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Aethernet posted:I see people still aren't killing all robots fast enough, or ripping the secret of better jump drives from the void beyond the stars. I'm sorry, but I don't really think making my driven assimilator empire commit seppuku in the name of trying to see another crisis really works out. Even if I am a machine empire and I am contributing to the chances of the Contingency show up I am real tired of seeing them. Four crises in a row: three organic empires first. I would be totally cool with it in this game if it was the first or 2nd time. Like - If I had gotten them during my fanatic materialist game as well as my driven assimilator game I would be okay. But I also got them during my Fanatic spiritualist game and my devouring swarm game. It's just loving boring at this point. In retrospect I should have installed a mod a long time ago, but I had already started my devouring swarm game and this game and was playing them at the same time (the swarm game was MP and this is a solo game). AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:No see you're just not prepared enough. You could be building a great narrative instead of complaining about it on the forums! I know, I still think they have too much weight. There could be a neigh unreachable materialist empire on the other side of the galaxy from me that I have no interest in fighting and I don't want to have to force myself to murder them for the sake of trying to avoid the most boring of all crises. (I don't actually know if thew other crisis are more interesting because I've never seen them). Also, the thing I am most upset about was all 4 of my fleets ignoring the defense fleet and attacking the station they couldn't even fire at while they all died. I know it's been rehashed to death in this thread but there has GOT to be some mechanic that allows prioritizing targets. I had to drain all of my sectors of minerals to replace all of the losses. Ice Fist fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jul 1, 2018 |
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Making a crisis chooser mod wouldn't be hard, just edit the randomizer event with a choice variable that has a weight of 10000 which you can set in a startup event. Restart syndrome ends all my games before crisis can hit though.
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Jul 1, 2018 19:24
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wiegieman posted:Making a crisis chooser mod wouldn't be hard, just edit the randomizer event with a choice variable that has a weight of 10000 which you can set in a startup event. Yeah not saying it's difficult. There is probably already a mod out there. I'm just griping and whining.
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Jul 1, 2018 19:28
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they really should add some kind of tech upgrades to increase purge speed. 15(?) years is way too long. Maybe having landed armies increases the speed by a proportional amount to army strength, idk.
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Jul 1, 2018 19:41
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I'm still holding a candle for an end-game crisis choice option in the game configuration window. Default to random, list by their short cryptic names so that there's no meaningful spoilers for new players flipping through the options.
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Jul 1, 2018 19:46
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Captain Invictus posted:they really should add some kind of tech upgrades to increase purge speed. 15(?) years is way too long. Maybe having landed armies increases the speed by a proportional amount to army strength, idk. Set the purge type to exterminate. It takes about 2 years.
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Jul 1, 2018 21:03
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How are u posted:Hey I bought this on steam sale and have fallen well down into the rabbit hole on my first and only game so far (easiest everything, default Earth Humans, learning the ropes). But, I did select the iron man setting so I could get achievements! However, I see on Steam that I only have 2, but there are tons of others for which I've met the criteria. What gives? The two I have are from the same day...so is it that you have to unlock all achievements in a single play session? Like you can't even load an iron man game? Definitely does not have to be done in one session. Either you loaded your save with some mods which mess with the game files and disable achievements, or it bugged out 
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Jul 1, 2018 21:05
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I still haven't seen the Contingency without forcing the event.
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Jul 1, 2018 21:36
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binge crotching posted:Set the purge type to exterminate. It takes about 2 years. Wait, how the gently caress is that not on by default for determined exterminators, I didn't even realize there were different purge types.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I still haven't seen the Contingency without forcing the event. Stack the chances in your favor: Start as a machine empire, make several other machine empires and force them to spawn in your next game. Add some robot-loving materialist empires for flavor. This should skew the weighting so bad the Contingency should be basically guaranteed!
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Jul 1, 2018 21:50
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Finally got the Nier Automata reference from the determined exterminators.
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Captain Invictus posted:Wait, how the gently caress is that not on by default for determined exterminators, I didn't even realize there were different purge types. Because the default gives you energy?
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Jul 2, 2018 00:10
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Bah, I can get my own energy, I need to eliminate the organics sooner rather than later
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So you'd say you're determined?
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Jul 2, 2018 00:23
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So question for people who mod stellaris: are there any tools out there to help with the process? Like anything at all?
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TheCog posted:So question for people who mod stellaris: are there any tools out there to help with the process? Like anything at all? Atom text editor. 
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Allyn posted:Definitely does not have to be done in one session. Either you loaded your save with some mods which mess with the game files and disable achievements, or it bugged out Shiiit, I installed a planet and starbase cap raising mod. So, all achievements have to be earned in 100% vanilla game? That's a shame, oh well. Hey speaking of mods, the 3 linked in the OP look pretty cool, are there any others that people would recommend? Somebody on discord told me that mods removing or changing Federations are great because Federations suck. Now that I have reached the point in my game where I get a Federation invite every 10 seconds (literally) I have come to agree. What's the best way to handle that? How are u fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Because the default gives you energy? As I recall it also gives you massive uprisings since it takes forever to actually wipe them while generating unrest.
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isndl posted:As I recall it also gives you massive uprisings since it takes forever to actually wipe them while generating unrest. It does. The best way to avoid revolts is to set the purge type to exterminate. It takes about two years to kill everyone, but unrest has to be above 50 for three years before a revolt happens.
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GunnerJ posted:Atom text editor. vim running in a virtual machine with shared folders.   Fake edit: I saw a couple of pages ago a modder was asking about which flags exist. Is there any sort of debug mode available beyond 'pretty print an object into a dialog box'?
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In seriousness, I find Atom useful because it has really good multi-file search for exactly this sort of "what is available" question. I keep a copy of all the game's text files open as a project folder so I can search for likely modifier names. That's literally the best resource for what kinds of things can be done in those files, ime.
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How do you all get so many megastructures. Do you play on larger maps? I rarely get more than repaired ones plus habs and gates. I'd rather build more fleets and declare more wars. Payoff is so slow on stuff like Dyson spheres. Also I have decided my favorite flavor of war crime committer is devouring swarm. Dat early ramp up is without peer.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:How do you all get so many megastructures. Do you play on larger maps? I rarely get more than repaired ones plus habs and gates. I'd rather build more fleets and declare more wars. Payoff is so slow on stuff like Dyson spheres. I usually get one galactic wonder, if that, unless I'm doing it for roleplay reasons. This game, though, I've been blocked in 100% by Mauraders the entire game. I have exactly eight systems I can reach with constructors and fleets, unless I'm willing to take on the horde. It's 2305. I have 9 habs and need one more tradition to get Galactic Wonders; my first will be a dyson sphere so I can convert all my starbases to anchorages and my energy habs to science. I'll probably have all the wonders by time this run is over. Edit: I just got the subspace jump tech for my science ships (I had been avoiding it until it was the cheapest option) and jumped to the curator system. Literally the first black hole I visited, and I got the Horizon Signal. The worm loves me, yes it does. ConfusedUs fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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Nuclearmonkee posted:How do you all get so many megastructures. Do you play on larger maps? I rarely get more than repaired ones plus habs and gates. I'd rather build more fleets and declare more wars. Payoff is so slow on stuff like Dyson spheres. When you're playing a pacifist empire you aren't constantly burning minerals rebuilding fleets so you might as well build more megastructures.
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binge crotching posted:It does. The best way to avoid revolts is to set the purge type to exterminate. It takes about two years to kill everyone, but unrest has to be above 50 for three years before a revolt happens. This is why it annoys me when I get unrest popups (which pause the game and need to be clicked away) on planets where everyone is set to Exterminate. I don't care it doesn't matter, I'm fanatic purifier I don't care what the xenos think!
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Nuclearmonkee posted:How do you all get so many megastructures. Do you play on larger maps? I rarely get more than repaired ones plus habs and gates. I'd rather build more fleets and declare more wars. Payoff is so slow on stuff like Dyson spheres.
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How are u posted:Now that I have reached the point in my game where I get a Federation invite every 10 seconds (literally) I have come to agree. What's the best way to handle that? Commit some genocide. No more invites.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Black Pants posted:This is why it annoys me when I get unrest popups (which pause the game and need to be clicked away) on planets where everyone is set to Exterminate. I don't care it doesn't matter, I'm fanatic purifier I don't care what the xenos think! My read on this was always that the unrest on a planet being so high means that you don’t actually have control of the situation on the ground (think full-out insurgency).
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I always transfer most of the pops to other planets where their unrest is meaningless.
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Dreissi posted:My read on this was always that the unrest on a planet being so high means that you don’t actually have control of the situation on the ground (think full-out insurgency). High unrest happens with Machine Empires too when you've got people hooked up as batteries - It's basically Neo and his gang trying to break free of the system - if you're exterminating them it's the underground resistance fighting back.
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Goffer posted:High unrest happens with Machine Empires too when you've got people hooked up as batteries - It's basically Neo and his gang trying to break free of the system - if you're exterminating them it's the underground resistance fighting back.
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The end result would be that you lose maybe 1 power production because a few milion batteries get unplugged and maybe a squad of patrol drones gets destroyed and rebuilds itself afterwards.
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I think I'm fine with literally every other piece of sci-fi with killer robots or otherwise being referenced without the matrix in there too poo poo there's even a mass effect 2 reference as a gestalt consciousness machine empire(capturing robot pops and having them join the gestalt consciousness has the flavor text "assuming direct control")
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Unrest already is meaningless with Exterminate purge type, because they'll be gone long before they can do anything. That's why it's annoying that I get popups for them. My lack of control is not going to stop them being systematically exterminated, and as a Fanatic Purifier I shouldn't care that they are having ethos shifts due to unrest. It just pauses my game at random.
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Captain Invictus posted:I think I'm fine with literally every other piece of sci-fi with killer robots or otherwise being referenced without the matrix in there too Unless they're, like, throwing humans into a furnace or something.
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Black Pants posted:Unrest already is meaningless with Exterminate purge type, because they'll be gone long before they can do anything. That's why it's annoying that I get popups for them. My lack of control is not going to stop them being systematically exterminated, and as a Fanatic Purifier I shouldn't care that they are having ethos shifts due to unrest. It just pauses my game at random. If it bugs you that much, just click the unrest lowering planet edict.
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Black Pants posted:Unrest already is meaningless with Exterminate purge type, because they'll be gone long before they can do anything. That's why it's annoying that I get popups for them. My lack of control is not going to stop them being systematically exterminated, and as a Fanatic Purifier I shouldn't care that they are having ethos shifts due to unrest. It just pauses my game at random. If you have exterminate set as the purge type, you shouldn't ever see any unrest events unless you conquer a planet that was already full of unrest.
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Captain Invictus posted:I think I'm fine with literally every other piece of sci-fi with killer robots or otherwise being referenced without the matrix in there too The "grid amalgamation" setting is literally called "matrix" in the files
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Picked this up a few days ago, went back after a few hours with it and got all the dlc. It seems other empires do not like it when you blow up planets. Makes me want to blow up THEIR planets.
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Ornamented Death posted:Picked this up a few days ago, went back after a few hours with it and got all the dlc. Haha it's really amazing just how quickly the galaxy turns on you if you murder billions of people.
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