Don't forget to build 3 resource silos. You've got 15k storage capacity at the beginning, and need 20k for the ecu. Forgot that the first time I tried here. No one's gonna see this probably since it's a really late comment.

@user-ds2rb7nl9l

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing you are wrong my friend

@davecrupel2817

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ds2rb7nl9l except he's not wrong.

@TigreDemon

3 жыл бұрын

@@davecrupel2817 I guess he was "wrong" on the "No one's gonna see this probably since it's a really late comment."

@Monsieur_Alan

3 жыл бұрын

huh, would ya look at that

@davecrupel2817

3 жыл бұрын

@@TigreDemon Comments aren't invisible just because they fit in your category of "hate comment" status. Nor are they ignored by everyone for that either.

Ah yes, pacifist materialist. They enjoyed minecraft creative mode so much they invented space travel just so they could build Coruscant.

12:32 “Hey, you know those robots we’ve been meaning to design?” “Yeah? What about them?” “I’ve figured out how to modify them for specific jobs!” “Oh, you figured out how to build them!” “No.” Edit: wrote this right before you choose Robots first.

The biggest take-away [but not the only one] we get from this exercise is understanding the tech tree and how to work backwards from the target tech in the most efficient way. I've seen you do this in other videos, but this one is particularly well done, sir.

Volatile clearing + slums... hmm

@Exodon2020

3 жыл бұрын

Kaboom! 💥

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Aggressive anti-poverty program :P

@PerfectAlibi1

3 жыл бұрын

They're rocks that poop the volatile motes! I'm sure it's only as dangerous to them as getting slapped is to us... XD

@krankysfirebrand485

3 жыл бұрын

We will cut all homeless people in half

Xeno compatiblity :sick:

stefon: of course our first tradition is domination for its start effect me: shocked Pikachu

And I thought I was doing well getting one by 88

@alexfrance8864

3 жыл бұрын

I thought 2340 was good lol

that’s amazing Stefan. This is genius and also the one video i needed for new tech rushing. I remember seeing this challenge in the discord with LlamaTic, too. I was writing this when you gave him the shoutout in the video!

Imagine being somekind of an observer in the galaxy and you see this one deviant empire that seems highly interested in just big building. So you sit and watch while the rest of the galaxy evolves as you expect and then you see 23 years after the empires truly became spaceborne the deviant empire just yeeting shit off their homeworld and making it into a big boi building. *Maybe this is why crisis invade? The deviants like their big buildings too much* I don't know why i wrote this

@monchyd6519

3 жыл бұрын

Random 20 year old Empire: im gonna do whats called a progamer move 😂

@Vulturefist

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t care WHY you wrote this, but man, I’m really glad you did. Well done Sir, well done indeed! Edit: Spelling. Sigh.

@Bloodlyshiva

3 жыл бұрын

Well, the Contingency is specifically designed to stop us going to insane technology status that dooms everything.

Every video that you do revives my interest in the game. Thank you

Holy shit. I made that thumbnail! Thanks for using a Stellaris pic I posted to Twitter dude!

Big pog, more content, and a very good, well detailed strategy to boot

Hey this build ROCKS, Stefan!

very useful techinque and strategy explanation, thanks!

Materialists rejoice!

@jozsefkalmar7054

3 жыл бұрын

My technocracy found the "Solaris" planet and the Old God Shrines. It's a Megachurch now. Please don't judge xD

@MrTeddy12397

3 жыл бұрын

-1000 Soulless Machines

@davecrupel2817

3 жыл бұрын

Rejoice! \o/

On a more serious note, very nice run! I hadn't considered early 2230s to be a serious possibility, until watching this video, and making some adjustments of my own. Still going to be trying for that Moon Bump run, though. :)

Really cool video never thought of this before. I just managed to follow this and get everything up and running by 2223 january. I even rerolled for a science governor after clearing all blockers for pure minmaxing. : -D

@_llamatic

3 жыл бұрын

Beating Stefan with his own build? Most impressive! Now you should push for the perfect alignment of ruler traits, leaders, dig sites, tech draws, etc, to push this under 2230. I am all but certain that it is possible with a perfect run on this build.

@yoshyusmc

3 жыл бұрын

So forgive my noobiness, but what is the point of speed building the ecu when the feeder planets are not even ready to support?? The ecu cannot produce any minerals so have a few planets to support the ecu and the minerals food requiremetns for lithoids is a challenge. I built the ecu around 2245 but it was severly gimped by my supporting planets. I just restarted and am trying this strategy on a slower pace because the tech gain is tremendous. Perhaps I don't know how to optimize my planets well enough yet?

This strat actually makes the "Inflection point" mod somewhat balanced even. That mod starts you on an ecu with -50% malus to alloy and CG production

Thanks to this guide, I was able to get access to Anti-Grav Engineering by 2235. But do you think you could make a guide on how to prepare your economy for an Ecumenopolis? No matter how much monthly farming, credits, and minerals I have from offworld sources, it always tanks my economy, amd I spend the next few decades playing catch-up

So how are you going to feed your nice and early city planet? All those Lithoids and alloy foundries require a lot of mineral income... XD

@jjkthebest

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was about to say. Won't you run into massive mineral problems? I'm guessing if you're doing something like this in a real playthrough it might be worth building a few mining districts on a colony first.

@TimoRutanen

3 жыл бұрын

Guess you have 10 years to solve the issue before the conversion hits and kills all the mines.

gweetings stefan

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

UwU

Will you consider doing videos on Distant worlds 2 when it comes out? Seems like the kind of game where your coverage would be much appreciated.

Great run through, but I feel like not showing the finished ecumenopolis was a mistake.

Leaving 2 whole days on the table by not pausing on the 2nd of the month? Unacceptable! Probably shouldn't have said that, now he'll be going for Moon Bump, and beating any time I put up, handily. To think, I was originally happy hitting 2242 at 1x tech cost.

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr, this stefan guy clearly doesn't minmax hard enough.

i would love to see a driven assimilators build i need a good one :P

Deleted the trade station on home starbase to save 1 energy/month, grabs system with 3 trade value a month he can't use. :P

Jumping in here after the 3.0.1 update. IT WORKS BETTER THAN BEFORE! You get easier micromanagement due to the district slot producing CG. I lucked out and got the Moon Bump Site one time and finished the research on Year 17 and now just rushing to finish 20k minerals.

@pieyouel

3 жыл бұрын

Combine this with the Lithoid-Relic Cheese of colonizing a planet and procing a "Colonial Remains" modifier, then abandoning the colony to recolonize it which again places another "Colonial Remains" modifier.

@goawayrayy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your assistance!

@szpgeri

Жыл бұрын

what patch did you try to do it? Im on console 3.4. Can it work?

@pieyouel

Жыл бұрын

@@szpgeri I'm not too sure, i havent been playing this strat since then tbh.

I like the idea of Tech B-lining. I typically would go for the requirements of what I wanted but if there was nothing open I would often just pick the cheapest tech thinking it would clear and I would get a reroll faster. But yeah that does open up other techs which fill out the options of cards that might be pulled. I'll have to give that a try on my next play through. Also do you have a better copy of the Engineering Tech tree? The link gives a low res copy which is hard to read. Also what about the other 2 tech groups?

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

turanar.github.io/stellaris-tech-tree/vanilla/ is good for tech, with way more info than my tech tree visualization.

I didn't even know this was an option. Then again, I'm fifty years into my first game on vanilla.

@OneBiasedOpinion

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently in MP- where there is usually forced peace until 2230 -it’s common to see multiple fleets worth 15k or more in total streaming towards your empire as soon as the peace treaty wears off. I’ll stick with Grand Admiral AI difficulty, personally.

I've been a subscriber for a year or two now and I love the videos although I do have one question; Your accent? ive' heard you say you live in America before but were you born there? I hear a slight hint of maybe a Nordic accent or maybe northwestern europe?

@AugustVonpetersborg

3 жыл бұрын

He has a form of American accent, a particular kind of metered speech that you have to at least partially develop on purpose, and that somewhat overwrites your regional accent.

What do I do after I get the ECUMENOPOLIS? Seems like I have no workers after it and it doesn't seem like any of the acropolis help or synergize with all my research people?

Just curious, have you planned 10 builds you slowly record and upload? Or do you Just Name it 6/10 because you plan on making 10 of these builds?

@alexanderormwiklund

3 жыл бұрын

Second one i believe

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

I'm planning on making a grand total of 10 of these videos. There isn't a preplanned build list.

You should be able to get more CGs if you switch trade policy to CG production only when buying them from the market starts costing more then 4 energy per unit. Until that point it's more profitable to convert all trade to energy and buy CGs.

@_llamatic

3 жыл бұрын

CG trade policy gives 0.5 energy and 0.25 consumer goods per trade value. That means at a cost of 2 energy, not 4, is where that policy is better than going pure energy. 2 * 0.25 + 0.5 = 1 energy per trade value. Until the galactic market is established, it will always be more efficient to go with consumer benefits, because the price will always be above 2 energy per consumer good.

Stellaris is a great game

Tommykay playing stellar is be like

*Sign* now to do the 2day stellaris download again, damn youtube and its recomendation

god this is so overwhelming o-o

Galactic market secured

Any chance of a Driven Assimilator build in the future? I just got into Stellaris recently and the most recent video I can find on them is 2.2, so I'd love a video thats a bit more applicable. Thanks for the content

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly!

@DragonKingSkye

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon Thats certainly better than a no, so thanks!

Wow thats crazy

that monolithsthhts got me

mega-engineering rush next?

You just got a like for ANNO 2070 soundtrack

First comment on a video for the first time in my life! Also, cool guide dude!

Can you make a tall tech rush empire build? I want to try and do a tall empire since I always do a wide empire

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

It just so happens that I already have one of those on the channel!

@Afrancis16

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon Is it good for the current version of stellaris console edition? We have all the dlc up to lithoids but we have 2.6 No federations dlc though

@Stefan, please note that by having a seriously high empire sprawl your tech costs will go up, it will eventually go up so far that it would be more time efficient just to get the admin cap up, my suggestion is to not get rid of admin offices because they do help with your tech costs, during early game it isn't that noticeable tho, this is more for mid through endgame.

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

There's a good reason why I replace it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/p22Ot9uHhaecqZc.html

Glavius mod doesn't seem to have been updated in quite a while, are you using any AI mods currently Stefan?

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

I use Starnet AI whenever I'm up for a bit of masochism. Starnet AI is REALLY good at making AI spooky.

Can I asked a question?How am I going to get enough minerals to feed this badboy? Habitats?

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

You'll want to power it at first with your guaranteed habitables, then habitats are going to be extremely affordable with the ecu.

Anno 2070 music, nice

is meritocracy really boosting science output though? 1:08 I thought specialist pop ressources are consumer goods and alloys

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, meritocracy applies to all specialist output, including science and unity

Hey Stefan. I was wondering which end game repeatable research is the best to go with? (Attack speed, Max damage, energy production, etc)

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

You generally want to be going for the three main repeatables you mentioned in the physics tree equally. This is especially relevant with weapon damage and attack speed, since going for both damage and fire rate results in higher DPS than just going for one of them. In the engineering tree, I usually go for mineral output repeatables (and the kinetics techs if using those), and society is whatever (lifespan and admin cap are probably the best ones there).

@joelwanser5526

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon awesome! Thanks for the info.

So just to be entirely clear this rush is impossible on console correct? The relic world seems entirely non negotiable for this build and console doesn’t have the required origin

@EliteSpectre32

3 жыл бұрын

I mean you can still rush it but the time won't be nearly as good. Without the relic world you have to finish 3 Traditions trees since you need the arcology project ascension perk and it asks for 2 other ascension perks and anti-grav engineering. You'll also need to replace all districts on the planet with city districts which will cost a lot of minerals and also destroy your energy and mineral income. Alternatively you could turn a planet that isn't your capital into a ecumenopolis (the smaller the planet the less district slots you need to fill) but you'll also need to clear all blockers on that planet so you'll need to get the techs for that as well (I'd recommend getting a New Worlds expertise scientist for the increased chance to roll into them). You won't be reaching it by year 23 for sure but if you did minmax it like him you'd be able to get it by year 50-60 I'm sure

@scrubzero1735

3 жыл бұрын

@@EliteSpectre32 yeah that about the kind of time frame I managed to hit myself :(

Ok so serious question: Are megacorps even worth it outside of MP games? AI fucking sucks when it comes to tradevalue.

@leobastian_

3 жыл бұрын

Megacorps are kinda meh. The civics Just arent good enough to sacrifice for the OP Standard civics, and trade Hubs on Other planets arent really worth it. Also the Admin Cap modifier realllly Hurts when youre going over Cap earlygame, which is what youre supposed to do when playing optimal.

@Malkasphia

3 жыл бұрын

Playing as a pacifist criminal syndicate is a great way to fight cold wars while building your economy nicely. The ai is bad at trade but good at producing pops, which is what you need for your good corp buildings. The criminal syndicate will get you dragged into hot wars which is fine as a war seeking pacifist nation that leeches the productivity and life from your enemies planets. If you play as a federation builder normal corp, you can use your corp buildings to bolster your allies into being better, which is good for you in a lot of ways. I find megacorps to be a lot of fun and very worth it outside of MP.

@AugustVonpetersborg

3 жыл бұрын

Megachurch can be okay, helps with trade value personally and on branch offices, and helps secure a strong, harmonious trade federation.

i wonder can this be done as rouge servitor...

Hum... I'm very curious about a build that want to rush Psionic and the Divine Empire event with the choosen one... There are many civics / traits to achieve that but make a really good build is an other thing...

@matthewsmith4710

3 жыл бұрын

There’s actually a video just like that in his build playlist!

@mealyaUrtem

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewsmith4710 The thing is, this vid is for me not complete are at least not the must have build. He ended the vid where he had the psionic tech but with 2 ascension perks not yet available... And with this little unity... He was clearly not ready to fully open the psionic pass... Soooo yeah kinda a missed opportunity here...

Still capable in current patch and future aquatics dlc?

Technocracy gang gang

one timenibgot a ecu at years 18 how ? well was when the capital of the league was a ecu

Btw stefan, is this still doable? I tried to copy this and i got the anti gravity around year 22 but i cant get the minerals (it was around 10k only) considering ive been monthly bought the minerals etc

@definitelynotshuriyee

3 жыл бұрын

In the end on my run i got it around year 40 with super weak economy xD

Dont you get antigrav option from League precursor chain if you luck out on that?

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

You only get industry research and planet build speed from that. It's quite a disappointing "Secrets of" project.

@Wimpymind

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon oh, must be one of my many mods then.

Is it possible to make a good militarist build?

*Unifcation war flashback.**

I got the planet and it's not working for me. Like I don't know how to get the jobs filled at all. I'm so lost. Costing me more to keep that planet when I made it.

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

You gotta make sure to develop your other planets before you finish the ecu. You can easily resettle pops off your capital to help your other worlds develop, and it wont impact the ecu restoration.

@Arrakiz666

3 жыл бұрын

Ecumenopolis districts cost _obsene_ amounts of minerals to keep running. Getting an ecumenopolis running is just step 1 in the whole process, now you have to support it.

I thought you need all city districts for ecumenopolis o.O

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Not when you restore it using a relic world :P

@philippdrescher6012

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon Good to know. :)

But you cant war!!!!

Do you have any full playthrough as guidess

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Stellaris in a nutshell is as close to a guide series I have right now. I haven't done a full playthrough series in a while, so I'm considering doing it once Nemesis comes out.

@seras1235

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon I see cool Thank you

I can't help but notice you have an energy and consumer goods crisis throughout the entire game... how do you deal with that?

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

Minor artifacts. Selling them nets 500 energy each, which is incredible for staying afloat and being able to buy extra consumer goods

I've just tried this in 3.0.3 Beta and... I managed to get the tech on 09.2226 buuuuuut.... I have only 2k minerals... xD I think I got a bit too wide with 4 planets...

@janmichaelquiling2586

3 жыл бұрын

Wait so it took you 26 years?

@Prentyss

3 жыл бұрын

@@janmichaelquiling2586 to unlock the tech yes, and I'm at 1x tech cost, not 0.75x

I'm a huge fan of ecus and while this is impressive, it's probably very far from optimal. You're sacrificing a lot of growth and settling which is critically important for the early game. Secondly, you're gonna run into sustainability issues not having any colonies capable of supporting an ecu at 2230. Thirdly, you're not in a good position to maximize the output of the ecu at all. They don't really become the powerhouses they're meant to be until well above 50+ pops. Below that point they're not a whole lot better than any other planet, let alone several capable of growing many more pops than a single ecu.

@OneBiasedOpinion

2 жыл бұрын

This is more a “proof-of-concept” than anything else, I think. If you can rush down Ecus by 2235, then you can absolutely do the same with other, more lucrative early-game resources.

I need a video of the next 20-30 years how to maximize getting the Ecu so early. I dont know what to do with it.

@yoshyusmc

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

I'm a little confused why one would pick meritocracy over simply going technoslaver. Slave researchers simply research faster compared to the stability and happiness effects.

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

I welcome you to go ahead and try it. From my testing, meritocracy came out on top since not enough of your slaves become researchers once you spam research labs on your capital.

@loveluclins

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon Mhm, if it were a bit later into the game and gene modding was possible, at least you could breed a group of people that won't take research jobs over the intelligent lads.

@_llamatic

3 жыл бұрын

I tried Technoslavers on quite a few runs, and they were always lower in output than the Technocracy + Meritocracy combo, in the early game. I finally gave up on trying to be different, in order to stand any chance at keeping up with Stefan.

Hi I have Question, on my game I have a devorour swarm and I would ask if at a moment we can have Too much pop grow, like he does nothing more Oh and I get a ecumenopole in 2034/05/04 (and I have another relic world but later (cause in term of mineral we don't have mineral)

Is being Lithoids important in this?

@hono50

3 жыл бұрын

You won't be able to buy motes from the market to activate the clearing edict if you don't have a source of motes. Only the genetic modifier on the lithoids allows it that early.

still viable for 3.0 ?

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

yeah. I havent tested it, but in theory you can get to ecumenopolis even faster in 3.0 because you can get more building slots.

How did you go from -240 energy credits a month to plus 2 lmao

@Stefan_Anon

3 жыл бұрын

By cancelling the trade deals buying 50 minerals and 30 CG monthly

@aeix164

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stefan_Anon thanks! I love tech rush micro but you take it to a new level here. Best I’ve got ecu before was 2067 but this is pretty cool :)

pacifism......mmmmm, i'm conflicted

Noob here, but why lithoids??

@acidpilled8733

3 жыл бұрын

They dont eat food

Hey guys, anyone getting a "Restricted Network" message when trying to host a multiplayer? I bought the game from GoG. Have my firewall down, connected through ethernet, other games run mp well. Anyone knows a fix on this? Trying to play with a friend who owns it from steam.

Warning, Do Not Do this in multiplayer, you will get ganged on

Third! Pog

Fifth

I'm missing something here. I've had the same 33 pop since the start and I'm 23 years in. Definitely not making the 33 year marker

@gabrielandradeferraz386

3 жыл бұрын

how is your housing situation?

@isbeartlh

3 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielandradeferraz386 Thanks for asking. I solved it after an hour of looking into the issue. It was a mod causing the problem. Many people were suffering from the same issue.