Stellaris for Beginners - What is the Early/Mid/Late Game?

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[@SiveenO]

My Stellaris timeline: -Start -Expansion -Expansion -Expansion -Expansion -Expansion -get rekt by other empire -Denial -Anger -Bargaining -Depression -Acceptance -Return to Endless Space Edit: Wow I completely forgot about this. It's ironic to look back at this seeing how I have a lot more hours in Stellaris now over ES. Edit 2 - December 2021: So hm. I've come back to this comment after all this time. Things have changed. A lot. I stopped playing Endless Space (2) for example. Broken piece of shit game, no shade on ES1 tho. I've also gotten a lot better in Stellaris, to the point of being able to rush Cruisers in 2030 when I used to have them in like 2150 lol

[@overloader7900]

I once made ultra-fleet that have ~150 movement points and with two techs for free movement and virtual endless hero so it moves freely faster than starlines, also put lotta probes on heros ship for long seeing range. I used those from other universe civilization and used small ships with quadronix fleet accelerator

[@no3ironman11100]

My first game of stellaris: Start: -exploring, some expansion -exploring, some expansion -First contact -Wakes up and start expanding super fast to block other empire's hyperlanes -Allies the empire between me and the most threatening empire so I can stagger them off -Murders the purifiers with 8k fleets and eats up a lot of the galaxy -Litteraly feels like I'm in creative mode and the game is finished, goes to read reddit -Hears about "mid game crisis" and such -ANGER, DEPRESSION AND BARGAINING AT THE SAME TIME HEARING ABOUT SEVERAL 80k FLEETS THAT MAY ATTACK ANYTIME AS SOON AS THE FIRST EVENT HAPPENS EVEN THO I BARELY HOLD ONTO 30-40K SHIPS

[@no3ironman11100]

Crushed the endgame crisis with ease, now flying around with millions of fleet power, built megastructures everywhere, made the galaxy my b*tch and everyone is a xenophile democracy or else they get themselves in a dangerous situation, fallen empires bow in awe before my impossibly advanced technology and the might of my military, where I could still be more powerfull than them with only one of my planets.

[@GigglesClown]

@@no3ironman11100 use the crisis events mod to make every crisis happen at the same time as a challenge, I promise you wont regret it

[@davecrupel2817]

-???? -profit

[@salzich9990]

My Stellaris timeline: - Start - Corvette-era - Destroyer-era - Cruiser-era - Battleship-era - Crisis-era -Post-crisis-era - Victory or Sovngarde!

[@mehmetbahaozen8445]

Titans?

[@salzich9990]

Mehmet baha Özen They where introduced, after I posted this comment, but sure, they need to be integrated in my list. I would say between the Battleship and the Crisis-era.

[@zelongxiong5078]

Last stage, purge every pops

[@salzich9990]

Zelong Xiong For the Emperor! Purge the Xenos!

[@zelongxiong5078]

salz ich 😈

[@freakycrafter2059]

how almost all of my games play out: start corvettes block hyperlanes for more territory more corvettes did i mention corvettes? max-tech corvettes collosus lets start purging dem xenos

[@Someone-wj1lf]

Then a single point-défense cruiser with a carrier arrives,all your corvettes are dead now

[@neenm4299]

Let's be xenophobic ~ it's really in this year~

[@gabemerritt3139]

@@Someone-wj1lf half corvettes because idc if they die, half battleships with cloud lightning to ignore armor and sheild

[@thesting2395]

most ppl never see the late game they either get rekt in an early game war or the game becomes unbearably laggy 😂

[@saddemgargouri]

haven't yet to finish a 1000 stars game because it's so goddamn laggy it's unplayable ,

[@ysdom]

Yeah, it's true. It's also easy to dominate once you get your first few war wins and can usually beat the rest of the galaxy pretty easily. Would love to play on larger maps but it slows to a crawl after 60 years in or so. It's sad that such a low graphics requirement game is so poorly optimized for performance. I think it's just doing too many checks for what to do at any given moment instead of just doing buildings and other events once every 30 days or random frequencies.

[@thesting2395]

Project TsukiNoMe its a joke?

[@ysdom]

... Even the best single core performance processor slows way way down late game on just a Large map. How even more so on 1200? Game is not threaded so a 2-core will perform just as well as a 10-core. At 80+ years in, before a crisis, you want to give up and blow your brains out waiting for projects to finish and ships to be built. I usually do finish the game on Medium or Large map within the first 60 years playing tall but sometimes I want to play wide and on a bigger map. I play hard to very hard, never tried insane as very hard makes the game take even longer and I don't even want finish it on larger maps due to the crawl.

[@MyCrafcik]

I have 8700k,games runs at 20-30 fps at max speed ;-;

[@GreatMCGamer]

My first game: Lasted about 35 hours Galaxy of max size. 8 AIs. With second lowest difficulty. Couple fallen empires. I researched every anomaly. I was involved with 1 war in the last 50 years. I constantly did not have enough resources. My biggest fleet was 13k and I had 2 others with 5k. I had 2 fallen empires as my neighbors. One of them became the one to terrorize other fallen empires. I made a lot of starbases and fortified them at key points on the map. In preparation to defend when I get attacked. My Star bases were stronger then my own fleets. I had 12 thriving planets. I was just about to get 4th tier tech, as everyone else had 4 to 5 and had fleets of 20k. I won 3 battles against 10-15k fleets and 2 battles against 4k fleets. And I felt proud. I was 4th lowest on the leader board. Beating all those who had their asses handed to them in wars. Raging fallen empire won the game. I clearly did something wrong.

[@dutchtheguy849]

When End Game applies like a 100 years in as you conquer the galaxy as a fanatical purifier so unlucky he *DIDN"T EVEN HAVE T3 SHIELDS*

[@francescobonadies5955]

My average stellaris timeline: Discovery/Colonization Rush Poverty Federation Top Tier Weapons Top tier economy UNLIMITED POWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

[@toninhosoldierhelmet4033]

the poverty part is where i am, boi you need to build power stations like crazy to feed the colonys its stupid.

[@kysnaros]

And then get rekt by fallen or awaken empire

[@neenm4299]

I keked at poverty part. I'm forever there...

[@davecrupel2817]

I cant get people to like me enough to get them into my federation :(

[@sckecherten8304]

Get reked by scourge

[@SerAstraeusXIV]

Just started on Xbox and this game is truly beautiful it’s so fun

[@georgebeeson1844]

Me too started a few weeks back great game need more games like this for console

[@timwilliamson1967]

I agree, this is definitely a good addition to the console. Although I still have fond memories of Star Ruler and Home-world 2 on the pc.

[@jtr7377]

You will know when you are in the late game phase when your game starts to lag. Unless you are playing in a small galaxy, I guess.

[@RyderMCG]

Or when you realise the ai is braindead and within the first 100 years its piss easy to out power ever single faction.

[@XxTaiMTxX]

I've yet to complete a full run of Stellaris, but I'm currently working on it. How I've classified the eras of the game: Start Game - Pick something to play with. Early Game - Expanding until you literally run out of room to expand. Mid Game - Climbing the Tech Trees to maximize what you can do with the territory you own. Late Game - Hitting the wall in terms of resources or limits and having to decide on a path to the victory you had planned. End Game - Lots of wars pretty constantly and the galactic threat finally arrives. This is the rush to either win the game or end all threats to your empire in order to secure victory. Victory - What you ultimately do to win the game. Personally, I neglected most of my military as I had a very bad start to the game where the vast amount of my research points came from Society Research. Engineering Research was few and far between in my section of space and I had very little I could secure. I also had a lot of heavily intense anomalies that required a massive investment into Engineering Research just to complete them for their very good bonuses. I think I'm currently sitting on roughly 800 Society Research income every month while my Engineering is only like 294 a month. My Physics Research (I ended up with a ton of Black Holes) turned out to be roughly 500 a month. So, when I hit "End Game" and other civs were dragging me into wars while I was just trying to maximize my resources and keep from going broke... All my weaponry was still Tier 2 while I had maxed out all the Tech of Physics and Society. My fleet power was devastatingly low... But, all my ships had very high survivability (I'm not sure how it calculates Fleet Power, but it must more heavily weigh on weaponry instead of shielding and armor), so I was winning pretty lopsided fights and wars of attrition with strategically placed stations. I created just two fleets to run my territory and to secure other territory when allies would drag me into wars I didn't want to fight. I've been spending the game just trying to get my fleets up to snuff and get their guns up to Tier 5. I just recently got Battleships even. I was winning fights where my Fleet Power was only 5-7K and enemies I was up against routinely had 10-14K fleet power. Routinely. It was just difficult for enemies to kill my ships, and I had so many of the lower tier ships (Corvettes and Destroyers, with a few Cruisers to snipe with), so they'd stay in the fight a long time and just continue to pour damage on the enemy. So, now that I'm finally able to create fleet sizes of 20-30K, I think I'm well into the "Endgame". I've rapidly outstripped the AI just by sheer research alone and being dragged into wars, where I use them as opportunities to secure a lot of territory I wouldn't otherwise have. I'm just now starting to create Mega Structures (which was what I spent most of my Ascension Perks obtaining) and genetically engineering all the races in my empire to produce more minerals and take up less housing. The only reason I even started doing Mega Structures is because I was constantly in the red with Mineral Production (I was not blessed with a lot of sources of minerals in this game either... but I've got too many credits and too much food) and I needed a way to get a lot more... So... with all my Black Holes just sitting about... contributing little more than a single "Dark Matter" that I wasn't using... Now I've got one producing 900 Minerals a month for me. Playing catchup in the late game isn't that fun, but it's made my game fairly interesting... Now, if I could just figure out how to vassalize all these allies near me who insist on dragging me into a ton of wars. I'd love to get a portion of their resources for myself...

[@DragonfameDracas]

No wonder I never see the end game crises! I keep reaching victory in the late midgame!

[@MSpacer]

I'm sure your parents are very proud.

[@DragonfameDracas]

They're actually super disappointed, they think I should have finished by early midgame and think I'm a shame of a strategist. Y^Y

[@PPandaPete]

Stop playing on a small universe then! I myself played once on smallest with only 4 enemy races, and whiped them out with a mid game fleet too. But as long as you got the achievements, you got the achievements. ^3^

[@vain1337]

crank up the difficulty and galaxy size, casual! :)

[@DragonfameDracas]

I play on the largest scale, usually with thirteen or more races, might need to crank up the difficulty from normal like you said vain.

[@camsdaman3009]

My Stellaris Timeline: -Start -Exploration -Empire build up, economy, research, and new tech -Allies, colonies, helping planets factions get to my tech level so I can have a federation -Meet new speicies start to integrate into empire -Starts Federation with from vassal to ally independent empire -Waiting Waiting.... *Waiting....* -Sees war but not get involved -Sees my vassal (now an independent empire) start war with big faction -Knowing that the Federation wont last, -Builds 4 huge 10k fleets -Hits 30k -Preps for war -30% of empire gets swallowed by 100k fleets -Merges fleets together getting to 120k but loses to a combined 200k fleet -Allie rushes in to help bit fleet gets annihilated -Enemy rushes towards capital -Moves capital on the other side of galaxy -Starts peace -Starts from scratch *repeat*

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

Scrap Allies and put in Protectorates and Vassals if you want a fun high tech Xenophobe run Everyone hates your guts so make long wars, let them fracture while you vassalize the small ones Once the end game is coming, you annex vassals holding key defensive systems I am currently doing this run right now

[@Penningtontj]

"Your empire has become so large you need the AI to handle a lot of this stuff" more like "the game artificially forces you to turn over a chunk of your empire to an AI player who was dropped on it's head as a subroutine, thus has to be prohibited from doing nearly anything so as to not crap up your well built planets". At least now you can decide what buildings to have on your sectored planets. Honestly it feels less like a way of helping you manage your empire and more a way to help you deal with an awkward UI (that I would love to find a mod for that modularises it so I can pull stuff out of the Outliner into it's own window).

[@Cuttl.e]

Penningtontj what I do is get a more core systems mod and autobuild

[@agingermonster5711]

I just have a massive core planet selection, (I take the ascension perk for +5 and usually operate at around 12/10) and micromanage all of my planets until all of the populations/buildings are perfect. Then I stick all my currently planets it into a single sector that covers my entire empire and can sometimes end up containing like, 500+ planets in a single sector. Then, once I have lots of planets freed up again in my "core sector" I go conquer/colonise until I am full again. Rinse and repeat until I own the galaxy and a superbly, hilariously large fleet/fleets.

[@Vapor817]

best thing to do is to build up a core planet on outskirts, hand over to a sector and disable redevelopment once u finish

[@tennis2xl]

I know I am late to the party, but did you see the new Planet system? No more tiles! I think this will be better for people like me who seem to mess it up more then the AI. Maybe less work for the AI means it will be more efficient?

[@kayvee256]

To my understanding, that is 95% of the motivation behind the Le Guin update. Soon!

[@perpetualsystems]

My first game ended in a mid-game Federation victory, problem is the victory goes to the leader of the federation, so I technically lost though I had the most powerful fleet :/

There is no leader of a federation. Only temporary presidents every 10 years. Atleast it is now.

[@crageth]

I am not the biggest Stellaris player. I have never been in endgame. I am not really a strategy player at all, but a good friend persuaded me to check it out. Sure enough I got wiped pretty fast. As always when I dont understand a mechanic I checked a quick tips video on youtube. This is when I realized how many videos were outdated and werent usable at all and how much about the game I never used and understood. Since I always got old videos, bad explanations in threads around the web and explanations that presuppose knowledge about the game I was stuck on learning it the hard way and a friend that I love but that sucks in explaining something. So I had quite a few bad runs with basic starterbuilds and more exotic stuff like Warhammer 40k cosbuilds. Last weekend I got as far as I never came before. The fallem empires started the war. It was hard like shit because the empires needed to go either through my empire or my friends empire to fight. In the end, after around 12h of playing (not just that match) we both got wiped like little children, but it was fun as hell.

[@michab.r.1854]

This is what it's meant to be like. I feel that people stop enjoying the game with the idea of "winning" or forget that what they're doing is FUN

[@quentinmaus1602]

Can you start a feudal society series, playing rather tall and let your vassals and tributaries expand and fight for you? (possibly in Apocalypse)

[@Felrika]

This is quite possibly one of the most broken approaches up until a War in Heaven. It's entirely possible to get a win condition with just forcing tributary/vassalage alone. The problem comes from the War in Heaven, where most of your income turns to shit because you stop being top dog and people stop paying you.

[@thesuperginge1348]

I tried a run like this. It worked out really well for me, but it did feel a lot like I was rolling dice at times, and not as reliably solid as other stretegies. I was Life-Seeded (think that's what it was called, the one where you have Gaia world preference) and expanded far in terms of outposts, but hardly ever settling on other planets (mostly because I couldn't!) I only had science buildings on my planets and left all the minerals and energy gathering to mining platforms. Energy was most definitely the most troubling aspect. I very very quickly filled out all the traditions and tech trees though, which meant I could have a fairly sizable fleet and I just kept finishing the repeatable techs for energy boosts. Energy and mineral edicts were a necessity, but they were easily affordable, as I was getting a lot of influence from all my vassals and happy pops. Anyway, sorry for waffling, I could go on and on, but I really recommend giving it a go, it's a remarkably different way to play the game than I had done before, a lot more challenging, but no less enjoyable.

[@loosingmymemory7]

My only regret is there is no space tacos. Theoretically a taco can become sentient but realistically it will always be at war with the burritos.

[@Garykem8]

The Quesadillas would try and make peace

[@loosingmymemory7]

@@Garykem8 Stay interesting my friend

[@kythian]

For those of us that completely suck at this game, could you perhaps make a video detailing some strats/tips/hints for transitioning from early to late game? And maybe another video for infrastructure development during the mid game? Thanks!

[@goodname67]

Start dealing with your first factions. Combined consciousness: laughing in one person

[@BluMacaw]

For me mid game was always the moment after your economy starts to grow exponentially.

[@wahlex841]

I never can tell when my early games turns into middle. It's like one moment I consider setting up my first sector and another I already spamming habitats like there's no tomorrow.

[@RobRoseKnows]

One Planet Strategy Tiers: Early Tier: pre-Science Nexus God Tier: post-Science Nexus

[@chanachon56]

New player here, booted up stellaris first time as the Commonwealth of Man and somehow managed to piss off a fallen empire in 2250 and got ransacked. Yeah.

[@xcrazytown47x]

Love the videos man! Never played this game until i started watching your youtuber series. Great work! Very entertaining love all your videos and the game!

[@jackiechuuan7645]

end game is longest cause performance tanks and most people give up

[@mgkcjk]

My Stellaris timeline: e x p a n d Extreme Deficit Find other empires Mass production of mine stations *Pathetic technology level* Mass production of research stations "Your destruction is the will of the gods" Repeat

[@Syphr54]

Thank you Aspec, great definition of the structure of a single game. This will help me a lot structuring gameplay in phases what to do. It often happens I just get on a point where I have no clue in what to do and just start a new game. Mid game is the farthest point I have come after 60 hours of play time.

[@simonwadd4038]

An update refresh would go well, lots has changed, some of this might have too.

[@emeraldpopcorn]

Yes, I was wondering thanks!

[@ateisme3752]

At least I have not been shallowed by other empries yet. I try to build up my fleet, cleaning up my sector, slowing making forward fleet and some home fleets.

[@viviblue2329]

My favorite challenge is the no sector challenge as it doesn’t cripple you like one plannet you end up with 5 planets 35 habitats a ring world and a sensor array as what I consider the end of mid game and start getting only repeating techs like +100% strike craft damage and attack speed

[@randomuser1093]

We’re in the endgame now...

[@disceva6443]

My games boil down to expanding to fast, having way to much minerals and fuck all credits, while spending 90% of my resources on an completely oversized fleet that does absolutely nothing. I will also end up insulting a fallen empire at some point.

[@wx4726]

started right next to fanatic purifiers, im fucked beyond beleif

[@davidk1308]

WX 47 press F to pay respects

[@wx4726]

procrastinate until apocalypse

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

'I swear to devote my life and abilities to defend the United Nations of Earth..' lol

[@wx4726]

weeeeellll my empire is a rouge servitor soooooooooo....Bring the gift baskets!

[@nasser314]

I made a Rogue Servitor guide on Reddit where I min/maxed everything. Take a look : www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/79srhy/best_machine_empire_build_need_utopia_now_with/

[@huntzkush]

I started my first game today in multiplayer. Two of us were able to find each other after an hour

[@Laharal55]

Super useful and organized as always!!!! Thank you!

[@MutatingManiacGarr]

How did it change over the years...

[@kevinbarber2795]

Several 100K fleets by late game? My empire’s super OP and I don’t even have 1 that strong!

[@kyodairiker]

I'm at endgame now with over 300k fleet power

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

Ah back when you could choose weapon and travel types at the start of stellaris. I knew it briefly before it was changed.

[@zachpaterson2585]

Are these tech guides based on player’s position or galaxy at large? Because I tend to get really far ahead with my tech

[@nanodesu2795]

This seems more suited for wide empires than tall empires as my experiences with tall empires sees significantly different scenarios than what you stated in your video. Though I don't play wide empires as I hate dealing with AEs , so I can't really say what scenarios a wide empire would see.

The Great Khan has come, I still only have corvettes, so I guess I'm surrendering

[@ellesedil6772]

Can one of your beginner videos go over all of the various events (yes, spoilers) and potential ways to optimize the results from them? Things like the Worm seem like there are things you can do to maximize the advantage you can get from their effects.

[@A_Spec]

+Ellesedil I have those? Check the mechanics playlist

[@ellesedil6772]

Oh wow, I didn't see them there. Thanks!

[@khatack]

If you've got your armies ready and a relatively powerful fleet, you can wage war effectively if you time your attacks right after your opponent expands, before he's able to build a spaceport to defend his planet. Sometimes this even nets you enough warscore to vassalize them or turn them into tributaries.

[@wallybonejengles5595]

I made it to endgame for the first time and I happened to get my fleet trapped between unfriendly borders as the eyeball endgame crisis happened and got wrecked immediately. I thought I was gonna declare my first victory but no. I played really well both milataristacly and diplomatically but I had no idea what was coming endgame. I was technologically behind EVERYONE somehow with half the galaxy under the dear leader so when they invaded I had no response. My fleet was trapped and even if I could get it home it was rendered useless immediately. Ibcould do nothing. I didn't even get ONE megastructure up. So now every time I load up the game and see that save file I have a little panic attack. Lol. I don't think there is any coming back from this but my heart wants to salvage that W badly. I was 4 planets from a conquest victory.

[@ScarecrowZP]

We're in the endgame now

[@navy_y1594]

Can someone explain to me what it means when people refer to a "tall," "wide," or "flex" empire? Do they literally just mean the physical length of width, or is it something else?

[@McGravyBoii]

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[@ysdom]

Tall focuses on growing science and uses mostly vassals and tributaries during expansion and a high percentage of their borders will be due to frontier outposts. Wide prioritizes resource gathering and as such will expand by colonizing more planets and taking more planets in a war, using frontier outposts as well of course but not as high of a percentage of their territory. Flex most likely deals with expanding and throwing planets at or into vassals/tributaries or starting tall for a length of time and then switching to wide at a certain point.

[@VainerCactus0]

It should be mentioned here for the sake of clarity, Population will add a negative modifier to your science income. In other words, having more Population will make your science research slower. So a "wide" empire with lots of planets and Population will have less research speed than a "tall" empire with only a few planets.

[@generalmaul4615]

5k by early game... okay, what the hell am I doing wrong?

[@dyinggroudon8404]

Stellaris Timeline: -Start -Ringworld, Dyson-Sphere and a Matter-Decompressor and all the other Mega-Structures -Corvettes (200k Fleet) 2k of everything per month -fallen empire kill -Juggernaut/ Colussus -War (only Planetcracking) -Win? never ended one Game still after 500 hours played

[@Duggie1-w3x]

Using extra timeline graphics aspec? Snazzy

[@TheGamingSyndrom]

I always have the problem: See if a fallen empire gets a awakend one and kicks ass Or destroy them first

[@Ghosteriz]

How I play stellaris? Start game Expand territory/War Bullies subjugated/rival Bullies Fallen Empire Destroy all A.I empire Lag Restart new map again.

[@nikolafeschiev3399]

am I very militaristic I have nearly double thefirepower at mid game around 150k

[@faisalhusein227]

nikola feschiev that's cool! How you manage to create that ?

[@seanlowrance2325]

Expansion, expansion, expansion, military military, first contact, immediate vassalize (idk why they wanted it)

[@gvardiecky9507]

2520 i have 8 fleets with 300k. Colossus, I cannot however build juggernaut (i do not why) 7 main empires (im one of them) 3 vs 3, federation vs defensive pact. Nobody like me.... so i grinding research. But that federation has one empire that is equivalent in everything....

[@scyobiempire4450]

Gvardiecky this is severely outdated

[@HarakiriHakebeil]

Kontingency was always just annoying. They expanded a bit. Then they got stuck to one planet per attacking fleet and bombed forever. I pushed the strenght slider for those events to the max. The fleets were ridiculous huge and no AI dared to go for them. I had to steam roll them with a 1M + fleet. Scourge and Unbidden are still better.

[@dustindubbo2892]

I like to play on ring galaxys and wouldn’t you know the other side of not far where I spawn is a fallen empire that controls Ike 3-4 planets and it’s early game still, and like half my colonizable systems have these crystal assholes with like up to 10k fleet power when I have barely 2.8k

[@dragonking322]

you know it kinda bothers me what we consider to be a "tall" empire in stellaris because inevitably at one point or another an effective "tall" empire will exert control over potentially a full quarter of galactic space before midgame either through federation affiliation or the more xenophobic chokepoint control (i'm not sure how many other people do this but i tend to rush for chokes when playing "tall" and close boarders with every possible race until i achieve galactic force projection in which case i tend to only take the territory i need to maintain starting fleet and begin gathering tributaries and vassals). personally I've come to calling all my one planet games "super wide" because at the end of the day that's really a more apt term. Yes I'm still playing "tall" in the respect that i'm focusing more directly on rapid technological and tradition development and doing so with a woefully under powered fleet in the early game i am however transforming into essentially a "wide" empire as soon as the boost to fleet capacity allows me to compete with far more populous empires hence it makes me a super advanced wide empire or more simply "super wide".

[@kylebowens3731]

I finished my unity by 2290 abouts. havant bulit my first mega construction yet, but my fleet is like 90k power total. has got any tips

[@johncbayliss]

What does it mean to be a tall or wide empire?

[@rhorynotmylastname7781]

The power on your fleet...

[@Seeric85]

I'm still in what would be considered the mid-game with a fleet power of around 26k, but the backbone of my fleet is made up of battleships with cruisers as support against large swarms of small ships. Is that weird?

[@ChiefKene]

I finally made it to end game crisis after 12 empires lol. Conquered a fallen empire and on the other half of the galaxy just yonget in range of the scrounge because the awakened empire locked me out lol

[@jackoake6239]

My first game went so well up until I met a fallen empire and they absolutely destroyed everyone on the map, I had 4 fleets w around 20k power but nothing I did or what my allies did made any difference, still ended up second place so wasn’t a terrible game I just encountered something I wasn’t prepared for

[@tonyreese3708]

Great videos. Do you use a mod to get those close up smooth battle scenes?

[@A_Spec]

+Tony Reese no, it's all with in-game tools. I recently did a video on the subject

[@yukmoutb5885]

I play for a couple hours and everything is good and then all of a sudden im getting negative resources. Seems as though me throwing buildings in is screwing me eventually. How do i build these research only worlds and stuff ?

[@damek_productions]

Might be time for an updated video xD

[@trmblingblustar]

My late game events never happen. I'm not sure what the deal is, but I get to at least 2600 before giving up and trying a new game.

[@kyodairiker]

It might be your game settings

[@LSDon-gs7bz]

Is it possible to have a game where the end crisis just doesnt occur. Ive been playing a tall psi game and im 200+ yrs in my federation owns most of the galaxy only 4 empires left not in my fed only repeatable techs left and ai (which i dont want and there arent enough robots in the galaxy to give the contingency a chance anyway). so far no end game crisis i mean i could keep contacting the shroud and start the end of cycle but that not really what i wanted to do.

[@stealthhunter6998]

I have always got issues with energys because mining and research stations torwards early to mid game and it makes my fleet power fall behind. Someone help me and pls tell me why Im losing so much energy without a very good fleet.

[@michaelschneider1365]

I’m buying this and age of wonders soon

[@PerennialSash]

Thanks for making this.

[@spearhead7777]

Hey Aspec I was recently running a game and wondered after encountering only 4 empires in the galaxy (No seriously) what you think a good starting amount of empires is? Obviously it changes between galaxy sizes and shapes but I would like some input to avoid my current games failings. Ty for the Video

[@A_Spec]

+spearhead7777 that's up to you, for a medium size galaxy having 10 to 12 is fun

[@YagabodooN]

how to avoid late game lag? easy, its called determined exterminator hyper aggro.... works sometimes.

[@denysalbesko6840]

I always get supremacy tradition first. Even if I am pacifist. In my opinion much better than expansion tradition for early game.

[@HiteshBhagatGameTech]

i am in late game, but this lag is terrible as hell now, absolutely unplayable. love this game but this stupid lag is making it unbearable, i wish there was a fix to this.

[@zorualegend]

I really Need something like this

[@zedkiller112]

My era Exspand Attack Attack Get cornered Get allies Get destroyers War Exspand Cruisers Eeeeee

[@freegamer8313]

there was no other choice we are in the endgame

[@scyobiempire4450]

_This guide is 5 updates behind us PC Players._

[@A_Spec]

18 months or so, but sure.

[@scyobiempire4450]

ASpec I commented it because I saw some comments saying on how [X] doesn’t work.

[@johnmooney5829]

Is there a mod which allows you to make symbiotic species, maybe two on the same planet? Or DLC?

[@A_Spec]

Yes, utopia adds it.

[@johnmooney5829]

@@A_Spec Thanks.

[@Kaiser_Boog]

The first word in the description is misspelled.

[@A_Spec]

+Boogalaboo fixed

[@settratheimperishable4093]

To be fair I am playibg 2.2 aka Alloy Disaster, but my fleet power is 40k at 2430. On the other hand, it's my first game and I'm not that concerned anyway since I have the strongest fleet in the galaxy. Don't know how.

[@craftsmenMC]

I never finish a full game of stellaris, I usually go until I feel like a game is done. Is this bad!

[@adamconner9302]

Games are meant to be played for fun. If you enjoy doing it that way that's the only thing that matters. Other's opinions on it are irrelevant.

[@craftsmenMC]

Adam Conner thank you! ^^

[@Fear_Z_]

Is the war in heaven a end game crisis

[@kyodairiker]

No endgame crisis is like the insurgency or the unbidden

[@CLB_Industries]

No wonder I got bored quickly on this game. I've never played pass early game. I'm a grand start player and the early part is obviously not that.

[@williamcodycross]

Paradox games are not games that simply guarantee a win.

[@AAhmou]

Except this one mostly... Unless you get real unlucky to spawn next to a xenophobic fallen empire.

[@TheAderwolf]

i mean when i started playing i lost my first few round because i simply did not understand the ai behaviour or game well enough to keep up with said ai. the first time a crisis apeared i was scared shitless and got squashed by the unbidden within 5 years. but once you get better you only loose occasonaly XD

[@chanachon56]

@@AAhmou Bit late to the party but that's essentially what happened to me on my very first run through with the game. Started out as Commonwealth of Man and I had a fallen empire neighbour. Needless to say, I pissed them off very early in the game (because I apparently colonized one of their "holy" worlds) and got ransacked by them in 2250. Yeah.....

[@radicallarrythemailman8269]

@@chanachon56 Yeah, if you see a Gaia world and you know of a Fallen Empire *Do not colonize it*

[@truelich1231]

@@AAhmou when you say it like this. I think im screwed lmao

[@mosesp5908]

Played 5 games.... they always unify right before I'm going to attack... pisses me the fuck off.... I have yet to win a wsr

[@mariosuarez6656]

early game? i thought there was only one time... i usually lost the game the moment i click new game T-T

[@pramitkhanna7163]

How does your game commence with a faction so early on?

[@DavidAdenuga]

So close to 2.0?

[@crypticslayer69]

I hit 80 plus k by 2310 been making ships every chance I get😂😂😂.

[@SuperExodian]

victory isn't the end game, end game is wiping out all life in the galaxy and ascending to the ethereal realm. apocalypse is going to make my xenophobe runs that much more entertaining, by just obliterating planet after planet without ever ending the wars

[@kratomseeker5258]

can you play against people online?

[@nkvdofficer2174]

yes you can

[@prussiangamer]

And I thought EU4 was confusing but wtf Stellaris

[@matthewcejka8923]

Ah yes ASpec flex on all of us I play on console edition and by year 100 I only have -a 20K fleet

[@kyodairiker]

By year 100 i had 60k

[@d-_-b2202]

V A Z Z E L S

[@Hexagon666]

Haha I never got further than late early game xD

[@itscozo367]

dude.. move your overlays blocking like 10% of the screen.. why?

[@itscozo367]

"mid game" is right in the center of your screen.. presentation is 90%. Nice voice though.

[@AlbarionRed007]

My question is: how long should a game take? It feels like I usually spend 10+ hours early to mid. Have yet to make it to late game.

[@MSpacer]

How long in real time it takes depends on you and your rig. In terms of game time, you should expect to win some time between 2210 and 2800.

[@ryancraigt]

Depends on lag, galaxy size and difficulty. On a full size galaxy playing on fastest (with pauses) on hardest if not second hardest difficulties it can take up to 20ish hours, especially if you have 5x crisis on and adv ai start.

[@theodorekennedy143]

Martin Mcintosh 2210? Bloody hell that’s fast