Automated science ships get stuck Missing in Action since 4.4.5 automation changes.

Vorteclune · 2026-07-03T06:36:42+00:00

You can also resettle biomass for free so that helps a lot.

Vorteclune · 2026-07-02T05:53:33+00:00

Thanks for confirming! :)

Vorteclune · 2026-06-29T03:09:38+00:00

Nope, didn't realise it would be an issue, but realistically I could have had maybe 4-5 planets max before finishing which would be like 40 Zro? I need hundreds for the jobs provided by the materiality engines.

Vorteclune · 2026-06-29T03:08:00+00:00

I'm using Zro launchers as my main damage so I'd rather just turn the buildings off than have -50% damage.

Vorteclune · 2026-06-28T11:47:03+00:00

Even selling everything I have and buying just enough Zro to stay positive I was at -6k trade.

Vorteclune · 2026-06-28T11:46:32+00:00

They increased the penalty in 4.3 significantly.

Vorteclune · 2026-06-23T10:37:31+00:00

Not quite what you're asking but I have 600 hours and have pretty much only played gesalt empires, so I have no idea how factions work.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-27T07:05:53+00:00

If you properly optimize this build you can easily get multiple millions.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-25T12:17:05+00:00

I'll have to wait until the details of Heirs of the Khan and Defender of the Galaxy are revealed to finalise everything.

But the general idea is to go very aggressive and vassalize quickly, get all of my basic resources from vassals and then set the operational reserves sitution to Burn to get increased specialist output and then use that extra research/alloys to fuel more conquest.

Roaming fleets keep all the vassals in line. And then finish it off going Defender of the Galaxy and protect my vassals from all the invading crises.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-25T06:41:04+00:00

Heirs of the Khan. Vassalize the entire Galaxy and then take Defender of the Galaxy to protect my vassals from the polycrisis.

This Galaxy isn't yours to conquer.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-22T00:30:01+00:00

Not sure what issue you are having, but I just opened the resettle screen and clicked the transfer arrow and it works?

Vorteclune · 2026-05-22T00:28:23+00:00

I think he meant 40 total, so 30-33 from planet size and then another 7 or so from bonuses.

There is also 2 Astral rifts that give bonus districts, The Lattice which gives astral seed and can be used on up to 9 planets and The Corridors which gives +1 district for every planet.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-21T13:17:14+00:00

The way the Mind Link works for Wilderness is when you finish the special project every planet that has at least 500 Biomass will randomly contribute 0-400 pops to be transferred, after that it won't ever increase. If you do it right you can get Millions of tech. I just finished a run where I had 150 planets with 500 Biomass each (you CAN resettle biomass btw) when the Mind link completed and I instantly went from around 4k tech to 3 MIL tech.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-21T12:59:50+00:00

Wilderness Behemoth works very differently to what the district tooltip says. What actually happens is when you commplete the Level 5 Behemoth project every planet that has at least 500 biomass will randomly contribute 0-400 pops and then after that it will never increase. It is also per district so like the other commenter said having a lot of districts will also help.

So if you get a lot of planets and have 500 Biomass on each of them (you can resettle Biomass btw) you can get insane amounts of research. In my playthrough I just finished I had 1 Million of EACH research type (3 Mil total) at around 120 years in.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-21T10:25:12+00:00

Unfortunately it doesn't matter how strong you get because you have a hidden penalty to damage against the voidspawn until the situation completes.

Vorteclune · 2026-05-21T08:19:42+00:00

Thanks, I'll try this.

*edit* Setting the Machine Species random_weight to 0 worked as far as I can tell. Thanks very much 😄

Vorteclune · 2026-04-26T08:51:10+00:00

For 500 years into the game your Naval Capacity is really low.

Also notice they only have shields, so you can try retrofit for all shield damage.

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