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however if you just have a few hour a week to play then maybe it's not the best choice. but if you have a evening or two a week you can't really go wrong for $7 or w/e the base game cost on sale.
P.S. If you have experience with resource management games - Stellaris is actually very easy. Short and direct resource conversion chains. No by-product or similar complex things.
I use the auto-sector management because thats way more effort than i can be bothered with. It works well enough, though ypu sometimes need to go through amd demolish resource structures and sectors late game when you have an abundance
You can play casual no problem; I have played casual for a long time, only finishing one or two games a year. Once the initial shock is gone everything feels really intuitive. There are games with worse learning curves out there.
If you can play some dedicated time on weekends, then most likely you will have no problems. If, however, you don't have time to play as often - let's say you only play some 4 hours a week - then I have some advice to give you:
1 - Pay close attention to updates. They always - and I mean, always - break saved games and it's easy to find out that the game you've been playing for months just got screwed because you started playing after an update. If you're not aware this happens, it's infuriating. Stellaris is different than most games in which the game changes after every major update. You can always roll back to the version you were playing, provided you didn't screw up your saved games. This is the main reason why I consider the GoG version (using offline installers instead of GoG Galaxy) to be superior to the Steam version (unless you want to do achievements; then it's the worst version).
2 - Choose wisely the mods you're using, because they often update to the latest version of the game and, if no legacy version is made available by the mod's author and the mod changes anything drastically, then, well, again, say goodbye to your saved games (this is the second best reason I enjoy the GoG version more - you see, once you've downloaded the mod - using SteamCMD or whatever your prefered method - and installed it, it never updates automatically [better still, you can keep every version of your mods if you want, provided you have the storage space to do it]. On the other hand, if later you decide to update the game (and thus your mods), you will have to do so by manually downloading every single mod again; if you feel this is too much work for little play time, then maybe the Steam version is best for you, but, again, be wise with what mods you decide to use then).
3 - Be aware that the game changed a lot since its release and, as such, many tutorials and advice throughout the internet do not apply to whatever it is the version you are playing (and here the Steam edition shines, since if you want to play a version closer to the release - let's say you want to try version 1.9 - then you can select any version through the Beta Channels [the game was released on GoG later, so less options are available there]).
4 - Don't be ashamed to play using the lower difficulties and on smaller maps. Some players have an elitist attitude towards beginners, but in my experience the vast majority here will try to help you despite some harsh language.
Updates do not always break saved games. They can, and often do, but it usually depends on how significant changes are. If a mechanic gets fundamentally changed or a UI element changes significantly. Otherwise, you'll usually be good, though balance changes may throw your economy off a bit.
Oh, maybe - I believe it if you say so - but my experience with this has been nothing but stinky garbage regarding this. To make things worse, the community here has no mercy when pointing out that you are expected to know saved games might be gone when you update and it is entirely up to you to check things up and roll back before continuing your game - and find out if there are legacy versions of each of your mods, and so on. That button that allows you to continue your match from the launcher is a hated enemy, and so is the exe file if you allow steam to manage your updates automatically.
But ok, maybe what you are saying is true but irrelevant in the context in which I wrote my advice. You see, maybe an update won't bother you that much - that is for when you can manage to play a game in, say, the time it takes to PDX to release one or two updates, so yeah, you may get lucky. But for those of us that can't play in such time because of work and family, what I said absolutely holds ground, and that was my point.
My last game before 3.8 was a 3.5.2 game that I did NOT manage to finish (because it took me so long between sections that I pretty much forgot what I was doing, so I figured I'd rather just start all over). The one before that was a 3.2 game and I remember when 3.3 was released I almost went insane, so bad was the experience. You have no idea how maddening it is to be able to play just a game a year and have your game all screwed up because you forgot to check for updates that are absolutely game breaking - and no sympathy for you in the forums, it's all your fault.