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Stellaris |OT| Imperium Universalis
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TiredGamer
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The third one is Bones from Star Trek III / IV. The other two look somewhat familiar, but not enough to tip me off.
Top one is Sulu's shirt in IV, last two are both McCoy's. Little bit unfair since all had some hue shifting for variety.
TiredGamer
Member
Oh man, Sulu had a jacket over his shirt most of the movie, so the shirt didn't really jump out at me. Nice work all around!
Cameron122
Member
Pretty silly we still can't change capitals
Rug Monkey
Member
So can anyone beat old Knav here
By far the oldest in any of my games so far. I've named planets after him. I think I will be genuinely sad when he dies ...
By far the oldest in any of my games so far. I've named planets after him. I think I will be genuinely sad when he dies ...
All goes well, we'll be having our v0.4 release of Star Trek New Horizons today. Been working on lots of stuff that you guys have seen for portraits, but we're also getting a lot of new ships for Feds, Klingons and Romulans, with a few Borg ships in the mix. Next release will have a bunch of Cardassian and Dominion stuff, but for now thought I'd share a screenshot of Vulcan at game launch. I really like the variety that adding random civilian clothes brings:
As ever, just say if I'm bogging the thread up with mod stuff! 
It's a real shame that Paradox didn't put them in the base game really...
As I mentioned above, we've just released version 0.4:
Paradox forum thread
Steam Workshop
History repeats itself...
undu
Member
I'm doing another mod, this time with a retrofuturist vibe. I'm using company logos form the 70s.
This time there are still quite a few logos left because I'm vectorizing them one by one, unlike the other packs which had that work already done, hopefully I can get them all up in a week or so.
This time there are still quite a few logos left because I'm vectorizing them one by one, unlike the other packs which had that work already done, hopefully I can get them all up in a week or so.
Man I struggle because of the new politics system. I now had multiple starts where everyone around me just hated me because of different ethics and it was impossible to get them in my side with trade deals. They just banded together and destroyed me.
Now I had a game where someone somewhat liked me but getting that score high enough to create an alliance was impossible.
Now I had a game where someone somewhat liked me but getting that score high enough to create an alliance was impossible.
On the New Horizons mod we've been doing a lot of work to sort out pre-Federation powers this week:
Also been working on some more civilian updates, including a Doctor Crusher inspired outfit and some new hair styles:
We've done a lot of work on ships. We've got a great version of the Daedalus for the Tier 1 Starfleet science ship that take the TOS design but adds Enterprise style elements. We've also been bringing in minor race ships, and plan to have Vulcan, Orion, Breen and Gorn present for our v0.5 release this weekend:
Cardassians might seem like an obvious omission of ours at the moment, but we're holding them back until we've perfected our Enterprise / TOS era designs.
Also quite funny that the face behind a certain competing mod (which has yet to release anything) is almost exclusively behind downvoting our posts on the PDX forums.
It's also very surprising how slow Steam has been at removing clones of our mod on the workshop - and the sheer number of them. Almost seems targetted... :\
Vulcan military uniform + colony background:
Andorian Guard uniform:
Aenar species and outfit - Andor starts with a single Aenar pop, for authenticity.
Also been working on some more civilian updates, including a Doctor Crusher inspired outfit and some new hair styles:
We've done a lot of work on ships. We've got a great version of the Daedalus for the Tier 1 Starfleet science ship that take the TOS design but adds Enterprise style elements. We've also been bringing in minor race ships, and plan to have Vulcan, Orion, Breen and Gorn present for our v0.5 release this weekend:
Cardassians might seem like an obvious omission of ours at the moment, but we're holding them back until we've perfected our Enterprise / TOS era designs.
Also quite funny that the face behind a certain competing mod (which has yet to release anything) is almost exclusively behind downvoting our posts on the PDX forums.
It's also very surprising how slow Steam has been at removing clones of our mod on the workshop - and the sheer number of them. Almost seems targetted... :\
Plantoid species pack is coming soon.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9vT7Axs-E&feature=youtu.be
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D9vT7Axs-E&feature=youtu.be
I want sentient gas clouds.
I want a sentient mechanical race.
oh you
In case anyone doesn't know it, sentient gas cloud is exist as part of a lengthy anomaly event.
One Foul Note
Member
I want some silicon based lifeforms, to be able to populate my worlds with living rock golems or crystalline worms would be pretty awesome. They would certainly stand out from all the more organic appearing carbon life in the game already.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Did they ever make it so there's only one Sol?
Crystal types and rock types sound easy. But honestly I want aquatics with their own mechanics.
Agreed. Though, at the moment I just made so many custom races that are guaranteed to show up that I half-enforce it for the normal species, having fallen empires and natives show up as doppelgangers is annoying.
I'm honestly surprised there isn't a mod for that.
Oh yeah, this too please.
I think yes as long as you don't have custom civs with Sol as their home system set to (potentially) spawn.
Awesome. I really need to start up Stellaris again.
Anyone want to buy 5,000 vats of Tulaberry Wine?
Just in time for our v0.5 update: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/688086068/351660338720835450/
Just in time for our v0.5 update: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/688086068/351660338720835450/
That is an amazing concept and I love it.
From what I can tell this is the only Total Conversion out there: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682547665
The rest are just music packs or species packs right? Didn't a bunch of ship mods get taken down due to infringement?
The rest are just music packs or species packs right? Didn't a bunch of ship mods get taken down due to infringement?
I saw that, the only thing holding me back is
I appreciate the recommendation though.
edit: shit, literally none of my workshop mods are listed through the launcher. gg
I named them the Sort Of But Not Really United Hipster Coalition.
Their homeworld is named Better Than You
Not "We'vs been here before you" ?
Heh, I didn't put that much thought into it. I'm suffering through treatment for H Pylori and it seemed funny to me at the time.
I haven't been able to bring myself. only mount my worst weapons on my ships
super-famicom
Member
Built my first gaming PC last week and bought Stellaris yesterday. Surprisingly, it runs pretty well on medium settings with integrated graphics (I'm waiting for the AIB RX 480).
I created a custom Avian race who are Xenophilic and Fanatic Materialists. Pretty friendly dudes who want to research everything they come across. I only played about an hour so far but am having a blast. Any tips for early game?
I created a custom Avian race who are Xenophilic and Fanatic Materialists. Pretty friendly dudes who want to research everything they come across. I only played about an hour so far but am having a blast. Any tips for early game?
LurkerPrime
Member
So... how does food/pop growth work? I thought having extra food would boost pop growth, but it always seems to be a flat 1.3 growth/month no matter what. It makes growing newly-settled worlds a pain. Surely I'm missing something?
Little late, but the biggest tip I can think of is to avoid boxing yourself in. If you're cornered by two empires, you'll need to decide ride off the bat whether to cut through them or conquer them. Allying with them is great, but having your empire bisected by an ally will only cause logistical problems later on that are better avoided. Similarly, you'll want to decide early on which empires are potential allies vs. enemies; dividing and conquering is key.
As a xenophile, you'll probably be allying with lots of empires. Use this to your advantage and trade, trade, trade! If you have excess energy or minerals, trade them for what you're lacking--in my experience, the AIs are very generous when they have excess resources. Use these trades to boost your empire, infusing it with resources whenever possible. Just try not to help empires you plan on fighting later on too much, if you can avoid it.
One thing to watch out for as the game progresses, even in the midgame, is a particular empire that is blobbing--that is, conquering other empires and growing to a formidable size. Empires like that will be coming for you eventually, so be prepared.
I haven't fully adapted to 1.2 yet, but these tips should help nontheless.
Little late, but the biggest tip I can think of is to avoid boxing yourself in. If you're cornered by two empires, you'll need to decide ride off the bat whether to cut through them or conquer them. Allying with them is great, but having your empire bisected by an ally will only cause logistical problems later on that are better avoided. Similarly, you'll want to decide early on which empires are potential allies vs. enemies; dividing and conquering is key.
As a xenophile, you'll probably be allying with lots of empires. Use this to your advantage and trade, trade, trade! If you have excess energy or minerals, trade them for what you're lacking--in my experience, the AIs are very generous when they have excess resources. Use these trades to boost your empire, infusing it with resources whenever possible. Just try not to help empires you plan on fighting later on too much, if you can avoid it.
One thing to watch out for as the game progresses, even in the midgame, is a particular empire that is blobbing--that is, conquering other empires and growing to a formidable size. Empires like that will be coming for you eventually, so be prepared.
I haven't fully adapted to 1.2 yet, but these tips should help nontheless.
More species for New Horizons... still so very many to go!
Looks like we'll be getting Dominion and Ferengi ships sorted out this weekend too. Should expect to see these make it into v0.6 which I *think* we'll manage to get on Steam by next weekend.
Some Rodents native to the Delta Quadrant:
Some Dumbasses with time management problems:
Smug McSmugface:
I really enjoyed Star Trek Beyond last night so ended up not sleeping much and working on USS Franklin style uniforms (2165 to 2200 timespan in our mod):
Jaylah's species design was pretty good so we've introduced our own canon and now she's a Lyridian (a species mentioned by the Think Tank in VOY) whose species lives on the Beta/Delta quadrant borders:
Looks like we'll be getting Dominion and Ferengi ships sorted out this weekend too. Should expect to see these make it into v0.6 which I *think* we'll manage to get on Steam by next weekend.
So I got a planet as spoils from war and he had a single pop in among a bunch of non sentient life. So I purged the pop trying to give the planet back to the little guys and destroyed all the buildings. However the planet is still "mine" in that it counts for my colonization slot as well as territory spread. I even tried to say fuck it and recolonize/purge the non sentient life but I don't have that planet type researched yet. Any way to get rid of it off my planet number?
LurkerPrime
Member
So, uh... xenophobia and genetic modification don't actually work together as well as I would've thought. Turns out that the new species arising from these experiments is, uh, an alien species in the eyes of their brethren, and that it, uh, causes a lot of problems.
I currently have an inter-species war abrewin' on in my core energy-producing planet. Started with some descrimination, causing both modified and unmodified pops to get Xenophobic and Militarist traits; then there was a mass exodus by unmodified pops to greener pastures; and just now I've had a terror attack by unmodified pops that wiped out one whole "alien" pop. War is coming... and it is a nightmare.
Stellaris is something else, man.
And in a 20-empire game I still managed to get a duplicate species portrait. Pshaw.
A bug, huh.
Can you trade it to someone else or grant it independance or something?
I currently have an inter-species war abrewin' on in my core energy-producing planet. Started with some descrimination, causing both modified and unmodified pops to get Xenophobic and Militarist traits; then there was a mass exodus by unmodified pops to greener pastures; and just now I've had a terror attack by unmodified pops that wiped out one whole "alien" pop. War is coming... and it is a nightmare.
Stellaris is something else, man.
And in a 20-empire game I still managed to get a duplicate species portrait. Pshaw.
A bug, huh.
Can you trade it to someone else or grant it independance or something?
I can trade it. However I cannot grant independence seeing as there is no sentient life to grant it to. It's in the middle of my empire so I really don't want to trade it to someone else. Guess I'll have to ride it out for the re-colonization(if it will even let me) or get the tech to uplift.
Edit:can't land on it either because it's "owned" already. Looks like uplift is the only thing that might save it.
LurkerPrime
Member
Are you supposed to be able to make clone armies from droid pops?
Like so:
Like so:
exmachina64
Banned
Dare I hope you're referring to Locutus?
Among others...
EDIT: We released our 0.6 update today. Really gratifying to see it jump up the Steam rankings.
Sweeeet. Hoping for some serious Federation improvements with Heinlein.
Dunno some of the new species portraits look pretty awesome.