25 Stellaris Tips Every Player Must Know! 

like in the early game don't build as long as you have at least 5 of the jobs you want

Connected to this, the planet automation feature is very useful, because it only builds stuff when jobs are needed and can use energy

@@ScorpioneOrzion Nah, you should build like crazy early, just build to switch out of unefficient jobs like clerks and so one. Disable or straightforward erase unnecessary.

​​@@antonzhdanov9653just disable the inefficient jobs. I usually keep around two open useful jobs in the early game, and 6 in the late game. No need to build like crazy, especially before you get your economy rolling, unless you know you're going to have a long war that will require so much attention you won't have the time to manage your planets

@@antonzhdanov9653 yes, but you should only have one or two spare specialist/desirable job slots unoccupied because otherwise you start paying building upkeep for nothing. I'd also say try to avoid upgrading buildings until you have filled up your planet slots because the upgraded buildings often have strategic resource upkeep costs. The only exception to this would be buildings that boost production e.g. alloy foundries and civilian industries.

Bro this vid is 1 hour old HOW IS YOUR COMMENT 3 DAYS OLD???

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@@Strategiser2what I have a big question for is when you have 5-10+ jobs available is there even a point in building more buildings? As it just adds to the maintenance from what I’ve seen. As I never spam buildings cause the pops just don’t grow fast enough even with traits, clinics, civics and other early game stuff. I play Console so no mods. As you said to just keep building, and even up to late game i often have lots of free spots on various planets cause their not at 75+ pops. Just have to keep a close eye on the job counter lmao.

You can see their resources in the trade menu,

Never played against humans, but I always attempt to rush every chokepoint I see then backfill later. The AI never does this but I assume human games are an early rush

not if you play with me lemao. ima buy that shit the moment its cheap

Just reason number 100 why nemesis is a failed expansion and Intel and espionage is the worst mechanic in the game

this is a genius tip, will probably include this in the next vid

It's also worth noting that trade protection also goes through gateways, and I believe it can even stack protection values if multiple starbases are able to go through the same gateway

@@aymericism2 starbases collect trade value from planets. To convert tradevalue to resources it has to be "send" to the starsystem with the capital planet. To do this you have to select the starbase with the trade value and then rightclick the home starbase. The problem now comes with piracy. The trade routes from starbase to starbase go through systems, and if the trade value is higher than the trade protection from starbases the amount of trade value that arrives at the home starbase is lowered and eventually completely lost. But because the trade value collection goes through gateways, your home system starbase can collect every trade income, so you completely bypass other starbases so you negate any chance for piracy

Or... you could just click overlay button on the bottom right... Also 4000 isnt long for a game thats as much of a slog as stellaris with niche mechanics actually hidden because haha paradox tutorials.

iirc districts in queue also have a small penalty to growth rate because they reduce free district slots while not yet providing housing. This isn't an issue for small queues like 2ish but can apply for longer ones.

​@perrytran9504 huh, I'm getting confused

@@macksonjack3241 Im pointing out that strat used a cheat to record footage.

@Blundabus1337 I understand you, I was getting confused on the Perry dude's statement

So i need to buy only vanilla game & join multiplayer server which host have all DLC & I will have all features from DLC included??

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That depend. I don't want to lost my level 9 admirals on the council. So he will only fight battles he could win, ideally again a high numbers of ships so he could level up faster.

Dunno about that. Admirals can have bonuses that benefit fleets out of combat e.g. armour/hull regen and sublight speed. Also they gain experience out of combat, so keeping them in a fleet at all times is generally desirable. It is a good idea to move them to fleets in combat to give you an added edge though, and conversely move them out of fleets if it looks like you have no hope of victory and there's a significant chance they'll die.

I tried this against the AI in my first game because I had seen a video about it being good. Turns out that ensign difficulty AI has a fetish for corvettes... (Jesus wants you to disruptor spam)

An additional pop for colonization used to be HUGE with the old tile system. That was 4% of a max size planets pop capacity! Also, not sure if its abusable on pc, but on console pops can auto migrate to decolonize planets if you unemploy the settlers, calamitous birth is still broken💀

That just shows how poorly balanced some of these new perks are. In the real world, even if your scientists suddenly found 20 enormous vaults full of ancient relics, there is is still only so much brain power to adequately dig through this flood of information. There should be a noticeable science boost, but not such an insane amount in so little time.

The wildest one is the one that gives you 9 months of unity per survey (Xeno-cataloguer) you need a xenophobe scientist and pick the explorer veteran class. And that's not per system surveyed, that's per object (planet, asteroid, star etc.) surveyed. One exploit for this is if you get The Contingency as a crisis, you can queue up surveying the machine worlds indefinitely (or until they are destroyed) so you are repeatedly getting 9x your monthly unity production.

@@antred11 I mean look Japan - basically medieval empire, powder and ships come, boom. Surely 20 vaults of relics would be better for reverse engineering stuff than making it from scratch. For example - today high schoolers can learn and kinda understand general relativity. But back in the days it took something 100-200 years from Newton physics to GR. All by one scientist.

NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THIS THINK OF THE CHILDREN

@@Strategiser2 You are doing the same thing: by giving people good advices, you are creating harder opponents to face in multi.

I play a lithoid empire once and, because of expansión, i become the most economic beast of the galaxy

Think about it. By expanding you get more juicy planets. You should stop expanding when you either simply don’t need the extra systems or if you’re able to just the claim the shit out of everyone around you.

I usually use a custom species with slow pop growth, so expansion is the 2nd trait I choose. The faster pop growth and extra pop per colony help with this setup.

My very first session was 8 hours. After that I logged off thinking to myself "That was nice, but the game is too complex for me, I will probably never play it except for once or twice here and there." That was 5 years and 7k hours ago.

call me crazy...but expanding slightly slower in the early game is fine because you can develop your capital faster instead of rushing balls deep into a resource sinkhole that is a colony

​@@Strategiser2as luck would have it most people spawn next to an asshole AI who for some ungodly reason use the power of GOD to find you and immediately hyper extend their border to your front door in 50 years, that is why people usually take it I've found, to expand further faster and prevent that

@@Strategiser2 Especially if you have paragons, prosperity agenda and imperial authority for that 30% resources from jobs on the capital is so good.

Well to make the most use out of expansion, you have to delay your first couple of starbases (for the influence reduction), colonies (for the extra pop), and hope you don't have too much other empires around (or else you don't have a lot of benefit from both of them) I wouldn't bother with it unless you choose a low number of empires compared to the number of star systems in the galaxy, and maybe also a high number of planets per system. Because if you can't make a lot out of the earlygame benefits of expansion, every other tradition tree with more long term benefits would have been better.

@@alexandererhard2516 "Well to make the most use out of expansion, you have to delay your first couple of starbases (for the influence reduction), colonies (for the extra pop), and hope you don't have too much other empires around (or else you don't have a lot of benefit from both of them)" No. That would be a textbook example of "penny wise, but pound foolish". The point of expansion is to increase the speed of systems/colony/population growth. Gimping your growth to save a few dozen influence points would be defeating the purpose. The best you can do is to make getting the influence discount a priority, and limiting your systems expansion to systems that contain colonizable planets until you get the discount... then you focus on rushing your expansion to choke-points.

If you want to be even more extra on your defenses, get Gigastructures mod and start spamming Maginot Worlds as well. Now they can't even use Jump Drives to get around those points. And their fleets blow up if they do defeat the guard.

Agreed!

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Jup.

I know

The influence reduction is massive as well and can allow you to seize significant portions of the galaxy in the expansion phase (which means more rare anomalies, getting hold of ruined megastructures, unique/valuable systems etc.)

So, any chance you want to host a game?

i pick it first because that +1 pop for colony and +10% pop growth from day 1 really helps the empire in the long run if you take it right away. it just helps colonies build up quicker to actually be useful rather than drains. great for speedruns or when you are in threat.

I pick it for that influence cost reduction, I had a game where I was stuck in a corner because I couldn't quickly expand. That game was excruciating, to say the least.

Enter into more early wars, then. That way you don't have a major tech disadvantage and can scan destroyed ships for research options.

i do wish it had a system where certain technologies would be guaranteed to show up after a certain designated amount of time

that comes with a critical detriment, giving a filthy xeno a place to live.

@@Jack-he8jv but it's basically just outsourced slavery

i recommend everyone seeing this to follow this person's lead because it's a great idea and you should do it

Yea agree. If you are building a very wide/expansive empire that influence cost reduction is massive.

thats even besides the pop growth and +1 pop for colonies, which are two big ones when # of pops is the biggest thing of importance.

Well, you can't specialize your capital at the very start, thats true. But the other ones, why not? I normally do it like this: Capital: Produces basic ressources in early game but I only build research for buildings. The basic ressources are replaced by alloy after I find another planet/option to produce the basics. Second planet: Either industry, trade or minerals, whatever I need more and is fitting better Third planet: Research (or industry if I haven't picked it before)

@@mikak.3018Hi, I build Administration Office and Holo Theater quite early on espec Holo Theater to prevent unhappy civilians. How do you do that?

I usually do it like this Capital is basically in the early game a jack of all trades, until you find a mineral world, then you slowly make the mineral world a mineshaft and the capital your alloy factory. 3rd planet for either energy, research or alloy, then 4th what you didn't get to make at your 3rd planet. And then 5th. My ideal late games would have my capital which is pretty much its own thing. I usually make it either bureaucratic or a research center. At least a mineral world, some good amount of Alloy and Research worlds, and as for energy, I just plop habitats on energy uninhabitable planets. Or if I have an energy world, then hey! That's good business out there. Consumer goods specialization is for when you're so far ahead you can just make nice stuff for your people and not care. Fortress worlds are fine, but when you make a system of Fortress worlds and Fortress habitats, yeah, good luck knocking that rock. As for megastructures....... Research Complex thingy, Matter pulling out of black hole thingy are your nicest friends. Dyson Spheres are a bit weak, which I find very infuriating, since that thing should BY FAR produce more energy than a damn space station above a barren rock that has some energy on it.... (incoming space nerd rant) Like what the actual f*ck Paradox, we're talking about the energy potential of a f*cking sun, how the f*ck is that going to produce *ONLY* 5k energy?! At least give us something like a Dyson Swarm which does not cover the whole surface of the sun, but just enough that it should cost wayyyyyy less (maybe as much as a two or three habitats really) and still give us like 1k energy, and letting us build a lot more of those! (space nerd rant stopped) Yeah.......... Because you can plop energy habbitats and you'll be fine, really. They're a lot more cost effective. Ring Worlds are good-ish.... As long as you start on one. Because it'll take a while to populate that thing. Diplo Centers are pretty cool too.

One thing you can do is let the subject make a secret fealty, this unlocks a causus belly against the overlord where their subject fights on your side, making things a lot easier. If you win, the subject becomes independent

I use armies from the last planets i took over to take planets without bombardment. It saves infrastructure and future armies. Plus, I'm pretty sure it gives unemployed pops something to do. Use the last enemy to fight conquer your current. This is an alien genocide simulator, after all.

That's basically why the monthly trade tactic fails when the Galactic Market is established. Mineral price tends to crash, alloys tend to spike. Dark Matter becomes becomes stupid expensive initially, so if you gathered a bit that's an easy 13k-ish credits for 500.

@@pieterfaes6263 ^^ This guy knows

it is best not to rely on the market at all, and to just produce everything you need by yourself

ecumenopolis with planetary ring upgrade, maxed out governor for alloys.

@@xangry2834 Thank you qwq Does it have to be a ecumenopolis? Can I get similar results with hive/machine?

@@valshinshironeshi1726 not sure. i dont play much of either hive or machines. and yes ecu is the best source for alloys. if you pick big enough planet, you can hit 2k production pretty easy and upkeep of only half production's cost of minerals

@@valshinshironeshi1726 The best result you can get from is by playing Rogue Servitor. Fill Ecu entirely with forge districts and all building slots with organic paradise. Bio pops on RS provides +1% complex drone output each, now imagine 200 of them on a single planet. That way you might expect around 7k alloys/month on a single planet.

glad i could help!

that...that is probably a more intuitive solution yes

why do you multiply by 40? is that just the standard number? or does x change throughout a game?

@@DJCurry25 40 is just one divided by 0.025. Dividing something by 0.025 is the same as multiplying it by 1/0.025 which is the same as multiplying it by 40.... which is the same as multiplying it by 4 and then adding a zero in the end

i get that, im asking where the 40 or 0.025 comes from. or if we can always divide/multiply the base fleet power by that number@@mortache

Played stellaris for years without any dlcs till i bought 4 last night. Lets see if I have a new game to play now

yeah while i get it makes it more fun by limiting your ability to administer a large empire.(its fun for me as i think its reasonable limitation) they should atleast make an option to remove such negatives in game settings. i circumvent it by creating vassals.

@Jack-he8jv I agree with what your saying but its how it's being done, taking admin as an example, it's not that admin isn't a reasonable limitation, it's how it's implemented, a hard number with no work around beyond like 2 techs, (I think its been a while) or as you say creating vassals, I can build a bureaucracy to rival the Administratum of Holy Terra, entire planets dedicated to bureaucrats and data processing and it has zero impact on that fixed number. For me a better way to handle it would be fluidly, the cap changing as you grow creating a need for more admin structures as you go, but say balanced with each subsquent building on a planet or module on the same station bringing diminishing returns so you can build the bizzantine Nightmare of 40k Terra on a planet 1 but it'll end up about as efficient, or admin needs are determined in each sector individually and so are best met locally, creating incentives to use sectors and local hubs My issue really is every balance tweak that has been done since the current team came in has been punative, its a cap with a debuffing penalty, stray from the path and be punished. There's nothing that rewards the player or provides incentive to experiment playing the game in a different way, there is 1 correct path. Honestly to me it feels like a game dev whose decided there way of playing is correct and everyone must play the game that way, maybe that's an overly harsh view but as you say, why not add caps to the options at start up so everyone can get the expeince they want

I agree. There are too many completely artificial restrictions that exist for no other reason than for "balancing" things that are already balanced through their inherent costs. Paradox keeps "fixing" stuff that wasn't in need of fixing, whilst stubbornly refusing to address actual problems that have existed for ages.

Mod the problems away if it hinders your style too much.

yeah, it's just my accent, i can't do much about it and also thank you!

@@Strategiser2 Accent? Oh shit. Sorry.

Then sell some alloys

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