The Obligatory Stellaris Strange Screenshot Thread

[TehJumpingJawa]

That was ... Unexpected

AI logical process:

I've got 30k Energy spare, what can I spend it on?
Terraforming
What else do I need to terraform?
Terraforming Gases
Where do I acquire them?
Trade
What do I have spare with which to trade?
30k Energy
Excellent! trade made, gases acquired. What else do I need to terraform?
Energy
Right, where do I ....ah, erm.... anybody want some Terraforming Gases?

 

[Jorrhast]

Right, where do I ....ah, erm.... anybody want some Terraforming Gases?

AI 2: I do, I do!
AI 1: Oh wait. Sorry, I only got 1 of those so I cannot trade it

 

[Robotkiller]

I purged all life on this planet, but the lights are still on:

 

[Mitchz95]

I purged all life on this planet, but the lights are still on:

City lights are generated by buildings, not pops. Kind of an oversight.

 

[Castinar]

And I thought I had some bad spawn points.....

Couldn't figure why I couldn't find anyone to my west nearly 85 years in.... well, now I know!

 

[Robotkiller]

And I thought I had some bad spawn points.....
Couldn't figure why I couldn't find anyone to my west nearly 85 years in.... well, now I know!

Every time I see scenarios like this, I imagine Earth being placed in a part of the galaxy that dooms humanity to a fate like this.

 

[Mitchz95]

After eating a bunch of my strategically-placed starbases, a Wraith decided to pick a fight with the Dimensional Horror.

The Horror killed it with barely any effort. Kinda anticlimatic, but I was glad to see the Wraith gone.

 

[Devanor]

I purged all life on this planet, but the lights are still on:

"lights are on but nobody's home"

 

[Darkspysrival]

I purged all life on this planet, but the lights are still on:

There is a story where humanity destroys itself, but all the automated homes still cook breakfast and set of wake-up alarms. Maybe this is it.

 

[Nwaij]

Is the game trying to make me chicken out... because of a chicken?!?

 

[MateuszS]

And I thought I had some bad spawn points.....

Couldn't figure why I couldn't find anyone to my west nearly 85 years in.... well, now I know!

Another reason to play with max hyperlane density...

 

[alxeu]

And I thought I had some bad spawn points.....

Couldn't figure why I couldn't find anyone to my west nearly 85 years in.... well, now I know!

That's pretty funny. My friend whom I was playing multiplayer with was slightly blocked from northern expansion by the Ether Drake and Dimensional Horror to his north, the two being only a system or so apart.

 

[Tavior]

A little background. This Machine Empire is friendly to me despite being a fanatic spiritualist. They are waging a war against an aggressive attacker who themselves is part of a federation. The original target of CB is not AI themselves but has a defending treaty with this machine empire.

The only reason I can think of machine empire asking for food is to feed conquered planets but they did not take any in the peace deal so... Which left me wondering what exactly was their plan with all that food.

 

[Olliganak]

So I shielded the homeworld of a local devouring swarm. But then I looked over at the humans (and their non-human president), and saw this

You'd think that the pacifist egalitarians would be cool with me confining the nightmare monsters to their homeworld, preventing them from eating everyone while simultaneously keeping them from going extinct, but I guess not.

 

[Tssha]

So early on in this game, I looked over Eastward and found Sol, and unfortunately discovered Sol III was a Tomb World. So sad. Got a few cockroaches for pre-sapient pops and a bunch of wreckage. Sadly, claimed by a neighbour so I can't pamper the locals.

Then I made contact with the local Xenophile Fallen Empire...

Buuu....whaaaa...how......?

 

[Dsingis]

God, how I hate these superstitious Spirituals. Always getting in the way of normal empires trying to find ressources.
This is literally the best world I have ever seen. A size 25 gaia world with THREE batharian tiles, and an alien zoo.

Unfortunately, that's probably the reason why the spiritualist scum considers this world "Holy" ugh.

 

[Shachza]

God, how I hate these superstitious Spirituals. Always getting in the way of normal empires trying to find ressources.
This is literally the best world I have ever seen. A size 25 gaia world with THREE batharian tiles, and an alien zoo.

Unfortunately, that's probably the reason why the spiritualist scum considers this world "Holy" ugh.

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My current life-seeded inward perfection "one planet" game has a non-holy size 24 gaia world with 13 food, 10 minerals, 6 energy, 3 physics, 3 society, 1 engineering... and then 3 beltharian and 1 alien pets...

4 jumps from my capitol.

Maybe you should have played a "superstitious" empire.

 

[Mauer]

So early on in this game, I looked over Eastward and found Sol, and unfortunately discovered Sol III was a Tomb World. So sad. Got a few cockroaches for pre-sapient pops and a bunch of wreckage. Sadly, claimed by a neighbour so I can't pamper the locals.

Then I made contact with the local Xenophile Fallen Empire...
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Buuu....whaaaa...how......?

That makes for great RP, some humans escaped earth before WW3 and prospered for centuries elsewhere in the galaxy
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What are the odds of the game randomly generating these and putting them as neighbors?

 

[Mitchz95]

So early on in this game, I looked over Eastward and found Sol, and unfortunately discovered Sol III was a Tomb World. So sad. Got a few cockroaches for pre-sapient pops and a bunch of wreckage. Sadly, claimed by a neighbour so I can't pamper the locals.

Then I made contact with the local Xenophile Fallen Empire...
View attachment 340455
Buuu....whaaaa...how......?

Maybe Earth was just a lost colony of theirs...

 

[iquabakaner]

So early on in this game, I looked over Eastward and found Sol, and unfortunately discovered Sol III was a Tomb World. So sad. Got a few cockroaches for pre-sapient pops and a bunch of wreckage. Sadly, claimed by a neighbour so I can't pamper the locals.

Then I made contact with the local Xenophile Fallen Empire...
View attachment 340455
Buuu....whaaaa...how......?

Maybe Earth was destroyed in an interstellar civil war (or some other wars of sorts), thousands of years from now.