/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

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HAK HAK HAK

>>173402049
Also note that Steel Division has its own thread located here: >>173239743

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>>173402049
Asteroids are lewd

>too weak to attack fallen things
>don't want to blob into neighbours
>sit there on speed 5 for 5 hours

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Not sure if bug, but I just found Steam Age primitives with Uplifted for some reason.

>>173402187
It is a bug, but I'd rather leave it in imo

>>173402187
It's a bug but I think it should be left in for RP purposes, might be an incomplete or failed uplift from more advanced empires that collapsed

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>lewd annexation intensifies

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>>173402228
>>173402258
Kind of wished there was an event chain tied to them or something, that could have been neat. They are pretty close to an Advanced Start empire, so it could fit, with a runaway crazy scientist of theirs pulling shenanigans.

>>173402187
I, also, have found primitives with uplifted (who then got past early space age and became an actual empire).
Shit was weird. Who were they happy to?

>>173402402
Should be easy for a quick chain during uplifting where you proclaim that you are their original uplifters or tell them rhe truth and gain an influence and relation bonus

>two 10% failure anomalies
>they both fail

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB GIB GIB

>>173402105
Is there any way to determine what late-game threat you get?

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>>173402725
sure, here you go pal

Just got back along with the update.

What are you some essential mods that have been already updated for Banks and Utopia?

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Shouldn't I be getting happiness from having purging prohibited?

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>>173403473
UI overhaul

I dunno what else.

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>Find earth
>middle ages
>and presentinents

What are the odds of that?

Also, its close to my borders, what do with this planet?

>>173403601
that doesn't look like the paradox forums

>Always want to do a diplomatic faction, trying to play allies and enemies off each other while gaining powerful friends and federations
>Friend just wants to go obliterate everyone all the time, doesn't pay any attention to diplomacy at all but always wants us in a federation
How do I cope /4xg/

He just declares war on everything, then gets upset when either
1. I point out thats stupid because the people he wants to attack next to him are allies with three huge factions behind me and they'll roll me then him
2. Or gets pissy after the war when we lose more than we gain because he didnt take diplomacy into account

since the update the game lags like crazy. They say they have a hotfix for that on the way but I don't see anything relevant in the beta patch notes which means it will take longer

fuck

>>173403557
Not all issues give positive points

I dunno why that is

>>173403601
I also got that bug. The colony ended up getting the incoming asteroid event too. It listed the ayylium species name as the lambda menace.

>>173403557
Why would you?
It is a right, not a privilege.
They'd be angry if you could purge but if you cant it's just how things are supposed to be.

>>173402760
Technically, yes
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Crisis

AI can be triggered by doing the AI research
Extradimensionals by doing the FTL
Prethoryn Swarm have a chance of occuring every 170, 200, 250 300 years or no chance at all post 300 years.

So if you want the first two; do the research
If you want the Swarm you just have to wait

>>173403807
it's somethingawful because a lot of the devs have a presence on the forum because then they don't have to deal with the paradox forums for a while

>>173404158
Got the Unbidden in my hyperlane only MP game in my territory when I'm pretty sure nobody had the jump drive tech.
Though a fallen empire did awaken, which might count I guess.

>>173404220
>Though a fallen empire did awaken, which might count I guess.
I suspect it does

It just triggers randomly from anyone using the tech

>>173404217
>SA gets actual game devs
>we get Meneth
fuck this gay earth

>>173404217
>paradox devs are SAfags
typical

>>173404269
Supposed to land in their systems though, ain't it?

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>>173404220
fallen empires can definitely trigger the unbiodden

>>173404291
Don't worry, we have Jewhan.
We had Notch once upon a time. Though it is up to the individual as to whether or not that is a matter to be prideful on.

Utopia worth the purchase?

>>173404964
Depends on how much $20 is for you.
Maybe wait for a round or two of hotfixes. Synthetic ascendancy is pretty mediocre and there are a few bugs that you run into quite a bit.

>have negative influence gain
>at 12 influence currently
>my leaders are all dying of old age and I cant recruit new ones
>Haven't met a single empire to call me rival yet so I can actually get more influence


Oh no

For some reason my Stellaris mods aren't showing up in the launcher, what gives?

>>173405062
Scrap your outpost, wait 20 years to get influence back, head to Paradox Plaza to complain, get mocked, told to "stop whining", and then get banned for daring to complain, and then come back here and complain with us about Paradox being crap.

>>173404964
I'd wait for a sale.
The bulk of the fix for stellaris is in Banks. Utopia has some fun stuff, but it's not near necessary or really worth $20. Banks alone made me enjoy stellaris again.

>>173405125
maybe they're not updated for 1.5 yet

>>173405263
I mean, they should be, and i don't think that would be a problem either.

okay am I a retard or are nuclear missiles overpowered compared to all other early weapons

I haven't played stellaris since a couple of weeks after launch and i don't remember then raping everything

Is there a reason to use the drug addled bliss or whatever it's called? Seems the negatives massively outweigh the positives.

>>173405125
Whenever there's a major update for any paradox game you need to delete your mod folder so the mods can redownload. This has been an issue with their launcher forever.

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what kind of dress is best to wear for conquering space?

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r8

>>173405361
Where can i find the folder?

>>173405396
>Turkey flag
nice

>>173405382
A cute one.

>>173405396
Trash/10

>>173405424
delete this, it's an eagle

>>173405396
>recycling lowers consumer goods costs and vice versa
Could Stellaris only be written by Swedes?

>>173405357
Use it to keep them from rebelling until the nerve stapling and hamburg gene modding is complete

>>173405416
documents/paradoxinteractive/(insert game here)

Unsubscribing from everything usually works too, but depending on how many mods you have and whether you want to do some spring cleaning, just deleting the mods in the folder is easier.

>>173405221
>>173405004
Alright, I'll wait. I hope the game is actually playable without the DLC unlike the other paradox games.

>>173405509
Folder's empty, i recently cleared out all my subscriptions and resubscribed to the few mods i need.


Could this have something to do with the fact that i buccaneer'd the DLC and slapped the codex crack on it?

>>173405545
Nope

>>173405382
kill yourself animefag

>>173405396
I like the turkey but blue/red has always been a colourscheme I've hated.

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Any idea of which mods are causing my ironman games to not give me achievements?

Or how to check it for myself without trial and error.

>>173405580
>>173405509
The crack was the problem, i'll try a different download

>>173405893
kill yourself you fucking racist

>>173405893
I'd wager it's the not updated ones.

>>173405926
wew lad

>>173405929
I'll get another for flag colors but any that turn humans into white only? I found one that adds new species for every human race but I imagine that one disabled achievements because it's adding species.

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>>173400517
>>173400830
>Intelligent
>Sociologists
>Weak
>5 trait slots already used, so no further modifications possible until Biological Ascension is fully mastered

I wouldn't even enslave that

>>173405458
but which kind?

>>173405621
that's not a very cute thing to say

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t. Mosley

>>173406034
A sun dress, I guess. Pretty cute and innocent.

>>173406245
Who the fuck is Mosley?

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>>173406268
>Who the fuck is Mosley?

The greatest prime minister Britain never had.

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>>173405382
>>173406268
>>173406034
Gotta go in style.

>>173406321
I thought that was Cromwell.

>>173406386
>Cromwell

Ew, also

>never had

>>173405062
How the fuck do you get negative influence gain

Like how do you fuck up that bad

>>173406453
I'm not sure anon. All I did was make 3 frontier posts, but now a primitive species has evolved and I've gone to war with them as well as made them my rival for a whopping .20 influence a month

I lost my fleet by invading their home planet and attacking a 1k power station with my 300 power fleet, then they invaded and destroyed 2/3 of my frontier outposts which didn't actually change my borders so I guess I was just wasting them Now I'm at 1 influence a month, with only one scientist alive.

I don't know how I managed to do this.

>>173406612
I wasn't this bad at the game even when I first played it.

looking to make my own name list and add it to the game, does anyone know where the default ones are stored so I can look at them?
I've searched for them before but I can't find the ship name lists for the life of me

>>173406612
You're not supposed to insta-spam frontier outposts anon. They're specifically designed when you see a REALLY, REALLY nice batch of resources, a good choke point, future strategic value etc.

You use them as the last resort for something important. You should be spreading your borders by colonising planets.

>>173406894
You can expand by colonising? I always thought you needed the planet inside of your borders to colonize it, thanks anon. Oops I guess I restart this god awful game then, unless I really wanted to wait 200 months in able to get new scientists again.

>>173399167
You have to remove all your civics before choosing it, dumbass.

How do we fix Synthetic Evolution?

>>173402049
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVHR0UPHERQ

Great scene

>>173407210
Unique sprites.
Keep your racial traits.
Unique mechanics or events.
AI crisis ignores you.

changelog for the upcoming 1.5.1 patch if anyone missed it

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/beta-patch-1-5-1-banks-released-not-for-problem-reports.1010281/

>get a slightly bigger army than one of your neighbours
>vassal him
>steamroll half the galaxy before the other half unites
>outstrip said half of the galaxy in every regards due to you being a single empire and them being a bunch of faggots
>steamroll them too
>cuck FEs before they awaken
>bitchslap unbidden or whoever the moment they arrive

The only thing difficulty settings/advanced starts influences is delaying step 1.

This is fucking boring.

>>173406894
>You use them as the last resort for something important

Or, alternatively, when you don't play like a spaz and have tons of influence income and proper frontier cost reduction to get all the benefits of expanding without the science cost.

>>173407252
Keeping your traits would be too OP, you invalidate half the penalties and keep the boons. You should be able to convert every species into Synths and use research to buff them.

>>173404431
>ronreagancutup

What

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rate my new species

>>173408014
are missiles useless or not? I keep hearing opposite reports

>>173408014
Oyy lmao

>>173408049
Missiles are mostly shit early on, the more advanced types can get pretty devastating.

>>173408014
Oi vey/10

Shoulda made them individualist instead of xenophobe.

>>173408049
At the start where numbers are small, its okay. The retarded fleet AI means you will fire a gorillion missiles at the tiny covette at the start of the stack which goes poof when the 1st one kills it, wasting your shots

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Why is biological acendency so shit...

>>173408210
Also this, make sure you have other weapons alongside your missile launchers.

>>173403797
Purge.

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It's just like my Japanese animes!

>>173407629
Wanting to be a robot =/= give up all individuality and turn into the crisis under player control.

Your suggestions don't even buff them in a significant way.

>>173408014
missiles are good 1v1 if nobody has PD in theory.
That theory never matters, missiles are pure trash.
Kinetics are bread and butter meta with some late game energy builds working out if you design everything right.

>>173408014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgxOXEQaFU

>>173408279
Is there ascendancy that is not shit?

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r8 my race.

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>>173408630
I would let you upgrade pops with special robot traits, like how gene modding works but only for synth pops. Also add some techs that massively increase synth pop build speed along with aforementioned more events and new portraits.

That would make it much more palatable.

>>173408983
So still give up all individuality and turn into the borg, because that's the only cyborg race in fiction.

>>173408279
Better than synth. It's middling.

>>173409049
What exactly do you mean? I agree more than what I said would be good, im just proposing a first step in the right direction.

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>>173409012
>Wow dude actually roleplaying in a game where roleplaying is encouraged and part of the basic experience Jesus Christ dude why would you put any effort into making your own custom race and species?
>Naw man every race should be a stat block with no interesting story, background, or even basic fucking information that ties together their government, traits, ethics, and other factors.
>Stop having fun the way I don't like

>>173408864
Okay.
Be warned that authoritarian is REALLY bad.

What do I get from the infinity cube questline? I'm waiting for a scientist to reach rank 5 so I can start.

>>173409141
Yeah I realized that my bullying may have gone too far. I'm sorry anon.

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>>173409012
Why contain it?

>>173409186
I just helped him and he gave me zero point energy reactors

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>"Now it's day and night the irons clang, and like poor galley slaves
>We toil and toil, and when we die, must fill dishonored graves
>But some dark night, when everything is silent in the town
>I'll shoot those tyrants one and all, I'll gun the flogger down
>I'll give the land a little shock, remember what I say,
>And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones in chains to Botany Bay."
>>173408864
>perserve
Should be "preserve" and I'm not sold on "We are Foundation", maybe "They are Foundation"?
Otherwise, solid concept.

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>>173409398
Nice flag anon

>>173407502
This too. If you've got +6 infulence and you keep hitting the max constantly and being force to spend it on random edicts you should definitely build and outpost or two.

>>173409168

Yeah but what about THE LORE?

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>1.9k stack of pirates blocking the one hyperlane to my home system

What's the most OP civic/ethos/goverment right now in stellaris?

>>173409168
Just play better jeez it's not as if this game is hard anon

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>>173409503
Don't tread on Dree.

How do vassals and federations work together?

Can I invite my vassal to be part of a federation or are my vassals automatically part of my federation?

>>173409398
>"We are Foundation", maybe "They are Foundation"?

Good feedback, for once. Thanks.

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>>173409696
>next system is occupied by space amoebas

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>got the unbidden
>they're not bugged to hell

Thank god

>>173409798
You have to grant vassals independence, and then invite them to the federation as an associate, after which point they might or might not join it properly.

>>173409168
Did the new system screw it up? It used to be my favourite before the update, but I haven't tried it out yet with Utopia. I guess things like the lack of control over which individual pops to purge is a pretty big loss though.

>>173409964
>got the unbidden in 2350 not because of me
>i kill them with arch emitters and kinetics fairly easy with just a 70k stack
>one year later a fallen empire awakes beacause the galaxy is threatened
>a week later they have 200k ships
JUST

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>>173409696
>>173409909
Here's a consolation present.

>>173410382
>Clearly isn't holding the gun at all
Normally I'd change that but it's still hilarious that way.

>>173410229
Yeah, I was playing ironman mode when that popped up for me. I saw 4 220k doom fleets before I rage quit the game until the next update.

I'm glad this isn't a problem anymore.

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Persian Elephants proved their intelligence by converting to strong shinto faith

>>173410550
Shinto is stronk.

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Oh fugg :D:DD

btw does a spurdo portrait pack exist yet?

>>173410720
nvm answered own question :--DDDDD

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=689731389&searchtext=spurdo

>>173403797
FAIRIES

Purge the humans keep the fey

>>173410550
wolololo xDD

>>173403797
>on that tilt its head
Keep as pet.

>>173411246
KYS.

>>173408545
WHERE

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Well shit ...

>>173411143
>>173403797
>no option to develop the non-humans and then get them to fight the humans for your amusement

>>173411705
The Sphere is your friend.

>>173411705
>military power : not a moebius ribbon

>>173411745
Does he fight for freedom?

>>173411705
best leviathan senpai

>>173411812
He fights for large numbers.

Anyone here play Star Ruler 2? I just started and think it's pretty comfy besides the UI

>>173411705
What does an infinity machine do?

>>173411897
I've been playing it for a while after a dev offered a few keys here.
It's full of good, original ideas, but I think they don't hold up really well, even if patches greatly improved it.

>>173411935
I never had it request my help before, but apparently that happens. I tried hacking it, does that preclude it asking for my help later?

>>173411935
Calculates really large numbers before taking a swim.
If you're lucky.
Or you shoot it or you hack it.

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>>173411563
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=855097786

>>173411935
Help it to get tech
Hack it to get idk lol I havnt done it
Kill it to get some energy and materials

Its actually not that powerful, you can kill it with a 30k fleet easy peasy

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>Literally everyone in the cosmos has at least -300 opinion of me

Welp, I get the feeling my hive playthrough is about to come to an end

What's the best ship mod for humans?

>>173412374
The hack just gives you a bunch of research, iirc.
Helping it gives you by far the best outcome.

>>173411935
Alright, so, spoilers, but it's likely the most powerful rewards. If you help it, and own the system it's in, you get a 10% increase in research points across the board. This is essentially a 10% research bonus, on top of any other buffs you already have.

So how will reaching into the shroud fuck me over in the long run?

>>173412726
>>173412287

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For the Republic

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I was looking through the workshop and I'v found a series of them called Alphamod which adds a shit ton of stuff, Is it worth downloading them?

>>173412979
Eh Alpha mod felt a lot easier but more tedious to me. I don't really recommend it.

So, what's the optimal fleet composition now?

>>173413103
I have been having a lot of success with 8-1 destroyers to battleships.
But all my neighbors use missiles, so I use lots of point defence meaning corvettes are kind of useless, and cruisers seem to die too often for my liking compared to their cost.
I am also going up against ai though.

>>173412962
>Xenophilie

Othet than that : 10/10 would have Close Encounter With.

>>173412817
It gave me Sentient AI too, which is excellent

So do we have a collection of civ ideas for stellaris anywhere?
If not would people be interested in one?

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>>173412643
Same. Except I was lucky enough to make peace with some pacifist hippies and another hive, who defended me when the federation of all those nations to the north of me declared war and sent a doomstack of their combined fleets my way.


I have to say, playing as Hive is proving really challenging because of the lack of benefits you get used to in normal playthroughs. You can't game the system so that happiness increases efficiency, and with the consumer goods thing, your resource micro has to be top notch.

However, Hive is also broken as hell too, because it doesn't get affected by negative happiness traits either, meaning you can colonize any habitable planet without repercussions.

>>173413494
based on current mechanics or potential? Because I can run wild with potential

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Should I?

Never had this event before.

>>173413704
I would say flavor personally, gaming the system is not hard,so no real point unless it is really clever.

>>173413805
I welcomed them back and nothing bad happened. Might have been luckyt with the rng though.

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>>173413659
No other hives in the entire cosmos.

Everyone is federating up to stop me

I have become the endgame crisis

>>173402819
I miss that Disassemble button so much. In 1.5 you can move robots around but you can't disassemble them without banning AI.

>playing as a fascist state
>still get cucks clamouring for more xeno immigrants

There should really be some sort of political indoctrination mechanic.

>>173413805
What's the worst that could happen?

>>173410067
I'm trying to go for the federation victory and one primitive planet ascended and is inside of me

Thinking whether I should protectorate or federation it

How does an empire I've never met know that I've genocided the last 3 empires I've come across?

>>173413937
There is an indoctrination civic thing isn't there? I am pretty sure there is a nation wide one.

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>>173414020

>>173414042
Maybe, I'll have to check

>>173414020
Refugees, stories, other nations, warning signals.

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>>173413930
You done goofed.

Did you colonize planets occupied by other nations? Because if you do, the people are insta-purged, due to hive mechanics.

If you're going hive, make sure to get a hivebro. They're the best.

>>173414042
There doesn't seem to be anything, the closest I can find is the "reeducation campaign" planetary edict

Does building multiple wormhole generators in one system help with the bottle necking that can occur?

>>173414249
That was what I was thinkingof, that is the best you can do, the other option is purge them, and take steps to reduce the ethics divergence.

The psionic ascendancy line is pretty neat

>>173414347
>ethics divergence

The mechanics have changed a lot since I last played the game, how do I reduce ethics divergence?

>>173414143
I knew I should have done a better job demolishing those gas chambers

>>173409398
Egalitarian + Xenophobe leads to your empire being split between to factions that want the opposite, would not recommend.

>>173414224
I ate four planets and now everyone hates me because of one little genocide

>>173414406
Well look at it this way. There is ftl communication.

>>173414590
Well, the only way to solve that is by eating them all.

How is Flesh is Weak + Evolutionary Mastery?
I like transhumans cyborgs improved both biologically and with cybernetic implants.

Why can't you play a parasitic hivemind?
Not all hiveminds need to live for the swarm.

>>173414610
Yea, I suppose even if these empires hadn't met anybody else yet either they could have been sending out last ditch emergency broadcasts to every corner of the galaxy or some shit.

I just picked up Stellaris, anything essential I should know about?
Other than the fact that it's likely garbage of course.

>>173405893
Achievements are bugged now.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1-5-0-d050-achievements-not-working.1009783/

Should i get civ6 or stellaris guys?

>>173414797
Keep an eye on what tech the people you plan to war use and get stuff to counter it.

>>173414813
They are both good, if you prefer turn based civ, if you prefer real time stellaris.

>wargoal is for them to gib me 2 planets
>win war, get planets
>HATE XENOS, so I purge their pops
>when pops get purged I also lose planets+a part of the territory I got from the war

supposed to work like this or...?

>>173415018
If you want to purge, you'll need to gene mode your people so you can inhabit their worlds. Otherwise what did you expect to happen?

So the current codex crack is broken for workshop mods?

So how do you gear up to fight a fallen empire, one of the ones near me keeps picking on me and I want to teach him a lesson.
apparently colonizing tomb worlds with robots upsets some people.

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The game continues, I was wondering why there seemed to be so few empires but apparently the Mandate of Pelisi (purple) is a fanatical militant egalitarian democratic crusader who's gobbled up 3 empires in the past 100 years while the fanatical militant xenophobe hegemonic imperialist Till'Nyese Combine (cyan) ate it's neighbors too, both having 500+ populations.

I didn't think fanatical militant was that powerful.

>>173414797
Beginner Tips:
Early-game, focus heavily on minerals
Mid-game, focus on credits

Explore with a corvette so your science ships don't get jumped on by fog of war.

Never let your navy be weak, because it will spur aggressive empires into action

>>173415084
Thanks, now I'll know. Expected to lose the planets, but keep the territory.

>>173415018
Yes, put a pop on the planet if you want to keep it.
I recommend teching into robots if you want to play this way as they have 100% habitability everywhere and you can just build them and move them around as needed.

>>173415135
>Fight a fallen empire

The absolute mad man

>>173415018
Can a colony be a colony without any citizens?

Leave one pop to keep it from depopulating, and transfer your own.

>>173415278
I border three of them. One likes me and gives me stuff on occasion one ignores me, and the third hates me.

>>173415287
Can't do that anymore, purge is by species now, not by pop.

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>>173415135
just fuck them up with an equal fleet that is set up to counter whatever their ships use

if you lack tech you can blow up their mining stations and scan the debris then gear up. Fallen empires do fuck all even if you are at war with them most of the time, they very rarely actually attack you.

>>173415353
Resettle them to another planet before purging and keep a robot pop.

>>173415350
Be a jew and make them fight each other.

>>173415353
You could disable their ability to breed then forcefully move some out to make room for your pops before the purge.

You know what I feel Stellaris needs?

For any AI that you have a Defence Pact or Guarunteeing Independance or whatever to give you a message at least when it's about to do something REEEEAAAAALLLY stupid, like declare war on a Fallen Empire when it only has a single 1k of ships.

And next to their message to you should be a button marked I IMPLORE YOU TO RECONSIDER.

I'm not too mad, I'd screwed myself by not expanding when I should have, but I still don't understand what the fuck just happened.

>>173415396
wew, the one time I tried fighting a fallen empire they destroyed all my fleets and bombed my homeworld, even tho they were fighting a defensive war.

>>173415396
Oh no these assholed flew into my capital system blew up all my orbital facilities, my navy, and then fuckef off. For now I just let them humiliate me every few years well I build up to cripple my expansive neighbors that use any weakness I show to start wars with me or the other republics I protect.

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>>173412287
>https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=855097786

These somehow look even worse than vanilla ships...

>>173415508
This is why I never ally in the early game, unless it's essential.

>>173415625
I have to wonder how a man develops this poor taste.

>>173415625
Kill yourself my man.

>>173415589
>>173415623
Guess I got lucky, I have thought them a few times in my current game and they barely ever attack me, I often forget I am at war.

>>173415704

by consuming too much weeb shit

So anyone know how rebel slaves choose what nation to join? I have had the event fire off twice for me.

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>>173414953
think ill go civ6 seems more chill

I made a huge mistake going pacifist for a federation game

Should have gone militaristic and be a "democratic crusader"

never again pacifism

>>173415589

I've beaten a Fallen Empire one time only. The AI used to be stupid and send in it's troop transports first, I've managed to get some sweet lategame tech that way.

Even though I was basically on near tech parity and fleet parity with them they still gave me some real trouble. You need at least three lategame fleets working together to put them down, and one of them was literally my Too-Expensive-Cashwise-To-Ever-Leave-The-Homeworld Home-Fleet.
It was literally the first time the Home-Fleet had been out to play for over a century, 1st Fleet and 2nd Fleet and my uplifted super-soldier race Escort Fleet had been doing all of the heavy lifting until then.

>>173415815
They seem to like egalitarian empires.

>>173415789
But a weeb would love LoGH. This man of shit taste clearly shitposts about anime on an anime website while hating on LoGH designs, so clearly he cannot be a weeb.

is civ6 good yet

>>173415625
Not enough polygons.

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Going to build a rowbutt empire, will these guys be any good?

>>173415864
Liberation wars are okay. But going full pacifist means defense wars only and that is some old bullshit

So what is the good way to use Sectors?

>>173416115
I realized this 10 hours in to my most recent game. It's sort of fun, but once I fully run out of space to expand I'll essentially turn into a fallen empire with no way to ever awaken.

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>>173415704

I don't like them either. They look like meat hammers? This has to be some fanboy, otaku-thing, which I actually can understand. It's like when you force yourself liking some foods that taste like shit, just because you eat it often enough.

>>173416032
Synthetic evolution is retarded. Don't bother.

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>>173416343
What sort of ship design do you like my subhuman friend?

>>173416426
What is wrong with synthetic evolution?

>>173416426
Really? Why's that?

>>173416279
I like to make mine large enough to be self sufficient and be fully automated. They even build construction ships and get resources on their own.
I also don't tax them until they build up enough to stand on their own with the taxes.

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>Never ever

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Aaaaaaaand droppped

>>173416514
It's shit, boring, and lazily designed.

>>173416575
I will never get the appeal of space battleship yamato.

>>173416525
>>173416514
It is basically "switch all your pops to synthetics with fancy name" one-time event. No nice events, no interesting new features. Nothing.
On top of that, synthetics don't have species rights, cannot migrate and are built at glacial pace.

who had the idea to make orange lasers the top level? They're the ugliest. Purple or Blue are better.

>>173412836
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwrGr5fosfw

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HOW
ABOUT
THAT

Is there a way to disable every FTL type except two? Hyperlanes and Jumpdrives in particular.

>>173416654
Me neither, I guess it's a weeb thing.

I was playing as fanatic spiritualist+pacifist for that sweet unity
>Unbidden arrive and a militaristic faction appears
>i support it because i already have all ascension perks
>steamroll the Unbidden thanks to being the galactic defender
>an awakened fallen empire decides to attack me for no reason whatsoever
>a xenophobe faction appears
>i blitzkrieg the shit out of that AE and i also have a +33% damage to fallen empires
>now i am xenophobe+militaristic+spiritualist and have tripled my territory
>Utopia

>>173416731
What am I supposed to be looking at here.

>>173416496
It's pretty obvious that you're butthurt over the fact that I didn't like that mod and I am fully aware that you're only asking me so you could criticize whatever I reply with, but I'll make a little collage for you anyway in a sec.

>>173416825
human shard fallen empire next to united nations of earth

>have some cuckold commie faction
>suppress it
>only lovers their happiness and doesn't get rid of them

HELP!

>>173416279
Build up your planets, hand them to sector, complain that you can't tax them 100%.

>>173416665
Oh...
I hope they will rework it.

>>173416743
Why do you hate wormholes?

Shroud is such useless bullshit, 2 perk points for psy army (which doesn't matter, you can capture any planet with any army) and those random slight shroud buffs. Are you seriously saying that 2 other meme paths are even worse?

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>>173416774
>>173416654
That's fine, for tastes colors.
I am just a weeb who likes space and the IJN.
I would be as happy with Gunbuster or a Macross ship set though.

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>tfw very strong, resilient species, martial empire with a warrior culture
>ground forces led by a butcher are so buffed they can outfight the Fallen Empire gene-warriors that are trying to invade my homeworld, despite my fleet being destroyed

I guess I'm easy-mode now, I don't think my planets can be conquered by the DYEL species that make up the rest of the galaxy.

>>173417150
>Are you seriously saying that 2 other meme paths are even worse?
Yes. You at least get some events and interactions. Synthetic evolution is basically "spend X engineering to convert your pops into synths". Lazy as fuck.

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>>173417197
Gunbuster ships are patrician.

My general got the defensive perk for taking the enemies homeworld.
What memery is this?

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Somehow managed to live long, since my immediate neighbours are also really friendly. Thought I'd end up being smashed by my own creation when I met them to the south, but they haven't done much yet. I guess having a xenophile FE nearby stops any fanatic purifier from doing anything much at all.

This mod is pretty useful since it lets your rulers do things rather than just being some figurehead that gives empire-wide bonuses via traits.

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>>173416654

Well, in Japan it's pretty fucking easy to see why it's popular. Since it's poorly disguised revisionism where Japan actually joined the right side in WW2, but in space.

In the west? Nostalgia over childhood programming most likely.
Quite WHY the media execs thought to localise Starblazers is somewhat of a mystery given the content matter. It's not like that show was what they considered to be kid friendly in it's original format certainly, so a LOT of work making it PG probably had to be done.

And it's not as if Leiji Matsumoto was that well known at the time either.

I do quite like the Federation ship designs outside of the Yamato, they don't quite look like generic bricks but not quite as much as Naval Ships In Space that Yamato does.

But, then again, I unironically like the ship designs from Halo, so what do I know?

so, in theory, how many traditions will you have finished by the time you have finished an ascension path and are able to build megastructures?

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I'm playing my first game of Stellaris and I'm swimming in resources. Somehow I feel I should be spending them somewhere, but I don't know where. Should I be building military stations maybe?

>>173417451
Depends on when you tech into mega structures so you can take the path to unlock the important ones it seems.

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>>173417424
>But, then again, I unironically like the ship designs from Halo, so what do I know?

Some of them are good, halo has an aesthetic which varies wildly in quality.

>>173417451
I got a physics tech that gave me a free ascension perk slot, I don't know how common it is.

>>173417150
Apparantly biological ascension is boring but powerful.

>>173417469
Your fleet cap is low make sure you build and upgrade all your dock yards and then cap out your fleet limit.

>>173417670

I've got the Sins of the Prophets shipmod (with the Extra Ships Classes Mod) running currently and the models there for both UNSC and Covenent are just gorgeous to look at.

They really have put in a LOT of work into them over the years and you can tell.

>>173417424
Japan likes to change history and pretend they weren't a bunch of imperialists fuckwits committing atrocities after atrocities.

>>173417670
Halo was a pretty good game. If it weren't for the weapons limitations and the regenerating health that almost killed FPS, it would be fun.

>>173417834

It's kind of suprising that there's less Alt-History Novels about the South winning the American Civil war really. I think Turtledove did one, and that's it.

>>173417975
Because Americans are less retarded and ready to admit that they fucked up badly a few times. Japanese are all "we is perfect we never screwed up unit 731 never existed".

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I just conquered these 4 worlds covered in disgusting bug people. They're tropical worlds so I can't really stick my alpine preference humans on them. Should I just purge or keep them as slaves?

Also
>win the war, conquering an entire civilization
>"In Memory of Mercedes Romero" starts playing

Manly tears were shed.

>>173418095
>unit 731 never existed

*unit 731 did nothing wrong

>>173418158
Just realized I could just stick a robot on there.

>>173417975
Turtledove did two actually, guns of the south which involves time traveling neo nazis trying to split america in half, and how few remain where the south wins without Russia intervening against the british and french somehow.

But there are a lot of what if the south won the civil war books, just most of them are by literal whos? and never gain any popularity.

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>>173417975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_alternate_histories
There is actually a bunch of them

>>173416654
Its a retarded weeb shit, virgins eat that up.

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>>173416496
Here you go, friendo. These ones look godlike in comparison to these:

>>173416343

>>173418445
>Dude BIRDS lmao
t. Romulan

>>173418305
That's pathetic.

>>173418445
lol

>>173418095
>Because Americans are less retarded and ready to admit that they fucked up badly a few times.

Yeah, but you have to understand, most sci-fi and fantasy authors do not fall into this catagory of Americans.
Remember Heinlein? I read Starship Troopers, and I swear he put a bit of a story in the beginning, and then a bit at the end because he knew those were the only parts his agent would read and then filled the middle part with one big long political essay about how democracy was dumb and being a soldier somehow magically injected intelligence and responsibility into you.

In truth, Starship Troopers is a one chapter long short story, appended to long meandering treatise.
Verhoeven not reading the book before making the film probably was the best for it, although like I said, I wish somebody had passed him the cliff notes for the first chapter.

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>>173418445
Nigger plz.

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adding some /tg/ to my /vg/, i'm aware it's not spelled with an O

>>173418607

Oh Nexus you were too beautiful for this world.

>>173418593
I mean Americans admit they murdered the shit out of the natives, and that in retrospect it was really fucked up to do.
They also acknowledge their hand in slavery more then the Brits or the Africans do.

>>173418095
It's cultural, Japanase were quick to renounce their old ways while Germany would have exploded with neo-nazi movements without the Denazification.
The americans understood that the japanase mind is not the same as the western one and humiliating them wouldn't have caused at all the results you would expect from an european or western nation.
One of the reasons there was almost no japanase ressentment towards the USA was the fact they were treated nicely and with respect.

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Are we posting spaceships now?

Why the fuck am I fanatic spirit/pacifist and DON'T automatically start with a theocratic government? And where the fuck do I change my government in game to actually be a theocratic gov so this faction can finally shut the fuck up about it?

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>>173418445
You have absolutely vile taste, the only good ships are ones with cathedrals on top.

>>173418758
Moar!

>>173418749
And yet you still find Japanese talking about WWII as if they won. Even Kancolle is a rewriting of history.

>>173418694

Is there are way of doing Illithids in Stellaris? Xenophobic/Spiritual Livestockers?

And is there a good portrait?

>>173418727

>Implying that the Brits had ANYTHING on the Dutch or Belgians when it came to reprehensible shit done in Africa

>>173418749
poor tojo took the fall for hitlerhito the manlet
;_;7

>>173418727
>They also acknowledge their hand in slavery more then the Brits

That may have something to do with the fact that Britain spent a century stamping the remains of the slave trade.

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Ooooh shit ..
I hope this wony fuck me up senpai.

>>173418710
Damn straight :(
What fucking drives me up the wall is the fact that Nexus engine was fucking brilliant and its wasted in favour of another AC/COD/Ubishit title...

>>173418865
In regards to the slave trade yes.
In regards to doing fucked up shit the Belgians and Germans are twenty yards ahead of everyone else.

>>173418865
there is plenty of molluskoid portraits you could say are space illithids. xenophobe is a culture type you select at the beginning, so is spiritual, livestockers... if you mean slavery and or using people as food, that is something you can do now, though the latter I haven't figured out yet.

>>173418749
>Japanase were quick to renounce their old ways while Germany would have exploded with neo-nazi movements without the Denazification.

That is some straight up bullshit.
Germany was collectively fucked for good part of 80 years with guilt and nazi image.
Fuck japs still haven't admited to Nankin Massacre and they dont even teach their children shit like that happened.

>>173418965
*stamping out

>>173418807

I always preferred Chaos ship design to Imperial.

Something about Baroque Star Destroyers works for me.

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>>173418848
>Even Kancolle is a rewriting of history.
You mean WW2 wasn't a girls possesed by warships from every super power to kill evil ghost ships who are H.R. Giger fangirls?

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>>173418818
anything specific

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>>173418865
>>173419026

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So started a new play through well I wait for my mp friend to continue my other game.
Here are the humble beginnings.

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>>173418807
>>173418758
>>173418607
>>173418445
Neither of you retards know anything about spaceships! This is how a spaceship looks like

>>173418762
Oi cunts.

>>173419097
they were just prostitutes dude

>>173419146
Any aestheticly pleasing spaceships, as long as they come in wallpaper-size!

>>173419210
You expect an answer with that kind of behavior?

Are mods bugged or something? I'm trying to use ones that say they've been updated but nothing pops into my mod folder.

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>>173419205
Ironic posting is strictly banned in this subreddit, please hand in your Tokens©.

>>173419296
>wallpaper-size
Ill do my best.

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>>173419181
And off to a swimming start.
They must be purged.

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>>173419205
Bitch please

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The USS Sulaco from Aliens was a pretty neat design

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>>173419431
>>173419536
>>173419573
>>173419431
>>173419146
>>173419138
Bamping

>>173419581
I dig that design.

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>>173419431
Noice, please keep em coming!
Here's one of the skyranger from XCOM.

So when are they adding an actual trading system?

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Who /cultured/ here.
>tfw cant build super massive motherships to put pops on

>>173419581
Watching the first two Alien films also puts me in the mood for deep space exploration and empire building on a huge map with very few civs.

>>173418593
Heinlein also wrote The Moon is a Harsh Mistress which is politically the polar opposite of Starship Troopers.

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This is actually the ship from Avatar (the movie with blue aliens).

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Space Cathedrals are the only correct choice, everything else is HERESY!

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>>173419959
I fucking hate that movie.
Fucking disgrace to pass something so cliche and done to death as some kind of revolution ..

>>173419965
I tried using the Imperial Navy mod for stellaris but I think the new faction colour thing fucked up the textures, has it been updated?

>>173420129
it looks weird only in the nation building preview in my opinion

>>173420129
yeah, colors are fine for this mod.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864541681

only the ship they show you in the screen where you create your civ is fucked.

>>173420189
Oh okay, I'll have to try it again

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>start new game as my space sahuagins
>fucking first system outside of my home system has this techo sphere leviathan

give it to me straight, how fucked am I?