i dont recommend this game anymore,this game used to be way better than now but paradox finds a way to ruin the game every second update,
first like every other pdx game it has to have 30dlc's of wich most are just mods locked behind a paywall,some mods like gigastructural engeniering or dark space add more features/origins or megastructures than most of pdx dlc's,
second the performance of this game is absolutly horrible,if you dont turn of any empires and only allow pre ftl civilizations at game start you bascicly cant play this game past the early/mid game,and how is the performance so bad if the ai builds like no fleets and have those horrible managed planets?pdx should make it so that ai planets have a base ammount of resource production so that the game has to do less calculations,but that whould take development time from developing the 20th slop dlc with 3new origins and 5new civics,and the 4.3 update was supossed to "improve" performance by reducing ship counts,in reality it just made the game less realistic and the performance with many ai empires is still terrible,that had the negative side effect of making average to below average players struggeling even more with endgame criseses and fallen/awakened empires,
third,they break the game in every third update,for example in the last update they had to change the megastructure building ui for no reason,that broke multiple megastructures in gigastructural engeniering and it also it broke the display of the output of megastructures and they also reworked the automation ui for science and construction ships wich also broke ui overhaul dynamic a mod that should be part of the base game.
in conclusion i dont recomend buying the game if you dont have a nasa supercomputer or have too much money,also dont buy the dlc subscription,just pirate the dlc's to test them out and if you like them you can buy them but i whoulnt give this terrible companie that releases early acces games at launch and only makes them good after 15dlc's and or patches,they dont need the money,they have enough and use it for the absolutly wrongs thing.
