STELLARIS: New Paradox Game in SPAAAACE

[Berkut]

I wish there was a easy way to share races - that would be fun.

[Josquius]

Playing at fastest speed. One day takes several minutes

[PDH]

Time to upgrade that 486-66.

[garbon]

Time to upgrade that 486-66.

[Josquius]

I've a 3.1ghz dual core. It should be fine.  Not excellent, but fine.
Though I'm really not getting where processor upgrades are coming these days.  The clock speed doesn't seem to be going up.


More game wise.... the calculations for fleet strength are really bad.
Got into a war with a species that seemed to have crazy powerful fleets. I was doomed!
Except.... their battleships were worth 1000 each. A few corvettes making up a 500 strength fleet could take one down easily.

[Zanza]

I finished my game with a Domination victory just to see how it ends. I didn't get any of the late game crisis events, probably because I was not advanced enough in technology. The game lagged pretty badly at the end. It worked fine until I got maybe 80 planets or so and the corresponding massive fleets and pop numbers.

Conquering this much gets really tedious:


I have like 25 different species in my empire:


Everybody really hates me:


Far larger than anybody else. I suck in technology though. Does technology scale with empire-size similar to how it worked in EU back in the day?

[celedhring]

Technology costs scale by every pop you have, and most importantly, for every planet you colonize (equivalent to 10 pops IIRC). So ultimately big planets are much better than colonizing small-ish ones (more space to put research buildings).

[Zanza]

So if you want to play for technology, you have to go for a tall empire, instead of wide? There is no corresponding victory condition though, so I guess you can just role-play then. Or just vassalize everybody else.

[Berkut]

Anyone else have their game start not recognizing the rightclick context command menu?

When I have a construction ship selected for example, you can normally right click on a target (star or object) then choose an option. That doesn't seem to work anymore.

[Berkut]

I've also never gotten an achievement for anything...not sure what the deal is there...

[The Brain]

I've also never gotten an achievement for anything...not sure what the deal is there...

[Berkut]

I've also never gotten an achievement for anything...not sure what the deal is there...

[Martinus]

So started a new game as the Phoenix Empire, based on the Fading Suns setting. Picked the star lane FTL engine (technically the empire's ships used star gates but they were left overs from an ancient civilization and could not build it themselves so I think it is more appropriate than wormholes), spiritual, militaristic and collectivist for ethics. Allows for a slightly more reasonable gameplay than the Empire of Man which is too aggressive/xenophobic.

[celedhring]

So if you want to play for technology, you have to go for a tall empire, instead of wide? There is no corresponding victory condition though, so I guess you can just role-play then. Or just vassalize everybody else.

I hope they add new victory conditions soon (I think they said so, but I'm not sure), since the two existent ones are just militaristic.

I too wondered about roleplaying a science-based empire, but wasn't sure what kind of end-goal give myself.

[The Brain]

So started a new game as the Phoenix Empire, based on the Fading Suns setting. Picked the star lane FTL engine (technically the empire's ships used star gates but they were left overs from an ancient civilization and could not build it themselves so I think it is more appropriate than wormholes), spiritual, militaristic and collectivist for ethics. Allows for a slightly more reasonable gameplay than the Empire of Man which is too aggressive/xenophobic.

I like Fading Suns. A remake of the computer game would be nice (when I played it years ago I had a blast until my save game was corrupted). The PnP RPG is nice too, but I've never played it.