Seems like nobody thought of updating the Stellaris dev diary archive, I have done so now. The dev diaries are posted on Thursdays nowadays.
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Seems like nobody thought of updating the Stellaris dev diary archive, I have done so now. The dev diaries are posted on Thursdays nowadays.
It's Christmas/Winter Holidays here in Sweden and there are very few people working right now, most will be back on Monday. So no dev diaries for any project until next week at least.
Not until they write more at least.
The next one should be on Thursday the 23rd of February.
Stellaris Dev Diary #61 - Indoctrination, Unrest and Faction Interactions
Was released on Thursday the 16th of February, but it isn't on the list yet.
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Hello Paradox, i'm new on the forum but i'm a big fan of your work, especially on Stellaris. This expansion is very promising. Are you looking for someone to translate your dev diaries, or help translating your games ? I'm French, by the way. Keep up the good work !
@SolSara : If you find some spare time, you might want to add the DD#63 from 02nd March. Or you wait for the next DD tomorrow and add them both.
@SolSara : If you find some spare time, you might want to add the DD#63 from 02nd March. Or you wait for the next DD tomorrow and add them both.
Done! Will add the next DD tomorrow when it's been released
Hey Paradox peeps!
Got to say, I have been loving this game for a few months now, to the point where I've recreated my favourite book series in it (Vorkosigan Saga). The amount of things you can do is astonishing in it and I definitely can't wait until the new update and expansion!
On a side note, not sure if this is the best place to prop this suggestion, but hey - is there in the foreseeable future a plan on improving the ship construction mechanics? Maybe make it so that instead of having the separate space ports as the place where we select build orders and have a rally point set - We instead select the fleet we want to build on and place an order of what ships we want. That way if I want 100 corvettes, instead of using all my core planets to spam at once, all of my planets that have a shipyard or at least the ones nearby can spread the work out between them? That can solve some of the rally point clumsiness and make for some interesting gameplay in hyperlane where one would be enticed to create blockade fleets on key routes to block as much as the enemy's reinforcements traffic.
Got to say, I have been loving this game for a few months now, to the point where I've recreated my favourite book series in it (Vorkosigan Saga). The amount of things you can do is astonishing in it and I definitely can't wait until the new update and expansion!
On a side note, not sure if this is the best place to prop this suggestion, but hey - is there in the foreseeable future a plan on improving the ship construction mechanics? Maybe make it so that instead of having the separate space ports as the place where we select build orders and have a rally point set - We instead select the fleet we want to build on and place an order of what ships we want. That way if I want 100 corvettes, instead of using all my core planets to spam at once, all of my planets that have a shipyard or at least the ones nearby can spread the work out between them? That can solve some of the rally point clumsiness and make for some interesting gameplay in hyperlane where one would be enticed to create blockade fleets on key routes to block as much as the enemy's reinforcements traffic.
Tangentially related to dev diaries: Is there a collection of links to the Stellaris related streams? e.g. I want to see the latest designer corner, but can't find any announcements about it.
This is AWESOME!
Space Hungary!
Looking forward to playing it with the new devouring swarm civic.
Space Hungary!
Looking forward to playing it with the new devouring swarm civic.
Okay, so I have an awesome/insane/"what even" idea for planets and populations, and I really need to get this off my chest and out of my brain before I explode.
WARNING: LONG
I hope I have enough room.....
To summarize, my idea and aim is to revamp how growing POPs are treated, as well as to change how planets develop over the course of the game.
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POPs first because they're shorter: So I always imagined a POP as representing 1 Billion people, and I imagine most do the same, or something similar. It kinda annoyed me how a growing POP was basically xx% of 1 Billion people who didn't do anything. SO, I suggest allowing the POP to work the percentage of yield of the tile equal to their formation %, so if a Tile has 4 minerals, and a POP at 50%, it yields 2 minerals. I feel this would make expansion more interesting and accelerate the early game.
Also, how each growing POP would have an ethos? Allow multiple POPs to grow at the same time with different ethos, and divide the growth rate among st them acording to the existing ethos population. So if you have a world that's 1/2 materialist, 1/4 militant, and 1/4 authoritarian, each gets that fraction of the growth rate.
This would make an interesting dynamic of more populous ethos growing faster than less populous ones, and gives player more.....interesting...options in controlling their ethics.
Next, PLANETS, the big one.
First, structure, Planets as being 5x5 squares is......frankly, kinda boring. And like a dozen other games I can think of off the top of my head. What would be unique would be to stretch the map so it would cover a more "planet surface" kinda feel, at the time i was thinking an elongated hexagon like an Eckert II projection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert_II_projection). To compensate, the tiles themselves would have to change shape to hexagons themselves, which would work with a base of 5 hexagons, which only ups the (max) planet size from 25 to 29.
second, I think making planet layout match the skins would be FAR more immersive and unique to each play-through. But to avoid the same copy-paste skin and layout you could divide them into compatible segments so the edge pieces are all similar or the same. So you make 20 unique layouts for the lower left map piece, and the same for each other piece, and tie them to a corresponding skin, and you have the computer generate each planet picking one from each segment category. If you only have 20 for each, you have 20^4 unique possibilities, or 160,000 unique skins and layout. Which sounds like plenty. Even just making them could be made easier by just mirroring one piece on different axes.
Third, planetary modification. Is your terrestrial species sick of those pesky oceans? Looking to grow your economic base but those ecosystems in the way? Now you can change that! Hopefully with minimal ecosystem collapse.
Funny pitches aside, what this part handles is literally just modifying your whole planet for purposes other than terraforming. Remember those layouts I mentioned? Well they weren't JUST for the land, they were for the Oceans as well. Leveled, you can drain each level of the ocean by using a (would-be new) building, a hydro-pump that can store and filter the water for your population. Homeworlds would have 3 or 4 levels to represent the tectonic activity (Marianas trench for example), and you need a new hydro-pump on the new coast for each level drained, and you have to keep the old one to hold the water. In the event of an orbital bombardment, and a pump being destroyed, it would flood the lowest level not flooded, and would either displace (to another tile on the planet) or kill all the POPs affected, but would NOT destroy the structures (so you don't have a chain reaction of instant global flooding).
This effectively allows you to grow your usable surface from a moderate area to the max (29 in the modified map) through use of advanced technology, resources, and a little patience (oceans are big).
Lastly, planetary development. Basically, Coruscant. No seriously.
Like, not JUST a city world, but one you build over however many years (For Coruscant, 20,000 years). Basically around the same tech area you gain access to that hydro-pump from earlier, you also gain access to planetary superstructures, That allow you to build in place of (or for balance upgraded from) high-tier mining networks, power plants, and labs. What these structure REALLY do is allow another level of your rising super-cities, without suppressing what was there. It enables an up/down to one side of the planet UI and you can build something else on TOP of that superstructure. This effectively allows you to increase the size of the planet indefinitely, but at increasing costs per level you build (like cost times the level your building on). The superstructure was expensive and took a while, so do you raise the rest of the planet first or forge ahead to ever increasing costs? It would be a decision between cost and prestige. The superstructure tech would unlock techs that would be compatible with only superstructures below them, and would focus on migration attraction or population growth.
I like this idea because some worlds (cough cough Homeworlds) get lost in your sea of colonies, and wanted to maybe give these unique worlds a chance to shine.
Yeesh, that was longer than I expected. Whoops? lol
WARNING: LONG
I hope I have enough room.....
To summarize, my idea and aim is to revamp how growing POPs are treated, as well as to change how planets develop over the course of the game.
i
POPs first because they're shorter: So I always imagined a POP as representing 1 Billion people, and I imagine most do the same, or something similar. It kinda annoyed me how a growing POP was basically xx% of 1 Billion people who didn't do anything. SO, I suggest allowing the POP to work the percentage of yield of the tile equal to their formation %, so if a Tile has 4 minerals, and a POP at 50%, it yields 2 minerals. I feel this would make expansion more interesting and accelerate the early game.
Also, how each growing POP would have an ethos? Allow multiple POPs to grow at the same time with different ethos, and divide the growth rate among st them acording to the existing ethos population. So if you have a world that's 1/2 materialist, 1/4 militant, and 1/4 authoritarian, each gets that fraction of the growth rate.
This would make an interesting dynamic of more populous ethos growing faster than less populous ones, and gives player more.....interesting...options in controlling their ethics.
Next, PLANETS, the big one.
First, structure, Planets as being 5x5 squares is......frankly, kinda boring. And like a dozen other games I can think of off the top of my head. What would be unique would be to stretch the map so it would cover a more "planet surface" kinda feel, at the time i was thinking an elongated hexagon like an Eckert II projection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert_II_projection). To compensate, the tiles themselves would have to change shape to hexagons themselves, which would work with a base of 5 hexagons, which only ups the (max) planet size from 25 to 29.
second, I think making planet layout match the skins would be FAR more immersive and unique to each play-through. But to avoid the same copy-paste skin and layout you could divide them into compatible segments so the edge pieces are all similar or the same. So you make 20 unique layouts for the lower left map piece, and the same for each other piece, and tie them to a corresponding skin, and you have the computer generate each planet picking one from each segment category. If you only have 20 for each, you have 20^4 unique possibilities, or 160,000 unique skins and layout. Which sounds like plenty. Even just making them could be made easier by just mirroring one piece on different axes.
Third, planetary modification. Is your terrestrial species sick of those pesky oceans? Looking to grow your economic base but those ecosystems in the way? Now you can change that! Hopefully with minimal ecosystem collapse.
Funny pitches aside, what this part handles is literally just modifying your whole planet for purposes other than terraforming. Remember those layouts I mentioned? Well they weren't JUST for the land, they were for the Oceans as well. Leveled, you can drain each level of the ocean by using a (would-be new) building, a hydro-pump that can store and filter the water for your population. Homeworlds would have 3 or 4 levels to represent the tectonic activity (Marianas trench for example), and you need a new hydro-pump on the new coast for each level drained, and you have to keep the old one to hold the water. In the event of an orbital bombardment, and a pump being destroyed, it would flood the lowest level not flooded, and would either displace (to another tile on the planet) or kill all the POPs affected, but would NOT destroy the structures (so you don't have a chain reaction of instant global flooding).
This effectively allows you to grow your usable surface from a moderate area to the max (29 in the modified map) through use of advanced technology, resources, and a little patience (oceans are big).
Lastly, planetary development. Basically, Coruscant. No seriously.
Like, not JUST a city world, but one you build over however many years (For Coruscant, 20,000 years). Basically around the same tech area you gain access to that hydro-pump from earlier, you also gain access to planetary superstructures, That allow you to build in place of (or for balance upgraded from) high-tier mining networks, power plants, and labs. What these structure REALLY do is allow another level of your rising super-cities, without suppressing what was there. It enables an up/down to one side of the planet UI and you can build something else on TOP of that superstructure. This effectively allows you to increase the size of the planet indefinitely, but at increasing costs per level you build (like cost times the level your building on). The superstructure was expensive and took a while, so do you raise the rest of the planet first or forge ahead to ever increasing costs? It would be a decision between cost and prestige. The superstructure tech would unlock techs that would be compatible with only superstructures below them, and would focus on migration attraction or population growth.
I like this idea because some worlds (cough cough Homeworlds) get lost in your sea of colonies, and wanted to maybe give these unique worlds a chance to shine.
Yeesh, that was longer than I expected. Whoops? lol
@rastro you will have to post that in the suggestions forum. That post does not belong here. You will have to register your game first though.
You will have to register your game first though.
I'd love to see something that hasn't been addressed yet: Espionage.
You get into contact with other species and yet, you can't do nothing other than "trade" with them. It's time we get to buying loyalties, placing agents, going after double agents placed by them on our midst...
Of course, hive minded species can't be "spied" upon, but they have diffiuclties spying back. Unless they are nanobots or psionic (which should be totally possible).
You get into contact with other species and yet, you can't do nothing other than "trade" with them. It's time we get to buying loyalties, placing agents, going after double agents placed by them on our midst...
Of course, hive minded species can't be "spied" upon, but they have diffiuclties spying back. Unless they are nanobots or psionic (which should be totally possible).