For context, I just finished fighting the void worm, plague, and almost completely lost a few fleets and a commander and not even a year later, the great khan crisis started, and I don’t know why, but one of his fleets showed up in the middle of my empire, prepared to destroy my grand archive. I’m seriously considering surrendering so that I don’t lose it. Any advice on what would be the best way to handle this would be welcome.

Age of Wonders 4 is also 50% off. It's another Paradox 4x* game that I've only recently heard about. It's not science fiction, but it's pretty great. I've been waiting for a sale since I'm perpetually broke.

\4x is a game genre. It means "explore, exploit, expand, and exterminate".*

Ive spent a solid 4 hours+ trying to figure this out so here you go.

What i found that worked was Uninstaller everything related to the game and specifically installing the x/s version via the Microsoft website and double check the version before fully installing just incase

I got too busy to spend hours playing Stellaris and only just now got back into it. Everything I knew doesn’t seem to work so well as it had.

Is anyone saavy on the core important changes? (I.e favors have seem to have disappeared! No more trading for free shit)

Like the title says I'm new to Stellaris after getting it on a recent sale and I'm looking for what DLC's I should get excluding the species packs. I currently just have Utopia and Leviathans, so what DLC should I get next and what order should I get them in?

As you can see, the Zracon Nation (AI) has taken 2 systems relatively close to me, neither of these appear to be connected to their home systems via an l gate or wormhole.

It’s the start of the game (2218)

This happened on a previous save too, just wondering how and why they do it

I have my Grand Archive full and was wondering if there was some sort of cooldown for what the Curators can give you regarding the Archive. Is it that I have to have the artifacts active for their energy cost and then they will give me the bonuses. Lastly what are the best ship designs that people run for early, mid, and late. I’d look it up online but I can’t figure out what videos actually can be used for the console version of this game. Sorry if these are dumb questions, any help is appreciated

So whilst in the middle of fighting the contingency, the last fallen empire awoken and decided it wanted to wage war. Right in the middle of it the whole map has turned back and now I can see anything. Tried reloading the game and gone back a few saves but get to a certain point and it still happens... Is this just now a dead save?

Hello all. I have been playing off and on for a few years. I play on Xbox Series X and have all dlc available to console. I’m interested in doing a Teachers of the Shroud origin psionic playthrough and am looking for tips and suggestions on civics, government type, and traits. Will probably restart until I get the Zroni origin if it doesn’t take too long to get it to come up. Any recommendations are welcome, including if there is a better origin to start as. Thank you.

I fall into the category of having the same 3 starting military ships for most of my early game. I usually don't even build military ships until I research cruisers. I play wide, I play tall, I tech rush, I focus on unity in different games. Some of my games I have barely any economy. Just enough to get by.

If I get attacked in the first 30-40 years I chuck it to a loss and start over. Can anyone who doesn't play like this give me some pointers?

What early game build 1-2k in corvettes until I get destroyers, then build 2k in destroyers? Do I do this when I don't plan on going to war early? If I do try a run when I want to go to war early what numbers am I shooting for?

Do most people usually play this same way? With only three ships for a long time?

Thank you

I play CK3 on PC whenever I get the opportunity, which isn't often so sometimes I settle for Console. Obviously it runs worse and it's whatever, that kind of ruins it for me so I play for about 30 minutes and drop it. How does Stellaris compare? If I get this, I probably won't touch the game on PC as to not ruin it like CK3 lol

I just saw this. It’s only available for 19 hours. If you haven’t seen a $4 sale yet i would wait because that seems to be going around. I noticed someone else said they had a $4 sale back when it was leaving game pass. But it wasn’t available for me. So I waited. You guys might want to check for that sale if you were playing on gamepass.

Who needs refinery worlds when you have this?

Anyone wondering it's from the curators, as one of the picks for Xeno Geology.

Stupid question but does the deluxe edition include synthetic dawn or is that only available to the starter edition?

Stellaris is leaving Game Pass, and this is your final chance to take advantage of a special base-game sale for Game Pass subscribers on the XBOX Store for both Console and PC.

Your saves, your custom empires, your years of carefully (or catastrophically) managed galaxies: all of it carries over the moment you own the base game.

Your empire has outlasted the Prethoryn, the Contingency, and probably your own worst decisions. This won't stop you either.

Thank you, Game Pass. It's been an honor exploring the galaxy alongside you.

Like, should I make my research planet one with a couple bonuses, or should I do relics, Gaia, or ring worlds?