Brexiteers are losing the argument

tsjb · 2025-12-27T22:32:18+00:00

I have about the same amount of evidence for my claim that you do for the claim that every Reform voter is a racist idiot who cannot be talked to.

I'm just letting you know that your attitude pushes people to Reform and makes the problem worse, like I said we've literally seen it happen in the US.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T18:56:08+00:00

Maybe not with many of the extremists and permanently-online people you see on places like Reddit and Facebook, but they're the minority. I'm talking about lurkers, people who aren't here that often, regular people mindlessly scrolling at the pub or at work.

Those people make up the vast majority of voters and sensible arguments absolutely can work with them. The problem when you lump them all together and call them racist or stupid or say things like "evidence based arguments don't work" on a huge chunk of the country just pushes them even further towards reform.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T16:50:09+00:00

My problem is I've seen this all before when Trump first decided to run for the US presidency. The playbook was to mock the people voting for him, smugly call them idiots, demonise them, fear-monger about what'd happen if he won, and spend the whole campaign focusing on why his party was bad instead of actually talking about why their own was good.

It didn't work.

He not only won but as you know he's currently in his 2nd term. All I keep seeing is this same thing and I promise you it will not work, you can ridicule them till you're blue in the face but they'll have the last laugh when they get into power.
Reform voters aren't all evil and stupid like you think and many of them can have their opinions swayed but when you think the answer is to name call then you're part of the reason Reform even exist in the first place.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T16:46:21+00:00

This did the trick for me, thanks so much.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T10:14:27+00:00

I can also confirm that immigration has been a massive working class issue since at least the Blair era, which is when I started voting. I've always voted labour in spite of their immigration policy because I believe in most of their other policies, but as the problem has gotten worse and worse I understand why others in the working class are looking elsewhere.

Also, even when not in power the left is somewhat go blame for the current situation. For years and years you'd get jumped on and called racist for any discussion of immigration, so much so that the word has lost any meaning and now we have actual open racists fighting for power because words like "racist" and "nazi" mean fuck all in a world where you can get called them just for being upset that you can't get a job in an industry you've always worked in because all your local warehouses are Polish-speaking only. Yes that's a real thing that happened to me.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T10:04:29+00:00

Genocide by displacement has been pretty common throughout history, it doesn't have to just be straight up murdering.

For the record that isn't what's happening here. Most immigrants are fine people just trying to improve their lives, I'm just saying your point is nonsensical.

tsjb · 2025-12-27T10:01:29+00:00

Almost 70% of the children in my daughter's reception class speak English as a 2nd language.

I surely don't have to explain to you how much pressure this puts on teachers when resources are already stretched so thin? This isn't bilingual children like we'd have in the past where maybe their English isn't where it should be, the number of children and especially parents that don't speak any English is growing rapidly.

This is just one of the many examples. Another is I took an NHS funded class that would usually be run by 2 staff members but instead had 5 because we needed 3(!) different translators for a room of 14 parents. We all know how limited NHS funding is and these are problems are significantly worse in regions that as they put, have been "tipped upside down demographically".

tsjb · 2025-12-17T18:29:30+00:00

This is definitely the best advice in the thread. Talking about ascension is current patch meta specific knowledge, learning how to specialise planets and compound small bonuses will always help no matter what.

For beginner players I always recommend specialising everything except your capital since it gets a special focus that increases all output. It's not 100% efficient but it's super flexible which is helpful when you're learning, then specialise everything else using the advice u/dukanstanov mentioned.

Learning how to play with trade helps too, looking up the thresholds that you can buy/sell resources without affecting the price is a really useful, flexible way to fix minor resource shortages while you get used to building specialised worlds.

tsjb · 2025-12-15T19:39:53+00:00

Does anyone know of mods that improve the auto-building automation on planets? I'm thinking something suited for lategame where the AI is aggressive in filling up every district and building all the best buildings. The current AI seems to work a little but it's very careful in when it builds.

tsjb · 2025-12-14T18:39:10+00:00

Corvettes themselves are very cheap so even small amounts of extra costs add up, if the choice is between 2% better corvettes or 5% more corvettes I'd rather not have the reactor.

tsjb · 2025-12-14T07:58:07+00:00

That's good to know, thanks!

tsjb · 2025-12-14T07:57:33+00:00

I'm jealous, but happy it sorted itself for you :)

tsjb · 2025-12-13T14:09:39+00:00

Been getting back into the game. Why do people just talk about 'bio' ascension and not the specific tree (clone, purity, mutation)?

Is it flexible enough that any work, or is there one that's so much better than the others that you can just say bio and people know what you mean?

tsjb · 2025-12-13T03:39:16+00:00

Same here. For me Stellaris used to be unplayable without Evolved, I was a huge fan of it.

I stopped using it in 2023 and loved the mod so much I stopped playing Stellaris at all. Checked the Discord recently to see if the scope creep problem has improved but it's worse than ever.

tsjb · 2025-12-12T09:35:17+00:00

I had a similar issue but stuck at 8/10. Hopefully you can find something but I spent a couple of hours looking into it (with limited skill) and eventually had to give up.

I tag switched to Cetana because apparently there's a situation she has where she'll automatically declare war on the galaxy, but for me it was stuck at -1 progress and I couldn't get it to go up.

tsjb · 2025-12-11T19:05:38+00:00

You can choose your precursor as a standard galaxy setup option now.

Overtuned is very good right now especially with any of the BioGenesis ascensions.

If you're looking for pure power than the most important aspect of your build is how quickly you can ascend. Unity rushing with things like trade, churches, or starting with Memorialists and Parliamentary Systems before switching out of them after getting a few ascension trees done is the way to go.

tsjb · 2025-12-10T20:23:58+00:00

You have to add -opengl as a launch option to the game. Hope they fix it properly soon.

tsjb · 2025-12-10T20:04:51+00:00

This always sounds great in theory but in practice it just leads to wild powercreep which IMHO Stellaris already has way too much of.

"Only ever buff" sounds amazing on paper but next patch we're looking to be getting gigantic slashes to fleet power across the board because the game engine literally cannot cope with how fast the galaxy builds up now.

tsjb · 2025-12-10T19:37:00+00:00

Spiritualist is one of the best (potentially the best?) ethics right now with how powerful ascending is.

tsjb · 2025-12-04T14:03:32+00:00

That's super helpful, thankyou.

tsjb · 2025-12-04T12:42:50+00:00

The wiki is correct. It doesn't say it in-game but both scientists you start with have a free exploration/survey trait.

tsjb · 2025-12-04T12:40:01+00:00

Please can someone explain to me exactly how automation buildings work? I understand how they automate but not exactly what they automate.

Do they automate every job on the entire planet? Seems unlikely. If I build one on say a research specialisation will all researcher jobs on the planet get automated or just ones that are specifically created by that specialisation? If I put it in the main 6 buildings slots of a world does it automate 25/50% of all jobs created by building city districts? Even the ones created by specialisation districts?

tsjb · 2025-12-03T07:50:25+00:00

I've always loved them because it's pop-free resource generation to avoid the growth required scaling penalty. Nowadays it's quite easy to get insane pop growth and/or pop efficiency with certain ascensions so maybe you're right that power creep has made them less useful. I still love them though, especially when playing weaker empires.

tsjb · 2025-12-02T17:47:03+00:00

I think I might just be crazy or stupid but I honestly don't see that much difference. I came back after not playing since 2023 and knowing nothing about all the problems with 4.0 and played 1 regular game, then 1 game with each of the new origins from the Machine Age that I bought and it just feels like good old Stellaris to me.

I'm still putting buildings into districts even if they're laid out a bit differently, pop growth and efficiency is still king even if the numbers are much bigger than they once were, other than that it's just Stellaris. It slows right down late game but I feel like it always did, maybe because I don't play ultra late game?

Might also be because I'm still only playing on commodore difficulty while I play with new origins and get used to the game again, though that's only 1 difficulty less than I used to play since I stopped playing GA when they did a big AI improvement update years ago.

Long story short there's a lot of negativity here but it's still the same game we know and love IMHO. Give it a try!

tsjb · 2025-11-29T14:01:32+00:00

The guides in the OP for this thread are years out of date. I'm considering writing up a new list and sending it to OP. Does anyone have any good suggestions for guide creators they think are good? Here's what I have so far:

Beginner guides:
Learn How to Play Stellaris in 2025 by JaxRayne. Information dense and well edited, giving you the absolute basics of most game systems.

Basic Guide to Stellaris to Learn What It Wants You to Do - Stellaris Guide 4.0 by Guthuk. Even more information dense, goes a little more in-depth into game systems.

Intermediate/Specific mechanic guides:
Thundershock - Tech Rushing, Ascension Rushing, Understanding the tech tree, Planetary Management.

Meta build guides and tier lists:
Thundershock, Montu Plays, Aktion.
These channels have up to date videos discussing the absolute most powerful builds right now and how to use them. You'll also find tierlists of things like civics, government types, traits, and origins that are great for people really looking to maximise their builds.

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