Stellaris - Galactic Doorstep Origin (Losers use Hyperlanes, Winners build Gateways)

[@thedoruk6324]

>Winners built Gateways >Absolute winners use Jump and Psychic Jump Drive >Chads use mod/s >Gigachads use.... *tHe WoRM!*

[@javierfernandez8611]

>UltraChads from Mirror dimension use warp

[@blackout6772]

@@javierfernandez8611 >UberChads don't die from warp demons

[@capitalistball2924]

@@blackout6772 *warp beasts lol

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Gods don't need to travel at all, they'd already be there. ^^

[@Tonatsi]

It loves us

[@panzergrenadier6551]

you should talk about the fact that in multiplayer games you can infinitely trade favors with other players, and stack the living shit out of diplomatic weight, making the galactic community just as one-sided as the real UN. Me and my friend were totally out-competed in actual weight in our MP game with another friend but we had tons of influence, so we just called in dozens of favors on each other (which for some reason scale with your projected power from favors, and not your base weight). combine this with council veto and emergency measures and we had total control of galactic legislation

[@QuestionableObject]

Using favors should really remove the diplomatic weight from the empire you're taking the favor from to balance it out, so it's more of a "turning the opposition" thing instead of just materializing votes out of the ether.

[@bighatastrea]

I don't really get the whole favors system in singleplayer. You can just do it 9999 times with a weak empire to get more points, so for whatever reason you can get 100.000 diplomatic points out of a 10k empire lol I hope it's just bugged

[@Runetrantor]

Really? Huh. Always thought you were essentially taking some of the empire's diplo points for yourself, so the total points didnt go up.

[@panzergrenadier6551]

@@FrederikVV Well, sure. But influence is not a finite resource and you can get large amounts of it if you play your cards right. It only costs 250 influence to exchange 10 favors. in my mp game for example, i had more influence than my friend so i did my favors first which brought my power to 5k. he then did his, and since my power was already so high he was able to gain a much larger boost than i got from him. then all i have to do is get 10 more favors from him for 250 influence and scale even higher. as long as you have a little influence banked it's utterly broken, unless your target for favors is absolute trash.

[@VulpesChama]

You can stack Favors with NPCs as well. You just have to get 10, spend them then 'buy' the next ten. This way I bought myself into being the Senat by just bribing *ONE* (1!) NPC empire.

[@justjester5682]

Dont listen to Aspec, the red text just means its spicy. Completely safe and will not effect your empire or the galaxy in a negative way. *totally not a red robot boy*

[@alphariusfuze8089]

*_Spicy~_*

[@Matthias-pj6th]

[DO NOT DO THIS.]

[@samthenerd9619]

People who don’t click red text are cowards

[@grimsprice]

Can confirm. Red text is actually scorpion pepper flavored.

[@meh3277]

@@samthenerd9619 Can confirm this is true. Now hail the end of the cycle!!!!

[@TheAcunianGamer]

*litteraly tired of playing stellaris for hours* ; I want to sleep. *checks notifications* ; I want to watch aspec and play stellaris!

[@puffythehaggis5680]

This describes my night perfectly

[@matthewvektrax9922]

TRUE, I really want him to do a playthrough

[@lastfirst5863]

That’s my rotation too. I play until it starts to feel like work then I get off, watch it on KZbin and now I have new ideas and things I wanna try.

[@unverifiedverified4418]

Me too but i get confused on what i was planning on doing lol

[@Logan-dk8of]

My friend tried this origin twice, both times he ended up having a dormant gateway in the system right next to where he started

[@willimeister2553]

Oof

[@founderoftheempire8589]

As Todd the God Howard has said "It just works"

[@Yellow13Firestorm]

F

[@celwenileran2135]

It's flavorful but by gods, doesn't even come close to such powerful origins as Shattered Ring or Void Dwellers.

[@jdkwlalos9]

cries in vanilla

[@VilleKivinen]

Stellaris isn't made to be balanced, nor should it.

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@VilleKivinen Shame they kinda forgot that for awhile there.

[@idkstuff7339]

The habitats need to be able to build apartments

[@kano101435]

@@VilleKivinen big doubt

[@mattdombrowski8435]

This origin is "kinda similar" to the wormhole drive in the same way that drawing a circle on light brown construction paper is "kinda similar" to a pancake breakfast.

[@Frenchcoward]

god i miss wormhole so much...BRING BACK WORMHOLE!!!!!!!

[@alexkatc59]

@@Frenchcoward Warp too, man. That was unic part of this game.

[@ashtonpeterson4618]

@@Frenchcoward I really like the concept of the wormhole stations. I miss it a lot. Maybe it could become a late game thing.

[@HolgerLovesMusic]

I would like that origin more, if the gateway would lead to a bunch of systems outside the galaxie. Just like the L-gates. Or maybe just one system with a relic world and a couple abandoned habitats. You know, something worth the investment.

[@blazikem]

Yeah it's incredibly underwhelming

[@cortster12]

better yet, it leads to another, active, gateway and your system is isolated.

[@basilharpham9372]

or just outright gives you the tech instead.

[@deeznoots6241]

Basil Harpham you do get big amounts of research for both gateway activation and gateway building which also enables you to research them far earlier than anybody else

[@HolgerLovesMusic]

@@deeznoots6241 Still, a huge investment for something quiet underwhelming. Compared to the other origins.

[@WrathOfMega]

"What is hiding behind your antediluvian veil?" Admit it Aspec, you learned that word from Darkest Dungeon. ADMIT IT!

[@A_Spec]

Ruin has come to our family.

[@nathanpusceddu7828]

In time, you will know the tragic extent of my failures...

[@luisitobardajibenitez8013]

@@A_Spec so when are we getting these kinds of guides for DD?

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

@@A_Spec I just hear, "We must save my family!" ... Stupid Gary

[@nescopahe]

World of Darkness did it first I am pretty sure

[@PhysicalSwan]

I've often had the "A closer Look" event spawn on gas giants, which i've found very wierd, especially when my scientists start "Excavating" the acological site on the planets "Surface"

[@xeanderman6688]

Well, gas giants do have a surface... It's just under all the gas =>

[@cheekybum1513]

@@xeanderman6688 under the thousands and thousands of atm of gas

[@randomguy4167]

@@xeanderman6688 There’s no “surface”,gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn beneath the gas have “oceans” of metallic liquid hydrogen at ridiculous temperatures and beneath that is the core. Smaller gas giants like Neptune and Uranus are thought to have oceans of superheated,ionic and superionic water and there’s also theorised to be raining diamond bergs raining down near the core which is made of iron and silicates.

[@xeanderman6688]

@@randomguy4167 that's what I meant by the surface. The core. Because it's the first (and only thing) you could theoretically step on, it counts as both surface AND core

[@clxckwxrk5902]

surface is not synonymous with solid. oceans have a surface for example.

[@lewiskoluk8749]

I love regenerating hull. It gives that slight edge tactically but strategically. Being able to have your ships repair en route is a big bonus.

[@DCdabest]

Definitely key in pre-Juggernaught days on Battleships amd Titans

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

One of my favorite techs. Problem is finding those ameoba.

[@Birbucifer]

matt81093 Killing tiyanki and crystal bois also gives you regenerative hull.

[@fine1298]

Only reason I don't like it is because afterburners will make ships even faster and by late game your ships are probably powerful enough to only suffer shield damage and wipe everyone out in days

[@endme6658]

@@fine1298 Not really in multiplayer tho cause players are a lot better then AIs

[@WhiteManOnCampus]

I always found Regenerative Hull Tissue to be one of the best auxiliary mounds because you can lead campaigns deep into enemy territory with minimal losses by camping inside of defeated systems.

[@alexkatc59]

Now you have Juggernaut.

[@matthewmcneany]

Back in my day we used warp travel and we were happy to have it.

[@zacheryeckard3051]

I miss warp travel. :

[@guilhermesfk]

But then the warp beats came...

[@MegaOgrady]

I hated warp travel, the CD was god awful

[@sqocks8254]

Really disliked it. Glad they went with hyperlanes.

[@nathanpusceddu7828]

Nobody used wormholes? Was I really that backwards?

[@prosyndication21]

Shout-out for that star trek reference.

[@michasokoowski6651]

Me: I will try this origin. *Some time later* Finally, the gateway is activated!.. It links to the gateway that is in the system 2 jumps away from my starting system. Me: ...

[@A_Spec]

Amazing

[@sinanuygur5273]

"Like androids, gateways are build in pairs"... someones been watching too much Picard :)

[@RobBCactive]

Except Aspec was talking nonsense. The gateway serves up void kill to your admiral, but once repaired and activated, it's totally safe under control. Hostiles cannot use them.

[@sinanuygur5273]

@@RobBCactive honestly its been over a year, not that gateway mechanics changed, i have absolutely no idea about the context of the discussion. I love gateways, way more than any jump tech, and hate wormholes... f. wormholes, if there was a tech to lock em up, first things first! federations declaring on you love using wormholes

[@MaximusLight]

ASpec: "Because androids are built in pairs" Me: "I know that reference" Aspec: "Iconia" Me: "that too" Fun ways to use this with the AI: Pair gateways up with several Megacorps and other regular empires you want to form a federation and watch them all meat each other *much* easier. :P

[@PerfectAlibi1]

I don't get it... And gateways are build in networks, though just need atleast one to connect to XD

[@Gabriel87100]

I thought it would be a reference for Nier and Nier Automata, considering Popola and Devola.

[@MycaeWitchofHyphae]

Pretty sure it’s a Star Trek Picard reference

[@pjokamoto-hiyama7212]

The android pairs are a Star Trek Picard reference while the Iconia reference is just to the Iconians in Star Trek in general. Make sure the Tal Shiar don’t get to it.

[@YapsiePresents]

I thought that was a dragonball reference

[@shadowflux894]

You kidding us ASpec? I always found regen tissue to be a must have for my fleets if possible, it effectively allows you to blitzkrieg the enemy without needing to wait out a repair cycle after every encounter

[@zacheryeckard3051]

Seriously. The ability to regen armor and hull like you do shields is just... amazing.

[@GODVxXxV]

Its useful if your fleet is composed by small ships.

[@shadowflux894]

@@GODVxXxV Its also useful for larger ships, especially if you have mods like ACG that slow down ship speed. When it takes you thousands of days to reach the nearest shipyard, being able to regen at all is extremely valuable

[@Nyst2]

What would make this origin more interesting was if you end up with a gate on the other side of galaxy at the end of it. Or at least have a chance of that. Being able to expand on the other side of the galaxy without having to open borders with others, without having to pay 1000 influence, and potentially bordering twice as many neighbors as usual would make this origin play rather differently. And having said gate would mean you'd keep cohesion and would immediately be able to trade too.

[@RobBCactive]

That can happen, abandoned gateways are often near FE's so there's every chance of an exclave. The origin works best for Megacorps and other peaceful traders, who look to exploit mid-game crises to gain footholds near potential customers without killing their grannies

[@Blazaboi95]

i really do miss all the different FTL types like the gate ways, warp drive and the hyper drive. i also miss being able to customise and name my science, colony and construction ships

[@zacheryeckard3051]

Mods help a little for the second, but yeah. The game was way more interesting, IMO, with the different ftl types. People arguing against them seem to forget that after your first engagement with an enemy, you get the tech salvage from the battlefield.

[@ashtonpeterson4618]

I miss the wormhole drive

[@Blazaboi95]

@Guiep oh it's been awhile so I didn't know that. Thank you

[@Ad_Astraz]

Good news! There's a mod for the game that adds the Warp drive back.

[@equalssign44]

Sidenote: the excavation happens even without Ancient Relics, making it the only excavation you can access without the DLC.

[@RobBCactive]

There's some mods that give additional pre-cursors like the Astanine and actually without any DLC there's a few dig sites that can show up occasionally.

[@LeahBouley]

Love the 2 star trek references right at the begining i approve

[@dabeatlesburnhamroad8244]

References come in pairs too

[@gelob6678]

Hey aspec, do you think for beginners playing tall is a good option? Ik you've done a vid on this just asking for preference

[@VAArtemchuk]

He already said that tall empires aren't viable any more due to existence of bureaucrats.

[@Sergeilol20]

in Singleplayer anything is viable, if you want to play tall go for it. If an AI is threatening to invade then improving relations usually keeps you safe even if you have a small military, joining a federation is another option of course.

[@builder1117]

If you want to play tall you just need to be aware of what techs to rush (Mega-engineering requires specific techs as prereqs wiki them if you don't know them) and what ascension perks to pick. Arcology project (If you get lucky and find some relic world then pick arcology project *after* galactic wonders, or you can just pick remnants as your origin) is sort of necessary for mass alloy/CG production which will feed your mega-structure building notably the matter decompressor as your first mega-structure since if your playing tall you will be lacking minerals. After matter decompressor you should build rings worlds since you need to be growing pops on them as quickly as you can... Which brings us to a very important part of playing tall. You NEED high pop growth. Which their are 2 options here. The decent bio/xenophile immigration build where you go bio ascension and xeno crossbreeding and spam clones vats and such, Which is usually good enough as long as you focus on pop growth things. And then theirs the far superior Synth+bio growth method in which you go synth ascension *and* keep bio pops around to grow which *already* gives you the highest pop growth in the game (And the synths produce more resources than bio pops!), But dear god if you get cybrex as your precursor... Enjoy a 50% growth on your synths AND a ringworld... But anyways I do think playing tall is a good option for beginners as it requires a lot less micro and *I* would argue less game knowledge since you don't need to be aware of the ship component metas and can just buildup your starbases(Along with game knowledge such as knowing how far you can stretch your economy to rush a empire down and how to handle conquered planets). You really only need to know how to rush mega-engineering and pick the right ascension perks and you should be fine.

[@MrVentches]

@@builder1117 synth path is bused af now with migration treaties. set the default species rights to assimilation, and have a migration treaty with anyone.congrats,you ecumenopolis now growths robotic pops at a speed of 24 a month

[@dimitarlinov2393]

Don't the Shattered Ring and Void Dwellers support tall playstyles well?

[@Descolata]

Within *7* jumps. Hyperlane Registrars provide an extra collection range.

[@jjkthebest]

TIL. Since when is this the case? Just wanna know how long I've been positioning my st asrbases suboptimally

[@Descolata]

@@jjkthebest Dropped last patch, cause Registrars were just SO BAD.

[@TheGuardianofAzarath]

You could have also gone with Atlantis as your homeworld name Aspec :P Looks like an interesting Orgin, I’ll have to take a look at it at some point. Having gateways before anyone else would certainly be nice. BTW, got a question for you or anyone else who might know. I’m playing as a determined exterminator (gotta get rid of all those useless meat bags), and i just made contact with an empire that has the doomsday origin, I’m 29 years into the game, so they have at least 6 years left, their planet is at 90% devastation, Tropical world, and the only other habitable planet they have in their territory is an arctic world (still probably useless to them.) so here is my question: Will i get an on-screen notification when their planet blows up? So i can watch their extinction, purely for scientific reasons of course, and not because they’re a bunch of birds about to get fried :P

[@tomassantos1518]

You do in fact get a notification when a doomsday empire's planet cracks, and its accompanied by some flavorful text detailing how it went, if everyone made it out or not etc

[@frankp8763]

TheGuardianofAzarath As Santos says, can confirm you will be notified of said doomed home planet.

[@Ultrawup]

I wanna play Stellaris so bad but I bet my 200+ mods arent updated yet >.

[@j.guckeyson2047]

Jesus man, how do you keep the load queue in order?

[@Sorain1]

Play modern vanilla. _Do it!_ You will appreciate your mods all the more when they work again.

[@darykeng]

Ah, I miss good old wormhole FTL, it was fun... also miss warpdrivers, yes, not fastest, but move how the hell you want as long as drivers powerful enough

[@ashtonpeterson4618]

I miss the wormhole drive as well... it was really cool

[@ARC1701A]

I also miss the different FTL methods. That was like Sword of the Stars. I hoped they would add others, but I guess multiple drive methods caused instability.

[@stoirmslw7195]

ARC1701A I think it was them having a hard time balancing it more than anything

[@alexkatc59]

@@stoirmslw7195 Lies, i can name one simple methode to balance this, and community have plenty more. The sloth is main reason.

[@stoirmslw7195]

Alex Katc Balancing it with the new ownership of a system works and the trade system sorry I should have been more clear what I was trying to say was that they didn’t know how to balance it in the 2.0 with other things like trade bei being kinda iffy not that it would have been hated to balance in it’s pre2.0 state

[@ashtonpeterson4618]

I REALLY miss the wormhole station method. I can see why they did away with them, but I LOVE the idea of harness able, portable wormhole travel.

[@ed-gaming9786]

Great video man! I personaly use gateways alot because their fast and help with large slow ships.

[@andresesquivel8211]

I got a massive attack of nostalgia when you started talking about the old drive types

[@ashtonpeterson4618]

I miss the wormhole drive

[@timebrain3188]

Won't lie, miss how ftl was done to start. I remember hyperdrive being great for chasing enemies down because it'd work anywhere in systrm

[@QuarkGamingLLC]

Is there a mod that makes the gates look like Mass Relays? I wanna see if I can do a Mass Effect role play

[@joeandrew8752]

Yep. There is

[@A_Spec]

Yes, yes there is. Check the workshop

[@thedanklordger5094]

Would be also hilarious if there would be a mod to let the Habitat in the Widow system called Citadel looks like the ME Citadel

[@Katini_]

Yep

[@ethancarter1983]

Yes but I’d wait a bit for most of the mods to start updating to current

[@ceterfo]

6:45 I got so excited when you said arcology instead of archeology

[@notjohn9844]

Can you define a "reasonable fleet size"

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Yeah. 5k? 10k? 20k?

[@tyazze6390]

@@PerfectAlibi1 1 000 k ?

[@nanodesu2795]

The single strongest non-endgame fleet on the highest difficulty is 40k fleet power so maximum of that.

[@Damo2690]

@@nanodesu2795 excuse me what? That is not true, or youve not worder it well, I cant tell

[@cosmicanomaly3416]

@@nanodesu2795 xD 40k... lmao, bro even on console I've been able to bring it up to 70k-90k.... I'm sure pc can easily go to double or triple that amount.

[@americana_incarnate1717]

Can you do an updated ascension perk tier list?

[@A_Spec]

Yes, once I'm done with Origins.

[@americana_incarnate1717]

Sweet, I look forward to it.

[@Billmaster115]

You know what needs to happen in Stellaris? Rogue planet events. If you haven’t played long enough to colonise worlds and a rogue planet is on course...RUN!

[@darrenng1548]

Winners build gateways, but not just in strategic positions, rather, in every system

[@glock112983]

Somewhat new to stellaris. I just tried this origin for the first time recently and the second gate way lead to a system with a relic world one jump away tucked in a little "cul de sac" sort of area. I thought that was intentional and part of the origin, like an old fallen precursor world of gate builders and my empire has discovered their fallen homeworld. After watching this, it sounds like this was completely random luck for me and not scripted story. Which sucks because it definitely gives my empire a Stargate spinoff feel, and we just found Atlantis. Unfortunately theres only 2 other gateways in the entire galaxy. I rushed the whole thing with a dozen science ships ASAP, thought there would be a lot more. Guess it's up to us to spread a Stargate network everywhere.

[@jamiefenwick8359]

Feels quite weak but I guess that's ok not all the origins have to be strong. Having said that It would make more sense to me if it just gave you the 2 techs fully for free. Gateways cost a rather large amount of resources in the early game and even if you do manage to get an early gateway its hardly game breaking and would probably make a huge dent in your fleet size/star base network spending that many alloys anyway. Like what are you even going to do with a gate early on move your basically non existent fleet across your probably tiny borders super quick. Would be more interesting and maybe useful imo if you didn't also have to spend your entire early game physics research on it. You could also just buff the resources you get from it but that's kind of boring.

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Well at least the 1st tech.

[@wom1320]

The most powerful part of this is new expansion opportunities.

[@phluphie]

A real winner uses jump drives. Psy jump drives preferable.

[@ChronitonMechanics]

Iconia...great reference of course when the topic is about gateways.

[@nocx4592]

I did this on my first stellaris game, I made my species have super long lives so i could get op leaders, and i sent my first scientist(who was two level ahead of other scientist) through the gate hoping he would get a nice trait. Ah well, made more sense for roleplay.

[@robertfarr9186]

I miss how you were able to choose what kind of FTL drive your species had when creating your game parameters.

[@varlunmulland3992]

The game is ultimately more balanced now with the restrictive hyperlane system. It was frustrating to have empires be able to just jump straight past your defenses.

[@motmontheinternet]

It's a better game now

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@varlunmulland3992 It was never supposed to be balanced. Stellaris was a story game more than anything. The RNG elements are anti-balance!

[@silveredgamer6893]

I don't Warp drive was a pita. The AI would just shot gun out a dozen tiny fleets. Fighting a war was like playing whack-a-mole. I restricted to hyperdrive only. It made the game more tactical and star base defense more practical.

[@stoirmslw7195]

Varlun Mulland I feel it would have been pretty easy to add counters to that like a upgrade to the starbase that grabbed any ships traveling with warp or wormhole within range and brings them to that starbase There would have to be some limitations so it couldn’t be used offensively though

[@TheRealFallenDemon]

There's a pretty cool little chain in the more events mod where a powerful race from outside the galaxy just raids everyone at random until someone is powerful enough to go and deal with them. Reminds me a little of that

[@RobBCactive]

The gateway vermin don't scale like the Vasuran raiders do. The origin is really about having the tech to hand, so a Megacorp can gain massively. If you're constantly fighting stupid pointless border wars, then this origin justbwon't help you.

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Fanatic Egalitarian/Materialist with Meritocracy (and whatever other Civic you want...I usually go Technocracy for the giant unity boost)...Unruly, Repugnant, Intelligent, Industrious, Ingenious. . Pretty much the best possible resourcing and research combo.

[@Kandall05161]

This start sounds great until you realize every gateway in the galaxy starts off broken now, and you can only repair gateways in territory you own. I was hoping to use this to drop fleets on low power empires across the galaxy from me, but really it just means you get mildly better infrastructure and 1 gateway free in the mid-late game...which is like 2K alloy.

[@Kandall05161]

Oh, and the free minerals, which are nice. And the free raiders...on your home system...which are less nice.

[@stoirmslw7195]

With the way I play gateways become essential in my defense plans this allows for me to turtle harder earlier into the game but to each their own

[@stevenkjlee]

Honestly though, I wish each origin had their own unique storylines...

[@juandieguinho05]

Star Trek reference. That's the kind of content a come here to see

[@trekaddict]

So... Mass Effect, Stellaris edition? Thankfully the three colours give you something useful in this game. :P

[@Saturas35142]

Go forth and construct gateways everywhere? hmm there should be some way to autmate this, like with microscopic robots that will build them autonomisly.... :D

[@stoirmslw7195]

Saturas35142 you might be on to something but perhaps there should be a failsafe just incase things go wrong like maybe an have the controller and factory be in an extragalactic Star cluster

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

This reminds me of Hinterlands by William Gibson. Chuck the brightest minds into the wormhole, get some trinkets in return

[@GamesCooky]

Red warning text is the equivalence of an instruction manual. You either read it and follow it, or you toss it in the garbage and hope it all works out.

[@averagegamerguy5967]

Id like to see another version of FTL travels so i can RP mass effect

[@arnoldtabor3767]

Tbh I think of this very much like the bajorans and the celestial temple (wormhole)

[@noticedruid4985]

With the new federation dlc they should add spying to stellaris, kinda similar to the new dlc for HOI4 how they do theyre spies. After you infiltrate a enemy nation if they have a gate you can have your spies open it up so you can use your own gate to go through they're gate.

[@joshuaphillips3999]

was Pretty dam uncertain about there saftey before I worked out that they couldn't be used by invading forces... took a while to catch onto that 🤣

[@anonviewerciv]

Amazon Prime Galactic Delivery. (3:13,13:33)

[@ryangolden2280]

Step 1 pick shaterd ring Step 2 make migration treaty’s Step 3 eat them all Step 4 enjoy your resteront

[@shaftoe195]

*STARGATE THEME STARTS BLARING*

[@DarkKnight52365]

this is a good origin to explain how the tyrum invaded earth leading to the rise of the Greater Terran Union

[@somedude0921]

Noobs the Warp drive is the best way to travel

[@vashstpd]

Are you planning a playthrough where you start off as a race under a fallen empire, that defeats them, takes their stuff and goes on to take over Galaxy. If so, would you play as Rock ppl or the Phlush?

[@JaingStarkiller92]

That Picard reference you made was the coolest thing to come out of that show

[@cosmicmemer1611]

I take back everything I might have said about discovery being the worst trek, at least DSC follows the standard trek formula well, Picard just has a normal action show formula with its episodes.

[@RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg]

This origin good now. That's 5 empty Corvette for influence power projection.

[@davidurban528]

7:00 did you just say scientician? xD

[@Damo2690]

*Sob* I miss wormhole FTL *cri*

[@brosephnoonan223]

Honestly the 3 FTL methods made this game way more interesting, and the fact they literally removed it, instead of just making it an optional feature, is actually *ludicrously* stupid.

[@zacheryeckard3051]

And lied about modders being able to turn it back on!

[@stoirmslw7195]

Zachery Eckard have you found a mod that adds it back??? Because I wasn’t able to find any that were successful though I did recently revert back the pre 2.0 and play around with them I’d assume it’s not that hard

[@zacheryeckard3051]

@@stoirmslw7195 As I recall it's more of a hard coded limitation now. They said they'd effectively leave a switch that modders could flip to get the FTL modes back, and they didn't. I have seen no mods that solve that problem.

[@drewmacfarlane5157]

Determined exterminators on the galactic doorstep? I think so

[@tylermcdede2998]

like androids... I dig the picard reference, and the icoian ine as well

[@Shadybish]

"like androids, gateways are built in pairs" Me: is that a NIER reference?

[@dark_lord_talion6487]

iconia from star trek i,m assuming so good reference my guy

[@ChrisRyot]

My inner Talaxian is highly delighted by the name of Iconia and the twin androids.

[@michaeledmunds7266]

Who needs this origin when you have luck? I had TWO gateways spawn in systems right next to mine, which connected to the opposite end of the galaxy

[@kultkaiser]

I only had 6k research required, starting at 750. Took me between 50 to 80 months

[@simonfrohlich7766]

1:13 Star Trek Picard joke? Nice!

[@mr.foxtrot1381]

I had Vietnam flashbacks to STO when he named his Planet Iconia.

[@storytellingchampion6438]

I always go for the red tech and I have yet to have a robot uprising. Then again... I do give them rights....

[@Dr.Johnboy]

Now that’s a good gatekeeping video!

[@Pliskkenn]

Channelling Sam Eagle this episode.

[@gamefisher2419]

After opening the L-gate and dealing with the following “situation,” build a gate next too the central L-gate in the detached sector to combine the 2 gate networks.

[@alexkatc59]

Lifehack)))

[@francisharkins]

Then build a Mega Shipyard in a system with a gateway so your new fleets immediately have full access to the rest of the networks

[@13KX]

I just think about unstoppable machine killers ... thing is ... with this it could be really pain in the ass ... for everyone else

[@Code_Exodus]

Iconia?................................. Oooooh, I get it!

[@TheCoal27]

Love that ST reference in the beginning.

[@blazikem]

Incredibly underwhelming tbh like sure having a gateway early is cool, provided you have the resources but it's more of a quality of life thing and is completely not worth it in a long game, that is compared to having a relic world or ring world that you have throughout the entirety of your game AAAaa

[@dixievfd55]

The Iconians already know! They know everything!

[@crimsondragoncj5467]

Starting as Iconia... Feeling like a Demon of Air and Darkness, are we?

[@A_Spec]

Gotta love them DS9 references

[@christinedempsey8572]

I've been watching for a star trek reference for years now

[@thelament3488]

I was having fun with this origin until the excavation just gave me nothing and the chain ended, guess No one tried to touch the walls

[@luismanuelespinosacastillo808]

Galactic Civilizations reference!

[@StarshadowMelody]

... guaranteed early regenerative hull tissue actually feels kinda big for me. I uh, kinda just spam crystal hull and disruptors on my ships. Fuck your shields, fuck your armor, I'm gunnin' for your systems and I do _not_ give a shit what you're shooting me with.

[@sharies011]

SHould make a wormhole in your system origin. Then you can make the Bajorans

[@bobertvc7492]

I have a question about habitats. Could you use them as fortress worlds? If so that’s super powerful because you could put them in strategic locations even if there is no habitable planets in a choke point system.

[@venator-classstardestroyer568]

A real empire puts gateways in every system

[@josh.d]

minimum Hyperlane Density maximum Gateway Spawns one empire starts with Galactic Doorstep The other is a dictatorial Lost Colony >Ultimate Expanse roleplay

[@Malte133]

sadly found bugs last days .... if you have 6 def. strucktures on your fortress and upgrade it to citadel you need to rebuid 4 of them cause they disappear :(

[@VulpesChama]

I miss two-way Gateways in Stellaris, to be honest. I mean, sure the Stellaris Gateways are cool, especially when used in combination with a mod that allows to remove Hyperlanes. But I seriously want an additional gateway tech that allows to build two-way gateways that only allows travel between two specific systems. This would be redundant as this is how hyperlanes work, you say? It may seem so, but that's not the case, as you technically could connect two systems that are much further away from another. Besides, there's nothing wrong about redundant systems in a space game. It would be fun playing a civilisation that never discovered Hyperlanes, but became capable enough to build two-way gateways and must send out getways before they can reach another system. It would slow down the gameplay heavily, but the age of discovery is way too soon over anyways. It would just have to be balanced with the "normal" Hyperlanes.

[@eagames456]

Did you call your homeworld Iconia after the homeworld of the portal-using Iconians from Star Trek?

[@A_Spec]

It's almost like it was planned.

[@SingletonD]

I got that reference, Star Trek. Nice

[@aeronothis5420]

I still hate how much influence gateways cost. Interfering with my habitat build spam.

[@Seldion]

Treky NERD!!!! Regenerative hull plating is a great early tech as it allows your ships to repair while in the field other wise you have to send them all the way back to a shipyard, so if you desperately need to keep your fleet in a system with out a shipyard its great! Also what advisor voice are you using? it sounds damn nice.