And that's a bad thing why? Especially in a galactic empire type civ having your leaders have some reason to exist instead of just being a nameless game mechanic seems good.
>Announced 2 weeks after the last shitty unfinished overpriced DLC
They're not even hiding that they're just chopping up actually content-complete DLCs to milk the playerbase even more, are they
This Council thing is bugging me...it's one thing if they're finally gonna make oligarchic governments, well, oligarchic, but the way it's worded makes me think they're gonna force this shit into every non-gestalt now, especially since the screenshot is from UNE which starts democratic.
A cabinet of ministers makes perfect sense. Perhaps they can be more influential in an oligarchy?
I'm not sure about this one. I don't know what it is supposed to be.
Like we are certainly getting a leader rework but These portraits scare me with the "We want the HoI4 audience".
Captcha: AYY JP
where are those images from? >HoI audience
Also nothing wrong with it. Successful features should be shared across games.
>everyone is gonna be a brown chink in two hundred years
unrealistic. I'm willing to bet that everyone will be white the moment cheap genetic engineering becomes available.
white mindbroken zoomers. Sane shitskin zoomers want to be white and they make up the overwhelming majority. Humanity will be white. There's no stopping it. The only problem is that race isn't skin deep and all these fake whites will still have the brains of Black folk.
They look better than original ones IMO (not counting no white people thing what is still dumb), still not good, but if I really want to play I humans I would probably pick something from workshop
>the way it's worded makes me think they're gonna force this shit into every non-gestalt now
Behold: gestalt councils. Finally the schizos with voices in their head are getting represented.
>the way it's worded makes me think they're gonna force this shit into every non-gestalt now
Behold: gestalt councils. Finally the schizos with voices in their head are getting represented.
Well, they said that certain Civics would give unique, specific Council positions for non-gestalts. Maybe it could be similar to Gestalts, or maybe it could be modded in.
I hate to break this to you, but all societies are oligarchic when you get right down to it. All except direct democracies, although even then you need SOMEONE to lead certain departments.
its indie trash so i expected nothing else, paradox is a AAA stock listed company with hundred of employees, seems they used new engine in stellaris, the fact its single threaded is a disgrace.
its indie trash so i expected nothing else, paradox is a AAA stock listed company with hundred of employees, seems they used new engine in stellaris, the fact its single threaded is a disgrace.
Stellaris does use multiple cores, dunno why people think it doesn't. It's easy to check.
Whether or not it uses them efficiently is another matter (probabaly not).
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Stellaris does use multiple cores, dunno why people think it doesn't. It's easy to check.
Whether or not it uses them efficiently is another matter (probabaly not).
Paradox games are technically multi-threaded in the sense that they use more than one core, often with each core having a dedicated task such as handling renderer updates or loading. Much like Unreal, Unity, Godot, etc.
But in practice they're not multi-threaded in the "distribute computation workload more or less evenly across all available cores" sense.
I'm not sure about this one. I don't know what it is supposed to be.
Like we are certainly getting a leader rework but These portraits scare me with the "We want the HoI4 audience".
>Azaryn bows
Let me guess, Paradox's devs have been playing a CRPG recently >What exactly is astrocreation?
Oh for frick's sake this is so boring
The only information on that panel is in the bottom right, Scientist who hates Spark of Genius and can't do something with mortar board hats/education whilst costing a lot, is xenophile and fricking hell it's just so boring.
>Facial recogni-
And I've stopped reading.
He's a fragile admiral with low upkeep and the useless retreat trait.
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Why do they look so smug and gay?
Because they're queer. The second one's eyes aren't even aligned correctly.
yes and it's shit. I prefer the current state, although the lag from pop overpopulation could use some help. The game was designed to have around 25 pops per planet instead of 250 like they do now.
Never was
Civ is prettier and makes the resources feel special
Stellaris is ugly and makes the resources feel generic, even the special ones with actual names
I'm still salty over those homosexualy human portraits
What were they thinking?
>let's make a game for twitter >how will this sell our game? >sell?
>nobody says anything about any country at all >OMG DA AAAAMEEEEEERIIIIIIIIICAAAAAAAAAANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>Paradox game continues to schizo itself with new mechanics years after launch
Classic, hopefully Stellaris will get a Holy Fury dlc equivalent before the end of its development cycle to actually tie all the shit they have added together.
Who wants to bet this is going to be yet another thing that costs unity but doesn't make enough o a difference to be worth diverting pops from science jobs?
Am I the only one looking forward to this, because I am always playing a human empire, making myself as leader and keeping myself alive and in charge of the empire for as long as possible ?
Haven't played since 2016 due to life and only having potatoes until recently. Any of the like 20 dlc they released since considered must haves? Any I should avoid?
whats the point of these new notifications? i know my guy has a new trait im the one who gave it to him
and why did paradox make the new notification sound so moronic? literally moronic like the old notification had a moronic downs syndrome son >duuuuhhhhrrrrrnng
>I know my guy has a new trait im the one who gave it to him
You can set Leader Trait upgrades to be automated so that you don't need to micro your Leaders.
In such a case, the message would be useful. If you don't particularly like these types of messages or others you can now disable them from he new settings menu for messages.
>whats the point of these new notifications? i know my guy has a new trait im the one who gave it to him
It's awesome the notifications only say the name of the leader and not what job they have and that clicking on the notifications doesn't actually do anything.
I wish they actually appealed to roleplayers. How can people muster up any excitement for this pseudo-creative cookie clicker is beyond me. You have to play pretend and fool yourself your current empire is any different from your last one because they sure as hell all do play the same. Might as well just play house with a mirror and save yourself the download.
Look, face the facts, Paradox stumbled onto an amazing discovery: homosexuals like shit. Ever since that astonishing revelation they have been catering to the homosexuals. You see homosexuals are more profitable, and of course Paradox seeks profits. Ask yourself, as a Paradox shareholder which would you choose as a vacation? Fricking hot exotic babes on a tropical beach at a five star luxury Hotel while sipping daiquiris, or spending a week in Detroit slumming it in some dingy motel, maybe having enough cash to send a postcard to your folks back home? Selling to homosexuals gets you the former, selling to grognards gets you the latter.
The limitations on Leaders caused by the new DLC is garbage, but worse is the shill defense force that try to play down all its problems and call it the best change paradox ever made to the game.
As if not being able to hire a reasonable amount of officers to your galactic civilization to hold even a fraction of the available roles is a "challenging limitation that improves the game".
Also now general aren't just worthless but an active detriment to have employed.
the best change was abandoning tiles. pops have their issues, performance being among the biggest, but they ultimately made it a real videogame and not just Catan in space. Although they aren't as different as people say.
Abandoning tiles made the game almost unplayable. With tiles, the biggest planets had 25 pops max, while now the smallest ones can have 50. It also inflated the game time as you need to wait for more pops to grow for your advanced buildings (FFS advanced factories employ less workers, not more). With tiles, I could play an 1400/star galaxy, now with pops, I am stuck with the smallest ones. And stop implying that Catan is bad.
the best change was abandoning tiles. pops have their issues, performance being among the biggest, but they ultimately made it a real videogame and not just Catan in space. Although they aren't as different as people say.
Tiles were great.The new system is overly complicated and makes the game worse.
>not being able to hire a reasonable amount of officers to your galactic civilization
I honestly dont understand how they didnt even think to add something like a repeatable tech that lets you raise the cap slowly, like with starbases.
I honestly don't understand how you could expect Paradox to think things through. Have they ever, at any point, released DLC that hasn't fricked the game in some new way?
>think to add something like a repeatable tech that lets you raise the cap slowly
inb4 they did, but then they'd removed it for some reason >steamappscommonStellariscommontechnology 0_soc_tech_repeatable.txt >#tech_repeatable_improved_leader_cap = { ># area = society ># ...
# stands for commented out code
what do you guys think of these human portraits?
The default human ones are kinda lame, I really want to have portraits that represent humanity better.
I also want clothing specific to the job of the pop, as shown
I'll put it up soon, doing men and going to do UNE (United nations of Earth) and CM (Commonwealth of man) clothing
Its a bit rough in some parts but pretty happy with it atm
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I'll put it up soon, doing men and going to do UNE (United nations of Earth) and CM (Commonwealth of man) clothing
Its a bit rough in some parts but pretty happy with it atm
These are gorgeous anon. Let us know when you post it
They are nice, but I wouldn't use them because they clash with the game's pre-established art style.
I'd rather use a mod expanding on the appearance and clothing of Species. I'd actually like it if Paradox could improve the appearance of Species and make Leaders feel a bit more unique through better customization of their appearance.
FYI, these are now up on the workshop
I called it the "Stellaris Expanded Human portraits"
Unfortunately theres still a nasty neck seam on most of the men, I need to fix that
Also not all the clothing fits properly so sometimes booba and shoulders stick out a bit
Yeah, turns out it was a lot of work, took a month and it still needs a lot of polish, but I guess thats what happens when you split earth into 14 phenotypes and make like 250 sets of clothing to cover all stellaris jobs
Dunno, but stellaris is pretty easy to edit without tools. Just extraxt the save file with 7zip, open the bigger resultant file in notepad and change the "ironman" flag to yes iirc
I wonder if they will change this eventually
With CK3, the latest update changed achievements to be unlocked even with ironman off and with mods enabled
Obviously this makes it trivial to cheat (via a mod) but for most people I imagine this will just mean they get to play normally and unlock them anyway
Hopefully they do the same for Stellaris as well, I cba downloading anything to change checksums just for cheevos
WHYYYY IIIIS THEEEEE LEEEAAADER LIIIMIIIIT EEEEIIIIGHT
I USUALLY HAVE LITERALLY 4X THAT NUMBER ON MEDIUM SIZED GALAXIES
5-10 Science Ships (extras are on all science planets providing bonus research)
2-3 Generals (for my armies)
4-8 Admirals (Depends on the game date)
3 starting science guys (duh)
5-12 governers (depends on planet luck, etc)
there used to be a mod called "undiverse humanities" which let you pick which phenotypes would show up from asians, browns and africans but no europeans to euros only but paradox shoah'd it off the workshop
Thank you. I went and looked when I had time to play today. Undiverse Humanities has a version which reintroduces the original human portraits and gives you options to use only one race, or to have leaders of one race or sex but have diverse pops, etc. It also works with the mods that add more clothing options for humans, which is nice.
I don't mind the new human portraits, per se, but they just didn't fit what I was going for this run.
I wanted to make a bunch of Alien robots using AI myself because I felt like none of then are really scary (or alien for that matter)
but then I got distracted by breasts and ass
Strong gives Militarist ethics attraction but Resilent doesn't give Pacifist attraction, and I think it should. Resilent makes it so defensive armies are 50% stronger whereas Strong makes it so all armies are 20% stronger, but a species with Resilent would historically basically never fight offensive wars because they'd literally be 5 times as likely to win than their same species's offensive force, or 2.5 times more likely to win than a species with Strong. Therefore, Resilent should give 2.5 times as much Pacifist attraction than Strong gives Militarist.
As an Authoritarian player, I would never let the Authoritarian paragons into my empire. Kai is literally a spy-assassin who I cannot ever imagine just letting go without executing her, and the fish-worm literally steals from you. The fish-worm also makes your people hate you more, and since I try and keep middlingly happy slaves that's a big no-no.
>I haven't found a single good paragon
azaryn can turn barren worlds into gaia worlds. including the size 50 one you get from an event. she's also pretty selfless and is willing to die for your empire. she's immortal but converting planets uses up her life force, she doesn't tell you this at first because she thinks you would stop her from doing it, once she's made 3 she dies.
also she gives a massive amount of unity upon surveying a system so if you get her early game you can rush traditions
kai sha is practically mandatory to engage with espionage, since normally that shit costs influence and is never worth, but she reduces it to like 3 or 4 per operation.
>stop her
Lol Lmao.And espionage wouldn't be worth the time spend clicking my mouse even if it was free.
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it wouldn't be so bad if not for the micromanagement hell. playing criminal heritage empire with all civics in codebreaking bonuses and got Kai-Sha Paragon. 8 envoys clickity click 8 empires x100 clicks every 6 years. whoever designed this is clearly from the troony development department in paradox.
I don't like Kai simply because from a lore perspective letting some literal alien run your spy shit is nuts, and especially when she's open about assassinating other people.
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>I haven't found a single good paragon
azaryn can turn barren worlds into gaia worlds. including the size 50 one you get from an event. she's also pretty selfless and is willing to die for your empire. she's immortal but converting planets uses up her life force, she doesn't tell you this at first because she thinks you would stop her from doing it, once she's made 3 she dies.
also she gives a massive amount of unity upon surveying a system so if you get her early game you can rush traditions
kai sha is practically mandatory to engage with espionage, since normally that shit costs influence and is never worth, but she reduces it to like 3 or 4 per operation.
I haven't found a single good paragon. The dumb plant only showed up when I wasn't playing Xenophile so she fricked up my ethics and had to go.
How do Paragons work for Xenophobe Empires, and for Fanatical Purifiers?
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xenophobes can get a robot, since that's the only kosher way to have non-your-species leaders
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I like him
Xenophobes can also get Shuladun and it's basically: >"So why do you want to work for us?" >You're racist >"Why come to us then?" >I'm racist >"Welcome aboard"
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It's literally that
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>"Dismiss"
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That's moronic.I'm not going to recruit a filthy alien.
They're never going to fix how piss easy it is to vassalize everyone and everyone ending up as someones vassal by the mid game are they
no, mod it yourself
00_actions
action_demand_subjugation = {
AI_acceptance_base_value =
set to like -1000000 to really guarantee it won't happen
note this may not prevent AIs asking to be vassalised, and does not interfere with changing terms of existing vassals
If you want to prevent AI asking to be subjugated try changing this,it's right below "action_demand_subjugation" in the same txt file. >action_ask_to_become_subjugated = { >AI_acceptance_base_value =
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I like him
Xenophobes can also get Shuladun and it's basically: >"So why do you want to work for us?" >You're racist >"Why come to us then?" >I'm racist >"Welcome aboard"
>That's moronic.I'm not going to recruit a filthy alien.
Then don't?
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That's not the point and I'm not planning to recruit him.The writing and the justification to recruit him is moronic .They should have added randomly generated paragons that could be of the players primary race.
They're also very strong herbivores. The trait icon is an armadillo anyways.
Still doesn't make sense. An Armadillo or Hippo would imply something like Drake-Scaled where it gives health. The first thing that comes to mind a swarm of angry bees. Just as durable as before, very much so more aggressive.
I just want a local planetary resource storage and resource transferring convoy system.
Cutting a system from external food supply, as a part of war, would add extra depth to the game.
I hate the "Planet of X" where entire planets have nothing but one industry to minmax some bonus. It's silly, considering the massive fleets needed to haul food, minerals or even batteries because there's not a single farm, mine or energy production building on the entire planet. There should be some kind of logistical downside to a planet 100% dedicated to a single specialization.
And I like setting up logistical chains in games. Stellaris has none of that. You can sell 100,000 units of ore to the galactic market even if there's some fanatical purifier between you and the rest of civilization.
Entire planets dedicated to one single industry is a core sci-fi trope though, and simulating those things is practically the whole point of Stellaris.
>Entire planets dedicated to one single industry is a core sci-fi trope
At least limit shared resources to sectors.
Or do they just teleport minerals from one part of galaxy to forge worlds on the other side of galaxy?
>start new game on GA >get to 2300 >state of the galaxy is pic related even while fricking around a lot >get the urge to start a fresh playthrough instead of seeing things through to the end
I hate that I'm more likely to finish a game out of spite when I get fricked by shitty spawns and RNG, but when I actually do well and snowball I lose interest halfway through.
side note: I'm pretty sure Vaults of Knowledge is an absolute garbage civic, I took it as my third this game to try out and it's basically doing nothing. They need to hurry up and add a robot equivalent of Reanimators/Cordyceptic so I can just take that every game because reviving leviathans is simply cooler than all the other options
The point isn't the galaxy hates me (they don't, even the only non-pathetic empire is merely suspicious and I have secret fealty from others)
The point is how ironically the game's you're doing well in sometimes feel like the hardest to see through to the end, I never feel the same burnout when scraping by the skin of my teeth
>New player, 2nd game after 1st ended abruptly >Empire bordering one of my northern Chokepoints tells me to eat shit and die, declares me a rival and then a 30k power mercenary fleet starts heading for me >Had been slowly building up ships in the area knowing something like this would happen, but only have like 10k power >Main fleet, which is still only like 15k power, is tied up in a war at the other end of my borders and would arrive far too late >Mercenary fleet comes in against my 8k power star fort and 4k power fleet, other 9k is still traveling from local systems >Wipes my 4k power fleet but gives fort enough time / space to do damage >2k power reinforcement fleet arrives in system to aggro AI to other end >Star fleet BTFOs enemy fleet now that it isn't targeted
That was fun, get fricked mercenary shits.
>Fanatical purifiers declare war >Kick the shit out of them >Lol War exhaustion 100% status quo peace (but I keep all the non colonized planet systems I took from them???) >Have to watch purifiers use the peace to build up their fleets to similar levels as mine even though I took half their shit and their remaining systems barely have resources >Declare war again >Kick the shit out of them again >LOL WAR EXHAUSTION 100% FORCED PEACE again right as my ground armies are assaulting their last system/planet >Now have to keep some of my ships tied up to babysit while I wait for the peace to end again >mfw
How do I into war exhaustion?
I didn't realize how orbital bombardment / ground armies worked when I redeclared war, so it took time to build things up and their empire was pretty scattered from the first war so it was hard to have ships everywhere at once.
Is there a mod to fix the voluntary vassalization? The very moment I'm friendly with anyone who's not overwhelmingly more powerful than me I can instantly subjugate him, that's fricking broken. Not to mention the possible federation exploit on top of that where your vassal contract excludes target from joining your wars but federating them doesn't.
no, mod it yourself
00_actions
action_demand_subjugation = {
AI_acceptance_base_value =
set to like -1000000 to really guarantee it won't happen
note this may not prevent AIs asking to be vassalised, and does not interfere with changing terms of existing vassals
What are some good mods that just add ship models without fricking anything with anything else?
I'm just tired of seeing the 8 same ships and want some diversity without looking for a bajilion compability mods because they couldn't leave it at ship models
>not watching multiple 12 million power fleets going at it in close-up so the game slows to a crawl while your absolute shitbox of a computer cries for mercy
Do you even play Stellaris?
I get the general hate for characters, but I got an advisor who looks like that one mulloscoid tentacle beard race, which is what I beat my first ever game of stellaris with so I'm enjoying it
>autism wants me to terraform entire systems (with cheats) so I've got a capital world dedicated to unity and bureaucracy for each system, along with resource and tech worlds supplying it. >can't be assed to do it because of how shit the performance will be
Bombardment surrender is uselss. Except for rocking up on new colonies with end game stacks it takes a year to years of bombardment to get a surrender from most worlds. It does work I guess and if your fleet is really far away from an army for some reason it might be worth doing but personally I would never rely on bombardment surrender when it's so easy to just build armies and keep them up with your fleets.
I'm about 75 years into a playthrough with pic related mod for the first time, and this is quite possibly the most enjoyable game I've had to date so far. Galactic council still hasn't formed, I've barely met other empires, there's still so much space to explore and grab. Anyone else here play with this mod? It's changed the game for me completely and now I can't imagine playing without it
That mod looks just my style. Not sure if you already have it, but check out also 'Slower First Contact'. Doubles the rolls (and therefore the time) it takes to establish with alien empires, so you'll spend more time in that very-early stage of the game.
That mod looks just my style. Not sure if you already have it, but check out also 'Slower First Contact'. Doubles the rolls (and therefore the time) it takes to establish with alien empires, so you'll spend more time in that very-early stage of the game.
feel like the AI would just profit from that and first contact is rarely something happens because they just get revealed to you once you encroach upon their territory.
That mod looks just my style. Not sure if you already have it, but check out also 'Slower First Contact'. Doubles the rolls (and therefore the time) it takes to establish with alien empires, so you'll spend more time in that very-early stage of the game.
I really enjoy playing like this too, I even put pop growth to really slow, habitable worlds to very low, lower tech speed and delay the mid+late game. Makes it feel much more Grand a game.
I even then wrote a live AAR with all the spare time I had.
What are some mods that expand internal politics and rebellions? I want to make an empty galaxy with no other aliens where I can just expand, and then collapse into a bunch of warring states.
Anyone else realized how strong the grey eminence leader trait is? Doesn't matter eaely game of course but by late game empire size starts to hit hard and you can stack several grey eminences to drasticlly reduce empire size. I got 3 by the end of my last playthrough which, at base, decreased my empire size by 60% before any other modifiers which supercharged my research production. Idk if this is the best trait but it seems like it to me.
IMO, the new ones just noticeably better than the legacy ones, it's just that difference between phenotypes between are less noticeable in the new ones, but mods fix that.
The real issue is that all the new Humanoid portraits should also have an overhaul to fit with the new portraits, but don't.
I hate how the dlc made leaders these super special OC characters intead of just regular leaders. Like why can this galaxy spanning empire only support like 12 guys without exploding?? It's just dumb. I actually do like most of the new leader shit but capping them by this new special leader cap stat that's totally independent from the rest of the game except from a few traditions is stupid. Now that I'm thinking about it the whole game is infested with these special little systems that don't interact with any other part of the game, like the whole espionage shit is entirely depended on you picking the tradition tree or else it's a massive waste of resources. It's just bad design, they really need to go back through and standardize everything or something back to the base resources, like they've already made a big deal of making unity upkeep for all these "empire" systems and yet instead they insist on just adding weird side systems instead of using the standardized stuff they already have.
I think Paradox once held a Games Developer Conference presentation where they explained their business model to be making a shallow core game that can infinitely be expanded with shallow DLC mechanisms, and that for this model to work the mechanisms must stay shallow and self-contained.
So there won't be much interaction between all these little minigame mechanisms and that's by design.
im enjoying galactic paragons, the new origin was really funny >my luminar declares himself emperor >time passes, his son dies of natural causes >goes fricking paranoid and thinks he was assassinated, starts kill advisors and generals left and right >gets deposed by an egalitarian movement cuz i didnt notice you needed to pass an agenda to avert it kek
Habitats don't paint more space though. If anything they slow down space painting due to costing Influence, just like outposts.
Habitats just slow down your game.
The AI spams them relentlessly, and it becomes an unfun slog to conquer every single one in a system before moving to the next system (They'll build 5-6 in every system if possible), they also tank performance.
Then there's the fact that you can only blow up Habitats with Colossi.
You are aware that of course, that setting your army on aggressive makes them conquer every single planet in the system? Also complaining about growth in a 4x game is like complaining about dev in eu4 slowing your conquest down, because you have to pay more score for more developed provinces. Also also, ringworlds can also be only blown up by a colossus I don't see you complaining about that.
The AI spams them relentlessly, and it becomes an unfun slog to conquer every single one in a system before moving to the next system (They'll build 5-6 in every system if possible), they also tank performance.
Then there's the fact that you can only blow up Habitats with Colossi.
the AI spams the ever living shit out of them and my fricking pc can run 50 instances of stable diffusion but dies the moment it reaches year 2450
that and mercenary enclaves, the shitty galactic community thing gives EVERY faction +1 enclave capacity
that said, make sure to put your army transports to aggressive stance so they auto siege
which brings up the problem of the AI building 500 fortresses in randomly worlds for no fricking reason or having assault armies landed to defend somehow
If you manage to get negative empire size by picking democratic, parliamentarian, academic privileges, and then pick Tradition Aptitude > the Champions of the Empire size (which reduces the empire size by leader lvl) and spam enough leaders and stuff, you get free unity when supporting a democratic leader. Negative minus negative is infinite positive unity.
I find it hard to care about stellaris updates.
Like there's an initial burst of interest, but ultimately, the game is gonna lag and be unplayable in the way I want to play it.
If they can't fix pops, it doesn't matter.
Pop growth slowing down because there are more pops in the empire, was a lazy fix because they didn't know how to fix the late game lag.
At the start we had no habitats, and tiles with max 25 pops on a planet, and the infrastructure for the game was based around that.
Doesn't work when we have hundreds of pops on planets, and loads of habitats with dussins of pops.
There needs to be a dramatic pop change again, that can sustain growth, without destroying the late game, but that's probably gonna be for Stellaris 2, if they ever resolve it.
It c-can't be that bad, r-right?
And that's a bad thing why? Especially in a galactic empire type civ having your leaders have some reason to exist instead of just being a nameless game mechanic seems good.
in reality itll just be more tedious micromanaging
>Announced 2 weeks after the last shitty unfinished overpriced DLC
They're not even hiding that they're just chopping up actually content-complete DLCs to milk the playerbase even more, are they
they have two separate teams working on two separate things, you fricking doomer
This Council thing is bugging me...it's one thing if they're finally gonna make oligarchic governments, well, oligarchic, but the way it's worded makes me think they're gonna force this shit into every non-gestalt now, especially since the screenshot is from UNE which starts democratic.
We already have a stellaris thread
A cabinet of ministers makes perfect sense. Perhaps they can be more influential in an oligarchy?
where are those images from?
>HoI audience
Also nothing wrong with it. Successful features should be shared across games.
>where are those images from?
Steam store page
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380030/Stellaris_Galactic_Paragons/
Should have said "The HoI4 Modding Audience" but it should be explainable. Can't wait for TNO level of visual novel bullshit with this system.
I am not sure how would they make Stellaris TNO work
Stellaris could use some more midgame events anyway
Democracies have councils in their government.
I'm still salty over those homosexualy human portraits
What were they thinking?
Well it's either those or "everyone is gonna be a brown chink in two hundred years"
>everyone is gonna be a brown chink in two hundred years
unrealistic. I'm willing to bet that everyone will be white the moment cheap genetic engineering becomes available.
Zoomers want to look black.
white mindbroken zoomers. Sane shitskin zoomers want to be white and they make up the overwhelming majority. Humanity will be white. There's no stopping it. The only problem is that race isn't skin deep and all these fake whites will still have the brains of Black folk.
That's literally what the new human portraits are. They're all pallette swaps of each other so they all look vaguely Asian.
They look better than original ones IMO (not counting no white people thing what is still dumb), still not good, but if I really want to play I humans I would probably pick something from workshop
>not counting no white people thing what is still dumb
>he says, replying to a picture of a 60% white council
What the frick you're smoking, there's not a single white person in that image. Closest you'll get is slavs.
Mutt brainrot.Non of them are white.There is a brown asian,a Black asian and three asians.
Post physiognomy so that we can validate your whiteness (and therefore authority to delineate it).
homie, only one who seems to have slant eyes in that protector of liberty chick
It's accurate to the future americans want to create though.
>nobody says anything about any country at all
>OMG DA AAAAMEEEEEERIIIIIIIIICAAAAAAAAAANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rope yourself redd/int/or
>the way it's worded makes me think they're gonna force this shit into every non-gestalt now
Behold: gestalt councils. Finally the schizos with voices in their head are getting represented.
I wish it was different for assimilators
yeah, wish we could assimilate other races' leaders. That would be OP and fun as frick.
Well, they said that certain Civics would give unique, specific Council positions for non-gestalts. Maybe it could be similar to Gestalts, or maybe it could be modded in.
anon, you're brilliant. Now I'm mad because there's no way Paradox would implement an idea this cool.
I can't believe they gave the hiveminds MPD.
I think they should've just pushed it all into the leader to make one super-leader with a bunch of different traits.
I'm surprised they didn't try pushing the CK3/Vic3 character models in there somehow
That's for the sequel
I'm hoping for Spore-like customisation
wow how diverse
I hate to break this to you, but all societies are oligarchic when you get right down to it. All except direct democracies, although even then you need SOMEONE to lead certain departments.
What's the difference between a Tribune of Rights and Protector of Liberty?
The game is already a lagfest at endgame even on high-end machines because of the ancient single-threaded architecture.
Now they wanna add crusader kings bullshit on top of that?
The sad thing is that this is the only paradox game where the player actually wants to reach the late game
>ancient single-threaded architecture
is this game really single threaded? how is this allowed it was released in fricking 2016
Rimworld is single threaded and one of the most popular games on steam
its indie trash so i expected nothing else, paradox is a AAA stock listed company with hundred of employees, seems they used new engine in stellaris, the fact its single threaded is a disgrace.
Stellaris does use multiple cores, dunno why people think it doesn't. It's easy to check.
Whether or not it uses them efficiently is another matter (probabaly not).
Paradox games are technically multi-threaded in the sense that they use more than one core, often with each core having a dedicated task such as handling renderer updates or loading. Much like Unreal, Unity, Godot, etc.
But in practice they're not multi-threaded in the "distribute computation workload more or less evenly across all available cores" sense.
The problems come from the moronic pop system. Every single pop is simulated instead of having pops as an arbitrarily large number like in V2.
Just Paradox' way of telling you to deal with the alien fricking shits before they become a problem.
Did they fix the late game micro hell yet?
I'm not sure about this one. I don't know what it is supposed to be.
Like we are certainly getting a leader rework but These portraits scare me with the "We want the HoI4 audience".
Captcha: AYY JP
I just want to be a pirate.
I want an option for xenophobes to kill the Paragons that are dumb enough to show up.No I am not going to recruit them.
Why do they look so smug and gay?
>Azaryn bows
Let me guess, Paradox's devs have been playing a CRPG recently
>What exactly is astrocreation?
Oh for frick's sake this is so boring
The only information on that panel is in the bottom right, Scientist who hates Spark of Genius and can't do something with mortar board hats/education whilst costing a lot, is xenophile and fricking hell it's just so boring.
>Facial recogni-
And I've stopped reading.
He's a fragile admiral with low upkeep and the useless retreat trait.
Because they're queer. The second one's eyes aren't even aligned correctly.
>traits:
>Education=No
>Genius Lightbulb=No1
>Lettuce=yes3
>deck of cards=yes
No breeding. No buy.
remember when this game was civ in space?
No, and I've been here since release.
Then you would have to concede the fact that borders expanding with "culture" and the civ trees are absolutely civ elements
Even GalCiv wasn't actually civ in space and thank God, cause civ sucks wiener
Thank god Paradox turned it into a true GSG instead of leaving it in that moronic state.
yes and it's shit. I prefer the current state, although the lag from pop overpopulation could use some help. The game was designed to have around 25 pops per planet instead of 250 like they do now.
Never was
Civ is prettier and makes the resources feel special
Stellaris is ugly and makes the resources feel generic, even the special ones with actual names
>let's make a game for twitter
>how will this sell our game?
>sell?
lol
Civ4 had a mod like that
Looks interesting, though there a number of other DLCs I haven't bought yet because they haven't gone on enough of a sale.
What else would you need
God I fricking hate Paradox for DLC shitwalls like this
just pirate everything anon
How does one do this fellow Anon
Google stellaris torrent.
(game) skidrow in google
cs.rin.ru
use creamapi
i'm curious what happens to achievements when you do that on steam
do you get them? that must look weird if you do
>do you get them?
yes
CreamAPI
Koalmageddon works even better but I am a brainlet that can't get it to work
Can't you already do that in Empire Creation?
>Paradox game continues to schizo itself with new mechanics years after launch
Classic, hopefully Stellaris will get a Holy Fury dlc equivalent before the end of its development cycle to actually tie all the shit they have added together.
>Buying Paraisraelite DLCs
CK2 make me buy they DLC. CK3 make me stop it.
Space Palace DLC when?
>Man the Neutron Launchers
>A Hab Divided
>Conquest of Gaia World
>Not One Hyperlane Back
>Spiritualist Fury
>Rights of Pops
Oh characters.I sure do love characters.
It's going to be big, micromanagy and utterly insignificant in the end like almost every system introduced to Stellaris,
Who wants to bet this is going to be yet another thing that costs unity but doesn't make enough o a difference to be worth diverting pops from science jobs?
> I recommended they do exactly this on the forums 4 years ago
> They developed my idea whole cloth
I feel smug, but also like I should sue
Am I the only one looking forward to this, because I am always playing a human empire, making myself as leader and keeping myself alive and in charge of the empire for as long as possible ?
looks kino
Haven't played since 2016 due to life and only having potatoes until recently. Any of the like 20 dlc they released since considered must haves? Any I should avoid?
That one when you kill titans is obviously mandatory
whats the point of these new notifications? i know my guy has a new trait im the one who gave it to him
and why did paradox make the new notification sound so moronic? literally moronic like the old notification had a moronic downs syndrome son
>duuuuhhhhrrrrrnng
>I know my guy has a new trait im the one who gave it to him
You can set Leader Trait upgrades to be automated so that you don't need to micro your Leaders.
In such a case, the message would be useful. If you don't particularly like these types of messages or others you can now disable them from he new settings menu for messages.
The default notification system applies to all traits, including those that appear randomly or through events.
>whats the point of these new notifications? i know my guy has a new trait im the one who gave it to him
It's awesome the notifications only say the name of the leader and not what job they have and that clicking on the notifications doesn't actually do anything.
Is that annoying buzzing sound on the new leader screen a bug or by design?
I literally can't tell but either way it's terrible.
I'm honestly amazed how they massacred concept they had at the start of game release, just to appeal to roleplaying self wanking fricks
I wish they actually appealed to roleplayers. How can people muster up any excitement for this pseudo-creative cookie clicker is beyond me. You have to play pretend and fool yourself your current empire is any different from your last one because they sure as hell all do play the same. Might as well just play house with a mirror and save yourself the download.
that what passes as roleplaying today, anon
get with the times
Stellaris peaked in 1.4 and has been steadily getting worse ever since
this seems like a cool little addition but I don't see the 15 bucks when other paradox stuff is around the corner.
anyone know how the DLC unlocking works nowadays? I'm kind of out of the loop.
check cs.rin.ru
Look, face the facts, Paradox stumbled onto an amazing discovery: homosexuals like shit. Ever since that astonishing revelation they have been catering to the homosexuals. You see homosexuals are more profitable, and of course Paradox seeks profits. Ask yourself, as a Paradox shareholder which would you choose as a vacation? Fricking hot exotic babes on a tropical beach at a five star luxury Hotel while sipping daiquiris, or spending a week in Detroit slumming it in some dingy motel, maybe having enough cash to send a postcard to your folks back home? Selling to homosexuals gets you the former, selling to grognards gets you the latter.
>Look, face the facts, Paradox stumbled onto an amazing discovery: homosexuals like shit.
the pooposter was right all along
Finally I can marry my sister cousin while genociding the Tzynn
The limitations on Leaders caused by the new DLC is garbage, but worse is the shill defense force that try to play down all its problems and call it the best change paradox ever made to the game.
As if not being able to hire a reasonable amount of officers to your galactic civilization to hold even a fraction of the available roles is a "challenging limitation that improves the game".
Also now general aren't just worthless but an active detriment to have employed.
the best change was abandoning tiles. pops have their issues, performance being among the biggest, but they ultimately made it a real videogame and not just Catan in space. Although they aren't as different as people say.
Abandoning tiles made the game almost unplayable. With tiles, the biggest planets had 25 pops max, while now the smallest ones can have 50. It also inflated the game time as you need to wait for more pops to grow for your advanced buildings (FFS advanced factories employ less workers, not more). With tiles, I could play an 1400/star galaxy, now with pops, I am stuck with the smallest ones. And stop implying that Catan is bad.
Tiles were great.The new system is overly complicated and makes the game worse.
>not being able to hire a reasonable amount of officers to your galactic civilization
I honestly dont understand how they didnt even think to add something like a repeatable tech that lets you raise the cap slowly, like with starbases.
I honestly don't understand how you could expect Paradox to think things through. Have they ever, at any point, released DLC that hasn't fricked the game in some new way?
Yeah, you're not wrong, that's on me.
Holy Fury
have a nice day hoi4 trannie, your opinion is irrelevant
? holy fury was a CK2 not a HoI4 dlc
Sorry, force of habit
>think to add something like a repeatable tech that lets you raise the cap slowly
inb4 they did, but then they'd removed it for some reason
>steamappscommonStellariscommontechnology 0_soc_tech_repeatable.txt
>#tech_repeatable_improved_leader_cap = {
># area = society
># ...
# stands for commented out code
what do you guys think of these human portraits?
The default human ones are kinda lame, I really want to have portraits that represent humanity better.
I also want clothing specific to the job of the pop, as shown
sexo
I'll put it up soon, doing men and going to do UNE (United nations of Earth) and CM (Commonwealth of man) clothing
Its a bit rough in some parts but pretty happy with it atm
make a cheevo compatible version if you can anon please
Sex
They're good. Are they on the workshop?
These are gorgeous anon. Let us know when you post it
They are nice, but I wouldn't use them because they clash with the game's pre-established art style.
I'd rather use a mod expanding on the appearance and clothing of Species. I'd actually like it if Paradox could improve the appearance of Species and make Leaders feel a bit more unique through better customization of their appearance.
FYI, these are now up on the workshop
I called it the "Stellaris Expanded Human portraits"
Unfortunately theres still a nasty neck seam on most of the men, I need to fix that
Also not all the clothing fits properly so sometimes booba and shoulders stick out a bit
Yeah, turns out it was a lot of work, took a month and it still needs a lot of polish, but I guess thats what happens when you split earth into 14 phenotypes and make like 250 sets of clothing to cover all stellaris jobs
how do i get all the stellaris dls for free
and why is the tutorial so bad
If you're the kind of person that plays through optional tutorials, then this game is probably not for you.
Not even joking or trying to be mean.
Is this pic related safe to use.
I like to play with shit tons of mods but want achievements.
Dunno, but stellaris is pretty easy to edit without tools. Just extraxt the save file with 7zip, open the bigger resultant file in notepad and change the "ironman" flag to yes iirc
Isn't it easier to use steam achievement manager?
I wonder if they will change this eventually
With CK3, the latest update changed achievements to be unlocked even with ironman off and with mods enabled
Obviously this makes it trivial to cheat (via a mod) but for most people I imagine this will just mean they get to play normally and unlock them anyway
Hopefully they do the same for Stellaris as well, I cba downloading anything to change checksums just for cheevos
I use it. It's safe to use and it works.
You still need to play on Ironman to get Achievements, but with it you can use any kind of mods you want.
Any good mods to cull some pops?Midgame crises,plagues etc?
WHYYYY IIIIS THEEEEE LEEEAAADER LIIIMIIIIT EEEEIIIIGHT
I USUALLY HAVE LITERALLY 4X THAT NUMBER ON MEDIUM SIZED GALAXIES
5-10 Science Ships (extras are on all science planets providing bonus research)
2-3 Generals (for my armies)
4-8 Admirals (Depends on the game date)
3 starting science guys (duh)
5-12 governers (depends on planet luck, etc)
FRICK
Didn't they basically copy endless space? except they are called paragons instead of heroes?
What mods are a core part of all your games that you can't play the game without?
Not Gigastructural Engineering,it sucks.
Micromod - Galaxy is Flat
UI Overhaul Dynamic + Speeddial
No Default Paradox Species
36 building slots
Full Tiny Outliner
No Clustered Starts
they really need individualist ethics back to increase leader cap
One more bullshit update and I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna write my own Stellaris-clone game.
Btw, did anyone roll Terraforming tech after 3.8 update. I had 4 games, and no Terrestrial Sculpting in 50+ years.
Does anyone know of a mod or combination of mods that allows you to select just one race of humans to play as for rp purposes?
I just finished a run as the inclusive, xenophilic mass effect style humans. Looking to play as some xenophobic, victors of the race war type humans.
there used to be a mod called "undiverse humanities" which let you pick which phenotypes would show up from asians, browns and africans but no europeans to euros only but paradox shoah'd it off the workshop
Go to Stellarisgfxportraitsportraits 7_portraits_human.txt and remove any portrait you don't like from the list.
Thank you. I went and looked when I had time to play today. Undiverse Humanities has a version which reintroduces the original human portraits and gives you options to use only one race, or to have leaders of one race or sex but have diverse pops, etc. It also works with the mods that add more clothing options for humans, which is nice.
I don't mind the new human portraits, per se, but they just didn't fit what I was going for this run.
stellar legions has a bunch of mono ethnic human options that still count as human for gameplay purposes
>Stellar Legions
Okay listen.I have nothing against AI art but all of those portraits look like shit.
I mostly use it for the robots, I prefer synth ascension and machine intelligence as more blade runner/terminator than WALL-E
>Immortal robo-twinks scouring the galaxy for alien daddies
Hmmmm
>twink
Sheeesh the standards of this duude. Post body
>nipples on a robot
Why
same reason the greeks did. the human form is peak aesthetics
I wanted to make a bunch of Alien robots using AI myself because I felt like none of then are really scary (or alien for that matter)
but then I got distracted by breasts and ass
I hate the Yuht.Is hate them so much.They have the worst relic,the worst building and the worst story.
Strong gives Militarist ethics attraction but Resilent doesn't give Pacifist attraction, and I think it should. Resilent makes it so defensive armies are 50% stronger whereas Strong makes it so all armies are 20% stronger, but a species with Resilent would historically basically never fight offensive wars because they'd literally be 5 times as likely to win than their same species's offensive force, or 2.5 times more likely to win than a species with Strong. Therefore, Resilent should give 2.5 times as much Pacifist attraction than Strong gives Militarist.
>Resilent should give 2.5 times as much Pacifist attraction
No, but weak and docile surely should give pacifist attraction.
Being defensive is not the same as being pacifist.
Weak already gives pacifist attraction.
Hippos are not pacifists
As an Authoritarian player, I would never let the Authoritarian paragons into my empire. Kai is literally a spy-assassin who I cannot ever imagine just letting go without executing her, and the fish-worm literally steals from you. The fish-worm also makes your people hate you more, and since I try and keep middlingly happy slaves that's a big no-no.
What did he mean by this
I haven't found a single good paragon. The dumb plant only showed up when I wasn't playing Xenophile so she fricked up my ethics and had to go.
>The dumb plant only showed up when I wasn't playing Xenophile so she fricked up my ethics and had to go.
?
you'll know when you see her
I'm quite sure that council members alternate ethics attraction.
>I haven't found a single good paragon
azaryn can turn barren worlds into gaia worlds. including the size 50 one you get from an event. she's also pretty selfless and is willing to die for your empire. she's immortal but converting planets uses up her life force, she doesn't tell you this at first because she thinks you would stop her from doing it, once she's made 3 she dies.
also she gives a massive amount of unity upon surveying a system so if you get her early game you can rush traditions
kai sha is practically mandatory to engage with espionage, since normally that shit costs influence and is never worth, but she reduces it to like 3 or 4 per operation.
>stop her
Lol Lmao.And espionage wouldn't be worth the time spend clicking my mouse even if it was free.
it wouldn't be so bad if not for the micromanagement hell. playing criminal heritage empire with all civics in codebreaking bonuses and got Kai-Sha Paragon. 8 envoys clickity click 8 empires x100 clicks every 6 years. whoever designed this is clearly from the troony development department in paradox.
We want cookie clicker audience!
Cute oinkers
I don't like Kai simply because from a lore perspective letting some literal alien run your spy shit is nuts, and especially when she's open about assassinating other people.
How do Paragons work for Xenophobe Empires, and for Fanatical Purifiers?
xenophobes can get a robot, since that's the only kosher way to have non-your-species leaders
I like him
Xenophobes can also get Shuladun and it's basically:
>"So why do you want to work for us?"
>You're racist
>"Why come to us then?"
>I'm racist
>"Welcome aboard"
It's literally that
>"Dismiss"
That's moronic.I'm not going to recruit a filthy alien.
If you want to prevent AI asking to be subjugated try changing this,it's right below "action_demand_subjugation" in the same txt file.
>action_ask_to_become_subjugated = {
>AI_acceptance_base_value =
>That's moronic.I'm not going to recruit a filthy alien.
Then don't?
That's not the point and I'm not planning to recruit him.The writing and the justification to recruit him is moronic .They should have added randomly generated paragons that could be of the players primary race.
Hippos are resilient herbivores. They are still the most dangerous things in their ecosystem.
They're also very strong herbivores. The trait icon is an armadillo anyways.
Still doesn't make sense. An Armadillo or Hippo would imply something like Drake-Scaled where it gives health. The first thing that comes to mind a swarm of angry bees. Just as durable as before, very much so more aggressive.
I just want a local planetary resource storage and resource transferring convoy system.
Cutting a system from external food supply, as a part of war, would add extra depth to the game.
Also population transfer should require a convoy.
And there should be a job proficiency change timer. And extra large fries.
Just imagine raiding a pop migration convoy.
I hate the "Planet of X" where entire planets have nothing but one industry to minmax some bonus. It's silly, considering the massive fleets needed to haul food, minerals or even batteries because there's not a single farm, mine or energy production building on the entire planet. There should be some kind of logistical downside to a planet 100% dedicated to a single specialization.
And I like setting up logistical chains in games. Stellaris has none of that. You can sell 100,000 units of ore to the galactic market even if there's some fanatical purifier between you and the rest of civilization.
Entire planets dedicated to one single industry is a core sci-fi trope though, and simulating those things is practically the whole point of Stellaris.
>Entire planets dedicated to one single industry is a core sci-fi trope
At least limit shared resources to sectors.
Or do they just teleport minerals from one part of galaxy to forge worlds on the other side of galaxy?
I kinda like the council idea honestly
It's just the fact that it's replacing the leaders in general that's the problem
Cute.
Wish there was an toggle option to have leaders auto select traits on leveling up based on their current occupation
>start new game on GA
>get to 2300
>state of the galaxy is pic related even while fricking around a lot
>get the urge to start a fresh playthrough instead of seeing things through to the end
I hate that I'm more likely to finish a game out of spite when I get fricked by shitty spawns and RNG, but when I actually do well and snowball I lose interest halfway through.
side note: I'm pretty sure Vaults of Knowledge is an absolute garbage civic, I took it as my third this game to try out and it's basically doing nothing. They need to hurry up and add a robot equivalent of Reanimators/Cordyceptic so I can just take that every game because reviving leviathans is simply cooler than all the other options
>plays hive mind
>wonders why the galaxy hates him
The point isn't the galaxy hates me (they don't, even the only non-pathetic empire is merely suspicious and I have secret fealty from others)
The point is how ironically the game's you're doing well in sometimes feel like the hardest to see through to the end, I never feel the same burnout when scraping by the skin of my teeth
>New player, 2nd game after 1st ended abruptly
>Empire bordering one of my northern Chokepoints tells me to eat shit and die, declares me a rival and then a 30k power mercenary fleet starts heading for me
>Had been slowly building up ships in the area knowing something like this would happen, but only have like 10k power
>Main fleet, which is still only like 15k power, is tied up in a war at the other end of my borders and would arrive far too late
>Mercenary fleet comes in against my 8k power star fort and 4k power fleet, other 9k is still traveling from local systems
>Wipes my 4k power fleet but gives fort enough time / space to do damage
>2k power reinforcement fleet arrives in system to aggro AI to other end
>Star fleet BTFOs enemy fleet now that it isn't targeted
That was fun, get fricked mercenary shits.
>mercs
Just find the enclave and destroy it.
>Fanatical purifiers declare war
>Kick the shit out of them
>Lol War exhaustion 100% status quo peace (but I keep all the non colonized planet systems I took from them???)
>Have to watch purifiers use the peace to build up their fleets to similar levels as mine even though I took half their shit and their remaining systems barely have resources
>Declare war again
>Kick the shit out of them again
>LOL WAR EXHAUSTION 100% FORCED PEACE again right as my ground armies are assaulting their last system/planet
>Now have to keep some of my ships tied up to babysit while I wait for the peace to end again
>mfw
How do I into war exhaustion?
Bigger ships and mono fleets. You should also stop being so slow.It takes years to get to 100% exhaustion and two years until they can force peace.
I didn't realize how orbital bombardment / ground armies worked when I redeclared war, so it took time to build things up and their empire was pretty scattered from the first war so it was hard to have ships everywhere at once.
>machine intelligence gets galactic market
bruh
they should ck3 every paradox game
>99% through precursor anomaly
>pre-first-contact empire murders my scientist
yeah, cool
>End of the ???
Bros, i'm scared
me when the
they wiped them out of the history books instantaneously, any reference to their empire is erased
Is there a mod to fix the voluntary vassalization? The very moment I'm friendly with anyone who's not overwhelmingly more powerful than me I can instantly subjugate him, that's fricking broken. Not to mention the possible federation exploit on top of that where your vassal contract excludes target from joining your wars but federating them doesn't.
I want vas the gilded to cover my wiener in golden lipstick stains
They're never going to fix how piss easy it is to vassalize everyone and everyone ending up as someones vassal by the mid game are they
no, mod it yourself
00_actions
action_demand_subjugation = {
AI_acceptance_base_value =
set to like -1000000 to really guarantee it won't happen
note this may not prevent AIs asking to be vassalised, and does not interfere with changing terms of existing vassals
What are some good mods that just add ship models without fricking anything with anything else?
I'm just tired of seeing the 8 same ships and want some diversity without looking for a bajilion compability mods because they couldn't leave it at ship models
I can't remember the last time I looked at a ship outside of the fitting screen.
I like to look at space battles
>his space battles last long enough to look at
bruh
You can slow it down you know
>not watching multiple 12 million power fleets going at it in close-up so the game slows to a crawl while your absolute shitbox of a computer cries for mercy
Do you even play Stellaris?
I get the general hate for characters, but I got an advisor who looks like that one mulloscoid tentacle beard race, which is what I beat my first ever game of stellaris with so I'm enjoying it
>Terror Bombing: -221
>I'm bombing The Chosen
cool
cool
>autism wants me to terraform entire systems (with cheats) so I've got a capital world dedicated to unity and bureaucracy for each system, along with resource and tech worlds supplying it.
>can't be assed to do it because of how shit the performance will be
>armies were already useless
>now you can capture planets with bombardment alone
>armies are completely worthless now
what did they mean by this?
Bombardment surrender is uselss. Except for rocking up on new colonies with end game stacks it takes a year to years of bombardment to get a surrender from most worlds. It does work I guess and if your fleet is really far away from an army for some reason it might be worth doing but personally I would never rely on bombardment surrender when it's so easy to just build armies and keep them up with your fleets.
I'm about 75 years into a playthrough with pic related mod for the first time, and this is quite possibly the most enjoyable game I've had to date so far. Galactic council still hasn't formed, I've barely met other empires, there's still so much space to explore and grab. Anyone else here play with this mod? It's changed the game for me completely and now I can't imagine playing without it
That mod looks just my style. Not sure if you already have it, but check out also 'Slower First Contact'. Doubles the rolls (and therefore the time) it takes to establish with alien empires, so you'll spend more time in that very-early stage of the game.
feel like the AI would just profit from that and first contact is rarely something happens because they just get revealed to you once you encroach upon their territory.
I really enjoy playing like this too, I even put pop growth to really slow, habitable worlds to very low, lower tech speed and delay the mid+late game. Makes it feel much more Grand a game.
I even then wrote a live AAR with all the spare time I had.
This game didn't need it. Now if only they have made Imperator Rome more like CK2...
What are some mods that expand internal politics and rebellions? I want to make an empty galaxy with no other aliens where I can just expand, and then collapse into a bunch of warring states.
Happened to boot up Stellaris after all this time to check it out, why have human portraits become worse?
Why has Aquatic become more expensive? Alot of my old Civs are broken because of it.
someone fricked up the old portraits so they made new ones that aren't as ugly
But the new ones are worse.
Except that's fricking wrong, the new ones are inferior to the classic ones especially when it comes to chicks hair.
Anyone else realized how strong the grey eminence leader trait is? Doesn't matter eaely game of course but by late game empire size starts to hit hard and you can stack several grey eminences to drasticlly reduce empire size. I got 3 by the end of my last playthrough which, at base, decreased my empire size by 60% before any other modifiers which supercharged my research production. Idk if this is the best trait but it seems like it to me.
Literally everyone realized this. You can reduce empire size to 0% with the right setup which is hilariously broken.
Are the new Tradition trees good for anything?
You may not like it, but this is what peak Council performance almost looks like.
>Add something nice
>Give it a very low artificial limit
Why are they like this
Did they add paragons for the legacy human portraits or just the nu-ones
Just the new ones.
IMO, the new ones just noticeably better than the legacy ones, it's just that difference between phenotypes between are less noticeable in the new ones, but mods fix that.
The real issue is that all the new Humanoid portraits should also have an overhaul to fit with the new portraits, but don't.
WHOMST?
Can I move all my robot pops to a planet and release them as a vassal?
Then crack it, yes
I hate how the dlc made leaders these super special OC characters intead of just regular leaders. Like why can this galaxy spanning empire only support like 12 guys without exploding?? It's just dumb. I actually do like most of the new leader shit but capping them by this new special leader cap stat that's totally independent from the rest of the game except from a few traditions is stupid. Now that I'm thinking about it the whole game is infested with these special little systems that don't interact with any other part of the game, like the whole espionage shit is entirely depended on you picking the tradition tree or else it's a massive waste of resources. It's just bad design, they really need to go back through and standardize everything or something back to the base resources, like they've already made a big deal of making unity upkeep for all these "empire" systems and yet instead they insist on just adding weird side systems instead of using the standardized stuff they already have.
>It's just bad design
It's bad design if the goal is making a good game, but it's good design for making a DLC platform
If you don't have the DLC you don't actually get the choice system, lol.
I think Paradox once held a Games Developer Conference presentation where they explained their business model to be making a shallow core game that can infinitely be expanded with shallow DLC mechanisms, and that for this model to work the mechanisms must stay shallow and self-contained.
So there won't be much interaction between all these little minigame mechanisms and that's by design.
im enjoying galactic paragons, the new origin was really funny
>my luminar declares himself emperor
>time passes, his son dies of natural causes
>goes fricking paranoid and thinks he was assassinated, starts kill advisors and generals left and right
>gets deposed by an egalitarian movement cuz i didnt notice you needed to pass an agenda to avert it kek
There needs to be some kind of limit to habitat building, in mid-late game it becomes fricking ridiculous.
>space painter game
>limit space painting
Why?
Habitats don't paint more space though. If anything they slow down space painting due to costing Influence, just like outposts.
Habitats just slow down your game.
You are aware that of course, that setting your army on aggressive makes them conquer every single planet in the system? Also complaining about growth in a 4x game is like complaining about dev in eu4 slowing your conquest down, because you have to pay more score for more developed provinces. Also also, ringworlds can also be only blown up by a colossus I don't see you complaining about that.
The AI spams them relentlessly, and it becomes an unfun slog to conquer every single one in a system before moving to the next system (They'll build 5-6 in every system if possible), they also tank performance.
Then there's the fact that you can only blow up Habitats with Colossi.
the AI spams the ever living shit out of them and my fricking pc can run 50 instances of stable diffusion but dies the moment it reaches year 2450
that and mercenary enclaves, the shitty galactic community thing gives EVERY faction +1 enclave capacity
that said, make sure to put your army transports to aggressive stance so they auto siege
which brings up the problem of the AI building 500 fortresses in randomly worlds for no fricking reason or having assault armies landed to defend somehow
Working as intended.
what the frick did you do
If you manage to get negative empire size by picking democratic, parliamentarian, academic privileges, and then pick Tradition Aptitude > the Champions of the Empire size (which reduces the empire size by leader lvl) and spam enough leaders and stuff, you get free unity when supporting a democratic leader. Negative minus negative is infinite positive unity.
I HAVE BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS!
I see everyone watched the Montu vid, honestly the juryrig admiral+dragon combo is more fun
I find it hard to care about stellaris updates.
Like there's an initial burst of interest, but ultimately, the game is gonna lag and be unplayable in the way I want to play it.
If they can't fix pops, it doesn't matter.
Pop growth slowing down because there are more pops in the empire, was a lazy fix because they didn't know how to fix the late game lag.
At the start we had no habitats, and tiles with max 25 pops on a planet, and the infrastructure for the game was based around that.
Doesn't work when we have hundreds of pops on planets, and loads of habitats with dussins of pops.
There needs to be a dramatic pop change again, that can sustain growth, without destroying the late game, but that's probably gonna be for Stellaris 2, if they ever resolve it.
W-we'll bang, okay?