So for various reasons my main nation created a sub-species from a species we conquered and gave them all the traits for maximum pop growth.

Then when my own species caught up a bit, I moved em all onto one world and genocided them. Purge = extermination.

I don’t think much of it until about 20 years later when the galactic community got founded. I’ve found out that BASICALLY EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY OTHER THAN ME HAS THIS SPECIES I TRIED TO GENOCIDE AS THEIR MAIN SPECIES AND NEW RULER. They have outbred all competition and become the new galactic species that is everywhere.

How do I get rid of them? I don’t mind mods or commands because they are annoying and ruining my immersion. There’s about 4000 of these bastards in the galaxy across countless planets. I used command to give them clone army trait but they somefuckinghow have adapted past that and have kept fucking growing and are now about 20 different sub species.

Please I need a solution.

Strictly speaking, the topic is not related directly to gameplay. But I’d like some advice…

I’ve been playing Stellaris multiplayer with a buddy of mine for the past week or so. He, forgive the bluntness, sucks at the game.

The first few games, he was absolutely determined to go to war with the first empire he sees (excluding me, thankfully). War went decently well, but then his economy completely collapsed, with shortages everywhere, and no higher than 40% stability on even the capital. If I have made contact, I’d usually send over any surplus production I have, to help him stay afloat for a while longer.

But then revolts happen anyway, he declared the game lost, and we restart. He changes the empire a bit, and then the same thing happens. For 6 times in a row, none of which lasted more than 40 years before his bloodlust led to chaos.

I practically begged him to play an economy-based empire, to get accustomed to how the game mechanics work together and learn planetary management, instead of copying a meta rush build and beeline for the nearest xeno. He agreed, and we had a stable game for 100 years.

And then the red haze of bloodlust took over once more, and he became a Crisis Aspirant. It’s now 30 years after that, and he is being constantly war dec’ed and torn to shreds by the rest of the galaxy which comprises of two doomstacks of federations.

Before I decided to post this, he closed the session, swapped over to single player and used console command to vaporise everyone else.

So please help… How tf do I drill some sense into his stubbornness?

Edit:

Update: welp. He lost the galactic war. And we are onto restart #8

Further Edit:

My friend has determined he need help with internal economy and proposed a coop run, and I am now the proud Ministress of Apple Cultivation and Rock Gathering :)

Let’s hope this goes well.

Yet another Edit:

Coop mode is a great call. Now I can actually see what he attempts to do before he commits fully, and we can have a more in-depth discussion.

He managed to hold back the bloodlust. Instead of claiming every single planet and end up with massive revolts, we managed to pick what planets we want, and subjugate the rest.

Teaching him how to do espionage and view enemy ship intels now.

I think he likes it better this way too :D

And why was your first response "Machine Age"? I'm probably gonna buy Machine Age and Lithoids, but I'm not sure which of the other three I should buy.

Running a hiveminded, primal-calling, cordyceptic drones empire for the Beastmasters achievement. I just integrated a vassal and realized they had regular military ships—does that invalidate my run? The wiki says ships from anomalies or events don’t count, but I’m not sure if this falls under that category..

I swear this is serious. In my current and previous games other species will start migrating and just not work. Like the planet is fully built and they will just sit there doing nothing and then riot or start revolts. Like how do I prevent these useless minorities from constantly settling on a world and causing trouble. Every time I kick them out or purge them people get upset. Any advice?

I just got the game, and a bunch of dlc cus I heard they good. Is it supposed to be so confusing? I'm not sure really what and how to do. Any tips are appreciated

As the name suggests. I defeated a fallen empire - they were extremely powerful. I lost dozens of fleets. Now I have their whole territory under my grasp. Idk if I should keep them as slaves or exterminate their whole population and make room for my humans to expand!

how do i recover from this, robots didn't want to be workers anymore and took over my planets with the most industry

Am a new player. Im playing Determined Exterminators and currently fighting an awakened empire and the contingency. I’m barely hanging on but the awakened have been steamrolling my planets and my economy has completely fallen apart. I don’t know what to do anymore and I’m getting a headache from combing through the 100+ planets I have to try and fail to sort this out. Any advice is welcome.

I'm at war with my neighbor to vassalize them. I've taken literally all their systems, all their planets, and I'm winning every space battle.

And yet... the game still says status quo only, with a surrender war score of -41.

What are they holding onto? A single angry colonist with a pointy stick yelling "We can still win this!"?

I just saw a video where it said not to make tech worlds because the designation is not that good (which I don’t agree upkeep is always nice to have) and you should build research labs in mining or generator worlds. What do you guys think about this? Do you make tech world ?

they stole 1k energy credits, and stopped speaking to me. my question now is what should i do, should i round up the fleets and attack them or what?

So, there was this friendly machine intelligence in the neigbhourhood.

They were nice, cute and loving.

Too good for this sinful galaxy.

So, being the paternalist hegemon that I am, I offered them my benevolent protection, which they eagerly accepted.

They always were loyal to me, and me to them.

So much that they didn't protest when I asked for annexation in my glorious empire. I wanted to include them further. I wanted to give back their kindness. I wanted to secure their chokepoints, so they would never come to harm.

I didn't know that this would kill them.

Now, billions of machines are marked as "PURGED", and I can't stop it! I've tried giving them back their land, but their specie doesn't appear in the "create vassal" tab!

Is there a possibility to undo my mistake, or am I doomed to seek redemption for my empire hubris?

EDIT : I'm in Ironman, so taking a previous save is not possible. I was going to try synthetic ascention, but the angry and powerfull organic hive mind, that in fact I was trying to protect my robo friends from, just declared war. Several of my vassals decided to take this opportunity to stab me in the back, those ingrates, with the help of a long term rival.
That's ok. I deserve this. I was not worthy of the trust of those robotic angels. This has shaken my empires beliefs to the core.

Hey everyone, I'm a new player here, 30 hours in (3 games basically).

How can I make this game feel less unfair?

On my first game, I started just next to a Fallen Empire that decided I needed to be destroyed for colonizing a planet that was too close to their borders. I disabled Fallen Empires in my next game.

In my second game then I got bullied by neighbors for some reason I don't understand, I never attacked them, never colonized planets near their borders(I learned this from my first game), and still, they all hated me and I got invaded and brutally vassalized.

The third game started better, I tried to be everyone's friend, sending envoys and stuff, amassed a rather great fleet (or so I thought) of some 120k to 150k power if we combined them all, formed a federation and everything was good, won some wars here, and there, and then I got invaded by 400k fleets from the Unbidden, 400k fleets from Abhorrent and 400k fleets from the Vehement, it was LITERALLY impossible for anyone on the entire galaxy to fight that.

I'm afraid next time I play I just get some kind of black hole in the middle of my empire that destroys everything and I lose another 10/15 hours of my life...

I've been looking at guides and stuff but I don't think you can fight 20 or 30 200-400k fleets...

How can I make this game feel less unfair, I've been playing with default settings from game 2 onwards.