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

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WHAT DO YOU SOUND LIKE

WHEN YOU SCREAM?

now this is what I call dead

>tfw can't play Aurora on my laptop with 1360*720 resolution.

Just kill me now.

I blame Wiz

>>187996971
>>187997130
give it time
eventually people will wake up
i rushed to make it so the dumb spiderposter couldn't

What is the current state of civ 6? I played it at release and the balance was just terrible

>>187996971
Us Americans are sleeping.

>>187997360
>I rushed to make it so the dumb spiderposter couldn't
Congratulations, this is literally what he wants. He's posted multiple times he only makes the spider OPs to trigger the fuck out of people in the hopes that someone other than him will actually start fucking making them.

>>188000823
so in order for us to win we must die? this is some deep canada logic shit

>>187995354
spiderfag btfo

>>188001516
I'm not sure it counts as btfo'ing spiderfag when this is what he's been trying to do all along - get other people to create the OP.

>>187995354
>my space waifus made it into an OP
I can finally die now

>>188001094
No you win by doing what he wants, because what he wants is for people to stop being lazy fucks about posting new threads. Spiderfag was never the bad guy. Also his relentless posting of kumo made me actually go and start reading the manga and it's pretty good

>>188002767
Make more Waifu Empires

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>>188005292

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>>188005612
I changed this to be only females and renamed it to slavic girls but lost the game and the updated bio.

where's the population screen in ES2 that shows the makeup of your entire empire, and the ability to spend resources to make them show up more and enhance their abilities?

It comes up every now and then to let me know i've unlocked new population bonuses, but I can't for the life of me find out how to get back to that screen.

>>188006770
Press F2 and look at the bottom right

>>187967831
Damn when this shit comes out, I'll replace the Stellaris sound clips with SMAC's.
I'm sure there'll be quotes to fit everything.

>>187997038
Use InfinityScreen and get used to scrolling around a lot.
Or use UltraVNC or RDP to connect to a desktop that has the proper resolution.

>>187997038
>>188008480
http://ynea.futureware.at/cgi-bin/infinite_screen.pl
There, that.
I used to use it, but VNC/RDP is way, way superior. I can even play Aurora on my tablet with VNC, pretty great.

>>188008480
>>188008987

Thnx!
Will try that shit out at once.
(God knows I tried everything else ...)

What're some essential Civ 6 mods?

>>188009828
Oh right also uh, even with Infinite Screen, Aurora windows will open at your resolution, but it can resize them to be bigger than your screen and lock the size. It'll be lost if you close the window though, so try not to close Aurora windows you've resized while playing.
You can just resize about everything to 1280*1024 if you don't want to miss any button.

>>188008480
>Damn when this shit comes out, I'll replace the Stellaris sound clips with SMAC's.
Our hero.

>>187995354
"Oh noooo, someone made a new OP with the "etiquette, hitler and archery" picture instead of a spider, what an outrage. He even kept the Distant Worlds pastebin!" Says Anon in a monotone voice, trying to sound angry.

>>188013489
>Never played SMAC.
That's a problem you have to solve, Anon.

>>188013643
As a professional mememologist I can tell you that SMAC only rates a 3 on the mudkips-lolcat scale.

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>>188013643
>But I like good games. Isn't SMAC a meme game?
I share a Planet with people like this.
Sadness covers me like indigenous lifeforms. Tuck me in. Let me die.

>>188013916
Not really.
You see, old games (Lemmings, Dungeon Keeper, SMAC), have expansions that aren't designed to add variety to the game, but raise the difficulty. This is what expansions were for back in the day.

>>188014142
Except the expansion to SMAC added factions that made the game ridiculously easier.
Pirates, Drones and the Aliens are overpowered, and I'm sure I'm forgetting important things about the Angels or the Consciousness.
Cult, from memory, was pretty bad at least. If you want to go Militant Gaia, just go Militant Gaia.

>>188014345
>Except the expansion to SMAC added factions that made the game ridiculously easier.
Yeah, try to play against the ayyys lmao, then tell me how "easy" it was.

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>>188014872
Well I suppose my point of playing as the aliens only covered half the problem, true.
Even so, the other Crossfire factions can handle the aliens pretty easily unless you're sitting right next to them at planetfall or your faction is something a little more lategame/peacenik like Consciousness and even then it's not the end of the world.
Aliens just can't beat mindworms and Australians.

>>188016291
But playing against the new factions handicaps you if you play as an old one.
And drones should know their place.

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>>188016425
Well I think my points still stand if the original argument is that Crossfire made things harder, though I'm thinking more from the perspective that by playing the xpac you'd want to play as the new factions.
I mean I can only assume that's the point of the expansion: the Crossfire factions don't really add anything new to the table because they're basically just the old ones upgraded, except for the aliens but they're just upgraded overall and dumb additions instead.
You could already handicap yourself in the base game with certain faction picks vs certain other factions but winning's always going to be possible at planetfall no matter what.

What I tend to do is use both SMAC and AC but never switch on the new factions. I mean there's still some balance problems (Fighting against Cloudbase was a pain IIRC) but that's the way to go, I believe.
Also helps with muh immersion.
>And drones should know their place.
YOU'LL YET REGRET

>>188017093
TITUS
GET THE NERVE STAPLE

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>>188017205
I'LL PUNISH YOUR FUCKING SPHERES
DRONE RIOT
DRONE RIOT
DRONE RIOT

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Cities Skylines.

>>188018658
indeed

[Invokes UN sanctions]

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>>188019467
You haven't heard the last of me.

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>>188019545
[Doesn't respond to commlink calls]

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>>188019467
Shut up Pravin

how do i make the ai in stellaris afraid of me

>>188021472
Start killing it and don't stop until it's either afraid of you or gone completely.

>>188020529
I like that game.

>>188021686
ok thanks for the tip

>game adds a naval focused faction that's ridiculously dominant on island maps but worthless on landlocked ones

THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

Hey, about Distant Worlds.
Is it possible for a pirate player to play with an imperial player in multiplayer, or are all players supposed to play the same kind of empire?

>>188020529
A desert map? What DLC is that?

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>>187996971
Yep.

>wake up
>thread archived
Synthetic Dawn can't come soon enough so we can be alive for a week.

>>187986670
>>187986793
>>187987184
Thanks for autism writeup. I think I'll just go 100% riftborn since breeding 50 pops of even single faction is pain in the ass and comes only extremely late game. Same rreason why Horatio are shit. Btw, here can I get more information like that? Official ES2 wiki is garbage.

nice dead thread
t./gsg/

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>>188026418
Path to Grandeur

>>188029268
Weird, I do have it.
Maybe because I focus more on factions than the rest.

Except Scotland, they all feel too similar anyway.

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>>188029349
>they all feel too similar anyway.
That happens when you add countries that did fuck all during this time period ( like Piedmont)

>>188030297
More like there are two major factions (Europe and Subhumans) and the rest feels more like flavour or roleplay.

Except Poland, but Poland is a bit of a joke. I mean, only one unit? Seriously?

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>>188030609
>but Poland is a bit of a joke. I mean, only one unit? Seriously?
While that seems rather meagre, there was alot going on in Poland during that time period and alot of the new flavor factions get one unit (like Piedmont again for example) or sometimes just a reskinned musketeer (like Denmark)

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>>188031586
Dunno, sometimes it fells that the units are just reskins.

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>>188031775
Comes with the time period I guess

>>188032142
Yeah.

Man, this is why I like fantasy games, you can go wild with units. I really like Cossacks 3 but honestly, between the master race and the natives, there's not much variety.

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>>188032307
>but honestly, between the master race and the natives, there's not much variety.
Yeah
Thats why I prefer American Conquest over Cossacks
Sci-Fi rules , Fantasy drools

>>188032782
American Conquest has more variety, yeah. If I remember right, there's even a faction that can't mine for gold, they instead get god by building markets.
I don't like sci-fi because I prefer killing zombies than killing robots.

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>>188032916
>a faction that can't mine for gold, they instead get god by building markets
The Iroquis IIRC
or the Pueblos who could only create like 200 peasants but didnt need the to create combat units
Good stuff
I honestly prefer sci-fi over fantasy purely for the explorational aspect and the awesome ship designs

>>188033405
Yeah, maybe the Iroquois, I guess. Played as the Mayans most of the time because they were the simplest native factions.

I prefer fantasy because in sci-fi, even the lowest of the low is a super soldier with a top tier training, and I prefer the idea of picking up militias to do my fighting. Plus zombies bleed more than robots.

Why does fucking Dominions have its own thread?

evading hostile fleet

>>187995354
Right, well I'm off to play simcity, what kind of city should I build?

>>188033980
Surely "construction complete" is the most common. Most annoying? Yeah, you win there.

How's even the new Cossacks compared to the old ones?
Shit I hardly even remember how the old ones played. I just remember setting up lines of musketeers, having a guy play the drums and an officer to go with them all, lining them up against lines of AI musketeers and occasionally having cannons make holes in the AI's lines.

>>188033756
Because people play it a lot more than the other games in this thread.

>>188034582
Make a European-looking city. Make it look like the area has been settled and urban for over two thousands years, that it outgrew its protective walls, and that parts of the city got blown up entirely by nazis and were rebuilt, or something.

>>188034836
>Because people play it a lot more than the other games in this thread.
Strange.

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>>188034836
>How's even the new Cossacks compared to the old ones?
Cossacks 3 is literally just a Cossacks Back to War remake that fixes some more annoying issues with the original (like formations stopping constantly) but manage to worsen the sound effects

>>188034582
Don't build any police stations ever, and see how your city copes.

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>>188034679
>>hostile fleet detected
>literally other side of the galaxy and they're attacking one of the strongest empires in the federation i'm in

>>188036025
It's always worth checking out though, so not as annoying.

>>188035801
Oh, that's interesting.

>>188036025
tfw remove baby cry mod for CK2.

How come it seems like Civ V Hiawatha does good as an AI even though his civ is garbage?

>>188034836
>How's even the new Cossacks compared to the old ones?
It's pretty much Back to War with some new balancing and a 3D engine. Officers are no longer terminators, upkeep isn't always indicated, and some upgrades are now a lot more expensive.

>>188032782
Minimap looks like a succubus bending over

>be doing vaulters quest line
>objective is to get mechanical exhibitionist (top tier of the faction skill tree) to level 3
>only have 1 vaulter hero, who is level 12 and mostly only has levels in the class skill tree
>would need at least another 10 or so levels to get the required skill
FUCKING REEEEEEEEEE

>>188035926
I have done that with a university town before and I kept putting off the police and fire department since both of them can be fucking expensive, left it for an hour and there was only a handful of buildings (excluding the university) that wasn't husked.

>>188034836
What sure how to do that with the 2013 version of the game.

why is civ 6 bad? it's my first civ and I'm hooked but I'm wondering if I'm playing a sub-par game

>>188024646
everyone point and laugh

>>188043719
>>188043719
Stop playing that piece of shit, get SC4 and mod it.

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>>188024646

>>188044943
it's good actually

>>188046251
Nice try.

>>188044943

just play civ 2 instead, they never got it right afterwards

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>>188045731
Has much I want to agree with you, I can't stop playing it. It scratches the cyberpunk feel I want in a city builder game ever since simcity 3000 and none of the city builders does that.

>>188047527
Anno 2205? 2070?

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good civ5 mods?
t./gsg/ shitter

>>188048417
Yea I mean there are those two too.

>>188041357
What's your money situation? Can put one hero as a governor in some shitty city and buy buildings to get exp.

>>188048502
The uninstall mod

>>188049991
thanks i'll try it out

>>188048502
The HYPERDIMENSION NEPTUNIA ones.

>>187854586
look at this faggot. is this spam? can we get him banned yet?

>>188050405
>bringing drama from another general
Fuck off.

>>188044943
So I haven't played it yet, but from my understanding, people tend to compare it to civ V, which has more DLC and is therefore not really fair. From what others have said, Civ VI is better than Civ V if you don't have the Civ V DLC.

With that in mind, if you like VI, go for V on the next steam sale. It'll be fairly cheap and it's really good.

>>188055307
There's that, and there's also
DUDE PENCILS LMAO
DUDE PIG LMAO
DUDE WIFI LMAO
DUDE GUNPOWDER BEFORE BALLISTIC LMAO
DUDE PIXAR DESIGN LMAO

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>>188048417
The anno series gives off more of a solarpunk feeling, which isn't bad, but not what I'm looking for.

>>188057017
>solarpunk
I knew about steampunk, about dieselpunk, about clockworkpunk (or clockpunk), about cyberpunk, but that's something else.

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>>188057017
Anno 2070 but play as Tycoon instead of Eco faction, they're more of the "Smoke means progress" type.

>>188055307
Yeah it's really unfair to expect a company's sequel to a game to be superior in any way to the previous installment.

>>188049851
I was making like 2K per turn, so I could have done that I guess. Ended up just winning via Supremacy instead.

>>188058049
1969 Corvette is best Corvette.

>>188055591
DUDE ROMAN AIR CONDITIONING LMAO

I think if they improved the AI and fixed the religion game it could be pretty good. Or even just fix religion I guess since there are mods for the AI already.

>>187995354

Will this game be allowed here when it comes out?
I dont see a city building general anymore.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1238022363/neolithic-first-city-states-a-deep-historical-stra

>>188059427
Wait a minute, what's that about air conditioning?

>>188059498
The OP does say /cbg/, right?

>>188059724
One of the tech quotes is something about how Rome fell because they invented air conditioning and couldn't hear the approaching enemy because the windows were closed.

>>188059870
Thanks for giving me another reason to never buy Civilizations 6.

>>188060047
>It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

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So this is the power of huge borders on settling cities.

>>188061248
Whoever decided the quotes to pick should be tortured.

>>188061332
what mods

>>188061345
Hopefully by being dropped face first onto Tsingy de Bemaraha.

>>188061770
I wish I never googled that.

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Poor little white boy

>>188061521
Vox with historical religions

Beacon of Liberty for more Unity, or Parliamentary System for more Influence?

Please note that I'm taking Agrarian Idyll already.

>>188061332

Will they ever make another civ game that isn't hideous?

Does the AI in Stellaris even care about tile bonuses?

I'm seeing food tiles with mines, mineral tiles with farms, physics tiles with engineering labs...

>>188061345
Tbh, blogger quotes would be fine for information era techs, but not for the whole tree.

>>188048502
The ones I liked most:
>city planning mode
>city banner plus
>nord resources
>resources expanded
>lumber mills on jungles
>more pantheons
>randomize city names
>lighthouse near sea + lakes
>workable mountains
>ice free coasts

Any ETA on the Stellaris update?

>>188062434
I've heard it as early October.

>>188048502
Generally speaking, unless it's a scenario or extra civ mod, they tend to just make the game easier and add extra shit that bogs down the gameplay/doesn't work well with the base game. That being said, there are a few mods that improve gameplay. Adding the one that allows for unlimited xp from barbarians is good (annoying that vanilla limits it) and adding mods that remove some of the jewish AI bonuses on harder difficulties is nice (aspyr can't into creating good AI so they just create fake difficulty by giving the AI a head start).

>Haven't played Civ V in months.
>Never played online PVP.
>Agreed to play game against 2 of my roommates.

How do I git gud and win? What civilization and victory type is best to go for? Neither of the other two play that much either.

>>188057701
Solarpunk is cyberpunk, except for more green shit and solar panels.

>>188063482
>How do I git gud

You have to be a special kind of retard to git gud at civ V online. The gameplay is agonizingly slow because the "gud" players almost always take their whole turn checking demographics and being autistic about every little detail. Then there's the battle stuff, which is just broken for multiplayer. It boils down to whoever has the best connection/fastest on the trigger each turn.

But if all that doesn't bother you, then maybe watch some videos of other ppl playing online.

>>188064201
Its just me and two friends so I doubt any of us will be too autistic about it. I guess I could treat it like playing AI offline, in which case I guess rushing science and going for conquest would be best?