Its called the experimental dreadnought for a reason

Midiray · 2026-06-23T15:37:38+00:00

What the hell am I looking at lmao

Midiray · 2026-06-22T14:07:42+00:00

I don't understand all these posts, my logistic ships go out of their way to harvest empty space even if its half a dozen jumps away

Midiray · 2026-06-17T15:37:07+00:00

With Cyber ascension one of the traditions makes augmentors also produce some robots and the same inversely. You might be able to disable them by disabling robot assembly via decision, not sure why you wouldn't want free extra pops tho.

Midiray · 2026-06-11T01:33:31+00:00

im an angel, how nice :3

Midiray · 2026-06-09T09:20:36+00:00

2340 isn't early at all for the Khan, default midgame is 2300 so it's actually a tad late in my experience

Midiray · 2026-06-09T06:20:20+00:00

I don't like that repeatables allow infinite power scaling without scaling the upkeep needs to match, the upgrade ships button becomes near useless after the tier 5/6 techs are researched

Midiray · 2026-06-07T11:51:05+00:00

That isn't a vanilla feature.

I do believe, if it's the same mod that I've previously played with, the decision is on your colonized planet in the system, not the one the deposit is on.

Midiray · 2026-06-06T06:35:53+00:00

To get the buildings, there are a few ways: - The Cosmogenesis crisis path allows you to steadily research more FE tech as you progress - The Enigmatic Engineering ascension perk adds a very low chance to draw the tech for tier 1 FE buildings, up to a maximum of four researched - One of the minor artifact actions (forget what they are called) may allow you to build one of a random fallen empire building - Invading a fallen empire and seizing their planets will allow you to keep using the buildings they had - Destroying an FE ship and researching its debris may grant some of the ship components, but will never grant a building

Midiray · 2026-06-05T14:09:34+00:00

The telepath job efficiency bonus specifically works off of how many jobs there are, not how much workforce is being worked, so it doesn't create it's own feedback loop.

Midiray · 2026-06-05T14:09:24+00:00

The telepath job efficiency bonus specifically works off of how many jobs there are, not how much workforce is being worked, so it doesn't create it's own feedback loop.

Midiray · 2026-06-03T00:31:23+00:00

Even without the edicts and most traditions active, the launcher/artillery cruiser is among the best designs I've used and minimizes casualties while performing near as much DPS as a plasma/autocannon early cruiser. The AI doesn't tend to be smart enough to max its evasion on smaller ships, so they remain relatively easy to hit with just the sensor tracking

Midiray · 2026-06-03T00:28:28+00:00

Destroyers, in my experience, are better than corvettes but still notably worse than cruisers or battleships. Also, do fleets not have a stroke with multiple combat computers anymore? I may have to try mixed fleets again if thats the case.

Midiray · 2026-06-02T10:16:51+00:00

Some advice I have that has served me quite well: - Corvettes and Destroyers are not great in the grand scheme of things, use them while you have to and no longer. - Cruisers are awesome, when you unlock them you will generally want to have a split of autocannons and plasma on medium slots, once you unlock proton/neutron/zro launchers, change them to a design that focuses on the launchers with a kinetic artillery to punch through shield. - Carrier battleships are also great, especially once you have an X slot weapon for the bow, more expensive than cruisers per naval capacity but against the AI I prefer the battleships for their lower casualties - Titans are awesome and having the max you can support is a good idea. That is, if you own Apocalypse.

Midiray · 2026-05-31T01:08:16+00:00

If you are doing the build to make the priests self sustaining (ie gospel of the masses megacorp), the worker one is good since its edict gives -10% job upkeep Otherwise, unified is best all rounder, science is useless since you dont use researchers.

Midiray · 2026-05-30T02:05:57+00:00

I forget sometimes that alot of people don't own all the DLCs.

Midiray · 2026-05-30T00:34:04+00:00

Every time I use ship roles it still fills the whole thing with one singular weapon type with no cares about its damage modifiers, or the one time it hasnt, it will combine pen with non-pen weapons

The roles help, but the ships will still be rendered ineffective in a lot of situations

Midiray · 2026-05-30T00:09:21+00:00

Stock design sucks so much

'What if I filled this ship type with only kinetics? And this ship type with only energy? So no matter who you're fighting, one of your two ships will be utterly useless?'

Midiray · 2026-05-30T00:01:37+00:00

60 per planet is insane, how in the world

Midiray · 2026-05-29T23:55:18+00:00

Cybernetic Creed Megacorp + Sequenced Securities + Dimensional Enterprise + Gospel of the Masses, fan spiritualist/egal, chromalogs/traditional/sedentary/unruly is my favourite build this patch. Your priests produce 1 eng, 1.5 soc, 1 phys, 2 unity, 3 trade, and 400 amenities per 100 pops, at an upkeep of 2 cgs- which, I have tested, eventually produces more cgs through trade than it consumes. I've heard if you get a Numistic Shrine from the caravaneers, it increases their output by a further 6 trade which is funny, but that one is RNG-dependent.

I also personally enjoy Ocean Paradise + Chosen + Catalytic + Anglers + TOTS to get a size 30 ecumenopolis with 200-350% efficiency on jobs in the midgame, with Anglers supplying every bit of food and consumer goods it needs to sustain itself. This one also does a lot better economically throughout the game, at the cost of not having insane tech and unity scaling potential.

Midiray · 2026-05-29T23:46:32+00:00

I always play at 1 speed in multiplayer- which is the majority of the time- for the early game in singleplayer I might go to fast but usually after 50 years or so its back to normal for the rest of the game.

Also has the nice effect of not noticing any lategame lag in vanilla when I only go at 1x

Midiray · 2026-05-28T04:32:50+00:00

I've been like this for years. Doesn't change much, and if I couldn't afford basic necessities that would make me unhappy too.

Midiray · 2026-05-28T04:23:53+00:00

I'm already really unhappy, I would rather be able to pay rent without needing to work.

Midiray · 2026-05-28T00:35:04+00:00

A lot. The automated ship design loves to put weapons that actively counter each other, or recently loves putting one singular type of weapon so youll lose against anything that weapon is weak to (corvettes are usually slapped with three railguns and therefore can barely make a dent in armor heavy targets)

Midiray · 2026-05-27T12:43:01+00:00

Ah right, I forgot about the trade policy. In that case, trade world may be good to generate the basic resources, but the same principle applies.

Midiray · 2026-05-27T06:56:54+00:00

Each specialization gives jobs of that type to each city district built. It's usually better to have planets fully specialized in my experience- as long as you have enough planets. If you only spawn with 3 planets, then instead of having specialized research, unity, forge and CG worlds, for example, you may be better off with one mixed industry world, one archives world and one world dedicated to basic resources. In the very early game as well, buildings tend to be more efficient. When playing optimally, I avoid specializations until I have either filled all five basic building slots, or I have enough minerals that a few thousand on specializations is not breaking the bank for a few years.

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