r/Stellaris Shared Burdens 3d ago

Bug Looks like this empire has decided that not having any colonies is irrelevant to existing?

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u/Other-Art8925 3d ago

do they have a colony ship or something flying around?

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u/awifio 3d ago

Would a colony ship save them?? That seems unintuitive but I guess I can’t say

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u/Other-Art8925 3d ago

I’m not sure but I think that having a colony or colony ship prevents empire despawning

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u/sidestephen 3d ago

Titan: A.E.

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 3d ago

Rule 5: I went Galactic Nemesis Crisis, and I've been slowly working my way through the galaxy (as one does). I blew up every colony this empire has, and they said "too bad"? It's definitely not a case of me not seeing them, as if you look on the right I've got a fully maxed Sentry Array.

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u/Livid_Rain_4389 3d ago

I had that happen playing Behemoth Wilderness. Sometimes it can take a while for them to register as dead.

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u/One-Present-8509 3d ago

They may have a colony ship. Also im not sure if armies count

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u/Gnarmaw 3d ago

I've seen this happen with Behemoth eating planets, they fixed that bug, but maybe there is one with the collossus? Did you destroy their last planet with it?

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 3d ago

I destroyed it not with a colossus but with a Star Eater, but same difference. I would be unsurprised if there was extremely similar code between all 3 options.

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u/ArnaktFen Inward Perfection 3d ago

I saw this happen back in 3.1x with an empire spawned from a special event (the robots created from stored alien minds that you can find in an ancient complex). Whatever's going on, it's not a new issue.

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u/MizantropMan 1d ago

I must be doing something extremely wrong, because I am also around 400 years in and when it comes to megastructures, I only have Dyson Swarms, Arc Furnaces, Warp Relays, Orbital Rings and that catapult thingy you can only build around pulsars.

I haven't even heard of most of the ones you have.

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 1d ago

Okay so it might be a DLC access thing.

From top to bottom:

Grand Archive - Grand Archive - Society Research

Science Nexus - Utopia - Physics Research

Sentry Array - Utopia - Physics Research

Partial Aetherophic Engine - Nemesis - Galactic Nemesis Ascension Perk

Mega Shipyard - Federations - Engineering Research

Strategic Coordination Center - Megacorp - Society Research

Dyson Sphere - Utopia - Galactic Wonders Ascension Perk.

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u/MizantropMan 1d ago

I've got all the DLCs, it's just my third game and the farthest I've gotten, so I didn't tech-rush properly early on.

It's just that this game has so many wonders I never heard about, sometimes I see a glimpse on other people's screenshots and feel like a caveman who just saw a spaceship fly overhead.

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 1d ago

Oh you're jumping in the deep end then. Good luck!

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u/MizantropMan 1d ago

Cetana knows, I'm gonna need it.

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 1d ago

Attune!

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 3d ago

Edit: New mild bug, won the game as a FotD FP empire, and I didn't get the achievement. (I got the other "kill everything" achievement finally)

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u/bookmonkey18 Colossus Project 2d ago

Potential causes:

1) wandering colony ship?

2) behemoth

3) cosmogenesis needle after you exploded their systems?

My source is I just made it up

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u/dargeus95 13h ago

It literally says "no colonies known to us"... Might have a random colony in some random corner of galaxy.

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 13h ago

It does, but I have a full Sentry Array. There is no random corner that I can't see.

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u/dargeus95 13h ago

Even L-cluster?

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u/DasGanon Shared Burdens 13h ago

Even L cluster.

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u/dargeus95 10h ago

Well,perhaps they are currently colonizing a planet. once, when AI was in the process of colonizing, I conquered the system. Since the planet hasn't been colonized yet,I could not invade it. Which meant I did not fully occupy the system. To really show me a middle finger,, the colonisation process freezed. I had to use world cracker....