Yeah, your allies won't fight the war for you. The way the AI is programmed, they send in one big fleet that's constantly reinforced by the new ships they build... the problem is, if that main fleet gets destroyed, they still keep trying to reinforce it. In other words, they send every ship they build into the fray as soon as it's built, essentially sending single ships to their deaths over and over and over again. Great when you're fighting against them, since all you have to do is destroy their main fleet and you've pretty much won the war, but when they're on your side, it's very annoying.
Thad Henry I was aware, he made 2 references towards the end that made me dead certain. "Do you want to know more" & "Service guarantees citizenship" Though looking back at my comment I look to be utterly blind to the fact he was referencing :P
Personal Log #6: It has been so long that i almost forgot what she looked like. I haven't been to Earth since I left to govern the Jehet Sector. But i wish it was under better circumstances, no, i have arrived to pay my respects to Terrance Green. He was a good man, a great friend. He was there to see me off nearly`six years ago, and mentored me up until my departure. while meeting with friends and family, my aides contacted me and notified me of separatist riots on Jehet Prime, after the funeral i must leave for the sector capital immediately. Personal Log #7: The vote for the living state program finally went through and was passed, i immediately created social welfare programs for the sector and support for the alliance has grown among the Jehet, grown so much in fact that some of the Jehet are signing up for the military, we project several armies to be created to be used as a garrison force. This will help tremendously as the Jehet volunteers will paint a picture of unity, not of occupation. although i have heard whispers in some of the men, they don't trust them, they feel that if the separatists attack the Jehet armies will side with them, this is a valid concern, but a necessary risk as we need their support in order to achieve peace.
The war against the Directorate was going badly, to say the least. The Foundations military and industrial capability had been devastated by the ongoing conflict, and since the Virdamon Massacre, no large fleets were active in Djunn space. Wishing to establish a forward supply base and staging area, Marshal Shack gave orders for a new colony to be established in the Borce system. An advance fleet cleared out a group of hostile crystalline entities, and the colony ship made the journey to the moon of Borce Prime. However, something unexpected happened. A massive fleet, consisting of almost twenty ships of unknown make, emerged from hyperspace in the system. They showed no hostility towards the Alliance ships, but instead made for the crystalline entities that still remained in the system. After several months of decoding their transmissions, Alliance cultural scientists managed to unlock the key yo their language and establish formal communications. The Haddam Coalition is, to put it simply, a mega corporation. The Haddam are a mercantile, heavily religious people, and their faith seems to center around the concept of trade and capitalism. Their entire society is designed like one of the many corporations that operate in Alliance space. Communications with the Haddam also revealed another new power, known simply as the Principality. Not much is known about this nation, but the Haddam have made it known that they are in a 'Just Compact' with the Principality, and that they stand together in all matters of foreign policy. Combined, they would be a nigh-unstoppable enemy. The massive Haddam fleet still hovers in the Borce system, where our colony is now being established. The question now stands; has the Alliance found another potential trade partner and ally to the east? Or have they found another Saathid Confederacy?
if capitalism is their religion, then it should be possible to establish trade relations with them very easily, especially since humans also worship at the altar of ATM.
Hello Ladies and Gents! I'm off on vacation starting today till Wednesday. Head out to the NC beach to relax and get my head out of my PC Monitor for a few days. Should be back in time for Thursdays Stream!
The Republic faces hard times, but humanity is strong. We will overcome any challenge or threat that lays before us. Glory and honor come through both victory and death.
I like the idea that whose the new captains is a newsworthy event and relevant to all because they are all military personel. And its like a world wide event. Befitting.
Isn't building another colony going to cause problems because you are at your planet cap???? I think the mentality for your ship designs should be big heavy tank destroyers at the front with powerful close range weapons and all of your corvettes are glass canons that attack from far range. Just like how you are playing in your Star Wars campaign right now where you are using the MC80s as tanks in the front with everything in the back.
"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please." - Niccolo Machiavelli This war is going to be far longer, and far bloodier than the Jehet War. My only hope is that the Alliance survives it.
I just want to say thank you for all you do, I get really excited when I see a new episode of stellaris and it's always the highlight of my day.Without this channel I would probably be bored all of the time.
+Doominater #PCMASTERRACE screw Star Trek on this one Mass Effect references to the Max also I still think shack should call One of the Ships the Normandy because he's the Alliance
Sir, have you considered moving some of the Jehet population offworld? Perhaps to a colony under your direct command? Perhaps a change in scenery will improve their mood, and perhaps seeing their people succeed at the frontier of the Alliance will encourage those in the Jehet sector to be more open to the idea of becoming citizens.
This is Deputy Director Eddie Docer of the Alliance Internal and Physical Bureau. I'm leading an investigation in the Jehet sector. Our first priority is the Jehet Freedom Partisans compound on the south side of the capital. We'll send a team in and we'll see if we can find something relating to the terrorist attacks. We're also be monitoring heart of the Alliance as well as Earth with Alliance Geospatial and Signals Intelligence Service.
The WANDERER has a Lvl 4 scientist! USE IT to research all those skill lvl 3 required special projects you haven't been able to do! Please thumb this up to get his attention, guys :) Also, it's DEFINITELY worth updating the hyperdrive & thrusters on the science & construction ships, since it will get them to their jobs, which are often multiple jumps away and spread around each system. This will vastly increase the efficiency of each one, so less are needed ;P
You should put starports on all your colonies. Not only does it provide a bit of defence, but more importantly it ups your fleet capacity for each starport.
DirgeOfCerberus111 Dang, was hoping I could arm them too, so I could have something like a Star Trek ship, oh well, least I can shield and armor it. Thanks.
Tach That's another thing I was wondering about. You would if you couldn't add weapons to your science ship, you could at least give it an escort of Corvettes, or a couple Destroyers to defend it.
Situation analysis below! I've been catching up on this play-through for about a week and a half and I've saved all of the observations for this episode. 1. Imperial Spending: You are going to have serious issues running both a military-heavy empire and the welfare state policy, it's possible, but I wouldn't say it's cost-effective. 2. Policies: You should enact the 'information quarantine' policy immediately (and pretty much should have had it active all game). Your ethics divergence is going to destroy your empire from the inside and I would be surprised if you could come back from it at this point. Give a quick look at the other policies as well, some of those are definitely worth the influence. 3. Old Space Stations: In the same vein as number 2, you need to maximize your influence intake, especially since you need it to colonize now. That old outpost in the southern section of your empire is now useless, and it's area is covered by an actual colony, so you need to decommission it so it will stop draining influence and power. Button in the top right of the panel, with the big red X, will decommission stations and ships. Additionally, the military outpost in the center of your empire guarding a system with no colonizable planet in it is now useless, it needs to be stood down as well. 4. Fleet Diversity: You cannot go heavy on one weapon or another in your fleet. You've gone very far into the game without researching lasers or missiles, which makes it very easy for enemies to defend against you (and your orbital shipyards and defensive stations). Try to have a good balance of anti-shield and anti-armor weapons. Don't just build 20 torpedo ships. 5. Planetary Research: You have been criminally neglecting both Physics and Engineering research on your planets. You haven't even researched the basic physics or engineering labs this far into the game!!! You have, instead, been constantly building society labs, which are good but you need to balance your research. You cannot ONLY research society. 6. Colonization: There are two sets of technologies that have been needed for some time now in order too keep up with the empires around you. First, you need to pick of the tile-clearing techs (all of them). They are cheap and will make not only your current planets more efficient, but will prepare you for any new planets you colonize. Second, you need to learn to colonize the other planets! Especially OCEAN and TROPICAL as these are the closest to terrestrial planets, and are great colonies for humans!!! Look at the empires around you, quickly snapping up planets left and right. It's time for the second human diaspora, get a few new sectors up and running and colonize like crazy. Soon enough, you will even be able to terraform some of the crappier planets, so you could turn Tundra's/Desert's into something better for humans. 7. Planetary Shipyards: You should have a shipyard above EVERY PLANET (Including those in sectors). These shipyards give basic defenses, can be energy neutral (after installing solar panels), and will enable you to raise fleets at lightning speeds. You are bring in tons of minerals, it's time to get AT LEAST 4 destroyer-yards up and running, so you can build (and re-build) the fleets very quickly. It's all about being able to turn minerals into guns when you end up in a war of attrition with a huge and powerful enemy. Prepare the Alliance for the unseen threats to come!!! Hope you can find any of this useful. Great let's play! :)
Anything above limited bombing has a high chance of damaging civilian buildings on a planets surface. Damaging those buildings or killing civilian will get you that terror bombing debuff
That "front line outpost" on Borce isn't going to do you much good. Look at the map; the hyperspace lanes from Borce don't go anywhere near the front line where you've been fighting. Borce is EIGHT jumps away from the Directorate capitol at Virdamon! You could have colonized Falmir and been just as close, except your path from Falmir to Virdamon would have been through your ally's territory. From Borce, you have to move entirely through hostile territory, except for one system that's controlled by the Ansari (they won't like that), and you're completely cut off from your ally on that path.
Yes, it's technically closer. But it's a horrible position to campaign from because it's completely cut off from his ally. It will be virtually impossible for him to help defend his ally's territory, or coordinate an attack, if he bases himself at that station. It's effectively allowing the enemy a central position, and to fight both Shack and his ally separately.
I know this is old but from that position he can still launch attacks on the enemy and the enemy will have to split it's fleet to deal with both fleets
Okxer Not really. As we're already seeing in later episodes, the fact that the Directorate uses wormholes for ftl means they can hit Borce/Green Wall or any of the other systems Shack is pushing through from the same central position that lets them attack his ally. They can hit any of half a dozen systems in one wormhole jump, while Shack's fleet has to keep going the long way around.
Assume direct control, at least for a while. This way, you can organize things a little more to your choice. And another thing: You need more power hubs (1 per planet). You only have one or two total, and that's damaging your energy income. EDIT: And Kornephoros has some Betharium that you NEED to take advantage of. EDIT: And your colony next to the warzone takes too many jumps between it and your allies' systems.
You can set up Frontier Outposts which will also increase your boarder range, The Further away you set up a colony from your empires boarders the more expensive it will be to colonize said planet. And pops will be more likely to change ethics (Of Course if they are trying for independence)
Another Trade Deal idea for you that I abuse the heck out of on my diplomatic race game. Trade anyone who is willing with research agreements from you for energy/minerals from them. My race running that is getting several hundred of each and is still the most technologically advanced race uncovered in that galaxy (barring Fallen Empire's of course) The serial trade deals also help raise opinions up more, which let you squeeze a bit more resources out of them when the deal ends and you can make another.
That number that you keep looking at for the Pop Factions is the attraction for the Faction, not the number of Pops in it. The number of Pops in a faction is on the right side of the tab.
I recommend hiring that industry specialist scientist if still possible when the influence is available. An industry specialist assigned to physics research provides a significant boost to the chance of *power generation technologies* coming up in the research options, and will also provide a bonus to research rates for them. I don't know if my comments in the past were noticed or not, but placing certain types of specialist in certain departments has a subtle but dramatic effect on an empires technological path. As random as the research may seem, it's actually very possible to deliberately pursue specific goals.
Mr green was my father but now he has passed on. But his vision for the XPG System Alliance remains in me. I shall lead the fleet to victory.Captain Noah Green of the Redeemer.
Thanks to the repair work of the Ran-D T&I Federation, the station as back in working order. Political Parties Assembly meeting in session. As you all know to join the meeting state your name as well as the party you represent. I want progress updates on our current projects if there are any. Any new parties that join will have to state a position on what policy the Alliance should implement, in order for me to assign them to a project.
Ivan Capu, Martial Conservative Party. Progress on our new Destroyer designs have been put to works as shown by Marshal Shack. Station research has been slow due to the incident at the PPA station. The lack of personnel from T&I firms have been dedicated to repairing the station. Hopefully now with the station repaired, all resources can be focused on space station research.
Ambassador Atreides, Jehet Freedom Partisans. First of all, let me say that I, Ksenia Polachev, and all other senior leaders of the JFP wholeheartedly condemn the actions of radical individuals who claim affiliation with out party. Our purpose was never violent rebellion, but peaceful protest. Ever since the...unfortunate armed conflict between our peoples, the more radical elements that claim affiliation with our party seem to have been forced underground. The implementation of social welfare programs has also generated some goodwill among the Jehetma. However, there is still discontent seething below the surface. You have doubtless noticed the riots and sabotage attempts, which have crippled vast swaths of production buildings throughout the Jehet sector. Your new programs are a step in the right direction for making peace with our people, but more must be done. I recommend that at the earliest opportunity, the Alliance should research the ability to open its top leadership positions to Jehetma candidates. Our unique perspective will surely air you in your scientific endeavors, as well as the governance of your colonies. There is much to gain by doing this, and much to lose by refusing.
Senator Dirge of the Nova Prosperity Party, It continues to be displayed that we were woefully unprepared for this war. Militarily and economically. We are retooling our infrastructure as we speak but we still lack a respectable fleet with which to combat the Cardassians. The Djunn are holding but I fear they can do little else. I have not exactly been awe inspired by their tactical or strategic expertise. We need a plan to end the war quickly so we can refocus our attention to domestic and diplomatic matters. This war is interfering with our ability to prosper in the galaxy. Colonizing Borce offers an ideal opportunity to outflank the Cardassians. I propose *Operation: THRAEX*, a flanking assault into Directorate Space from Borce that will outflank the Cardassians forces in Virdamon. Forget the Djunn, they have no idea how to wage a war. To end this quickly we need to fight this on our own terms and perhaps salvage something from this mess..
Admiral Vating of the Military Party, reporting from outside the Directorate Territory on his new command ship! *Squeals like a little school girl at the holodeck, but quickly goes back to his usual state of calm, and yes, he is a hologram.* My announcement to the people has brought forth many volunteers to assist in this war by colonizing a small planet up close to the front line where we can place a spacedock. Through that, we can perform rapid guerrilla strikes, along with a place of safe repair for our fleet. Ambassador, I knew your people would enjoy the program. I also know that if you guys do just calm down, open your eyes, and see the Alliance for what it is, I can assure you, you all would be glad to be a part of us.
I would argue that we have seen the Alliance for what it is, noble Admiral. While you and many others accept Jehetma as equals, your government at large does not. What is more, there is a disturbing sentiment of xenophobia growing on several planets, as evidenced by the struggles Fleet Marshal Shack had in finding non-xenophobic volunteers for the Borce Prime colony. We cannot exist in an empire that refuses to give us the right to run for leadership roles, and whose populace harbors a strong hatred of our kind. If these problems are fixed, then we may talk about integration. Until then, our goal is independence.
Shack if have not noticed u dont have a direct path to the enemy, going back through ur allie will cost some time, but going through asari will be easier and u will need to have a military access pass with in order to hit the enemy from the back
Just hold the line with the jehet, they are breaking slowly. You need to get some close in destroyers soon cause the corvet's are just getting melted. also your going to need to connect your new colony to the rest of the alliance, use frontier base's first then fill in with planets. also don't forget about the race that's moving in, keep trying to work with them.
You can unsector planets to build stuff but it can add up in influence. Better to wait it out since you have the armys in place. The number is just how many people and wont really matter, its the bar that counts so destiny is mostly ok
You ever thought about the possibility that maybe the cat was right? His strategy to give him belly rubs before each battle seemed quite appealing to me...
I recommend you review the individual planetary edicts. In particular, Earth should enact the Overload edict and over drive the POWER PLANTS to produce more power. Also, you MUST replace the governor of earth ASAP. Governor will give you a few percentage points more power! (or more if you get lucky and have a governor with a power focus) And finally you should enact some propaganda edicts on the Jehet worlds if you can afford it.. At least their home world.
I should really watch the entire thing before I comment eh? Good job on resolving the power crisis. The moral crisis is a bit more difficult. You might be able to score some happiness by changing your policy stances.. hover over one of the Jehet citizens and see what is reducing their happiness and see if there are any policies you can change to reduce it. When you get some influence back, you might consider some propaganda edicts too.
Dr.Ashuer Cross: As PR director of the Jahet Sector and a veteran of the 1st Jahet Uprising it pains me to see 1/3 of the SA crippled and the foreign Carrdassian war effort hindered so attached to this letter is a proposal for a Jahet integration campaign.
At the empire management menu look up the species management tab(similar to the factions tab)click on the Jahetma race and there should be a integration campaign 1 once that is complete they'll be no different from the "native" SA pops. And keep fighting the Good Fight.
I think you need to build a fleet of at least 850 before you attack next. I know that sounds like a lot, but the more overkill a fleet is, the fewer ship they will lose in an engagement. Yeah, I would take manual control of some of those systems for a while, at least.
Also, it wouldn't matter if you took direct control of Jehet Prime...putting in a build order for an entertainment center wouldn't do anything, because the whole planet is on strike....they won't build it. You've got to crush the faction, before anything will change.
intro suggestion for the next episode, newly developed weapons mounted on the Arizona class Battle ship have proved highly successful during live combat test's against the Directorate.
20:20 Also I'm pretty sure the "Eta Aliens' are another empire and destroying their stuff and fighting them before you actually investigate them would be a pretty terrible idea.
I think you need to seriously think about adding research plants for its taking too long to get research done. Maybe even do trade deals with research to increase the speed. Like all your current allies to improve relationships to get them to like you more by trading research for research with something to sweeten the deal.
if you leave the Jehet unhappy and trying to force them into your ethos against everything they stand for, they will oppose you ethos and become even more unhappy making it near impossible to suppress there hate and integrate them latter on, resulting in a endless cycle of riots, you cant ignore your problems shack, YOU CANT IGNORE THEM!!!
every time i defeat an enemy empire in a war, i just purge their pops, no rebels=no rebellion, which means that you dont have to deal with shit like that.
I don't think you'll need to do anything special to win the war, but you need to heavily focus on developing your infrastructure ASAP, many of you're buildings are outdated any many pops don't have buildings for them to work in
+UncappingBadger Jhetma blood was spilled on those worlds for millennia , and as a loyal vassal of the federation not all deaths would have been in vain.
I agree., The Jehet have suffered for too long under a government they want no part of. Free them, give them their systems back, and we will find no truer friend under the suns. But if we continue to push them, we risk another open rebellion, and thousands, if not millions,more innocent deaths.
25 minutes in, you know shack. You should just build a defense platform with the repair system on it. That way you can just build it outside of your systems.
I totally want to mod in races from Mass Effect, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starcraft and Warhammer 40 000 at once. Turians allying with protoss in order to fight orks!
I consider pirating essentially demo's. If the games good enough for me to buy it I will, I have a enough of companies like EA and Ubisoft stealing my money with trash products
Wouldn't it be more logical if the research speed would increase the more territory you have, because then you would have more people researching the things? But as always great Video! Long live the Alliance!
if you were to purge the planets of the jehetma people i'm sure that would stop the rioting and rebelling but then you would have to recolonize and it would cause other empires to hate you
Let us morn Terrance Green and we must vote for his name to be put into a system or planet! Marshal Shack here us call for Terrance Green and all that he has done for the Alliance, "Service guarantees Citizenship" Let us be victorious this day as we follow Shack to victory and to not let him find us wanting, let none stand against us for we are his sword and destroyer of heresy and to stamp out evil where ever it pops up!
I love this game, but my biggest issue is that I can't tell sectors what to build. Like in your case you can't build happiness buildings. Central government should be able to build while sectors build their own stuff. I have several planets that are starving and can't go into to fix it. Sector AI is pretty bad. SO now I have to go and remove system from sector so I can go in and build it up to fix all the issues and then add back into the sector. Wish there was a mode that could let me control build que on sector planets.
I love your your Stellaris campain and i have a strikecraft carrier idea for you basicly its not very big has 4 hangers and its very bare bones just the basics because the part now just lore stuff I think would be right basicly the strikecraft's pilots are criminals controled by bombs in there neck (like in suicide squad) after a year of fighting they off the to live a normal life but not a citizen but if they stay to work in the military they can become citizen but like i said bare bones plus i think this will decrees the cost of this ship type but i might be dead wrong but at least it will be lore friendly to the xpg alliance you built
shack you should research point defence systems and install them on the defence platforms i also believe that you can add solar panels to the platforms saw it on someone elses game don't know if its universal to all space station or an upgrade specific to the platforms check the module slot on it to see if you can it should reduce power needed to run them
Hey Captain Shack, Trooper Wilburn reporting in! No no, in all seriousness though, when it comes to the military vessels designs, I might recommend the tactics that are being utilized by many naval vessels today. Typically most war ships have enough range and precision to take targets out before they close the range, this is why battleships aren't wildly used that much anymore. There's no need to duke it out if you can swat the enemy out of the sky before it becomes a threat. Now I'd like to state that all I know about Stellaris is from watching your play through, (My computer sucks so I live vicariously through yours), so I don't know all the small details about combat, but if you can attempt to implement something like that, into your fleets tactics or something. That's all I have for now, Captain, Wilburn out...
Yeah, your allies won't fight the war for you. The way the AI is programmed, they send in one big fleet that's constantly reinforced by the new ships they build... the problem is, if that main fleet gets destroyed, they still keep trying to reinforce it. In other words, they send every ship they build into the fray as soon as it's built, essentially sending single ships to their deaths over and over and over again.
Great when you're fighting against them, since all you have to do is destroy their main fleet and you've pretty much won the war, but when they're on your side, it's very annoying.
From what I have seen they follow the players lead, we your on the offensive, they send a fleet to assist.
I felt like i was watching Starship Troopers for the first 2 minutes.
Now that is how to start a RUclips vid, Bravo Shack, Bravo!
that was actually his intention/inspiration
Thad Henry I was aware, he made 2 references towards the end that made me dead certain.
"Do you want to know more"
& "Service guarantees citizenship"
Though looking back at my comment I look to be utterly blind to the fact he was referencing :P
+TenesAsylum oh don't worry about it, things like that happen to everyone
Epic opening to be sure!!!!
The-LordofSyn Syn's Arcade Amen
Personal Log #6:
It has been so long that i almost forgot what she looked like. I haven't been to Earth since I left to govern the Jehet Sector. But i wish it was under better circumstances, no, i have arrived to pay my respects to Terrance Green. He was a good man, a great friend. He was there to see me off nearly`six years ago, and mentored me up until my departure. while meeting with friends and family, my aides contacted me and notified me of separatist riots on Jehet Prime, after the funeral i must leave for the sector capital immediately.
Personal Log #7:
The vote for the living state program finally went through and was passed, i immediately created social welfare programs for the sector and support for the alliance has grown among the Jehet, grown so much in fact that some of the Jehet are signing up for the military, we project several armies to be created to be used as a garrison force. This will help tremendously as the Jehet volunteers will paint a picture of unity, not of occupation. although i have heard whispers in some of the men, they don't trust them, they feel that if the separatists attack the Jehet armies will side with them, this is a valid concern, but a necessary risk as we need their support in order to achieve peace.
The war against the Directorate was going badly, to say the least. The Foundations military and industrial capability had been devastated by the ongoing conflict, and since the Virdamon Massacre, no large fleets were active in Djunn space. Wishing to establish a forward supply base and staging area, Marshal Shack gave orders for a new colony to be established in the Borce system. An advance fleet cleared out a group of hostile crystalline entities, and the colony ship made the journey to the moon of Borce Prime.
However, something unexpected happened. A massive fleet, consisting of almost twenty ships of unknown make, emerged from hyperspace in the system. They showed no hostility towards the Alliance ships, but instead made for the crystalline entities that still remained in the system. After several months of decoding their transmissions, Alliance cultural scientists managed to unlock the key yo their language and establish formal communications.
The Haddam Coalition is, to put it simply, a mega corporation. The Haddam are a mercantile, heavily religious people, and their faith seems to center around the concept of trade and capitalism. Their entire society is designed like one of the many corporations that operate in Alliance space.
Communications with the Haddam also revealed another new power, known simply as the Principality. Not much is known about this nation, but the Haddam have made it known that they are in a 'Just Compact' with the Principality, and that they stand together in all matters of foreign policy. Combined, they would be a nigh-unstoppable enemy.
The massive Haddam fleet still hovers in the Borce system, where our colony is now being established. The question now stands; has the Alliance found another potential trade partner and ally to the east? Or have they found another Saathid Confederacy?
if capitalism is their religion, then it should be possible to establish trade relations with them very easily, especially since humans also worship at the altar of ATM.
Principality? Of Zeon?
Hello Ladies and Gents! I'm off on vacation starting today till Wednesday. Head out to the NC beach to relax and get my head out of my PC Monitor for a few days. Should be back in time for Thursdays Stream!
I'm on it and your one of my favorite you tubers
hope that you rest well till then
see ya wensday have a great vacation shack
Shack you put up the same vote from last episode in the description can you fix that pls.
Make sure to have fun!
ahh...commander links calls a tactical meeting about how to fight the good fight, awesome. :)
TEN HUT!
Why is the cat not a starship captain
Cats wont do well on starships. They keep wanting to be let out...
Good point...
Cats can have spaceships.
The Republic faces hard times, but humanity is strong. We will overcome any challenge or threat that lays before us. Glory and honor come through both victory and death.
And we are stubborn to defeat
He will not let this Republic that has stood for a thousand years be split in two!
that cat encounter put a big smile on my face and made me laugh thanks shack
I'm a cat person so I know the ups and downs of having a cat
I have one cat and she sleeps all day and hunts all night so I scare her every so often and she attacks me every so often so we have a understanding
Joker_Ace cats have a tendency to attack people who show aggressive emotions, like my cat nutmeg, or as i shall now call him, Captain Nutters
the cat moment was indeed a heart lifter :D
And you have a strategic resource (betharian stone) in the north west that you can mine to get a better power plant. Get on that shit Shack
In the Kornephoros System
One of his planets (with the migrated aliens) looks like it has one.
ErickRedbeard If he secures that resource then he can build another one
I like the idea that whose the new captains is a newsworthy event and relevant to all because they are all military personel. And its like a world wide event. Befitting.
Isn't building another colony going to cause problems because you are at your planet cap???? I think the mentality for your ship designs should be big heavy tank destroyers at the front with powerful close range weapons and all of your corvettes are glass canons that attack from far range. Just like how you are playing in your Star Wars campaign right now where you are using the MC80s as tanks in the front with everything in the back.
"Local leaders find this unacceptable."
Was the Earl of Lemongrab promoted to planetary governor?
"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please." - Niccolo Machiavelli
This war is going to be far longer, and far bloodier than the Jehet War. My only hope is that the Alliance survives it.
I just want to say thank you for all you do, I get really excited when I see a new episode of stellaris and it's always the highlight of my day.Without this channel I would probably be bored all of the time.
If you do name one Hazzard, name it Hazzard SR-2, because Hazzard SR-1 deserves to sleep in the pages of Alliance History.
Senator Servious What? It's true! xD
Senator Servious Oh yeah, you know I am.
Id personally prefer Hazzard-B, going after the star trek enterprise ships
+Doominater #PCMASTERRACE screw Star Trek on this one Mass Effect references to the Max also I still think shack should call One of the Ships the Normandy because he's the Alliance
Sgt Lonesoldier45480 Yes.
Rewatching 7 years later. Still just as good
Sir, have you considered moving some of the Jehet population offworld? Perhaps to a colony under your direct command? Perhaps a change in scenery will improve their mood, and perhaps seeing their people succeed at the frontier of the Alliance will encourage those in the Jehet sector to be more open to the idea of becoming citizens.
This is Deputy Director Eddie Docer of the Alliance Internal and Physical Bureau. I'm leading an investigation in the Jehet sector. Our first priority is the Jehet Freedom Partisans compound on the south side of the capital. We'll send a team in and we'll see if we can find something relating to the terrorist attacks.
We're also be monitoring heart of the Alliance as well as Earth with Alliance Geospatial and Signals Intelligence Service.
The WANDERER has a Lvl 4 scientist! USE IT to research all those skill lvl 3 required special projects you haven't been able to do! Please thumb this up to get his attention, guys :)
Also, it's DEFINITELY worth updating the hyperdrive & thrusters on the science & construction ships, since it will get them to their jobs, which are often multiple jumps away and spread around each system. This will vastly increase the efficiency of each one, so less are needed ;P
You should put starports on all your colonies. Not only does it provide a bit of defence, but more importantly it ups your fleet capacity for each starport.
Is it possible to retrofit the science vessels with different sections, shields, and possibly defensive weapons like point-defense lasers?
No point defenses, but yes to armor, shields, and engines.
DirgeOfCerberus111 Dang, was hoping I could arm them too, so I could have something like a Star Trek ship, oh well, least I can shield and armor it.
Thanks.
What I don't get is why no one just has a military ship follow their science ship around. Does the game not let players fleet them?
Tach That's another thing I was wondering about. You would if you couldn't add weapons to your science ship, you could at least give it an escort of Corvettes, or a couple Destroyers to defend it.
Situation analysis below! I've been catching up on this play-through for about a week and a half and I've saved all of the observations for this episode.
1. Imperial Spending: You are going to have serious issues running both a military-heavy empire and the welfare state policy, it's possible, but I wouldn't say it's cost-effective.
2. Policies: You should enact the 'information quarantine' policy immediately (and pretty much should have had it active all game). Your ethics divergence is going to destroy your empire from the inside and I would be surprised if you could come back from it at this point. Give a quick look at the other policies as well, some of those are definitely worth the influence.
3. Old Space Stations: In the same vein as number 2, you need to maximize your influence intake, especially since you need it to colonize now. That old outpost in the southern section of your empire is now useless, and it's area is covered by an actual colony, so you need to decommission it so it will stop draining influence and power. Button in the top right of the panel, with the big red X, will decommission stations and ships. Additionally, the military outpost in the center of your empire guarding a system with no colonizable planet in it is now useless, it needs to be stood down as well.
4. Fleet Diversity: You cannot go heavy on one weapon or another in your fleet. You've gone very far into the game without researching lasers or missiles, which makes it very easy for enemies to defend against you (and your orbital shipyards and defensive stations). Try to have a good balance of anti-shield and anti-armor weapons. Don't just build 20 torpedo ships.
5. Planetary Research: You have been criminally neglecting both Physics and Engineering research on your planets. You haven't even researched the basic physics or engineering labs this far into the game!!! You have, instead, been constantly building society labs, which are good but you need to balance your research. You cannot ONLY research society.
6. Colonization: There are two sets of technologies that have been needed for some time now in order too keep up with the empires around you. First, you need to pick of the tile-clearing techs (all of them). They are cheap and will make not only your current planets more efficient, but will prepare you for any new planets you colonize. Second, you need to learn to colonize the other planets! Especially OCEAN and TROPICAL as these are the closest to terrestrial planets, and are great colonies for humans!!! Look at the empires around you, quickly snapping up planets left and right. It's time for the second human diaspora, get a few new sectors up and running and colonize like crazy. Soon enough, you will even be able to terraform some of the crappier planets, so you could turn Tundra's/Desert's into something better for humans.
7. Planetary Shipyards: You should have a shipyard above EVERY PLANET (Including those in sectors). These shipyards give basic defenses, can be energy neutral (after installing solar panels), and will enable you to raise fleets at lightning speeds. You are bring in tons of minerals, it's time to get AT LEAST 4 destroyer-yards up and running, so you can build (and re-build) the fleets very quickly. It's all about being able to turn minerals into guns when you end up in a war of attrition with a huge and powerful enemy. Prepare the Alliance for the unseen threats to come!!!
Hope you can find any of this useful. Great let's play! :)
Anything above limited bombing has a high chance of damaging civilian buildings on a planets surface. Damaging those buildings or killing civilian will get you that terror bombing debuff
That "front line outpost" on Borce isn't going to do you much good. Look at the map; the hyperspace lanes from Borce don't go anywhere near the front line where you've been fighting. Borce is EIGHT jumps away from the Directorate capitol at Virdamon! You could have colonized Falmir and been just as close, except your path from Falmir to Virdamon would have been through your ally's territory. From Borce, you have to move entirely through hostile territory, except for one system that's controlled by the Ansari (they won't like that), and you're completely cut off from your ally on that path.
That may be, but it is still a closer location for him to bring his fleets to for repairs than Earth, which /was/ the closest spaceport.
Yes, it's technically closer. But it's a horrible position to campaign from because it's completely cut off from his ally. It will be virtually impossible for him to help defend his ally's territory, or coordinate an attack, if he bases himself at that station. It's effectively allowing the enemy a central position, and to fight both Shack and his ally separately.
I know this is old but from that position he can still launch attacks on the enemy and the enemy will have to split it's fleet to deal with both fleets
Okxer Not really. As we're already seeing in later episodes, the fact that the Directorate uses wormholes for ftl means they can hit Borce/Green Wall or any of the other systems Shack is pushing through from the same central position that lets them attack his ally. They can hit any of half a dozen systems in one wormhole jump, while Shack's fleet has to keep going the long way around.
Assume direct control, at least for a while.
This way, you can organize things a little more to your choice.
And another thing: You need more power hubs (1 per planet). You only have one or two total, and that's damaging your energy income.
EDIT: And Kornephoros has some Betharium that you NEED to take advantage of.
EDIT: And your colony next to the warzone takes too many jumps between it and your allies' systems.
If we could get the Asari to give us military access...we could attack the Directorate from behind!
You can set up Frontier Outposts which will also increase your boarder range, The Further away you set up a colony from your empires boarders the more expensive it will be to colonize said planet.
And pops will be more likely to change ethics (Of Course if they are trying for independence)
Another Trade Deal idea for you that I abuse the heck out of on my diplomatic race game. Trade anyone who is willing with research agreements from you for energy/minerals from them. My race running that is getting several hundred of each and is still the most technologically advanced race uncovered in that galaxy (barring Fallen Empire's of course) The serial trade deals also help raise opinions up more, which let you squeeze a bit more resources out of them when the deal ends and you can make another.
That number that you keep looking at for the Pop Factions is the attraction for the Faction, not the number of Pops in it. The number of Pops in a faction is on the right side of the tab.
I recommend hiring that industry specialist scientist if still possible when the influence is available. An industry specialist assigned to physics research provides a significant boost to the chance of *power generation technologies* coming up in the research options, and will also provide a bonus to research rates for them. I don't know if my comments in the past were noticed or not, but placing certain types of specialist in certain departments has a subtle but dramatic effect on an empires technological path. As random as the research may seem, it's actually very possible to deliberately pursue specific goals.
Mr green was my father but now he has passed on. But his vision for the XPG System Alliance remains in me. I shall lead the fleet to victory.Captain Noah Green of the Redeemer.
Thanks to the repair work of the Ran-D T&I Federation, the station as back in working order.
Political Parties Assembly meeting in session. As you all know to join the meeting state your name as well as the party you represent.
I want progress updates on our current projects if there are any.
Any new parties that join will have to state a position on what policy the Alliance should implement, in order for me to assign them to a project.
Ivan Capu, Martial Conservative Party.
Progress on our new Destroyer designs have been put to works as shown by Marshal Shack. Station research has been slow due to the incident at the PPA station. The lack of personnel from T&I firms have been dedicated to repairing the station. Hopefully now with the station repaired, all resources can be focused on space station research.
Ambassador Atreides, Jehet Freedom Partisans.
First of all, let me say that I, Ksenia Polachev, and all other senior leaders of the JFP wholeheartedly condemn the actions of radical individuals who claim affiliation with out party. Our purpose was never violent rebellion, but peaceful protest.
Ever since the...unfortunate armed conflict between our peoples, the more radical elements that claim affiliation with our party seem to have been forced underground. The implementation of social welfare programs has also generated some goodwill among the Jehetma. However, there is still discontent seething below the surface. You have doubtless noticed the riots and sabotage attempts, which have crippled vast swaths of production buildings throughout the Jehet sector.
Your new programs are a step in the right direction for making peace with our people, but more must be done. I recommend that at the earliest opportunity, the Alliance should research the ability to open its top leadership positions to Jehetma candidates. Our unique perspective will surely air you in your scientific endeavors, as well as the governance of your colonies. There is much to gain by doing this, and much to lose by refusing.
Senator Dirge of the Nova Prosperity Party,
It continues to be displayed that we were woefully unprepared for this war. Militarily and economically. We are retooling our infrastructure as we speak but we still lack a respectable fleet with which to combat the Cardassians. The Djunn are holding but I fear they can do little else. I have not exactly been awe inspired by their tactical or strategic expertise.
We need a plan to end the war quickly so we can refocus our attention to domestic and diplomatic matters. This war is interfering with our ability to prosper in the galaxy. Colonizing Borce offers an ideal opportunity to outflank the Cardassians. I propose *Operation: THRAEX*, a flanking assault into Directorate Space from Borce that will outflank the Cardassians forces in Virdamon.
Forget the Djunn, they have no idea how to wage a war. To end this quickly we need to fight this on our own terms and perhaps salvage something from this mess..
Admiral Vating of the Military Party, reporting from outside the Directorate Territory on his new command ship! *Squeals like a little school girl at the holodeck, but quickly goes back to his usual state of calm, and yes, he is a hologram.*
My announcement to the people has brought forth many volunteers to assist in this war by colonizing a small planet up close to the front line where we can place a spacedock. Through that, we can perform rapid guerrilla strikes, along with a place of safe repair for our fleet.
Ambassador, I knew your people would enjoy the program. I also know that if you guys do just calm down, open your eyes, and see the Alliance for what it is, I can assure you, you all would be glad to be a part of us.
I would argue that we have seen the Alliance for what it is, noble Admiral. While you and many others accept Jehetma as equals, your government at large does not. What is more, there is a disturbing sentiment of xenophobia growing on several planets, as evidenced by the struggles Fleet Marshal Shack had in finding non-xenophobic volunteers for the Borce Prime colony. We cannot exist in an empire that refuses to give us the right to run for leadership roles, and whose populace harbors a strong hatred of our kind. If these problems are fixed, then we may talk about integration. Until then, our goal is independence.
Shack if have not noticed u dont have a direct path to the enemy, going back through ur allie will cost some time, but going through asari will be easier and u will need to have a military access pass with in order to hit the enemy from the back
don't forget you can build those outposts to expand your borders a little to acquire a system or two.
I really like those intro's. They keep me coming back ^_^.
The intros are absolutely perfect
if u like those lol.. you should check Eve Online's The Scope then... xD next level inside the game news... : - )
Just hold the line with the jehet, they are breaking slowly. You need to get some close in destroyers soon cause the corvet's are just getting melted. also your going to need to connect your new colony to the rest of the alliance, use frontier base's first then fill in with planets. also don't forget about the race that's moving in, keep trying to work with them.
You can unsector planets to build stuff but it can add up in influence. Better to wait it out since you have the armys in place.
The number is just how many people and wont really matter, its the bar that counts so destiny is mostly ok
You ever thought about the possibility that maybe the cat was right? His strategy to give him belly rubs before each battle seemed quite appealing to me...
When he said 6 hull points all I could think of was 28 stab wounds
who ever did the art work great job 10/10
I recommend you review the individual planetary edicts. In particular, Earth should enact the Overload edict and over drive the POWER PLANTS to produce more power.
Also, you MUST replace the governor of earth ASAP. Governor will give you a few percentage points more power! (or more if you get lucky and have a governor with a power focus)
And finally you should enact some propaganda edicts on the Jehet worlds if you can afford it.. At least their home world.
I should really watch the entire thing before I comment eh? Good job on resolving the power crisis.
The moral crisis is a bit more difficult. You might be able to score some happiness by changing your policy stances.. hover over one of the Jehet citizens and see what is reducing their happiness and see if there are any policies you can change to reduce it. When you get some influence back, you might consider some propaganda edicts too.
Dr.Ashuer Cross: As PR director of the Jahet Sector and a veteran of the 1st Jahet Uprising it pains me to see 1/3 of the SA crippled and the foreign Carrdassian war effort hindered so attached to this letter is a proposal for a Jahet integration campaign.
At the empire management menu look up the species management tab(similar to the factions tab)click on the Jahetma race and there should be a integration campaign 1 once that is complete they'll be no different from the "native" SA pops. And keep fighting the Good Fight.
I think you need to build a fleet of at least 850 before you attack next.
I know that sounds like a lot, but the more overkill a fleet is, the fewer ship they will lose in an engagement.
Yeah, I would take manual control of some of those systems for a while, at least.
I think you should reclassify the 1st Alliance Defense Fleet, and Strike Forces, as 1st and 2nd Federal Fleets.
Also, it wouldn't matter if you took direct control of Jehet Prime...putting in a build order for an entertainment center wouldn't do anything, because the whole planet is on strike....they won't build it. You've got to crush the faction, before anything will change.
intro suggestion for the next episode, newly developed weapons mounted on the Arizona class Battle ship have proved highly successful during live combat test's against the Directorate.
The Reach starport should be named "Anchor 9"
Has anyone noticed commander Lynx is not in uniform!
MeowCaptain was his training officer and he was kind of laid back when it came to the dress code.
+denniselliott27 Just get him in uniform...
I'm surprised there weren't more explosions in the background if he trained under Meow.
RyllenKriel Yes, so am I...
Build Solar Panels on some of your orbital bases... to get energy
This might be the System's alliance's next Vietnam.
Implement the Information Quarantine policy! It will reduce Ethnics Divergence even further!
20:20 Also I'm pretty sure the "Eta Aliens' are another empire and destroying their stuff and fighting them before you actually investigate them would be a pretty terrible idea.
Commander linx has been the funniest thing on this channel in a long time
I think you need to seriously think about adding research plants for its taking too long to get research done. Maybe even do trade deals with research to increase the speed. Like all your current allies to improve relationships to get them to like you more by trading research for research with something to sweeten the deal.
Nonono, it's "Want more information? Stay tuned for our next broadcast!".
if you leave the Jehet unhappy and trying to force them into your ethos against everything they stand for, they will oppose you ethos and become even more unhappy making it near impossible to suppress there hate and integrate them latter on, resulting in a endless cycle of riots, you cant ignore your problems shack, YOU CANT IGNORE THEM!!!
but he could.....let them rebel and bombard them from orbit...maybe leave only one population left or just wipe them out.
and have the whole galaxy hate the XPG alliance for genocide :D it wont just be the dominion at war with him then
Try getting the Jehet the Reeducation Edict. That'll stop the riots one and for all.
Kornephoros Where the new power station was built has Betharian stone which is even more power then power station for a Planet
every time i defeat an enemy empire in a war, i just purge their pops, no rebels=no rebellion, which means that you dont have to deal with shit like that.
Might i suggest rather than populating the system by the cardassian border you set up a defensive platform and colonise a further back system?
I don't think you'll need to do anything special to win the war, but you need to heavily focus on developing your infrastructure ASAP, many of you're buildings are outdated any many pops don't have buildings for them to work in
I Respect The Jehet Dominions People They Rise to Fight for their Freedom I Say we give them Independence!!!!!
Independance!
Or keep them as a protectorate.
+UncappingBadger Jhetma blood was spilled on those worlds for millennia , and as a loyal vassal of the federation not all deaths would have been in vain.
purge the rebels, for spilling our blood.!
I agree., The Jehet have suffered for too long under a government they want no part of. Free them, give them their systems back, and we will find no truer friend under the suns. But if we continue to push them, we risk another open rebellion, and thousands, if not millions,more innocent deaths.
personally, I think captain Shack should turn the area around Reach into a sector and disband the Jehet one and take direct control of it.
finely another episode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoever created the Planet Limit system was holding the Idiot Ball at the time.
Oh yeah! Shack finally worked in the other ST lines - "Would you like to know more?" 😀
Dont forget when you can get it you need a new scientist for your science ship :) it hasnt got a captain
25 minutes in, you know shack. You should just build a defense platform with the repair system on it. That way you can just build it outside of your systems.
just fucking leaves his computer to go yell at his cat about war... hilarious xD
I totally want to mod in races from Mass Effect, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starcraft and Warhammer 40 000 at once. Turians allying with protoss in order to fight orks!
The beginning part always makes me wanna buy this game
So the first strike group is en route to Earth to rebuild after the losses at the Battle of Verdimon
well humanity never solved it's energy crisis, even though it's the 23rd century
The beth aliens weren't a threat.....when you clicked on them, it said "Following: Crystalline Entity".
every episode makes me wanna buy this game more
but id literally spend all the time on it
just pirate it and buy it if you really like it ;)
i got bored of it after 10 hours or so, glad i did not buy it
+FancyMarine what space strategy games do you like
never really played any other SPACE strategy games. but i love EU4 and CK2. and games like dawn of war soulstorm etc
I consider pirating essentially demo's. If the games good enough for me to buy it I will, I have a enough of companies like EA and Ubisoft stealing my money with trash products
Shack, you should disband the frontier outpost on the Aludra system so you can have more monthly influence to use on more important stuff
Wouldn't it be more logical if the research speed would increase the more territory you have, because then you would have more people researching the things?
But as always great Video! Long live the Alliance!
Good thoughts about the colony but you should first set up a defense fleet out there or there might be problems
Is that the Terran republic from Planetside 2 also shack you should try it a huge update came out not to long ago, the construction system
Don't be hanging around for too long or you will find yourself making friends with Asari.
The intros remind me so much of Star Ship troopers
if you were to purge the planets of the jehetma people i'm sure that would stop the rioting and rebelling but then you would have to recolonize and it would cause other empires to hate you
any one notice that the djunn galactic foundation look like the big brain bugs from starship troopers!! he allyied with the enemy!!!!
Let us morn Terrance Green and we must vote for his name to be put into a system or planet! Marshal Shack here us call for Terrance Green and all that he has done for the Alliance, "Service guarantees Citizenship" Let us be victorious this day as we follow Shack to victory and to not let him find us wanting, let none stand against us for we are his sword and destroyer of heresy and to stamp out evil where ever it pops up!
Shack, in policies you can change your encounter options so you don't sound as if you want to go to war with everyone
I love this game, but my biggest issue is that I can't tell sectors what to build. Like in your case you can't build happiness buildings. Central government should be able to build while sectors build their own stuff. I have several planets that are starving and can't go into to fix it. Sector AI is pretty bad. SO now I have to go and remove system from sector so I can go in and build it up to fix all the issues and then add back into the sector. Wish there was a mode that could let me control build que on sector planets.
RIP to the lost lives of the alliance Firts strike force
First
Yay, cat intervention
You could call it a cat-tical approach
or Meowmageddon ;)
Commander Linx calls for a strategic war meeting about fighting the Roomba
Shack dont forget to donation sectors! they cant develop without resources
Shack, build Power hubs on your planets! They increase your power generation from all power plants.
I love your your Stellaris campain and i have a strikecraft carrier idea for you basicly its not very big has 4 hangers and its very bare bones just the basics because the part now just lore stuff I think would be right basicly the strikecraft's pilots are criminals controled by bombs in there neck (like in suicide squad) after a year of fighting they off the to live a normal life but not a citizen but if they stay to work in the military they can become citizen but like i said bare bones plus i think this will decrees the cost of this ship type but i might be dead wrong but at least it will be lore friendly to the xpg alliance you built
Nharr, Juvan, Djunn, and Asari. Ally. GO!
I can't wait for the Star Trek mod for this game.
I suggest Shack that the Alliance takes all the systems around the galaxy center.
And maybe a few black holes.
shack you should research point defence systems and install them on the defence platforms i also believe that you can add solar panels to the platforms saw it on someone elses game don't know if its universal to all space station or an upgrade specific to the platforms check the module slot on it to see if you can it should reduce power needed to run them
Hey Captain Shack, Trooper Wilburn reporting in!
No no, in all seriousness though, when it comes to the military vessels designs, I might recommend the tactics that are being utilized by many naval vessels today. Typically most war ships have enough range and precision to take targets out before they close the range, this is why battleships aren't wildly used that much anymore. There's no need to duke it out if you can swat the enemy out of the sky before it becomes a threat.
Now I'd like to state that all I know about Stellaris is from watching your play through, (My computer sucks so I live vicariously through yours), so I don't know all the small details about combat, but if you can attempt to implement something like that, into your fleets tactics or something.
That's all I have for now, Captain,
Wilburn out...
I sugest to ally also the Juvan Mandate.
When you get back, try and keep making thrawns revenge videos. I absolutely love them and you do a great job in making them. Thanks or being you.
great name for a cat. wish I had thought of that. I know someone with a cat called p90
11:15 for the kitty cat! XD
42:42 (it ... (aliens)) looks like from "Mass Effect" Liara T'Soni
you did not just shoot that red sh!t at me