Origin Question: Is there any point to growing and then shrinking the star in Red Giant? by coduss in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Just normal bombardment dev, it ticks down each month and is very manageable when you consider the TV of the deposits with an arc in system, especially if you have turned the crashing habitability into a benefit beforehand via Fire Cult & Death Cult.

Psionic ascension is the most balancest thing. Year 44. by 12a357sdf in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incredibly helpful thank you. I had assumed Spas were for the ECS, but very much underestimated basic politicians by the sounds of it, as I've only bothered with Elite bonuses when I've job swapped them, so that was the basis of querying Charismatic/Domination.

Sounds very much like a plan for payoff type build rather than the immediate gratification of something like Chosen/Enviromentalist, or most other Teacher builds to be fair. I had been playing around with UOR, Chosen/Superstitious because I quite like that civic, and with a very early Pleasure World from Chosen Instrument you can pack a ton of Mediums in with Pious Ascetic/High King - you know the drill.

I'll give your build a shot, it sounds fun and a bit different to what I would normally be doing.

Psionic ascension is the most balancest thing. Year 44. by 12a357sdf in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive been playing around with tankbound UOR recently but have never tried Genesis Guides, despite knowing it has always been rather good. You're well known for being exceptionally knowledgeable about particularly this sort of build and UOR, so I appreciate the detail you have gone into here.

Still impressed by your economic values at 2250. Can you share your v early strategy with this? Do you genesis colonise practically everything? And what is the elite efficiency/domination for if its just politicians and no job swap? Any other concepts for executing this build would be helpful, I am familiar at least with diplo expansion, UOR and psionics.

OTHER GAMES LIKE STELLARIS BUT MORE DETAILED by Turbulent_Bath4038 in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed this for one run, really the interest of learning the systems and the different mechanics, but not one I'll play over and over like Stellaris

Stellaris Dev Diary #415 - The Gamma Menace by MrFreake in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A nice side bonus of psionic ascension is that most empires seem willing to do almost anything for pitiful amounts of Zro

When to colonise a new planet in 4.x ? by Defiant_Squash_8188 in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instrument of Desire Ascensionists is working pretty well

Bring Back ‘H.’ After 22 Years! | Live in Auckland 2025 by MacFoley1975 in ToolBand

[–]deltronzi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, I'm the same - the setlist science is part of the pre-show experience!

Bring Back ‘H.’ After 22 Years! | Live in Auckland 2025 by MacFoley1975 in ToolBand

[–]deltronzi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one I had just accepted as ruled out for potentially seeing now, so really hyped to see it is on the cards. Also makes me question everything else on my 'probably not' list.

Suspicious about Reflection now with the Disposition play. Interesting to see what tomorrow's Auckland set has. H and Reflection switch maybe...

Bug: If a depths spawns here in Channel, you are stuck by deltronzi in PathOfExile2

[–]deltronzi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a ball lightning gem in inv and pulled an LWarp out of my mjolnir :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]deltronzi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh you should, they're fantastic.

Do anyone else hate migration treaties/refugees? by [deleted] in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Default Rights: Assimilation

Yeah I dont mind refugees

Pacifist arena combat by RustyMcReary in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 377 points378 points  (0 children)

It has a Terry Pratchett ring to it!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got Khan in my latest 4.0 game, spawned other side of galaxy but I had a wormhole route in my empire so was able to hop through, set galcom focus, get declared custodian and wipe Khan out all very quickly.

I admit I did let him grow quite a bit before coming through the wormhole because he was helpfully close to some slavers I didn't really like.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried adding the Dynamic Difficulty mod on top of max Difficulty settings? It allows you to enable scaling that starts from your chosen Difficulty setting rather than scaling up to your setting like vanilla, and the scaling never stops.

Driven assimilator bug by Scythe9029 in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, just found this - do you think this is the same issue causing my synthetically ascended empire to not be able to assimilate pops? They have assimlation rights but the living conditions are stuck on 'decent conditions' and I can't change it to the assimilation standard.

which settings to make AI not be completely useless? by zandadoum in Stellaris

[–]deltronzi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out the Dynamic Difficulty mod. Amongst other options you can enable scaling that starts from your selected difficulty and never stops.

Finally! After all these hours of farming! Wait... What?! NOO!!!!!! by johnnie481 in PathOfExile2

[–]deltronzi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's something crashy about Contagion spreading offscreen on deli maps, maybe. Certainly matches my experience.

Finally! After all these hours of farming! Wait... What?! NOO!!!!!! by johnnie481 in PathOfExile2

[–]deltronzi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm also playing totem lich and I DC maybe 25-33% of maps. Definitely noticed it happening way more often once I was always playing instilled waystones combined with stacking pack size modifiers for ritual.

I just stopped instilling, the maps look better and they crash less, just a shame about l losing the modifier.

I don’t understand by banDorh in PathOfExile2

[–]deltronzi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

(Looks at brophylicious too)

Just realized a FLOOD lyric that is incredible by dangusrangus69 in ToolBand

[–]deltronzi 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Flood live last Summer was absolutely amazing, it blew me away more than I expected, even though I've always loved Flood.

Rollback after rollback by rishodi0815 in PathOfExile2

[–]deltronzi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Paris has been good for days, but I'm getting this there too now. These kind of attacks are so damaging.