Utopia is a great addition, leviathans is okish.
Cool that's the new one right? I'll pick that up and wait for a sale for the Leviathan one then.
Utopia is a great addition, leviathans is okish.
Now this clown on the other side of my empire just declared war. I don't think he realized I'd accidentally stockpiled several thousand materials while I was sector-ing and managing my spoils, so now I have four strong space ports immediately queued with enough projects to almost double my fleet strength in a couple months. I just my spoils there as "humiliate" and "demand tribute", I figure I'll win a fight or two in my territory, then push into his shittiest border colony and then call the war early.
Man I just routed this dude. Captured one planet with a quickness, then fended off his fleet in orbit around the second, and just landed armies on it. I think this'll do me on my demands.
I wish there was more flexibility with the wargoals. It's conceptually a cool concept, but I gotta get in the habit of demanding things I don't necessarily intend to take, just in case things go well and I can throw my weight around at the peace negotiations. "Hey also burn down all your frontier outposts just 'cuz I don't like you!"
Also in the middle of the war some federation invited me in as an associate. I have no idea what that means so I just said no. Gotta go read up on federations I guess... Frustrating that they don't at least put a tooltip on accept that says like "-1 monthly influence" or whatever it does.
Did they ever give the ability for you to not have all the AI races clustered close to you? I really want to do a large map with very few AI races so that discovering one is actually rare and exciting, but with the original game they purposefully clustered everything nearby-ish.
Oh and the most bizzare thing going on? That new faction is composed entirely of the people I just conquered - No, not that... They're being lead by the Admiral that went around doing the conquering.
Ahh yes. The Fred Johnson effect.
I prefer random instead of clustered. You still end up having a few empires close to you but it is less extreme imho.
If I am comfortable with Stellaris how big is the step to EU4? I'm really interested in this game now after diving into Stellaris.
They landed a Colony Ship directly on Betharian Stone.
My Betharian Stone.
If my Ethics allowed purging, there would be purges right now.
I prefer random instead of clustered. You still end up having a few empires close to you but it is less extreme imho.
If I am comfortable with Stellaris how big is the step to EU4? I'm really interested in this game now after diving into Stellaris.
I'm so happy that Paradox patched those options in. The standard setting a while ago were clustered and advanced neighbours (so you had nighbouring empires who started with three planets, a bigger fleet and a bunch of tech already researched). I've had games where I was just shit out of luck because my direct neighbour two systems over was an advanced militant empire who immediately declared a (for me) literally unwinnable war. Because of that clustered empires and advanced AI/neighbours get turned the fuck off.
Yes exactly. I had the same problems which resulted in me having less fun. It's nice to have the option to adjust this to my liking.
As a pacifist can I integrate empires with diplomacy or something? I currently have the technological edge and have a pretty good standing in my galaxy with almost anyone. Not sure what I should aim for. I'm beginning to think the "peace" route wasn't such a good idea... Or should I start liberating planets, make them my vassal and finally integrate them? Hmm that should be my strategy I think.
I kinda wish there's a more advanced start option where the galaxy is already set up ala EU or CK. The early game is so boring now.
They actully talked about wanting to create a gameplay element that would allow Federations to become a new nation in the last development diary, so it seems only a matter of time before a pacifist can do some form of diplo-annexation. Until then liberation wars + vassalization is pretty much the only way. Fanatic pacifists can't even do that.
Can't I just Drone this guy? The Republic of Inaro has no time for dissident factions.
Also hilarious is my vassal (With the Democratic Crusaders personality) proclaims I "Hate Freedom" when I go into the Diplo screen. Bitch please, you just got Democratic Crusader'd. I'd totally have just Annexed them in one go like I did their friends pre-Utopia, but it's enough effort as-is to manage the new province that I've just brought the light of GLORIOUS DEMOCRACY to.
It's so damn weird seeing habitable planets around pulsars. It would've been nice if they tied habitable planets around certain types of stars.
Yeah, in Starsector, even if you just jump into a pulsar system you're straight fucked.It's so damn weird seeing habitable planets around pulsars. It would've been nice if they tied habitable planets around certain types of stars.
Lol, looks like the empire of EMAIL is doing well Must be lucrative to handle the galaxy's correspondence.
One little minor nit picky thing I hope they fix in 1.6:
The little story bit when encountering the first sentient, space faring empire that tells you how your people react, isn't triggered by enclaves. And in most of my games (since I play on random distribution of empires) enclaves are the first thing I encounter. So after meeting like two of them, and 25 years later, I finally encounter another empire and THEN everyone celebrates or gets nervous, depending on my ethics. Nah, guys, remember those other aliens that lived in giant space stations we discovered like 25 years ago?
My people: "Whatcha talkin' bout Willis?"
Yeah IMO enclaves are weird. They are city states from civ but don't feel like they really truly belong in the game mechanics.
Lol, looks like the empire of EMAIL is doing well Must be lucrative to handle the galaxy's correspondence.
The sector management is weird. I don't really understand it to be honest. I had it working and suddenly it was at -5 energy per month and I don't know why. It also bothers me that I can no longer manage the surface. I don't really know what the point is to have sectors. I feel like I need to get imperial prerogative asap.
The 1440p ui mod is amazeballs!
The sector management is weird. I don't really understand it to be honest. I had it working and suddenly it was at -5 energy per month and I don't know why. It also bothers me that I can no longer manage the surface. I don't really know what the point is to have sectors. I feel like I need to get imperial prerogative asap.
Which one? The UI Overhaul 1440p mod?
So I am at the point where the Unbidden come to the galaxy and I think this is ruining my game. They just go from planet to planet and destroy everything. We have a Federation that has 80% of the galaxy in it and no one does anything. They let them destroy their bases and planets and just watch. The fuck is this shit? They have multiple fleets with 70k damage, how am I supposed to fight that? If others joined in maybe it would work but no one is interested it seems...
This is broken as Fuck! I took the "Defender of the Galaxy" perk which gives +50% damage against them and I am fighting them alone! I lose a lot of ships but I can take them on one fleet at the time and NO ONE is fucking helping me. The AI acts as if they don't exist. It isn't even a federation problem. They just don't send their fleets at them, even without federation. They lose planet by planet and watch. Lol.Late game crisis just shines a spotlight on the horrible Federation AI during conflicts. What you can try to do is declare war against some random AI empire to set your federation up in "war" mode where they actually have a chance of grouping up to fight with you. It's still going to be hairy in the best of times if you don't have control over the federation (and thus, the federation fleets) at the time when you actually want to coordinate something. I ran into a very similar roadblock in my most recent game as well.
My biggest problem with sectors is that it makes it way harder to access your spaceports to mass construct fleets. You basically need to waste your control groups on them or click thru like 3 layers of menu to get to them.
And yeah, you basically need to max out a planet before you hand it over to the AI to manage otherwise shit will never, ever get done there.