It's kind of fitting that there was a second empire that came before everyone else and you don't like them. It mirrors how a pair of fallen empires can hate eachother in normal games.
It’s pretty appropriate you had the Prikki rise up as the War in Heaven was partially between a fanatic purifier empire and a guardian empire. So in a way, you’re recreating the war in heaven
Reminds me of one of my Dark-Elves-in-space playthroughs. The Scourge was too powerful for me and the galaxy, but I had a completely isolated, starless star system that I Jumped into and built a habitat in. I moved my capital there last minute, along with my final Shroud Avatar to act as a sort of moon for the habitat to provide light. My Dark Elves then waited in the darkness between the stars for two hundred years until they were strong enough to rebuild their armada with better technology and take the galaxy back from the Scourge, system by system, over another two hundred years of war. Then I spent the next two hundred years watching the next generation of primitives discover the hyperdrive, join the Galactic Community, and fill the galaxy with life again. It was such an awesome campaign.
The coolness of restoring my old, lost empire territory by pushing back the Scourge kept me going, the 200 years of waiting were easy. I just left the game running with tech on auto overnight and while I was at work. The galaxy-cleaning effort was tough yes, but I pushed through it because I knew the primitives were depending on me to give them a chance. It was definitely a campaign for the scrapbook.
@@redomer91 They don't touch primatives for some odd reason. You would think they'd eat every planet, but apparently not. They only invade the worlds of spacefaring civs. Very strange. They didn't used to be that way tho, I clearly remember primitives getting eaten by the Scourge regularly back around 2.0.
Come to think of it this looks like a more plausible scenario than usual Stellaris run: 1. Challenged by the dread of the galaxy's emptiness one species chose to become it's gardener another became paranoid with the Dark Forest idea to the point of embracing genocide. 2. Those two species go to war with each other and the good guys win. 3. Dark Forest proves to be true as Contingency activates right after a sufficiently advanced species becomes more active than usual. 4. The galaxy is reset to default by the Contingency - all is right with the universe.
Honestly, you probably could've kept the Prikki Guardians as a vassal, destroyed a bunch of the outer outposts instead of handing them over, and treated them like a Scion Empire. Would've even been thematic, since you just had a big war to prevent the cleansing of the galaxy.
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon if you want to fiddle with sectors remember that sectors only connection if the systems are connected so by destroying a few starbases you can control the size of a sector/vassal
Variation: select the Remnant origin for flavor. Delay the crisis starts to give the foundlings a chance to grow. Spawn in *one* advanced start genocidal empire (guarantee it to spawn) as your nemesis somewhere in the galaxy. Your goal is not to destroy them, but rather to thwart their plans. Your role: to shepherd as many primitives as you can before the galaxy is swallowed up by threats, then recede and only involve yourself in galactic affairs as needed when an urgent threat presents itself. No subjugation or vassalization or conquest, no blocking them in, etc. You enlighten each civilization, pull away to give them room to grow, and hope this generation of children will be able to face the threats that loom over them. And if not... only then do you step in to even the field.
This video was so cool, definitely a goal to edit a stellaris video to at least half of this quality! Maybe next time, you could have the crisis year start way later to allow yourself to have more of that fallen empire scariness! Loved the viddy!
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon if you want to do a true fallen empire install zenith of fallen and sandbox and when u get the edict you can become a fallen empire.also love ur content❤.
Any time i ramp up primitives and remove other empires, there always ends up being like 3 or 4 who enter the space stage within a like 2 years. It actually kinda annoying
Yeah same here. Usually ends up being one or two powerful empires that enter the space age early then proceed to conquer or uplift the rest into their unified Empire. There's two mods I recommend for that. The mod that allows you to start with an extra-galactic portal, basically allowing you to start as a empire from another galaxy colonizing the current one. Or the playable fallen empires mod if it's still supported.
I think I would've done a few things differently with the Prikki. I would've released each sector as its own nation and disbanded all the extra outposts. Granted, the main Prikki homeworld would've had the majority of their pops compared to the second nation, but I think I'd prefer they have a bit more competition. Alternatively, you could've brought ALL the Prikki to your worlds, abandoned their space to the actual primitives and reformed them that way (via Governing Ethics attraction). It probably would've been a bit tricky with habitability issues, but it might've worked.
And that last scientist found a way to escape this dimension. Becoming a legendary paragon of Bubbles. He will return to destroy the Contingency for their crimes
Gigastructural engineering penrose sphere start is my favorite pseudo-fallen empire start. It can be a bit difficult, yes, but when you reach that end point, dear god is it worth it.
You convinced me to finally do what I've been considering for ages. But with some slight changes. I would expand all over the galaxy. Having an insane economy and unlocking all the events while primitives ascend. Eventually i would vassalize all my sectors except my home world or the L Gate cluster. From their i would become a fallen empire and watch what becomes of the galaxy, only awakening for a crisis or fanatic purifier types
Damn that sounds cool! If you really wanna sow the crazy, you could release all these vassals and see what sort of paths they take. Like a parent watching their children go and probably make bad decisions.
I’m glad I found this video. I’ve been really wanting to do a play through like this but haven’t been able to find much on it. So this video is exactly what I needed.
Very nice video. Remember to always check the estimate arrival time for fleets so they all come at the same time. Alternatively have all you faster fleets follow your slowest.
I fully understand why every fallen empire doesn't want ANYTHING to do with the galaxy. I'm 3/4 the way through the video; and dealing with the Prikki and space dragon, and general stress, I would want to mind my own business as well.
I play something like this but as a "Middle Species". Max Primitives, Max Fallen Empires. I make it my mission to uplift as many primitives as I can and then give them independence after they adopt my civics. I don't do the 8 system rule. I do expand and contract as I uplift and give them independence.
Just finished, the Prikkiki-Ti just showing up was really funny. But I thought there would be more pre-FTLs rising up. I personally think out of the 3 Crises' the Contingency is the hardest since they come at the galaxy in 4 different directions.
It was a moment of slight panic. Haha. I also thought there would be more. Might have to make a retry. This was a few major patches ago after all. Might be. But my issue was that I had simply not invested into alloys enough. I used to think there was such a thing as too much income, since if your storage is full it just gets wasted. But I know realize that they way to win wars like these is through building new ships faster than they kill yours and *fast*. And for that you want ridiculous alloy income and maybe a Mega-Shipyard. So next time I would have a different strategy prepared. Thank you so much for watching!
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon A retry would be cool. I actually just started a run of my own with the current patch, and I also didn't invest into research and alloys nearly enough because despite every other Empire coming from a pre-FTL, I was still outclassed by half of them (there were actually enough to decently fill a Galactic Community) out of a dozen give or take (I didn't count them). Yeah, resource silos on Starbases are also a good investment, even if you hit your stockpile, it'll take longer to get there.
Very interesting premise that I've thought of in the past a few times, mostly towards the end of my genocide playthroughs when I notice a pre-FTL civilization still exists. I might try this myself.
I would have gone for Remnants or Post-Apocalyptic origins as that they are more thematic with an empire that has fallen. Ring world and life seeded also thematically work as they were they show the power of the fallen empire had while Clone army and void dwellers would have works as roleplaying as surviving remnants of the empire. Mod wise, the Dark Space adds a bunch of origins like Ninates, Vi and phoenix empire which are meant to be great civilisation making a come back.while solarflare is more of a empire that was in contact with a another empire, but it let's you have dark matter from the start..Dark space also allows you to become a fallen empire. Another mod is Planetary Diversity: Unique Worlds which adds a another set of origins that are basically great civilisations making a come back, but less OP as Dark Space. there's also the Gigastructures mod which has more megastructure origins, but I would recommend installing it for the shipwrecks and cool tech.
Here’s what the AI fallen empires have that you don’t. 1. Already supremely high in tech (mid-end game levels) 2. Several fully formed fleets 3. An actual stock pile of resources from across the galaxy awaiting their collection. You may have been FIRST, but you were the first to fall
I'm pretty sure there was a mod that lets you play as actual fallen emprie, not sure if it was updated since fall of rome tho. There is aloso realy fun mod that lets you start in L-cluster, so you are completly isolated inside untill you get the gates open, kinda like fallen emprie with a twist.
Since the standard difficulty setting does not affect the crisis but does affect AI empires (as well as Space Fauna and Marauders) it might be more fitting to have it set to the one that gives no buffs Although that way they wouldnt catch up to you ig so that might be an issue
Wolf: Lets do this, no wars until my empire can rise from its stagnation. *Iron Savior - "Kill or Get Killed" starts playing* Prikkiki-Ti: "Buenos dias fboi" Wolf: "Cowabunga it is"
an easy way to deal with the contigency fleets is to spam disruptors as the contigency has a botoriously low amount of hull points compared to everything else.
@@Gustav_Kuriga nah, missiles for unbidden and artillery/kinetics seeing as they have almost only shields. althought disruptirs are always a good option.
Gonna do this rule set, then reroll for a close L gate. Nowhere in the rules does it say you can’t unclaim systems, and if you slowly inch your way into the L cluster that’s the ultimate bastion
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon just settle your entire population on intermediate systems and unclaim old systems and pay the 200 influence to abandon colonies if necessary
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon IIRC L cluster is 8 systems. Assuming only being allowed to own 8 systems including homeworld: I would leave one of the right systems unclaimed as they are binary/trinary making Dyson spheres and ring worlds not possible to be constructed. Start as any origin besides ring world Once you find a black hole have a single crewed science ship repeatedly enter said black hole system. That way you can claim multiple worlds while still only having 1 system, letting you start specializing worlds.
Alternatively, you could start the game with a single AI empire. There’s a 50/50 chance that that AI empire will be the Chosen which are only connected either the rest of the galaxy via a single wormhole. They are coded to not research wormhole stabilization until mid game year, giving you plenty of time to build up. Just explore every single wormhole, you want to find the one that leads to Ithome’s Gate. It’s another good fortress system although not as good as Terminal Egress as there’s 3 habitats not planets. I believe there’s 7 systems in that cluster, and only the capital system has habitable planets that being 3 Gaia worlds. The other systems the Chosen build habitats in
Ive done this playthrough a few times. Mostly because i just wanted to see all the events without the ai empires getting them first. But by the heavens, that "anomaly discovered", "technology researched", "system survey complete"....on repeat for hours on end eventually made me stop doing this...or i take breaks in between
A tip fighting against most Crisis, use Destroyers with as many boosters as you can, either Hangar or Arc Emitters and have them using the Carrier computer, it'll kite around and widdle down the enemy. Use to the best effect with point defence.
I havent watched the full video as of this comment, but the whole prikiki-ti thing, you could have kept them as a vassal and mimicked the start where you play as a subsidiary to a fallen empire and helped them grow/see if they ever try to rise up against you (if that is within the games capabilities). That could be fun.
Did this once waaay back and tried to forge a United Federation of Planets sort of thing. That was the last time I went xenophile and that was 3-4 years ago
How did you keep Pre-FTL civilizations (aside from the prikkiki) from forming? A friend and me are trying to replicate this challenge but new empires form withing 5 years of starting.
I play the adeptus mechanicus from WH40K with the industrialist and some cult that worships the leader I turn every planet into tomb worlds and build habitats for research and lots of hydroponics star base buildings
I have tried but have yet to find the perfect civic- and playstyle-mix to play the Mechanicus. I’ve never thought of turning the worlds into tomb worlds but it sounds cool. Machine worlds would also do perhaps.
It's kind of fitting that there was a second empire that came before everyone else and you don't like them. It mirrors how a pair of fallen empires can hate eachother in normal games.
Yeah so basically the first war in heaven that made them fallen
Wanted to play as fallen empire. Ended up becoming a precursor event.
Genius!
Like Baol or the Zronii?
This comment made me laugh so hard xD
It means he got wiped out lol@@themement3616
Looool how did undie
It’s pretty appropriate you had the Prikki rise up as the War in Heaven was partially between a fanatic purifier empire and a guardian empire. So in a way, you’re recreating the war in heaven
I can feel the 40k coming inside of me.⚡⚡
@@alexparjol786 lewd
@@alexparjol786heresy
So would he be the old ones and the aeldari or the C'tan and the necrons?
I assume the old ones tbh
@@plaguedoctor5145 guess so since the old ones came first
Reminds me of one of my Dark-Elves-in-space playthroughs. The Scourge was too powerful for me and the galaxy, but I had a completely isolated, starless star system that I Jumped into and built a habitat in. I moved my capital there last minute, along with my final Shroud Avatar to act as a sort of moon for the habitat to provide light.
My Dark Elves then waited in the darkness between the stars for two hundred years until they were strong enough to rebuild their armada with better technology and take the galaxy back from the Scourge, system by system, over another two hundred years of war. Then I spent the next two hundred years watching the next generation of primitives discover the hyperdrive, join the Galactic Community, and fill the galaxy with life again.
It was such an awesome campaign.
Man that sounds epic! I am also impressed that you managed to play for that long because war in Stellaris can seriously burn me out.
The coolness of restoring my old, lost empire territory by pushing back the Scourge kept me going, the 200 years of waiting were easy. I just left the game running with tech on auto overnight and while I was at work. The galaxy-cleaning effort was tough yes, but I pushed through it because I knew the primitives were depending on me to give them a chance.
It was definitely a campaign for the scrapbook.
How were there primitives after the scourge held the galaxy for so long? Don’t they just kill everything?
@@redomer91after the Rain, the rainbow appears my friend
@@redomer91 They don't touch primatives for some odd reason. You would think they'd eat every planet, but apparently not. They only invade the worlds of spacefaring civs. Very strange. They didn't used to be that way tho, I clearly remember primitives getting eaten by the Scourge regularly back around 2.0.
i like the idea of the prikki guardians taking down the contingency in honor of the people who helped them see the light.
Declaring war on the prikkikiti makes sense because fallen empires will declare war on an empire if they are too genocidal
Come to think of it this looks like a more plausible scenario than usual Stellaris run:
1. Challenged by the dread of the galaxy's emptiness one species chose to become it's gardener another became paranoid with the Dark Forest idea to the point of embracing genocide.
2. Those two species go to war with each other and the good guys win.
3. Dark Forest proves to be true as Contingency activates right after a sufficiently advanced species becomes more active than usual.
4. The galaxy is reset to default by the Contingency - all is right with the universe.
"im not going to intervene in galactic affairs"
Prikki: "Lets introduce ourselves"
Honestly, you probably could've kept the Prikki Guardians as a vassal, destroyed a bunch of the outer outposts instead of handing them over, and treated them like a Scion Empire. Would've even been thematic, since you just had a big war to prevent the cleansing of the galaxy.
I think "existential threats to the galaxy" is a fair exception to the cannot declare wars rule.
Fantastic content as always
May bubbles live on in our memories
For the Prikki Guardians, I would probably have attempted to make more sectors (if possible) and then make multiple nations rather than 1 large one.
That’s a really good idea. I’m actually surprised I didn’t come up with that myself.
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon if you want to fiddle with sectors remember that sectors only connection if the systems are connected so by destroying a few starbases you can control the size of a sector/vassal
@@unknowndane4754you realise theres a edit sector button where you can choose which systems and planets are in each sector
The most underrated stellaris youtuber is back
That is a seriously nice compliment!
Lovely to see you do a more challenge like run
(Also attacking the Prikki is completely valid for the purpose of your run)
"The Finnish names sound ancient."
- The Wolf with the Dragon, 2023
Tech/unity rush for mega engineering would be a godsend for a second attempt at this run. Would love to see that
Variation: select the Remnant origin for flavor. Delay the crisis starts to give the foundlings a chance to grow. Spawn in *one* advanced start genocidal empire (guarantee it to spawn) as your nemesis somewhere in the galaxy. Your goal is not to destroy them, but rather to thwart their plans.
Your role: to shepherd as many primitives as you can before the galaxy is swallowed up by threats, then recede and only involve yourself in galactic affairs as needed when an urgent threat presents itself. No subjugation or vassalization or conquest, no blocking them in, etc. You enlighten each civilization, pull away to give them room to grow, and hope this generation of children will be able to face the threats that loom over them. And if not... only then do you step in to even the field.
Sounds like Vorlons vs Shadows from Babylon 5.
this is so funny that out of all the events in this massive game, the prikkiki-ti spawned.
sith the scaleless looking race trying to protect the galaxy from a bunch of geckos made me smile
I think a precurser war against your ideological nemesis would be reflective of the "war in heaven" in the lore, so should be allowed.
This video was so cool, definitely a goal to edit a stellaris video to at least half of this quality!
Maybe next time, you could have the crisis year start way later to allow yourself to have more of that fallen empire scariness!
Loved the viddy!
Thank you so much for your kind words! Yes, that is a good idea. Thank you for watching!
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon if you want to do a true fallen empire install zenith of fallen and sandbox and when u get the edict you can become a fallen empire.also love ur content❤.
Any time i ramp up primitives and remove other empires, there always ends up being like 3 or 4 who enter the space stage within a like 2 years. It actually kinda annoying
Maybe now that we have First Contact there are ways you could speed that up so that more enter the space stage.
Yeah same here. Usually ends up being one or two powerful empires that enter the space age early then proceed to conquer or uplift the rest into their unified Empire.
There's two mods I recommend for that.
The mod that allows you to start with an extra-galactic portal, basically allowing you to start as a empire from another galaxy colonizing the current one.
Or the playable fallen empires mod if it's still supported.
Bro you truly saved hundreds of million primitive souls from the sweet little lizzards. You are a true hero :)
I think I would've done a few things differently with the Prikki. I would've released each sector as its own nation and disbanded all the extra outposts. Granted, the main Prikki homeworld would've had the majority of their pops compared to the second nation, but I think I'd prefer they have a bit more competition.
Alternatively, you could've brought ALL the Prikki to your worlds, abandoned their space to the actual primitives and reformed them that way (via Governing Ethics attraction). It probably would've been a bit tricky with habitability issues, but it might've worked.
And that last scientist found a way to escape this dimension. Becoming a legendary paragon of Bubbles. He will return to destroy the Contingency for their crimes
Gigastructural engineering penrose sphere start is my favorite pseudo-fallen empire start. It can be a bit difficult, yes, but when you reach that end point, dear god is it worth it.
*Prikkiki-Ti breaks free; slow heavy metal music becoming increasingly furious*
Seriously though. A fallen empire run sounds interesting
Reforming the Prikiki-ti is cannonically how I imagine the "Scion" origin to work.
Really glad the algorithm's started blessing you. Love this content. ❤
Thank you! Yeah, I really hope it might stick despite my very slow momentum. Happy you enjoy it!
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You convinced me to finally do what I've been considering for ages. But with some slight changes. I would expand all over the galaxy. Having an insane economy and unlocking all the events while primitives ascend. Eventually i would vassalize all my sectors except my home world or the L Gate cluster. From their i would become a fallen empire and watch what becomes of the galaxy, only awakening for a crisis or fanatic purifier types
Damn that sounds cool! If you really wanna sow the crazy, you could release all these vassals and see what sort of paths they take. Like a parent watching their children go and probably make bad decisions.
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon exactly the plan
You should use the remnant origin, it really fit the vibe of a fallen empire
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Your content is great. Im surprised you don't get that many views
I’m glad I found this video. I’ve been really wanting to do a play through like this but haven’t been able to find much on it. So this video is exactly what I needed.
I would play as a holy guardian fallen empire just to crusade
Very nice video.
Remember to always check the estimate arrival time for fleets so they all come at the same time. Alternatively have all you faster fleets follow your slowest.
1:26 funny enough, Aeternum uses it too in gigastructures, so you aren't the only one!
I fully understand why every fallen empire doesn't want ANYTHING to do with the galaxy. I'm 3/4 the way through the video; and dealing with the Prikki and space dragon, and general stress, I would want to mind my own business as well.
I play something like this but as a "Middle Species". Max Primitives, Max Fallen Empires. I make it my mission to uplift as many primitives as I can and then give them independence after they adopt my civics. I don't do the 8 system rule. I do expand and contract as I uplift and give them independence.
That sounds fun! I’d like to try that some day.
Oh, hi there! Nice to see you back!
Thank you! :)
I love this video! Great vid man
Thank you! :)
Awesome! You're back :D
Just finished, the Prikkiki-Ti just showing up was really funny. But I thought there would be more pre-FTLs rising up.
I personally think out of the 3 Crises' the Contingency is the hardest since they come at the galaxy in 4 different directions.
It was a moment of slight panic. Haha. I also thought there would be more. Might have to make a retry. This was a few major patches ago after all.
Might be. But my issue was that I had simply not invested into alloys enough. I used to think there was such a thing as too much income, since if your storage is full it just gets wasted. But I know realize that they way to win wars like these is through building new ships faster than they kill yours and *fast*. And for that you want ridiculous alloy income and maybe a Mega-Shipyard. So next time I would have a different strategy prepared.
Thank you so much for watching!
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon A retry would be cool. I actually just started a run of my own with the current patch, and I also didn't invest into research and alloys nearly enough because despite every other Empire coming from a pre-FTL, I was still outclassed by half of them (there were actually enough to decently fill a Galactic Community) out of a dozen give or take (I didn't count them).
Yeah, resource silos on Starbases are also a good investment, even if you hit your stockpile, it'll take longer to get there.
This entire video is the greatest OOF.
Nice.
I like how only galactical threat forced you to dump pacifism
Fitting for a fallen empire i think.
If you find those geckos, *always* repair the shield. Let those monsters fry
Loving your Stellaris videos, with this one, I've now watched every one. Might do this one too, looked fun
Very interesting premise that I've thought of in the past a few times, mostly towards the end of my genocide playthroughs when I notice a pre-FTL civilization still exists. I might try this myself.
I would have gone for Remnants or Post-Apocalyptic origins as that they are more thematic with an empire that has fallen. Ring world and life seeded also thematically work as they were they show the power of the fallen empire had while Clone army and void dwellers would have works as roleplaying as surviving remnants of the empire.
Mod wise, the Dark Space adds a bunch of origins like Ninates, Vi and phoenix empire which are meant to be great civilisation making a come back.while solarflare is more of a empire that was in contact with a another empire, but it let's you have dark matter from the start..Dark space also allows you to become a fallen empire. Another mod is Planetary Diversity: Unique Worlds which adds a another set of origins that are basically great civilisations making a come back, but less OP as Dark Space.
there's also the Gigastructures mod which has more megastructure origins, but I would recommend installing it for the shipwrecks and cool tech.
Greatly enjoyed this. Subbed. Looking forward to more. Good vid
This is a super cool idea! Gonna give it a try, too. Thanks for the content!
You’re welcome! :)
Really, original, I’m going to try this myself, also, it would have been fun too see you use the prikiki as a vassal, kinda like the scion origin
Wolf: What if YOU were the Fallen Empire?
The Machine Age: Interesting idea...
Here’s what the AI fallen empires have that you don’t.
1. Already supremely high in tech (mid-end game levels)
2. Several fully formed fleets
3. An actual stock pile of resources from across the galaxy awaiting their collection.
You may have been FIRST, but you were the first to fall
I'm pretty sure there was a mod that lets you play as actual fallen emprie, not sure if it was updated since fall of rome tho.
There is aloso realy fun mod that lets you start in L-cluster, so you are completly isolated inside untill you get the gates open, kinda like fallen emprie with a twist.
Since the standard difficulty setting does not affect the crisis but does affect AI empires (as well as Space Fauna and Marauders) it might be more fitting to have it set to the one that gives no buffs
Although that way they wouldnt catch up to you ig so that might be an issue
Player: "So lets chill and let the world grow, before we blow it up"
Prikkiki-ti: "The roof, the roof is on fire!"
Wolf: Lets do this, no wars until my empire can rise from its stagnation.
*Iron Savior - "Kill or Get Killed" starts playing*
Prikkiki-Ti: "Buenos dias fboi"
Wolf: "Cowabunga it is"
This was a really interesting idea. Well done!
Thank you! :)
Your editing is amazing!
Thank you so much! :D
an easy way to deal with the contigency fleets is to spam disruptors as the contigency has a botoriously low amount of hull points compared to everything else.
Uhm... are you sure you're not thinking of the Unbidden?
@@Gustav_Kuriga nah, missiles for unbidden and artillery/kinetics seeing as they have almost only shields.
althought disruptirs are always a good option.
Another great video! Thanks!
Thank you! :)
Nice to see you are back
Thank you! :D
Gonna do this rule set, then reroll for a close L gate. Nowhere in the rules does it say you can’t unclaim systems, and if you slowly inch your way into the L cluster that’s the ultimate bastion
Super cool idea!
*Technically* it says ”8 contigous systems”, but please don’t let that stop you!
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon just settle your entire population on intermediate systems and unclaim old systems and pay the 200 influence to abandon colonies if necessary
@theelement92bomb4 Nah, just ignore that part and settle wherever. But no more than ~8 systems at a time.
@@TheWolfwiththeDragon IIRC L cluster is 8 systems. Assuming only being allowed to own 8 systems including homeworld:
I would leave one of the right systems unclaimed as they are binary/trinary making Dyson spheres and ring worlds not possible to be constructed.
Start as any origin besides ring world
Once you find a black hole have a single crewed science ship repeatedly enter said black hole system. That way you can claim multiple worlds while still only having 1 system, letting you start specializing worlds.
Alternatively, you could start the game with a single AI empire. There’s a 50/50 chance that that AI empire will be the Chosen which are only connected either the rest of the galaxy via a single wormhole. They are coded to not research wormhole stabilization until mid game year, giving you plenty of time to build up.
Just explore every single wormhole, you want to find the one that leads to Ithome’s Gate. It’s another good fortress system although not as good as Terminal Egress as there’s 3 habitats not planets. I believe there’s 7 systems in that cluster, and only the capital system has habitable planets that being 3 Gaia worlds. The other systems the Chosen build habitats in
1:28 I see what you've done there
Huh. Never thought of being a 'fallen empire' in this way. Very cool. 👍
Going to try it myself. Thanks!
Wolf: now time a for nice peacefull start, woth no one being abble to- wait, why do I hear boss music?
Prikki: did you miss us?
Surpised at 3:23 you didn't outright play Vordt of the Boreal Valley theme cause I would be panicking....fuck those geckos
Oh lord what have you done I’ve never heard or seen this game but now I’m falling deep in a rabbit hole
Welcome to my favorite game!
the murder geckos going from xenophobe militarist to xenophile pacifist and back XD holy moly
3:30 What soundtrack did you use here?
This actually looks like a really fun way to play Stellaris
Playing pacifist in Stellaris is like bringing a feather to tank warfare.
Really cool concept, would love to see it play out where you actually could be the fallen empire
I had no idea the Ether Drake would chase you down.
And remember: Always (ALWAYS!) repair this fricking shield.
Every playthrough ive done, no matter what race I choose, what government or where I go I fucking ALWAYS run into the Prakiki
This sounds like a really cool idea and I'll have to remember to try this myself sometime
Ive done this playthrough a few times. Mostly because i just wanted to see all the events without the ai empires getting them first. But by the heavens, that "anomaly discovered", "technology researched", "system survey complete"....on repeat for hours on end eventually made me stop doing this...or i take breaks in between
Would love to see another run like this!
Every time I try this three primitives achieve FTL 5 years into the game and i don't know how to stop it.
3:50 war in heaven?!?!
A tip fighting against most Crisis, use Destroyers with as many boosters as you can, either Hangar or Arc Emitters and have them using the Carrier computer, it'll kite around and widdle down the enemy. Use to the best effect with point defence.
i know i'm 6 months late but it's extremely funny to use Italian-esque music in a video about being a fallen empire
I havent watched the full video as of this comment, but the whole prikiki-ti thing, you could have kept them as a vassal and mimicked the start where you play as a subsidiary to a fallen empire and helped them grow/see if they ever try to rise up against you (if that is within the games capabilities). That could be fun.
If there was a God Father of Amoebe monster.Then He will be pissed that a centurian has died.
5:38 not letting your fleets regroup by the hyperlane entrance first hurt to see
Yep. Those are the kinda things you forget to do sometimes.
Did this once waaay back and tried to forge a United Federation of Planets sort of thing. That was the last time I went xenophile and that was 3-4 years ago
Why does Bubbles always die no matter the galactic cycle. Like that's just heartbreaking.
3:40 stopping a crisis does not count as war and both normal players and npcs don't need to declare war on them, so it's all good
How did you keep Pre-FTL civilizations (aside from the prikkiki) from forming? A friend and me are trying to replicate this challenge but new empires form withing 5 years of starting.
I think is it very much down to chance. But how fast it happens is apparently also based on their Awareness.
have to say, I enjoyed this
Fun to hear! ;)
10:40 400k power... That's what I thought before they destroyed my fleets, which had a total of 1,200k power. And they did it without loss :D
Bubbles died, you either become the crisis or die with him.
THEY WERE GUARDING THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY! XD
3:21 so we not going to talk about the future humans from Xelele sequence?
HES BACK! THE GOAT
prikikiti can be another fallen empire, fanatic purifier vs fanatic xenophiles
I play the adeptus mechanicus from WH40K with the industrialist and some cult that worships the leader I turn every planet into tomb worlds and build habitats for research and lots of hydroponics star base buildings
I have tried but have yet to find the perfect civic- and playstyle-mix to play the Mechanicus. I’ve never thought of turning the worlds into tomb worlds but it sounds cool. Machine worlds would also do perhaps.
this was fucking great. just a pity not more primitives rose up ig. id love to see more like this
Never ask Prikki what they did before 2318