Share your "I'm so stupid..." moment

[Devanor]

If there was a prize for "stupid moments in Stellaris", I bet this would net me first place

Whenever I've decided to change districts on a planet with no more space, I destroyed one and built a new in it's place.

Why? Because I didn't realize the obvious that the "replace" button works for districts

 

[Spyhawk]

When I pre-ordered Stellaris. Never again.

 

[Mavkiel]

Hmm, colonizing a holy world, thinking if I don't have contact with the fallen empire they wont care

 

[tremor3258]

Terraforming worlds to Gaia in 2.2 and killing my mineral economy.

I just wanted them to be happy.

 

[Livigy]

Opening a wormhole into the centre of a militant isolationist fallen empire. I was silly to accept the influence and happiness penalty instead of just immediately dismantling that starbase once I knew it went into their territory..

 

[Masoz]

I had a brainfart, mixed up "Population Controls" and "Migration Controls" and destroyed my entire empire's pop growth.

 

[Jazzbanana]

> Play megacorporation
> Get rich
> Move capital
> -950 energy credits per month
> Why
> Decades of painful economic replanning
> Get even
> Notice how trade routes weren't connected to new capital
> 1100 trade value per month not collected
> ~400K energy credits flushed into space over 30 years
> Damn
> Connect routes
> Sadprofit

 

[Sarosh]

Fighting a Fallen Empire, sent three death stacks at them while they were trying to attack me. Problem is, my fleets had different speeds because of the admiral traits, so while my three fleets are preparing to jump, so is theirs. Two of my fleets warp out, theirs arrives, blows up my third fleet. I send my two remaining fleets back to get them, since I have still have an overall power advantage. One of my two fleets arrives much earlier than the other, and dies. Then my third fleet arrives...

Nowadays I pay attention to fleet speed and coordinated movement.

 

[Delta_Force]

Clicking on "emergency election" instead of "reform government" 3 times in a row.
Yes that actually happened to me. I don't know why I keep clicking on the election icon, maybe because it's close to the civics but yeah, most of the time I want to add or change civics I click on the damn emergency election button.

I dislike reloading if I make errors like these but after it happened the third time in a row I didn't want to wait another 120 months or so to get enough influence I needed to finally reform my government.

 

[Nakkivene]

Converting my criminal empire pops to cyborgs. The nearby holy guardians didn't like that and would demand to humiliate me every 10 years.

Once my doom fleet is complete, I will terraform their stupid holy worlds into pizza worlds.

 

[dostillevi]

Thinking I had my borders defended before declaring war, only to find out that everyone else in the galaxy but me had developed wormhole tech.

 

[Kahldris]

If there was a prize for "stupid moments in Stellaris", I bet this would net me first place

Whenever I've decided to change districts on a planet with no more space, I destroyed one and built a new in it's place.

Why? Because I didn't realize the obvious that the "replace" button works for districts

There's a replace button I know that.... however I was demolishing districts too lol.

 

[Little Red]

When I was playing as a Total War empire, I chose Interstellar Dominion (lowered claim cost which total war empires have no need of) instead of Galactic Force Projection which I intended to choose. I may have been somewhat inebriated when doing so.

 

[Mavkiel]

Hmm I also one game set the mid game crisis to the earliest possible value and forgot about it. So it was shocking when the Khan called for my surrender. Of course he promptly ran into sanctuary *twice* and died.

 

[Etrutian]

Every SINGLE time I declared war without having the ftl inhibitor tech on my starbases.

 

[Justafan]

I had claimed the Terminal Egress during the Grey Tempest and was now fighting the Unbidden. I promptly saw that the titan laser defense platforms attracted the fleets using the L-Gate, and they destroyed my Citadel.

Several years later, I had finally rebuilt my citadel and had a defense fleet, so what did I do? Built another titan laser DP which attracted 6 fleets and killed my Citadel again and cost me a fleet. Lesson Learned right?

Nope, did it again. And I lost it again. Though I did eventually turn the tide and win, I wasted way too many alloys building up and losing that citadel and defense platforms.

 

[ciurra]

When I pre-ordered Stellaris. Never again.

Welcome to House biscuits our motto is "we do not preorder"

 

[Iron Spirit]

Buying Stellaris DLC at full price

 

[stavern]

At galaxy creation set habitable planets and primitves to 0.25. Then i thought can be fun to try wormholes and gatewayes at 0.25 too. And now in 2350 galaxy borders have settled and not a single gateway in my area of space. And closest one is in space 3 empires away. Who are all in federation meaning i white peaced on last two Wars. No gateways surveyed. No tech to research no gateway construction.

 

[RabbaDooDabba]

>Looking at Holy Worlds and Ancient Caretakers: "How should Holy Worlds or those Caretakers forbidding me to colonise ever turn out to be some kind of problem ? You just have to be patient ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
>Faint "your overconfidence is your weakness" in the distance
>Promptly forgets the Ancient Caretakers forbid me from colonising
>Happily colonise a new world
>Sudden incoming message
> mfw