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[Egan_BW]

Missed opportunity to call them mundivores.

[Cruxador]

Wow it's fucking nothing as always.

[MorleyDev]

The important thing is it's now possible to play as Communist Space Rocks.

WE MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF SUBDUCTION!

[Dunamisdeos]

Description was filled with enough puns it's just a stepping stone away from a bay12 page.

[forsaken1111]

Wow it's fucking nothing as always.

It's exactly as advertised, a species pack. You get new species portraits, ship graphics, and city art. The fact that they also included unique gameplay is extra above and beyond the previous species packs. Also as part of developing those extra mechanics they have exposed more fun stuff to modders (the ability to tie species traits to the species portrait type) so overall it's not bad. I'd probably still wait for a sale for it, but it's at least no worse than the previous species packs and on par with their other aesthetic-only dlc

[Rolan7]

Yeah, I was only expecting more species portraits (which, as aesthetics go, are alright).  I'm pleasantly surprised - not that I have it yet, but still.  I didn't even think of the modding possibilities.  Plantoids spring to mind of course, but I wonder if fungoids could be made to "utilitize" captured pops as that one species portrait implies.

Hm, reminds me of when one of my friends did a RP run as the Flood.  Or to be precise the "Gravemind"- oh jeez, he really has to roll necromancer in *everything* doesn't he?

(also reminds me of the abominable race in Master of Orion 3.  I wish that game wasn't so mechanically bad, because it had some interesting subjects and dynamics)

The important thing is it's now possible to play as Communist Space Rocks.

WE MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF SUBDUCTION!

YEAH!!
Oh wait, misread that.
...!!Yeah!!

[Telgin]

New dev diary for some of the new federation mechanics: Dev Diary

Looks pretty interesting, with a big CKII vibe for the federation laws.

It's funny that there's no spiritualist federation type despite there being psychic combat succession rules as an option, but I'm guessing there were no perks they could think of to apply that would be similar to research pacts for materialist federations.  They could always give more unity bonuses but I think spiritualists already get so much unity it would be wasted.  The game really needs some work fleshing out religions for there to be much to do there, I guess.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

I haven't looked in on Dev Diaries for awhile, but have they mentioned Envoys before?  Sounds like they are adding EU4 diplomats into the game or something.

[Cruxador]

I haven't looked in on Dev Diaries for awhile, but have they mentioned Envoys before?  Sounds like they are adding EU4 diplomats into the game or something.

Was that not the old name for the limit on how many diplomatic relationships you could have?

[Hanzoku]

When they did add a limit?

Also,

The Chosen will of course be very hard to beat.

Of course, lets make the psionic ascension even better, its not like it wasn't the go to option or anything because it gets all the nifty extra mechanics and generally better results then the other two options.

[Telgin]

I haven't looked in on Dev Diaries for awhile, but have they mentioned Envoys before?  Sounds like they are adding EU4 diplomats into the game or something.

It's something new in the coming patch / DLC, but it sounds like it's something you use to maintain federation cohesion, if that's at all like EU4 diplomats.  I suspect they'll be used for nonfederation diplomacy too, but there's no details on it yet that I know of.

[Cruxador]

When they did add a limit?

It was in one of the earlier big overhaul patches, they've since removed it. On reflecting more, they might have been called embassies actually?

[forsaken1111]

When they did add a limit?

It was in one of the earlier big overhaul patches, they've since removed it. On reflecting more, they might have been called embassies actually?

Embassies were a thing very early on which were scrapped very quickly after release. As you said it was a limited thing. You'd establish an embassy with a race at a small cost and it would passively raise relationship

[MorleyDev]

Psionic Ascension is the most fun of the Ascension options but I've always thought of it as the weakest mechanically. No guarantees of the boosts you get and also getting random debuffs. Plus the chance of dooming the galaxy (sure, you can say no...but who would?).

Becoming perfect immortal machines is probably the strongest one mechanically, though the traits of genetic ascension are pretty powerful too.

But I'll take interesting over mechanically balanced any day A perfectly balanced single player game will become perfectly boring very quickly. The goal is what's the most fun. Is one of the reasons I hate that modern RPGs scale enemies levels to yours: a top level character should be a damn near physical god compared to 99% of the world! Otherwise why bother leveling up at all?

As for federations, A-Specs video on it makes it sound like they're taking inspiration from CK2 for some of the mechanics.

Also that they may be waiting for HoI4s Spy update/dlc to land and see how well it works before implementing something similar for Stellaris. Lots of cross-pollination amongst the paradox teams to figure out what mechanically works that they can add the flavour and styling and tweaks to for the different settings.

From what I've heard the mechanics for Dig Sits in Stellaris are the same as for sieges in Imperator. Though I think they work better for something passive in the background, like research, instead of something deliberate and direct like military action. That should be more in the players control. But this isn't the "Wtf went wrong with Imperator" thread xD

[scourge728]

either I'm doing something wrong, or instant_build does not really work well with armies, mostly because while trying that I got to -4 time periods left before it's done.... which I assume isn't right