Stellaris - Paradox new sci-fi grand strategy game

[Average Manatee]

It's bloat upon bloat upon bloat and everything boils down to one strategy that gets +120% pop growth and +80% production vs. another strategy that gives +130% pop growth and +60% production.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

Nowadays i mostly RP around, help the ai with stuff max i can and to the quests, otherwise not much to do besides boring blob.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Nowadays i mostly RP around, help the ai with stuff max i can and to the quests, otherwise not much to do besides boring blob.

Are the quests, events and whatever varied enough so you don't end up doing the same each game?

 

[darkpatriot]

Is this game fun for roleplaying various SF tropes in its current state? I recall back when I played that it always ended up being boring once you finished with the early game exploration.

They have filled out the midgame and end game with quite a bit more content so there are still many things to do after the early game. It is still not a challenge for the most part, like all paradox games once you understand the mechanics. But there is enough content to roleplay various flavors of SF civilization.

I think a lot of the content is locked behind DLCs, however. So it could be quite pricey at this point if you haven't played since release.

Nowadays i mostly RP around, help the ai with stuff max i can and to the quests, otherwise not much to do besides boring blob.

Are the quests, events and whatever varied enough so you don't end up doing the same each game?

There is enough variety for a few full games, but you will have seen most of it after probably about 4 or 5 games. What you haven't seen after that is usually stuff locked to specific origins you haven't tried yet. And some events have different options or outcomes depending on ideology or origin, so sometimes even stuff you have seen before will have something new.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

Nowadays i mostly RP around, help the ai with stuff max i can and to the quests, otherwise not much to do besides boring blob.

Are the quests, events and whatever varied enough so you don't end up doing the same each game?

depends, some are repetitive and u pretty much know what to do, others change depending on civic/type of government you playing.

 

[Space Satan]

pop\job reowork next year announced

 

[Fedora Master]

Is this game fun for roleplaying various SF tropes in its current state? I recall back when I played that it always ended up being boring once you finished with the early game exploration.

No, the gameplay eventually devolves into the same shit every time.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

pop\job rework next year announced

Look more shit no one asked for and that will fuck the ai even more.

 

[IDtenT]

Played this a little a couple or so week back. Every time I play it some fundamentals have changed. Like how special resources now come from mines.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

"we can't fix the shit we did, so we're removing everything, no fun allowed".

 

[Ravielsk]

"we can't fix the shit we did, so we're removing everything, no fun allowed".

For once this might fix something. The current pop system does not work because it wants to treat each pop as its own entity. The poor engine simply cannot handle that so really to fix it they would have to either rewrite the engine or turn pops into more of a resource which this seems to be.

Still a high possibility that his will fuck up something else but for once its a possibility not a certainty.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

that's not fixing, it's just removing a feature.

 

[Ravielsk]

that's not fixing, it's just removing a feature.

True but its still a feature that just barely works to begin with. Paradox never really figured out what they want to do with individual pops and their mechanics. The game just calculated their behavior on a per instance basis but functionally it never amounted to anything. Currently I do not think you can even manually move pops even when playing as a hive mind so while its true that they are removing a feature its a feature that the game barely uses, if at all.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i missed the part where that's my problem.

 

[thesecret1]

pop\job reowork next year announced

Lol, again? Haven't they gone through a couple pop reworks already?

 

[Average Manatee]

What is the rework exactly? This looks like just a UI change.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

What is the rework exactly?

Autism.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

that's not fixing, it's just removing a feature.

True but its still a feature that just barely works to begin with. Paradox never really figured out what they want to do with individual pops and their mechanics. The game just calculated their behavior on a per instance basis but functionally it never amounted to anything. Currently I do not think you can even manually move pops even when playing as a hive mind so while its true that they are removing a feature its a feature that the game barely uses, if at all.

What's relocation function paid with unit/influence.