This Completely Changed How I Play Stellaris | Build Showcase & Game Mechanics

From one of my least favorite civics to one I can't imagine not using in a whole host of my meta build ideas! The sheer flexibility and combo potential once you understand the basic mechanics behind It Is truly staggering!
Three cheers for Parliamentary System!
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[@samueltrusik3251]

Reject micro. Embrace faction unity.

[@Xymor]

Cybernetics can assimilate both Biological and Mechanical hive mind pops.

[@radaro.9682]

Nice!

[@drewdidit2627]

This champ has been really spoiling us lately. Never gets old!

[@vo1dstryd3r44]

Quick reminder Lathrix, Planetary capitals now have designation types, so for a little extra output, such as a trade capital (10% more trade) or say extraction capital (+15% worker output), I noticed you weren't using the new designations so just wanted to give a tip to help in further games ^-^

[@BOB-43445]

Z xccz😊,c XV jg

[@lakdav]

*sheds a tear for my usual 2 Unity worlds per sector as a machine empire struggling forever with unity while super-egalitarian rabble are more united just by existing

[@Nota-Skaven]

Mechanical empires unite (not too much though my energy income is dying) 🤝

[@Arbaaltheundefeated]

Or just be smarter machines, go Rogue Servitor! Unity up to your optical sensors!

[@draconicblade5494]

I would love to see more stellaris 👍

[@sirgaz8699]

Cyborgs do get the cyborg trade trait but you have to pay for it per pop but if you go psionic with legally distinct Slaanesh, its special building gives +10% TV empire-wide and +15% from its chosen ruler.

[@Alister222222]

I think the way it works is that the trade value from pops is multiplicative with empire trade value; this means the +25% you get from cyborg trade value effectively multiplies by your empire trade value bonuses, making it more like +50% after all multipliers.

[@robertblume2951]

Also remember you can add bio pop traits as well and the 2 bonuses you get for production from being cyborgs.

[@Edelweysss]

It's still totaly worth it to pay for even multiple cyborgs points considering the fact that even for species with a lot of cyborgs traits the numerous reduction on pop upkeep you get from cyborg tree, cyborg trait on personalities + the natural bonuses on pop upkeep you get per level for each governors. It make those energy upkeep merely irrevelant and way better than psionic on a trade value perspective considering the amount of trade value you get from the trading algorithm. Considering the comparison with psionic i believe the calculation make the individual bonuses for each pop producing TV is more important than the bonuses empire wide and planet ones like the other comments said.

[@Edelweysss]

@@robertblume2951 the job ressources production bonuses doesn't apply to TV, that's the reason why you won't lose TV for employing clerks or merchant on a 0% habitability planet despite the 50% job output malus.

[@bodbyss]

It's just .27 energy per pop (or much less depending on agendas and governors). For 1 point, and a trifling bit of energy, the trade value trait is still be best thing around for a trade based empire. Plus if you really hate it that much, remove it from any planet that isn't trade focused, no big deal.

[@coopermorlan8930]

This is a something I'd like to see continued in the feature

[@jeffreyzhang1796]

Videos is not every month? Where are you hiding the REAL Lathrix?

[@Name-k9f]

*Faction unity* works like this. *Formula:* 0.25 × faction's political power × faction approval × faction support × (1 + Σ modifiers) *Political Power:* This is all summed up. Each pop has 1 base political power. Political power from living standards increases this. Ex. Academic privilege gives ruler pops 900% political power. This essentially makes 1 ruler pop act as 10 pops instead. *Faction support* = Faction political power / Σ Political power of all pops in all factions *Other things of note:* Rouge servitors drone pops have 0.09 base political power and bio-trophies have 1 base political power but also get +1000% political power. Slaves get -75% political power than a non-slave pop, but they also can't be part of a faction. Shared burdens is only better than academic privilege if the number of worker pops is greater than 10 × Σ ruler pop + 5 × Σ specialist pop and everyone is in the egalitarian faction. Political power also affects how much a pop's happiness will impact stability.

[@Lukashoffmann94]

I don't think your last statement regarding Shared Burdens is correct. The worker count being greater than 10x rulers + 5x specialists is without taking the 2x unity multiplier into account. So you would "only" need 5 worker pops per ruler and 2,5 per specialist.

[@vrenshrrg]

It's really unfortunate that the "most" egalitarian living standard, utopian abundance, really makes the egalitarian faction unity gain theme fall flat on its face due to how little political power *all* pops have.

[@Fabunility]

​@@Lukashoffmann94 That's also wrong since it ignores the fact that academic privilege workers still have political power, you need 8 workers for every ruler since 1*10+8*1 = 1*2+8*2 so 9 pops would provide 18 political power under either system and an additional 3 workers for every specialist as 3 workers + 1 specialist provide 8 political power under either system using those ratios. Realistically though those are never ratios that you want to achieve as specialists are king in this game which make academic privilege so good.

[@freezingphoenix7512]

Even though i own 3 DLC and never get past the first 50 years i love seeing these strategies :)

[@milomichelisaustin1981]

I would have reccomended using shared burdens. as much as it does not allow any living standard other than shared burdens, it doubles the unity gain from the egalitarian party.

[@milomichelisaustin1981]

the moment i say that i see him say that in the video. damn.

[@connorp.3524]

But the shared Burden living standard tanks unity because of the political power debuff doesn't it

[@smile-tl9in]

This is unfortunatly a trap. This is because the unity each pop generate through faction is multiplied by their political power. The shared burden living standard does not increase political power of any strata. Compare to academic privilege who gives specialist 5 times the base political power and ruler 10 times, and the fact you want in practice spam as much metallurgists and scientists jobs as possible who are specialists, and you can see how you can massively outproduce unity compared to shared burdens. Nah the real parelemntary system build have a splash of materialist for academic privilege

[@smile-tl9in]

Note : after the new patch it is no longer a trap. Utopian abundance provide 400% political power to every class. Shared burdens 300% but is much less costly in terms of consumer goods

[@calvinmirandamoritz4507]

Gotta say the Civics Showcases are a great idea and I enjoy watching them tremendously, as much as the full play throughs. I'm also in love with you at this point, thank you for making the only worthwhile Stellaris content On Here and not being an insufferable arrogant asshole

[@emeryingebretsen3038]

You’re easily my favorite Stellaris KZbinr!! Love these new build videos too, they’re a fun variety from normal playthroughs

[@rattled6732]

I like commenting on You’re Videos to feed the Algorithm

[@liambutler2239]

i comment on your comment to double the boost

[@somedudeok1451]

I've been saying for years that Parliamentary System is actually good. Some people laughed. The power of that civic was always that it just lets you focus on other stuff while passively shoving you through the tradition trees. It was always good and ever since the changes in the last expansion it's great. People have been sleeping on this for years.

[@RobBCactive]

Most of the Meta is based on MP where a rush to an effective fleet in 2230 with enforced peace beforehand skews the game. SP strategies that set you up for 2275 onwards even using a handicapping origin are just too long term. Lots of the discussion around Stellaris is black/white without mentioning the settings, yet a long Huge galaxy game is very different to the compact ones used for MP. An example of good SP strategy is building bots to use as specialist workers, the pay off comes too late for MP rushes, where they'll avoid the exo-skeletons as it opens up the wrong parts of the tech tree.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@RobBCactive Nah dude, I'm always talking about competitive 2230 strategies. And Parliamentary System is effective in that context, because it frees up plenty of specialist jobs. People think the CG bonus from Masterful Crafters is good, well Parliamentary System lets you save way more CGs by not having to pay for unity generation. And if you do choose to build even just culture centers, you'll be getting at least one extra tradition tree done by 2230. Also, what you say about robots also isn't true. Getting robots early can be extremely beneficial, because you'll have quite a few extra pops working from years 20-30 when you're trying to max resource output to construct your fleet.

[@RobBCactive]

@@somedudeok1451 Only if you can get the bots early enough but they consume alloys in manufacture. Recent versions have become imbalanced, but it wasn't the case in fairly recent versions. It takes quite a while to turn out bots and you're fore-going the opportunity to bee line to to tech you want as powered exo-skeletons opens up a lot of possibilities. I don't see why you're saying nah, because effectively your reply is a demo of needing to know specifics. In the past parliamentary helped with other things longer term, but just had a significant unity boost for fulfilling mandates early on in the game. Factions earned influence and you needed unity workers if you wanted rapid completion of traditions. Parliamentary has been made more viable in MP meta, but my own favourite unity strategy was slowed behind the traditions and other stipulations in the recent game. Who knows what will work in future versions as the game strategy is NOT stable.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@RobBCactive Meta doesn't have to be stable to have Parliamentary System work in it currently. The rest of what you said doesn't really contradict my points. Robot workers remain valuable despite making bee lining more difficult (metallurgy techs are just there to make more alloys out of less workers, but you just have more workers it's pretty much the same) and Parliamentary System does the stuff I said it does in MP, so it's not a single player strat.

[@RobBCactive]

@@somedudeok1451 I never was contradicting your point, that was getting the wrong end of the stick. The instability makes discussing Stellaris without specifying a whole load of conditions pointless .. so I give up on this.

[@anormos7270]

Isn't a Gouvernor as Leader better for Tradebuilds? can get +Tradevalue after all

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

16:40 actually, due to the balance changes between shields and armour, auto-cannons aren't actually that good. Weirdly, lasers are one of the best weapons, just behind missiles, whirlwind missiles and torpedoes. At least as far as regular slot weapons that aren't Archeo-tech go.

[@igncom1]

I think people under chemical bliss don't take a penalty to trade. So you can have real coked up traders!

[@ivrywinterguard9501]

Perfectly balanced 🫖☕️

[@fantasypvp]

If i remember correctly you played robocraft on the channel a long time ago, apparently there's gonna be a complete remake / sequel of the game coming soon, that would be really cool to see on the channel when it releases

[@Bored_Nerd]

Stellaris!!! "I fianlly have gas so let's get to work"

[@dajosh42069]

These have been fantastic. I only wish that they WERE full playthroughs. But I'm really eager for that Full one next week! :)

[@herosvicentegonzalez7872]

It's crazy to think that after probably thousands of hours you can still find new strategies

[@JofreRS]

For this type of short playthroughs/testung build, where you usually stop at 100 years, you could set the crisis at 100 years too, so it's a little bit more exciting. Also, it could be interesting to see you lose instead of just stop playing.

[@juhn155]

Ah finally, you understood how parliamentary system work :D

[@blastcrash8247]

Actually love these build videos, everyone is talking about the latest and greatest meta builds often focused on multiplayer. These 'off' builds are really refreshing and are greatly appreciated!

[@Piligrime1000]

Hello from empire description screen. Is it me or this empire look like early Foundation? But we skiping teocracy and move straight to the merchants?

[@TeamTecGolar]

the build is probably no longer relevant because the fractions give basically 0.3 unity. And you have 0.5

[@Reoh0z]

Remember way back when you needed things on the planet, not your empire, to fullfill needs? That sucked.

[@varasatoshi3961]

I love fanatic egalitarian with parliamentary system, shared burdens and meritocracy. So many resources and unity. Good stuff.

[@Reoh0z]

I'm listening to the past where future Lathrax transitioned into the younger, older Lathrax.

[@Bo-k_t]

Long live the Eternal State of Smeggle, the only star empire I can support.

[@SephirothRyu]

The birds are going to buy all our gizzards! This is a very unusual invasion.

[@beckmydog8439]

I love the Stellaris

[@imblackmagic1209]

by then end you basically won, total galactic domination thanks for the video

[@themaxxnotbinary]

I have been really enjoying the build videos. As someone who really enjoys Stellaris but is not good at it they are an excellent way to both learn about specific builds and learn more about all the game mechanics. The slightly more in depth style is great. ps Love the full playthroughs too.

[@nagirok1]

more of these vids if you can❤❤❤ i love these and stellaris is aseries i wish i could see continue

[@hubertino855]

I love merchant guilds post update as an Trade build enjoyer this pleases me greatly, awesome video as always Lathrix!!!!!!!

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

Montu? This isn't the lizard mans channel. This is lathrix.

[@hubertino855]

@@Santisima_Trinidad Crap... Epic fail on my side than...

[@bodbyss]

Eh. This build could have ignored trade completely, he didn't really do anything with that part. At least not until he was already massively dominant. It was effectively just a factions and tech rush build.

[@LordTeronal]

I'm so looking forward to the God-Emperor vs. All Crisis Playthrough! Keep up the good Work!

[@danhaggerty847]

Obligatory comment

[@Elyseon]

Human Devouring Swarm? You mean tourists?

[@Reoh0z]

I once had such a booming economy I needed to have stations in every system of the economic "backbone" of the empire from one end to the other just to keep the piracy down.

[@Reoh0z]

Just to be clear, it was like a row of about a dozen stations.

[@lovis1188]

i love that you are releasing more videos!

[@rodrigoal.gar.278]

I see Lathland stellaris, i like what is see

[@normal6969]

And you've tried it, and it works at last. I'm trying out new origins-starts - I wonder is there a tech for the artifact miner because now the bestest is Remnants for me. Crisis lvl4 only plus that more vassals perk, yeehaw, the Blunt Historians became. :) Now trying away on an island, a galaxy maker minigame with some baseline Certus MI because they nice, good guys. Eböblá-hábáblá for your clan, too!

[@isuckatusernames4297]

anyone here wants to see lathrix play modded stellaris again ?

[@fantasypvp]

I'm here for from the depths

[@Kevbo2040]

Personally I love these longer 'build test' videos. They're entertaining enough to watch, but also something I can play if I want to just chill out or need something relaxing while I'm in bed falling asleep. Good stuff!

[@sirbreadstick5664]

stellaris is a series I wish to see continued in the future

[@Leonidas1210vc]

8:13 woooah there lath, take'em to dinner first.

[@okto_0]

The Build videos are really cool! Love them! Edit: Please show us your planets more! I wanna see where all this sweet research is coming from!

[@Uloncl]

been loving the recent build and full playthrough videos, cant wait to see u get back to other games as well (hopefully cosmoteer?) if ur interested the stellaris evolved mod adds a lot of fun interesting things

[@VenomSteak]

I'm just not gonna be tired of your Stellaris videos. Thanks Lath.

[@elicoleman8631]

I would love nothing more in my life than stellaris

[@TheNo15]

It seems like every time I think of a build lately, Lathrix is already on it. Can't really complain though, I'll take it! :) Edit: Academic privilege is better than Shared Burdens for political power unless you have a ridiculous amount of workers. Shared Burdens essentially has 200% political power for all egalitarian pops, but materialist has 500% for specialists and 1000% for rulers, so you just need enough rulers and specialists to offset it.

[@OthiOthi]

Why does my game not display the "Allows the unlocking of Council Position" buffs of civics?

[@EclipseClemens]

This is a something I'd like to see continued in the future

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

Lathrix plays game he likes, Lathrix happy and delivers good content. Peeps happy with game choice and content, engagement increases. Happy Lathrix thrilled with engagement, finds broken game builds and shares them. Peeps enthusiastically gives hints and tips, Lathrix learns more about game. Thrilled Lathrix combines hints and tips with broken build, build exceptionally broken and a pleased Lathrix pushes game to it's limits late game. We peeps like Lathrix happy, thrilled and pleased, so even more broken builds please? Please Sir, can we have some more, please?

[@unknowngamer37415]

One comment to please the algorithm.

[@Threeve703]

I can't for the life of me figure out how you get 100K + fleet power ~ 50 years into the game, along with a booming economy and tons of research. And not just with this empire, but any empire. I feel like I bust my ass, expanding, building, increasing fleet size, research, and I never get anywhere near your numbers. I've got hundreds of hours on this game and I have absolutely no idea what I am doing so ineffectively.

[@TrueChaoSclx]

man, watching you play this really reminds me how BAD I am at this game xD Tried two "Payback" origin runs so far and both failed because of aggressive neighbours conquering me. My third run is only going ok because I willingly became a vassal of an aggressive neighbour to buy myself time.

[@seyvetch7863]

I sure liked and commented :) Havent watched stellaris in a while. From before toxic god and its wild seeing all these changes at once :0

[@rattled6732]

I love your Stellaris videos please keep ‘em coming

[@TheNo15]

5:50 In case nobody else comments this, the faction unity calculation is 0.25 x total political power of faction members x faction approval x (1 + faction unity bonuses). 12:50 Yup, cyber can assimilate hives.

[@derpadap7011]

I enjoy playing fanatic xenophile egalitarian empires with Parliamentary system, the amount unity and consumer goods you can get with trade on top of Parliamentary system means you can focus all your resources to alloys and science. cyborg is also great not only for the trading algorithms but also the durable trait which cuts amenities usage in HALF for pops, Its S - TIER.

[@SgtCookie111]

When playing a Trade Federation, Lathrix, you want the _minimum_ term time when using Golden Rule. See, the "invest it" benefit of winning Golden Rule doesn't scale based on term time. So instead, you want it as often as possible.

[@hansgutz9225]

Unrelated question: I am in a war as an ally, which my ally is losing. The enemy has claims on my systems but none of them are occupied. My ally decides to surrender the war which gives them all of my systems they have claimed but not occupied and i can't do anything about it. is this intended and why can't I keep fighting this war to prevent my ally from gifting them my systems?

[@mister_dadstersays_hi7372]

Hey lath, here's an idea, authoritarian, fanatic xenophobe, overtuned origin, no starting traits, cyborgs, with population controls this is the most overpowered build I've tried. It's not even as micro-intensive as I thought it would be at the start, once you make a template of your pops for every job, any new planets you conquer you decide what you want that planet to be and then put the pop optimized for the job.

[@Reoh0z]

Alulelilagh to you too friend.

[@cringelord7776]

Just came to say WHIRLWIND MISSILES ARE WORTH IT. THEY ARE RIDICULOUSLY OVERPOWERED AND SO ARE DISRUPTORS.

[@LadyMorrigan]

Haha parlimentary system has been my go to civic for like more than 8 months now lol, its always been so good. It was pretty much THE reason to use democratic authority. Just insane unity gain without needing any jobs. Now with the speaker of parliment its even good enough that you dont need to swap it out later. Im glad to see you finally appreciate its glory 😤

[@bodbyss]

If intending to go cyborg ascension, in my mind you want to take only 2 positive species traits and 1 negative trait at the start so that you save more 'trait picks' later on for your cyborg templates. Which gives you the most flexibility. You stacked up too many bio traits at the start and you're stuck with the positive ones for the rest of the game for all of your templates. Which might not be ideal on some planets.

[@Striiiider]

absolutely love seeing all the interesting builds you come up with. i wouldnt play stellaris half as much if not for your videos

[@martheon2513]

Can't wait for the next full playthrough, loving these stellaris videos Lathryx

[@traveler263]

at first I couldn't play the game due to the flood of tedium that paradox tends to add over half a decade of paid updates. but it's gotten to the point, where just like EU 4, I can't even enjoy watching a youtube video due to the insane amount of changes made by single terminally online men for single terminally online men.

[@pancakes4193]

I think Technocracy is better still since the Shared Burdens living standard has very low political power, so the double faction bonus is mostly just there to offset that a bit.

[@happyhafer1403]

sounds like you need a mod to further strengthen the endgame crisis to keep it challenging, if you are already more than ready 15 years before the earliest possible spawn date. i mean, i know that this was just a very potent empire type but you are already a good player to rather easily overwhelm the opposition most of the time regardless the empire type you are playing. some struggles are there, when you play the more niche/roleplay heavy builds, but you still win even with handicaps, most of the time.

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

Praise the algorithm !!! MAY IT PUSH THAT VIDEO FORWARD !!! :)

[@therealozy4049]

I would love to see more stellaris

[@jakobknudsen6864]

30:44 "Why cyborg so good money? Lath no know!" Just wanted to highlight this golden quote for anyone who may have missed it, lol

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

I guess now I can play space communists. But I wanted to be the Trotskyist kind

[@rramos117]

Ahh yes, Montu did a parliamentary system build as a technocratic empire with robots and psionic ascension. The civic made it so the spiritualist faction was suppressed and he could keep robots workers and leaders.

[@alterranlongbow5067]

25:00 don't forget that ecumenopoli get +20% resources from all jobs, it won't scale as well as ascending a research ring world, but it's still good

[@phoenixdelta346]

And where do those 200-300 unity per month come from? Just from a single egalitarian faction?

[@xxoctixx]

comment 21 of asking for more Airships: Conquer The Skies.🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘

[@joaobarbaca3097]

ive been trying this parlamentar shit its just not working for me idk why i dont get why its not goin aproval rate is 100 ive got loads of hapiness and stuff but its not giving me jack shit idk why

[@CrimsonReaper189]

something u shoudl try messing about with is slaves this patch u with domination and the new agendas u can get slaves that have 100% output from jobs in there fist 10 years of the game

[@lemons2290]

It might've been better to switch from materialist to xenophile after ditching technocracy but overall looks very interesting might try it!

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Builds are great. Full playthroughs are good for content but just showing off some mad things ya can do is very good for a video snac

[@feekygucker2678]

“…broken members of parliament…” - given the release date, is this a Nadine & Boris tribute video? 🤔

[@Roketsune]

8:11 "Ooo, I want to invade you *desperately* " Wow, that was one of the creepiest and most erotic things I've ever heard on these sorts of videos. Bravo!

[@sssss-tm1vw]

I love how much you love this game

[@Jukantos]

Lathrix, with absolutely no context: *STATE OF SMEGGLE* 🤣

[@ghostlyanarchist4952]

I do love the stellaris but i really miss avorion im not sure how many updates have come but id assume quite a few so plz lathrix get back into avorion at some point

[@Someoneyou_usedtoknow]

Even though I play Stellaris on console, this is really interesting to watch and I like to waste my time watching videos like this.

[@terry9819]

Thanks for the video. Could Clone Army and Death Cult complement each other in any way?

[@spencerruston406]

With mercantile giving more leaders and trade, wonder how much of an early game boost the empire would have gotten with it first?

[@prateekkarn9277]

I love the stutters u kept in. Moar derp feel more lathrixian = feel more good Speech impedimenent yay?

[@Leonidas1210vc]

As always Stelaris is a Series id like to see contnued in the future.

[@johnhobbes2268]

Both, the ring world origin and the voidborne option will allow you to have the majority of your population employed as rulers.