The grand list of unaddressed community issues with Stellaris

Issue	Severity	Examples	Known since
End Game performance is extremely poor	Severe	1, 2, 3	Le Guin
Despite the hard work of Paradox QA, there's still a strong feeling of a lack of quality assurance, and new DLC or updates not always being up to par	Severe	1, 2	Le Guin
Despite the hard work from devs and Community Management, there's still a strong feeling of a lack of communication from Paradox about these issues	Severe	1, 2	Le Guin
End Game/Crisis AI is too passive to plain broken, not doing anything	Major	1, 2	Unknown
Sector AI does poor optimisation	Major	1, 2, 3	Le Guin
AI has very poor fleet positioning (keeping fleet in Starport, not building deathstacks, suiciding)	Major	1	Game launch
AI makes poor choices in building buildings/Economy AI is poor	Major	1, 2, 3	Game launch
Multiplayer players sometimes experience desyncs	Major	1, 2, 3	Unknown
Key rebindings are unavailble, very annoying for players with non Qwerty keyboards	Moderate	1, 2	Game launch
No colourblindness mode	Moderate	1	Game launch
Game is not accessible for those of poor sight	Moderate	1	Game launch
Random templates spawning and orphaned fleets	Moderate	1	Game launch
Several Launcher issues (though these are known by Paradox)	Moderate	1, 2	Lee
AI declares wars it cannot win	Moderate	1	Unknown
Game is too sensitive to snowballing and a defeated AI cannot recover	Moderate	1	Game launch
After the early to mid game, even on the hardest difficulty other AI cannot keep up with the player	Moderate	1, 2	Game launch
Midgame is boring	Moderate	1	Game launch
Tech cost, Unity, relative strength, and weapon damage/hull/armor/shield can overflow (extra prevalent for mods)	Moderate	1	Game launch
Game has too much focus on pop growth	Moderate	1	Le Guin
A lot of civics and traits feel without personality, not affecting the game in major way beyond being boring stat modifiers	Moderate	1	Game launch
Automated ship template AI is extremely suboptimal, often choosing subpar builds	Moderate	1	Lee
Hive minds feel lackluster	Moderate	1	Le Guin
Machine Empires are unbalanced compared to normal empires (too strong)	Moderate	1, 2	Le Guin
Fleets sometimes stop shooting for no real reason	Moderate	1	Unknown
Massive unemployment after psionic or cybernetic ascenscion	Moderate	1	Le Guin
Version mismatches are common	Moderate	1	Le Guin
Strikecraft don't get their bonuses applied properly and are underpowered	Moderate	1, 2	Unknown
No frequent patches and patches are bound to DLC	Moderate	1	Unknown
Enemies can use gateway when system is occupied	Moderate	1, 2	Unknown
Fleet battles are very hands-off	Moderate	1, 2	Unknown
Long load time from launcher to ingame	Moderate	1	Unknown
Prethoryn Scourge nonfunctional due to slow infestation	Moderate	1	Unknown
Precursor Imbalance and Static Outcomes	Moderate	1	Unknown
Job weights have to be hardcoded into the job and cannot be coded into Trait modifiers	Moderate	1, 2	Unknown
has_monthly_income condition is always one month outdated	Minor	1	Unknown
Initial democratic leaders disappear after losing an election	Minor	1	Le Guin
Gene modding is too strong. With two gene-modding points, you can create every combination of species	Minor	1	Game launch
Pop migration is completely unimportant as a mechanic as soon as you can afford to manually migrate pops	Minor	1	Le Guin
Manual pop migration is a lot of work to micromanage	Minor	1, 2, 3	Le Guin
No direct control over jobs assignment, and job assignment AI is sometimes inefficient	Minor	1	Le Guin
Jobs AI heavily favors efficient processor trait	Minor	1	Le Guin
Species overview doesn't perform/crashes when there's too many species	Minor	1	Le Guin
Defense platforms are useless in the late-game and require too much micro	Minor	1	Unknown
Too much tracking on Battleship L turret	Minor	1	Unknown
Point defense always targets strike craft over missiles	Minor	1	Unknown
Pops never decline from overpopulation	Minor	1	Lee
Great Khan/Awakened Empires/Crisis are underpowered in fleet strength	Minor	1	Le Guin
Purges are too slow for Contingency/Scourge	Minor	1	Le Guin
Robot Assembly is forgotten and cannot choose not to assemble specific robots	Minor	1	Le Guin
Synth Species Rights are broken	Minor	1	Le Guin
Assimilation of main species instantly reverts back to citizen rights	Minor	1	Le Guin
Launcher requires Steam to run	Minor	1	Lee
Strike craft have been simplified away from Fighters/Bombers	Minor	1	Lee
Upgraded buildings must be repaired before being demolished	Minor	1	Le Guin
Localisation issues for hive minds (referring to them as individuals)	Minor	1	Banks
Current leading strategy is Battleship spam	Minor	1	Banks
Lategame strategy for Tech-heavy empires is spamming repeatable tech	Minor	1	Lee
Lategame strategy for Tech-heavy empires is spamming repeatable tech	Minor	1	Game launch
Pop ethics shifting is broken	Minor	1	Game launch
Equal war exhaustion for all ship types, making corvettes non-viable and smaller countries vulnerable	Minor	1, 2	Game launch
Peace options very simplified	Minor	1	Game launch
Few interactions with populations besides seeing some numbers change	Minor	1	Game launch
Threat isn't visible	Minor	1	Game launch
Force disparity doesn't properly work	Minor	1	Game launch
Odd modding contexts	Minor	1	Game launch
Game has, as all Paradox games, still no real reason do to anything else than Total War. AI also treats this as such	Minor	1	Game launch
Forced Status Quo	Minor	1	Game launch
No notification that fleets have arrived at target	Minor	1	Game launch
Cannot hotkey idle ships	Minor	1	Game launch
No notification that fleets have arrived at target	Minor	1	Game launch
Cannot hotkey idle ships	Minor	1	Game launch
Machine Empires cannot vassalize genocidal machine empires (they should be able to)	Minor	1	Le Guin
Scourge is buggy around habitats	Minor	1	Unknown
Armies disappear from outlier in lategame	Minor	1	Unknown
Game is too deterministic	Minor	1	Unknown
Cannot designate what planets go into sector	Minor	1	Unknown
Sector Management feels clunky, cannot designate planets to sectors	Minor	1,2	Le Guin
Lack of empire interactions beyond very basic diplomacy, no espionage mechanics	Minor	1	Game Launch
All Unbidden stations count as Dimensional Anchors	Minor	1	Le Guin
No easy way to see strategic resources	Minor	1	Le Guin
Fleet target finding on Passive is not intuitive	Minor	1	Game launch
Fleet reinforcements should coordinate arrival time	Minor	1	Game launch
Lack of cosmetics for machine empires	Minor	1	Game launch
No sorting or search in outlier	Minor	1	Game launch
Fleet power sometimes arbitrarily reduced	Minor	1	Lee
Megacorps do not have access to regular civics	Minor	1	Le Guin
AI never terraforms	Minor	1	Unknown
Some precursors are a lot more rare than others	Minor	1	Unknown
Big scaling difference in precursor rewards	Minor	1	Unknown
Some precursors that offer no benefit to the player empire may appear	Minor	1	Unknown
Dig sites may appear in unreachable locations or not at all	Minor	1	Unknown
Too much micro building stations	Minor	1	Game Launch
Event spawned ships have no piracy suppression	Minor	1	Unknown
Lack of traditions	Minor	1, 2, 3, 4	Game Launch
Calculation cost of alloys is sometimes incorrect	Minor	1	Unknown
Too high density empies makes missions impossible	Minor	1	Game Launch
Specialization in resources makes single-planet rebellions very weak	Minor	1	Le Guin
Lack of different crisises	Minor	1	Game Launch
Slaves on Galactic Market are always selected individually, which is tedious	Minor	1	Le Guin
Cannot reorganize the Planets/Fleets in the tab	Minor	1	Game Launch
Timed planet modifiers don't count down when applied to uninhabitable planet classes	Minor	1	Unknown
Tile blockers that grant pops always grant primary species pops	Minor	1	Unknown
No detail on the impact on Empire Sprawl from individual sectors	Minor	1	Le Guin
Cannot transfer entire sector via diplomacy, has to go planet-by-planet	Minor	1	Game launch
Lack of variety in technology and everyone will unlock almost everything always given enough time	Minor	1	Game launch
Transport fleets are babysitted from actual fleets	Minor	1	Game launch
Planetary specialisation is required very early in planet development	Minor	1	Unknown
Cannot set a long-term build order for planets	Minor	1	Game launch
No extra tiers on Exotic Resources buildings	Minor	1	Le Guin
No use for Toxic/Molten worlds	Minor	1	Game launch
Cannot stop synthetic evolution pops	Minor	1	Game launch
No way to sync mods or check checksums with other players	Minor	1	Game launch
No way to filter notifications over a longer period	Minor	1	Game launch
Ethics shift seems to be non-existant	Minor	1	Le Guin
Crime is easily dealt with	Minor	1	Le Guin
Last stage of mega art installation requires minor artifacts even if Ancient Relics isn't owned/enabled	Minor	1	Lee