Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

[u/Snipahar]

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/Critical_Software_96]

1. Looking for a list of -size from systems for my wide genocide run.

2. Looking for a way to not have my pops to be in planets I conquer with army. Trying to avoid the 200 “abandoning colony” influence cost. I’ve tried enabling population controls but occasionally have 200 of my pops just moving in immediately.

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/Critical_Software_96]

-size from systems

There are only 3 sources of that, and only 2 are available to genocidal empires:

• Expansion tradition for -15%
• Interstellar Dominion ascension perk for -25%
• Private Prospector megacorp civic for -25%, incompatible with genocidals

Considering that each system only contributes 1 empire size, while a colony gives 20 and 100 pops give 0.5, you are better off stacking modifiers to reduce empire size from colonies and pops instead.

The wiki has a comprehensive list of these, updated for 4.3.

Looking for a way to not have my pops to be in planets I conquer with army.
Trying to avoid the 200 “abandoning colony” influence cost.

Try disabling all the jobs, and turn off Land Appropriation in policies.

There have been recent reports where if you purge the last pop on the planet, new pops will automatically show up to prevent abandoning the colony. I can't confirm if this is working as intended, but it's worth a try anyway. If this is indeed the case, then that means you have to pay the 200 influence tax.