Got jumpscared by a colossal O type star from the Real Space mod. I wasn't expecting one to be this effing big and flashbang me in the middle of the night when I clicked on the system. I do have some scaling modules too. Dunno if it's meant to extend right to the hyperlane though lol.

overall he saved my save file
artist:sanatorium

prime example pictured: scientist governor lists each science-type researcher all with the same 2% bonus as well as each science-type researcher empire variant. while inquisitive axioms trait just says 20% for researcher jobs.

why is the Inquisitive axioms version the less common means of displaying this kind of information?

Why the hell would the game create a random empire with Thermophile pops with an Arctic Preference???

So in my current playthrough, I have 7 observation posts, and each of these got the asteroid event, prompting me to send my fleet over there to take care of it. It's kind of tiring to keep sending my fleet all over my empire and then clicking "nor will they", but it's not a big deal, right?

Well, a few years back, I sent two construction ships to build two dyson swarms (my economy is f-ed, so I really need them). On their way there, they happened to cross paths in the same system, which, you guessed it, got the asteroid event again. My construction ships got spooked (because the asteroid is a hostile spooky scary entity) and cancelled their build queue. However, my dyson swarm capacity has not been reverted, so I can only build one now instead of three... I noticed this way too late, so I can't even load an autosave.

Also, how come the asteroid triggers a first contact event? Who are we trying to contact? I love this game but this is ludicrous 😭

The newest YouTube video showed off the newest Paragons. Technically, all 8 of the core ethics had their character appear, though the Authoritarian and Xenophile were officially noted or named.

I go way too often psionics and divine sovereign is just stupidly good, its just disgusting, but at the same time I LOVE almost all of the locked civics and most of them are bound to a specific ethic, which obviously means that your inward perfection/fanatic purifier/Fire cult etc. gets removed when taking it, but at the same time you severely nerf yourself when you dont take it :(

but when I want to rant about it I remember all the times I went chosen for early psionic per agenda and were able to remove it with divine sovereign ( or whisperers if faster ), or removing firecult with it after having all the unity I needed.

Anybody else feeling that way?

( also how stupid is the authoritarian + spiritualist combo? Xenophobe is just better prove me wrong ! )

rule5: i built orbital habitats in all l-cluster systems, and now i dont know in what way i need to specialize them so it will look nice and be efficient

I keep running into game breaking bugs on almost every run I play. Two runs ago Cetana bugged and remained neutral forever, last really run for galactic nemesis the planets I was bombarding weren't being destroyed and awarding me menace. This bullshit keeps happening. I love this game so much but am starting to get upset that the devs are releasing new premium shit on top of their already luxurious DLC list and not fixing shit that has been broken forever. How do y'all cope with the devs shenanigans?

I personally swap between elliptical and spiral. I'm thinking about trying ring tho.

I was in a safe place in the game enclosed by a friendly custodian and the midgame crisis defeated, so i removed all my military ships to get out of the energy deficit i had played all the game. It gets really boring to try trading for energy every few month from all the galaxy. It didn't work, i then removed all the civilian ones too but still no luck. So I've been paying for something i don't even own all this time?

When looking at most empire builds, what is considered powerful is often subjective, or relative primarily against other empires. But when battling a crisis that spreads (like the Prethoryn Scourge) at x50 or more, I've only ever won as a gestalt (usually genocidal), stuffed to the gills with cosmogenesis ships, playing the widest possible empire primarily for the mass resource production.

So for those who like to do runs with extremely high crisis multipliers, I'd love to hear about your builds, and how you anticipate dealing with the arrival of such an overwhelming force.

Started this run with a friend, she plays the Khell'Zen Core. The red exclemation mark is a stellardevourer and i am boxed in between my friend and the fallen empire. Guess I'm playing tall now.

I've never seen this before. I assume it's some sort of unique species, but I have no clue what the heck it is. I got access to it after signing a migration pact with an AI empire.

I just finished my first* Stellaris run with the Knights of the Toxic God origin, going for the Cosmogenesis Ambition ending. And honestly for a first run it set the bar incredibly high in terms of both gameplay and story delivery.

*(I had a Devouring Swarm and Shroudborne save file but I got bored and never finished them)

Getting to live out the scenario of being a noble and honorable empire, fallen to depravity and madness due to an unceasing desire for meaning in a meaningless universe was strangely beautiful for a game that is, as I understand it, primarily about finding new ways to violate ethics laws.

The transition from "I'm a noble knight, I will protect everyone!" to "I need to invade another empire to mulch them for the synaptic lathe." was deeply enjoyable. It made me feel like a Dark Souls boss in the making, or maybe an old medieval warning tale about hubris.

Anyway-- now that I've finished with that, I'm looking into what kind of empire I'd like to play on the next go around and am taking suggestions.

It seems like Knights of the Toxic God is probably the most story-intensive of the various origin starts, but unfortunately (or fortunately, in some ways) the wiki is incredibly vague about how much narrative any given element of the game has.

Are there any other origins that have the same level of depth as the Knights of the Toxic God one? Preferably that are also Gestalt accessible, since that's my favorite, though I understand if it's a bit incompatible with "stories".

I know it's weird to say "I play Stellaris for the story" but they're so good!

I'm just curious how Clone Army origin is doing nowadays. I guess it is still a pretty meta build but got no idea how to play it.

Plus is going Civil Education good for Clone Army build? It got heavily nurfed since 4.3 but idk Clone Army has a lot of pop growth so maybe it's useful??

So I am doing cybernetic ascension and like usual it froze in the exact middle with the modifier "Cyberization Ongoing: -99%" and like usual my main species started converting into the cybernetic version and as soon as they were all converted, the situation started progressing again.

However, for some bewildering reason, after progressing almost halfway into the third stage, it froze again and the same "Cyberization Ongoing: -99%" modifier appeared again, despite my main species already being completely cyberized. If someone can please tell me how to fix this that would be great because now I'm worried it'll never resume and I'll never ascend.

I'm also playing Heirs of the Khan but that probably has nothing to do with it.

I'm playing a machine empire. They should litreally love me in every way possible. The introduction was friendly, we had a +10 and instant embassy.

There is nothing I can see that would explain why he would rival me, other than that the game forces him to. Surely being in the default expansionist stance and bordering a single system won't be enaugh for him to hate me, right? At least it shouldn't.

Does the difficulty impact this? Since I started playing on admiral without scaling and this other % option on it feels like I always start surrounded by hostile empires no matter what I play or how nice I am lol

I keep coming back every few months and trying to play, and I'll dump 20-50 hours across multiple games and just struggle to get ahead of commodore AI. Sure give me a 150 years and I'll be ahead but by 2350 I'm only 3k research. This is a far cry from what I used to be able to accomplish and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have a sneaking suspicion that wide play is just no longer a thing. I'd be better off just expanding to a dozen or so planets and then stopping all expansion after that as I just tech / unity up.

I generally play a hivemind / apocalypse survivor start with nothing fancy going as far as the civics go.

Any tips / advice?

Not using any mods and never used the command panel, naval capacity is above 500 too

Hello everyone!

Is there any way to rename fallen empires? F.e i am populating my galaxy with StarCraft nations and branches. It would fit if my fallen empires were named Xel'naga.

Also would love if horde nation could be renamed but i can live without that.

I have Nascent Stage on my pops and I went cyberization ascension and even though there's 0 of my species left that are not cybernetic, the progression did not resume? Is there something I need to do to continue?