/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

>>180131259
>Man
>EsImp

2nd for pure Riftborn waifus

>>180131259
so has the latest patch for ES2 been released by pirates yet

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>>180131259
Can't find anything to complain about, so I guess my old job as a OP is definitely over.

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>>180131259
So what's new in the Endless Space 2 update? I saw new star types and anomalies, anyone got a list of the content?

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Please do not bully the Riftborn.

>>180132787
>can't choke out their colonies early on like i can to every other race

i must bully

>>180132993
>tfw no way to choke your qt riftborn salvefu

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>12 food per Horatio pop

>>180133646
they FAT

>>180133783
Not as fat as fish tits

>>180134352
>so low-test he thinks thicc = fat
Lmao

>>180134352
Those are just healthy airsacks.

Can i pirate the DLC for stellaris and have it work with the steam version of the game?

>>180135012
You can, if you do, we'll all laugh at you and call you a faggot.

>>180135012
Yes.

>>180135192
Wiz, are you a PR guy or something?

>>180135269
If you're going to pirate go the whole hog, don't throw them pity money.

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20000 polys and this is as big as the model can appear without the UI covering it up

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>>180135269
Yeah, I'm PR. And the best PR ever.

>>180135269
Do i need to do anything special to get the DLC to work? Help a poorfag out.

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>>180135681
>>180135269

>>180135681
>666
Is this real?

>>180135601
kill yourself faggot

>>180135601
Sounds like a way to get massive fps drops.

>>180136085
GEE I WONDER

>>180136085
As real as Paradox's sincere customer appreciation.

>>180135012
you might as well just pirate the game at that point

>>180136102
Remember to like and subscribe!

Pitch me a new crisis mechanic for Stellaris

>>180136864
Ori/Reavers.
A bunch of random pops from all empire suddenly disappear in the night, and come back as some fanaticals pirates trying to capture and kill in the name of some religion.

>>180136864
Plague that spreads system to system based on rng, trade deals, and ships in the system. Science ships might become unwitting plague bearers until the right combo of events gives enough empires the cure to wipe it out. Maybe some special research too.

>>180136864
disturbances causes FTL travel to function incorrectly, sometimes a jump will land you a few systems away from the intended system or across the galaxy. It would pretty much fuck over hypermemers but I'm fine with that.

>>180136864
Intergalactic dick sucking contest

>>180136864
The Beast

>>180137954
We don't need Paradox Plaza.

>>180136864
beta uprising

Anyone here used fitgirl endless space 2 repack?

>>180139032
What patch is it?

>>180139032
yes

>>180139295
Im not sure. Whatever patch came out around may 20th, i assume.

>>180139559
Is it a pretty good version? I want to try the game out and don't want a shit version of it to ruin the experience for me

>>180136864
Your game uninstalls.

>>180139948
>may 20th
that's the first patch
there's been more since then

>>180139948
it's fine except for the pending bug, I got it once out of the 3 games I played, just download a more recent codex patch

>>180140294
Cool thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVB22S1Zqk

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>playing Jadwiga on anything but King
ISHYGDDTYDDGTY

>>180142526
Well it's a good thing she's a Queen

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>>180142754
No she isn't.

How do I get rid of Unfallen entanglement? I took the system from them but those vines won't leave.

>>180143032
break the chain

>>180136864
Some sort of hyper plague, probably induced by some sort of ancient nanotech to account for cross species viability. Fucks everyone up to some degree, with all sorts of effects, ranging from killing pops and leaders to randomly gene modding them, for better or worse, or going full zombie plague and having a colony be occupied by hostile mutants. Has a research project you can undertake to cure it. Fucks open borders and federation blobs HARD and practically forces them to break up to some degree. Closed borders with a species much reduces the chances of it spreading to your empire and tight controls over your pops, based on your migration settings to slow its spread once it's in your empire. Once you've researched the cure (a long society? based project) you can share it for diplomatic bonuses, keep it to yourself and research the nanotech for fat domestic bonuses or go full fuck you and get another much shorter project to figure out how to weaponize it for a huge buff to your ground invasions and maybe ship durability/auto repair as you repurpose the nanotech behind it to suit your ends.

>>180137845
Alternatively, have this for a warp only map.
For hypermemers you can have the hyperlanes rearranging themselves.
For warp travel you can have fleets losing some ships. Add in some flavour text where everyone insists that the number of ships that came out was the number of ships that went in and that we never had any admiral named Rapalkin.
>>180136864
Introduce a "legendary leaders"mechanic. Powerful and game-changing leaders who pop up at random, and have random allegiances.

Endless space: technically the small shots are more efficient with support modules, but you need to defender each one with armor and they get focused fired down. Carriers are super educate with the +damage mods too.

Honestly: there are reasons to have each ship size.

>>180146063
two medium ships with strategic resource weapons > carrier with strategic resource weapons

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>>180136864
The Green Tide
Huge, rag-tag fleets of a race of extremely durable, extremely capable warriors arrive and start blasting anyone they encounter to bits

Random planets across the galaxy become infested with them without any indication; once they hit critical mass, huge waves of extremely large and strong armies of these brutes emerge from within the planet and begin slaughtering the armies guarding it. The armies grow vastly stronger with each enemy army slain, and regenerate health pretty much instantly. If they are repelled, the infestation timer will reset and they will eventually build up again. When they overrun the planet, they kill three-fourths of the population, forced labor purge the rest, and reproduce on the planet fast enough to fill it in a month. Any empty tiles will have inferior buildings automatically built on them as pops fill them up. They produce their rag-tag warships at an eighth of the price and time, and they have no fleet cap; their space stations have special modules, and are strong enough to repel fleets far above what normal stations would be able to. The planet will start mass producing ships and armies at a staggering rate, and their ships have psi jump drives.

Every single army and fleet they have will have a general or admiral; their leaders have no level cap, cannot die of old age, and gain experience at a greatly accelerated rate. Every planet they invade, even if the attack is repelled, will be infested much like the random planets from the beginning. The admiral of their initial doomstack will start at level 10, have two random great admiral traits, and is the brains behind the operation. Kill him, and the alien menace will balkanize, turn in on itself and, though it will still be an obstacle, will not be an immediate, game-ending threat. Infested planets will continue to spawn armies, but at a greatly lowered rate and at small enough volumes that a few defense armies would defend against it.

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ded thred

>>180147971
same

>>180147971
>all that light pollution
>able to see the stars
hmmmmmmm

>>180148572
That's just air traffic.

>>180148572
shut the fuck up

>>180146394
That's fucking dumb.
WH40k is fucking dumb.

>>180148572
dust

>>180148621
Even so, all the beams of light shooting straight up would fuck with air traffic so its still pretty dumb

>>180148697
t. Wiz

>>180148979
wtf I love Wiz now

>>180142526
>>180142898
her story is so tragic.

>>180148979
t. Games Workshop

>>180149056
t. Wiz

>>180146394
please kys. have you not shit up enough games with this shit already?

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>>180149064
W-What happens to her?

>>180150614
nice subtitles cockstain

>>180150729
What's a "subtitles cockstain"?

>>180150614
>Jadwiga's reign ended early. In 1399 she gave birth to her firstborn, a daughter—but within a month both mother and child were dead of complications from the delivery.

>>180150902
Oh, I thought it was something cruel and unusual. Everyone died of childbirth back then. Everyone. Even the men.

>>180150902
if there were complications during childbirth, how the hell did it take a whole month to kill them

>>180151471
giving birth is something extraordinarily special, in this cold and unforgiving universe. there are so many things that can go wrong.

>>180151546
>you can't hug your children with nuclear arms

>>180151471
Because medicine was underdeveloped?

>>180151546
>>180151741
i mean if childbirth was going to kill them, i'd think it would've done so within a few days, at the absolute latest

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>>180151940
Maybe the birth of the child weakened something inside of the mother, and, eventually lead to her death.
Maybe the child had a genetic defect that fucked it over.
Many things anon. Many things.

>>180151940
>i mean if childbirth was going to kill them, i'd think it would've done so within a few days, at the absolute latest
Viral infection probably, with a helping of ignorance since Medicine was not even remotely "modern" until the 1500's at the earliest.

>>180151940
She wasn't some pleb to die instantly, in case you didn't notice.

I am fond of coal miners' wives.

>>180154326
I am also fond of pigs.

Who deserves more credit than pigs?

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HAK HAK HAK

>>180154393
>>180155684
What does this even mean?

>>180131259
Is it possible to go for a cultural victory with the Vodyani? Havent played them yet and don't want to waste my time if they don't have the proper tools for it.

>>180157521
It means that people choosing civ6 quotes were a bunch of asshats.

>>180159952
>cultural victory
Once you explain the fuck that is I might be able to answer.

>>180159952
there's no such thing as a cultural victory in ES2 you blithering retard

>>180159952
Give it time and someone might make a Civ 5 mod, like they did for the Broken Lords.

>>180160242
>>180160290
>>180160331
Sorry I am retarded, meant to say Diplomatic.Not sure why my brain decided to call it cultural.

>>180160495
>Diplomatic
You are just trolling at this point.

>>180136864
We have two Ascension based Crisis, so next up is clearly the biological ascension Crisis.
Options are galactic super plague that fucks shit up, species engineering gone wrong (or possibly right) creating super pops in everybody's empire (said pops eat every other pop on the planet and once they are more than half the population join/revive a single hive mind empire changing who controls the planet), terraforming+genetic engineering route which transforms a planet into a singular life form that can procreate with other planets...

>>180160530
Not that guy and while ES2 doesn't have a true diplomatic victory you CAN win through diplomacy by just allying enough people that your alliances combined territory is enough for the territory victory.

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unironically dead

Did they fix civ 6 yet?

>>180163718
Max number of players in an alliance is limited. It's either half or third of total players, don't remember which. Thus while alliance victory is possible, it's not suffcient to just conduct diplomacy.

>>180147971
>tfw you will never live in a city like this
i was born too soon

>>180164732
What are you talking about anon? You were born just in time for the sex robot apocalypse!

Don't die

https://youtu.be/O1CQ7Vwz8Eo

>>180166687
>ES2 in the middle of the video

>>180166969
>Every Stellaris run
>quit midway and play ES2
I dunno, it seems pretty accurate to me.

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>>180167390

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>ded
W0t

REVIVAL

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just

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Friendly reminder that Paracuck doesn't deserve your money.

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>hard Iron man
>picked Hyperland
>Ether Drake cockblocking few systems from capital
>ok I will manage
>build around 9-10k size fleet and shoot it with big RAZER
>then some fag research jumpdrive and unbidden spawn in middle of empire
>it spit my empire in half cause muh hyperlane
JUST

>>180169582
You brought it on yourself anon. Also what the fuck is up with your amount of construction and science ships?

>>180169582
sounds fun honestly

hypermemes make stellaris marginally more interesting

>ES2 killed the general

>>180169895
same

Would you recommend endless space 2 for someone new to the genre? Could you recommend any guides that will get me started?

>>180170654
>Would you recommend endless space 2 for someone new to the genre?
Depends on what you want out of the genre. It's a good game, but it's quite unpolished in many areas such as balance and bugs.
>Could you recommend any guides that will get me started?
The OP has a number of useful resources. In addition I'm always happy to shill this channel containing a lot of decent guides to various areas of ES2 and quite a few other games in the genre. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa53kfJdPTHDtTPlY-l-SMhY9MOFznV-o

>>180170775
I am one of those fags that plays things for the storyline and this game seems to provide an interesting sci if political simulator platform with faction storylines and multiple endings. This is the main draw for me, the factions seem really interesting and imaginative.

Thanks for the video, will make sure to check it out. As it stands I don't even know what the win conditions are.

>>180170868
>I am one of those fags that plays things for the storyline
Eeeeeew...

>>180170868
It should do nicely then, however be aware that while it doesn't have the politics feature, EL is a much more polished game in more or less the same series.

Would you let Wiz suck your dick?

>>180171225
Does he gives good blowjobs?

Nope. Still can't use GoG. I even tried GoG Galaxy but they still don't send me a mail.

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>>180169831
oh yeah just spawn another one on top of my system

>>180131259
The AI is retarded in Stellaris
>i play hc pacifist federation wankers
>somehow people still hate me
>manage to scrounge up huge chunk of space
>surrounded by a weak vassal to opposing vassal
>my allied federation buddy
>and sleeping fallen empire
>oh shit the space farts from another dimension come popping out
>it's ok i picked defender of the galaxy just for this occasion
>"fallen empire next to me woke up and claim they will take care of the shit, cool shit now we have 2 defenders we can take them down easy"
>"but first my pacifist neighbor, your dangerous attempts to move your consciousness into robotic bodies must stop, lol yes right now or we gonna throw down"
>options: abandon research i spend most of the game building towards, or tell the fallen empire to go fuck themselves
>do the logical thing and tell the sleepy heads to fuck off, they are less than happy with our decision
>oh well fuck em ill just go deal with space farts
>my opposing federation has blocked the area off and won't allow me to cross their borders to deal with them, they are losing ground fast
>fallen empire decides that a pacifists in robot bodies are more dangerous than space farts from another dimension, declare war on me
>down parts of their fleet to get research into their weapons etc, lose my entire fleet doing it, toss them few of my shitty colonies near their border to get peace
>bum rush the debris for research, get new weapons, new warp drive (red one) and some hull stuff
>integrate what i got into my new and improved fleet, start pumping out ships, federation buddies are now fighting space farts too
>opposing federation declares war on my allies, time to shine, i break through the weak shit that blocked me from space farts, bee line to the nearest anchor and destroy it and one of their fleets
>shit this is easy with the upgrades, time to end this, go and destroy their point of origin
>manage to take it down, im the god damn hero yo
part 1

>>180171431

Cucked by the galaxy. I feel for ya anon.

>>180171431
That's pretty brutal.

>>180171496
Paradox AI is always godawful. Just look at HOI3/4 and see how easy is to pull off encirclements with 500.000 soldiers inside the pocket while the AI does jackshit.

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What social route do you go?

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>>180171496
>but whats this, space fart fleets warp in, the fuckers had 5 fleets derping around somewhere while i fucked their reinforcement spots up
>no time to emergency FTL, once again lose my entire fleet, oh well economy good so i can take the hit
>allies still at war with AI federation, upgrade their federation ships to my standards, pump out few federation ships while it's still my term
>allies make a shit deal with enemies that they were crushing, nothing new there
>manage to recreate my fleet (again), pump the power to 145k
>only the fallen empire is superior to my fleet now, opposing federation thinks it's a good idea to go declare on my weakest ally to the south
>send my fleet of 145k to teach them a lesson of peace, destroy all the fleet i encounter with ease, start invading their planets with android troopers
>weak ally made a unfavorable deal once again while i was kicking their strongest members ass
>...
>fallen empire sends another insult and all the remaining AI players are weak as shit and don't like my current federation members
Now all i have to do is wait for the fallen empire to declare war on me and slap his shit, my economy can support 400+ ship points and i have 33%+ on fallen shit heads

>>180171735

The one that best fits my situation.

>they actually made the fish race most influential figure a whale

Based ES2

>>180171431

Offer military access to the dark colored guys on the left. Just in case they might join.

>>180171496
>>fallen empire decides that a pacifists in robot bodies are more dangerous than space farts from another dimension, declare war on me
They did the right thing

>>180166687
>leaves Stellaris to play ES2
I am raughing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2muDLL6CsIk

>>180171735
Full liberty, 3 tradition, 3 honor, opening patronage, 2-3 exploration, lots of order, full piety, rationalism opener

>>180166687
makes me look forward to v musical

>>180173907
Remember how hyped everyone was when Utopia was announced? Drugs! Dyson Sphere! Nerve stapling! Brave New World!

And wow it was fucking nothing.

>>180174118
I don't, but I think dyson spheres was a bad idea for a year.

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>>180173620
they are fallen empire who dont do jack shit
I just spaming habitat on the system I think its safe atm

been buying mineral from traders until the moment they explode

>>180174162
I wasn't either, because I really like EU4, but I fully agree with Hitler there : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0Gz8fluKw

>>180174326
Thinking of renaming Unbidden to France, Vehement to Ottoman and then the Aberrant to something else.
Maybe Ming, Bohemia/Snakehemia

>>180174653
>Unbidden to France
Why? Do the Unbidden surrender to everyone?

>>180174721
dumb normie

>>180174721
France was actually very scary back then and was renowned for wanting more clay.

Think of the hungry caterpillar.

>>180174653
Im just waiting for Awakened Empire to spawn and save my ass

This is a challenge, /civ4xg/.

Name ONE good Star Wars strategy game.
I'm thinking.

>>180175272

Both vanilla and expansion Empire at War.

>>180175272
empire at war you nigger

>>180175272
the star wars mod for homeworld 2 was pretty cool

>>180175346
>>180175379
Empire At War is shallow as fuck and the factions are unbalanced. Try to suggest a game that is actually fun.

>>180175410
Now this sounds interesting.

>>180175506
stellaris

>>180175638
Ha ha ha, sorry, I must not be clear enough.
I said a GOOD game.

>>180175673
Empire at War

>>180175738
What part of "good" do you fail to understand?

>>180175906

I understand that "good" is subjective and that you have shitty taste in games.

>>180175938
Whatever help you feel better with your own shit tastes, mate.

>>180175272
One of those SW mods for Sins of a Solar Empire is pretty neat, particularly the one that implements the races along the Sins factions instead of a full overhaul.

>>180175983

You have such good tastes you don't even know what kind of games you DO like, all you say is "nah that's shit". Why don't you do your own work instead of relying on us to tell you what to like, or are your tastes THAT shit?

>>180176045
>the only good Star Wars games are actually mods
Sad!

>>180176098
To be fair, LucasArts isn't exactly around anymore to rectify that.

When the vodyani consume essence to grow their population, do they actually integrate non-original vodyani essence into their population? Where does the consciousness and personality of the new vodyani come from? I am trying to figure out how racially pure they consider themselves and what exactly they do with essence.

>>180175272
Star Wars Battlegrounds.

>>180176145
That's a shame, because I really like Galactic Battlegrounds.

Even if it barely qualifies as a game and feel like a Age of Empires 2 expansion, I still loved it. I think it's the only game that allow you to have Jedis leading an army of wookies into battle against the CSI scum and their Imperial allies while your own Naboo allies are rebuilding their army. Or when EVERYONE gangs up on the Gungans.

>>180176231
Pretty sure their lore talks about actually converting people and forcing them into the Cloth, so not very.

They're a proselytising religion devoted to an alien god (The Virtual Endless) - those have never been about racial purity and all about converting everyone to their brand of religious fuckery.

>>180176390
>some people do not instantly agree to become part of the Egyptian Tron church and need to be forced into it

LMAO

>>180176291
Someone with good taste!

>>180176231
>>180176515
the vodyani basically don't consider themselves a species at this point - after all, they can't breed normally; rather, they consider the vodyani form to be an ascended state of being, a gift of the virtual that proves their superiority over the other inhabitants of the galaxy. as such, the incredibly rare few of their captives from raids and abductions that are deemed worthy enough are elevated to become vodyani - erasing all that was lesser about them (including their memories and a good chunk of their personality) and bolstering the ranks of the faithful

the starting vodyani hero, varb, dives further into this

>>180176949
>vodyani form
The Virtual form. They consider the Vodyani form grotesque and ugly. Hence why there are no more flesh Vodyani.

>>180177162
>hey consider the Vodyani form grotesque and ugly.
What's wrong with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajWQayObo8

>>180177197
>What's wrong with it?
It is not Virtual.

>>180177197
The most hilarious part in context - he sings about how he wants to fly and how he is tired of being ugly fuck living in a swamp.

>>180177162
by vodyani form i meant the cloth; in the quest you can see that they believe that those who are vodyani are meant to lead and rule the galaxy, while all other only exist to provide nourishment

obviously they believe the current vodyani form to be a temporary step on the road to proper virtualization, but the point still stands

>>180177347
>obviously they believe the current vodyani form to be a temporary step on the road to proper virtualization
Not quite sure where you got that. Cloth is virtualisation. Even Virtual endless need a cloth, theirs simply tend to be more well crafted. And you improve your cloth trough out the quest line. Hell some Vodyani heroes are implied to be Virtual Endless who usurped their hero's cloth.

>Everything about the Vodyani
>Cravers reactivating some Virtual in a clunky-ass body
>A literal Virtual hero in the latest preview patch
So much Virtual niggers, where the fuck are the Concrete?

>>180178932
>So much Virtual niggers, where the fuck are the Concrete?
The sane place flesh Vodyani are.

All must obey the laws.

>still no crack for 1.0.11 of ES2 yet
WAKE ME UP

>>180178932

probably in the dumpster with ES2

>>180179049
edgy

>>180179043
At least you are not a goy, amirite?

>>180179049
go to bed, Wiz

when will stellaris be good

>>180178932
the true torians will come soon, anon
have patience
also, i know this doesn't excuse the lack of factions tied to the concrete specifically, but since virtuals only need power and secure networks to survive indefinitely it's way more likely that we'd encounter virtualized individuals than concrete individuals, who require medical procedures, cryogenic sleep, and cybernetic augmentation to have survived this long

>>180180281
Stellaris is perfect for it's purpose of selling copies. So long as it remains it primary purpose it will not become a good game.

>>180180408
At this point, I'm pretty sure the anti-dust/anti-Endless faction for ES2 will be tied to the Concrete in some way. Please be the Cultists.

>>180181169
>anti-dust/anti-Endless faction for ES2
Major Spoiler. Vodyani Heretic questline, Unfallen heart and Lost Academy quest are the anti virtual factions.

>>180181308
Yeah, I know, but usually in Endless game there's a playable faction that's openly hostile to either Dust or Endless (Harmony and Cultists), and those are pretty much events and/or subtleties.

>>180180281
When there is no more money to be made
And
When a developer who loves the game is working on it

So never

Endless Legend 2 when

>>180182145
Endless Tabletop when, the setting has a ton of shit to work with for that.

>>180182249
On the one hand, I really want an Endless RPG in the vein of Gothic/Witcher, but on the other hand I have the strong feeling that outside of strategy games, Amplitude would completely fail.

>>180182249
I remember some threads on /tg/ about some people trying to make that. Haven't seen them in a while though.

>>180182629
interest kind of petered off after a week or two, guaranteed that any thread that talks about endless legend will rekindle discussion though
the stats that actually got posted can be found here https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Endless_Legend

>>180182629
The audience is too small. Amplitude was never big on marketing, so even if they themselves made it it probably wouldn't get adopted by most people. You need to have a brand strenght to manufacture RPG. Tho it might be able to carry on the niche alone, few will invest in such a risque project.

>>180183589
Might be doable in a generic rpg, just adapting the setting to it. GURPS can handle it just fine.

>>180136864
SUPER SPACE VAMPIRES

>>180136864
space niggers from another galaxy coming to yours for gibs

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>>180185118

DUDE

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Got a science victory on turn 63.

Was playing on Huge map with 12 AI. Used a custom faction with craver depletion, riftborn time powers and vodyani appearance.
Power leveled my hero and got crazy bonuses from their per hero level ability.

I also had enough influence that I controled half the galaxy and would convert the rest of it in about 10 turns. I never really upgraded the cities except to 2nd level, didn't build trade routes and just passed the last 5-10 turns learning all the techs. Was super fun to play though.

>>180179043
Wtf is with all the retards in here. The magnet link for 1.0.11 was posted in the last thread.

>>180184398
>GURPS can handle it just fine.
I mean. Yes. But that's gurps. It can handle anything just fine. But fine is not the same as good. Tho if you have a campaign in mind it would do the job.

>>180186206
1.16 the patch when vodyani were truly made endless.

>>180186206
Vodyani nerf when ?

>>180187549
>>180186950

I wasn't playing Vodyani. It was a custom faction. Can you even read?

so in endless legend should you first city location be somewhere with as much production as possible? is buying out building with dust inefficient?

>>180188682
Calm down, Thomas.

>>180188682
pretty sure he means vodyani heroes, since they're pretty busted

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>>180188897
>playing endless legend with friends
>decide to do something dumb
>dry, hot world, only supremacy victory, all roving clans
>everyone is passive aggressive with eachother while we hoard the best regions and mercenaries
>as soon as privateers get researched, it became a clusterfuck of hidden armies, heroes, and spies
it was fun

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How do I even get this on my email? Just for being registered at games2gether?

>>180189521
>having friends
Ew.

>>180189824
>not having a friend to playfully suck your dick

What are you, gay?

>>180189521
That actually does sound fun, fuck. Wish my friends enjoyed games like EL.

>>180127396
Focus on controlling the oceans and building influence and dust. If you don't have a good minor faction nearby you're fucked on higher difficulties though.

>>180189824
>not having friends
enjoy competing against dumb robots in your strategy games
>>180190962
the jews are always fun, anon
another fun one is having only military and diplomatic victories, where everyone but a custom drakken with huge influence generation buffs tries to get military victory
looking forward to playing lumeris-only when enough of them get es2

>>180191435
>the jews are always fun
And there you have it, guys. The Jews are the reason all the developpers try to cater to multiplayer and don't give a fuck about providing a satisfying solo game experience.

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>>180136864
Well we got Robots, the Zerg, and Extradimensionals. I mean, you've got the Triumvirate right there. It's the interstellar sci-fi equivalent of SKYNET, Zombies, and Aliens right there. Usually I'm in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" category.

We've already got AI techy type shit that can start a crisis, so why not the weird biological research doing something similar? Xenomorph Armies come to mind as a good place for that type of shit to start. If you research too far into biological manipulation, make a lot of clones and mutants, etc, then you end up with some David Cronenberg type shit going on.

>>180191726

The Irassian Concordat precursor chain is about a galactic plague. I can't remember if they cured it, but it exists(ed) in lore and wiped them out so there's no reason it can't come back. Precursor chains could do with a rework honestly, they could be triggerable crises or mini-crises.

>Design flintlock' (musket cost -50%) upgrade now affects all 18th century shooters, including mounted ones.
FINALLY

So Highlander and Chasseurs are finally good.

>>180186203
SCIENCE

>>180193427
LMAO

>>180193427
*galactically genocides you*

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>>180193427

>>180182508
I'm not sure they have the budget and size for a good Gothic/Witcher style RPG, a CRPG would be great though

>>180194586
I don't like the Witcher anyway. There's too much walking enough and not doing anything, you gather ingredients, you have no idea what you got and what you need and the combats are too simplistic.

>>180194975
>combats are too simplistic
I like this trolling. It's the best trolling.

>>180195032
He's not wrong, TW3 is piss easy on the highest difficulty and TW1 is a rhythm game

I'm gonna play sophons next game just to spite you fuckers

>>180195156
DUDE

>>180195156
I guess you need spite to play endless space 2

>>180195156

Lol

>>180195032
I'm not lying. TW was just "click, click... click, drink a potion, and click."
I tried the Witcher 3 a while ago, it seemed better, but I played it 30 minutes before forgetting about it. If I had to replay it now, I'd have to redo the tutorial.

>>180195156
desu I want a corny bro adventure of a pun spewing sophon and a one liner craver across the galaxy.

>>180195507
>the sophon never stops talking and pretends to be really competent even though he isn't
>the craver is silent, serious, and really deadly
>the only thing they have in common is a love of Dust

actually nvm this is just junkrat and roadhog

how quickly do you expand in endless legend? Is there any reason not to build a settler immediately? Seems like neutral armies wont even attack you

>>180196617
Turn the difficulty up and they will. You want your second city by first empire plan

>>180196617
depends on your faction, as the wider factions you put out settlers pretty much as soon as your basic rotation and starting army is done, but with taller ones you can put it off longer
minors will attack your armies as soon as you walk out of your home region and they're of a somewhat comparable strength, and if you let them roam for too long they'll eventually pillage your regional buildings and siege your cities

>>180136864
buyer's remorse

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Bloody hell this game is unforgiving. Any advice how to deal with last couple levels? It feels Like I'm doing no damage. The only guy to do anything was Skroig wearing tower of hats.

>>180198348
that's already in the game

>>180198447
>someone else has DotE
noice
I usually get overwhelmed in the final couple of floors too, never managed to complete a game yet.

>>180196850
>>180197548
So a new city is always better than building a boroughs? Whats the basic rotation? just the 4 flat fids buildings?

>>180198703
>So a new city is always better than building a boroughs?
No, you have to contend with increasing unhappiness penalties for having too many cities, whereas new boroughs only add a small negative happiness modifier which is overrode by borough level.

>>180198447
Max O'Kane a best

>>180198703
Its situational, if theres great nearby regions and you can afford the happiness, yes

>>180199006
Max got OHK'd at 9 or 10 =(

I'd like it more if here was just here to hang out instead of just surveying an unsurveyed planet

how's the civilian ships mod?

>>180192026

A forgotten pocket of Cybrex reactivating and resuming their ancient harvest would also be a pretty good one.

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>>180200262

>>180200262
>how's the civilian ships mod?
all it really does is lag the game a little and clutter up your screen

>>180192026
>mini-crises.
Mid game crisises should be a thing imo.
Like building on the self genemodding events for that, so you end up with Khans


Not really a fan of the AI crisis change, the way it was was more reminiscent of existing sci fi while the new one is just another lame swarm.

>>180200972
>Not really a fan of the AI crisis change, the way it was was more reminiscent of existing sci fi while the new one is just another lame swarm.

Yeah it sucks but the problem with the way it was before is that it almost never shows up and when it does it's the most anemic crisis in the game. So I think they had to change to something more along the lines of the other crises to get it to work.

>>180186848
>It can handle anything just fine. But fine is not the same as good.
Meme is the dream; nice opinion
>Tho if you have a campaign in mind it would do the job
Lol wut. Yeah, I have a campaign in mind. You fucking twit.

>>180171431
>>180169582
Would be nice if the game would create a progenitor questline based on games where the player lost.

"This is the homeworld of the CODEX-PLAYERNAME race where they were all killed by some kind of extra-dimensional weaponry."

>>180200304
>>180192026
The AWOKEN robot empire that spawns from the Limbo quest is interesting but broken, the AI doesn't seem to understand how to run an empire entirely made up of droids. Namely building farms for one.

Also the Limbo quest should spawn 3 synths, not droids.

But I'd be in favor of any mini-crisis flavored around The Beast from Homeworld:Cataclysm. Maybe some kind of AI rebellion which takes over ships any ships with high tech computers like sentient or advanced. Fleet then starts building construction ships which builds more ships.

>UNIQUE END GAME CRISIS THAT WILL SEND YOUR CAMPAIGN THROUGH A LOOP
>they all end up just spawning an enemy ai player that cheats

>>180203382
the original homeworld of those who created the cybrex, and the Limbo origin was in the same star system for me, I thought that was quite interesting

there's also a habitable planet with a subterreanan civilization in that system

>>180203950

I find it funny how things like that can create galactic lore. Like, I had some race the Cybrex genocided and the Cybrex origin planet as the same planet. Thought it was pretty funny that they rebelled, left, someone took over, the Cybrex came back and re-nuked the planet.

>tfw never played sophons and never will

same as wild walkers honestly

>>180203382
I've had the Limbo droids kill themselves immediately because they spawned as spiritualists before.

>>180206105
They always spawn as spirtualists

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>>180206012
I don't understand the hate for the Sophons. Also their science bonus is insane

>>180206276
So they always disassemble themselves?

>>180206310
>>180206276
They spawned as militant materialists for me. It's probably random.

>>180206278
Those aren't even sophon ships

>>180206382

I got them as Fanatic Purifiers once. Didn't hesitate in alt-f4ing and stopping the special project.

>>180206447
Yeah I just wanted to post riftborn ships. The point still stands tho

Ok boys

>Alpha Centauri
Favorite faction:
Most hated faction:
Waifu:

>Civ 4
Favorite civ:
Most hated civ:
Waifu:

>Civ 5
Favorite civ:
Most hated civ:
Waifu:

>Civ 6
Favorite civ:
Most hated civ:
Waifu:

>Endless Legend
Favorite faction:
Most hated faction:
Waifu:

>Endless Space
Favorite faction:
Most hated faction:
Waifu:

>Endless Space 2
Favorite faction:
Most hated faction:
Waifu:

>>180207570
I don't think the thread is dead enough for this to be necessary

>Alpha Centauri
Favorite faction: Believers
Most hated faction: Hive
Waifu: Miriam

>Civ 4
Favorite civ: Fucking Calabim from FFH
Most hated civ: Ljosalfar fucking shits
Waifu: Catherine

>Civ 5
Favorite civ: Zulu
Most hated civ: India
Waifu: Catherine

>Civ 6
Favorite civ: >
Most hated civ: >
Waifu: Cather- I mean Victoria

>Endless Legend
Favorite faction: Broken Lords
Most hated faction: Vaulters
Waifu: Ardent Mages lady

>Endless Space
Favorite faction: Didn't play
Most hated faction: Didn't play
Waifu: Didn't play

>Endless Space 2
Favorite faction: Riftborn
Most hated faction: Sophons
Waifu: Fishtits

>Beyond Earth
Favorite faction: hues
Most hated faction: they're all the same and I hate them all equally
Waifu: Game has no waifu

>>180207570
>>Alpha Centauri
>Favorite faction: Zakharov
>Most hated faction: Deidre

>>Civ
Not enough differences to care.

>>Endless Legend
>Favorite faction: Vaulters
>Most hated faction: Drakken

>>Endless Space
Haven't played enough.

>>Endless Space 2
>Favorite faction: UE
>Most hated faction: Trees.

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>>180208208
>>Favorite faction: Vaulters

>>180208519
I have liked hellgate as a mechanic ever since I first saw it first in heroes. Any faction with it gets my vote.

>>180208620
Fair enough

>>180207570
>smac
un
deidre
deidre
>civ5
France in bnw, Egypt
Always kill Alex
Cathy

>>180208203
>Alpha Centauri
Never played it.
>Civ 4
Never played it.
>Civ 5
Never played it.
>Civ 6
Never played it.
>Endless Legend
I like the Necrophages.
I don't like everyone else
Waifu : nobody.
>Endless Space
I like United Empire.
I don't like Cravers.
Waifu : missiles.
>Endless Space 2
Never played it.
>Beyond Earth
Never played it.

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>focus on early exploration because I want that planet real estate
>this shit happens

kinda triggered

>>180212147
>picked up the explore 50% of the galaxy quest too

Jesus anon

>>180212147
Keep sending probes out and go towards wormhole tech.

>>180198703
it depends on your race and the quality of nearby regions; boroughs add small amounts of unhappiness which can be nullified by levelling up your borough streets, while additional cities generate overexpansion unhappiness

if a nearby region has very good anomaly placement (especially if there are happiness-boosting anomalies present), several good minor faction villages, or lots of strategic/luxury resources, it would be worth expanding into it earlier.

i personally tend to create my first settler when my city has 5-7 population, though when playing as broken lords (or necrophages when i'm not close enough to rush someone) i create another at 3-5 population, and of course with allayi i ALWAYS wait until i have at least 90% happiness

>>180212147
Get warp
Get scientists elected
Profit.

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>>180182249
>Endless Tabletop when
Sometime after the vidya RPG.

Threadly reminder that Amplitude is working on at least two unannounced projects, in addition to ES2. What we know for certain is that they're not a sequel to DotE.

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>>180188846
>so in endless legend should you first city location be somewhere with as much production as possible?
Ideally. But getting some +Approval anomalies or plopping yourself down on a lake river is more important in the long term.
>is buying out building with dust inefficient?
It's inefficient till mid-game. After that it's the only way you produce anything.

>Ash planet
>Coral Reefs

?!

>>180214010
EL2 either set on auriga again or some other planet of the endless, and an RPG to serve as a prologue to it

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>>180198447
>It feels Like I'm doing no damage.
Silly anon, heroes are not for damage dealing. I am serious.

You need heroes to:
>operate and produce bonus resources
>repair modules
>bait hero-killers into death rooms
>use special abilities
>carry the crystal
Damage dealing is not part of their job description.

To kill, you need kill-rooms with damage modules.

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>>180198703
>Whats the basic rotation?

>>180214494
>what is climate change
>what are biomes

>>180215272
there should be an addition to that picture that says that morgawr should ignore going for patterns and instead just expand as much as it can along the coast

>>180214207
So how would you salvage this start without restarting

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>>180216821
Literally unsalvageable. The Morgawr spawn next to the highest body of water every game. If this is the biggest water body the mapgen produce then the Morgawr literally can't complete their faction quest.

How do I get the non-heretical Vodyani path? I always manage to stray away from their religion. What victory path is compatible with it?

If I assimilate a minor faction will they still give me free shit like dust and science? Or does the planet simply becomes mine?

>>180217249
>Or does the planet simply becomes mine?
Yes.

>>180217363
that's underwhelming but probably balanced.

>>180217441
They also have a trait that your empire gets

Do you usually align with the Academy or fuck it up? I am not a big fan of the prospect of four-eyed virtual freaks returning so I usually go for blowing it up.

>>180218193
there's literally no difference

Would anyone happen to know if there's a way to prevent synthetic ascension from changing my species' portrait? Ideally without disabling achievements.

>>180218353
Don't you cancel their return by messing up the academy? Did I see it wrong?

>>180218520
I mean gameplay-wise

it just sort of divides the galaxy into two factions (that don't really do anything) and has a shitty reward at the end

desu I just disable the academy quest nowadays

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whoops.

>>180219330
Me on the left.

>>180214010
Damn, Vaulters really love their shields eh? They still have them on their backs.

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>>180215272

>Yeah, that's why we decided to go back to a +1 FIDSI per pop ahah. Thanks for your feedback! :)
1.0.16 preview Vodyani will never see release, so if you want to have fun with one of the most OP things they will probably ever introduce, do it now.

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where the hell should I build my second city? There's not a good spot on the whole continent.

>>180222360
>50 turns to make first settler

>>180223024
quit memeing me and answer the question

>>180222360
Just East of those Buffalo to the North East, dingus. After that on that river on the coast to the East Southeast.

whatever happened to civ vi? how come it didn't take off as much?

>>180224714
It blows

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>>180224714
>how come it didn't take off as much?
It remains a mystery that will stand the test of time.

>>180224714
It needs more expacs. The civs are boring right now.

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>>180224714
On paper it's better that CiVanilla. It'll be a lot more popular if and when they release a significant expansion that isn't complete shit. The addition of a World Congress would be step one. From there, IDK, corporations? Colonies?

>>180225246
>Colonies?
In this day and age? Ha.

>>180222360
>babbymode mods

>>180224714
not playable for as many people because civ6 is picky about hardware

the competitive scene from civ5 are very conservative and stuck to a specific mod, so the fact that going wide didn't fuck up your science made it unplayable for them

I think one of the main issues of singleplayer civ5 was the immortal troops vs the AI, you could easily avoid dying with your troops, retreating to heal and get promotions upon promotions while you destroyed your enemies units, I don't think civ6 really adressed that issue

>>180225434
I'm not sprekening your lingidity.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrNsIKPiI4

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>Finally try warp drives
>warp 1 wind-down time annoying to deal with
>rush warp 3
>it only increases the range and multiples the wind down time by distance traveled and if out of friendly territory
>Warp wind-down: 91 days

Back to wormhole I guess

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>>180230123
>Warp wind-down: 91 days
Yeah fucking nope

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>>180227214

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>>180224714

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The Kongo dominates every game as an AI. Please nerf Sub Saharan Africa.

>>180230660
WE

>>180230660
i will never understand why the kongo is a faction in civ6
it's never been anything but a shithole of warring tribes, they could've picked actual african nations like the mali, songhai, or 1300s somali/berbers

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>>180136864
Taking inspiration from fantasy fiction like Tolkien, Lets have one individual rise to power, an extremely powerful (and evil) psionic, a "Dark Lord" if you will. This individual uses his/her immense power to gain favor with the dark forces from the shroud. With these newfound pacts with the shrouds ruinous powers, he/she commands entire fleets and armies of Inter dimensional horrors and seeks to conquer and enslave the entire galaxy.

Think of the whole "evil dark lord" villain trope thats popular in fantasy fiction, but in space. It would make for an interesting narrative driven crises.

Now there are two ways this Crises can be defeated.

The first is the most obvious (but more difficult), just defeat the dark lord with pure brute force, send your fleets to fight through his conquered territories/minions and just bomb the shit out of his Dark Citadel.

Alternatively, have special narrative driven events where you have to gather "heroes" from your own empire and other empires, and basically have them go on sort of a narrative driven "journey" to defeat the Dark Lord themselves. Maybe you have to have your fleet escort them to their destination?

>>180231235
Three Ringworlds for the Fallen Empires under stagnation,
Seven for the xenophobe players in their habitats of stone,
Nine for Primitive Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
In the Land of the Shroud where the Shadows lie,
One ringworld to rule them all, one ringworld to find them,
One ringworld to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of the Shroud where the Shadows lie.

>>180231924
This nigga gets it

>>180231235
IN THE DISTANT FUTURE OF THE YEAR 1992
WAR HAS RETURNED TO THE GALAXY

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>>180230660
Ye

Ye

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The party go on

>>180230978
For the mechanic, dumb dumb.

>>180203825
[Fallen Empire Xenophobe Awakens, federates with all liberated planets]

What's a good leader to pick in civ6
I pirated it don't worry

>>180238670
Memexander

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cities-skylines-and-the-future-of-city-building-games_us_58e666b8e4b0d6001f07f244

>>180239390
what's a good babby's first civ pick in VI?