Is it possible to increase energy storage capacity with structures?
What the fuck do I spend my energy on when I've exceeded the limits and all other empires treat it as a worthless currency? Also nobody wants to trade with me anyway because I'm being an asshole towards everyone.
I cannot stand generating and losing all this energy that I can impossibly spend on anything, someone suggest a massive energy drain, I'm trying to just make a ton of colonies to drain energy but even that will keep me far up in the positives. Nothing appears to actually expend energy and my maintenance costs won't be increased for a while yet.
Brandon Miller
What exactly does migration access do? If I give migration access to another empire, does that mean my pops can move to their planets, or that theirs can move to mine?
You'll lose energy like mad if you have an actual fleet
Joseph Sanders
>What the fuck do I spend my energy on Think of it less as currency than as a war-timer; unless you've built up your economy to have, say +200 credits per tick, you're probably going to be in a deficit when you undock your ships. When you get to 800-ish fleet cap, energy credits are (usually) going to be the main restriction for how long you can keep a war going.
Chase Wilson
But that's gonna take a while which means I waste massive amounts of energy before being finished. Additionally, I was going to wait until I finish researching cruisers with building the rest of my army.
Hudson Brooks
How the fuck do you guys get armies that are 70k+ strong? I have like 300 ships right now and I'm only at 26k.
Should I really just build a billion max level lance/missile destroyers instead of varied groups of ships with different armaments?
Jason Brown
>2200 >game about FTL travel, robots, AIs and sheeit >slavery For what conceivable purpose?
Anthony Bennett
GUYS
What are the best game conditions in your opinion?
Past 100 years with the default conditions it's tedious af
Julian Lewis
instead of omitting the incomplete slavery system for a dlc, they included it unfinished in the main game.
John Gray
We must enslave those who are inferior when doing so is more profitable than simply exterminating them.
Alexander Cox
Give it to your sectors
Jeremiah Hughes
Like 65% of scifi contains slave empires that got to space
Aaron Kelly
To feed to the tentacles rape monsters. Duh
Asher Garcia
I am bored of this game desu fampai
If the AI was better it would be more replayable.
Thomas Reyes
>Seems to just be a weighted chance or perhaps a chance/100 Except the usage_odds in base game don't add up to 100.
Josiah Myers
How do ship modifiers on spaceport modules work? Is it only if you build ships from that specific spaceport? Can you upgrade to get the benefits?
Ryder Martinez
Are fucking 5? There's slavery on earth in CURRENT YEAR, and every space opera settinghas the evil aliums that practice slavery
Kevin Sanders
How many years does a normal game last?
Xavier Kelly
>United Solarsystems of America >Bird people
Zachary Gutierrez
>when tentacle monsters landed on earth and bred to supremacy An entire species, cucked just like that.
Charles Thompson
Considering how fucking awful sector governors apparently are, how awful do you think the actual enemy empires are at developing worlds?
Kayden Torres
have any of you guys worked out how to make other species migrate to your planets? im a fanatical xenophile, i set up a migration policy with another empire, enabled the free migration policy and enacted the land of opportunity edict on my colony but nobody came. :(
Josiah Reed
Space Amoebas are the bane of my existence. If they feel like it, they can completely fuck you up right at gamestart before you can possibly have a navy.
Why the hell are they in the game? It's just another way for the RNG to fuck you over.
Oliver Thomas
Is there a cheat to change your ethos in the middle of the game? I've played quite a bit into my game, but I just realized you can't purge unless you have collectivist or xenophobe for some shitty reason. >t. fanatic militarist and spiritualist
Chase Brown
*Are you
Levi Brooks
A single battleship with 5 lances (1 fore, 3 mid, 1 aft) and tier 5 shields and powerplants and all the normal upgrades to speed/warp is a little more than 1.5k power. So just build 40-50 of them and you'll be pretty high power. (Remember: you can still control the spaceports of planets that are in sectors)
Camden Phillips
They are sex slaves, user.
Joshua Walker
I think the game succumbed to the GC-style way of handling a 4X game, which is simplified resources and abstract values for population and such. The game would be 100x more entertaining if they actually provided detailed stats for which resources a planet has, their value, and how they're used by a population instead of just +5 minerals.
Zachary Nguyen
Until you give up because there are no threats left and you still have to slog through conquering half the galaxy.
For me that's usually about 150 years in.
William Martin
Slaves are just organic robots, probably cheaper to maintain and almost certainly cheaper to produce. In a dystopic future I can see slaves being fitted with collars or even implants that make them into compliant cyborgs (servitors)
Cooper Gray
Why are people too retarded to understand that THE ETHOS YOU PICK ACTUALLY MATTERS?
Zachary Gray
>finally research psionics >just makes my soldiers a bit stronger
Well that's fucking dumb, please tell me it also does something else.
Jordan Torres
sector ai has to actually use resources and shit
empire ai just cheats
Lincoln Hill
Launching the game/launcher overwrites the file to go back to 1.0.1
Where should I be editing this at? I was working on it in users//stellaris/mod area
James Clark
>There's slavery on earth in CURRENT YEAR On society scale? Only in African/Middle Eastern shitholes like Mauritania. The industrial revolution obsoleted mass slavery, you're telling me it would survive FTL and roboticized labor?
Come to think of it the idea of pops being directly involved in labor in 2200 is also kinda retarded, but I dunno how would one go about it otherwise.
James Parker
>tfw there will never be a game that's a perfect blend of MoO2, DWU and SotS
Thomas Sanders
day or two ago I kept my sector governor stocked with 1k minerals/energy and he was still fucked in the head
Nathaniel Green
>be a highly Semitic, reptilian merchant race >trade is basically Civ-tier shit (GalCiv2 did trade much better) >decide to subvert a planet of primitives >pic related >they gladly accept annexation and become a part of my fledgling empire >immediately after, they end up forming a faction to rebel
What the fuck? It's like the game is pigeon-holing me into wiping out or enslaving the entire galaxy.
Brody Ward
A slave is useless for at least 16 years of its life, all the while you need to feed it and cloth it and shelter it. That is decidedly NOT cheaper to produce than a robot that can stand shoulder to shoulder with fifty thousand other robots in a broom closet while not being utilized,
Nathan Hughes
Because it's stupid that you can't be collectivist, spiritualistic, militaristic, AND xenophobic? I'd rather we had to choose a position on a sliding scale for each one than suddenly be neutral on at least on of those positions. And it's fucking hardcoded.
Wyatt Jackson
Does collectivist have any purpose outside of slavery?
Because some of the other ethos I've tried like spiritualist play very differently in game
It's only the start of the psionics research chain
Jace White
>sex slavery would not exist >there is no conceivable way for slavery to be used post industrialization in any form, not even for alien species >I'm too fucking autistic to ignore something I think is unrealistic in a game with mushroom people in space Fuck off
Cameron Rogers
Because the same reason Barbarians are in Civ V
Fuck you, that's why
Charles Evans
So there really is no purpose to varied fleets. 50 battleships with energy weapons will just buttfuck everything and you don't need kinetics or missiles to get past shields.
I spent so long trying to design ships to counter things damn it.
David Ward
Fuck that, just give me Aurora with a less shitty UI and better automation and I'd be set for life.
Jayden Parker
Psi Jump Drives make the unbidden tear your a galaxy a new anus
Parker Wright
Got a question about Stellaris:
Is there any effective way of purging a planet of xenos and replacing it with your own species? So far the only way I see is to resettle one pop and swap it with one of your own, then purge the remaining ones to replace with your one pop to rebuild. This feels seriously ineffective though.
Levi Adams
>trade is basically Civ-tier shit (GalCiv2 did trade much better) What's the actual best 4x or GS for being able to play pure trade?
I know eu iv had some shit like markets but that's as much of the mechanic as I remember
Sebastian Wilson
But you're telling me that slavery is just inconceivable for any spacefaring society? Is that what you're saying? Give me a single reason why being on starships necessarily means slaves are gone. Hell give me a reason why being on starships means any facet of society is gone.
Angel Johnson
TURNS OUT THESE 2 WERE ALLIED
I DECLARED THE WAR ON BLACK GOT ALL HIS PLANETS BUT HE WONT SURRENDER
The war can't end without invading the other dude who is 4 empires away
I can't break their alliance nor force the dude to surrender
What the fuck
The other dude only has 1 planet
Do alliances expire?
Isaac Cooper
>Need civilian access to research an anomaly in a neighbouring empire >Attitude is "wary" so they won't agree to mutual pacts at all >Give them a non-aggression pact and guarantee their independence in exchange for some minerals >That makes them "cordial", and in a follow up trade they give me access for a nominal sum >Later I need military access for a different quest >They won't give it to me since our non-aggression pact isn't mutual >Ask them to swear non-aggression towards us >They refuse guess i'm waiting 10 years
Kevin Adams
Terraform everything in your borders to ideal.
Matthew Harris
Can I purge xenos once I integrate them into my empire? I vassalized a disgusting bunch of bird people in order to quickly have access to my real enemy, and now I want them gone. Integrating them and then purging them seemed easier than un-vassalizing them and eating them piece meal.
David Foster
>xenophobes enslave other species >can use them to work on inhospitable planets for themselves
Weedman please
Dominic Peterson
>Black hole start >every fucking horde enemy in the game at high strength on my warp limits >somehow am allowed to put a wormhole gate in undiscovered ai lands, becomes unusable when they find me, stranding my science ships That's when I just quit the save
Caleb Baker
don't remind me
Stellaris is a huge disappointment for me right now
David Phillips
>muh political binary >being a trans-political degenerate Back to Political Tumblr that is /pol/
Anthony Roberts
Vicky 2 does trade sort of okay
If you like supply chains, you can check out the Anno series
Mason Moore
Play Victoria so you can be a liquor baron.
Jason Brooks
What the fuck does that even mean? That having an opinion on four spectrums instead of three is somehow /pol/? Get the fuck out.
Carson Reyes
Is there any way to check spaceport all building projects?
Building up fleet for Unbidden who're currently eating through my ally
Zachary Perry
>New colony is starving >Can't build hydroponics farm because no planetary administration >Can't build planetary administration because not enough pop >Not enough pop because starvation
Err what do? THis seems broken
Jordan Watson
>it's stupid that you can't get four bonuses
It's called game balance.
Jack Morales
>muh /pol/ boogeyman
Cooper Jackson
Heavy planetary bombardment on it
IIRC warscore ticks up for occupation, just keep armies on all of his planets and he'll concede eventually
Ayden Phillips
>So there really is no purpose to varied fleets Well, there's some minor bonuses (larger ships can carry hull-healing things or ftl-snares). There's actually a major downside to having combined fleets: the way the AI uses corvettes and destroyers to screen your fleet means they take the brunt of the damage, rather than the much more durable battleships. Also, because they're faster in combat, this becomes a problem where the battleships hang way the hell back, sometimes out of range of being able to fire weapons while their entire screen gets chewed up by Fallen Empire blobs.
This is especially true when you get to 30-40k power fleets.
>you don't need kinetics or missiles Not really. If you can reduce a fleet to half strength or remove most of its shields before they get into firing range, it doesn't really matter. The problem is that in-system travel speed is faster than combat movement and larger ships are slow as balls.
Lucas Price
It's really much more common than you might think. The only reason it's not more prevalent is because of morals, not because it's inherently inefficient. Sorry for small image
Gabriel Wilson
Because you're 200 years more advanced than our current post-industrial society which does not use slave labor, you have advanced industrial practices and robots which are infinitely more efficient than biological slaves
Grayson Parker
If I go to war with someone in a federation does is start a fight with his buddies? If I beat this one nerd into submission and he surrenders, do his buddies fuck off?
Dylan Martinez
Import food
Andrew Green
build a basic farm on a tile with food bonus move pops to w/e tile has a food bonus
Carson Thompson
robots
Luis Morales
Just build a basic farm, those don't need administration.
Easton Perez
Orbital hydroponics farm.
Chase Adams
Orbital hydroponics and frontier clinic, senpai
Elijah Morales
Then add penalties to each one? Yeah, in our CURRENT, HUMAN society which just [ happened ] to evolve the way it did, unlike say an alien society where the ruling elite maintained their grip on the plebs, or a theoretical timeline where something like that happened in human history.
Liam Cox
Chances of adding a family tree?
Levi Rivera
Robots don't come into play until later And even then slaves can't make an advanced AI rebellion
Nicholas Rivera
how the FUCK do I import food not even him I want to make use of all this surplus shit being made on a full world
Christian Smith
Depends on your Ethos
Nathaniel Collins
Near 0 Europa Universalis STILL doesn't have any sort of info available about your rulers
Jaxon Thompson
How
I can't build anything
I don't have robots.
Blake Lewis
>capture a million xenos scum >bolt exposion collars on them if they try to flee or add implants to make them perfect slaves
vs
>build a million robots
Guess which one is cheaper?
Sebastian Nguyen
How the fuck do "investigations" work? Do they pause your research and let it accumulate, or do they actually cost research?
Different types seem to do things differently with no indication on the UI. It's confusing the hell out of me.
Levi Carter
>the way the AI uses corvettes and destroyers to screen your fleet means they take the brunt of the damage, rather than the much more durable battleships You can exploit this by loading your corvettes with shields and PD, while making your bigger ships purely offensive with a little bit of support thrown in. Corvettes get pretty nice dodge bonuses and with lots of PD missiles won't touch them. Even though you'll inevitably lose some in big fights, your bigger ships will often come through unscathed.
Lincoln Barnes
Your heir can be a random nigger or chink with a completely different family name than you and who is a year younger The succession mechanics in this game are retarded I think the heir in a hereditary state should at the very least have the same phenotype as your current leader
Justin Gray
Plus if you're Xenophobic, you want them to get fucked anyway.
Jaxon Martinez
is there any way to give up a colony? ive colonized a planet right next to a militant isolationist FE, the border friction is going up and iam scared.
ive already tried resetteling all pops but at the last on it tells me i cant do that because this would decolonize the planet (but thats exactly what iam trying to do).
Samuel Miller
The latter
Michael Walker
Opposite of what you say actually.
Notice anything common with the countries in your map? All of them are shitholes where efficient machines and such are in fact less cost effective than slaves.
Those slaves in rich countries are sex slaves btw which naturally is a different thing.
Connor Perez
Not him but I would guess it's because it is highly unlikely any race of anything that can travel between stars didn't master mass, cheaper-than-biological automation before becoming interstellar.
The fact that you start as a civilization that still uses chemical propellent thrusters when you have access to wormhole generators is also ridiculous to me. You should at least be able to start with fusion thrusters since even humans almost have that today, 200 years before this game starts.
I would really like to see the options to start with certain techs. Namely fusion generators, robots, hell even x-ray lasers should be available for starting tech.
But like the other guy said: getting upset about realism in a game with mushroom people is autism.
Hunter Campbell
the fuck? Does this work ?
Jaxon Cook
It's not like CkII, but it's there. Dynasties don't and shouldn't affect game so much on this scale.
Brayden Cox
The chronicle does have a list of your rulers and their achievements