Stellaris Dev Diary #87: A Glimpse of the Future

[Phantomiux]

I bet on some Federation related mechanic ( building superstation as Capital city of Federation - think about Babylon 5 or Citadel ) and whole next expansion focused on Federation mechanics. Idea of federations is great but way how its implemented in game now is really far from perfect...

 

[Princess Stabbity]

Paradox teams up with Blizzard to bring Terrans into the game. Now you too can play Sim City in your Stellaris and turtle like a pro!

 

[Riftwalker]

i'm pretty sure the next expansion will be war focused, it's like all they talk about in their streams (how they need to fix war, etc), so I doubt federations will be the focus, but they could be involved.

 

[Matt516]

I can't comment on timelines, but we're looking to update 1.8.1 with fixes to some additional reported issues, such as the problem with Synth Ascension and species rights.

Aww man I'm so excited to see this acknowledged as in-work.

 

[youstas]

I hope that we will be able to unite Federations in one state.

 

[Blodo]

Fortress megastructure. Did I call it?

 

[Hootieleece]

Motherships (a new class) Incoming!

 

[JosunUrashima]

Maybe it's

1. the new headquarters for the contincency?
   
2. a new minor fraction (Mercenaries?) like the traders etc.
3. a new Megastructure, e.g. military headquarters
4. a planet destroyer?

Mercenaries would actually be pretty cool, either the ability to hire/buy ships from them or to rent fleets (or hell, have them attack your neighbors while you remain 'innocent') it's something I'd certainly love to see.

+1.

More interaction, A larger shipclass and fewer ships per battle would be nice to see in a future patch. A war-overhaul, so to speak.

If your looking for fewer ships per battle, one solution (sort of) is Star Trek New Horizons mod. Ship use counts go up (corvettes rise up from 1 to 4 for Ship Capacity as an example)

 

[Maethendias]

can it be? can we play as replicators??=??? IMAGINE THAT EMEGERD

 

[bogieman987]

Looks interesting. A station perhaps? Or horror of the universe or late game enemy?

Either way, I'm liking Synthetic Dawn, it would be nice though to have new ship style to go along with expansions that add new races (it's been mentioned that they take quite a bit of resources to do I know, but still).

 

[Emre Yigit]

Oh, for goodness' sake, it's an upside-down swarm of ants.

 

[grandadmiralbob]

I wonder how bad wiz wants to tell us what this structure is?
I hope that it's something with trade because why not, and I hope eventually they add artillery that can fire across the galaxy.

 

[Elfwind]

Enigm

Oh, for goodness' sake, it's an upside-down swarm of ants.

Most terrifying crisis evar. =p

 

[Azedeco]

Are you planning to add a synthetic dawn wallpaper on the loading screen like for utopia and leviathan?

 

[TheCakeBaker]

Cool man

 

[J.Deng]

von Neumann machines replicating to populate the galaxy? Could this be a new crisis?

 

[terrycloth]

The surrounding defence-stations aren't that interesting, but this big thing looks like a spaceport, which is connected with 6 other ones - time will tell^^

Maybe it's a big station which spawns smaller stations around itself?

 

[AlazkanAssassin]

It's an expandable, ship-constructing, space habitat for the new type of playable empire, "Void-Borne", who doesn't do planets at all.

 

[Astax]

That's the new pillow trading station, offering free delivery for those in need of mandatory pampering

My Pillow?

 

[jalapen0]

Obligatory "that's no moon" post.