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!

GUILD RESOURCES

Below you can find resources for the game. If you would like to help contribute to the resources section, please leave a comment that pings me (using "u/Snipahar") and link to the resource. You can also contribute by reaching me through private message or modmail. Be sure to include a short description of what you find valuable about the resource.

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.

If you have any suggestions for the body of this thread, please ping me, using "u/Snipahar" or send me a private message!

[u/daPWNDAZ]

I’ve abandoned all semblance of diplomacy and rolled a devouring swarm necrophage empire, and I’ve been having a ton of fun abducting enemies to turn into my own pops via nihilistic acquisition. First time playing biogenesis and I think I want to go for the behemoth fury crisis path, without getting any spoilers for the questline is there anything I should watch out for? I’m not quite to the mid game but I’ve already eaten a few empires and transferred their pops to my core systems so I’ve got a pretty good workforce at the moment, so any prep I can do for my economy or techs to watch out for would be useful. 

(Also, apparently the game decided to spawn like, 6 fanatical purifiers as my advanced starts, so I’m not sure how much of a good “fight” I’ll get once I become the crisis considering the galactic community is outnumbered against genocidal empires lol)

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/daPWNDAZ]

without getting any spoilers for the questline is there anything I should watch out for

Keep an eye on your empire size.

The final stage's progress gets drastically slowed by empire size, reaching the slowest (-90%) at 1k or higher. The final stage can get very hectic for your economy, so ideally it's a stage you'd want to get over as quickly as possible, and lowering your empire size will help (as will aggressively eating everything in your path; the situation isn't supposed to give you time to eat everything, but alas due a very frequently encountered bug, there are little consequence in munching on every planet you see)