Red Arremer
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Thanks
Do they eventually give better food output?
You'll have to upgrade them. However the further you upgrade from robots, the more likely they will want rights and such.
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You'll have to upgrade them. However the further you upgrade from robots, the more likely they will want rights and such.
DUFFMCWALIN
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This is exactly what is happening to me. Oh well I usually games run well day 1 for me, it must have been my turn to have a bad day 1 experience.
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Do they eventually give better food output?
Don't know but they should be better miners at least.
Labrynian Rebel
Member
Sounds like you need to go Deus Vult on those xeno scum.
So it seems I played pretty much straight through from launch until about 5am, when I suddenly realised what time it was. Certainly a good sign for a 4X game, but not so good for my attempts to stay awake today (although at least I'm not in work).
My initial plan was to build an empire focussed heavily around robots, particularly with the idea of using robots to work on worlds my species couldn't colonise. The issue is, though, that robots cost a bunch of energy to build, and I've been fairly energy-scarce for pretty much my whole run-through thus far, so have only been able to build a couple of robots. Aside from that, I'm not actually a hundred percent sure how you colonise worlds with robots. I've researched colonisation for most world types (including a few which have zero or near-zero habitability for my species) and I've obviously got the robots themselves. Is there an extra tech you need to start a colony out with a robot? Or was my sleep-deprived brain simply missing something obvious?
On the other hand, it seems I've navigated the early game pretty well for my first run-through. I'm just starting to run out of space to expand into and I've carved out a decent chunk of the galaxy. I'm quite a bit larger than any of my neighbours* and although I've avoided any wars thus far I'm now starting to ramp up my fleet in preparation for some gunboat diplomacy (I'm hoping I can demand vassalisation of a couple of my smaller neighbours without having to go to war). I'm swimming in minerals and just about to unlock cruisers, so should have quite a capable force when I'm fully ramped up.
*Well, other than the militaristic fallen empire which I have an enormous border with. I've managed to keep it at bay with an embassy, but I'm definitely going to have to end up conquering it. Just another hundred years or so...
My initial plan was to build an empire focussed heavily around robots, particularly with the idea of using robots to work on worlds my species couldn't colonise. The issue is, though, that robots cost a bunch of energy to build, and I've been fairly energy-scarce for pretty much my whole run-through thus far, so have only been able to build a couple of robots. Aside from that, I'm not actually a hundred percent sure how you colonise worlds with robots. I've researched colonisation for most world types (including a few which have zero or near-zero habitability for my species) and I've obviously got the robots themselves. Is there an extra tech you need to start a colony out with a robot? Or was my sleep-deprived brain simply missing something obvious?
On the other hand, it seems I've navigated the early game pretty well for my first run-through. I'm just starting to run out of space to expand into and I've carved out a decent chunk of the galaxy. I'm quite a bit larger than any of my neighbours* and although I've avoided any wars thus far I'm now starting to ramp up my fleet in preparation for some gunboat diplomacy (I'm hoping I can demand vassalisation of a couple of my smaller neighbours without having to go to war). I'm swimming in minerals and just about to unlock cruisers, so should have quite a capable force when I'm fully ramped up.
*Well, other than the militaristic fallen empire which I have an enormous border with. I've managed to keep it at bay with an embassy, but I'm definitely going to have to end up conquering it. Just another hundred years or so...
I've gone through about 8 decades like that. I've gotten used to it at this point, but I can't wait for the patch.
Red Arremer
Member
Ahahah I know how you feel. I too played 10 hours straight from release until 5 AM morning.
EzekelRAGE
Member
Nice.
Drawbacks to becoming a protectorate to another empire is that I automatically become a vassal at a certain point? Do I "lose" the game then or I can eventually fight back?
Edit: Looking at vassal thing, I can eventually break free with war. Think I may become a protectorate then.
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Also, so EU4 is kinda like this game but more in depth?
I made 2 too many planets yesterday. The limits they show up top are not hard limits and I wanted to see the negative impact for having too many planets.
It destroyed my energy intake, big time. I was making 40-50 energy a month and had a surplus on everything. I created 2 colony ships, both colonized around the same time, shit hit the fan, and flew right back into my face. Now I'm down from a 4k power fleet to 800. Going to take awhile to get back on my feet. Energy is trickling in again and will need to fix my mistake when I get home again..
It destroyed my energy intake, big time. I was making 40-50 energy a month and had a surplus on everything. I created 2 colony ships, both colonized around the same time, shit hit the fan, and flew right back into my face. Now I'm down from a 4k power fleet to 800. Going to take awhile to get back on my feet. Energy is trickling in again and will need to fix my mistake when I get home again..
If you build a colony ship at a planet with robot pops it will let you choose robot colonists (you might have to have the droid tech...). I've been following largely the same plan and have just set up and all robot colony. Power definitely is the constraint but I've essentially built power plants on all my free tiles and now I'm at +40 which is enough to remove most constraints.
One Foul Note
Member
You are right thanks, yeah the number not counting down threw me a little.
So, I just saw something interesting. I made several races before starting my game, including a fanatic collectivist milltaristic zerg swarm. Well, they started pretty far away from me and murdered a couple of empires, and were the biggest empire in the game and were getting pretty close to my borders.
Then, all of a sudden, it breaks in two. Now there's a Zerg League that's fanatic individualist and xenophilic as well as the zerg swarm that's begging for my assistance.
Then, all of a sudden, it breaks in two. Now there's a Zerg League that's fanatic individualist and xenophilic as well as the zerg swarm that's begging for my assistance.
BlitzEngineer
Member
Hold shift, right click.
You really did, those are free new pops you can just mess around with.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
They're just your map. Basically giving away your star charts lets the person you're giving them to see everything you've scouted up to that point.
If any modders are here. One QoL the game could use would be science ships not dropping their whole queue stack when they ftl into a system and get spooked by a space amoeba. Would be extra grateful.
Best event for me was watching one of the primitives while they were in the early space era. Guess someone got mad and they had nuclear war and scorched the planet. Was going to vassalize them when they grew up.
Holy crap. You are the most tolerant person on the planet. I just can't force myself to play it when it's like that, I'd rather mess around in CK2 for a bit.
It always says 3600 days (as that's the total amount, not the amount of time left). There's a date next to it telling you when you can integrate them.
I went through the same process (found an atomic-age race and enlightened them, then integrated them) and it's worth keeping in mind that they're not going to be very happy once they're integrated, and will probably set up a separatist faction you'll have to keep an eye on. I still found it worth it as they were on a planet in a system where I already had a planet, so it was really just a matter of keeping control of everything within my borders, but if they were outside my borders I probably would have just left them to do their thing.
Ahahah I know how you feel. I too played 10 hours straight from release until 5 AM morning.
Steam tells me I spent 11 hours playing it yesterday (with a short break for dinner), so I definitely got sucked in a bit too much.
Ahh, that makes a lot of sense. I've been building all my colony ships at my capital and I probably don't have any robots there. Time to build a couple of robot colonies!
I'm basically just ignoring the actual animations for the most part. If I get into a big space battle I want to watch, I slow things down to normal or slow speed where I get a solid couple seconds of animation without stutter before the next day comes.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
BlitzEngineer
Member
Not sure if this was posted:
https://twitter.com/StellarisGame/status/730034122765303808
https://twitter.com/StellarisGame/status/730034122765303808
@StellarisGame on Twitter said:
I'm only 4 hours into Stellaris, but there's already one huge difference: in EU4, you have an historical start. You don't have as much freedom at all at the start of EU compared to Stellaris.
EU4 is great though, you should definitively give it a try.
I prefer Crusader Kings 2 to EUIV. I found it was way easier to wrap my head around and the role playing aspect is freaking awesome. I'm currently playing as the viking version of saunderez who is a kickass Jarl. Still sad my best son died
Game of Thrones mod is excellent too.
Red Arremer
Member
I prefer Crusader Kings 2 to EUIV. I found it was way easier to wrap my head around and the role playing aspect is freaking awesome. I'm currently playing as the viking version of saunderez who is a kickass Jarl. Still sad my best son died
I prefer EU4 over CK2 because I just can't understand CK2's mechanics at all.
Can't come soon enough.
Watch Arumba's tutorial series...as soon as it starts making sense it's incredible. You'll never see so much senseless child murder anywhere else. Well assassination in general really....but everyone in the realm seems up for killing a kid.
Screaming_Gremlin
My QB is a Dick and my coach is a Nutt
I got about 3.5 hours into my first game last night as a human military dictator. Stellaris definitely has a better tutorial than the other Paradox strategy games I have played.
That being said I made a number of mistakes early on I will have to correct in future games. I grabbed Planetary Unification before I researched the Colony Ships, which was a mistake since the Colony Ships didn't show up again in the next research option. I had to research two other things first, which slowed down my expansion.
I also put too much emphasis on Energy Credit production instead of minerals. Credits haven't had a huge use yet (guessing that will change later?), but I am chronically fighting with not having enough credits. I also didn't really figure out how the frontier outposts worked until my neighboring empire cut me off from two systems I really wanted. I think they will be my first war target.
The plus side is while I was trying to learn stuff I was just playing on normal speed and barley ever using the fast forward. I am still super early into the game and should be able to course correct without having to restart.
That being said I made a number of mistakes early on I will have to correct in future games. I grabbed Planetary Unification before I researched the Colony Ships, which was a mistake since the Colony Ships didn't show up again in the next research option. I had to research two other things first, which slowed down my expansion.
I also put too much emphasis on Energy Credit production instead of minerals. Credits haven't had a huge use yet (guessing that will change later?), but I am chronically fighting with not having enough credits. I also didn't really figure out how the frontier outposts worked until my neighboring empire cut me off from two systems I really wanted. I think they will be my first war target.
The plus side is while I was trying to learn stuff I was just playing on normal speed and barley ever using the fast forward. I am still super early into the game and should be able to course correct without having to restart.
Randomizer123454444
Member
After learning that the planet cap is only for planets you control DIRECTLY, and after getting few key technologies, I have managed to start a mass expansion phase. From 5 planets to 11 planets, and still expanding. I have 2-planet empire core, 16-slot planet and a 24-slot planet which I use as ship factories. Rest are divided to sectors.
My neighbor empire has some internal issues, one of its planets has broken off and become an independent (vassal) empire. Another neighbor, giant super-empire, is busy with his rival in east (I'm at his western border), that gives me time to ramp up expansion and mineral production to finance my war fleet.
9 hours in, still in love.
My neighbor empire has some internal issues, one of its planets has broken off and become an independent (vassal) empire. Another neighbor, giant super-empire, is busy with his rival in east (I'm at his western border), that gives me time to ramp up expansion and mineral production to finance my war fleet.
9 hours in, still in love.
EzekelRAGE
Member
Yea, think I'm most definitely going back to CK2 and gonna buy EU4 after my run with Stellar ends. Feel a bit more prepared after stellaris. Only problem is Stellaris stays on my mind. Took a break from it and got a couple of LoL games in and all I could think of was what to do next in Stellaris lol.
OMG beta hotfix is up
Change to the beta branch and it'll start downloading immediately.
Testing as soon as I post this message.
EDIT: It works! The silky non-stuttery goodness! I gotta get some sleep but at least I know I can get into it after work.
MANA FROM HEAVEN!
I honestly feel Stellaris shares more in common, mechanics-wise, with Victoria II. Mostly because of the Pops and how they operate though.
Oh thank god, I don't think i could live like this the way it was going.
Enjoy bud, you certainly earned it for putting up with that nonsense for as long as you did!
UcchedavÄda
Member
Huh, seems like the "Don't show me this again" doesn't save for some of the tutorial messages .. I've been getting a bunch again since picking up my previous save.
One Foul Note
Member
I do wish the fallen empires had unique portraits for themselves. They are meant to be fairly intimidating and terrifying but they lack a certain gravitas when they just look like any of the other races in the game.
Can research sentient AI...
tempted
Go for it. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
MadYarpen
Member
It's quite some time since I played any strategy. I almost stopped gaming on PC - and now I think I miss it a little.
Should I get this? I never played any civilization game, all my strategies were regular RTS games like C&C or age of empires. Or knights & merchants.
Also, how is the performance? is the game demanding? I have lenovo Y580 laptop, with GTX 660M.
Should I get this? I never played any civilization game, all my strategies were regular RTS games like C&C or age of empires. Or knights & merchants.
Also, how is the performance? is the game demanding? I have lenovo Y580 laptop, with GTX 660M.
I found a bug. I had a species as my vassal, and had an embassy with them to improve my relations. After I integrated them into my empire, all effects of the embassy disappeared but it's still counted as existing for my total embassy limit.
Also, it seems like if I conquer a species with a different FTL tech than my own, I should be able to build ships with their tech.
I'm a couple hundred years in playing on a Macbook Air. I've got 8GB of RAM, and I had to lower the graphics settings a bit, but it works.
Also, it seems like if I conquer a species with a different FTL tech than my own, I should be able to build ships with their tech.
I'm a couple hundred years in playing on a Macbook Air. I've got 8GB of RAM, and I had to lower the graphics settings a bit, but it works.
Watch a lets play. You will also learn how the game works. There is one from Quill18 who also explains also the basics.
Hari Seldon
Member
Going on vacation soon but don't want to leave this game. I wonder if my 2010 macbook pro can run this lol.
Red Arremer
Member
Aw yis.
I'd rather not.
Perhaps, but I never was a big fan of dynastic stuff, so I probably will never bother too much. EU4 and Stellaris are well beyond enough, add to that the heap of other strategy games I like that aren't Paradox... I don't need another.
I'd rather not.
Perhaps, but I never was a big fan of dynastic stuff, so I probably will never bother too much. EU4 and Stellaris are well beyond enough, add to that the heap of other strategy games I like that aren't Paradox... I don't need another.
hobblygobbly
Member
One of the few reviews on Steam that is negative is because the leader on Earth in the beginning for the human empire is a black woman... some people really need to get a grip on life.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Im a bit of both