Game gets boring fast

[Light Wave]

It feels like I'm just watching paint dry for most of the game. Sometimes I would fall asleep on my couch and then wake up a couple of hours later to see the dialog screen that paused the game. It's not very interactive for a video game. Maybe the game's novelty has worn off and I just don't feel the same kind of excitement that I had during the first play-through.

I spend most of my game time just staring at the meter bars slowly filling up as I wonder what in the hell am I doing with my life. But then I realize oh yeah it's the damn wuhan virus that's why I'm at home playing video games.

Does anyone feel the same?

 

[MordridBlack]

this is a common problem for the game
especially on console edition where the game moves a fair bit slower compared to the pc version

if you are curious as to what i mean, the fastest time speed on the console edition is about roughly the same as the default time speed on pc [or at best it is fast speed, which would be the next highest}

 

[Pantshandshake]

Try playing one of the genocidal empires. Its a little more interesting, you'll be at war more often, empire management is a little harder with no diplomacy.

 

[Fubar iow]

It feels like I'm just watching paint dry for most of the game. Sometimes I would fall asleep on my couch and then wake up a couple of hours later to see the dialog screen that paused the game. It's not very interactive for a video game. Maybe the game's novelty has worn off and I just don't feel the same kind of excitement that I had during the first play-through.

I spend most of my game time just staring at the meter bars slowly filling up as I wonder what in the hell am I doing with my life. But then I realize oh yeah it's the damn wuhan virus that's why I'm at home playing video games.

Does anyone feel the same?

Try role playing some different types of empires, some play throughs are naturally better than others. It sounds like you might need a good diverse mix of games. Video games are perfect for this lock down, they have the ability to put you on other planets and fantasy realms. Whatever floats your boat, keep it fresh and mix it up. Try a game you don't traditionally go for, and maybe Stellaris will be waiting for a fresh playthrough

 

[Vastet]

Generally, I find the level of boring in the game directly translates into 2 factors.
1: What I'm doing. Am I starting fights? expanding? The fewer things I'm doing simultaneously, the more boring it is.
2: What the opening settings are. Harder difficulty, sooner and bigger crisis, etc.

Generaly, the only boring time for me is post galactic conquest when awaiting crisis.

 

[MordridBlack]

Generally, I find the level of boring in the game directly translates into 2 factors.
1: What I'm doing. Am I starting fights? expanding? The fewer things I'm doing simultaneously, the more boring it is.
2: What the opening settings are. Harder difficulty, sooner and bigger crisis, etc.

Generaly, the only boring time for me is post galactic conquest when awaiting crisis.

there is a metric fuck ton of down time during various parts of the game

and i don't think harder difficulty makes crisis spawn faster...stronger sure...but not faster (unless the ai empires have somehow acquired and are using tech for certain crisis within the first 50-100 years, cause i've never seen a crisis before 2350...and that was the sacourge)

 

[Vastet]

You can change the time the end crisis can show up at over a pretty significant range. It's a separate setting than difficulty.
There isn't any down time unless you aren't bothering to keep yourself occupied.

 

[MordridBlack]

You can change the time the end crisis can show up at over a pretty significant range. It's a separate setting than difficulty.
There isn't any down time unless you aren't bothering to keep yourself occupied.

there is a crap load of down time
i refuse to believe that you can keep yourself occupied through the whole game

early game - down time due to waiting for resources, science ships to survey systems, construction ships to finish building outposts/stations, fleet building, lack of tech, planet colonization/building/tile clear, researching anomalies/situation log projects

mid game - down time due to waiting for fleets to upgrade/be increased, better/more tech, planet colonization/building/tile clear, construction ships to finish building outposts/stations, outpost upgrades into starbase, starbase buildings/upgrades, science ships to survey systems, researching anomalies/situation log projects

late game - down time due to waiting on fleets to be rebuilt from any previous fights/increased for upcoming crisis, better/more tech, planet colonization/building/tile clear, construction ships to finish building outposts/stations/megastructure starters, megastructures to finish their current stage of building, space travel for any fleets to enemy empire space or return to your space

 

[Vastet]

There is absolutely no down time whatsoever unless you CHOOSE to have downtime. There is always something to do in Stellaris. You can refuse whatever you like but it doesn't make you right.
Early game, 2 months waiting for resources? Why aren't you sending science ships around? Why aren't you using your fleet? Why aren't you colonizing or looking for new colonies? You choose to be on down time, that's your fault not the game.
Mid game - it takes no time at all for a fleet to upgrade. 8 days to upgrade 6 corvettes at one shipyard. 60 corvettes in less than 3 months. If you click upgrade ships and then choose to do nothing while you wait, then you chose to have down time which is your fault not the game.
Late game, you actually shot down your own argument here so I won't bother.

 

[Fubar iow]

I struggle to find time to tinker with my ship designs, something seems to pop up everytime I settle into it.

 

[Lyk2]

I have hardly any downtime in my playthroughs, almost every minutes something pops up, a tech is complete or i have to take care of my planets - fair point i have the game on the highest speed - but there is always something to do, you have hardly to wait for anything. While my Science Nexus or my Hal- i mean Ring World - was constructed i build up my fleet or expand my Empire and so on. So becoming boring is not something that happens to me. If something happens it is that my game ends to quickly because i made the wrong choice somewhere that doomed my Empire one way or another.

 

[Paranoidsid]

I find there is a lot of downtime when spinning plates.

 

[Kemosabe73]

I noticed the game lags significantly in the late game. Time flows much slower, even at the fastest speed. Maybe it will be better when then next generation of consoles arrives. At least there is generally more to do in the late game so the lag doesn't seem as bad.