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Baronjutter posted:Weird, no map mode shows the lines though. no, it's a bug linked to all uplifted and some primitive species; only the initial cyborg project can correctly assimilate them because it converts them all at once to new subrace, "SpeciesName Superior". refugees are often from such species and can thus be afflicted with the bug, but any pops from starting empires should assimilate correctly even if some of them became "SpeciesName Superior" and others didn't.
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The Oldest Man posted:God I'm so loving clever really strikes me as more spiritualist than materialist
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Fellblade posted:Whaaat, I didn’t see anybody complain about this so I’m interested in the reasoning behind it. it's too easy to blob up and then buy all of the enclave bonuses forever in my experience. starbase trading modules are way more powerful than solar panels ever were, so if you avoid using starbases on border defense, you can really rack up energy Spanish Matlock posted:Does anyone else feel like gateways are prohibitively expensive? You could easily cut the prices in half and be on target. Why would I spend 10,000 energy and 5000 minerals to reactivate or 10000 minerals to build a structure that just cuts down on travel time when wormholes exist? gates do kinda suck with their slider set to 1x, too expensive for what you can expect to get out of them. 2x or 2.5x gates makes the entire galaxy have gates - most empires will have at least one - but doesn't put them literally everywhere, so it creates a really mass effect-esque feeling of most areas being linked together, but with backwater areas that have to be slowboated to as well. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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TGLT posted:I mean I'm down for bigger = more likely revolutions, but until then maintenance costs and increasing unity/research work just fine. i dream of the day that sectors have government types and elect/appoint/crown/etc. governors who have their own political agendas that may lead them to rebellion
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TGLT posted:Pax Romana's bullshit. It basically just amounted to "winded down the near constant foreign invasions." Nero was an emperor during Pax Romana, and right after him is the Year of Four Emperors. You also had a pretty major Jewish revolt in those 200 years. nero was a perfectly decent emperor in that, because he was way too busy working on his sweet lyre jams to pick up actresses, he really did nothing to interfere with the workings of the imperial apparatus; it was very used to self-direction since tiberius and claudius were both pretty hands-off and caligula was, well, caligula, so this wasn't as much of an issue as you'd think. his reputation as a bad ruler is incredibly overblown because the senate thought he was weak enough that a bunch of propaganda could lead to a successful senatorial coup. which they indeed tried during the year of the four emperors, and their senatorial emperor was terrible the pax romana was totally a real thing. the average roman's life was not at all disturbed by any of the political intrigue you describe, except for those living in rome itself maybe. there is violence during the pax romana obviously, but it's less frequent and, jewish revolts excepted, less severe than you might expect before or afterward.
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Randarkman posted:Well, here's the thing, really there wasn't much of an imperial apparatus for an Emeperor to mess with, the Roman Empire essentially ran itself, and that doesn't mean it had a self-perpetuating bureacracy or anything like that it means that every part of the empire ran its own affairs at the local level with very little intereference or involvement from above, except things like appointments to the most important posts like governor and such (and this was often more of a rubber stamp kind of thing than anything else). this is kind of a mischaracterization. from the very beginning, augustus had a fairly large household staff that doubled as, essentially, command staff for the empire as a whole, handling routine communications from governors and directing policy in the significant chunk of the empire that had non-senatorial governors because augustus owned it as personal property. he had a huge network of clients, both inherited from caesar and established himself, who carried out his will outside of formal channels, including some agents you could accurately describe as secret police, who watched the administrations of the provinces for unusual levels of corruption and hunted national security threats. this informal imperial administration kept going as though augustus were still alive for quite a while after he died, in the sense that they ran the empire in basically the same way as augustus would have while his successors brooded and partied and went into bloodthirsty rages. diocletian formalized what remained of it as an actual imperial court because he loved the trappings of monarchy, and because it desperately needed to be formalized to continue operating. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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Spanish Matlock posted:It's just that you have to spend 20,000 minerals to build a functional set of gates, or 10,000 minerals + 10,000 energy + 5000 minerals if you happen to have a convenient ruined one. it's doable by midgame though the 2.0.2 energy changes might make it somewhat harder. having even a 2-gate network is tremendously useful as you can centralize your shipyards, or fight on two fronts at effectively full strength. they're expensive but the benefits can't be gotten any other way so it can still be worthwhile to open them up. as i said, making ruined gates more common makes them much more consistently useful. the wormhole connections aren't always going to be useful for you, if they happen to be then you don't have to bother with gates.
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JerikTelorian posted:Should I be using this beta patch? Are there any killer bugs in it? i played it yesterday, and i'd stick with 2.0.1 until they fix the bug in the beta that makes traditions too cheap - which is worse than the status quo in 2.0.1 where they're too expensive, imo.
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Lake Effect posted:Which of my points isn't common sense? I'm obviously speculating anyways. Just think about this misuse of the common green and what happens if fewer people buy certain kinds of expansions at full price. There are consequences to group behavior. paradox has already dealt with this on their end, by not half-pricing DLC for roughly a year after release. they're presumably happy enough with the gain in revenue compared to their old policy of half-pricing after a DLC is no longer the newest DLC since they've stuck with the same price pattern for a while now, so why chide people on a forum about it
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Strudel Man posted:I don't think the per-species military unit limits are working properly. I found a Very Strong primitive race to make into a warrior caste, and if I try to queue up a bunch at once, it eventually stops me from queuing more because "the species can only support 14 assault armies." But once they've actually been built, I can add more again. wait, this is even a thing? it's definitely not working right if so, you can build as many armies as you want from a single pop though admittedly i've never tried to build 14 armies simultaneously
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Alright so I am playing a Fanatic Purifier and I am Armageddon bombing a planet and its "Planetary Damage" keeps ticking up to 100%, then resetting to zero. Can anyone explain to me what is going on? Because I am pretty confused and the game is giving me zero feedback. every time planetary damage hits 100% a pop and the building in its tile gets blown up. non-armageddon bombing can kill pops, but is more likely to just blow up buildings
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Strudel Man posted:How the heck does this work. Pathetic + inferior + equivalent = equivalent? current fleet is probably valued less than capacity and tech for the summed evaluation. this makes more sense from the AI's perspective as the player is likely to beef up to capacity when declared on if possible, and a low cap low tech player is thus a much more vulnerable target even with the same current fleet value. this has the side effect that it's way too easy to spook the AI with your naval capacity on normal AI aggressiveness
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canepazzo posted:Wait, where does it say it's bugged? I thought they just fixed the multiplicative/additive issue, and made each system worth 1% rather than 2% penalty. Isn't that working as intended? they accidentally have it set up to add the system penalty twice while not adding the colony penalty at all. there's a bug report in the paradox forum and it's fixed already, they just haven't released the first wave of fixes to the beta
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Eltoasto posted:I've heard mastery of nature is pretty bad now, since it doesn't give you tech, only reduces tile clearing costs, and generally just gives you 1 extra tile per planet. mastery of nature is pretty good if you play with max AI empires and thus run out of empty territory as an influence sink fairly quickly, as you should. extra tiles are nothing to scoff at and a lot more meaningful than a lot of the other no-prereq perks, the only issue is affording the influence and that's not so hard eventually. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Azuth0667 posted:How so with respect to the biological ascension path? The capstone modifications you can do seemed fairly tame compared to what you can get from either psionic or synthetic ascensions. if you're really into pop micro, bio ascension has slightly bigger tile production than the other two because every type of resource has two or more traits that can stack. overall, though, synthetic ascension is much less trouble for only slightly less production, and psionic has the crazy stuff like psi jump drives (psi jump drives only have a 20 day cooldown, they're game-breakingly strong), so i'd only go bio ascension as a small empire that needs every possible edge Jazerus fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Mar 4, 2018 |
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Magil Zeal posted:Same. In the first game I played I set up a network of bastions around every wormhole and a gateway network to connect all my shipyards and bastions so I could rapidly respond to any attack, and it all came to nothing because the only time I ever got attacked it was by pitiful fleets in my fringe regions. use Glavius's Ultimate AI and maybe Enhanced AI, with high AI aggressiveness ingame and maybe hard mode also. the unmodded, normal mode AI simply cannot provide a challenge to an experienced Paradox or 4X player - if you build your planets up sensibly and expand until you run out of empty space, you'll always win because they often don't do either of those things. Pylons posted:I hope they do something to make carriers viable again. They're my favorite thing, thematically, but I just can't justify them with the way things are now. i use amoeba + PD + small guns picket carriers as my PD screen, but otherwise yeah.
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hobbesmaster posted:But you can only do modifications on a planet by planet basis which means you probably don't want to nerve staple an entire planet for the mineral output for example. that's what resettlement after you nerve staple the whole planet is for! like i said, if you really, really enjoy pop micro, it's the one for you
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also you do modifications on both a planet-by-planet and species-by-species basis - i.e. "mod all blorg on planet x into super-blorg", so actually for a slave society that consistently has just two species on a planet - overlords and slaves - the micro isn't really any more intense than normal. i never play authoritarians so it didn't occur to me at first, but slavers definitely get the most out of biological ascension
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Eiba posted:After I put my butterfly people's brains in robot bodies, a bunch of repugnant porcupine refugees flooded into a planet I just settled. They were being hosed up but a great khan, but they were fanatic purifiers so while I'm typically sympathetic to refugees, I wasn't so happy to get these bloodthirsty xenophobic ones. And what's more the plannet the flooded was supposed to be a mineral base as my butterflies could only live on their gaia home world and habitats. Well, I guess as robots they could live anywhere, but out of habit (and a science specialization) I kept them mainly in habitats, and filled my mining worlds with synths. i also find this to be really unfortunate. i like building up a really diverse empire and empires that accept refugees can get a very multicultural society going on now, so i avoid synth ascension since it homogenizes everybody. one option you could consider in the future is the ascension paths combined mod, which essentially adds a "fourth ascension" where you take each of the tier-1 perks from the three normal ascensions. assimilation into cyborgs retains species identity and just turns them into a new subspecies with the cyborg trait.
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Eltoasto posted:What are your strategies for the Stellarite Devourer? I just went at it with 30k+ fleet set up with lasers since it has no shields, and it absolutely wrecked me, kiting around the system. Did it get buffed in 2.0? Pondering just making a massive plasma vette fleet. 30k just doesn't have the alpha strike capability to comfortably kill the devourer. 40k can just barely manage it, but you'll lose nearly the whole fleet even with plasma and the curator buff. even a corvette fleet is going to take pretty enormous attrition because its XL laser can insta-kill anything and i don't think i've ever seen it miss. PD helps, as one of its weapons seems to technically be a missile. OwlFancier posted:Your best bet is either plasma, or mining drone lasers. Missiles will also do extra hull damage. Normal lasers don't do any extra damage to hull but they will help with armour some. Plasma is much better though. torpedos probably are actually the best option, then! 14k of plasma corvettes would not be able to do that. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Mar 4, 2018 |
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OwlFancier posted:Eh, no plasma would probably work better, torpedoes are good against armour but they can't alpha strike it either. You just want maximum damage to hull because the thing is mostly hull, and plasma is very good against both armour and hull. Torpedoes are mostly good at bypassing shields which it doesn't have. yes, i think torpedoes are probably the way to go because they are effectively corvette-mounted L slot weapons, which means you can maintain a dual advantage over the devourer GotLag posted:Jump drive cooldown display when? weapon range is also important for how the ship interprets its combat behavior; if you want a ship to hang way back, it can't be using medium or small weapons. this means, unintuitively, that the best carrier set up doesn't actually hang back at all; carrier cruisers with M and S weapons and a picket behavior will hang out close to the battle, but between the swarm and the line most of the time. artillery-type ships with large weapons are going to be the biggest threat to a cruiser no matter where it is on the field while small weapons are not such a concern, so this seems to be a good position to maximize strike craft uptime and let your PD intercept missiles headed for the line and artillery. strike craft do kinda suck unfortunately, but you also get PD in the bargain, which actually seems quite effective now. in general, the computers seem to nudge the AI into grouping into 4 different positions in the battle, swarm -> picket -> line -> artillery, but their weapon ranges must be suited for the role the computer is intended to play or they will charge in close.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Can anyone explain the difference in these two types to me? I have occupied a few additional systems that are not part of the war goal/something I have claims on, and the Acceptance numbers showing for each choice are different so I just dont understand what is going on. in this case? nothing, because you've occupied all of your claims and the enemy has no occupation on you. if they did have anything occupied in your territory that they have claims on, then status quo would give them the claimed systems they occupy while you get the claimed systems you've occupied. achieve war goals would give you all of your claims on them and not give the other side any of their claims on you.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Can anyone tell me how I get my Teldar Crystals and other Strategics to give me their bonuses? Or where I can see how they work in 2.0.2 or whatever the beta patch is? you get the bonus as long as you have at least 1 of the resource, instantly
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StashAugustine posted:Hey I'm planning on going to war with a devouring swarm whose planets have poo poo habitability for me. I can get either migration treaties with people that have suitable habitability, or possibly enlighten a vassal, plus I have robots (though not synths). What happens when I take over their planets and how can I make sure they're stocked with suitable species? build a robot or resettle somebody onto the world after you take it. if you don't, it will revert to uncolonized after the purge of the swarm's drones is done.
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Sylink posted:Is there any mechanism in game to quickly cycle through the surface screens of planets so I can go upgrade them all etc without zooming in and out of the system view ? the outliner on the right of the screen for your core planets should list them all - if you click on them there it brings up their menu. the F5 screen will let you do the same for planets in sectors.
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Eltoasto posted:I was under the impression that gateways could be turned off or at least not used by people at war with you? they indeed can't be used by people at war with you which is a drat shame, the gates turning on should basically be a huge change in galactic geography with both benefits and risks imo.
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Soonmot posted:Hmm, tried a despoiler run just now, but got spanked on my first war a few years in. I'm guessing that I should be making GBS threads out starbases to claim more resources as soon as I have the influence? I was focusing on building up my fleet first, but that obviously didn't work. yeah, expand as much as possible peacefully before warring. just make sure you set the game up with max AIs so that you can't expand peacefully for 100 years because half of the galaxy is never claimed
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Archenteron posted:Are some fleets set to aggressive (will beeline towards a hostile in system immediately) and some are on passive (will fight when they get engaged but otherwise will chill through)? it's a range thing fleets don't go into combat at a set distance; combat begins at the edge of the range of the longest-range weapon in either fleet. this has all kinds of weird consequences: missile corvette fleets are the best pursuers to trap a fleeing enemy because they're both fast and long-range, while gun/laser corvettes are less easily caught themselves. XL weapons have enormous range so any fleet that includes them will enter combat from very far away while accompanying fleets that have no XL weapons will not and may have to be manually ordered closer.
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah, the combat system is really weird (bad) and you'll often want to include a few ships with super long range weapons just to trigger combat sooner since combat acts as a FTL snare and forces all ships involved to fly straight at each other. i think the weirdness of it would be really interesting if the AI could engage in the same tactical position & fleet composition manipulation that the player can, it's just kind of an extra player-only tool as it is though.
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Sedisp posted:Any word on them fixing the unity bug in 2.0.2? I prefer the beta patch over live but that much unity feels like cheating. i am playing my 2.0.2 game on 2x tech/unity. it turns out the balance is kind of better with 2x tech, and it evens out the unity cost to something closer to intended. AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Wait, what bug? in 2.0.1, the unity penalty for colonies and systems was multiplied instead of added, making unity much slower than intended. in 2.0.2, systems give double their intended penalty while colonies give no penalty at all due to a typo, making it much faster than intended
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re: AI use glavius's ai mod, it makes the AI actually have rational planets, including sector AI Jazerus fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Mar 5, 2018 |
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Baronjutter posted:I'll still die on the hill that they need to ditch the tile system entirely. It's not fun for humans and the AI absolutely can't handle it in the slightest. the starving probably came first, which tanked their happiness, tanking their minerals and energy. afterward they spent all of their minerals trying to keep up on fleet which just put them deeper in the hole. the AI drive toward fleet parity over all is one of the things glavius's mod fixes, as well as its inability to escape starvation once it starts
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Baronjutter posted:Got a link? Is his mod ok with the beta? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1140543652 definitely okay with the beta for the most part. he fixes reported issues with the AI on almost a daily basis when the game is changing rapidly like it is now. you'll run into the occasional issue, but the AI still plays much better with his adjustments.
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Baronjutter posted:I'd say this is my overall emotion while playing stellaris, a real "hurry up and wait" feeling. I'm always waiting for some extremely long timer to countdown. Waiting for a peace treaty to expire, waiting to integrate a vassal, waiting for a mega-structure to finish, waiting for my fleet to slowly creep across the map, waiting for that orbital bombardment to finally lower their defenses enough to invade. paradoxically, 2x tech speed actually alleviates some of the "hurry up and wait" feeling for me. because tech comes pretty slowly, there's less trivial stuff to spend minerals on at any one time, like mass building upgrades; this means you end up stockpiling pretty high and just spending big when you feel like it, fighting when you feel like, etc. you never really feel like you're actively waiting, the minerals just end up rolling in fast enough for what you want to do. the AI seems to do better when it has a little less pressure to spend on tons of stuff all at once, too
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Baronjutter posted:So can anyone tell me what will happen when the space-age primitive civ that has a planet in my system along with my own colonized system finally hits the next tech level and becomes a full FTL civilization? Will I just auto-annex them like in the screen shot above? Will they somehow get the system? Because shared systems are totally out now right? if you enlighten them, they'll get the whole system as your vassal. guessing that if they do it on their own, they just flat out get the system. this can be, uh, deleterious to the health of your pops if you have a colony in that system and the primitives are authoritarian or xenophobe
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Splicer posted:I think, and after this playthrough I'll be making a mod to test it, life could be made much easier on the AI by removing many of the tile bonuses and replacing them with a smaller amount of more meaningful ones. More strategic resource and 2+ resource tiles, more blank tiles, and less or no 1 resource tiles cluttering up the place. i just discovered a mod which makes buildings not suppress tile resources. since the AI tends to plow over bonuses that it really shouldn't, this could even the tile-micro playing field a bit between AI and player, i think.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:What difficulty settings do you folks use? I usually do normal/aggressive, but am finding that after conquering the first empire there's not much of a challenge until the various crises pop up. I don't usually do advanced AI starts though. Should I just advanced start a load or pop it up to hard? max AIs, lots of advanced starts (but not too many - 25%-50% of the total AIs), high aggression, hard, with the AI mod I linked earlier. advanced starts are pretty important - in general, advanced start empires are going to be your major nemeses, as they are (usually) the ones who will grow big by eating chunks of other empires. a bunch of AIs at parity with each other are unlikely to fight and thus generate large enemies for you - they'll generally sit around until you start stirring things up, which is too late for them to beef up enough to oppose you.
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Fintilgin posted:It struck me that Ascension picks should each have a pool of cool random events tied to them. Like how in EUIV taking financial can trigger inflation reduction events and such. stellaris just needs more events in general, and yeah ascension perks having idea-group-like event unlocks is a great idea. the stellaris event engine is actually incredibly sophisticated compared to other paradox games, it's just kind of...not used for much except simple binary choices Taear posted:Some of the traits I find really useful. The one that increases my fleet cap is great because I'm lazy and hate building loads of messy starbases and interstellar dominion allows me to directly control more planets in a way that other things don't really allow. But +4 starbase cap, 10% research and etc just aren't enough to make them worth it. mastery of nature is great regardless! unless you're just warring a ton, you should have plenty of influence during the midgame to spend on land clearance, and the extra tiles can be quite valuable. Jazerus fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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MShadowy posted:Since it will always pull from your active leader pool this game is not terribly good at is simulating democracy in anything resembling an organic way. I do kind of recall a period of releases where it was actually better at it, since it would generate random civilians running for the rulers office; it probably got nixed because it likely broke the chain of having to expend influence to buy new leaders to fill whatever position got vacated. i feel like the ultimate ideal for governors and related systems like sectors would be to have them work differently for different government types - dictatorships more or less use something like the current system, democracies and oligarchies elect governors who have their own goals and could lead sectors into rebellion due to ideological differences or taxation, empires have a feudal organization with dukes ruling sectors, who have their own heirs that take over when they die and also get very upset/rebellious if you remove things from their sector, tax them too heavily, etc.
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