/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

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Almost there, just have to figure out why the buildings aren't showing up

There is no spider hidden in the OP. Do not bother checking.

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Welcome ambassador.

>>175571635
Bullshit I see a tiny spider by one of the skeletons

>>175571683

Is that a whip?

>>175571703
That's a rat.

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anyone else wonder what they taste like?

they look so.. meaty, like scallops

>>175571683

>rapedungeon room.

>>175571171
Hmm, is dat sum Dungeon Keeper 3?
I was rather disappointed with the fact that it was discernibly worse than DK2.

>>175571823
Next to the rat

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>>175571635
I see the outline of a thicc booty sitting down facing away

>>175571171
what game is that?

>>175572224
No, it's War For The Overworld.

It has some very nice ideas (like the beasts having their own portals, or the tavern to recover the money you paid your troops, or torturing enemies to death to recover their souls and infuse it in one of your creatures to make it extremely powerful), but it suffers from being not generic enough. So instead of having an army of giant spiders and spiders, you have Shadows, Bafus (blind, floating creatures), Oculus (slim beholders) and some insectoid thingy.

>>175572414
War For The Overworld. A spiritual sequel to Dungeon Keeper.

>>175571805
No it's a nigger.

>>175572563
War For the Overworld is literally DK3. Also they had the Casino where your creatures spent their earnings in DK2. You could either let them win to make them happy or rig the casino to give you money.

>annex a smaller FE before my fleet strength gets too high
>right after i finish the militarist FE near the one i annexed starts feeling threatened and decs on me
>it has superior fleet power and tech but inferior naval capacity
Should be able to win with corvette/cruiser meat shield in front of my dreadnoughts and carriers then, right lads?

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>>175572712

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>>175572712
Kek

>>175572563
>War For The Overworld.
is it actually good? DK2 was getting too cartoony with their ebin jokes but DK1 was fucking perfect

What's the best setup for flak cover in a fleet? A separate destroyer/cruiser config dedicated to it or just have a single flak turret on one of my standard designs, replacing a medium plasma?

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>>175571683

Majestic...

>>175572939
fleet power isnt striclty indicative of relative power once you start getting into the tens of thousands. Under ideal circumstances you can defeat fleets many times your power

>implying robots have no soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gOWCVfnN-E

>>175573378
What do ruined science nexus/arrays look like?

>>175573159
Is a ok DKll copy.

>>175573592
You cant

>>175573298
1 M flak in all your cruisers is enough

>>175573378
What does a ruined Ringworld look like?

>>175573514
>Robots have no pain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62C5_wlYXqA

>>175573671
same as it does currently

>>175573650
thanks getting it anyway, DK2 was fun enough

>>175572865
But the casino made your creatures unhappy, while the tavern is mandatory, and make them happy to spend their money.

Not to mention you can feed them their own friends, and it's fucking hilarious.

>>175573159
Honestly, I can't say if it's good, but I like it. My complain is that it's a bit too slow, and it's all about doomstacks. Once your doomstack is dead, you're basically fucked up, the enemy can make a beeline to your core and kill you.
Gameplaywise, it plays like Dungeon Keeper 2 with a few more things, but the core gameplay is the same : make slaves out of mana, dig gold, make rooms, recruit monsters, send them to train, put them in the arena, etc...
The differences is that you get rituals to replace the offering to the gods, you choose what to unlock in the library, the maps are smaller, and you can have monsters that automatically drag beasts to the arena.

And the top monster is the vampire rather than Horny, but he's a pain in the ass to feed.

>>175573775
Just don't get the kalypso one, that one sucks. Dungeons it's called

>>175570914
how's it bugged?

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>>175573592

Ready to be reactivated.

>>175573378
How does that happen

Is one vision a good ASSperk? should I take it before technological ascendancy?

>>175573983

You will find them abandoned in the next patch. You can repair them with the proper tech.

>>175573867
wow looks like ass

>>175573378

>That stuff is rather spooky. Just to think that the galaxy used to full of interstellar civilisations and all the sudden it got exterminated in apocalyptic wars.

>>175574090
You apparently don't need the Utopia DLC to repair them

>>175574297
I think that's just for the ringworlds. The rest will require Utopia.

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fml

>its the 2600s
>an AI is just now building a ringworld
>I get a message about it
>'it probably wont be as cool as ours'
I wonder if it would have said something different if my second ring world had been done already.

>>175574562
Correct

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OM NOM NOM

>>175574910
>that fucking hairstyle on the guy to the left

Jesus fucking christ...

>>175574910
>a shitty fanatic purifiers

>>175575008
numales

>>175575139
>males

Thats generous.

>The Guild 3 fucking never

Is it worth using a Giga Cannon for arrpee purposes or are two kinetic artillery batteries still better?

>>175574910
I hope they fix that typo

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Could someone point out how couldn't it at least give me this building? Is it not closed properly?

>>175575008
Sweden.

>>175575252
Neither

>>175575298
He's a britbong tho

>>175575294
Nevermind, found out why. I closed the planet section before I did the tiles. Let's see if it works now

>>175574910
>a tyranid ethic
Okay.

Should I enable fallen empires and endgame crises? Are they hard?

>>175575512
He's a britbong who thought "I need to move to Sweden".

>>175575958
>Are they hard?
Not at all. If anything, they're the end game

So why are victory conditions in every 4x game fucked and shitty?

Is there no possible way to do them correctly?

>>175575958
DO IT FAGGOT

At least 2 Fallen Empires so that War in Heaven has a chance of happening.

>>175574910
MUGANI?

>>175575958
If you don't, you will bore yourself to death.
They're the end-game content.

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Fucking finally. Also saw that I had accidentally deleted the moon, so it's back

>Retard AI keeps placing the colony capital on top of the Betharian stone resources
Fucking cunts I don't want to have to micromanage everything to avoid this shit
Is there a mod that lets you personally manage buildings in sectors without having to remove them every time you want to change something?

>>175576697
There's a solution. Untick the colonize option for sectors and colonize them yourself.

>>175576769
But that's what I'm enjoying that the sectors do

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>>175576018
>>175576034
>>175576139
H-here I go...

>>175576915
>not setting fall empires to 4 to guarantee conflicting bullies in the playground
Weak

>>175576915
>Empire Placement: Random
>AI Aggressiveness: Low
Oh boy.

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>>175576915
>600 stars
>eliptical
>15 enemies
>no adv starts
>only 2 fallen empires
>low agressivness
>ironman and adv neighbours off

Fucking weak ass pussy.

>>175577281
This.

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>>175577117
>>175577236
>>175577281
>>175577313

I'm still a newbie.

>>175576915
How to fix your settings for a nice first-game, but still retaining challenge:

Keep size and galaxy type the same
Put in max AI empires, this way you will naturally avoid run-away blobs because the AI's will be competing against each other
Put in 2 advanced AI starts at least to have another threat apart from the 2 FE's
Keep FE's at 2
Keep Hab at x1
AI Agressiveness on NORMAL
Diff is ok
Allowed FTL on Any is ok but any sorry-ass Hyperlane memers will probably get decimated early on
Empire placement in CLUSTERS
Advanced Neighbors on OFF is ok for first time
Endgame crises on is good
Ironman off is also good for first time

>>175577538
Put in 20 AI's brah, or you will get blob-city in your galaxy, Also put Agressiveness back to normal and Cluster starts you wuss. Or you'll get the scenario where some douche spawns all by himself and gets to take a lot of systems unopposed and then he'll be a bitch to fight later on.

>>175576268
good job anon. how hard was it

>>175577952
It took me two hours to figure it out, and it was due to the fact that I'm a blind idiot who can't see when something is open and closed

>>175577775
Isnt enemy blobs good? At least they arent pushoverd

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So why didn't /civ4xg/ like battleships again? Aren't they cost effective? Are they generally shitty? I'm thinking of building a couple of these. Is it a mistake?

>>175578396
Read the ship design pastebin

>>175578396
Aren't cost effective, too slow to produce, too much maintenance, too big so easy to hit with L slots and extremely vulnerable to X slot weaponry.

By comparison, cruisers can be churned out far faster, are more cost effective and aren't as vulnerable to massed L slot weaponry and X slot sniping struggles to hit them reliably meaning more wasted shots.

>>175578396
The only thing battleships are good at is PD screening and taking out other battleships

>>175578396
>carrier core
Yep it's a mistake. The problem with battleships is they're only good against cruisers and other battleships, and are expensive and take ages to produce. Compared to cruisers that can be build in much shorter time and can be effective against every ship class because M slots are overpowered there's never a reason to bring battleships where a better solution wouldn't be to just build more cruisers.

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Any other NSC users have suggestions on how to build this? Ignore the lopsided tech - recently defeated a FE so I'm researching some of their tech at the moment.

>>175578686
>>175578829
>>175579387
>they fell for the cruiser meme

>>175577538

The problem with low amount of AI is that wars will never happen as the AI will wait to build more colonist or outposts to expand into empty space instead of taking it from others

>>175579541
throw in AI into the beast, start massproducing them with a screening force, then laugh at your enemies feeble attacks.

>>175579603
You know the cruiser meme isn't actually a meme right anon? They're statistically the best ships in the game.

>>175579603
Just because you don't agree with it doesn't make it a meme

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>>175579541
>2335
>658 sized fleet
>73.6k power

>>175579873
This desu.
aggressive AI, sturdy well rounded defenses, ample weapon selection. Cruisers have it all.

BCs are only good for killing BCs.
Corvettes get #rekt by destroyers and don't fare well against cruisers.
Destroyers are just a weaker BC.

-Tropical species should have non-adaptable.
-Arctic ones should have very adaptable.

If I put afterburners on a defense station, will it fly?

>>175580540
I think NSC halves fleet power calculations.
I don't use it because bloat though.

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>>175580736
Yeah, it halves it because of some weird bug that happens when fleet power gets too high.

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Was able to beat what turned out to be a precursor fleet with Ion-age tech in Aurora 4x.

Feels good.

>>175580670
Of course.

>>175580640
Yeah because if you dump a polar bear in the Amazon, it'll survive just fine.

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am i heartless?

>BUILDING RUINED
>???????
>doesn't tell you where so I manually check all my planets
>it's literally, LITERALLY one single fucking Corvette that jutmst started bombarding a planet I forgot to build a spaceport on
>fortifications are at 99%
>he ruined my energy nexus
SIXTY NIGGERS

>>175581396
All furries must die

>>175581396
No, you're just an asshole

>>175581396
When you have vermin in your house, you don't cry about it, you call pest control to remove them.

>>175581214
Oh god plz more..
I have such a huge boner for autistic shit like that..

What are some of your favourite govt. ethics/civics builds? Particularly ones that make you play in a unique way.

>>175581396
> Stop exterminating us!
> Yeah well sorry I'd like to but you just need to stick it out for 10 years okay?

Is there a cap on the maximum mineral stockpile or something? I just built a Silo but it still seems to max out at 20k

>tfw 80% of your fleet power comes from inscrutable xenotech dreadnaughts of unknown make, and dubious controllability
This troubles me.

>>175581854
Minerals cap out at 32767.

Not sure if this is the place to ask this but does anyone know how to get at the endless legend art/quest dialog? I've found a decent bit if it online but there are some images I can't find.

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>>175581706
Its from a lets play of Aurora 4x. In game the ships are just dots, which allows the autistic to draw out what they look like.

Me, I can only use paint....

>>175580619
>destoryers are a weaker bc
You mean stronger becuase of their excellent tracking computer

>>175582179
*distinct fapping noise in the distance*

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>fleet power has integer wraparound past 2^31-1
I just don't even know what to say at this point.
Bravo.
Bravissimo.

>>175582680
it's a 32 bit game anon

>>175582680
>fleet power of 2,147,483,648
>over 2 billions
It's not like it's possible to have that much fleet power without some shitty mods.

>>175583008
kys
kys at once you braindead apologist

>>175583110
Except the game stores it with three hidden decimal places so it actually wraps at 2 million.

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>mods

>>175583121
what do you expect them to do? make a 64 bit version? now?

this is just like Runescape.

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>>175583008
I am 18 and what is 32 bit?

>>175583408
Something shit devs justify with muh toaster fanbase.

>>175583408
I'm not saying it's good, just that that's the fact of the matter.

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Would you? I know I would.

>>175582179
Man, I love realistical spehs ships.

>>175583408
64 bit processor support ≠ 64 bit program support.
Even Windows went 64 bit only around 7.

>>175583610
I prefer starfish.

>>175583523
They don't have floating point numbers and long longs where you live?

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>>175583728
Aw geeze, my bad.
I didn't realize the software doesn't exist yet.

>>175583951
No, we're using arrays of booleans.

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>>175583371
>That race
>That flag
What the fuck

Is there a way to tell another Empire that's starting a war that you don't want the enemy to cede you any planets for winning? I just had an FE declare war on me while I'm stuck in this backwater.

I poked some sleeping thing in the Shroud and it took one of my scientists. Think they'll come back all weird? or did they get eaten/raped to peices?

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I think I have more than enough space kingdoms, dictatorships, and theocracies. Suggest me some democracies.

>>175584420
Fanatic Pacifist Spiritualist agrarian idyll conservationist moral democracy

>>175584205
Are you pretending to be retarded? Even microsoft itself took 6 years to release a non-meme 64 bit supported OS. And you expect some sweden to be better.

>>175583610
>No mouth for a ballgag

dropped

>>175584716
well tbf it's fucking stupid that paradox don't make 64 bit games, but equally we can't expect wrap-arounds and other hacks to not exist so long as they stick to 32 bit like it's 2003

What the hell are multithreading and 64bits?

>>175584716
Microsoft sucks ass, though.

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Who playing as the new and improved Space Elves.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=915432220
Apparently there is also a NSFW patch though I'm not sure whats the point

>>175584846
well.. they're certainly new.

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>>175584846
Well, I know in which butthole I'll stick my dick next. Better prepare for slavery, degenerate space elf. I'm going to rape her so much even Slaanesh will blush.

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>>175584842
AMD memes.

>>175584846
The mods started life on Lover's Lab (There is an accompanying Drow mod).

The NSFW stuff is mostly just fetish outfits, particularly for slaves etc.

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>>175582462
I didn't draw it, but the text is mine.

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>>175584219
S P A C E E L V E S

>>175584843
I never said it was good, it's just a company who would be in the same bed with hardware manufacturers and it still took forever to make a 64 bit system.
Hell even Firefox 64 became a default brach only in the previous year.

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>>175584846

>>175585250
Don't have tons of hours in Stellaris, but never found space elves to enslave :(

>>175585742
WELL THEN GET ON IT

>beginning of game
>aggressive ai declares war on me before they even have a fleet capable of defeating a space station

>>175585820
Not a stellaris expert in any way. Any way to give a higher chance for space elves?

>>175574910
>Can't decide between Hivemind and Fanatical Purifiers?
>Well here is a shitty mix of both!

>>175586246
>make space elves
>toggle to make them always appear in games
>???
>profit

>>175586365
Ahh, you make them.

As said, I am not a expert, only have about 15 hours in it.

>>175586545
just get this mod>>175584846

The creator said something was wrong with the spawn, so you get like 20% space elves in your game.

>>175586327
dude hitpoints, bio research speed and hull regen is pretty gud

Are space elves milkable?

>>175586327
>not wanting to be tyranid/zerg
Kys


That perk better enable organic ships and have a special reaction to the pret swarm fags.

>>175586694
Only if they're pregnant.

And they rarely do, so you have to keep on pumping into them

>>175586813
>not genemodding them to be fertile

>>175574910
Please give us biological ships and architecture.

>>175586813
I kept pumping my elf but she still isn't pregnant! What am I doing wrong?

>>175586958
Which hole are you pumping into?

>>175586745
>Tells other to kill themselves
>Believe a shitty civic will give organic ships
Do as you said.

>>175586694
>>175586813
>>175586882
>>175586958
is this /vg/ or /d/?

>>175586665
Might have to start a game with this and the Asari mod with a enslaving empire.

>>175587017
The sexy one between her buttcheeks.

>attack space elf ships using amoeba flagella

will ship become pregnet?

>>175587085
The slit or the pucker?

>>175587060
/d/ is about spanking, so it's /vg/

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>>175585250
>Elves
>stronk

>>175587157
The pucker. The one that causes her to make cute little pained groans.

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I think it's hatching.

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>prosperity traditions completed
>terraforming liquids
>terraforming gases
>World Shaper leader
Fuck yeah, 18 worlds for 1800 credits. Far cheaper than colonizing and removing the tile blockers manually.

>>175587676
what the fug is that

hey guys i'm looking for custom music to play

space/homeworldish music would good

russian march meme music is also acceptaple

>>175587253
>not modifying your pet race to hold your grocery bags for you

seriously?

Anyone play with 0.25x habitable planets?

>>175587676
HAK HAK HAK?

>>175588163
Used to, it's basically impossible to field FEs and crises unless you go conquering everyone though.
Plus AI is shit at dealing with low-hab planets.

>>175587716
There's a certain beauty to terraforming rather than genetic manipulation, isn't there?

Also! New report on my second playthrough of the Ichorian farmer-bugs. Apparently, I have just completed the Horizon Signal event and, in the process, ascended my race to that of the Messengers. Now, this presents a potential cleave in my original plans to become a race of immortal machines, so I have to ask...

... Do you think I should still pursue Cybernetics, or embrace the Worm and go full genetic-manipulation?

>>175588326
So it's not a good idea?

>>175588454
>just completed the Horizon Signal event and, in the process, ascended my race to that of the Messengers.
Messenger is not the end. If you haven't installed a fix, you can't research the omega theory tech to finish the event chain.

>>175581414
What, did you disable the unemployed pop alert or something?

>>175588672
I find 0.75 makes them scarce enough to not have to blob in the early game and plentiful enough to support an endgame fleet once you decide to go into full expansion mode.

>>175588682

Honestly? I'm not too bothered by this. I frankly don't want to kill my home star and turn it into a blasted hellscape. My bugs are gardeners, and a toxic radioactive dump is not the future they envision.

Are their any good fleet battling games/simulators out there?

>>175589016
You can kill the worm, then. You monster

>>175589217
What has the Worm ever done for me?

when's the next significant dlc/update? Any clues on what it'll include?

>>175589585
He loves you.

>>175589705
Aaaawwwww....

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I'm going to pull out a wisdom tooth tomorrow :(
I'm scared. Pls comfort me with memorial hymns of heroism. I will most likely die...

>>175589168
Depends on how autistic you want to be.

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Fug

>>175589838
>I'm scared
You won't even be awake for it you pussy, man the fuck up

>>175590102
do it faget

>>175589838
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrkRiK2C-0

whats the pop growth difference between planets with 40% habitability and say 80-100%?

>>175589838
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVLGl_mV_iY

>>175589838

They're going to knock you up with laughing gas, don't worry. If you're lucky they might even put you under. And then you get the good drugs!

>>175589705
Dogs love me too, doesn't mean I'll let one shit on the carpet.

Will AI that had their ethics changed via awakened empire vassalization ever change back after being freed?

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>>175589838
Let me sing you the song of my people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy-sVTaZRPk

Also, you wont feel any pain at all if you opt for, uh, what's the fucking word? Pain-reducing-medication whateverthefuck.

>>175589838
You'll either be numbed for hours and won't feel a thing whilst fully concious or knocked out with gas.
Man the fuck up.

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>>175589838
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GDRx-F1C0

Do you not have a dentist who can pull it out for you properly? If the tooth breaks and part gets left in your gum you could get a serious infection.

>>175590296
> Getting knocked out for a fucking wisdom tooth
Wow what a weak ass pussy. it's one or two needles and you don't feel nothing.

>>175589838

Okay, here's exactly how they're going to do this thing.

You're going to walk into the room, they'll check you in and call you back. They will ask you to wait in another room while they get the dentist. When they arrive, they will take you to another room where the equipment is set up. If you get it like I did, you are going to sit in a chair, lean back, and they will put a mask over your mouth with a gas that produces the same sort of feeling as if you are extremely, absurdly drunk (with none of the nausea) while they get a needle in your arm.

And then you wake up in recovery, the sensation of falling asleep from the gas being quite similar to your eyes slamming shut for maybe five seconds.

>>175591238
Unless you have an immunity or resistance to anesthesia.
Tends to happen in some people or those with serious infections that grew accustomed to the pain. Happened with me and two rotten cracked teeth last year. 4 attempts using the traditional needle method. 4-6 needles each time. They couldn't believe it. Had to get sedated so I wasn't aware.
Thing is I remember everything that happened and even conversations when you are supposed to forget that sort of shit with sedation.
They just assume I have a strong resistance to traditional anesthetics.

>>175591256
What's the healing process like? Can I return to work the next day or should I take a couple of days off?

>>175592083
You'll need a day off, you underage moron.

Is it possible to fight the Unbidden or Prethoryn in small galaxy (400 stars)?

>>175592213
You have a lot of unresolved anger issues. Probably because you haven't had sex your whole life or maybe your daddy left you. Do you need a hug?

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>unbidden pop up in (((Pathetic))) enemy territory
>send fleet in, they destroy the portal just as 3 gigantic unbidden fleets jump into the system
>get ready for ultimate showdown
>BWOOPBWOOP 1st Husk Squadron went MIA because it was in (((Pig)))'s closed borders!
>mfw niggas reclaimed their borders with the unbidden fleet right in the middle of it
have fun retards

>>175592693
>Rule 2: You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

>>175589838
Couldnt get out of my bed for two days and my mouth hurt like hell for a week.

This was when I was 15 13 years ago fuck im old please kill me and I had two pulled. Couldn't even walk to the car m8.

:^)

>>175590102
Do it...then post the war results

>>175593303
Almost wizzard. God bless anon

Gaia worlds are only good if you have multiple species in your empire

But why would you have other species in your empire anon?

>>175593303
Bitch. I only had a teeth removed, but the dentist fucked up the anesthesia. I started feeling the pain even before standing up.

>>175593303
Wew lad, I've only got tomorrow off and have to return to work on wednesday. Well that's a problem for another day I guess...

>>175593571
Because humanity is guided by its cock, I want to dick all the aliens.

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HAK HAK HAK

>>175589016

You can change capital from one planet to other for 250 influence

Dont move it to a ring world, habitat or something orbiting a black hole bc it will bug the quest

Am.. I supposed to inherit all of an awakened empires subjects if I annex them?
Because suddenly half the galaxy are my satellites.

>subterranean civ
>choose to fight them
>no armies on the planet and they win
>a new empire is born
>all their pops are enslaved
wew

>>175594083
Yep.

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what ethos should I choose for bio ascending my goons
"fuck off" is an acceptable answer

>>175594471
Fuck off.
Xenophobe goes with everything though.

>get the synthetic leaders tech
>first visible synth leader is a robot genius
comfy, almost ready to complete synthetic ascenion and borging the fuck out.

LEX events are cray as fuck de arimasu famiglia.
Is there anything like it, (i.e. lategame content) but less trainwrecky?

>>175594197
Well. This almost feels like cheating since every last one of them except the fanatical purifiers that somehow managed to stay alive fucking loves me.

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can you have intelligent and erudite at the same time?

>>175594828
Nod really.
You can have talented, erudite, wasteful, deviant and solitary though.

>>175594828
No, but you can be Erudite and Natural Physicist/Engineer/Sociologist.

After the unbidden takes a deuce, do you replace your plasma with matter disintegrators?

>>175590367

g.. guys

>Just defeated a FE and got all their planets
>The grand total of all their mineral output is about 70
Is it being messed up by not having the system scanned yet? Their home planet alone should be pulling in more than 70

So I found the infinity machine and tried to hack it after it did math at the blackhole, then I got told to fuck off.
That was all the interaction I've had with the machine and that was like 50 years ago, does it do anything else?

>>175595280
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Population#growth
Rough cal about 20% up.

>>175595280
None, habitability is max happiness.

MACHINES AND ORGANICS CAN CO-EXIST IN LOVE AND HARMONY

>>175595447

You fucked and ended the plot line, only thing to do now is destroy it.

Can I even do that as a pacifist? What do I get for killing it?

>>175595774
meant for
>>175595661
benis

>>175595774
You get part of the AI tech.

>>175595096
Yes, but at that point in the game it shouldn't matter.

>>175595339
Are the pops all pissed off?

does synthetic evolution change appearance?

>>175596107
I already got all the AI techs, so it's not worth it and I should just leave it to do it's eternal autism calculations in peace.

>>175596350
Yes. Get a mod so you don't look like shitty generic robots.

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here's how to win at combat
get destroyer
L front mount
slap a kinetic artillery there
make sure it has top sensors and top AI for juicy tracking
if you have it and have enough power slap a shield capacitor on it
boom bitch
make sure that thing is at least 40% of your fleet

>>175596461
You can still grab some minerals and influence for killing it.

http://www.stellariswiki.com/Spaceborne_aliens#Infinity_Machine

>>175596350

You even get to rename them.

>>175596329
40% but it says there's 0 unrest and that there's 99 minerals being collected after all the different modifiers

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>>175589838
I went in an they gave me laughing gas to keep me chill as they put the iv in. They said I'd feel a tickle in my throat. I felt a tickle in my skull and collapsed into my head.

I grogily woke up, was driven home, and slept for 4 hours. The next day I didn't need pain killers and drove 1000 miles back to uni.

I got an infection in my upper left socket that I dealt with for about 2 weeks. I didn't have insurance coverage back at school so I just hoped the infection would eventually go away and it did but that's a dumb thing to do.

>>175596669
How much fleet power is recommended for taking it down with acceptable losses?

What is the best setup for a slaving empire in Stellaris?

>Smuggling ring gets busted and tells me where to find a precursor artifact
>Second one I've found in 2340
>The planet is the 3rd one in a system I own
>System only has two planets in it
Nice.

>>175597343
Fleet composition is more important than power.

After several tens of thousands, power doesn't mean much because a smaller but optimal fleet can shred enemies several times larger

>>175597368
xenophobe or authoritarian (or both) + militarist, mining guilds+ slaver guilds+ distinguished admiralty + biological ascension for that beautiful nerve stapling.
Try to find somebody with the syncretic evolution start so you can steal their proles.

Is it possible to become fanatical purifiers via ethos change?

>>175597840
yeah. you can change your civics as many times as you want but there's a cooldown and some require specific ethos

>>175597062
do you get to pick the appearance?

Why is Steam Workshop such a pile of shit?

>set hyperlanes only, spiral 2 arms
>ACTUALLY having fun making defense platforms in chokepoints, enjoying protection from my main enemy via separate arms, having to muscle out my fleet early game to clear out pirates that won't let my science ships through
>finally built fortresses in ACTUALLY strategical points prior to a war, probably the most strategy involved in this stupid fucking game
>war begins
>everyone has jump drives suddenly
Rééééééé

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>>175597440
>only found 2 artifacts 140 years in
How many science ships do you have? I usually knock that event chain out by 2250 and that's because I put off the anomalies until last.
>>175598896

>>175571898
Starfish contain a thin endoskeleton of silicate material. Thus, eating one of these would tough. There'd be a latice of hard, crunchy material that will essentially act like needles or shards of glass in your mouth.

>>175598896
>hyperlanes only
>jump drives
I thought Hyperlanes Only prevented this?

>>175573378
>>175574090
It's so obvious this was taken from a popular mod. Not that I mind, one less thing for me to update.

>>175596502

why

>>175589838
I srs bro? I had three pulled, novacaine only. Car got stuck in the snow on the way home, had to shovel it out with bleeding gums. Only needed a Motrin. You'll be fine brah

>>175599257
I had three of them running on auto but I was on a huge galaxy size and just found nothing. Then in 2287 I made a Federation and wound up revealing the rest of the map that way, so I missed out.

How do force an event to happen? I want that gene tailoring race war to happen.

>>175589838

a hundred years ago that shit got pulled out with fuckng pliers

stop being a fucking whiny pussy shit

Would it be fair to make afterburners also improve sublight?

>>175584846
I already had them from the newdie site download, sucks that the update probably won't work in my current game though.

For some reason, the happiness malus the other factions get when I embrace a faction is stuck at 120 months and won't count down... :( Does this problem need a bit of editing in the save file to remove?

>>175600019
>using afterburners to cruise around

shit nigga wtf r u doing

actually the entire idea of afterburners on ships that use fucking quantum energy meme propulsion is pretty dumb but hey

>>175599704

wut ? the event ID for some events are in the wiki
>>175600019
they honestly should , when is sunlight speed ( non combat ) even important ? at much it makes survey faster

>>175600437

Embracing is a continuous processes , like keeping empire edicts active

you need to turn it down ( stop embracing option )

>>175600515
You're fucking dumb.
If you're trading off they ability to put a shield cap on an A slot you should get something useful out of the deal.

>>175592735
AI karma is fun to see.

what ships do i use to kill unbidden?

the only way i can get these niggers to leave me alone is by sending a ship to their portal every 5 minutes

>>175597674
Noted, thanks!

>>175600720
No I understand what you mean from a gameplay perspective and I agree but I mean

afterburners on spaceships are just a dumb idea holy fuk

>>175599261
It does not.

>>175597440
Try MEM Precursor fix. I haven't tested it yet, but apparently it replaces those broken events with a special project you can research.

Also locks AI out of sniping your precursors.

>>175600019
There really needs to be a way to improve sublight speed beyond the thrusters. Shit is so slow.

>>175601020
Injecting a propellant with a lower specific impulse (i.e. your water supply instead of hydrogen fuel) into the reactor chamber of a thermonuclear drive actually makes sense as a sort of space afterburner.

>>175600528
>wut ? the event ID for some events are in the wiki

I can find the event on the wiki but not it's id

>>175578396
Battleships have a number of problems.
First off, they will move forward until their longest-ranged weapon is in range, and then they stop dead. This makes equipping them with anything other than all-large-slot Kinetic Artillery and maybe an x-slot a waste of resources, as anything else won't ever shoot.
The not - moving thing is also a problem because it means your battleships -the tankiest, most durable ships in your fleet- only ever take damage from other battleships. If the enemy fleet is attacking your battleships, it means everything else is dead and the battle is already lost.
That all-large-slots thing also bites them in the ass because of evasion- their inability to hit smaller ships means their fire is only effective if aimed at cruisers or other battleships, and they still struggle against End-Game cruisers. As a result, battleships are only really good against big, slow targets- ie other battleships.
They WOULD be a good response to Fallen Empires, which have a lot of big, high-health targets- except FEs get Titans, which have a weapon that can and will one-shot a battleship. Because this death ray has greater range than anything you can get, you're guaranteed to lose a battleship right at the start before it can fire back, and will likely lose at least six more over the course of the battle. Fleets with those resources put into cruisers have both a better chance of dodging, and replacing eight cruisers is still easier than replacing six battleships.

Long story short, right now the only thing battleships are cost-effective against are other battleships, and thus by not building them you put the enemy fleet at a disadvantage. Fixing this would require either making battleships deadlier against cruisers, making medium-slot weaponry less effective, changing battleship behavior to make more aggressive builds viable, rebalancing the X-weapons, or some combination thereof.

is it worth it to use X slots on battle ships?

>>175602090

fighters and bombers are pretty useful

>>175602090
Or just let the player set ship behaviours in the designer screen like mods allowed you to a week into the game's release.

>>175602436
Maybe.

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>>175600675
Do you mean the faction tab? I don't see the option

Is 'Conformist' a worthwhile trait?

>>175603174

thanks, that's helpful :|

If you take mechanist or syncretic evolution, can you remove them when later reforming government?

>>175603469
Depends on what you want to conform to, I suppose. Some traits have hidden pulls to ethics, so if you wanted to stay a specific ethic, you should take one of those instead.

>>175601515
Speaking of, I wonder how these long term spaceflights are gonna deal with water. I know they'll recycle waste, but the water supply will still dwindle due to metabolic usage.

>>175603652
I'm a biologically ascended slaver, and I want my enslaved alien populations to be content with their servitude.

So I was planning to genetically modify them all to be Decadent Conformists.

>>175603653
>but the water supply will still dwindle due to metabolic usage.
It's don't.

>>175603849
Decadent doesn't apply to slaves, I believe. Conformist might work, I dunno.

Why is authoritarian ethos such a shit?
Especially compared to xylophone.

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Starting a new game...
I've played quite a few 4x games, a bunch of grand strategy, only played stellaris once before though.

4 FEs, 10 adv, 20 ai, huge size, wormhole.

Playing as a science directorate, full xenophobic, materialist etc.

>unbidden don't invade until 2354
>already made the entire galaxy my bitch, all fallen empire homeworlds under my control 500k+ fleet sitting on it's ass.
Thought the fuckers weren't showing up for once, I got jump drives ages ago.

>>175604563

Much better than getting the worms right at 2300 when you have 4k in fleets

>>175604145
muh slaves

Didn't see this mentioned so I will ask, thoughts on sins of a solar empire and it's expansions?

>>175605153
It's okay as a RTS.

>>175605153
Good.

>>175603284
Just discovered the stuck timer was a bug for some steam users, fucc

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>>175572939
ayy lmao
thanks for the free titan you spherical cunts
While I was fighting this FE and its thrall, another FE on the other end of the map awakened. Was the trigger my fleet power, or taking down 2/4 of the FEs?

>>175605571
When embracing a faction do you get any control over witch of your ethics you drop? Or is it random?

>>175605153
Mediocre, never really grabbed my interest

>>175605810
The one with the least amount of attraction gets dropped, I believe

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https://strawpoll.com/75b22ed

Thinking about making a mod to address this, I would appreciate your input

>>175606175
you can vote for multiple options btw

>>175605678
Fleet power over 40k or a FE planet is occupied by an other power.

>>175602606
>Or just give the player more options instead of fellating over Mercedes Romeo
I honestly feel this is the answer to every single problem in the game.

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OK I have a weird question that googling isn't quite answering so here goes:
In Stellaris , it's possible to be the only FTL at start.
But there's still primitives that spawn
If I lock in my custom made species, will they spawn as primitives?
Pic unrelated but included for fondness.

>>175573378

dumb. a proposed dyson sphere would be positioned somewhere around twice the orbit of the earth around the sun, not within a few hundred miles of the sun's surface. this irritates me more than not having it depicted at all.

>>175608619
I was surprised when that guy died in the first issue of the comic after being so relevant in A Wolf Among Us.

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who /multiculturalsociety/ here?

>>175609139
I am because I picked egalitarian and apparently I can't lock these mushroom niggers on their home planet because of it, despite them declaring war on me in the first five years of the fucking game.

>>175608883
>a proposed dyson sphere would be positioned somewhere around twice the orbit of the earth around the sun
Why?

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>take out all their fleets
>occupy all their planets
>77% warscore
What the fuck else do I have to do? I almost feel bad for people who bought this game.

>>175609781
PURGE
U
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G
E

>>175609340

because it would be impossible to maintain stability closer to the sun. the gravity at that distance would collapse the structural integrity of basically anything. there are so many problems with an actual sphere of any star-encompassing size that it's essentially impossible without deconstructing multiple solar systems worth of raw material and bringing them on site.

if you're going dyson anything, it'd be an enormous swarm of statites around the sun around mercury's orbit using solar sails to remain positioned.

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OC

>>175609919
>because it would be impossible to maintain stability closer to the sun. the gravity at that distance would collapse the structural integrity of basically anything.
Earth seems to do okay. Remember you said twice the Earth's orbit, you're sticking it close to Mars for some reason.

What is even the point of army attachments?
They are incredibly cost-inefficient when you could just BUILD MORE ARMIES

>>175610957
They make your armies deadlier and you have less of them to transport.

>>175610020
nice
>>175610957
To have spiders riding xenos

>>175611036
>you have less of them to transport.
but

it makes no difference how many armies your transport convoy has

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>>175611047
Spiders are cute.

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>AI gets stuck on a perpetual loop where they can't raise their warscore anymore and just keep bombing this one planet forever
>they've been at 1 pop for almost a hundred years now
this is kind of sad

>>175610957
I build a bunch of defense armies at every planet and give them ferrocrete to reduce their upkeep.

My super strong soldier sub-race only has 12 population so that means I can only produce 12 attack armies with it so they get xeno cavalry attachments.

>>175611980
AI is honestly pathetic at war.
>doesn't hunt your fleets
>doesn't harass your infrastructure
>doesn't invade or take back occupied planets
It's shit desu.

>>175610957
Because fuck using normal armies when you have the option of xeno-mounted space wizards.

>>175611980
>total nutcases
Whut

>>175610957
So you have to do more tedious clicking.

>>175611980
>total nutcases
so you're saying they're absolute madmen?

>planetary invasion campaigns take, at most, a month
wew

>>175613187
It would be nice if Solitary slowed planetary invasions a bit, since the people are more dispersed.

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*Blocks your path*

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>>175614013
*Conquers you and genetically engineers you to be delicious*

>>175612463
>doesn't invade or take back occupied planets
They do. Happened to me once.