How's your space empire going, /v/?

>>375500459

Game?

Also, has any 4X space game successfully implemented 3D maps of territories?

>>375500459
Is it good yet

>>375500459
Why couldn't this game have good combat?

It has everything else going for it.

>>375500647
Stellaris

>>375500745
I would also like to know this, pirated it when it came out and it was way to bare-bones and unfinished for me, is it more entertaining now?

>>375500459
>>375500459
I like this game but it starts running like shit on my toaster towards endgame when there are a gorillion spaceships.

i'll let you know when they finally release 1.6 and fix the 20 billion bugs they created with 1.5

and finally fix the ai rebellion after having broke it like 4-5months ago

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>>375500459
Wormhole master race

>>375500972
>is it more entertaining now?

It's better, but still wasn't that good.

>>375501631
Eh, it's easier to abuse the Discovery research bonus with warp or hyperlane. Just set 3 or 4 science ship to auto explore and laugh as you store up thousands of extra research points

>>375500745
>>375500972
It's ok, but mods can make it playable. But I suggest wait a few years, those cucks at Paradox sure love to take their time improving a game

>>375501631
>Only 13k fleet
Kek
Kys

>>375501631
>Terran
>New Terra
>Terran Fist

What is creativity?

>>375501631
>fleet size 157
>only 13.7k power
What the fuck are you doing, lad?

Elliptical galaxy or 2 arms spiral with hyperlane only?

>>375502487
still using tier 1 and mostly corvettes

Played as xenophobe materialist, was very isolationaist until i built up strong economy by taxing faggot who was unfortunate enough to spawn near me. After i turned my race into robots i was practically unstoppable due to my ridiculous tech and power fleet advantage, so i just vassalized my every neighbour and researched every technology i nthe game, after that i got bored and stopped playing.

What's the combat like in this game? I would honestly just prefer to just click on enemies and have them fight based on numbers, strengths, and RNG like in EU4 and Civ5 as opposed to that shit Endless Legend has.

>>375502593
Corvettes are shitty after all evasion nerfs.

>>375502660
Its literally how you just described

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>>375502593

>>375502660
That's exactly what it is, but it's extremely frustrating sometimes.

>jump to system with slightly weaker fleet than yours
>fighters and corvettes go for some useless mining station while you get flanked and all your shit is ruined

>>375502726
I have 93 corvettes

>>375502779
>>jump to system with slightly weaker fleet than yours

Thats not guarantee of victory, anon. They may have better ships overall, or direct counters to your ships and you are still gonna loose.

>>375502862
I found this out the hard way when I build a fleet entirely of cruisers and battleships and lost to a fleet 2/3 my strength that was largely destroyers

>>375502862
Obviously, but my fighters and corvettes being occupied with trying and failing to destroy a mining station in a reasonable amount of time sure didn't help

>>375502834
I thought corvette spam was good, until my more powerful corvette fleet was raped by destroyer spam. After that i switched to cruiser spam with T5 Medium railguns

>>375502726

still better than fucking destroyers which are completely pointless

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>>375502834
I can't wait for those to go up about 3 or 4 battleships and just get absolutely boned.

>>375500647
Sword of the Stars has 3d maps.

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>>375502779
>>375502958
The fact that you have zero control once your fleets enter combat drives me up the fucking wall sometimes. You can't even put up any tactics or some shit

>>375500459
>Playing United Nations of earth
>Not Commonwealth of man
How beta are you OP?

>>375503005

medium plasma cruiser fleets beat every other fleet with ease

>>375503010
My fleet with a plenty cruisers, 2 battleships and 50 corvettes was raped by 40 destroyers and 50 corvettes desptie that i had like 2k more military power.

>>375503107
>not Sol-Empire
Omega as fuck, honestly

>>375503024
nah m8 i have torpedoes

>>375503123
I did not knew if plasma is any good, so i just used t5 kinetic guns.

>>375503256
Also i had shitton buffs for kinetic weapons, so in my case they were much more effective.

>>375503232
Even a semi-decent built fleet with countermeasure ships can compeltely negate torpedo boats, meanwhile their mego-weapons on the battleships completely eviscerate half of the corvette spam before you even release one round.

>>375503395
Are mega weapons good againist corvettes? I thought they are "Slow but heavy" archetype and are good againist cruisers and battleships, but shit againist mass corvettes.

Stellaris doesn't seem to have anything interesting going for it in terms of gameplay from what I've seen
Maybe in another 5 expansions, if they don't manage to fuck it up by then

>>375503647
This is sandbox game. You have to entertain yourself.

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who /ascendant/ here

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>>375500459
I keep falling behind mid-game after a great start and then get buttfucked when starting a war with a - what I thought - weak empire.

>>375503823
Expand

>>375503823
>I keep falling behind mid-game

Same. I'm so bad at his game.

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How do you set up your game?

>>375504185
Fuck fallen empires and advanced AIs. Really, fuck them.

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>>375504061
>>375503823
Guide to get good in stellaris:

Dedicate planets to 1 resource and stack as many +% as you can
Use habitats for all your energy needs
Always maintain as big a fleet as you can
Never fall for the hyperlanes meme
Never fall for the missiles meme

>>375504248
t. shitter

>>375504314
So you are fond of restarting your game just because RNG spawned agressive advanced empire right near you?

>>375500459
Dead by cause of Unbidden. Again. How do I get good?

>>375504185
Posted in the other thread by mistake, too lazy to repost >>375504407

>>375503005

fleet power is an extremely rough indication you can easily take on unbidden fleets that are 3x your fleet power if you setup correctly, and it sounds to me like you are awful at designing your ships

>>375504423
never stop creating industrial planets
if you run our of planets conquer new ones and fill all the tiles with mines
good job you won the game

>>375504491
Yes, my ship design wasnt good back then.

>>375504495
What about >muh credits ?

>>375504774
spam habitats and fill them with solar panels

>>375504825
Sounds legit. Should I spam battleships in endgame or keep a leveled ratio of different ships?

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>>375504942
https://pastebin.com/2QWUPKSh

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What's the go-to fleet composition nowadays?

>>375505261
>>375505079

>>375505261
100% corvettes with missles

>>375501054

>tfw you find out it still uses a single thread game engine

It's the current fucking year, all you niggers still using 32bit systems are in the stone age and deserve to be left behind.

>>375503165

Your ships are splitting their fire.

Throwing thousands of targets at an enemy creates a damage mitigation effect that would give Stalin an erection.

>>375505960
>Throwing thousands of targets at an enemy creates a damage mitigation effect that would give Stalin an erection.

Is this "le human waves xD" meme?

>>375505960
Seriously, stop using this meme. It makes you look retarded.

>>375500459
Must've played like 2 games since 1.5 came out. Meh. They keep refusing to fix shit that's broken and adding more which means more shit to the pile of broken.
>pile of broken isn't a trash metal band

>>375503165
>2 battleships
There's your problem. The only strategy you need is 1/3 to half your fleet being battleships with giganiga cannons so you can kill those pesky shits from half a sector away and end the fight before it began. Chuck a bunch of cruisers with full plasma for cannon fodder and you got all you need.