Stellaris London Multiplayer Event!

[Vahouth]

I already counted 3 Sol systems!

 

[barny]

Meanwhile, Monica and Rachel's Appartment is blobbing, potentially forming the biggest threat to our space-friends. The Birds-and-Bugs race of the Lore Swarm has cut off part of the galaxy, and the space foxes are under threat of being crushed by The Shell.

Also, Wiz and cKnoor are attempting to link Block Party (which looks like a fish now) with the Dead Zone.

Oh, and they're talking about establishing a Space Zoo. Unfortunately, their attempts at sowing the seeds of paranoia in the minds of the friendly pacifist Cthulhu-people failed a while ago.

The Avian Menace is in such a good position in the west, though. The birds are completely on their own with massive amounts of space (and star systems) to the east and south they can swallow up, while the others wage war on each other.

 

[grandad1982]

Ehh, really? Even my 3rd-world Murica intraweb connection can watch Source video quality.

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My rural living in one of the richest parts of the world (UK, Sussex) internet blows huge balls and can't handle source but can handle youtube 1080.go figure.

 

[Lollius Palican]

Also the Space Khajiit are Russian, and pseudo-Blorg crabs have reached FTL in the south of the Xenophile Fallen empire.

Wiz: "The Shell has built a shell around the Merrymen."

I'm just glad I can paint a clear and unambiguous picture of what is going on.

 

[caintheconfused]

On the downside: They had a disconnect at the event.

On the upside: A hotjoin actually worked! Gasp.

 

[barny]

On the downside: They had a disconnect at the event.

On the upside: A hotjoin actually worked! Gasp.

Well, one game crash in...what...5 hours of actual gameplay with 22 players is actually pretty stable.

 

[caintheconfused]

Well, one game crash in...what...5 hours of actual gameplay with 22 players is actually pretty stable.

Indeed, just thought it was worth noting the hotjoin works.

 

[barny]

FYI: For the people that can't run Twitch that well, the first part is already available on Youtube:

 

[ahhheygao]

Second crash toward the end, this time it was Arumba. But yeah, hotjoin seems to be working fine, the ones who crashed were able to rejoin fairly quickly.

Start:

End:

 

[Ragotag]

Blobs need some kind of border to distinguish one from another in the galaxy map.

 

[Madzai]

I really don't wanna start this argument again... but for me, it looks like awfully fast progression for merely 52 years.

 

[Beric]

Blobs need some kind of border to distinguish one from another in the galaxy map.

Agreed. Really confusing having multiple empires of the same color.

 

[Turin the Mad]

32 empires competing over 300-350 habitable star systems, some of which are utter crap, is going to eat up geography quickly.

Noticed that they've barely edged into getting cruisers - and not all of them have cruiser techs, let alone the shipyard capacity to build them.
Heck, looks like many of them barely have sufficient energy stores to maintain anything close to full fleet capacity for more than 2 years.

The average naval capacity seems to be surprisingly low too - well below 100.

Tomorrow's wars are going to be nasty, brutal and short.

 

[Millefleurs]

I couldn't watch the full stream so i want to ask if it was explained why the Tentacular Triumph was able to colonize a world in the middle of the xenophobic fallen empire (i tought fallen empires have instant first contact)? And are they suffering for it like arumba does?

 

[Turin the Mad]

AI bug is the best guess. Wiz is supposed to eyeball that FE's AI scripts to deal with that accordingly. (Well, I hope so.)

Even Arumba was supposed to get royally crushed into jelly according to Wiz's commentary.

 

[Heatth]

I really don't wanna start this argument again... but for me, it looks like awfully fast progression for merely 52 years.

If you don't want to start this argument then don't? I agree with you, personally, but that is a topic that is better suited for its own thread.

 

[CassCD]

I actually don't think war with the Blorg alliance and the Loreswarm is as inevitable as everybody seems to think. The military build-up has put both alliances on par. Unless either side wants to make war for the sake of making war, an incredibly tense Cold War is what I'm anticipating.

 

[Grunthex]

This is basically arumba seeing a fallen empire and deciding to start prodding it with a stick and seeing how it reacts. The absolute madman.

This is how science is done!

 

[barny]

I really don't wanna start this argument again... but for me, it looks like awfully fast progression for merely 52 years.

But that is by design. The game is supposed to become more like a grand strategy game after the early parts. You aren't supposed to just survey and colonize for 100 years.

Then again: You can always choose a 1000 stars galaxy and only put a minimum of AI enemies in it, if you want to stretch the exploring phase.

This is how science is done!

Yes, including the "blowing up in your face" bit.

And yes, FEs seem to be slightly bugged, they might want to fix this before launch if they can.

 

[Leonick]

I couldn't watch the full stream so i want to ask if it was explained why the the Tentacular Triumph was able to colonize a world in the middle of the xenophobic fallen empire (i tought fallen empires have instant first contact)? And are they suffering for it like arumba does?

Not quite watched all of it yet but so far no real answer. Wiz's guess at the moment is that the Fallen Empires don't add the planets as war goals correctly so people could just surrender and keep the system. He's said he was going to look at it.