https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...iary-372-modding-pop-groups-and-jobs.1729994/
More details about how the new pop math works.
More details about how the new pop math works.
Stellaris: 3.99 open beta
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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ouncing-the-3-99-0-phoenix-open-beta.1731059/
Just as I'm rotating off of Stellaris for a bit, here's the 3.99 open beta.
Just as I'm rotating off of Stellaris for a bit, here's the 3.99 open beta.
I doubt I'll be touching the beta, especially this early. Maybe closer to release I'll reconsider, but odds are just as good I'll freeze my install at 3.14 until 4.1 is out.
If you've been holding out on last year's DLC, they're currently individually on sale for 20% off via steam. Most other DLC is -50%. Buying via a bundle knocks additional dollars off.
Yeah, despite my protests, it ended up being basically the same cost to get Cosmic Storms along with the other two I didn't have compared to just ignore it, so... now I've got storms. yay.
Playing with the new beta and no mods is just surreal. Completely different game than I'm used to; population management is bizarre. Especially when you absorb an FTL planet and their jobs break so the whole thing is fucking useless.
Playing with the new beta and no mods is just surreal. Completely different game than I'm used to; population management is bizarre. Especially when you absorb an FTL planet and their jobs break so the whole thing is fucking useless.
I keep getting sucked back in to try the newer betas, and keep finding more outrageous problems. Having a tolerable run in 3.99.3, and I've got a one planet vassal. Time to integrate them... oh, that will take 1900 months. No thanks. Kick them free, wait ten years, attack... and I can't invade planets. I land armies, and they just bounce back to orbit.
How do they fuck up so many things?
How do they fuck up so many things?
I'm not a software dev but how do you manage 24 distinct DLC packages? That's 16,777,216 possible combinations which seems crazy high.
I think you manage things by walling them off or building them on top of/under one another. My understanding is that the pop stuff (and war stuff, which according to pauli is also broken, sadly) is really a core mechanic which would be layered UNDER many (if not all) of the DLCs. I'd imagine they have a VERY good understanding of what mechanics affect what other parts--at least I do in my job knowing all the moving pieces and where all the skeletons are buried, but maybe not given what we're hearing
The fact that Paradox is still updating Stellaris 9 years after release is amazing, but I HATE that core game play mechanics are different and/or broken every time I revisit the game. If there was a single release where everything 'worked' I'd probably go back and never update again.
Last couple of dev updates:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...g-biogenesis-and-stellaris-season-09.1732204/
Four new DLCs for the year, much like last.
The BioGenesis DLC introduces biological, growing ships (not just space fauna), plus the various stations/bases and megastructures, that can replace the conventional ones. Also, a much needed organizational feature for shipyards.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...g-biogenesis-and-stellaris-season-09.1732204/
Four new DLCs for the year, much like last.
- BioGenesis, the big one for the year, does for genetic ascension what did The Machine Age for mechanical and cybernetic. A few new features are unlocked w/previous DLC. Expected in early May ( I assume w/v4.0, seems like very little time to get all the other new changes sorted out).
- Shadows of the Shroud, much as above for Psionic. Q3
- Infernals, a species pack. Q4
- Stargazer, a species portrait pack. Listed as "instant unlock" w/the season pass.
The BioGenesis DLC introduces biological, growing ships (not just space fauna), plus the various stations/bases and megastructures, that can replace the conventional ones. Also, a much needed organizational feature for shipyards.