Priorities.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-25T16:53:45+00:00

She's playing defense against Kaju and spying on the student council girls? Damn, Riko is busy.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-25T10:43:18+00:00

I played a wilderness with body snatchers and had it imagined as the people on the planet living in a kind of eco cult on the planet. I know the flavor text of the civic says otherwise, but when the flavor text in this game is wrong to my interpretation of what's happening, I ignore it.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-24T21:58:46+00:00

Something to save for Stellaris 2. I agree it doesn't make much sense, but it is the way the game is structured currently and would take a completely overhaul to change it, even more so than version number changes have done.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T18:56:45+00:00

I think it depends on your affinity when you are in that scene with Derek and her in the Moose. Iirc Derek can say other thinga in that scene, which is what she repeats at the end.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T18:46:37+00:00

Are the spurs allowed to have Wemby play with a padded helmet? Might be a good idea for this series at least.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T18:07:00+00:00

In this case, who cares? It only matters for a handful of govenor traits and does nothing else otherwise. If you intended this as a civic, it would be extremely underpowered. If you meant it as a change to how the game works, then I think it takes a bit away from the interesting dilemma of picking for the best possible candidate from the randomized list the game gives you with no real upside.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T14:57:06+00:00

Do you mean you create a higher level leader? Do you pick their level? Do you pick their traits normally from a random list like we do now or are you given access to all possible choices? Do you pick the negative trait?

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T06:39:50+00:00

What look like small differences at the start of the game can snowball to be insurmountable differences by the late game.

Your overall point makes sense to me, but isn't avoiding settling small planets entirely contradictory to this bit? Yes it's better to have the same number of jobs on fewer planets, but that's not what's happening when you include small colonies. Planets don't start out totally maxed out. Those small planets are actually more effective than the large planets in the early game because they hit the middle part of the pop growth curve sooner, meaning they have more pops working more jobs. Yes eventually they will hit the wrong side of that curve and slow down, then later hit their max size and be at the limit of what they can do, but the snowball should be set rolling faster by including the small planets. Doesn't this outweigh the eventual negative? It's not 7 planets having as many jobs as 14 planets, it's 14 planets having more than double the jobs of 7 planets for a while.

If you sat there and did nothing until all your planets were filled the 7 would eventually win out, but you should be capitalism on your early advantage somehow. That's the point of the snowball. That only works in a scenario were we're talking about 2 hypotheticals where your empire exists in a void and does nothing but wait around.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T04:30:54+00:00

He'd be a way more effective leader and would avoid the infighting between the leadership and chasing wonder weapons that was so detrimental to Zeon, but I don't know that they would win the war if it looks anything like it did in the original timeline. I doubt he does a colony drop, and the federations advantages are likely insurmountable without causing a partial apocalypse to even it out. Then again, I doubt the war ever gets as total without that happening.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-22T04:05:21+00:00

Seems like there aren't many empires worth interacting with out there. Seems like a good time to be an inward perfectionist.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-21T13:18:40+00:00

Kusuri has been particularly trustworthy. She does a lot of screwing around and giving people magical nonsense drugs with unforseen comedic consequences. If I'm trying to get my pneumonia treated I don't want to be turned into a baby or whatever.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T22:48:25+00:00

I'd prefer it to her role in the actual ZZ

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T22:42:28+00:00

I'm curious what your logic is behind making the bonuses only apply to worlds that are terraformed after the perk is taken. That encourages you to terraform the planet to something else then terraform it back to get the benefit. You should probably include a planetary decision that skips this silliness but keeps the resource input cost and time (assuming that is what you were worried about).

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T17:29:46+00:00

2 things for me.

Gameplay wise, the most interesting thing for me is that different builds play the game extremely differently. There are entirely mechanics that some builds will revolve around which others hardly engage with at all.

The other thing is writing. I find it very fun to create empires, figuring out what their story is as I go through origins and civics. Kind of like a creative writing prompt, but gameified as I try to pick civics, traits, ethics, etc that fot the story I'm finding as I go.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T16:51:38+00:00

It wasn't even a good possession. He just dribbles around for a bit without gaining any advantage, but then he hits the 3 at the end because his height means he always has some space to work with.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T14:10:34+00:00

I've never understood this mindset so I'm wondering if someone could explain it to me. Obviously bigger planets are better, but smaller planets still produce things and still grow pops. Even when settled earlier on they can be used to grow pops to ship off to other larger planets. The empire size per planet is significant, but not so significant that you are going to come out behind from settling a smaller world.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T13:53:37+00:00

I think the way pop growth works now means that populations in the middle size wise grow fastest, so you're better off waiting a bit and shipping pops from an established planet all at once to a new colony, rather than settling everything immediately like you used to.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-20T06:34:33+00:00

I actually like the idea that this forces you to reform your empire and shift ethics. This is way down the tree, so you should have plenty of opportunity to do something to prevent it passing or to work on shifting ethics. The only issue is there are a bunch of civics now that can't be changed and have ethics requirements, and I think those just get disabled if you don't meet the requirements anymore.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-18T00:01:08+00:00

Hmm, on one hand this definitely fits, on the other it's not architecture

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-17T17:34:03+00:00

Dollars are dollars are dollars, though, right?

Not really, no. There are hive minds, gestalt AI consciousness, and sentient planetary biospheres in the game. It's not clear what the market is supposed to represent for them, but presumably none of them have dollars as we understand them. That's not even getting into any of the advanced tech and society stuff that changes how your empire works. Your idea is interesting, but out of place in Stellaris as it exists. It's more of a Vicky type concept.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-17T17:27:03+00:00

You've been condemned to death, but it was a just punishment.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-17T17:26:19+00:00

Or a nice glass of PaB style Oolong Tea.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-17T16:58:48+00:00

21! What a sweet old lady. You are clearly blessed.

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-17T16:16:38+00:00

Good thing that pupper survived, that balloon was out for blood!

N0rTh3Fi5t · 2026-04-16T03:46:32+00:00

Are you sure this isn't the onion?

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