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How's your empire going?
also stellaris thread
Xenophobe
Militarist
Materialist
>ally declares war on some faggot
>faggot has big allies near my empire.
fine
>hold off assault
>destroy and few of the big guys planets and systems
>fuck all fleets left
>send my fleet to help ally and this small faggot he wants to claim as a vassal and cede his planet
easy
>cant land armies on planet
they get to middle level of the atmosphere then go straight back up to the transports
>cant end war
>send demands greyed out
halp
>>337563850
meme ethics
>the game worked perfectly yesterday
>slows down to a crawl in galaxy view today
What the fuck
>>337563850
Fanatical collectivist xenophile. Because all species in the universe deserve the right to work their asses off in my mineral mines.
>>337564270
You aren't the war leader so you cant make demands.
>Xenophobe
>Militarist
>Spiritualist
>Huge map
>Low number of factions
Can't wait to find some xenos to enslave. If you're not playing as Humans, consider yourself enslaved.
>>337564529
so how do I end the war. I can't occupy the planet ally wants because armies aren't landing. For some reason can't even bombard the planets anymore.
>>337563136
>been having trouble joining friends games on Steam 2 days ago
>same problem today
>Paradox added a Join Game button to join friends lobbies with lobby ID
Noice.
>>337564606
Are you me? I restarted like 12 times with different kinds off empires before sticking with that ethos on a huge galaxy with 14 AI empires.
>>337563136
I'm so retarded i cant understand how the fuck to play this game
>>337563136
I'm still not sure whether or not to buy this
>>337564962
Just read the damn tips the tutorial robot gives you.
>>337564962
same. way too fucking much going on.
Sins of a solar empire was way more fun to get into, i just wish they had more of a tech tree that diverged so greatly that you could only invest in a couple lines of research.
So whenever i try to terraform anything it says that i don't have the terraforming liquid, even though i have two of those. What do?
>pacifist xenophobe
>war is pain in the as as my po get -20% to happiness which lower production
>can't into alliance as they are costly(-influence)
>have two vassals(happy and loyal)
>hyperlanes for everyone so boxed
On left is Just League - Federation -1 stronk(race have the same avatar as mine which is cool)plus few weak
On right is Just Alliance - 1 pretty strong(+vassal) with 2 medium powers
On middle xenophobic isolationist strong but no allies
>Decide to get him so rival him
>Few moment later he join Just Alliance
>just in time faggot, just in time
>>337564887
>Date of Birth
>Ethnicity
>Favorite Video Game
Let's see if you're me.
>>337564962
Same here. Way too dumb for it. Gave up.
>>337563136
Fucking shitty.
"It's so easy to blow through the AI, anon. It's garbage!" Meanwhile, it took me 2 solid hours to even get my neighbor to surrender.
>he give me the planet I want
>somehow, this makes the game think that I'm "allies" (doesn't even say I'm allied with anyone in-game, but hold on a second) with the neighbors of THAT planet
>THE ENTIRE FUCKING GALAXY GETS PISSED AT THE NEW NEIGHBORS
>And now all of sudden I get a message
>"All of these fucking alliances just declared war on that dude! Consequently, that means they're at war with you too!"
>wtf.jpg
>immediately get swarmed by multiple 4k+ forces
>My empire didn't even have 3 outposts, and only had 3 planets.
Fuck this shit. This doesn't even make sense.
anybody else notice Tron Legacy and Interstellar themed music in this game?
Sound good mane
>>337563136
>mfw fight a five year war and win only one planet because fleets can't disengage without losing health
Who decided this was a good idea?
>>337565162
Overall playing as isolationist is pretty boring but its nice to observe happenings in galaxy.
>lizard empire expand rapidly taking some furries and fungus
>become to much a threat so Just alliance beat him and liberate some of their territories
>leader faction become fungi for some reason
>as a xenophobe I strike them and take 3 systems then purge fungi
>rest of fungi reptile domain start civil war divide and switch back to being reptile but start
>I attack one and liberate furries and make them my puppets
>rest of lizard get owned by Just Alliance who vassal some and take rest
so how do i conquer and purge xeno empires?
i dont want to wait 10 years between capturing three planets or 35 for intregating.
>>337565412
Did you liberate a planet?
That mean you become their protector for 10 years.Git gud nigger.
>>337565072
Sins has way better gameplay. Stellaris has retarded ship to ship combat.
>can't do anything but retreat or fight on
>you can automatically zip out of battles
>can't control ships during battle
>>337565347June 1stMexicanGod hand
Am I you?
>>337565586
Nah, it said that it was ceded to me.
>>337564962
>>337565072
>>337565385
I knew this game would have a high fallout rate lol. It's not even hard to figure out.
The most complicated part is when you're fighting late game guys in my opinion. Getting started and initially swole is easy.
>>337564606
Low number of factions is kinda nice, it just doesn't feel right being border to border with like 8 other factions.
What does the ship modifier from refineries actually do?
Does Orillium Plant give ALL my ships +10% Explosive Weapon Damage, or what?
Is it possible to control a planet belonging to a vassal? I want to enslave them but the option is greyed out saying I need to own that planet.
How do?
how do I make a custom name list for my fungoid race.
>>337563136
15 hours in an I'm already bored out of my mind with the game. It's way too barebones.
Am I know supposed to assault the Gas Giant Squids? They fuck my shit up.
>>337565847
Vassals are next to pointless. You get nothing but their guaranteed support if you go to war.
>>337565592
Don't kid yourself.
Neither games have great combat compared to Homeworld.
Sins only uses a single CPU core so is 100% guaranteed to turn into a slideshow in late game. Even at mid-game, comvat devolves into massive ship blobs smashing into each other, with victory determined by numbers and fleet composition - just like Stellaris.
>>337566001
What did you do for those 15 hours?
>>337565836
To my knowledge it's just newly constructed ships from that starport
>>337564642
You don't.
You've just learned that Paradox AI is fucking incompetent at warfare and at making peace deals, and any war they drag you into will be a waste of your time.
Have fun.
>>337565635
No.Build wall.
>>337563136
Only thing I'm still confused on is stored research points. Not sure how I got some, but I have no clue how to use them.
>>337566172
Annex to get territory with no, or at least reduced, warmonger penalty. It's slow as fuck, because years and years of EUIV patches have proven that Paradox hates vassal annexation being any good, but it's decent enough to do on the side if you aren't going full warmonger.
>>337566294
Spam battleships and chain declare war on everything.
Because there is nothing else to do in the game.
What traits should my mushroom people have?
>>337566172
Good, because I never wanted them as vassals to begin with, I just thought it was the road to enslaving them. That being said, what the fuck can I do to enslave these xenoshits?
>>337566383
I remember being in an alliance and getting dragged into a war. The enemy prompted me for a peace deal, which I accepted and ended the war.
This was a couple days ago, so maybe I'm misremembering.
>>337566417
They get automatically added to the current research you have going on.
>>337566627
Solitary, repugnant
>form an alliance with 1 guy
>find out it costs you influence to maintain
>nope fuck that
>open alliance screen
>press leave
>that one guy is now alone in the alliance
>hover over
>"in an alliance with " (just a blank space)
nice game
>>337566717
He asked what traits to give his mushroom people, anon, not what traits you have in real life.
>conquer alien race
>fuckload of separatists
>enslave them all
>still have separatists while they are enslaved
>game says all slaves will ALWAYS belong to the slave faction
fuck you
>>337565780
dont lie, sounds like you liberated it , if it was ceded to you it would just become part of your empire
>>337563136
It's shit, so I uninstalled
>>337566383
Had to go around and kill every little ship and mining station to get warscore up to 100 to get the enemy to declare surrender and finally peace. Fucking useless cunts. For some reason the bombardment and armies were bugged in that system
>>337566657
>956 months until this empire gets annexed to you
>trying to play like the Federation
>observe any race I find that hasn't reached space yet
>uplift and integrate any one I see that's exploring their solar system
>they just try to blow up and take over any planet they inhabit
Stupid fucking bird people. I should have done a Romulan campaign.
>>337563136
how do you trigger the ai uprising
I beat them at a daily basis and nothing is happening
I ended up in an earlygame war with the guys next to me. They had 3 systems, I destroyed one by full bombardment, occupied the other one and the last one was their home world with a fleet about the same size as mine and that space port which is better than my fleet just by itself.
It would have been a major fucking pain, but they unconditionally surrendered and I got their home world just like that.
That was nice.
>>337567202
>federation
>interfearing
PRIME DIRECTIVE.
>>337565486
>fleets can't disengage without losing health
That makes perfect sense to me.
>>337567327
What else was supposed to happen? When you disengage in a fight you magically get invulnerable shields because you are running away?
>>337567286
The Federation makes first contact and uplifts civilizations once they've become a unified government that is beginning to enter the space age.
Get out of here, JJ.
Feelsgood. Was able to get my federation to attack fallen empire. Victory conditions i get all.
> Spawn right next to a fallen empire
> Oh shit
> Several Gaia planets right on their border
> Zero blockers on them, few are 25 spaces pop
> Rush to build colony ships
> Check the planets again
> Colonizing these planets will greatly anger the fallen empire
> Can't survive a war by these fuccbois, wasted my entire time
I still haven't met any fallen empire despite being in 2312
What exactly are fallen empires?
I'm right next to one, and they're pretty chill with me so far. But since they won't join my federation I'm probably just going to go to war with them.
>start a war with someone using wormhole travel
>they pop a wormhole on my home planet and just appear there
>have to slowly warp over
>wormhole disappears and they fuck off somewhere
What the fuck, how did they do that?
Fucking wormholes
>>337567676
They are empires that are so shit they don't do anything. Feel free to kill them off.
>>337565486
>>337567327
>>337567408
you can get buffs for your fleet that lessen or eliminate damage when retreating
one of my admirals has one
>>337567327
>>337567408
I meant you can't just move your ships away, you have to retreat and lose 25% of your health. I was rekting this fleet 11k to 5k when another 10k attacked another planet. Couldn't move away because I'd lose if I retreated.
>>337567532
Seems like you were the fuccboi, my lad
>>337567676
They are always assholes, don't piss them off about the thing they love.
Sometimes its gaia worlds they consider sacred or demanding you never research robots/AI
Suck their dicks for a powerful ally in the early game then go pillage and rape in the mid/late game.
>conquer 3 planets
>fleet is now stuck in enemey territory
how the fuck do I unstuck them?
do I have to wait 10 years to use my fleet again?
>>337567829
You mean just like every other empire in the game? The only bearable way to play the game is small galaxy multiplayer, atleast something happens there.
These fuckers went space age and I had to put them down, what should I do with the planet? I'm over my planet limit so I don't want to turn them into a sector in case I want to genocide them later or something
>>337567532
Happened to me. Got planted with a stagnant ascendancy to my south that hates me, I've got the rim to the east, and I've grown to the point I have some douchebags to my north and some democracy that hates me to me west.
So it's war from here.
>>337567964
They'll automatically warp back to your capital soon if they are in enemy territory without military access
>>337567964
Warp back? What FTL do you have?
>>337568019
Enslave or Purge if you have correct habitation
>>337568037
They surrenderes their planets, he's in his own borders.
>>337567980
No, they don't expand or research. they don't even build fleets
>>337567980
Lol are you playing on easy?
>>337568063
Warp drive.
I can't warp back or into it.
Got three going right now, the one with the most time in it is my middle-of-the-road Theocratic Oligarchy, I'm allied with another empire that's better than me and the two of us are taking turns curb-stomping another empire I'm at war with.
The top empire is my Military Dictatorship edgy villain empire that I started because my first empire got boring.
The last one is an Enlightened Monarchy and I've barely touched them because they're pussies.
>>337568027
Sauce is "American Style", before anyone asks.
How to get lots of influence?
Choosing Hyperspace FTL then forcing the AI to choose the same is honestly the best way to play.
Adds so much more depth to the defensive play of wars then just using wormholes to jump directly to capital planets.
>>337567964
>>337568209
Build a frontier outpost?
How the fuck do I go to war once I'm in a federation>
>>337567475
You mean once they've achieved warp travel, until then nope.
And when they achieve warp in stellaris they become an empire. The right way to do it would be to invite them to join your federation when they do that.
>>337568398
Only the President can declare wars or other foreign policy.
It rotates every five years and doesn't tell you when it's your turn, you have to check the Federation window in the bottom right.
>>337568547
That'sdumb
>>337568526
Even then, only if they ask. The Prime Directive is based around non-interference in internal affairs; the pre-Warp thing is just a factor of that - since contact with aliens is inherently society altering - not the primary point.
>>337567036
You may have been in a Federation and your ally held the presidency but it later passed to you. The president of a Federation controls all foreign policy and makes all peace deals for all members of the Federation.
>a rocket-using democratic crusader neighbour declares war on my communist paradise just as I finish researching point defences
>his fleet is two times bigger than mine, but it doesn't even matter
It was so pleasant clicking "ENSLAVE ALL" on his captured home planet.
>>337568674
Pretty sure whoever declares the war stays head negotiator regardless of whether the Presidency rotates.
How viable it is to play as pacifist fucks that just open borders to everyone? I don't see any other problems on horizon that end game events that might fuck me up.
>>337568767
It's viable, it's just boring as shit. There are fuck all events in the game so far, hope more get patched in so it's more like CK.
>make big army
>Start conquering people
>Whole of the universe bands together to kill me
I'm sorry I thought this was a fucking 4x games. Why are there anti gameplay mechanics?
>>337566776
kek
>>337568863
thats what you get for being a warmongering asshole
>>337568863
To give you a challenge
>>337563136
>How's your empire going?
i-i don't have the game...
i am too poor..
What are some god tier ethics combinations?
>inb4 spiritualist because god tier
fanatic materialist and militarist here
>>337568343
outposts don't erode enemy territory.
>>337568975
use Space25 at GMG for 25% off
or, y'know, get a job because it's only $30.
>>337568674
>Federation
nope just an alliance with one bro the whole game so far.
>>337568959
The challenge of sitting and staring at a screen while I wait 20 years so I'm allowed to invade again? Hell it doesn't even give me bonuses to other warrior cultures so I'm just fucked
This game is all the fun of watching paint dry
>>337568863
> Surprised when you get resistance to being a warmongering asshole
>>337568863
>big bad guy wants to destroy us all
>small people unite to try to survive
DUDE WHAT A DUMB GAME LMAO
>>337569172
The objective of the game is literally to own half the planets or kill everyone off. This mechanic just artificially lengthens the game.
>>337568863
I can't believe anyone would make such comment
>>337568343
>>337569042
it worked
was getting a bit worried
>>337568027
google gives nothing, sauce pls
>>337569258
You're complaining that the game doesn't have a literal Win button that you can click and automatiaclly win.
>>337569258
I agree there should be better victory conditions but that doesn't excuse you being a retard
New to the game. I spawned in a corner of the galaxy, and five out of the possible seven jumps around me have some kind of hostile crystal species. Should I just start over? They're the only jumps in my sovereignty.
>>337569403
oh nice guess they can erode territory nice job paracucks
>>337569042
Stop lying.
>>337563136
>xenophobe is just worse collectivist
Is there ANY reason to go for xenophobe when collectivist is everything it has plus more?
>>337567521
What?
You can make dyson rings?
>>337569475
Kill them, you dumb fuck.
>>337569626
They fuck my shit up, asshole.
>>337569563
literally none
>>337569619
you can capture them from fallen empire
>giant blob civ
>dozens of weak Federation civs to my left that stretch out to 60% of the map
>one to my right, old nemesis who has since joined their alliance
>declare war on it just to absorb its last 3 planets
>manage to take all the planets
>warscore 30%
Fuck this is going to be a while, isn't it
>>337569474
Its bad game design anon and serves no purpose other than aritfically lengthening the game.
>Woooooooooooow you got into a war with someone and took more than one of their planets you're such an asshole
So, missiles are the best?
>>337568863
>>make big army
>>Start conquering people
>>Whole of the World bands together to kill me
I know that feel bro
>>337569475
>explore the other two jumps
>build 5 more corvettes and kills some crystals.
They are literally your first bad guys and are usually everywhere when you start
Can you make sectors that are limited to planets and not entire systems? I want to dump two planets I had to conquer but I also have one valuable planet in each system that I don't want to lose
>>337569742
No, torpedoes are
>>337566910
After a while they kind of just give up on life and the other factions die out.
>>337569762
nope.
>>337566910
I always execute all aliens and put my own slaves on their planets
>>337569741
You never played a paradox game did you?
What is objectively the best FTL method?
>>337569762
Of course not, anon. What, do you think Paradox actually had convenience in mind when they designed the sector system? Of course not!
>>337569420
check the first reply dumb dumb
>>337569741
>Ai acts realistically for once
>bad game design
Am I getting trolled?
>>337569657
Git gude, scrub.
>>337568863
jesus christ you are retarded
>>337569953
Wormholes
>>337564606
>Huge map
Have fun being the emperor of clickety-click-clickengton
Hey, how fast should I expand?
I am currently around year 65 and I have 5 core planets and 2 sectors, each containing 2 planets (one of which belonged to a minor power I have conquered). There's plenty of mediocre colonisable planets around and I have around 50 energy/pt income so I can afford spamming colony ships but I am not sure if I should.
Also, should I swap from Indirect Democracy to upgraded Direct Democracy (+ 4 core planets). How overall useful is having 4 more directly controlled planets in the long run?
Oh, finally, how the fuck do I reduce my ethics divergence ffs. I only have a couple of handfuls of my ~100 population still following my ethics, the rest have just gone blank. Sure I can spam edicts, but influence (even at +5/pt) doesn't grow on trees.
>>337569953
hyperspace for fluff reasons
wormholes for gameplay reasons
>>337569953
Hyperspace.
>>337565889
what the fuck is even going on in that first screenshot
>>337569741
>invade neighbouring civilisations
>whine like a bitch when they fight back
>>337568197
No. Face it, the game is fucking boring. The AI is too passive, diplomatic options are absolutely minimal, economy and planet management is ridiculously easy. This game is pretty boring, needs some modding/DLC
>>337569762
>sons of the sun
gayest name in all creation.
>>337569742
Pretty much
>completely bypasses shields
>100% hit rate
If they don't have point defense systems they're fucked.
>>337568863
That's pretty realistic
>>337568318
Play democracy. Don't build frontier outposts. Have traits that prolong your leaders's lifespan.
>>337570085
>he fell for the democracy meme
I bet you use mass drivers.
Lets make this official
http://www.strawpoll.me/10208758
>>337570116
This game is called Master of Orion 2 and was the main reason my high school exams weren't as much on the bright side as they could have been.
I still love it
>>337569953
Early-mid, Hyperspace. Late, Jump.
>>337570093
I like wormholes but I feel hyperspace might be slightly stronger overall, unless you have really weak nodes.
>>337570353
objectively this.
>>337569420
>he doesn't immediately recognize Noise's artwork
>>337569202
>Galactic ending threat spwans
>No one does literally anything but the player
DUDE WHERE IS YOUR PARADOX SHILLING NOW LMAO
>>337570085
>how the fuck do I reduce my ethics divergence ffs
Not being democratic fag
>mfw I have -4% divergence on any planet because I'm Star Empire and not some Democratic meme
>>337570126
>>337569918
>>337570035
Oh I think I understand now. this isn't a 4x game its a space sim with some shoe horned strategy elements. My mistake, I was playing it like too much of a game.
>>337570367
Personally I like hyperspace because it gives borders a real feel to them, and also allows you to make fortresses out of node hubs.
Reminds me of FreeSpace.
>>337568863
That's pretty normal.
What irks me more is that when you kick someone's shit in when they declare war on you, whole universe starts considering you a threat.
>inb4 if you'll kill him you'll be just like him
So I've been playing as a wormhole race and how exactly do my ships get back? I understand that they poke the worm hole generator to jump, but they go into zones with no generators and magically just jump back
I aint get it
>>337570474
My biggest fear with wormholes is that if you slip up and they kill a bad wormhole station you can end up trapped.
>>337568975
i-i don't have the game...
>>337570530
They ask the station to give them a ride back home.
>>337570530
Well the generator creates wormholes between systems. So it works both ways. It doesn't throw your ships somewhere, it makes a portal for them to fly through.
I can wipe out an entire species if they're really aggresive even when I'm playing with the xenophile humans right?
My problem is with these purification fetishist lizards. They're pretty primitive with only one system and I wanna get them asap.
Quick question.
Me and my friend are playing a game together.
We are in an alliance with a few AI's.
When I go to declare war on someone, he isn't getting the demands screen, so we can't progress without him going to the screen.
Anyone know where he has to go?
>>337563136
In the 100 years following mankind's ascent to the galactic frontier, humans have known constant peace. Will it last?
Probably not, considering the Mect-Pux Tribes and the Confederacy of Vur Vur both declared me their rival. I should be fine in a defensive war, now that I'm pumping out battleships and allied with the biggest blob in the galaxy.
>be in a federation of 4 systems
>want to invade the faggot that has boxed me in
>set war goals as him ceding all his planets
>can't do that, the "war score is too high" and the other assholes will vote no if they I don't liberate planets
>try to find a balance
>"war score" means I would only get a single planet of his eleven total and two would be liberated
>put it to a vote
>3 out of 4 vote yes
>invasion request is still denied
>because our 3rd guy didn't any planet to liberate
>war score doesn't afford me freeing three and taking over one
>I can do fuck all
I thought as long as I had the majority vote it would be fine. Fuck this honestly, it means I've basically lost unless I leave the federation I started.
>>337568975
jesus m8, just pirate it
>>337570436
You invade Civilization 1 and conquer them.
You invade Civilization 2 and conquer them.
You are then crying like a bitch because Civilizations 3, 4 and 5 decide to form an alliance in case you invade and conquer them.
You are complaining because the AI is fighting back instead of bending over. I can't fathom how a human being could be as retarded as you clearly are.
>>337570085
You should expand for borders, and limit your pop
if by mediocre planets you mean those planets with only a few tiles, that's good, that's what you want
get frontier outposts too
limit your pop count, it does nothing good for you, at least until you get very good lab tech
>>337570650
>100 years of peace
Sounds boring as hell
>>337569082
>get a job
i have a job but paid at 20th aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>>337570667
How? New to PC gameing in general.
>>337568308
thx mate
>>337570820
b2consoles
>>337570769
I literally conquered a bunch of tribal junta ass space lizards who were being dicks, took their five planets (Everyone hated them before I hated BTW) and everyone went ape shit on me
>>337570436
>I was playing it like too much of a game.
Actually, you were whining because the game was too difficult and you don't want the other races to fight you when you invade them.
So basically you're complaining that the AI is capable of predicting that a player who attacks a number of other races will eventually attack them.
>>337570658
Cant the leader of the federation do whatever they want? Are you talking about an alliance?
>>337570818
>living paycheck to paycheck
Get a better job.
>>337570436
>I wanted casual shit but got real game where I have to actually think
Here is your (you)
>>337570782
Yeah, those planets with 12-14 tiles and 60% habitability.
I guess I can limit my pop by reducing food income on planets and issuing immigration edicts. I've been cautious about frontier outposts because they eat up influence real fast - I only use them if I need to secure a few systems from my neighbour.
A quarter of my pops is robotic so there's that as well.
Also
>le democracy meme
>in fact, le anything xD meme
What's wrong with all you people
>didn't research colonization right away
am i fucked or can i get by on frontier posts for a little while?
>>337570928
Not defending poorfag but I know many people making close to 6 figures still living paycheck to paycheck.
They just suck huge cocks with money.
Just like my empire in this game does.
>>337571008
frontier posts cost influence + they drain it monthly, you can perhaps sustain 2 of them, not more at the start of the game.
Materialist, Individualist, Xenophile
My gov't type is Plutocratic Oligarchy
I just made my first sector so I have 6 planets total under my control.
I have about 1k military strength but I'm going to boost it significantly soon
I am thinking of making more migration deals with neighbors so I have a more diverse demographic and then colonizing the many low-quality planets in my borders.
>>337570873
So you be saying that when you conquered a bunch of planets, the other races took note of this and became afraid you might conquer them?
Say it ain't so! The AI is learning!
>>337570989
>I've been cautious about frontier outposts because they eat up influence real fast
put them in a sector, it's that simple to abuse
>>337570873
I don't understand why this would be an issue unless you actually were planning on attacking Civlizations 3, 4 and 5 after having conquered Civlizations 1 and 2.
Either way, you are still bitching that the AI is smart enough to figure out that a guy who repeatedly conquers other races will eventually come after them - WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU TRIED TO DO.
>>337570989
put frontier outposts into sectors, this way they wont constantly eat influence. Divergency can't be fought only one way, by being non-democratic with Ministry of -15% Divergency and Commisar of -20% divergency
>>337570954
>Stellaris
>not casual shit
Pick one
Someone explain to me how wormholes work exactly. Do i need to build a generator in each system or just between points where i want to jump?
>>337570804
Meh, I find playing the same ol' military junta empire that everyone else plays in these games is far more boring. Conquest victories are for those that lack imagination.
>>337571289
you go to place then you come back to generator to go to a different place
>>337571337
>implying there's any other victory condition
WHY WONT YOU REBEL YOU FUCKING TOASTERS SO I CAN PLAY BSG I SET UP EVERYTHING PERFECTLY
>>337571337
>military junta empire
>Not Star Empire of Genocide and Purges
you're boring m8
Honestly, I hate grand strategy games like Europa and Crusader Kings, albeit I only played them for 2 hours each.
I felt utterly confused, like I was looking at a bunch of spreadsheets attached to a 3D version of google earth.
I found it mind numbing and boring to click on small units on a map of Medieval or Renaissance making them move over a tile or whatever and then have a text box pop up telling me, I discovered some natives that want to poke my people to death.
Don't get me wrong, I find parts of human history like the roman era interesting, but the idea of having to re-explore europe and the rest of earth just puts me to sleep.
But for some reason, I don't feel like that at all when I'm playing Stellaris.
Exploring an entire galaxy with tons of planets and different aliens races is far more interesting then happening upon some shit slinging muslim's in Europe.
I feel much more engaged while managing my ships and entire empire across solar systems inside of a massive galaxy.
I adore the fact that this game is easier on the eyes with menus and resources, everything is extremely visual in comparison to other grand strategy games, which makes in 10 times easier to get into and enjoy playing.
>>337571279
>>337571124
I've read somewhere that it's a bug and they will patch it. Is that so?
>Fanatic Spiritualist
>Peaceful
>Enlightened Monarchy
>Venerable
Literally an immortal god emperor space squid. Can't wait for the small fucker next to me to finally declare was so I can put my grand armada to use.
How do I stop the AI to follow my fleets when going to war? Can't they do shit on their own?
>>337571654
Destroy your fleet, this way they have none to follow and attack by themselve
I have a confession to make.
I've been the one responsible for spreading disinfo about sectors. It turns out that they ignore Influence costs to upgrade the planetary administration. I realized last night.
So maybe sectors arn't that bad. They still arn't perfect but at least they can upgrade the town hall.
>>337563136
>Pick random
>Fanatic xenophile
>Peaceful
>Make allies
>Liberate the shit out of hostile empires
>Make more allies
>>337571289
You have a constructor make a worm hole generator. It creates a circle of travel. You can jump to anywhere in that circle of travel and jump back to the wormhole. Say you have a verticle empire, you could jump to the bottom of it in a flash of an eye
This is offset by the fact that you have to go back to your worm hole generator to jump to a new area. So its really not ideal for agressive play
>Be democracy
>President keeps giving mandates.
>Keep getting a message that she failed the mandate
Do I get punished for this?
>>337571289
Wormhole generators open a wormhole between themselves and a system in its range, then ships fly through them. This means a ship can call up a wormhole from wherever, and arrive at one of your generators.
If both the origin and destination have generators, then they can open a better generator-generator wormhole, which allows super fast travel
>>337571782
I have one sector with like half my empire and apart from having energy issues for like 50 years, it's been doing well enough. I don't see the issue, the AI actually builds somewhat smartly and doesn't waste spaces.
>>337570650
>100 years
>barely even moved from Earth
>>337571909
>>337571843
>>337571383
neat, thanks
>>337571439
Have you researched Sentient AIs
mfw this music comes on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9AgLVi_8Gs&t=169
>>337571337
>this is a game of finesse and intellectualism for mature people such as myself
>>337571896
its your way of making influence
by meeting the promises they are elected for
>>337571843
>So its really not ideal for agressive play
My generators cover the whole territory of my direct neighbors and a bit more. If I so desire, I can invade wherever the fuck I want in my little corner of the galaxy. Wormholes are great.
How good are the Unbidden weapons?
I just got a research project for Matter Disintegrators.
>>337572060
Best damn track in an already great soundtrack. They really fucking nailed it.
>>337571525
>But for some reason, I don't feel like that at all when I'm playing Stellaris.
Because this is a 4x game, not grand strat.
Which is probably why i like it less.fuck you casual, you're killing the only dev that makes the games I love
Reminder that the only way to play this game is as :
>Xenophobe
>Militaristic
>Spiritualistic
Human and divine mandate, eventually going into transcendental empire
If you are not playing like this, you are playing it wrong
If I research Sentient AI but have no even droids or robots will AI try to rebel anyway? And also ANY machines are forbidden, since spiritual guys don't like them
>no planning mode
>can't upgrade capitals
>can't set seperate taxes on credits/minerals
>can't make robotic pops at all
>can't exempt certain planets in a multi-colony system
>replaces Fallen Empire buildings even if replacement is off
>outpost exploit
I'm honestly convinced that nobody with an ounce of intelligence bothered their arse to look at the Sector system before release. So much fucking awful design and so many stupid bugs concentrated into a single feature, which is basically fucking mandatory for any half-decently sized empire. I can't even decide if I want to keep playing or not until it's fixed.
>>337571525
That novelty wears of very fast. CK2 and EU are way more engaging and dynamic than Stellaris.
Stellaris get really old and boring REALLY fucking fast, mostly due to it being the most dumbed down paradox game so far. Its on par with civ5 and fucking total war series on empire management.
>>337572085
Problem is you cant go from one world to another without having to return home
>>337570818
Do American get paid once a month? In Australia I get paid 2k a week??
>>337572268
w8 2 years and 100$ DLCs when it's on same level
>>337572086
they are ok, tachyon lances are my favorite though
enough lances and everything gets focused once in range, but i never had the chance to test the other weapons the proper way, because my fleets are 10x the size of my enemies anyways
guess i should send a fleet that is equal next time
>>337572080
Which you literally cannot do because it costs way more to expand to get more systems to build mining outpost/research outposts than you get out of fulfilling the mandate.
Democracy influence system is broken. If it gave you like 500 influence then it would be worth it, but not for a measily 80.
I'm going to be frank. I'm bored out of my mind but I've never played a grand strategy game.
The closest I've played is Rome: Total War
Will this game keep me entertained for a couple weeks or should I not even bother?
>>337572221
I am now able to colonize other planets in my core systems, but that would bring me above the core planet limet, so i would need to give them to sectors
too bad that you have to give everything in a system to the sector, so i will never colonize those shitty <20 slots planets
you could give every shit to different people in ck2, but in stellaris its all or nothing, really fucking stupid
>>337572268
Pretty much this, at some point there is always nothing else to do than spam battleships with your practically infinite energy and mirerals and just declare war on everything. Anything but small galaxy starts to feel like a chore to play.
>>337572580
Short answer: No.
>>337572678
well I already bought it so fuck you
How to win every war
>Set up shitty world on enemy border
>Load it up with defense stations
>Declare war and watch as enemy zergs into suicide
Some great AI this game has
>>337572627
You can take the system out, colonize/modify it and attach it back to the sector. Sure it's tedious but still better than nothing. But yeah, they should and they probably will add finer control over sectors.
>>337572580
I got bored after 2 days
>>337572268
>mostly due to it being the most dumbed down paradox game so far.
That's actually whats most appealing about it to me, it's not confusing as hell to play.
You don't have to manage as many things as CK2 and EU4.
So yes, I'm very casual when it comes to games like this, I'm not very good at micro/macro management in general.
>>337572658
Yes, past early game resource management becomes joke.
>a full century since synthetics got citizen rights and started spreading out in my empire
>they have a dozen planets of their own
>still no event AI Accord popping up
W H E N?
>>337567532
You don't know.
>>337572724
Well that's your fault for buying it before asking our opinion of how boring the game is (read: VERY boring).
>>337572752
I stumbled upon this 'tactic' in my first war against some anthropod squishy slimy looking mother fuckers who were zealots trying to proselytize the galaxy. I had no fleet of any real size so they ended up bombarding my home world but guess what, the AI is too dumb to utilize armies so they never actually invaded.
I crushed his ass 3 years later but gave in to muh ethics and let the planets I took become independant as vassals. Should have just changed ethics and purged the xenos.
>>337568019
>Being over planet limit
>Ever
Do you cunts not create sectors, or what?
>>337572939
Space was a mistake.
>not listening to the Mass Effect 1 Soundtrack while playing during peace times
>>337572767
Those are my core systems, I would rather just give away those shitty tiny planets, but seeing that I can't do this, I will never colonize them.
>>337572901
Kumiko mod when
>>337572939
>Hyperdrives
You did this to yourself.
>>337572939
Kek
Also
>4 Arms galaxy
>Without Wormhole FTL
You asked for it desu
>>337572170
I picked xenophobe, militarist and spiritualist but as an alien :3
So this is next door to my capital.
Is it going to be a problem?
>>337572939
>literally the worst FTL method
You asked for it
>>337573337
>>337573359
Been meaning to try out wormhole tech, but any empire I see using it never goes anywhere
>Last planet I need to survey complete a quest is inside another republic
>They refuse any kind of civilian access no matter what you give them
Defend this paradox fags.
>>337573412
nah, those things usually stay there
>>337572946
Maybe your game is bugged. I had an invader land on my homeworld.
>>337573217
ME1 is so comfy.
>>337573412
those things usually stay in whatever system you find them
>>337573472
Invade the fuckers.
>>337572939
Spend the next 500 years teching up, maybe someone will eventually contact you and you can form an alliance against them
I mean, this sounds interesting but unimaginably boring
>Make a xenophobic militarist empire because muh god-emp and muh purging for fun
>All going well, telling most ayys to fuck off or generaly stay away
>Getting very powerful, everyone's happy and I have ALL the resources
>Xenofags make an alliance and attack me
>Push their shit in
>I have the biggest dick in the galaxy
>Oh hey cool, a new planet to colonise, surrounded with sickass resources too
>"A fallen empire sees this planet as sacred ground"
>Well if they're FALLEN they're hardly a threat :^)
>One year later it's an all out holy war between me and some godbeetles
fucking fallen empires can suck my ass
>>337573423
that would be warp
>create mushroom people who like to enslave
>lose election to some soft cock who wants to expand mineral gathering over my original leaders enslaving idea
where did I go so wrong.
>tfw I fell for the fanatic militarist meme
The edict is so fucking useless. Shoulda just gone full collectivist.
By the way, does 100% slave tolerance eliminate all happiness penalties from slavery?
>>337573794
>democucks
So what exclusive techs does Materialist even have?
Spiritualist get psi troopers and psi jumps and stuff what do materialists fools get?
>>337573794
>lose election
>even letting them hold fucking elections
My bloodline will rule the empire forever.
>>337574121
jews
>>337573797
Yes.
Slaves are literally just better mineral miners.
Sometimes they become EVEN HAPPIER because "Hey I live on a planet that has slaves, cool" when they themselves are the slave.
>>337565804
>I knew this game would have a high fallout rate lol. It's not even hard to figure out.
It's so much easier than other paradox games because you don't start with about 30 things to do and other nations right next to you
>>337564315
>not playing genocidal jew lizards
>hentai tentacle monsters just invaded
>on the other side of the galaxy
>>337573794
>democracy
Yeah, because that is working out so fucking well for us right?
>have migration agreement with some random empire over the other side of the galaxy
>every few years my fucking colonies explode with pops
>mfw everyone is unemployed
>>337574390
BRAVO MERKEL
>>337574390
Make Your Empire Great Again
>>337574390
Just like europe
>mfw I just found out how much of a huge clusterfuck integration is
Stick with vassals, kids.
>>337572170
I would agree if there were a good way to get your ethics divergence into positive
unfortunately the only way to do that is theocratic republic
>>337574390
>>337574503
>doesn't work in real life
>doesn't work in videogames
pottery
>>337574503
>suddenly all these low tech fleets and science vessels
>Fallen Empire goes hostile on me because I accidentally passed through their territory once
>look at them again
>Militant Isolationists
>in order to not get attacked they demanded I destroy 6 of my colonies, which weren't even that close to them
>say "fuck it" and go to war
>suddenly having 80k worth of Battleships doesn't prove to be a bad investment at all
>defeat the Fallen Empire and take their two Ringworlds for my own
>suddenly 15 different Empires are banding together in response to me defeating the FE cunts
>because I'm apparently a threat to them
This is retarded.
Why do I get treated like an enemy when I was just defending myself?
When do I get to upgrade my government type? Literally everyone else has done it except me. Like 10 hours in.
>Make clan of dictator lizardmen
>Can see that the perk is each Dictator can build one oversized ship
>Have no idea how to do this
send help
>not playing on Tiny (150 stars)
So comfy.
>>337574668
>Why do I get treated like an enemy when I was just defending myself?
Welcome to Germany in 1939
>>337574668
Because now you're a galactic threat. Taking over a fallen empire gives you access to their tech, which will put you leagues ahead of everyone else in the empire.
So they banded together to buttfuck you and take that tech for themselves.
>>337574732
I would play in 99k stars if I could
>>337574668
They are afraid anon.
If you let enough time pass, their fear of you subsides for the most part. Its just a delicate game of not pissing any of them off in waining years.
>>337574345
>hentai tentacle monsters
w-what
>>337573658
>Fallen empire attacks me for purging the entire galaxy and enslaving a few for genetic experiments
>Forces are superior against their splittet fleets, but can't attack their planets cause they all rush to defend it
>learned this the hard way, they chased down my escaping fleets, destroying everything
>Fuck it I created some debris, I should just tech up from those and overthrow them later
>sign the no purging and enslaving treaty, going to get humiliated on top of it
>they fucking ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR AFTER SIGNING THE PEACE DEAL
>Fate of the galaxy is sealed, after those 10 years EVERYTHING will get purged
>Time to build the death fleets
>The created debris from the fleet battles gave me hypershields (I think that was tech 5, I just had tech 2 at that moment)
>Also got Tachyon Lances and Everything
>During those 10 years of waiting, the unbidding invaded my vast empire that pretty much consists of 1/3 of the galaxy
>Unimpressive, the invasion lasted as long as my ships were traveling to that system
>Research debris, gaining matter disintegrators
>It's finally time to attack the fallen empire
>Their Tech level is advantageous, size limit is equal, fleet strength inferior
>Declare war, leave 20k Fleet behind at home system, invade with 145k Fleet
>They send everything to defend their first planet
>The death Fleet opens fire, everything dies in range of the tachyon lances
>Other weapons are fired for a brief moment, everything is destroyed
>Lost 1k of that 145k fleet
>They agree to all my demands after occupying 2 worlds
>Game is now boring as fuck, unbidden invasion was pathetic, fallen empires are already fucked, everything gets steamrolled
>2ez, first playthrough already over
fuck stellaris, huge empires are too easy, trade doesn't exist in the game and other playstyles are to just sit there and tech up your few worlds
>>337574668
>Why do I get treated like an enemy
TREAT THEM ALL LIKE THE ENEMY
>cant tell a science ship to continuously survey systems
fucking why
>>337574390
>I'm gonna build FTL blockers!
>And the Groxnak Collective will pay for them!
>>337574793
That's the thing. I didn't get that many new techs at all, not even their Jump Drives, even though I scavenged everything.
Is it worth it to research battle debris?
Do battleship auras stack?
>>337575048
>upgrade building
>there's usually only one upgrade except for labs
>have to click on upgrade and then on the SINGLE THING THAT THERE IS ON THE LIST
it's pains having to do this on my core planets all the time
>>337574732
>not playing on 1000 stars
>with only one other AI in the game
Daily reminder that if you're not playing as Human you're basically SJW tier
>>337575048
not indefinitely but you can tell it to survey a whole bunch and it will go from one to the next to the next
>>337575271
Human is literally SJW : The race.
>women and dindus occupy 80% of your leader slots
Such diversity
>>337575271
>"I'm a boring fuck, so you should be too!"
I bet your empire is also emulating 40k like the unimaginative little shit you are.
>>337575365
How do you know xem identify xemselves as women?
>>337565495
>Overall playing as isolationist is pretty boring
It's actually the most powerful way to play
Keep your pops low for faster science speed and then stomp everyone once you get advanced military shit
>>337575271
Except the default human factions are filled to the brim with non-whites and females.
Maybe 1 in 10 are white, and 1 out of 30 happen to be white men.
>>337575149
Depends, did they have better tech than you?
Are they a fallen empire or invader?
Where they a unique monster?
If yes, research it.
If no, it's not worth it.
>>337575149
see >>337574945
Researchign debris gives you access to tech that is above you, so yes definitely
it's even worth losing against a fallen empire, as long as you can generate enough debris to ensure you some tech
Warscore could be fixed easily, by simply having occupied planets generate warscore each month
c-can anyone buy me this game? i'm graduating college soon and don't have the money to have fun making space societies fall
>>337575556
pirate it you fucking cuck
>>337575556
sure kid
>>337575556
thepiratebay.org
alternatively, quit being a faggot and get in on a private tracker.
>>337575556
Then pirate it and buy it when you have money, nothing is worse than a begger.
After you defeat the unbidden how do you retake space?
>Blocked in all sides, as is the natural course of game flow
>OUR PRESIDENT HAS PROMISED TO BUILT 4 NEW MINING STATIONS
I just..
>OUT PRESIDENT HAS PROMISED TO BUILD FOUR NEW RESEARCH STATIONS
JUST
>>337575375
Playing a 40k knockoff is the only reason to buy this game
>hurr I want to play as a pretty democratic republic
There are shitload of space 4x games for you faggot
>>337575556
Sent :)
The fuck, I can't exterminate cockroaches without it counting as a genocide?Yes it's earth
>>337575721
>disband old stations
>build new one
WOW SO DIFFICULT.
>>337575764
They're not regular cockroaches, they're sapient.
Uplift them so you can colonize other tomb worlds with them.
I'm doing the tutorial and I can't help but feel I'm doing something wrong.
I'm currently just waiting for influence to come in so that I can expand my territory.
Is there anything else I should be doing?
>>337575748
>projecting this hard
dumb 40k poster
>139 year old admiral
>still not dying
>>337574712
You need a Society tech called Galactic Administration. Do some Statecraft techs if you haven't seen it yet, I guess.
>>337575764
>not doing genocide anyway
>our current stance on purging prohibits the purge of this pop
I bet you have xenos in your empire that are not slaves too
Can I false-flag attacks on my people in order to exterminate xeno without all the other xeno banding together against me?
>Faggot federation above me of 5 or so civs contest my claims all the time
>insult me
>keep denying my trades
>build up fleet of 200k ships mid-game
>invade them
>economy is basically collapsing but i'm keeping it afloat with cheats because i'm too lazy to deal with any drawbacks right now.
>>337576016
>having any kind of xenos in your demographics
Why these people even bought the game?
I started being able to control 5 planets minimum.
while warring I got 7 total.
I don't want to make sectors until they are at least somewhat habitable and the shit cleared away.
I've been at it for over 90 years ingame time and still not seen any research that lets me control more planets. Is it possible? Am I just unlucky?
I fucking hate sectors because they don't deal with revolts smartly. I put some fungus I had just conquered into one and the day after everything was on fire. I get notices that they destroy shit and I can't do anything about it once they are out of my hands.
>>337576016
Only because I've already played an empire enslaving every xenos I could see. Moving them around for the right tasks was pain in thte ass.
>start game with human faction
>70% of everyone is a nigger, especially scientists
>70% of everyone is a woman
i am quite disturbed by this.
>>337576179
>swedish developers
you should have expected it
>>337575603
>>337575678
>>337575674
I wanted to play with my friends, but i'll consider just pirating it if i can't find anyone
>>337576095
>not using xenos as slaves
talk about wasted potential
The main tune is really catchy, but the game only has that one track, doesn't it?
>>337576285
>leaving even the faint trace of xeno scum in your territory
talk about being a cuck
>>337576179
yes, almost every scientist/general/admiral in my entire empire is a fucking woman, they usually get asian or dindu names
why are sectors so shit? why is paradox so insistent on not letting me control my own damn territory?
>>337576151
The tech tree for that is Planetary Government -> Planetary Unificiation -> Adaptive Bureaucracy -> Administrative Efficiency
The point of sectors is that they're self-governing. They'll develop themselves, you don't have to set them up yourself first.
>>337576338
>Playing as boring old humans
>>337564962
>>337565072
>>337565385
It's like the easiest and most casual paradox title.
>>337576414
Its too hard :(
>tfw 1 month now takes more than 10 minutes
I hope Paradox will get their shit together and fix this. It's literally unplayable at this point.
GUYS
HELP
>tfw diverse multicultural democratic empire
>migration treaties ensure new colonies fill up almost instantly
>no factions, all integrated peoples, strongest empire in the galaxy
who /liberal/ here?
>>337576437
whatever race traitor
>>337576559
HELP ME THEY ARE LITERALLY EATING ENTIRE STAR SYSTEMS
>>337576559
This bug scared the fuck out of me too, anon. Caught me off-guard
>>337576530
The double space between boiled and alive makes it fairly obvious that the scientist's name should have gone there, but didn't for some reason.
Why cant I build this? I put a mayor on the planet and everything
>>337576580
DELETE THIS
>>337576416
>They'll develop themselves
>>337576559
>surveyed that much
>6 planets
>research so low
shenanigans
>>337576556
1 month is like 30 seconds for me on normal speed.
>>337576698
It literally tells you why.
>>337576698
upgrade your fucking shelter
>>337576698
You need to upgrade the capital.
>>337576742
They do. Not very well, but they do.
It doesn't matter anyway, they ignore your orders not to replace stuff you've built. So your sector planets will have sub-par economy eventually, doesn't matter if you hand them an empty planet or an already developed one.
>>337576698
upgrade your capital you dumb nigger holy shit
>>337576698
Holy fuck, it tells you right there in the tooltip. What is wrong with you?
>>337576580
>twf monotone one-raced non-democratic empire
>War annexation aka migration treaties ensures new colonies have everything built for me
>no factions beside slaves, biggest science dick in whole galaxy
who /xenophobe-collectivist/ here?
>>337576767
Be happy then. The endgame turns everything to snail pace.
Im gonna play as
>Venerable
>Slow Learners
>Repugnant
Humans
Is this gud?
>>337576762
mine is similar, but have 5k fleet power and more resources
it worries me whenever I do research agreements and see the aliens have 20+ more things researched in each tree
>>337577045
Repugnant is fucking awful if you plan to integrate any other species at any point. Take Weak instead, robot armies are better anyway.
>>337576639
come on anon, its the year 2200. Let go of your racism
>>337571062
3 rivalries with equivalent close factions = 3 more points/turn
Research to boost points per turn.
You can easily plop 4 down within the first 10-15 years.
>>337577161
I don't plan to integrate at all
So this is why I took repugnant, its basically a null penalty
>>337563136
>ally declares rivalry with space U.N
>suddenly everyone hates me and is my rival
Oh god what did I do wrong? What does rivalry mean, because I kind of don't want to be suddenly stomped by flying monkeys.
My first playthrough is a mess but I refuse to stop until I am eliminated.
>Start as xenophobic humans just trying to purge their way to the end of the galaxy
>Get quickly boxed in by 2 furry empires and some slugs because I counldn't into expansion
>Notonmywatchfam.gif
>Start making purge fleets
>Can barely support them with what resources I have
>Target slugs first because they got no friends
>Prolly slow as fuck, be easy to catch them
>Invade them to take their planets and use their resources
>Eventually their fleets start just retreating when I show up in a star system
>Despite this, easily catch them with my superior human legs
>Killing slugs all day every day
>Purge all slug pops
>Suddenly planets revert back to slug control because I'm a retard that didn't understand how it worked
>Dropping resources faster than filthy xenos
>PANIC.AVI
>Can't declare war on Slugs for a while yet
>Need to fuel deathfleets somehow because if I disband them the combined spiked cock of the furry federation will push my shit in
>See a planet ripe for human colony cock
>Settle it
>It's a holy world for a fallen empire
>>337576416
>They'll develop themselves, you don't have to set them up yourself first.
The thing is, they can't do it in any way properly. For starters, they seem unable to build anything that requires influence so they're limited to the low-tier buildings (being unable to build Planetary Administration and such like).
Even if the build AI was actually capable, it'd be shit mechanic anyway because it takes control away from the player. For example, being able to automate construction ("upgrade all buildings in all systems if you have x resources stockpiled" checkbox) or construct buildings from ledger like in EU3 (probably EU4 as well, although I don't really remember) are some of the mechanics that would have made managing larger empires much more manageable.
>>337571286
This, for better or worse is a matter of taste but it's a glorified board game.
>finally meet my new ayylmao neighbors
>one is a fanatic zealot while the other is a horrible xenophobe
>the zealot is "superior" in terms of technology while the xenophobe has tons of ships
Just fuck my life up senpai
>mfw when I learned that the more pops you have the slower your research is
I was spamming colony ships like mad
fuck this
>>337571525
>I don't feel like that at all when I'm playing Stellaris.
Probably because it's the most dumbed down paradox title to date. Congrats, people like yourself are the demographic paradox aims for now.
>>337576151
There's a repeatable tech to increase your core planet cap, but repeatable techs may not appear until late in the game
It's best to just use a mod to increase the cap, then you can use sectors whenever you feel like it instead of being forced to at 6 planets
>inefficient planet management, -10% energy income Empire wide
What did I do to deserve this? No, seriously, how the fuck did I get that? I'd love if this game was a bit more transparent with it's mechanics.
>>337577073
>aliens have 20+ more things researched in each tree
how do you view this?
>>337571621
> Not always getting the spiritualistic, fanatic individualism ethics with venerable ethics
It's like you don't want to create an empire where every individual is a semi-god.
>>337577286
>they seem unable to build anything that requires influence
Not true, most of my sectors are filled with planets I had them colonize themselves, they all have planetary administrations now.
Sectors seem to have their own influence bank, you just can't see it.
>being able to automate construction
They already do this automatically.
>>337577283
Just open the console and spam type cash and minerals and Instant_build and begin aggressively spam ships at the furries until you have a foothold you can play legit from
>>337576762
So how do I increase research? Haven't found even a single primitive empire. Is my game bugged?
>>337577440
The scariest part is that they were extremely successful too.
>>337577526
WAIT
I just found one
how fucking weird
time to anal probe some faggots
>spend years, LITERALLY Years building my fleet for a major invasion
>some retard AI unleashes the Unbidden
>literally EVERY empire simultaneously joins the same Federation
>have to end the game because there's no territory left and I can't do shit against the Federation
>>337576580
I did that too, but some synthetics migrated in and now I'm afraid I might get the AI rebellion crisis
>>337577470
when trading just hover the mouse over the research agreement button
>>337577692
No Anon. You shall become the Unbidden ones.
>>337577514
>cheating
>ironman
>>337577283
>fallen world gets salty and starts fucking with me
>whatever nigger I'm behind 7 tutorials
>got me some betharian xeno stone or whatever
>Decide that to sustain this war I need more shit
>declare war on the furry empire
>one end of my territory is holding off the holyfags while the other is de-suiting and gassing furries
>manage to stomp one of the furry factions out of relevance and mine all their shit
>more deathfleets a coming
>pushing back fallen empire because I guess the AI is bad
>Other furry empire gives up but there are more factions getting salty at my ways
>more ayys to kill tbqhf
>fallen empire losing war
>"Some fucking faggot ass factions with tentacles and pus and weird faces and shit all made a big hugbox federation, good luck faggot"
>War with fallen empire almost won
>Furry empire has got back on it's feet and it's MAD
>Emperor Angerman is getting old
>The Imperium is being tested
>>337575713
By having boatloads of colony ships ready for dem fullt developed Gaia planets the unbidden leaves behind and amass a giant fleet and make all your sectors build defense stations everywhere as yourain minerals on your sectors
>>337574249
>Sometimes they become EVEN HAPPIER because "Hey I live on a planet that has slaves, cool" when they themselves are the slave.
How do you get more people to join your federation? Even my neighbors that aren't allies won't give the option.
>>337577424
Do systems governed by sectors also increase the tech cost? Having removed the core system restriction, I've kinda been able to keep up with the raising tech costs by filling all my planets with research facilities besides on the most valuable resource tiles, but I wouldn't trust the AI to manage that.
>>337575365
>>337575460
>he doesn't play with the germanic mod that removes every non-white portrait and renames them all with german names
>>337577827
>he fell for the ironman meme
>>337578034
I do play with it.
I just said that the DEFAULT human factions are pretty much filled with non-whites/males.
>tfw venerable leader with +10% food bonus
This gonna be good
So I finish integrating a vassal and my pop and world count more than doubles in size because I had not been expanding very much, just sciencing like a motherfucker. Predictably, my energy count drops like a rock. Part of it is the core worlds penalty which I fix by shoving all 8 of the new worlds into a sector, but part of it is the huge standing fleet the AI had going for whatever reason. Rather than doing the sensible thing and scuttling the fleet, I decide to double down and cover the ~100 energy credit deficit with more production.
After evwntially pulling it off, I get suddenly get an alert about people starving. I go look and see a bunch of my neighbor's pops suddenly filling in the Gaia planet I colonisized right before this shit storm happened. Apparently migration got turned on somehow??? I certainly didn't change the policy manually, and now the fuckers are filling in a couple of my planets. What the hell.
>>337575856
Survey everywhere all the time. Colonize all planets you see and get frustated over how you cant keep you energy and minerals from hitting Max stockpile. Also dont underestimate upgraded defense stations and rivalry all your neighbours for maximum influence gains.
>>337577772
oh I finally understand what that means now. Thanks.
>>337578260
integration turns on migration.
>mfw I build a slave processing facility on a conquered enemy planet
What exactly is a fallen empire?
Just a very advanced empire that somehow gave up on expanding?
>>337578487
yes
think great britain
>>337578054
How else can I show ur mum my cheevos m8, reloading is for SHITTERS and XENOS
>>337577827
>Fallen Empire is my bitch
>Furry empire readying for either all out war or bronycon 2016
>Overwhelming force
>All his buddies are overwhelming too
>My first imperium is doing bretty gut but won't stand a chance against the combined autism of the galaxy
>Some CRAB PEOPLE declare war on the furries over a misplaced inhaler or whatever those nerds argue about
>My scientist put his dick in an astro-volcano or something and got me a fuck tonne of energy and minerals
>Fuck it
>REMOVE_FURRY.JPG
>ALL the purge fleets advance
>Removing research stations/observation posts and everything that can take away from resources used to fuel war
>Introduced to some one planet faggot democratic bug-race
>"let's be friends"
>lolno, war them as well for bants
>Thrash their shitty fleet on the way to assfuck a furry
>Fucking Furries up good, killing any other xeno fleets that arrive
>Eventually federation of spectrums gets it's shit together
>Megafleets arrive
>RIP lads
>Fleets mostly destroyed
>My shit getting pushed in
>As we speak I'm getting cucked out of planets and all sorts of shit
>Declare war on all factions out of spite
>maybe the real purge was the friends we made along the way
i want to play but i need to study
i learn something new every time i play it. yesterday was frontier outposts which meant i suddenly became rich as fuck, having been used to only having a couple star systems to mine before.
however every time i play i also get 5 new questions which dont even have good answers on the wiki, so its cancels itself out. i got offered a 10 year immigration deal and i guess i understand what it does, but i don't know when its appropriate or why it would be good.
If you just build your fleet larger than everyone else you can do whatever you want really. I've conquered several other empires and purged their entire populations. A couple different alliances declared war on me a few times but I just kill all their ships then invade their homeworlds and they accept peace.
Since my population has no xenos in it my internal politics is limited to sectors wanting independence, but I think that's just because I keep giving them too many planets, so every once in a while I just shift the sector borders around so that most of the planets that were in one are now in another. It seems to keep the pops confused.
>>337578639
make time for both activities, don't waste it
>not even a year into a campaign
>mass extinction event
>>337578793
>If you just build your fleet larger than everyone else you can do whatever you want really.
t. America
>>337578456
After playing Stellaris I'm starting to understand this guy. There ain't no problem that can't be solved by sending motherfuckers to a Gulag for a few decades until they reconsider their political opinions.
>>337563136
So this game is pretty good? Worth a pirate?
Be in Alliance with two like minded "empires" (having 5 planets and about 10 star systems worth of space shouldnt count as that but wth).
Want to own some bitches. Either time I want to make some war on em one of my allies says "Vote NAY". And everytime they want to make some war with some bitches I said OK.
Ok fuck that, then. Leave alliance. And start to own smaller empires. Have 3 vassals now. Some of the "ancient" empires are now equivalent tho this one AI ancient empire is still "overwhelming" even tho I'm nearly pushing 30k fleet power with 250 ships.
Well I guess I need more research weapons and shit.
Vassals become any problem later on or are they just slaves to my cause as they should be those weak faggots?
I think the prethoryn swarm event needs retooling.
>Have largest fleet in galaxy at 50k
>prethoryn swarm spawns on my empire
>has 180k in fleets
>instantly colonizes everything
>no federations are formed, not even alliances
I'm not too keen on waiting a century to build up a fleet large enough.
>>337578793
I fucking love Ayy armies. When used with my Very Strong Strong slaves they just conquer everything without support.
Are you supposed to put myself mining stations in all srars that are in your zone? Or am i wasting resources like a retard
>have to keep creating and upgrading surface
>Have to keep upgrading and creating space ships.
>Also need to throw up defense stations over my colonies
>have to keep researching new tech but also stopping to do anomalies.
I don't know how to handle this. What should take priority?
>>337572345
I get 4k a year
stupid that i can't get research from my vassals
Conquered religious Fungi scum and now I have to unite the new blob with my main blob. Whelp.
>>337578980
Vassalization helps you keep your population count low for research, but they aren't particularly useful as you don't get any resources from them, don't have colonization access on their territory. You probably crippled them financially in conquering them, and their happiness will be low from being defeated leading to slower development within their own empire. They pretty much stay at pathetic for the rest of the game
>>337579225
Yes, you are supposed to do that. In the early game you should think about cost/benefit though, since normal mines are cheaper, but you don't have enough pop to work all of them. In late game orbital mining stations will be your main source of income while your core planets will work science like motherfuckers.
>>337575048
Just fucking queue systems for surveys with shift key.
Also use alt key if anyone havent figured IT out.
>>337579380
>5/5
Make them a sector and wash your hands of the matter
>>337579225
It's 1 energy maintenance to construct a mineral mining station, energy mining stations are free. It is resources you can gather without increasing your population count; so it is generally better to get your resources through stations than by colonizing. Except in the very early game when minerals are tight, you should always build energy mining stations because they run for free.
>>337579641
Also I think buildings give 2 resource per 1 energy so anything in space with more than 2 is a good deal.
>>337578793
Making vassals out of everyone is just too easy.
>Cheat and get some tech done
>Cheat and get some mineral
Tfw I still get fucking destroyed by an equivalent fleet
How many Precursor Races are there?
So far, I've come across 3: one of which was synthetics who tried to wipe away every organic lifeform in the galaxy, another who died due to some plague ravaging the whole galaxy and the third were just some huge-ass aliens who only traveled one or two per ship, and their ships were fucking huge.
Is there something I can do with energy?
I'm forever capped on it and when I try to trade with my people they got -1000 the second I ask for a single ore
>>337579832
>cheating
Get the fuck out of /v/
>>337579606
Took the screenshot right after the war is over. I'm gonna fix the buildings on them first and then shove them off into a new sector.
>>337577953
That whole scene is great.
>>337579963
Fuck off i couldn't be bothered spending hours doing nothing
>>337579291
upgrade your buildings - keep researching - keep your ships upgraded- upgrade defense station, also
>needing defense stations
always attack, anon
>>337579820
Don't make them vassals, annex their planets then purge their population to make way for your pops.
>>337579963
>no fun allowed
Hyperspace is best ftl. Access to everywhere from the start is Great. Have a science ship on passive and explore everywhere so i gan get the Alpha, beta, gamma shit done with right away
>>337580146
Annexing these 2 big blobs would take forever. Meanwhile making them vassal is just 60 warscore.
>>337580146
How
What's the difference between spiral galaxies and shit? Anyone got pics?
Game is fun but some of the micromanagement is stupid, I'm sure they are gonna fix this shit up with patches, this is Paradox at the end of the day. But fuck me, having to micromanage the scienceship and construction ship is hell.
>>337579401
So I should just rekt their shit and take over the territory bcs those faggots wont contribute to anything when shit goes down (i.e. I go to war with some crazy mofo?)?
Btw It seems whole map went stagnant as if waiting for armageddon to happen, no one is expanding, no one is conquering just throwing fits of rivalry and shitposting like 4chan overtook them and they just fap and bitch about each other...
So how do we make this game less not great?
>Automate constructors
>Automate science ships
>Revamp sectors so they're less retarded
>Revamp federations so that they're less retarded
>Make combat less broken
>Espionage options for diplomacy
>???
>>337580145
Are defense station worthless? I see my allied neighbor walking around with a 3k fleet and having defense stations everywhere.
My biggest fleet is 789, not even 1k.
>>337580347
without that micromanagement you would just look at your screen all game except when moving your armies in war
>>337580517
Coming soon as DLC!
>>337580551
How do we fix the game, anon?
Are they going to make hairstyles for male humans that aren't gay nu-male shit.
>>337580560
Automation would probably be a free update, maybe sectors/federations too?
Espionage/expanded diplomacy is DLC shilling material 100% though.
>>337563136
Cat people
Solitary
Nomadic
Quick Learners
Individualist
Fanatic Materialist
>>337580534
They are not worthless, but the enemy AI is so dumb that they won't try to attack your undefended shit, so it doesn't really matter, if your fleet is bigger, then their fleet will stay passive in the home planet
>faggot bugs dont want me in their system
>they kick me out
>I begin building tons of shipsm within my budget
>think 400 attack power is good and I wont get stomped
>forget to look at their power over me
>SUDDENLY 19K ATTACK POWER
>cant call on allies to help
>bugs stomp my into fine little paste
Pretty good for my first experience if I do say so.how do I get my ground forces to attack other planets? Do I need a colony ship or something for that?
>>337580517
>make this more like Distant World
Pretty much sums it up. DW is made on a garbage engine with garbage sprites. If Stellaris steals its features, it'd be the definitive 4x space game for a generation.
How many colonies can a Sector have?
>>337580701
No Kil'rathi race yet?
Hey nignogs, do allies ever betray you? I have been in a federation for like a hundred years and I have seen 0 betrays even though one of them is stronger than the rest of us combined.
This isn't like my CK2 comic books.
war in this game is so fucking clunky and tedious compared to EU4. i know it's not a fair comparison between a new game and one with several expansions, but fuck it, there's still no reason to play stellaris right now
>>337580729
Army Tab on your planet. Recruit some forces. Then you click the "Embark all", turns them into transport ships you can move
>>337580632
I don't think it's fixable, there is not much depth to be had, the most fun is reading the little events or purging/enslaving
it's the core of the game, there is no trade, diplomacy sucks, combat is click and forget, upgrade your building has usually one choice except for labs, economy is easy as fuck, pops don't matter as much... etc
the most fun thing are the events, robot uprising , seeing all the shit happens when you try to infiltrate a primitive world and take it like in X:COM, discovering the stories planets, finding fallen empires...
but who knows, maybe with a few expansions the game could become more fun
>>337580145
>Always attack
Pointless, game devs hate war. It just makes all other civs declare war on me
>>337580285
Like >>337580263 said, it does take longer to annex because you can only take 3-4 planets at a time, but once they've been ceded to you you can move one of the pops off your homeworld (or another planet where you have nothing but food production to make the pops grow faster) to the new planet. Once you've got one of your pops there it's as simple as clicking the xeno pops then clicking purge>purge all. Or you could just purge them all without having one of your pops there, in which case the colony simply dies off, then you can re-colonize it with a colony ship if you want. The hardest part is when it's a brand new colony that doesn't have a planetary administration building yet, because you can't shift new pops to the planet without the planetary administration, so you can either wait until the xenos have 5 pops on the planet then upgrade the admin building, build synth pops on the planet to get up to 5 (provided you've researched synths), or just purge and re-colonize.
However you do it, the point is to kill off all alien pops so that you don't have to deal with them wanting to declare independence.
>capture a fallen empire's ringworld
>too much energy and materials flowing in to ever spend
now what?
>>337580710
>roll around with 60k fleet using wormholes
>max out wormhole tech
>able to jump straight to their homeworld days after declaring war
>wipe out their fleets
>build a new wormhole station in that system to reach the next guy
>conquer every neighboring system, make vassals of them
>>337580748
>>337580517
Has Paradox even played Distant Worlds? If you guys read the .pdf that came along with the game. They mention they analyzed Star Trek Star Wars, Halo, and Mass Effect to death. But they didn't mention what other 4x games they tried, just mentioned they played a few of them.
Is there any benefit to sectors? I only have about 5 planets colonized right now.
>>337581035
Spend it all on hookers and bitches.
So how do I create a custom race with portraits, etc?
>>337581093
they just put together a more casual EU IV and throw some events, planets and shit, they got robots and aliens
I doubt they have even tried other 4x games
>>337580776
I give them 7 per sector because 7 is my limit so I assume so is theirs.
I'm not that far into the game though, merely have 21 planets, 2 sectors.
>>337581035
>he built mineral silos
About to start a new game, which FTL method is the most fun to play with? Thought about using something else but warp.
>>337581140
>colonize world
>get resources from nearby systems
>outpost
>colonize next world
>repeat
put in a sector and doesnt cost you influence for all your outposts, easy money
Am I wrong in thinking its always better to colonize worlds over putting up a frontier station?
>>337572939
>The Iserlohn corridor and Phezzon corridor are both in game.
Finally.
[b]FINALLY [/b]
>>337581351
Wormholes let you have no real limitations, it's great to just jump across galactic arms or straight to homeworlds.
>>337581035
how is your research so low
>>337581351
force everyone to have hyperspace
>>337581353
daily reminder that the outpost in a sector is a bug, and it should cost influence, if you update to the future patchs, your economy will break
>>337581427
impossible for combat
>>337581468
I don't know, i was having slight power problems before taking 5 fallen empire planets and i`m too lazy to remake all those power stations into research labs.
>>337572221
>can't make robot pops
re-roll as materialistic and try again.
If I build a module that affects my ships on a station (like a neutronium forge), will it affect all my ships or just the ones produced at that station?
>>337578841
but i procrastinate instead of doing either. i can't shake it
>>337581093
>>337581229
Did they even mention MoO?
>>337581565
I dont see how you're ever gonna expand if outposts start costing influence in sectors. Game will be even more slow
>>337582071
Colonization. I almost never use outposts.
>>337581772
I mean inside Sectors. Unless I'm mistaken, Sector governors won't make robot pops or let you build robot pops in worlds they control.
>>337582071
You don't need frontier outposts once you've colonized a planet in the system. In fact if you have a frontier outpost in a system with a colonized planet the outpost actively detracts from the borders that colony would otherwise provide. Frontier outposts are just supposed to be a sort of stopgap measure to take territory you intend to colonize later and should be taken down at the first opportunity.
>>337581229
They claim to at least have looked at other 4x games.
>>337582298
I'm pretty sure you can't make any population changes in planets controlled by sectors, so just pull that system out of the sector, make your changes, then put it back in the sector. You'll take an influence hit when you pull the planet out of the sector but that's what you get for not setting the planet up before putting it in the sector in the first place.
Threadly reminder to replace some Hydroponics with research on planets that are full of pops that have excess food production.
Any way to download Steam workshop items for us filthy pirates?
What's the point to choosing where I build the wormhole station? Does it have any mechanical effect besides, I dunno, putting a fortress next to it?
>>337582581
As a pirate myself, what steam workshop items? I haven't even checked the game on steam, just straight up pirated it.
>>337565135
Sometimes you need 3 units, not 2.
>first game
>doing okay i think
>i've colonised three planets
>like two hours in having a good time
>some random faction declares war on me
>look at the diplomacy panel
>they are way more powerful than me and have like a quarter of the map taken over
>they suddenly teleport two fleets right next to my capital planet
>they destroy my spaceport, every space station in that system, and every building on my planet in a matter of seconds
>teleport to my next system and do the same thing
>and again to my third planet
>two hours of work was destroyed in around a minute
>>337582687
Like new races. I want to add a few custom fun ones.
>>337582687
mods and other shit
>>337582581
Workshop stuff comes packed up in unusable encrypted pak files.
>>337582740
You're probably trolling but... how?
>>337582742
just like it would be in real life bro
just take his cock and try to make them vassalize you
>>337582854
Holy shit
How do I stop ethics divergence? The only ways I found was the policy, planet edict and mind laser on spaceport, but this is not enough on fringe systems
>>337582856
i went and started a new game but with less ai.now i'm the bully
>>337582742
It's not your fault, man. Not all AI empires will have an equivalent start to you. Some will already be established when you start, some will pop up while you play. All I can say is keep an eye on significantly more powerful empires who seem to dislike you and send Embassies their way for next game. Sucks that you got such a bad start.
Decide to colonize a blaned and then terraform it. See this. Why? Are they gonna be wiped by terraformation?
>>337583129
Happiness reduces it too
>>337582854
are you sure youre not cheating
>>337582854
In the future everyone lives to be 100 anon.There are also techs you can research that add 25-50 years to leader lifespans.
>>337583129
Policy empire-wide, edict on the planets, there's a building you can build that gives another empire-wide -10%
>>337583171
They are unhappy and unproductive for the duration of the terraforming BECAUSE THEY'RE PLANET IS EXPERIENCE VIOLENT ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AROUND THEM
>be xenophobe
>decide to make peaceful relations with empire that is 20x more powerful then i am
>group of faggots decide to rebel calling themselves the raisin bran pirates or someshit
>they go after the empire that were allies with
>attack 1 planet
>get their shit pushed in by a 50k attack power fleet
>they come back and apologize for not wanting to go to war
>i accept their apology and purge them from the face of my planet
>>337583171
how happy would you be if a bunch of humans wanted to put green shit and water in your sweet ice planet?
I just want some nice custom races but I'm a filthy pirate and too lazy to mod my own Asari and shit in. Am I out of luck?
>>337583298
>in the future everyone is an old fart
Fuck
>>337583298
living that long would be suffering
>>337583171
Purge the filthy xenos. Problem solved.
>>337583346
Well, since I'm playing for that furballs and terraforming blaned from unsettling arctic to comfy oceans... I'd be happy I guess.
>>337583181
Yeah except they're not happy because of diverted ethics, and the ethics are diverted because they're not happy. And on and on it goes.
>>337583534
if lifespan extension = slowed aging then it probably wouldn't be that bad
>>337582208
>>337582320
then what is the point of outposts
>>337583674
180 years would not be fun regardless
>>337583558
B-but I'M that xenos, sempai!
>>337583740
when there's nothing you can colonize in the area and you want to build mining stations or research stations maybe?
What's the difference between a jump drive and a psi jump drive?
>>337583980
better insurance
>>337583740
they are just there to have some claim, think of them as a legit way of saying everyone "this is fucking mine"
that's why they cost so much influence, you are not supposed to use them to paint the galaxy
