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2016-05-10, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
Really? Oh that I did not know!
Sweet, maybe "hit n run" guerrilla tactics are a viable thing? It was something I liked to implement in MoO2-- attack an enemy fleet with small but fast ships to strike specific targets and then flee before the counter-attack destroys my strike force.
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2016-05-10, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
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- an island in maine
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
Had just enough time to make my empire and play maybe... 3 years of game, maybe even less, before I dozed off at my computer.
The great race of Durrrrrrr, the reptilian chassis that looks vaguely dumb, has finally broken out of their home system of Buuuuuh? using the finest in Stupid technology. Soon, they will spread the Stupid way of life throughout the galaxy; being Fanatic Xenophiles and Pacifists, they might not be easy to love but they sure are hard to hate.
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2016-05-10, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2011
Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
Just noticed that the leader portrait for your custom leaders changes to some default portrait after you reload the game, anyone else have this bug?
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2016-05-10, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2006
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- Das Kapital
Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I got into a bit of a bind, was stuck in my arm between two empires, controlling the jumps to the other arms, and only 3 Arid planets in the area between, and 2 Desert planets that I could colonize. Luckily managed to Enlighten and then subsume a continental-based species who are at least Pacifist and Xenophile (but Individualist where I'm Fanatical Collectivist, heh), and then make an alliance with one of my bordering empires. Currently I'm exploring the arm to the left/below me, with a fleet going ahead fighting Crystals.
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2016-05-10, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2007
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- Greece
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
You can set their stance on passive. That way they won't retreat at the first sign of trouble. On the other hand, they won't retreat at the first sign of trouble, and that trouble might catch up to them. I do it when I want them to pass through a dangerous system, and set them back to cowardly immediately after.
Earth was only 3 systems from my home world in a random map which was fun, subjugation planed, just hasn't happened yet.
Sweet, maybe "hit n run" guerrilla tactics are a viable thing? It was something I liked to implement in MoO2-- attack an enemy fleet with small but fast ships to strike specific targets and then flee before the counter-attack destroys my strike force.
I ended up restarting my game. I felt confident enough to try Ironman for the achievements. I got more minerals now, but the nearby planets are much worse. And my neighbours are still Democratic Crusaders. No allies in sight though. This is gonna be interesting.Last edited by Narkis; 2016-05-10 at 03:54 PM.
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2016-05-10, 04:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2014
Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
Found the Sol System and Space-Age Humans but not quite ready for interstellar travel. Slowly expanded around them with the hopes of uplifting but they did it on their own. Then I marked my almost 10K fleet into the system, destroyed their 0 navy and now I control Sol as a Theocratic Oligarchy Mushroom people. Really digging this game.
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2016-05-10, 04:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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- Manchester, UK
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
Well, just ran into my first Fallen Empire--they're the ones who don't like you researching certain techs, but I have no idea what those techs are, so could be interesting! I also uplifted a nuclear-age race to space tech and thus now have a vassal state--they're fanatical pacifists, though, so will be interesting to see what they do if I ever actually declare war on anyone.
I also found that when you build a colony ship at a starport in a sector, that sector then owns the colony ship--but they're perfectly happy for you to send the colony ship off to colonise a planet? Didn't quite understand that, they might as well have had the colony ship appear in the civilian ship list as usual since the ship being owned by the sector apparently made no difference.
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2016-05-10, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
So in my bog standard starter default humie game, I found myself sandwiched between a reptile people, who liked me, and slightly less reptile people, who made me my rivals, and bird people, who like me because we both rivalled the less reptile people.
Meanwhile I'm frantically trying to grab more planets before more reptile people outcolonise and shut me out.
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2016-05-10, 05:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2007
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- Lemuria
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
One thing I'm wondering is if it's possible to slowly replace your entire species with robots without triggering a robot uprising.
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2016-05-10, 06:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2008
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- Orlando, FL
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I consider that a disappointment. Not much of a strategy game in a combat sense if you can't at least give high level commands to prioritize targets, like telling your fleet to shoot smaller frigates first or concentrate all fire on the biggest battleship. Something generalized to give at least the illusion that you're in control of the battle.
Okay, that's a plus for the game. Targeting infrastructure is great strategy. :3
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2016-05-10, 06:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Somewhere over there ->
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2016-05-10, 07:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
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- Montreal
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
A friend had just an XCOM happen to him.
Conquer a race of primitives, and they started a rather effective revolt against him. Funnily enough, industrial civilizations have proven easy to control.
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2016-05-10, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2008
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2016-05-10, 08:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Somewhere over there ->
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
that's probably the average world size and are generally a reliable place to colonize. Which is why I was so frustrated to find one that's almost completely blocked by junk. Eventually it'll make a good world, but who knows how long that'll be.
The largest planet size is 25, just an fyi.
In other news, I'm a little annoyed that you have to be a fanatic xenophile to be able to enlighten natives. I should be allowed to raise them up to be a perfectly obedient slave race. Afterall, I need them to build more monuments to my glorious leaders.
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2016-05-10, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
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- Montreal
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2016-05-10, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
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2016-05-10, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2010
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- Somewhere over there ->
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I'm not entirely sure if i understand Ethic Divergence. At first it seems pretty simple. A positive number means that a pop may change away from your ethics and a negative number means that a pop may change towards your ethics.
Yet, i'm still finding pops drifting away from my ethics, even in places that have negative divergence.
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2016-05-10, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-05-10, 09:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2008
Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
One useful thing about science ships, at least a bit later in the game when you've got enough of a navy that you don't need it all in one place to be of any use: While you can't arm your science ships, or attach a fleet to them, you can get similar results by setting the science ship to neutral, and having a decent-size (300-500 strength) fleet set to follow them. That way, the science ship can fly around surveying systems inhabited by hostiles, and if anything does engage them, the following fleet will be close enough that it automatically engages and defends the science ship.
Haven't been using this tactic for long, so I'm not sure how reliable it is, but it should save a lot of hassle when exploring large areas with lots of weak hostiles, as I've been doing.
One hassle that I am having some trouble with, though, is trying to pin down all of the colonizable worlds in my empire, and fill them with colony ships of the appropriate pop to maximize habitability. I really wish there was a ledger in this game, so I could see stuff like "all uninhabited planets in my system".
Also, does anyone know if sectors will build and upgrade space stations if you give them enough minerals?5e Homebrew: Death Knight (Class), Kensai (Monk Subclass)Excellent avatar by Elder Tsofu.
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2016-05-10, 09:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I suppose it is a pipe dream to have a mostly homogeneous race when you're spread out among the stars. I mean that's the very idea of it...At least not without purging the insolent fools. Still it was a nice pipe dream.
Of course, that doesn't mean the Fennec Pharaohs will give up so easily. They shall cover the galaxy in monuments built on the back of slave races.
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2016-05-10, 10:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I think there is an inherent positive modifier to divergence (more likely) the farther you get from your capital.
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2016-05-10, 10:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-05-10, 11:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
It's kind of sad when your first set of leaders starts dying off. :(
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2016-05-11, 12:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
You can; it's in the empire policies (basically laws), hit F1 and allow native uplift. Xenophiles just start with it on by default. Alternately just, y'know, conquer them by landing troops.
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2016-05-11, 02:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-05-11, 02:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
There *is* such a display? If you click the checkbox at the left-hand end of the menu sitting at the bottom right of the screen it enables additional map information, and any easily colonisable world will show up as a green planet icon to the left of the system name (amber planets are harder colonisable targets, and red means planets you don't have the tech to colonise as yet). The only caveat is that the planet in question has to be surveyed by one of your science ships, but that seems a reasonable restriction.
@Avian Overlord: I lost my last starting leader when she topped 100 years old (she had the long lived trait). You could always set up a race with the Venerable perk, though, which means they live much longer...
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2016-05-11, 04:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
There's a little ticky box on the left end of the set of controls in the bottom right of the galaxy map. Shows colonisable planets and resources in systems on the galaxy map.
I need to sort out some irritating mushroom people next to me. I've boxed them in so they can't expand (and the only "free" side they have is the edge of a spiral arm with a fallen empire on the other side) but there's science in their space that I want to do, and they're fanatic xenophobes so they won't let me in to science things. (the much politer species to the south did, so they get to live, also they're all mates and are likely to ally even if I'm bigger than any of them individually)Last edited by GloatingSwine; 2016-05-11 at 04:27 AM.
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2016-05-11, 04:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Newcastle, Australia
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
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2016-05-11, 05:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I entirely concur. But when, before I'd played enough EUIV to be certain I'd give Stellaris a shot, while asking about the Stellaris combat on the Paradox forums, I espoused that opinion, one gentleman was really rather rude about it. The mildest thing he ascerted was that tactical combat had "no place" in 4X or similar games and that all games that included it sucked by default.
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2016-05-11, 06:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris: Paradoxian Space Stategy.
I don't think there's ever been a 4x where tactical combat ever added anything to the game. If you're not relatively evenly matched there's no need to do any tactics, you just steamroll hapless opponents* that never stood a chance and 90% of the point of the rest of a 4x/Grand Strategy game is making sure you have enough strategic advantages that you aren't evenly matched.
* Via endless tedious clicking that the AI can't be trusted to automate, probably.