Sandbox mode?

[S.C. Watson]

I'm asking only because I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere - I'm curious if there's a sandbox mode, or if there will be?

I know there's been talk about custom galaxies, but I'm curious how fat that extends. Can we, for example, set up solar systems - I know there's Sol, but can I create my own solar systems and then save them / place them where I want? And then the same for empires - can I cluster who I want where I want, with the tech I want them them to have, etc?

Considering the awesome level of customization already available, I think that this would be a obvious next step and sincerely hope it is somehow included either as a mod or dlc

 

[cold warpgates]

I don't think you can do this kind of thing in-game, but I'm sure you can do all this through modding.

 

[Sythesol]

Considering the ability to create custom worlds in EU4, I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to implement something similar in Stellaris. I'd really like to be able to make my own solar systems and galaxy scenarios. This would probably be part of an expansion further down the road though.

 

[Ultimuh]

I would like something similar to this.
A mod where you are the only space-faring species around.
And you would have to uplift primitive species if you feel a bit lonely.

 

[Jean-Luc]

Technically every game is sandbox, what you want is a map editor.

 

[cole98]

I would like something similar to this.
A mod where you are the only space-faring species around.
And you would have to uplift primitive species if you feel a bit lonely.

I think you can do that already through the Galaxy initialization screen

 

[Ultimuh]

I think you can do that already through the Galaxy initialization screen

Maybe? I wouldn't know, since I haven't seen that option in the Blorg stream yet.

 

[cole98]

Maybe? I wouldn't know, since I haven't seen that option in the Blorg stream yet.

On the very first stream they showed an ai empire slider, which I presume could be set to 0