Stellaris Dev Diary #350 - Storms and their Aftermath

[Ajacoba]

U huh, sure
Sooooo you got a world with 3 yellow / 10 red / 4 food
You have it build up for mining, with a +2 base booster building & mining planetary designation.
Storm with +80% alloys come around, by the time you rebuild your districs (and that is 1 yer district) the storm is gone and you get no aftermath modifier.
Gj engaging in 4000 useless clicks of micro just to do it all over again.

but if a storm hits one of those tiny two city district colonies you're just using for pop growth and actually leaves a permanent planet modifier, then you might as well turn the world into something that profits from the modifier once you decide to expand it

and when you have the tech that predicts where a storm will go you can put the appropriate buildings there to redirect it, or if it's gonna hit a rural world (or a pure energy, mining or food world) you can put the relief center there

no need for "4000 useless clicks of micro", just simply react to what the game actually gives you

 

[Kainser]

Hopefully the new Precursors don't favor certain ascensions and empire types (like baol/zroni), or else the increasing RNG will make it very frustrating. At one point Paradox will have to budge and let people pick precursors in single player settings if one wants to.

The best option I've heard from here is letting the player pick between a few precursors if they want to retain some randomness. Getting one you dislike feels bad but getting to pick the best out of three given options for example would make it more bearable.

I understand that letting player pick freely can be problematic since a lot of players would probably just pick the same precursor every game even though that might hurt replayability, so it can be seen as one of those cases where the devs step in to protect the players from optimizing the fun out of the game.

 

[Thiend]

Take advantage of storms, or mitigate them and toss them where your enemies don't want them, or don't buy the DLC if you think only "shills" want the new DLC. The choice is yours.

I plan to figure out how in-game directing them works out and try to get the buffs to good locations, or use those with permanent effects to modify planets and then specialize them around their new modifiers.

Using such buffs partly in place of planetary specialization could also work, and leave you less vulnerable to losing one particular planet, but we'll see based on exactly how it all works. It also happens to be something the person you're quoting didn't say, thus proving their point that you're just inserting one slice of inaccurate and insulting summary between two slices of word salad so you can say this DLC is bad by attacking poor arguments for it nobody made.

 

[mrt1212]

Take advantage of storms, or mitigate them and toss them where your enemies don't want them, or don't buy the DLC if you think only "shills" want the new DLC. The choice is yours.

I plan to figure out how in-game directing them works out and try to get the buffs to good locations, or use those with permanent effects to modify planets and then specialize them around their new modifiers.

Using such buffs partly in place of planetary specialization could also work, and leave you less vulnerable to losing one particular planet, but we'll see based on exactly how it all works. It also happens to be something the person you're quoting didn't say, thus proving their point that you're just inserting one slice of inaccurate and insulting summary between two slices of word salad so you can say this DLC is bad by attacking poor arguments for it nobody made.

This! In the situation where a storm hits your Industrial World that has a mix of Artisans and Metallurgists, the call is to flip to Forge World there to get the bonus, and then flip another Industrial World to Factory World to compensate the dip in CGs. Overall, you'll come out slightly ahead on the Alloys+CGs than not doing anything. Players that think they have to rebuild an entire thing, do entire retrofits, basically rebuild a perfectly suited Rome in half a day, don't get it even as they claim to get it more. It's ridiculous, I've never seen such wallbanging wimpering.

 

[Maethendias]

wow... mechanics that make it even more pointless to specialize fleets

as if that hasnt been an issue since release

 

[Nevars]

I don't get how increased gravitational pulls increases Enforcer and Entertainer output.

Don't you know that gravity weighed down your soul? :v lol

 

[Noobmaster_GR]

Just bought the Cosmic Storm DLC.So the Storm Repulsion Center keeps away the clouds only from the system it's build???

 

[HFY]

Just bought the Cosmic Storm DLC.So the Storm Repulsion Center keeps away the clouds only from the system it's build???

And it doesn't even try that hard.

You want multiple clustered repulsion effects to make the impact palpable.

 

[KingAlamar]

Cetana: Finally, the wheel of suffering will soon be at an end. The galaxy will know peace.

Random particle storm coming to turn off her regen: The @#$% it will!

I feel dumb ... does that work with her?? I wonder if I could have started a storm myself and flung it at her ... Should have thought of that before I decided on brute forcing it. LOL