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Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I guess, but Caste System slaves are unhappy. I want everyone to be hopped up on goofballs and having orgies daily, including the working class.

Move to Scandinavia.

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Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Fit.

That's also reflected on the Steam store page. No preorder options though.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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On the way home from work. Can I have gay robot socialism at last?

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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So I haven't played this thing since when there were planetary tiles and alloys weren't a thing. Is there anything to keep in mind for opening stages when building up your planet etc? I'm feeling a bit lost.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Are habitats busted for anyone else? I just built an asteroid hab, got the confirmation pop-up and now it's not there. It's not listed in possible colonization targets etc either in the menus.

I went back and loaded a game just before it was built and the same thing happened. Super frustrating.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

Are you playing modded? In vanilla, Habitats cannot go over asteroids so if you're running a mod its likely something to do with that.

Ah ok - it's been a long time since I've played, so wasn't sure. I'm only using Guilli's mods, so potentially from there. I'll reload and try and build a different habitat.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I conflated Guilli's mods with planetary diversity in my head - must be from there then.

Last time I played properly was when tiles were still a thing, so had no idea whether these habitat types were vanilla or not.

I'll try and build a habitat over a planet and see if that helps, thanks guys.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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More importantly

Paradox posted:

We also have some quality of life automation improvements planned for 3.4.4:

Automated Exploration and Automated Research are now available from the start of the game rather than being tech-locked.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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What's the cut off for planet size and habitability? I've got a bunch of planets at 50% and size 11ish on my new game start and I can't tell whether they're worth bothering with.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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How do you guys space out your starbases in the early game, especially if you're not encountering any other civilisations yet? I tend to keep spreading out until I meet some and then slap them down to secure choke points, but in my current game I'm sprawling and haven't met any yet. Should I still be putting some down?

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I just wish the auto designed units weren't absolutely useless. I've never enjoyed designing units and it quite often puts me off games that I otherwise want to play (specifically thinking of Endless Space).
Stellaris' system is simple enough that I just grin and bear it and either go all energy weapon or kinetic.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

really big patch with a lot of good stuff, custodian initiative knocking it out of the park again


Yeah: reading about the improvements to AI and performance in particular shows how much effort is going into the game now. Glad the days of just stacking features on top with no thought of how they relate to the rest and ignoring stuff that sorely needed fixing are mostly gone.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I'd like to see something like Endless Space 2's empires with very different play styles, but I don't know how you'd square that with Stellaris' custom empires. I ain't a game designer.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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It's pretty playable on the steam deck, if a bit cramped at that resolution. Remember to disable the UI Overhaul Dynamic mod if you're using it as it doesn't play nice at said screen size.

Having said that, if you want to use an Xbox controller on the PC version, Steam lets you bind your own configurations. Or I'm sure you'd be able to download someone else's.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Of course it's a great thing. Let the parasitic overmind into your life. The overmind is love.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Does anyone play this on a steam deck? I thought it was all working surprisingly well until I hit a trade screen with another empire: their offer column doesn't render and you can't move the offer window. Tried making the UI much smaller, looked for mods etc and no dice. Does anyone have any work arounds (or am I the only one having this)?

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Jack Trades posted:

I don't have a Deck but have you tried UI Dynamic Overhaul mod specifically?
It strikes me as something that might fix your issue.

Yeah, unfortunately that was the main mod from my desktop that I had to disable straight away - it makes a bunch of the menus too wide.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I don't even want a friendly galaxy, I would just like to not have aggressive fleet spamming assholes directly on all of my borders every time I play.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2621564981

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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So from most of your comments here I'm getting the impression I've been wasting my time shuffling my scientist leaders about to optimise technology research. Does their bonus in a particular field really not make that much of a difference?

Also while the new DLC does look fun, I can't help but feel we're pushing up against where it'd probably be best to have a Stellaris 2; having actual character leaders / heroes seems like a pretty fundamental change to the game and I can't help but feel it won't gel well with all the current systems. Also I want Stellaris 2.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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To be clear I'm not keeping a bunch of scientists to cover all specialties, but I tend to favour a few sciences specialties in my stable. I swap them in and out of the science ships when appropriate, as the ships are a good way to level them when their specific area is being called for in research. Map The Stars covers a decent enough boost for surveying etc that I generally ignore specialties there.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I like every event in my game of managing risk and strategizing to be positive.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Gadzuko posted:

:jerkbag:

Getting negative events from anomalies or as a result of an event chain is fine. Having negative traits result from poor empire management, or losing a war, etc is totally fine. Creating a system designed around building up small bonuses over long periods of time and then adding in a random chance for that effort to be spoiled with no way to counter it or reverse the effects other than "hire a new leader" is really annoying.

Except (and especially so it seems under the new system) it'll be a very powerful leader with maybe one or two negative traits among several positive ones. You don't need to fire every leader the moment a negative trait turns up.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Relevant Tangent posted:

I'm going to buy the DLC just because it doesn't actually look optional. There's never really been any reason not to have a dozen science ships with scientists in the early game and I don't think anything is going to change that, all protestations to the contrary.

I'm assuming from the changes that science ships aren't going to require a scientist onboard anymore. It would go against their less quantity, more quality shift they're going for with leaders

E: although now that I think about it, that would signify a big change to a bunch of the events so probably not

Rev. Melchisedech Howler fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Apr 29, 2023

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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And now to wait a day or two for my essential mods to update.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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uXs posted:

What are they?


Anno posted:

Guilli’s and dynamic UI overhaul are updated that’s good enough for me (thanks Guilli if you still post here).

That's two of my three essentials, but I can't imagine playing without Planetary Diversity.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Lance of Llanwyln posted:

I had the weird mouse issue too, but changing the settings in the launcher to borderless fullscreen seems to have fixed it. Despite playing heavily-modded, my test game did not violently self-immolate at any point in time.

I have to say I dig the new leader system so far. It seems pleasantly crunchy: trait-picks are a balancing act of "It would be really nice if scientist guy surveyed faster" vs. "I could really use some extra minerals right now" and you don't mind having fewer dudes kicking around so much because the ones you *do* have *actually matter.* Even the relatively small amount of flavor text supplied to the system makes a huge difference. It definitely requires you to put more thought into early surveying, since recruiting more scientists isn't a trivial matter anymore.
They could definitely take this in many more interesting directions in later DLCs, if they cared to....

Seeing as the government rework isn't tied to the DLC as such, there's nothing stopping them from throwing in new legendary leaders into new DLCs, yeah

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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It'd be good (though unsure how likely) if they were to return to the species packs, like they've already done once before, and added a unique leader or two to them . I would like that very much thank you

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I'm not at my computer so can't check why, but my science leader is also on a ship; I assumed it was like that as standard, but sounds like from the above that that's specific to my having a technocratic government maybe

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I have about 700 hours played and two achievements.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I don't use mods, I just really suck at this game

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Jack Trades posted:

I'm trying out this mod right now
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2094420716

Which aims to make auto ship designer better and more consistent and it seems to do the job well. Improves upon AI's ship designs too.

Thanks for this. The author also has a few other interesting mods in his library too, specifically the weapon specialisation one sounds worth a go.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Jack Trades posted:

I'm using that one too and it's both fun and helps improve the auto designer a little bit too.

Has the weapon specialisation mod actually worked for you?

I played for a couple of hours last night and while the auto designer was noticeably better, I was still getting varied weapon techs like usual. I saw that the mods were still classified as 3.7 so may be bugged with the current version.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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To anyone else also getting CTDs from loading into the main menu with mods on the new update, looks like it's down to UI Overhaul. Unsure as to whether it's the main mod or one of the smaller addons at this point.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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I hope Guilli isn't abandoning their technology mod. Their excellent planet features mod got updated pretty quickly but there's been no sign of movement on the technology one.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Guilliman posted:

Waiting for outliner and modifiers to be fixed, until then stellaris is dead to me.

Haha, I had no idea you were on here. Thanks for all the memories

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Yeah, that's just the standard new release discount I think.

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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So I'm guessing that Guilli has retired from his Stellaris mod making? Don't know if I can play this without their Planet Modifiers mod :(

Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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GunnerJ posted:

According to an xtter post from him back in December, he's taking a mental health break.

Ah, that's absolutely fair enough then.

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Rev. Melchisedech Howler
Sep 5, 2006

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Just wondering if anyone has had any luck using the modded achievement enabling patch with the steam deck? The problem I'm running into is that to run the patcher, I'm having to run the patcher itself via Proton; in my limited understanding of Linux / Proton, it's creating its own small virtual machine while running; so this means that when I go to look for the directory for Stellaris to point it at, it can't see it as that's not part of this proton instance.

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