/civ4x/ - Strategy/4X General

>>168537895
I like that idea.

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>>168537895
So who else is going to find and conquer earth to make them livestock in banks/utopia

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fugg :DDDDD

>>168538994
You dun fucked.

>>168538994
What game?

>>168539287
Polaris Sector.

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thread is dead, revive thread please

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I am fond of pigs

>>168542202
I hate pigs.

>>168542202
It's funny because in the newest iteration of the namesake franchise of this general there is a Winston Churchill quote which there is a dramatic pause righter after saying "I am fond of pigs" before continuing, and because players usually skip quotes that is all they here, now it's a meme and you are posting an image of a pig like species from another 4x game. Very funny.

>>168546154
Welcome to modern gaming, where you're not supposed to get immerged in the story and just repeat the same shit all over and over again.

>>168546154
Dunno, it's pretty funny outside of context.

>>168546154
See the horns? that is a cow.

So late game ES2 it's impossible to switch governments. There's like 20 turns of anarchy between governments and you get unhappiness from pop not represented in the senate, even though there is no senate.

Right now I am rebounding between industrial and ecologist dictatorships every other turn, with all my systems rebelling. Is this intended?

>>168547480
You're a cow.

>>168548213
Were you not using election actions like round up?

>>168538994
>>168539434
is good?

>>168546154
haha very funny indeed!

>>168548953
There are no elections. I was doing fine under a democracy m, then wanted to change to federation and got hit with all the unrepresented unhappiness while in anarchy and now I have one turn dictatorships

>>168549208
I was kidding. It's something else.

>>168537895
That Stellaris mod recommendation list was a bit underwhelming..

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For the sake of discussion, what kind of genre would you like the next AAA 4x game be?

I am dying for a new Gangsters: Organized Crime. It has all the usual things you would want from a strategy game: War/Diplomacy/Economics, with the added twist of having to play around a way stronger faction ( The government/police)

>>168550535
>kidding
hilarious

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>>168551345
>a 4x
>based on crime
Huh? Like Chaos Overlord?

>>168551758

Yes, but deeper and more with a focus on actual gangland activites, and less chainsaw nuns.

>>168552037
Like Omerta? I found it pretty fun but a bit lacking. And the combat was utter shit.

>>168552075

Ugh, Omerta was such shit. It banked on my fond memories of Gangsters to get my attention. I got hyped, and then played it and realized that the " Gang Management' was basically a facebook waiting game mixed with a shit XCOM clone.

If you don't mind old games that really don't age that well, You should check out Gangsters: Organized crime.

>>168552462
I remember trying Gangsters 2 and hating it because there was no sandbox game, just a campaign.

And Omerta was pretty shit, but I liked beating the crap out of KKK knights.

>>168552851

Gangsters 2 has a really sad story. It was coming out around the time some RTS were getting really popular, and the devs wanted to cash in on that, by removing all the unique things from the game, and turning it into a shitty half Age of Empires clone. Gangsters and Gangsters 2 really have little in common ( Besides shit controls)

>>168553128
Wait... So which one did I play? I remember one where you start with just a car, a thug and you and you have to shoot a guy down.

>>168553336
That's Gangsters 2

Gangsters 1 had no real story, just a set of different maps, mixed with the ability to randomly generate a map.
It had a weird, turn-based structure, where each turn was a week. You would give your gangsters order, tell them who to extort, what businesses to buy, who to hit etc etc. When you were done, you would click finish, and the week would begin. you would watch your guys complete their tasks in real-time, and be able to issue them simple orders on the fly.

Gangsters 2 basically took the " during the week controls" and made that the whole game, gutting the management portion.

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HAK HAK HAK

>>168550747
stellaris is basically game non grata until banks is released

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>>168538461
>>168557187
>can't have the Prethoryn, Unbidden and AI rebellion duking it out while the rest of the galaxy are trying to stop them and survive the shitstorm
I know there's mods that allow for multiple crises but I would love having something that allows a second crises to happen and actually takes it into account, things like events, buildup to the inevitable clash between the two, some new techs and events that show how desperate the rest of the galaxy is getting and a bunch of Prethoryn mutating after constantly being around Unbidden and turning into monsters that are worse than the other two and turning it into a 4 way battle

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If I go Xenophobe/Authoritarian, will I have any factions opposing purging all the filthy ayyylums infesting my new colonized worlds?

>>168560393

Enslave or purge the pro-xeno cucks

>>168559943
Is there any game where it's just a cluster fuck between 3+ major factions and you're just there trying not to die?

>>168562093
The War in Heaven if you stayed independent without the power to back it up.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/149432/

How're the endless games?

>get a migration treaty with Star Fox
>they flood into my new colonies
>they're all pissed off about it and I have to deal with factions even though I'm individualist
>check their planets
>not one beautiful human anywhere on any of their fox-infested worlds
I'm not a xenophobe. I like aliens, I just don't want them around everywhere.

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>>168563062
They are breddy good, and that is a awesome price.

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>>168563237
>sign migration treaty
>have nicer, richer worlds than shitty Foxicans
>be surprised Foxicans swarm across the border
They have to go back. Luckily Banks will give an expulsion option.

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>>168563237

They're not sending their best and brightest, folks. They just aren't. They are probing anuses, they are abducting cattle and I assume some of them are good ayys. We're gonna build a force field to keep the ayys out and the ayys will pay for it.

Believe me, I know force fields. It will be the biggest, best force field within 10,000 light years. It will make the force field they have on Tau Ceti E look like it's made out of Legos. And after we build the force field we are sending every ayy that is here illegally back to their homeworld. It's time to make Earth great again.

I spoke to their leader, their head guy the other day, and he said "President Trump, you can't build a force field and we certainly aren't paying for it." You know what I said to him? I said "Draxzlor, the force field just got 10 miles higher."

>>168553749
Man there used to be a good deal of crime mgmt games, wtf happened? You had your gangsters, your crime fighters, your dope wars.

>>168559943
How do you even get the prethoryn to spawn? I always get unbidden.

>>168564545
You wait a long fucking time (like 200 years since the game started) without getting jump drives or synths and hope they will actually spawn.

>>168564545
I've played through about 10 games and have got unbidden everytime except one which was robot rebellion. Fucking swarm never pops up

>>168564749
>without getting jump drives
Not even the basic one? And is that just the player or the other civs too?

Fuck, that's gonna be rough (playing hyperlanes only atm)

>>168557326
I saw a "Flagships" mod posted here once upon a time, thought it looked cool.

Then after having to deal with a resurgent Titan on top of having >>168557187 invade my allies rear.. I thought it would be handy to have my own super big fuck you all ship.


Thought it would have been in the mod list.

If anyone is wondering the hisho law in ES2 is +15% manpower refill on fleets. Looks like it happens outside friendly territory as well. The haroshem have a law that makes everyone consume 20% less food

>warp into system to engage enemy fleets
>fleet spreads itself thin and focuses on a bunch of transport ships while the enemy fleet just blasts me apart

ok I know stellaris combat isn't anything stellar, but that's fucking stupid. I'm pretty sure if it let me focus on one fleet at a time I would have had that battle easy

>>168568742
There is absolutely no reason not to always send 1 corvette first to system to check things out (if there's any doubt whether or not you'll win) before your main fleet goes in

>>168568742
Theres a mod that unfucks targetting priorities, but it really shines when the transports or resource stations are lumped into the main enemy fleet.

I use it and my fleet targets the fleet before it goes onto transports.

On higher difficulties (immortal and diety) on Civ V, how the hell do you deal with militaristic neighbors in the early game? I just got finished getting gangbanged by the Zulus and the Swedes.

>>168569413
I knew what was in the system but I hadn't engaged a battle like that before so I didn't know it was going to make the targetting focus on these transport ships and little fuckers while the main fleets just went to town on me.

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I successfully conquered India and then Kongo, securing the entire continent of Gondwana for myself, before meeting anyone else. Feels good.

Now I need to fill in the gaps of the continent before those colony happy foreigners get any ideas while trying to build a few key wonders.

>>168563991
Beam up my sides to the Kek Enterprise.

>psi drives dont need to connect to a wormhole
oh fuck the unbidden this is worth it

>>168559943
I'm pretty sure you can just tweak a config somewhere.

>>168559943
i ususaly dont even get to crisises because i win by owning shitton of planets before they trigger.

automatic escorts on transports or a way to tie them to the fleet when?

I dont micromanage them for 1 fucking microsecond and the AI, i sweat of fuck teleports on top of them with shitty corvets and shit.

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>tfw using capturing cities for the sole purpose of monopolizing a luxury
Is there a better feel?

Are hanger/XL battleships worth it, or are they just for memes?

Civ 6 fixed a lot of movement bugs from Civ 5 that not even Vox Populi could fix.

>>168576031
Monopoly bonuses are so satisfying in VP. I hope they introduce corporations and monopoly bonuses in a Civ 6 DLC or at very least move their asses and release the modding tools so others can do it for them.

They took so many other ideas from Vox Populi that I can't imagine they aren't aware of the value of monopoly bonuses. I can't remember if they were present in Civ 3 or 4.

>>168551345
Ever since populous and more recently, From Dust, I always thought a 4x with exaggerated continental drift and plate mechanics would be amazing.

What are some good must have mods for stellaris? I have alphamod but is there anything else?

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>>168576416

>>168563237
Serves you right. When around an ayy, watch your pay.

>>168576031
genociding xenos for the sole purpose of monopolizing power

When the Fox Empire sends its furries, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending foxes that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing rebels. They're bringing factions. They're terrorists. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I speak to colonial governors and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right aliens.

It's coming from more than Fox Empire. It's coming from all over the Federation, and it's coming probably -- probably -- from the Fanatical Purgers. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.

>>168563237
>Sign a Migration Treaty.
>Be surprised when people use it.
This is all on you.

You should have verified their Ethics and Habitability Preference first before making stupid decisions.

Fanatical Spiritualism is eating up large portions of the federation. They've become influential. I'm in competition with them.

They just built a temple on Abraxis. Can you believe this? They built a temple. When I have to build a building, I pay taxes. They don't have to pay taxes, because they took an old loophole that when we left the Roach Empire, I said we should've removed.

So now the Fanatical Purifiers have the lythuric gas, and what they don't have, the other zealots have. And in 20 -- and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said -- and I love the military, and I want to have the strongest military that we've ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, "Don't hit the roaches," because you're going to totally destabilize the federation. The zealots are going to take over the federation, and they will get the gas, and it turned out that zealots are now taking over the roaches. Think of it. Zealots are taking over the Roach Empire, and they're taking it over big league.

We spent $2 trillion in the Roach Empire, $2 trillion. We lost thousands of lives, thousands in deserts. We have wounded soldiers, who I love, I love -- they're great -- all over the place, thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers.

And we have nothing. We can't even go there. We have nothing. And every time we give the roaches equipment, the first time a bullet goes off in the air, they leave it.

Last week, I read 2,300 corvettes -- these are big vehicles -- were left behind for the enemy. 2,000? You would say maybe two, maybe four? 2,300 sophisticated vehicles, they ran, and the enemy took them.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We need Trump VII now.

TRUMP VII: You're right.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-61-indoctrination-unrest-and-faction-interactions.999954/

Banks is going to add so much. There rarely is a game where every weekly dev diary generates this much hype.

>>168582784
its almost like stellaris is being released, i can't wait

>>168582221
>>168582664

Thing is Trump VII is empirically right, love or hate the guy's presentation, he's no dummy.

You have no idea how many times I wiped thinking I was living peacefully with my neighbours the entire time. They built up, took advantage of the migration treaties, then swallowed me whole.

I now exclusively play fanatical xenophobes.

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>>168571981
With only three other civs left on the other continent and with the ability to choose Apostle promotions made it very easy to win Religious Victory. I just chose the "remove all competing religion from city" promotion thanks to the City-State Suzerin bonus and the additional actions from the Hagia Sophia to convert them all.

boop

>>168584145
>Not gobbling up your neighbours when you don't need those defence pacts anymore

>>168538994
trying to get NZ into space... this game looks so unfinished but its like the vici 2 market, complex but simple looking at first glance.

Has ANYONE here actually done a pacifist run in Stellaris?
Not even necessarily with the pacifist ethic. I mean avoiding wars to cede planets and trying to be friends with as many empires as possible while respecting each-other's territory.

>>168588437
I did. I just had to do a nice, good ethnic cleansing first.

>>168588437
I tried, but it was just too boring.

>>168557187
I've played 3 or 4 campaigns to late game and have never seen these guys. The Unbidden always spawn instead. Am I just unlucky or is it very rare?

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>want to do one last game of Stellaris before Utopia hits
>can't bring myself to start a game because Utopia is on the horizon

>>168588437
I did for about half of one game then went full militarist coping the unhappiness because there's nothing else to do mid-late game

Horatio?

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>>168588721
...then just don´t do it.
I am pretty sure you have unfinished games, or other things to do.

I need a game, strategy or city-building or whatever, to tickle that huge capitalist boner.

I had a lot of fun in Freelancer buying and selling food, dioxygen and medicine, but now I want to maximize my margin and process the food, dioxygen, medicine and small arms to sell.

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>when the Soviets get killed just right

>>168590453
>3 749 185 captured
TITUS
GET THE CROSSES

>>168590453
Пидop.

Someone interested in the CoH2 DLC Southern Fronts?
Got it from Make Love not War and I dont own the base game

>>168593161
64VZ6-TXWXE-2IZC3
Here it is

>>168537895
Hey my dudes, how do I dlc without reinstalling the entire game (Stellaris pirated)

The wait for Utopia is fucking killing me!

>>168594775
>being this thirsty for stellaris

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>>168594987
I need it.

>>168593576
Nvm I figured it out

>1.4
>still no Bear species

>>168595778
russia pls

>>168595904

Why cant I have majestic Bear but we get cute snails instead?

>>168596007
there's an eagle species :^)

>>168594775
Can't wait to play as cute Nazi butterflies that eat their enemies

>>168594775
>>168595065
>>168596187
What is it about?

>>168596187
The flesh is weak, anon.

>>168596276
It's also delicious

>>168596274
About building utopias with the new Stellaris DLC, Utopia. Available soon for $19.99!

>>168596274
Being an even bigger asshole than you could ever be before.

>>168596274
Being the worst person.
Drugging your own people to keep them happy while lesser being are tortured, castrated, and turned into burgers.

>>168590453
for some reason I read that as "Swedes"

>>168596827
>>168596636
Sounds fun

>>168596827
And then you sell food to xenophiles.

I think it'd be neat if you could influence other empires factions.

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I am making an autismus maximus Noldor species

What government type and ethics should I go for?

>>168597743
>noldor
>repugnant
100% accurate.

>>168597850
Well nobody really liked them
Something about kinslaying and telling the gods to fuck off

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>>168597883
And they're elves. I wouldn't want one even as a sex toy.

>>168597969
What are you, gay?

>>168598010
Not wanting to bury your dick in shit doesn't make you gay.

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>>168597969
Well what do you think?

>>168598457
10/10 would integrate in my empire as second-rate citizens.

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>>168598508
Butthurt Teleri detected

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>>168597246
I just love the teaser. It sums up the expansion so well that I have to applaud them for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnH2mmONiw

>dark, frozen streets of a dead city
>camera is moving moving forward
>eventually makes it clear that someone built a Dyson Sphere around the sun
>the word Utopia shows up

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how much fleet cap is too much

>>168598807
Would it defeat the purpose of the Dyson Sphere if you just leave a little window opened for the planet to receive warmth and energy?

>>168598807
Dank

>>168598935
Nope but fuck xenos, I ain't making my Dyson Sphere produce less energy because of some dirty primitives on a shithole that I can't be arsed to conquer.

>>168599009
I was more thinking of building partial sphere "over" and "under" the star to get that energy while leaving the planets untouched.

>>168599091
Might as well build the sphere in a different system then nigga

>>168598809
About tree fiddy

>>168598809
If nothing can get near your fleet without exploding, you don't have enough dakka.

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>>168599410
>350
well going from the usual max in basegame (26) to 80 dropped me from 120fps to 40.. So. Yeah. This is referring to like, scaling the cap up for -everybody-.

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>>168599410
>it was about this time I realized this was not anon, but a 3 story tall crustacean from the Mesozoic era
god damn loch ness monster

>>168599526
This makes me hard.

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>>168599872
Needs more missiles

>>168598935
Or you can just live on a dyson sphere, since it's fuckhueg.

>>168600152
Yeah why don't we just live on the sun there's loads of space.

>>168600386
Because the sun isn't a giant spacestation that provides limitless amount of energy.

>tfw still can't turn filthy xenos into food
Life isn't fair.

>>168600453
And a Dyson Sphere has no means to support life.
The thing is essentially just a ball of titanic solar panels.

>>168601084
>And a Dyson Sphere has no means to support life.
In reality it would be just a better version of a ringworld. Nothing stops you from building habitats on the outer surface of a dyson sphere.

>>168600969
Im still waiting on the ability to turn them into resource/science boosting drugs.

>>168600969
I want to create daleks. Or borgs.

Self-replicating soldiers.

>>168601389
I just want some space turkey burgers.

I hear the first Sword of the Stars is pretty good, worth playing?

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>>168601389

>>168601557
Hey if im gonna play as a race of space Mengele's, i want the full experience dammit!

>>168601520
Pretty good.

>>168601557
Ability to turn xenos into aphrodisiacs for population growth when

>>168601389
I'm still waiting for the ability to turn them into fuel.

>>168601957
Ability to torture xenos in public to boost happiness when?

Gladiators existed in Rome.

>>168602197
That could work as a replacement for the virtual combat arena for slavers. Slave combat arena that boosts happiness and improves slave warriors.

>>168602197
>>168601957
xenos are for love and sexual

>>168602756
*purges the xenophile scum*

>>168602756
Xenos are for delicious food.

>>168602756
Xenos are for extermination and control.

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>>168602892
Daily reminder to eat healthy

>tfw stellaris will never have half-breeds

>>168603082
Fuck vegans, I don't want to eat trees.

>>168603154
Half-breeds barely work between species in our planet, I can only imagine how incompatible creatures that don't even have a distant common ancestry would be.

>>168603082
Hmmmm, delicious tree men.

>>168603297
That would be more like 2 separate organisms living in symbiosis.

>>168603513
Someone was posting some Wiz posts about empires starting with more than one species, so who knows?

>>168603513
>tfw no symbiotic ayylmaofu

>>168603082
>delicious is a trait
GUFFAW

Does it kill the population?

>>168603696
You can either eat pops to death or use them as livestock without killing them.

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>>168603297
Worked for Xcom, V, and other cheesy sci fi . You do understand this game is based on tropes and not hard science, right? Almost every single evet is literally lifted from science fiction.It's not Aurora, thank god.
>>168603082
>delicious
Brilliant, I wonder if there's a trait for not tasting good as well...

>>168604337
>a trait for not tasting good as well...
Is it positive or negative?

But will there be cannibalism?

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Well that was close

>>168604546
I think that depends on who you ask!

>>168604337
Well, yeah, but in Xcom at least the half-breeds were from genetical manipulation, not xenos fucking and having mixed-species offspring, which would be higly unlikely to be sucessful.
But I totally agree with you, I just didn't consider this possibility.

I heard you can't purge individual pops in the next patch. Does this mean I won't be able to keep a resupplying stock of xenos for food, with some kept around to breed, as I can only choose to eat the every pop of a species or none?

>>168604656
Forced cannibalism to lead to the mental degradation of slave species!

>>168604750
We haven't got a full view of what every right is, so there might be something like that, and even if it isn't in the base game, someone is bound to mod it.

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>>168604546
Well, if I'm short on food, and your race is delicious, I'm probably more likely to conquer you if my ethics permits slavery.

>>168563062
Polished, well-balanced, cleanly designed, and utterly fucking boring.

>>168559943
WHEN YOU MOD IT

>>168598457
Now listen here you knife-eared piece of shit.
If you go any further with that piss stained pubic wig you call hair I'm gonna wreck your shit so hard you won't be able to walk with your limp dick.

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>>168604337
it was foretold

>>168551345
Wasn't there a sequel to this game?

Civ 6 is such a more polished game than Civ V.

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My eyes

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>>168617239
Fun fact : people became blind because of the light reflecting on the snow.

Scrooge McDuck lost some eyesight because of this.

Nice to see you playing this, by the way. I feel a little less alone.

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>>168618364
More like "playing this again"
I just did a "quick" match testing out saxony and looking at the new snow maps

>>168618840
I never stopped playing it.

Have they fixed the AI when it comes to island?

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>>168619159
Doesnt seem like it
It still is extremely passive on normal and when playing any other starting setting than "Peasant Army"

Is there any special notification for purging all sentient life in the galaxy in stellaris?

>>168619336
I remember it being troublesome once it get access to cannons, but it doesn't seem to happen anymore. Either I'm playing in Normal too much, or they nerfed it.

Islands were always easy mod with these games.

>>168619371
Well, if you destroy all other empires you win. As for purging everyone, don't think so.

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>>168619638
>Islands were always easy mod with these games
Yeah, which is kinda sad to me since I enjoy naval battles to some degree

>>168604750
Eating xenos is both a purge and a slavery option. Only purging via eating kills them off.

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mad men

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>>168588721
fucker I would love to play stellaris now and exploring one of the best mods (LEX) yet i have to study for a Math exam i shiuld have passed 2 years ago

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>>168596827
>being are tortured, castrated, and turned into burgers
Wait a sec...
>muslims/blacks gettin puched to death by cops or die in guantanamo, doctors cuting ppls dick... burgers...

so basicly and United States of America dlc ?

>>168620069
That's sad, I agree, but I always found sea battles lacking. There's no boarding, no chained cannonballs...

Except in Empire Total War, but I never played that game long enough to unlock them.

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>>168621437
Yeah Its kinda lacking I agree but in AC it was always so fun and satisfying to look at your battleship firing a full broadside killing a good amount of enemy soldiers/buildings
and that it gives me another angle via naval bombardment or landing forces in a flanking position to fight the enemy pleases my tactic boner
Empire Total War is actually the one game that kinda started the whole naval thing for me

>>168620698
Oh shit this is impressive

>>168622097
I can understand that. I remember trying the same thing with Shogun 2, but it's more about boarding and setting ships on fire than broadside fire.

Also, stop giving yourself infinite ressources, scrub.

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>>168623080
>Also, stop giving yourself infinite ressources, scrub.
What?
Is selling stone now considered cheating?

>>168623368
Starting with more than 5 000 ressources is cheating.

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>>168623597
says who?
(You)?
Dont make me laugh

>>168624175
Through I admit you have a lot of peasants.

How many mills do you have?

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>>168624313
3 mills with 100 peasants working on them
fully upgraded the food stuff +like 50 fishing boats that also had that efficiency upgrade

>>168624654
I usually go with 20 lumberjacks, 50 farmers, 10 stone diggers, 20 gold miners, 10 coal miners, and 10 iron miners.

Mostly small games.

There's a lot of people posting abouy Cossacks recently. Anyone willing to give a quick rundown on the game? Is it fun?

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>>168537895
Working on making a Human empire based around, the ideas of the Manifest Destiny of humanity. Something with a UNSC, Starship troopers, and Harry Turtledoves World war series. Just good old Humanity at it's finest! Anything I should change or fix?

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>>168624835
I´m used to going big thanks to all my hours in American Conquest since the need for coal, iron and gold is much much higher than in Cossacks

>>168625485
And mines were so rare in American Conquest. I remember getting furious once because the only gold mine was in my ally's territory and he already built on it.

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>>168625626
that too yeah
thats why I always play with "rich" mineral settings so I always have atleast 2 of each mine most of the time
but that doesnt really help much in AC lategame when you try to research the fusilier upgrades and have to mow down a good 1.000 natives per attack wave

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>Military Power
>DEATH

Should I be worried>

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>>168625947
Yeah, American Conquest is a very frustrating game for that matter.

>>168626019
YES
PANIC

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>>168626141
>Yeah, American Conquest is a very frustrating game for that matter.
and yet I cant get enough of it

>>168603082
Paradox may be happy merchants, but I love their cheeky shit

>>168626406
I can understand that. I do love some small details.
>colons are cultivating wheat
>natives are cultivating corn

But I hate how nothing is explained. There's one american native tribe who needs gold, but can't build mine, so they need to spam markets to get gold. And they're the only faction/race to generate gold with markets.

>>168603082
How do I do this?

>>168626019
You'll need at least 80K fleet power.

>>168626406
What the fuck is going on there? Is that six people doing an infantry square or something?

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>>168626907
>But I hate how nothing is explained. There's one american native tribe who needs gold, but can't build mine, so they need to spam markets to get gold. And they're the only faction/race to generate gold with markets.
There are actually multiple native factions that depend on the market, but I agree about the not explaining things
There is a nation guide that comes with the GOG version but that doesnt really explain much besides giving a little bit of story about the factions but that guide is 145 pages long and in most cases where there are native factions that can only get gold via market its only explained for like one native tribe why

>>168538994
WAHT GAME

>>168628407
Polaris Sector, are you blind?

>>168564545
>he doesnt have the multiple end game crisis' mod
literally why

>>168628407
RealPolitiks

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>Neighboring empire going full Lebensraum right up against my borders

>Declare war on the cunt and liberate a few of his border planets

>Neighboring fallen empire immediately declares war on me

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>playing Stellaris
>star like our sun has a habitable planet right next to it
>not only habitable but it's a cold world
>little bitch red dwarf star (emits a fraction as much energy as the sun) has a habitable hot planet at the outer edge of its system

Does this bother anyone else or is it just my autism flaring up? I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that stars have realistic habitable zones instead of retarded shit like I just mentioned.

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>>168630505

I don't notice it a whole lot in Stellaris, but it reaches levels of obnoxiousness in Endless Space that shouldn't even be possible

>two arctic worlds close to the sun
>desert world on almost the outer rim
>furthest planet away is oceanic

>>168630505
I'd like it if it was more like aurora in this case

>>168630885
>desert world on almost the outer rim
Why wouldn't that work? Deserts are places of extreme temperatures at both ends of the spectrum, their defining characteristic is lack of water.

>>168631096
The atmosphere could play a role in that too. A heavy atmosphere that traps warmth could be the cause.

>>168631096

Because it has the same rotational period as every other planet and has a pop capacity comparable to most Earth-like worlds that makes lack of atmosphere/a fucked up heat gradient extremely unlikely.

>>168631348

That doesn't explain how you can get tundra worlds as close as Mercury to a sun-like star. Besides once a planet gets far enough from its star it doesn't matter how thick the atmosphere is. It just won't be possible to trap enough energy to make it habitable, much less hot. Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that's so thick radar is required to see through it but it's still cold as fuck there.

>>168630885
ES2 has an option for "logical" planet order from hottest to coldest

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Endless Legend is on sale for like $10. Is it different enough from other 4x games to warrant it's pickup? I had played Warlock: Master of the Arcane a few weeks ago, and while it was well done, I felt like it was just a Civ5 reskin.

>>168630505
Anon I've had a hot jupiter at the edge of an M-class star and an ice dwarf next to Rigel, it pisses me off so fucking bad it's not even funny.

>>168630505
I hadn't really paid attention since I wind up boiling everything down to mechanics, but now that you said it, I can't unsee it.

>>168600969
>>168602027

Banks will let you eat them, I'm sure soon after a mod will be introduced to add the policy option to turn them into energy.

>>168602684
This would be nice, could only be worked by an enslaved pop?

>>168633419
it's really good but you kinda need the dlc

>>168604750
You can treat them like chattel and eat them without purging.

>>168630505
Totally agree, it's immersion breaking and it's been 1 year and PDX still can't get their shit right.

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We forbidden love now.

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>>168632232
Seriously? Cool.

Does it have an option for non-absurd combination of anomalies?

>>168637128
What is this!?

>>168637616
That was already fixed in an update.

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>>168637707
>DLC for Endless Legend "Forgotten Love", featuring two mysterious heroes in love, separated by war...
>>168637792
Neat.

>>168638006
Just two heroes? Was this some valentine's day dlc?

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>>168638171
>was
Will maybe be.
https://www.games2gether.com/endless-legend/blog/502-mwnl-art-attack

>tfw there will never be a EL doujin by the official concept artists

>>168638354
>tfw sisters of mercy will never rape you

>>168638006
A small one or a standard one?

>>168639742
A super tiny one. That we may or may not get because it's a potential reward for a popularity contest.

>>168638006
You can force alliance?

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>>168640026
Of course you can. No one can resist the Drakken diplomacy.

>>168640447
I thought the game was way more straightforward than that.


Well, then again, I mostly play Necrophage.

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>>168640728
>Well, then again, I mostly play Necrophage.
That's pretty straightforward.

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New Government types and civics.
I assume you can choose 2 civics.

>tfw You assimilate 4 gnashast and 1 spider things, as well as have the gnashest defence strategy unlocked, but the AI is too incompetent to invade

>>168641594
What is this?

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>>168638449
>sisters of mercy engaging in sexual activities

>>168643121
Utopia

>>168643513
WHEN
H
E
N

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>>168643658
Not soon enough

>>168641594
No way, what are they though?

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>>168643385
>not knowing your canon
There are no vows of celibacy because the Emprah wants humans to outnumber the stars.

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>>168641594
>xenophobe
>fanatic pacifist

>sedentary
>adaptive

Yeah sure, why not

>>168643513
Well Fuck. Are they just adding new give types or is it a complete rework?

>>168641594
>civics

Whoa whoa wait what

Is that gonna be a thing?

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>>168643820
>There are no vows of celibacy

WHERE DO I SIGN UP AS A COMFORT MAN

Hey, Ara, forgot to ask.
What are the new units added by Cossacks 3's DLCs? I know there are new nations, but what about the units?

>>168641594
Is that a sloth?

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Is there an auto-upgrade button for buildings? Manually upgrading colonies is the most tedious shit.

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>>168643949
If I understand it right you will get 2 civics alongside your government type.

There will be also some new gov. types.
Some ready from the get go others unlocked later in the game.

Hive minds and Fanatical purifiers are playable.
Afaik Hive minds are the 9th ethos.

>>168650009
That was one thing I didn't like about government types, the ones unlocked later were just double potency upgrades of your current government. I would say they should be more specialized versions with bonuses and penalties to make them more sidegrades than anything.

>>168650009
where did you pull that from?

>>168620976
>LEX
bring lube

>/cbg/
Is that the same as city building general or no?
You can just ignore me, I'm just missing playing sc4. ;_;
What happened to that general anyway?

>>168655331
It is, it died due to inactivity.

I miss Soul Calibur 4 too.

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What is infinity? What defines infinity? Are we part of infinity? What is NOT infinity?

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>>168655485
Infinity is what more look more like my child.
-the big orb probably

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>>168655839
>Infinity is what more look more like my child.
what did he mean by this

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>>168656081

>>168643934
Those are fun games

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>>168655485

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>>168655485

>>168657894
... Wait...
So the Ur-Quan...

>>168658124
Is this the real translation?

>>168658306
I want it to be

rip in peace 4x

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>>168537895
Give me a quick rundown on the new Authoritarian and Egalitarian ethics in Banks.

>>168588650
Prethoryn have the lowest chance of spawning.

Unbidden or Skynet usually spawn first, because somebody invents Jump Drives or Synthetics.

Prethoryn have a 15% chance of spawning earlier than normal crises, though.

If I got the DLC off the back of a truck for Stellaris, would I still be able to get cheevos? Would it fuck up my steam account?

>>168663823

Don't do this it makes mustard gas

>>168663016
I think they have a pretty high chance of spawning (Like, they'll spawn in 75% of games), but they won't spawn if any of the other events spawn first. And it's pretty easy to have someone research forbidden tech early and trigger a crisis.

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This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I'm not your king.

>>168655485
>What is infinity?
Go back to math class.

>What defines infinity? Are we part of infinity? What is NOT infinity?
Meaningless questions.

>>168551345
Jeebus, i remember this game.
It was autistic af.
You'd go around the neighborhood shaking down people for their money.
I firebombed one of the buildings and it killed like 10 guys at once.

>>168658560
>ywn watch an anime about stereotypical anime characters arguing involving esoteric math principles every single episode

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I believed that making a huge galaxy would be fun. now that each day lasts several seconds I have some concerns about my choices. is there any way to optimize this game to handle this fuckhugeness

>>168668656
get better computer, i have same size and no problems

>>168551345
you remember that game "Evil Genius" by Sierra?

>>168668785
super great idea buddy let me stop by the free computers for broke ass niggas stores. now with that said beyond graphical settings being at a minimum is there anything that can be turned off that has a pretty big effect?

>>168668656
Mass genocide

>>168669021
that is the end goal sure, though getting there is taking longer the more powerful the fleets I make to get there are.

>>168669010
There's nothing you can really do about it, your CPU is your bottleneck, and you can't save enough processing power just disabling graphics. Look in to overclocking your old ass computer if you must play on a massive galaxy.

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Using Siege Towers is satisfying.

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>>168669010
>broke ass niggas
>being poor
inb4 welfare leech / manchild / mommy pays the bills

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>>168650009
>Philosopher King

Good taste.

Makes me want to play a Pacifist Enlightened Monarchy just so I can LARP.

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>>168670018
nope, car salesman off a bad month and money goes to bills before buying myself a computer.

>>168670190
I inb4'd because I was expecting you to call me one of those three

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So i just bought company of heroes 2 while on sale yesterday. Did i do good? Is the balance really bad as people said

>>168670242
ah, well no I misunderstood then. I'm doing shitty as a salesman so I'm in no position to judge anyone right now.
>>168669729
I feel like I'd kill my computer since it's about 5 years old so I'll probably just start my next run on a smaller map if that's the case.

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>>168670590
>ah, well no I misunderstood then. I'm doing shitty as a salesman so I'm in no position to judge anyone right now.
>tfw I now feel bad because you're not being a dick about it
brb kms

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>>168670883
not to sound cliche but it really can't be helped. This site has lost so much of its sense of community that all you can expect is hostility or layers upon layers of "irony".


and back on stellaris I've reached this point where all I have to look forward to are little 5 percent boosts every 30 minutes. I seriously hope the expansion gives you something meaningful to reach for

>>168668656

>mfw I've never played a galaxy smaller than huge and my computer handles the end-game like a champ

>>168671450
>I seriously hope the expansion gives you something meaningful to reach for

From the Starfish stream Paradox has been releasing, you can get early-game techs that boost your total Core System cap (in one case, a 1000 point tech that boosts it by +2) and stuff that increase your Twirly-Whirly Focus Swirlies.

And on that note, to get an idea on how powerful Ascension perks are, one gives you +25% border range while another can give you +5 Core Systems or even -100% tile blocker removal cost.

From what I saw of the later-stage Ascensions, I noticed a Biological perk that gives you +2 Trait points and -75% cost to genetically engineer a race, and that's a first tier Biological tech.

>>168672884
>-100% tile blocker cost
forgot about that shit, I've just been terraforming every planet I come across.

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>>168668656
welp the cormathani fuckers just keep raising their army step for step with mine and while with my recent improvements to the empire I think I'll be able to take them I think it will take several days to get there. I'm going to assume this size galaxy will treat me nicer. guess I should try ballistics this time though, anything huge I should know like what is complete shit?

So, having only played Stellaris.
Is Endless Space 2 pretty much Stellaris 2?
I mean, I have Endless Legend and Endless Space, but I've never fired them up.

>>168673456
>I mean, I have Endless Legend and Endless Space, but I've never fired them up.
Maybe you should do so.

>pretty much Stellaris 2
No, why would you think it is?

>>168673745
I dunno. I'm looking to jump ship. Paradox has a bad habit of abandoning test games.

>>168674113
Go play ES, EL, Polaris Sector, and DW. Aurora if your autism holds up.
Also Star Ruler 2, I believe it was.

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>>168674113
>Paradox has a bad habit of abandoning test games.

>Stellaris
>Test game

This is the real deal, friend. Paradox expansion strategy has *always* been to make the game and focus on one aspect of the game in every update, rather than fix all the things at once.

>>168674258
Sengoku - CK2
March of the Eagles - EU4
East vs. West - RIP
Stellaris - ???

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YOU FUCKS TOLD ME STRIKECRAFT WERE A USELESS MEME REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>168673745
Endless space is a traditional 4x

Stellaris is Eu4 in space

>>168674420

The only reason I research Strike Craft is because I'm a terminal autist that likes to immerse myself in the world and realize an empire of my scale and grandeur would look awfully stupid without fighters or bombers, yeah?

And then I construct vivid fan-fictions of humans or other races committing crimes in my empire's space, and there's all sorts of stuff about them overcoming the obvious foci and technologies I researched, before making it to safety.

Who else does this? Construct mind-stories where your empire's either the backdrop or even the antagonist?

>>168674716
Stellaris is an RP engine, that's what it's for.

>>168674457
>Stellaris is Eu4 in space
Then why is it discussed here instead of /gsg/?
inb4 cuz /gsg/ is literally the worst general on 4chan

>>168675432
/Grand Shitposing General/ IS the worst thread.
And I love it. Fuck them boring cunts at SC2 and all the dead fighting games, all they do is post "e-sports celebs".
At least people get fucking mad on /gsg/, that's always good entertainment.

>>168675601

Half the reason I even go on 4chan is to be a mad cunt and get sassy about my Willy, /GSG/ are just autistic enough to understand.

>>168674716

Strikecraft are useful af though except against Fallen Empires.

Fighting off the Prethorynniggers and the only casualties I'm taking are corvettes and almost no bombers are being shot down.

>>168675601
>>168675690
You people more then most others are what is wrong with the internet.

>>168675763

talex

>>168675763

>Stop having fun on an imageboard

Confused_Anime_Girl.gif

>>168675763
I think you misunderstand.
I'm not making people mad on /gsg/. I don't troll, I don't think it's funny to be the one doing it. I don't get enjoyment out of that. Hell, I don't even find much enjoyment from people getting trolled.
But I do love a good autistic border fight. Who was right and wrong and why? Should it be this way because of religion, or that way because of the mountains or a river? How about the mad cunt who started blobbing his neighbors?

You know. That stuff.

>>168676314
Wait, do you like a politie discussion with a resolution and both parties learn something meaningful and you are just downplaying that by calling it autistic or do you actually enjoy flamewars that go nowhere and just make everyone involved angry?

>>168676569
Both.
I'm just gonna say this. I don't think anyone on 4chan is ACTUALLY autistic. To me that word more or less means "getting detailed" with or without memes here and there.
I've learned a great deal from /gsg/. If nothing else I know the names of a loooot of dead countries.