How long do your games last?

[DrakenKin]

Please tell us map size and number of ingame years it takes you for victory.

(Optionally if you know how many RL hours tell us, but I know it can be hard to tell.)

[Farre]

I'm eager to here the answers too. I'm curently playing my first game and I have 26 hours played. Still feel like my game is no where near the end. Of course the first game is always more about learning to play, especially in Paradox games :)

[Richon]

Mine tend to last for several tens of hours per campaign, depending on how long it takes me to achieve my specific objectives. I've never done a WC in any Paradox game, so can't tell you how long one of those might take. But in Stellaris, I tend to play one campaign until the next patch, then start a new one. I've already clocked close to 50 hours on my current 1.4.1 campaign.

[Aedile]

Well, it greatly depends on your galaxy size, number of empires, and all that.

My last game was 800 star spiral galaxy, 31 empires, 12 advanced, 4 FE. took me 350 years for fed victory. 200 to basacally defeat end game crisis and FEs (one awako), the rest basicly boring mop up of pathetics, and waiting for presidency to get victory.

Lasted around I dunno, 40 hr maybe.

[crgzero]

I play until I beat the crisis event and at least 1 fallen/awakened empire. At that point you've basically won. Don't recall times but that's when I start over.

All default settings.

[Anthuny]

200 stars, ring galaxy, 8 empires, no advanced starts, no FE, forced hyperlane. Took 270 years for a domination victory. Took around... 15 hours.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=834239835

[Wolf]

Originally posted by Aedile:

Well, it greatly depends on your galaxy size, number of empires, and all that.

My last game was 800 star spiral galaxy, 31 empires, 12 advanced, 4 FE. took me 350 years for fed victory. 200 to basacally defeat end game crisis and FEs (one awako), the rest basicly boring mop up of pathetics, and waiting for presidency to get victory.

Lasted around I dunno, 40 hr maybe.

How many years can you play until? There's no ending in years right? I'm in the late 2300s and wanted to know how far I can keep on going. I'm playing the largest map you can (8 spiral I think) and 30+ empires/4 FEs.

Also, why did you have to wait for presidency to get victory???

[veritasinpersonam]

Essentially there is no meaningful year cap to Stellaris. The game will almost certainly resolve or become unplayably slow eventually.

[crgzero]

Considering the amount of stuttering and random funkiness that hits most players the game will most likely become unplayable on a large map after 300 years give or take. Unless you're really frickin' lucky. Really though, unless you're a turtle player there's just not enough in the game to make long play times even remotely fun, at least I can't see it. How many +5s do you really need?

[TheEvilNoob]

Originally posted by crgzero:

I play until I beat the crisis event and at least 1 fallen/awakened empire. At that point you've basically won. Don't recall times but that's when I start over.

All default settings.

Genuine question: How do you do so without owning the game?

[Bomber]

Originally posted by TheEvilNoob:

Originally posted by crgzero:

I play until I beat the crisis event and at least 1 fallen/awakened empire. At that point you've basically won. Don't recall times but that's when I start over.

All default settings.

Genuine question: How do you do so without owning the game?

This is a reeeeeeeeally good question!

For OP:
- For achievements tiny maps unitl 2300 (conquered everything), ~10 real hours.
- For fun 1k star maps, usually until 2350/2400 if I get annoyed or wiped by endgame crisis/awakened empires or until ~2500 where the game mostly gets so boring and just a micromanaging hell. (well never played in 1.5.1 so long, because there are sooooo many nice new ways to play so I restart very often. Currently working on a game to pla longar than 2400 to build megastructures, etc.) Overall ~20-50 hours real time per save.

[Gmonkey88]

I saw a youtube video of someones game that was in the year 3100. 900 years in the same game is insane to me. My Current game is at the year 2412 I could've won a Federation victory earlier, but been trying to get acheivments.

[crgzero]

Originally posted by TheEvilNoob:

Originally posted by crgzero:

I play until I beat the crisis event and at least 1 fallen/awakened empire. At that point you've basically won. Don't recall times but that's when I start over.

All default settings.

Genuine question: How do you do so without owning the game?

It's called,,, FAMILY SHARE! Or I just log into my daughter's account and play the phuquing, game, which any of you could've figured out if you'd even remotely tried.

"hey, maybe he logs into a family members account, or follows steams rules and uses the family share wtf ever it's called options, but no I can't be bothered to THINK"

[Caelus]

depends if you even finish a game lol

i never finished one yet, sometimes get bored and start new game by the time i hit late game.... but my recent game i havent done that because utopia added cool new stuff to make late game better, but alas i still just quit my utopia new game as the war in heaven kicked off and ruined all the established diplo and split all factions up leading to dismantling my epic newly build federation fleet which disapeared due to the faction disolving due to the event which i ven tried to stay fully out of and take no sides. so i rage quit and probably will only have 1 fallen empire in my new games to avoid diplomacy federation disolving event like that.

so you may probably either get bored and quit before finishing, or just plain rage quit from some dumb event :D

[[TFM]bobcat]

I usually play on 1,000 star maps and last roughly 150-250 years on average. I usually dont care about "winning" I play to conquer the galaxy and if I fancy it trigger all three crisis events for a challenge. What usually causes me to end a game is the cripplingly bad lag that tends to set in in late game which makes playing more of a chore than a fun game

[crgzero]

Originally posted by TFMbobcat:

I usually play on 1,000 star maps and last roughly 150-250 years on average. I usually dont care about "winning" I play to conquer the galaxy and if I fancy it trigger all three crisis events for a challenge. What usually causes me to end a game is the cripplingly bad lag that tends to set in in late game which makes playing more of a chore than a fun game

This is my biggest reason for only playing till the point I mentioned above. By that time the initial effects of the bad coding are just starting to rear it's ugly head.