The Obligatory Stellaris Strange Screenshot Thread

[HFY]

Hmm the whole Concept of the Dyson structures (Swarm, Sphere, Ring) was put forward because they would emit a lot of Infrared radiation. Enough for our pre-FTL society to detect.

In a depressing twist of fate, it turns out what we thought was universal background microwave radiation was just red-shifted IR from the huge number of Dyson structures in our neighborhood.

Aliens were everywhere, they just didn't feel like talking to us.

 

[Zagreb 887]

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This is fine.

"It just works"

 

[The Bored Chairman]

In a depressing twist of fate, it turns out what we thought was universal background microwave radiation was just red-shifted IR from the huge number of Dyson structures in our neighborhood.

Aliens were everywhere, they just didn't feel like talking to us.

I don't blame them, even we don't want to talk to us.

Where do I sign up for the Mars Colony?

 

[CrazyJ]

Where do I sign up for the Mars Colony?

Here you go
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/surviving-mars/SUSM01GSK-MASTER.html

 

[HFY]

Not my screenshot, it came from here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/ke8yfa

... but it is kinda hilarious.

Spoiler: The Aliens Named Themselves...

"Is this what you meant by the Yellow Menace?"

 

[Cry_Havok]

"With this treaty settled the only thing left to do is name the newly formed organization, do the representatives of the Commune of Endless Rain have any suggestions?"
"Just some Random Name is fine"
"Then it is settled, from henceforth this alliance shall be called 'Random Name' "
"What, no, I meant, any random name would do, like some sort of cooperative"
"Too late, we've already printed the letterhead and the graphic designers have made our logos, and all the cooperative departments have accepted Random Name"
"Ugh, fine"

 

[The Founder]

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"With this treaty settled the only thing left to do is name the newly formed organization, do the representatives of the Commune of Endless Rain have any suggestions?"
"Just some Random Name is fine"
"Then it is settled, from henceforth this alliance shall be called 'Random Name' "
"What, no, I meant, any random name would do, like some sort of cooperative"
"Too late, we've already printed the letterhead and the graphic designers have made our logos, and all the cooperative departments have accepted Random Name"
"Ugh, fine"

But, shouldn't the Federation have been called "some Random Name" then?

 

[Exasperation]

The automatic exploration pathfinding & target selection algorithms are doing a great job here.

 

[Shirasik]

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The automatic exploration pathfinding & target selection algorithms are doing a great job here.

But how many systems it will explore along the way..

 

[Lykus Cerebros]

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The automatic exploration pathfinding & target selection algorithms are doing a great job here.

Are you sure that ship is not captained by Zapp Brannigan?

 

[Exasperation]

The real kicker here is that after I blocked off all the routes (by setting intervening systems to "forbidden") going all the way around the galaxy to get to that system (which was around 10 hyperlanes from the ship's current location even by the most direct route) the ship changed its exploration target to the unexplored system adjacent to its current location.

 

[HFY]

The real kicker here is that after I blocked off all the routes (by setting intervening systems to "forbidden") going all the way around the galaxy to get to that system (which was around 10 hyperlanes from the ship's current location even by the most direct route) the ship changed its exploration target to the unexplored system adjacent to its current location.

"Our science officers can be depended upon to make efficient and intelligent choices... but only after all other options are removed."

 

[The Founder]

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The automatic exploration pathfinding & target selection algorithms are doing a great job here.

The real kicker here is that after I blocked off all the routes (by setting intervening systems to "forbidden") going all the way around the galaxy to get to that system (which was around 10 hyperlanes from the ship's current location even by the most direct route) the ship changed its exploration target to the unexplored system adjacent to its current location.

This sounds like a pathfinding bug. I hope you reported it with a savegame that caused it?

 

[Shirasik]

Slightly overkilling experience...

 

[InvisibleBison]

The real kicker here is that after I blocked off all the routes (by setting intervening systems to "forbidden") going all the way around the galaxy to get to that system (which was around 10 hyperlanes from the ship's current location even by the most direct route) the ship changed its exploration target to the unexplored system adjacent to its current location.

This is why I never use auto-explore.

 

[Cry_Havok]

I have no idea how they converted to pacifism, but apparently after the khanate fell and most the territory was lost these guys decided that all they wanted to do is be left alone and grow crops. They're my vassals because they are the only ones not in my hegemony on this side of the galaxy, and as a pacifist megacorp they were more useful to peacefully vassalize.

PS: Successor Khanates really need to not be xenophobe, they end up enslaving and selling or displacing all their pops and then crashing their economy of dying of instability.

 

[The Bored Chairman]

Are you sure that ship is not captained by Zapp Brannigan?

"Kif, everybody knows that the best way to attack an enemy is from behind."
"Sir, this is a Science Ship."
"Any ship is a weapon Kif. Especially when it enters through the rear."
"Ugh..."

 

[HFY]

What has science done?

 

[Silversweeeper]

What has science done?

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Xeno-Compatibility knows no bounds...

Enact the Pest Control resolutions ASAP. It's the only way to be sure!

 

[HFY]

And now for this week's episode of Whose Moon Is It Anyway?, the game where the planets are made up and the orbits don't matter.