It was a fun journey but there are just many problems with the game that i straight out just give up on and im just not enjoying the game anymore.
I started when this game was released and it was amazing and had fun features but over time the game gets directly worse and worse and worse. Alot of things remain unfixed and straight out abandoned or removed instead of improving, alot of things are just straight out RNG. I remember when you had a massive empire in the past... you had sectors and automation you put resources in those sectors and they functioned without much micromanagement.
With the release of the megacorp DLC, sectors have been straight out not working and pretty much abandoned entirely, with this result means that you are going to be micromanaging 90 planets one at a time. Over and over. I played one game where i had 225 planets and i just quit that game cause the micro and constant crime and unemployment pop ups were driving me to insanity. Sectors are still broken to this day every since the release of megacorp and looks like theres no future for this feature. It exists to just exist. The ai to it is now even more awful, spamming housing buildings etc or straight out upgrading every single building to the max so you have an economy crash of -50 gas or crystals or negative minerals. This forces you to micro. Literally forced.
Only way to fix this was to play tall, but guess what... every update seemingly makes the tall playstyle less and less viable then before, pushing wide as superior every time. the admin cap change was proof of that. There is no reason to play tall anymore. When you can just play wide, build admin cap buildings, maintain your admin, get triple the science and resources then a tall empire while suffering no penalty, back in the old stellaris, wide empires were know for their slow tech grow and massive resources, tall empires were known for crazy good science and easy to defend territory. Now its polar opposite, wide empires can make massive tech and massive resources. This puts tall in a very weak spot. Its no point in playing the tall playstyle.
Thus we get to my first point about micromanagement, this pretty much forced meta of "go big as possible" as major consequences. the freaking micro. it ruins every single game i play. When you have micro every planet one at a time and constantly scroll. Dear lord its tedius. It sucks. Its boring. Its lame. And again. The sector system. Still. DOES not WORK. Its crazy how a mod is essential for a semi decent game. Cough tiny outliner. And dont get me started on the pop resettlement garbage. Try resettling pops when you have 150 planets. It is just awful.
Heres another problem. The bugs and bugs and overall AI performance.
To getting randomly calling into a war for no reason by a 2 system AI to getting stuck on a dialog screen forever to invincible fleets after taking a system in war. The game is riddled with bugs, some of these bugs have existed for years and not have been fixed. Especially the invincible fleets and your ships refusing to attack in a single system. I cant tell you how many wars this has costed me. And i cant tell you how many times where im playing solo, no pacts, no guarantees no federation or vassal states and a 2 system or small empire randomly calls me into a massive galactic war cause the notification does not pop up and for some reason auto accepts me... WHY??? JUST WHY? and mind you, these AI usually have massive negative opinion of me. These bugs or just straight out badly designed gameplay mechanics are never fixed.
Lets talk about the AI.... I love myself a random game. I love seeing random empires. I remember when megacorp dlc launched and i created my first megacorp in a large galaxy of 15 ai. I thought i was special.. well guess what. There are like 9 megacorp AI's that match. I create a lithoid empire when lithoids came out. 80% of the empires were also lithoids. I create a necroid and guess what, half the galaxy are also necroids. This not only ruins my immersion but does not make me feel special and the only way to fix the massive rng of AI empires is to create your own and force spawn which ruins the random factor and fun factor for me. I cant tell you the last time i saw a migratory flock, or a decadent hierarchy. Instead the galaxy is riddled with hegemonic imperialists/megacorps/hiveminds. I think its been like over 50 games for me since i saw a single machine empire, even more so for rogue servitor, i saw one ai rogue servitor over the time of 6k hours ive played this game.
The awful war system is another problem but i wont rant about that.
The god awful edict change we never asked for but hurray we got space whaling.
lackluster and straight out annoying and tedius events like the grey tempest which can ruin a game instantly or the khan thats useless and always dies and is never a threat to the galaxy at all.
The awful slow down even on monster computers. Obviously its been way better recently but it will always remain due to the new pop system megacorp released
The rng precursor system. Cant tell you how much i die inside when i get the zroni or irissians or the yuht every game. The precursors used to be fixed to one part of a galaxy so you can keep restarting to get what you want. Do not forget how blatantly overpowered the cybrex has been since it was released and never gets fixed but when first league gave a free ecu that was nerfed asap.
The meta and constantly the same civics and ethics being strong no matter what and we get useless ones added like docile instead of balancing the other garbage species traits. No point playing egalitarian when you can play authoritarian with slaves and outpace everyone. No point playing spiritualist when you can just play materialist and do 100x better in every aspec of the game with robots. No point playing a weak organic hivemind when you can just play a broken machine empire.
Xenophile is still obnoxious to play and i dont even know why the cross breeding thing was added, it breaks and lags the game to hell. And ofc its super weird. When you see a half human snail you know its just straight out vile and disturbing and makes you want to play xenophobe 24/7.
Dont forget every game is practically the same with a different skinned empire and diplomacy is extremely weak in this game. Only fun i get out of this game is destroying everyone. Galactic community is broken too. Unbidden on 25x crisis invading? WELL BETTER DOWN VOTE THE RESOLUTION TO COMBAT IT which most ai do. So you sit there helpless as 5 system useless andy the vassal has his borders to closed to you and you cant get out and save the galaxy. Awakened empires are practically useless and sit there for 100 years after waking up and never touch anyone despite being stronger then everyone around them. Crisis was broken and has not functioned correctly for ages, atleast they fixed it recently. AFTER YEARS SINCE MEGACORP BROKE IT.
List goes on. Im done with the game and done buying dlc. I cant stand it no more. The game for me is gradually getting worse and worse and corporate greed is sucking the game dry with dlc that barely fix anything but add stuff, thus adding more broken gameplay mechanics that barely get fixed. This community is amazing and so is the modders but the company is destroying the soul of stellaris and what made it fun. Obviously this is an opinion of mine. If you like the game, good on you. And im sure you will continue supporting the devs but i refuse to now and i wont.
Maybe i may return, maybe i wont but it was sure a journey thanks
I started when this game was released and it was amazing and had fun features but over time the game gets directly worse and worse and worse. Alot of things remain unfixed and straight out abandoned or removed instead of improving, alot of things are just straight out RNG. I remember when you had a massive empire in the past... you had sectors and automation you put resources in those sectors and they functioned without much micromanagement.
With the release of the megacorp DLC, sectors have been straight out not working and pretty much abandoned entirely, with this result means that you are going to be micromanaging 90 planets one at a time. Over and over. I played one game where i had 225 planets and i just quit that game cause the micro and constant crime and unemployment pop ups were driving me to insanity. Sectors are still broken to this day every since the release of megacorp and looks like theres no future for this feature. It exists to just exist. The ai to it is now even more awful, spamming housing buildings etc or straight out upgrading every single building to the max so you have an economy crash of -50 gas or crystals or negative minerals. This forces you to micro. Literally forced.
Only way to fix this was to play tall, but guess what... every update seemingly makes the tall playstyle less and less viable then before, pushing wide as superior every time. the admin cap change was proof of that. There is no reason to play tall anymore. When you can just play wide, build admin cap buildings, maintain your admin, get triple the science and resources then a tall empire while suffering no penalty, back in the old stellaris, wide empires were know for their slow tech grow and massive resources, tall empires were known for crazy good science and easy to defend territory. Now its polar opposite, wide empires can make massive tech and massive resources. This puts tall in a very weak spot. Its no point in playing the tall playstyle.
Thus we get to my first point about micromanagement, this pretty much forced meta of "go big as possible" as major consequences. the freaking micro. it ruins every single game i play. When you have micro every planet one at a time and constantly scroll. Dear lord its tedius. It sucks. Its boring. Its lame. And again. The sector system. Still. DOES not WORK. Its crazy how a mod is essential for a semi decent game. Cough tiny outliner. And dont get me started on the pop resettlement garbage. Try resettling pops when you have 150 planets. It is just awful.
Heres another problem. The bugs and bugs and overall AI performance.
To getting randomly calling into a war for no reason by a 2 system AI to getting stuck on a dialog screen forever to invincible fleets after taking a system in war. The game is riddled with bugs, some of these bugs have existed for years and not have been fixed. Especially the invincible fleets and your ships refusing to attack in a single system. I cant tell you how many wars this has costed me. And i cant tell you how many times where im playing solo, no pacts, no guarantees no federation or vassal states and a 2 system or small empire randomly calls me into a massive galactic war cause the notification does not pop up and for some reason auto accepts me... WHY??? JUST WHY? and mind you, these AI usually have massive negative opinion of me. These bugs or just straight out badly designed gameplay mechanics are never fixed.
Lets talk about the AI.... I love myself a random game. I love seeing random empires. I remember when megacorp dlc launched and i created my first megacorp in a large galaxy of 15 ai. I thought i was special.. well guess what. There are like 9 megacorp AI's that match. I create a lithoid empire when lithoids came out. 80% of the empires were also lithoids. I create a necroid and guess what, half the galaxy are also necroids. This not only ruins my immersion but does not make me feel special and the only way to fix the massive rng of AI empires is to create your own and force spawn which ruins the random factor and fun factor for me. I cant tell you the last time i saw a migratory flock, or a decadent hierarchy. Instead the galaxy is riddled with hegemonic imperialists/megacorps/hiveminds. I think its been like over 50 games for me since i saw a single machine empire, even more so for rogue servitor, i saw one ai rogue servitor over the time of 6k hours ive played this game.
The awful war system is another problem but i wont rant about that.
The god awful edict change we never asked for but hurray we got space whaling.
lackluster and straight out annoying and tedius events like the grey tempest which can ruin a game instantly or the khan thats useless and always dies and is never a threat to the galaxy at all.
The awful slow down even on monster computers. Obviously its been way better recently but it will always remain due to the new pop system megacorp released
The rng precursor system. Cant tell you how much i die inside when i get the zroni or irissians or the yuht every game. The precursors used to be fixed to one part of a galaxy so you can keep restarting to get what you want. Do not forget how blatantly overpowered the cybrex has been since it was released and never gets fixed but when first league gave a free ecu that was nerfed asap.
The meta and constantly the same civics and ethics being strong no matter what and we get useless ones added like docile instead of balancing the other garbage species traits. No point playing egalitarian when you can play authoritarian with slaves and outpace everyone. No point playing spiritualist when you can just play materialist and do 100x better in every aspec of the game with robots. No point playing a weak organic hivemind when you can just play a broken machine empire.
Xenophile is still obnoxious to play and i dont even know why the cross breeding thing was added, it breaks and lags the game to hell. And ofc its super weird. When you see a half human snail you know its just straight out vile and disturbing and makes you want to play xenophobe 24/7.
Dont forget every game is practically the same with a different skinned empire and diplomacy is extremely weak in this game. Only fun i get out of this game is destroying everyone. Galactic community is broken too. Unbidden on 25x crisis invading? WELL BETTER DOWN VOTE THE RESOLUTION TO COMBAT IT which most ai do. So you sit there helpless as 5 system useless andy the vassal has his borders to closed to you and you cant get out and save the galaxy. Awakened empires are practically useless and sit there for 100 years after waking up and never touch anyone despite being stronger then everyone around them. Crisis was broken and has not functioned correctly for ages, atleast they fixed it recently. AFTER YEARS SINCE MEGACORP BROKE IT.
List goes on. Im done with the game and done buying dlc. I cant stand it no more. The game for me is gradually getting worse and worse and corporate greed is sucking the game dry with dlc that barely fix anything but add stuff, thus adding more broken gameplay mechanics that barely get fixed. This community is amazing and so is the modders but the company is destroying the soul of stellaris and what made it fun. Obviously this is an opinion of mine. If you like the game, good on you. And im sure you will continue supporting the devs but i refuse to now and i wont.
Maybe i may return, maybe i wont but it was sure a journey thanks
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