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[Dutrius]

New Dev Diary went up yesterday.

!!Science!!

[gimli]

Hm....kinda reminds me of DW, which is my favourite space RTS. I will keep an eye on this.

[redwallzyl]

game play video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=544&v=uRp7T5irXTQ

[umiman]

Ignoring the idiotic guy who doesn't know what EU stands for, man it sounds so hype. It's like Paradox looked at all the 4X space sims and figured out all the shitty parts and the good parts. Now just have to see if they can pull it off.

[jocan2003]

Hype... nuff said, god damn video!!.... This and star citizen is coming along real nicely... good thing im planning to massivly upgrade my pc in 6-7month. Gives me enough time to gather a good amount of money!

[gimli]

Nice video. The game is coming along nicely. 

[Retropunch]

From the video it looks awesome and I'm incredibly, incredibly excited.
However...
I am worried that they're hyping pretty hard at the end - from what it sounds like you'll have completely galaxy shifting moments and emergent civilizations and all sorts of procedural stuff that'll keep dramatically changing the galaxy - if this is true it'd be amazing, but I somehow doubt it. I feel it'll be more of a 'getting near end game -> trigger big bad race appearing' (like in GalCiv2/Distant Worlds).

Any news on mod support? This is begging for mod support.

[gimli]

Any news on mod support? This is begging for mod support.

It's a PD game & it's using Clausewitz...a quick example!

[redwallzyl]

new dev diary!

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-12-policies-edicts.895923/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hi all!

Time to fire up the rockets and head into space again, for another sojourn in the world of Stellaris. This week, I thought I’d talk about Policies and Edicts; directly corresponding to Laws and Decisions in our historical games. The general idea is to give you some additional control over the rules that define your Empire, usually with some trade-offs. Your initial choice of guiding Ethics will play a huge part in which of these Policies and Edicts are available, of course.

Policies are, as I mentioned, essentially laws. They are Empire-wide and remain in effect until directly changed by the player, or as the result of a Faction demand. For example, there are Policies regulating slavery, migration, voting rights and orbital bombardment. As the bureaucratic machinery of a galactic Empire grinds ever so slowly, there is a minimum time the player has to wait before changing their stance on a Policy again. Naturally, various Pops in your Empire will like or dislike these Policies depending on their own Ethics, etc. Should a Faction manage to enforce a change in Policy, that change will stay in effect for quite a while... In all, the system is fairly straightforward.

Say that you are playing as a Xenophobic empire. This will prevent you from passively studying any pre-FTL civilizations you might find, or sharing your technology with them; you can only study them aggressively (abducting and experimenting on them) or invade them outright! In a similar vein, Pacifist empires are not allowed to orbitally bombard planets in support of their ground forces, for fear of killing civilians.This brings us to Edicts, of which there are two kinds; Planetary or Empire-wide. Edicts usually have a cost (Energy Credits or Influence) and an instant or temporary effect that expires after a certain amount of time. For example, there are Edicts for propaganda campaigns and production targets (something akin to communist five-year plans.)

Policies and Edicts are, like many other features in the game, to a large degree dependent on the tech system, so at the start of the game you should not have to worry about a great wealth of choices; they are made available through research. As with most features in Stellaris (and, indeed, all of our games), Policies and Edicts are very mod-friendly, and we look forward to see all the interesting and innovative uses mod-creators will make of this system.

Next week’s Dev Diary will go into more detail on pre-FTL civilizations, and the various ways of interacting with them!

everyone is going purge crazy in the paradox thread.

[JimboM12]

Xenophobe empire options?! YESSSSS.

First play-through: IMPERIUM OF MAN

[Rolan7]

But what FTL drive will you use (;

[gimli]

Nice, just like almost everything, policies & edicts are moddable as well.
I can't wait for the next journal. "Next week’s Dev Diary will go into more detail on pre-FTL civilizations, and the various ways of interacting with them!"

I am going to buy this game for sure, it looks decent, and in Paradox we trust!  I suppose the release date is still 2016 february.

[Jopax]

Tho it'd be pretty funky to have FTL that also sends you randomly trough time. You might lose a fleet for a number of years, maybe losing a war in the process, but then it kinda spontaneously appears at the enemy homeworld and now what do you do. Or it can get sent back in time somehow so you randomly get a free fleet without knowing why or how.

Now I really want some way of doing FTL that has a chance to randomly send fleets across savegames or something.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Ugh, ya. Oppress me harder!

[redwallzyl]

so what is everyone's first race? i what to make a Utopian human federation like in Star Trek. i don't like the dystopian theme that seems to pervade most sci fi.