I love the combination of Hyper-Relay network and a few well placed gateways for getting your fleets ANYWHERE within weeks, as apposed to months as previous. Means you can set of supply lines just behind any bottlenecks and fleet redeployment becomes a doddle.

@jamesonallen-mosby1740

2 жыл бұрын

Truly the American Army in the stellaris era

@HaleTheFreeVoice

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I did this in a solo game and it was insane 😂😂😂 everytime I got attack I was like “not today” 😂😂😂

@fieldy409

2 жыл бұрын

Psh, real men would simply build a gateway on every system.

@Shinzon23

2 жыл бұрын

"Doodle"?

@RexMK-

2 жыл бұрын

Hyper Relays for local trasportation between systems and start cluster (And Fleet Mobilization) and Gateways for long distance jumps between the colonies to capital and viceversa and Extra-Sector Movement (For collecting all that sweet Trade Value)

As someone who barely understands how jobs work, this might was well be magic

@MontuPlays

2 жыл бұрын

I hope it helped?

@Thought_Processing_

2 жыл бұрын

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

@penguinsrockrgr8yt216

2 жыл бұрын

Every planet has pops or populations 1 pop needs 1 job To get jobs build buildings and districts on planets Once a pop has a job it will produce whatever the job is for

@malakifraize4792

2 жыл бұрын

Me but irl

@berengerchristy6256

2 жыл бұрын

this game does a poor job of teaching you how to play it. I'd like it more if it did. I guess I subscribe to the doom eternal philosophy of explaining every mechanic. stellaris doesn't even have a tech tree that I can find. how does a 4x strategy game not have an in game tech tree, and if it does, why is it so hard to find? couldn't figure out how to use the ship builder, either. I'd have to rely on youtube videos, which is dumb imo. now that I work for a living (instead of being a student with nearly unlimited free time), I understand the appeal of games that are "easy"

Ever since the addition to the hyper-relay network the game has gotten alot better since I can actually get my fleets across my empire in a timely fashion instead of taking forever to redeploy which was a pain especially if you're fighting two empires on different sides of your empire. So now I make a "highway" to each of my border systems to my shipyard system, so now when I declare war I can get my fleets to the front line easily.

@MontuPlays

2 жыл бұрын

Hyper relays are one of the best new features in 3.4!

@jameshildebrand907

2 жыл бұрын

The description of what unfolded when I first saw hyper relays in action would be: Spit take.

@kotzpenner

2 жыл бұрын

The speed is insane. I sent a construction ship from one end to the other of my empire to build something, but not given the build order yet (no ressources) , in the back of my head it was like "oh it will take probably a year to arrive so ignore it for now", and it arrived in a few ingame weeks already lol. Really surprised me

@jameshildebrand907

2 жыл бұрын

@@kotzpenner The mistake I made was thinking I could take a drink of water after I issued the order.

@cmontygman

2 жыл бұрын

@@kotzpenner Sometimes I like just sending my fleets across my empire between wars just to see how long it takes lol

Before hyper relays I just put gateways in all my systems so my fleets could travel basically anywhere even enemy territory if I conquered it and it had a gateway

@michasokoowski6651

2 жыл бұрын

So you basically played wormhole space travel origin from pre rework :P

@joelfilho2625

2 жыл бұрын

I always also put one regular gateway on terminal egress (the L-cluster system), so I could pop in anywhere in the galaxy that was nearby a regular gateway or an L-gate, though it meant I had to defend Terminal Egress pretty hard.

@onemorescout

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelfilho2625 Upside of this is you can have a strong fleet camp the L-Gate and destroy most enemy reinforcements that try using it

@williamschubert4819

2 жыл бұрын

@@joelfilho2625 yeah I just put a Gateway on the L-gate and have a long range starbase to engage the enemy fleets, and a big fleet or two to fight them.

There's also Experimental Subspace Navigation, though available only to Science Ships.

@N1ghthavvk

2 жыл бұрын

This is especially important if you're locked behind a FE or Marauder. You can also use the "return to homebase" button to initiate a Missing In Action retreat, if you're stuck behind locked borders.

@macklenscribner7176

2 жыл бұрын

@@N1ghthavvk ....I've been unassigning the scientist and deleting the ship to rebuild for years. Wow. I'm an idiot.

@veajakorobearej1369

2 жыл бұрын

@@macklenscribner7176 not so idiotic science ships is fast to build

@tarpon4104

2 жыл бұрын

It saved my lvl 10 scientist ass if they're engaged in combat, cause if you want to click retreat you must wait a 50 days iirc, even a minute they wouldn't even survived. So i just right click the nearest system to they appear quickly (mia) then click experimental subspace navigation

You should have maybe mentioned that Gateways allow for trade to flow directly through them, which means that you don't need to worry about pirate protection. On top of that collection range passes through the gateway, meaning that one starbase with trade income collection is enough to cover your entire empire if you build your gateways in every sector capital and later on in every system with a colony.

@joeandrew8752

2 жыл бұрын

They should probably change that or give these bonuses also to th or relay network

@TheRealWormbo

2 жыл бұрын

@@joeandrew8752 Technically, relay networks only change the travel speed, but you still need to visit every system. In other words, pirates could just set up shop near a relay and grab their share of the trade value there. But I agree that it should at least reduce the effects of piracy for inner relay nodes, since the (imaginary) civilian ships transporting the trade value spend way less time in the system.

@RexMK-

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRealWormbo Not mention that the Relay Nodes also reduces the response rime of the authorities in the sector so not only the Pirates have less time to intercept civilians ship, they have to remain vigilant of patrol ships lurking in the network and since bigger merchant ships will have a bigger escort they will be forced to prey of small ships wich again reduces how much they can pick.

@francisharkins

2 жыл бұрын

Is Pirate AI spawn still broken once you get a Dyson Sphere online though? I remember having a Dyson Sphere back when Nemesis came out and that was the only system that ever got attacked by pirates which meant RIP pirates because that system was protected by a Bastion station and any Leviathans I could get my hands on such as the Ether Drake baby and the Dreadnought.

@LCInfantry

2 жыл бұрын

@@francisharkins it’s somewhat random. Ummm, play more then one game

I thought this video was gonna be about the older versions of the game where there were multiple ftl travel technologies you could pick at the start, and you could travel normally without using the hyperlanes. Maybe that's a future video idea? Covering how much the mechanics of the game have changed since the early versions.

@argmarwell

2 жыл бұрын

yes, it was the hyperlanes, the FTL jumps (where you upgraded the jump distances) and the 3rd was a mix where you had some ships that had FTL and they could build hyperlanes... the 3rd had advantages, but it had been to long.

@lamename2010

2 жыл бұрын

@@argmarwell What "build hyperlanes". It was warp, hyper and wormholes. Warp which allowed you to go anywhere but slowly, hyper with our familiar hyperlanes, which let you get boxed in (used to be a much bigger issue, when their map generation was not as good) and wormholes, which involved having a wormhole cover multiple systems, allowing to jump to it and then to a 2nd system. Iirc the range increased as your tech got better, so maybe that is what you meant for your 2nd one.

@antilarge7860

Жыл бұрын

@@lamename2010 that guy is a idiot lol you are correct

@samuelyoung5664

Жыл бұрын

I preferred this as it truly made each play through feel unique. I also preferred using the wormhole option.

I really like how cheap hyperrelays are and how even the AI will build some

@Fluigueu

2 жыл бұрын

For now, they even overbuild them .-.

sees video title, remembers wormhole stations is sad

@MontuPlays

2 жыл бұрын

Should have had a trigger warning for veterans because, lets be fair, some wounds never heal fully

I really missed the oldschool type of wormhole ftl, it was so diferent and I loved it, but they removed it, and so I was thinking about how they could use wormholes in some other creative ways, and so I thought about something similar to the fleet yeeter, but actually usefull and fun: 1- you could build a megastructure in the wormhole (that I imagine looking like the mass efect relay) which would allow you to move the other end point to other position, yet with a very long recharge time or costly to move it again or 2- " " that would create another wormhole for a short period of time and with some good time/costly to recharge with costly I mean, like having you spend 1k energy to open it and like 3-5k per month to keep the wormhole opened or whatever to keep it balanced, it would give a lot of mobility for your fleet, like any other, fun, useful, yet not broken.

@RobinTheBot

2 жыл бұрын

I miss it too, but it did in fact make balance impossible. It was so obviously better than any other option, and it made galaxy geometry irrelevant. Just a bunch of range circles, especially at higher levels.

@Fafuncho

2 жыл бұрын

​@@RobinTheBot true, I mean, they could have made some structure like "wormhole cacher" in the stations, that could afect other sistems in some radius, but still I understood it. That is why I thought of those other options with megastructures, I thought "if they brought back not moving trough the sistem with one, why not something similar?" They will probably never see my ideas, but I hope anyway haha

I like how the hyper relays allow you to counter jump drives. As long as you can be anywhere in your empire in 200 days you can step on anyone trying to go around your defense.

I just wanted to say thank you. I heard you comment in a recent video that you are new to owning a KZread channel. I had no idea. I have been following your videos since I started play Stellaris. It was a couple months ago. I could not have learned this game without your help. I consider myself a man of science, so when I saw you posting videos with actual tests and data, I made sure to watch everything you have posted. Thank you on behalf of myself and the Smartfridge Animus as we eliminate these pesky organics.

They should have a spy operation which allows you to take control of an enemy gateway

@ekscalybur

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Paradox wants to listen to the massive bitching that'll inevitably happen when every persons game has them dealing with a DOZEN other empires hacking their gateways.

All of these methods pale in comparison to the mighty "missing in action" reinforcement ships which can travel anywhere in the galaxy, bypass all enemy defenses and arrive precisely where they mean to without needing any kind of research or supporting building and suffer no penalties on arrival. Truly the most powerful and effective means of traveling through space.

The only problem with these hyper relays that I have noticed in my recent games is that it forces you to often take an unfavourable stance when entering another system for combat. (especially with the unbidden) It has been the case that I want to enter a system with enemy ships, but instead of doing so by using a hyperlane, and thus putting me at a good distance away from my enemies where my range is superior, it forces me to use the hyper relay and I will then appear right on top of the enemy fleet. Hope they add functionality to move your fleets using hyperlanes if you want to, for example by clicking on the neighbour system arrows...

I really don’t miss the old days where you had to select your mode of ftl travel when you made a civilisation. Sure it was fun at times but the other 2 kinds had massive drawbacks and things that made them broken…

@Snakester789

2 жыл бұрын

I do miss some of the variety they brought but i also remember how annoying it was to chase warp drive AIs all over the place. I think most people (that i know at least) were setting their games to force hyperlane travel anyway by the time the others were removed.

@luggy9256

2 жыл бұрын

@@Snakester789 yea the variety was cool, but the ability to completely ignore ftl inhibitors from the start of the game was busted, plus the charge up time and travel time for the other types of ftl were kinda dumb. Part of me wishes it was an option you could toggle, but at the same time it made balance so weird.

@DoremiFasolatido1979

2 жыл бұрын

Hyperlanes were the only problem. Those were the only ones that needed to be removed.

@DoremiFasolatido1979

2 жыл бұрын

@@Snakester789 Welcome to actual space warfare. Get over it.

@luggy9256

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 so you dislike the one they kept?

Your videos get me so hyped to play stellaris again when I get back from vacation. Thanks a bunch for all the educational and very well-made content!

Superthanks for making these tutorials, very helpful for new players!

Last time I was this early, we didn't use hyperlanes yet

@grahamturner2640

2 жыл бұрын

Hyper lanes were a thing in version 1.0. The only difference was that at the start, you could choose 1 of 3 methods of FTL travel (the other 2 being warp drives and generated wormholes).

Rick Moranis is such a treasure

I'd love to play the mirror dimension with warp drives. (and constantly fighting warp beasts)

Would be cool if a Hyper Relay Network let you make ships without FTL drives and still be able to move them on the network. Not sure the savings would be worth it by that point, but maybe!

@erichzannbusoumuzan

2 жыл бұрын

I think this will make combat retreat (both emergency and disengage) impossible if it were implemented. Still, if someone were to mod-in "Hyperlane network denialists" origin that starts you in a world with 2 natural wormholes, forbids you to use hyperlanes (but lets you jump between starbases) and instead forces you to rely on short-ranged and unreliable temporary wormhole generators to explore, that would make for a very good role-play origin.

@cosmosyn2514

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichzannbusoumuzan Yeah but no ship retreat is a moot point when you take no retreat. ;)

Yoo remember warp drives and wormholes generators?

Usually my go-to is to have a set of gateways networked to bottlenecks and the central shipyards system but not connected to any other systems as a way of separating the economic zones from military. It's nice to have the hyper relay network through the economic areas now instead of jumping ships to wherever they're needed internally

As someone who is a science nerd and teaches logistics and supply chain at university, this video makes me very happy. I just want a space logistics game.

@cmdrtianyilin8107

2 жыл бұрын

@Phillis "Dick" Black That's the one, and Eve Online. Thanks, Mr. "Dick" Black.

I recommend building a gateway next to the L gate in terminal egress for a instant gateway network

@TheWoblinGoblin

2 жыл бұрын

Bonus points when you additionally start to build gateways on one side of wormholes

Once you've researched it, science ships can use the experimental subspace navigation to go pretty much anywhere, so there's that.

Yay! I'm like 1200! Super cool and informative video btw!

It is my Headcannon that in my Empire Hyper Relays and Gateways are used for local transportation and long range transportation respectively. Relays create a Hyperspace Higways that make logistics between the Capital, the Colonies and Permanents Space Outpost a breeze, they are also used for both civilian, mercatile and militar porpouses. Gateways however are more for jumping between one sector to the other, and for quick mobilization if there is a war, they also make commercial and cultural exchage between colonies super efficient. These two system combiened are a logistix powerhouse and in times of war the enemies of the Technocracy can not hope to stand agaisnt us, we can defend our space with unprecedent effienciency and our logistics coors have no rival. Our civilians can move across the empire with umprecedent speed, in just hour they can be at the otherside of their home sector, just in mere days they can move to one side of the empire to the other. And lets not even mention how our Quatum Catapult make deep space exploration a doodle.

Oh my thank you Montu!

I just spread as fast as I could towards gateways early game, securing chains of the pipeline with fortress systems, and building shipyards at the gateway systems. By the time L space attacks, I can move fleets to the corners and center of my empire rapidly and replenish losses easily.

It's going to be a while before I remember to check for the edicts after I set up relays. My brain just doesn't register they exist yet.

It could be pretty cool if you were able to upgrade Hyper Relays into gateways once the required technology's have been researched

Terminal Egress is the most powerful (potentially anyways) system you can own in the game. It can act as the ultimate tunnel for you to hold. It can have a Hyper Relay, the L-gate, a Gateway, and the Shroud Tunnel all in one system. Combined it not only gives multiple methods of getting in, but getting out. On one end this means that you can easily move anything to and fro. On the flip your enemy can do the same to you since there are so many ways of entering it as such. But, you can build a fully militarized starbase, along with potentially up to 3 planets with orbital rings (which are also militarized) means it'd take a massively dedicated force in order to actually take it out. Not to mention just parking all your ships, or at least a lot of them, means that almost nothing could take the system from you.

@Sorain1

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the closest thing to Manticore from the Honor Harrington series that can happen in Stellaris, and I kind of want that as a start now...

@TheNN

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sorain1 I've managed to hold the system against 5x strong fleets from a crisis with just pure system defenses and a Juggernaut. At 10x or if there's too much of a concentrated force, you need to keep more fleets there to hold it. Anything less than a 5x crisis and it's basically invincible.

Ok, here's a question. If I build a hyper relay in a system where one side of0 a wormhole or gateway is and a hyper relay on the other side, will those hyper relays be connected?

@AdmiralTails

2 жыл бұрын

No. Though you can still cut down on the travel time substantially by building the hyper relay next to the wormhole, do this on both ends and it will be almost equivalent to them being linked for the purposes of ship travel, but they will not be considered linked for other purposes.

Before this version, I just built a gateway in each system with a colony. Responding to enemy movements was easy and quick.

I love that scene from Spaceballs!! Whats a matter Colonel Sanders, chicken?!

I would love a wormhole focused Origin. One that gives you the ability open up new wormholes via an expensive and time consuming method. These wormholes would then randomly connect to another system somewhere in the galaxy with the potential of it causing some sort of event. Lots of potential there.

Its cool finding a system called Heaven's Gate (L-Gate + Wormhole). I usually conquer it and build a Gateway to link to my empire's transit network. During wartime, I just mass all my fleets in the L-Gate HQ, go through the closest gateway/wormhole to enemy's border, and jump drive onto the enemy's capital. Enemy fleets won't invade far into your borders when they're rushing back to their homeworld about to be vaporized by a Colossus. XD

I play on small map size, so jump drives and psi drump drives are delightful but also too good. The AI might be getting better at jump driving post-Overlord, but it still feels like a huge advantage for the player, allowing me to clean up all the empires that rivaled mine in a stalemate before that point through superior concentration of forces.

I kind of miss the original FTL options. I get the why they pulled out warp drive and wormhole generators but the differing options was something to work around. Part of why fortress systems were jokes for so long.

11:40 (Example of accessing L-Gate near Black Hole and a small cluster of stars outside the main Galactic body!!)

Note that the shroud tunnel can also affect your leaders

One element I don't think you touched upon here, is which limitations on the use of the different methods exist. As far as I can remember, you cannot for instance use an enemy gateway before occupying the system it is in, but the L-gates are always available even if you are at war with the owner of the system

love the Spaceballs start, lmao

Super thanks

I think all these new transportation methods, especially the quantum catapult now being a thing as well, should warrant a new type of non-unique megastructure, a 'Stellar Fortress'. The Stellar Fortress is a huge defensive structure with massive fleet power that generates a large area, into and from which no 'funny' modes of hostile transport are possible. This includes jump drives, quantum catapults L-gates and the Psy-gate thingy. Essentially, it's an upgrade of the hyperlane-blocker. A mega-citadel that can actually stand up to an X-slot battleship fleet and also blocks any attempts to circumvent it.

All your opening scenes.... You've watched more OG films than I can ever hope to. Lol

I was hoping for a moveable gateway (megastructure) or the ability to create new hyperlanes (as in MoO4).

"Logistics" and supplies. That's something Stellaris could benefit from. HOI4 team should have a look at this game.

When are we getting a body pillow in the merch store?

Rip the fun diversity of early Stellaris. The first versions of the game had 3 distinct playable ftl types, hyperlane, warp and wormhole. Each empire had one type, picked at game start, you could never unlock the others and they had a huuuge effect on strategy. I think one of the main reasons they scrapped it was that the AI was utterly unable to deal with a wormhole player race (they were my favourite though, you could jump between arms in a spiral galaxy at very early tech) They added pale shadows of some of these techs as mid or endgame research, but it's not even nearly the same. How they worked: Warp races could move directly between any two stars independent of the hyperlane linkages, transit was slower than a hyperlane and scaled directly off distance. Wormhole races built generators in systems they owned, that could then throw a fleet from the local system to any system in range, or pull a fleet from one of those systems back to the generator. The early Stellaris meta didn't use starfortress spam, because wormholers or warpers would just leapfrog those stars and wreck you from the back, you couldn't create or hold 'frontlines'. Possibly another reason for the simplification, war in a hyperlane only galaxy works just like a player might expect from terrestrial combat games, your tactical experience is valid; you can build lines, encircle etc. Both of the other FTL forms went around these measures and left you with probably no strategic experience to draw on save that earned in Stellaris

Soo hyper Lane relays eksists now great.

I still miss the good old warpdrives

I always build one Gateway in the systems with L-Gates and Wormholes to technically expand my highway system for free

I picked up the game three weeks ago after taking a three year brake. What happened to Warp FTL drive?

The biggest sad moment I had with the game was when hyperlanes became the only starting ftl method for the game. I loved starting with... I don't really remember what it was called but it was a jump drive.

If you activate the Warlock bonus, you can probably manage to jump to the L-Cluster from the edge of the galaxy.

Still pretty new to Stellaris, is there ever a reason to create smaller ships when you have access to bigger ones? Like if I have battleships, is there a reason for me to ever build cruisers, destroyers, or corvettes?

@haihuynh8772

2 жыл бұрын

Corvettes are useful for patrolling your systems to counter piracy. Larger ships are much slower with worse tracking, causing them to easily arrive far too late to the actions and maybe get harassed to death by smaller ships they can’t hit. So you can have fleets of small ships to quickly respond to threats while your large fleets are away or to circle around the enemy to strike their back as your larger fleets occupy their frontlines.

Where is the best place in system to build a Hyper lane relay ? As not building it on the side of the hyper lanes would mean your ships comes out in another place too right ? So isn't it better to build in the oppesite side in case of invaders ?

Can we talk about Stellaris Console Edition and why it’s so behind the PC edition and lacking in so many features from the latest Stellaris update?

When where Relays and Catapults introduced, i only ever had the ability to built gateways in dozens of games. 😶

Speeeeeeeed

So this is how they did the kessel run

Just a thought, is it better to have a gate way in every system or a hyper relay? Ignoring the cost of both

@drakicsondara5603

2 жыл бұрын

Cuz I have always preferred gateway networks but I do like hyper relays cuz they are cheaper

Are Hyper Relays in a DLC or are they part of the base game? I’m very new, only got the starter pack a few weeks after Overlord came out.

@MontuPlays

2 жыл бұрын

They are part of Overlord, so yes a DLC

You used my favorite movie you beauty bastard

I always end up putting enough gateways down that every system I own is within 3 jumps of each other

Now I want an spy operation wich lets you disable Hyperrelays or Gateways for some time

Hyper Relays are the best FTL method in Overlord and no one can change my mind.

For a sec I thought this was a video from 1.0 based off the thumbnail and title lol

Hey any chance you will do an updated void dwellers build? I know void dwellers are bad right now but I still enjoy playing them. Haven't seen a single youtuber play this origin in a while.

@onchristieroad

2 жыл бұрын

I don't feel they are "bad", but I know what you mean. Obviously, their merchant trade build still largely works, but I feel they do suffer from the massive costs of habitats early on for very few districts and with uneven sprawl.

I kinda miss the old system where u could've picked what ftl method u wanted to start with.

Shroud beacon, more like the emperor holy light

Wormholes and L-gates are one of the worst things to have in your empire, most of the time it's a curse. A half reliable way I found to "disable" them is by making the system a small subjugated empire and make sure they don't join in wars.

remember the 1.0? where you choose your starting ftl Drive? 😂

all are just so sad with hyperlanes now, even if understandable and would be complete insane chaos with the original other two, and i guess yay for all the stargates and Ori supergates complete with Replicators on the other side but still... they took my damn wormhole stations away ... though at least the Quantum helps a bit now.. hm, never tried see what megastructures colossus can destroy if any, would be funny to take out main nanite gate

@AdmiralTails

2 жыл бұрын

Colossus cannot destroy any mega-structures except for ring world segments (and habitats and orbital rings if you want to count those). Star eater can by consuming the star, which is why terminal egress is now always a black hole like the L-gate systems themselves, so Crisis empires can't lock themselves into the L-cluster, and everyone else out.

Why have I never seen the hyper relay or catapult before?? I've researched everything except for the end game research that never actually ends.

I miss the original three different FTL options.

L-gates fucked me over when contingency and war in heaven happened at once and suddenly I had to zoom around my empire defending everything at once because of them. But once peace arrived after 120 years I fortified the shit out of Lgate system to the point any enemy fleet got rekt while trying to travel through

Well, what about the warp drives... XD

Hyper Relay it's a nice adition to the game. Saddly isn't polished enough. An error that seems simple, but in certain conditions is critical: The ship pathfinder ignores the distance to travel, prefering ever to use Hyper Relays. So, if your fleet is on a system right on the hyperlane entrance to other system linked by Hyper Relay, the pathfinder will obligue the fleets to travel the whole system than just use the entrance... Would be reaaaally sad if next on the Hyper Relay had a enemy fleet that 2~3x stronger than yours...

hyper relay? when did that get added?

@MontuPlays

2 жыл бұрын

Overlord DLC

Are hyper relays new?

@SalvLav

Жыл бұрын

Overlord dlc

Eh warp drives are more convinent,

woooooow

dumbed down version: hyper relays = stellaris version of Mass Effect Relay's

Am I the only one, who lost a fleet because fleets only travel via Hyper-relays? From another system's jump point, instead of just use the hyperdrive, my fleet went to the other side of the system, to the Hyper-relay, and got destroyed. Is there a way, to force fleets to use their hyperdrive in situations, like this?

It’s annoying to have to chase enemy ships through hyperrelay networks so I don’t build them all the way to my borders so they can’t move too quickly through my systems.

@DoesRocksFloat

9 ай бұрын

Why you letting them into your borders in the first place?

@EnthrallingBass140

9 ай бұрын

@@DoesRocksFloat because there is a point in the game where your empire is so vast you can’t have a fleet at every entrance to your empire.

Drinking game: take a shot every time you hear ''hyper relay''

One of the more annoying things about hyper relays is that AI will spam them absolutely everywhere, which would be nice, if not for the fact that it will spam them even in places where you actually would be doing perfectly fine without them. More annoying than increased energy upkeep is the increased strategic resources upkeep, wasting those resources for no good reason.

well i am happy if i can jump out of my homesystem once before something declares war on me and fully annexes me...

Not going to lie, every time someone says the actual name of a technology, I feel like it's the first time I've ever heard it. I almost never look at the tech name itself. Am I the only one?

@ericrollin2331

2 жыл бұрын

Certain ones I tend to remember if they're tied to something else like ship based techs or the ones required for ascension paths otherwise yeah they're pretty much a blur.

I hate the L-gates, the AI just abuses it's micromanagement advantage to harass me constantly via L gates and it's a nightmare to keep track of where they all are. I'd love a way to actually shut them down or remove the ability for enemy fleets to just go straight through terminal egress even if I control it.

@SalvLav

Жыл бұрын

If you mean enemy empires, you can usually make fortress stations on the l-gate systems, that will stop or at least slow down enemy fleets, especially if you max out bombardment dmg, and stack 3k+ armies on them. If it the unbidden/contingency, then yeah you are fucked

luv

@MontuPlays

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support!

theyve gone to plaid...

I wonder if there are animation mods, the original hyperdrive jump animation looks pretty lame, want it to look more like the movies where they jump in separately

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I would recommend one change in the "disable the relay network scattere strike" approach - use cruisers instead of battleships. cruisers have a significantly higher chance to escape instead of being destroyed, are faster, and of cause chaper. thus one can easily send in a bit more fleets, be a bit less careful with them, and still have similar or lower losses while having the same effect on the enemy heck... one might even purposefully engage the enemy with these cruiser fleets in "fights to the death" (with the supremacy war doctrine that increases disengagement chance active) and thus tie down the enemy with fairly low chance of taking serious losses given the rather incredible chance of cruisers to get away cleanly even when defeated

@TheBardSM

2 жыл бұрын

>not running the no retreat war doctrine.

A shame they kept the hyper-relay behind a dlc. On one hand yes I get it they want money but on the other hand it's selling the solution to a problem they caused.

@DoesRocksFloat

9 ай бұрын

Jump drives are still a thing.

@poilboiler

9 ай бұрын

@@DoesRocksFloat Irrelevant. They're late game tech and you can't use them anywhere near as early as hyper-relays