My Major Complaint

[HappyLizardMan]

It's not a secret to anyone who is not new to Stellaris, but...
The AI is abysmal to say the least: Overpopulated, starving planets with high unemployment and buildings that never get upgraded. Habitats that are built but never colonized. Research without leading scientists. Ships with tier 2 techs in year 2400+. Pointless wars where nobody wins anything and they just chase each others fleets for few years until they get tired of it.

It's really disappointing when after a long game session you take a look at your achievements just to find out you never had a competition in the first place, half of the galaxy literally starving to death and a few 3k fleets patroling some worthless trade route. Hell, even awakened FE's are passive. They literally do nothing but build gateways in their home systems. Never declaring a war, never demanding subjigation, never building anything on their own home planets despite ENORMOUS resources bonuses. They get 1k energy income by DEFAULT, yet they're unable to do absolutely anything.

The only time AI poses a threat to you is early game while it's economy can still keep itself afloat. By the mid-game AI's economy becomes a mess, it can no longer support its fleets, will never declare a war on you unless you are significantly weaker, which, to be honest, is unlikely to happen unless you forget to pause your game and fall asleep.

Don't get me wrong, I love winning, I love being superior, I love dominating the galaxy, being on top in everything, yet it doesn't feel much of an achievement when your opponent is braindead. I have over 900 hours spent in this game, I've played since 1.0 and seen my share of AI stupidity but never before its been so pathetic and helpless. I would not call myself a Stellaris mastermind but I'm not clueless about the game either. Its just not challenging anymore; new economy while complicated at first glance is rather simple once you get the gist of it.

I genuinely hope they will fix AI soon so I can enjoy the game once more. What do you think of the current state of the AI, what can be done?

 

[Dalwin]

And if you actually read the patch notes some of those have already been addressed and others are on the way.

Buildings not being upgraded has already changed. It has also gotten a lot better at grabbing more territory and developing it which will help a lot with its economy in the long run.

 

[Delta_Force]

And if you actually read the patch notes some of those have already been addressed and others are on the way.

Buildings not being upgraded has already changed. It has also gotten a lot better at grabbing more territory and developing it which will help a lot with its economy in the long run.

This barely fixes the AI, this should have been the case right from the start, same goes for the repairing of buildings which the AI still does not do even in the beta branch, a single war can devastate the AI's economy forever simply because they fail to do this trivial task.
The AI is nowhere near fixed, seeing how many fixes this one modder has to do (which are all more or less bandaid fixes) there is A LOT of work ahead for Paradox.

 

[LWE]

Glavius' mod is a fine enough cure. With it, I don't have any major problems with Stellaris, save planet interface being rather clunky from flavor and gameplay points of view. I'd like to have pop portraits larger, at least.

 

[Mergoth]

I am playing with the latest beta patch and the AI is still not upgrading any of their buildings... And the patch notes say they fixed that, so Paradox is even lying about their patch notes...astounding.

 

[Mergoth]

Glavius' mod is a fine enough cure. With it, I don't have any major problems with Stellaris, save planet interface being rather clunky from flavor and gameplay points of view. I'd like to have pop portraits larger, at least.

With Glavius you dont have any more issues? What about the massive late game lag?

 

[LWE]

I don’t lag much, strangely. 2-2.3 sec per day in 2480. Not that great, but not 5 sec, either. I agree that Paradox really needs to work on it... cant be fun for a large share of people who do.

 

[pryr]

And need to say that AE are broken since 2.0.

 

[SpectralShade]

I am playing with the latest beta patch and the AI is still not upgrading any of their buildings... And the patch notes say they fixed that, so Paradox is even lying about their patch notes...astounding.

well I remember a patch note saying they fixed the market exploit, but people were still able to exploit the market, so...