Stellaris 3.12 Ascension Perks Tier List 

Stardock sponsoring a Stellaris video seems like a mischievous decision. Not sure that these games are compatible. XD

@@schroecat1 I'm a Sins fan that has Crack addiction when I play Stellaris You can love both.

Excited for Sins of the Prophets 2 mod for this

compatible

dude, i have a new build you should try, I called them the prime matrix specie: mechanical traits: adaptive frames, art generators and efficient processors origin: arc wielders ethos and civs: machine intelligence, guardian matrix and unitary cohesion ruler trait: spark of genius playstyle: unity rush until year 30 or until you get the virtual trad tree fill main planet with uplink nodes within first 10 years unity rush from start first trad tree: prosperity first AP: imperial prerogative second trad tree: synchronisity second AP: tech ascendancy third trad tree: aptitude third AP: synchronisity fourth trad tree: virtual fourth AP: cosmogenesis colonize 2 habitable planets after year 2210 fill one with uplink nodes fill second one with energy and industrial disctricts along with blue districts to build research labs once you have the virtual trad tree, change the virtual focus policy to focus on unity generation unlock the rest of trad trees fifth trad tree: expansion fifth AP: mechromancy or archaeotech depending on your relics income sixth trad tree: discovery sisth AP: master builders or galactic wonders if you have the prerequisites for it seventh trad tree: unyielding seventh AP: eternal vigilance as u can see, this build combines the magnolia build with a 0% empire size from pops if you pick OTA updates as your third civic, combining it with the benefits of arc wielders origin gives a massive boost to your economy, turning mining districts irrelevant

Once I would have agreed with you, but all I'm hearing now is "More Synaptic cogitators for the Lathe"

100%. There's always this one fucking guy, who just sits there in the corner and has immigration open with literally everyone.

Sentry array: finally a worthy oponent, our lag battle shall be legendary!

@@aecides3203 The ultimate way of processing undesirables.

The true way to crash the simulation.

If I can't win, no one can *Freezes the game*

He did. 17:28

@@infantrytactics1233 I know. I am well aware.

We do not speak of the evil one.

@@infantrytactics1233you didn’t watch the whole video or you would get why he said that

.... thats a very fast way of getting an entire merc enclave empire up. I'll use that for my 10 year rush merc enclave games. 5 merc enclaves up by 2215 is very strong. xD

​@@archmagemc3561 You can't hire marauder mercs till midgame though

@@user-he4pk4tg2i Oh, so it takes until 2225, fair enough.

@@user-he4pk4tg2i true. It's still really nice when the GC passes Security Contractors and you can then immediately found a Merc Enclave for essentially zero alloys.

Or you can find the Tinker enclave and do the same for around 8K to 12K depending on what's available and get it done before midgame. Either works though.

but than it has to be incompatible with nanite ships and crisis ships

Wow nice tip. I didn't realize the artifacts were on the star in that system.

That is an awesome thing I didn't know you could do. The other way you can field a lot of archeotech ships is by becoming the galactic nemesis as their menacing ship types only cost minerals regardless of what you outfit them with. Although the slots available on them keep you from installing large amounts of the more powerful weapons you can still fill up with all many of cool toys that would normally be too expensive to be practical.

Are you serious???

Cool, but that's NOT the only way. Crisis ships and Nanotech ships will never cost minor artefacts no matter how many archeotech modules you put on them

Big brain moment

Also if you get the rubricator then funding the minor artifacts is actually rather easy plus the extra extra damage you get from the passive.

​@@MasterElementsrubricator is not enough to found respectable fleet size with arceotech unless you are menace.

Are we going to eventually get the rest of the tempest ship?

​@@Sepaedius I don't think that's possible, the nano missiles are only for s slots while the nanite swarmers only m slots have. But the swarmers with hangars are op too.

Mastery of Nature might be a little more appealing with the Relic World origin, too. Well, slightly.

Yep, having already taken Cosmogenesis in my playthrough I couldn't propose for my empire to become the Custodian due to the level of scrutiny would reveal what the empire was up to. Stellaris wiki also says Emperor/Custodian is banned from taking Cosmogenesis so it can't be done the other way round either.

@@TheFinalEvent97 Don't worry all those pops I took are perfectly fine. They are currently having a great time on a planet I have called "The Lathe". No you can't visit them, they are very busy.

What about if you propose the resolution to become GC first and then immediately pick up cosmogenesis. It would still be in the queue no?

​@@AbsoluteZero101Maybe, but why wait? Personally I've been trying to egg on the AI to be custodian so I could try to get the achievement for overthrowing the galactic emperor

@@AbsoluteZero101 No, I've tried, it invalidates the proposal and cancels the voting period.

you also get an opinion boost with the fallen empire so they might start giving gifts

@@jamesparson1233 Xenophile and guardian of the galaxy, I think you can get BLUE with the spiritaulist empire doing this. At that point they give gifts like crazy and may even let you inhabit those gaia worlds.

Or, you know, get lucky and obtain the head of Zarqlan.

Also, as KotTG it's a straight upgrade to One Vision, since you can consecrate holy worlds out of toxic planets

It is also very compatible with Astro Mining Drones gestalt civic, as that civic gives +50% more starbase cap. I have an Arc furnace origin build with astro mining drones and it's amazing.

@@MasterElements Ahh, yes didn't think of that here. I thought of that when I was playing around with Astro Mining (on a ring world just to see how much it screwed you over (answer, a lot.))

@@MasterElements Is it feasible to get enough energy for Nanite Harvesters without using Tech Drones?

@@cecilofs In the beginning? No you will need to invest in Capacity Subsidies and some tech drone jobs, but once you get some dyson swarms online on some good stars then you should be fine. Though that is a bit RNG, I would also suggest becoming a prospectorium as the random resource deposits will boost your economy immensely.

It’s easily the most op thing this game has ever seen. I like the concept of it but it needs a LOT more downsides to balance it out. You honestly shouldn’t be able to rush it so quick imo.

I just did a playthrough with virtuality. I didn't even do the midgame, i was already bored and ready for the Endgame. But not on hardest difficulty, so im gonna do that later. But it really is very op. 2 ecumenopolis and a cybrex ringworld. So so so op 😂

@@Evert1992 I don’t even play with it even tho I like the concept of a matrix themed empire just cause it’s so strong that it makes the game boring imo

​@@BARBARBINKLEi totally get that. Like i said i wasn't even in the midgame and was already getting close to repeatable techs 😂 Maybe with gigastructual engineering and on extreme difficulty can it be made challenging, but even that i doubt.

I love the concept. I just hope they don’t ruin the idea when they nerf it into the ground. I never play the meta and always play RP builds. I like playing tall and wanted my imported leaders so why I like it. As long as they keep the idea after the nerfs I will still play it

An upgrade to the citadel would be really cool for a defensive empire,I imagine a tech like that to be gated behind eternal vigilance,also it would be cool if eternal vigilance would be gated behind the unyielding tradition and the galactic projection behind supremacy.

​@@jojossniper Three things need to happen for citadel defenses to be viable. 1. Citadel designs - citadel's *need* to be able to be edited, and maybe receive different kinds of hulls with different weapon options. Half the issue with them is that they just.. Take whatever weapons it feels like, and they're usually not good ones. 2. Debuffs on enemy fleets - citadels should have more options to make combat unfavorable in the systems they're located in, or at least narrow what tactics will be effective. Debuffs to the enemy would scale well and provide some utility to forcing engagement of the enemy in a starbase system, aside from a negligible amount of added DPS. The modifiers should be telegraphed, but be decisive if not worked around. 3. late-game scaling - they just.. Are never quite as useful as they are early game ever again. That early game 3k starbase can be a game changer, but after that? Nope. It's more of a liability than anything, since a powerful starbase ends up being a liability against more powerful foes, as they WILL be captured and they will bottleneck an inferior fleet. 4. less punishing to be captured - all that needs to be said. Putting weapon installations or using starbases defensively is just.. An awful idea currently. They do as much to defend you as they will to help entrench your enemy as they push into your territory. They should not be as much of an asset to the enemy as they are to you, but that's how it is. I don't know how they'd change this, but it should probably be changed if starbases aren't meant to be like this.

sheesh that origin has so much for being so benign in extra power

So it can be a toxic world that doesn't have terraforming candidate? That's actually pretty good.

@@sirgaz8699 correct, any toxic world

one of my favorite first pick options

Nah it's a waste, a single tributary will give you many more basic resources than two extra districts on all of your planets will, especially since you need 4-6 pops to work those jobs as well on each planet, AND pay the influence + energy cost. Spending that eco on getting a fleet and taking a tributary, and then spending that perk on something more worth-while is a much more efficient strategy.

@@DreadDoom If you pick the right planets, you'll get many more than two districts. And a tributary is a boost, if you're in a militant play through, but unless you just don't need to produce your own resources, it would still be a potential pick.

@@charlieblocher7456 It increases planet size by 2, i.e. 2 districts. How could it be more? If you are referring to the +50% that just increases the per-district-type limit, it will not increase the maximum number of districts on a planet, e.g. if a planet is size 10 and has a cap of 18 energy districts (one of my planets had this) you can still only build 10 energy districts, since planet size is 10. So at best it could be 2 districts + 1 building slot if you have something like Agrarian Idyll or Master Crafters and it just happens to put you over the 3 districts needed, but you still need to fill all those jobs with pops. It is always just straight-up worse than a tributary unless you are an empire that cannot have vassals.

@@DreadDoom I'm talking about the planetary features. You almost never get a planet that is, say, Size 10 with 14 energy districts. It's not impossible, but the RNG is super low, especially without events (like from Terraforming) to add extra districts. What you usually get are planets size 10 to 20 with 4 to 8 energy, food, and/or mineral districts. It makes it harder and more costly to develop and specialize those worlds, which you can only really optimize for two types and fully enhance for one. Plus, once you do invest in a resource world, you want as many pops working for that resource as possible. If you have a planet with 8 mineral or energy districts, that going to be 20 jobs with normal buildings. Mastery of nature with give you four more districts, and now you have 12 districts, so 28 jobs. That's 8 more jobs that will fully benefit from that planet's buildings, governor, orbital ring, and/or ascension bonuses, and without having to increase your empire size by colonizing another world. You may be in a situation where you just don't have worlds with many districts of one type or another, and getting a 50% boost is incredibly helpful. Dyson Swarms and Arc Welders help, but at a certain point you just need pops working jobs, unless you can steam roll and dominate a collection of vassals early on.

Patheon

it's not out on steam just yet anyway!

Plus the Rubricator has an active effect of giving 500 minor artifacts which is equivalent to roughly +4 per month for 10 years, and one of it's passive effect is a 15% boost to Archaeotech Weapon Damage.

@@TheFinalEvent97 Can't really guarantee you get the rubricator in any run though.

I remember when it was actually worth a crap. Now it is near the bottom of f-tier imo

Galactic wonders is ascension perk. Vassals dont get your ascension perk. They will have to take galactic wonders themselves too to build it. Vassals get your tradition and tech but not ascension perk.

Head over to the Stellaris Official Discord, or my own discord server. Loads of people there will be happy to suggest builds & combos!

So true I almost don't even mind when he has to shill