PDX Games IX: Western Pre-Turkic Empire

[Andsed]

wdym by 'passive' here, I haven't played the game a lot recently or at all since the new patch?

Pop growth empire-wide ceases almost entirely in the mid-game. Not allowed to colonize new planets, can't fill up the ones you have, ringworlds are entirely pointless, etc. The ONLY way to get ahead at that point is through conquest or raiding.

And suddenly I no longer have any desire to get this new update.

[The Huskar Social Union]

TIL the Commonwealth of Man in stellaris has its own unique event chain to look for a missing Ark ship.

[The Restored Danelaw]

TIL the Commonwealth of Man in stellaris has its own unique event chain to look for a missing Ark ship.

Yeah it does. It gives some pretty nice early-game boosts in research iirc.

[Bralia]

Pop growth empire-wide ceases almost entirely in the mid-game. Not allowed to colonize new planets, can't fill up the ones you have, ringworlds are entirely pointless, etc. The ONLY way to get ahead at that point is through conquest or raiding.

And suddenly I no longer have any desire to get this new update.

I do wanna reiterate that people say that they're enjoying themselves a lot with that mod. As salty and pissed as most people are, the game's probably not worth writing off entirely.

[The New California Republic]

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I've marked my empire at the bottom right with an arrow. The current main threat to me is the "Knatza Republic" that's next to me, they've already started several wars against me, but I've infiltrated their empire with spies and have listening posts set up along the border, which I have also heavily fortified.

[Heloin]

[The New California Republic]

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Mine is called Nova.

[The Huskar Social Union]

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Ive never got that event.

My current ironman run is becoming a Leviathan achievement hunting session. I just got the Infinity machine achievement for birthing a new Universe, and the Tiyanki Matriach, Scrapper Bot and Void Spawn all inhabit this galaxy. So im gona build up my fleets and then go hunting to murder some one of a kind creatures.

[The Batavia]

Hey guys, is the CK3 Nordic flavor pack worth it?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Hey guys, is the CK3 Nordic flavor pack worth it?

Id say so yeah, its not that expensive and it adds in some nice things for nose characters. Adventurer conquests in particular are a lot of fun.

[The New California Republic]

I never noticed it until there was an event taking place inside the system, as usually I stick to the galaxy view.

[Ithalian Empire]

Does anyone remember their first genocide in stellaris?

I do, it was back when the game first came out, i was playing as an expansionist militaristic empire and got into a series of wars with a Keepers of Knowledge fallen empire. They started the first one because my only ally decided they wanted to research sentient AI and i was between them and the FE so of course 90% of the fighting happened in my territory and my home world got occupied like 6 times during the war, lots of people died and my fleets got obliterated. Needless to say i was kind of pissed at them though i managed to do a lot of damage to one of their fleets.

Fast forward a few decades and two wars later, my tech has went past theirs and i have landed armies on their precious ringworld. I then proceeded to murder everyone of them and take it for myself as payback.

Good stuff.

I was at war with an empire that had humiliated me in the last war. I orbitally bombarded there home world until I killed all there pops there.

[The Huskar Social Union]

111 years till i was able to research Mineral Purification Plants.

Ive got battleships, can build habitats and helped an AI birth a universe but couldnt purify minerals till just now.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Stellaris badly needs a war coordination button.

[Andsed]

Stellaris badly needs a war coordination button.

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

[Heloin]

Stellaris badly needs a war coordination button.

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

I had my own little federation once and now play as mostly as friendly, apathetic, or shot you on sight isolationists for that exact reason.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Stellaris badly needs a war coordination button.

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

I was just involved in a war alongside my federation allies against a machine empire and after years and years of fighting we had overrun most of their systems (well.. i overrun most of their systems) and they were at 100% war exhaustion.

Did my allies end the war?

Nope! Kept it going till 100% exhaustion on our end too and this is whilst we were fighting another empire too so i had to keep forces back to watch what was left of their fleet to stop it from sniping systems we occupied. And it dragged on for fucking ever.

I keep forgetting to not have allies in this game. I need to stop doing it.

[Bralia]

Stellaris badly needs a war coordination button.

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

You know what, that's funny enough. I like it. And on top of everything, it'll be the first thread title that's not horny for the first time in, like, a full year.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Is there anything fancy in that system guarded by a single Fallen Empire battlecruiser? I noticed it when i got some intel from an empire on the other end of the galaxy. And i know ive seen it before but i cant remember if there is anything unique in it.

Its just a single battlecruiser darting around the system and has a strength of 12k.

[Andsed]

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

You know what, that's funny enough. I like it. And on top of everything, it'll be the first thread title that's not horny for the first time in, like, a full year.

Ah my first quote being made into a thread title being a typo, I am so proud.

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

I had my own little federation once and now play as mostly as friendly, apathetic, or shot you on sight isolationists for that exact reason.

Mood. Who has time for galactic affairs when you can sit in a corner with a giant fleet all game letting everyone else shoot each other?

It really does. In one very short lived game I had made a defensive pact with a nation to my far north as we had a mutual rival between us. But they bordered fanatic purifiers who attacked them and were winning. I had to send my fleet the long way around due to said rival and managed to turn the tide and drive them back despite no way to get reinforcements and drove them to 100 percent war exhaustion so they would accept status quoe, but my ally never sent the demand so I rave quit.

I was just involved in a war alongside my federation allies against a machine empire and after years and years of fighting we had overrun most of their systems (well.. i overrun most of their systems) and they were at 100% war exhaustion.

Did my allies end the war?

Nope! Kept it going till 100% exhaustion on our end too and this is whilst we were fighting another empire too so i had to keep forces back to watch what was left of their fleet to stop it from sniping systems we occupied. And it dragged on for fucking ever.

I keep forgetting to not have allies in this game. I need to stop doing it.

It’s like that poking stick meme but the punchline is the poked standing up and screaming about blood for the blood god.

[The Huskar Social Union]

*Heavy Breathing*


Dont be the Grey Tempest, Dont be the Grey Tempest, Dont be the Grey Tempest

[Heloin]

I had my own little federation once and now play as mostly as friendly, apathetic, or shot you on sight isolationists for that exact reason.

Mood. Who has time for galactic affairs when you can sit in a corner with a giant fleet all game letting everyone else shoot each other?

I don't have an pictures, and I've removed mods and the game changed versions so none now, but my previous champaign some exterminators on my border slaughtered half the galaxy and I just let them since that was the half that kept voting to try and remove me from the galactic community. I then made myself the sole permanent council member, killed the exterminators shockingly quickly, and laid claim to over 60% of the now much emptier galaxy.

*Prethoryn Scourge arrives* - Now it is time to... wait, where is everyone?
Frontier outpost - Oh sorry, there's no one living on this side of the galaxy. Just me, Frank, and billions of automatic mining drones.

[The New California Republic]

I found a bug in the new expansion:



So basically what this means is that my empire is spying on itself and stealing secrets from itself...

[The Huskar Social Union]

I found a bug in the new expansion:

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So basically what this means is that my empire is spying on itself and stealing secrets from itself...

-Socialist Union
-Spying on itself

Yeah that fits. Always watch your neighbours comrade, the enemy could be anywhere.

[The New California Republic]

I found a bug in the new expansion:

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So basically what this means is that my empire is spying on itself and stealing secrets from itself...

-Socialist Union
-Spying on itself

Yeah that fits. Always watch your neighbours comrade, the enemy could be anywhere.

I mean...the bug is kind of a good thing, if we interpret the bug creatively then we could say that it must have been one of my internal security operatives that got it, so it's better them getting it than a foreign spy I guess. Still a bit jarring though.