Good thing that their invasion happened on the other side of galaxy
Stellaris thread
>>337460851
The AI doesn't do anything about them unless directly attacked though.
AI is kinda broken atm. Hope there is a fix soon.
Hey, kindly enlighten me.
All the AI's keep making their influence spheres larger without colonizing planets or building frontier outposts. How the fuck do I do the same?
As a result I have is a patchwork of planets that will never connect like this, the basic sphere of a planet never grows no matter what I research. If I try to bridge them with frontier outposts it fucks my influence and leaves me unable to replace dead leaders.
Of which I can only have 10. I can't find a way to increase the number either which is absurd.
>>337461569
>kinda broken
You're half right. If we don't get a big patch by today I'm gonna make Paradox wish they didn't release this game too early.
QUICK THIS IS THE NEW STELLARIS THREAD IN /v/
SAY FUNNY THINGS GOING IN, TALK ABOUT TIPS, ASK FOR HELP AND CALL OTHER FAGGOTS IF THEY CAN'T HAVE FUN WITH THIS GAME
QUICK
>>337461995
Faggot
>>337461874
There are some techs that increase your border size.
2 normal ones that increase it by 20% each. And one repeatable end game tech that increases it 10% each time.
They are incredibly powerful as seen in your case.
There's also a another endgame tech that increase the number of core planets.
You can have more than that but you have to put them in a sector.
Press F2, Z and in the corner you should have a create sector button.
That puts the system in the control of an AI who at the moment is kinda broken so only give it fully developed worlds so it doesn't fuck it up.
I really want a mod mode DLC that let's us have "demographic wars".
>Dat feel when you will never be a slutty human queen who let's her empire get overrun with foreign tentacle monsters.
How do I get alliance members to stop following my fleets? In CK2 there was an option to rally friendly forces around one of your armies or disable AI following you
>>337461874
Doesn't population of a planet increase its borders?
Also, if you have a system with a frontier outpost and then you give that system to a sector it will no longer count as a drain on your influence.
There are also techs that increase border size.
>30% happiness
>separatist faction starts as soon as i colonize the planet despite it being very close to my home system
what do these fuckers want?
>>337462281
This happens to me too, even if they are of my own race.
They MUST solve things like that with patches or something.
Playing on Hard and it's still pretty easy because of dumb ai but why does it constantly show every other empire are 'superior' or 'overwhelming' when they are clearly nowhere near as strong.
>that feeling when you uplift savages to be part of your glorious empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbkF-15ObM
>>337462281
Low happiness makes them want to be independent since they think you suck.
The problem here is that you sent them on a shitty planet with low habitability for your species which caps the happiness at a low level.
I try to develop tech but expanding only makes them cost more, what do? does robot pop also incease cost?
did you pirate or buy it?
I really like the game but can't justify spending 30$ or more on it especially in its current state missing so many features
Glad I didn't buy this.
Sounds like it's not ready for release, just like every other Paradox launch.
Can someone tell me how to enslave the xenos? The option is greyed out saying I have to own the planet, wat do?
>>337462784
Pirate. Because I'm jobless and poor
>>337460851
What is stellaris
Is this like europa universalis but in space
>>337462784
Pirated it.
Played for about 3 hours, then realized the game's shallow as shit.
>>337462784
Bought
Good game, worth this money
>>337462957
Essentially, yeah.
Sci-fi setting.
>>337462690
Fair enough, so it'll get better with habitability techs? Also, any idea why my colony territory is striped?
>>337462784
I'm 40 hours in and I'm yet to regret my investment. Some minor bugs and a little lackluster diplomacy doesn't ruin the game for me. But then, I come from a 4X background and not a grand strategy one. Maybe grand strategy purists think differently, I dunno.
>>337460851
BEST SOUNDTRACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ9J38UU4BY
>>337462784
Pirate now, wait till the second round of DLC with a steep discount.
>>337462991
Sounds fun, might pirate it later
>>337462997
There's only two habitability techs, which at the end of the day only increase it by 10% which won't be enough.
Later you'll get terraforming and if you have the right resources you can terraform it to a better planet.
Thing is that Terraforming takes 10 years during which the pops on the planet have a -100% happiness modifier.
As for te striped territory it means that another empire or race controls a planet there. It must be primitives I guess. You can build an observation station there for some extra research points and if your policies allow it help them become a real empire and your vassal.
>>337462281
>sons of the sun
>leader is a woman
I liked the scientific fluff when checking anomalies and discovering things. After expanding and getting 5 planets and putting them into sections i kinda drifted into boredom since I'm not much of a strategy game player.
Do the tutorial mission give any reward?
I remember getting some influence from completing objectives in a game, but it could have been from the mandates because of my government type.
>>337461921
>some of you guys are all right, don't go to paradox hq tomorrow
>>337462784
Worth the money IF they would put DLCs as free in the future.
But obviously they WOULDN'T do that.
So wait a couple of years for the game + dlcs special offer someday.
>>337463306
Nope.
>>337463147
Don't expect it to be as fleshed out as EU4
>>337460851
What the fuck, is this game set in the 40K universe and is this galaxy just another galaxy in cosmos getting nommed by the tyranids.
I'm awaiting assimilation DLC
WE ARE THE BORG
LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT, IS OVER
YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR OWN
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
>>337463264
You gotta give yourself goals.
"I want to be stronger than my neighbors"
"I want to conquer this area and populate it with my species"
"I want to get strong enough to be able to defend myself from the strong empires"
etc etc
>>337460397
What's better: fanatic collectivist or fanatic spiritualist?
>>337463052
I usually mute game sound and play with my own music.
Stellaris is an exception though. The music is pretty nice and doesn't get boring even after super long sessions.
>>337463595
Fanatic collectivist.
No one will mind slaves.
That 5% more happiness can't compete with that.
>>337463643
When I got the game, I muted the music and listened to EVE soundtrack and stellardrone without thinking about it.
I guess I should atleast give the games soundtrack a chance.
>>337463737
Can collectivistpurge?
>>337463968
They are the only ones that can purge everything.
They also have tech to ensure that distant planets don't stop being collectivist and new planets become collectivists quickly.
Can someone explain sectors to me? I didn't pay enough attention. Do you just make new sectors when you go over your planet limit?
I annexed a primitive planet through infiltration with a bunch of furry shits and their happiness is at 20% from 60
Can I move them to the worst tiles and populate the planet with my own species?
I don't want to purge them though.
>>337462836
You have toown the planet.
>>337464090
Yes, but the AI really sucks
>>337463338
Good thing that's not my waifu, otherwise we'd have some trouble.
>>337464090
Yeah. You're not giving the planets in the sectors away, they're just managed by the AI. You always get full research points and you can manage how much energy/minerals will be used on self-growth or sent back to you.
>>337464126
You'll get Race War.
+105 relations and "friendly" status.
Still the fucking slugs repeatedly turn down my alliance proposal.
What the fuck am I missing. Never going to make my united space empire like this.
>>337463258
That's not the leader, that's the species portrait.
>>337464537
Ah right thanks man.
>>337464606
What do you suggest I do?
I have the option to grant them "independence" from the factions tab.
It says independence but also says they'll be a Vassal Empire. Vassal of mine I suppose? Their planet is within my borders. If that'll get rid of their unhappiness, I don't mind it.
>>337464729
you need 151 for alliance
rival their rivals to get +25 per rival
to be honest sector governors should be real world people over the internet instead of the dumb AI
>>337464204
Great. How do I own a planet with warthogs already on it?
>>337463052
>Open game
>Load game
>Game is paused
>Window tab
>Still browsing 4chan with music on
Feels Good, Man
>>337464992
>you need 151 for alliance
Wrong.
It depends on other modifier too.
>>337465059
I feel like you haven't thought this through at all.
>>337464951
I'll only get vassals from other aliens , won't split my clay.
What i do is genocide xenos
Put people there
And wait until mind control tech in scence lab to grant happiness.
In faction sections you can "Supress Press" or "Bribe Leaders" so you reduce 10% their influence.
Do this until you can mind control the shit out of them.
>>337465295
would work with experience and feedback
>>337465392
I don't understand. You say to genocide the aliens then mind control them?
So is there some patch which fixes the bugged crisis events?
>>337465413
It probably wouldn't. It's a terrible solution.
>not getting the next level of robot research
fucking hell
>>337465603
what the bug?
Technology means nothing compared to numbers. The dominion will rule. Great songs will be sung once this is over, and after this war, none shall challenge the dominion, for its power will be unmatched across the known galaxy.
https://youtu.be/ttRc6zvVInU?t=219
>>337460851
>Play as militaristic expansionists (NO FUN ALLOWED)
>One of my planets has a gas in the atmosphere that makes people unusually happy.
>My scientists wish to shut this down.
>Decide to leave the planet's atmosphere as is and imagine that it is the only bastion of lightheartedness in my Imperium of Man knock off.
This game never fails to pleasantly surprise me.
Alternatively:
>Discover up and coming alien race in my borders.
>Build observatory in orbit to try and uplift them
>It's been built for a few mere days before it witnesses a planet wide nuclear holocaust...
Fucking brutal man. I imagine those scientists above as being jaded and depressed after witnessing that.
There is so much detail to this game. This is my new cocaine.
>>337465591
No, genocide the aliens so you get rid of them
Resettle population from your own planets there
They'll be unhappy if it's not a good place for your race, so you need mind control tech to make them happy and don't make them want to go independent.
So what does making new sectors do?
what's the best ethos for starters?
>>337466619
I found a super early on mushroom civ on a planet, built an obs post and eventually something happened that caused the mushrooms to start worshiping us as sky gods. We were revered as a god by one tribe who then committed religious genocide against the other tribes. Then they built a pyramid in our honor. It's been about 90 years and they still haven't done anything. The dead tribes land hasn't been taken over - they still have abandoned farms. They've also built a 2nd pyramid. It's pretty funny but kind of creepy.
They should add some option for trading food between your planets or even with other empires... Maybe some of them are poison to them and they declare war on you because they died because of your food.
How do I stop my pops on colonized planets striking/rebelling?
>happiness is down but there's no identifiable reason why
>those lines between stars
Are those like hyperspace routes?
Do you eventually get technology that lets you ignore them and go wherever you want? I would prefer it either keep those routes or make free travel a lot slower.
>>337467356
Enslave them.
>>337466619
>>My scientists wish to shut this down.
>>Decide to leave the planet's atmosphere as is and imagine that it is the only bastion of lightheartedness in my Imperium of Man knock off.
>This game never fails to pleasantly surprise me.
I hope that you are aware that if you don't have 4 lvl scientist this planet will kill everyone on it
>>337467448
When you create a race, you get to choose between an engine type. Hyperspace is one of them, and works like you say. The other 2 aren't restricted to hyperlanes, but can eventually research to display hyperlanes for strategic purposes against those who do use them.
>>337467460
B-But I don't want to enslave my own species
>Playing anything other than a human theocracy with wormholes
You are playing it wrong
>>337461995
Faggot
noob civ to start with?
>>337467756
>unironically using memeholes
>>337467356
You can mouseover the happiness to find out why. If the habitability of the planet is low, your happiness is capped. 1% habitability = 1% maximum happiness.
You can employ a governor (2% happiness per level), issue the happiness edict, change some empire policies, issue the reeducation edict to change their ethos, or build the happiness buildings.
>5 20+ tile Continentals close to my home planet
Thanks Jesus.
My 15k power fleet was evaporated by an 8K one, how?
>>337468074
Have you ever considered that not all weapons are the same with the only thing changing being the damage stats?
>>337467756
wormholes are seriously overrated. I think hyperlanes are the best FTL just because of the speed as the game advances. Your fat-ass army will take a long time just to prepare to jump while hyperlane just fucks you up as you go. Also inhibitors. The stronger fleet doesn't shy any engagement. wormhole your way around, coward, we'll get to you eventually.
>>337468074
Power is not everything. There is a counter to almost anything.
>>337467639
Sort of like Sword of the Stars, then? Humies could use hyperspace while that dolphin race had a free-travelling gravity drive.
Then there were those bugs that had neither and travelled really slowly between stars but could set up gates once they got there.
Not a bad game, all things considered.
>>337466727
Oh, yeah. The planet's not bad for my pop, 60% habitability. I have prohibited resettlement and my species has the sedentary trait, so I enabled migration, can I expect my species to pop up on the planet?
Why can't I regroup battleships into fleets ?
>>337468070
>Thanks Jesus.
>>337467756
But what do the wormholes pass through? What lives in wormhole space?
>>337468074
Military power is an approximation - an extreme example is a fleet with every ship having no weapons but super strong shields and a "weaker" fleet with only space torpedoes, the second fleet should always win
>>337466873
Halp
>>337468074
You might have gotten hard-countered by the enemy, or you lack in a certain field (armor, shields, offensive) If you want 5k to beat 4k, you have to research _every_ military tech there is and not specialize.
>>337468464
>Ok
Is it better to have a mix of armor and shields? I love the fact that armor doesn't take up energy, but my fleet might get screwed if the enemy has certain weapons.
>>337468074
You got Picard Maneuver'ed
>>337469012
honestly you should just rush xeno space faring creature tech and focus the rest of your research on shields and infrastructure
the pace faring spess amoeba weapons and moving stars effectively dominate mid game, along with the crystal entity's hull armor
once you have all the xeno tech, just wait until late game and move on to fallen empire tech afterwards
alternatively, if your really scared of being countered invest a little into AA and anti torp countermeasures
I just want my space elves/orcs/ect mod soon. I don't dislike the default races, but meh.
>>337469012
Against AI i would research everything equally and not specialize. Just update your warships to the latest designs and you'll be fine. A mix is always better than pure dedication, because if someone bad declares against you, you'll lose 8k against 16k and so on. Try to balance it out unless you are sure you can gain any advantage by specializing.
>>337462991
What's a game that's set in space but isn't sci-fi?
>>337469012
well armor can be countered by lasers too. Armor isn't worth it if the ship doesn't have multiple large and medium slots anyway imo and at least tier 3 armor. You are best off making multiple ship designs anyway. Diversification is key.
Small ring galaxy was a mistake
I'm playing around with the ship designer and changing a module from one that costs 10 to one that costs 20 on 10 ships doesn't make the upgrade cost 100.
Is there a tax when you upgrade ships?
>must make sectors if you want to continue to colonize more
the faggot who came up with that shit should burn in hell
>>337463338
reported
>>337469537
Yeah, it's really annoying. It should be a choice, at least.
You can't even manually manage tiles after you assign them to a sector. Why?
RATE IT LADSSSSSS
>>337468074
>>337468270
Well shit, torpedos (devastating I think) and shields is what I invested in.
They had lasers then?
Reminder to fill your galaxy with overpowered and/or thematic handcrafted species.
>>337462157
>only give it fully developed worlds so it doesn't fuck it up.
And yet, on a fully developed planet populated entirely by synthetics, it demolishes the fully upgraded science labs for hydroponic farms.
>>337469850
Right, because right now the option that tells them to not do that is broken.
>>337469679
you are SMALLTIME
This game has ALOT of cool ideas but it's so barebares. 4 victory types, no trade caravans are just some of the things that annoy me. Chances of adding a family tree? Also if I have individualism and xenophobia I still should be able to enslave xenos, this makes no sense
Did you guys when creating your custom human faction, also changed its racial traits? If I don't so that, and encounter another human empire, will the game thibk their race be the same as mine?
Game needs ck+ analogue badly
>>337469909
Big empires surrounding smaller ones master race reporting in.
>>337470043
No.
>>337469792
>using rockets at all
You fucked up. Point-defense simply shoots down incoming rockets. Just for reference, lasers ignore armor and shields just have lots of hp. Use a mix of mass drivers and lasers and you can defeat almost any army.
>>337469909
Nice backyard you got there.
>>337469679
>fleets not sitting on starbases
it's like you want maximum fleet maintenance costs all the time
Maybe I should start a new game.
Can somebody explain how you take over alien planets properly? After purging the entire population I just lost the planet I took and it went back under the enemies borders.
So how do I get rid of neutral native alien pops on a planet I want to colonive without purging them? Apparently Military republic gov is too mary sue for ethnic cleansing
I wish the game was smarter when it came to research options.
>>337460851
I just can't enjoy this game. I can see the potential in it, and creating factions is really fun.
But it needs more content. More traits to differentiate species. More things to do on a planet. More customization, more ship parts and layouts. More diplomatic options. More in depth politics and population modeling. More economic options and maybe even introducing goods. More options to automate tedious micromanagement like making buildings on every planet in the Galaxy.
It's a good game so far but it needs time to finish developing. Classic Paradox dev cycle.
>>337465137
Colonize it or just drop armies on it.
>>337470848
Full bombardment works. But you'll have to spend a shitload removing the tile blockers it creates.
>>337470151
No to which question?
So these xeno fags became my vassals. I now have a trade deal with them. Is there anyway to view that trade deal? What is being traded?
>>337470884
I'm on my second game, and five hours in I haven't seen hide nor hair of strike craft.
>Decide to mod in some traits to my custom empire because I'm a big roleplaying faggot through the user_empire_designs file.
>When I go to make a new game, the custom race is gone.
The fuck.
>>337471162
yes
>>337471162
The latter.
So might get bonus to relation due to having same Ethos, but otherwise considered as different race.
>>337471069
How do I do that ona a neutral planet though? I cant war them or anything
>>337471221
Did you enable the mod through the launcher?
>>337462784
Bought it for 30
Severely regret it, this is no content: the game
>>337471319
Just land a colony and put them in camps.
>>337468074
>Have a 25k power battleship fleet
>All Railguns because retarded
>Sperm fighters seem great
>Never got point defense because trying to be cool and minmax my tech
>Engage pussy 10k army with torps
>Absolutely savaged
Everyone learns at some point. That's when I did.
How much Point Defense is enough on ships?
>>337471604
How much missiles are being thrown at you?
>>337471357
Sadly this. Diplomacy is barebones and pretty much whatever, every race plays exactly the same as you can just freely pick the traits you want and they don't have that much of an impact on the gameplay anyways.
Combat is automated, policies and edicts barely do anything and half the game you can't afford them anyways.
CK2 is interesting because of how the different cultures play out and you can work your way through the ranks by picking some lowlevel lord. The EU games have variety depending on the nation you start out with.
In Stellaris everything is exactly the same with a different fluff icon.
>>337471604
I just make one ship that has all PD on it to cover the whole fleet. I dunno if it works tho.
>>337471448
Get some corvette meat shields and equip point defense on them.
They are cheap, easy to replace, can defend your battleship from rockets and sometimes take a huge ass laser or kinetic artillery for your battleships.
Equip defensive AI on them so they don't rush to their deaths.
>>337471681
Let's say about 33% of all incoming damage is made by missiles
Do I equip my ships to 1/3 with Pointdefense?
>>337471736
Sounds like a good idea
>>337471335
Sorry, wrong use of the word 'Mod'. Editing the user_empire_design file should be a simple thing. No 'mod' needed.
>>337471838
I understand all this now, but by the time it was very late game, my empire was huge, and I couldn't fucking get the tech in time. I -literally- only had advanced railguns tech for my weapons.
Decent advice, though. Just been in the habit of one point defense per ship, but that sounds better.
>5 planets
>4 moons
>on starting system
All ended up with nothing. No Min, Energy, Sci point.
Nothing.
>>337470059
>A FUCKING HEART
>>337471957
Should be, yeah. But try compiling the modded file and your race into a folder and then put it into the /mods folder. That might fix it.
>>337472158
I'll keep that idea in mind. I'm already just fiddling with it right now. Deleting what I added restores the empire to the list. Maybe I put contrasting traits or too many.
Is there a way to update military bases to bigger ones or do I have to scrap them and rebuild them?
hype for the eventual warhammer 40k mod
Whenever i try to manually mod anything i can't start up the game, any help?
>>337471995
The thing is that point defense is only usefull for missiles.
Wasting a slot on a battleship for that really cuts into your offensive power and one might not be enough if you are fighting enemies that use a lot of missiles.
Also you are wasting a slot in general if the enemy doesn't use missiles.
Corvettes by that time are next to useless except when used en masse so wasting their slots on PD is almost unnoticeable. And even so you can more easily upgrade a bunch of corvettes than a battleship.
>>337472289
Just found out that adding any additional traits to a custom race through the user_empire_design file causes that empire to vanish. It didn't do this yesterday. Did the paracucks do this?
I'll try the mod folder approach I suppose.
>>337462784
Bought. 14 hours in and runs fine.
Only things I've noticed is the colors are wonky in the creation screen and when I try and trade sometimes there's stuff already on the table.
how can I get my sector to send me their minerals?
not part of their mineral productions but their stock
they have 0 energy and 1500 minerals and I don't have energy either could use those minerals to build power plants
>>337460851
How the fuck do i speed up the integration of a vassal?
It says it needs 1300 influence at a rate of 3 per month so its gonna take ages.
I have 800 influence right now, can i just accelerate it somehow?
>>337472621
Help?
>>337471287
So if they have the same racial traits, then it would be the same race right?
>attack other nation
>they just sit their army on their planet's spaceport amassing strenght
>the game ends up just being a shitty cold war where we're just spending all minerals on spaceships
fuck this game, in fact fuck paradox games its always the same, impossible to attack AI since they just camp, be it stelaris or be it crusader kings
>>337473482
No.
You can never find the same race in the game. Each race is unique and starts with their own planet.
Even if you have two races, with the same traits, ethics, and portrait they are still considered different races.
>>337473705
Yea that makes sense. I guys I should not feel weird in customizing my own human race then.
How well does this run on laptops or lower end hardware.
Only have my laptop at University so not a great laptop available
I've played this shitty game for barely 10 hours and I'm bored to tears already.
So glad I didn't buy this piece of crap. Fuck you, modern Paradox.
>>337462784
Pirated. See: >>337473965
>>337473876
It's optimized like garbage and in order to actually have war in the mid-lategame you need to zoom out to galaxy view because it will hang trying to render the battles in 3d.
My game keeps crashing when i edit defines.lua to increase planet cap, what do i do wrong?
>>337461995
Faggot
God damn why is every colour brown on the emblem selection, this is really fucking weird.
>>337474083
Thanks i suspected this may be the case
>conquer planet
>purge all xenofags from all pops
>planet back in enemy's control
WHY
>>337474181
It seems like a common problem with AMD at the moment
How do you mess with stone age primitives?
Ok so where is the menu to edit the hotkeys, why is there no default (space) hotkey for pause and why are there zero settings for autopause on events etc.?
>>337462784
Pirated, but I will be buying sometime after next week most likely. I just wanted to see if I liked it, and I really do.
What's the point of the leader lifespan trait? Other than scientist whore actually useful, the other leaders barely seem to be of importance.
>>337469804
>all humies
>>337472410
Scrap
>>337474664
It stops leaders dying before they become useful. Most of them are hired around age 45 which doesn't give them much time to live if they even get to level 5.
>>337473670
Git Gud
>>337469804
>Japanese Empire
>not based on Science
>Arabic civilization
>not Stone Age primitives
>anything with a black leader
>Democracy
wew
I like this game, but I have QUESTIONS.
>If a rare tech shows up, should I just research it as soon as possible?
>How do I conquer a planet and remove aliens on it without it reverting back to the enemy's control?
>Why is warp travel so shit?
anyway to speed up robot pops?
>>337463470
you can play the game pretty 40k-ish and purge all xeno threats.
>>337475150
who are you quoting?
>>337474756
HAD STRAIGHT HAIR N SHIEEET
>Uplift primitive race
>They have Strong and Very Strong traits
>They also have fanatic militarist ethos
>Use them as dedicated planet invaders
Feels good man
>>337463258
the sun is a woman
>>337475201
Those were meant to be - but I guess I was on autopilot. Whoops
>>337475091
You're kind of dumb.
>>337464951
either make them happy with special tech or move them to mining tiles and enslave them. you dont even have to purge slaves. you can just make it illegal for them to breed.
pirated patches where?
>embarked troops warp in before main fleet
I was so excited for this game. I tried to download it yesterday just in case it worked in my crap PC. I was sure I was going to buy the game when I had a better computer.
But the game worked and thank god I tried it before buying it. I got bored so fast. I come from playing EU4 but this game... There is literally NOTHING to do. The AI does nothing, you just expand, build more things etc and paint the galaxy with your own colour. You don't face any real challenge anywhere
BTW
>Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6750 2.66GHz, 4,0GB RAM, Windows 8.1-32 bits ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
>>337471179
Hover your mouse on your banner next to the trade sign smart friend :^)
>>337471319
You need to land offensive troops
>>337475028
>declare war on neighbor
>quickly capture my war goal planets
>his war goal is to "Defend"
>crush his entire army and bomb all his planets and stations
>he gets free monthly war score for losing
>his peace offer is only one of the 4 planets I wanted
>>337469532
I found the answer to this.
This is how the cost is calculated:
FLEET_UPGRADE_MINERAL_COST_BASE = 5.0, -- mineral cost of ship upgrade is base + abs( price difference between old and new designs * FLEET_UPGRADE_MINERAL_COST_MULT )
FLEET_UPGRADE_MINERAL_COST_MULT = 0.75,
So, upgrading always costs 5 per ship + 75% of difference between old and new parts
>>337476341
Doesn't he lose that warscore if you capture his homeworld?
>>337471162
I'm playing as a custom human race called "human" and I met a different "human" race in my game and we're not related in any way other than the name or both being mammalians
>>337476594
I think it was glitched because my vassal's troops were the ones who conquered it and they had a black "Unknown Empire" logo instead of their logo.
Hey, what is a transport ship? My people have contacted primitives against my will and the only way to remove them is by having a "transport ship" in orbit. Does that mean a colony ship, or what?
>>337476769
Make an assault army on a planet, right click it in the army tab when it's trained. That creates a transport ship with the troops on board.
>>337476769
troop transport probably. Train some assault armies, then embark them from the army screen. They'll have their own little ship you can transport them around in
>>337476769
Go to the army tab of a planet, create an army and then embark them.
Before that , go to the ship designer and click auto create best for a moment because you can't edit your transports because of a bug so they have the worst tech.
>>337476849
>>337476902
>>337476926
oh wow, I haven't even bothered with terrestrial armies yet. Does that mean I can also supress xenos under my control?
thanks for the help
>>337475905
>you can't merge or attach your transports to your main fleet
>you can't give orders to your ai allies
>you cant order invasions from the galaxy screen and have to zoom in every time
>you cant individually construct energy mining stations over mineral mining stations from the galaxy screen and have to zoom in everytime
>the ai enemy fleet is much smaller and weaker then yours, but still beats you in war score simply because they keep pummeling your shitty allies that just follow you around or they attack space stations halfway across your empire
JUST
LoGH mod when?
>>337474083
pls respond
>>337474290
You need to resettle your population first.
They'll hate anyways.
>>337477423
>construct energy mining stations over mineral mining stations from the galaxy screen
Just use the outliner, if you mean on planets. For system resources, just use 'build mining stations'.
I love this barebone game way too fucking much.
Where's my DLC expansions, I'm ready to buy them right now.
>>337474756
>>337475258
WE WUZ WEARING WEAVES N' SHIET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZzcw5dpb2s
is there a way to automatically upgrade ships if there's a better component available?
Or do you need to manually redo schematics every time you research a better armor? The ship schematic screen is cancer, I can't scroll through 20+ ships every time
There's an small enemy empire close to me - how can I check their fleet? How can I lure their fleet out of their borders in order to click it and check what they have - lasers, armors etc to counter it properly.
>>337478413
It's literally a 5 seconds click job, why are you trying to automate it?
Why people always complain abut the most retarded shit?
>>337478691
lol no.
The best you can hope for is seeing them hunt down some space squids.
>>337478386
>be me working in an office however long ago
>complement black coworker women on their nice hair
>much later find out it's all fake hair
Thank god I'm a white guy who can just buzz his ugly head and not give a shit.
>>337478691
you need the espionage dlc, luckily it's only 9.99$
pls buy
>>337478815
There are many people on /v/, some really suck, some are really good. Some don't gather information, some ask here first.
Try not to be a dick and we all profit.
There's no auto upgrade, as soon as you research a new tech you have to update your ship designer and upgrade/build new ships afterwards.
>>337478919
I'll pirate it when it's released.
JUST
>>337478919
>>337479084
Thanks Johan!
>tfw finding your first ringworld
>>337479162
>that cropping
JUST indeed
>>337479084
>being literally worse than a child molester pedophile
Kill yourself
>>337479208
What the fuck I swear the default paint canvas was always small as shit.
>>337479187
So to understand when you're happy about something - you suddenly feel the need for attention from other degenerate weebs - so instead of enjoying your emotions and discovery you go on your computer local anime storage folder - pick a .gif and post in here to show everyone how autistic you are.
>>337479296
>paint
>>337479187
mfw I see the loot it drops
can i use the robot mod online if i host or will the other people have to have it as well?
My fleet is composed of destroyers with defensive AI and small/medium lasers and corvettes equipped with a mix of laser and torpedoes with an aggressive AI
>>337479362
Yes, that's what you do. Press Print screen button, copy paste in paint and save the image as Untitled.png
>>337479410
Yeah everyone needs to have the same checksum so they need the mod too
finally killed off the defences here, how do i effectively exterminate the primitives and settle there myself?
Could someone help me out? I've been playing for past hour and can't seem to understand how the hell am I supposed to efficiently expand. Systems have pretty much fuckall resources and "claiming" systems using the construction ship deteriorates my influence gain, which is necessary for claiming more systems. How do I combat this?
>>337479634
Purge them
>>337478120
have resbondings?
>>337479361
LOL
welcome to 4chen
>>337479634
Limited bombing for a year.
>>337479692
Oh well, I'll include my current state so you can laugh at my progress and say what am I doing wrong.
>>337479634
Wait, why are they primitive?
The one ring world I conquered had technocratic space foxes, who happily became my citizens and arctic colonizers.
>>337479712
>>337479692
Scout until you find a green planet icon.
Send colony ship.
You don't need the Outposts.
>>337479634
How do you make ring worlds?
>>337479818
>>337479692
God damn it
>>337479634
>force migrate one of your pops to ring world
>purge the other xeno pops
>you will now keep your ring world
done
>>337479692
Colonize new planets, build frontier outposts when necessary, dig deep.
>>337479632
Alright thanks
>>337479926
Colonize the green planets, once you own it bulldoze the outpost.
How do I put some of my own people onto conquered planets? I can't turn on the migration policy and the "land of opportunity" policy has no effect other than wasting my influence.
>>337479926
>all those free planets lying around
>hurr how do I into spess?
How do I git gud? I feel like I'm too stupid to properly manage my empire.
>>337479915
So if I find a system I'd like resources from that has a habitable planet, I should rather colonize the planet and they'll I'll be able to build stations just as if I build an outpost? Thanks.
>>337479976
By dig deep you mean I don't necessarily have to strive to have "unified" borders? I sort of see that might be a good idea.
>>337480101
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do soon. Thanks too.
>frontier outpost in system with colonizable planet
Why?
>>337480148
>Play as a pacifist xenophile
>Dicksuck all the other pacificts
>Form massive federation of sissy races
EZ modo
>>337471448
What's wrong with mass drivers?
>>337480148
Fanatic collectivist, enslave everyone.
Is there a good reason not to colonize shit?
Seems like snagging as much territory as possible would help the most in the long run.
>>337480184
Well, the colony ship was 300 minerals and various stations are ~100 each, thought that's the way to exploit systems, but I didn't know it'd chip at my influence gain.
>>337480331
You will lose half your fleet to missiles before you get in range.
>be xenophobic
>genetically modify your whole race
>everybody now hates being ruled by aliens (old non existent race)
>can't do anything about it
Paradox pls.
Hyperspace lane is the best early/mid FTL. Prove me wrong
Are slaves effectively powerless or can they turn rebellious?
>>337480414
Your research slows down as you get more pops. If your colonized planets don't contribute a whole lot to your research, the effect can leave you behind others.
How do I create space Sweden?
>>337480414
For every pop above 10 that you have, research takes a bit longer.
>>337480705
They should rebel but Paradox didn't program it in yet
Seriously
>>337480689
They enjoyed being themselves, and now they're inhuman monsters. Suicide and insanity mechanics when?
While we're at it, ability to sterilize pops without the whole enslave-prohibit procreating hassle would be great too.
>>337480164
Correct, outposts are really only useful for bridging border-gaps or claiming systems with important resources that you can't colonize. And yes, sometimes you have to create those gaps in your border to get the best planets.
>>337480805
>>337480724
So as long as I build a couple labs on each planet and maybe 1 or 2 per station its all upsides?
>>337480865
pls buy the population control dlc it's only 14,99
Do the pops in sectors contribute to research drain?
>>337480767
Go fanatic xenophile and collectivist. Allow full migration between planets, activate the eddict that makes your planet more attractive for alien races t migrate to, whenever your home planet is full purge two of your population and then relocate an alien there.
>>337480689
Research Xeno Leadership.
>>337468464
Gaia World Fatlus
>>337480972
How many labs you need depends on how big the planet is. There is a formula for how much each pop increases research point requirement, you can calculate the amount of research pts you need for it to be upside if you really want.
when you fight off an Axis of 5 nations and hold the line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uR5SF4fx9Q
>Science crew are investigating something
>Event pops up where the crew is sucked into an alternate dimension for like, five seconds
>When they get back, half of them are missing
>Few days later, a new science ship with the other half of the crew returns to us
>I have the option of taking them back in and getting a free ship, or destroying them
What do?
>>337480540
Ahhh, I wasn't fool enough to not invest in point defense. Also, does point defense defend against torpedoes as well?
>>337481090
Every pop over 10 increases your research cost by 2%
So the cost of a tech at 260 pop is increased by 500% more.
>>337481036
Sectors are complete shit, they represent a titanic waste of Energy and Minerals for zero benefit.
Just change the defines file and play with Planet Limit 100 then the game at least isn't broken. You have to manually upgrade planets but it's far better then them being useless.
>>337481151
That's a nice galaxy you have.
Shame if something happened to it.
>>337481263
So as long as your +research per pop average is higher than 2% you should be fine.
>>337461569
can the AI be modded or is it up to creators to fix with 5 dlcs?
>>337481151
Don't. They are agents of huge empire that has observation post over your universe.
>>337481276
Where's the waste in resources?
>>337481104
I need the LoGH mod.
Is there a bug with terraforming resources right now? I'm trying to terraform a desert world into a tropical and it's saying I don't have the liquid, but I have two.
>>337461995
YOU ARE A FUNNY FUNGOID. WANNA TRADE SLAVES?
>>337481276
>sector pays maintenance cost of all your gadgets located within its borders
>waste of resources
Uh huh.
Loving those free frontier outposts.
>>337481560
Sectors will at most give you 75% of their resources gained, which leads to them having massive stockpiles of thousands of energy/minerals you can't spend after a while.
>launch day DLC that locks off races
And my mouse was hovering the buy button too.
>>337481560
They throw away at minimum 25% of your energy and minerals.
Also the governor can't upgrade the Colony Core or Admin Center so it creates a huge bottleneck.
Also you can't easily get the spaceports of those planets anymore.
is there any way to mod in Classical Music? I wanna just purge Xeno Scum while Dvoraks Symphony 9 is playing in the background.
>>337460851
If you get the message, does that garauntee they're going to arrive in your space? I've been expanding comfy through my spiral arm, but I started two wars then got the "subspace echoes" message and am beginning to worry.
>>337481706
>>337481862
that's retarded
>>337462161
What shitty fantasy you got
>>337462241
But CK2 was a terrestrial shitty game
>>337462251
YES.
>>337462443
M-maybe AI has propaganda bonuses by default?
>>337462473
Shitposter, go to /vg
>>337481694
He pays for it out of your rent check he owes you and keeps the change.
>>337481810
It's just cosmetic. :^)
>>337481930
Next phase they will ping your galaxy map to show you where they are entering.
>>337462753
stop expanding or build more science shit, the higher costs stops the snowballing effect somewhat, but more people means more researchers
eventually you'll be strong enough to win a battle of Attrition with a Fallen Empire and then you can just steal their tech
>>337462997
RTFW
>>337482003
Good, cuz I have so many resources I have to dump my minerals at the sectors to keep myself under the cap :^)
>>337463147
By not BUYING it now you will appear as a fuckng normie and you will not be able to stand any online discussion about MODDING or RACES or SHIPS
C'mon
>>337481448
Not that hard to do.
73 months isn't that much
>>337463513
fuck off kike
What's the best amount of planets to go for to be strong and keep research manageable?
>>337474756
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mod-asian-and-white.929784/
>>337463595
Nice story. Collectivists get bonus on the FOOD production.
>>337461569
Literally 2 days after the invasion the AI destroyed them, captured their queen and started breeding them as warfare fodder
>>337464038
IS COLLECTIVISM a spacey form of COMMUNISM?
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why does my game crash when i edit core planet amount in defines.lua?
>>337464090
you get a small penalty to every planet over your limit, limit can be increased via research or gov type.
to offset this you can grant control of star systems to Sectors who manage themselves somewhat, you can go 2 ways with it, either make it so they focus on growth and take nothing from them but the research, or tax them for 75% of what they earn and then when your Energy/Minerals get High/Capped go into the sector interface and feed them creds n minerals to grow them, this saves you having to piss around with the % and the game notifies you when your resources are capped
make sure you toggle on their ability to rebuild over old buildings, the AI likes to focus on Food growth to max it's population before swapping the tiles to Mines/Labs
>>337482519
Research is not a problem, if you build labs on the planets you take, on top of you having that sweet planet resource stream to actually use your research on the grand fleet.
So the answer is all of them. All the planets.
>>337482139
Neat, thanks.
>tfw trying to fight a war and strained for resources
>tfw realizing, "oh wait, I left every single one of my humongous sectors on 25% resource contribution in hopes of helping them develop"
>crank that up to 75, suddenly drowning in resources
FACTORIES
OF
WAR
A
R
>>337473670
>only two planets as war demands
>trick an enemy into chasing tiny fleet
>flee to system nearby
>they warp in
>on top of three fleets all triple their size
>dead before they get out of warp recovery
>sack their now defenseless system
>they cede both targets as soon as you conquer one planet
>win first war before they can build second fleet
>repeat until vassalized
>>337464126
Seems like you have an AUSCHWITZ with no one into (Yet).
>>337481862
Forgot to mention they also can't use Strategic Resources outside their sectors.
>>337462251
Wait
Are you saying I can create 4-5 outposts, make them into a sector and repeat? No need for colonies?
>>337466873
a sector can only take territory next to it, so if you only want 1 sector you'll find you need to give him way more shit than you want to connect the planets to get rid of the penalty of going over the planet cap, instead you can create sectors in different areas of your empire to give away as little as possible so you remain in control of the majority of stuff.
>>337464729
RTFW
Some alignments are properly nazis. They hate you and they pray to kill you own species everyday to YHWH.
Reminder that spamming vassals is extremely OP and makes federations pointless.
Why the fuck are my collectvist pops mad at alien slavery?
>>337481930
have fun with an encounter that's impossible to properly defeat without mods or console commands :^)
>>337482775
That's what I've been doing but most of the other empires are showing that their technology is either superior or overwhelming. I build labs, upgrade them, build all the research posts etc. but they are always ahead of me.
>>337468392
Honestly play SotS instead (avoid 2 like a normal person.
>>337482987
Not xenophobic enough maybe?
>>337464992
So ALLIANCES Are one step before the WAR ??
>>337482854
If there is a star with no resources and you build an outpost, then make it a sector with no governer, then it's free.
Otherwise if there are any minerals or energy on the same star as the outpost, then you are effectively paying for the outpost with 25% of the resources on the star.
>>337482645
Nigga you got lucky.
In my game it was way worse
>Galaxy is literally split in 4 parts
>I control the East
>Two huge empires controls the North and West, the west one being the most powerful.
>A federation of federations control the South
>it's a fucking stale mate, since if you attack one side the other side will not waste time in declaring war on your ass
>Aliens come in the West
>AI does nothing to stop them
>can't do shit because I have no way to reach him
>watch with horror how the swarm gets more powerful eating that empire and I can't do anything
That shit will end with the aliens controlling 75% of the fucking galaxy. I'm currently terraforming everything in my system so I can have the resources to fight them.
>>337465239
RTFW
Xenophiles get +20
>>337482854
im pretty sure they still count, i think the other anon is wrong.
>>337483083
I picked militarist because I didn't know army damage was useless
Also, how exactly does ethics divergence work? Like 2 years after I started the game, my home planet already had pops that lost the collectivist ethic
>>337465392
Sure is funny to EMULATE your Country, Lardous Man.
>>337482570
>error
>>337465591
HE AMERICANO HE MAD
Is there a way to increase my planet limit?
>>337483430
you need the DLC
pls buy
>>337466727
cool story, like calling the aliums to genocide you for that, Lard.
>>337482727
Not really. Communism is a collectivist ideology but so is fascism and nationalism in general. You can imagine your empire to be rather different things by using the collectivist ethos. Anything from space communism to space nazism or Imperium of Man.
>>337483430
two of the government types increases your core planets, by +2 and +4 respectively.
not sure about tech.
>>337483684
There are at least 2 techs that increase limit by +1 each.
Is there any reason to keep building smaller ships once you can reliably build battleships?
>>337466882
By going military xenophobe you hate everyone
By going scientific or commercial xenophile you get some friends, while the military xenophobes still hate you.
What's even the point of an alliance? It just draisn influence that I could use to cockblock a million empires and allies never fucking do anything
Haven't played any Paradox games, it is hard to get into? I can probably only play on weekends so do I need to be a NEET autist to get the most out of this?
>>337483261
Apparently there's a bug with pops losing ethics even at low divergence.
Military empire is fine, I'm on a military run right now, and I get all the great military tech early, and even got some events to jump straight to lvl 4 armor and shields.
>>337467009
grab those tiles
you earn something :)
so once you transfer frontier posts to sectors you stop paying the influence cost? no downside beside the initial costs?
>>337483747
Lategame repeatable +1 planet tech means potentially unlimited core planets. You just have to play for 10+ hours to get there.
>>337483830
Any way to get them to change their ethics back? I'm 30 years into my first run so I don't know shit
>>337483801
Setllaris is the easiest entry into any paradox game since they actually have a proper tutorial this time
>>337467351
You can
and
No, only useful trades are allowed
you seem american
>>337483801
Give this game half a year for bug fixes and mandatory DLC. Right now it's pretty bare bones, but has potential to be great.
>>337483108
end game federation wars are long, painful wars of attrition
expect to see your pc chug as over 100k each side gets into laggy massive space battles, which really arnt that decisive for the outcome of the war as now both sides can vomit forth endless amounts of ships, meaning the only way to win is the painful and gruelling wars of occupation and destruction of enemy space ports
end game is literally warhammer 40k
>>337483750
Yea, they have high evasion and enemy fire is less focused.
You tend to lose shitloads of corvettes in battles, but they are fast and cheap to replace. Now imagine all that fire is directed at your battleships instead. That's not cheap and fast to replace.
Also, when you lose a battleship you lose like 1000+ military power. Losing a corvette barely does anything.
>>337481514
Well, fuck. Already let them in cause muh human life.
Discarded the science ship at least since I didn't need any more. Problems in the future, maybe? Been a few ingame years now.
>>337483941
negative ethics divergence will make them start going back.
ALL IN ALL A SHITTY THREAD
PLZ AMERICAN LARDOUS FUNGOIDS
STOP PIRATING AND READ THE FUCKING WIKI
ON DEVELOPERS SITE
>>337483941
Just ignore it, shouldn't be that much of a problem. There's also an orbital mind control thing for -10% divergence, but it's rather advanced tech.
>>337484052
And how do I get that? Tech? Edicts? Buildings?
>>337484107
Mind control.
>start new game as racist, Zionist space Jews
>pick mass drivers
>first admiral has gained a new attribute from every movement she has done for massive speed and fire rate increases
>research boosters and autocannons asap
>fleet of tiny corvettes blasting around at light speed shredding everything they meet in seconds
>nothing can stop my shoah fleet from cleansing their gentile lands
>>337462784
Pirated.
I like it and want to buy it but i will wait 2-3 DLC to see which way Paradox is going with the game.
If its the right way i will buy it.
>>337484095
>shouldn't be that much of a problem
Some pops lost their collectivist ethic, got mad about slavery and started a separatist faction
Is there any downside to purging your own species' pops?
>>337483998
Thanks. What about destroyers and cruisers?
gut a bit of a question, its mildly confusing but about migration access
if I want another species to get the option to migrate to ME but prevent my people from migrating to THEM what should I do
give them migration acccess or have them give me migration access (Offer or Demand)
>Start game near gas giant
>Apparently its home to a sentient gaseous race who want me to move them to a new planet to avoid extinction
>Ok sounds cool and move them to new planet
>Every 10 years they come begging for some little bull shit waah I dont like my new planet I missed my old planet
I should have just left you to die you ungrateful shits
>>337484031I was just playing with you
Is there a way to make sectors not visible on the map? Those white boxes are kinda annoying.
>>337484197
give them migration
>>337484107
all of the above. edicts are prob the easiest, there are planetary and empire wide edicts to lower divergence. tech can unlock some buildings that will do it too.
Never played a grand strategy game before.
Is it more advisable to make my own race or start with one of the presets?
>>337484232
I have the same event
I was hoping for them to be epic ruse schemer and becoming a crisis, but all they do is whine or moan and occasionally say thank you
>>337469804
Is there a mod yet that adds humans as seperate race species?
Kinda want to see blacks fight asians and whites.
>play as weird tentacle aliens
>confused horribly
>eventually someone declares war
>my best ships have like 2k power with like 100 ships in a squad
>they have one squad with 11k power
>quit
What did I do wrong?
>>337483776
depends on your situation, an alliance can let you focus on your economy and expanding instead of having to constantly update your military to wane of any nearby threats.
>playing as default human faction that starts in our solar system
>during the game find another Sol system with humans living on third planet, fighting in WW2
BUT WHO ARE THE REAL HUMANS
>>337483776
Alliances are like sectors, they are a noob trap option which hurts you.
>>337484383
Did you get the event where you transport a communist revolutionary gas couldmen strike team into the gas couldmen ruling class headquarters and overthrow them?
>>337460851
they REALLY need to fix end game performace
it's taking ages to speed things along now thanks to how many ships there in game moving about
and as I can only be federation president for only a few years it's a case of waiting for 10 years, fighting a galaxy wide war and waiting another 5 years
and the waiting with the performance issues is simply unbearable
>>337484291
really? that sounds like its wrong because giving them migration access actually increases trade power for me while them having the option to migrate to my lands is a major benefit for me rather than for them (free pops)
so I can really ensure their pops come to me AND have them pay me for it?
>>337484495
Pre-sentient cockroaches that inhabit tomb Sol-III on the galaxy rim are the real real humans.
Rate my Lohengramm Empire pls
>>337484496
but if I don't use sectors, I get penalties
>>337484576
yeah I supported the revolutionaries
they took over and basically changed the name of their "empire", that was it
>>337484496
how are sectors bad? once you go over the planet limit you're getting penalties out of your arse and there's plenty of minerals to just shit out a million or so colony ships
>>337484585
Paradox never does anything about the late game in their games because they know like 5% of the people who started the game get there.
>>337482645
>breeding as warfare fodder
Wait can you literally enslave races and do shit like genetically modify them into bioweapons? Because if so I'm getting this shit.
>>337484662
Get the 99 core sector mod on the workshop
Or edit the ini files yourself
I want to make an "empire" based on our based United Nations. What traits and such should I pick?
>>337484343
Well this isn't a grand strategy game so you should be fine.
>>337484750
I don't want to build shit manually on 20 different planets
>>337484743
Yeah you can genemod your enslaved pops to give them the Very Strong trait making them into super soldiers for your armies
>>337484194
Destroyers serve the same kind of purpose. Personally I outfit my battleships and cruisers similarly with long range energy weapons and heavy shields/armour so they are extremely capable of fighting. My destroyers and corvettes are fitted with torpedo weapons and have pretty good evasion and decent defense. The destroyers and corvettes serve primarily as cannon fodder while cruisers and battleships make up for the core of the fleet. I build the cruisers and battleships at specialized spaceports which have extra bonuses for the ships while destroyers and corvettes are built wherever my fleet is stationed.
So basically I don't care if I lose destroyers and corvettes, but it's extremely inconvenient if I lose the cruisers or battleships.
I have a ratio going on. A handful of battleships, maybe 2-4, about 6-10 cruisers, 20+ destroyers and 40+ corvettes in a task force. That way it's very rare I lose cruisers or battleships unless I'm literally fighting a serious war of attrition where space fleets are grinded down to nothing.
>>337484785
pacifist indirect democracy with fanatic individualism
Is pic related a reference to something?
Had this great gaia world right next to my start area, guarded by 1k stack of automatic defenders "Guardians of Zanaam". Murdered them, stripped them for high level tech, and the planet is cool, but had no event chain or any recognition at all.
>>337484830
Fuck I know what I'm doing today.
>>337484785
It's literally one of the default empires nigga
i just want to make a race that can survive on nuclear wasteland worlds, then flatten every world in the galaxy i find with atomics and set up shop, perfectly content.
can i do this in stellaris?
>>337481462
Since there are like 5 "more aggressive AI" mods already I assume it can be fixed by mods as long as people know what's up
>>337484343
make your own, it's more 4x than it is Grand Strat
steam has a really good guide/tutorial on what all the Traits/Gov types are rated at and it'll give you a good idea of whats worth picking and why.
>>337484930
You should be able to genetically modify a race to be like that I think. I know there is a pre-sentient cockroach race which can live happily on nuclear wasteland worlds and you can obviously uplift that.
>>337479385
>>337479187
>mfw i was retarded enough to give the ring world to a sector and that sector replaced all those ancient super powerful factories with common ones and now the whole area lost most of its worth
>>337484930
Yeah get Very Adaptable it adds like +20 habitability
You still cant live on the destroyed tomb worlds though unless you elevate the cockroaches
Why should I use shield components when I can use plating to directly increase their HPs by the same amount for no energy cost?
>>337484869
.01% chance of Dead Space event chain per tick, as far as I heard.
What is best galaxy type?
I vote 2 arm spiral
>>337484930
I just want som actually challenging end game crisis and an ai that at least trys to stop the hordes from killing their subjects
>ai ally as 50k
>refuses to move one system and save his gaia world from 17k unbidden
>refuses to reoccupy unbidden territory after I close to portal
JUST
>>337484838
Thanks mate. Time to diversify my fleet.
>>337485037
>make your own, it's more 4x than it is Grand Strat
Ah I should be fine then. I'd rather learn which traits work and which don't.
>>337485041
>I know there is a pre-sentient cockroach race
that's just rude, calling turks pre-sentient
>>337485043
I usually turn them into my main spac eport facilities
>easier to defend
>ai will always raid your capital
>other players will try and raid your capital and pretty much overlook your ring of fleet making kickassery
>spam fortresses erryday
gud times
>>337485205
I mean actual giant cockroaches, I'm not talking about worthless trash.
>>337484750
>Not editing the game files to give yourself a benefit is a noob trap
Yeah, you're a real pro.
>>337485080
You won't know the satisfaction of wiping out a 10k stack with 100% health at the end.
>>337485205
/gsg/ memes lol
so I got 4 habitable systems off the bat with 2 continentals
lucky start or is this normal
>>337483405
https://mega.nz/#!wZhjxDZJ!1uYE86XhI36nnoxtNm79bgJ8oGFNjKO1yfq4vy2-IZ0
>>337485352
>STOP PLAYING THE GAME THE WAY YOU WANT PLAY IT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>tfw can't play Stellaris because my laptop is barely under minimum requirements
Damn it I just want to be space wizards or something.
Ok, so I'm installing the game. Any resources for learning how to not get my ass reamed by the first civ I accidentally piss off?
>>337485483
>Laptop
>For games
Get a job you fag
>>337485352
>playing the entire game with tier 1 town halls and -25% Energy and Minerals
>hunting for spaceports by zooming into the planet level dozens of times
>>337485080
Shields regenerate naturally and are good against certain weapon types
Armour/HP needs manual repair unless your using the regenerative hull/support module
>Colonize world with wild storms and dangerous monsters
>After some time the colonists genemod themselves so hard they turn into another race
>They are now super strong and take over the planet
Uh oh
>>337485463
I don't even care if you use console commands to give yourself warscore. Telling other people to cheat like it's some kind of optimal strategy is retarded though.
>>337485432
Also I got some internal combustion yobs right next door to make my slaves.
I'm pretty sure this is an abnormally good start
>>337485528
Have a bigger fleet than they do.
>>337485596
>Baww, this casual game is too hard unless I modify game files
>>337485624
>optimal
I hate it when autists try to impose starcraft efficiency on other games.
>>337465238
The music is available in .ogg in Stellaris/music.
>>337485082
Fuck, sounds cool, wish it happened sooner.
[screams externally]
>>337485703
It's not any harder it's just more of a waste of time.
>>337485528
Always build up to your force limit
Guys are pirates supposed to space amoebas?
Because there are pirates that are space amoebas.
>>337485772
Keep telling yourself that scrub.
>>337485773
that's terrible advice
>>337485745
Better get that navy ready dude.
>>337485773
>>337485663
And prioritize this above all else?
What's the thing that I can safely ignore spending too many resources on?
>>337484232
Touching story
>try to technologically advance a species
>process says 0% per month
How do I increase it? what am I doing wrong?
>>337485613
P U R G E
>>337482570
>Posted on the official forums
the absolute madman
>>337485853
It's insurance against being casually slapped by your neighbor who has 3x the fleet you do and annexes half your empire.
>>337485870
Technically what you should prioritize about all else is mineral income and after that energy income. The fleet comes with the mineral income.
>>337485745
bite the pillow
the swarm is the hardest crisis right now, I hear 2nd phases they vomit forth 100k and you can never truly kill them off
every planet they take becomes a hive planet which you have to nuke from orbit to stop them breeding
the planets they take become uninhabitable
your about to get shrekt
>177 ships
>cap at 702
mate what are you doing, start spamming energy and ships!
>>337484653
No LotGS fans?
>>337485631
Yeah that's pretty lucky I think.
I just started a game with a similar situation, a few gaia worlds too.
>>337485853
As long as you always dock at a spaceport when your not at war its great
You guys get your hands on 60 range murder beams yet?
This shit steamrolls EVERYTHING.
I can kill a fleet twice my size without them getting close enough to fire a shot.
>>337485461
Thanks. This removes apes from the pool of Human portraits?
>>337486042
I got cloud lightning really early on. Its a shame it takes forever to unlock battleships
>>337485978
Fighting a war. Not exactly losing, but it's slow and tedious and destroyed my main fleet. Going to take a while to win.
>>337486118
Yeah. Also removes their names from the name list.
>>337485978
I got lucky and they split their fleet so I fought only a fourth each time.
I had enough of an army by the time they arrived that I picked away at them and had overwhelming victories with my 35K fleet against multiple successive 20Ks.
I also attacked the vanguard and killed lots of the colony ships and construction ships so they only got 2 planets (from a neighbor)
Eventually I downloaded the mod that lets you remove the infested planets.
>>337474290
When a planet has 0 pop it is no longer a colony.
If it's not a colony it's not generating border push.
Their nearby planets are still colonies, and still generating border push.
Their border is pushed past that world.
>>337460851
Am I a scrub for liking warp over other forms of travel?
>>337486042
basic rule of weapons both for multiplayer and single
>early game: torpedoes
>mid game: all the xeno tech you can research+some countermeasures
>late game: fallen empire tech+ crisis tech
>>337484734
WAIT WUT DO PARADOX GAMES REALLY HAVE SOME SORT OF ENDING ??
>>337486042
>Trump-Class Battleship
I tried playing this but goddamn the amount of text is too big
>>337486042
That's the primary weapon on my battleships and cruisers. I really like them.
>>337486219
Warp is great for expanding, but good fucking luck traversing huge empire, or chasing faster fleet.
Fuck, I've spent decades chasing some hyperlane fuckers. Never using warp again. Wormholes seem to be the best.
>>337486285
Scourge missiles are worse than normal top rank missiles though, and I got no unique techs from slaughtering the materialist FE.
>>337486042
i just realised i never factored in range
>>337486219
It's easy but it eventually the AI who picked something else gets to fly around while your ships are slow.
>defending some shit with my main fleet
>ok ready to warp out, everyone fallow me
>main fleet warps out just ahead of science vessels and troops
>enemy warps in the instant I leave, kills the troops
>actually engage them in combat
>my 25K versus their 5K
>they teleport away for free
>continue this for the whole war
so for weapons that can be shot down by point-defense is it better to go with a lot of small or medium weapons rather than a single large one per ship section?
Is there a mod to get rid of the bullshit resource caps yet?
>>337486626
can't you just include a single warp-blocker equipped battleship in your fleet?
>>337486414
wormholes are the best late game simply because other players/the ai can't target them all
early game it takes 1 player fleet looking around your 3-4 planets to effectively destroy your offensive capabilities
>>337486536
I mean tech from crystal entities and roaming stars
roaming stars give you a cloud electricity shot that does 100% damage to enemy shields and destroy enemy destroyers 1 hit
crystal entities give you the toughest hull armor up until tier 3-4, and provide you crystal projectiles weapons (green,red, yello) that do about more/the same as other projectile weapons but without a hard counter
amoebas give you amoeba cruisers, godly if you can get them early game
effectively every xeno tech you get is equal to/ better then early game and mid game weaponry in terms of having no hard counter and great damage
all you need to do is research shields
late game all tech is pretty naff from xenos though, then you upgrade to fallen empire tech
>launch game
>steam community covers the launcher
what the fuck
>>337486618
It's fucking amazing, it outranges all but the ultimate tier torpedos, which are the same range, and the damage is instant instead of incredibly delayed like torpedos. Plus 100% armor piercing.
>>337486580
bite dat pillow senpai, 185 ships aint gonna save you
>>337485339
>protruding lardous jokes beyond the infinite
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>>337486580
>Pick biggest map.
>Maximum amount of empires.
>Go with normal difficulty and ironman.
>I literally just steamroll through it, winning with 22k power ships.
>Nothing bad even happens.
>My first ruler is only 200 years old.
What went wrong?
>>337484750
>playing on easy mode
>>337486996
>vanguard
I'm so sorry
>>337486996
>not even 3k
>Probably has an average weapon range of 20
>>337486042
A handful of there could take it without receiving a single counter-shot.
making a new empire.
Warm hyper lanes or wormholes?
Lasers bullets or missiles?
>>337486906
>he bought it for full retail
>not pirating it
>>337487138
Lasers
Fanatic materialist collectivist master race.
What's the DLC plan for this game? Just a few meaningful ones or a mountain of shit like in CK2?
>>337487138
hyper lanes and bullets
>>337487138
go wormholes
and to trick the ai relocate your main fleet producing capacity away from your capital
>>337485703
>mooooooooooom the game requires me to administer planets
>mom i just want to kill aliums
>MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
>>337487138
Wormholes are the most fun with the most tactical decision making, hyperlanes are crazy fast especially later on and warp is the slowest but has no actual limitations.
Don't go for Missiles early on, they're the easiest tech to hard-counter.
>>337487228
I reckon it'll be pretty hard for paradox to shill dlc
if its as "moddable" as they say it is then the playerbase should be more then capable of producing mods that match the 9 dollar shit they call expansion packs
>>337487228
The project lead comes from CK2, so go figure.
I don't mind though, I want more of this fucking game and I want it now.
>>337487308
I can't even discern the strawman you're arguing against since it's so far from anything that has been said.
NEW THREAD
>>337486678
>>337486678
>>337486678
>>337487047
>lies on the internet
that's what went wrong
>>337487358
basic rule of all paradox games
buy the base game
pirate the dlc
>>337484653
>Autocracy
>>337487228
Definitely both.
You think they're gonna pass up on releasing tons of new races DLC?
Fuck, they've already started with the special edition shit.
And it's obvious they're gonna fill out the obviously missing features like the lack of trade.
>>337486324
USA USA USA
USA
USA
>>337483776
only drains influence if you're militarist
>>337487412
look at whom I replied to.
PROTIP: it's (You)
Lard
>>337488360
Yeah, you responded to me but not to anything I said. You just wrote a bunch of nonsense that had no relation to anything that had been said.
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