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[EnigmaticHat]

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To add to this, on a technical level hyperdrive-only makes pathfinding a lot simpler.  And under the hood I imagine distance calculations were a huge problem.  Since under the old system the distance between two stars couldn't be represented as a single number, but rather had to be represented by 2 + number of wormhole civs values.  Which sounds like some kind of abstract physics problem.

[forsaken1111]

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And under the hood I imagine distance calculations were a huge problem.

Indeed, in fact one of the stated reasons for removing wormhole FTL was that it caused massive slowdowns while calculating possible paths for the AI.

[Dunamisdeos]

Those AI improvements sound fantastic. A real step forward.

[pisskop]

So I went and decided to boot this up on my new comp.  Got steam working fine.  Got my dlc in order.  Load -> crash on launcher.  Exception log says its a memory access problem, but not only is the computer new, the solutions Ive seen online dont seem to help?

Something about permissions?  idk, but it looks like its explicitly a problem with paradox games.

I fixxed this . . . by running it on my old laptop.   I guess Im good to go?  Stellaris fortunately doesnt need an incredibly beefy computer to go.

[Dunamisdeos]

Anyone know if the origins feature that's releasing with Federations requires the DLC?

[Telgin]

I think origins are included in the free update, but some like the fallen empire vassal start may be DLC locked.

[forsaken1111]

Yeah I believe the actual Origins feature is included but the specific origins that are tied to DLC are of course reliant on those DLC

[Dunamisdeos]

Awesome, thanks!

[Culise]

It's been answered already, but if you're curious what you can get with which DLC you own...

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Everyone

• Prosperous Unification: Start with 4 additional Pops and 2 additional Districts.
• Lost Colony: Another empire with the same species as you will exist somewhere in the galaxy.
• Galactic Doorstep: Start with a dormant Gateway in your home system, which can be investigated and reactivated.

Utopia

• Mechanist: Start with 8 Pops being robots, and the ability to build more.
• Syncretic Evolution: Start the game with 12 Pops being of another species.
• Tree of Life: Only for Hive Minds. Start with a powerful Tree of Life on your homeworld. Disastrous if you would somehow lose control of it. Colony ships also plant a sapling on new colonies.

Apocalypse

• Life-Seeded: Start on a Gaia World.
• Post-Apocalyptic: Start on a Tomb World.

Federations

• Remnants: Start on a Relic World.
• Shattered Ring: Start on a Shattered Ring World. Your empire lives on the only intact section of the ancient megastructure, and it is possible to repair most of the other sections.
• Void Dwellers: Start on a Habitat above your destroyed, former homeworld, and with 2 more habitats in your home system. Completely adapted to living in habitats, and start with the technology to build new ones, but also suffers a penalty to living on regular planets.
• Scion: Start as the vassal of a Fallen Empire.
• On the Shoulder of Giants: Investigate a series of Archaeological Sites related to a mysterious benefactor.
• Common Ground: Start with as the leader of a Galactic Union federation, and with The Federation tradition unlocked.
• Hegemon: Start with as the leader of a Hegemony federation, and with The Federation tradition unlocked.
• Doomsday: Your homeworld is doomed and it will explode after 64 years, so you need to find a new home for your species.

Lithoids

• Calamitous Birth: Lithoid Only. Start with a Massive Crater on your Homeworld. You are also able to build Meteorite Colony Ships, which colonize planets in a more dramatic fashion.

Synthetic Dawn

• Resource Consolidation: Machines only. Start with a Machine World as your homeworld.

General shorthand: if it's based on a trait added by a DLC, it's still linked to that DLC.  If it's based on a species added or upgraded by a DLC, likewise.  The rest is Federations or base.

[IronyOwl]

Federations

• Void Dwellers: Start on a Habitat above your destroyed, former homeworld, and with 2 more habitats in your home system. Completely adapted to living in habitats, and start with the technology to build new ones, but also suffers a penalty to living on regular planets.
• Doomsday: Your homeworld is doomed and it will explode after 64 years, so you need to find a new home for your species.

Damn, that's tempting. I'm sure I could get the same or better results out of three hours of modding, but that requires effort.

[Dunamisdeos]

I want Calamitous birth. Gonna make Lavos.

[Damiac]

I liked the game when it first released and I like it now. I even like the business model, since I keep having fun with the product in its many iterations long after normally I'd be done with it.
The only thing that makes me (very mildly) angry is hearing the same broken record complaining how Paradox should be ashamed of themselves, ashamed I say!, again and again. It's not as bad as the Cataclysm threads, but sometimes getting through to a post that actually talks about the game in the thread about the game can be a pain. It's like having to push through Westboro Baptists protestors to get to a cinema.
Meh emoji. Slightly annoyed emoji.

Eh, it's annoying to me when people declare other people's annoyance to be invalid. What can you do. God hates game devs who keep changing their games, right? (Westboro joke). 

It's annoying when something you like gets changed down a strange path, most of the people who liked the thing in the first place get annoyed with it and abandon it, and the 10% of the leftover people insist that nobody minded the changes because they don't hear all that much complaining anymore.  There are always people who will praise each and every move by game devs regardless, and I'm not accusing you of lying that you like the game. I believe you 100% like it just how it is. But how it is is very different from what it is supposed to be, according to the description of the product I bought.

The product I bought was a bunch of neat concepts in a kinda buggy package that we knew was gonna keep getting bugfixed. At least, that's what usually happens. Keep iterating on the original selling point.  Not fire the dev * 2 and remake the game each time.  The game I bought was abandoned with a smile and a "well buy this and this and this and this, and it still won't be the game you bought, but it's fun, we swear!". 

Most people just move on, rather than coming back every so often to restate their complaints. This gives the illusion that everyone's happy with it.  And I don't know about you, but I personally like to see my own seemingly unpopular views shared, so I will keep making dumb posts like this in the hopes someone else says "You know what? That's kinda how I feel about it".

[Dunamisdeos]

It is cool for people to have different opinions on games and the direction games take.

It is not cool to try and shame anyone for the direction a game takes or their preference in enjoying it.

I for one enjoy that Stellaris has changed so much and so drastically over time. If someone else does not enjoy this because they wanted it to stay the same, that is fine too.

[Chiefwaffles]

It's annoying when something you like gets changed down a strange path, most of the people who liked the thing in the first place get annoyed with it and abandon it, and the 10% of the leftover people insist that nobody minded the changes because they don't hear all that much complaining anymore.  There are always people who will praise each and every move by game devs regardless, and I'm not accusing you of lying that you like the game. I believe you 100% like it just how it is. But how it is is very different from what it is supposed to be, according to the description of the product I bought.

The product I bought was a bunch of neat concepts in a kinda buggy package that we knew was gonna keep getting bugfixed. At least, that's what usually happens. Keep iterating on the original selling point.  Not fire the dev * 2 and remake the game each time.  The game I bought was abandoned with a smile and a "well buy this and this and this and this, and it still won't be the game you bought, but it's fun, we swear!". 

Most people just move on, rather than coming back every so often to restate their complaints. This gives the illusion that everyone's happy with it.  And I don't know about you, but I personally like to see my own seemingly unpopular views shared, so I will keep making dumb posts like this in the hopes someone else says "You know what? That's kinda how I feel about it".

I...
You're making quite a lot of bold claims there, buddy. "Most people who liked the thing get annoyed with it and abandon it," Uh. Do you have any kind of indication that this is the case rather than the fact that you don't like the game so therefore most people must feel the same way?

Things change. Not everyone likes the changes, and that's perfectly fine. But when those people who dislike it keep on bringing it up again it kind of gets tiring.

[Dunamisdeos]

Yeah, I sort of think that the fact that people keep greedily sucking up Stellaris expansions indicates that most people are ok with it, or have legit gripes but still enjoy it enough to buy it.

Feel free not to do so, and talk about why. But it's hardly failing due to a lack of interest/enjoyment. Everyone I've ever played it with is currently quite excited at the upcoming Federations thing.

I'd like to hear more about your opinions, Damiac. What do you not like about the major changes since launch? Is it the move from tiles? The FTL simplification? Did something in an expac mess stuff up for you? Gimme dem details.

^{I miss FTL options myself.}