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Ak Gara posted:I managed to get the game to run, and updated all my mods but strange thing, some civics list no effect. Not all, only some. I've removed any civic changing mods I can think of but it still happens? Presuming this only affects vanilla Civics, and not the ones that originate from mods? If so its definitely a mod order issue - basically you have two different mods which both have different versions of the same 00_civics.txt file - probably as they both make tweaks to vanilla civics. You need to go into the launcher (or mod manager if you use one) and make sure the main Civics mod you want to use is pushed down to the bottom of the listed active mods.
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Is there any way to get xenophobic isolationists to open their borders. We're on good terms, but their closed borders are blocking off almost the entire rest of the galaxy from exploration. EDIT: Also I'm curious if there's a way to extend sector sizes. I have a few planets that don't appear to be close enough to one another to be included in a mutual sector, but I don't want a bunch of one planet sectors. Dick Trauma fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Oct 27, 2020 |
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Oct 27, 2020 18:00
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Make peace with them after a war, you'll have 10 years of mutually open borders. Humiliation war win or loss counts.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:09
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Any truce will do that, including just breaking a non-aggression pact.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:11
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:Any truce will do that, including just breaking a non-aggression pact. I broke the non-aggression pact and their borders opened! I immediately set all three of my science ships to auto-explore. And then I received the notification that I'd completed researching "speculative hyperspace breaching." Does that let the ships jump anywhere they want?
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Oct 27, 2020 18:24
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Yeah you can right click a system and they'll go MIA and cruise over there, though it requires you to have had some level of sensor coverage of it at some point. It's not ultra useful.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:30
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PittTheElder posted:Yeah you can right click a system and they'll go MIA and cruise over there, though it requires you to have had some level of sensor coverage of it at some point. It's not ultra useful.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:34
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Grouchio posted:It's super useful with big maps when you run out of a hyperlane bubble and need your scientists relocated ASAP. I use it in the early game when a path is blocked by a space amoeba or similar. Also you can instantly swap scientists between ships, so a quicker way to bring a scientist back home from distant exploration is to build a new science ship and transfer them.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:46
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Active Sensor Link counts for 'some level of sensor coverage' required for breaching, so if you can trade for that with an empire in the part of the galaxy you want it can be useful.
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Oct 27, 2020 18:55
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I figured it out. I did that thing you have to do sometimes where you turn off half the mods, then turn those back on and turn off the opposite half, then half of those, then half of those etc to narrow it down. It was a mod that gave me extra research alternatives. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1311464648 quote:This turns all the civics, traditions and researches that add a research alternative into a flat +5% research bonus.
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Oct 27, 2020 19:56
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Dick Trauma posted:Is there any way to get xenophobic isolationists to open their borders. We're on good terms, but their closed borders are blocking off almost the entire rest of the galaxy from exploration. Isolationists will never ever ever open their borders to anyone under any circumstances unless they're at war. I usually vassalize them on sight, that way they're forced to keep them open for me at least.
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Oct 27, 2020 20:36
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Age of Wonders: Planetfall's casus belli system really emphasises how overly complex and yet somehow overly simplistic Stellaris is
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Oct 27, 2020 23:50
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Casus Belli is a dumb concept in any game. Here's how it should work. 1. Click WAR button. 2. Click YES or NO 3. War achieved.
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Oct 28, 2020 00:04
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Crises AI still not fixed, construction ships keep going back and forth between systems doing nothing. drat this game.
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Oct 28, 2020 01:13
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Savy Saracen salad posted:Crises AI still not fixed, construction ships keep going back and forth between systems doing nothing. drat this game. get Crisis Manager, it's a set of mods that lets you customize a bunch of things about the crises, most relevantly, the way in which they build their crisis anchors and such to occupy systems. you can have them automatically spawn when their military takes over a system so that their territory is not dependent on construction ship AI.
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Oct 28, 2020 01:17
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And Tyler Too! posted:Casus Belli is a dumb concept in any game. Here's how it should work. I like the idea of Casus Belli - some societies give enough representation to their citizens that wantonly declaring war can lead to civil unrest and issues at home. If, however, you find some pretext before you declare war, then people are usually less upset by it. The empires that can always declare war (fanatic purifiers, devouring swarm, etc.) have steep diplomatic penalties with other empires. And then, of course, you can build yourself a goddamn death star and declare war on the galaxy at a whim.
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Oct 28, 2020 12:37
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And Tyler Too! posted:Casus Belli is a dumb concept in any game. Here's how it should work. If we then declared peace then our casus bellis would be wiped clean... but either one of us would be free to start a new war at will with the same conditions AND a massive opinion penalty from breaking the truce.
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Oct 28, 2020 14:04
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Splicer posted:Planetfall's war works like this, except you can accumulate casus belli points which affect how everyone else feels about it. For example, you can send your people into other empires' territories even without open borders, but doing so without open borders grants them casus belli points. Same for claiming sectors other people have claims over. So a similar system in stellaris would be that you can declare war on me whenever, but doing so without justification would quickly cause everyone to hate you, including your own people. But if I sent my science ship into your closed borders and started archaeologying then you could use this as a flimsy justification and most people would be only kind of mad at you, and some people who didn't like me anyway would cheer you on. If I settled right up to your borders and started sending military ships through your borders to attack people on the other side then the galaxy would applaud when you finally got mad enough to turn on me. This would be a great modification of the current system. I think it would go well with a reworking of war score that works more organically by having unhappiness grow in your planets as wars drag on, modified by the things you laid out there. Your citizens will keep fighting forever if you're defending yourself against determined exterminators, but if you started a war with little casus belli and it's been going on for a long time, you eventually have to deal with your planets shutting down from protests and your sector governors start thinking about declaring independence. You'd have to figure out what to do about AI and hivemind empires, but IMO that would work a lot better than being able to end wars an arbitrary number of days after reaching an arbitrary war score number.
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Oct 28, 2020 14:19
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And Tyler Too! posted:Casus Belli is a dumb concept in any game. Here's how it should work. Very strongly disagree. CB works great in both EU4 and CK3, and both games would be much worse if they had the overly simplistic system you describe. Stellaris's whole war system is a joke, though.
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Oct 28, 2020 14:32
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I used the sensor link method to make the three little unexplored parts of the galaxy accessible for breaching and sent my three science ships off. I waited, and they didn't reappear. Then I noticed a new icon, listing the date and time each would emerge from hyperspace. One was going to take six months, another two years, and the last four years! I feel like I owe my crews an apology, especially because there's maybe twelve systems left to explore.
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Oct 28, 2020 15:19
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I was finally offered and finished research of level 2 sensors, at 2283. And now at 2300 I first saw level 2 thrusters available as an option. Sweet. Maybe I'll get lucky and can grab level 2 armor at any point now too. edit Level 2 armor at 2305. This is the most ridiculous crap I've ever seen. Whoever came up with the randomized tech system should get slapped with a blorg plushie. 
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Oct 28, 2020 16:05
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Have you considered producing zero minerals but 500 science per month within the first year or five? https://youtu.be/J3WOvXPvTM4
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Poil posted:I was finally offered and finished research of level 2 sensors, at 2283. And now at 2300 I first saw level 2 thrusters available as an option. Sweet. Maybe I'll get lucky and can grab level 2 armor at any point now too. Last game I researched Crystal Mining... in 2489. After having synthesized them for over two centuries.
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Oct 28, 2020 18:33
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Yami Fenrir posted:Last game I researched Crystal Mining...
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Real talk tho, that is why I go for research alternatives a lot. It's a more powerful bonus than it first appears. Especially if you research "dead end" techs like Fortresses or the building upgrades and stuff to remove options.
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Oct 28, 2020 18:50
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So where were the crystal deposits once you could see them?
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Bloodly posted:So where were the crystal deposits once you could see them? So far away from my end of the galaxy (on a huge map) that despite having a federation and vassalizing the entire south of the map I never saw any until then. I'm fairly sure I discovered the first deposit during a War in Heaven, no idea where tho. Speaking of which, screw War in Heavens. Whoever decided that having a mapwide total war was a good idea?
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Oct 28, 2020 20:08
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In my last big game I played, I first saw autocannon tech after unlocking titans.  I miss the old pirate spawns because they always dropped autocannons when killed. Black Pants fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 28, 2020 |
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Oct 28, 2020 20:21
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Black Pants posted:In my last big game I played, I first saw autocannon tech after unlocking titans. Pirates usually drop tech you don't have like that. You can sort of "manually" trigger them by not protecting your trade, too. Also you can get titans surprisingly early, I think. It's just an uncommon tech card I believe.
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Oct 28, 2020 20:24
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Yami Fenrir posted:So far away from my end of the galaxy (on a huge map) that despite having a federation and vassalizing the entire south of the map I never saw any until then. The fanbase asking for something to do and the staff wanting to do Babylon 5.
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Oct 28, 2020 20:25
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Friendly reminder to install Back to the Drawing Board. It lets you reroll your tech options up to 10 times per category.
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Oct 28, 2020 21:45
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Do AIs every attack hostiles in their territory, like pirates, amoebas, etc.? When I see them on the map they seem to stay there forever.
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Note that some empires pacify amoebas instead of kill them, so they live quite happily together. Sucks when they're in a Federation with you and your solo Fed ships are getting intercepted by their buddy amoebas.
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Dick Trauma posted:Do AIs every attack hostiles in their territory, like pirates, amoebas, etc.? When I see them on the map they seem to stay there forever. Yeah, they'll clean up anything hostile in their space and some empires will opt to pacify them. If the red ! is out of your sensor range it will stay there forever until you check up on it.
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Oct 29, 2020 00:07
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Dick Trauma posted:Do AIs every attack hostiles in their territory, like pirates, amoebas, etc.? When I see them on the map they seem to stay there forever. I suspect the AI doesn't go after these unless they're at war. I've seen AI fleets sitting around doing nothing, then when war is declared they suddenly decide it's time to take care of those space crystals that have been there for a hundred years.
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Oct 29, 2020 00:08
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Speaking of warscores and diplo, was Federations the big DIPLOMACY dlc? Or are we still waiting on fixing the diplo system.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Speaking of warscores and diplo, was Federations the big DIPLOMACY dlc? Or are we still waiting on fixing the diplo system. Yes and also yes. 
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Dick Trauma posted:Do AIs every attack hostiles in their territory, like pirates, amoebas, etc.? When I see them on the map they seem to stay there forever. It's a bit more complicated. I had AIs mop up everything they could reach after a certain point, but since the map you explored never updates if you don't visit again, you sometimes don't notice. I had this kind of thing happen again and again, when I finally got around to clear up stuff like crystals my fleet often didn't find anything in the marked systems anymore, because the nearby AI had already cleared it.
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Picked this up two days ago without DLC and I've played it a lot. Three questions I can't really work out: 1) Is there a way to use diplomacy to do much of anything? My first game I've been running a mostly diplomacy focused empire and it just seems like I can't do anything. I've expanded my borders until I hit other people's but nobody will form a federation with me. The big millitary powers seem to be the ones with the most of everything else (voting power, highest score, best economy etc.). Is there a way to prosper that isn't tied up in some way to conquering other people? 2) I can't work out the reinforcement system. If I click to reinforce a millitary fleet that's been fighting, a load of little fleets pop up elsewhere? And maybe go join the main fleet? Or maybe they just stay where they are? 3) Tied to question one, but the galactic senate isn't seeming to do much - we vote, but the effect of this seems inconsequential nearly all the time and the two millitary powers just steamroll everyone else. Am I missing something?
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Captain_Indigo posted:Picked this up two days ago without DLC and I've played it a lot. 1) Use your Envoys. You can make them like you a lot more. Also, Rival the people your friends hate, as well as make defensive pacts with them. Trust will tick up, which is a large bonus towards forming federations. Also, you can play tall pretty well these days - make sure to make use of specialized planets, as well as habitats (if you build one over a mineral/energy/research/rare resource deposit, you will get special district types/deposits on the habitat, allowing you to get much more out of the stuff than before) and megastructures. Fortress Habitats in particular are a great way to expand your fleet cap. 2). Reinforcement fleets will automatically travel to your main fleet as soon as they're built, usually individually. If they get intercepted/run into space fauna, they usually get lost and have to be manually sent back tho - they usually die or EVAC back to your territory) 3) You can use favors to influence the vote, but the main way to influence the senate is by just becoming stronger than everyone else. The beginning resolutions do little but people like them, whereas the later resolutions are more game changing but are difficult to push through. Yami Fenrir fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Oct 29, 2020 |
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