Just make sure to explore a lot early, before most routes become closed off by other empires expansion. Then focus your aggression on empires that give you either good planets, or access to areas with good planets.
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Just make sure to explore a lot early, before most routes become closed off by other empires expansion. Then focus your aggression on empires that give you either good planets, or access to areas with good planets.
The alternate option here is to focus aggression on guys you can turn into tributaries because they've got nowhere left to expand to, especially if they're paying you a bunch of their stuff.
Final planetary rework dev diary. Gestal Consciousness will have unique buildings and districts to make sure that their planetary level playstyle will be different from normal empires (with Hive Minds getting tweaks for going wide, and Machine Empires bonuses to going self-suficiant. Habitats will be smaller, but more specialized. Also, he let it drop that number of districts used will affect tech/unity costs.
I'm definitely in the camp that's nervous about this. Lots of further complexity added to an area that, I, at least, thought, didn't need it. I trust these guys to eventually make it work out, but this all strikes me very much as tweaking because they can, rather than because there was a gameplay need there.
I'm definitely in the camp that's nervous about this. Lots of further complexity added to an area that, I, at least, thought, didn't need it. I trust these guys to eventually make it work out, but this all strikes me very much as tweaking because they can, rather than because there was a gameplay need there.
I disagree; the tile and tile-resource system was there, but it almost never led to any interesting decisions. "Is there a resource on a tile? If yes, build something that uses that resource."
Tiles with mixed-resources should have been interesting, but in reality they were just weaker versions of single-resource tiles (e.g., you'd much rather have one tile with 2 energy and one with 2 food than two 1 E / 1 F tiles).
The tile system also meant that there was a fairly small hard limit on the size of a planet.
As a handy knock on, the new system will apparently make writing an AI much easier. So we should hopefully see less planets with pants on head constructions going on.
I'm definitely in the camp that's nervous about this. Lots of further complexity added to an area that, I, at least, thought, didn't need it. I trust these guys to eventually make it work out, but this all strikes me very much as tweaking because they can, rather than because there was a gameplay need there.
I disagree, there were a few major issues with the tile system, though most of them didn't show up until mid or late game.
Biggest one was that they AI was never, and likely would never be capable of doing it at anything approaching optimally, which made sectors this horrific mechanic that you tried to avoid at all costs (the fact that in the last update they made it so you could build in sectors without having to take them out first kinda proves this point)
Second is that it got tedious the larger you were. I'll admit that when you were with just 3-4 planets, it was pretty good. But if you were going wide, having to go through *all* your core planets after a new tech to upgrade, and setting up new colonies to be idiot-proof before putting them in a sector got really frustrating really fast, and not in a fun "your vassal are trying to kill you" way.
Finally, I think it will let them be a bit more creative about the kinds of gameplay they can make. On top of what's already in today's dev diary, can you think of how they could have had, for example, playable nomads, with planet tiles? I think they're going to be able to do a lot of things with this new system that they could do, or at least do well, with the old one.
The previous tile system was so tedious that by mid game I resigned myself to just putting everything in sectors and letting the AI do it's shitty job of it. Playing optimally was not worth all that damn clicking.
Short version: Dystopian empires where the masses live in horrific conditions kept under control by an authoritarian police state where the higher classes live in opulence are now possible.
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# Features
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* Updated the game for GDPR compliance (basically, a once-only popup on first launch of 2.1.3 with some legal text to read and accept, as now required by EU law)
* Added buttons to view privacy policy from ingame
* Added new clothes and hairstyles for humans, humanoids, and mammalians
* Added inscrutable mystery to Distant Stars
* Added follow-ups for the Atomic Clock anomaly
* Added event for when an AI empire is close to unlocking the L-Cluster
* Added some unique diplomacy text for Ketlings
* Impossible Organism anomaly chain is now also available for Assimilators and Rogue Servitors
* Impossible Organism anomaly chain tooltips and Special Projects are now more clear on what they actually do
* We now display Steam rich presence data to your Steam friends, showing not just that you're in game, but also your empire name, their ethics, and game date
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# Balance
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* The AI Uprising now has drastically increased naval capacity for a few years after forming, preventing immediate bankruptcy due to over-capacity upkeep costs
* Switched combat disengage chance so that Destroyers and Cruisers now have the highest survivability, followed by Titans and Battleships, with Corvettes coming last. 'Tis better to be the screen-ee than the screen-or
* Ships with weapons that have very low tracking will now avoid firing on highly evasive target if another, less evasive target is likely to become available soon (ie: Titans should no longer fire their main gun on corvettes if there's cruisers or battleships just outside range)
* Reduced spawn_chance weights for the Vechtar Zavonia/Mardak Vol Anomaly
* Lowered chance of Brainslugged leaders, increased Unrest modifier after Brainslugging pops
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# Modding
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* Move url strings from NDefines::NInterface to code
* Errors are now logged only once by default, except those logs used in OOS hunting. You can use the "-logall" to log errors every time they appear instead of only once
* AI will no longer accidentally try to research already researched technologies
* Mardak purgers fleets no longer use bouquets of flowers as the warheads of their missiles, and their bombardment can now actually cause damage
* Fixed the Unbidden Portal being vulnerable while the Extradimensional Invaders still have active Anchors
* Fixed literally unplayable typos
* Fixed a case of COUNTRY_UNITY out of sync
* Fixed an out of sync with COUNTRY_ENERGY
* Fixed Contingency starbases being so confident in their imposing demeanor that they didn't bother to use their weapon slots
* Fixed broken text string for the upkeep of gene warrior armies
* Fixed pacifist description for the ancient mining drones event wrongly referencing your home system instead of the one where the drones were
* Added game rule exception to allow you to take hostile action against factions that have conquered your planets, meaning situations like the mutant horrors event can now be properly resolved
* Enigmatic Cache traits can no longer be applied through gene modification, so you can't spam them on all your planets outside the intended scope of the event
* Fixed Impossible Organism event to allow Nivlacs to be spawned on any planet with free housing, not just the capital
* Fixed advanced start AI empires not getting all the extra colonies they should start with
* Added missing loc for when you deny an Awakened Empire's offer of status quo peace
* Disabling primitive civilizations in game setup will now actually remove most of them, except for certain ones required for events
* Fixed a non-completable special project that could appear if you have tutorial activated and your first alien contact is a Leviathan
* Fixed the Scavenger Bot not counting as a leviathan for the purpose of satisfying military faction demands
* Fixed missing notification event on first entering the "quiet" version of the L-Cluster
* Fixed a crash related to armies landing
* Fixed some unneeded spamming of error logs
* Fixed fire control ship component not working properly
* Ketlings will now no longer cheekily spawn on shattered worlds
* Several Distant Stars anomalies that were unnecessarily blocked for hive minds are now available to them
* Fixed small psionic shields having the wrong stats
* Fixed incorrect empire names showing up in diplomatic dialogue when a Peace Offer is accepted
* Fixed OOS when you host a game on a Mac
Also, we're rolling out a new content upgrade for the Distant Stars Story Pack. The intent of this is to more fully flesh out several of the key anomalies and events in Distant Stars, especially those relating to the L-Cluster. I won't spoil the new content, you'll have to experience it yourself, but we're happy to be able to get this in for our fans. All this new content will automatically be given to owners of Distant Stars.
People are noting that there are new possible outcomes to opening the L-gates in a game.
Sooo, galactic teleportation network with poor safety protocols that allow for the transmission of a virus bomb that kills all sapient biological life when?
Sooo, galactic teleportation network with poor safety protocols that allow for the transmission of a virus bomb that kills all sapient biological life when?
I want this to be a red tech that results in ancient Rouge Servitors that burst through your teleporters and begin acting as friendly elevator attendants, then begin to menace you in some novel way until you're forced to declare war and they're forced to dispach Customer Satisfaction Teams to "address" your "concerns"
Sooo, galactic teleportation network with poor safety protocols that allow for the transmission of a virus bomb that kills all sapient biological life when?
I want this to be a red tech that results in ancient Rouge Servitors that burst through your teleporters and begin acting as friendly elevator attendants, then begin to menace you in some novel way until you're forced to declare war and they're forced to dispach Customer Satisfaction Teams to "address" your "concerns"
Obnoxious Soothing Elevator Music?
"Could you stop playing that?"
"AUDIO FREQUENCY PATTERN SHOWN TO REDUCE ORGANIC STRESS LEVELS BY 15.67%."
"Maybe, but I find in annoying."
"ANALYZING... YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE HAS INDEED INCREASED SINCE OUR FIRST CONTACT, COULD YOU BE HAVING HEALTH ISSUES?"
"No, I just can't stand the music you are playing!"
"WOULD YOU PREFER ANOTHER GENRE? BLORG MATING SONGS? HUMAN "GANGSTER RAP"? DISCO?"
Well, not *dead* but now more like de jure lands or states than arbitrarily make forced automation spaces.
The faction changes sound promising too.
I'd like it if players had to reckon a lot more with factions' desires, with more active requests/motions from factions that want change, protests, competitive elections, etc
I pulled this out of my backlog and I remember why it was there. The tutorial is ass. I had to watch a Youtube video to find the Galaxy Map.
How do I get the Science vehicle to survey my own initial system? I can click Survey System but don't know what to click after that. How do I get the Constructor to build a Mining Station in one of my own initial planets?
I pulled this out of my backlog and I remember why it was there. The tutorial is ass. I had to watch a Youtube video to find the Galaxy Map.
How do I get the Science vehicle to survey my own initial system? I can click Survey System but don't know what to click after that. How do I get the Constructor to build a Mining Station in one of my own initial planets?
1) Your initial system starts fully surveyed.
2) Select the constructor and right click a planet that has a resource but no mining base.
New Dev Diary up and is SUPER interesting. It's about the new currency, "Trade Value" and how you have to manually manage trade routes, and how piracy affects it. It's really fascinating, though it looks like it'll add another layer of complexity to the game.
its gonna be just as big of an overhaul as 2.0 was
I'm not so confident that it's going to be all changes that I actually enjoy, though... with the 2.0 dev diaries I was liking everything I was reading about, whereas a lot of these features sound a bit more complicated and/or opaque than I'd prefer.
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I haven't looked at this game in a short while but damn a lot has changed. Overall I'm pleased. The more they make you work on internal affairs with your empire the better.
its gonna be just as big of an overhaul as 2.0 was
I'm not so confident that it's going to be all changes that I actually enjoy, though... with the 2.0 dev diaries I was liking everything I was reading about, whereas a lot of these features sound a bit more complicated and/or opaque than I'd prefer.
that's a valid concern. I posit it this way that le guin is offering a lot of things that will come to the forefront for the midgame phase of the game.
they aren't empire ending crises, I don't want them to be, but I need a brushfire or two after a certain point because... I'm da biggest and its just academic for another 150years. hopefully they will help me keep invested in a playthrough until the end game crisis hits.
its gonna be just as big of an overhaul as 2.0 was
I'm not so confident that it's going to be all changes that I actually enjoy, though... with the 2.0 dev diaries I was liking everything I was reading about, whereas a lot of these features sound a bit more complicated and/or opaque than I'd prefer.
It looks more complicated than it is.
The changes to planetary management, for example, make for more meaningful macro-level decisions but far less actual micromanagement. If you actually look at what the dev diaries are showing us, you'll see that the net amount of Shit You Need To Click is way way down. Killing off tiles streamlines things a great deal.
You are making fewer but bigger decisions with internal development in Le Guin. Which is essentially what people have been asking for. Internal development in current Stellaris is just nickel and diming the galaxy to death with small incremental +minerals buildings as you can on as many planets as you can click click click click click. It's all rather rote.
I really love the ideas they've got with trade routes. I was actually pondering trying to mod in a similar system myself, good thing I didn't bother getting that one off the ground >_<
Wiz mentioned in the thread that they currently don't have trading between empires, hopefully with the system in place though it won't be hard to mod in or for they themselves to expand on it in a later system.
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They really go all out with their content and mechanics updates. Major systems changes, adding new features, events, and management. It's pretty incredible that they support the game like this.
I also can't decide if it's good or bad. Obviously it's good to maintain such a large game, but the troublesome part is for casual 4x players like me, I'll take many months off and start up another game and I just have no idea what's going on because there have been major changes. It often feels like they should have given this the early access tag and done the full 1.0 release a bit later than the did.
It's still a really fun game. It's been the easiest Paradox game for me to get into. I still have no idea how to play Crusader Kings 2.
They really go all out with their content and mechanics updates. Major systems changes, adding new features, events, and management. It's pretty incredible that they support the game like this.
I also can't decide if it's good or bad. Obviously it's good to maintain such a large game, but the troublesome part is for casual 4x players like me, I'll take many months off and start up another game and I just have no idea what's going on because there have been major changes. It often feels like they should have given this the early access tag and done the full 1.0 release a bit later than the did.
It's still a really fun game. It's been the easiest Paradox game for me to get into. I still have no idea how to play Crusader Kings 2.
Like an RPG. Make choices, click on things, and laugh when it all falls apart. Over time, you start to realize what levers push actions.
It’s a niche design choice that reflects Paradox’s odd place in the industry. They are a Slytherin level grognard company that sleptwalk their way into being a Steam mainstay.
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CK2 is great fun.
It is also probably the best game ever for taking things out of context.
"There's a secret Cabal of Jews trying to undermine the Govt!"
"I've been trying to marry my sister, but nothing is working!"
"Oh shit, I fucked a horse."
A Capellan's favorite sheath for any blade is your back.
A fun way to play CK2 is to realize that while you have no idea what is going on, want your neighnoring province but have no idea how to take it, and keep getting hit with unintended consequences and disasters, that’s exactly how your ruler feels too.
And that’s okay. They are going to die soon anyway, and you may get a handle on things by the time hos great-great-grandchild takes the throne.
It is also probably the best game ever for taking things out of context.
"There's a secret Cabal of Jews trying to undermine the Govt!"
"I've been trying to marry my sister, but nothing is working!"
"Oh shit, I fucked a horse."
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The alternate option here is to focus aggression on guys you can turn into tributaries because they've got nowhere left to expand to, especially if they're paying you a bunch of their stuff.
A thing wot is happening shortly.
Final planetary rework dev diary. Gestal Consciousness will have unique buildings and districts to make sure that their planetary level playstyle will be different from normal empires (with Hive Minds getting tweaks for going wide, and Machine Empires bonuses to going self-suficiant. Habitats will be smaller, but more specialized. Also, he let it drop that number of districts used will affect tech/unity costs.
I disagree; the tile and tile-resource system was there, but it almost never led to any interesting decisions. "Is there a resource on a tile? If yes, build something that uses that resource."
Tiles with mixed-resources should have been interesting, but in reality they were just weaker versions of single-resource tiles (e.g., you'd much rather have one tile with 2 energy and one with 2 food than two 1 E / 1 F tiles).
The tile system also meant that there was a fairly small hard limit on the size of a planet.
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
I disagree, there were a few major issues with the tile system, though most of them didn't show up until mid or late game.
Biggest one was that they AI was never, and likely would never be capable of doing it at anything approaching optimally, which made sectors this horrific mechanic that you tried to avoid at all costs (the fact that in the last update they made it so you could build in sectors without having to take them out first kinda proves this point)
Second is that it got tedious the larger you were. I'll admit that when you were with just 3-4 planets, it was pretty good. But if you were going wide, having to go through *all* your core planets after a new tech to upgrade, and setting up new colonies to be idiot-proof before putting them in a sector got really frustrating really fast, and not in a fun "your vassal are trying to kill you" way.
Finally, I think it will let them be a bit more creative about the kinds of gameplay they can make. On top of what's already in today's dev diary, can you think of how they could have had, for example, playable nomads, with planet tiles? I think they're going to be able to do a lot of things with this new system that they could do, or at least do well, with the old one.
Anyone know what this ended up being? Twitter is being a pain at the moment ...
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Holy cow, that dude at the top left looks like a younger Gowron, or maybe one from an Empire with stricter grooming standards. Wow.
A race of bootheels.
The thread title clearly says Februar... oh.
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so The Expanse, then
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/dev-team-2-1-3-patch-is-now-live-with-bonus-content-for-humanoids-and-distant-stars-42f6.1117830/
People are noting that there are new possible outcomes to opening the L-gates in a game.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-125-the-galactic-market.1119230/
Well, not *dead* but now more like de jure lands or states than arbitrarily make forced automation spaces.
I want this to be a red tech that results in ancient Rouge Servitors that burst through your teleporters and begin acting as friendly elevator attendants, then begin to menace you in some novel way until you're forced to declare war and they're forced to dispach Customer Satisfaction Teams to "address" your "concerns"
Obnoxious Soothing Elevator Music?
"Could you stop playing that?"
"AUDIO FREQUENCY PATTERN SHOWN TO REDUCE ORGANIC STRESS LEVELS BY 15.67%."
"Maybe, but I find in annoying."
"ANALYZING... YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE HAS INDEED INCREASED SINCE OUR FIRST CONTACT, COULD YOU BE HAVING HEALTH ISSUES?"
"No, I just can't stand the music you are playing!"
"WOULD YOU PREFER ANOTHER GENRE? BLORG MATING SONGS? HUMAN "GANGSTER RAP"? DISCO?"
"God no, not disco."
"AFFIRMED, COMMENCING BLORG MATING SONGS..."
"What? NO!!"
The faction changes sound promising too.
I'd like it if players had to reckon a lot more with factions' desires, with more active requests/motions from factions that want change, protests, competitive elections, etc
How do I get the Science vehicle to survey my own initial system? I can click Survey System but don't know what to click after that. How do I get the Constructor to build a Mining Station in one of my own initial planets?
1) Your initial system starts fully surveyed.
2) Select the constructor and right click a planet that has a resource but no mining base.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-127-trade-value-and-trade-routes.1121266/
its gonna be just as big of an overhaul as 2.0 was
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I'm not so confident that it's going to be all changes that I actually enjoy, though... with the 2.0 dev diaries I was liking everything I was reading about, whereas a lot of these features sound a bit more complicated and/or opaque than I'd prefer.
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that's a valid concern. I posit it this way that le guin is offering a lot of things that will come to the forefront for the midgame phase of the game.
they aren't empire ending crises, I don't want them to be, but I need a brushfire or two after a certain point because... I'm da biggest and its just academic for another 150years. hopefully they will help me keep invested in a playthrough until the end game crisis hits.
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I'm excited to start up my trading snails again
It looks more complicated than it is.
The changes to planetary management, for example, make for more meaningful macro-level decisions but far less actual micromanagement. If you actually look at what the dev diaries are showing us, you'll see that the net amount of Shit You Need To Click is way way down. Killing off tiles streamlines things a great deal.
You are making fewer but bigger decisions with internal development in Le Guin. Which is essentially what people have been asking for. Internal development in current Stellaris is just nickel and diming the galaxy to death with small incremental +minerals buildings as you can on as many planets as you can click click click click click. It's all rather rote.
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Wiz mentioned in the thread that they currently don't have trading between empires, hopefully with the system in place though it won't be hard to mod in or for they themselves to expand on it in a later system.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
I also can't decide if it's good or bad. Obviously it's good to maintain such a large game, but the troublesome part is for casual 4x players like me, I'll take many months off and start up another game and I just have no idea what's going on because there have been major changes. It often feels like they should have given this the early access tag and done the full 1.0 release a bit later than the did.
It's still a really fun game. It's been the easiest Paradox game for me to get into. I still have no idea how to play Crusader Kings 2.
Like an RPG. Make choices, click on things, and laugh when it all falls apart. Over time, you start to realize what levers push actions.
It’s a niche design choice that reflects Paradox’s odd place in the industry. They are a Slytherin level grognard company that sleptwalk their way into being a Steam mainstay.
It is also probably the best game ever for taking things out of context.
"There's a secret Cabal of Jews trying to undermine the Govt!"
"I've been trying to marry my sister, but nothing is working!"
"Oh shit, I fucked a horse."
And that’s okay. They are going to die soon anyway, and you may get a handle on things by the time hos great-great-grandchild takes the throne.
What is "breakout session topics at the RNC?"