Stellaris

[Sim Trekker 41]

Has anyone here played Stellaris? It's published by the same bunch that did C:S. It's a real-time grand strategy game set in space where you can design and govern a star empire. I'm absolutely loving it, and the new Utopia expansion is excellent too. 

[Toby Ferrian 875]

I've played it. While it is a good game, I've found that it, like many other space games, is a fairly shallow experience. I'd definitely be up for a multiplayer game sometime though.

I only have the base game.

[Sim Trekker 41]

47 minutes ago, Jolteon said:

I've played it. While it is a good game, I've found that it, like many other space games, is a fairly shallow experience. I'd definitely be up for a multiplayer game sometime though.

I only have the base game.

I've never played an online match in Stellaris as I found single player deep enough!  There's another game like Stellaris that's even deeper called Distant Worlds: Universe. However it's single player only, and it's top down. Each game has a different focus. 

Btw, the Utopia expansion makes Stellaris a great deal deeper. I highly recommend it.

[Terring 6,473]

I have seen some videos about in on YouTube and it looks awesome. I wish I had enough money to buy the game and a better computer to play it.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I have Stellaris but I have yet to play it. Maybe I'll play it this week? It looks really fun by the looks of it (especially in VOD's and LP's).

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I started playing Stellaris today with a couple of mods. I made a custom empire that prefers Swamp worlds (I initially thought about making it atoll, like the Lumeris, since they are amphibian humanoids) with the home system being a 12-habitat ring world. They use Reptilian architecture and ships. I might just stay in my home system the entire game or just set up stations in nearby systems since I have access to the equivalent of 12 Gaia worlds with 25 tiles each. Something I noticed is that some of the tiles (4-6 per ringworld habitat) don't have any yields whatsoever. I admit to save scumming a couple times.

[LexusInfernus 908]

I played it a bit and I think its a meh game. 

Mostly the way they try to balance stuff just flies in the face with the narrative the game is trying to set up. Yes, I understand that from a gameplay perspective its unbalanced if the player can recruit countless big scientists or generals or politicians. But at the same time, I'm playing as a species that has mastered its homeworld and is in the process of setting up an interstellar empire. Are you really telling me that a homeworld that has a few billion inhabitants only produces 10 people smart enough to be a scientist/general/politician? 

That kind of limited access to 'hero' characters makes sense in a game set in a pre industrial setting focusing on nations instead of interstellar empires. 

And honestly, games like Endless Space also give you limited access to hero characters, but at leas there its not absolutely necessary to have one on your scouting units or researching new tech. In a game like Endless Space it also makes heros actually special because your entire empire isn't depended on them to run the show. 

But really, this problem, as well as all the other artificial barriers that Stellaris keeps throwing at you. And while there is a way to push the barriers, the fact that they are so prominently there and are so completely out of touch with the narrative keeps me from remaining interested for more than an hour or two. 

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I love strategy games and sci-fi so Stellaris, CivBERT, and Endless Space tick off more boxes than most games.

 

I have yet to run into the hero limit but then again, I only have 1 fleet (apparently splitting fleets is bad), 3 science ships, and 2 worlds (both in the same system).

[Leo_the_robot 67]

I play at least one game of stellaris every weekend.
it usually takes me 5+hours to go from start to finish, and I love playing cybernetic and synthetic races because fun.

I do love the way the addons are going though, it's nice to have a large scale 4X type RTS (grand strategy?) game that's constantly maintained.