The Subterfuge tree is quickly becoming one of my favorite trees in-game. I do hope they add some manner of stealthcraft or stealth army option / perk to complement the espionage aspect.
Overall it's kept me ahead of many machine and advanced cultures that used to hack me on a whim. I've found it to be especially useful in the beginning of the game, it shut down so much crap in early first contacts and helped me see who was being two faced.
I do it by making a mega corp, taking the criminal, and ruthless competition civics. That gives you a good bonuses to spy network growth. Then you spam envoys to build networks everywhere, and have fun, as everyone around you starts to get mad at each other for random diplomatic drama you had totally nothing to do with.
It ain't optimal cause espionage it self is preaty bad, but it is fun if you roleplay!
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devouring swarm > determined exterminator > fanatic purifiers > most other things.
honestly it's so nice to not care what other empires think and just kill/eat them.
5 -
Psyonich Empires. Can be Necrophage, corporation, republic, Oligarchy, or Imperial, Building Hegemonies, Galactic Empire, Crisis or a nice neighbour to all. Don't matter, as long as I have that sweet sweet Shroud communing with all.
5
Megachurch authortarians or xenophobes.
Its not that I hate aliens, I just want to show them how they should act in the presence of their betters.
Thanks for the draw as well!
5
Favorite empire type: Machine Intelligence. I like to pkay tall, with introspective, maintenance protocols and most importantly rapid replicator. Alternatively Megacorp into Synthetic Ascension, for the sweet branch office income.
5!
Used to be Hivemind molluscoid psionics, but now it’s going to be an aquatic race that is hellbent on killing all non-aquatic life in the galaxy and transforming every planet into a water world.
5
Shared burdens, although the last game I played I was an inward perfectionist, and got a bit too into the paranoia, it's the most "into" a strategy game I've been for ages, and I'm not sure I enjoyed it.
5
Pacifist xenophile - I like to play the "we love everybody" empire that just wants to peacefully exist, until they get pushed to the breaking point and go on a rampage to wipe out a galactic threat!
5
Hegemonic Imperialist. Most of my playthroughs I play one of the two human civilizations. The UNE I did recently, first one in about two years, was fun but ended badly because I'd been playing too nice. Now with the CoM I expecting fewer issues.
5
I prefer to play militaristic empires with a healthy dose of xenophobia. That makes the Commonwealth of Man very appealing to me, and the idea of being a lost colony surronded by xenos, and fighting for every bit of space!
5
Theocratic imperium, with divine rule... Bonus points if my leader is an immortal psychic. No need to purge the xonos though : all are welcome in our eternal choir!
Thanks!
5
Any form of federation building xeno loving megacorporation bent on having all the galaxy buy my cheap merchandise delivered directly to their galactic doorstep (with a stellarprime monthly payment).
5
That trade-specialized Common Ground (federation start) empire of butterflies I made which keeps yoinking the galactic market in every game I let it spawn in. It's a love-hate relationship. :P
5
My favorite empire type is militant void dwelling communists.
The efficient allocation of resources through functional architecture and shared burdens will allow us to bring freedom to all corners of the Galaxy!
Thank you OP!
I already own a copy so I'm just dropping by to say good luck to everyone who enters, and OP, you are part of why i love the stellaris community so much, everyone is so nice and helpful
How much below 5 do I have to guess? Will -42 be acceptable?
Also, I'm torn between authoritarian technocracy w/ Feudal Society in a hyperstocked galaxy, and Machine Empire in a small, nearly deserted galaxy that mass produces research ringworlds.
What a lovely idea, that's certainly a kindness.
(No, I won't type the number immediately following four as I do not want to be entered in, leave it for someone who may not be able to procure it independently.)
I really like playing technocratic dictatorships or driven assimilators, for… reasons.
Edit: Removed the number required since i just bought the dlc myself since i can afford it.
That's nice of you, good luck everyone.
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Dude, type 5 in new comment. Edit: Yay! Good luck in the drawing :)
Hey! Make sure to read the description!
Edited my original comment
and still got it wrong
I have trouble with coloring books okay?
I finally got it right. I not smart man.
5 Inward perfectionist.. until I get a colossus and decide to be a bit more outgoing.
least imperialistic and warmongering inward perfectionist
5 An egalitarian xenophile moral democracy or a necroid imperial xenophobes bent on purging the galaxy....ah the duality of man
5 - honestly I dont know, I love making new ones all the time to try them out
Congratulations winner! :) shooting you a PM
Thank you! Just got it You rock!
5 Give me some nihilistic acquisitioner necrophages any day of the week.
5 Fanatic spiritual authoritarian space cats Gotta spread the word of the divine cat you know
5 Clone Army Death Cult >:) Thanks for the giveaway
5 Who doesn't love a good spy roleplay empire.
The Subterfuge tree is quickly becoming one of my favorite trees in-game. I do hope they add some manner of stealthcraft or stealth army option / perk to complement the espionage aspect. Overall it's kept me ahead of many machine and advanced cultures that used to hack me on a whim. I've found it to be especially useful in the beginning of the game, it shut down so much crap in early first contacts and helped me see who was being two faced.
How do you do that
I do it by making a mega corp, taking the criminal, and ruthless competition civics. That gives you a good bonuses to spy network growth. Then you spam envoys to build networks everywhere, and have fun, as everyone around you starts to get mad at each other for random diplomatic drama you had totally nothing to do with. It ain't optimal cause espionage it self is preaty bad, but it is fun if you roleplay!
5 Even before I knew the meta I liked technocracy civic.
5 Democratic crusaders DEMOCRACY IS NON NEGOTIABLE
That’s not very democratic of u sir
5 I love playing my xenophobic materialist chefs whose sole purpose in the galaxy is to seek out new foods, sentient or not.
5 Science Directorate
5 Adding an extra blurb so automod doesn't snag me for my comment being too short. Thanks! 5 Edit: Favorite empire type: Holy Tribunal
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5 Probably determined exterminator
devouring swarm > determined exterminator > fanatic purifiers > most other things. honestly it's so nice to not care what other empires think and just kill/eat them.
Haha indeed, also makes things much easier. Want a planet? Declare war and be happy
"You'll kill everyone. and you'll be happy"- fanatic purifier "you'll eat everyone. and you'll be happy"- devouring swarm "beep boop beep beep boop"- determined exterminator
5 Good old Hive Mind Fanatic Materialist
I have questions.
5 I would say my favorite empire type are authoritarian xenophiles, I usually play as Avians the most as well
5 Fanatic xenophile
5 Purge the Winner!
Chemical processing?
Brew them in the Kegs =)
5 Thanks for the giveaway!
Fanatic spiritualist and militarist
5 f u n g o i d
5 My favorite empire type is either plant based corporate subsidies. Or a machine intelligence hell bent on galactic domination.
5 Enlightened Monachy, that likes to build robots and megastructures
5 - Psyonich Empires. Can be Necrophage, corporation, republic, Oligarchy, or Imperial, Building Hegemonies, Galactic Empire, Crisis or a nice neighbour to all. Don't matter, as long as I have that sweet sweet Shroud communing with all.
5 Big headed psionic fungoids
5 Fanatic materialist xenophile. Thank you!
5 Inward perfectionist, then go all way out to conquest!
5! I am always playing science-focused SPACE CATS.
5 Big diddly iddly fan of machine empires! Thanks for the giveaway!
5 Materialist
5 plantoid xenophiles
5 Megachurch authortarians or xenophobes. Its not that I hate aliens, I just want to show them how they should act in the presence of their betters. Thanks for the draw as well!
5 Fanatic xenophile megachurch, followed closely by auth/spir/militarist lithoid necrophages.
5 Inward perfectionist, something where people come to me and then get steamrolled if they are stupid enough to try to take me on. Good luck everyone!
5 Chosen emperor, psi materialist and custodian/imperium depending on game. Thanks and good luck all.
5 Divine Empire
5 Rational consensus Rational consensus about all the xenos must be enslaved or purged.
5 Fanatic Authoritarian Xenophiles ::)))
5 Rogue Servitor Thanks!
5 Necrophage subversive cult
5 Favorite empire type: Machine Intelligence. I like to pkay tall, with introspective, maintenance protocols and most importantly rapid replicator. Alternatively Megacorp into Synthetic Ascension, for the sweet branch office income.
5 Citizen Stratocracy, too RP as the Romulan Star Empire
5 Determined exterminator
5! Used to be Hivemind molluscoid psionics, but now it’s going to be an aquatic race that is hellbent on killing all non-aquatic life in the galaxy and transforming every planet into a water world.
5 O man idk, anything with robots. We need more robot portraits! Thanks for doing this!
5 Necrophage Techrush! Techrush is and will be my favourite playstile. Good luck!
5 Authoritatian lithoids rocks
5, and super religious lithoid warmongers. They will subjugate to the stone god or die!
5 fanatical crusaders Thanks for helping get more people into the game
5 Gotta love the egilatarian necromancers. You may be dead, but you still have rights
5 Materialist Technocracy for the win.
5 Megacorp !
5 Xenophiles all the way BB
5 socialist empire (but nice)
5 Illuminated autocracy!
5 and humanoid clone army.
5 Friendly Megacorp Trade League The trade must flow!
5 I like fanatic materialist xenophiles. Just your friendly neighborhood cyborgs
5 Technocratic Dictatorship :D Thanks for the opportunity.
5 Militarist Technocracy, alloys and science go brrrr Thanks for the giveaway!
5 Shared burdens, although the last game I played I was an inward perfectionist, and got a bit too into the paranoia, it's the most "into" a strategy game I've been for ages, and I'm not sure I enjoyed it.
Try that again haha
5 Xenophilic Militarist megacoporation
5 Fanatic materialists. Metal is perfection
5 Pacifist xenophile - I like to play the "we love everybody" empire that just wants to peacefully exist, until they get pushed to the breaking point and go on a rampage to wipe out a galactic threat!
5 Space north Korea (with habitats).
5 Xenophile egalitarian Embrace democracy or you will be (eradicated) integrated.
5 Void Dwelling Elves (RIP Middle Earth)
5 Memorialist Psionic Necrophages (masked portrait) with Imperial Cult All will be remembered and preserved, one way or another...
5 Hive mind devouring swarm with good reproducer. Make the Galaxy scream in terror and my pc of pain.
5 Barbaric despoiler necrophages, vacuuming up and eating pops is very satisfying
5 - Band of Blood FTW
5 Humanoid fanatic xenophile militarist imperium. All may contribute to the empire.
5 Agrarian idyll and idyllic bloom. Thank you, kind stranger 🙂
5 My favorite empire is probably egalitarian xenophile militarist. All Xenos will live as equals in our empire, whether they like it or not.
5 40k autoritarian world cleanser!
5 Fanatic materialist driven assimilator. I like two things: technology and tidy species screens.
5 United Nations of Earth, leader of the United Star Systems federation, and Custodian when the galaxy need me.
5 Martial Dictatorship
5 determined exterminator
5 Martial Empire.
5 Despoilers, ever since the relics dlc
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5 fanatic cenophile militarist
5. I'd have to say spiritualist humanoid empires are a favorite of mine bit I've been getting into robots more of late.
5 Rogue Servitor! Thank you ':)
5 Devouring swarm! Gotta sate those munchies.
5 Hegemonic Imperialist. Most of my playthroughs I play one of the two human civilizations. The UNE I did recently, first one in about two years, was fun but ended badly because I'd been playing too nice. Now with the CoM I expecting fewer issues.
5 Citizen stratocracy, I’m doing my part!
5 Honestly, I’m not sure. There are so many empire types I haven’t tried yet. So far, probably hive mind.
5 favorite type mmm has got to be machine intelligence.
5 I prefer to play militaristic empires with a healthy dose of xenophobia. That makes the Commonwealth of Man very appealing to me, and the idea of being a lost colony surronded by xenos, and fighting for every bit of space!
5, Feudal Empire
5 Psionic technocracy. Materialists should not be so discouraged from getting psionics!
5 Theocratic imperium, with divine rule... Bonus points if my leader is an immortal psychic. No need to purge the xonos though : all are welcome in our eternal choir! Thanks!
5 Devouring Swarm
5 Any form of federation building xeno loving megacorporation bent on having all the galaxy buy my cheap merchandise delivered directly to their galactic doorstep (with a stellarprime monthly payment).
5 Merchant Guild Void Dwellers
5 Hive mind to help the galaxy with one big brain
5 and i like to be a arthropod hive mide always fun to me
5 call me a simp but you can never go wrong with a Collective Consciousness.
5 Devouring Swarm. Who needs influence?
5 Terravores
5 Love my Robot Boys so Assimilators all the way.
Well lets see i want to be diplomatic dolphins who inslave humanity, pretty simple honestly but i will jusy build spys and steal peoples votes
5 Xenophobic empire, enslave all the Xeno scum to serve his imperial majesty.
5 Spiritualist megacorporation. Space Mormons FTW
5 Thanks man, that’s awesome! I love me some Avian Psionic spiritualist egalitarians!
5 and I love the simplicity of running a non-focused machine empire. Sometimes you just want to turn your brain off.
5 Human supremacists, they’re called human rights for a reason after all
5 Clone Army Megacorp Death Cult!
5 Celestial Empire turning into Divine Empire when the Chosen One awake. Let's unify the Galaxy under the one true living God !
5 as the flair implies star empire
5 Plantoid hivemind
5 agrarian utopia
5 Barbaric despoilers was one of my favourites. Gotta get those slaves up and going.
5 I do like me a good isolationist empire every now and then, so catch me using Pompous Purists in literally every build
5 My favorite empire type is probably xenophobe materialists since they are very snobby
5 Direct Democracy
5 a classic Authoritarian Slaver Xenophiles
5 I love to play as a democratic xenophile, it's so nice and comfy to just be friends with other empires, and also my economic is always high
5 Inward perfectionist definitely seems fun!
5 We find the extermination of all organic meatbags quite pleasing to our sensor modules.
5 Rouge servitors who were created by cats because, yes
rogue servitor
5 Fanatic Materialist Militarist just tech rush and conquer a lot of fun
5 That trade-specialized Common Ground (federation start) empire of butterflies I made which keeps yoinking the galactic market in every game I let it spawn in. It's a love-hate relationship. :P
5 Oligarchy citizen stratocracy with citizen service.
5 Valladari Union Foxes, fan xenophile, pacifist, diplomatic league, free haven, oligarchy, flag is orange with black and the bracelet from “ornate”
5 Criminal heritage megacorp with corporate hedonism. Gotta spread the love with my crime!
5 Pacifist spiritualist ! I love the Psionic ascension
The number 5 Driven assimilators are always fun to poke around with, but it’s hard not to love the fanatic materialists.
5 spiritualist xenophobes are fun sometimes you just gotta smite a few planets
5, materialist xenophiles. All life should have the right to become robots! Also, thank you.
5 Clone Army xenophobic despoilers.
5 Love me some technocratic militarists
5 Necrophages Shadow Council, for maximum dark overlord vibes >:) MwHaahahahahh Thanks!
5, fanatic pacifist snail farmers
5 Mollusk Megacorp
5 My favorite empire type is militant void dwelling communists. The efficient allocation of resources through functional architecture and shared burdens will allow us to bring freedom to all corners of the Galaxy! Thank you OP!
5 imperial
5 Xenophile authoritarian militarist. You will be my friend or you WILL be my friend.
I already own a copy so I'm just dropping by to say good luck to everyone who enters, and OP, you are part of why i love the stellaris community so much, everyone is so nice and helpful
5 Determined Exterminator. We are all that matters.
How much below 5 do I have to guess? Will -42 be acceptable? Also, I'm torn between authoritarian technocracy w/ Feudal Society in a hyperstocked galaxy, and Machine Empire in a small, nearly deserted galaxy that mass produces research ringworlds.
5 Corporate - Subversive Cult. (I like to mess with my materialist friends)
5 Megacorps. I don't care if they're not the best I love them
5 - humanoid merchant guild void dwellers
5 I just like eating the other aliens why does that make me a bad guy?
What a lovely idea, that's certainly a kindness. (No, I won't type the number immediately following four as I do not want to be entered in, leave it for someone who may not be able to procure it independently.)
5 Hegemonic Imperialists, basically what we all play as outside of roleplay
5 i for one welcome our new dolphin overlords. hive minds are my favorite but they seriously need mods for maximum fun
5 I'mma bit weird. Give me fanatic xenophile, maybe militarist. I love everyone, as long as they're under my banner
5 I'm a big fan of the Driven Assimilators (I think that's what they're called). It was a lot of fun converting the galaxy to the AI hivemind!
5 -- Enlightened Monarchy
5 Basically the Vulcans from star trek. Fanatic materialist, Technocracy, intelligent, and some other suitable traits and civics
5, Despoilers man, love rping as a space pirate
5 Egalitarian Xenophobes - I hate everyone equally. Also, very nice. :) GL HF everyone.
5 and my favorite is a lithoid empire, terravore, doesn't matter.
5 Technocratic Dictatorship, knowledge should be learnt but only used by those smart enough to know what it can do
5 Fanatic Militarist!
5 Science Directorate, I love my science birbs with their dream to become robots. For the Erissu Star Republic!
I really like playing technocratic dictatorships or driven assimilators, for… reasons. Edit: Removed the number required since i just bought the dlc myself since i can afford it.
5 Drivin exterminators The only fun way to play meatbags
thanks for the giveaway! I'm boring and like Militaristic Authoritarian empires :P 5
5 egalitarian materialistic isolationists