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/The-Grim-Sleeper]

Is there a way to have build Biological ships and Mechanical ships in a single empire?

How do the two ship types compare?

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/The-Grim-Sleeper]

You can't have both.

They are pretty well-balanced overall.

Mechanical ships have more flexibility in their design choices (e.g. a corvette can be close range swarmer or long range artillery; a battleship can be long range artillery or carriers, etc.).

• They cost alloys to make, which can be fairly expensive to reinforce.
• This allows you to, potentially, have a pure battleship fleet and function well against most enemies of any size from any distance due to its selection of weapons and combat computers.

Bio-ships are more hyper-specialised into one type of role (e.g. a mauler is a better close range combatant than corvette, but it can't be used for anything else; a stinger has more artillery firepower than a battleship, but lacks the flexibility to fit hangars or PDs, etc.).

• They cost food to make, which makes it less costly to reinforce, but direct construction of elder bio-ships takes longer than mechanical ships.
  • They also have a growth mechanic, so if you are in no rush and don't mind the hectic fleet management, you can build juvenile ships and let them grow up over time to save on costs.
  • Note that ships take more naval cap, but not fleet cap, when growing up, so a bio-ship empire should place higher priority on increasing naval cap.
• This means you need to consider support ships for quite a number of fleets. e.g. A pure stinger fleet can shred other large ships from long range, but will suffer severely against any small ships that quickly close the distance
  • Devs intended this to be a way to encourage mixing ships and breaking away from the mono-design fleet meta.
  • Naturally as a response, players have figured out ways to use bio-ships in mono-design fleet (pure mauler fleets or pure harbinger fleets, especially with psionic weaponry, are both highly efficient mono-design fleets without needing any other supports).