Stellaris Dev Diary #133 - The Caravaneers

[FuzzyLogic]

Those Caravan ships are seriously cool. But then, so are the Nomads, Pirates and Nano-whatever-their-name-was from the L-Cluster.

Agh, I'm starting to like the non-playable ships far more than the playable ones.

 

[Hyomoto]

It's kind of sad new player ship sets are so rare. We see them from far away but this seems like a pretty easy win as a freebie or DLC-enhancer. Mechanics are great, everybody loves those, but new sounds, music and art are also well-liked.

 

[safe-keeper]

Do they carry smallpox and rocks? Will I have to mobilise my 25 000 strength fleet? Will they arrive in time to affect my empire's midterm elections? So many questions!

 

[Sir Roderick]

From the screenshot, seems to be about 10k, but blowing it up will leikely PO everyone in the galaxy, and someone will just offer a new system to host them (Wiz said that you could do that on a stream.) So unless you like hunting them down and killing them ad infinitum, the only real way to get rid of them is to conquer/exterminate the galaxy. Though there probably will be an achievement for killing them or something (there will almost definitely be an achievement for getting the Galatron, which means I'm just gonna cheese it and set up a game with no AI empires and just grind resources for Coinz to keep RNG'ing until I get it), so be my guest if you want to.



Great reference. Great movie. Tv show wasn't so hot. Actually pretty bad when I think about it.



Personally, I have a minor dislike to them, but I agree with you that Martin has better DD's.



They occupy their system, it's called Chor's Compass



That's... actually really brilliant. Thanks for the insight, and I hope you're right. Kudos, person who's gender I'm not assuming because if you assume gender everyone hates you.



Still waiting on confirmation for those, but that's some great memory on your part



just do what I'll do: set an ironman game up, decent galaxy size, no ai empires, FE's, marauders, or primitives, 0.5x crisis strength find the caravanneers, and grind until you get it. Stellaris is unique in paradox games in that it lets you make setups like that which make normally difficult achievements easy, if tedious. I've been doing this for a while, but my luck is terrible, because despite playing the only empire in the galaxy as spiritualists with Psi jump drives for over 8 games, I've STILL gotten the Contingency 7 times, and the time I got the scourge the special project bugged out and I couldn't get the Preythorian achievement. Come to think of it, besides that one Scourge game, I've only gotten the contingency since 1.8 (and prior to that would always spawn next to someone who wanted me dead)... I might be trying for that galatron for a LONG time...



It's a joke towards micro-transactions, "in game premium currencies," and a satirical snub towards loot-boxes in general.

What movie you're referring to?

 

[rubert]

Will there be option to disable these much like the Marauders in Apocalypse at game creation?

In general I would love to have more options to enable or disable or force spawn things when starting the game (what leviathans spawn, types of FEs, what crisis and so on).

 

[Zarpaulus]

Will there be option to disable these much like the Marauders in Apocalypse at game creation?

Yes

What I want to know is if they're replacing Nomads, like Marauders do to Privateers

 

[CrowScape]

As with the Enclaves (and Marauders), I will ask: What are the purifying races getting to maintain balance? What benefit do they get when these are enabled?

 

[hewhoispale]

It's kind of sad new player ship sets are so rare. We see them from far away but this seems like a pretty easy win as a freebie or DLC-enhancer. Mechanics are great, everybody loves those, but new sounds, music and art are also well-liked.

Historically, when presented with DLC player shipset that charges an appropriate amount of money for the cost of creating the content, it was met with much whining about how it was too expensive and wasn't worth the cost. So PDX isn't jazzed about making them.

 

[Dan_Daniel2000]

Yes

What I want to know is if they're replacing Nomads, like Marauders do to Privateers

Why do you think they would do this? And marauders didnt replace the privateers, the reworked piracy System in 2.0 removed privateers.

 

[Xephos Demonslayer]

What movie you're referring to?

Emperor's New Groove (PULL THE LEVER, KRONK!)

 

[Xephos Demonslayer]

Yes

What I want to know is if they're replacing Nomads, like Marauders do to Privateers

Marauders don't replace pirates, they still spawn, it's just much less frequently, and it only occurs when you severely neglect protecting trade, and then the pirates are an actual threat. Nomads will still be a thing.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

Why do you think they would do this? And marauders didnt replace the privateers, the reworked piracy System in 2.0 removed privateers.

I'm pretty sure the Privateers weren't removed at all?

 

[Nussor]

Sorry guys, but this is way too goofy for my tastes.

 

[yerm]

A space casino is a pretty cool addition, but gambling in any video game seriously needs to factor in the ability to save scum.

At a minimum, having reward outcomes trigger at least a month later takes out some of the worst of it. If you pull the lever, buy a raffle ticket, whatever, just delay the exposure of success or failure until the game has progressed enough that alt f4 won't redo your chance at the jackpot.

Personally I would love if many more MTTH events and/or RNG outcomes delayed their outcome a month+ so you cannot just crash out of them, but a casino is where I feel you NEED to do something.

 

[John Rico]

Knowing they are place holders, I do feel the need to raise Ifeel their flavour texts feels a bit to comically / joking. Hope they'll come across more serious in live.

 

[Zarpaulus]

Marauders don't replace pirates, they still spawn, it's just much less frequently, and it only occurs when you severely neglect protecting trade, and then the pirates are an actual threat. Nomads will still be a thing.

Not Pirates, Privateers.

You must have joined after they were taken out.

 

[Xephos Demonslayer]

Not Pirates, Privateers.

You must have joined after they were taken out.

No. Pirates. Privateers are state funded pirates. Those don't exist in the game at the moment.

 

[FleetingRain]

Knowing they are place holders

I doubt they are.

 

[Sir Roderick]

Yes

What I want to know is if they're replacing Nomads, like Marauders do to Privateers

Why do you think they would do this? And marauders didnt replace the privateers, the reworked piracy System in 2.0 removed privateers.

I'm pretty sure the Privateers weren't removed at all?

Not Pirates, Privateers.

You must have joined after they were taken out.

No. Pirates. Privateers are state funded pirates. Those don't exist in the game at the moment.

Privateers never existed in Stellaris, they are in Europa Universalis IV. Maybe this has got somebody confused about it.

 

[Dan_Daniel2000]

Are we all Talking About the same Things? When I heard privateers I thought of the pirate fleets that spawned in the "wild" and had one System with a galleon in it.