if i have to hear another "joke" about genociding xeno
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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They're varying themselves these days; it's still mostly genociding xenos (cheapest dog whistle on the market) but now also stuff about refugees and hating xeno compatibility
Doesn't help that the game itself unintentionally worsens this issue.
Xeno-Compatibility is a cool af feature on paper, but using it, or having open borders with an empire using it, makes playing with bio-ascention a nightmare since you get an absurd amount of species you all have to modify individually while only being able to do so one at a time.
But the one mechanical reason to pick it is its a buff to bio-ascention.
And if you ever want to play lategame stellaris, the number of pops of the AI become the real enemy with how the game calculates them all individually.
With the upcoming complete rework of pops and genetic ascention this will change for the better though. Anti-lag genocide won't be a thing anymore and I hope they cook with the gene thing aswell.
literally unplayable past a certain point
Anti-lag genocide
Oh shit don't even remind me, srsl reading forums and reddit it was even bigger reason for genocide than gamers being gamers.
Does it count if I make jokes about genociding the puny organic life in service of the perfect machine?
Tbh rogue servitors > exterminators
If they didn't wanna be exterminated en mass they wouldn't congregate in such large population centres >:|
(Too much work managing populations)
As usual the forum users are the worst, but according to Wiz (former head dev), Xenophile was the most played (6 years ago, oof)
I've not looked at Stellaris memes, but honest to god the amount of micromanaging that comes with not genociding xenos, not refusing refugees and/or selecting xeno compatibility is ungodly.
I do those things solely so I don't have to spend 50% of my game time (and 50% of my research time) on the population screen slowly re-modifying all the trillions of species that arrived, cross-bred, and created 10 new species that haven't used all their gene points every damn month. Then I have to wait for the project to be ready. Then I have to manually go to the projects screen and start it. FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL SPECIES.
The second Paradox actually introduce a mechanic that automates gene therapising without eating all my research, I will be overjoyed to finally play a large, diverse species playthrough.
The last time I gave Stellaris a go was with the Federations DLC and quickly realized it was awful trying to get anything done with how dog shit the AI is.
I always make communists, sometimes they are cyborgs, sometimes they are genetically modified, sometimes it's a workers co-op, but always communists
You can tell a lot about a person through who they choose to play in that game. Someone I knew always picked xenophobe slavers and to no ones surprise he is a fascist
My favorite combo is communist space birds that blew up their planets a long time ago. Make them communal but quarlesome and natural engineers and you have yourself a good time. Bonus points for Genesis Arks just because the idea of creating presapients on Habitats is really funny. Uplift them and then the Glorious Revolution is eternal.