Hello everyone. I hope everything has been going okay. This week I continued my Western Roman Empire campaign in Total War Attila. The Huns have been defeated, the interior of the empire is secure, and all that remains is uniting the eastern half of the empire. Easier said than done
I have made the mistake of buying Stellaris in the current GOG sale and now I’m completely addicted
I bought the Starter Edition that comes with Utopia and Synthetic Dawn, but I’m not giving more money to Paradox both because I don’t have it and because their business model is just shit, I’m not paying a gajillion bucks for your DLCs bro, just incorporate a bunch of them into the main game ffs, so I
them yesterday lol. I have also pirated the whole of Victoria 3 but I’m not touching that right now that’s for sure.
I started my first run/match/playthrough, whatever you call it on this game, before doing that and it’s been super fun. I don’t know what I’m doing tho, lol. I decided to use the premade United Nations of Earth empire to start and I only have Utopia and Synthetic Dawn enabled since that’s what I started this one with. I left everything default when choosing the difficulty and modifiers, and currently I’m the 3rd biggest empire in the galaxy, but the two above me are Fallen Empires that are much more powerful.
Detailed description of my run if you're interested
I’m like ~165 years into the run and I managed to be peaceful so far, to the point where I only really battled once against some pirates lol. The last 2 days I have been mostly trying to fix my economy since my Energy and Minerals fluctuates from surplus to deficit every month and I clearly need more Unity production since stuff is getting expensive really fast.
Other than that I have a federation with some peaceful religious zealots and some guys that were hostile to me until recently. I also have 2 vassals that I give almost total freedom to just do whatever they want, I didn’t ask them to become vassals, they just asked me a long time ago when my military power became greater then theirs. One of them is to the south of my empire and they are a cool reptile, kinda dragon-like creatures, the other is a frog looking creature to the north that were enslaved by the hostile avian overlords and that liberated themselves.
One issue I have since the start is that I spawned sandwiched between the hostile avians on the north, the religious dudes in the south and a fallen empire to the east, so my empire is rather small. Also the Earth is literally at the border with the avians.
If someone have good videos for beginners please send me, that would help a lot. I have mostly been relying on googling and using Kimi for help, but the AI is inevitably gonna hallucinate even if it has been helpful so far.
I thought this was a pretty good guide since its mostly true regardless of the version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjRmKwikk4w&t=1s I assume you are playing the game on version 4.3
If you have any questions feel free to ask. Im not the greatest stellaris player but I have over 700h in Stellaris and have been playing the game since its release in 2016.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Yeah I’m on v4.3, I actually started that video yesterday but it was super late so I fell asleep lol, but I’ll watch it now, thanks, if you have any other resources I’d appreciate it.
I actually have a question. There’s 2 systems I have that are blinking orange but I can’t research them, when I zoom in it says it’s two infertile planets (don’t know if that is how it’s called in English, I’m playing in Portuguese), and there isn’t anything about it in the F1 menu, what can I do which these?
You dont mean dead or tomb worlds right ? Cause you cant settle those. Its possible to terraform some planet types later and make them habitable if you have the tech for it. But the game usally tells you about those. (At least last time when I played which has been a while)
Just checked by launching the game in english, it’s a Barren world. The game has told me about terraforming because I think there’s a few worlds I can do that, but at least these ones I can’t and there isn’t anything else telling me what to do with them for now.
Oh yeah I vaguley remember you cant do much or use barren worlds.