Paradox: releases DLC with bug 'fixes'. The Spiffing Brit: *_Ah yes, another game that I bet will be perfectly balanced with no exploits. Lets see what they fucked up this time._*
I imagine spiff drinking tea from a massive mug after saying that, all we need is a mug that gives you infinite amounts of tea and keeps it hot so you never have to boil the kettle again
when he said the line with they will fix them remembered me of world of warcraft where they fix a bug so that hunterpets dont look like murlocs or demons which caused a bug which enabled you to have hunterpets of the size of big houses, the dream of every arena player or tank in instances which could not the the instance cause a giant dinosaur made up his full screen.
"They're going to be spending the first 20 years of this game being continuously bombarded with trade deals they feel are amazing..." Truly, more British words were never spoken.🇬🇧🧐
"Now of course, Stellaris has AI created by those fantastic boffins at Paradox Interactive, so AI is a strong word indeed!" Someone call the burnward, 'cause OUCH.
@@thespiffingbrit By refusing to defend its own land you mean marching from Europe to the far end of Siberia to siege down three provinces for a total of one warscore while getting its capital occupied?
@@thespiffingbrit Ah yes, the historic British war tactic of sending all their armies to attrition in the Americas for no damn reason while France is laying siege to London. AI allies=Best allies
"The fleet has arrived." "Sir, we are picking up a ship on sensors." "Oh, did our military presence here bother someone?" "I don't think so, sir. It appears to be a trading vessel." "Oh, how cute... wait. Actually, can you identify the ship registration?" "Oh dear lord. It appears to be of Spiff affiliation, sir!" "FULL RETREAT! FULL RETREAT!"
2 years later, I'm doing a similar cheese- I never actually joined the Galactic Community nor do I plan on doing so, but the AI still loves to buy up favors as if I had 100k influence in the GC. So, I trade favors for unlimited resources, scamming the entire galaxy out of a good chunk of their resources while propping me up no matter what.
I get into an early war with a Custom Corvette Swarm, steal their Starbase at a choke point and beat them into submission every time they try to take it back until they just give up. Usually works well if it's an Asshole Enemy nobody likes.
6:51 That's not actually how that works. All researcher jobs are the same, -1 consumer goods and +4 of all research. The numbers it gives is just the sum of all productions and upkeeps. This is particularly noticable on buildings that provide multiple different jobs. That said, the research districts are still quite good.
i just wanted to write a comment about this but then i found yours lol you can even check the population tab or the wiki to find out but it should be obvious anyway
OFMG< I WAS GOING OT sAY THE SAME FREAKIGN THING,. I jsut HATE IT when people miss the obvious. ;-; And spiff is so good! he should reupload this with fixed audio UwU
I love the concept of the mid-way message of “be kind to each other...support each other” as Brit savagely takes advantage of the AI empires to starve and impoverish them with pseudo useful trade deals that he will then backend with war after having sucked the resources from the nation in question and left them unfit to fight back. Good stuff. XD
"They're going to be spending the first 20 years of this game being continuously bombarded with trade deals they feel are amazing which resulting them handing almost all of their resources per month.." So you've basically made a BANK in Stellaris..
Okay I'm just experimenting this in multiplayer with a void dweller megacorp. My friends don't know how I got so powerful and they are so confused (Im gonna explain it to them later). Here is how things are going: We are still not even 25 years into the game and I already have 8 habitats. The galactic community was formed really quickly bc I built around 18 science ships and met everyone My neighbours have a ton of my favours and I always vote against them in the senate. Why? My diplomatic weight is bigger than everyone's and it makes them spend my favours to approve even the things I want approved. So they are basically doing my bidding without knowing it. My fleetpower is still pathetic but nobody attacks me because they are afraid of my trade league federation, in wich I brough in a badass militarist empire who makes all the ships. The game is in Grand Admiral and I have the crisis strengh on x5. Lets see how this goes. Edits: Grammar.
To keep a run of the things: I stopped doing this glitch midgame because I started having everyone into my federation, since I didn't want them to be weak I stopped taking resources from them and instead gave back theese resources to let them get strong enough to defend me. There was a devouring swarm and a determined exterminators in the galaxy. The swarm was completely wiped out by my friends who were playing with me while the exterminators grew too strong. But once I got in with my federation fleet it was easy picking. Basically I subjulgated the entire galaxy into my federation, including my friends who tried to beat me. The crisis was the Contingency and I beat it without sending a single ship. My federation vassal swarm did everything for me. Just after the Ghost Signal showed up I changed some laws and gave up my president position in the federation so the AI could take the fleet from me. I literally did nothing
Every time you post it amazes me how much you’ve grown over the past few years, I still remember the first time I found your channel through the hoi4 time lapses. Been here since the first Luxembourg world conquest attempt. I don’t really remember but I think you had less than 10k at the time.
Me and my 6 quarantine friends: *start a game* Me: *does this exploit with the AI empires* My friend, a lithoid: *Does the free pops exploit Aspec covered* Me and my friend: "FINALLY, A WORTHY OPPONENT!"
@@MetalHev even better they keep helping out whoever's losing so that we stay too distracted with each other to crush them it's beautiful. Me and my worthy opponent have been at war for 30 in-game years now.
I wish you can have Hive-Minded Empires that are not hostile to non-hives but get less bonuses, more of an in-between option I also think that there needs to be a Gene-Cyborg-Hybrid Option. Pick one Cyborg and one Gene Evolution perk to unlock the Hybrid perk. Spiritualist are confuse but have no negative opinion. Materialist get bonus relations
most likely its someone who abuses those exploits and hates it when they get attention because he cant play the game without the exploit i know a few of those people and they would definitely dislike this video
@@christiandauz3742 Straight hive minds that aren't kill-em-all or The Borg aren't inherently hostile(people just don't like tghem and think they're weird), and the penalty cam be reduced by Empath civic, and countered by Envoys(which Empath gives you more of).
Thought it would be the infinite energy glitch, where you could click on energy and then trade for entry with nevertheless granting you infinite energy for buying anything.
@@davonoldham1764 It was patched I thin k a year ago, but it was when they first introduced the galactic market and internal market, you could click on the resources for a quick route to the trade menu for that resource, in the menu, you couldn't click on energy, but in the overlay, you could just click and it would take you to the energy credit trade menu, and you could just print out free energy credits.
Spiff actually said no one liked these videos. Like compared to his other videos. So he's not covering stellaris. Hope the game gets a bigger following I have like 900 hours in it on xbox and 600 or 700 hours on pc.
I found one for alloys: Have very little alloys, upgrade fleet (upgrade cost should be higher than the amount of alloys you have), when the fleet starts upgrading, cancel the upgrade, and voila, you get FULL upgrade cost back. Now that you have some alloys, design a new corvette with just 1 red laser and 1 lowest lvl armor, engines, sensors, reactor, all lowest lvl, spam a bunch of them, go to fleet manager, select fleet with toy corvettes, and refit them all to the best (and most expensive) corvette design, and use the exploit for even more alloys. If you need more alloys then you can get (for habitat or megastucture) from this (You need to spend alloys before trying the exploit again, or else you end up with the same amount), you can "store" your alloys in your starbases. How? Do the exploit, upgrade all the starbases you ca, do the explot again, cancel the upgrades, and you have even more alloys :) P.S. I am still on 2.6.0 , dunno if they fixed it in the latest patch..
Actually, all jobs in Stellaris have the same production regardless of location and source. Researchers on habitat districts produce the same as researchers in research labs and ring worlds and everywhere else. This is another failure of Paradox. The info card shows the total production of the building or district when it is fully employed.
I'll be honest, I love games with features like this, and it's the reason I got into it last month. I already have 129 hours in it after 4 weeks and have bought the Apocalypse and Utopia DLC, so, while it might be "broken", I absolutely love snowballing mechanics!
1. Closes deal with AI to get alloys for favors 2. AI runs a deficit on alloys 3. AI has to buy from market, driving the price up 4. Put in a monthly sale for the AI's own alloys back to them (at a ridiculous markup)
All that does is screw up the AI empire's internal market prices, not yours. Market inflation by the AI only starts once the Galactic Community passes the Form Galactic Market resolution and a market hub is chosen.
Step 1: Build large Federation Step 2: Conquer Galaxy except for one enemy Step 3: Keep rejecting an ally's requests to fight that one enemy Step 4: Ally leaves Federation. Other Federation members now hate the ex-ally Step 5: Conquer that ally and claim all its lands Step 6: Repeat 3, 4, and 5 until Federation is between you and one other Step 7: Break Federation. By now you should be more than powerful enough to conquer everything. Step 8: Conquer everything.
@@Ap0Kal1ps3 *Gasp* Do you know what this means? Stellaris must be unexploitable! Absolutely no one would be able to find anything broken in it at all!
I don’t typically comment on videos but Spiff you create some of the best. In times of hardship I know I can load up one of these vids and just have a wonderful time. Thanks for the content!!!
Spiff *asks which exploit will he be pulling of today* Me: "it's obviously D. All of the above." Spiff: *Doesn't put D. All of the above* Me: *Chokes on Yorkshire Tea*
@@velotome7205 They were in a faction together, and got murdered by another player that ballooned out of control when they tried to screw him with the Galactic Council. Can't remember why that guy was so strong, though.
to be honest, this is probably one of the more balanced ways to play stellaris, today i watched a vid where some guy made a 1 pop playthrough, making a deathcult and trough making sacrifices he skyrocketed his eco so he just bought everything and anything he needed
When Spiff consciously refrained from mentioning Yorkshire Tea, so that we might not be reminded of what things might not be readily available to us in these times, and withheld a sponsorship of his Premium Content so as to wish all well... What a gentleman. 😢
this smooth voice telling me to exploit all my game times with my friends..... Were playing civ 5 tomorrow and im choosing Venice (yes we include ai to make up numbers/skill gap)
"I know its a lot to ask but gosh darn will we repay you after!" "Seems legit. So if our Economy Breaks you will 100% be there for us" " *But of course* "
@@gamerboi9419 yeah, it used to all be a single giant Silver mine and melting facility. Then the Queen commandeered it during the Hundred Years War to produce tea for the soldiers so they would fight better. Thus came the fall of the British Silver production empire, and the rise of the British Tea addiction.
Older versions of the game actually grey out the trade button for that empire after a trade offer is made, and it stays that way until the offer is confirmed or declined. Granted, older versions of the game made it easier to get instant transfers, and harder to get monthly transfers, so I think Paradox got their wires crossed with those at some point (I'm going to guess version 2.2).
@@magustrigger9195 Lol, I said this in irony, but I thank you for responding with such eloquent fanaticism for coffee. Personally, both drinks are righteous if made properly.
@@ethanwhaley1362 To sup from both cups is to invite the destruction upon both houses of tea and of coffee, Id ask you to choose so as not to destroy the fabric of our worlds morality. come child choose life or death....
@@magustrigger9195 I am sorry my friend, but I cannot choose just one. To sip from both cups on the edge of a fine blade is worth the destruction of a thousand planets and eons of history.
This game looks like a lot of fun. I do enjoy a good RTS, especially in space. I'd probably play properly the 1st time through, struggle, and then start a new game the Spiffing Brit way.
Just a heads up, “Job Base Production” is actually “Structure Base Production”. The Habitats show 12 because each researcher produces 4, and there are 3 researchers. Planetary research centers show 8 because there are 2 researchers (2x4=8). What this means is the researchers aren’t individually better, there’s just more of them.
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Yup. And description is actually "JobS Base Production", not "Job Base Production". So it makes sense, that 3 researchers produces 12 research (habitat disctrict) and 2 researchers produce 8 research (building). So it's always 4 research each respectively. Who would thought that? That's so broken...
Ever since I started drinking Yorkshire Tea Gold, I cannot drink anything else. It's probably my most favourite tea now. I never expected this would happen after 6 months of watching your videos, Spiff
@@AlexK-sk4qb so, enemy empire invaded my capital planet. They kept their fleet in there as I conquered 70% of their territory. They then split it and feed it, 200-300 power fleets at a time. Their fleet was overwhelming btw.
@@coel3572, is that because they had no army or too small an army with their fleet? I found that they get really confused if they don't have an army with them.
I’m totally going to use this with my friends and vastly beat them in power and just blame ‘luck’ for a while. Eventually I’ll tell them, eventually...
This is the first time ever, that the midpoint of the video has reminded me to get tea, just as I ran OUT of tea in my cup. So thanks Spiff, that refill really made the video a most enjoyable experience.
I need to show this to my wife. She's taken a strong liking to Stellaris recently but always complains about slow resource generation. Well, not anymore :P
Name of the video: "Infinite Resources Glitch" Literally start of the video: "We are gaining 63 alloys per month by trade deals" I think it's B, the speedy science.
Speedy Science build: Traits: Intelligent, Solitary, skilled Edicts: Fanatic Materialist, Xenophile Edict Traits: (needs to be oligarchy) Technocracy, Corporate Dominion ( when you get the tech for an extra edict trait, it’s your choice on what to get). Corporate dominion increases precious energy credit production and technocracy adds another research alternative, which is extremely crucial if all research available are something you dint want to yet or takes too long, one more can make all the difference. Strategy: Build as many research stations as you can within the borders of your empire while steadily building up your navy. On planets, only build what your planet is deficit in, but it’s not the end of the world if it is deficit. Make some luxury houses in some tiles, and also around be a lot more neutral towards everyone, maybe fix to join a federation or create one later on, for me at least I had an entire federation fleet 100k and all of them were corvettes and didn’t cost me a dime. Have fun!
You stated that the research districts have a scientists that output 12 research each, but that number actually just represents how much a fully manned building outputs. All scientists jobs have a individual base output of 4 science. All that you get over science buildings is an extra research slot and not taking up a building slot
Another thing you can break: Buildings producing the very thing they consume alongside other resources is possible. Here's how: 1) Play void dwellers, make it a trade station, play megacorp, spam corporate culture sites on it. (The +15% specialist production makes the loop more efficient) 2) Switch to consumer benefits, or preferably trade league, since that way you get even bloody more unity. Personally, I start using marketplace of ideas then switch to trade league which due the loop this setup creates makes a massive surplus of consumer goods. Basically, since your trade policy is producing consumer goods, and you are using consumer goods to produce trade value, and the same buildings that do that also produce society research and unity, it gets really chaotic. It gets worse if you take traditions that reduce upkeep, making the loop more efficient, such as the discovery tree with how it reduces the upkeep of pops working with research, which since the corporate culture site produces some research, means less consumer goods upkeep, meaning there is a smaller deficit in the amount of consumer goods the buildings produce and how much they consume. Optional things that break this further: - Thrifty (for more trade value = more consumer goods = more efficiency to the loop) and natural sociologists (since most of your research will be society due to this) traits -Fanatic xenophile ethos (Even more trade value = Even more consumer goods = less loss of efficiency) - The civic that boosts unity production, as if you take the path I usually due where you start as marketplace of ideas and then switch to trade league after forming a federation you are basically just unity rushing using buildings that produce both unity and trade value whilst also making their own upkeep. It gets insane.
I approve of this.
@@thespiffingbrit Makes sense to me.
I like that you also did the video that destroys the game yesterday :D
@@thespiffingbrit Did you see Aspec's newest video (new exploit)
how about... we combine these strategies? (evil laughter)
You two should do a multiplayer game and see who can exploit hardest, with the 25x crisis strength. Maybe bring in Lathrix too.
Can’t wait to use this to curb stomp my friend who’s far better at stellaris than me.
friend? what friend?
you sould not have friend!
The Spiffing Brit oh he’s not meta, he’s just stupidly smart and good at grand strategy games.
I would do that too, but my friend also watches Spiff
People only get better by watching TSB's videos, so if he's better than you, he probably watches TSB as well
Paradox: releases DLC with bug 'fixes'.
The Spiffing Brit: *_Ah yes, another game that I bet will be perfectly balanced with no exploits. Lets see what they fucked up this time._*
CarthagoMike i Read this with spiff’s voice
I really can't hear a tea drinking gentleman like Brit say fuck tho. I just can't
I imagine spiff drinking tea from a massive mug after saying that, all we need is a mug that gives you infinite amounts of tea and keeps it hot so you never have to boil the kettle again
when he said the line with they will fix them remembered me of world of warcraft where they fix a bug so that hunterpets dont look like murlocs or demons which caused a bug which enabled you to have hunterpets of the size of big houses, the dream of every arena player or tank in instances which could not the the instance cause a giant dinosaur made up his full screen.
@@chenkam2954 - I have, especially when they've been hanging out with American Military ;)
"Sits on space stations and scams people!"
Me- "...so...a Ferengi?"
*rubs my big ass lobes* ohhh baby u know it
Big nose rubbing hands
That was exactly what I thought. Also, he's become China in space.
He's got the lobes for business!
@@pbsixgun6 Maoists got it from the big-nose Bolsheviks in the first place, so...
"Why no-one plays multiplayer stellaris with me."
Uhmm spiff no one plays any multiplayer games with you.
What about the glorious legions he amassed in Planetside 2?
@@Middie5503 They didn't play with him. They played for him. They were under the contract we all sign for Spiffco.
He plays TTT and Garry's Mod with the Yogscast sometimes.
@@nick012000 yes I know this. It was a reference to a civ 6 episode where he stated that no-one liked playing multiplayer games with him.
Guys I think it’s a joke
"They're going to be spending the first 20 years of this game being continuously bombarded with trade deals they feel are amazing..." Truly, more British words were never spoken.🇬🇧🧐
Now you boys love Opium right, no.............You must buy all the Opium and trade me tea. ah Brits.....love from the colonies
This made me remember QE from Civ 5.
"Now of course, Stellaris has AI created by those fantastic boffins at Paradox Interactive, so AI is a strong word indeed!" Someone call the burnward, 'cause OUCH.
OP
@@thespiffingbrit can you do Albion online
To quote Internet Historian:
"The enemy AI is far more A than I"
*Scorched blasts his own head with a shotgun*
@@thespiffingbrit By refusing to defend its own land you mean marching from Europe to the far end of Siberia to siege down three provinces for a total of one warscore while getting its capital occupied?
@@thespiffingbrit Ah yes, the historic British war tactic of sending all their armies to attrition in the Americas for no damn reason while France is laying siege to London. AI allies=Best allies
"The fleet has arrived."
"Sir, we are picking up a ship on sensors."
"Oh, did our military presence here bother someone?"
"I don't think so, sir. It appears to be a trading vessel."
"Oh, how cute... wait. Actually, can you identify the ship registration?"
"Oh dear lord. It appears to be of Spiff affiliation, sir!"
"FULL RETREAT! FULL RETREAT!"
ha ha ha.
ha ha ha.
ha ha ha.
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haha ha
Stellaris: "PLEASE. Stop finding what's broken about me!"
Civilisation VI: "First time?"
2 years later, I'm doing a similar cheese- I never actually joined the Galactic Community nor do I plan on doing so, but the AI still loves to buy up favors as if I had 100k influence in the GC. So, I trade favors for unlimited resources, scamming the entire galaxy out of a good chunk of their resources while propping me up no matter what.
I get into an early war with a Custom Corvette Swarm, steal their Starbase at a choke point and beat them into submission every time they try to take it back until they just give up. Usually works well if it's an Asshole Enemy nobody likes.
Man I died laughing I didn’t know you could sell favours then I tried it 🤣🤣😂 thanks bro
How do you set this cheese up.
Literally was laughing out loud at how amazing this was ty
6:51 That's not actually how that works. All researcher jobs are the same, -1 consumer goods and +4 of all research. The numbers it gives is just the sum of all productions and upkeeps. This is particularly noticable on buildings that provide multiple different jobs.
That said, the research districts are still quite good.
i just wanted to write a comment about this but then i found yours lol
you can even check the population tab or the wiki to find out but it should be obvious anyway
Laughs in Ringworld
I can see how people can get confused though
OFMG< I WAS GOING OT sAY THE SAME FREAKIGN THING,. I jsut HATE IT when people miss the obvious. ;-;
And spiff is so good! he should reupload this with fixed audio UwU
Nukestarmaster yeah ringworld is pretty good especially when u play machines and completely ignore your energy
I love the concept of the mid-way message of “be kind to each other...support each other” as Brit savagely takes advantage of the AI empires to starve and impoverish them with pseudo useful trade deals that he will then backend with war after having sucked the resources from the nation in question and left them unfit to fight back. Good stuff. XD
The Empire Britannia!
"Hello, I am a Nigerian Prince...."-Daves Dodgy Deals
"They will try to patch it out, but it's ok, Because we'll just find more."
i died after that. i was laughing so hard.
And it was so true because a year later the Lem update has completely broke this hahah.
I read that as he said it.
This mentality is how wars are won lol
"They're going to be spending the first 20 years of this game being continuously bombarded with trade deals they feel are amazing which resulting them handing almost all of their resources per month.."
So you've basically made a BANK in Stellaris..
Hahahahaha!!!! Classic!!!
Don't know how much they value resources, but I'm certain you could literally ponzi the living shite outta them.
Nooo... He created Ferenginar
It's funny because it's true
Eish I could save comments
Well... You just found out how to create those "doctor's hate him!" scam ads in Stellaris.
Okay I'm just experimenting this in multiplayer with a void dweller megacorp.
My friends don't know how I got so powerful and they are so confused (Im gonna explain it to them later).
Here is how things are going:
We are still not even 25 years into the game and I already have 8 habitats.
The galactic community was formed really quickly bc I built around 18 science ships and met everyone
My neighbours have a ton of my favours and I always vote against them in the senate. Why? My diplomatic weight is bigger than everyone's and it makes them spend my favours to approve even the things I want approved. So they are basically doing my bidding without knowing it.
My fleetpower is still pathetic but nobody attacks me because they are afraid of my trade league federation, in wich I brough in a badass militarist empire who makes all the ships.
The game is in Grand Admiral and I have the crisis strengh on x5. Lets see how this goes.
Edits: Grammar.
To keep a run of the things:
I stopped doing this glitch midgame because I started having everyone into my federation, since I didn't want them to be weak I stopped taking resources from them and instead gave back theese resources to let them get strong enough to defend me.
There was a devouring swarm and a determined exterminators in the galaxy. The swarm was completely wiped out by my friends who were playing with me while the exterminators grew too strong. But once I got in with my federation fleet it was easy picking.
Basically I subjulgated the entire galaxy into my federation, including my friends who tried to beat me.
The crisis was the Contingency and I beat it without sending a single ship. My federation vassal swarm did everything for me. Just after the Ghost Signal showed up I changed some laws and gave up my president position in the federation so the AI could take the fleet from me. I literally did nothing
@@Arthutstut641 wow, you WON Stellaris!
What a virgin, used the glitch xD
Every time you post it amazes me how much you’ve grown over the past few years, I still remember the first time I found your channel through the hoi4 time lapses. Been here since the first Luxembourg world conquest attempt. I don’t really remember but I think you had less than 10k at the time.
Me and my 6 quarantine friends: *start a game*
Me: *does this exploit with the AI empires*
My friend, a lithoid: *Does the free pops exploit Aspec covered*
Me and my friend: "FINALLY, A WORTHY OPPONENT!"
other 4 friends: *stand around watching like bystanders in a dbz fight*
@@MetalHev even better they keep helping out whoever's losing so that we stay too distracted with each other to crush them it's beautiful. Me and my worthy opponent have been at war for 30 in-game years now.
the other friend: doing lithoid trading ai scam into habitats skipping robos because you dont need food.
@@jimothyworldbuilding3664 how's the war going?
@@leobracken2316 I lost :(
55 seconds since release and it has 1 dislike on a 25 minute video Really makes me think
I wish you can have Hive-Minded Empires that are not hostile to non-hives but get less bonuses, more of an in-between option
I also think that there needs to be a Gene-Cyborg-Hybrid Option. Pick one Cyborg and one Gene Evolution perk to unlock the Hybrid perk. Spiritualist are confuse but have no negative opinion. Materialist get bonus relations
That person likes coffee
most likely its someone who abuses those exploits and hates it when they get attention because he cant play the game without the exploit
i know a few of those people and they would definitely dislike this video
@@christiandauz3742 Straight hive minds that aren't kill-em-all or The Borg aren't inherently hostile(people just don't like tghem and think they're weird), and the penalty cam be reduced by Empath civic, and countered by Envoys(which Empath gives you more of).
Probably a paradox employee xD
A - normal strat
B - you already did this
C - *makes sense*
More like he already said what he was going to do before asking what he was going to do.
Got here in under a minute and still not first, lol. Spiff how is your trade empire doing in bannerlords?
Same
@@narrowx5577 Impossible to find the answer elsewhere so I ask you. How do you do it ?
AIRALIEN SOFT watch spiffs video on it
@@thespiffingbrit I just do ctrl + ~ 😑
@@thickdog6936 it was patched the one he showed
Thought it would be the infinite energy glitch, where you could click on energy and then trade for entry with nevertheless granting you infinite energy for buying anything.
What’s this glitch?
@@davonoldham1764 It was patched I thin k a year ago, but it was when they first introduced the galactic market and internal market, you could click on the resources for a quick route to the trade menu for that resource, in the menu, you couldn't click on energy, but in the overlay, you could just click and it would take you to the energy credit trade menu, and you could just print out free energy credits.
He covered that in a previous video actually
My favourite bit of fun is the classic AI on a ring world. Best tech output on Xbox for me was 3k tech in under 100 years.
The fact that a new video of stellaris has not come out in a long time, does that mean that there are no longer any exploits to be found?
Doubt it.
enough exploits out there xD
Nope. The only exploits left are hyper specific. like trapping a fleet.
Just wait till May 12th when the new DLC Expansion comes out, then we'll see
Spiff actually said no one liked these videos. Like compared to his other videos. So he's not covering stellaris. Hope the game gets a bigger following I have like 900 hours in it on xbox and 600 or 700 hours on pc.
D: All of them, but with majestic Tea
fairly sure this is how the EIC took over India.
Sadly, this exploit has since been patched; just in case no one's posted about it yet.
Womp womp. That's what I came to the comments to find out.
Thanks sad tho
This must be the ultimate Ferengi experience... and I'm ok with that. Especially since the STO game doesn't. What a shame.
Does it work still ?
@L i q b t I'm still new and was waiting for someone more experienced to answer, but I don't think so. When will Paradox let us live free?! 😔
I found one for alloys: Have very little alloys, upgrade fleet (upgrade cost should be higher than the amount of alloys you have), when the fleet starts upgrading, cancel the upgrade, and voila, you get FULL upgrade cost back. Now that you have some alloys, design a new corvette with just 1 red laser and 1 lowest lvl armor, engines, sensors, reactor, all lowest lvl, spam a bunch of them, go to fleet manager, select fleet with toy corvettes, and refit them all to the best (and most expensive) corvette design, and use the exploit for even more alloys. If you need more alloys then you can get (for habitat or megastucture) from this (You need to spend alloys before trying the exploit again, or else you end up with the same amount), you can "store" your alloys in your starbases. How? Do the exploit, upgrade all the starbases you ca, do the explot again, cancel the upgrades, and you have even more alloys :)
P.S. I am still on 2.6.0 , dunno if they fixed it in the latest patch..
Actually, all jobs in Stellaris have the same production regardless of location and source. Researchers on habitat districts produce the same as researchers in research labs and ring worlds and everywhere else. This is another failure of Paradox. The info card shows the total production of the building or district when it is fully employed.
I noticed this too and it annoyed me, also he thought new contact was a positive opinion
b man new contact is positive if the empire your talking to is xenophillic
The Void Dweller trait you get from the Voidborne origin gives you +15% to resources from all specialist and worker jobs.
I'll be honest, I love games with features like this, and it's the reason I got into it last month. I already have 129 hours in it after 4 weeks and have bought the Apocalypse and Utopia DLC, so, while it might be "broken", I absolutely love snowballing mechanics!
1. Closes deal with AI to get alloys for favors
2. AI runs a deficit on alloys
3. AI has to buy from market, driving the price up
4. Put in a monthly sale for the AI's own alloys back to them (at a ridiculous markup)
All that does is screw up the AI empire's internal market prices, not yours. Market inflation by the AI only starts once the Galactic Community passes the Form Galactic Market resolution and a market hub is chosen.
I bought this game because of you, Mr. Spiff. One of the most fun I have had in a 4x game is years. Bravo and please continue
Step 1: Build large Federation
Step 2: Conquer Galaxy except for one enemy
Step 3: Keep rejecting an ally's requests to fight that one enemy
Step 4: Ally leaves Federation. Other Federation members now hate the ex-ally
Step 5: Conquer that ally and claim all its lands
Step 6: Repeat 3, 4, and 5 until Federation is between you and one other
Step 7: Break Federation. By now you should be more than powerful enough to conquer everything.
Step 8: Conquer everything.
you know, im starting to think this series name isn't very accurate to the video
What do you mean? Stellaris is very obviously a perfectly balanced game with no exploits whatsoever!
@@alephkasai9384 Stellaris is so balanced, it's been on this channel multiple times, in fact.
@@Ap0Kal1ps3 *Gasp* Do you know what this means?
Stellaris must be unexploitable! Absolutely no one would be able to find anything broken in it at all!
Rattles Magoo sell me a yoyo bag already
@@alephkasai9384 there are no exploits, only unintended gameplay features
There are two things we can be certain of in this universe.
Freshly brewed tea and Spiffs exploits
And Americans revolting because of taxes.
@@wickederebus Feed the rich and burn the poor. The whole world should rebel against the system and those that enforce it
@@gajspalt cant tell if you're serious, had a typo, or memeing.
I don’t typically comment on videos but Spiff you create some of the best. In times of hardship I know I can load up one of these vids and just have a wonderful time. Thanks for the content!!!
Spiff *asks which exploit will he be pulling of today*
Me: "it's obviously D. All of the above."
Spiff: *Doesn't put D. All of the above*
Me: *Chokes on Yorkshire Tea*
The AI dealing with those trade deals reminds me of the time I accidentally bought 4 pizzas because the buy button was not initially working.
The last time I was this early spiff was making subtitled hoi 4 timelapses without voice over
I would love to see Aspec vs Spiff multiplayer
Already happened i believe. I think i saw the game on Steffan Anon's channel
@@velotome7205 They were in a faction together, and got murdered by another player that ballooned out of control when they tried to screw him with the Galactic Council. Can't remember why that guy was so strong, though.
Exploits vs Meta
@@josephcola9662 I think exploits were banned.
Aspec would absolutely cream him. Spiff had zero talent, unless starting on easy is a talent.
In this video: Spiffing Brit turns Stellaris into a 1% exploiting the other 99% simulator.
Playing as a megacorp just got a completely new meaning.
Never played stellaris but Im still here sipping tea while watching spiff shred game mechanics
Alien: ok I’ll make a trade deal.
Spiff: I’ll take your entire stock!
"Fool, you fell for one of the classic blunders"
-Spiff deals in stellaris (or any game for that matter)
Sunderzilla “The most obvious of which, is never get involved in a land war against Lithoids, but only slightly less well known is this!”
to be honest, this is probably one of the more balanced ways to play stellaris, today i watched a vid where some guy made a 1 pop playthrough, making a deathcult and trough making sacrifices he skyrocketed his eco so he just bought everything and anything he needed
"Alright this seems like a pretty normal game so far let's see how-"
9:50 "Oh."
When Spiff consciously refrained from mentioning Yorkshire Tea, so that we might not be reminded of what things might not be readily available to us in these times, and withheld a sponsorship of his Premium Content so as to wish all well...
What a gentleman. 😢
Watching this in 2022 where Stellaris might as well be a different game.
Watching it in 2024 when it has changed yet again
The fact that the game spawned a federation next to you is just... beautiful.
this smooth voice telling me to exploit all my game times with my friends..... Were playing civ 5 tomorrow and im choosing Venice (yes we include ai to make up numbers/skill gap)
Makes cup of sweet tea: ah spiff playing Stellaris is the best entertainment ever
"I know its a lot to ask but gosh darn will we repay you after!"
"Seems legit. So if our Economy Breaks you will 100% be there for us"
" *But of course* "
I'd love to see the spiffing brit cheese everyday board games... Imagine this: Monopoly is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.
3:17 Who else saw that constellation where he started and was instantly jealous.....
I litteraly do Watch This for evey other Day @ the last half year 2 sleep. I did Watch it now over 100 times. And i Love it.
Oh you amazing man. I just finished a long campaign and thought of taking a brake and boom look at you forcing my hand at another go at Stellaris!
Two Stellasris abuse videos on one day, what a delight, the other one is from ASpec where he abuses lithoid mechanics to get infinite free pops.
"What will Spiff do today?"
My final answer: Yes.
Ah yes. Space Britain and it's "Trade Deals"
Would you be interested in a trade agreement with England
@@pedrolmlkzk
"No"
"I'm sorry; is this some kind of native joke I'm too British to understand?"
I'm drinking decaf Indian spiced chai for tea today and I always look forward to your perfectly balanced gameplay and I definitely enjoyed this one.
As a fallen empire, a xenophobic one, called the militant isolationists, we have precious little time for your kind, child.
Answer D: because spiff has tea so he will natually win
They have officially added tea to Stardew Valley!!
Last time I was this early, Spiff was only drinking Yorkshire silver.
He was drinking silver from Yorkshire?
Truly, the worst of times to have to drink molten silver of all things.
@@wickederebus And the worst place for it, considering how Yorkshire is.
@@gamerboi9419 yeah, it used to all be a single giant Silver mine and melting facility. Then the Queen commandeered it during the Hundred Years War to produce tea for the soldiers so they would fight better. Thus came the fall of the British Silver production empire, and the rise of the British Tea addiction.
@@wickederebus A sad day, a sad day indeed.
Watching your exploits is helping keep me sane in this quarantine.
I'm watching this in the middle of the night and given the games black background, I'm getting "flashbanged" with every picture O.o' Epilepsy warning!
"Sit on space stations and scam people"
So you're playing as the artisans enclave?
I've nerver been this early :D
So the best patch for this, would be AI actually using those favors and making pending trade deals evaluated as single trade deal during pause.
Older versions of the game actually grey out the trade button for that empire after a trade offer is made, and it stays that way until the offer is confirmed or declined. Granted, older versions of the game made it easier to get instant transfers, and harder to get monthly transfers, so I think Paradox got their wires crossed with those at some point (I'm going to guess version 2.2).
As someone who tests games for a living, I find this very enjoyable!
*This was quite capitalist of you*
(Also I was just preparing that sweet sweet Yorkshire and you uploaded so I have a good drink and a great video)
Next video: How to scam the Space Penguin empire for all their tea
Imagine drinking tea and loosing your humanity and start treating people this bad
Coffee drinkers wouldn't be this immoral
You speak heresy.......TEA IS SUPREME!!!!!!!
@@ethanwhaley1362 child you clearly are drinking your sins, come with me to a magical land of flavour, and righteous purity
@@magustrigger9195 Lol, I said this in irony, but I thank you for responding with such eloquent fanaticism for coffee. Personally, both drinks are righteous if made properly.
@@ethanwhaley1362 To sup from both cups is to invite the destruction upon both houses of tea and of coffee, Id ask you to choose so as not to destroy the fabric of our worlds morality.
come child choose life or death....
@@magustrigger9195 I am sorry my friend, but I cannot choose just one. To sip from both cups on the edge of a fine blade is worth the destruction of a thousand planets and eons of history.
satisfactory, everyhting seem normal to me.
Spiff, you and the wonderful taste of Yorkshire Tea have been a godsend for my sanity in these trying times. Keep up the good work!
This game looks like a lot of fun. I do enjoy a good RTS, especially in space. I'd probably play properly the 1st time through, struggle, and then start a new game the Spiffing Brit way.
Just a heads up, “Job Base Production” is actually “Structure Base Production”.
The Habitats show 12 because each researcher produces 4, and there are 3 researchers. Planetary research centers show 8 because there are 2 researchers (2x4=8).
What this means is the researchers aren’t individually better, there’s just more of them.
Yup. And description is actually "JobS Base Production", not "Job Base Production". So it makes sense, that 3 researchers produces 12 research (habitat disctrict) and 2 researchers produce 8 research (building). So it's always 4 research each respectively. Who would thought that? That's so broken...
When you are so early u don’t know what to comment
ikr
@@thespiffingbrit Pretty Well. How are you doing on this wonderfull quarantined Day my Lord
@@patricku2825 guge Lord*
@@thespiffingbrit Well with a nice cup of tea, everyone can be doing well
Love this
Ever since I started drinking Yorkshire Tea Gold, I cannot drink anything else. It's probably my most favourite tea now.
I never expected this would happen after 6 months of watching your videos, Spiff
YOOO I WAS SEARCHING FOR A VIDEO OF YOURS ON THIS WONDERFUL SIM. THANKS B0SS
Artificial Intelligence is only as “intelligent” as the person who makes it.
Paradox and Spiff have essentially proved the point.
If you're being invaded by an enemy empire, you can send 1 tiny ship into their territory and they will immediately turn their entire fleet around.
I need some fanart of Spiff battling Paradox.
@@AlexK-sk4qb so, enemy empire invaded my capital planet. They kept their fleet in there as I conquered 70% of their territory.
They then split it and feed it, 200-300 power fleets at a time.
Their fleet was overwhelming btw.
@@coel3572, is that because they had no army or too small an army with their fleet? I found that they get really confused if they don't have an army with them.
@@AlexK-sk4qb actually, they had one. They even invaded and win. Then just stayed our there. I don't know why.
Spiff, you should have played as the Ferangi from Star Trek. Scamming people is what they do.
I’m totally going to use this with my friends and vastly beat them in power and just blame ‘luck’ for a while.
Eventually I’ll tell them, eventually...
This is the first time ever, that the midpoint of the video has reminded me to get tea, just as I ran OUT of tea in my cup.
So thanks Spiff, that refill really made the video a most enjoyable experience.
i don't know how you manage to find these exploits but i love watching you execute every single one of them.
*"What about Fallen Empires?"*
Make a game without them or make a Federation and let the biggest AI's take them out
I need to show this to my wife. She's taken a strong liking to Stellaris recently but always complains about slow resource generation. Well, not anymore :P
Name of the video: "Infinite Resources Glitch"
Literally start of the video: "We are gaining 63 alloys per month by trade deals"
I think it's B, the speedy science.
You see, if we're talking about spiff, we know that the answer will be "all of them"
Speedy Science build:
Traits: Intelligent, Solitary, skilled
Edicts: Fanatic Materialist, Xenophile
Edict Traits: (needs to be oligarchy) Technocracy, Corporate Dominion ( when you get the tech for an extra edict trait, it’s your choice on what to get).
Corporate dominion increases precious energy credit production and technocracy adds another research alternative, which is extremely crucial if all research available are something you dint want to yet or takes too long, one more can make all the difference.
Strategy: Build as many research stations as you can within the borders of your empire while steadily building up your navy. On planets, only build what your planet is deficit in, but it’s not the end of the world if it is deficit. Make some luxury houses in some tiles, and also around be a lot more neutral towards everyone, maybe fix to join a federation or create one later on, for me at least I had an entire federation fleet 100k and all of them were corvettes and didn’t cost me a dime.
Have fun!
You stated that the research districts have a scientists that output 12 research each, but that number actually just represents how much a fully manned building outputs. All scientists jobs have a individual base output of 4 science. All that you get over science buildings is an extra research slot and not taking up a building slot
Question: What will Spiff do Today?
Answer: Yes.
Another thing you can break: Buildings producing the very thing they consume alongside other resources is possible. Here's how:
1) Play void dwellers, make it a trade station, play megacorp, spam corporate culture sites on it. (The +15% specialist production makes the loop more efficient)
2) Switch to consumer benefits, or preferably trade league, since that way you get even bloody more unity. Personally, I start using marketplace of ideas then switch to trade league which due the loop this setup creates makes a massive surplus of consumer goods.
Basically, since your trade policy is producing consumer goods, and you are using consumer goods to produce trade value, and the same buildings that do that also produce society research and unity, it gets really chaotic. It gets worse if you take traditions that reduce upkeep, making the loop more efficient, such as the discovery tree with how it reduces the upkeep of pops working with research, which since the corporate culture site produces some research, means less consumer goods upkeep, meaning there is a smaller deficit in the amount of consumer goods the buildings produce and how much they consume.
Optional things that break this further:
- Thrifty (for more trade value = more consumer goods = more efficiency to the loop) and natural sociologists (since most of your research will be society due to this) traits
-Fanatic xenophile ethos (Even more trade value = Even more consumer goods = less loss of efficiency)
- The civic that boosts unity production, as if you take the path I usually due where you start as marketplace of ideas and then switch to trade league after forming a federation you are basically just unity rushing using buildings that produce both unity and trade value whilst also making their own upkeep. It gets insane.
I would love to see you play a normal playthrough on stelaris using all the exploits you found. 100 stat man in Stelaris?
Omfg he’s back Boys spiff I have bee waiting for this day give us more stellaris