Really a fan of Invincible lately, and when I heard the devs talking about sci-fi fantasies to add to Stellaris, I got this little idea. No idea how they would balance it besides very low population growth. But I would love to send out 'super envoys' to unprotected, less developed species 'for the greater good'!
Made this little thing just because.
Edit 1: I've been playing for a year and TIL these used to exist. I SWEAR I didn't know that, but now the post looks stupid 😑.
Edit 2: I can now see why these ethics were changed lol. I still stand by my idea though. Someone labeled Auth vs Egal as societal "power" structure which I love. That didn't cover what I would call "lifestyle" though, so that's what my version is. Individualist vs collectivist is societal "lifestyle".
Edit 3: people understandably take issue with the "cocky" nature of the individualist text. I reanalyzed and I stand by it, also. I was born and raised in one of the most individualist nations on Earth and probably ~50% of people here have that exact same attitude. And you know what, why shouldn't they? They work very hard for the things they have and their daily decisions have relatively large impacts on the world. They own it.
Didn't feel like fetching the proper bonus icons, so use your imagination.
Some contrary points that I am forecasting:
- "Aren't these too close to Auth vs Egal?"
Here's some historical examples as potential proof (not a historian so feel free to correct me):
- Individualist Auth: N*zi Germany
- Collective Auth: Early India?, + USSR
- Individualist Egal: Early US
- Collective Egal: Actually not sure about this one, possibly some African countries? Or Haiti maybe?, +Indonesia
Thoughts?
I got my first Victory in a game and decided to keep playing as I wanted to end the game as the crisis and not after the endgame spawned one.
When I activated the Relic I got from defeating Cetana I laughed out loud as the game knew EXACTLY what I'd do with the free Pops that would be created.
Stacked all bonuses I could think of for alloy production and put it on formless planet. Really hoped to break 60k but well... failed.
UPDATE
thanks to @Thatoneguywithasteak that reminded me of Salvage Bot I crossed 60k treshold. You can still do silly numbers in 4.3. https://i.imgur.com/w4Gr58R.jpeg
Anyone knows if you can edit picture in post flair?
UPDATE II
It seems there is alot of room to explore. Sadly I will have time for experiments on weekend. Goal is 75k+ now xD
DISCLAIMER: The purpose of this diagram is inspire the initial spark of understanding, not in-depth analysis. I hope it's not too overwhelming, I tried to be as simple as possible.
Feel free to ask questions!
Why specialize? Well as you expand, you can utilize specialization bonuses such as buildings that reduce upkeep for certain jobs on the planet. If you fill 1 whole planet with said job, that one building's bonuses are now maximized.
Feel free to ask questions!
Edit: The goal of this diagram/flowchart is to give an extremely simple visual, just to achieve that first spark of understanding. Any more elements and it would've just been scary to newbies.
Every other crisis makes some sense, even if I think it can be dumb (cough behemoth cough)
Nemesis -> Ascend to become shroud gods of this world by killing everyone -> get ships to kill everyone
Cosmogenesis -> Make your own universe and become literal gods in your own world -> Get fallen empire tech and synaptic laithe to accomplish it faster
Behemoth -> If you are the biggest monster, then no other monster can eat you (stupid, but at least there's a sequitur) -> Get giant kaiju to eat stuff that gets bigger by eating.
Meanwhile, hyperthermia is um... we're gonna blow up the galaxy because... uh would be mad funny or something? Profit, maybe, I guess?
When you pick hyperthermia its presented as "Whoa, we discovered a way to crystalize heat, this will be great for the industry!" but like... in what way? All hyperthermia crisis levels do is let you generate more heat. I don't see any industry boons, or any reason why my society would want to pursue this crisis.
It genuinely seems like we're trying to blow up the galaxy for shits and giggles.
As a whole hyperthermia seems like a shittier nemesis. Nemesis turns stuff into black holes while hyperthermia turns it into red stars, except nemesis at least gets some military bonuses, and requires you to do stuff instead of playing itself. Can someone explain? Am I missing something?
Also sidenote, when I got the crisis I had a special project to adapt my species to like heat, but it didn't do anything when completed so idunno if I missed a story beat or something.
If the orbital ring gets destroyed in combat (e.g. when the enemy has a total war wargoal) your defensive armies just disappear.
The origin would require you to have a Fanatic ethic of some description, and the parent empire the origin generates will always be a triple-ethic nation, one of whose ethics will be the inverse of your own.
perhaps this origin would also allow you to be a network of deviants kicked out by a gestalt consciousness?
I was doing the "Footsteps of the Prophet" achievement in a tiny galaxy. Since the fallen empire was already gone, Cetana decided to spawn in my L-Cluster
Just loaded up a new treasure hunter game and got this as my starting point.
22 systems with 1 entry point system.
And no it's not an easter egg, the planets aren't the same
So like it won’t let me upgrade the science nexus fully, not to mention it isn’t giving 100 of each science?
I’m acquaintances with a “flat earther” through a mutual friend. We’ve had a couple debates about this topic before. I saw him again at said mutual friends birthday party and got to taking about video games. After talking to him and explaining surface level stellaris to him, he seemed interested. About a week later he texted me saying how he loved the game and speculative science got him looking into space and stuff. He said that his belief in the flat earth theory was kinda waning and playing the game pushed him over the edge to stop believing in it. Just thought this was funny enough to share
