in a guide about how to get the techs one wants you could also mention that certain scientist traits like maniac or the right scientist field increase the likelihood of some techs by a lot. Like synthetics has a weight modifyer of x0.2 (so only showing up with one fifth the likelihood) if your scientis is not maniacal, spark of genius, the curator scientist or an industry expert. So if you are gunning for certain techs it's good to know what modifiers it has and how to manipulate them in your favour in addition to what thechnologies to research as a prerequisite :)

Making a desktop background of the pathway and then using icons of images to create a list that glows when you mouse over is absolutely brilliant. Really appreciate the effort.

2:38 an excellent (ab)use of windows desktop

Personally I'd like to see a ship design and fleet composition guide. I never feel like I really know what I'm doing when it comes to that

Something you forgot to mention, if you send your science vessel to scan ship debris, you would gain progress in research, depending if you are researching it, or gain progress in research you skipped. Plenty of times I could choose to research Tier 2 missiles over Tier 1 because of it (and on a rare occasion, I completed missile research purely by scanning debris).

If you get two techs you want to research that you are worried won't be there next roll, a trick you can employ is to research one for a month to put some progress on it and then switch. Because you have progress in the tech, you will see it next roll...

Literally only person making adequate, updated, actually helpful guides. Goodshit stefan Also how do i get the catgirls tech?

I loved the semi-random system of technologies since i encountered it in alpha centauri. Even if you can manipulate it to your liking, it still makes sure that no playthrough is the same by a given turn.

I never like to research blue lasers, as they can be gotten for free from an anomaly I tend regularly get in the early game. "Ice lit" on a frozen planet, is the name of the anomaly. ^^'

Glad to see you're still posting. Can't wait to see your videos when 2.6 comes out (or 3.0 if they ballin' in Paradox)

Been waiting for this vid for ages man

Thank you for making guides that are relevant to the current build, you rock

Good job well done, tech tree is a simple as possible visually pleasing!

Did you make the tech tree by putting .png files on your desktop? That's hilarious.

Your guides have helped me greatly, this is no exception. Hopefully you'll make one for ships, im completely oblivious and i usually just leave that to autodesign itself and I feel like im missing out :(

Helpful video, thank you Stefon

Really looking forward to your future ranking of the Origins, and perhaps do the Civics all over due to the absence of origins after that, or how best to combine them.

Don’t know how I’d be able to play/enjoy this game as much as I do without these vids. Thanks sir.

Excellent Video. Learned a lot.

Omg such a smart dude !! Love it. Thank you 😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Good video Stefan, I will like and comment

I wouldn't hire a scientist named Dym... They don't sound very bright :-)

Damn, that's hard. Im just gonna continue choosing random techs I like atm without overthinking it XD

Thank you so useful!!!

YES! Thank the Shroud for this video to exist!

Thanks man!

Btw Stefan, you also could talk a bit about non-infinite-repeatable tech like Fleet Management, which can only be researched 5 times as a repeatable. It's interesting enough in the late game to research those as you will have less options at each roll in the late game when you may need resource enhancement or gun +% as a top priority (Like for fighting an incomming crisis)

It's amazing! Please,do the same for physics & society

Thx, there's some data in here i was missing :)

finally a good tech tutorial

Very helpful, thank you!

Great video, glad to have content that is up to date on the newest patches and changes. Question: Is it worth it to research the +Research speed techs if you get them at the beginning of the game? Ex. Engineering I? Or is it better to focus on economy or bee-lining for specific techs early? Likewise, are the generalist bonuses scientist traits that give you +5% or +10% to all research better or worse than the specialist ones that give you bonuses to a subcategory of research?

Part of me wants the tech tree to be more comprehensive and less random, maybe like Civ where it's a clear tree you go up or even HoI where it's just categories within that big tree for Great War era techs. Another part kinda likes it's made chaotic to prevent easy exploitation and it takes some out of body analysis to see exactly how to get a civilization from exoskeleton tools to synthetic intelligence as fast as possible, like starting in the dark age and trying to tell someone what a lightbulb is you gotta let them get a few techs on the lower levels and maybe get the idea for using electricity for lighting.

What I would see in those space 4x games: A modular tech-development. Lets say you have severall tech-components and you decide to "improve kondensators by 2%". After a while you have better kondensators. And do this again with "cristal focus" and "energy cell" you combine them to a "laser gun". Then you can decide to improve the laser gun in total (expensive) or you can decide to "improve cristal focus by soandso percent" (cheaper). I dont like those limited tech trees where every civilisation is having the same techs only with minimal variations.

Hey Stefan. Awesome work. By any chance do you have the society and physics tech tree as well?

YES! The Galaxy is but a bounty waiting to be picked by the Carris Crew! the xeno are no match to our Space Cyborg Rocks and Space Robot Pirates!

on that research rate i was extremely lucky with a psionic empire having brain slug host and a scientist who had spark of genius brain slug host psychic and ai assistant then he dissapeared in the science nexus came back being maniacal aswell i never knew one scientist could literally become a living god of science

Hey @Stefan Annon, i really like your tech list. Do you have the list in a txt/csv format? I Would like to make spreadsheet for me and my buds. Mainly because the tech tree you shared in the description is not seperating the tech in tears like in your video and also the search function does not appear to be working. The video is very nice and explained everything clearly and even helped my friend (who played 2000+ hours) to learn a new thing or two! Have a good day dude, keep it up!

All hail to a Stefan video, praise a Loli and pass the ammunition

also I swear that tech tree looks like you have your background set to the "paths" (or whatever) of the techs and the techs themselves are icons on your desktop

I really would like to see if a tall build for hiveminds or a machine empire tall build is viable (not a "tall" build like in your last machine empire guide ;P)

Hey Stefan, great video. If I draw two techs that I want, say A and B, and I really want A now but B would be nice after, should I research 1 month of B and then switch to A? Will B be more likely to show up or even stay in the pool altogether?

Thank you. :) I would like to see a guide on how to manage and grow a normal, non-robotic, non-lithoid, non-swarm empire. In particular what building to build when, amenities and consumer goods management etc. I know the what does what and I understand all the tooltips but I can't make it work. In my multiplayer games my robot playing buddies are leaving me behind. I have a feeling that whilst they are building Foundries and Research Centers, I am using my resources, pops and building space for support buildings such as Consumer Goods, Theaters and then I start to run out of living space. Never ending circle in which I can build very few Foundries and Research labs. 50 years into the game would be ideal. ;) So the title could be: Starting an empire.

Excuse me. Maybe somewhere is mentioned. From where you got this tech tree picture? Is that from some stellaris wiki or something? Or is it inside game?

i'm so glad you said synthetic ascension is the best in the game. way too many youtubers say its "garbage" or "the worst". i dont know what game these people are playing synths are absolutely disgustingly good.

Fleet composition for different end game situations and different ship build compositions would be cool.

The planet cracked before the guard

What is the empire build you are using in the video ?

Where is the site that tech tree in the start of the video came from? Or did you create it yourself?

What kind of army Composition do you use with syntheyic ascension? What would you use to take on a fallen empire in a land battle? I really like robots

where did you get that tech tree from? i neeeed it

Why are your Tech Tree pics such low quality? I click the links and they are tiny in low resolution. I try saving them and zooming in but can't read them at all cause zooming in on low res text doesn't actually make it easier to read it just makes the blur larger.

it's been 3days since I've purchased this game and still have yet to play it lol

What mod are you using to have an icon op top of each planet?

"REEEEE Research Agreement" lmao 6:42

With the old planets using the tile system droids and synths were a different species than robots and when you unlocked them you were required to start building the new species and convert all of your robots over. I can only assume this was a bug, but with this old system I would always research droids and I would have wait years before it would actually let me use droids, they just would not show up as an option. I recently did my first materialist playthrough with the new system and I had the same thing happen, I researched droids and I waited 10 years and still did not have them. Is there some way to fix this because it makes my materialist playthroughs terrible because I can never actually upgrade my robots, which is why I usually avoid that empire ethic.

8:17 - I'd love to get the tech tree file but it isn't linked in the description

Stefan, pls show me how the cleanse the galaxy from the Xenos. Those Scum have no right to co exist besides Mankind. Love you videos ❤

Could you do one for influence and how that works?

All hail tech rushing

6:39 REEEEEE Research agreement

I’m currently researching living metal tech early game and it’s going to last another 470 months. I want to cancel research and research things like cruisers but I’m afraid of losing tech progress. What exactly happens when I cancel research halfway?

If I switch the tech leader on the last month before a tech is researched, will the new tech selection depend on the traits of the new leader only? Eg. if I assign a Voidcraft expert to research the Star Fortress technology for a boost and switch to an Industry expert a month before it's done, will I just get a 5x chance of rolling Synths or does the game remember the previous leader?

Are there any mods for Stellaris that give you a completely non-random research tree?

Would it be beneficial to modify the tech .yml to display t1,t2 etc as part of a mod so that you can easily see when you have breached the limitations for the next tier?

I just go for ships, weapons and space station upgrades

I love better whappens!

Do you have a video explaining why synthetic ascension is the most powerful? I just don't see it...

Are some techs locked behind DLC? I'm new to the game and was trying to go for droids and eventually synthetics, but I've made it to 2400ish so far and still no droids. I've got all the prerequisite techs, it just hasn't appeared for me yet.

Economy Guide Pt. 3? It slows down lot by that time though

The only main benefits I'm aware of from Synth ascension are that your currently existing leaders become immortal (and without mods die faster than they would when they were organics) and that you get the power to assimilate. Everything else, you can do with a normal empire, and even double-dip with organic and synthetic pops.

Thank you! That is what i was needed! One question thou: what is that Tech between Improved Strike Craft and Advanced Strike Craft?

Tip if you have to choose between 2 good techs : Research Tech A for 1 month and swap to Tech B. Because you already have techpoints spent in Tech A it will always appear as an additional option. Atleast for console that works perfect ...

I got so luck that in a matter of days I got the destroyers and cruisers

Love your content and appreciate the work you put into this game's community but just some advice. Its very easy to hear you are trying to pronounce your words to make yourself sound clear. Your speech is more pleasing to the ear every time you speed up and talk naturally, so try to talk into the mic the way you would normally talk to someone in person. Just some constructive criticism, otherwise love your content it's very helpful.

This is great and all but can someone just tell me how to get anti grav because the tree does not explain that and neither does the video.

This is of Public Utility !

After about three hours I wasn't able to build better ships than corvettes. At least now I know why, although I think I like the classic approach of Sins of a Solar Empire more than this one...

Hey dose this apply with the xbox version?

Is there any way to get techs in the late game that you skipped before (because there where better ones)? I had this happen to me multiple times, I only got the repeatables and found no way to get minerals purification plant to appear again, even in the very late game when I did the repeatables in 2 months.

Could you please do a guide for the mega engineering tech tree?

Where is the neutron launcher tech

No Tech challenge when?

"6 tech of a tier required to open the next tier". So if I research 6 tier 1 engineering techs it opens up ALL tier 2 for engineering?

this is for new DLC ?

Is Synth still the most powerful ascension?

I don't blame you for using Endless Space 2's OST over a Stellaris guide video. I can't remember a single track of the Stellaris OST, either.

I am very new to the game and in my first, current playthrough almost every empire has "overwhelming" technology compared to mine. I pay the curators every 10 years to help with tech and hire their scientists, I have research agreements with two empires and i steal technology from enemies i beat in battle thanks to the special projects but nothing helps. no i did not forget to assign scientists to technologies. If anyone knows please tell me how it might have happened and how to prevent my tech deficit next playthrough

REEEEEEEEEsearch agreement

cadia stands!

i wish they just had a normal tech tree for this game, would be so much better

7:37 (50 + 0.25% * base cost) actually (for non-repeatables) stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Empire#Relative_power

Its sad I own this game and all dlcs and never play it because the UI is so different than other games that it puts me off so much I don't even wanna learn how to use it.

So I couldnt possibly research every non repeatable then? Agh. The more I play this game the more confusing!

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holy shit this game is complicated :P

...wait a minute, is that tech tree just the windows desktop?

Wish I can find a better tech tree that better shows requirements instead of Just listing it,

Don't you live it when you have a research system that is so obscure in game that you require either a guide or hundreds of hours of trial and error to understand it's intricacies but even then you still constantly need to have the wiki ready just to see how to increase your chances to get the tech you want This system is so perfect, I totally support the fact that it has never been up for debates since launch to change it in any meaningful way and appears nowhere on the dev wishlist, that's because it is just too good and has no flaws whatsoever ☺