Current Events > Stellaris has an exciting new direction

(+) Yeah! (+)

It's billed as the "Custodians Initiative" and it, well, it honestly sounds like something they should have been doing all along, but basically the game will now have a dedicated team(of varying size) that works on rebalancing, improving, and fleshing out existing game systems, features, and old DLCs.
The dev diaries:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/stellaris-dev-diary-215-gameplay-themes-balancing-considerations.1478888/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/stellaris-dev-diary-214-announcing-the-custodians-initiative-and-the-free-lem-update.1477655/
The 3.1 "Lem" update is planned for late summer/early fall, and is not currently planned to release alongside any DLC, so they plan on it being pretty ambitious. Some TL;DR notes from the dev diaries:

-They plan on adding additional tradition trees. Instead of having only six to choose from, they plan to enable you to pick from a pool, so you won't always be picking the same trees. Some new trees may be tied to specific DLC or specific civics or ethics though.
-They're adding special plant-themed traits and civics to the Plantoids Species Pack, which will also be usable by Fungoids.
-They're adding thematic civics to the Humanoids Species Pack, building on fantasy themes(the "Master Artificers" civic teased in the first diary is a dwarf-themed civic, for example). These will be available to any race as long as you have the pack(it makes no sense for these to be exclusive).
-They're thinking of ways to rework Admin capacity, Empire Sprawl, and Unity(they seem to be considering removing Admin Capacity entirely) to better penalize larger empires and make Unity a more interesting and desirable resource
-They're trying to teach the AI how to play and how they can prevent it from being caught in constant economic death spirals.
-They've mentioned a few other things they want to touch up, including, but not limited to: the War in Heaven, Crises, and some older events and event chains.

Hopefully they do this with all their games? EU IV is in dire need of some one tending the garden rather than just planting new features everywhere, even if Leviathan hadn't been such a mess.
Oh yeah, and just a reminder that Victoria III is real and will be tied with the first two for the title of the greatest game ever made.

is this the scam game one of the mods shills for?

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Stellaris is such a crazy game tbh

I'm super competitive but the fact that I can play that game and chill and not just play to win is so soothing

Just when I think how can they make this game deeper they wrinkle my brain

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Heh, you get 7 tradition trees, not 6.

In any case, I hope they do something about armies: either make them interesting or justabstract them away and save us the micro.

ModLogic posted...

is this the scam game one of the mods shills for?

Nah, Stellaris is a game that's actually released

I assume you're thinking of Star Citizen

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I like the concept of administration capacity. It makes sense, the problem with it is at the end game you can just blow past it and power through the penalties because you are so OP.

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Stellaris early/mid game is good fun, it's mostly the late game that needs some work.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

I like the concept of administration capacity. It makes sense, the problem with it is at the end game you can just blow past it and power through the penalties because you are so OP.

Yeah, it makes some sense: you need more administration to run a larger empire; but the problem is that this bureaucrat tax is actually more trivial the larger your empire is, because dedicating an entire planet to admin is completely inconsequential when you have 20 planets.

Oh, I forgot to mention: theyre going to rework the Shattered Ring start so its more progressive. They seem to want it to be less functional to start, but let you restore it more gradually, rather than all the action happening when you get Mega Engineering i.e. after the game is basically over.

if they can fix the game so anything beyond the midgame crisis isn't a pointless slough i'd be happy.

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monkmith posted...

if they can fix the game so anything beyond the midgame crisis isn't a pointless slough i'd be happy.

I do really like the game, but Ive never actually played until the end game, in the entire time Ive owned it.
I mean, thats how it usually goes for me in similar games, but I actually finished a few Civ games, for example. Never felt the need to get close in Stellaris.

They change that game so much its pointless to play it. At least for xbox

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ElatedVenusaur posted...

I do really like the game, but Ive never actually played until the end game, in the entire time Ive owned it.
I mean, thats how it usually goes for me in similar games, but I actually finished a few Civ games, for example. Never felt the need to get close in Stellaris.

I usually play till I know what end game crisis I'm getting. If it's one I've already done I usually quit.

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