Previous thread: >>536235548This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Endless Legend 2 demo has been extended: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3407390/view/836099892906558187 News Tower will release on November 4th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2MZJadP40&ab_channel=TwinSailsInteractiveC-Beams devlog 46: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwaI6GjO5w&ab_channel=LevelCapGamingTropico 7 announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZrwBfbALU&ab_channel=KalypsoMediaNebulous: Fleet Command, Devlog 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgbXiJdJTk&ab_channel=EridanusIndustriesPlan B: Terraform, will release on August the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532104920883537578Dev Journal #106: Organic Difficulty in GalCiv IV: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/515215878272319582== Pastebins ==Alpha Centauri (new 14/06/22): https://pastebin.com/QgEvG3ETFree and open source games pastebin: https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSNStellaris: https://pastebin.com/hPfrhazx https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Stellaris_WikiStellaris DLC guide: https://rentry.org/STDLC384Endless Space 2 + Endless Legend: https://pastebin.com/yu57huWmCivilization: https://pastebin.com/eeL9tyaW/cbg/: https://pastebin.com/ZSLVg9kTWorkers & Resources: https://pastebin.com/XaWF8mE6
Is Stellaris the Simcity 4 of shitty space 4x games?
>>538119125A Popular, heavily modded game people play for role playing value?Yes, it's exactly that.
Hey, no dying!
>>538128239fuck steam, GOG's got a sale for $67.49
>>5381285804x is a dead genre.
>>538130894What is dead may never die
Aurora bros!2.6 is out
>>538137460What the actual fuck, its not a hoax.Fucking hell, the second i started a new campaign AND when i have to go to work Steve does that..
>>538137460Has he added graphics? I need to see pretty things.
>>538137847>t. 5
>>538141019Respect my disability, bigot.
>>538145721Being a faggot isnt a disability.
>>538135237Civ4xg fhtagn!
Now that the dust has settled, is Humankind worth a try?
I feel like if I talked about AoW4 in /twg/ I would get more feedback lmao. This place has terminal cancer.
>>538165393You can't even talk about historical Total War in /twg/ these days.
fuck it, I may as well fight assyria while france is distracted with swedenI am so ready for this game to be over>>538165393no u
>>538165393I hate /twg/. They have excellent games, and they waste their breath on "nooo tranquol soon".
barely above a medium dificulty
>>538170481Motherfucker is actually trying to play a game I tried to forget. What race were you playing?
>>538170761Goblins vs pc Dwarfs
>>538176775..huh. I always thought goblins were shit.
>>538178083maybe they are, and maybe that is why is hard, but I like big orange giants throwing big rocks.
>>538178276Oh yeah. These assholes are the best siege machine in the game.
>>538165393>f3 aow4 in previous thread>no results>f3 age of wonders in previous thread>no results>f3 age of wonder in previous thread>one post, about fucking ff14that cancer there better not be youso are you going to at least try to talk or ask about aow4 here, or are you an eternal faggotask a goddamn question
>>538194542I did post a lot of AoW4 a while ago.Mostly confused questions because THAT GAME KICKS MY ASS
>>538196056For the longest while I was playing on easy just to learn everythingAND because someone said the AI still gets a small eco buff even on normal, not sure if that was true or if it still gets that handout in the current patch since that was way back in AoW4 launchdifficulty settings expanded since then to be more modular, and I got really used to enjoying the combat. Forced myself to play mystic potential culture and not rely on auto-resolvenow I'm a lot more confident in the game but still mainly just setup power fantasies for myself. Like, half my created civs are all underground societies since underground feels so fucking good after the Giant Kings dlc
Fuck is this demon thingy?Did Zen Edition add new things?
bump
>>538204965No
>>538205343Why not?
>>538205343yes, fuck you.
>>538205684If you're going to bump, you must post a picture.Them's the rules.
>see stellaris supposedly changed how population and growth works in their latest big patch>Oh damn does that mean there's actually population simulation for a change instead of the same garbage "your city has 7 population" system everyone in this genre aped from civ?>No lol you just have 100 pop instead of 1 pop>Everything's basically the same but times 100What even was the point of changing the system then.
>try wolf>against lotus>expect to steamroll them>get steamrolled instead...what.
I've been unfocused, because of a comment a friend made a while ago. Basically, he claimed you can put everything into D&D alignement, and I've been struck trying to put the different Battle Realms clans into this chart, because at first glance, it's simple:- Dragon is Good Lawful,- Serpent is Evil Lawful,- Wolf is Good Unlawful,- Lotus are Cunts.But it doesn't work, because, in the case of the Dragon: at first glance, they're all honorable and chill as fuck, but when you take a look, the archers and spearmen are humble warriors while the Samurai is proud of his skill, but they are still all fanatics ready to murder the fuck out of you violently just you even present a danger, they won't wait for you to attack first.So does that really work?
>>538209241>he claimed you can put everything into D&D alignementthat's retarded, people have been arguing over alignment for decadespeople can't even agree to what alignment Batman would be, anything more complex than a saturday morning cartoon character isn't going to fit neatly in a 3x3 chart
>>538209241>Basically, he claimed you can put everything into D&D alignementtell him that he's a fucking moron
>>538207264None. The change from 25 was just that they wanted pop numbers to be high so it looked like planets had lots of people.So next update they'll probably multiply the number by another 100. Then your new colonies will start with 10,000 settlers and your capital will start the game with 500,000 pops.
>>538209835Batman is obviously chaotic neutral.
what the fuckoh shit I think I won a score victory
>>538213539let's drop a celebratory nuke or two
>>538213721pretty much all of my score was from nukes. now that I've used them, france is higher than me. too late though, hehehe
>>538214093>you can win the game by nuking everyonebrb goin 2 whitehouse
>>538214587no, you misunderstand. I won because I didn't nuke anybody
>>538215113Oh, from stockpiling and hoarding them?Now everything makes a lot more sense. I think I finally understand.
>>538214093>we'll let you claim victory just please don't fucking nuke us
>>538209835As a gross oversimplification, I mean. Of course you can't judge someone only through this alignement, which is why Warhammer RPG instead uses two goals.
>>538213539>year 2050>turn 330 (so quick game speed?)Yeah, score victory. What victory condition were you originally going for?
>>538220764I have no idea honestly, diplo was probably my best shot
>>538137460how does one even play Aurora? has he made a tutorial?
>>538223514>has he made a tutorial?Lol.On a real answer, reading the wiki, tutorials made by other people and if you can stomach it, youtube tutorials.Almost all of them will be kinda outdated in some regards, but I think (You) are smart enough to overcome a minor variation.
>>538223514Trial and error. Its not that complicated game desu.
Are there any mods for aurora that make it look less than my 62 year old coworker's spreadsheet at least?
>>538237986There's a mod that makes it look like win95 spreadsheet
>>538235206lol
>>538213721Hooray!
>>538196056Is it still kicking your ass?I burned a lot of time on it. Still bad at it I guess, but I at least know what's going on if I'm getting raped
alright here are the next game's settings. doing another team game, with 4 teams of 2. I am going M A X I M U M war this time, conquering everything that looks at me the wrong way. playing rome because they've been a pain in my ass the previous two games
>>538265906I can survive, compared to how I fared in AoW2 where I'd get raped by dragons, but the AI leaves me in the dust.
>>538271415not a great start
>>538273309yep.
Haven't touched Stellaris in few years.How is 4.0 and Biogenesis?I've heard it is bad and not getting much better.
>>538276231biogenesis is good, 4.0 needs work but there's another DLC in 2 weeks so it's going to need even more work
>>538276231>How is 4.0 and Biogenesis?Trash. The pop changes are absurd and ended up being absolute failure and the game runs even worse now.
>>538276990>the game runs even worseAnons keep saying this but it doesn't seem as bad, to me. It slows down in late game, as it always does, but it doesn't repeatedly hang for a moment like it used to. Pop calculations seem to be done monthly rather than daily, like they used to.
>>538276402>>538276990I guess I'll ignore it and go back being bad in Anno 1800
>>538273309>go for a war run>get spawned in with the most aggro motherfucker alive>he has super strong early game units>plus this dude >>538273623 whose civ bonuses let him science good>meaning he'll keep technological parity with your army for longer>and fucking Alexander, another often aggro AI, is on the only other team that hasn't declared war on you yetWew. Have fun, friend.
Is this a black woman adeptus mechanicus beating 3 necrons on her own? Aren't necrons supposed to be really fucking difficult to kill even for Space Marines?
>>538273623okay, I don't remember which team this smug asshole is on, but it's something>>538281617yeah tell me about it
>>538284534they were with the aztecs apparently, so I'm turning straight around to kill the koreans
>>538284756weird. I'm not going to do it because they denounced alexander and I am for sure going to be at war with monty in the future
>>538288291one city down, 3 to gomonty and alex went to war too, so it was a good idea to not declare friendship
>>538288528s-siam? sir?
>>538237986That's part of the soul of it.
>>538283259I didn't even notice she was black. You really are obsessed with race...
>>538297287I only noticed it myself when I paused at this specific shot where she crushes a space terminator's head like he's made out of paper. I guess it only legitimizes the pattern recognition.Even Tyranids fear these dudes and yet here's a trio of them getting trashed by a tech nerd.
pmub
>>538276990How can Stellaris run even worse. It wasn't running great ever since the 2.0 update.
Players should be able to emphasize tech unlocks but not focus them exclusively like civ does.
If Civ7 wanted crises they should have given unique tech or units like in Millennia.
>>538315023Well no shit tyranids fear necrons. There's zero biomass on them.
>>538283259Play Mechanicus. You beat those skeleton wannabes like they owe you money.
>been getting a strong itch to start playing AoEII ranked again>ended on a win streak high note well over a year ago at 1450is there a way to just nuke my elo down to 1k so I don't have to just lose 30 games in a row while 'remembering' how tf to do everything?
>>538324085They fear them because they can't beat them in a war of attrition, not because they don't have biomass. The latter is just disinterest.
observe the assfucking that monty has received, courtesy of famous buttfuckers alexander the great and me, augustus caesar
>>538315023Techpriests aren't exactly space marines. Aren't they more like commanders?
>>538331725just about done here. I'm going to raze that last city
Oh heck, chi shield suddenly a lot better.
Oh, dragon breath got nerfed, now it only eats four dragon warriors.
>>538338063>the food resource is represented by ricename 10 strategy games so I can avoid them
>>538340921Yes? Is this really the hill you want to die on?
>>538341202i'll gladly die on it once you explain those chinese characters in the bottom left to me. 水雲?
>changed Tausil's warlock skill>can no longer grieve ally by killing his unitsSadge.>>538341989Hell if I know. Might be gibberish for all I know, Battle Realms isn't historical at all.
>>538331783>>538324759Yes, mechanicus are less combat-inclined, but them being able to fight so well would raise the question of why they aren't the frontline of the Imperium instead of, well, the marines.Here's a cutscene from this very same game series that shows how strong they are:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa6F-DuVmIo
>>538347341>warriors only beat space marines because they outnumber themokAlso, consider the following:it all depends from dices, so don't rely on freak accidents and lucky streaks to jauge of someone's strength. I once had a squad of termagaunts absolutely analhilating a squad of these dark eldars wyches in a single shooting phase.
>>538347478>because they outnumber themThey get back up after being shot. That's what gives them the "near-unstoppable metal tide" reputation that they had when they were a new faction. That's why the only surefire way to stop them is to deactivate their tombs/monoliths before they ever wake up.But even in gameplay they're tough to kill, hence why they move so slowly as a balancing measure. Dawn of War Winter Assault's final mission is portrayed as, and plays out like a fucking nightmare because of that. It takes an imperial Titan just to stop a local mob of them... and now they're jobbers?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puaEL2cL6h8&t=776s
war, what's it good for
It's time lads, and i'm here for it. Say no to reroll, be a real civilization.
>>538347478> I once had a squad of termagaunts absolutely analhilating a squad of these dark eldars wyches in a single shooting phase.you're wasting your breath, nobody here actually plays the game
>>538352830I would 100% reroll with that much marsh, that's fucked up
>>538355473It's okay, the swamptites will rise.
Uh oh
>>538348786It takes an Imperial Titan to stop several MONOLITHS.>>538352878They should, it's a pain to set up, but it can be hilarious.
>>538358095what kind of fucked up map settings are you playing on
>>538358343300x300, 31 civs, TAM mod.
>>538358413yeah the map gen gets kinda wack when you go above vanilla sizes and civshave you seen those clusters of 10+ luxes?
>>538358908Not yet, but those are funny, once witnessed a mountain range of silver in the MEM mod.
Controling the marshes.
>>538358095Real David vs Goliath energy in that map.
>>538365127Indeed! How much the pheonicians have discovered the world for me.
>>538365450Is the island with 3 cities your land (even though you have bunch more)?
>>538366202Nope, i'm on an island surrounded by sea and ocean we no timber (for advanced boats), I have nine cities.
>>538365450Holy shit. I didn't have a grasp of Civ 3 map sizes so seeing that puts it into amazing perspective. Something akin to a Pale Blue Dot type of awe.
>>538367994Biggest civ ever I think, the turn timer can be bad but you can go up to 340 x 340. The zoomed out and more simplistic design just hits me right, it's why I just do not like the district system of all the 4x's recently.
The marshes have been cleared and hopefully I pop some lumber.
>>538365450...heck.
Yeah the farms look better for sure.
>>538118126Are we hyped for Endless Legend 2 (and Olden Era)?Wonder how much they will cost.
>>538366534Ye but where are you on the map, it's pretty confusing
>>538372780I'm on the island in the square purple color.
>>538372839See>>538366202So that island with 3 cities is where you are then.
>>538372979Yeah, I thought you were thinking I had colonies, when you said alot more land.
>>538373090Cause the map shows only 3 but you have 10 cities on it.
>>538373203Yeah don't worry about it anymorem it's all ogre, VP points ended it. I was going for this mod's version of space race and didn't make it. Full map though.
You should know this!
>>538376849I don't know anything.
>>538378819Okay Jon Snow.
>>538370189>all those seasIs that done manually or automatically by the game?
Civ 3 but with hexes
>>538395563Like magic?
>>538399651Like 6 sided polygons.
>waited for Aurora 2.6 for so long I decided to get back into WRSR for the time being>just as my republic really starts coming together, Steve drops the updateIt's so fucking unfair.
>>538352710>That UICiv never recovered from that. UI's have been shit ever since.
>>538402065Glorious republic tovarish.
>>538402527Thank you! New city and steel industry coming up, I'll see how far I can get before the urge to conquer the stars overwhelms me.
>>538400003Sounds like witchcraft, to me.
I wiped out korea before the aztecs. rip.
>>538418654And somehow you're the bad guy.
>>538418654He's right.Now who's gonna make RimWorld HAR/xenotype mods?
>>538425345I mean he kills non Whites so who cares.
>kick paradox 10 dollars for their scam of a dlc sub for stellaris because somehow i would have to spend 100 dollars to get the ones i dont have>they update the game every 2 days now and all mods are permanently brokenwhy is every game i like made by the most incompetent retard gorilla niggers on the planet
>>538387959By the game, probably just wonky generation.
>>538427415Those haven't been relevant since Biotech.
Good night.
>>538445254Good night.
>>538436670Because you keep giving money to paradox.
>>538447261This.
>>538449547
Play Song of Conquest.
I'm in a terrible position here. enemies on all sides and that cunt hiawatha made two citadels on our borderthe looming war against alex and lizzie is going to be really rough, even more so if rama and hiawatha join in
post you cunts
>>538482587I don't think I will
>>538482587Can't, busy trying to pimp my minotaur lord while not having any fire or earth gems.
>>538487589I never managed to figure out how to play dryad. The get free armies, sure, but they spawn so slowly that you'll never get anything done. And summoning armies is ridiculously expensive for the paltry amount of gems you might be lucky to find.
>>538491207Oh, it's Dominions, not Conquest of Elysium, so I can recruit minotaurs normally.
How do we solve the DLC problem?
>>538469158Hmm. Based on empire score fighting Alex looks like it'll be tougher, but logistically easier since your empire's core is right next to him. After a you capture a city of two from him you should have a relatively "safe" front line as he'll be attacking into lands that have no real effect on your production.Lizzie'll be a bitch to fight solely because of distance. Wittenberg will force some attention west when you really want to expand into Daegu/Newcastle to bring the war on her turf. Luckily all the hills should help defending their initial push, but that's a lot of distance and chokepoints for you to cross to get into her core.Either way, blood for the blood god.
>>538510685Return to expansion packs.
>>538510685By making a law that orders death penalty to games that are launched unfinished and buggy.
>cant help but to play Aurora on lowest possible research speed because i hate the idea of some military models/generations not seeing combatI hate that my fucking brain started to be this fucking autistic.
>>538516581It's the same thing for me when I play Rule the Waves 3 (which is coincidentally also a spreadsheet simulator but with quasi-RTS battles as well). I have to turn research speed all the way down because otherwise I'll end up constantly replacing and refitting ships because I got a new fire control or whatever, but even then I still use the separate option for slower heavier than air research because I want to play with big gun ships that tend to get sunk by planes pretty quickly.
>>538516581What if all weapon and armour upgrades were +# instead of a new laser, plasma, phaser, doomray?All ships would effectively upgrade at once, regardless of design.
>>538517275Weirdest part is that i didnt use to be like that.When i played Civ i was perfectly fine with the idea that the earliest combat units wont see much combat before upgrades, that they are merelt something that i meant to be obsolete soon and is purely for guarding early cities or defences against barbarians..And now when i play Aurora i feel like i miss something when my 1st tier engine, conventional armour, barely can call it a warship corvette havent seen at least 10 battles.Like i know that many warship types irl also never saw actual combat and got obsolete and replaced by newer shit but after few "missed" tech levels like that i get such intense restartitis that i mostly just restart the entire game...Perspective of clearing the entire tech tree paralyzes me despite me never actually doing that in my life.>>538517971Thats exactly how it works in Aurora.
>>538517971That would be boring. It's much more interesting to get new components and then design ships around them and refit old designs with new stuff. The trick is getting the pacing right. You want new stuff often enough that you don't have to wait ages but at the same time you don't want it often enough that building existing designs feels like a waste cause "I will have the X soon anyways">>538516581Try parallel research, it helps with this problem by "batching" few techs at a time making upgrades more natural and easier to perform.
>>538510685What problem? Im okay with games that have one or two dlc's that are of decent size. Only games with huge amounts of dlc's are a problem in my opinion.
holy fucking shit alexander is fucking with me
>>538526172two can play at that game bitch
>>538526383I'm going to have conniptions
>>538527646hiawatha declared war on me and oh my god I don't want to do this I'm so tired
>>538529563>only share a border because of a single city>have to cross hills and mountains to reach into his territory>it looks like he has the great wall, meaning your movement inside his land is slowedEating Korea is really cascading into a lot of bullshit, huh. Maybe Buffalo Creek could be a good fortress to stand your ground on, assuming he doesn't have open borders with Alex.
>>538516581How long does a typical game of Aurora take? Less than ten or more than ten hours?
>>538535892I absolutely should not have taken jeonju
>>538538242Aurora is less of a game than it is a single player role playing experience. There's no wind condition and the game lasts as long or as sort as you like. Do you want to name all your admirals and ships, pick who commands what and when and pretend to send personnel on shore leave? Probably takes longer than if you just unga bunga that stuff and let missile go brrrr..
How is Tlatoani: Aztec Cities?
>>538546327I haven't played too much, but i'm pumped, also if you like city sims like that check out Nebuchadnezzar
>>538546479Already played Nebuchadnezzar, like it a lot. Still have to do the last mission and the dlc. Was just wondering about Tlatoani since it's on sale.
Bump
>>538559034If 4chan were a videogame, bumping would be cheating.
Haven't played in a few weeks and after a few turns I got this spooky premonition from the oracle I built. Last time it was an earthquake and tsunami that destroyed most of Athens and polluted the land so I couldn't work or rebuild there for 20 turns. Let's see what I get this time.
>>538569592From the creators of the Donkey, we give you the Horse.
>>538571292Rome and the Etruscans are here in Italy and they don't like each other.
>>538563331And having a sexy OP wouldn't? Maybe I should dig my old photos, then...
War for the Overworld kinda fun, but why is the campaign so hard?
>>538574662el presidente........ my liege.....
>>538574758it's not, you're probably just bad
live
>>538546327Do I get to watch priest whipping lines of children as they march to the mountains to be slaughtered and if so does the whipping-crying coefficient actually affect the rain? If so that would be fucking kino.
We need more absurd or schizo city building games
>>538604843I'd buy a Tropico game in the Cruelty Squad universe.
>>538604843Game idea: Coral Reef city builder.You play as a sentient coral reef and have to grow tubes n shit and get fish to live in them. You have lots of specialised "buildings" to attract different species of fish. They're both population and resource because they have to eat each other.It's also important to maintain an attractive look so you can get human tourists and collect their dropped cameras, phones and cash to upgrade your tech tree.
>>538583509cringe
Game idea:They Are Billions-like, but with dwarfs.
>>538617319They Are GoblinnionsBecause goblins. Get it?
>>538606884A living city city builder sounds neat. Something like Alpha Centauri with a living planet is another alternative.
You can remove 1 mechanic from all future strategy games. What is it?
>>538638318espionage
>>538638480There is no honour in espionage.
>>538617319How would that work? Like you take the NauglamÃr and don't pay them for their work and the midgets begin attacking in rage?
EL2 Demo makes Civ7 look like an early access indie title. Firaxis what the fuck happened
>>538654213Maybe it's because they have been the top dog for so long they don't dare to take risks to make something truely new.
>>538654435That makes no sense, as civ 7 has the most significant changes since 1UPT, if they wanted to play it safe they would've stuck with the formula or copied a better received game than Humankind.
>>538654435Thats exactly the opposite of what they did though.They took big risks, fucked with the formula too much and people hated it as soon as they announced it and people never stopped hating it.That on its own was bad enough, the game releasing extremely stripped of features, polish and mechanics and coming off more as a "le fun competitive pvp game between le friends" than a legitimate 4X game was also bad enough of its ownBoth of them together was an absolute carcrash
>>538654435I think you are confusing risk taking with complacency. They took enormous risks by deviating so massively off the most successful game in the series so far, even daring to copy a flop of a game with "bet we can do that better (we can't)" attitude. They were complacent because though thought they could release a broken game and fix it with DLC but even if the game wasn't heap of trash on a technical level and had polish of civ 6 it would have still been a failure because the risky core features they decided to go with were just bad.
>>538638318cloaked units that need a detector
>>5386383185 million different resources.
>>538665848>They were complacent because though thought they could release a broken game and fix it with DLCtbf, that's basically they've done that for the past few games
>>538638318turn-based
>>538638318real-time without pausegive me the ability to pause and plan things outt. almost 30
>>538638318Infinite resource deposits.Make everyone have to really think about the shit they build and send to the front.
>>538654213>>538654435On a more optimistic guess, natural turnover as old creative teams move on/retire and a new team gets the helm. It was nearly 9 years between 6 and 7, and they've obviously taken notice of how Amplitude has made its splash in 4X. They're juggling bold new ambitions, trying to keep franchise legacy/traditions, and responding to/aping other mechanics put forth by their competition.But also keep in mind that basegame Civ is vastly different from final product Civ. They're going to change mechanics a lot as the years go by; hell, vanilla Civ V had powerful infinite city sprawl that got nerfed so hard that Brave New World Civ V has to deal with "Go Tradition, Go Tall, Five Cities Max (generally) or get fucked by happiness penalties." And that was only within 3 years. By the time 7 is done with the game will be hopefully be in a much better state.Lastly, to paraphrase Sid Meier himself a lot of Civ players will find and stick with "their" Civ game. Whatever entry has mechanics that jive with them best will be the one they come back to regardless of whatever the newest/flashiest entry is. I'm guessing that small thought leads to Sid allowing a lot more risk to be taken with editing the formula, even if it's beyond the team'a abilities.
>>538643127More like Dwarf Fortress with goblins sieges. Or elves. Or kobolds.
>>538654213>>538654435This applies to corporations just as well as it does government agencies
>>538685604is this inevitable
>>538686045unfortunatelyonce the idealist founder is dead, all bets are off
>>538466505already did and it was ruined by the hyper balancing autism
>>538686045The leader must rule with an iron fist and remain true to his vision.
One more turn!
Would /civ4xg/ ever play an indie 4x game?
>>538709120What would you even do in an indian 4x gamedesignate shitting streets before your rivals can?
>>538194542no, I just bought it so I hvaen't had the opportunity to post anything. I'll post some of my civs. This is a blood cult, worshiping some sort of fallen angel messiah. I haven't unlocked cult of personality yet.
>>538711805My favorite faction in MtG is Golgari/Witherbloom, so I made an expy with bugmen and a withered old crone lady for the leader, supposed to look like Willowdusk, Essense Seer.
>>538712060My favorite faction in Warhammer is Nurgle, but the giant isn't fat enough for my taste to make a Great Unclean one. I don't really like the look of the eldritch beings for Nurgle, but I tried my best.
>>538709120i've played tons of endless space 1
>>538712179And this is just Orion from Warhammer Fantasy. Not sure if I like this guy just yet.
>>538712306Orion is a cunt.
Anyone here played Kaiserpunk?How is it?
>>538720171That's exactly what I want to be.
>>538723925The only good thing about Orion is that he's burned alive every year.
>>538724013lmao, yeah yeah Malagor. Oh shit, I should make the RARROO boys for AOW 4.
Will DoW4 be good?
Given the Kalypso sale happening now, is Tropico 4 complete still the best Tropico game?
>>538735684No, that'd be Tropico 2.
Any 4X games like this?
>>538737765Fuck off.
>>538735684yes by far
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>>538711805>>538712060>>538712179>>538712306>can't share any of my creations since still workStill nice, I could have fun just screwing with the faction creator all day. I managed to curb my ideas to just trying to refine a few civs for now>>538724949Goats already look like discount GorsBut, what you can also do, is hit any other humanoid races with the Reveler and Animal Kinship TF spells. Gives them goat legs and beast fur for your chosen peopleKEEPING cities doesn't really mesh with Beastmen, but I guess you can compromise and go Primal culture for max unga bunga, and pick Chosen Destroyers society trait to rape and pillage
>>538402065It will take weeks of bugfixing to be playable, as always. The eternal boomer doesn't test his new spaghetti code before release to this day, like how can you not catch conditional orders being broken on 2.6.
>>538735661No way to tell until more gameplay is revealedRelic shit the bed with their last few games so seeing dev studios switch to the Iron Harvest guys actually makes me cautiously optimistic IH didn't wow me but it didn't look bad either
Any news on Falling frontier?Still not gonna join any discord.
>>538748369Chosen Destroyers is fun as fuck. RN i'm running an evil pyromancy elf build, and just burning cities in the campaign. Seems sorta broken, as long as you jump on top of a free city early.
>>538753260Doesnt seem so.
>>538753260Go back to sleep, anon. Return in a decade.
>getting Stellaris itch againNo, begone demon!!
>>538760132Yeah, ok. I'll just get back to my crypt.
ten
Have the stellaris devs mentioned whether wilderness empires will be able to psionically ascend with the new dlc? It made sense for them to be locked to bio ascension before since gestalt empires couldn’t be psionic, but now that they can I see no reason why we can’t have a psychic forest
>>538760631Where else can you be spiritual robots?
>>538775294Whats the point when warfare sucks and everything is the same?
>>538776489Well done. You are safe for another day.
>>538760631>>538775294>>538776489Mod it. You could be a race of huge titty cow girls. Give into your feelings, boy.
Why the heck do I have way more pops on planet then my employed/civilian pops?Also holy crap it sucks to wrangle conquered worlds into functioning status. No idea how to fix the amenities issue without replacing every building with lux/holos (which the native pops can't work).
>>538778745Slaves? Primitives? Disconnected hive species?It should say.
>>538778902Slaves. Can't change them from indentured without crashing at least the consumer goods economy and they're not becoming residents until they realize their new god is the state and their opinion of war should be yes.
>>538778745This is the reason I've either gone tall this update, or just abduct / enslave everyone. It's not worth the effort to conquer.But I think for amenities, you're supposed to have civilians. They're going to nerf the luxury housing soon iirc
>>538779634I just displace them.
>>538781390Oh me too. I dump fliers before I send in the planet cracker.
How the fuck am I supposed compete with runaway AI's? Every game there's always one asshole that's on another continent and completely eclipses everyone else. In this case I got an island start and I'm far behind everyone. and I knew I should have rolled a different map. I can't be bothered with specialists and shit. I am orange line, CarthageEvery fucking game is like this. I am playing on prince difficulty I have played this game for years and I never got good at it
>>538785709Same.
>>538785824Godfuckingdamnit. I love this game so much but I don't know what the fuck I'm doing wrong. I don't expand until my economy is destroyed, I try to wage wars strategically and get the jump on my neighbor if he's got really good land. Fucking hell.
>>538785709I applaud your pure run but yeah you gotta specialize in that predicament. All those no quiter and no rerollers are the best.
I need to refresh before I reply. This always happens>>538786269Yeah I don't like to quit or reroll I like a challenge even though clearly I'm not good enough at civ for it. It's very rare that I reroll only for really harsh starts. Man I really hate specialists it's a really annoying and tedious thing to manage I don't like it at all. Civ 3 in that regard for not having them
>>538785709Are there any 4X games that try simulating complacency? If your civilisation gets too rich without war and challenge, then it would start suffering admin costs that grow exponentially.All empires eventually steamroll, and they all eventually collapse due to internal corruption.
>>538778745 here. Checked world again and it's world pop is 8.4k and the total amount of jobs being worked is 4.6k. None of my original world has this discrepancy, it's only the conquered ones. What's going on here?
>>538786810civilians
>>538786721It eventually does catch up with you. Shit gets really fucking expensive and fast. I could have sworn there was inflation in this game, I've been playing K-mod I don't know if it got rid of it
great another island start with tundraI'm gonna ride this out, fail and bitch some more
>>538787869You have an AI with you this time at least.
>>538787207Could you compete with the runaway AI by targeting a single, high-production city and then hold your ground and hope he drowns in the upkeep cost from the rest of his country?
I for one enjoy campaigns where the AI goes crazy and I have to hold on for dear life.
>>538787156You're almost on the mark. From what I've gathered slaves don't become civilian roles. Thus reason I wasn't seeing working pops of the same number is I literally didn't have enough proper jobs for them.Which means years in this game have passed by with them doing fuckall while I tried to puzzle out why they were doing fuckall.In my defense, pretty sure slave pop in another game I played became some form of civ from some wacky origin/civic/glitch.
>>538787967I had Montezuma last game and map reveals I'm on a continent tucked away at the corner>>538787978I am by no means an expert on this game. The closest thing I ever did to that was completely bombing the enemies cottages and they suffered for it. They are tile improvements that produces most commerce. If you take away his high production city, they still has a strong economic output keeping them afloat. The AI is a pushover in vanilla civ 4 I am playing a mod called K-Mod, the AI WILL fuck your shit up militarily. The AI knows how wage warsIn the game I posted the problem stems from me not having a large enough economy to support a big enough army to actually attack him. You could befriend neighboring civs of the enemy to wage war with you but this game I was just too far gone to make an actual dent.
>>538790259>the AI WILL fuck your shit up militarilyYeah but at the end of the day you can delete the save file and turn off the computer, and there's absolutely fuck all the AI can do about that.
>>538790705kek
>>538118126WEAR IT
>>538787207>a world where 70% of government funds go to researchImagine.
>>538798442And education.
so I downloaded age of wonders 3 and it's alright
so I finally had sex and it's alright
>>538809958tell us the story anon
>>538809958Did that end your path towards wizardry? Or did you get your magical powers first?
>>538810796The latter.
>another age of wonder 4 game>ANOTHER game of me getting left behind by AIFUCK!
>>538810796ok I'm taking a long hiatus from civ 4. I was doing so well on my continent, first in everything, meet other continent and it never even began. Mongolia is just too far from my capital and I would have taken a huge hit from distance fee. That motherfucker Pacal ALWAYS eclipses. He is always the one that always fucking wins holy shit
>>538813887didn't mean to reply
>>538813887you might just be bad, friend
>>538814246I know I'm bad. I get too complacent when everything's going good all of my bad Civ 5 habits I formed still bleed into this. I end up playing tall because of it when this is a proper 4x game. Expansion and growth is the name of the game. I had a really good economy too. Time to play some real videogames instead
>>538814453how many cities did you have? I don't know much about civ 4 but 59 worked tiles doesn't sound like a lot
>>538806804I want to play it eventually, as part of going through the entire series.Only did 1 and 4 so far>>538813157Is this on normal AI's? Just regular, randomly made maps?I only knew simple meta strats at launch, game already changed a lot, mostly for the better, that I have no clue what's the best help early on
>>538814510The land wasn't that great I made do with it. My mistake was not immediately prepping for war against Mongolia I got too complacent.
>>538816002Yeah, be careful around Mongolians.
>>538538242My last one took around 14 months (finished prematurely due to lack of interest)
Okay seriously how the piss do I fix this.Can't add any more amenities buildings, can't afford to export pops elsewhere, can't export or purge them without tanking the economy, can't free them because they' instantly form a faction with happiness penalties that undoes every benefit of freeing them, and when the governor dies in a few years it'll permanently be at 100 Crime.
>>538818639unless they changed it recently, housing buildings are better at giving amenities than holo-theatresand just resettle the slaves somewhere, they probably have shit habitability
>>538819481It's their own worlds.And yes they already changed it. Lux gives 1500, Holo gives 2500.
Have most Stellaris mods updated?If not, how long will it take?
>>538821298>It's their own worlds.in that case it's probably your own pops that have shit habitability. you can still resettle the slaves somewhere to reduce their impact
>>538818639You play a xenophilic slaveless democracy like the bluehaired devs want you to
>>538823372A whole ascension perk for alien cross-breeding, what were they thinking. Who is going to waste one of your few slots for something so degenerate?
>>538826365Especially when you can get that stuff in with mods.
>it's raining>buildings are still on fire anyway>>538826365I'd argue the real degenerate thing would be to keep fucking aliens despite crossbreeding being impossible.
I hope Stellaris goes all in with the anti-psionic stuff and gets a civic that lets you be genocidal but only against niggas that psionically ascend
>>538798442And the world has no nigs and jews.Thats the important part.
Lotus is strong, but I admit I prefer Serpent or Wolf when it's about setting things on fire.
>>538826909Hmm. No condoms needed with aliens. You can't catch diseases from a rockgirl and she won't get pregnant.
>>538828203A rockgirl, you said?
>>538828251Sorry, I missed a word. A rockgirlrock.
>>538828375Sorry anon, but now I imagine plowing that rock girl and making her walk with a limp.
>>538778542>>538777513I hate both of you.>>538817016>>538817016Nice. Im still trying to reign my autism in to play first proper campaign..
>>538828757>lustful void>family oriented>cheat modDespicable. Infidelity ruins lives.
>>538828951I need to make sure i didnt leave some LL mod, would hate to start a new game without and then having to restart it.
Destined Destroyers is the best thing in AOW 4, love playing tall.
>>538817016>tfw can never play Aurora long enough to meet and fight AI empires
>Aurora forums down againOh for fuck sake.
>>538828757>cheats>better cheats>latex space elvesnow this is kino
Oh hey /k/ is in Dominions
Is the boardgame Diplomacy considered /civ4xg/?
>>538862528>boardgame>>>/tg/
WhatWhy
>>538863930Paradox. That's why.
>>538574758Extremely late reply but they changed the AI at some point and modelled it around the things so-called "competitive" players were doing. Not sure how much of that splashed over to the campaign but I do recall the highest difficulty AIs becoming annoying and necessitating organized build orders based on the map you were playing.
Is there a point to using liberation wars? Won’t the ai just embrace one of their factions and basically negate the entire reason for going to war?
>>538868983Pretty much. The point is taking a large part of their territory with colonies in it, because that part will become a new loyal vassal empire with your ethics to you if you status quo instead of achieving the war goal.
>>538868983It's simpler then making a brand new vassal out of sectors and painstakingly gifting systems to it
>>538863930You were told already, you're playing the "wrong" ideology and need to be punished for it.
>>538868983Arent liberation wars about carving enemy empire into smaller states, liberating conquered species and shit?
>>538839432Can't blame you, it took me years' worth of autism to get that far. Finding enemies to fight is probably going to become a lot easier in the new patch, with the multi-system NPRs and all.>>538842889I swear to god, never saw anyone else have this much trouble hosting a basic forum.
>>538880319>I swear to god, never saw anyone else have this much trouble hosting a basic forum.To be fair its purely fan shit supported with donations.>tfw got banned from Aurora discordShame.
>>538863930are you playing oppressive autocracy
>>538897930nn fren
>>538897930Good night anon.
>>538898283y'know, if hyperspace is so damn bright, surely you could harvest energy from it
>>538898436Lightbulbs are bright, too. It should be possible to surround them with solar panels and use the collected energy to power other lightbulbs.
>>538538875>>538817016Thanks for the replies. Dang, Aurora's interested me for a while but my flavor of autism wouldn't be able to keep up for a single campaign that long.
>>538901258Can try that other autistic game. Shadow Empire, I think?
>>538901080Depends on how hyperspace works in a given series, I guess.I was thinking it's more like pumping natural gas and oxygen into a turbine.Except the supply of both is about as big as the universe, and there's no exhaust.
>>538902775Getting into hyperspace usually seems to take a lot of energy in most settings. Maybe you could charge your batteries while you were in there.
>>538906503Isn't it because space is condensed?
>>538906679Probably have to narrow it down to one sci-fi setting for this.
>>538906503Depends on a lot of things.Maybe the cost is mostly the initial opening, maybe it's mostly for the actual high-speed travel, maybe it's how long it's open, maybe it's the size of the rift...I could see something like this.A solar panel station mostly in hyperspace collecting the intense light. (and possibly other electromagnetic energy)A cable goes through a very small gate and connects it to a microwave antenna in realspace.
>>538910537Isn't that more or less how the zero point modules worked in Stargate? Tapping energy from another universe and moving it to this one?
>>538910783Yes, but also no.
>>538888236Stratified. Also for some reason it was only the Enforcers who got that penalty, no other specialist or other job.I did fix my issues by finally giving up and giving the species residence, raising up amenities and happiness enough to counteract the unhappy faggot factions for now. Lets me funnel out my main species pops to better worlds for them too. Though the enforcers thing was still an issue afterward until it suddenly magically disappeared.>>538873035>>538823372Honestly hard to refute that, you have to put in so much micromanagement as slavers/authoritarians/warmongers and still be riddled with issues that opposite ethics never seem to have even when you overexpand/migrate.
>>538932145I'm sick
bampfuck gacha
>>538937549I'm still sick
Please. My son, he's very sick. I hear there is a cure on page 1, please help us.
Riddle me this, Sovietchads:>most of the city grid is connected through a priority switch (set to high) to a coal power plant and a power plant incinerator (set to medium and high respectively)>same priority switch is connected to the export foreign power connection set to LOW>despite all this it will still prioritize exporting power even as the rest of the city's voltage plummets and brownouts strike everywhereWhat's the fucking problem here?
>>538960568What's going on there?
>>5389607459 Bits Armies allow most infantry to swim. It's not obvious how it works, but it's possible.But it's a terrible idea: sharks are attracted to the smell of sweat, and fear.
>>538951754Haven't played soviet simulator in a long while but are you certain the outputs are set up correctly?Can't remember if the game labels the outputs or not.I have a feeling it doesn't because I remember the game hates you.
>>538118126sauce
>>538963116It does (when you hover over them), and I'm 100% certain.
Redpill me on Zephon. I am considering buying it at full price.
>>538966020Please, wait for sale.It's not terrible, but not really interesting enough to hold you for multiple playthroughs.
Made some progress in my Epic Large Archipelago on King difficulty. About 50 turns. Finally I've gotten my navy to a point where they're stationed and everything isn't so overwhelming, while also being at war with the Zulu
>>538958803What game
>>538969990Congrats.
>>538969990Make sure you shoot them. A lot of people forget to do that, and it nearly winds up with an embarrassment.
wolf still sucksthey have no real frontlineevne berzerkers are weak to explosive and magic
live you faggot
>>538983170How does one learn aurora?
>>538994340By practice desu.
bamp
This asshole missed my MARS and hit my dude Scott Sterling crouched behind the barrels, then after I had him use medkit and made MARS shoot a rocket, the asshole missed and hit him AGAIN, suppressing him.
>>539004367Some people are just born with a natural attractive magnetic field.
>>539002159The Kol is pure sex, advent and vasari just can't compete
>>539002159I still think the giant turrets look goofy.Still, looking forward to the DLC 11 days away.
>>539009217Turrets are pretty big. Only makes sense that space turrets would be ever bigger.
>>539010450Are the space turrets laser or kinetic? I could see a pure laser turret being smaller since you wouldn't need any mechanisms to load it or handle the recoil and you can have the power source in the hull.
aw man, reapers
>>539009217Yeah it might be a bit oversized compared to the rest of the ship.
>>539010450A laser one would probably have all that ammo space taken up by huge capacitors and heatsinks.
>>539014221For >>539013410fuggid
>>539010450TEC uses railguns or coilguns, right? Then turrets could be a lot smaller because they only need the actual projectile and no giant bags of explosive propellants.
>>539013410>>539014221>>539015505Yeah, TEC uses mainly solid ammo and missiles, Kol has nose mounted giant laser cannon, but the turrets I was talking about are coil guns.They just look goofy to me, don't know what else to say about them.
>>538970115Modded 6
>>539016496I don't think they're any more silly than a giant gun as a spaceship or all the weird shit the advent get
>>539013569Ah yes, "reapers"
>>539013569Xenonauts.
>>539025317Those to me don't look silly.But for whatever reason, I just think the SoaSE 2 Kol is an aesthetic downgrade compared to the original.
Hey, no dying at 4 in the morning!
>>539037019>at 4 in the morningIt's still the evening
>>539037019it's 9 pm and I'm still sick
>can't catch that spy>>539037019It's only 3...
play startopia you cuckbut warrior kings battle is ok tooand apparently submarine titan is on gog, i have to check it out, a very nice bloke recommended it to me aeons ago
FUCKING DIE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Do 4x games have to be tile based?Are they better or worse if they use tiles instead of free form?
>>539052461I think tiles are just easier to program.
>>539052572Programming aside though.Are there any civ-like 4x games that are freeform?
>>539047865Grexolis is more of a clusterfuck than I remember, good god
>>539055713It was fun until the end, had to be super aggressive and take cities from the enemy early. Got the cheevo.
>>539052572I think it's more to do with how tileless maps support more tactical and less strategic gameplay but making it easier to code is certainly a factor (especially making the AI easier to code). You aren't really supposed to focus on precise positioning of your units in 4x rather on production and overwhelming the enemy with a superior tech or proper counter. I'm sure there are games that don't have tiles (like Aurora) but they are going to be pretty niche for that reason. RTS or total war or I dunno table top wargame simulators probably cover that niche better.
>>539061953Total War is probably the most popular "non-tile" 4x series.
>>539047865No I don't think I will die thank you
>>539030512>Those to me don't look silly.Really? I have a bit of a hard time taking the giant angle spaceship seriousBut yeah, the Sins 1 Kol is peerless for looks. I don't understand why they didn't port it 1:1 like they did for a lot of otther ships
>>538130894This not only 4x general anyway. Strategy more in general, besides paradox map painters, because some anons get freak outs over that. But beyond that - strategy.
>>539063858That's because it's not a 4x
>>539071590I guess it's because the Kol turrets just seem sorta gangly, like they aren't properly attached to the hull.Meanwhile the giant space gun doesn't offend me because it looks proportional.
>>539078979Oversized guns like World of Warcraft pauldrons.
Oversized guns can be cool.
>>538951754https://steamcommunity.com/app/784150/discussions/0/6895657216184384124/Alright, I think it's just the game being broken>july 2024Jesus Christ
Free oxygen.
>>539087516Oxygen ain't free.
>>539091182Yes it is and it's almost farm time. No more greenhouse.
>>539091372>windmills directly behind highrise buildingsThis is highly offensive to my autism, cease this immediately.
>>539096284Not that guy but the cityscape is auto generated by the game. You only build the transport infra (the rails and pallets of crates on the right) in this game. The city buildings just appear as your city grows when you bring stuff like food and water in.
Those fuckers on earth want my most precious product. What the hell man.>>539096284Depends on which way the wind comes from but cities just blob in this game once they have their inputs and outputs met.
>>539100842
They're holding my people hostage. wtf man.
>>539101327Noooooooooooooo...>>539103078Who the fuck is opposing "Earth Organisation"? Aliens?
>>539104036Earth got into a series of problems according to the opening text of the game. Think conflicts, runaway climate problems, etc. The colonization effort is meant as a plan b but once you start doing well they start demanding high quality products in exchange for seeds. At some point most of earth got united under the earth organization but not all of it as it seems.
>>539104873Makes sense. Let's just hope this doesn't go the Gundam route.
>>539104963Nah, they'll just go LoGH route.
>>539104963Sieg Mars Zeon and their army of cloned telepathic lolis!
>>539109043Cloned telepathic loli space elves...
>>539112005Go on....
>>539112173Nothing else, really. Just lot of spanking from the bored female crew. And the robotic nannies. The Gynoids.
>>539112398>spanking loving nazi space elf lolisSounds like a nice Rimworld colony material.
>>539112604Oh, they're nazis? Now I feel like I'm in the right in spanking them.
>>539080137>look it up, Airships: Conquer the Skies>creator says it's inspired by Cortex Command, Master of Orion, and Dwarf FortressFrom the trailers, it has a slightly... jank feel to it, but I assume it's much more playable than Cortex Command? Thanks for letting me know it exists.
>>539077120Oh my bad, you're right it's grand strat lol.
>>539112005>>539112398>>539112693I don't think these are the Mars Zeon.
>>539114957no lol
>>539116986alright it's whatever you think it is, faggot.
>>539104963I dunno. We independent now.
Oh so as a retaliation the earthlings destroyed the upper end of the space elevator. Now I need to quickly build a biological research centre in one of my towns to produce seeds.
The cable is actually coming down.
>>539122037That cable is going to wrap around the planet and do lots of damage. There's a book about this.
>>539121003BASED>>539116571They're better.
>>539123520Better start respecting Roko's cable then.
>>539122037>>539123520>Earth Organization chooses global suffering over letting some space elevator nerds be independentSome real crabs in a bucket mentality, holy shit. What game is that anyway? It looks like there's a lot of passion behind it.
>>539122037>More than 10+ high impact dinosaur killing meteors>still treeshow...
Settings to make Stellaris fun again? It's really feeling like both a chore and a dull experience lately.I'd move on to other games but none of them really do custom empires to the same degree
>>539123520So it did. It almost wraped arround the planet destroying everything in its path. Luckily the damage wasn't too bad.>>539134727Plan B terraform, mostly developed by one guy I think. It's a bit openttd/factorio light, with some terraforming and fluid mechanics.>>539135138I'm terraforming the place, the impacts are from a looooong time ago.
>>539135536Take a break, buddy.
>>539136610The thin line arround the equator is the crash site of the cable. If it was longer it would have cut through my most important city.
>>539137684I was going to say that's a bit silly but then the ISS is 400km away.
>>539138028Doesn't a space elevator need to be in geostationary orbit?
>>539123520>>539137684I thought anon was joking, now I'm a bit interested in the game.
Terrorist?! What the hell man. The earthlings are the ones with weapons and they blew up the elevator.
>>539123520>There's a book about this.The Red/Blue/Green Mars trilogy? I remember I read a sci fi novel with a martian orbital elevator getting popped but I don't remember the exact novel.
>>539141189Empires generally don't like it when subjects declare independence.
>>539141189War. War never changes.
>>539141189its how its done IRLaccept you're property or you're a terrorist
More games need race/faction creations.
>>539144329Agreed.It would be great to paly stellaris that wasn't shit. Imagine empires of your own creation fighting against each other.
>>539145312That is the plan, I want to make a scenario where I'm a vampire lord against a bunch of humans fighting against me.
>>539144329"But our STOOOORY! Think of our amazing original STOOOOORY!"Much like Elder Scrolls, Stellaris sits on it's throne not on merit but a near complete lack of competition. and it itself keeps sliding into STORY mode more and more so who knows how long that'll last. Wouldn't be surprised if they made a Stellaris 2 and it tried to grab the Endless Space 2 audience instead of leaning in on what made Stellaris popular, and you know they won't nearly be on ES2's level.
>>539154390ES2 just gets a lot right, so not many people can copy that.
>>538797327if there are more harpy refs i can draw it shittily
>>539154390Never played daggerfall, i wasnt born yet when it came out, but it looks kinda shitty even for old game? Does it really hold it?
Back at it again. Rolled a random civ and map got a really good colonization civ. I never play island maps and I don't know how to combat the maintenance fee, It will kill me if I start expanding on islands. I turned off vassal states so I can't make them into colonies. Please tell me I'm not the only civ4 fag on this general
>>539141495Yeah Mars trilogy has that
>spend like 20 minutes trying to get 4chanx to work on the new chrome updateI gotta switch to firefox
>>539151952>map settings gain more customization with each update>custom factions grow more customizable too>can now give any of your custom civs their own preset lists of city names, heroes to recruit, and tome paths to research in your preferred order>can also determine if they get an advanced start with extra cities in your map creationOutside of painting the map yourself by hand, I think AoW4 can do a decent job of that now
>>539138028>>539138362Space elevators (at least the conventional ones) have to have their center of mass above the geostationary (so practically the counterweight station has to be lot higher than that). A typical design has it going up to 3 times higher than geostationary (36 000km) such as 100 000km, for reference the circumference is only 40 000km. That being said only the part that has it's center of mass below the geostationary will actually fall down if the cable breaks, the rest will fly up and escape the gravity well or settle in new orbits. That could be almost all of it if it breaks just below the counterweight station or almost none of it if it breaks near the ground station. It should be noted that for Mars geostationary is lower than the circumference of the planet and same generally holds true for all smaller planets where an elevator is even possible with relatively little magic.Basically the most likely problem spots either result in no cable hitting the ground or enough to wrap the planet several times (which it would due to the way the cable stays in tension essentially the entire time). Anywhere in between is possible due to things like meteor impacts on the cable or just random breakage as well.
>>539182234Wait... Doesn't that turn the space elevator into a giant sling?
>>539182461That's kinda the point
>>539103078Game?
>>539186070plan b terraform
>>539186070Plan 9 from outer space.
>>539182461Suddenly it sounds like a really bad idea.
...? Didn't peasants have gloves?
>>539196607Why would they have gloves?
>>539196769Dunno, I remember them having white sleeves and player-colored gloves.
>fire arrows use stamina nowDarn it. Fair, but still annoying.
>units now recover health and stamina while walkingNeat. That archer walking in front of everyone was yellow just now, he returned to green health.
>>539199660Makes sense. Holding a flaming arrow in front of your face is going to make you sweat.
>>539199976That does make sense, but still, it makes it a bit harder to set an enemy base on fire, and it means Raiders and Pitch Slinger are now a lot better.
The DLC units are kinda nice, but they are so easy to counter. I'm still not sure they're worth bothering with. I still make a lot of guardians because I like them. They're cool.
FUCKING PILFERSThis is why I hate fighting Serpent.
>>539112398spiderfag getting spanked by his gf, colorized
>>539210561I wish I was this cute.
Which game has the best espionage, where I can be a real piece of shit and buy up industry, spread propaganda, assassinate key leaders, and fund fake revolutions?
>>539214426I think Space Empires has pretty comprehensive array of spy crap.
>>539214426I found espionage exceedingly fun, in Haegemonia, a space game.Otherwise, there's SEVEN KINGDOMS 2, but you need high-level spies to be able to do all the weird crap.
>>538826986Bombard their colonies with corn syrup
>>539172763He meant Endless Space 2 but I'll bite. The game was damn good, just so different from how RPGs are done that people have a hard time grasping how to even play. And it was probably too ambitious for the tech level and team scale leading to weird or repetitive design elements, and by the time those were upped the series had retreated into being a theme park esc game that loses features from game to game.Everyone that "gets" it generally loves it, and it's nice to see younger gens appreciating it.
>vulnerable to no damageHUH?
>>538118126Any more obscure releases upcoming this Fall? Or something I missed this Summer?
is Stellaris 4.0 functional yet?
>>539226348It doesn't matter.Next update and DLC is just couple of weeks away.
Huh. AI saved up the entire game to make this.Literally nothing else.
>>539226409I want to get off Stockholm's Wild Ride
>>539229072Correction, it's 6 days away.
4x games just getting too long and drawn out for me. quicker 4x games (or at least turn-based strategy) you guys like? I have been really loving Through the Ages (digital board game version) lately
>>539231590Ozymandias is a historical themed 4x game that is made to be finished in one sitting, 1 or 2 hours. There's also Nexus 5x, a stellaris spin off that is also a 4x that can be finished in a couple of hours.
>>539232643>Nexus 5xwhat's the fifth x?
>>539233104Sex.
>>539233104It stands for 5x
>>539233104I dunno man. Marketing?
>literally just started>already ratmen championsAre you insane?
>>539233104Exit.
>>539235217holy shit it's Majesty. Love that freaking game.
>>539235217>MausoleumIs that the next level of graveyard (if so, then holy fuck, your heroes are dropping like flies) or the temple for necromancers?
>>539182461>>539194430wait until you learn about Skyhooksthose are literally just flying slings
>>539248181AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>539248181>>539250234How are they supposed to reboost to not loose speed with the whole slinging+atmospheric frcition?
>>539250780stealing kinetic energy from the shit they lower to earth + engines
>>539250981>+ enginesHow? The shit doesn't stop spinning.
this general isn't toxic enough.
>>539253110
>>539253110Oh, uh.. uh.. you're ugly and you smell!
I will never get over cat mommy
IT'S HARVESTING SEASON!
>>539257123gemu?
I'm doing it, bros. I'm a turbonormie going into AoE2
>>539256985I'd cross her pride, if you know what I mean.
>>539257237Plan B: Terraform
>>539258024What was plan A?
>>539257357DE has been changed so much it's basically AOE5 at this point honestly
>>539258563Earth but earth is fucked in this game. Maybe they'll expand on that at some point.
>>539264669does god like camels?
>>539267742Sure, but he hates glowies.
>>539256985Nor should you
>>539135536>It's really feeling like both a chore and a dull experience lately>latelyThat is its fundamental design
>>539243197It's Majesty 1. Mausoleum is an expansion-only building that you build, instead of it being built randomly.
>>539277179A shame they never really made any successors
>>539279739Indeed. I did find a fix of sort by playing Conquest of Elysium as a guildmaster and spamming adventurer guilds, but it's not the same.
>>539271204the eternal conflict is whether to play against them so you get to have her talk shit to you, or play as them so you get the super duper cute advisor
>>539279739>>539279825And Driftlands sucks.
Shadow Empire still worth trying, or was it a FOTM that passed its expiration date?
>>539284617I think it's pretty great. It's a fairly competent 4X mixed with a well made hex wargame. the planet variety is impressive. I'm not sure if the DLC is worth it until they add actual naval units though.
did anyone play that "5X" game where you are the emperor of a galactic empire with limited actions per turn and you have to actually talk to your governors and win the little negotiation minigame to actually do anything?
>>539255137>add toxic world species>they can't live on toxic worlds
Age of Wonders 4 seems so solved. Anything that isn't Destined Destroyers is just too slow for the story missions.
>>539284617This would be funnier if the Metroid man was there in the camp too
HelloHanrd gamersStrategistsWhat game shoedl j Paul playI have played and am done with;Eu4Ck2Vic2Medieval 2 totaw lwRI won't play boring games where you micro for 30 minutesI won't play a game where all u do is watch the economy growIwokt pay I won't play a game that's untunUnfunI won't play a game that's hurting like imperator where you need 4444 mods to make it workI won't play a game that has tedious micro ollikiiI won't play a game that requires a gaming rigI won't play a game that forces you to be men's to peopleI won'tget it twisted(I got banned on /vst/ so I'm positjnggthid posting this here could anyone please pass this massage along to /gsg/ please thank you maybe screenshot maybe copy and paste up to you man. Thanks)
>>539297580anon are you okay
>>539256985What game
>>539297650Yeah took some benzos 5 days ago I'll be fine
>>539297769did you mix those benzos with booze?
Any recommendations of where I can pirate all the DLC for Endless Legend and Endless Space 2?
>>539298418No I said I'll be fine relax
>>539297686master of orion
>>539299025you don't seem fine
>>539225764Anons, pls...>>539226348It was always functional, it's the matter if you will enjoy it.>>539256985cat tits
>>539297580Play Rome 2 total war.
>>539299124I'm just sleepy I'll be okayBelieve me don't worry>>539300403I don't have dlc + played total war very recently
In stellaris do you build your megastructures orbiting the system star, the system gas giant (if applicable) or the system barren world (if applicable)I think gas giant because it would make for good gravity assists saving delta v
>>539300625>I'm just sleepy I'll be okayyou don't seem okay
>>539297580Oh fuck off, you already tried that before. Just fuck off for good and leave us alone. /gsg/ is fucking dead, take the L and move on with your miserable life.
>>539297413It's a woman, you pokemon doctor.
>>539300987Gas giants with multiple moons, especially if one of the moons is habitable.Barren worlds are good if they're terraforming candidates, though. You can cheat the game preventing you from building in orbit of habitable worlds.
>>539301854That's the joke sperg
>>539302857>i-i-i-it's a joke!!:^)
>>539305151yes
>>539308337kill yourself spiderfag
>>539309746Kill me yourself you lazy coward.
>Stellaris adding proxy warsBased
>>539312285>game with some of the worst war system in history is adding "X wars"No fucks given desu senpai.
>>539312285>proxy warsThere is no honour, no glory in having other fight for you.
>>539312285woah, espionage might actually become useful like half a decade after being introduced
>>539313531>half a decade after being introducedalready
>>539313748Where did the time go.
>>539313748I checked and Nemesis is only 4 years and 5 months old
>>539294019I dunno. It feels like if it's a big enough map or drags out, being able to build multiple cities scales better over timeBut it's still an undeniably fun society trait that changes the game in a simple way
>>539314927Crap, which ones are the Destined Destroyers? The Destroyers are the one that get maluses to interact with city states, right?
>>539315161Wait uh what're we talking aboutI might have forgotten the name of that perkChosen Destroyers, right?The one that forces you to one city, total war with everyone, and you just raze stuff to upgrade your tall city income
>>539312285So this means Stellaris is good now?
>>539320343If you didn't think so before then no but I do get to gleefully fuck with the AI.Personally I think the biggest problem with Stellaris is the players inability to influence things across the galaxy when you get to the galactic politics phase. Like, you end up cattled in by people with closed borders while your friends get genocided on the other side of the galaxy.
>>539320671In my games, diplomacy becomes practically impossible because all the weaker empires start bending over and offering their eternal vassalage to bigger ones. You can't negotiate with them any more after that. If one person decides he doesn't like you, all his allies hate you, too. Wars wind up being you against 10 others.Fun if you're going warlike, though.
>>539321381Theoretically this should allow you to stop them doing that, united the smaller ones and turning the bigger ones against each other.We've yet to see if it actually works though.
>>539321381exacerbated by the biased spawns, there's going to be 1-2 empires on the other side of the galaxy without any neighbours so they can easily expand to immense size quickly, meanwhile the spawn algorithm will box the player in. so inevitably the mid-sized empires near the player will bow down to the massive ones on the other side of the galaxy that are too far to do anything about early.I think there's a mod to disable this, you will need like 50% more starting empires for the same galaxy size for it not to feel completely empty though
could a text based space 4x game work?
>>539328374it would probably be really confusing, but sure why not
>>539328374Yeah, it's called Aurora.
>>539330521aurora has a graphical map
>>539328374Aurora works.Kolony on C64 worked..
>>539328374is it allowed to use ascii art to draw maps or must it give you all information through writing alone?
>>539328374Ngl id kill for Aurora tier ( both visually and when it comes to mechanics, detail and shit ) post apo colony builder..
>>539332789>ascii art>4xThere's DOS version Anacreon. It takes a special type of autism to play though.
>>539340465God i wish Anacreon was more detailed...
>>538118126C-Beams Devlog 47: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as2kDH1J3xc&ab_channel=LevelCapGaming
Also some more news.
>>539344081Last one. Is this game ever coming out?
>>539344315>Is this game ever coming out?No, the dev is just gonna keep on playing it by himself while posting screencaps on discord.
>>539344315One Dayâ„¢. But by the time it does most people will have forgotten about it. Shame since if it dropped in 2023/2024 it could've caught The Expanse audience with its similar feeling space combat.
>>539347689Rubbing it in people's faces? What a jerk.
>>539344315Looks neat but probably will be pretty shallow in terms of gameplay.
god damned robots getting uppityIt seems like this one has the same problem of spawning one civ on the other side with no neighbours while you get crowded in. I wonder if there is a mod for that too.
>>539343614Nice, looking forward to this game but the story will make or break it for me I think.>>539363614Could be but the robutts are just really strong so maybe they just crushed their neighbours. Be careful anon and good luck.
How is AI War and which of the two games is the best?
Any X4 enjoyers? What mods are necessary? I want to keep it a mostly vanilla experience, no sweeping balance changes or total conversions.
>>539364223Is X4 a 4X?
>>539364568By the time you get to mid-game, yeah. It morphs from a space sim to empire management. Well, it can - you can play it however you like - whether you want to control 1 ship or 10,000.
>>539363920it's okay I managed to rope the baras into ganging up on them after they bullied the greys
>>539364223I would say the mod that is most required is the one that unnerfs the player shipyards, that change kinda screwed up the entire economy just to nerf the player.there's also the complete galaxy overhauls and rebalances which you might want to check out too.modded or not the game is pretty shite honestly, I think some of the older X games are probably better if not nearly as polished.>>539364141first games controls are horrible and the graphics are way too tiny on a modern high res monitor.second game is streamlined, easier to play, probably lacks some late game depth idk. the recon system is completely inexplicable and every fleet is tied to an "officer" capital ship.both games are truly strange.
>>539368685>the older X games are probably betterX4 should be the best. Everything is there, and better than the other games.But yeah for some reason it just doesn't feel right. There's something about it.Sometimes I wonder if maybe the galaxy is just too crowded. But it's not like the others were any less so.
>>539372039Nighty night, long live independent Mars.
Friendly Reminder that "The Battle of Polytopia" is Free on Epic Store until the 18thIts a good "civ clone"
>>539376189thanks elon
>>539371823no actually one of the problems is the galaxy is completely separated. every faction is in their own little perfectly safe bubble where nothing ever happens and they never interact with each other. terrans and borons are particularly isolated.I think this is a consequence of having to add a lot of them as optional DLC.
>>539375868The entire solar system belongs to Earth. Submit.
>>539376189this is one of the few mobile games that is actually better on mobile.
>>539376417Wrong Billionaire, This one is on Timmy "chewing remote dog" Sweeny
>>539377054
>>539377280No way! I guess Elon is Polytopia-core Lore now.
>>539376768Don't they tend to wipe each other out? One steamrolling another randomly?
>>539376189>on Epic StoreDon't waste our time and post limit
>>539378746>dedicated "epic hater"Go away nigger, you dont even play games, you only lurk on this fucking thread
>>539379660Fuck off chinaman!
>>539316404>The one that forces you to one city, total war with everyone, and you just raze stuff to upgrade your tall city income...hell, I don't have that available. That the new DLC?
When you raze a city, where do all the little people go?
>>539382505To hell. Or worse, to Detroit.
>>539382683Detroit would be an interesting 4x faction, where the goal is to start from industrial power house to razed wasteland and that's the win condition.
>>539378738xenon inevitably become a big threat, and the base game factions argon and split tend to get at each others throats I can't remember who wins that one usually, but most of the others are just isolated
>>539382505Back to their homes
>>539379660Being underage I'm sure you've never known a standard to see diminished, so of course you'd not see a problem with using Epic.Hey, whatever, you'll get from it what you deserve.
anyone playing this? is it good?
>Everything wrong about videogames was done by Valve>Hates epic when it give 4x games for freeGo post more spiders
>>539402102>Everything wrong about videogames was done by ValveCool story wumao
>>539382683put this man in cell number one and give him a drink!
>>539388652Odd Endgame.
most fitting ascenscion for space commies? I've been thinking synthetic because we can make everybody equal by stuffing them into new equally well made robot bodies
>>539419238either synth or cloning
>>539419238The best way to own the means of production is to become the means of production. Together, we are the factory!
>chat with guy>it goes well>suddenly he let it slips he's 10+ younger than me>ask him if he's fine with an old man>"It's okay, I'm a cougar chaser"...ouch.
>>539421848oh have you finally come out of the closet spidey
>>539421937Was I ever in a closet?
>>539421981you definitely denied being gay at some point
>>539422117I did? Well, until I actually meet that guy, I'm still not gay.
>>539422419make sure to use protection
>>539422824That's the plan. But I'm more interested in using a cane. We're not even sure it'll go so far. Spanking's definitely on the table.
>>539422892alright spidey that's enough off topic gayposting for one thread. talk about your ancient shitty RTS games that nobody else has played instead
>>539423017Um ashktually I'll have you know that Oriental Empires is very recent!
I always exterminate homosexuals in my empires.
Maybe I can raise graphisms a bit...
>>539422419Yeah, back when you whined constantly about being dumped by some girl you never actually dated.
>>539424080Well, I did date her. Just, you know, thrice. I'm not sure it counts as really dating.Just like I'm not sure if getting pegged counts as getting laid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnCMLyN4gQ4Dominions 5's OST is so good...
>play space commies>fanatic egalitarian + xenophile>shared burdens + beacon of liberty>going for a real good guy playthrough for once>first empire I meet are religious zealots>improve relation, establish embassy, they chill and we sign a NAP>second empire I meet is pacifist, egalitarian, xenophile>they instantly hate me the second we finish first contact>closes borders, declares rivalrywhatI don't get stellaris sometimes
>>539428505Funny how you think that is being a good guy.
>>539428697I always interpreted stellaris shared burdens as the actual real communism that has never be tried rather than the soviet dictatorships you'd usually associate with commiesMostly because it's restriced to fanatic egalitarian which is completly incompatible with the soviet style authorian dictatorship "communism"
>>539428956They need to bring back individualism and collectivism.
>>539428956soviet communism is just red painted elected monarchy
>mod that turns the Defender of the Galaxy perk into its own anti-crisis with the crisis system from NemesisIt sound's cool, lets see how it holds up.It starts of by letting me build a giant interdimensional surveillance megastructure. Only real good guys would use something like that.
>>539432472
>>539428505it's scripted for some of your early contacts to be unfriendly to you no matter whatlike how empire ethic bias is a thing to not let the galaxy be too peaceful due to rngyou WILL get hostile neighbors and you WILL be happy
>>539434625>scripting every game to be the same in the genre known for variety
So I went full cloning on ascenscion and that back up clone thing is weird as fuckMy leader dies, the back-up clone spawns, but there's a new election anyway.Everytime somebody on my council dies and gets replace by their clone I have to manually reassign them to the post.They're also worse than the original due to the stacking clone debuff.I really don't see how this is on par with going purity and just getting leaders that can easily be 200+ years old
>>539429861weird sea cucumber with tits
>>539434950It's not as good but it's just flavour, stick with it for your RP.
The interdimensional NSA provides a very balanced 10 Influence and 50 Endgame Echoes, the special resource of this crisis.Which is just as well, because the only other realistic way to gather it that I have right now is vassalizing other empires and turning them into disarmed "Security Zones", which is not very good guy behavior.With 2000 echoes until tier 2 unlocks we'll be here for a while
>>539434950I thought the main point of cloning ascension was getting lots of pops? Obviously it wouldn’t be as good as the dedicated leader-buffing path
>>539428505How did your first contact events with your neighbors turn out?Those can seriously influence starting relationsAlso not just ethics, but their govt personality will also determine how open or aggressive they might be. Like, Democratic Crusaders just straight up hate everyone not democraticThen there's shit like if they took Emnity Tradition early they'll do everything they can to try and start shit with neighborsTheres a bunch of small factors that can just land you a hatin neighbor. Xenophile diplo tricks can help prevent it, sometimes
>>539436350Yeah, you're right. Right now my clone vats are shitting out pops faster than I can build districts and buildings to employ them in
Turns out my interdimensional listerners are catching other universes getting rekt by endgame crisisThis is pretty neat actually.
>>539437752Sounds like you need more planets. You know who has lots of planet just waiting for your people? That alien empire next door.Might have to do something about their population, though.
>>539438550Nah bro, I'm terraforming everything I can right now. Only baddies would start wars over living space.
So here's the first special ship for the not-crisis... Basically a really fancy overpriced frigateAt least it generates echoes I guess
>>539423817Are those Aztecs?
>Level 2 of the Good Guy crisis unlocks the "End potential threat" casus belli>it's a total war casus belli I can use against anyone with zero restrictionsI LOVE BEING THE GOOD GUY
>>539441360If your cause be righteous then your actions are righteous. Any who stand in your way are evil and must be purged with extreme prejudice.
>>539440883No Chinese, the game is Oriental Empires made by some ex total war devs. The game is a 4x but the battles are real time.
Y'know, I barely ever use federations, lets try the martial alliance. Sounds like a good guy federation, and nothing bad ever happens when there's an organization with initals GDI around.Also the game threw climate restoration at me in the run where I plan to go all in on Ecumonoplii like a sweaty tryhard.
>>539424260Wait, what. Let me get this straight, a younger girl fucked you up the ass, told you off, then did it two more goddamn times? And then told you to fuck off again. Dear fucking God man. I mean "man" is stretching it quite a bit, just like your ass lmao.
>>539452260>Let me get this straightnot with spiderfag
>>539452673Apparently not. Goddamn lol.
>>539452260I like his screenshot series of obscure games but I really wish I didn't know this much about some degenerate pervert's private life.
>half a year later i am forgotten
>>539465240And rightfully so.
>>539465240Hey, it suceeded in making me reinstall Civ 5I still haven't touched 6 because the leaders there look like fucking caricatures
>>539465240Humankind seems more interesting than that slop
>>539467481Humankind truly was the civ killer
>>539465240Its still baffled me some fucking WEF tranny decided to add that whole mandatory civ switching shit and no one fucking protested or stopped them..
>>539471081>Humankind destroyed civilizationThere's some deep social commentary hidden within that statement.
>>539471912It's like your mother used to say when you acted up as a child.>I created you, I can destroy you
>>539389492That hasn't been my experience in my current save - the Split were on the verge of extinction about 100 hours ago. I successfully rescued them, but once they were on their feet I realized too late that the HOP were in big trouble- they lost their home sector and all of their faction representative stations, and are now down to just one lonely sector with no major stations. Working on a rescue project for them now.
CMANO/Sea Power allowed here?Im thinking of getting those games..
>>539471578firaxis has been in "amplitude did it so it must be good" mode for nearly 10 years now.
>>539474279>CMANOtoo autistic>sea powertoo unfinished>fleet commandjust right
>>539475382>too autisticNo such thing for me.>Sea Power unfinishedIts in development>fleet commandToo old desu.
oh fugg it's determined exterminators, time to do good guy things to them :DDD
>>539471578Yes it's the WEF dude. Watch out they're hiding beneath your bed.
>>539476143>turning determined exterminators into house pets and cock sleevesDo it.
>>539476143>NEXYou know what that rhymes with, eh?
>>539476828But they're just an innocent pre-FTL that just go to space! They have one planet, one system and like 300 fleet power
>>539477539Good for you then, it will be easy.
40 perfect clones armies might've been overkill, but it is doneOur new metal comrades will have a bright feature as equals, for sure
>>539477539"Your infestation of this galaxy cannot be permitted to continue.">Tags: instant_loss, mindbreak, impregnation
>literally no one cares
Hello, the next /vg/ League will start in about 2 months but before that, signups for friendlies will probably open SoonTM since they're usually at the end of September. Here is the list of teams who competed this past VGL, and if there are any teams you'd want to see /civ4xg/ play against then let me know. Teams will most likely be limited to 3 friendlies. The team page is here https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//civ4xg/ and at the bottom of the page is an infobox with links to the other teams if you want to read about them.It's a fairly short time between now and when friendlies usually are so I was planning on using the same roster as was last used 5 years ago since I already have those 3D models ready. Between friendlies and the actual competition, I'm planning to open a roster poll where you all can vote on what players you'd want to see on the team. Until then, if anyone has a suggestion on players you'd want to see on the team, give me a (You) with them and I'll add them to the list of candidates. At a later date I'll post screenshots of all the players, the team's kits, music, and other details like that if you guys have any feedback or suggestions for those.
>>539478872Based.Servant bots incoming.
Reject modernity embrace monke.
>>539483406Timberborn but with monkeys?
>>539488558No it's still Plan B: Terraform
>>539491903Damn. Missed the opportunity to ask how your black colonists are settling in.
>>539471912
>>539479024goddamn that is such an old roster, like half of those are from when ES2 was new
>>539440883No, Chinese.>>539452260No, she told me off after the third time.
>>539493891I'm glad that the memory of /xcg/ still lives on in that roster.
>>539494365how'd your date with that guy go?
>>539498359Won't be for months at least.
>>539499970why? is he another american?
>>539502305...yes.
>>539502557are there no gay men in france or what
Im playing stellaris against bots and I set it to one easier easy mode, and I have one billion build resawces, is there a command to buff other empires or change the difficulty
>>539510776are you retarded or just stupid?
Tartan Cruiser reporting
dangit, I just gave all my tech in exchange for a colony to get back in the running for galactic presidentand all the votes for me are just barely not enoughfuggggg
>>539479024No player named Doomstack?Seems like a missed opportunity.
>>539493891
>>539493891>Roger a muirebe
>>539518356OUTTA THE WAY, BITCH BOY
>>539493891Is this murder or suicide?
Is anyone else having issues with the captcha? It takes aeons to load, and it takes several eternities to send the a-okay to the 4channel.I had to remove that Dragonshard screenshot I wanted to share.>>539503040Last French gay person I almost met flat out told me he'd rape me if we ever met. And his wife was worse.I can barely talk to a French person since. I just get anxiety.French people are utter trash. All rantin about doing the right thing and all, but ready to ignore things that annoy them, like lack of consent.
Back on topic, I tried Five Nations after someone on reddit recommended it....engine-wise, it's shit, the game seem to be loaded in some weird internet browser window, so pressing F12 opens the console.Appearance wise... I'm getting Starcraft vibes.I have yet to play it in details, but so far, it follows the idea that ore, tachyon and Helium 3 have to be gathered at a mining outpost, then moved back to HQ by a carrier.
Oddly enough, game seem intended to have a competitive scene.I made a profile based on a show I started watching, we'll see how it goes.I only got time to do the first tutorial that explains ressources, I'll try it again after work.Speaking of which, bye. Don't let the thread die.
Case in point, here's what happens if you press F12 while in game.
>>539535645>>539535791>Second starcraft in space game has finally droppedI know twice isn't much, but it's weird it has only happened twice in last 20-30 years.
>>539535959Yours look a lot older, though. Anyway, going, going, I'll see you lots later.Workplace firewall blocks the 4channel, so...
>>539536126See ya later, when you're back, tell us more about this new "I can't believe it's not Starcraft" game.
>>539535946Can you make edits to the game while playing?
Finally took a stab at this mod, was pretty fun. Tides of Crimson 2.0 for civ 3.
>>539535645having to ship resources back to your main with transport ships satisfies my autism
>>539546587Ever heard of a little game called Distant Worlds? Might be right up your alley.
>>539479024Seems good. I don't think there is some new meme from the last couple of years. I dunno, I haven't been keeping up with 4x related memes.
>>539548676Seconding this.
>>539497705One of the /civ4xg/ kits is also from /xcg/ after they died the first time.
>>539546587Grab Aurora then.
Chorfs
>>539577361I feel like playing some shitty civ 3 mods, give a link
>>539580149alright I found some weird shit, let's try it out
>>539583359I'll play the romans (italians?) I guess
>>539583359name?
>>539583693why is the UI grey>>539583778worldwide
>>539583872where are the ARROWS
>>539584039rome growslots of wine around
>>539559725How is the latest update of Distant Worlds 2?
Any news for the next OP?
>>539587727No clue, haven't played it and currently waiting for Stellaris and Soase 2 DLC's to drop.
>>539587505>lots of wine aroundNow I fancy a nice calm game where you just trade with your neighbours instead of waging genocidal hyperwar.
>>539587727One thing about DW2 i hate is how fucking resource hungry it is..Biggest galaxy literally requires 16 cores and something like 48 gb ram...
damn, managed to turn it around this much and they still won a score victoryfeels badstill felt good to finally break their back after spending half the game fighting back and forth over that bit to the right of the galactic coreI could have gotten diplo victory if the bulrathi weren't selfish, I paid them like 10 trillion credits to vote for me but they didn't. I even voted for them to try and prevent the meklons from winning a score victory, but it was off by like 5 votes.votes being population based favors the meklon far too much since they still have like half the pops in the galaxy even with that tiny bit leftI really hope there's a mod to fix the spawns because this is just dumb
>>539591015>that tiny ass galaxyIts even worse when you remember that each "system" there is just one two planets tops..Only Aurora has a proper scale for this shit.
>>539591728Millions of star systems just completely ignored because they had no solid planets.
>>539591728>muh scaleshoo, enjoy your lategame lag and intractable micromanagement paradrone.a lot of systems have 4 planets, and you can make even more out of asteroids with lategame tech.gameplay wise this is about the right scale for 5-7 players.
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>>539592173NTA but you can do scale and limited systems by setting it in one sector or star cluster, rather than the entire galaxy.Then distances and travel time seem more reasonable, too.
>>539593439this is the game with the sexy cat people, it's not meant to be realistic
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