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2018-08-15, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
A shower =)
Yea, my fragile masculinity stands in stark opposition to my desire to bask luxuriously every morning in a tub full of nothing but foamy suds and lavender. Thank god my appartment doesn't have room for a bathtup, or this inner turmoil might tear me apart =D
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2018-08-17, 02:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yet another tiny but weird bug.
One of my science ships sent that little ping that means 'I cannot find anymore systems to survey'.
So I click on it, to see where it currently is, and check if I can Experimental Subspace Navigate it somewhere else, where it can keep doing it's job.
Turns out, the neighboring system is unexplored.
Like, quite literally one jump away is an unexplored, risk-free system for it to survey. I can manually send it there to explore, but it cannot go there on auto explore.
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2018-08-17, 02:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Might you have another science ship that have already ‘tagged’ the system as it’s next target?
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2018-08-17, 03:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-17, 05:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Was it possible to direct the science ship to the neighbouring system manually? There might have been another reason it wouldn't go (e.g. something like a hyperspace disruptor in the system it was in, forcing it to leave by the way it entered). If it would happily fly there when you tell it to, I got nothin'.
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2018-08-17, 06:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Unclaimed by anyone, no hostiles. No idea what was going on there, though I do feel the path finding is often somewhat wonky. Never seen it quite this wonky before though. Like, one thing I noticed in this game too was a science ship on auto going out one cluster of stars, then not going to the last star in that cluster, but instead deciding to go across the galaxy and explore somewhere else instead.
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2018-08-17, 07:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Auto-Exploration is borked for me when the system has had an owner at one point. Systems claimed by an end game crisis or the Khanate and then "liberated" get marked for me as unsurveyed, even if surveyed before by my ships.
So no Starbase without a science ship.
But they appear to be marked as explored, as far as Auto-Exploration goes, so usually the order cancels. Might it be that?
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2018-08-17, 08:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-11, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Recently got back into this. The QOL improvements really made the gamd better, and sector AI doesn't actively make me want to choke someone now. Also, I got my first win almost by accident.
Now if only there was actual peacetime things to do beside preparing for war.Last edited by Grif; 2018-09-11 at 10:40 PM.
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2018-09-11, 11:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-11, 11:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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What if there was a Endgame Crisis that wasn't military in nature? How might something like that work, in terms of an end-goal or obstacles? Just brainstorming, basically.
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2018-09-12, 12:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
That would probably require a winning condition that doesn't require war to begin with. Or a way for empires to take systems without war. Or even a way for systems to break away peacefully. (Large empire fracturing, for example.)
But in theory, you could have something like the Mass Effect dark matter crisis, where each empire needs to contribute science/minerals/energy to solve it lest you get a galaxy ending event. Can't imagine how engaging that might be though.
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2018-09-12, 12:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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In principle you could easily have political swings that sweep the galaxy from time to time - or as an endgame crisis - with new factions springing up, possibly across several races. "It's the Dawn of a New Age as the Flesh and Blood Redemptionists gather across the galaxy, and their agenda gains wind!" Something like that. It might eventually spiral out of control and become a military crisis, but it might be something you could stamp out if you have, for instance, enough Influence to spare, so you can institute martial law across several planets.
Would be easy to do. Whether it would be fun - or just plain annoying - is another matter.
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2018-09-12, 02:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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I just binge-read the four dev diaries on the upcoming planet changes. Is it just me, or have they borrowed quite heavily from Civilisation VI when coming up with these ideas? It all seemed very reminiscent of the changes made to cities in Civ6.
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2018-09-12, 04:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-12, 04:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think the pop and planet changes are actually much more reminiscent of their earlier game Vic2. The division of pops with different goods requirement is especially similar there. About the only big real difference between them is the world market in Vic2 (although that’s busted as hell and makes no sense, so it’s likely a good thing).
I’m hoping this makes your empire a little more dynamic over time as managing happiness and whatnot slides out of player control a bit more.Former Owner of GiTP's fanciest Bloodbowl Team: The Fancy Lads
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2018-09-12, 05:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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I certainly welcome things that reduce boring micromanagement. (Is there any mod that gives some kind of "automatically build mining plantforms" similar to auto-explore?) So, as far as I'm concerned, planet tiles can go die in a hole.
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2018-09-12, 05:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Planet tiles would have had a place, if they were utilised for what they should have been - an abstracted planet-map, which could have been used to fight ground combat over. (Though the one-pop-one-building per was probably not helpful). As it was, they used them like in GalCiv, as just building slots, basically, so removing them isn't a loss.
I mean, though, you could essentially do exactly the same sort of abstraction using districts and slapping them on a tiled map (you'd just have, like, a maximum number of tiles on the map and start sticking more than one district per tile if you ran out) and essentially nodes for ground combat to fight over. Otherwise, there isn't really that much point in doing it.
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2018-09-12, 05:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Fair. I meant tiles as they currently are, not as map representations. You could of course still have a planet map made up of districts.
Still, this sounds quite exciting, useful trade has been one thing I've wanted to have for a long time.Last edited by Eldan; 2018-09-12 at 05:48 AM.
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2018-09-12, 06:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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There is a crucial difference there--the population of a planet in GalCiv 3 is not directly related to the number of tiles it has; you're limited on how many farms and entertainment buildings you can make, which indirectly limits the planet's population, but that doesn't actually stop you building some pretty large pop (and thus high tax) worlds on relatively small planets. Whereas in Stellaris the one tile = one pop mechanic made the planet size a hard cap on population size. What I would like to see with these changes is small planets actually being useful enough that you don't think, "Nah, I'll grab that one when I've got all the size 16+ ones I've found".
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2018-09-12, 06:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, planets being important because they are on trade routes is apparently a thing. So a small planet of artisans, clerks and traders as a trade post might work. Or when building tall, build a super-efficient administration planet, try to get all your resources from your farming robot outposts and from trade. Trade civics might be interesting too.
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2018-09-12, 06:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Anything that simulates a civilian economy is a good thing in my book. It's sorely lacking in Stellaris thus far.
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2018-09-12, 06:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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They didn't get into trade a whole lot in their last set of dev diaries, but I'm interested to see how it will interact with war and crime. I'm also wondering if they are going to announce their next DLC soon since they finished the 4-part series on planet changes (which seem like the vast bulk of the free update).
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2018-09-12, 07:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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That didn't help, no.
I am in agreement with the general feeling that dropping the tiles and going the direction they are going is by far the best thing. The tile, system, as I say could have been used to the game's advantage, but as it stood, it really wasn't being.
(And, for some reason, a fair number of people don't want ground combat at all, much less making it a more pivotal point of warfare - which I think it should be; threatening people with orbital bombardment only gets you so far, after all. if that is the only recourse you have. But it doesn't seem like PDX are especially interesting in fleshing that out better (improving beyond the load of cobblers it was originally, granted. Mind you, people seem to balk at the idea of a proper supply system (where supplies would have a travel time and such) too, because it would make it a particular sort of hard.)
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2018-09-12, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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It's a Paradox game. One of the next 20 DLCs will be a war update.
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2018-09-12, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Also the combination of tile, deposit, building, and pop traits has perennially been something the AI just can't cope with.
Even on the highest difficulty if you make it out of the first 30-40 years intact you'll blast past the AI's feeble economy and be the biggest baddest boy in town.
Though I think the thing I'm most looking forward to in the new version is the new approach to population growth and migration. Migration has been sad and rubbish for ages because pops hardly ever do it because they don't migrate unless their home is full and can't swap places with another pop, so multi-species empires don't get any kind of pop mixing unless you manually resettle, and anything that relies on ratios of different pops like syncretic evolution or determined servitors is too annoying and fiddly to bother with.
I certainly welcome things that reduce boring micromanagement. (Is there any mod that gives some kind of "automatically build mining plantforms" similar to auto-explore?) So, as far as I'm concerned, planet tiles can go die in a hole.
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2018-09-12, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-09-12, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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I mean it used to happen when multiple pops could migrate to a planet at once. Like you could fill a size 25 gaia in about 10 years.
But the migration rate plus the fact there have to be no free tiles on the source planet and IIRC more than 5 on the target planet means that migration happens super slow and you might get one or two pops migrate in, and once a planet is full nothing can change.
Which won't happen in the new system because of population decline and planets being capped by housing, which may change throughout the game, not one pop per tile forever and ever.
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2018-09-12, 11:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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I feel like planets fill up *way* faster the more species you have (that actually like the biome, of course).
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2018-09-13, 02:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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