Old thread almost capped.
So I just found this thing
sad bomp
What a gay name.
Why does my gameplay keep freezing randomly?
I press fastest and the time passes with freezing intervals
Looks like spore
>>337760868
How do you guys manage a large empire?
I was doing incredibly successfully one game. I vassal'd my neighbouring empire and forced the one beyond them to give me 5/6 of their planets, despite getting bent over backwards by my neighbouring Ascendent Empire. Before the second invasion, I was in the process of integrating my vassals. Once this finished, my whole empire went wild with a -250 energy deficit. Then a whole sector rebelled (my fault for not enslaving them). There are so fucking many negative modifiers on production that I'm not producing anything at all.
I haven't played since this happened, I've been mulling over what to do. I don't really have any other option than to go full purge mode on the planets which rebelled. I already sector'd the excess planets which really sucks to have to do.
In future I guess I'm just going to have to vassal every empire I conquer rather than taking their planets...but this limits me to about 7 planets worth of influence borders to mine resources from. Not to mention having to compete with neighbouring planets for space, with no real way to take it from them without screwing myself over.
>>337764798
>How do you guys manage a large empire
Expand like crazy early game. Your research will take a hit so balance your planet/mine expansion with how fast your population grows. Because you need people to man your planetside facilities.
>>337763842
this. and to add on to this:
>fuck huge fleet because that seems to be the most effective
>causes my game to stutter and the game speed to slow down
>but the calendar moves at a normal rate
>takes months to move across a system let alone a galaxy
it's so frustrating waging war with this fleet, but I can't be arsed to micromanage and build fleets to counter the empire I'm fighting so I have to just use a huge fleet to wage war.
Is this game better than CK2?
>>337760868
You in for a ride OP.
Man, I am so shit with energy production. I can't field the size of army I want to.
>>337763842
The game saves once a month, would this be what's causing this? I know that it semi-freezes for about half a second or less on my game each time it saves, and that's on an SSD.
Just used a synth army to crush the synth separatists that broke out in my empire. feels good man
>>337766707
not at all
>>337767579
Research slave processing plant.
Nothing feels better than creating armies of brainwashed slaves to crush their very own race's resistance.
>>337763842
Either you it's autosaving or you played too long and your computer is dying trying to figure out what it going on
>>337767792
If you play on Ironman it automatically saves once a month, as said here >>337767556
That would explain why he doesn't notice it
how do I advance tech? I have 100+ of each research point and I'm at a point where I just get rotating, repeating tech like +5% research bonus or +5% hability. am i just limited by my race?
>Going very well
>got my half of the arm pinned and just finished wormhole generators to start exploring the seemingly empty arm next to mine
>bunch of new planets and lods e mone
>go deeper into the arm after setting up a colony
>new contact
> stagnant ascendancy
>twice my pop
>two ringworlds
>overwhelming
>fanatic xenophobe
>get demand
>abandon 4 colonies or die, bug
>hell no
>war were declared
>two 30-45k fleets warp in
>mine is 976
>mfw
I'm finding the game pretty immersive, but it doesn't beat Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri for immersive, mature atmosphere.
>>337768419
I don't know the answer but I assume you researched everything already, and +5% upgrades are all thats left. Grats I guess?
>>337764798
research better power plants asap when they show up. I'm always on low power. Expanding too quickly will do this and massive fleets are a huge drain on power too
Space Jellies are doing not too bad. Sectors really fuck over your resource production. I fear the AI doesn't build base facilities good enough. No wars yet, just been expanding like crazy.
Only 1 fleet and its pretty shit. I bet if I got into a war right now I'd be crushed.
Don't really know what to do anymore, just kind of cruising along.
Fuck this piece of unfinished garbage. Would it kill paradox to release a complete game for once and not force me to wait for DLCs?
>trying to trigger Synthetics as a population or Machine Consciousness
>populate entire worlds with them
>populate an entire sector with synths
>nothing
WELL AT LEAST THINGS ARE RUNNING EFFICIENTLY
>>337768986
explain
>>337764798
Vassals.
Sometimes the enemy you're conquering have such different ethos it's a pain in the ass to cede their planets. Either vassalise or Liberate their planets and then ally or vassalise the new faction that just spawned from Liberating.
Also, power plants. Always power plants.
Just finished destroying a second fallen empire and claiming their planets.
>>337769174
trigger warning:reddit linkhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/4jgwf4/just_what_is_stellaris_missing_exactly_a_full/
Is there a way to write your own description for custom empires? Some anon posted this in the last thread but I'm too retarded to figure it out apparently.
>>337769174
Game is missing a fuckton of UI convienence stuff. Quality of Life as Blizzard calls it.
>Start my first game as the UN of Earth
>There's a habitable planet in Sirius which is continental and Procyon
>There's *three* habitable planets in Alpha Centauri, two continental
not a bad roll
also, factions?
goodness i thought people hated that shit in EUIV
>>337769174
Bugs, so many bugs
Horrendous UX (leader died on a planet? yeah that's like 5 windows to go through to replace them)
Poor AI
Unbalanced weapons
Sectors are poorly done (spaceports, pop traits/resources, upgrading cap building)
Sectors ruin slavery
Frustrating whack-a-mole space combat
Incomprehensible defender war goals
Defense stations are irrelevant
Federation debacles
Trade?
Interesting diplomacy
But there are a lot of things I do like: lifting races, building robots, modifying genes, and the writing. By far my favorite part of the game has been the writing. It really shines through as the high point of the game, and made playing through the majority of it worth it. However right now I wouldn't recommend it to others.
>>337768494
Similar thing happened to me, luckily enough they only demanded a single planet from me which I had conquered anyway, and I had enough frontier outposts to keep my borders almost the same.
Even if your fleets had not been shit-tier, you would have been crushed, so the best tactic is to not discover them in the first place.
>55 Hours in
I like it, but I think I'll like it more as they add more to it.
I read that reddit list, and agree with everything on it. The game has decent bones. Needs a few fixes here and there, but there's a lot to expand on.
This is my first Paradox game I've gotten into. How are they for this kind of stuff?
>>337768769
Your statsgave me a boner.
Can you post your fleet design/power?
>>337770265
a typical pair o ducks game needs roughly a year or two of refinement to mature into something good
that refinement manifests in the form of dlc
>>337769232
I remember seeing your empire in threads a few days ago. Very comfy anon, please do continue your conquests against xeno scum.I'm proud of you anon.
MAN FUCK THIS SHIT! the scourge has a bug that will not eliminate their planet once you bombard it. I lost the game because of this bug. i tried the command console solution but it is no use
>>337769493
I believe that particular anon used MS Paint, but I would be surprised if there isn't a mod for this by now.
How does everyone get influence? I'm stuck in a influence hole and just can't seem to get out and it's stunted my growth
>>337770849
Declaring rivals gives you +1.5 influence. It may cause war in the future though. It's good for xenophobe factions.
>>337770834
I looked myself, didn't find it.
Good on anon for dedicating the time to flavor text, but it's a huge oversight from the developers not to include a custom bio option for empires.
When the fuck am I going to get Sentient AI technology? I've got all of the prerequisite technologies but it never shows up. I just want to purge my original species and replace them with cool robots
>>337770171
daaaaang
>>337770536
Fleet design doesn't matter just spam corvettes with 2 small plasma and 1 point defense, you can get their evasion up to 80% and weapon mounts that are large than small take a penalty for trying to hit them.
Battleships are optional if you want they buffs they provide.
On a side note the battle AI is coded to target smaller ships first.
Does this game have mod support? Is that a thing paradox does?
>>337771027
DONT OWN ANY ROBOTS WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCHED! you dont want robot revolution of unstoppable dont you?
>>337771263
Yes, a quite bit of it. Already plenty of mods in the game.
>>337771276
Except you skip the rebellion if you give synths equal rights.
>>337770171
ParaJews will release those features to the main game. Then lock everything else that feature requires behind a 14.99 DLC paywall with a 4.99 skin and music pack as a kosher tip.
>Get in an alliance to wipe out the Unbidden.
>Lead a crusade to the portal, free 15+ systems.
>Hit their fleet and lose most of my corvette bullet sponges.
>Eventually burn the portal.
>Event doesn't end.
>Unbidden stop coming anyways.
>Quit caring and use them as a buffer state between my empire and the other half of the galaxy.
Welp. Left that alliance about 3 years after that, since one AI was just declaring war left and right and grabbing all the space. Should've waited until they started a war with another Fallen empire and pulled support right as they started fighting.
>>337771196
Interesting, thank you. Are the evasion buffs purely research or are there other sources? If the AI is coded that way then it makes sense to have some serious heavy hitters behind a swarm of corvettes.
>>337771017
Agreed, there are a lot of issues that just show a clear lack of common sense/effort/time from Paracocks, but the popular opinion seems to be that this will be fixed with DLCs. Still mad that I can't set my science ships to auto-survey/explore.
>scientist assigned to research dies
>space jellies in mourning
>50 influence to buy another scientist
>dont have enough
>entire species research at standstill
ok
>>337771367
>Except you skip the rebellion if you give synths equal rights.
Wrong. So naive and so very wrong.
>>337771396
Good thing we'll be able to pirate the DLC like with every other Paradox game. R-right?
>>337771367
Has anyone said anything about any total conversion mods?40k?Star Wars?Star Trek?An enterprising /tg/er's space magical realm?
>>337771367
im not sure about this. just disable policy of having robots and never never have any now. dont underestimate these robots as they will develop more faster than any nation even faster than the scourge and unbidden.
do achievements only happen in ironman mode or something?
i have been playing 35 hours and gotten none
LONG LIVE BELKA!
>>337771936
As with all Paradox games, yes.
I'm going to take a break from Stellarisand play another 4x;
Should I go for Star Ruler 2 or Distant worlds?
>>337771936
Yes
>>337771480
60% base dodge on corvettes with best defense comp and sublight
+15%: Cautious Admiral
+5 flat: Pitharin Refinery
+5 flat: Fleet Academy
+5%: Flagellating Movement
I'd only take one battleship snare to prevent enemies fleeing and just spam corvettes, the game is broken right now.
8 corvettes = 4 destroyers = 2 cruisers = 1 bb for fleet cap. 8 corvettes will always beat their equal in the shown list.
>>337772018
Gib clay
>>337772018
>>337772126
Distant Worlds. Its basically this game, but better.
>>337772126Aurora 4x
>>337772172
The downside of corvette fleets are that they need to be constantly replinished. If you are up against a weaker enemy, stronger ships are better because they will simply tank the hits and keep going. Even weak enemies will chunk a good number of your corvettes every engagement.
>Not implementing Sins of a Solar Empire combat
Why
>>337772283
Does Distant Worlds allow me to start as Synthetics? Or replace my entire race with cyborgs?
>find tablets apparently from some beings my people once worshiped as gods
>get a choice on what to do with them after finding the last one
>pick the one that lets me unlock fanatic spiritualism and collectivism traits
>it doesn't do anything
Thanks, Paradox!
>>337772387
Probably because its basically an RTS, in space. Reminds me that I REALLY need to go hunt down some overhaul mods for that. Fucking love that game but I've played it to hell and back.
>>337770536
power is here >>337769232
design is torpedoes or matter disintegrator and tachyon lance and as many shields as I can have with one slot for armor
>>337771491
its only -25% for no scientist
>>337772464
Dunno. A mod probably does if the base game doesn't.
>>337772476
>Do the same quest
>Already Fanatic Spiritualist and Collectivist
>Still gives me the option
Cool?
>>337770948
I was trying to go all star fleet and just be nice to everyone, I'm pretty weak not many choices ok rivals. Is there not a building you can build or anything?
>>337769232
How many hours do you have? I could swear I've seen you post in threads for days now.
>>337770849
colonizing planets and upgrading the capitol gives you +1 influence per planet I think, one play as bugs I colonized 2 planets at the very start and basically never had influence problems after that.
>yfw 6.3 was accurate after all
>>337772367
The only downside of a corvette fleet is you pay slightly higher maintenance overall. Pound for pound corvettes are the best ship in the game after you get all the evasion techs. If this is combined with point defense weapons almost nothing can hit a corvette. Larger ships have shit evasion and armor only reduces damage by %.
Long range weapons are worthless because the AI is shit and just mashes the two fleets together.
>>337772850
I've found the main thing with influence is you just have to make sure you are making enough every month. The main drains are empire wide edicts, which I haven't found to be SUPER useful outside a few research ones, and the MUCH more useful frontier outposts.
Depends on various factors, THOSE will be what will drain you. Make sure to delete them when you don't them and your influence should be okay.
Generally want to stockpile it early before your leaders all start dying on you.,
>>337772850
Dang my colony planets aren't giving me influence maybe I'm bugged
>>337772959
Lies and slander
>>337772994
Do you have the highest upgrade for the "main" tile? You need to upgrade to the 3rd tier or so before you start getting influence.
>>337772818
A lot. Don't have steam so dunno exactly but reckon it's at least over 60.
>tfw it's fucking up my sleep
>Decide to conquer my week neighbor
>Get this
I must've made a mistake
>>337772959
I feel the game is really boring in the late game. Nothing ever seems to happen unless you make it happen. Combat is really meh. The only "smart" thing the AI does is hit and runs, which don't even help if you have inhibitors.
Even a small understanding of the way ships work allows you to roll over anyone and everything. And then you do all of what exactly?
Sit around and wait for the game to decide you won?
>>337772498
DESU the full package (with all the DLC) is a better 4X (though a worse GS) than Stellaris. Love that the fluff listed how many people crewed each vessel.
>>337773156
Desu?
>>337773232
Hello newfag.
Who's up for a game of Stellaris, /v/? If I hosted one, would you nerds join?
>tfw huge settlement target is a ring world with feel-good gas
this is gonna be one planet sized hippie colony
Colonizing gives you influence?
What the fuck
WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER
>>337773150
So just like every other Paradox game but without the arcane learning curve making it look more involved than it is
would there be any drawback to just throwing most of your empire into one big sector if it's all in one blob? some of my planets are missing strategic resources so i just want to combine em all into a sector to make sure those resources are covered
>>337773458
Planets don't. Upgraded planetary capitols do. You need like 10 pop before you can get the 1 influence bonus.
>>337773458
you have to build the planetary government building up to level 3 I think to start generating influence.
They're planet unique
>>337773104
what did the crab people ever do to you?
I smell Chaos
>>337773104
why
Is this game noob-friendly at all? It seems like a really good space-empire sim, something that I've been looking for for a while, but I haven't really played Grand Strategy games before (I'm assuming 4x and Total War don't count).
>>337768982
You're supposed to micromanage your planetary building then shove them into a sector
At the very least fully upgrade the capitol building.
>>337773104
>>337774192
Literally the simplest space 4x ever existed.
>>337773104
Nah m8, I conquered the shit out of some warthog people nearby and they gave me that same message. Took a few years of damage control and a couple purges but they're happy as can be now.
>>337773343
guess not
>>337774528
I would but mine is pirated and I don't know if it works for multi or not.
>>337773343
ye senpai, id hop in. We using discord to talk?
>>337770171
It's true, it's all trueStill enjoying it a lot though
>>337768494
Ok, i havent had such an overwhelming force go against me, but i did crush a 1.5k enemy with my 900 point fleet by jumping into the same sector as they did only before them, so i could shoot at them while they were still recovering from the jump.
>>337774250
Fun fact: this does not, actually, kill the crab.
The little fuckers have two 'brains'.
>>337774781
You can download a multiplayer fix to get the codex version workingI bought the game today and deleted my pirated verison
>>337774796
>discord
Kill yourself
so i got invaded by my own synths. sent down troops to deal with them. all the pops were wiped out. it says my army is still down there
but now the planet is just a colonizable planet with a bunch of buildings on it and i cant disembark my guys. what do?
All shall fall.
>>337774959
not him but what's wrong with discord?
I always see people here rail on it but they never explain why.
>>337774192
It's by far the least complicated paradox game ever made and actually less complicated than comparable games like Sins of a Solar Empire
Ok im at 6/5 planets, and at this point i have no idea what to do to spread my empire.
Also how the fuck do you people get like 500 research, im at max planets with my current alignment and im at like 40ish in all sciences.
>>337774912
Fun fact, it does, because they bleed out, and cant eat even if they wouldnt have bled out.
>>337774935
"Multiplayer fixes" dont work famalam, already tried, did the same thing you did and just ended up buying it
>>337774935
do you have a link to that MP crack?
>>337774935
Can you just drag-and-drop the pirated DLC folder into the new copy of your game? Would that work?
This game really feels limited to me right now. I've played for maybe 10 hours top, so correct me if I'm wrong about anything but here are my complaints so far: Incoming wall of text
There's no religion in the game, despite having spiritualism/materialism ethics. One thing I like to do in Paradox games is play as a certain religion and convert as many people as possible. There doesn't seem to be any sort of existing or custom religions in Stellaris that can spread from people to people. With religion you can strengths/weakness and diplomacy modifiers. But that's all missing in this game.
>>337775228
What? In sins of a solar empire you have no fucking politics at all. You can just shit out units and spread from planet to planet.
Sins isnt even a 4x, its straight up a rts.
>>337775415
The politics is weak, especially compared to something like Victoria 2. You can play as a representative democracy, direct democracy, theocracy, whatever, but they seem to have little effect on your overall empire. With a representative democracy, I expect my pops to vote for political parties that then vote on the edicts, policy changes, maybe even war declarations. With direct democracy I expect the individual pops to vote on that themselves. With empires and the like I expect unrest and revolutions. None of that occurs. I noticed there are factions, so maybe revolutions do occur but I didn't get that far.
Some parts of the politics don't even make sense. So my ethics prevent slavery, or purging. But I'd like to enslave aliens to fit my role-playing but I don't want to start over. I have a democracy and one of the candidates mandate is about slavery. So thinking that they'd institute slavery I used influence to get them into office. But I still can't allow slavery. I have no idea how to change the ethics of an empire, but I do know that there is ethic divergence in pops which I think is a great feature, since I think that better reflects the dynamics of culture better than in previous Paradox games. So I’m stuck with my policies because I don’t know how to change the ethics of the empire, yet the people voted in someone with a slavery mandate. It seems to me the ethics of the empire should be determined by the leader voted in by the people, yet this doesn’t happen. I may just not know enough about the mechanics on this one though.
There are few resources and trade is limited. I'd prefer a system like Victoria 2, where there are different resources that are then traded in a market. Maybe that doesn't make sense in a space game where you care less about individual resources and more about the output of the planet, but the energy/minerals is very simple.
>>337775381
seconded, I would like to play this with friends, but they havent played a game of this type and the 40 dollar price tag is a hard sell.
>>337775381
>>337775476
Which brings me to the economy/development. Given how grand scale the game is, I guess you shouldn't go too in depth into the development of individual planets, but the grid system that exists now just doesn't cut it for me. The grid system also vastly limits the way pops are represented in the game since its one pop for one grid. So in an empire spanning star systems I have 50 unique pops. Meanwhile, Victoria 2 you have a huge number of pops within your country with needs, wants, political ideology, economic class, religion, all sorts of things. That level of detail actually gives more personality to your people, whereas in Stellaris the people are just faces on a grid.
Diplomatic options are severely limited. You can trade, ally make war, or vassalize. Federations are an interesting concept but they seem to be nothing more but beefed up alliances with no method of larger integration of the different empires. There’s no trade embargos (because there’s really nothing to trade) no defensive pacts (as a weaker form of alliance) no diplomatic religious mechanic and diplomatic missions seem to be reduced to embassies.
So I created a race of tropical squid people to play with, right? 40 years into the campaign I find this distant planet with a stone-age civ on it. As I take a loser look, I find it's my people. Same tropical preference, same RNG-given stupid name, they're a bit more militaristic than me, that's the only diff. So any ideas what the story is here? Just coincidence or they're my long lost cousins?
>>337775469
are you telling me someone would post a fix on to the internet only to have it not work?
>>337774912
No they don't you fucking idiot. You have the image right there, use youronebrain.
>>337775536
Finally, the map is just way too small. First contact is treated as some revolutionary thing to your people, but it happens almost immediately with a neighbor right next to you at the beginning. Despite being a galaxy, it seems like you can cover the entire map much quicker than you can in EU4 (although probably not really, it just feels that way). The whole galaxy also fills up with empires in almost no time, meaning that for most of the game, most of space is claimed by some empire.
Some of these problems will be solved by expansions no doubt (like religion or politics possibly) but others are here to stay due to the 4x design. It really disappoints me, because a gsg in space seems like such a cool concept that would allow Paradox to make a game like their others that aren’t tied to history and can truly be sandbox. Instead, the game we got feels way too shallow.
>>337775224
people hate it because it was made by some reddit-teir meme lover. The program itself is good though and requires no downlods
>>337775426
read his post again, he never said sins was a 4x.
>>337775536
>no defensive pacts
I agree with everything you're saying but there's a non-aggression pact which includes coming to the aid of each other, so it basically is a defensive pact.
>>337775326
I didn't actually buy it because of the multiplayer.
>>337775381
>>337775567
I saw it on a private tracker I use. Last I checked it was working for people who download it.
>>337775403
I didn't even know the game had DLC other than the preorder content. All my save files from my pirated game were still there though which is kinda nice.
>>337775497
I was going to link you to a deal on wingamestore but apparently they put it back to full price.
>>337775567
It's malware, believe me I pirated the CODEX release and tried everything as well before I just bought the game.
I ran the "crack" in sandboxie and it crashed, so that's not a good sign. Either wait for codex to release a crack themselves or buy it are your only two options
Really hoping someone makes a mod where you can control building in Sectors without taking them in and out.
>>337775415
why would any space era civ believe in religion?
What exactly do they mean by establishing a base camp nearby? Does that mean setting up a frontier outpost?
>>337775650
Oh damn fair enough, i just feel like sins shouldn't really be compare to this. This feels way different.
>>337775661
Ah I see. Like I said, I've only played for around 10 hours, and I thought the non-aggression pact only prevents wars between each other.
>>337775741
Why is there a spiritualist ethos?
>>337775664
>preorder content
That's what I mean. The special snowflakes races, can you copy that content over to the genuine copy of the game? The folder is called "DLC".
>>337763842
It's a bug if your game version is 1.0
>>337775710
You can build up everything and then check the option to have the AI not change it, but it's still bullshit because if you take control of new space you will immediately be over the limit of planets so you will immediately have to sectorize it.
I don't see why I have to lose control of MY empire to an AI for an arbitrary reason of planet limits. That's fine to have a system of "signing it off" to the AI but it's stupid that you lose control completely in the process.
How do i turn the whole galaxy into my colour? I wanna go full 40k on the map, bombing the fuck out of all xenos.
But wont the planet limit stop me from doing that? Is there a way to circumvent that?
>>337775743
>That reading comprehension.
Please tell me you're not in college.
>>337775687
The CODEX release itself contains malware. Or at least the .exe triggered my anti virus which rarely gets false positives.
>>337775775
Probably. I didn't pirate the galaxy edition release. Is there even more than one DLC race? Never bothered to look.
>>337775775
Probably you can just mod it.
Give me a sec and I will check it.
>Integrate vassal with no problems
>0% happiness on all their pops
Guess you fucks are getting Enslaved
>>337775876
I haven't done this and this is all theoretical, but you can vassalize a nation and then integrate, and then you purge them, removing the xenos. It would then be your territory. From there you have to create sectors to make the AI take control of the planets, removing them from the planet limit. But then there's a limit of sectors....
Honestly the game seems pretty anti-expand and conquer with the planet limit and how clunky taking over another empire is. Which is pretty ridiculous since diplomacy is so shallow so the only fun is to start from nothing and conquer the galaxy.
>>337775909
Eat my shit, faggot.
>>337775876
You can establish sectors, which is just your planets controlled by AI
They can have unlimited size so afaik you can just paint the whole map
>>337775917
What antivirus are you using?
>>337775876
You give them to your sectors.
Unfortunately sectors are mentally retarded
>start battle
>can't fucking control a thing/issue orders or anything
>walk away and make some food
>10 mins later
>battle still going
this movie sucks
>>337775710
You can change the number of total planets you can control in a sector in the lua. It's a bit of micromanaging at first but once you get the planets up to snuff they run themselves anyway. I modified to allow 30 for the time being and I'm doing just fine.
>>337773348
you have no idea what a ringworld is m8
>>337776175
clamwin
>>337776061
>>337776110
Huh, i guess ill give this a shot. How do i make sectors tough, every time i get a planet over cap should i make a new sector? Or should i do them in bunches?
>>337776262
>Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!
>>337775830
its not a bug, I still have it
laptop cant run the game properly
>>337776350
I guess all the other antiviruses are wrong.
>>337776438
there is literally a robot guiding you all game
>>337776438
You can only have a few of them, with some techs increasing that number, and they can only put systems within your borders into them, and they have to be next to each other
They really should do some basic optimization before releasing this thing, endgame battles are just a clusterfuck shown in the fucking powerpoint.
Help ? I'm getting royally fucked by cacodemons
>>337776616
That robot pissed me off pretty badly so i exiled him. He kept reminding me of inane shit even when i told him never to remind me again.
>>337776262
I wonder how long you could make a single battle last in game time.
>battle with tens of thousands of ships
>still blowing each other up years later
>first neigbours I discover are a bunch of pacifist space furries
>form an alliance with them
>scary-ass bird people keep starting rivalries
>they consume a militaristic civ of squids
>after that they declare everyone in my alliance a rival, except me (muh embassy)
Based on previous observations they're going to go to war in a few months. What I'm asking is can I Romania them? Pull out of the aliance as soon as the war starts and start licking up to birdies. I have quite good relations with them. Doable?
>>337776543
I guess. Still it didn't detect malware in any of my other codex releases and I didn't want to fuck with ransomware even on the offchance. Plus I bought it for a discount and don't mind supporting the devs.
>>337775326
Actually it does you dumbass, from what I understand it simulates you playing another game on steam, I've played two really long matches of stellaris on steam so far. You can even see other players, haven't tried joined em, just hosted my own thing with a password and gave my friend the server ID, it says you are playing Spacewar on steam.
>>337776686
>Shittiest possible weapons.
>Best possible evasion and regeneration.
>Battle lasts forever?
>>337775775
Yeah it can be done.
Unlocked all DLC races and 5 human separate ones.
Anyone want it?
>>337776676
Just start over. The Scourge is bugged to hell right now. You can't get rid of them.
>>337776759
I'll take it if you're offering.
>>337776752
>admirals growing old and dying fighting the same battle
>year after year more ships are added to the unending melee
We need to make this happen
>>337776759
yep
>>337774192
Its less complicated than MoO2. So yeah.
>>337776752
With the powerpoint slideshow and freezing that large battles are, it seems it glitches the battle to run really slowly while the calendar runs normally, so I'm pretty sure by default a 30k vs 30k battle would take a year in game time.
>>337776759
If you'd be so kind.
>>337776676
whats the problem m8? the scourge is literally the easiest shit that I encountered in game
they dont have any shields an they only use explosive weapons, so spam point defense and lasers
>>337774240
Should I be waiting until my planet is fully build up before throwing it into a sector? The sector AI can't hand simple things like "Build mines where there are minerals"?
>>337776759
Torrents come with the dlc
>>337776808
You need to offer something toolike lewd xeno picturesif you want me to upload it somewhere.
Just stop and think about this.
There are people, right now, IN THIS THREAD, who actually still use armors and shields.
The madness, the absolute madness I say.
>>337760868
>Some xenos try to bully my republic.
>I end up winning the war.
>tfw I become a military republic.
>tfw expanding your Federation throughout the galaxy.
>tfw those HFY chills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk
>>337768494
This exact thing happened to me. Stagnant Ascendancy and everything. I fought the war, lost horribly, rebuilt, formed and alliance and going back and pillaging their disc worlds was maybe my favourite feeling in games of the past 5 years.
>>337776825
Several generations pass
The battle is still going on
No one knows what started the conflict, only that they need to continue the fight in memory of their fallen admirals.
You should get influence if you're in a war in you're militarist.
>>337760868
I cant get past 20 years, cuz im so bored, and ive played paradox games all my life, why doesnt stellaris do it for me, i was so hyped
My race, the Kosh-Aer
fanatic materialism and individualism for those shekels
Plutocratic oligarchy
Thrifty
Nomadic
Repugnant
how'd i do?
>>337777093
you got the shit taste syndtome
sorry lad
>>337776724
i think it could work. especially if you leave the alliance it will piss off your former allies, and since they are rivals of the birds, the birds will like you even more
>>337777021
>>337777139
Someone already beat you to it.
What's some beginner tips for this, I seriously suck and can't last more then a couple of hours without getting rekt
>>337777248
not surprising, i boarded the boat late, just need something to kill time until the 24th
>>337777139
Jews: The Race
>>337776808
>>337776851
>>337776905
>>337776932
It should work for legit versions too.
Also you can run a pure black true Swede nation if you want.
http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/5qx8OSA1/file.html
Here is link just get 'mod' folder into Stellaris one.
>>337777319
what? the ai doesn't even declare war
>>337777319
scout for habitable worlds, a habitable world will do more for you than just straight up mining asteroids for minerals and energy, although that's important too. once you find a habitable world put a frontier outpost there and build a colony ship to colonize it. after your colony is established you can remove the frontier outpost since it costs influence to keep going, once you have a colony your claim is already set.
other than that, try not to piss people off early, play like a bitch. declaring a rival WILL make people go to war and fuck your shit up.
>>337777441
Nah, I downloaded the /pol/ all white mod because I don't want my bloodline to magically have some "Mugamba Chatanooga Choochoo" named negro a few generations in.
>>337777441
Thanks anon
>>337776950
Best I could do
>>337777408
>Ottoman Empire
>Not Turkey
You had one job.
>>337777478
That is strange as I recently fight 3 wars with just one Alliance(that how they call their alliance JUST). And they start to war me after I steal few planets from me.
They get more members(even isolationist one) and start mounting offensives.
Point is you can't be too strong. You know nobody want to fight space USA.
>>337777478
What? I play the pirate version, and i got invaded really early on, i was lucky that i had a 900 point army, and even so the enemy attacked with like a 1.5k army or something like that.
>>337777570
But you can have a pure Aryan white one and fight against the chink, sand people, liberators or Swedes(who are also black).
You know more choice is always good.
>>337777635
Accepted.
>>337777642
did you even read the planet?
>>337777642
The planet is literally named Turkey.
>>337777441
Wait, where does the folder go? Just the "Stellaris" folder?
>>337777408
Literally every thread
I'm playing a xenophobic militarist civ. What are my options for dealing with primitive societies I find? Is there any way to just kill them and take their planet for colonization?
If I enjoy Civ, will I like Stellaris?
>>337777643
This the moment you find another Species it starts to become a arms race
>>337777684
>>337777643
I have been playing a pacifist for like 500 years, maybe not that long, and no one has declared war on me. Only 1 xeno has rivaled me, and he is on the other side of the galaxy.
I'm bored.
>>337777754
Yep.
>>337777643
It's not even that, the AI in general is really a chicken in this game.
Militant/Xenophobic/Slavers/etc need to be far, FAR more aggressive, especially considering the AI doesn't even really have an economy and can just pull out resource out of its ass whenever it wants.
It's also broken, they can't set priorities straight during a war and randomly attack one station and the leave for no reason a few seconds later.
>>337777248
>xenophile
so they were tsundere for the goys all along?
>>337777867
My neighbor asked me to ally with him almost as soon as we met. No need for war when you have space friends.
Who /Tau'va/?
>>337777478
Stop playing on normal.
>>337777932
Tfw i find a militant AI
Thank god he is far away, but i already started in the red with him
Neighbor declares war on me
After years of slaughtering my neighbor suddenly the warmongering ai loves my spiritualistic ass.
F-fine, its not like i was afraid of you or anything baka.
>>337777842
different type of games
Carrots and apples don't taste the same, one comes from earth the other space
>>337778005
Why would you want to turtle in a corner and be irrelevant until the end of times ?
>>337778020
Is normal really that bad? In what difficulty the AI declares war? I don't even remember picking a difficulty, I went random ironman right off the bat as first playthrough.
Okay, I just checked, and you CAN drag and drop the pirated DLC into your genuine copy, it will work flawlessly, even if you bought the game through steam.
http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/jBzwuwp6/file.html
Download, unzip, drop the two items into your "Stellaris/dlc" folder, and it will work just fine, no mods needed.
>>337777248
>Is'Rail
>>337778152
Normal offers no challange at all.
>>337778005
xenos scum pls go
>>337778164
wew lad, thanks paradox
>>337777801
>Is there any way to just kill them and take their planet for colonization?
Yeah, just send your armies there.
>>337777319
Don't neglect your navy.
>>337778152
Normal is the default setting.
I played on hard since day one and I got wrecked by the AI.
>>337778215
what is yours? I will restart
im dumb as shit, can i still play this game?
it kinda looks fun
>>337760868
NGE reference? Devs confirmed for bros
>>337778439
its not fun at all
>>337760868
Fuckign game just fucked me up.
Took the scientific dictature, where the leader choose a heir who will rpelace him when he dies.
1st Leader chose a good heir, but they are almost the same age so she won't be there long.
80 years later ( took Enduring) Leader dies, new leader choose his own heir
>Enduring
>Nervous (-20% fucking lower fleet size)
So, i'm stuck for 100 years with this shitter, or i need to dial back to basic government in 20 years then back up 20 more years later.
>>337778439
Yes, the game is pretty streamlined and everything has a tooltip.
>>337777530
>>337777319
>you find a habitable world put a frontier outpost
>a habitable world will do more for you than just straight up mining asteroids for minerals and energy
Those are some fucking retarded tips.
You should be focusing on getting some asteroid/planet mines instead of rushing colonization. The more pops you have, the slower your research goes. Research stations are much more valuable in the early game.
Spread you empire thin to get the most area of influence. Don't colonize planets that are too close, set up a perimeter as far as you can and colonize the inner planets later.
Frontier outposts should be used on your frontier, to deny the AI from getting territory from you.
It's early game. You and the AI can only colonize only one type of planet at this point. Don't even make sense to use frontier planets as areas of denial, except in very specific cases.
>>337778490
>She
>playing human
lol
birds are master race
>yfw picked warp + matierialist
>>337778490
Is enduring worth it? And does that count for scientists and others as well or just empire leaders.
>3 years for my fleet to upgrade weapons
>>337766707
Wait a year or two for DLC and then buy it and pirate all the DLC, install some mods and it will be up there
>>337778641
What's wrong with it?
>>337778749
>Not dividing your fleet and make each part upgrade at a different spaceport.
>>337778749
>new weapons available when they finish
>>337778714
Enduring is good as long as you don't get stuck with some absolute shitlord for a ruler. Your guys last forever. I have 120 year old 5 star scientists at all time
>>337778714
What is your difference between empire leaders and scientists?
Empire Leaders :
- Ruler
- Governors
- Scientists
- Admirals
- Generals
I made an empire called the Mirai Expanse and took over one galactic arm and a half, sadly the unbidden were too easy to destroy (I swarmed their only system in less then a year) and the prethoryn haven't come even if i waited 100+ years ;_;
there is no reason to upgrade every spaceport, just upgrade the one or two you will be using for flrrt builing and specialize them with fleet building
>>337778145
>not forcibly extending your guiding religious/philosophical traditions onto your neighbors under the guise of enlightening them
>not ruling a fanatical, closet-fascist theocratic oligarchy
>>337778818
>What's wrong with it?
You're stuck with the worst FTL for the rest of the game, can't tech to jump gates because wormhole onry, can't tech to psi drives because materialist doesn't get psionics.
>>337778749
Funfact, you can tell it to upgrade one single part, pause the game, completely remodel the ships, unpause, and if it's done upgrading it'll have all the new shit for the price of the first upgrade
>>337778714
Every leader. Everyone lives to 120 or so. You can get to 200 with some good choice later on. Saves a whole lot of influence.
>>337779038
Materialist CAN get psionics, you need to get a scientist with psionics.
I can certify it's possible, since one of mine randomly got it levellign up. Sadly it was very early in the game and she died before i reached the point where psionics can happen
>>337779263
I know but getting a scientist with psionic is rare as shit.
The best solution is to just be a good goy and pick memeholes like everyone else and move up to jump drives.
