Amazing how few folks play Ironman mode

[Druitt]

I switched to Ironman mode on my second game to get a few achievements, and I'm amazed by the achievements I'm getting that only 3-4% of players have achieved. It can't be that Stellaris is not popular enough, so I figure the vast majority of players must not use Ironman -- I'm guessing because they use mods?

I mean, seriously, in the last two days I got probably six of these rare achievements. And some shouldn't be rare -- like killing a Wraith. Right?

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Some mods dont work with ironman mode correct, some however manage to figure out how to, others just dont use ironman mode, especially a number of online games because online games means that you wont be saving and loading, each time needing a new game with friends.

However the biggest issue I have with ironman mode, personally anyways, is that if your save gets corrupted, thats it, that games done with and the ironman saves are encrypted on top of that so you cant even fix them if you wanted to.

And then, it tops off that ironman mode will only work on the latest version of the game..

The effort in ironman mode for those that play for fun is far from worth being tolerable, I wont shame or slam anyone that enjoys it, heck I enjoy it very soldemly but when I have to take in that playing a new game for fun with a mod basically means that it nukes my ironman games (save for those rare mods I mentioned) means I'm loosing more time then I'd get in fixing all then playing it.

[Cerodil]

I have friends that only play multiplayer, not single player, you don't get achievements in multiplayer.

Also when you're comparing the list of people that have achievements and those that don't remember that it's comparing against all that have ever tried stellaris including those that loaded the game up played it once and for whatever reason never touched it again.

[koimeiji]

Like in nearly all Paradox games, achievements are locked behind playing a (nearly) completely vanilla, single player ironman game.

If you're playing a modded ironman game (not counting purely graphical mods), no achievements.

If you're playing a completely vanilla non-ironman game, no achievements.

If you're playing a multiplayer game, no achievements.


It's not that most players aren't playing ironman, it's that most players do not care about achievements that much to play a completely vanilla singleplayer ironman game.
If there's no gigastructures and planetary diversity, I ain't playing. So: no achievements for me even though I do play ironman most of the time.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Devs decided to make it so you're required to play vanilla, or vanilla with minor cosmetic mods to get achievements. It's not a surprise that people would rather have a good time and mod away than chase silly dopamine rush pop-ups.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Want to know how bad it is? I got the Peacekeeper achivement...which has a 1.5% global achivement rating...what its task?

Peacekeeper
As a pacifist Empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars)

In short....200 years, basically a default start to end game, no-war game run....

To clarify, it says consecutive...the only wars that dont count, Crisis wars.
War in heaven? Nullifies it, random rebellion? Nullifies it, any war of any kind? Nullifies it.
Federation drags you int war? Nullififes it.

[G33Kman]

You can turn Ironman mode off? /s

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by Empty Head - No Thoughts:

Want to know how bad it is? I got the Peacekeeper achivement...which has a 1.5% global achivement rating...what its task?

Peacekeeper
As a pacifist Empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars)

In short....200 years, basically a default start to end game, no-war game run....

To clarify, it says consecutive...the only wars that dont count, Crisis wars.
War in heaven? Nullifies it, random rebellion? Nullifies it, any war of any kind? Nullifies it.
Federation drags you int war? Nullififes it.

I'd imagine that most people wouldn't even bother with that achievement anyways. 200 years of idling when you can easily complete everything except for repeatables before the first 100 years would be boring as hell.

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by Jimmy Hunter:

Originally posted by Empty Head - No Thoughts:

Want to know how bad it is? I got the Peacekeeper achivement...which has a 1.5% global achivement rating...what its task?

Peacekeeper
As a pacifist Empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars)

In short....200 years, basically a default start to end game, no-war game run....

To clarify, it says consecutive...the only wars that dont count, Crisis wars.
War in heaven? Nullifies it, random rebellion? Nullifies it, any war of any kind? Nullifies it.
Federation drags you int war? Nullififes it.

I'd imagine that most people wouldn't even bother with that achievement anyways. 200 years of idling when you can easily complete everything except for repeatables before the first 100 years would be boring as hell.

Oh thats the horrific part of it, you have to be a pacifist nation as thats the only way to do it and you must have a HIDDEN FREAKING REQUIREMENT OF THERE BEING ANOTHER NPC NATION THAT IS NOT UNIQUE, FALLEN, MARAUDER OR MODDED NOR UPLIFTED IN THE MATCH

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/9if0u3/was_going_for_the_peacekeeper_achievement_got/


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JuxtaTerrestrial
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4 yr. ago
Hell hath no fury like a pacifist scorned

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I however will always love this Achievement

It Followed Me Home
Befriend a Space Amoeba

Sure the Space Amoeba anomley is rare but I love it has an achivement!

[bri]

In addition to the whole mods and multiplayer impact on achievement percentages, more than a few are reliant on getting favorable rng-you can only kill what you find after all...

[PlutonArioch]

I can play by Ironman rules any time I want to, without the game enforcing it. I don't care about achievements, in fact I prefer not to get any. A shame that is not a choice in most games, but here it is. So why would I play Ironman?

[Queltis]

Hard coded restrictions on my save files haven't ever been something I enjoy, especially given they're easy to bypass using copy and paste. Subjecting myself to it voluntarily isn't something I'm keen to do.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Empty Head - No Thoughts:

I however will always love this Achievement

It Followed Me Home
Befriend a Space Amoeba

Sure the Space Amoeba anomley is rare but I love it has an achivement!

And then an achievement to feed it to the scrapper enclave

[Ryika]

Aside from the restrictions to getting achievements, the game is also somewhat hard to get into like most Paradox games, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people buy it but then never really get into it.

Then there's the long lifespan of the game, during which a lot of players have almost certainly played the game at some point, but then dropped it to play something else and never came back.

Plus, the game also had a few free weekends, and I think Steam counts accounts that played Stellaris during those weekends as permanently "owning" Stellaris for the sake of such statistics.

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by Empty Head - No Thoughts:

Want to know how bad it is? I got the Peacekeeper achivement...which has a 1.5% global achivement rating...what its task?

Peacekeeper
As a pacifist Empire, be at peace for 200 consecutive years (crises do not count as wars)

In short....200 years, basically a default start to end game, no-war game run....

To clarify, it says consecutive...the only wars that dont count, Crisis wars.
War in heaven? Nullifies it, random rebellion? Nullifies it, any war of any kind? Nullifies it.
Federation drags you int war? Nullififes it.

You can actually get achievements with 0 players, 0 FEs, 0 pre-FTL and such on the map.

Rebellions don't just happen, they require a specific playstyle.