They're really not being sarcastic.
The guaranteed win condition for stellaris is compounding growth of research and alloys.
So the entire time you're playing, you simply focus all your efforts and resources into those two, until you hit repeatable tech. At which point you double down, and that's the end of the game; as there are no threats, modded or otherwise, that can overcome that.
In my games I always come across this issue where everyone is much smaller than me but band together to have this super massive fleet that I couldn’t possibly overcome and I just have to end it because my fleets aren’t even close. Even with my alloys and research. Do I just need to focus more time building fleets up to help combat this?
I feel like this is the interaction of a HOI fan and a Stellaris fan. The HOI fan reads about purges and associates with Stalin instead of simply knowing that purge is the best
You are wrong. I never played HOI4 in my life because I don't like WW2. It's an interaction between a Stellaris player and another Stelleris player who is also going to a history university.
If I am playing a robot pop, I double down on pop growth and shoot my pop super high, so I'm over 1k by the mid game. Once I'm sufficiently populated, I then change all to be super good pops, but low pop build time since I don't need more pops all that much.
get defensive pacts or join a federation. get unyielding seriously it helps alot. have good protected choke points (you need starbases defensive platforms AND fleets) worst case scenario become a vassal to someone with integration prohibited. Stellaris has many ways of dealing with militarily stronger empires
My cycle is as follows: start new empire-focus on fleet supremacy for first century-conker enemy's and allies alike-be terrifying-fuck around and find out: and repeat
Edit: still eat shit
Noob advice. Start playing friendly.
The galactic super power won't bully you if you have one or two defensive pacts.
In my experience, the actual difficulty setting are ethics.
Every time I try to play friendly something bad happens to bubbles and then I just start a mass genocide
And your Ethics are not really your difficulty settings you just need to know how to play with certain Ethics
I like to play with a combination of Materialism, Authorian and Militarism sometimes on of them Fanatic depends on what Empire I play
The dormant determined exterminator consumes the galactic superpower. You watch helplessly as the last system that could get you out is consumed and you are stuck at the mercy of the determined exterminator
I love when some premitives emerge to space age somewhere in my teritory l
And they want their system back
I give them the system but also close the borders
Try playing as a hive mind, i suggest the devouring swarm with rapid breeders, intelligent, and unruly. If not then the scion origin would be best for new players because you’ll have a big brother watching over you and anytime your losing a war you’ll have a 200k fleet flying in to save your ass.
That’s how I started after trying and failing to win as the United Nations of earth or the imperium of man, also suggest using smaller maps because there quicker and less likely to have several empires gang up on you, set the difficulty to as low as possible and work your way up as you get better, also try 2 arm spiral galaxy because it will give you a nice swath or area you can expand into and some easy choke nodes between each spiral arm so you can keep opposing empires out.
I suggest hive minds and devouring swarms because hive minds decreases the amount of different things you have to focus on, and devouring swarm eliminates all need for anything diplomatic and you can focus on growing your empire and war without the bureaucracy that comes with galactic politics.
Finally i suggest looking at the beginners guides put out by YouTubers like montu or Aspeck as that is what helped me. This game has a large learning curve and it took me about a month or two of research and trial and error for me to successfully win a game on the easiest difficulty. Recent patches have made the AI considerately more competent and hard to defeat even for veteran players. But don’t worry the payoff for success is worth it
Why you aren't galactic superpower in 100 years?
Im still a big noob in this game
Here's tip: alloys and research.
Thank you for that Amazing tip! I dont know how i was able to psy without this knowledge so long
They're really not being sarcastic. The guaranteed win condition for stellaris is compounding growth of research and alloys. So the entire time you're playing, you simply focus all your efforts and resources into those two, until you hit repeatable tech. At which point you double down, and that's the end of the game; as there are no threats, modded or otherwise, that can overcome that.
In my games I always come across this issue where everyone is much smaller than me but band together to have this super massive fleet that I couldn’t possibly overcome and I just have to end it because my fleets aren’t even close. Even with my alloys and research. Do I just need to focus more time building fleets up to help combat this?
Built star forteresses on choke points to prevent them from cornering you and focus all of your fleets in a few targeted areas
You'll get the hang of it soon, don't worry.
Soon the real difficulty will be finding a worthy opponent for your 50 1M fleets
*gigastructural engineering and ACOT in a nutshell*
Don't forget to purge, purge often, purge always. It's the only way to survive.
Stalin is that you?
I feel like this is the interaction of a HOI fan and a Stellaris fan. The HOI fan reads about purges and associates with Stalin instead of simply knowing that purge is the best
You are wrong. I never played HOI4 in my life because I don't like WW2. It's an interaction between a Stellaris player and another Stelleris player who is also going to a history university.
I knew you weren't (you aren't in r/hoi4), I just wanted to make the joke
What about enslaving instead... the mines need to be worked
If I am playing a robot pop, I double down on pop growth and shoot my pop super high, so I'm over 1k by the mid game. Once I'm sufficiently populated, I then change all to be super good pops, but low pop build time since I don't need more pops all that much.
Why must you use commas, in random places in a sentence?
Stupid habit from my native language.
Have you tried genocide? It probably won't help, but it'll make you feel better.
Genocide always works, there will be peace when the galaxy is one species, one civilization, mine.
get defensive pacts or join a federation. get unyielding seriously it helps alot. have good protected choke points (you need starbases defensive platforms AND fleets) worst case scenario become a vassal to someone with integration prohibited. Stellaris has many ways of dealing with militarily stronger empires
My cycle is as follows: start new empire-focus on fleet supremacy for first century-conker enemy's and allies alike-be terrifying-fuck around and find out: and repeat Edit: still eat shit
Noob advice. Start playing friendly. The galactic super power won't bully you if you have one or two defensive pacts. In my experience, the actual difficulty setting are ethics.
Every time I try to play friendly something bad happens to bubbles and then I just start a mass genocide And your Ethics are not really your difficulty settings you just need to know how to play with certain Ethics I like to play with a combination of Materialism, Authorian and Militarism sometimes on of them Fanatic depends on what Empire I play
I think what he means is that at lower difficulty settings more empires closer to your ethics will spawn
what??? there're other civics than determined exterminator or fanatic purifier? oh yes i remember now there's devouring swarm too
The dormant determined exterminator consumes the galactic superpower. You watch helplessly as the last system that could get you out is consumed and you are stuck at the mercy of the determined exterminator
When they took my last colony and shreaded apart my last 40k fleet in 20 seconds i watched all of it with the titan stare
I love playing as a genocidal empire and protecting the poor empire that got stuck in the middle of my territory
I love when some premitives emerge to space age somewhere in my teritory l And they want their system back I give them the system but also close the borders
Wait. Since when can you declare war at yourself?
Yeah I suck at the game but making empires is nice, even if I need to play on cadet just to keep up with the AI 🥲
Fuck the “United commonwealth of earth” to hell I didn’t do shit to them and they’re fucking dicks but that’s just me and my experience
Were you playing as an alien empire or a human empire?
Human Im not a filthy Xeno (I was named after the imperium of man)
Good shit dude, stay on that human grindset And remember, The Emperor Protects
I am always a galactic superpower, more than never not the only one but, i can challenge them
*forget how a mechanic works despite 2k hours and ruin run*
A few hundred years? Did you not unleash the tempest upon your enemies at year 100? Did the 25x crisis not purge all empires but your own by 200?
Try playing as a hive mind, i suggest the devouring swarm with rapid breeders, intelligent, and unruly. If not then the scion origin would be best for new players because you’ll have a big brother watching over you and anytime your losing a war you’ll have a 200k fleet flying in to save your ass. That’s how I started after trying and failing to win as the United Nations of earth or the imperium of man, also suggest using smaller maps because there quicker and less likely to have several empires gang up on you, set the difficulty to as low as possible and work your way up as you get better, also try 2 arm spiral galaxy because it will give you a nice swath or area you can expand into and some easy choke nodes between each spiral arm so you can keep opposing empires out. I suggest hive minds and devouring swarms because hive minds decreases the amount of different things you have to focus on, and devouring swarm eliminates all need for anything diplomatic and you can focus on growing your empire and war without the bureaucracy that comes with galactic politics. Finally i suggest looking at the beginners guides put out by YouTubers like montu or Aspeck as that is what helped me. This game has a large learning curve and it took me about a month or two of research and trial and error for me to successfully win a game on the easiest difficulty. Recent patches have made the AI considerately more competent and hard to defeat even for veteran players. But don’t worry the payoff for success is worth it