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Stellaris |OT| Imperium Universalis

Yeah I've had the wormhole bug happen to me that Quill had. I just have to keep an eye on exactly what my ships are doing and if one is going for too long then I reset it's pathing.
 
Jazzhole said:
Glad you like it! :)
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Thank you!
Knurek said:
OGG files in the game folder (\steamapps\common\Stellaris\music\). Playable in just about any media player of choice. 2 hours of music so far.
(The game really needs a Jack Wall music pack DLC)
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Thanks, will listen at work tomorrow.
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Good for her.
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I should really go to bed, it's nearly 1 am and I have to get up at 7... but I can't stop playing.

Finally encountered a somewhat friendly race. They're spiritualists, which is a shame because I'm materialists, but they're also xenophile so whe're getting along so far.

The other two races I've encountered absolutely hate me. No wars yet, but I feel like it's getting close.
 
Can someone explain influence to me? I wan't to be able to build more outposts to increase my civ size but I can't because I don't have any. It's not super clear to me what makes this increase. I have declared a couple rivals but that has barely made a dent. My monthly gain is only +0.7.
 
Ravager61 said:
Can someone explain influence to me? I wan't to be able to build more outposts to increase my civ size but I can't because I don't have any. It's not super clear to me what makes this increase. I have declared a couple rivals but that has barely made a dent. My monthly gain is only +0.7.
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The main way to increase your influence gain from what I've seen is to get some social research through(which provides a direct increase to it).
 
Jazzhole said:
Glad you like it! :)
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I love your work, and so far everything I've heard in Stellaris is amazing. I would happily pay for a music pack, so I hope you will compose more tracks for the game!

Trickster said:
Any easy way to burn through some energy credits if I hit the cap ?
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If you're lucky you can trade your credits for minerals or other goodies with the other empires. If you're not starved for minerals you can also clear some blockers on your planets.

Ravager61 said:
Can someone explain influence to me? I wan't to be able to build more outposts to increase my civ size but I can't because I don't have any. It's not super clear to me what makes this increase. I have declared a couple rivals but that has barely made a dent. My monthly gain is only +0.7.
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Some technologies give +1 influence, and my people also elected a president that gave +1. It's a pretty hard resource to come by, so I make sure to use it only when necessary.
 
I really wish there were more options in the battles.

Didn't know the colonization start only produces 2 food. I though it produced food + minerals so I destroyed a food + mineral spot on my 2nd planet. Probably going to start over because there are a lot of things I probably did wrong.
 
Grexeno said:
What's a good way to figure out if my laptop can run this or not?
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I have no idea but I installed it on my Surface Book and the game won't even boot. It just plays the menu music and I think it "has booted" but nothing ever displays on the screen except a tiny black rectangle in the top left corner. The resolution goes really low since it's defaulting to something low but I still see the desktop.

Only had a few minutes to test this morning before work since it came out at 2am.

Grief.exe said:
Is there a way to adjust the UI scale? Everything is really tiny on my 4K screen.
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Probably not, I thought there was for hoi4 but I might be remembering wrong. If you ask about it on the forums they'll give you a passive aggressive response about how only 2% of people use resolutions higher than 1080p.
 
Grief.exe said:
Is there a way to adjust the UI scale? Everything is really tiny on my 4K screen.
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ThoseDeafMutes said:
Probably not, I thought there was for hoi4 but I might be remembering wrong. If you ask about it on the forums they'll give you a passive aggressive response about how only 2% of people use resolutions higher than 1080p.
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Seems to be, according to Steam Forums.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/281990/discussions/0/357285562492128604/

I didn't try it. Vanilla game looks really good at 1440p compared to CK2 and EU4.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
I have no idea but I installed it on my Surface Book and the game won't even boot. It just plays the menu music and I think it "has booted" but nothing ever displays on the screen except a tiny black rectangle in the top left corner. The resolution goes really low since it's defaulting to something low but I still see the desktop.

Only had a few minutes to test this morning before work since it came out at 2am.
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I used an online tester and the answer is NOPE my laptop is most definitely insufficient.
 
I can't tell if work today was just particularly soul crushing or if it was waiting to be off to play this that made today suck so much.

I'm home now and finally downloading this bad boy.
 
I've had to check my pride at the door after losing my first game. I was destroyed by Space Slugs. SPACE SLUGS. Next time I'm going to research salt.
 
Played about 4 hours. Pretty peaceful game, exactly what I needed to understand the mechanics (I tried to avoid the streams beyond the point I was convinced that I need this game). I'm currently blocked between a rather neutral empire and some undiscovered aliens who scared my scientific ships away, but I should already have a fleet strong enough to take care of those in the next session. If there's another empire there I guess I will be stuck in my exploration and I have to go fully military to evolve. I'm partially to blame for choosing a 4 arms spiral galaxy and the maximum number for AI.

The music and the writing is top notch.

ThoseDeafMutes said:
By the way what the heck is with the restrictive colour selection in the creator. I didn't see white or yellow.
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Yeah, I also missed the white for my imperial badge.
 
ThoseDeafMutes said:
Probably not, I thought there was for hoi4 but I might be remembering wrong. If you ask about it on the forums they'll give you a passive aggressive response about how only 2% of people use resolutions higher than 1080p.
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Right? You'd think the rise of 4K monitors would get the developers to consider UI scaling for forwards compatibility but getting concrete information pre-release was like pulling teeth. The engine needs an overhaul.

That said, Stellaris is a lot better at 1440p than their earlier games. Everything's still a bit too small but at least I don't want a refund.
 
Behold, the result of six hours play. Real blurry screenshots at that scale, it turns out.

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I went for the Commonwealth of Man, so I could explore the military side of things. I'm the red blob in the top right corner of the map there, surrounded on all sides by hostile aliens, including that lovely grey blob that contains a fallen empire, who have a few issues with my research into robots. Well maybe if the aliens weren't so alien, I could use them instead! They're nearly all in a federation actually, which is rather limiting my expansion options, but I'm finally getting some battleships ready to smash through them. The complete lack of money is a frustrating thing too!

There's some frustrating quality of life things I'd improve on, like being able to click on debris/anomaly research from the galactic map, and your fleets automatically going into orbit if they get sent to a colonised planet, but aside from those minor problems I'm having a great time. The music is fantastic, and the writing for the events is really good.
 
So apparently even if you start in a Sol system, and use the predetermined UN human species, other Sol systems will still appear in your galaxy with primitive humans.

You had one job, paradox.
 
I didn't realize until today that my main goal in life was helping a bureaucratic pacifist engineer race of laid-back mollusks achieve galactic dominance.
 
Yeah ive met primitive species of me before

they actually called me primitive too

even had the same preset name lol
 
Am I missing something with terraforming? The tool tip says I need 1 Terraforming Gases, which I have, but still won't let me click.

edit: ah, that's the amount I still need. Got it!
 
Played a few hours and I'm enjoying it. I don't really see that slavery is too overpowered unless revolts of non-slave populations become a big deal later on. Most of my minerals are coming from mining satellites anyway and food doesn't seem like it makes much of a difference (you grow at like 0.9 per month at barely positive food and you only get an extra 0.1 per month per whole food surplus). I feel like I'd rather have my extra dudes working science labs. And aren't robots competitive with slaves for minerals and food?
 
deadfolk said:
One of my fleets I'm not using has a nice green icon saying it's orbiting a star.

The other two that are doing nothing have the red 'zzz' icon. I think the first is not using as much energy for support (sure I read this somewhere). Any idea how to 'park' the others into the same mode? I can't seem to find an Icon for it.
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I've shut the game down now for bed, so forgive me if any of this is wrong: I believe the icon is in the top left group when you select the fleet, it's a circular arrow maybe, and the hotkey might be 'B'. Tooltip will say something along the lines of return to the nearest friendly spaceport. And yes, you want your ships resting in orbit if inactive as there's a nice maintenance-cost reduction.
 
Played 2 hours, achieved almost nothing except scouting planets and mining but I already love this game. So relaxing, especially the music.
 
Holy hell. Where did the evening go? Enjoying it immensely so far and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface.
 
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