Previous thread: >>563755058This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.==NEWS==Stellaris Dev Diary #413: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/521993383330187248Airships: Conquer the Skies, version 1.2.11 update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/342560/view/519741583516501756Laysara: Summit Kingdom released: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1823950/view/508480685901611544Foundation Devlog #20: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/690830/view/505101083838776367C-Beams Devlog 52: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmKiMD2LxhUNEBULOUS Devlog #39: Cooperative Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05rc5j9QxAADistant Worlds 2, Mercantile Update: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/499465877188511534Falling Frontier Dev Update: Combat Overview: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280190/view/542258317343326824Frostpunk 2, Fractured Utopias dlc: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1601580/view/648085384362721315== 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
about the relics thingare you sure it's not about the galatron?
>>564823501Did Romans use mauls like that?
>>564823467Nebulous: Fleet Command, Campaign Act 1 will be released on May 29th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BOaaB9I1QGalciv 4, 3.3 update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCso-_a52MNewstower Roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/512989355492508053Foundation is looking for testers for the upcoming Harvest Festival DLC
>>564827720Mauls? And no, stole them from mercs.
>>564827720That's an axe my man.
>prethoryn scourge spawned in my outpost territory across the galaxy>wipe out their initial fleets>before I can retreat back to repair and upgrade my ships, their main fleets all spawn in>xenophilic and materialist fallen empires are both awake though and beating the hivemindsissy to deathbased elder races
how do i build space fauna late game? small amoeba spam gives me the most fleet power and damage with flagella and 90% evasion but even with that evasion i lose a lot of them in combat easilyive wild swarm guardian cluster and coderyptic symbiots (ive no clue why i took the second one i misunderstood how the wild origin works for hiveminds)
>>564831921Worms or crabs were the by far the go-to last I played. Large amoebas have no evasion or speed for kiting carriers and shit fighters, small ones can't do shit and still die to anything with decent tracking or autocannons.
>>564833352do i ever get a better weapon than flagella swarmers lol? im mid to late game and it still has the highest damage of any weapon i can use
bump
>>564834449I haven't played in awhile but I believe that's the best you got on fauna. Unless they changed Prethoryn Strikers to be amoeba mother friendly.
i guess ill need to jump drive to get them
>>564840345Fertility should not influence political power.
>someone is fighting two jumps from Sol>signal is transmited through my sensor buoys>two wrecks and shitload of energy explosions>new alien race appears in Sol>its the same ship class as the wrecksHmmm.
>>564840732i dont have any pops at all i'm a wild origin
>>564840732you know what shouldnt happen? empires with like 5 diplomatic weight somehow contributing -9 to imperial authority because their delegate is good
>>564842092Depends on the envoy.
>>564842590lmao
why are wars such a fucking slog? you have no navy left why must i occupy every single fucking system to get you subjucated?
>Sol aliens attack my ships>fire back at them>barely 15% chance to hit>takes multiple salvos to kill a 10k ton shipWell shit that bodes well in case of actual conflict.>>564843809Grab "Fleet matters" mod, its a life saver.And yeah, wars in Stellaris suck ass.
>>564845734you mean fleets win warsi dunno i like having achievements
wish there were ways to undermine the galactic community more like espionage or something to collapse the whole organization and it cant be formed again for x number of years
>>564847470>fleets win warsyeah that one>caring about cheevos
>>564847658Please sir, may I have some more?
>>564851881That is all.
HAK HAK HAK
what other game let you write names for your're are units?
Aegir's art is so cool. Look at him towering over that drakkar.
>try to play AoM hard mode: no healing power, no priests>end up with a dozen units at 12% HPI can't do it. I just can't play a RTS where I can't heal/repair my units, it's impossible.
>>564857331Tzar.
>>564861093Is that kept in Tzared? What button was it?
>>564861303>What button was it?Just clicking the unit name on the left panel.
>>564851881MORE!?
>>564855738so what were they running away from?
>>564868050the Hunters
space fauna playthrough review :pro : it's fun! it feels like a pokemon training in space and experimenting with stuff like 6 X sized focused arcs on a single voidworm troika was hilarious and crystals that split into two and run at 600 speed with 90% evasion are pure joy cons : the ship designs felt limited compared to mechanical or bio ships there is no titan assembly yards so the only way to make your only titan ship (voidworm troika) is to make 3 adults and park them in a black hole and wait for them to fuse it's also exceptionally fucking buggybugs ranging from not being able to save my design to capturing fauna i shouldn't (mechanical_ship_ was in my viva and i couldnt do anything with it) i recommend it atleast oncealso the sentient wilds origin is fucking busted as shit if you focus on reducing empire size by 50% using civicsyou can get it even loweryour only empire size comes from planets so that's easy to bring down with ascension
>>564871705oh yeah heavy reliance on space amoeba H slots and like a billion small crystals WILL lag the shit out of your puny human hardware
and now time for a palette cleanser after being gaia
>>564823467Good night anons and spiderfag.
>>564879647Good night anon.
I've been playing with this mod for hours already and only now realized I could just insta delete enemy planets with them.My genocide crusade has just been taken to maximum over drive!
what is the best ascension for fanatic purifiers you think? id imagine purity is thematic but is it good? or maybe they want to achieve genetic perfection through modifying themselves
>>564885490In my current playthrough I went with genetic purity.But in general I'd go down the Necron route.Flesh is weak, so embrace the certainty of steel!
>>564888095120 motes btwwhat do i even do with this much
Aurora
>>564842590she looks like she has 600 diplomatic weightget itbecause she's fat
I haven't played Stellaris since 2022, somehow
Stellaris bros?What is this thing?Just noticed "mysterious tempest" eating up the territories of the religious fallen empire (never awakened).Sent a science ship in there, it never came back, studied it and found out it's made of nanobots.It's 2600s already and nobody ever opened the L-gates, is that somehow related?
>>564898515very mysterious...you'll find out in a few years
>>564898639I guess I'm finding out now...
>>564898879So space vishnu has returned?
>>564899087Ok, so it wants to kill us all to "end suffering", got it.Now how do I kill it?
>>564899394:)
>>564899642Welp, it just finished eating the fallen empire.
>>564885064WTF are those fleet strengths?>2600Oh...
>>564837261they are scripted to start isolated
>>564900483what are they
>>564901958they're the chosen>>564899394based robot mommy queen
just realized the khan wont setrapy me if he happens and i border both marauders oopsiesneed to focus on this existential threat
>>564899904It's an anime mod, I ain't gotta explain shit.>>564902786She's dying as soon as I figure out how to penetrate her fart cloud.
>>564894242...isn't good
>>564902852okay crisis averted thanks to battleships with auto cannons and plasma killed them before they became a khanphewno retreat policy is really painful to endure the losses from but the 33% firerate is so worth it
>>564917362>battleships with auto cannons and plasma
>>564918229it was to counter them specifically i know i hated it too
so what is the ship build meta now anyways
>>564919747I have no idea honestly, I make missile corvettes and carrier battleships
>>564919747I like crab shipsDo you really need anything other than crab?
Thematic roles are abstract labels that characterize the semantic relations between predicates and their arguments. Each argument of a predicate is marked with a thematic role, which indicates, in a very general way, the ‘semantic’ role played by the argument with respect to the predicate.
>>564930430Yes. You also need bread.
>habinte unified worlds system spawns next to my home sectorTime to get assimilated, ayy hippies.
lol, /gsg/ is trying to take over /indie/.
so what does wilderness pre sapient assimilation do? just makes more biomass?
>xenophile fallen empire keeps demanding repeat humiliation>say no>they do thisso much for the tolerant xenophiles
>>564896441fat mommy milkers +500 diplomatic weight
>2 fallen empires attacking me at once>now this
>>564949602>both fallen empires awaken>scourge is getting beatall my borders have 2 citadels
>hmm today I'll play the good guy as xenophile/egalitarian/militarist>the only militarist faction is militarist/authorianparadoggs plscan't be that hard to make a good guy militarist faction
>>564950375>one of them was guardians of the galaxy xenophile>i lost the game to themthat was funthe odds were so fucking stacked against me this purifier run for some fucking reason>never got to border a normal empire at all>my first 2 borders were materialist fallen empire and xenophile fallen empire>my second 2 borders were both marauders>my 5th border was another fanatic purifiers empireeven with 2 citadels on all my entrances and 300k fleet power i could not beat 2 awakened fallen empires both focusing me because i was crisis tier 3lmao gg
>>564953329>>never got to border a normal empire at allthats normal, game is literally programmed to spawn Ai not only right next to player BUT also ai empire of directly opposing ethics.
>>564954361my opposite ethics would be a xenophile empire not another genocidal empire 2 FEs and 2 marauders
>>564953329sucks to suck
>>564885490my personal larp as xenophobes of any kind is to go cyborgs because they realized their limited lifespan is not enough to purge the galaxyalternatively psionics for reasons beyond mortal understanding
>>564954472Its shaky with purifiers but it mostly works with other types.They just want to fuck over the players and ensure conflict.Same with placement of the AI where they are placed very close to you to cut you off early.
Supcom but it's a mythology setting and the Coms are gods
>>564965113Yourpost but you're not retarded and it's actually a good idea
>ai keeps getting galactic market without even nominatingi fucking hate this mechanic fuck off paradox
"dull edge : -20%" is a really really fucking annoying faction demand and it makes me hate materialists because on higher difficulty its impossible to have equal science to the AI early
>>564950375wait how do you get to have two citadels?
>>564971526the limit on citadels is per system, you can have an unlimited amount of them but by default only one per systembut pic related can increase it to a maximum of 4 per system
>>564966179Balanced for multiplayer.>>564965113Kinda like Thea.
>>564972779oh, you need a dlc for it
>>564973406>paradox>you don't need a dlc for it
can someone tell me how much research do i need per empire size because i can never figure out the ratio
>>564974769somewhere between enough and too much
>>564974769there is no ratio, you have as much as you can without hampering your alloy production too much
FUAK i had a mod on by accident and now my entire save is nulled
bamp
i dont get clone originso if i ascend instead of restore fertility im forever limited to 15 vats and thus 12.5k pop and need slaves?
>>564991613You do seem to get it
>>564991827but thats terribe scaling if you dont have other species right?
>>564991613also i meant 5 vats*
Is progenitor just a starcraft zerg reference
HUG!
>>564991613I believe you get more vats (or you get more pops per vat?) when you ascend
>AI Empire requests to be vassalized>I have Oppressive Vassalization policy so just assume they'd go along with that, hit OK.>Turns out their """"Vassalization request"""" was ME giving half of my economy to THEM>50% basic resources, 25% special resources>Effectively just ends the game as every single one of my resources goes to -50-100 per month in an instant.I got played like a fucking fiddle.Fuck the AI of this game seriously. What kind of fucking asshole goes to another empire and demands to be subjugated to the tune of the emperor PAYING TAXES TO THEM holy fucking shit for the love of fuck why even program that to be even remotely possible. I never even imagined something so fucking stupid could exist in a game before. My horizons for potential shit have been opened by this game.
>>564994639Nope.
>>564995773are you sure
>>564995685HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>564995685the fact you lay 30% of your fucking economy for a bulwark is some bullshit
do i pay a scholarium a % of my own production or a % of what they need?
I still don't know why Stellaris "Taxes" etc. are on gross production rather than net. Swapping it over to a chunk of resource profits rather than a of gross production would solve huge swathes of the game's problems.Having it be a chunk of gross production is retarded as for 99% of a game's run, you are aiming for razor thin margins of 1500 production and 1495 upkeep, and you are harshly punished for not running razor thin margins (By falling behind empires that do.)How many patches has this game gone through and this STILL isn't fixed? Do they even play their own game?
>take the "Intergalatic STD" crisis in Stellaris>first step needs 2000 of a resource>its all tied to fucking espionage and diplomacy>literally biggest gain is one time 100 for defeating entire chasity empireThat will be a fucking slog.
>>565000312>Stellaris taxes work the same way like edo-period Japanese taxes workedNo wonder it's all sorts of wonky!
>>565000312khan bankrupting his subjects like a boss
>>564999797it's a percentage of their production
>>565000312okay so losing to the khan has no consequences?
>>565002647No. You change the consequences to you being exterminated. Sucks to suck.
>2500 power cyborg army exterminates key planet.>Wormhole randomly opens in your capital system during a war, with the other end conveniently appearing right next to all your enemy's fleets.>Random planet explodes.>Event spawns a Leviathan in your system for no reason.My favorite part of Stellaris is just how many fucking events simply delete your save. It's seriously feels like half of the fucking events simply ruin the entire game without recourse and force you to lose without any ability to interact with or prevent them. The game would be a lot better if it didn't feature random instant-loss dice rolls automatically killing your entire run after 5 hours of gameplay.
Don't know if you lads pay attention to meme divegrass beyond when /civ4xg/ plays but Somehow I'M The Bad Guy is our rep on the /vg/ team. He didn't get to play in winter (sadly the only /vg/ player to not make an appearance through the entire tournament) but he played yesterday in one of the matches of the spring tournament where he was credited with an assist and awarded a yellow card for defense of the empire, and the /vg/ management recognized his achievements by naming him the player of the day
>>564995685Finest Paradox craftmanship.
Wait wtf... IM the Remnant Spark...
>>565006291besides the gooner mod what is going onn here
>>565006442Lewd plantoid warriors asked me to be their overlord but sounded like they wanted me to give up to them..
>>565006291What is this infection stuff?
>>565007912its the STD Crisis from Lustful Void.Basically spreading unlimited bliss virus.
>try out an extra building slots mod>looks pretty jankdon't know if I'll continue to use it
>checking out the awakened fallen empire>the fucking xenophile one has 94 colonies>wtf>check their home system>they have a synaptic latheUhhhhhhhh I guess I need to take these retards out right?
>>565039997lmao I didn't know awakened FEs could become the crisis
>>565040287I didn't either.I also was wondering why they had 94 colonies and then I zoomed out of the map and noticed they had fucking taken like 95% of one of the larger empires in the game... now they have over 4 million fleet power tooI think I might be boned, even with a full 3000 imperial fleet and multiple full fleets of my own I am just a bit over 2 million...
>>564991613If you go full clone meme all your genetics buildings add to the total clone count a planet can keep alive, plus the ancient clone vat buildings you can still move around I think?So you can very quickly grow your founder species on any new planets, up to a certain point. Only then do you need robots or aliens to grow furtherAt least that's how it worked for me the one time I tried it when biogenesis came out It felt good to fill normal worlds and habitats up fast, but I needed something extra to reasonably populate and make full use of an ecumenopolis
>>565040636I started a clone army run yesterday and you get>500 per level of the medical centre building (so 1500 total)>1000 per genomic research facility>1000 per clone vats, which you can get up to four ofso that's 6500 per planet (although you can't build your fourth clone vat unless you put it in an urban zone), and you still have your ancient clone vats for 2500 each
>>565040563yeah nah, time to just end this game, there's 211 infested worlds but I cant be assed to find them all and glass them
>>565042862LAZY.
>>565041146Okay so I did remember correctlyI remember it being fun enough trying something different to manage pop growth this way. The decision making comes down to how to fit all those genetic buildings and clone vatsNow I wonder if it'd feel any different in the current versionAnd how well i could run an ascendant clone empire as a megacorp gimmick because my dumb ass has to try megacorp everything
>>565045138nobody care
>>565049172I care fuc kyu
>4x general>stallaris hate seems to be the gut of the thred>90% of the posts is about stellaris.Never change 4x.Anyone can recommend 4x with good ai? I mean smth akin to vox populi level with minimal/no cheating/no enorumous ai bonuses, but smth that still pose a threat.
>>565049997That's because the seether posts here a lot.
>>565049997
>>565049245Fuck me yourself coward.
>>565049997i've never hated stellaris and have never stopped playing it since it released
I have touched stellaris once for 2 hours and then never played it again
i'm fanatic egalitarian militarist with crusader spirit larping as wanting to free the universe from tyranny and i get this as my starting faction? and theyre fucking pissed off at everythingparadox what the fuck is this shit? give me back the old factions if you're gonna half ass it like this
>>565054887Same.
>>565055078it's absolutely retarded yeahthere needs to be a militarist/egalitarian faction
>>565055278how long has it been like this for?
another thing about factions that pisses me off is how hard it is to play materialists early game because of the -20% "dull edge" you get because of advanced AI starts and higher difficulties BITCH IF YOU STOP BITCHING AND WORK HAPPY WE CAN CATCH UP FASTER BUT YOU'RE REDUCING MY STABILITY FOR NO REASON
>>565056138>>565056251It definitely needs some work done.
>>565055078what's funny is that an egalitarian militarist ethic would exist irl (im not talking about if america is actually like this but in principle it is)they really dropped the ball hard
>>565057352Umm no? The united states right now are an Absolute Monarchy.The rest of the continent is still a democracy, but the US have fallen.
>>565057469>The united states right now are an Absolute Monarchy.top kek
wow the hegemony start is assthey're not even your vassels? kek
>>565054674Ive didnt come here for like dozen weeks, not the first time and the single thing that is prevelant in last 10y is stellaris hateboner.>>565051242Maybe, I play it maybe once or twice every 2y and wait for new content, but I didnt like the new change with how pop works, because it kidda fucked the game at the release of the dlc, did they unfuck it(lag ect.)? Lately ive been watching legends of galaxy heroes and it gave me an itch for galactic 4x.
does the extraction focus economy affect science output?
>>565061204tested and it does for anyone else
don't die
>>565069019>:(
doing a zerg playthrough with progenitor and bodysnatcherit's fun! the only issue is that with body snatcher i have to go to the newly assimilated species manually to set to colonization allowed
>>565069314also using bio ships for the first time what the fuck is this buggy AI? my maulers keep circling enemy starbases instead of attacking them
Anorexic fucks looking at this and going "oh yeah this is peak female anatomy", my brother in christ, that woman is at death door.
>>565070164so it seems to be caused by having maulers and weavers in the same fleet?? ffs but i like having maulers and weavers that's the whole point of this fucking system
>>565070830>look into it more>paradox has been aware of this bug and logged it in their bug database since may 2025
>>565071067Sorry dude, but new DLCs > fixing bugs.
>>565003447Crazy russian man
>>565026732show me machine world or ecumenopolis with this thing enabled
>>565026732to be honest with district specialization i don't see the point of extra building slots
>>565057116i hate this nigga in nioh games
>>565070830>>565071067maulers fall off later because they dont get enough evasion like corvettes do so atleast its not bricking your late game
>>565073304i guess sofor now i can just avoid it by using pure maulers till i get the carrier thing
>>565071937I'm sure they'll remove them next time they rework planets. Or the time after that.
>>565070616shoo shoo gains goblin
huhif the galaxy is too small fallen empires and marauders wont spawni got this because i messed with the number of civs
>>565071885nothing special>>565071937there's always shit you can build in your primary city zone
>>565100398tall niggas are not human
>>565051382Gamu? Very colorful.
>>565102989AI wars 2nta
So what stellaris dlc's are mandatory and which should I stay away from?
>>564900483You could say they were chosen to be isolated.
The pop cap is surprisingly low, only 100 units?
>>565116023Why do you have a giga dude amongst your soldiers?
>>565116409That is the Archangel, the ultimate unit for the Imperial side. He doesn't take any population.
>>565060874nta but it really is a godfuckingawful game
>>565112813Just pick whatever sounds like neat to you.
>>565112813Just pirate all of them.
>>565112813Fuck off, Wiz.
>>565112813All of them, please give the Swedes all your money
I was playing Carthage and realized that her unique ability of transferring capitals historically fits more with Portugal or Brazil tbqh.
Any opinions on super units?
>>565137948jobs to an axejobs to a pickaxe
>>565139234heh
>>565137948i look like this
>>565155891You're a massive Ent or Golem?
>>565137948Very fun as an objective, but actually boring ingame. They turn the map into a race to unlock them.
>>564842590She has a very nice diplomacy.
>>565176564Is this one of them streams where they skip around to different scenes regardless of sequence? Shit's annoying with tv show comps.
>>565177082You're right, I missed the "compilation" part. I'll just go dig my DVDs and enjoy the full movie, director's cut, 9 hours marathon.
Is Endless Legend 2 good yet?
Is Endless Space 2 good yet?
Is Seven Kingdoms 3 good yet?
Tried warrior king's campaignGot promptly krumped.
are strategy games good?
>>565187870nothing is goodexistence is nothing but endless slop
What in the goddamn? One system FE next to a holy world, was this caused by Starburst galaxy and 0.5 hyperlane density? Should I expect more weird shit like this?
>>565189275Is Endless Slop good yet?
>>565189972This is kinda funny,
Do you like strategy games where you have AI allies?I was playing the Starcraft 2 trilogy and lots of missions in those campaigns have allied bases.
>>565192649Hell no. Have played very few games, strategy or otherwise where the ai on your team is anything but a liability. SW Commando maybe.
Gonna restart without fog of war, as I got wrecked.Rate my starting army.
>>565195593chud / 10
gaia worlds don't feel as great as they used to be fr frthey used to be great now they're just meh
IT'S NOMADS!
>>565197148Like most things. Not trying to shit on you here anon but what are you even getting from stellaris at this point? I'm getting that once every couple of years itch to reinstall it and am desperately trying to find a reason.
i'm a goy frfr
>>565200014i enjoy roleplaying and it's the best spess game for that ive never been bored of it i played it since it released
>Heirs of the Khan: Play as the successor of a murdered Khan, as you evade marauder hit-squads through trickery and bribery until you are strong enough to come back and reclaim your throne.
>>565200204I guess but that's not really doing it for me. Have you tried using gaias as pure breeding planets? They used to be great for thrallworlds.
>>565201007habitability is a good thing if you're multi cultural but if you're playing xenophobic or just one species they suckthey should get buffed that's all am sayin
>>565200065goymaxxing so the big yahu doesn't slime you out with the space laser
>>565200014I like to roleplay as ayyy lmaos. Sometimes I'm a genocidal warmongerer that blows up the galaxy. Sometimes I'm a friendly xenophile that tries to unite everyone. I've been slavers and liberators and zealots and scientists. Its fun to roleplay, even if your build isn't meta.
>>565201247Pretty sure they still got a pop growth boost and that's never a bad thing unless you went full /clang/.>>565201650I hate these filthy neutral plays, Anon. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.
Ideal tech system layout/topology/format, go!
>>565208090Day/Month/Year.
what is the point of colonizing your first planet when you haven't fully used up your starting planet?
>>565210189First post has won the argument!
>>565210406Tu vas la fermer ta gueule?
>>565189972this can happen if there's an empire with the scion origin but you chose to have zero FEs on galaxy creation
why would you say no to that?
>>565210406To claim it.
>>565210406pop growth
>>565220456it was supposed to have way more blockers making it more of a natural paradise kinda thing but for some reason it barely has any now and the jannies dont even get pissed if you clean them up like many forgotten and abandoned little things in the game
>>565220456>he lets some robots tell him what to docuck empire
>>565220456Because you get at least 5 times that from a relic world and you'd be objectively retarded to waste a gaia on research.
>>565225842all my planets are gaia thanks to the baol
I AM TRYING THIS 4X GAME PANDORA AND IDK BRO THE DEFAULT MAP SIZE IS TINY PLUS THERE ARENT THAT MANY FACTIONS. IM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHATS GOOD WITH PROPER TILE IMPROVEMENT. HAVING WORKERS AGAIN AND WATER TILES FEELS ODD I CUSTOM BUILT SOME HEAVY ARMOR FLAMETHROWER LADS . CITIES DYING IN ONE HIT AND UNIT STACKING IS VERY CIV3.
void worms are just a humiliation ritual aren't they
>>565231231Cool story bro.
Warrior King Battles' campaign is exactly what I feared it'd be.>no supply carts>no monks>no healing>only spearmen and archers to fight spearmen and archers and riders
>playing xenophile militarist>factions are authoritarian militarist and xenophile egalitarianfucking swedes shit the bed at every opportunity
>>565240708yeah i had it worse >>565055078
Holy. Being a patient god pays off
>>565220456imagine being a fucking nerd and doing research instead of paving over paradise with more heavy industry to fuel the war machine
>>565242659So you can play stellaris with all dlc for one season for 10 euros? How long is a season?
>>565243125Dunno. That's just the base game, and I'm going to creampie all the DLCs like I do with all these DLC slop games
>>565243363Based.
I prefer to exchange my legitimate currency for their well-crafted downloadable content.
I wish I had a boyfriend. It'd be like playing Stellaris except I'd actually enjoy getting fucked.
>>565247250
One thing I don't like about Stellaris is how binary the combat is. You either completely fuck them over or get fucked yourself. There's no in-between and there's no coming back
>>565247810oi vey pay up for all these DLCs that are never explained because making a tutorial is HAAAAAAARD
>>565250010tbf that's pretty much all games in the genre
>>565255556In ES1 you can play defensively and live to fight another day. Numoo allows you to ram ships to even the odds when you're in trouble.
>>565256521Yeah and in stellaris you turtle by building on chokepoints and try to diplo your way out by getting other guys to come help.
thoughts on nomads and us finally getting a belief system, stellarisbrosisters?
>>565259194nomads is gonna be buggy as shit and poorly balanced, like every other new mechanic they add. the AI won't know how to handle itbeliefs is a long awaited system and it might be good, but it will be buggy as shit and poorly balanced, like every other new mechanic they add. the AI won't know how to handle itscenario packs are whatever
>>565259194as usual, the concepts are neat but I don't trust them to executemaybe in like 5 years they'll have fixed things up to a nice state for these mechanics, but then they'll have 5 years of new mechanics to fuck up
Stellaris sucks cocks.
>>565276926Yes but the few anons that play it keep bumping the thread and that's convenient.
>>565276926>>565277654I'm always interested in hearing how badly Paradox is bungling Stellaris in current update/DLC release. For aa much as people like the game I don't think I've seen a single post praising an update/DLC drop that has gone in the right direction for fun/quality of life, with the age old meme of "balanced for multiplayer" being endlessly ironic as Stellaris is probably the Paradox game whose playerbase is LEAST likely to care aboht multiplayer.
>>565280375I'm honestly past caring. Post citybuilders.
>>565197148They're too easy to get now. The eaters covenant spams them at random too lol
>>565197148they've been meh ever since ecu's were introduced
>>565197148they are still pretty good
What's a good dwarf game?
stellaris doesnt belong in this general. not because its from parad*x but because its bad.
>>565297892Refer to >>565277654
>you can do proxy warsokay i really wanna try this now after im done with my current UNE space EU run
>>565300864It's shit.
Opinions on upcoming Stellaris DLC?
>>565314536i boughted it
>>565297475Age of Wonders 4 let's you make a dwarf vampire civThe vampire bit is a DLC though
>>565247250assume position and prepare your holy world anon
>>565250010>>565256521defensive tactics were massively buffed recently and starbases are incredibly easy to push way above "current" fleet strength in the early stagesif you are too bitchmade you can even drop starlanes to 0.75 for even more chokepoints to defend
>>565317343i once rushed destroying their holy world just to make them awaken for the lolz
so zro is psionic ascension living metal is for biological and dark matter for synths?
>>565319825>living metal is for biologicalits the late game automation resource for fallen empire buildings and speeding up mega structures>dark matter for synthsno its just a generic endgame fallen empire resource for max tier ship components with one civic giving you dark matter edictsthere is no equivalent to zro for the other ascensions except maybe nanites for that shitty ass machine empire ascension path where you use nanites for everything
canal
>>565327972Can the AI plan canal placement or is it something humans can only do effectively?
>>565333004I'm not even sure they even build canals (not counting the panama canal wonder), but I highly doubt it considering how retarded it is at that as well as the golden gate bridge.
>>565333004AI does build canals though only on 1 tile gaps I think. It doesn't really know how to plan for those effectively since the foresight of deliberately building a canal to link 2 oceans like this (even if it was 1 tile) to then use boats in the other one is obviously far beyond it. If it does build a canal or acquire a canal it will use it though and from the point it has it it can plan naval invasions that use the canal.
>>565276926So why are you playing it?
>>565341489lol I don't
>>565333004sounds impossible to code an AI that can do that
>>565259194For years I wanted to play as invading species from another galaxyBut paradox keep refusing to add itAnd no, scenarios don't count
>Civ6>3€-6€ sales>60€ normal priceAt this point, it should be illegal to sell it for full price...
>>565344128They fumbled the bag with 7, they need to eat too!
>>565333004From my experience, the AI fails to plan city placements to connect oceans and I have to be the one to raze and resettle to build a proper suez canal
>>565351235That sounds like BLASPHEMY
>>565346245It's cause they want people to try to then buy the DLC, the base game may as welll be given out for free at this point it's 10 years old so most people who are going to buy it already have it.
>>565352459So like Stellaris.
>>565355902Yes though the business model isn't quite the same since the leaders aren't mandatory unlike stellaris DLC
>>565361274>unlike stellaris DLC>for more than decade already this shithole complained that paid content in dlc isn't important compared to free one>now we have posts like this
>>565342901I don't think it's impossible but making the AI smarter would simply make turn calculations take way too long.
>>565352459The Anthology thing with bae game and every single DLC can be bought for like $12-15, I don't think that's a lot.I bought anno 1800 Gold for 25ish recently as well, although that doesn't include every dlc, just a lot of them.Paradox can't even begin to compare with how much more they charge for DLC.
Japanese are fun. You should try them.I prefer their units to the Egyptians, they have good ranged units.
Speaking of Stellaris DLC, the guide in the OP looks a little out of date and I'm not taking out a second fucking mortgage to buy out all the DLC I'm missing in a Paradox game. It's been about three years since I last played, have they completely reinvented the game again or did things end up stabilizing? Any must-haves for it from the last 3-4 years?
>>565372532Play something else.
>>565372532pirate the dlc brother
>>565372532creampie all of it, don't give paradox a cent
Is this the thread for heroes of might and magic?
>>565376548Yes.
>>565376548You bet
>>565376605>>565376671Have you tried the new one yet? Old Era? I was considering picking it up because I have never played a heroes of might and magic game. One thing I am concerned about though is how... strong or not strong the AI is in games like that. I know 4x games tend to not have particularly well done AI but I understand the reason behind it.
>>565377341>playing anything in early access
>>565373661I didn't even realize creampie was a thing. Makes it easy enough I guess.
>>565377341I'm afraid I'm awful at turn-based games, so I'm sorry but no. I did see some footage of it, and it looks very fun, with 2 different upgrades for each creature.Hopefully it's more interesting than pick the colour.
>>565376548No, this is a thread for anonymous posters who like to discuss strategy videogames of different kinds, such as heroes of might and magic.
Stupid thread! No dying!
>>565376548It will be if I decide to buy Olden EraI'm just seeing peoples first impressions before I consider buying. If enough is done even with this EA build, I'll cave and probably play it for 30 hours before ignoring it until a full 1.0 update.Looks decent so far though
>>565388235At least it seem to still be broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFf_aQqDiOw
>>565388225I want to die
>>565388225I hate that I suck at turn based games because they all feel so much deeper than real-time games.
>>565389034me too sweetie
Olden Era looking fun.
>>565388438Oh hey I saw that video days ago, neatHe's playing an older demo build that was released over a monthago. It did have at least four factions complete, missing two stillThis current release has all six of those factions in and playable now. I know that much. Probably has that particular bug fixed tooCampaign isn't complete yet but at least there's a lot of skirmish options in already, except teams. Adding in team options is high on their todo list apparently
>>565389351If it's hard, I'll likely pass it. I still have nightmares over HoMM... V? The one where Inferno sucked and ranged units were insanely good.
my face when i type "lol"
>>565395113Jesus christ how horrifying >>565389695Haven't heard much about the difficulties yet, except the AI is at least smart enough to confuse HoMM3 purists. Nightmare and impossible difficulties look like total BS, but the easy-normal-hard sound appropriately scaled so far.Hive is the Inferno stand in, nearly all melee/rushdown/baneling Summons and still looks solid so far.
Cities Skylines 2 good yet?
>>565377341There's a completely free demo that's quite a hefty amount of content so give it a try. I found olden era frankly excellent in the demo. Of course that's not the campaign and I would want to see how that turns out before saying how the game actually is but the core concept of the game is definitely good. Game looks good and feels good to play and definitely has that heroes 3 feel I was looking for.It's at least on my purchase list once I complete my current games.
>>565389034>>565389268Join the club.
>>565372532creamapi or use the monthly subscription thing and then unsubscribe before you're doneit will take you 4 years of using the subscription without interruption to pay for all the dlc
deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
>>565424653As dead as Trump.
>>565395113>Vorsprung durch Technik
>>565424881So very much alive to the eternal screeching of troons and fags?>>565424653Sorry too busy playing Aurora
>>565425774>he really believe Trump didn't die six years ago and that the one shitting in the Oval Office isn't a clone with a degenerative brain disease
>>565425863>xir has to imagine some elaborate scenario to get rid of a man xir cant touch for the last decade despite all the efforts and money
>>565425863You struck a nerve, the sheeple refuses to see the truth and lashes out in a most childish way.
>>565425863the world is not ready for this truke
>>565426290They already struggle to accept the great finnish-lizardmen war in 670 after J.C., they aren't ready for real truth.
Funny how little tolerance Trumptards have for banter when it's directed against their king.
>>565427109what do you expect from rightoids
>>565427109Because it's always always "rules for thee, not for me" with them.>trashtalk your country>trashtalk your culture>trashtalk your language>trashtalk your cooking>"it's just banter xD grow a thicker skin">say anything bad about their king>"waaaaaa rainbow gay trannies furries and everything i can think of!"
>troon seething and dilating when confronted by realityNo surprise
>>565427314You struck a nerve.
>/g*g/ tard still trying to shit up superior general
Opinion on RTS/FPS hybrids?
>>565431460I can't remember a single game that did this well. Usually one of the parts is way more important than the other
>>565431460Extremely rare but include some of my favorite games.
>launch Stellaris for the first time in a few years>don't remember what I was trying to do with half the empires I've createdThink there has been a complete game overhaul while I wasn't playing too? What do you guys do with your empires, delete them all eventually and start over? Kinda like the idea of keepin em but retooling them to fit new systems sounds tedious.
>>565433059I just stop them from spawning in galaxy
>>565433059I keep my empires around, I don't do exactly meta builds anyways and with the bonuses AI's get from difficulty it's not like some jank build can't work.
>have to refresh six times for 4chanX to finally loadok>>565432041Such as? Battlezone 2?
>>565431460Cool idea, rarely executed well - those are two very different genres that dont go well together and usually one part of the game is lacking to the point one starts to wonder why they even bothered.>>565433059Do people really have multiple empires created?I have two - normal sol humans and lewd futa amazons and i just swap details like origin around when i want to play..
>>565431460It's a conceptually bad idea and basically by definition you will end up with a shit RTS or shit FPS or most likely shit RTS and FPS. Basically all the mechanics have antisynergy with each other.
>>565433984Prefer 1 (especially the expansion) to two, but sure. BZ 2 is alright. You also got giant citizens kabuto, sacrifice, mountainblade, renegade, X4...
Is there anything else that scratches the synchronous turn tactical itch like Phantom Brigade? I've played frozen synapse
>>565434736Sacrifice counts? Also I don't rememeber any RTS part in Kabuto.
>>565435261Up to you I suppose but it saying RTS hybrid makes me think of it. Sounds like you could use a replay, the RTS side is light but you definitely have base building, resource gathering and commanding troops in GCK
>>565435261>>565436134And naturally I forgot to post related.
>blazing devestators>plantoidswhat could possibly go wrong?
>>565436134I see. I completely forgot about that.
>>565436571Easy enough to larp that as some kind of slash and burn growing style evolved out of fire resistant plants, lots of plants actually either benefit from fire eliminating competition or even actively require fire for their seeds to germinate.
replaying it for some reasonfinished the terran campaign holy shit fuck that last mission and the 500 ghosts locking everything down
I want more ways to get fallen empire buildings...
>>565431460I prefer RTS/RPG/CYOA/TS/TBS/SHMUPs
>>565442816bruh fuck fallen empires when you play genocidali dunno what i did but suddenly the enigmatic observers and keepers of knowledge kept humiliating me on cooldown
hmm i wanna try playing a megacorp focused on giving mercenary enclaves to other empires...
>>565443486>clueless
>>565434491>do people really have multiple empires created?No fucking duh we do. Playing regular humans or the same empire gets boring done two times in a rowGimmicks I've tried at least once and saved the empire specs to play or even just fight against later as an AI include>four different kinds of dwarf >two different kinds of gnome>galactic insurance geckos>bloodthirsty or hippie psychic plants >chinese bugmen>disgusting repulsive bird shoal traders and raiders>Moltar-men to make the galaxy a ring of fire>those purple Psyker humans for a subversive or endbringer cultYou can enjoy your human power fantasy on your own. That's an excellent use of the game. But when you join a multiplayer session with eight friends and three of them ALSO claim to be the real humans trying to enact their human power fantasy because they lack imagination to roleplay anything else, hilarity ensues. In that particular case, two different Sols became the site of proxy wars as the real galactic players kept fueling the wars by sending alloys like we were alien shadow Jews. My trade federation of psychic gecko salesmen made a mutual agreement with the martial alliance fed nextdoor that had the only noteworthy human civ that session. After fighting eachother in a quick war, we bonded over our mutual hatred of machines and synths and declared jihad on the robot research coop on the other side of the galaxy.We failed and lost the game, but that was still a fun time
>>565443486you ever played eu4 with mercs? it's basically that except your standing army costs no upkeep till you need them they just chill and make money for you and when youre at war you just hire them and get an OP fleet
>soldiers count as specialists now>commander governors still decrease job efficiency for specalistsSo do commander governors makes soldiers worse now? Or has paradox put in an exception for them or something?
I love purity path ascension. genomic research facility gives 15% job efficiency, cyto revitilization center gives another 15%, and if you have the fallen empire medical building it's another 10% to job efficiency.
how do you catch up to grand admiral?
>>565446296git good helps
>>565446190>if you have the fallen empire medical building it's another 10% to job efficiency.That's goddamn neat. Wonder what other little interactions like that are tucked behind FE buildings.Since you took it and bothered to notice shit like that. What do you think are optimal picks for the flexible traditions in bio-ascension?I forget what things were like before the reckoning eco nerf patch, but Purity does look like the best first pick. Mutagenic habitability does not feel as rewarding or worth it now. AFTER that for picks 2 and 3, unsure.
>>565444134>Playing regular humans or the same empire gets boring done two times in a rowMan i dont know i have been playing as regular Humans in Sol in Aurora for 16 years and im still not bored..For any other power fantasy playthroughs i have aftermentioned futa amazons.
>>565433059the game is the same shit it was 5 years ago they just made everything give less resources and tried to nerf heavily specializing planets because the ai is too retarded for larger scale planning so they just put everything on every planet which means the player will outscale the ai by specializingcurrent rural districts are retarded because they barely have a use past the first 50 years since megastructures produce all basic resources except food later oni delete my custom empire after im done playing it
>>565434491>>565448930use the ugly bastard necroid portrait for a xeno compatibility playthrough
>>565453976I really wish Stellaris would drop the gay ass shit like fantasy add-ons muh astral tears and shit and just did a full on rework of feudal/imperial mechanics to make these empires play more personal lile in ck2. Having a harem of foreign cuties and enchanced family relations were always source of great fun and stories.>Inb4 COTC - CK2 engine sucks for space 4x
>>565453976does that lag the game still
>>565434491yeah i have like a billion civs i made>>565456276or how about thisnot every fucking game needs to be a sex simulator
>>565456276>Having a harem of foreign cuties and enchanced family relations were always source of great fun and storiePointless in fucking 4x game
>>565457174>>565456612Yeah you are right.Having "feudal" society with some unique mechanics and interactions, actual characters and shit is pointless.Much better to get another great dlc with "click on colourful mana once a year to get temp bonus", another origin that stops mattering after first decade and more meaningless tweaks aimed at mp meta sweats and minmaxing autists.We wouldnt want to do anything special with the game after all.
>>565458405>I want to interact with my concubines in every single game I playMaybe, you should seek help, that unhealthyWhat "unique interaction" with concubine can give to the massive space empire at a large? Fucking nothing, because single human is not important
>>565444134>Playing regular humans or the same empire gets boring done two times in a rowyou would be surprised. there are people that play stellaris exclusively as xenophobe humans because they're just that boring
>>565459503Agreed. Enchanced family interactions, making character system more in depth, adding much needed internal politics depending on govt model - its all not needed.Another crisis path everyone takes once and forgets about it, ships that use green mana instead of violet one to be built, more nerfs - thats the stuff this game needs. God knows how it might end if they start, we might wake up one day with stellaris where ships need supplies, where there will be actual logistics involved or internal politics or something equally awful.
The spacefleet tactica mod let's you build some really stupid shit. XL slots on cruisers? How could this possibly be abused?
>>565459953I actually prefer authoritative humans thank you very much. Xeno is only neat for cattle slavery while I pride myself in equal opportunity enslaver.
>>565461328You are playing the wrong game. Characters fucking suck in stellaris and putting more of them in with more interactions would simply make the game worse. I don't see how ships needing supplies would in any way relate to adding fucking larp characters in. That's a much more reasonable and appropriate mechanic to suggest.
>>565461778Truth nvke/10Characters in Stellaris suck and they really really cant be expanded upon. Its not like the game has/ever had mechanics like that but Paradox dropped any attempts at expanding on it in favour of adding another copy pasted "thing to be clicked on once a year".
>>565461368I still miss the days Tachyon lances were L sized.
>>565376548sure
https://youtube.com/shorts/pacT8daoNfA
random screenshot bump
>>565479839Dafuck? Is that a modded Fallout?
>>565480625Its Spellcross, ancient turn based strategy that pits normal 20 century armies against fantasy creatures invading from other dimension.Hard as balls.
>>565480818Hard why? No reinforcements?
>>565480985Tight funds, powerful and numerous enemies etc.
>>565481176More powerful AND more numerous? Sounds tough. I'll look for some footage on youtube, I'm a bit curious. Not curious enough to play it, though, I just lost a game to the easy AI in AoM.
>>565481473https://playclassic.games/games/turn-based-strategy-dos-games-online/play-spellcross-the-last-battle-online/play/you can even play it online apparently..
>>565481734Oh yeah, I played Moonstone online with that. And Monty On The Run. And Tzar.
nose
>>565420334Man, they really don't hold back with their bullshit DLC model these days, do they? Here I remember their earlier games being a great value.
>>565487958Value is entirely subjective. It's all free with a crack and subscription is better value than any single DLC for basically all the customers who insist on being cucks and paying. The only one who benefits more from buying the DLC than subscribing twice a year is a person who almost certainly has all the DLC already and gives no shits because they have 10k hours clocked in.
>>565487958>>565488319NTA but i subscribed purely because i cant be bothered to fuck around with pirate versions, especially with mods.I simply do not care, just give me all DLC's and let me play, i have some spare money to "waste".
>>565490968>rewarding bad behaviourTerrible pet owner.
anno 117 dlc dropped
>>565503361i can't enjoy this the same way i did 1800 sad. maybe just the lack of content of dlcs
here we go againhe actually won against the purifier right next to himthe fallen empire also got the most schizo map generation where one part of it is inside my territory
a civilized bump
>>565487958>Here I remember their earlier games being a great value.The most retarded post I saw in this thread, should be telling somethingUntil crusader kings 2, their model was: "release unfinished game"->"if it's totally unworking release patch, but make sure not to fix much"->"ask $40 for expansion that will have critical bug fixes"
I like it so far. Mila is my Hive waifu.
>>565521886SHOW US THE TOWNS
>>565521886Does every town have a waifu hero and waifu unit?It's not even something I'd care about so long as game is good enough. But I keep seeing a few of each in screenshots others shared, to the point I wonder if devs made that an intentional pattern
Any good colony sim i'm missing? I wanted to grab Worshippers of Cthulhu and The Crust but the negative reviews me prohibit me.
What is the draw to Heroes of Might and magic? Is it really just run around and mass up units and slam it into the AI? Like to the people who enjoy heroes of might and magic, what do you enjoy about it?
>>565525221I love to plow your mom.
>>565525221It's for minmaxxers. The amount of minmaxxing you can do in homm is ridiculous.
fugg, how long was i out
>>565487010jej
Almost finished the tutorial on Going Medieval. Highly recommend, looks like a great game so far. Like 3D Rimworld. Grabbed it from eneba for 10€
>>565534715He's digging tunnels in NY too.
>>565535007it gets boring fast
>>565537116How many playthroughs did you have?
>>565537116It really does.>>565537205It's a bugger, more shallow df or gnomoria and the notgoblins get to bring siege engines.
>>565538074>not answering the questionOK
>>565538403i (>>565537205) didn't write this response btw
>>565538403I don't have a fucking clue bruh. I pirated it every so often since what, 2020 or 2021, played for a couple of days and then deleted.
>>565527087like 4 years
favorite stellaris ascension perk gofor me it's arcology project
>>565539619people have favourite ascension perks? I guess lord of war is pretty good if you want to deal with the mercenaries
>>565539619cosmogenesis
>>565539619I usually go for one that gave free stations limit and defence to themThe ones that game more research and unity felt like must have, but more likely they were already removed
Timberborn is so fucking good it's not even funny
>>565494917bro i dont care, i cant be arsed to fight this crap
>>565543441Would you say it's dam good?
I probably shouldn't have gone synth ascension after joining this federation
>>565546836it's pretty fucking DAM gud
>>565543441I don't know about the weird beaver theming
>>565548972why did they nerf tech so hard in 4.3 wtf
>>565550416Because it was too powerful, and easy to focus on at exchange of everything else.Honestly, balancing tech feels almost impossible in games, even in rts like age of empire and starcraft, moving to the next tier(or upgrading hive) is way more important than building more soldiers
Oh my god we've found aliens.
>>565547849Your weird
my game is ruined because my federation member declared war on the awakened xenophile empire even though i had it set to president decides and i am presidenti cant make peace with them and they occupied my entire economy while leaving the AI that started the war unharmedepic :D
>>565551949Rushing towards the thulium resources in the east. There's only one good planet there but having lots of thulium is top priority. Haven't played galciv in some time but the game feels better than last time. There are less obvious strong picks with regards to culture or civ bonusses.
>>565552651See, this is why you play fanatic purifiers. No need to tard wrangle the retarded xenos, just gas them.
>>565552929>>565551949Gal Civ?
>>565553227Yeah galciv 4.
>>565552651the shithead AI finally surrendered but my alloy planet wont recover in time for the crisis which is already happening i got the ghost signal :(
>>565553059yeah im sad nowthe "xenophile" fallen empire bombarded my alloy planet with indiscriminate bombardment so long it killed most of the popsit will never recover :(
>>565553362Doest still have that ship designer?
>>565550803yeah but 4.3 is just a whole mess of trying to make sure everything isn't the red because you built something early on
>>565553364well they are beating the contingency for me lolwhy are awakened empires so overtuned on captain? this is x3 crisis
>>565525221multiplayer
>>565525221>Is it really just run around and mass up units and slam it into the AI?That is indeed very fun. There's a lot of strategy involved in how you go about that, how you move your heroes on the strategic map and how you do your battles. If you go for creatures or if you invest into one of the myriad of bullshit spells. If you want a more curated experience the campaigns offer that very thing and for more free form slamdowns you have the skirmish modes. This goes for homm 3 and for older era both.
>>565553364atleast i got this out of it
>>565547057kinda rude to hate on machines desu
>>565547057I'm surprised its even possible for a soulless machine to be part of, let alone the leader of a Holy CovenantIt's like a nigger being the face of the KKK
>>565553586Of course it does.
>>565561907good, time to pirate.
i like this planet feature
What is the patrician start mode for Shadow Empire? I feel like a lot of the options just end up advantaging you, its hard to find the balance between an easy run and not fucking yourself over for an unplayable hundred turns or game in general.Also new DLC seems cool but I dunno if I should?
>>565552651anon it says the awakened empire is the attackerawakened empire probably tried to subjugate someone and they refused because they are in a federation
>>565562628i got that on my fully built up unity planet
these guys were -700 just now as i killed their scion but then went back to happy after one humiliation demand
My first corvette. Inspired a bit by old fashioned rockets. It also has an engine in the front to break.
>>565568481
>>565568481UM, HELLO????What is this $cientology shit?
>>565568782Isnt that Star Trek and muh whole families on the ship?
>>565568782>$cientologyHuh, what do you mean?
>>565564263i was so angry i didn't check thatkekyou're right the AE didn't check for allies when declaring war
>>565568782>>565569167Oh I see. WTF is up with that description. Maybe stardock is trying to say something.
>>565569203It's a cult classic to take kids away from their parents to "help them discover the world", and then the kids get abused for two months straight and get hushed by their parents once back because "if you got raped by a seaman, clearly you deserve it, and our lord and saviour Ron Hubbard can not be wrong".>>565569167I fucking hope so.
>>565568481Can you change that description? I want my race of small space elves with their robotic caretakers.
>>565569754I didn't add any description. The one that says "Area patrol ship, etc. was already there in the box that allows you to add a description. I have no idea where the other one comes from.
loving this ancient legacy mod origin. lets you research fallen empire stuff without cosmogenesis of course they still cost 100k+ research points so can't get them early
>>565571268Drat, you can't change them, then. What a shame.
I just bought GalCiv IV and Distant Worlds 2, what should i expect?
>>565575659Okay sequels to excellent games.
>>565575659>vic3I got it with all DLCs but I think I'm gonna refund it. It is pure information overload and the tutorial is dogshit
>>565576004i grabbed both of them for less than 5€>>565576973I'm consuming every piece of information available on the internet, feels like i'm taking a University course.
>>565575659Waste of time with mediocre gamesgalciv2 was perfect, but them they somehow ruined everything with 3
>>565577390>I'm consuming every piece of information available on the internet, feels like i'm taking a University course.The simple combat system is really the nail in the coffin. So much shit for everything then and combat seems to have barely any depth.
>>565577829That's what i like in Vic3, it's low cortisol economic game instead of high cortisol wargame like HoI4
>>replying to /g*g/
i think ships in stellaris need to be halved for lag purposes and made more expensive againtheyre almost at the perfect spot
>>565459953https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0WQOGVLLGw&list=RD0SMOhwvMnf0&index=20
Which faction in Heroes of Might and Magic: Old Era might be for me? I haven't played the game yet but was interested. I like factions that have beefy frontline units with maybe a few casters supporting from the backlines. I don't like factions that are heavily ranged or heavily casters. I thought maybe the human faction might be for me because they have knights which seemed like beefy frontline units but I just hate how generic the humans seem in this game. Is there any flair to them that I am missing? What other factions are there?
>>565583663Hard question, HoMM in general relies a lot on ranged and casting. I'm not aware of any strong frontline faction, but then again, the only factions I really know are the humans, the demons, and the undeads.
>>565584393In a game about Heroes of MIGHT and MAGIC you are telling me that there is hardly any MIGHT? What the fuck?
>>565583663Try them out in like 5 minutes and figure out which one you like the best? I have only played the demo so far so can only comment on the 4 factions there but humans seem like your cup of tea simply because they are the most defensive focused unit lineup. 3 base ranged units and rest are tough buggers with defense based abilities. Necropolis has more frail feel to it, only has 1 ranged base unit (though skeleton archer is so stupidly good that you do have 2 in practice), quantity over quality faction. Schism is probably the weirdest faction, 2 (3 the same thing as with skeletons with upgraded T1 being ranged) ranged units but the rest are more speed with powerful offensive but weaker defense though their T7 is hella tanky, most units have some kind of weird abilities to make up for their stat lines. Dungeon is probably the second pick for you, 2 ranged units with 2 slow and beefy defensive units and a fast and frail offensive unit and two units from somewhere between. If you are immediately put off by humans simply because they are humans go for dungeon, it's my favorite anyways. Not in anyway objective analysis and they may have changed the unit balance after the demo too.I think Hive has no base ranged units and only one upgraded ranged unit so maybe try them, I think they are more speed focused though. No idea what Grove is supposed to specialize in. >>565584476All units are mostly categorically might, magic is more of a hero thing because there are gamebreaking hero spells. Of course some unit abilities are pretty magical and stuff but that's not really what the game means by might and magic.
good stellaris youtubers? someone like arumba
>>565584476Dude. Guy.Might and Magic means 50% Might and 50% Magic. You're basically asking to win with no Magic and less than half the Might.
>>565585810Legend of total war
>>565577707But 4 is much better than 3. 4 started with all the additions that dlc introduced to 3 plus it was put together much better. I'd even agrue that 4 is better than 2 if maybe a bit bloated.
>play age of mythology>notice that some units have several attacks (charged, ranged, melee, or throws)>ask on reddit if there's any way to cycle through them, quote tengu as an example since his skill boosts his attack>all these morons tell me "huuur durrrr you can turn off skills????">point out it's not what I ask>my comment is at -7 points and he digs even deeper "huuuh no this is what you askeded??"Asking Americans for help, nevermore.
new insectoid maulers
After like 9 years, I'm finally going to give another try to shitllaris. I will creamapi all the DLCs.What are some must have mods? I guess the alpha guy died or something.
>>565588987Weirdest viral marketing I saw.
>>565588987GigaACOTall the sex modsSome of the extra shipsetsNSCPlanetary DiversityMilitary Enchancements
>>565588987Uninstall.
>>565589276It's the seether at it again
>>565588987>0 achievementseven me a brainlet has like 7 of them at 48 hours, did you only play modded?
>>565588987>ui overhaul dynamic>ui overhaul dynamic extended topbarwithout these i would refuse to play the game the ui hides elements behind a fucking clickdown menu to see basic stuff you need constantly>arc furnace system locatorthis is basically what should be in vanilla and they are adding it to the game in the next patch>fleets win wars>more ground combat widththese 2 make warfare less of a retarded grindsince you have not played in ages you probably dont want extra events and stuff like that since the dlc already have a gorillion things for you to see
>>565590313nta but i got 2 achievements back in the day before i modded the game because it was so awfulnow i edit the checksum to get achievements anyway because fuck paradox purists
>>565590395>>arc furnace system locator>this is basically what should be in vanilla and they are adding it to the game in the next patchits amazing how this game is on 4th or 5th major rework, 10 years old and it still misses basic shit like basic menus that allow you to see which system is best for which mega structures, bulk upgrade planets/starbases etc.
>>565590613>now i edit the checksum to get achievementsHow?
>>565590920Damn you anon, i have the itch to redownload 117 but in my shithole turdworld country it will take 4 hours
>>565590780https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2719382752
>>565583663If what other anons described isn't for you, there's always just ignoring the early access for now and waiting for more faction picksThis is just piss in the wind theory crafting, but with the extreme success of their launch, they'll likely add more factions if they finish the campaign, and one of the biggest things people are asking about is barbarian towns, which can also give a chance at showing off more humans. The continent OE takes place in has a LOT of elves in so that could help diversify things maybe. It's usually as MIGHT as you can get with barbarians in each game they show up
>>565590313>even me a brainlet has like 7 of them at 48 hours, did you only play modded?Nigger, shitllaris released with achievements only in ironman mode and I only played it modded since a year after release.>>565589327>NSCIs that thing still alive? lol>>565590395Thanks.
I don't remember so many anime mods being a thing besides the cat girls one.
>>565593247If 6 factions isn't enough for you to like the game realistically you just don't like the game. There's enough variety and visual styles already in the game where the base mechanics should be the main hook. You are some kind of aberration if adding gnones or golems or what ever would suddenly make you like the game that you otherwise don't like.
Ah, yes. Chinese lolis in my stellaris.
can someone just tell me what game to play. im indecisive and i don't want to waste my weekend trying to decide what game to play instead of just playing it.
>>565597476Xenonauts 2.Come back when you have finished it.
>>565595927Must have mod.
>>565597476Russian roulette with a semiauto
>>565588987UI overhaul dynamicnothing else is strictly mandatory
>>565593975ai changed things
>>565597476sex with hitler
reeee why must an AE break your vassals and federations when they vassalize you
>>565597476tohotopia demo
>>565597476are you a literal child
>>565597476Starcraft 2, terran campaign.
>>565601764I don't care unless raymoo is a playable option
Huh. I find shitllaris with all the new DLCs and mods less information overload than vic3.
>>565607026Fuck off.
>>564855738HYUK HYUK HYUK
>>565601764Heck that?
I swear they did something with Galactic Doorstep origin and the gateway destinations past 3.14..I used to play with this origin, all the fucking times - same mods, same galaxy settings - and i always got a nice uncharted system somewhere far away that i could start exploring and colonizing but these days i get like five different destinations ALL leading to fucking FE capitals..
>distant worlds 2 was meant to update months ago This sucks
With heroes of might and magic to the people that play it, where do you get your fun from? I have always been curious about what aspects of 4x games people enjoy or like. I would say I enjoy 4x games but have never been good at them. Some people say they just enjoy the power fantasy of dunking on the AI. How true or not true is that?
I am playing Spellforce and it seems that the final playable race you unlock is head and shoulders better than the rest.Probably a good thing considering that the endgame enemies are really tough.
How do we fix the RTS genre?
>>565625050add a turn based strategy layer to go wth the rts battles
>try to build dyson swarm>some event kicks off just as i click build>game bugs the fuck out and thinks i built it even though it did not actually happen>stuck with 2 dyson swarms unable to build the thirdwell i didnt want to play robots anyway
>>565628690a single dyson swarm isn't gonna make or break your playthrough
>>565625050fix people's attention span
in stellaris, what do you normally specialize your 2nd and 3rd planet in? if im megacorp i go straight for tech world and unification center if im anything else then a tech world followed by consumer goods + alloy world
how do I stop being retarded at civ
>>565628690Just steal them from AIs>>565642167Consumer goods or energy * 2, but i tend not to make use of monthly trades and typically don't colonize until getting mutagenic habitability and after terraforming. >>565642698wats wrong
>>565625050Try to steal from starcraft 2 for once insteast of fucking 2000s gamesOr if you steal from 00s games, at least steal from red alert 3 campaigns that could be played with buddy and amphibian buildings and units.Actually, I thought that Age of Empires 4 would kickstart renaissance with how good and well designed it was
>>565621735>Exploring>Fantasy adventure vibes>Watching funny town grow until it takes up the entire screen>Usually fun story campaigns too>Sieges using might or magicTo be fair AoW4 fulfills almost all of these for me. I can make my own custom fantasy civ stuff, but there's no real campaign and it feels a bit more more sandbox-y how I keep inventing new societies to just unleash on other civs in a new map each time.I go back to HoMM and enjoy an established fantasy setting to do all of the above. Olden Era looks weird but I'm willing to try it since people already claim it's better than 6 and 7
>playing Pandora>got comfy island to myself>aquatic workers took way too long to research>turn 200ish? destroy hive on unoccpied island, settle 2, prolly 3 cities there.>End of Days? didnt expect that in this unit stacking one tap city game
>>565608561kek
>>565625050make more single player and co op kino as pvp os ruined forever
>>565586093I've got your back>>565003447Nah. /vg/ team is not the one I usually watch desu. Even if I watch vgl.
>kind of want to buy olden era>it's not expensive>have no friends into it so multiplayer is out>hated songs of conquestI'll just get bored, right?
>>565660105>hated songs of conquestWhut.
>>565660105Sounds like it.
>>565660105Genuinely question: are you the one who has made this post now three four times? Why not just play the free demo and see if you like it? What's the point of post like this.
>>565590920Enjoy yourself anon but I got burned on 1800 so much I can't bring myself to even pirate it
>>565660874I simply could not get immersed in the story or the art.>>565661840No. But I guess I can try the demo.
>>565628690Cant you deconstruct one to hopefully reset this bug?>>565625050RTS genre needs fixing?
>>565665213>No. But I guess I can try the demo.Alright then, I just though there's a new schizo out spamming or viral marketing olden era with this weird style for some reason. Just try the demo it's pretty good and I think does a good job at presenting what's fun about the game.
>>565444134>, two different Sols became the site of proxy wars as the real galactic players kept fueling the wars by sending alloys like we were alien shadow Jews.Having enough friends that actually want to play stellaris sounds wild.
All my will to become the crisis leaves whenever Azaryn decides to join my empire. Damn.
>>565672457The next stellaris dlc adds an anti-crisis option. So you are in luck.
Workers and slaves need more value in Stellaris. They are too easily replaced by Dyson Swarms, Arc Furnaces, and Hydroponics bays in starbases.
>>565673376Realistic, I imagine. But then, sci fi never was a very realistic genre.
>almost 200 years into the game>barely started to terraform Mars>first people on Mars showed up mere five years ago>No extra solar colonies, just automated listening posts and sensor probes in other systemsFuck me i love Aurora
>>565661840>>565665876Based on how many wishlisters there were for Olden Era, and how within 24 hours the devs put out a post saying how thrilled they were selling I think,250k+ copies to make back their production costs, on day one? I can believe a lot of people have eyes on the game.One or two posts could be a repeat of the same anon asking for help or a shill, but not all. More likely they're different
>>565634406>>565665780i wanted to try cosmogenesis and had enigmatic observers as my neighbour so the bug was the last straw to push me away from that playthrough
>>565676069That's why I asked. I just find it strange with the way they were asking about the game is all.
why do humans even have nomadic when une is egalitarian thus no resettlement?
>>565431460For me, it's hack and slash/RTS hybrids
>>565679994Isnt nomadic also higher chance of moving? Or it used to be..
>>564823467>Finish Forged Alliance years ago>Become nostalgic and decide to play the original Supreme Commander & Forged Alliance on 2026>Anything but fliers is SLOW>Bad pathfinding>Units are slow to respond and they start moving few at a time>All units die in the blink of an eye, making waiting for them to reach an opponent a waste of time>Play Cybran campaign>Third mission starts with a town that you have to defend being under attack almost as soon as the mission starts from two fronts and you are not even in the town>Start with a squad of bombers and a squad of amphibious tanks>The amphibious tanks are slow as hell and get chewed by the enemy attackers because they move in a line instead of traveling as a group even when I hold down the right click to give them a formation and orientation>THE FUCKING BOMBERS PASS OVER THEIR TARGETS WITHOUT BOMBING THEM, THEN THEY TURN AROUND IN SUCH A WIDE ARC THAT THEY GET HIT BY THE AA OF TWO ENEMY BASES>Meanwhile the enemy is expanding his three bases like a lunaticThis is frustrating. If only my ACU had retained the upgrades from the previous mission.
>>565680590Yeah, Forged Alliance was a massive improvement over SupCom, but even it wasn't perfect.
>>565680590Supcom is fucking brutal in the campaign and unfortunately it's showing it's age particularly in pathfinding. That being said I think the core gameplay holds up still pretty well, you just have to get trough the T1 especially to get more hefty and impactful units. Stuff like bomber command is more of an art than a science sometimes since they need a clear approach otherwise they just fail to fire, you actively need to fight the urge to micro the unit otherwise they just derp out. FA and then FAF are so much better that it's unreal.
>he got filtered by shift+right clickkek
I am going to try a game called "Syrian Warfare". It kind of looks like a more modern Men of War.
>>565687968Hope you enjoy pain until you figure out what's what
>>565688041Palestinian Warfare isn't out yet.
>>565688041Sometimes, learning through adversity can be fun.It just needs the right balance of providing a reasonable challenge and then creating a sense of fulfilmen
>>565687968Get ready for jank with a heavy dose of zigger propaganda. And iirc absurd level of difficulty.
>>565689031Bit philosophical way to put it but sure, it's more fun if it's not a cakewalk
>slaver guilds or indebted assets no longer enslave main pop % if no xeno slaves exist>please understand>w-we broke it and don't know how to fix itAwesome. I was afraid I didn't need to mod the game to bypass paradox incompetence for once.
Just bought these beauties, what am i in for?
>>565697258go eat some gyros stavros
>>565697258>what am i in for?Very fun city building and boring prison making.
I haven't played a strategy or city builder in a long time and I've got the urge. What's a good one to ease back into the habit with? I'd like something with enough depth to sink my teeth into but that isn't going to bombard me with so many mechanics and systems up front that I'm going to feel like I need to spend a couple hours reading about what I'm doing or what's different from the years-outdated tutorial.
>>565698181>I'd like something with enough depth to sink my teeth into but that isn't going to bombard me with so many mechanics and systems up front that I'm going to feel like I need to spend a couple hours reading about what I'm doing or what's different from the years-outdated tutorial.This one https://store.steampowered.com/app/704640/Evolution_of_Ages_Settlements/ but use the beta branch.
>Tfw have way more fun playing inneficiently larping as Nekeharan royalty in Song of Syx than playing normallyThe lack of stress over food is nice, but maybe I shouldnt have used all my cut stones on pimping out my initial plebian producer and filling my city square with statues, not that I will dare question my own opulent designs when it comes to city planning. The plebs shall rise amidst grandious decor and instinctively cower in submission to King Ethenekar, grand and benevolent host that he is, such is my decree on the matter.
how is against the storm? I don't know where I got it but I guess it looks okay
>>565699093Is song of styx a good game?
>>565700349play it and find out
>>565700629Unexpectedly based
>>565700349Bad.>>565700372Good, but fun. But hard.
I like the 4X genre a lot but I usually have issues winning or... playing with winning in mind. For example, I love Age of Wonder 4. However, I never really know how to win besides just dunking all opponents militarily. I often like to sort of roleplay the rulers and I have a hard time roleplaying "good" oriented characters because I feel that eventually I will have to kill everyone. What am I missing? Most times I have won, its been with evil or warmongering characters.
>2026 and there still no fantasy stellaris>>565700349Wanted to buy it, but visuals were massive turn off
>>5657012784x games outside of early stellaris aren't for roleplaying, they are about minmaxing.
>>565701278I also feel there's a distinct lack of opportunities to roleplay my very own fursona in flight sims and never miss any chance to remind everyone in their respective general.
>>565700372Id say its kind of like a less autistic Dwarf Fortress, no multiple z level but a lot of similar mechanics.
>>565700372Yes but very oldschool in that no hand holding way.
look at my lord admiral man I'm not winning this war
>>565700821How does it play out? Is it more like dwarf fortress?
>>565698925Hell yeah, that looks like the kind of thing I can get into. Looks like the visuals are forgiving enough that I can almost certainly run it in a VM if it doesn't play nice with my setup too. I'll check it out. Thanks!
>>565705252What fucking coomer game is this?
>>565706971The dev is making a sequel. Running alpha builds on discuck, will be out probably in 2 to 3 years.
>>565705252She stores the tactical acumen in her tiddies, you will crush them.>>565707026Its modded Stellaris you blind fuck.
>>565701430It feels like a failure in the game design.
>>565701430>4x games outside of early stellaris aren't for roleplaying,You clearly never played Aurora.pic unrelated
>>565701430>>565708501Few things are as RPing as Aurora 4x AARs.
>>565706869Not really? It's not underground, and it's less about setting up chains and more about doing everything.
>>565431460Renegade was an amazing game. Never played any others.
>>565697375I can't eat gyros because i got salmonella last week, my name is Alexander btw.>>565697508I only got one DLC, is it enough to keep me occupied for a few hours? Next DLCs i want to buy are Parklife and After Dark. Also prison architect is niche af, i'm pretty sure it will scratch my autistic itch.
>>565711891It had a lot of mods who were really good. I dislike the Tiberium serie, but the Tiberium Wars one was really good. And the Red Alert 2 one too.
>>565621735>where do you get your fun from?I love the thrill of walking my main hero into a witch hut not knowing if I'm going to walk away with Eagle Eye. Better than Vegas.
>>565712410I'd rather get pegged than risk Eagle Eye, but you do you.
>>565701278>gorLET THE GORS COME
nighty night
>>565727484Good night anon.
>>565727484>>565729163Good night anons.
remember when stellaris food worked like civilization food and was planet specific
>>565736161Stellaris has gone through so many iterations. I like the current planet and trade one though.
>>565736892vgh... sovl...
>>565737737It made the slavery feel more personal.
>>565737993yeah and it made me actually have a reason to go to war for lebensraumnow it feels like planets can produce way too much
posers
>>565736161I remember, and it was dumb
onemorestellaris poast
>>565747380just for you. patricians are absolute unity and trade generating machines
>>565747513what mod is this
>>565747968patricians are a mix of nobles + merchants. you get them by taking both aristocratic elite civic and merchant guild civic
>>565749007oh right yeah
>>565705252Is there a mod that lets you change the hairstyle/phenotype of your leaders? Afaik it's baked into the save.
>>565705252Low effort to the point of immersion ruining >>565708501Also low effort but could flip the table on them for some role reversal I guess
>>565708501>futa draeneiWoah...
>>565769352Art, isn't it?
dead thread
>>565778432not on my watch
>>565780471Oh yeah?*dies*
Stellarisbros, since paradox gutted half the ways to play the game in 4.0 is there any point in anything other than clankers and or swarms?
>>565788886>he still plays honestlyImagine not using this game as just map paiting tool with sex and cheat mods.. Couldnt be me.
>>565788886Making a 1 sector wide tall criminal empire where you bully the galaxy using stealth tech to bypass closed borders can be fun, top level stealth can even go across FE unbothered.
>>565789076I enjoy learning new systems and taking them apart as for sex mods, I mean, there are better games for that. Going strictly for efficient use of time/effort required there's straight up porn or the wife>>565789139That's almost to a T how I used to play. Add a heavy dose of PMCs and mercs and you're about there. But vassals suck. Slaving requires a hard pivot instead of providing that early game boost it excelled at. And whatever the fuck is going on with trade right now I'm not sure even the design team is aware since it seems to have 5 overlapping ideas within it. Then you have "the problem" that if you actually want some of the new fun options, like proxy wars, you simply don't have enough civics to pick them AND the civics that make you viable.Feels bad.
>>565789660>I enjoy learning new systems and taking them apartMe too but Stellaris systems are so shit, gay and lame i dont care.I play for events, map paiting - getting hard because of weird sex mods is just a bonus that this game despererately needs.
>>565790467I guess but what happens when you know most events by heart, the map painting does zero neuron activations since no challenge involved in beating the increasingly braindead AI and the novelty of big tittie alien lady wears off and you can plainly see the procedurally generated shallow ass NPC #4353421 behind it? I'm seriously considering going back to, what, 3.6.
>>565791362I remember galaxy screenshots threads when update with cycle was first released.Really great example why stellaris is still popular even decade later, while hand holding themeparks like aurora are barely played and are mostly forgotten
>>565791362I played like 300 hours since the shroud rework, and I still haven't seen the end of the cycle a single time outside of the origin
>>565788886i really dont know what you guys keep complaining about i have played 400 hours of this garbage in 4.3 after years of not playing and everything i come up with works just fine on grand admiral mid game scalingthe only thing that could be shit is if you intentionally make a hedonist habitat build and instantly lose to consumer goods deficit
>>565791253I drop Stellaris and play better space 4x then - like Aurora, DW or Space Empires.
>>565797340It's called being the seether, you shouldn't respond to it
>>565797340I dunno man, couple of anons here wouldn't shut about it so I figured I might as well give it a try again and see what I'm missing out on. Turns out not that much.>>565797475Sounds like a plan.
Stellaris but in the ocean
Stellaris but if you lose, you get pegged.
>stellaris like fantasy game would be easiest money maker>no one made it
>>565807581Sealaris
>>565807719Spiderllaris
>>565808373that'd be amazing honestly
>>565808373age of wonder 4
>>565812953Not really, AoW is standard 4x game, stellaris is still a grand strategy, but the one with expansion at first(and first versions of stellaris were focused more on early expansion and exploration than anything else)
stellaris would be a better game if MP fags didnt cry about balance for some fucking reasonwhy do they always want to turn every game into some hyper balanced competitive game?if youre playing stellaris mp you should be all getting along and agreeing on house rules against broken things
>>565814181>if MP fags didnt cry about balance for some fucking reasonwhat's really shocking is that retards like you think this actually happens
>>565813592Wrong.
>>565815060they do cry on reddit and paradox forums thoughbeit
>>565815254Have you perhaps tried to discuss their problems there instead of seething here?
>>565816027>post on paradox forums are you insane/pol/ is literally more coherent
>>565816281You should really show them this!
>>565739808>>565736892Damn i cant believe it was 10 years already..And the game still suck mucho negro dicks..>>565762497I dont care, it makes my dick hard.>>565800684>Sounds like a plan.Always>>565815060Bitch please, Paradox literally gutted CK2 to appease mp meta sweats. They did the same fucking thing in Stellaris.
>>565808373Isnt that what Conquest of Elysium is? And arguably Total War Warhammer too.
>>565822619NoIf you want bring something close but turn based, at least say fall from heaven
KERRIGAN NOW I SENSE SOMETHING OFF ABOUT THAT TEMPLAR DON'T ATTACK HIM ACK
>>565824364I'm gonna pay you 20 punches to fuck off.
japs are best civ in AoMprove me wrong, but you can't
>>565824364what the fuck is that
>>565826794that's zasz from starcraft 1
>>565669884we all enjoyed a different roleplay thing, and just happened to have the game, even if not everyone had the DLC. So when one guy spoke up asking about trying a multiplayer session together just so our group could try something different, the word spread until we had enough people to fill the galaxy with many different brands of xenophobia, or examples of warranted xenophobiafuck this isn't even my screenshot from it when I looked in my folders for ANY records, but there it is still.There's my dumbass megachurch empire at the very bottom of the galactic south that ended up being galactic contender #2
>>565736892The superior system in the end.>less bloat>everything has a set 'place' in the universe>less microIt could have been a fun little puzzle game like in galciv.
Is there a date for nomads coming out?
>>565833956Nope, neither a price.
>>565832392galciv sucks
In heroes of Might and Magic: Old era, what is the "normal" way to play the game? I don't want to do the campaign at this moment. But what is just a regular way to play that isn't imbalanced? Like how many AI etc.
>>565841410Can't speak for normal, but I saw people play in a 1vs1vs1vs1vs1 (versus 7 AI's).
>>565841138Okay anon.
>>565836226It's Free :)
Good night spiders
>>565848806Night-o.
>>565848806What if it's daytime and I'm not a spider?
>>565857873Cringe to both
Most powerful organic species ascension path in Stellaris? I think it's purity with how many job efficiencies they can stack.
>>565863005cloning probably, pop growth is still super important
Can we talk about xcom here?
>>565863005evolutionary predators
I'm thinking of playing some Stellaris again. I know when 4.0 cam out it was very badly received and the reviews are still mixed on steam. In your opinion which version of Stellaris is the best way to play at the moment?(Please be civil)
>>565872903just play the latest version, or wait until 4.4 which is a custodian patch>(Please be civil)ur a fag
I'm in a city builder mood today, what should i play? My options are Cities: Skylines with Mass Transit, Industries and Parklife DLC, Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic and Town to City.
>>565873459As always, Cities: Skylines if you wanna chill, Workers and Resources if you're in the mood for autistic logstics simulation
>>565873459C:S with all the DLCs
>>565873674I'm gonna watch a guide for C:S because the first two cities i made weren't making any profit and i resorted to taking loans.>>565873819I will buy them over the course of a year, or should i get the subscription?
>>565874153pirate them u fag, why pay for all that shit
>>565874235I have steam addiction problem, and there is 87€ left of DLCs, it will be no problem to buy a few more of them during summer sales.
>>565874561alright whatever man
>>565874678Everyone tells me to pirate the DLCs but paradox upgrades their games every 3 days, that could cause a problem. I'm not talking about C:S btw. Just saying.
>>565872903Just play current patch. We've long since left the absolute fucking fuckfest of 4.0, and currently on the tail end of reworking/balancing/cutting extreme shit to better save up that tension period early game where the AI can actually threaten you
>>565848806Good morning spiders!
>>565881958good morning anon
my plantoid species reproduces like this>>565874561many many such cases
Real shame that people hated it for being too campyWorld needs pure fun like that, especially these days when everything is too serious and depressinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tnfkR-ME2w
>>565883531eeeelf
elves next door get enslaved like this
>>565890618bully elves
>>565892690Genemod elves so that they stay lolis their entire lives. Then take their homeworlds away and make them live on ships their entire lives, like voidborns.And also give him wide hips, big butts, and bright hair colour, like blue or pink.
>>565890618I would like a 4x game with elf enslaving.
Research Complex? I find it quite simple really.
>erogenous zones just fucking dissappeared from my capitalWell shit, i wonder what mod bugged it out. I hope its not "At War"..
1000 hivemind pops stuck on Assimilating, those lazy neets
took inwqrd perfectio with negative pop growth during war and crisisive been at war the whole game with ai declaring war on repeat and never being able to go past my citadelsfuck off
Heroes of Piss & Shit
>>565897859>erogenous zonesI think you made a typo.
>>565900565It's a sex mod
>>565900565I didnt.
>>565900683Fuck sake.
>>565900683what do those produce?
>>565900683>*confused blorg noise*
>>565901058Mostly unity, trade and ameneties.You can also plop some gem incubation or just simple impregnation facilities there.>>565900749>>565901196just wait till i get the diary tech.
shouldn't a sex district produce Pops?
>>565901519Since when prostitution is about making kids?If anything widespread prostitution should lower pop growth as it did with real life.
>>565901615Why should prostitution lower birth rate?! Unless you make abortion legal.
>>565901839Because you have people that go fuck whores and either dont want to fuck their spouses OR dont even have to look for ones.General entertaiment districts are something entirely else, prostitution should lower pop growth.
>>565901615>If anything widespread prostitution should lower pop growth as it did with real life.Really? Because during wars through all periods and even if we go closer, to something like japan, prostitution boosted population pretty good
>>565901959>dont even have to look for onesI mean, given how bitchy inferior females are...
>>565901959>Because you have people that go fuck whores and either dont want to fuck their spouses OR dont even have to look for ones.Can't think of any real world examples.Fuck, even in modern world countries with legal prostitution have very high birth rates
>>565902027Prostituion could boost pop growth only in settings without contraception.Im pretty sure everyone knows that the point of going to brothel is sex and not kids.
>>565902175That's because they are shitholes, not because they allow prostitution
>>565902280Yeah, but enough about the United States.
>>565902175>even in modern world countries with legal prostitution have very high birth ratesAre they? Because if anything modern countries with all the degeneracy have to opposite problem with pop growth under the replacement rate.Especially if you break it down a bit and dont consider fatima al ahfafajghasga shitting out kids on denmark soil as denmark population growth.
>>565902192>>565902280Despite what hentai incel manga trying to teach you, sex tends to end with children.Also, different types of contraception were known since dawn of time, never stopped prostitution from boosting populations."Men think they don't need to care and provide so are less careful" historically beats your "well if I could pay money instead of seething in impotent rage, I for sure wouldn't want a wife"
>>565902442Aaaand here comes the /pol/, you couldn't help yourself.
>>565902603>sex tends to end with children.Not if you use contraception.> different types of contraception were known since dawn of time, never stopped prostitution from boosting populations.Because they were mostly very inconvinient to use so they werent used or out right didnt work.And having a kid with a whore was alwyas more of an accident at work than intended result so kid either ended up aborted.
>>565902603You really should choose another hill to die on retard>>>/b/
>>565902603>sex tends to end with childrenHow come my girlfriend and I never managed to have kids, then?
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>>565902603>sex tends to end with childrenbut men can't get pregnant
>>565903789True, no matter how often my boyfriend rails me, I don't get pregnant. And yet I'm wearing programmer socks.
>>565903965Let me give it a try.
>>565904156Give what a try?
Just realized that there wasn't a paradoxcon this spring, weird
>>565902749Nta but only an utter fool wouldn't realize the current system is incredibly disfunctional and counter-intuitive, you cant both claim to "respect" the sovereignty of others culture then act like conflicts between your own and theirs are evitable simply by sticking your head in sand, especially when said "respect" is actually crass ignorance passed as benevolent tolerance. You'd be shocked to learn the average "moderate" sunni muslim is merely a convenience away from acting like a warmongering savage, its an eye opening experience to see a meek Algerian elderly speak of how he'd impale Lybians on poles with genuine glee in his voice. You simply do not comprehend how radically different they are in their culture and beliefs, and that they hold dear certain concepts that would make your head spin trying to understand why the fuck anyone would think or behave that way willingly.Said another way, its one thing if some random refugees land on your planet for free pops, its another when the ships full of Prikkitiki who will be a pain to manage forever unless you do some dystopian shit like genetically modifying their aggressivity out or nerve staple them. Anyone who dont bother to make the difference is in for a rough time.
So how hard is army fighting in Song of Syx? Im starting to have a reasonable garrison of ~200/300 potential soldiers, but I dont know much about the training mechanics and it seem like they have dogshit stats anyway because they're mummies. Been playing as Tomb Kings in a warhammer overhaul mod and its pretty fun, albeit the early game was super slow due to no immigration.Also lmao just got a big accident in my stone mine causing the death of 18 workers at once, luckily none of my tomb guards were affected, but im annoyed that my luxurious crypt got filled instantly. Is roof integrity a thing or its just rng?
>>565910787>not that anon but if you don't agree with him, you're a retardOkay.
>>565911889>Peoples can agrees on things without being the same individual masquerading as twoWho woulda thunk, eh.
>>565912247>reddit spacingOk
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>565912247>Peoples can agreesFunny mix of uneducation and /pol/ opinion.
>>565903043Because she did all the penetrating
>>565873674Town to City is very chill too.
