What's your favourite galaxy shape?

[BlackCappedChickadee]

I'm a geek and a noob so I like ring galaxies. Much easier to establish choke points and enslave/annihilate everyone much more quickly, because I love being an evil bastard. You?

P.S - By the way, Paradox? The galatic cores are in dire need of a graphics update. To be quite frank, that janky glow effect is unrealistic and ugly as monkey butt. When turned off via cheats, well... then the galaxy looks like a bowl of soggy corn flakes. Just sayin'.

 

[Xshu]

My favorite is probably elliptic just because it's the biggest and therefor allows the early-game exploration phase to last the longest. I like ring for choke reasons and for the way it changes galactic politics, but I don't like that you inevitably run into some jerk empire who won't let you go any further in a given direction.

 

[Slynx]

I like the one with arms. cuz it's beautiful.
but I play on any of them...

 

[Kryndude]

Ellitical only. Ones with arms feel too artificial and unrealistic for me.

 

[Powder hound]

Two Arm Spiral because it’s home. Also makes nice choke points with low hyperlane density.

 

[nestorius]

I play arms as thats how the milky way is usually play 4 arms I play eliptical sometimes not really ring

 

[UltimateTobi]

Two Arm Spiral because it’s home. Also makes nice choke points with low hyperlane density.

Isn't the Milky Way a Four-Arm Spiral Galaxy?
At least four arms are running off the core.

 

[Nyrael]

Four Spiral is the least boring to me while also not too restrictive.

 

[Nyrael]

Isn't the Milky Way a Four-Arm Spiral Galaxy?
At least four arms are running off the core.

Iirc, Nobody knows the shape of Milky Way as... Well, we haven't observed it from outside.

 

[Zergor]

I really like 4 arms for the number of chokepoints.
AI likes to gang up on me when I genocided a quarter of the galaxy so this is a necessity to avoid micro mightmare to fend them all off at the same time.

 

[evilcat]

4 arms. It provides enought chokepoints, no pockets, and there are still 4 lines which traverse map, so you are rarelly completly cut off by FE.

 

[PhroX]

Isn't the Milky Way a Four-Arm Spiral Galaxy?
At least four arms are running off the core.

I believe the current leading theory (noone's sure as its really hard to figure out from the inside) is that it has four arms, but one pair on opposite sides of the galaxy are significantly thicker than the other pair. So, in Stellaris terms, it's kinda halfway between the two options....

I personally prefer either elliptical or 2 arm. 4 arm and ring often end up with me only having 2 neighbours, which is kinda boring.

 

[UltimateTobi]

I believe the current leading theory (noone's sure as its really hard to figure out from the inside) is that it has four arms, but one pair on opposite sides of the galaxy are significantly thicker than the other pair. So, in Stellaris terms, it's kinda halfway between the two options....

I personally prefer either elliptical or 2 arm. 4 arm and ring often end up with me only having 2 neighbours, which is kinda boring.

Ah. Interesting for sure!

 

[Dustman]

two arms, small or tiny. a game for one evening.

 

[permeakra]

I believe the current leading theory (noone's sure as its really hard to figure out from the inside) is that it has four arms, but one pair on opposite sides of the galaxy are significantly thicker than the other pair. So, in Stellaris terms, it's kinda halfway between the two options....

I personally prefer either elliptical or 2 arm. 4 arm and ring often end up with me only having 2 neighbours, which is kinda boring.

It's actually a bit more complicated.
Milky Way has several close companions and is eating a few of them. It also is highly irregular and has barred structure (i.e. it's core is not a perfect disc, but highly elongated in one direction)

Besides, current galaxy generator is fairly shitty and produces fairly uniform distribution. Good for game balance, but not so good for immersion.

 

[Dreagon]

I used to play the elliptical one but since the hyperspace only update I prefer the 4 arm spiral galaxy by far.

 

[FiddleSticks96]

Much like @Dreagon, I used to only play elliptical galaxies, but since 2.0 my setup is always the following:

1k star, 4-arm spiral galaxy with 24 ai empires, 5 fallen empires, 3 marauders, x5 primitive. I like my galaxies populated and my games long.