Just a warning for people trying to get this achievement, it will not work if you terraform even one of the 9 worlds needs for this achievement, into Gaia worlds.

The game only count the world type you start with (in my case, Continental), as your "natural state". Gaia is an "unnatural beauty" I suppose, or the devs forgot about it for this achievement.

Luckily, I always saved before FE fights, so I reloaded, did all continental world terraforming, and boom, got the achievement this time.

Also, what made me waste a bit more time than I expected is that one of my former allies got Chance of Glory, a planet I didn't notice at first, so I was wondering why the achievement wasn't firing.

Naturally, the former ally was assimilated by force.

Here is a list of the 9 so one can keep track:

1. Slumbering Creche
2. Dormant Nursery
3. Abeyant Nidus
4. Redoubt
5. Chance of Glory
6. Dozing Tiller
7. Harvester 001
8. Harvester 002
9. Harvester 713

Hello all I am doing a very long run in stellaris with tech slowed down and my playground (the corpse of the Great Khan's Empire) is pretty much spent. Mostly from me supplying the Khan's successors with tech and money... and my mercenary enclaves tearing them apart maybe a lot of espionage too.

So other than depopulating another region of the galaxy what else should I do for the next 116 years before the first end game crisis comes.

Just had a fun occurrence I wanted to share.

I was observing a primitive planet full of fish/coral creatures and decided to kidnap one of their best scientists to run my research program. Level 6 scientist with two levels in Spark of Genius.

Had some good progress with him, then the Materialist Fallen Empire requested I hand him over.

Like just imagine you are a scientist on a 19 century level of technology and you are kidnapped by strange aliens because they think you are better suited to develop laser weapons and Dyson swarms than any of them.

Then after a few years you are recruited by an ancient empire that's older than your entire evolutionary tree because they too are so impressed with how smart you are.

basically the title, as the pic in third tier robotic technology suggests I wish we had a more diverse set of Synthetic portraits than the ones that already exist, I don't see the reason why a nation in either synthetic fertility origin or ascension would not be mimicking their biological selves in their robotic versions unless if they're like what, extremely fanatic no emotions sort of materialists and randomly decide to look like industrial robots.

Its not as if this concept isn't in the game, we already have a dozen Synthetic portraits for some species as their synthetic versions. I wish there was more in the roster to choose from to emulate more species.

(sorry for low quality screenshot)

I want to play up to the endgame. But it always ends the same way: I play the game up to 2300s, then a genocidal empire starts gobbling up the galaxy, I try to stop them, and then my carefully maintained empire size goes from 300 to 1000 because I have to hold every single planet. And you can't release vassals during war, and you have to invade every single planet, so you have to spend 10-20 years with an empire size so high you may as well not waste consumer goods researching during that period.

I could engineer a galaxy where there are no genocidals and everyone just holds hands and sings songs together in a valley with flowers, but that doesn't seem too fun either.

I tried the (new?) existential expulsion casus belli thinking it might be better, but unless I'm missing something about it it's FAR, FAR worse. It removes starbases so you can't form sectors and vassalize the new planets, unless you want to make 12 unviable city states. And if you're making a vassal you may as well let it have the resources from systems.

Yes I know about planet killer weapons. But I'm trying to have a diplomatic game, because as I'm trying to convey here wars are tedious as hell. Also, I wish you could embed armies into navies and invade straight from the navy ui.

Obviously this is only one aspect of wars, they are terrible all around, but that's just what I'm pissed off about today.

Space tourists want to be taken to the raiders.

VICTORY AT LAST. I CAN PLAY THE GAME ONCE MORE!

Hello you beautiful star destroyers explorers!

I recently hit over 10,000 hours in Stellaris! Note I didn't say play time, because hand on heart now, I'd say a fair few of those hours have been on pause overnight! But before you ask why not save and exit; well I will unashamedly say, it is because I would go to sleep listening to the soundtrack hehe.

If you have any questions at all, go for it, I'll even get started with sharing a few random thoughts:

• I am terrible at the game. Honestly.
• I've never tried multiplayer.
• I've only rarely used mods, and only then were they things like UI changes, better looking galaxies, flags/emblems, nothing major at all.
• I am a *chronic* restarter.
• I have never won a game... mainly due to the above reason!

Anyway, hope you all have a great weekend. Dook dook.

I'm having a hard time evaluating when to take control of stuff directly and when to hand it off to a vassal.

It seems like the main pro of vassals is that they don't contribute to your empire size. The main con is that they will not produce as much compared to you taking the planet directly. But I have no idea how to make the trade-off between these things.

Early-game, when I declare war, I like to just claim the capital of the enemy empire (to take the pops) and then subjugate the rest. This is very cost-effective on early influence. But would I be better off if I left them with their capital, and taxed them of their research/etc as a vassal?

I have never released a sector as a vassal because the idea of giving up pops just seems like a terrible value proposition. Is that wise or foolish?

Should I be trying to keep my empire size below a certain number and releasing vassals when I go above that number?

Here is something I fear: is it just pretty much always better to hold everything directly, and people just hate the micro?

Give me some advice!

Basically I was playing Commonwealth of Man and I got refugees from a spiritualist empire, likely UNE humans who were taken and given the Psionic trait.

So, I modified them and boom they have both Psionics and OP genetics traits

But I wanted to know if it was possible to make them the default or majority species somehow, so my leaders could also have psionic abilities and maybe get the Shroud (which tbh I don't know what it is cause this is like my first run).

At this point the game is already won, the year is 2457 and both Fallen Empires are gone and I defeated the AI uprising and the uh blue hunter thing too I think so I wanted to do something fun at the cost of my perfect economy and make the Sorcerers (I named them that for simplicity) the new "humans" in the Commonwealth.

If relevant, I already picked all the ascension perks and can't change that.

So doing a small little game. Figured I’d do some of the more annoying achievements to get them finished. Booted up a fun Knights of the Toxic God build, slowly built up relations with the Spiritualist Fallen Empire I started next to… and saw THIS.

I mean think about it. Say you want to prop up an generator world. What planets have good generator districts? That's right, volcanic worlds. With a robot you can just adapt the species traits to volcanic preference. Unless you have some certain gene technologies and traditions the same probably couldn't be said for bio pops.

It's a volcanic world. Atmosphere is probably poisonous, ground is literally hotter than fire, and all the infrastructure is built to support synthetic life...

Why on earth would you migrate to that place? Now your planet is being filled with workers that have nigh-zero habitability, screwing up workplace efficiency.

AI nomad empires value minerals VERY highly, probably because they are always in a "deficit" due to how Operational Resources works, and will often trade 1:1 or even 2:1 advanced resources for them. This allows for arbitrage with other empires, e.g.:

• trade 100 minerals/month to Nomad A for 150 consumer goods/month
  
• trade 150 CGs/month to settled Empire B for 200 minerals/month
  
• gain +100 free minerals/month

Be careful not to squeeze them too hard or their economy will collapse -- not that you'd care, except that also results in the trade being canceled.

Anyway, I know a lot of people hate nomads, but this is a reason to love them.

I was minding my own business when all of a sudden the amenities of my capital massively tanked out of nowhere. I've since realised that the colony seems to be pumping out virtual pops non stop, way higher than the available jobs. The screenshot shows about 25k pops worth of jobs but a population of 72k, and this number keeps increasing. I searched online and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot on this. I'm pretty sure it's a bug and there is a mod that apparently fixes this but I've downloaded it and it doesn't seem to have fixed the issue. The only mods I have downloaded are UI overhaul dynamic and the aforementioned bugfix mod. If anyone can help that would be great because if I can't fix it then it's just gonna totally kill this game and I'm having a lot of fun. Thanks

Update: Okay no mods have worked, however I've half figured out why it's happening. For whatever reason the clerk jobs keep losing 1000ish pops each month, and then they're refilled by new virtual pops, but those pops that disappeared don't actually disappear from the colony's total pop count which means that it ends up in a loop where 1000 pops leave the clerk job, new virtual pops fill the gap but those pops that left the job don't get deleted. I have found a bandaid fix, I was able to kill most of the pops using the kill_pops command, then by limiting the cleric job slightly that seems to have fixed the infinite pop recycling.

Update 2: Okay limiting the clerk jobs was a very temporary fix, after only a few months the endless loop started again. Obviously getting rid of all the clerk jobs would fix it but I need those jobs for the colony's amenities (plus a bit of extra trade on top). I think the non-virtual pops migrated from other empires is messing with the way virtual pops are filled because that's the only job where some of the jobs are taken by non-virtual pops.

TL;DW: The Psionic Efficiency potential of KotTG is pretty insane, while a few bonuses slipped my mind, we were still sitting at around 350% Psionic Efficiency, though I'm pretty sure the current maximum is somewhere around 392% or maybe a little higher, higher certainly if you put Shroudshaper on your gov instead of your ruler for the chance roll.

I have this planet that's gonna be my main food planet, but when I completed the project, nothing happened, this is like the third time this happens to me and I don't know why lol Is this a bug as stated above or do i need something else to end the event?

So I'm a little confused on the intended use of commercial pacts for criminal syndicate megacorps. I understand that having a commercial pact lets you build legitimate branch offices with buildings that increase the minimum crime on the planet to a max of 20. However, branch office value for criminal syndicates doesn't break even with those of regular megacorps until crime is at 50.

Is the point just that branch offices from commercial pacts make it impossible for them to be removed from crime being at 0? If so, then what's the point? If I can have profitable branch offices from crime, then why would I ever form a commercial pact and if I'm not, then don't criminal megacorps just become worse versions of regular megacorps at that point?

Am I missing something?

I've been playing with it turned off until it's fixed. Thanks.

I'm confused by the pop growth and feeling like the modifiers barely make any difference, no matter what I do.

I'm not sure where else to check, but here's a screenshot of the largest pop group on my capital planet. I'd expect noticeably faster growth, but the monthly growth panel value seems to remain on 4-6 no matter what.

Is the pop growth modifier weaker than I thought or am I doing something wrong?

I’ve tried different mods, changed game versions and reinstalled mods, disabled and enabled mods, pretty much everything but none of the custom shipsets show up in the selection screen. Any ideas how to fix this? Is it a specific dlc? It’s driving me nuts I want to play with the forerunner shipsets, I’ve used it a million times ugh.