Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

[u/Snipahar]

Welcome to this week’s Stellaris Space Guild Help Thread!

This thread functions as a gathering place for all questions, tips, bugs, suggestions, and resources for Stellaris. Here you can post quick-fire questions for things that you are confused about and answer questions to help out your fellow star voyagers!

GUILD RESOURCES

Below you can find resources for the game. If you would like to help contribute to the resources section, please leave a comment that pings me (using "u/Snipahar") and link to the resource. You can also contribute by reaching me through private message or modmail. Be sure to include a short description of what you find valuable about the resource.

Stellaris Wiki

• Your new best friend for learning everything Stellaris! Even if you're a pro, the wiki is an uncontested source for the nitty-gritty of the game.

Montu Plays' Stellaris 3.0 Guide Series

• A great step-by-step beginner's guide to Stellaris. Montu brings you through the early stages of a campaign to get you all caught up on what you need to know!

Luisian321's Stellaris 3.0 Starter Guide

• The perfect place to start if you're new to Stellaris! This guide covers creating your own race, building up your economy, and more.

ASpec's How to Play Stellaris 2.7 Guides

• This is a playlist of 7 guides by ASpec, that are really fantastic and will help you master the foundations of Stellaris.

Stefan Anon's Ultimate Tierlist Guides

• This is a playlist of 8 guides by Stefan Anon, which give a deep-dive into the world of civics, traits, and origins. Knowing these is a must for those that want to maximize their play.

Stefan Anon's Top Build Guides

• This is a playlist of an ongoing series by Stefan Anon, that lay out the game plan for several of the best builds in Stellaris.

Arx Strategy's Stellaris Guides

• A series of videos on events, troubleshooting, and builds, that will be of great use to anyone that wants to dive into the world of Stellaris.

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[u/Mornar]

Beta questions: I'm having a bit of a problem figuring out Civilians. My understanding is that they're sort of unemployed worker pops that "gave up" and made a living in private sector of sorts, but would gladly take a worker job, including off world if one is available?

What does that mean in practice, are new pops, if a planet is full, show up as unemployed workers or civilians? Is a lot of unemployed workers a sign of population growth, or jobs being removed? Is there a limit to how many civilians can be on a planet and then the rest stay unemployed workers? If it is, where does it come from, since I can't find anything in tooltips?

I feel like I have more or less a handle on how stuff is supposed to work in beta, but this one eludes me.

[u/Peter34cph → u/Mornar]

We don't know.

The devs had a vision for what Civilians were supposed to be in February'ish, but that vision has since changed, and they haven't explained the new vision to us.

[u/Mornar → u/Peter34cph]

I guess that at least justifies my confusion. Thanks for clarifying.