Didn't see one up.
How's your empirepurging?
Question for more advanced players: is it worth it to go into my sectors and temporarily remove each planet from them so i can upgrade the planet capitol buildings? seems like a pain the ass.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I just farted
So smell my poo
Can any modders tell me why a custom name list would only be giving half of my leaders names and leaving the rest blank?
>>337527670
im not a modder but ive been getting a few blank icons, seems to be a visual bug? might be the same thing
>>337528026
are you using a custom race or name list or anything?
How do I edit my species' history in the user_empire_designs.txt file?
>>337528478
none at all. just weird things happen
progress bars for construction on my planets wont appear or portraits of leaders or weapon slots on ships are just blank. it fixes itself if I reload
>play a pacifist game
>literally just grinding for hours until i'm overflowing in everything
feels good man
>>337527403
What the fuck do I do with my vassals? I don't want to integrate them because I just found out it costs 3 influence. Fuck that.
Also how do you just fucking destroy an empire? I don't want them to become vassals, I don't want them to cede or liberate.
>>337529718
nice WoT empire.
im still trying to figure that out honestly.
i have 3 vassals which are nations i crushed,
and 2 of them ive integrated already so i have like 4 species in my empire now with a bunch of factions, it's annoying as fuck
>>337530202
>2 of them ive integrated already
doesn't the influence cost each month for two integrations destroy you though or does the cost eventually end at some point?
>>337527403
I'm really bad at this game, like actually bad at it to the point that I can't make it past the relatively early phases and everyone always has a superior power of fleet to my own.
What are the important things to focus from the outset so that I can ramp up in power at a consistent rate? I typically start out by making a quick territory grab to try and cordon off a segment of space for myself and milk it for what I can while trying to keep ahead of my neighbors.
>>337530506
Belonging to the HRE helps
>>337530426
my monthly gain is pretty good right now.
got some techs that raise it plus the empire capitol city
i dont integrate more than 1 vassal at a time
>Get into war with some filthy xenos
>Win, of course, grab 4 of their planets in a single sweep
>Proceed to enslave and purge the xenos scum
>Their influence retake back the empty planets and now the entire galaxy hates me due to >muh six gorillion
It ain't easy being the benevolent god emperor of Man
>>337530821
>HRE
I don't follow
So really regretting not preordering Nova and getting the soundtrack along with the game and at the moment the OST can't be bought separately. Is there a Mega link up for it yet?
>a faction in a shitty 6 tier planet wants independence
>eh whatever, mite be fun to bully around a faction
>grant independence
>suddenly they own half my planets
>they also hate my guts
REEEEEEEE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT I GAVE YOU A PLANET NOT THE WHOLE GALAXY REEEEEEEEEEE
>>337530506
There will be factions always superior to you and there will be factions inferior to you.
Having everyone in the universe start with the same tech level aounds stupid
>>337530506
keep in mind that more planets = slower research
build frontier outposts if you must but colonize planets just beyond your outposts so you can take the outpost down afterwards and retain your influence.
when you have more than 5 or 6 planets youre gonna have to put some systems into sectors, try and put planets into sectors that you know are done being built up on the surface so the AI that runs the sector doesnt fuck it up too badly,
>>337527403
I actually started doing that when I run a large mineral stockpile. Unsector a planet, upgrade all the buildings, give it back.
>>337530883
Mine's good too atm but was hurting early as I got in an alliance (as militarist) but it's worked out pretty good. Gonna integrate. If I can't expand/build outposts for a while so be it. What are the benefits or integration? Do you control their planets like your own? Are their planets added to your core planets because I don't want that right now?
>>337531871
*of integration
If I'm playing on a 1000 stars elliptical galaxy, what should the number of AI empires be for maximum Fun?
For reference, I wanna build massively wide in this one, maybe to the point of >100 stars
>>337531764
Which is slightly more work when the feature was supposed to decrease micro management.
>>337530426
Cost ends once fully integrated I believe
>>337530986
Colonise a planet nearby or in the system before purging, or just purge some and enslave the others. I've purged about twice as many pops as I have enslaved and haven't run into any problems other than my neighbours getting butthurt and forming alliances only to declare wars and get their shit pushed in even more.
>>337532068
The sectors are easily the worst part of the game right now. I like the idea in concept but the sector AI is absolutely retarded.
>>337530989
Easiest way to start is belonging to the Holy Roman Empire. Easy enough trades and protection from other countries.
>playing collective bugs
>gonna bring the whole galaxy into my unity
>doing pretty good got a powerful alliance of like minded aliens
>meet a fallen empire
>fanatic xenophobes
>game over
>>337532246
The worst part is how it restricts you from interacting from them. All of my core worlds are maxed out in pop and I have dozens of worlds throughout my empire that could benefit from a new swathe of slaves but I can't resettle them because they are in sectors.
>>337532246
The AI in general is awful, especially when it comes to dealing with events.
>Wasn't paying attention
>Colonized fallen empire holy planet
t-they won't be too mad I am sure.
>>337531871
yeah they get added to you core planets.
i remember suddenly jumping to 12 core planets and being surprised, then i realized my vassal had been integrated.
I threw all of their systems into a sector and they fucking hate me, once im done micro-ing my current batch of planets i think im going to un-sector them and actually try to make them happy.
>>337532439
Slavery, anon.
>>337532098
thanks that makes sense
>>337532461
integration really doesn't seem worth it tbqh
Do vassals even give you shit I mean whats the point?
>>337532405
I actually don't mind the restriction. But I've seen the AI leave pops unemployed ignore tile bonuses despite having the preference checked and it is completely unable to handle robot colonies and will let them just sit at one pop. Military preference also doesn't seem to work at all.
What's the best observation station option for primitive civs?
How do i build a fleet ;-;
>>337532916
>click starport
>click ships and how many
>????
>profit
>>337532253
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
>>337532686
It's a free ally that doesn't get to burn wargoal points.
>>337532253
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>>337533061
But they pay no taxes or anything cuz i don't really need more manpower I need energy
>>337532608
it takes a fucking long time, but i ended up with a free 10k fleet with better tech than I had.
only downside is now I have to make these reptile fuckers happy or they'll cede themselves
>>337533137
Then burn the influence to integrate them. It adds them to your empire as though you conquered them.
>>337532983
Lemme rephrase - how do I build a fleet that isn't a useless pile of garbage?
Is this game good? Is some autism required?
>>337533256
are you upgrading your ships when you research new tech?
>>337533256
acquire tech, don't try to serious war until you have cruisers at least. make sure to put new and better weapons on your ships in the fleet design menu.lasers best weapons
>>337533386
Yep. But they lose against an equal military strength fleet.
Should I not just be building the biggest ships with the best guns:?
>>337533452
If you don't have defense then you are gonna have a bad time, try to counter your enemy if they have lasers shield those fuckers if missiles add point defense and so on
>>337532068
Really, as my empire grows, I wish the AI was good enough to just put all buildings on auto-upgrade. Sector AI isn't really good enough to figure out what to build and when at the moment, they wind up spending their money on stupid shit like spamming hydroponics when they have a 10 food surplus. On top of that, their resource payouts to me are also somewhat retarded, if I ask for a small part of their money they'll never upgrade anything, and if I ask for nothing than they're useless to me. I think things would be much easier if you could toggle something to allow the AI to use your mineral and energy stores when building instead of having to constantly give them donations yourself.
>>337533452
Why are they losing?
What weapons is the enemy using, why are they effective against your ships?
You can't just build ships like whatever and then expect them to win. If the enemy is using technology that is strong against your designs, then you're going to lose.
>>337533185
>free 10k fleet with better tech than I had
Ok that could make it worth it actually. How long does integration take?
>>337533256
Don't overspecialize. Use a good leader. Use the starport bonuses like the forge. I recommend including missiles since they don't miss, most of them bypass shields, and you can cripple the enemies fleet in the opener which prevents them from coming back even if they switch to point defense..
>mod to increase your core sector planets but only for you
>tfw pirate
Anyone willing to upload it?
Think this game could run on my T420?
>>337533719
depends on how powerful the vassal is but a really long fucking time is to be expected
>>337533452
I find it a pain in the ass but you have to mod your ships to counter their defence and weapons. If you're getting rekt that is.
>>337533719
i think it depends on how many enemy pops/planets there are. not sure exactly how it's calculated. the current vassal i'm integrating is going to take 600 months,
yes 600 months. i dont care though, they help me in wars in the meantime, and the influence loss is negligible
I really wish this was a grand strategy game and not whatever shitty 4x hybrid it is.
>>337533364
Yes and yes.
It's fun but it's mostly menus and hours of waiting.
Making a bunch of alien races is super fun though and you can add them into your game and eventually encounter them.
I love strategy games like Civilization and Age of Empires and stuff, I never played something as in depth as this before and I love it.
It took me about an hour to figure out what the fuck is was doing though.
There is lots to micromanage.
>>337533364
I play Dwarf Fortress and enjoy this game so I don't know.
Remember me, /v/.
I won't make it out alive. Here comes 50k of fuck.
>>337532420
>>337532246
>retarded AI
welcome to Paradox games
>>337533809
https://mega.nz/#!FcYXiRSY!69MglaRuExxAlzjpawnHQea_IeuoDRZFtU01C_HNAdM
>>337534545
that corvette zerg swarm
>>337527403
can someone tell me which file I have to edit to increase the core world count
I aint giving any ringworlds to retarded AI
>>337535171
Arrrgh! I have 20k worth of vassals where are they?! The universe is being overrun!
Also these fucks are no match for missiles and minefields.
>>337535350
can just download the mod from the workshop
So what mods are must-have at the moment?
Is there anything that makes sectors less retarded? I know there are ones that increase core world count but I kinda don't want to micromanage each one either.
>>337535506
I want to learn how to mod it
>>337534980
Thanks for the upload!
Sadly for some reason when I launch the launcher the .mod file gets deleted and the mod doesn't appear.
What the flying fuck?
>>337535624
European phenotype so you can create a more realistic human space empireno niggers
>>337535624
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682190594
>>337531686
>keep in mind that more planets = slower research
Specifically, more pops = slower research. Had to go look this up 'cause I didn't realize this 'til now aside from being a little annoyed empires a third of my size were somehow still at my tech level.
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Technology#Technology_cost
>>337535646
the direct way is to edit it in 00_defines.lua
CORE_SECTOR_PLANET_CAP = 5
increase to whatever you want
a more flexible way is to add a new edict with no influence cost so you can enable or disable it in game when you feel like it. it would look like this
http://pastebin.com/pajR5V5Y
>>337535849
Make it read only.
>>337535849
https://mega.nz/#!hJxDhRiQ!1K03pBBpAgQMVUJtQWiMD-uSNd1l-p19XHtv-nY7J3g
Try this. It looks like workshop mods are handled a bit differently by the launcher. I changed a few things in the .mod file that should make it work.
>>337534980
I put the mod in the directory but the launcher aint seeing it
>>337536534
Use this one.
>>337536384
>>337536284
Wasn't that. It was this:
>>337536384
Thanks a bunch my man!
>>337532327
Just give them an embassy and make sure you don't fall to -75 opinion and you're fine. I had an isolationist fallen empire that was supposed to care about their borders and I managed to eat away half their territory through border expansion.
Is it worth buying for multiplayer?
>>337536693
They raped me and my entire alliance before I could do anything at all
>>337536714
Doesn't even work right now.
>>337533256
Diversify your fleets
Don't have only one size class
Accuracy is king, then DPS
Smaller ships = more evasion ie less enemy accuracy so smaller ships aren't necessarily obsolete
Have multiple ship roles in each class
Make half your fleet carrying your best weapons and then the other half carrying a mix of shield shredder, point defense, and torpedo specialists
AI typically uses shields
You can change your defenses to match what you're fighting if you want but shields are fine in most cases
>start in our solar system
>uranus always give me energy credits
What does it mean?
>not playing a based custom faction
>>337536115
I support this, take the galaxy and rape them all.That's what I do.
So does the sector AI not upgrade any buildings at all or just the capital building?
>>337536693
in my game, a primitive civilization popped up inside an isolationist fallen empire, and they're doing nothing about it
>send colonists to 20% habitable planet quite far away from main empire
>really, really doesnt work out
>they rebel within the month
>"ok here is your independance"
>their faces
>>337537159
>space jews
>not reptiles
come on
>>337537837
>send colonists to a mildly habitable planet
>colonists genetically modify themselves to deal with the environment
>become "genetically superior", start calling themselves Post-my-race
>only trait they gained is "Xenophile"
>they just sit on their one planet and don't really complain at all or anything
ok
Daily reminder if you complain about sectors being wasteful, frontier outposts being expensive, or having to design your ships to counter enemies you are retarded and missing the entire point of the game.
>>337538171
>genetically implant yourself to like aliens more
Wow.
They really need to fine tune a lot of the details in this game after they've fixed all the millions of bugs and glitches.
>>337538261
>it's a Paradox game so you're supposed to be okay with retarded shit and dumb mechanics designed to keep you from blobbing even though every victory condition requires you to
>>337538261
I'm fine with desiging my ships, however frontier outposts even being a thing is stupid but I suppose defendable from a design standpoint. Sector AI being awful however can not be defended as anything but shit design. Its not "immersive" and claiming it is in any way a good thing is literally paradox dicksucking and should be punishable by lethal injection.
>>337538261
I just have no clue when to use armor vs shields vs regenerative hulls. If I understand things right on paper, armor adds damage reduction against all attacks, shields essentially adds more health to your ships, so they even out for the most part and only matter on which attack you're facing. So does that mean I need to put a mix of armor and shielding on my ships, or just go with one type only?
>>337527403
Can somebody explain how combat is supposed to work?
My fleet consists completely of battleships and they can completely wreck anyone on the map. As far as things are concerned, I could take this fleet and vassalize the entire galaxy.
This feels way too easy. Also what is the benefit of using ships other than battleships?
>>337537159
>zionist empire
>mfw played with you once
>mfw jew immigrants started to pop on my gaia worlds
>>337529718
Snowball, vassals commit ALL their fleet every time, "loyalty" doesn't mean shit, they will never revolt.
>>337538686
I just slapped armor plates on every non-battery slot and I havent lost yet but I have mostly been fighting neutral space alien monsters.
>>337538686
Remember that lasers usually ignore armor and most missiles ignore shields
Is going full pacifist is viable in this game? I don't want to warmong
>>337538882
I havent tried but I cant imagine how it would be possible in anything but theory. Eventually you'll probably be locked in between empires. Someone is always going to hate you, and if you somehow managed to peacefully make everyone join your federation you'd still be fucked once a crisis event happens.
Guys.... Do I uhh, do I go for this? Is too sp00ky?
>>337539175
Just don't be a dick to your robots and you have nothing tofear
>>337538686
Put a lot of shields on your ships.
Dedicate two small slots to anti-missile defense guns.
There you go, you'll be fine against the retard AI.
>>337539286
That makes it more unlikely, but its still no guarantee.
>>337539286
Ahh, so I have to get robots for that to be of any use then? I've seen the Robot card pop up a few times, but I don't think I've picked it up yet.
I'm going to try something this run, colonising only 25tiles planets up to core worlds limit, and never creating sectors, colonising more 25tiles planets when i get more core worlds capacity.
Hopefully minmaxing social research will enable me to get the repeatable core world tech often enough to expand at a decent rate.
>>337539493
25 tiles planets are super rare.
>>337539286
Robot scum detected.
Who let you past the captcha?
Individualism is a shit and doesn't let me do anything fun.
How do I change my government ethics?
>>337538775
larger ships have low accuracy against small ships, and small ships have high accuracy against large ships. this means that corvettes can hard counter battleships, though it may not happen often with the AI
Uh oh
No wonder this system had over 1k worth of drones guarding it.
>>337527403
This game looks fun. But I dislike giving companies with bad business practices and that makes political standpoints.
Who made this game? Are they good?
>>337539821
start over.
I recommend:
Xenophobe
Materialist
Militarist
Here's a question: can you modify ALL of the other empires in the game, not just your own? That is, play with just custom races.
Can Stellaris run on a toaster?
>>337540269
The AI will never use the pre-made species, with the exception of Humans.
>>337539697
I seem to see them every twenty colonisable planets or so, it's not THAT rare.
But obviously if i have no choice i'll lower my standard down to 20+.
>>337540149
>the worst fucking gundam
>>337540269
You can make a bunch of custom races and force them to spawn in your game. There's a little orange button for that.
>>337540237
the kings of DLC, Paradox
>>337540552
that's not AGE
>>337540320
I can run CK2 laboriously, but stellaris is fine.
My memory maxes out after every hour and a half or so though, crashing runtime style.
Just pirate it and see for yourself.
>>337540320
it actually runs better than EU4 for me, except during battles with huge fleets. but in those cases you can conveniently stay on the galaxy map screen with no slowdown
>>337540320
It runs pretty good on my garbage laptop. Only time I have noticeable drops is when I'm in galaxy map mode but that goes away if I zoom out.
I haven't gotten to end game yet though, so the deathstack fleets will probably cause drops as well.
>Genetically modify primary race on tropical planets to prefer tropical planets
>No longer counts as primary race
>Ineligible for leadership or migration now
Jesus Christ Paradox
What the fuck.
One of the KI settled in a holy world and...
...Nothing. There is a fallen empire that protects those but...
Why can KI do this without getting smashed?
>>337541570
I settled on a holy planet and the FE didn't care, we became good buddies. Maybe they only smash you if you take 2+, I don't remember though, it might've been before we actually made contact, which also might've had something to do with it.
warp drive isn't actually that shitty once you get to the third stage.
i was able to cross the gaps in the spiral arms of my galaxy plus a little more
>>337541491
IIRC you can allow any species migration by default and there's a tech to allow non-primary-race leaders
How do I get rid of the Tyranids? Someone else nabbed the queen, and I'm just sitting with a 60k army at their homeworld
How does multiplayer go? I could probably fight a war on Normal speed, or on fast+ with relatively frequent pausing, but I don't want to make other players made with either of those.
What's the usual gameplay setup for multi?
Who Illuminated Technocracy here?
>>337541918
The problem is I want to keep the aliums in my empire from migrating, I just don't want my genetically engineered super pops to be downgraded to second class citizens.
Same with race-leaders, but that matters less since my tropical pops looks identical to my primary anyway.
Xenos are tolerated, not accepted.
>>337540269
You have to figure out how to disable the fallen empires.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
I got boxed in on a spiral arm super early and had to invest heavily into jumping across empty space to untouched stars. Now I'm pretty far ahead of all my old and new neighbors, but I have no idea how my newly sector'd off starting area will do.
How do sectors work?
>>337540320
Once you get to midgame fleets will cause FPS drop.
Once you get to lategame the game will hang every resource update tick.
>>337540408
>>337540625
Okay, that was pretty much the main deciding factor in my purchase.
About to start up a new empire.
Bird-Persons or Mushroom people? They're the only ship styles I like.
>>337542093
DLC will fix it.
>>337542539
They automatically build structures on the planet, and you tax them for up to 75% of the surplus energy and minerals.
It's inefficient and wont handle any ship or station building, but at least you wont have to manually build farms and mines on hundreds of planets repeatedly.
Keep as many core planets as you can, you'd have to try really hard to manage them worse than the sector AI.
>>337542697
Oh, also which is the best weapons? I've had the most success with mass drivers or whatever they're called.
>>337542539
i've been trying to just set up the planets as best i could via micro and then handing them over to the sectors and hoping for the best.
i set them to give me 75% of their energy and minerals and it seems fine, they never are below a few thousand of each stockpiled.
i think the purpose of sectors is to partially gimp your income and efficiency
the trade off being that you can put those systems out of your mind and focus on expanding and fighting/diplomacy
>pirates show up
>destroy their base
>never hear about them again
How lame, I sure can't wait for that inevitable pirate DLC
>>337542697
you can choose the style of ship, doesn't matter what race you are.
butbirdmaster race here, no ragrets
I want to see your species, /v/!
>>337542903
My autism doesn't allow that
>>337542697
Mushroom people from the Cuck-Shed planet next to the star Wife's Sun, extreme xenophile individualists who kneels down and asks the first they meet to be their patron
>>337542856
Exact same for me. They showed up and I killed them and that was that. Maybe its meant as a tutorial or something.
When is this game going to get a demo? All the other Paradox games have one, and I wouldn't have bought CK2 without it.
>Be Space Prussia
>Sandwiched between two peace loving states.
Who will it be, /v/, Poland or Denmark?
>>337542930
I made mexican mushroom-cactus people who live on desert planets.
>>337542930
Mine's just generic imperium of man #4778471
>first aliens I meet have the exact same model as me
Imersion ruined
>>337530506
That's what you get for being a Stirnerfag.
>>337542774
Autocannons are the highest DPS vs shields, then lasers are the highest against targets with no shields or whose shields have been burned off.
Torpedos are also really good vs shields but can be completely negated by point defense.
>>337527403
How are you supposed to deal with xeno pops in conquered/annexed planets? No matter how nice I'm playing in that playthrough they cause trouble.
Who ZERG here?
About to go balls to the wall against a whole alliance since I've run out of space to expand. Just gotta build up my army of battleships and cruisers.
Have you had any Fallen Empires get their shit together and become normal factions in any of your games? I'm seeing it mentioned on the wiki, but it's never happened in any of my gaems.
>>337543713
Its apperently pretty rare and a lot of conditions have to be met.
>>337527403
The Sector Governors CAN upgrade your Planet Capitol Buildings without having to spend any influence - They will get around to it eventually. Not sure if it has a cooldown / minimum-time-gone-by before they do it to make up for the fact that you do not have to spend any influence though.
>>337532253
>Holy
>responsible for spreading heretical protestantism to a greater degree than fucking England
>Roman
>consisted mostly of germany, which was never ever owned by Rome, and also failed in include actual Rome in the territory
>Empire
>a loosely connected group of warring shitty states who kept trying to one up each other with titles, failing to hold any actual influence outside the territory
In summary, I must conclude that the "Holy Roman Empire" was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire
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>>337543648
How do you gain so much influence, and spread that much at the same time?
>>337539367
You can literally guarantee your empire against robot uprising if you give them citizenship and then wait a little while to get the AI Accords
>>337541932
You can't right now, it's bugged
Their planets are supposed to change to barren planets after you bomb them to shit but they don't because PARADOX
>>337544025
I heard that only staves it off for a long time. They may still rise up at some point.
>>337544094
No, the AI Accords mean that synth pops will never ever revolt in your empire if the event happens, in exchange for you never being able to enslave or purge them
It can still trigger elsewhere in another empire but your pops won't join
Remember that the AI rebellion event causes all synth pops in every empire to rebel no matter whether it started in their empire or not
>>337543953
Frontier outposts only cost influence upkeep if they're directly controlled, put em in a sector and that -1 disappears.
I've still got +1 even though I've got -3 from integrating and -3 from research grants
>>337533364
It's the simplest Paradox game. I think. I've only played EUIII and IV, CKII and Hearts of Iron.
>>337544331
>core planets aren't in the core
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>337543953
If you play a Militant nation, you can earn tons of influence just by declaring other nations (preferably strong ones) as your rival. I just had my first win by colonizing 40% of all the planets in the galaxy, and I was almost drowning in influence points, running at least 30-40 edicts at the same time. (Both the constantly ticking kind and the ones that only affect one planet.)
But be aware - When you become huge like that, research cost goes up a lot. Pic related.
>>337544370
Isn't MnB paradox?
so the only thing i know about this game is that it's from paradox
what's the combat like? just an average space RTS?
>>337544394
>300 of physics and society
>700 of engineering
YOU DISGUST ME YOU FAGGOT
FIX THAT SHIT
COME BACK WHEN YOU HAVE 800 OF EVERY RESEARCH TYPE
Hey, AI dude from earlier. This just popped up too, and now I'm wondering what the hell kind of empire I'm building right now. Having sentient AI, and then having these guys for an army at the same time would be... a really weird mixture I guess.
Regardless, is there anything I should know about this one?
>>337544274
Also important to remember that you can be fully intending to give them rights and the rebellion catches you before you get the chance. Synths are dangerous no matter what.
If you give them rights, but you allow full slavery or purging, are you still allowed to do that to synths or does the accord give them super-citizen rights?
I think I'm doing pretty well, having a lot of fun at least.
I did proceed to completely fuck up my relations with every other nation in the galaxy though.
Is uplifting savages worth it?
>>337527403
http://www.strawpoll.me/10206885
Let's settle this once and for all.
Can you replace your entire empire with synths so they replace your original race?
>>337544432
Only published by them, like Magicka
It was made by some Turks
>>337544503
I don't actually know, when I did it, I wasn't playing a slaving and purging empire
>>337544432
No, they just published it. TaleWorlds made MnB.
>>337544384
I'm sorry, all my friends are to my right and those planets are worth way too much to relocate my capital.
>>337544580
This is how you do core planets you fag
>>337544648
Nice cuckpire
>>337544685
Don't you meme at me
Don't you ever meme at me
How the fuck do I stop the scourge?
>>337544821
You can't, it's bugged
The only thing you can do is kill their fleets and then just fucking deal with that ugly patch of orange that will never ever go away
At least until the next hotfix
I don't play strategy games but I'm going to try this out tomorrow.
For beginners; What are some good things to know? Whats the best starting weapon type? Whats the best form of FTL? Does your government type / traits extend beyond the bonuses they give you? If I chose direct democracy what the hell is core sector planets +2?
Any advice is appreciated.
>>337544475
Engineering is the way to go, in my opinion, if you want to completely dominate the galaxy through warfare. I was at war with two different federations (at least 8-9 teams in there), a fallen empire, and the unbidden at the same time and still came out on top.
When I got my 195 planets needed for victory, the second best player had 21. On top of that, I purged every xeno scum and only colonized every planet type with my own kind of alien breed, and literally terraformed over 100 planets into tropical paradises.
The only person not of my own race allowed into my empire was Sobak, which was a genius motherfucker I kidnapped from a primitive nation's planet that I was conducting abductions from. Sobak was based as fuck. I will miss him.
>>337544504
>Is uplifting savages worth it?
Yes, they love you and you can specialize them with something
>>337544883
Well fuck
>>337543108
POLAND STRONG
>>337543027
>>337542856
Pirates are meant to fuck you if you fast expand (especially outpost spamming) without building any fleet.
>>337544485
>>337544485
It's just a le epic reference
Why the FUCK are my sectors doing literally nothing.
All I want them to do is FUCKING BUILD SHIT ON THEIR POP TILES
Holy FUCK why even fucking colonize planets in this fucking game
What's the best way to encourage migration from empires that I have treaties with? I assume the Land of Opportunity or w/e its called edict counts empires besides your own if migration is open?
>>337543607
OP here, i'm having the exact same problem. these guys i integrated wont get happy and now are migrating to my other planets and starting factions.
i'm trying to play without purging...it would royally piss off the rest of the 5 species in my empire
Any good WH40k mods out yet or should I just wait?
I need a great crusade to find my lost primarchs.
>>337545141
It might just be impossible to make work depending on the ethos/trait combinations of the species in your empire. At least give them voting rights and leadership opportunity though if your ethos allows, it's a pretty easy way to add happiness to non-core species pops.
>>337545169
You'll probably just have to wait but this game is perfect for it so it will most definetly happen. Wont be too hard to make either I imagine.
>>337545140
I think there's another edict specifically for that.
If you purge a planet do your own pops show up? I'm sick of trying to make these xeno fucks happy.
>>337543607
I fixed up the planet as fast as possible
Put in a Governor that knew what the fuck he was doing
Built a virtual reality combat center
and enacted the propaganda edict to boost happiness
Hold out for a while, use bribes and shit to smuggle out factions
eventually they will stop caring you have taken them over and learn to love the their new alium overlords
I'm always in the red when it comes to energy.
I already have a fuckton of planets pumping out bolts but this army won't fuel itself.
>>337545332
You lose control of the planet and have to land a colony ship
Any tips for starting out? Should I be building a lot of frontier posts? Expanding quickly? It always seems like people end up with so much more territory compared to me.
>>337545332
As long as you allow migration for your own pops, yes
But make sure you have at least one pop left on the planet, otherwise it becomes decolonized
Will there eventually be tech to colonize non habitable planets through terraforming the atmosphere or something?
Point defense improves by 1 damage per level. Accuracy and fire rate stays the same. Does that mean level 1 and level 3 are just as efficient at destroying missiles, or do missiles have health?
Are PD levels only for countering strike craft?
BUILDABLE RING WORLDS FUCKING WHEN
THEY'RE ALREADY IN THE GAME, JUST MAKE IT A SUPER END GAME TECH
I WANT TO COVER THE GALAXY IN RING WORLDS
>>337545169
There is one already. It's the most popular mod on the Steam Workshop right now after the very basic "Adds more colours to choose from for your Empire" mod.
>>337545682
Wait you mean its not? How lame. Its should be like a super late late game tech and take aeons to build but it should be possible.
>>337545428
Solar panel and crew quarter modules really help with energy upkeep. Make sure to have your fleets in orbit when they aren't being actively used.
How do I git gud at conquering? I feel like I'm always behind in technologies and ship strength.
>>337546000
Build ships in space ports when you have Engineering Bays -10% to upkeep.
>>337545682
I want a way to start the game in a ring world. Like take 5 trait points to be a race that evolved on some ancient ring world and start with a ring world tech.
If I trade for a strategic resource which I then use for a spaceport module, do I lose the benefits of the module when the trade agreement runs out?
>>337545654
Some missiles at least have health, you can research armored torpedoes. I'm not sure if the basic missile line gets tougher as they get more advanced, or if there's an armored missile tech.
SO I tied cost of resettling to Energy(instead of influence) and made it possible to send people to colonies with less than 5 pops(and with no administration capital).
MFW
>penal planets
>gulag planets
>mass resettlement possible
Holy shit I have way too many minerals.
Besides trading them off, what else is a good sink that doesn't cost much power to maintain?
>>337546284
Huh, I don't know. I know planet structures will stop working if you lose access to the resource.
Knowing Paradox it's probably a loophole and the module will keep working.
>>337546474
making more power
>>337546469
I'd be fine with a smaller influence cost, if i had to pay energy.
>>337546474
Develop your space ports? I don't believe they get more expensive in maintenance as they get bigger, it starts at 3 and stays at 3. I think. So the incentive is to develop them as much as possible to get your credit's worth.
>>337546474
Swap some tiles with 1 Energy/1 Mineral to powerplants if you haven't already, decomission some mineral stations
>>337546561
Sadly can't make it cost both.
Huh, I sold minerals for energy to a couple people and now I've started receiving offers from other empires for my minerals.
Did the diplomacy AI actually do something kinda neat for once?
>>337545332
Forcefully migrate one population of your own race over before you purge the other one completely. Then throw the edict "Land of opportunity" or whatever it is called onto the new place and you'll get many pops migrating there from elsewhere across your systems. Or you can just produce a lot of food and let things happen naturally, but that takes longer.
So what triggers events related to your Synthetic population? I gave them rights, I gave them 3 whole planets and they're present on several more ones where they're the majority, but I'm getting nothing.
Also
>finally managed to defeat a Fallen Empire
>accidentally ventured in their territory
>they were Militant Isolationists
>over 60k worth of firepower
>just barely survived it
>conquered their Ringworlds
>barely any reverse-engineering
What the fuck? I was at least expecting Jump Drives.
>>337543648
Any adwise for a good war economy?
>memers say you need to mix up your weapons
>memers say that corvettes are the best ships
>make a fleet of nothing but battleships with lasers
>roll over everyone else and never lose a single ship
This game is pretty boring 2bh. One of the easiest games I've played in a while.
How does this game compare to other Paradox games? Is there a lot of random goofy shit that can happen that makes for good stories?
>>337537159
>>337546809
Yeah, I noticed that too. I started pimping out my star charters to a couple of races in exchange for power credits (I was in the negative on production for a while) and suddenly some of the other races that were allied or friends with those I had traded with came to me with similar offers, all wanting my star charts. Pretty cool feature.
>>337545128
Make sure they are not in the red energy wise and they have plenty of minerals. If you tax 75% of their energy, they won't have too much of them to pay for their planets so it's worth it to make research sector 0/0 in tax.
Is there a way to check out the configuration of enemy ships before fighting them or even declaring war?
>>337544025
>AI Accords
It's been at least 40 years since I granted them rights.
I got no such thing in my game.
>>337547224
Tech is randomized
>>337547047
Not really, the dumb shit that happens in Paradox games is only meaningful because theres a point of reference for us. "I conquered Europe as Ethiopia" is something we can understand, but "I conquered the United Tiktak Nations as the Federation of Zorpon" is meaningless.
Its every bit as buggy and broken as any other Paradox game on release, though, if you find that appealing.
Quick I'm the purple on the left.
What do i drop and where to expand to the habitable planet on the right?
I'm a bit strapped for influence.
>>337547258
I hate that.
>>337537540
>Implying they aren't busy probing their butts right this moment.
>tfw 2nd fleet is MIA
t-thanks you XENO FUCKS
>>337538440
>retarded shit and dumb mechanics
Here's a thought - maybe you don't actually like grand strategy and should play a different type of game.
>>337547136
>reptile ships
kek
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all!
>>337547482
Or they could just make sectors not bugged shit and everyone's happy
We don't have a problem with the idea of sectors, we have a problem with sectors building food only for robot civs, not respecting the settings, wasting all their resources on tile blockers when they don't even have any buildings yet, and so on
>>337547553
>playing as humans
>no fanaticism
>>337547316
You can colonize a planet outside your borders. Its radius will start small so you might end up with an enclave with your borders for a time until your pop/research expands your borders.
They really should have elaborated that you DON'T need to place a frontier outpost around a planet to colonize it.
