/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

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What happens if you colonize a planet before meeting the empire in whose borders it lies?

>>174602437
>>174602327
I guess it depends how the planet got unified, you'd deffo expect planets that were conquered through brute force to be more xenophobic and as >>174602327 said, that combo would likely be Space National Socialists

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>PD is so powerful that it renders an entire weapon type useless

Should PD be nerfed? or explosives buffed? how do we fix this.

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>observation post events let you turn a planet into a barren world via nukes within a single day
>still are forced to land troops if you ever want to win wars

FUCK YOU

>>174602507

Trips

>>174602683
who cares when plasma and kinetics are miles ahead

>>174602664
What were Nazis to begin with anyway? I'm aware that they were anti-Jews, anti-Gypsies, anti-faggots and anti-anything that isn't Aryan, but other than that, what were they? They didn't seem very Socialists, since they ended up fighting the communist Russia.

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>tfw this happens every time you have a space battle

>>174602519
They get cucked from their borders.

>>174602683
Missiles fire in salvos overwhelming pd
Missiles travel faster giving less time for pd to affect them

>>174602519
you share it if they own a planet in it, or their borders are pushed out

>>174602839
Wow, animes were pretty hardcore back then.

>tfw xenophobic slavers
>tfw found a primitive planet of Very Strong mushrooms

I can see the strip mines already boys

If I want to play tall without Utopia, do I have to colonize only +20 planets?

>>174602839
there's no lack of LoGH references in stellaris but scales of fleets are much much smaller.

>>174602839
That makes me even harder!

>>174603105
Care to give the full name? I really need to watch that show.

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>>174602910
it was not there all that often, just from time to time to remind one that fleet battles are not just numbers and pretty light shows

>>174603216
Legend of the Galactic Heroes. How have you not heard of it m8?

>>174603216
legend of galactic heroes

>>174603105
>there's no lack of LoGH references in stellaris
What? Where?

>>174602464
What's with the spider pictures?

>>174603216
>I really need to watch that show.

It’s edgy, gay and pretentious. Don’t bother watching that schlock.

>>174603354

OP's on the spectrum

>>174603229
>it was not there all that often
Hey, for someone who grew up with Sonic, G.I. Joe and Sailor Moon, that stuff is hardcore.

I remember all the outrage when they started broadcasting Kenshiro.

>>174603273
I doubt it was broadcasted in my country. And my parents would always walk in when my brother and I were watching cartoons and anime and say something like "you're gonna have to grow up one day, you know".
When you're a seven years old kid who wants his parents to be proud of him, that destroys your self-esteem.

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What the fuck? I didn't even get to fight them

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>>174603369

>>174603457

>75k

Doubt you woulda done much anyway

>>174603313
plenty of star systems are named after logh battle sites
obviously you could say they are based on real life locations instead but there's a bit too many of them to be just coincidence

>>174602773
The nazis had a small socialist-ish element coalesced around Strasser that was purged hard in the night of long knives.

>>174602773
>>174603554
And the "workers" and "socialist" part of the party's name were just there to lure in disillusioned commies and the poor.

>>174603528
>edgy
Just look at the absurd scale and killcount of every battle
>gay
Juts look at the heroes
>pretentious
Just listed to stuff heroes talk about

How do you make a 4x game that discourages/eliminates doomstacking?

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So, trying to do my comfy tall playthrough.

What should I try to colonize? Also, should I try to uplift the Space-Nazis? They are at Rimdur.

Also, when can I terraform Savanna worlds to tropical? Because that 24 slot planet is so tempting

>>174603554
>>174603638
So Nazis were Nationalists-Socialists just in name?

>>174603857
Do like EU4.
Add a mechanism that draines your army if you have too many men around.

>>174602984
Planet size?
Remember to gene mod them with the industrious trait too

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>declare war on me
>get BTFO
>pls stop your mean spirited campaigning
why are FE's such cucks?

>>174603857

Add a "supply lines" mechanic that has a maximum capacity. That way, fleets/armies can only support so many ships/soldiers.


You can take it a step further and make it a strategical element, too, by being able to defend and attack supply lines.

>>174603909
Don't uplift them. Liberate them.

Or better yet, invade them, and make them second-rate citizens.

>>174603992
How can I liberate primitives? Also, the cabbages I'm playing as are F.Xenophiles

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How do I sort/rearrange listings in the outliner?

>>174603754
>Just look at the absurd scale and killcount of every battle
By what metric is it absurd.
>Juts look at the heroes
Alright you got me.


Still good.

>>174604045
>thinking you can organise the outlier
lmao

>>174603857
>>174603987
>>174603914
Or you could look at SOTS and have really slow FTL times, so your ability to respond is limited to the point where doomstacking is a bad idea.

>>174602709
Yes, anon, there is a difference between liquefying a planet and bombarding it enough for it to remain habitable.

>>174604098
it's seriously not possible? STILL?

>>174604136

FTL times are slow enough as it is. That'd make things much worse. Have you even done a late game war between 2 federations? It's an absolute nightmare.

>>174603987
The problem with that supply lines system is that it punishes deep strikes, and reward boring, advancing fronts.

>>174604034
Oh, they're primitive, my bad. Either you wait for them to become spacefaring/extinct, or you uplift them and them liberate them.

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>Join new Fed
>Next year we start a war with 200k fallen empire fleet
i want out please

>>174604179
Can't I make them a protectorate and make them love me?

>>174604175
It is yes but it is a good way to sort out the micro issue of commanding several fleets at the same time.

>>174604313
It won't change their ethics.

>>174604374
Aren't F.Egalitarians suckers for Democracy? They shouldn't hate my guts

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>>174604045
>>174604098
>play tall
>only have a few actual planets
>spam habitats (at least 40)
>conquer a ringworld FE for resources and spaceports
>the ringworld shows up at the bottom of the habitat list
>while spamming ships I have to scroll 40 habitats to get to the ringworld

>>174604490
Hotkey the ringworld segments.

>>174604430
I thought they were Nazis, so F. Xenophobe and Spiritualistic?

How many empires do you guys put in large galaxies?
And clustered or random?

>>174604659
Max
Random

>>174604659
>How many empires do you guys put in large galaxies?
Max the slider out nigga.
>And clustered or random?
No clustered starts mods master race.

>>174604641
F.Egalitarian + Xenophobe

>>174604490
it's a slow as fuck scroll too

>>174604807
>>174604797
Good lord, I'm at the default which is 12 (max is 25) and I'm already getting annoyed about running into other empires every time I find a good planet

>>174604885
Thats why you use no clustered starts.

>>174604885

You got a no clustered starts mod? Makes it much more bearable.

>>174604969
>>174604937
Would you mind showing me a screenshot of mid or late game with no clustered starts? The symmetric start for everyone looks like it's going too much in the other direction, where everything you meet will be a giant 20 planet empire

>>174604885
>>174604807
>>174604797
>>174604659
Don't forget x0.25 habitable planets

Are battle thrall slaves worth using? How strong are the armies? What about the happiness from Domestic Servitude?

>>174605036
this

What should a Federation made out of Plantoid races be called?

>>174605050
They get the least penalties on production (they lose the mineral and food bonuses though)
I like using them on fully built up conquered planets because I can just build defensive armies from them until the unrest goes away, and then give them to a sector and forget about them

>>174605195

Federation of Cultivation
Systems of Aligned Plants

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Wish me luck lads.

>>174605027

You can just start a new game without iron man on, open the console and type observe. Do that a few times to see how the map generator with your settings works.

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>>174605247
I dunno if you can answer this question, but it's kind of related to your screenshot; Can AI-empires use custom emblems or are they locked to the vanilla ones? I've never seen them once use an emblem from a mod and I have several packs downloaded...

>>174602464
Is it possible to see other spider-pictures in these threads, OP? You are re-using like 5 pictures and I'm getting tired of them by now.

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>>174605342
Oh okay thanks
Wew, 12 empires randomly spread out across a large galaxy is kinda ridiculous
I'm the green guys at the bottom who have a quarter of a galactic arm all to their selves

>>174605564

Elliptical is better imo since there's less dead space due to no arms on the galaxy. It isn't bigger, just looks bigger and less crammed.

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>>174605498
Lies and slander.
I have 6 of these.

How do we overhaul planetary ground combat/invasions lads?

Ok so I'm new to Stellaris, barely gotten past getting destroyers in any game yet,mostly due to playing with a friend who has a shit schedule.

I want to play a Hivemind - what traits/etc should I go for? General strategy/tips?

>>174605789
BROADEN YOUR SPODER-COLLECTON!

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Which one?

>>174605801
Allow me to always build titanic armies to own the AI even more

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>>174602839
>typical jap over the top suffering and carnage.jpg

Japs like that shit, its make their small dicks hard.

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If I'm Authoritarian/Xenophile, I can still put species as undesirables and when they come in droves just send them back afterwards right?

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>we really love this star that is nowhere near our territory and never has been so it's very bad you are building a dyson sphere around it and we demand you stop

>>174605858
both
go wide or go bust

>>174605858
Doesn't matter, just build mining over all of it
You do use habitats for energy and science, right anon?

>tfw you hate seeing your carefully created, RP fitting first ruler die, because then you just get some nobody that you can't immerse yourself with, so you always choose leader lifespan perk and lose points/space for some other, and that also hinders your ability to RP different civilizations
>this shit was even worse with CK, since you can't do anything about your main leader dying(well, I know now you can with satanism, but that also limits RP options)
Does anyone have that too? Sometimes I wish there was no leader portraits, because I wouldn't had my mind set on "I'm roleplaying that specific leader and not some invisible hand of god". In CIV where you have same portraits all the time I would imagine I'm actually some diety being that is having fun with other diety beings, by creating simulated universe where they assume position of immortal civilization leader, and then just have a go to see who wins, people being only a pawns in their game.

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>>174605834
DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO OR NEXT THREAD WILL BE ABOUT CAZADORES

But it's actually a good idea, and I've been looking for an excuse to re-read that manga.

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Does the unbidden science ship event do anything special? I expected it to be a trap and it would have jump drives on it so they could meme themselves into our galaxy, but it doesn't.

>>174605636
Galaxies just have arms, deal with it third galaxy elliptical nigger.

>>174605952
Nah, don't have voidborne

>>174605965
I think your a bit autistic mate.

>size 22 planet
>it has +20% engineering output modifier
>but also a Betharian Stone
What do I specialize it in?

>>174606103
It's just a science ship you can't upgrade. Pretty lame.

>>174602773
>What were Nazis to begin with anyway?
Anti-communist nationalists, then anti-communist and anti-capitalist when the capitalist powers began funding, arming and aligning with the communists.
>They didn't seem very Socialists
Yeah, massive public works like building the Autobahn and intervening in industries to help fuel rearmament and expansion are totally not socialist. Protip: Marxism isn't the only type of socialism there is, NatSoc came out of Prussian socialism, a very different beast than Marxist and Fabian socialism.

>planets in outliner are always in the order of colonization
Fucking hate this. If it at least grouped same system planets together.

>>174606150
>not being autistic
so remind me what you're doing here?

>>174606176
engineering of course
plop only the beth plant and an energy grid

>>174606256
I can be autistic while calling other people autistic.

>>174606316
spoken like a true autistic

>>174606176

Just plop a beth plant on the stones and engineers everywhere else. Plop the planet capital next to the beth plant. Build an energy grid if you have prosperity's tradition that makes grids give unity.

>>174603638
>And the "workers" and "socialist" part of the party's name were just there to lure in disillusioned commies and the poor.
I mean sure they gave out interest-free loans to Germans to build businesses and factories and generally had very pro-social policies, but they didn't murder rich people en masse and steal all their stuff so they're not really socialists by Marxist standards.

>>174606237
>can't organize stuff in the outliner
this really triggers me

>>174605908
Can't you give castle system to everyone?

>>174606227
I dunno, every country has its own definition of Socialism.
In my country, Socialism is okay, it's basically using taxes to help the poor and raise the minimal standards of living. In the USA, Socialism and Communism are apparently the same, and I heard that maccarthism was a socialist witch hunt.

So anomalies are random and straight up add resources to a system, right? What if science ships of 30 different empires find anomalies in the same system?

Anybody wish there was a mod or something that let you actually choose your starting location instead of having decided by Fucking RNG?

getting real tired of constantly restarting because the game starts me off with no resources/surrounded by enemies/right next to a FE.

>>174603754
>edgy
I concur with the killcount. That is truely ridiculous.
>gay
This can be said for nearly every anime when your definition of the male or female gender is as rigid and oversexed as in mainstream western media. The only ones that are not competely "normal" are Yang and Reinhard. With both of them being almost completely asexual and Reinhard furthermore being modeled after Alaxander the great.
>pretentious
I only think the difference in intellect in the series is a bit over the top with some people being genious and some being complete idiots. The series just has a bigger focus on politics than most other series.

>>174606481

Not every anomaly adds resources. Sometimes they kill your ship, give you a new one, stuff like that. Those interesting ones are usually rare though.

Can't find anomalies where someone else has, I think is how it works.

>>174606481
Can the ai even find anomalies?

>>174606481
anomalies can only be found/scanned once
also you might get only the shitty events that give research or exp, or trigger bigger event chains

>>174603754
>pretentious
BREAKING NEWS : local man finds out politicians have overinflated hubris!

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How can I improve my relations with them?

>>174606735

Insult them

>>174606570
The AI can do anything the player can do.
So yes.

>>174606735
Long term trade deals to increase trust.

>>174606096
I hate those fucking cunts so bad. I literally just reloaded everytime I saw one of those cunts flying towards me. There was just no point...

>>174606735
Gift them 300 energy and make a NAP with them. The NAP will raise their trust for you over time.

>>174606735
give them a system

>>174606797
What's the best thing to trade? 30 years of +1 food?

If you are authoritarian xenophile, can you set alien pops to castle system?

>>174607180
As long as it increases trust it doesn't matter. I don't know if a food deal will do that but if it does it should work.

>Empire I want to absorb into my blob has their independence guaranteed by the Empire I have a defence pact with

>>174606735
Your trust from the independence guarantee should rise up enough to improve relations to get a NAP

>>174605564
Don't use "Random".
Use the "No clustered start" mod.

>>174607406
>defensive pact
>only useful early game so you dont get rolled by cheating AI

You know what to do anon.

Which ascension path is the most fun?

>>174607602
diplomacy

>>174607602
Psionics

>>174607602
Genemod

>>174607602
Mechanical

>>174607602
robutts
disclaimer: "fun" for me equals "best production"

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If Prethoryn or End of the Cycle thing make all planets in a system unhinabitable, can i build a ring world in that system?
Also, any other ways to make a planet unhinabitable?

>very earlygame
>fighting offensive war
>spaceport is unkillable
>destroying mining stations don't give warscore
>enemy fleet refuses to meet me anywhere but on their homeworld's spaceport
Is this unwinnable?

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>>174607883
>minmaxing is fun

>>174607996

make transport ships
put them in a system the enemy can see
prey they take the bait (they will)
drop your fleet on top of them

>>174607602
Memetics

>>174608003
It is, yeah

>>174607996
>trying to cede a planet when you don't have enough power to take out a spaceport

>>174608287
Yup
They're blocking all the good planets so I need to kill them

>>174608236
I agree

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I don't think so you stupid frog lmao

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>all these planets within the few systems I have explored

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Is this some early-game trap set up by the Unbidden or some shit?

>>174608890


Nah, I got it a few minutes ago too and checked, nothing happens. I thought the same

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>tfw good conqueror and at the end of the game the rest of the aliens gang up on me and bully
>have to use my 600K lag fleet to just one by one go and take their planets making them surrender

>>174606735
Colonize a shitty planet and give it to them

Seriously, this is easy exploitable but no one bothers. You can easily do this mid game since minerals wont be an issue.

How long does a 4X game usually take?
2-3 hours?

Is the "silicon life forms" anomaly the Mole People that you meet when you settle the planet?

>>174609145
Perhaps split your fleet up, assuming they'd still be large enough to beat any hostile fleets.

>>174609145
Suffer not xeno to live.
They attacked you, they have to die.
Its imple as that.

>>174608890
It's definitely an Unbidden ship design, though nothing ever happens. I can only assume they genuinely nicked a ship.

Is there a way to shift from materialist to spiritualist and then back to materialist as an empire?
I'd like to try the Psionic ascension path while still retaining access to robots.

hivemind is just fanatic purifiers with an extra civic point and no fire rate bonuses
What's the point?

>>174609704
You can still do diplomacy, though there's a slight opinion penalty.

>>174608890
I used to kill them for shit and giggles, but it's really pointless
Grand Theft Auto: The Shroud

>Reach Psionic Transcendence
>Notice a small % of my pops are still only latent Psionic for some fucktarded reason
I bet the Synths did this.

>>174609819
>-30 base
>additional -100 xenophage
>slight
I mean, I can still send them food to mitigate it, but that's fucking retarded still

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>conquer all but one of their planets
>genocide billions of their people
>their empire is surrounded on all sides by my own

You make me laugh. I kill you last.

>>174609942
Xenophage? I know about the base penalty, but not about that.

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>fall for the "play tall" meme
>my borders look like utter aids because I'm scouting for +20 sector planets only

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I also have questions about my builds, does this look good for my battleship? Everything is top of the line equipment for what I've unlocked.

>>174610123
You can be like early Greeks in space.

>>174609376
Aha.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

You're adorable.

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Here's my corvette right now. I hear a lot of people talking about torpedo corvettes, should I put those proton torpedoes on?

>After the Empire
>go Guild/Glory
>quickly conquer local guildspace
>guild income is at least double that of other guilds within only a few dozen seconds
I love this game.

Does anyone know how the system defense multiplier/divider is calculated, for the purposes of aggressive/balanced/defensive buildings, and where it's shown?

Is Europa Universalis Rome worth it?

>>174609376
lmao

Does the AI ever trigger the End of the Cycle event?

>>174609376
Wew lad

>>174608003
> Planet
> Tile
> Menu
> Build robot
> Confirm
> Repeat 9000+ times
Yeah robuts sure are FUN.

>>174610052
Since you're hivemind, your only action after getting a planet with xenos on it is to purge them by turning them to food
this gives every contact a malus of -100 if they don't condone it, basically anyone that is egalitarian I think

>response to declaration of war
Greetings!

>>174609376
you're missing a couple of digits

>>174609376
It averages out to that if you reset like a maniac.

>>174604140
But armageddon bombardment

>>174609376
An "average" game, if you actually bother playing it from start to finish, is usually 12-24 hours (depending on the game, map size, difficulty, etc)
It can be much longer.

>>174610394
>>174610529
>>174610662
>>174610331
Its like you never heard that COD kiddies bitching about Stellaris being too slow ..

>>174610703
>It averages out to that if you reset like a maniac.
Good god i know that feel ...
Last 4x game i finished was a fucking CIV2 on Ps1 fifteen fucking years ago ...

>>174610547
Ah, that explains why I never noticed it.

>>174604140
What's the point of armageddon bombardment?

>>174610341

You should drop the shield and the sensors if you make a torpedo corvette. They exist to swarm enemies, to be cheap and torpedoes don't need tracking from the sensors.

>>174610746
so apparently you can terraform prethoryn-purged worlds now.

maybe one day it will be possible to nuke a planet down to barren, then terraform it to gaia?

Civ V vs VI?

Endless Space 2 or Stellaris?

>>174611147

V.

Incomparable.

>>174611147
How long till ES2 finished? I never played 1st one, but I played EL and want to see some space action in endless universe.

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Hey, first win of utopia.

Should I go for a hyper-expansionist hive mind or a psi warrior build next?

>>174611584
>should I do a diplomacy free playthrough of pure boredom
>or should I do one of the most fun things currently in the game

Hmmmm

Is Civ 6 worth playing in it's current statre or should I wait till they add all the civs and polish the game while playing V? V has so many civs it just looks like a more fun game because of the sheer variety.

>>174611761
I didn't have much fun with my psi playthrough last time around, but that was probably because I was running pacifist for ETERNAL UNITY like a retard

>>174611930

Have you done it since they added ascension paths?

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>play xenophobic fan. pacifists
>end up liberating some xenos, try to be nice and kick them off the planet by migration purge
>this shit is taking too long, 50 years later they still havent been kicked off
>decades later win another big war
>need lebensraum, cleanse half their worlds
>dat 1000 year opinion penalty
>its genocide open season now i guess

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>>174609342
>letting some of your species be ruled by xenos

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>>174602464
>wraith shows up on doorstep
>destroys a mining station
>bring out 60k fleet
>hes gone

>>174611972
Yes, my second playthrough of Utopia was psion(first was a hive mind that ended up being garbage), fanatic pacifist spiritualist for max unity and core worlds. Didn't have to fight a single war and everyone was afraid of my fleets except an awakened empire who could curbstomp me to the store and back again.

Thinking about trying it again with emphasis on military though.

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>tfw you are actively try to integrate F. Xenophobes into your multi-cultural society

Wonder how this is going to turn out :^)

>>174611275
As far as I know the ship designer is just a bunch of module swapping and the combat is still cinematic so don't hold out much hope of ES2 being as good as Legend.

I'M FROM BUENO AIRES!

AND I SAY

FUCK 'EM ALL

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>>174612667
Agreed

>>174608362

just camp them so they can't expand.

>>174609907
If they exist in another empire or are genetically altered, they won't ascend.

Yes, it's retarded.

>>174610450
It'd be bullshit if they could, since it's basically an unwinnable scenario.

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Space games are fucking boring in Civilization you at least have a game world but in spaceshit the map looks like this. What a pile fo shit.

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>>174612982
Nothing hotter than a xeno woman betraying her people for the humankind

>>174610341

>should I put those proton torpedoes on?

Don't use torpedoes before energy torps, regular torps are terrible just like missiles.

For the Worm-in-Waiting event; I can never seem to get the rare technology 'Omega Theory'; which continues the event chain.

Did I make a wrong choice along the way? Or am I just going to have to play the waiting game?

>>174613096

it's bugged, you need a mod to add weight to the omega theory tech

>>174613180
fucking hell

>>174611761
1.6 is only going to make The Hive stronger, fuck diplomacy.

Devouring Swarm:
>gain society research from eating xenos
>biology research speed +20%
>army damage 40%

That and the general buffs to hive mind
-15% Growth time and + 10 Habitability

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Due to some weird temporal anomaly where some free pop were off colonising a distant planet, they didnt get the implants to make them trans-jelly fish
what do i do with them?

>>174610194
I'd put on a couple flak batteries on the rear, they're much more effective than point defense. Also would replace the front with the large only for more kinnetic batteries. Afterburners are a waste on battleships, shields and armor, shield capacitors if you have them.

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~so tsun

>>174613240
pretty much...
I took over a hivemind a few hours ago, the pops still havent died... am I missing something here?

>>174613275

Modify them and add the cybernetic trait. Don't think their actual species changes name though sadly.

why cant sectors be gifted fleets or something. Its getting tiresome

>>174613240
Now they just need more ethic aligned civics for ftw.

>>174613409
It's so frustrating to see cute aliens like that and the foxes be fanatical purifiers

>attraction to cuck ethics persists after ive purged all xeno scum
s m h

>>174613240
When is 1.6?

I want to play a single player game and actually finish it, and Hivemind is a fun concept. But all I hear is bad things about it

What is the point of the fleet cap?
Your fleet is supposed to be what your economy can produce and maintain at the time so why an arbitrary cap?
Is my Empire's govt going to gather together and say hmmm we have all of this excess energy and minerals we can build more ships for the war effort, but wait! the self imposed limits say we cannot!

Dreadnought and baby ether Drake are pretty good, much better than I was expecting them to be
And if I am looking at the shit right then they both get the repeatable Tech bonuses for military station health and Damage as well
So if you pump it up large enough they can be doing like 60 percent more damage and be practically indestructable

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>>174613409

>>174613901
>what's the point
You can mod the game to not have cap

>>174602910
The plural of anime is anime

>>174613901

>but wait! the self imposed limits say we cannot!

That mechanic doesn't exist in stellaris, what are you talking about?

Also it's an abstraction, almost every single mechanic in stellaris is an abstraction, it reflects how large a navy your society can support.

You do realise that being below or at fleet cap is not needed or even really what you should be doing, in almost every single game I'm above fleet cap constantly if I'm actually on campaign.

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>>174613091
Snek is double agent
Pls be vigilo
Do NOT confido snek

>>174614031

epic webcomic bro

>>174614182
i no rite

>>174614258

xd

>>174614153

did they ever make xcom 2 good? i remember playing it for like 4 days at release. had no desire to ever go back to it.

>>174614337
It's breddy gud with Long Dong 2. Not as good as Long Dong 1 tho.

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>>174614153
PORN. WHEN.

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>>174614337
They added a bunch of missions and cheated enemies with the DLCs, and you have the autists making a Long War 2 who manages to be even worse than the first one.

>>174612105
>FE.jpg

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So guys, I've been out of the loop for a while. How does pirated DLC work now? I can't seem to get it activated for some reason.

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A spoder for the spoder-God.

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>>174614384
NOW

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>>174614538
HEY
THAT'S LEWD!
STAHP

>>174614509
For Stellaris I mean

>>174613010
Neither is the case though and even then if I did have some of my pops in another Empire they should still transcend unless the game is bugged.

>>174614538
m-more

>>174605247
How

>>174614538
>snake tits
bueno

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>>174614607
No

>>174614761
I'll make an album of all the non-fetish pics in a bit, just 4u anon.

>>174614538
I genuinely want to fuck that snake, does it counts as being a furry?

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2.5k systems is max comfy. Nice, long exploration phase and now that the aggression phase is coming all the Empires have decent fleets. Also, stuff in another quadrant of the Galaxy doesn't even affect me.

>>174614730
Ah I'd say this >>174613275 is what happened.
Fucking playtest your fucking game, Paradox.

>>174614730
They never transcend for me in anothre empire senpai

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What kind of setup would make for a Traditional Fantasy like Dwarven Civ?

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>>174615137
At worst, it's scaly.
At best, it's xenophilia which contains furry/scaly/etc anyways

>>174615049
Are you the xeno lewds guys of the previous days too?

>>174615137
Yes. 'Scaly' is just a specific kind of furry.

>>174615193
Spess Dwarves would use missiles due to being heavily reliant on explosives.

>>174615275
Nope, that was another heroic soul.

>>174615049
>>174614440
>>174612982
Why are Xenos so cute, lads?

>>174615150
>2/3rs of a 2500 star galaxy filled out in 80 years
this is why pop growth is too fucking fast

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>i share a general with disgusting xeno lovers

>>174615418
xeno propaganda

>>174615193
Tolkien Dwarves are notoriously wary of outsiders

you should add Xenophobe and ditch egalitarian

>>174602464
Love you kumobro

>>174615260
Most of the time I wouldn't be worrying about it but the style is quite realist while with most semihumans sexualized things it's obvious they would looks awful in real life.

Aren't XCOM 2 Snakes meant to be the non-genetically nodded version of the thin men?

>>174615163
Shits bugged then. I know it's meant to be species-wide not empire-wide.

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y/n?

>>174615442
>not having a self-sustaining economy building habitats at the rate of one every three months to house all the fucking populations you need to conquer the entire galaxy
>not having them all queued up to be self-sustaining
Good luck researching anything tho

>>174615582
Make it a mining world

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>>174615418
Because they're half-humans.
They're literally designed to be cute.

>>174615489
I love you too.
No homo.

>>174615550
That's the opposite, all the ayys you see in XCOM 2 have human DNA mixed with their original DNA. They're all bastards.

>>174615582
LMAO 2 BELTH
2 BELTH

>>174615350
Or Railguns, to represent cannons.

>>174615687
Now that's not cute at all.

>>174615582
We dem energy bois

>>174615193
Depends on the Lore your drawing from

Tolkien? Warcraft? WH4ok squats?

>>174615582
>2 betharian plants

I would definitely.

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>>174615746
How about this?

>>174615193

>lizardshit ships

INTO THE BOOK IT GOES

>>174615687

i mean that art and that concept for the most part is terrible

there's ways to do it but it's more disturbing than cute, which is part of the reason they make good monsters/bosses/antagonists

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Anyone know how pirating Stellaris DLC works now? It stopped working after 1.51. Now only Horizon Signal shows up.

>>174615687
>That's the opposite, all the ayys you see in XCOM 2 have human DNA mixed with their original DNA. They're all bastards.

I can only think of advent in XCOM 2. Snek is 100% xeno. Thin Mint on the other hand is literally a lewd child of xcom & snek having the sex.

>>174615924
Well sectoid too.

Are snakes pleasant to touch?

>>174615924
I dunno, the autopsy said
>"Although I would expect to be more accustomed to seeing the clear intermingling of both human and alien genetic material, I must admit, this reptilian creature with such distinctive human features is surprisingly unsettling."
And we all know that the Elder love playing with human DNA.

>>174615892
The best monsters are the one that were formerly humans.
That's why Amnesia is so spooky.

>>174616042
They're cold-blooded, so perfect to snuggle with during summer.

Where is our Stellaris xeno qts?

space elves

>>174616258
Elves?

>>174603402
>I remember all the outrage when they started broadcasting Kenshiro.
LoGH was never broadcast, it's an OVA series. Direct to video. Which is why they could show violent gore and even sex scenes now and then. Though they were remarkably restrained with both.

>>174616508
Ha, maybe that's why I never heard of it. I never set foot in a video club.

>>174615193
You did a pretty good job desu.

>>174616042
They truly are the best.
https://youtu.be/UOvuzRQv9p4

>>174616602
It also doesn't have a dub in any language as far as I know. It's a very long series with lots of political intrigue, not the sort of thing that was popular to localize back in the 90s. The main series is 110 episodes, and there's also about 50 episodes worth of prequel episodes and I think 5 movies, 1 of which is just a remake of the first few episodes of the main OVA series.

>>174616042
They're cool and smooth, or at least most are.

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>>174616774
>The main series is 110 episodes
Sounds like the anime version of the Honor Harrington books.

>>174613087
What is this it looks like fun desu

>>174616894
Anon didn't tell us it went from bad to worse and starred a mary sue, though.

>>174616774
Is it good at least?

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>>174617054
Oh you silly.

>>174614538
Is there a completed version?

>>174613087
>insulting Moo2
DOUBLE NIGGER

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>>174615582
>>174615709
>>174615814
raise

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>>174605402
they can which bugs me when some hivemind has the imperial sign on it

>>174617546
Christ almighty

>>174615582
It's shit. The 2beth brings it up to "tolerable".

>>174617546
That makes me moist anon

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>>174615193
Assuming you're going by Tolkien standards:

F Materialists/Militarist for ethics

You're traits are good but i would also add strong and solitary

Mining Guilds is spot on but i would go for Philosopher King instead of Technocracy since their society was a Monarchy.

Choice of world is perfect.

Kinetics are good but Missiles can also work.

I would say Mammalian ships would be better but they do look like shit so Reptilian works.

>>174616910
master of orion 2

>>174611865
wait a year or two
I'm fucking sick of uneducated retarded journos declaring each new game in a franchise the best yet, all the retards who did for civ VI are fucking idiots and are encouraging this horrible system of waiting for expansions for a game to be even playable

>>174618398
Sadly, the developpers are encouraging that line of thoughts.
"Expansions will fix it", "mods will fix it". Meanwhile you have a shitty game.

>>174618497
journos who post utter shite reviews like "the game is a bit sparse but there's solid foundations 10/10" should be shot though, I've been burned too many times by RPS to give a shit about what the hairy fuckers say

>meet my first empire
>they're evangelizing cunts
Why does this happen every time? It's either these cunts or the militaristic kind. It's always one kind of hypercunts one way or another.

>>174617546
>capital between 2 science tiles
>could have put it on 2,2
dumbass

>>174617054
Yeah, Yang really is a massive Mary Sue.

>>174618664
I am convinced that the game actively tries to select AI Empires that will be more likely to hate yours
Every time I try a materialist game with intention of going cyborg I end up with the AI empires consisting of 90 percent Spiritualists

>>174618905
>Caring about tile bonuses.
Dumbass.

>>174619120
>not min-maxing planet production

>>174619306
>minmaxing
>in Stellaris
>in 2017

Plz leave.

>>174605874
>over the top.
What exactly do you think happens then?

Why the fuck does Stellaris absolutely fucking insist on making this retarded fucking pirate bullshit event happen at the beginning of every match? It adds literally nothing to this game. All it does is forces you to build a few additional corvettes and annoy you. I would understand it perfectly if this event had a point to it but having a stupidly weak pirate fleet appear out of ass destroy a mining post and then just disappear is annoying beyond any fucking reason.

>>174619439
>every decision has to be dumb

>>174619306
More efficient to dedicate a planet entirely to one thing regardless of tiles than bother with the little tile bonuses, m8.

So are there any mods for human list names? I want something with only western names. Don't care so much about races as long as they have western names.

>>174619505
The fun part is that the firepower of these corvettes isn't even enough to destroy most stuff waiting in system or a spaceport, it's absolutely useless.

>>174619505
FREE minerals and credits

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>>174603972
Their flag is literally a dick penetrating an anus

>>174619505
Scanning the wreckage gives you a bit of research towards shields, armor, and point defense which is super useful.

>>174619505
>Get that event at the start.
>100 years later find the old guard pirates with their 17k fleet on the other side of the galaxy.
>Text says they mus tsomehow be the cause of my pirates.

>>174615714
Dwarves aren't really known for cannons, they're known for mining. Mining = explosives.

>>174619706
That's what makes it infuriating. This entire event has absolutely no meaning. It isn't a challenge, it's a chore that you just have to do in every match.

You know you fucked up an even when removing the entire thing improves the quality of the game.

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>>174619707
>another empire steals your pirates

>>174619505
It's point is to remind you to build a navy before you get rolled by a neighboring militarist and to give you a goody hut and basically give you something to do super early before you can reasonably war other empires, exterminate aliens or basically do anything but watch your minerals slowly tick up. If you lose a mining station to it then you didn't build ships in time and need to speed your ass up next game.

>>174604490
They're adding the ability to move shit in the outliner next patch, too bad we have to wait at least 2 fucking weeks for it, since Wiz said there's a dev diary for it coming out next week.

>>174619852
Except it gives you research, do you seriously never bother researching the wreckage? It's a free 10% towards armor and shields and point defense.

>>174619896
Well, it fucking fails to do that. It's a pain in the ass and all it does is annoy. You can fight off those pirate corvettes with the fleet you start with if you upgrade the ships. It's so stupidly useless event that it hurts my head to try to think of wtf they were thinking when they came up with it.

>>174619505
>Pretty much other space games has pirates as a constant treat during the game
>In stellaris they are just 3 corvettes
Of course if we had some sort of civilian trading ships the 3 corvettes will make sense for hit and run but otherwise is just the game being a dick.

>>174619706
>The fun part is that the firepower of these sloops isn't even enough to come near British or Spanish waters, they just wait in The Carribean or treasure-fleet shipping lanes. It's absolutely useless.

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How's Stellaris now?
Did Utopia address any of the game's deeper issues?

>>174619706
They're pirates, not an enemy faction. They're not interested in attacking the homeworld, they just raid the outlying stations.

>>174620096
I ran into a bit of bad luck on spawn and I've been hemmed in for a long time by 10 x 1.8k fleets and several 2k fleets of corvette spam. That's a big deal in the early game and replacing corvettes all the time really slows down your progress.

>>174620193
If you didn't like the game before you won't like it now.
Just added some features.

>>174620193
>Did Utopia address any of the game's deeper issues?
No. Just added new issues.

>>174620210
Of the corvettes you build to defeat the pirates, Anon. You just need what, 400~500 firepower to defeat them and their base safely. This isn't enough to defeat most spawns in system, nor to destroy a spaceport. Same to the "hurr durr it's to make sure you build a fleet to protect yourself from militarists", what the fuck are they going to do? They can't destroy your spaceport either that early.

>>174620031
talk about being triggered

>>174620096
I have literally never played a 4X game where pirates are anything but an irritation because they make no fucking sense.

They're always stupid shit like overly powerful and exist for the sole purpose of destrution. They don't give a fuck if they lose a thousand fleets as long as they destroy shit and that's exactly what pirates aren't about. Pirates are there to make money and to make money they can't risk a fleet to get a cheap ass freighter in bumfuck nowhere.

Pirates should be nuisance, but they shouldn't be a fleet wrecking, high-tech nuisance that you need to compete with at any point of the game.

They shouldn't contest you militarily, they should cause economic damage like they actually did. They should rob you, like they did.

If pirates in a game can match an actual empire in technology or power, then they are stupid bullshit that shouldnt be in the game.

>>174620347
>You just need what, 400~500 firepower to defeat them and their base safely.
That's overkill, I usually just build 2 or 3 corvettes and have no trouble defeating them. Smash their tiny fleet, go back and heal ships, then go raid their base.

>>174619484
Ever worked in the ER ?
Most of people injured that much are unconcious.
This whole screaming and trashing around is a total meme - grevious wounds like ones depicted in this movie would end up with those people simply lying unconcious and bleeding to death.

>>174618596
Games should be judged directly. Not "with patches", not "with mod support or expansions". You just pick the game as it fucking is, and you review it directly.

>>174620504
Go play Distant Worlds, mate.