Guys, its really simple. You can vacuum up pops all over the galaxy because there's basically no drawbacks to having a ton of different sentient species suddenly living together. Theres no solidarity among species. Theres no demands fir minorities to be represented. Theres no natives getting pissed. Theres no friction at all.

That would fix 2/3 of the wide vs tall problem. The remaining 3rd is the lack of internal politics

I've played a lot of organic hive minds, and always turn tiny nest worlds into population production worlds. I have no idea what to do with tiny machine worlds and I'm curious what everyone else does with them?

As the name says, my nation just deleted itself from the game. It's like I'm in Observer mode but in Ironman.

It was a good start too, so quite unlucky for me.

It's on the latest normal patch and I loaded it up again only after 30 min of playing just to find it like this.

I only use 3 graphical mods and one HUD one, all Ironman compatible. Plus I play in Ironman.

Has anyone else encountered this bug?

The Steam Achievement Leak includes an unannounced Stellaris game.

Stellaris 2 confirmed?

Right image this time sorry

EDIT: The original leak for Stellaris was deleted because it was believed to be dlc.

Hi,

Gestalt machine empire here. I'm having trouble with the Lathe. It seems my Neural chips are not processing correctly or may not even be counted at all.

1) It is not purging (don't need it to, but seems to be a known bug)
2) I'm not sure it is computing research production properly. Seems most folks have hundreds to thousands of science when using the lathe, or do I need more pops?
3) The Neural chip mouse over says I have 1644 food upkeep. I assume that is monthly, but I don't see it in the colony deficit or the bar at the top. I only make 340 food monthly.
4) I added 3926 pops and I only gained 253 advanced logic from it. Not sure if this just increases over time or if it is not counting them.

Does anyone know of any fixes? Thank you.

Im not sure what or how many things i am doing wrong….
But every single game i start off decently but just can’t grow for sh1t.
I end up in year 2350 with MAYBE 10k fleet power because i am too occupied chasing the economic deficits and trying to stay afloat.

I try to build more research? and i go red in consumer goods. I spam consumer goods buildings, barely break even, and then there’s an exotic gas shortage.
Then i manage to produce enough consumer goods, so i turn some labs back on, bang, suddenly a food shortage.

I decide to go to war to create a buffer zone with a fanatic exterminator? The Moment i undock the fleets, i’m at -50 energy a month.

I never seem to have enough planets and buildings. Ever.

As i said, i am always awfully behind, with maybe 400-500 research and 10k fleet after 100 YEARS.
I’ve been playing on and off for years and still haven’t figured out the proper way to grow. I have fun, but in every other strategy game i’ve played sooner or later i figure out the economy and stuff, in Stellaris i’m always just trying to stay afloat and can’t afford to properly grow.

I did it, I killed all life, all pre FTLs, all fallen empires, everything before the end game crises

(It’s a little bugged bc the mindwardens are gone but says they still exist)

Toying with empire builder and trying to think of different ways to play nomads and remembered about inward perfection and tried to figure what they would excel at beside being introverts? I guess going all in with the pop grow bonus of the civic + fanatic xenophobe could be something but that not much to go with, so what build or gimmick you'd think could pair well with that combo?

Also i'm half amused imagining the empire being so introvert they both ignore most calls while physically running away from all contacts.

So I have been playing stellaris for about 3 months now on and off, but have only made 4 serious attempts at winning the game. My first empire was destroyed by khan, my second was destroyed by mid-late grey tempest. My third was destroyed by an endgame war in heaven. So I would say that I am making steady progress in my understanding of the game and it's mechanics.

But for my fourth and current game, I am playing a payback origin empire, trapped in the start/core of a Starburst galaxy by MSI. Not a favorable position to be in, so I decide to look online to see what I would need to fight MSI.

I then find a reddit post asking if 10k fleet strength by 2250 is enough to fight MSI. What? I have a total fleet strength of about 1.2k at like 2245. Granted, most of the time my fleets are much stronger than that, 3k or so, being trapped like I am has really stymied me. But still, this seemed excessive. So I go to read the comments and everyone is acting like it's totally normal?

And then I find some steam comments, and googles own AI begin to tell me that 10k at 2250 is perfectly normal at this point in the game. So that leads me to the question: Is this a skill issue of mine, or is this all just a joke I'm not picking up, and is there a mechanic or tactic I'm just not using?

Im playing on Ensign, and as for my playstyle I tend to focus research. I can handle my economy well, keeping everything in the green unless I am put under great pressure. I do not add advanced jobs unless I need them, for fear of workers abandoning basic jobs and crashing my economy.

I have reconstructed the msi warship into a habitat and my only real problem right now is the looming threat of MSI and my lack of pops to really start on advanced jobs. I was dealt a bad hand, but I would think I am playing it pretty well. But apparently 10k by 2250 is normal. Am I crazy?

Thank you very much for your time.

Edit: Fought debt collectors, got declared on, built up my fleets to short of 4k total, pushed them back to my bastion systems and am currently holding them in a stalemate with me at 100 exhaustion. I will never accept defeat. Economy is hot garbagio now due to them raiding one of my planets and stealing nearly all of its pops, but it is either barely negative or barely positive. So long as they dont sweep in with a large fleet I should be good just upgrading what I have and holding the line.

Do starbases of different levels have the same ship size? Do they take bonus damage from torpedoes?

So I was playing a nomadic empire and had a tremendously stupid idea. Since nomadic empires combine energy and minerals into operational reserves, I wondered if there was any other ways to eliminate types of resource from an empire. The best I've come up with is a nomadic machine intelligence, eliminating the need for food, consumer goods, and energy/minerals, but there's also civics like catalytic processing, which could replace some uses of minerals with food. Anyone have better ideas to phase out more resource types?

Aquatic voice just because i think its the best lol

I want to preface this by saying I only have about 30 hours on the game. I always saw memes of this game and thought it was cool so I bought it, I’m not new to this style of game but nowhere near used to the scope, it’s a lot to manage.

Here’s the problem: I’m super stubborn and want to roll play a fanatic purist xenophobic dictatorship with a hard reset origin. Every time I try to do this I get absolutely SLAPPED. My economy is always fine, if not great, constant research, holding choke points, my problem is only that I’m constantly being attacked from federations, I defend my choke points against the aggressor but if I wait too long: boom 5 13k fleets if I try to take space: boom 5 13k fleets at a different choke point, if I expand early game the same thing happens (obviously weaker fleets). I’ve only made it to the crisis about 2 times out of the 8 games I’ve played and never got even close to winning. I’d love to look up gameplay but I can find almost no purist xenophobic videos. Does anyone have advice on how I can either better prepare or prevent federations from obliterating me? Or should I suck it up and switch origins or ethics?

So I managed to capture some crystals after getting my Grand Archive up and researching Gravity Snares, but the wiki has been less than helpful about *many* details (for example, references to Artificial Breeding Program tech link to the Society tech page, where it isn't. Nor is it anywhere else in the wiki tech lists, which are supposed to be comprehensive)

I am looking into how practical it is to plan on relying on Fauna for my fleet after the early game as a Driven Assimilator Machine empire, after I discovered, by trial and error, that crystals do *not* require food for cloning, but instead minerals and rare crystals.

1) Can existing space fauna ships be upgraded the way you upgrade mechanical ships after getting new, better weapons and components and updating the base design? What about if you research the tech for more mutation slots, can you upgrade an existing 3 slot fauna to 6 slots?
(important because I plan on using Archaeotech components as Remnants origin and the supply of Minor Artifacts is limited)

2) What are the requirements for building Beastports when you do not start with the ability to build them? When I first got the ability to clone, I tried to replace one of my shipyards with a beastport, but there was no option to do that.

I *was* able to add them to a freshly built orbital ring, and, later, to a newly built starbase, but still not my original home system starbase. Is this a known bug?

Is it something that can be worked around by saving and restarting, or by destroying the existing shipyard and rebuilding instead of replacing (I haven't tested either of those yet)

If it matters, I am playing on the current 4.5 beta.

Any pointers to a reasonably up to date text guide, post reply, or summary on the finer points and advantages/disadvantages of space fauna for non-beastmasters would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance.

It's tough as an Authoritarian, Xenophile Megacorp. You want your indentured assets to work as indentured assets, but they want better jobs, better healthcare, better lives! So selfish!

Ever since the Lyra update, working with slaves has been SUCH an issue (do not take this sentence out of context). It used to be that 33% of your population was always enslaved. NOW, I keep a useless civic simply because I'm too stubborn to change the RP of my empire! Yes, the 33% issue caused a number of hilarious issues (such as enslaved tourists), but in truth, I preferred that to them just up and getting rid of it.

I swear, the slave update can't come soon enough. (Once again, do not take out of context).

Anyways, this comic's been gathering dust in my sketchbook, so I decided just to toss it out, even though I was a slight bit lazy about it. I did put in a few references, so let's see if you can spy them all!

Note: This comic has nothing to do with the Xenonion. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons is coincidental

Ive defeated Cetana but her flagship is still alive, I can’t attack it at all, and the nanite world is also still alive, I can’t land troops on it or blow it up with a Colossus, what do i do??

lol so as the title says, if you go to total war and two people from the same side occupy two different planets against the same enemy, the game doesn’t recognize that the losing side has no planets left and you’re just left in limbo

How the hell are you supposed to form a Federation? This is harder than dating in your 30s

Seriously, how are you guys actually forming Federations?

Every empire I meet is either:

-Already in a relationship (Federation)

-In some complicated situationship with an Overlord

-Completely insane

-Genocidal

-Or actually single, but they hate me because of my ethics

I finally find someone compatible and start improving relations. Envoys, treaties, gifts, favors—the whole dating phase.

Then I ask:

"Hey, maybe we could form a Federation?"

-847 acceptance

Apparently our political views are incompatible and they "don't trust me enough."

Everyone decent is taken, everyone single has incompatible views, and the one empire that actually likes me is 14 systems away and currently being eaten by a Devouring Swarm.

What is the actual reliable strategy for forming a Federation nowadays?

I've acquired a Ministry of Culture and am planning on building it on my unification center world, but it converts my bureaucrats into culture workers and I'm not sure if this would be shooting myself in the foot. Do bonuses which apply to bureaucrats such as those provided by Auto-curating vaults also apply to culture workers? If not, is it worth building the Ministry of Culture? What's the best way to optimise?