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Sell me on this meme game, what's good about it?
>>337593395
The first time you play you can feel like the space bugs or do the 40K purge meme.
After that it's ultra boring.
Worth a pirate and about 10 hours.
It is huge and you have nice selection of options to make your own race.
Diplomacy suck ass, tho. And Paradox will probably throw like 100+ DLCs soon.
>>337593395
Its good, and at 40 dollars, its even better then most AAA releases they take you for 60
>>337593395
it's not bad, but it's not good either
maybe take it up in the bargain bin when the DLC is out
>>337593395
It's good for 5 hours, then the novelty wears off.
Thanks to the overly simplified economy and empire management there is nothing else to do in the game but build battleships with your infinite resources and declare war on everything because there are no other ways to interact with other empires.
>tfw wasted last 3 days on it. My eyes hurt
>>337593845
Well you have a nice set of portraits and you can rename the species and planet.
But your customization "options" are literally LITERALLY just % bonus modifiers.
Is there any reason to not stack all of your units into one fleet and throw it at the enemy? This combat system seems really simplistic.
>>337594708
Invading more than more planet at the same time?
>>337593395
you can literary became space hitler and /pol/ incarnate
>>337594708
the enemy might come thru another way and destroy a mining station or two and thats about it
>>337594708
I don't know but that's what the enemy did to me.
>tfw getting swarmed by a 6k enemy fleet while I have a combined force of 3k including my defense platform.
I'm not good at grand strats.
>>337594667
So what? They are like traits and skills in RPGs.
>>337594912
>he fell for the defence platform meme
>>337594837
I don't see why you would do that though. If I go one by one with my big ass fleet the retarded AI will just throw it's army at mine and then I win the war.
>>337594667
Not really. Ethos choices makes your game different depending what you pick.
>>337594843
You can't even nuke them from orbit, man. It's shit.
>>337595786
What do you think bombardment is?
>>337596008
You call crap that bombardment?
They really dropped the ball on diplomacy and economics. Finished my first game at about 30 hours in and I have no desire to continue. Still, that's 30 hours so it was pretty good, but it's lacking a lot and I feel let down.
How do I stop black people from showing up in game? I'm trying to create a monarchy but the heir is always a black person or asian
>>337595739
i strongly feel nothing about this, and remain indecisive.
>mfw playing as reptilians and enslaving a primitive human faction, then giving them away as a gift to a faction of space mushrooms
>>337596075
do you have another name for dropping explosives on the surface of a planet until nothing is left alive?
>>337596185
it's barebones. i think we all know what to expect, just look at CK2 and EU4. all those fucking addons.
>>337596262
Wait you can enslave primitive civs? How?
How the fuck do aliens manage to get 8k troops when I barely have 2k.
They don't even have much more planets than me either.
I'm upgrading everything that I can.
>>337596328
>nothing is left alive?
except all the pops...
>>337596432
uh, learn how to bombard i guess? dunno what to tell you
>>337596386
Land on the planet and scoop them up. What are they gonna do? They have gunpowder weapons.
>>337596328
It's 10% chance to kill single portrait every month of continued "bombardment".
Stop eating shit and your senses might return.
>>337596386
find a primitive faction that exists in an unoccupied zone, create an assault army on your one of your planets, send them as part of a fleet to the primitive planet, then have the assault army land on the planet. they'll put up a fight and lose pitifully, then from there you own the planet and can enslave them if your politics allow so.
>>337595543
Like what
>Mfw would prefer EU or something like that if it wasn't for the space setting
I dunno why but it really clicks with me.
>>337596406
make sure you're building mining stations everywhere you can
>>337593837
This false flag op as fuck.
>>337596406
Building space stations gives you a higher fleet capacity.
>>337596510
like i said, learn how to bombard.
>>337596502
>>337596530
Holy shit I had no idea. I've been infiltrating and annexing like a fucking mook. Can you do this on planets outside of your borders?
>>337596530
Also you have to have Xenophobic to authorize this.
If you are xenophilic then you have to leave them alone forever.
>>337596651
I'm a bit autistic but this sounded like suggestion for one night stand?
>>337596693
>can't help atomic age civs from not nuking themselves to death
The first time this happened I just about cried.
>>337596693
I managed to do it without the xenophobic part, though I was a militarist/collectivist dictatorship with the 'decadent' trait.
>>337593395
I wish it was more like CK2 or EU but in space, but it's just another zerg rush total domination RTS which isn't really fun for me. But I can see the appeal for those who would like it.
>>337596597
>>337596572
I'm doing both but I somehow still don't have that much, even allied with 2 other small-ish systems we can't get full 8k.
>>337596749
fag
cold war simulator, the moment you discover another nation is the moment you and them start powering everything into military so you don't fall behind and get destroyed
>>337596813
I just wanted a friend.
so is this game like masters of orion II ?
>>337596787
>tfw no CK2 in space.
>never get to marry a giant space mushroom for her system and then throw her out an airlock.
>>337596686
If they aren't already under the control of another faction they're fair game. Not sure if they necessarily have to be within your borders or just outside of another faction's borders. Haven't been able to get border access from another other faction yet to test it out.
>>337596910
More like Masters of Orion 3
Are orbital bombings supposed to take a few decades relatively early on?
Invaded some spacebirds with a 1k stack of corvettes/destroyers and got bored after a few years of bombing their capital and it only being down to 2/3 of it's health.
It has depth of a puddle glad I pirated it and not bought it. Maybe after like 10 DLC it will good, that is how paradox build their games anyway.
Burn the heretic.
Kill the mutant.
Purge the unclean.
>>337597076
What level of bombardment were you on? You can switch on the planet's army tab.
>>337596902
iktf
How do I invade other planets? I bombarded the shit out of another species homeworld, brought down the planetary fortresses whatever, but I can't seem to wipe out the garrison there.
>>337597417
Build a good army.
Use robots or xenomorphs.
>>337597417
Land ground troops.
>>337597321
I didn't even check, but full apparently.
Do you get gigantic bombing vessels later on?
>>337597417
You probably need a ground force. You can train an attack army at your cities. Not sure how to move them, I guess you can load them up onto ships.
>>337594708
Only reason I can think of is that you might have some ships in your fleet that would benefit more from one General perk over another (e.g. more speed over better evasion), so you would split them up based on their purpose. That and hitting multiple targets simultaneously.
>>337597417
>>337597076
ARMIES
INVADING ARMIES
>>337597417
Bombard the planet, build an army of attack troops, only need like 8 or so for a good while
>>337597417
You need to build assault armies from your planets and embark them and ship them over to the planet and orbit the planet and assault the planet.
>>337593837
>>337596886
or, you form an alliance/federation with them and steamroll the rest of the galaxy
>>337595739
>Attitude_null
Anyone knows how to get rid of alien overlord modifier? Conquered a planet and added it to a sector and it randomly appears and disappears
How can I suck up to one of the bigger factions to gain enough favor with them so they'll give me border access and let me join their super sekrit alliance club? Just give them free shit and attack their enemies?
>tfw no CK2/EU4 type GSG about the drug war
>>337596075
You position your ships above the planet and drop bombs; in the process, you kill lmao pops. You can literally do this until everyone on the planet is dead.
If that's not nuking from orbit (especially considering that you can literally arm your ships with nuclear missiles), what the fuck is it?
Just got my shit kicked in by a 4k strength fungi i fleet after making them my rival for a while.
Time for a new game I guess after I learned a ton.
Also I feel like the starting location RNG can make or break the game. My first one had no resources and the nearest systems had fuck all as well.
Meanwhile in my new one i have 8 power and 7 crystal outside my planet, and all nearby systems have useful shit.
>>337595739
>>337597417
Make army
Bomb with fleet until defense is 0/10000
Send army.
Writing it is actually more fun than doing it.
>>337597724
It takes years
probably more than 50 years of constant bombardment to kill a planet off
>>337596432
You need to read the tool tips. If you want to kill the pops, switch to heavy bombardment. The only way that no pops die is if you use light bombardment.
Stupid cunt.
>>337597868
>ottomans
>lasers
>>337593395
It'll be good once we get the
spying DLC
sabotage DLC
trade DLC
internal politics DLC
strategic AI DLC
sector management DLC
battle AI DLC
counter to corvettes now that battle AI DLC makes them engage stuff properly DLC
research DLC
war DLC
peace DLC
and a couple dozen others
what do you guys think the best weapon types are (not counting rare research)? early game vs end game?
also, is it more efficient to build a swarm of corvettes, or a few small fleets of whatever the biggest size ship you have access to is? (mainly in terms of energy upkeep)
>>337597724
You unironically defend that pathetic mechanic?
>>337597690
>build embassy
>
That's it.
If it's a Fallen Empire they just straight up won't trade border access with you, and some aliens won't trade some things due to their ideologies or traits. Mouse over the trade number to see why they won't trade with you.
>>337597868
>>337596749
You can do that by setting up an observation station and then uplifting them. You can do this even if you're pacifist or xenophile.
You just can't invade and conquer them if you're a xenophile.
>>337597982
fuck off that takes forever and is pointless
>>337598024
you unironically don't understand how bombardment works?
>>337593395
Played it for 2 days no stop, enjoyed it at the beginning but it got boring after a bunch of playthrough:
-Diplomacy isn't good and most of the time it just fucks with you
-The missions, anomalies are generally always the same
-sometimes is unfair and because certain elements of the game are RNG you may end up next up to a Fallen Empire which will steamroll you if you commit to certain technologies or do specific actions.
-same for the technologies, you also have to be lucky to pick the one you want
-the interface is lackluster and could use some small helping features like the ability to favorite a solar system or a planet, could happen that you start terraforming a planet and you forget because the notification doesnt pop up and you forget which planet it is
-bugs in the interface
i liked it, not as much as CK2 but i still enjoyed it, it needs some bug fixing and some improvement to the GUI.
>>337598095
KEBAB HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM PREMISES
>>337598095
did he die?
>>337597982
> 15% chance to kill a pop per month
wow, only 4 years to wipe out a small population
>>337598118
if you're terrible at the game. try building better ships, retard.
>>337598105
Yeah, I know. The second I got the ability to uplift, they nuked themselves.
I wish there were more options with pre-space flight civs.
Like maybe visit or establish a small embassy. Go all "Day the Earth Stood Still" or "To Serve Man"
>>337598135
Explain.
I just wish the learning curve wasn't so steep
civ5 was simple as shit, this seems like it will take forever
>>337597868
>>337598236
get good. 15% is the minimum.
>>337597971
You're clearly doing something wrong. I've cleared whole planets with orbital bombardment in just a few months.
>>337598024
Look, just follow the tooltips. I'm sorry you chucklefucks are too dumb to play this game but what the fuck do you want me to do? Come to your houses and unironically teach you how to unironically play a game that the rest of us unironically managed to understand just fine?
>>337597995
Swarms of corvettes are good later on when you can afford to lose a bunch of ships in battle, but another option if you've got a good surplus of minerals and energy is cruisers and destroyers with regenerative shields, which are more expensive up front but more economical in the long run as they're easier to keep alive.
>>337598258
more ships + better weapons = more effective bombardment. i can't believe i actually have to spell this out for you.
>>337597868
>nomadic
>resilient
As a turk, that's pretty damn accurate.
>>337598239
holy shit that projecting. Keep your fleet hanging around some shit planet forever bombing some pointless rubble.
>>337598325
> 15% is the minimum.
>>337597868
>>337598118
Yes, if you use 1 corvette armed with a level 1 laser, it will take forever.
That's why the rest of us do it properly by using multiple large ships with good weapons. That way we exterminate populations very quickly.
I seriously don't know how to make this simpler for you. Maybe have your caregiver or special ed teacher explain it for you using crayon-drawn diagrams. If that fails, you could try giving back the extra chromosome.
>>337598329
Are you talking about bombing the "defenses"?
I was talking about exterminating the population from orbit and preferably damaging the planet in the process. The game is really bad as far as... well everything. Economy, war, diplomacy.
>>337598483
if by forever, you mean three months. if it takes you longer than that to kill a 16 pop planet, uninstall the game and then kill yourself.
>>337593395
nothing, wait for HOI4 instead
>>337598254
>Yeah, I know. The second I got the ability to uplift, they nuked themselves.
I'm not talking about the ability to uplift animals. I'm talking about option 3 on the observation station panel. You can use it from the instant that you build an observation station.
>>337598521
>stating an obvious fact that you can verify for yourself is now bait
ok.
>>337598660
Yes. That's what I meant too.
>>337598329
>>337598560
How tight is your fedora?
>>337598572
And this is why autists are hated.
don't tell me I can't choose AI races at the beginning of a game
I spent the last hour making custom races because I wanted to see them interact
>>337598732
how retarded are you that you can't figure out one of the simplest mechanics in all of gaming history? this is one step above a QTE in terms of brain power needed.
A fallen empire I met had battlecruisers. Can you get battlecruisers?
>>337598568
I'm talking about using unrestricted heavy bombardment by choosing it as a policy and then ordering your ships to bombard a planet.
I mean, this could not be any simpler. You obviously don't understand the game. Le me break it down for you because you're the dumbest motherfucker to ever shit up this planet.
If you use Light Bombardment, you have 0% chance of killing a pop with every day of bombardment.
If you use Medium Bombardment, you have a 10% of killing a pop with every day of bombardment.
If you use Heavy Bombardment, you have 50% chance of killing a pop with every day of bombardment.
That means you can wipe out whole planetary populations from space. I've done. At least one other guy in this thread has done it. People in multiplayer games have even done it to me.
Please tell me how I can make this simpler and clearer? Is English not your native language or something?
>>337598732
>can't understand incredibly simple game mechanics that are explained in game in graet detail
>FEDORA FEDORA FEDORA FEDORA
Seriously?
>>337598675
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Orbital_bombardment
WHY DO YOU HURT ME WITH YOUR LIEEEES?
>>337598807
good job dude, keep blaming other people for the fact that you suck. that'll help you get better.
>>337598095
what the fuck did he do to him
>>337598927
yes, but you'd need to research it, which might entail destroying a few of their ships and studying the wreckage, which may prompt them to shit all over your empire.
>>337598961
Galciv does it better and that's not saying much.
>Make gigantic empire and can summon 100k fleet on my whim
>Oshit unbidden
>spawn right next to me (????????????)
>swarm their only star with 4 80+ fleets
>destroy all their 17k+ fleets in a few small battles
>slowly home in on their portal and destroy it
>unbidden no more
>>337598972
the wiki is notoriously inaccurate and outdated. i've gotten my kill chance up to 97% by using ~15 fleets of twenty corvettes each, a negligible investement of resources
>>337598961
>50%
15.
>>337598329
Something wrong, ie, telling my 50k fleet with full bombardment to bomb the shit out of the planet
Nothing happened, ever
full bombardment policy, xenophobe, militarist, spiritual
your run of the mill imperium of man
>>337599136
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART WITH YOUR LIES
>>337599171
50.
>>337598961
hahahahaha take some autism meds
>>337599238
Mod?
>>337598961
I just checked and for me it's 5/10/15, which might be base because it was with a 30 ship fleet consisting of 3 destroyers and 27 corvettes.
>>337599192
have you tried not sucking at the game?
>>337599276
i don't have any mods.
>>337599245
>i don't understand thing
>here's how thing works
>LOL FEDORAUTISM
good job.
>>337599317
that's the kind of force you're using to bombard planets? are you in still in year 1?
Why does full bombardment take so much time, can't even do a proper exterminatus
Kiinda weird that one covette will take as much time killing the entire population as a ginormous fleet
>>337599416
Isn't bombardment the greatest thing is the game? I love it!
>>337599526
wrong. please actually play the game before pretending to be retarded.
>>337599521
Not sure which year you start in, but the guys I went up against didn't stand a chance so it's probably fine for now.
Got it up to 1.7k instantly, but didn't have enough max number of fleets to keep that going to I had to destroy corvettes until I was down to 1.2k
>>337599320
Bra brevat Sven
10 öre har satts in på ditt konto
>>337599317
Same.
10k fleet took ages to kill off a planet.
The game won't allow you to even exterminate properly.
I guess future dlc's will fix it as with everything else.
>>337599673
ok, that's like 5% of the military strength you should be fielding by year 2 just fyi
>>337593395
The game is actually really cool. Although it is somewhat of a grind fest near the beginning of the game and that you will either struggle with influence loss from frontier outposts and wait years for a tech to develop near mid-game, the game is still actually really cool.
A word of advice though : Don't piss off the Fallen Empires. They'll contact you when they see you. You don't want those pieces of shits angry at you, since they are immensely better than you at everything when you first meet one. Read their attitudes to see what you need NOT to do so that you don't piss them off. For example, a knowledge guardian attitude will be pissed off if you research techs shown in red AKA dangerous techs.
>>337597868
Why isn't this missiles?
>>337599787
that's probably because 10k is fucking pathetic, that's barely even a fleet
>>337593395
You can be space hitler, or space sweden, play god, fuck with extradimensional eldrith abominations, say fuck you to the trascendent benevolent beings and fire lasers at their face because we all know fascism is the only answer, you can enslave people and submit entire races, and when you run out of xenos to bully you can give consciousness to your robots and bully those too.
>>337598913
you can click the orange button next to them to make them appear in place of random aliens
doesn't work with the default premade empires though for some reason
>>337598329
savage
>>337594857
Or worse he could hang out around your capital for a while
What happens if I become a vassal state for a bigger faction? Do I lose anything, or am I just their bitch from then on and they'll protect me in exchange for resources?
>>337600084
>HOSTILE FLEET DETECTED
are they trying to kill me with annoyance
>>337599823
So I just checked and I'm 9 years into this game.
Seems I'm off the mark a bit. It took me a while to get a level 2 spaceport tech option though.
>>337600161
literally nothing except if they go to war with someone you are dragged along
>>337600161
It means you are their bitch and if they go to war so do you.
The only way out is to rebel.
>>337600257
>9 years into this game.
so like the beginning?
>>337599979
>and when you run out of xenos to bully you can give consciousness to your robots and bully those too.
>>337600423
It feels early on, but anon is trying to say you should have a 20k fleet by year 2.
Seems unreasonable.
>>337600576
>single 20k
learn to play.
>>337599986
uuh, can't see any orange button
>>337600576
It's fucking outrageous that's what it is!
You can command a galactic empire from your bed using a tablet.
>>337599823
Sure. Do explain how you build 30 ships on one planet in two years?
What if any are the victory conditions for this game?
>>337600905
lol this game is fucking dumbed down
>grand strat
pls
>>337600905
So this is why the game is so shallow.
My personal pros and cons
Pros
>territory system
>actual government options in a fucking 4x game finally
>in-depth population who each have their own beliefs and ideal governments
>population can be controlled, moved around, enslaved, purged, liberated
>can also let it happen naturally with immigration, migration, and emigration
>multiple species on a planet thanks to the in-depth population system instead of just taking a planet and having some happiness hit for a couple of turns, then never having to think about being a foreign occupier again
>diplomacy system where you have to study other species to figure out how to communicate with them
>multi facet research system
>multi government and ethos options plus traits for species
>edicts and policies allow further customization of governments
>non permanent leaders
Cons
>mana system
>no robot species cause Luddites I guess? Need to mod it in
>real time
This is a partial list because I can't think of everything right now but it's a breath of fresh air. Most 4x games feel one step away from being board games, with hardly any depth. Civ for example makes me wonder why it's even about civilizations when there is no culture to worry about anymore, and the population is barely something you have to worry about outside of strictly making them happy.
>>337600749
this one
if it's not there for you then i have no idea
>>337601028
>>337601075
>you can play chess in bed
>that means it's dumbed down shit for casuals
>>337598095
Ayy
>>337601245
oh, I don't have those eagles
to be honest, I guess I can't see them because my resolution pretty much cut the images way before...
great
guess I gotta deal with the resolution to make them appear, thk anon
>>337601582
literally what
What the hell is this thing?
There are a few more in surrounding star system, but I can't click on them or interact with them in anyway.
>>337602338
Hit F5, it lists all that sort of stuff. Might be research that your scientists can't do yet.
>>337601743
yeah, I fucked up my english there
btw this is the issue, the race names can't fit in their "portraits" windows so I can't see the eagle..
guess I have found a workaround, tho
I can edit the .txt where the race data is and force them
>>337601582
Same here.
>>337593395
It's addicting at first but ultimately has no depth yet
Already deleted it after playing it twice
>>337602338
t's where the evil Cthulhu will come in 10 years.
Is it just me or is warscore totally nonsensical? I can destroy thousands of ships but if the Battleship at the very end of the line hits retreat I get no points for it? What the fuck?
>>337602795
yup it's dumb and then you spend the rest of the time trying to chance that fucker
>>337602549
Ah I see what it is. Those planets give 4 minerals so it's probably the high-value mining targets.
>>337602580
it works
if any of you have the same problem here's the workaround:
find the user_empire_designs.txt in the ..\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris folder and set the "spawn_enabled=" value to "always"
>Start a game as human exiles
> have another species own earth
>goal of this game is to find earth and retake it
>start game
>they are my next door neighbors
> well that was easy
>>337603874
>find earth
>humans are on it
>>337603874
you winthe game
Is it possible to demographically change your entire empire so that its original inhabitants become a minority and are no longer in power?
just used a cheat to explore the whole universe in a game I just started and I saw 2 giant empires, WAY bigger than the others, even tho I set the "rigged" AIs to zero..
also they arent custom races even tho I forced them
whats the deal with those guys
>>337604070
>find earth
>only Turks survived
I think it's a promising game. Making your own species and empire is fun, and the population and government mechanics are good and interesting. It's extremely obvious what they're going to expand on in later DLC, though. Diplomacy is worse than Civ 5.
>>337604270
enslave original inhabitants, slave procreation off then just get some aliens through war or something and allow them to be leader through policies
>>337604270
Just choose all edicts and shit that increases ethic divergence
>>337604270
>intelligent
If they were they wouldn't be dying from immigrants.
>>337604270
yes, just get migration agreements with other empires. after they start moving in, you can then use them for all your future colonies until your original race is a minority, and get the "allow xeno leaders" tech
Fallen empires. They consider you beneath them and tend to leave you alone. Better hope they don't sandwich you.
To anyone in this thread who has lost a battle:
There is no excuse no matter your ethos to play below your maximum possible fleet pop. If you ever have more resources than you need to build something then you should have built it already or you aren't rushing colonies fast enough.
I usually have a fallen empire down and their tech reverse engineered before the extinction events begin. I feel like the game should punish my mistakes far more than it does at this point.
>>337604873
Was for >>337604495
Hey. Some mushroom faggots began threatening me, so I murdered them and took their shit. Now I have three planets full of those ugly assholes and I am not sure how to correctly check their happiness, nor make them happier. Or what to do with them for that matter really. They live on a tropical world and my desert dwellers hate that shit.
All they do is strike, rebel and bitch. I've even made an edict saying happiness is mandatory but it doesn't help. Anyone got a step-by-step guide on how to make alien scum fall in line and stop being bitches?
>>337605028
Purge them and recolonize their planet.
>>337604270
Even if your original inhabitants are a minority they will still always be in power. It's not possible to change primary species as far as I know, or at least it never happened in my game even though only 20% of my pops are my primary species.
>>337604270
>sweden
>white
>>337604495
fallen empires are a different mechanic with endgame level strength, but they usually just keep to themselves
the advanced empires that you disabled are just slightly stronger normal empires
>tfw you hate yourself so much
>>337593395
It's a solid 10 + hours enjoyable experience for 1 - 2 play-troughs, then quit and wait for next dlc - then play 10 more hours, then quit and play 10 more hours with never dlc and so on - it's not a game to play everyday.
i was pretty hyped for it, played it a few times on insane and got INCREDIBLY bored and uninstalled and havent thought about it since
the ai is way too shit and way too passive; mid-late game is tedious as fuck because literally nothing is happening
even if you are weak as fuck the ai rarely botheres trying to take over your territory; everyone is content to be completely and utterly passive for the entire game
its actually ridiculous that master of orion 2 came out in 1996 and still remains the best 4X game of all time
>>337604270
>Confederation of United Commonwealth Ki...
>C.U.C.K.
>>337605260
I'm not sure about this -- I think having Xeno leaders makes it possible, depending on the government type. There's a Martial Democracy in my game that has the spokesperson change every so often.
>>337593395
I've been doing ironman random gen empires since the game launched and I have 58 hours in it already. It's good at emergent gameplay and would be even better if the AI wasn't dumber than dogshit.
>>337596551
They change the types of techs you have access to. So you might face different singularity events depending on your ethos.
>>337604542
>It's extremely obvious what they're going to expand on in later DLC, though.
well i sure will be excited to play this game once it gets a couple expansions
>>337596554
Given the number of copies that this game has sold it won't take them too long to start expanding it. EU4 and CK2 were both really barebones and had retarded AI at launch too.
>>337605884
That's how Paradox games go these days.
Enjoying my Tau game so far. Decided to go with materialistic and Despotic Hegemony since it makes more sense.
How does the adjustment bonus work guys? I cant seem to understand it even after playing almost 3 whole games.
Well it's like Distant Worlds but easier.
That's it.
>>337606417
>Xeno scum
>>337604270
>swedish flag with the islamic moon
I like your style anon.
Will flak/point defense shoot down missiles targeting other ships? Considering making a couple ships dedicated to defense.
>>337606880
Yep, point defense ships can protect the rest of the fleet
>>337601343
It would mean that if chess was a shitty video game made in a year by devs notorious for making wet garbage in between mainline games.
How do I build robots?
I have the "robots" tech researched. Now how the hell do I build them?
>>337607528
it's like building a building
>>337593395
When will a Star Wars mod be made goddammit
Funny how:
American Lards say they got bored after n-th hours.
Funny how:
You can create your own edicts, triggers, races, ethos and more.
Funny how:
American fatmen care about: NIGGERS and PURGES
Funny how:
Dealing with good diplomacy and deleting the bugged late-game happenings (You can keep the robot revolution, but not the other two) makes this a funny game to be replayed some times.
b-but I am a military xenphobe!
>AMERICAN SHITPOSTERS
the game looks exactly like galactic civilization
Does the AI research dangerous techs?
>>337608285
go home australia
>>337600905
Windows tablet?
Or are you using Moonlight?
>>337593395
>tfw excessively superior to all other empires in my huge galazy apart from the progenitor Fallen Empire who I'm starting to get some overwhelming -> superior equivalences
>cba to wage any wars so doing nothing but colonising and upgrading fleets for decades waiting to catch up with the Fallen Empire
The good thing about Viccy 2 is that there's always something to aim towards, always some colony to blob to or something but in Stellaris I'm just there with my dick in my hand while expanding for what feels like no reason
>>337594708
Your stacks should be split. Currently at war with a race that uses wormhole tech. I use hyperlanes so my fleets are limited in travel. I had to split them in order to catch his constantly retreating fleet
>>337607986
Hm, they dont' appear for me.
>>337609290
Yeah, AI won't even declare on you unless it's an event or FA.
CK2 and EU4 weren't that barebone at release. Still a fun game and would definitely be a great game with some expansions.
>>337609290
Fallen emps don't rebuild ships so they're actually very easy to deal with if you let your vassals soak the damage while you whittle them down.
>>337608952
Yes. I've seen AI empires with Synthetic pops.
>>337609290
I'm having a blast playing through my first game but I don't think I'll ever play again, it feels like more of a single player campaign you play through once to explore the galaxy and never play again.
Someone lend me a hand here.
Alright, full story: I took some worlds from an enemy empire in a defensive war. Wanted access, etc.
I get some worlds of theirs, and two of them are populated by 'pre-sentients', no ability to control or build or relocate even when they aren't in a sector. In both cases I get -"Whoa, it looks like someone previously started uplifting these guys, maybe we'll be able to finish what whoever started" events.
But there doesn't seem to be any option to actually do that. Can't build observation posts (the world is colonized?) and don't seem to have any kind of options.
I just have a planet populated by presentients. as far as I can tell, I bombarded the previous owners stupid.
>>337610178
Can\t you uplift them from the species list like you would upgrade your own race?
>decide to go full purge and wipe aliens
>every alien race i meet is peaceful and nice
Now I feel kind of bad.
So what is the point of having slaves outside of meta enjoyment at roleplaying as IoM? They're just shittier citizens and I can't even send them away to developing colonies until I've built infrastructure.
They suck as armies too.
>>337610997
They are slightly better at minerals and food, so I guess there's that. And you get a shitton of them when you rape and pillage. I don't see the problem with dropping them on a fresh colony right away, if you outlaw breeding.
Do sectors upgrade buildings and spaceports? Are sectors just like duchies in CK2?
>>337610471
There's where you normally uplift them and in his case there might be something in the situation log for the " finish what whoever started event"
Is there any downside to play Xenophile, aside from Ooga booga, where da white women at shitposting?
Currently I have 3 different species living in my empire supporting my Jihadi space sharks by colonizing planets my people can not.
Also, it's nice to not always get the "Xenophobic Bigots" opinion penalty
>>337610997
you can destroy factions faster if you enslave them and like >>337611169 said they are slightly better at minerals and food
How does this compare with GalCiv2? Is it the GalCiv3 we deserved?
>>337611396
Not really unless you're you want to go full purge. If you go full purge, your citizens get upset if you purge xenos without the xenophobe trait.
>Get attacked by a congolomerate of 4-5 empires against me and my small vassal
>Spending hours fighting fires all over my territories
>Enemies travel have a Grand Fleet, normally 4 fleets of at least 6K
>I've (now) got 3 fleets of 5k
How the fuck do I pull this one off boys? They've taken two of my core worlds, and I can't crack their Grand Fleet because they deal out so much goddamn damage, their largest fleet does about 11K. My vassal got his fleet eviscerated, he's accompanying me with a 1-2K fleet. I finally got 3 BShips, with a few more on the way when I can scrounge some credits. I've refit my fleet for max shield pen, since most of their ships are one-two shields, and the rest is energy cores.
It doesn't like you can rope in other empires while in a war. Is it best just to turtle my navies, or should I just do hit and runs until I can afford a white peace?
>>337610623
>human
>>337611651
Yeah, but I have no reason to purge, as all those guys came from my allies' domains and are really helpful.
>>337593395
The beggining of the game plays like a 4X game. The Explore and Expand phase are extremely fun and engaging. Then midgame rolls around and it slows down a fuck ton.
Worth a Pirate for now. Like most Paradox games, it needs a lot of work, but has a lot of *potential*, but right now only the first half/third of the game is outstanding.
>>337611829
Upgrade your ships to whatever weapon they are weakest against. If they use missiles then build some corvettes with only point defense turrets, they'll shoot down any missile in range.
They really need to fix slavery, I'm rocking 360 pops in my empire and 260ish are slaves. The emancipation faction doesn't even do anything. They need a slave uprising event.
Post pranks
>>337611396
Xenophobe gets a building for basically no cost that gives 10% happiness. It's way, way better than Xenophile since you can just embassy the people you don't want to fight, regardless of your ethos. As well as purging undesirables.
>>337611289
>>337610471
I'll check, thanks. I've only been using the actual stations so far. Actually, yeah, that did it. Thanks famalams.
Meanwhile, fallen empire decides to fuck my shit up, senpai.
>>337612046
Top lel
>>337612041
I dunno, I don't find them that op because if you just enslave everything you get shittyscience output and if not then it's a lot of management with those shitters
Can anyone tell me what armies and generals are even used for?
