Stellaris: Grand Strategy on a Galactic Scale

Quick Information:
Genre: Grand Strategy
Developer/Publisher: Paradox/Paradox
Release Date: 9 May 2016
Price: $39.99
Steam: Yes
Multiplayer: Yes
System Requirements: Here
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Hey lads aflac here coming at you live with a big meme from the b o s s e s up at paradox interactive
Yeah so Paradox for those of you who don't know is a video game developer and publisher, and the development arm mainly creates grand strategy games, a niche take on the strategy genre where you usually control an entire nation or empire and fight wars and handle politics and diplomacy, stuff like that. Very fun if you like micromanaging with lots of numbers and everything actually matters, unlike a 4X game like Civilization where you can usually specialize into one of the X's to remain competitive.
So they've created a lot of these games now, and have four primary series all based on historical time periods. With Stellaris, Paradox is taking a rather radical approach to GSG (Grand strategy games/gaming) with space based game. You create a species, choose their values and government, and set off into the great beyond to colonize new worlds and find other intelligent life.
You can make trade and war, develop colonies and manage rebellions, enslave and genocide alien races, and so much more. You can do this all in multiplayer too, with each player having their own unique space empire.
Here's the first (hour long) episode of two devs playing Stellaris, creating the Blorg, space faring friendly trashbags!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shoiYDp7EEA


A lot of us have already bought the game, definitely will on/before release, or will maybe buy it! We'll probably have a big C16 multiplayer sesh at some point, Timmy wants it bad
Pinging those who mentioned definitely/maybe buying it
Will Buy
@Timmy
@Aflac
@TheFancyAlchemist
@Songbird
@Zink
Maybe Buy
@shut up walter
@Daohlocks
@8bitMafia
@sloth_
@Top-Hat

 

@Aflac change me to Will Buy, thanks babe

 

Probably it looks a little bit less demanding then EU4, plus there's probably some options to make the game run faster.

 

Wow this looks great, kinda like a better FTL with multiplayer. Looking forward to playing.

 

FO4 has zero replayability IMHO. This game will be like $40 invested in hours and hours of entertainment.

 

System Requirements

 

Can't wait to be a Xenomorph and be so ugly, that nobody wants to communicate with me so I decide to drastically enslave all the birds as result.
Fuck you Timmy.

 

this is gunna be my set-up buddy
http://kaisersly.github.io/stellaris_race_maker/?version=1&ethoses=9,15&government=1&traits=3,7,21

 

Wow. Finally a game that's not graphically demanding.
Yeah, maybe I'll buy it.

 

Here's mine
http://kaisersly.github.io/stellaris_race_maker/?version=1&ethoses=5,9,13&government=0&traits=2,7,21
I feel like we'll get along quite fine, actually.

 

-military dictatorship
-not divine mandate were your leaders title is "Archprophet"

 

This is my take on the UNSC type space america http://kaisersly.github.io/stellari...=1&ethoses=2,9,13&government=5&traits=0,15,25
god help you if you have sweet, sweet space oil

and Arnadalr http://kaisersly.github.io/stellari...ethoses=6,10,14&government=3&traits=1,8,22,28

 

I want it.

 

I bought it!
May 9th here we come
just gotta make it through finals and I'm golden

 

I'm upset in the lack of National Socialist government type. I wanted to relive Adolf's legacy but as reptilian people

I'm still preordering it later today though

 

militarist collectivist????

 

http://kaisersly.github.io/stellari...&ethoses=1,9,13&government=2&traits=4,7,21,27
Despotic Hegemony "This government is a materialistic form of autocracy, where citizens are viewed as little more than cogs in the state machinery. Efficiency and technological progress are valued above all things."
Pretty close to fascism in terms of economic mobilization and leadership being autocratic.

 

So do we all want to have a big group session on Day One release?

I have a TS we can use and shit, and it comes out next Monday.

 

I wouldn't be able to do anything Day 1, all my other bros and me are playing, but I'm happy to figure something out soon after (just so happens I have plans that Tuesday but other than that should be free)

 

It's okay Timmy.
Me and You can sail the galaxy by ourselves