Stellaris discusion Thread

Copyied some reviews from Steam:
>Begin game as Grey-looking reptile people
>Fanatic Materialist/Xenophiles
>Begin spreading across my side of the galaxy
>Eventually find primitive turtle people
>Set up observation post and generally forget about them
>Encounter bug people
>Bug people are incredibly aggressive and have a lot of guns
>Not as advanced as me but have 5 times as many ships as I do
>They want my outer colonies
>"♥♥♥♥ you, get your own"
>They don't like being told "♥♥♥♥ you, get your own" and proceed to overrun my colonies
>Realize I'm heavily boned unless I get more help
>Remember turtle people, lightbulb.jpg
>Uplift entire race and make them my vassal
>Tell them to "BEAT THOSE ♥♥♥♥ERS TO DEATH!"
>"duh...ok boss"
>Turtle men have terrible ship power, but are completely awesome in ground assaults
>Use my ships to guard them as they lay waste to the bug people
>Eventually take my colonies back, and then I bring the fight to the bug people
>"Please stop this! W-w-we didn't mean it!"
>"Nope, you started this fight, and I'm going to end it"
>Use combined forces of me and my turtle people to completely wipe out the bugs
>Every other race is disgusted with my actions, but I'm content
>Use resources from bug people to create a mighty galactic empire
>Turtle people given some worlds too
>"Duh, boss turtle people want more worlds"
>"Here, let me show you the amount of ♥♥♥♥s I give, see? It's a zero"
>Turtle people rebel
>This time have giant armada and resources from bug people
>Completely genocide the turtle people

>MFW I realize I just re-enacted the Rachni Wars.

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The story of my people

-I made shroom men who were intelligent, hated sex, but lived forever and a half
-Goverment = MINE MINE MINE MIEENEENEMENIEN (And science)
-Meet bird men with big guns
-Become friends of bird men
-Meet evil imposter shrooms
-Tell bird men that the shrooms took their eggs
-Bird men get an army of 500 warships and devour the shrooms
-Many years later, I am the dominant shroom race, backed by 4 Bird races who all hate egg stealing shrooms

10/10 would blackmail shroomkind again

The story of the Enslar

-decided to have evil, warlike, and slave loving hydra people
-discovered two harmless industrial era people near me
-boosted them to space age, captured them, then enslaved them
-200 years later, I feel happy with the bird ones, so I free them
-my king gets assassinated, his child burned, my planets blown up, and all I can see is that slaves face
-RELOAD
-time for mass genocide!
-I am now king of the Galaxy, using the power of reloads to mass genocide entire species

10/10 would become time traveling Hitler again.

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-decide to start up a game as the glorious Trump Empire as a divine mandate autocracy
-after 50 years of colonizing, exploring and enslaving I come across a primitive species going through the iron age that looks to have the consistancy of taco bell beef...so logically I dubbed them space mexicans.
-After enlightening the space mexicans in the art of the orbital bombardment I enslave their entire race and send them off to work my farms and mines.
-Shortly after some other nation with Divine Mandate declares war on me...I've found space ISIS.
-Space ISIS has a decent fleet but they were simply no match for the wall...which happened to be made of about 20+ battleships with quantum missiles.
-After I utterly obiliterate ISIS all the way back to space mecca I get around to advancing my empire to a trancendent empire and as a result ruler Donald Trump is now regarded as God Emperor Donald Trump.

10/10, would make space great again.

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TL;DR - If you secretly wanted Darth Vader to turn Luke to the Dark Side and end up ruling the galaxy then this game is for you.

-Play as glorious military republic, "The Aureate Society"
-Xenophobic af
-Survey the Procyon System.
-Find industrial age race on planet Romulus
-Decide to build an observation station above their planet for scientific purposes
-Discover I can start infiltrating their planet's governments with my agents
-The going is slow but eventually start taking over
-All top levels of their governments are now infiltrated by agents of the glorious Aureate Society
-To the unrelentful joy of the snail people of Romulus my agents, ie their leaders, sign a treaty of annexation
-Romulus is now part of the Aureate Society
-Snail people soon discover that life under a bigoted despot isn't all what their leaders made it out to be
-Start enslaving snail people
-The Aureate are decadent and are unhappy if they don't have enough slaves
-Very happy now
-Snails start to rally under a leader with ambitions to free its people
-Realize production is failing on snail planet of Romulus as a result of massive riots, lead by snail rebels
-Need those minerals
-Need those slaves
-Start moving in the Aureate to cull the riots
-Doesn't work
-Snails persistent
-Snails believe in equality
-Aureate don't believe in equality
-Aureate have guns
-Find neat little button
-"Purge population"
-Should we
-Really
-Yes we should
-None shall rise
-Purge entire planet of snail people
-Snail people extinct
-mfw I realize my people are angry
-not because I purged the snail people
-but because I purged THEIR snail people

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You know what you got to do, Roel.

Guys

Is that the game from Paradox Games? I see it advertised when I check out their AOD [Arsenal of Democracy] pages, which is my current addiction. Reminds me that's another site I must link to on the laptop but will probably do so when I get back home as hopefully can get all my bookmarks uploaded to it there in one go.

Steve

I have this game, but I have a hard time getting and staying in it. I guess the problem is that lacks the kind of historical context that makes us care about the big blobs which are dominating everything .

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way .

Several of my friends have really enjoyed the game - and it makes me feel like I'm missing something .

(Correct thread this time !)

Nor do I. I buy expansions when the core game is good and leaves me wanting more; I don't do it to turn a mediocre game good. 

I think I'm pretty much done with Stellaris now, TBH. I had a modest amount of fun with it in the 49 hours I've logged on it so far, and I'd say I've got my money's worth out of it, but it hasn't really left me wanting to come rushing back to it any time soon.