about the relics thing
are you sure it's not about the galatron?

>>564823501
Did Romans use mauls like that?

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>>564823467
Nebulous: Fleet Command, Campaign Act 1 will be released on May 29th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BOaaB9I1Q
Galciv 4, 3.3 update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCso-_a52M
Newstower Roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1649950/view/512989355492508053
Foundation is looking for testers for the upcoming Harvest Festival DLC

>>564827720
Mauls? And no, stole them from mercs.

>>564827720
That'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 death
based elder races

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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 easily
ive 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)

>>564831921
Worms 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.

>>564833352
do 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

>>564834449
I 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.

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i guess ill need to jump drive to get them

>>564840345
Fertility 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 wrecks
Hmmm.

>>564840732
i dont have any pops at all i'm a wild origin

>>564840732
you know what shouldnt happen? empires with like 5 diplomatic weight somehow contributing -9 to imperial authority because their delegate is good

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>>564842092
Depends on the envoy.

>>564842590
lmao

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 ship
Well shit that bodes well in case of actual conflict.
>>564843809
Grab "Fleet matters" mod, its a life saver.
And yeah, wars in Stellaris suck ass.

>>564845734
you mean fleets win wars
i 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 wars
yeah that one
>caring about cheevos

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>>564847658
Please sir, may I have some more?

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>>564851881
That is all.

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HAK HAK HAK

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what other game let you write names for your're are units?

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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% HP
I can't do it. I just can't play a RTS where I can't heal/repair my units, it's impossible.

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>>564857331
Tzar.

>>564861093
Is that kept in Tzared? What button was it?

>>564861303
>What button was it?
Just clicking the unit name on the left panel.

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>>564851881
MORE!?

>>564855738
so what were they running away from?

>>564868050
the 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 buggy
bugs 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 once
also the sentient wilds origin is fucking busted as shit if you focus on reducing empire size by 50% using civics
you can get it even lower
your only empire size comes from planets so that's easy to bring down with ascension

>>564871705
oh yeah heavy reliance on space amoeba H slots and like a billion small crystals WILL lag the shit out of your puny human hardware

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and now time for a palette cleanser after being gaia

>>564823467
Good night anons and spiderfag.

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>>564879647
Good night anon.

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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

>>564885490
In 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!

>>564888095
120 motes btw
what do i even do with this much

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Aurora

>>564842590
she looks like she has 600 diplomatic weight
get it
because she's fat

I haven't played Stellaris since 2022, somehow

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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?

>>564898515
very mysterious...

you'll find out in a few years

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>>564898639
I guess I'm finding out now...

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>>564898879
So space vishnu has returned?

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>>564899087
Ok, so it wants to kill us all to "end suffering", got it.
Now how do I kill it?

>>564899394
:)

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>>564899642
Welp, it just finished eating the fallen empire.

>>564885064
WTF are those fleet strengths?
>2600
Oh...

>>564837261
they are scripted to start isolated

>>564900483
what are they

>>564901958
they're the chosen

>>564899394
based robot mommy queen

just realized the khan wont setrapy me if he happens and i border both marauders oopsies
need to focus on this existential threat

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>>564899904
It's an anime mod, I ain't gotta explain shit.
>>564902786
She's dying as soon as I figure out how to penetrate her fart cloud.

>>564894242
...isn't good

>>564902852
okay crisis averted thanks to battleships with auto cannons and plasma
killed them before they became a khan
phew
no retreat policy is really painful to endure the losses from but the 33% firerate is so worth it

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>>564917362
>battleships with auto cannons and plasma

>>564918229
it was to counter them specifically i know i hated it too

so what is the ship build meta now anyways

>>564919747
I have no idea honestly, I make missile corvettes and carrier battleships

>>564919747
I like crab ships
Do 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.

>>564930430
Yes. You also need bread.

>habinte unified worlds system spawns next to my home sector
Time 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?

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>xenophile fallen empire keeps demanding repeat humiliation
>say no
>they do this
so much for the tolerant xenophiles

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>>564896441
fat mommy milkers +500 diplomatic weight

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>2 fallen empires attacking me at once
>now this

>>564949602
>both fallen empires awaken
>scourge is getting beat
all my borders have 2 citadels

>hmm today I'll play the good guy as xenophile/egalitarian/militarist
>the only militarist faction is militarist/authorian
paradoggs pls
can'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 them
that was fun
the 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 empire
even 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 3
lmao gg

>>564953329
>>never got to border a normal empire at all
thats normal, game is literally programmed to spawn Ai not only right next to player BUT also ai empire of directly opposing ethics.

>>564954361
my opposite ethics would be a xenophile empire not another genocidal empire 2 FEs and 2 marauders

>>564953329
sucks to suck

>>564885490
my personal larp as xenophobes of any kind is to go cyborgs because they realized their limited lifespan is not enough to purge the galaxy
alternatively psionics for reasons beyond mortal understanding

>>564954472
Its 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

>>564965113
Yourpost but you're not retarded and it's actually a good idea

>ai keeps getting galactic market without even nominating
i 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

>>564950375
wait how do you get to have two citadels?

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>>564971526
the limit on citadels is per system, you can have an unlimited amount of them but by default only one per system
but pic related can increase it to a maximum of 4 per system

>>564966179
Balanced for multiplayer.

>>564965113
Kinda like Thea.

>>564972779
oh, 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

>>564974769
somewhere between enough and too much

>>564974769
there is no ratio, you have as much as you can without hampering your alloy production too much

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FUAK i had a mod on by accident and now my entire save is nulled

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bamp

i dont get clone origin
so if i ascend instead of restore fertility im forever limited to 15 vats and thus 12.5k pop and need slaves?

>>564991613
You do seem to get it

>>564991827
but thats terribe scaling if you dont have other species right?

>>564991613
also i meant 5 vats*

Is progenitor just a starcraft zerg reference

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HUG!

>>564991613
I believe you get more vats (or you get more pops per vat?) when you ascend

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>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.

>>564994639
Nope.

>>564995773
are you sure

>>564995685
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>564995685
the 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 empire
That will be a fucking slog.

>>565000312
>Stellaris taxes work the same way like edo-period Japanese taxes worked
No wonder it's all sorts of wonky!

>>565000312
khan bankrupting his subjects like a boss

>>564999797
it's a percentage of their production

>>565000312
okay so losing to the khan has no consequences?

>>565002647
No. You change the consequences to you being exterminated. Sucks to suck.

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>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.

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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

>>564995685
Finest Paradox craftmanship.

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Wait wtf... IM the Remnant Spark...

>>565006291
besides the gooner mod what is going onn here

>>565006442
Lewd plantoid warriors asked me to be their overlord but sounded like they wanted me to give up to them..

>>565006291
What is this infection stuff?

>>565007912
its the STD Crisis from Lustful Void.
Basically spreading unlimited bliss virus.

bump

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>try out an extra building slots mod
>looks pretty jank
don't know if I'll continue to use it

bamp

>checking out the awakened fallen empire
>the fucking xenophile one has 94 colonies
>wtf
>check their home system
>they have a synaptic lathe
Uhhhhhhhh I guess I need to take these retards out right?

>>565039997
lmao I didn't know awakened FEs could become the crisis

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>>565040287
I 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 too
I 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...

>>564991613
If 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 further
At 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

>>565040636
I 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 of

so 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

>>565040563
yeah nah, time to just end this game, there's 211 infested worlds but I cant be assed to find them all and glass them

>>565042862
LAZY.

>>565041146
Okay so I did remember correctly
I 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 vats
Now I wonder if it'd feel any different in the current version
And how well i could run an ascendant clone empire as a megacorp gimmick because my dumb ass has to try megacorp everything

>>565045138
nobody care

>>565049172
I 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.

>>565049997
That's because the seether posts here a lot.

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>>565049997

>>565049245
Fuck me yourself coward.

>>565049997
i'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

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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 everything
paradox what the fuck is this shit? give me back the old factions if you're gonna half ass it like this

>>565054887
Same.

>>565055078
it's absolutely retarded yeah
there needs to be a militarist/egalitarian faction

>>565055278
how 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
>>565056251
It definitely needs some work done.

>>565055078
what'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

>>565057352
Umm 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 ass
they're not even your vassels? kek

>>565054674
Ive didnt come here for like dozen weeks, not the first time and the single thing that is prevelant in last 10y is stellaris hateboner.
>>565051242
Maybe, 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?

>>565061204
tested and it does for anyone else

don't die

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>>565069019
>:(

doing a zerg playthrough with progenitor and bodysnatcher
it'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

>>565069314
also using bio ships for the first time what the fuck is this buggy AI? my maulers keep circling enemy starbases instead of attacking them

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Anorexic fucks looking at this and going "oh yeah this is peak female anatomy", my brother in christ, that woman is at death door.

>>565070164
so 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

>>565071067
Sorry dude, but new DLCs > fixing bugs.

>>565003447
Crazy russian man

>>565026732
show me machine world or ecumenopolis with this thing enabled

>>565026732
to be honest with district specialization i don't see the point of extra building slots

>>565057116
i hate this nigga in nioh games

>>565070830
>>565071067
maulers fall off later because they dont get enough evasion like corvettes do so atleast its not bricking your late game

>>565073304
i guess so
for now i can just avoid it by using pure maulers till i get the carrier thing

>>565071937
I'm sure they'll remove them next time they rework planets. Or the time after that.