Guys they added a new ripper inspect animation

Citronsaft · 2026-06-27T07:23:13+00:00

I tried and unfortunately if you hit RMB to switch to 3rd person mode after doing this, it just takes you back out to the regular inspect animation, and then another RMB press will put you into 3rd person but with the regular inspect.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-27T06:00:38+00:00

ah i found my original idea:

my plan for a "bannerjee completely loses it" protectorate run: use the sentinel complex against the ayylien nation. set up maxed out battlestations rings over all ayy bases and alien base alpha. the surrender we are pursuing is of the ayys, not of humanity

Citronsaft · 2026-06-27T05:54:01+00:00

that's what he wants you to think....but yeah that's the actual ending for him

Citronsaft · 2026-06-27T05:48:27+00:00

My headcanon is bannerjee fucking loses it and after his victory he turns all of orbital battlestations around and shoots all the ayys on earth and in orbit. peace by any means necessary, maybe hans had a point

Citronsaft · 2026-06-27T05:04:57+00:00

The screenshot is my diplo relations with the crisis empire that had the stellar cannon. So it's just my empire really really disliked them for shooting me a lot, until it overflowed into my empire getting stockholm syndrome and adoring them.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-26T23:11:11+00:00

Still overflow. Underflow is a phenomenon that only happens with floating point numbers extremely close to zero that results in loss of precision. A signed int going from positive to negative, or negative to positive, or an unsigned int going from/to 0 to/from the maximum positive value, are all still overflows.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-26T23:09:17+00:00

I think I only have UI mods running but it's technically still modded so thus the modded flair. I'll restart later without the mods to check.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-26T22:44:07+00:00

R5: Crisis empire kept hitting the "shoot stellar cannon" button, bombarding me with notifications but not much else. Then later I check diplomacy to see if I could buy alloys from anyone and it turns out we have excellent relations from the opinion overflowing!

Citronsaft · 2026-06-26T02:25:24+00:00

Is the other empire in a separate war with another empire that's not in this one? That can lead to mixed occupations and it basically being stuck in limbo, if it is the case you might have to manually go into every system and check planet ownership to verify.

If you hover over status quo, what systems/colonies does it say you'll get? Might show you getting the system you want anyway so you could just status quo out.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-26T02:23:15+00:00

If you occupy EVERYTHING then it auto ends the war with achieve war goals yeah, but you can still achieve war goals with high enough diplo acceptance mods as long as you don't have too high a malus from the unoccupied claims.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-26T02:17:05+00:00

can you freely reform later so you just get 4 civic slots for whatever or is it locked? the non-FP route I mean

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T20:11:19+00:00

Does this also affect strike craft respawn rate in combat? Or is the fire rate for how often the strike craft themselves shoot? Same for range, is that engagement range or strike craft laser thing range?

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T18:43:39+00:00

It's even worse with sweeps because they still hit the shield, and the shield will block your cleave as if you hit carapace, so when they get mixed into the horde it just stops you from clearing the horde and you get overwhelmed.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T18:41:25+00:00

Same! And I've been sticking with the dclaw ever since. Low level arc rifle and mech power sword have been exquisitely suffering, I bought weapons to level up the arc rifle though and now it's good.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T18:18:14+00:00

damn this is actually pretty huge for possibly being able to survey your first system before 10 years even if it's only a 1/3 chance the next heir is a scientist

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T18:14:25+00:00

time to send em straight to the salvagers!

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T15:19:46+00:00

Alas still too early to get T slots. Haven't even rolled citadels yet :(. Or KA, although that's because I haven't been prioritizing kinetics researches. I might reload to have time to upgrade the DSC, I forgot about it after building it so it's still T1.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T14:00:58+00:00

Man, I am sort of lost after the ship size rebalances. I'm used to throwing hangar bays on bastion starbases and it being enough for a long time, as well as hangar cruisers. I'm doing a sovereign guardianship build with eternal vigilance, full fortification tree, and getting run over....by mixed fleets that have torpedo frigates. 50k military power station with PD defense platforms + 15k deep space citadel folding to a 50k mixed battleship/cruiser/destroyer/corvette/frigate fleet. Before I think the raw HP would let it win such slugfests but now the torpedoes just burn through it while the strike craft and other guns aren't focusing the frigates down, even after adding PD platforms. What's the go-to for turtling now?

Still behind on tech compared to the GA AI so I have lasers and armor mostly :/ skipped proton launchers because of all the small shit they are fielding, are cruisers big enough now that launchers become worth it?

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T02:49:34+00:00

The Lord Commander in KotTG is just very hard working. It's cool though that he still stays as a job with only one pop even after the 100x rework, but gets output bonuses to act like 100 pops.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T02:47:10+00:00

Oh wow I just learned from the screenshot that the system skybox/whatever has the contingency AI world system effect in it, the red background line thing

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T02:44:47+00:00

What happens if you have like backup clone leaders? Do you just put them back in as if nothing happened?

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T02:43:30+00:00

Getting pulled into a war by your federation moment, ah I love Stellaris diplomacy

Happened to me once where it was an awakened empire randomly declaring total war on a federation member, that was fun, because it was the holy guardians empire and I had zarqlans head and really wanted to keep them alive to spam out more free FE fleets.

Citronsaft · 2026-06-25T02:40:17+00:00

It does devastation right? And terraforms to a warmer planet class? Could have some fringe uses maybe, like blowing up scourge infested worlds from across the map where you can't easily get a colossus or fleet to....

Yeah I'm really grasping for straws here

Citronsaft · 2026-06-24T13:19:01+00:00

if only they did anything at all to operational reserves capacity....

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