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ZypherIM posted:I believe fleets prioritize retreating back to their home base, and then shipyards, and then other upgraded bases (I could be wrong on that, but seems to be the behavior I see) That agrees with my experience as well. If they have no unoccupied star bases left, they will retreat to their home system (which catches many an inexperienced player off-guard)
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Anno posted:Can you talk at all about how this is set up? Like was this splitting the current team into two parts? Or hiring/shifting around to make the Custodian team? Both? I can certainly synthesize the information that is already out there... PDS Green (responsible for Stellaris) has been staffing up and PDS Arctic is supporting/being integrated by us. The team is much bigger now (though still smaller than one might reasonably expect), and we have a lot of new people from a variety of backgrounds — this coupled with better (and just more) processes in place on a studio level means you shouldn't expect a meteoric rise in output just yet. The Custodian and non-Custodian teams are both made up of old hands and newcomers alike, no outwardly intuitive or pre-existing split is reflected in the team make-up. The Custodian team is perhaps best described an organizational concept under the umbrella of the full Stellaris team. The idea is that there will always be a Custodian team concerned with improving the game as players are experiencing it right now, but any given developer isn't going to be consigned to the Tech Debt Dungeon or Paid Feature Grindstone forever; there will be some reshuffling between major releases. I also expect we may see temporary hybrid sub-teams cropping up at times, as the Custodians may or may not have content and fixes to sneak into DLC-associated patches etc. We'll see how things develop.
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The non-Custodian team needs a better nickname. How about Crisis? 
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That Custodian team sounds awesome, and I'm looking forward to updated pre-existing features. Additional tradition trees sounds fun, but I'm a little worried there will be one or two must haves, and then a couple of completely ignored except by the AI trees.
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isndl posted:The non-Custodian team needs a better nickname. How about Crisis? I like it. The Custodian team defends and preserves the stability of the game while the Crisis team continually brings in new stuff that breaks it 
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ZypherIM posted:Note that unless you're one of the extremely rare competetive multiplayer types, none of this matters in the slightest. You don't need to be super cutting edge optimal. The rules of thumb are: 1) Run either a mix of anti-shield/anti-armour weapons OR disruptors/arc lightning, not both. You can add carriers and missiles to taste to either. 2) Have some carriers or some corvettes and destroyers to handle corvette swarms 3) Otherwise build as many as you can of the biggest ships you can Red Crown posted:Gameplay 101 question: is there any way to disengage from a fight that isn't the emergency FTL retreat? I just lost 100% of my first game's fleet to a space monster because I couldn't figure out how to leave.
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Fur20 posted:i had 20v/15d/10c/7b i don't know maybe my comps just suck Splicer fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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binge crotching posted:That Custodian team sounds awesome, and I'm looking forward to updated pre-existing features. Additional tradition trees sounds fun, but I'm a little worried there will be one or two must haves, and then a couple of completely ignored except by the AI trees. Have you tried any of the current expanded traditions mods? There's a ton of flavorful and impactful changes that can be made without making any specific tree required or worthless. Turning your empire into a haven for pirates can be mechanically balanced against turning it into a haven for occultists and charlatans.
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Fur20 posted:i wasted like 30 years in my last abandoned game because the hivemind i kept trying to vassalize had various mysterious benefactors on the opposite sides of the galaxy, preventing war weariness from building. This is one part of the war system that really feels like it needs some adjustments. When you're done capturing every planet and system of a vassal, I don't know why you can't just declare the process complete, even if their allies want to keep fighting you. They should have to fight you and your vassal at that point, and unless they have plans to actively recover territory, they should generally decide that this thing is over and give up. Sometimes the white peace option gives you most of what you want, but sometimes it returns systems you've conquered (often the homeworld, I think?) to your would-be vassal, which... sucks.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:This is one part of the war system that really feels like it needs some adjustments. When you're done capturing every planet and system of a vassal, I don't know why you can't just declare the process complete, even if their allies want to keep fighting you. They should have to fight you and your vassal at that point, and unless they have plans to actively recover territory, they should generally decide that this thing is over and give up. There's definitely a discussion to be had about how status quo in subjugation wars works though, since that would be the situation where you lose your 10% normally.
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Probably if you've full-occupied someone in a war to vassalize them then a status quo peace should give you the full vassalization instead of arbitrarily making you give them back one planet.
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Splicer posted:This would significantly reduce the effectiveness of making friends over just blobbing. Yes you have captured all one empire's territory, but that's only a fraction of the alliance that does not want you to hold that territory. Right, but if I'm holding that territory, I don't know why I'm giving any of it back during a status quo peace. It should be incumbent on that alliance to retake some of that territory, and I've had too many games where some distant empires who haven't participated in the war at all are somehow preventing me from finishing the subjugation. Let me switch that new vassal over and continue the war against them if they really want to. Jabor posted:Probably if you've full-occupied someone in a war to vassalize them then a status quo peace should give you the full vassalization instead of arbitrarily making you give them back one planet. this, yes.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:Right, but if I'm holding that territory, I don't know why I'm giving any of it back during a status quo peace. It should be incumbent on that alliance to retake some of that territory, and I've had too many games where some distant empires who haven't participated in the war at all are somehow preventing me from finishing the subjugation. Let me switch that new vassal over and continue the war against them if they really want to. Well, the logic is if you agree to a status quo peace, you give everything back you haven't both claimed and occupied. This of course doesn't work with vassalization, since it's kind of binary: Either you vassalize someone or don't. I'd argue the "I want to keep the occupied territory" is akin to just continuing the war. If the enemy accepts you holding the space, that's called "winning". The idea to use a status quo peace to just win anyway in a vassalization war is really funny though. It's kind of obvious it can't work like that or you could just abuse this against the AI all day long. Until the next update simply re-balances the AI to never, ever take a status quo peace and now things are even more tedious. Better to leave it like it works now.
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Libluini posted:Well, the logic is if you agree to a status quo peace, you give everything back you haven't both claimed and occupied. This of course doesn't work with vassalization, since it's kind of binary: Either you vassalize someone or don't. I'd argue the "I want to keep the occupied territory" is akin to just continuing the war. If the enemy accepts you holding the space, that's called "winning". Normally vassalization does work in a status quo peace though - what it does is create a new empire of the same species you are trying to vassalize, which owns all the territory that you have occupied, and you vassalize them while leaving the original empire as independent (but smaller). The issue people are having is that if you fully occupy the target empire, the status quo logic of "split off a new empire, leave the old one independent" still kicks in, arbitrarily giving back a planet so the old empire will be able to keep existing after the war, even though this doesn't really make sense because the status quo is effectively "I have won in every way that matters". The Cheshire Cat fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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edit: eh, we're all just agreeing with each other here. It's all suboptimal and slightly weird.
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IMO you shouldn't be able to vassal part of a big alliance just by blitzing them, but you should start getting ticking warscore after you occupy most/all of them. If the alliance is able to effectively fight you then you have to keep working at it, if they are just chilling on the other side of the galaxy you tick up to 100% and take them.
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Darkrenown posted:IMO you shouldn't be able to vassal part of a big alliance just by blitzing them, but you should start getting ticking warscore after you occupy most/all of them. If the alliance is able to effectively fight you then you have to keep working at it, if they are just chilling on the other side of the galaxy you tick up to 100% and take them. this is what kept happening to me, my vassalization target was my neighbor but their guarantors had two or three players between them and us, with closed borders so they couldn't even get close. they were at least 5 years away by sublight travel. but noooooo, you can't take over the player they're protecting even though they can't do poo poo, because i also couldn't do poo poo to them. tfw you look at the surrender threshold thinking oh i control everything and there's aboslutely nothing left to fight but it's like -300 Fur20 fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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I mean you're all basically describing how it's done in Crusader Kings, where things are actually rather sane+intuitive in terms of wargoals, compared to this abomination we got when it was lifted. Like, why is my number going up in a "Us vs Them" ticker a bad thing, whoops?!
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Relevant Tangent posted:Have you tried any of the current expanded traditions mods? There's a ton of flavorful and impactful changes that can be made without making any specific tree required or worthless. Turning your empire into a haven for pirates can be mechanically balanced against turning it into a haven for occultists and charlatans. I haven't, because I always assumed they were either stupidly broken and overpowered, or something like Giga Engineering where there are 18 million things, which all end up being OP as well.
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binge crotching posted:I haven't, because I always assumed they were either stupidly broken and overpowered, or something like Giga Engineering where there are 18 million things, which all end up being OP as well. expanded traditions and expanded perks both err toward too weak instead of too powerful, in general. most of the vanilla traditions and perks are stronger than the added ones, but the added ones help you further specialize into particular niches instead of having every empire end up with similar bonuses
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They're great little flavour things, and even change depending on what sort of empire you're playing. ..I still tend to go for Expansion and then Supremacy first though.
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The tradition trees have a neat bit of design where, since the last perk unlocks the finisher and ascension slot, theoretically the perk you left to last, and presumably therefore want least, is still very exciting. Unfortunately the tree structure works against this since sometimes the one you want least is a prereq for one you want more. It'd be neat if that was tidied up a bit.
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here is one bit of drama going on in my new empire. Galactic northwest, skirting the starless expanse looking for planets. about 3-4 jumps past the edge of claimed space. My science ship had to leave the corvettes escorting it behind, thanks to outrunning them. Until science advances, he is exploring blind. they turned back to upgrade engines, shields and weapons, having the scout sensors that helped protect the science ship. This would be a decade long trip back to home station. New engines would make this trip take 4 years on the return. The science ship finds a airless world with evidence of information age, modern cities built over it, and then picks up power signs underground. Turns out the world had some cosmic bullshit happen and strip the air from it. my scientists explore the cave, and find over a billion cryopods filled with iceplanet pig people. over the next 15 years, they extract the cryopods, move them to a planet that is cold, and already shares a system with two other of my colonies, with an upgraded starport, to help with logistics in settling these people. Waking of these people goes without a hitch, they settle in and start building infrastructure for their new homeworld. Plans are drawn up for them to colonize about 5-6 other worlds deemed too cold for my people. One of them finds an ancient terraforming device on this new world and turns it on. This device terraforms the planet by melting the ice, raising the temps of the world, and turning what was an ice planet into an ocean world. and mutating a shitton of creatures into murderous insane monsters that overrun the colony defenses and start killing the pig people the other two planets in system start recruiting soldiers as fast as they can, and manage to fight off the mutants. so things settle down again. cities are built, mining, farming giant mushroom forests, oceanic tidal generators. a robotics plant. Then a super volcano goes off, destroying most everything that was built. these pig people are the unluckiest people ive ever encountered
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I don't think it's ever worth it to turn on the terraforming machine, personally.
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Clarste posted:I don't think it's ever worth it to turn on the terraforming machine, personally. That’s a fair assessment, but if nobody ever did how would we get these stories?!
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when presented with a button you need to press it, for science, you see.
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Not to restart that fight, but the consequences just aren't that bad - losing a planet a year or two into colonizing it isn't going to be the downfall of your civ. I almost always slam that button.
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Sloober posted:when presented with a button you need to press it, for science, you see. This is correct
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Captain Monkey posted:Not to restart that fight, but the consequences just aren't that bad - losing a planet a year or two into colonizing it isn't going to be the downfall of your civ. I mean, yes, but the benefits aren't that good either. I'll slam the button too if I don't care about that particular planet, but basically I go in expecting it to be bad.
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If it's the founding, important species, obviously dismantle it because why would you terraform a perfect world for you? if it's a lesser, client species, hit that button. that's why they got to join the empire to begin with.
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The +20% pop growth speed if you roll a Gaia makes it a great resort/gently caress planet
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HelloSailorSign posted:The +20% pop growth speed if you roll a Gaia makes it a great resort/gently caress planet Wait a second, are resort planets good now?
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Wait a second, are resort planets good now? They're good as part of a strategy where some planets are left undeveloped as feeder/"gently caress" planets with a minimal population. Any pops that grow on those planets are funnel with immigration/pop movement to developed, core planets. Marking a feeder planet as a resort world is a good plan, especially if it's a lovely low-habitability planet with some sort of bad modifiers and/or you have a lot of extra building slots from your civics or whatever. It's a good strategy ever since the 3.0 changes to pop growth.
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There are a few other events or planet traits that increase pop growth speed as well, those could be secondary fuckresort planets given a Gaia does have that nice 10% happiness and 10% pop output bonus.
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HelloSailorSign posted:There are a few other events or planet traits that increase pop growth speed as well, those could be secondary fuckresort planets given a Gaia does have that nice 10% happiness and 10% pop output bonus. If you have a Gaia world, you probably want to make it a core planet unless you're already way late in the game. +happiness and +pop output are huge on a developed planet.
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Ms Adequate posted:Time to establish Fuckworld Prime
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zonohedron posted:Is there a way to designate a planet for refugees? They keep going to planets that don't have housing for them. Not only can I not do that, I can't keep them from going "there's no jobs here, but the penal colony on the tomb world has jobs, so let's go there, even though it's named Bad Robot Land and is solely inhabited by robots".
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Clarste posted:I mean, yes, but the benefits aren't that good either. I'll slam the button too if I don't care about that particular planet, but basically I go in expecting it to be bad. Hard disagree, a 25% chance of a Gaia planet is worth quite a bit up through late midgame. I’d blow 500 alloys or whatever your colony ship costs for a chance to roll a Gaian planet pretty much always (I know there are more costs than that, but it’s super easy to always be in the black on almost any difficulty unless you’re in the direct middle of a hell war).
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