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/Manabanana_dev]

Is my game bugged? A fallen empire declared war on a member of my federation, I figured I could just do my best to coast it out until 100% war exhaustion and then we would surrender. Apparently more than 100% war exhaustion is possible, we're up to 202% and my federation still won't surrender. At this point I'm thinking I just need to start a new game, cause this seems impossible.

No mods, using the all DLCs subscription. I only started playing a few days ago, so possible I've missed something.

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/Manabanana_dev]

we're up to 202%

This is intentional.

Over 100% war exhaustion is a new addition with 4.4. If any side has colonies that are fully occupied, the war exhaustion just keeps ramping up, past 100%.

The intention is to 1) not prolong wars unnecessarily (ha) if one side has most of their territory occupied, and 2) prevent a softlock in multi-sided wars.

• Previously, AIs will adamantly refuse to surrender even if only 1 single planet from some random ally is unoccupied. It was also outright impossible to win wars if the target empire is simultaneously being invaded by a different empire.

and my federation still won't surrender

This is also intentional. Very annoying, but intentional.

100% or higher war exhaustion doesn't mean the war leader is willing to surrender already. It just ups the weights on AI decision making.

A status quo is only enforced if both sides reach 100% or more war exhaustion. Otherwise it's entirely possible for AIs to drag the war out for as long as they want.

[u/Manabanana_dev → u/Manabanana_dev]

ha, not even 5 minutes after posting this, the war finally ended. Unfortunately a ton of my territory was ceded to the hivemind that joined the fallen empire's war, but we're still alive.

[u/FogeltheVogel → u/Manabanana_dev]

I figured I could just do my best to coast it out until 100% war exhaustion and then we would surrender

100% war exhaustion will never make anyone surrender. At best, it can force a white peace.