Okay, decided to go with a ruthless megacorp. I'm also playing humans for the first time.
The United Google Conglomerate has as its home planet, of course, Google Earth.
I think the obvious direction will be Amazon Incorporated. Humanity's home system will of course have been renamed Amazon by this point, with the home planet of course being... Amazon Prime.
Communist Space Orcs that really like all the other races in the galaxy. Which means that, yes, they are xeno-compatible already. Now to complete the biological ascension path and I'll engineer several different kinds of super-beings. That are, of course, still equal to everyone else.
Also, in keeping with the Space Fantasy theme I got going, the Megacorp I designed is Dragon Hoard Inc. They may not be the friendliest corporation out there, but at least they're honest about their intentions.
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Orphanerivers of redthat run to seaRegistered Userregular
time to see if An Abyssal Dream can stand the test of a new economy system
I got the horizon signal on like my sixth or seventh system on this playthrough. Is that something that only spawns for Spiritual Races, because I've never seen it before.
Who was talking about the "UI Overhaul 1080p plus" mod?
Yes, those guys were on top of it. its ready for Megacorp.
The only other people ready for Megacorp was the guys who did "Stellaris Music Expansion Pack"
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
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Looks like you can see Wormhole pathing once you discover the tech but before you've technically explored them now, which will probably get corrected shortly.
Looks like you can see Wormhole pathing once you discover the tech but before you've technically explored them now, which will probably get corrected shortly.
I had a science ship auto-explore its way through one with having explored it first.
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Looks like you can see Wormhole pathing once you discover the tech but before you've technically explored them now, which will probably get corrected shortly.
I had a science ship auto-explore its way through one with having explored it first.
Yeah, it's showing me pathing through them now.
Also, wow, Domination is decidedly not useless now.
Looks like you can see Wormhole pathing once you discover the tech but before you've technically explored them now, which will probably get corrected shortly.
I had a science ship auto-explore its way through one with having explored it first.
"Where does this wormhole lead? Do we even know if it's stable? Should we send a probe in first?"
"Fuck it, full speed ahead!"
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It worked out so well for Farscape though!
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So how do you terraform inhabited planets now? I am not seeing the button.
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Well, first attempt left me wildly over-producing consumer goods after discovering Fen Habbanis but otherwise doing okay. Trying out my tweaked Exalted Priesthood guys and that's going more smoothly.
It's a bit more difficult to adjust your economy now. I need more consumer goods production, but I can't just move a pop from a +energy tile to a +goods tile. I need to build certain buildings to create the right jobs, and then wait for the population to increase to fill the jobs. I'm not complaining, it's probably an improvement, but I'm having a bit of a difficult adjustment period.
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It's a bit more difficult to adjust your economy now. I need more consumer goods production, but I can't just move a pop from a +energy tile to a +goods tile. I need to build certain buildings to create the right jobs, and then wait for the population to increase to fill the jobs. I'm not complaining, it's probably an improvement, but I'm having a bit of a difficult adjustment period.
I think you can prioritize certain jobs over others, though not being home I couldn't tell you exactly how.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
I believe clusters of stars get grouped into sectors and any colony you found gets put in the appropriate sector.
Each sector needs/can have its own governor for the bonuses, but on the whole, 'sectors' aren't actually any different from anywhere else until you decide to automate them.
It's a bit more difficult to adjust your economy now. I need more consumer goods production, but I can't just move a pop from a +energy tile to a +goods tile. I need to build certain buildings to create the right jobs, and then wait for the population to increase to fill the jobs. I'm not complaining, it's probably an improvement, but I'm having a bit of a difficult adjustment period.
I think you can prioritize certain jobs over others, though not being home I couldn't tell you exactly how.
Apparently can spawn with a free Ecumenopolis in it.
Noice.
Even better, it's a fully functional Ecumenopolis even if you don't have Megacorp.
It's, uh, not quite fully functional. There are a bunch of Ruined Arcology blockers you have to clear - got it in my Byzantine Bureaucracy game. It's thrown my whole economic plan out the window - the districts provide fancy resource production jobs, so now I don't need to be doing them on my other planets quite as badly and am phasing those buildings out, pushing yet-harder on the trend that establishes itself as you upgrade buildings.
E: Also, just to get it out of my system, in-space collection and on-planet-via-job collection of Motes / Crystals / Gases being on different techs is a really annoying split if you don't have access to a bunch of Research Alternatives to make fishing out what you want more likely. Plus side, I think between that and the Admin Cap technologies they've successfully increased which scientist specializations are useful.
Apparently can spawn with a free Ecumenopolis in it.
Noice.
Even better, it's a fully functional Ecumenopolis even if you don't have Megacorp.
It's, uh, not quite fully functional. There are a bunch of Ruined Arcology blockers you have to clear - got it in my Byzantine Bureaucracy game. It's thrown my whole economic plan out the window - the districts provide fancy resource production jobs, so now I don't need to be doing them on my other planets quite as badly and am phasing those buildings out, pushing yet-harder on the trend that establishes itself as you upgrade buildings.
E: Also, just to get it out of my system, in-space collection and on-planet-via-job collection of Motes / Crystals / Gases being on different techs is a really annoying split if you don't have access to a bunch of Research Alternatives to make fishing out what you want more likely. Plus side, I think between that and the Admin Cap technologies they've successfully increased which scientist specializations are useful.
Meant fully functional in a "it's not just a normal massive planet with a fancy city world look if you don't have Megacorp" way
It's a bit more difficult to adjust your economy now. I need more consumer goods production, but I can't just move a pop from a +energy tile to a +goods tile. I need to build certain buildings to create the right jobs, and then wait for the population to increase to fill the jobs. I'm not complaining, it's probably an improvement, but I'm having a bit of a difficult adjustment period.
The market is the go-to system for plugging holes in your economy now. There is a lot more trading surpluses and running in the red in other commodities.
The very first thing I did when I booted up Megacorp was to make the Church of Scientology. It is, of course, a subversive cult. They are charismatic and conformist.
This patch is great, having some good fun with it. I like the economy changes.
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Having surveyed the Stellaris forums, the two currently playable options that aren't working very well appear to be Machine Empires (actively being looked at because their starts are real weird in terms of initial job distribution and resource use, according to Wiz) and Criminal Megacorps, because the AI loses its mind and spams police all over if you're even near them as one.
I was able to control the AI criminals reasonably well - in spite of a Governor with a trait that increased crime, even! - with only one non-upgraded police building per colony they were trying to Branch Office. Might be a good idea to let that one wait if it was something you wanted to try.
I've noticed a couple oddities with the Authoritarian faction's approval rating for keeping your people properly Stratified which seem to relate to robots and / or gene-modding, myself, but so far everything pretty much works.
There's also a bug with Observation Posts not producing research til you save and reload the game, it seems?
Having surveyed the Stellaris forums, the two currently playable options that aren't working very well appear to be Machine Empires (actively being looked at because their starts are real weird in terms of initial job distribution and resource use, according to Wiz) and Criminal Megacorps, because the AI loses its mind and spams police all over if you're even near them as one.
I was able to control the AI criminals reasonably well - in spite of a Governor with a trait that increased crime, even! - with only one non-upgraded police building per colony they were trying to Branch Office. Might be a good idea to let that one wait if it was something you wanted to try.
I've noticed a couple oddities with the Authoritarian faction's approval rating for keeping your people properly Stratified which seem to relate to robots and / or gene-modding, myself, but so far everything pretty much works.
There's also a bug with Observation Posts not producing research til you save and reload the game, it seems?
I'm playing as a Federation-type bunch of xenophile do-gooders, and my best buddy is the neighboring criminal empire. The dialogue is hilarious, "We have decided to trust you. More importantly, we have decided to be trustworthy. This is surprising to us, as well."
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AuralynxDarkness is a perspectiveWatching the ego workRegistered Userregular
Having surveyed the Stellaris forums, the two currently playable options that aren't working very well appear to be Machine Empires (actively being looked at because their starts are real weird in terms of initial job distribution and resource use, according to Wiz) and Criminal Megacorps, because the AI loses its mind and spams police all over if you're even near them as one.
I was able to control the AI criminals reasonably well - in spite of a Governor with a trait that increased crime, even! - with only one non-upgraded police building per colony they were trying to Branch Office. Might be a good idea to let that one wait if it was something you wanted to try.
I've noticed a couple oddities with the Authoritarian faction's approval rating for keeping your people properly Stratified which seem to relate to robots and / or gene-modding, myself, but so far everything pretty much works.
There's also a bug with Observation Posts not producing research til you save and reload the game, it seems?
I'm playing as a Federation-type bunch of xenophile do-gooders, and my best buddy is the neighboring criminal empire. The dialogue is hilarious, "We have decided to trust you. More importantly, we have decided to be trustworthy. This is surprising to us, as well."
Yeah, I ended up friends with the criminals because it turns out the southern part of the galaxy is populated by jerks and I had a lot of room to expand in the other direction if I wanted to.
Regular empires seem to be pretty able to shrug off going over-cap up to about double if things are going well on your core planets, so far. It's irritating fishing for the cap booster techs, though.
I'm real sorry, but I'm going to have to back out for tonight. I was just informed that I have to do an installation for work this evening and I am not pleased about this.
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Of course my first game as a megacorp began with me being boxed in by isolationist jerks who refused to make commerce agreements with me.
Have to say I already really like the new planet system. The tiles were cool, I honestly liked them a lot but they were so tedious to manage if you grew past like three planets.
Also the long-lived authoritarian blue-skinned space elves I designed actually out-populated their syncretic servants for freaking once. The AI never managed to do that with the old pops system, it always ended with like three times as many slow-breeding servile birds who inevitably rebelled and took over. So that's nice.
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Survivor / Byzantine Bureaucracy should potentially let me pack a lot of reptiles / robots into a solid range of planets.
Might just end up playing your neighbourhood friendly drug recreational substance salesperson empire.
I think the obvious direction will be Amazon Incorporated. Humanity's home system will of course have been renamed Amazon by this point, with the home planet of course being... Amazon Prime.
Communist Space Orcs.
Communist Space Orcs that really like all the other races in the galaxy. Which means that, yes, they are xeno-compatible already. Now to complete the biological ascension path and I'll engineer several different kinds of super-beings. That are, of course, still equal to everyone else.
Also, in keeping with the Space Fantasy theme I got going, the Megacorp I designed is Dragon Hoard Inc. They may not be the friendliest corporation out there, but at least they're honest about their intentions.
I should rephrase that as "Does it only happen if you're non-materialist"
Yes, those guys were on top of it. its ready for Megacorp.
The only other people ready for Megacorp was the guys who did "Stellaris Music Expansion Pack"
everything else is redlined, naturally.
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I had a science ship auto-explore its way through one with having explored it first.
Well I mean, cyborgs should need some kind of input. Even Robocop needed to eat baby food.
Yeah, it's showing me pathing through them now.
Also, wow, Domination is decidedly not useless now.
"Where does this wormhole lead? Do we even know if it's stable? Should we send a probe in first?"
"Fuck it, full speed ahead!"
nvm, found it. The button is tiny now
It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
I think you can prioritize certain jobs over others, though not being home I couldn't tell you exactly how.
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It’s not a very important country most of the time
http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
I believe clusters of stars get grouped into sectors and any colony you found gets put in the appropriate sector.
Each sector needs/can have its own governor for the bonuses, but on the whole, 'sectors' aren't actually any different from anywhere else until you decide to automate them.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
On the Population screen, individually by colony.
Not that I've noticed so far!
Noice.
E: Also, just to get it out of my system, in-space collection and on-planet-via-job collection of Motes / Crystals / Gases being on different techs is a really annoying split if you don't have access to a bunch of Research Alternatives to make fishing out what you want more likely. Plus side, I think between that and the Admin Cap technologies they've successfully increased which scientist specializations are useful.
The market is the go-to system for plugging holes in your economy now. There is a lot more trading surpluses and running in the red in other commodities.
This patch is great, having some good fun with it. I like the economy changes.
I was able to control the AI criminals reasonably well - in spite of a Governor with a trait that increased crime, even! - with only one non-upgraded police building per colony they were trying to Branch Office. Might be a good idea to let that one wait if it was something you wanted to try.
I've noticed a couple oddities with the Authoritarian faction's approval rating for keeping your people properly Stratified which seem to relate to robots and / or gene-modding, myself, but so far everything pretty much works.
There's also a bug with Observation Posts not producing research til you save and reload the game, it seems?
I'm playing as a Federation-type bunch of xenophile do-gooders, and my best buddy is the neighboring criminal empire. The dialogue is hilarious, "We have decided to trust you. More importantly, we have decided to be trustworthy. This is surprising to us, as well."
Yeah, I ended up friends with the criminals because it turns out the southern part of the galaxy is populated by jerks and I had a lot of room to expand in the other direction if I wanted to.
Regular empires seem to be pretty able to shrug off going over-cap up to about double if things are going well on your core planets, so far. It's irritating fishing for the cap booster techs, though.
I'm real sorry, but I'm going to have to back out for tonight. I was just informed that I have to do an installation for work this evening and I am not pleased about this.
Have to say I already really like the new planet system. The tiles were cool, I honestly liked them a lot but they were so tedious to manage if you grew past like three planets.
Also the long-lived authoritarian blue-skinned space elves I designed actually out-populated their syncretic servants for freaking once. The AI never managed to do that with the old pops system, it always ended with like three times as many slow-breeding servile birds who inevitably rebelled and took over. So that's nice.
Same issue. My neighbors are a hive mind, another megacorp, and a xenophobic empire.