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2017-09-16, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Yep, it's droids for sure.
Many thanks to Assassin 89 for this avatar!
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2017-09-17, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Sometimes Stellaris just get's up on the wrong side of bed.
It's 2371. I've only found 3 of the precursor quests. I've researched all the special ores and materials, but they're all on the other side of the map, except for the first 3 ones - satramene and what have you.
And I just got the Habitable Worlds Survey.
I mean, the two fallen empires have woken and gone to war. There are no worlds left to survey. Oh well =)
Edit: And I just got Reaching for the Orb. Again.Last edited by Kaptin Keen; 2017-09-17 at 05:47 PM.
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2017-09-19, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Alright so the patch officially drops on 21 September (Thursday). I am tentatively hopeful that the naked corvette will be found floating in a ditch after patch day.
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2017-09-19, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I've been watching every stream and youtube person who has access to Synthetic Dawn early and all I have to say is AUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! Thursday can't come quick enoughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! !!
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2017-09-19, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I just want to point out that Heat Signature launches also tomorrow. Now, I don't do the thing where I support villainous Paradox by buying every tiny expansion they make - but even if I did, tomorrow I'd still be getting Heat Sig, and not Synthetic Dawn =)
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2017-09-20, 01:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2017-09-20, 01:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
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2017-09-20, 04:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Last edited by Olinser; 2017-09-20 at 04:17 AM.
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2017-09-21, 01:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
early game have been slowed down significantly with the new patch ... you can no longer get discounts from Traditions to Mining/Research stations, Colony ships have raised in cost from 360 to 500, and Private Colony ships are no longer cheap as chips.
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2017-09-21, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
That sounds terribly boring.
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2017-09-21, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Uh... no, its exactly the opposite, early game is significantly faster.
Your base mineral income at the start of the game is increased +5 and with a Cold world start you generally have more minerals on your home planet.
I opened a new game and started at +17 on day 1. Even lucky games it took finding multiple quick minerals and spending hundreds on mining stations to get to +17.
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2017-09-21, 03:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Currently, machine empires that get the Menacing anomaly event and successfully terraform the world turn it into Machine Worlds, Ascencion Perk be damned. Fun!
The name is "tonberrian", even when it begins a sentence. It's magic, I ain't gotta 'splain why.
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2017-09-21, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-09-21, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
The mining station tradition was not good to begin with, which is why they changed it. It was a pretty mediocre pick as the absolute FIRST pick you took, and if you took it at anything other than first pick it was one of the worst picks in the game, the buff was effectively useless and not even noticeable.
By the time you get your first tradition you've built most of the initial mining stations you can reach anyway. The paltry mineral reduction cost on stations was simply outshone by half the other traditions in the game as a first pick, even more now that you have more initial mineral income.
15% cost reduction on ships and buildings is much, MUCH better than mining stations at basically every stage of the game and is actually one of the better end game buffs now. '50% more for mining stations' is a really fancy way of saying '30 minerals more'.Last edited by Olinser; 2017-09-21 at 04:10 PM.
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2017-09-21, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
The thing that's changed for naked corvettes is their effectiveness vs. other ship classes. Naked corvettes still beat equal mineral investment of most upgraded corvette designs because numbers matter but against what (though I have a suspicion that very slight upgrades might now be effective. Will test.)
I tested equal minerals of naked corvettes against what I suspect is now the new king of space and it was a horrible one slded slaughter. 50 cruisers vs. 384 corvettes and only 2 cruisers died.
The new king of space, as far as I can tell, is a heavily armoured missile cruiser. (Cruisers fighting point blank means point defence just doesn't have time to consistently work against large and medium tier 5 missiles).
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2017-09-21, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I still don't have most of the DLC for this game, but I semi-recently played a multiplayer session with a friend who did and now I can't play without them. It's nefarious. Still, I might try to pick things up and learn them again.
Does anyone have some interesting combinations of traits they like to start with? Non-optimal stuff, I mean. I remember my first game I tried playing as ugly pacifists. It's a little harder to be a pacifist when the first response anyone has to you is "Kill it with fire!" It's problems like these that make an alien want to glass a planet and enslave the remaining population, you know? Pacifism is easy when everyone's either dead or working in your salt mines.
Anyway, how about those traits?
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2017-09-21, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I mean I personally take Industrious and Very Strong for +15% and +10% minerals, but there are plenty of good traits that you can also do some roleplay with, if that's what you're looking for.
There's a full list here , and there are plenty of combos you can take that tell whatever story you'd like.
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2017-09-21, 08:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
I've been experimenting with an idea I had for a strategy and its working well. Made a pop that was thrifty and engineering focus while nonadaptave and start with robots on a dry planet. It's working great, you get droid tech relatively early on if you focus it and you have your original species colonize the dry, energy focused planets to pay for the robots that inhabit the cold mineral and food wet focused planets in not too long of time. I'm able to focus which resource I need the most of by planet type and choose between my original energy generating pop or my robots that have been templated to either food or minerals.
Still experimenting, but so far its promising.
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2017-09-21, 10:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
There's also one dude's pretty entertaining take on the patch notes here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/c...actually_mean/
Some selected quotes:
Reworked the old AI crisis that never fired into something hopefully functional.
Robot, droid, and synth pops are no longer made by Apple, and thus can be modified.
Reworked the way ships target other ships to be more 'sticky'Made all bridge crews dumber, so disruptors do not immediately retarget once enemy's shields are down, etc
Missiles are now literally smarter than bridge crews on disruptor ships.
Increased research output of both Passive and Active Butt-Probing on primitives.
It is now Possible to find a terraforming candidate again once you've forgotten where it was (up from Completely Impossible)
It's no longer possible to hire a firm to upgrade a ship type, and then keep changing the specs in google docs when they're not looking to get them to keep installing new **** for the same cost originally agreed upon.
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2017-09-21, 11:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-09-22, 05:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
This patch seems like a lot of fun, but I can't see myself playing it until some of the mods I consider mandatory get an update...
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2017-09-22, 02:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-09-22, 05:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
"Wrap."
Not to speak for boomwolf, but I don't know why it's puzzling. There are always aspects of a game that someone wouldn't play without; sometimes those aspects of a game are made by people who aren't technically on the game's design team.Orth Plays: Currently Baldur's Gate II
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2017-09-22, 05:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2017-09-22, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
So the game definitely plays a bit differently, especially in the mid game.
The much higher influence cost for colonies means that after a couple colonies you're kind of soft locked in terms of expansion after about 3-4 colonies (although it does mean that there's actually a reason to immediately research the 'XX Aliens' special projects for the influence bonus), and any government that holds elections you're basically at the mercy of the RNG for elected leader bonus because you can't really afford to spend influence on elections for a while. Seems like this basically artificially bottlenecks most empires so that a great mineral start doesn't give you the colony expansion advantage you had before. I'll have to experiment but it seems like the +Influence civics may be the best start now.
When they said AI was more aggressive - holy crap they meant it. AI was declaring wars on each other on cooldown and 2 empires were completely wiped off the map in the first 50 years of this game - and I literally don't remember EVER seeing an AI actually destroy another completely. None of them dared attack me because I was pretty far ahead, but a non-advanced start AI was actually comparable size (though not fleet power) to me at one point because they ate another AI.Last edited by Olinser; 2017-09-22 at 05:47 PM.
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2017-09-22, 05:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Orth Plays: Currently Baldur's Gate II
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2017-09-23, 02:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Nah, me being tired (posted at 0:40) and utterly miscomprehending your post to suggesting the other way around, in that you complained that some aspects of the main game was created by people who weren't strictly part of the design team, however that works...
Point stilll stands in that I don't understand why it appears that people are dead set on that Mod developers are better at designing or balancing the game to the point where they would barely even consider giving the main game a fair chance. Total conversion mods that completely changes the setting (such as the Star Trek mod, or most famously GoT mod for CK2), I can somewhat understand, but otherwise...Last edited by Sian; 2017-09-23 at 02:22 AM.
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2017-09-23, 02:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
The best game I played this year is Enderal - a total conversion of Skyrim. But other than that, I never touch mods for any reason. I'm not interested in what some random dude out there feels would be better in a game made by professionals.
I do see some point in mods that make it another game entirely. As an example, I'd be interested in a mod that changed Stellaris to more of a skirmish game - rather than the needlessly HUGE fleets of the endgame. Which, for one thing, my aging system can't handle. I also find it enormously dull. Consider, for instance, my last game: As usual, I was the biggest empire on the map - with the exception of that one AE that ate another FE early, and now had 450k fleet strength. By comparison, I could barely scrape together 140k. I would literally need to win the game by having 40% of the planets in order to have enough planets to rival that fleet strength.
That's just dumb.
I have not, however, looked for such a mod. I have no doubt something like that exists - but I trust it to be terrible =)
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2017-09-23, 07:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
There is a Star Trek mod that has a balance more similar to that. Many of the mods here are fairly high-level things; think less "random dudes feel they knew better than professionals", and more "professionals can't spend the time on certain things because cost/benefit". Like portrait modding, portraiture is fairly time-consuming and skilled, so portraits are expensive to put in, especially animated. So if a modder wants to put the time and skill into it, like Sylphen, then it's fantastic. Or for personal complaints like scale, like your complaint. Chances are some other modder has something similar, and has put out a 'fix' for it.
My personal thing is time-scale, which sucks because to modify it to make each game take longer to play is... a long and thorough process that makes compatibility with other mods hard.
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2017-09-23, 08:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Stellaris II: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Fungus Hivemind Overlords
Doesn't even have to be balance, though. There's a lot of small things that are just good ideas. Like, in Stellaris, there are various status icons on pops. In the base game, they all have the same colour. There's a mod that gives them different colours, so you can tell at a glance how bad they are. It's a good idea, so I install it. What's the problem with that?
Sometimes, it's also just things where it shows the game designer had different priorities. Like, Skyrim is a good game. But it shows that the menus were done for consoles more than PC. So I install a mod that changes font size to about five times smaller, puts more on each screen and gives more inventory sorting options. That's just a good thing for me. What's the problem with that?Resident Vancian Apologist