it may not look like it, but this is 12 hours of labor. phew.

some more eyecandy for y'all

Jlanet (Jort Planet)

alright. It's testing time.

I've got 22 instances represented so far. In total I'd like to have like, at least 50 by the end of this. But, it's time to get some gameplay done, look for some bugs.

so far witches.live is the only fanatical purifier in the galaxy

ah yes, the eternal art art of hours upon hours of bughunting and troubleshooting. This circus is the closest I'll ever get to actual hacking, so I better try to enjoy it.

I think I've found the bug

what is Stellaris but a series of text documents interwoven by code spaghetti

what if I literally replaced all of the AI personalities with various fedifolk tropes, and all of their dialogue with actual assorted mastodon posts

witches.live and playvicious.social have spawned next to each other 3 times in a row. this isn't hardcoded I swear

It breathes! It LIVES!

can we just take a moment to appreciate how epic playvicious's banner is?

it occurs to me that I really need to add some bitcoin nonsense and tech instances for it to really feel like the fediverse.

oh, it is beautiful.

alright I'm gonna take a small break from adding instances and their associated symbols to begin work on personalities and namelists

note to self: rename Influence to Clout

I'm pleased to announce that all food has been replaced with teeth, effective immediately

c l o u t

I'm probably going to make the influence/food conversion into its own mod, and the emblems into its own mod and put them in a fediverse collection. That way people can choose to just play with a specific emblem from the fedi without necessarily also having to eat teeth

It's up!!! (Just the emblems for now, other stuff later) Go download it!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2065020222

Update!! Version 1.1 of the Fediverse Emblems mod is now. It is updated for use with Stellaris 2.7, and has had several instance emblems added. Additionally, the emblems are now split up into two groups, for ease of selection.

the very INSTANT the necroids pack comes out I am making a resurrected bofa.lol empire

normal bug fixes for a normal mod

speaking the words out loud: "mastodon-stellaris ethics wheel" feels like casting an eldritch spell, it curls the air in an unholy way

should I change the existing ethics or just add new ones

if I add new ones, it would likely compete with less mods, however it will be far more work to figure out and do. If I'm just replacing existing ones, it'll probably be far easier.

oh yes, yes yes, this is cursed.

this mod sucks, so bad

oh, wretched, awful. why am I still doing this.

if I continue down the path of replacing the ethics wheel, only pain will await me in the days to come

see but these symbols were the easy ones

how in the world will I represent earnestposting vs shitposting

@ me your mastodon ethics dichotomy ideas

Tankie <---> Anarchism (authoritarian/egalitarian)

Horny <---> Chaste (xenophile/xenophobe)

Irony <---> Uwu (militarism/pacifism)

Theory <---> Techy (spiritualist/materialist)

Themed (gestalt consciousness)

currently accepting feedback and ideas

maybe I should replace energy credits and minerals with favs and boosts

but which one would be which...