/4xg/ - Stellaris, Civilization & 4X Strategy General

FIRST FOR PISS

IF I UPLOAD A SWASTIKA TO STELLARIS SO I CAN PLAY AS SPACE NAZIS WILL I GET PUT ON SOME SORT OF GOVERNMENT LIST?

Also, can anyone post a good setup for space Nazis?

>>143762514
Are you retarded? there are mods that do that already

>>143762514
Decade, fanatic militaristic, xenophobe.

>>143762536
Maybe he is german.

>>143762570
So?
Im German and nazi mods arent blocked in the workshop

>>143762351
>Start a new stellaris game
>Still haven't updated to 1.1
>First anomaly is a starship graveyard adding minerals to a planet
>Planet get the anomaly and the minerals but I still can't build a mining station
>fuck this reload
>Master teaching warfare
>ragequit
I don't want to play anymore

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>>143762347
Well as he states it was like 3 am with no light and USA uses blue uniforms too?
>>143762514
Collectivist, Militarist, Xenophobe, Plutocratic Oligarchy

Fleet composition.
1/2/3/4 vs 1/2/4/8

>>143762784
1 battleship per aura and rest corvettes

How do i make sure every planet has a fucking paradise dome, especialy nigger sector ones (building one and passing it on without allowing redevelpoment doesnt work, as the later breaks the sector ai even more)?
Cna i addit to a "must have building" sector list in the fielés or soemthing?

>>143762784
gee I dunno probably the bigger one wins FAGGOT

So, specialized plantes with hubs and stuff, or match resources to tiles, and fill the empty/surplus food with labs? (until you hit lategame and everything goes to labs ofc)

>>143762514
You are already on more alphabet soup agencies' watchlists than you can imagine because you post here, anyway.

>>143762843
Do auras stack?

>>143763350
I match. More micro but those extra 1 or 2 resources add up, but it depends on my resources

>>143763350
All planets must produce max science, and you should try to maintian enough energy to keep your fleets in space.

You can fix your mineral needs by simply placing the odd mine network onto a 2 mineral tile here and there.

I posted this after last thread died.

>Most of my gameplay mods still work, but my cosmetic (custom species) ones are broken.

Dunno exactly, but probably similar to my problem with the expanded colors mod. In /interface is a file customize_species_editor.gui, make a copy from your install folder, open it up, open up the version of the file from the mod, copy the species portrait section from the mod over the one in the copy, save copy, overwrite the mod version with the copy. With the expanded colors mod I had to the same except with the empire flags section instead of species portrait. Though I can't say for 100% certain that'll work since I don't know what files are in your mod or what 1.1 changed in customize_species_editor.gui, I just know that's what I had to do to get extended colors working and I saw species portraits in that same file. At least it's something to try.

The only other mod I had an issue with was one of the expanded or extended trait mods which was easy to fix because the mod had a 00_defines.lua it didn't need in it. It was causing me to get domination victory on gamestart because I only needed 0 planets for it, not sure why exactly, but getting rid of the unnecessary defines from the mod fixed it. Expanded Species Traits is the name of that mod.

Everything else worked fine other than having to go in and make it so the launcher wasn't telling me I had outdated mods, because that hurt my autism.

So do the mod/patches somewhat fix the game now or is it too early?

>>143763350
Mostly Energy and Research past lategame.

Also food until planet fully grows

What do you do with the primitive species ?
I invested 5 social and 5 energy into one, and they became my vassal but it feels kinda useless.

>>143764502
>having someone who will provide you with immigrants/ships for free is useless

wat

>>143764502
>vassal but it feels kinda useless.
it does indeed. I find it's often useful to release them and then conquer them :^)

>>143764502
Easy integration, and they provide more ships for you

>>143764607
>some shit tier primitive one planet owning vermin providing anything
topkek mate

>>143764771
>being this intolerant of xeno cultures

Fanatical Purifier detected. Get out of my federation REEEE

>>143765036
>having federation in first place
get out from my galaxy normie, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>143765036
>>143765339
you faggot wannabe frogposters need to be resettled

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>>143765549
sure looks comfy

>>143765620
fuck you, I was about to post that

Is it ok to ditch one of your biggest colonized planet to a sector because it would be border gore otherwise?

>>143765673
You can do whatever you want m8, it's your game

>>143765549
Jokes on you as I was there.
>>143765620
Sure it is.

>>143765662
you snooze you lose all aboard to comfy town

>>143765839
Yeah but is it a good thing to do or not?

>>143765673
Just grab the hide sectors border mod.

>>143765673
>border gore
what did he mean by this

>typing up custom name list
>get insanely bored

hhhhhhooooooooooo weeeeeeeeeee

>>143766515
You Adhd cunt.
You want to write namelists for races of the Mass Effect universe_

>>143766515
>>143766653
who honestly gives a fuck about their names

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>never savescum
>decide to play ironman once for the achievements
>achievements aren't working for some reason, maybe because I'm using a custom name list
>can't disable ironman and have to deal with the constant monthly saving

Do you colonize everything that's 20+?
Or is the tech penalty retarded like in civ5 ?

>>143767110
>caring about achievements

>>143767360
hell yeah nigga gotta get that juicy planets.

>>143767360
The tech penalty is more to prevent large Empires from snowballing technology wise, and you'll also suffer a bit in the short run so you have to plan out your expansion. In the long run you're still better off making more colonies though, it's not like Civilization where more than a few will completely cripple you.

>>143767360
depends on which version you're running
the latest one has the 2% per op penalty
the beta patch has 10% penalty per planet +1% per pop
so its either civ 5 or worse than civ 5

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>>143767360
You don't colonize planets. You sodomize them and along with any inhabitants.

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>he doesn't enslave anything that moves except his own race
>he doesn't uplift primitive races and improve them, so that they may be prepared for their future as slaves
Why exterminate life when you can make use of it? That's all xenos are worth for. Automatons are too risky for labor, it is better that something of flesh handle it.

it kinda pisses me off that after early game I barely ever get any anomalies (from territories which I conquered and then survey)

is there a way to 'un-survey' planets so that you get an other chance of discovering an anomaly? or can you add a random one? all I have found is how to add specific anomalies which I honestly don't want

>inb4 consolefag
yeah I know. haven't ever cheated so far but this is really something that bothers me and all I care about is fun

>>143767360
from what Ive heard the tech penalty from pops was lowered from 2% to 1% and planet penalty is now 10%, so a planet with more than 10 tiles is more efficient than before

>>143762351
What am I supposed to gain from this?

I've changed in the defines.lua the ethics divergence from 0.1 to 0.01 but in game there's no reflect even though other stuff like 10 core planets etc still work.

Have they hardcoded this string or what the shit

BB + rangefinder y/n?

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>>143768043
>What am I supposed to gain from this?

What 4x games are like Stellaris except not shit?

>>143768240
Of course not.
Do you not like blobing?
What are you some sort of faggot?

>>143768043
nothing

>>143768296
DW:U.

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Is there a way to have empires show up on the map in their "proper color" without having to explore their systems? I hate the dusty look, but I also don't want to trade star charts.

>>143768296
Distant Worlds Universe.

It's on sale right now buy it you cheeky cunt ill hook u in the gabber m7

>>143768413
:U

im in the mood for strategy games atm and probably wanted to play a 4x, what should i play? stellaris seems to be approved but i only played civ2 or smth and the world of 4x is wide open for me

>>143768702
Its easy game.
You wont regret playing it if you pirate it.
if you buy it you will regret to support these Swedish lazy cunts.

>>143768702
A V R O R A
V
R
O
R
A

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Do you restart on bad starts?

>>143768575
>60% off
That's the biggest discount I've seen for it so far, I'm guessing Stellaris has something to with it.

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>mfw some alien XENO SCUM tries to trade migration passes

>>143768909
>surveyed 2 worled
fucking weak cunt maybe try get to year 2202

Anyone play only warp game?
How its going>?
I am tired of only Hyperspace ones.

>>143769036
>not being a xenophile

How suboptimal.

Man why would paradox make it so democracy means that my scientist gets voted in? Thereby making my scientist ship idle and ending the shift queue it was on. Like wtf Paradox do you hate democracy? Are you commie scum? Its happened twice in 15 years. Seriously fuck whoever thought of that.

>>143763350
Early game match, late game you'll get more value out of the specialized modifiers for specialized planets.

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>>143769036
>tfw aliens with the repugnant trait keep spamming migration offers

>>143763350
>until you hit lategame and everything goes to labs ofc
You mean energy.
>not having completed the tech tree by 2350
>wide meme

>>143769134
>only two systems (including start one) in ring of influence

shit start tee bee aitch

Anyone got the 1.1-ified bb-rangefinder merge?

>>143769135
I actually like warp and how simple it is, though a warp only game wouldn't be that interesting.

What are some hotkeys you use in stellaris?

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>his empire's name does not include the word "Dominion" in it

how does it feel being an inferior lifeform?

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give me a rational explanation for my inteligent species being repugnant so I can satiate my autism

>>143768702
Stellaris is pretty easy to get into so I can't not recommend it.

>>143769549
>going to 1.1. before rangefinder updated
LoL

>>143769216
>not voting for blind science man

>>143769679
practice incestual relations to keep the blood strong

>>143769660
Alt+F4
Win+R ccleaner

>>143769679
They're socially awkward autists who only care about their science labs and neglect personal hygiene and etiquette.

>>143769679
Repugnant can mean anything

Being aggressive, rude, difficult to communicate with, etc etc.

Maybe they're just excessively arrogant because of being so intelligent.

>>143769679
They look kind of sickly.
It ties into them being weak and being sedentary.
They prefer to not take risks and move away from their comfort zones, and instead sit there and let their bodies deteriorate while thinking about how brilliant they are.
They're neckbeards.

>>143769679
make them molluscs

some molluscs when they're young actually do a 180 turn with their bodies which makes it so that their anus is on top of their heads, meaning they literally shit their heads

>>143769854
>>143769860
spotted the autists :^)

>>143769660
ctrl+1, 1
control groups

b for build

Do I buy Stellaris? It's 23 brit bongs on cdkeys and I'm tempted instead of pirating, what do you lads think of the game so far? Would you recommend

>>143770031
do it
Pretty good mods in work for it
Tonight's gonna have an update for one of the Mass Effect mods

>>143769679
Looks like a Kroot.
The custom of eating fallen enemies wud b p. repugnant desu.

>>143769823
>>143769854
huh now these I can work with
thank you

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>>143768881
>Aurora

>>143769679
beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Maybe the feather coloring or beak shape are thought to be really fucking ugly in your galaxy

>>143769835
That's not nice.

>>143770001
I'm not an autist actually, I am assburger though.

>>143770118
This.
In some alien cultures 5'10 could be the perfect height, and not at all too short.

>>143769660
esc

>>143770031
>fag buys games
Tbh I'd buy if it was an actual game for €60 rather than a pre-alpha testing pass.
>buy game for 40 jewro
>have to buy 300$ worth of DLC down the line
Nah.

>>143770031
It will eat your time for dinner. Everything takes excrutiatingly long and waiting for shit to finish is half the gameplay.

What do you listen to while space empire'ing?

I have this playlist on spotify I use, Ambient/Psybient. It sets the mood nicely

Also the space ambient channel on youtube is really good.

>>143770118
ah but it's more of a generality
You wouldn't consider a duck or a goat ugly
they are just eh

>>143770031
Yes, I bought it and I'm happy with it. It has problems for sure but it has a good basis, they got most of it right, now it just needs patching and polish.

So yes buy it and enjoy it Mr Bong.

>>143770074
I'm guessing there will be star wars/ trek in the future too, are there any on the forums now?

>>143770379
I do fear being jewed by the swedes

>>143770412
How does it run? Does it support multicore well, my set up is pretty good i7 & 16gb ram

>>143770980
It's single core

runs just fine on my 5 year old sandy bridge

>>143770980
Yes, they are also in works, but the Mass Effect one is the furthest ahead atm

>>143770980
My mobile i5 manages it quite well but late game is sadly really slow. An i7 should excell.

>>143770416
Homeworld 2 soundtrack.
Speaking of which, has Gearbox unfucked the formations yet?

>>143771048
>>143771081
>>143771146
Thanks, might as well buy it when it's pretty cheap

I'm going to be gangbanged by DLC's

>>143770980
>clausewitz
>multicore
Apical kek, there's a thread for the visual layer and one for all the backend stuff which means the game will still shit itself with daily updates once there's too much to handle.
You'd be better off disabling your HT.

>>143770416
>What do you listen to while space empire'ing?
gangsta rap nigga

CROOZIN ROUND THA GALAXY IN MA 64

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>>143771361
purging the bitches

enslaving the hoes

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HOSTILE FLEET DETECTED

late game wars are just fuckin atrocious

>>143771756
I don't know that feel.
I turned off voices, music and ambient sounds first thing.

>>143771756
Slipspace rupture detected.

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>>143771756
>-107 energy

also why the fuck do you have a fleet that's like x10 mine and you're 30 years earlier

REEE

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>>143771756
INCOMING TRANSMISSION

>>143768575
Man this looks like a MoO2 era game with an old Civ style tech tree. I didn't realize you could charge $60 for a RTS spreadsheet simulator

>>143772278
>not paying 80 Euros for the privilege of playing Aurora, the single greatest masterpiece of video games of all time

>>143772436
I thought Aurora was free?

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>pick venerable
>all my leaders start to die when I have 200 influence

>>143772741
>pirating the only game worth paying for
for shame

Is there a way to abandon a planet?

I took over 3 planets when I wiped out some puny bug empire, and one of them is awful. 11 tiles, 8 of them currently blocked.

I can't be arsed turning it into anything decent, I just want to get rid of it so that I don't get the research % raise.

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>>143772964
I downloaded it from their site if i recall?
>only game worth paying for
But Dwarf Fortress is free

What the fuck does "max happiness" mean?
How can I make it higher?

>>143773060
Purge all pops.
Or release them as vassals.

>>143773060
PURGE

>>143773145
>df is free
Damn right.
Too bad I can only play it during breaks, takes too much of my time and autism.

>>143771172
Good taste. Love me some Paul.

>>143771361
Also good taste, niggaz in da space hood!

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Finally find all the shitty precursor things for the cybrex. They bait me with this text. And then its just a destroyed ringworld and living metal tech. That is no way worth the effort.

>>143773145
>pirating DF
just kill yourself

>>143773329
>finish the cybrex event early
>the cybrex planet is in the system of a fallen empire
Kill me.

Is making protectorates a good idea? I see they turn into vassals so you can integrate them, is that realistic or does it take too long.

>>143773329
At least you got a tech out of it.
All the other precursors are just '+500 society :^)'.

>>143773420
>playing DF
Nice proprietary software, faggot.

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>>143773469
I wanted to live on it.

>>143773507
Fuck really? Thats terrible.

>>143773471
They give you 1 influence er month.
Also they can advance into vassal states so you can integrate.
But if teching fast they will stay protectorate forever.
Its good if they have the same ethics like you - so when they are integrated or conquered they don't cause much trouble.

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>>143773329
>living metal tech
That shit is worth it actually

I wish i could get a unique edict or something, like how Moo3 handled expeditions - you send out archeology taskforces to comb for tech/society info and later on you integrate that back.

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holy shit how can AI be such a fucking cunt

new civilisation pops out of nowhere, peaceful traders

and then those shitters declare war on them right away

well, at least that way I will only have to purge those I don't like

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there seems to be quite a paradox here

>>143767490
This, I mean what the fuck is the point

>settle a new planet

Great, a fucking meaningless trophy for basic gameplay

>>143774446
>Lose territory to undeveloped cunts
What did you expect

Also
>+9 society event on two planets in one system
Ayyy

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>>143774730
exact copies

Are alliances finally good in a Paradox game?

Is it just me or is militaristic ethos really bad?

Army damage and war happiness? Really?

Is there some hidden stuff I'm not aware of?

>>143774730
>>143775054
If u play on large maps there is a decent chance that you encounter multiple sol systems, they usually have a human-like species on the third planet.
tech era is always different

>>143775389
Reactions to events, and hidden bonuses.

>>143775426

There's a mod to fix that.

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>>143771172

Is there a button to center the view on the currently selected ship? I hate how I have to double click to find them and it zooms into the system which I don't want

>>143768964
It's a two year old rerelease of a six year old game.

>>143776374
And yet it's still the best space game.

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>>143776374
For kicks I went to the Matrix Games forums to see what they thought of Stellaris and this was the top thread.

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>>143776587
I've played slitherine's games earlier so I'm interested. What makes it so good?

so I'm stuck in what I think is the late game, my empire is already bloated, i've got stronger factions on all my borders

what is there to do now?

>>143777001
You can play as a SPACE PIRATE
A SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE PIRATE!!
YAAAAAAAAAAR

Oh, and also the economic part is a lot more entertaining, as private sectors will pay you to use your space ports and build space freighters to move goods from one planet to another.

>>143774730
>>143775054
holy shit you two cant macro for shit

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This Xanyr Clusterfuck Conglomerate is getting out of fucking hand. Two of them got some random ass areas in the blue territory for some reason.

God damn I really have to take over this place before they multiply again.

>>143769549
pls respond
it's not on skymods yet and vanilla is suffering

>>143777463
>he doesnt xanyr xanyr with them

>>143777345
It's one person
aka me
what do you mean by that?

Just annexed my vassals. They had 3 planets.

Do I enslave ALL OF THEIR PLANETS?

I previously enslaved a species I colonized but I'm dubious now that it's so many of them.

>>143777775

When in doubt, ask "What would Hitler do"?

Exterminate 90%, enslave the rest.

Is it worth it to integrate a vassal if it will take 130+years?

>>143777463
That is what the roman empire does lad, they go in, integrate the populace.

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>Yuri Romanov
>has been the consul for like 90 years
>all the other candidates are basically traitorous scum
>the entire time this guy has been in charge everything has been fantastic

I am starting to think this guy was destined to become the emperor. Which government type should I change to in order to make that happen? I currently have a Martial Democracy.

>>143778310
Do you have an appointement or something?

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> play 4-arm spiral
>mfw not a single alien empire spawn on my arm

>>143778564
How do election even work? That guys has 100% of the Loyalist support, he should have 100% of the votes.

>>143778127
That's some heavy shit. They're... fanatic xenophile spiritualists... They're not bad. A bit naive maybe. Okay. They must be purged.

>>143778760
I think loyalists mean the pops who have the governing ethos.

>>143778760
funny thing about democracies if you support a candidate once you basically get them until theyre dead, making it no different from the autocracies/oligarchies.

>>143768226
Having this problem too, has anyone found a way around it?

For people who had issues with lag in the lategame, did going from a 600 star galaxy to a 400 star galaxy help at all? I'd go all the way down to tiny, but only playing with 3 ai empires sounds shitty.

IDK why this fucking game refuses to run well on my ivy i5.

>>143779094
And yet in my game my starting ruler got kicked out at the first election.

just got a monolith anomaly

what should I do? get the 350 engineering research or give it to the public? what does the second even do?

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>mfw all these people posting thier empires have like 400+ in all science fields with absurd surplus energy and minerals with a massive fleet in the early 2300s and I am scraping by with barely 120 in all fields with shitty energy and a laughable fleet

fucking how do I properly manage science and energy gain

>>143779350
apparently it got fixed in the newest patch 1.1, maybe try that one

>>143779550
gives a bunch of your pops the xenophile trait

>>143779049
Nah each pop is part of a party but pops above a certain happiness threshold will join the loyalist party regardless of their ethos. I actually consider it a broken feature, since it means that unless you purposely try to make your pops unhappy they will never form new parties and your empire will never have any internal politics whatsoever. They should change it from being happiness based to being ethics based, essentially the way you thought it works. Loyalists would be those who have the same ethics as the government, and factions would form up around other ethos that your pops adopt, and really most pops should just want policy changes or empire wide edicts rather than full independence, where as now, factions only demand that. The current system doesn't work at all, and I'd probably have posted this on the paradrone forum if I wasn't a pirate.

>>143779094
Except slightly more powerful since mandate allow you to gain loads of influence and theirs really only two edicts that ever get pulled.

>>143779791
thanks, you just saved me from some of my pops pussifying and requiring purging

>>143779927
I like you. I'd like to play with one one time, and we'll purge the galaxy together.

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Which difficulty do you faggots play on?
I wonder if the AI on insane cheats like in civ.

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>>143780004

>>143780004
Doesn't cheat as much as the Endless Space one.

>>143762860
Neither of them are bigger.

>>143780004
Hard - +50% fleet limit +50% production
Insane- 100%

>>143779647
you dont want to have a surplus in anything because that means you are a bad spender like >>143777756 this guy

shitty macro is the worst you can do. every ressource not spent is a ressource wasted. in addition, you do not only lose the compounding interest from further investments, you also could have gotten something else instead that you actually need

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>>143780127
>Insane- 100%
Egawd what

>>143779981
I always keep ethnicity 100% clean, everything else gets purged

from what I heard forming alliances and vassalizing is easier but for me it is about fun, it is about principles

>>143780004
insane only because the other difficulties are boring as fuck

>>143780087
>>143780127
>>143780373
There is also penalty to diplo on harder difficulties.
-25 for hard
-50 for insane
I really could use some sort of advanced difficulty when you just customize it.
Give AI bonus energy, minerals, science or fleet capacity etc.

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>tfw three empires declare war on the empire I hate
>mfw i fuck him up his butt as he fights a desperate war

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>tfw feel bad after purging
This is no longer podracing. C-can I take a purge back?

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>>143780906
>purger's remorse
You have to embrace your inner Hitlerstalin, anon.

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>>143780532
unfortunately the AI is always fucking stupid no matter the difficulty

I have yet to see a strategy game where they scale difficulty with AI alone, not handicaps and bonuses

>pic semirelated
yeah, I had 3 other baits doing the exact same to keep ~400k fleet value busy when everyone attacked me so that I could take them apart one by one

>>143781161
I always heard the GalCiv AI (at least the one in GalCiv 2) had good difficulty scaling.

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>>143781135
Tell me you don't purge the pets.

>>143779647

Im assuming you are playing 1.1

>Dont colonize too many planets, only go for size 20+
>Specialize each of your 5 core worlds
>2 planets with only energy buildings, admin building in the center so u can build betharian powerplants around it for the adjacency bonus and u get even more energy out of the power hub + overload edict if u can spare the influence
>1 planet with full minerals + hub building (planet with extra mineral modifier
>1 capital world with full science and all the buildings than have empire wide bonuses
>1 full science world
>all sectors should be on research focus, make sectors big so the AI has access to the orbital minerals and doesnt waste planet tile space for building powerplants

once you get your core worlds up u should have several hundred income worth of energy and minerals which means u can shit out big fleets in no time

>>143780004

the only real difference comes in the early game, u gotta get a bit lucky to survive the first few decades on insane. if u get an aggressive neighbor early on youre pretty much doomed, AI has 1k+ worth of fleet by 2210 on insane ready to stomp you back to pre sentient

>>143781490
>make sectors big
Is there a limit to how large a sector can be?

>>143781687
No, and it helps to have them fuckhuge because the sector ai is a ridiculous miser who won't build things unless he has a ridiculous amount of materials left after the build order

>>143781687
No but I have heard that it can cause some lag having really large sectors

>>143781687

No, the 5 planet limit doesn't apply to sectors, the only problem could be that u gotta deal with stronger separatist movements if the sector involves a lot of planets with diverging ethics/xenos

>>143776092
>Ender'sGame.gif

>>143781256
GalCiv 2 AI is omniscient though.

>>143768296
starships unlimited

>>143782141
Worth to rewatch it in good quality?

>>143782164
Is there any strategy ai that isn't omniscient?

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>>143770201
That's a bit far-fetched lad, even for fantasy.

>>143781408
Reptilians are, in absence of a spider species, the only acceptable archetype.
>>143782164
Every """"AI"""" is omniscient.

>>143781256
That's because they made the AI use more processing power and actually have more capabilities as the difficulty increased, though the AI still made bad decisions. Something I really loved from GalCiv though is that you could set individual difficulty for each AI, that wouldn't work for Stellaris, but it'd be great for Civ.

>>143767895
>desert molluscoids

>>143782234
No, but you could read it in max quality

>>143782385
>Desert means there's no bodies of water at all
>Le one biome planet.

They're just shitty abstractions lad

>>143770201
It's sad how hard Manlets try.
When will they ever learn.

>>143771172
they're fucking them up even worse

>>143782509
I read it. Few times.
Want something with space battles.

>>143780906
It's for the good of the galaxy anon.

Nobody said you'd like purging. But you must.

>>143782385
It's a giant beach, the tides are just out on Amunis IV right now
>not having interplanetary tides
>Earthlings

>>143782385
Those exist on earth dummy

>>143782529
>a few relativly small bodies of water being able to sustain auqatic life to the point of them becoming the dominant species on the planet

>>143770201
>manlets thinking they might be attractive on an alien world
My sides are gone

>>143782798
>molluscs
>aquatic life
fucking hell anon go back to middle school biology, snails are molluscs and there's shitloads of them in the desert

>>143782928
Those are clearly not snails.

>>143783125
Neither is your dick but girls still are still grossed out when they see it drooling slime

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>>143783125
They are clearly not anything-else-that-lives-on-Earth either.

torpedoes or lasers for destroyers?

>>143783242
All the of the races are based on things that live on earth. Those are clearly based on clams or oysters.

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Soon, he has led the Empire for 100 years. How could he have ever died as anything less than a sole ruler?

>>143783667
Godspeede, Imperator Romanov

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>stumble into aliens
>they love 6'6"+ men, blond hair, blue eyes, muscular builds, and great intellect
>send forth those that apply to this the best
>arrive back on earth crying a few weeks later
>they were mocked for having only 8" penises
>videos of aliens with 12"+ dongs fucking each other and the humans in the ass
>Humanity because a living joke of a race when they find out we don't allow gene modding and cloning, but allow abortions
>rename humanity "Pepes" and treat us like a bunch of kids
>blow up any warships we try to build
>eventually enslave humanity and sell us as pets across the cosmos

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>>143783667
>yfw he dies
>yfw his successor brings the entire empire to shit

I've been playing Stellaris a lot and I think I'm ready to start trying mods out. Any favorites out there?

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>>143783667
Still waiting for a patch that will allow immortal rulers.

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>>143783453
Stellaris' molluscoids are based on clams in the same way modern Italy is based on the Roman Empire.
>>143783793
More like God-Spede.

>>143783857
I have some shitty pirated mods. Wanna try?

How do I destroy weaker species I encounter? Can I bombard them from space?

>>143762351
I'm new to civ and I'm curently playing civ4bts.
Is there any mod I should play? I'm having a hard time managing population and gold.. I always try to get as many cities as I can to secure a nice size civ on my continent but my gold just goes poof.
Any tips?
I play with expansive and the cultural and expansiva dude

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>>143783809
>take the human women and fuck them in front of the enslaved men
>force them to breed, and raise the offspring as brainwashed sex-slaves who hate each other and only breed with each other to produce more sex slaves

>>143783836
If the successor is one of those traitorous separatist scums I don't know what I'd do.

Star Ruler 2 vs. Stellaris?

>>143783809
Here's a (you), you got a sensible giggle out of me.

>>143784110
Star Ruler 2 is shit.

>>143784037
Stop talking about modern Sweden.
What it is /gsg/?

>>143784215
i'm gonna make a galactic sweden play

full xenophile, building a navy is haram

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>>143784008
don't overextend yourself

>>143783386
p-please respond

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>>143784342
sweden has a navy though, they need to be strong due to not being in NATO

if anything you should be "alliances haram" and stay as neutral as possible

>>143766515
can you make a custom name list on the beta patch or just leader titles

because default human names are kinda lame to me and I'd like to give everyone medieval persian names

>>143783981
I can always download them from steam, I was just curious if there had been some particularly well liked mods here. I was mostly curious about ai and naval rebalancing type mods, since there seem to be a bunch of those.
But if you like, you can give me a list of what you've got.

>>143784173
but so is Stellaris?

>>143784740
>deseil-electric subs
What is this, 1943?

>>143785018
>long range battles
>low population growth
>less habitable galaxy
>2D map
>separate humans
>some cosmetic shit

>>143785348
They are extremely silent.
They can walk unnoticed into formation of USA carrier group.

>>143785595
>They can walk unnoticed into formation of USA carrier group.

>this is what yuros actually believe
We didn't get to the top by being retarded, Bjorn.
Idiotic, stupid, and reckless perhaps, but not retarded.

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>>143784740
>that fucking navy
lmao

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MY SPECIES

WHY DO THEY HAVE SLAVERY SO MUCH

THEY'RE XENOPHOBES FOR FUCK'S SAKE

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>>143785595
>Swedish submarines can walk
Confirmed for L I B E R A T E.

>>143785756
Best unit in the entire game.

>>143785704
>there will never, ever be a proper battleship in the navy again
>even with super cool railguns
Feels bad, man.

>>143785695
>US literally paid the Swedes to take pictures of the Reagan with the Gotland
>Swedes won
Down Periscope is actually based on truth

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>>143785704
>the US will never invest one quarter of the money they put on the military on space travel

>>143786057
carriers will be obsolete soon as well

the only ships that are gonna matter are anti-missile destroyers and subhunters

>>143785695
But that actually happen.

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someone PLEASE UPLOAD THIS GLORIOUS FUCKING MOD

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693310104

I will love you to death

>>143785463
Cheers anon, I appreciate it.

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Sincerely FUCK the game's RNG. I just quit a game where my starter system was only energy and 2 minerals, my homeworld had no food or minerals, everything science had a tile blocker, my borders had 4 minerals in total, I got the fucking cultist rebels and pirates at the same time, and then space amoebas started destroying EVERYTHING, despite not having touched them. To top it all off, my scientist ship got gangbanged by 3 super space amoebas in a class F star, in which I got no notification of an enemy fleet.

God damn.

>>143784740
>sweden has a navy though, they need to be strong due to not being in NATO
Yeah because Germany, Poland, GB, and that other country (ameriba??? sorry memory bad) would totally let half of Scandinavia be taken over. You you should have said was: their fleet is shit because they have worthwhile countries around them.

>>143786302
You shouldn't.
As I didn't upload them on Steam.
Look for Beautiful battles and Rangefinder.

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>>143786354

>>143786191
When the chinks put a base on Mars they will

>>143786143
>>143786265
I don't habeeb it.

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>>143786354
Roleplay a poor empire that ended up owning half the galaxy

oh and git gud

>>143786239
>will be obsolete soon
are obsolete*
landbased anti-ship missiles alone prevent carriers from doing what they were meant to do
the only thing they can do is bully shitholes that cant afford missiles, at which point, why the fuck are you going to send a fucking floating city to do that job

>>143786535
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2008/April/Pages/AntiSub2301.aspx

>>143786619
Fuck off Ivan.

>>143786619
>landbased anti-ship missiles alone prevent carriers from doing what they were meant to do
t. Rus

>>143786475
Sweden Navy is part of their social spending now. Before it was important part of their inner politics.
Also Poland have no navy and Germany is a puppet state of USA. Shit happen.
Also their 'elites' use Ruskies to scare population so they can force them to get everything else anally.

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>>143786354
GIT GUD COMRADE
(150 years in with wormhole tech, home system 4 minerals 3 energy, half the range was dark space)

>>143786354
>starting resources
>mattering

git gud

>>143786512
>>143786575
Okay, I'll try. Some advice, though? Because when I can only build a corvette a year, I don't see a way to somehow overpower even space pirates.

>>143786962
Invest in mines at start.

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>>143786937
You even got the shape right

>>143786663
>>143786740
>Ivan
American
>Carriers meant to project force overseas
>missile is much cheaper and has range
>sailing close enough to project force puts you in the target zone of anti-ship missiles
>carrier gets hit
>over $13 billion for the ship alone at risk of getting completely fucked up and wasted because of $10,000 missiles
>toss in deisel electric subs and missile destroyers
>a cheap navy can now keep a $13 billion ship from doing what it was designed to do

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So i erm...i picked militarist because i wondered how good are oversized ships they get
Result = 50% extra gud

>>143786962
the only AI that will screw your run would be fanatical purifiers

I've spawned next to opposing ideology advanced AI with 5 planets and they DoW'd me (high AI aggressiveness) and I managed to white peace with only the starting +19 minerals and 13 fleet limit

the only other way the game can fuck you over is an unfortunate hyperlanes start

with warp tech it will never spawn you on an out-of-range system, but hyperlanes can and I've seen it happen to AI once, they spawned with one hyperlane leading to an advanced AI, and another to an FE, it was funny

oh and I've seen a picture of a machine age species reaching FTL, right in the middle of a militant FE, if you could find that pic I'd love to add it to my collection

>>143787430
I've always wondered what would happen if one of the US carriers was sunk by whoever they're fighting.

Imagine the shit storm it would cause.

>>143787469
I've been thinking of roleplaying my oligarchy run into a despotic empire and go nuts and become a pretend FE, do you think that would be fun?

>>143786962
Mineral stations in space, power plants on your home planet, don't even bother building up or using your navy until your weapons tech is level 2 and you have tier one shields.

>>143787572
>Imagine the shit storm it would cause.

It would be pretty big.

Like what are the most powerful things we have in terms of military?

Nukes, Supercarriers and ?

Sinking a US supercarrier wouldn't be quite the same as negating nukes, but it would be pretty big.

>>143787469
>using shields
>putting anything but lances on your BS
pleb

>>143787469
So its give 50% flat bonus to Armor,health,Shields and damage?
Its carried through upgrades?

>>143786280
shameless bump, pretty please? :3

>>143787572
Americans would be demanding blood, people would then learn that carriers are completely outdated, and then we'd get on a fast track to scrapping CVNs in favor of destroyers and possibly nuclear cruisers
The USN itself has voices already calling out the now outdated carrier program

>>143787572
USS Indianapolis 2: Nuclear Boogaloo

>>143787572
It would be glorious to witness.
Anyone who would do it would be dead and his country(or some other countries that have nothing with it) will be completely destroyed.

>>143783989
Anyone?

Do I need to have unrestricted bombardment?

>>143787905
and then you'd bankrupt yourself

FTFY

>>143787469
What a fucking terrible design. PD is for your corvette and destroyer screens dummy.

>>143787789
orbital bombardment soon

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>>143786354
>first run
>cultists and pirates at the same time
>completely out of resources
>scientist+ship lost on anomaly
>amoebas wreck my best scientist on top of that
>2 neighbors that hate my guts
>warp travel because noob

This is were I left the game
>red - me
>green - protectorates/vassals
>blue - federation

See I was not aware that this was supposed to be a "bad start" so I played it out
No get back there and git gud

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Am I the only one that thinks people might be overlooking mass tanks? I always hear people talking about them like they don't exist. I've been starting to favor using them over Bombers for Atomic-era domination victories. GWBs aren't sufficent to take cities and Radar takes significantly more techs to hit (electricity, replaceable parts, electronics, but not combustion). The lack of limitation to cities is also useful, especially when you're just rushing a group of 7 tanks past an AIs cities and bum rushing their capitals because you're smarter than Hitler.

My timing seems to be sloppy but I think straight up you should just hit tanks, sell research buildings, and just spam tanks, happiness buildings, and gold buildings while building pentagon.

Also

>playing stellaris

>>143788150
even limited bombardment can kill pops - but the chances are pretty low it'd take you decades to do it, years in which they'll probably auto-accept your peace deal anyway

I use limited bombardment to kill off newly founded colonies - that's the only thing it's good for

>>143788269
that's a really weird game, usually by the late 2300s there are a handful of empires left

I have two saves that look like that SIMON game

>>143788193
Who's going to call the moneymen :^)

>The birth of space piracy!
>two months and one battle later
>the end of space piracy
Pirates being an actually meaningful threat when?

>>143788527
No I mean it's a lower standing species. Machine age. I want to wipe it out before I colonize the planet, how?

>>143788269
Yeah this game isn't that tough if you ride it out. You really should've shifted your mineral production over to power though. Your fleet could be bigger.

>>143788681
Invade and purge.

>>143788681
I don't think you can, as non-xenophiles you can colonise the planet and I think you can purge them then

most players I've heard uplift and purge

>>143788419
In the common mp mod "nqmod" they had to buff tanks with a +50% vs land units to make people use them.

>>143788419
I can't really help you because I'm awful at civ, but how are you supposed to have wars in multiplayer without it becoming a massive slogfest that slows the game down?

I get shit on by my brothers for starting land wars in Asia every time we play 4X games together, but I don't see another way of doing it besides just never getting into wars.

>>143788527
For some reason the empires just split up in this game
There are like 10 factions in this map that used to be 3
Probably has to do with the fact that the largest left part of the galaxy is dominated by a pacifist confederacy backed by an Obserever(ayy you orbital bombard we war you) FE

>>143788681
Oh, just land armies on it and purge them.

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>>143788269
I'm still playing my first game, but I'm starting to feel like I should just quit. It's not very exciting anymore. Although, I could just push for a victory real quick since I am quite overpowered compared to the other empires in every regard.

Maybe I'll do something reckless when Imperator Romanov dies of old age and some shit gargling separatist twat takes the throne.

>>143784559
Thanks a lot that was really useful. I had a few cities on tundra and desert.. that explains me failing a lot.

>>143788787
>but how are you supposed to have wars in multiplayer without it becoming a massive slogfest that slows the game down?
Simultaneous turns is one way.

>>143784559
>still posting this shit which was barely true in vanilla Civ5, and absolutely false in expanded Civ5

>>143788531
China, because they're going to declare war and annex their customers

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>>143788678
>SoaSE pirates implemented
>Proxy wars by funding pirates
>Space jews faces when

>>143784559
>wide is best for CiV
what a sack of bullshit

>>143789054
>China
>having force projection outside of the orient
>having any leverage on their customers, on whom their entire economy depends on

>>143788703
The exclave at the bottom is relatively new and undevelopped so I wanted to pump the sector with minerals
I just stopped this run tho because i capped my research
Trying a pacifist/materiliast owl build now

>>143789119
I want to play Distant Worlds again.

>>143788875
Why haven't you gone for the victory? What kind of fake Roman hippie barbarian are you?

>>143789302
>Comcast depends on their customers
>does things that would make North Korea demand for more humane treatment

>>143788678
It is an early game crisis
It is more there to hold you from blobbing too fast (those 300 minerals you have to invest for taking them down really hurt at the beginning)

>>143789349
He's going for the True Ending i.e. Fallen Empire.

>>143789482
A corporation is an entirely different beast than a nation state, anon.

>>143789606
>a corporation is an entire different beast than what is essentially a corporate nation

>>143788678
I wish there was a 4X game where pirates made some fucking sense. They are always conceptually retarded in strategy games.

They shouldn't be a humongous military force that outshines empires even in the beginning. They should appear where there is trade, their success would strengthen them and losses would of course weaken. They should dynamically appear and disappear depending on trade and their tech level should be about the same or below the empires.

Basically they shouldn't be a serious military threat. They should mainly be an economic threat and only a military threat if you allow them to get out of hand.

>>143789259
It was pre bnw

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Shitter here, any advice on ship designing?

>>143789259
It was when the game came out.

>>143789685
Yes

>>143789807
Devastator Torpedoes

>>143788875
random empires are really fun mate you should try them

a few pro tips:

1. newbies don't build defense stations, build them

2. minmaxing isn't fun, you will never nudge out an advantage big enough to justify the cost

3. don't pause, ever, instead go slowest speed, a few ticks going by won't kill you and it feels better

4. try trading for strategic resources

5. do one FTL-only galaxies

6. hyperlanes are fun

7. are you feeling lucky, punk? attack an FE, make it a priority to win a battle, any battle, send a science ship and get tachyon lances early

8. migration access can help you speed up colonisation

9. starting with more advanced empires can be advantageous - you can pick them up as an ally, or ask to be a protectorate, then just store your research and go max out colonies and minerals, once you've colonised everything, you get to research everything at a 50% discount and then obliterate your former overlord *

*doesn't work if your overlord happens to have the entire galaxy backing him

>>143789729
Distant Worlds pirates at least make sense in the Age of Shadows start where they're basically the survivors of actually-fallen empires that leech off industrial civilizations to survive.