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[ZeroGravitas]

there is plenty changing in 2.1 generally, besides anomalies:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-111-anomaly-rework-expanded-exploration.1090092/

those changes will be released for everyone; the story pack will just have the extra events and space monsters and stuff in them

[Mephansteras]

Ah, interesting.

[umiman]

I'm looking forward to it, if only because it will give more stuff for modders to work with.

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I'm playing a modded game where every single faction is some kind of human. There's 13 of them. Sadly while the game can track the same species for a race for like 2 - 3 factions for some reason it can't track it for 13 so it splits it into different species even if they're the same, but 2 - 3 will be considered the same species.

Anyway, I set it so their ethics are all about the unrest and deviation. What happens is that every faction constantly has rebellions and changes their ethos nonstop. Thus it becomes a game of CK2 in space.

I did this too, although I did it with Fermi Paradox and let myself explode organically, and I didn't have that problem. Did the game start with all those factions separate?

Anyway I almost wish it had happened in my game. Space racism would've really greased some wheels to keep the galaxy interesting. As-is they rebelled but always ended up drifting to fanatic egalitarian / pacifist, having peaceful relations with everyone forever, and finally federating. Still a good story I guess, but not the one I was expecting, and probably not as fun to play through either.

Fermi Paradox?

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My all human game has had an interesting twist. One of the empires got eaten from the inside by a robot uprising. I'm not sure if this is in vanilla, but this uprising was of assimilators so they converted all their host humans into the Borg. After they finished eating up their host, they went and declared war on this giant-huge-ass federation created by about 60% of the other human empires.

I thought they'd be smooshed instantly because those guys are pretty frigging big, but I think because the federation was fighting against 6 rebellions on the go (goddamn I love the unrest mods) it can't actually defend against them properly. Though the member states is doing its best to stem the tide.

It's particularly great because the gand majority of the Assimilator's forces are actual cyborg humans. The robots are a tiny miniscule portion of their population. So it's just humans vs robot humans.

I'm thinking whether to actually step in and save them. On one hand it's quite fun to watch. On the other if I wait too long, all the humans will be gone. And we'll be left with humans.

[Telgin]

Adding binary and trinary star systems is cool.  Now my modded species won't have to feel like special snowflakes because I massaged the way their starting solar system worked so it would appear to have two stars.

I think I agree with the changes to anomalies too.  I've definitely been afraid to try to research some because my scientist was too low level, only to leave it for later.  25 game years later when someone was good enough, I had to send them from across known space to get to it, only to have them fail the project.

Unrelated, but now that I got my modded species portraits working (decided to give up on the weird format Stellaris uses and just switched to TGAs), I've actually been playing the game some for real for the first time.  I can't remember the last time I was this anxious to have opportunities to play a game when at work or otherwise indisposed.

[forsaken1111]

Perhaps more importantly, under the new system you should never get an anomaly repeat as it will track which anomalies your empire has experienced already.

[Teneb]

Fermi Paradox?

Behold!

[Culise]

Fermi Paradox?

Behold!

Indeed, though given the context, they likely meant the mod of the same name.

[Chiefwaffles]

The biggest part of the update for me is the anomaly tracker. Such a huge quality of life change; I can't keep count of how many times I just lost track of anomalies that I had saved for later.

[PTTG??]

It'd be cool to have a civic like "Evacuee Civilization," where you start with just a colony ship plus a slightly better fleet than normal -- and your starting system is crap. In return, your technology starts much higher to compensate your slow start, and your first colony gets some bonus like "last hope," canceling out the initial costs.

[Sartain]

It'd be cool to have a civic like "Evacuee Civilization," where you start with just a colony ship plus a slightly better fleet than normal -- and your starting system is crap. In return, your technology starts much higher to compensate your slow start, and your first colony gets some bonus like "last hope," canceling out the initial costs.

Suggest it on the game forums

[Cruxador]

It would be cool, but I don't think it's actually possible for them to do from a technical perspective. Considering that even their Mongols have home worlds, I'm pretty sure that the game requires a nation to always have a planet for technical reasons.

[Teneb]

It would be cool, but I don't think it's actually possible for them to do from a technical perspective. Considering that even their Mongols have home worlds, I'm pretty sure that the game requires a nation to always have a planet for technical reasons.

It would be cool, but I don't think it's actually possible for them to do from a technical perspective. Considering that even their Mongols have home worlds, I'm pretty sure that the game requires a nation to always have a planet for technical reasons.

Not quite. The space nomads are very much an exception, as are the crisis empires.

[PTTG??]

You can even use console commands to take over space monsters with no homeworlds.

[umiman]

It would be cool, but I don't think it's actually possible for them to do from a technical perspective. Considering that even their Mongols have home worlds, I'm pretty sure that the game requires a nation to always have a planet for technical reasons.

One of my traits mods has starts where you start without a planet. It can totally be done.

You can start on a habitat, start as a colony ship, start as a lost Fallen Empire colony, start as a colony with a working Dyson Sphere and disabled gateway but no hyperlanes out of the system, etc. etc. etc.

Hell, there's even tech I can research that will obliterate all my planets and give me a single colony ship. I'm not sure when I'll ever press that button but it is tempting.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

It would be cool, but I don't think it's actually possible for them to do from a technical perspective. Considering that even their Mongols have home worlds, I'm pretty sure that the game requires a nation to always have a planet for technical reasons.

One of my traits mods has starts where you start without a planet. It can totally be done.

You can start on a habitat, start as a colony ship, start as a lost Fallen Empire colony, start as a colony with a working Dyson Sphere and disabled gateway but no hyperlanes out of the system, etc. etc. etc.

Hell, there's even tech I can research that will obliterate all my planets and give me a single colony ship. I'm not sure when I'll ever press that button but it is tempting.

Fun one to mess with: combine the start as a habitat in space with the start that gives you a dyson sphere.  You can get mineral production up really high by spamming the size 6 habitats around your starting system with the pool the dyson start gives you, then when you exit the system, you can spam those habitats along with gateways like crazy.  Will admitedly have very limited expansion space left, admitedly, but your economy can easily be strong enough to act like a mini-crisis out of nowhere.