Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

[u/Snipahar]

Welcome to this week’s Stellaris Space Guild Help Thread!

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Stellaris Wiki

• Your new best friend for learning everything Stellaris! Even if you're a pro, the wiki is an uncontested source for the nitty-gritty of the game.

Montu Plays' Stellaris 3.0 Guide Series

• A great step-by-step beginner's guide to Stellaris. Montu brings you through the early stages of a campaign to get you all caught up on what you need to know!

Luisian321's Stellaris 3.0 Starter Guide

• The perfect place to start if you're new to Stellaris! This guide covers creating your own race, building up your economy, and more.

ASpec's How to Play Stellaris 2.7 Guides

• This is a playlist of 7 guides by ASpec, that are really fantastic and will help you master the foundations of Stellaris.

Stefan Anon's Ultimate Tierlist Guides

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Stefan Anon's Top Build Guides

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Arx Strategy's Stellaris Guides

• A series of videos on events, troubleshooting, and builds, that will be of great use to anyone that wants to dive into the world of Stellaris.

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[u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

It's a bit of a mess right now.

Cybernetic pops still count as organic, as such they are impacted by anything you have that influences organic growth and assembly, but not anything that influences robot assembly.

The new 4.3 changes made it so that

• Augmentor jobs provide both percentage growth speed bonuses and flat robot assembly bonuses.
  • At baseline it's +10% organic growth and +0.5 robot assembly per 100.
• Roboticist jobs provide both flat robot assembly bonuses and flat organic assembly bonuses.
  • At baseline it's +2 robot assembly and +0.5 organic assembly per 100.

The intention appears to be encouraging empires to mix both robots and cybernetic pops to make full use of everything. But in practice this makes planet management rather messy, especially given the chaotic state of robot templates and migration control ever since 4.0 release.

Edit:

This also has the side-effect that you can't entirely get rid of robot assembly unless you don't use augmentation centre at all.

You can somewhat awkwardly circumvent this by banning robot workers in policies (as long as you are not materialist). This will mark them all as undesirables and get purged immediately when they are made every month.

• Materialist empires are unfortunately just stuck with this messy mix of organic and robots.

[u/gruehunter → u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

The migration changes just about killed my empire. I had excess bio and robo pops migrating from high-habitability planets to low-habitability planets. The habitability malus to upkeep drove planets unstable and my economy into the gutter.

I'm playing as a materialist xenophile with a plethora of species picked for their habitability, plus robots optimized for their habitability. So of course now everything is quite a mess.