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now we have war exhaustion and attrition
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Well... both makes sense.
Just makes you wonder why it wasn't like that to begin with.

Maybe they just tried so hard to do something that isn't Europa Universalis that they failed to realize many of its machnics are universally applicable.
 

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How the fuck attrition works in space, anyway?
Well, attrition is just the lack of maintenance, right?
Ships must be supplied with whatever they need - remember they already cost materials and energy credits while in your space. That's to keep them working - abstracting whatever science you want to imagine behind it all. And they cost less when docked at a starbase. Makes sense to me.

Behind enemy lines it would be much harder to maintain that steady supply.
As to what consequences that could have in game, I could imagine a number of things:
Deteriorating effectiveness, taking actual damage (though that would be rather heavy handed design and really copying medieval EUIV...), steadily increasing maintenance cost, etc. Who knows?

I like the idea, though. Would make defense easier even if the enemy has superior numbers (given same tech levels and other factors), as it should be.
 
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Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris dev diary. Today we're going to continue talking about major changes coming in the Cherryh update, specifically on the topic of war and peace. As said before, all of these changes are currently far away, and we cannot give more details on ETAs or the exact nature of the Cherryh update than we already have.


Wargoal Overhaul
The wargoal system in Stellaris has always felt a bit odd, and has been the target of some very well-reasoned criticism from players. In one way, the system is extremely unrestrictive, allowing you to declare war on anyone for any reason to take any planet, no matter if said planet is on the literal other side of the galaxy in the middle of enemy territory and could not feasibly be held by your empire, and then demand that planet in the peace even if none of your soldiers had ever set foot on it. On the other hand, the restriction to only being able to take planets meant that you had a fairly limited control over your actual borders after the peace, and might be forced to take planets you had no interest in just to get that system with a resource or colonizable planet that you *actually* wanted. Other issues include a rather messy wargoal interface (particularly when trying to set goals after being declared on) and a lack of ability as an ally in a war to affect what gains you were going to get in the peace, and that wars were very 'all or nothing' affairs with no real mechanics for any other outcome than total victory for one side.

With the change to borders discussed in Dev Diary #91, system control is now separated from planets, and so allows for systems to be conquered and traded even if they do not contain a colonizable planet. This, in addition to all the previously mentioned issues, means that we need a new wargoal system that can handle both limited wars fought over a few border systems, and massive wars that result in dozens of systems changing hands. The way we have decided to solve this is to completely rework wargoals, peace negotiations and to add the concept of claims.

Claims
Claims are effectively territorial ambitions - an empire claiming territory they do not currently control, for whatever justification they can come up with. Which systems can be claimed depends on an empire's war philosophy policy, with the unrestricted warfare philosophy allowing for the claiming of any system not owned by a fellow Federation member. Claims, however, are not free. Much like territorial expansion through building outposts, they require expenditude of Influence, to represent the political effort (or mind/processing power in the case of Gestalt Consciousnesses) required to claim and integrate the territory. How expensive a system is to claim depends on distance to your borders, how built up the system is (a remote mining system will be much cheaper than the homeworlds) and other factors such as traditions and technology. Overall, claims will be more expensive in the early game, and become less so later on to allow for more decisive wars to be fought in the mid- and lategame. Claims are managed through the claims interface, accessible from the topbar. From the claims interface, you can easily make and revoke claims (please note that the interface is currently a rough WIP, thus the weird-looking green arrows, among other unfinished bits of art). It is possible to claim the same system multiple times to gain a stronger claim on it, which is mainly useful when going to war together with an ally that is claiming the same system (more on this later in the DD). Finally on the topic of claims, as mentioned in Dev Diary #91, influence gain is going to be majorly rebalanced to reflect its new uses in expansion, and some things which previously cost influence may now use other currencies.
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Casus Belli and Wargoals
To go to war with another empire in the Cherryh update, you now need a Casus Belli - a reason for war. The simplest Casus Belli to get is the Claim Casus Belli, gained by creating a claim on another empire. Each Casus Belli grants access to at least one type of Wargoal, with some Casus Belli (like Subjugation) potentially allowing for several different Wargoals to choose between. When declaring war on another empire, rather than put together a list of Wargoals, you choose just one Wargoal allowed by one of your Casus Belli, and the defender similarly chooses one after being declared on, with the Humiliate wargoal always available to defenders regardless of Casus Belli. However, the Wargoal is always in addition to rather than instead of claims the two war sides have on each other. What this means is that the Wargoal is the overall purpose of the war (for example, to humiliate a rival) and any claims you have on the target and their allies is your territorial ambitions in the war (for example, a string of border systems). Some Empires (such as Fanatical Purifiers, Devouring Swarms and Determined Exterminators) have special Casus Belli that usually allow them to conquer their neighbors at will (exceptions being empires they don't hate, such as other Machine Empires for Exterminators), ignoring claims altogether, but are vulnerable to be similarly conquered by others who see them as a threat to the entire galaxy.
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War Exhaustion and Peace Negotiations
As wars can now be anything from a small border skirmish to a massive war of conquest (depending on the wargoal and number of claims), we felt that the Warscore system so common to our other games was inadequate for dealing with this variety, and tended to turn every conflict into a total war with one undisputed winner and another, utterly crushed loser. As such, Warscore is gone in the Cherryh update. Instead, we have introduced the concept of War Exhaustion. War Exhaustion goes from 0-100%, and measures the total weariness and attrition suffered by all empires on one side in a war (psychological and logistical). War Exhaustion goes up from having Planets and Starbases occupied by the enemy, suffering losses during Space and Ground Combat, and passive accumulation over time (called Attrition). When a war side's War Exhaustion hits 100%, they can be forced into a Status Quo peace (more on this below). The speed at which War Exhaustion accumulates is influenced by factors such as ethics, traditions, technology and the amount of claims being pressed - an empire that is fighting to hold onto a handful of border systems will tire of a costly conflict quicker than one whose very independence is being threatened.

There are three ways a war can end in the Cherryh update: With the surrender of either side, or with a negotiated Status Quo peace. When an empire Surrenders, it is usually either because they have been completely defeated, or because the war aims are limited enough that they view it as more costly to continue the war than to end it.

Surrender means that the victor's Wargoal (for example, to humiliate or vassalize the loser) is enforced, and any claims the winning side has on the losing side are automatically ceded regardless of occupation status. Surrender can only be forced on an enemy that is entirely or nearly entirely defeated - an empire can never be forced to cede territory that the enemy is not able to take control of with their military.
Status Quo means that the war has reached a point where total victory is unlikely for either side, and both sides agree to stop hostilities and settle for whatever gains or losses they have suffered. Under a Status Quo peace, all occupied systems claimed by an enemy empire is ceded to the enemy with the strongest claim. This is where multiple claims on the same system comes in - if you and an ally are both claiming the same enemy system, you can continue to invest influence into 'trumping' their claim so that you are the one given the system rather than your ally. In the case of a tie, whoever has the oldest claim on the system is considered the stronger claimant. As mentioned above, a war side that is at 100% War Exhaustion can not reject a Status Quo peace.

Status Quo being not a white peace but a "Uti possidetis" style peace where claimed and occupied (or in some special cases like the aforementioned Purifier Wargoal, just occupied) territory is kept is meant to be able to create more varied and interesting outcomes to wars, such as a war of conquest where the attacker started with the ambition to conquer an entire enemy empire, and easily took over the lightly defended border systems, but found themselves unable to make headway against the more heavily defended enemy core systems, eventually settling for only what they were able to control. Along with the way surrender works, it also means that empires are never forced to cede systems that they are able to militarily defend - no matter how much the enemy is overrunning your outposts, if your fleets and starforts can keep them away from your homeworld, you can't be forced to hand it over in the peace. It also makes it possible for an empire that is losing a war to still fight to minimize their territorial losses by fighting to inflict War Exhaustion on the enemy, making them pay for every system they take until they can be forced to make peace. Furthermore, it means that wars can end in a way that isn't one-sided, with gains and losses on both sides.
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Starbase and System Occupation
Finally, I wanted to write a short bit on how occupying systems actually works now. There will be more details on this (especially about ground combat) in later dev diaries, but the gist it is that a system is considered occupied only if the Starbase and all planets (excluding potentially neutral ones like primitives) are under enemy control. For a Starbase to be taken control of, it must first be disabled (brought to 0 hp) by the enemy fleet. Taking control of an enemy system will also take control of all mining and research stations in that system and allow the occupied to benefit from them economically for as long as the war continues. Similarly, Starbases that are taken control of are also able to be used by the controller - controlled enemy shipyards can be used to refit, repair and build your own fleets, and enemy fortresses to keep them from retaking occupied systems. All of this means that 'raiding' and striking at vital enemy systems becomes an important aspect of warfare, allowing you to turn the enemy's own economic, military and logistical assets against them if they do not do a good enough job defending them.
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Other Thoughts
We are still heavily testing and tweaking these new systems, and we have some other things we are thinking about and trying out to see how they work. They include:
- The ability to claim unsettled systems as a way to put 'dibs' on a system before actually going there to build an outpost
- Having claims be cheaper if you don't have a ton of them, to encourage smaller scale conflicts
- Potentially allowing claims to be made by attackers (rather than just defenders) during war, but have them be more expensive
- Ways to slow and reduce War Exhaustion at the expense of your economy and population

That's all for today! Next week we'll continue talking about war, on the topic of space battles, command limits and doomstacks. See you then!
 

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Wait, you can set war goals after being declared war on? :lol:
I feel a bit :retarded: now, but that is some well hidden feature I'd love to have known about before they are going to change it all anyway.
 

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Tried CK2 and now I have a duchy of terror. And I wonder if primorgiture or ultimogiture would be better.
 

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With this there is a chance wars could become more dynamic. At least I had a lot of situations when some other empire declared on me when I was at war with some rival.
 

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With this there is a chance wars could become more dynamic. At least I had a lot of situations when some other empire declared on me when I was at war with some rival.
Wouldn't that mean you'd be completely obliterated, because you would be unable to do war on two fronts?
 

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How the fuck attrition works in space, anyway?
Well, attrition is just the lack of maintenance, right?
Ships must be supplied with whatever they need - remember they already cost materials and energy credits while in your space. That's to keep them working - abstracting whatever science you want to imagine behind it all. And they cost less when docked at a starbase. Makes sense to me.

Behind enemy lines it would be much harder to maintain that steady supply.
As to what consequences that could have in game, I could imagine a number of things:
Deteriorating effectiveness, taking actual damage (though that would be rather heavy handed design and really copying medieval EUIV...), steadily increasing maintenance cost, etc. Who knows?

I like the idea, though. Would make defense easier even if the enemy has superior numbers (given same tech levels and other factors), as it should be.
Also space is a remarkably hostile place, much more hostile than any desert or mountain or sea. Any problems encountered in space are quite a bit worse than elsewhere because space wants you dead.

But to iterate my own take, personally I'd say the best model of attrition and supply is the elegantly simple system in new Nobunaga's Ambition where the army stocks up on supplies, and after supplies run out troops dropping out like flies. And you get supplies from friendly castles (provided of course you have supplies left from the harvest), and by raiding enemy countryside around their castles.

Though in case of Stellaris, I feel that the optimal attrition model would be somewhere between reduced effectiveness further away from home territory and maybe slight jump damage further away. Because travel routes are relatively open by default you couldn't really do a more supply based model where the system would tie with the threat of being blocked from the fastest route or being pincered. Though I'd strongly approve of being able to pull off pincer attacks with multiple fleets.

With this there is a chance wars could become more dynamic. At least I had a lot of situations when some other empire declared on me when I was at war with some rival.
Wouldn't that mean you'd be completely obliterated, because you would be unable to do war on two fronts?
Theoretically possible against AI because the AIs wouldn't just gang up on you and drown you in a numbers game, you'd have to beat individual smaller enemy fleets with your full force until you can force peace with one of the enemies and then turn your attention to the other. Another alternative with AI is to blitz some planets of one of the enemies for a quick white peace and then focus on the primary target.
 

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Theoretically possible against AI because the AIs wouldn't just gang up on you and drown you in a numbers game, you'd have to beat individual smaller enemy fleets with your full force until you can force peace with one of the enemies and then turn your attention to the other. Another alternative with AI is to blitz some planets of one of the enemies for a quick white peace and then focus on the primary target.
And what would you do when AI would outbreed you? You'd continuously fight small fleets and accomplish nothing.
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I doubt saying whitebait would work against AI.
 

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i go for ultimo. they're younger, reign longer. and if they're not worth, they're easier to kill.
A lot of daughters of my ruler has "mysteriously disappeared" trait, so I wonder. Isn't primogiture where you use correct pregnancy for his wife a nearly guaranteed young ruler after your next ruler would mysteriously explode few years after he would be elected?
 

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i go for ultimo. they're younger, reign longer. and if they're not worth, they're easier to kill.
A lot of daughters of my ruler has "mysteriously disappeared" trait, so I wonder. Isn't primogiture where you use correct pregnancy for his wife a nearly guaranteed young ruler after your next ruler would mysteriously explode few years after he would be elected?

As a longtime supporter of primo, I'm finding the election stuff to be the way to go.

On topic, I got the Worm event two nights ago. Holy fuck. Great writing.
 

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Theoretically possible against AI because the AIs wouldn't just gang up on you and drown you in a numbers game, you'd have to beat individual smaller enemy fleets with your full force until you can force peace with one of the enemies and then turn your attention to the other. Another alternative with AI is to blitz some planets of one of the enemies for a quick white peace and then focus on the primary target.
And what would you do when AI would outbreed you? You'd continuously fight small fleets and accomplish nothing.
https://oglaf.com/owlbear/
I doubt saying whitebait would work against AI.
There are limits to how much mineral stockpiles will last tho, and you only really need that one major space victory in the first front to open a way for blitzing some planets for forcing white peace.
 

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As a longtime supporter of primo, I'm finding the election stuff to be the way to go.

On topic, I got the Worm event two nights ago. Holy fuck. Great writing.
You read also the original work that was the inspiration right? Or was that a movie?
 

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About ship battle behavior:

(This is for the Star Trek: New Horizons mod, great thing, and I doubt it changes ship battle behavior)

I attacked a weak station with a couple of ships of mine. In ST:New Horizons, almost all combat vehicles are equipped with both missiles and lasers (of various variants, but let's ignore that for now).
What I would expect my ships to do is to move closer to the target, firing their weapons as they get in range.
What they did is move close enough to fire their longest range weapons (missiles), and stay there, circling around the station and SLOWLY chipping away at the station health. It took painfully long.
Is there any way to prevent this other than not making use of the missile slots (which seems like a waste otherwise...)?

Or is that just part of the famously horrible ship AI?
 

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Is there any way to prevent this other than not making use of the missile slots (which seems like a waste otherwise...)?

Or is that just part of the famously horrible ship AI?
Yes, it is. Thankfully, modders fixed it. As usual.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=790455347
Hm, well that is something. Too bad it isn't compatible with ST: New Horizons ;)
My new "solution" is to make two ship types for each class. One long range, one short range (not making use of long rage torpedos, but at least that makes em cheaper).
Or maybe I'll only buld long range stuff - that was the best idea in vanilla, anyway.
 

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris dev diary. Today's topic was supposed to be ship balance and doomstacks, but because certain things weren't ready to show off yet, we're instead going to be doing a smaller dev diary talking about some changes coming to Ascension Perks and Surveying. We'll get back to the doomstack topic in a couple weeks.

Ascension Perks
Ascension Perks were added in Utopia as the paid component to the Tradition system to create a set of interesting choices for the player to take as they went through the Tradition tree, choosing between simple but powerful bonuses and more elaborate 'unlocks' such as the ascension paths and Megastructures. However, since then we have noticed that this is a system we keep wanting to build on (for example by adding unique Ascension Perks for Machine Empires as we did in Synthetic Dawn), and found the requirement to depend all of this on Utopia too limiting. For this reason, in the Cherryh update, we are going to make the basic Ascension Perks such as Mastery of Nature, Defender of the Galaxy and so on free for everyone. Biological/Psionic/Synthetic Ascension Paths and Megastructure Ascension Perks (including Habitats) will still require Utopia and Machine Empire Ascension Perks will naturally still require Synthetic Dawn (but not Utopia). The core system itself however, will become part of the base game, so everyone will be able to get at least the basic set of Ascension Perks even if they don't own a single piece of DLC.

Surveying & Communications Trading
The way surveying, anomaly generation and star chart trading works has never really worked very well. For one, it's very unclear to players that for example, you cannot discover anomalies in other empires' space, or that star chart trading can actually be a bad idea since it can in some cases stop you from finding anomalies in those systems. For this reason, we've decided to make some changes to the way surveying works. In Cherryh, any system inside the borders of an empire you have communications with will automatically be considered surveyed, without any need to send a science ship into it and waste a bunch of time scanning planets that have no chance of yielding anomalies aynway. There are some exceptions to this, such as Fallen Empires, whose space will need to be surveyed manually and can in fact yield anomalies.

As part of this we have decided to remove Star Chart trading as well as the ability to buy Star Charts from Curators, and instead replace this with the option to trade Communications with another empire - acquiring Communications from an empire in a trade deal will automatically put you in comms with any empires they have comms with that you do not. This should mean that there are no longer any 'traps' in surveying, while also requiring the need to explore every little nook of the galaxy even when that nook is held by your ally since a hundred years back.
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Terra Incognita Changes
Finally, I just wanted to mentioned that we have done some changes to Terra Incognita to make it more clear and make it work properly with bypasses (Wormholes and Gateways). Instead of Terra Incognita being based on which physical pixels on the map your ships have 'seen', it is now based on which systems are considered visited. Visited either means that you have been to the system with a ship, or that the system is inside the borders of an empire that you have communications with. As such, Terra Incognita no longer needs to be manually lifted on empires you have met in order to not make them appear grey and washed out on the map, also making it easier to see important galactic features such as nebulas.
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That's all for today! I know it was a short one, but don't worry, we still have a long way to go and plenty of major things to talk about for Cherryh. However, next week we're actually going to be talking about something that's§ unrelated to Cherryh, but exciting nonetheless. I'm not allowed to spoil what just yet, but stay tuned!
 

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris dev diary. As said last week, today's dev diary is not about the Cherryh update at all, but rather something much more imminent: The Humanoids Species Pack
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Humanoids Species Pack
Over the last year or so, and especially in the last few months, there has been a lot of clamoring for more portraits and another ship-set like the one we added in Plantoids. Because of the amount of coder and content designer time we're putting into the major overhauls in the Cherryh update, we ended up with a lot of extra art time, and so we decided to oblige. Back in the Heinlein update, we added a bunch of free humanoid portraits that proved to be immensely popular - close to half of games started is with some variant of humanoid. Combine with there seeming to be a demand for a more 'classic western sci-fi' ship-set with sleeker lines and curves than the Mammalian one, and the design for the Humanoid Species Pack was born. Our artists have been quietly working away at it behind the scenes, and now it's almost ready.

So what's in the Humanoid Species Pack? Here is the feature list:
- 10 new Humanoid portraits
- A completely new ship set inspired by classic western sci-fi
- A new city set for Humanoids
- A new pre-scripted empire, the Fanatic Authoritarian/Materialist Voor Technocracy, with a portrait inspired by the 'loading screen aliens' from our own official art
- 3 new advisor voices offering alternative takes on existing ethics, based on the United Nations of Earth ('Dignified Xenophile'), Commonwealth of Man ('Disciplined Militarist') and Voor Technocracy ('Ruthless Materialist'). Samples from each of the new voices has been attached to the bottom of this post.
- 3 new music tracks that are remixes of classic Stellaris songs

Of course, the 5 Humanoid portraits that are already in the base game will remain free and available to everyone.

The Humanoids Species Pack will come out on December 7th, 2017 and will cost $7.99 US dollars or your regional equivalent. For those who want to buy it right now, pre-orders are available through the Paradox Shop. To pre-order, follow this link.

Next week we'll get back to talking about the Cherryh update on the topic of doomstacks (for real this time). Until then, I leave you with these awesome screenshots:
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So what's in the Humanoid Species Pack? Here is the feature list:
- 10 new Humanoid portraits
- A completely new ship set inspired by classic western sci-fi
- A new city set for Humanoids
- A new pre-scripted empire, the Fanatic Authoritarian/Materialist Voor Technocracy, with a portrait inspired by the 'loading screen aliens' from our own official art
- 3 new advisor voices offering alternative takes on existing ethics, based on the United Nations of Earth ('Dignified Xenophile'), Commonwealth of Man ('Disciplined Militarist') and Voor Technocracy ('Ruthless Materialist'). Samples from each of the new voices has been attached to the bottom of this post.
- 3 new music tracks that are remixes of classic Stellaris songs

Of course, the 5 Humanoid portraits that are already in the base game will remain free and available to everyone.

The Humanoids Species Pack will come out on December 7th, 2017 and will cost $7.99 US dollars or your regional equivalent. For those who want to buy it right now, pre-orders are available through the Paradox Shop. To pre-order,
Was there a stock market crash in the last couple of days? Because in 2002 I bought JA2 which has like a few hundred of portraits for $4.99. 1c per portrait in 2002 vs 79c per portrait in 2017 doesn't sound right. Maybe they made a typo when converting to dollars using a calculator?
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Of course, the 5 Humanoid portraits that are already in the base game will remain free and available to everyone.
Damn, they had me worried for a second.
Oh yeah, didn't you guys pay like $50 for the base game which included those 5 portraits? But don't worry, they won't make you pay for them a 2nd time out of their kindness.
 

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