alliance in the galaxy and it's 8 empires strong
I guess it's back to watching timers run.
So in a previous thread some anon told me when you remove frontier outposts from the middle of your empire, you don't lose the borders they generate. Which makes sense, they are border outposts, here to mark the limits of your empire.
Well I got fucked
How am I supposed to know how borders work now? How to know when the borders won't dissapear magically, do they have to be "thicker" than in my pic?
Btw, look at my mob guys :^)
Thoughts?
>>337375161
this is why you use ftl travel only and guard chokepoints.
don't fall for the wormhole meme!
Are there any v1.0.2 torrents out there? 1.0.0 is buggy af
>>337375370
wrong pic
>>337375354
those border outposts suck up your influence points so you can start colonizing those areas later. planets project a bigger influence field than them later on. really you should maybe get 2-3 planets early on and research like crazy with a good resource start.
>>337375427
It was my first game and I was using warp. I still have plenty to learn but I really need to figure out how to run a non military based empire while still being able to build up a big enough fleet to actually be able to attack or defend without being constantly in the red.
>>337375152
tab with planets.
>>337375354
this used to be the case if they were parts of sectors
it seems borders make a circle around their star, but it seems unreliable as to how large they'll be and there's no good way to measure other than guessing
>>337375534
>>337375370
It's shit on many levels.
>>337375354
I had to learn that the hard way as well. If you have three outposts in a line and their borders overlap to make one giant border that doesn't mean that those edges are now permanent. They each still generate their own border so if you take away the outpost in the middle then you'll have a gap.
>>337376005
>>337375354
>delete outpost
>reload
Jesus, it's not fucking hard.
Anyone know how good the 40k mod is?
looking for substitute cosmic strategy while paradox finishes stellaris
>>337376330
Distant Worlds or Sword of the Stars
who's larfin now m8I won but it was close[/spoilerand that was +3 warscore, top kek paradox
>>337376393
nice man
>>337375091
But then Influence is a problem
The fuck do I do, I always seem to lack influence
Are you on the Trump Galactic Train?
the unbidden just invaded my galaxy. how strong are they? is a 30k fleet enough to keep them out of my borders?
>>337376637
lol
>>337371961
Lets talk about an actually good 4X game
>>337377135
Fuck off.
>>337377135
Wow, look at all that shit on the screen!
That's how you can tell a good Grand Strat, when just looking at the UI makes you want to vomit.
>>337373475
Praise the emperor and chant this phrase and they shall be purgedclick the tainted planet by the xeno filthkindle the machine spirit and open the consoleevent crisis.200
>>337377249
>Thinking that's complicated
>>337377294
Can you use the console to force a crisis to happen?
Like If I wanted the scourge to appear at the start of the game.
>>337377470
I never said it's complicated, I just said it has a lot of shit on the screen
Maybe I am autistically in love with 4X games and you just insulted a fellow autist
>>337377573
but why anon they spawn with 50k fleets
>decided to play some empire
>nice random sector
>one minute later I got the message that I got new hair
>instead of Romanov I got some Henrietta Salazar
>close the game
Fucking Paradox, I didn't sign up for space cuckoldry.
>>337376637
ur fucked boiii
>Just started my second playthrough after learning the basics for a few hours
>Just encountered my first fallen empire
>All those gigantic fucking ships they have
I'm glad they're passive towards me.
what do you have to press to open console in this game? cause i remember it was a nightmare to find out in CK2
>>337378003
I think it's the squigly line next to the 1 on your keyboard
Just got my 9k power cruiser and battleship fleet raped by 2k of corvettes with inferior weaponry
Thanks paradox
>>337378003
>press `
wow so nightmarish
>>337378003
press the console key
if you arent using international keyboard you are fucked
So I genemodded my species so that it's no longer repugnant because I thought it would work on the empire side and all it did was make my entire population unhappy because they're considered aliens to a alien overlord.
Console command to fix?
Also wars are terribly broken, I am not far into the game at all and a fleet of 12k has conquered half the galaxy.
Even if it says they're equivalent to me I annihilate them.
>>337377738
>Not wanting to have the ancient evil awaken and watch as everyone struggles to figh it
That idea makes my dick rock hard.
>>337373895
Agreed same problem. Wait 3 years for a PDX game to work please.
>>337377858
my fucking empire changed names so many times, why did they do this to me
PARADOOOOOOOX
>>337378213
no anon this is what happens
>tyranids arrive
>they steamroll the first guy
>then the one next to it
>then again
>civs do not merge to fight the scourge
>and if they land beside you, its game over
Any general tips for combat?
I suck shit, although in my defense the only empire I've ever had to fight was apparently a Fallen empire who were militant evangelists and they were fucking ridiculous.
>>337377738
Actually I'm wondering if there is too
I'd like to trigger an AI Rebellion/Machine Consciousness immediately, save, then swap to it (That's possible isn't it?)
>>337378323
Yeah I need to modify all names for my next human games. Too lazy to think up ship names though.
PSA TO ALL NEWBS
TO FIND FEATURES SUCH AS THE SPECIES LOG AND THE PLANETS LOG
GO TO EACH TAB (icons on the top)
AND LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WINDOW THEY MAKE POP UP FOR SUB-TABS AND EXTRA FEATURES
So I'm doing a space crusade, all alliums I defeat I enslave and put to work in the mines. It's kinda a pain in the ass to resettle them, and ai managing sectors can't do it so.
I'm now integrating these guys and how should I proceed? There will be suddenly a shitton of new planets full of xenos. Should I purge half of them after enslaving the entire population and then slowly introduce pure blood overlords to the mix? I don't have the space in my current empire to accomodate them, already have alium workers where they are needed. However, I'd rather avoid purges because the last time I've done just a few everyone war decced me (including the faggots I'm enslaving now).
>>337378660
forgot pic
>>337378510
click attack
but there is some magic into it I havet discovered it
sometimes my fleet moves so fucking slow despite having superior firepower I get more damage
even tried speed general still havent worked
other than that any ship below cruiser will blow up in an engagement but have some so they can take the face damage till the big guys close in
>>337378614
they dont overlap
and I think only one of the events occur in game
The endgame is soooo boring if you don't get an event and don't have a huge solar system
Like, I could wait 10 minutes to build a fleet but I just don;t feel like waiting.
what do frontier outposts do? Where do I build them?
>>337379021
You guys all have nice coloured maps. How do I force my vassals to change their colours to my own so my map doesn't look so ugly?
plzzz buy me the game http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198041139771/
>>337375534
Best race coming through
I grew my fleet to 1 - 4 - 7 - 32 all with antimatter missles - best shit, worked fine for turning into vassals all civilization around me.
Until I attacked a bigger one under but Idk what htey fucking used - I think mostly lasers and even with a weaker fleet they nuked me out..
I need some tips for weaponizing and what to research to properly be ready for all situations.
>>337379654
Amanitians from Muscaria.
Children's of the Lyseric Amide great mother.
>>337379667
I usually go for 2 kinds of weapons and equip my ships 2/3 with my starting weapon and 1/3 with the other kind of weapon
I'm not THAT into micromanaging and it kind of works for me
>>337379667
Missles are weak as shit against point defense crap. As the game progresses field different types ships. I have several types of destroyers, all use different weaponry but every single ship uses point defense.
>>337379234
PLS RESPOND
>>337379654
My little Aminitans are so cute, so other races have no choice but to forgive them for the galactic-wide genocide.
What Traits do you like best?
Industrious and Quick Learners worked fine for my despotic empire, but I want to try somethign else. Thinking about rapid breeders and conformists for my next play.
>>337379961
They expand your borders, claiming the solar system they are placed into.
>>337379996
Venerable, so all my rulers are 400 years old.
>>337379908
Ok this is what I looked for good tip - thank you m8.
What do you suggest to pair missiles with? Lasers?
>>337379250
By integrating them
>>337380143
Yeah it sounds good but I want to populate planets faster.
>>337380207
Not him, but lasers are weak against Shields. Field different types of shipclasses. On dedicated ship with Rockets, one with gauss weaponry and so on. Always get pointdefense guns.
>>337376637
Not as strong as a Fallen Empire, apparently.
Their portal appeared right in the middle of one Fallen Empire. They got bitchslapped and their portal closed before I even saw any ships.
>>337380271
Does integration count towards my 'directly controlled planets'? Will I have to set them as separate sectors?
>>337379996
Thrifty, because I don't want to chop up my space into sectors.
>>337376637
I got the unbidden and suddenly every in my Galacy loved me even though I played a raging xenophobe.
I joined a Federation and we closed the portal. Make sure to scan their shipwreckages for some cool tech.
>>337380332
>>337379919
How many point defense guns do you use? I haven't saw any empire with missles yet.
>>337380386
They count as planets as any other that you own. So either core worlds or you set them in sectors.
>>337380207
>>337380207
Thats the stuff where I would recommend you to roleplay a bit.
I'm really not that good in games like this, and have lots of struggles to win wars but I win more than I loseI use Lasers with Missiles
>>337374005
You might be having the same problem i had yesterday.
Remember to destroy the frontier stations after you dont need them anymore. I dont have influence problems anymore.
I didnt knew i could until my third game... maybe you are dumb like me.
>>337380414
How would +15% to energy counter getting overboard with planets? you lose influence too.
Can I have a war just for war's sake? I don't even want their planets, I just want to annihilate a lesser being. I'm slightly bored.
>>337380693
When do I not need frontier stations anymore? I thought I lose the system they're in when I delete them?
>>337373527
>not anime
>>337381107
As long as you don't accidentally piss anyone off you don't want to, sure, why not.
>>337381107
Can't you just go in and bombard all of their planets till all the pops and tiles die?
>>337380779
but I'm not losing too much, at least.
>>337381116
When borders from nearby planets overshadow it. Delete and reload, if unsure.
>>337381116
If the frontier outpost ends up inside your empire, and you have large enough border range (from pops and techs), it's safe to just get rid of them.
Though, I wish it would show the post-deletion borders before you pull the trigger.
>>337376608
Put frontiers in a sector and make the ai pay for them
>>337375354
>>337376005
Colonize a planet between the borders.
Borders should be something you plan on to, don expect them to be just handed.
>>337381245
I don't know, can I? I've only bombarded one planet in this game and after my soldiers took it the bugs I was fighting surrended and got vassalized. I don't remember any pops dying though.
>>337375091
>Planets slow down research
Whaaaat? i didnt knew this.
How much and why?
>>337381824
If you change your bombardment policy you can kill pops and buildings
>Playing glorious Galactic Empire
>Recently "lost" a humiliation war against a fallen empire, because purging and slaving everything left and right
>Hunted down their fleets, creating debris all over the place
>Couldn't win the war because they destroyed stations everywhere and I was unable to attack their planets, since all their fleets would converge on mine
>Fuck it, i'll accept their terms and ban slavery and purging
>the space mushrooms ASSASSINATED THE EMPEROR after signing the peace deal, on top of being humiliated
>pissed as fuck
>Research all the debris, giving me endgame weapons and shields
>Fuck them, I will prepare for the payback war
>Integrate all the sweet high-tech into Battleships, Cruisers and Destroyers
>God-tier point defenses, long range energy lances, hyper shields
>Build heavy long range fleets, focus firing enemy fleets to tiny shreds once they get into range
>Check fallen empire, their fleet power is only equivalent now
>Decide to try out the new weapons on some eastern frontier civilizations
>Half the galaxy is united in the federation im about to attack
>Not a chance for them, everything dies once in range
>Meanwhile, scientists pick up strange readings
>Portal opens in my southern sectors
>Extradimensional Unbidden invade
>A portal and a 16k fleet showed up
>Well, lets send a 20k fleet to see how strong they are
>By the time my fleet arrives, the invaders are up to 4 or 5 Fleets
>Realize they will just reinforce forever, decide to send everything (~80k)
>My fleets arrive, rip everything apart in mere moments
>Whole crisis is a huge disappointment
>Wait a second.... all those debris...
>Even more free tech, some "5th dimensional" Matter Disintegratos
>Deck out my Battleships with Large phased Disruptors, Matter Disintegrators and Tachyon Lances
>145k fleet power
Pic related:
Fallen empire fleet power: inferior
Those fuckers deserve everything, they even feel patronizing after killing my emperor
>>337380553
Point Defense Shreds anyhing that comes close to your ships. 2 are enough, they only need a small slot.
>>337382334
Now I want to buy this game anon.
>>337371961
what size of map is it?
Game. Stop. I'm not researching it. Put it at the bottom of the queue already.
>>337382110
Every increases research cost by 2% or something like that, you can find out how much if you hover over the tech cost when you're selecting it.
It's fine if you have a planet or two dedicated to research though, it seemed to keep me ahead of everyone else.
>>337375370
>commie shit
>repugnant
Got that right
>>337382334
>Terra
>Not Trantor
Worst Galactic Empire
>be in war against other civ
>they start spamming me for white peace
>have to spend resources to decline them
>they continue spamming them until I can't even fucking decline them because I'm all out of resources
>>337382661
Sentient AI is fine to research, just don't pick synthetics.
>>337382661
yeah just research and stick with robots
>>337382682
>It's fine if you have a planet or two dedicated to research though, it seemed to keep me ahead of everyone else.
Ah its all good then, since i have a couple of planets with heavy research productions.
thanks for the tip
>>337382840
>Wasting resources on declines
There is so much shit i dont know. I have declined a hundred of one civ peace offers and havent seen i was losing resources...
What resources? Influence? or money/energy?
Is there any penalty for having several colones within the same system? What happens if you make a new colony after reaching max effective governed planets?
Any point to having a food surplus once my planet has been filled to maximum?
First paradox game, and while it is fun, my God it's so barebones. Only two victory types? What the hell? Diplomacy is weak and there is no trading, but it has neat ideas like uplifting pre space aliens and/or infiltrating their government to get a new planet. I hope they "fix" these problems. Also I wish this game had a family tree like total war. Did Ck2/paradox games usually have a family tree? Oh and if I have xenophobia I should be able to enslave aliens races even if I have individualism shit is dumb.
>>337382813
better than Earth
>>337383295
influence
I think you have to be fighting someone with the pacifist trait though
>>337383336
nope
I wish it was easier to tell what sector was what on the management menu.
>>337383454
thats actually kind of neat and logical
for a game at least
>>337371961
pls buy stellaris
Is it too hard to get into this game?
I only have experience playing Civilization games.
>>337383424
>let's just go for the Latin name for Earth while speaking English
can't possibly get any more ridiculous than that
It's like those fucking Brytenwalda people not using english fucking names for the god damn troops so you don't know who's a fucking archer and who's a fucking spearman.
So let me get this straight, i just conquered a bunch of xenophobic assholes because their government was purists and incidentally blocked my few hyperspace lanes. Can i "reeducate them" into becomming loyal citizens? They're all at 0% happiness even after like 30 years, and they start shit so i feel like i have to enslave them, but that in turn causes negative happiness in MY race..
Does having a green ethnics something actually means that they will gradually renounce their xenophobic ways? Do they have to be free to get that "education"?
How do you even get a decent rating on that? I can't get it any more than 0.29% despite being really close to my empire.
>can't automate constructors
>no "build mining / research stations on all available resources nodes inside empire borders" command
>can't automate science ships
>no "survey everything inside empire borders" command
>not even "survey all debris" in this star system command
How the fuck did they come up with sectors as ways of eliminating micro-management but forgot this type of basic shit?
>>337383660
It's the most accessible Paradox title. Unlike their previous games it even has a half-decent in-game tutorial. However, you should wait for them to update and release DLC. Like all Paradox titles, the game is pretty bare bones as it's right now.
>>337381116
Frontier stations don't cost anything once the systems are added to sectors. Also, you don't really need frontier outposts. They're useful for grabbing great system nodes or blocking hyperlanes (if you're a hyperlane babby) but they're otherwise superfluous.
You can colonize planets in systems that are outside your borders.
>>337374005
You don't need leaders on all your planets either.
>>337375370
Is this an Animal Farm reference?
what happens if you purge EVERYONE and have only synths left?
>>337383885
>you can queue orders
>sectors do that
>yes
>again queue them
>pain in the ass
I NEED GENE POINTS. GIVE ME MORE GENE POINTS. HOW CAN I MAKE THE LESSER RACES INTO MORE WITH ONLY TWO GENE POINTS?!
>>337383660
nah, bretty easy once you get in the grove. expect to be assfucked and confused on your first game though.
>>337382484
I have my doubts that the next game will have such moments again, in fact, this whole game was way too easy anyways, winning every fight (with the fallen empire exception), never having any real problems
Even the xenos that I vassalized, which regard me as tyrannical xenophobic bigots commiting terror bombings and genocides, don't ever rebel against my rule
The only problem at the moment is energy, with +300 when the fleets are docked in port (-10% upkeep and -20% upkeep modules on orbital station) and sometimes hundreds in minus in wartime.
Not that it matters once running out anyways, its just hard to control without putting your entire economy into energy, just to have a huge overproduction when you don't need it, reaching the cap within a few months
>>337373527
saved
>>337383743
you must despise a lot of games for naming the planet Terra or naming factions after it
>>337383885
>>337383660
Gotta give it a try, thanks.
>>337383743
It bothers me too. Lots of people outside the science community claim to know these things because its popularized by sci-fi. The Sun isn't Sol. Earth isn't Terra. The Moon isn't Luna.
>>337383365
Yeah they will "fix" them. Prepare you shekels for mandatory DLCs.
What the fuck is the "cancel last command" button?
Also there's no way to queue building shit if you don't have the minerals for it? It's a bit annoying.
>>337381476
Huh, I didn't realize it would be that easy.
>>337384642
Terra is somewhat acceptable because we do use terms like "Terrestrial" in English. Sol is acceptable as well because it's the solar system after all, so it would make sense to say Sol instead of Sun in English. It's not fantastic, but it's definitely understandable.
What does my head in is people like "hurf durf better than Earth" pretending like they're two different things. When I say "queue" instead of "line" you're not going to go ballistic because of it, are you?
Is zero fallen empires normal?
>>337384235
>you can queue orders
>again queue them
So you've only played small empires so far? Queue isn't the same as automation. You still have to constantly redo shit and go on a galaxy map pixel hunt for differently colored numbers or greyed out sectors every time your borders grow (tech or population increase), especially if you're playing a militarist race and expanding fast. Do you have any idea how long it takes to do that shit over and over again? Things would obviously be different, if there was at least some amount of decision making involved with where you build, but that's isn't the case with Stellaris (with the exception of Frontier Outposts).
>sectors do that
Since when? When do sectors take control of construction ships and build mining / research outposts on free nodes inside their borders?
>yes
I assume you can show me the science ship automation command? No, seriously that would be a great quality of life improvement.
>breaking your empire down into self governed sectors
>Not maintaining an inefficient and centralized government
>>337384943
What kind of DLC you think they will release?
My bets are on:
>Pirate
>Culture
>Trade (might get bundled with pirates)
>Expanded Diplomacy
>>337374005
>tfw you start off with a young autocrat with that +1 influence bonus
>tfw you're also venerable so he lives hundreds years
Is there a way I can type in my empire's "lore" like the default ones have? I don't see it in the edit screen.
>>337385349
if sector has an not improved star it will send a construction ship there
I have seen this happen during the scourge
AI is suicidaly aggressive about unimproved resources once it notices it
>>337382334
Huh. The debris I got from unbidden was worthless +45 physics even from the 16k fleets
So I had nearly no fleet, these fuckers decided to declare war on me. They took my four nearest worlds, I surrendered, rip sad story.
Ten years later I TECH UP, return with based allies and smash their 7k fleet in an epic battle between mine and my allies combined 5k fleets. Yay.
That puts us at -1 % warscore.
So I go through the motions, go find all the worlds they took, and one more besides in what I deem to be 'my space'; invade, occupy. Puts me at ~38% warscore.
Alright, I've played pairofducks games before, I gotta go and capture literally everything before they'll accept the terms they gave me. Let's press further into-
>wot da zog
In case it isn't clear, this is one of their inner worlds, further in than I had ever reached. It's populated entirely with my species.
What's going on? Are they slaves? If so, why aren't there any master pops? Were my conquered planets busy fifth column-ing it up in there? Why?
>>337385468
Copied from Distant Worlds
>government types
>empire wide policies
>races are just visual, initial colonizeable world and % changes
>non-playable super powerful AI empires
>star, galaxy map and empire territory functions
>worse version of empire navigation tool and thus more micro
>similar exploration events
>independent colonies that can develop into space-faring races
>space ports required for building ships
>less in-depth ship design
>three different research types and resources, except randomized
>worse empire automation, only planets can be automated
>resource mining
>leader characters
>slavery, migration and population policies, divide between master race and xenos
>diplomacy pacts
>space faring monsters
Copied from Distant Worlds and released as DLC in the future
>unique race tech
>empire wide build order screen
>expansions planner screen
>trade routes, blockades, tourism, civilian ships apart from the ones you build
>espionage
>fleet planning and automation
>resource variety and super resource monopolies
>special super weapons like planet busters
>boarding and capture
>playing as pirates
>wonders
>scenarios
>>337377858
Yeah, the game randomly generates heirs which is fucking garbage. That's why I only play alien Empires, since they all look the same and have alien names. With humans you'll wind up with a black lady with a Chinese name as your heir when you're trying to roleplay the Roman Empire.
>>337385925
>if sector has an not improved star it will send a construction ship there
I genuinely did not know this. Thanks, this'll improve my enjoyment a ton.
But there is no science ship automation, is there?
40k mod when?
>>337386110
If you have migration on, they might have just went there from your empire. It's weird it's just them on there though.
>Can't assign planetary governors an AI unless you put them in a sector
>AI is stupid as fuck anyway and doesn't take advantage of resources in their sector like batharian stone, preferring to build basic power plants.
>AI doesn't take advantage of the resources they have and builds slow as fuck. My largest sector still has tier 2 buildings while my homeworld is on tier 4+
>No balanced sector option.
>If you don't put the planet in a sector you have to manage everything yourself
>Queuing buildings costs resources, so early game you have to come back to it every year and start building something else. If you forget enjoy your unhappy/declining populations.
I'm going back to modded Star Ruler until mods or patches fix this shit.
>Someone declares war on me.
>Have like 20 vassals.
>They all rush to follow my one fleet while ignoring their own systems.
>Enemies ravage their shitty little worlds as my vassals do fuckall.
There has to be some way to command my retarded vassals.
>>337376157
>He doesn't play ironman
>>337384914
>>337385318
We are talking about games here, not pretentious sci-fi fans who would use the name Terra in real life situations.
And what is so bad about using this Latin name in a game, seeing how many other games already did this before? Maybe I just like my games with Terra, probably because of some favorite games of mine. What gives?
>>337386170
>boarding and capture
Here comes salvage corvette.
>>337386428
It already exists, dumbass
>>337371961
>tfw xenophile militant open democracy
>start forging trade relations
>literally 90% of the galaxy is above +200
>rest of them were faggots anyways
>start alliance with some trader cucks
>also democratic so they liked if I made a system independent
>spider bros become independent
>hooray
>space muslims declare war on spider bros
>"o shit nigga, incidentally u in a war now too"
>they have a big as shit mega muhammad alliance
>"f-fuck nigga, that's alright, already conquered some bugs and birds and pretty much have the strongest fleet in the galaxy"
>suddenly check relations tab
>every single (apart from the trader cucks, my "allies") one now is on the red
>including spider bros
>-523
>"YOU WERE THE FUCKING REASON I EVEN WENT TO WAR. I DIDNT EVEN WANT TO FIGHT THE SPACE MUDSLIMES NIGGA. I HAD GOOD TRADE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM"
>"lol k nigga u better watch out boi our army is strong as fuck yo"
AS SOON AS I'M DONE WITH THEM ILL BE COMING FOR YOU, YOU 8 EYED BACKSTABBING TWO TIMING MOTHERFUCKERS
BURN THEM
BURN THEM ALL
FUCKING SPACE JEWS
>>337385468
I'd like an update that adds Super Novas that destroy entire systems
>>337386437
Free migration, and 'nomadic', so...
Wow. lel. That's pretty impressive.
>>337385994
They also had +45 physics, but also 10% or 30% jumps for those matter disintegrators.
I also don't think that it requires to have some other tech already researched, as I just focused on regular weapon types, not plasma throwers, disruptors or anything.
Could be a bug. I mean, what are the chances of having some other prerequisite for a tech that even has "5th dimension" in the description and is probably just researchable from debris.
Thinking about it, I guess some debris yielded only +45 physics and others gave the additional research progress, but not 100% sure here. Maybe you had bad luck.
>Allied AI actually follows my forces when moving in and making an attack
Wow, that's more than i've seen in like 99% in war games. Combat isn't as pleasurable as Total War, but Total war's "allies" are totally useless and NEVER show up for fights anyway
>>337377135
>everyone still thinks Stellaris is a 4x game
Sure.. sure.
how do i combine fleet to make one fleet?
>>337387562
Select multiple with shift, click the button in the top left of the fleet windows.
Will merge into the first fleet you select.
>>337377135
But that's not Endless Legend
>My 20k fleet stops bombarding the enemy planet to chase a little science vessel that wandered too close.
Passive my ass.
How the fuck do I do war? I was doing okay one run by making the AI's 2k fleet run all around his empire but mother fucker caught me. I've got like 5 500 fleets. Is gorilla warfare the wrong way to go?
>>337387138
I've had the exact opposite experience.
My allies sat a 2k force in my homeworld while I was barely losing a fight 2 sectors away.
They'll do shit on their own, sure. But there's no way to ping or request assistance.
>>337388194
>create more ships
>fuse them all into a single mud ball
>steam roll everything
>>337388194
its a base race
ai is too dumb to bring armies so you go and knock em down
at mid point he realizes "oh shit I better defend my planets" and you annihilate their fleet at that point
then it starts begging you to stop
what I really want is that there should be a jump inhibitor built in the system that forces fleets to get stuck
now that can solve all defense issues
>>337388194
You need the regenerating armor tech.
Gorilla warfare is shit anyway since you can't order ships to focus fire, so having less power means exponentially more losses the lower you are.
You end up with a destroyed fleet and 10% hp shaved off their ships.
i'm getting my shit rocked, /v/.
I was playing a peaqceful Civ with an alright start. Fourth planet, got a Gaia world. About three years later, another civ decides it doesn't like my fucking face and comes for me.
Every other AI in the game has Superior fleet power to me. First game, mind you, so I'm not too salty about the whole ordeal now that I know the controls/basics
What are some good tips to stay on-par or above the AI in this game? Probly gonna go aggressive and maybe try wormholes.
>the haplesss colonists sent to make a new life on a habitable planet right next to my home star are the first targets of the space lizard menace that declared war on me, who bombed the planet clean and then invaded it
>years after this war, colonize a large tropical world
>the colonists discover ancient terraforming equipment, decide to turn it back on
>tropical world becomes a continental world, but in the process the terraformer malfunctions and unleashes some kind of fucked up genetically engineered monstrosities, who immediately overwhelm the planet's meagre garrison and slaughter all the colonists
Such is life for the pioneers.
>>337388865
expand expand expand
andDON'T STOP EXPANDING
>play on hard difficulty
>Decide to play Space Hippies, love and peace shroom people
>two major blobs on both of my sides
>there is a small gab of 2 unclaimed star systems that i call "no-mans-land"
>Two major blobs keep sending troops through it
>Keep expanding to the south while Blobs keep fighting each other, and hope that i keep staying as Switzerland for the next 40 years or so
>>337389092
Also, decided to turn on the 100% migration for shit and giggles, and one of my planets population is now 50% of shroom people, 30% of Bird people and 20% of cockroache's (They kept coming from other blobs D:)
>>337386897
>he trusted xeno scum
>>337389069
Wouldn't I be spread too thing, then? Feel like it'd drain the shit out of my resources and give the AI shit to steal.
Frame...rate...
d...ropping...
h...eeeeelp...
>>337386897
This is why I became a warmonger
PURGE ALL XENOS
>>337386505
>playing ironman on a buggy, unpolished release version
jej
do i have to have steam to run/buy this?what about if i pirate it?
>>337386897
kill their fleets
enslave their populace
genetically modify them into big stupid brutes
send slave armies to conquer your foes on ships made with minerals the slaves mined
>>337377858
> I got new hair
Simply shave or dye.
>>337389469
as long as you have equal or better navy among the neighbors you are ok
>>337388531
>a jump inhibitor built in the system that forces fleets to get stuck
Defence platforms/stations/fortresses and Battleships do this
>>337390210
only for hyperspace
>>337382334
How many science ships should I aim for? Going for a new game - I am asking you because you've took the time with lots of debris so you can give ma number I can sit comfortable with.
>>337389304
>D:
what the fuck
>>337381476
detail please?
Are gene points just per race? Like if I spend 2 to improve my primary race will I still have 2 for the other races I've brought into the fold?
I see some have 3 or more points, I dunno how though.
>>337390860
You put poo in the loo and it pays for you.
>fight the Xeno scum, taking half their planets
>purge them, my borders instantly collapse and restore the old Xeno borders, albeit their planets are empty.
how the fuck do I play a proper empire of men when I can't purge? do I have to wait for some random human who decides to get their ass over to these planets?
>>337391267
>No Exterminatus option where you just shoot the fucking planet until it pops.
The mod has to be in the works.
I had a situation log for a mining drone and now I cant find it. Where are they usually found, or where can I see the log message again.
>Want to purge alien scum
>Realize I'm up to level 5 space station and still using the starting ship reactors
>Haven't had the research for upgraded reactors once
>Entire fleet is crippled and limited to inferior technology due to lack of power
RNG tech trees was a fucking mistake. Feels like something like this happens every single game.
>>337391717
same thing when youre 5 hours in the game and you still dont get the option to settle on a new planet type or allow terraforming.
So most of my salvage research does nothing for me at this point, but I'm prolonging the war until I can get it all, not for the anemic bonuses but because I'm worried they'll get much larger ones from it.
I've basically erased anything that isn't on a planet.
>>337391267
Just bombard it until everything is dead. No pops no borders for the enemy.
>>337371961
Normally you'd have to capture their queen, but the event is bugged atm.
>>337382648
manlet size
Do I go North for the Kithri Hierarchy, whom is allied with the Opalgec Empire and Tzynn Empire (Essentially the entire north) but all inferior to me, or do I go west for the Hierarchy of Vategigun whom are about equal to me in terms of military power but has no allies? I'm the squid.
>>337390028
The CODEX release on kat.cr works just fine, but multiplayer will not work unless you buy the game.
>>337371961
>very early, only 9 years in
>play xenophile materialist individualist humans with continental preference
>discover primitive civilization of feudal parrots on a planet within my borders
>check out their race in detail
>fanatic xenophile materialist with arid preference
Is this a start of a great friendship, guys?
I will protect them from the vile fanatic xenophobe militarist slug people that are my neighbors and have ~-1300 relations with me!
>>337392090
why arent you building more ships, how can that small faction to the west be even remotely comparable in navy power to you?
>>337391717
>>337391826
It's fucking stupid, yeah. If they're going to have random technologies, then I don't see why there isn't an option in there to spend 10 influence or something to flush your options and replace them with new ones without having to research anything.
>>337391870
...or it will just get ended for me.
What does 'Missing in Action' mean? Are they just bouncing to within my borders? Please tell me it's just that.
>>337392251
They will re-appear at one of your owned planets shortly.
>>337371961
is this game actually fun or is it a huge chore to play like I've been hearing
anyone else bored by the combat? i really like building my empire and stuff. designing ships and optimizing my fleet. but war...
>try to find enemy fleet and crush it
>go to enemy sector and delete their defenses
>bombard their planet
>land space marines
>go to next sector
I wish i could let the AI do the cleanup like in hearts of iron.
>>337391870
You get more salvage research if there was a larger battle taking place (The higher the military strength destroyed, the better) which is also multiplied - Though I do not know the exact formula - By how many technologies your opponent has that you do not yet know.
>>337392210
I got a fleet with over 60k power - They're just very militaristic fuckers. But I am producing ships in 6 space ports now non-stop, I just lost some during my last war.
>>337392341
It's a chore that's fun
Anyone actually finished a game, played up to the victory screen? I always just quit and start over when I get to somewhere around the moment you have last spaceport tech
>>337392736
You dont play games like these to win.
I've never beat a crusader kings 2 game and i have over 600 hours on it.
>>337392386
I am more disappointed by diplomacy and the general lack of depth.
Where are my options for political marriages, throwing parties for you neighbors and friends, trade deals, culture exchange projects, joint military exercises and etc?
Where is my espionage, secret treaties, stealing tech, sabotaging planets, creating cults to my religion in other empires, propaganda in other nations and etc?
THERE IS SO MUCH MISSING!
>>337392851
Speak for yourself - I always play to win. I finish every game that I start, even if I would do poorly in the start and become an underdog.
Do you think my vassal has earned the right to become my equal in an alliance?
>>337393034
CK2, yo.
And the next update will feature rule customization so that you will be able to turn off those retarded defensive pacts, shattered retreats and threat mechanics without the need to fuck around with mods.
Hey is anyone else having this problem where they load a save and the camera is stuck in the center of a star? I can go to the galaxy view but no matter what system I go into it doesn't fix it. I've tried changing from windowed fullscreen to fullscreen, and this was happening even before I installed Twilight of the Emperium. Anyone know how to fix this? Doesn't even work if I go back to older saves or restart the game.
>>337389337
I shall NOT make the same mistake again.
Rest assured, in the past 60 minutes I have meticulously ended the existence of spider jews and space mudslimes.
Everyone in the galaxy hates me.
I don't give a fuck. My fleet is worth 180k.
Does xenophile/xenophobe affect robots/droids/synthetics?
>>337392171
Actually, I have a question.
These slug people are the opposite of me in terms of ethos and they also are repugnant; I don't think they would integrate into my empire well when I decide to take them over but I don't want to purge anything.
Other than completely trashing their empire, what else can I do to neutralize them? I have to protect the little birdos.
>>337392341
I haven't played a lot of strategy games or games like this but I can tell you immediatelyyes nigga if you care about scifi or space at all, this is it. this is so fucking good i havent eaten anything in 8 hours and i have been playing almost non-stop. my head is a blur but i have conquered just about half of the galaxy. victory shall be MINE
just get it dude
>>337393295
Integrate him into your own kingdom and you will get all of his ships for free.
>>337394119
PURGE THE HERETICS
Just fucking kill them, dude. Eventually you'll reach a point in game where there will be no more room left to expand. That's the point when you say "fuck it" and just start invading shit. Bite the bullet when you can.
>>337394116
No, spiritualist/materialist affect synths.
You can go full railroad and give synths full citizen rights to prevent them from going rogue, but you'll piss off spiritualists in the process.
What do I do here? And what should I be concerned about?
>>337392341
No, it's not fun.
You watch numbers go up.
You pause the game and click things to make sure the numbers keep going up.
You resume watching the numbers go up.
That's it.
People who enjoy this are autistic.
>>337392090
Nevermind, seems I got pretty lucky. Game choose for me.
>2398
>Not removing all Synths from your Empire
Nigga deserve to crash and burn.
>>337376480
Are you playing on a tablet?
>play as an indirect democracy with xenophile and charismatic so I can get along with aliums and make them my diplomatic bitches without direct applications of force like the US
>Soon after teh game starts some mega federation has formed off to one side before I was evena ble to encounter and interact with mosts of its members
>manage to strike up an alliance with my other neighbour
>they stop expanding and go from being the same size as me to almost completely useless
>they veto every attempt to draw anyone else into the alliance
Fuck Paradox and their abysmal single player balancing. I'm just going to play one more game as some edgy fucks and purge the galaxy because diplomacy is so fucked and then drop this for a year or so until it is maybe fixed by hundreds of dollars worth of DLC and mods.
>>337394394
Thing is because I'm xenophile I can't purge xenos, and even if I could I would piss off 100% of my xenophile population. I wanted to see if I can make a multi-species empire work for shits and giggles (and thanks to those birdos I might have a lot offun), but these slugs are a direct opposite of what I'm trying to do.
I think I'll just set the orbital bombardment to medium and keep it going long enough to wipe them all out.
>>337394895
inherited computer
How the hell am I supposed to go full WAAAGH in this?
>Enemy surrenders
>Lose contact with fleet
>Lolno you dun get shit
