/civ4xg/ - Civilization, Stellaris, Endless and 4X Games General

What are the scenarios of Civ 6 like? Were there any with vanilla? Do the DLC scenarios add anything to the base game beyond Poland? Are they fun?

I am fond of pigs

>>163938716
it's alright, not great though

>>163924810
>>163924910

>Empire suddenly splits up after an impromptu civil war

Should I have mentioned that I'm letting the AI play on the biggest map possible in-game? Will it still be able to conquer the map then?

Does the cheevo for taking full advantage of Gandhi's UA require you not to found a religion?

>>163938716
It's clunky, and some mechanics are a bit questionable.

It probably will be great once they release some more DLC for it, but as of now, I can't recommend it.

>>163939428
>cheevos
FUCK

https://youtu.be/70Bb64RMU2Q

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>>163939557
This guy is still at it, too.

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WHY THE FUCK AM I BANKRUPT I HAVE A POSITIVE GOLD PER TURN WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK IS GOING ON.

>>163939932
The math was implemented by the same people who failed at implementing mouse scrolling.

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>Trying to get into forgotten because their research mechanic is actually really fun.
>First try started decently but fell off because I just spied and ran around the map with my assassins and by the time I thought about expanding each region had 2+ roaming armies.
>Second try get fucked by spawn. No anomalies and spawning region is bottlenecked by a mountain.
>Third try start out alright but fuck up and attack an urces village and lose my starting army.
The more I play the more I realize I fucking suck at this game.

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I'd really like to take Rjaks old fortress from Jafar now, but he's got some armies standing outside my weaker cities.

Focusing my power on research instead of skill again, hoping to cycle through to Astral Gate so I can get myself a portal in one of my cities to Myrror instead of manually planeshifting over stacks.

Really annoying to not have any engineers too.

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13rd for Jadwiga

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Freya attacked Rjaks old fortress, most of jafars defenders died.
Then demons and undead from the nearby ancient temple razed it.

25000 high elves gone.

>>163940009
For fuck's sake, I'm surprised it took me getting to the industrial age for this to happen. How is it possible to fuck up that royally and has firaxis acknowledged that the bug exists?

is that new master of orion meme any good

>>163944653
>made by warjewing
no

>>163939918
http://bboy360.com/Default.aspx

I want to d i e

>>163944813
arent they just a publisher for it

>>163944653
It's alright. Nothing particularly special apart from it's looks and voice acting. The major gripes I have with it are that there aren't any real differences between factions aside from looks and statistical differences. Some truly unique differences between factions would be nice but given how they're trying to avoid making things too different from MoO2 to avoid connotations with MoO3 that's understandable.

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Halp

Will Paradox ever implement a reform mechanic in Stellaris that allows you to gradually centralize all nations of a federation with you as a leader a la the HRE in EU4?

>>163945727
Yeah, and for some reason you're willing to pay $20 for that DLC instead of just getting the mod that does it for free.

>>163945597
increase your research by 800

>>163946409
I'm more worried about that FE if you can see it

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Superweapon General gets a new Power plant that has the same cost as the regular Power plant but only gives 3 instead of 5 power

>>163947656
So what's the point, lower build time?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-galactic-battlegrounds-expanding-fronts

Well, what do you know.
Apparently, you can have a star destroyer in Galactic Battlegrounds.

>>163948000
Less build time, less space, will give more energy with global upgrade from Strategy Center later on.

Is Pandora: First Contact actually worth buying?

Or the game is still "hardcore" aka "dont expect to win your first 10 games until you learn the meta" with overagressive AI?

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Got myself a nature spellbook in a nature node, so now I can trade nature spells with Raven.
Got Change Terrain and Transmute for True Sight and Unicorns.

I have some Silver I can transmute into Mithril, and a lot of mountains and desert I change into grassland.

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>>163948000
this
>>163948695

+ one of your units gets a power boost when near

>>163953453
Funny. It's the opposite of the tesla trooper.

>>163949107

Nobody played it?

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>>163953767
Yeah but it is fairly fragile and the weapon upgrade drains 1 additional power per tank

>>163954157
That's the strangest design I have seen. It looks like the techno dome from the ninja turtles.

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The shield sound effect is the cruise speed charge up sound from Freelancer
interesting choice

>>163954456
Reminds me of a Necron Monolith

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

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Jedis are so fun to use in that game.

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What negative traits are not worth the trouble in Stellaris?

>>163958561
I need to get around to checking out that mod. It sounds pretty fucking ebin.

>>163958561
I feel midly annoyed that people trying such shit mods are more skilled than me.

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>>163958561
oH, ARE WE POSTING OUR MOST AUTISTIC MODS NOW?
UNACCEPTABLE!

>>163958695
>are more skilled than me.
Why would you think that?

>>163958817
It amuses me that the second response remains unchanged.

>>163958519
Repugnant.

Picked it for my first game thinking it was a free pick, but now I wouldn't start without charismatic if I min/max

>>163958817
I need that "What the fuck did you just said to me" mod.

>>163952163
I usually took 1 spell book in everything (except death) just so I could trade spells and hoard them.

>>163960621
Sounds to me you have hoarding issues.
Wanna talk about it?

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>>163960759
I don't have a problem, I can stop collecting spells any time I want.

>>163961341
Reminds me of Dark Souls. I think I have literally every weapon ever in that game.

Skyrim was ever worse.

>>163960621
I have 12 spellbooks in total now and can only get one more.
Will probably go for sorcery nodes in the hopes of getting a sorc tome.

+1 Life Tome: life discounts
+1 Nature Tome: Rare nature spells like Gaias Blessing
+1 Sorcery Tome: true dispel, disjunction and disenchant, spell blast, a bunch of buffs
+1 chaos tome: raise volcano, warp wood I guess

Not a lot of chaos tomes among the other wizards so might not be much I could trade.

>>163962736

you are making me want to play Popolous with all this spell talking

nuking savages with volcano spell was very fun

You guys know of any good mod collections for Stellaris?
I'm using AlphaMod + Stellar Expansion + http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=687807002
But I've no fucking clue if anything is compatible.

How am I supposed to upgrade system level in Endless space 2? I have the technology researched but I can't find anyway to improve anything else.

>>163965351
System level is tied to luxury resources now I believe.

>>163967405
So it depends on the number of luxury resources I have available in that system or my overall access?

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>>163967652
I have no fucking clue about the details, I'm just parroting what someone else said a thread or two ago.
Sorry anon.

>>163967858
All good anon, found it through googling.

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The AI is still weak to early rush.
Here, my imperial troopers easily dispose of the Consortium's untrained recruits.

The Consortium comes from Empire at War, but wasn't in Battlegrounds.

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Supported by two medics and a scout probe, my troopers slaughtered the Consortium's thugs without a single loss. On that day, they made Lord Vader proud.

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Some icons are fucked up with shitty gif colours (especially the boats, they have a weird magenta background), but at least they fixed the Siths. Now they have red lightsaber instead of the blue one they had in the vanilla game.

>>163968431
>Those sprites
Why does it look so much worse than the game it's based on?

>>163969067
>licensed game

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Any idea why I can't put a Bath on the hill here?

>>163945597
christ anon get your research up and build spaceports everywhere to get your fleet capacity up

>>163962736
raise volcano (chaos) + change terrain (nature) allows you to terraform squares into anything you want (grasslands, forests and hills). I made sure every city had at least one hill for miner's guild and one forest for forester's guild. Can turn useless tundra into grasslands/forest/hill by casting volcano on it, then change terrain twice.

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However, I'm not sure I'm fond of the "everything deals more damage" approach. It makes battles more intense, but it gives you less room to fuck up.

Here, a sith knight is destroying an expensive power core. I don't think they deal that much damage.

>>163969067
Because I'm playing with a 16/9 monitor and the screen are saved in a different resolution, crushing them horizontally.

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New graphism for the shield generator.
For a moment, I was worried it would work like Supreme Commander's, but it works like usual.

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I don't know if that transport mech was in the expansion, but I know it wasn't in the vanilla game.

It doesn't hold a lot of people, but it's pretty tanky.

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And here is the spookiest of all.
Masters Siths (who are regenerating, can oneshot troopers, and takes next to no damage from everything) can get area of damage attacks if you're playing as the Galactic Empire.

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I'm not going to comment that picture.
You'll find out where the problem is by yourself.

>>163971556
I like how comfy that screen looks.

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>>163971792
>TIE Defender

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>>163972167
Wrong. It's the Fast Fighter and Interceptor.
Same unit, different cost and stats.

And here's the last picture. A small infantry platoon, with an AT-AT and a Master Sith. The game also has grenadiers, but for some reason, they're only useful against shields and mecha, not against infantry or buildings.

Carrie Fisher's mom just died.
F

>>163975397
Singing in the rain

>>163975397
Too many people are dying recently. I don't have enough tears for everyone.

>>163975819
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHO18vFc8o

How do i fix aurora ui glitches? i have installled everything they said to install but it isn't working correctly

>people keep sucking EL's dick and saying it's the best fantasy 4X ever
>buy it and play the tutorial
>don't like the tutorial faction so I start up a new game
>none of the faction descriptions interest me at all
Please tell me they are actually more interesting then the bland descriptions make them sound. Please tell me I didn't waste my money on this game and EL's writers just can't write good exposition to save their lives.

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Had a bug where none of the stars appeared in MoM, so I had to reinstall.

>>163945597
>2433
>this research
>this min prod
>this fleet cap
>not even full
>ENERGY STILL IN MINUS SOMEHOW
HOW DO YOU EVEN MANAGE TO DO THAT???!!??!

>>163980038
He's actually an AI designed by Paradox that's figured out how to post on 4chan

Post Distant Worlds star maps I'm at work till 2am and I need to sate my autism. I need maps, bonus points for political situation summaries.

>>163980393
If what you say is true why hasn't he declared war on everyone next to him for no reason?

>>163981896
He hasn't figured out the report function yet

>>163979104
I personally like the game, but if you're not interested in what the game has to offer maybe its just not your game?
Just because a lot of people love a game doesn't make it for everyone.
What did you play before that makes EL's factions look bland, I'm genuinely curious.

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>>163982691
This came right after


Apparently t

>>163979104
Nah you are just a contrarian killjoy it's a mental problem

>>163982871
>>163982691
Went past the "player has too many cities" trigger?

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Apparently they hate me now.
I wonder if it was because I claimed my first node.

Raven and Ariel both have nature and will probably use cracks call on my heroes, eventually it'll hit and they'll be dead permanently, except for Sir Smashy since I can just summon the next incarnation of him.

Not worried about the war around my arcanian cities. I'll suffer some losses to spells, but I've got loads of elite elven lords, longbowmen, pegasai and magicians.

The issue is that my myrran cities are spread over islands and I don't have much of a navy yet.
I have an astral gate for one of the islands.

A bit worried about facing very powerful fantastic creatures. Freyas summoned Great Wyrms before. I think Raven has Colossus.

I hope Jafar doesn't jump in since he's got a lot of dwarven armies near my myrran cities and he's been summoning Sky Drakes.

>>163983692
Is it at 14?

>>163982837
I don't know how to describe my disappointment except that it doesn't feel like a fantasy game. Definitely the faction I was playing in the tutorial did not feel like it belonged in a fantasy setting. I actually forgot it was supposed to be a fantasy game while playing the tutorial and thought it was sci-fi. I can't really say why the aesthetic fails to convey a fantasy atmosphere except that it just does. I didn't have this problem with Age of Wonder III (though AoW had many other issues it still felt like a fantasy game).

And so I thought maybe it was just the faction I was playing, so I tried reading up on the others but I just didn't feel anything from any of them that made me interested in their culture or playing as them.

>>163982930
Fuck you, I went into it expecting it to be good because I love fantasy games. It just disappointed me in a way I was not expecting for a game with so much love.

>>163984164
>forgot it was supposed to be a fantasy game while playing the tutorial and thought it was sci-fi
That's because it is. EL is both a fantasy game and a Sci-fi game. If you don't like Sci-fi EL is probably not for you, because while it certainly conveys fantasy in a certain sense that fantasy is based off of sci-fi.

>>163938812
Bump.

How are the Civ 6 scenarios?

>>163938812
The scenarios add new city states and natural wonders to the game. I only played the viking scenario and it was okay at the start but about 30 turns in on deity I had double everyone else's score and basically just hit next turn for the next 70 turns.

>>163984969

Looks great at first glance, terrible when you actually play. Much like Civ VI.

>>163985774
Scramble For Africa and Into The Renaissance were actually good Civ V scenarios though.

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Seems like Freya likes buffing up her turtles with Ironskin rather than cracking my heroes.
Mostly at least, one fight ended with her attempting to use Cracks Call on something.

Now that the dust has settled, what do we think about Civ VI?

>>163987980
it's fantastic, absolutely perfect in every respect. I can't get enough of it!

>>163988128
Spotted the redditor

I have $2.03 left from my Steam gift cards. What should I buy?

>>163988463
a gun to shoot yourself

>>163977039
help

>>163988716
Want to know how I know you aren't an American?

>(Denounces you)
>(They are afraid of you)

Yeah good AI right there

>>163988934
Because he guns are illegal in his country and therefore he doesn't see gun advertisements every Sunday, so he doesn't realize how expensive guns are?

>>163988463
100% orange juice

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>>163989547
BINGO

>>163989671
kripp staph

>>163989671
with some pulp

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I didn't think Shuri and that town was gonna make it, but turns out Invulnerability is pretty good.

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Ravens cap didn't have enough defender.
The Swordsman is a great hero, but with enough arrows he went down.

Combat began with one unit of pegasai getting doom bolted out of existence.
Halfway through Raven flamestriked all of my units. It's an aoe combat spell that targets every figure in every unit. Pegasai are only 2 figures and have enough hp to survive it though.

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>>163984127
Depends on the size of your world and the difficulty. But large/impossible is 13.

>>163992861
Impossible, and I think I went with medium sized.

>>163993060
Medium impossible is 9/12/15, you have more than 9 cities so the AIs rolled a d4 and got a 1 and decided that they disliked you more. Since you have 12+ cities the penalty was -5 to your diplomacy score.

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I'm not sure if that is idiotic or actually super useful.

i still don't get how i'm supposed to play sowers
food maluses plus everything scaling with population and it limiting growth
i guess i just accept the food malus, spend the extra industry on shit to counteract that, and go from there?

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>>163993437
cool

I was under 9 for a very long time, so makes sense that we had such a long peace.
3 lawful personalities left as well.

Only got to fit 5 cities into arcanus, then I conquered 1 in myrror, settled another in myrror on the same island, then another one on another island.
Then at 8 cities suppress magic went up and I didn't want to settle more cities since I'm at 75% tax and need to be able to cast stream of life on my new cities.
So stayed at exactly 8 for quite a while.

>>163994005
I'd argue that it'd be better if each empire individually decided if the player (or any faction) had built too large and became a threat. But then the game is 25 years old now and I doubt they'd release an update.

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You move faster over roads in combat as well.

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Lost 2-3 elven lords to Cracks Call. The other elven lords died to Call Lightning and Icebolts.

>>163996252
good, fuck elves

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>>163997494
but elves are based anon

So Civ VI needs 2 years of patches and 2 expansions for it to have a chance to be playable (if it happens).
Stellaris needs a ton of DLC's or 1 good expansion most likely to increase its replayability.
Endless Space 2 needs 4 more months of updates before it is released.
SotS 1 and 2 is somewhat simple games outside of combat compared to the rest.
Nobody plays GalCiv III and Star Ruler 2 online.

Is Endless Legend and Civ IV/V the only things we got that are above sub-par for the other games to get their shit together?

>>163997917
Elves are just of cowards and fuccbois.

Humanity is the only true brave race.
Even the Warhammer lore, LotR lore, Warcraft lore etc... All kinds of lore.

Elves are only able to fight if humanity is going ahead as a good example.

Fuck I hate elves. Nothing good about them. Snobby, arrogant, elitist, tasteless, plain and boring cowards that cant even take a slap to the face without feeling offended.

>>163998964
>that cant even take a slap to the face without feeling aroused

>>163995497
>You move faster over roads in combat as well.
It's the little touches like that which made it a classic.

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>>163997494
>>163998964
>good, fuck elves
no u

>1900 AD
>Egypt has researched Iron Working!
how the fuck does this even happen

>>163999757
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjHclWPVij0

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Anyone have some pointers about research in Distant Worlds?
My understanding is that capacity is basically equivalent to facilities, but I'm unclear as to what the exact nature of the Actual Output. I'm fairly certain that its the actual research output of the empire, and if so, what steps can be made to increase the actual output to the research cap?

>>163999757
>subhumans
is that elf talking to mexicans or niggers or something? Is it implying that elves are human? And that all other humans are therefore inferior.
Stupid meme anime image.

I agree with anon; elves are fucking gay. Not as gay as dwarves but still.

>>164000725
> Is it implying that elves are human?
Translation error? I'm imagining something similar what with how humans in LotR are more often than not referred to as 'Men.' The term does not refer to only males, but the domains and beings of the 'race of Men.'
I'd imaging that getting that point across when attempting to translate could prove difficult.
Long story short, are you gonna fuck that elf or you gonnna let me have a go?

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>>164001394
Sylvanas is the only elf for me
maybe a harem of qt blood elves too

>In Stellaris 1.5 'Banks' you will be able to toggle sector display on the galaxy map.
>yay
>christmas has come early
>very nice
>yipppiiieeeeeeeeeeeee
> Ha ! I made a thread about this yesterday and now my wish is fulfilled ! Nice !

paradox forums are cancer. I wish paradox would lurk /civ4xg/ and learn what's actually wrong with their game

>>164001851
I recall somebody in these threads complaining about how ugly sector display on the map was. That was like a week after the game came out though, so good job getting right on that issue Paradox.

>>164002837
those wyrms look scarier than the nightmares

>>164003753
yep
nightmares are just dark elves riding on flying horses.

Great Wyrms can't attack fliers, but I attacked a neutral great wyrm earlier in the game with a full stack of pegasai(high elves with bows on pegasus) and they ran out of arrows when the great wyrm had like 4 hp left.

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>>163981494
Quick fix.

>>164005205
RIP in pepperoni.

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>Superweapon gen gets Sam Fisher as Burton replacement
>he has an ion Cannon Beacon
Fantastic

>>164005205
It was a peace and friendship earthquake. Freya is just trying to make more room for freedom.

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Let's try this again.
Why can't I plant a national park right above the mountain? All 4 tiles are charming and breathtaking, all 4 are within the city borders, mountains can be used for national parks, there are no districts or improvements in the way. It allows one tile below for some reason, but does not allow the tile where the naturalist is standing on.

>>164010898
Because the devs are lazy bags of shit.

>>164011194
You mean it's a bug or a new criteria that wasn't explained in civilopedia?

>>163939428
Which achivement?

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>>163998192
I don´t know man.
I think EL is objectivley a good game but I somehow, am not really getting into it. Gonna give it a couple of games over the next days.
Factions/setting music are top tier.

I really like most of the stuff (besides the subpar combat and the load/turntimes)

>>164012509
Same here. I try to like EL, but I find it boring, gameplay wise.

>>164013603
Elves being able to build a miner's guild will continue to be wrong like Dwarves building a forester's guild.

>>164013603
>almost no walls
Huh?

>>164013803
I have trouble imagining elves doing any kind of menial labour at all.

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Eh whatever, I'll ask here too I guess.

Anyone knows where is the AI accord event file? I wanna check out the MTTH and parameters.

My empire's 60ish% robotic and it hasn't fired for a good 2-3 decades now even though bots have citizen rights and leadership positions and I am getting anxious.

>>164013923
Most of those cities are fairly new, haven't been able to get that many troops to them until very recently.

>>164010898
>mountains can be used for national parks
how sure are you on that?

Recommendations in how to play stellaris in general?

The thing that turns me off completely is the retarded ai and the retarded sector system, it would be good if the ai would invest the resources they have, but instead they don't

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3 cracks call hit in a row.
Last elven lord made it inside the walls buffed with invulnerability and killed the rest of the gnolls though.

>>164014756
Colonize up to your core limit.
Once you're done building on a planet put it in a sector that you tax as much as possible, also disallow it to change your shit.

Preferably the planet has a singular focus like Research, Energy, Minerals, so you can add more planets of the same type to that sector.

>>164014791
>you are triumphant
>you lost 3 fame

>>164014929
I lost fame because I razed the city.
If I had just kept the city I would've gained fame.

>>164014124
Anyone?

>>164014896
Okay, should I increase the core limit with a mod?
Another question about growing a fleet, is there any base in how many coverttes, cruisers etc should I have? And how do you maintain large fleet? in my first game the moment my fleet left the planet, I would be in red energy

Does anyone else think that AI murderblobs are the biggest problem to Stellaris?

So far most, if not all, of my wars have been "Find enemy blob, stack.Wipe(), go eat planets"

>>164015120
>Okay, should I increase the core limit with a mod?

I always do unless I wanna play ironman for achievements.

Sectors are a nice idea but shit in practice and a chore.

>Another question about growing a fleet, is there any base in how many coverttes, cruisers etc should I have?

Depends on what weapons you have available and what you are fighting. You can research all weapon paths (unlike with FTL travel where you are stuck with 1) but don't bother with rockets as they are useless right now. Get the lasers and kinetic weapons.

>And how do you maintain large fleet? in my first game the moment my fleet left the planet, I would be in red energy

Going red isn't a big deal if you have a long term plan.

Once you build up all your mining stations and start conquering, energy won't be a problem at all. Energy is a problem only for tall empires and new empires.

>>164015317
The problem is that there is no "fronts" in the war like with eu4 and the warscore/war declaration system is utterly fucking broken.

Planet warscore requirement scaling with empire size is fucking idiotic, the "war timer" means you always go to 100% warscore etc

It's broken all around.

>>164015045
Can't you raze the city after?

>>164015317
Stellaris has so many problems I can't decide which one is the worst.

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>>164015120
>should I increase the core limit with a mod?
No you shouldn't cheat to make the game easier for you.
There's Adm efficiency repeatable tech that you can research if you find it useful to build on more planets yourself at the same time.

You get the full research from sectors, but only up to 75% energy and minerals, so if there's a question of putting a research world or an energy world into the sector, go with the research world.

>in my first game the moment my fleet left the planet, I would be in red energy
If you have leader slots to spare you can get admirals that decrease the energy upkeep.
Otherwise build more energy planets.

Have a dedicated race for energy.
If you have a Thrifty race in your empire add Communal or Conformist to them.

Ideally you want an earthbound species to uplift.

>>164015425
>Can't you raze the city after?
There's no raze button.
I could force buy settlers until it is gone.

I could also force a draw and camp flying troops withini the city limits, then conquer the city after that and raze it so I lose less fame.
Each turn an enemy of the city ends its turn inside the city area in the tactical combat screen, the city takes damage, which results in buildings getting destroyed and pops dying.

I don't mind losing fame though.

>>164015492
>+80% research
holy fucking shit Matteo calm down you're making us all look bad

>>164015492
I don't like when the technology are just "+5% to this" or "+1 that".

>>164015637
But isn't fame pretty important?

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>>164015781
Not that hard senpai. Here, 80 years earlier.

>>164015851
Eh, +5% this or +1 that are usually the best techs doe.

>>164015856
wtf how? Even my level 5 scientists rarely get above 40%

>>164015925
But they're boring as fuck.

It's like that game I played a moment ago, Omerta. When a character levels up, he can pick a new skill. Except that all skills are +1 to something. Compared to XCOM, it's boring, bland, uninspiring, and not good.

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>>164016020
Here is the breakdown.

Science institute is the special building materialists get.

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>>164015851
>But isn't fame pretty important?
Not really.

Fame decreases upkeep.
50 fame, 50 less upkeep, but I have an insane gold income anyway.

Not really interested in mercs(unless they're engineers).
Heroes I can just summon. Not that they're key to my strategy and if Freya is just lucky she can oneshot them and I can't resurrect them.
More item offers would be nice, but I don't really rely on heroes anyway.

>>164016226
>still has Kazuhira Miller
10/10

>>164016170
Scientist Po-To?

>>164016314
The scientist's name.

Synths get the primary species' names.

>>164016170
ah, free thought (because fuck ethics divergence) and research grants I don't usually use

>>164016353
His name is Bo-Ki not Po-To though.

His expertise is listed under particles, 10%, and the % from his level under skill, 6%.

>>164016367
Free thought is actually really good if you plan for it.

I have frontier commisars, mind control lazers and ministry of benevolence. That's like -80 ED. It's practically impossible to get any even with free thought on.

Grants are good if you wanna get a specific tech (in this case, I am fishing for the jump drive)

>>164016424
Oh right, you are correct.

Bo-ki is my leader. His agenda is scientific leap that gives 10% research speed. It's why I like oligarchies for tech.

>>164016481
Yeah I sometimes use grants for researching colony ships first off and maybe something that will take a long time. And yeah I wouldn't use freethought until I at least get mind control lasers. Last few games I've got them quite late though and it's been a pain.

>>163946409
>>163969742
>>163980038
>>163980393
>>163981896
>>163982004

I fucked up the sectors. I set everything to minerals and energy and didn't do anything to deal with the factions.

Effectively I had something like 1/3rd of everything for a good portion of the game.

>>164016554
Ah Agenda.

I was thinking maybe leader trait, but I hadn't seen one that gave research speech. Haven't played since 1.2.

>its another episode of "both survey ships with 0 fuel spending 8 months near Pluto while waiting for tanker being build"

So, no one here knows where the AI accord event files are at? Or if there is something I can do to help the trigger?

Damn thing still hasn't fired. I am not expanding and purging all my human pops till it does.

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I failed to disenchant it and now I'm out of casting skill.

Got one of the wyrms down, but my remaining pegasai are out of arrows and getting pelted with lightning bolt every turn.

>>164016795
Nope, sorry.

>>164016795
use something like astrogrep and search for keywords in the folders.

Is it me or is Jadwiga with Reliquaries bugged?

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Jafar wants to fight

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Why is this game so good.

>>164017280
Because it tries new things, but unlike AI War and the Star Ruler games, it manages to make them fun.

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Freyas orcs are advanced enough to get magical weapons unlike her gnolls and lizardmen, so invulnerability isn't quite as good here.

>>164000725
She is talking to Slavs.
>Slavs
>not subhuman

>>164014643
I've done it before in my game as Gilgamesh. And it says so in the Civilopedia too.

>>164010898
Try building something in the lower tiles, see if the highlights change, and build forests to maximize the appeal too.

>>164010898
Naturalists try to make parks with itself in the lower tile position but they can make it in the left and right direction. Have you tried making one on the tile below that mountain? What if you improve that marble? Those highlighted tile despite being in the shape on a park should just highlight which tiles your naturalist can stand on to make one, idk.

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>be relaxing in my empire just researching and chill
>suddenly fanatical purifiers declare war on me
>defend myself and protect my galaxy by wiping them out
>somehow I'M the bad guy

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>>164022372
>>164023092
I built a quarry on the marble and the issue got fixed. I suppose the game couldn't calculate the fact that available national park spots might be overlapping. What a retarded fucking bug. Thanks for the help guys.

Ironically, it took like 6 turns for the builder to come and build the quarry, and between those turns the game ended in culture victory, rendering the whole thing pointless.

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>>164000721
It's complicated....
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2988238
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3170698

Your maximum possible output is capped by how many facilities you've built.
But as far as I can tell, the actual output is based on your population and planet development.
So more pop = more science.

Other than that, the only advice I can offer is the reduce the amount of labs on all your designs to lower maint. costs.
And to 'generalise' your science outposts so, a) your balance of science output is more even, and b) so any scientists assigned there can give bonuses to more than one field of research.
I usually have my ports set up with 1, 2, 3 labs each for Sml, Med, Lrg
And science stations each have 2, 1, 1 where the 2 is the primary type

>>164017280
Because you can blow stuff up. Even planets if they offend you.

>>164015317
>Does anyone else think that AI murderblobs are the biggest problem to Stellaris?
Stellaris has a lot of problems, but if you let a no-Fallen AI to bash you in you are doing it wrong. If you are doing it right, you should perpetually outproduce and de facto (the contacts screen's estimates are pure bull) outfleet all the non-Fallen AIs.

>>164024227
Purge triggers AI real bad and for a long time. ATM, it's only worth using if you are consciously going for a genocidal blobbing.

>>164025487
>old
>kamikaze
>experienced
...

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>>164025583
Doesnt make sense I know
but makes a really big boom if it can actually detonate

>>164025843
I don't know much about kamikazes, but I think that an old kamikaze is a shitty kamikaze.

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>>164026027
Maybe it implies that they did other deeds that have been suicidal (like storming a police station alone or sneaking in a heavily defended base and blowing shit up)?

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>>164026228
>>164026027
>>164025843
>>164025583

>>164016956
What do you think is bugged?

>>164026228
>giant missile
>call it "dong"
Hauehueheauheuaheau

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>>164026468
I´m german
The word "joke" doesnt exist in our dictionaries

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Top three reasons why Stellaris is so shit :

1. SECTORS SYSTEM !
2. Random tech tree ( and not the good kind of random like Uncreatives in MoO2 or Sword of the Stars 2 )
3. Shit combat system that basically boils to "make a huge fuck off stack, rmb on the enemy, pray"


Just some facts.

>>164027121
To be honest, Europa Universalis 4 and Crusader Kings 2 also had some bad stacks, but it was countered by the geography and the army composition playing a huge role, on top of all the other bonuses (discipline, support, military tradition, war weariness).

Stellaris forgets so many mechanism in its attempt to be simpler that it's too shallow.

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>>163956085
The infantry in that game always annoyed me a little.

>trade federation doesn't get droid assistants
>an upgrade that increases trooper production speed
>confederacy, wookies, rebels and gungans have the best infantry because of civ specific upgrades
>empire and republic the factions noted for their elite guys get zero upgrades
>republic just get three different upgrades that boost trooper production
>out producing the trade federation who still don't even get droid assistants

Hell I understand why the wookies and confederacy get their upgrades, wookies being tough and the other guys having super battle droids, but why did gungans need +1 range? They're the one team who trades blasters in for slings, and why do rebels get super stronk armour that just buffs their health up to wookie and super battle droid level?

I know it's for balance reasons, but some of the design decisions just seem weird. I get why the empire doesn't get to have nice things when they already have strong sith and the single most powerful advanced heavy mechs in the game.

>hey guys
>lets take the single strongest unit with the most health, amour, shield and damage whose only drawback is minimum range
>remove the minimum range and also make it shoot down aircraft

>>164026653
relics yield 4 faith instead of 14/18

>>164026807
A German guy on /int/ once told a funny joke. I don't think he got it himself though.

>>164027121
>SECTORS SYSTEM !
AI just sucks, the system itself is absolutely great for dealing with asston of micro in lategame. Just order the key structures before giving newly colonized/conquered worlds to a sector.

>Random tech tree
It's great as it requires you to manage researchers and appreciate debris analysis and makes you compromise constantly in your planning. Plus scientific focus can now be more pronounced as additional research alternatives are even more important than plain research bonuses.

>Shit combat system
Absolutely no defense here. They should start from a fucking scratch there.

Anyhow, I'm enjoying it a lot.

>>164027567
>why do rebels get super stronk armour that just buffs their health up to wookie and super battle droid level?
In universe, the Alliance care more about their soldiers than the Empire. Not that armour do anything in Star Wars, if you look closely, they don't offer any protection, and are just here to protect from the environement, be intimidating, or allow communication. They don't actually protect the person wearing it.

The part that pisses me off (I also know it's for balance reason, but come on) is how the trade federation needs food despite being 99% droids.

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>>164027776
>In universe, the Alliance care more about their soldiers than the Empire.
And that is why Empire has heavily armoured troops and Rebels have guys in leather jackets ...

>>164027686
>AI just sucks, the system itself is absolutely great for dealing with asston of micro in lategame. Just order the key structures before giving newly colonized/conquered worlds to a sector.
No its a shit system that forces you to surrender control over 90% of your empire to shit AI.
It would be better to have typical plnetary"governor" option with various profiles and shit.

>>164027686
>It's great as it requires you to manage researchers and appreciate debris analysis and makes you compromise constantly in your planning. Plus scientific focus can now be more pronounced as additional research alternatives are even more important than plain research bonuses.
No its not because it another place where your success relies entirely on RNG god. I heard hundreds of people complaining about how they lost a campaing or fallen behind because RNG fucked them over and haven't let them research tier two engines or reactors in 50 years.

>>164027776
I'm not too bothered by the food thing, since they don't need houses. Also on the uselessness of stormtrooper amour, I have the theory that while the casualty rate on stormies is high, their mortality is comparatively low. Why they still scream when falling to pits in the death star after getting shot, or why that Jedi guy in rogue one still had to beat a trooper over the head who had been shot multiple times, and he still made a pained groan when beaten over the head.

>>164028120
>No its a shit system
Great argument there.

>No its not because it another place where your success relies entirely on RNG god. I heard hundreds of people complaining about how they lost a campaing or fallen behind because RNG fucked them over and haven't let them research tier two engines or reactors in 50 years.
Gid gud scrubs. the last time I haven't got to Zero Point by year 80 was probably like... in 1.2

Spoiler warning:
RESEARCHER EXPERTISE
DEBRIS
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ALTERNATIVES

>>164028263
That makes sense, I guess. The ewok thing really bothered me when I grew up and started to wonder how trained men can't do anything against teddy bears.

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>>164028297
>Great argument there.
Did you missed the rest of the text there ?

>Gid gud scrubs. the last time I haven't got to Zero Point by year 80 was probably like... in 1.2
>Spoiler warning:
>RESEARCHER EXPERTISE
>DEBRIS
>ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ALTERNATIVES

No its not a bad system that relies too heavily on RNG guys, just do this all extra effort to sidestep or minimalize those basic flaws of the game designs.

Spoiler warning : Randomness dont work in strategy games.

>>164028484
>stone arrows penetrating the few actually armoured parts of the scout trooper armour

I just like to imagine that there were just that many ewoks, there didn't seem to be that many imperials either, so a forest swarming with ewoks and a group of the rebel alliance's most crack mofos was too much.

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>>164027676
I´ve seen german humor too, but that was more a sick burn than an actual joke
pic related on one of such instances, on the right side was the attempt of some left wing media shitting on the AFD, but they retorted with the picture on the left

Anybody here still play Sins of a Solar Empire? Is there any mods you guys recommend?

>>164028524
>Did you missed the rest of the text there ?
Your whole argument is that it's bad because you have to give the planetary micro to AI. I say that it is GOOD because you give the planetary micro to AI.

>No its not a bad system that relies too heavily on RNG guys, just do this all extra effort to sidestep or minimalize those basic flaws of the game designs.
It's not a flaw you scrub. It's an obstacle, same one for you and for your opponents, to make the research less of a plain railway to victory. In game you have specific TOOLS to overcome said obstacle that are very much in YOUR TOTAL CONTROL. If you actually bother to use that moldy from 100000000 germanyblobbings brain of yours, you can easily overcome the randomness with the specific items I named. It's not the RNJesus unfairly raping your ass - you are just bad at the game.

>>164028964
>Anybody here still play Sins of a Solar Empire
Yes.

> Is there any mods you guys recommend?
Not really.

>>164015492
>No you shouldn't cheat to make the game easier for you.
Isn't sector AI fucking retarded and broken? Or did they fix it?
And more micromanagement is hardly making the game easier
If anything its a quality of life change.

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>>164028964
>>164029085
>Not really.

>Is there any mods you guys recommend?
Sins of the Prophets hand fucking down.

Even a HALO hater like me has to admit its one hell of mod.

>>164028997
>Your whole argument is that it's bad because you have to give the planetary micro to AI. I say that it is GOOD because you give the planetary micro to AI.
No, it gives CONTROL over most of your empire to the AI and its fucking MANDATORY. Thats what i object in any game.
Haven't they learned anything from MoO3 epic burn ?

>>164028120
>>164028997
You don't even have to give anything to the AI - with Irenic Protectorate government and Administrative Efficiency tech, your core sector limit goes to whooping 16 systems, with as many planets in each as you can colonize (with Super-adaptive species trait and Habit. techs, it's literally every single colonizable one). Way over enough to get any victory, including Dominance since your vassals also count towards that.

>>164029085
>>164029260
Alright I'll check the Halo mod out. How about the star trek and star wars mod are they any good?

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>>164029337
>with this ultra specific build you can get a whooping 16 planets
>out of galaxy of 1000 stars ( and even more with mods )

Wow lad, i totally change my position ..

BTW : i dont give a flying fuck about that, I WANT CONTROL OF MY PLANETS, i dont care if i have two or two hundreds.

>>164029260
>its fucking MANDATORY
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>>164029337
Confirmed for total scrub

>>164029182
>Isn't sector AI fucking retarded and broken? Or did they fix it?
It's not broken/ It's just slow and forgets to build specific little shit that you would very much like to build - like ethos specific buildings

>>164029540
>with this ultra specific build you can get a whooping 16 planets
SYSTEMS you literal retard multiple planets in one system do not count towards the limit. Did you even play the game aside from on YouTube?

>i dont give a flying fuck about that, I WANT CONTROL OF MY PLANETS
Your autism is your problem. The sectors are fine.

>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.
No.

>>164029543
>You need specific tech for a specific government type to actually be able to manage your planets otherwise you have to give your planets to a garbage AI
>t-that means its ok to be mandatory on literally every single other government type!!!!!!

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.
You can't be serious.

Is the pastebin for Stellaris mods up to date? Does it even make sense to have 2 mods in there?

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>>164029543
>Confirmed for total scrub

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>>164029540


Confirmed for retard.

Again : Sector mechanics should be OPTIONAL.
You dont want to fuck around with dozens of planets ? Fine, switch on AI.
You like micro - here have micro till your eyes bleed.

I dont know how they could fuck things up that bad with Stellaris having such a pinnacle of automation as DW.

>>164029706
>SYSTEMS you literal retard multiple planets in one system do not count towards the limit.

Again - i dont give a fuck. It could be systems, it could be planets - same shit. ITS MANDATORY on everything else than some specific builds - ergo its shit.
And i did played Stellaris but literally the first thing i modded was the sector cap for every government type set to 9999. But then i realized that whole game is tailored to this garbage game mechanic and i just stopped playing that shitty game.

>The sectors are fine.
No they are not.

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.
You can't be serious.

>>164029996
>I dont know how they could fuck things up that bad with Stellaris having such a pinnacle of automation as DW.
* as an example.

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>>164029735
You just suck at using them properly due to your impressively limited intelligence and short genitals.

>>164029770
Don't wiggle now - I already caught your "MANDUTORRHY" bullshit. And then, half the remaining government types are tied to ethos's that simply won't allow you to blob that hard beyond the limit, and the other half allows you to overproduce so much that I'm blasting through AIs on Insane despite having over 50 systems in sectors - they give you energy, research, minerals, navy cap and orbital production capacity. I'm not on the spectrum to care meticulously about what AI exactly does to give me those resources - sane people play for strategy, autists play for arranging their power plants in geometrical patterns.

>>164029996
>Again : Sector mechanics should be OPTIONAL.
No. They are specifically a deterrent against overblobbing. You take lots and lots of systems - you pay with unoptimized governing in the shape of AI. You don't blob or use builds that expand your cap - you get optimized worlds as a tradeoff.

>>164030156
So let me get this straight. You're saying because that ONE specific government has the ability to have more than a few core worlds that it entirely justifies sectors being mandatory for every other government?
That's some shit reasoning son.

>>164030401
This is dumb. It forces you to play the way the devs want, rather than allowing you to play as you want.

>>164030401

Too bad there is no cultural, religious, scientific, diplomatic or any kind of victory except blobbing, blobbing with a delay or indirect blobbing with a delay so you have to depend on the stupid AI enslaving natural physicist aliens working in labs.

>>163988910
help again

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>>164030545
>being mandatory for every other government
Fucking again. You DON'T HAVE TO BLOB.For half the builds, 6 systems is way over enough for victory if you don't colonize like a retard. You can easily out-research everyone with 6 systems. You can use vassals for winning wars for you. You can build a federation and pwn everyone with a Federation Fleet, which gets it's navy cap from every member, doesn't cost any maintenance and is built for you toy your designs by other members of your Federation. Sectors are only mandatory for massive paint-spilling - to both tone it's effectiveness (which is still way above everything else) and make it less of a micro-hell.

Do you have ANY effing points beside your mental syndromes being triggered by not being allowed to personally build every single facility on every single planet all the way through when you have literal hundreds of them? Again - reminder that you can outline everything on sector worlds by planting the basic buildings in the queue before you give the planet to AI and forbidding him redevelopment.

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>>164030653
No. You can play a lot of ways. I blob with sectors no problem.

>>164030695
> the stupid AI enslaving natural physicist aliens
You're not even trying now. Picrelated.

>>163977039
>>163988910
>>164031071
Might want to post an image.

>>164030401
>You take lots and lots of systems - you pay with unoptimized governing in the shape of AI.
This is a pretty bad way of simulating corruption or whatever you're trying to represent. There's no real reason you can't strictly contain corruption and incompetence to reasonable levels - with a cost of course, in infrastructure, education, higher salaries, massive checks to competence that also cost money, etc.

>>164031143
>you don't have to blob
It's actually the only way of winning the game as it currently stands, and if you can obliterate everyone else with nothing but your core worlds that points to design problems of its own.

>and make it less of a micro-hell
Ah yes just like HOI4's streamlining
Actual removal of 'micro hell' is like, say, what EU4 did with the building and recruitment widget so you don't have to open the goddamn ledger every time you want shit built and you don't need to seperately click on sixty different counties in Britain to recruit a new army.

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>>164031143
>no guys its not broken, just look at all those ways to sidestep this fundamental game design flaw !!11

Nigguh, again because i see you have trouble with reading comprehension - i dont give a fuck if i can WIN or if i can do A or B or C or D.
I never said that sector mechanics prevents me from winning or makes it difficult or shit like that.

I dont care - i dont want to have 90% of my fucking empire under the control of AI, kapische ?

And fact that im forced to do this for some arbitrary reasons is simply one that makes this game shit in my eyes. Paniał ?

>>164031513
>There's no real reason you can't strictly contain corruption and incompetence to reasonable levels - with a cost of course, in infrastructure, education, higher salaries, massive checks to competence that also cost money
You can mitigate ALL the AI's flaws by simply taking the developed systems from him, redeveloping them as you like, and forbidding redevelopment to AI before giving them back. For a mind-bogging cost of twenty five influence per system.

>It's actually the only way of winning the game as it currently stands
Objectively not true - I won three games against Hard AI using federations.

>that points to design problems of its own
The enemy empire AI is amazingly dumb even for a Paradox game. That IS a fundamental flaw that bothers me a lot right now.

>>164031574
>I dont care - i dont want to have 90% of my fucking empire under the control of AI, kapische
We get it. You're autistic. Stepping on your carefully arranged legos causes you to REEEEEEEE~

In Stellaris, has any of you guys ever researched higher levels of Beltharian Power Plant without being able to research level 1?
This means I can't have the building at all, it's weird as shit, didn't happen in my other games.

>>164032168
The lower level tech should be available to you even after you got the higher ones.

>>164032246
I just wrote this and the option to research it was given to me. Thanks.

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>>164031513
Look at the populated system list.

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>>164032098
>We get it. You're autistic. Stepping on your carefully arranged legos causes you to REEEEEEEE~

Nice strawman you have there you fag.

>having control over your empire is now considered autistic and a bad thing
>meanwhile nth years ago games just had optional automation of certain planets, cities and shit

Fuck off back to paradox plaza you retarded underaged shill.

>>164032413
Dont post Aurora when some fags cant handle Stellaris without a crutch and "i dont want strategy in strategy game" button that is Sector system. You will make them cry.

Is there a mode in Stellaris where you can keep absolute control over all the stars you colonized/conquered without giving you bullshit penalty? If yes I am buying this motherfucking game.

>>164032413
Are you on a laptop, or do you have any remote control software active?

Laptop - Disable your touchscreen.
Remote - Either turn it off, or disable any virtual HID touchscreens & pens it has running.

Worth a try if nothing else.

>>164033028
just a normal pc, windows 10, installed the portable version, i think its the newest?

Is 'Venerable' worth the expense?

It enormously extends your leaders' lifespans.

>>164033094
>windows 10
Ouch.
Maybe that's the cause, I heard horrible things about it.

>>164033094
Windows 10 actively hates fun

>>164033185
you get decent biology research for leaders that includes long living
might as well get something else

>>164033282
>tfw got into windows 10 because F R E E
I regret everything.
Did you know that the windows 10 start menu has a "suggested" app selected from their app store?
Windows 10 is advertising in their fucking start menu.

>>164032869
>Dont post Aurora when some fags cant handle Stellaris without a crutch
Bitch stop making everyone who's not a complete retard look like another brand of retard

>>164032098
>You can mitigate ALL the AI's flaws by simply taking the developed systems from him, redeveloping them as you like, and forbidding redevelopment to AI before giving them back. For a mind-bogging cost of twenty five influence per system.
Sounds rather roundabout and misses the point of the idea of simulating inefficiency. The correct way to do that is to make it expensive or else have the sector governors have varying levels of competence and ability, like in CK2. If there's any sort of difference made in Stellaris it's to small and invisible; in CK2, a Greedy ruler will tend to have massive amounts of cash lying around for no discernable reason while a Genius one will have immense amounts of everything and a Brilliant Strategist will have more and better troops while a Zealous Mastermind Theologian will build temples when it has the spare money. Make it so certain traits make it much more likely to develop certain aspects (iirc already done but not heavily enough) and encourage more interaction with those governors who after all have a legally binding position todo their job and do it well while you're not allowed to relieve them of their job for 'influence'. Make it so a very rich empire which is so inclined might be able to weed out corruption, with authoritarian regimes being better at weeding it out but also faster at generating it. Make democracies for example do shit slowly, parlimentary gridlocks and such, but in exchange they can rule over more land without resorting to governors (who are still there but now have a seat in the Assembly so it's basically direct anyway). Anything but this retarded sector shit we have now.

>objectively not true
Federations are all kinds of fucked right now though and unreliable and at any rate you're still blobbing, just indirectly.

>>164033330
I generally take Nonadaptive and Sedentary so that I have 5 points to spend.

What would you recommend?

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>>164033094
>>164033190
>>164033282
Open the device manager and see if there's anything with "HID compliant" in the description.
If there's any touchscreens or pens, disable them and see if it makes a difference.

>>164033642
i do have a wacom tablet, maybe its the problem?

>>164033692
>>164033642
Yep, i disconnected my wacom tablet and its working perfectly, wtf why just having it on makes that happen?

>>164033874
Congrats. Now go play spessmens.

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.
Just in case you missed the other posts

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.

>>164034127
>>164034287
>>164034521
>samefagging this hard
Oh wow you sure showed him.

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.

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>stellaris on Normal difficulty
>AI empires are too passive, get to the endgame without any difficulty and steamroll the universe
>on Hard, they get cheating resources out the cunthole and will outproduce you no matter how optimal your starting setup is
>no way to win against the circlejerking confederations that end up surrounding you and hating your guts no matter what

I had a great start in a spiral galaxy with only hyperlanes as FTL. Great bottlenecking systems, one side is flanked by a spiritual FE that was leaving me alone.

Suddenly, the FE gets assblasted that I was discriminating against their pilgrims and promptly whoop my ass, taking out half my starports. Then the despotic slaver empire that was heading a huge confederation(???) declares war on me, three of the members all having superior fleet power over me, and start pouring into my fortified systems. Both bottlenecks had four fortresses each, along with my fleets.

Didn't matter, I had built up for the inevitable siege since game start, and they still just poured in endless reinforcements and ground me down as I couldn't reinforce myself because lmao no starports

FUG

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>>164034960
it's just some autistic shitposter, probably posts on /gsg/ too

Is Stellaris at max difficulty a good challenge?
I know the AI is retarded as for every 4x game, but is the artificial difficulty/game conditions enough harsh to still be uncertain if you'll win or not?

>>164034960
It's probably people bandwagoning and memespouting tbqh

>>164032098
ffs stop
At this point you're autistically overreacting to defend a point you cant back down from because of your ego
Not giving the option of automation is a flaw and you know it, worse yet, forcing a flawed option should be outreageous.

>>164035512
Depends on you're start and how well you can play, but yeah. Maybe not in vanilla, but why wouldn't you play with ISB

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>>164029706
>The sectors are fine.

>>164029706
I am fond of sectors

>>164033570
Bump?

>>164035305
>on Hard, they get cheating resources out the cunthole and will outproduce you no matter how optimal your starting setup is
>no way to win against the circlejerking confederations that end up surrounding you and hating your guts no matter what
I got two Domination victories on Insane with FanCollSpir, adaptive and venerable.

I smell blood of casual scum who played Civ V on Prince.

>>164035554
>At this point you're autistically overreacting to defend a point you cant back down from because of your ego
Wait. So there's this guy who posted straight up WRONG info ITT and is still holding his point exclusively on his "REEEEE ME NO LIKE", but I'm the one who's
> autistically overreacting to defend a point you cant back down from because of your ego

Are you not him, by chance?

>>164035512
It is so-so in challenge department. AI actually can totally steamroll you in early game, but if you manage to go beyond that it slowly becomes way too easy again as AI bonuses matter less and less.

Haven't played since 1.2, can i still purge the world and fill it with perfect synths for Yelds minmaxing?
Or have they changed how happiness/tile-yelds/synths work?

>>164036170
>his guy who posted straight up WRONG info ITT

What wrong info ?
Sectors ARE mandatory unless you use very specific build.
They DO take away the control over your planets and they do it in a bad way.
Nothing he posted was wrong.

>>164036170
You use Venerable?

I've been told it's a waste of points.

>>164036547
Sorry, meant Enduring.

>>164033570
Nonadaptive is a BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD trait. Easily one of the worst.

Early game is all about good colonization. With nonadaptive, you just straight up can't use non-green worlds to any positive effect.

Venerable is fancy but not nearly worth 4 points. Enduring is enough.

Adaptive is the best trait ever.

Conformist is a must have if you plan to purgeblob and you're not a collectivist/spiritualist/both.

Agrarian is grabage.

Charismatic is very useful if you sorry sod are planning to exploit diplomacy and federation heavily.

Intelligent , Thrifty and Industrious are all good.

>>164036734
Oh, and Decadent is a free point if you use slavery, which you should. So is Sedentary unless you're purgeblobbing.

>>164036329
>simulating fractures of culture
>not being somewhat clunky
it's pretty decent for what it's trying to achieve

>>164036329
>Sectors ARE mandatory unless you use very specific build.
No. Sectors ARE mandatory FOR very specific build.

>They DO take away the control over your planets and they do it in a bad way
I described at least two ways how you can maintain the control over every single thing in sector development.

You also keep mixing up planets and systems, which shows how little attention you pay to colonization and the mechanics overall.

Someone also claimed that AI can enslave your scientist. While it can't if you prohibit him to enslave.

>Nothing I posted was wrong.
FTFY