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[Astral]

The right mods make the game much more engaging at least. I have about 25 or so mods I use regularly, and tend to add one or two as I think something else needs expansion.

The core mods I use are:

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AlphaMod: Adds a ton of new buildings and planetary interactions. AI doesn't utilize buildings well normally, so I don't consider odd that they can't use these either.
AlphaMod supplements: More spaceport slots, tradition tweaking, Utopia modification, etc.
Tiny Building Constructions: Almost a must for AlphaMod.
New Ship Classes & More: Adds a lot more than ship classes now, but having specialized ships (like strike cruisers) and bigger guns to look forward to in the late game is nice.
ISBS Doomsday: Something that'll likely be a $20 DLC later down the road, but being able to glass planets is great. Even further late game goals.
LEX - Leviathan Events Xtended: Late game fleet challenges, some of a potentially galaxy-ending nature.
Ship Power Stations: Compatible with NSC, gives dedicated reactor slots so you don't have to fill half a ship with reactors.
Plentiful Traditions: Expanded traditions tree for more ways to customize your empire.

And some minor mods of my own making that increase population growth rates and rebalance tech speeds a bit.

[Hanzoku]

I like NSC&M, but it definitely needs some rebalancing work. Certain ships such as Battlecruisers and dreadnoughts replace rather then supplement the original models, and even internally, once you have carriers you never have a reason to build light carriers again.

[Karnewarrior]

Yeah, in stellaris the lack of cool sci-fi stuff kind of annoys me.  I mean, they have some of it, but they lack.. something.

Story.

No, I'm serious. Even games like Civ have a story: Tribe rises from being stone-age grouping of people to a intercontinental war-machine/culture/diplomatic powerhouse/scientist haven. Stellaris is just a tad too open-ended and fluff light to have any kind of story to it - Events could have been used to fill the void but really the only ones I know of that are triggered by time or you doing something you have to do are the crises, which are responded to by basically everyone exactly the same way, because even pacifists figure out pretty quickly that the Unbidden make poor friends.

Having a deeper, less wide tech tree won't fix that but it's a step forward.

Ship Power Stations: Compatible with NSC, gives dedicated reactor slots so you don't have to fill half a ship with reactors.
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I've always felt there should be more tiers of reactors and they should be rarer techs (also they should start at fusion, fluffwise, and take a bit longer to get to ZP and beyond. It's irritating how little each ZP reactor seems to power on its own - I mean, they're literally drawing power from nothing at all at rates several times faster than even the energy gained from having a shipboard star, they really ought to be able to power more than just a few railguns.

[Zangi]

I think its cause Stellaris has gone into the deep end of multiplayer 'balance', rather then substance that would normally be put into a singleplayer game.

Not a lot of room for atypical stuff when you also have a competitive(?) multiplayer portion to worry about.

[Loud Whispers]

I think its cause Stellaris has gone into the deep end of multiplayer 'balance', rather then substance that would normally be put into a singleplayer game.

Not a lot of room for atypical stuff when you also have a competitive(?) multiplayer portion to worry about.

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[Karnewarrior]

I think its cause Stellaris has gone into the deep end of multiplayer 'balance', rather then substance that would normally be put into a singleplayer game.

Not a lot of room for atypical stuff when you also have a competitive(?) multiplayer portion to worry about.

Well, I guess that's where mods come in.

The Singleplayer at least desperately needs some debalancing.

[Puzzlemaker]

I think its cause Stellaris has gone into the deep end of multiplayer 'balance', rather then substance that would normally be put into a singleplayer game.

Not a lot of room for atypical stuff when you also have a competitive(?) multiplayer portion to worry about.

Well, I guess that's where mods come in.

The Singleplayer at least desperately needs some debalancing.

That is a fantastic quote.

[Teneb]

Finally saw the Horizon Signal chain to its end. Unfortunately, I had shit luck otherwise through the entirety of that game (EVERYONE around me had the same planet preference, so it was a mad scramble to colonize) and I was being warred to death by the time I finished. I thought about picking the bad ending, but opted not to.

What was shall be.

[EnigmaticHat]

Just looked up that event chain.

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10/10 dating sim.  Too bad there's only one love interest, they should make a harem version.

[umiman]

Just looked up that event chain.

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10/10 dating sim.  Too bad there's only one love interest, they should make a harem version.

Um, the entire premise of the event is about an infinite recursive amount of harems for the one big dude.

[Majestic7]

Horizon Signal is fun, I just wish it somehow reflected in the galaxy at large. Like, had a reaction from Fallen Empires or your neighbors due to a black hole appearing and stuff. There is the interaction with the Infinity Machine, but nothing else. I think that is my problem with Stellaris in general. It has so many moving parts that don't interact with each other and it makes the world feel sort of implausible.

[Teneb]

Ded Diary 82

I'm mostly reposting this one because of what they're saying the next one is about.

Spoiler: MACHINA VULT (click to show/hide)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary! This time I'm going to give the word to our very own composer, Andreas Waldetoft, who will be talking about new music in the Synthetic Dawn Story Pack.


I have once again been given some time to work on Stellaris, which always has been something very inspiring for me. There is so much freedom in writing the music for this that I never run out of ideas. For me, it is not the harmony or melody that is the hard part for Stellaris, it is finding the right sound and synth for the job.

For Synthetic Dawn I wanted to have the focus on simple synthetic sounds that would sit in the front seat throughout the songs. Some would call it a retro feeling with that 80-90’s game soundtrack kind of feeling, with my own style blended in. Musical lines that keeps changing more in tempo, dynamics and shapes rather than in musical harmony.

I did not however want to change the focus and soul of what has become the essence of Stellaris music so that it would sit wrong with all the other tunes that is in the game now. There is still similar musical language and ethereal sounds that we have heard before.

In total there are 3 new tracks, totaling ~18 minutes of music. Here is one of them, called 'Synthetic God' for your listening pleasure:
Synthetic God

That's all for today! Next week we'll be going over a number of smaller changes coming in the 1.8 'Čapek' update, including the rework of Core Sector Governors and changes to democratic elections.

[Sirus]

Synthetic God

Why do I like this so much?

[Teneb]

Synthetic God

Why do I like this so much?

It is a very nice synthwave piece. Very 80s, very blade runner.

[Radsoc]

Nice track. Reminds me a little bit of Space Crusade. Thanks for linking in their dev posts.