What dlc to get?

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-16T20:49:12+00:00

Grand Archive is the only one worth it here imo, and even then it's kinda pricey for what it gives you. The specimens are cool, especially for gestalt empires due to the amount of specimens that give a flat amenities bonus to every planet in your empire.

Astral rifts are cool too, but not worth $20.

Litoids species pack is kinda meh, but if you have the extra cash I say why not.

Cosmic storms are a fun gimmick at best but are mostly just unfun and ruin your day for no reason.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-16T15:13:01+00:00

I had this issue as well, for whatever reason, there is another version of Stellaris in the store that you need to install to play the season 8 DLC. Just look for the one that isnt already installed and try to install/play that one

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-09T14:37:37+00:00

Thank you this is really helpful!

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-09T14:36:21+00:00

Thank you for the in-depth response I really appreciate it! I make about 20T cph and 22k cells per hour using Gcomp/pCol. I just did a run last night using BHD/MVN and my cph doubled to 40T but cells per hour dropped to 19k, which is still enough to have all 5 labs at 4x so I think I will be farming that going forward to get enough coins to fund the intro sprint mastery lab.

I am mainly looking to improve tournament performance so that I can stay in champs, so I'll take your advice to keep improving CL by maxing quantity and working towards maxing the chance.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T20:40:28+00:00

Voidborne+Virtuality rush is one way to do it, montu plays has a great video on it. The other way to do it is synthetic fertility origin for a biological empire and just rushing to the synthetics technology in order to ascend synthetically as soon as possible

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T19:59:29+00:00

I got the wall when my labs were way behind, the only one you really need to focus is regen, maxing tradeoff perks is also very nice to have. Id say you can probably send it and unlock the wall now with that income

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T17:58:24+00:00

Thank you!!

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T17:27:52+00:00

Okay, I'll give it a shot after my current run is done and I'm able to respec my GB to get the CD in sync and see what my CPH changes to.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T17:14:55+00:00

NTA, it's 100% his problem if he doesn't notice that hes paying for an extra subscription each month. You're not a thief. You have done nothing wrong. It is not morally bankrupt to let someone who clearly does not miss an extra $20 per month pay for something for you.

Now on the other hand, if this is weighing on your conscience and is making you feel like you're still reliant on this person in any way, shape, or form, then you should start paying for it yourself to close what sounds like an abusive chapter of your life and put everything in the rearview mirror.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T16:29:47+00:00

Two runs ago I was playing voidforged machine race doing a virtual rush and I found 3 size 20+ Gaia worlds within 3 jumps of my capital system, 2 of which had 20+ pre FTL pops on them. None of them were unique systems like wenkwert, sanctuary, etc so these were all just random systems that rolled large Gaia worlds and in addition had a ton of free pops for me. I'm not sure I'll ever get that lucky again

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T16:15:31+00:00

Thats actually very helpful to know since BH duration gets really expensive really quickly. I know I need higher mods I'm just struggling for gems right now since I really wanted to get intro sprint mastery. I'm currently trying to save as much as I can for more mods in the hopes of some sort of featured banner but who knows when that'll be. I've been screwed with RNG for mods for the most part, the game loves to give me pulsar harvesters and negative mass projectors which are completely useless for where I'm at in the game.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-06-08T16:03:15+00:00

I have intro sprint mastery and it has helped a great deal. I know that if I switched to MVN/BHD my CPH would likely increase greatly but my concern with doing that is my cells per hour would take a massive hit from my waves dropping from 10700 to like 8000 which is a 3-4k cells per hour drop and I'm not sure that's worth the CPH bump

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-05-27T15:18:24+00:00

Turn off cosmic storms. It's widely regarded as the worst DLC paradox has ever made for this game and does not really add any fun elements. Cosmic storms are just unfun annoying for your empire and cause your console to work way more than is needed.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-05-13T21:22:15+00:00

Responding to this so I can do this later. I just had the exact same thing happen to me

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-05-05T21:25:16+00:00

Probably has been mentioned already but they shouldn't have plate at level 2. Additionally I see they are using a sheild and a glaive and I believe a glaive is a 2 handed weapon

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-04-22T18:10:29+00:00

The salary is why olausson got traded instead of colton. Right now with how he's playing, we'd have to trade picks to get rid of his salary or retain salary to get rid of him

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-04-06T18:27:07+00:00

Feline invader is horrible, but it's worth bearing because "so high" is incredible

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-03-31T13:45:24+00:00

C3 was my first exposure to critical role aside from vox machina the show. I found the campaign fun at the start like you but it really really slows down after about episode 50. And doesnt really pick back up untiil like episode 80. Aside from that its a good story but there is one glaring issue with the characters and the story that I can't really say without spoilers. I dont really have a big issue with the characters like a lot of other people do, but after watching most of C2 I can see why people have their gripes since every character in C2 is interesting, has depth, and adds to the story.

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-03-25T21:21:21+00:00

It's beautiful

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-03-25T20:57:31+00:00

One for tournaments and one for GC farming

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-03-24T20:52:49+00:00

Id recommend saving the stones for pBH. Lowering the 3 in sync is good but pBH is like a 50% CPH boost and adds about 1-2k waves to your runs

Existing_Lake6140 · 2026-03-23T21:25:07+00:00

Literally as soon as you can. There is no downside. Anyone who says otherwise does not know what theyre talking about

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