What's your excuse for not buying last dlc? It fixed everything

I shouldn't have to buy something to fix an existing product. I'll wait till it's free.

>>373925360
While it's great and is probably one of Paradox's best DLCs yet, people should probably wait until it's on sale.

>>373925360
>parajew game
>anywhere near acceptable before the 4th or 5th dlc
Thanks, but I'll get this one for free as well

>>373925360
>buying paradox dlc
>when you can easily get them for free and they even work with steam
For what purpose?

>>373926051
Achievements and support the developers?

>>373925560

I'm trying to decide between this DLC and player unknown battlegrounds

>>373926416
>support the developers?
you're funny

>>373926051
Because I want to give money developers who support their games

>>373925360
I don't even know about this game. tl;dr it for me anon

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Is there any danger in sharing a border with this stagnant ascendance? I'd like to avoid colonizing this spot if it meant they would come down on my poor fledgling empire.

>>373926416
>Achievements
What part of "works with steam" did you not understand?
>support the developers
Fuck right off, Wiz

My biggest complaint with this game is the constant need to remake ship designs.

I really wish it was just like Civ where there were set unit types.

I hate wasting time min maxing ship types

>>373925360
>paradox
i'll wait a few years until they're actually finished with the game and have a 90% off sale

>>373926885
just go auto upgrade when you get new ship parts then

>>373926824
Achivements didn't work, at least for me. And the store didn't register that I owned a copy, even though I could play Utopia through steam. Not like I tried a cracked version or anything like that before purchase, though.

>>373927054

That shit is wack and you know it

>>373926784
Yes, if you colonies too close they can humilate you by demanding you abandon the colony or they will fucking rape you.

Also if they wake up ready the lube for your vassalation.

>>373926784
They won't like you, but they most likely won't do anything about you either.

>>373927086
He probably doesn't know it.

>>373927086
i do, but stop complaining about what's essentially go put the best weapons available on all designs and start spamming that shit

I did.

There's still not enough to do though.

>>373927105
Have you played 1.5? Thats the exact fucking opposite of what will happen.

So, anyone killed chaos god yet?
Did he gives any bonuses or technologies?
>>373926784
If they aren't isolasionst xenophobic it's fine
If they awaken better join them and wait for the time to backstab, or you will be the first one they try to rape

>>373927160
>>373927141

Well do you or don't you, anon?

Which is it?

>>373925360
Can I fucking planet bust in this game now?
I'm tired of choosing military and then full bombardment, only to widdle down the population.
Give me the BIG guns

>>373926784
Depends. Are they xenophobe? Otherwise you are safe.

>>373927226
Only Militant Isolationists have problems with you being near

>>373927061
>Achivements didn't work, at least for me. And the store didn't register that I owned a copy
Then you probably did it wrong

>>373927226
I colonized a few times near fallen, they told me to strip the colony and I told them to fuck off. They sure as hell angry with me now, but they don't actually try to go to war with me.

>>373927321
It says they're holy guardians/fanatic spiritualist.
Also if the time comes what does vassalization entail? I just become their bitch for a while?

>>373926051
The steamfix crack to play online has a trojan inside. Also if you do pirate it without steamfix you won't be able too play MP even if you disable the dlc.
Oh and even with the steamfix you can only play with other players who have that same pirated fix so good luck.

>>373927530
your diplomatic options are curtailed, you have to do what they say and you pay them a bit.

>>373927061
I own the game and all dlc legitimately but none of the new achievements are working for me either. Could just be a bug. I've done 2/3 ascendency paths and gotten nothing

>>373927530
Holy guardians only care about you shitting holy worlds(and tomb worlds but not much)
If you become their bitch you can't declare wars anymore, and wil lbe forced to change some policies, for example if you become bitch of Enigmatic Observers, no more purge for you

>>373927530
Those guys will only get mad if you make robots.
Holy guardians in my latest playthrough went to war with me after I converted everyone to synths
By then I had enough power to kill them and actually conquered their world
Which awoke the xeno/military fallen empire and now I'm boned.

>>373926051

Ahem where could one go about getting these dlcs

>>373927530
You accept the word of space Jesus into your heart and become a vassal. The best fallen empire to awaken is the xenophobic one because all of its vassals become battle thralls and are permitted to fight one another for land as much as they please

>>373927596
>>373927702
That doesn't seem too bad. At least it's not game over.

Cause I'd rather get Mandate of Heaven.

>>373927497
It depends on the empire. Game used to straight up tell you what would tick them off but it seems more coy about it now.

What exactly did the new DLC add to the game?

>>373927984
Civ style traditions, megastructures one of which is useless, one op as shit, 3 alright. Hive minds, government ethos, and probably something else I'm forgetting.

>Suddenly 2k x2 pirates literally blocking off the hyperlanes a mere two systems outside the starter system
GOOD FUCKING FIX

>>373927984
More fun deals with spirits in the not warp

>>373927984
A lot of small shit that adds up to a lot but mainly a new government system like hiveminds and buildable megastructres like ring worlds and dyson spheres

>>373928113
Thanks.
Might look into it.

>>373927283
Next DLC will mostly likely be military overhaul.

>>373928275
They better add some offensive megastructures. I want a fucking death star.

>>373928113
Traditions were part of the patch, Ascendancy is part of the paid DLC.

>>373928275
I'd rather they did trade. Something to make the galaxy feel more alive and give you something to do beyond declaring war on anything that's still breathing.

Anybody have a mega for the DLC's?

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>>373925360
>It fixed everything

What are the essential mods for this game? It's kinda hard to figure out when you look on steam since there are so many dead/not up-to-date mods at the top.

>>373926051
I want to support a good game so I get more content for it

Fuck you

>>373928578
Check cs.rin thread

>>373928138
Hyperlanes are shit after 1.3
>>373928418
I want a huge battleship that sends in bankrupt by just being parked.

>>373928771
DLC and patch just came out, most of them aren't updated yet

>>373927086
Remove all the lower and weapon slot parts then hit auto

It works. But yes its wack since it cant remove existing parts.

>>373928872
Why? What did they do to them?

>>373925360
stupidest fuking game ever wish I could refund.

>>373925360
does the ai bother to kill enemy crisis now?

it's a bit irritating to see the ai literally ignore the unbidden as they blob half their territory

>>373928846

That seems like a good way to get 10392 billion viruses

Such is life I suppose

>>373928918
All they'd need to do is let you auto-generate ships based on weapon type and it would be fine. But not, it just seems to pick whatever has the highest numbers.

>>373926051
>dont pay for DLC
>game company goes bankrupt
>no more quality games

Are pirates this fucking stupid lol? You're the cancer to the industry and I'll keep paying for *every single* EU4/CK2/HOI4/Stellaris DLC to support them. umad poorfags?

>>373929037
You are retarded beyond belief if you think that's how people get viruses.

>>373929037
Why the hell do you want to pirate if you're that paranoid

>>373928934
Biggest change was forcing them outside the gravity well like all the other pleb FTLs. Before then you could bombard someone's planet and immediately piss off the second a fleet committed itself to come get you.

I can see why they stopped that kind of annoying hit and run but now Wormhole just shits all over everything even harder.

>>373925360
It really didn't. Mid- and late game are still a slog due to lack of flavor events (bar old crises and awakening FEs), or meaningful internal politics and diplomacy. It's still the same shit: if you're an expansionist you just blob and get to experience Paradox certified deathstack combat, if you're going tall you can ignore the rest of the universe altogether (unless you're too stupid to not build any military at all) and just stare at the screen looking research go up.

While Utopia and Banks additions are nice they didn't really change the game in any major way, Traditions and Ascension perks just ensure you won't fall behind megablobs if you're a tall player. Psionic ascension and its events are neat whereas Mechanical and Biological add very little. Hive Minds feel pretty much like an afterthought considering they don't even get changed flavor events.

>>373929102
>Stellaris
>quality game
Nice joke mate.

>>373928934
It's slow as shit and you can't warp from any point of a system anymore.
>>373929025
From my experience: no. They don't give a shit about crisis, if you (or an awakened fallen empire if they are near enough) don't stop them asap the galaxy is fucked.

>>373925360
Because its paradox's game with the usual jew business model... i dont have spare 300 yuros to spend to a game.

I bought the original release, had my 80 hours of fun and will probably buy the _COMPLETE_ game when they release stellaris 2 in 8-10 years.

As it stands i have no intention to encourage their current business practices by spending money on Stellaris. Game developers who respect their customers shouldnt try to milk them with for several years with 1 title.

>>373929025
If they get close yes.

>>373929102
I buy Paradox DLC but you're fucking retarded. They're Jews of the highest order. Not even just because of the flood of DLC they pour out, but the shit way in which they always split half of it off into the free patches.

Limit province buildings based on development as part of the EU4 patch, but need to shell out the shekels to actually develop provinces. Further made worse by the Institutions patch. Now again with shit like Devastation being introduced but Prosperity being behind a paywall.

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>>373929289
(cont)
CK2's full price if you've "bought it" as soon as possible one fragment at a time.

>>373927560
Or you could use CreamAPI lmao

>>373929169
Traditions are boring, wasted mechanic.
>>373929384
This. DLC in CK2 were pretty good, but in EU4 you need to buy like 3 DLC if you like trading and colonization.

Can someone go over why everyone's going crazy over this new DLC? What does it add?

>>373926776
You build an empire on giant laser beams and using other species as food

>>373925360
Is there any way to make a energy weapon based fleet that isn't ass?

Kinetics are strong. Kinetics + plasma are strongest. Energy is shit, Missiles shouldn't even be in the game at this point.

>>373929102
>dont pay for DLC
>game company goes bankrupt
>no more quality games

If that were true paradox would not be in business anymore, since people do that since forever, but as we can see they are now a publisher/developer, and business seems to be going as well as never before.

>>373929423

That's actually a reasonable price if you play at least 10 hours a week and you know, have a real job and life

>>373929423
And?
CK2 at realese was fine and was no way unfinished
Everything after is just additional content

>>373929537
Missiles were my favorite but now they are completely useless and they never bothered to fix it. I go with kinetics+plasma since 1.2 never had a problem-

>>373926416
>>373926595
>>373928845
>>373929102
hello reddít, please go back to paradox plaza

>>373927560
>>373927757
>what is CreamAPI
3 fucking years and you still didn't learn where to get the fucking game and the DLCs
https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=64425

>>373925360

I played the heck out of it already and the new features are neat but not enough to keep me interested. Mods do megastructures way better. There still isn't a whole lot to do mid-late game.

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What are your 1.5 builds?
Pic related works well to snowball. Build mining stations faster than the AI, then conquer and enslave them.

>>373929102
>no more quality games
So, status quo upheld?

>>373930112
>playing as a mutated roach
What are you, turkish?

>>373930112
Pacifist + xenophobia
Agrarian + whatever that +30% unity one is

Basically best unity combo. Unity is pretty OP and fun plus you can switch out everything unity based once you finish it.

>>373925360
>it fixed everything
a year too fucking late I'm already hyper bored of it

I haven't played since 1.1. Any tips? What are the biggest changes since then?

>>373929679
Are there people who have played 2,5k+ hours of crusader kings 2? If you are autistic enough to get that much out of it, sure its worth it. I have 5k+ on path of exile and im perfectly happy having paid 270€ total for it.

>>373929690
Not an argument, there are tons of examples of developers doing several major content patches for free. No one else on steam (AFAIK) is going as deep with predatory DLC practices as paradox.

Is the new EU4 DLC good?

>>373926416
L O L

>>373930562
>No one else on steam (AFAIK) is going as deep with predatory DLC practices as paradox.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010/

>>373930698
wew

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>>373930112
Hivemind Lovecraftian abomination that hate everyone, but try to hold everyone from attacking them by having bigger and better fleet. So far it works, though I had to vassalize a lot of small empires just to hold off some of my more powerful neighbors from attacking me because they hate my guts.

Yes, this is modded, I don't care about balance, I just up the difficulty if I don't find the challenge.

>hive minds are completely one dimensional and remove a bunch of mechanics while adding nothing
"everything"

>>373930698
poor trainwiz

>>373930842
The fuck are those traits?

>>373930698
I actually lol'd at the grand total price. Alright point taken, but the realistic simulation games have their own audiences separated from rest of the gaming "scene".

>>373930562
>Not an argument, there are tons of examples of developers doing several major content patches for free
All paradox major patches are free, they just contain paid features
So not an argument
And let's not forget that Utopia is first actual expack with 4 major patches being free for stellaris

>>373930562
All of the new features are in the free patch, the DLC just adds advanced options for stuff.

>>373930562
Jesus fucking Christ, just pirate the fucking game you dumb cunt and laugh at the idiots who buy it.

>>373930921
Swarm:
+40% growth time
- 5% other species happiness
- 25% leader exp gain

Opportunist (OP as fuck as far as I'm concerned):
+ 20% migration speed
+ 5% Food
+ 5% Minerals
+ 5% Energy credits

Ancient (cost 7 points)
+ 100 years leaders
+ 20% Physics output
- 5% Society output

Parasite host
- 5% other species happiness
- 5 year leaders
- 20% food (really fucks me here, because I have big pop colonies with no food bonuses)
- 25% Leader exp gain

>>373931184
>>373930842
>+40% growth time
I'm sorry, -40% growth time

>>373930562
EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard

Now go kill yourself

>>373931184
swarm is op as fuck. so is ancient

>>373931345
Swarm cost 2 for some reason, ancient costs 5. Parasite hosts gives you 5. The last one gives me ability to research some funny techs, otherwise it's irrelevant.

Is it better to have ships dedicated to single weapon types (for example 2 types for corvette, one missile and one plasma) or just one type and mix up the weapons (missile and plasma on the one ship type)?

>>373931836
Different ship types of each class, since you can't fit all useful variations of the weapon types in a single design.

>>373931836
You shouldn't be using missiles since they get hard countered even by first level point defense.

>>373931985
most ai seem too dumb to use that kinda stuff though, at least enough to make a difference

>>373932093
Pretty sure the auto generator slaps some amount of point defense on everything as soon as it's available.

>>373925360
Because I pirated it with CreamAPI

>tons of science fiction stories dealing with the implications of robots/cyborgs/AI and genetic modification
>only ascension perk that gets any attention is the spiritualist one

So close to being a good xpac, so very very close

>>373932586
The amount of work that went into psionic ascension compared to tech and genetics is so fucking disproportionate, it's hard to even try and make sense of.
I seriously hope they're planning on adding more stuff to that with the coming patches. Hiveminds too, what a letdown. Doesn't even work with half the features of biological ascension, and locks you out of the others for no real reason.

>>373932586
Mechanics don't even get unique dialogue with AI Rebellion, whereas Psionics get some from Unbidden and Prethoryn. They really didn't give a shit about the other two ascensions, did they?

>>373932795
They've added content in patches before. We can only hope they do the same with utopia.

>Doesn't fix diplomacy
>Doesn't fix the AI
>Doesn't fix combat
>Made ethics more imbalanced
>Traditions are imbalanced
>Hiveminds lackluster tacked on additions
>Psionic only ascension with interesting content behind it
>No fish species yet
Call me in a year or two after plenty of patches, DLC, and a ton of mods come out.

>>373930842
>Yes, this is modded
What mod, man?

>>373932795
honestly its kinda BS its the psionics that get extra content with the Prethoryn, that should have been biological territory all the way

would have been awesome if the biological ascension perks allowed you to reverse engineer their organic space ships, maybe unlock a bunch of extra traits by splicing your species with Prethoryn dna

and course the interaction between mechanical and the AI rebellion should be friggin' obvious

>>373932586
Blame Reddit. I'm not even joking.

>>373931836
Don't use missiles, use the energy torpedoes on your corvettes when you get them because they ignore point defense

People say missiles are good at early game, but if you fight an empire that has lasers/kinetics and has equivalent mil str to you, you're gonna lose

Missiles are wasted because they don't start tracking a new target if the old one is dead. They'll just travel to the dead target and explode there not doing any damage. This means most of them are wasted. Lasers and Kinetic weapons don't have travel time, they're basically instant so when a target dies your ships automatically re-engage another target and so no ammo is really wasted(or very little ammo if they overkill a ship)

Late game where your corvettes engage big ships like cruisers or battleships, missiles might have a use if the AI wasn't slapping point defense on every fucking ship. This is why you use energy torpedoes(proton???) because they're great for bombing these fat ships without point defense nullifing their effectiveness

>>373925360
Nah I'll buy it when the last dlc is out. I don't have the habbit of paying for unfinished products.

>>373933143
What did they do?

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>>373932795
Need to save something for dlc.

>>373933267
That'll probably be about 5 years or so.

>>373925360

Already payed 40 bucks for the base game that disappointed me. Not gonna spend another 30 shekels just to fix that. Waiting on a sale.

>>373925360
>same bugs that have been in the game for years still not fixed
>more AI bugs introduced
>AI is still trash
>20 euros for an expansion pack that only unlocks a couple of mega structures
it's simply not worth the money on top of that pirates get better performance because of weird memory leaks introduced in 1.5 causing massive performance issues when you select your fleets, still hasn't been fixed in 1.5.1 despite the patch notes saying that it has

>>373933143
I'd rather blame whoever is the guy with the 40k obsession high up the dev team

because really its to god damn obvious

>>373933257
Proton torpedoes are still affected by point defense, and travel even slower than missiles.

>>373933354
>That'll probably be about 5 years or so.
I'm in no rush, have plenty of games to play. And there is always pirating as well.

>>373933267
See you in a few decades, this is a paradox game we're talking about

>>373933029
There's like a 100
Which one do you look for

>>373925360
>fixes everything
No it fucking doesn't.
Late game is still a fucking grind
Missiles still fucking suck
A.I. revolution is still a dam unicorn
A.I. revolution is still a starved whimpy unicorn
New mega structure while "cool" to fuck around with are ass in any serious game with the exception of maybe habbitals.


Also Its a new problem But I hate the fact that moving from cyborg people to Full AI takes away some of the leader benefits, You go from +15 attack speed to +5 which is dumb. A.I.s as a whole need some kind've bonus when you reach that point.
Hive mind is ass and broken in a not fun to play as way.

Psy shenanigans are pretty neat though.

>>373929025
They kinda do. AI has a habit of leaving it alone if its next to someone its neighbours hate sound familiar? But I've had games where an end game chris ends as quickly as it starts, even without mine or a forgotten empires help. On the other hand I've had games where it spawn on the other side of the dam universe and got to big to deal with or at least not deal with in a none tedious fashion.

>>373933430
actually that's untrue
regular torpedoes are targeted by PD but proton torpedoes do not as they technically are energy weapons (they do not get boosted by the explosive perks and resources either)

its supposed to be a trade-off for them not ignoring shields but rather having bonus damage against it, however in practice bonus damage against shields on torpedoes is VASTLY better than ignoring it because it allows your other weapons to also hit the ship

as a direct result photon torpedoes are the only torpedoes worth using

I've put more hours into Utopia than the base game already. Going full Adeptus Mechanicus is great fun.

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>>373933430
>Proton torpedoes are still affected by point defense

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>>373933430

>>373933512
habitats are 100% worth it, they take about 10 years to become fully profitable which is short enough time to be viable and especially the energy producing ones have utterly massive output, they actually outperform neutral modifier 25 slot planets

>>373933418
>40k obsession

Warhammer 40k is both popular and incorporates almost every Sci-fi trope you can think of. You're bound to find similarities.

>>373927702
Enigmatic Observers. Are pretty much the unarguable good guys and I hate them so damn much for it.

>>373933585
>>373933626
>>373933676
Oh, nevermind then.

>since these torpedoes lack a solid form
>clearly have a solid form in the icon
I guess that's why I never considered that they're immune to point defense.

>>373933758
problem is 40k incorporates every scifi trope badly and while it is decently popular that's no reason to base so much of your content on it when both vastly more popular and vastly better works exist

>>373933774
they're not really the good guys, they consider you on the level of pets or maybe intelligent apes at best

heck when they awaken they're the living incarnation of "white man's burden"

>>373933774
They request that you put one of your pops in their "species preserve" which is more or less a glorified zoo. It's an actual planet too which is pretty cool.

>>373934060
and your entire empire rightfully hates you for it

>>373934176
It's either that or the FE gets pissed off at your act of defiance against them.

>>373934060
Is there any way to actually claim that planet once you wipe them out?
Every time I've had them, I just ended up with a 25 tile Gaia planet I can't use because it's full of random pops. Wouldn't even let me bomb it either.

>>373933698
Yeah they do seem pretty OP especially when it comes to energy output.
Its easy to just to turn your other real planets into mineral focus but its worth noting they they suck ass at getting minerals. Can't really fault that considering what they are.

It might be worth noting they kinda have a hidden price in fleet size per pop amount, since spaceports are a huge part of that and they don't get any.

>>373934225
well aware
the only ones who can actually get away with it are hiveminds which turns that even downright hilarious

"oh sure you can take some of my drones, I promise I'll sever the connection and not use them to spy on you and your advanced technology"

let me know when the DLC comes out that makes sectors actually worth using and not just half assed as all fuck anti-snowball measure.
when that happens I might just uninstall my increased planet cap mod

>>373934060
Do they have any hints of what goes on there exactly? It sounds either very comfy or very oppressive.

>>373934335
Won't the drones just die anyway since they aren't in the same system as the hive-mind?

>>373934225
Enigmatic Observers at least don't attack you for refusing them your pop. They get an opinion minus for a while, but that's about it.

>>373934335
lol, the hive mind exhibit is just filled with decomposing fungi.

>>373934297
true enough but given you are actively building the habitats, not using up planetside spots, its not to big a deal

and they are efficient in terms of the core system limit as you can place them in the same system as another core planet

and low population limits combined with ultra-high per population output ensure that they become effective vastly sooner because growth costs increase with total population so they are operation in about 1/3th the time of a 25 slot planet, even faster if its not a gaia planet

Speaking of hive minds, I was expecting it to be a major feature, turns out it just disables parts of the game and that's it, pretty much nothing new for them

>>373934435
>>373934476
they actively remain alive while keeping the hivemind trait which means only 1 thing: full contact with the hivemind which now has a direct uplink to a FE planet

>>373934416
I'm not sure but recently paradox has added in a living conditions mechanic for individual species. It's quite possible the FE has their pet aliens under the chemical bliss option which more or less makes them high all the time.

How long should I wait before colonizing a new planet to avoid killing my research speed?

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>>373934416
This probably.

>>373933481
The one(s) that add traits

>>373934642
Holy shit, is there any special events that happen?

>>373934416
its a zoo, their physical needs are completely fulfilled and they probably get some form of entertainment to prevent depression
essentially its enforced NEET life, with a camera observing everything you do 24/7 for your entire life and no chance of escape

there are rightfully scifi horror stories written around such an existence

>>373934704
Extended Traits
United Traits

>>373934719
offcourse not, only psionic ascension gets special events

its just an oversight on their behalf but it makes for an interesting concept

>>373934719
Of fucking course not, it's just an oversight because next to no work went into anything besides psionic ascension.

I'm not sure if this has been patched yet, but you can't even integrate other species into your hivemind, even though they let you genemod the hivemind trait into other species.

>>373934621
its basically just a hardmode/RPing option
No reason to reasonable take it at all
But I am betting they will flesh it out in a DLC and charge something like 20 dollars for it

>>373934869
Oh goddammit, Paradox!

>>373934884
Hiveminds are already DLC exclusive.

>>373934839
Thanks

>>373934697
Doesn't work that way, you get a +% research cost malus per pop and per planet, but you're going to get hit by it anyway, so might as well go ahead.
Might say that early game you should delay it until you have high level buildings, but then you're missing on the early game snowball.
For me, as long you're colononizing large planets and have enough energy, you're good.

>>373934869
This pisses me off so much.
Even more is the fact that I can't materialistic + hive mind.
I want to be the borg dam it.

>>373934869
that's been patched in 1.5.1 thankfully

however nobody in the entire galaxy reacts in any way to you forcefully annihilating the individual minds of an entire species turning them into flesh puppets, which in every definition of the word is a full on genocide

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>>373925459
>it already is
torrent it

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>finally get past the initial hurdle and get an actual game going
>spiritualist/pacifists
>keep my fleet strong enough so nobody fucks with me and get overall lucky with neighbor spawns
>rest of the game is a point and click adventure since I can't actually do war and nobody else is starting one
I'm hoping my xenophobe playthrough is more fun than this

>>373925360
It's still garbage. Played about 30 hours and went right back to EU4. There is still so little content it's fucking ridiculous.

>>373925360
I really hate how every single one of my pops becomes a hippy during peace time.

>>373935095
Form defensive pacts and defend the weak races, that way you'll always get wars as a pacifist.

If anyone here uses the russian "crack" you deserve everything you are going to get. That stale fucking link from /gsg/ is so full of viruses and malware it's crazy that some of you fuckin idiots even fall for it. The forum isn't full of it but the download site and the files are.

>>373934697
If you want to maximize science growth just make sure you don't have more planets than you can afford to help with research with a scientist.

Also a trick I found is to rush the Planetary Survey Corps tradition and to hold of on surveying planets until then. Then let your sci ships go crazy and enjoy a stupidly strong research boost.

>>373935293
Is there anything for the unbidden?

Is just like every paradox game, you have to wait several years for all the good stuff to get pumped out via dlc.

>Still no planet killer
>no espionage
>military is bland (especially planet invasions)
>early-mid game is still somewhat dull, they really spend more time fleshing out internal politics and colonisation events.

What else am I missing?

But I'll admit I'm having fun, might move over to endless space 2 until some more expansions come out.

>>373925360
Johan pls. Just fuck off.

I know theres a science penalty against the more planets you own, but I can't find a figure for this?

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I really hope you guys pay for the games and dlc you play!

>>373935095
You can switch ethos mid-game. Endorse the militarist faction, if it hasn't appeared yet you can try to get into wars other ways since any type of war increases militarist ideology.
Militarist gameplay isn't exactly stellar either. You just consolidate all your forces into one big deathstack followed by a ground troop transport deathstack, you eliminate the enemy ship deathstack first then take planets one by one until winning. Repeat for every independent empire until game victory.

>>373935095
I tried a fanatic militarist, xenophobe run
by the end of the game, it was just me vs the entire universe because no everyone had formed factions with at least 3 other groups and no one wanted to ally with me so I just stalemated

>>373933896
Exactly what is 40k in this game?

>>373932993
>>373932993
>>373932993
This. Also, add in sectors and population/planets research penalty.

>>373935553
Hold your cursor over the % on the research screen, genius. It's something like 10% per pop and 10% per planet. So if you want science you don't colonize shitty planets because you'll actually lose science. Needs to be like 16+

>>373935434
Endless space 2 is releasing fully in a month
I'm hoping it feels like an actual finished game by then, I don't trust amplitude anymore after they got bought by sega

>>373925360
If I want a space 4X that's not shit, I can play Distant Worlds.

>>373935643

>everytime you play the same fucking events happen

I refuse to play this until it has as much events as CK2

fuck you paradox
this isn't grand strategy
it's bland strategy

>>373935293
Thats kinda cool, any video link to it in full or do I have to cheat up a game?

Does anyone know if the AI revolution has any unique dialog for AI ascended other than "lol you're good to robots but I don't give a fuck"?

>>373935667
Not him but
>Pretoryn are Tyranids
>Unbidden are similar to Chaos, and also related to FTL travel
>There are Space Marines and Commissars
>Religion and government like the Imperial Cult
>Xenophobic militarist spiritual empires get unique dialogue that's very 40kish
I think that's pretty much it, pretty tame in my opinion

>>373925360
I once fought against a federation with my hivemind homie and Egalitarian rival. I won and vassalized one of their members and integrated them into my empire. I only had three planets at the time so I was fucking elated when I won the war.

>>373936035
There's that Psy event that kinda plays out like the birth of slaanesh.

>>373936035
Utopia adds a lot of 40k shit. The shroud is the warp, and if you fuck around in it you can pretty much re-enact the fall of the Eldar.

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>>373936235
You can get an immortal god king as your emperor.

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>>373935667

>>373935169
>implying EU4 has any more content

>>373935735
>Endless space 2 is releasing fully in a month
Pretty sure stray dogs shit on the streets everyday
Same quality as endless games

>>373935365
prove it

>>373936529
(you)

>>373936594
He's right, you know

@373936719

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>>373930112
I like to be adaptable in strategy games, so this was my attempt at making the most adaptable species. These guys are all about being as opportunistic as possible, so I'm constantly hiring/firing scientists to focus on certain tech groups, and changing government civics (usually only keep Miner Guilds for the opening years to supplement my mineral production, before switching it out for Parliamentary System).

It's a fun way to play.

>>373930112
Roleplay as a space elves now, with -grow time andleader exp, but 75 years to the leader lifespan
It's actually more thanmy previous gamesas a humans
Stellaris has many problems, but it's really good for the role play

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>>373936935
I hope you're also utilizing Deviants and changing main government ethos as well since Pacifist is as far removed from adaptable or opportunistic as can be.

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>>373930112
Purging everything (including heretical AI, which is banned, along with all synthetics) and replacing with my own good goys. Some of the client species adapted well by being warlike collectivists and I keep them around for being desert compatible and reducing the need for terraforming. Haven't been at peace for 200 years, because everyone hates my ways.

>>373937248
The only downside to being pacifist is that you don't have unrestricted war declaration. Besides that, the 20% unity bonus means more Traditions and Ascension perks, which increase adaptability, and +2 core systems, which is always good. If I really need to start a war with someone then I can always abuse ethic attraction, or maybe adopt a militarist faction into the government.

>tfw i always end up playing a peaceful isolationist game just colonizing and grinding up technology
war is just too tedious

>>373936403
>one of the key features and few positives of mechanical augmentation is immortal leaders
>psionics gets it as well

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If Master of Orion 2 is one of my favorite games, then I should like this game, right?

I'm kind of out of the loop when it comes to 'newer' videogames since I didn't have much time to play vidya the last couple of years. If I'm looking for fun space 4x games, is this the way to go?

>play game as a bunch of xenophobic materialistic turtles
>Get Synthetic Evolution
>have two "species" Of AI now, the old, now unbuildable true "synthetics" and the new, buildable "turtlrons"
>get bored of playthrough
>switch control to a religious side and force them to start the warp "bring the end" event or whatever.
>come back, was expecting the stupid AI to fuck something up but nothing irreversible.
>My empire had started the purge of all of the original AI synthetics
>They had pushed the movement for only turtlrons despite there being not a damn single difference
Xenos don't fuck around man.

>>373937684
Yeah, same here. I'm all for war when we're bickering little shits, but when things escalate, I go full isolationist and can't be assed with major wars. I only make exceptions with border incidents with some shit tier empires.

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>capture fallen empires juicy gaia worlds after he wrecks his fleet against my neighbor
>2 fallen empires near me awaken

how much did i fuck up

>>373929679
>have a real job and life
>able to play 10 hours a week
Pick one and only one.

>>373938142
which fallen empires are they? there's a chance you're about to be war-in-heaven'd

>Fallen Empire beside me awakens right as I'm upgrading my massive fleet to try and take them out preemptively

F U C K

>>373938026
No, only galciv2 can be good if you loved master of orion
Endless Space/Distant Worlds/GalCiv3 are limited, unfun and you will always notcie how developers go with "too much work to do it" for almost every aspect of games
Stellaris is just different type of game and you need to play it for the space exploration at the start and events, anything else is barely done

>>373938079
>>373937684
>just play science focused Isolationists With a huge ass stick to prevent other sides from bothering me
>just wait for the end game crisis to appear and have it remove pretty much all opposition for me because normal war is tedious.

Almost every damn game.

>>373935406
If you're psionic, the unbidden can tell that you've seen into the shroud and they comment on it. You can ask them about it and they have some throwaway line about how they're familiar with it but not from there

What event chain is the best and why is it WORM IN WAITING

I hope they will finally add in the next patch matriarchat and patriarchat options

>>373938258
materialist and xenophobe

>>373938267

Thanks. It just kind of looked very similar to MoO2, so I thought it might be comparable. I've already tried GalCiv2 and enjoyed it, but I was just looking for something that I hadn't played yet.

Maybe I'll try it out anyway, I'm mostly looking to play something 'spacey' right now, it doesn't really have to be a MoO clone.

War is literally popamole

anyone got a decent tracker i can dl this?

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>>373939405
This
>End game
>just me a few empires left
>only one that's really a threat
>start a war with them
>they send a shit ton of corvent waves at me making the war tedious as hell
>win the war after 5 years
>purge a bunch of their shit
>have to wait another 10 years in peace
>in these 15 combined years they've almost completely recovered any ground I've made.

Fucking space russian, I swear to god.

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>>373925360
enjoying the new EU IV DLC instead

>>373938421
Talk about blue balling your players.

>>373927560
quaility bait

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>Spiral 4 arms
>Hyperlane only
>spawn next to militant isolationist and holy guardian blocking both paths to expand

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>>373938518
For me its Subterranean Civilization
>mfw executing the survivors

The last time I played this game was right after release. Did they improve performance since then?
Also, how viable is focusing on a very small number of systems?

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Because the game lacks a story, a narrative. No matter how you design your civilization you will never, ever manage to overlook that you're playing a randomly generated event simulator where the outcome is always 100% the same.

1. Start your empire
2. Slowly try to expand
3. Meet AI empires that hate you
4. Attempt wars you have little to no realistic chance of winning because the AI is 200 steps ahead of you at all times even if you beat their war score
5. Hardly anyone will ally with you or form federations because of the bullshit relations, get ready to lack 5 points to convince another empire of doing something and having no way to earn them
6. Uh-oh spaghetti-O's here comes the random endgame boss
7. Slowly whittle away the bad dudes until you win or the stagnant empire you're next to suddenly awakens and fucks your anus

A few storylines based on empire ethics to follow would not hurt.

>>373940547
If you make everyone use a specific FTL method, can you still access the jump drive late game?

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>>373940547
>find empire near edge of galaxy
>they're hyperlane
>use wormhole
>block them off from expanding

>>373940106
how good is it?

>>373940972
Yes

>>373940893
I'd give you shit for being a filthy casual and sucking to much to win. But honestly being on the winning side isn't much better so meh.

They need to add more end game crises. They always end up as the highlights of games. I do like the Psy event that makes you an end game crisis but its still not enough.

>>373941076
>Do this
>AI has a capital planet and a free habitable planet they can settle in.
>Every chance they get they colonize it
>Every tens years I start a war with them and purge it over and over again

>>373929423
>26 thousand E dollars
Is this a shoop?

>>373941420

They use commas instead of periods for separating whole numbers from decimals.

>>373925360
steam only

GOG I'd be all over this shit

>>373941420
thats 262 euros, they use commas as decimal points.

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>>373941401
>Find small empire
>Allied with empire who's a dick to me
>wreck their shit
>form migration act with other small empire
>get their pops on my planet, they don't cause problems
>all comfy
>dick empire fights me again
>gets shit kicked in
>small empire still likes me
>tfw you can't even invite the small empire to your own alliance
>tfw small empire keeps getting dragged into wars
>mfw

>>373929537
>Energy is shit
lances are hella good

Wormhole and missiles are best combo.

>Buying paradox games in 2k17
They look too jew to me. So I pirated their shit. They will learn greed is not the answer.

>Release actually finished game
>Dont spam dlc
>I will buy then

>>373942123

where do you get your dl?

>>373931184
>>373931251
How do you get these traits?

They're not available at species creation, even if you are a hivemind

>>373925360
Give it a rest Johan.

I'm not convinced I'm not going to get bored 2-hours in again, and I'm not buying your goodgoy dlc anyways.

>>373942218
www.google.com

>there still isn't a Foundation mod being worked on
I'm hella disappointed tbqh fampai

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>found the good planet in the Sol system
>there are humans on it
>I'm hive mind so the only option is to process them into food
I'm sorry mankind

>>373942289
They're modded traits, Anon, and I think most mods are broken with the new update + DLC.

>>373934869
>I'm not sure if this has been patched yet, but you can't even integrate other species into your hivemind, even though they let you genemod the hivemind trait into other species.
oh wow, that sucks

I thought that was the entire point of genemodding the hivemind trait

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>>373943157

>>373935095
never go fanatic pacifist

regular pacifist is alright since you are allowed to wage liberation wars

>>373936035
gene-seed purification allows you to recruit spacemarines

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Why did they have to fuck up diplomacy?
It's taken all fun out of trying to make a federation, usually it's fucking impossible to do.

Say you start near five other empires. At least four are guaranteed to hate you right off the bat and you can never, EVER make egalitarians like authoritarians. Even if you guarantee their independence, send them gifts, make a non aggression pack and then a defensive pact and get 100% trust, you'll still usually be 2-6 points short of being able to invite them into your single-man federation. And you can't do anything since they removed embassies from the game. They removed embassies so hard it's out the fucking source code and modders can't re-add them.

That's one huge flaw as of now, playing as a race geared towards federation building and diplomacy is just plain not fun because it just does not matter. When you've invested all your traits and your entire government into bringing people together and then you find out it's impossible because of the game mechanics, it makes you feel like it was a fucking waste and that the only way to play the game is as militarist (which 90% of all enemy empires are for some reason).

There ought to be more ways to influence opinions, like sending spies to the other empires that slowly raise their acceptance of you. ANYTHING to swing the fucking vote, because seeing a single-digit number in red as the determining factor of why your neighbour won't help you kill the fucking planet eater that's coming for his territory is fucking lame beyond anything else.

>>373938026
>If Master of Orion 2 is one of my favorite games, then I should like this game, right?
it's the first space strategy game I actually enjoy since MoO2

okay, I did enjoy Sins as well

>>373943623
I hate how alliances take away your influence, which is vital (getting new scientists, governors, etc.)
If anything being in alliances should increase it.

>>373943623
That's what liberation wars are for, you fuck up the empires who will never join you and create new ones with similar ideologies to your own.

>started game as pacifist fanatic egalitarian plants
>unity based build
>war is tedious as fuck, constant uphill battle
>manage to vassalize neighbour
>war in heavens starts
>vassal allies against me

>start new game
>fanatic militarist spiritual humans
>space crusaders
>increased attack speed bonus makes my fleets mighty as fuck
>go for war unity builds
>wreck similar sized empires with ease
>have now like 5 vassals ready to be integrated
feels like playing on easy mode to be honest even though I'm on high aggression AI hard mode

>Find Sol
>Its a fucking tomb world with pre-sentient roach pops

YOU IDIOTS YOU BLEW IT ALL UP

>>373944008
>fanatic militarist spiritual humans
So original

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>sit next to a hivemind empire for decades
>we've got trade and pretty good overall relations
>half my empire is on the other side of their territory and I have to fly through theirs with my navy
>suddenly they expand
>-90 relations due to border friction
>they call me up
>"woah asshole what are you doing to our borders? consider the borders closed, we're building a wall!"

Fuck border friction, fuck it. Seriously fucking fuck that. First off they expanded into MY borders, and why isn't there an option to expand without pushing back the borders of others, or at least negate border friction through diplomacy?

>>373943964
I don't know if this is new, but I love creating a small liberated empire, have them become my vassals and then 10 years later do an all out liberation war where I integrate the rest of the empire I just waged war on into my vassals.

Best feeling in the world.

And then I can integrate them into my own or start a federation or whatever.

Pacifist is hella underrated. If I could I would go fanatic militarist + pacifist at the same time.

>>373944261
never played militaristic before and in my previous game I realised I needed spiritual to access psionic tech now so sue me

I wanted to make my pacifist space plants psionic, but I wasn't spiritual :/

It didn't really fix anything to me. The game is still slow, the different civics and shit still plays the same, and you still run into the same situations. The new "features" are nice but don't really add much at the end of the day except extra bonuses.

From what I read, other than energy and mineral generation, the space void trait basically fucks you over research wise because it'll increase your pop more than you'll generate research points.

The game needs a spy system and a better trade system.

>>373943964
Attacking nations that don't want to join you but aren't hostile makes no sense, you realize. And you just end up fracturing the empire into several shitty balkan states that are of almost no use to you in a joint war effort.

If I wanted the Huz'gronkels to join me it was because they had a strong fucking navy and all my efforts went into building a federation, and you're telling me I have to destroy them and their powerful fucking navy in order to convince them to join me so we can be useless together?

That's retarded.
Also trade is a joke. Empires should gain more money and goods just by virtue of being next to each other because of free trade.

>no option to tax your populace

>>373944649
>it'll increase your pop more than you'll generate research points.
you get 3/3/3 research special buildings per pop

how the hell does this fuck you over?

>>373944282

Mexico, is that you?

>>373929850
Asking for a FRIEND
Who's got a non-dlc Dark Souls 2, bare nekkid.
Would it work with that too? Friend wants to know, but he's gey.

Midgame is still boring as fuck.

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Why spec your empire for trust building and good relations when making people your friends through killing them is easier (and sometimes the only way)?

I tried a race of snails who were weak and scared, but with high research and who supposedly made friends easily. I couldn't get anyone to join my federation, none. Waging war was almost impossible and I ended up boxed in by a bunch of big dick faggots who had all joined each other in bullying my snails.

So I start a new empire, fuckhuge evil warlords who lash out at everyone, everything specced solely for war. Something like 50% extra army damage combined.

Everyone wanted to be their friends and I could easily make people join me despite having started the game with the intention of wiping them out through war. Feels unbalanced as fuck.

>>373945202
waging wars and diplomancing?

>>373945341
yeah, military spec is ezmode in this game

>>373944760
Because they're absolute shit compared to the other megastructures

>habitats count as 1 colony but with only 12 pop
>ringworlds get you 4 colonies with 25 pop each
>dyson sphere gets you 400 energy without colony/pop penalties
>science nexus gets you 50 in all research without colony/pop penalties

>>373945692
Why go for science? By the time you can build a science nexus there's nothing left to research.

I havent played since release, are defense platforms viable now? Or are there any other type of defense that is not ships?
I remember having to chase small fleets of enemy ships across my empire, and it wasnt fun.

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>>373944282
>have fanatic militarist fallen empire just north of me for decades
>as i expand i start to touch their borders and that gets them mad
>i continue to expand creating more and more border friction
>fallen empire declares war
>i have no chances to defeat their multiple 50k fleets so i concede defeat and have 10 years humiliation with ceasefire and my leader dead
>continue this cycle for like 150 years until i got strong enough
>use society tech and colonizing planets to expand my borders as much as possible around them until i fracture the fallen empire encroaching them into mine
>get my fleets to attack them at the same time and capture all their planets in a matter of months annexing them
>the cycle is broken

Anons, how to build fortifications?
Are this stupid defence platforms even worth it?

In all games I remember it making a difference once when it's aura tipped a scale of battle in my favour. But forcing AI into that specific world when my fleet is in it is a problem by itself.
And that one time my enemy was hyperplane so at least I knew from where they were coming.

Also any performance tips?

>>373945969
So you can easily encroach on other empires during peacetime with repeatable border research and shit.

>>373945692
I mean AI games are whatever goes but Ringworlds are fucking dumb in any game without players. Shits expensive as fuck and takes forever to build.

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What are your empires, /v/?

>The Teuthida Meritocracy
>squid people who live both above and below sea level
>society is structured by having the people who are agreed upon as the best in their field be in charge
>highly intelligent and extremely good at research
>live for hundreds of years
>breeds slow as fuck
>don't like to migrate or move far away from their homes
>become robotics experts to offset their low population numbers
>dreams about fully sentient AI's and eventually outlasting their own flesh to attain immortality

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I have a problem. I'm playing as a big fuckhuge race of militarist slaver bullies. They are completely shit at research and by the time their scientists gain level 5 they're likely to be dead.

To offset this I wanted to do the starting mode where you begin with slaves already on your planet so they could do the science for me, but slaves always start with the "prole" trait so the only thing they can be used for is mining and berry picking. And even if I conquer a race of smart aliens, chattel slavery makes them basically unable to do science to the point where even my meathead knuckledraggers are miles better.

So what the fuck do I do here? If I set the slaves to be civil servants, they increase my happiness but actually become worse at everything else.

>>373946054
Don't? just take your death stack and charge their capital then take planets till you win the war. The mining stations they blow up mean nothing.

I'm waiting for the combat revamp desu

>>373945692
fair enough, I didn't get that far

>>373947134
>The mining stations they blow up mean nothing
Except ruining your economy.

Another gigantic skeleton dating back more than three billion years has been found on the lifeless surface of the planet you just surveyed. Our scientists are eager to get to the bottom of this mystery.

>>373947046
Residence? Caste system?

>>373946054
The only way to force this game to have any semblance of tactics is to make hyper lanes the only travel type. Sorry anon.

>>373947575
Pretty sure gigantic skeletons are asteroid belts, not on the planets

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>>373947398
>having your economy depends on mining stations

>>373947575
>spiritualist
>some cruel god put these here to test us

>>373947739
I can relate

currently in a game where I get like 50 minerals from 4 systems

ITT: ayy lmao

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That "keep starting a new game until you aren't placed at the absolute outer fucking edge of the universe" feel.

>>373948013
game is easy as it is

>be peaceful, just budy with colonising and mining
>suddenly get declared war on by militaristic empire of militaristic militaries
>oh fuck what do I do
>they head straight for my capital
>easily break my defenses
>have a shitton of robot soldiers so they can't do a land invasion
>they just sit there not being able to do anything
>a few years later
>get a white peace offer

Sure, lets have an armistice will I build an army.

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>>373926784

Do not ever try to sneak that 10 physics black hole off a xenophobe ascendancy's with a border push. Also don't touch that juicy gaia world with a funny name.

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>see 25 tile gaia world in your territory
Yay!
>it's a holy world
Awhhh

>>373946054
>unbidden spawn on the borders
>spam 5k fortress's on the front system
>50k in defense along with a 50k fleet holding the line
>holding off wave after wave of 80k unbidden fleets for almost an hour until the fallen empires awaken and push them back
most fun I had

>>373925360
I played this back when it released. What do the dlcs add?

>>373925360
>psionics is fucking useless
>bio is fucking useless
>synth is too OP to even be fun
>megastructures are useless by the time you have enough minerals to fully build them
>could've done way more with hivemind empires (why the fuck do they even have planet and sector limits?)
>late game is still, paint piece of map, wait till truce is over, repeat.
>Still not fixed the massive lag that starts to set in after ~200 years

It's fun until you see it's the same old shit from before the expansion.

>>373948640
about as much as I wanted out of the expansion

then again I'm not paying for it, soooo...

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>start as humans on earth, Sol system
>decide to play as a militarist tyranny with slaves
>pick Syncretic Evolution to get free slaves
>game begins
>my slaves are some fuckweird alien slugs

>game tells me my people are astonished by the idea of alien life as we encounter space whales

What?

>>373948419
>5k fortress

What did you kit it out with?

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>>373948640
>psionics is fucking useless
>synth is too OP to even be fun
Picrelated
>Still not fixed the massive lag that starts to set in after ~200 years
EU 2 engine, doesn't work with 64 and everything, 32 still hold us back
Play with 15 empires max
>could've done way more with hivemind empires (why the fuck do they even have planet and sector limits?)
Sector limit is cancer, but come on do you manually push shit from yourself or breath? Of course no, you just start process and wait until it ends, same with sector limit for the hivemind empires

>>373948921
Didn't you know that by 2200, we'll have discovered the giant slugs that our ancestors grew up with, and reintegrated them into society?

>>373946054
Is there any reason to not always play hyperlane only?

>>373948419
>unbidden
Fuck them!
Every game, every time when crisis happens it is unbidden.

And in a last boring game where all of galaxy have defensive pact with each other I hoped that they would provide some kind of opening but firstly they got wrecked by my fleet (the attacked my vassal) and did nothing other than awakening FE.
Fuck this guys.

>>373948640
>synth op

hah funny joke

>>373948921
the slugs aren't alien to your people they're just a different species from your planet. It'd be like us calling dogs aliens.

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>>373948921

Maybe they were just fuckweird earth slugs?

Give one good reason why you wouldn't mod your game to remove the need planet cap and need for sectors.

>>373949242

It's more fun.

>>373949047
not him but be sure to get corps of engineers and try to get the max tier crystal augments, you can create 15k health stations that way

>>373949315
>>373949365

If earth had a second species capable of sentience, communication and operating heavy machinery I'm not sure we'd ever have enslaved them no matter what.

It would make much more sense enslaving fellow humans, as we always have.

>>373946054
how to use fortresses
1: build a death ring of forts in a system (doesn't matter which)
2: place your fleet strategically at the right distance for your weapons in the deathring
3: send a single corvette into enemy territory, get their fleet to follow it (they always do because the AI is braindead) and jump that corvette into the deathring system
4: enjoy a completely unbalanced fight

>playing my first game
>my neighbor declares war on me very early in the game
Hmm, it's okay, I have 16/16 naval capacity so I'm not worried
>they immediately come at me with 36 ships
uhh, okay
>retreat and go over naval cap until I have 200 more naval power in my main fleet than them
>fight them
>get fucking wrecked
I'm really missing something with the combat in this game? Is it simple enough for someone to break down to me right now?

>sentient AI

Should I?

>>373949437
Because sectors are useful because I don't want to micro 100 planets when I can just sector them up and let the AI automate it.

Lets me focus on building my core sector taller.

Game needs more automation options. Distant Worlds is pretty neat because I can automate the entire game and just let it play out as a simulation if I want.

>>373949242
Don't like lines in SPACE, as personal preference.
I like warp drive as it is based on Alcubierre drive.
Wormholes are good for your performance(or so they say), jump drive as well but it spawns goddamm unbidden every time

>>373949795
What's the worst that could happen?

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Lasers, projectiles or rockets, /v/?
So far projectiles feel fucking useless. I have no idea what to go for in order to get the most punch for my space bucks.

Tried a rockets and torpedoes combo, I couldn't even touch the awakened ascendency next to my shit when it came for me. They wiped out my 80k power fleet with their 61k in minutes. And I had the best possible shields and armor at that point too.

>>373949972
I went projectiles my first game and got annihilated vs lasers my first battle

>>373948416

I'm in a game right now with 3 holy worlds right next to eachother.

Is this a rare thing?

>>373949792
are you using one of the following
Missiles (any sort)
Torpedoes (non-photon or early game any)
Disruptors (including the ones gathered from space beasts)
Armor

if yes then you lose

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>Just get Stellaris

>Start playing, no fucking idea what i'm doing

>Decide to just go full Diplomacy for my first game because might be cool

>See this thread

How fucked am I?

>>373949972
next time use kinetics + plasma (kinetic artillery + tachyon lance for battleships)

>>373950071
I had projectiles, don't even know what torpedoes or disruptors are and never even got far enough to try and add armor to my ships, I just had the starting corvettes.

>>373949972
lasers are objectively the best. no weaknesses unlike lasers and rockets, and a nice bonus. missles can be fun though.