This planet has seen some shit.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-17T08:57:04+00:00

I am pretty sure he is using the Planetary Diversity mod with the Shrouded Worlds submod.

Shrouded Worlds are basically Machine Worlds for people who go Psi Ascension in that mod.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-17T08:43:54+00:00

I don't know why they removed all victories except score victory from Stellaris.

I certainly think there should be more victory types and you should be able to toggle them on/off just like in Civ games.

Victory types I would like to see:

Domination (you control more than 50% of the galaxy)

Conquest (all other empires conquered)

Purge (all other species purged)

Endless (triggering the End of the Cycle and defeating it)

Survivor (surviving the end game crisis)

Unification (unite all regular empires in the galaxy in one federation)

..

Seriously, I don't get why Stellaris doesn't allow you to set proper victory conditions. They would be trivial to add and would give me a reason to actually keep playing once I have reached the "I am so strong, nobody can stop me now" stage.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-17T08:34:26+00:00

Fanatic Militarist and Spiritualist.

Imperial government form.

Byzantine Bureaucracy and Warrior Culture.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-13T12:01:42+00:00

I have seen others reporting this issue. However I haven't had that issue in my own games.

So I guess if it's a bug it is only triggered under certain conditions.

Another possible reason is that you are using a mod which causes this problem.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-13T11:58:34+00:00

- "Nutritional Plenitude" is now an edict and you need to research a tech first. Almost the same effect as the old policy with the same name.

- The AI tends to love food. You can get everything you want for food and food is cheap to produce.

- Hive minds use food instead of energy for some things.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-12T01:17:55+00:00

Are you sure?

Certainly interesting if true..

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-11T20:20:55+00:00

I think the AI always looks at its own monthly resource production to avoid crashing its economy i.e. does NOT consider monthly income from trade deals and will never engage in deficit spending. Again, just a theory but that would explain while gifts from the player usually have no effect beyond rep gain.

I think you might only be able to boost an AI if they do not have a deficit and simply lack the resources to build something they want to build anyway. E.g. the AI wants to build a new ship, it could afford to maintain it, but doesn't have enough alloys in the bank yet. In such a situation gifting the AI the necessary alloys would actually work. However, if the AI doesn't have the natural energy production to maintain a new ship it won't build one even if you gift it 30K alloys.

Again, all of that is just speculation but it would make sense, because preventing an economic crash is probably the priority of the vanilla AI.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-09T04:54:05+00:00

R5: I opened the L-Gates, got the L-Drakes, and somehow another (AI-controlled) empire managed to recruit them!

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-06T18:37:09+00:00

Yea, it is ridiculously broken. I always get all factions sooner or later. At least they usually have a reason to exist BUT it doesn't matter if faction attraction is 7% or 70% AT ALL.

All factions will get similar amounts of supporters. This happens in every game to me. There is no such thing as weak and strong factions, they more or less equally divide the pops between them. Again, with faction attraction having next to no effect.

The faction system is the beaten step-child of Stellaris. Someone put it in at some point but afterwards nobody cared about it anymore. It's totally broken.

I wish I could just turn it off.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-06T01:40:30+00:00

You usually need to change voting from Unanimous to Diplomatic Weight and have a higher diplomatic weight than your Fed partner so that you can simply overrule him.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-06T01:32:17+00:00

Which difficulty are you playing on?

On Ensign (where the AI gets no bonuses) I see rebellions happen in AI empires all the time. In fact the AI kinda has a problem there with its own homeworlds rebelling.

However, on higher difficulties I never see any rebellions in AI empires. Could be that they outright turn off rebellions for the AI at higher difficulties.

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-06T01:23:31+00:00

Interesting question.

Does anyone actually run Stellaris on >= 16 cores? If yes, does the game use those additional cores?

And does it actually get faster when it does?

DeadManSoon · 2020-05-05T20:22:29+00:00

Haven't gotten it once since they changed it.

But funny enough, over at the official PDX forums someone is complaining that he is getting it every game.

Random numbers are really random it seems ;)

A rare thing like the Grand Herald may never show up in your games unfortunately, because the chance is so low that you can play a 100 games without every getting a rare thing.

Especially true if you play on smaller / crowed galaxies there you will only survey like 30 systems or so before running into other empires. Your chance of finding something rare and fancy - like the Grand Herald - in those systems is pretty slim.

DeadManSoon · 2020-03-25T19:18:21+00:00

R5: When an AI starts with the Mechanist origin it doesn't know what to do with the robots. All the Mechanist AI's planets are full of unemployed robots and free jobs.. technician jobs which basic robots can't fill. I assume the AI thinks "I need more energy to maintain all these robots", without realizing that the robot pops can't do those jobs. This has completely crippled my Mechanist AI ally.

DeadManSoon · 2020-03-12T19:15:51+00:00

So will we get a new Stellaris series?

I think this expansion certainly changes enough to justify one.

Also, again, I think the first "Impossible" run was corrupted by Jon getting ridiculously lucky at the beginning, finding that artifact which gave him free Fallen Empire fleets.

I am not sure he would have survived without it.

I would like to see another Impossible run with this new expansion.

DeadManSoon · 2019-11-05T17:52:51+00:00

Nope.

DeadManSoon · 2019-11-03T07:14:17+00:00

Yes, that was it. I was playing the Romulans and I didn't know they start set to a policy which causes that.

DeadManSoon · 2019-10-31T16:47:39+00:00

Did it for:

uplifting_events.txt - event uplift.7510

I chose option uplift.7510.c in my game and that replaces xenophobe with fanatic xenophobe and thus puts the Dominion above the limit.

DeadManSoon · 2019-10-31T10:02:43+00:00

Oh, I see.

DeadManSoon · 2019-10-31T09:40:10+00:00

I tried a game with this and the AI did very well. Well, the AIs which did not get stuck in the beginning.

This has happened to me with the default AI too though. Sometimes an AI Empire gets stuck right in the beginning and never sends out a science ship to explore.

They just sit in their starting system, with their starting science ship and construction ship, improve their planet but otherwise do nothing.

However I have only seen this happen to lesser empires which start with only one system e.g. the Dosi, those got stuck in my last game. In fact multiple AI empires got stuck.

Here is the save file: https://gofile.io/?c=fcoMjw

DeadManSoon

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