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“Nooo! You have to use Neutron Launchers! They have the highest damage output! You’re not optimizing your fleets economically!!!” “Haha Large Laser Turret goes Peeeeeeewbzzzzzzzzt!”
There should be a "declining empire" origin, where you start with all tech and have to choose which ones are unlearnt, starting with more advanced techs. Once unlearned, you would not have access to components and buildings. So by lategame, you would only be able to build inferior ships and would have to guard the early game advanced ships, as they would be irreplacable.
Maybe make it like the clone army and have the interactive narrative pop ups that let you decide whether to pull your empire back from the brink and become kind of a (less powerful, obviously) awakened empire or to fully fall from grace and get locked out of your tech but in exchange get massive discounts as life becomes cheaper than armour.
I have also an idea where you Start as a strong empire in the beginging but After a while interna factors and Events weaken and weaken your empire untill it collapses into Civil war. If you win the war you would get a very good permanent buff
8:46 I like the idea of some empire with x-rays lasers and auto cannons seeing these guys like "alright, you've made us use our secret weapon" and it's blue lasers
I had visions of this empire refusing to use lasers beyond red. Because that would be heresy. But choosing to use all available kinetic weapons as they don't outwardly look any different from each other, so they can claim them as an engineering modification instead of a new technology. A shame the Awoken empire didn't set off a war in heaven or fight back the scourge. At this point I wonder if the Sentinel faction needs a considerable buff. The scourge seem to overwhelm the Galaxy a bit too easily.
I used to mess around and put one of each type of laser and point defend on battleships. And name it Disco. It is pretty cool to watch 40 of them in combat
@@sunso1991 if you prefer that. Go ahead. I just happened to build 3 battleship classes so I could enjoy both Lance colours and still enjoy the Heavy Mass Driver to peel off shield systems.
AI being given 2x production bonuses though process: Oh no i'm missing 0.2 consumers goods, must convert 20 power districts into factories. Oh no, my already weak energy balance due to compulsively making warships mean i'm in the red and the entire economy went down. Oh no, my century long spiral of bad decisions combined with no scientific investments mean all i have is an horribly outdated fleet i cannot replace but also kills my already anemic Empire if it ever leaves port. Hey, let's insult the player!
@@scorpixel1866 I'm a brand new player and have already seen this first hand. I control .1% of the Galaxy exactly and I just sit around watching the empires destroying themselves. Might not be everyone's cup of tea but I've been amused by it. None of the AI war with me either. 100 years of peace after 1 butchered science ship. No empire comes close to my technology though because of that.
The Imperium and The Mechanicus still have technological advancements. Don't believe the memes. It's just on a much slower pace because A: The galaxy was ravaged by The Men of Iron during The Cybernetic Revolt so they have to be careful because any and all AI will be corrupted by The Void Dragon, that's why they stick souls in machines. B. Instituting technological advancements across the millions of worlds of The Imperium takes a long fucking time. But it does happen, just look at the hundreds if not thousands of variants of Lasgun.
This is more like the Kushan from Homeworld. Specifically, Kiith Gaalsien, who believe that going to space will bring armageddon to their planet (Spoiler alert: They were right). The Kushan themselves were a very powerful empire, before they were exiled, and settled the world of Kharak, a mostly desert planet. The planet itself has tons of spaceship wrecks around its surface that are thousands of years old.
Othari Crusade: "People of the Galaxy, we have come to save you!..." "Hooray it's the Othari Crusade!" Othari Crusade: "... From YOURSELVES!" "Oh no it's the Othari Crusade..."
The most ironic part, for me at least, is that my current game is the Othari Technocracy. Synth ascension, technocracy and masterful crafters. 10 years out from the endgame and comfortably in the lead.
I started one of these beforehand as a hive mind. My rule was I cannot build science districts and have to remove all of the ones I capture. Basically, the only ways I could get science was through scanning wreckage for better ship components.
Always liked the idea of playing as some sort of dumb space-weeds that grow a lot but are incapable of much if any original thought, going for void dweller or remnants would make sense for this idea.
@@szadun i meant they wouldnt use Alloy nor Energy at all, everything is grown, organic spaceships like spacewhale and Prethoryn, all building and ships require food (sustenance) and mineral(vitamin and raw fuel) as upkeep instead of alloy and energy this bio race would have very high corvette production rate, and slow Battleship production, (imagine how fast mosquito grows compare to whales) unable to build ringworlds, but have a organic version of the Habitat that is massive. all ships comes with passive regen
If you want another roleplay idea you could do what I did in my last playthrough. I played as a void dweller that hated planets. So they cracked every habitable planet and terraforming candidate in the galaxy. Habitats and ring worlds were the only acceptable living spaces. I was actually a fun way to play. Because with every war I won the entire galaxy got weaker since I never left any planets for anyone to conquer, only habitats that I was uniquely suited to inhabit. My economy skyrocketed while everyone else's collapsed.
Holy shit! The very idea of not going for any technology in a 4x game is such an alien concept! Good job with the narration, I really got a feel for the mindset of the crusade.
Interesting play-through, and I’m honestly surprised you did as well as you did, though in the end things ended as I figured they might. Still, fun video! 👍👍
It would be interesting to have empire types that can only get science research tech from conquest(a sort of bestial empire like zerg) or subterfuge(like a scientifically backward romulan).
That would be pretty cool. And organic ships and unique starting weapons like acid blast and mini arc lightning. They don't even use alloy. They build ships with food resource and minerals!
Biological crisis. You get it being the necrophage. Your menacing ships are made with food rather than minerals and you genetically modify pops to be able to interface with your biological technology. Maybe this happens at crisis lv 1 automatically. Instead of blowing up stars, you Instead convert them into food which you use to build a weapon that will convert everything in the universe into you.
This was awesome!!! I love the flavorful style and narration, the images, etc. For other videos on this fashion I would also love for those to have a tiny bit of tactical or strategical advice about the build or playstyle, just to learn about your approach (besides the build I mean) 🤔
I was going to request a challenge from you in your last stream but missed it, it was gonna be a “only research things you can steal from other empires” challenge where you only get tech by tech steal espionage or debris scan. Could still be interesting to try maybe?
10/10 thoroughly enjoyed it. Was rooting for the science leader for just a moment before he was "permanently retired". IF you ever want to redo this I would have something like the Kaiser wormhole event as your leader returns to his people at an earlier time to warn of the coming disaster. Have the leader come back and turn the tide maybe (25-50 years post start date?) You may have been defeated but at least your got the last laugh as the swarm ate them all.
@Montu Plays Suggestion: try teachers of the shroud-mega corp- budding-finish transcendence- the go for genetic ascention U can have 2 ascentions and a lot of pop growth and i think budding overrides the zombie trait
@@MontuPlays as a fellow spiritualist, I have to say that even the most evil and heretical technology, can not stain the glory of our HOLY LORD and can be made use of, to spread his name to the lost and the forgotten. Fellow believer, I fear that your fears have made you stray from the one, true path.
Sorry it seems that my game had gitched out, i reinstalled it and now its no longer possible to go with 2 ascentions. It was probably a weird interaction between some mods i was using
Well this was kinda like the ork challenge I asked for a year or so ago where you do no research and only survey debris to get ahead and waaaaaaaaaaagh
Im gonna be honest, this is one of the most funniest and interesting versions of Stellarris gameplay. Pls do more like this. I love your Roleplay and your commitment, its always awesome!
Montuwu sounds like he's straight out of V for Vendetta - screens across his empire of his face ranting at people and executing anyone remotely competent
This is why I love sandbox games. Great story, and the twist is superb! Well done!! The Kingdom of Heaven references were just brilliant. RPing is top-notch, I doff my cap to you, sir. I simply love this video, you're doing the Lord's work ;)
I really love the RP-potential Stellaris-games can unfold. Hell, Hollywood authors could play a couple of rounds and could easily produce some top-of-the-line tv series out of it.
The top comment just reminded me that I want a feature where technology progress can actually be lost. Maybe when the economy is in a bad shape, you have far to few science or burocratic buildings in relationship to empire size.
This was super cool, and just fun! You went a LOT further than I thought would be possible. As a side note this makes me feel like Tall play needs a bit of a buff if you can get that far without researching anything ;)
Superb gameplay! I do wonder if the Othari might have succeeded if, while not permitting active research, they didn't penalize coming across the results of research (like engines in ship wreckage, or hardworking robots)...after all, they went to space with pre-existing technology. On the gripping hand, hard to outdo a Fallen Empire who hates your collective guts.
Is it weird that the whole time I wished for Othari to lose? I just hate fanatics in any form but in this example they touched something I keep close and dear to my heart. Great video I found your channel just few days ago but it's insta sub for me. New to Stellaris, still learning, but already love the game.
