I also neglected to mention in the video your edicts can all be run and you can finish as many agendas as you want early for 20k unity a pop at year 10, just spam that support button for extra unity lol
@@MontuPlays its a win win for the both of you. For you its a win win because you either gain a vassal or gain more territory for expansion. for him its a win win because he get to live or die quickly.
Step 1. Use bug to get unlimited unity Step 2. Talk to Here Be Dragon super early by having 6 ascension perks Step 3. Having overwhelming fleet power super early because dragon is on your side lets you do whatever you want politically, including federations
2 1/2. safescum to trigger Here be Dragon repeatedly for wanted outcome 4. join Dragon with a 1 ship fleet and admiral, delete that ship to get the admiral onto an otherwise not supposedly admiral carrying unit the amount of abuse in this build is worthy of the spiffing brit
@@MontuPlays mate i hope you didn't see this as an attack on you, you provide excelent content, i was just adding to theme of OPs comment =) Is that admiral trick possible with other fleets that do not allow for admirals or only with this Dragon this way? I often tried to add fleets i was gifted to others and everytime got anoyed when that wasn't possible ^^. I mean Bubbles followed me, grew up by eating my pizza, learned to crack a joke on my behalf, but just couldn't accept my authority ... what a rebel -_-
"The developers turned the % modifier into a flat reduction..." I immediately said "oh no" when you said this. I think I know where this is going, particularly after you said don't colonize.
@@waterking1013 not the point, point is, you're often better of tweaking the numbers as opposed to how the numbers are applied, when it comes to balancing.
@@cringe8166 from what I can tell and think of, harder to code, easier to fuck up and break and the potential to slow down sim speed. If you're only working with percentage changes, multiplicative works fine, but if you're working with both flat and percentage changes, the multiplicative percentage reductions get fucky and have drastically different results depending on the order of operations. It's not so bad on sim speed if you only have to do that for one or two things, but stellaris is certainly a unique kettle of fish.
For those who wonder 'why are Paradox using players as beta-testers???' I'd say part of it is that the playerbase seems to love to find ways to break their games.
Pretty sure a dev even said something like "We can test for hours, but getting it out there gives us more data than we could ever get from internally testing."
@@thegradyfiles To be fair, I'd rather have a democracy that occasionally uses corruption to hand power to people that didn't earn it... than an imperial or dictatorial leadership that seizes that corrupt level of power permanently! Especially given what I often make my emperors do to my pops...
@@JB-xl2jcyep. People tend to forget just how bad dictatorships and other forms of goverment were for the average citizen. Democracy, out of all of them, is simply the least bad
The Rakatan Infinite Empire was a nice touch, for those who don't know it is a faction in the old expanded Star Wars universe that conquered the galaxy a long time before the present setting.
I love the implications of a Admiral on a dragon, is he like riding throughout the galaxy destroying the enemies of democracies with his liberty loving beast
So that's Star Wars with the "Sith win" ending. Overtake the republic, check. Use the force to gain absolute power over ancient super weapon, check. Force all neighbors into submission, check. Kill the rest, check. Bring eternal balance to the force. 😅
So basically all you have to do is reduce your empire size to paradoxical antimatter, remember to vote, make friends with a dragon, and then scare your neighbors with the immortal wyvern rider you managed to create. Why didn't I think of that?!
My man Montu with the Star Ocean Anime Villan Build; with the egalitarian sacred order of the Sky Dragon, the galactic utopia/dystopia, merging with the sky dragon to become a star devouring monster and triggering an JRPG-Style galactic get-together to bring down the BBEG at the end of the universe...
One thing I didn't hear in the video was that at year 10, after you immediately gain the infinite unity, you should enact ALL of your agendas, by completing them early.
@@MontuPlays And you can nab active sensor link from each empire you meet, for 30 years, by offering 1 active sensor link + 1 consumer good monthly for 1 active sensor link 30 years, this ramps up the meeting time very early
@@beaglejack2023 This way you have to finish first contact or likely other empire will do. Better trade for contacts as at year 10 each empire has at least contact with 2 other empires, so you can technically have contacts with whole galaxy within several month span
You can combine this with holy covenant, harmony, and +unity civic (which can be earned by statecraft) with docile pops to cause pops to also give negative empire size. 85% from Ascension 10, 20% from a level 10 governor, and 10% from docile. If combining cybernetic with this despite spiritualist, you can add another 10% discount.
"Oh no. Looking at all of these fleets. Isn't it dangerous? Well AcKtuRelLY no This dragon should be able to tank these *HUNDREDS OF Ks WORTH OF SHIPS* relatively easy" Absolutely gold 😂
Actually it did, I had some issues with the dragon events firing. However that change was made AFTER I recorded all the gameplay footage, as I realised the flag I used was the same as the GPO and I wanted to change it
just need to so this vid is so well directed, had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and more than a few "oh no!"s. well don't montu, fantastic work!
As always, Montu proves his genius. I have got to try this at my next opportunity. It looks like even more fun than when he broke Knights of the Toxic God by offering prisoners jobs on the Order's space station before the patch.
Imagine what the PDX programmer in charge of bounding the derived variables must have been feeling when they realized they didn't bind the empire size variable to greater than or equal to one?
I'm gonna be trying this ngl, I've been playing democratic even though it ain't really that good of a government type on stellaris but I like technocracy, I'm happy it finally became a meta.
If you want a version of this build that lets you take an ascension perk but doesn't let you do a full galactic conquest (if you only want to do half-cheese), you could take Teachers of the Shroud or Overtuned instead of Here Be Dragons. If you go Teachers, start researching Psionic Theory ASAP so you can have it by Year 10. If you go Overtuned, you'll start with Gene Splicing already. This will let you pick up Psionic Ascension and Genetic Ascension when you get your infinite unity, though it does mean no dragon. If you go Psionic and are lucky with your first Shroud event though, you may spawn a Psionic Avatar, which should also get you that huge fleet power needed to start vassalizing the AI.
... and separately, watching that dragon immortality battle reminded me of days in eve as a logi pilot; watching that armor rep kick in with every strike.
Authoritarian Empire -> Oligarchic Military Federation -> Ratiocratic Democracy. That is the ideal means to Galactic Conquest. You have to be completely dedicated to conquest and this may involve enslavement for any populations that resist you, in tun you provide citizenship like the Roman Empire. First they can pay for their own freedom and can continue to live freely given they don't resist the law, otherwise they are re-enslaved. Second, they can apply for citizenship but this requires service for the Empire similar to Rome. After you have conquered the Galaxy, you then turn towards being an Oligarchic Military Federation in order to maintain and develop the empire into becoming a coherent structure to itself as prior it was just a conquering military institution, you now need that military complex to serve the needs of those who have sought to become citizens and maintain this society in whole. Then you become a Ratiocratic Democracy, not just a Democracy, but a Democracy of Learned People who adhere to Reasonable Expectations and Interests to prevent Democracy from spirally into a madness upon itself. Ultimately, it is really more of a Ratiocracy in which Democracy comes about as a consequence of its achievements. A natural progression rather than one that forced upon a people. By the way, the same can apply to a planetary government and something we should do if we bother to dehumanize the sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists and borderline personality disorder dumbfucks within our population to make such a venture possible.
They do have a base value that they don't tend to go below actually. Though with under 100 empire size you can fire off council agendas for only 20k unity, I neglected to cover that as well
@@MontuPlays Probably true, the game doesn't break down the calculus - only the balance. Actually at -512 empire size, you can fire the agendas for 'only' 8300 unity... At least 'legally' reaching -512 should be impossible (unless you want to go over-over leader cap) so shenanigans get covered up to a point. Also the game says : Base : -82.40 unity Reductions : -10% Psionic -10% Spiritualist Total cost : -65.92 unity... HOW IS THAT BONUSES? 🤣
"...and now Stellaris is perfectly balanced, as all things should be." Ladies and gentlemen, this exploit deserves to be watched with a nice warm cup of Yorkshire Tea because these are Spiff-level shenanigans!
“Do you see this, someone is trying to be the galactic custodian. We can’t allow this!” “Yea dude but like, he’s got all 4 xeno diplomacy techs and like 5 envoys in thrbglssctoc community
Wish I knew this was patched out. Spent so long in the first 5 years (Was just going for the unity). When I finally got a precursor I wanted I went forward, then noticed that the minimum empire size is a fixed 50 now I keep forgetting people play this multiplayer so they *need* to fix the exploits fast x_x
My dragon communication was bugged once but after I finished the psionics tradition it suddenly contacted me to join me and give me the opportunity to hatch eggs myself. Well, I built dragon hatcheries but they as well were bugged and I wasn't able to make any more dragons
Yeah, Paradox are going to crush this in a near instant. Because you went ahead and made a video Montu. Still they would notice sooner or later anyhow, all you've done is made it obvious sooner.
I think I have an addiction to playing on Grand Admiral, I keep starting and dropping easy games where I play on Ensign at like year 1, or 2. But on Grand Admiral I keep playing until year 80-90 when I finally lose to the neighboring crisis aspirant, determined exterminators. Also, scaling mid game is pretty nice, gives me a chance to not lose straight away.
This is what they get for not making leader cap scale like starbase cap. Just make it a hard limit per pops in your empire; 5+(pop/50) or something. That way a thriving system with over 100 population could support one famous governor and scientist. You would still have sub 20 leaders for most of the game too.
I swear my Empire is usually bigger, it must be because it is only 2.7 Kelvin up in here... Only leaders and envoys, no workers, it's clearly a shower, not a grower!
They can fix this easily by just making the bonuses from the tradition only apply if a leader is assigned to a position, i.e. ship, planet, army, councilor. It's such an easy oversight that I'm really surprised it wasn't part of the design to begin with. Not to mention negative empire size keeps rearing its head over and over, how many times is it going to take for them to just hard cap the empire size reduction to zero?
My most broken stellaris build is a militant, Fanatical egalitarian, Citizens Republic with a Beacon of Liberty. Fan My ethics are so attractive nearby rebellious planets join my empire. Also, my leaders live 200 plus years and they get flipping busted. Essentially a jedi republic and it's beautiful.
Dunno if that being said already, but be mindful of storage capacities for your resources! Without proper warehouse management you basically shoot that into space for giggles.
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I also neglected to mention in the video your edicts can all be run and you can finish as many agendas as you want early for 20k unity a pop at year 10, just spam that support button for extra unity lol
This feels like a Spiffing Brit video lol 😂
vassals: we won't stand for this anymore! we must rise up and destroy you!......but we will keep paying our taxes
but why?
What mod does this use? @MontuPlays
"Become my Vassal so i can protect you."
"Protect me from what?"
"From what my FUCKING DRAGON will do to you if you dont."
I made them an offer they couldn't refuse
@@MontuPlays you do make a fair point though
forced protection
@@MontuPlays its a win win for the both of you. For you its a win win because you either gain a vassal or gain more territory for expansion. for him its a win win because he get to live or die quickly.
so, normal diplomacy. instead of battleships, you use dragons, no dragons irl, yet.
My allegiance is to the Republic, to Democracy!
Long. Live. The EMPIRE
I have the high ground!
Step 1. Use bug to get unlimited unity
Step 2. Talk to Here Be Dragon super early by having 6 ascension perks
Step 3. Having overwhelming fleet power super early because dragon is on your side lets you do whatever you want politically, including federations
2 1/2. safescum to trigger Here be Dragon repeatedly for wanted outcome
4. join Dragon with a 1 ship fleet and admiral, delete that ship to get the admiral onto an otherwise not supposedly admiral carrying unit
the amount of abuse in this build is worthy of the spiffing brit
@@kinngrimm to be fair, the admiral thing is not strictly necessary, just a fun addition!
Bug? Surely you mean feature...
@@MontuPlays mate i hope you didn't see this as an attack on you, you provide excelent content, i was just adding to theme of OPs comment =)
Is that admiral trick possible with other fleets that do not allow for admirals or only with this Dragon this way? I often tried to add fleets i was gifted to others and everytime got anoyed when that wasn't possible ^^. I mean Bubbles followed me, grew up by eating my pizza, learned to crack a joke on my behalf, but just couldn't accept my authority ... what a rebel -_-
@@kinngrimm attack? Not at all, I just wanted to add a point of info there
I love democracy.
I love the Republic
@ZenithTSF cringe.
@ZenithTSF i love genocide.
@ZenithTSF yes
@ZenithTSF for safe and secure society I bet 😎
"The developers turned the % modifier into a flat reduction..."
I immediately said "oh no" when you said this. I think I know where this is going, particularly after you said don't colonize.
Changing any modifier from flat to percentage based or percentage based to flat, is always going to be a point of failure as far as balance goes.
@@kiritotheabridgedgod4178 it would be balanced if they put a minimum of 1 empire size
@@waterking1013 not the point, point is, you're often better of tweaking the numbers as opposed to how the numbers are applied, when it comes to balancing.
i don't see why they don't make the modifier multiplicative. Like one governer takes 2% off of 100%, then the next takes 2% off of 98%, etc.
@@cringe8166 from what I can tell and think of, harder to code, easier to fuck up and break and the potential to slow down sim speed.
If you're only working with percentage changes, multiplicative works fine, but if you're working with both flat and percentage changes, the multiplicative percentage reductions get fucky and have drastically different results depending on the order of operations. It's not so bad on sim speed if you only have to do that for one or two things, but stellaris is certainly a unique kettle of fish.
For those who wonder 'why are Paradox using players as beta-testers???' I'd say part of it is that the playerbase seems to love to find ways to break their games.
I think the devs enjoying seeing it quite a bit too.
Pretty sure a dev even said something like "We can test for hours, but getting it out there gives us more data than we could ever get from internally testing."
I had my homeworld get duplicated by the Doorway event recently while doing a Doomsday/Eager Explorers run. That was a nice game breaker.
@@asteropax6469 That's nice, our people got to see their beloved home explode into pieces all over again :)
@@blackcitadel9 yeah. Like, look for game breaking bugs and fix them, but balance and exploits aren't as important
Who knew democracy was so unethical in stellaris. Love it
Don’t you pay attention to politics?
@@thegradyfiles To be fair, I'd rather have a democracy that occasionally uses corruption to hand power to people that didn't earn it... than an imperial or dictatorial leadership that seizes that corrupt level of power permanently!
Especially given what I often make my emperors do to my pops...
"politicians are a lot like diapers: They should be changed frequently, and for the same reason"
Problem is, in the west, 'democracy' is a brand. It covers for oligarchy.
@@JB-xl2jc
@@JB-xl2jcyep.
People tend to forget just how bad dictatorships and other forms of goverment were for the average citizen. Democracy, out of all of them, is simply the least bad
The Rakatan Infinite Empire was a nice touch, for those who don't know it is a faction in the old expanded Star Wars universe that conquered the galaxy a long time before the present setting.
very infamous for the Star Forges *cough cough* Jedi Civil War with Revan and Malak *cough cough*
Disney's greatest crime against star wars was nuking the expanded universe.
They're not lithoids though. And one of the reptile appearances looks almost exactly like the in-game Rakata, with their far-apart eyes.
I was looking for this comment.
@@vallraffsI was looking for this comment too.
I love the implications of a Admiral on a dragon, is he like riding throughout the galaxy destroying the enemies of democracies with his liberty loving beast
The fact that this isn't necessarily an intended interaction and I can't straight up assign Slim Pickens to ride the dragon is a big miss by Paradox.
My Little Dragon: Democracy Is Magic
Stellaris 3.8.4 Empire Size now has a floor of 50, and thus can no longer go negative. :D
Start of the video: ok, thats strange ....how would he do that?
Mid: U DUCKING WHAT??
So that's Star Wars with the "Sith win" ending. Overtake the republic, check. Use the force to gain absolute power over ancient super weapon, check. Force all neighbors into submission, check. Kill the rest, check. Bring eternal balance to the force. 😅
Its basicly the wave from ST Generations but with an ancient dragon instead of a star destroying missile ;D
Time to hunt some achievements then.
This strategy is entirely ironman compatible
I love trying Montu's builds out, I get to see how much worse I can make them go for me. Love the videos though.
saw the abuse of that empir sprawl reduction on another channel, but he did really optimize this build in terms of OP and abuse
Imagine working at Paradox, showing up on a monday morning after having a rough weekend to be briefed by your manager that Montu broke the game again.
So basically all you have to do is reduce your empire size to paradoxical antimatter, remember to vote, make friends with a dragon, and then scare your neighbors with the immortal wyvern rider you managed to create.
Why didn't I think of that?!
I love that you made the Rakatan Empire, a militaristic slaver empire, as an overpowered democracy. It's so beautiful.
I thought I was watching Spiff for a moment from how perfectly balanced this strategy is
My man Montu with the Star Ocean Anime Villan Build; with the egalitarian sacred order of the Sky Dragon, the galactic utopia/dystopia, merging with the sky dragon to become a star devouring monster and triggering an JRPG-Style galactic get-together to bring down the BBEG at the end of the universe...
Does destroying the galaxy really count as conquering it?
I conquered it first THEN destroyed it, just to check all boxes
If no one is alive to argue against this position, most definitely.
Yes.
One thing I didn't hear in the video was that at year 10, after you immediately gain the infinite unity, you should enact ALL of your agendas, by completing them early.
And you can fire off all your edicts as well
@@MontuPlays And you can nab active sensor link from each empire you meet, for 30 years, by offering 1 active sensor link + 1 consumer good monthly for 1 active sensor link 30 years, this ramps up the meeting time very early
@@beaglejack2023 that... Is a very good idea that I did not think of doing!
He's too dangeorus to be left alive
@@beaglejack2023 This way you have to finish first contact or likely other empire will do. Better trade for contacts as at year 10 each empire has at least contact with 2 other empires, so you can technically have contacts with whole galaxy within several month span
A unity exploit, what a time to be alive. Now who said unity was useless lol?!
You can combine this with holy covenant, harmony, and +unity civic (which can be earned by statecraft) with docile pops to cause pops to also give negative empire size. 85% from Ascension 10, 20% from a level 10 governor, and 10% from docile. If combining cybernetic with this despite spiritualist, you can add another 10% discount.
Hrozgar should get a fixed Admiral so they could be elected in a democracy
This would be so cool for everything from the ether drake to the psionic entity.
Paradox is like me, in that we both try to fix things and end up making it much worse.
"Oh no. Looking at all of these fleets. Isn't it dangerous? Well AcKtuRelLY no
This dragon should be able to tank these *HUNDREDS OF Ks WORTH OF SHIPS* relatively easy"
Absolutely gold 😂
-“Please set your diplomatic stance to isolationist’
*proceeds to conquer the whole galaxy*
I noticed the flag change between 1:00 and 2:00. Did it just take a couple tries to get your strat down?
Actually it did, I had some issues with the dragon events firing. However that change was made AFTER I recorded all the gameplay footage, as I realised the flag I used was the same as the GPO and I wanted to change it
spliced run
@@bignerd3783 The footage gameplay footage used was all from the same run!
"Rakata"
"Infinite Empire"
I understood this reference.
just need to so this vid is so well directed, had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and more than a few "oh no!"s. well don't montu, fantastic work!
As always, Montu proves his genius. I have got to try this at my next opportunity. It looks like even more fun than when he broke Knights of the Toxic God by offering prisoners jobs on the Order's space station before the patch.
This is absolutely hilarious, Montu
Each patch some poor dev is gonna have to be like "Alright what strange way is Montu going to abduct the dragon early this time?"
Imagine what the PDX programmer in charge of bounding the derived variables must have been feeling when they realized they didn't bind the empire size variable to greater than or equal to one?
It is pretty incredible that those empire size effects apply to idle leaders rather than only assigned ones
I'm gonna be trying this ngl, I've been playing democratic even though it ain't really that good of a government type on stellaris but I like technocracy, I'm happy it finally became a meta.
This... this is beautiful
That infinite Unity gain is one of the most broken things I've seen. How you or anyone discovered it is beyond me XD
Ive been playing for like 20 hours and never been attacked once. Even after switching to max difficulty/aggresiveness
If you want a version of this build that lets you take an ascension perk but doesn't let you do a full galactic conquest (if you only want to do half-cheese), you could take Teachers of the Shroud or Overtuned instead of Here Be Dragons. If you go Teachers, start researching Psionic Theory ASAP so you can have it by Year 10. If you go Overtuned, you'll start with Gene Splicing already. This will let you pick up Psionic Ascension and Genetic Ascension when you get your infinite unity, though it does mean no dragon. If you go Psionic and are lucky with your first Shroud event though, you may spawn a Psionic Avatar, which should also get you that huge fleet power needed to start vassalizing the AI.
“There seems to be some kind of bug…” was the dragon thing your first clue? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nice touch on the “Infinite empire” with the “Rakata”. Not many know about them
... and separately, watching that dragon immortality battle reminded me of days in eve as a logi pilot; watching that armor rep kick in with every strike.
Authoritarian Empire -> Oligarchic Military Federation -> Ratiocratic Democracy.
That is the ideal means to Galactic Conquest. You have to be completely dedicated to conquest and this may involve enslavement for any populations that resist you, in tun you provide citizenship like the Roman Empire. First they can pay for their own freedom and can continue to live freely given they don't resist the law, otherwise they are re-enslaved. Second, they can apply for citizenship but this requires service for the Empire similar to Rome.
After you have conquered the Galaxy, you then turn towards being an Oligarchic Military Federation in order to maintain and develop the empire into becoming a coherent structure to itself as prior it was just a conquering military institution, you now need that military complex to serve the needs of those who have sought to become citizens and maintain this society in whole.
Then you become a Ratiocratic Democracy, not just a Democracy, but a Democracy of Learned People who adhere to Reasonable Expectations and Interests to prevent Democracy from spirally into a madness upon itself. Ultimately, it is really more of a Ratiocracy in which Democracy comes about as a consequence of its achievements. A natural progression rather than one that forced upon a people.
By the way, the same can apply to a planetary government and something we should do if we bother to dehumanize the sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists and borderline personality disorder dumbfucks within our population to make such a venture possible.
There is a great disturbance in the Force.
Actually edict upkeep and costs also get negative when your anti-empire has an anti-size.
They do have a base value that they don't tend to go below actually. Though with under 100 empire size you can fire off council agendas for only 20k unity, I neglected to cover that as well
@@MontuPlays Probably true, the game doesn't break down the calculus - only the balance. Actually at -512 empire size, you can fire the agendas for 'only' 8300 unity...
At least 'legally' reaching -512 should be impossible (unless you want to go over-over leader cap) so shenanigans get covered up to a point.
Also the game says : Base : -82.40 unity Reductions : -10% Psionic -10% Spiritualist Total cost : -65.92 unity... HOW IS THAT BONUSES? 🤣
You had me at "immortal dragon". Played off and on for years, and can safely say this will be the first time I will try out egalitarian 😂.
"...and now Stellaris is perfectly balanced, as all things should be."
Ladies and gentlemen, this exploit deserves to be watched with a nice warm cup of Yorkshire Tea because these are Spiff-level shenanigans!
To avoid any confusion: I 100% mean this as a compliment.
I adore the KotOR reference. That's a deep cut
??? I thought I was watching Montu Plays and not the Spiffing Brit.
Admiral Kaleesie over here conquering everything on the back of the dragon 😂
Lovely throwback to KOTOR with the Rakatan Infinite Empire
Ah, back when aptitude didn't suck.
As soon as you said Infinite Empire, I was on board. And you did not disappoint.
Stellaris was always broken, but paragons got it to the edge. Hilarious😂
Put -X%, hehe 0% empire let's go!
Put -X, hehe negative empire let's go!
“Do you see this, someone is trying to be the galactic custodian. We can’t allow this!” “Yea dude but like, he’s got all 4 xeno diplomacy techs and like 5 envoys in thrbglssctoc community
the virgin early dragon necromancy exploit VS the chad Dragon Anarchism President
I like how your vassals rebel against you but still pay their taxes.
I love democracy. I love the republic.
Wish I knew this was patched out. Spent so long in the first 5 years (Was just going for the unity). When I finally got a precursor I wanted I went forward, then noticed that the minimum empire size is a fixed 50 now
I keep forgetting people play this multiplayer so they *need* to fix the exploits fast x_x
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be" made me double check if I wasn't watching a Spiffing Brit video.
My dragon communication was bugged once but after I finished the psionics tradition it suddenly contacted me to join me and give me the opportunity to hatch eggs myself. Well, I built dragon hatcheries but they as well were bugged and I wasn't able to make any more dragons
that admiral that rides the dragon?
name them Miraak lol
Really loved the Star Wars Legends reference!!
Wow, SpiffingBrit have changed the style of his videos :D
Great job done here, great video :D Was laughing as hell.
#include
I am eyeing the Crusader civic, it fits perfectly with a Fanatic Egalitarian+Militarist build I have wanted to make work for a while.
This is spiffingbrit levels of shenanigans and I couldnt be happier
I prefer hidden op above outright balance exploits.
I noticed only a little bit of the Spiffing Brit creeping in to this video.
Yeah, Paradox are going to crush this in a near instant. Because you went ahead and made a video Montu. Still they would notice sooner or later anyhow, all you've done is made it obvious sooner.
Grab your Yorkshire tea everyone! This is a worthy addition to the great tea drinking moment's like buying energy credits with energy credits .
I think I have an addiction to playing on Grand Admiral, I keep starting and dropping easy games where I play on Ensign at like year 1, or 2. But on Grand Admiral I keep playing until year 80-90 when I finally lose to the neighboring crisis aspirant, determined exterminators. Also, scaling mid game is pretty nice, gives me a chance to not lose straight away.
lol this felt more like a spiffingbrit video with the balance demonstration
I'm so glad that we have Montu to remind us of how fair and balanced Stellaris is.
Montu how long until the leader trait tier list?? 😩 I cant wait any longer...
SoonTM
This is what they get for not making leader cap scale like starbase cap. Just make it a hard limit per pops in your empire; 5+(pop/50) or something. That way a thriving system with over 100 population could support one famous governor and scientist. You would still have sub 20 leaders for most of the game too.
the admiral in my headcannon is the Protagonist from Ride on King 🤣🤣
20:00 those vassel contracts should be put on halt...
0:47 "Hey! i understood that reference!"
I love the nods to TheSpiffingBrit XD
guess I go ahead a do this playthrough before the inevitable patch.
I swear my Empire is usually bigger, it must be because it is only 2.7 Kelvin up in here... Only leaders and envoys, no workers, it's clearly a shower, not a grower!
That unkillable Dragon build reminds ke of how I play Necromancer in DiabloIV.
Lifesteal is fun.
15:15 Oh I'm sorry is there "weird bug" sometimes after your negative empire bug exploit LOLOLOLOL
11:45 WTF 😂
...what an absolute wild ride of a video.
0:26 me haveing from start ruler with 20+ traits : yes.... balance.....of course......
Almost as crazy as that one time I blew up the galaxy in 2217. Yes, 2217.
They can fix this easily by just making the bonuses from the tradition only apply if a leader is assigned to a position, i.e. ship, planet, army, councilor. It's such an easy oversight that I'm really surprised it wasn't part of the design to begin with. Not to mention negative empire size keeps rearing its head over and over, how many times is it going to take for them to just hard cap the empire size reduction to zero?
It's odd that this wasn't the first change tbh. They implemented caps elsewhere. Weird.
Or just set the minimum empire size to 0.
0 size was also exploitable because it eliminated the unity cost of planetary ascension. So if you want to set a cap, it should be 1
@@baddie9180 Seems I was mistaken about that then. I'll edit. I still think even 0 size is a problem and it should be kept strictly positive
You are very strong in the Dark Side of the Force, please, teach me Master!
This video brought to you by Spiffing Montu.
Plays a democracy...forces the entire galaxt to submit to his empire. Just as intended.
Ah, yes, more star wars references!
A surprise, but a welcome one
This would make the spiffing brit proud.
Jesus Christ, this is just like the Utopian Abundance / Despoiler / Tech Rush but on seriously hard space meth dust!
UNLIMITED POWER!!!
I think this run has made the devs go home and rethink their life....
My most broken stellaris build is a militant, Fanatical egalitarian, Citizens Republic with a Beacon of Liberty. Fan My ethics are so attractive nearby rebellious planets join my empire. Also, my leaders live 200 plus years and they get flipping busted.
Essentially a jedi republic and it's beautiful.
Dunno if that being said already, but be mindful of storage capacities for your resources! Without proper warehouse management you basically shoot that into space for giggles.