This game looks so awesome. I'm resisting the urge to preorder it though.

Doooo iiiiit.
Release day session with silverware, me and at least two other people (one of my RL friends and one of silvers)

Give in to your Xenocidal tendencies, murder the enemies of all Zodkind!
Preorder Stellaris!

Just a couple weeks now until release! One week from Monday, in fact. As someone who has played every Paradox game since the original Europa Universalis (and Svea Rike before it, actually), I can honestly say, after having followed all the dev diaries, watched all the Twitch broadcasts (I for one welcome our Blorg overlords), and digested every available scrap of information about this title that it is shaping up for what COULD be the best game PDS has ever put out there. It is the perfect incestuous lovechild of Master of Orion and the EU franchise for me, with all the vast storytelling and RP elements of Crusader Kings thrown into the mix. I refunded my Steam copy of Dark Souls III to get the Nova Edition for free. And this is perhaps the only game that can take me away from the new Master of Orion for any appreciable amount of time before No Man's Sky, which is saying quite a lot!

:3
There are a number of us on the IRC who want to do a Launch Day Multiplayer game :3

Blind multiplayer basically

There's a descent chance that I'll buy this game on launch day. It looks very promising.

BFett wrote:There's a descent chance that I'll buy this game on launch day. It looks very promising.

Go watch the Blorg Stream, then preorder :3

GLORY TO BLORG!

The main reason I'm not going to preorder is because I'm not going to ever use the rewards that come in the cheapest package. On top of that I suspect that the game itself will be cheaper than the preorder.

Either way though, if you guys set a time and date I'll be sure to join you in multi player.

So, it looks like the release date is on a Monday (May 9th). I therefor propose that we have our multiplayer match on Saturday/Sunday (May 14th and 15th) depending on timezone. Is this acceptable? If so, what time will we play?

I guess we'll be done failing the first one by sunday, so you'll be able to join a second session by then :V

I should take some time off for Monday/Tuesday, so we can start a match.

We can always allow dropin/out players.

Do any of you have experience adding animated character avatars to games like stellaris? The example they gave seemed a bit vague.

Anyways it at least seems easy enough to add a static picture for a race.

No, but we can figure it out, from the looks it's a gif though. :3

The game is available on steam.