I'm new to Stellaris, well I've had the game a while but not played much. When creating my empire at game start I choose Clusters thinking this means they will start in a spread across the galaxy. My last three game starts have been aborted because I have empires all over me hemming me in and stopping expansion. So clusters must obviously mean empires start next to each other, which is just frustrating. It seems to me a grave game design flaw not to have the empires spread out. It there any way that I'm perhaps missing that forces the game to do this?
Civilization Start - Clusters frustration
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Change clusters to random. The former groups
Empires close together and is good if you want early conflict/heavy diplomacy. The latter speeds everyone out, at least on average.
Empires close together and is good if you want early conflict/heavy diplomacy. The latter speeds everyone out, at least on average.
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Clusters means Empires are put into Clusters with each other, not that they all get their own cluster. Which is a good thing, since the early game is not designed to be played with nothing but empty space around you. That would be extremely boring to most people if they were entirely on their own.
However, if you prefer semi-uniform distribution, you can use random distributionwith or the No Clustered Starts mod.
However, if you prefer semi-uniform distribution, you can use random distribution
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Note that with the mod above you need to keep the empire placement as clusters because the mod modifies how the clusters are created (essentially putting each empire to it's own cluster).
steamcommunity.com
Steam Workshop::No Clustered Starts
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I will second rubert's recommendation of No Clustered Starts. It is an amazing mod, one which I have myself evangelized to many cluster-frustrated players.
i wish there was a vanilla option for "evenly spread" but there is not. random is as close as you get without mods.
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Stellaris has a very vibrant modding community with modders who create high-quality content on par with or superior to PDX’s DLC, though to be fair their holy work is only possible because of PDX’s efforts too. You’re in for a treat if you decide to dip your toes in.
i just put a suggestion for an evenly distributed start option into the suggestions forum if anyone wants.
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Link to the suggestion by TrotBot:
forum.paradoxplaza.com
Add an "evenly distributed" empire spawns option at galaxy generation
sometimes we want to be evenly distributed from each other, not clustered, and not random which still has a chance of very close neighbours.
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