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Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
What is the best version of Stellaris? It's clear that most of what made Stellaris interesting was either removed or turned into something worse, with mods not really changing this since many of the mods are horny chink shit, overpowered tech, minor tweaks, or cosmetics.
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last version before the first rework.
 
Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
What is the best version of Stellaris? It's clear that most of what made Stellaris interesting was either removed or turned into something worse, with mods not really changing this since many of the mods are horny chink shit, overpowered tech, minor tweaks, or cosmetics.
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After they added starlanes, but before they added Alloys. I think that was LeGuin? There was a sweet moment for the game and they they tanked it.
 
Surprisingly very edgy for Reddit, but Paradox games are like that.
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Rome's rightful successor said:

A self described Fury Femcel Reviews the latest hoi4 dlc.​


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He's a tranny. He confirmed it in a comment below one of his videos. The last time I checked his channel, it wasn't full of tranny flags and other gay shit. All he had to do was to stay low, and some people would've believed he's a real woman, but that also would've required a tranny not to be a complete narcissist.
 
I decided to ask the AIs if there are enough of galaxies for every game of Stellaris.


Based on current scientific understanding and available game data, the number of galaxies in the observable universe is vastly greater than the number of completed games in Stellaris.

🌌 The Scale of the Observable Universe​

The estimated number of galaxies in the observable universe is extraordinarily large.
  • In 2016, a Hubble Space Telescope census estimated there are about two trillion galaxies in the observable universe . This figure is based on deep-space surveys and mathematical models.
  • This number is not static; as our observational technology improves, this estimate has been refined from earlier counts of 100-200 billion galaxies.

🎮 Completed Games in Stellaris​

While an exact count of every Stellaris game ever completed is unavailable, we can use player count data to estimate the scale.
  • Active Player Base: As of the most recent data, Stellaris has 15,005 players online concurrently, with a 24-hour peak of 19,713 players . Another source confirms the same current player count and notes an all-time peak player count of 68,517 .
  • Estimating Game Completions: A single Stellaris game is a significant time investment, often taking dozens of hours. Even with millions of copies sold, the number of games actually completed is a fraction of that figure. For context, the game's all-time high for concurrent players is 68,517 . If we were to generously estimate that hundreds of thousands of games have been finished, this number is still only in the hundreds of thousands to low millions range.

🔢 Comparing the Numbers​

The difference between these two figures is almost incomprehensibly vast.




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[td]Galaxies in the Observable Universe[/td][td]~2,000,000,000,000 (2 Trillion)[/td][td]Completed Stellaris Games[/td][td]Likely in the hundreds of thousands to low millions (at most)[/td]

Even if every one of the over 32 million concurrent Steam users had completed a Stellaris game, that number would still be thousands of times smaller than the count of galaxies.
Therefore, the number of galaxies in the observable universe is overwhelmingly larger than the number of completed Stellaris games.


Short answer: Yes — by an astronomical margin.


Why?​


  • Estimated number of galaxies in the observable universe:
    Modern estimates are roughly 100–200 billion (10¹¹–2×10¹¹) or possibly more, because many faint galaxies are hard to detect.
  • Number of Stellaris games ever completed:
    Paradox doesn’t publish exact figures, but even very generous estimates look tiny compared to galaxy counts.
    Even if:
    • Stellaris has sold a few million copies, and
    • Every player finished hundreds of games (which is wildly unrealistic — most players never finish even one),
      You’d still only get something on the order of hundreds of millions of completed games at most, and likely far, far fewer.


Yes — there are vastly more galaxies in the universe than there have ever been completed games of Stellaris.


Yes, by an absolutely comical margin.
There are vastly more galaxies in the observable universe than there have ever been fully completed (i.e., reached the end-year or victory) games of Stellaris.

Rough numbers to compare:​

  1. Number of galaxies in the observable universe Current best estimates (from Hubble, Gaia, JWST, etc.): ≈ 2 trillion galaxies (2 × 10¹²). Some recent papers even push this toward 5–10 trillion, but 2 trillion is the standard consensus figure right now.
  2. Total number of Stellaris copies ever soldParadox doesn’t release exact lifetime sales, but as of 2024–2025:
    • Roughly 6–8 million copies sold across all platforms (Steam + consoles + Game Pass, etc.). Let’s be extremely generous and round up to 10 million copies ever sold.
  3. What fraction of owners actually finish a game?Stellaris games are notoriously long (200–600+ hours for a full run to 3000 AD or victory). Steam achievement data (publicly visible):
    • “Victorious” (win a game) ≈ 2–3% of owners
    • “What a thrill…” (reach the end-year crisis, basically a full game) ≈ 6–8% Even if we are absurdly optimistic and assume 20% of all owners have ever finished at least one full game (which is way higher than the data suggest), that gives us:
    • 10 million copies × 20% = 2 million completed games at most.
    Realistically it’s probably under 1 million lifetime completed games.

Final comparison:​

  • Galaxies: ~2,000,000,000,000 (2 trillion)
  • Completed Stellaris games ever: << 2,000,000 (probably closer to 500,000–1,000,000)
So there are roughly 1–4 million times more galaxies than completed Stellaris games.
In other words, for every single person who has ever actually finished a Stellaris campaign, there are about a million to a few million entire galaxies out there just chilling in the observable universe.
Your average Stellaris player has not even come close to exploring a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the real universe’s galaxy count. Reality wins by an absurd landslide.Yes, by an absolutely comical margin.


There are vastly more galaxies in the observable universe than there have ever been fully completed (i.e., reached the end-year or victory) games of Stellaris.


Rough numbers to compare:​


  1. Number of galaxies in the observable universeCurrent best estimates (from Hubble, Gaia, JWST, etc.):≈ 2 trillion galaxies (2 × 10¹²).Some recent papers even push this toward 5–10 trillion, but 2 trillion is the standard consensus figure right now.
  2. Total number of Stellaris copies ever soldParadox doesn’t release exact lifetime sales, but as of 2024–2025:
    • Roughly 6–8 million copies sold across all platforms (Steam + consoles + Game Pass, etc.).Let’s be extremely generous and round up to 10 million copies ever sold.
  3. What fraction of owners actually finish a game?Stellaris games are notoriously long (200–600+ hours for a full run to 3000 AD or victory).Steam achievement data (publicly visible):
    • “Victorious” (win a game) ≈ 2–3% of owners
    • “What a thrill…” (reach the end-year crisis, basically a full game) ≈ 6–8%Even if we are absurdly optimistic and assume 20% of all owners have ever finished at least one full game (which is way higher than the data suggest), that gives us:
    • 10 million copies × 20% = 2 million completed games at most.

    Realistically it’s probably under 1 million lifetime completed games.

Final comparison:​


  • Galaxies: ~2,000,000,000,000 (2 trillion)
  • Completed Stellaris games ever: << 2,000,000 (probably closer to 500,000–1,000,000)

So there are roughly 1–4 million times more galaxies than completed Stellaris games.


In other words, for every single person who has ever actually finished a Stellaris campaign, there are about a million to a few million entire galaxies out there just chilling in the observable universe.


Your average Stellaris player has not even come close to exploring a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the real universe’s galaxy count. Reality wins by an absurd landslide.
 
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Fuzziehoodie was streaming EU4 for the past year on twitch with a camera. She was skilled enough at the game that most of the “mistakes” I saw just came down to casually playing at speed 5. I couldn’t watch her though as her english as a second language was too grating.

There have also been a lot of non vtuber/pngtubers who’ve streamed ck3.
 
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