DatonKallandor posted:

I do think it'd be fair if platforms could also disengage (crippled beyond being able to contribute to the fight) so the investment isn't completely lost in one bad fight.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

how do i feed my vassal? and if the game doesn't allow that for whatever reason how do i get rid of the all the lovely ai planets i just conquered?

ZypherIM posted:

Open a trade deal with them, you can gift resources/sectors as much as you want.

ZypherIM posted:

Open a trade deal with them, you can gift resources/sectors as much as you want.

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

and i'm not at war

Guilliman posted:

Baronjutter posted:

Do you have adjacent systems you can give them? You can only give them systems directly connected to theirs, which can often make feeding take like 10 trades to give all the systems you wanted.

Baronjutter posted:

Hot Suggestion: build troop transports into the fleet manager screen. Have them follow the fleet they were assigned to and rebuild on a reinforcement click.

Baronjutter posted:

I just saw a machine uprising strike an AI. I don't know if it's linked to the contingency crisis, but an empire with synths was getting hit hard by the contingency and a decade or so later there's now a driven assimilator empire that's rebelled out of them. They're quite nice though, they wanted a non-aggression pact with me and I have full diplomacy options with them so I guess they don't function like the driven exterminators.

But this is the first time I've ever seen an actual AI uprising spawn a new empire before. Is it linked to the contingency? Will the contingency fight them?

hobbesmaster posted:

How?

The best I’ve hit is like 40k

Shadowlyger posted:

Completely unconnected from the Contingency. AI uprisings happen if an empire has a shitload of unhappy synthetics in their empire. At some point, you start getting warning events. If you don't take preventative measures, eventually the synths get tired of your poo poo and rebel, forming a new, randomly generated Machine Intelligence empire. So, whichever empire this happened to was treating their synths like poo poo.

If this happens to you, you get the option to continue as your original empire or take control of the new Machine Intelligence.

The AI Uprising warning events can occur fairly early on, but the uprising itself may only happen once you've passed the year you set as midgame.

Spanish Matlock posted:

Honestly I don't know why people are so down on defense stations. I find that at pretty much every era of warfare they're always strong enough to decide battles if you can just engage in systems that have them. Maybe I just wage a lot of wars through wormholes but it's really nice having both ends of a wormhole capped with strong stations. It gives you a great forward operating base to fall back to when the enemy responds to your pillaging/invasions.

The Chad Jihad posted:

Should I have waited for synths before uploading the alien brains? Now I've got a tiny amount of droids on a lovely planet and I can't kick them out or build more because they count as robits but aren't the kind of droids I can build

Spanish Matlock posted:

Honestly I don't know why people are so down on defense stations. I find that at pretty much every era of warfare they're always strong enough to decide battles if you can just engage in systems that have them.

Baronjutter posted:

I'm a huge turtle player but as much as I love the idea of fortresses loaded with maxed out platforms I find they almost never actually come into play. I think the problem is that in stellaris the only thing to do is expand your borders, expand your vassals, so your frontier is always expanding too. I'm always on the attack, rarely on the defense. The AI generally seems smart enough not to throw their 30k fleet at your 15k station backed up by your 20k fleet, it's rare that I can "kite" an enemy into a station. And that hugely built up defensive station you've sunk thousands of minerals into becomes useless the moment you win that next war because now you have a new border to defend, a new vassal to worry about and so on.

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if you can just engage in systems that have them.

Arrath posted:

I mean, it is kinda nice to have a mid-empire chokepoint. I tend to define 'core' and 'i can stand to give this up' areas so my original chokepoints still serve some use.

That is, if any AI empires were smart enough to pose a genuine threat.

The Chad Jihad posted:

Should I have waited for synths before uploading the alien brains? Now I've got a tiny amount of droids on a lovely planet and I can't kick them out or build more because they count as robits but aren't the kind of droids I can build

Pawn 17 posted:

I just started trying to play this and I'm really terrible! My main issue is that during any confrontation I can't catch the enemy. Like, they will just run past one of my borders or use a wormhole and their fleet will rip through my entire empire with my fleets chasing them but always behind. There is no way for me to catch up and it's frustrating. I've tried having many spread out fleets but thinning out my army means if I ever do catch them, they will destroy my small fleet and continue ripping me up. This is doubly bad when multiple enemies are attacking.

Any advice?

Taear posted:

Maybe it's because I play Spiral Galaxies but I usually have at least one place where I'm blocking a few empires with just a single starbase. Even if they're weak empires I don't want them dicking about in my space while I'm fighting elsewhere.

Improbable Lobster posted:

Q: Where are saves stored? The 'save games' folder in my Documents folder doesn't seem to have anything, which is really weird because I definitely have a few saves. Maybe it's a cloud save thing?

eXXon posted:

Playable galaxy centers is good, especially if you hate staring at the pointless searing light from galaxy centers.

Magil Zeal posted:

Jump drives do slow down your sublight speed significantly for a while after jumping though, so to really make them worth it it seems you need to skip quite a few systems, especially since the jump drives themselves also reduce your hyperlane charge time by a huge amount (so the majority of your travel time is sublight, not hyperlane). Still very handy of course, especially in spiral arms since you can jump from arm to arm easily.

Baronjutter posted:

Stellaris urgently needs at least one of these, preferably both:
-Elimination of corvette spam being the ultimate fleet design leading to thousand ship battles that slow the game down to a crawl.
-The fleet manager allowing shift and ctrl clicks to add ships in increments of 5 or 10 because holy gently caress clicking 200+ times every time you make a new fleet of corvettes is terrible interface design.

Bigger ships should generally always be better but all ships should at least have some sort of role throughout the game. Not just for gameplay but for performance, more battleship heavy fleets means less ships on the map meaning way better performance.

Staltran posted:

Also agreed on corvettes being too good. In general I think the hit calculations are too swingy. Though I've noticed corvettes often only get pyrrhic victories against bigger ships, due to the big ships disengaging, while the corvettes never get a chance to because they die if hit at less than half hull by a L slot weapon. But that basically requires picket computer destroyers/cruisers, since you're not hitting them otherwise. Haven't figured out a good way to test corvettes with No Retreat against bigger ships with another doctrine, since attackallfleets won't work with that. In my testing generally if I'm using No Retreat the corvettes slaughter bigger ships, but with other policies the bigger ships emergency ftl out of there with lighter losses than the corvettes.