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[Egan_BW]

Enslave them so you can literally eat them.

[Aoi]

So I did a mix of most of them; I suppressed my pacifist faction to drive down their numbers and picked a fight with one of my (formerly) friendly neighbors to liberate a few worlds (and probably integrate them later...). While mopping up that, what I assume is the Big Crisis started, so I wrapped up that way and hiked across the map to check that out.

Their (multiple) 70k fleets crumbled before my (singular) 80k fleet.

[Spehss _]

Pretty much a newbie to Paradox sim games. Only played a little of the CKII demo before stopping.

Seems like there is a ton to learn in Stellaris. I keep finding myself at a loss as to what to do with my fledgling stellar empire. There's so much to keep track of and so much to do that I feel like I have little to no control over what I'm doing, I'm just responding to what seems good to do.

[Teneb]

New DD (#75). Apparently they won't stop posting these even though the swedes are on vacation or something.

Spoiler: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that (click to show/hide)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today's dev diary will be about changes and new additions for Fallen Empires in the 1.8 'Čapek' update and its accompanying (unannounced) Story Pack, about which we cannot currently provide any information except what's in this dev diary (there will be info about other features in the pack coming in later dev diaries). We also cannot currently provide say anything about the release date for the update other than to say that it's not coming out anytime soon. After what happened with 1.6, we want to take our time with this one and make sure we get it to you in a good shape.

Ancient Caretakers (Story Pack)
Those with the Story Pack will be able to encounter a brand new Fallen Empire - the Ancient Caretakers. The Ancient Caretakers is a fallen synthetic civilization that appears to be the remnant of some great conflict in the distant past. From what they tell you, they appear to have been part of something called the 'Custodian Project', an initiative to construct and maintain a number of ringworlds as a refuge for biological sapients fleeing some unknown menace. Their erratic behavior and speech, however, suggests that something may be very wrong indeed with this Fallen Machine Empire.


The Ancient Caretakers have a new attitude called 'Enigmatic' and an obscured opinion score to represent their bizarre and unpredictable nature. They may help you with gifts of ships of technology, request your assistance with tasks that may make little apparent sense, or even make demands of your empire that you would be unwise to ignore. They do not awaken like a regular Fallen Empire, but instead have a particular 'triggering event' that, if it happens during the course of the game, will automatically awaken them... though they will not always awaken in the same way. All in all, they behave quite differently from the other Fallen and Awakened Empires, and have their own backstory to explore, as well as unique interactions when dealing with other synthetic civilizations.


Fallen Empire Tweaks & Changes (Čapek Update)
In addition to the Ancient Caretakers, there are also some changes coming to the current batch of Fallen Empires. First of all, because the Ancient Caretakers also make use of ringworlds, we decided that you'd end up with just a few too many ringworlds to conquer and restore kicking around. Thus, for those with the Story Pack, we made a new initializer for the Keepers of Knowledge with a more traditional Fallen Empire setup of Gaia Worlds and outlying colonies, including some unique features and buildings to suit their archivarian ways. The old initializer with its three ringworlds still exists, however, and will spawn for those that do not have the Story Pack, so those without do not have their Fallen Empire ringworlds taken away.


Other than that, the following changes were done to the existing Fallen Empires:
- Keepers of Knowledge were changed to have their behavior (Hatred of AI) no longer directly conflict with their ethos (Materialist). Both their Fallen and Awakened variants no longer hold a grudge against AI, but instead have doubled down on their obsession with collecting and hoarding knowledge. Satellites of Awakened Keepers of Knowledge are no longer required to ban AI, but will have to contribute a major share of their research to their overlord.
- Holy Guardians were changed to be a bit more interactive, and are now able to offer tasks and give gifts to the younger races, though they will mostly only deign to do so to fellow Spiritualists. They have also taken over some of the Keepers of Knowledge's hatred of AI, and you can expect their Awakened variant to offer no quarter to synthetic civilizations.
- Militant Isolationists and Enigmatic Observers have mostly been left unchanged, asides from some updates to their initializers and ship designs, such as removing the Synths previously used by the Militant Isolationists and giving them to the Keepers of Knowledge instead. They will now also start with more trait points for their species than the other Fallen Empires, to represent their focus on the biological.

Finally, a change was done to the way you establish contact with Fallen Empires. Previously, unless you had done something to anger them (for example colonize a Holy World) FEs would open communications only when you directly entered their space. This has been changed so that Fallen Empires will now instead contact you when your ships enter any system adjacent to their space. This should make it harder to accidentally colonize next to Militant Isolationists and also make it so that your exploring science ship isn't immediately hurled back to your capital just because it happened to take a wrong turn after Omicron Persei.

That's all for today! Next week we'll be discussing some changes coming to Hive Minds and Devouring Swarms, as well as the addition of Dynamic Tradition Swapping in 1.8 'Čapek'.

Pretty much a newbie to Paradox sim games. Only played a little of the CKII demo before stopping.

Seems like there is a ton to learn in Stellaris. I keep finding myself at a loss as to what to do with my fledgling stellar empire. There's so much to keep track of and so much to do that I feel like I have little to no control over what I'm doing, I'm just responding to what seems good to do.

You'll need to be a bit more specific with your doubts and problems if you want help.

[EnigmaticHat]

Pretty much a newbie to Paradox sim games. Only played a little of the CKII demo before stopping.

Seems like there is a ton to learn in Stellaris. I keep finding myself at a loss as to what to do with my fledgling stellar empire. There's so much to keep track of and so much to do that I feel like I have little to no control over what I'm doing, I'm just responding to what seems good to do.

That's pretty normal for Paradox games.  For your first like hour or so you just want to figure out what all the buttons do.  Then set goals for yourself and try to accomplish them.  Most things take a while and you don't really *need* to micro everything.  If you play passively for a while your empire will still be there when you start to do things again.  If there's nothing useful to do at the current time just increase the game speed.

[Sirus]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, this looks like it will be fun.

[Mephansteras]

Pretty much a newbie to Paradox sim games. Only played a little of the CKII demo before stopping.

Seems like there is a ton to learn in Stellaris. I keep finding myself at a loss as to what to do with my fledgling stellar empire. There's so much to keep track of and so much to do that I feel like I have little to no control over what I'm doing, I'm just responding to what seems good to do.

That's pretty normal for Paradox games.  For your first like hour or so you just want to figure out what all the buttons do.  Then set goals for yourself and try to accomplish them.  Most things take a while and you don't really *need* to micro everything.  If you play passively for a while your empire will still be there when you start to do things again.  If there's nothing useful to do at the current time just increase the game speed.

Also, don't be afraid to periodically pause the game and just go over everything. Check your research, check your planets to figure out if you need to prepare for more populations soon, look at the diplomacy screen to see how you rank up to the other empires. And scan around a bit, see what you know about your neighbors, how big they are, who they're at war with. Make sure you're not falling too far behind militarily.

The game is quite nice about letting you do everything paused, so you can take as much time as you need to set things up before increasing the speed and letting things happen.

[Wolock]

That feeling when your homeworld is 5 jumps away from the local fanatical purifier.

[forsaken1111]

The nice thing about fanatical purifiers is that they never ever ally with anyone so if you can manage to stay ahead of them by grabbing an ally or just teching like hell, you can engage them by themselves and eat them up.

[Cruxador]

Not sure about this new story pack. Seems like it's going to be present in every game but I'm not sure it's dynamic and varied enough to support that.

[umiman]

Not sure about this new story pack. Seems like it's going to be present in every game but I'm not sure it's dynamic and varied enough to support that.

It'll probably be like the Horizon Signal thing where you want to turn it off after the nth time.

[Chiefwaffles]

I still have not once encountered the content from Horizon Signal. Literally zero times.
One day, maybe.

[Digital Hellhound]

Horizon Signal

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

transformed my core population into Blorg-appearance jackasses. NEVER AGAIN.

I feel like it clashes with the tone of the rest of the game a lot, but eh - it's fun enough for a few goes, usually if it pops up I ignore it.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

For once, I am highly displeased at the quality of DLC Paradox has been putting out. The game really needs to expand it's mechanics--adding more filler and fluff is a nice after thought, but it does literally nothing to heighten the game on it's own. Mostly a very disappointing streak thus far for Stellaris.

[Hanzoku]

I'd like to get into the psychic realm at some point, mostly to dick around with the Chaos Gods expys, but I can't bring myself to play a fanatic spiritualist empire, which makes it... difficult. Why does psychic potential have to be locked behind religious dogma?