Stellaris

[Proteus_MST]

I ran into some bugs with diplomacy and invading planets. I started over with the 1.2 beta and game play is much better so far.

Aye, 1.2 definitely is the version of choice

[kentonio]

I started a new game yesterday. Had a nice group of friendly states on one side in an alliance together (without me) and one hostile bunch of bastards above me. The declared war on the hostile one and took a new planets wen he unexpectedly surrendered, at which point he joined the others alliance and declared war on me shortly afterwards and they curb-stomped me.

Guess that's what I get for raising the aggression setting up one notch.

[pchang]

Should have tried joining the alliance that was friendly.

[kentonio]

Should have tried joining the alliance that was friendly.

Ironically I was trying to avoid getting pulled into any unwanted wars..

[pchang]

Perhaps it's just me, but Stellaris seems to encourage/require having a large navy at all times (2/3 your capacity) in order to do well.

[Proteus_MST]

Ironically I was trying to avoid getting pulled into any unwanted wars..

In my case it is actually the case that my alliance kept me from waging wars (as they wouldn't accept it).

Only changed when we transformed the alliance to a federation.
Now I just have to wait when it is my (5 years) turn to be president of the federation and can declare war (in the name of tghe federation) without hgaving to ask the other members (and always end the war (by accomplishing all war goals) within the same 5 years.
And actually I am the only one who ever declares war during his presidency ... haven't had anyone else doing this

[pchang]

Maybe you are the only one strong enough to declare war. In my Federation (Sol League), whenever we were in a war, my fleet stacks were 3x-10x the strength of my allies. When I reloaded a save game, I discovered I was no longer in the Sol League, but instead was a member of a Federation with all the other members in the opposite side of the Galaxy. I quit that, but then the Sol League would not let me back in.

[kentonio]

Perhaps it's just me, but Stellaris seems to encourage/require having a large navy at all times (2/3 your capacity) in order to do well.

Until this last game, I've almost never gone anywhere near that high. I tend to avoid wars wherever possible though, and try and become such an economic powerhouse that I could raise fleets very quickly if needed.

[Proteus_MST]

Until this last game, I've almost never gone anywhere near that high. I tend to avoid wars wherever possible though, and try and become such an economic powerhouse that I could raise fleets very quickly if needed.

Same here ... I always use/d 1/3-1/4 of my actual fleet capacity.

But I was always one of the 4-5 biggest empires in the gelaxy ... and among those with the highest tech level.
(and jep, also the strongest empire in my whole alliance)

Therefore I would say that each fleet point of my fleets is more worth/stronger than most other empires fleet points

[kentonio]

Raising the aggression setting seemed to really **** that strategy though. I'm tempted to do it again next game and try and beef up my fleets a bit more.

[pchang]

Sector governors suck so I only turn over planets that are pretty much fully developed. Irenic Democracy lets me to from 5 core worlds to 9, but by then, I'm usually hemmed in.

[pchang]

I think picking a pacifist xenophile was a mistake. I can't really do anything except peacefully expand as much as I can. Besides the Fallen Empires (there are only 2 this time), the only empire about equal to me is on the opposite side of the galaxy. No one will declare war because I'm too big, but I can't really declare war because my people will be too unhappy. No Prethoryn or anything so far.

[pchang]

Is the AI Rebellion bugged in 1.2 beta? I had one and I found a planet that was a colony of the empire that had the rebellion. It had 1 droid pop and nothing else. But, it was still under the control of the original empire. No Machine Consciousness empire anywhere.

[kentonio]

So ****ed off with the 1.2 patch. Open borders by default, embassies removed and replaced with a 'Trust' system which makes diplomacy basically a waste of time (seriously, if you have a civ with a different gov/culture type next to you now, you basically have no way to improve relations other than constant bribery), oh and they've made happiness harder to maintain so you'll probably spend half your time fighting off faction rebellions.

Given that the game isn't in Early Access, I take real issue with these casual sweeping changes. I think I'm going to wind back to 1.1 and stay there, which is annoying as there are some useful fixes in the 1.2 patch too.

[Dry]

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