How To Tech Rush In Stellaris

Tech rushing in Stellaris is.. unique..
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Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive. Stellaris' gameplay revolves around space exploration, managing an empire, diplomacy, and space warfare with other space-faring civilizations.
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[@invictus7736]

This doesn't seem to include the crucial step of getting immediately rushed at year 12 by an exterminator with a fleet power of 7000

[@Ep3o]

At least it was 12 years in and you can restart 😂

[@ClaudiaOliveira-j3j]

Atleast its not a fallen empire

[@leahmercredi4134]

​@@Ep3oThe worst part is when u get something super rare during those 12 years, like the horizon signal ;-;

[@Acemanveryspecial]

Or a voidworm army hitting your capital and you can't build a fleet to counter it.😂

[@battlesheep2552]

Skill issue

[@theduckcompany]

Looking forward to the new version of this guide when 4.0 hits lol.

[@SerfinBird]

Along with the new meta for why clerks are bad.

[@LeahBouley]

I know this will all be moot Ina month xD

[@Miaauify]

yes, Stellaris changes so much that large parts of these guide become partly incorrect, but 4.0 i think will mean mostly incorrect. Sigh. I will relearn the game, as I always, while complaining to my wife that it is so different (Tip, I will need to get my wife hooked on a "her" show at the time, so I can play at night, next ot her on the couch, but not HAVE to watch..)

[@_Lumiere_]

​​@Miaauify I see it as getting a new Stellaris as if youre playing for the first time every few years. Pretty big imo.

[@PyroMancer2k]

Ep3o, "Behold the perfect Tech Rush Guide." Paradox, "Great News we're releasing 4.0 and changing everything about how the economy works."

[@Ep3o]

Guess I’ll just make another video after 4.0 ;)

[@PyroMancer2k]

@@Ep3o Hopefully it'll be finished before 5.0 ;)

[@acadiano10]

​@@Ep3oand we appreciate you keeping up with the "good news, everyone!" briefings! ❤

[@jinxomg]

*Barbaric Despoilers* : Hmm... why tech when 100 rock make ship?

[@acadiano10]

I just take Barbaric Despoilers to avoid migration treaties. But also yes alloys, alloys makes the world go .... Flat! 😅

[@RubberToeYT]

I am fairly new to stellaris and didnt realise policies and factions were so important, great video

[@vaendryl]

> how to tech rush: > build a lot of science buildings. thx dude.

[@molybdaen11]

- outsource unity - outsource food - outsource energy - make one alien faction happy - do not expend over 100 empire size. - use the market to trade for what you need - enhance your leader exp gain - use edicts - use Dyson swarm and ark furnace but be aware of the costs - do not be afrait to fail, keep playing and try to survive the crisis - never do xeno compatibility, ever!

[@vaendryl]

@ > build a lot of science buildings > also just play the game thx, bro.

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Sounds like you either already knew enough to do all of this yourself, and this video was unnecessary for *you*.

[@jayhayhay5124]

Good to hear that you know how to do a thing.

[@vaendryl]

@ true, that is pretty good.

[@glowcloudwheatproducts495]

I JUST made an empire with the exact combo of fan egal and parliamentary while having intelligent and engineer as species traits for max science lol. Its nice to see a build i came up on my own in a rush build video, maybe im actually improving a bit haha

[@fvlse_]

As a regular working class dude that finds enjoyment in nerding out (casually) on games like this, I love watching your shit after a bad day. You’re a Stellaris guru. You take the time to figure shit out for idiots like me. 😂

[@purpledevilr7463]

I want to use this for rushing to Hive Worlds. As that pairs perfectly with Mutagenic Spas. Habitability remains 100%, and you gain more and more growth speed from industrial districts. Add budding and it’s just OP. Massive Pops and massive alloy output. All the while you can play wide.

[@SundayTopper]

Good to have a play-by-play. I do a lot of this with my cyber-merchants, but I also learned a few things. Good vid Ep3o. ♥

[@creamedgravy]

Knocking out any techs that you could get for free from anomalies, like Blue Lasers and Assembly Patterns, is also good to crack at because once you have them your reward for finding these anomalies is either more experience, research points, or getting ahead on a relevant tech.

[@Bashnudel]

Dosn't make it more sense to have your Homeworld designated to Alloys/Consumer Goods because of the Planetary Designation giving raw Ressource Output instead of having it be a Mineral World?

[@Ep3o]

You can, it really depends on what sort of planets you get!

[@winterthemuteson]

Little tip as well, you don't have to do the "transfer ships then move the admiral over" thing. You always start with three corvettes, and if you hit "split fleet" instead it always splits into a 1 ship fleet and a 2 ship, and the admiral will be in the 1 ship.

[@mitchellbarlow4553]

Just got into stellaris and this guide really set me up for success already playing on grand admiral difficulty on my 3rd game now only a week in :) thank you for what you do!

[@thomasator1139]

Unrelated but genesis guides with rogue servitor is super fun. Would love to see you try a run with it

[@BlackNyasher]

When i am somewhat tech-rushing - i am going for "merkantile" tradition and switching trade policy to "market of ideas" as my primary source of unity, and as for civics i am going for ones that provide scientist positions in council so more scientists - more bonus science i get as they lvl-up (ending up having only scientists and generals in council). Some time later i create trade federation which provides the universal trade policy allowing for receiving both unity, consumer goods and energy from trade, now also solving the problem of upkiping my scientists and actually allowing my pops to focus on trade instead of energy so much that i can complete the whole game never ever producing energy from pops (also without the need to switch to civilian economy since the most of consumer goods are coming from trade). Trade is simply more/too universal and reliable comparing to energy (because you can simply get no good planet for energy-crafting). Also i am always skiping "prosperity" and "discovery" traditions since only thing they are boosting are mostly numbers in the economic graphs, which is... not so interesting, while "merkantile" is mostly enough to solve the upkiping problem and going for other two traditions is somewhat overkill (and "harmony" can boost production via stability in addition to other bonuses so i prefer to go for "harmony" next). Also i am going Egalitariano-Xenophilic instead of Egalitariano-Materialistic empire. Combined with the focus on trade i can use it to sign commercial pacts left and right, and xenophilic faction is easier to please than materialistic one (going for utopian abundance instead of academic one tho, but it works better with the focus on trade as it boosts all classes and not specialists only). So at the end, while i avoided obvious steps in a tech-rush strategy, i still ended up with the nice research speed without sacrificing anything actually :V

[@silveredgamer6893]

And that's the great thing about Stellaris multiple paths to the same goal

[@jammerjansen]

The starter traits for leaders will only appear the 3 first levels. If you don't get an upgrade you want you should just increase whatever they started with to level two and hope for a better roll at level 3. If you have the trait you want and you're offered another desireable one you can just lock it in and increase one of them at level 3. At level 4 you get your specialization and after that you will be offered different traits anyways.

[@LostHCCommand]

30:52 Yes, The Bait Box worked!

[@Ep3o]

They truly got baited

[@dabluflcn]

I always start the game with the intent to tech rush into the federation of planets, but I also always start next to a devouring swarm and have to go the imperium of man xenos purging route. Although if you prepare for it, the diversion away from tech rushing into a corvette swarm war machine is a blessing in disguise, you don’t have to waste influence on claiming their systems since you’re purging… ending their threat. by the time the war is over you’re probably cranking out cruisers against their destroyers and your territory has doubled or more giving you a lot of access to new colonies to return to tech rushing into the benevolent overlord of the galaxy.

[@SoSezTheDude]

I found the mod "No Ethic Spawn Bias" helped me immensely with this issue. Vanilla galaxy generation guarantees that you will always, 100% of the time, be surrounded by civs with ethics opposed to you. This is by design as the devs think peace in the early game is "boring".

[@dabluflcn]

@@SoSezTheDude I’ll have to look that one up, I tend to just do more ascension perks and ship skin mods, but it sounds worth a try, I don’t mind starting next to a jerk civ if it means I can quickly gobble them up and double my empire size. Sometimes it doesn’t work and I am the one gobbled, but high risk high reward

[@SoSezTheDude]

@ With the mod it can still happen. It's just not _guaranteed_ to happen. It makes the ethics random, not weighted. I don't mind having hostile neighbors. I just don't like that if i go, say, spiritualist, i know before i hit start that i absolutely will be surrounded by materialists.

[@nick1752]

I really needed it yesterday... Dam.... Thanks for uploading!

[@Serratedmonkey4u]

Ah yes, just in time for 4.0 lmfao... Much love Ep3o, my people have been clacking rocks for hundreds of years

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

It's still a few months out

[@Pix3lBloom]

it takes a monumental amount of effort to resist the urge to go cosmo hive with these runs

[@acadiano10]

My best newbie tip on tech rushing is all the bonuses to research don't help if your base research is almost nothing. I played a long time before realizing this! Thanks for the great video as always 🎉

[@dubyah7308]

I feel like the new Grand ARchive makes amenities a bit of a joke. I don't know if I care about amenities from jobs anymore..

[@peterknutsen3070]

Yeah, Repugnant almost becomes free points.

[@MaleixonTwitch]

Over-tuned Origin gives 30% more science and stacks with Intellect, If you wanted to go full science :)

[@j.d.larsen]

Just did a Voidborne Genetic Ascension tech rush game and managed to get to 2.5k tech with 130 empire size at year 50, got real lucky and had a pacifist Life Seeded and Xenophile Ocean Paradise empire right next to me, so I got to early rush two size 30 worlds with the voidborne alloy bonus, then just made a butt ton of research habitats and used the worlds as my resource planets. It was so nice.

[@locustsun]

So, I get the startup to max science gain…but, maybe a guide for ANY empire to rush science in an efficient and effective way would be in order? I feel like I’ve seen this show before…

[@Slade0120]

I still don't understand how Edict Fund works, but this guide has been great!

[@Ep3o]

Essentially the edict cost will start pulling from your unity production when it goes over the fund! Anything below the fund is essentially ‘free’

[@davidd.w.8681]

12:11 the eternal struggle of Stellaris guides, elements that get outdated in a few months.

[@ketsueko7498]

i've tried a tech rush with driven assimilator voidforged genesis architect and it is fun. Habitat give a huge amount of tech early game, driven assimilator give you access to cyborg leader which gives more science and by using binary/trinary stars has hydroponics habitat with bio reactor you gain food and energy. with the cybernetic ascension basically you don't have pop growth penalty and gestation world give you ton of pop growth. (240% for me on a size 24 world) with genesis architecte you gain really fast pop that are good on land (your bio pop from voidforged become less and less relevant since you cannot change their habitat preferences). I used also machine world ascension perk but was disapointed because i thought that cyber pop had 70% habitability on it but no. 0% base hab but they can live on it. With genesis you can gain machine world preference pop but it become painful to transition between regular pop and machine preference one Maybe i could try world shaper with strip mining decision. -50% habitability on a 100% ideal world is still 100% hab. For food, still have hydroponic habitat and starbase, same for energy

[@ryrkra8096]

Props to people who play completely vanilla, even with UI Overhual, The planet view UI hurts my eyes

[@Qxema]

Love the factorio reference

[@neku.401]

Got really confused when I saw the factorio clip at the start lol.

[@DAethrys]

Brave of you to make this before 4.0 lol.

[@Plantera-s9v]

Would love to see you play some factorio❤!!

[@theorixlux]

Agreed!

[@lukaszprotas]

I am not arguing, this build is very solid and versatile. I just found out, that cybernetic creed with guardian civic is op. Engeneer civic, civic for leaders and rapid breeders. Also add that civic, that gives insane bonuses if there is no blocker on your planet. Sure, it is a little slow in first 30 years (in exception to engeneer reaserch), but after u colonize everything you want, clear blockers and add that augmantantion traits resources and tech is going to the north in cosmic scale. Only issue is to stay alive in first 30 years. But is not xenophobe and plays in minimum medium galaxy it is preety easy. Obvious down side is that build is very specific and not versatile. So I guess I do not argue, just curios others opinion, if I found good build or if I am delusion. Surely ops will comment on this if I am wrong ^^

[@DJNenjah]

who does your edits?? i need an editor!! Great video thanks for being my favorite stellaris channel

[@DzinkyDzink]

How to beat Empire Sprawl from Pops? Playing as a Genetically ascending Slaver Empire I got boggled down with +140% malus and cruisers taking ~156 months to research.

[@Ep3o]

Your options are; 1) produce more science 2) reduce sprawl from pops 1) if you have a lot of pops it may be worth making several science worlds! 2) there are multiple ways to reduce sprawl, of the top of my head it may be worth removing unruly via species tabs or adding sprawl reducing trait if you can! I can’t remember the other ways off the top of my head but worth looking at your traditions and ascension perks!

[@tunencio7288]

stack docile with nerve staple in your main slaves but I get you...I´ve played a lot of "Techno-necro" and those "food" worlds hurt a lot in the midle game

[@svttc7684]

thank you so much thebausffs

[@Campincowpoke]

0:35 That voice crack

[@Sukharno2121]

It revolted me that you didn't convert those bureaucrats into culture workers in the very early game, besides that this was pretty interesting.

[@zero_karma0496]

Bro, console is 7 origins behind 😭😭😭😭

[@skylearion57]

Hey just an idea I don't have a lot of money but want to get the dlcs required to do some of these and would like it if you made a edit of the video to have a little text that will say what dlc is required for each of the stuff you suggested and explaining like masterful crafters for instance.

[@AkihabaraWasteland]

Clerk rhymes with Park.

[@Miaauify]

I see you always play on Grand Admiral. Years ago, from about 1992, I played games on like Civilization 1,2,3 and so on, on Deity or Emperor at least. I find that as I got older, I just play normal difficulty on most games (RPG's and Strategy) and have fun. I just cannot be bothered to struggle and learn lots.. BUT I laugh a little when i hear @Ep30 say things like, "Even I, useless at this, can do this". Yet plays on Grand Admiral.....

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Can't believe you like tech too. We should Hang out!

[@ВиталийКотиков-т5э]

When it comes to building a race, aren't rapid breeders a must have as the sooner you build up your population the better (I would put it instead of ingenious in most cases, except for Synthetic Fertility for obvious reasons)? And when it comes to negatives, unruly and deviants are basically the free picks - unruly can be easily removed through the pop modification around the midgame while deviants practically don't have any effect whatsoever because ethics attraction is really easy to build up.

[@Ep3o]

Pop growth takes a while to actually compound to being profitable, I like a faster start so pick more resources from my pops! Then scale pops via conquest or vassaling! But up to you and your play style

[@ВиталийКотиков-т5э]

​@@Ep3oI see, I guess I was more of a Montu's student after all🤣 Makes sense as you RUSH your techs and early game advantage. Still, find your content more entertaining (no offense, Montu🤣).

[@jansatamme6521]

As machines you can actually get both as long as you start with one of the normal 3 preferences, you can just design a new pop day 1 with the mechanical rapid breeders and recycled (which lower assembly cost btw, its funny how it works) and then put the new species on assimilation rights and start producing them instead. You can also use this to get all 3 preferences essentially for free in some capacity. It's still useful on shattered ring/gaia world/habitat(i think?) preference, but you need a tech to do it. I think same applies for Hive Minds but im not sure

[@darkmattermango4775]

1:05 I mean, I pick natural physicists personally because I tech rush to tech rush.

[@SneedChuckson]

Don't play in this soulless way, the only way to have fun in Stellaris is to larp

[@felipebisi4145]

The best way to tech rush is.....unity rush until you do virtual ascencion......

[@facehugger8995]

I feel like you should be waiting for 4.0 because most of these guides will become obsolete

[@mrhonk8821]

How would one apply this to a machine race?

[@arczero88]

So many questions... but i guess im the most confused on how you were able to employ so many officers. Does tweeking the factions really give you that much or am i missing something? Also side note, i only have the game plus 3 expansions. Does this hinder me from accomplishing this? 150 bucks for all of them during the fall sale seemed excessive..

[@silveredgamer6893]

Your overall tech production might be going down because of the amenities on your home World being negative. It is difficult to get the research complex without doing one or two more basic computer techs. Such as Advanced survey protocols and basic combat computers.

[@woozyjackthegelatinous7946]

Everyone’s acting like stellaris 4.0 is coming out soon but the devs have explicitly said that they’re just starting development now and they’ve announced it early to get feedback. Did they start saying it’ll be out soon? Why are you like this?

[@Ep3o]

They said it’ll come out in May!

[@noirmoon4732]

I wish there where more guides for base console edition. I don't have $300 to buy all the packs. So much of this guide isn't available in the console edition.

[@strangejune]

1.0x tech is so slow omg. most gateways do not come online before crisis and megastructures are 2450 content

[@hipperigly7027]

i have suggestion play stellaris in worst way possiblle (idk if it is even posible but if other games like CK3 HOI4 have it why not stellaris)

[@yargolocus4853]

I agree. there is much to learn from other people's failures

[@molybdaen11]

So like creating a economy crisis and failing to address it, then losing all planets to a revolution?

[@nathanmckay2998]

🛸

[@tunencio7288]

At 0.75X all posible combination of civic/origin is techh rush..just build labs

[@RiwenX]

Or just idk rush unity, go virtual and pick cosmogenesis and win the game by the end of the 24th century at grand admiral :( I'm addicted sorry

[@Ep3o]

Ofc! Virtual is just busted, but if you don’t want to play it like that, this video will help the early game!

[@ВиталийКотиков-т5э]

​@@Ep3oit is - in our multiplayer game a friend of mine outscaled me in tech in the matter of decades after he virtually ascended around the mid/late- game and got an advice from me on how to play it. With me playing a Synthetic Fertility virtual megacorp which dominated (and still does) the galaxy for more than a century. So, yeah, machine virtuality is hellah powerful😅 Btw, thank you and all of the Stellaris KZbinrs for the invaluable tips that helped me and my friends to learn how to play on Grand Admiral😊

[@jansatamme6521]

@@ВиталийКотиков-т5э arent you meant to go modularity with Synth Fertility?

[@spartacus6256]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@jansatamme6521this here. For the first 100 years virtuality wins out on production, but if the games doesn’t end within that time, then Synth Modularity wins out due to all the resource boosting traits they can stack + not being limited to 4 - 6 planets + having insane amounts of pop production + having access to Ecumenopolis worlds.

[@niakitten2937]

Sorry, you're telling me I can legitimately run my empire off using excess energy to buy the other bits I need? o-o Why did that always feel like it wasn't viable? (Maybe because I live in the USA lmfao) Also, question! How does this change for Gestalt Empires?

[@Ep3o]

Yup! Gestalts are essentially the same, but better. You don’t need to worry about CG, but energy / minerals so just go harder into those. They also get to build solar panels on starbases giving them free energy, which is super strong!

[@kyussbuono2715]

Does this work for console?

[@Ep3o]

The basics should be the same but may be slightly different (not sure how far console is behind atm!)

[@kyussbuono2715]

​@Ep3o thank you! We just got galactic paragons but the leader system has been fully changed yet for some reason as we still have generals and can still assist research with scientists on planets. I don't know when those changes will come 😂

[@Ep3o]

@ defo assist research on your tech worlds!

[@christwubbles902]

7 ads only half way thru. You or Yt needs to sit n spin.

Why not technocracy though?

[@molybdaen11]

Because that's too easy.

[@brigantiasmemerepository6439]

You pronouncing deneb as "denbee" is confusing

[@Ep3o]

I can't red

[@brigantiasmemerepository6439]

@Ep3o fare

[@fourteenfour1]

empire size is such a boring mechanic because it added nothing to the game and was a poor solution to their attempts to stop tech rushing which they later tried to do by scaling which effectively is all for naught because many players set costs below 1

[@molybdaen11]

At least it gives smaller empires a chance to survive.

[@npc6924]

symbols on the thumbnail are awful

[@Mephil]

Learning this is a waste of time given that the game changes on a fundamental level every update

[@Polkijuh]

Only no views in 1 minute, bro fell off

[@KingDirtyThunderblade-hi4yf]

You are literally sitting here playing with the default shit ass UI and not UI Overhaul Dynamic, WTF is wrong with you??

[@Ep3o]

I like the default UI

[@KingDirtyThunderblade-hi4yf]

@Ep3o you're literally like the only one

[@yargolocus4853]

@@KingDirtyThunderblade-hi4yf I like it too.