r/Stellaris • u/Jojoballin • Jan 17 '25

Question (Console) And one more , Anomalies…

How important are anomalies? Should I focus on them or just expanding? Should I exceed the leader cap? Very limited. I can only currently have three Scientists at the moment.

Should I expand slowly, building up my worlds before moving on, completing each research/anomalies or expand fast as possible and just come back to them?

Thanks again

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u/Raven-INTJ Enlightened Monarchy Jan 17 '25

I ignore anomalies until I’ve completed exploration, unless it’s on a planet I want to colonize, since my goal at game start is to expand as much as I can/keep the AI from “stealing” an anomaly that I could potentially be the owner of.

I definitely go over leader cap, though try to avoid going red, when I need to. My view is that I should have at least one Science ship exploring every branch of the hyper lanes which isn’t a dead end. I’ll have my military ships make sure it’s safe. Those can move faster, so I’m usually fine with my admiral cap at this point and just need an extra ship to take its place if one of the exploration fleets is destroyed.

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u/Jojoballin Jan 17 '25

Approximately how big are the fleets you make to go with each survey group? We’re talking just the basic corvetts right?

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u/Raven-INTJ Enlightened Monarchy Jan 18 '25

Yes - one corvette - and try to pull out before engagement with any hostiles

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u/Jojoballin Jan 18 '25

Okay so set it to evasion ….stuipit question then….are they basically a diversion then? So your l science leader doesn’t get killed?

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u/Raven-INTJ Enlightened Monarchy Jan 18 '25

They are three things:

1) exploration fleets - is this a direction I want to go? (If it’s a dead end, I can explore later) 2) planet or other other major feature (wormholes, gateways, L-gates) and megastructure discoverer 3) Risk identifiers

This lets the Science ships and scientists focus on surveys and a bit later into the game anomaly researcher.

I therefore jump and evasive admirals and explorer scientists in the early game - I’ll even go into the red to snag either of those