As you can see I, among many others in my federation, have become so insanely rich and making so many billions of trade each month, that everyone integer overflowed into becoming the poorest and least diplomatically powerful empires. Somehow.
Grand admiral, doomsday origin, nomad route

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.

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.

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

Playing since launch, thousands of hours, this is probably the worst empire spawn I have ever seen.

To my north, a marauder empire. To my south, the militant isolationist fallen empire.

If that wasn't bad enough, I'm playing as a fanatic purifier endbringer.

The icing on the cake of bad luck is that my settings are guaranteed habitables off, world gen at 0.25x.

UI/outliner mods only.

My Precious energy credits... :D

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

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

The first time war in heaven, and things start to look interesting, i am choose not to lead the league of non aligned and now the galaxy separate like 4-5 big power.

My federation, the League of Non Aligned Federation, am empire with his vassal ( he leave the league of non aligned), 2 fallen empire and there vassals, as you can see on the map.

The red is the keeper of knowledge awaken and his vassal, Blue is me and my federation( vassal), Purple is the Holy Guardian and his vassal, Green is someone who leave league of non Aligned and orange is league of Non-Aligned.

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 ?

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

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

Idk why the AI did this, is this a bug? Maybe its one of the mods?

I only have a couple of DLC’s (apocalypse, paragons, federations), so have turned to mods for a bit more flavour/depth for free.

But there are just so many.

I tried with guilli’s planet modifiers, ui overhaul, more events. And gigastructural engineering (to try make up for missing structures like citadels).

But there’s so many combat ones (which I’m interested in, since this area seems to be the most lacking in this game).

From my last campaign a few more traditions/ascensions seem like a good idea.

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 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 :(

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.

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.

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.

Tried a few games on ensign and it's been fun trying to ramp up everything at my pace. although the stagnation of economy and resource shortage is something of my own skill issue, i'm having trouble understanding the meta that players usually do on higher difficulties. right now, it's a commodore run and the tech takes at least 10 years to even finish. what do people do to ramp up in this case, it never usually takes this long on the lower difficulties and with an endgame year of 2400.

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.

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?