Questions in prep for LAN Party

[Faesar]

Hey guys,

once a year I am doing a Stellaris LAN with some friends over the weekend. It's the time again and we are meeting up on Friday. Unfortunately I am pretty unexperienced with the current version since I couldn't testplay as much as I wanted to. I am a little concerned due to the current bugs (I don't want to discuss them here, I think therer are more suitable threads for that). I did a little bit of testplaying in mid December with one of my buddys. In the game we tried out Glavius mod (which is really awesome) and we are planning to use it on the weekend as well. In the game my friend played a criminal MC which was completely no fun since his outposts on the enemy planets were immediately shut down. Now my questions:
- Is the criminal MC now a viable option (with Glavius)?
- Are there other playstyles we should avoid?

We know about the problems with the endgame crisis, but since we usually don't come this far it shouldn't be an issue.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Faesar]

Is the Post apocalyptic trait still broken?

 

[Azhcristokos]

The only thing I can add is a small warning: don't terraform your planets into Gaia worlds. There is a bug that can ruin your planets if you do.

 

[Fletz]

Following recommendations, but I am not 100% sure if they are still legit and some more a question of taste:

-) play without any Robot-Empires (because of AI issues connected to new economic, but Glavius already improved it, dont know if its now good enough) - even if you start without Robot-Empires you wont miss them... in our MP right now we already have many different Robot-Empires because of AI-Rebellions .... i kinda love that Robot-Empires get created during the game instead of starting with them in the very early game.

-) play without stargates/wormwoles because the seem to have bad influence on performance

-) better small galaxy but with more habitable planets and more natives (because of performance and more intense playing expierence)

-) you may try it without any megacorps (but ordinary commerce-focused empires who also build up branches at foreign planets) - i am not sure if megacorps are now well balanced or not - i didnt risk it (will try robots and megacorps somewhen in a future MP).

 

[Faesar]

Thank you very much both. @Fletz There are a lot of interesting suggestions!!

 

[Dunaedine]

My advice is to play in 2.1, not 2.2. For a LAN you do one time a year, I think the present state of the game is too problematic to have a fun time. Frustration due to bugs can crash a game.

If you play in 2.2, don't buy the ministery of culture from Artisans, it will disappear after one month.

 

[Zag14]

i also advice you to wait next beta patch. game currently unplayable in late game

 

[UltimateTobi]

While I agree that the game is in a bad state, I suggest the Stellaris' Test Branch (2.2.3) with Glavius' Ultimate AI Test Branch (2.2.3, can be found here under additional links: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/glavius-ultimate-ai.1135764/)
With that the AI will put up a fight.
If you experience desyncs (via LAN?), use the 2.2.3 Multiplayer version of the mod!

 

[Fletz]

While I agree that the game is in a bad state, I suggest the Stellaris' Test Branch (2.2.3) with Glavius' Ultimate AI Test Branch (2.2.3, can be found here under additional links: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/glavius-ultimate-ai.1135764/)
With that the AI will put up a fight.
If you experience desyncs (via LAN?), use the 2.2.3 Multiplayer version of the mod!

Exactly! I would also recommend 2.2.3-TestBranch with the GlaviusUAI TestBranch Multiplayer Version.

We are playing already in late game without bigger issues.

Just dont play in a bigger galaxy, keep it small.

 

[UltimateTobi]

A reminder: you can use the Singleplayer version of the mod as well for Multiplayer. As long as it doesn't desync, you're fine.
If you however desync later on, just unsubscribe from the Singleplayer version and subscribe to the Multiplayer version. There's no harm done and you can continue playing.

The difference between the two includes custom code/scripts like Pop Job and Fleet Targeting. Those don't exist in the Multiplayer version and instead uses weights AFAIK.

Just give it a try!