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[forsaken1111]

Sounds like they're making it very open to modding at least

[gimli]

Sounds like they're making it very open to modding at least

Hell yeah, but it's a PD game, so that is expected. PCI interview. ->

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PCI: Paradox is known as a pretty mod-friendly dev; presumably that won’t be changing here?

HF: That’s one of our core pillars to ensure that people can turn our game into their games. (laughs)

You can never make games that please everyone and modding is a fantastic tool to cater to everyone’s tastes. The game is fully modelled exactly as our other games; you can make a total conversion mod to anything you like almost.

Even the graphics and so on. Of course it’ll be a bit harder in Stellaris because you’ve got these gorgeous ship models and so which could be harder to replace.

[Rolan7]

Is there a 4x where religion is a big deal?

Castles 2: Siege and Conquest, an old DOS 4x, had the papacy as a unique side-faction.  It was interesting, kinda a force for peace and tempering expansion.  Basically, if you conquered territory from a faction which was in good standing with the church, the church got more and more upset with you.  This had to be mitigated by tithing resources, or even ceding entire counties to it. 

The ceding had some tactical possibilities, too - enemy lord kicking your ass, but you only share a single border?  Cede that province, and it essentially became a wall no one dares attack.  Plus the church loves you, and starts frowning at the other guy.

Why care what the church thinks, though?  Well three reasons:

1) The papacy is the only faction that's usually at peace, so it quickly grows an absurdly large army.  Particularly since everyone is tithing it resources.  Fortunately it almost ever uses these defensively.

The papacy's opinion of you is a large portion of your "right to rule".  You don't have to conquer the whole map, just get that score high enough and claim the kingdom - the church actually crowns you.

If you let your standing fall too low, you become excommunicated.  Other lords refuse to negotiate with you, you're fair game for conquest, and your *own people* suddenly plummet to 0 morale.  It's rough.

...  But it's actually survivable, and it only happens once.  If you pick a good time to do it, and spam festivals for a few months, you can actually recover and be free of the church's influence.  Essentially an anti-pope situation I guess, though it doesn't explicitly say that.  You're still at war with everybody forever, but it can work in the end-game.

[Cruxador]

and March of the Eagles (for ??)

EU4

[gimli]

Stellaris Dev Diary #20 - War & Peace.

"Hello everyone!

For today’s dev diary, I thought I’d talk about a crucial part of Stellaris; waging wars and making peace, because as you know, not all ETs are nice... The system is different from most strategy games out there, but should be familiar to anyone who has played a Paradox Development Studio title. In fact, it is probably most reminiscent of how these things work in the Europa Universalis games."

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Let’s start at the beginning. When you declare war in Stellaris, you have to state what your aims are; what the war is actually about. You simply choose from a list of possible goals, where each one is listed with a certain cost. The total cost of your picked goals cannot exceed 100. If you have a good reason to take something, the cost will be reduced. This might be the case if, for example, members of your founding species happen to live on a planet, or if it has previously been a part of your empire.

If you are a member of an alliance, the other members will need approve your list of selected goals before you can actually start the war. This is of course more likely if you are not too greedy and want to take everything yourself. That is, you will probably want to assign some goals to other alliance members to get them to approve the war.

When a war has been declared, the defending side is allowed to add war goals in the same manner, but they have an important advantage; they have a one-year grace period, and can thus choose targets depending on how the war is already progressing.

You need to gain “war score” in order to win, just like in our other games (-100 to 100.) At any time, you can negotiate for peace by selecting specific goals from your own list or that of the other side, very much like in Europa Universalis (except that you are limited to the stated war goals.)

Of course, wars are not always waged simply to seize territory: Other valid goals could be vassalization, for example, or securing a treaty of some kind. Sometimes, you might not really care about your stated goals at all, but just going in there and destroying the enemy’s space ports and stations...

Like in most of our games, occupying a planet with your armies does not mean it immediately becomes yours, of course; you need to demand it in the peace talks. There is a notable exception to this rule though; so called “first contact wars”. Before you have established communications with another civilization, it is possible to simply attack them and even take one of their planets (but once you take a planet, communications are immediately established.) Of course, such early hostility will never be forgotten, and will sour your relations for the rest of the game… There are other exceptions to how wars are waged, in the form of special types of civilizations, but that will have to wait for another dev diary.

Next week: " That’s all for this week folks, stay tuned next week for “Administrative Sectors”!

[Reverie]

*squeals internally*

This game can't release soon enough >________>

[SOLDIER First]

ptw

[Teneb]

One thing that wasn't mentioned: in this last dev diary, the alpha tags on the screenshots are not present, unlike every other DD.

[Reverie]

One thing that wasn't mentioned: in this last dev diary, the alpha tags on the screenshots are not present, unlike every other DD.

Maybe they just forgot to add them. Going into beta would be big, exciting news worth sharing.

[gimli]

One thing that wasn't mentioned

..and here is another! 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[NullForceOmega]

Damnit Harkonnen, you had one job!

[Rolan7]

Ability to play as space-horses and space-bears or riot

[Descan]

If they have pictures for space bears, I hope to god that they put them in feudalistic European dress. Poofy shirts, crowns, the works. Crusader Bears 2 When

[Glloyd]

Was it Victoria 2 where if you got an independent Jan Mayen or something along those lines, your culture would change to polar bears?

[Lukeinator]

Was it Victoria 2 where if you got an independent Jan Mayen or something along those lines, your culture would change to polar bears?

Yeah. There also is a console command in EU4 that causes Jan Mayen to spawn with about 50,000 units.