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Complain how Paradox won't fucking FIX THE PRETHORYN BUG ALREADY
>>337416003
Lurking, I'd actually like to know what kind of empires and play styles people are going for, I feel like I'm overwhelmed with the things I can do in a single play through
>>337416003
Downloading the game now, im ready to be a space fascist
>trying to integrate xenos peacefully
>they keep bitching and go on strike
Integration was a mistake.
>>337416003
Taking a break, but hopefully someone can answer me this question.
>>337417481
I think they always get - 25 for a while because of recently conquered, also build happiness buildings.
>>337417661
>- 25 for a while because of recently conquered
Fuck, even they were my vassal and got integrated via diplo? That sucks.
If I want to conquer an empire what's the best way - make them vassals wait 10 years then integrate?
Is there a way to purge their planets while on war?
I don't want any of their aliens on planets.
>>337416003
>Tfw you'll never build a proper white Human empire
>First leader is some minority bitch
>Everything is racially diverse
>Can't be pure white
The fuck is this bullshit?
>>337417834
Pol made a mod where black skins were removed - go there and ask them for it, I didn't save the link.
>>337417654
What question?
>>337417830
Yeah iv experimented with vassals a couple times, even when they were loyal and had positive opinion of me, when the integration was done I noticed they were mad because we apparently conquered them....
>>337417481
>Hasn't learned anything from human history
Purge them
>>337417337
> peaceful expansion
> murdered by militants
> militant expansion
> boxed in by federation
Still trying to find that sweet spot
>>337417952
Damn I hit post before writing the question - so tired.
Can I make the bigger planet my capital planet? I want to have more rooms for specialized buildings.
>>337418060
You mean the amount of tiles available? If so, yes, but only if you managed to find one.
I think maximum is 5x5.
>>337417834
http://www117.zippyshare.com/v/QSXTjP5y/file.html
enjoy
i have unbidden send hel
I feel like Sol system start is a bit overpowered.
Anyone else feel like it's worth it having 2 science vessels early?
>>337417481
>He doesn't understand Space Gerrymandering.
>>337418136
Wat?
So what's the answer to the question?
Can I have other colonized planets as capital?
Do the deeds of men in all ages remain the same /v/?
>>337418198
Sorry, I'm kinda busy myself.
>>337418294
Nope. But it shouldn't affect your planet specialization anyway.
>>337418341
>Someone else is using space turtles.
How'd ya build 'em?
You can only reply to this post if you've conquered a fallen empire
there are too many aliens species in this game and hardly any mystery. The should be more factions within the alien species instead of creating ridiculous alien like space parrots. This game fucking sucks.
>>337418294
>>337418414
Actually disregard that, you can move your capital but you need to research a tech for it.
>>337418335
SEIG MEIN KAISER
SEIG NEUE REICH
>going to war with my neighbor and his three vassals with the intention of stealing said vassals for myself
>my fleet totals to around 12k, the vassals each have fleets worth 500-100 points and their overlord owns a fleet of 7000
>things go smoothly enough, taking no losses and occupying the vassal planets
>suddenly the overlord attacks me with his fleet of 7000
>I ram 12000 points worth of space ships into him
>lose my entire space fleet within minutes
>frantically try to figure out what went wrong as they now invade my space unopposed
>mfw I realize their fleet was 100 corvettes with torps when mine was a balanced mix of all ship types built around negating armor, with defenses solely relying on shields
What followed was an intense re-structuring and re-engineering of my military machine to counter theirs. I somehow managed to maintain my warscore and hold onto my planets long enough for them to give up and concede to my demands.
Suffice it to say, the next time we went to war I was much more prepared.
>>337418198
I've been watching these fucks slowly swallow the galaxy for 50 years while I wait for the idiots blocking my fleets to die and make way for me to get destroyed as well.
>>337418989
there's literally no point in using anything but missiles
>>337418565
Militarist xenophobe collectivists, with strong and venerable as traits. I went for a run-of-the-mill expansionist slaving warrior empire and it's been pretty fun after my initial game of pacifist humans.
>>337418776
Thank you very much - so basically avoid upgrading capital to galactic capital ( I researched tech wiki since you mentioned it )
Only upgrade it on planet you want to be homeworld
>>337419136
Those two empires that use point defence say hi
I'm having trouble making my first battleships. I have the tech to make level 6 space ports and I already upgraded two of them but I'm still not getting the option to build one.
>tfw my power comes from the One Power
>tfw may have expanded too soon this time but those planets were just too good to pass up
>>337418230
Science Vessels are amazing early game, using them primarily as scouts. You get tons of bonus resources and stuff from the anomalies, and having a good star chart is very valuable to the other aliens - They will pay good money for them if you wish to sell it. Just turn off the auto-evacuation shit so you can travel elsewhere if you encounter hostiles, rather than just straight back - Especially if you're Pleb Warping.
I'm making a loli species.
How do I make all my people white? Is there a mod?
>>337419626
Is this memes now?
>>337417834
I just don't want women representing a population or being leaders. Islamic Nations of Earth isn't a dream until then
>>337419626
Stellaris general has several such mods Mon frer
>>337419675
No. I'm not playing an interstellar empire run by africans, it's a farce.
I hate the missile meta in multiplayer right now.
Either you luck out and get some kind of early point defense, missile defense or good missiles of your own or you get butt blasted by the first guy who finds you and probably got said tech. Makes it feel like it all came down to random chance with the stupid tech card system.
Meanwhile missiles get progressively shittier later in the game where you have the time, intel and tech to build counters before they crush your balls.
>>337419846
Cool, thanks, will look into that.
>Retarded neighbour makes Robots go bananas by giving them too much intelligence and free will.
>Suddenly this new Robot faction of renegades start popping up everywhere, even near my borders.
>I decide I will purge them from the galaxy before they become a threat, and to expand my empire without pissing people off too much.
>I conquer a planet with ease but notice there is only a single Pop on it, and it's a robot.
>Try to migrate one of my own kind over but the planet is too underpopulated to allow it.
>Robot Pop obviously goes Rogue.
>My attacking army somehow doesn't know how to defend without at least 1 Defensive Pop.
>Robot conquers planet, which gets marked as unclaimed.
>My attack army is bugged and stuck on the 'planet', but cannot leave it since it isn't marked as colonized anymore.
>Thanks Paradox.
>tfw 120 slave pops, made up of 7 species
>tfw hated by literally all sentient life
>tfw alliance/federation of the nine remaining empires
>>337420102
I ran into some shitty bug too.
My science vessel finished surveying a planet with no resource and then some event popped up, which added 3 minerals resource to the planet, but I couldn't do anything with it with the Construction Ship because the planet was already marked as resourceless.
>>337419136
Missiles would be the least effective weapon against my current fleet. Someone who used missiles and armour would get creamed so hard it wouldn't even be funny.
So this is my current (and first game) so far. Collectivist, Materialist, Militarist
Forget what traits
Just got out of a long war with the Dabulans to my galactic north so that's why my economy is in shambles. They had a gigantic tech lead on me but I had the fleet strength (which is wonderfully flavorful if you've read the Honor Harrington books). I also got stuck in the ass end of the galaxy.
Those Dabulan space slugs are my slaves now and their empire splintered.
>>337420461
Havenite scum
What's the best way to get a vassal without conquest?
>>337416003
What are these bugs?
I've heard people mention them, seen two hotfixes but I've yet to have any issues.
>>337417832
I haven't done it yet myself, but I'd imagine full bombardment for long enough will eventually kill all life on the planet. It's 15% chance per month to kill a pop.
Has anyone tried full bombardment to wipe out enemy pops on a planet - Once they lose their last pop, does the planet become uncolonized and they lose their border on it?
>>337420539
Sir, the correct term would be Peep.
>>337420561
Primitive Enlightenment.
So what do I do now?
>>337420561
>>337420598
What are vassals good for? When/why should I bother?
>>337417834
https://mega.nz/#!wZhjxDZJ!1uYE86XhI36nnoxtNm79bgJ8oGFNjKO1yfq4vy2-IZ0
Unzip it and place it in "C:\Users\<your name>\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\mod". Make sure you select the white name list when creating your civ or you'll end up with white people named Muhammad.
>>337419136
The way I eventually defeated the other empire was a fleet of corvettes and destroyers, with each destroyer having three point defenses per ship. Since they also relied on shields, I replaced my lasers with torpedos as well. They more or less crumbled on the first engagement. Of their first torpedo salvo, maybe 10% hit the mark, whereas mine struck them like a mailed fist.
So no, I wouldn't say missiles are the be-all, end-all of weapons.
>>337420590
once the planet loses its last pop it becomes free
so import one pop before you purge
>>337420561
Uplifting primitives via observation posts or uplifting pre-scentients with gene modding
You need to make sure you have "native enlightenment" or whatever allows infiltrating an industrial age primitive Civ
Whats the most interesting galaxy shape?
Ring? Spiral?
>>337420765
Ellipses
>>337420659
they have no choice but to help you in war. They can save your ass sometimes. And you can integrate them after 3600 days of being a vassal
>>337420765
I like ring because it seperates the sides of the galaxy somewhat without making huge chunks nearly inaccessible and far too safe like spiral does
>>337420765
>>337420809
this definitely.
>>337420816
Is there a distinction between vassal and protectorate?
>restart 5 times
>right beside a fallen empire EVERY TIME
how do i stop succin at video games
>>337420970
What's the problem? Fallen Empire won't do anything to you if you don't do anything to them.
>>337420714
I was thinking more if in a war if you full bombard their planets until all pops are wiped out, then follow it up with a colony ship to claim it as your own.
Does it revert back to them once you declare peace? Or do you keep it after the war?
I want to make my own human empire because the two premade ones are shit (nomadic, really?)
What do you think the racial traits should be?
I was thinking natural engineers and agrarian maybe.
>>337420908
Protectorates get increased tech research until they reach a certain point compared to your empire. Then they become vassals. Which in turn can be incorporated into your empire.
>>337421045
I don't know.
Haven't tried yet, but I'm doing a militaristic run so I might.
>>337420652
Research so you can colonize all those red planets in your area. Many of them will be the same type - That's the one you want to get. Then kill your neighbor and commit genocide upon his species.
>>337420970
just leave them alone ya dumb xenophobe militarist
>>337420749
>observing a bunch of atomic age primitives
>abducting people left and right
>over the years the natives try to fight back >start shooting down my abduction shuttles >even form the fucking x-com to fight me
>after a while they lose funding and the whole thing crumbles
That's when the nuclear war started. Meanwhile my guys are on orbit like pic related.
>get xenophile to get a multspecies Empire
>cant infiltrate primitives to annex them
WHATS THE FUCKING POINT OF USING XENOPHILE
ENLIGHTENMENT SUCKS
>>337421296
how the fuck do you abduct people?
>>337420590
Their borders will shrink a little but the way border influence works in this game means the planet will still likely remain in their territory unless it was a single planet off all by itself, far away from the rest/anyone else.
>>337417481
>accidentally leave on slave breeding
>my colonists all vanish and there are now 6 slug men just standing in fields
>they have somehow allied with my largest neighbor
>demand independence
>I set the planet to full purge
>they politely request that they not be purged, change their faction leader to "human" and switch their allegiance icon back to mine
>kill them anyway and replace slug slaves with the birds who incited them to rise up
Fucking individualists keep disillusioning the masses with promises of what they "deserve" when they refuse to work anyway.
>>337421447
Aggressive observation
>Create evil-as-fuck species that likes Tropical climates and killing all Xeno scum.
>Conquer about 50% of the Galaxy, close to victory.
>Only my own species on every planet - Rest has been purged.
>Terraformed half the Galaxy into tropical planets.
>Realize I've just created the best vacation resort in the universe - Beaches and palm trees everywhere.
>Feels good to be Alien Hitler.
>>337421609
oh neat
>try to be nice
>some ayy tries to make an alliance with me
>if I accept my influence goes to shit
>nope.jpg
>later
>every race is allied with each other, federations intensify
>tfw a primitave race I helped advance allied with someone else
Also, can I join up with this fallen empire?
And how can I store more power credits?
These star names are pretty good
Who /zerg/ here?
>tfw no bioships
>>337422080
>tfw a primitave race I helped advance allied with someone else
How? Shouldn't they automatically become your vassal?
>And how can I store more power credits?
Research.
>>337422080
Maybe you'd have more minerals if you stop adding clowns to your stations.
>>337422437
What?
>>337421296
I heard about how species can form XCOM style organizations, but they can lose by losing funding?
>>337422080
>2413
>only two colonized planets
OH SHIT NIGGER WHAT ARE YOU FUCKING DOING
>>337422697
>but they can lose by losing funding?
They never had any chance to begin with. It's just a flavor text.
The planet limit thing
The influence penalty doesn't work
The energy one does however
>>337422749
Rest are sectors lad
>>337422749
>what are sectors
>>337422821
Ooooooh. Sorry, I haven't gotten a game to last more than 100 years yet. I've only been expanding up to my direct rule limit.
>>337422437
>dihydrogen monoxide
damn that stuff is dangerous
>>337422821
>>337422878
>only having 2 planets in your main sector
SHIT NIGGER
WHAT
ARE
YOU
DOING
>>337421447
There's some interesting events associated with aggressive observation. A race of aliens that were venerable and quick learners were aggressively studied from industrial age to atomic age. Perhaps just RNG magic or maybe due to their traits that's considerable amount of progress in 50 years. I eventually had an event where I abducted their version of Einstein. They'd make great science leaders so getting their best seemed like a fantastic opportunity. Now he leads my society research.
>>337422976
I-I DON'T KNOW
HALP
>colonized 5 planets at once
-8 my ass, more like -300 per planet
Would I like this game if I like Civ V?
What other games are similar to this?
>>337423709
I hate how you pay even if the ship is just sitting in orbit.
I lost a boatload of credits my first game because I thought I could settle somewhere, turned out I couldn't, but 350 minerals was too bitter a pill to disband while I tried to find another planet
>>337423857
I've played both this week. This is more complex but is easy to pick up.
>>337421096
Literally anything, we don't have aliens to compare ourselves with, ya dingus
Are any of the red technology events actually dangerous?
I heard the robot uprising was a minor nuisance at worst.
>>337422080
>MFW same year as you but 80K fleet and 100 planets already.
Trading really blows if you wanna trade more than a couple of hundred of something
>>337424316
>a minor nuisance at worst.
They aren't super difficult to defeat but they literally start popping up all over the galaxy and attacks you quite unexpectedly if you aren't prepared for it. The AI tends to lose quite a few cities to them.
Wished they'd expand more on food/supply system, but I guess they're saving that up for the DeeElSee
What the fuck happened? I am steamrolling the entire galaxy with just 22k power. There is zero resistance. My biggest adversary is the slow framerate now that my ships are clogging up the sky.
I feel cheated out of my victory by my weak adversaries. My first ruler is still alive!
>get option to research Sentient AI
>oh boy, here we go, can't wait for robot uprising event
>research it anyway because absolute madman and dat +10% research bonus
>immediately research Synths right after that
>man, this is going to happen soon, robot uprising, get hype
>make a few synths, grant them citizenship rights
>years go by, nothing happens
>they have godly research bonuses, bonuses to everything, really
>can live on any planet
>colonize a tomb world, which has Irradiated Wasteland as a tile blocker type, but grants really nice research adjacency bonuses if you don't get rid of it
>cover the entire planet in synths
>robot nuclear wasteland world, this is cool as fuck, this is totally gonna be their rebellion homeworld when it finally happens
>decades go by, happy synths in the empire, no one gives a shit, no AI rebellion
>suddenly get a decision to make
>can enact the "AI Accords", making slavery and purging totally off limits for synths forever
>but they'll never rebel against me if the machine apocalypse comes
Everything went way better than expected
Man, Paradox fucks things up sometimes but they make really nice events
I just hope they keep adding new events so the old ones don't become predictable too soon
>>337421296
I love how these things are put in scale, while in X-COM it's a desperate fight for survival of the planet, in Stellaris it's a single click to get 6 science points
>go from making 5 influence monthly to -1 from joining an Alliance
Fucking stupid.
>>337418989
Torpedoes are extremely strong, it's true.
>>337418989
This might be the first ever paradox game where having the bigger number doesn't mean you win
Combat is actually pretty well balanced, and late game not knowing what you are going up against can be catastrophic
>>337419302
that's some high quality autism, I like it
Also Perrin a best
>>337417916
Of course /pol/ made a fucking mod.
>My fleet won't listen to me as it stomps bombing a planet to chase after a fleeing science vessel.
What the fuck is wrong with this retarded fleet AI? Fucking kill yourselves Paradox.
Come on machine consciousness, hurry up and kill everyone so I can kill you
>>337417979
Is Stellaris a genocide simulator? Because if so, I am totally buying this game.
>>337424316
Jump Drives summon the Unbidden, who if left unchecked will eventually become a blob of death since the AI won't attack them.
>>337424967
That is one fucked up galaxy
>>337423230
You want to be at your limit for controllable planets. They benefit you the most. Feel free to dump crappy planets into sectors and pick and choose the best for yourself. It can also be helpful to have them close together, as it's an easily defensible core that can churn out ships to help you defend sectors under attack.
>>337424032
I assume all those cryo chambers require a lot of energy to power. Plus colony ships are huge and no doubt have a ton of things like seeds and shit in the freezer.
>>337424998
Yes, you can conquer Alien world, genocide the native, then inhabit it with your own people.
The rest of the galaxy will start to hate you though.
>>337424638
Hopefully there will be good event mods, although they will likely be horrible meme mods
Does anyone remember VIET for CK2?
>>337424476
Yeah you really need to be able to move food from one planet to another. That's a pretty standard feature of 4x games.
>>337424587
Normal mode is easy mode. You will practically never be DoW'd. They will wait for you to come to them, after you're fully prepared.
>>337419302
>nynaeve's braid
kek
>>337424638
I have to agree the events are nice.
>>337416003
OP here
I would just like to brag a little and direct your attention to my clean use of sectors
>core worlds are actually at the core
>sectors aren't made too big to avoid uprisings
>can't see it, but sectors are all named well
I also want to brag because I've destroyed that fallen empire to the west of me since this picture was taken
>>337416003
How different is it from Vicky 2 and EU 4???
>>337425265
It's like a fusion of the two
Not a complex economy like Vicky, but plenty of pops
>>337419302
name one planet after the fat man angreal
or I don't know, go crazy and name your main fleet Ashandarei, that's fucking cool
>>337425190
Fuck public opinion. Strength is all that matters.
>>337421296
Are things like the speed of primitive progress and the liklihood of turning the planet into a tomb world at atomic age dependent on the species traits? They should be. Would help the player decide their approach to different species.
FYI nebulae have unique resources and events
They also normally have more resources in them than any other area of space
Always try to colonize them if you can
>>337424668
There are traits you can take that reduce the cost of participating in alliances. There needs to be SOME benefit to being a radical pacifist.
>>337424998
It's the first of their games where you can actually do it. It was even named Genocide in a beta version, changed to Purge
You can also bomb from orbit until everyone is dead and the planet is all craters
>>337425265
It's not grand strategy.Yet? Paradox is now comfortable releasing incomplete games. I'm sure they'll add trade and more diplomatic features in dlc, fucking jews
>>337425356
It's great, they'll hate you and then decide to attack. Then you can crush them and clap them in irons and send them off to the zyklon-b showers.
>>337425394
>not just pirating all the DLC like EVERYONE knows you're supposed to do with Paradox games
I don't whine about DLC if it's free
Let their dicksuckers pay out the ass for it, I'm over here getting more content for an already fun game
>>337425315
>>337425394
Thanks, sounds fun.
I got 120 planets whilst my biggest opponent remaining has 21, and I am playing on hard difficulty. Can I just put the game on Fastest speed and kick back now, waiting for inevitable victory, or will the late-game events still wreck me?
>>337425385
That feature alone is enough to make me buy the game. So edgy. Has the PC brigade taken up arms against the game yet? Their sweet, liberal tears fills my abject soul with warmth.
>>337425472
Piracy leads to sales
>pirated EU4
>two of my friends bought it after they saw it and liked it.
>i would have never bought it otherwise.
They probably know this anyways since they never have any kind of DRM
>>337425635
Yeah, they know that a fuckton of people pirate their DLCs, they clearly don't give a shit
>>337425459
In my current game I'm spending a lot of time purging my own species because they keep on losing fanatic spiritualist. Only ethos divergence I'm allowing is more collectivist.
>>337425316
>Ashandarei
It shall be done
>>337425584
I think they're waiting until a NEETsoc in /pol/ has enough agency to create a mod that separates the human species into whites, niggers and jews, so you can enslave and genocide them, this time in space
I have no clue what the fuck this game is but i kinda want it now
Is there a reason the AI never takes back worlds robots rebel in and also just let them migrate when the event starts? I'm fucking sick of cleaning this mess the retarded AI started.
a friend told me that this is a great game and i torrented it because i do that with every game (if i like, i buy)
this is my first game of this kind and it's so boring lads, anybody got any tips for boosting enjoyment levels :^)
>>337425584
The PC fags sometimes have valid points (ONLY SOMETIMES AND ONLY VERY OCCASIONALLY AT THAT DO NOT FUCKING MEME AT ME) but there is literally nothing they can complain about from this.
>oh no you can't genocide aliens in this totally fictional space game because once upon a time there were real people who were genocided
>>337425676
Just genetically manipulate them instead. Cut out the DNA strands that you dislike.
>>337425584
They like it. /v/ memes about stellaris being game that every furfag would like become truth
So I just started my first game and it's the year 2020 and literally nothing exciting has happened
I say this as a huge fan of civ and other 4x games
What am I doing wrong bros
>>337425762
The AI literally cannot deal with any of the end game crisises, I don't know how Paradox missed that one
They don't bother attacking the Scourge, the Unbidden, OR the machines
They really need to fix that, I'm tired of being the only motherfucker in the galaxy that can clean up the mess
>>337425740
Its a genocide simulator
>>337425868
>/v/ memes about stellaris being game that every furfag would like become truth
Excuse me, could you please try that again
How the fuck do I handle sectors?
I just wasted all of my influence setting that stuff up
So how's the learning curve of this game? The features sound so fucking fun. I'm a bit intimidated by Paradox' games.
>send my science vessel to observe an anomaly
>suddenly get a message that the ship vanished without a trace upon approaching the anomaly
>ship no longer in my roster
>the fuck is this
>eventually forget about it
>suddenly the science ship reappears
>science officer tells me that she believes they were transported into void space by unknown forces
>it's been almost 10 years but she hasn't aged a day since disappearing
>half the crew are gone from the ship
>undoubtedly withheld by whatever pulled them out of our dimension
>some time later get a new message
>the missing crew have reappeared in the area where they disappeared
>aboard a science vessel clearly alien in origin but built as if someone was trying to replicate ours from a picture
>they say they have no knowledge of anything happening but would like to rejoin my officer on her ship and turn over the alien ship to me
>ok
>the ship is called "Strange Alien Vessel" and the make is "Ancient Prototype"
>>337425385
Bombing from orbit takes way too fucking long, unfortunately. The popkill chance should stack with your ship quantity.
>>337426020
Its super easy to get into. There are a lot of things to understand but they are all fairly simple.
>>337426004
So, what that means is you delegated the responsibility of governing those planets to morons. Enjoy.
>>337426020
Barely above Civ 5 level. EZ PZ.
>>337426020
It's not that bad
The only thing that you need to remember is that you need to keep your navy at max at basically all times early and mid game, otherwise the AI will meme all over you
>>337425805
It's probably just not your type of 'game'. It's more of a spreadsheet simulator. I really enjoy that. (EVE online is my favorite game of all time..)
>>337425908
What the fuck? They hyped that shit and it's broken on release.
>>337426020
It's the easiest, most casual game Paradicks has ever made.
>>337426020
It's even easier than a lot of 4x, the only thing that gets iffy is planet management once you get huge.
And how about performance? I have an integrated graphix card. Wasn't sure if this game was toaster friendly.
>>337416003
i died and i found this on observer mode, anyone able to conquer this yet?
>>337426041
It does
>'Full' stance will cause 0.50 damage to the planet's fortifications each day, multiplied by the supporting fleet's size.
>New game
>Just settled second colony, third is shipping out
>Nearest and only guy I've encountered declares war
>zooms fleet 3x more powerful than my decently maintained one straight to my capital
>>337426158
What the fuck
Is that in a fallen empire or something?
>>337426123
o-oh ok
>>337426161
Like it says that's only fortification damage, chance to kill xenos is a flat rate.
Guys, how do I into research?
>>337426161
But it doesn't affect popkill chance
>>337426274
Yeah, certain fallen empires spawn with ring worlds
I want to be able to build them, give it to me, paradox
>>337426158
I defeated a Fallen Empire. They have some nice tech and some nice tech accessories.
When should you make a sector?
I started on Earth in the Sol system and every single habitable world around me is shit at no more than 20%, so I have only colonized two planets right next to earth.
But now I have found a planet a good distance from earth and colonized it. Should I just make it a sector or do I lose all control of it that way?
>>337426161
I bombed a planet for like 40 years
Killed 3
it's wayyy too low of a chance
>>337426386
This
Also their buildings are fucking godly
Prethoryn Scourge event still bugged for people? I bombard their planets but nothing happens.
Paradox pls fix.
>>337426308
>+2430%
>>337426021
Sounds legit.
>>337426123
Can we end the spreadsheet simulator meme
It's the least complex of all Paradox Games, and absolutely none of them you need spreadsheet, or even have any data presented in a similar format. Even in HoI3, the most autistic game of theirs.
>>337426392
Make sectors when you start colonizing over your core planet limit, it's as simple as that
Also don't forget to keep your core planets upgraded as much as possible
>>337426452
Yeah it's still bugged, I'm OP and that blotch of scourge in my galaxy is bugging the shit out of me
They're literally no threat, I just can't get rid of them
Fucking Paradox
>>337418198
It's okay guys I stole their ED weaponry.
>>337426476
It absolutely is
>>337426392
Dont sector things until you go over your controllable limit
>>337426021
I don't trust that shit for a fucking second
>make sectors
>find out AI is too retarded to upgrade everything I have to undo all my sectors, choose what to upgrade, then redo the sectors again. It's more work for no reason.
>>337426158
What are those letter sections? Are they usable?
>>337426274
It wasn't a fallen empire. But this ring world was protected by tons of defenses. Supposedly being around for 78 million years. Each habitable ring piece had pre-industrial primitives. I conquered/enslaved 3 of the sections. The other one I will tailor to be researchers because of their good traits.
How do I get my allies to agree to a federation? 2/4 keep denying.
How do I genetically modify certain pops? They aren't a different race, they just don't have the same ethics as my core pops
>>337426138
I don't know, Majesty 2 was a bit of a joke, good intentions be damned
>There's a Forerunner Glyph as an Empire emblem
Forerunner/Halo mod when?
>>337425846
Some parts of this game are seriously fucked up. Its even more frightening that we would do a lot of that shit too.What if its already happening?
>>337426678
Kill them and get new, better allies
>>337426692
You can't choose to modify based on ethics, ethics vary within a species, can be more or less depending on traits, government type, and government ethics
There's nothing you can do about them except enslave them or purge them
Get used to it, people have different opinions
>>337419818
sup achmed
>>337426021
>>337426585
This. PURGE THEM TO BE SAFE
>>337426678
I find they'll almost always accept factions you liberated.
>>337426021
Event Horizon, is that you?
I just want to make a nice empire but disgusting aliens keep boxing me in and asking me to join their federations, or be destroyed.
And when I join, it punishes me by making me lose all my influence.
>>337426858
>going through tech levels
>hey cool sentient AI, how neat
>oh wow crazy technobabbly bullshit that sounds awesome
>wow the ability to uplift a species
>uh, clone armies, that's cool, time to go full star wars
>mind control lasers to keep populace from diverging ethically... that's... something
>suddenly, rare tech comes up as an option
>xenomorph army
Jesus fucking christ this tech tree goes south really quickly
>>337426136
Everything in the game works fine in multiplayer. It's the AI that's dogshit and needs a year of patches.
>>337426625I'm gonna create a fantasy setting based on this
Get a load of this guy.
>>337426858
If only you knew how bad things really are.
What kind of traits/ethics would a Slaanesh empire have?
What do I do in this situation?
Me and Jaqkly are bros, I even tried allying with them 5 minutes before but they were too nervous to say yes.
follofans are trying to make moves on me too, insulting me.
Can I send my ships in to defend them?
How the hell do sectors work?
Okay what the fuck do I do now:
I started with a science ship and it began surveying systems left and right. Eventually the officer aboard got 5 stars around the age of 60, and he had the fast learner perk.
While doing a anomaly survey as part of the precursor storyline, he was suddenly elected leader of my faction and disappeared from his ship. He then won the next election too, despite me using almost all my influence trying to get someone else elected to he could continue his research, but it didn't work.
He died of old age while in office and I have no way of continuing the survey. None of my new scientists can get higher than 4 stars despite constant surveying, so they can't continue his work and they end up dying.
What the fuck am I supposed to do.
>>337416003
Are you running this on toothpaste?
>>337426867
It's fine as long as they aren't uppity
ended up putting orbital mind control lasers on every single station though
So I found a primitive planet and I want to invade it so I can colonize it, how the fuck do I even attack it? I set my policies to unrestricted.
>>337427332
This is why good workers don't get promoted in shitty companies.
>>337427267
Fast breeder
Spiritualist, extreme xenophile
Agrarianso you can simulate them getting nourishment from all the cum they swallow
>>337416003
Is there anything to do in this game except imagine something really interesting is happening, even though it isn't?
Its like a babby mode Distant Worlds universe.
>>337427384
Read the tooltips maybe?
>>337427384
The same way as you invade any other planet
>>337427384
you need an assault ground army.
I think I might have fucked up. My very first race I made were Xenophobic but Pacifistic, also Repugnant. Since I can't join up in alliances or federations, plus I can't/don't really want to go around conquering everyone, I've kind of stalled myself out of winning unless I just sit in my fortresses and let everyone kill each other or something I suppose.
In the meantime, I'll probably make a new empire that is perhaps more diplomatic while also being scary and strong, maybe bullying people into joining me.
Also has anyone done the opposite of a genocide simulator yet and created a super diverse race where all members are treated absolutely equally? As in all can be leaders, migrate freely, run for office, etc?
Flavor text added by me.
>>337427431
>>337427484
Thanks faggots, I'm clicking every button I can find and nothing is happening.
>>337427508
>a bunch of disgusting worm things that doesn't want to fight but also hates everyone else
>surprised when they get killed
>>337427226
This is why I'm obssessing over this game right now. So many fun stories to be had. Btw when I first encountered this system, with it's geometric defenses, like creations of DMT elves and then proceeded to create fleet to destroy them, then finding out everyone on the ring is around medieval age I immediately thought of game of thrones.
>>337427289
PLEASE
>>337427582
Then they will stand alone. When the Gods come, when the Fallen Empires stand up, when the nations battle each other and destroy everything.
They will still be here, eating shit and mud. Because they are bugs, and they are eternal.
>>337427582
It's like /r9k/ in space
>>337427508
>Also has anyone done the opposite of a genocide simulator yet and created a super diverse race where all members are treated absolutely equally? As in all can be leaders, migrate freely, run for office, etc?
I am disturbed by your lack of hatred for those who are different than you.
>>337427617
Yeah seriously, the RP potential for this game, the events, the tech, the setting, it all tickles my autism in a very specific way
This game makes me feel like I wish Spore had
>>337427508
HOW do you add flavor text?
>>337427508
I play a race that is xenophobic but reluctantly opens up to aliens
They made a federation and slowly started allowing aliens to migrate in, and granted them more rights, stopped enslaving them, allowed uplifted aliens in, etc
Feels actually surprisingly cool
It helps my RP that most of the aliens around me are avians like my race
Is there co-op in the game?
>>337427508
>Also has anyone done the opposite of a genocide simulator yet and created a super diverse race where all members are treated absolutely equally? As in all can be leaders, migrate freely, run for office, etc?
Next time
>>337427834
It's Spore done right. Only thing it's lacking is being able to zoom in and watch procedurally created worlds. Which they should add, considering how set they are in shoving their 3D maps into games that don't need them.
>>337427968
If by that you mean multiplayer, yes
>>337416003
>20k minerals
>700+ of each research
>literally broke
how
I'm at like +30 minerals and +20 of each research.
Does energy just scale up like shit?
>>337427289
>>337427649
You can do whatever you want m8.
If you declare war, or at least declare them your rival it should increase Jaqkly's opinion of you due to mutual enemy. Maybe they will eventually even accept an alliance.
>>337427968
That's called Hugboxing.
It's considered gay as fuck due to being the equivalent of calling your gym buddies to go beat up some middle-schoolers
>>337428097
Protip: resources that sit in your storage do absolutely NOTHING, especially energy credit.
>>337428305
The game needs some kind of interest system. Where having a lot makes you even more.
Anyone know how to update a pirated copy?
>>337428360
Wouldn't really mean much when the caps are so low.
>>337428097
No, I just came back from a crusade against the Prethoryns and my fleets are so huge that they crash my economy when I take them out of port
I've since gotten to a place where I don't go bankrupt when I take the fleets out for rape time
I'm at a point where I have full minerals, full energy, and full influence all the time and I have no idea what to do with them
All my planets are max level, my sectors don't need any, they're all maxed too
I have no reason to issue any edicts, no one is rebelling, no one is unhappy, I certainly don't need more military power or energy/mineral production
I've reached a point in the game where literally nothing can hurt me
Even the synthetics in my empire will never ever join the robot revolution because of a decision I got
I killed a fallen empire a while ago and it was easy as fuck
>>337428360
It's called investing in expanding your empire
In the far future, humans are only capable of hipster beards and topknots
:/
>>337428464
Thats all I invest in. I'm limited by never getting any damned colonizer techs and influence not coming in fast enough to spam frontier stations.
>>337428409
>>337428097
Here's an up-to-date picture of my game
How would I place some of my own population on a subjugated primitive planet? I have an individualist trait and can't get that one policy.
>>337428764
Issue the edict that increases migration attraction to that one planet
>>337427939
Microsoft paint. That's what I meant when I said 'added by me'.
Will robots rebel for sure and create an endgame crisis if i don't make them equal?
>>337426021
I got that event and I shot the fuckers down.
>>337428984
Only synthetics, robots and droids are safe
>>337416003
this codex music has no right to be this good
>>337429121
Synthetics ARE sentient robots
>>337428984
I think by the percentage chances, they're practically guaranteed to do it EVENTUALLY, but it could be literally hundreds of years down the line, so far away that it will practically never happen
>>337426956
Well actually one of the denyers is a vassal I coddled then gave independence to. And I gave independence solely so I could form a fucking federation. With this game I'm not sure what's bugged vs what's by design.
rate it
Can two people make empires and play together? Sounds like something my cousin might like.
>>337429804
Yes
Can you actually do anything to that thing in the middle the map?
Is anyone else confused with how diplomacy works? How the fuck does reluctance work? Is it over time? Because I'll give crazy +50 opinion trade deals just for the reluctance to BARELY CHANGE. How the fuck does Paradox expect me to understand this? Really I want to know.
>tfw in a federation
feels good having allies desu.
Both my neighbours hate me, they aren't strong enough to take me alone but if they united they might.
lmao at all the cucks in this thread who bought a paradox game at release
>>337429993
It used to be much, much worse in past games. You couldn't see what actually affected their opinions, only the final number. And all trade deals had a % of failing, instead of always passing if the AI accepted it.
>>337430090
Joke's on you, I'm having fun despite the bugs
>>337425738
Your pops are already split by race, and someone has already made a mod to remove all non-white races.
>multiple ethos devoted to slavery
>fallen empire devoted to insta-killing anyone who uses slavery or purges
are enigmatic observers the biggest ass-pulls in the game besides the broken crises?
>>337418230
use your fleet to scout. If there are many planets systems around you that aren't blocked by other faction than get a second scientist ship
>>337429992
That's where the Glob robot is. It's a super cool meme filled cut scene. You'll love it.
Why the fuck are there no proper colors for flags.
Two greys and no white?
How do you fuck that up.
>>337430090
I'll just start a new game every single dlc major patch and have fun until victory or total defeat.
Nothing to do, nothing happens: the game.
Just got this game, what should i expect?
Alright, I'm
1) Retarded
2) Generally peaceful/diplomatic or scientific in strategy games
is there anything I need to know going into this game brand new with either of those two playstyles in mind?
>>337430351
Install this mod, my senpai
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=681787759
>>337430440
Get into alliances, but make sure to always build your fleet up to fleet limit or the AI will see you as weak and fuck your shit up
First try making an edgy race.
>>337430440
Don't start a war unless you
1) Know for a fact you can win
2)Know how many allies they have and who they are (You don't want to suddenly find yourself getting invaded by a large as fuck fleet)
"WHO NEEDS FRIENDS WHEN YOU HAVE MISSILES?"
t. Fanatic Militarist
>>337430440
Territory of a planet increases with population, but so does research costs
>>337430440
This game forces you to be warring. Devs said it themselves. There's no espionage. You can't be Space Illuminati. You can't be some economic powerhouse that makes everyone else reliant on you. This is essentially a tablet game. All you can do is expand, and expand, and expand your blob.
>>337430090
>>337430273
Jokes on all of you. I'm having fun and I didn't even buy it.
>>337430406
F U N
Xenomorph armies
Tyranids
Have the hotfixes been added to mega yet?Am obviously a piratefag, had to lay out a gorillion shekels for my car and also funds for my research, so I am strapped for now
>>337430741
FUN is my favorite type of fun.
>>337430741
>mfw xenomorph armies
Is there a reason to use anything else?
>encounter race in nuclear stage
>prepare to uplift them to space gods
>they nuke themselves the day before I arrive
>started new game
>LITERALLY only one other system in my territory
Fuck this gay shit.
>>337430806
Skidrow has the first hotfix up as well as the Galaxy ed stuff
Any tips for a new player? I decided to make some fanatic jesus bugs because why not.
>>337430986
restart until you get something good
I finally got 5 systems in my starting area, game is now fun
Don't bother playing this pile of shit for a few weeks. They have a lot of fixing to do. We payed to beta test.
>>337430885
>one planet I'm watching nuke themselves into oblivion
>another one dies to an asteroid not a month later
Despite having done some horrible shit in this game, this was one thing that hit me
That could easily be us
>>337431182
>us
Stop that.
>>337417481
It's like.. real life
>tfw terraforming everything 100 times because you have nowhere to go
>>337431240
Us
As in humans
>>337419675
There aren't even blonde people in this game apparently there's no alternative future where the Germans and Scandinavians don't go extinct from niggers
Troops stuck in enemy territory after a war won by my federation. Fuck this game.
>leader just died
>haven't had election yet
>meet new alien race
Who is __? This is __ speaking.
>Send a research ship a few jumps away to survey a system
>EVADING HOSTILE FLEET
>EVADING HOSTILE FLEET
>EVADING HOSTILE FLEET
>>337418820
>>337418335
Proper northern germanic name lists when?
>>337431468
When you make a LotGH mod
>>337423165
>Eldritch Kingdom
>>337431352
Let me guess, the steam workshop won't allow any whites only/blondes mods either since it's """"racist""""? Villains can't even be villains. Black and cunt stormtroopers for all!
>tfw I had to expand it such an ugly way
I fully intend on conquering them just so I can have a nice round territory.
>>337431352
I'm pretty sure I saw some blond among the shitloads of hairstyles that humans have.
>>337431035
Here's a few things off the top of my head.
>Influence
It's extremely important for you not to freak out about your influence points. At first you will be exploding trying to figure out how to get more influence or how to limit it, but just keep in mind later it will basically be a non issue.
How to expand your borders the right way? You only need to build Frontier Outposts occasionally. When you find a nearby habitable planet; you simply colonize it and be on your way. Planets create their own borders over time and grow yours, don't worry about it too much unless you really want to snag an important resource-heavy system.
>Technology
The game doesn't do a good job telling you this; but as your empire expands your technology costs increase. A smaller empire has better tech development; but you can offset this by ensuring some of your new worlds have a few laboratories or tech-heavy systems as to keep yourself going.
>Combat
Combat is heavily based on countering your enemy's ships. Any glance through the threads and you will see people getting crushed by much smaller fleets due to having poorly designed ships or ships with weapons and defenses countered by the enemies. Some weapons are good against armor, some against shields. Remember to research and use point defense vs missile weapons and carriers.
>Planet Surface
Remember to try and place your capitol for a new planet in the middle of 4 squares as you gain an adjacency bonus (only to food, minerals, or energy though) for buildings built next to it.
>Diplomacy
Remember to rival people who you'd never get along with anyway (isolationists) to get more influence, but try to buddy up to scary people.
That's some basic stuff. Please enjoy.
>>337431636
>only one core planet
REEEEEEEEEE
Anyone else alt tab out after 20 minutes into a new game and lurk until you get an event? I do this with CK2 all the time.
>>337431483
That sounds hard.
>>337418341
Nice to see a fellow turtle player.
>>337431716
>Not putting all your other planets in to sectors so you don't have to micro manage them
wew lad
>>337431859
the sector ai is broken, dumbass
>>337431859
>throwing all your other planets away
DAMN SON
>>337431859
>not being able to micromanage 5 planets
>>337431859
>not having complete control over your planets production at all times
>allowing sectors to hog resources since there's no "100% contribution" option
All of my sectors are completely full of resources. They don't need any more at all, they're a drain on my shit but I need them, I have like 100 planets
>>337426867
>Kill them and get new, better allies
Will they eventually come around to the idea of a federation? The game doesn't give me any hints that I should play some arbitrary waiting game or just cut my losses.
We are the Terran Star Empire, and the year is 2200.
115 years ago global society entered a third world war that was fought over primarily for access to water. Modern economic theories were unable to efficiently allocate such an important to life resource, with those who still had a surplus expecting fair trade and those who did not expecting to be given it. In the end both factions consumed each other in an orgy of violence lasting 7 years. With no end in sight, political leaders authorized the use of nuclear weapons. The commanding general of the Allies, Jonathan Carlyon refused the order and instead staged a coup d'etat. 2 years later, Carlyon led the allies to total victory and reorganized earth into the Terran Empire, crowning himself Jonathan Carlyon I. Human society was changed dramatically following the war. Popular sentiment blamed exploitive capitalism and corrupt democracies for the war which had killed a fifth of the human population even wihout the use of nukes. The new Imperial State seized on these sentiment in the formation of the Reformed Church of God Eternal, a state religion that fused a philosophy of Pacifism, anti materialism, spirituality and obedience to a divine monarchy in order to hold the fractious human population together.
2200, in the reign of Empress Elizabeth Victoria l Carlyon human scientists develop the first usable warp drive. Scouting of the nearby Sirius and Epsilon Eridani systems revealed two world perfect for human life. The first was named Utopia as a sign humanities optimism for a better future and the second was dubbed Wartani.
2212. Scout ships encounter sentient life. They are mammalian and resemble tall monkeys and are in alliance with what can only be described as crab people. Both societies are also pacifist and spiritual and first contact goes well. Many on Earth see finding not one but two sentient species that ewchew war as a sign that humanity is finally following the path of the eternal creator.
>>337425372
Pacifism/Militarism will affect the weight of certain techs.
>>337431679
Thanks. Just started the game. Should I rush colonizing planets or wait for my capital to be fully grown or what? Tech feels so slow to get since i'm waiting 50+ months at the start for some tech (blue lasers) and my military looks like it can't even handle the shit floating through my system idly.
>>337432107
>space jews
2216. Piracy. The orbital stations in Al Rawaliea are attackes by pirates of an unknown species, raided and destroyed. In response, Empress Elizabeth chooses to recreate an organized military after more then a century of them being disbanded. 5 corvettes of the newly christened Imperial Star Forces are dispatched the Al Rawaliea under the command of Admiral Vasquez. The pirates were engaged and destroyed. Many argued that with the immediate danger past the corvettes should be scrapped. The Empress refused these demands and issued a divine decree that established the Star Forces as a small but permanent part of the Imperial Court, effectively overruling all opposition in the clerical establishment.
2225- several families of crab people request permission to travel to Utopia so that they could study human religious and philosophical texts. The Empress asceded to the request and allowed them to build a settlement on the planet.
2228- Explorers make first contact with a reptilian race to the galactic north. Unlike the Monkeys and Crabs, these beings are aggressive and follow a fanatic religion that preaches the glory of death in war and the eradication of all other beliefs. Xenobiologist dub the polity "Space Isis". When news of the creatures reaches Earth, Empress Elizabeth orders an expansion of the Star Forces in secret to avoid alarming the population at large.
2233. The threat of Space Isis prompts humanity to enter into alliance with the Space Monkey's and Crab People. The alliance called the Divine Concordat of Utopia after the world where the treaty was signed.
2238- Space Isis invades and enslaves a species that had only recently attained interstellar flight. The Terran Empire severs diplomatic relations and declares them a formal rival.
>>337432146
>Should I rush colonizing planets or wait for my capital to be fully grown or what?
There's no point in waiting for planet to fully grown because food supply are completely isolated from each other.
>Playing as humans
>Playing as militaristic xenophobe humans
For le emperor! xD
>>337432146
Colonize early and often, after a while you ll be pumping out like 10 colonists at once
>>337432248
>stop having fun guys
2241- Space Isis invades territory held by fungoids on the galactic rim. Faced with the mounting threat, it was no longer possible to hide the expansion of the Star Forces. 3 Cruiser hulls were consteucted in orbit around earth and the large warships were visible to the naked eye on the surface. The news that the tiny force of 5 corvettes had ballooned to 50 corvettes, 20 destroyers and 3 Cruisers hit the Empires general population like a thunderbolt. As did the formation of the Imperial Star Marines, a force that was clearly not equipped or intended for self defence.
2242- The Fungoids surrender half their territory to Space Isis. In response, Empress Elizabeth convened an emergency summit of the Divine Concordat. The threat of Space Isis was too great even for pacifist people. War was declared.
2243- the Imperial Star Forces in coordination with allies defeat the Space Isis fleet at their homeworld of Archenar. The planet is secured by the Star Marines. Organized resistance rapidly collapses across enemy territory. Space Isis surrenders and agrees to free its slave worlds and submit themselves as vassalized subjects of the Terran Empress.
2244- with Space Isis now granting policy control to the Imperial Throne, a new colonial expansion wave is possible to the galactic rim, which beforehand was inaccessible beyond hostile space. Explorers find several worlds perfect for human life, effectively tripling the size of the Empire.
>>337426242
It happens meng
>>337432325
Space ISIS is redundant as it would be Islamic State in Space
>>337429745
10/10
>>337432248
>not roleplaying as earth
So you're a vegan that "fucking hates humans". Ok. You do you buddy.
Fucking Marin Karin. How do I get rid of this shit?
>4planets just out of reach
do frontier posts ever expand their borders even a littler over time? Yes I know you can do it with research
>>337432593
Yes. Borders add up to each other if you have an overlapping one.
>All of the strongest factions in the galaxy are in a federation
please stop
>>337426021
I got this event, kept the ship hoping i could study it
>>337432286
>>337432232
Thanks. So basically just colonize sooner rather than later.
Start feels kinda slow, but I am trying to expand steadily, or at least building mining and research stations as I can. Focusing more on gathering resources than building a fleet.
>>337430613
How do you maintain research times to an acceptable level? Just build a bunch of labs?
>>337432769
Labs out the ass, research outposts out the ass, those policies that increase research rate if you can afford the influence cost, research AI and put synthetics on your labs
This game looks like Endless Space. How different is it from Endless Space so I have something new to play?
>Not naming federation ships after the different homeworlds of your federation's species
doing it wrong
>>337432865
>research AI
oh boy
>>337427746
top kek
>>337432914
>species
Doing it even more wrong.
I wanna reenact Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Can I:
>start a galactic empire in a universe where my race is alone
>end up controlling the whole universe
>have the empire collapse, letting every planet/sector become its own kingdom
>save the map & start a new game with that map, only this time I start as one of the planets on the very edge of the universe
>have extremely high science compared to anyone else
>start conquering everything passive-aggressively
I'm not actually familiar with the game, forgive me if the terms I use are incorrect.
If the above is possible, how would I best do it?
Is there any way to increase habitable planet generation? I'm tired of having to scrounge the area for one and then to find the few ones I find already having a primitive race.
>>337432870
Much more content than ES, way bigger game with fewer design flaws
Music isn't as good though
Endless Space is a 6-7/10 game, mechanics wise, but aesthetics, UI, music, lore, and art wise it's fucking amazing
>>337432504
>>337432401
Spehss mehrens!! LOL XD
40k is so cool, im glad /v/ got me into it.
>>337433058
Oh I remember you from like a week or so ago, shitposter-kun. You were even doing the same kind of shitposts as before.
>>337432989
Everything up until quitting the game and selecting a new nation is possible
WHY DOESN'T THE MINERAL NETWORK MINE BETHARIAN STONE
Fuck.
>>337433058
(you)
>>337432989
you could make a bunch of different empires with the same species and force them to spawn in your game, im pretty sure what you said is possible.
>>337433132
>WHY DOESN'T THE MINERAL NETWORK MINE BETHARIAN STONE
Uh, what?
How's endgame handled in Stellaris?
Is it too tedious, like in other 4Xs ?
Is there any way to set your units on automated behaviour, so they scan/defend on their own ?
>>337432989
You would die of boredom before colonizing everything
Also, the base game is a bit like that, since everyone starts at the same level. You can try a mod that removes Fallen Empires, and put civilizations out of the wazoo. Giving yourself a huge tech boost would make it even more boring. You also can't expand peacefully as easily as in other Paradox games.
Is there a torrent of V1.0.2 up yet?
>>337432870
Much more open then endless space. Procedurally generated tech paths and species cause much greater variation in games.
And then there is the ability to meta game by naming everything and carrying out your missions and so on.
It is a paradox games so there are bugs atm. None are super game breaking though. All in all its a solid game and one that is way better put together then endless space.
i can't change files without crashing, help
What's the DLC policy of this game? Couldn't find any information about this topic.
>>337433320
The same as any other Paradox games.
>>337433190
This shit
I can't place anything here because I'll lose my stone that I need for power plants
>Fallen Empire extremely close to my homeworld
fug
>>337432865
Thanks. I never really fiddled with 4X or GS games so I got a bit lost in priorities.
>>337433132
>WHY DOESN'T THE MINERAL NETWORK MINE BETHARIAN STONE
40k roleplayers, everyone
>>337432989
Mods
>>337433343
It's being collected by you though?
>>337433416
Yeah
Can't place any buildings though
>>try to expand early game
>>AMOEBAS
>>AMOEBAS
>>AMOEBAS
do you just automatically start surrounded by amemebas or was I just unlucky as fuck?
>>337433464
Yeah, you're right.
But does it really matter? Seems like you already maxed out your resource gathering anyway. 3-6 Mins missing shouldn't be a problem.
>>337433320
>Whats the DLC policy of a Paradox game
It will feel like a full and completely satisfying game after 3 years and 100 dollars of DLC
>>337431679
Are private colony ships worthwhile?
Seems to be cheaper, faster to build and doesn't eat up my colonists to use, but is there long term bad sides?
What must have techs are there?
>>337433569
Do you like having your pops have wildly different ethics?
If you don't mind for it, then go for the private ships
>>337433529
Yeah, true
I was hoping to get more stones though
>>337433513
They fly around everywhere so no surprise.
Just murder them and scan their remains for amoeba flagellate strike craft modules and maybe regenerative hull tissue.
>>337433569
>what must have techs are there
XENOMORPH
FUCKING
ARMIES
>>337433610
Well, from a purely gameplay perspective, whats the downside? I get there is an RP problem, but does it really cause problems down the line to do things that way?
>>337433705
Differently thinking pops can be less happy depending on your empire's policy and therefore can be more prone to rebellion
>>337433705
Min-maxing, that's literally it.
How do I liberate planets
Since people were talking about it; create a race that grants all people into its fold- absolute freedom and equality for all.
I finally did it.
How severe it is to have lots of different ethics? I've only played with my purist empire and purged everyone who thinks even slightly differently, but I'm thinking keeping one species that I uplifted in my empire. They're pacifist, but they didn't mind at all when I genocided one pacifist species.
The /v/erdict i think is that Stellaris is a good game. Maybe not GOTY and it certainly needs bug fixes and willnhave future dlc.
As is though you will spend hours playing it vanilla and the inevitable mods will make it even more variable and entertaining.
New to grand strategy games in General, I've played the age series and some civilization,couldn't resist being a race of mushrooms enslaving and fucking things up. But this game is really overwhelming any tips or games I could check out that offer similar themes but less complex mechanics
>>337433996
It only came out a few days ago and I already have 32 hours played
Help me
>>337425846
I did this and all it did was make my populace consider themselves aliens in a xenophobic empire.
Now I want to take it back
Can someone please tell me how to check the progress of integration on a vassal empire?
I swear I started integrating these reptile fucks like 25 ingame years ago and they still aren't part of my empire.
>>337433997
What is seriously so hard about it?
Please, just tell me why you think it's so difficult. I don't understand the problem here.
I heard that you can enact communism as a social policy is this true?
If so what policy?
>>337434158
You have to click on their diplomacy screen and then look through the interactions they have with other empires
Your integration should be on there somewhere
>>337433195
bump
How many armies do you need to take a planet?
Hes got 3 defense armies and 2 attacking ones, and iv destroyed his fortifications. But all I have to attack it with is 1 unit of attackers
>Ring Galaxy
>Only one other empire
>1 vs 1, only help you could get is vassals you uplift and help get to the space age
Would it be fun or boring as fuck?
>>337433991
as long as your ethics divergence isnt too ridiculous i think you will avoid revolts
>>337433997
Just play the fucking tutorial pop-up.
Game is simple as fuck.
>>337434174
I said it was overwhelming not hard man. Calm down, also having never played a grand strategy game maybe you could appreciate that.
>>337434392
Just use the tutorial bot, this was also my first Grand Strategy game and it took me 2 games to start to figure out what I was doing.
I also read every Stellaris thread on/v/and absorbed as much information as I could
>>337424794
In EUIV, having a larger army doesn't necessarily mean you win.
>>337434238
If you have a general, good attachment and overall have a species that excells in ground combat, 3 should be easily enough. As long as the fortifications are down & there's orbital support, their
defences will be very weak
>>337434056
Shit man i already have 29 hours. There is no help. Especially with those fucking gas bags threatening to eat my kids. Totally going to exterminate them. Tomorrow. Oh god i need sleep.
>>337434609
Alright, thanks anon
>>337434538
>no flavor text
Get on my level.
>>337424794
>>337434572
Yeah I don't know what he's talking about. Ottomans can fight twice their size in Austrians right off the bat in EU4. Not sure he ever played it. First rule of battle is military tech levels.
>>337433945
>Almost every other empire/portrait in the game is upper chest and head
>lolis almost entire body is showing
Triggered.
>>337434229
thank you
>>337434729
Stellaris is probably many people babby's first 4x/GS hybrid.
Most people here don't even know that randomize tech trees has been done before.
>>337434950
Randomized tech trees are great, I don't know why they aren't more common
What is the "Spiders" dlc thing? I downloaded it but so far I can't find what it is?
>>337431182
I get that feeling from the game at every stage. Observation stations, uplifting, etc.
>>337433945
>rapid breeders
>>337433343
Yeah that needs to be fixed. At least make it so the building, like xeno zoo, will use the resource on the tile for maintenance.
>>337431182
I came across a world that my science vessel did research on.
it discovered the planet was torn apart from within by unstable tectonic plates.
the beings had only just begun to learn agriculture when the unstable plates shifted drastically causing them to have vastly different geography, ending their ability to grow food and wiping them out
>>337426154
I was wondering the same, anyone tried this shit on a toaster?
>>337435013
nvm I found it
>>337434950
I like the randomized tech a lot, it keeps builds interesting and fresh since if they're static you'll do the same exact thing every time.
>>337426154
>>337435350
I have Intel core i3 CPU
Intel (HD) Graphics card
4GB RAM
And it works fine, it only lags slightly when I zoom right in
>>337431636
>Khemplar Confederation
>Star of David
they space jews?
>caught enemy fleet as it warped in and killed it
>proceed to bombard planet and prepare for take over
>he keeps sending 1 stacks at me
>after about the eighth one gets killed he just surrenders
They might want to make it so the AI doesnt just suicide units
>>337434265
Boring as fuck, because the game is barebones as fuck. More barebones than they even intended since core mechanics with the ai is broken or missing.
>>337435265
Better then mine desu. I had a passive observation station over one world. I studied them from their industrial age to the atomic age. Looking foreword to new space vassals.
And right before they achieved space flight they wiped themselves out in nuclear war.
"There is nothing left to study" my scientists said as they closed down the observation station and left what was once a continental world and now a toxic wasteland devoid of all life.
>>337434950
What other games senpai?
>>337435401
This
Also it stops people from just taking the most powerful rout and wrecking everyones shit.
rest in peace frame rate
>>337436628
rip (you)
uninstalled it after playing 22 hours, apparently I managed to get 48% of the achievements just completing a single campaign
It's honestly pretty boring and ill-designed. I'll try it again after Paradox inevitably stuffs it with DLC and content, but I don't really know if that's going to fix the game's central issues.
>>337436628
Now that's looks very EVEy.
I'm part of a federation and keep getting dragged into wars with my sides demands being beta shit like wanting planets to be independent. Is there no way I can demand control over the planets I occupy?
>>337437058Stellaris is better by default of not being an MMO
What's the best starting weapon/ftl method?
>>337437632
Lasers/Wormhole.
>>337437632
Lasers + Forced hyperlanes for all
Been playing the game since launch.
>Ironman mode, 20+ hours in.
>Control 1/3rd of the galaxy, have three vassals that each have 7k+ fleets and multiple invasion forces.
>Have 3 fleets totaling around 40k, mixed platforms with heavy missle meta and corvette screeners.
>3 fallen empires next to each other on my 'southern' border.
>First fallen empire is a hippy gaia world protectorate.
>Declare war
>Beat them easily but almost run out of energy mobilizing my massive fleet for 3 years away from spaceports.
>Get HUGE gains from conquering their worlds. Energy output now 200+
>Control 70+ worlds.
This is where I fucked up.
>Declare war on second fallen empire.
>Ringworld. Military Empire.
>Overconfident after beating first fallen empire.
>100k Fallen Empire fleet.
>Smashes my forces to bits.
>Scrambling for 4 years fighting a losing war.
>Going to lose a dozen planets over this.
>>337418230
I really feel 2 science ships is required. You basically double your resource scouting speed, and you also have an instant backup in case one dies due to shitty anomaly.
Supposedly Psi Jump Drive is better than usual one. Fucking guildsman.
I have heard there is some type of borg creature that fucks peoples shit up. Is this true? What causes it to spaw? How do I avoid it?
>>337437807
Rip
If you make a bunch of your own species you can set them to override the default spawns and play in a universe with your own autistic lore.
>>337433304
Can i seriously get some help? I want to mod my core sectors so i don't have to have a shit ton of sectors but whenever i do it can't load the game without crashing.
>>337424938
Dont set it to aggressive ?
>>337438047
>japan
>ever being able to accumulate enough resources and population to create their own space empire
fuck your shitty autistic lore
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>>337438268
>Burgerland
>ever leaving Earth
>Declare war to liberate some planets from rival alliance
>Get my shit ready and go
>While I'm building up my forces, they declare war with some other nation
>Get to their homeworld
>Other nation already occupied said planets
>War report still stuck on 3%
How do I fix this? Is there any way to continue on with the war, or am I fucked?
>>337434681
The "1st grader grammar tier" level?
>>337438364
>iceland
>space
??????
>>337433683
can xenomorph armies invade?
>start test game as reflavored commonwealth of man in elipitcal iron man for lulz
>my start is good. My research is solid to start from what i can tell
>encounter space whale squids and living crystals
>rpfagintensifies.jpg
>recruit new scientist who ended up being responsible for uncovering 3/6 of those ancient ayy artifacts right away
>currently observing primitive crab people civ in bronze age deciding whether to make them my muscle
As someone whos only played Civ the game is good so far. A couple of bugs, but i guess I dont care because Ive been thinking about what kind of aliums I'll play all day at work while I skill up before finishing that ironman run.
>>337438047
What, you can't just do it with one or two?
>>337438378
Wait until they gave up to the enemy and take whatever left
Or declare war on their enemy and take planets from them
>>337416003
>be me
>be sultan of intergalactic ottoman empire
>doing pretty well but getting closed in by blobs
>one colonizes planets next to my borders which cause a split in my borders
>fucking xenos you'll pay for this
>keep building fleet to take those planets to restore my borders
>have 14k fleet
>enemy is still overwhelming
>ah well I'll just vasalise the weak nation mext door while building my fleet
>lose a few corvettea and destroyers but vasalise the fuckers
>now see that the big blob is at war with others
>now I'm going to fuck up
>declare war
>bomb the first planet troop transports are mearby and ready
>enemy fleet has jumped into the system
>they have fucking cruisers and battlehips next to their corvettes and destroyers
>I have only corvettes and destroyers
>fleet power of 11k against my 14k plus 2k from vassal
>I attack them
>things are going ok lose a few k
>another fleet jumps in
>aah fuck I might as well try
>actually beat them both and destroy both fleets of total 20k with my 16k fleet and still have 5k over
I have never been as proud of my admiral as I was after that battle.
But I thought fleet power decided everything, they did use missiles while I used ballistic weaponry on them does that actually matter a lot ?
>>337418414
Fanatical Spiritualist Militants. Gotta love those Space Paladins.
So is there any point to armies? I know they help you conquer planets faster but how longs does it take to just kill everyone via bombarment if you want to be a total warmonger?
All in all though I really love the legal limits on what kind of bombardments you can do and such. Really makes the game feel realistic and alive. Your citizens wouldn't tolerate your empire's war crimes unless very warlike, it's nice for realism.
>>337438641
>faster
Isn't they the only way to take planets?
>>337420102
I lost 15 xenomorphs to this shit. I still have to pay for them.
>>337438093
What are you doing? Go to the game's folder, search for 'defines.lua', open it in wordpad, search for 'core sector planets', and then just change the 5 to like 10 or something and save. I was able to do that fine.
Anyone know why I can't build spaceports? For some reason the text is all glitched out and covers up the button.
Probably just cause I'm a piratefag but I was just wondering if anyone else had this issue.
>>337438641
I don't think you can take planets without armies.
>>337438554
If you only choose one or two species in the worldgen that will work.
>>337438564
>intergalactic ottoman empire
Please tell me you used the roaches as your species
>>337438564
Maybe they were heavy shield users and you had some point defense
>>337438747
>>337438841
Alright, thanks. Haven't actually played with any yet.
I like the sound of the Despotic Hedgemony leader ability of getting an elite ground army. Does anybody know how good it is? At least against regular armies?
>>337438641
How are you gonna conquer a planet without being on the ground. That's the point of armies. Also defence if your planet gets invaded.
>>337438912
>ground army
>implying there's another type of army
>>337438641
You don't need armies
You just have to reach 100 warscore and wait for them to fold, you'll get your war goals like that
>>337416003
A fun story?
>Giant empire declares war on me for 4 of my planets
>Quagmire of attacking with small fleets they cant catch, while chasing their fleets with my large fleets that can't catch them either
>Fleets jumping around, sometimes destroying a station
>Shitty ally feeds them warscore so I can't get a white peace
>20 ingame years of this shit
>Finally eek out a WP when the "Length of War" modifier outdoes my shitter allies WS losses
>Start to rebuild my shattered infrastructure
>Less than 1 year later the same empire declares war on my tiny shitty ally
>Targets: My same 4 fucking planets, nothing from my goddamn allies.
Thanks Paradox
>>337438863
I made my own humanity with decadent,quick learner,resilient and communal.
>>337438865
I did have some point defense on my corvettes but they got destroyed pretty quickly also what does the shield use matter unless I'm using lasers ?
>>337438771
I changed Core Sector Planets to 5 and i may have fucked up the file at first but i redid it, still crashed for no reason.
>>337438863
fuckin spilled my energy drink from TOP KEKKING so much lol
you did good mein bruder
very good indeed
>>337439124
I changed it to 9* fuck
it still crashes whenever i modify anything
Had a crappy goddamn start, took me almost 70 years to find a planet worth colonizing and all surrounding systems were complete trash.
But after a large war between me and the alliance circled in red that gave me a bunch of territory and the guys in yellow as a vassal, things are really starting to look up. My fleet is the strongest around and 100% Battleships, and I'm beating almost everyone on research.
All we need to do now is find some unsurveyed systems to complete our Precursor quest.
>>337431679
>Combat is heavily based on countering your enemy's ships. Any glance through the threads and you will see people getting crushed by much smaller fleets due to having poorly designed ships or ships with weapons and defenses countered by the enemies. Some weapons are good against armor, some against shields. Remember to research and use point defense vs missile weapons and carriers.
Can confirm. Just had a 40k fleet of battleships and cruisers get dumpstered by 10k worth of cruisers. Absolutely infuriating.
>>337439084
Missiles go through shields, but can be destroyed by point defense
Lasers chew through armour but suck against shields
Kinetic beats shields easy but aren't as good against armour
>>337439230
Aah ok thanks.
>all these retards that don't understand fleet diversity
Deathstack retards pls.
>>337439230
I tend to go for Kinetic + Plasma thrower to tear through armor
beats armor easily
I wish you could mod it so you could set up standard battle tactics for your fleet so they could go from Kinetic Barrage into Laser Spam and etc.
>>337426021
we EventHorizon now
Wish me luck.
>>337439368
fuck off kike
>>337418198
>Playing glorious Imperium of Man race
>While I'm developing the latent psychic energies of my race to get psykers capable of tunneling through the warp I start getting strange energy readings
>Daemons have bored a hole through the immaterium, this despite my inability to develop a jump drive yet
>They arrive just next to me, on the other side of a violently isolationist Fallen Empire
>It fucking wrecks their shit
... For the Emperor!
Also how long have you guys been able to keep your leader alive? I picked venerable as a trait and lucked out when my leader got the resilient perk. As a bonus I also got that tech which adds 50 years to your leader lifespan, plus some other year extension techs.
The head of my empire is now 316 years old, I'm hoping he'll have a couple more decades left to go.
>>337439719
you're gonna turn into husk'soreass
>>337439230
My most successful fleet was Battleships with 2 kinetic artillery and 2 tachyon beams.
Cruisers with again Tachyon beams, and any other medium weapon except missiles.
And a squadron of corvettes with defensive combat computer, 2 point defense and any other weapon.
The exceptional range on the beams and artillery shreds to pieces everything before they manage to fire most of the time. Beams also have 90% accuracy so enemies with a huge corvette army still get their shit kicked in before they manage to do any damage.
Also the corvettes take care of any missiles and a lot of time are the first targets so your bigger more important ships manage to get damaged less.
For every Battleship there would be 2 cruisers and 2 corvettes.
This fleet ended up being excellent against any type of enemy fleet. I tried to do something similar with missiles but the first enemy I encountered with point defense managed to really fuck shit up.
>>337439719
Just don't have robots when you do this. Rogue AI factions are fucking monsters.
How the fuck do you beat the invaders? I have 40k fleet deathstacks bombing the 2 planets they took into pulp, but I can't invade them. Do I need to wait for another spawn or some bullshit?
So I uplifted some primitives into a vassal, but they haven't expanded in quite some time, is there a way I can encourage this? I'm trying to keep my pops low for lower research costs
>>337439821
You don't use any destroyer?
>>337440120
Do you have ground armies to inade them ?
>>337440362
I can't invade their planets. Planets they take over have 0% hospitality, and I can't touch them.
>>337439821
It feels pointless to use anything but Battleships once they're researched to be honest.
They're absolutely crazy for their upkeep.
Is game worth money?
>>337440120
If they aren't expanding from those planets you can just bomb them until they die off
it'll take ages though
>>337440353
I have no reason to do so.
The main damage is done by my huge ships, and I'd rather have a few more missile defense and distraction that are cheap and fast to replace then to build destroyers.
>>337439769
Xenophobe, militarist and spiritual are the best traits to choose.
>Building up my space empire as fast as I can, sending out colony fleets every decade or so to populate new planets
>While looking at the habitability of a planet I notice two different rates
>One for Humans
>The other for Neo-Humans
>Pull up the species prompt, sure enough they're listed as populating one of my colonial worlds in a far off sector
>None of them belong to my Loyalist faction, and are pushing for independence
>Literally fucking mutants
>I realize the game considers them Xenos despite coming from human stock
>I can purge them
For the Emperor!
>swarm event still bugged after 2 (T W O (ONE PLUS ONE)) hotfixes
>impossible to beat the game if you don't mod or use the console
>>337442859
What's exactly the bug?
>>337442953
The Swarm spawn from their planets, and they're supposed to turn barren after you bombard them to zero. It doesn't work, though, so it's impossible to remove them once they've taken a planet.
>>337416003
>it's a use one ship to make enemy fall back to their own sector episode
