/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

old thread isn't maxed out

offtopic OP

>>175392898
How are spiders Strategy/4X related?

>>175393080
Because just like spiders, players in 4x games start by exploring the environnement, looking for the best place to settle, and then they start building a base, explore a little bit more, find enemies to crush, and exploit their braindead AI to take them out.

>>175392898
Too early you fucking retard.

>>175392898
If you post another spider in this thread, your mom will die painfully choking on her lunch tomorrow.

people bitching about the OP makes me laugh
who even looks at the OP for longer than you click the link to it

>>175392898
Reminder for whoever makes next OP that /wgg/ exists again on its own so it should be removed from the tags

Can't we put all the Stellaris-related links in the FAQ and save some place in the OP?

Also, you'll have to remove the /wgg/ tag next time.

>>175393837
Last thread's op shitpost and called us 'space-/gsg/', I'm thinking the people butthurt about the spider remind me of them more than anything else.

Would adding /civ/ and /end/ to the new thread tags be good? I can't see why not, since most people will probably search for those. Civ for civ, end for endless games.

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Reminder that more negative traits are on the way and they are retardedly aggravating

not all of them will spawn for the AI though you pussies looking for an easy game

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>>175393835
Killing something that's already dead means bringing her back to life, right?

>>175393885
>>175393917
Yeah, my bad. I completely forgot to remove the tags.

>>175393923
I'm happy someone else noticed it.

>>175393983
/civ/ would be redundant, it's already in the general's name.
Next OP (assuming it's not me) may add /end/.

Be sure to remember everyone when we'll reach 700 posts.

>>175393923
I mean, the last OP wasn't wrong.

>>175394532
There was some Civ 4 discussion about Fall from Heaven and Caveman2Cosmos. Like, 6 posts of it.

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Is Syncretic Evolution any good?

How about Mechanist?

Also, what are some positive/negative traits that you almost always take regardless of playthrough?

I heard here that Sedentary/Deviant/Weak are some popular ones to take, but that Non-Adaptive was terrible for example

>>175394634
They're a waste of a trait, Syncretic Evolution actively hurts you and mechanist isn't good enough to warrant the slot.

Need more suggestions for a mod. Currently focused on buffing/nerfing existing content.

What I've done so far:
>homeworlds are bigger (20-25 tiles, or 18-25 for primitives)
>mineral silos give a smaller capacity bonus, larger adjacency bonus, no longer planet unique
>Dyson sphere produces 200% more energy

I'm working on making missiles less shit right now but I'll need you guys to test the tweaks for me.

>>175394747
>Syncretic Evolution actively hurts you
How?

>>175394787

Allow more megastructures to be built at a time
Remove planetary survey corps

>>175394795
You have to disable pop-migration or you'll end up with a capital full of your slaves, theres no actual bonus attached like mechanist and having half of your early population be slaves can seriously fuck with your energy/research production before you have tools to mitigate it.

>>175394914
Planetary Survery Corps are supposed to represent Star Trek. It's sort of valid.

>>175395236

To boldly go can do that

>>175394914
What would you suggest replacing PSC with?
I don't disagree that it's too strong but I've gotta put something else in there.

>>175394787
>missiles

Theres a missile mod that increases damage and missile HP. Maybe take a look at that for inspiration.

Make Ringworlds cheaper or make habitats more expensive. That or give ringworlds a energy boost or something, no reason a band around a star cant reap power for its star.

>>175395343
But it's supposed to represent the idea of ships like the enterprise LITERALLY.

A ship going around acting as a mobile research lab. Every day a new problem, every day a new discovery.

I don't like the Discovery Tradition, but I still know what it's supposed to represent.

>>175395407

+5% sensor range

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I kinda wanted to restart after I found out I started right next to a fallen empire, but honestly it has its perks.
As long as you are nice to them and plan your empire in a way that won't piss them off, you'll be safe when they wake up and go on their galactic school-shooting spree. Because the AI is never NOT dickish to it's neighbors, the fallen empires will always target them.

>>175395508
>give ringworlds a energy boost or something, no reason a band around a star cant reap power for its star.
Actually, something I was thinking about is to stop mineral harvesting on ringworlds (because it makes no goddamn sense) but give a significant boost to energy and science production.

>>175392898
>get beat in making two threads in a row so you have to resort to making a thread ten posts early
0/10
Apply yourself.

>>175394787

Some more:

Reduce ringworld construction time. Megastructures suffer from "game is way past over" syndrome and by the time you can even construct them it's almost over and by the time you have constructed them the unbidden died 60 years ago. Dyson spheres, too. Either that or make Mega Engineering easier to obtain.

If you wanna spend more time, you could Tier the megastructures by adding more technologies, like so:

>T1 Megastructure Engineering
>Unlocks Science Nexus, Sentry Array, Habitats

>T2
>Unlocks Dyson Spheres

>T3 (what we have right now)
Unlocks ring worlds

Am I going to see any problems with 1.5.1 mods on 1.5? Mods are currently split between the versions and I'm unsure if that bugfix snuck in anything that'd cause problems.

>>175396938

1.5 had a problem with mods that edited defines.txt so if you rollback, any mod that relies on changing that file will brick.

>five answers to the OP
>four of them are people whining about the spider

>>175397069
Not rolling back, still on 1.5 right now. If I let it update, is that going to break 1.5 mods?

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Please rate my peace-loving plants

>>175397265

You should be fine. If any do break, edit the .mod file that comes with the "broke" mods with Notepad and change the supported version line from 1.5.0 to either 1.5.1 (only works on that version) or 1.5.* (works on any 1.5 version)

Is f. xenophobe egalitarian the best ethos for a tall meme playthrough?
The borders give you an insane amount of real estate to fill with stations per planet.

>>175397114
Whining about the spider posting early because his autism couldn't handle the fact that someone could make a thread besides him

>>175397332
Just spotted a typo in the bio and fixed it

>>175397332
>an utopic
>will not tot shy away

>>175397479
>retard get in an autistic rage
>somehow he's not the autist
Lol okay

>>175397510
I already corrected that
>>175397491

> Somehow I'M the badguy

>>175397332
Why are they xenophobic? Nothing about them is xenophobic,

>>175397708
They're xenophiles anon

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>>175397332
>No Inwards perfection
unoptimised/10

>>175394634
Both can't be replaced but effectively double your early game growth. Mechanist is pretty great for materialists and Syncretic is great on authoritarians. Not being able to replace them sucks as the civic is completely useless in the mid to late game other than the early lead you should have.

>>175397708
Xenophile m8

>>175394634
Nonadaptive isnt really that bad unless you're minmaxing for maximum happiness.

What's your favorite galaxy shape, Elliptical Spiral or Ring?

>>175397797
>>175397827
>>175397332
Oh nevermind I'm retarded, if thats the case, pretty good.

>>175395752

>RE awakens but gives me chance to become satellite
>leave my allies to fend them off while my scientists gawk at their ringwords

>>175398089

*FE *ringworlds, fuck

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>>175397332
I get the sudden urge to enslave them and then turn them into robots...

First pass at missile buffing:
>Doubled health for level 3 and level 5 missiles
>Increased evasion for all missiles by 50%
>Added shield to level 5 missiles (1/2/3) and spaceport missiles (1/1.5/2)

Too much? Not enough?

>>175398523
They'll still get killed by flak. Triple health and triple plain PD damage at the minimum.

Don't waste effort with shielding. damage types don't matter when killing missiles.

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Can anyone suggest a game mixing economy and civ/base-building?
I had someone recommending The Guild, but I'm not fond of the Middle Ages ambiance.

>>175398523
Only playtesting and battle reports can tell

>>175398523

Flak does like 20-30 damage, if you wanna buff missles nerf flak. That will also buff strike craft. Also, I think reducing missile fire time and increasing their damage massively will address the overkill problem in some way. Still bad if you have billions of missiles firing though.
Also, reduce the armor pen on plasma guns. 90% is fucking ridiculous.

>>175398678
>damage types don't matter when killing missiles.
True.
I'll just increase the health a little more.

>>175398791
Also true.

>>175398924
I'm going to cut damage and accuracy on flak.
Would you guys say regular PDs in a good place?

So, I tried the executor dreadnaught mod. Did I do something wrong? That shit is weak as shit, it couldn't take down a much weaker enemy.

>>175398735

If you're gonna spam that shitty comic every thread at least post some different content for us to see

Also, the fuck is that translation? What's a decapitation thread?

>>175397817
syncretic doesnt double your growth, its the same because the growth is divided by the two races

do mega structure lights match flag/ship lights?

>>175399312
Oh, that's a very nice pun you made here.

But about my question, can you suggest a fun game?

>>175397817
>effectively double your early game growth
If two species are on the same planet, growth is divided between them.

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>Open up the Stellaris launcher.
>Automatically deletes the Automated Behavior Ajdustment mod file from the folder.
What. Why?

>Occupy every single one of my enemy's planets
>Destroy his entire fleet
>Obliterate all his mining and research stations
>Even swat down all his science and construction ships
>83% War Score
This fucking game is busted.

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IT'S HAPPENING

>>175399828

War score is fucking retarded when you are fighting multiple empires. It just does not work. I went to war against 4 empires. 1 planet was 4% warscore. My only wargoal was HUMILIATE for fuck sake, it would have took about 24 planets just to get that. If I wanted to keep those planets, I'd have to take another 90 or some stupid shit like that.

Fuck defensive alliances. Fuck federations. Fuck independence guarantees.

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Anyone got better than -3288?

> Skipping warscore cost reduction techs
Pacifist agrarian idyll memers shocked, SHOCKED that they suck at war. News at eleven.

>>175400239
>>175400004

Here. I had the two -50% war demands, -25% from Domination (or supremacy), that's 75% for ceding planets. That still costs more than humiliate, which is a base of 10 and can't be reduced.

The problem is with the warscore system as a whole. It's shit, stop defending it.

>>175399839
Dimension wurm won. They're attacking again though. Not sure it will make it this time.

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>>175398523
>>175398791
>>175398678

Oddly enough I've made a mod that Throws in a couple extra weapons and rebalances vanilla stuff.

It is a tricky thing really, you have to battletest this stuff a far amount to have some idea of where you want this stuff to be at.

Just a outline of what I've done to missiles:
>Added XL missiles
>Missile HP for medium has double the HP of small missiles, Large has x4, XL has x8.
>Missile Speed has been increase to 12 from 5, decreases slightly with missile size
>Added Anti-Armour and Anti-Shield variants
>Swarmer missiles have less evasion, but double the firerate and HP, as well as being available in S/M/L instead of just M.
>Missile evasion is constant and starts at 40% increasing to 80% at level 5, 100% at level 7.
>Missile accuracy and tracking is one of the highest in the game.

Generally, It's a rock paper scissors with Missiles, PD and normal weapons. Although you can even the odds without PD by using Appropriate Armour and shields on Battleships.

In addition Flak cannons (and other anti-strikecraft weapons) have a flat 50% tracking.
Other PDs have been added: Lasers, Interceptor Missiles and so on. Some types are better against larger missiles, some smaller and so on.

>>175400574
>still no mod adding giant pincers for melee combat
Meh.

>>175400574

You're the guy who made that?

Pls remove the Camera edits in defines.txt, it's really annoying when the map zooms all the way out every time

Anyway, some weapons are bugged, and do less damage than their upgraded versions. Think one of the Kinetic Artillery things is one of them.

Thanks pham, I like the mod

>>175399805
She's cute. Source?

>>175400842
Reimu Hakurei, from Touhou.

>>175400574
>That weapon tree
Looks like a lot of pointless fluff.

>>175400574
I'm of the personal opinion that HP should stay fairly consistent across missile sizes. Instead, damage should scale much stronger than the standard 1S/2M/4L system. Something more like 1S/3M/10L.

That way large missiles hit very hard but are easily swatted by PD. Small missiles fill up the field with lots of missile HP and thus are difficult to kill.

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>think of a fun roleplaying possibility to try in stellaris
>get amazing starting luck and have smooth sailing for the first chunk of the game
>start meeting all the other races and having to create sectors
>suddenly lose will to play
>repeat the cycle the next time I boot up the game

>>175399839
EVERYONE GIVE DIMENSION WURM YOUR ENERGY!!

>>175401592

>start game
>have fun
>declare war on someone
>get bored because cat and mouse with transport bait is fucking boring
>do it again the next day anyway

I like to make custom factions whose ethics are the complete polar opposite of each other, and then putting them in my games so they always form natural rivalries

Does anyone else do this or am I just autistic like that?

>>175400574
>battletest
Speaking of, do you have any suggestions for doing this?

Basically cheat out the ass so you can set things up.

It's easier if you cheat with a friend to help out.

>>175401945
Paradox console has gotten pretty good over the years. I bet there's a spawn unit command.

Start a game, give yourself infinite resources, tech, and short build times. Spawn an enemy fleet. Even better write an event that copies the spawn pattern of unbidden or prethoryn and test as much as possible.

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This is the comfiest hypermeme only start I've had so far.

>>175400815
It looks like the Advanced Projectile autocannons didn't have an updated maximum damage value
The camera bug should have been fixed on the 27th, I`ll look into it again if it's still being a shit.

>>175400962
I see your point but I don't particularly like how hard you can counter missiles, I don't see how this would help as you effectively force people into a corner spamming corvettes and destroyers

>>175395752
>galactic school-shooting spree
lmao

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>>175402272
>tfw when you start in an obscure part of the map
>thats filled with yummy minerals and credits
>and their is only one way in or out
>and nothing is blocking your path
shits great yo

>>175402272
[ALIEN VESSELS DISCOVERED IN SISAJA SYSTEM]

>>175402261
>>175402253
>>175401945
I haven't found anything better than using instant_build, research_technologies and attackallfleets

I'd love to see a spawn unit command

>>175399141
can anyone else confirm this? Are the dreadnaughts a meme?

>>175403304

Of course m8

>>175403427
Ah, shit. They look cool. But I had one , on its own it had 50k and it couldn't take down a 28k force.

Meh.

>>175403034
add_ship *classname*

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>>175403023
fug

>>175403936
ayy restart

>>175403721

Of course it won't, you can't put one big ship loaded with big guns against a bunch of small ships. Size ain't everything nigga

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>>175403936
>Falling for the hyperlame meme
>Ever

>>175404007
Im tempted but the enemies in the black hole seem to be passive.

>>175403741
this can be used to have your very own horrors, devourers and infinity machines too

Does anyone know where Displacement duration and max megastructures under construction are kept in the game files?
I cannot find either. Are they both hardcoded?

>>175403741
Fucking glorious.

Is this bootleg /gsg/ ???

>>175405085
Pretty much.

I've got an ascension perk pick up. I've got
>Technological Ascendency
>Voidborne
>Forgeworlds (from the Megastructures mod)
>Galactic Wonders

Trying to decide between
>The Flesh is Weak (doesn't this make other empires hate me?)
>Master Builders
>The Circle of Life

what do

Ha, /gsg/ is sending their defects again. As if the spiderhater wasn't enough.

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>play 100 years
>still to terraforming

>>175400815

Just to prove that I am the guy I've uploaded the update just now, enjoy!

>>175406173

Thanks m8y

Better not have to edit defines.txt again

So what's the go-to easy strategy in stellaris now?
I've never finished a game, but want to be able to say I have. Even if it means I sat on my hands and let the game's mechanics do it for me.

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So guys how about this idea for rebalancing armour instead of paradoxs "lets turn it into shields 2.0"

As evasion hard counters L weapons but is weak to S weapons how about putting armour on the opposite end of the defence spectrum and having them counter S weapons but be weak to L weapons.

This can be done by making that armour works like a save roll in traditional gaming, as in the damage of the weapon is rolled (combined with another variable of say 1 to 20) and unless rolled damage+rolled variable>armour value The shot doesn't do damage or does significantly reduced damage. Meaning that spammed S weapons might just bounce off the ">shields"-class battleships whilst the big guns still hurt them.

Good idea? Shitty?

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>+85% growth time

Almost done

>>175406743
spam missile corvettes on hyperlanes

>>175406990
what the fuck kind of trait is that? That's so much worse than Weak and it's still only -1 point. I hate it when modders have no sense of balance.

>>175407151
> Negative army traits
> Meaningful in any way whatsoever
Cry more noob that's free points for me.

>>175407151

It's 1 point because you can avoid it entirely by either having slaves, having syncretic evolution, or avoiding ground invasions entirely, in which case it's hardly a malus anyway. It's a free trait m8

I was considering removing it

What's the best hivemind build for hyper groß clay?

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So. I could of got Crusader Kings in space, and instead I got Stellaris?

>>175407614
>could of
neck yourself cunt

>>175407614
>I could of got
wat

>>175406990
so, what's the point of your mod

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huh never noticed this before.

the small variant only has shield damage.

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>>175407151
>>175407254
>>175407274

Anyway, on top of that, negative traits are supposed to be a hard pick. That trait was originally -2, but I changed it to -1 because it seemed too good for -2.

The theme of it is mostly for challenge and roleplay and because picking sedentary every time is dull as shit.

I'm not gonna upload it yet, gimme some feedback on points. Some of these values are ridiculous imo.

>>175407707

Roleplay and difficulty I guess. These are the 7 new ones from today, some suggested by other anons. I lowered non-combatants to 20/10 so you can at least offset the army damage with Strong.

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What do? My toughest fleet is around 20k. What types of weaponry should I main against these fucks. Right now the bulk of my damage comes from bombers. Also what do fighters do?

>>175408331
>My toughest fleet is around 20k
>bulk of my damage comes from bombers

>what do

Lube the fuck up m8

It annoys me that apparently the discovery of FTL came at the same time as shaceships in general. Your solar system starts out completely unscanned and undeveloped besides your home planet. Even if you let a pre-FTL race develop naturally they jump from "international space station" to "after hundreds of years we finally developed wormholes, NOW we can build a mining station on our moon!"
You'd think these races were trapped inside their own solar system not their own world.

>>175408331
>xenophile
just die

>>175408479
Yeah. And also, everyone starts expanding at the same exact moment.

Fucking Ur-Quans, dude.

>>175408331
As a general rule of thumb if you don't meet your fleet cap you deserve anything that happens to you.

>>175408331

Fighters do damage to ships but also hit missiles , torpedoes and other strike craft

You want high end kinetics and energy torpedoes

>>175408331
>20k fleet built around bombers
>those yields
Hope theres an AE between you and the portal.

>>175408195
>>175408195
Remove the Governing Ethics Attraction from Disloyal.
Depraved should probably only be -2 and happiness penalties reduced to -20/-10
Grounded should be -30% (to make up for anomalies) and be -4.
Fractured should be -30% if it's just going to be Tier-two deviants.
Impotent should be -25%.
Mentally Impaired is funny, but I'd nerf it to -25%, and add an additional -15% learning speed.

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>>175408739
>Mentally Impaired is funny

Clumsy scientists: +30% anomaly fail risk

>>175408739

>1

Removing the divergence from disloyal kinda goes against the name. However, since there's so many that already have ethics attraction anyway, I agree. -25% unity is hefty enough I think.

>2

This was an anon's request that I mixed in with another. He wanted a super repugnant. Not sure why it's 3 points, it was originally 2. Must have fucked up. It's a free pick for authoritarians and sync evolution. Without slaves happiness was a bit too extreme.

>3

Grounded was another anon's request, he only wanted same-types colonizable, so deserts only get deserts, no savannah or arid. It's very restrictive, and even more so on 0.25x planets setting.

>4

You're right about that. Some of these are created with other traits in mind, to stop weird stacking or to encourage some stacking of penalties/buffs.

>5

The mod already has Large, which is +25%, which is why Impotent is 50%. It's a player only inhibitor, so you can pick more OP positives to make up for it. Maybe reducing it to 25% for 2 is fine. I usually go 1 point per 10%, to be in line with vanilla.

>6

There's already a trait that's -25% for 3 but can't be taken with mentally impaired. Not sure what you mean by -15% learning speed. You mean nerf mentally to 25% then have another trait that's an additional 15%?

Thanks anon for the feedback. Some of it's going in

Hates spider : +99% anomaly fail rish, -200 opinion with arachnoids species.

>>175409597

I'm all in for species specific traits but sounds like too much work

>>175409551
>Not sure what you mean by -15% learning speed. You mean nerf mentally to 25% then have another trait that's an additional 15%?
Basically tack slow learners onto it. Glad I could be of assistance.

for bad species traits:
Technophobic: research alternatives -1
flavour:these guys are crummy old assholes that distrust new technology and change.

>>175409821
How so?

Grouchy : you get free "cleanse" wargoal for each stone that damn kid threw in your garden.

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>>175408473
>>175408623
>>175408641

I was at my fleet cap with a much more balanced fleet but I literally just got out of a war and then I lost another half my fleet killing the dimension wurm.

It's been a couple months. I immediately traded for a sensor uplink with the civs around the hungry boyse but my sensors have gone dark, presumably because the ships feeding me the information were destroyed.

These are the ship types that currently make up the bulk of my army.

>Muh shields

The civilization I just beat used a lot of disruptors so I fitted my ships with shields. Should I refit them with shields? I beat the fortress so I have pretty nice ones.

>>175410319
Edit: I meant to say I fitted my ships with armor, not shields.

>>175409847

Ohh, that. Right. Completely forgot about that since I never once picked it. Picked its opposing trait a lot though

>>175409973

I wouldn't be able to do this since I want it to be species mods only, something like that affects you on a country level so just having 1 pop of the species with that in your empire will hit you with the -1 research alternatives.

It's one of the reasons I started this mod, since so many others with traits have mods that affect you on a country level. Like a pop having -1 rivalries. Something like that belongs on a civic, not a species trait.

>>175410319
Battleships literally only care about two weapon sizes: Large and extra Large. Hangars are okay too.

Don't use anything else on a battle ship. Their AI is only capable of fighting at long range.

For small and medium weapons use cruisers for their leeroy AI.

>>175410027

dunno , having certain traits be for specific species , reduced food requirements for plantoids ( their generate their own food ) , reduced energy production ( they eat part of it )

Certain aggressive looking species like those Anthropoids being more prone to being strong and militarist , etc

But it would require a new game

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>>175410671
Ok. I've created 2 new classes of ship designed to speed ahead of the rest and take out their shields so the other ships can focus on damaging their hulls. Is this a dumb idea?

>>175410959
Stellaris 2 when?

I'm still in need of a cute spider empire, and Stellaris won't allow that.

>>175410319
>missiles
>battleship heavy fleet
>mediums and smalls on a battleship
>bombers
>non-flak point defence
Oh dear

>>175410671
And all of by battleships modules are fitted for large weapons. The only ones that have anything else are the carriers.

>>175411045

Looks good yeah, but try to minmax the power a bit. You're wasting precious minerals on power you don't need.

Small slot armor isn't really worth using, btw. Those 3 slots are giving you like 60 EHP, you'd get far more from shields.

>>175411045
combat AI works like this:
Cruisers are always ALWAYS in front getting beat down and taking names.
Corvettes tag behind.
Destroyers sit back and shoot.
Battleships sit back and shoot.

You can not change this AI. Use weapons that excel at those ranges.

>>175411171
Wait. That's wrong. Ignore that statement.

>>175411162
Did I not just tell you that I had a more balanced fleet but lost most of it in a war?

>>175411239
Got it. Will switch to anti-shield cruisers.

>>175411045
Ignore this guy. >>175411202

Corvettes are up to choice. If you are way under fleet cap then strip shields and use minimal energy. Energy is the MOST expensive part of your vessel so by going barebones you will reduce ship cost to 120-150'ish and still keep the same damage output.

If you are near fleet cap and have loads of money then skip corvettes and just like make more cruisers yo.

>>175411326
You should be able to crank out corvettes, destroyers and cruisers by that stage of the game. Also you ignored all of the other points.

>Xenophile FE next to me stops hitting the snooze button
>wardecs me, invades my home planet
>I warp in long enough to get a good idea of what his fleet is comprised of (Carriers Have Arrived, also a Titan)
>Warp out
>make a Cruiser fit with 5 Flak Artillery
>make 5 of them
>crush a 60k fleet with a 30k fleet

Good balancing, Paradox

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>>175411239
How's this?

>>175411734

Plasma is a better general purpose energy weapon if you're going that route. Unless you're fighting Unbidden or are 1000% sure you don't need anti-armor capability.

>>175411870
I am indeed fighting the unbidden. Plus these are just designed to take out shields to the rest of the fleet can work the armor.

Is there a benefit to having a well-rounded fleet or should my fleet be something like 50% tanked out cruisers and 50% killing shit ships be they destroyers or battleships?

>>175411162
Are bombers bad? I can get a pretty high dps with them

What's more fun, Genetics ascendancy or Cyborgs?

>>175412092

Bombers suck cause they are inaccurate and once killed during a battle will not respawn until the battle is over. You get 6 bombers per hangar slot, so that's 12 per battleship. They have very little HP, so any enemy with point defense will kill them very quickly.

If you insist on strike craft, fighters are superior because of the accuracy.

>>175411958
You're still better off using kinetics for shield damage, disruptors are shit for more reasons than their damage. They retarget once shields are down and their priority is full shield targets so they'll drop shields once then just let them regen back up

>>175412209
Cyborgs by a landslide.

>>175412239

>They retarget once shields are down and their priority is full shield targets so they'll drop shields once then just let them regen back up

That actually makes Disruptors kinda okay in a single slot, doesn't it? Get effectively three guns worth of gun that auto targets the thing that gets you the most bang for your buck?

>>175412210
I don't get it. Bombers have 100% accuracy.

>>175412239
Even with the +200% shield damage from ion disruptors?

>>175412209
Genetics is alot more proactive. You can make specialised subspecies to do different roles in your empire.

>>175412210
Bombers have 100% accuracy, I believe you're thinking of tracking because they have none whereas fighters have 40% but 70% accuracy. They also launch in squads of 8 not 6.

>>175412373
Nah it makes them shite because they're never firing at what the rest of your fleet is firing at, kinetics are superior because they take shields down then keep shooting the same target, going through armor slightly and keeping shields down. Disruptors just re-target the instant the shields drop to something your fleet isn't shooting, then re-target off that and so on and so forth. Basically you end up with one ship being shot by your real weapons while the disruptors play a stupid game of shield pingpong with everything else, only ever keeping one or two ships shields down which doesn't matter because they're not being shot by your real guns. Basically splitting damage is terrible and you want ships being focus fired down asap to remove more sources of incoming fire, disruptors actually work against that by doing nothing BUT split damage.

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What's the best Cruiser design? Should I replace the Shields with Armor? I'm going to war against a Xenophobic FE, should I take them declaring war against these guys as opportunity?

>>175412781
So fit them with gauss weapons? What are unbidden's defense make up like? 30% armor 70% shields? Or are they mostly shields. Do they have point defense? I wish there was a way to find this shit out without having to sacrifice a large enough fleet to last long enough to actually tell.

How the FUCK does the AI have a larger fleet than me with the same number of planets in the same amount of time?
Does it cheat or something?

>>175412983
Is 6M Plasma better than 2L and 2M?

>>175413530

Yes. Same damage output, better tracking to hit cruisers, destroyers and corvettes with.

>>175412983
Ship Design pastebin says you should try to have ~60-70% armor on cruisers and battleships, but then fit shields on the rest

Also put Kinetic Artillery on the L slot
And Shield Capacitors instead of Afterburners because you don't need combat speed/dodge on a big ship like a Cruiser

>>175413642
>>175413593

So wait, is the meta 2 Kinetic and 2 Plasma or 6 M Plasma?

>>175413819
Neither, 1 kinetic artillery 4 M plasma

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I'VE BEEN TRICKED

>>175413498
>enemy flying in transport ships one at a time
>see them doing this in a specific spot
>park fleet in their way outside of their sensor range
>COINCIDENTALLY, transport ships take a different route
ECKS DEE

>>175413864
Am I getting meme'd here?

>>175413954
Get meme'd on

>>175412983
>Puts afterburners on instead of capacitors.

>>175414082
Gotta go fast, I don't know shit about design

>>175413642
Ship pastebin guy here. I need to rewirite that armor section because it's horribly unclear, the armor value I advise is skewed horribly because I forgot to mention that you should shoot for that level with armor bonuses included, 20% from neutronium ore and shit included, it's unreasonable to aim that high without it on a cruiser.

>>175414045
Nope, the 1 L slot is to pound on shields before you get in range with plasma, by the time your plasma is in range shields have been dropped on multiple ships letting you unload with maximum firepower with the plasma. 2L slots is overkill and cuts down on the amount of plasma you can fit, 6 M plasma doesn't have anything to cut shields down for it and is inefficient at doing the job itself although it can still work.

>>175414273
This anon speaks truth.
Kinetics race ahead of plasma so you need just enough to crack the shield and the plasma bolts will do the rest.

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>tfw wait and wait for a crisis
>unbidden show up square in the middle of my empire
>kill them within 6 months
>the galaxy gives me +40 opinion for destroying the interdimensional terror (-5 per year)
Well well, looks like its back to genocide with extreme prejudice.
Well... back to genocide

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>>175414273
Am I suppose to aim for 60%, if I don't have Neutronium Ore? I have that material that boosts hull points but that's it.

What should I do with the armor and shields? Which slots? I can't seem to get it between 0 to 20 power

>>175414045
>Am I getting meme'd here?
Not really. They are about as good as each other.

Cruisers die in droves in any meaningful fleet combat so it doesn't really matter in the end, but the KA is nice long range to open the fight.

Anyone know the makeup of the unbidden's defenses? Is it mostly shields? Mostly armor? What about their weapons?

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>>175414958
>European Alliance
>Genocide

>>175415148
Nobody cares senpai

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>>175414976
I better start finding that ore

>>175415148
Fuck off to /gsg/.

>human empire
>all of them are black slant-eyed obese people
>one of their sectors is named Xir
can't make this up

The Unbidden spawned right on top of me and at best if I combine both of my fleets I only get 50k power. They've got 2 fleets raping me at 150k. What do I do? Is it GG for me?

>>175416018
gg

>>175415148
>I dont like that someone does something in a fantasy game!
>OH I know ill depict him as a dumb kid that will show him
>>175416018
Sounds more like BG tb.h

I JUST HAD A FUCKING HEART ATTACK BECAUSE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WEEKS I HEARD A VOICELINE FROM THIS GAME I HADN'T HEARD BEFORE AND IT THREW ME OFF SO BAD
Colony ship under attack!

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>find 25 tiles 80% habitability world RIGHT next to my neighbor's borders
>oh man they're so gonna go to war over the friction border
>1 Non-Aggression Pact Request
they walked right into that one

I love it when you get a good start in Stellaris.

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>>175416106
You nigga should play Myth.

CASUALTIES

guys, recommend me a race build that is ____fun__ for my first actual completion of the game

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Predynastic Egypt is on sale at 25% off

>>175417076
I don't care if people tip their fedoras at me, I'm having fun exterminating every advanced civ I meet as a European space empire that got pushed too far in the 21st century, and this is the first game I've played past 2300 >>175414958

>>175417150
The interface is kinda... It doesn't look good.

Is it better than Children of the Nile, that piece of shit?

>>175394627
C2C is too autistic for most people
We should have a pitboss game running

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>turning on a planet cracker

>>175417284
Tips*

>>175417304
I have no idea because it was just one guy who used to shill it.
There's a demo at least.

Just finished the precursor questline. The first time I did it some cuck got it before me. I did it again but this time when I surveyed the planet nothing happened. What's going on?

Updated negative traits boys

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=905584315

have fun with your shit tier civs

>>175417284
ive never made it to 2300

mostly i just wanna play the geckos and then turn into synths

but i dont wanna deal with any other bullshit aliens, so I guess xenophobe

materialist for robutts

dunno if I should do either of those fanatical, or what third to pick

I dont wanna use a fuckin democracy, this election bullshit is the worst

>>175417718
Geckos are best race

Just do what you feel like and try to stick with it for awhile, the random developments are fun.

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I hate how outposts work in this, there should be a way to make them cheaper so I can claim my "natural borders" (see. space inside the the dotted outposts), I look like a pathetic shitter while my fleet power is better than every single non FE

>>175400574
>all those missiles
>all die like bitches to flak

>>175418045
am I gonna hate going pacifist

>>175417718

Pick militarist , it will increase your chances of getting weapon tech from the 3 random techs and extra fire rate is always cool

Long periods of peace may turn your pops into pacifist but if you give them the strong trait that will push them into militarist in compensation

>>175418316
yes very much

can civics be changed later, or just do you just get extras

>>175418439

You can drop them, yes. Can change to purifiers halfway through a game.

>>175418614
how?

How much fleet power do you need to awaken fallen empires?

>>175419080
Depends on game mode and how far into the game you are, but chances are you'll experience it some time after you get 40k fleet power.
Shameless copy from the wiki:
A Fallen empire in this state stops being passive and attempts to shape the future of the galaxy, having considerable technological and starting resource advantages even compared to mid- or late-game empires. The following rules apply to standard awakening (which might trigger a War in Heaven):

At least 100 Years must have passed, their Fleet power is above 40,000[2] and they are not at war
A default Empire is getting too strong (40k/50k/60k Fleet power[2], in Normal, Hard and Insane difficulties respectively) or has conquered a Fallen Empire World
There has been no Awakening and No Guardians of the Galaxy Awakening
The mean time to happen (MTTH) is 50 Years, modified as following:
If there is more than one Fallen Empire in the game, the MTTH is multiplied by the number of Fallen Empires (it is unclear if that includes non longer existing ones)
If an Empire has 60k/80k/100k Fleetpower[2], the MTTH is halved
If a Fallen Empire Planet was taken by a default empire, the MTTH is cut by 10
If the Global Flag "high_awaken_chance" is set, the MTTH is cut by 100. There is no event that set that flag so it is likely for debugging purposes

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>>175417718
r8 my geckos

anything I should change for more funs?

>>175419768
Get off warp

>>175419768

Geckos are fucking cunts and I genocide them in every game I come across

>>175419768
>warp
Vomit

>>175419857
>>175419906
so wormholes then?

>>175419875
DELETE THIS

>>175419967
Hyperlanes

>>175419906
>>175419857
>Implying it's not the best FTL

hyperdriveonly kiddies and wormhole-micromanagement autists need to go.

>>175419967
yes. Do not enable hyperlame shitters

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>there are hypercucks in this thread RIGHT NOW

>>175420006
>>175420023
>>175420045

why the hyperlanes meme?

>>175420149
>>175420101
>>175420045
>>175420023
>>175420006
>>175419906
>>175419857
why can't you all get along

also now i really dont know which to take

>>175420149
Hyperlanes gives you the opportunity to create chokepoints in war. In my opinion it also just adds more variety to each playthrough by seeing what kind of network of lanes you get dropped in and where your closest chokepoints are that you want to push your borders to.

Play whatever you want though, jump drive makes it all irrelevant.

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Is the perk "one vision " bugged ? i'm not seeing the 10% increase , not in the per month unity or in the yield of unity producing buildings

did i miss something or what the fuck paradox

>>175420320

pop_government_ethic_attraction = 0.30
tile_resource_unity_mult = 0.10

Looks fine to me pham

>>175420546

Ye , I just noticed that it affects buildings only

>>175420320
>1 + .1 (One Vision) + .025 (happiness) +.3 (Inwards Perfection) + .2 (Pacifist) +.19 (Scientist whateverthefuck) = 1.815

Looks right to me.

>>175417150
we wuz

>>175420938
wuz we tho?

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i thought you were guaranteed to get 1 similar type world near your spawn?

>>175424096
maybe one of the planets you haven't explored
or did you reduce habitable planets?

>>175424313
i didnt survey them yet but they're all oceans/whatever. you dont need to survey to see that

and no i increased it

>>175424532
I meant the planets you haven't had in sensor range yet, but now i see that you actually have them all scouted, so i guess you're just shit outta luck

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>>175424096
much better
also i set habitable back to 1x...why are there more good planets

what empire set up have you guys had to most fun with?

>>175425456

Industrious fanatical purrifier
then expansionist xenophile that opens migration and uplifts to be able to live in any kind of planet , research suffers a lot

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my meticulous 5* scientist got hypermeme'd

>>175425456
Democratic spiritualist xenophobes before utopia. Empire pumped out so much negative ethics divergence and happiness that xeno pops would convert within a few years and be legitimately happy to be second class citizens eternally barred from ever holding any power beyond being a shift supervisor on their containment worlds ever again. I miss it.

Hive mind and fanatical purifiers are my favorites at the moment. I wish hive mind had more work put into it so the events weren't completely retarded for them but I like the whole me against the galaxy thing. Finding another hive mind to be best buddies with is always fun too.

Don't play Hive Mind.
It's just a dumbed down, gimped up Fanatic Purifier.

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>>175425681

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>>175392898
Could anyone give some tips for Sins of a Solar Empire?

Everything happens so fucking quickly and its not like you can pause to think.

Is there an easy way to tell where mods are conflicting in Stellaris, and how?

Do you need to enable anything to actually USE a research agreement
Because I swear to fuck I have a research agreement with everyone who will trade with me and my research bonuses never have +25%
Yes it actually says "applicable research technologies" when doing the agreement

>>175428782
Did you bother to check and see how many techs they have that you don't? And just making sure here, but you are mousing over tech costs to be certain that the -25% base isn't applying, right?

>>175428782
you understand its only for techs you haven't researched right? if you eclipse or supersede their techs researched the agreement is entirely one sided

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>>175429040
>>175429114
It's not JUST this technology either, when I get on the research screen there's never a 25% bonus

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>that flag
>those planet names
>those ethics
did a little girl make this?

13 tile gaia planet worth it?

>>175429995
NO

>>175429995
are you worth it?

>>175430035
>not terraforming every planet into a gaia world and filling it with robotgeckos

why live

>>175430197
yes i use l'oreal shampoo

Is it possible to ninja the Unbidden with 50k worth of cruisers?

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>swarm invades in some other sector on the other side of the galaxy
>check up on swarm progress, nothing has changed yet
>swarm has been shelling the same planet for 20 years now

I didn't want a crisis anyway.

>>175428602
Even the UI mod is breaking for some reason.

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>>175392898
How do I get the game to not lag to shit once I reach like 100k fleet power?

I have everything on the lowest settings ;(

What's the best ship build and how many ships do I need to beat the unbidden? I want to research Jump Drives already

>>175432328

That happened in my game too, did Utopia break them?

>>175433124
cruiser
1L 4M
kinetic battery on L
plasma on M

hit "auto-complete ship"

just spam that as much as you can

>>175433173

It might have, I didn't have any problem with them before Utopia hit.

Sectors are really damn good if you know how to use them

>>175429556
Probably
take your kid to work day is a thing

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>>175433248
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

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>hyperlanes only
This is on the rim of a 4-spiral, mind you

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Is this the beginning of the (((Wiz))) redemption arc?

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Is there anyway to change your empire's ethics by embracing a faction, but without changing the ethic into the fanatic tier? I want to change back to Militarist/Spiritual/Authoritarian after the War in Heaven event forced me to change... please help

>>175433248
>not a single flak artillery
y tho

>>175434708

Do you want legit ways ? because there is the Horizon signal and Shrines of the old gods quest

if not , save files are .zip files renamed to .sav
open and edit gov_ethos=

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What do you think?

>>175434964
>intelligent, strong, communal
minmaxing faggot

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do these change based on if i'm xenophobe or not or did i just never notice before

>>175434615
The only thing there that matters is the second to last point

He needs to
1. Make it so fleet size is limited by general level
2. The AI knows how to use multiple fleets intelligently so wars take place on multiple fronts and not one blob

I think having a 'guard' command would help as well, so that rather than having to micro fleets across your empire you could set a fleet to engage anything that entered stars you designate; assuming your fleet size is better or close to the enemy fleet size.

This way the player can have a war going on and be forced to defend multiple fronts while attacking multiple fronts, keeping defensive and offensive fleets.

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>>175435132

>>175434951
Thanks, I'm not used to the new ethos mechanics and decided to play around with the faction system >.<
Are the quests related to anomalies found during surveying?

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Are torpedo corvettes good?

What's the best build for turning everyone into Tributaries?

>>175436150
Charismatic and some level of Xenophile

>you colony on mars is located very close to our borders
>we would appreciate you removing it
bitch I'm already in the Sol system, fuck off

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>>175436534
>tfw this the closest I can be to being a mercenary company

Been trying to use console commands and save edits to get psionics. I've made my species fanatic materialists, given the society researcher the psionics trait, and I've rerolled the research options a couple hundred times but haven't gotten it. What am I doing wrong?

>>175407883
>huh never noticed this before.
The picket bow for destroyers has an extra medium utility module space.

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>>175435769
You there. How did you get psionics?

>>175437014
By talking to the shroud.

>>175437073
>hello, Shroud?
>can i have 3 psionics please
>yes, 3 is perfect, thanks

>>175435769
hoenstly i've never used them as anything but a means to deliver as many mining lasers/disintegrators/disruptors onto enemy fleets as fast as possible but i wouldnt doubt the usefulness of 75-100 torpedos, the damage is not effected by it being on a corvette right?

>>175436998
>Exiles
Nice end of cycle you got going there.

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>when you find particle lances in mining drone debris
holy fug

>>175437147
No. How did you get the option to research it in the first place? I have fanatic materialist, a scientist with the psi trait, but after 50 rerolls of my bio options I still don't have the option to research psi stuff.

>>175436998
>prime
>prime
>prime

you know there's a fuckin random name button right

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>>175437147
It's completely random man, you either get the chance or you don't.

>>175437175
Doesn't seem so.

>>175437240
Noice. Now about that energy defecit

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>When the Unbidden destroy your favorite curator station

>>175437303
Literally one month left on the colony, senpai

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Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I've rerolled 100s of times. I should have gotten the chance by now

is there a mod that lets me repair the cybrex homeworld

if so, is it feasible to get access to it way before the perk?

>>175437246
>materialist
You must be spiritualist to get psionics
having a psi researcher does not matter

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>>175437479
meant to include this

I wanna follow in their footsteps

finish their mission

>>175437754
You can build a new ringworld in the cybrex homeworld if you like, but you lose the living metal and engineering I think.

vassal or tributary?

>>175437749
Is it just for the first part of the tree? Can I remove it after i get the first one and still get the rest?

>>175437460
Good good.

>>175437967
Most of the psi tree is locked behind their ascension path.

I suppose in theory you could ascend and then turn back into materialists but that seems bizarre.

>>175437240
nice but
>27 years in
>over 2k energy
>only making 37 minerals a month
WHAT
ARE
YOU
DOING

>>175437467
Chance for?

>>175438846
Some people like playing a comfy game. Until the Unbidden comes and kick their asses.

>>175438846
Being bad and being comfy. How many minerals should I be at?

How do I git gud?

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>>175437412
>When the Unbidden spawn right inbetween the biggest shitters in the galaxy while their fleets are busy raiding your shit.

>>175437467

Hoover over the box looking icon in the tech that you want to get , it will tell you the requirements and how likely it is to happen depending on ethos , scientist and so on

>https://bipedalshark.gitlab.io/stellaris-tech-tree/vanilla/

If you have Utopia DLC some techs have a 0x weight ( meaning that they wont appear ) unless you meet the requirement

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>>175435204

>This way the player can have a war going on and be forced to defend multiple fronts while attacking multiple fronts, keeping defensive and offensive fleets

Would almost make me forgive the absolute state of the game at launch if they pull it off even passably well tbqh.

>>175439264
How to gid gud:
1. Take private Trans-Stellar Corporations tradition to build private colony ships ASAP.
2. Colonize at many planets as possible.
3. Take Planetary Survey Corps ASAP to rush research.
4. Don't upgrade your mineral mines or power plants, keep them at level 1. Level 1 gives +2/+3 for 60 mineral cost while upgrading to level 2 only gives +1 for 90 mineral cost.
5. Building all your level 1 buildings before giving a planet to sectors.
6. When you can't colonize any more, use Infrastructure Edict to upgrade your buildings.
7. Building a strong fleet and reach your naval cap so nobody declares war on you. War is costly, avoid one unless you're much stronger than the enemy.

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>>175439315

>win domination victory through vassals
>wipe out all other free xenos and give their territories to your vassals
>win conquest victory
>release all vassals and invite them in your federation
>also win the federation victory

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>Wraith migrating illegally around the galaxy for 200 years
>Hasn't been in my space since early game
>Inna war with the human shits and their federation
>STATIONUNDERATTACK.mp3
>Check the backwater sector the notification came from just in time to see a piece of shit outpost the sector ai constructed take down the Wraith

Wew

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Anyone know how to mod ship cores?
or a modding guide
plz help?

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>>175437412
I felt bad when this happened in my game.