Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Stellaris!

[@Strategiser2]

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[@l.a.3680]

Are you trying to tell me i can shift-click clerks away forever?

[@Strategiser2]

yes, FOREVEEEEER

[@l.a.3680]

@@Strategiser2 I am shedding tears right now. I mean - i will never forget my time in vietnam when we had to remove clerks manually and could never be sure we have gotten all of them, but - its over. Nobody has to face these horrors anymore.

[@vainthatoneoverhere]

Over 2k hours, I'm still building gene clinics and keep amenities at 10+ because I like my pops healthy and happy.

[@Strategiser2]

*eldritch horror noises*

[@principleshipcoleoid8095]

Just go full private medicine megacorp then! To make them worth it

[@pz4642]

nah screw that i feed them to the shroud

[@billylee3095]

yep, cheap, help in bad planets with +% habability (cheaper pop and more resources production), + in pop, for cyborgs crazy bonus pop growth + assembly. Help with amenities, stable planet = better planet bonus. Crazy are strange belief for years that it is a bad building. Like here Strat counts the growth bonus, which is bad, but by the way, take every other growth bonus anyway, because cumulatively it's a crazy bonus for me Holotheart is bad bcs dont give you thats bonus like geneclinic, Is smth like adaptive is bad, but when you play basic human UNE or CoM is good and helping on early game 😂 or trade, for years every video how trade is ugly but in this same time i saw many games or video how they playing trade empire. They seem to count every single thing, but who needs a building that increases so many things?

[@ThorinWolf]

I do both holo theatres and amenities. I tend to stack pops pretty high.

[@Chimaera242]

Put your armies on aggressive stance: they will automatically follow fleets, and invade planets when they have a good chance of winning. Saves you a lot of clicks.

[@Daddy_Dagoth]

Wait... WHAT?!?!?

[@Tenebris-]

You can do that?

[@mathezard8332]

Holy shit ur bulshitng me, ima try that shit out now

[@Midnight-wh2bs]

Just a note about this, do not have your fleets leave the system before your armies are done invading (for example, say your armies are just mopping up planets with few to no defense armies so you don't need to bombard them), as aggressive stance armies stop following when invading and only resume following after they finish all possible invasions within the system, and since they only automatically start following fleets within the same system as them they will not resume following your fleets if they left during the invasions.

[@jackbright2125]

Defense platforms are actually clutch. As Tsun Tzu said, the wise warrior only attacks from a position of absolute safety. Once defeat is impossible, victory is inevitable. Defense Platforms have one massive advantage over ships: They do not consume naval capacity. Yes, on their own they are lackluster, but with the Unyielding tree they become a real issue. I've won games because of a few good bastions kitted to the gills with defense platforms. You use your defense platforms so that you can attack while not being attackable. It forces your opponent to mass his entire fleet into one great stack to smash through a single bastion, which will incur heavy losses on his part. When he does, you can jump him with your fleets and fight at a huge advantage thanks to starbase buffs. I've also won several wars because of this, since later on you can set gateways at each bastion and have your fleets on standby to converge if he tries to go in. It's bait. Not building a bastion at your entrances renders you vulnerable to your opponent splitting his fleets into small clusters and just rampaging through your territory while your larger fleets struggle to track each of them down. Having strong bastions stops them from backdooring you while you try to assault them. I have won several wars on my bastions because when at war on two fronts I can actually afford to leave my own borders since they physically cannot get past The Wall.tm And lastly if you are attacked by a superior force, you can just wait them out.

[@gentlemanvontweed7147]

I was about to make fun of you for your nerdiness, but... That is really brilliant!

[@jackbright2125]

@@gentlemanvontweed7147 Art of war is underrated, Sun Tzu knew what was up. Audiobook is like an hour long.

[@Midnight-wh2bs]

Yeah, I've literally stone walled FEs in the mid game purely because a maxed out bastion citadel + my navy added up to enough fleet power that the FE was unwilling to enter that system, and since I had these bastions in every entrance to my territory with gateways connecting all of them, I could actually outrun the FE fleets when they tried to go to another entrance. Which allowed me to status quo the wars that I should've been effortlessly steamrolled in. Also there is one reason why defense platforms are the best thing in existence, they can be built on outposts are pretty fast and cheap to build, so if you get the asteroid primitive event you can just build a single defense platform and it'll solo the asteroid without you needing to send a fleet over, which is pretty useful in the early game when you lack gateways/hyper relays to quickly move around.

[@PhoenixIsTrash]

Controlling the L-Cluster with a citadel and 3 planetary rings in Terminal Egress, with unyielding and maxed out defence platforms is amazing. Make each of the planets a bastion and fill it to the brim with armies. Reinforce with a few fleets in orbit to add to the defensive wall (or better yet sit them on the hyperlane one jump over, move your capital further into the cluster, then build the Aetherosphasic engine. Blow up the galaxy from a heavily fortified bunker, cut off from the world by an impenetrable wall to make Trump proud

[@antonycharnock2993]

Don't forget to throw a few fortress habitats into the mix.

[@Pan_Z]

25. Pick Pacifist ethic in multiplayer matches. People will think you're a noob, and take pity on you.

[@Strategiser2]

LMAO

[@justiningham187]

What I wished I knew? that it would turn into a completely different game every 5 minutes. seriously every update changes everything to the point I don't even know how to play the game anymore.

[@Strategiser2]

💀

[@goeijmejisju1510]

Just play console edition at that point

[@cirkleobserver3217]

As someone who’s been playing since release, it’s great. Stellaris changes more between major patches than most early access games do across their entire development cycle. When you look at it that way, the dlc is a fairly reasonable price to pay for a continuously evolving game. HOWEVER, I do often wonder what it must be like for people who haven’t been there from the start. You have to learn a lot of systems at once and you don’t have context for a lot of the smaller details because so much has been jumbled around.

[@pedroeldiablo811]

same, i recently started again after 3 years... while the game has a lot of content now, i find the game to be super messy. Like, you spend 3 hours slowly colonizing your part of space. Then suddenly you have others pops from the entire galaxy in your systems although you didn't even do diplomacy and you end up colonizing 20 new planets suddenly without needing technology, only because you have these pops you didn't ask in the first place. it makes the game messy, kinda confusing and too fast. Removes the slow progression that should come with the slow research progression. Automated sectors are still as broken as 1.0.

[@samedcibi3390]

That is why I stopped playing stellaris, by this time they need to make stellaris 2. Game is simply stitched from pieces of updates and dlc content. Some things are comically op and others are death sentence.

[@bizmasterTheSlav]

I still always have a surplus of amentities because i am a _roleplayer_ and I enjoy knowing that my pops are happy and well-fed while I genocide another alien empire.

[@plansh0332]

Same lol

[@dev2410]

Planetary automation is actually pretty simple to use just watch Montu plays video on it he does a very good job of explaining this. I used planetary automation on my first three playthroughs of Stellaris ( I'm a new player ( and with the guidance of Montu plays I was able to use planetary automation optimally. It became especially helpful in the mid-to-late game when I had too many planets and habitats to manage properly. Also if you set things up right you can make so certain planetary automation settings are set as a default for all new colonies so you don't have to do the 10 clicks that strat claims you have to do for every single planet. note that on account of a more recent update there is no longer a planetary automation stockpile and therefore you can no longer build buildings using energy so you cannot exploit the economic savings that would come from that gimmick.

[@AndrewTheUltraBoss99]

automation is good when you play wide and you seriously have too many planets. in that case, if you need minerals, food or energy (or even a forge), you can set up automations in like 4 or 5 clicks max and leave the planet to it's demise. it will be easier to play like that and it will probably gain you something passively.

[@Elthenar]

@@AndrewTheUltraBoss99 It's especially easy when you have an empire that only uses so many resources. Like machines and energy or Lithoids and minerals. Automation can be a boost but you have to use it intelligently.

[@atoth62]

Planetary automation is completely fine. Just make sure you give the planet a designation, instead of allowing it to auto-designate. Set it to a Generator World, or a Mining or whatever world, and then turn on the automation. Automation does a very good job with very little need to micro afterwards.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

Also it is arguably even more efficient than you are, because it only builds when pops are available, so it only builds when the buildings are actually useful

[@SeeAndDreamify]

Do remember to build the resource production buffing buildings manually though, it tends to forget those.

[@dioniso9572]

The rimworld theme gave me flhasback on lost limbs and -4 happines for eating without a table

[@arjard9995]

Ammenities increase happiness, happiness increases stability and stability increases pop output, so I don't get why being over 0 in ammenities is not a good thing.

[@knuckleheadwestwind3585]

Don’t diss my boy defense platforms, if your empire has multiple points of entry, and you don’t have much naval capacity, you can use platforms to block one or two points of entry for a more secure basis to launch an attack

[@kayokake]

Especially if your main navy limitation is from naval cap and not resources, pumping out defense platforms is viable and worth it

[@Ashathefree8]

Defense platforms are pretty useful in one aspect, threatening the ai, i once spawned next to an advanced devouring swarm, my alloy production wasnt online, i needed to be selective in alloy spending to ward them off, built up choke point to dissuade a war until i was sure i could go on offensive.

[@SeeAndDreamify]

Maybe I'm wrong and this is my utopian bias talking, but I feel like the optimal amenities value is a bit above zero rather than zero. You should probably build just enough holo theaters to not be below zero while employing no clerks, but since that pretty much never is the exact right amount for zero, I think you might as well have the extra entertainer jobs working. In practical terms, this does two things, it gives you some margin for error to keep you away from negative and the small happiness bonus makes the rest of your pops a little bit more productive.

[@Strategiser2]

good point, when taking into account the player's error as well as the extra stability is probably better in some cases

[@SeeAndDreamify]

@@Strategiser2 Very diplomatic answer :). Good collection of tips overall! I didn't know that the trader was quite that bad, nor that 30% is a key value for crime.

[@fearofthedead]

Since I like playing utopian empire - I did some moth once amd figured out that to gain maximum stability from amenities you will need something like twice the required amenities to obten the max bonus of happiness and therefore stability. And having 100% stability will result if, for example, your refinery workers produce 3 rare resources instead of 2 without taking some unnecessary agendas for minmaxing.

[@chirale]

0:37 I found Automatic Construction very useful with a couple of construction ships in the early game. One builds outposts, the other set on auto to build research and mining stations.

[@TheAlmightyNameless]

Building anchorages on any upgraded starbase will increase that navel capacity overall, this tip applies to people who’ve yet to discover it.

[@aaronwentzel8695]

It was very nice to take over enemy system and see how their starbases in one of my early playthroughs. Super helpful!

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

I still wish for a ground combat rework. I have a whole essay on how I would rework ground combat I just wish I could pitch to Paradox.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

You could try to make a mod

[@AvatarAang100]

I wanna read it, can u send it here

[@mauriciofreitas3384]

​@@hanneswiggenhorn2023mods are limited to what the game can provide. Devs on the other hand, can make the groundwork for future mods.

[@lutskinu1491]

I wanna read it, can u send it here

[@AvatarAang100]

​@@lutskinu1491How dare u imitate me xeno scum ? I know where u are, I can call an orbital bombardment on your location at any moment. Do not threaten me with your foolish attempt

[@kevinhowe543]

I think one point you missed for defence platforms is that you can build them on outposts so that you can turn off your concern for piracy. Edit: also gene clinics work for the cyborg ascension path pop assembly as well.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

I'm pretty sure defense platforms don't give trait protection, so om average high piracy would still cost you half your trade value from that trade route, even if you easily beat the pirates every time

[@Shadow.24772]

wow... i knew DPs worked for piracy if they had Hangars on them.

[@kevinhowe543]

@hanneswiggenhorn2023 if you keep the defence platforms upgraded they crush pirates with just 3

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

@@kevinhowe543 yeah, but what I mean is they don't over trade protection as in the stat trade protection. So they will beat the pirates, but before the pirates even spawn, you already lose trade value because of piracy. On average, even if you defeat the pirates instantly, you would lose half your trade value on this trade route because of piracy, so the tradevalue protection from starbases with weapons is still superior

[@ДаниилЗингер-у3к]

But Strat, isnt assembly speed bonus from gene-clinics applies to the cyborgs? I mean, even if they are cyborgs, we still assembly bio-species.

[@Strategiser2]

really? i must've misread it then

[@boonkgang1536]

Downloaded Stellaris for shits and giggle last year or 2 ago and I love the game. I agree with everything u said

[@viktorkemeny31]

I would strongly advise against spamming gateways and NEVER put them in you capital system or even close-by. Crisis factions and Fallen Empires can use YOUR OWN gateways to jump on you. Put them in a nice chocke-point and connect hyper-relays to them instead.

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

Not entirely true. Every gateway has another gateway somewhere in the galaxy (I'm not sure if this also counts for the ones build later) where they can jump through even if they don't own thw target. They normally shouldn't be able to get into your capital this way, at least in my experience

[@hanneswiggenhorn2023]

Also spamming gateways gives you the massive advantage of being able to collect your entire trade value from a single starbase because trade value collection moves through gateways. And I mean trade value collection, not trade routes

[@TheAlmightyNameless]

@@hanneswiggenhorn2023 I was once at war earlier this week forcibly trying to vassalize a empire, “cough” I meant peacemaking, then I discovered that the only way to use the gateways in enemy systems is that you have to capture that very system, so I know I don’t gotta worry about my capital since they gotta capture it to even use the gateway to begin with.

[@mauriciofreitas3384]

​@@hanneswiggenhorn2023gateways are all connected. Wormholes only have 1 entry and 1 exit. As soon as you build a gateway, even crysis can use it

[@lifeking1259]

fallen empires can't go trough them in a war, if you still own it, same with a crisis, I usually end up building a gateway in my capital because that's were I keep my fleets between wars and it means I can get from place to place quicker should something happen

[@lifeking1259]

yes, pacifiers are more optimal, no, I'm not going to stop blowing up planets because it's cool (also neutron sweep should logically be even better right? divine enforcer and nanobot swarm would be even better if you have them) edit: completely forgot about this comment, I switched to pacifier since I commented this

[@vincentdowning4612]

I really enjoy your videos. You're one of the handful of stellaris video makers whose work I follow because they're funny and very informative. Thanks.

[@letsplaysvonaja1714]

I love defense platforms they don't cost fleet capacity and when combined with my actual fleets they make my borders invincible

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

With my mods, traders are actually good and you cannot convince me otherwise. Also, gigaengineering makes defense platforms hilariously OP. Don’t need to worry about retreating when you have 15 Citadels all armed to the teeth with defense platforms and flanked by asteroid artillery! That’s one chokepoint that I rarely have to worry about.

[@pyroflame04]

I’m still going to do everything you said not to anyway

[@AlexiosTheSixth]

sigma grindset

[@dragonbird3404]

But isn't getting as many pops as possible early on a good thing? The investment may be decently sized but the faster you get pops the faster robot factories pay for themselves and grow the economy? RoI is 10 years but if you put it early on an energy or forge world or one with a bunch of pops already there (like your capital for example) 1 pop being busy building robots doesn't sound too bad? Ofc I don't mean build the plants *instantly* but at the very least I'm still researching robots if I get it early so I can jumpstart any planet economy or new colony later on quicker if I have spare resouces

[@Strategiser2]

the consideration is that if you invest these resources for assembly instead into Tech for more efficient production or heck Alloys to gain more territory, it would actually yield more returns the cost is the city district + building itself + pop + assembly upkeep

[@ScorpioneOrzion]

Tho one exception for 19 only use the clone fats with catalics, due to you already need to use food then (and get +25% alloys :)

[@Honkious5824]

12:23 Oh, my capital was a forge tomb world (I'm post-apocalyptic), but hey it's an Ecumenopolis now so it doesn't matter any more.

[@theDemolisher13]

Deference platforms aren't that bad yeah they can't retreat but think of it more like making your shield bigger very useful early to maybe mid game but their bigger use is to be bullet bait/support for the main fleet. Keep your fleet outside of the system waiting to come in, enemy warps in then you order you fleet to come in and engage the enemy fleet right over your starbase. You're fleet now acts like the new bullet bait while the starbase superior fire power in early game picks off the enemy fleet then repairs what remains of your fleet. You're not free to push into enemy territory if you desire.

[@Round20-uy9se]

yeah i made the cultist mistake in my last playthrough and suffered for so long since I wasn't trying to do a militant empire so I kept accidently sending researchers to there death for nothing in the end

[@joehelland1635]

gene clinics do make balancing early colonies amenities really easy.... Although once the colony is established its time to replace them.

[@drakefire6675]

11. I very much disagree here. Sometimes all you need is an easily defensible position in which to chew up enemy fleets for a counterattack of your own, and having a fortified position can deter your neighbors from attacking you while the bulk of your fleet's are busy elsewhere.

[@cirkleobserver3217]

I don’t agree on the clone vats, pop growth is better the earlier you can get it.

[@CycleDoc675]

I almost forgot to like and subscribe. Thank goodness I got to the end of the video! Great tips, btw!

[@wrathofkorven]

Thought gateways were locked to enemy factions? Was this changed recently?

[@Strategiser2]

it was changed like 6 months ago, i forgot the exact time

[@ryanstewart2289]

Clerks are now the third worst job in the game. Climbing the ranks.

[@kinexxona06]

Interestingly the automation has done a good job with my planets when I was a primarly habitat species. Just once like 60 years into the game my alloyes have jumped from 250 to 400 plus from one moment to another

[@marciusnhasty]

He didn't say it's bad, he pointed out it can get bad if used wrong and it's easy to use it wrong. Use it properly and it will save you minerals on a massive scale speeding up the entire build. Proper use includes not having it on for every planet all the time.

[@theDemolisher13]

I've never had issues with automation as I just check my worlds and just make slight tweaks to them over time.

[@d4r1us58]

New Strat video lets go

[@Lord_Juvens]

7:20 I like staring contests, especially while my aetherophasic engine is being upgraded 😏

[@NKGerydos]

More content yaay!!! You might have seen Montu's tier list 😉

[@brunomartins4902]

the problem with stellaris is every new update you nedd to relearn the game, every update is a new game. that sucks a lot

[@StarboyXL9]

Defense platforms are actually very good for baiting when designed in a specific way, placed in the right choke point, and with a backup fleet set to artillery on the other side of the system from the invading fleet. I've beaten far superior opponents in wars that way. Cloak came in handy bigtime too.

[@inigma_ITC]

Your voice is fine. And I love the seal. It adds great humor. Some feedback for sure if interested: slowing down some of the presentation would make the video longer, but for sure would make it less likely for your audience to pause each point to have enough seconds to actually understand the screen capture that relates to what you are saying. Even I've had to pause a bit to grasp your meaning on certain concepts. If you want, you could look at doing part 1 and part 2 clips if you want to slow down your points a little longer so the slower audience can catch up. Most fans are fast to watch, but some of the slower audience might feel like they can't keep up with your points since you switch screens faster than someone with epilepsy could prob register sometimes. :P Good content for sure though!

[@emmetjames2482]

What's your opinion on luxury residents? I like to build them on alloy world to save the district for more industrial districts.

[@marciusnhasty]

Luxury residences are top level min maxing that allow having highest achievable pop growth at reduced price/greater efficiency. Their effect varies with planet specialization and size and over time you always want to replace them - if you are looking at planetary ascension for a planet, it's passed the point of luxury residences being good to have on it.

[@zodiaccowboy2131]

It's funny because I didn't even know the Company behind command and conquer was still around. That's how horrible the management at their company is.

[@llamaboioflusatia]

I build gene clinics when I do a strong stability build, because I don’t need the extra amenities from holo-theatres and the extra pop speed (which I usually also stack in those builds) helps.

[@justsayain9794]

I named my planet destroying monstrosity: God's coconut. After that song "killed by a coconut"

[@AzureRath97]

I love planetary automation and never go a game without it. Boo this video.

[@synthetic240]

You might want to look up how to pronounce "epitome" if you're not familiar with it. It's not "epi-tome" it's more like "ep-ito-me".

[@HeatSeekingVelociraptor]

Yeah it's "Eh-PIT-uh-mee"

[@vlazm1853]

I have just built the empire that relies only on clerks and traders. Got about 6 worlds only for producing the trade value, and I am doing pretty good. Have I done anything wrong?

[@theimperious1]

im not sure why you think defense platforms are so bad? i found them so OP that i had stopped using so many of them at one point. they would immediately destroy any fleet that would enter the system. i was basically untouchable except against end game crisis. love the video! just curious on that one thing

[@jackurquhart7994]

in my current game i use strike craft platforms everywhere, even basic systems without a big station can can still be like 5k fleet power from having them, its a massive help for protecting systems from small fleets while i deal with the big ones myself

[@Aaronivoify]

"don't use planetary automation" I get why people don't like this but if you have over 100+ planets because you are playing a conquest build then there is no issue. Just ensure you keep checking on your planets, but if you are playing competitive multiplayer, you probably want to be as efficient as possible, but TBH, you will be pulling in so many resources that one planet filled with traders won't tank your economy.

[@wresser]

Don't agree with the automation thing. I've played many games, and microing all the planets was really annoying. I then started using the automation, and it really helped. All I do is occasionaly make sure all the planets have robot making factories, but all the rest gets built on its own according to planet designation, which I specify before turning on automation

[@theonesithtorulethemall]

Defenceplatfroms are amazing, if you skill into them since starbases get sutch massiv boni that they can easely take on a fleet twice its dize

[@TWS-G94]

Da hell, did i just watch the C&C franchise pulling a Raid move???

[@obiwankenobi4252]

To be fair I find planetary automation satisfying if I just go through the hassle of manually setting planet designation, because by the midgame I just get to a point where I’m constantly cycling between two dozen colonies as they keep running out of jobs and/or need capital upgrades. Just give 10k between energy and minerals to each sector and then set a monthly common stockpile and never have to worry about this again (mostly)

[@thescorpionpalacios]

Lessgo another Strat video

[@aboymanguy42]

Another great video by strat

[@Parciwal_Gaming]

With over 1180 Hours playtime: I disagree with 11 since the defense platforms do not coun't toward naval cap, if you build tall, turteling with them is a viable strategy especially early and mid game, with the right build, even early lategame (a 150k Station is possible). 12 Pop happiness is actually pretty important, as these increase stability and job output by a non-niglible amount

[@doukuest]

B-b-but my Gene Clinics 😢

[@Mardols]

Wow. Your guides are amazing dude. Thank you.

[@Bricriu-gj9dd]

Cant you just tell your planets not to automate Stability or Amentities, and itll be fine? I learned that the hard way and it seemed to work wonders.

[@dangerface300]

Best not to have amenities jobs available at all. I was trying to stabilize a planet with 56 crime last night, when I took a better look at the jobs and realised that I had pops working clerk, with 3 enforcer jobs open. Very unimpressed.

[@Nemex1505]

8 - Do use automation, but don't forget to set the planetary type That's just common sense.

[@hko2006]

7:35 In late game, I build 20/30 DP in every system, I hope there is a 1 click hotkey to build them all to save my clicks

[@ladion7285]

Lovely video! Lover your voice and your seal

[@PurpleChipz]

Your videos are so well made and really informative its just kinda hard to listen when you put so much emphasis on the end of every sentence my guy.

[@ecogreen123]

this is my personal take on this list: 1. i love to survey manually in a specific way that is kinda similar to the Hamiltonian path, kinda like a minor brain exercise. plus i only do auto research once i get to the repeatable techs. 2. with my main empire setup i never have to deal with trade or trade adjacent so I'll take your word for it. 3. i agree, i actually give the "build speed" techs priority over any other technology, especially early game. COMAND AND CONQUAR! no thanks. 4. i rarely experience deficits of resources so all i can say is: ew, never sell alloys. 5. i also agree with this, particularly in the early game too mid game, before all your early planets are filled with pops. also don't forget to set planet specialization! 6.as obvious as it is, it's a good thing to know anyway. 7. i never go over the leader cap and it's uncommon for me to go over the naval cap because i really only focus military when i have to (unless in a multiplayer game lol) 8. never used it, never going too, never needed too. next! 9.i don't use it much myself but would recommend using hotkeys whenever possible. 10. hotkeys again, use them. 11. i only use defense platforms on choke-points and/or anything upgraded more then a Starbase. 12. i always strive for surplus amenities for a handful of reason including but not limited too: lore reasons, the mentioned minor bonus, etc. 13. never have to do it so i can't say much on this one. 14. i always strive for deviancy 0 but i don't mind the lore implications of robots disobeying the collective. 15. once again, never deal with trade so nothing to say. 16. i agree, build gateways, at first from your home system to the border, chokepoints, etc. 17. trade, i don't do it. 18. shattering worlds is generally against my collective so making a 15k+ army is an eventual must. 19 ITS, THE, ONLY, THING, I, CAN, DO, for my main species anyway, but my boi-trophies and another story. 20. never can so i guess got nothing to say on it. 21. yup, always read the fine print. 22. i always strive for custodianship, never crisis so i never have an issue. 23. if ever were to need to use a colossus i always use the global pacifier. and finally yes i am subscribed and i would recommend you reading this right now to do so aswell.

[@user-vu9ug4vb3u]

Hey, good add! It made me replay C&C Tiberian Sun again!

[@eridal1548]

Defense platforms are important - you cant have your fleet everywhere

[@Maxpell.classic]

Wow you opened my eyes about gene clinics

[@AndrewTheUltraBoss99]

not really

[@luka188]

Gene clinics are actually ok. KomradTruck actually builds them in some MP games when playing Bio empire because they are good in certain situations, and he is one of the best MP players. For example, the amenities they give are worthwhile as having more amenities than you need is not a very significant benefit. Holo-theaters will give significantly more amenities than you require, and the benefits from gene clinics are mostly better than 1 unity in a lot of situations. On a new colony, you can build gene clinics as one of the first buildings for example, and they will immediately give more pop growth than the worthless colonizer jobs, while the amenities they provide are enough for quite some time (10 for two, which is enough for 8 extra pops, which then you can distribute luxury goods and build luxury residences to keep this up without further wasting jobs on amenities).

[@CaelDorman]

Anytime I play megacorp the traders easily outproduce clerks by a metric ton. :/

[@Immortalcheese]

Never built gene clinics. Never felt the need for them, but always felt I was missing out on something. Glad that I'm not missing something

[@Hades_Space_Engineer]

I have 919.2 Hours in Stellaris and I did not know about the E key. I feel stupid

[@ryorai5804]

If I get the cultist event I just "damage 1000000" it with the console lol vaporizes it and doesnt continue the event.

[@fearofthedead]

I built clinics fore roleplay purpose. And for adaptability too, since I like playing with doomsday origin and even just a few percents of it plays big.

[@thechazz3230]

The bonus happiness from amenities, 5% buff to habitability, and the 10% pop growth all come out to a much greater positive than you imply. TL;DR i build-a da geneclinics I dont know why meta spazzes continue to clam that they're not worth anything because muh "10%" like we're still playing back in the era of Apocalypse or Megacorp. Also youre smoking crack. The massive stability benefits from high amenities are godlike and if youre actually sleeping on them you need to get your brain checked mah dude.

[@fyrestorme]

6:18 does this man not know about click and drag box selection?

[@verylargebigtoe407]

I only use planetary automation when I have 30+ planets and really really don't want to worry about the 27 planets I didn't colonize myself

[@ryansmith495]

I recall when auto survey was a tech. I always rushed it lol.

[@testales]

What only happend to the unique mix of 4x and grand strategy game I got many years ago? I've hundereds of hours into it but I actually can't get into since the change of how planet management works. Everytime I go back another layer of complexity has been added and a bunch new stats and modifiers I have no clue of how to use them. Also all the DLCs and story packs create a constant stream of messages and overlapping event chains that are more or less impossible to follow and this on slow speed! I DON'T EFFING CARE about that latest of the 20 ongoing +2% here and -3% there votes of galatic council. What I do notice though is when for no obvious reason a friendly neigbor empire suddenly closes it's borders so my explorers get stuck. Turns out space amoebas were declared to be purged in an emergency vote which I didn't do cause I like them. So I got -100 diplomatic malus and so the neightbor closed its borders. So I just left the galatic council altogether to stop these annoyance but of course the -100 malus for breaking galatic law got simply replaced by a new -75 of leaving the council. Sorry, I don't find this to be fun!

[@Waffles178]

feel like it needs to be said, don't download cnc legions, ea disgraced that franchise so much, glad strat got a sponsor tho.

[@Stephen64138]

Didn't get the 'traders are bad' part. I used to do a merchand + clecrs trade build and it was quite good.. What did I missed?

[@DaDeadDuck]

@Strategiser2 I tested the gene clinics with cyborg ascension and it works if you're building organics instead of robots, also please not I have 2.8K hours on the game

[@franciscovega2042]

Seal puppy man makes good points.

[@vedritmathias9193]

Aaand right off the bat we begin with a feature that was only recently added.

[@mangobear3028]

Strat you should do a video dedicated to politics. Ive been playing for about a year now and i still find some aspects of policy in the galactic senate confusing. Love your vids tho and im glad ur finally getting some money❤❤❤

[@conscript8487]

Screw EA for what they did to my beloved C&C

[@xzardas541]

-Defence platforms are good when you have to face superior oponent or to hold key systems like L-gates or most important Terminal egress, whoever holds the egress holds the galaxy by the balls, more than half of biggest MP battles I seen were to take terminal egress so having superfortress with maxed out platforms is mandatory there, meanwhile spaming 4 platforms everywhere is just plain waste of resources as they contribute nothing. -Having extra amenities is good, I will gladly spend 2 pops on theatre duty to get 10% more production from ALL jobs on the planet thanks to increased stability. -Do rush pop assembly, pops are the rarest and most important resource in the game, and getting effective 50% increase to pop growth is massive. -F*ck the gene clinics and trade mechanic, I refuse to even touch trading without mods fixing disconected trade stations and removing piracy, and even then it is trash compared to even mining and selling minerals at the markets casue you still get more energy than from "trading".

[@tomas_crusader1756]

me watching this well over 50 hours into stellaris:

[@osjjsm4364]

Rimworld music in the background

[@SeeAndDreamify]

Followup question on crime lord deal, are you saying that the crime lord deal prevents bad events from happening even if the crime is high?

[@enesozgun7519]

We need auto build hyper relay, it's become pain in the ass, i dunno why we can't choose to build in construction ship like we do with science ship.

[@duross101]

The only thing I wish I knew before buying was base game cheep, full game $700

[@eggman144]

How will you keep up with all the planets if you wont use automation

[@TheRealAssix]

At my current run I have over 120 planets and I’m colonizing at a disgusting speed, how on earth should I manage them manually?!

[@trishamiller7859]

i swear I hear rimworld music in the background..

[@binocry]

the "don't build pop assembly" is for organic right? I'm only built robot