Thyrork posted:

This update better involve a towel.

Strudel Man posted:

How does it deal with the unrest-quelling function of armies?

That is to say, I see "bonuses to ... unrest reduction to replace that part of the army's function," but where do they come from?

GlyphGryph posted:

It's still pretty mediocre. Lots of inconsistent flavour bits. Minimal bonuses. Xenophile pops benefiting from multicultural societies is basically gone. Migration is kind of broken.

The fed thing mentioned above can actually be done just as easy if not easier with other builds.

Xenophobe is better than ever though.

Baronjutter posted:

The 10 year cooldown on policy changes is really bad.

Libluini posted:

Man, that's some bad timing. Too bad people probably won't go "How awesome that Paradox reversed that price hike even though it means possibly huge losses thanks to those currencies falling".

I mean, your currency tanking and a Steam-sale is essentially like a double-price cut.

Mister Adequate posted:

FOR THE UNION KEEPS US STRONG :jackreedcryinginfrontofthechicacgoskyline:

binge crotching posted:

I'm actually hoping they add the option for authoritarian empires to convert. I want to be able to do a special project that forces my pops to become hive minds or leave.

Larry Parrish posted:

i don't like the idea of robot traits because i already hate playing stellaris, generally

StrixNebulosa posted:

https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/892305960693313536

W-what's a bio-trophy?

Thyrork posted:

Sadly Star Ruler 2 didn't sell enough to keep the company afloat.

_{Well actually you could fling planets around, but I dont think you could toss them into black holes. Could destroy the supermassive one at the heart of a galaxy tho, that makes for a pretty impressive bang.}

Nevets posted:

As long as cores disappear (or at least weaken) when you purge/expel all the original pops on the planet. I always looked at cores as being part foreign diplomatic acceptance of your historical hegemony, and part cultural ties with the populace which promote patriotic sentiment.

It's kind of hard to claim that Alspace-Lorraine always has been part of Space France & always will be when everyone who ever set foot there is now partially digested bio matter in the stomach of a xenomorph.

OwlFancier posted:

Ground unit: Neo: 10000k HP 200 damage.

hobbesmaster posted:

Free tile blocker removal took all thinking out of how to deal with them. It shouldn't be surprising that it was nerfed.

Mister Adequate posted:

Game should have a no-FTL mode where you have to slowboat around, it takes 5 years to cross your home system and 50 to get to the nearest start. I know there's mods along those lines but it should be official. In fact, not 'a mode', the only mode.

Then add Newtownian physics.

wiegieman posted:

I think starports definitely need to be weaker earlier on and stronger later. They're a huge deal in the corvette phase and an unnoticeable speed-bump in the battleship phase, even thought they're apparently the massive complexes that are churning out your deathfleets.

Taeke posted:

Seems kind of odd to have slaving despots ask me if my bio-trophies are willing participants.

Aethernet posted:

Trip report: missiles still crap. I just had a missile and bomber/fighter armed fleet lose to a fleet without PD that had a lower force rating - 13k to 12k. Stick to energy & kinetics, kids.

Edit: and then my enemies on the other side pounced as soon as my fleet was down. For a moment I thought weapon types might be balanced, but alas not.

Edit edit: it seems to be a factor of travel time. Missiles & fighters are slow, while other weapons are instant - this means your front wave can die rapidly even before your weapons get to the target.

Fat Samurai posted:

How do you usually deal with the core planets limit? Just cart off your more advanced planets to a sector and hope the game doesn't mess them up?

Libluini posted:

Ha ha, gently caress me for putting off researching Machine Templates when it first turned up, I'm now 50 years into my assimilator-run and it just now showed up again.

The best part? Making robo-templates turned out to be great fun, but since I can only apply templates on a per-planet base...

At least I guess my newer bots will all be optimized for their tasks!

By the way, how does the game decide what pop can be chosen as a possible leader? Is it just a chance based on population percentages? Because I'm planning to apply my special leader-template to pops meant to sit on stuff like unity-buildings, just so I can cheese the game into putting some of them into my leader-roster.

Edit:

Or I guess build new leader pops on those tiles, since I don't want to transform entire planetary populations into leader-bots.

Demiurge4 posted:

Customised leader bots go onto unity producing tiles.

Fintilgin posted:

I took a break from robots to get back in the swing of the game. I'm probably just bad at it, but man I just can't keep up on minerals as servitors.

BadOptics posted:

Daraken posted:

Hey, so I'm not sure if this is a bug of sorts.



As you can see, the option to send demands has been grayed out. Please note that I'm the Neomachina (Illuminated Syldaean Theocracy) and the ones that got declared on by the Spiritualist FE.



Does the game think that the Lozavata are the primary defenders for some reason, as they're listed first on the defenders side? My fleet is by far the strongest of all the defenders if that matters.

Also I was in the middle of a subjugation war with the Zelvan at the time of the war declaration, so I don't know if that messed things up either.

Fututor Magnus posted:

has anyone made any interesting empires of their own that they'd like to share? i'd like to play against some empires with more interesting backstories than the ones generated by the game.

LogisticEarth posted:

I started with an a fanatic authoritarian-spiritualist feudal empire, and really loved the authoritarian voice. Then I inadvertently swapped to fanatic spiritualist with The Old Gods, and it's taken everything in my power to not embrace my authoritarian faction, mostly just to get the advisor voice back.

Spiritual voice is ok, it's just not the characterization I had in mind for my caste-system loving, rival-vassalizing Chthulu overlords. Next time I might lock the voice at startup, but I do like the idea of it drifting.

Soup du Journey posted:

how do the cyborgs that driven assimilators use fare on machine worlds? not too well i'd imagine, right?

toasterwarrior posted:

You guys reckon 1.8.1 will work with most mods out right now? I want to start a new game with this overhaul I found, but I can also wait for the release since it sounds like it's fairly close.

LordMune posted:

So not actually complete, then.