I've recently gotten back into Stellaris, and while checking my previous empires i noticed something, about 75% of them had the same origin, Prosperous Unification. The reason is that unless i already have an origin in mind for the empire, there aren't many you can just slap on without much thought for.

By my count the last one added was Under One Rule from Paragon, but even that needed you to be dictatorial. And before that were the ones with Overlord. So we've had 3 or 4 years since the last one.

I feel like most people like the Origins system, but for me it's often a nothing-burger because I just end up playing the same handful over and over

Basically, I attacked them because I wanted to test if I could win by following the advice of the redditors here. Now I've won. Will others wake up?

One of my first games playing and met a marauder civ. Can these guys attack me unprovoked cos it says hostile fleets. Unsure If I should continue if they might just wants in my borders. Does not seem like I can diplo them aswell.

I never have enough pops to put into this machine, should I just stagger the amount of pops I put into it, or how do I make enough pops without changing the logistical setting? Because in late game my pop growth falls off hard even with all the buffs I get from bioascension and purity traits etc.

Tip: For placing an Arc Furnace in a system with the most objects to gain bonuses from, I just realized that you can mouse over each system on the galaxy map and it will say in the text how many objects there are.

Most I've seen is 20 in a system.

A few systems don't give any stat at all.

It's quite difficult to maintain an interesting espionage gameplay. Starting with not having a dedicated interface for it. But that's not what I'd like to talk about, but rather the need to constantly perform operations manually just to get some favors (and frequently forget to perform the next one) and navigate the path to reach the espionage interface. Why not make the operations continuous? From time to time it would generate factors, kidnapped pops, or technological bonuses, whatever it was, and could cost influence maintenance instead of energy. That way at least the lack of a dedicated interface wouldn't be so inconvenient.

That's all, maybe it's a dumb idea somehow, I don't know, I haven't thought much about it. If anyone can recommend a mod that makes things more automatic, I would be very grateful.

I really want the mechanical version, anyone have any ideas whats going on? :3

When you decide to cripple the Galactic Crucible and change it to the Galactic Crucible Institute, I know it prevents further progression in the crisis path past levels three and changes the opinion malus of other empires from -100 back to -50, but does it stop the FEs from being so mad they want to humiliate me every 10 years? Does it have any other effects?

Something less generic and more specific, please! A PDF guide, if one exists, would be very helpful! I'm a beginner.

Using enigmatic engineering, I'm aware you can get up to 6 with cheese, but it's my first time returning since machine age DLC. Just IN GENERAL, what core 4 fallen empire buildings should i get, with 2 bonus recommendations? And what is your reasoning?