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

>>164979269
I dunno, that worked fine in EU4, why would it be gay in Stellaris?

>>164980312
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we'll fix it in post

>>164982109
That looks broken as fuck. I like it

>Stellaris

How wide are your borders if you pick fanatic xenophobe+Despotic empire?

>>164982109
>Flying Fortress
I like the idea.

I'm brand spanking new to Stellaris.

Are the regenerative hull research from Space Amoebas as awesome as it sounds?

Is uplifting species worth it? Will they end up being your bad ass BFFs, or can you control them, or do they end up just being an expensive tumor on the edge of your empire?

I have a million other questions but I'm having fun figuring most of them out myself. I just don't know if I should invest the time in those two or not.

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>>164982175
Had an earlier game where the AI used it.

You stop producing mana as well, so it can't last forever unless you have a specific combo.

>>164982749
>Is uplifting species worth it? Will they end up being your bad ass BFFs, or can you control them, or do they end up just being an expensive tumor on the edge of your empire?
It makes them vassal.

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I have seen people making webms lasting more than one minute, with a good resolution.

Meanwhile I have a HUEG webm of some pixellated shit.

>>164982749
You get a permanent relation bonus if I remember properly.

>>164982639
However far the nearest federation of non-douchebag species is.

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Should I colonize all these 40% worlds or wait until I get atmospheric manipulation tech to terraform them?

Also should I put some of these worlds into sectors so they get the governor bonuses and more happiness or is it not worth it? I'm playing as peaceful bureaucracy and have 19 worlds under direct control but I can't put governors on them all.

>>164983834
Is that two identical stars right next to each other? Haldus? Just west of your Sethelbak.

>>164983008
So I looked up vassal and it seems like something I'd like to play with. Is there any way I can actually allow them to colonize planets on their own, or can I tell them to build colony ships and direct where to settle myself?

>>164983834
I usually wait. If it's absolutely necessary that I colonize a red world, I send a droid colony ship and turn it into a mining colony. I miss being able to terraform colonized worlds.

>>164983834
Unless you desperately need resources, I'd wait, you can't terraform them after you colonise them and the happiness debuff from being on a shitty planet is noticable.

>>164984084

The perspective is weird when there is a system beneath the plane 'north' of one that is above the plane so its too different systems

>>164984104
I don't know. Check this : http://www.stellariswiki.com/Stellaris_Wiki.

>>164983834
>Should I colonize all these 40% worlds or wait until I get atmospheric manipulation tech to terraform them?
You can't terraform after colonizing

>>164984226
>I miss being able to terraform colonized worlds
>tfw can't turn core systems into paradise gaia planets and become an FE late game

Is the LOGH mod done yet?

>>164984385
What if you migrate all your pops off-planet or purge them?

>>164982749
Regenerating hull is a small amount of hull regen PER MONTH. You don't need your ships to heal on their own after the battle. You need them to win the battle so that your species isn't driven to extinction.

Uplifing is awesome because they have a +20% bonus to happiness. Other kinds of interacting with lesser species depends on their ethics (which you can check by looking at the tooltip of a pop).

So, I have an (hostile) enigmatic fortress within my empire. What do I do with it? It doesn't do anything beyond attacking everything within its reach. I even have a world in the same system.

>>164983834

If those guys to your left are those grey worm collectivists (one of the pre-made empires) might as well arm yourself to the teeth right now and prepare for war.

Are federations stronger than empires?

>>164984550
I don't know, i haven't tried it yet

How many ships do you need once you reach the Battleship stage?

>>164984750
A federation is just a collection of empires, like an alliance.

>>164984884

Your navy cap should be full at all times (or at least you should prepare to match it fast) and you should always be in equivalent power (at least) with all your neighbours. Open the contact list and check their power comparison (over your mouse over it and check the fleet).

>>164984750
No, a federation is a group of (usually) weak empires that join together so the more powerful empires don't bully them

What should I do with the Enigmatic Fortress?

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Say I get someone with the Spark of Genius trait. Would it be better for him to be an actual researcher, or should I put him in a science ship and have him assist research on a colony that's super research heavy?

>>164985865

All scientists should go at some point to a science ship to survey new systems and anomalies. Thats how you train them.

>>164984572
Living metal is disappointing as fuck. You have to defeat a FE to get it half the time and the description says it's a powerful technology and all it does is give you a slow as fuck passive recharge on hull.

>>164986126
>You have to defeat a FE to get it half the time and the description says it's a powerful technology and all it does is give you a slow as fuck passive recharge on hull.

I'mma tell you a story.
I was colonizing and expanding, as usual, until i got ~60% of the galaxy.
I had a FE, but it was dormant and didn't du nuffin, and i had more important things to do, like terraform and shit.
Suddenly, i notice that there's a unsurveyed in the middle of my territory, which surprised me. Did i forgot to survey that piece of crap? Or was there some retard inside that scared my science ships?
I send ships to take a look and i found a fucking ringworld. Then i take a look at the system and the system number: Cybrex #999.
The cybrex homeworld had appeared out of nowhere in the middle of my turf without recieving the mission. I got 4 living metal out of that, which was neat.

And then, a couple of centuries later i found out that some retards across the galaxy had found another ringworld with more living metal, but that didn't help them anyways

>>164984750
no, quicker, easier and more seductive

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What's a good ethos/ethics that doesn't involve fanatic individualist?

I want my empire to mostly consist of my own species + uplifted species

>>164987943
Fanatic Pacifist+Materialist

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>>164987943
Fanatic Spiritualist/Collectivist

>>164985992

Ah yes..and they said wormhole was good. So much to survey far away systems.

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>First time playing Stellaris
>Meet some long neck alien in the first few months. Let's call him Elvis.
>He seems to have just developed FTL travel too
>Hang out now and then, give him a call, have a good time. Become bros.
>Other then a few space pirates and a space amoeba or two, encounter nothing else for a long time
>Bump into a fallen empire, but they just tell me to fuck off
>Decades go by and nothing
>Get a call
>"We learned of your existence by monitoring Elvis' communications"
>Oh, nice to meet you! I'm th-- wait, by monitoring his communications? Does he know about this?
>He doesn't like me
>Suddenly another 15 aliens call me up on the phone
>Look at the map
>All these empires and republics and vassals and shit EVERYWHERE I was unaware of because they were on the other side of Elvis' empire
>Now get constant calls about people I just met declaring me a rival
>Wars constantly starting and stopping
>Just constant updates every five days about something happening
>After spending a good 7 hours of playtime thinking it was just me and Elvis, being peaceful, exploring anomalies, and being comfy
>Now have to deal with all this political bullshit where everyone is wagging their dick and flexing their muscles
>Check species list
>Like thirty fucking entries when there was just 3

Oh god. Who are these people? What am I doing? Why is everyone so angry all the time? Why didn't Elvis tell me that shit was incredibly uncomfy on the far side of his empire?

Is there a point on building workshops/factories on close cities or is it just a waste of time?

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>>164989173

>>164991059
Do you want more production? Keep in mind that more production is the only way to get more of anything else.

>>164991357
Of course, but the bonuses stop stacking after the last patch, so I'm not sure if a workshop gives me something if there's already a factory nearby.

>>164989173
Elvis was trying to protect you.
Your friendship with him will break pass all xeno politics.

>>164989173
Sometimes I wonder how those fucks who manage to discover spaceflight midgame feel when they enter the galaxy and find out that there's three fuckhuge empires around them, two are aggressive militant types and one of them just finished mopping the floor with a federation.
And then the local fallen empire shows up and asks if they can spare some people for their latest zoo

>>164991813

Most of them were already there. Very few factions flourish later on and most get swallowed shortly after a late appearance. One of the first things one does at the start of the game (apart from the encourage free thought edict and issue exploration tasks) is to scout with a single corvette the surroundings.

>>164988161
Starting as Plutocratic Oligarchy and then moving into Peaceful Bureaucracy?

>>164987943
fanatic pacifist/xenophobe

>>164991079
Why would being alone be terrifying? That's the best possible outcome, that we're the first or only sapient species to evolve.

>>164994146
Dead Space universe. Planet after planet completely devoid of anything remotely organic but every once in a while there's a weird alien obelisk that gives headaches.

>>164994146
>no meeting qt space waifus
>stuck with shitty humans for eternity

>>164994332

There were at least two xeno sapient races confirmed in Dead Space counting with the moon beasts.

>>164994647
>qt space waifus
How would fucking an alien be any better than bestiality?

>>164994332
>a weird alien obelisk

Then we're not alone in that scenario

>>164994647
>implying we won't have full immersion VR long before we have casual interstellar travel

>>164994332
I liked Dead Space.

>>164998716
You can't wear a VR headset after a Muslim has cut your head off.

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>>164999527
>He actually thinks it's radical Islam he has to worry about

>>164999787
Long live the drone program.

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>>164999787
Get cucked, robophobe.

>>164999787
I'd be all for that.

Mankind has always built tools to do things that we can't, from sharp stones to space rockets.

Ruling ourselves is clearly something we suck at, power always corrupts, its high time we built a benevolent far-seeing and just robot king to watch over and guide us as a species.

>>165000472
What's to stop a sentient robot from converting to Islam?

>>165000472
I too will welcome our new robot overlords

Roko's Basilisk plz don't torture me

>>165001059
Logic.

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>>165000080

>>165001059
The inability to grow a shitty beard

Are there any pro-robot events in Stellaris or are they all shitty "lel Terminator is happening on one of your planets now"? I want to be friends with robots (I don't want to be friends with xenos).

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>>165002653
You can give robots citizen's rights in an event chain once they become self-aware. You can even end up with a robot president.

Helps to be materialist and not a xenophobe otherwise you'll get a negative happiness debuff to all organic pops.

They'll still potentially betray you if a robot rebellion occurs in another empire though.

>>165002653

Either nothing happens or full blown terminator.

I remember one event (not sure if they took it out) where your species detected a new underground living species (with the planet already colonized by your own) and then you decided if you kill them or accept them.

Has anyone seen that event in recent versions?

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Hang in there little thread ;_;

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>H-hey guys, what should be a good fleet composition? How many battleships should I us-
>ONE
>W-what but-
>ONE SHIP
>ONE BIG ASS SHIP
>1mil MP per Leviathan

How can the rest of the galaxy even compete?

>>165010845
What mod? I need this.

>>165010845
>That color scheme
UNF

Paracocks needs to let choose a color scheme for our ships already.

>>165010845
does stellaris have fully armed and operational battle stations yet

>>165011571
My own modified blend of Elite Militaries, ISB Balance, and New Ship Classes.

EM is outdated and isnt compatible anymore with the other two so I had to edit it a little bit. Basically gives you policies depending on how you play. Using a policy that cuts your fleet strength by 90% but makes all of your ships extremely strong. Theres another one where it cuts your damage and HP in half in exchange, but yo end up with a massive naval cap boost and 12x build time for almost every ship.

Unbalanced as shit but fun in a way. A single ship can take on an Awakened Empire fleet for a while if you stack on enough regen.

>>164994146

It means we're the adults.

We're all that is, and there's no one to help us or carry on if we fuck up.

It's scary that there might be other life out there, but the scarier thing is the responsibility of being the only sophonts in existance: We must tame the galaxy alone, and once we have done so, we are responsible for it forever.

Is it not terrifying, to find the mantle of God draped across your shoulders, with neither the armor nor arms of divinity? How horrific the duty of care, when man who barely can handle the atom is now at the reigns of the galaxy?

>>165012103
Yes. ISB Balance, or if you just want the superweapons, ISB Doomsday Weapons and Ships.

You get a Titan ship, which is just a fuck huge battleship, Leviathan, fuck hugeship meant for killing capital ships and has massive evasion for a vessel its size, Erebus supercarrier which spawns its own combat drones, the Ragnarok which has a fleet killer spcial weapon, and the Avatar ship which kills planets.

Also doomsday weapons that you activate via edicts and fucks up planet pops on at time per month until its rock is either sterile r everyone dies.

>>165012373
>It's scary that there might be other life out there, but the scarier thing is the responsibility of being the only sophonts in existance
Yeah not having someone to fuck you over with superior tech sure is terrifying.

>>164991357
But answer my question!

>>165012373

This. if we fuck up with nuclear war, climate change or simply exhausting our resources on Earth before founding viable colonies there will be no sentient life left in the universe. Just an empty mechanical shell ticking down to Big Freeze without anyone to observe it or assign meaning.

>>165012973

Currently it looks like the universe is either a simulation or we are the ancient precursor aliens who will terraform and seed life everywhere.

>>165013930
That or the great filter is real and nobody has passed it yet. Which is horrible to think about really.

>>165015206

Currently, all the resolutions of the Fermi Paradox are horrifying

>non-trivial chance of reality being a simulation
>aliens never reach space engineering phase, because all races achieve some sort of "ascencion" into purely virtual higher-dimension realms
>life is fluke and never developed elsewhere
>aliens do exist but they are so advanced they can completely hide their existence(presence?)
>aliens do exist but they are completetly different from us and uncommunicable(sentient stellar vortexes? crystalline life?)
>the universe is a (functionally)endless, lifeless void and we are alone

>>164988161
>>164993985

The fuck is good as fanatic pacifist ? there are other ways to get + happiness

>>165013930
>>165016185
Nope, it's just building working FTL engine is much more difficult that games and movies lead us to believe and either nobody manage that or didn't reach us yet, space is really vast and it's impossible to tell where you might find something worthwhile.

>>165013816

we are biological transforming drones
our makers wont let us fuck up the earth too bad

the only way of being sure that we have free will as species is by making sure that no organic life can live in this planet but like i said they wont let us do that

>>165017035

We see no trace of stellar engineering or anomalous signals that could point to life except the gamma bursts. So at the very least we could be sure that no civlization is climbing the Kardashev scale out there.

But what you said is the rationale behind the "ascension" arugement. FTL is impossible so alien civilizations turn inward and focus their research on cosmology, particle physics and multiverses instead of expanding. Who knows how advanced some alien race, formed 8 billion years before humans could be.

>>165016746
No better ways.

>Civ VI
>Continents map
>Continents
>it's just two bits of land

t-thanks

>>165020512
Well, one continent, two continents. What more do you want?

>>165020707
4 or 5? Enough land that people can spread out on new land. In my current game they crammed Aztecs, Spain, Japan, Egypt, Greece and England on one continent. By the time the land was all taken England only had 3 cities. I invaded them just to end their suffering. Completely surrounded by Aztecs and Egyptians.

>>165021183

>Completely surrounded by Aztecs and Egyptians

how horrifying, those two could have amazing wars though

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Maybe it'll be faster to research and cast spell of mastery instead.

>>165022486
I wonder if the spell of mastery also banishes clerics, mages, shamans, dark elves, caster heroes... Like would it eliminate all other magic users?

>>165025040
Pretty sure it's just a win button. I.E. Wizards here means opponent players, not units. Tech victory if you will.

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>>165000080
>>165001512
GIB RIGHTS

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Not that it matters anymore.

>>165018204
Nope, the end of the tech tree is about 50 years from now. There is no FTL to invent. We will never harness the weak force. There are no portals to anywhere no matter how well you study.

Is the stellaris Alphamod fun, or is just another mod that adds unnecessary bloat into the game?

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>>165036236

>>165013816
>Just an empty mechanical shell
That's exactly what it already is. All meaning we assign is literally arbitrary bullshit we made up because we had nothing better to do. The universe doesn't give a fucking shit.

>>165016185
>horrifying
Let's go through them because no it is not.

>being a simulation
I'm going to borrow the word of Johnson and say "I refute it thus". Reality is not some objective thing, it's what is percieved. If everyone in the world were to percieve that the sun is glowing lime green, then the reality is that sun is glowing lime fucking green. Basically, it doesn't fucking matter if we're in a simulation or not. The entire endgoal of physics, the theory of everything, was literally to create a model that could simulate the entirety of the world we live in. A perfect simulation is indistinguishable from, and therefore equivalent to, reality.

>ascension
This is not part of the Fermi Paradox.

>life is fluke and never developed elsewhere
If life were a fluke then it would've certainly developed elsewhere, since self-replicating proteins are hardly insanely improbable.

>so advanced
In which case it doesn't matter, they're fundamentally godlike and we ignore their presence or lack thereof until they choose to make themselves known.

>completely different from us
i.e. we should not be concerned about them until we interact.

>endless, lifeless void
It's certainly mechanical.

>we are alone
Well, there are plenty of molecular structures around.

>>165033897
>There is no FTL to invent
FTL is not mathematically impossible depending on what version you use. Not to say that it's actually possible though.

>We will never harness the weak force
There is nothing special about the Weak Nuclear Force compared to the other two of gravity and SNF. Why did you even bring up the Weak interaction?

>no portals to everywhere
Superstring theory's 11D shit fundamentally says that we live in a spatially 9 dimensional world but only 3 dimensions are of significant size, similar to how a paper drawing is technically still 3D but the third is so small we call it 2D. That being said, a portal to a higher dimension would hardly make sense since we're already in that higher dimension.

>>165037287

If we are the only thing that assign meaning, it's even more important that we don't fuck this up.

People always forget that the conclusion of Nihilism isn't "None of this matters", but "There is no objective point to all this, so care about whatever you like."

>>165037839
>People always forget that the conclusion of Nihilism isn't "None of this matters", but "There is no objective point to all this, so care about whatever you like."
Actually, nihilism is saying that the two are equivalent. That "everything is arbitrary bullshit" implies "you should find meaning for yourself because humans become untermensch without meaning to their life".

>If we are the only thing that assign meaning, it's even more important that we don't fuck this up.
I don't see why it's important at all. Nihilism doesn't say anything about the world proper or even about society (although the Ubermensch ideally has quite a bit to say about society). Nihilism is a way of PERSONAL life. The universe doesn't really give two shits about your personal life and what you think.
Sentient life is not something that's somehow precious or special compared to every other structure as far as the universe would be concerned. Oh sure, philosophically, the world simply would not exist if there were no observers; but then again, the world doesn't particularly mind not existing. Everything we do, assigning meaning, observing, and assigning meaning to observation, is an arbitrary meaning that we give to ourselves, and not in small part because we'd like to reassure and comfort ourselves now that we've gone and contemplated things way beyond our scale. This doesn't change the fact that, spiritualism and/or religious faith aside (a certain amount of which may be healthy), the universe literally is an empty mechanical shell.

Also, from a thermodynamic point of view, energy gradients tend to slowly level off over time (2nd law and all that). The implication is that life will eventually become impossible no matter what means we go to to preserve it, because life itself requires a certain level of energy gradient to work. That is, unless you manage to find a way to introduce another closed system's energy by smashing them together (i.e. merging universes).

>>165038234
You make doubt my own philosophy. Now I'm not even sure if I'm to be classified as agnostic or nihilist.

>>165010845
Share that custom EM mod homeboy, I want my Culture GSV's

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>want a relaxing comfy myrran game
>pick Sss'ras portrait so I'm more likely to be alone on Myrror
>smallest landmass so that I hopefully get an easy island to defend
>another wizard randomly got Myrran and started on my island

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>>165039941
>Personality: Peaceful
>Objective: Militarist

>>165040109
That means she'll never go to the wrong line.

>>165040109
>if you want peace prepare for war

>>165040109
>Peace and Happiness can only be attained when one chooses to leave this world and all it entails --Buddha

Space games with battleships in space.

Y/N?

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The Guardians are a bit OP in that game, especially against illuminates.

Also, Cranoids are meh.
>only healing unit is the late-tier mothership

>>165041579
Is 8bait Invasion any gud?

Pros and cons?

I felt Planetary Analiation got a bit boring after a while.

>>165042396
>Is 8bait Invasion any gud?
It's a good introduction to RTS, and it's simple enough so that you can play a game in 20 minutes. Compared to SupCom's 45 minutes game, it's really quick.

>Pros and cons?
Pro :
- the factions are pretty differents but the fundamentals are the same,
- "cute" cartoony graphism that can run easily,
- really simple to use
- a total of six factions which allows some crazy fights, and you don't need to have all the games installed
- it's decently balanced
- the damage/armor system means that a basic infantry unit can be quite the effective anti-tank unit, evenif it's vulnerable to crushing
- having more barracks doesn't let you train more units in the same time, but it gives you a boost to unit creation depending on how many barracks/factories you have

Cons :
- there are actually three games : 8 Bit Armies, 8 Bit Hordes and 8 Bits Invaders. They're all at full price instead of being DLCs
- it's really simple, units don't have skills that you can activate, wizards are just ranged units, no shields or sprint or anything
- it relies on micromanaging and health management to get the edge, so it can get annoying
- no artillery, no ressource generating structure, nothing fancy. Just different kind of barracks/factories, two kind of turrets, and two super weapons
- some infantries are immune to crushing, so you need to know your shit or you'll lose your army very easily


I post a lot about it because it's easy to get a screenshot and I'm good enough at the game to goof around. I can't do that in Red Alert 3.

>>165043943
Dwarves would kill for that.

Is stellaris mid/late game fun? Still prefer CK/EU (probably because history)

Is Civ6 an improvement over Civ5? worth pirating?

>>165044049
No. Keep playing EU4.

>>165044049
>worth pirating?
I'd say so.
On paper it seems better to me, but I haven't had a chance to play it that much since my computer can't run it.

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Bought these Asymmetrical cruisers from the nomad fleet, 15 of them for 3,000 ore and 1000 energy. Decent deal for current year 2246.

Need to figure out a way to balance my economy, relying entirely on a trade enclave for energy.

>>165044187
Green Hill Zone.

What mods for stellaris?

>>164984104
Unless you box them in, they'll tend to expand on their own. Even if they are uplifted mid-to-late-game with all the good viable nearby worlds taken they'll start whacking upUplifting early on isn't a bad idea, early game vassals are worth their weight in gold simply because it's like -building- an ally of nearly equal strength.

They'll be disloyal if you're not very advanced, but I've never had it so bad that they've tried to break away violently. The trust generally builds up quickly enough to keep them in line. Late-game when you're packing fleets in the 50+ Ks you can even uplift races totally opposite to you in ethics and not have too much trouble. You can integrate them later and swing them round to your way of thinking without to much hassle, by that point players should be swimming in influence for edicts.
FYI, if you're in a federation that's whingy about ceding planets through war philosophy, you can cede them to your vassal instead. One playthrough I actually ended up giving my HONARABU WARRIOR vassals so many prizes they owned nearly a 30% of my total territory. They were always total bros about it. Be careful doing this though as it sends the cost of integrating later rocketing way up.


TL;DR Uplifting is good. Either integrate them down the line or use them as a sneaky way of cedeing planets instead of liberating them during war.

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>>164991813
>At long last achieve FTL and celebrate your race's chance to explore the stars
>Not so fast kid, we already did that. Here's the maps and everything. Btw, you're smack bang in the middle of this superpower.
>Independence is guaranteed by one empire
>Another attempts to conquer you
>Watch from your ball of dirt in horror as the federations/defensive pacts snowball into a Archduke Ferdinand situation in space
>None of the massive empires at war even enter your system during the conflict
>At least that one pacifist empire sent you a non-aggression pact

>>165033897
>Everything that can be invented has been or will be soon

I bet you were real popular in the 1300s.

>>165044049
No
No

>>165044160

Cruiser class with large ark lightning? Want those.

>>165045094
Late 1800s is a better example
Surely you've heard the famous "Physics is completed" line.

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>>165044962
>galaxy finally calms the fuck down
>somehow still independent
>all is quiet for a few years
>suddenly word has it that some old empire has decided to get off their asses and are tearing what you thought were superpowers apart
>then another one does the same
>they soon get into a war and you have to pick a side
>at least it can't get any worse
>a portal to another dimension opens up in a nearby system and waves of genocidal extradimensional aliens are pouring through

>>165033897
Still dont see anyone making magical objects by using the power of science to power them. I want my mufugging bag of holding.

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>>165045589
Always fun.

>>165046315
Can you run Doom on this?

>>165046315
I've always wondered what that wheel is for.

>>165046315
>Fortran
lol

>>165046545
The image is an edit, that's a submarine control simulator.

>>165047573
Makes sense, that floating TV was pretty weird.

>>165046315
that's a big keyboard

>>165046545
>not having a wheel while you drive around on 4chan

I am fond of pigs

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Not sure if this question is welcome here.

Should I get Civ VI in the current state or start modding my Civ V?

>>165048452
You should've started modding Civ V a long time ago. That's Civ V's only good point over Civ IV.

>>165048452
why wouldn't it be welcome here? and if you still enjoy civ 5, mod it out and keep playing that. Civ 6 is okay but not good enough, and mod tools probably won't be out for a bit longer.

>>165048578
So what you're saying is that both are still shit?

Civ VI wont be playable until expansion nr 2, maybe nr 1, but just maybe.

Or maybe its just me that is spoiled by superior games like EL.

>>165049273
Civ V has mods that make it fun.

Civ VI is legit retarded.

>>165049273
I can't really answer that. I like Civ 5, but everyone keeps saying Civ 4 is better.

The few I saw from Civ 6 and the fact that we're struggling to stay alive even through it came out recently suggests it's really bad.

>>165050170
I don't think 6 is bad, but it doesn't have the same level of polish that 5 does and suffers from it. Civ 5 suffered from the same thing when it came out. Give 6 a couple of years for mods and expacs to come out and it will be solid.

>>165051321
Civ5 lacked polish, but it did something very new so it was still fresh.

I think the district thing in civ6 is pretty new, but maybe it's not enough to make it distinct from previous games like civ5 was.

>>165048578
Yeah, I kinda did. I modded a Metal Gear Civ in it to try it because it looked balanced and unique but stopped playing after that. Guess I lost interest after playing vanilla so much.

>>165048686
Didn't want to ask noobish questions. Thanks for the input though. I figured as much about Civ VI. It looks pretty, but I think it needs some time to mature just like Civ 5 did.

>>165051321
>I don't think 6 is bad
DUDE RUSSIAN PENCIL LMAO
DUDE WIFI ON KILIMANDJARO LMAO

>>165051448
I played as a Hyperdimension Neptunia character, and I allied with Madoka to fight against the Handsome Jack, Doctor Who and Senator Armstrong.

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>>165051414
But anon it already has polish

>>165051321
DUDE BEING A COALMINERS WIFE IS HARD LMAO

>>165051558
This makes me wish the dudes making that Kancolle civ pack didn't stop making the mods.

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>>165051612
COALMINER'S WIFE

>>165051651
He did? What a shame, I like having cross-overs in my games.

>>165051558
>>165051612
DUDE SHITTY QUOTES TOTALLY AFFECT GAMEPLAY LMAO

>>165051697
fucking kek that fucking quote by shillary

>>165051414
>but it did something very new so it was still fresh.
1UPT was pretty fresh shit.

>>165051714
>the game about passage of time
>quotes are exclusively nu-male cringefest from 20th century

>>165052573
I don't understand what nu-male means but the quotes this time are honestly irredeemable garbage
Like, why are bloggers a thing for quotes? And they're not even relatively deep quotes or ones that are representative or something, they're just...like, unfunny.

>>165052712
>I don't understand what nu-male means
Simply put, it's a cuck. A man with a self-deprecating sense of humor. The kind of guy who feels obligated to put girls in games/stories/comics/whatever because he's scared of being called a mysoginist pig.

Something like that.

>>165052718
Calgon.

>>165052712
Just a word angry teenagers use against people they don't like

>>165051697
Well it still works fine, but it has terrible music slapped in recorded with a phone for some civs and not all of the units have Kancolle models. Some have real life counterparts and some of them don't even have anything and you get spearmen on water for cruisers. Oh and glitchy civ emblems in menus.

>>165053023
I feared it would be something like that.

>>165052712
it's the sort of person who nods respectfully

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Im still a noob to stellaris and Im struggling to find a good species to start with.

What does /vg/ think?

>>165056763
>Trump
>spiritualist
Nigga, you're wrong as fuck. Trump is a fanatic capitalist.

>>165056763
Replace solitary with slow breeders.
Replace weak with non adaptive.
You may want to replace Decadent with Charismatic.

That way you get the nation relation bonus with other empires and you still have 7 trait points to work with after you get the two techs for genemodding.

>>165056763
I know you're memeing, but I like how you've inadvertently made it so that Trump was so successful he took over the whole world.

Gotta wonder how he's gonna build a wall in space.

>>165057002

No anon. Traits and ethos are from his constituents, not the man himself.

>>165041440
That's how they all are. Everyone wants to do WWI naval combat in space. Other conceptions of space warfare barely even exist.

>>165057336
Haaa...

My bad, I'm foreign, so I'm always under the impression that people who supported him were retards or disillusioned nu-males.

>>165057615

Well, I was counting more with the typical rural area middle aged man instead of the incel cellarian hordes, but in all due honesty I really dont know the statistics so I'l give you cheap.

>>165057609
I really liked Nexus: The Jupiter Incident for this reason, the combat and ship design was very realistic in the first couple of missions, then they ruined it by adding in a bunch of typical sci-fi bullshit later in the game.

>>165057609
Like in Rebel Galaxy?

>>165051697
>look it up
>this is an exact quote
>it's not even taken out of context
shit, that retard was almost president

>>165058380
Let's be honest, you had really shit candidates this time around.

>>165058380
>shit, that retard was almost president
Yep, instead we got a different kind of retard. Yay democracy!

>>165058507
>indirect democracy provides +1 to leader skill
Probably should be the opposite since it encourages leadership by people who can win elections rather than people who are good at the job.

>>165058487
>>165058507
>hippie
>libertarian
>communist
>war criminal
>demagogue
>a dude that looks like he's about to cry at any second
yes, this election was a new low

>>165058830
Keep +1 leader skill, but give it -25% # of leaders

>>165058989
I only heard of Clinton, Trump, and Bernie.
People seemed to like Bernie, but he was shoved away, leaving only Grandma and Baldreale.

That's how I saw it from the outside, anyway. I spent months hearing that Trump was worse than Hitler, so it was a real surprise that he was elected.

>>165058989
I'm holding out hope that maybe the two parties will get their shit together in 2020 or 2024 and give us some better options, but given how both parties are acting post-Trump, I'm not optimistic. Curse you founding fathers for not placing adequate measures in the structure of the government to prevent the country from being controlled by a demagogic two-party system!

>>165059381
>I spent months hearing that Trump was worse than Hitler, so it was a real surprise that he was elected.
Well that was part of the problem, people spent so much time and effort demonizing Trump for real and imagined slights, that they became overconfident.

Say what you will about Trump, but he had a message that resonated well with people who were economically hurting in the Rust Belt. I figured if Trump was going to win, it would be by flipping Wisconsin and/or Minnesota, especially since Hillary was basically ignoring that part of the country outside of Pennsylvania.

Low and behold that's what happened. Though I didn't foresee Hillary losing Michigan and Pennsylvania, that one really surprised me and underscored just how much Hillary and the Dems fucked up.

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>>165058830

>>165059381
Every republican candidate, as long as I've been alive, has been the second coming of Hitler.

Hearing that really doesn't tell you anything.

>>165060389
From an outsider perspective, the last presidential elections were more like "Obama is awesome!"
The last one was more like "Trump is shit!"

I guess that's because Bernie wasn't popular enough to cut it, and they couldn't find anything nice to say about Hillary.

Anyway, enough politik. Let's talk about games.

>>165060960
Actually Bernie was ousted by the democrats so they could have Hilary as their candidate

>>165060960
>Bernie wasn't popular enough to cut it
more like he was double cucked by Hillary when she (probably) rigged the primaries and then made him endorse her.
the funniest thing is that now that Bernie has become a complete sellout and endorsed Hillary he's lost all his credibility and Trump will probably get voted again in 4 years

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>>165062002
Oh. Well, that's disappointing. I saw him being mocked and called a communist, but I had some sympathy for his program.

Anyway, yeah. Strategy.
I like Supreme Commander. And Seven Kingdoms 2.

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I like polders.

>>165063820
[Total Annihilation intensifies]

>>165063820

This is modded right?

>>165065009
No, it's in one of the next patches. It's on Wiz's twitter

>>165063820
I find the idea of mind uploading very vain.

>>165066018
Then just replace all non CNS flesh with metal

>>165063820

Holy fuck, this guy isnt even trolling.

Btw that will suck imensively. The thing with tin cans is that despite being able to colonize everything while not needing food, they require a shitload of energy and in turn they will fuck up your navy cap.

>>165066018
It's the same as dying.

>>165066182
I thought souls were a thing in Stellaris?

Sup /vg/, new Stellaris player here.

So playing as the Commonwealth of Man, early game, exploring my local area, and I run into some signals coming out of this radioactive-as-fuck gas giant. Ends up being some non-corporeal beings wanted to be transported into another system. I ended up missing this chain because I had to deal with a sudden invasion of uppity crab people. Was anything of value lost?

>>165066285
No, those gas faggots are annoying

>>165066285

I dont think so. Cant remember of them giving anything in return. As a matter of fact they will nag you to transport them a second time. They are cancer.

>>165066281
I dunno, but let's be serious one moment here.

Any pleasute you feel comes from the endorphin generated by your spinal cord (if I remember my biology lessons right).
So by uploading your mind to a computer instead of being a brain in a jar, you lose all your emotions, and become unable to feel pleasure, regret, depression.

>>165066517
Honestly, if that grasp for immortality won't end up like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ij3L7GhDw

I'll be damn disappointed

>>165066517
The synths seem to have emotions, so why wouldn't the technology allow the same for an uploaded mind

Out of curiosity, since I never had an AI revolt. Do droids (the second evolution before the smartest ones) get to revolt after someone else had a rebellion?

>>165066746
The synths are not former humans.

>>165066895
The event says after much trial and error

>>165066517
>you lose all your emotions, and become unable to feel pleasure
anyone who can do a genuine brain upload will, by necessity, have tech necessary to mimic all of those functions and more. Humans are biological machines, replicating functions of human neural system isn't that hard actually, we already have few experiments running that aim to mimic it.

>>165067035
But we're not talking of creating cyborgs.

>>165067178
Based on what? You have your own perceptions of what brain upload is and choose to limit the convesation to it. It's like if we were discussing seagoing ships and you insisted on talking about wooden ones.

>>165067345
Well, what else than wood do you want to use to make a ship?

Has this general got a copy of 'questionable legality' for fully updated all DLC Stellaris like the gsg general does for EU4 ?

The piratebay copies only go up to 1.3 update and looking for 1.4.X

>>165068248
No, because we're not hypocritical faggots.

>>165068248

Pirate it to try it, but you should pay em if you like it so you can show them that there is money in this genre.

We need more GOOD MP 4X games, and so far Amplitude and Paradox are some of the few who are able to do something decent.

>>165069024

The king of MP 4x is still Civ 4.

>>165068248
cs.rin.ru

>Start a new Stellaris game
>Spawn next to a military isolationist FE
Who thought they were a good idea, I can't even colonize other planets without them getting pissy and declaring war.

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>>165063820
We Mechanicum now

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>>165070746
>intelligent machines

>>165070709
>Colonise a far away planet
>Move capital


Not hard.

>>165070864
mind-uploading isn't technically creating AI.

Playing Civ V. I beat King difficulty once before, but am having trouble doing it again. From my understanding, you want to really focus on science to get ahead, right? Build a monument first in your cities, then scout, then worker, right?

Last time I was the Koreans and I was stuck by Montezuma, so I had to deal with his warmongering, but he was also attacking everybody else so it wasn't too bad. Siam got close to a cultural victory so I nuked them a few times and took their capital to try and slow them down. After that I just kept knocking on Siam and India to halt their progress and got a time victory.

This game I started put me in mostly tundra, and my closest neighbor is backstabber Alexander the Dick. He has like, 8 cities, already took a capital, and already tried to wage war once (which was kind of a fail on the AI, given that he had the strongest army and i had a weak one but he still couldn't take my cities). My civ is Russia.

What do? Should I try to explicitly pick the really strong Civs to start out with? I find this a bit less fun.

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>>165069182
>Civ IV
>not EL

U dun goofed boi

>>165072321
>Build a monument first in your cities, then scout, then worker, right?
No, always a scout first. Depending on the map size you might want more than one. Assuming you have ruins enabled of course

You don't really give details on how you played and which techs you prioritized so it's kinda hard to suggest anything

>>165070236

Got the URL for the specific thread discussing Stellaris good bro ?

>>165073245
Currently not on my computer but when you google "stellaris cs.rin.ru" it should be one of the first results

>>165073245
>>165070236

NVM found it

>>165073143
>king of 4x
>endless legend
enjoy only having 1k players on steam ever, lmao
you'd think the best would be more popular

Who /aurora/ here?

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>>165073445

>Numbers of players = game quality

U dun goofed again boi

>>165073809
no shit the numbers dont equal quality
but you'd think that the """best""" game in the whole genre wouldn't be completely dead player-wise, wouldn't you? I mean shit, kings of p much every other genre are extremely popular to this day, just look at shit like aoe 2. fucking civ 4 has about as many people playing EL on steam, and thats only the steam version.

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>>165073458
First game since about 2 years and I forgot how fast you burn through the starting resources.
Did a conventional start and except for crippling everything through Mineral shortages it's looking good for now.
Don't ever put 15 sensors on your first survey ship. Took me about 5 years to build one of them.

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>>165073959

Keep telling yourself that.
It doesnt really matter if the game has 1000 daily players or 50000. You'll find a multiplayer game instantly anytime anyway.

Just because Civ is older and a lot more people know about the series because of heavy marketing doesnt make it good.

You have obviously not played EL. :^)

>>165070872
>Leaving your own homeworld because some use-to-be big shots get booty blasted that you colonized a world no where near their border

(You)

>>165073241
I prioritized writing and library. After that it kind of depends on what resources are around me. So scout, monument, then worker? I do have ruins enabled, btw. I don't try to get rid of game mechanics.

I tried to get some wonders built first to get culture up a bit and get the free buildings with them (great library, great lighthouse). I usually prioritize tech that gets me into another era or ones that help science.

Are some Civs just death sentences if you start next to them? Greece always starts a war with me in the early game, and it is hard to focus on building up good cities and science when you have to deal with a warmonger that cares about neither except when they help his military.

Is religion actually worth it? And how can you tell if you can still found a religion? I don't want to get a great prophet just to have it be a waste.

Anyone tried Stellar Monarch aka Pocket Empires?
I tried and its really comfy game.
Weird but comfy.
It is on tpb.

>>165078452
What's TPB?

>>165079457
The YAARRRR Bay.

>>165079575
Oh, okay.

Wasn't it compromised? I was under the impression it was a honeypot, and I can't afford the legal fees.

>>165073445
>you'd think the best would be more popular
how the fuck wouldn't you expect normies to have shit taste?
>>165073959
>but you'd think that the """best""" game in the whole genre wouldn't be completely dead player-wise, wouldn't you?
are you being serious?

are you that guy from /tv/?

>>165079698
What country do you live?
Definitely not FBI.

>>165078452
I've heard some REALLY bad things about Stellar Monarch.

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>>165079575
>using tpb
>year of our lord 1017

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>>165079801
Well now I'm not sure what to think.

>>165079698
>not using encryption and a vpn

>>165080250
I'm not that computer-literate, I'm afraid.

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>>165073458
me

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How is Master of Magic? I'm thinking of buying it off GoG, and since this seems to fuse together civ and HOMM.
I've read positive comments almost everywhere, even here on 4chan, however i have some questions:
>Is there a "just one more turn" button?
As on, can i first cover the entire map in my wizard's colors before deciding to win the game? Or does the game end as soon as a victory condition is met?
>Is it challenging?
Or are there difficulty settings, even. If the AI were as difficult as civ4's one it'd be fine, and artificial difficulty is fine by me as well, as long as it can be actually challenging and not a cakewalk even at the hardest difficulty.
>Can i cover the entire map in my own colored blob?
This is autistic as hell, but can the map give you the civ feel of seeing an entire continent covered in your civ's colors? Or is it like Master of Orion where the system always looks the same?
>Can i go full necromancer and raise tons of skellies from my enemies corpses?
This one would be very nice since i loved necromancy in Heroes 3, but it's not a deal-breaker.

>>165078305
Guys, help a bro out.

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>mfw there's finally some discussion
>but it's about MoM and Civ and I don't know shit about these

>tfw Endless Legend artbook never

>>165078305
Build orders are a subjective fair. Generally you want 1-2 scouts, 1 worker and a Monument asap. After that 1-2 extra workers, 3 slings, 1-2 warriors. This is what you need to have a safe and stable early game in my expirience.

Wonders are kinda crap if you aren't china.

No, defense is trivially easy if you know what you are doing, you just need to stop trying to play as pacifist yourself.

Religion is in dispute. Some say it's a waste of time and resources. I think it's worth it simply becaue holy site isn't a bad district to have early on. But generally it's not nearly strong enough to worry about outside of religious victory conquest.

>>165083758
Nevermind, I thought dialogue was about civ6. You need less military presence in 5, tho idea is basically the same. And religion is more important in 5.

I finally realized what my beef with Civ VI is.

Production is the only resource that matters.

>>165082030
Dumon best girl.

>>165085487
Thanks for realizing that NPC relationships don't matter. Maybe now you'll stop bitching about them denouncing you after you only raze a few of their cities.

>>165085603
I prefer the girl from the future. The one with the dragon. If I had a grand daughter from the future, I would spoil her rotten.

>>165056763
Haha ebin simply ebin.

>last Stellaris dev diary was almost a month ago

>>165086126

>Implying they ever mattered

Especially in this game where the AI finds a million reasons to dislike you.

>>165081341
>>Is there a "just one more turn" button?
Nope
The victory conditions include casting the spell of mastery and physically killing off all the enemy wizards. If they generate eough power and still have cities they will try to resummon themselves after you banish them, so you can let them live off in one or two useless cities if you want to sim city after a while.
>>Is it challenging?
Some of the unofficial patches improve the AI.
On impossible they have a lot of bonuses that can be hard to catch up with if you don't work on it. I tend to use specific wizard builds that help overcome that.
I've played 5 games since december and lost 2 when I strayed from those safer strats.
>Can i cover the entire map in my own colored blob?
On the map you see cities marked in different colours, and on the overworld view you see your cities with flags of your colour.
Controlled nodes of power have sparks of the wizards colours that cover up to 20 tiles, but there's no coloured border like later civ titles.

>Can i go full necromancer and raise tons of skellies from my enemies corpses?
Yes.
The death school deals with undead.
Ghouls a summoned creature from the death school have the "Create Undead" ability, so units they kill have a chance to appear as undead version of their former selves after combat.
Black Channels is a buff that turns the unit to an undead, or just buffs it if it is already undead.
Undead don't gain experience the usual way and don't regain hp though so be careful about turning heroes into undead. Regeneration is the one way to get undead to heal.
It's a nature buff, can be found on items, and almost all trolls have regeneration.

You can also summon skeletons and zombies, there's a Global Enchantment called Zombie Mastery where every unit that falls in combat returns as a zombie if you win the fight.

Some units and spells have lifedrain, and if a unit dies to primarily lifedrain damage they return as undead.

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who /roleplayingpornographicracesinaurora/ here?

>>165092667
Thanks man, you've been very specific in your answers, will definetly get it then.
Can you, in theory, settle on every tile of the map? Or is it like Heroes of Might and Magic, with pre-defined city spots?
And finally, can it be played entirely with a mouse or is it keyboard heavy?

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>>165096315
You can settle on most tiles.
You can't settle within 3 tiles of another city, so a 7x7 square around an existing city is off limits.

You can't settle on some Encounter Zones(Sorcery Nodes, Nature Nodes, Chaos Nodes and Towers of Wizardry remain after being cleared).


I think you can play the game with just a mouse. I don't use that many hotkeys in MoM desu,

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More polders.

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>>165080112
Do you live in Germany or turkey?
I hear that especially Germany is hard on this and local population is kind of retarded when it comes to piracy.
In Londonistan there is come back of real old school piracy when some paki or oher faggot sell you dvd/cd in some shady corner with movies and shit. You know the real piracy were actually money are involved and support crime or illegals. Seriously we are going back in time.
>>165079823
What exactly?
The game is fine(didn't notice any bugs) unless you count Hive and Parasites.
Management model is not direct are you can't switch or replace single governor but rule by edicts(like purge incompetent or disloyal ones etc). Planet(economy) management is fine and seriously is much better than Stellaris and feels better - kinda like Distant World where its do their thing.
Military control is decent. Composition of units and numbers win wars - logistic is the key as you want replace losses fast or don't want to broad border as you have limited fleets and squadrons.
The only things I can complain that its relatively easy at this point and I don't see any imminent danger for my Empire.

>>165098401
What map script is that?

>>165066746
Those emotions are programmed. The AI battle computer even says they've upped the ante on the AI self-preservation programming. Their 'fear' is manufactured.

That said, I guess our own emotions are programmed at a biological level.

>>165100952
Humans are just biological machines

>>165098471
>Do you live in Germany or Turkey?

Are you implying there's a difference?

Posting the a resume of Fermi Paradox by Kurzgesagt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc&index=4&list=PLFs4vir_WsTxontcYm5ctqp89cNBJKNrs&t=218s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI&list=PLFs4vir_WsTxontcYm5ctqp89cNBJKNrs&index=5

>>165067506
Aluminum.

>>165101718
Kurzgesagt is pretty good for an overview, but I like how indepth this guy's videos go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ZMk0785kI

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>new to 4x's and strategy games in general
>first serious game of stellaris after learning the controls and mechanics.
>species with strong and frugel
>quickly expand, prioritizing making massive industrial complex for pow/mat production/storage
>all my limited research (from expanding so fast) goes into engineering and physics for improved power plants and mines

>the planets align, new CEO has energy/material bonuses

>shitting out so much mats/power I can pretty much buy max opinion off every empire with favorable trade
>disregard the consiquences of going over fleet capacity and planet administration.

>shitting out battleships like their corevettes, max fleet cap is 144 but I'm at 250.

HOLY FUCK IT'S GREAT BEING RITCH.

>>165085603
Her granddaughter is better

>>165104370
But she has Sakurada. Dumon has nobody and need someone to love her and supply her with candy

>>165101718
>we finally have our own subreddit
and that's when I turned it off

>>165099250
IDK, it's an old screencap. I believe it is Communitas.

>>165102731
that channel looks great anon i definitely gonna follow up this guy work
thanks

>>165060960
Romney vs. Obama and McCain vs. Obama were basically people saying "The other two aren't complete shit but Obama is just better sorry lads"
This election was, bar the people in the Rust Belt who Trump geniunely charmed with his outsider to washington persona and his pledge to drain the swamp and all that and the few women who fell for the glass ceiling meme, a race to the bottom - both of them are shit, but who is less shit? Hillary partially lost because she allowed herself to become nothing but the 'not Trump' candidate.

>>165083758
In Civ V, which technologies are important to prioritize? Other than writing I don't have that much of a standard setup

>>165083758
What buildings are actually good to get besides science buildings?

>>165109303
Civil Service, Education.

Civil Service gives +1 food from fresh water farms.
More food, more pops, more science.

Civil Service also gives you access to pikemen.

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>>165109691
Unless I am explicitly trying to win via military, I shouldn't be too aggressive with it, right? Unless there's an asshole that I need to take out.

Btw, is there always a fairly powerful county that befriends you only to backstab you? It seems to happen in most games.

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>Stellar new
>Soulder my way into the galaxy, beating back larger empires to secure a comfortable plot of land
>Send science ships everywhere, chasing down the long dead Vultaum empire
>Find all the artifacts, locate homeworld
>Fly in, excited
>Planet exploded
>lel. The End. Have 250 points of science

... That's it? Really? Is there another chain of events that will trigger later?

>>165111191
>Unless I am explicitly trying to win via military, I shouldn't be too aggressive with it, right? Unless there's an asshole that I need to take out.
There's always a fight going on, sometimes that fight is called war, sometimes that fight is called peace.
If you're winning at peace, you may not need to start a war.
If you know you can win more by doing war though it could be worth it.

>Btw, is there always a fairly powerful county that befriends you only to backstab you? It seems to happen in most games.
Naeh, some Civ AIs are more loyal than others.

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>>165111515
I know civ AIs aren't all the same, but I've had a shit ton backstab me either by war, spy finding out they are plotting against me, or denouncing. Greece, Russia, Brazil, Polynesia, Celtics, Poland, Rome. I know some of those I'd expect to be assholes, but damn.

Are some civilisations just better to attack and knock out first?

Where the FUCK are the modding tools holy fucking shit

>>165112071
>Are some civilisations just better to attack and knock out first?
always kill alex is not a bad mantra

>>165112234
t. rob

>>165112583
>rob
?

>>165112796
It's a /gsg/ meme

>>165112945
ah

always kill alex, or why haven't you killed alex yet is a civ4xg meme since civ5 greeces alexander can be both dangerous and annoying.

>>165112234
Yeah, he seems to be the biggest ass in the game. Montezuma and atilla are war hungry, but they tend to not be as threatening overall. Montezuma also probably has the funnier lines. "I will sacrifice ten people to celebrate your visit."

How worried do you really need to be when you find out a county is plotting against you? Can that wear off so they won't bother with you?

>>165112181
After several DLCs for mere $19.99, good goy.

>>165109303
it depends a lot on what you are trying to achieve. There are 2 main lines of research. One that gives you access to Science National Wonder, it's called National College, I think. can't be arsed to look up names.The other one is CB/XB/Arty rush. Composite Bow/Crossbow/Artillery that is. Basically building archers for early aggression/defense.

Everything beyond that is IMHO situational.

>>165109673
Specify which game.

>>165117095
Civ V

>>165118086
Granary, Monument, pretty much anything that raises production or local happiness so long as you can afford maintenance. Buildings that boost local luxury/common/strategic resources output.

Beyond that it's all situational. Generally it's not hard to decide what to build once you know what your strategy is for the city/game.

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>>165111370
You got this one? Yeah, it's kinda dull (and moderately ironic considering they really were in a simulation)

The cybrex one is probably the better ones since it leads to a ringworld and liquid metal. I really want to see the ending of the one where they all died out to a plague. Never managed to get the 6th location so I never got to see the result.

>>165066467
>>165066285
>I run into some signals coming out of this radioactive-as-fuck gas giant. Ends up being some non-corporeal beings wanted to be transported into another system. I ended up missing this chain because I had to deal with a sudden invasion of uppity crab people. Was anything of value lost?
Immediate positive is +4 bio research to whatever gas giant they decide to settle on, may not be in your territory.
They can give 500resource, a +5% empire bonus to physics, or just be really annoying with their civil war. Most likely is that civil war where you'll be sending a science ship as a taxi until you get bored with the idea.

I do the initial transport then tell them to resolve their own problems.

>>165122596
I made the largest galaxy possible as 4 arm spiral.

Didn't start near anyone, had loads of room to explore and not once did a damn precursor event come up.

Then 1-2 bugged non-functioning ones popped up before I got a report someone else had found it.

Such a fucking buggy series of events.

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> playing as Shoshone on civ v
> next to Polynesia
> find out they may be plotting against me
> get worried, but not too much
> Polynesia found world congress
> realize the Huns and Rome are in this
> fucking assholes
> Huns wage war on me and lose because I'm on a coast
> we settle it
> find out Caesar is planning a sneak attack on somebody
> two turns later find out who it is the hard way
> the Huns join in
> Polynesia joins in
> Spain joins in
> Huns, Rome, Polynesia have strongest militaries
> right next to Polynesia
> mfw

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>be peacefully exploring my galaxy just researching and chill
>suddenly fanatical purifiers declare war on me
>defend myself and protect my galaxy by wiping them out
>somehow I'M the bad guy

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Do i get the record for longest mountain range?

So, apparently everyone in the galaxy hates me because I'm genocidal?

But I'm playing as a Fanatic Individualist empire, so I can't purge pops if I wanted to.

What's up with that?

>>165126616
you get the record for city with shittest wifi

>>165127508
DUDE KILIMANDJARO LMAO

So how satisfied are you so far with updates solving Civ 6's issues?

>>165130221
I am fond of coal miners wives.

Leave it to Churchill to have one of the few good quotes in Civ 6

>>165130419
They need to remove religious victory to really fix the stupidest part of the game, so no.

>>165131331
That's never going to happen. Try coming up with a way to fix it.