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Stellaris - Paradox new sci-fi grand strategy game

Beowulf

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Cancer forum and I agree with the fanboy theory. When Cities Skyline came out and I had the nerve to criticize how easy the game was, I was attacked by so many rabid fanboys you would think I attacked their mother.

Yes, "attacked" would be the verb those delicate flowers could use.
 

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It is amazing how stupid this people are.
There is a very mysterious cliff in here. It is only 33% drop in two days,nothing to worry.
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Makes you think,what could have make people stop playing games that they played for years?!


Let me make something perfectly clear: bashing staff is not acceptable, not even in the slightest sense. Actually, that was poorly worded, let me clarify it even further: bashing anyone on this forum is against the rules and unacceptable.

This thread has run its course and have taken a turn for the worse several times. As such I'm locking it because there isn't much more that needs explaining. Wiz explained he made a mistake (lets be honest, we've all done that once or twice) and he admitted it and elaborated.


PS:Had to go trough 12 pages of threads to find the thread with this quote,it is from yesterday,most of the other 240 threads that poped up in a day are with one or two posts. Those magic bots...
 
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But that makes no sense. Hearts of Iron AI on normal doesn't cheat, on hard and very hard it does. Pdox was 100% transparent about that in all iterations of the game. Well, I don't know about HoI4. Why the fuck would they lie about such a pointless thing on Stellaris?

PS, okay even on normal AI doesn't have to worry about range for ships, that is it's one cheat.

Modder Ego. This is what happens when you interact with people on twitter and develop a cult of personality. Boast about how you're a great AI programmer, make it cheat when it turns out you're not.
 

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Hi all, Jamor here. I'm filling in for Wiz this week, as I want my Game Director to focus on post-launch support for Cherryh, our biggest update yet.

Today's dev diary is about 2.0.2_beta: the new build available as an optional beta for Steam users right now (note for Paradoxplaza Launcher users: we're using Steam as our beta testing platform at this time, if you want to try it out please use the Steam key that came with your Plaza purchase).

When we made 2.0, we knew that the scale of changes would be huge, and therefore I budgeted a larger than normal amount of dev time for post-launch support. The objective is to absorb and process player feedback, and perform bug fixes as well as balance tweaks and general improvements. There are almost as many unique play styles as there are Stellaris players out there, and our objective is to hit a good balance point for the maximum number, which you can then further tweak to your own preferences with the new game customization options.

2.0.2 is planned to be a "rolling beta", meaning we will continue to update it at intervals when we have new tweaks/fixes that we want to push to you. Your feedback on it will be crucial for determining the content of the final, official version, so please continue to play and tell us how it goes.

We especially want to make sure we get War Exhaustion/Status Quo Peace right, so that it produces believable and satisfying war results for the greatest number of people. As such, the initial changes in this patch are experimental and we'll continue to iterate on them throughout the test period. Please don't hesitate to give us your constructive feedback.

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######################### VERSION 2.0.2 ###########################
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# Feature
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* You are no longer forced to make peace at 100% war exhaustion, instead your Influence and Unity monthly gains are reduced to 0 and a happiness penalty is applied to all Pops until you make peace
* Occupation no longer contributes to War Exhaustion, but instead is displayed as a separate factor in war overview, to make it clearer what you need to do in order to enforce demands
* War Overview no longer attempts to calculate a winner in battles, but simply displays war exhaustion gained by each side
* Marauder raiding fleets are now neutral to everyone except their intended target so they won't wreck everything in their path when they go a-viking
* Fixed Gestalt Consciousness empires using Trading Hub starbase module and Offworld Trading Company starbase building, they now use Resource Reprocessor and External Acquisitions Area (name/flavor difference only)
* It is now possible to test-fire a World Cracker on habitable (but uninhabited) planets in your space
* Added tier 5 Dark Matter thrusters that can only be gained by scavenging Fallen Empire ships
* Transcendent Learning ascension perk has been added to the game, and it increases leader level cap and empire leader cap
* Megastructure resources are now affected by country modifiers
* Ship sizes now have a default combat behavior and will prefer computers of that type if auto-generated (Picket for Destroyers, etc)
* Added some more logic for making sure ship auto-complete doesn't switch your desired combat role
* Space stations now use the country_mult modifier instead of the tile_mult modifier and no longer get the tile_add modifier
* When a new ruler is elected, the previous ruler that was voted out of office (if alive) will now attempt to take over the job that was opened up by the newly elected ruler, assuming the leader class matches. Back to the mines, Mr. Ex-President.

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# Balance
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* Reduced War Exhaustion per ship and army killed
* Militarist ethics now gain -10%/-20% war exhaustion gain instead of army damage bonus
* Technologies that reduce claim cost now also decrease war exhaustion gain
* You now get war exhaustion a bit slower while fighting a Liberation War
* Increased energy upkeep of all Starbase sizes by +1. Outposts now cost 1 energy maintenance
* Base unity income increased from 1 to 2
* Base tradition cost increased from 56 to 100 (does not affect the cost increase from number of traditions)
* Tradition unity cost per system reduced from 2% to 1%
* Corvette/Destroyer/Cruiser/Battleship build speed techs now also reduce build cost of that ship type by 5%
* Habitats now have their own fortress building (Security Zone) that is effective at unrest reduction but provides only a few defense armies and no FTL inhibitor or bombardment protection
* It is now possible to mod away serviles & pre-sapient traits if you have completed biological ascension
* Egalitarian ethics effect on faction influence increased from +15%/30% to +25%/50%
* Corvette Focus trait now requires Destroyers tech (as it's hardly a 'focus' if it's the only ship type possible)
* Scout admiral trait reduced from 20% to 10% speed (so Gale-Speed is faster)
* Admiral now always dies when last ship in fleet is destroyed and there are no disengaged ships to move to
* Drone Mining Lasers are now a bit worse against hull and a bit better against shields
* Broken and shattered planets spawned on galaxy generation can now have deposits
* Thrusters now cost different amounts of minerals and give different amounts of evasion based on which ship size they are for (corvette thrusters are cheaper and add more evasion, etc)
* Reduced cost of hiring Marauder leaders to 2000 energy
* Having an enclave in your border now gives +1 opinion per year instead of +1 opinion per month, as the latter made all other opinion boosts rather meaningless
* Increased opinion bonuses for ally of ally and mutual rivals
* Increased opinion penalties of allying rivals
* Tributary wargoal is now a bit easier to enforce
* Combat computers now give evasion_mult instead of evasion_add
* Asteroid Sighted can no longer pop after the first 50 years, to avoid it happening in large sprawling empires with limited time to respond
* First pirate event now tells you the system where they are based
* Increased time limits of all Special Projects requiring a ship in orbit (new minimum is 3 years)
* Federation fleet is now limited to an absolute max naval capacity of 500
* It is now possible to get the gateway activation tech if you know any other empire that has the technology
* When a Federation enforces ideology on an empire, that empire now gets opinion boosts with the entire federation

# Civics
* Citizen Service civic now also increases unity output from fortress and strongholds by 1
* Aristocratic Elite civic now gives +2 leader cap and +2 governor max level instead of +4 leader cap and -50% leader recruitment cost
* Distinguished Admiralty civic increases leader cap by +2
* Driven Assimilators now have the 'Assimilate' total war CB
* Purifier and anti-Purifier CBs no longer require neighboring status (was confusing and unintuitive to players)
* Nationalistic Zeal civic now gives -10% war exhaustion gain instead of +1 rivalries
* Free Haven now gives xeno migration attraction instead of migration attraction

# Traditions
* Expansion adoption effect now gives +50% colony development speed (down from +100%)
* Galactic Ambition expansion tradition now gives -20% starbase upkeep instead of +2 starbase capacity

# Ascension Perks
* Shared Destiny effect on integration cost reduction changed from -50% to -75%
* Nihilistic Acquisition can now be taken by purifier-style empires

# Edicts
* Drone Campaign food cost increased from 100 to 500
* Learning Campaign food cost increased from 50 to 500
* War Drone Campaign food cost increased from 50 to 500
* Patrol Drones planetary edict is now available to all Gestalt Consciousness-empires

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# UI
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* Added building descriptions to traditions that unlock buildings
* Starbase upgrade cost and Module/Building building cost now properly show modifiers affecting them
* Renamed Growth Speed to Pop Growth Speed to be clearer
* Added the correct icons for megastructures and starbases in the control-groups UI
* Contacts view has been improved
* Government view now displays ruler & heir skill stars
* Heir tooltip no longer displays skill effects (as heir has no skill effects until they become ruler)
* Clicking your ruler or heir name in Government View will now allow you to change their name and/or title
* Galaxy resources now show the amount actually collected, and the tooltips give you the list of applied modifiers
* Resource modifier no longer show decimal values
* Removed pointless decimals for starbase caps, planet caps, naval command cap, and naval capacity
* Added the country resources add and multipliers modifiers to the budget tab
* Improved how the speed modifiers are shown in the starbase upgrade time tooltip
* Added a more clear warning that deleting templates will also disband ships
* Fixed several instances of a Status Quo peace being called a White Peace in peace messages
* Alert for High War Exhaustion is now more helpful
* Traits that are already present in species can now always be re-added while in process of modifying template
* Aura tooltip now differentiates between system-wide friendly auras and fleet-only friendly auras
* Changed the current value of template designs in fleet manager to show the current amount of ships including ones that only are scheduled for retrofit

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# AI
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* AI now activates some of its anti-crisis logic when under threat from a mid-game crisis like the Great Khan
* AI no longer picks shared destiny unless it has at least one vassal
* Added separate definitions for mid-game and end-game crisis factions, with slightly different AI logic to respond to them
* Fixed another cause of AI endlessly inviting player to the same war

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# Modding
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* Added a country modifier for war exhaustion gain (when multiple countries are involved on the same side in a war, the averaged modifier of all of them is used)
* add_threat effect now once again takes country scope (generates threat scaled towards whole target empire)

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# Bugfix
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* Fixed system/colony tradition costs being multiplied on each other instead of additive
* Fixed additional potential out of sync issues in multiplayer
* Afterburners can no longer be installed on defense platforms, as lovely as it was to uselessly vent fuel in to space as a gesture of contempt to environmentalists
* Deep Space Black Site now requires you to own a planet in the system, instead of erroneously using the same trigger as trading hub
* All Satrapies are now properly liberated when the Horde fractures into the Diadochi
* Fixed bug where the planet class transition effect started too late
* Fixed adopting the Domination tradition tree not unlocking certain diplomatic actions for eligible Machine Empires
* Fixed auto-exploring science ships doubling up (exploring the same system simultaneously)
* Fixed a CTD. Could sometimes try to merge invalid fleets.
* No longer possible to hold Casus Belli on non-empire factions such as Crises and Marauders
* Galactic core visibility is now lifted when you explore all systems adjacent to it, instead of just one
* Fixed empires not being able to see primitives in other empires' space due to lack of comms spread
* Ships merging in to fleets directly from stations now behave properly
* Fixed scientists not dying when their science ship was destroyed in battle
* Fixed raiding stance not having bombardment graphics on planet being raided
* Fixed tooltips for status column in contacts view to reflect accurately what they represent
* Fixed raiding not always abducting pops when it should, due to bad habitability calculation
* Fixed raiding stance not having the correct pop limit (would abduct at >6 instead of >4 pops)
* Fix a freeze when trying to upgrade technologies more than their max levels
* Fixed Determined Exterminators starting with a farm building
* Construction is now paused for starbases in combat
* Fixed force ethics not correctly calculating a government for the defeated empire's new ethics
* Enigmatic fortress now properly disables even after saving and loading the game (status was not properly saved)
* Iron Fist governor trait is no longer available for Hive Minds, making it disabled for all types of Gestalt Consciousness-empires
* Fixed being unable to land armies on a colony seized by Mutants
* Fix bug where queued items wasn't moved to the new fleet design when a design upgrade becomes available
* Fixed Slaving Despots being far too common an AI personality because of wrongly scripted weights
* Disables the bypass cache when calculating the distance to capital modifier, hopefully solving an OOS issue
* Fixed a crash when quitting to the main menu in the middle of a war
* It should no longer be possible to try to spawn a star system with an invalid star class
* Fix crash when comparing the relative power of a country that has no power
* Prevented fake country from trying to initialize a technology module it does not have for some reason
* UNE now uses correct name list when spawned in Commonwealth games
* Fixed revolting slaves greedily snatching the capital planet when they're not supposed to
* No longer possible to force ideology on Fallen Empires
* Fixed Omega Theory tech sometimes not appearing at the end of the Horizon Signal chain
* Fixed an event-spawned science ship not getting a hyperdrive
* Fixed planet unrest modifiers not being properly recalculated
* Fixed Ascension Theory tech not being available to players who do not own Apocalypse

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN OPT-IN PATCH. YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE TO JOIN IN ORDER TO TEST THE NEW VERSION.

Here's how to opt in:

Right click on Stellaris in your Steam library -> select Properties -> go to the Betas tab -> select "2.0.2_beta"

I'll of course ping this thread and let you know when an updated version of the beta goes out. Thank you all for your support, we think it's really great that we get to work with our fan community to constantly improve the game together.

Make sure to check out next week's Dev Diary for a first look at our development priorities going forward in the...wait for it...POST-APOCALYPSE.
 
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it makes sense, but either they project some kind of control over nearby systems (oops...), maybe giving total control over the system they're in and some sort of contested space nearby, or expanding is becoming a worse and worse chore day after day. it's annoying already as it is, having to pay on top of it doesn't help.
i want to plop outposts where i need them, where i want to shout "this is totally mine", not each and every step i take in my home garden.
 

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Do these people even play the game? Or are they consciously trying to make it as slow and unfun as possible? The way the current build works, taking a -10/15/20 energy hit from the start just to expand a little is bonkers.

I also particularly like how the changelog lists costs of some edicts increasing by a modest 1000%. Tells you all you need to know about the competence to design your own game, really.
 

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"Fixed system/colony tradition costs being multiplied on each other instead of additive"
X instead or +, the game is completely broken with serious bugs like this, in a few months it will be a great game, problem is we keep saying that since release.
 

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It took them less than a week to fix it.
For fuck's sake, gamebreaking diplomacy bug was fixed six MONTHS after Empire Total War release. And most games ususally go "ah, fuck it" way. Treant buildings' roflstomp from Warcraft III stayed for three months allright. Paradox have a lot of shit but not fixing bugs is not among them.
 
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It took them less than a week to fix it.
For fuck's sake, gamebreaking diplomacy bug was fixed six MONTHS after Empire Total War release. And most games ususally go "ah, fuck it" way. Treant buildings' roflstomp from Warcraft III stayed for three months allright. Paradox have a lot of shit but not fixing bugs is not among them.

When's the bug that causes the game to become unplayably slow due to rendering the UI going to be fixed?

And no, they didn't fix the tradition costs. Now Colonies don't increase tradition required at all. Apparently Open Beta is an excuse to mess things up more?
 

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It took them less than a week to fix it.
For fuck's sake, gamebreaking diplomacy bug was fixed six MONTHS after Empire Total War release. And most games ususally go "ah, fuck it" way. Treant buildings' roflstomp from Warcraft III stayed for three months allright. Paradox have a lot of shit but not fixing bugs is not among them.
20 euros the dlc,countless bugs, maybe we can expect a little more playtesting ? Every features advertised sucks, the base defense are irrelevant mid and late game. The titan is shit barely better than 2 battleships, the planet cracker is shit. The pace is so slow the game is becoming a chore. The fleet manager ? seriously kill it with fire...End game completely broken too
And there's still people who defend them.
 
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I actually planned to pirate this thing somewhere in the future, when its all patched up.
But this 0.5 upkeep for AI at Normal kinda puts a speedbump on even that...
 

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This AI is horrible.

ape8v6.jpg

Obviously I won already and there's no point in wasting time mopping up the remaining 834 systems. Check out that research and unity though; and that's after I built all available unity buildings on my 1 planet and claimed ~90% of the stars/planets that give physics lol.


What is the release date for 3.0?
Wait for the end game crisis it will wipe everything you patiently built, just to deny you victory.With the subtlety of a big hammer strike on the gameboard.
 

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It took them less than a week to fix it.
For fuck's sake, gamebreaking diplomacy bug was fixed six MONTHS after Empire Total War release. And most games ususally go "ah, fuck it" way. Treant buildings' roflstomp from Warcraft III stayed for three months allright. Paradox have a lot of shit but not fixing bugs is not among them.

I'll have you know that Creative Assembly is even worse now. Total War Warhammer 2 is still in a broken state since October, and they will not even touch it in May. They fucked up hard with one of their DLCs and now they halted all the content til they fix it in May. The release was horrendous, the game was crippled by severe bugs(like the AI dropping orders in combat) that they never even fixed even though they claimed that they were fixed. Also, the bugs that were actually fixed were pure minor ones. Only in January did they finally came with a patch that fixed SOME of the severe bugs.

Even so, you think that Stellaris has bad mechanics? Ho boy, at least they work. Total War Warhammer 2 has a "hidden cities" mechanics for Skaven that the AI still manages to see, and beelines for your weakest cities regardless.
 

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So 2.0 is still very meh? I haven't touched the game since release because of its shallowness.
 

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Shitlanes are now enforced default? Game is dead with just this for me.
Holy crap at the travel time of everything once you are even a little big.

The need to make a outpost for EVERY system is also tedius as fuck, big maps are a nightmare to play.

Total War is broken

Yes, and water is wet and the sky is blue.

But total war is about the rts, not the half assed empire management.
 

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Did they really removed the only good and original thing about the game? I mean the different types of transportation. Isn't this kind of illegal?
 

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Did they really removed the only good and original thing about the game? I mean the different types of transportation. Isn't this kind of illegal?

Yes, only superslow shitlanes now, and in late game you get some dumb warp with high cd and combat debuff.
Ai is beyond broken, be it expansion or war. (diplomacy is like, neighbors only)

But the worst is the travel time, give up moving science ship or builders for more than 5-6 systems, just rebuild them.
And then you have to clean the amebas and drones all over the place...
 

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Did they really removed the only good and original thing about the game? I mean the different types of transportation. Isn't this kind of illegal?

Yes, only superslow shitlanes now, and in late game you get some dumb warp with high cd and combat debuff.
Ai is beyond broken, be it expansion or war. (diplomacy is like, neighbors only)

But the worst is the travel time, give up moving science ship or builders for more than 5-6 systems, just rebuild them.
And then you have to clean the amebas and drones all over the place...
The game was fucked up from the start,the core idea is shit,but it had some fun things like the travelling ways. Now it is a total shit it seems. The diplo was always pointless shit,in all my two games i did play a genocidal maniac,it worked well for me. Sweden strikes again.
 

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I thought: "Well, they're going to remove other movement types for balancing reasons. Fine with me. I'm sure they'll come up with a different way to reduce travel time, like "instant" warp within your own realm."

I give developers too much credit, sometimes.
 
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well, mid-late game you can build gateways for instant travel between two points.
but i'll never see it for the error.log issue :'(
 

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well, mid-late game you can build gateways for instant travel between two points.
but i'll never see it for the error.log issue :'(

7gb of error log? Just how? xD
I usually have around 300kb-1mb error log after dozens of hours of playing. Just spam paradox forum for the issue, not like they will help you anything but its always worth a try.
 

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