Stellaris Dev Diary #94 - Ascension Perks & Surveying in Cherryh

[Tavior]

Wiz, do yourself a favor and separate anomalies from surveys (like they are with precursors). You‘ll gain a lot more flexibility in the long run

Use @Wiz to get his attention instead of just Wiz but otherwise I agree with this.

 

[Riftwalker]

What I immediately see... and am greatly annoyed by is the hole in the blue territory... what the hell?!

I agree, people are talking about Ascension perks when this is the real travesty.

 

[Creamu]

Are people really complaining that they are making a tiny feature free? Jesus how petty can you get.

Likely people carrying over their salt from the FTL changes to give themselves another reason to get upset over this update.

 

[terrycloth]

I agree, people are talking about Ascension perks when this is the real travesty.

It's not the empty holes that bother me, it's all the disconnected empires that obviously stole each others' choke points. Ugh. >.<

 

[Seb_Jean]

It's not the empty holes that bother me, it's all the disconnected empires that obviously stole each others' choke points. Ugh. >.<

I hope they have non-agression treaties

 

[Seb_Jean]

Likely people carrying over their salt from the FTL changes to give themselves another reason to get upset over this update.

Exactly, at this rate, this update will the best thing that happened to Stellaris in a long time.

 

[Nikolai II]

You can't (re-)survey an already surveyed system. I think that's obvious.

I might actually prefer if all anomaly rolls were generated at start of game, then could be found if the researcher/ship/empire was skilled enough to reveal it.

Else having different "increasy anomaly generation" options you can pick ain't really worth the effort since by the time you get a chance to pick them you'll have like a dozen systems that ain't either already explored by you or owned by someone else..

 

[xxxopxxx]

I made a point of refusing star charts from other empires because of tradition that adds research points for each planet surveyed.

Question for the masses, does any actually waste an ascension perk on mastery of nature or the one that increases core planets by +5? even as a synthetic race where I can colonise any world type, it seems wasteful and could be better spent on a different perk.

Also, can the Synethetic Age perk please also have +1 trait pick? Given the list of traits available is substantially less than bio traits, there is not enough flexibility for the traits (ie if u dont pick enough that cost 2 points, trait points are wasted)

 

[KingAlamar]

I might actually prefer if all anomaly rolls were generated at start of game, then could be found if the researcher/ship/empire was skilled enough to reveal it.

Else having different "increasy anomaly generation" options you can pick ain't really worth the effort since by the time you get a chance to pick them you'll have like a dozen systems that ain't either already explored by you or owned by someone else..

I agree. Anomalies should be generated at the beginning of the game. I'd prefer different tiers of anomalies that require better sensors, scientists, science modules, etc to discover. This would give you a reason to think about taking sensors earlier, the "meticulous" scientist, updated / upgraded science modules, etc.

 

[ISitOnGnomes]

I agree. Anomalies should be generated at the beginning of the game. I'd prefer different tiers of anomalies that require better sensors, scientists, science modules, etc to discover. This would give you a reason to think about taking sensors earlier, the "meticulous" scientist, updated / upgraded science modules, etc.

How would this work? Would you have to rescan all of your systems everytime you upgrade your sensors? Would you just be shit oit of luck if you scanned early game with low level scanners? This seems like it would add a ton of busy work for the chance of seeing a few popups. I would just prefer if they added some more mid-late game events/anomolies that can pop up randomly and be dealt with. Like the extra precursor events are right now.

 

[Nikolai II]

How would this work? Would you have to rescan all of your systems everytime you upgrade your sensors?

Maybe so. Or "recursive data analysis" could be a tech after the "automated exploration one" and automatically send your automated researchers to anomalies that have been scanned by you but not found (if the researcher in question will be able to find them).

Given how often I get "precursor thingy found" but nothing to research (presumably some kind of bug[?]), I'm not inclined to hope that will give me any mid-game content. So it would seem easier to extend some of the early game content and make it last longer.

 

[ISitOnGnomes]

Given how often I get "precursor thingy found" but nothing to research (presumably some kind of bug[?]), I'm not inclined to hope that will give me any mid-game content. So it would seem easier to extend some of the early game content and make it last longer.

Yeah, the system isnt too clear. It actually spawns an anomoly somewhere in your space that you then need to find and send a scientist to. Since its a normal anomoly and not a research project it wont show up in your log to find easily.

It would be nice if these just showed up straight to the log, just to make finding them easier.

 

[youstas]

I'm sorry but I haven't time to read the whole thread now, so I will ask question. It's stupid question but why red empire have green borders? Maybe you could use more darker version of empire's territory color for borders and brighter version for territory? (For example dark red borders and red territory, or opposite). I mean use regular and more saturated version of the same color for each empire. Yes, I know, it's only a map and who cares and so on, but my inner perfectionist is suffering.

 

[Arizal]

That's all for today! I know it was a short one, but don't worry, we still have a long way to go and plenty of major things to talk about for Cherryh. However, next week we're actually going to be talking about something that's§ unrelated to Cherryh, but exciting nonetheless. I'm not allowed to spoil what just yet, but stay tuned!

I'm disappointed in the forum that no mad theories started about this. What is Stellaris related, but not linked to the next patch?

 

[ISitOnGnomes]

I'm disappointed in the forum that no mad theories started about this. What is Stellaris related, but not linked to the next patch?

There have been many tweets from various members of the community about being in london for some mysterious stellaris event. My guess is going to be a multiplayer stream.

 

[117Killer]

I don't have much to say bout what was said here except thank you paradox. I never liked that the unity system was a DLC. I felt like I had to pay just to get balanced tall empires. but now that your making some of it free i'd like to thank you for allowing everyone to have the balance unity adds.

 

[Risa]

I support the idea of separating anomaly generation from planetary info gathering, primarily because all info gathering tools (events with set_surveyed effect, federation data sharing, etc) interfere with anomaly system.

 

[Sinister2202]

I did not say I did. However, such recklessness and disregard for paying customers, makes me question their integrity as a company.

Most of the ascension (and vital ones I would say) are still exclusive. And in exchange for that, Cherryh update is free, which seems like a major update (Stellaris 2.0). I'd say that's an understandable trade-off. If the devs decide to give away all of Utopia DLC's feature for free, you have my permission to be angry. This is like less than a fraction of its feature becoming free. How anyone can be stingy as hell over few generic feature and compare this development team to an out of touch company like EA is beyond me.

 

[Vanhal]

It's all good and fine, but i need MORE exploration in this game, not less. It is one of the best parts of the game and what initially make Stellaris stand out of sea of copypasta 4X games. Please make next patch and DLC about exploring the universe, and add content to it in middle and lath phase of the game too.

 

[ISitOnGnomes]

It's all good and fine, but i need MORE exploration in this game, not less. It is one of the best parts of the game and what initially make Stellaris stand out of sea of copypasta 4X games. Please make next patch and DLC about exploring the universe, and add content to it in middle and lath phase of the game too.

I had an idea that maybe scientists set to assist research could occasionally find new anomalies within your space to explore. This would solve two problems at once. There would still be mysteries to discover throughout the game, and anomaly discovery chance would never become useless.

This would also allow late game anomalies to be added to the game. These might require certain techs or perks before they could appear.