The Grid Galaxy in Stellaris is 𝙋𝘼𝙄𝙉

[@A_Spec]

Check out Prosperous Universe, and start your Galactic Megacorporation today! ; tinyurl.com/ASpec2

[@sveinhongset4725]

Luck fun/fun

[@rjwaters3]

for anyone looking at this game, keep in mind significant portions of the game, like automated production, transportation contracts (flying logistics for others), buying/selling from others, voting in your corporation (anyone who has paid in the corporation can vote, but not the free players), making a corporation in general, are locked behind a paywall. a SUBSCRIPTION paywall, not a one and done paywall. 8$/month

[@NosirrathOfficial]

@@rjwaters3 I've been playing PrUn for 9 months now completely free. Sure, you can pay for some convenience factors, but the game is 100% possible FTP by trading on the Exchange as opposed to P2P contracts

[@jemal999]

Your description of it made me think of EVE minus the insane PVP. (Which is a good thing from my perspective)

[@NosirrathOfficial]

@@jemal999 it's like eve except much less tedious. It's slow, like you come back to ita couple times a day while it works in the background. But it takes place entirely in menus, spreadsheets, and charts. And the fact that the whole market is based on real users, from raw resources to ship construction, makes it feel so real. I love it

[@calebr7199]

this feels like a 90s 4x space game

[@dl1thy]

*cough* birth of the federation *cough* birth of the empires *cough*

[@noivern666]

Escape Velocity

[@SupremeRTS]

Master of orion battle at antares

[@Techburn997]

Space Empires III

[@squirrel_slapper]

I want a time machine so I can go back and kidnap someone from the 90s and force them to play Stellaris

[@eddiegrizelda]

I just realized why there were so many void clouds in that system... When they kill a ship they have a chance to spawn a new void cloud. Something happened in this system to cause a nasty snowball to form 😮

[@synthetic240]

I bet some raiders or space whales or something went through.

[@CrimsonBar0n]

Happens when ships are reinforcing your fleets they path through systems like that unless you ban them

[@CrimsonBar0n]

Had it happen for 100 years on me one time and I had no idea until I checked and saw dozens of 5k void cloud fleets

[@anthonymudge9768]

Oh yeah I had that in my first game, but never again and I keep forgetting about it

[@hebbu10]

An AI empire had a capital in that system, they fed the clouds but how did the clouds get there in the first place? does VLUUR also spawn void cloud when it kills as normal clouds don't move system to system or was it a primitive that got FTL with cloud there already.

[@Sanderlee]

... playing on a grid ... "At least my fleets are right around the corner." LOVE it!

[@TheSurprisePizza]

Next two videos in this series: "The Cube Galaxy in Stellaris is discomfort" and "The Hypercube Galaxy in Stellaris is quite pleasant, actually".

[@A_Spec]

The Cube Galaxy in Stellaris is 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓

[@bruhgod123]

tesseract galaxy when

[@codegeek98]

Can the edges of a hypercube be made planar?

[@MarImpObsc]

Yes, it's called a tesseract and it's basically a square in a square with each corners connected

[@crusader-yv9zr]

So, the thing with the L Cluster and Contingency home system. The game only has a certain amount of space it can render stars in, with a regular circular galaxy all four corners are left empty until the L Cluster spawns. I can only assume that this grid mod takes up the entire renderable space, so when the L Cluster spawns where the game assumes is empty space, it ends up overlapping.

[@bernard832]

There should be wormholes along the edge to enable wrapping and make the grid borderless.

[@ultimate9056]

Evil

[@jemal999]

And the 4 corners each leading to the opposite corner.. Although that many wormholes, the lag would be insane.

[@koshi6505]

If the stars were in a neat grid, you wouldn't even need wormholes. You could just have the jump lanes to the other side overlap the ones adjacent.

[@MasterAries7]

i tried the Line map after you did...and i had two of those infinite void cloud systems. there is PROBABLY an inhabited planet in the system that is spawning armies, that the void clouds kill...and then spawn another of their own

[@hg2aa]

in this map, there should be a script to run in which all systems are renamed as coordinates, A1, A2, A3 and so on! like in a tabletop game!

[@CommanderJPS]

battleship to C5? (clicks clock) stellaris chess mode 😅

[@Bennet2391]

I like how the grid puts you into a similar situation as full density hyperlanes or warp has done in the past. The game is so much more thrilling this way. There are no chokepoints in space.

[@koshi6505]

I feel like there needs to be anti-deathball mechanics for this situation to really be fun. You should be encouraged to spread out more.

[@Bennet2391]

​@@koshi6505 What do you mean by "deathball mechanics"? I always play this way and the games is quite balanced for it in my opinion.

[@Jiub_SN]

@@koshi6505the game was fine in the old warp/womrhole/hyperlane system and balanced quite well for it to the point that maps like this or max hyperlanes are still pretty fun and never feel bad. I still hate that a bunch of the nerds who have to min max to perfection threw a big enough fit that the devs actually removed the other FTL types, like you could just disable all of them but the one you wanted anyway lmao

[@Joe-xq3zu]

Gotta say, The Contingency spawning as you were dealing with the Grey Tempest was hilarious!

[@TheContingency25x]

Yes it was.

[@bruhgod123]

is it possible to side with contingency while playing as a determined exterminator

[@mistergrosbig4085]

@@bruhgod123No they destroy you as well

[@bruhgod123]

@@mistergrosbig4085 o

[@Minewald]

Would've loved to see the 4 million fleet go up against the lantern army. Probably they still would've lost against the brightest day spawn.

[@TehKang]

I kind of wish you'd ended the session with another suicide charge into that system with all the 5K cloud lightning monsters lol

[@bruhgod123]

if he did then they would continue to replicate

[@TehKang]

@@bruhgod123 Yeah that's fine he was going to end the episode anyway. Just wanted one more "Into the breach" style charge

[@RaikoTechnologies]

should've been hexagonal grid 📍

[@_Umbrael_]

Aspec: *Launches this game session* Some person in a Sci-fi movie from the 80s: "Welcome to the grid."

[@r1ppl3_13]

this really reminds me of battleship, the movie and the game edit: but mostly the movie

[@benjaminoechsli1941]

We can never dig too deep! Rock and stone, miners.

[@synthetic240]

I've got a new system in my beta-patch game that's some sort of automated mall? And it keeps spawning "Parking Attendant" robots that fly around the system, but create a new contact event every time. It's free influence, but it started getting really crowded after 200 years. The funny thing is, I went and killed them all because they're considered Neutral and as long as a ship stayed in the system no more spawned.

[@andrewleah1983]

Yes it regenerates. Fast. It took me ten years to bomb it to the Stone Age. It’s virtually impossible to kill as it can destroy your armies easily as it has over a hundred damage and only the Cybrex Warforms can take that hit.

[@MarImpObsc]

After 1 dimensional pain, have some 2 dimensional pain !

[@NalyKalZul]

yea void cloud reproduce based on how much naval cap dies in the system, this can happen during battle's too if someone feeds it to a certain point.

[@Nycozi]

What mod are you using for grid?

[@A_Spec]

Galaxy Types

[@hunterwellman788]

@@A_Spec can you give a link because i cant find it on steam

[@mafaeth]

Could you please put a link to the mod somewhere? I want to play this!@@A_Spec

[@dillonniedan9382]

@@hunterwellman788 Check comment below

[@Tbcw42]

Could have parked a ship in orbit shelling the crystalline entity for 100 years.

[@bookle5829]

what's next, cube galaxy?

[@Runetrantor]

Like many a times before, saw the whole speal for Prosperous Universe, was like 'holy shit that sounds awesome' and then I realized its an online game. OTL WHY MUST ALL GOOD ONES BE ONLINE?! ;A;

[@isothynebyron]

FR

[@DrMalsyn]

Missed opportunity to use the cubes mod.

[@brianstiles1701]

What mod do you use for this? Just in case I feel like some pain.

[@thecontingency4509]

you can use the Ticks_per_turn {ticks value} command to speed up the game I Would usually put 10 as it would mean 1 day per tick It isint compatible with ironman but its not like I care

[@zeekirill1177]

41:10 So, I have an epilepsy and I really regret what I ignored your warning...

[@A_Spec]

You okay?

[@zeekirill1177]

@@A_Spec Yesn't

[@willnash7907]

A lot of democracies in this run. Then again, I guess that's what you get with a level playing field.

[@furauran]

BRO'S SHOUTING OUT PROSPEROUS UNIVERSE?//?/???? LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@richardortiz178]

What mod is this that enables the grid galaxy?

[@stazeII]

Should have used that 4m fleet to try to destroy the flashlights. Lol.

[@TheRyuSword]

Prosperous Universe is a free game on Steam, thus I'll gladly try it out because it sounds like Victoria 3 but on Stellaris's scale.

[@miriamweller812]

You could even call it a crystal ball rock.

[@AndrewBezdenezhnykh]

iirc, you HAVE TO kill crystal bane with your first invasion. idk if it's a bug or feature

[@A_Spec]

Its a bug, its been an issue for quite some time

[@darthceoloc8350]

No matter how much The Grid is aggrevating, at least it is not The Line!!

[@sagittariusa7662]

It is hard to do an actual galaxy as they have billions of stars and systems not thousands. The closest thing available that we know of is the Local Interstellar Cloud, about 30 light years. And even then that might be a bit small for some people who want a good game play experience given the type of immersion they want as close to a galaxy as possible. Even the Orion Spur is too big, 800 million stars. Even the local bubble is too big with 8 million stars. Even within 100 light years, there is just too many with 59,722 stars. So around 50 light years or maybe 55 light years is about as much as you could go for most computer systems will allow. Yet that doesn't really provide enough room to really feel that sense of wonder as being part of galaxy. Here is the thing you need to realize and how the developers do too. Solar systems are really really big and so are galaxy. Compartmentalizing the experience for the two would allow more room for actual galaxy and solar systems to exist rather than barely one at all except for mods for the sol system and there is pretty much no other way you could do so for a galaxy. You need to divide a galaxy into sections, even Star Trek and Star Wars does this. To do this while feeling like you are in a paradox game with units zipping about, you should have layers. And don't tell me you cannot make such work. The Computer is designed to compartmentalize information in folders. So of course it would work. You have to be prideful, ignorant and stupid to disagree. So what do we have. We could easily utilize the Local Group. Going beyond that I agree isn't really possible. And it really isn't likely you would colonize every system, but just enough for your economy and military presence to be acknowledged at the level it needs to be. Russia is vast and open, but it exerts enough military pressure to prevent anyone from invading it that aren't Russians themselves. The Netherlands are a Tiny Country, but it holds tremendous economic importance across the globe, same is true for Singapore and Switzerland. 1) Local Group divided into Galactic Subgroups. You would have three (even though you could also do this in two, but three makes more sense given how big Andromda is even though Triangulum is a satellite of Andromda). It is possible to customize this to have many Subgroups and each subgroup to consist of one or two proper galaxies. 2) Galactic Subgroups are divided into Proper Galaxies and Dwarf Galaxies. Proper Galaxies have more levels. Dwarf Galaxies don't. 3) Galaxies are then divided into Galactic Regions such as the Arms of the Milky Way as well as the Core Region called the Galactic Bulge and the Galactic Halo which surrounds it. 4) Galactic Regions can be further divided into subregions depending on the size. The Orion Spur or Arm can be further divided into the Gould Belt. 5) Subregions can be further divided into infraregions (infra being below sub) depending on the size. The Gould Belt consists of the Local Bubble. 6) Infraregions can be further divided into Parvoregions (Parv being below infra) depending on the size. The Local Bubble consists of the Local Cloud which consists of 250 to 750 star systems I believe. Before I continue 750^4 is +300 Billion which is within range of what our galaxy probably has. Do know you could probably reduce everything by 1/10 of the low bar and would feel so huge that you might underlook the fact it is not truly on scale. That 25^4, which is 390,625. For Stellaris, that is huge. Some argue there is no way a system could work for something like that. I argue that it can if it is done correctly. If you compartmentalize everything, it would probably suffice quite easily with plenty of room to spare and for the average computer, not just the best ones on the market or custom made to be beyond scope of what is on the market. Nevertheless, to allow room for larger galaxies as you could fit two and maybe even three proper galaxies together in one Galactic subgroup. It is possible to make an even bigger galaxy as just one subgroup by itself. 7) In that case, Parvoregions can be further divided into Microregions. 25^5 = 9,765,625, which is mindblowing. And in retrospect to a real galaxy. That is 2.373*10^14. That is right galaxies with fourteen or more digits. The largest galaxies have a hundred trillion or more stars. 100,000,000,000,000. So yeah, it does fit having the biggest galaxies we know of. 8) Never the less at this point you would have Solar Systems as the division of a Galactic Subunit. 9) Solar Systems are divided into solar Zones which may or may not have belt to divide them and may be considered its own zone. 9A. For our Solar System with have the Proximal Zone of the Sun which is the Sun and whatever may be really close to it as some exoplanets are really close to their host star. 9B. Then we have the Inner Zone, which is the most likely region to find planets. 9C. Then there is the Medium Zone, which consists of worlds that could support life but not likely on the Surface, rather underground if they are Europa like and in top layers of the atmosphere if they are a Gas Giant. 9D. Then there is the Exterior Zone, which consists of worlds way too cold even in the inside of worlds or on the clouds of an ice giant or Cold gas giant as these entities would be just too cold to support life, but they are more feasible to obtain materials as compared to the next zone. 9E. Lastly there is the Ulterior Zone, which consists perhaps the most bodies but also has the most economic extensive market for resources as everything is frigid to the point of needing specialized tools and habitability means similar to interstellar space that it may be entirely too costly to consider. But you would need to colonize some of these worlds just to guarantee you can support an empire that expands beyond your sole system. Solar systems may contain multiple Proximal Zones, but no more than three and there can be multiple Inner Zones and Medium Zones as well as up to 2 Exterior Zones. Up to 12 zones in total if you don't count any belts which may double that amount. The size of the star or stars will determine how big each zone is and by that how many planets or belts there could be. . 10) Zones are divided into planetary systems, which consists of not only the planet itself but also a moon or a binary planetary twin as well as additional orbital zones for satellite habitats or an artificial ring if there is enough room. The Sun itself can host a Dyson Swarm or something similar in place of a planetary system. 11) Like Solar systems, Planetary systems also consist of zones in similar likeness (Proximal, Inner, Medium, Exterior, Ulterior and Exterior), anomalies are likely to be presents if there are two planets orbiting very closely without tearing each other apart. 12) These Zones would consist of planetary entities with the planet itself being one of such entities as you can have low orbit stations and possible habitats or a planetary ring of some sort. 13) The Planet is divided into areas itself which are the Atmosphere, the Surface Ground, Surface Ocean (if it has any oceans), the Subsurface Ground, Subsurface Ocean (if it again has any), and the Interior (Mantle and Core). 14) Planetary Areas are divided into districts which for the surface ground (being the most common you would think of) would be comparable to countries or continents. 15) Districts are divided into Municipalities which can be Urban or Rural. Having many Urban Municipalities will generate a local Megalopolis and If all districts or at least those on the ground surface are Megalopolis, the planet will become an ecumenopolis. Each district contains resources and must build and diversify your Municipalities to provide work opportunities to make these district economic for your empire. 16) The Population (Jobs and Demographics). This is all possible because computers run off hexadecimal, so as long as the divisions don't exceed 16 in number.

[@---hz1vi]

Get in the fucking grid Shinji

[@ProbablyAEuropean]

purify me adorable space cats

[@yochaiwyss3843]

Ah yes, Stellaris Chess!

[@bruhgod123]

chess but with intergalactic genocide

[@Adoffka]

Are you using Alpha Centauri soundtrack as a background?

[@themeddite]

Gotta love playing xenophobic aliens but being the cutest thing to exist

[@syrusalder7795]

Do you have to be subterranean to get the crystalline balrog or is it just super rare?

[@donbenjamin6459]

You need the origin. The event spawn like in half of the games. But they can't spawn the balrog

[@syrusalder7795]

@@donbenjamin6459 man that blows. still, i did recently start a sunterranean run and i have like 8 planets within one jump of my capital, and this entire section is within its own little area with a single hyperlane entrance. with said hyperlane entrance having a planet so i can fortress world it. and im running giga so i can turn that baby into a maginot world. im so hyped for that run when i get back to it, after i do like 20 playthroughs of baldurs gate 3 XD

[@killzoomer]

Is Prosperous Universe on Steam?

[@AsbestosMuffins]

this is actually a fun looking mod

[@maremaarten]

Sad about the bugs!

[@purebloodedgriffin]

Slack at 25:00

[@danielkjm]

I actually liked The Grid map

[@lindalobstadefenda]

Btw thank you for the epilepsy warning. :)

[@joehelland1635]

Not even using yhe cube lanets and stars mod…. Tsk tsk.

[@alexschriner5444]

how did you get the grid map?

[@exidrial431]

1:36 ugh that game sounds super interesting and fun but it's multiplayer. -_-" A subscription based one at that. I got excited over nothing

[@aptspire]

120 research in 2250 ASpec, are you feeling ok?

[@A_Spec]

No, it was terrible.

[@rublikbublik5683]

Is this civ4 mod?

[@mistergrosbig4085]

Urban galaxy

[@peterk7428]

Did you ever wipe out the void clouds?

[@bruhgod123]

probably not

[@OccasusRaven]

18:38 🙄🙄🙄Maybe someone should first look tutorial how to beat that thing? U need to planetary bombarment it that long when it have 300-200 hp and then u land ur troops on planet and kill it. Thats how you get achievement/trophy from that origin.

[@Will-uz3sc]

Never seen No views before, guess I'm the first one here! TY for the good work ASpec there are not enough Stellaris creators to satisfly my insatiable lust for Xeno....I mean Stellaris content

[@spritemon98]

I am also first

[@shackram]

Is your empire's flag supposed to look like a square goatse?

[@A_Spec]

Is that where your brain's going? Interesting.

[@Raycheetah]

Whenever the urge arises to incorrectly use the word "decimate," instead apply the much more appropriate word, "devastate." =^[.]^=

[@RyanTowles-i8t]

Aspec you are so funny dude lmao

[@Allmightygreat]

Colorado is the best rado

[@colecook834]

Prosporous universe seems like the game that people would bot

[@GozXz]

I hate it, but also love it.

[@torulfviking5351]

add the noxius trait to your cave dwellers and you have 80% habitability everywhere.

[@davidstar2686]

These map types should be standard options just for fun.

[@awedelen1]

👍🏼

[@VynalDerp]

ah yes the anti-border gore map

[@EmperorPear]

amogus

[@Raishiki]

Second thumb

[@ZonsoAvalune]

first

[@HenryFipp]

Hey ASpec, great video as always! One tip for defeating the crystalline bane, if you put just one corvette in orbit around the planet, it will prevent the crystalline bane from regenerating health, that way you can attack it with troops over time and slowly bring down its health.

[@thighhighkirby]

First

[@Nikolai0169]

You could also just kill the boss through orbital bombardment. Its gonna take a shitload of time due to the undergrounder orbital bombardment nerf, but youll get through it...eventually

[@synthetic240]

And then a few decades of rebuilding from 100% devastation. It was interesting to see the results; 28% devastation and... a dead colony. Sucks it only had the one. Makes me think of Balin's tomb and those last hold outs; "We cannot get out..."

[@bruhgod123]

if you do it you probably will want to make orbital bombardment not be set to armageddon

[@andrewleah1983]

Takes about 10 years from when devastation is 100%.

[@tekalh7647]

Those void clouds must've been that Class 30 Singularity that the Contingency was so worried about

[@SteveBlewett]

Fear of the Dark origin. The AI can have one start on the map and I think it almost always takes the decision to become a Purifier.

[@NotNitehawk]

39:52 When space clouds eat ships, they replicate. The AI probably kept suiciding ships into the system and replicating the clouds.

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

Next: a perfectly normal galaxy, except there is one star system in the center with a link to every single other star in the galaxy. Maybe offset it a ways below the disc to reduce the visual noise of all the overlapping hyper lanes.

[@__lasevix_]

That's basically having an L-gate active on every system, from the start of the game What would be very funny though, would be for a fallen empire to spawn there.

[@danielroth65]

There is something oddly satisfying about seeing a grid...

[@davidk1308]

I wonder what would've happened if you took become the crisis and tried to crack the star all those void clouds were spawning in. Would you even be able to crack it before the star eater was destroyed? Would void clouds keep spawning afterward?

[@Ackalan]

I know why they spawned: They came from a Shielded World and there's a a space station that regen health, every time they 0 HP the station again a new one is spawned, it happened in one of my games.

[@MadamLava094]

"I haven't checked in on Aspec in ages! I wonder what he's been doing with Stellaris late-" *bears witness to The Line and The Grid* Im BEGGING someone to make The Line, but its a circle of individual stars instead of a single line

[@brandonsecoy8940]

The grid map needs to be a map added to the already existing map selection for those who want a simple yet hard challenge.

[@mystic-malevolence]

The grid is... oddly satisfying.

[@stormlordeternal7663]

First the line and now the grid. How long until the ultimate game changer, THE CUBE. Now systems can be above and below eachother like Homeworld.

[@Lumen_Obscurum]

ASpec going to be trapped in the TIME CUBE, experiencing four days per day.

[@stormlordeternal7663]

Gonna be playing Stellaris in real time.@@Lumen_Obscurum

[@bruhgod123]

then after the cube the tesseract

[@Fatueable]

This reminds me of how space sectors set in X3/Terran Conflict universe.. Aspec are this procedurally generated or stars systems and hyperlanes manually placed via text file? - like its done with Star Wars overhauls mods (New Dawn & Legacy of old Republic )

[@A_Spec]

I have no idea how this was made.

[@Looshkin1]

Crystalline Bane has been bugged for years, even though patch notes back in 3.4 say it's fixed, that's a big fat lie.

[@synthetic240]

After all this time, you're still over-estimating the Khan? Honestly, I was kinda worried about a Level 10 Khan admiral in this current version of the game. The thing is though, most of the FP is locked up in the Galleon's big armor and hp pool. And surviving to the last won't help the Khan if he gets swarmed; the galleon simply doesn't have the dps or enough small weapons.

[@Minimeister317]

I wonder what difficulty ASpec plays on since he is playing on "Fastest" speed

[@andrewyoonhobai8453]

no one even knows how to get past the straight line galaxy to the end. How u all expect to survive the grid galaxy, what the hell is this galaxy grid anyways. Milky Way Elufu(s) are superior

[@alexer52]

Prosperous Universe giving me actual flashbacks to my horrendous days of playing Simcountry (ain't NEVER playing that evil, torturous thing again💀)

[@camiblack1]

Oh Aspec, did you expect an easy time when you dug to deep?

[@ZealotOfSteal]

Why didn't you bubble the contingency machine worlds? Seems it would've fit perfectly with the playthrough. Edit: Apparently you can't, that's sad.

[@ItsChugg]

What's the mod that changes the galaxy generation?

[@space_artist_4real138]

The Keepers of the Grid what a name for a grid galaxy, but this galaxy looks like a mesh for heat transfer lol, there should be one fanatic purifier named Cleanser of the Mesh

[@sacaruma]

Why do you keep doing this to yourself?

[@A_Spec]

Masochism

[@solidsnake6206]

What cpu are you using? Would love for my game be able to run demanding mods.

[@A_Spec]

I had to throw a 12 core Ryzen 9 5900X at it to get it to behave.

[@donbenjamin6459]

The epilepsy bug was amazing

[@BeastlyMussel61]

I can't find the mod anywhere, unless this is supposed to be the mod that's 2 years out of date.