Eternity RPC Board
01-25-2018, 02:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-25-2018, 02:43 AM by Seperallis.)
I don't feel like writing a lot tonight, but I had a pretty fun Stellaris game as the United Roaches of Earth, which is probably the first or second empire anyone who picks up the game ever plays because of COURSE it is. The general premise being, we were like the super cool and egalitarian humans of Start Trek...except we were mutated roaches, humanity having offed itself in nuclear holocaust some centuries prior.
My roaches still had normal human names, though, as did our ships. Because of course they did.
Anyway, the game started off peacefully enough. I went hard on the exploration and expansion, formed the United Federation of Planets with my neighbor and first-contact (who looked suspiciously like Vulcans), and then proceeded to freedomize all the space autocrats. I didn't war much outside of the early game and a larger, later struggle with some large psionic bird empire that was no match for the superior technology and power of me & my federation; we broke it apart into small tributary states, while one of my friends vassalized what remained. Aside from one pacifist empire that basically did nothing all game, the federation ruled basically the entire galaxy in 120 years. Not bad for my first game.
![[Image: ZOW4bJ2l.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/ZOW4bJ2l.jpg)
I won the game, but didn't get credited with the win, either in steam or via the in-game "you win" splash screen that pops up. Instead, it credited the win to one of the tiny, single-planet vassal-states that I recently liberated from the psycho-space-birds. I knew deep inside the victory was for me, but I was still disappointed at having been cheated out of the satisfaction of a neat screenshot because of a stupid bug.
No pun intended.
![[Image: hQiwOx5l.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/hQiwOx5l.jpg)
">>blank<< has won a federation victory." Damn bug couldn't even give me a proper name, wtf is this.
The game progressed from there, with a disturbing lack of warfare...until the militant isolationist Fallen Empire declared war on one of my federation members. I wish I had some good pictures of it, but I don't; the combined federation fleet roflstomped them hard and just rampaged through their space. After the first engagement, it wasn't even a contest.
Now, though, well, I accidentally awoke the other FE, the Blorg, a group of Benevolent Interventionists...who are, admittedly, the best FE to awaken because they're so "nice." However, I refused their intergalactic peace treaty, and so now the entire galaxy is at war with them, and losing. I would be better off accepting the peace deal, but I'm looking to hold on until I can get away with not losing a planet to them, though it's no big concern if I do; I have about 40 more of them.
That's where I am in that game: space roaches conquering the galaxy through diplomacy (and a little warfare), who are now embroiled in a war with an enemy who is far, FAR superior to them in every way. That's where I left off, while I worked on an idea in my next Stellaris game.
Yeah. That's all.
My roaches still had normal human names, though, as did our ships. Because of course they did.
Anyway, the game started off peacefully enough. I went hard on the exploration and expansion, formed the United Federation of Planets with my neighbor and first-contact (who looked suspiciously like Vulcans), and then proceeded to freedomize all the space autocrats. I didn't war much outside of the early game and a larger, later struggle with some large psionic bird empire that was no match for the superior technology and power of me & my federation; we broke it apart into small tributary states, while one of my friends vassalized what remained. Aside from one pacifist empire that basically did nothing all game, the federation ruled basically the entire galaxy in 120 years. Not bad for my first game.
![[Image: ZOW4bJ2l.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/ZOW4bJ2.jpg)
I won the game, but didn't get credited with the win, either in steam or via the in-game "you win" splash screen that pops up. Instead, it credited the win to one of the tiny, single-planet vassal-states that I recently liberated from the psycho-space-birds. I knew deep inside the victory was for me, but I was still disappointed at having been cheated out of the satisfaction of a neat screenshot because of a stupid bug.
No pun intended.
![[Image: hQiwOx5l.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/hQiwOx5.jpg)
">>blank<< has won a federation victory." Damn bug couldn't even give me a proper name, wtf is this.
The game progressed from there, with a disturbing lack of warfare...until the militant isolationist Fallen Empire declared war on one of my federation members. I wish I had some good pictures of it, but I don't; the combined federation fleet roflstomped them hard and just rampaged through their space. After the first engagement, it wasn't even a contest.
Now, though, well, I accidentally awoke the other FE, the Blorg, a group of Benevolent Interventionists...who are, admittedly, the best FE to awaken because they're so "nice." However, I refused their intergalactic peace treaty, and so now the entire galaxy is at war with them, and losing. I would be better off accepting the peace deal, but I'm looking to hold on until I can get away with not losing a planet to them, though it's no big concern if I do; I have about 40 more of them.
That's where I am in that game: space roaches conquering the galaxy through diplomacy (and a little warfare), who are now embroiled in a war with an enemy who is far, FAR superior to them in every way. That's where I left off, while I worked on an idea in my next Stellaris game.
Yeah. That's all.