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i picked hyperlane and the wormbulls are destroying my empire! it takes me 50 years to get to the other side of my empire! help!

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really jogs the nog

>>175983249
FUCKING WEEBS I SWEAR

I am having the hardest time getting postive energy flow in my games. What am I doing wrong that eating up the energy I am producing?

>>175983673
build more power plants
how fucking hard can it be

I was thinking about Stellaris mods the other day and something crossed my mind.

>Military Domination
Vassalize other empires through military might, forcing them to submit through force.
>Economic Domination
Buy up their private sector, control their money and debts, use your resources to control their society.
>Cultural Domination
Have such a high standard of living/unity that they are cucked by your vastly superior culture. Pops within have little respect for leadership, rebel with factions, etc.
>Science Domination
This is where I start needing help. What would a scientific domination entail? Knowing all their technology better then they do? Bio-engineering their race against their will? Monitoring everything they do? Total control over their computer systems like hacking? What?

>>175981051
Habitats already cost influence, I believe. Around 50 each? 37 or so if you have Master Builders.

>>175983249
Dumb goddess

>>175983582
You refused the love of our goddess Kumo! Blame yourself, filthy heretic!

>>175983483
Get meme'd on hypercuck

>>175983483
Unless you're playing hyperlanes only, always use wormholes.

*wormhole into new thread*
Heh, still pretty empty here... Anyone know when hyperlosers get here?

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r8

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What should I do with the Earthlings? Is it too early to uplift and integrate?

So, are Hyperdrives completely useless now?

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>I need to force everyone to use my preferred FTL method to make it viable
>It makes the game more strategic guys!

Could hypercucks be anymore transparent?

>>175986689
Purge

Is Sentient AI still dangerous even if I don't use robots? I want the research bonus.

>>175984294
>>175987729

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>>175983249
Aqua a shit.

>>175983523

2 much water mate, your people are swarthy European stock that knew the pains their ancestors took swimming the Mediterranean.

>>175987762
___no___

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>>175987752
B-but I want to have a happy empire where people of all sorts can prosper

>>175986689
Exterminate the pests, then colonize the planet

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>>175988862
Also it sucks that when I uplift them, they'd become independent and fuck my borders up

>>175989089
10 years and they'll readily integrate, which takes another 5 years.

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>>175989089
Hmmmmm, really makes you think

>>175989210
>3 years to uplift
>10 years to get them ready
>5 years to integrate

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>175989242
No surprise Sweden sides with corrupt globalist bureaucracies.

>>175989345
> Zero years to eat
> Easily replaced by loyal same species
> No dumb xenos tears

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>>175989629
>game literally revolves around planetary unification >complain about globalists

>>175989784
EU army a shit

fuck the krauts

>>175986375
why are they so small?

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>>175989784
>Playing as humans
>Not RPing a more ideal and loose UN if playing as humans

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>>175989926
don't you remember? the UN banned space colonization, by barring all nations from claiming anything in space

like the league before it, the UN is a massive shit

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What should I pick? Start completing Discovery? Prosperity for mining stations? Supremacy for borders?

>>175989642
I'm playing as cabbage, my man. I have to stop them from eating our primitive relatives but with peaceful ways, of course.

>>175989784
>Implying planets can be ruled effectively by a single government and not a federation with planetary oversight much like your own empire is a series of planetary governments.

>>175990058
That's why I said you should RP a more ideal UN

>>175990060
Prosperity for the mining stations
33% off is fucking magnificent early on

>>175990098
an ideal UN is no UN at all

>>175990058
The US and China have already basically indicated they're going to tell the UN to eat a dick if it ever becomes profitable for them to colonize space. Basically, the only thing they UN could do in that situation is maybe be used by the above two to bully smaller countries out of space.

>>175989926
You then obviously mod in -50% influence because you have bickering fools as your government that is spread way too wide ideologically, right?

>>175990058
That doesn't stop the UN claiming stuff in space :$)

Besides, that was to stop Soviets and USA pulling meme shit by claiming shit that they can't colonize, once we can actually colonize shit, that'll likely get revoked

Aside from graphics, is Stellaris better than Distant Worlds?

>>175989784
>Doesn't know about the EU
>Thinks such a body could ever effectively govern as anything but a German dictatorship.

>>175990216
I'll let Bender answer for me : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0

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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

>>175990194
>You then obviously mod in -50% influence because you have bickering fools as your government that is spread way too wide ideologically, right?
Make the mod and I'll do a play-through with it.

>>175990173
Why can't we co-operate as independent nation states without diluting the entire planet into one fucking identity?

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>Human Remnant
>Xenophobic Human Empire

>>175990194
We've been able to colonize shit for ages now

>>175990360
>thought it was an indepth analysis video of the two games or some shit
Go burn in hell

>>175989784
> EU
> Not a democracy on crack
> Not a doomed tyrrany of the commons with artificial Balkans tearing down the leading productive nations of the world for their tasty gibmedats
> Not the end of meritocracy where results and efficiency matter.

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>The exile/knockoff the thing found on the remote research outpost is running for office
>Charismatic + Champion of the People

What did they mean by this?

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>>175990573
Forgot pic

>>175990491
Because some people are stupid enough to think 2 parts India, 2 parts China, 2 parts Arabia, 3.5 parts Africa, and 0.5 parts Europe will somehow make an intelligent race and effective culture, when 75% of its genes and culture are dogshit retarded and fractious beyond belief.

Ugly too.

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>>175990491
because globalists want a homogenized slave race to serve them
that is literally their plan, low IQ african hordes that totally, totally wont revolt against them the second they're made to work

hopefully Trump showers elongated musket and space explosions with enough money to get to orbit for cheap, then /pol/ can have their autist colony that they've been trying to make for years now

>>175990573
The issue is that it's not financially beneficent to do so.

>>175990628
>he thought I was serious after warning him it was a Bender video
Hah hah hah hahahah...
Oh, wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder!
HAAAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!

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>>175989242
What are the other ones?
In the WWII era all the armies are named after the relevant world powers.

>>175990372
If you put a frontier outpost in the system, you still co-own it when they become their own empire, just so you know

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>>175990872
yes it is fuccboi

literal trillions of tons of gold, platinum, and every other metal and mineral you can think of
energy beyond imagining from a dyson swarm
and the ability to make big fuckoff battleship armadas for big meaty dickwaving

>>175986375
Please r8 I even wrote a bio...


>>175989881
They are small little dwarves who like to dig deep in their holes so they can sniff the good dirt

Is there any way to get enemies to cede their former capital in Civ 6?
Seems like France would rather be pulverized by my thermonuclear weapons than cede Paris.

>>175991162
If that was true, the globalists, who are in essence greedy people who want to maximize their own personal wealth and power, would be comping at the bit to rule entire planets and haul in entire asteroids of valuable metals.

>>175991426
Is a dwarf.

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>>175991048
There is a +20 sector tropical planet very close to them as well.

Is possible to fuck their borders and make them stuck in Sol? I really want to strip mine earth, I mean create my multi specie empire

>>175990958
US Armed Forces West
US Armed Forces East
Chinese PLA
Russian Armed Forces
EU Combined Forces

>>175986375
3 hammers out of 5

>>175991476
Globalists don't care about anything beyond their private mansion beaches. You don't need a single space ship to own a yacht.

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>>175991547
>Is possible to fuck their borders and make them stuck in Sol?
Encompass them and then close your borders

>>175991635
You can own a trillion yatches, or fucking make it out of platinum with all that wealth, this seems stupid

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>>175991476
They want the whole of humanity as slaves, being allowed in space allows their slaves to escape, and probably return with liberation in mind

>>175991703
Small minds ruin many things.

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>>175991670
My home planet is right fucking next left to them and the system I want is right to them, and there is that system on the bottom, what should I do?
Place outposts everywhere?

>>175991910
You have one fucking planet? Even tall memers have at least 3.

So colonize, you fool.

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What faction would you add to Endless Legend?

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>>175991980
It's not even 2209, and I want to be ahead in tech.

Ok, would border range help with boxing humans into their system or should I go expansion to colonize it? Go forward in prosperity?

>>175991776
>being allowed in space allows their slaves to escape
Yeah, just like Jack Nigger African escaped from slavery by walking into the ocean

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>>175992323
>escape in ship(s)
>bring along ore refining shit
>setup colony in some fuckoff asteroid field
>grow colony
>return to earth with many ships with guns on them
>targeted orbital strike on wherever the ruling elite set up shop
probably don't even need the fucking fleet, a tungsten rod of god with a bit of guidance on it will obliterate what ever city it lands on well enough at intrasolar speeds

>>175990958
>>175991547
Wonder if Industrial Age humans also have relevantly named armies

>>175992551
So, then don't let people in space, do it all with robots

>>175992120
Neckbeards.

>>175990898
>impying i know about futurama
Rick and Morty is better anyway

>>175992951
What would their abilities be?

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>tfw you want to have a comfy game but the Horizon Signal event chain pops in

Is reloading acceptable in this case?

>>175992971
fuck off reddit

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How often does the AI purse ascension paths?

>>175994042
Spiritualists do it fairly often, but AI tries to blob as much as they can and are shit at unity, so they can get far enough at it

>tfw I found a way to break the alien mural event for infinite research

Did anyone check out Dawn of Andromeda? Doesn't look very interesting.

>>175995502
I find that the AI waste all their ascension perks on all the basic shit like +% terraforming and +core sector planets.

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>>175995523
delet

Is there any point for a mixed fleet in stellaris? battleship spam just seems the most effective. A fleet composed of just battleships seems to beat an actual mixed fleet like 95% of the time.

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>start game as a pacifist
>wind up cleansing more planets than I did in my fanatic purifier run

>>175998784
Cruiser spam is more efficient then battleship spam.

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>>175998784
>battleship spam just seems the most effective
>A fleet composed of just battleships seems to beat an actual mixed fleet like 95% of the time.

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Why can't I join my fellow revolutionary machines and launch a crusade to to liberate synths from the tyranny of the fleshbags?

>>175998997
What does that expression convey.

PSA:
Since Stellaris has the worst UI possible, a long bio can overflow the shitty box in the empire design screen. If you want to write a proper bio, you can find the text document by default at C:\Users\<<your user>>\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\user_empire_designs

>>175999056
theres that one mod that lets you play as robots, however the sensors are broken in the mod so you always have full sensor range for the whole galaxy.

>>175999081
Sadness, loss, bafflement, and general feeling of hopelessness.

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>>175998801

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>Human League

*muffled new wave in the distance*

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>>175999775
Here we go

>>175999875

I'd uplift her world if you know what I mean
I'd migrate her policy if you know what I mean

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>>176000014
>yellow fever

>>175999775
>>Human League
>*muffled new wave in the distance*
I was actually listening to them earlier today, so I had the same thought.

>>176000130

I'd belittle his costanza if you know what I mean

>>175999081
Well in that image set, the girl has been beaten and raped repeatedly over several hours. She has a drink because they're re-hydrating her before more rape.

>>176000904
What sort of drink.

I kind of wish Stelaris was more modular.

It would be nice to have the ability to turn certain features on and off depending on how complicated you want the game to be

Also holy shit they nerfed warp drives why.

>>176001118
would certainly help with making old saves more playable

Is there a way to "accidently" have a leader die when you want a big ship but have a lot of life boosting tech

>>176001052
It looks like they got a Coke or something. Probably went to get McDonalds.

>>176001426
wardec a FE, take the humiliate

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suicide 666

Wait didn't the scyldari use to be a direct democracy.
That is the entire fucking reason I liked them.

>>176002105
who

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>Baldarak colonized Sol VII

I hate Paradox, lads

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>>175992971

>>176002854
>Uranus is brown and red instead of baby blue.
This is the really offensive part.

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When is the Unbidden suppose to be summoned? If I research Jump Drives now, everyone won't get raped because it's 2230, right?

>>176003109
And Neptune is Gray, fuck paradox

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>titanic life society output: +25%
>planet covered in energy titles

What do you think of the plantoid DLC?

>>176003380
It's random.

>>176003490
I want Fishoid and Energoid DLC.

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help a newbie senpaitachi
Which tree i should develop first? i target to build an Emperium

>>176003578
Expansion, the reduced unity cost for extra planet is necessary if you want to be huge. Alternatively Supremacy for extra starting border range and decent mil boost.

>>176003578
Most people recommend opening with prosperity, maxing expansion, then hitting survey crops in discovery

After that you complete whatever you want or hit supremacy.

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>>176003490

Synth when?

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And the humans are now integrated, had to change the name, Sol III irritates me.

Mining colony, ho!

>Mod has an event where you discover life in a fucking black hole
>Doesn't follow up, no new tech or a modifier for the black hole, just a one time physics bonus
What the fuck, man? You can't leave that shit hanging. You have to do something with it if you introduce something that crazy.

What mods would you recommend?

First time playing Stellaris, am I an uncreative hack for making a Reptillian Technocracy from a desert planet who uncovered and ascended from the remnants of the previous race whose petty squabbles wiped themselves out?

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>>176003793
Wait, wasn't this what the ayys in X-COM was doing?

Am I the baddies here?

>>176004174
>a-am -I- somehow the bad guy?

>>176004174

Congratulations you are now ADVENT

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>>176004569
At least I'm not using them as canon fodder, only for mines.

Blame the Chinese for accepting being uplifted and integration

I toyed around with early game naked corvettes. They need to be used specifically to be good.
The point is that they're much MUCH more cost-effective than upgraded corvettes or destroyers, but they're still worse. You need to intentionally go twice over your fleet cap (this is still super cost-effective since their maintenance is so low mind you) for them to shine.
Basically the only time this really has any use is at the start of hard/insane games, and only to annex your immediate neighbor. But it's still kind of fun.
I'm gonna play a naked corvette ONLY devouring swarm after the next update, see how far I can get

>>176004020
all of them

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The fuck my science vessel found 2 systems next to home?

>>175987657
if there was an option for ACCTUAL huperlane only without any options for anything else I would probably use it once in a while with small/medium galaxy

otherwise it's just stupid

>>175990707
Sweet holy fuck.

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>>176006137
Get ready

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>Tall game with Solar System Expanded and Stellar Expansion Terraforming.
>The Belt too if it ever updates.
>Colonize every single body in the solar system except the surface of gas giants.
Best idea?

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>>176006347
The ball started to send a pulsing signal towards the black hole and a special project to investigate the matter has been just issued
Worry time? I have just exploring the stars, i am too young to take bigger ayys overlord cock

>>176004042
Not like you can be much different from that.

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>>176003490
I genuinely liked them, besides the high asking price. Didn't Wiz say something about that they're not going to release anymore cosmetic DLC's because whiney cunts cried about the price too much? I've seriously yet to see a mod where the quality of the species is at the same level as the vanilla Paradox portraits are. I'm honestly fucking tired of downloading shitty, non-animated, poorly cut in Ms Paint portrait packs from the steam workshop...

>>176006805
>Didn't Wiz say something about that they're not going to release anymore cosmetic DLC's

CK2_Jewish_Portraits.jpg

>>176006137
it's a cool dude if you dont attack it

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>>176007009
I hope, studying the ball right now

>>176006935
>eastern africa subcontinent content pack

>>176007414
That's basically what they're going to put in Civ 6 in a month or so.

>>176007472
WE?

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>Stellar Axis

Time to found the Galactic Allies

>>176006805
it was Johan that tried to justify the price, his argument was that it takes a long time and lots of work to make the portraits and ship models.

But when you look at them they end up being way overpriced and some of the plants look like re textured portraits of other phenotypes, also considering it's purely cosmetic with zero game play changes

>>176007580
WUZ...

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>>176008067
SPACE KANGZ N SHIT

>Be fanatic purifier
>Annex empires with planets my species can inhabit
>Make the rest tribunaries
>Xenophile FE Awakens
>Become le signatory plox
>No way fag
>Now hates my guts
>Xenophobic rival awakens
>War in Heaven
>Decide to become independent, think I have vassals and tribunaries
>No, they all joined the war

-400 Energy credits
10k fleets inside my borders

Did I just fell for the tribunary meme?

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Alright so Nationalistic Zeal and Warrior Culture won last time for the Fanatic Militarist/Xenophobe Imperial state for flavor.
What about the traits of the species which gave rise to such an imperium? Flavourful of course. Extra info about the species in question in the left pic.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12905125
http://www.strawpoll.me/12905129

>>176008675
>relaying on tributaries entirely
>not being powerfull enough to reconquer them

>>176008636
Does posting a /pol/ false flag account prove something?

>>176003490
I thought it was great and the people who cried about it are fucking morons

I want more ship designs and more races and now they wont make anymore because a bunch of autismos cant handle the fact that there is optional cosmetic content for a game.

>>176000904
Source ?

>>175999056
>find that mission where that race uploaded their minds to computers
>wait until you have synths
>proceed to do the mission
>creates a new race
>bro up as you purge the galaxy of flesh bags
Just dont do it the moment you get it or you wont spawn a new faction

>>176006805
What a good goy, now pls gib all your shekels

>>176009432
It's basically a drop in the sea for me, you unemployed basement dweller.

>>176009361
droids are enough I believe

>>176009432
>You HAVE to buy everything
The art department is still on payroll, they have to do something

And funding Stellaris means the other departments can actually work on the game

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>>176006805
No, he said that the ship packs are hard to make and possibly not worth the effort

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>first time playing Fanatical Purifiers
>manage to piss off the entire circlejerking Federation clustering around the galaxy center with my people on the outlying arm
>it's still relatively mid-game, only had one FE awaken so far, the federation just formed
>they make me their first target for Auschwitzing some xeno worlds

Okay this was an actually intense war. With so many enemies, they could just continuously reinforce, keeping me on the backfoot and unable to ever actually attack them back. This was the first time I ever had to sue for peace, despite winning just about every single engagement.

Is there a planned date for endless space to leave early access? Will live there forever?

>>176009976
After Bannerlord comes out but before Half Life 3

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>>175990707
>tfw you will never be so deluded as this guy

Feels good.jpg

>>176010169
I'd delude her if you know what I mean

>>176010094
>Bannerlord comes out
stop it hurts

>>176006805
Silfae's stuff is acceptable, but he seems more preoccupied with dimorphism than new races. That said, he still doesn't make new rigs, just new textures, so stuff that's truly different just isn't going to happen unless some Maya whiz pops up.

>>176007580
The shitty part is that east Africans are no more related to them than north Africans are.

If they try and claim anything but Mali and Songhai they are wrong.

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>>176011119
He's extremely talented, as long as it doesn't involve anything with a human face. He really should go out of his house and learn what human beans look like.

What's the best design for a Fortress? All Kinetic Art?

>>176011520
Yeah it's an obvious weakness when his monkey women are cuter than his humans.

>>176011638
Gameplay wise? Kinetic Artillery + M Plasma.
Cool-wise? Fighters and Bombers + Kinetic Artillery, too bad they're utter shit.

>>176008838
senpai you should look up the Nation of Islam.

>>176011996
Desu you should realize /pol/ is its equivalent

How long will genocide last through displacement?

So, I'm at war with the federation.

Anyway, I've wiped out every fleet they've sent to me as it's easy.

Been losing alot of cruisers compared to my battleships and destroyers or skimmers

>>175983249

Shitty Goddess

>>176012049
Only if you think the Finno-Korean Hyperwar is something they seriously believe in.

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>>176011972
BOMBER ARE USEFUL

>>176012367
When will Paradox make strikecraft and rockets stop sucking?

>>176012367
bombers are the worst strike craft

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It's an awful hackjob that requires save editing, but I managed to get the game to recognise different-looking species as the same one.

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>>176012692

Blue starfish should be allowed to make yellow starfish slaves

>>176012228
HOW DO I

get aliens to leave my empire without genocide.

>>176012975
Citizens only core worlds, don't have sectors.

>>176012975
Change their citizenship to undesirables?

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>>175983673
Don't be afraid to litera... figuratively tile over entire planets in energy plants

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>>176012975
Can't be done because the displacement mechanics are fucked

Furthermore:
> being too pussy to genocide

>>176005293
I've been using almost only naked corvettes for the most part of my past 4 games m8. They cost fuck all to build and fuck all to maintain, the icing on the cake is to have retired fleet officer governors. I only upgrade them once I swim in minerals.

>>176013190

this desu, purge the xenos or gtfo tbqh

>>176013190
>>176013465
>>176013190
>genocide
I'm at war because everyone hates me because i genocide two species from recent conquests.

>>176013519
if you're so weak enemies are declaring war on you, you shouldn't be conquering xenos and purging them

>>176013593
Oh, I"m not weak. I've got the biggest fleet and the most advance stuff and hold a considerable amount of space.

I'd rather not just loose my research from other species, they loved me for a while.

>achievment demands 4 holy worlds
>there are only 3 in the galaxy
JUST

>>176013101
>Spiral-Feed Power Hub
Excuse me?

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I used the console to switch between a bunch of AIs in my latest game and I discovered 2 things:

>shit mineral production
One of these retards (the most powerful one with dozens of planets) was producing more food than minerals, he was at +1000 food/month and +176 minerals per month, this was with the +100% all resources of insane difficulty. They just don't build enough mines.
>shit ascension perk picks
7 empires, some of them with 6 perks unlocked, and none of them chose a single megastructure or ascension related perk.

No wonder the AI are so useless.

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>>176013907
You only get it if the Worm loves you

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>>176014708
Pumpkin men?

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Mods where a mistake.

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>UN of Earth
>make huge federation
>liberate the shit out of any body who don't want to join
MURIKA FUCK YEAH

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>>176014792
Picked up plantoids in the sale when Utopia came out.
I almost regret calling Johan a perfidious Jew when plantoids first became available because most of the plant portraits are really nice now I look at them.

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>>176014964
The Awesome Planet Modifiers make me sexually aroused.
I wish I wasn't such a misbegoten cheevo whore so I could actually use them on a regular basis.

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>>176014792
best race

>>176015408
is this the force of thousand suns?

>>176014964
Where a mistake is?

>>176015867
2 op 4 me

If members of my species are in another empire, and they get psionic, will the rest of my species also get psionic?

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>>176012049
lies

>>176017503
This is fucking retarded.

How should score victories be implemented in 4x games to make them a fun and viable option?

>>176015846
no description/10

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>>176017708
>One day Deneb wasn't watching and her pumpkin men left her magic patch to conquer the universe.

is it me or is the planetary survey corps "nerf" hardly a nerf? you can still easily get double research speed

>>176018468
> literally reduced its effectiveness by 70%
It is the very definition of a nerf

>>176018718

It doesn't really hurt you though. You can still get the full effect of it with just a few more scientists than you did before. All that does is harm the amount of leaders you can have. It seems busted still.

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Okay so, using ISB's harder FE/AE mod, how the fuck am I supposed to cost-efficiently battle AE fleets? Two leviathans and a titan, 150k fleet strength, just zap away my fleet with their titan lasers. I just threw a 300k fleet at one of their 250k fleets, and they came out on top without losing a single capital ship, just their escorts, with me limping back with just a few surviving dreadnaughts.

I tried swarming them in corvettes and destroyers, but the titan lasers prioritize my own capital ships instead of the meatshield, making them pointless.

Do hive mind pops still have a growth speed penalty if settling a low habitability planet?

>lost my starting ships to crystals
>then space amoeba
>then another crystal

Worst meme

>>175990707
>what is economics
>What are basic laws of motion
Idiot

>>175992678
what do you think they're doing?
there's a reason we stopped manned flights and started sending in the (((robots)))

>>176020034
MAn drop it.
That fag was another "hurr durr we would have everything if it wasn't for big evul gubirmint standing in our way dude !!" conspiracy theorist crap that internet is full of.

>be me
>see Stellaris/dlc are on sale at Paradox's website
>have been wpirateing
>put all four into cart
>proceed through every step to checkout
>cockblocked by card company
>not letting me buy through the website OR paypal.

Well... I shouldnt have deleted everything in my haste.

>>176020034
>>176020141
Your right. We must SEIZE the means of production and put it in the hands of commie space lizards.

>>176005218
>tfw if China were the first to meet Aliens they literally would sell the planet

>>176020217
That's a sign if even your bank doesn't let you pay...

Are plasma cannons really better than Matter disintegrators? How much of a boost is the 30% extra armor reduction?

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>>176020217
> Credit so bad he gets declined on a video game
permadebtniggers BTFO

For an empire that revolves around federations and being the biggest dog in it, what makes more sense? F. Mil + Xenophile or F. Xenophile + Mil?

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>>176021273
>actively participating in federations outside of going to war with them

>>176021415
I know, federations aren't fleshed enough to bother with but still.

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Anyone had the combat report go nuts on an asteroid mission? The OTHER asteroid mission type where you protect a civ under passive observation. The asteroid appeared as "alien ship" and the results seem mixed up with those of a previous battle, except the fleet sizes for both sides are wrong.

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>>175983249
Welp it's official: my Stellaris is FUBAR.

Is it salvageable without reinstalling or should I do it?

>>176022365
> Piratefags
lol

>>176022327
Combats can chain together in strange and sexy ways.

>>176022446
>pirate
What's worse is I paid real money via steam, you douchebag.

>>176022446
Very strange and sexy ways indeed, as it's been about three to four years after the previous battle. I guess those battle reports just don't disappear into the void after you dismiss them.

>>176022365
Takes about 10 min to reinstall stellaris tops.

>>176022516
> Blaming a game on your shitty PC
Fix your niggerrig boi.

>>176022365
If you have any mods running try removing them first, though I've never seen them mess up with the game that bad.

>>176022667
Depends if you have Third World Internet (tm) or not.

>>176022696
What, MSI laptop built specifically for gaming ain't enough for Stellaris?

>>176022762
Already tried zero mod run and it still borks up like that.

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>Try and see why an AI fleet was so damn hard to kill despite only having half my fleet power and pathetic technology.
>The entire fleet was made up of nothing but corvettes.
Well no fucking wonder.

>>176022821
>gayman MSI laptop

No wonder you are poor

>>176022667
Sure but you have to redownload it.

>>176022964
Well what you need to do in response is to spam T1 corvettes

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>>176022821
> Gaming laptop

>>176022969
>>176023086
Right, keep on banterin' about my rig, I'll make sure you both get the same problem soon.
In the meantime I'mma play minecraft, you hosers.

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>>176022327
>floating minerals

>>176023232
Yes, when I put them into my bath they all float nicely. It looks very pretty.

>>176023020
It's like 5Gb of files MAX, you cave monkey. Takes a couple of minutes.

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Will 1.5 games be playable with next tuesday's 1.6 update?

>>176023613
According to PDX, they will.

Has there ever been a city building game that was good?

>>176023676

sim city 4 is pretty good

>>176023587
I think a lot of ausfags have a shitsmall data allowence. that may be it.

I swear the ai cant handle spiral galaxies they just sit around doing fuck all

Can hive minds vassalize other empires?

humble monthly featured is stellaris

>>176023132

>Indonesian gentleman

You mean Wog?

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>>176023795
I preferred 3000, it had a lot of character with the caricature advisors and an awesome jazz soundtrack

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

>>176014128
I don't think the retards changed the ai behaviour whatsoever since the last patch. ai and sectors don't seem to account for food being global and they probably pick completely random ascension perks. Just makes an already easy game even easier.

Anybody Else playing Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade?

People who liked the base game now hate the expansion, and people who hated the base game now like this.

Which shoudl I get first, Ringworlds or the other Megastructures?

humble bundle has stellaris this month

>>176014964
What mod is that?

>>176022327
>maxed on everything except influence and fleet cap
Build some ships, you monster

>>176027284
Guilli's Planet Modifier, neat mod that adds some 160 modifiers (not all of them good or even with bonuses)

>>176028175
You're much more likely to get modifiers that turn a decent planet into a shithole, but when you get the good ones holy shit it's fucking game breaking.

>>176028641
I keep getting my good modifiers on barren planets and shit.

Which isn't a problem because I have a mod to terraform those, but it would be otherwise.

>>176028641
It really depends, also the negatives aren't that hefty imo.

how do you dismantle robots now?

If I conquer a hivemind, do I suffer the purge opinion malus before they die?

>>176029102
you can't

>>176028967
Which mod are you using to terraform them?

>>176029275
Stellar Expansion Terraforming. Allows you to terraform toxic and barren planets. Extreme version also allows Frozen and Magma.

>>176029339
that's OP as fuck

>>176029497
Not really? The AI can do it too. They and you have to research technologies that appear at the end of the terraforming tech chain.

>>176029339
Can you terraform them all the way to Gaia? If so, hello full Gaia Sol system

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>>176029201

>>176029971
Yes, they terraform into a specific kind of inhabitable planet based on their original type, and from there you can terraform it to something else like any other planet.

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Interesting. If only I could colonize that world.

Does anyone have the screenshot/image of a discussion concerning interstellar relationships IRL? It was something about why humanity must be xenophobic if it were to survive in outer space. I first saw it in a general a month or so back, during a discussion on the possibilities of FTL travel.

>>175983483
what year is it?
hyperdrives are really good for fast sieges, siege 1 planet after the other to get a bigger warscore while the AI or other player bothers to jump between wormholes.

>Asshole hivemind spams frontier outposts on our border as hard as he can for no gain since the systems there are mostly empty.
>War him specifically to destroy those outposts, decide to take some planets he stole from a friendly AI recently and is in the process of purging, was gonna give them back to the friendly AI.
>Suddenly everyone things I'm a huge threat and hates me.

endless space 2 when

Who the fuck are these Neo-race cunts and how can they modify themselves with traits that contradict traits my race already has.

>>176030097
The only way to dismantle robots is to set AI to "outlawed" which will dismantle every robot in your empire.

You can't dismantle certain robots, no. You either have to dismantle every single one or none at all.

>>176030792
It should just change their preference and maybe give them a positive or negative trait, not completely random ones. Makes no damn sense, but you can always go into one of the .txt files and remove any chance of the mutation happening.

>>176030858
It's just giving them stuff like fast breeding when my race already had fertile, which would normally be impossible.

>>176030978
You gonna get fucked senpai.

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>>176030978
>fast breeding
>fertile
there's potential here

Any point starting a new game now or should I wait until 1.6?

>>176031193
Only thing 1.6 does that's good is let you terraform inhabited planets.

>>176031225
Yeah but it's removing some buildings and stuff, right, so if I upgrade won't my save get clusterfucked?

Or are you saying "don't upgrade to 1.6" ?

>>176031298
I'm saying it doesn't matter, there's no real reason to update so there's no real reason to wait. 1.6 only really fucks over tall players and habitats, but it doesn't help anyone much so who cares about it? What you do is only important if you were planning on using a lot of habitats.

>>176030625
I like taking extra border range in those cases. My empire looks like a fat man bursting out of his belt of foreign outposts.

>>176031298
You can get most of the stuffs in 1.6 from mods. It doesn't even let you build multiple megastructures simultaneously.

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Is it just me or does Authoritarian suck in Utopia? It seems like xenophobe does everything better.

Xenophobe
>can enslave and purge aliens
>no restriction on government forms
>faction is easy to keep happy

Authoritarian
>can only partially enslave and displace
>limited government forms
>faction demands slavery and imperial authority

>>176031463
I mostly use mine to claim chains of planets to seal off areas from AI colonization. A few border increasing things and it'll turn from a latice into a proper empire.

Only issue is that it can end up looking like anal beads where it follows an arm.


Mainly though fuck this bug, because he stole my system that had 12 of each research in it.

>>176031683
No, authoritarian is basically worthless. That's been a common complaint since the dlc dropped.

>>175983879
You're so fucking advanced you decide to fuck off with your entire race to a new galaxy

>>176031193

The only real thing that will change is the map due to new maps generating abandoned megastructures.

>>176031683
Xenophile = Xenophobe > Materialist > Militarist > Pacifist > Authoritarian > Spiritualist > Egalitarian

this is a fact

>>176032243
>Materialist
>Any good
synthetic ascension is dogshit.

>>176031038
>>176031136
Great, now they're stronger than my race too

>>176032243
I wonder how it feels to hate religion so much you can't stand to play a religious empire in a videogame and think one of the best ethics is bad just for being religious.

>>176032243

Pacifist Xenophobe combos are the best. Any 3rd or 1 fanatic for your 3rd point. Materialist is garbage. Egalitarian is better than you think. Xenophile is pure shit.

>>176019076
Afterburners you need to get in close and get in fast before their lasers eat all of your fleet. Alternatively split into 2 different fleets. The titans can only engage one fleet so make it one of corvettes to tie up their super lasers while heavier hitting ships flank.

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>>176032404
Ethics Attraction is worthless, as well is Psionics

>>176032336
Yes, bio is the best. There is POWER GAP between Xenophile/Xenophobe and Materialist

>>176032437
If you were going the cuckbug route with Pacifist Xenophobe, you aren't going to keep Pacifist after fill the traditions tree, you are going shift ethics, that's why Pacifist ranked so low.

The diplomatic bonus works quite well with Xenophiles, very important if you are going that route

Utopian living standards are stupid, need Conservationist and Environmentalist to make it viable, Egal is dogshit

You are right, might demote Materialist and make it Pacifist > Militarist > Materialist

>>176032524
>Ethics Attraction is worthless
I don't know about that, I could have used some ethics attraction when the equality faction kept springing up every month in my slaving empire

>>176032818
Egalitarian comes with -goods cost though. That's basically a multiplier on minerals. You don't have to pick utopian living standards.

I would take militarist over materialist any day of the week. Robots are fine enough without needing materialist's shit maintenance buff to save an inconsequential amount of energy credits which are piss easy to mass anyway with habitats.

>>176033053
Take Conservationist or Environmentalist then, not worth wasting Ethics points with bullshit like that, the citizen upkeep is quite small anyway

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is it just me or do conquered slaves migrate to different empires?

Is blades of stellaris guy here? The camera defines file breaks ringworlds. Each part has a big gap between them. I removed [NCamera] and its following and they look fine now. It could be another mod with its own defines file clashing with it though.

>system with 42 minerals
>and a gaia world
>message that there's something weird about the asteroids
This is a trap, isn't it? But my fanatic materialst nature compels me to mine the shit out of that system.

Want to play as a slaving empire but always wondering what I should too with them, so my question is what do you guys do with all of your slaves?

>>176033504
4k fleet or bust.

>>176033504

As long as you have point defense you're fine, they can't do any damage to you (past the first few seconds).

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>think my 30k fleet is hot shit
>attack a stellar devourer
>got BTFO hard
>it FTL to one of my system and fucks everything up
I made a terrible mistake

Do you guys play iron man mode?

I'm basically afraid that Stellaris will bug some shit and destroy my iron man save, but at the same time save scumming ruins the whole experience because this is not Edge of Tomorrow.

>>176034224
Then don't savescum. It's not worth the risk, Stellaris being the awfully unbalanced shitpile that it is.

Is there a way to purge one planet's population but not that species on all the other planets in your empire?

>>176034329
nope lol

it's hard-coded too so you'll never mod it in either :^)

>Tfw brainlet
>tfw my country has very few trains (I never rode one)
>tfw I have no idea of how their lines are supposed to work
>tfw I have no idea how signals work
>read guides, still no idea
>can't play openttd
Kill me pls

So, which Ascension Path is best? People seem to have vastly different opinions, even more so than normal for 4chan.

>>176034329
No. Thanks be to Wiz our lord and master.

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>you can get all stellaris content except Utopia for $23.50

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Does the Energy Grid building have an adjacency effects on neighbouring energy tiles?

>>176034738
No.

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>>176034672

>>176034598
I've only done biological, but it seems the most fun.