Nalesh posted:

Do you want to get psykers? Cause that's how you get psykers.


Also anyone got a good race list? kinda want some more to throw in my galaxies.

Archonex posted:

Look on the workshop for the Xirmian race, then check the guy's other races. He has a ton of custom races that have unique traits, behaviors, and appearances thanks to being one of those rare individuals with genuine artistic talent and an ability to program. Many of the races also include their own unique ship sets too.

Said races include the usual generic races that operate like others and all sorts of other stuff. Like a race of holographic remnants that spawn like synthetics. Or a bunch of angelic semi-synthetic beings that live on the surface of stars and are basically turbo isolationists that are equivalent to a small fallen empire. The latter of which is basically a mid game blockade since they'll only declare on people if they colonize close to the one or two systems they'll usually ever bother to colonize.

Actually, here's the workshop page containing Silfae's works. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198021525667/myworkshopfiles/?appid=281990

Danaru posted:

Are these playable races or only NPCs? Those sound wicked rad

Archonex posted:

Playable and NPC enabled. If you want I can post some of my favs.

Danaru posted:

Please do, I've been wanting to delve into modding a bit more and this sounds like the perfect place to start

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Custom AI Personality
If my Custom Empire (and only that one) of Zeriphens is moved by the AI, it will acquire by default the Enigmatic Purifiers personality.
It makes the AI neglect colonization and fully isolate itself. While this AI personality is not particularly warmongering, it is very sensitive about border friction and will lash out against any neighbor that encroaches on its area of space.
When Enigmatic Purifiers win a war, they are coded to have their conquered planets cleansed of all alien life. It is also paired with about 40 new lines of dialogue for the various diplomatic messages, which provide multiple reactions for each vanilla species_class. If you use my Custom Empire, you'll still have access to some of this content through the tailored custom insults that your diplomat will be able to send to other empires.

Custom Trait
Heavenly Biomechanoid: The Zeriphens have boosted physical qualities that make their armies particularly deadly, yet they are incapable of colonizing new worlds (only way to do it is research all the colonization techs and terraform alien planets in Gaia Worlds).

Custom Empire
The Gates of Elikiol. It's a Spiritual Oligarchy, spiritualist/collectivist/xenophobe. Although it is not technically a Fallen Empire, it starts in a similar manner with most techs already researched. As such, even with the species' limitations, I would not consider this a balanced start for the player, especially in small galaxies. If left in the hands of the AI, it may very well work as an end game challenge: it will build up its fleets, but it won't expand. I’ve set this Empire as capable of spawning on its own (although it won’t spawn always), unless the player is using it, in which case it will never spawn.

If you wish to disable the Empire from spawning without using it yourself, you need to either disable the mod before starting up Stellaris, or go to the mod folder (Steam/SteamApps/workshop/content/281990/... / zeriphen_portraits/prescripted_countries/) open the zeriphen_prescripted_countries file, search for spawn_enabled=yes, and edit it to: spawn_enabled=no.
You can also edit it to: spawn_enabled=always, if you wish the Gates of Elekiol to always be spawned in your games (although it’ll still be automatically disabled if you are using it yourself, in order to avoid having twin empires).

The race from those last two pictures posted:

Fully animated space dimensional horrors portrait set.
They twitch, and look around, and breathe, just like vanilla portraits. They have different castes and coloring, and scars.
You can easily use this set to create any Custom Empire you like, just like for the vanilla portraits.

Custom City Set
Cloudy, dark city, drawn by Oskar Potocki .

Custom Room
Swarm-inspired room, with dark tendrils and all.

Custom Name List
Long list of alien, Lovecraftian names.

Custom Starting Solar System
The Hollow Rift: a black hole with a few frozen worlds around it.

Custom Ships
The portraits are set to use a blackened version of the Praethoryn ship set, but that's not all.
If you own the Leviathan DLC and use my Custom Empire, it will start with a special ship type using the model of the Dimensional Horror this species is based off, the Hollow Form. Contrary to the Guardian, Hollow Forms are small and weak, but they come with a single extra-large weapon slot which allows the player to turn them into glass cannons.

Custom Trait
The species comes with a tailored trait increasing its habitability and balancing its other stats.

Custom AI Personality
If my Custom Empire (and only that one) of Hollow is moved by the AI, it will acquire by default the Eldritch Devourers personality. It makes the AI focus on hull and speed for his ships, and maintain a fairly aggressive stance towards its neighbors. It is also paired with about 30 new lines of dialogue for the various diplomatic messages.
If you use my Custom Empire, you'll still have access to some of this content through the tailored custom insults that your diplomat will be able to send to other empires.

Custom Empire
The Hollow Rift. It's a Hive Mind (which means it requires the Utopia DLC to be used by the player). Since this mod does not add any gameplay, I’ve set this Empire as capable of spawning on its own (although it won’t spawn always), unless the player is using it, in which case it will never spawn.
If you wish to disable the Empire from spawning without using it yourself, you need to either disable the mod before starting up Stellaris, or go to the mod folder (Steam/SteamApps/workshop/content/281990/... /horrorworm_portraits/prescripted_countries/) open the horrrorworm_prescripted_countries file, search for spawn_enabled=yes, and edit it to: spawn_enabled=no.
You can also edit it to: spawn_enabled=always, if you wish the Hollow Rift to always be spawned in your games (although it’ll still be automatically disabled if you are using it yourself, in order to avoid having twin empires).

Admiral Funk posted:

I'm a big fan of the raptor people looking sullenly down at their tiny arms.

Nalesh posted:

I meant premade races files, like the file that has all the ones you choose traits n poo poo for, not entirely new race pictures, but that works too


Also speaking of mods, is there an easy way to make a list of all your subscribed mods for friends to subscribe to?

Jenny Angel posted:

I'm gearing up toward declaring my first war, and have two big questions I was hoping to get some advice on. Some context first:

My people are the Holy Terapyne Assembly, an empire of Egalitarian/Xenophile/Spiritualist turtles who basically believe it's their holy duty to spread paradise throughout the galaxy in order to tear down the walls between this world and a heaven-like state that exists beyond it. They get along with just about everyone except for the Klu'uk Foundation, some Fanatic Pacifist/Xenophobe chickens who are extremely paranoid, obstinate, and generally awful. Two of the systems I need to check out for the early game "hunt down these religious fanatic terrorists" quests are within Klu'uk space, and the Klu'uk have an AI personality that causes them to close their borders to literally everyone, so I'm going to have to invade them i I want to progress on that quest line. I feel like "you've been knowingly harboring terrorists for 20 years despite our best efforts at diplomacy" is a pretty good casus belli, but I don't feel like I want to go that far with this war. I know out-of-character that their AI personality allows for slavery, which the Terapyne would certainly oppose on humanitarian grounds, but the Terapyne have no way of knowing that yet due to the closed borders and such. Also, the rest of the empires I've met all hate the Klu'uk jsut as much as I do, so I don't imagine there's going to be a lot of insterstellar blowback for my activities. With that context, my questions are

1) How would you guys recommend I structure my war demands? Would making them open up their borders work, or is that redundant with the fact that I can just head into their territory during the war anyway? Would it make sense to just go for a very small war demand during this war, and start another one up later once I've got hard evidence of their slavery?
2) What kind of fleet power would you guys recommend? It's the start of year 30, my fleet power is a little above 1500 (I can get it to 1600 by building two more corvettes and maxing out my naval capacity), and all the immediate indicators suggest I could win. The contacts screen says their fleet power and technological level are both inferior to mine, and the only spaceport of theirs I can see has 1000 power (which is weird because mine have 1400 by default, but maybe it's a factor of the game difficulty). Is there anything I'm missing, or am I good to declare war on them this year?

Archonex posted:

Jenny Angel posted:

1) How would you guys recommend I structure my war demands? Would making them open up their borders work, or is that redundant with the fact that I can just head into their territory during the war anyway? Would it make sense to just go for a very small war demand during this war, and start another one up later once I've got hard evidence of their slavery?

GamingHyena posted:

There's always fanatical purifiers, which basically reduces diplomacy down to "Xeno scum I am currently purging" and "Xeno scum I would be purging if they didn't have a billion defensive pacts." Weirdly enough, you can have vassals and tributaries as war goals, but no slaves in your empire (or at least I can't). Hard to justify why my empire could not stand letting xenos even exist on its planets, but is perfectly cool with them having their own adjacent empire and ships and everything.

GamingHyena posted:

There's always fanatical purifiers, which basically reduces diplomacy down to "Xeno scum I am currently purging" and "Xeno scum I would be purging if they didn't have a billion defensive pacts." Weirdly enough, you can have vassals and tributaries as war goals, but no slaves in your empire (or at least I can't). Hard to justify why my empire could not stand letting xenos even exist on its planets, but is perfectly cool with them having their own adjacent empire and ships and everything.

Nalesh posted:

Fanatical purifiers make awesome vassals for xenophiles

Bold Robot posted:

What's a good non-Pacifist build right now? Not being able to take over other dudes' planets makes things a little dull. Are Hive Minds any good?

Nickiepoo posted:

In my latest game I've become the signatory of an Awakened Empire due to a very large and aggressive empire on my borders, which is fine (I wasn't playing warlike/expansive anyway), except that my Awakened buddy keeps on invading other empires then ceding the planets to me without either asking or even inviting me to the war. Is this normal behaviour? Are they desperately trying to buff me up for the coming Galactic bloodbath? Why can't they just leave me in peace to build my megastructures?!

Preechr posted:

The awakened empire is like a cat. It thinks you're too pathetic to survive on your own, so it's bringing you gifts to help you survive and hoping to teach you how to become self-sufficient.

turn off the TV posted:

E: How viable would it be to create a species of absolutely garbage rapid breeders and unleash them on the rest of the galaxy through migration?

Mister Adequate posted:

Can't interact with Enclaves, unless a patch changed that recently.

Filthy Monkey posted:

Should happen automatically once the research is done. I have had problems with it when taking over planets that already have robots/droids after I already have the research done though. Not sure there is any way to fix that.

3 DONG HORSE posted:

Rapid Breeders
Extemely Adaptable
And then all the worst negatives

Haven't played in a while so I forgot names/costs of stuff but I thiiiink you can do this

Wiz posted:

Make them repugnant and they'll spread Xenophobia wherever they go.