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

>>182558771
Hooray!

ded on arrival

2nd for UE

4th for Riftborn bullying

>>182559112
And won't it be glorious

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>>182558771
I WANT PARADOX TO MAKE A AQUATICS SPECIES GROUP WITH AWESOME PORTRAITS.
dolphin people
shark people
tropical fish people
frog people
salamander people
salmon people
catfish people
whale people

10,000 people would buy that DLC. make it 2$ and you can make a easy 20k, paradox. 20k$ is dangling over your office, just waiting for you to grab it.

>Terraform newly conquered fully built up planets
>It scrambles the tile deposits forcing you to rebuild fucking everything
PARADOX REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

the unhappiness penalty from Solitary and Decadent Don't affect hive minds right?

>>182559625
>It scrambles the tile deposits forcing you to rebuild fucking everything
wait, really?

>>182559705
You can't pick them as traits as a hive mind.

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>>182559829
Did in 1.6.0, they fixed it in 1.6.2

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>>182559284
Please do not bully the Riftborn

>>182560792
*bullies*

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>>182560259
that makes sense, though I wish it told you when you were hovering over them instead of when just the red part of the sidebar, or greyed them out as an option
though it won't really affect me much, at this point I am just creating a bunch of Races to potentially replace the shitty Randomly genned ones

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>>182558771
>/4xg/ /cbg/ /rtsg/
Is the first one necessary? I mean, it's in the thread's name.

>>182560792
[bullies geometrically]

>>182561009
why are you never happy spider-kun, at least the tags are there

>>182560980
>replace the shitty Randomly genned ones
The thing is though that you can plan your game before even starting it when you do that.

>>182560792
>Bullies organically

>>182561536
I'm just curious.
But you know what, if there's enough space in the OP, it's okay.

>>182561536
I'm convinced he's trying to make us hate him so people will make OPs

>>182561009
I can't be the only one who usually just searches for /4xg/, right?

>>182562350
That too, yeah.

>>182562460
Dunno. Too lazy to make a strawpoll for that.

>>182562460
I just type in civ, and that's usually enough.

>>182561871
thats why I have it set to optional for mine spawning
Its just that there are some shit like Fanatic purifiers or Hiveminds which never I never seem to find, so I thought if I make a few and then then give them permission to sometimes spawn it could spice shit up a little

>>182560980

Thats pretty much the reason I made like 40 custom races already. So I can actually encounter megacorps, fanatical purifiers and fanatical befrienders with fitting portraits and stuff.

>>182564715
yeah, its nice when you have mostly themed Races, and not just Random mix mash of shit
Plus in my experience the random genned ones tend to not like each other at all very much
like, in my experience you will be lucky if a federation of two AI gets going because of how much contradictory Empires the game likes to put everywhere

>>182560532
Oh, so it only affects pirates.

>>182566806
Poor pirates

>>182560792
The Riftborn are like those awkward kids in high school that eventually bring bombs and automatic rifles to class. Bully at your own risk, their ships are devastating.

>>182559372
hold up, you don't get your aquatic portraits until reptilians finally get some good ones that aren't the turtle.

>>182570624
'no'

>Wiz is currently fighting the community over whenever or not bad voice acting is sexist or not because a female is involved.

>>182572463
Get some screencaps

>>182572463
Of all the problems with the quite frankly disgusting Militarist voice, people jump to sexism?

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>>182572643
So far

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>>182573363
respectful disagreements abound

>>182573363
Does he not realise that people are upset because they wanted something sounding militarist, not like a fucking chaos marine with throat cancer.

I'd have been happy with a austere sounding woman or a soldier sounding woman and I'd be just as upset it was a male voice with the same style. When I think of the militarist ethic I think of Starship Troopers or the Empire.

>>182573363
>"everyone disagree with me"
>"therefore I'm right"
Is that guy 16? He reminds me of me when I was writing Sonic and Touhou crossover smut and was lashing out at everyone who didn't suck my dick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bozvLUp0f1o

New militarist voicepack coming up!

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>>182573740
>writing Sonic and Touhou crossover smut

>>182573875
These were the Dark Times.

>>182573810
Sounds perfect, can't imagine how anyone could dislike it as a voice of an ordered military focused state unless they hated women.

>Militarist voice over
Explain

>>182574172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b10YpKvgMY
12 seconds

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>>182574172
https://youtu.be/3b10YpKvgMY?t=13s

>playing with sound

>>182574286
Stellaris' music is okay.

>>182574246
>>182574264
Wow, the militarist VO is shitty. Also, why is Paradox wasting their time with shitty cosmetic bullshit instead of actually improving the game?

>>182574447
You might get tired of it at some point
Creation and Beyond>>>>>>all

>>182574246
Is it really that hard to just get someone to re-voice all of Colonel Corazón Santiago from Alpha Centauri? She's even diverse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZ0thoxrHI

>>182574539
VO will potentially have a minimal impact on development. If they keep adding cosmetic stuff people will praise them for some reason.

>>182574592
It would work so well, they could easily grab that woman off the Expanse who seems to voice every conspiratorial powerful sci-fi woman these days.

>Here's the thing: No matter The validity of such criticism, if we had picked a male voice, even one that sounded far 'crazier', we would have gotten at most 10-20% of the complaining we've gotten now. I make no judgment about any individual critique but this is an observable enough fact that we literally accounted for it in our planning. That's all.
>tfw to smart too receive criticism

>>182574778
>if we plan for outcry over our stupid decisions we can make the stupid decisions and be right!
paradox you are of genius!

>>182574246
I think i can do a better militarist VO with my shitty mic.

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>>182574264
>Militarist
Jesus christ I know what I'm modding.

>>182575048
You could probably do one pulling random phrases out of Call of Duty games

>>182574246
>Militarist sounds like a fucking barbarian with a dick in her mouth
Gee, thanks Wiz

So when are we going to get anime girl voice over mods?

>>182575217
PROGRESSIVE

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>>182574246
>Militarist sounds like a female Klingon
AAAAAAAHAHAHA WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

>>182575232
Shortly after my Cheeki breeki voice pack.

Is the final Morgawr quest broken?

>>182573657
It's sad how the Xenophobic voice sounds more like what we want compared to the wild screeching of Militaristic.

Granted, authoritative =/= militaristic, and the Empire and Federation in your examples were far more of the former than the latter.

>>182575570
No, make sure you fully control the regions at season change.

Fuck, one of the Night Elf voice actors from Warcraft 3 would work better for the militarist voice-over.

>>182574246
Euch. And I say that as a proud owner of a set of ovaries.

>>182575504
>open diplomacy window
>GET OUT OF HERE STALKER

>>182573912
I hate to break it to you but you have been posting on the 4X thread of 4chan as recently as today.

>>182574575
I respect your opinion, but I prefer The Birth of a Star.

>>182575759
LONDON

>>182575759
male ovaries dont count

>>182575787
I did it with Xcom 2, stuck it on my best troops. It was as funny as I thought it'd be

>>182575738
WARRIORS OF THE NIGHT, ASSEMBLE

The bigger issue is how you have to PAY to get the voice pack.

>>182575504
>Declare war
>This song plays for the next 5 hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_podzD4cSA

human_female_greetings_08 remains the best voice and the best part of the game.

>>182576061
Now I want to edit the battle sounds so every shot is ANU CHEEKI BREEKI

>>182576013
>not supporting your favourite developers
You're being a cheapskate, goy.

>>182576164
I mean I'll buy it anyway as I'm a guillible moron who never learns but seriously.

>>182575715
But I did. Google says other people struggle with that quest too.

>>182576463
It worked fine for me.

Who fucking cares about sound design in a strategy game? Strategy games, especially Paradox ones, are prime games to play while listening to podcasts

>>182576574
This, you have not experienced comfy until you've used a 2 hour podcast as both your background noise AND timer for calling it a day.

>>182575810
At least it's 4X and not SonicxTouhou.

>>182574246
Paradox '''quality''' game design everyone!

>>182576537
Well, fug.

>>182576574
People who paid for it

In Stellaris there's a civ next to me that doesn't like me but has space that I want.
What's the most peaceful way I can completely wipe their species from the galaxy without making everyone scared/upset at me?

>>182579472
War.

>>182579624
W-w-what?

>>182579624
>see little 1! in my browser tabs
>oh boy a reply
>anon just accidentally highlighted the contents of a few posts
Disappointment

>>182579472
War to vassalize, integrate, then neuter until they're all gone. Nobody will care if you genocide slowly.

>>182579871
Care to expound a bit? I've never fought without intending to cleanse.

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>>182579624
>Nobody will care if you genocide slowly.
>win a defensive war
>get few planets from war demands I did just for fun
>genocide for food cause hive mind
>everyone has -300 at least
There's nothing in this galaxy. Except for war.

>>182579742
Hey man here's a reply for you

>>182579742
(you)

>>182580082
>>182580152
Thank you kind friends

>>182580018
When you go to war, pick the "vassalize" or "form protectorate" as your war demand.
When you win the war, wait 10 years (5 if you have that faster integration dominion perk) and then integrate the empire into yours.
When they are now a member of your empire, set their rights to "undesirable", set their purge type to "neuter", give them normal level standard of living so they won't rebel.

This requires you to have government ethics that allows purging though, xenophobe for "hard" purges, authoritarian for "displacement" purge. Other government types can't wipe out populations.

>>182580557
Alright. I'm xenophobe so I'm all set. Thanks for the help.

>>182574575
>>182575813
All the tracks are good but Faster Than Light is gooder.

>>182580828
Make sure you only use neuter or displacement and not the "hard" purge options, the former lets you get away scot free while the latter even once will make you hated by the entire galaxy.

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>>182580828
I've managed to wipe out 10 empires and take half a huge galaxy using that method as the "Commonwealth of Man", with no threat or genocidal diplomacy penalty. Note that 8 of the 300+ pops purged survived by becoming refugees in egalitarian empires I'm next to. Setting a pop to resident or undesirable causes some of them to flee to nearby empires. The only way to eliminate a population entirely for certain is to use the cleanse planet war demand but that has the "genocidal" diplomatic penalty in the hundreds.

Also I'm pretty sure that most of this green stuff is lettuce or spinach.

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>last beta patch about a week ago
>addresses some game breaking bugs but none of the numerous balance issues
>latest dev posts apart from one (1) in the beta patch thread also from a week ago or older

>>182583780
Means they're working

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Wiz is still going full Swede right now.

>>182583853
Or they're running

>>182585106
The pages seem to be a bit disorganized now, looks like they're also deleting posts.

>>182585106
>Your VO is shit
>Woah, calm your mysoginy

What a time to be alive.

>>182585106
Screencap everything before he realizes how much of a condescending ass he sounds like and delete everything.

>>182585106
none of wiz's claims are verified
all he is accomplishing here is pissing people off

>>182586020
>implying
He'll either double down or pretend it never happened

>>182586227
Right now, he's in the middle of "lalala can't hear everyone who disagree is a mysoginistic gamergate troll !!"
Soon, he'll delete everything, and ban everyone who mentions it.


Devs shouldn't be allowed direct contact with the players. He's falling so deep in my esteem I'm seriously considering boycotting Paradox.

>>182576013
Nah, they'll actually just make you pay to not be subjected to having the militarist VO

>>182586505
>Devs shouldn't be allowed direct contact with the players.
Unless they're Amplitude

>>182586825
Amplitude hasn't called us sexist for not liking the vodyani VO yet

>>182585106
>Could have gotten something like the Harkonnen mentat from Emperor: Battle for Dune
>Instead we got a semen slurping brute as a militarist advisor

>>182586825
Blizzard uses a community manager, and as a result, they were good at keeping the Diablo 3 hype in check and gently mock the controversy about it being too colourful.

>>182586938
Amplitude strapped tits to anything they would fit on, I doubt they're going to be the ones throwing sexism accusations

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Here comes the ban-hammer.

>>182586938
She actually has a speech impediment, though, so if not liking her isn't sexist it's till ableist.

>>182575232
Around the same time as the sophons voice pack

>Mysts with City Breaker and Movement accessories
This is just mean.

>>182585106
This is beautiful, he's flat-out ignoring the arguments altogether

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>>182558771
DAMN YOU PARADOX GIVE ME FISH TITS PORTRAITS

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>>182592731

>>182592731
Got any more like that?

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>>182593063
hopefully i cross post correctly
>>/v/383829356
>>/v/383829356
>>/v/383829356

>>182593507
>>>/v/383829356
You need one more >

>>182593063
>>182593507
i failed

>>182593507
Nice job senpai

>>182593507
Good job. How do you fuck up that badly?

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>>182573363
>>182585106
Best part of keeping up with dev dairies on display

>>182593827
Better save it.
We have the proof that Wiz is a hypocritical cuck, let's not let him bury that with deletes and bans.

>>182591269
>sophons sound like anime girls
Please let this happen.

>>182594005
SENPAI SCIENCE LMAO

>>182593982
Is there a link to that thread somewhere? I want to read the whole thing.

>>182594282
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-77-ethics-voice-packs.1035192/

>>182594512
>ethics-voice-packs
Oh boy.

>>182594512
Page 15. 2nd post. Holy fucking shit Wiz got BTFO.

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>>182595180
The post in question.

>>182595180
>"You do *NOT* know how much "complaining" you would have gotten had the VO talent had dangly bits instead of inny bits. Sorry, you do not have the ability to see the future like that. Nobody does. And again, rather than accepting the critique of the VO not matching the ethos the VO was assigned, you insult your customers again by belittling their critiques as complaints."
My hero. He can put in words what I've been thinking.

He's gonna get banned, isn't he? I want to pay him a beer.

>>182595738
>implying he'll be acknowledged without badges

Is Endless Space 2 fun? How hard is it to get into?

>>182596110
I find it fun and pretty. Have you played a 4X before? If so, it's not really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvGlBFaFEU
>they actually did a female militarist vote for the utopia trailer
>everyone liked it because it fit the theme
>people don't like throat cancer voice
>bigots!!!!!
Doing a HMMMMM

Current news :
- Wiz is having a meltdown because the new DLC is under heavy criticism and he deluded himself into believing it was sexism, and thus he insulted his entire fanbase, ignoring even "berzerkers in space don't make sense, battles take months",
- Endless Space 2 is still not fixed,
- Colonel Santiago for the win.

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>>182596712
did i spend my money on a female supremacist company?

>>182596850
You spent your money on a company using feminism as a good way to deflect criticism

>>182596850
>swedes
Yeah

>>182596712
>Paradox is a shitty company
Some news.

>>182596850
Wiz is a Swede, so yes.
>>182596605
Wiz is a retarded Swede, what do you expect?

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>>182596961
>>182596962
>>182597017
>>182597020
that makes me really angry... i wish i could undo my purchase now...

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>>182597150

>>182596850
>not wanting a female to reign supreme over your bp

Does anyone even use VIR?

>>182596850
No. You spent your money on hypocritical cucks who use troll tactics to deflect valid, objective criticisms about their lack of writing skills.

>>182597420
tile blocker cleared

>>182597420
no

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>>182560980
how do i get that portrait?

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>>182574264
>tfw an old lady with throat cancer is what passes as militarist sounding

>>182574246
Compare
https://youtu.be/ZUP3_kh01mI

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>>182574246
>>182574264

>>182599373
Sorry hun, but this is a shitlord-free safe space.
See yourself out, kay?

*respectfully disagrees*

>>182599373
>not wanting your military leader to sound like the Wicked Witch of the West
Misogynist!

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>>182600091
>>182599896
Stop pretending to be retarded before you make wandering tumblrites feel comfortable

>>182600231
>implying trigger-happy tumblrites browse 4chan

>>182600381
Sweet summer child you know nothing

>>182599602
>4:00
So, exactly the same, then.

>>182600231
cute girl. Gib source.

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>>182599896
>>182600091
I prefer my military leaders to sound like pic related sweeties.
*Agree*

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>>182600496
Semiramis from Fate/Apocrypha

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Something strange happened some decades ago.
First, some details:
I'm playing my first Stellaris game as Fanatical Purifiers, with militarist (and the Civic that forces me to purge everything). This planet, Osmadin Prime, was my main maining planet. Every single tile was occupied by enslaved synths (I know, terrible). Soon after researching synths I started getting pop ups about synths sabotaging things in my empire, and soon after this planet was invaded by rebels, and I lost it to the AI. A new empire emerged with a synth leader, and it lasted less than a month. As I directed my ships to this planet I suddenly received a pop up that the new empire had been eradicated by its foes.
When I check up on the planet, it's completely empty, even the structures are gone! I have a few questions:
1) I haven't gotten any notifications about synths fucking things up around my empire, was this THE AI rebellion crisis?

2) I've gone down the bionic enhancement route of ascension. At the moment, because I don't have materialist nor am I a "Synthetic Empire" I can't give them rights. Once I fulfill my ascension path, will I be able to give them rights, considering everybody will be a synth?

3) Mildly unrelated, how's my science doing?

>>182601356
>was this THE AI rebellion crisis?
No, they get a brand new system with a special synth-only planet.
> will I be able to give them rights
Even better, you will be locked into maximum rights and will be unable to change rights even for your primary species.

>>182595738
Wiz is using 4chan-tier levels of ad hominem, true, but on the other hand, if I had a nickel for every time some vidya-addicted Paradrone claiming to be a captain of industry went on the Paradox forums and played the
> "Hurr durr u don't know how to business let me give you the 101"
I'd be getting close to being to afford one tenth of EUIV's bloatware.

Wiz is the one who has the job and keeps not getting fired from this profit-making monopoly company. And neither his forum Swedecuckoldry nor his refusal to fix Stellaris' basic mechanics seem to prevent Paradox's shit-eating apologists from buying their games.

Hell, *I* have all the Stellaris DLC and 90% of the CK2 DLC.
Having a monopoly on grand strategy means you in fact can get away with all this bullshit, as the evidence of Wiz's continued employment ought to demonstrate.

Wiz is being a tumblr snowflake, but his nemesis here is a "What the fuck did you say to me you little bitch, I'll have you know I graduated top of my class at the Donald Trump Business academy and have over 3 billion confirmed sales" larper, so I can't really credit hos narrative either.

>>182602732
It would be awesome if another company started making that sort of game.

>>182602732
This, I cringed a bit when he started with the t. businesspro shit

>>182603140
The problem is that it's a niche genre and Paradox already has a complete monopoly on it. Which would be hard enough to break into as a new company without also having to deal with paradrones constantly shitting on you for daring to challenge their deity. Plus the fact that said paradrones make up most of the fans of that particular niche genre and they won't buy your games out of devotion to Pdox.

>>182604639
The fans are no doubt irrational (and sexist) but I'm not really seeing any obvious hurdles caused by a monopoly. People shit on Geopolitical Simulator because it's a buggy mess where you don't do anything, not because it's not made by Paradox.

>>182570135
Seriously fucking hell. I once had a rigtborn meta fleet come after me (hunters + defenders) and they devastated my anus.

First time playing ES2.
Is there a faction I should avoid if I'm trying to get used to the game?

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>>182570135
>Riftborn try to bully me in the early game
>they fell for the beam meme
>on all of their ships

>>182606716
No.

Can anyone tech me the basics to play CiV5? I try playing it but have no idea what i am doing.

>>182606716
Most of them have fairly unique mechanics, so you might want to go for a more generic faction first. The Sophons and the United Empire are probably the most generic factions and are fairly easy to get used to.
My first game was as the UE.

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OK what do the colors of the war goals mean? What's the difference between red, yellow, and green wargoals?

>>182607274
Red generates threat
Green doesn't
Yellow is shit like "Stop being mean to your pops" or "Ban AI you fucking heathen" and other diplomatic shite.

>>182606716
>Is there a faction I should avoid if I'm trying to get used to the game?
Vodyani and Unfallen, especially the former play rather non-standard due to aggressive essence gathering and arks instead of normal colonies, they're also currently balanced like shit with Vodyani start being ridiculously influenced by first neighboring systems (ranging from heavily lacking behind or early GG) and their senator hero skill breaks the game entirely. Would wait for the devs to patch them first. Unfallen expansion is also different since they have to use vineships to expand their territory.

United Empire, Sophons and even Horatio and their mechanics are probably easiest to grasp.

>>182607274

Red is genocide, the planet becomes empty and everyone in the Galaxy will hate you forever.

Yellow is vassalizing and making tributary (they just give you income but have freedom otherwise. Also they can cede the planet whichmeans they give it to you with pops.

Green is liberating, planets become new, independent empires that have the same civs as you.

>>182606716
just don't play vodyani first and everything should be fine

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Why does the AI never go full Psionic or Synth ascension?
I've only rarely seen an Empire take Mind Over Matter and I've seen a good handful become Cyborgs but the AI never seems to take the 2nd perk for those paths.

>>182609336
Because the computer runs on the same AI as sectors.

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I like this one.

>>182610979

He's right but END OF RINE

Wiz should just got Shmorky to do all the voices.

Is Wiz fucking retarded?

>>182610979
inb4 deleted and banned for a personal attack on Wiz

>>182611997
Worse, he's Swedish

Sucks that this won't be blown out of proportions like that Paradox pricing thing a week or two ago.

Alright so I'm in my first game of ES2 as the Sophons and a quest wants me to orbit around 2 different systems with an exploration ship. Is there some prompt to do so? Sending a ship to a new system and probing anomalies doesn't seem to fulfill the quest.

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>>182612928
dear lord

In Stellaris, what's the best way to play if you don't want to Ascend? It frees up two perks, which is nice.

>>182613265
Not even Genetic Engineering? I'd get all of the MEgastructure perks plus the anti-crisis and fallen empire perks.

>>182613228
You just need to have two systems simultaneously being orbited by at least one exploration ship.

>>182613557

All the perks move too much thematically away from 'Generic Space Civilization' for the Custom Empire I'm planning on playing next.

If I had to pick one, GE would be best though.

Anyone else think it's weird that you start with a settler in ES2?

>>182610979
>I won't say faggot because I'm better than that
Ultrafaggot in denial. Doesn't mean he's wrong though.

>>182614193
Not really, I guess I might just be used to it by now though.

>>182614242
More like
>I won't say faggot because I don't want to give Wiz an excuse to DING DONG BANNU me

>>182614504
I'm not criticizing him for not saying faggot, I'm criticizing him being just as holier-than-thou as Wiz. Dude's up his own ass with an excavator drill if he thinks he needs to announce how good of a person he is for not saying faggot when there isn't even any need to.

>>182604639
Paradox games are babbys first grand strategy games. Overrated and usually stupidly unhistorical (more so with recent sjw pushing). There are better strategy games out there.

>Wiz fucks up
>Immediately disappears from the forum
Come back and fix your fucking game, you hack

>plantoids
>voice packs
>ebooks
JUST FUCK MY GAME UP SENPAI

Imagine the egalitarian voice pack

>>182610979
I guess what annoys me about all these counter-complaints is that they are of the style "OMG U CAN'T SAY THAT BLUMPF IT'S NOT PRESIDENTIAL", except replace "Presidential" with "Good customer service".

It's just concern trolling. "If you talk like that people might not buy your product".
Well that's Wiz's fucking problem isn't it, and also all the evidence of history suggests that people WILL still buy his product, so it is both irrelevant to the actual matter at hand (that the VO is bad) and also factually inaccurate.

I guess I just hate faux-outraged Paradrones pretending that their fees have been hurt to gain victim points more than I hate Wiz's tumblr shitposting.

>>182615134
literally a recording of Wiz

>>182615134
"Don't you xenos know it's the current year?"
"Xenos welcome"

>>182615134
>The materialist voice pack is literally "DUDE SCIENCE LMAO"

>>182615259
He has to do it this way, because if you don't virtual signal Wiz won't even read your post.

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>>182615694
>virtual signal

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>>182615134
>>182615361
>egalitarian materialist

>>182573363
Wiz is legitimately a moron. I really wish someone else was in charge of Stellaris. The game has been out for over a year now and it feels like it hasn't improved They are just adding a bunch of shallow and unfinished features instead of fixing important things.

>>182616487
Wasn't there another lead dev before Wiz? Or am I thinking of a different game?

>>182616487
Someone else IS in charge of Stellaris. The project lead is some guy who posts as "Jamor", which sounds too close to "Jamal" for me to think anything other than that the company is trying to be Sweden in microcosm, with a black bull at the top of the pecking order.

>>182608305
You mean threat as in the diplomatic badboy value? Nobody seems to dislike me after I conquer people (except for the people I conquered, of course).

>>182615134
Spiritualist has me worried.

>>182617060
>spiritualist voice pack
>it's nothing but XD FOR THE EMPRAH!1!! shit

>>182616695

Yes, Doomdark.

He at least had the good grace to admit "I thought 4X was just babby's grand strategy so it would be piss-easy to design for a t.Grandstrat Master like me, but it turns out balance is important in 4X and I've never game-dev'd anything balanced before so it came out as a fucking mess"

Whereas Wiz's attitude is "My game is perfect you just don't like it because you have bad taste and also are racist"

>>182617230
>you just don't like it because you have bad taste and also are racist
you can add misogynist to the list now

>>182617230
Isn't Stellaris actually very profitable, though? The point of game development isn't to make a good game, but to sell DLC.

>>182616487
It seems like they are doing some good changes like adding a proper AI crisis and the change to traditions.

Meanwhile megastructures are still shit, diplomacy is still shallow and wars are still more annoying than anything. But hey, who knows, maybe we'll have a reason to build Dyson Spheres in 2019.

Regarding the other Voice packs:
>Materialists: r/athiesm
>Spiritualists: Westboro baptist church (Because any religion other than Islam is evil to swedes)
>Authoritarian: Space nazis.
>Xenophile: Xenos Welcome! refugees Welcome!

I'm not sure what egalitarians or pacifists would look like through a Swedish POV.

>>182617759
Only because the ones who actually buy all the DLC have stockholme syndrome.

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>>182618112
>stockholm
>capital of sweden
it's like pottery

>>182617759
Stellaris is odd like that. It sells itself almost entirely on aesthetics and a shared dream that one day, with the rather huge foundations it has built, it could be the base of a pretty spectacular game.

Except wiz doesn't actually know how to build anything but more foundations and isn't very good at it either.

>>182617759
This is a fair point, and, indeed, may make Wiz a good director from the perzpective of a Paradox Interactive Ltd. shareholder, but I, unfortunately, am a mere lowly player and so do not have that perspective.

>>182618046
>pacifists
some jamaican DUDE WEED LMAO

>>182618389
I'd actually want a Jamaican ONE LOVE BRUTHA.

>>182618468
same here, get the dude who voiced the major lazer cartoon

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> reading the car-crash thread on the forums
> one of the highest upboated comments is unironically "No YOU'RE sexist Wiz, real female officers don't sound like that, stop insulting our brave women in uniform"

>>182618348
So? Toady One makes 7 grand a month on vague promises of what Dwarf Fortress might be some day. You don't have to deliver anything. All you have to do is get the customers' money, and to do that it's actually better not to have a good game. As long as you can keep stringing them along with devlogs about how great things will be later on, it makes the kids get excited.

>>182618817
At least Dwarf Fortress is actually fun to play.

>>182618726
They're completely right though. As a milfag I can tell you I've literally never heard any female soldier, let alone officer, sound anything like that.

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>>182618817
>unironically implying stalearis is on the same level as dorf fortress
this is your brain on paradrones

>>182618817
Sounds a fucking lot like a democratic election.

>>182618823
>Draper from The Expanse
mai thiccfu

>>182619546
Stellaris makes enough money to support the wages of several people.

>>182619471
The failure in the logic string here is that they are conflating "What an IRL female soldier sounds like" and "What a female molluscoid tachyon battleship commander in a soft sci-fi universe in 2400 sounds like".

I thought the VO sounded bad, but that was because it was hysterical rasping, not because it didn't sound like some chick I know in the army.

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>Wiz turns a somewhat boring dev diary into pure comedy

>>182620050
This, I am enjoying this farce far more than I would have enjoyed the diary without it.

All these VO stuff, but why are Aliens talking in English?

>>182622492
DUDE UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR LMAO

Why is Paradox full of Swedes?

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>>182622549
>no race so alien the universal translator doesn't work properly
Shit game desu

Someone mentioned Avasarala VO, totally would. Problem is I won't touch stellaris ever again.
https://youtu.be/Q_fhxDZyTgk

>>182623414
Because the company grew out of a vegetable patch

>>182623475
her voice is disgusting

PWAISE BE TO THE VIRTUO ENDLASS

> all those Pdox posts saying "Do it like Corazon Santiago from SMAC"

Santiago's voice was pretty much the thing that annoyed me most in SMAC. She doesn't sound like a militarist at all. She sounds like a milfy university lecturer delivering a history talk.
Militarists *should* sound a bit violent. Santiago wasn't violent enough, Dev Diary #77 is too violent. But I'm sure there's a happy medium.

>>182623824
>not idolizing the birtual endless
come on anon

>>182623824
HAI DOMO
BACHUA ENDURESS KIZUNA AI DESS

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>>182574264
im sorry, but shitty Shakespeare quotes do not sound intimidating. on top of that, the VO sounds like a fanatic, not an admiral. these are ASTRONAUTS high tech spaceships. they are not god damned huns.

>>182623874
Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOERyX3xnHQ

>>182624404
british women are not intimidating either.

>>182623874
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOERyX3xnHQ
>tfw never

>>182624485
>Women are not intimidating*
Just get a male voice actor. No reason to force a female onto the militarist for the sake of "le women can be strong" meme

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What is /civ4xg/'s opinion on Galactic Civilizations 3?

Did no one tell Wiz that suggesting that women can be violent is misogyny?

>>182624876
Can't risk it, the last time someone respectfully disagreed with me I had a mental break down.

>>182623874
Ehh, modern militaries are obsessed with discipline. The standard paradigm is 90% of utter menial boredom filled with standing still, drills and lectures on how (not) to act in a given situation mixed with 10% of adrenaline driven action.

So Santiago is not at all odd

>>182624863
>Galactic Civilizations 3
It's decent with all the xpacs, but whether or not it's better than GC2 is up to personal taste

>>182624320
You want a disciplined admiral at the top of a chain o' command, take your authoritarian fleet out of space dock.

But in Stellaris' ethics wheel, militarism isn't "Muh noble disciplined navy" . It's on the "Never hurt a fly" vs. "Kill people for sport" axis.

The complaints about it being "too barbaric" have misunderstood the ethics wheel. Every Stellaris ethos has a military. The AUTHORITARIAN military is the one where Grand Moff Tarkin strolls around in his statched grey uniform demanding discipline from Darth Vader. The MILITARIST military is the one where crews skin people alive for fun. So the VO is appropriate and everyone complaining about it in that respect is wrong.

(But not sexist, I should add)

>>182625163
>But in Stellaris' ethics wheel
That's your arbitrary perception of it, mate. Militarism has many tones, so does pacifism, you are generalising based on something utterly arbitrary.

>>182625097
>10% of adrenaline driven action
Try 1%. Even doing combat drills in the field gets boring and menial.

>>182625810
I was gonna say one but decided that it would sound too specific.

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>>182625163
>>182625163
teddy roosevelt was very militarist, but he wasnt a savage fuck. you are objectively fucking wrong.
militarism is just the willingness to use force to achieve what you want. those goals can be anything from spreading democracy, killing nazis, blood for the blood god, or enslaving the galaxy.

again. we are talking about mother fucking highly educated, highly dangerous, highly advanced, battleships that fight at multiple AU distances, in an environment that is constantly trying to kill you. the best equivilent in modern times is submarines. some fanatic screaming shit is completely out of place in any functioning space military. you do not put emotionally unstable people in command of multi trillion dollar machines flying in deep space.

the tone should be deep, intimidating, with barely contained violence.

>>182625163
>>182625678
Let's look at what the militarist ethic tooltip description says:
>The only true virtues are courage and discipline, and channeled properly they can overcome any obstacle. Therein lies true strength; force withheld, a promise made.
>The ability to project force is of paramount importance. The only way to preserve our way of life is to make sure everyone shares it; willingly or not...
According to the fanatic militarist ethic, it seems militarists are mostly concerned with using the projection of force to preserve their own sovereignty. As such, it appears to me that main concern of militarists in Stellaris is maintaining the ability to project force over their neighbours and rivals. So, honestly I think militarism in this context would fall in line with the image we have of a disciplined professional military force. Especially considering the standard militarist ethic explicitly mentions discipline as one of the most valued virtues in their society. Accordingly, simple savagery and barbarism just doesn't mesh with the only description we're given of how a militarist society works.

Given this it just seems logical to me that the tone of the VO should come across as commanding, confident, and disciplined.

>>182626296
>again. we are talking about mother fucking highly educated, highly dangerous, highly advanced, battleships that fight at multiple AU distances

t. "My RP is the only acceptable one"

You can quite easily play through a Stellaris game thinkin' u iz Orkz, so I reject prima facie your assertion that "There is only one possible way to concieve of this mechanic".

Namely: if you concieve of your military fleet as modern-ish and disciplined, the appropriate ethos for you to be playing is authoritarian.
If you concieve of your military fleet as a bunch of ancap condotorre mercenaries whom you as PlanetCorp CEO have on retainer to punish NAP violations, the appropriate ethos for you to be playing is egalitarian.
If you concieve of your military as the blood-crazed power-claw wielding psychotics that were TOO crazy for the daily gunfights and skull-crushings that form the basis of your tribal government structure, the appropriate ethos for you to be playing is, at a last, militarist.

>>182626965
>The only virtues are courage and discipline
>>182627241
>psychotics that were TOO crazy for the daily gunfights
Anon the game itself just btfo your argument, accept that your little interpretation of the militarist ethic is objectively not in line with the game's, and that Paradox made a mistake in assuming that the raging barbarian archetype would be cool or wanted by even a sliver of the playerbase.

>>182627241
>My RP is the only acceptable one
ITS THE ONLY ONE SUPPORTED BGY THE ACTUAL FUCKING GAME. IN THE GAME YOU AVE TO RESEARCH TECHONOLOGY TO PUT IN YOUR STARSHIPS AND THEN SPEND THE ENTIRE RESOURCES OF ENITRE PLANETS FOR MULTIPLE YEARS TO BUILD IT. DO YOU THINK ORCS ARE OPERATING FUSION REACTORS AND SHIT? DO YOU THINK ANY SOCIETY WOULD DARE ENTRUST SUCH A MASSIVE INVESTMENT TO A BUMBLEFUCK MORON THAT WILL JUST EXPLODE THE THING IN 20 MINUTES?

unbelievable.

>>182627241
I appreciate you point but you aren't getting it. 40k is a parody, always have been. It's not a matter of wanting a disciplined crew, it's a matter of needing one. You just can't operate in environment as lethal as space without discipline. This being a video game we can overlook most things, but when you need a base line for ethics common sense is a good place to start. Also, as others have pointed out, the game itself describes this in the ethics wheel.

>>182627621
please calm down

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>>182627696
this man is correct. crew temperment on a starship is governed by natural laws. natural law dictates that a star ship is crewed by educated, intelligent, disciplined men. retards and psychotics simply will not survive. submarine officers are all scientists and engineers, for example

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Imagine if she had voiced the militarist.

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Imagine if he had voiced the militarist

>>182623874
Does anybody else remember that disney movie from the 2000s about atlantis? That second-in-command woman, when she's not playing seductress, would be a good militarist voice. Crisp, to the point, a bit loud.

>>182628430
She was an admiral in Star Trek Beyond (not to mention Mass Effect).

>>182628693
atlantis was a good movie

>>182628778
Speaking of Star Trek. Kate Mulgrew as janeway is exactly the sort of voice the militarist should've been. Commanding, no nonsense and confident of their position with undertones of pride. Voyager was a mess of writing but that lady could act, even with the shitty scripts she got given.

>>182628693
Funny how it literally is Stargate:Pandora now.

>>182628430
>I dont give a flying fuck about your pacifist bullshit, get the fuck away from my planet

>Avasarala will never speak like her book counterpart

All these VO shits, my opinion is that militarist should sound more composed and disciplined like General Matis during the hearing.

>>182630436
>militarist should sound more composed and disciplined
That's what literally everyone is saying. But fucking Wiz is like, "Y-y-you just hate it because it's a woman!"

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The end result of a thunderdome game
was fun as fuck

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So i decided to give fallen enchantress a shot after years of it sitting in my library forgotten and alone.

Game is pretty fun, much prefer it to AoW3. Feels more like an AoW2.5 and that is ok by me. My leader did get this dumb fucking combo of spells for late game though, which I have deliberately stalled to get to so I could experiment. See this spell in the screenshot gives an absolutely retarded amount of max hp. Like I used it on my capital after it had hit max level and gained about 300 hp. Population is useless in this game outside of leveling your cities up btw, so once it had no more upgrades to get it was basically free hp.

The other spell in the combo is one called paragon at the bottom of the list. It permanently sacrifices 5 max hp from my leader to level up one of my other heroes.

So my heroes all gained like 6 levels this turn and my leader still has about 15x the hp she had before i realized I could do this. Magic in 4x games is fun.

>>182630628
It seems like game devs these days can just say "racist misogynist xenophobe" and every criticism disappear. No introspection needed.

Havn't played since just after utopia, is psyonic still OP as all fuck compared to the other ascension perks
are megastructures still useless as fuck?

>>182631143
>psyonics op
arguable
>megastructures useless
yes

>>182631143
>>182631303
I wish Dyson sphere gives 5000 powers so that it is actually worth building.

>>182630686
>turn 362
How? You'd think that game would end in about 200.

>>182626296
>some fanatic screaming shit is completely out of place in any functioning space military. you do not put emotionally unstable people in command of multi trillion dollar machines flying in deep space.
What about Space Nazis?

>>182631452
I wish the Dyson sphere was worth fighting over like in that Utopia trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmvGlBFaFEU

If it gave 10k power a month, but resulted in -1 increasing resentment a month unless a "share dyson sphere" treaty was signed.

>>182631680
>build a massive power plant for your people and society
>space commie niggers demand you share it even though they didnt help at all
sounds about right

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How much customization will the Voice Packs allow for?

Making separate voice packs for each Ethic was a mistake.

hey should had just made 7 different voice packs for each kind of species (Humanoids, Mammalians, Avians, etc...) and allow you to choose between those in the Empire Screen.

Then you can have a unique Voice Pack for each and every Empire you make thanks to mods. Imagine having 'Space Marine' voice pack, 'Star Wars Empire' voice pack, 'Borg' voice pack, 'Starship Troopers' voicepack, etc...

>>182631943
Wiz said it's moddable.

>>182631730
I'm from Canada, our PM is giving away 240 million canadough to the Clinton Foundation to "help" women in Ethiopia. I had to spend something like 800$ having my car fixed because my muffler and gas tank got scraped full of holes by the massive potholes where I live. Fuck everything.

>>182632069
BUT HOW MUCH?

Can we assign an empire with an specific voice pack that changes depending on the empire's ethics/messages it sends? Will it only allow to make different versions of the original ones?


It's all very unspecific.

>>182632072
I thought they dismantled Clinton Foundation when Hillary lost? Also you can just vote all the libtards out next election anyway.

>>182631680
>-1 resentment per month
Resentment for? Not like they can't build one for themselves.

>>182632376
>Resentment for?
The privilege of being born in an empire that built a Dyson Sphere in a galaxy where most people don't have access to Dyson Spheres.

>>182632541
If that is so, fuck them. Theoretically the situation is that I have 10k power from dyson, I can just oversized my fleet to FE level and fuck over the entire universe.

>>182629501
I am inclined to agree, but idk if this is because "Mulgrew does a good lady captain voice" or "Captain Janeway is literally the only female captain I've ever been exposed to so she's my template of what a female captain should sound like".

Cause and effect might have become inverted here.

>>182631452
>>182631680
The Paradox forums are riddled with autist threads that are "ACHTUALLHY Dyson Spheres are cost-effective" followed by literal sprradsheets and 15 pages of autistic screeching about how, for this one specific niche minmax hyper-tall low influence science meme build that nobody plays, Dyson spheres might possibly edge out habitats by a few percent situationally and therefore FEATURE IS ENTIRELY BALANCED EVERYONE ELSE IS SCRUBS

Naturally, if it's a thread that tells him he doesn't have to do any more work because he got it right first time, Wiz agrees with this one and so considers the matter closed.

>>182630130
>Stargate:Pandora
What is this? Can't find.

>>182604190

Why, tell me what kind of people play these games anyway? This genre is not the average 30-minutes-filler mobile spam.

>>182624863
Wish my current rig can run it, so I'm sticking to GC2 for now.

Welp I decided to use my Russian steam account to buy Utopia but now I think about it, not worth funding rapefugee "fleeing" to Sweden anyway.

Have Dyson Sphere give 1K energy
Have Science Nexus give 450/500 brain points

If you're going to dedicate 4 ascension slots to mega-structures then actually make them worth investing in. At the moment they're just vanity projects.

>>182635471
I doubt if 1k energy is even worth it. 4k at least if I say so myself.

>>182635471
But don't you know? That would be unbalanced, and Paradox decrees that everything must be perfectly balanced since this is a multiplayer game.

>>182633789
>Why, tell me what kind of people play these games anyway?
People without jobs.
Autistic spreadsheet jockeys.
History nerds who thought that this was going to be historical since all other Paradox games are.

People who do not play these games are t. Businesspros.
Or at least, people who have so much time on their hands that they can both play the game and complain on the forums at length when one of the devs errs in an otherwise obscure and uninteresting dev diary are not t. Businesspros.

>>182636089
Can confirm. The last time I actively play this fucking shit I almost failed a sem.

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>return Japan's city to them during a war with Rome because i couldn't be assed to manage it since it was on literally no useful resources
>they denounce me for having a different form of government from them not 10 turns later

>>182636089

>Autistic spreadsheet jockeys.

Wrong. There is zero maths to do in this game. thats why I hate it so much. Compare it with the amount of openings you can do in Civ4 and the spreadsheets you can utilize it.

>>182636656
As an autistic spreadsheet jockey, you are right and wrong at the same time.
You're right that the math is not especially spreadsheet-able, but I still play the game because I went into it under the mistaken impression that it *would* be spreadsheetable, and by the time I had realised my error I'd gotten hooked 'cheevo whoring.

>>182636089
I have a 9-5 Monday-Friday job and I still have time to play these games.

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He closed the thread, but still went with the "you have unconscious hidden misogyny if you disagree angle.

>>182637059
>it's not my fault you are unaware of your mysoginy

What a fucking cunt

>>182637059
>i'm not saying you're sexist
>but you treat men and women differently and it's a problem

>>182636901

Yeah well, I just miss the feel of playing civ4 on perfectly mirrored maps in PBEM democracy games and slowly and surely pull ahead of competitors just because of my excellent tile micro, city management and worker routing. A single hammer here, a single commerce there, growing a city a turn faster by rejigging the worked tiles of 4 cities in their overlapping f crosses, landing a wonder with perfectly timed 99% whip overflows into forest chops etc. I loved pulling ahead just because I was just the most efficent administrator out there, able to wringe out every single droplet of tile yield out ouf our cites, to build the best possible empires in the shortest time. Never really rubbed my autism that way ever since.

>>182637059
Wiz just can't stop being a massive Swede can he?

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>>182637607
I'm used to it at this point, it's the direction most game devs are taking. Reading the GDC mailing list shows what trends in diversity and social justice in the next few years and it's not going to get any better.

>>182599373
>not wanting your advisor to sound like the French dub of Marge Simpson's mother

>>182610979
Is he banned yet?

>>182620438
I'm not. You know all these DLCs they're dishing out
I won't buy. I won't even pirate them. I lost all confidence in Stellaris, because if the dev is a massive retard like that, you know he's never going to fix any of the problems, or make the game enjoyable. It's going to be railroading trash, with no freedom at all.

Congrats Wiz, you manchild.

>>182623874
>Militarists *should* sound a bit violent
No. They're soldiers, not warriors.

They're not interesting in killing, they're interested in conquering. That's why making them sound smart is a good idea.

>>182625097
Be reading for everything, and is so trained you can reload your gun with your eyes closed.

>>182633438
We was talking about Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

>>182631047
That does seem pretty OP.

>>182631730
And then you kill them, and everyone hate you.

>>182637059
That's beyond pathetic.
I'm going to boycott all Paradox games until that twat is fired.

>>182637997
>GDC mailing list
What is this and what about its contents are cause for disgust?

>>182637059
I'm seriously thinking of starting a new thread called "How can I refund Stellaris?"

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>>182638279
I've said this to myself several times, but their grand strat monopoly always brings me crawling back.
If your righteous indignation can sustain you through machine FE withdrawl, then I guess I commend you on having more iron will than I do.

From what I understand reading this thread the Devs have the following opinion about how Stellaris should be balanced and shit
They expect people to be playing in multiplayer games against at least 2+ people and the AI empires are supposed to be nothing more than inconvenient obstacles that get in your way for a moment and then roll over

>>182638530
https://www.gdc.net/tools-resources/gdc-listserv
About 10-15 years ago it was about discussing game development and technologies that were being created. Then at some point it became a mailing list where people claiming to be game devs and websites that review videogames create a "narrative" to follow to add more "diversity" into games. Ever wonder why those clickbait websites all post the same opinion pieces about "problematic" games or white males at the same time? GDC mailing list.

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>>182638865
Frankly, I only play Grand Strategy games out of curiosity. I'm terrible at them, and I prefer FPS and RTS.

Last time I played Stellaris was one month ago. I won't have any problem not playing it.
I do mind it being in my library if I don't play it, so I'll try to reactivate my old mail, and go to Paradox to kick the anthill a bit.