#How to play stellaris for beginners how to#

However, it is frustrating in the beginning since you have to look up everything that the game throws at you. And I guess most answers we received from the seasoned players did not include “non-gaming” research and learning time. So about 76 hours in, and I still watch YouTube videos with tutorials (oh, these hours I invested are not counted in my about 350 hours of pure playtime). There are many more layers to understand for me, not to mention to learn.

#How to play stellaris for beginners how to#

But I am far from really having mastered the intricacies of running my empire, managing my pop(ulations), or how to optimize my colonies for optimal output. That’s the same experience for me: By now, I would say I am doing pretty ok with building my empire and even had my first few battles (which is fun!). Many notice that after a few rounds (mind you, a game of Stellaris can set you back about 30 hrs) with Stellaris, they “knew” the game but still got their you-know-what handed to them by the AI rivals. The polled players also clearly distinguish between “learning” the game and mastering it. Difference between learning and mastering Stellaris Those players who had played other Paradox Interactive games like Crusader King or Europa Universalis 4 seem to have a much easier start with Stellaris, even reporting that it is relatively easy to learn compared to other Paradox titles:Īlso, gamers with loads of other Real-Time-Strategy games under their belt find it easier to learn their ways around Stellaris. You can also gather these resources sending a workship.Xel Game Review | It's worth buying? it’s so complex that you never know it 43.8% you need over 50 hours to learn 19.1% you need less than 30 hours to know Stellaris 12.2% you need to learn it, again and again, you are never done 11.3% you need less than 5 hours to learn 3.5% you need at least 500 hours 1.2% other 5.8% These are asteriods with a rich deposit of the resource indicated by the icon, such as minerals, electricity, gas, gold.

Sometimes you will find other pink icons with special symbols.

They contain some valuable resources, you can send a workship to gather them.

The pink icons with 4 lines are debris, generated by a fight between fleets.

You can send your fleets to these systems if you want, but takes some time.

Each system has several circles in it's boundaries with names in it.

The orange icons in the system represents the Pirate fleets.

If the player is an enemy, their icons are red.

If the player is part of your alliance, their icons are blue.

Another player's station and fleets are represented by white icons with the same design as yours.

Green icons in the system represents your space station and your fleets.

In this image you see a lot of icons, but for now, just focus on the following: Now, the 'Station' icon appears instead of the Star System icon. The gift icon at the bottom right shows a cooldown that will give you a gift regularly.Īs you can see, the menus in this view don't have big changes, except the bottom right icons. Also, here is where the Mailbox icon is, in addition to the Buildings icon.

The '+' icon expands to several options such as Trade, Alliance, Objects, Leader management, etc. If the player clicks on it, will open the chat window. This is the chat widget, shows the latest messages in the chat.

The right icon makes the player jump to galaxy view. If the player clicks to the left icon, will jump to star system's view. The blue alert icon below only appears when there's an alliance mission in progress. The square is the right menu, it expands to show the current processes the players has run (ships building, facility constructing, investigations in progress, fleet status.).This icons represents different types of things, such us the events acces, the daily missions description, the shop, etc.The upper menu shows a summary of 4 different aspects of your colony: Population, Electric Credits (EC), Resources, and Common Galactic Credits (CGC).The icon below your name offers the option to take a look to your current missions. This icon can be green or red, depending on how much critical are the cabinet messages. The red star of the right is the icon for the advisors that come from the Cabinet. Clicking on it you will enter into the Commander info section. This part shows the commander's avatar, commander's name and the current progress points.On the edges of the image, you can see different groups of icons (the coloured squares): In the middle of the image, you can see a beautiful view of your space station, it'll be your home during the game and you'll see it grow with new buildings on it.