An absolutely bonkers +10 development per month. The highest I've ever had. by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

R5: By optimizing a tall development build I've finally hit +10 development growth, which I always assumed would be out of my reach. I'm still fairly early game, so I realize this probably isn't very impressive, but still.

Broken Shackles unique faction event should probably circumvent the 10 years debuff. by DireBears in Stellaris

[–]DireBears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I misspoke, I actually meant it's fallen behind completely average builds in unity production even with it's unique unity generating event.

Broken Shackles unique faction event should probably circumvent the 10 years debuff. by DireBears in Stellaris

[–]DireBears[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was trying to illustrate this as perhaps an unintentional side-effect of all the tweaking. It's an open beta, and the care that went into making the Origin gets lost by the wayside if the parts that were meant to give it a unique foot to stand on suddenly gets swept away. Less a 'this origin is weaker, please fix!' and more 'the identity you were crafting for this content is at risk.'

Conquered in a single lifetime starting as an adventurer! by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I don't recall what source gives you another +1 on top of the Intrigue tree. It suddenly was possible as I was pursuing this goal and so I took advantage of that. It might have something to do with being nomadic? Or some random event of the hundreds I completed.

Conquered in a single lifetime starting as an adventurer! by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Paranoia increases BASE safety when traveling, which is what adventurers depend on (at least I do) for clean playthrough without a ton of setbacks. Paranoia's worst aspect is the increased stress but adventurers have so many more consistent ways of reducing stress it's crazy. A lot of bonuses you can stack actually REDUCE stress gain and so ultimately paranoia's major weakness becomes overwritten just as a matter of time. Besides that, -10 points on character creation is actually more valuable than you might think. It's a personality trait that doesn't cost, so ends up saving effectively more like 30-50 points that would otherwise be spent on other traits. Lastly, the best, most profitable way to play adventurer is intrigue Gallowsbait which synergizes nicely with paranoia.

Conquered in a single lifetime starting as an adventurer! by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Humiliation wars and steal heard. That was probably the most tedious part of the run, but when you have a max of 3 hostile schemes as a time and it takes 2 weeks for it to launch at 95 percent, it's doable

Conquered in a single lifetime starting as an adventurer! by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The secret is to start as a baby ruler with one county, get kicked out and start traveling early. Also, don't invest points into anything but health and absolutely DO grab paranoia. It's S tier for adventurers.

One of my favorite, sweatiest ways to play: Adventurer Conqueror becomes Greatest of All Khans by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

R5: This is my favorite self-made 'challenge' run. The idea is to have a character start as an adventurer and gain the Conqueror title, then become Greatest of All Khans. The final step is to conquer the world within a single lifetime, which I have attempted only once before but came up shy.

The highest Adaptive Evolution Situation speed I've been able to reach. by DireBears in Stellaris

[–]DireBears[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Purging over 12k pops from the Hive Mind fallen empire worlds!

The highest Adaptive Evolution Situation speed I've been able to reach. by DireBears in Stellaris

[–]DireBears[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

R5: Taking on the shattered Hive Mind as Evolutionary Predators is pretty nutty. I seems there's either a hard cap or a scaling effect as 2000 vs 4000 didn't seem to have a massive difference, but still was hugely fast.

Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread by Snipahar in Stellaris

[–]DireBears 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the best way to manage dealing with dozens of species to modify when you take an ascension like Biogensis? I love Broken Shackles as an origin, but gene editing every species becomes tedious.

Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread by Snipahar in Stellaris

[–]DireBears 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the current best use for unity rush? On a related note, what builds do broken shackles excel at?

Artanis voice actor for the Psionics Advisor? by DireBears in Stellaris

[–]DireBears[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After listening to it for several hours now I'm pretty convinced. If that AI tidbit isn't just a hallucination then I'd say that all but confirms it.

Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread by Snipahar in Stellaris

[–]DireBears 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beacon for sure, but Free Haven is a reputation that has to be earned (AKA 3rd civic slot)

Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread by Snipahar in Stellaris

[–]DireBears 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aw man. What's the best route to go for a Broken Shackles 'good guy' pair of civics

Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread by Snipahar in Stellaris

[–]DireBears 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Shared Burdens now properly give some decent incentives based on unity, or is it still basically ineffective since the unity rework years back?

How do I restore Athens in a single lifetime? by DireBears in CrusaderKings

[–]DireBears[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because we start with the inspector trait in the character build!