/civ4xg/ - Stellaris, Endless, Civilization and 4X Games General

>>180435970
>Buy Steallaris
>but Pirate the DLCs
literally what is the point? just take the plunge, me matey.

>>180436069
Not pirating paradox dlc can get very expensive

Is there something like the Fleet Builder tool in EUIV for Stellaris?

I swear to god I spent half my time just manually adding ships to queues.

I want to be able to just order 30 BB and 200 cruisers or something.


Also, any good mods that add ship variety? Not classes but actual models with working weapons?

>>180436137
aye, but not pirating the main game doesn't make pirating the dlcs it any less illegal

>>180436291
It's not about legality.

>>180436291
oh I thought you meant "why not buy the whole thing" rather than "why not pirate the whole thing"

Yeah I think it's weird that people are so obsessed about getting their pirated dlc on their legit vanilla version.
I think it's for cheevos that I don't really care about.

Even if I have the vanilla version of a game, and I want to pirate the dlc I just get a seperate pirated version instead. Less stuff to manage.

>>180436404
Oh, I see it's about the cheevos. I'll take that.

>>180436492
I just wonder how that works with cheevos you can only get with the dlc, if you get one of those while you're on pirated dlc

>Play anything other than space hitler
>do nothing the entire game
bluh

>>180436745
Really makes you think

>>180436287
Only solution I have for fleet building is adding stations to control groups.

>>180436915
but even then you have to click a thousand times

>>180437190
At least you have to move the mouse less, and you can make it quicker

>>180436287
>Is there something like the Fleet Builder tool in EUIV for Stellaris?
No. But rest assured it'll be in a future DLC for $30 considering it's one of the most requested features the game has.

Way I worked around it is my first 8 or 9 planets all get assigned a number hotkey and over the course of the game they get built up with the dockyards and fleet academies.

I also like to ensure at least a couple have an army focus, with things like clone vats, military academy, slave processing.

It's a lot easier (and quicker to build) when you can just hotkey between planets and don't have to make multiple clicks just to build a single ship. You can queue up dozens of armies as well.

>>180437190
Get something like NSC, which introduces ludicrously powerful ships you only need 2-3 of.

Never have to suffer carpal tunnel syndrome again.

>>180437263
>considering it's one of the most requested features the game has.
Kinda of crazy.
Since april last year at least.

I guess they've added the rally point since then?
So something to help at least.

>>180437296
>>180437263
>>180437226
>>180436915
Alright, so it doesn't exist yet. That's a damn shame.

So how about the first point? Additional ship models with working weapons?

Preferably original designs and not star trek

>>180437190
get a macro that that left clicks like 10 times every time you press 5 on the numpad

>>180437425
New Ship Classes, Realistic Ships and a few others do this. Some skins also exist, like 40k, if you're into that sort of thing.

>Devouring swarm
>Cede planet war demands
>DELICIOUS POPS
>Wait where'd my energy income go
>The buildings use power
>Deactivated buildings don't make food with delicious pops.
>Migrating delicious pops costs influence

Well then. I guess we shouldn't try to make fuckers cede planets until I'm xbox huge empire.

>>180438474
Can't you just demolish everything?

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Please do not bully the Rfitborn.

>>180438526

I could, but it'd be nice to be able to use all those buildings later.

Others could enslave/work pops and buildings, or at least deactivate buildings until the pops die off without having to deconstruct all the prebuilt stuff on the planet.

>>180438571
They freak out whenever i have a scout ship on their plot for 2 turns. You bully them by default. They get offended by anything.

>>180438474

Deactivate the buildings my man.

>>180440034
It is like 150 food surplus though, and at least part of the reason to go to war early on as devouring swarm right?

What are the best Civ 4 mods? I tried cavemen2cosmos and was underwhelmed. The AI doesn't hunt animals giving you a MASSIVE advantage that the AI just cant come back from.

Can someone explain the manpower resource in ES2 for me? I know it can fill ships and be used to invade planets, but what generates it, how exactly does the ship refill of manpower work, and does it do anything else?

>>180440440
Fall from Heaven.

How do you decide on a gameplan with the Horatio? They seem extremely dependent on the types of genes you gt to splice from minor populations around you, and finding these minor factions in general. You cant really take on the big empires early on since you do not have the production for it.

>>180440679
You focus on food and disable Steam updates.

>>180436069
>>180436137
>not pirating everything from parajews

>>180440590
>Fall from Heaven

Isn't that a preinstalled mod?

>Curators say I can beat dimensional horror with my fleet
>fleet gets absolutely destroyed
>dont even get it to half health
cool

>>180440906
No, pre-installed mod is a prequel to FfH2.

>>180441002
Guess you accidentally role-played as a space russia.

>>180440545
Tutorial does a very good job of explaining it. So does the manual. It is generated by a percentage of food production being diverted into military, trough certain improvements directly or by increasing said percentage, and by getting into bed with minors. You spend it to garrison and defendend planets as well as ships for invasion. Ships refill manpower based on a number of conditions - in short they refill best when stationed inside your sphere of influence, over a colonised system.

>>180441126
Thanks. I am a newfag to 4x games so its sometimes quite a lot to take in

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Lovely

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Start game of ES2 planning on expanding and doing science route.

First faction I meet is cravers. They immediately want to murder me.

RIP my plans. We out for blood now.

>>180441808
What are you, a craverphobe?

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>>180441858
It's like playing Switzerland and getting stuck next to Germany in 1939.

You just know that fuck is up to something.

>>180441808
Science and murder go hand in hand!

>>180441808
I just paid them dust until I won with science in my last Sophon game

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>>180442047
I think you have the wrong perception of cravers. They are a peaceful people.

Are Vodyani the most "Evil" race of ES2? They seem completely irredeemable regardless of which path you take in the story. Not sure about Cravers.

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Should I play EL or ES? Really want to get into the Endless franchise.

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>Don't worry, we still want to kill you.

>>180442896
Cravers and vodyani are equally shitty

>>180443014
Space fish pussy is best pussy.

>>180443014
ES1 is meh, tho some enjoy it.
EL is the best 4x on the market.
ES2 has some fancy new features over EL but far less spit and polish.

Pick your poison.

>>180442896
>>180443109
With Vodyani your extermination will serve a greater purpose, which you might even join, with cravers you are just food.

I don't think you can honestly say that two are equal.

>>180443238
>which you might even join
Where is this ever said? I've seen people claim it but all I've seen in their quests is that non-vodyani are only good for their essence. I assumed they were just using the essence to put more "flesh" vodyani into suits,

>>180443338
Flesh vodyani are all long dead, as is their planet, AFAIK. As to where this is said - read up on Vodyani hero biographies.They are all pretty much "I was a farmer, than vodyani came, now I am Virtua"

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>>180443238
EL it is then.

>>180443090
>Don't be alarmed! We're still hellbent on purging the galaxy of all sentient life

>>180441280
Almost everything has mouse over tooltips.

Don't get too spoiled by how good and efficient the UI is.

>>180443338
The first hero you get as the Vodyani is a guy who was regular person whose family was killed in the Vodyani invasion but his spirit was deemed worthy so he got put in a cloth. After the process he was no longer angry about his family and felt desire to serve a greater purpose. Then he kinda got hijacked by a Virtual endless but thats another story. But yes, if you were an exceptional individual you get converted.

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>>180435997
>removed the cbg and rtsg tag
Your OP doesn't get the spider seal of approbation.

Is there a reason to believe that The Lost are malicious and we shouldnt bring them back? The once influencing the Unfallen turned them into pretty nice guys, and the Endless ,who slaughtered the Lost and got high off their corpse dust, were known shitheads.

>play several games as Vodyani
>"oh okay I think I get how this game works now"
>switch to another race
>I have no idea how population, outposts, and colonization works
>I have to bother with the whims of different populations
>Pirates are actually annoying

Help! I never asked for his! Give me my Arks back!

http://www92.zippyshare.com/v/6AWq5jNd/file.html
Anyone got input to share?

>>180444819
>He plays with pirates on
Turn that off and you'll have a better day.

>>180443238
>one of them eat you and your family
>the other one murder you and your family with a small chance of deleting your memories and trapping your soul into a suit that is directly controllable by the church which forbids any freedom of thought and expression and requires you to mindlessly obey its orders.

They are pretty close. Not sure if I would rather get killed off and eaten or turned into a sockpuppet for a tyrannical church.

>>180443090
>with minimal data loss

kek, the spiritualist was right
purge the cans

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>literally bad

>>180445486
There are more mentions of russia than Paradox.. Top kek.

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just tempted to restart

>>180445690
wow a "literally who gives a shit" event. Sure is cause for a restart

>>180445151
dis neds feedback
cant give 1 atm

Everytime I start a new game in any space 4x this plays in my head.
https://youtu.be/YegBW5SbsHo

>>180445486

>russians
>embargo
>china
>sanctions

The last thread was a mistake

>chinese endless basically
>horatio world
>huge expansion
>fun probably

>>180447338
>horatio world
TITUS
GET THE FLAMETHROWER

>>180448234

>not wanting to go to Horatio Research Park and HoratioWorld! with your clonebros

>>180448418
>wanting to cross Horatio Avenue to go through Horatio Street, pass through Horatio Park, see Horatio Dock in the distance, with Horatio Sea, before walking down to Horatio Beach, stopping by a small shop to get Horatio Fries covered in Horatio Sauce

>>180448526
>covered in Horatio Sauce

>>180448703
Oh, fuck you, you know that's NOT what I meant.

>>180448234
The Codex Astartes does not support that action.

>>180448526

>Riftcucks will never know the feeling of riding the hands free antigravity HoratioCoaster while holding their partner's hand
>Jewmeris will never know the feeling of dropping off the HoratioFlume and not drowning due to fucked up genes
>Cravens will never know the feeling of pure bliss when entering the HoratioTown on the edge of HoratioWorld without being gunned down on sight

Truly I pity the lesser """""species""""".

>>180448757
>Horatio will never know the feeling of not getting eaten by Cravers
I would tell them to pity the food, but they don't feel pity.

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>>180448717

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>>180448721
The codex can kiss my ass!

>>180449030
STOP

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>>180449151

>>180449260
NO
Don't you turn this into a fucking meme.

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HAK HAK HAK

How complex is ES2 compared to other games in its genre? Does it have a shitton of systems you need to take care of, and how intuitive are they?

>>180449446
>How complex is ES2 compared to other games in its genre?
It's EL with less polish and more features IN SPACE!

>Does it have a shitton of systems you need to take care of, and how intuitive are they?
Both of those are arbitrary distinctions, for me -
yes on both,

Is the lore of EL, ES1, and ES2 connected? There seem to be some similarities but not everything adds up.

>>180450030
ES1 is more or less retconned.
EL takes place before ES2, but after Dungeon of the Endless.

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>>180444673
Pls respodn

>>180445151
ANSWER

>>180450332
Not 4x.

>>180450404
IT
IS

>>180450430

Fuck off I'm not reuploading some shitty anime mod for you

>>180450602
ITS OUR ANIME MOD

>>180450030
the timeline is DotE -> EL -> ES1/ES2

ES2 is essentially a replacement of ES1 in the storyline

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Good luck, dreddo

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>>180445339
>listening to spiritualists
>listening to the people that happily make a covenant with a guy called THE END and destroy our galaxy, maybe even the entire universe
We must destroy all of these fools before they destroy the universe!

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>brighter than the sun

>>180444673
Why would any idependent species bring into existance a power known only for their godlike power? I mean someone being on the losing side of a galactic struggle might do so as an act of desperation, but otherwise no one would want to open a can of worms big enough to consume them, no matter how warm and fuzzy those worms appear to be.

>>180452004
It depends on their convictions about the world. If they see them as religious entities, they would be more than glad to let them enter this world. If current Earth religions could open a portal that would allow their deities to manifest, none of the more theologically-motivated nations would bat an eye before allowing it.

>>180452189
Every theologically-minded nation would bat several eyes at the idea that their gods were dead or somehow barred from our universe.

>>180444673
Because the gasbag's bright idea on how to bring them back involves galactic genocide.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-74-genemodding-templates.1031539/

>>180444673
watch the pathfinders trailer

the heretic isyander talks about how the galaxy must be cleansed and genocided for the lost to regain their strength

>>180452546
I would assume they will keep his succeeding to bring them back as the canon ending moving forward since it is the more interesting one actually driving the plot of the universe forward.

>>180452529
Not too bad, except for making preferences so ludicrously expensive.

>>180453004
That's just a project cost instead of a trait cost, right?

>>180445151
This needs encouragements.

>>180453105

>A cost (equivalent to 3 trait points) was added for swapping out a Pop's habitability trait

Yup. It's a good change, makes terraforming a consideration instead of just changing a planetary preference to suit your needs.

>>180453341
>terraforming a consideration
'no'
In every other game you end up with gaia-only planets late game which is ferking bullshiite.

>>180453341
>terraforming a consideration
Can't terraform ringworlds.

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>>180453686
Am I the only one terrified at the idea of living on a ringworld?

>>180453741
Why would you be?

>>180453852
If I remember right, Niven's ringworld needed periodic orbital corrections from a thruster system to not fall into the star.

There's no engineering malfunction that'll send the Earth into the Sun as of yet.

>>180453449

How is that any different from min maxing your pops or going Synthetic evolution? You're going for the absolute best result in all situations.

>how to fix the voidayni
Arc gets +2 support slots, both filled with the "passively gain essence" module for your first ship. Arc turns it's two large weapon slots into normal weapon slots.

Diwscuss.

>>180453852
Because on a normal planet, you can still raise your eyes and look at the sky, and dream.
On a ringworld, if you raise your eyes, you only see MORE fucking people.

And beside, there's no horizon.

And finally, what happens if you jump from a ringworld? Do you fall toward the star?


Fuck ringworlds. I'm happy I'm not living on one.

>>180454005
Depends what ringworld you're thinking of.

A Stellaris ringworld would let you look at the sky, with a solid version of the milky way. If you jumped off you'd fall back on the ringworld unless you left the effective gravity well, in which case you're a spaceship and probably have some idea where you're going.

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It'd be nice if they could fix the bugs in Stellaris.

>>180454472

That isn't a kumo

>>180454570
What the fuck is a kumo???

>>180454603
Something the world will be better off without

>>180453341
Yeah it's ridiculous how op it was to just change preference for 0 cost.

As soon as you got genemodding you could colonize any non tomb world planet and have high habitability.

>>180452529
>What's more, because identity is tied to species name, we are forced to disallow renaming when modifying species
But this is false.
Mutants from the genemod events that rename themselves count as your species as well since I've played this patch.

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>>180454472
I fixed the bugs in Stellaris.

Mod recommendation:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=691008512

You provide a template for the mod then it fills all the slots on a planet based on your template. After making so many habitats and ringworlds, this mod is a god send.

>>180454771
So you're a kumo?

>>180454906
There's actually a separate section in the save file for the identity of a species, if that's the same any two species are the same even if they don't share a name or portrait, which I've used to separate humans by phenotype so the namelists aren't stupid.

So really they have no idea what the fuck they're talking about.

>>180455062
We all are.

>>180454968
>not anime mod
not interested

>>180455096
>which I've used to separate humans by phenotype so the namelists aren't stupid.
That's nice.
Don't you get several different types of humans growing simultaneously then though?

I think I'd like the different phenotypes to grow as a single species, but have their own namelists. New pop gets a random phenotype, then leaders based on that pop gets that phenotypes
Not sure if that is moddable though. Maybe you'd have to make different species like you do, but make it so they can't grow, and then have the main human species that is of any phenotype grows instead, when a new pop is finally grown you have a trigger to replace it with one of the other phenotype species that is namelist sensitive.

How do you fix the tiny portrait mod bug?

>>180445339
When someone "becoming" synthetic, the old pops should become refugees.
The few who managed to avoid becoming skewered by the machines.

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that poor planet

add this to the OP

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=940577772

>>180456441

It fits in the op, best hope the next OP isn't lazy and includes /cbg/ /rtsg/ as well.

>>180456441
No.

>>180443090
>2365
>that many ringworlds
literally how

>>180455837
Yeah, it had simultaneous growth, which was a bit annoying, and it required a savegame edit to change things around so everyone got full citizenship day one. Still, the ability to settle specific planets with specific people and have that group grow was pretty neat, I only settled planets in equally spread batches, spread each people out in different directions, and pretended nations were both still around and arguing about how to divide everything up.

>>180456441
I don't play ES2 so I can't judge if it is good enough, if others say it is sure, but pastebin it.

>>180444673
>and the Endless ,who slaughtered the Lost and got high off their corpse dust, were known shitheads.
Because chances are the Lost were worst. That's usually how these stories end.

Look at the forerunners & precursors in halo.

The precursors basically released galactic aids out of spite at being beaten.

>>180455929
We all want an answer for that.

>>180456798
>We

Damn, he's fucking back already

>>180456441
>>180456684
add guide to the op too, faggots

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=940579911

>>180456629
Short answer: mods.

Long answer: no restriction on building more than one megastructure at once, various -% build costs (by 2365 it was at -52%) from like 7-8 tradition trees and planet-unique -0.5% buildings, 18 or 19 frontier outposts of mining and research stations, and the first ringworld construction starting before 2300 and getting filled with nothing but mines until the next two or three were up.

Oh, and the 19-slot spaceport mod, being bordered in on both sides of the arm by passive Fallen Empires, and having my genocidal cockroach-robot neighbour use nothing but missiles in the first war all helped to let me not get my shit kicked in while I only had one planet.

>>180456834
and mine
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=788190214

>>180457017
I'll add this one, much more comprehensive than the others

>>180456441
>those rare luxuries
When do they show up?

The expansion disapproval one in particular seems like it could combo with Expansionists II and give you theoretically infinite planets.

>>180457249
>When do they show up?
They don't show up in every game, I'm pretty sure. Read the beginning of the guide.

Yeah, Benthic Gems can stack, meaning if you have it in two different levels, you get no overcolonization disapproval.

If you use three...

>>180456832
Do you have an answer for us or not?

>>180457369
You can get positive approval from them?

I'd probably still prefer Expansionists II and some FIDS boosters instead, but that's pretty crazy.

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thats a lot of strike craft

>>180458879
For you.

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>>180449260
I approve anon.

>start a game of endless space 2 with a custom race.
>start with ecologist population
>starting planet has -70 happiness from 3 ash/lava planets and 2 negative anomalies.
So apparently my people hate their home more than anything. How do I deal with this?

>>180459619
give them a different planet type? use religious faction to force happiness?

>fanatic xenophobes awaken
>go round the galaxy stomping their neighbors with their 233k long dick
>fanatic xenophiles awaken in response
>start taunting everyone with their 454k dick

I'm scared desu

>>180459714
There are a lot of ways to fix this by starting over. I was wondering if it was possible to keep this start and still play. The penalty to food production is the main problem...My people will starve to death by turn 30.

>>180459898

You will never get enough happiness by that time, either. They will rebel. The early happiness building's only +10, the others come a bit too late. Such a situation would only be doable by an inorganic species.

>>180460165
Eat my ass.

>>180458879
that aint shit you dumb baby

>>180460165
obento

>>180460165
Grab a gun and eat a bullet.

>>180455929
Okay goys, I will tell you my secret.

You have to run the game with high quality settings.

Can't do that?

Then it's time to upgrade your pc *ching *ching*

>>180459619
If you go Ecologist and Arks you need Biophobic.

>>180445486
>academy found irrelevant
this tbqh

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I wasn't prepared for moral decisions of this magnitude.

is chinklad still doing his c2c playthrough?

>>180461116
Why not both?

>>180460589
So what is the BEST and WORKING performance mod for Stellaris?

>>180441808
Cravers are a species of peace.

>>180461405
Because I can only select one, anon.

>>180461116
I bet they're actually the degraded descendants of the prior sentient inhabitants.

>>180461406
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=922105128

>>180461690
Dude-vey, wtf. Why would anyone do something abhorrent?

>>180461874
Shh, let him shill his dumb mod in peace. We'll just ignore it, along all the retarded "guides" from earlier.

Did they ever fix the civ6 ai being useless?

>>180461690
The only that optimizes is your energy income.

Be useful, anontards.

>>180461116
always happiness

hw2 suc coc

>>180462025
I don't think there are any.

>>180461116
PETS

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>>180462125
Even in vidya I can't bring myself to be mean to innocent animals.

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The only mod you would ever need.

>>180462245
You're too soft.

>>180462325
Wasn't that mod removed from the workshop after it was reported?

>>180462325
Has anyone still got that mod?

The community needs to be told about this man's effort.

>>180462414
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=708698829

Still here, sub button too. Haven't tried clicking it though.

>>180445486
>nigger feels
>game literally bad

This latent anti-semitism is disgusting.

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who else /autisticly plots out your perfect borders well in advance but never finishes games/ here?

>>180462645
Welcome to 4chan, a greater hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley.

You get used to it.

>>180462593
I can't seem to find it on the workshop directly.

Besides,
>0 comments
Yep. Previous one was censored to preserve fee-fees.

>>180462732
cool

>>180462732

>New Africa
>New Asia

Yuck

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Continued from last thread!
China has reached a burgeoning 2000 souls, shortly before 20000 BC! There are so many men that even Wu can't deal with all of them in a day anymore. China has recently discovered that goods can be traded for with other goods; jade and amber has been discovered in the vicinity and will surely aid future trading efforts.

>>180462823
WE

>>180440440
Pie's Ancient Europe is good mod for antiquity and the madman is still churning out new versions. Should be coming out any week now.

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just colonized this baby

>>180462823
New africa was the first empire I subjugated formerly called 'The Golden Gorrilin Clans' which were the gorilla species ;)

The old imperium was obviously my core worlds before I took over the science fallen empires ring worlds. It's worlds were all latin-y European nations like Britannia, Francia, Germania etc. I regret moving to the ring worlds really but I think thats what my galactic empire would do when I role play.

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Can someone post EL city infographic?

>>180440440
>The AI doesn't hunt animals
Yes they do
Turn on Teleport Hunting Rewards, what the AI can't manage is bringing the animals back alive.

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>>180443014
>Really want to get into the Endless franchise.
Canonical start of the plot.

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>>180463219

>>180462414
You'd be slightly on the soft side too if you have two small doggos that love you to death.

So is Utopia worth getting in the upcoming sale?

>>180464318

Eh, might as well get it, you know Paradox games are barebones as fuck without DLC and there's gonna be a load of it a year.

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>>180464284
I only have one, and she's like pic related.

>>180464213
I should probably do something like that for Blades of Stellaris, but effort

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>>180464431
I have two of these.
One of them is a 1-year pupper who lives on an endless cycle of napping, playing until he can't move his jaw, and eating. Mischievous as hell but also really affectionate.
The other's an old doggo approaching 15 years of age and spending most of it sleeping, but the pupper keeps him active against his will. Sweet as hell with people though.

>>180464318
Pirate it.

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>>180463471

>>180464916

I have the base game on Steam, how do I pirate for that?

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>>180464779
Fun fact : Hitler loved dogs.
Not even him could resist the doggo charm.

>>180464983
Very easily. Just "borrow" the DLC, put it in your files, and voilà !

>>180464920
Thanks.

>>180465103

Really, that's all? Will it not conflict with game updates?

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Let's play a game!

Post rare or hidden anime mods from the workshop people normally don't know they exist. Sadly, a lot of this stuff is not tagged properly, so let's start collecting them!

I'll start:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=930783620

>>180465103
I think you mean not even doggos could resist hitler's charms.

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>>180462912
Now I know I'm using Rafts, which can never enter Sea tiles let alone Ocean ones, and made a joke about going to the same shores but from the coast. But this looks like an entirely newgoddamn continent over here, unless mine loops around somewhere. I have another raft with a Master Tracker on the way there, and we'll soon see if we have our first New World.

>>180464983
I'm not sure honestly, I don't really play Stellaris anymore. Other Paradox games can have their DLC pirated even with a legit base game so I assume it's also possible with Stellaris. Generally you need to use CreamAPI to crack the DLC.

>>180465201
Don't expect people to download this for you.

>>180465335
>you

It's US, WE, not me!

>>180465187
Paradox's games are pretty easy to pirate. Most people just buy the vanilla game to keep them alive but pirate the DLCs to protest against Paradox' policy.

>>180465335
>raft
That mod is the very definition of starting from zero. I'm surprised you don't have to research fire and standing up.

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>>180464213

>>180465335
Post anime mods or stfu

>>180465498
You do have to research fire. I haven't even GOTTEN Controlled Fire yet, all I have is Firemaking.

>>180464775
It's the mod you've been making for almost a year right?

>>180465335
>>180465498

Well thats convenient, guess I'll just pirate Utopia then.

>tfw invading a materialist FE's ringworlds with fully sentient robot armies

Shoulda awakened sooner you fuckin' losers.

>>180465335
>>180465617
>don't have fire
>discover America
Believeable worlds

>>180465617
>controlling fire
stop playing god
you'll trigger the end game fire crisis

>>180465617
>You do have to research fire
I don't even have a reaction pic for that.

Hahaha, get a load of this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=913546668

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>>180465335
>when your hunter is a finnish goddess
Suomi :DDD:DD:DD::DDDDD

>>180465830
Fires do burn your buildings down, which can be annoying because some of the more important buildings are almost as expensive as wonders, hammer-wise.

>>180465849
You got to research Language and Scavenging too m8

>>180465880
I can't even think of a cunning one-liner to answer this.

>>180465925
>You got to research Language and Scavenging
... in a game where you start with a bunch of settlers? What, were they communicating with gestures?
Gestures still count as language, so fuck you.

>>180465925
That picture made me want to play MoM. Did anyone ever made good modern MoM? I remember warlock and Majesty being meh, are there any other options?

>>180465335
Isn't the raft model straight out of Empire Earth or am I thinking of other early naval units?

EBIN MOD :DDDDD
BOST IT NAO :DDDDDD
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=907018407&searchtext=bestiality

>>180465201
kk
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=689731389

>>180466178
>searchtext=bestiality

Anon...?

>>180466041
>majesty
>meh
Nigger, you better explain yourself or I'll make the holocaust look like a fucking joke.

>>180466178
>looking for "bestiality"
>acting surprised when he finds creepy stuff

>>180465676
Yeah that's right

not sure if I should wait for the anniversary for an update and get a bit of extra work in or just release another weekly update tomorrow

>>180466272
Old Majesty was an interesting and unique expirience, the new one was a glorified civ5 mod.

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>>180466024
>... in a game where you start with a bunch of settlers
No you start with a single Band of Homo Sapiens Sapiens and are unable to build any more Settlers until you research Tribalism.

>>180466071
It might be, this is the raft model. I haven't played EE in a while.

Are we posting god tier mods right now then?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=683230077

>>180466354
The new one? You mean Majesty 2? Yeah, it was pretty meh and heroes were retarded, but it wasn't that bad.

>>180466360
My point still stand : you start with a group. You always need language to maintain cohesion.

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>>180465553
While Small Stormfire Autocannons were better than the Small Gauss Cannon in the precog battleship, that isn't the case for the Precog Destroyer due the gauss cannon benefitting more from the extra tracking.

>>180466245
Not anime, disqualified.

Post something like this.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=905000402

Unfortunately it's not found in any collection, but I'm sure a kind anon will help us out, right?

>>180466412
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=763275020

>>180466041
Have you tried any MoM mods?
There are a few, I liked insecticide.

This one also seems interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6416lEDcLVc&ab_channel=BlakesSanctum

>>180466574
>us
Fuck off.

>>180466496
>You always need language to maintain cohesion
No you don't, not when the group is perhaps 10 people and you still 'speak' in gestures. Language in this case refers to a spoken language that isn't definitely something others will understand. Pointing and making violent movements isn't a 'language', it's body signals any other humans can understand. Also Language is literally one of the first two techs in the game so

>>180466360
Not too sure about that one but going through the unit list like I'd ever uninstall Civ 4 or C2C quite a few of the early game ships are from Empire Earth

>>180465201
This is a completely adorable MUST HAVE moddo
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=899460290&searchtext=bestiality

>>180466683
My problem with MoM itself is that unlike SMAC I just can't get over how old the game is. I dunno why, just dosn't work for me because of that.

>>180467256
>searchtext=bestiality
Something you want to talk about, Anon?

>>180465201
I bet nobody knew about this awesome mod
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=897779189

>>180467338
It does look more like civ1 than civ2 I guess, and I think civ1 looks a bit too old.
Learned to appreciate it though.

>>180467429
What's your favorite animal?

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>>180466569

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Seems the AI does restore ringworlds after awakening cause this wasn't me.

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What's the best shipset and why is it Pirates?

>>180464171
That's a motherfucking SHIELD
Now I gotta get this game. I fucking love shields.

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>>180468139
Yeah.

>>180468275
>this is a popular mod
Hmmmmmmmm

>>180468549
Horsers archers were the greatest and most powerful units in history for 2000 years.

>>180468549

>spet xyons didn't get the most kills

What were they doing for that entire battle?

How do you invite a third faction to an alliance in ES2? Does it need to have existed for a specific number of turns or something?

>>180456629
Is ringworld basically a better habitat?
I never actually get to build one since I usually go for psionic or robot before some crisis happen and I get fucked before I get to it

>>180468938
How many races total do you have in the game?

>>180468961
Ringworlds are a worse habitat, they cost far too much, take far too long to build, consume a system and only give 4 gaia worlds and they don't have the habitat unique buildings.

>>180469038
8, 3 fags formed an alliance and will win by score unless I get a third person in my alliance as well.

>>180468961

Ring worlds are 4 25 slot gaia planets. They're borderline useless due to

>how late you get them
>how long they take to build
>how many ascension points they take
>how many minerals it takes to build

on top of that

>how long it takes 4 planets to fill 25 pops each
>how long it takes to fully upgrade 25 buildings, 4 times

Habitats are infinitely superior due to not having to deal with any of that bullshit.

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>>180468729
Indeed. Although if TW attila is to be believed secretly it was actually jewish camels that were the strongest

>>180468924
It was like my first time ever using the horsefuckers I'll stop posting TW now though. But I do want to share the single best TW screenshot ever taken. Please note that the army name is a randomly generated one and not one I chose. This is the only jewish faction in the game for those who don't get it

>>180469110
Than it should be just the same way as your initial partner. Are you at peace with the race you are trying to ally?

>>180469194
Yes, we are at peace, have all sorts of agreements and even sharing vision. No option to invite them to an alliance, though

>>180469241
Is he also at peace with the other person in your alliance?

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>>180469193
???

>>180469241
are you trying to invite the cravers into an alliance

>>180469349
If they are at peace already than it doesn't matter if it's cravers.

>>180468961
No.


Maybe you'd want a ringworld if you're starting to really lack other expansion options, not any good systems to colonize or put habitats.
Then a ringworld can be a good source of Food/Minerals, while your habitats get you energy/research.

>>180469447
>Maybe you'd want a ringworld if you're starting to really lack other expansion options
Nah, you only want a ringworld if you want the RP of building a ring world, otherwise you're flat out better off with habitats.

>>180469342
The battle numbers have nothing to do with it anon. The picture is a walking meme with a Jewish army called the merchants of death earning the cost effective killer achievement and it was by complete chance

>>180469338
Yes

>>180469349
No. Sophons. And yes I do have the tech.

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>>180469687
The strongest army is obviously the roman one though.

Is there 1.0.19 Changelog somewhere for ES2?

>>180465103
>Hitler liked dogs
Literal propaganda. He beat, kicked and screamed at the dog that hung out with his squad during a long winter deployment. Almost everyone else in that group died, but since they were known for housing that dog it was just assumed Hitler had loved the pupper too.

He later owned a few German Shepherds, though how much of that was nationalist posturing is anyone's guess.

>>180469835
>mods
>elites vs niggers in shirts
Nah. In vanilla in terms of raw power the himyar do top out. There's like 2 infantry units stronger than their best infantry, but neither of the factions that have those have cavalry as strong as himyars OP as fuck camels. Lets stop posting TW outside of /twg/ though.

What technology tree do I want to focus on for a military victory? Seems like both Economy and Empire Development could be useful

>>180470381
Funny guy.

>>180470428
What's so funny? There are other technologies that are outside the military tree that could indirectly help

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting

>>180470506
Endless space 2?

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>>180470567
Retarded idiot.

>>180470783
t. johan

>>180470506
Unless you're playing the cravers I've found its best to ignore the military tree for the early game and get your economy running, and then full shift into military powerhouse

>>180470381
In endless space 2, tech is a bit useless. Ether way: more industry is always the way to go forever always. having cool weapons and tech won't help you when you cant churn them out for a war.

the higher tech buildings tend to be bad, so low tech weapons and ships in large quantities usually works best.

>>180470381
all of them you mong
You need the bottom for your science and colonization, the right for your economy and industry, the left for your ships, food, and approval
the top is just guns, which you just need to grab a few of every now and again

>>180469835
Nope, Jewish camels hold supreme with
>charge + armour + speed + mass
combo, meaning on maxed battle difficulty where AI can beat T3 infantry with T1 spears, camels still melt everything they run into spearman included.

>>180469527
>Nah, you only want a ringworld if you want the RP of building a ring world, otherwise you're flat out better off with habitats.
If you only have one system, and you can either get a ringworld or 1 habitat in that system, and you really need minerals/food, then the ringworld will be a better long term option for you

>>180471104
No you mog: the bottom isn't worth it. time you spend researching better research doesn't pay off until the game is already won or lost.

Go big fleets and industry early if you want to win. The game is usually over in one way or the other by turn 100

>>180471206
>colonization
how will you get industry if you can't even colonize lava planets

>>180471171

Camels do have buggy mass though, their mass stats are far higher than they should be.

>>180471206
>time you spend researching better research doesn't pay off until the game is already won or lost.
I welcome you to try this in MP. It's quite amusing just how good tech ramp is early game if you aren't wasting it.

>>180471171
Camels actually get shredded by elite pikes that are bracing because they do AP damage based on enemy mass+speed, with a bonus if they're charging.

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>Utopia only 10% off

>>180466360
keep posting chink2cosmos

Go synth or stay Cyborg?

>>180471594
It crashed after I tried turning on Viewports
I'm trying to make Viewports work right now because it helps performance a bit, if I can't make it work I'll probably have to turn it off

>>180471626
Stay cyborg if you're roleplaying for the good of your people

Synth if you're rolepalying a dystopian nightmare

>>180471679
what is Viewports?

>everyone yells at me to not buy civ 4 because sale coming
>don't do it
>it is now 75% off
Thank you guys
you are my greatest ally

>>180471626
Synth if you're latest patch.

>>180471394
especially if you're playing a faction like the vodyani who have invincible arks until mid game

by the way, what exactly does losing a ground invasion do to an ark? Does it destroy the ark? I've yet to lose one to a ground invasion so I really have no idea

>>180471626

>+20% to all yields but foot which is useless
>or +%5 minerals

Hmmmm

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>>180471762
It basically shrinks the map down to the area around your unit / cities and only loads the other bits when you ask it to

>>180471768
No problem.

>>180471812
Probably just puts it out of commission since your other ships have that "reclaim ark" action

>>180471812
Yeah it's the same as blowing it up except you get to keep vodyani pops for your vodyani-only colony.

Tho I'm not sure about system improvements.

>>180471768
No problem anon, I did say you'd regret it if you bought it yesterday.

>>180445151
Nice robutts, needs more butts.

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>>180449260
fucking kek

>>180471812
destroys the ark and strands the population on the system as it's taken over, allowing the conqueror access to them

Distant Worlds Universe is 50% off, is it worth it? I see a lot of people who love it here.

What happens in the Craver storyline? I couldnt get anywhere with it in my only Craver playthrough because I didnt meet a single minor race before they all got eaten and/or murdered.

/wgg/ died again
Remember next thread to add /rtsg/, /cbg/, and /wgg/ to the OP.

>>180466360
Continuing this;
Our borders have expanded again, and of course we choose a new trait (and drawback). As we're bearing down on Tribalism, I chose Imperialistic, for the bonus to Tribe production it gives. I also had to take a Drawback; I gave Wu Idealistic.
Also, one of our Rafts bearing a Neanderthal Tracker has landed on what I THINK is another continent. Soon we'll find out if this is the case.

>>180475507
It has everything stellaris is missing and is missing everything stellaris has.

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>>180475647
oh fuck me

>>180475746

Is this c2c?

How close to controlled fire are ye?

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>Civ VI DLC isn't discounted at all
might as well steal it

>>180470227
Nice propaganda, goy.

I havent played as the Unfallen, the Riftborn, the Lumeris, or the Horatio yet. Which one would you say is worth sinking the next 20 hours in a game as? I am looking for something mechanically fun and interesting.

>>180476058
he passed it ages ago

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>>180476058
Turns out I'm retarded and it's Fire Making that's far away; Controlled Fire is all the way back, which makes more sense.

>>180476394
>actual accounts from fellow soldiers from before Hitler's political heyday
>more propaganda than Hitler's own politically guided memoirs
Ok Fritz

>>180477089
>doesn't even bro give any reliable proof
>"please guys just believe me, it's official, some faggot confirmed it"
Oi vey.

>>180477089
>>180477535
quit talking to yourself.

>trying to buy game
>the steam store is laggy as shit
>can't even make a purchase
FUCK

>>180479172
Just wait another few hours, Steam always shits itself on the first day of the sale.

>>180479172
Oh, boo-hoo.
>trying to play game
>GoG insists I fill in some code
>won't send an email
>been days

I haven't played Stellaris yet but might give it a shot. How is it compared to ES2?

>>180475746
>tfw you're 100% sure you've discovered a new continent before 18000 BCE
Chinese explorers are the greatest in history. 18000 BC: The Year China Discovered America, never5get

>>180479474
Imagine ES2.
Now imagine it in real-time.
Now remove everything fun and balanced.
You have Stellaris.

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>>180479586
I probably need to sleep if I'm making this mistake so much.