Gobblecoque posted:

The thread title must be good because haha it's triggering the hell out of people.

Fellblade posted:

Ok so, is there like a tutorial or youtube series you guys recommend for noobs since the utopia release?

I played at release and crushed the galaxy multiple times with all variety of builds, but now I can't achieve anything past the first war.

I blocked an empire into a bottleneck with a Frontier Outpost at start, then built up making sure to stay at max fleet cap at all times. I had 7 planets, they had 1 and their fleet power was the same as mine. What the gently caress, I lose my first fleet to them in a straight up battle and then manage to bottle them back up because they camped above a world with max defence armies I hastily built up. I rebuilt my fleet, though wasn't enough to take on their fleet and spaceport at the time.

Two rival empires declared on me, so I decide I'll deal with the initial war before pivoting to deal with them. I attempt to take on the fleet which is now 1.5k plus their 1k spaceport and lose my entire fleet before even thinking about the new war. After that I checked and the new war participants had 4k fleets each.

I have no idea how to play this game any more, I'm not on hard or aggressive or anything I just don't have the first idea what the change.

Korgan posted:

Spaseman posted:

Can someone explain whats going on with this tooltip? I'm the Dyss Republic and they clearly don't dislike me so why is that being used as a reason for them to turn down a federation invitation?

Splicer posted:

If I utterly engulf another empire I sometimes dump them into their own appropriately named sector for flavour reasons.

I kind if miss the old "independence for x sector" factions sometimes. They flat didn't work as implemented but I liked the concept.

nopantsjack posted:

Is this good yet? Sorry for such a poo poo question, what I mean is do people actually play games to the end now?

I've played it a couple times since release and basically empire creation was the high point (very, very cool) and early exploration was okay if samey and then everything rapidly went downhill.

wiegieman posted:

What I really want is to just mass build a bunch of habitats in a sector and have the sector colonize them (and also not just build energy on them like what the hell?) That, and a production manager like HoI4 so I don't have to manually build up to my fleet cap 4 battleships at a time.

Truga posted:

lol you build attachments, i just construct 128 droid armies and destroy everything with my steel army

BadOptics posted:

This plus a designer/template creator for your ground forces so you don't have to manually pick through each unit and add in attachments. I think I've bought three attachments max in ~150 hours of game play and I have no idea how that system made it all the way to release.

Truga posted:

oops sorry I'm kinda sleepy and thought that was two separate posts for some reason

Conskill posted:

The Fading Suns setting proposes that extreme stratification of technology happens along an almost European medieval mindset (in fact, the setting is very much medieval Europe IN SPAAACE). The loss of galactic civilization pounded a giant reset button for the vast majority of humanity, which live in low-tech squalor, while just barely enough technological knowledge has been retained (and jealously guarded) by craft-guilds to keep spaceships running for their ultra-rich patrons/nobility.

I'll grant it's not realistic, but it's fun. The whole setting is basically Dune and Warhammer 40k had a baby and got it baptized Catholic.

wiegieman posted:

I use Animated Synthetic Portraits so I literally don't care about their synth pics.

Sky Shadowing posted:

Wiz said on other boards, either Reddit or Plaza, that the decision was made to do 8 high quality portraits rather than 12 medium quality ones.

I'll take that trade.

Ham Sandwiches posted:

What happened to the joke thread title rename, you didn't feel it was a sufficient burn? Didn't work on some other level?

Hopefully, I think I've been shouted down enough by people for daring to say that Star Ruler 2 was not very good, in my opinion, that the thread can now move on in glorious xenophile love.

Libluini posted:

As fascinating as this troll-off over SR2 is, I have a far more important question: Are there any extra goodies for pre-ordering Synthetic Dawn? I'm always a sucker for companies giving out free stuff if you pre-order their stuff.

If not, it's OK, too! In that case I'll just patiently wait a couple days more! It's fine!

Mister Adequate posted:

Eh, I know for an absolute fact I want this, so might as well, means on release day I can just keep an eye on my email instead of frantically F5-ing various threads to see whether It Is Out Yet

Bloody Pom posted:

If you think $10 is too much for a DLC pack with this amount of content in it then you're either a cheapskate or in dire straits.

I've seen indie games sell their soundtracks for more, for gently caress's sake.

Mulloy posted:

So I've played Stellaris a bit and I've been invited to play with some friends this weekend to celebrate the new expansion. Question: If I build a machine empire that cannibalizes biologicals will I be able to ally with them if they're bio or will that rule stay in force?

Cease to Hope posted:

wow that's even funnier than that last two times you posted it

Q8ee posted:

Once I attack an enemy colony with attack troops, is there any way for me to build defender troops (garrison troops) on that planet, or do I need to leave my attack troops behind as a garrison?

Cause that's what I was doing, basically using my attack troopers as glorified housekeepers once they'd conquered a planet. Then the war ended, and I had about 30 attack troopers with nothing to do...

Q8ee posted:

It's my birthday on the 7th October. That spare key would make a pretty swell birthday present is all I'm gonna say

Milky Moor posted:

Good luck "breaking the deadlock" when you pay 100 minerals per pop. Good luck building equal fleet strength + 1000 when every pop you build is one station or one corvette or an improvement or... You turtle up, you just get out-expanded. You get out-expanded, your robot bonuses don't matter because they'll just have enough of a disparity that a 15% damage bonus just means you die slightly slower.

A 'Driven Exterminator' should be able to do more exterminating than sitting around, quietly expanding and hoping your neighbours don't get ahead of you (and/or band up to kill you, form defensive pacts to make wars even harder, and so on).

Ramadu posted:

Man why is the cooldown on warp travel so long? It makes wars impossible and just the most annoying thing


back to hyperlanes I guess yeesh

RobotDogPolice posted:

Are there any races/builds that are recommended for new players or should I just gently caress around with whatever? I wanted to make a diplomatic plant race.

Fintilgin posted:

I feel like regardless of what they pick in species selection, determined exterminators should start on a tomb world.

Axetrain posted:

So are missile weapons worth it now?

enraged_camel posted:

What's Hive Mind, Purifier, Machine? Are those attributes that appear for each empire when you select them at the starting screen, or do I need to look somewhere else?

Playstation 4 posted:

President Ark posted:

for the description i'd use his rant about itunes requiring a nasa certification and replace "itunes" with something else - https://spellingmistakescostlives.tumblr.com/post/144501906911/eltigrechico-dril-vs-itunes-i-think-about

(dunno about that tumblr, it was on google, don't blame me if you click further into it and find weirdass porn)

Crazycryodude posted:

Yeah this has been a steady complaint for like, a year and a half since release. Combat is most definitely a weak link in the game still, even if Synthetic Dawn totally knocked it out of the park everywhere else.

Like, seriously, SD is absolutely amazing, but good god we desperately need the war overhaul next.

Dick Trauma posted:

PR is an endless source of entertainment, and not just because the series has been active for 170 years...

RabidWeasel posted:

This is satire, right?