No BBB?

[Nadrak]

I am really looking forward for this game, but one thing worries me. If everyone has the same start and some have a little advantage, there will be no big threat to your empire as BBB or Ottomans. I know by conquering too much your neighbours can form an alliance and there will be end game crysis, but is that enough?

What I fear if you will be growing, there will be no one who can match your strength or did I miss anything?

 

[Escher]

You missed the end-game events! Fallen empires (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-15-fallen-empires.900744/) as well as events such as machine uprisings etc will be there to throw a spanner in the works towards end-game. It wont be a game where you just get your empire ticking along and can then just sit at max speed until you blob the whole galaxy.

 

[Torran]

Federations can rival even the biggest empires.

 

[Hull-Tanker]

1. FE will work as a check on your power by a)be in the way for expansion since they are more powerful than you are and b)ensuring that you do not do anything that the FE is against.

2. In the galaxy creation part before starting the game there is an option to allow for the creation of states with an advance start e.g. states that has more resources, tech and planets. These too should work as checks to your power

3. In the Blorg stream Wiz is the strongest power in his part of the Galaxy but to the north there is a large democratic state controlling a large federation and to the west there is another large state with more territory than Wiz. Both these power-blocs should serve as a check to Wiz power in the region.

 

[spinoza013]

Big Blue Blorg?

 

[Thracian]

remove élan!

 

[barny]

3. In the Blorg stream Wiz is the strongest power in his part of the Galaxy but to the north there is a large democratic state controlling a large federation and to the west there is another large state with more territory than Wiz. Both these power-blocs should serve as a check to Wiz power in the region.

In addition to the two FEs that are pretty close to him as well, yes.

And Wiz is only playing on normal.

 

[Bragi]

'Strong' = 'Space Élan'

 

[doomdude1]

Big Blue Blorg?

Big Bad Byzantium?

 

[TheBeautifulVoid2]

It occurs to me that every PDS game except this one (and Rome) can be seen as the history of the Big Blue Blob: from its beginnings in Crusader Kings through various tests and opponents in Europa Universalis and Victoria, all the way to the shocking moment in Hearts of Iron where it gets defeated by another blob.

This is why Paradox had to go to space instead of the Cold War: once you've shown France get defeated, there's really nowhere else that you can go.

 

[Glustrod]

Don't worry, Reapers will end your cycle when your too big.

 

[BrokenSky]

You missed the end-game events! Fallen empires (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-15-fallen-empires.900744/) as well as events such as machine uprisings etc will be there to throw a spanner in the works towards end-game. It wont be a game where you just get your empire ticking along and can then just sit at max speed until you blob the whole galaxy.

SPACE FRANCE ENDGAME CRISIS CONFIRMED

It occurs to me that every PDS game except this one (and Rome) can be seen as the history of the Big Blue Blob: from its beginnings in Crusader Kings through various tests and opponents in Europa Universalis and Victoria, all the way to the shocking moment in Hearts of Iron where it gets defeated by another blob.

This is why Paradox had to go to space instead of the Cold War: once you've shown France get defeated, there's really nowhere else that you can go.

HOI expansion: Blue Phoenix.

 

[Lamahorse]

I look forward to the late game crisis of the Arrival of Space Napoleon, Space Sultan Memhut Fatih and Space Ulm.

 

[Alucardex]

Don't worry, Reapers will end your cycle when your too big.

Yeah and even better you get to make your own individual choice in how to respond to the reaper threat from 3 different color coded options.
You can also choose to fight them in which case you instantly lose.

 

[davidz97]

I look forward to the late game crisis of the Arrival of Space Napoleon, Space Sultan Memhut Fatih and Space Ulm.

And then they'll add space Aztecs and piss everybody off

 

[csakareac]

, there will be no one who can match your strength or did I miss anything?

Yeah, the Sunset Invasion.

 

[myrsl0ken]

I prefer the threat that surprises me to the one I have known all game.

 

[davidz97]

Yeah, the Sunset Invasion.

When you get to Sol you'll be attacked by Space Aztecs. They learnt how to travel into space because Space Vikings left their Spaceships in Space America

 

[Krajzen]

I look forward to the late game crisis of the Arrival of Space Napoleon, Space Sultan Memhut Fatih and Space Ulm.

I think I will ragequit before late game because of Space Hunting Accident

 

[Aries666]

I think I will ragequit before late game because of Space Hunting Accident

Or from all those nasty comets.