Editing Stellaris (section)

===The DLC Cheat Sheet===

For the purposes of "What DLC should I buy?", well, the short version is "Utopia and Lithoids for learning the game" (Hive Minds, from Utopia, avoid all that pesky internal politics, and Lithoids avoid all that pesky "habitability" stuff)<ref>Robot empires, from Synthetic Dawn, combine these, but have serious scaling issues, and the Ascension Paths from Utopia are fairly desirable for many late-game empires</ref>, "Leviathans, Ancient Relics, Distant Stars, First Contact, The Machine Age, Apocalypse, Overlords, and Cosmic Storms for a more interesting galaxy, in very roughly that order". Then there's "Plantoids, Necroids, Federations, Synthetic Dawn, Overlord, Toxoids, Galactic Paragons, Nemesis, Aquatics, Astral Planes, and The Grand Archive  for various roleplaying options."

It also appears that Paradox now understands that the number of DLCs they are releasing is getting ridiculous and now offer the '''Stellaris: Expansion Subscription'''...subscription. For $9.99 a month (or $19.99 for 3 Months, or 29.99 for 6 Months), anyone can have full access to [[AWESOME|every single DLC past, present and future for the duration of the subscription.]] As it stands, without factoring in sales in order to buy all 23 DLC (Not counting the OST, eBook, Free DLC, or the currently unobtainable '''CUBE'''), it would cost over '''$300''' dollars to buy everything available barring price fluctuation. If you are just dipping your toes into the setting to start with, the subscription service makes it easy to jump right in. [[Just as Planned|Just be aware of the devil in the details that leaving it on will eventually lead to you having paid more for all the DLC than if you had just bought every single DLC individually (as is the nature of subscriptions).]]

Also, in Multiplayer, if one player has more DLC installed than others in the game, every player gains access to the same DLC content as the one with the most DLC. So, technically, as long as you have the Base Game you can get access to every other DLC content as long as you can find someone who has that DLC you can play with.