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Shadowlyger posted:Machines can't migrate, so if you don't resettle they're all going to pile up on planets that have no use for them unless you turn off the replicators (and lose amenities because they also produce those) or spend influence to turn off pop growth. If you don't care about balance then why are you worked up over how lack of resettlement would "kill robotic empires"? They're already considered quite good.
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Scions looks like you got raised up by another species. That'd be really fun, especially if you can make them so mad they come after you.
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It still feels kinda not great to keep tacking on more and more features and adding more and more content while so many core mechanics are not functioning great. Hopefully the next DLC addresses some of those longstanding problems.
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Sep 26, 2019 15:47
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the development history of Stellaris is alternating total reworks with content drops
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Sep 26, 2019 15:57
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Baronjutter posted:It still feels kinda not great to keep tacking on more and more features and adding more and more content while so many core mechanics are not functioning great. Hopefully the next DLC addresses some of those longstanding problems.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I agree on the principle of the matter, however, thankfully this is more just enhancing existing functionality and adding new content for it. I totally agree that the game desperately needs a break from new dev and re-works to simply get the existing codebase more stable and existing mechanics bugfixed and aligned to be better balanced and working correctly. One of those two things can be sold as DLC. Which do you think Paradox is going to pursue?
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Sep 26, 2019 16:30
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Shadowlyger posted:Machines can't migrate, so if you don't resettle they're all going to pile up on planets that have no use for them unless you turn off the replicators (and lose amenities because they also produce those) or spend influence to turn off pop growth.
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Sep 26, 2019 16:33
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scaterry posted:New dev diary: quote:Who isn’t curious about Remnants and Scions? AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I agree on the principle of the matter, however, thankfully this is more just enhancing existing functionality and adding new content for it. I totally agree that the game desperately needs a break from new dev and re-works to simply get the existing codebase more stable and existing mechanics bugfixed and aligned to be better balanced and working correctly.
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Serephina posted:One of those two things can be sold as DLC. Which do you think Paradox is going to pursue? Splicer posted:Yup, this seems to be mainly refining existing content which is exactly what the game needs. I am Hype For Sensible Incremental Progress AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 16:41
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scaterry posted:New dev diary: Remnants would be nice if it let you choose a precursor chain to start with. It is probably just that you start on a Relic World though.
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Sep 26, 2019 17:28
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I hope there's a lost colony origin. e: I wonder if there'll be origin locked civics. Splicer fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 17:37
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Chill man, no need to be defensive, that's not an attack on you. Its just a cynical observation that the business will never stop making saleable content for the sake of refining stuff for free; their customer base has already shown itself willing to pay to fix "broken" content, as it where. Your followup post seems to be in agreement on the sentiment also.
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Serephina posted:Chill man, no need to be defensive, that's not an attack on you. Its just a cynical observation that the business will never stop making saleable content for the sake of refining stuff for free; their customer base has already shown itself willing to pay to fix "broken" content, as it where. Your followup post seems to be in agreement on the sentiment also.
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Sep 26, 2019 17:56
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binge crotching posted:Remnants would be nice if it let you choose a precursor chain to start with. It is probably just that you start on a Relic World though. Starting on a relic world would be pretty loving bananas if it came with the standard relic world planetary features.
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Serephina posted:Chill man, no need to be defensive, that's not an attack on you. Its just a cynical observation that the business will never stop making saleable content for the sake of refining stuff for free; their customer base has already shown itself willing to pay to fix "broken" content, as it where. Your followup post seems to be in agreement on the sentiment also. Isn’t this exactly what they’re doing with EU4 right now?
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Sorry, too many times people take things I say way out of context and I thought it happened again. You're right about their customerbase's buying habits. I guess I'm hoping for Stellaris to get the EU4 treatment, but it is probably too early in Stellaris's life cycle to for that to happen. (EU4 is releasing zero DLC this year. They've done one patch recently and will release a new DLC in the spring, I believe. They are spending this whole year and leadup to that DLC dealing with technical debt, essentially). I'd love for them to do this on Stellaris. Or just take a little more time for each DLC. Everything with Stellaris has felt rushed, it's full of so many good ideas that didn't quite spend enough time in the oven. If stellaris was just a bad game I wouldn't care, but it's so close to being good but just has too many really nasty problems. It's like finding your dream house but the roof leaks. It doesn't matter how nice the kitchen is, the drat roof is leaking so maybe don't focus on repainting the bathroom or installing a new entertainment system until that roof is fixed. Yes I know you stripped the entire old tile roof off and put on a new standing seam roof but its still leaking, don't move on to other areas until its fixed.
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Can someone give me some modding help? I'm trying to make a simple mod that increases the amount of trait picks I have available. I got pheromones + brain slugs before being able to do genetic modification and now I have points available but no picks. I made the folder, copied the file, and set the max value to something dumb like 20 to see if it worked and no dice. If I understand correctly all I have to do is make the mod, copy the right file from the stellaris folder, add it to the mod folder, make my changes, and run the game. I am very new to this. Normally I'd just get a mod from the workshop but literally every +trait picks mod is outdated/abandoned. Edit: nvm I fixed it. I had to recreate the entire filepath  However it seems once you have brainslugs/pheromones they overwrite your negative traits despite being still appended to your species. I can remove the negatives from my original strain though.
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Sep 26, 2019 19:20
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PittTheElder posted:Starting on a relic world would be pretty loving bananas if it came with the standard relic world planetary features. For sure, especially with the ability to convert it to an ecu at some point. I just really like the idea of being able to choose whatever precursor I feel like for that given game.
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binge crotching posted:For sure, especially with the ability to convert it to an ecu at some point. I just really like the idea of being able to choose whatever precursor I feel like for that given game. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1780597499&searchtext=precursor
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binge crotching posted:Remnants would be nice if it let you choose a precursor chain to start with. It is probably just that you start on a Relic World though. Remnants should be the non-psychics who didn't put themselves into the Shroud/Organics leftover from a Singularity. Give them bonuses against psychics/machines but lock them out of the appropriate Perks.
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Gonna try and put my "There are too many planets and the game runs too long without anything big happening" theories into practice with these game settings. Gonna play a standard organic species to get a feel for them. Galaxy Size: Tiny (200 Stars) Galaxy Shape: Elliptical AI Empires: 6 Advanced AI Starts: Off Fallen Empires: 1 Marauder Empires: 1 Tech/Tradition Cost: 0.25x Habitable Worlds: 0.25x Primitive Civilizations: 1x Crisis Strength: 0.25x Mid-Game Start Year: 2225 End-Game Start Year: 2250 Victory Year: 2300 Difficulty: Ensign Scaling Difficulty: Off AI Aggressiveness: Normal Empire Placement: Random Advanced Neighbors: Off Hyperlane Density: 1x Abandoned Gateways: 1x Wormhole Pairs: 1x Guaranteed Habitable Worlds: Off Caravaneers: On Ironman Mode: On Edit: Started between the Marauders and a Fanatic Purifier woooo Edit2: And all the nearby worlds are like 20% habitable Edit3: Faster tech makes how slow starbases are to build even worse Gort fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Gort posted:Edit3: Faster tech makes how slow starbases are to build even worse Yeah this is a really annoying problem, with planetary buildings as well. It feels like buildings taking about twice as long to build as they should.
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There are too many buildings with too small of an effect and too many building slots.
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Gort posted:Gonna try and put my "There are too many planets and the game runs too long without anything big happening" theories into practice with these game settings. Gonna play a standard organic species to get a feel for them. You know you can't have an endgame crisis before the victory year with those settings right? They can spawn 50 (actually 55 I think?) years after End-Game start at the earliest, which is Victory year with those settings. Though I suppose you can just keep playing after you (or an AI) win.
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I know we've all been there, but it's kind of a pain to realize "I really kind of need a sixth Matter Decompressor"
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Staltran posted:You know you can't have an endgame crisis before the victory year with those settings right? They can spawn 50 (actually 55 I think?) years after End-Game start at the earliest, which is Victory year with those settings. Though I suppose you can just keep playing after you (or an AI) win. Oh, maybe I'll bump the victory year up a century then. ----- How slow planetary buildings are to make doesn't bug me as much as starbases, since planets are usually only building one thing at a time, and there are techs that speed planetary builds up. My starbases are always building multiple things, everything takes at least half a year to build, there are no techs to accelerate building, and it only gets worse as the game continues, since the starbases get bigger and have more modules. It must take decades to build an endgame-capable bastion, it's nuts. Gort fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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Gort posted:Oh, maybe I'll bump the victory year up a century then.
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Being able to set starbase templates that you could build would be even nicer, you often have a bunch of identical starbases with e.g. 6 anchorages, +2 naval cap per anchorage building, storage building, hydroponics (or whatever other filler building to make the outliner symbol go away).
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Staltran posted:Being able to set starbase templates that you could build would be even nicer, you often have a bunch of identical starbases with e.g. 6 anchorages, +2 naval cap per anchorage building, storage building, hydroponics (or whatever other filler building to make the outliner symbol go away).
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Hey so did Stellaris ever get the mid and late game events that stuff like Crusader Kings II and EU IV have? I want rebellions and dynastic power struggles and interstellar diplomatic crises and stuff. Did that ever happen?
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Arglebargle III posted:Hey so did Stellaris ever get the mid and late game events that stuff like Crusader Kings II and EU IV have? I want rebellions and dynastic power struggles and interstellar diplomatic crises and stuff. Did that ever happen?
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Err, in midgame the AI will uprise to overthrow anyone who has robot pops but no robot rights. And endgame still has the great outsider military threat, shortly preceded by fallen empires waking up and being meanies. But other than the trivial AI thing, nothing that's internal, no.
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Splicer posted:According to a number of people in this very thread having rebellions and power struggles in your space grand strategy game would be "annoying".
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Theoretically, you can make pops on a planet so angry they go independent. But that's so hard to do even on purpose, I have no idea if that's even a thing anymore or just something I've read in a dev update talking about it in theory as something they want to do in the future, not right now
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Libluini posted:Theoretically, you can make pops on a planet so angry they go independent. But that's so hard to do even on purpose, I have no idea if that's even a thing anymore or just something I've read in a dev update talking about it in theory as something they want to do in the future, not right now It is a thing but even when it happens it's incredibly easy to deal with because it's literally just one planet that goes independent. They won't even have a fleet or anything to defend themselves. It's more useful as a way to snipe single territories from strong opponents than it is an actual threat to your own empire.
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Serephina posted:Err, in midgame the AI will uprise to overthrow anyone who has robot pops but no robot rights. And endgame still has the great outsider military threat, shortly preceded by fallen empires waking up and being meanies. But other than the trivial AI thing, nothing that's internal, no. I'm waiting for this right now. I went Pacifist but I want to get my war on so I'm trying everything I can to get people to attack me. I've got a ton of robots but stopped short of researching sentience, and I downgraded all my fleets to have zero weapons, but still everyone hates me but no one wants to try to start poo poo.
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50 years into my current game and I still haven't learned how to make robots. And now it's taking longer to shuffle my tech options because I've already researched all the other cheap T1 techs. Why is this game's tech system so lovely?
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Splicer posted:According to a number of people in this very thread having rebellions and power struggles in your space grand strategy game would be "annoying". It's almost always garbage in 4x games because of the interruption to the power curve. It also tends to only happen to people who dont know what they are doing. Once you learn the game you can manage it and you never have to deal with it making it a wasted mechanic. Or, if you are forced into wars, you learn ways of minmaxing the setup so that you are heavily favored and the rebellion is easily crushed. Rebellion mechanics work much better in other paradox games precisely because they arnt 4x. The original Stellaris design had more federalized politics, which would be more easily converted into power struggles and rebellions. Like the mechanic where ideologies would sort themselves into sectors. But the system was so garbage in every other way that they did the right thing to toss it. e: The robots is a good example. You only get AI rebellions if you want them. If you know the game it is easy to avoid an actual rebellion entirely. TheDeadlyShoe fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 28, 2019 |
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:I think a lot of the people that have that opinion have the caveat "Unless it is implemented well". "And it never is  "
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Splicer posted:According to a number of people in this very thread having rebellions and power struggles in your space grand strategy game would be "annoying". Tiresome is how I'd describe it. I guess it may be a preference thing, but I would rather deal with serious external threats than serious internal threats. In SOTS everyone is trying to kill you. The galaxy is trying to kill you too. And there's ancient horrors that don't mind chewing on some or all of your empire. The AI rebellion in SOTS is an absolute nightmare, even if it happens to someone else, odds are you'll get a taste of the action. To me all those things are way more fun than "lmao your hiver empire is now split between warring queens, the blue dress faction and the gold dress faction." I think it's cool if CK2 provides that gameplay because it makes sense for the setting, for a space game about conquering the stars and spreading your ideology / beliefs though it would be nice if the threats were external rather than internal.
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