Stellaris - priorities

[jack]

At first, EVERYTHING was new and I was excited in everything that happened. But I started getting torn when I was running short of resources on multiple fronts.

What I need to do is prioritise. Properly.

That means, working what I *need* to do now. And accepting the things I *want* to do can wait. Even if there's a bit in the middle where I run the game on fast and accumulate resources without *doing* much while I wait to get into a more flexible economic position.

Right now I think that means:

1. On pause, catch up on the things I should have been doing all along but only thought of now (e.g. parking some ships to reduce upkeep? seeing if I want a different faction?)


2. On pause, sort out diplomacy with all the new empires. Find decent trades with anyone willing. Form defensive pacts etc where it feels fairly safe (although maybe delay that if I want the Funges to declare war). Work out who I want to build relations with and who I'm willing to piss off, even if I can't do it quite yet.


3. Don't spend anything else, build up some fleet strength at the frontier where the Funguses are threatening war.


4. Identify key choke points where I can block off territory for myself from other empires. Decide if it's better to take them now or to wait.


5. Within my 'borders', build up a decent positive mineral/energy balance, then decide what to spend on (research/military/expansion). Include diplomacy I can do with other empires.


6. Befriend friendly empires as possible. Take over threatening empires as I can. Probably someone will unleash species 8472 or something before that and everything will change.

(Wait, I used a dreamwidth html list, and for me it renders as '01', '02' etc. How geeky does it think I am?)

Whew, that's a lot I may need to fast forward through. Hm, not sure I can order it any better though.

It does feel like I (and most of the other empires) are behind where people expect us to be at this point in time (I need to check the date, but a fair bit of time has passed, I think).

Comments

[ilanin]

How many of the couple of score questions you've asked about Stellaris here do you actually want answers to? (I've played a thousand or so hours of the game, am fairly good at it, and have written mini-guides to things like "balancing the economy" to help people I play multiplayer with...).

[jack]

Oh, thank you. I think I'm mostly thinking aloud, responses would be welcome but I don't think there's a specific thing I need.