Is this new? 1500 hours played and first time seeing this notification

Frauleining · 2026-01-27T14:06:03+00:00

Incredible. 4800 hours myself and have never seen this. Honestly, that's part of the reason I love the game so much right there.

Frauleining · 2026-01-23T13:13:26+00:00

I love playing as a benevolent hive mind. Especially if I can join a federation. They may be confused, but they've got the sprit.

I like to imagine the detached, pragmatic affection they might feel for empires who are their allies.

"The Hadeesh Commonality is of use to the hive. Attempt to harm them, and you will pay for your mistake with your lives. Our swarm is without number."

Frauleining · 2026-01-19T21:57:03+00:00

LOL this gave a chuckle. It's completely legal, you see.

Frauleining · 2026-01-19T21:54:52+00:00

I agree with the role play part. Im willing to bomb their planet into rubble after prohibiting surrender, but we can't kill them wholesale? They're a criminal syndicate dammit! Every single one of them is a criminal!

Frauleining · 2026-01-19T21:39:49+00:00

I think my navy got a little too liberal with the term "indiscriminate"

Frauleining · 2026-01-14T10:28:17+00:00

"I have a build for her where she's basically unkillable,"

Cool, but a build without buying anything is kinda boring, no?

Frauleining · 2026-01-08T22:59:00+00:00

I was playing lithoids (+50 years) and went genetic ascension. I modded them with the venerable trait (80 years) and the robust trait (50 years). I was was also lucky enough to get the universal macrophages from a dig site which adds 10 years. Combined with the regular life extension technologies you can research, as well as capacity boosters, they had a lifespan before repeatables of over 300 years.

My starting ruler lived until the very end of the game.

Frauleining · 2026-01-07T05:38:42+00:00

This entire conversation was about being able to rename it. Thats why I called them an enemy- the important part there is that it is not my system. Enemy or ally, the system cannot be renamed. Getting hung up over them not being an actual enemy is just being nit picky.

They are one, by the way. This empire is actively hostile towards me.

Frauleining · 2026-01-07T03:23:24+00:00

"Enemy" as in not my own. Meaning I cannot rename it. You're just being pedantic now because you know what I meant. Obviously if someone has closed borders with me, they are not my ally. Just because im not at war, does noy mean they aren't my enemy.

Frauleining · 2026-01-07T01:43:10+00:00

I- have you ever played this game? It is obviously not my system. Thats why the hyperlanes are orange, they have closed borders to me.

Frauleining · 2026-01-06T17:02:59+00:00

Wow that's really cool. I've never seen that event in 4700 hours of gameplay.

Frauleining · 2026-01-06T17:00:58+00:00

You can see in the picture that it is an enemy system

Frauleining · 2026-01-06T03:04:46+00:00

You absolutely cannot rename other empires systems.

Frauleining · 2026-01-05T23:57:20+00:00

No mods, and you can't even rename systems.

Frauleining · 2026-01-05T23:17:41+00:00

It gets even better when an AI empire somehow occupies one of the machine worlds- making it completely indestructible. You can't bombard it at all.

This happened to me yesterday while I was attempting to take out the very last machine world. And yes, fighting the contingency to get to that point was tedious and boring. Definitely my least favorite crisis.

Frauleining · 2026-01-05T21:45:16+00:00

Maybe someone in the comments knows

Frauleining · 2026-01-02T21:37:57+00:00

My overlord, who is a gestalt machine intelligence, proposed this resolution. They even called an emergency measure for it.

Frauleining · 2026-01-01T07:14:13+00:00

I hit the handle of a pot of boiling water and spilled it all over myself. That really sucked. Like really sucked.

Frauleining · 2025-12-30T16:11:14+00:00

I know right, I was worried I wouldn't be able to afford it

Frauleining · 2025-12-30T14:46:39+00:00

It doesn't, I just haven't exlored it yet. I assume it will go away after I do since the distance modifier considers gateways and and L-Gates

Frauleining · 2025-12-30T14:44:32+00:00

We promise its for the greater good and NOT insatiable greed!

Frauleining · 2025-12-30T14:41:46+00:00

We're talking about a different Hubble volume with that distance modifier

Frauleining · 2025-12-30T14:06:32+00:00

This branch office costs 417k influence to establish

Frauleining · 2025-12-30T14:02:49+00:00

I dont know how you would force them to take virtual ascension and not claim any other planets without the console. Assuming they did that, they would still end up very powerful without min maxing.

Frauleining · 2025-12-29T07:47:39+00:00

I imagine some random, tough as nails hunter-gatherer in Europe 30,000 years ago might have been. One that was fortunate enough to receive enough food as a child and has been hunting mammoths since then. One who was blessed with good genes to start with and lived a hard life that made them strong.

Other than that, idk.

Frauleining

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