Stellaris Dev Diary #193: Signal Discovered
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Will there be new and reworked events if they're your first encounters?
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Hmm intel, I wonder what that could be, since Stellaris definitely doesn't have espionage or anything like that. Oh well, no point reading anything into it.
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Just a thought but with the new potentially aggressive style of first contact and game play that would involve has there been any thought of adding a special type of new military ship, an explorer class ship with a potential special military officer with the explorer trait. The ship can operate independently and explore star systems itself, be significantly bigger than a standard science ship but have the armaments of a corvette to represent the larger staffing by military scientists but like science ships it would need an explorer officer to actually survey and explore new systems.
Adding guns and armor makes tat ship capable of driving off unknown alien ships that are unarmed, science ships, which would be something an aggressive nation would want to do. Maintain control of the immediate area of exploration. But the tradeoff woul dbe speed as it would never be able to be anywhere near as fast as a normal science ship.
Adding guns and armor makes tat ship capable of driving off unknown alien ships that are unarmed, science ships, which would be something an aggressive nation would want to do. Maintain control of the immediate area of exploration. But the tradeoff woul dbe speed as it would never be able to be anywhere near as fast as a normal science ship.
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Wouldn't it be funny if it was actually REDACTED under REDACTED?
Edit: Also,finally, my favorite first contact strategy is going to be mechanically represented. Dissassembling xenos to learn how they work. Don't worry. We'll try to put them back together. Emphasis on try.
Edit: Also,finally, my favorite first contact strategy is going to be mechanically represented. Dissassembling xenos to learn how they work. Don't worry. We'll try to put them back together. Emphasis on try.
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How will this interact with the Galactic community? For example,When you first have an alien encounter you are able to set a policy for what your approach will be. First Contact Protocols is a policy option that lets you dictate your stance when it comes to dealing with newly discovered alien civilizations. Each option has different effects that should suit different types of diplomacy.
Friends..?
First Contact Protocol Policy options.
- Will the GC be able to pass a policy to force all GC members to only use one of those 3 policies (at risk of breach)
- E.g. A militarist/xenophobic-dominated GC might force all its members to use aggressive contact to quickly assess threats to protect the wider community.
- A pacifistic/xenophilic-dominated one would vote to only allow peaceful first contact.
- OR could we see a special GC First contact protocol which will fast-track the first contact process giving the target nation more info on the wider GC
- (think Council first contact protocols in Mass Effect... even if they often ended in the Council teams getting slaughtered).
Currently they dont have any real diplomacy with FTL-empires and it shows the little primitive hammer icon over their world right away, and its pretty obvious what they are (seeing as they lack space ships lol).
As "Xenobiological data" is highlit as a key term, is that going to be a new resource in 2.9?
Is REDACTED in red part of the obfuscation mechanics (that we cant see certain responses or effects with insufficient intel) or is that just censored for a future DD?
Stay on your side of the galaxy and all can be well.
Let’s agree to disagree.
Could we please get some modding commands for terra incognita, to make it "regenerate" or re-appear?
- I'd love to play/make a "hard mode" mod, whereby the galaxy is always "greyed-out" if you lack sensor coverage (e.g. low or medium intel as well as the no intel level).
- Heck you could even make this a game mechanic by adding "Shroud generators" to starbases or as megastructures, that will re-hide the map for that(and local) star systems - like GAP generators from C&C Red Alert 1 lol.
- Right now I think there are only like 2-3 places where terra incognita is exposed to modding, and they're all just variables in defines, with no way to manipulate the TI layer, via script or events, itself (aside from increasing intel level from a star from None to X).
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What's Intel?
Btw. what happens if species X encounters species Y and both X and Y have already made contact with Z?
Reasonably it should be possible to combine X-Z and Y-Z translating software into X-Y translating software pretty fast.
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1 - I like the idea of building intel for first-contact events.
2 - Is that first image a pop-up? Having more pop-ups -- one for every alien empire -- would make the game worse. Let me set my empire policy in advance.
3 - Using an Envoy for xenophile diplomatic contact makes perfect sense, but it seems weird to use that same Envoy for 'phobe military assault and vivisection.
4 - Diplomatic Corps now has early-game value in addition to late-game value. That's neat. I hope there are more ways to increase Envoys, though -- they're going to be even more valuable than their current incarnation.
5 - Espionage hints are fun. The fans are apparently building intel on the next feature. We don't even have an envoy, yet here we are vivisecting dev posts.
2 - Is that first image a pop-up? Having more pop-ups -- one for every alien empire -- would make the game worse. Let me set my empire policy in advance.
3 - Using an Envoy for xenophile diplomatic contact makes perfect sense, but it seems weird to use that same Envoy for 'phobe military assault and vivisection.
4 - Diplomatic Corps now has early-game value in addition to late-game value. That's neat. I hope there are more ways to increase Envoys, though -- they're going to be even more valuable than their current incarnation.
5 - Espionage hints are fun. The fans are apparently building intel on the next feature. We don't even have an envoy, yet here we are vivisecting dev posts.
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It's really cool to see first contact being updated. Using a form of the archeology system to help spice up contact and create storylines that won't necessarily always be the same is really neat and will ad to the world building of the exploration phase. Really keen to see these ideas in action, alongside *REDACTED*.
It's easy to see how envoys could be fun, but its also easy to see how it would be really annoying to have to manually adjust which envoys are working on what. Especially with a re-assignment cooldown. I think a better option would be to be able to specialize your foreign office somehow. No promises!
We already have that micro in the game. You are encouraged to swap in the most suited researcher when you start researching a new tech, because if their research speed traits. You are encouraged to swap in another scientist close before you finish a tech to get the most optimal chance to draw the techs you want, just to immediately swap them out after you rolled for the tech cards.
Same for admirals. Stack sub light speed on a general and use them to move fleets over longer distances, but swap them out before they enter combat for a admiral with better combat traits.
I don't mind adding the same to envoys, because the manually adjusting your leader part is already in the game.
I also hate having to do all that leader juggling and would prefer if that whole system would get scrapped and reworked to some kind of Mini-Leader-building game
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after we established contact do we then instantly know everything about the empire as is the case now? Meaning every newly colonized planet will be shown on the map, every new outpost will be known instantly and so on.
I would think that would be logical maybe for empires we have a close relation with. maybe also for enemy empires that tell us "thats ours. go away" but for a devouring swarm neighbor for example... would be more a stretch.
just to brainstorm: A fog of war for empires after contact is established could be nice too. We do not know who has system ownership now because the last System Info is 2400 days old and something like that (like in... i do not remember what games.. saw it once or twice.) And it could be the perfect opportunity to establish a space news network for info about distant wars
I would think that would be logical maybe for empires we have a close relation with. maybe also for enemy empires that tell us "thats ours. go away" but for a devouring swarm neighbor for example... would be more a stretch.
just to brainstorm: A fog of war for empires after contact is established could be nice too. We do not know who has system ownership now because the last System Info is 2400 days old and something like that (like in... i do not remember what games.. saw it once or twice.) And it could be the perfect opportunity to establish a space news network for info about distant wars
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I hope it's not stated that they speak *exactly* the same languages in the flavour events, as they'd still have been exposed to languages developing in different directions for a very long time!
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