So then, this will not be an amazing game I thought. Precusor world discovered some decades later but it did not change things much at this point. I then had fully colonized 5 planets with an average size of 16. But hey who I am going to get an agreement with when I plan to be the leader tech-wise? However, the amazing pop growth made the difference barely 20 after the beginning of the game. So yeah no diplomacy nor research agreement at all. I'm the light blue small thing on the very east side of the map and all of the small patches on my west and north-west side are the FE (the technologist FE is red south of my redish neighbours - easy to read my♥♥♥♥♥)Īlso, after a while, it turned out that no AI was friendly with me. So all things considered, it's an average to bad start. My area was short of decent planets to claim. The beginning has been daunting: found that I was surrounded by 3 FE, one having two ring worlds systems (yup you'll become my baby next time, for sure. So now I try a different approach, keeping in mind my limited DLC options. Couldn't complete the objective and was not really satisfying to play. Sometimes the society branch backfired at me and I was even farther away. Actually it was too much for a tall play where you don't plan to claim many systems and still spam edicts all day long. Probably a side effect of coming short of unity. Getting the first leaders to not die when it matters was hardly doable either. These were likely all caused by my pops not developing fast enough. Minerals were also an issue, and it actually was the guide author's as well, and my research production wasn't that high either despite the strong focus towards research. I felt it was somehow able to beeline the required ZPP and Star fortress techs by pulling all my guts in techs after unity, I was still seriously falling behind on unity and was not able to have 3 ascencion perks when I finished ZPP and megastructure.
#HOW TO PLAY STELLARIS 2.1 HOW TO#
For reference I play 800 stars default settings iron man.įirst I found and followed this 2.0.2 how to rush megastructure on reddit using this race:Īfter some attempts, I pretty much think that you cannot be on time with unity unless you have the Artists, and the related DLC (that I don't have). After looking for the proper build and strategy on the net I came with these two races. I bought utopia some times ago and so I decided to try a tall play for once. First I'm gonna say I'm no expert so this is not a benchmark or anything of the sort.