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Fuck you OP. You reminded me I liked CK2, so I went to the shitty paradox forum where I ended up seeing the last two developer diaries for Stellaris.
>Claims
Oh boy I can't wait to be UNABLE to do a FUCKING THING until I spend 999 purple mana to get a FUCKING CLAIM! OH BOY!!
>Hyperlane travel forced as basic, wormhole travel maybe if you research it in "mid to late game"
This is the one that makes me so upset I can't even formulate an articulate response. What the FUCK MAN!? I'd accept the other one whose name escapes me, but HYPERLANE? Are you fucking JOKING? Yeah I can't wait to get totally cockblocked by all my neighbors because of dice and friends. It's going to be AMAZING when I can't expand, not because I'm broke but because ancient aliens, titans and other horrible shit just fucking hanging out in the way. Jesus fucking Christ.
Plus the fuck said you'd still get your retarded super duper jump drives but with a minor change. So why the fuck would you even waste time researching wormhole generators when you can just get super duper drive?
To answer your question: Go play Distant Worlds, it's a better game. That's probably what I'm going to do. It has ship boarding and a far more complex system for designing ships (and stations). Nothing really compares to slapping your opponents ship, boarding it, stealing it and taking it back to space-dock to disassemble it for parts and reverse-engineering. Just beautiful.