That's my impression from having played zero hours, watched zero videos and just analyzing this thread.So it's just as shitty as I always imagined it was going to be, but for a moment all the dev diaries and the propaganda from influencers gave me a sliver of hope.
Well, that's true for all Paradox games. Unless you go for some crazy achievements.Stellaris is still pretty crap though. Basically only good for LARPing
You can, actually. Check the market screen sell orders. That's how much of a good you're producing. Hover over it for a breakdown
You can, actually. Check the market screen sell orders. That's how much of a good you're producing. Hover over it for a breakdown
So i have to go to market tab every month and hover or click over all of the goods to see how much i produce, instead of having a convenient table where it's all shown with +/- signs, or color coded like green/red for increase or decrease? Instead of these stupid lenses at the bottom, they could had gave us actual wealth of data.
Actually Stellaris degraded, it become more limited simpler, and when a modder tried to fix it, Paradox banned the white only mod.Well, that's true for all Paradox games. Unless you go for some crazy achievements.Stellaris is still pretty crap though. Basically only good for LARPing
Don't play them for the challenge, play them like a RPG.
I’m having trouble with the terrible expense of construction, even using the basic production method. Is this by design or am I doing something wrong?
Yeah, I assume that's because it stops mattering who exactly produced what if you are in the same market... Up to the point you actually want to leave it. I can only assume paradox simply didn't test for this scenario or something. Retards.This doesnt work if you are in someone else market, like playing cape town and being in british market.
Nah man, disregarding the lame combat and late game performance, Stellaris is a really good space 4x.Stellaris is still pretty crap though. Basically only good for LARPing
Well...
Wine drinking was prominent in Classical Islam, from Al-Andalus in the west to Khorasan in the east.[5] The Iranian Saffarid and Samanid rulers, the first to look for autonomy from their Abbasid suzerains, were known, as Matthee explains, "for the gusto with which they and their entourage indulged in wine-drinking."[5] The 11th-century Qabus-nama, written by Keikavus of the Ziyarid dynasty, explicitly records that the Quran prohibits wine consumption, yet also states advice (same goes for Nizam al-Mulk's Siyasatnama) on what the proper fashion is for drinking wine while also taking it for granted that wine will be served at feasts.[6]
The English traveller and writer Thomas Herbert wrote in 1627 about the difference between wine consumption of the Ottomans and Iranians.[7] According to Herbert, the Ottomans, who, although were prohibited to drink wine by law, still drank it covertly.[7] The Iranians on the other hand, Herbert asserted, since a long period of time, drunk wine openly and with excess.[7] According to the French traveller Jean Chardin, who was in 17th-century Safavid Iran, drinking was mainly done in order to get drunk fast hence the appreciation of Iranians for strong wines.[8] Echoing Reinhold Lubenau's writings on late 16th-century Ottoman Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), Chardin reported that "Iranians would recoil while drinking, treating alcohol like a medicine to be swallowed rather than enjoyed".[8] Matthee explains that the goal of getting drunk quickly stemmed from the fact that alcohol in Islamic culture was "not synonymous with sociability".[8] As alcohol is considered a forbidden substance in Islam, alcohol could never become fully integrated into the idea of a proper life.[8] Unlike the ancient Greek symposium tradition, where alcohol was considered a substance to brighten up the ambiance, it was firmly entrenched as part of the lifestyle of the elite.[8] Nevertheless, even there alcohol remained a "forbidden fruit, and thus could not escape furtive embrace amid public disavowal".[8] In the Islamic world, the drinking of alcohol never became part of the overall food and drinking culture, in the way of "enhancing the convivial atmosphere of the meal, the way it did in Mediterranean and Christian/European culture".[8] Meals in the Islamic world were usually eaten in silence with a glass of water.[9] After that, the host and the guests would engage in discussion with coffee and tea with the water pipe, and usually in a different room.[9]
According to Matthee, social class was also important in the assessment of alcohol consumption.[10] People who drunk alcohol were usually from higher social ranks, the elite (khass), whereas abstemiousness was most prevalent among the middling classes, who were simultaneously known for their piousness.[10] The upper classes drunk as they believed they were entitled to, that is, enjoying alcohol as a 'right', a privilege traditionally bestowed upon the elite in Islamic lands.[10] Abstention from alcohol belonged to the commoners, the avvam, who were unable to restrain themselves.[10] The lowest social classes usually used other drugs, most prominently opium (which is not condemned in particular by the Quran or the hadiths).[10] They generally used it, as Matthee explains, to while away boredom, to gain stupefaction from their troublesome lifes, and especially as a form of self-medication.[10]
Common people who drunk in those times were associated with subcultures of subterfuge and furtiveness, Matthee explains.[10] These people would usually sneak off to taverns in back-alleys of the predominantly non-Muslim inhabited parts of cities and towns, which were run by Jews and Armenians.[10] Taverns were deemed as "disreputable" in Islamic lands, and were associated "with the seamy side of life, and the tavern owner occupied 'roughly the same place on the social scale as the prostitute, the over homosexual, and the itinerant entertainer'".[10]
Alcoholic drinks were commonly drunk amongst the elite, and Muslims often visited the taverns; however, alcohol was "formally outlawed", hence it could not operate in the reality of everyday life.[10] Thus, in turn, as Matthee explains, the drinking of wine "became a metaphor for the ardent feelings of the lover for the beloved in the imaginary world of (mystical) poetry"
I mean, is it? It's laughably easy because the AI is just so bad, and serves more as something to do in between bouts of events taking you on railroaded trips through sci-fi tropes. I don't finish my playthroughs all the way to an end game crisis because I just get so insanely bored with the core gameplay loop. It desperately needs a serious AI overhaul, and some systems to give you something challenging to do.Nah man, disregarding the lame combat and late game performance, Stellaris is a really good space 4x.Stellaris is still pretty crap though. Basically only good for LARPing
You just need to up the difficulty so it's more challenging. The ai could be better certainly.I mean, is it? It's laughably easy because the AI is just so bad, and serves more as something to do in between bouts of events taking you on railroaded trips through sci-fi tropes. I don't finish my playthroughs all the way to an end game crisis because I just get so insanely bored with the core gameplay loop. It desperately needs a serious AI overhaul, and some systems to give you something challenging to do.Nah man, disregarding the lame combat and late game performance, Stellaris is a really good space 4x.Stellaris is still pretty crap though. Basically only good for LARPing
Scythians can't resist it!Ah yes, that famous Iranian wine
What's a realistic way to get Ethiopia to be able to trade? All the statelets that can form it are isolationist, and everyone who lives there wants it to remain isolationist. I can't properly industrialize like that, its too poor. Even when I manage to unite the entire Horn while Egypt is busy conquering Constantinople or whatever, I can't do anything after that, because I am stuck with a small economy and can't trade.
The Fat Man of Europe.This game is broken and retarded. Made Import Trade Route for 1700 Grain from China. For some reason you can't control the amount after you make a Trade route, it's left to the AI- if it can profit it will increase it, so now I'm importing 4k Grain, selling 2,5k to Austria and all that is taxed with Tariffs. My trade center is #1 in the world and my income went from -4k a week to +22k, my grain price is the minimum and my population Standard of Living is rising coz they can buy it super cheap.
This game is broken and retarded. Made Import Trade Route for 1700 Grain from China. For some reason you can't control the amount after you make a Trade route, it's left to the AI- if it can profit it will increase it, so now I'm importing 4k Grain, selling 2,5k to Austria and all that is taxed with Tariffs. My trade center is #1 in the world and my income went from -4k a week to +22k, my grain price is the minimum and my population Standard of Living is rising coz they can buy it super cheap.