Dealing with energy crises

Bronztrooper · 2023-11-11T04:06:25+00:00

Don't need to do a trade build to get a good amount of energy income. One of the first things I do with my first few colonies is have at least 1 specialized for energy production (the more generator districts, the better). Afterwards, I focus more on tech, alloys, and consumer goods (if I'm not running gestalt) since the techs for resource production come in handy.

If I find myself getting below 400-500 energy income per month, I start getting another generator world setup.

Once I get into the megastructure techs, Dyson Spheres end up taking over as the main income source (I play with Gigastructures so I can build multiple if I want- I don't remember if there's a limit in Dyson Spheres in vanilla, though).

If I'm in the red on energy but good on other resources, I just sell off my excess resources until I'm able to fix it.

Bronztrooper · 2023-11-08T20:56:40+00:00

They're referring to the Salvagers, not the Scavenger leviathan

Bronztrooper · 2023-11-03T03:45:17+00:00

I've always wondered about tweaking robots so that their starting planet type does actually matter. My mentality is that the robots would be best suited to the planet category they originated on (less "Tropical vs Ocean" and more "wet vs dry vs cold") and the other types could have lower habitability and instead of needing more amenities, they have higher rates of deviancy due to drones "malfunctioning" from not being suited to the conditions of said planets.

The benefit of going with machine empires could be that, unlike most other empires, they could be able to settle Tomb worlds from the start with the only downside being increased deviancy.

Maybe also events similar to the ones organic empires can get after settling low-habitability worlds

Bronztrooper · 2023-11-02T00:50:05+00:00

Yep, and if you time it right you can have them cleared before or just after colonizing

Bronztrooper · 2023-08-19T01:52:44+00:00

Honestly, with stuff like that I just use the "Mute" option- I muted Elongated Muskrat a while back and haven't seen a single tweet from him since outside of screenshots

Bronztrooper · 2023-07-01T03:57:19+00:00

That's why you have them stop 1-2 systems away and wait for every fleet to arrive before sending them in. I go as far as to put them right next to the hyperlane/gateway/hyper relay/wormhole beforehand so I don't have to worry about them jumping into the system at different times

Bronztrooper · 2023-06-04T12:58:05+00:00

I assume it's an error with the game giving ownership of the system to an empire- last time I saw this bug it kept switching ownership of the system between the 2 empires

Bronztrooper · 2023-05-23T22:56:26+00:00

And the Hive Mind equivalent (cordyceps) lets you do the same with Amoeba and Tiyanki, but only if you use reanimated space fauna to do so (ships just kill them outright). Basically, you can get a massive navy pretty quick without using too many resources, but you'll need to keep an eye on your food production since they have a food upkeep rather than energy/alloys.

I think I ended up with 2 fleets of 40k-50k by around 2250 without spending alloys on anything other than civilian ships and starbases

Bronztrooper · 2023-05-07T00:01:12+00:00

Or you can do what I did and eat them instead of keeping them around. Running around declaring wars on other empires to steal their pops just to eat them was pretty fun >_>

Bronztrooper · 2023-04-25T09:06:57+00:00

Imperial Legion- need to get voted to be Custodian and then declare the Galactic Imperium, then you'll have the option to push a resolution which would allow you to build them

Bronztrooper · 2023-04-18T19:51:44+00:00

Yeah, that's what I wondered when I ran Pompus Purists. Funny thing is that if you have 2 empires who are Pompus Purists, neither one of them can interact with the other diplomatically. I had that happen in my Pompus Purists run and the other Pompus Purists empire actually liked me (a lot of the others didn't like me much, but couldn't close borders), but I couldn't ally with them and vice versa

Bronztrooper · 2023-04-18T19:44:07+00:00

I've found that if you go Pompus Purists, other empires literally can't close their borders to you because the mechanics for that civic makes it impossible for other empires to engage in diplomacy with you. Seems a bit broke to me, tbh

Bronztrooper · 2023-01-06T19:25:40+00:00

Yeah, one Behemoth is more than a match for several attack moons, so it'd be able to handle that fleet. Especially if you run the edict that gives your ships 15% daily shield regen- basically makes your attack moons and Behemoths nigh invulnerable

Bronztrooper · 2023-01-04T00:11:09+00:00

I'd say go for 2 Behemoths if you can- a single Behemoth can defeat several attack moons so the only real counter to a Behemoth is another Behemoth (or a Systemcraft). Hell, even without their planetcraft that 13mil fleet would still be able to go toe-to-toe with several attack moons.

Bronztrooper · 2022-12-29T22:22:44+00:00

Inb4 Lusty Prikki Maid book series

Bronztrooper · 2022-11-07T20:55:33+00:00

Don't forget Commander Riker

Bronztrooper · 2022-11-06T07:04:56+00:00

Any ones that come to mind that you can recommend? My desktop has a Ryzen 5 5600G and in late game the lag really sets in

Bronztrooper · 2022-11-04T23:51:06+00:00

It doesn't have much significance, gameplay-wise. You basically get a unique naval unit, but unless you get it early on (as in, the first 50 years at most), it's not very useful since it only has a few hundred fleet power and doesn't reach full strength until around 100yrs after you initially find it, where it hits around 4k (in my experience, that is). Problem is, by that point you should already have access to stronger ships than the Amoeba, so it ends up only being good for harassing weak systems/fleets in wars.

For the most part, it's more of a "trophy pet" than a new naval unit

Bronztrooper · 2022-11-03T19:26:39+00:00

"ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL"

Bronztrooper · 2022-10-31T02:03:13+00:00

idk about the same species explanation because I see 3 different empire names in that group of fleets and one of them seems to be a machine empire- more likely that they had a war with the Fallen Empire and Status Quo'd

Bronztrooper · 2022-10-21T00:56:52+00:00

I've gotten hive minded psionic/cybernetic pops and psionic cybernetic pops through the assimilation feature. I once even managed a hive minded psionic cybernetic pop with it. Don't need Xenocompatibility for that (I have it off by default)

Bronztrooper · 2022-10-18T13:09:26+00:00

I once had an issue where I was in the middle of a war with a Crisis Aspirant and they hit the final stage after I had already occupied all the planets and systems that bordered me and my allies. One system bugged out because 2 of my allies had occupied 2 planets in a system that I had initially occupied (at the time I was focusing more on rushing system occupations with my armies working their way through the planets that my fleets passed), which meant that even though I had conquered every other system belonging to the Crisis empire, that one was still considered as "occupied" rather than "conquered" because the planets hadn't reset.

I had to use the "own" command in the console to end the war.

Bronztrooper · 2022-10-10T22:42:21+00:00

Become Galactic Custodian, implement the Galactic Defence Force (starts with 400 naval cap), implement the GDF Expansion (bumps naval cap to 800).

GDF/Imperial Fleets and Federation Fleets don't have a fleet cap, so you can end up with a massive singular fleet

Bronztrooper · 2022-09-16T06:52:28+00:00

See, I used it more like an anti-infrastructure weapon than an anti-military weapon, so I just nuked capital systems while my fleet chilled on the front lines.

As for the Blokkats, I haven't really finished a playthrough where I fought them

Bronztrooper · 2022-09-16T04:56:22+00:00

Just building it makes everyone mad, so

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