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Stellaris |OT| Imperium Universalis
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I made the same damn mistake.
HundredEyeMonk
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HundredEyeMonk
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One of the reasons I enjoy Paradox games is the emergent storylines. What are some stories you guys have been involved in so far?
I shared this already, but worth mentioning again. I started off as a chicken-looking race. Xenophile individualist. To my northeast, a despotic xenophobic cat race. To my northwest, another xenophile bird race.
The other bird race and I allied against the evil cats who rival'd both of us.
My ally declared war and the war was to cede their home planet to my AI ally, and liberate their 2nd colony. We won.
Since we liberated the colony, it became it's own new empire with a new pacifist sounding name. It took the traits of my ally. So they are xenophile democrats now that love us. We invited them to our alliance, which soon became a federation.
They can't expand because they are in a corner, so- I guess they are content just chilling while my ally and I are waging war against some xenophobic bugs.
Lets go team!
I shared this already, but worth mentioning again. I started off as a chicken-looking race. Xenophile individualist. To my northeast, a despotic xenophobic cat race. To my northwest, another xenophile bird race.
The other bird race and I allied against the evil cats who rival'd both of us.
My ally declared war and the war was to cede their home planet to my AI ally, and liberate their 2nd colony. We won.
Since we liberated the colony, it became it's own new empire with a new pacifist sounding name. It took the traits of my ally. So they are xenophile democrats now that love us. We invited them to our alliance, which soon became a federation.
They can't expand because they are in a corner, so- I guess they are content just chilling while my ally and I are waging war against some xenophobic bugs.
Lets go team!
Lumination
'enry 'ollins
I tried to get into EU4 and CK2, but the mechanics were complex and the tutorial was awful so it never happened. I'm really enjoying Stellaris. The whole idea of a civilization that has just discovered space exploration is a good backdrop to start small and build up from there.
We had a bit of a rocky start in that we had to build 2 outposts to even find any planetary resources. To compensate, we've had to resort to slavery (anything for the greater good, right?).
We found a few planets with new species on them, so we have been biding our time, waiting to complete the research required to start infilitrating them, with the ultimate goal of absorbing them. Unfortunately, one of the species we have been observing broke out into nuclear war and completely destroyed their own planet; all that is left is a husk of a world.
As we started finding more and more spacefaring species, improving our military became a sudden priority. As fate would have it, as soon as our navy wound up, a rogue asteroid came barreling for our newly colonized world. Defenseless without a spaceport, they had no choice but to wait for our home fleet to warp to them. Luckily, they made it just in time.
And with that, I went to bed at 4am.
My civ is a collectivist xenophilic race whose one goal is to assimilate as many foreign species as possible.
We had a bit of a rocky start in that we had to build 2 outposts to even find any planetary resources. To compensate, we've had to resort to slavery (anything for the greater good, right?).
We found a few planets with new species on them, so we have been biding our time, waiting to complete the research required to start infilitrating them, with the ultimate goal of absorbing them. Unfortunately, one of the species we have been observing broke out into nuclear war and completely destroyed their own planet; all that is left is a husk of a world.
As we started finding more and more spacefaring species, improving our military became a sudden priority. As fate would have it, as soon as our navy wound up, a rogue asteroid came barreling for our newly colonized world. Defenseless without a spaceport, they had no choice but to wait for our home fleet to warp to them. Luckily, they made it just in time.
And with that, I went to bed at 4am.
Mechanics shmechanics, this is an RPG!
Wait no it's not, but in single player I enjoy playing it like it is one 
Mechanics shmechanics, this is an RPG!
Wait no it's not, but in single player I enjoy playing it like it is one
Well why would I uplift a species if I wasn't there to guide them on how to handle it? Obviously we are needed to prod them in the correct direction and there is difficulty in doing that from across the Universe.
Edit: Ah hell, it got real you guys! The Tech tree just threw me this
Do I dare? Do I dare to dream?
Sir Rugdumph
Member
Put in about six hours yesterday. This game is enthralling.
Got an empire of super religious xenophilic winged mammal things and I ultimately hope to bring in a bunch of other species into the fold.
One of the advance start AIs is directly to my north. They friggin hate me, and apparently everyone else. They've wiped out one empire already and are waging a war on another one that's friendly to me. I've got two more friendly empires to my south that have formed an alliance. They keep asking me to join but I can't handle the influence hit :c Is there a way to keep an alliance from eating up my influence? Gonna need to be in an alliance for the inevitable war with the raging assholes. (Edit: Hm.... after reading, I guess it's because I'm militarist? That's unfortunate :c)
Also, how do you uplift a civilization? I researched the tech a while ago, but I can't figure out how to do it with one of the civs I have an observation post over
Got an empire of super religious xenophilic winged mammal things and I ultimately hope to bring in a bunch of other species into the fold.
One of the advance start AIs is directly to my north. They friggin hate me, and apparently everyone else. They've wiped out one empire already and are waging a war on another one that's friendly to me. I've got two more friendly empires to my south that have formed an alliance. They keep asking me to join but I can't handle the influence hit :c Is there a way to keep an alliance from eating up my influence? Gonna need to be in an alliance for the inevitable war with the raging assholes. (Edit: Hm.... after reading, I guess it's because I'm militarist? That's unfortunate :c)
Also, how do you uplift a civilization? I researched the tech a while ago, but I can't figure out how to do it with one of the civs I have an observation post over
Pattycakes
Banned
So I've got a race that has the Decadent trait and a lot of slavery tolerance with Collective + Autocracy to boot. Is enslaving start of my home world's population that's working on food a bad thing? I get bonus food production for doing so.
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Is there any reason to have surplus food on a planet that already has full pop? If not, I guess it would make sense to replace a farm with another building.
It's not primitives or any with observation post, after looking around and fooling a bit you have to go to the species tab and find any species that has the subtext "pre-sentient" and that is how you uplift them. Good luck finding one though, I've only found one that I mentioned early is way too far away to do anything with.
Doesn't look like it, it'd be nice if you could ship it to other developing worlds.
I've got 8. And I've uplifted two, and I was working on those dirty late medieval humans next. It's pretty random.
If you're doing it to stone-age and up primitives it's not uplifting. It's just giving them Space Tech. Uplifting is making them sentient, giving them technology and modifying their genetics.
Edit:
Here's a screenshot of the only upliftable species I've seen in the game.
The screen will look something like that.
Oh wait. I see the screenshot. Huh. NM
Holy crap, that's awesome.
If anyone loves The Culture ship names like I do, I found a namelist for you.
http://pastebin.com/eL8jDLku
You'll have to fill in all the other areas yourself, but it's pretty easy to copy and paste from one of the official namelists.
They go here: \Steam\steamapps\common\Stellaris\common\name_lists
http://pastebin.com/eL8jDLku
You'll have to fill in all the other areas yourself, but it's pretty easy to copy and paste from one of the official namelists.
They go here: \Steam\steamapps\common\Stellaris\common\name_lists
Forerunner
Member
Nice, I'm surprised it out did Skylines.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Great news
Same. Never any doubt about it beating the other PDS titles, but Cities is a big one.
Yeah the main difference I think between the too is if you bring up a pre-sentient species, they're automatically pops in your Empire and you can choose what genetics traits they can have and what Planets they prefer. With the other ones that have tech and ethics beforehand that's already decided and you can't really change it as easily.
Raising the tech level of a sentient species is "enlightening," not uplifting.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
Good, now fund my first person WoD vampire rpg led by leonard boyarsky!
HundredEyeMonk
Member
I would love for the option to start as a vassal empire to another. I love playing as a Duke/Count in CK2 and trying to gain independence by either working with other vassals, or growing powerful enough to declare independence, etc.
Well, at the very least you can ask someone if you can be a vassal.
Do it, what could possibly go wrong?!
Sir Rugdumph
Member
Ah, I guess that's it. The one I'm watching is early space-age, so can't do anything with them. I also happened upon Earth, which seems to be in the middle of World War II haha
That should be possible through a few lines of code right now (according to stream).
Absolutely deserved. I have no doubt after a few DLCs are released it's going to be the perfect space civilization simulator.
Wyndstryker
Member
Made my race religious.
And somehow by pure luck almost everyone around me is some degree of religious.
And somehow by pure luck almost everyone around me is some degree of religious.
BizzyBum
Member
Space sells.
You know you can drag and drop pops to go to the tile you want them to, right?
Awesome news for them and it seems well deserved. That's some pretty good momentum going into their public offering.
BlitzEngineer
Member
If you mean do they eventually grow in empty tiles, yes, if there are no productive tiles left the new pops will grow in an empty one leaving them unemployed until you build something or move them.
If you do mean Migrate, as in from one planet to another, they can as long as you have "Free Migration" as a policy. Although I've never seen them do it by choice except when they absolutely hate where they are (Tropic race on an Arid planet surrounded by slaves relocated as soon as I spent the 50 influence to resettle them).
There is a planetary Edict that says it increases migration potential by 100%, but I haven't used it. I'm hoping it can be used to encourage migration to a new colony, but the influence cost is pretty steep.
Nooope, well that is a lot of wasted resources. Time to start again.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Are you playing fullscreen or borderless fullscreen?
Red Arremer
Member
If you go to the surface overview of your planets where you build buildings, you can also build robot pops.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
The default which is borderless I believe. I'll switch over to fullscreen tonight and see if that makes a difference. I didn't think of that last night.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Better make sure I have Robots on all my planets then.
Actually I just upgraded to having Droids and being able to have a Robot Army, this will go great!
Labrynian Rebel
Member
My first planet I ever colonized had pre-sentients on it! Guess I got lucky.
Same problem I (and many others have). Nothing we can do except wait for the patch to come from Paradox.
I made a video to show people what it is like, its almost aligned to the day increment. If you watch it in 1080p60 you can experience what its like to not play Stellaris right here with me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CqAPuIPuQE
There's hardly anything actually happening in the galaxy at this stage of the game and it happens with any galaxy size.