Your way of playing Stellaris gives me similar vibes to this person on my original thread
I like to play crusader kings II from the point of view of God. Using console commands, sketchy cheat mod, and knowing the right game mechanics you can make characters do all types of crazy stuff. Using the “observe” console command let’s you play as a spectator, you can use the “play” command followed by a character ID and you will jump into playing as that character. I like to find a character, give them insane stats, and give them all of the best traits, make them immortal and then spectate for a few hundred years and see what my chosen one made the world into. I also like to try to determine before hand what I want them to do, like becoming emperor of brittania or whatever, and see how close I can get from just 1 or 2 interactions with them.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 4 days ago
That way of playing Stellaris sounds really cool! It makes me want to install Stellaris again
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Don’t do it. It’s a turned base game that artificially stretches itself into an RTS in order to fool you into thinking there’s more complexity than there is. Each playthrough should take 30% of the time that it does because the devs are aware they’ve created a spreadsheet game and are trying to hide that fact.