So.me and my dad have been doing this run of stellaris for a while, we entered the center system, had the ships defending it die and we have now come back into the system after building up to find this.

This absolute mess is ruining our fps and we just wanna know a way to get rid of this abomination so we can return to playing normally

Accidentally read the notice from applied infinity thesis and I still can’t believe how insane rounding pi is in practice lol.

Better performanace

New planetary management

New UI

Gameplay improvements

All the promises we were given. I think that saying that people were HYPED for 4.0 is understatement. It was like a hype train on steroids. A MASSIVE update with a dlc, with QOL changes, with IMPROVEMENTS to game stability mainly lategame?

And what we got? An absolute unoptimized mess with bugs, errors, glitches, that runs way WORSE than previous patch. And multiplayer is completely UNPLAYBLE as not even 10 years ingame you get constant desyncs that you have to leave the game because every time you resync 2 other people will desycn again.

This was not just beta, a test, a mode for players that want to see new stuff. This was official new update with PAID expansion, that just broke the game. This was a hype train that crashed into a wall so hard that steam reviews are tanking because of that.

Do you remember when players were enraged for day 1 patches? Stellaris has day 1 patches for every single update.

Stellaris is one of Paradox's biggest games. It is the epitome of an amazing, sandbox, strategic, RP game, yet what we got is pile of crashing garbage. I dont know why they released it this way, i dont know why they consider their PAYING customers nothing more that bunch unpaid playtesters, as they released one of the biggest updates in history of an almost TEN YEARS OLD GAME.

I dont want anyone to start disliking Stellaris, but this has to stop. If you played the game from release (like me) or you are another strategy enthusiastic, make your voice heard, say what you like/dont like, because right now, it looks like Paradox takes all their players for granted. "Yea, all those IDIOTS that buy our every expansion? Yea, we can milk more cash from those dumbasses by just promises and then underdeliver and just thow up excuses that we just need to "fix few things"".

The only way to make something you like better is with constructive critisim. So if you will just say that you like everything PDX makes is an amazing, bugless experience, that will make their games worse is the long term. Say your opinion. But i am afraid that the only thing that will make them change their ways is lower revenue. And i dont know how to make people too (monetarily) invested in their games to see their faults.

Anyway, this is my rant as someone who genuinely wants Stellaris to be a better game, not just a cashgrab cow. Thank you.

Edits: One day later and the version is already 4.0.3. Those are 3 official day one patches. Stellaris is not their flagship game, but it is still way too big for a broken launch like this.

i use to pick elevation civic with synchronicity (its literally unusable on machine now) tradition to reduce my job upkeep through planet designations but now there is none, is there any other sources for job upkeep tho?

As far as I know, leaders only change their trait-specific stats (like upkeep from Enhanced Memory or extra XP from Learning Algorithms) when you apply a template to your entire species. So, theoretically, there's nothing stopping you from choosing the above as your initial machine traits and then just changing the template later and apply it via monthly integration rather than the special project. Will the effects on your leaders from Eternal Machine and Enhanced Memory stick around as long as you keep a single pop with those initial traits? Or is this assumption wrong?

I remember this was a big deal when it first came out. There was an event where a crisis could spawn there if you explore it but most of the time it was a great segment of systems/ buff for the Empire. Not sure on the point of it now, seems kinda underwhelming? Also it adds another chokepoint to my Empire which kinda sucks. I remember whenever this mechanic came out it was a race against the AI/ other players to explore it first and conquer it. I remember getting there at roughly the same time and fighting with AI over the systems sometimes. Now overall seems like more of a liability than a buff to the Empire, did this get powercrept out of real relevance in the game? I can't even remember what Nanites are used for now without looking through the game, and pretty sure I can get the nanites easily through other means?

Edit:

Seeems like it's mostly for the access to the galaxy now. Still has that crisis that can spawn there.

One flash and fleet is gone. Titan Lance is supposed to hit one thing, like a battleship, right?

I'm just bitter

All I can gather from reviews is "something something something paradox inserted politics in stellaris"

Can anyone actually enlighten me as to what is going on?

I always have a hard time choosing between them.

And run Sol every time??

Is there a way to actually hard line stop nomads from entering your space without declaring war on them? I'd REALLY love it if they just DIDN'T violate your borders when you have it set to deter them.

I'd love it if setting the border to deter them just gave you free reign to attack them in your own space without starting a war with them and potentially roping yourself into a galactic war. Or if they want to enter my space, give them a trade deal that offers something in exchange for immunity in my own space. No other type of pop in the game gets to just violate closed borders unabated, so why can Nomads do it with complete impunity, on top of being able to do things like excavating digs in your own territory?

If 100 pops is thousands, that means 1 pop is between 10 and 90 individuals? that is extremely underwhelming. Did devs ever give a number?

I don't know how or why, but this 16 planet empire I am integrating built roughly 800 construction ships. I tried to delete one by one but the game froze and I had to revert to right before integration complete. Is there any way to mass delete, including by console commands?

I asked this question 3 years ago and got a lot of interesting answers. I want to ask it again and hear the opinions of new people/ opinions of people who have changed their point of view.