r/EndlessSpace

Obviously for game purposes (and also because systems are still limited) your empire can never end up with infinite resources, but from the perspective of one of its inhabitants at which point a system would be so developed that virtually every citizen lives (or, in some cases COULD live) in a post scarcity society?

I get that not all of them due to their respective cultures could achieve that (for example the Lumeris are culturally capitalist to the core, the Cravers are a sentient plague, the Hisso are bound by code, the UE might want incentives for its citizens to work for the empire, the Nakalim but many others: the Unfallen, the Horatio, the Sophons, the Umbral Choir (especially it, with its whole thing being unity and harmony (ignore that everyone is now part of a hivemind) the Voydani(?), Vaulters(?), Riftborn(?) don’t seem to have culturally any issues with ensuring each of its people have access to some or all of the basic resources they need to live, especially in the late game.

Btw, I’m referring to the people the empire itself consider people, so, only Horatio for Horatio, the Voydani for the Voydani (everyone else is or will become just a fuel source), idk if biological beings survive being turned into geometrical shapes by the Riftborn…

A great problem I often end up having that kills my game is when I finally am able to go to war with a faction (up until recently I played in big maps so i could never find anyone) and realize that I barely touched the military tech-tree and I’m stuck with the earlier unlockable hulls…and i don’t even have tanks despite researching them.

How do you know what to research and when? Because I often think: “I should research some military stuff” but instead end up researching more scientific stuff or diplomatic stuff (yes, idk why but I sometimes also end up lagging behind in industry (which I find comical because while I’m learning the game I play the United Empire because it feels like the most balanced faction to learn the ropes).

Also, I noticed I have yet a shallow understanding on how to equip ships, how manpower and land armies work and how to not end up with long range ships stuck in a short range approach because i can’t put them in the other ‘wings’ of the planning phase.

Last thing is a personal beef of mine but HOW THE FUCK CAN A WHOLE PLANET OR EVEN A FULLY COLONIZED SYSTEM WORK ON ONLY ONE PROJECT OR A SHIP?! 🤣

I understand that the project itself is building up infrastructures for very advanced technology that goes from sort-of feasible tech to terraforming and you want every planet in the system to have access to the same technology, but HOW IS IT POSSIBLE that a ship needs the same amount of of resources and attention from an entire system for the same amount of time that they take into ensuring a planetwide logistics system of automated drones and transport systems and VR internet 3.0??? 🤣

I know that the last question is not useful but I always found it kinda funny because dear god, even the shittier patrol ship must be a master crafted work of absolute perfection if a whole system spend months building it up.

I started a Hissho campaign and all the advice I was seeing was to pick the religion option for the first quest because it leads to another quest that rewards an upgraded Behemoth probe module. I picked the religion option, got to cordial with the minor faction and got immediately pushed into the next quest, which gave me the Kodaichi Academy instead of the probes. Was this patched out? I'm playing with the ESG 1.6 mod if that's related.

Hey, all. When I'm not making shitposts I'm actually playing ES2, but I'm still very new and it's my first 4x game so I was hoping for advice on a few things, namely settings and mods.

What galaxy size, shape, and density do you guys play on? I haven't tweaked the default settings too much but my galaxies have felt a bit sparse on my playthroughs with only one minor faction anywhere near me and with systems feeling a bit too far away, so I was thinking of upping density to high.

I've also considered installing ESG2 and the Better Planets mod because I often see an abundance of bad 1 or 2 planet systems surrounding me, but I'm worried ESG2 might change too much about the base game. How much customization does ESG2 allow, and aside from old saves not working, are there any other compatibility issues I should worry about?

I appreciate any advice you can provide! I'm enjoying the game a lot so far but I still have a lot to learn.

Hello,

I made a research that increased weapon slots for Military Behemoth. Now I cant find a way to retrofit my other Behemoth I already produced. I can only create a military behemoth via default template, which is different from what I created and gave a specific name.

I'm just a casual player and I don't plan on perfecting my gameplay or anything like that but I was wondering how big of a role Behemoths, their techs and their upgrades play if you'd try to play this game well.

Like how many Behemoths would you usually make in a game? Zero? One? Five? Fifteen? And for what purposes? Economic, Science and Military?

Also do you build Obliterators, Juggernauts and Citadels? How many? Which ones do you think are better?

A bit of context: I have just over 100hrs in ES2 but I still consider myself a novice to the game and to 4X in general. I only play a few times every few months, so it's been a slow process trying to learn all the games systems. I picked up Vodyani on my most recent playthrough (not my first time playing them, but I'm certainly no expert) and, after several turns, got a confusing report on some some of my systems: I was losing a ton of approval "from planets." Could someone explain to me what this means in simple terms? I thought Vodyani were ship-bound. After all, you can't terraform planets with them, so why are planet conditions affecting my population? Or, is this something of a misnomer, and something else is actually affecting my approval?

I am curious what is the lore of the game when you first start the game. For example. Playing United Empire as part of tutorial. I just start out with a planet and start spreading out. Did some quests until I get one that give me Starter Hero. His background says that he already out and around and became a legend who then left for Academy a mysticial school for Heroes. The quest to get him basically state that we know him and that he is in Academy and that we need to do something to make him want to join us again. Not to mention there is galaxy also quest to find Academy first. How did we know about Academy when it was unknown to us?

My question is how is he already out there beyond our system before the start of the game when we just start expanding. How did we already know of Academy? How did he even find Academy and us not know anything about it much less so know that he is at Academy rather than disappear and end up in MIA record when he disappear from the system?

I assume same is the case with other factions and their Starter Heroes. What is the lore here Am I missing something here? Maybe United Empire is already spareborne before start of the game? Maybe Academy or their heroes already visit United Empire homeworld before they went spaceborne and so they know of it long before they went space.