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[TalonisWolf]

It has a video clip- sounds sorta like a Scottish/Irish accent.

[Loud Whispers]

10/10 turned galaxy into magmae

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Stellaris combat is just so... imprecise. There's not really any maneuvering involved and frankly it's pretty easy for a huge fleet to catch a smaller one or ignore it entirely. Taking planets that are fortified can take so long that the enemy just gets to you before you can land. It's definitely possible to circumvent this, but it's just boring and tedious.

[Majestic7]

I think the best combat in Paradox games was still in March of the Eagles. CAn't help but wish Stellaris had that kind of depth with choosing tactics and whatnot.

[Flying Dice]

I just wish they'd taken more cues from SoaSE and let us keep tactical control after engagement. Losing control is okay when it's an abstract blob of troops and you don't want to do the Total War thing, but the rest of Stellaris is already set up so that it'd be entirely reasonable for you to manage broad strokes stuff.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I dunno, the problem is that the battles are so huge really the only strategies are attack en masse or disengage. I would rather have it abstracted entirely if they aren't going to go the Total War method. And honestly, considering how cataclysmic the fleet battles can be, a TW style system would be sweet.

[Radsoc]

Btw. The Enigmatic Fortress event chain is broken in 2.0.1.

[Dorsidwarf]

Kiting would be a viable strategy if you weren't locked out of ship control in combat. Load up on longer range weapons and retreat constantly so the main body of their fleet can't engage you
(Basically all stellaris aeappns seem to be on 360* turret mounts after all)

[Hanzoku]

Ok, I have to say that I like a lot of the quality of life changes so far. Civilian ships not taking up military shipyard queues, removing tile blockers only needing energy, recruiting leaders now using energy, and fulfilling campaign promises rewarding unity are all good changes from my viewpoint.

*edit* That said, the change to trader guilds make me sad. No longer will my late game mineral needs be met by trading them tens of thousands of energy for minerals.

[USEC_OFFICER]

* You are no longer forced to make peace at 100% war exhaustion, instead your Influence and Unity monthly gains are reduced to 0 and a happiness penalty is applied to all Pops until you make peace.
* Increased energy upkeep of all Starbase sizes by +1. Outposts now cost 1 energy maintenance. (Why?)
* Marauder raiding fleets are now neutral to everyone except their intended target so they won't wreck everything in their path when they go a-viking.
* Tradition unity cost per system reduced from 2% to 1%.
* Increased time limits of all Special Projects requiring a ship in orbit (new minimum is 3 years).
* Afterburners can no longer be installed on defense platforms, as lovely as it was to uselessly vent fuel in to space as a gesture of contempt to environmentalists.
* Nihilistic Acquisition can now be taken by purifier-style empires.

Some nice changes coming up in the next patch. I might actually load up the 2.0.2 beta just to fiddle with them. The fact that Purifier-style empires can now abduct pops for the express purposes of purging them tickles me greatly too. It's up there with Rogue Servitors doing the same, except to gently coddle the pops instead.

[Majestic7]

Genocidal kidnappers, lovely. I wonder if the energy maintenance for outposts is going to tank economies, though. Especially for synthetic empires who need energy to feed their population. That might require specialized planets for energy production, which in turn makes science and unity more expensive.

[Mephansteras]

Yeesh, that energy hit is going to hurt my current game. Pretty strapped for energy lately. Guess I'll have to step up the energy production to keep up.

[Cruxador]

Ok, I have to say that I like a lot of the quality of life changes so far. Civilian ships not taking up military shipyard queues, removing tile blockers only needing energy, recruiting leaders now using energy, and fulfilling campaign promises rewarding unity are all good changes from my viewpoint.

*edit* That said, the change to trader guilds make me sad. No longer will my late game mineral needs be met by trading them tens of thousands of energy for minerals.

If fulfilling campaign promises in was that useful in real life, politicians might actually do it!

* Tradition unity cost per system reduced from 2% to 1%.

Which is nice I guess but science is what needs this more. Unity you can at least make the argument that it's supposed to be slow since if you run out, it's a dead mechanic. But lacking science is a pretty major thing. And I'm really hoping this is in addition to rather than instead of fixing the issue that the unity penalty was calculated by multiplying the (individually summed) penalties from planets and outposts together.

* Increased energy upkeep of all Starbase sizes by +1. Outposts now cost 1 energy maintenance. (Why?)

Just in case anyone was so foolish as to suppose that the unity change might make it more viable to claim everything within your borders instead of making a swiss cheese empire.

[USEC_OFFICER]

They confirmed that unity is supposed to increase additively instead of multiplicatively. If they haven't fixed that already then it should be in the next patch but I don't think I saw it in the patch notes? Who knows.

EDIT:

* Fixed system/colony tradition costs being multiplied on each other instead of additive

Apparently I'm just blind. They definitely fixed that issue.

[Flying Dice]

Eh, looks like they're pushing harder to stop the octopus -> cell wall -> "I'll claim all the interior stuff eventually" school of expansion. I can understand why; in my current game I only recently passed the point where I had more occupied systems than unoccupied systems enclosed by my border wall. And I have a shitload of occupied systems, with energy output so high that I just buy every high-cost energy event that pops so that it doesn't feel useless sitting at the cap.