I agree that it's not satisfactory overall, but - again - there're hundreds of unsatisfactory things which would come in (my) priority list before making differing models for ships and turrets.
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Quality of Life proposal: please introduce an icon on the strategic map to show which of my systems has a spaceport.
I like all things on list I personally really wish they bring back idea of living solar systems there so much game play potential from that. for example living solar systems would allow trade lanes to be established, it also allow for pirates factions to of more value they could raid these lanes, it also then allow people to establish there own privateers operations that work under black flag like in real life in the 1700s, it open things up like slave trading for profit or other ways for governments to make black market currency the story's for these things are already in lore, it be neat to see them in game and are in the game as events it be neat to have game play features that all u player to setup events like that or for other empires to do so also but only way to do that is with a living solar systems setup - and now that everything including food is trade global and use able on a empire scale, this also allow blockaded where you could blockaded a planet or even a whole system and take the food or resources being trade form trade lane into it and then or even people maning the ship coming in, open like i said black market system. and perhaps mercenary system privateer stuff.
other thing game play system be neat to see is system like in game CK as expansion to this game - where u can have more control over leaders - lords so family so forth. factions could work well with this system where these lords governs family members try to use there own factions to assert there own person demands or wants on government overall and this system also work well with living solar system above due to open up idea of black op operations internal and external. also factions with a living solar system could hold resources that they have control over as ransom for things they want or like to have require you to decide how to handle factions. militarily black ops - privateers mercs - privateers so forth to deal with these situations.
for me for these two things be add into game would be worth price of an expansion pack.
other thing game play system be neat to see is system like in game CK as expansion to this game - where u can have more control over leaders - lords so family so forth. factions could work well with this system where these lords governs family members try to use there own factions to assert there own person demands or wants on government overall and this system also work well with living solar system above due to open up idea of black op operations internal and external. also factions with a living solar system could hold resources that they have control over as ransom for things they want or like to have require you to decide how to handle factions. militarily black ops - privateers mercs - privateers so forth to deal with these situations.
for me for these two things be add into game would be worth price of an expansion pack.
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What is a regular empire but a tightly bound Federation of sectors? What is vassal integration but tightening the binds? It seems to me that there's considerable potential to further deepen internal politics here, and turn sectors into active actors while at it. You could even let the player control one, rather than the entire empire; this would then allow new playstyles and strategies, like getting purposefully conquered so you can take the throne from within.
You could, at the extreme, make the internal structure - and thus politics - of empires CKII complex, complete with a full feudal-llike power structure.
- Deeper Federations that start out as loose alliances and can eventually be turned into single states through diplomatic manuevering
- A 'galactic community' with interstellar politics and a 'space UN'.
I hope that the reworks to war include revamping warfare AI. Currently in war I can easily blitz into enemy systems, capture a planet, and then move on to another system without even encountering an enemy fleet. Then from that point on they are doing nothing but slowly following behind my trail of destruction trying to recapture their occupied worlds while I take 3 more for every 1 they manage to get back. And even when they're trying to take a system back they constantly abandon the planet they're bombarding to try and pursue my transport fleet when it's temporarily separated from my main fleet -- even though it's clear that they have no hope of catching up with my transports before they rejoin the main fleet since they're just auto-following the fleet and are a jump away (which is also annoying -- why can't ships that are auto-following other ships just jump WITH the ships instead of after them?). And why don't they target critical structures like wormhole generators -- especially ones that I construct in their systems during war? The war is tediously easy and predictable, every single time.
Further, why is it that I can click on enemy fleets and see the orders they are issued and even which system they are jumping to next? This kind of information should only be available if there was some sort of espionage mechanic where my spies are planted within their empire and can tell me their fleet movements. Currently it's trivial to outmaneuver or intercept enemy fleets with this information.
And finally, since I'm on the topic, emergency FTL and evasion need tweaking. Currently even fleets that are 1 day away from jumping to another system but get caught in combat have the same emergency FTL countdown as a fleet caught in the middle of a system. Why wouldn't your regular FTL warmup carry over into your emergency FTL warmup if you are outside of the gravity well? As for evasion, currently my workers and science ships think the best way to get away from any threat is to beeline for the nearest point outside of the gravity well and jump -- even if that is the exact point that the enemy fleet just jumped in. And why do non-combat ships slow down in combat like combat ships? I get that combat ships slow down because they're diverting power from engines to weapons, but that doesn't make any sense for non-combat ships trying to get away (unless there's some other thematic hand-wavy reason for ships slowing down in combat).
I have thoughts on other areas but I'm not sure how welcome ranty long-winded posts like this are welcome here
Further, why is it that I can click on enemy fleets and see the orders they are issued and even which system they are jumping to next? This kind of information should only be available if there was some sort of espionage mechanic where my spies are planted within their empire and can tell me their fleet movements. Currently it's trivial to outmaneuver or intercept enemy fleets with this information.
And finally, since I'm on the topic, emergency FTL and evasion need tweaking. Currently even fleets that are 1 day away from jumping to another system but get caught in combat have the same emergency FTL countdown as a fleet caught in the middle of a system. Why wouldn't your regular FTL warmup carry over into your emergency FTL warmup if you are outside of the gravity well? As for evasion, currently my workers and science ships think the best way to get away from any threat is to beeline for the nearest point outside of the gravity well and jump -- even if that is the exact point that the enemy fleet just jumped in. And why do non-combat ships slow down in combat like combat ships? I get that combat ships slow down because they're diverting power from engines to weapons, but that doesn't make any sense for non-combat ships trying to get away (unless there's some other thematic hand-wavy reason for ships slowing down in combat).
I have thoughts on other areas but I'm not sure how welcome ranty long-winded posts like this are welcome here
Suggestion for consideration before introducing any new large ship types: rescale utility slots first, so that 1M becomes equal to 8S and 1L - to 64S (1L=8M=64S instead of 1L=2M=4S). This solves the problem with utility slots for large ships even beyond dreadnought and titan sizes. As for the weapons, new types are needed. As an alternative for doubling gun sizes u may consider doubling attack speed for those.
Add to your to do list: Fix Transport AI so that it does charge full-throttle toward enemy battle fleets.
- Superweapons and planet killers.
I think they'll just have more XL slots, and maybe even XXL, perhaps.
Could also have some other unique slots, like how currently XL slots are very specific to the spinal mount of the battleship.
How about adding the following changes.
1. Changing the places of your planets in the list so you can for example have all the planets in a single solar system in a row. Because as you expand your empire and get new tech you can terraform planets and you can colonise planets in solar systems you already have planets in, i prefer creating fleets in systems wich i have many planets in so i can focus my fleet academy on those select planets.
2. Adding Unity focus for sectors.
1. Changing the places of your planets in the list so you can for example have all the planets in a single solar system in a row. Because as you expand your empire and get new tech you can terraform planets and you can colonise planets in solar systems you already have planets in, i prefer creating fleets in systems wich i have many planets in so i can focus my fleet academy on those select planets.
2. Adding Unity focus for sectors.
hello there
i ll be out of subject but just here to say that i love your work, Stellaris is far far away the best space strategy game i ever played until Ascendancy.
Music are wondurfull, game so epic etc
Keep it up guys , we will support you on this.
Best regards
i ll be out of subject but just here to say that i love your work, Stellaris is far far away the best space strategy game i ever played until Ascendancy.
Music are wondurfull, game so epic etc
Keep it up guys , we will support you on this.
Best regards
Can strategic resources please be something other than awful in 1.6? Honestly, the system as it stands now is atrocious. "One dark matter unit? Why yes, that's just enough to supply a literally innumerable number of laboratories across the galaxy within our empire, and not one bit more!". They're strategic irrelevances. They don't stack, they're relatively common enough for you to expect to have all of them within your eventual borders, and you can often accumulate 5-6 units of a few resources, easily ignoring an enemy destroying some of them during a war with your fleets none the lesser.
Make economic resources limited by bonus output(i.e. pitharan dust can provide up to N extra food per dust owned), fleet resources capped by ship size, and then have the bonus value increase if you're significantly under the cap similar to a power overage. Resources immediately become valuable while tall empires get another soft buff(or wide a soft nerf, depending how you look at it).
Make economic resources limited by bonus output(i.e. pitharan dust can provide up to N extra food per dust owned), fleet resources capped by ship size, and then have the bonus value increase if you're significantly under the cap similar to a power overage. Resources immediately become valuable while tall empires get another soft buff(or wide a soft nerf, depending how you look at it).
Under your proposed scheme, even trading them to your allies probably doesn't make sense.
This! Crushing "space UN" with superweapons and planet killers will give a certain sense of satisfaction.
Pretty exciting stuff. Can't wait to see it . With regard to bug fixes,and bug reporting in general, it would be nice to see more engagement on the forum so that we can work through what is a bug, what is working as designed, and what are just complaints.
On a positive note though, it's good see a company take quality as seriously as Paradox does.
On a positive note though, it's good see a company take quality as seriously as Paradox does.
Please bring back individual-Pop purges and slavery. I absolutely hate the new system where it's done to an entire species in one go.
