Comfy girls in space EditionPrevious thread: >>541285946This 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
Xth for space girls
I'm new to starcraft and I'm playing through the story, made it to level 7 and I'm starting to hit a wall, only got through 6 because the science vessel making the scv with the emitter invincible.I usually hate it when games handhold the player but in this case I feel like it should've done a little more in explaining the units better, every level I kept getting more types of them but I still don't know what the point of most of them are. wraiths deal slow and little damage while being easy to kill, colossus are expensive and die pretty easily but they kill flying things faster (?), and I have no idea what the tanks are supposed to be good at. hell, I didnt even know what the science vessel's abilities did until after the level you get them.point is, I've been getting through by upgrading the marine's damage/armor and spamming them in waves until in 6 where they stopped performing well. now in seven that strategy still doesn't work and I don't know what the rest of my guys even do. what's the point of investing so many crystals and gas into one or two vehicles if they die so quickly? what's the niche of literally any unit besides the marines and vessel? how long am I supposed spend time on just gathering materials and upgrading unit stats at the buildings? when is it appropriate to arm and use nukes?
>>542612970Siege tanks mate. They don't go up front.
>>542612970Read what the units do by hovering over their abilities and stats and tooltips in the buildings and what not. Most of them should be fairly self evident anyhow. >how long am I supposed spend time on just gathering materials and upgrading unit stats at the buildings?Trial and error until you understand game feel and the mission
>>542612970Terrans are the turtle faction, when you start running into enemies that send waves at you, build up bunkers, garrison them, then get few siege tanks close to them in siege mode.Then have some unit with long view range spot enemies for them.While this is going on, keep building up your economy, never stop building new SCV's and supply depots.While doing this, build up your death blob, marines, firebats, whatever. Wraiths main thing is that when upgraded, they turn invisible and that way become very cost effective units.
HAK HAK HAK
time to play this weird mod again
>>542605736machine gestalt anon from last thread with Unbidden squatting on my front yard with an update: for whatever reason, the Unbidden have decided to go and absolutely roflstomp the one AI empire who has maintained perpetually good relations with me. They've also used the wormholes hop northward and fuck them up and I'm moderately certain they can use the hyper relay every AI empire has thrown up in every possible system, which is gonna make throwing these ghostly fucks out of my dimension all the harder.On the bright side, the GalCom has realised that energy vampires from another dimension are in fact bad news for everyone and just slightly over half of them are helping to pass the law to declare them a Crisis. I will be personally feeding every single retarded polity who did not to the Synaptic Lathe.
>>542623180never mind I just had the worst 40 turns I could imagine
>>542624809>+567 allowsdawg you're gonna have some issues if those unbidden are even remotely tough, or if there's gonna be more crises coming
>>542625098Yeah I fucked up and had to evac two planets, my fortress and primary forge world to be precise. Thankfully, I have a spare Machine World that was originally meant to churn out new drones for the lathe that I'm currently switching to alloy printing but it'll take a little while for it to come online. I'll probably convert all the ratling tomb worlds into more machine worlds as well at some point soon and kiss my tall build goodbye.>if those unbidden are even remotely toughI've had great success with my escorts and battlecruisers being "oops, all missiles, arc emitters and kinetic artillery" set to artillery computers because the unbidden can't shoot until they're in brawling distance and, unless they've thrown three fleets at me, they don't even get the chance to scratch the paint.
>>542624809UPDATE: THE CRISES CAN USE HYPER RELAYSSHIT
Operation Alloys go BRRRRR is a roaring success through the power of science I decided to finally make full use of the modularity traits and now my fabricators have about double their efficiency
>>542632780>he didn't upgrade his robutts the nanosecond he got themanon... so much productivity lost...
>>542633385forgive me vro... I was retarded and missed the dark matter engine and exotic fuel consumption traits entirely...
>>542596634SON OF A BITCHALL THESE GEMS WASTED TO USE GNOME LORE
>>542636370dominions has it's own tread
>>542605736Take your shoes off you bitch
>>542638125I'll tread on you mate.
Falling Frontier discord post.
>>542638896Last one.
>>542639141>>542638896Remind me - is that Sol system or something else?Randomized or always the same?
>>542639435I think that game is supposed to be set in the Sol system. I dunno so much is still unclear. There's only a couple of trailers and a buch of images at this point.
>>542640052Damn, another reason to not be hyped for this game..
The more I watch streams of CIV 7 the more I want to get it, it actually looks pretty good. Reading some recent reviews and it seems the game is taking a turn for the better. It's just a shame there's no demo or "try before you buy" so once you drop that money it's gone, unless you refund but it seems cheaper to get from g2a. Anyone been playing it recently and can comment?
finished up with creating new machine templates to cover all our bases now, our alloys have jumped from 500 odd a month to to just over 2k a month and our research is now a steady 5k total unless we shunt some poor maint drones into the lathe. We've got the first the Paradox Titans in production, and the fleets are fully reinforced and just need updating. The Machine world now has a monthly assembly of 49, and once that is fully populated the new drones are getting shipped en masse to the Ring to speed up our economic growth even more.
>>542605736Bump
Five Nations' weird when you have no internet.How can you tell if a game does anything suspicious?
4X game but the gimmick is you use strategy to win
THE UNBIDDEN HAVE SENT FIVE ARMADAS TO TRY AND BREAK THROUGH THE ENDURING SECURITY ECHELONINITIATE DESPERATE MEASURES, NO RETREAT DOCTRINE.
got xenonauts 2 yday and its funplaying on normal to learn the ropesany more games like xcom, xenonauts 2, into the breach that you could recommend? I'm hopelessly addicted to "build your main base/team" and "perform in randomly generated scenarious" games
>>542658798Five Unbidden armadas got folded like fucking towels. 168 odd extradimensional ships for a single escort? I like those odds
Weird, but Five Nations has a few bugs when you boot it offline.
Good night.
>>542670202good morning ma'am
Late night bump and NN boys. Dont let the thread die.
can you have good living standards as an authoritarian in stellarisI want to be a benevolent tyrant
>>542679135you can't do utopian abundance, but yeah
do strike craft intercept other strike craft?
>>542679135pleasure seekers works well with civilian ascension rushes
bump I guess
>feminine men have +1 beauty
>>542679135Sure, but stratified economy is the primary reason to be authoritarian.>>542683172Yeah.
>>542698180sounds gay or female-oriented to me
I was drawn to Zephon by its setting, but it ended up being really dull. Are there any other "horror" flavoured strategy games?
>>542701490I mean, men can't be beautiful in this game, so...>>542702929Define "horror"? I can suggest a few games, like Rise of Nations' Barbarians At The Gates game mode, or actual spooky stuff like these survival RTS games.
>>542703542Actual spooky stuff (Zephon is about cyberpunk dimensional eldritch fuckery)
>>542710197Closest thing I can propose you are the TAB-like, aka games where you try to set up a town with its own economy while being constantly besieged by zombies/undead/aliens.The reference is They Are Billions, but for the fantasy aspect, you have Age of Darkness Final Stand (it's not necessarily good, the emphasis on melee makes it a pain to deal with huge crowds). There's also Darfall, but it's a lot smaller in scale.Otherwise, what else...Maybe Gladius? Kinda? You play as humanity, on the brink of extinction, and you try to save humanity from the clutches of aliens, monsters, xenos and sodomites. But it's more of a combat-oriented, Warhammer-40000 Civilizations-like, so not really horror.And of course, Homeworld Cataclysm.
Miquella.
>>542730097stop it spooder
>>542735723No.
>>542736421Don't you daaaaare approach Shrimpuella the Fried
>>542743057His butt appeals to me.
>>542744675sounds gay
Good evening. There is a new Airships: Conquer the Skies update. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/342560/view/532111897154028014
bamp
>>542772694>US officials are saying Trump is guaranteeing peace through strengthBig thonk.
You doing okay /civ4xg/?
>>542774598im playing battle brothers so no
>>542774598i'm at work
>>542774598yeah
why hate for grand strategy? it is superior to citybuilders/4x/rts in every way?
>>542789198>anon doesn't know the history
>>542752187Yes?>>542791703It knows it. It's just baiting because that's all these rejects know to do.
>>542789198somehow I get the feeling this anon is not being genuine in his inquiries...
>>542789198>banned from 7 generals
>>542791703>>542796883>>542797185I really have no idea
>>542797390Then you should lurk more newfag.
>>542798418I've been here for ~20 years. Not everyone hangs on every board and every thread and it is moronic to presume so
>>542798418You struck a nerve, the nazi is pissed.
>>542797390I don't know the details, but /gsg/>shunned /civ4xg/>adamantly refused Stellaris>is extremely schizo and poltarded>got banned from /vg/
>>542805753Shunned? Mate, these nazis raided us. Look for /sgg/ in the archives, when we tried to change our name to Strategy Games General.
>>542799550don't quote me you faggot tranny!I am a NAZI and that is not an insult you moron
>>542799550You angered the nazi big time, it hates being spotted.
Suddenly I understand why Paradox loves World of Darkness.
>>542809952so they like men?
>abandon stellaris run because it started lagging like hellsmaller galaxy and less abuse of popspawn this time
>>542810000They love to paint sexists as baddies and portray macho as doubleungood.
>>542810110based
...so, any game where I can play as Pentex and destroy the world?
I enjoy Age of Wonders 4 =)
>>542814090No you don't.
>>542743057don't encourage him maddy
MACHINE
>>542814090What about it do you likeAre you looking forward to vampire DLC?
tfw no spiderfag bf
>>542816345Kys schizo
>>542822224he's mine
>>542829380I don't have a sister though
>>542836837
>>542837172
>>542840321>dune>laser>on shielded targetwhen you want to kill something so badly, you don't care if it kills you and everyone else in the process
>>542840657They're Harkonnens, dying is probably a mercy compared to what the Baron would do to them if they failed.
Hey! No dying!
Shadowbroker is a crazy councillor position. Dark matter just for making physicists, and my physicists already make astral threads too.
>>542854943but i want to die
>>542860338What game
Thoughts on Olden Era demo?
>>542874806
boom
Good afternoon.
Another falling frontier sneak peek this week.
>>542888557Thanks man, this cheers my day here in the crypt.
>>542888557How long until it comes out?
Damn, fertilizers are good.
>>542900428I bet you want to be fertilized
I've decided that I don't like the Aspect anymore. How are they supposed to feel like a robot/coral hybrid when you're playing them? They should have just been a full coral hivemind.
How's Cities Skylines 2? Curious about trying out a city builder.>DUDE DLC Don't care>DUDE JUST PLAY X INSTEADI didn't ask about what ever game you're about to say
>>542874806I played demo and it's ok, though I don't like that devs removed caravans and give too many resources. People arguing over graphics and art style but I don't care. Gameplay like it's like other HoMM, though devs added "laws" or whatever they called, you upgrade main building, get law points and spend them either on units or faction upgrades. You can't discuss it though because there's rabid schizoid which will start posting dumb shit, he's on /vst/ /v/ and surprisingly on 2ch.
>>542874806I did not realize it had a demo, thanks for pointing it outMy review:Picked quick play, classic, shamrock (for the hold capital victory condition which seems interesting), dungeon, the jew hero, second hardest difficulty and let it rip blind.Music is good, game generally looks good though it's bit hard to see some of the map objects, that's probably just the bit busier artstyle. It definitely has a "classic" heroes feel to it. I would say it's like more of the same but more of everything. Your secondary skills have sub skills. Your unit upgrades have 2 options to pick from, your spells artifacts can be upgraded, your units have alternative attack modes and abilities some of which costs special resource and others are just free but come with downsides etc. etc. there's just so much stuff. I think it will be fantastic to explore and really deep dive into the systems and if you liked that part of the old games then you will certainly like this.I also like that the AI smoked me on impossible difficulty which I think is something you should expect of the first game even though I'm fairly experienced with the genre, if the AI can't beat me now then it will never have a chance and that's not particularly fun. There's clearly some missing tooltips and stuff. Like I get that the old style of just showing a unit icon on the map and you just have to "figure it out" is fine but honestly with the amount of abilities these guys have and the double upgrades looking pretty similar to each other at a glance it wouldn't hurt to let me view the abilities of an unit on the map before engaging. In homm 3 you could pretty reliably pick out at least basic archers because they had a bow but here even troglodytes can be ranged and they are just guys with a spear so who the fuck knows.The fact that they let you play a full demo like this is pretty fantastic. Definitely peaked my interest a lot more than it already had, worth trying for sure, it's free.
>>542901358Hey +40% food production, I'm taking it.
I wanna play some Gladius...
>>542910017Don't do itIt will be boring
>>542910017Do itIt will be interesting
>>542910017Please remember to renew your registration before it expires
>>542873321stellaris, it's always stellaris
I hate stellaris.Anyway, any mod recommendations for stellaris?
>>542921453uninstall.exe
>>542921626Oh I heard that's a great mod.
>>542921453people usually recommend AI tweaks
>>542605736>doing an arc welders nanite run, medium galaxy>going extremely well, two nearby empires vassalised before I even get to my ascension>pop the ascension and fill every arc furnace system with a nanite harvester, then slap them in whatever other systems have large barren worlds>get invited by some rock bros in the southern half of the galaxy to beat the shit out of the purifiers, agree so I have some live field tests of my nanite warships>about two decades later the rock bros have had enough and agree to a white peace, I've recovered one of my vassals former territories and am rebuilding and terraforming it for him and my nanites are pouring in>failed to notice we were in the 2300s>crisis rolls>it's CetanaAlright you great big bitch, you're gonna taste the wrath of endlessly reprinted warfleets armed with fighter craft and torpedoes.This is MY galaxy.
>>542928782I got her on x25 just recently. Apparently I needed to add a zero or two to my numbers since I can't even fucking put a dent in her normal fleets, much less make it to her flagship.
>XCOM 2 gog download free on Prime GamingOh neat. The fact that Prime does stuff like this is the weirdest bonus of the subscription, but I really hope Bezos never realizes that there's some dudes in the company who regularly give free game codes to Prime members.
>>542929919This game was meant to be something to knock the rust off and get used to all the new shit so I only put the crisis to x2.5, but her proper fleets are all sitting at 850k from that alone. Thank God nanite ships build faster than any other and their complete lack of upkeep.Also, no matter what you put on their designs, nanite ships all keep their stock price of nanites and nothing else. So you can just stack them with archeotech weapons, dark matter shields, engines and reactors, and whatever else you'd like.
I...I did it again bros...I restarted Anno 1800 by the Nth time. I have 118 FUCKING HOURS of ONLY early game Anno 1800Why I do keep doing this to me.Please end me.Anyway goals for this time:>do not open new maps unless absolutly neccessary>ignore the Enbesa and whats its name even if it's free real state>rush artisans and go to New World>try not to drow in debt
>>542937529anno gets boring after getting two islands
>>542938038I'm sick Anon.
>>542938104Forgot picrelated.
Oh dear fucking Christ the purifiers are a Galactic Nemesis the GalCom can eat my nanotech ass DEVELOP THE WORLD CRACKER
>normal empiresneed influence for claims>fanatic purifiers>determined exterminatorscan't use the pops>driven assimilatorspop snowballis borg the best?
>ork literally build a town just under my nosegg fuck me
>>542940694Borg don't get those huge fire rate bonuses proper genocidals do.
>>542945507Yeah, but is it worth having to grow all your pops the old-fashioned way?
>>542946585Clone vats make it kinda fine. And imo machine races are boring economy and RP wise.
I'm tired
>>542937529>. I have 118 FUCKING HOURS of ONLY early game Anno 1800I have 2000+ hours of Stardew Valley and never made it to the 2nd winterYou can always remake betterALWAYS
>>542951418same
>>542951418Too bad, the soviets have already sent another wave of infantry and t-34s
>>542951519I only have 51 hours in Baldur's Gate 3.I never played it alone, and I never saw Act2.
Civ 7 has a lot of problems but i dont think this has been given enough shit, how the hell is it 6 months on and still only city swapping in peace deals.
>>542964358Civ has been shit for a while it's like skyrim compared to the older elder scrolls just made for morons
>>542967318old goodnew baaaad
>>542968812Nah I love the new stellaris. I actually wasnt a big fan of older civ's either but they seem to have not improved at all
>>542969169Old gooooodNew baaaaad
>>542903837I don't like the Aspects because once you progress in your faction quest you start spawning coral growers whenever you kill doomwraiths and close rifts and suddenly you can't spawn any more cities because the stupid FUCKING CORAL GROWERS ALL OVER THE FUCKING MAP
>>542937529>I restarted Anno 1800 by the Nth time. I have 118 FUCKING HOURS of ONLY early game Anno 1800Welcome to the club. I have games with 500-2k hrs on the clock where i still havent seen the mid game...
Thoughts on the MENACE demo?
bump
quiet day huh
>>542969891Yeah, it's annoying. It just seems like an oversight that they can fix by allowing multiple coral spawners in a region but only one can turn into a camp then treat the others as an anomaly or something. They don't need to be treated as a camp.
>>542998481Yes.
>sparta>surrenderinglol
how does one make a "ruin everyone else's empires by sending them horrible pops" race in stellaris? I just saw the invasive species trait, seems like it would be fun to grow a shitload of them and displacement purge them so all the xenophile empires get a flood of actively detrimental pops
>>543011215>sparta>winninglol
>>543012003This.
>>543014498Biggest group of retards that somehow kept their reputation through coasting off like three big victories while losing everything else.
>>543014498Sparta did nothing then got BTFO because their neighbors adopted Macedonian tactics while they didn't do shit
>>542967318>skyrim>older elder scrolls Both those are shit though?
no...
>>543022830>>543014498>>543012003sparta has a cooler name and mythos they are unique and that's why they'll be rememberedJust b urself....
I need advice: I can't seem to be able to play Age of Mythology.The notable respec is of the orphanage when it burned down in 1969, but even brain slectronic crystal elderly, currency of the maffia in Italy.
Anyone tried Lessaria demo?It's like Majesty but not as great.
>>543041352I did. And I don't like it, it made me gay.And also>maps too small>buildings too big>low cap on populationOther than that, it seemed pretty solid. Too bad about the traps though.
>>543041836>Too bad about the traps though.wdym?
>>543039986w-what
>>543041953Pic related.
>>543041836Yeah, seems like they used most of their money on VAs.Spotted Gerald of Riviera as the voice of thieves guild when you rob the populace.Also, that's pretty gay, calling extortion just robbery.
>>543041836>hismale elves are an abomination
>"sisterhood" of ranger>wildfire goes around his businessTHAT SNIPER'S A SPY!!>>543041991Sorry, head buzzing from beer and I'm shivering. I feel insanely cold.I meant that I can't seem to beat the AI fair and square, the only tactic that works is me walling them in and letting them waste ressources on trying to break me.>>543042345Ha, haven't done thieves. Not even once. They are too shit in Majesty, they only exist to die.>>543042382That's not an elf though. Otherwise I'd already be getting her whipped with a leather strap for her insolence.
>>543042382That's not even the elf. They do have those too.Also dwarves (which also get called gnomes in text blocks for some reason) and orcs.
I'm doing it ladsI'm modding civ 3 because I'm unsatisfied with RARR
Also, I'm genuinely annoyed that "knight" is synonymous with "heavy infantry". A knight is a minor noble that's trained to fuck everyone in the room, and then the room itself. They were killing machines trained from birth to murderfuck before they would stop getting breastfed.
>>543048809*shoots you with an arrow fired by a peasant*
apparently they're condensing stellaris ship numbers to fight lagMK2 and MK3 classes of every ship (besides titans, juggernauts, and colossi)better, more expensive, more naval capacity usagesome inherent shield and armor hardening
>>543049081If you're placed in a situation where a peasant can shoot you, then you're an awful knight.Also GIVE ME DIFFERENT ORDERS
fully automated luxury space communismno gay though
Anybody planning on playing Anno Pax Romana?
>>543050137why would I when I could just play any other anno game
If you like Majesty, can I suggest you try out Darfall? It's an oddity.
>>543060314no.
>>543060636please?
I tried syncretic evolution but it seems broken. My pops keep taking worker jobs from the servile slaves, who then just sit around doing nothing and causing crime. This totally breaks pleasure seekers because I want to keep my main pop as hedonists. Any suggestions?
>>542605736machine bros, I have a question; when you use a world cracker on a planet, does that planet become eligible for nanite harvester seeding? Because if so I'm going to do what the Tempest did and shatter a whole lot of worlds to print more nanites because man you CANNOT make enough with just settled worlds>>542810108I've noticed that medium and large galaxies are probably the best options, smaller and it doesn't feel like there's much point in playing, and the huge galaxy performance absolutely fucking tanks by about 2300 no matter what. >>542946585If you go machine modularity and stack the job efficiency traits you can get some pretty digusting assembly speeds and a stupid strong economy for what it's worth. Hive minds can probably do the same with growth and assembly but better tbqh.
>>543065104slavery interacts poorly with the new mechanics. I guess they haven't fixed it yet?I wish there was a reverse slavery thing, where you could forbid a species from taking worker jobs>>543064630okay fine
>>543065956>slavery interacts poorly with the new mechanics. I guess they haven't fixed it yet?Sad. Seems like the only thing that works is indentured servant slaves in that case. We need a slavery dlc bad.
>>543066126>we need dlcGood sheeple, consume.
>>543071358nta*pirates it*what now?
>>543037127>Organic landfillsA literal shithole
I don't like Chinese that much. I'm bad with names, so Laotei, Zhuges, Baoteis and whatever all confuse me, and with the favour generation system, you're likely to get a lot of nice creatures that you didn't really ask for.I do appreciate their heroes being able to heal, though. It fits my usual strategy of saving up my units.
>>543075691why are you turkish
>>543076683Because jannissary take a big fat shit on infantry.
noodle dragon
>>543079682Akan is a cunt!
Halo War.Surprisingly good, almost as fun as Battle for Middle Earth 2.
>>543087303Halo war was pretty fun when I played it on console. Was pretty interesting in team games
>>543075691>I don't like Chinese that muchI agree
i find space games boring
>>543093808I find you boring, so Im going to eject you into space. Bitch
>Single Artilleryman kills 1 (one) infantry>12,000% EFFECTIVE>SOLDIER OF THE YEAR>IRON CROSS RECIPIENT 3 TIMES RUNNING>THE TRUE WANDERWAFFEN
>>543104191>Ha! managed to get one.>Now way. Who?>Some guy in a bandana hiding in a cardboard box
>>543048809Ended up redownloading Majesty because of this game.Feels good.
I'm so fucking pissed off. I just want to fucking have degenerate hedonistic catgirls with human breeding slaves but NO, paraslops the RETARDS has refused to fix free pops taking worker jobs from slaves FOR FUCKING A YEAR
>>543107461Fucking elves!
Which AOW4 DLCs are the best bang for buck?
>>543108619I'm still annoyed you can't select a species to grow on specific worlds because it absolutely fucks you over if you want to fully specialise a world. Fortress world? Sorry mate, but it's actually been growing the wimpy nerd sub-species for the last decade. guess you'll have to modify them all again :)
/civ4xg/ will be playing again against /fng/ around 18:20 UTC and I'll post a reminder when the match before us starts. I'm very disappointed with how this team turned out but thankfully a lot of people gave good advice on what I did wrong and how to fix it so I'll be able to fix it before the /vg/ League starts. Thank you everyone for your support and for coming to watch even though the team has been far less than ideal.No one in the group is guaranteed through to the final day and this autism shows what teams go through on what outcomes. TL;DR is we need to win to advance to the final day tomorrow, although advancing on a draw is possible if one team blows another one out. If we advance to tomorrow we'll play two matches, first a semi-final against a team from Group A then either a 3rd place match or a final depending on if we win the semi-final or not.
>>543107461Based, I'd say. You can try alternatives, but you can never really replace Majesty. It's just unique and full of soul.
Making complete patches or factions designs is the fanfic of game design?https://youtu.be/ALGlOiGomIQ?si=UI5Sh97uii17cQqW
>>543132267If only. I want an army of stonemen and wechuges.
it's time for the RARRBOWL! huge 60% pangaea, 24 civs total>start on a river with wheatholy fuck
>>543130628I know, it's a shame Majesty 2 is unplayable due to the devs fucking around with the balance.
>>543137767I knooow. I started with Majesty 2, and it wasn't that good. Then, on /civ4xg/'s advice, I tried Majesty 1, and I was blown away. It's not perfect (necromancer/chaos still suck compared to healers/order alliance), but damn, it's fun and I love how it really feel like a RPG world.
>>543137478that's... a lot of mountains.
>>543138290what the fuck
>>543139584fucking jap fucking cunts settled here
>>543050137>cringe incel roman shitNot a chance in hell.
I have no idea what Halo Wars always telegraph where the AI will attack you and what they'll use but I love it.Oh you made a lot of banshees? Time to attach missiles throwers to my turrets, elle-o-elle!Oh yeah, turrets in Halo Wars are attached to your base and are upgraded through techs, but they also can get specialized expansions, like a flaming mortar to deal with infantry, an "electric cannon" to deal with vahicles, and a missile launcher to deal with flying.The add determines the preferred target, but is added to the normal machinegun.
>>543050137>we wuz procurators n' shiietNo thanks, i have nog free Ceasar 3/4 and rome TW.
>suddenly winHuh? Oh! Turns out that unleashing the las plagas on the covenant did actually fuck them up. That banshee attack was a last ditch effort to take me down, they abandoned their own base to attack mine.
The last Group A match is kicking off so we'll be up in about 30-40 minutes whenever this match ends. Stream links and other info here so I don't have to type it over and over again https://pastebin.com/SmvU9UQ2Tournament wiki page: https://implyingrigged.info/wiki/New_Thread_Cup_4#Group_B
>>543145225They're setting up our match
>>543145225We have Oh, Ratio, so we'll lose.
>>543050137Shieeeeeeeeeet
>>543145225That was absolutely godawful and I know that's entirely my fault. I'll be back next weekend for a roster poll then VGL will start in mid November but I have a lot to work on for the team.
i figured out tropico 4. just make your city one long road with no intersections
is roller coaster tycoon a city builder?
>>543153058COMMIT SUDOKU
>>543154231anon think about itTWO parallel long roads
>>543132267>tlazolteotl goddess of filth, excesses and perverted sexI can fix her
>>543161786No.
>>543117910>>543108619Why did they fuck this up so badly? Just make it so you can set job and growth permissions. It's not fucking hard to fix.
Last bump before bed.Don't melt like a gnome tonight!
>>543176484But I'm just a gnoooome...
what the fucking horseshit is this
>>543181102Equilibrated for joust between fellow lads.
>>543181102no horses and now, no saltpeterthis is a problem
>federation member wants to declare a war>fuck it why not, I've got 8 fleets that I wanna use>chooses the decrepit husk of an empire that got fisted by the Great Khan>spend the next 30 fucking years in a war because that shitheel empire was in a federation with the two largest in the galaxy>ended up bombing half the worlds I found with ArmageddonIt wasn't even difficult because none of them had built more than 10 battleships combined by the 2300s but I had to slog through half the fucking galaxy alone because neither of my fed allies did JACK SHIT. I ended up console'ing to see what fleets if any they had - one had 30 space amoeba babies, the other had a single mercenary enclave fleet and the other had an actual fleet but was blocked in because of the bordergore from the Khan.I'm melting this entire galaxy into grey goo, fuck this.
Good lord the translation is awful.What they meant:>tracing result is raised to 99 (aka ability to predict the direction)What they wrote>result of the trace is raised to 99
aaaa, the objective is on the opposite side of the map.
>>543188227Have fun lol
How is Endless Legend 2 so far?
>>543191873It's okay.
I'm going to give Cities Skylines 2 a try. I love Rimworld and I like 4x....for a single play through so maybe CS2 will act as a bridge.
>played 15 hours of AoW4>really liking it>woke up this morning>all intrest for it is goneI've done like 3(?) of the scenarios and while the stories and stuff were different, they just all felt the same. Get a few heroes, clear the map and take a stack to the enemy base and win. Guess it kind of echoed what the reviews said about it being repetitive. Maybe I'm just retarded?
>>543198875I hope it doesn't stay and that you get cured.
>>543200178It's that good huh? I always have this problem with 4x, I really enjoy the game then realize it's all the same and never touch it again. maybe I've been wrong.
>>543200332I like it, but I get what you mean, I got exactly the same issue with Stellaris and Skyrim. Played the fuck out of them both, and then woke up one morning, and didn't feel any interest in playing them anymore.
>>543183902>trusting computers>everSounds like they abused your trust to get some free clay. Your boys did all the dying while they happily got war spoils for nothing.
>>543206098Kill AM
>>543197453I have no fucking idea what I'm doing or what I'm supposed to be doing. The city pop exploded way too fast and I've built myself into a corner and there's just shit everywhere. It took me way too long to figure out you can use points to unlock shit and this was after 30+ minutes of trying to fix the fucking highway coming INTO my city. This is only the tutorial city and on easy. I should maybe actually move onto a normal city. I was thinking it would be nice if there were threats but seeing those demand bars maxed out and the "tweets" from citizen bitching about everything was stressful enough. Seeing the city alive at night is comfy af though. Coming from Rimworld and various 4x it's weird being able to just plop shit down and not thinking about what resources you need. I'm enjoying the game so far but not sure if I'm enjoying enough to actually commit to buying it.
>>543208618>I have no fucking idea what I'm doing or what I'm supposed to be doingMe the first time I got laid.
>>543208618I want to add on the tutorial was fucking garbage. Building a grid for my entire city was a huge mistake but one step at a time.
>>543208618>>543208745Also fuck trying to connect roads to building, WHY WHY WHY does it have to be parallel instead of just a single road coming into the facility, I actually had to google it to figure out why tf I couldn't connect a road to the god damn power plant. Also this shit where there's CLEARLY AN ENTRANCE to a parking lot yet it just goes to a curb into a road and not like a normal intersection. Is that the way the game is, did I build it wrong who tf knows.
>>543183902Once federations get up and running you should expect every war to involve at least half the galaxy. Then again you can also expect at least half the participants to do fuck all.
Holy kek
>>543042526Thieves in Majesty 1 weren't really there to fight things so much as to help you make money by looting corpses and lairs and occasionally help heroes who were fighting.
>>543041836>maps too small>buildings too big>low cap on populationI would add some dumb stuff that made its way over from Majesty 2, like>Having to research abilities for your heroes instead of them just learning them as you level>Can't place outposts where you want>Have to upgrade your palace to upgrade your buildings>Tower defense style enemy waves that come in from a set location>No wandering enemies>No bandit enemies that try to kill and rob your peasants, tax collector and market, making home defense all about those TD waves
Thoughts on Age of Wonders 4?
>>543207564Ironically AM would've been more help than your allies. He eliminated the enemy master computers and all but four specimens of humanity, after all.
>>543183902>>543206098>>543210720The Stellaris AI only knows how to do war when its the very early game and you were neglecting your fleet. Then they promptly ram their bigger fleet down your asshole.
>>543215723Fleetlets deserve it though.
Wonders are pretty good in AoM.Shame they're very often just victory parade.>>543214819Right, I forgot that. It's a bit stupid.I like the party thing, but it's a shame that it's mandatory: heroes are still too stupid to survive by themselves.>>543215338But he never won the war, he kept it going for 120 years.
>>543217415>But he never won the war, he kept it going for 120 yearsI don't remember that from the short story, although it's been a while since I've read it. Is that how it goes in the game?
>nords have a tech exclusive to Odin where he gives rings to the jarls, which massively buffs them (they get double damage against ranged units and myth units)...vikings enthusiasts and LARPers must HATE Tolkien...
war!
>>543217761never mind, they're so far away that I don't give a shit
>>543217595My bad, 109 years, not 120.He essentially tortures them separately in the game, playing with their own issues. Gorrister get electroshocks in a padded room because he's guilty about getting his wife committed. Helen got some trauma about yellow, so she's stuck in a room simulating a yellow elevator.Nimdok was a nazi so he burns into an incinerator.The game is pretty tough: the manual flat out tells you that AM is a liar and that you cannot win his game, you can only lose in the most human and triumphant way.If you fail to overcome every characters' flaw, you restart the torture. Only by surprising AM, you get a reprieve, during which the other AIs free you to take on AM's psyche. You're forced to kill all the survivors to get to AM, but if you do as they say and only wake part of AM, weakening him, AND then you give away your only weapon against them, you have no mouth, and you must scream.If you awaken all of AM's psyche, you can then destroy the AIs and become the guardian for the humanity sleeping on the moon.
>>543218045>spoilerGod damn I miss Ellison. He was a madman and an asshole but boy could he write. And his I, Robot screenplay would be amazing to see adapted.
>>543217869the first one bites the dust
>>543218198Of note is that any character can die for good. So Nimdok the nazi can be the last one to survive or get tortured forever. Or it can be Gorrister or Benny or Helen, but only one make it to the end.But if you get a bad ending... you get a very nasty one, you damn humanity to eternal suffering at the end of a three-headed basilisk: AM, the Russian supercomputer, and the Chinese supercomputer.But at this point, you are already a grotesque, soft thing. You have no mouth, but you must scream.Also the game was literally unbeatable in Germany, lol. Nimdok's entire segment was cut.
>>543218235Good riddance, I don't like these... very charming people from the British Isles.
>>543218235based
It's a shame they can't make a game like this anymore.
Here we go again.
I want to play Anno 1800 after some time with the 117 demo but none of the torrents seem work right
The executive team. I do need a Peter Molyneux somewhere though.
>>543249668Is Ann Bonny a tranny or why does she have that five o'clock shadow?
>>543206098yeah I'm probably gonna drop from this federation and start subsuming my corner of the galaxy outright. On the bright side, I lost a total of maybe 5 nanite swarmers in the entire conflict because the AI once again is genuinely awful at building or designing ships.>>543210720every day I thank God for existential expulsion existing - I don't have to give a shit about claims or constantly beating my head against the AI until it reaches max warscore, I can just fly in, glass their shitty fucking worlds and white peace when I'm bored.>>543215723Genocidal empires tend to have fleets worth the name in my games oddly, maybe they have higher weights for "build a fucking warfleet Jesus above" or something, but outside of a particularly rough contingency crisis or the prethoryn getting a good landing zone they're the most reliable threat by far. The Khan can be good too, but I don't count him because he gets fleets spawned in for him to use instead.
>finally rolled the prethoryn instead of the unbiddenPRAISE JEEBUS
>>543187302Could be worse
Dang it Jon. Why do you have to cause trouble everywhere you go?
>played cities skylines 2 for a few hours >never played anything like it>really enjoyed it>watched a few streamers and checked out the r*ddit>saw all the shit people made>know from past experiences no matter how much time I put into a game or how much I invest in learning it I'll still always be shit>realized I could put 10k hours into the game and I would still struggle with every aspect of it and my cities would still always be piles of garbage>>no longer interested in the gameNormally I still go through the whole process of investing a bunch into learning the game now I accept the fact from the start and don't even bother. I guess it's better this way
I only have weak feeble incels for actors.
>>543263387Dunno what game that is but looks like woke garbage
>>543263750it is>>543263387based Gutman, give him a pay rise.
>>543263750>>543263907>Oh no a womens' rights protest in the late 20's. This game must be woke.Please.
>>543266854Can you give him a raise?If so - do it. He deserves it>>Oh no a womens' rights protest in the late 20's. This game must be woke.Yes
>>543251708>>543263387Why protest outside your place?
Luckily there's no motion picture production code yet.>>543267118Eh, no. The guy is a below average actor who trows tantrums during any production I put him on. He also caused multiple scandals outside of filming. He's with the studio until his contract expires but it might even be more profitable to just break contract.
>>543267739Bury him alive. He's already a fossil with outdated views, better put him where he belongs.
>We will innovate our way towards massive profits.>>543267857That's a little extreme though I think you can do that to rival actors.
>>543266854>>543267118The 20s were actually an interesting time for women figuring out self-expression, on one hand you got flappers and the other you got the dames that would inspire femme fatales. Plus the whole prohibition thing going on; a broad named Texas Guina ran some of the most well-known speakeasies and became such a famous actress that the character archetype she pioneered (by being one of those performers who just plays themselves) still survived today. Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic you've got female French philosophers like Simone de Beauvoir shaping early feminism, which admittedly is very different from modern mainstream feminism.TLDR; A women's rights protest in the 20s is HIGHLY on point for the time period and you're too smoothbrained to realize it.
>>543267739>>543267739>The guy is a below average actor who trows tantrums during any production I put him on. He also caused multiple scandals outside of filming.Based. true star.
>>543270996I know. This game uses a lot of social history as gameplay elements. There's also the prohibition which plays a role in the game. You can gift booze to your employers but the police can confiscate that if they raid your studios. Later on your films are going to be regulated via self censorship. I think you can get by this in creative ways but there are story elements (like nudity and alcohol consumtion) that you cannot use or that will cause some commotion.
>>543270626>That's a little extremeNo, it's a measured answer to behaviour that tarnishes the studio's image.
>make peace with shaka>genghis fucking cunt decides to start shit
Twelve years post Arrival - one empire has been consumed entirely, another has been reduced to a single planet on the other side of the galaxy, the Curators have lost every starhold they once had, the Tiyanki have been rendered extinct in the wild, and the Scourge are pushing the Giranshu in the north-east hard. Some broods snuck through the various wormholes and gateways to hollow out one of my allies before I killed them. We'll be dismantling our own gateways to stop any unwelcome visits in our own lands.I've been ignoring the Scourge both for an actual challenge and because they spawned perfectly to absolutely annihilate the empires who aren't buddy-buddy with me, but I've decided to join the GalCom and will actively start fighting the swarm once they've fucked the galaxy up a bit more.
>>543273164oh my god they are all over my nuts
>>543274538fuck it I'm just paying them off like I did the zulu, I want to invade the persians
>>543275279>I'm paying you 80€ (around $250) to fuck off
>word "woman" appears on the screen>WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKEWhat cause that?
Unmodded btw
>>543288912alright
>>543215113she looks like she'll rape you for 20,000 years
>>543288912>tenement buildings that close to your palace and eclipsing it in heightAsking for a sniper incident
>>543295871GIWTWM
>already building myself into a cornerAHHHHHHHHHHHHThis city is going a bit better than the tutorial one. To expand your city do you just build new bigger stuff as you unlock it or demolish the old stuff? I'm trying to keep my demand bars low but trying to plan on the fly is hard. My idea was to keep stuff separated and expand it out as needed but I feel like everything is going to be a huge spaghetti mess the longer it goes on. Maybe I need to watch a beginner guide or something.
>>543298656I wonder if my first city looked this awful
After my third failed attempt at a realistic run in workers and resources it's time for another game
>>543298939I'm probably just going to watch a guide. This is the first city builder I've ever played and I maybe got a few hours in it, if even.
>>543300248>watched some beginners guidesMy IQ is way to low for this shit. I'll just play something else.
okay I'm playing this dumb shit because spidersissy asked nicelywhat is it
>>543288912anyone know the logic behind dirt road vs paved road in tropico 4? what do i have to do to keep the road dirt? even a tenement makes it paved
>>543306172Looks pretty good for a mobile game
>>543306172Strategy/city-building, VERY small scale. You'll never get more than 20 peasants/soldiers at once.You pick a hero, and you have him run around the map, thinking Warcraft 3. Except the hero can gather ressources too.
>>543305951nvm I'll keep trying at it. I just need to keep stuff small and fix problems as they come up instead of trying to balance out for 300k people when I only have 1200 lmao.
>>543316585keep it up anon
How do you run Entropy Drinkers? 3rd civic pick only or do you play xenophobe + some unity boosting civ to rush psionics?
>>543249637Is the rin ru torrent still stuck at season 2? I just bought the base game and used the unlocker to play w/ all the dlc
May I ask what is your go to mod when it come to tech in Stellaris? I tried cache of technologies, and while I do think it add a couple neat stuff, I also think it add way too much retarded shit. I'm mostly looking for a couple additional tier of techs.
>>543282567I dont get it
>>543326758most mods tend to add a lot. try extended ship components
>>543328437It's not like I don't understand, if I were to make a tech mods I'd at least bring techs that's basically on par with FEs because why not, but damn so many of them just go way too far with it.
>>543328209ntaI think it's the Despicable Neutralsthose are a placeholder in case of bugged generation not setting a government typeyou're not supposed to actually see thatalso the lack of ethics or civics
The best thing I can say about stellaris is that the war in heaven got me to watch Babylon 5.
>>543331182Oh yeah I see it now some sort of bugged nation. Thought maybe it was an enclave or didnt have intel on them.
lmao that dumbass's getting bitten by a doge
These guys mug the huskarls and the jarls.
city builder but you also have to destroy your own city as the final boss
>>543336817city builder except you build a log cabin with your bare hands
what a vile planet
city builder but you get pegged if you lose
>>543340424spiderfag pls
Oh, nice, the buildings in Age of Mythology actually change with the era.>>543340548How the fuck did you know this?
>>543306172Do you like?
>>543339386What game?
>>543357939Shadow Empire.
Stellaris diplomacy is so easy man you do friendly first contact then dump some of your excess consumer goods onto them and set up an embassy to grow trust and now you’re butt buddies for life
>orc mercenary company nearby clamoring for war>beat them down and take away their xeno-loving way of life by propping up a human empress with a penchant for sex slaveryLol
>>543339386I want to get into this game so bad but I'm too stubborn to sit down and fail a game or two to get my feet wet
Are there any negatives to colonization in Stellaris beyond increasing empire size? I hear people saying more planets spreads your pops too thinly, but colony ships don't actually consume/move pops, so I feel like a new colony is just another source of pop growth provided you're not doing any resettling.
>Mmmhhh I never tried the random empire spawn in Stellaris, let me try that>Get boxed in my starter system right off the batAh I see, that's why.Glad I picked a militaristic empire for the occasion.
>>543381757Your empire size
Walmsley is a lazy motherfucker.I NEED my 2.7.0 and I NEED my functional NPR carriers RIGHT NOW!
>>543386269NPR? Like the broadcaster?
>>543323325Apparently the crack for the complete edition doesn't work with intel cpus on windows 11.
>>542980256Units can shoot straight through entire buildings, you can't tell what terrain does what.The movement and AP system is insane, every round each unit gets to move, first it's your turn then the enemy, until every unit has moved. You can't go back to a unit after you ended their turn, you have to use all AP or just skip the turn, you can't move a unit forward and then shoot with one behind.A flame truck went up to my units, i hit it with an AT round, after that it's his turn again, somehow, and he kills everyone.No overwatch mechanic, also enemy units don't really try to attack you, so you have to walk into enemies knowing you're going to die because the movement system is terrible.You can barely move and shoot because everything costs so much AP.The worst example i can give is the rocket launcher, costs 60 AP to use, but you need to be deployed which costs 20, and you can move ONE square with the remaining 20 AP. That is, if you're not already deployed, then you have to use 20AP to stand up first, and then you don't have enough AP to move, deploy and shoot.I can't get my head around how to make the combat feel good, you practically can't move and shoot, you can't cover your allies because after one moves it's the enemy turn. I see no strategy in this game whatsoever, i stay far away and shoot them with the longest range weapons i have, cover doesn't really matter and i move up like one tile at a time.Somehow all this turns into some horrible amalgamation of feeling clunky, unfair, and still incredibly easy as long as you play the game as slow as you can.
>>543391974>still incredibly easy as long as you play the game as slow as you can.This is the problem with all of these games, which is why they force you to act fast with mission objectives being timed in most games.
>>543391013...wait, isn't this Anno 1800? What does this look like Rome?
>>543395349Get with the times grandpa, we Anno 117 now.
>>543395349Because it is Rome
Been playing through Mental Omega. It's pretty brutal, even on normal difficulty. I've never been great at RTS games, but phew.
>>543413117Heck's that? A DLC? A mod?
>>543414295Just of the picture it's a Red alert 2 mod.
>>543356517I only played the first mission so far, it's whatever
>>543414295>>543414402RA2 mod that rewrites the entire base story and adds two extra factions, each of which have a campaign to go with them.
ATREIDES!![BAGPIPES INTENSIFIES]
>>543381757If you actually tend to each planet the only downside is empire size.
>>543419150I hate the smugglers, they can be so difficult to fight against if and when they are running away with the game.
>>543425739I hate that they keep implanting secret headquarters in my villages, and I can't remove them. It's not as obnoxious as the corruption system in Empire at War, but still.>>543414402>>543414579>>543415281Oh, a mod. Is it fun? Red Alert 2 usually is, but suffers from a lack of explanation.
>>543428378>spidersissy doesn't know about mental omegawhy am I not surprised
materialists>la la la, shroud isn't realspiritualists>la la la, machine souls aren't real
>>543428531Do you know about Stronghold? Darfall? Seven Kingdoms 2? Gender Wars? Five Nations? Age of Darkness? Age of War? Jagged Alliance? 7,62mm? Its Blue Sun mod? Warlock? Eador?Thought so, bitch. Sit down, smallville.
>>543430217damn spidey it's just some casual bants, chill out
>>543430738If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your bloody tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
>>543340424but that's a reward
>>543435715Shhh
I was planning to post this later in the week but the timeline for signups has shifted and I don't want to miss out on it like I did 6 months ago. If you want to see /civ4xg/ play in the /vg/ League next month, regardless of whether you have suggestions for the team or not, please give me a (You) to show proof of interest in competing. If you have feedback on the players, how they look, the team's music, or anything like that, now's the best time to place a suggestion.I promised you I'd get you an overview of the team since it's been like 6 years since the team was last changed so pic related has the players, their names, their numbers, and their shirt text as well as what the kits look like. A few things are new, such as the goalkeeper kits for kit 2 and 3 and some goalhorns which play when a player scores a goal. If you have any suggestions let me know. If you'd like to possibly see another player on the team, please suggest these. I'm planning to do a roster poll using a Google poll this weekend, and so far the choices will be the 23 current players and 2 suggestions I got (a doomstacks player then El Presidente from Tropico).Each team has 2 gold medals and 3 silver medals, each of which have better stats that the normal player so they play more. Our medal players are>(captain) (gold) Somehow I'M The Bad Guy>(gold) WOLOLO>(silver) OH SHAKA>(silver) Horatio Sauce>(silver) Nuclear GandhiI know at least 1 person wants to change up medal players because he hates a certain saucy player, but these will be effectively be the faces of the team and the ones with the biggest impact on the pitch so you can suggest these separately from the main roster suggestions. I'm open to having a separate poll to determine the medal players if you all want that, again let me know.
And I forgot that I brought in Nuclear Gandhi's goal horn from /vst/ which is an edit of Tunak Tunak Tun, and that's missing from the list in that image.
>>543439781We should remove (1).
>>543440141We need 23 players so he needs a replacement. Do you have any suggestions for new players?
>>543440517Arthas did nothing wrong?
>>543440817That can be arranged. If you have a better pic or idea of what his player would look like then that makes it even better.
>>543439781if you remove horatio I'm boycotting
>>543439781If you keep Horatio I'm boycotting.
I should mention I plan to remove the text from "Balanced For Multiplayer"'s model since that model was made right after Stellaris 2.0 and we're well beyond that point obviously.
>>543450110What new Stellaris memes do we have? I'm found of "I thought that was fixed already", but it might be too long.
>>543440817he also did nothing Right, he got manipulated anyway and stuff went to hell anyway
Brothers I despise navigating the steam workshop.
Ecaz are weird. They feel like glass cannons, with limited buffs.>>543452702>he also did nothing Right, he got manipulated anywaySo you admit he's innocent and nothing was his fault, okay.
>bla bla bla war banner can get an upgrade that lowers enemy damage by 10%>tooltip is about selling stuff at the right momentDid they mix tooltips or are Ecaz meant to be... you know... happy merchants?
Fuck me, Song of Conquest is good.The Vanir DLC adds some Scandinavian blokes, and they have a spear that they throw before switching to a short sword.And the devs, these absolute mad lads, gave them sprites for fighting in melee with the spear. I'm dead sure everyone else would just have their spear disappearing into thin air while they shank some British blokes.
>>543332431Thanks the rec this series is kino
>>543473830Watch Black Sails then. And then play Tropico 2.
>>543470267all the fun stuff in that game got nerfed to shit ages ago though
>>542605736I remember jerking off to this image 15 years ago. Classic.
Is this the right thread to talk about X4? I haven't played since 6.0, so I wanted to replay again now with the new flight model and diplomacy.Are there any mods you would recommend? I don't want anything that changes the core mechanics, since I want to actually see what the 7.0 and 8.0 updates brought, but I'd love something that maybe adds some threat. Maybe something that makes Xenon actually expand and conquer others, or something that just makes the other factions more aggressive?Also, I often play with some self-imposed limitations or roleplay scenarios. Got any ideas what I could do differently this time to spice things up?
>>543482787Never played it but looks cool might try it out
>>543478697>Black SailsIsn't that the pirate porno?
>>542874806I came here hoping to see some discussion about it.I liked the demo a lot. I have played 4 maps total, one with each faction. I like Dungeon the most, both in terms of the playstyle and in terms of sheer strength. Generally some minor things need balancing, and I'm curious to see some actual properly handcrafted maps first, but so far I think the game is shaping up quite nicely.
>>543487001Would definitely recommend if you like sandboxes.Be warned though, the controls are kind of difficult at first, and it takes a bit to get used to them, same with the menu navigation. Kind of a steep initial learning curve. But if you power through it, it's great fun imo.
>>543439781Yes, of course.
What's the best space game?
>>543502498Aurora 4x and it's not even close.
>>543502867>spreadsheet simulatorcome on
>>543504112Before man was, Excel waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
>>543479918Okay Sseth.>>543490710No? There's also violence and torture.
>>542874806me again>>542906681I have now played a game to victory on all factions and all the classic mapscripts and I can say that I do like it a lot. All of the factions seem pretty interesting and while there's certainly some meta picks the sheer amount of units and abilities is just astonishing. Temple and Necromancer towns seem straight forward and simple while the Dungeon and Schism have more gimmics and are harder to get going (and I'm not sure if they are even meaningfully stronger or not to compensate). It may just be the difficulty and map that causes that.Most maps just doesn't give you any mines and the way you make (and use) the alchemical dust is also esoteric. I have not played the tutorials so maybe I'm just missing a button but at least with the second hardest difficulty level of starting resources developing your towns on some maps and some factions is very challenging and requires some thought to be put in so you don't "soft lock" the town. One one hand I quite like that but I would also appreciate a more traditional resource heavy maps every now and then. Granted those probably come out with the actual game but still. I have found magic to be somewhat lacking and mostly focused on might playtroughs, partially because mage guilds are very expensive and partially because there's just lot to learn with magic. Then again in one battle the AI did almost obliterate me with few powerful spells so who the fuck knows. I can't seem to find a good bread and butter spells like magic arrow, lighting bolt, mass slow etc and I do not really understand what each school is supposed to be good at and I don't think it's worth it to upgrade or unlock spells when the same resource competes with upgrading your town. The generic spells on the other hand are fantastic and worth picking up every game. I think I will play a very dedicated magic focused run next with a spell damage or spell specialist hero and see what happens.
>>543513610FACKING ELVES
>>543439781Horatio is a better meme than destructive anal or garbage stealing robot. The bottle is even more original too.
>>543502867And for non-autists?
>>543518132Wrong.
>>543520712you just don't like it because you came up with it
>There is no torrent of Anno 1800 with the stamp tool updateDIE DIE DIE DIE
does anybody want to do a crossword with me
>>543530806Yeah of course. I has been a long time.
>>543532426https://downforacross.com/beta/game/9067539-yact
>>543533439Wtf it's already done
>>543536847slowpoke
>>543533439Never did the nyt crossword. I sometimes do the connections puzzle, which are very hard if english isn't your first language.
>>543540294connections is pretty hard regardless, but some of the purples are asinine. there was one last week that was like "homophones of synonyms for (word)". like what the fuck
>>543541839Oof that's some relief to hear that they're hard for everyone.
>>543540294The crossword can be hard if you're not familiar with American sports like today having 2 baseball questions including asking for a player's first name.
>>543504112>>543519929distant worlds: universe
>>543520868Yes.
>>543513610I've found magic to be very strong, but damaging spells, primal magic especially, seems to be somewhat weaker than the rest. The best damaging spell is in daylight magic for some reason. Daylight in general is fantastic, you've got the buff that lets everyone counterattack before they get attacked, you've got the hp increase with an initiative bonus, you've got the simple % based damage reductin and damage increase buffs, and then the previously mentioned best damaging spell in the game - judgement.From what I've played so far it seems to me that the schools rank like this:Daylight > Arcane > Twilight > PrimalBut I think there's enough variety in the spell lists to make the overall "worse" schools better for specific factions or just different strategies.As for the alchemical dust, yeah, I'm not sure I like the implementation. A lot of normal unit buildings require it as well, and yet there are no reliable ways of getting it as far as I can tell. Best case scenario you just get lucky and find some on the map. Or better yet the building that gives you a certain amount if you visit it each week. Other than that you just have to hope that the map is going to have enough shitty artifacts for you to destroy to fund the most important buildings. A bit too RNG based for my taste.
What is the most absolute beginner's stepping stone into RTS? Like RTS for Retards type of thing for someone who has never been competent at them.
>>543561883Age of Empires 2, play the learning campaign first (William Wallace)
>>543553641He said non-autistsThe answer is Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds
>>543561883I was playing starcraft and tiberian sun at 10 years old bro, come onAnd no, I'm not asian
>>543504696lel
sleepy...
>>543561883most RTS campaign modes are designed such that they give you a very limited unit palette so that you can get used to them, which slowly widens as you go through levels. so level 1 will be only your basic infantry, then level 2 will be your anti-tank infantry plus a scout vehicle, then level three will throw in a tank, etc.starcraft, starcraft 2, warcraft 3 (og version, not reforged (unless they've fixed in since release? haven't touched it in forever myself) are kind of baby's first rtses, while starcraft has also managed to be the only real high end rts at the same time.Also mentionables: all Westwood games with special mention to Red Alert 2. There is also Age of Empires 2, Rise of Nations was kind of fun back in the day, 40k Dawn of War (which just got a remaster? idk if that's any good though; original was pretty great),Age of Mythology (also has a remake?), and maybe Supreme Commander, but that one is kind of great but kind of obtuse at the same time.Blizzard and Westwood were the RTS kings back in the day, and I highly recommend checking their works out.If you want something more modern: StarCraft 2, maybe Red Alert 3 or Command and Conquer 3.If you want to experience the classics: yet modernized, Command and Conquer Remastered, Starcraft 1 remastered.If you want the true OGs: Dune II, Warcraft 1.Note that no RTS campaign will, in any way, prepare you for multiplayer. You will get your ass handed to you in any pvp game. The enemy will pop out of nowhere with a full army while your basic infantry building is still under construction.
>>543561982>>543574583cheers, I'll grab aoe2 and sc2 and start there>>543562517did not ask
>>543574583This is why I always have issues with campaign. You never get the fun toys.
Been a while since I touched stellaris. Is there a creampie for it ala Total War: Warhammer 3?I don't want to pay a sub just to use all the content.
>>543583504Yeah, I did it
>>543583712You creampied stellaris? Did you use a condom at least?
>>543561883Age of Empires 2, I guess. Get Definitive Edition if you can, otherwise HD can do the trick.It's good to learn the fundamentals, since most RTS use less ressources than AoE2.
>>543583868Of course, wouldn't want to catch any diseases, given how many grubby hands have been all over that game
>>543584121nice.But seriously I don't wanna pay $200 for all the shit in that game. Is there a creampi like thing for it, or am I SOL? I have the legal vanilla copy.
>>543584795Yeah anon, I said I did it already. This was when biogenesis dropped, idk if things got updated but I assume they have, it's a popular game
>>543462136What game?
>>543586369I thought it was obvious so I didn't name it in my post, sorry. Dune Spice Wars. Very, very fun game, but a bit woke, so if you're annoyed by unnecessary gender/raceflip, avoid it.
I've been having fun with Cities Skylines 2. I've never played a city builder before so I am still VERY lost. For the first time today I'm actually making a profit. I will be starting over again and making the city a bit neater and changing a few things. I have no idea how to make a nice layout or what the plans are for expansion but I'm sure it will come with time. I find myself thinking "what now" quite a bit but I think it's okay to sit and watch for a bit and just let everything run. The closest thing(s) I've played to a city builder is Rimworld (905 hours) and maybe Factorio (376 hours) though I don't play Factorio anymore.
>>543587058having fun is haram
>>543587404I play shadowverse to balance out the fun with anger
>>543561883company of heroes 1 has the best rts campaigns ever made so i can recommend that for a new bab
>>543589212I'm partial to World in Conflict myself
Stellaris needs a second look at starbases and orbital stations.I think they've gotten powercrept.
>>543561883Dominions 6, no doubts.Deity Empires comes second.
Rolled 3 games of life seeded and I think the 2 guaranteed desert worlds is true, at least on default settings. Life seeded really isn't that bad for either pop-stealing rushes or tall w/ idyllic bloom plantoids. Latter of which i kind of which was baked into the origin, but oh well. Really not a bad single planet origin this patch imo, despite people complaining about it.pic unrelated
I don't like the random system for leader traits or research options.For research, I can just type techupdate, but there seems to be no equivalent for leader traits.Instead, you have to figure out what traits are available at that level, then what number it is, then type in the long leader ID number...
>>543594804>it's difficult to cheatokay
>>543597563I want the maximum possibleif there's untapped potential because of randomness, it makes me upset
>>543597620play a different game, or better yet, a different genre
>>543598049unfortunately, I don't think anything quite scratches the same itch Stellaris does
>>543587058This is the one, I can feel it. I took out a small loan for the geo therm plant, let's see if it pays off.
actually now that I think about itthere is a modifier for more trait optionssimple to just put that in the universal (AI and player both get it, not really cheating) edicthoweverlast I used itthe UI can't handle too many optionsit's always the UI with Stellaris...
and before you askI WILL continue to play Stellaris and I WILL continue to complain about it
>>543593751>2nd gaia world and a couple of habitables in a circular constellationGod start
>there are still people playing Stellaris
>>543610059>>543615416Stellaris is the only good 4x game. I actually dont think there's a single good one otherwise. It was bad before all the updates though but now there's so much roleplay stuff available it's kino. If you're a min maxxer though that sucks the fun out of everything I can see why you dont like it.
>>543615692Hi Wiz. Your game still sucks btw lol
>>543561883Dawn of war remaster is pretty great for a first RTS.
>>543615692
Bump. Farewell.
>>543615781Yet you still have an increasing number of hours in it.
>>543587058me and my personal cul-de-sac
>>543632158Bold of you to assume I kept playing your game after you removed hyperlanes
>>543629982Goodbye, see you next week.
>>543639996Assuming I survive family dinner
>>543561883SC2 is both free to play and the quintessential RTS I would start there. It's honestly criminal what you get for absolutely no charge what so ever. Wings of Liberty is free but 40 bucks for the whole package is not a bad price either, it would be a steal if you didn't already get all of the other stuff for free. It really has everything a RTS should have and is the gold standard for the entire genre. I would almost say that pricing it so low (free) Blizzard killed the RTS genre because every new game coming out has to compete with SC2.AoE2 is also good if you prefer the medieval setting instead of the space. Both have active and alive multiplayer but also significant single player campaign content. SC2 also has the arcade with tons of mods and custom games you can play.
>>543644096God speed.
>>543629982Where are you going anon?
>>543648638>>543649360Okay I lied. It's not a family dinner. I'm at the hospital.
>>543651043You getting better or are you in palliative?
>>543651043Oh dear. What happened? Are you okay?
There isn't a thread about it so i guess i might as well ask here...I'm trying to play Songs of Syx for the first time. Is this a good start? I feel like it's at least not horrible enough for my first time. Clay, Wild Grain, Fruits, some cows, even some ore and wild herbs. The soil and moisture seem good enough, too.
>>543656465..And this is what the world looks like, also. Outside of one small one-city lizardman kingdom, everything else close by is Freelands, which the beginners guide i followed seemed to say was a good thing.
>>543651043stop shitposting at work
What 4X games have an actual narrative of some sort? Preferably ones that aren't bad.
>>543659938Alpha Centauri
>there's so much roleplayLike every other 4x game every race/faction whatever is just cosmetic. The progression is always the exact same but people refuse to admit it.
>>543656465>Clay and ore nearbyIt's definitely not bad in any wayThe harvestable plants really don't matter much since you can easily import and start your own but still make it a little easier
>>543652461>>543652637Not well. Don't worry about me.
>>543662848>spiderfag is dyingoh no :(
>>543662848I hope you'll get well soon.
>>543662848I blame Horatio for this.
I kind of want to play Stellaris though I'm concerned like with most 4x games all the runs feel basically the same. I've watched some streams to get a feel for the game and it never seems like anyone is actually doing anything? What's the gameplay loop?
What's your favorite scenario in Frostpunk? Has anyone played 2 after the big patch a month ago? The made some improvements to performance apparently.
>>543615416>peopleDont elevate them by calling them human.
>>543673676what else is there to play?
>>543674214Better games aka the entire library of PC games since the inception of the concept of video games.
>>543674346what gacha are good then?
>>543672723You send your exploration ship to uncover the map and soon after the construction ship to capture all bottle necks.Meanwhile you try to increase your resource production, with the goal of getting as much alloys as humanly possible, so you can build a killer fleet for yourself.Most of that will be waiting for your population to grow enough to fill in all the jobs that produce resources.
>>543674432No idea, i dont play gacha.
>>543674683So like every other 4x game that's the game play loop and your race/faction/beliefs and all that mean fuck all because it boils down to doing the exact same thing?
>>543674214Hollywood Animal. It's fun.
>>543675249Well besides those things, you will either be speed running the Diplomacy tradition tree in order to build federations and turn your friend group of galactic xenophiles into the force that neutralizes every xenophobic empire out there.Or you will speed run the Domination tradition tree as an imperialist slaver empire, turning other empires either into parts of your hegemony federation, or as thralls under your semi-direct control.You could also become a fanatical purifier/devouring swarm/rogue defense system and wipe all xenos off the map while speed running the Supremacy traditions.If you choose to play as a trader empire, your best hope is to go Mercantile and try forming a Trade league.So as you can see, most of those options are about building federations of any sort, because federations are overpowered in this game, going solo is the challenge mode.
>>543676551It's not worth responding to the stellaris seether
>>543676551When does it get fun?
>>543677161Never
>>543677161If you have to ask it doesn't. Just play something more to your speed like tf2 or something
>JWE3 released>it looks worse than JWE2>vehicle movement is significantly worse than JWE2, and it was already complained about a lot in 2. Vehicles feel way too light and will float a significant distance when jumping. Feels like driving on the moon. Had a velociraptor throw a ranger jeep to the other side of the enclosure.>no animation for laying eggs, the dinosaur just walks up to a nest, the model gets mechanically rotated and then the dinosaur walks off with eggs spawning in the nest>no animation for young dinos hatching>buildings can clip each other which looks absolutely ridiculous sometimes>building rotation during placement is a direct downgrade from 2>reduced menu readability compared to 2Guess I'll come back to it in a year, maybe it will get polished by then.
>>543690883Good morning, sir
>>543591559They're too good now?Or the other way around, overshadowed by planets?
>>543610059I just bought Stellaris last week and now I'm here to hang out in this thread with you
>>543672723>all the runs feel basically the samewith Stallaris you can fix this by buying a new DLC every time you start a run
>>543677161It's fun creating your species and imagining the grand stories your empire will be part of
>>543694469hello! welcome to /civ4xg/!
>>543694469Oh, you're a tourist, that's why you think Shitlaris is a tolerable 4X: you never played a 4X before.
Bump
Does anyone have the original symbol?
>>543694116Overshadowed by planets.
District specializations from conquered AI planets are annoying to change.
>>543701289Nvm found it
>>543695870I played one (1) game of Age of Wonders 4 before Stellaris
>>543701308ahyeah, I don't have any DLC yet, but I've been reading about DLC features and saw that Dyson spheres only put out 4000 electricity, while my generator planets are making 3500+ or so each
>>543705542Megastructures are alright, although a little silly that a planet puts out more than a whole star.But starbases and mining/research stations are pretty pitiful.
is that portuguese anon still here
>>543610059>>543615416Listen man there's no gooner 4x's on the market other than koei games
>>543705542>>543705808The difference is that generator world needs an entire population working it. The dyson sphere is just generating that all by itself.
It's been a VERY long time since I've played Stellaris. I've reinstalled and decided to give it another go. These are the current mods I'm using, any issues with these? it's mostly UI/Cosmetic stuff.
>>543715436real space might need a compat patch for gigastructures
>>543712817I guess there's always Daifuku Sendan's games
>>543715436I installed some of the "more" mod series. Always nice to have extra stuff. We'll see if I stick with the game longer than half a play through
>>543715436>click on ship>pop up>pop up>pop up>pop up>clear everything>send ship out to explore>pop up>pop up>pop up>pop up>clear everything>click my world to build some stuff>pop up>pop up>pop up>pop up>clear everything>send construction ship to do something>pop up>pop up>pop up>pop up>clear everything>pop up>close gameI remember why I stopped playing, this shit annoying af
>>543728595Sounds like you should start a war anon.
>>543728595nigga thats the game
>>543731216No it's not, "nigga".
>>543728595You can customize the notifications at least
>>543733117Shut up corny ass nigga, stellaris is a roleplay game with random events. It's not about the economy or ships which are terribly balanced.
how do I stop minmaxing in Stellaris, I feel it's draining the fun out of the game
>>543736141What fun?
>>543736141Find a roleplay option. Build buildings that make sense for your RP, choose perks that fit RP, only war targets that make sense RP, etc etc
>>543636587What? Isnt the entire game hyper lanes
>>543744103No, now they're star lanes. Hyperlanes were tunnels that you bore into reality. And you had space jumps, who were all about range.
>>543747757Anyone who actually played stellaris years ago knows you're getting them mixed up anon.
>>543748321What about YOUR MOM
>>543747757The three different modes of transportation were1) hyperlanes (the current form)2) wormholes -where you could teleport anywhere within certain ranges which were upgradeable3) free movement - could just fly anywhere with propellants
>begin city builder>build a bunch of stuff in whatever because you just kinda need it>city becomes bigger>old stuff is now completely throwing off positioning because i need to build more stuff, it's all shitty and inefficient, amd it's in the way of being able to do stuff>get extremely strong urge to basically say fuck it and start all over again for an more efficient design>mfw there's no such optionIt sucks. Everything is crooked and wrong. It won't work. My people are gonna starve because i need to build a canal to the only fertile land in the map but there's my starter city in the way.
>>543772056Just embrace the messiness of an old city.
>>543776674Well I hate it. It makes everything incredibly inefficient, I ran out of food without even noticing it.I wish the game had some sort of option to basically "New Game+" but alas there's not, you can't resettle.
>>543772056They invented bulldozers for a reason, anon.
>>543780682There are no bulldozers in song of syx
I am here to once again ask.Are there any news on Falling frontier?
>>543782026no
>>543782581Well fuck!
40K 4X
>>54379112740X
I saw Farthest Frontier came out of EA today. Has anyone played it? How's the replayability?
>setting up new village>wolves come in>sit outside villager's homes>kill them soon as they walk outThis game might be fun after all.
>>543716113I remembered seeing this game exactly once on /hgg/. Maybe it's time to play it
>>543439781Bumping this one last time for any final suggestions. In a little over 24 hours I'll post the roster poll.
>>543814683I don't know what changes we could possibly make, this general is so dead that half the team is remnants from games that we don't discuss anymore
>>543814683you got any stellaris players? the only TRUE 4xg in 4xg
>>543814683>>543818289we could make HAK HAK HAK a medal player, replacing shaka or wololo
>>543818517Wololo is a classic that cant be taken out. I am not familiar with shaka though
>>543818289Trying too hard, /gsg/.
Japan is so bad.
>>543834705What game, civ 5? yeah they're not great
>>543840872I meant in Ruse.
>>543848391Clearly age of mythology
please help I keep restarting
ACOT mod any good? (Stellaris)
>>543864665lore-wise it's too memeythen again, the base game is toobalance-wise it has the same problem as any mod that adds stuff beyond endgame, AI will never utilize it correctly and you will eventually hard outscale it at any difficultythen again, this also happens on the base gamemost importantly, any mod that adds post-endgame stuff isn't enjoyable because of lategame lag
>>543862251Here's what I do, I restart the game and open an the newest save file so that I finish it haha.
>playing scion just to try it>equivalent fleet neighbor decs me>lol okay, gonna buildup a bit and push them out>400k power blue fleet zooms in out of nowhere and slaps his shit aroundkek
Star Wars Galactic Battleground DE when? I'm tired of the AI getting so easily stomped that I can win before even making mechs.
>>543874778Man I should try this. Sounds fun, what civics and shit did you go though I couldnt figure that out. Maybe some super pacifist thing?
>>543513610I have now played few games focusing on magic. Now that I have looked at the system and experimented a bit it's what I would say functional system but has pretty big weaknesses too. The pros is that spells look pretty nice and there are several good spells especially in what I would categorize as "support". There doesn't seem to be any particularly OP/must use spells like say mass slow that just fuck over AI but a the same time spells have plenty of omph and are bullshit enough to feel unfair when it all clicks which is a good thing. The decision to move town portal and dimension door in particular to the neutral category is also fantastic since that removes the RNG from these must have map spells and also removes the need to pick a magic school (earth and/or air) just for having them function properly. It also means might heroes have fairer access to them. Damage spells have more variety than just "bigger number better" with some of the high tier execution spells.The downsides relate mostly to how the spells are unlocked and the magic secondary skills. First of all the fact that spells unlock randomly but then you can also invest resources to unlock a spell directly but also you can level them up with alchemical dust puts way too much pressure on your resource economy for what it's worth 99% of the time. Outside of manually learning a key spells to cheese a fight I don't see a reason to ever upgrade them like that, you are better off just spending your resources at your town. (incidentally artifact upgrades suffer from this same, +1 knowledge for 100 dust or upgraded T7 and T3 dwelling hmmm). The spell leveling system is also pretty obscure as a whole. You can gain levels either super easily or like pulling teeth but most spells (none?) benefit from being above lvl 4 so most magic sub skills feel bit weak as a result. Might sub skills seem much more directly beneficial.
>>543883593Magic?Which game are we talking aboot again?!?
>playing songs of syx>find a cool seed, keep it for later while continuing to look>when i decide i haven't found anything better, decide to put it back>i can't>the "seed generator" box literally won't let you put all the numbers in even though they used that seed themselveswhat the fuck is this bullshit, why does it exist and how do i get past it
>>543886003Heroes of might and magic olden era.
>>543888962You research spells in it?...is it good? Are elves hot? Is Lord Haart in? Is Necropoli still busted? HOW IS THE MUSIC?
Now that amenities have been rebalanced so it’s actually worth it to build holo theaters, would you say warrior culture is still a shit civic?
>>543897869do duelists even provide more amenities than entertainers
Anybody know what's wrong with my canal? Why's it not working?
>>543898385Not by default but there’s a council position that increases duelist output by 10% per skill level
>>543902979waste of a council position
>>543900480Sorry, not sure. What're you trying to do?
>>543905917I was trying to build a canal. I ended up just doing a different design and it worked.
>>543908836Yay?
I think I'll have sushi for lunch on monday
>>543917675Wow, made that decision well in advance.
>>543920690yep, sushi is a big deal
>>543892435Elves are not in the FREE DEMO which is quite extensive so check it out. I don't think Haart is in this one, I think it's supposed to be a prequel. As for necropolis I think it's still busted, they get the conflux "twice the T7 spawns lmao" effect in this one. Music is good as well.
>>543876404I was just doing a regular spiritualist build for psionic ascension to try it out. but yeah you could easily play pacifism. I'm not sure if the ai will always do that or if its rng or based on the ethic of your daddy, but itd be worth checking out
>>543610059My current empire consist of space elven dickgirls.It's quite nice.
>tfw I killed my gfs motivation to play cities skylines because I kept fixing her cities
>>543931123I don't think you'd have a good time if I kept fucking with your games either anon, use your head.
>>542814090Was actually curious about the updates, haven't played in nearly a year I think. Maybe I"ll wait for one more update and play it again cause that game is so fun
>>543736141For me in that type of game it's most fun when your gradn overartching strategies and many of your decisions even at smaller levels are roleplay-based, and then you min-max with those suboptimal decisions made for roleplay reasons as a given. Makes minmaxing fun again, because you're adapting/making the best of the situation the roleplay is putting you into mechanically. Kind of like making the best of the random builds you get in roguelike games
>>543931123you don't have a gf
What’s a fun off-meta build on stellaris?
whats the point of providing high housing, entertainment etc for people in tropico? do they work harder or pay taxes? seems like there is a really low threshold so people dont riote then any higher than that is pointless. why shouldnt doctors live in tenements?
>>543940297Pick a theme and build your empire around it while disregarding everything except flavor text. Chances are it will be off-meta.
The militarist faction approval really should be based on power projection instead of naval capacity percentage.>add anchorages>faction gets mad
>>543940297Just dont min max your empire and you will be off meta. Also do what the other guy says and only choose what makes sense for your empire. Play it like an RPG and roleplay your choices. If youre a corporate pacifist empire dont invade your neighbors, only take the diplomatic economy options. Dont meta game the fact you know a crisis is coming
>>543941798they're happiernicer buildings also have higher rents, but that's not important
>>543928301Then who can I lust after???
>>543957341Me.
>>543958197Spiderfag pls...
>ensign AI is a pushover past midgame>higher difficulty AI is a goliath early game which makes early military unfun to play>scaling AI maybe helps but it sabotages the AI's early development What settings do you need to fix this? I'm not a great player but I try to build decently. Would midgame scaling Grand Admiral be too difficult for a retard to handle?
>>543955710I look like this
>>543966114what difficulty do you play on normally?
>>543966543I played a game on Captain and for most of the early game the AI had Superior fleet power to me. But by the time I got superstructures built, ascended, and started filling out specialized worlds, I blitzed ahead of them and stomped them
>>543966114Yeah it's a problem. My first game back after all these patches the enemy empire had like 20k fleet to my 6k with similar world numbers. The free resources are a bit ridiculous I dont know how anyone on higher difficulty can beat that without perfect min maxxing for fleet power without getting raped by cheating AI
dumb game made me lose for no reason
>>543973361people play diplomacy game early. sometimes they don't even build any fleet at all. you can even score vassalage with AI. then you just scale your economywhich is fine if you want to play that, I'm just wondering if there's a sweet spot setting that lets me have some early military fun but then makes the AI not shit the bed by lategame. I'm trying commodore midgame scaling, if that doesn't work I'll try enabling the option that gives AI scaling output bonuses from tech. but I was hoping someone already did this already and can just spoonfeed me
>>543974273Yeah but if they're an asshole nation that wants to kill you no matter what you are fucked. Thats what happened to me. Not even a purifier so I couldnt count on backup just an asshole
Anyone know if there are any good novelizations (official or otherwise) of either Starcraft or any of the Command and Conquer games? I know, with Starcraft especially, that there are some novels set in the universe, but I'm specifically asking about a narrative retelling of the events of the game.
touhou music and stellaris mod conflict resolution
>>543958197You're not a loli elf, sadly.>>543964896Wrong.
>>543984816spidey what's your name anywaysis it something really french like pierre
>>543984816>>543985819or maybe emile
>>543985819>>543986486No.
>>543990884well what is it then
>>543991141Why do you want to know? I got several names anyway.
>>543992354because we're besties
>>543992468You scare me. Later!
>>543993056I just wanna be friends spooder
>>543993460don't listen to this anon, he probably wants to put you in a maid dress and fuck your ass
Is the "Empty" option the one that gives you the anomaly on a planet and Gray (leader/ship/army)?
>>543994941 (Me)checked the mod page and yes
>>543993729Yeaaaah. I fear so.Also, unrelated, but anyone knows why Thor is allied with dwarfs in Age of Mythology? I thought he wiped them out after Alberic killed most of them.
>>543973624Anon you can't lose your banana republic to a christmas cake rebel of all things
>>543997432But I can. And I do!
>>543973624Don't listen to him anon, you can do it!
>>543782026>>543798256Tech tree seems pretty good for replay, I didn't play much before 1.0 but the raids I dealt with today were far larger on trailblazer, almost got my shit pushed in a couple of times
>>544010218
Remember last week when I restarted Anno 1800? Well I upgraded PC and my modlist didn't get exported, and some mods's name in the save said something generic like "Anno mod good luck lol", so I couldn't even manually recreate the mod list.So I started again.Currently clocking 125 hours of Anno 1800 and I have never reached engineers.And I still can't even make good starting layouts.Just get spiderfag to rape my anus at this point bros...
>>544013336I'm not interested, sorry.
>>544013336Why is this general so horny?
>>544026598You can't be a great strategician if you don't lust after men.
>>544026598We're plagued by a crossdressing masochist namefag. That's why.
>>544027168Is he at least cute?
>>543992354>I got several namesJean Pierre?
>>543992354>I got several names anyway.Jean-Luc?Jean-Paul?Jean-Pierre?Jean-Michel?Jean-Marie?Louis-Marie?Marc-Antoine?Paul-Henri?Charles-Édouard?
>>544028029Of course not. No fag is cute, thats actual women thing.
>>543992354Oh, I know. Jean-Pierre Morgan! (if you know you know)
Civ5, my cities keep growingI just lost access to some trade materials, so went from +20 to this. and everyone fucking hates me because i accidentally left a scout on someone's boarder without realising.Is there anything I can do to come back from this? No one will trade with me. theres only a few more happiness buildings I can make but they're all 10+ turns away and they'll get me like +8 max
>>544042886>9 citiesoh shit nigga what are you doing
>>544033171>>544040958No, through one cousin is in there. >>544041305Aw. You hurt me fr fr >>544042286That one wouldn't have any issue getting his dick wet.
>>544043912>>544043912>Aw. You hurt me fr frGood. Faggots need to be hanged.
>>544043912you need to work out and lose some weight if you wanna be cute
>>544044374Now you're speaking like one of these losers who tried to take over the white house.
>>544044494Hard to do, broke my hand a while ago and might've busted my ankle too, it's in permanent pain.
>>544044495Pardoned for their loyalty by the honorable Donald Trump
>>544044946*Spits*He's pushing against the institutions. If they don't push back...
>>544045276>>544044495>spiderfaggot is an actual faggotFigured.
>fanatic egalitarian pacifist>agragarian idyll + catalytic processingWith this build would it be better to go with bio ships or normal ships?
>>544045398I accept your surrender.
>>544045917Only thing you accept is another man dicks up your ass. Shut the fuck up.
>>544045459regular ships probably
>>544047045I told you, I accepted your surrender, no need to double down.
>>544047571No one cares, faggot.
>>544047908Clearly you do, you keep answering, all to proceed with your odd self-humiliation ritual. You're a bit queer, are you?
>>544048243Wait is being queer bad now
>>544049083It means he's odd. Strange. Weird. Foreign in mind.
>play a game as a regular hivemind>everything goes pretty smooth, it just works>play a game as a devouring swarm>nearly death spiral from colonies until I manually shut off synaptic and hunter-seeker drones on every world and limp long enough to get enough pops on worker jobs to sustain the energy costsWhat the hell man this game is so weird
Prostagma?
>>544054421Vulome
Want to to a "realistic" United Nations of Earth run in Stellaris based on our current trajectory. This look about right? Left is default, right is modified.
>>544058251Ditch xenophile and go for either xenophobe or fanatic materialist instead. I'd say xenophobe for rp sake, since a shadow council run police state wouldn't like aliens, anything that could interfere with their control would be deemed a threat
>>544058250Volare!
>planet automation is still brokenOH FUCK YOU.Do they seriously expect us to constantly babysit dozens of fucking planets? It's all good early game, but mid to late game is fucking aids
>>544060075take the tall pill bro
>>544058765>implying they wouldn't be salivating at the thought of importing 10000 trillion alien refugees into earth
>>544062373Yeah, that's why I kept Xenophile.>By flooding human society with alien cultures and populations, the shadow council further weakens potential nationalist or racialist movements, ensuring their oligarchic grip remains unchallenged under the guise of inclusivvity, leveraging diversity to fragment opposition while expanding their influence over additional speciesI could see an argument for Xenophile or Xenophobe depending on how you play it, but I prefer phile.
>>544065284you could do neither
>>544062097Is there a way to play tall without v*d dwellers?
Hey does anyone have fun recommendations? My favorite games of this kind are:Civ 4AoW4Heroes 3I haven't explored too many of these kinds of games
Rate my build>authoritarian, militarist, xenophobe empire>aristocratic elite>pleasure seekers>syncretic evolution with human slaves>bio ascension for genetic modification>modded species of AI art catgirls
is something wrong with 4chan right now
>>544069959Civ3Homeworld1TotalAnnihilationnothing better has been released to this day.
>>544070232
>>543715436you should uninstall again and quickly
>>544072568I'm going to interpret this image as approval
>>544070232unoriginal, at least install some porn mods if you're going to be horny
>>544072308I don't like civ 3 as much because of the way cities/settling works, still a fun time though. Haven't played the other 2 I'll give em a look
>>544073636I don't really care about the porn I just think it's funny
>>544058251we posting totally realistic empires now?
>>5440737563 is the only good and fun one. all successors are total trash.
>>544074343Disagree, 4 is the best to me cause it had the most elegant organic solution to expansion. Civ 3's corruption and waste isn't the worst but it's far from my preference, and I'll absolutely take 4's maintenance system over 5's happiness just completely cucking you. And most importantly I find the actual settling and tile improvements much more interesting in 4. The phases of growth and development are really fun.
>>544074907I tried to give 4 a chance because of the many 4tards like you so I've beaten it all the way to diety in the hope that it would become better but it only became more retarded. I couldn't find anything fun in 4. It's dumb and it's slow as fuck. It has good main menu music and that's it.
>>544058251What's the portrait mod?
about to try oppressive autocracy for the first time. Know its not optimal but should be fun RP. Never really played a slaver empire so planning on doing some of that too.
>>544079701erm sorry sweaty, some youtuber put it in F tier! You can't use oppressive autocracy!!
>>542937529Let me help you!I kept doing the same in Factorio. Until I finally decided to use my birthday date as the seed. This completely fixed my obsession with restarting. I only did it once and I have resisted all temptations to do it again!
>>543439781As promised here is the roster poll. Vote for your choices of players for the team.https://forms.gle/k13xcKwXaq5QcyfC9
AoW 4 question. I'm a noob and about to to win my first game but it looks like the game isn't recognizing that I completed Military Victory.I have an alliance with Raina and defeated Cinren. They are the only other two rulers aside from myself. But the game is implying I need to kill Raina. Even the tooltip says "To achieve Military Victory, an Empire needs to defeat all other Non-Allied empires."Does this mean that Raina and I need to kill or vassalize the remaining free cities?
>>542937529>try not to drown in debtI have 170 hours in Anno 1800 and I still have no idea how to do that in early and mid game. Those 170 hours were just me playing through the story and I only started having slightly positive income when I got to engineers.
>>544086016You aren't allies, she just likes you. I can tell from the green triangle on her portrait. Might need to renew an old contract or two
>>544078378https://stellaris.smods.ru/archives/31859
>>544069959Zero K.Dune Spice Wars.Sacrifice.Seven Kingdoms 2. Warrior king : battles.
>>544088254Thanks, I just realized we are only at Peace, even though my relationship is at 435. It was at 800 at one point before I got so strong. How do I form a Defensive Pact or Alliance? I don't see those as options when negotiating?And to clarify, I do not need to take out or vassalize the remaining free cities?
kekThis is a mod, right?
>>544091573You need a wizard's bond first. And, no, you don't need to deal with the remaining free cities. Wouldn't hurt though and it would give you something to do while waiting for relations with Raina to improve. Plus it can help youg et to expansion victory as a fall back if the alliance isn't working out
>>544092202I had the wizard's bond super early with her (I think). I might be just blind because I saw the Defensive Pact option in the negotiation screen. I have no idea if it was there for like 20 turns or just popped up, but I got the deal. I assume the full Alliance won't be far from now
>>544092202>>544093402Oh, I messed up. She won't consider an alliance now because there are too few rulers alive. I either have to kill her, which makes no sense RP-wise, or end the game. Damn.
>>544094714>I think we're gonna have to kill her...>Damn.
>>544094714yeah I guess you can't make an alliance after killing everyone so that there's only 2 players left. You wouldn't really kill everyone else then sign an alliance after, especially as you learn the game more and play more difficult maps. this is a pretty rare situation outside of the 3 player tutorial realm so I wouldn't sweat it
>>544095892True, this is my first tutorial game and I've learned a lot from it. Can't complain.
>>544091769It's often hard to tell but I don't think so.
>>544060075I i refuse to manage more than a dozen. Conquered territory is turned into vassals or purged.
>>544058251You should be doing necrophages then. Humans are the secondary species.
mating press spiderfag
>>544058251>set ruler to match portrait>swap xenophile with xenophobe
>>544100140yes
>>544100140Fuck is a mating press.
>>544104932google it jean-pierre
>>544104932Mating press newfriends.
>>544105176That is not my name. Do I look like Pernot?
My physics bots produce nothing.I guess something is messed up in one of my mods, but I don't know which or how or where.
>>544117125okay jean-claude
>>544117176well, I booted up a commonwealth of man and they produce physics with jobsI guess it's the bot version of the physics job specifically, for... reasons?
>>544117176Your bots don't seem to exist?
>>544060075>basic features like SLAVERY still brokenThis is gonna sound crazy, but I think that patch may have been rushed out despite knowing it's horribly unfinished.
>>544060075What 4x actually has automation that scales well into the late game?
>There are finally some Majesty-style games being made by indie studios>They're copying fucking Majesty 2Why in the name of all that is holy would you follow Majesty 2 instead of 1?
>>544120506Let me make an analogy.Majesty 1 is the dun.Majesty 2 is a cute crossdresser bending over to grab a coin on the ground.The first one inspires you to do something divine, but requires hard thinking.The latter is hotter and appeals to the masses.
>>544120774The sun*And also, Majesty 2 is less hands-off, your heroes require more management. For some reason, it appeals to the masses.
>>544118436They're there, and they're working the jobs, but the physics jobs don't produce anything.
>>544060075>>544119690How does automation even work?I would think it wouldn't be that hard for them to simply set a template that's half decent for each world type, you set it to automate, and it builds it out until you tell it to stop.
>>544120774>>544120961How exactly does Majesty 2 appeal to the masses?It has mixed reviews. Nothing I have seen suggests that Majesty 2 is more popular than 1 in any sense. If the changes it made were some attempt at casualization, they didn't work. It's a game without a fanbase.Anyone with any interest in a Majesty clone is going to be doing it out of interest in Majesty 1, not 2.I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just saying that it doesn't make any sense.
>>544122553>doing it out of interestAh, but you see, they don't.They only see that Majesty has numbers.Newer is better and makes line go up.Casual reaches more people.
>>544122553>it doesn't make any senseNo, it doesn't. But it's the only explanation I see: Majesty 2 is in 3D and requires a lot more management, so idiots probably prefer it.
What are your favourite mobile turn-based strategy games? Need something to kill time while working boring nightshifts
>>544129359Final Fantasy Dimensions.
>>544121880>How does automation even work?You go out, catch some meth head, beat him up until he submits, and put him to work.
Can't post picture...
>jumps whenever a nurse touches meIt's over, I'm past my expiration date.
This is your new Prime Minister, say something nice about her!
>>544136562Oh, Margaret Thatcher.
Don't mind me, testing if this picture will get uploaded not. If it does, then it means 4chan blocks webp pictures, meaning Fandom sucks even more than I thought.
>>544139095So not only it bombards me with ads that slow down loading pages and take half the bloody screen but Fandom also saves pictures in a format I can't even use.They are probably located in Israel.
>>544139095>>544139797Use 4chanxt, it auto converts webp images into a usable format. Also shrinks images that are too large to post.
>>544142932>>544139095I fucking hate that gookmoot still doesnt allow uploading webp..
>>544142932Dunno if it works on phone, the one I'm using is quite old. YouTube doesn't even work anymore, to give you an idea. I wanted to post Age of Mythology's Thor and ask how to use huskarls and jarls: huskarls are antipierce infantry and jarls aren't good against anything? This confuses me.
>>544143131Webp is forced by Google aka the Monsanto of the internet.
Autosage.
>>543883593I also tried the single hero mode. Bizarrely the largest map available in the pool is in this mode which is somewhat paradoxical since you know one hero can't physically cover so many things as multiple heroes could.The AI also struggled lot more than the classic mode, I suspect it's because of the map I chose, though the fact that it can't spam heroes early with it's starting resources also has to be a hindrance. The fuck off huge map with it's many teleporters doesn't let the AI to be aggressive early on and I think it doesn't "get" the map such as that you turtle the first week on your starting area, then bust out and get more of your factions towns and then reinforce using by teleporting back into town while continuously pushing for more hero stats and rare resources (wood and ore) on the map. I suspect this mode would be better with a smaller and more tightly focused map but those were available, I just choose to pick the big map because surely if the devs included it there has to be some gimmick (there wasn't as far as challenge goes, fun map regardless).The single hero mode highlights the neutral spells particularly well and my choice to pick a magic focused hero with some secondary perks like restoring mana every turn and making all spells cheaper definitely helped a lot with this map. Overall I quite like most of the secondary skills, there' few bad ones but so far I think the only one that's totally waste is the summon avatar one and even that has some synergy with summons. The avatar unfortunately was a big letdown even with my relatively speaking stat heavy army light hero, maybe the avatar would be better in the very early game as a sort of ballista replacement but I dunno, seems very mana expensive for early battles.I have been really impressed with olden era, haven't had this much fun with a demo in a long time. There's some issues mostly in quality of life stuff but game is definitely in very much playable condition
>>543716113Does it have non jap version?>tfw still no breeding mod for Starsector
>>544152704>>544152704>>544152704new bread
Spiderfag here.Someone else make the OP, I'm in the hospital.
