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Makes sense, it's not like the king would show his rabbit trick to some peasant rabble.

My first Stellaris game was as a hivemind and I uplifted a pre-sapient species because I thought that would assimilate them even before I have Bio-Ascendancy.

Instead it only resulted in them becoming my livestock.

So I expanded a species' means to self-reflect before I started to butcher them. Yeah...

Edited by Kiefen on Mar 26th 2019 at 8:42:25 PM

As I said, the one ray of hope is that this "new world order" is very likely to collapse in on itself within the next decade or so.

I imagined cultural conversion to be more in the line of forced education in the desired culture, bringing up an entire generation in that desired culture so it becomes dominant automatically.

It is a very effective way of creating endangered languages and cultures in real life.

All of a sudden, my various Stellaris playthroughs of going around and imposing my Superior Authoritarian/Materialist Ways on any and every civilization I could and enslaving anyone who didn't convert to said ethos, seems pretty mild.

Not to mention the sheer scale of warfare in Stellaris. Each space battle would result in a huge number of deaths, and each planetary bombardment, especially on the Apocalyptic setting that things like Fanatic Purifiers get, would utterly devastate the galaxy's population, and that's not even getting into the devastation that things like the Contingency or the Prethoryn and Unbidden invasions do.

And that's not even getting into the War in Heaven, who outright force a massive battle royale throughout the entire galaxy. The death toll would be in the trillions.

I'm doing a single player Axis campaign as Romania. I started WW 2 instead of Germany, by invading Hungary. And then my neighbors. And Russia declared war, which I got Germany and the others into. We just finished subjugating Russia earlier tonight. The Allies were losing but they're starting to rally and sink their fangs into me.

We kill almost three million Russians ourselves.

In Stellaris does the Prethoryn Scourge need to have infested a planet for the injured queen to spawn?

The wiki only says it's time-based. Not sure.

Have they fixed the end game crisis? Prethoryn never managed to colonise / infest planets, which is why they became fairly easy to actually beat. Oh it didn't hurt I managed to get some additional empires to lend a hand.

Who promptly bailed on the Federation once the Prethoryn were gone. I didn't think that far ahead.

But that that point I was TOO powerful that, as the UNE, I couldn't declare war on people (Bloody democratic beatniks...). Still, I controlled half the Galaxy, had the most powerful fleets and was, essentially, de facto big dog.

Multiplayer - different story. I'm shite at optimising it seems.

I do remember a game where the Prethoryn went Orcus on His Throne after their initial invasion wiped out my two vassal/tributary empires, leaving only a heavily defended HQ system... Haven't seen them yet in my current game.

So, has anyone else noticed that playing communists right is... kinda unfun?

Friend and I were doing a Iraq/Soviet coop campaign and we restarted around 4 times or so before giving up on it because the Sovet player kept getting screwed by stuff.

So we tried Iraq/USA instead - and the rebels in the civil war immediately joined the Allies, screwing over the other player yet again.

Meanwhile I had to constantly watch my back because UK has a "screw Iraq" focus on most of their branches.

While "invade Iraq if they go fascist" has some basis in history - the UK intervened in Iraq after a pro-Axis coup - I'm not quite sure why communist Iraq would be high on their list of priorities, especially if the Comintern is also fighting the Axis. :/

A funny little thing I noticed, though: The two branches of the Collectivism tree (communism/fascism) don't require you to be either of these ideologies, as long as you are non-aligned.

So I went down the fascist tree while turning my country communist.

I seem to recall that if you time it right, they can actually give you ideology drift for your ideology instead of the intended ideology, too.

Youth Organisations gives you +20 % of your ruling ideology, so if you're democratic or communist, you get a bonus on those as well.

CK 2's patch 3.1, with the free Great Works update, has been released.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/crusader-kings-ii-3-1-great-works-update-is-now-live-checksum-kkab-not-for-problem-reports.1164447/

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Apr 2nd 2019 at 11:10:31 AM

A shame you can't be both hive mind and corporate. I was looking forward to creating such an empire, and naming its ruler Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zerg.

The same goes for machine hives, a self-conscious online-shop algorithm as robot hive mind would make perfect sense.

So, Kaiserreich apparently now has a merchandise shop - and music:

Many A True Nerd got his hands on Imperator. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHSM03OqvSU

Of course he'd pick an obscure minor and then explain how they're actually responsible for the world as we know it.

I actually prefer that over Rome or Carthage, to be honest. Major nations in Paradox games - or any historical games in general - never really interested me, so I hope when he gets around to doing a full campaign, he'll do another more "obscure" faction as well.

He's doing at least one more video that's posting later today some time. I prefer it this way, too. I almost never do main historical nations in these games myself. My last HOI IV campaign was Romania, and I warped history around myself so that Romania invading Hungary started WW 2, and Russia attacked me after the Axis took over Poland on MY behalf.

Surviving Mars has revealed it's second (and likely final) expansion

This expansion will introduce terraforming into the game as well as terrain modification. There's also a companion DLC currently called the Animal Pack^note they are currently running a naming contest for it's official name that will introduce both pets and livestock.

One would think terraforming would be done before Mars is even colonized.

But yeah, I’ve yet to play a real major in EU 4, myself. Even in my early games when I played England it went horribly xD

True terraforming would be, at minimum, a multi-century long process. Even if all the technical challenges were resolved, there's just so much Mars to terraform that it would still be the largest deliberate project humans have ever attempted by several orders of magnitude. Not the largest space project, the largest project period.

Whereas building a small self-sufficient colony would take a couple decades tops if the resources could be committed. And the colonists would be more invested in keeping the terraforming efforts going for the centuries it would take to complete.

I agree that colonies would come before terraforming, if such a thing is even possible in the real world.