Stellaris: Cosmic Storms

This expansion is not fun... to me. Maybe I'm not the target audience for this expansion. I'm not a Stellaris fanatic; I play it to pass some time and try to bring peace to a universe through force or favor. The first time I played I had 3 active storms melting my science ship before I knew the mechanics of this expansion. Not really an additional incumbrance I enjoy. I'll give it another try and see if the sliders help, but this expansion is probably getting deactivated.

I own every DLC for Stellaris on GoG and this is the only one I disable. 1000+ hour player (no mods) who has bought all DLC day one for the game (and will continue to do so) but this one blows. The storms are the most annoying things in the game, they add a ton of stupid stuff to research and more buildings you have build on a planet "just in case". Plus, the AI seems to have zero clue how to handle them and their empires just crumble when hit by storms. I played a game last night to give it "one more chance" and well into mid-game I decided that no, it really sucks. I will even say it ruins the game having this DLC enabled. Maybe in 2025 there will be some patches to make the storms less retarded. This is a good example of adding "width" instead of "depth".