Stellaris: a second Astral Planes has hit the game

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Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Ground floor and I want to stress that I just fought my first 2.0 war and it was great

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

The one major issue I hold with the game is a total lack of options in intel-gathering against an opponent before a war. It's always guesswork whether I beat an equivalent force numerically - that fees unsatisfying still.

In part the reason I loved that war I just fought was because this wasn't the case. I put a listening post on my border Starfort and I was able to see a shitload of intel on my rival.

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 13:11

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

There's no rally points anymore because military ships can't exist except as fleet members (or traveling to a fleet), and the fleet is the rally point.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 21:35

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Seems to be extremely important to build Trading Hubs on stations where it's possible.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 21:42

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

My neighbors just offered to sell me a Precursor artifact because I don't have them all yet.

e; Also I don't know if it's all down to reduced fleet sizes or what but the game runs hellllaaaaa quick now.

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Feb 22, 2018

# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 22:48

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Just wanna say that building a dedicated fleet yards starbase and calling it like "Trimus Fleet Yards" and making GBS threads out six ships at a time from it to reinforce a fleet really quickly is extremely good & cool.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 23:17

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Mulloy posted:

I cannot express how sad I am to discover I can't be a spiritualist machine empire. RIP Deus Vult ex Machina.

In other news, mushroom zealots incoming.

Juffo-Wup is inevitable.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 01:17

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Dongattack posted:

How do you increase fleet command limit? Research i haven't discovered yet? NOT "Naval Capacity", fleet sizes.

Mostly through researching new hull types.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 01:42

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Everyone something is really really wrong with my game

My sector.... it... it's producing a sensible amount of food with a slight, but by no means excessive or wasteful, excess. :ohdear:

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 02:02

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Diogines posted:

I literally do not believe you. I honestly do not. You are lying. Wiz paid you say that or you are a Russian bot. Nothing can EVER fix the sector AI.

Listen. Listen. My normal response would be to be like "Yep you got me Wiz paid me with a copy of East vs. West" or something and play it off. But I've got to break kayfabe here, because this is not something I'm any more able to handle than you are.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 02:10

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

mysterious frankie posted:

So I see a bundle is on sale on Steam: Stellaris+Utopia+Plantoids+Leviathan for $31

I like the idea of a 4X space game, enjoy the concept of a Star Trekesque game, and like Civ well enough. Could never make myself care about Crusader Kings, even though it seemed cool. Is this worth 30 buckaroos, or should I just spend that money on a lot of Taco Bell?

game good buy game

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 02:31

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Squiggle posted:

Well hell, depending on how important Star Trekkiness is to you, probably the most well put-together total conversion mod for the game is Star Trek.

I think it's totally worth 30 buckaroos, and another 20 for the new Apocalypse expansion too.

Not just the best TC for Stellaris but probably the best Trek game, too.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 03:00

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Ask me about the time some assholes tried to step to my vassals because I was already busy with a big war only to find I could afford to hire some real rough boys from the nearby marauder empire :smugbert:

Fake e;

Dongattack posted:

I was utterly decimating a lovely bird empire and while i was bombarding the defenses of one of their planets down (which takes loving ages now btw) they somehow just forced white peace?

I was insane murder robots using a purification casus belli, and i had eradicated their fleet twice.

I've seen a couple of other people around the Net mention the same thing, but nobody seems to know if it's a WAD mechanic we haven't got to grips with yet or a bug.

Real e;

Ignorant Hick posted:

What are the best ways for dealing with unrest on conquered planets now that you can't cram planets full of assault armies? I just finished my first war against a 3 planet empire that made the poor choice of sharing my planet class so I set them to get purged. Even with a basic defensive building manned by one of my pops, a slave processing facility, and the police state civic their former capital has well over 100 unrest. I have enough energy credits banked to maybe resettle enough of them around my empire to lower it enough, but I'd like to know if there's a better way than wiping out my cash reserves.

Martial Law planetary edict can help keep things under control while you build up a better solution. As it stands though, yeah, it seems like new conquests filled with unhappy newly-enslaved pops are really hard to keep a lid on (which is great imo), I kept some assault armies on hand to shore up defenses when a rebellion occurred. Gotta plunk down them fortresses!

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Feb 23, 2018

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 03:06

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Galaga Galaxian posted:

I see this bug is still around. Started with a Slaver Agenda on an Egalitarian empire.

Not a bug, just a capitalist.

e; Oh hey just had the White Peace thing happen to me too :v:

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 03:46

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

the two major empires I've been beefing with have stopped opportunistically declaring on me when the other one does. Now they've just teamed up and launched a single war against me and my one ally.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 06:25

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

OwlFancier posted:

With the fact that defense armies are now a bit tougher than basic assault armies, I feel like picking very strong/resiliant might actually make your planets very hard to capture.

I'm currently almost completely unable to invade planets despite having strong catmans, so much so that I've reoriented my research priorities dramatically so I can get jedi ASAP.

e; Also turning on the follow-fleet triforce isn't actually a great idea unless you really need to win a big fight. Sure you'll have overwhelming forces in a given system, but you'll have a bunch of zippy little buggers going all over the shop faster than you can keep on top of them. Literally having to obsess over maneuver, chokepoints, keeping outposts from being retaken, and escorting my army transports safely around.

Game incredibly good :stare:

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Feb 23, 2018

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 06:46

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

OwlFancier posted:

Well I know what I'm going to add as a species, ravenous hive of literal ticks that are impossible to dig out once they get established

pls don't doxx my medical records.

Also I feel comfortable saying that was the best war I have ever fought in Stellaris. I had so much to consider and juggle, there were back-and-forths, feints, a massive failed invasion, two massive successful but extremely costly ones, and a reclamation of some systems I'd lost a couple decades earlier.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 06:56

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Incredibly gratifying to see the Prethoryns show up and smash directly into the heartland of one of my big rivals :allears:

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 21:02

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I truly wish the weird background noises from the Crises was classed as an Ambient sound rather than Effect, because I don't want to turn off all the drat SEs but this squelching is incredibly grating to my misophonic rear end.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 21:06

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

PittTheElder posted:

Ofaloaf posted:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1117968050

Victoria 3 for Stellaris has been updated, with a Meiji Japanese portrait set added to the mix now.

Cool, いい

# ¿ Feb 23, 2018 21:50

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Really loving that I can modify species in a reasonable timeframe now.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2018 01:10

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I don't know if we can stop the Scourge you guys :ohdear:

They've wiped out two FEs already. Literally the only thing keeping us alive for now is that they're slow to push forward.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2018 01:27

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Was just informed that a wounded Prethoryn Queen has been spotted on long-range sensors after getting dunked all over by an 'unidentified party' in the Sol system.

Guess the humies aren't as extinct as I thought and are instead doing some HFY poo poo to save the galaxy :black101:

# ¿ Feb 24, 2018 01:50

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Just got offered a Covenant with the Shroud and obviously took it immediately so we can stop the Swarm.

I am well aware that nothing bad will come of this in any way. :downs:

# ¿ Feb 24, 2018 02:09

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Updated my two little namelist mods for Apocalypse.

Elves: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=902275820

Suikoden: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=902275898

Hope they're enjoyed by anyone who might use them!

# ¿ Feb 24, 2018 03:33

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Axetrain posted:

Why is it forcing me to take the long way around? I can't just go from one to the other.

FTL inhibitor in the system you are currently in. Means you can only leave via the same hyperlane you entered from.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2018 01:48

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

VirtualStranger posted:

Galaxy generation settings that should be in the game, but currently are not:

Anything that I missed?

Slider to determine how many options sliders there are (Toggle) [off/on]

(Agreed with all of them though, also possibly System Richness so you can have a near-barren galaxy or one packed with wealth)

# ¿ Feb 25, 2018 03:09

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I have been seeing a lot more Slaving Despots than I used to.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2018 04:44

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

So question, is there a guide anywhere to how to make a static map? Like the one in New Horizons for example?

I'm vaguely toying with the idea of making a mod that tries to fulfill the 'set galaxy' request people often expressed but I'd kind of need to know how2map first. I figure I can reverse engineer it from the Trek mod if needed but a proper guide would be easier.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 02:36

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Baronjutter posted:

Marauders have done absolutely nothing in my game. No raids, no communication, nothing. They just sit in their little 3-system territory and don't bother anyone.

In my game they talked smack on a regular basis, started flying towards me, and either got messed up on the way so they changed their minds or got REALLY messed up when they met Border Citadel The Pharaoh Imat II.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 04:14

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Admiral Joeslop posted:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1314848686

Friends Like These is updated with 7 new species from Libluini and Galaga Galaxian. I think I'm almost getting the hang of this.

Cool and good, thanks for keeping this updated, hope my races can annoy some people

e; I ought to post my catmans empire at some point to add in.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2018 06:08

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Gort posted:

Bah, I can't be spiritualist robot angels. Is there a mod that lets me?

I believe some of the perks added in Expanded Ascension Perks add the ability to follow more than one Ascension path at once.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2018 23:53

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

hobbesmaster posted:

But you can only do modifications on a planet by planet basis which means you probably don't want to nerve staple an entire planet for the mineral output for example.

I've played enough SMAC to consider "Nerve stapling the entire population" to be not only a viable option but indeed a reasonable first response, even pre-emptive measure, to take.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 03:05

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

toasterwarrior posted:

Threat dissipates over time, yeah? I'd have thought that the presence of a genocidal race's massive empire would always be a constant threat to empires, encouraging them to ally up.

Threat does dissipate if I'm remembering right, but being a space rear end in a top hat will cause plenty of other anger (Border friction, opinion penalties for being xenophobic/slavery policy/etc., additional reducing-over-time penalties from genocides or the like) and most of these things take decades to go away, plus mutual rival diplo bonuses can help people ally up. It's not perfect and diplo needs work for sure, but that particular issue is not a major one.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 07:56

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Seems like the quickest messy solution to AI resource problems is to just stop buildings from suppressing resources. I think I've even seen a mod floating around that does just that, though whether for that particular objective I don't know.

metasynthetic posted:

Maybe they're smuggling news or movies from the wider galaxy in, by broadcasting it? Hell maybe they're just scrawling information on giant space billboards! e; ^ Dammit! :argh:

# ¿ Mar 5, 2018 23:33

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Yeah I like a good shipset but I don't remember the last time I cared about turret visuals or anything. Combat just doesn't take place at the scale where they are at all relevant.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 19:46

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Captain Oblivious posted:

Soooo, status update from xenophile space hydras

My closest neighbor is a bunch of Inward Perfection jackoffs. Sure, fine, whatever. I've got migration treaties with other people.

The problem is they expanded their borders over a Cybrex artifact point I hadn't researched yet because no level 5 Scientist. I know Inward Perfection can't do most things, is it possible to butter them up enough for them to at least open their gat dang borders for a minute? I don't WANT to Liberation War them over a Cybrex Artifact but...

I absolutely will

Playing as Inward Perfectionists right now and there's nothing stopping me from opening borders. So if you can get on their good side they should open up to you, I presume.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2018 19:57

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Fake e; ^^ Holy poo poo that's awesome. When Stellaris comes together it really comes together.

AtomikKrab posted:

Let me just start up a fanatical purifier game.

Doo doo starting resear....

Nice and also "Origin of Sin" is a baller-rear end homeworld name :black101:

# ¿ Mar 8, 2018 06:53

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Hahahaha is this a new system name or have I just somehow missed it before now?

# ¿ Mar 9, 2018 05:10

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Magil Zeal posted:

I feel like the latest beta patch broke pirates, at least for my current game in progress. I didn't edit the supposed bugged part at all but I'm still getting no pirate spawns, and it's been decades and there are plenty of places they could appear.

They're spawning a bit less often for me but I was playing today quite a bit and saw pirates plenty.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2018 06:19

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 13:11

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I wish to inform you all that I love the Worm and the Worm loves me.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2018 05:29

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