Chunky Salsa
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- Jul 2, 2024
It never ceases to amuse me, that you can 100% get a better and more authentic experience by just using a mod for Stellaris than you can with the actual Star Trek game.So out of fairness I thought i'd give star trek infinite another chance just to confirm it really is the trash it appeared to be during my fed run. Note that one of the major issues with playing fed is the game is hard coded so that you can't declare war on any of the other factions of minor powers, barring certain specific liberation war situations. Kind of hamstrings you in a 4x game
So this time I tried playing as the cardassians. For awhile things were going alright, if slowly. Spent a few hours stabilizing my economy and expanding my industrial strength. Concentrated entirely on internal stuff and didn't attack anyone and kept the majority of my fleet near the romulan border in case the AI tried to get the jump on me. I even released bajor as it tended to be more trouble than it was worth
.....and then the federation suddenly declared war on me. Something the game is literally hardcoded to not be possible, and poured half a dozen fleets over the border and steamrolled me. Nice one paradox. Not only does the AI manage to do something that isn't even supposed to be possible - and something you literally cannot do if you are playing fed but it chooses to attack the only faction who isn't acting threatening and invading each other and minor powers
Nice one paradox. Always great to see the AI do something its supposed to be hardcoded not to be able to do. Way to fuck up my playthrough. Oh and 3 of my 4 fleets randomly disappeared in the middle of a battle with a message popping up saying they had disappeared and would reappear in a few months
WHAT?! I'm glad I spent all those resources and all that time building up fleet of galors only to have that happen when fighting ONE FUCKING FED MIRANDA
and paradox wonders why its financial situation is currently fucked. That game isn't just trash its a fucking embarrassment
Also it might be the case that the Federation is supposed to attack you, if you play an 'instigator'. Maybe Paradox learned from how people bitched about playing a democratic germany makes nothing happen in HOI4. So they made it that if you play one of the races meant to start shit, and haven't by a set time, you get attacked instead. If so, they took the wrong lesson from democratic Germany lol.