How's your empire going?
also stellaris thread
Xenophobe
Militarist
Materialist
>ally declares war on some faggot
>faggot has big allies near my empire.
fine
>hold off assault
>destroy and few of the big guys planets and systems
>fuck all fleets left
>send my fleet to help ally and this small faggot he wants to claim as a vassal and cede his planet
easy
>cant land armies on planet
they get to middle level of the atmosphere then go straight back up to the transports
>cant end war
>send demands greyed out
halp
>>337563850
meme ethics
>the game worked perfectly yesterday
>slows down to a crawl in galaxy view today
What the fuck
>>337563850
Fanatical collectivist xenophile. Because all species in the universe deserve the right to work their asses off in my mineral mines.
>>337564270
You aren't the war leader so you cant make demands.
>Xenophobe
>Militarist
>Spiritualist
>Huge map
>Low number of factions
Can't wait to find some xenos to enslave. If you're not playing as Humans, consider yourself enslaved.
>>337564529
so how do I end the war. I can't occupy the planet ally wants because armies aren't landing. For some reason can't even bombard the planets anymore.
>>337563136
>been having trouble joining friends games on Steam 2 days ago
>same problem today
>Paradox added a Join Game button to join friends lobbies with lobby ID
Noice.
>>337564606
Are you me? I restarted like 12 times with different kinds off empires before sticking with that ethos on a huge galaxy with 14 AI empires.
>>337563136
I'm so retarded i cant understand how the fuck to play this game
>>337563136
I'm still not sure whether or not to buy this
>>337564962
Just read the damn tips the tutorial robot gives you.
>>337564962
same. way too fucking much going on.
Sins of a solar empire was way more fun to get into, i just wish they had more of a tech tree that diverged so greatly that you could only invest in a couple lines of research.
So whenever i try to terraform anything it says that i don't have the terraforming liquid, even though i have two of those. What do?
>pacifist xenophobe
>war is pain in the as as my po get -20% to happiness which lower production
>can't into alliance as they are costly(-influence)
>have two vassals(happy and loyal)
>hyperlanes for everyone so boxed
On left is Just League - Federation -1 stronk(race have the same avatar as mine which is cool)plus few weak
On right is Just Alliance - 1 pretty strong(+vassal) with 2 medium powers
On middle xenophobic isolationist strong but no allies
>Decide to get him so rival him
>Few moment later he join Just Alliance
>just in time faggot, just in time
>>337564887
>Date of Birth
>Ethnicity
>Favorite Video Game
Let's see if you're me.
>>337564962
Same here. Way too dumb for it. Gave up.
>>337563136
Fucking shitty.
"It's so easy to blow through the AI, anon. It's garbage!" Meanwhile, it took me 2 solid hours to even get my neighbor to surrender.
>he give me the planet I want
>somehow, this makes the game think that I'm "allies" (doesn't even say I'm allied with anyone in-game, but hold on a second) with the neighbors of THAT planet
>THE ENTIRE FUCKING GALAXY GETS PISSED AT THE NEW NEIGHBORS
>And now all of sudden I get a message
>"All of these fucking alliances just declared war on that dude! Consequently, that means they're at war with you too!"
>wtf.jpg
>immediately get swarmed by multiple 4k+ forces
>My empire didn't even have 3 outposts, and only had 3 planets.
Fuck this shit. This doesn't even make sense.
anybody else notice Tron Legacy and Interstellar themed music in this game?
Sound good mane
>>337563136
>mfw fight a five year war and win only one planet because fleets can't disengage without losing health
Who decided this was a good idea?
>>337565162
Overall playing as isolationist is pretty boring but its nice to observe happenings in galaxy.
>lizard empire expand rapidly taking some furries and fungus
>become to much a threat so Just alliance beat him and liberate some of their territories
>leader faction become fungi for some reason
>as a xenophobe I strike them and take 3 systems then purge fungi
>rest of fungi reptile domain start civil war divide and switch back to being reptile but start
>I attack one and liberate furries and make them my puppets
>rest of lizard get owned by Just Alliance who vassal some and take rest
so how do i conquer and purge xeno empires?
i dont want to wait 10 years between capturing three planets or 35 for intregating.
>>337565412
Did you liberate a planet?
That mean you become their protector for 10 years.Git gud nigger.
>>337565072
Sins has way better gameplay. Stellaris has retarded ship to ship combat.
>can't do anything but retreat or fight on
>you can automatically zip out of battles
>can't control ships during battle
>>337565347June 1stMexicanGod hand
Am I you?
>>337565586
Nah, it said that it was ceded to me.
>>337564962
>>337565072
>>337565385
I knew this game would have a high fallout rate lol. It's not even hard to figure out.
The most complicated part is when you're fighting late game guys in my opinion. Getting started and initially swole is easy.
>>337564606
Low number of factions is kinda nice, it just doesn't feel right being border to border with like 8 other factions.
>>337563136
What does the ship modifier from refineries actually do?
Does Orillium Plant give ALL my ships +10% Explosive Weapon Damage, or what?
Is it possible to control a planet belonging to a vassal? I want to enslave them but the option is greyed out saying I need to own that planet.
How do?
how do I make a custom name list for my fungoid race.
>>337563136
15 hours in an I'm already bored out of my mind with the game. It's way too barebones.
Am I know supposed to assault the Gas Giant Squids? They fuck my shit up.
>>337565847
Vassals are next to pointless. You get nothing but their guaranteed support if you go to war.
>>337565592
Don't kid yourself.
Neither games have great combat compared to Homeworld.
Sins only uses a single CPU core so is 100% guaranteed to turn into a slideshow in late game. Even at mid-game, comvat devolves into massive ship blobs smashing into each other, with victory determined by numbers and fleet composition - just like Stellaris.
>>337566001
What did you do for those 15 hours?
>>337565836
To my knowledge it's just newly constructed ships from that starport
>>337564642
You don't.
You've just learned that Paradox AI is fucking incompetent at warfare and at making peace deals, and any war they drag you into will be a waste of your time.
Have fun.
>>337565635
No.Build wall.
>>337563136
Only thing I'm still confused on is stored research points. Not sure how I got some, but I have no clue how to use them.
>>337566172
Annex to get territory with no, or at least reduced, warmonger penalty. It's slow as fuck, because years and years of EUIV patches have proven that Paradox hates vassal annexation being any good, but it's decent enough to do on the side if you aren't going full warmonger.
>>337566294
Spam battleships and chain declare war on everything.
Because there is nothing else to do in the game.
What traits should my mushroom people have?
>>337566172
Good, because I never wanted them as vassals to begin with, I just thought it was the road to enslaving them. That being said, what the fuck can I do to enslave these xenoshits?
>>337566383
I remember being in an alliance and getting dragged into a war. The enemy prompted me for a peace deal, which I accepted and ended the war.
This was a couple days ago, so maybe I'm misremembering.
>>337566417
They get automatically added to the current research you have going on.
>>337566627
Solitary, repugnant
>form an alliance with 1 guy
>find out it costs you influence to maintain
>nope fuck that
>open alliance screen
>press leave
>that one guy is now alone in the alliance
>hover over
>"in an alliance with " (just a blank space)
nice game
>>337566717
He asked what traits to give his mushroom people, anon, not what traits you have in real life.
>conquer alien race
>fuckload of separatists
>enslave them all
>still have separatists while they are enslaved
>game says all slaves will ALWAYS belong to the slave faction
fuck you
>>337565780
dont lie, sounds like you liberated it , if it was ceded to you it would just become part of your empire
>>337563136
It's shit, so I uninstalled
>>337566383
Had to go around and kill every little ship and mining station to get warscore up to 100 to get the enemy to declare surrender and finally peace. Fucking useless cunts. For some reason the bombardment and armies were bugged in that system
>>337566657
>956 months until this empire gets annexed to you
>trying to play like the Federation
>observe any race I find that hasn't reached space yet
>uplift and integrate any one I see that's exploring their solar system
>they just try to blow up and take over any planet they inhabit
Stupid fucking bird people. I should have done a Romulan campaign.
>>337563136
how do you trigger the ai uprising
I beat them at a daily basis and nothing is happening
I ended up in an earlygame war with the guys next to me. They had 3 systems, I destroyed one by full bombardment, occupied the other one and the last one was their home world with a fleet about the same size as mine and that space port which is better than my fleet just by itself.
It would have been a major fucking pain, but they unconditionally surrendered and I got their home world just like that.
That was nice.
>>337567202
>federation
>interfearing
PRIME DIRECTIVE.
>>337565486
>fleets can't disengage without losing health
That makes perfect sense to me.
>>337567327
What else was supposed to happen? When you disengage in a fight you magically get invulnerable shields because you are running away?
>>337567286
The Federation makes first contact and uplifts civilizations once they've become a unified government that is beginning to enter the space age.
Get out of here, JJ.
Feelsgood. Was able to get my federation to attack fallen empire. Victory conditions i get all.
> Spawn right next to a fallen empire
> Oh shit
> Several Gaia planets right on their border
> Zero blockers on them, few are 25 spaces pop
> Rush to build colony ships
> Check the planets again
> Colonizing these planets will greatly anger the fallen empire
> Can't survive a war by these fuccbois, wasted my entire time
I still haven't met any fallen empire despite being in 2312
What exactly are fallen empires?
I'm right next to one, and they're pretty chill with me so far. But since they won't join my federation I'm probably just going to go to war with them.
>start a war with someone using wormhole travel
>they pop a wormhole on my home planet and just appear there
>have to slowly warp over
>wormhole disappears and they fuck off somewhere
What the fuck, how did they do that?
Fucking wormholes
>>337567676
They are empires that are so shit they don't do anything. Feel free to kill them off.
>>337565486
>>337567327
>>337567408
you can get buffs for your fleet that lessen or eliminate damage when retreating
one of my admirals has one
>>337567327
>>337567408
I meant you can't just move your ships away, you have to retreat and lose 25% of your health. I was rekting this fleet 11k to 5k when another 10k attacked another planet. Couldn't move away because I'd lose if I retreated.
>>337567532
Seems like you were the fuccboi, my lad
>>337567676
They are always assholes, don't piss them off about the thing they love.
Sometimes its gaia worlds they consider sacred or demanding you never research robots/AI
Suck their dicks for a powerful ally in the early game then go pillage and rape in the mid/late game.
>conquer 3 planets
>fleet is now stuck in enemey territory
how the fuck do I unstuck them?
do I have to wait 10 years to use my fleet again?
>>337567829
You mean just like every other empire in the game? The only bearable way to play the game is small galaxy multiplayer, atleast something happens there.
These fuckers went space age and I had to put them down, what should I do with the planet? I'm over my planet limit so I don't want to turn them into a sector in case I want to genocide them later or something
>>337567532
Happened to me. Got planted with a stagnant ascendancy to my south that hates me, I've got the rim to the east, and I've grown to the point I have some douchebags to my north and some democracy that hates me to me west.
So it's war from here.
>>337567964
They'll automatically warp back to your capital soon if they are in enemy territory without military access
>>337567964
Warp back? What FTL do you have?
>>337568019
Enslave or Purge if you have correct habitation
>>337568037
They surrenderes their planets, he's in his own borders.
>>337567980
No, they don't expand or research. they don't even build fleets
>>337567980
Lol are you playing on easy?
>>337568063
Warp drive.
I can't warp back or into it.
Got three going right now, the one with the most time in it is my middle-of-the-road Theocratic Oligarchy, I'm allied with another empire that's better than me and the two of us are taking turns curb-stomping another empire I'm at war with.
The top empire is my Military Dictatorship edgy villain empire that I started because my first empire got boring.
The last one is an Enlightened Monarchy and I've barely touched them because they're pussies.
>>337568027
Sauce is "American Style", before anyone asks.
How to get lots of influence?
Choosing Hyperspace FTL then forcing the AI to choose the same is honestly the best way to play.
Adds so much more depth to the defensive play of wars then just using wormholes to jump directly to capital planets.
>>337567964
>>337568209
Build a frontier outpost?
How the fuck do I go to war once I'm in a federation>
>>337567475
You mean once they've achieved warp travel, until then nope.
And when they achieve warp in stellaris they become an empire. The right way to do it would be to invite them to join your federation when they do that.
>>337568398
Only the President can declare wars or other foreign policy.
It rotates every five years and doesn't tell you when it's your turn, you have to check the Federation window in the bottom right.
>>337568547
That'sdumb
>>337568526
Even then, only if they ask. The Prime Directive is based around non-interference in internal affairs; the pre-Warp thing is just a factor of that - since contact with aliens is inherently society altering - not the primary point.
>>337567036
You may have been in a Federation and your ally held the presidency but it later passed to you. The president of a Federation controls all foreign policy and makes all peace deals for all members of the Federation.
>a rocket-using democratic crusader neighbour declares war on my communist paradise just as I finish researching point defences
>his fleet is two times bigger than mine, but it doesn't even matter
It was so pleasant clicking "ENSLAVE ALL" on his captured home planet.
>>337568674
Pretty sure whoever declares the war stays head negotiator regardless of whether the Presidency rotates.
How viable it is to play as pacifist fucks that just open borders to everyone? I don't see any other problems on horizon that end game events that might fuck me up.
>>337568767
It's viable, it's just boring as shit. There are fuck all events in the game so far, hope more get patched in so it's more like CK.
>make big army
>Start conquering people
>Whole of the universe bands together to kill me
I'm sorry I thought this was a fucking 4x games. Why are there anti gameplay mechanics?
>>337566776
kek
>>337568863
thats what you get for being a warmongering asshole
>>337568863
To give you a challenge
>>337563136
>How's your empire going?
i-i don't have the game...
i am too poor..
What are some god tier ethics combinations?
>inb4 spiritualist because god tier
fanatic materialist and militarist here
>>337568343
outposts don't erode enemy territory.
>>337568975
use Space25 at GMG for 25% off
or, y'know, get a job because it's only $30.
>>337568674
>Federation
nope just an alliance with one bro the whole game so far.
>>337568959
The challenge of sitting and staring at a screen while I wait 20 years so I'm allowed to invade again? Hell it doesn't even give me bonuses to other warrior cultures so I'm just fucked
This game is all the fun of watching paint dry
>>337568863
> Surprised when you get resistance to being a warmongering asshole
>>337568863
>big bad guy wants to destroy us all
>small people unite to try to survive
DUDE WHAT A DUMB GAME LMAO
>>337569172
The objective of the game is literally to own half the planets or kill everyone off. This mechanic just artificially lengthens the game.
>>337568863
I can't believe anyone would make such comment
>>337568343
>>337569042
it worked
was getting a bit worried
>>337568027
google gives nothing, sauce pls
>>337569258
You're complaining that the game doesn't have a literal Win button that you can click and automatiaclly win.
>>337569258
I agree there should be better victory conditions but that doesn't excuse you being a retard
New to the game. I spawned in a corner of the galaxy, and five out of the possible seven jumps around me have some kind of hostile crystal species. Should I just start over? They're the only jumps in my sovereignty.
>>337569403
oh nice guess they can erode territory nice job paracucks
>>337569042
Stop lying.
>>337563136
>xenophobe is just worse collectivist
Is there ANY reason to go for xenophobe when collectivist is everything it has plus more?
>>337567521
What?
You can make dyson rings?
>>337569475
Kill them, you dumb fuck.
>>337569626
They fuck my shit up, asshole.
>>337569563
literally none
>>337569619
you can capture them from fallen empire
>giant blob civ
>dozens of weak Federation civs to my left that stretch out to 60% of the map
>one to my right, old nemesis who has since joined their alliance
>declare war on it just to absorb its last 3 planets
>manage to take all the planets
>warscore 30%
Fuck this is going to be a while, isn't it
>>337569474
Its bad game design anon and serves no purpose other than aritfically lengthening the game.
>Woooooooooooow you got into a war with someone and took more than one of their planets you're such an asshole
So, missiles are the best?
>>337568863
>>make big army
>>Start conquering people
>>Whole of the World bands together to kill me
I know that feel bro
>>337569475
>explore the other two jumps
>build 5 more corvettes and kills some crystals.
They are literally your first bad guys and are usually everywhere when you start
>>337566776
Can you make sectors that are limited to planets and not entire systems? I want to dump two planets I had to conquer but I also have one valuable planet in each system that I don't want to lose
>>337569742
No, torpedoes are
>>337566910
After a while they kind of just give up on life and the other factions die out.
>>337569762
nope.
>>337566910
I always execute all aliens and put my own slaves on their planets
>>337569741
You never played a paradox game did you?
What is objectively the best FTL method?
>>337569762
Of course not, anon. What, do you think Paradox actually had convenience in mind when they designed the sector system? Of course not!
>>337569420
check the first reply dumb dumb
>>337569741
>Ai acts realistically for once
>bad game design
Am I getting trolled?
>>337569657
Git gude, scrub.
>>337568863
jesus christ you are retarded
>>337569953
Wormholes
>>337564606
>Huge map
Have fun being the emperor of clickety-click-clickengton
Hey, how fast should I expand?
I am currently around year 65 and I have 5 core planets and 2 sectors, each containing 2 planets (one of which belonged to a minor power I have conquered). There's plenty of mediocre colonisable planets around and I have around 50 energy/pt income so I can afford spamming colony ships but I am not sure if I should.
Also, should I swap from Indirect Democracy to upgraded Direct Democracy (+ 4 core planets). How overall useful is having 4 more directly controlled planets in the long run?
Oh, finally, how the fuck do I reduce my ethics divergence ffs. I only have a couple of handfuls of my ~100 population still following my ethics, the rest have just gone blank. Sure I can spam edicts, but influence (even at +5/pt) doesn't grow on trees.
>>337569953
hyperspace for fluff reasons
wormholes for gameplay reasons
>>337569953
Hyperspace.
>>337565889
what the fuck is even going on in that first screenshot
>>337569741
>invade neighbouring civilisations
>whine like a bitch when they fight back
>>337568197
No. Face it, the game is fucking boring. The AI is too passive, diplomatic options are absolutely minimal, economy and planet management is ridiculously easy. This game is pretty boring, needs some modding/DLC
>>337569762
>sons of the sun
gayest name in all creation.
>>337569742
Pretty much
>completely bypasses shields
>100% hit rate
If they don't have point defense systems they're fucked.
>>337568863
That's pretty realistic
>>337568318
Play democracy. Don't build frontier outposts. Have traits that prolong your leaders's lifespan.
>>337570085
>he fell for the democracy meme
I bet you use mass drivers.
Lets make this official
http://www.strawpoll.me/10208758
>>337570116
This game is called Master of Orion 2 and was the main reason my high school exams weren't as much on the bright side as they could have been.
I still love it
>>337569953
Early-mid, Hyperspace. Late, Jump.
>>337570093
I like wormholes but I feel hyperspace might be slightly stronger overall, unless you have really weak nodes.
>>337570353
objectively this.
>>337569420
>he doesn't immediately recognize Noise's artwork
>>337569202
>Galactic ending threat spwans
>No one does literally anything but the player
DUDE WHERE IS YOUR PARADOX SHILLING NOW LMAO
>>337570085
>how the fuck do I reduce my ethics divergence ffs
Not being democratic fag
>mfw I have -4% divergence on any planet because I'm Star Empire and not some Democratic meme
>>337570126
>>337569918
>>337570035
Oh I think I understand now. this isn't a 4x game its a space sim with some shoe horned strategy elements. My mistake, I was playing it like too much of a game.
>>337570367
Personally I like hyperspace because it gives borders a real feel to them, and also allows you to make fortresses out of node hubs.
Reminds me of FreeSpace.
>>337568863
That's pretty normal.
What irks me more is that when you kick someone's shit in when they declare war on you, whole universe starts considering you a threat.
>inb4 if you'll kill him you'll be just like him
So I've been playing as a wormhole race and how exactly do my ships get back? I understand that they poke the worm hole generator to jump, but they go into zones with no generators and magically just jump back
I aint get it
>>337570474
My biggest fear with wormholes is that if you slip up and they kill a bad wormhole station you can end up trapped.
>>337568975
i-i don't have the game...
>>337570530
They ask the station to give them a ride back home.
>>337570530
Well the generator creates wormholes between systems. So it works both ways. It doesn't throw your ships somewhere, it makes a portal for them to fly through.
I can wipe out an entire species if they're really aggresive even when I'm playing with the xenophile humans right?
My problem is with these purification fetishist lizards. They're pretty primitive with only one system and I wanna get them asap.
Quick question.
Me and my friend are playing a game together.
We are in an alliance with a few AI's.
When I go to declare war on someone, he isn't getting the demands screen, so we can't progress without him going to the screen.
Anyone know where he has to go?
>>337563136
In the 100 years following mankind's ascent to the galactic frontier, humans have known constant peace. Will it last?
Probably not, considering the Mect-Pux Tribes and the Confederacy of Vur Vur both declared me their rival. I should be fine in a defensive war, now that I'm pumping out battleships and allied with the biggest blob in the galaxy.
>be in a federation of 4 systems
>want to invade the faggot that has boxed me in
>set war goals as him ceding all his planets
>can't do that, the "war score is too high" and the other assholes will vote no if they I don't liberate planets
>try to find a balance
>"war score" means I would only get a single planet of his eleven total and two would be liberated
>put it to a vote
>3 out of 4 vote yes
>invasion request is still denied
>because our 3rd guy didn't any planet to liberate
>war score doesn't afford me freeing three and taking over one
>I can do fuck all
I thought as long as I had the majority vote it would be fine. Fuck this honestly, it means I've basically lost unless I leave the federation I started.
>>337568975
jesus m8, just pirate it
>>337570436
You invade Civilization 1 and conquer them.
You invade Civilization 2 and conquer them.
You are then crying like a bitch because Civilizations 3, 4 and 5 decide to form an alliance in case you invade and conquer them.
You are complaining because the AI is fighting back instead of bending over. I can't fathom how a human being could be as retarded as you clearly are.
>>337570085
You should expand for borders, and limit your pop
if by mediocre planets you mean those planets with only a few tiles, that's good, that's what you want
get frontier outposts too
limit your pop count, it does nothing good for you, at least until you get very good lab tech
>>337570650
>100 years of peace
Sounds boring as hell
>>337569082
>get a job
i have a job but paid at 20th aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>337570667
How? New to PC gameing in general.
>>337568308
thx mate
>>337570820
b2consoles
>>337570769
I literally conquered a bunch of tribal junta ass space lizards who were being dicks, took their five planets (Everyone hated them before I hated BTW) and everyone went ape shit on me
>>337570436
>I was playing it like too much of a game.
Actually, you were whining because the game was too difficult and you don't want the other races to fight you when you invade them.
So basically you're complaining that the AI is capable of predicting that a player who attacks a number of other races will eventually attack them.
>>337570658
Cant the leader of the federation do whatever they want? Are you talking about an alliance?
>>337570818
>living paycheck to paycheck
Get a better job.
>>337570436
>I wanted casual shit but got real game where I have to actually think
Here is your (you)
>>337570782
Yeah, those planets with 12-14 tiles and 60% habitability.
I guess I can limit my pop by reducing food income on planets and issuing immigration edicts. I've been cautious about frontier outposts because they eat up influence real fast - I only use them if I need to secure a few systems from my neighbour.
A quarter of my pops is robotic so there's that as well.
Also
>le democracy meme
>in fact, le anything xD meme
What's wrong with all you people
>didn't research colonization right away
am i fucked or can i get by on frontier posts for a little while?
>>337570928
Not defending poorfag but I know many people making close to 6 figures still living paycheck to paycheck.
They just suck huge cocks with money.
Just like my empire in this game does.
>>337571008
frontier posts cost influence + they drain it monthly, you can perhaps sustain 2 of them, not more at the start of the game.
Materialist, Individualist, Xenophile
My gov't type is Plutocratic Oligarchy
I just made my first sector so I have 6 planets total under my control.
I have about 1k military strength but I'm going to boost it significantly soon
I am thinking of making more migration deals with neighbors so I have a more diverse demographic and then colonizing the many low-quality planets in my borders.
>>337570873
So you be saying that when you conquered a bunch of planets, the other races took note of this and became afraid you might conquer them?
Say it ain't so! The AI is learning!
>>337570989
>I've been cautious about frontier outposts because they eat up influence real fast
put them in a sector, it's that simple to abuse
>>337570873
I don't understand why this would be an issue unless you actually were planning on attacking Civlizations 3, 4 and 5 after having conquered Civlizations 1 and 2.
Either way, you are still bitching that the AI is smart enough to figure out that a guy who repeatedly conquers other races will eventually come after them - WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU TRIED TO DO.
>>337570989
put frontier outposts into sectors, this way they wont constantly eat influence. Divergency can't be fought only one way, by being non-democratic with Ministry of -15% Divergency and Commisar of -20% divergency
>>337570954
>Stellaris
>not casual shit
Pick one
Someone explain to me how wormholes work exactly. Do i need to build a generator in each system or just between points where i want to jump?
>>337570804
Meh, I find playing the same ol' military junta empire that everyone else plays in these games is far more boring. Conquest victories are for those that lack imagination.
>>337571289
you go to place then you come back to generator to go to a different place
>>337571337
>implying there's any other victory condition
WHY WONT YOU REBEL YOU FUCKING TOASTERS SO I CAN PLAY BSG I SET UP EVERYTHING PERFECTLY
>>337571337
>military junta empire
>Not Star Empire of Genocide and Purges
you're boring m8
Honestly, I hate grand strategy games like Europa and Crusader Kings, albeit I only played them for 2 hours each.
I felt utterly confused, like I was looking at a bunch of spreadsheets attached to a 3D version of google earth.
I found it mind numbing and boring to click on small units on a map of Medieval or Renaissance making them move over a tile or whatever and then have a text box pop up telling me, I discovered some natives that want to poke my people to death.
Don't get me wrong, I find parts of human history like the roman era interesting, but the idea of having to re-explore europe and the rest of earth just puts me to sleep.
But for some reason, I don't feel like that at all when I'm playing Stellaris.
Exploring an entire galaxy with tons of planets and different aliens races is far more interesting then happening upon some shit slinging muslim's in Europe.
I feel much more engaged while managing my ships and entire empire across solar systems inside of a massive galaxy.
I adore the fact that this game is easier on the eyes with menus and resources, everything is extremely visual in comparison to other grand strategy games, which makes in 10 times easier to get into and enjoy playing.
>>337571279
>>337571124
I've read somewhere that it's a bug and they will patch it. Is that so?
>Fanatic Spiritualist
>Peaceful
>Enlightened Monarchy
>Venerable
Literally an immortal god emperor space squid. Can't wait for the small fucker next to me to finally declare was so I can put my grand armada to use.
How do I stop the AI to follow my fleets when going to war? Can't they do shit on their own?
>>337571654
Destroy your fleet, this way they have none to follow and attack by themselve
I have a confession to make.
I've been the one responsible for spreading disinfo about sectors. It turns out that they ignore Influence costs to upgrade the planetary administration. I realized last night.
So maybe sectors arn't that bad. They still arn't perfect but at least they can upgrade the town hall.
>>337563136
>Pick random
>Fanatic xenophile
>Peaceful
>Make allies
>Liberate the shit out of hostile empires
>Make more allies
>>337571289
You have a constructor make a worm hole generator. It creates a circle of travel. You can jump to anywhere in that circle of travel and jump back to the wormhole. Say you have a verticle empire, you could jump to the bottom of it in a flash of an eye
This is offset by the fact that you have to go back to your worm hole generator to jump to a new area. So its really not ideal for agressive play
>Be democracy
>President keeps giving mandates.
>Keep getting a message that she failed the mandate
Do I get punished for this?
>>337571289
Wormhole generators open a wormhole between themselves and a system in its range, then ships fly through them. This means a ship can call up a wormhole from wherever, and arrive at one of your generators.
If both the origin and destination have generators, then they can open a better generator-generator wormhole, which allows super fast travel
>>337571782
I have one sector with like half my empire and apart from having energy issues for like 50 years, it's been doing well enough. I don't see the issue, the AI actually builds somewhat smartly and doesn't waste spaces.
>>337570650
>100 years
>barely even moved from Earth
>>337571909
>>337571843
>>337571383
neat, thanks
>>337571439
Have you researched Sentient AIs
mfw this music comes on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9AgLVi_8Gs&t=169
>>337571337
>this is a game of finesse and intellectualism for mature people such as myself
>>337571896
its your way of making influence
by meeting the promises they are elected for
>>337571843
>So its really not ideal for agressive play
My generators cover the whole territory of my direct neighbors and a bit more. If I so desire, I can invade wherever the fuck I want in my little corner of the galaxy. Wormholes are great.
How good are the Unbidden weapons?
I just got a research project for Matter Disintegrators.
>>337572060
Best damn track in an already great soundtrack. They really fucking nailed it.
>>337571525
>But for some reason, I don't feel like that at all when I'm playing Stellaris.
Because this is a 4x game, not grand strat.
Which is probably why i like it less.fuck you casual, you're killing the only dev that makes the games I love
Reminder that the only way to play this game is as :
>Xenophobe
>Militaristic
>Spiritualistic
Human and divine mandate, eventually going into transcendental empire
If you are not playing like this, you are playing it wrong
If I research Sentient AI but have no even droids or robots will AI try to rebel anyway? And also ANY machines are forbidden, since spiritual guys don't like them
>no planning mode
>can't upgrade capitals
>can't set seperate taxes on credits/minerals
>can't make robotic pops at all
>can't exempt certain planets in a multi-colony system
>replaces Fallen Empire buildings even if replacement is off
>outpost exploit
I'm honestly convinced that nobody with an ounce of intelligence bothered their arse to look at the Sector system before release. So much fucking awful design and so many stupid bugs concentrated into a single feature, which is basically fucking mandatory for any half-decently sized empire. I can't even decide if I want to keep playing or not until it's fixed.
>>337571525
That novelty wears of very fast. CK2 and EU are way more engaging and dynamic than Stellaris.
Stellaris get really old and boring REALLY fucking fast, mostly due to it being the most dumbed down paradox game so far. Its on par with civ5 and fucking total war series on empire management.
>>337572085
Problem is you cant go from one world to another without having to return home
>>337570818
Do American get paid once a month? In Australia I get paid 2k a week??
>>337572268
w8 2 years and 100$ DLCs when it's on same level
>>337572086
they are ok, tachyon lances are my favorite though
enough lances and everything gets focused once in range, but i never had the chance to test the other weapons the proper way, because my fleets are 10x the size of my enemies anyways
guess i should send a fleet that is equal next time
>>337572080
Which you literally cannot do because it costs way more to expand to get more systems to build mining outpost/research outposts than you get out of fulfilling the mandate.
Democracy influence system is broken. If it gave you like 500 influence then it would be worth it, but not for a measily 80.
I'm going to be frank. I'm bored out of my mind but I've never played a grand strategy game.
The closest I've played is Rome: Total War
Will this game keep me entertained for a couple weeks or should I not even bother?
>>337572221
I am now able to colonize other planets in my core systems, but that would bring me above the core planet limet, so i would need to give them to sectors
too bad that you have to give everything in a system to the sector, so i will never colonize those shitty <20 slots planets
you could give every shit to different people in ck2, but in stellaris its all or nothing, really fucking stupid
>>337572268
Pretty much this, at some point there is always nothing else to do than spam battleships with your practically infinite energy and mirerals and just declare war on everything. Anything but small galaxy starts to feel like a chore to play.
>>337572580
Short answer: No.
>>337572678
well I already bought it so fuck you
How to win every war
>Set up shitty world on enemy border
>Load it up with defense stations
>Declare war and watch as enemy zergs into suicide
Some great AI this game has
>>337572627
You can take the system out, colonize/modify it and attach it back to the sector. Sure it's tedious but still better than nothing. But yeah, they should and they probably will add finer control over sectors.
>>337572580
I got bored after 2 days
>>337570820
>How?
>>337572268
>mostly due to it being the most dumbed down paradox game so far.
That's actually whats most appealing about it to me, it's not confusing as hell to play.
You don't have to manage as many things as CK2 and EU4.
So yes, I'm very casual when it comes to games like this, I'm not very good at micro/macro management in general.
>>337572658
Yes, past early game resource management becomes joke.
>a full century since synthetics got citizen rights and started spreading out in my empire
>they have a dozen planets of their own
>still no event AI Accord popping up
W H E N?
>>337567532
You don't know.
>>337572724
Well that's your fault for buying it before asking our opinion of how boring the game is (read: VERY boring).
>>337572752
I stumbled upon this 'tactic' in my first war against some anthropod squishy slimy looking mother fuckers who were zealots trying to proselytize the galaxy. I had no fleet of any real size so they ended up bombarding my home world but guess what, the AI is too dumb to utilize armies so they never actually invaded.
I crushed his ass 3 years later but gave in to muh ethics and let the planets I took become independant as vassals. Should have just changed ethics and purged the xenos.
>>337568019
>Being over planet limit
>Ever
Do you cunts not create sectors, or what?
>>337572939
Space was a mistake.
>not listening to the Mass Effect 1 Soundtrack while playing during peace times
>>337572767
Those are my core systems, I would rather just give away those shitty tiny planets, but seeing that I can't do this, I will never colonize them.
>>337572901
Kumiko mod when
