The BEST Stellaris Unity Build

Unity rushing is.. unique..
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Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive. Stellaris' gameplay revolves around space exploration, managing an empire, diplomacy, and space warfare with other space-faring civilizations.
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[@Ep3o]

Annndd we're back to regullary scheduled videos. This and the next one was recorded before the hack, hence no mention of it! Subscirbe and like :)

[@GabrielHorne]

Yippie

[@benoithudson7235]

Thanks for the shout-out! You got the pronunciation exactly right, which makes me doubt you’re actually British. It’s nutty how reliable this build is. You flubbed a couple things (rush the two traders per segment! cut out the roboticists! fire the artisans!) but it doesn’t matter, unless you spawn right next to a fanatic purifier you just win. It holds up fine with default settings too, just takes a couple years longer.

[@randomaccount5669]

When do you want to get rid of the artisans and roboticists. Like from the beginning?

[@benoithudson7235]

@@randomaccount5669 : yeah; you don't want excess goods. Get that artisan to do something useful, such as daydreaming while unemployed. For roboticists, you definitely don't want them after ascending but also you can reduce the number at the very start and save some resources better spent generating unity or trade.

[@randomaccount5669]

​@@benoithudson7235OK thank you

[@TrentLayell]

@@benoithudson7235 Is this build posted anywhere online?

[@pallen2645]

I had great success with a machine empire, syncretic evolution with organic serviles. I play on default tech/unity, but even so I got to finish my virtuality tree by 2230. Basically you play the first 10 years as a bog standard unity rush, use trade with marketplace of ideas as much as possible (less than the shattered ring, obviously) and parliamentary system with spiritualist ethos. During these 10 setup years would build out your 2 habitables and stockpile an excess of resources as your rapidly reproducing serviles supercharge your accumulation of all your basics. Then after the year 10 election comes the betrayal: you swap out parliamentary system for death cult. And now the true purpose of your serviles becomes clear: you sacrifice them in huge numbers to feed your unity generation. By the time you finish your virtual ascension you should be nearly done killing off every one of your serviles, which is exactly what you want to do anyway.

[@newtubevector]

im 99% sure that it will be much faster with merchant guilds instead of beacon of liberty. Let's put it like this: 80% of your unity is from trade and merchant guild gives a council position that can boost the main trade providers (traders) by up to 50% base (aka multiplicative to all other trade bonuses). Even if you only read lvl 5 counselor fast. that's still 25% more trade.

[@Corrael]

Belatedly, you’d need to get to Expand the Council first, which takes a while, perhaps using your second slot. But because unity gain is additive, 15% unity from the base trait is also not all that much.

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

I just finished my last achievement! You’re series inspired me to go for it in a weird parasocial race.

[@Ep3o]

Well played!

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Which were the hardest for you to get?

[@Jaydee-wd7wr]

@@PerfectAlibi1, The last three were Humble Pie, Sic Semper Tyranis and Meet the New Boss because they all rely on the AI acting in weird hyper specific ways. I expected Galatron, Worm and Infinity Machine to be hard but I got all of them really quickly.

[@sirgaz8699]

Before watching, let me guess, trade virtual because I saw a ringworld in the thumbnail.

[@g4merguy27]

Unity spam sounds fun (glad your back to normal!)

[@Murmur95]

One thing about this is that by taking statecraft you are leveling your leaders which are one of the drains of unity. You prob can do it faster if you didn't get statecraft/ leader exp You could swap it with prosperity which gives build speed and that will help you max districts 25% faster.

[@Dobryak359]

You always have to pick the maximum options when you have the synthetic age thing. There is literally no downside to it. Oh no! My 40 science/m is now 4% slower! What will I do! And after the thing is finished, you just get passive benefits like living metal, dark matter, and energy for the rest of the game. There is literally no penalty for doing that.

[@FracturedReflektion]

This is suprisingly close to what im already doing but slightly different and I think my method is worth mentioning. It's slightly slower at the start but it's built on the idea of laying the groundwork patiently. FTR Im not saying this is better, I'm just sharing the love and sharing the ideas, maybe someone likes it. Gov = Oligarchy / Fanatic Xenophile / Spiritualist Civics = Rapid Replicator / Merchant guilds Traits = Mass produced / Art gen / Trading algo / other. 1. build a trade district, Place yourself into mercentile, activate veneration of saints(that small boost gets you to your first pick faster), turn your planet into a trade capitol and finally set traders to be your favorite job, and Miners to be your fav Worker job (locked at 8 to stop mineral crisis). 2. Pick Expand the council first. 3. Colonize ring segments asap and ALWAYS be building more trade segments or clearing blockers, you are a trade build, trade! use monthly's. 4. Take mercentile and unlock marketplace of ideas 5. Take Exploration and the first pick that gives you a free pop with each colonization (you should be able to take that bonus Just before your next segment finishes if this is your forth pick including tree starts) 6. as soon as you have your second segment Change your Empire capitol to the second world (trade capitol) now you can make your old cap a Urban world for an additional 10% trade boost that your cap couldn't do. additionally all 3 worlds are going to be trade worlds for now. Build a robot production plant first and then just trade districts (with traders favorited), don't forget to clear blockers, if you can take a tech at the start that will eventually let you take one of the power blockers on the ring down). 7. Finish Mercentile and take Statecraft, (optionally take the 10% growth speed bonus here first from exploration) 8. Evolving society is taken after the council expands. 9. Give the new council role to the highest level leader you can, soon there will be an election, Vote for someone other than your ruler (who is about to level up soon) and then after that Apoint your old ruler as director of trade. 10. Now your economy will skyrocket as all of those traders across all three worlds jump to life, oligarchy +2 council skill plus a statecraft pick will give your new trade director 3 additional skill levels when you appoint them and evolving society hasn't even been activated yet, you are now swimming in not only Unity but also Energy. practice runs have had the Unity production being over 500 at the time of starting Transformation and having grown to nearly 800 by the time it's nearly finished with a back log big enough to take the entire tree in a single go. You should be able to start building unocupied city districts, research labs, industrial districts and mining districts on the other two ring segments now while still keeping expanding trader positions open with your old homeworld being a bulk Trade world. (swap the temples and robot plants out for labs. I tend to immediately ascend all 3 segments twice each after Virtualizing and then go for Adaptability so I can get it's Designation effect bonus and then after ascending and virtualizing I swap the new capitol world to be a forge capitol, the new designation bonus actually increasing the metalurgists output aswell as upkeep cost reduction. the other segment becomes a mining segment that (WILL NOT BE REPAIRED), the mining designation will also boost strategic resources meaning that at high ascension levels this planet is capable of having 1 chemical plant generating 7 motes, the other two can be repaired, I tend to use the forge world as a research world after repairing and swap the designation from research to forge as needed while the trade world and mining world support the econ with their designations and shouldn't be changed. Within a very short time you are going to be outputting over 1k alloys, energy and science at the same time. just remember that your tall, use all of the eddicts you can all the time.

[@johnquach8821]

Glad to see you're back. Thank you, Ep3o.

[@Mrwhoisdreks]

I recently got in to stellaris and I’m pretty bad at it. I didn’t even know how unity worked until like 3 games before so this video is extremely helpful(ps I have won a few times(on lowest difficulty)but I still don’t understand many game mechanics so binge watching the videos is extremely helpful)

[@roflcopterlolbag]

Amazing video, can't wait to try this build! Just to add the background music was quite loud and very distracting, had to pause a rewind a few times to hear you.

[@uncannyresemblance]

You should try death cult + parliamentary system with voidforged with the same species template. You finish virtuality tradition by 2223. You also have a strong forge world setup and a strong research world if you take the sol void dweller. I personally like taking sovereign guardian ship over parliamentary system for later on in the game and just substitute it with the agenda for bonus unity.

[@Rickus316]

Glad you are back man!

[@isaacdierker6159]

Forming a holy covenant can produce even more unity with its trade policy if you want to rush the trees.

[@lvlinty]

Going catalytic processing or whatever where you turn food into alloys/etc feels strong later (after mega-eng tech) because fixing your shattered ring segments removes the minerals but a single agg district can power ~100 food/mo vs the ~30 minerals preupgrade. I wish there was an ocean paradise start but merc shattered ring to virtual seems to be the meta

[@pieterfaes6263]

It's kinda unfortunate that the biggest reason Virtuality is overpowered is because Subjugation and Vassals are overpowered. In an ideal world Nemesis' espionage mechanics would be more useful as a counterbalance.

[@renegard5442]

God how I wish you could completely repair the shattered ring and get that 4th segment.

[@davidvazquez1014]

I will have to watch this vid again in 2 years,whenever they add it to console stellaris

[@nocomment6870]

Imagine being a console pleb lol

[@DerBlunderMan]

So happy you are back from the hack, love the content

[@khrister9228]

My favorite run is teacher of the shroud with statecraft tree and rush unity in my capital cuz every mind over matter agenda finished gives xp to the counciler leaders, xpl f.spiritualist seem cool In mid game these agenda takes less than 5 years to finish so that multiple agenda will be on in the same time

[@seanmcnulty2337]

This is the build you play when you get mad at the ai just condemned the whole galaxy 😂

[@HouseofFireflies]

Taking over the galaxy, one painting at a time

[@majier5789]

How do you feel about Mastery of Nature for the reduced cost on clearing blockers? *Edit: It's also really nice for setting up a mineral world, with the decision adding more districts from planetary features.

[@Ep3o]

Not awful, the district size is why I’d go it though!

[@majier5789]

@@Ep3o Word. cheers for the response and I hope you have been well since the last vid's update. Glad to see the uploads keep coming

[@Sephiroth144]

@@Ep3o Ditto; the reduced cost becomes pretty nil later on, but extra districts keeps paying off.

[@lvlinty]

One vision and consecrated worlds help the rush. If you want to delay slightly you could easily give up one in favor of mastery of nature. Most virtual builds are going tall though so you've got to remember that you only get the benefits on a few colonies.

[@TheSmokeGoblin]

In the kindest way possible, you remind me alot of the racoon from guardians of the galaxy. Like if he was a bit more civilised.

[@jeanmarc6517]

Love your videos! Despite being currently homeless, it helps a lot!

[@mistergrosbig4085]

T’es sans-abri ?

[@Ep3o]

Stay safe!

[@jeanmarc6517]

​@@mistergrosbig4085 Oui, mon travail m'héberge pour le moment mais malheureusement d'ici 2 mois il faudra que j'arrive à trouver un moyen de me loger et un autre emploie, si je veux continuer mes études.

[@brycedolishny4138]

I'm curious about how spiritualist robots work with death cult and virtual. Does the virtual pop creation work with acolytes? I understand its probably not super meta but it seems funny to have an eccuminopolis with nothing but unity districts that autofill sacrifices.

[@REMMc-jx7vc]

Whats the most powerful wide build these days friends? (preferably with a video to hold my hand :)

[@triedtherest]

Just waiting for the Nerf-hammer to descend on the next Stellaris update.

[@i.s.l.988]

But the void drewlers merchants

[@__OS__]

when people talk about the difficulty, it's with scaling on, right? cause i was trying to do it with no scaling, and was getting 10k power enemy fleets at my border pre 2250, and im not sure how to tackle that if not with pure military and gimmicks like hidding under vassalage

[@LanceBryantGrigg]

Stellaris is an extremely balanced game. Any thought of questioning that is heresy!

[@_JamesMorrell_]

My mp group banned virtual ascension

[@andromacdonald5216]

yea i have been telling this for some time virtual ascension needs a nerf

[@lvlinty]

I think it's actually in an interesting spot. One thing to note: you're one or two systems deep the whole game. Anger the wrong alien at the wrong time and you lose quickly. I don't think it needs a nerf... If we target something for balance, bringing empire size penalties back down to reasonable numbers is the solution. Let the wide empires benefit from their land/worker grabbing rather than punish them for it

[@SnuSnu33]

Dont know why they made machines availability to normal civics , parla system just broke their unity , which was their weak point

[@oscriadocomandosancto2898]

i like stellaris

[@husher2527]

can you do a unity rush in gestalt consciousness machine?

[@isuckatusernames4297]

I feel like you could stop clarifying the blockers colonizing maneuver, considering its been a while since you've been doing that for every game plus anyone with eyes can see you pull off that maneuver.

[@Sachrial1]

Is there a way to do an unity rush with non individualistic machines? I will try and find out, but it seems much harder with no trade. Any tips from other stellaris players apreciated.

[@ducesrwild]

My shattered ring start has one of the sections in a ruined state. How is he starting with three fully usable sections?

[@marcellarisa7239]

The other two ring sections count as guaranteed habitables. If your guaranteed habitable worlds setting is 0, you'll only get the starting section

[@notsm]

Is trade unity really that much stronger than regular unity? Has anyyone done the math on that / tested it?

[@lvlinty]

You mean market place of ideas? Yes. No I haven't done the math but a trade world is going to out pace a world of temples/etc every time. AND, the economy will just be healthier. Add in a trade league and things spiral.

[@bluperman949]

Have you been saying "concentrated worlds" instead of "consecrated worlds" this whole time? lol

[@Sephiroth144]

Comment for the Algorithm God; Like for the AI Throne

[@prototype21]

How did you double your pops from 50 to 110 in 6 months 2226.5-2227, that should have been the highlight of the entire video and not the unity build 😁, thats light clone army pop speed. This build looks very pale in comparison to clone army having 2 subjugates by 2220, 700 basic income on GA no scaling.

[@elizabethwinterveil9950]

Virtual ascension fills any job you have, creating pops from thin air. That's pretty much the entire reason of getting it.

[@MehDagon]

virtual will remain bonkers as long as the instant pop generation will remain. absolutely disgusting ascension path. the pops need to be like half as good as regual pops to just for normal pops to compete.

[@lvlinty]

The alternative is everyone going back to boring super wide builds. Playing mega tall finally pays dividends and I don't think that's a bad thing. Especially with the trail off midgame

[@minkoti]

not to offend, but man im so sick and tired of everyone playing broken virtual especially among my friends its just virtual this virtual that its so boring, i would like to see more non individualist plays that no1 makes vids of like Driven assimilators, or gestalt modularity/nano etc But on the note of the channel good to see it in a normal state keep up the good job

[@lvlinty]

Machine driven assim has been the background meta for ~5 years with an occasional trade build showing up for a few months of viability Honestly I'm sick of all of my friends still playing super wide gesalt boring ass empires. The rise of individual machine empires is a welcome change.

[@minkoti]

@@lvlinty Ohh is that so, i had like 3-4 years break just recently came back for 3.12, honestly i like the idea of individualist so i welcome that, but the problem is every single one i see go virtual and thats the particular thing im so bored about

[@ArmitageShanksuk]

I think the only realistic way to nerf it while keeping it fun to play would be to scale back the % bonus the pops get. I.e. have it start at 50% (auto drops to 25% from your capital world only) so it's easier to get into the negatives per pop from just 2-4 colonies. It still wouldn't hurt the ascension too much as the instant pops, bonus jobs per district and bonus districts from planetary ascension are still very nice. Being able to have 100%+ per pop and THEN a possible further 100%+ from the clerk jobs? Is a bit over-tooled.

[@mistergrosbig4085]

Why is Tesla making Stellaris videos ?

[@kinexxona06]

Calling ring segments planets 🤡

[@moekitsune]

I mean, they function the same as actual planets in the game

[@Bruh-fi6fl]

36 seconds 0 views fell off

[@RimWorldRimmer]

Just say point 5 and point 25 for .5 and .25 you sound redundant

[@nocomment6870]

this build is so fucking broken lmao