Stellaris

Stellaris Dev Tracker




18 Oct

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Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today we're going to continue talking about the 2.2 'Le Guin' update, on the topic of new technologies that we have added in the update. As said before, screenshots will contain placeholder art and interfaces and non-final numbers.

New Economic Techs
As part of the economic system and planetary management changing, we also had to deal with how the various technologies governing resources and the economy would change. Previously, new economic technologies would usually unlock building upgrades, leading to a spree of upgrade-clicking across your planets when your empire got access to a new level of mining technology or similar. As one of the stated goals of the planetary rework was to remove unnecessary micromanagement, we decided to split resource technologies i... Read more

25 Sep

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    /u/ on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Previously you were able to revert back to earlier versions of Paradox Development Studios (PDS) games at will on Steam. These specific versions predate the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - hence they are not compliant with the new policy.

In order to continue our endeavor to reach full GDPR compliance, we have designed a new system regarding the access to earlier versions of PDS titles: from the 1st of October 2018 onward all previous versions of PDS titles will be locked under a Steam password.

After 1st October, you will need to log into the Paradox Plaza website with your Paradox Account to access the codes for previous branches of each game that you own. This will, however, require you to link your Steam account to your Paradox Account. In an effort to comply with the GDPR, this is something we need to put behind the Paradox logins as it requires agreement to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to ...
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21 Aug

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    [TA] Trance on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
I've opened this thread up again. Please keep it civil and don't start a "PC Master Race" discussion or bait/troll. Also, perhaps this would be a better thread if OP expanded on their points.

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    [TA] Trance on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Feel free to make a post over in the bug report section of the official forums so that a dev can look into it. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?forums/stellaris-bug-reports.941/

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10 Mar

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    [TA] Trance on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
The only permabans I've ever given out, iirc, are things relating to piracy. Otherwise, I don't remember ever permabanning anyone on the forums. At most, I'll give them the longest ban duration. (I could be wrong since I have a bad memory, but the point is, it is extremely rare for me to permaban someone.

On that note, when I say ban, I mean temp ban as in a few days, week, or month ban. Yes, I agree that a 3 day ban can be a warning. To answer your question, I moderate the Steam hubs for Stellaris, HOI4, CK2, and EU4. With this new patch it's over 25+ reports a day (for Stellaris discussions), not counting replying to people who make a comment on their ban/warning. On top of this, the Stellaris workshop is constantly spammed, so I do mass banning over there for duplicate mods etc.

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    [TA] Trance on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
I see what you mean. I'll remember this next time. I usually give bans without warnings when a user is very toxic and was deserving of a ban, but what you said has a point. If there is no warning, then they can't change their behavior.
Originally posted by Jaded Wrath: Shouldn't ban people without a warning imo. Doesn't allow for them to reform.

Hello! Nice to meet you too.

Originally posted by Stormsong the Fallen: Hi Trance, nice to meet you!

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    [TA] Trance on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Paradox. My title is Community Ambassador.

Originally posted by CysteicAcid: Are you an employee of Valve or Paradox or neither?

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This is true, but then I can say that I will enforce the rule of "Do not post any content containing the following: Abusive language, including swearing."

Originally posted by Desolator: Tiny little pedantic addition / correction to your post: PEGI doesn't rate online interaction specifically for the reason you mentioned. Exp...
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    /u/ on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Hello everyone. Some of you may have seen me around. I handle the Steam forum reports as well as the User Generated Content (Workshop, Guides, etc.). I handle 99% of the reports around here.

I wanted to clear the air about a few things.

1. People who support the game/Paradox don't get banned/warned.

This is not true. I don't care if you've been supporting the game for 10 years or 10 days. If you break the rules, I will execute the appropriate punishment based on your past infractions/content.

So then why do people who disagree with popular opinions/Paradox get in trouble more than those who support Paradox?

I've thought about this and have come up with a simple explanation. Those who disagree can sometimes get very defensive and argumentative in their post. I’ve seen the term “fanboi” a lot lately, and that only baits the Paradox supporters to reply in a negative way and/or report the user.

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I'd also like to point out that we are not the first company to apply this policy to their forum. Blizzard, Wargaming, Trove etc all have toxicity rules in place to minimize the levels on their forums.

- Will people get a chance to explain their behavior?
No. If you make a post that is classed as toxicity the infractions are permanent. Explaining your actions in a way that makes more sense and is acceptable after someone slaps you for it means that you could have phrased your post differently to begin with. In other words, you should have done that from the start.

- Will you update the forum agreement?
Yes, though it will take a little time. I'm also considering expanding them to make them clearer (though compared to for example Steams ToS they are much clearer ;)!).

- Will you go on a crazy "ban everyone that disagrees with the devs!" ... Read more