What's there to do after you've conquered half of the largest galaxy and everybody has "pathetic" fleet strength compared to you? This is like only 2280.
Game is way too easy right now
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Sounds a bit like you're playing on easier settings. Try starting in a heavily populated 4-arm spiral galaxy on a harder difficulty with at least 33% Advanced Start AIs!
What the guy above said - also, get bigger Galaxies, crank up the habitable planets and number of AI empires.
If all your enemies are pathetic, you need to play on a harder setting.
If all your enemies are pathetic, you need to play on a harder setting.
Try these out -
Alphamod 1.5
New Ship classes
Improved Space battles
a bunch of species mods...
Galaxy generation mod...
I don't like giving AI's buffs in paradox games. I did start the game with tons of advanced AI empires though.
Aye, I'm the same and "Hard" difficulty, the buffs they get are pretty crazy, but makes it very hard for you, which is the point surely?
This is already the biggest galaxy. What made it so easy to conquer half of it was the updated "cheaper war demand" techs + the supremacy
Nah, it's not the biggest Galaxy... That's just what they want you to think!
Go get some mods chap, it'll be a different game, trust me....
Oh it's just super silly to me. It's like when I fire a gun at you and only wound you a bit, but when you use the same gun and I'm heads down drowning in the pool of my own blood
It's just personal taste
Hey man, thanks for recommending the mods. I'll definitely check them out later. I don't know if my PC can handle it though lol It'll be super slow, especially late game
Tbh, if you keep the number of AI's down, it shouldn't be too bad. But if you don't want to tax your machine with a humongous galaxy, I must insist you give Alphamod a go. It is pretty awesome.
What is Alphamod about? I saw their steam page and it's kind of confusing lol...I mean, it doesn't seem like it's adding a lot of stuff (that I care about)
It adds a bunch of techs, edicts, buildings and strategic resources.. It can be overwhelming at first, but it really adds meat to the game. With the extra buildings and SR's, you can really go to town specialising worlds etc
It's just a shame AlphaAsh is likely to be hanging up his modding boots after 1.5
This is the case in all games, it's not Stellaris-exclusive. Game AI development just isn't far long yet (with a few exceptions such as in Chess) to offer any significant opposition to players. The only way to make them harder is to give them bonuses. Yes, the AI is "cheating", because it has more resources and production than you, but you're also "cheating" - you have a human brain, the AI does not. Until you're reliably beating Insane AIs, you shouldn't claim that the game is too easy.
As I said, I already gave tons of AI's significant headstarts (Like having 4-5 extra colonies at start). Also, they do everything at +50% efficiency even just on hard difficulty. It's 100% on insane difficulty. That's just silly. It's like you're leading the absolutely dumbest race in the whole galaxy trying to catch up with the far more intelligent races. Though again, it's just personal taste. When I play Stellaris or any other space 4X games, I like to imagine what it'd be like when humanity finally reaches for the stars because that's the most relatable scenario. (to me) But then again, who doesn't like to play as homicidal Hiveminded swarms every now and then
My point is that the normal difficulty is what the game is supposed to be played...Also, I find no issue with the AI's in Hearts of Iron 4, actually. Sure, they are less intelligent than human players, but I still lose to them from time to time, especially when I play as hard countries like Poland or Finland. The player vs. AI aspect of the game is significantly more fun in HOI4 than in Stellaris for some reason.