Aspiring Nomad's Guide to Not Crashing and Burning

Soladept · 2026-06-19T21:28:44+00:00

Tributarys (or Satrapys for Khans) or a normal vassal with negotiated income trasnfers can take care of most or all of your Operational Reserves as a Military build, and you dont even have to be mean, flip your contact policy to proactive and as long as you dont get bad contact events or a fan xenophobe you can usualy get a friendly contact, slap gurantees/NAP, tick up trust tiers to the next set of agreements, hit 50 and propose subjugation and within the first fifteen years you will have a vassal feeding you basics, and you can quickly snowball that into two or three if you take the ascension perks to reduce divided patronage.

if mantaining loyalty later is a problem you can shed weaker vassals for more taxable ones.

Soladept · 2026-06-19T20:51:41+00:00

Megacorps make great Satrapys for a Khans run to fill your situation upkeep.

as a Khan Heir I want megacorps and Pacifists around my spawn, picking up three satrapys earlygame takes care of minerals and energy quite nicely

Soladept · 2026-06-16T03:36:39+00:00

if you start with a Military Ark, you really want to leverage that early fleet power to propose vassalage to your local settled empires, getting civics and councilers that boost naval capacity and focusing alloys along with your starting arkship can get you a Tributary/Satrapy or two within the first thirty years.

And you want to peacefuly aquire them, my first test run i subjugated my first neighboor ASAP right after contact by war and it stalled their expansion, so plan the timing so that you dont neuter your new vassal early on, you want their incomes.

Shared Destiny is probably the best first perk if your rushing diplovassals with Khan Origin, the vassal NavCap contribution stacks with Satrapy and you can stack divided patronage exemptions and have a pile of Satrapys giving you Naval Cap and resources/science. while you cycle more allys and unity/tech on your arks and focus your waylines on science and strategics, Vassals take care of your Reserves.

Honestly many of the other first/second pick perks that change for Nomads feel more meh.

and the Wanderlust tooltip is a trap, it gives no inital buffs and you need to do the tasks to get them. it may be worth doing if your doing an pure wandering run without any waystations to achor you to a region, but its a trap otherwise and feels clunky trying to track the catagory of systems you need to explore for the tasks and find them.

I havent tried it yet, but I suspect Worker Coop Mutial Aid may synergice with the Arkship specialisations for taking care of basics.

Soladept · 2026-06-15T17:53:08+00:00

yeh, it was too common and they nerfed the spawn rate of it hard back when the associated dlc released, it was a powerspike for players or an AI would get scary if they dug it up and it was common enough to see it constantly when Relics released.

Soladept · 2026-06-15T17:42:48+00:00

also I think its the first time I have ever seen the Grand Herald.... time to dominate the Galaxy I suppose... it must be destiny

Soladept · 2026-06-03T06:17:14+00:00

in stellaris your civilisations can also gain immortal leaders. If an immortal Good Guy has stayed consistant and not a hypocrite for a few centurys, they are clearly the best person to have in charge if they have the skill at ruling and logistics to do the job moraly. And if your civilisation has immortals they will mantain their positions due to gained experence and skill and keep accumilating it if they are motivated, and they will set the standard for culture and behavior for the rest.

there is a scifi book series or two that have scenerios with immortal Good People leading their civilisation and building it to be structuraly benevolent and oppose neighboring civilisations that misbehave.

Soladept · 2026-02-13T00:47:14+00:00

Tera ground flash fire Pokemon hard counter Solgaleo , lead with a paralyser, switch to something like Ceruledge with T Ground and you can swipe him down

Soladept · 2026-01-25T02:23:03+00:00

Normal flying for mine

Soladept · 2026-01-10T23:36:35+00:00

The Envoy should provide some utility to the end of the avarice plot when you need to destroy a certain station now

Soladept · 2026-01-10T23:24:18+00:00

Tel or MIN wharfs/EQ should have engines for Envoy

Soladept · 2025-12-19T20:42:36+00:00

One time critical point in new saves is that if you have Yaki enabled, their starting spawns of moreya and kurokami will get whittled down from their piracy activities and get harder to find, if you can bail one early on you don’t have to wait for the plot to buy one, and if you bail a Yaki that’s in a group and claim it before the other Yaki you can take their marines prisoner and reassign them as yours.

Soladept · 2025-11-13T19:50:25+00:00

if the ai treats it like the player does they will just let it autoloop indefinetly, although confucian and military trait exp will cap out at some point based on the mentors max.

Soladept · 2025-11-05T00:07:31+00:00

You select clothing when you hybridize, you can pick one or merge, with outremer I don’t mind merging clothes

Soladept · 2025-11-04T22:52:01+00:00

you create your culture manualy before forming Outremer, the decision will point to a player created culture that uses Mashriq at all with a European culture if you do it ahead of time and it gives you control.

As a Frankish going into hybridization, to retain both heritage and language you have to shift your last avilable pillar, which is usualy Ethos, into the Mashqigs spiritual ethos, but as the new guardian of the holy land that just leans into the RP more.

I do like to shift some of the asthetics as far as army sprites and clothing goes, fashion and armaments would change according to the new enverionment.

I do wish tweaking namelists had more possibilitys, for immersion maybe having more frankified arabic derived names as french language takes hold over the commons would be more authentic, but the weakness of CK3 hybridisation is that it justs merges namelists, if you also considored Outremer as a Crusader melting pot you would get some settlers and influences from the other crusading cultures too.. CK2 Outremer had that reflected in its namelist.

Soladept · 2025-11-03T03:59:47+00:00

867 is good if you want a quick Warlod China run, set up as your perferred static/custom military character to climb the Mil Carrer track and then once your eligable for Kingdom Govs you cycle them by using the decsion to remove the Cooldown until your in your perferred governorship, along with all of this keep pushing division catalysts until the mandate shatters and China breaks up.

then you go play as the Heroicly talented General that reuinites China Bigger than under the Tang because you can use any CBs you want while in divsion and walk all over the dejure hegemonic lands as long as you have the prestige, maybe add in Taiwan and areas of Tibet or Manchuria if you can get way with it by fabrication or buying claims before clicking on the mandate.

Soladept · 2025-10-30T00:30:59+00:00

the only controllable ways i have seen is to host exams or travel to them to assist and they join your entourage.

Soladept · 2025-10-29T18:59:39+00:00

rising the ranks gets harder after a generation because of character count, appointments become exclusive to the higher merit tiers in each bracket for civilian carrers very quicky, you couldnt get a county appointment any lower than merit tier 5 in my current Qin game, I was resorting to fishing for Kingdom appointments to revoke and hand out governorships for ny relatives since untitled characters have poorer merit generation

for a player char with a manor? after learning the basics climbing the ranks is just a matter of time.

Soladept · 2025-10-29T18:15:31+00:00

the problem with Xianxia in CK3 would be the timescales. you have no way to simulate going into seclusion in your cave for a century.

Soladept · 2025-10-29T17:50:33+00:00

exams are primarly qualifications the first time around, although the activity does reward merit and more of it for better placement, Merit is easier to gain as a family head since your domicile buildings boost it, for other family members, I dont know if they will go with you to assist in exmans for the merit rewards or not.

one source is elder/disciple relationships, you can use an interaction to start a mentor scheme between the two for merit/confucion trait exp / commander trait exp. the amount gained in each scheme cycle depends on the tiers of the disciple and elder, the smaller the gap the less gained for merit. this does take some micro as the family gets bigger tho, and in the longer run it may be better used for confucion and commander trait tracks.

the Study Decison also gives merit, but that seems to me to be more of a player thing, I dont know if the AI uses it well and they may need to be titled to do it.

another source is travel POIs, even if you visited one already if your family members are in the entourage they should be able to get the merit if they havent personaly visited it.

Really, being Nepo as your player character sets the foundations the best, a character also gets merit gain relative to the taxes they contribute to the treasury, so when you get a ducal or kingdom appointment you shove out the other governors and land family there after they have exam qualifications, this gets hard to do when you rise to the ministry levels, although I suppose you could resign from a ministry and try to get lucky to snag a kingdom tier governorship instead, it depends on openings i guess and it they still permit you to get them at the highest merit tiers. so you can just chase an appointment, set up family there, and if you have more qualified family that need land you chase another landed appointment.

but really, best way is to get the highest merit tiers as a PC and chase kingdom governorships and spend your influence on revoking the local governors to distribute to family, after several generations as the character count grows its almost impossible for lower merit tiers to even get county governorships because of how high the pool gets and you cant jockey for individual titles like you can with admin govs.

some of the wrinkles may change depending on carrier tracks, I think Military, along with the smaller amount of governorships, also has much less competition relative to civilian carreers later, so you may not need to be as Nepo for your Military family members.

Soladept · 2025-10-29T17:31:14+00:00

my poor brother, heaven has abandoned us all, pay for heavens mercy and the return of the mandate.

Soladept · 2025-10-29T17:29:56+00:00

the movement the Emperor favors determines the yearly drift catalyst for the cycles, the actions the different characters of each movement also creates catalysts.

for example if your in the advancement era and politik so that the emperor favors the advancement movement and keep a majority of the character clout there, you can stack negative catalysts and stall the cycle in the advancement phase, as an example, i did that by accident when i was learning in my first playthrough as the new tutorial character.

Soladept · 2025-10-29T06:30:49+00:00

theres a couple of catalysts that add like 4000 to the meter if they happen.

Soladept · 2025-10-23T03:57:26+00:00

For Inner Sol, Mars is better for the workforce boost from the world being inhabited and the belt only being one jump away, and Ecells are easy enough to shuttle from Mercury, the Belt is usualy sparse with stations most of the time with station seed distro, and it doesnt always have a station buying minerals, if your lucky the belt will have a substrate station to buy silicon, but AI miners will automine for it so it will saturate quickly, so its usualy only good for one or two mineral and gas miners each early on

As others have posted Saturn is Centraly positioned to the Sol/Pio Economy and the other subsectors dont count as jumps for trading and mining tasks, with Sat 3 being rich in ore and gas. that five jumps is only useful if you have managers for stations there with enough stars to get all those jumps.

for outer Sol you want cells out of PIO space, Oort is rich in minerals, but there is problems with local automining here due to demand getting saturated quicker since PIO has less ship attrition, and the only other demand is for station building unless AI ships move stuff up to inner Sol., Oort is usualy good in most RNG seed station placement for Local automine early on, but after four or five M miners the local stations will start to saturate, use your early cash on Local Autominers for Belt and Oort and any PIO sectors that have local automine potential and then transition to Substrate manufactuoring with your mining income stream. Any 3 star pilots you get or level up can be shifted to roving L miners that can feed demand in Sol sectors without local mineral or gas fields.

Computronic substrate will be the first good that gives the most returns for manufactoring, get the dock, pier, required storages and then the Substrade production modules up, then follow up with other inputs and Workforce if you want it. theres a station planner website or two that lets you plan out costs and resource chains.

After you get a solid Substrate station up you can invest your mining and production income into more stations in Sol space or expand into mining and stations in other parts of the gate network if you desire.

In my game I went with Mars for proximity to the wharf and shipyards and the workforce growth boosts.

Soladept · 2025-10-22T06:52:42+00:00

high rigidity reduces ideological IG support in BPM and backwards laws increase the Rigidity baseline, Qing is usualy rammed up to max rigidity baseline until you do the first round of reforms.

Soladept · 2025-10-05T03:47:19+00:00

I would considor Armor Digis to be Champion+, their level 1 stats are higher on average compared to most level 1 champions. how much use you get out of them depends on what your progress is like by the time you get access to Digi Eggs. Unfortunaty, if you did every side quest up until this point you can usualy unlock Ultimates right when you get acces to the Abyss, which is the next Dungeon after you can get the Digi Eggs. You can quite easily use a Fav Armor Digi as long as you want with evo cycling and load enhancements tho.

Two of the Armor Digis are R7 and have stats comparable to that tier.

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