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queeb posted:So i fired this up, want to get familiar with things before the new patch. but its like, stuttering on every single day, on a fresh game. so basically every second theres a small freeze. is that normal? No. My game on an ancient laptop does not do this. It also doesn’t do this on the gaming machine that is more recent (just checked) so yeah, it’s your system.
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1764704051 Maybe take a look at this. I'm going to give it a try in my next game to see if it helps.
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Apr 3, 2021 16:43
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Oh hey they fixed a desync that occurred if more than one empire had the same origin. I wonder if that's why multiplayer desyncs sucked recently.
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Apr 8, 2021 14:11
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If you cannot convene the galactic senate, you must become the senate.
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Apr 8, 2021 15:04
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Bofast posted:To what? "The Stellaris thread: cataloguing Dicks, from moderate to catastrophic"? Stellaris 3.0: Dick and the Logistic Function
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Apr 8, 2021 21:36
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I like the two games with espionage that doesn't suck, and in the others I enjoy the absurdity of the AI using it instead of winning the game for a while then I turn it off. Leaning towards "well this is dull" so far on the stellaris spy stuff. The darloks would be appalled. Spawning privateers if sufficiently powerful fleets might be cool.
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Apr 13, 2021 14:58
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Stellaris 3.0: Dick Thursday & The Case of The Logistic Function The crack in space is between monitor and chair.
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Apr 14, 2021 00:08
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Anecdotes aren't data, but here's an anecdote anyways because it might make you feel better. I mostly play materialist empires these days because I find thesis defense messages hilarious for federations. I have routinely culled my factions down to the materialists + whatever the other empire authority I have, and it certainly feels consistently achievable. If you are struggling to get your factions down to 2, you are likely missing something causing ethics attraction (such as diplomatic agreements) or you are allowing migration or purchasing slaves with a disruptive ethics. Factions are a dumb black box, but they are a dumb black box that responds consistently. Suppress the faction, cancel migration treaties to people different than you, go through and figure out where your problem pops came from, fix whatever attracted those ethics in the first place and if you're impatient deport the pops, wait a decade or so keeping tabs to verify they are changing away from whatever badwrongfun ideas they have and eventually the faction dissolves.
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Apr 14, 2021 15:38
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Yami Fenrir posted:Yes, they do. Piracy is also fiddly but yeah you can have zero piracy happen with thousands of trade flowing through overlapped bastions with unarmed but present defense platforms and hangar bays.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:49
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ilkhan posted:Thanks to the above replies. Little strange though. I've built all sorts of gateways around to bring trade directly to my home system, but even with a gateway in it and a gateway on a station full of hangers, I still get pirate attacks on a system next door from the capital. Maybe the amount of trade just overwhelmed the hanger patrols? Build a set of unarmed (go in and custom design them) defense platforms on any system where pirates actually show up. Defense platforms can be built on any outpost (not just upgraded ones) and they suppress piracy based on existing not on their loadout. This is the fine tune "this one fiddly system needs 3 more suppression" option.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:57
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Libluini posted:
I took it as a comment on how pernicious spiritualism is. Which seems, well, fair. People who legitimately believe and order their lives based entirely upon their unfalsifiable imaginings are terrifying. See - humans, Sol 3. Also, videogames.
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Apr 14, 2021 19:49
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bob dobbs is dead posted:as opposed to paradox, who have a literal decades-long proven track record of game ai thats not great at playing the game? Imagining paradox ais drowning sequentially in a toilet as they try to drink. The next AI comes in and improves the toilet by moving the previous AI corpse slightly to the left so it can shove its own head into the bowl. Major releases do things like put their head in the tank instead of the bowl.
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Apr 15, 2021 13:10
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Relevant Tangent posted:Can't emphasize enough that Spiritualists in Stellaris have direct access to the place souls go to when the body dies. It's basically Hell but it's as real as anything that Materialists do. Once you reach into the Shroud the gulf between your empire and the empire that killed everyone and are now pretending that soulless husks are actually people should be so vast as to preclude anything but a mutual agreement to pretend the other doesn't exist. Spiritualism is the belief in the unfalsifiable, and that is to be clear - entirely fine. Believing in things which you cannot prove or disprove is an important skill set - it lets you discover new things and account for other's feelings. It's also completely terrifying because it lets you discover new things some of which are real, loving terrifying, and sometimes crisis inducing. Lastly it lets you wonder if other people feel what you feel which is very existential, and probably good for you, but tastes like boiled Brussel sprouts. I wasn't trying to randomly dunk on spiritualists for believing things they cannot prove, merely commenting that spiritualists in stellaris being pernicious and inscrutable and rather hard to wipe out is very good flavor for them given what spiritualism is all about. It's nice. Now, report to medbay 101221 for science.
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Gort posted:Thoughts so far:
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Apr 15, 2021 21:18
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Stellaris 3.0: Logistics Improved After Dick Arrived.
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Apr 16, 2021 22:43
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The event manager hates -that- world specifically. Always fun.
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Apr 18, 2021 15:45
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Thanks, I hate it.
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Apr 18, 2021 15:55
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Accretionist posted:There needs to be an easier way to grind crisis points. Stellaris 3.0: a(nother) deeply unethical farming sim by pdx.
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Apr 18, 2021 22:21
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FileNotFound posted:Robotic ascension + nihilistic acquisition. Don't forget to buy slaves and put them into robots too! The actual "grow your own" methods of population improvement are still a distant 4th (possibly worse) place behind "steal your neighbors", "buy the market", and my personal favorite "settling a planet then evacuating it" (you can do this last automatically by settling worlds where your habitability is poo poo, disabling jobs, and putting the relevant "flee the system" module in the starbase. Such luxury!
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Apr 19, 2021 19:12
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Areas of minimal efficiency I willfully ignore: Scientist trait research shuffle Robotic worker trait assignment Planet by planet gene mods I understand I am giving away as much as 10% in each of these and I just don’t care. The more I dwell on it the more I conclude pdx’s defining design paradigm is the horizon effect.
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Apr 20, 2021 14:05
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ZypherIM posted:Early on missiles are a huge trap (as in you'll lose to a fleet that's like 2/3 your power), I need to mess around and figure out if there is a mid-game timing for them. A caveat - Missile corvettes with an unyielding admiral and afterburners were a dominant strategy for a while in the early techrush fast vette attack mp scene. You can put an absurd amount of alpha onto the enemy fleet with missiles, and as a result you can actually punch above your weight fleet wise because your initial wave will chop a section of the enemy fleet off before they fire. Once larger ships arrive on the field with enough buffer hp that the initial long range alpha isn’t quite as likely to force a third of the enemy guns offline, missiles are less interesting. Then you research them high enough to recreate alpha and they become interesting again. As far as avoiding newb traps, destroyers and cruisers require finesse, in general a corvette with your best weapon system is the cheapest way to get your best weapon system into space, and the most stable endgame fleet is kinetic battery battleships. If you decide as a new player to focus on vettes and bs and ignore destroyer/cruiser doctrine that is entirely reasonable. The last thing is to make your fleets homogenous. Sublight travel speed is based on the slowest boat in the fleet, and admiral bonuses have different utility to different hull types. Managing jobs via the population screen is the entire game from the economy side. If you aren’t telling your workforce exactly which jobs they can take by closing down the others, you are at the mercy of the pdx “may you live in interesting times” AI philosophy. Yes it is tedious and stupid.
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Staltran posted:I usually replace the colonists with entertainers pretty quickly, which is probably why I haven't have problems with this. Are you saying you turn off jobs and force unemployment when those jobs are middling? How dare you sir.
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Apr 21, 2021 15:06
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What people feel about the global growth cap varies based on how aware they are of how the game actually works, and sadly access to that part of the game is hidden away under the stairs in the half demolished building that was condemned thirty years ago after it caught on fire, twice, and has since grown over with lush poison ivy. Also it's on the first moon of alpha centauri B.
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Apr 21, 2021 22:19
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It would help me sell my friends on this game if it was less pointlessly inscrutable and reliant on the horizon effect to hide the rough edges and dodgy programming choices.
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Apr 21, 2021 22:21
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ilkhan posted:Can you colonize, migrate away/abandon, and then re-colonize? Colonizing creates pops, right? Broadly, Yes. There are various subtleties to maximizing that route.
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Apr 21, 2021 23:56
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Unemployment.
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Sloober posted:primary reason i dont like the growth changes is just that its a bandaid for performance, and also does not take into account galaxy size or habitability settings Yeah this. The simulation should not crater as the game goes to larger numbers of population. That it does is the problem. You don't fix this problem by saying "we'll stop growth so you don't get there within the default game length" because that kneecaps any game that goes longer, and doesn't address the issue. Using the horizon effect to mask bugs is meh. Anyways, back to filling space with malls.
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Apr 22, 2021 16:41
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Turn off jobs that suck entirely. This usually means clerks.
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Buildings beyond pop assembly and planetary capital are situational. Every one of your planets should upgrade their capital every time it is available, and you should be able to assemble something with the pop assembly queue. After that your building/district slot choices depend on a larger flowchart, but you will likely not max out more than a few core worlds, and should get used to having unbuilt buildings/districts depending on what is going on. Instead, focus on employing your people per planet in a way that benefits from a specialization or better yet many specialization stacking together.
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JerikTelorian posted:Espionage is fun and I like the little vignettes you get when acquiring assets or when something happens on a mission. I'm also a big fan of the new First Encounters system. Your first few forays into space now feel much more mysterious and exciting. I can agree with a lot of this. Stellaris continues to ooze flavor. The simulation having the scaling problem that got solved via bandaid is annoying, but for most people just playing vanilla single player with an eye towards winning the game at some point, it works fine. It's only if you really do MP, modded, or want to run the simulation longer that the empire growth cap being a bandaid is a problem. (You can absolutely tear the bandaid off via a "2 line mod" but then you're just staring at the wound wondering why they didn't suture it. It's sort of like having a portal to hell that is over there, and as long as noone ever goes over there it's fine. No of course we didn't close the portal, that would require work on technical debt.) So yeah - Nemesis good, bandaid is a dumb but understandable fix for the core game, most goons and bad players will never notice the yawning portal to hell that is beyond their horizon. For the rest of us...uh, entertainment awaits?
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Apr 23, 2021 20:48
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Chemical Bliss -> Zronian Stupor -> Bio Trophies. Let it wash over you.
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Forced migration remains the dominant strategy.
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Nitrousoxide posted:So, with the lack of automatic resettling, robots and machine empires are awful micro-intensive garbage now right? I mean, every single empire in the game benefits massively from the player playing "Personal HR Manager" for every planet. That's sort of the economy game in a nutshell right now - buildings and districts are the extra minutia clicks, just people seem to enjoy those clicks more than "turn on more researcher jobs, turn off clerk jobs" which is what will make your empire better. There's this entirely pointless layer or two of obfuscation of what would work perfectly well as a series of sliders.
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Apr 27, 2021 16:33
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Every designer learns about fail forward eventually! If you were lucky enough to learn it non destructively, chalk up the win and enjoy.
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Captain Monkey posted:At least we agree on something.  Do the spacey races and spin yourself around. That’s what xenophiles about.
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Apr 29, 2021 22:13
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It’s almost like the culture isn’t sound. Oh well. Defense platforms, specifically completely naked zero module defense platforms, can be useful as ablative armor and count just like fully fit defense platforms for trade protection purposes. Fitting strike craft is the next best choice if you want your ablative armor to punch back. Mostly useful to empires trying to maximize trade, which is niche enough that most empires can safely ignore it. It can be fun though if you haven’t ever gone all in on the trade economy.
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Maybe they can address technical debt!
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Jazerus posted:criminal megacorps If you're modding, these should be on the list. Criminal Megacorps are -real bad- for many varied reasons most of which have been typed at length elsewhere.
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Picture the habitat. Spinning silently in space, empty. Then suddenly, a great fwoosh flows through the ancient circuits, the music turns on. Then lights, and suddenly the robots begin to stir to life once more. “A happy day citizen! You have activated the bioreactor, with this energy we shall craft your Perfect Shell (tm). Soon you will be free.” The volume of the music rises, in time with the fire, and the scientist’s life burns away. The empty science vessel floats in space, silent. The habitat’s systems power down, and the synth mourns the engineers decision to place the bioreactor in the entry bay to maximize efficiency, then powers down, alone. This is why they don’t allow hydroponics habitats anymore. Galactic ordinance 579 Anias fucked around with this message at 14:50 on May 3, 2021 |
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