Stellaris is a great game. Many concepts are a breakthrough in the 4x genre, like complex diplomatic options, tech deck with increasing cost for expansion, faction generation and extensive event driven exploration.

It has some downsides thats true (like a stall in the midgame) but most other 4x ...

cool. I would love to see one of the bugs down below in party outfit holding a glass of redwine.

I would love to have a change in the metal mechanic. The full cost of metal should be deducted in the moment the ship is beeing ordered. The current mechanic of a tiny fraction of metal deduction each turn has no real advantage, just more math and additionally sometimes annoying building delay ...

fine, great news. with mouse-wheel please, like civ or polaris sector.

-most important issue is to explain the function of each component very accurately.


-other helper would be to color code/tag the components on the right side so that I know at the first glance which type of slot it can occupy without first having to select it.

We're working on diplomacy now, which will be in a build before long. We don't plan to do espionage for the initial release.

ok, thanks for the info. Diplomacy is quite a must.

I dont like SD2 that much, but one of the better elements of this game is the diplomatic suggestion tolerance rule. If ...

mostly every rule MOO2 had, is excellent, so I am absolutely for a sis variant of MOO2s "dauntless guiding system".

so we will see diplomacy and spy options in EA?

In our system, each hull is based on a specific art asset with a fixed size and a certain pre-arranged set of weapon mounts. This does not lend itself well to user-defined hulls.

yep. the art. But I guess it would be possible to have some hull art designs unattached to a predefined ship size ...

have you ever thought of developing a system where the player can determine name, size and functionality of a ship hull?
You mean like a hull designer? (define hardpoints, turrets, system slots, etc?)
I think it would be hard to balance. You would tend to make the "perfect" ship, with no drawbacks ...

have you ever thought of developing a system where the player can determine name, size and functionality of a ship hull?

What is the biggest ship class you want to introduce into Sis? DS? Or Super-DS

They say it's boring. Does not eliminate micromanagement, but turns it into a series of repetitive "automated" actions.

yeah. what I have said. such a system could not reduce micromanagement. Only merging of planet production queues into a single one (in an intelligent way without creating an ...

MOO4, as imperfect it is now, has an interesting system to transfer wrench points from one planet to another in your empire. You have to build a special administration building (which is available by a medium to late game technology) on a planet and then a button appears which let you determine ...

If you introduce such a transfer system, please make it visible on the strategic map (toggle on/off) so that the player can see on first glance which planet is supporting which planet (maybe with colored transfer lines), otherwise it will IMO contribute rather to confusion especially if the player ...