Stellaris Dev Diary #305 - Midsummer Festivities

[Eladrin]

Will there be experiments on leader cap? A few dev dairies ago a variety of approaches were mentioned as under consideration like category specific caps or free minor leaders.

Yes. We'll be talking about those later on as well.

Also will vassal spam be addressed? I vaguely remember that changes to trust mechanics and diplo-vassalisation were planned for 3.8 but in the pre-release streams for paragons it was mentioned as pushed to 3.9.

Diplomacy and trust changes are planned for 3.9.

Federations is that high? Really?

It's got a lot of Origins.

I'm more shocked that Overlord and Galactic Paragons are that low on the list and even more that Nemesis is completely missing...

This is the top ten list, anything on it is pretty high overall.

 

[Eladrin]

Legitimately confused why Apocalypse is so high, given the absolute F-all it comes with.

My guess is that it's primarily due to the strength of the Colossus player fantasy, and the mechanical benefit of having a relatively easily accessible Total War. That frees up Influence for other stuff.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

Good, now change that +25% pop growth speed to +25% Lithoid pop growth speed (lithoid_pop_growth_speed) and it will all make sense.

You mean like this?

 

[PDS_Iggy]

Does this suggest that any lithoid can consume worlds, or does this just apply to terravore?

If the former, that would be a huge buff. If the later, I can see the merits of a system, but it seems likely to be a bit of a downgrade to the genocidal if the situation is any slower than the process, and most genocidals are in a tough place right now.

Eating planets is still limited to being a Terravore. The situation does clever math when it starts eating worlds so it will take the same amount of time like it would normally take to fully consume a planet- Give or take a few weeks.