Summary
Managing an interstellar empire inStellarisrequires a lot of micromanaging to ensure both survival and dominance of the empire in the galaxy, especially when surrounded by alien empires with unknown intentions. Many aspects are crucial to micromanage, such as ship actions, hiring leaders, and empire-wide edicts.
These edicts are integral to optimizing as they help decide whether an empire will prosper against the harsh galaxy, or simply fall into obscurity or worse, into the void, as they are swarmed by hostile empires. Some of these edicts cost unity monthly, which is negligible compared to the benefits they warrant.
8Capacity Subsidies
Boosts Energy Credits Acquisition
The economy isone of the most integral parts ofStellaris, as it decides the life and death situation of an empire. A failing economy can be characterized by a constant shortage of resources, particularly energy credits, due to mismanagement such as exceeding ship sizes, loss of planets, or even lack of foresight when conquering a planet.
With the help of the Capacity Subsidies edict, an empire will be able to boost its energy credit acquisitions by a large margin. This effect is further amplified if the empire has a planet dedicated to producing energy credits, or in other words, a Generator World, as it boosts a technician’s output.
7Map The Stars
Quickly Explore Other Star Systems And Expand Territory
As a 4X game that emphasizes the “exploration” part, players ofStellariswill be familiar with the concept of being the first one to discover a system and beating other empires to settle in it. However, the time spent on the survey can move a little slowly, depending on the scientist leader boarding the science vesseland their traits.
With the help of the ‘Map the Stars’ edict, an empire will be able to rush through unexplored systems with an increase in survey speed. Moreover, it allows a scientist to discover more anomalies, therefore enhancing the systems further with more resources.
6Land Of Opportunity
Open The Borders And Let The Population Boom Begin
Population has always been an integral part ofStellaris, especially for aspiring empires who want their planets to be more productive. However, increasing the population on planets sometimes requires a huge amount of investment, such as havingthe right species traits, and an optimal planet habitability to facilitate rapid growth.
With ‘Land of Opportunity,’ an empire can open its borders to invite other species to live on their planets. With the addition of those immigrant aliens, an empire will be able to quickly fill up the available jobs in no time, increasing resources by a huge margin.
5Forge Subsidies
Strengthen An Empire’s Position With An Abundance Of Alloys
An empire that aspires to bothsurvive and dominate the galaxyneeds to project its power towards the galaxy, be it in the form of fleet strength, or massive starbases capable of withstanding the heaviest assaults from hostile empires. Those ambitions require a huge amount of alloys to execute, especially for fleet building.
‘Forge Subsidies’ helps an empire rapidly dish out alloys as it increases Metallurgists' output by 10%. Although it looks small at a first glance, the bonus can rapidly snowball, should an empire secure two or three Forge Worlds within its borders.
4Information Quarantine
Increases Stability And Keeps The Masses In Line
Ethics can be a tricky thing to balance for an empire that starts to feel its borders are getting a little too big, especially after conquering other planets from bothhostile and ‘passive’ AI empires. The conquered natives will often prioritize their original ethics over their conquerors.
With the help of ‘Information Quarantine’, an empire will be able to keep the population in line with the empire’s aspirations as it draws a massive governing ethics attraction. Moreover, the added stability will enhance the productivity of workers, as low stability will negatively affect their productivity by a large amount.
3Nutritional Plenitude
Encourage Population Growth For More Productivity
Population growth has been one of the most sought-after things byStellarisplayers, especially for ones that are not comfortable sharing their planets with other intelligent species,such as a Fanatic Purifier. Increasing their growth can be tricky as it requires an empire to be advanced in technology, particularly in the Society field.
‘Nutritional Plentitude’ offers an increase in population growth by 10%, which can translate into a huge amount of population being born at a rapid pace. The downside of the edict, which is the population food upkeep, can be mitigated easily. Moreover, the added happiness will make the populace more productive than before.
2Research Subsidies
Invest In Researchers To Gain Insight On The Universe
For every successful playthrough ofStellaris, a player will see a pattern of prioritizing two important things by the winning empire: a well-defined playstyle that lasts until the endgame, and a focus on research. By doing so, an empire will be able to quickly out-tech its opponents and invade without having too many casualties.
The edict ‘Research Subisidies’ will ensure that the researchers of an empire focus more on obtaining technologies. These technologies can also vary from increasing anempire’s knowledge of Archaeotechnologiesor researching brand-new ship types that can easily steamroll an opponent’s fleet.
1Fleet Supremacy
Ensure Both The Survival And Dominance Of An Empire
A huge fleet will always ensure an empire’s standing in the galaxy is relatively secure, especially when the fleet is fitted with thebest and most optimized ship designs. In some cases, having a huge fleet will require an investment to increase the empire’s fleet capacity and command size for the Commanders to lead.
With the help of the edict ‘Fleet Supremacy’, an empire will be able to rapidly build up its fleet with the bonus to a ship’s starting experience and building speed. Moreover, the edict allows the empire to have a bigger diplomatic weight in the Galactic Community, enabling them to focus on proposals that would benefit their empire more.
