You're not required to do so- you can invade without attacking or destroying anything. The AI has the same restrictions (only very recently in the Beta does the AI have any kind of advantage at all, and it has nothing to do with combat). I even suggest blitzing a planet to make use of their ...

Absolutely, it is not the optimal action. I'd prefer if the fleet manager AI was able to sidegrade from a heavy to patrol escort (for example) to fit it's template, even if the heavy escorts individual design setting was to only upgrade to a newer heavy escorts design. IMO the fleet templates ...

Absolutely, it is not the optimal action. I'd prefer if the fleet manager AI was able to sidegrade from a heavy to patrol escort (for example) to fit it's template, even if the heavy escorts individual design setting was to only upgrade to a newer heavy escorts design. IMO the fleet templates ...

I do have to agree it is rather counter intuitive unless you happen to read that specific explanation in the in-game guide, since I also ran into the same problem.

I can tell you from experience as someone who organizes Stellaris multiplayer sessions that the average casual player won't infer any ...

As the title says I've found that the game keeps adding ships to a fleet despite fleet formation being set to manual and the number of ships for a class going over the cap set in the fleet template.

Probably a bug but it might also be a desired behavior that is poorly conveyed to the player.

I've experienced that myself with a repaired Battleship going to an empire that had a construction ship working on a nearby wreckage. For now, until they fix it, I suggest using the game editor to take possession of the ship.

After switching to the recent beta I've noticed the white effect of the Long Rage Scanners overlay is barely visible.
https://imgur.com/a/wxCytr7

One odd thing I've noticed in my recent playthroughs is that even Tier 0 armor will often regenerate during combat faster than even significantly higher tier shields.
It seems to do so only as long as an armor plate has more than 0 armor, at which point it seems to stop regenerating at that high ...

Can confirm I've seen the same in my game after exterminating the pop of an indepent planet I had invaded.

Removing the tech trading in exchange for a boring and generic percentage bonus you get once and forget about for the rest of the game seems like the kind of shallow thing I would expect from Stellaris. I'm extremely against it.

The current system may certainly need a balance patch but at least it ...

I doubt your average pirate faction has the manpower needed to police an entire planet.
At best they could achieve orbital supremacy and threaten orbital bombardment should they not get a regular tribute paid, which is actually what they kind of do right now.

I have to agree. The inability to put several types of cruisers in a fleet template kind of goes against the good flexibility of the ship designer.
I'd like to be able to have a ship of the line, electronic attack and missile cruiser all in the same convenient fleet template.

Haven't see any streamer mention it, but are there any types of station that can be built in deep space away from planets?

Well, that's a shame indeed. I'm back to waiting for the actual release I guess.

Thanks for letting us know.
I will probably need a new F5 key for my keyboard after this.

In the DW 2 Impatience Thread Erik Rutins said said they will process the applications this week and will let us know when this wave of the beta is over.

Thank you for posting this. There are a lot of details specific to planet/empire management early on in the video that I had never seen.

I won't lie I'm a bit sad for the delay but if it means avoiding unhealthy Dev crunch so be it.

Also I've already sent my Beta application but is what Marco said during the Tea time stream true? Because if so lucky me [:D]