It's just a map

How tf do you play Stellaris? I have like 100 hours in and I'm beyond lost 95% of the time. I can do HOI and CK but Stellaris is beyond me

I'm going to be 100% honest with you here: no one knows what they're doing in Stellaris. I love it but there's so much shit going on and I never feel like I'm actually completely in control of everything that's happening. Every time I think I'm starting to get the system under control a portal to another dimension opens up or something else happens and all frigging hell breaks loose. I mean it took weeks before I even started to understand how politics worked, then weeks more before I understood the ramifications of half the shit I was researching, then when you start trying to make military advancements you get your fleets wiped out by disease or something.

Thank God it's not just me then lol. In the past couple months I've "played" it for a couple hours but mostly what I'm doing is running console commands and watching the AI'S Duke it out lol

The funny thing is how, being paradox, they've put out some massive DLCs for it. Like, I haven't figured out how to use the shit you've provided me already, I really don't need more yet