With the new update from Paradox finally out, we need to start planning season 2 of our multiplayer game. We discussed this on Discord, and the majority of you guys feel that we should play vanilla this time, to see the game for the way its meant to be played, as well as give the modders a chance to fix their code.

If you are interested in joining in the game, please send me your empire that you have created by going to the directory:

C:\Users\(UserName)\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris

Make sure to replace (UserName) with your own user name, then open user_empire_designs.txt. This file stores your customized empires in a series of commands for the game to read into the galaxy. Send me your full empire, make sure to include all characters and symbols.

Make sure to include your name inside your species bio, that way I can tell that empire belongs to you. This will allow me to force your empire to spawn if you cannot make the openning game. You will be able to assume control of it later, if it survives.

Which brings me to the next part, if you are killed off or integrated, you are allowed to join back in under an AI empire. This is the only time you can change empires mid game, unless you are joining for the first time mid game, which we will also allow you to take over an AI if one exists.

Make sure to also express to me if you are ok with letting another player control your empire if you are unable to take part, rather than an AI. This can either be great or terrible depending on how you feel about your empire. I will not allow anyone to take your empire if you dont tell me otherwise.

I will post a tentative date and time once I get my bearings on where everyone is at with this, and please feel free to give me some feedback. I dont want to 'dictate' this, I am mearly presenting a rough draft for this. I am completely open to whatever ideas you can think of.

Happy purging,
Raven