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I like that bit about egalitarians and spiritualists spreading ethics attraction. My religious space birds will convert all these filthy machine lovers! (Or kill them)
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Can I build multiple empire capitals by abusing the "make capital" function? And if not, will buildings that need to be on the capital stop working if their planet lose the capital status?
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Feb 3, 2017 08:14
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https://twitter.com/dmoregard/status/828327812583022592 Harmony is definitely one of the trees that seems the most attractive to me for now. Those distance-from-capital ethics diversion penalties can be brutal.
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Feb 5, 2017 20:50
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Aethernet posted:That Psi event is cool. It looks like they're taking a lot of material out of the tech tree and distributing into other avenues you can pursue. This is good - it avoids the end-game situation where you've got amazing psychic powers, space marines and xenomorphs AND super-robots because you've run out of other techs to research. More empire specialisation is a good thing. This is very true. You only need a psi specialist once to unlock the psi tree as a materialist right now. This change helps differentiate the empires more, feeling more unique. I like it a lot. Looking forward to cleansing the galaxy of all the robot filth with my psi space birds.
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Feb 6, 2017 13:16
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm a little disappointed that the psychic and cybernetic story tree's seem to locked by materialism/spiritualism, but I can see why as it pertains to the victory condition. I hope it's still possible to see my pops develop psychic traits or cybernetically alter their bodies in defiance of government policy. If I understood the dev diary correctly, that's not how it works. If you do not get the DLC, then you can indeed only go the psionics route if your government is spiritual (but because of the new faction system, you can change your government ethics to spiritual if you really want to, and can also change it back after you got the techs). If you have the DLC, you don't need to be spiritual, psionics are unlocked through the ascension perks system. And the story about the shroud is part of the paid content, so you will only get to access it if you buy Utopia. So no need to be spiritual.
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Feb 9, 2017 13:26
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Cliffhanger posted:According to the dev diary the Spiritualist requirement applies whether or not you own Utopia, but you can shift to the Spiritualist ethics temporarily and get the psy path and then shift out of the ethos. You are right, Wiz confirms it in the dev diary thread. I don't mind, I like playing spiritualist empires. But it seems like cybernetics will then be tied to the materialists. Will all the other ethics only get the gene-path? That sounds strange.
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Feb 9, 2017 13:55
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I wonder if we're finally getting Materialist FE too. Heck, you could even make them robots, up to no doubt nefarious robot business. But we already have Materialist FEs?
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Feb 10, 2017 11:22
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Archonex posted:Oh really? I stand corrected. I've seen the Cybrex system even though I had the Yuuht (sp?) precursor chain, and I even caught one of the AI's science ships in the "investigate Cybrex remnants" mission earlier.
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Feb 10, 2017 15:38
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I don't know why a delicious species would provide more food. Sure, they taste nice, but they should still have the same calories as less tasty species?
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Feb 17, 2017 18:56
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Wiz posted:The fluff text explains they're also very nutritious, and yes it's used in genemodding. If you've gone down the biological ascension path you can genemod a species to be delicious and nerve staple them so they're not sad about being eaten. That sounds super evil  I don't know why it bugs me, but I'm never able to go on a real "purge all xeno scum" rampage in Stellaris. I can be extremely evil in CK2, but I can't exterminate those fluffy species in this game. I don't think I will ever use the livestock option.
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Feb 17, 2017 20:42
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GotLag posted:Then some fallen empire comes along and dicks with your code and suddenly you're all spiritualist fanatical purifiers No, then your race goes down to some galactic catastrophe, a newly FLT capable race finds your world and takes your neural scans. Then the xenophile FE demands those scans to clone bodies for you and download your consciousness in them. And they probably make you snails when you were moths before just to gently caress with you,.
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Feb 20, 2017 22:22
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Mr. Fix It posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834010318418358272 Do we know what's up with the ethics symbol in the middle of the ethics wheel? Despicable Neutral?
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Feb 21, 2017 13:18
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Baronjutter posted:Is there an actual resolution to the chain? I found the ring, built an outpost, reaping a lot of engineering research and living metal, but there was no final story investigation or anything and it's still in my activity log as a thing to do. Yes. The precursor system will have one level 4 or 5 anomaly that has a 0% failure chance and usually gives you a ton of resesrch points for finishing it. Accompanied by a text box for what happened to them. For example that the Cybrex one day just retreated to their ring world and then were later nuked from orbit by races who feared them waking up again.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:53
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Baronjutter posted:I'm not missing any bonus though, just the story right? The only reward is the ring's engineering "mines" ? You get a few hundred sociology/physics/engineering tech points for finishing the event.
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Feb 22, 2017 18:54
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Taear posted:To be fair though, they created their hive mind via technology rather than already being a hive and going down that route. At least it comes across that way, anyway. It also can also happen with warp drives. Once there was an Ether Drake at just the right distance from my capital that ships would always fly through it's system with level 3 warp drives. I moved my ship productions elsewhere because of it. But I usually play with wormholes, where this problem does not exist. it's one if the reasons why they are my favorite FTL method.
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Feb 23, 2017 18:49
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Such an awesome trailer, why is it still more than a month away  (The answer is: So I have time to play through the newest Mass Effect game before Utopia comes out)
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Feb 27, 2017 15:42
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Taear posted:I'm at war with some xenophobic llamas to my north and for some reason they've purged their whole population. I got to the first planet and could see they were being purged and when I hit their homeworld this is what I found. Wow. I wonder if Paradox would be interested in some save states, this seems like something in the AI behavior went very wrong.
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Feb 28, 2017 14:21
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Libluini posted:For me, I've cooled somewhat on the expansion. First I was excited, but when robots and synths were discussed in this thread, it slowly dawned on me that that part of the expansion may be too half-baked for my taste. Which is bad because I don't care for all that other crap. It's certainly nice and gives my guys a lot of colorful enemies to destroy, but I don't want to play as Psionics or bio-monsters. The drastically redesigned faction system alone would be reason enough to buy this as a DLC. Then there's the ethics reword, the unity mechanic, the other ascension perks, mega structures, the ability to influence the ethics of primitive species, and the possibility to terraform some currently unusable planets. And the fact that I no longer need to purge all my pops in order to create a robot utopia is pretty sweet as well. I understand being less excited about Utopia if you expected more from the Ascension paths, but the rest is still pretty amazing.
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Mar 5, 2017 08:14
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Nordick posted:Point is, it would be a cooler visual element if that giant laser beam came out of a giant gun barrel in the nose of the ship, instead of a generic turret on top. That's what "spinal mount" means, a giant gun inside the ship sticking out of the front. I can clearly see the Ion Beam Frigate from Homeworld here. Best SotS ship is the Morrigi dreadnought from SotS2, it looks seriously great.
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Mar 7, 2017 20:27
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Baronjutter posted:I've never seen an interesting reddit AMA. Maybe out of 1,000 posts only 100 that are actually the person answering questions and only 20 of those are interesting, which they get posted elsewhere. Brandon Sanderson does very good reddit AMAs, but yeah, they are generally very bad.
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Mar 15, 2017 18:14
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Oh ho ho yeah that took me a minute. Pretty good. I did not get it. One of the disadvantages of not having English as my mother tongue. It did remind me of Hawking, but I overlooked the peddle=hawk part. Thanks for explaining this. GotLag posted:HOLY loving poo poo YOU RETARDED SCIENCE SHIPS STOP ZERGING INTO HOSTILE STATIONS YOU DUMB FUCKS Use wormhole drives like god intended. You will not have this problem again, at least until you upgrade to (psi-)jump drives.
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Mar 20, 2017 15:35
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Late to the topic, but that synth with the heart is cute and adorable and awesome 
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Mar 20, 2017 17:29
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Dog Kisser posted:
Why would you need to "fix" something that's not a problem  They are still adorable. I'm usually not one for the robots, I prefer psionics and/or genetic manipulation. But if we had portraits like these, I would play them more often.
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Mar 21, 2017 08:19
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Tulul posted:Am I the only one who's bugged by sci-fi writers not knowing the difference between "sentient" (your dog) and "sapient" (you)? It's not just the writers. Brandon Sanderson had to write a blog post explaing that difference and why he used the terms correctly in his (fantasy) books.
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Mar 21, 2017 17:48
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Psionic shields as a ship component? Only confirms that I will play spiritualists in my first Utopia game.
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Mar 30, 2017 13:37
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Kitchner posted:Protectorates can't be integrated and do get the research bonus I guess. Plus you don't have to actually go to war to protect them, and they can declare war on other people. But one of the patch notes is "protectorates can now be integrated"?
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Mar 30, 2017 15:12
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Bloodly posted:Hmm. Even with food being global now, I imagine it will be more difficult to avoid building Basic Farms than before. And upgrading the capital will also no longer immediately turn the planet truly productive. And you'll want to aim the capital onto energy squares.... Which is the whole point? Build a few farms on the planet of the agrarian species you conquered to feed ten other planets that won't have to build a single farm. Being able to make smaller planets run with only your capital and the frontier clinic was something of a failure in game design to me. Why not remove food and farms entirely? But with global food, you don't even need to dismantle farms anymore that made themselves superfluous through upgrades, you just don'g need to build any for the next few planets you colonize.
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Mar 30, 2017 16:06
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I still haven't finished Mass Effect Andromeda It's too early! (Please don't kill me, thread)
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Apr 6, 2017 08:54
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Fanatic spiritualist, pacifist space butterflies I think. But I'm probably spending half an hour on the species creation screen, agonizing over the choices.
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Beefeater1980 posted:What's the main use case for chemical bliss? I read the description and thought of The Culture, but I don't have super-AI minds to compensate for the fact that my population would be spending all their time moving their hands in front of their faces and giggling at the pretty patterns. How can I even use chemical bliss? I researched it late last night and didn't find the option to toggle it before going to bed.
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Apr 7, 2017 14:31
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Magil Zeal posted:So, my first game with random start locations has ended up with me meeting no neighboring empires for the first 30 years, except for the Enigmatic Observers who are randomly giving me free stuff. Then later, my first contact is a group of Peaceful Traders on the other side of the galaxy. I'm surrounded by all 4 Fallen Empires in my medium galaxy start, and I have yet to find another "normal" empire. It's a bit spooky. Possible bug, I gave the fanatic xenophile FE the data of the dead alien race I scanned, and they wanted to put them into the preserve. But there are only the three normal pops, plus one empty alien preserve tile. Seems like the pop didn't spawn.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:If you can get enough spiritualist pops in your empire to form a faction you can adopt spiritualism as one of your official ethics. I stayed on three worlds a long time (now I'm up to five), filled it with unity and research buildings and just outclassed all other empires. I'm not even close to being able to take on a Fallen Empire, but I have 5 Ascendancy Perks. Don't expect a lot of them if you settle like crazy
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I'm usually playing on a lower difficulty, turtling until I've outteched all my opponents and acquired all the unique technologies (psi shields, enigmatic reactors, dragonscale armor etc.). Then I wage limited war to nudge the galaxy into a more interesting direction... only to find out that these assholes have stolen my techs from the few losses I had  Enigmatic Engineering will be one of the first Ascension Perks I'll take after the update.
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Feb 1, 2018 15:18
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Aethernet posted:I'm going to assume that value isn't final, as the last tier of Spiritualist buildings gives you +9 unity. Giving up an entire gaia world for an extra +1 obviously isn't worth it. If it was +10%, then it would be more meaningful. Terraforming a size 10 planet and designating it as holy will give you more "relative" unity than colonizing it when you factor in the unity cost increase with each settled world.
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Feb 2, 2018 20:01
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I'm probably playing Stellaris wrong, but I always have a healthy amount of food and food surplus. Paying Marauders with food seems like a pretty cheap way to avoid being pillaged.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:49
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I'm unhappy that it's still two weeks
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Feb 8, 2018 14:38
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I know it's a few months old, but where is this from? One of the Stellaris dev streams?Relevant Tangent posted:Let me tell you the story of Fronds of Gold. Even as a sprout they were smart. Once a season had passed and they were in full bloom it was obvious they were the smartest being on the planet. Then they were taken by aliens. The aliens had flying vessels, but even they weren't as smart as FoG. The aliens had FoG help a giant sphere calculate infinity and create a new Universe. They had FoG examine an impossible ceramic teapot floating in the corona of a sun. FoG raised two species to sentience. Eventually. FoG was elected leader of the aliens, and used their power to raise their own species into space. FoG outlived three generations of his adopted people, led them through multiple wars, and ultimately died surrounded by four species who cherished their wisdom and kindness. It's amazing
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Feb 9, 2018 17:40
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Did Wiz show any screenshots of the new weapons the Titans can mount?
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Whelp, the hype is over. I was actually super pumped for Cherryh and Apocalypse. I never bought Synthetic dawn, I don't really care for robots. And I never bought the plantoid species pack, it didn't seem necessary. In contrast to CK2, where I admit to having bought every single portrait pack (but none of the troop packs, those were stupid). But was in a really good mood last Friday, looking at the Steam page and seeing the sales. So I wanted to buy Synthetic Dawn, the plantoid pack and even upgrade my game to the Nova edition. I really like the business model of Paradox, so I figured I could toss them 4 Euros, even if I didn't need anything from the Nova pack (the arachnoid is ugly). But then I had bullshit trouble with PayPal, and I couldn't sort it out till today. Then I open Steam and see that the sale is over. Now I'm super mad at PayPal but also at Paradox. Who ends their sales two days before their new DLC comes out?!? gently caress you so much, PayPal, but also gently caress you, Paradox. I'll never buy any species pack or Synthetic Dawn now, and I'm seriously reconsidering buying Apocalypse. I'll go over the feature list again when I calmed down. Perhaps I will just play the Cherryh update, without giving Paradox any money. This really sucks, because I was so hyped for Stellaris 2.0 
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