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Getting back into this with my curious robot empire and I have some questions: 1) I heard that sectors are doing pretty well now, but does that extend to robot empires? 2) Likewise, do sectors understand robomodded pops?
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Libluini posted:1) Better than normal empires actually, since sectors are a little bit overzealous in feeding your people. If you don't need food, that's one headache less for you, the player Thank you. I'm almost considering not min-maxing robopops, but why bother playing machine empires then?
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Feb 25, 2018 22:03
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Question: with systems only inflating unity costs by 2% while planets take 20% for unity, is the new conventional wisdom for tall play to expand as much as you can, starbases for chokepoints permitting, but not to colonize planets all willy-nilly? Maybe only colonize up to your core systems cap?
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Feb 26, 2018 18:46
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Is it me or does it seems like, pound for pound, the best weapons to put on defensive platforms are hangars since you can muster a lot of them on a fortress station, enough to test even the most PD-heavy fleet?
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Feb 27, 2018 16:12
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Staltran posted:So, uh, regarding the previous discussion on system/planet tradition/tech cost increases and figuring out if a system is worth it, I think a good way is to basically calculate how much unity/science you're losing to inflation. Now, if you're not an idiot, you write a function to do that in whatever programming language. If you are an idiot, after that you decide that a simple web page would be a more convenient UI, and wouldn't take that long to make. Future idiots don't need to do that though. Unless they want to make one that's not kinda lovely I guess. If you have any complaints/suggestions you can post them here but I'm not guaranteeing that I'll care enough to spend more time on this. (The source code also badly needs refactoring so I don't really want anyone to see it.) Thank god I'm an idiot, and thank you for not being one!
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Feb 28, 2018 15:31
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I thought they hotfixed the "pops being purged not producing resources" thing? I'm turning these c'thulu fuckers into batteries and I'm not getting any juice.
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Feb 28, 2018 21:25
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Wait, do you actually need low unrest to turn aliens into food/batteries?
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Feb 28, 2018 22:20
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ulmont posted:Make sure you have patch 2.0.1 [checksum fb8b] installed. I got the hotfix but it's not working. I hope it isn't the increased ship speed mod posted earlier, since that was listed for 2.0 only, but apparently some other people on reddit are still experiencing the purge bug.
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Feb 28, 2018 22:38
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Yeah you need to reduce unrest. Drop down some patrol drones and you should be fine. ConfusedUs posted:Yeah. Turns out those people don't like you much! Morpheus has found Neo. The slaves have rallied. The cows overran a supply depo and strapped lightsabers to their horns. Do you want to try to eat an angry cow with lightsaber horns? Oh, alright. That does make sense. Sorry, never really played Determined Exterminators before so I was confused. I did play a Devouring Swarm, but that's when attack armies lowered unrest. Time to set up some fortresses and ship some bots in!
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Feb 28, 2018 23:12
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How's the difficulty for you guys? My Very Hard diff/High Aggression genocide robots run has kinda hit the steamrolling pace and I'm just about to hit midgame. I only had a single tense early game war with a neighbor that I won through camping my defensive starbase, racking up their casualties for a pocket auto-status quo, and bumrushed key systems to slow their momentum when I finally had the upper hand. After that, the AI just would not risk a war against my super bastions but couldn't clean up their own neighbors, leading me to eventually overpower them though robot optimization and tech. I'd have figured they'd be making alliance blocs against me now.
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Mar 1, 2018 13:12
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Threat dissipates over time, yeah? I'd have thought that the presence of a genocidal race's massive empire would always be a constant threat to empires, encouraging them to ally up.
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Mar 4, 2018 07:49
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I've been warned away from using cruisers due to them not being particularly cost-effective; will Destroyers with small weapons hovering around the "line" engagement range still contribute to the fight? Or should I just spec them as "artillery" destroyers + 1 medium weapon and leave the point defense to the corvettes?
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Mar 4, 2018 11:25
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Is there a hotkey to upgrade all on a defense platform? Better, add a hotkey to upgrade all on all starbases There's a button on the Defenses panel for a starbase that lets you upgrade all of them in one go. Top of the platform list I think.
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Mar 5, 2018 07:18
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Aethernet posted:Because if they're not anti-corvette, what exactly are they for, given that torpedoes are better against large ships in nearly every way? I'm surprised he was down on missiles (at least for early game), considering that missile spam on my starbase and defense platforms were what got me through early game aggression by enemy empires as a genocide robot.
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Mar 10, 2018 12:50
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Flushed the game cash, verified file integrity, no dice. I'm pretty sure that's just the default human portrait; your actual leader, subleaders, and pops should have their own.
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Mar 11, 2018 11:51
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Nickiepoo posted:Do....do they fight each other? Thankfully yes, but it pretty much makes the Defender of the Galaxy perk pick a requirement.
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Mar 29, 2018 22:11
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Did the change to Titan limits push through in the final patch? I'm still stuck at 3 Titans despite having more than enough force limit, and the only mods I haven't turned off to narrow down the culprit are the two AI mods and Mod Menu.
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Apr 6, 2018 19:24
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I'm only using Glavius' mod for this run, at 2264 I'm pretty sure not a single empire has warred with another in my entire galaxy. And this is with me using the custom difficulty mod to boost their handicap to Grand Admiral level now.
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Apr 12, 2018 21:57
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Ugh, even with me using the custom difficulty mod to boost their resource and combat bonuses beyond the vanilla games restraints, not even the monster Awakened Fallen Empire is doing poo poo apart from making bigger fleets with bigger power numbers. I want some wars to pop off, goddammit, and not just stomps by the local friendlies on the unlucky rear end in a top hat empires that caught a face full of Great Khan.
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Apr 13, 2018 17:38
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Hang on, do different difficulty choices use different AI profiles? I started this game on Scaling so maybe it's using the "brain" of a lower difficulty AI that isn't aggressive at all. Might explain why using the Custom Difficulty mod to change handicaps mid-game isn't also causing them to start poo poo.
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Apr 13, 2018 21:22
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Yeah, I think something's hosed with Glavius' mod right now, because I turned it off and nations started declaring war on each other again. Didn't do anything for the Awakened Fallen Empires, though.
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Apr 14, 2018 13:45
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Ass_Burgerer posted:I've been trying out this mod recently; EUTUB. I was hesitant at first, but after dipping my toes in it I've got to say that it's amazing! Goddamn, this looks fantastic, and on top of it all looks like it has great localization, which is a premium among Stellaris mods for some bizarre reason. Thanks for the rec!
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Apr 15, 2018 10:42
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Guilliman posted:The 0-2 option should be perfect for you then Quoting you because I'd like to ask something: Guilli, is it a game bug that Starbases and their weapon modules won't use mod-added weapons at all? I think I might switch back to your ship components mod over Extra Ship Components. It's a good mod, but the tech tree gets ridiculously huge and I'm certain that there's a fair amount of stuff in it that isn't balanced at all (those chrono something cannons are insane and there's literally no point in using anything else), so I'd like to go back to yours since I remember it being a lot slimmer. However, Starbases getting outgunned because they don't upgrade properly is also bad so I'm trying to avoid that.
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Apr 15, 2018 11:40
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with that setting their spawn chance is lower as well. Guarantee you'd like it
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Guilliman posted:I'm not sure about starbases modules tbh. I'll need to check that.My mod adds starbase defense stations and fortresses next to defense platforms, and the higher tier armor techs give starbases extra health as well so they can keep up with bigger fleets. Cool, thank you!
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Apr 15, 2018 14:33
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From my last two games after 2.02 went out of beta, not a single Awakened Fallen Empire has worked properly. Great Khans work alright, Marauder raider fleets don't. Both the Unbidden and the Prethoryn work fine, can't comment on Contingency. Gonna start a new one soon, probably should not bother with FEs and only use one Marauder clan.
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Apr 15, 2018 14:58
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Alright, through the magic of mods (4 ethics points), I have now created a materialist Fanatic Purifiers empire with starting robots. Question: because my dudes are clearly assholes and definitely would grant their robots sentience just to turn them into slaves, is there a way to prevent the Synth Rebellion from happening, or should I just avoid researching the Synths technology at all or do so anyway out of arrogance and live in fear of them going Skynet?
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Apr 18, 2018 14:02
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Wait, so is the 2.03 patch actually fixed now or nah?
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Apr 19, 2018 12:39
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Goa Tse-tung posted:no, but now you can roll back to 2.02 with the beta tab Dang. Figured that they'd have a hotfix out before having the dev diary go up, maybe it would be a bad look or something. Unrelated but it turns out that synths don't qualify as slaves for the slave processing facility. Also dang, I was hoping to stack bonuses like crazy.
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Apr 19, 2018 12:59
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New mod lookout: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1365485813 From the maker of Ex-Overhaul and collaborator on EUTAB, this new mod is part of an upcoming series that revamps the game. In particular, this mod changes buildings in a huge way by making it so that actually building the right buildings on a tile with resources gives you a lot more of that resources by adding a multiplier to the tile's resource amount on top of the amount generated by the building. This is also intended to help out the AI by basically making its decision-making process re: tile development (and sector AI on "respect tile resources" mode) a lot simpler by ensuring that just by building the correct buildings, it gets enough resources back to sustain itself properly. It also has a compat patch out for EUTAB, and can be added to an ongoing game. CAVEAT: as of now there's a weird bug where strategic resources get wiped across the galaxy if you load it in a current savegame so be careful and maybe wait for further info.
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Apr 21, 2018 22:33
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Posting again about this: could a mod be hard-capping the amount of titans you can field to 3 regardless of total naval capacity despite the final 2.02 patch removing that hard cap? The only mod I use that could be loving with that is this old mod someone here recommended long ago: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1312223578. Additionally, could a mod have hosed with combat behavior again? Because IIRC the 2.0 patch actually made ships stay in their preferred ranges, and now even artillery battleships and titans are just flying headlong into the scrum instead of keeping their distance and shooting. The only ship component mods I'm using that might touch ship components are Guilli's mod and the aforementioned ship speedup mod.
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Apr 22, 2018 21:51
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Troop transports loving up AI targetting in battles is a poo poo consequence of them not being abstracted enough. They should go.
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Apr 23, 2018 16:35
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Didn't they fix the planet occupation bug in 2.0.4 yet? I already have half this enemy empire under occupation and I'm pretty sure I should be inches away from a Subjugation victory over them.
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Apr 26, 2018 09:18
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If you're down with mods, pick up EUTAB because it gives you some great unlockable tech choices when you pick an "underpowered" ascension perk, along all the other cool poo poo it adds. Speaking of mods, I think Glavius has finally unfucked his AI, because I started a new game with it and the AI is certainly doing much better now compared to before.
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Apr 28, 2018 19:20
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I switched to Liberation Wars policy as a "peaceful" Machine Intelligence, hoping to take a chunk out of my rear end in a top hat spiritualist neighbor and turn it into the beginning of a vassal empire, but the Ideology casus belli isn't triggering. Could it be related to the 4 ethics points mod I'm using (my leftover point after Machine Intelligence was spent on Materialist)?
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May 2, 2018 15:39
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Aethernet posted:Given that you can't have ethics as robots in the vanilla version of the game and consequently can't liberate, I'm guessing it's your mod. Figures. I saw some older posts on Reddit saying that robots can liberate and that they would end up with Despicable Neutrals, and a community rep saying that the bug was fixed in an upcoming patch, but I guess that functionality got stripped out a long time ago.
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May 2, 2018 15:59
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uPen posted:Down this road lies madness. This is exactly what shas wants.
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May 19, 2018 21:30
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The army system in Stellaris is, hands-down, its worst aspect, and even then it's a guarantee that someone will loving stan for it.
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May 21, 2018 14:41
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I feel so bad for the CGM dude, he did so much to make the game feel better (twice) and once again Wiz is Changing The Game
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Jul 19, 2018 13:45
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Getting a Battleship torched by an actual enemy fleet sucks way more than losing a pod of Corvettes, though. Mind you, Corvettes that get intercepted and disengage also end up cluttering the fleet list, that sucks too. Not as much as the minerals and time invested in a Battleship, though.
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THE BAR posted:He already had an Alien homage in Sourcery, so it wouldn't be out of place at all. Wasn't that the Last Hero?
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