[–]▶ 009077 (49) No.8011>>8016 >>8023 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
Alright, starting a new playthrough of stellaris with the star trek mod
the only decisions i'm making are where to send science ships and what to do in a military situation (if no input from people here)
everything else gets decided by whoever gets dubs first
first question:
who do we play?
http://www.stellariswiki.com/ST_NewHorizons/Races
note, some races may be unplayable, example being the borg. i don't remember which, and the wiki doesn't say, so if we pick one we can't play we'll repick
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8013
>inb4 you are forced to play as a Bajweran or Ferengi
▶ 009077 (49) No.8014
also forgot to mention, we're running 1.62, since there isn't a download link to the mod for 1.8 other than steam workshop
▶ 009077 (49) No.8015
you know, i just realized dubs on a board with maybe 50 people is kind of a stupid idea
whatever, just make suggestions
▶ d8d599 (1) No.8016>>8019
>>8011 (OP)
>who do we play?
Why do you even bother asking that? You already know what the only true answer will be.
▶ 009077 (49) No.8019
>>8016
i don't know man, i've always played cardassians so far, but maybe someone wants me to play as klingons or ferengi
fuck it, make a poll
http://poal.me/szps4e
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8023>>8024
▶ 009077 (49) No.8024>>8025
>>8023
whoever breaks the tie wins i guess
▶ 009077 (49) No.8025
▶ 009077 (49) No.8030
alright famalams, we've started
▶ 009077 (49) No.8031>>8032 >>8037 >>8039
First order of business - research
for science we've got improved tracking+longer sensors, better chance to hit+more damage+tracking, resettlement cost (moving units from one tile on a planet to another tile on the same planet)
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8032>>8033
>>8031
No first order of business is why do you have a dyke in Engineering?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8033>>8034 >>8037
for society we've got:
bunkers - 50% improved planetary defense if built
planetary unification - improved build time and lower costs for 10 years once activated
and xenobiology, unlocking bio lab 2 (faster society research)
>>8032
i could remove her, but putting all male leaders here is gonna cost me
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8034>>8035
>>8033
The question is why you don't have a cute Romulan girl there but have a dyke?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8035>>8037 >>8038
and on engineering there's nothing signifigant
unlock later hull tecks
build a spacedock 2 (can build larger and larger ships)
inertial dampener (minor improvements all around)
>>8034
oh, the entire game is like that. all the females look like shit. males too i guess
▶ 009077 (49) No.8037>>8045
>>8035
>>8033
>>8031
anyone got choices, or should i just pick?
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8038>>8040
>>8035
Fair enough, most important route to go for is a Remove Hasperat route.
▶ e5a1e2 (1) No.8039>>8040
>>8031
Optical computers.
/strek/ is too slow for dubs, just use the first reply.
▶ 009077 (49) No.8040>>8042
>>8038
but bajor is pretty much on the other side of the map
>>8039
i already said dubs are a bad idea
lets just make a rule, when new techs open up, whoever posts first chooses what we take. one tech per post to make it sort of fair
▶ 009077 (49) No.8041>>8043
also, apparently romulans are racist whiteys, who knew
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8042>>8045
▶ 009077 (49) No.8043>>8044
>>8041
we all know where this is going
just need time and we can pick it
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8044
▶ 009077 (49) No.8045>>8046 >>8048
>>8042
fair enough, so long term goal is to move southwest/west till we reach bajor and conquer it
for the moment, i'll make one or two more science ships and start exploring nearby systems to colonize
anyone chosen anything else from >>8037 yet?
also, what in tarnation? i think someone's getting pacified
▶ 009077 (49) No.8046>>8057
>>8045
more and more of these, what the fuck
▶ 009077 (49) No.8047>>8057
new science research available
we still haven't started any of the others
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8048>>8049 >>8052
>>8045
>born equal
>equal citizenry
>slavery allowed
i've never played this game and i'm still trying to understand it; does this faction believe in all of those things?
research some more cool physics stuff.
▶ 009077 (49) No.8049
>>8048
only that faction does
we can choose to suppress them, promote them or ignore them
ignoring them will mean that they will eventually get support and start minor revolts, potentially rebellions
if we promote them, we can eventually accept them, changing the government traits
▶ 687dbc (1) No.8050>>18375
▶ 009077 (49) No.8051>>8053
another one
i think we can all agree we're going with the first one
also, space pirates just appeared, so i'm starting to build a small fleet of frigates
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8052
>>8048
Sounds like tumblr.
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8053>>8054
>>8051
if you have to pick one, that romulan future party sounds like the only ones worth picking.
how many star systems do you control?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8054>>8056 >>8058
>>8053
currently 4 systems as i just collonized betra
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8056
>>8054
can you show us a little map or something?
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8057
>>8046
fuck these guys tbh
>>8047
go for reeaserching things for agro
also try to get invisiblity asap, if it exists in this game
▶ 009077 (49) No.8058>>8062
>>8054
this is everything we've explored so far
i'm trying to keep the rest hidden, don't want map spoilers
we're about to fight space pirates, they've already destroyed 2 mining facilities
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8061>>8063
>>8059
Did you slap their asses around before you finished them?
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8062>>8063
>>8058
you must get more birds of prey.
>>8059
good job
▶ 009077 (49) No.8063>>8064
>>8062
ship designs get unlocked once you get better space ports
we're still in the very early stages and don't have enough minerals to build more than one space port
>>8061
friggate beams can melt steel shields
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8064
>>8063
well then try to gewt more resources, tech to make more resources and tech for better ports or something
▶ 009077 (49) No.8065>>8068
we're killing an asteroid
also, someone seems to want to be conquered despite already being vassals
▶ 009077 (49) No.8066>>8067
also traditions are unlocked? no idea what these are, they're from the last dlc so i haven't played them
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8067
>>8066
adopt harmony. lets see what it does, it looks like balanced option
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8068>>8069
>>8065
…does this mean the asteroid is stronger than your fleet?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8069
>>8068
it just starts out that way because it has a lot of hull points, the asteroid doesn't fight back though
▶ 009077 (49) No.8071>>8073
also minor map update, we've got enough systems to start letting subordinates handle them as sectors no, i can't handle more systems than the game allows me, it starts giving nasty debuffs for that
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8072>>8073
>>8070
>strong room module
whats this?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8073>>8074
>>8071
ah, forgot pic
>>8072
i think it's just minerals
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8074>>8075 >>8076
>>8073
can you colonize alpha circini?
as vulcans we should go high, not wide. we are not federation
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8075
>>8074
this, romulans seemed to always be about having a smaller territory but running it very strict and efficiently. do not tolerate people entering your borders.
▶ 009077 (49) No.8076>>8080 >>8081
we found our first species
>>8074
there has to be a red/yellow/green planet icon next to it for it to be colonizable
if it's red, we need to terraform it, which we can't do yet
so that's a no
so should i stop colonizing and focus on building more frigates/upgrading planets?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8079>>8083
map so far
closed the borders with the bolians
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8080
>>8076
yeah we need more ships
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8081
>>8076
keep exploring, but yes, focus construction efforts on improving what you have and building fleets
▶ f84e87 (9) No.8083>>8084 >>8085
▶ 009077 (49) No.8084
>>8083
war with the bolians you say?
my fleet is about half of what it needs to be in order to destroy a space port, but whatever
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8085>>8086
>>8083
nah, not yet.
conquering/annexing Garidian republic and then making them their own sector might be fun
▶ 009077 (49) No.8086>>8087
>>8085
..oh..
well i guess i'll do that later
▶ 009077 (49) No.8087>>8088
>>8086
yeah, we can't handle them in their core system yet, gonna have to wait to expand my fleet. it's not like they're gonna attack, so we're fine
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8088
>>8087
try to negotiate peace deal with as favorable terms for us as possible
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8091
>>8089
After cloaking go for better power plants, looks like we will need it
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8092>>8095
Also can you do shit like spying and sabotaging in this game?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8095
>>8092
every once in a while you get a prompt which gives you the option to sabotage an enemy ship/infrastructure/assasinate leadership/sabotage relations/do nothing
failure can cost you though
i just go with the ship sabotaging
▶ 009077 (49) No.8096
and bolians are fucked
just need to build a small army to occupy them and we're good
also, i finished researching the cloaking device, but for some reason i can't find it in the ship designer. go figure
researching power plants right now
▶ 009077 (49) No.8098>>8099
we also just discovered flaxians
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8099
>>8098
>>your appearance is unsettling
says the guy with rocks and shit in his hair. these people need to be killed eventually.
▶ c5b66b (8) No.8103>>8104
>>8101
>0/19 Garrisoned Armies
they just gave up and joined? over a period of 17 years or so? something doesn't add up. did you just kick their asses that badly?
▶ 009077 (49) No.8104
>>8103
by armies they mean trained armies, what i'm fighting is militia
>over a period of 17 years or so
yeah, the AI in this game is retarded
it only starts becoming challenging when every faction starts uniting against you
▶ 009077 (49) No.8219
update
most of the galaxy has been explored via trading star charts
we're the strongest military force in the galaxy. i only ever bothered to research destroyer class ships, after which all the research went into cloaking tech. so now my whole fleet is only 11 ships with like 30-40% evasion, which somehow boosts them to 4k fleet power
i conquered the flaxians, took the breen homeworld
minor problem though. i kind of accidentally supported the isolationist/warlike faction, which ended up making us lose the xenophobic trait. and because of that we apparently can't have slaves, so all the formers slaves are now lower class citizens
even weirder, we actually have good relations with all the big powers. everyone is out to get the small factions
i'm planning on starting a war on hasperat soon, even though the feds are guaranteeing their independance
will do tomorrow
and i'll eventually try to get the xenophobic trait back, even if we end up having a revolt over it
▶ 009077 (49) No.8301>>8305
update:
due to romulans being retards, i had to cut nearly all my defense agreements with other factions, or else i lose influence. only left the cardassians just in case
since the benzites were no longer allies, i thought i couldgo and take conquer them seeing as they were right next to me. traitorous fucks became federation vassals shortly before this though. i thought i could still take their planet quickly enough and then force the feds to surrender
i did manage to take their planet very quickly, but the feds didn't surrender. turned out their fleet is twice as big as mine. so we had a very long war of me trying to avoid their fleet and occasionally destroying space stations, and later occupying the stationless planets with my armies while my main fleet is being chased
this was working, but they did occasionally manage to catch my fleet
by the end of the war i had lost 2/3 of my fleet, even though i did occupy a number of their planets. since i didn't want to waste the rest of my fleet for only one pointless planet i finally managed to force them to accept a white peace
meanwhile, cardassians have removed hasperat, but the feds took the remaining hasperat lands
fucking feds
and i still can't get the xenophobic trait back because only 3% of my population is xenophobic, so no slaves. can't even purge the shitty remans and bolians
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8305>>8308
>>8301
I TOLD YOU
I TOLD YOU ABOUT PEACE DEALS
▶ 009077 (49) No.8308>>8324
>>8305
ironically i can't actually get anyone to join a coalition with me. the defense pacts didn't do shit, aside from getting them to not go to war with me
i'm gonna focus on rebuilding the army again, i think i can beat the feds in a war if i blitzkrieg them, since they always attack me in full force
whenever i've played as cardassians, the best the romulans could do was distract me with a small fleet while their armies swarmed stationless planets
▶ f5a0b9 (1) No.8324>>8477
>>8308
>Make Coalitions with filthy Xenos
You disgrace the Empire.
▶ 009077 (49) No.8477>>8499
>>8324
m8, even the ferengi have a bigger fleet than me because some people had the bright idea of building tall, even though there's a limit to the amount of minerals i can mine in my own territor
right now i'm stuck in one corner of space surrounded by feds, borg, ferengi and klingons, each of which has a bigger fleet
any of the smaller factions are either vassalized by the bigger factions, or they're too far away for me to reach due to closed borders by the bigger powers
example: i tried waging war on the breen. but they're in a coalition with the gorn
so once i took the breen worlds, i still had to fight the gorn in order to force a surrender.
but to reach the gorn i have to go through ferengi, cardassian, tellarite, tholian space. only the cardassians are friendly to me and give me access
so i spend years trying to fly around them while the gorn simply fly straight to the romulan lands because the klingons are friendly with them
by the time i've nearly reached gorn lands the gorn are devastating my borders
so i figure i'd wage war on the tellarites so that they give me access
turns out the tellarite fleet is as powerful as mine
i beat them, but by then my fleet is too weak to take on the gorn one. so i end up being forced to a humiliating surrender with the gorn, and only win open borders from the tellarites
this all could have been solved if i at the very least had good relations with more factions
so now if i actually want to wage war, i either have to be extremely outnumbered, or wait years till my fleet can reach the enemy lands
▶ ada4aa (1) No.8499>>8501
>>8477
>Not making everyone fight each other while laughing
You are a disgrace of a Romulan.
▶ 009077 (49) No.8501>>8502
>>8499
the game doesn't go that in depth
it has a "sabotage enemy relations" option every once in a while, but that always has like a 50% chance to fail and it doesn't really let me choose specifics much. nor does it really have much of an effect
you fags picked the wrong civ, i should have went klingon
▶ 1aa91d (1) No.8502>>8532
▶ 009077 (49) No.8532
i still feel like i'm being ripped off
declared war against the federation and asked the cardassians to join, promised them Sol
my fleet is 47k fleet power, cardassian one is 63k
federation one is 100k, gorn one is 50k
so the entire war the cardassians refuse to actually stay with me and just avoid the federation without destroying any space stations
after 7 years of fucking nothing i surrender by liberating some minor faction that the cardassians had vassalized
10 years later, i've upgraded my fleet, stretched my resources to the max, just moving my fleet starts costing me money
i try to get both cardassia and the klingons to fight with me against the federation, but for god knows what reason neither of them wants to work with each other, regardless of how many spoils i promise them
so i went with the klingons since they have a slightly bigger fleet than the cardassians
my fleet is 71k, klingon one is 125k
fed one is 160k, gorn one is 60k
i don't know how, but even in the endgame when i have more territory than the federation, they still have twice my fleet
anyways, at least the klingons are actually doing something. we're not directly fighting the federation, but we are conquering their vassals
>>8502
i don't think the game has them
read http://www.stellariswiki.com/ST_NewHorizons/Races
▶ 009077 (49) No.8551>>8553 >>8579
we did it
we finally did it
all i had to do was to split my fleet in two
at that point the federation fleet simply can't touch me. i just went around destroying space stations and taking them with two big army transports
by the end they were begging me to stop the war and give the klingons sol instead of letting me keep shit
i ended up not giving the klingons shit since all they did the entire war was stay on the outskirts and not conquering shit. not like they care
at this point i don't really thing there's much of a reason to continue. when i'm outnumbered 2:1 or more and still win, there isn't really much of a challenge. and the AI is just too retarded to handle anything more complex than a 1v1 battle
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8553>>8556
>>8551
why do you even play this retarded fundamentally broken mess? go play aurora instead
▶ 009077 (49) No.8556>>8570
>>8553
it looks autistic
also, does it have star trek content or is it just generic space? that kind of makes or breaks the deal
▶ 334f91 (15) No.8570
>>8556
generic space but i believe you could edit game files.
Also this game is more autistic then dwarf fort.
▶ ce2d6a (1) No.8579
>>8551
>he doesn't use multiple fleets
Most games are pretty easy to cheese just by splitting your forces. AI can't into multiple fronts.
▶ d01150 (1) No.8864
Surprised you didn't try BOTF
▶ b5ea35 (1) No.15270>>15271
Is it worth getting Stellaris now for this mod?
▶ fcaf89 (1) No.15271
>>15270
If your /trek/ fix can only be satisfied with grand strategy, it probably can't be too bad. Star Trek Armada 3 (mod for Sins of a Solar Empire) seems like a more balanced total conversion
▶ f48a51 (1) No.17515>>18464
Did this mod ever get the Terran Empire added?
▶ 9c4a97 (1) No.18239>>18375
We ever going to get a Pakled-Dominion Alliance going in this game?
▶ 4a5e8a (3) No.18375>>18380
>>8050
>>18239
>pakleds
What's the deal with them?
▶ 7f8721 (1) No.18380>>18386
>>18375
>Founders bow to Pakleds
>In contact with pah-wraiths
>Possess psychic-like abilities
>Control Federation with an iron but fair fist
>Own castles & banks galactially
>Direct descendants of the ancient royal blood line
>Will bankroll the first cities on Ceti Alpha V (Pakdangrad will be be the first city)
>Own 99% of DNA editing research facilities on Earth
>First designer babies will in all likelihood be Pakled babies
>All pakleds said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence in the universe has only existed deep in Pjem monasteries & Section 31
>Ancient Bajoran scriptures tell of two prophets who will descend upon Bajor and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with them
>They own Nanobot R&D labs around the universe
>You likely have Pakledbots inside you right now
>The Pakleds are in regular communication with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, forwarding the word of God to the Orthodox Church. Who do you think set up the meeting between the pope & the Orthodox high command (First meeting between the two organisations in over 1000 years) and arranged the Orthodox leader’s first trip to Antarctica in history literally a few days later to the Pakled ship in Wilkes land?
>They learned fluent Klingon in under a week
>Planets entrust their latinum reserves with the species. There’s latinum on Ferenginar, only Ft. Pakled
>The species is about 7 millenia old, from the space-time reference point of the base human currently accepted by our society
>In reality, they are timeless beings existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe. We don’t know their ultimate plans yet. We hope they’re benevolent beings.
▶ 4a5e8a (3) No.18386>>18387 >>18394
>>18380
So in other words, the Trek Chuck Norris. Got it.
▶ 24adfc (1) No.18387>>18591
>>18386
No, not at all. Fuck off back to Reddit.
▶ 7cf6c3 (4) No.18393
Doing a Romulan playthrough myself (Mind in the mirror universe, because fighting the Terrans is more intersting) and I suggest REX as a good strat: the Star Empire has fucktonnes of infulence so you can spam out stations and you can colonise with the fast pop growth rate on Romulus itself. Also all your troops should be Reman: since they have the strong trait.
▶ 609ee6 (1) No.18394>>18591
>>18386
You have to go back.
▶ 8b4a45 (1) No.18464>>18474
>>17515
Yes, there's a mirrorverse map mode which turns United Earth into the Terran Empire and flips the galaxy on its y axis.
▶ 7cf6c3 (4) No.18474
>>18464
>flipped on the y axis
Okay that makes a lot more sense now to why the galaxy was inverted.
And yes, I get the joke
▶ 7cf6c3 (4) No.18571>>18617
Rate the glorious supremacy of Romulan forces against a numerically greater fleet.
▶ 4a5e8a (3) No.18591
>>18394
>>18387
Ooh. Didn't like that, did you?
They're just a bunch of derpy space bandits, aren't rhey?
▶ 615bc3 (1) No.18617>>18645
>>18571
Were any slave girls taken captive?
▶ 7cf6c3 (4) No.18645>>18646
>>18617
No, when we annex the planet all the Orions were driven from it. Romulus shall not tolerant such people in her Empire.
▶ c7b63e (1) No.18646
>>18645
>Her Empire
Is your government ran by Romulan maids?