I can't stop laughing at Guardian of the Arse. Might be because I'm still 12 despite being in my mid 40s.

@plebisMaximus

11 күн бұрын

As someone who's 12 at 24, it's relieving to know that'll never change.

@Dr.exsack

11 күн бұрын

​​@@plebisMaximusI can confirm your assumption (36😂)

@BoisegangGaming

11 күн бұрын

I just noticed that pfft

@Armand965

10 күн бұрын

They say men don't grow up it's only their toys are just getting more expensive

@PigPissBeUponThem

8 күн бұрын

I’m 31 and it gets me too… idk if that’s worse or not

I once made an Authoritarian Ring world start. I called them "The Lords of the Ring".

@iskar5598

9 күн бұрын

God damn I love that

@draquu1984

6 күн бұрын

One Ring to rule them all... XD

@christopherg2347

6 күн бұрын

@@draquu1984 Back in early megastructures I made a Ring world. Renamed the system "the one Ring". Then I put the super sensor in (could do it back then). Renamed it Mordor because it now had "the lidless eye" too.

@StDomBz

5 күн бұрын

If you named your sun The Eye and your leader Sauron, it'd be perfect

@mesakid71

Күн бұрын

I named a ringworld star system "Mairon" once, since that was Sauron's old name before he became evil.

*sees "Republic" in the civilization name* *sees Corporate government* I love democracy...

@user-gr5ds8gh6l

2 күн бұрын

Republic does not mean democracy. It means separation of powers

@73searching73

9 сағат бұрын

​@@user-gr5ds8gh6lr/woosh

The Interloper cannot be considered holy, but it is indeed, wholey holey.

You didn't trade your pop to the fallen empire but opened a migration treaty letting your pop move to other planets

@cultistofdarkness1661

11 күн бұрын

Virtual pops moving to other planets? Wat? Yeah migration treaties while you're a virtual are more like permission for immigration

@dracish123456789

11 күн бұрын

@@cultistofdarkness1661 He did it before virtual

@cultistofdarkness1661

11 күн бұрын

@@dracish123456789 ah, my bad then

@user-zx6fg9lv4d

11 күн бұрын

​@@cultistofdarkness1661yes, it is possible for synth ascended organics - they still require pop assembly as regular synths.

@doubt3430

3 күн бұрын

@@cultistofdarkness1661 "get in the hard drive"

Lure unbidden into pulsar.... noted.

@pantheracheaxb747

7 күн бұрын

More of duly notable thing, because you can plant a cloaked torp squadron. Or lure them into storm. Lots of different tactics.

Felt inspired to try this, spawned in a corner blocked off by a fanatical purifier. Watched helplessly as they slaughtered every other empire I tried to do business with, and finally came for me. All in the span of 10 years. I’ll leave it to the professionals.

@derpidius6306

11 күн бұрын

In fairness, Fanatic Purifiers can easily ruin a game if they are neighbors regardless of how good you are, e3po in spite of having done some crazy challenge runs himself couldn't beat a galaxy of them, they are just too strong if no one else is there to check them

@spacesuit7263

11 күн бұрын

Spawn RNG can be a bitch. But there are some things that can be done, for example: scout ahead and if there are purifiers around don't grab any systems near them and build fleets to discourage them from attacking you. I also had a run with a similar virtual build, got spawned with fanatic pacifists on one side of my empire and purifiers on the other. In a war I would likely lose since I didn't choose that "tall" civic, so I avoided getting close, built up my navy and it worked - they left me be for long enough to found a federation and kick them in the balls.

@ghfgxijaorgf5393

10 күн бұрын

@@derpidius6306 its normal to lose against a galaxy full of genocidal empires and even more so if they are machine genocidal empires, the determined exterminators as they are neutral to other genocidal machine empires or even non genocidal machine empires, but the problem is that even a single one is unimaginably powerfull, whenever i see a genocidal empire i delete all of their fllets construction ships and science ships and sometimes delete their alloys every few years for some time as if i dont do anything by the year 2250 they will be a crisis ascendant and will have 10/4 of the galaxy as theirs

@tunencio7288

6 күн бұрын

you don´t need to be a begginer to have your day ruined by a purifier empire...just restart if you have them as your starting neighbours...

The Space Ottoman Empire. The Spottoman Empire, if you will.

Dont be silly… the “rest of the galaxy” is clearly hell as its beneath the great flat plane.

7:02 The delivery of "Flat Ringworld Theory" cracks me up.

@michaelv9833

10 күн бұрын

It may just be the greatest conspiracy theory ever

I know you cannot do this in a 1 system challenge but when you find Helito and get Sol X as a gift from the Dasha residents it pops into place in the broken section of the ring. Helps you get minerals that are hard to otherwise get with shattered ring.

So the Galactic Senate needs to Denounce Space Venice.

@PerfectAlibi1

11 күн бұрын

I know right?

@oathkeeper65

11 күн бұрын

The Shroud approved of Denouncing Space Venice.

Rival Megacorp? Space Genoa?!

"Let's go full distruptors and smoke the bastards" Love it, makes me wanna buy Stellaris.

The strip world is flat, it's only due to the cruving of space-time due to gravity which makes it circular... Perfectly venisian accurate.

Ah yes, the usual "We've investigated ourselves and have found no wrong-doing." Always cracks me up.

1000+ hours in Stellaris and I just learned we can rush agendas. Thanks Montu

@MontuPlays

9 күн бұрын

Glad to help!

I think that might be the only time I hear... "Oh we found the First League. That sucks for us." All the while I have gotten the Yuht three games in a row.

The star should have been called "Adriatica" or something, keep the flavor going.

@TheREALTheRealAdam

11 күн бұрын

Veneto is the name of the region where Venice is, so think of it as the name of the system, not the star. Paradox, let us name stars and systems separately pls.

"...the artillery bombardment is effective!" Really starting to sound like a Dalek now 😂😂

Watching Montu play Stellaris is like watching an artist sculpt a piece into beauty itself

"Is that the Contingency?" Space venice broke the fourth wall

Been following you since the early days. By far my favorite videos of yours are these challenge, and your narrative play thurs. Thanks for the weekend entertainment and knowledge. ❤

There are no civilians in the name of reducing lag

Space Venice? finally my city has taken to the stars (appreciate you took the time to research venice :) )

The drawing of “flat Venice” had me rolling.

"That still only counts as one!"

I can't prove it, but the game must force spawn mega corps if you are one, no?

@ClayinSWVA

11 күн бұрын

Yes, the Devs thinks it's a feature not a bug. So you have to force add empires if you want someone to trade with.

@spacesuit7263

11 күн бұрын

You could start as an oligarchy and morb into a corp later. Or stay as an oligarchy if the galaxy is infested with corps and hives. Though it des suck, I wish there was a start game rule to deal with it.

@yautl1

9 күн бұрын

It wouldn't surprise me, given how the game always seems to disproportionately spawn empires that are ideologically opposed to you.

I love doing this strategy with a federation for the trade league effect so you don't need to make consumer goods and catalytic processing so you can keep making more alloys by adding a couple farming districts to the ring worlds. Sure you end up needing to buy minerals if you don't make any subsidiaries, but your economy is a lot more stable overall.

Your RP/Storytelling is top notch!

Really hate how paradox decided that starting a megacorp means they should spawn 70% megacorps and hiveminds. NO idea what they were thinking.

@aecides3203

11 күн бұрын

I would imagine it was something along the lines of - "TROLOLOLOL TROLOLOL LOL" You can get around it by creating and force spawning custom empires. Makes who you meet a bit predictable, but they can also predictably be someone you can open a branch office on.

@namedrik5876

11 күн бұрын

@@aecides3203 I tried that once. It's locked to 2-3 max

@user-zx6fg9lv4d

11 күн бұрын

Well, it's better to have some challenge, isn't it?

@Max-ql7nn

11 күн бұрын

@@namedrik5876 Nah you gotta make sure that each force spawned empire is using a specific system layout - i.e. "Random Trinary" as opposed to just "Random". I believe only one force spawned empire can exist per system layout, so you'd have a: Random, Random Binary, Random Trinary Empire etc etc

@adisca2k

11 күн бұрын

I once wanted to play a xenophile megacorp, so I sat down and made around 40 custom empires with all the tropes I could think of and set them all to force spawn. Can't remember if any auto generated empires spawned, but most of them were custom. It was the most fun galaxy I ever played in stellaris, with the right ammount of total war and gestalt empires.

Soooo excited for tall plays. Its the only way to play imo

I love the goofy world building you pull into your challenges like this

I've done one system challenges before and they're a lot of fun.

There is one thing taller than this. Virtual Birch World!

@general_wcj9438

11 күн бұрын

Well giga structures isn't updated to 3.12 yet

@radordekeche947

11 күн бұрын

I hadn't thought of that yet - that'd be really OP. Might try that once it updates.

@mbos14

11 күн бұрын

@@general_wcj9438 I have been using it and not hitting any real problems

@momirpetrovic6111

11 күн бұрын

Although not updated, the mod works but I haven't yet done a run where I got tetradimensional engineering and fixed it

@Skyler827

11 күн бұрын

​@@momirpetrovic6111I would not recommend it. It takes like 2 hours of normal Stellaris gameplay in a gigastructures game before the not content comes into play and if there's a bug then that's 2-3 hours down the drain

30:33 ''I call this the Lag Reducer 5000'' I'M FUCKIN DYING

I wouldn't mind seeing an overtuned cybernetic run, either hivemind or regular empire.

Science time 😎

guardian of the arse xD

Lmao, I was hoping you played this, it's absolutely broken

Man, i remember seeing the "true tall" gag years ago. It speaks for the game that it still holds up!

Greetings to the new editor, good job!

I’m fully bricked up for this.

Nice call-back to the old One Planet Challenge of before.

I just found your channel and love your style of Challnges+RP's! Can I offer you to look into the Ayreonverse? I would love to see a game of Forevers Short synopsis of their story: The original (supposingly Earth-like) planet of the species of Forever was lost after a supercomputer designed to alieviate the economical crysis shot down all the systems that resulted in total infrastructure collapse (including safety systems on reactors). A small group found their refuge beneath the waves of an Oceanic planet named Y by a neutron star (Star of Sirrah). To adapt to the new enviroment they used The Source - some kind of genetic reconstruction liquid that changed their physiology to a new ecosystem but also eventualy united them into a Gestalt mind, wiping their emotions leaving them but a memory. On a quest to regain what was lost they sent probes with their unchanged genetic seeds into the space, and one of them (unclear number how many were sent: Into the Electric Castle has line s "We seeded the Universe with milk of a million seeds You are that seed" while 01011001 implies they sent only one probe specifically following the trail of a Universal Migrator) to study our emotions. That study included help of the human race following their history to ascent and also abducting people from different eras to put them under a test Will be glad to see you implementing this concept!

It amazes me the level of detail you do with everything that i know is there but never bother with cuz... ? No idea..

"Space Veneto" Grande vecio :P

You can get a lot of trade value early on by taking merchant guilds with stuff to increase effective councilor skill like oligarchy and statecraft trad tree

I enjoy your content, and will continue to do so, but I know where that opening meme came from. That felt a little dubious.

Oh my goodness! I think I’m in love.

Hey Montu! Any chance of an updated machine civics tier list coming soon? I’m very curious how would you rate the one that reduces amenities usage or the one that replaces leader unity upkeep with energy upkeep.

i wish ring world start would also give you void dweler trait, as it would make sense that your species would live in artifical habitats outside of ringworld, as its closest to easaly make simular living standarts

Truly a moral, peaceful, friendly corporation that doesn't do bad things for the sake of profits, right? Right?

Managed to get a determined exterminator to full virtual ascension by having automod + unitary cohesion and the unity society tech in the same time as your habitat guys monty. You only need 6 worlds above size 20 and to start with a machine homeworld so you have all the build slots unlocked. Why not try that one day? It felt much easier since you have tons of resources to build up the worlds. Its even better if you can assimilate a nearby machine empire into your own pops. You do need the assemblys till virtual tho. Then you just need to revamp your government and species to lower empire size from pops and pop upkeep. Traditions to.

You should try the mod ancient cache of technologies it has alot of content such as new technologies tiers, completely new ship desghins, lore and features, custom factions, reworked fallen empires and many submods for more content like secrets beyond the gates and more

I saw the Acheo-engineers perk at the end there. Were you using it for anything exciting that I missed or just filler because there wasn't much else to take?

I was literally just thinking about trying this a few hours ago

All hail Space Venice

Which combat computer is montu using for artillery battleships? Also why does he use the m slot missiles over changing it to a l slot kinetic artillery?

Looking for a little help. I did the same but can't colonize the additional ring worlds as they are ruined. Can anyone explain how Montu was able to colonize before mega-engineering?

lol everyone being also mega corporations or hive minds is what happens every time I play as mega corp without fail. Every single time.

Kinda funny that i did a run similar with virtual same civics origin etc. even same portrait. Only difference is we are the guardigan protectorate and defend the galaxy refusing to take full control of the galaxy as an empire

I miss when science ships could assist in research when in orbit, it was such a nice use of the ships when done with them. One day I hope that ships can be scrapped by the player for a percentage value back, instead kf it being done through caravaneers.

This looks like quite the interesting play through I never done Megacorp before. Wait, how do you get trade value to show up on a system?

Fantastic!

As a venitian I am eager to watch this gameplay!!!!

get a drink and a snack? what is this? an Isaac Arthur Video?

Lots of Space Ducats !

I'm from Veneto and I love you ❤

RIP Doge, a real one.

Ah, Corporate Sovereign. The reason I seldom bother with Federations anymore, considering I usually dissolve them all for *absolute power*.

Guardian of the Arse....oh my...

How were you able to colonize the other 2 segment rings?

i love the roleplay :D

havent wached yet but very intrested. done this challange before as a mega corp i say challange as one it kind of wasnt one lol

Question: Is there a good way to check if I can get rid of a City district because of technology pushing my build slots past the maximum?

@danieln7777

11 күн бұрын

I would like to know this too

@namedrik5876

11 күн бұрын

@@danieln7777 Me too

What buildings should be built in branch offices ?

What you think about the widest empire possible? Subteranean Machines + Nano Ascension

The power of going tall... often comes from going extra wide with branch offices..... ;)

you need more cap limit for Juggernauts xD

My name isn't nobody?!

how did you get to 50% habitability on your ring segment so early? is it something in the machine age dlc?

I play like this all the time ringworld origin and virtual,the only other thing I do is changing some files for removing the titan limit and having fleet full of titan 😅

as a venetian, this is epic

It's frustrating that anytime you play as an empire type, you get surrounded by mostly the same empire types. The galaxy should be diverse

Oh, my lord. This video just reminded me that you are able to utilise unemployed pops using living standards.

All hail La Serenissima!

Guardian of the Arse.

Our strategy depends on one choke point!

try 1 System, 1 planet. Did that with virtual machines, ocean paradise and cosmogenesis win condition

Play a megacorp, fight against 6 megacorps. I think it's hard coded in there.

I did a playthru like this, but here's a dirty deed I added: the Genesis Preserve can get up to +50% Unity and Social Sciences if you Uplift enough species! Or course, you need additional planets which you then abandon to pull this off, but.. it rocks!

38:20 Space ukulele killed me

Flat.. Ring. FLAT… ring… Flat… RING… yup, I see no flaws in that logic!

Commenting for more

Curious why the MegaShipyard was never researched/built in that 1 system.

Hm, but loyalty circuits are already built in the adaptive frames?

E3po's channel has been hacked, anybody can notify him?

RIP Doge.

Is Corporate Protectorate civic removed from the game? Because I've selected militarist and Shattered Ring but still can't find it.

@Adrian-bf6zh

8 күн бұрын

Nevermind got it. I am missing Astral Planes.