I'm starting a Necrophage empire, that I want to focusing on vassal spam releasing sectors. Is it better to give them Necro pops or not?

What are your favourite mods for the game in multiplayer? Ive played a lot with a friend recently and we kinda did everything and want to get a new approach to the game

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I'm playing without DLCs, just the current version of the base game.

I have some slave population which are all at the bronze stratum. And some jobs of silver stratum that are free. However, none of the slave pops is upgrading from bronze to silver stratum. Is this somehow impossible? The slaves are from various enemy species, capable of FTL.

I'm a new player thinking about getting some DLCs from the summer sale. Do you have any recommendations?

I was looking at the Pacifist ethic, which I've never taken before because I thought it would hurt me in the inevitable fights. This is what the wiki says about it:

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        Empire : −15% Empire size from pops
    Planets :  +5 Stability


  

Policies Principles

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            Edicts Can use the Peace Festivals edict
        X Cannot use Unrestricted Wars War Philosophy policy
        X Cannot use Aggressive Interference Pre-FTL Interference policy
        X Cannot engage in Indiscriminate Orbital Bombardment
        X Cannot use Aggressive First Contact Protocol policy


  

As a person who generally plays turtle and avoids wars because they screw with my technical ascendency sim, this looks like there are no downsides. Can that be right? Are there no hidden horrific events or war debuffs this doesn't cover? Does the Peace faction just kinda chill as long as I'm not starting any fights?

I think the new DLC brings some much needed features/qol, but there are still some things missing.

I wish there was an easy way to terraform into tomb worlds and leader trait pick automation.

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Hey guys,

So I've been an off and on player for several years now, some expansion always brings me back.... briefly.

Play styles . I can get down with a technocracy or the UNE, but they always feel like super easy plays. I'm never going to war alone, if at all. Migration and research treaties up the ass, ez mode. So I like being a war monger. Usually lean towards fanatic imperials, space Nazis, or machine exterminators.

I'm not trying to make it any ungodly difficulty. I'm only setting it to captain, and that's with the scaling set to late game.

My problem is the difficulties always seem to scale just fine until late game. Almost every play through, really close to end game date. I just start getting pummeled by fleets twice my size.

My most recent playthrough

Vanilla exterminators No advanced ai, no fallen empires Medium galaxy, 12 AI, captain, late game date 2550.

This was my best in a while. Only ended up losing after a few 100 years of constant war, some dude from the ot

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Had anybody had any luck paying as a Criminal heritage empire?

Doors anyone have any tips for making those branch offices stay?

I wanna see how many stellaris people are around tbh. The trait I like the most is probably the Titan of Industry mostly because it makes so many resources.

There are some useful tools in Stellaris that aren't exactly well advertised, that people might not know even when they've put in the hours!

Here's one: you can restrict a system so that your ships automatically path around it and not, say, directly into the leviathan. It's a button on the bottom of the screen in the system view.

As much for flavour as optimization how do you guys like to kit out your starter fleet?