/civ4xg/ - Civilization, Stellaris, Endless Legend and 4X Games

What do you guys think of Galactic Civ III? Is it similar to stellaris?Is it worth buying on sale?

>>154599545
It's pretty much the same as Gal Civ 2 if I recall.
Is it still in development?

Get it on a very good sale.

>>154599545
I heard it was shallow.
But didn't played it myself.

>>154599854
It wasn't so much that it was shallow.
It was that the player could very easily min/max his planets to shit out ships and just roll over the AI. I believe they fixed that to some degree though.

Anyone here plays Stronghold?

Could you tell me what the ballistas are good for?

>>154600140
Is stronghold even a 4x game? I think you might want to try GSG >>154528487

>>154600436
>stronghold
>a grand strategy game
Did it hurt when your father "accidentally" throw you down a cliff when you were a baby?

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>>154600814
>Stronghold
>a 4x game
Its closer to a GSG game than civ4xg.

>use mod to get a trait that allows you to infect other species and turn their biomass into pops for myself
>ditch food traits in favor of influence traits
>enslave early on and use them as food and biomass to feed my starting hive planet
>cede their planets to me and resettle them onto my homeworld using my influence boosts
>watch them get devoured enmasse as my population skyrockets from the newly converted pops

Oh my god, this must be terrifying. Having your entire race enslaved to be used as hosts for some plague that makes more biomass xenos.

I have shit food production and growth too, but that doesnt really matter aslong as I keep conquering for more hosts.

>>154601074
Did it hurt when your father "accidentally" throw you down a cliff when you were a baby?

Could they not have taken a page from Vox Populi's book and not have made the new Tech tree so restricting?

It looks just as terrible as vanilla Civ5. Here's to hoping the addition of the Civics tree will give the player more choice in how they want to grow their empire.

>>154601463
Leonidas pls

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Is it his day?

Anyone know if you can refund then re-purchase games on steam? I bought Seven Kingdoms 2 yesterday but it just went on sale.

>>154608384
You can ask for a special refund if you got it just before it went on sale.

>>154601258

Isn't that literally what the Prethoryn Swarm is supposed to be?

Is there a loyal Civ you can ally that won't just turn against you the moment you're vulnerable?

>>154610178
Shaka's the most loyal civ in the game. If you become friends with him, you can usually rely on him

>>154598823
>tfw
nothing related to Thea in the OP still

anyway, when is Civ6 being released again?

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As stated in last thread;

Let people colonize moons, asteroids, planetoids, and orbital stations around gas giants in space game. It's dumb you can colonize only habitable worlds when these games feature FTL ships that can sustain crews and/or large space stations for years at a time.

>>154612993
This is why I like Distant Worlds.
>can build a resort station near a beautiful star
>can build a science station in the middle of nowhere

>>154608384
Don't forget to ask for help and tell me if you liked it.
I like knowing I helped another people to develop good taste.

>>154612993
dat is a sexy space base

>>154612993
How many billion people are there on that moonbase?

>>154612993
How would you increase the gravity for the moon? It's not like you can build a giant spinning section like for ships.

Is there a reason why the AI in Stellaris doesn't try to attack me early on? I've been placed beside 2 empires with superior fleet capacity & power, but they won't try shit with me because I have some slightly better tech. My strongest ships are Destroyers with tier 3 lasers and missiles but they wont attack me with their cruisers. Is it because I have defense stations everywhere?

I have the difficulty on Insane with highly aggressive AI.

What is the ideal Corvette/Destroyer/Cruiser/Battleship ratio?

I'm currently running with 13/7/3/1, but I feel that might have too many Corvettes and not enough heavy weaponry.

Would you guys suggest something simpler, like 4/3/2/1?

>>154611861
October.

Should I transition from Wormhole FTL to Psi Jump Drive?

>>154616451
One battleship for each support module. No cruisers. Fuckload of destroyers with a large weapon of your choice.

No corvettes. Corvettes are shitter disposable ships that you spam during war time to somewhat replenish your fleets should everything else gets wrekt.

>>154616451
You should always have a shitload of corvettes to soak up damage for the rest of your fleet. In late game I use destroyers in their place because they can have 3-5 point-defense guns to swat down missiles.

>>154612993
What the fuck is that guy doing at the top level? Self-simulating weightlessness while his buddy is pushing weights?

>>154617113
He's running laps along the wall. I'm not sure if that's effective exercise.

>>154616697
Terrbad idea.

>>154614697

What's the meme here? Why do people imply that all habitable world's require billions of people like modern humans have? Most humans live in poverty, they don't have the beyond 1st world luxury and technology that space empire would have.

Earth sized world's would be something like 2 billion maximum population. Each Stellaris population could be something near 150,000 million people instead of a billion each, which isn't very realistic.

>>154616697
Only if you want Slaanesh to rape you.

>>154616741
>One battleship for each support module.
All right, 4/3/2/1 takes up 26 points of Fleet.

Assuming a proportional increase of X5, we end up with 20/15/10/5. This means that our basic 'Strike Force' will take up 130 points of Fleet.

130 goes into 1000 7 times evenly, for a final (proportional) fleet composition of 140/105/70/35.

That's significantly more heavy weaponry brought to the fight than I had been working with.

>>154617742
The Prethoryn have already arrived.

Frankly, I should have kick-started the machine rebellion; it would have been easier to deal with.

>>154618038
With the excess 90 Fleet points, the Fleet could be accompanied by 3 of the 4/3/2/1 squadrons -- or they could be left behind to defend the territory.

Thanks, guys; this was helpful.

>>154618992
Or 10 more Battleships (two of each module), which would significantly increase the amount of firepower brought to the front.

Either or.

>>154618138
Well i'd slap on Psi drive's so you can escape the rape, hope you have a colony ship to escape with.

Is there any point in using the Shard tech? It's barely any better than lasers.

>>154616356
Beats me, I usually rolled out embassies and made everyone else do the work
But they're gone now so I struggle to do anything, probably due to government and ethics
What are yours?

>>154608384
You can.

>>154600140
Enemy siege weapons.

>>154621193

Don't remind me. The worst part is how much research they take, I know the point is to use debris research, but with only shoddy access to that it seems kind of worthless for how much it costs.

>>154621353
Fanatic Spiritualist and Militarist, I'm going for maximum colonization so I wanted the growth bonus and ethics bonus.

So how are the new features regarding fallen empires?

Do they have a joke about making the empire great again?

Are space wide wars a thing yet?

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Why can't I build an extractor on this deposit? I've researched the tech.

>>154622340
So they're snipers?

>>154622460
My first playthrough it was a godsend, I had red-shard enemies spawn all around me and I had that tech to dominate everyone until they got shields. But it's sadly the most worthless tech unless RNJesus gives it to you right off the bat.

>>154622539

First level extractor tech only applies to Titanium and Glass steel, I believe.

>>154622745

I've researched the advanced extractors though.

>>154622529
Heinlein hasn't released yet, has it?

>>154622712
For all intents and purposes yes. They one shot unarmored units, do significant damage to armored units and siege units, and have good range.

>>154622926
Ha, okay. Thanks for the tip. I always tried to use them against infantry.

Has anyone ever had a problem on civilisation 5 where if you try to load a saved game, the entire game crashes to the desktop? I think it is something to do with mods cos I tried out the community patch project.

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>>154600000
>unchecked quints

literally worse than murder

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> Pandora: First Contact
have any of you ever played this game?
I've been around with it since the first days, was able to beta test it and played on release
the game itself is pretty cool implementation, well balanced and strategy heavy
now I never got the addon, but from what I heard it truly holds the best AI out there, that seems to be so good it had to be nerfed
people even said its much better than Beyond Earth
would be nice seeing some bros playing it, as it a well deserving game
and also a good distraction till we get Civ6 and get disappointed again

>>154625601
I tried it, the gameplay was solid, but it just felt really bland. Seemed like it was trying to be a successor to SMAC but it lacked all the character.

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>>154622529
If for some reason you really want answers about Stellaris you have to pay :10bux: for access to Lowtax's Magical Realm.
Wiz is pretty active in the thread there and he can't dodge questions like he can with the goyim.

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>>154625601
another pic for preview
>>154626064
>bland
that is true, it lacks a bit of character, but arguably still better than most 4x we have atm,
it never really tried to be the successor of SMAC, but rather inspired by

>>154626621
The UI looks neat.

How do I stop sucking at strategy games?
In 1vs1, I'm okay, but in 2vs2 or 1vs1vs1, I get rekt.

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Forgot my pic.

Is Mohammed in as a Great Prophet

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Is Star Ruler 2 any good? I've heard a lot more good things about Distant Worlds, but fuck coughing up $70, and pirating is for child molesters, I'll wait for that one to go on sale.

>>154629564
they're probably gonna do what they did in Civ IV and not put Mohammed or Jesus into the GP name list.

>>154629564
No, but he's in as a heretic.

>>154629695
It's okay. Its main flaw is that it tries a very different system compared to the usual 4x. It's difficult to get used to it. Even the diplomacy is different from usual.

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>>154600000
that's a big post

>>154629695
I can't say if it's good, but it's original.
For starter, each planet produces only one ressources. Most often, it's water and food, and you have to export the ressources to another planet to develop it. If you keep undevelopped planets, you'll lose money.
Second, you can't stockpile money. If you get 50k credits from taxes but spend 48k of them to pay the upkeep, you only have 2k credits to spend. You can't wait the next month to have 4k, everything you haven't spent is automatically spent.
Fleets are actually just flagships followed by smaller escorts. If the flagship dies, the fleet is useless.
Ship plans are completely free, the only ressources used are money and production. Not gold, diamonds, supraconductors, electronics, metal.
The fuel and ammos are replaced by supplies. When a fleet runs out of supplies, it causes less damage instead of dying like in Star Ruler 1.
Diplomacy is done by spending influence points to buy and use cards that gives you bonuses (like getting intel on the enemy defenses, or naming a flagship or a planet).
There are many ressources that gives strange "pressures" bonuses to your planet. Simply put, it unlocks buildings that will be built automatically and don't cost anything.

Ressources are pretty much infinite, except for construction materials found on asteroids.
It's really confusing at first because it doesn't feel like a 4X, it feels like a puzzle game where you just link planets together.

>>154629564
To wit, Civ IV's Great Prophet list:

Abu Bakr
Rabbi Akiva
Ananda
Atisha
St. Augustine
Chuang-Tzu
Jeanne d'Arc
St. John
Kobo-Daishi
Mahavira
Mani
Mencius
Mo Tzu
Mohammed Shah
Moses
Narayana Guru
Narak
St. Patrick
St. Paul
St. Peter
Ramakrishna
Shankara
Sojourner Truth
St. Thomas Aquinas
Tipu Sultan
Tsongkhapa
Zoroaster

And the Great Prophets already known in Civ VI

Adi Shankara
Bodhidharma
Confucius
Francis of Assisi
Haji Huud
Irenaeus
John the Baptist
Laozi
Madhva Acharya
Martin Luther
O no Yasumaro
Siddhartha Gautama
Simon Peter
Songtsen Gampo
Thomas Aquinas
Zoroaster

>>154631038
>no Rabbi Jacob
All interest lost.

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I am gonna name a ship in her honor. My fleet was about 111000, and the unbidden were sitting around 80000 or so.

>>154629695
I prefer Distant Worlds, but I don't regret getting Star Ruler.
The main difference is a more simplified but more intuitive economy, no custom maps, 64-bit, and more focus on unit designing.
This turned out to be a deal killer for me because unit designing is my least favourite chore in video gaming.

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>>154631038
And Firaxis' Great Profit list in 2016:

Sid Meier's Civilization VI
XCOM 2

>>154631403
Star Ruler or Star Ruler 2?

>>154631547
2016 is shaping up to be a generally not shite year

>>154610178
Shaka and Ghengis won't betray you
However, they will almost never become your friends if you were neighbors in the first place
William will only dick you over if you war a lot

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https://twitter.com/topkekgames

>>154631403
>This turned out to be a deal killer for me because unit designing is my least favourite chore in video gaming.
Someone knows my pain.

>>154632520
That artstyle is familiar.
The eyes are really special.

It's on the tip of my tongue. I know that style. I know that artist.

>>154632570
Mein negger.

Captcha : vienna achtung
I think Hitler's back, and he won't be satisfied with just Poland.

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Peevish Pablo did an ES 2 sneak peek. I am slightly hyped now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LoFeGp5JM

>>154632520
>Sengoku Youko
So THAT was the manga that has such peculiar eyes.

>>154632682
To be honest it might just be that I don't have enough patience. For designing units, that is. In whatever sort of strategy game they pop up in. It just becomes so much more to keep track of, in an aggravating way. Busy work is for the generals, not the Fuhrer.

>>154632813
>Think he did another one
>Disappointed that it is one you already watched
I just want it to be on early access already dammit.

Which civ are they going to do a first look on today and why is it Russia with strategic resource + border expansion bonuses and a unique science building

>want to play stellaris
>dont want to play when major update is about to come around and change everything
God dammit I never thought I would hate frequent updates

>>154634893
feel like it's either gonna be Gilgamesh or Saladin. They did a European civ last week.

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>he

At least the portait is correct in a sense that she's ugly af.

>>154635993
>sagging orc tits
gross

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>>154636161
At least better than this. Which is... not much, but still.

>>154636342
At least she's good at gathering and decent at crafting. Give her some tools and she'll be okay.

So, does the Anon who tried Seven Kingdoms 2 liked it?

It's a very slow game, isn't it?

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Fourth time Indonesians are trying this and this time they might succeed. It won't be the end of Theodora, but she'll be reduced to irrelevancy if she loses that capital.

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It's Tuesday Sid Meier. Where is the next First Look?

Sid Meier I am not fucking around.

Seriously.

>>154636680
Keep in mind she already has a +3 tool equipped. But yeah, I prefer to send Orc Workers to the field (instead of human Gatherers) due to their superior HP, natural Armour / Damage and Strength.

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Hey, Maria Theresa thought they'd try and see how life is in the North Western continent and founded a city there. They're now the only civ with cities on all three continents.

I'm gifting Maria Theresa two workers and five mechanized infantry units to celebrate this milestone.

>>154637936
In about 4-5 hours

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>>154639008

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I love when this happens

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Indonesians have expanded quite a lot. They used to have two cities in this continent. Also, they fucked up their fourth assault on Theodora's capital District A1. I'm starting to think Theo's a lot tougher than she looks. She's beaten all three invaders time after time like a proper hard-time post-apocalyptic ghetto bitch.

>>154493194
One of those YNAEMP ones, can't remember the exact name.
Excuse the late as heck and vague response.

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Indonesia is the first civ to deploy nuclear weapons in exactly 99 years. The last nuclear detonations before this happened 99 years ago when the all the world's cities burned apart from the City States, capitals and two other cities.

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No wonder Indonesians have ambitions to secure lands in the Eastern continent rather than here.

>>154641464
what fucking mods/game settings are you playing
>that city strength
>that scorched earth
>district xxsx

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>>154641595
It's vanilla Civ V with inflation disabled.

The world has seen some shit. Pic related. It was the first of the three Great Burnings.

>>154641464
>>154641730
lol wtf are these the same game?

>>154641857
>>154641857
Yeah, that anon was playing that game more than a year back
He found his save a few days ago
But also, cities get real fucking strong near end game

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>>154641595
The names District XX SX are because I used to name my cities on these two continents like that back in the good old days. The SX means Sector number. There were 6 sectors with 15-20 cities plus about 14 cities in the 'B' sector on the Eastern continent. B sector cities were the old and current city states and capitals. Only 6 of the original 24 City States retain their original names.

>>154641857
Yes. This is the screenshot of the world after it was rebuilt and after the second Great Burning, which consumed only the South Western parts of the Eastern Continent. This was a few years before the English launched a massive invasion of the Eastern Continent that ultimately led to Augustus' fall and basically the entire continent burned/glowed with atomic fire.

>>154642081
Game looks fucking intense
>all that sector naming
loving that autism tbqh

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Austria is really starting to build up a presence on this continent. District 8 S3 used to be Carthage's capital. They were annex by the English in around 1700's.

I'm trying to track all the current nuclear arsenals of the other civs, but I can't seem to find them. I know Ramalamadingdong has at least 4 nukes and I could only find two of them and they haven't used them for sure. They're probably on a carrier somewhere.

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Look at this comfy as fuck start position Austria had.

I'm surprised they ever fell to any invasion to begin with.
>That mountain range
>Those strategic resources

>>154642994
Absolutely comfy.

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>>154642994
>Ulundi
>Zulu capital(?)

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>>154643263
Nah, Zulu capital was District B8 here. That is the only city Shaka built after he was liberated, when Poland was still standing as well. No idea wtf the point of that was, but that's what he did.

He didn't have much of a chance against Siam because Shaka was in renaissance or something while Siam was in modern age.

>>154617519
>Earth sized world's would be something like 2 billion maximum population.
Earth sized worlds would be less than what earth is today?

>>154643708
We're overharvest Earth right now.

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My god this is inconceivable. Two cities now follow some other religion other than mine and these fuckers are actually making an effort to spread it!

I can watch these assholes nuke each other and destroy the world all over again but by god I will not stand this degenerate heresy.

>>154643831
>this meme again

>>154643708
>>154643831
>>154643873

If everyone in the world today lived with modern first world demands for resources and services the world would be supremely over populated to support this.

In space future tech, people would have even more demands for high technology and greater resources to supply even a single member of the population. As such, it is not unreasonable to think that people would be much more 'thin' in how they spread out. Remind yourself that, perhaps in a far flung future, people may intentionally depopulate or sustain lower populations to have better economic and luxury opportunities. It is not unreasonable at all that in a science fiction society where you can live in massive space stations, aboard star ships, on asteroid moon bases or on other planets living on a habitable world is not your only choice. Since people could basically live anywhere, they could be more 'spread out'.

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Indonesians founded a city right at Siam's border and that incited a war.

Siam nuked two cities after their attack force and most of their navy was decimated at Indonesian shores.

Indonesia founded another city next to Siam shortly after the war began.

Austria and England are now the only civs in possession of nuclear weapons.

My capital is 2 pops away from 70 and I'm starting to run into problems with happiness. I can't build anything to get more of it. Looking to settle a few cities to get more luxury resources (I only have 5).

Theodora is not at war with anyone at the moment and they still hold on to their capital.

Austria has founded a new city on my continent and they are currently the most powerful civ(excluding myself).

Austria is currently fielding four GDR's.

According to a report, 25 World wonders are left out of 48. 3 in my capital, 5 in Siam, 10 in Theodora's capital and 7 in Indonesian cities.

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I... I think she might be up to something.

>>154643873
>american refusing to accept reality

>>154645331
Enjoying the return of these, keep it up.

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Maria Theresa declared war on Indonesia. Her attack force on the South Western continent has embarked towards the Indonesian capital.

Indonesian forces are mostly deployed in the Eastern continent against Siam so they're pretty vulnerable here. I can't find Austria's nukes anywhere and I'm starting to think they've used them at some point.

It's pretty unlikely that Austrians gain any ground though. They mainly have subs and no stealth bombers in this continent.

I've moved my troops on the Eastern continent to observe Siamese movements as a preparation. I'm expecting Austria and Siam to go to war at some point as well.

>>154645592
Glad to hear it.

>>154626621
>never really tried to be the successor of SMAC
Nigga the leaders are almost copy pasted from SMAC.
The game is pretty good, but the setting is much more than 'inspired'

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Theodora declared war on Indonesia as well. Everyone's jumping in on this it seems. The second the Indonesians were weakened by the Siamese nuclear weapons, they're getting attacked on all sides. I think Theodora might be able to wrestle away one of the smaller cities on her peninsula or maybe both.

>tfw just realised I can mass produce shitty items in Thea
>4 Iron / 4 Clay / 5 Wood hammer = 7 RP per piece
>w/ 545 overall Crafting = 4,5 pieces per turn
>~31,5RP / turn guaranteed RPs
>tfw tools can be dismantled
>tfw all resources renewable

The best way to burn cheap resources that I don't need anyway. Especially since the limit to the next Advancement Point is 143 RP (before I started mass production it was around ~130).

>>154645886
>>154646019
>turn 3,796
holy shit dude

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>>154645886
Scratch that no nukes thing. I found one of Austria's nukes. I'm now quite certain they still have the second nuke somewhere.

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Theodora captured one of the Indonesian cities as expected. Indonesian reinforcements to their home continent in the North West were intercepted and rekt by city state allies of Austria. Indonesian city of Samarinda is under siege by City State District 13 S6. First Austrian troops about to disembark on Indonesian shores.

>>154646586
How is the world congress doing? You'd think global nuclear apocalypse would put a stop to that sort of stuff.

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>>154646698
Everyone wants someone embargoed, something banned or something repealed.

>>154646741
I'd like to see Thea banned to be honest.

>>154646741
FUCK INDONESIA UP!!

>>154646741
>world religion: Holocaust
I assume you didn't have nuclear winter in mind when you named that.

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>>154646741
>Congress of Misery and Death

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>>154646741

There should be a nuclear winter victory.
If you have a big enough mineshaft gap once nuclear war hits you win

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Austria's assault was a complete clusterfuck. They have not used their nuclear weapon yet.

Theodora didn't manage to get the second city because Indonesian reinforcements got there in time and she doesn't have any troops left.

Siam founded their first city in a long ass time. Last time they founded a city, the middle age Zulus were still around.

Indonesia has a pretty firm grip of the Iroquois subcontinent in the East. They just founded a new city there.

It's very difficult for the AI to attack that peninsula, so they are quite secure. It took the Romans a long time before they conquered Pocatello, the original inhabitant of that region.

Indonesians are now the weakest civ according to statistics. That's quite a drop considering they rivaled Austria and Siam just a few dozen turns ago.

>>154646971
I didn't, but damn it if it isn't fitting for this current situation.

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Siam is gathering some serious hardware towards Indonesian city Jayapura. I'm thinking Theodora does not like having all that Siamese military anywhere near her considering their mutual past.

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Don't mind me, just being the comfiest Civ 5 leader screen in the game.

>>154647671
>manboobs
I need to bleach my eyes.

>>154647671
You must've picked the wrong image, that's not Pedro's leader screen

>>154647671

>bare chested like a man comfortable in his masculinity
>wields a vicious sword, clearly a sign that he's not to be fucked with
>covered in exotic bling
>background is misty and mysterious jungle

damn straight

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>>154647671
but that's not ultracomfy Mediterranean palace balcony

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There goes Jayapura and as the long history of global tradition dictates, it will be razed to the ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ejqyduBsI

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>>154647671
You're wrong.

Gajah Mada is underrated though, I'll give you that

>>154648421

Next to Mongolian and Brazilian themes, definitely one of the better ones.

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I knew this was coming and that's why I sent a dozen mech infantries to Theodora. Hopefully they'll be enough to defeat the Siamese forces.

Austria is mounting a second offensive towards Denpasar.

Indonesia and Siam made peace with each other.

Austria expanded with yet another city in my home continent in the South West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXOLRXzs_qo
best war theme
especially the beginning, brings a chill

>>154649123
god i hate civs war themes. Not because theyre bad but they depress the fuck out of me. Give me a fucking military march when i'm winning, something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf1zSz4QN6A

>>154648421
>>154648831
I quite like Theodora's, Pocatello's, and Shaka's myself

>>154649592
How about the British war theme then?

>>154649592
Fuck you, this is what you deserve : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khMlcTE7lw8

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>The world's Jew master likes shiny things the most

Wow, this game is so racist.

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>came_to_the_wrong_neighbourhood_motherfucker.jpg

Fun fact: destroying lairs slow down world progression.

>>154650605
>world progression
Oh dear god no.
Don't tell me it's one of these games à la Don't Starve where it get harder the longer you survive.

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I don't understand why Indonesians don't settle in this part of the continent. There's strategic resources, luxury resources and decent spots for cities.

>>154650947

Am I the only one who gets a stiffy fantasizing about making tons of workers and cleaning that shit up and rebuilding?

>>154650947
Would you settle an irradiated hellhole?

My guess is the AI won't scrub fall out that isn't on a tile that they own, and that continent doesn't have enough attractive tiles for them to settle unless they scrub some tiles.

Anyone playing 'Stars!'?

>>154651349
>Stars!
You sure that's the right name? That doesn't ring any bell.

>>154648421
>>154649123
God, the music in this game is so good. I hope whoever's responsible for music in VI is on the ball as much as the composers for V were.

>>154645918
hence, I said inspired, the leaders and factions are pretty the same, so much that is it seems like a parody
however the gameplay in itself is extremely different, SMAC is already prety different from Civ itself,
the point is: they were fans SMAC and strived for a good game, though still a small indie company

>>154629695
>pirating is for child molesters
what the fuck is up with this anti-pirate culture as of late?

>>154651637
That's called "not being a shithead".

It also comes from the fact that all pirates are arrogant shitheads with their "lol, how does gabens cum taste????" answers.

>>154651637
Shills, trolls or genuine retards.
That one sounds like the 3rd though.

>>154632520
>https://twitter.com/topkekgames
there is literally a indie developer called topkek

>>154651815
No, retard. It's a team from Transfuzer who named itself like that.

>>154635993
>>154636342
I had a similar event but it was described as an actual 'she'
and at least you an orc out of it

>>154651815
In From, teams are named A-Team, B-Team and C-Team.

In Transfuzer, they're named Top Kek, Faggot Tree, and Hitler Did Nothing Wrong.

I CAN TASTE IT LADS, SOON

>>154651728
>"lol, how does gabens cum taste????"
eh? wtf?
I see nothing wrong with it, games are set arbitrary prices, in no way shape or form prices are a standard of how much was spent or how good is the game,
some big companies mostly just push out games to jew out money, while other developers genuinely try to push out decent games
so what is really worth is trying the game with a free copy really, easier than asking refund, and a lot of people simply don't have the funds for the game atm
when you are sure its a good game and you want to support the developer, etc all that crap

>>154652536
Try again with proper punctuation, I'm not reading your verbal diarrhea.

>>154652697
Maybe if you work on your reading comprehension you will one day understand and learn to salute and thank the pirates for saving the industry.
Until then you can only wallow in your ignorance.

Reminder without piracy every single game would be an overpriced shovelware DLC-fest.
Although Steam and its refunds bopped this harder, since it deals with real purchases made with real money, unlike muddy "potential lost profits".

>>154651456
Its kinda old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!

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>>154650689
The underlying system is pretty interesting and leaves plenty room to maneuver. There's 10 difficulty advancements: at Hard setting it steps up at every 15 turns (at Medium it takes 1.5 times / at Easy 2.5 times longer). However, this doesn't apply automatically.

It only affects newly spawned enemies, and (to my best knowledge) that can only happen if a lair is destroyed OR every creatures belong to it. Where's the twist? By destroying a lair, you can get maximum 4 extra turns / level AND enemies can freely roam around.

See, I'm at turn 357 and still see plenty 2-3 skull enemies / lairs but I also have 5-skull ones (like the Tomb above) that spawned ages ago. What's fantastic that you can act according to your best interest and (minus tiny restrictions) everything is generated randomly.

Then at one point, the game's difficulty spike gets brutal. Thanks to the latest (otherwise massive and free) DLC, Giants start to appear to provide a real end-game experience. Now, I haven't met any yet (though I found a Giant Nest with this fella inside) but it's inevitable.

>>154651970
Wait, you didn't get an Orc from the event despite the description? You know, this is the random event when the Orcs need Tools to crack a vault, and you can offer to work together. At the end, the Orc leader proposes a barter: one of your men in exchange for hers.

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>>154653361
>spoiler image

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>>154651187
That's not a bad idea. I think I'll gather up my workers and start scrubbing that shit up. It's not like I have anything better to do while looking over these others.

Here's a strategic view of the area to better show the totality of the destruction and spread of the radiation.

Every dark spot is an irradiated/pillaged tile.

>>154654126
>those floodplains permanently gone

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sent a task force of 12 workers and 8 XCOMs to clear out the continent of fallout and barbarians.

Shit's on fire yo.

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>Is Civilization VI a Bowling Simulator?
Fucking really?

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Before I even get to scrub one tile of fallout, these guys showed up.

I'll still scrub this shit up tho.

>>154654669

That's some C&C shit right there. I can totally imagine the whole continent being a tiberium irradiated shithole.

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>>154655064
Looks like you picked the wrong civ for this game.

>>154655175
Retarded mod civ

>>154655267
Unquestionably.

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I think these guys are headed for my continent. There's nothing else in that direction except for that small patch of land. I'm getting new neighbors it seems.

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My capital just grew to 70. I don't think it will grow much more than that before I run into trouble with happiness or food.

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Austria is plotting against Theodora and has a force enroute to attack her capital

Siam is plotting against Indonesia

Indonesia is plotting against Theodora

It looks like another shit storm's about to break out.

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Holy shit this CS is packing some heat.

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God damn, that new EL faction.

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>>154626064
>it just felt really bland. Seemed like it was trying to be a successor to SMAC but it lacked all the character.
It had more character than Beyond Earth.

>>154650605
are you sure about that?

>>154653361
again, do you have any reference on that? from what I heard it was just 0~100 to maximum difficulty
and pretty sure in my previous I started having giants after turn 100, those damn "tremors" events all the time, and after a while found one and their lair also

don't you mean by destroying monters lairs you actually allow for higher tier lairs to spawn?

on the orc event thing, I think maybe it was a different event, or maybe I didn't have the necessary skills, but they didn't ask me to crack anything

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It's really shitty that I can't get any damn mods to work with this save game. I tried adding the global warming mod and and some others to spice things up a bit.

I can't even retire from the game to see some graphs.

>>154650689
its variable based on difficulty settings and never becomes impossible if you know what you're doing

>>154651458
i remember people were super pissed because V menu didnt have baba yetu. Now i love baba yetu as much as the next guy but the main theme of V is fucking excellent and severely underrated thanks to baba yetu.

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>>154657159

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>>154658248
Everyone's always super pissed about everything in every new Civilization game.

>new game comes up
>sticks to its roots with cartoony graphics
>people are mad
>add in features from the past games
>people are mad because they're recycling
>don't add in features from the past games and come up with new ones
>people are mad because it's dumbed down

Firaxis really can't win. Even if they made the best, most perfect Civilization, people would still bitch about shit.

>>154657159
>>154658504
why is EL art so good

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>>154659047

>>154659047
Because it's all they've got going for them.

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>>154653848
>tfw entered that nest and saw it for the first time

>>154657508
Vast majority of the info has been gathered from the game's Steam discussion section (as this seem to be the most active by far), often provided by the devs themselves. Feel free to check them.

Just two quick examples: https://steamcommunity.com/app/378720/discussions/0/487877107138000785/ or https://steamcommunity.com/app/378720/discussions/0/353916584663218535/

>don't you mean by destroying monters lairs you actually allow for higher tier lairs to spawn?

From my understanding, maximum monster / lair levels is determined by difficulty advancements BUT other aspects (e.g distance from your town or number of active / destroyed lairs) are also taken into account.

>>154659047
France, that's why

>>154659047
They hire fantasy artists, not generic video game artists fresh out of some shitty design school.

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you said there would be a new civ reveal today, sid

where is it

where is the new civ reveal, sid

sid goddammit

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Well, would you look at that. Indonesia finally settled his diva ass on the land I SCRUBBED FOR HIM. It's okay, though. No need to thank me or anything. I only committed 12 workers to clean up this mess that someone else could've fucking cleaned up in the last 100 years or so.

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I demanded Ramalamadingdong to give me District B5, which is the old capital of Rome and that motherfucker told me to "come and get it from his cold dead hands."

Does this cocksucker have no idea of the magnitude of the shit this world got into the last time I ventured across the ocean to get something "over someones dead body".

Bitch, I burned to ashes and it burns and glows a hundred years since. Don't kindle a fire you won't be able to put out, you piece of shit.

>>154657159
>>154658504

Where did you find this? I don't see anything on the youtube page, wiki, or main website.

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>be german
>play a random civ
>get germany
>intent to play for a cultural victory
>meet my neighbor
>its poland

By turn 50 i invaded him, later i adopted total war in the autocracy ideology and in the end i just nuked everything.

I....I just don't know what happened. It was supposed to be a peaceful game!

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WHERE IS THE CIV FIRAXIS

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>>154661905
https://www.games2gether.com/

>>154617113
Low gravity means you can run at a sloped wall like that. Proper track would take a lot of space and constantly turning in a small loop isn't good for your knees either. Bit of a meme but clever meme.

>>154661770
You fuckin stick it to that piece of data you savage. Make it simulate regret for its shit talk.
So hey any tips on how to play an observer game? What difficulty?

>playing CBP
>have ambassadors in every capital
>it's impossible to trade for either option of any vote in the world congress, even with vassalized civs
Thanks for the n-n-nice mod, you guys.

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>>154662846

>>154663052
>CBP
he fell for the meme, the absolute madman

>>154659047
did they ever release that digital artbook from that free weekend ages ago?

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Is there any way to get to archived /vg/ threads from a year back?

I'd like to recover some screenshots of this >>154641730

Does anyone here happen to have anything I posted back then?

This is the only screenshot I had from a year ago.

>>154662846
>>154662846
My dik is diamonds now. I wish someone made a game like what spore should've been with this sort of artstyle

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>>154663386
>Spore
Oddest crossover I've heard.

>>154663561
Jesus. I was thinking of Distant worlds and my brain farted. Sorry nigga

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>>154663043
This isn't purely an observer game. I'm still in the reigns of my civ. If you want to do something similar, I recommend picking a few mods that add a bit randomness to the game, domination only, huge map, 12+ civs and 20 CS then play normally. If you end up like I did with you and you have a humongous AI civ against you, then stomp that fucker and burn everything you can and liberate capitals/CS and after you've done that, get loads of dosh to nuke yourself into oblivion as well until you have nothing but your own capital, then disband your entire military and sit back and watch as the liberated AI's start anew.

Anything above Emperor difficulty is good for that kind of match. Also, remember to disable inflation. If you have inflation on, you won't be able to sustain a meaningful military after 2200 because every unit costs 100+ gold per turn.

If you want a match with nothing but AI's then you'll have to do some digging, because I have no idea how to do that, but I've heard it's possible.

InfoAddict is a nice mod to have enabled when you start. You can get some neat graphs of the world history with that mod.

>>154663163
It is fun though. It's just a little buggy. It's what Civ V should have been but with a little more bug testing.

>>154659016
>Firaxis really can't win. Even if they made the best, most perfect Civilization, people would still bitch about shit.
Nice shilling, retard.

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>>154662372
Here we go again...

>>154651458
Correction, the music of the DLC is good. The vanilla had between meh and garbage music. Just listen to Babylon's music. It's awful. They put a lot more effort into the later released civs' music.

>>154664908
well, that might prove good news for Civ VI, since the people in charge of the DLC are the people making Civ VI

>>154664908
Babylon is a DLC civ.


Vanilla civ theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5oO6wBrp8s&

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Got a demon recruit just now; looks like a straight upgrade on the hunter class

>>154665586
I know, which is why I specified later released civs in the last sentence.

>>154664747
She will always hold a special place in my rape dungeon.

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>>154665724
a wandering old man came by a few turns later and gave me this axe and a quest to investigate the giants return

I dont think I've ever gotten loot this good by a fluke before

Oh and pro tip if you get the king arthur quest: it can be good to only send a single person to meet the lady of the lake so you can force which weapon gets the bonus damage put on it

similarly you might drop all your weapons but one into a split party for the bridge part so you can still do the physical check (at least I think there's a physical check)

>>154665724
What gaem

>>154668896
Thea the awakening

>>154663947
I like to imagine this is what happens if you have a multiplayer game filled with autists. World is nuked to shit but everyone is too stubborn to just give up

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>>154668896
Thea: The Awakening
It's a TRPG with practically no 4X elements
Combat is a card game but fairly satisfying (late-game not letting your opponent play any cards at all is the best feeling)

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What are the most basic/common types of ship weapons in space 4x games?

What are your favorite types that you use the most?

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>this is how archers and horsemen few when you enter the industrial age ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2uqD7nA74&list=PLDB8B8220DEE96FD9&index=21

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Wow, Indonesia. That is a really rude fucking place to settle.

Also, Austria is suffering from revolts because they're idiots and refuse to give up their little impossible social experiment "Freedom" that would never work. They should just embrace Order like any sensible nation has. Theodora is also trying to pretend Autocracy "works" for her.

Indonesia has built a few new cities in the North Western continent and they've built up military next to Theodora to make another clusterfuck of an assault against her capital.

Siam already tried attacking Theodora some time earlier and got BTFO as usual. Theodora isn't fucking around anymore when it comes to defense of her homeland.

My efforts to clear out the fall out from the North Western continent is proceeding nicely. I've cleared out about 1/4 of the continent and I think I'll stop soon to clean and scrub my home continent completely.

>>154670161
Really big railguns.

>>154662692
civ's over, battleborn killed the whole corporation

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>>154672843

>>154670161
I favor lasers and gauss cannon point defense with long range missile based sensor nets and carrier support in my Aurora games

>>154653010
>pirates
>saving the industry
Nice fanfiction.

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>>154670104
got rekt

still my biggest problem is research, goes by so damn slow
needing to balance between useful materials or tools and buildings I need

The CIv 5 roulette link in the OP doesn't work anymore. Does anyone have the image?

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>>154676150
Should probably remove it from the OP anyways

>>154669525
>>154670104
>literally a /quest// evolve thread but a game
My dick

>>154644675
It's also possible that future people might have access to more efficient energy sources and or less wasteful modes of consumption.

Vat grown food, fusion power, 3d printing, offworld mining, ect You could easily support 10s of billions of people at a level of luxury exceeding the 20th century american standard.

>>154676002
I got lucky and got scaled leather on my spawn in my current game
I have my crafters default to making it and I had the important parts of the research tree unlocked by turn 100 as a result
it's turn 314 now and I've unlocked the entire thing

>>154678113
>>154676002
another game to check out is Eador: Genesis

Eador Masters of the Broken World is the same game but with a graphical/UI update and a ton of bugs that haven't been fixed; I played primarily on this version but fans of Genesis say there's pretty much no reason to buy this version over the original

Eador Imperium is a standalone expansion/sequel (same UI and reused assets) to Masters of the Broken World but it hasn't left early access yet so chances are all the main bugs of Masters of the Broken World are still there. I'll probably shill it after Early Access ends assuming it's not a broken mess and actually has content

>>154680215
I tried Eador : Masters of the Broken World once.

It was extremely brutal.

>>154680412
yeah it is that
I spent probably 20 hours raging about it before I got gud

>>154680635
How do I make money and stop losing all my heroes and units?

>>154681421
difficulty scales for each step away from your castle
explore the very close ones until you get some good loot
you need to either grind levels or luck out on item drops in order to progress to further away; most of the late game progression is solely based on loot

making money is just about grabbing as much land as possible and developing it
also dont play the campaign

>>154682187
>dont play the campaign
That's gotta be the first time I'm said to not play the campaign.

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Is Stellaris worth buy now that it's 20% off and hopefully patched a lot? I feel the urge to purge alien scum.

>>154684915
Just play XCOM

>>154684915
Only victories are % of the universe owned and domination. Decide if that's good enough for you.

Hey guys.

Are there any mods for Stellaris that generally lower fleet sizes?

Like adding friendly fire or something that stops the game's space combat from solely being "My 100 ship wedge vs Your 100 ship wedge." I figure modding the Naval Capacity stuff to be lower is one way, but I'd rather have a fair amount of small fleets than one huge one or one tiny one.

>>154687304
Y beautiful battles companion mod.

>>154684915
It's playable, not buggy or laggy as hell, and the first few playthroughs the early game exploration is really cool, the midgame experience depends on your playstyle, and the end game crisis that can happen are really awaesome and scary whene you run into them the first time.

With mods you can make the otherwise tedious and sometimes infuriating mid and lategame a fun experience, too.

>>154687380
Of course as you suggest this, the Steam workshop goes down.

>>154687671
Well, it's Tuesday.

>>154687745
Wednesday where I am, lad.

Would you be able to tell me what it does? The mod I mean.

>>154687883
Makes combat overall slower, balances a bunch of ship related things, doubles the supply requirements of ships so corvettes cost 2, destroyers 4, etc resulting in smaller less spammy fleets.

>>154690138
I've been running ZBeautifulbattles and things feel spammy. Gonna give "YBeautifulBattles" a look in when I can.

>>154690494
Y beautiful battles is the companion to Z so they're supposed to go together. Z just fixes the visuals, Y fixes everything underneath.

If you want something that feels more vanilla but adds a lot of shit to the endgame look at improved space battles and the submods. Adds titan and leviathan class ships, supercarriers, planet destroyers.

>>154612993
Why do you care? The game's are usually built around not being able to colonize them, so it doesn't affect gameplay at all.

It's not realistic, so that can't be it.

Do you just want more consistency in how your numbers are displayed or something? is it purely aesthetic?

>try to improve Beyond Earth with a bunch of mods, including the one that includes actual social policies based on politics and shit
>all it achieves is AI declaring war from across the planet like retards for the entire match instead of just during late game due to them hating your social policies in addition to hating your affinity
Is BE completely unfixable? RT did some nice things, but the fact that they included water cities without reworking naval warfare and adding any special naval units bugs the fuck out of me.

>>154691731
Isn't the problem that Firaxis is unfixable?

BE was shit, Xcom 2 was shit, Spaceships was complete and utter shit. and Civ 6 is probably going to be shit as well.

>>154691901
>Xcom 2 was shit
Nice meme kiddo.

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>>154692158
>Xcom 2
>not a shitty mess
>stealth game
>no silenced weapons, etc etc, just a bunch of silly cosmetic shit

mfw

>>154692448
>wDDD look at me I use mods and I think my opinion is worth anything

>>154676587
rollan

>>154692715
That's the armor you unlock from doing the Alien Hunters DLC. Not mods, dipshit.

>>154693789
>"shit I'm gettin rekt because I'm a moron"
>"better call him dipshit, it'll prove that I'm right"

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Having 4 Elves feels unfair
looking forward to sending this lineup against giants

>>154692448
>stealth game
>xcom
Yes, and stellaris is a fps

>>154601074
i disagree

>>154670104
FUCK YOU BASTARD I JUST DOWNLOADED THIS I HAVE 3 TESTS THIS WEEK FUCK YOU

>>154676002
>still my biggest problem is research, goes by so damn slow

See my post at >>154646051. I gained 7 levels like it's nothing after I started using it. Needless to say, adjust the materials and the concrete item to your actual situation.

>>154646051
Wait, all ressources are renewable in Thea?
I'm looking for another slow and comfy game.

>>154695958
How do i make weapons and other things than pastures in thea?

>>154696645
Research them first.

>>154696809
But the research has only materials

>>154697006
No.

>>154694638

Xcom 2 is about a rogue group of terrorists who try their best to avoid being detected on almost every mission.

No stealth kills
no knifes
no CQC interrogation
No silenced weapons
no tranq guns.

They barely tried. It's just the same game as Xcom 1 with worse mechanics and aesthetics.

>>154697389
So you just wanted Metal Gear.

Bad news : it's XCOM. It's about shooting ayyys in the face. It's not about infiltration, sorry to burst your bubble.

>>154697389
this, honestly. I had a lot of fun with it, im not gonna deny that, but its fucking boring that they chalk it up to being humanities last effort, with only a few soldiers, but in the actual game its just xcom but with less bulky troops. theres no stealth or gorilla tactics whatsoever.

>>154697579
>xcom is just xcom
>and it's bad
????

If you want a sequel that totally shits on the original game, go play Quake.

>>154697671
>shits on the original game
but thats not what I want at all? its not like they need to remove every fucking element of the original. its more like putting any fucking effort in to feel like its actually a game where you play as rogue agents, terrorists. which is what the story is all about. theres only like 20 of you, yet you always go in guns blazing and theres no other options. its like battlefield 1. whats the point of having a different and unique setting if they dont put any work into making it feel different and unique.

>>154697847
You do realize that terrorist don't go in quietly, right? That "terrorist" has the word "terror" in it, right?

>>154694557
>>154646051
>>154636342
So this game looks so amazing and it seems like the perfect dark fantasy experience I've been looking for. So why has no one been talking about it until recently, if the game came out a year ago? Did it just get overshadowed by Endless Legend and Beyond Earth?

>>154697490
>Bad news : it's XCOM. It's about shooting ayyys in the face. It's not about infiltration, sorry to burst your bubble.

Then it's just a copy of the original game.

>>154698041
>Did it just get overshadowed
It's a small game.

>>154697389
Firaxis have a wildly different idea on what constitutes revolutionary activity than most tacticooly inclined people.
For Firaxis it's about bombastic punk looking fuckers blowing shit up and sticking it to "The Man" rather than sneaky guerilla terrorists doing stealthy tacticool shit. But while their thematic choices can be criticized, the gameplay itself is mostly good and fun, other than the pod system still being a thing. And the final bossfight, that was fucking awful.
People complaining about thematic inconsistencies in xcom are like people complaining about historical inaccuracies in civ games.

>>154697923

Right, because terrorists all go shouting the whole time they're setting up a bomb someplace.

All those times we had to go in to set up a bomb on something we could have just parked a Ryder truck full of fertilizer next to.

But then the game would be controversial. Can't have that.

>>154647671
dude has fucking elf ears

>>154698396
Are you whining about Xcom or are you crying about Counter Strike?

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>>154650605
>suspicious tower
I am spooked

>>154698481

There's nothing guerilla or resistance about Xcom 2.

It's just a reskinned Xcom 1.

I just tried my hand at making a custom faction for Endless Legend. I love the fact that you can do that.

Turns out any kind of race with a + to any tile with an effect (like +1 dust to dust tiles) can get stupid overpowered with the traight that halfs the amount needed to make a borough.

>>154700879
That trait is just all around good.

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>>154696101
Yes. Once you discover where they can be gathered on the map and unlocked them in the Research Screen, all you have to do is camp there (or in an adjacent tile) and start gathering it (speed depends on the skill level of participants).

All those what I mentioned above are low-tier materials that I have direct an easy access (usually, in a 5 tile radius around my village). Dismantling usually net some minimal losses, but it's definitely worth to maximize those RPs per turn.

>>154696645
>>154697006
And Crafting (weapons, armour, food etc.) and Construction (obviously, buildings). The demo is the Early Access version, but it should also have these basic categories. Oh, and you can get (not-researched) materials from loot or random events.

>>154698041
I found it a month ago after Anon mentioned it here. It looked promising (active support even after 1 year, made by ex-CD Projekt RED devs, Slav mythology, RTS/4X/RPG hybrid w/ card game combat system, lot of random elements) and hooked on it ever since.

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>>154700879
Moreover, Allayi custom districts are separate from their trait of higher expansion disapproval and it costs 10 points less than cellulose mutation. So you can make something like pic related.

>>154702463
I'd really landed on a perfect spot for my starting location, right on a river. I was behind tech on Era 2, which really sucks, but once I'd gotten enough money for my Broken Lord gov. and an extra spy for three total, I ran away with the tech.

>>154703321
I was on the fence with Garth of the Allayi, since you need pearls for it.

Also am I missing something, or is cavalry just not very good?

>>154703579
>I was on the fence with Garth of the Allayi, since you need pearls for it.
Not a problem for cultists, since none of the pearl upgrades form the altar worth it, so you can spend all the pearls on the city.
>Also am I missing something, or is cavalry just not very good?
They have pretty high initiative and movement range, so they can attack archers/supports first and thus denying them a turn. And archers lose a lot of firepower when they are not able to focus units.

>>154698041
no marketing
word of mouth means it took a while to hit its target audience

>>154704282
I really like how Endless Legend does thing with it's factions and how battles work and everything.
When I first got the game I was all about the Broken Lords and the Cultists with how they worked, but things just really clicked with me an the Forgotten. My custom faction had the increased dust on tiles, halved infiltration cost, and the halved city expansions, while losing like 20% of dust on that capital, along with starting with very little dust, so you have to settle in a good spot to start, but once you got there you could spread out like no body's business. I called them Beggar Kings.

But I'm still pretty terrible when it comes to things like good build orders, what I need to get, and military matters.

I really want to like Endless Legend but any company with this greedy fucking DLC model needs to die.

>>154704282
mounted archers are what make the roving clans the best faction for war after tech development

except they cant declare war
roving clans vs drakken is 100% drakken victory against a non-retarded human player as a result

ENDLESS SPACE 2 WHEN
I NEED MY SPACE FISH JEW MAFIA

>>154705006
I really want to like Endless Legend, but it's so fucking boring starting from midgame and onwards, especially because your research simply gives you bigger yield numbers instead of changing the game in substantial ways. It feels kinda like Beyond Earth to me to be honest.

>>154705441

Most RTS games these days become unplayable slogs right at midgame.

Especially Stellaris.

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>>154705006
>Complaining about DLC in a 4x like this
You want to complain, look at sim city or train simulator 2016.

>>154705006
Amplitudes DLC model is only bad if the DLC quality suffers as a result of the quantity

and they've all been solid

>>154706584

Those games have such tiny audiences that DLC is all that keeps the lights on for the companies that make them.

What exactly do you have against people being paid for their work?

>>154705006
Amplitude is fine. If you want greed look at paradox.