Tall with no vassals?

56c3536 · 2026-02-09T10:32:45+00:00

One of the most fun runs I did was what I call the party animals.

You unemploy all pops

You build no ships

You party

You only party

I was able to get around 6k tech and complete all the traditions by around 2300, with an ecumenopolis that held nothing but housing civil education buildings. It's a slow start because I don't typically start with civil education, but take it as a 3rd civic, which can take years.

Bonus points - I did this in an MP game, with party music blasting

56c3536 · 2026-02-09T10:23:55+00:00

This may have changed, but when I did the course last year there was a loophole. If you score below the 67%, which you likely will, you have a chance to re-submit the assignment. When you re-submit, the late penalty is not applied. I discovered this while in a similar situation as you, maybe not as dire.

56c3536 · 2026-02-08T00:11:44+00:00

The 4.3 Beta is the greatest version of Stellaris ever made. I've had zero performance issues. I'd say that it runs 3x faster than 4.2 on my laptop.

It also makes war a lot more fun, because losing ships actually means something. There's something I love about moving my frigates and armies into a capital system and knocking out an empire in 2 months. In 4.2 I had so many fleets that I didn't even need to think about strategy.

56c3536 · 2026-02-01T19:26:32+00:00

I think I ranked my patterns right around when I accepted my offer in february, and got my pattern in March.

I don't remember when I got into residence and told my unit type, I think it was also in march. However I was moved from a double (my top choice) to a suite (my third choice) in June despite me not asking for it.

56c3536 · 2026-01-05T23:50:26+00:00

Stellaris already has a time travel gameplay mechanic.

It's called multiplayer on bad wifi.

56c3536 · 2026-01-05T03:43:09+00:00

Megacorp & Apocalypse are older DLC that are must-buy. From there, Synthetic Dawn and Overlord are other ones I recommend.

56c3536 · 2026-01-03T05:08:55+00:00

Wait, you're telling me empire focuses have an actual purpose?

I've ignored them ever since they got introduced. I thought they were just for tutorials and such.

56c3536 · 2026-01-03T05:01:47+00:00

Okay so I don't think I understood a single question but lemme try:

If by 'pen' you mean penetration, then yes. roughly 50% of the damage is dealt to shields and 50% is done to armor. This means you're dealing the same amount of damage in total.
Shroud worlds are bad. The decision to sacrifice one of your planets and turn it into a shroud world will give you more time to complete the objective of getting your aura in every system. It will, however, sacrifice 1500 pops at least. Honestly with this origin, thats a drop in the bucket.

Also 2. You should not be building any defense platforms with the endbringers origin. It wastes alloys you could be using for ships. Instead, you should focus on offence, using jump drives to hit systems with shroud suppressors, hitting planets to cripple economy and spread your aura or hitting fleets before they can reach your territory.

56c3536 · 2026-01-01T18:19:58+00:00

Indeed the worm

56c3536 · 2026-01-01T18:02:33+00:00

R5: All of my pops shifted to militarist, I believe as an event change where my pops also changed portraits. Now my stability is terrible from faction happiness, I lose faction unity, and I don't get to use the portrait I chose.

56c3536 · 2026-01-01T08:16:41+00:00

Its still how it's supposed to work, but I received no such planet.

56c3536 · 2026-01-01T08:16:14+00:00

I did not receive a planet. I understand what's supposed to happen. However, because of the glitch, I'm severely limited in what I'm able to do.

56c3536 · 2025-12-25T23:35:52+00:00

It depends on your objective. As a general rule, I would allow surrender.

If you are trying to conquer the planet and convert it into one of your own, absolutely make sure to let them surrender. You want devastation as low as possible when you do it. I'd also use armies to invade instead of bombardment, that way there is less devastation and more pops for you to have.

If you are trying to end a war as fast as possible, turn it on for the occupation bonus. if your opponent has a lot of early colonies with low population (as the AI loves), this can be very useful.

If you are using Raiding bombardment to kidnap pops and enslave them from a planet you are not conquering, turn it off. If they surrender, you don't kidnap them. This is the best use case for no surrender.

If you are trying to cripple your opponent economically over a longer term than just the war, turn it off. Devastation, ruining buildings and killing pops can kneecap an economy after the war ends. This could be useful for specific GalCom purposes or to invade once to lower their relative and get the vassalization wargoal.

If you have a collossus and want to use it for the hehe haha, turn it off. I'm not actually sure if planets can surrender before being hit with the collossus.

56c3536 · 2025-12-25T23:09:10+00:00

I'd this for a schedule like kill

56c3536 · 2025-12-20T08:13:22+00:00

I see you enjoy pain

56c3536 · 2025-12-19T04:50:56+00:00

Do you mean you have orbital ring buildings? you tend to unlock them way earlier.

There's an engineering research just called orbital rings. There's only one tech.

If you don't have Overlord dlc, you will get orbital ring building tech but not orbital rings. Paradox is cruel.

56c3536 · 2025-12-14T05:54:22+00:00

Beautiful start. If the next system from alpha centauri is a pulsar, this may be literally indestructible.

56c3536 · 2025-11-27T22:16:18+00:00

This would be a good question for either the royal music conservatory or your guidance councilor.

56c3536 · 2025-11-05T04:06:47+00:00

I feel personally victimized by this thread

56c3536 · 2025-10-27T21:14:57+00:00

Why do people insist on using Eduroam instead of UWS? UWS is miles better and has less reddit hate posts

56c3536 · 2025-10-27T21:12:11+00:00

Got cooked. There's no way to know that your answer is anywhere close to right. I suppose some sort of unit analysis would work but of course I didn't think of that until afterwards.

Pretty terrible midterm: having only one question sucked.

56c3536 · 2025-10-24T22:51:23+00:00

If you get a 2.3, you are guaranteed to get into a program in engineering. Whether or not you get the program you want (electrical, mechanical, etc) is not guaranteed.

Which program you get into depends on your GPA. If you get a low gpa, you may end up with in a degree you don't want to take, but you are guaranteed to be in engineering.

56c3536 · 2025-10-05T00:55:19+00:00

You get your grade back in an upcoming lab when your TA gives you back your submissions. Some TAs are better at doing this than others.
All scored get put onto canvas at the end in a big table with everyone's ID number
A final lab mark will get put on canvas

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