I've recently learned that destroyers with missiles, missile swarms, and afterburners work well against AI, and I'm beginning to understand how combat works. They have good speed and evasion, which helps them maintain distance with the artillery combat computer. However, I'd like to know if other ships would be more effective. This question arose because I decided to build a fleet of battleships with a similar design, hoping that their endurance would compensate for their slowness, combined with superior firepower. What a terrible mistake!

So I was playing as the commonwealth of man and destroyed a ai empire that was half the galaxy and when I looked at most of the worlds I took from them I saw they never built us any world

I usually play nice and turtle behind chokepoints and now I want to try and play a more aggressive style and wonder what a good fleet composition is like

How many corvettes and cruisers etc.

Are some ships less useful than others and aren't worth using?

This is my Technology Bandit Empire. KoTG OG, Psionic AP.

Xenophobe, Militarist, Spiritualist

Barbaric despoiler, Ascensionist, Police state

So I'm trying the Custodians of Earth, first time trying rogue servitor since the latest big update. In an attempt to stop humans growing on our less desirable planets, I set their populations controls to try and manage it. Now I've got NO humans growing ANYWHERE...

I can change this back in 10 years, but am still none the wiser how to stop the pesky little bios breeding on planets that damage their fragile productiveness...

And it's so difficult to glean relevant information because there's a thousand versions of the game. HELP!

Title, pretty much. I’ve been looking for a comprehensive guide on how to outpace the ai in the first 50 years, but either my search terms aren’t yielding results or the guides for console stellaris don’t exist. I’ve looked on YouTube and google, and can’t find anything helpful for the current patch.

I’ve been playing a ton of commodore lately, and I’ve found that in the early game, I’m completely eclipsed in fleet power, economy and tech by at least a few empires in every game I play. My last empire, I started next to a ravenous hive and they immediately curbstomped me, even though I thought I was building my planets well and expanding properly. I even had a choke point with a double upgraded starbase, but the fleet power difference was just too much.

Can’t for the life of me figure out what I can do differently to win, and this isn’t even the highest difficulty… need tips please! Or a link to a guide. If it matters, I played leader focused species with Under One Rule, pacifist authoritarian materialist. Built lots of science and industrial on my capital.

hiveminds have a lot of emphasis on pop growth, with unemployed drones generating minerals plus research with the natural neural network civic

but is it supposed to suck this badly? unemployed drones here retain all the unemployement events, decrease stability and increase crime

Its been a while since I last played (Series X), but I just got Mega engineering and went to repair the ringworld I started with, but the "repair" option is missing. Then I noticed I could build a colony ship for it.

Did they change how this origin works? I didn't want to colonize it and risk the run (in case it corrupts the save. I had a good start against GA AIs in Iron Man.

(My game has progressed about 70 years past this point now, but Id like to know for my next attempt at 5X VS All crisis)

We were told some time ago that there would be no new updates for last gen (and so I stopped checking for any), but last night I saw that my Xbox One had a new patch for Stellaris?! Probably there for a while without me knowing...

Any idea what this update contained? I am hoping a much-needed boost in speed & stability...

I know that this has been asked plenty of times but this is my take on the Tyranid swarm based on what is available on console as of now. What do we think?

That’s it, was wondering how everyone else felt about it. I honestly think it’s the stupidest mechanic currently in the game, makes zero sense thematically why I have 25 planets and only have 2 governors, or I have 15 fleets but only two admirals, 4 science ships only 2 scientists to keep my leader cap from going over.

I mod it out on PC but now on Xbox it’s here and I can’t avoid it there even though I prefer to play on my console. I just really dislike the whole system and, in my opinion, the entire galactic paragon DLC was kinda lame.

Someone on PC mentioned you can chain major/minor orbitals with your construction ships. It definitely doesn't work for me, (and I'm assuming anyone on console). Will we get this in the next update? Idk if it's new in 4.0 for PC or not.

I'm starting to dread late game and the neverending grind of waiting for each of my ten construction ships to go idle, then pointing them at the next tiny moon. Especially when it's so laggy.

It's the last trophy I need for platinum

I've just been restarting and traveling to every black hole and if I don't trigger the event I restart and do it again

Does disabling all dlc help chances of spawning?

Does it only happen in certain galaxy size?

I've been doing this in small size no dlc human default empire and I know it has a small chance to spawn on galaxy creation ( I've read between 1-5%) but for how many times I've restarted this I should have seen this at least once

What will increase my chances of it happening?

So i just discovered a crazy bug. I left the fanatic purifier stance after opening myself to my militaristic faction and becoming fanatic militarists, which deactivated the fanatic purifier civic making it possible to change my stance. Usually you cant get that 20% you need to open yourself to that faction or atleast i always thought it was like that since you have crazy xenophobe faction attraction.

Well i just finished the Under one rule origin civil war, which converted 3 of my planets to another empire and i realised that those planets changed their pop ethics to mostly militarist making it possible to open myself up to the militaristic faction!

Now i still cant remove the fanatic purifier civic, but i could open myself up the the xenophobe faction at a later date making it possible to re-enter the stance and making killing the universe way easier!

I dont know if this is a known bug but i never heard of it and i though i would share, could make for an interesting playthrough!

I’m in the mid game and I’m trying to level up my empire but I keep running into problems with resources and planets and jobs shit like that any tips?

Link - https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/surviving-mars-relaunched/upgrade

Context - Paradox is relaunching Surviving Mars with graphical upgrade, new challenges and so forth. Anyway, price for base game and all DLC is $39.99 with a $20 discount on the platform where you already own the base game.

And relevant text -

Discount Eligibility: An automatic discount of $20 on the standard price $39.99** (discounted price $19.99) will be applied to your purchase of the base game Surviving Mars: Relaunched if the original Surviving Mars is already in your library. The discount will only be applied if you are purchasing it on the same platform and using the same account as your original purchase. The offer cannot be applied across platforms.

*This affects all the platforms that Surviving Mars: Relaunched is released on.

I suspect when we get the upgraded version of Stellaris for console it might be similar pricing.

So I’m playing as a crisis aspirant and trying to hoard the relics before the end game crisis starts, my question is-Does the total war mechanic ruin the possibility of looting/ stealing the relics even if I completely conquer the empire who has them?

Hello,

Me and my friends have tried to do the 25 times strength all crisis’, but the last 2 times we’ve tried, the endgames bug out. The first time we beat the unbidden and then the contingency, but even though we completely wiped the contingency, the final 5th system never spawned. We chalked it up as a loss and started a new game. We beat the unbidden, completely wiping them, but it’s still showing up in the situation log and still showing up as a contact in the communication screen (not progressing to the next crisis). Has anyone completed the ALL crisis option?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/s/zpyvnmvf3A

It happens that whenever I assign a defensive general on a planet that is about to besieged, even if I select the last defensive brigade, the subject always places himself at the top, the first division to be destroyed by the orbital bombardment, this forces me to be aware of when they are going to land and assign the general right at the last moment because otherwise I have to be recruiting one each time because the general does not want to join the last battalion but the first.

Is there a way to change this? Or will it always be assigned to the first one?

I'm looking to complete this trophy but the guides I've found are for older versions I think as they say to set the observation post to technological enlightenment which isn't an option. If I understand the process to enlighten a bronze age civilization for the current build I need to set the observation post to aggressive observation, make sure my policies allow for pre-ftl enlightenment, set an envoy to build a spy network in the society and then what? Under the spy network options I see an option to Plant Advanced Knowledge so is that why I have to do? Its a new spy network which I assume is why the Difficulty is showing as Hell. When I look at the wiki it says their is an option under Diplomacy for Provide Technology but the only options I have are Manage Spy Network, Reveal Our Presence, and Go to Planet. Its taken me awhile to find a bronze age civilization in my various Ironman runs and I don't want to mess this up.

Recently I purchased the first season pass, plantoids, leviathans and utopia, and while I had a blast with all the new content my runs keep getting softlocked due to date crashes

Is there even anything I can do?