Anomalies need to be reworked

[scaper12123]

Not if you refuse to trade star charts.

I got the Tree yesterday in space owned by a member of my federation.

The thing is though, it's very disadvantageous to you to not trade for star charts because then you won't know what resources there are to exploit in other nations that have closed you out. In more than one game, I've been trapped in my home system due to being surrounded by enemy systems. Partly my fault for choosing hyperspace, but still. In that kind of situation, I would greatly desire star charts in order to know what resources the enemy has to exploit.

I honestly think that anomalies need to not be tied to whether a planet is surveyed or not. I think instead, in most cases, it should just be a random chance to generate on all planets you scan unless the planet already has an anomaly effect.

 

[Yenzen]

I always found events that award "100 X research!" regardless of being found in the early or late game weird, why don't they award 12*Monthly X research or similar?

 

[Tim_Ward]

That's the thing, though. There's always more to discover when we're exploring space. What we think we understand now might be completely incorrect, which we could discover in the far distant future. Plus the anomalies we discover in the late game don't necessarily have to come from the set of simple anomalies we get in the beginning of the game. It could end up being a way to come up with miniature crises, like you suggest.

Maybe that's true for actual space, but in Stellaris space is pretty much always going to be some planets and asteroids with 0-3 of a type of resource on them.