How is your space empire building going?

I keep restarting.

>>377519076
Well no shit this games endgame is ass.

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>>377518583
It's going pretty good anon.

>>377518583
>that pic
>an alien that can survive the void of space

not belivable

>>377520034
First game was so bad, I just can't force myself to touch second

>>377520149
It's a huge improvement over the first. But if you don't enjoy the core gameplay, then yeah it's not for you.

>>377520141
Nigger it's from another dimension that doesn't even follow the same rules this isn't hard to get

How good are the ancient space horrors/ruins of advanced civilications/scary space phenome and other cool shit in this game?

>>377518583
I was looking for a space empire game, what's it called.

>>377520581
You can find ancient ringworl and restore it
Game is event based and for now roleplaying is the only good reason to play it
Hope they will ripoff galciv2 diplomacy someday

>>377520740
Stellaris

I love the Worm!

less than optimal
my science is shit, the awakened empire is pretty much going to rape everything, and the unbidden spawned
was my first time playing as a hive mind, could have been better as I didn't get bio ascension or H A B I T A T like I should have
was fun when I turned into a devouring swarm though

>>377520581
Here's the most elaborate even in the game right now, spoilers obviously: http://imgur.com/a/Vsgip

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>>377520981
the fuck 4chan

Stellaris is the biggest pile of shit Paradox has ever released, and that's pretty hard after HoI4.

Fuck that game.
CK2 rules

>>377518583
I stopped playing because they completely fucked up slavery.

You can no longer purge single pops, so it's impossible to properly distribute pops on a slaver empires with specialised slave species in a sensible way.

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>>377521017
>>377520890
Worm is cool and well written but chaos god being born is just amazing
More 4x games should have shit like this

>>377521058
>Unbidden spawned at the other end of the galaxy
and the AI didn't kill them right away
Might as well restart now. The AI won't do anything and will slowly get consumed, until they own half the galaxy and decide to go for you with a fuckton of 50k and 100k fleets.

>>377521230
I'm aware, already restarted
It's stupid that they buffed the unbidden but didn't make the AI any more capable of dealing with them

playing a MP game with some guys. took ~8 hours to get only 70 years into the game, holy shit

>>377521785
Like civilization during good old times

>>377518583
>tfw you now have two unique 4X space games to play

Feels fucking good man.

>>377521201
what the fuck happened to the red empire?

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Why are awakened Ascendancies so ridicolously broken?
The blue blob in the top right corner is a former fallen Empire that started with 3 half-finished ringworlds when it awakened. Since then it has been rampaging with a 500K doomstack through the galaxy.Obviously no empire is able to counter that.
How could they possibly pay for such a fleet?
Why is Paradox cheating in their own games?
Fallen Empires already have a tech advantage. Why give them 10 times the naval capacity and fleetsizes on top of that?

>>377521909
it would feel better if Stellaris wasn't garbage

>>377522026
Because that shitty Draconis Combine couldn't capitalize when they had the chance. This is how games are lost.

>>377522026
>Fallen Empires already have a tech advantage
They don't when they awaken
Most of players should already max out technology when it's happens
And you are warned about them them awakening in advance, they act just like endgame crisis, if you don't stop them they nuild their op building on every planet they conquer and build more ships
Lick their ass or declare war right after they decide to awaken

>>377519578
>Not waiting 2 years to buy the game with all DLC

>>377522357
It has been 2 years you stupid cunt.

>>377522026
I'm pretty sure they don't cheat any more than all the other AI does. Their ringworlds just have specialised buildings that completely dwarf your own in terms of performance, same with their ships. Which makes sense, considering they are so far advanced and have only focused on a handful of system for hundreds or thousands of years.

>>377522357
>2 years
>all DLC
You sweet summer child

>>377522428
Only one
With only one expack

>>377522341
>They don't
Of course they do.Fallen Empires start the game with T5 tech in buildings and one weapon class in addition to being the only empire that can build Titans.

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>tfw Endless Space 2 is better.

Why did I waste money on this?

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>>377522025
He did it

>>377522587
They're vastly different games, anon

>>377522341

>own 2/3 of the galaxy myself
>awakened galaxy decides to fuck everything up
>250k doomstack rampaging across the galaxy
>biggest I have is 100k
>I'm the largest power in the universe beside them

I've just been building up my fleet preying on my weaker neighbors hoping not to have to fight them. I mean, shit, I even fucked up another fallen empire hoping to get some tech to even it out. But even with a 300k fleet they still have a stronger fleet.

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>>377522357
>buy
t.

>>377522871
>biggest I have is 100k
>own 2/3 of the galaxy myself
Literally how
It's literally mid game fleet power with 50k you holding on your border in case some fucker attack, and another 50k hunts space horrors for technology and shit

>>377522721

yeah, ES2 is a good game, while stellaris is a garbage grand strategy/simulator abortion

why anyone would play stellaris over distant worlds i dont know, except maybe the stellaris star trek mod which is ironically less fundamentally busted than the vanilla game. or maybe its for the pretty graphics

>>377522871
>own most of the galaxy
>100k fleet

Are you playing on the smallest map size? Jesus thats pathetic

>>377522675
Can you kill that shithead?

>>377520740
Aurora?

>>377520034
What game anon?

>>377523213
>can you kill a being that does not exist on your level of reality

No. The red guy was offered immense power but never considered the cost of it.

The price is eveything

>>377523213
You can kill god that was born from the souls of the 99% of your empire population, it's just very hard
This guy remains in the warp

>>377523301
Endless Space 2.
It just released but I've been playing it in EA for the last 2.5 months.

>>377523365
What's good about a space empire that can't even kill a chaos god?

Shit game. Can your people at least ascend to a higher form of being?

>>377523130

well the ai created a giant pile of defensive pacts and a federation then didn't fuck with each other all game so it was easy as shit to expand like crazy then break them

>>377523516
I don't know if the DLC is out yet but they're making one thats all about ascending to higher levels of existence

>>377523076

>better GUI
>gene splicing
>better focus on politics
>better soundtrack
>combat is more fun

Distant Worlds is a great game, I won't deny that, but Stellaris is definately on par now that Utopia is out.

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>>377522675
>Gives you the option
>"DO NOT DO THIS"

>>377522587
>Endless Space 2

call me when its out of EA hell

>>377523934
I released a few days ago.
Amplitude is the only studio that does EA right, they stick to their schedule and actually listen to community feedback.

>>377523716

stellaris is a miserable micromanagement simulator, to say nothing of the conflicting poorly designed gameplay mechanics

distant worlds actually lets you feel like you're an emperor guiding an empire rather than a babysitter. not that it doesnt have many flaws of its own

imho senpai

>>377523704
>DLC
I thought they were done shitting new ones out.

>>377523934
*ring ring*

>>377524140
subnautica is pretty good

so are klei games

>>377524160
How does Endless Space 2 compare?

>>377518583
IS THIS A 40K REFERENCE?

>>377524160
>imho senpai

Indeed, to each their own.

>>377522675
>Accept The End of the Cycles bargain
>begin my crusade to purify the universe before it comes for its payment
>About to crush the navy of the final empire
>The Reckoning occurs

I WAS SO CLOSE

>>377524376
there are many 40k references in this game

>>377524360

stellaris is far more game-y than either stellaris or distant worlds

with it's very defined factions, relatively low opponent limit, narrative focus, default game time limit, etc, it's much more made to be a game rather than a grand-strategy esque simulator like the other two

its a fair bit more limited in what you can do

honestly its a great game, but different

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>Distant Worlds: Universe
>Wow, this game sounds great, maybe I'll try it ou-
>It's made in visual basic and there's a just long enough to be annoying delay on doing anything

>>377524647
thanks. Why is distant worlds like $55 on steam though? Is there something I'm missing, or is it a pretty steep price for a 7 year old title?

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>>377524860
>visual basic

>>377524647

I always preferred DW or Stellaris because of their focus on political and empire management. Tried playing the latest Master of Orion but it felt so... gamey. I just love to immerse myself in a civilization and watch it grow naturally without thinking about time limits or making sure you're playing the optimal build.

>>377524863

That's Matrix Games and Slitherine for you. They make and publish niche games but have a very dedicated audience. They're also the niggers who made that 40k Armageddon game which runs on a two decades old engine and then charge 60 bucks for it or something.

Up until Stellaris came out though there was nothing quite like Distant Worlds. Perhaps Aurora.

Still trying to become a robot, is it worth it or should i start over and go for psionics?

>>377524863

lack of competition and the publisher

it does go on sale, its like 20 dollars on humblebudle store right now

>>377525147

Robots are insanely powerful but come with a flaw; they don't reproduce naturally. This means unless you put every single planet in a sector you're going to have to micromanage your population on every core world.

If you can manage that though or if it's been patched then hell yes, becoming synthetic is fucking awesome. Especially if you've gotten one of those portrait packs from the workshop.

Why play any of the shit ITT when Sins of a Solar Empire exists?

>>377525552

because its not a 4x, its an rts with a few bonus features that dont work competitively

i do play it occasionally with friends

I really like the idea of biological ascension, but it is so inferior to synthetic ascension that it isn't even funny. Synths are OP as shit.

>>377525328
You can give your sectors permission to build robots. Only micro necessary is that you have to manually queue pops for construction on core worlds. Pretty small price to pay for a +20% resource increase across the board on pops and the ridiculous leader buffs.

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>Start new game
>Mass extinction event one year in

>>377518583
bretty good, I think I need to take over one more fallen empire to hit the win condition

>on ironman

>>377525798

Artificial evolution is fucking hilarious and way more fun than synths if you ask me.
>nerve staple your enemies
>specialise your species into various castes
But yeah, outside of roleplaying there is little point in not getting robotic. Psionic is pretty good too but it doesn't beat synths.

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>Play 4X game
>Go military route every time

Diplomacy is just no fun

>>377526162
Oh, I agree. Synthetic ascension is awfully boring. I just wish there was a stronger correlation between being fun and being good.

>>377526217
>go military route
>everyone else is stronger than you
>go diplomatic
Pulling strings to not get your ass kicked can be fun anon.

>>377526162
How the hell do I git gud at slaving? There are planets full of chattel slaves that would benefit having my race in it, but the slaves fill the planets.

>>377526217
Devouring Swarm is for you

>>377527183
purge purge purge

>>377525328
>>377525798
Get the Auto Upgrade mod. It not only will upgrade your buildings, but will also (if you allow it) build new ones to match tile yields, specialize your planets, build robots for empty tiles and even comes with a FuckOffSectors button.

Somehow that mod is 10x smarter and better at the game than the AI is.

It's going SHITTY. No one wants to join my damn federation. I have two other empires in it, but the others are xenophobes or they're gay and don't like another member. I'm not set up for war, but how the hell else is my federation going to own 60% of the planets or whatever if I don't take out non-federation fagets? I wish there were more peaceful victories. I wanna play the warmonger one next though.

>>377526162
I tried genetic ascension and stopped when I realized that I had more variants of my species than could fit on the species page, and that shit was obnoxious as hell to handle.

>>377527353
yes, but then all the of the species die. Can singular pop-units still be killed off? Its was taken off the game right?

The space bugs finally invaded my galaxy but everyone is too busy going to war with each other to stand up to the roaches devouring habitable worlds.
Not to mention they still have their borders closed to me (apparently genocide is wrong?) so I can't go through them to fight the xenos threatening to eat the entire galaxy,
I'm just shoring up my defenses and waiting for the swarm to eat my enemies before I pull out the bug spray,

>>377518583
Was going well until the swarm showed up at the same time that two fallen empires awoke. Everyone went to war at once, either for the fallen empires or against them, while the invaders are also present, so it's super fucking laggy.

>>377518583
It's going pretty bad. My computer is dying and I can't run Stellaris anymore

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Not good

>>377520581

You can literally spawn Slaneesh from 40k

>>377528149
That game is bullshit because you can get into like month long stretches of 5sec increments because some civ nowhere near you is having a space battle

>>377528434
Turn off detection in systems you're not in

>>377528149
Looks like it was made in Excel

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>>377524206
>Paradox done shitting out new DLC

I know you know better than this, anon.

>>377527437
This fag again. Any tips for getting someone outside my federation to like someone within it? One of the empires randomly changed their ways or something and started liking each other, so then I just needed to just give them a few gifts and they came in the federation. How do I get that to happen more? Or did it happen automatically because they were an associate for a while, and associates just start to like the other members?

>>377529564
>and associates just start to like the other members?
This

>>377518583
>utterly alien in it's design
No, it looks like a centipede with claws.

>>377529772
So that time being an associate is what caused it? It was weird what happened, it said that the empire actually changed their views on everything. Is there some sort of hidden influence associates get from the federation?

>>377529972
Associates is just +bonus to the opinion and trust with time
It's easy to have just 3 core members and liberate+include others

>>377529062
I'm sure they'll be done with all the DLC by 2027

>>377530131
I wonder what caused that pop up that said an empire changed their beliefs then. It was right then that they decided to like the other one and with just a few more pushes, I get them in the federation. It seemed to happen real quick, less than a year as an associate. Maybe it was just dumb luck for me. Still gonna be hard getting 60% off the planets. But even if I fail, I learned. I only ever beat one game of Civ despite 150 hours.

>>377528149
What game is that?

>>377528260
Who is slaneesh? I only know the Worm, the Shroud and the Dark from mod

>>377523716
>better focus on politics
>combat is more fun
In your dreams

>this game is 40 dollars

Jesus fucking christ.

>>377532087
Why wouldn't it be? Because it's turn-based? Back to your Cowadoody, retard.

>>377530682
Aurora

>>377532087
12 on humble bundle

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>>377522675
>wealth beyond measure

>>377532146
Stellaris is real-time, though

>>377532232
0 on cs.rin.ru

>>377518583
Great until I hit the end of midgame and it became boring as fuck.

As someone who is still hooked on stellaris, but enjoyed the previous endless games... should i go for ES2?

Can somebody tell me about Endless Space (one)?

I haven't played it yet. Are the DLCs/upgrades necessary (as in Civilization V) or can I get my fix with the base game?

Thanks in advance.

>>377532829
Pirate the compelte edition, no need to pay for ES1 since the superior ES2 is full relased on Steam and no one bothers with ES1 MP anymore.

>>377532798

its rather similar to endless legend

different enough to warrant a new game, but if you like endless legend you'll like this

endless space 1 has been mostly left to the wayside

>>377532947
I don't really do MP with this kind of games. Should I?

Stellaris gets so unbelievably shit late game that I just have no interest in playing the game anymore.

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>>377532829
>Can somebody tell me about Endless Space (one)?

Endless Space suffers from lack of direct combat control. If you can't deal with that entire game will be unplayable to you.

>>377533542
>lack of direct combat control

you mean like 99% of 4x games ever made

are you that fag from the other thread a few hours ago?

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>>377518583
>playing Sword of the Stars
>random tech trees because fuck the player
>advanced AI research available
>pretty much have to do it for efficiency because I got fucked otherwise
>AI rebellion happens

>>377533384
If you have people you can count on being available to play, then 4X MP games are amazing. You'll never want to go back to comp stomps after that.
If you don't though then it kind of sucks, nothing's worse than getting a good game going on, calling it for the time being, and then never being able to restart it because it's never possible to get everyone back together at the same time.

>>377525552
> Sins of a Solar Empire

Because it's a very specific RTS/4X hybrid that appeals to limited audience. Great game hampered by its very nature in many ways.

>dat feel when pirates are the greatest galactic threat if you don't deal with them early on

>>377518583
My empire is currently getting another ring world underway and have made a recent pact with an entity in the shroud!

Man I really wanna get into games like this, but I suck total ass at strategy games :(

>>377518583
My toaster can play MoO 2016 and probably Civ 5 but not Civ 6, can it play Stellaris?

>>377537315
i got a laptop
so yeah

>>377529881
There's noting else on our planet that looks like a Centipede though, even Millipedes look more like normal worms.