/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

Spiders are cute. Cute!

First for its the same ship

>spider sperg is also a frenchman

I should have known. Fucking faguettes.

>>175019834
Cute!

1st for Ayylmaos

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Fortresses are op

So faggets lets settle this,

What do you call the people who work as "space sailors"? Astronaut has to much of a exploration/science angle that we'll need a new word for mainstream spacetravel.

Spacemen?
Spailors?
[insert FTLmethod]ers?
FTLers?

>>175019934
I imagine once its becomes really mundane they'll just be called by their job title or role, you won't be a "space sailor" or whatever you'll just be a crew member on a starship.

>>175019858
Mmmm?

>>175019934
Spacers.

People on planets are Earthers.

Is tiny map (150 stars) fun?

>>175019934
Spacers.

It is pretty much the generic sci-fi term for them, so I'm kind of baffled that it wasn't on your list.

>>175019934

Spacie (rhymes with wagie)

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>>175019934
>Spailors

>>175019934
Space Marines

>>175019934
Probably spacers.

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is this empire going to be fun

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>>175019934
>that whole list

>>175020350
[Angry Games Workshop lawyer in the distance]

>>175020489
>intelligent
>fanatic materialist
Can a giant beetle even wear a fedora?

>>175020489
Solid minmaxing

So no

>>175019934
SJW
Space Justice Warrior

>>175020618
obviously they'd put the fedoras on all those robots

>>175020623

that's not minmaxing, minmaxing is having something dumpster like sedentary as your negative trait. At least weak hurts him.

Also, mechanist isn't very good for minmaxing either. There's a billion other things you could pick; all it does is save a few years researching robots

>run on normal time
>read scibooks to pass the time
So comf it hurts.

>>175020539
If paradick ever makes an expansion that fleshes out planet invasions/combat and introduces boarding it better bet called Stellaris: Space Marines.

>>175020623
>>175020759
Not only that but it looks like there's an obvious theme to all the picks.
Even Weak as as a drawback works as flavor for a species that obsesses over robots.

>>175021464
that was kind of what i was going for, although i hadn't decided on the bug profile yet

mostly i'd like to actually play a game past destroyers for once, and I think the robots sound fun and/or useful

>>175021858
tfw you post to wrong thread

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These cheeky buggers.

So I'm at 111k fleet power and growing rapidly, I just came out of a very long series of wars. What do I need to kill an AE?

Warp
>cut through a forest with a chainsaw to get somewhere on your terms
Hyperlane
>maneuver around trees on familiar natural paths to save time until some asshole builds a mall on it
Wormhole
>order the construction of a highway that goes underground to go through the forest quickly and safely once it's done just pray that no one caves it in

>>175022278

Should be fine. Just don't engage them in systems with starports and fortresses. Keep an eye on their fleet power and who they're at war with. Jump them when they are getting hammered by someone else.

>>175019834
I'm making a custom spiderfag race for my next playthrough just so I can destroy them.
Probably make them that super needy Befriender AI personality, since he's such a needy attention whore .
Maybe throw in the antfags as a Hive Mind too.

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>>175022519

>>175022321
What the hell are jump drives then?

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>>175019650
How do I integrate a vassal that costs over 1000 influence?

What the fuck Paradox.

>>175022624
Jump Drive
>*teleports behind u* on the forest, clearing it near-instantly
Psi Jump Drive
>same as above, but you're only imagining it and that makes it go further

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>>175022370
They just hammered my rivals on the other side of the galaxy, I missed my opportunity.

There still hasn't been a crisis, maybe something will happen on their side.

I just get obliterate in war by a normal AI. How bad I am?

>>175022696
What about the Unbidden? are they a bear that tries mauling you because he hates anime?

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>jump into system
>get venn diagrammed to death

>>175022764
Unbidden
>aggressive woodsman invades your forest and starts cutting down and then eating whole trees once he notices you teleporting like an idiot

>>175022745
It happens. Once you figure it out it's pretty hard to lose unless the local FE decides he likes the looks of your boipussy.

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>>175020489
update

i decided i want to use the space beetles for psionics

>>175022871
I don't know why, but ringworlds give me an impression of fragility.

Whats better to use on cruisers? Full small or full medium slots?

Please put Fuck Spiders on our team

>take my entire fleet of 42k to take down the Enignigger Fortress
>win, but now I need to bring a science ship or a troop transport to get inside it
>closest science ship is a like 30 systems away
>keep my fleet by the fortress just incase
>science ship is almost there
>some cunt empire I rarely deal with comes with a 12k fleet and a troop transport to try and steal my treasure
>have to declare war on them and destroy there fleet and transports
>now I'm at war with 2 empires twice my size
Was it necessary? Going to need to conquer 1/5 of the fucking galaxy in the name of some science.

>>175023202
How about we don't and once that spider shit finally ends we can forget about it?

>>175022984
>Elda
>just Eldar without the R
You cheeky bastard.

>>175020489
Plantoid ships look really good for bug people. Don't use those ugly anthropod ships.

>>175023007
Consider that they would probably be hundreds of miles thick.

>>175023398
elda is the singular form of eldar, for the tolkien version

dunno about the WH one

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How do I abandon a planet? I don't want this piece of shit

>>175023206
>didn't bring a science ship, construction ship and transport ship along with the main fleet, and having them in the system passively until the battle was over
Get your shit together, anon.

>>175019934
Space Cowboy.

>>175023672
>construction ship

Why tho?

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>still no Freespace shipsets
>not even Blue Planet ships

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>>175019650
Space America, fuck yeah.

>>175022713
all this clay(?)...
You are literally Russia, let them in and backdoor them, set orbital to unlimited and drive them bankrupt

>>175022641
You don't spend it all in one go. You pay in installments.
5 influence per month will keep going towards it even when you hit 0, it's just that you won't be able to build up influence because of it.

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WHAT A GUY LOL

Anyone got any experience with this mod?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=909547945

>>175023639

>be me
>playing cute moths
>found gaia planet
>too good to be true.png
>suspicious name
>yep, holy world, stay clear from it

lel, you fell into the one I just avoided

post builds for space mind flayers? obvious psion

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[soft mewing intensifies]

When do FE/AE start building Titans?

>>175024554

as soon as they awaken

>>175022603
I'm not really bitter, he's just a weeb who hijacks low pop generals to post his kumos in. He did the same to indie games and a couple others.
I doubt he even really plays Stellaris.

>>175022984
I played a Noldo one just pre Utopia, Materialist(fuck the Valar), Xenophobe, Militarist with Nomadic Solitary Engineers traits

Spawned next to a Fanatic Purifier who became my nemesis, got the Galaxy hating me for genociding his shit, pissed off two awakened empires for denying to join them during War on Heaven only to have them join me on kicking the Unbidden out and becoming a big happy family

Too fun and too realistic

>>175024554
Titans?

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>>175024715
for what purpose?
>calle captcha

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>>175024457
Well, they are pretty slave reliant, so decadent
They need fully grown humanoids of other species to create a new adult illithid, so slow breeder is appropo
they have a Genius level intelligence acording to the Monster Manual, so that.
they are chaotic monsters, so avoid authoritarian
whats the most broken psi build for 1.5? Try and tweak that template.

>>175023570
>implying tolkien elves would be into robotics

>>175023815
Just in case, brah.

>provocative fleet maneuvers takes TWO FUCKING YEARS

>>175024715
>"I'm not bitter"
>"but I'm mad as fuck"

>>175024373
No, I already killed the FE.

I needed to colonize it to get DEUS VULT cheevo

>>175023672
You're right, should of known better.
>>175023815
There are some events that need a construction ship, but they seem very rare. So yeah, why tho?

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>>175019650
Is there any way to reduce army upkeep in a similar way how you dock your fleet?

I know having a general helps but any other ways?

>>175024015
>American Empire
>Not the Free Democratic American Systems
Fukin gay mate

>>175019650
Fuck spiders. Kill yourself

>>175024986
>they are chaotic monsters
Wait, really?
Everything about them seems Lawful to me, right down to the way they unquestioningly subsume themselves into a gestalt overbrain.

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>>175025232
>retarded weeb strolls along and ruins generals with off-topic shitposting
I'd be a bit mad too

>>175024986
if i knew enough about stellaris to know the most broken builds I probably wouldn't be asking for advice

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FUCK OFF THIS IS MINE

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>>175025552

>>175025543
Yeah, in most editions of D&D they're Lawful Evil, not Chaotic Evil. They have rather orderly, regimented societies. I think of Lords of Madness as pretty much the definitive Illithid splatbook, though.

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>>175025684

Tiny galaxy, ring or elliptical?

>>175025636
build space wall and make them pay for it

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>>175025636
Wiat this actually works in my favor

alright

>>175025636
Let them. Then, when they inevitably admit to being weak and useless, let them serve under you as a protectorate. Integrate them and then quietly purge or displace the population.

>>175025507
>Fuck spiders
well when you put it like that

>>175025876
As long as you kill yourself afterward

>>175023639
>moths
W H A T

M O D

>>175025823
>I-it's not like I want to be your protectorate, sempai

>>175026000

Update your game m8

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How do I not rip off my hair when playing with wormholes
Everything about these blows so hard
They blow for exploration
They blow for invasions
They're slow
They're confusing to use when trying to cram multiple fleets through them
They COST MONEY

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>>175025734

>>175026090
try warp then, nigger

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oh shit what did you DO

>use wormholes
>finish precursor event
>can't get to homeworld

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Should I fuck the Sanctuary stations and take the ringworld for myself?

It's been lying around for 67million years. Someone's gotta claim it, right?

>>175026090
You can build Wormhole stations outside your sphere of influence, and the pay off is that your exploration and small fleets will move much, much faster than any other form of FTL (bar, possibly, jump drives).

The downside is that large fleets move slower

>>175026225
Pyramid Building Prank - GONE WRONG?

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>>175026225
>>175026475
:o

>>175026297
They only move faster when going long distance.
Which is not even close to worth all the downsides wormholes have.

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It's nice to see the Unbidden are doing my job for me

>>175026775
Let him do his thing

>>175026840
We discussed this a few generals ago, but they really need a galaxy-wide hypergate megastructure that you can build around a blackhole or pulsar or something.

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First game ever.
Tell me how shit I am other than my pitiful influence, unity, rapid expansion and actually stockpiling food

>still trying to make illithids
>can't take spiritualist and fanatic purifier

fucking why

>>175027174
DLC will fix it

>>175026775
Maybe he is a god. He looks like a god. A pretty dapper god.

>>175026982
Not terrible
Delete your frontier outpost in the protectorate that's causing a striped area

>>175026982
>letting a empire of the same colour exist next to you
Fix this now.

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They must have quite the view from down there.

>>175026982
>[starname] prime
>[starname] prime
>[starname] prime
>[starname] prime
Holy shit, anon, at least hit the fucking random name button when you colonise a planet.

>>175027463
Maybe he is roleplaying as the autobots.

>>175027441
It's just a comet goyim

>two empires form a defensive pact so that I'm sandwiched between them
Ruh oh
>attack one
>expect to get buttfuck flanked by the other
>they do literally nothing

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>>175027174
Illithids take slaves, you idiot. They don't kill everyone.

I'll fucking do it for you. Just write a bio and go for it. Maybe change government.

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How is it?

>>175025543
My bad they are Lawful
Now I want to do a Spelljammer playthru with Beholders and Illithids as the only starting FTL empires

>>175027757
no bio/10

>>175027757
no bio/10

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>>175027714
yeah i realized that i guess, here was my attempt

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Neat

Do you like blobing and dominate the galaxy or do you play tall and keep balance between empires?

>>175027351
Not my protectorate and not my outpost, belongs to the Vissari.
>>175027395
Working on starting a war with them but want to get the Vissari and Rethellian to join me first as I'm trying to foster stronger relations with neighbors. Really didn't care at the start and caused some issues.
>>175027463
Didn't know there was a random button, thank you.

>>175027714
slaver guilds and authoritarian makes sense. I still think syncretic is more accurate than cutthroat

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>>175026475
[GONE SEXUAL]

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>>175028218

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>that mod that lets you create primitive life on habitable worlds
Is it time for a super marathon game where I play the only nation in the entire galaxy and the mission is to seed life, nurture it and let them form into their own nations?

Then eventually work my way around until we're effectively at the start of a new game with dozens of little babby nations starting out, and I'm the ancient fallen precursor empire?

>make gaia planet
>seed life
>set up observation post
>protect from asteroids
>advance them every so often
>wait peacefully and cry when they nuke themselves
>reterraform and start again

spacepill me on what Stellaris DLCs I should get, /civ4xg/

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>>175028435
Neogi would for sure be syncretic as a motherfuckef

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>>175024815

The fuckoff hueg ships that can one-shot your capital ships from the other side of the system

>>175028230
Blob like no tomorrow

how do i guys play this without getting bored?
>construct
>colonize
>invade
>research
>repeat

>>175028836

KILL. LOOT. RETURN.

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> Be science
> Explore world
> See this
Wat do?

>>175028996
step on

Why do people like large galaxy? With large amount of resources won't it end up being a "I can spam more ships than you" game?

Fun fact.
When you kill an AI in SupCom FA, it says "GG".

Except when you kill it with a NUCLEAR MISSILE. Then it says "Nooooooo."

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>When you accidentally an entire species by terraforming their planet

>>175028557
>that mod that lets you create primitive life on habitable worlds
I must never download it.
I would start a game in an empty galaxy and play the Old One.

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R8 racist space elves

>>175029116
wasnt it already?

>>175029253
adaptable is pretty useless

>>175028557
>Start alone in the galaxy
>Seed planets with life
>The moment they try to step out their planet purge them and start again
That reminds me, is there a mod that allows you to de-evolute other species?

I like playing tall, is playing tall in Stellaris viable?

>>175028836
it's just a video game it doesn't cure adhd

>>175029253

>Elves
>Adaptive

Other than that not bad

>>175029412
No, the only victory condition is 70% map control. You literally cant win without going wide .
Going wide too early slows your tech down , so if you want to pretend you're "tall" during the early game, go for it, I guess.
Not sure where all these tallfags suddenly came from, I assume it's another raid meme from /gsg/

>>175029412
I'll take Questions Asked Five Times a Thread for 500 Alex

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I mean really, fraternizing with the enemy. Man, have the hiring standards gone low these days.

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>>175029473
i have never played a paradox game to the end and ive probably put in 4k hours to them collectively
maybe something is wrong with me

>>175026775
This portrait looks so fucking smug

>>175029214
Do it, anon. Do it. You know you want to.

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r8? too lazy for bio

>>175029779
Are you playing vanilla or that mod that was suggested last time I mentioned that game?

>>175029963
NO
I MUST NOT

>>175029989
Write "too lazy for bio" in the bio field as a eternal reminder of your failure

>>175030039
What mod? I mean the only things I've added to it is the 1.1 patch and the pop increase, but besides that no.

>>175029989
Just go the dnd wiki page or something, find the page on the illithid and just copy-paste a chunk of their description.

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>>175029253
>that random-ass frontier outpost halfway across the galaxy

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>>175030046
>>175030143

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Oh baby.

>>175030117
That on : http://www.nexusmods.com/evilgenius/mods/7/?

Someone suggested it to me, in this very thread, last time I complained about Evil Genius being slow and a bit frustrating.

>>175030147
I found a species that will be good to make slaves out of.

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>>175020489
You bugs seem alright.

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r8 my science ship

>>175030178
Why not go all the way and "2lzy4bio".

>>175030219
God, I love Freespace

>>175030178
Good

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>>175030546
>>175030489
literally the first time i've written a bio for something like this, and im drunk

If I wanted to make the perfect 4x game, what features should I implement?

Lads I have a friend who will play stellaris with me but I want to get him the dlc and... I bought them all, thus no idea where the crack/pack of them is.

Please advise.

>>175030653

hyperlane only maps

>>175030653
The good ones

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>>175030643
>timetravel

>>175030749
go read lords of madness, that shit is canon

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>>175030723
> Hyperlane

>>175030824
The Fat Controller should love hyperlane 'cos he all about them rails.

does anyone play with anything other than warp drives

if so, why

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>>175030880
>>175030723

>>175028557
This actually sounds insanely fun. Playing as a forerunner type species and setting up a galaxy

>>175030939
is there an ETA timer?

>>175031073
>ETA
Whut?

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>>175030939

>tfw the person you replying to is the same one who took that screenshot

Here's another

>>175025636
THIS MAILBOX IS MINE

>>175031130
Estimated Time of Arrival.

You should know this.

>>175031186
Just pull the plug holy shit. How are you still sane?

>>175031253


It wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't realize I forgot to turn hyperlane only on after 20 years of playing. Was in too deep then

AAAAAAAAH where's the crack to enable all dlc?

>>175030943
Sadly, you have to play with at least 1 other empire.

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>>175031186
>he thinks hyperlane are bad
Faggot, get on my warp drive level.

>>175030723
>>175030939

Most 4x games already use 'hyperlane only'. Each system you travel to only connects to a few other systems, and so on.

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>>175031130

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>>175031130

>>175030943
>>175031527

>not going full Ellimist and being the life giver with another evil empire as the evil god-like counterpart to yourself.

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>>175031573
>tfw can't subjugate alien scum because you can't reach them

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>>175031573
> Waifu mods

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>>175031573
Why couldn't you have just done this

>>175031873
You should feel bad about everything in that pic and your entire life up to this point and for however many years you have left beyond.

>>175031527
>put game in easy
>deactivate advanced start

>>175031873
Because fuck you, that's why.

Jokes aside, I guess there was a small empire next to the Hahn Mur that I haven't discovered.

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Not letting anyone hurt my pet dragon.

>>175031812
ahahaha nigga just build a station in Piskus damn

>>175032024
Listen to the curator. Don't let the egg hatch.

>>175032024

>tfw no qt space dragon gf who will crush me with her gravity well when we cuddle

>build my Nations wormhole network
>get upgrades to range
>they now overlap
>have to destroy every last station and build out from my home
Is there a button to turn on Wormhole distance rings so they are complete circles?

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>>175032138
But it's too cute.

>>175032138

>trusting space Jews

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Doing my first pre-FTL game. Wish me luck, boys.

Got Research Speed +5% right out the gate so we're off to a good start.

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>>175032262
>No Leader Assigned

>Curators tell me of the last known Ether Drake at the Dragon's Hoard
>find another Drake in a sector in my borders
Looks like you Xenos need to do some more learning
Is there any way to pacify it? Other wise I'll keep it alive since it blocks a hyperlane deeper into my border.

>>175032250
I have psi jump drives and I still keep the old wormhole stations around.
Who cares if some of them overlap a bit?

>>175032250
>not having multiple stations for maximum traffic

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>>175032609
>tfw Ether Drake blocking your hyperlane

>>175032663
This. You shouldn't be stretching your wormhole generators as far as possible. They're super cheap so you should be spamming them fucking everywhere. It's one of the advantages of womrholes.

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>>175032556
How could I forget to hire a babysitter?

>>175032556
Where does the leader even go
>assign leader to dragon
>climbs inside its ass and issues orders from there

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>>175032075
;_;

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>>175032556
Are you serious? Are you actually serious you fucking dumbfuck?

You are so stupid I am utterly stunned, the fact that you exist is proof that we will never be ready for a glorious Space Age as envisioned in my favorite simulator - SIMULATOR, not GAME - Stellaris.

>>175032837
...Oh.

hold out until you find the tech that gives you +50% wormhole range I guess

>>175032837
ahaha fucking wormlet

>>175032907
Every dragon needs a dragon trainer.

>>175032820
And why are we to assume an Ether Drake even has an "ass", as you so crudely put it? Presumably its a lifeform far removed from any sort of life we know. It probably doesnt digest food and produce waste in the "traditional" sense.

>>175033056
Do I spy a fellow Redditor?
High five, Reddit guy! Do the Reddit dance!
*wiggles ears above head like a rabbit and hops in a circle*
Meme! Meme! I love memes!
Reddit is the place for memes!
I love Reddit! Yes I do!
I love Reddit! How bout you???
That's the REDDIT THEME SONG!!

>>175033056
it must have an ass
what else is is generating enough gravity to pull your dick to it

>>175033270
I'd fuck a baby ether drake

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>>175033180


*slow claps*

*steps out of the shadows*

Heh... not bad, kid. Not bad at all. Your meme, I mean. It's not bad. A good first attempt. It's plenty dank... I can tell it's got some thought behind it... lots of quotable material...

But memeing isn't all sunshine and rainbows, kid. You're skilled... that much I can tell. But do you have what it takes to be a Memester? To join those esteemed meme ranks? To call yourself a member of the Ruseman's Corps? Memeing takes talent, that much is true. But more than that it takes heart. The world-class Memesters - I mean the big guys, like Johnny Hammersticks and Billy Kuahana - they're out there day and night, burning the midnight meme-oil, working tirelessly to craft that next big meme.

And you know what, kid? 99 times out of a hundred, that new meme fails. Someone dismisses it as bait, or says it's "tryhard," or ignores it as they copy/paste the latest shitpost copypasta dreamt up by those sorry excuses for cut-rate memers over at reddit. The Meme Game is rough, kid, and I don't just mean the one you just lost :^). It's a rough business, and for every artisan meme you craft in your meme bakery, some cocksucker at 9gag has a picture of a duck or some shit that a million different Johnny No-Names will attach a milion different captions to. Chin up, kid. Don't get all mopey on me. You've got skill. You've got talent. You just need to show your drive.

See you on the boards...

>>175033362
>I'd fuck a baby

Reported

>>175033362
disgusting
you reproduce with an adult drake after ensuring your leader will live forever

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This right here is the biggest bullshit about megastructures

>>175033751
Good /b/ye.

>>175033751
ok

HAHAHHA here we GO again, another round of stale memes and shitposting.
another round of kumo, hyperlanes, muh kroozers, muh corvettes, le ebin shroud, and etcetera.

I'm fucking tired of this general, you autists are the absolute bane of this board, holy shit I would stomp every single one of you meme spouting neckbeards in a second with my bare hands.
For the love of god stop posting these memes, I'm tired, I just want to discuss 4x games and not have to scroll trough a wall of memes.
Enough is enough.

sure is /gsg/ in here

>>175031130
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna

>>175033720
>be ringworld project lead
>have to oversee all activities so that no one fucks shit up
>have an army of scientists working on just one section, artists to sculpt the land, all sorts of workers and employees and robots diverted to build what amounts to a planet
>boss man comes up and says he wants you to start building 3 more sections immediately

>>175033992
>for each megastructure under construction, suffer 20% megastructure build speed reduction

there we go

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>>175033961
Don't worry, once Stellaris will die, /gsg/ will fuck off.

>egalitarians can't enslave xenos
FUCK

>>175034069
>project leads keep offing themselves from the stress
>construction slows to a crippling halt

>>175034069
> Artificial limits are bullshit
> Let's fix it with more artificial limits
Anon plz. We just want to build fleets of super dreadnought constructor ships.

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>>175032837
>using wormholes

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I wish Ringworlds let you choose the bonus tile yields, and/or let you build habitat structures

>>175032198
this is oddly specific

>>175034235
Pretty much this, Stellaris does not need even more time reductions and limits

If I have a bunch of credits/minerals, I should be able to just throw it towards my problems to get rid of it

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Huh, I've never seen that happen before. The Unbidden got their asses kicked by the Aberrant.

>>175034287
>Spend thousands and thousands of minerals building a huge ring structure around a star
>build mining stations on ring world to extract those resources
>somehow come out with a net gain

>be hivemind of caterpillars
>very hungry
>food flies into your home system
>very cool but also very hungry
>eat food when it lands and learn its technology
>very smart now but also very hungry
>food is mad now and is making things explode
>very angry but also very hungry
>build swarm of food catchers to fly
>destroy mean food, but now very very hungry
>look around the aetherweb for more food and find more food in their own boxes
>happy but also very hungry
>catch food, it doesnt fight back
>eat food but still very hungry
>find orb nest of food
>very dangerous, but we are very hungry
>bring more food catcher boxes and destroy dangerous food
>food has ground armies but we are very hungry
>swarm nest and fight guards, win
>begin eating food
>look up at stars
>we are very hungry

Is that how the book goes? cant remember

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So, why do you dislike the scarab avatar again?

>>175034767
That's terrifying to imagine from the other side, like a race of ravenous space insects swarming your fleets and devouring your proud armies before descending like a plague on your population centers.

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>when you protect your qt elf neighbors from being bullied by asshole slavers

who else /galacticoniichan/ here?

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>>175034246
Stop bullying me

>>175034653
Ringworld really ought to be purely scientific, food, and energy in yeilds but with a special building for minerals that's some sort of heavy metal fabricator that uses the ring as a massive collider, offering only one of each building per section

>>175025552
What website do you think you're on?

>>175035001
>muh turkroach
>muh /pol/ memes

cockroaches are the best arthropod race

>>175035001
>Scarab
It's a giant cockroach.

Sooooo all FTL methods are horrible?

>>175035001
Fuck off Erdogan

>>175035001
>passive extremist xenophobes
wouldnt that essentially be a race of individuals that are easy scared

So what kind of new race portraits would you want to see in the future?

>>175035625
Genitals. It's 2017.

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>>175035625
Kumo.

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What's a good space station build?

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>>175035625
A dude that looks like a talking penis

>>175035414
Yes

>warp sucks at long ranges
>hyperspace sucks if other types of FTL exist and/or if RNGesus dislikes you
>wormhole sucks with large fleets and on big maps
>jump drives are great until the Unbidden pop up in the middle of your empire at the worst fucking time
>psi jump drives do the same but with extra range and dose of RNG
Only winning move is to leave reality behind and do drugs all day

>>175035530

This combination, + some extra traits, triggers one of the most militaristic AI in terms of military expending (xenophobic isolationist). They defend their borders furiously, but are unlikely to go into war of conquest and hate everybody. They adopt a Tsundere attitude if you manage to befriend them.

>>175035625
Fantasy inspired races would be pretty cool

>Dwarves
>Orcs
>Dark Elves

just add them as more humanoids. Also Humanoids need their own ship set.

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>>175035625

Synths.

>syncretic
>cant make the second species slaves unless xenophobes

goddammit

>>175036215
caste system from authoritarian

>>175036270
does that count for decadent?

>>175027898
Honestly, some kind of Spelljammer/D&D overhaul modpack would be great.

Though I'd make illithids and beholders the FEs. And Aboleths and dragons could be Leviathan content.

>>175036330
yes

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>>175035625
More big scary monster types, something like pic related

>>175036456
ok good


how does caste work

>>175035375
one with the capacity to create boards that aren't specifically about forced memes

>>175036215

>Proles are not automatically generated when your primary species occupies a farm or a mine.

Why? That's the point of syncretic. To have a species of slaves at your command.

>>175036502
theyre only enslaved when working food or minerals

>>175029989
>syncretic evolution
I know it makes sense, but I hate that you can't get rid of it.

>>175036502

Caste Pops of the species are free unless they are on a mine or a farm. If a Caste pop occupies a farm or a mine, they automatically become slaves.

>>175036590
>>175036713
oh. neat

>>175036612
yeah but its hard to pass it up

i am upset i didn't get to pick the portrait for my slaves though

>>175035625

Mineraloids. Living rocks/crystal looking dudes.

Also giant amobeas/pyrosomes could be cool. Weird forms of life that don't really fall under any of the families that are currently in the game.

>>175030749
It's Lovecraft time travel, not Homestuck time travel. Although I don't think the Illithid actually had FTL to start with, I think it was more of a Morlocks and Eloi situation and then something went wrong with the Eloi. It's in Dominions that the Illithid come from space.

Is Extremely Adaptive for Hivemind the best trait?

what are the best civics for same

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>>175035625

More humanoids.Then, humanoid avatars are rather boring.

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r8

>>175037089
Trash.

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>>175035625

Gigantic ones.

>>175036889
Just call them Amoeboids. Fill it with blobs, slime molds, and at least one thing that looks suspiciously like an impossibly large cell.

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>>175037212

Fuck you Kzer-Za. You don't slave aliens, you exterminate them. It's the only way to ensure our freedom.

>>175037178
damn

>>175036057
so you're saying I can become total fucking not exactly but unnofficially bros with some real xenophobes that will watch my back if I let them be and just keep the bare minimum of military to not make them detect weakness?

Question:

If we have orbital mind control lasers that can control an entire population, why can't we stick them in a XL slot and go take over leviathans?

>>175037272
>amoeboids
>a moe boi d
nice try /y/

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>>175035625

>>175037547
>boi d
hnnngh

>>175037512
because controlling a bunch of weak-minded individuals of species you know and have a deep understanding of isnt like trying to control a creature you know next to nothing about beyond its physical capabilities with a gigantic mind

Should I use matter disintegrators?

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>>175035625
Space Lobsters

>>175037697
You should roleplay that matter disintegrators should be used

>>175037375
>>175037212

>Not evil cult aliens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSi1TURbJIA

>Not goofy eldritch abomination ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbVYXHnaBU&t=362s

Is wormhole FTL good?

>>175037467

Yes. They still call you beasts and animals, but are like "you are one of the most civilised ones".

>>175038062
No, hyperlanes are better

>>175038143
You're evil

>>175038062
Use Warp, trust me

>>175036930
anyone?

>>175037854
>orz are not "bubbles"
>orzs are "fingers
>you see "bubbles", you don't see "fingers"
>they want to squeeze "campers" and "smell" their colours
Star Control 2 was the best at making colorful cute ayyys that were fucking spooky if you thought about it.

>>175035625
H O B B I T S

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Why do these Vehement bitches keep attacking this one system of mine?

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>>175037804

>>175035625
Something with a supine body plan. Whales and aboleths. Literally just a tree, like out of Avatar or something (this should have been in plantoids). The fungi from yuggoth. Shoggoths and single-celled organisms.

Basically lots or more alien aliens, without traditional earth body plans and faces.

>>175036930
>>175038201

They can become very dangerous because they expand like crazy and, once they run out of resources and food, they will attack en mass to get more planets. You can also easily remove bad traits afterwards with gene modding and gene ascension.

>>175038381
...what? I meant for playing a hivemind.

>>175038309
Have you tried opening your hearts for them? They are refugees from another dimension you know

>>175038467
Not all Unbidden

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What a fucking madman
My vassal colonized a planet in the middle of enemy territory right in the middle of a war

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What the fuck, it didn't even tell me I was under attack

>>175038258

Realise that the goofy song keeps saying "DIE DIE DIE DIE" in various pitches.

>>175036930
Extremely adaptive is always shit since you can just terraform.

Hiveminds are also shit, they just remove options.

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>>175038649
>monsters

>>175038649
>all non-sentient lifeforms
dont they mean sapient
otherwise the only lifeforms left are going to be really fucking archaic prokaryotes

when does 1.6 release anyways

>>175036531
Memes or not, one of your biggest issues is that he's a 'weeb', while you're on a weebsite.

>Can't build solar power processors on habitats in systems with black holes
I'm not complaining but I'm surprised they actually thought of that

Does the AI distinguish what form of purge you pick? Do you get more/less diplomatic malus for , working them to death, exterminate them, sterilise, displace them etc?

>>175039262
my biggest issue is that he chooses to be a 'weeb' on an area of the weebsite that doesn't call for it