Stuff like this really makes me with the game had some decent AI. It'd be awesome to fight against something like this, trying to counter a snowballing, overwhelming force, but all I ever end up with is anti-climatic retardation as the enemy takes arbitrary treks across half the galaxy and ignores my forces taking over half his empire. Paradox AI was never good, but in Stellaris, it really takes the shit cake.You can now LARP as a matrix style machine intelligence where you use enslaved organics as batteries (energy production). Its roughly 1 food to 3 energy and they also use half as much housing. Combine that with the orbital raiding perk and looking at my skyrocketing energy production this may be a bit OP.
Yeah, it's a shame.. Even the crisis AI is shit, just expanding predictably. The only thing left is MP
Stuff like this really makes me with the game had some decent AI. It'd be awesome to fight against something like this, trying to counter a snowballing, overwhelming force, but all I ever end up with is anti-climatic retardation as the enemy takes arbitrary treks across half the galaxy and ignores my forces taking over half his empire. Paradox AI was never good, but in Stellaris, it really takes the shit cake.You can now LARP as a matrix style machine intelligence where you use enslaved organics as batteries (energy production). Its roughly 1 food to 3 energy and they also use half as much housing. Combine that with the orbital raiding perk and looking at my skyrocketing energy production this may be a bit OP.
I only have experience with StarNet – it makes AI aggressively blob so that by end game, your galaxy is a couple mega empires (plus minors that managed to worm their way into a federation before they got eaten), and are ready to pick a fight with you at the drop of a hat. Sadly, it doesn't fix most of the issues with the AI's behavior during a war – from what I understand, most of that is hardcoded and cannot be fixed by modders.
I am afraid yes, it's a MP game now. The AI is completely inept , yes it was bad before but now its worse cause the high pop growth eventually was able to hide it shortcomings . It was able to get its ressources by sheer pop number, that without counting the massive bonus on harder difficulty. Now its building following a preset plan but never able to adjust , remove and rebuild something it needs. So their fleet power is pathetic , if we can even call them fleets , with a terravore race + calamity origin you roll over everything as the crisis with like 20X more strengh well before 2400. Nihilitic aqcuisition , barbaric despoilers and necrophage puriifiers completely bypass the pop limitations too, the Ai of course cant cope nor play that.
No, there is not. At least not unless you are willing to deep dive into modding.
Yet, the Stellaris community is once again struggling to even acknowledge this. Seriously go read steam or PDX forums, there are threads where people who could not have played with the new patch for longer than two days are defending it as perfectly balanced. Seriously this games community is like a cancer.
PDX forums were carefully curated to only leave cocksuckers inside. It's a place overflowing with soy, a freakshow where you go from time to time to laugh at the mentally handicapped.
Yes it is cancer community and heavily moderated . The product undelivers , the new features added a few minimalistic systems , plenty of oversight . It's botched work for the price of a whole indie game, yet there's still people defending them. Thats what happen when there's no competition at all . Hopefully distant worlds 2 gets better than this.
What exactly do you mean by "planet automation"? Because if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it doesn't do what you think it does.
Honestly, I've never seen it before and I played machine intelligence the most. Too lazy to read change logs though...
Yep. Been a while since I played, so they might have changed it since, but I'm pretty sure that button only automates the planet's label (forge world, research world, etc) depending on what's been built there. You need to mess with sectors to properly automate building, but they've reworked the system so many times I don't really know how it works now to tell you.
Yeah, but then you'll be spending half the game micromanaging your planets
It's probably only required on the higher difficulties, honestly.
It's one of the reasons I've long since stopped playing, really. I'm triggered when I check a random planet and see what the retarded AI governor has put there, but the game becomes too annoying if you micromanage.
Thats why i always play with 25% habitable planets setting. Less planets - less micro.
Yes, I like how machine slavery sucks but regular empires can just enslave them to work in the energy mines or w/e.
