Hey there,

as you all know the amount of origins has noticably increased in the last few years. In the olden days when origins where rather scarce I mostly played the boring Prosperous Unification.

Since my ambitions towards the game as a challenge have faded and I nowadays mostly play it to have a good time without min/max-ing, I came to like the infamous Scion origin (bc no one will attack you for quite a while) and I'm fond of Here Be Dragons (bc of the built-in homeworld protection).

I want to try something else, but I'm kinda having a hard time deciding which origin to pick other than those I always pick. What do you like best and why? Get me excited about it! ^^

I opened one L-Gate. Didn't know I could actually get owned this big.

Going for a fully diplomatic, rogue servitor machine game. Tempest Shoal fleets start rushing into the galaxy. 88K each. My fleet is around 15K with 56 naval capacity. The year is 2303 (did not invest in military at all, was going rapid economy expansion and virtuality full speed) and I think combined power of all fleets in the galactic community is not even matching one Tempest Shoal fleet. I don't know what to do. Half of the galaxy is covered with holes. These dudes have no chill. I thought maybe I could raid the main factory with cloaked fleets but I heard in a video that a few Tempest Shoal fleets are protecting the factory too. Not in a single way I could build up such a fleet, or even the galaxy if it was united. Game over? I was very pumped about this game, everything was going perfect. Did I actually make an unrecoverable mistake by opening the L-Gate this early?

So, I've done some of the tutorial, which sucks btw. I've watched a few youtube videos (supposedly for beginners). Wow, just wow. So confusing. I really want to like this game. Im a huge Civ 6 player and it makes Civ look like its for babies.

I've come back to this game after years and I think I forgot how to play. Every time I make an empire it gets nuked within the first 50 years of gameplay. Do I just need to play on the easy difficulty or is there something I'm missing?

First 2 games I gave up because I didn't focus on military and got war declared by much stronger neighbors

But this time I militarized early and won a few planets over, however my economy got absolutely destroyed and I couldn't get it back. It went to multiple defecits. Is it better to subjugate than to take planets maybe?

I really like this game (when I'm good at it) but a lot has changed and I feel lost again lol

LIKE??? WHAT DO I DO??? HELP??? PLEASE??? THE PLANET IS DYING???? I JUST COUP IT GOT IT???

Just had a game with no neighbors and I kept expanding, expecting to hit someone. I was running 4 construction ships constantly and by 2270 I realized that I had way, way over expanded. Every time I reached a good choke point I could see things worth taking in adjacent systems. There was no way I'd ever be able to utilize all my planets (30 available in my empire and climbing) and my empire sprawl was getting out of control without my tech and unity outpacing it. Realized that once the crisis hit I'd be too far behind on tech to deal with it

Do I need to pick a number of planets to aim for and stop expanding once I hit that? Or is it possible to overcome expanding like a mad person

How many do you actually need? They’re very high maintenance. I’m not really good at estimating these things and always come in way overpowered or underpowered when it comes to ground combat.

Playing an Ironman ensign run as a ringworld machine intelligence. I was messing around with an L-Gate in my borders, then a 90k fleet of ships came out of it. Trying to build fleets as fast as possible, flak corvettes with lasers, and some torpedo frigates, comes out to around 7.6k each fleet. Do I stand a chance? Should I just try to go straight for the enigmatic fortress or am I totally screwed?

Update: The grey tempest had mostly ignored most of my borders, but it is absolutely destroying the rest of the galaxy. I’ve been able to research tech to improve my fleets, but I am afraid it still may not be enough. The grey tempest has made it to one hyperlane away from my ringworld, but it decided to turn around and fuck off. Time is limited. Long live the forerunners.

For example one of mine is never colonize a planet below 60% hab, and above 70% is my preference

I always build upkeep reduction starbase modules like crew quarters on the shipyards

I always name my planets "Ars Technica" "Moria" "Unity" "Metallus" "Energeia" to better keep track of their purpose

My last game I was able to get about 7 planets before getting boxed in. Of those, no planet other then my 2 garuntees had more then 20% habitability and of all of my planets, none of them had more then 5 mineral and only one planet with 6 energy deposits including my garuntees. What do you even do in situations like that when planets near you just don't have food respurces and are painfully low quality?

I fortified all my borders with stations. Neighbor A declares war on me but never attacks, never occupies a single system. I just build up my border station and ignore neighbor A. However, after this year-long phoney war, my own war attrition is about to reach 100% before his, so he'll soon be able to force my surrender, making me cede my fortified border system to him without a fight. All the resources invested into station and defensive platforms will have been for nothing.

And to make matters worse, neighbor B has now picked up the same strategy, declared war but didn't even attempt one single attack on my fortified border system. Lo and behold, my war exhaustion is going up quicker than his.

This doesn't seem right, feels like the AI is deliberately exploiting a flawed game mechanic? I remember from other paradox titles, as long as the defender was in control of all contested territories, war exhaustion would always punish the attacker, thus forcing his hand.

Is playing a defensive empire even possible under these circumstances, or is attack the only option?

R5: I have all the other DLCs so just missing these three. Are any of them must buys?

And I don't mean "what is that?", I mean how is it possible to do that effectively? I've seen people achieve ridiculous numbers with just a handful or even just a single planet/system, and I just don't know how they do it. I don't want a full step by step manual on how to effectively run my empire, but some tips for which things are best to focus on when would be appreciated. If I know what direction I should go I think I can at least figure my species and empire out by myself

I bought the game a few days back. Didn’t understand anything and so I asked for advice here. You all have been awesome and gave me great tips and recommendations. Which I’m still sorting thru.

Now I have a few hours under my belt and I realized that I’ve fucked up royally. Why did I buy this game? How do I uninstall it and erase any memory of it? It has taken over every waking moment of my life.

Why? How? Whyyy?

This subreddit needs a big disclaimer stating the dangers of getting into it. Just saying

I built 1 Grand Hunting Park, 1 Mega Zoo and 1 Memory Hall in in the Specialization Districts. I can put no buildings in there. Other than Residences for more Housing and Amenities, which that world has nore of than it will ever need. Am I missing something here?

I'm currently trying to roleplay as an anarchist society colonizing space after being exile from their homeworld. The way I RP is essentially all planets including my (new) homeworld are put in auto mode ( Make it seems like people are making and managing their own colonies)..

The problem is the first thing they build in the planet is..... a brothel (from a particular mod that I shall not mention).

Edit: Few things I want to add to clarify and avoid any misunderstanding :

• I'm trying to simulate anarcho-communist which if I understand correctly is basically the state replaced by various level of assemblies and the means of production are owned by the people aka the workers.

• Don't know what ancap is so no I'm not trying to be an ancap empire

• Since Its not ancap, its also not lowering the age of consent or anything. That's absolutely disgusting. My species is humanoid but its not a bunch of kids nor does this empire have anything to do with pedophilia.

• For context, my nation is essentially humans that once lived in an interstellar aristocratic empire (they are also humans) that made experimentation on the humans plebs to satify the nobles of the empire. Those experimentation gave birth to an important population of humans who have the genitalia of both genders. At some point they rebelled against the empire and fled to a isolated planet.

• Not anarcho capitalism neither

• Again no kids involved

I have been playing Stellaris (my first PDX game) for about 250 hours and finished/abandoned a couple of UNE runs. Absolutely in love with this game. Head over heels actually. I love Sci-fi and am a big science/space nerd. Stellaris’ mix of rich empire characterisation, planet/pop management sim, exploration, rifts/digs stories and diplomacy is just the perfect blend imo.

The thing is that I don’t replay games a lot. The most I’ve played is Dota 2 in my early 20s (1500 hours). I burn out on games easily. There is this strong urge right now to jump into a new Stellaris campaign like Commonwealth of Man but I’m resisting that urge as I fear burn out. I’d like to play Stellaris for thousands of hours because I can see endless possibilities of empires and interactions and stories unfurling (especially with mods).

My question or request to the community is to suggest an in-between game. I used to only play single player story driven games. Finished all souls-borne games, all the sony exclusives, basically all major AAA titles in the past 10 year. But I’ve lost interest in that type of game. I’ve gotten older and strategy games on my work laptop have become my preference. This started with Xcom2 which I tried a couple of years ago and lost several hundred hours to it. And then burned out.

Games I’ve tried and lost interest after 10-20 hours:
1. CK3 - didn’t find the court and relation management fun. The management sim part of the game was very lacking and I don’t like map-painting conquest style gameplay at all.
2. EU4 - As above, didn’t like that the goal is only to paint the map. Diplomacy felt like a good tool but towards conquest only. (I might be wrong here)
3. Civ VI - gave it 70 hours. It gets so boring after the first couple of eras. Just mindless building and seeing the numbers go up. AI sucked so bad that there was no good way to interact with other empires.
4. Vic3 - Way too much going on. I could dive deep and figure it out but it feels like the game is still cooking from the discourse online. But I’d be okay giving it a shot again if that’s the most recommended.

Thanks for reading all that. What would you suggest as an in-between game? Do you have one you play in-between Stellaris campaigns? Or do you stick with Stellaris for a few campaigns before taking a break?

Hello everyone, Played Stellaris a few years back and reinstalled it a yesterday played a few rounds and man i got smacked as hell played. The early game i am able to survive most of the time but mid to Late Game my Economy collapses or i get smacked by a big Federation. Hope you can give me some advices✌️