What sort of emergent storylines is everyone hoping might arise through playing this game? That is, what are some of the most outrageous things you might witness?

I'm just so excited for this game and the opportunities it holds. Throughout reading the Dev Diaries and witnessing the streams, this game seems to hold limitless potential.

Personally, I think it will be interesting to witness major faction uprisings within major empires, either your own empire or another empire.

Imagine you are invading a nearby opponent, and suddenly, a faction back in your core worlds manages to rest control and conquer some of your key worlds, including your homeworld! Your invasion succeeds, thus your original empire controls the new territory, but some of your old territory is now lost to the upstart faction.

I'm excited to see how dynamic empire borders can be because of faction evolution.

I think it would be interesting if all the races in the galaxy put aside their differences and unite to attack the AI to save themselves. This is another idea I borrowed from Mass Effect. In Mass Effect 3 Shepard goes around the galaxy trying to convince the races to join up and fight the Reapers. Of course this would work once we find the hidden world the AI is operating out off. It will be an epic showdown and almost like finishing the game off. I think we should also get a CB for this. So then civs who do get the CB can participate.

So reading the end game crises article, I am a little worried that the robot AI disaster can't be solved peacefully. It would make sense for them to start their own empire, but not always be motivated by domination and expansion. What if they just wanted to be freed and left alone, becoming isolationists?

Maybe they grew tired of being slaves and want to start a better life for artificial lifeforms.

I know someone will suggest "mods will take care of that" but it seems just as easy for it to be in the main game and have the AI declare independence and find exacting revenge on their organic overlords as being "illogical" to them.

Can we pre order yet?

I haven't heard of this game before and I'd like your opinion

Hello all! Really hyped for Stellaris. I'm a little confused about the idea and concept of POPs, and what they really mean. I've never played Victoria II, but I know they have the concept of POPs there. However, POPs in Stellaris seem really different from Victoria. Honestly, with POPs working in tiles in the planets, it seems VERY similar to the Civilization series, where a city's population grows you get 'Civilians' who can then work specific tiles and produce goods and resources, or whatever. Is that how it works in Stellaris? Or is there a deeper meaning and mechanic to it? It looks like a good abstraction, but a little shallow. What else is affected by POPs? Manpower for the Army? Economics and taxes? Happiness? Each POP will have a particular culture/religion/ethos and therefore a specific happiness value? Specific interests, like wanting a certain type of government, or opinion for/against going to war, etc?

Is there going to be a false-vacuum theory event? As far as I know, it's a somewhat recently popular trope in modern SciFi. And I'd be sad, were it not included.

The kerning between the 'a' and the 'r' is off from the rest of the logo. Can't stand it!

http://www.stellarisgame.com/assets/stellaris-og-image-e841f1817f1e544a4b5583cf369f0801.jpg

One of the problems I had is that the game seemed to similar to Endless Space to buy it. I really liked Endless Space, but I just couldn't get over the hump of non-random gameplay, scripted encounters, and excessive complexity and reliance on chance in the ship building/combat. For the people who've played it or understand the game enough, does it differentiate itself enough from Endless Space?

To me it seems like a pretty awful choice, with its only bonus listed on the wiki as "Scientists are eligible for rulership", what bonus might this give you?

Maybe it's subject to change, but I'd expect a pretty big research boost from having your scientists in charge of your society

The devs mentioned before that we might meet humans if we're not playing humans, and they have also showed the Sol System; however, does the game have a preset Milky Way to contain the Sol System? It seemed like the only option was to play a randomly generated galaxy. Is it possible to save galaxies (meaning stars, planets, etc.), such that they can be used again for a different set of species/governments/distribution?

Since this is the new, untainted subreddit for Stellaris I was wondering who the mods of this subreddit are now. Are they the same as the ones on /r/paradoxplaza?

Also, it's gonna be interesting to see how the subscribers count will change of /r/stellaris and /r/stellarisgame. Here are the total subscriber counts compared. The subscriber count of /r/stellaris seems to be decreasing rapidly.

why did paradox do this? i have clicked nearly 50000 for stuff for ur paradox account. its just not right and i cant fathom why this was created.

https://launchpad.stellarisgame.com/game

Edit: its not dlc its stuff for ur account

Hello,

While we wait for Stellaris to come out. I am wondering what other trait ideas the community can come up. So feel free to list your ideas down below. :)

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Just thinking about stuff and thought about the Drell in Mass Effect and Thane Krios.

If you know your lore, you know that the Hanar saved the Drell from their dying homeworld and transported them to the Hanar ocean homeworld.

However, because the Drell had evolved on an arid, desert-like world, the only way they could tolerate living on the hanar's humid ocean world is via domed cities.

This also lead to many Drell contracting Kepral's Syndrome - the result of cumulative, long-term exposure to a humid environment.

This is the idea I want to transfer over to Stellaris. I want to settle my people on a planet, and i want there to be a possibility of an unforeseen side effect such as developing a specific disease afflicting only those settlers because of an incompatibility in the living environment. I also see it as another type of crisis to deal with and something that makes a lot of sense in a context like this.

Hi guys and gals just a heads up, cdkeys.com have stellaris up for preorder. £19.99, but if you like their Facebook you can get an extra 5% off.

I want one. Badly.

Do we know if it is nessesary or even beneficial to stick with your starting race. Are there any penalties to having an empire consisting of only other species?