/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

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1st for space mining

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2nd is for how the fuck we get greatest Moon in solar system.

>>168803065
Io is better

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Would you?

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>>168803154
Still smaller than your mom.

How far Moon is and how we get through van Allen radiation belts?

>>168803201
Yes look at those fucking hips

>mfw a pre-ftl nukes itself before it starts competing for space against me.

>>168802768
Remove "genocide" from the OP.

>inb4 "Roman empire was fascist" autist derails the thread

>>168804116
But genocide is fun, anon.

Odd. I'm spamming apostles but for some reason they aren't getting promotions anymore. I'm getting the notification that they are ready for a promotion as soon as I buy them with faith but the actual option to promote them isn't there.

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>>168804021

What's the "right price" for stellaris?

Also, can I run it on lowest settings with a laptop Intel HD 5500?

Are battleship carriers a thing?
Should I go full BSG?

>>168804792
The minimum requirement is a GTX 970

>>168805151

I've been playing around with them, they're not bad at all.

>>168805358
Does that mean no?

>>168805842
How do like like playing game in 1:1 time scale?

>>168807069
Sounds immersive!

>>168804792
It should be free.
Heck they should pay for play as you beta testing.

wtf I love autocannons

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>>168802768
So Authoritarian and Egalitarian are replacing Individualist and Collectivist, or are they keeping them?

You can be an authoritarian individualist ("Be individualist/capitalist or else GIT OUT!", supporting an authoritarian state), as well as an authoritarian collectivist (all must join the hivemind!).

Likewise you can be an egalitarian individualist (it's okay if you're different, etc., we support welfare programs, etc but believe in individuality), and an egalitarian collectivist (the collective is better than individualism, we support welfare and free shit, etc,)

The Ix'Idar are made sense as a collectivist hivemind bug race.

>>168808583
Is there any point to using disruptors and lasers?

Seems like the edgy hardcore gaymerz all spam le autocannons and le torpedos.

>>168809793
>Authoritarian and Egalitarian are replacing Individualist and Collectivist
They also add Hive mind or something like that as 9 'ethic'.
Yeah they should keep old and add new but it was triggering swedecucks and lefties for whatever reasons.
>>168810090
Well they are technically better at cutting armor. And have better range I think.

>>168810243
>Yeah they should keep old and add new but it was triggering swedecucks and lefties

Yeah, I checked out a Reddit page about the Egalitarian/Authoritarian change, and half of it was filled with literal Marxists bitching about how "communists don't have slaves!"

They seem to put a lot of emotional investment into their commie shit, without realizing that idealism doesn't determine reality. You can have a collectivist horde that enslaves its own members and other races "for the greater good." For instance, the Ix"Idar. Just because space bugs are ruthless and do mean things, that doesn't mean they aren't collectivist.

Also, on the Swedecuck topic. I'm starting to get pretty annoyed by all of Wiz's (Martin Anward) Trump references in his let's plays. It's obvious he's butthurt about Trump winning.

>>168805358
i run on max with an r9 200

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>>168811052
Yep. He even hide his Make Space Great Again hat when Trump win. His butt still hurting.

Individualist can be pretty oppressive or even pro slavery or genocide. Laws for citizens - hunger or slavery for none.
>>168808583
They are good. Not that good against heavy armored targets but still they have greatest DPS from all small weapons.

>>168811106
At 5fps

>>168811052
>what were Soviet labor camps
I fucking hate Communists and Communist apologists.

Collectivism is also much broader than just Communism.

>>168811052
I'm sure someone will mod the change within hours of the new version coming out.

>>168803065
>greatest moon
>doesn't even have an atmosphere
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>>168811582
>Individualist can be pretty oppressive or even pro slavery or genocide. Laws for citizens - hunger or slavery for none.

I'm an individualist, and I can admit this.

A plutocratic oligarchy, for instance, would be authoritarian/individualist; because individualism is upheld as an ideology, but it is not technically democratic. Hans-Hermann Hoppe is an IRL proponent of this type of ideology.

Likewise, a direct (or indirect) democracy would be individualist/egalitarian; since it allows the low-tier plebs to dictate state policy via voting.

All of this must take more deep thought than the average normie can handle, I suppose.

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>>168809793
They can't accurately represent ideology with three dimensions, let alone one.

I always get the impression from Wiz's comments that he would do things differently if he had designed it or wasn't working for Paradox, but they're stuck with the framework the original developers made.

>>168812143
Hardcore individualists and ancaps tend to believe that not every vote is equal and some individuals should have more weight directed towards their input because they have more worth.

>>168810243
>>168810090

They have shit range
You just mount them on large slots and use something else on the smaller ones
I just got myself a Gamma lazor drop so I will probably add them on small and medium slots instead of railguns

Problem with lazers is not that they are not good its that they need physics research which practically means you need to upgrade your entire fleet trough physics

>>168811686
>>what were Soviet labor camps
Exactly that a labor camps. Reeducation by work. dangerous enemy of the people get executed. BTW:
>what are American Prison–industrial complex?

Its almost the same thing only food and housing is better.

>>168812395
Who decides "the worth" though?

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>>168812980
Money duh

so I'm trying out ballistic weapons and I'm seeing you have a lot of choices here. are there any specific best types or will the auto set up actually be reliable here.

>>168813256
Does it mean if you take the money away forcibly you worth more automatically?

>>168812410
Does anybody use disruptors on corvettes?

It seems like a logical choice, because corvettes are meant to fly-in and disable the enemy fleet's shields, so the bigger ships can hit them with long-range, anti-armor weapons.

That being said, do people typically only put anti-shield weapons on main design corvettes, or do you add harder-hitting weapons too? Would a disruptor/laser/plasma Interceptor corvette be good; or should it be disruptor/disruptor/plasma?

I tried to play as an energy weapon only empire in Stellaris 1.2, and I kept getting my shit rekt.

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>>168813594
>if you take the money away forcibly

That would violate the NAP.

A person who doesn't abide by the property covenant would need to be PHYSICALLY REMOVED.

>>168813594
That is how pre-18th century societies operated

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>>168813794
my corvs are just shields and kinetics usually because i try to keep them cheap

>>168814038
That's how pirates work.

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>>168812410
They work well as far as they can get close enough.

>>168813513
Look at my 4 corvettes.
4 models
Capitalist:
>all fancy shit
>shields
>costly, high maintenance
Soviet:
>all essentials
>no shield
>reasonable cost
China System Defense:
>cheap
>still good dps
>slow and no shield
World Best Corvette
>cheap
>its made of shit
Thing is all of them have 300 HP. Capitalist one have also 210p Shield.
But you can get 4 SyS DeF for that price and pay the same upkeep for 4(or 2 if you get twice of your Naval capacity).
They are also better at scaring AI away. And it doesn't matter that they die faster if you can bring twice(or fourth) that many as it mean more DAKKA.
Only downside its that they are slow.

>>168813794
Battleships are for Kinetic artillery and Giga cannons. They will hit faster than corvettes can fly and strip enemy shield.
Then Your corvettes get to enemy and attack armor(try mining laser).

>>168814427
ok so if I make super basic corvettes then awesome, but I've still got other types of ships to make so that raises the question of what to do with their loadout since theres like 3 or 4 kinds of ballistics

>>168813513
Autocannons have insane DPS but small range
Railguns have decent DPS and long range but lack a bit on accuracy
As I said above I am going for large autocannons and railguns medium/small which happen to sit on the same range

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>>168814038
18th century society wasn't technically ancap or minarchist (with an i, not a typo), though.

The nobility system was based on perceived "divine right", or just the fact that the nobles controlled the military and police. Even if they made shitty decisions or bankrupted their kingdom, they could still stay in power due to this.

Ancap meritocracy is based on how objectively valuable your property and products are, though. In an ancap society, if a rich person fucks-up and goes bankrupt, the state won't be there to bail them out; and they'll be reduced to a pleb. This allows other people to rise up the ladder and become the new wealthy elite. The difference between 17th century aristocracy and modern ancap/minarchist thought is the concept of "privilege to rule."

Funnily enough though, Hoppe himself says that monarchy/aristocracy is better than modern democracy (from an ancap viewpoint), because it made for more de facto meritorious leaders. The logic being that a noble who is raised all his life to be king is more skilled than some democratic official who just knows how to appeal to the base (often non-meritorious or correct) desires of plebs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfrYbSh3uwQ

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>>168814812
I mostly ignore destroyers and my PD defense are cruisers with Flak(one) and rest is like >>168814991 this anon stuff so they are medium range.
Battleships have Giga cannons and Kinetic artillery.

>>168814812
>>168814991
Now about Missiles
Missiles have good DPS, longest range and 100% accuracy all the time
But they can get shot down by PDs

On the other hand Torpedos are slower but harder too shoot down

I myself use the "Mount a torp on the corv and and fire at stabbing distance" strategy so they dont have the time to shoot them down

I'm finding that in the late game all I'm building are battleships with kinetic arty and giga canons and destroyers kitted out for PD.

If I build carriers with all fighters would they do the destroyers job better?

>>168815328
They also slow and disappear when target is destroyed.
SO if you shoot 10k missiles at one corvette and it get blow apart by first 10 the rest of them disappear which make gigantic lose of DPS.

>>168815438
Also, I was using that mod that adds a bunch of new ships parts and ship classes, so I had three different classes of battleship. Not really that important, but just for clarity.

Also should I use battleship or cruiser sized carriers for PD?

>>168815531
Thats why you put them on a corvette and stab them in the dick with it

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HAK HAK HAK

what is the best ancap build in stellaris?

>>168815882
Fanatic Individualist + Materialist?

>>168814991
what about flak though? I just got that research and I haven't heard much mention of it.

>>168815882
Individualist/ Materialist/ Militarist (muh guns)

-Solitary
-Resilient
-Thrifty

>>168816153
Well to be fair I am not there yet myself
This is my first ran since the 1.2

>>168815882
Collectivist
Militarist
Materialist

Thrifty

Plutocratic Oligarchy

After the an-cap revolution destroyed the states, the world is ruled by powerful corporations who filled the power vacuum by buying out private courts and then slowly buying up all assets. Anyone who dissents against the totally-not-a-state is enslaved for violating the employee contract and therefore the NAP.

>>168815743
>>168815438
blese repond

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>>168816467
>Collectivist

>>168816567
just make cruisers with plasma

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>>168816567
Corvette
>go fast
>cheap
Destroyer
>PD screen
Cruiser
>PD and punch, heavy armor
BB
>long range punch
>armor
You can skip cruisers.
Hangars are meme as they are countered hard by PD and by the time they arrive you actually fuck enemy shit with long range rock throwers.

>>168816863
>energy weapons

r u some sort of ayy?

Stellaris question, do robots benefit from the -10% growth time of the rapid breeders trait?

>>168816832
> the state is unjust because it favors large corporations over small business through regulation
> therefore, if it is in the best interest of large corporations to maintain a state they totally won't create a new one if given the chance

>>168816938
I thought fighters were the PD.

>>168816938
I believe a destroyer with large/medium slots is viable too
I use them with success so far at least

ok so I'm not exactly trying to do imperium of man here, but having vassals as xenophobe militarist just becomes a pain when you do something they don't like, and expanding is a bitch because there's that great chance you get stuck with only 3 habitable planets around you. so when I'm making an empire cede planets I assume this is where you should make use of slavery right?

>>168817514
Xenophobes dont like Xenos, slaves or otherwise
Better save yourself the trouble and plainly purge them

>>168817021
>Robots
>breeding

>>168817645
well fuck, I thought having pure slave planets would be an option. then how the fuck am I supposed to expand, robots?

>>168815281
What's that swirly blue resource emblem next to the green apple food emblem under the Paradise Dome description?

>>168817739
That is why I'm asking, robots don't breed but they have a growth time, which is what the breeding trait does.

>>168817910
how would they get the trait in the first place

>>168817830
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-55-unity-and-traditions.988693/

>>168817994
oh. right, I forgot that part. Nevermind

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>>168817645
The normal xenophobes are okay with enslaved xenos.
Anyway its better to keep xenos enslaved on separate planets. Like full mining one.
Or you can convert them. They will get -10 for alien overlords but you give them monument of purity and you are set.
>>168817793
Well I believe that xenophobes don't like robots. So terramorfing. Also its fine to just enslave everything and produce shit tons of minerals and then exchange it in trade enclave for energy or make your own core planets fully energy ones.
>>168817830
Unity. For ascensions and trees.

>>168816938
Reddit says to use plasma for cruisers and up and only one artillery per ship

>>168817793
If you conquer another race's planets, you can use that race as slaves if you want.

If you're a xenophobe, just use the new race to colonize planets you want to designate as slave planets. Building a colony ship at a spaceport over their planet gives you the option to choose them as the colonizing race.

For instance, I conquered the Ix'Idar, and I use them to exploit arctic planets, and I also use them as cannon fodder when invading enemy planets. I send in like 5 Ix'Idar armies and watch them get slaughtered, before sending in my serious armies, because I think it's funny.

>>168816938
I like to use destroyers as cheap artillery batterys where its sole purpose is just to hold an artillery peace and die if it gets shot and hope to drown the enemy in shells

>>168818279
Didn't you ask for kinetic only or I mixed you with somebody else?

Yeah if you want go full reddit go
>cruisers only
>one kinetic art + plasma mediums
>can mount one flak on every 2nd or 3th one.

>>168818120
yeah terraforming fixes the problem once you get the tech
>>168818395
brb starting game like this

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>>168818541
so wait, xenophobe militarist military dictator ship can't enslave shit? why

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>>168820062
You are alone in the galaxy you dumb fuck.
Who do you want to enslave?
>aliens
And what else unicorns?
Do you meet any aliens that you can enslave?

>>168820283
I would just assume that any person playing this game would be aware it has aliens and would let you set up for that.

>>168820062
>why
Because you are not running the current patch

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>>168820839
what

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>>168821317
Maybe you need to encounter aliens first

>>168802768
>Had base game of Endless Legends
>Played it this weekend because everything was free
>Can't buy the expansions at the mark down because its "already in my steam library"

T-thanks Gaben.

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>>168821317
>two planets
>still one science ship

Triggered hard

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>>168823609
wat
Try looking again, try opening the various bundles, try separately. It should work, it's worked before.

>>168824394
Oh I've tried.
Every time I get to the cart and it forces me to select to buy as a gift.

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>>168824270
happy now?

>>168803252
>there are moon landing deniers
>in a thread that's 50% Stellaris
Abnormies need to go back to /sci/.

Do the Endless Legend expansions make the game significantly better?

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>>168824679
I just checked as well, same.

Still, the individual DLCs also show up as -75%, that's not a bad deal. Or buy the whole collection as a gift and email the codes to yourself, activated them one by one if this is a better deal.

It really is a fantastic game now with all the expansions.

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Stop playing "Imperium of Man" or any other kind of variation of "Imperium of Man" you uncreative faggots

>>168825065
Yeah, I suppose I'll just have to gift it to myself.

>>168824810
Now thats what I call blobbing

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>>168825117

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>>168824854
Well it was me.
I just find it amazing how far Moon actually is as I expected it to be closer and actually never thought about it.
And its actually far. And moving small space shuttle by all this empty yet filled with radiation and who know what else space, land on the Moon, plant flag and come back?
Yeah amazing feat.
Hard to believe.

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>>168825117
Rate my pengus

I haven't played stellaris in a while, how come federation member ships don't follow mine into combat anymore?
>>168825312
hullo

>>168825529
>pre flood

Shut up Noah

>>168825117
You don't understand; the fluff for this particular pewter model game is the best science fiction setting of all time, due to the fact that it was copied directly from the medieval fantasy version of the same game.

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>Install LEX mod
>find a "star system" thats a bunch of massive space station looking "seals"
>they have massive shield regen and HP regen, 160k HP each
>Lol "seals", lets destroy them to see what happens
>turns out they are sealing several small black holes
>500 energy each
>years later the center station fucks up as well and starts leaking energy at 9k energy that I could harvest
>FUCK YES ENERGY IMMA TRADE THIS AT THE ENCLAVES
>finally the center seal breaks and unleashes a modded Crisis
>Didnt realize it was an actual crisis before its too late
>all of this happens during the War in Heaven

Welp, I guess this is the time I accidentally killed the galaxy. This is like the Scourge and Unbidden had really broken baby an then fucked up the galaxy.

>>168825910
Well it happened, too bad.

Bible are just another myths or stories from a old times. Like any other mythology or old piece of work.
I always wonder why if some events written in the Bible actually happen its automatically see as proof for God existence.
Take Koran for example. It describe conquest of Arabian peninsula and rise of Mohamed pretty well - even if you take for account that it was written as a propaganda work, to glorify him and it was later redone and wrong copies were burned so only right version remain.
Bible is probably the same. Events probably happen, places really existed and some people named too. Sure some not but dunno if that was a fully work of fiction like Star Wars or DnD codex.

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>>168826415

>greedy Jewery was the downfall of the galaxy
Very immersive 10/10

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Neat

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Is the Make War Not Love promotion for Endless Legend over? If it is, are the expansions worth buying regardless?

>>168826484
I'm pretty sure Jesus of Nazareth was a real Jewish prophet

>>168825529
Yes it's very amazing. Too bad our society is full of mentally ill degenerates who like to deny historical events so that they can feel special.

The distance is actually not that relevant at orbital velocities. Apollo 11 only took 8 days.

>>168826484
Yeah of course it happened, when the Ice Age ended
Every mythology in the world has a version of the "flood"

>explored 1/3 of the galaxy
>still no leviathans

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>>168826415
Well I almost miss the old no internet times where you actually played games blind.
Then you find some hidden shit or something and go full WOW.
Now its really hard to get surprised.
>>168826635
Which mod?

>>168826804
I was more about Old Testament that was mostly chronicles of kings, stories and laws or customs.
Also I remember some piece of paper where some guy argue that old Israel was located in Yemen or somewhere close and find cities or places that was supposed be in the Bible. Pretty neat. The current Israel was more like a colony with the new version of old names. Aka York - New York. Thing is guy was a Arab and it was taken fully as political statement. But I believe that it had some possibilities.
>>168826907
Nah it was just that materialistic shift in society go full science(is new god) and deny anything that was written in old texts because it could be used as proof to validate this texts.
Still its pretty large achievement.
>>168827090
Yeah, I know that.
Thing is the old academic cadre, state sponsored bureaucracy will resist any change in dogma.
No wonder, now they have their positrons, academies, carriers, status and followers and money grants.
Some could be simple hacks that don't really know just repeat what they were told.
They not gonna abandon all of this because somebody knows the truth.

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>>168825062
Yes, they're near mandatory. And $17 for everything is a real steal.

>>168827913
I really should buy all of it(and ES 2) when I have the chance.

>>168827860
Please get help before you hurt yourself or someone else.

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>>168825117
No.

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>>168828074
What exactly trigger you my deer anon?

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>>168828059
>and ES 2
That would be a terrible mistake at this time. And I say this as someone who pre-ordered it full price because I though after ES1, EL and DotE that Amplitude can do now wrong.

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>>168827860
>Which mod?
I think its the Interstellar Imperium mod that adds it, but I have not yet been able to find it on one of their bases nor had any luck spawning it in via console commands

>>168828328
But why does he eat so much?

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>>168828328
I would argue that.

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>>168825117
Stat the Tau then.

>>168828328
It was at 25% for a moment but I was like Oh suspicious, wait it till to 20 Feb? Gonna grab it tomorrow.
At it was gone as it was some mistake on steam part.
>>168828330
Update when?

>>168828785
Collectivist/Spiritualist as base but what else?
Militaristic or Xenophile? Or fanatic version of the above?

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>>168828573
I would debunk that.

>>168828562
shut up malk

>>168829006
>Screenshot from update 1 or earlier.

jesus how much negative divergence does it take for a pop to stop being shitheads. they diverge in an instant at 1% but fuck -30%

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Anyone know if you can mod the Machine Consciousness type of government to be availabe to the player?

I want to do a survival playthrough with both the Unbidden and Prethoryns spawning at the beginning and don't want to be completely hopeless.

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What is the Altar of Auriga, how does it work, and how do I exploit it

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>>168816186
This.

>>168825728
I made a similar race, except individualist instead of militarist.

Also, why don't your Pengus have an arctic homeworld?

>>168830890
Look at the map more carefully.

>>168829517
Fucking this, I want to know too it's annoying.

I'm so close to purging, but they're all the same race

also UTOPIA RELEASE REEEEEE

>>168830890
a unique building in your empire than unlocks the use of Pearls of Auriga.
Pearls spawn each winter on non-occupied tiles (presence of an anomaly, watchtower foundation or a unexploited resource counts as unoccupied), and individual pearls "lode" can drop more than one pearl of Auriga. Pearls will respawn on locations they already spawned if able.
Most notably, pearls can be spent on city-unique districts that are drastically better than basic district, with some specific requirement (presence of an anomaly/strategic/luxury resource). These improvements must be unlocked by spending a fixed amount of pearls.
Other pearls-unlocked functionalities are basically a waste of time and pearls.

>>168803252
>earth
>dangerous van allen belts
Nigger do you even read

>>168803252
>how did we get through the van Allen belt
With rockets and Newtons laws. Apollo astronauts have radiation induced cataracts because of it.

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>>168833142
Of course not. I can't even write.

>C2C
>2 turns away from discovering Stone Building
>City's borders expand into a water goody hut
>Free tech
>it's Stone Building

not even fucking mad

>>168832672
Ok, I see the pearls, how do I harvest them? Stick a unit on them?

>>168833971
>Stick a unit on them?
Yes. Just move on top of them, no need to even click a special button.

>>168833971
You better do hire an Allayi hero for the purpose of collecting the pearls later on.
Tbh, pearl mechanics is more of a gimmick, since there is no way to automate it and they don't spawn on borough tiles, while automated cities love to spend pearl-exclusive buildings if you have them unlocked at the altar.

>>168833602
I knew it.

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>>168836452
Tell me about van Allen. Why does he wear a belt?

>>168836635
Nobody cared who he was until he put on a belt.

Before that, he was called the pantless idiot.

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>>168836837
If Astronaut cross the belt will he die?

>>168836975
It'd be painful.

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>>168837159
You are a big Moon lander.

>>168837457
>480 million years in the future
This is...

This is why I hate astronomy.

>>168837589
>480 million years in the future
Wut

>>168837589
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6LiVJkwyA

I used to love it. But then mathematicians invade.
BTW Anyone hear about filk songs?
They are basically stories or fanfics on books. And they dead genre. Like this general.

>>168837875
>BTW Anyone hear about filk songs?
There are good ones but you picked the worst.

>>168837745
Light takes time to travel. So we're seeing 480 millions year in the past. In retrospect, that puts us in the future compared to anything we're seeing.

>>168837875
It's too big. I cannot comprehend.

>>168828949
Collectivist: "greater good", caste system.
Xenophile: eagerly makes use of aliens.

Not spiritualist because although their philosophy is semi-mystical it is ultimately an attempt at pragmatic collectivism, and doesn't even refer to the actual magic and psychic powers going around in the setting.

>>168838004
I like it. Excuse me my poor taste. Its sad and it synergy well with my melancholic character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDRxtd-2dQ

>>168838074
And now think that official mainstream history extend like few thousand years. Its nothing.
Personally I believe that there were many civilizations that rise and fall before and nothing of them remains. We are just dust on space wind.

>>168838118
Spiritualist because Eternals are psychic caste.

>>168838517
>We are just dust on space wind
Shut up. Don't remind me.

>>168838074
No, if you're referring to that chart it's showing that the JWST will be able to see objects up to a redshift of 20, which is 480 million years after the universe was formed. That's 13.5 million years ago, not "in the future".

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Give me inspiration for my next stellaris run. So far I've done a divine mandate warriors. Also did hippies

>>168838606
>13.5 million
Meant to say billion

>>168838567
The Earth and even humans probably change drastically in lat few hundreds thousands years.
>>168838621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlkH687M4YM

>>168838621
What with the almost last flag?

>>168838865
Flag of kekistan

>>168838517
It's just pheromones. Ethereals don't have real psychic powers, unlike the men, eldar, and basically every other species in the setting.

Given their propensity to use robots they may even qualify as materialists. If anyone would use sentient AI, it would be the Tau (mankind having tried in the past before they became spiritualist).

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>>168839287
>It's just pheromones. Ethereals don't have real psychic powers, unlike the men, eldar, and basically every other species in the setting.
>It's just pheromones.
Wait what? Since when?

>>168838719
Spot the lizardman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xXt8PI4GE

>>168839546
>Wait what? Since when?
Since 5ed

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>>168839747
Well I don't follow this anymore. Its probably gonna turn into utter shit anyway.

Who should I play in Endless Legend? I've only completed a game as the Vaulters.

War-carts are OP.

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>>168840836

>>168840992
roll

>>168840992
>has a random slot on an already random list
>But none of the DLC factions
For what purpose

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>>168826415
WHAT THE FUCK DID I TELL YOU PEOPLE ABOUT LEX? YOU GET LUXE, YOU LUBE THE FUCK UP.
YOU DON'T FUCK AROUND IN LEX SYSTEMS WITHOUT LUBE AND A FUCKTON OF TACHYON LANCES OR GIGA CANNONS

>>168841971
It was made before the DLC.

I think Stellaris should use some armor class stuff for combat.
Right now battleships can't do anything to corvettes while corvettes will eventually whittle them away. But if they can't pierce the armor at all then there's a reason to have bigger ships.

Or just fucking try again with the tracking and evasion thing. Maybe give special weapons to big slots so there's a reason to have variety instead of just 100% plasma throwers like a large weapon with a kinetic scattershot that's essentially a massive cloud of sand that rips apart corvettes.

>xcom
>these evil aliens are trying to subdue earth and take it over, we must stop tehm at all cost

>stellaris
>these fucking primitives are occupying a perfectly good planet, lets wipe them out x10

Proof that there is no beneficial god.

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>>168837457

I'm so fucking hype for the JWST. I wish I could just go into hibernation until it starts beaming back images and information. The wait is killing me.

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>>168843564
>JWST
Just Wait Stars Tomorrow?

>>168843208
Stellaris is basically a sci-fi villain simulator.

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>>168843831

James Webb Space Telescope. It's a way better Hubble Telescope.

>>168843831
Makes me mad to think some little shit broke that just so that the he could an oh so meaningful photo.

>>168843985
>being excited for a space telescope for ants

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>>168844103

Here is the human-sized version

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>>168844360

And this is what it will look like in space as it searches for space niggers

>>168844006
Save your money. Make yours hollow with openings. Fill it with wasps.

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>>168844006
It was broken long time before photo.
Like my life.

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>>168843958
>genetically modifying ayyliens to be comformists and not revolt
>enslaving charismatic race and ship them all around your worlds that are barely habitable for them to boost happiness
>baiting a very strong race to migrate on "the land of opportunity" only to turn them to slave miners and soldiers


Give me your worst deeds anons

>>168844779
>find a delicious continental world with Natural Beauty
>but it's full of disgusting, barbaric Pacifist/Individualist/Xenophile frogmen in the industrial age
>conquer and enslave them all with a satisfying WHAPISH!
>deport them to a remote Arctic mining world to live among the droids
>settle their home planet with my own race

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>>168844779
>play as xenophobic collectivist
>space is full of horrors
>its need to be cleansed
>for the greater good
>but we are underdogs
>strength only matters
>integrate some avian aliens as shock troops and miners
>vassalise some hummies and other aliens
>can't cull because to weak other xenos to strong
>need to bear with all this alien subjects, can't cleanse
>get more alien worlds, pacify aliens and make them work for the glory of my empire
>gain great strength
>then start purging ugly xenos
>all molluscs, fungi and bugs must die
>and they die en masse
>betrayed by their masters, betrayed by me

I was feeling really dirty. They were dirty xenos not even close to my race then why I feel that i did wrong?

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first jump of the game
>alien sihp detected
>enemy fleet engeaged

You, no. fuck you too.

>>168843564
I would bet good money it will fail.
Probably even on, or near the launchpad.
I am amazed we could get away with shit we have been doing already in space and those had (number out of my ass:) say 10 fault points
JWST in proportion would have 100+. Its so fucking intricate and complicated that there is simply no way everything will go as planned, and its really isn't fault tolerant at all, as other simpler shit is. Note, most of our shit in space is "broken" or doenst work as planned, but we worked around it. With JWST, we simply wont be able to, since the result would be a VASTLY suboptimal performance, rendering the thing useless. Mirrors didnt open? down the drain (not salvagable like when galileos main antena not opening. Mind: that was caused because the craft got delayed and the lubricant dried up. JWST got delayed for MUCH longer. for the curious: we worked around it by using its smaller, navigational antena and compressing data more, but we still only got less than half the overall data from the craft we could have otherwise during its lifetime). Any other of the dozen opening parts didnt open? down the drain. One of the 8 Heathiseld foils messed up? down the drain. They fucked up the focus (like hubble) or other desing errors? down the drain. any regular satelite faliures like leaking/evaporating propellant, gyroscope issues, firmware errors, electornics frying in space, etc...? down the drain. And all that only if it even gets to space, when rockets are a whole new bags of explosive suprsies especialy if politics gets invovled and they are forced to use the largel untested senate launch system.


I realy hope i will be eating my words on this one, but that thing wont be happening. sorry bud.

Is the new master of orion worth getting?

>>168846836
Is any new game worth getting?

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>>168846325
>not genetically modifying the longtime subjects that served you well to make them superior at their given roles while purging the weak and redundant

>>168846987
Well the avians still serve as my shock troops and miners.
I even spare the first bugs that I invaded. But they were cool bugs.
Not cool bugs gonna die.

>>168847131
Fair enough.

I recommend this mod if you do more purging.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=799404527
Makes it hard to feel bad about it.

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>>168847226
Kek, desu with this mod I don't even do the purge all, I go and purge them all just to hear Willhelm each time

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>>168844779
>enslaving strong race and using them as cannon fodder during planetary invasions

>building frontier outposts on the other side of the galaxy, so other empires can't expand without angering my federation of like-minded evil bastards

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>set number of advanced starts to parity with number of AI empires
>lock all AI's FTL to Hyperlane
>use warp FTL
>wash across the stars as an upstart people bringing divine wrath down upon the old stagnant empires

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>>168846639

Lets hope we don't KSP it

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>>168838621
You forgot this tier

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>>168848852

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>>168838621

militaristic capitalists like in: >>168816186

Build alliances as long as it's profitable, but attack and conquer if they have a moment of weakness. Ruse primitives into being your slaves. Make lots of trade deals that benefit you. Be very prejudiced against collectivists and always shit on them, though.

It would help to have the charismatic trait for your race. Be neutral on xenophobe/xenophile.

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Stellaris needs to add more treaty/alliance options based on ethics.

One thing that bothers me is how the xenophobe mechanics work. As it stands, two xenophobes will always have a (percentage of) negative opinion of each-other, just like they do other races with different ethics.

However, when it comes to federation-building, two xenophobes could feasibly form a mutual alliance to oppose xenophiles. Basically "Lets agree that we both hate foreigners getting on our planets, and we should band together to keep it from becoming a galactic norm." That would be cool.

There could be other types of ethics alliances too. Basically, create a "war of ideas" option, with the ability to increase or influence the popularity of ethics in other empires using propaganda or intelligence agents. There have been similar mechanics in other Paradox games.

I wouldn't usually ask for mod recommendations but I'm kinda overwhelmed by the amount of things I need to add to make stellaris not boring
So far I got: Colored pop status icons, Crystallis SME, Ethics&Government rebuild, Extended traits, Food Import/Export, Fox Leader, ISBS Doomsday, ISB Balance, More Events, Multiple Crisis, Spaceport modules extended, TFW's bunch of ship parts, _Advanced Buildings_

Missing anything obvious/important?
>>168850461
In general, stellaris needs ethics to be more dynamic than set-in-stone at start and only giving you a set of choices but still much harder to change than policies.

>>168850871
Well, Banks will have changeable empire ethics finally

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>>168850871
>stellaris needs ethics to be more dynamic than set-in-stone at start and only giving you a set of choices but still much harder to change than policies

Utopia is going to make it so that you can have small percentages of all the ethics, and you can have political parties that can change your ethics to different ones if you give them government sponsorship (or if they manage to have a successful revolt), AFAIK. Also, your ethics will start to change based on the actions the main government takes. For instance, if you go to war all the time, your population will become more militarist

Adding to what I said earlier, it would be cool if you could have "galactic political parties" based on similar ethics; which super-cede basic alliances between empires. For instance, you could in in an alliance or NAP with a collectivist empire (likely due to necessity), but be a part of the galactic individualist movement.

>>168850871
>stellaris needs ethics to be more dynamic than set-in-stone at start and only giving you a set of choices but still much harder to change than policies
Coming in 1.5 as part of the free update.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-54-ethics-rework.987286/

I'd like to see the 'factions' function as political parties in an Upper House a-la Victoria II, but even just this is going to be a massive improvement on internal politics.

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>>168851705
Free features:
>Species Rights
>Consumer Goods
>Refugees and Core Worlds
>Ascension Perks?
>Traditions and Unity
>Psionics
Paid features:
>Megastructures
>Orbital Habitats
>Purge and Slavery Types
>The Shroud

>>168852209
What exactly is it about this that makes you so angry, Mr. Swanson?

You don't actually pay for Paradox DLC, do you?

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>>168852295
Any proofs?

>>168852295
I always worry my Steam account is going to get fucked at some point if I pirate extensively.

>>168853695
As long as the application is closed, you're golden
If you're that paranoid, easy sandbox environments exist

>>168851705
>>168851520
FUCKING RELEASE ALREADY

>Stellaris’s next update is version 1.5, also called ‘Banks’, and today we learned about a new feature that will be added. They're called traditions, they're designed to add role-playing flavour to your empire and to encourage tall, peaceful play. At a glance, they remind me of Civilization V's social policies.

>>168855216
>At a glance, they remind me of Civilization V's social policies
Hmm, I wonder why. I guess I'll have to wait until April before I can solve this mystery.

>>168856017
You misspelled May.

>>168855216
>At a glance, they remind me of Civilization V's social policies.
Does that mean there will only be like 3 that everyone should pick?

>>168855216
>Anward (Wiz) hopes the system will enable players to further customise their empires and to role-play empires with different values and priorities. “We have also talked about our desire to allow for the existence of ‘tall’ empires”, says Anward.

>still trying for that tall meme

How do i make ships which hit above what their military power would suggest?

I'm installing Stellaris right now. Is there anything I should know for my first time playing?

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>>168856649
>Traditions will accomplish this by adding seven different trees which reflect different sets of values, and a resource called ‘Unity’ that is spent to unlock them. The cost of unlocking a tradition will depend on the size of your empire, as well as its internal stability.

>“Unhappy factions, minority species and slaves all increase the cost of adopting traditions,” says Anward, “though these effects can be offset”. Generally, small, peaceful empires (playing ‘tall’, in strategy parlance) will unlock traditions faster than large, expansionist ones (playing ‘wide’).

>Unity is mainly earned through government buildings, such as mausoleums, monuments and temples. You’ll spend it unlocking tradition trees, and then on individual traditions. Each tree has a starter bonus, five unlockable traditions and a finisher bonus that is applied when you’ve completed the tree, much like Civ 5’s social policy trees.

>The seven trees are as follows:

Expansion: Focuses on growth through rapid colonization.
Domination: Focuses on maintaining control over your population and subjects.
Prosperity: Focuses on economic growth.
Harmony: Focuses on maintaining a happy and diverse population.
Supremacy: Focuses on growth through military conquest.
Purity: Focuses on strength through homogenity and dominion over other species.
Exploration: Focuses on exploration and scientific discovery.

>>168856859
AIs love blobbing it up so blob up more than them

>>168853695
There's pretty much no way to get caught pirating PDX DLC, because all the content is downloaded anyway for multiplayer purposes. You can literally just make a mod which does nothing other than activate the DLC if you want.

>>168856859
3 poop corvettes beat 2 mercedes corvettes.
There are objective best government and ethos.
Fanatic Individualist/materialist
Fanatic Spiritualist/collectivist
You better be in it for the roleplay after a while.

>>168857024
>minority species
further buffs to removing kebab

>>168856859
build 2nd science ship immediately
minerals are the most important thing early game, prioritise them
research colony ship immediately
colonise a 2nd planet asap
try to keep fleet power at your limit, don't be weak
never stop expanding

>>168857024
Old news. purity is gone right now.

Let's say that I started with 2 planets that have 19 tiles next to me. Obviously I go for those first. But then there's also 3 planets with like 10-12 tiles 1 system away from where I started that are also my preferred type. Should I colonize those?

>>168857024
Domination/Expansion/Supremacy.

Yes.

>>168857097
And Paradox has still yet to address this issue of their DLC's getting pirated?

>>168857493
No you should only colonize planets with 20% habitability

>>168857493
Yes.
It will increase your tech cost but its worth.
If they are small just build them with labs and enough energy to sustain it and sector it.
Small planets should be self sustained research centers(some mineral and energy production) because you don't lose any research when you sector it. You want keep big ones to your self as core and build them fully as mines or energy plants.
Also on small one you can build space ports that increase your naval cap.
>>168814427
Look at this post and picture.
Cheaper corvettes cost less and allow you to afford more and its better to have 2x low tech corvettes than half high tech ones. With cheap ones you can go 2x over your naval capacity and still pay the same as for the costly one and have 2x more corvettes.

>>168857321
>try to keep fleet power at your limit, don't be weak

This, definitely.

The AI always tries to get maximum fleet capacity; so if you don't do so also, you're screwed.

You can technically get away with a smaller fleet if you make better quality ships that support each-other in their roles, though.

>>168857493
>10-12 tiles
literally garbage

>>168858304
Also, during a war, you need to build over the maximum fleet capacity so you can have reinforcements on hand when your ships start getting destroyed.

After the war is over, you can disband the extra ships to get back to a positive budget.

>>168857397
I'm disappointed by this. Why'd they say?

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r8

>>168857630
You mean Expansion/Supremacy/Domination

Gotta expand before you can exploit or exterminate.

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>>168858730
That they like sucking dicks and its Swedish national tradition.

>>168858741
auto-complete/10

>>168858741
Sexy.

Although, I'd probably flip the medium plasmas and small lasers. Lasers have longer range, and battleships, especially carriers, typically hang at the back.

>>168858909
I really don't get it because playing a homogeneous empire is totally possible and actually quite powerful with terraforming. It was my strategy to always try and get rid of ayys ASAP even if it meant boarder shrinkage just so I could terraform planets to fill with my species.

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>>168856649
We choose to not go to the Moon, and not do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal would have served to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are not willing to accept, one we are willing to postpone, and one we do not intend to win.

>>168858741
>all that PD
>all that wasted firepower
>meme crafts
>meme lasers
go back to the drawing board

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>>168859315
They choose more generic because more straight hurt their feelings or something.

>>168859212

I had them switched before, but I want to experiment with fleet composition. (Cutting out Corvettes and Destroyers while having long-range cruisers provide the main fire while the carriers offer point defense and strikecraft for close range.)

My theory is that since strikecraft are useless in reasonable numbers, I'll try and gear my fleet around spamming as many carriers as possible so they'll overwhelm the enemy with numbers.

Fighters are useless when you have corvettes/destroyers anyway since they hilariously go slower than either.

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>>168859434

It's a meme build fampai. I just want to try it out.

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>>168859632

That's so fucking retarded that it might actually work in a combat system as broken as Stellaris' is now.

Update when you get BTFO.

>>168859783
well you asked for a rating... But as far as meme builds go it's great! 10/10 would build again

>>168859604
What the fuck

That's honestly so fucking dumb, diplomacy eat my ass

I don't understand why they bother to push their ideology (especially since it's wrong in the first place) to make the game worse and less roleplayable. Fuck Swedes.

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>>168859604

>Diplomacy

>>168859604
Someone better make a mod to bring purity back. Disgraceful.

>>168860217
did the guy friends provide the semen or were they drinking the cocktails too?

Why the fuck cant I ever get the worm event to pop I lost 5 science vessels researching every black hole in the galaxy and i dont get it this is the fifth game im trying this.

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>>168860047
>>168860217
>>168860541
Purity is in the game but it was relocated.
Also check reddit they have some stuff listed
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/5t48ww/speculationstream_tooltips_banks_v15_ascension/
>>168860810
Just move science vessel between black hole and your planet and it will trigger. Still probably you need to do it like 100 times.

>>168860984
wut game?

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>>168861336
?
What are you talking about?

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Is there ANY WAY I can dig myself out of this?

>>168860984
Those boni look pretty substantial actually.

>>168861406
What gaaaaaaaaaaamae!!!!!!!
Please it looks so good I need ittttt

>>168861454
CHIMPED

How many ascension trees can you unlock?

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>>168861584
I don't know what are you talking about.
>>168861809
All of them.

>>168861454
you'll be fine. Why are you borders so blocky like 144p

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>>168861454
>>168861702
on the plus side, I'm not the only one getting the short end of this stick
of 13 empires, 3 ended up right right on the dick of humanity
in a 800 star game

>>168861896
anon plz

>>168861896
Just tell him what game it is you fucking autist.

>>168861928
Didn't know humans could be a FE

>>168862061
every species can, it's random I believe

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>>168861947
I don't know any game.
Pocket Space Empire old game on Snes
>>168862029
How rude!

>>168860984
Where was purity relocated?

>>168862029
>>168861947
>>168861584
>>168861336
Stellar Monarch

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>>168862208
I think into civics for governments, new traits. policies and perks.
>>168861947
>>168861584
Stellar Monarch aka pocket Space Empire
Its not that great but have some solid ideas. i even think about buying it.

>>168862427
>>168862154
>you can only be an Empire

fug off

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>>168862061
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=815380349 this mod is activated, I also never found a single human FE before, but maybe i'm just unlucky
>>168861916
thanks for jinxing it

>>168859315
I think their explanation was that it was too strict: other policies could work in a variety of empires, but purity only really worked one way.

>>168862571
>>168862526
>>168862427
>>168862154
It looks like the type of game that is by itself only okay but will spawn a mod that will make it a hit like ARMA 2 and Day Z. Hopefully it will also replaces that atrocious art.

>>168862571
What are you so angry?
There is few starting scenarios.
>one when you just start expanding from your shithole
>one when you already old and decadent and rebels pop everywhere
>and few between
>>168862630
I meet some in unmoded game so its possible I think.

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>>168862750
Well its not great.
Court management is lacking and there is no senate for planet governors or military HQ and competing military school doctrines etc.
Also aliens pose little threat last time I played after you get your empire straight.
Art is OK but I would prefer Imperial Russia uniforms that more oriental one.

>>168860984
Exploration looks like dogshit.

>>168862983
that pic is confusing and looks like it was created by a 12 year old

>>168862983
The fact that it even has things like court management, a senate, and a command staff is already a huge step in the right direction. Too many games merely "abstract" things like that, like how HoI IV removed ministers and the chain of command.

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>>168863018
It is. Mostly automatic but you can use focus.
You can colonize only nearby close system also.

>>168863213
There is no senate just planet governors.
Difficulty is also rather low when you grasp the game(even on harder level).

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Xenophobes can't make xenos serve in their armies.

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>>168862630
well, that's THE FIRST anomaly I investigate
This save is thoroughly cursed

>>168863534
What's wrong, don't you like Event Horizon?

>>168863534
>one little set back
>WE'RE DOOMED
pussy

>>168863506
They can still use them as troops, just not as officers.

>>168862750
There is nothing wrong about that artstyle

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>>168863506
>Refugees Welcome species policy

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So which ethic lets me eat aliens? I would guess it would be Xenophobe since processing could be considered a type of purging, however that wouldn't quite make sense since xenophobes probably would not want to eat aliens.

>>168864397
Swedes are fucking delusional.
You know that 20 years ago Sweden was seen as almost paradise on Earth. Now its a fucking joke.

>>168863506
playing a xenophobe sounds fun as fuck.

What is xenophobe best paired with? Militarist I assume?

>>168863534
>better destroy the ship definitely no curiosity here :^)

>>168864529
>xenophobes probably would not want to eat aliens.
Why not?

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>>168864637
If you were afraid of or hated spiders, would you eat them?

>>168864562
>You know that 20 years ago Sweden was seen as almost paradise on Earth
Nah, they've always been gay
t. knower

>>168864529
Of course xenophiles.
"How to serve a alien"
Its a cook book!!!
>>168864637
>Putting filthy xeno in your mouth.
Its like you have no dignity you xeno lower!
>>168864601
Militarist work well. Pacifist and individualist make really happy combo.
Personally use collectivist/spiritualist/xenophobic so I can easily convert xenos that I don't plan to purge.

Are you gimped if you don't choose a fanatic ethos?

I always go with militarist/xenophobe/materialist.

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>>168864767
They were rich anon. Now they are going bankrupt.
Its like old joke.
>Dad I am homosexual
>Are you rich, have fast car and know famous people?
>No.
>Then you are just a faggot.

>>168864940
I don't see how any ethos combination can gimp your species. Some are obviously better than other purely because of the government options but none are so bad you become gimped.

>>168864737
At least to me Xenophobe is a much broader term, and if some sort of space cow is nutritious I don't see why they wouldn't utilize it.

>>168864784
Even 40k humans eat "xenos" (ie. animals not native to earth) without it being considered weird

Civ 6 was a mistake, a terrible fucking mistake...

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>>168864529
Found the answer to my own question:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-57-species-rights.995302/

>Livestock: This represents a species that is regularly culled to be used as food. Livestock produce a fixed number of extra food, but are completely unable to produce any other kind of resource.

>Processing: The species is processed into food for the consumption of other Pops. Pops being Processed generate a fixed amount of food and die off at a fairly fast pace, but cannot be put to use producing any other resources.

Livestock is listed as a type of Slavery and Processing is listed as a type of Purging. Then that would imply that Xenophobes, who can both enslave and purge aliens, have access to eating aliens.

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>>168865030
You need to have some sort of population control.
>collectivist or xenophobes for purging and slavery
>individualist so nobody care
If you have not then there can be troubles.
>>168865075
Xenos are for purging anon. Now you want to eat them and what next? Fuck them? keep them as pets in your home?
>>168865232
Firaxis was a mistake.

>>168865319
>livestock
Shouldn't you construct special facilities for them?
>implying that individualist would not buy and eat some fancy food from exotic parts of galaxy

>>168865319
>please sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour jesus christ

>>168865542
The implication is that the food being eaten comes from a sentient being, not just any alien.