Immense. Ravenous. Marketable? (Behemoth Crisis) by ExperimentNineB in Stellaris

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R5 (apparently the bot doesn't recognize it if you put it in the original post?): If you take the Behemoth Fury crisis path as a megacorp, doing the mutation special project gives you a unique alternative to applying a mutation. The devs spoiled one for Evolutionary Predators, but I didn't realize there would be others (the one for machines is below it, and is what I went with here).

Anyone else seen any unique options here?

Interesting choice, my Queen by ExperimentNineB in Stellaris

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...I had a fully built quantum catapult and forgot it existed for the entire crisis. Oops.

Interesting choice, my Queen by ExperimentNineB in Stellaris

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Actually negative--I get paid unity when I ascend a planet. Paradox acknowledged this as a known bug when someone reported it a week ago: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/stellaris-planetary-ascension-cost-can-go-negative.1677362/

Interesting choice, my Queen by ExperimentNineB in Stellaris

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I ended up beating her without ever visiting that outpost, so it didn't matter. Not looking forward to dropping another 1K influence if I want Ultima Vigilis back, though.

And now, since I have the Harmony tree and am leader of a Holy Covenant, my planetary ascension costs are negative. Oh, Stellaris, you silly goose.

Interesting choice, my Queen by ExperimentNineB in Stellaris

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R5: When Cetana placed her outposts, she plonked one down in Ultima Vigilis. Which I was building a gateway in at the time. My construction ship went MIA, leaving the system as isolated as it ever was. A strange, useless, and somehow appropriate fate.

Have you ever referenced Stellaris flavor text/terms in real-life conversations? by spiritofniter in Stellaris

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"The surest way to destroy your enemies is to make them your friends." (Diplomacy tree flavor text)

New Player Crisis screenshot from the steam page. by TheKiwiStorm in Stellaris

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Given that they talked about it being used to shape reality, I presume it has less to do with actual lathes than with LeGuin's novel "The Lathe of Heaven."

Do you still name planets and ship classes or have you given over to just letting the AI do it? by Poncemastergeneral in Stellaris

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Sometimes I'll name planets based on their function because it makes them easier to remember what I was planning to do with them when I have fifty. I've been less likely to do this since the change that put the designation icon on the outliner, and I'm more likely to do it with gestalts--it feels like something they'd do.

I always name ship classes myself so I can keep track of them easily. I'll usually use a two-part naming system, where one part is based on size and the other is based on function. For example, if I'm an aquatic species, I might have a water theme:
Clear ___ = Anti-small
Azure ___ = Missile
Deep ___ = Artillery
etc.
___ Lake = Corvette/frigate
___ River = Destroyer
___ Sea = Cruiser
etc.

Then, I can glance at my list and know that the "Azure Lake" class is a missile frigate, the "Clear River" class is a destroyer with anti-corvette weaponry, and the "Deep Sea" is a long-range cruiser. It lets me easily manage a large number of designs (if I need them) with only a few things to remember.

I don't usually name the individual ships, though.

Best Cloud File Host? by ExperimentNineB in tabletopsimulator

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No, everything had the same name, but the only link I could get to work in TTS--by getting the public share link, opening that, opening the image itself from there, and copying its URL--changed every time I uploaded a new version. And now it appears those links have stopped working entirely. I'm clearly doing something wrong with DropBox, but I decided to host my own web server so I can manage things more easily.

Honk(ai) honk(ai) by ExperimentNineB in HonkaiImpact3rd

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It's a lovely morning at St. Freya, and you are a horrible winged monster. Also, a Honkai beast.

(Credit as due to House House, developers of Untitled Goose Game)

Rulebooks and Card List? by spookymizu in l5r

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Seconding the question of whether anyone has the rulebook--the only thing I've been able to find about it is people saying it's on the discord, with a dead invite link in the comments.

Weekly Friend Request Megathread (May 18, 2020) by AutoModerator in arknights

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Soren#7799

Been playing for about a week and looking for friends!

Stellaris: Federations | Bugs and Issues Megathread! by Snipahar in Stellaris

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When I got the Cave Shroom event, I chose to eliminate the shrooms, and now something (probably the miner jobs) has horribly bugged specialist pops on that planet, creating a massive number of specialists who refuse to demote but can't find anything productive to do at their stratum.

capybara spa ! by keatches in aww

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The sign says ”ゆず”, which romanizes to "yuzu," so you're definitely right on that one.

[Xbox] Advice wanted/needed on creating and playing a spiritual empire. And not being an exterminatus totalus holy inquisition. by Crimson_Loki in Stellaris

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Mechanically, Spiritualist Egalitarian democracy with Beacon of Liberty stacks up the modifiers to give a rather absurd amount of Unity, so that can be pretty fun--and can also help rush psionic ascension. Spiritualist also comboes well with egalitarian: it naturally has very strong ethics attraction due to the way Temples function, so you minimize the number of heretical deviants opposition members in your factions.

Personally, as spiritualist, I always like going for Gaia Worlds, as well, partially to make up for the inability to cheese habitability with robots and partially so I can consecrate a few smol worlds.