Stellaris Dev Diary #185: Announcing Necroids

[Mr Thursday]

So we got MegaCorp which was a dead unfinished expansion and now we get another more dead content...

 

[UltimateTobi]

Will this patch be improving upon AI for both economy and warfare, as well as rehabilitating some features not used correctly, such as the AI using different fleet stances, terraforming and using planetary decisions such as thrall worlds and Ecumenopolis? Any news on crisis AI?

Beautifully said.

 

[Big Dead One]

Tbh even the devs are winding down communication since Megacorp. Players got fed up with the issues in the game and there's a point as a dev where you give up because you aren't paid to deal with salty people (and I don't blame either side tbh).

I still remember how the playerbase basically revolted last year regarding the game's performance, especially after the whole mobile game debacle (anyway, is it still alive?) and the devs had to make a post to explain the situation. It looks like things may play out in a similar way this year as well with the AI problems.

I don't condone salty remarks from players, but it is understandable why they feel that way. Also, I guess when you're a dev and you see people complaining every day (some legitimate, some probably not), you may get fed up about the whole thing.

 

[ImperatorDecens]

The Crisis AI expands very slowly and has all the flaws of the "reworked" military AI to boot (like pointlessly going to and fro). What you describe is what people consider "broken". I'd say that while it's not utterly broken, it's close to this stage (90% broken?) and it's inexcusable that it remained as such for years.

Are you meaning when they set their fleets to patrol mode? It generates experience for the ships and admiral. The AI might be doing that to better their fleet.

 

[Orphalesion]

Not gonna lie, I would have very much preferred Aquatics, but this cool be cool as well.

 

[Maethendias]

Are you meaning when they set their fleets to patrol mode? It generates experience for the ships and admiral. The AI might be doing that to better their fleet.

first, why would the ai farm xp during wars?

second, why would the ai farm xp in the first place, when xp has been a non feature since launch?

third the experience generated from patrols is negligible, if youd want to farm xp its better to "farm" pirates, instead of pirate threat

 

[Hundar]

first, why would the ai farm xp during wars?

second, why would the ai farm xp in the first place, when xp has been a non feature since launch?

third the experience generated from patrols is negligible, if youd want to farm xp its better to "farm" pirates, instead of pirate threat

i would also like to add that if the ai is patrolling, clearly it's not making a good job since every empire is full of pirate's hideouts

 

[Maethendias]

i would also like to add that if the ai is patrolling, clearly it's not making a good job since every empire is full of pirate's hideouts

that too lol

 

[ImaTomato]

Are you meaning when they set their fleets to patrol mode? It generates experience for the ships and admiral. The AI might be doing that to better their fleet.

While they are at war?I actually started a new game yesterday and I won my first war without ever fighting their fleets since the AI couldn't decide which of my two fleets they should attack.

 

[Elm0__]

i would also like to add that if the ai is patrolling, clearly it's not making a good job since every empire is full of pirate's hideouts

They are patrolling for so-called low hanging fruit because actually patrolling against pirates is too hard

 

[Ovan]

Hype.

 

[Ariat]

Congratulations on the new species pack! I hope the next DLC is a big one though, I never cared too much for the portraits but I do for the gameplay effecting things like new civics, they seem to be on the low side in this pack.

Sadly, given the state of the AI in this game is dreadful, I will wait for another few patches before I do another round of Stellaris. The economy part is the most enjoyable in my opinion and it is marred by heavy micromanagement. The endgame is a chore and locking the auto-migrate option behind one of the policies was a BIG mistake. Stellaris got plenty of flavour now, the core game needs to have some polish to make it shine.

I'm still awaiting the mythical sector rework into something that actually effects gameplay instead of hindering you. Lots of good ideas where shared, for example making them behave like vassal duchies akin to CK2. Many sci-fi stories are centred around sectors or regions rebelling, something that is missing so far in Stellaris. A blueprint for planets was on the table too, as it gets very tedious babysitting all the building slots on your planets because there is no way to plan ahead.

The negative votes shouldn't be taken as a sign this species pack is bad, just that the community is upset due to multiple unfixed issues in the game.

Best of luck!

 

[DukeOfValois1]

No hype, don't give them the money, and then they can fix the bloody AI.

 

[Janx14]

This is the first DLC I will not be buying right away. I said this for LIthoids but honestly I was wanting lithoids for so long it was hard to resist (and I still dont have lithoid forum portaits wth?). I bought federations as I wanted to reward the delay of the game to try and fix it, but honestly, the games still in such a poor state.

I haven't played in like 4 months. Don't really have a desire to play the current game. If its not performance its the AI being bad, if its not the AI being bad its the empires being wildly imbalanced, if its not the imbalance its the boredom. Singleplayer you have to deal with how dumb the AI is, multiplayer whoever picks the right empire combo at the start ends up being dominant, even in an 'rp' setting.

2.0 had its flaws, but it was salvagable. 2.2 was a grave mistake, and here we are, a year and a half later, still stumbling around figuring out how to fix it.

While I've said species packs while they work on the game would be the best path....I'd also like to see some evidence that the game is actually being fixed.

 

[Spidee]

Will the AI be able to handle the new civics? Will the end game crisis react in any way shape or form to these new civics?

 

[ImaTomato]

Considering that it can't handle the existing civics?Or basic game mechanics`?Probably not.

end game crisis react

Would be nice if it could react at all.

 

[Derp]

no patch, no pay

 

[SanicK]

Looking all the comments on these thread, why the game has very positive reviews on steam when the game has all these problems?

 

[DukeOfValois1]

Sheeple.

 

[Mr Thursday]

Looking all the comments on these thread, why the game has very positive reviews on steam when the game has all these problems?

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