So, inspired by discussions from this thread, I've decided to play a game with end date of 2325... it was a blast, although it didn't quite go as planned. Glavius Admiral difficulty. Here's a mini-AAR of the run.
One of the most memorable events for my Assembly of Clans Fire Tribes horses was finding the Nivlac.
Another memorable event was finding the last surviving member of a species' sad message
Subterranean Mect-Pux refugees became valuable members of our nation (I've managed to catch the Subterranean Civilization project before it is removed from the list by a bug).
The friendly Glebsig Foundation nearby was eliminated by the one-eyed avian Cynur Decimators.
It was a matter of time before they came for us, too. Thankfully, we had Marauder mercenaries to help is repeal the initial onslaught.
The Maradeur fleets constituted half of our forces. It was largely due to them we achieved vital victories over the Decimators.
Soon afterwards, they left to serve their Khan. But Decimator fleets were already weakened. After a tense struggle, the war ended in roughly status quo, with the Fire Tribes managing to capture a couple of low-populated planets, but with the Decimators keeping control of some captured systems (I had to sign a peace treaty of mutual 100% war exhaustion after they rebuilt their fleets).
After a Center of Learning was founded on one of our planets, we rededicated it to Research Labs.
The Khan, before dying, has almost eliminated the genocidal machine empire, and marginalized another one. The Cynur Decimators' fleet was also damaged by their fights with the Khanate. It was time to strike.
It was quite easy. The weakened Cynur fleet could offer only token resistance.
Only in 2309 I started to build Habitats. This Habitat was dedicated to Leisure (a lot of Holo-Theaters across my Warrior Culture nation were busy producing Duelist Unity and Naval Capacity). Most of my alloys, however, were dedicated to preparing for the Crisis.
The Xeno Tolerance movement, led by a Nivlac Clan Speaker, was the most prominent faction in the Fire Tribes.
In 2314, we researched the Jump Drive...
Unfortunately, this was not enough to trigger the Crisis. We lost to the Fallen Empire. I still had quite a lot of fun, with maybe 10 boring years.
According to my calculations using the Stellaris wiki page on crises, there was about 58% chance for the Prethoryn to fire, and 16% chance for the Unbidden to appear. So there was a 26% chance of this outcome. I''l certainly play like this in the future, keeping in mind to rush Jump Drive and Synthetics!
I set the tech speed to 0.75x. Could've set it to 0.5x, I guess, especially since I have the mod that expands endgame repeatables.
My Capital near the end. Yes, the governor is Cynur - they were the demographically dominant species in my nation after I eliminated their Blood Court government (the starting horsey species was the third, after the Nivlac). I had to build Enforcer buildings to counter the crime for a Peaceful Trader Criminal megacorp to the south of my starting position.
One of the most memorable events for my Assembly of Clans Fire Tribes horses was finding the Nivlac.
Another memorable event was finding the last surviving member of a species' sad message
Subterranean Mect-Pux refugees became valuable members of our nation (I've managed to catch the Subterranean Civilization project before it is removed from the list by a bug).
The friendly Glebsig Foundation nearby was eliminated by the one-eyed avian Cynur Decimators.
It was a matter of time before they came for us, too. Thankfully, we had Marauder mercenaries to help is repeal the initial onslaught.
The Maradeur fleets constituted half of our forces. It was largely due to them we achieved vital victories over the Decimators.
Soon afterwards, they left to serve their Khan. But Decimator fleets were already weakened. After a tense struggle, the war ended in roughly status quo, with the Fire Tribes managing to capture a couple of low-populated planets, but with the Decimators keeping control of some captured systems (I had to sign a peace treaty of mutual 100% war exhaustion after they rebuilt their fleets).
After a Center of Learning was founded on one of our planets, we rededicated it to Research Labs.
The Khan, before dying, has almost eliminated the genocidal machine empire, and marginalized another one. The Cynur Decimators' fleet was also damaged by their fights with the Khanate. It was time to strike.
It was quite easy. The weakened Cynur fleet could offer only token resistance.
Only in 2309 I started to build Habitats. This Habitat was dedicated to Leisure (a lot of Holo-Theaters across my Warrior Culture nation were busy producing Duelist Unity and Naval Capacity). Most of my alloys, however, were dedicated to preparing for the Crisis.
The Xeno Tolerance movement, led by a Nivlac Clan Speaker, was the most prominent faction in the Fire Tribes.
In 2314, we researched the Jump Drive...
Unfortunately, this was not enough to trigger the Crisis. We lost to the Fallen Empire. I still had quite a lot of fun, with maybe 10 boring years.
According to my calculations using the Stellaris wiki page on crises, there was about 58% chance for the Prethoryn to fire, and 16% chance for the Unbidden to appear. So there was a 26% chance of this outcome. I''l certainly play like this in the future, keeping in mind to rush Jump Drive and Synthetics!
I set the tech speed to 0.75x. Could've set it to 0.5x, I guess, especially since I have the mod that expands endgame repeatables.
My Capital near the end. Yes, the governor is Cynur - they were the demographically dominant species in my nation after I eliminated their Blood Court government (the starting horsey species was the third, after the Nivlac). I had to build Enforcer buildings to counter the crime for a Peaceful Trader Criminal megacorp to the south of my starting position.
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