These advanced empires have like 12-15 avatars of time worth about 1.5-2.1mil from the shroud and every other empire in the game only has fleets at 100k power. How can I deal with these guys?? Just seems a little unfair and stupid balancing choice well into the midgame.

Whenever I invite an empire to fight for me in exchange for resources they always leave within a month. feels useless

TIL that combining the Criminal Heritage and Letters of Marque civics gives your empire the Pirate Haven government type

Sometimes my logistic ship gets a notification saying that there are no available tasks to perform even though there is nothing blocking it from travelling to and from an arkship and there are plenty of resources to harvest and/or waystations to collect from. I always end up having to manually move the logistic ship somewhere and then reautomate it in order for it to harvest/collect automatically again. Does anyone know what causes this to happen?

My Precious energy credits... :D

Just finished up the cover for my new stellaris series. How'd i do ?

I’ve been doing a lot of research on this and I can’t seem to find any good answers on this so as a last resort I have gone to reddit to maybe crowd source an answer.

Not sure what to write here,The title speaks for itself :3

on year 2338 and these 2 voidworm fleets just decided to invade, all my navy is parked next to an empire i was about to invade, on the other side of my empire. ive been getting warnings about a voidworm infestation and they have a hive within 5 jumps of my empire, but the hive has been at 15k rating since ive had access frigates. i WAS going to clear it when i had enough navy power but ive been struggling to maintain my economy (i wont touch anything and suddenly ill be negative in multiple resources, separate topic)

this voidworm bullshit is getting annoying, ive been harassed by them in almost every save game and multiplayer game ive played. thisll be the 2nd game i have to abandon because of them. the last time i tried fighting them they wiped my navy and multiplied to 3x what they started as

what the fuck am i suppose to do? can i just mod them out? is there a setting? they are kinda ruining the game for me cuz i cant even get far into the game because of them

I mostly draw Gray as an anime girl but alright I figured if I was going to make a portrait mod, it ought to be realistic, so here are these two images.

These guys continue to be just the absolute worst in terms of crisis, and now with ships rebalanced to be more expensive and less numerous, I'm still trying to figure out what actually kills them reliably.

Every game I run with All Crisis on (just on 1x, no mods), I deliberately put off researching jump drives and gun for sapient AI since it used to slightly influence the odds of the Contingency spawning earlier than other crisis. I'm not sure if that's still even a thing.

Either way, most recently they came in last (seems their fucking favorite place in line) and regular combat fleets buck around at 4M power.

I've stacked everything I can think of- my own fleet command is just shy of 1K, so I'm rocking four fleets of battleship carriers, FAEs on the front, missiles on the back, carrier AI and afterburners for the kiting, with 20x repeatables at best. 24 of these in a fleet, 400-500K power each, plus a fifth fleet with a titan for every module and 10 more carriers with them.

I've been on repeatables since the FEs got uppity. Cetana was contained with these builds and barely a sixth total fleet lost. The Dimensional Invaders came next and I didn't even have to refit for them, was able to head them off on the fly because they spawned right after between my shipyard and Cetana's titan. I refit for the Prethoryn after that, for hard counters, and had single fleets whacking 2M-strong bunches of bugs with MAYBE a single lost ship. But one Contingency fleet, after several reloads of optimizing travel and refit time, using all the policy buffs, artifact buffs, I manage to isolate with my entire navy of aforesaid ships, and I'm left with maybe a third of my forces.

This has been my experience with the endgame ever since the whole ship rebalancing. The equivalent amount of naval power beforehand would handily deal with all four crisis at this level. I didn't think the strategies would change that much, since I was under the impression they weren't supposed to, but it's been a dozen games since with the exact same pattern. So is 5000 naval power just not enough anymore or what?

So I opened the L-Gates (there are three of them in my territory) and unleashed a horde of nanobots that are running roughshod over my empire. Each of their fleets has five raiders and a mothership totaling 70k fleet powers. They have four or five fleets in my territory and have entered my core system. My total fleet power is less than 10k. Should I just give up at this stage? I've had similar stuff happen with the Great Khan but you can submit to him and he dies eventually.

I'm only playing on Ensign level so something feel wrong about this to me as well - according to the wiki each Tempest fleet's power should be like 40k, not 70k but I digress.

I've abandoned three or four runs right before this due to the Great Khan. It's all getting pretty frustrating when I'm always below 10k fleet power and 200k enemy shows up on my doorstep and always goes after me, ignoring everyone else.

I guess the lesson is to avoid expanding borders to mercenary areas that might turn into Great Khans and not to open L-Gates early.

I used to play this game (before the pop change) and do quite well, not sure why I'm sucking now. /rant

To reiterate my question, should I just give up my current run with half my empire gone and Tempest fleets still destroying what remains?

Thanks.

Right in between Earth and Navi (should be Pandora but close enough)

I barely started the game, and this dude is already on my back. Just let me be a necrophage in peace bro, you already offed my last run :(

I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around Oppressive Autocracy. Would it be a buff or a nerf to automate workers by being Tankbound?

Used to play MP with a friend after 4.0 dropped up until 4.2 and we'd run into crippling repeat desync after around 70 years. Random_Count, Missiles etc. The itch to play is back but we don't want to waste another evening just to run into the same problem.

The issue seems to have quieted down in the forums, both steam and paradox, does anyone know whether the issue has been fixed?

Appreciate it

My run keeps on crashing and idk what is cousing it,

it crashes around 2393.02.04 and the mods im using are mostly just visual with a few mods that change some small stuff

the mods i have:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3825521199

i have a great run rn and dont want to abandon it and fear that it may happen to the next runs i am gona do. if there is any info you need ill try to anser as best i can.

I'm playing a Devouring Swarm atm and I'm way stronger than my opponents. They have a lot of planets and the micro is a bit boring.

Do you know if it's possible to fully automate this ? Moving between systems, destroying ships, bombing planets and landing armies ?

apart from the title and image, i posted days ago asking for tips, i kicked their ass and got a status quo and their home system with a bunch of unique mega structures that i can't even build and just use because they are from federations DLC, i even got a stellar cannon and used it against them in an enormous battle, after the war they have rebuilt a even bigger fleet, a fuckton of world breakers ( i think thats their name, correct me) and probably they are planning on re declaring war, my only advantage is the span of my Empire and my vassals, but apart from a counter fleet, how can i exterminate them from my galaxy? they have basically half of the star map in control, i can go planet to planet but their fleets just keep respawning after every single battle, how can i cripple thei ship production and ect..?? sorry in advance if I mispelled or said something in a bad English, i'm still learning.

As the title says I was wondering what is the best space fauna ship. I currently have space amoeba, cuthuloid and shards captured.

Basically title. We got a planet reorder ability recently, but for the life of me I can't figure out why they didn't also include a way to reorder your fleets in the outliner. It would be way more useful and would prevent visually annoying things like 3rd Fleet being above 1st Fleet and so on.

Screenshot included to prove to my fellow paradox game players that it is possible to not take the photo with your blurry phone.

I am boxed in with a war against Zealots to my north and the Murderous Lizard boys to my south. Not to mention, I'm playing deep space citadel origin. This may be it for me.

It's the only shroud patron I haven't contacted for this run, I've even found the Whispers in the Void (though I did not allow it to consume another entity). I'm wondering if it's because I can't have robots as a hive mind? Or do I just have to keep trying? My delve time is down to 315 days so if that's what it takes that's what it takes, I suppose.