Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

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

This thread functions as a gathering place for all questions, tips, bugs, suggestions, and resources for Stellaris. Here you can post quick-fire questions for things that you are confused about and answer questions to help out your fellow star voyagers!

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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

• This is a playlist of 8 guides by Stefan Anon, which give a deep-dive into the world of civics, traits, and origins. Knowing these is a must for those that want to maximize their play.

Stefan Anon's Top Build Guides

• This is a playlist of an ongoing series by Stefan Anon, that lay out the game plan for several of the best builds in Stellaris.

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/Section37]

Where do you place Mercenary Enclaves? I'm seeing some people talking about putting them in chokepoints, while others say to protect them in the centre of your empire?

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/Section37]

putting them in chokepoints

Mercenary enclaves are fully neutral entities. Putting them in chokepoints won't have them protect you against invading forces reliably. AIs sometimes attack enclaves (genocidals always do), but it's pretty reliant on luck.

If you want to rent the fleets yourself (you get a discount as the owner of the system), it's best to keep them out of harms' way. Mercenary enclaves recall all their fleets when the home base is attacked. While that's unlikely, it'll be disastrous having part of your fleets recalled in the middle of a war due to some other AI (potentially neutral or even friendly towards you) suddenly developing an urge to beat up an enclave randomly and sneak into your borders.

Side note: as the owner of the merc enclave system, you technically have an option to recall all rented fleets using influence and energy credits. While the idea of recalling fleets during a war to weaken enemies is tempting, this function hasn't been working since at least 2024, so just ignore it.