First for comitatus.

Buy the new DLC NOW

>Geshed-out consciousness

Why is stellaris okay here?

>>570921463
Shut your fucking mouth, tourist.

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HAK HAK HAK

>>570911368
>improvements and districts that just compounded your numbers over and over
endless legend 2 had the exact opposite problem on launch because the district cost ramped up so quickly the basic human faction who focused on 1 city got completely fucked by it

>>570921463
autistic monkeys considered a random map to not be gr*nd so now the only good paradox game is here as merely a non-grand strategy game

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Why the fuck did Paradox make planets not surrender from bombardment when you’re Nomadic?

>>570918816
How does nanotech ascension feel for nomad gestalt machines?
Montu tried it in his day 1 stream as a last minute thing after showing off how nihilistic acquisition assimilators could snowball with stealing pops, but he never figured out how to make nanotech 'work' as nomads

>>570923651
More like some folk with a chip on their shoulder and a vendetta against gsg for whatever reason turned the general to utter shit, like over 90% of posts now are obvious low effort offtopic bot spam. I still recall a few years back when it wasnt utter shit and still hosted on /vg/, it was constantly under raid by these same twats, with citing "X isnt a grand starategy" one of their most common bait rethorics. Its most likely because the general was an hotspot for historically knowledgeable autists who would tell you whats what instead of giving you a politically correct reinterpretation of things (ie would tell you exactly what weimar germany was like before the nazi came around, instead of kneejerking the taboo subject away), which obviously rubbed some folks the wrong way.

>>570931516
Fuck off back to your shithole, faggot.

>>570932906
Based.

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>>570922536
HUYK HUYK HUYK

>>570927957
>My lord! Apes from planet Glxblt are bombarding our planet! What should we do?
>Surrender, we must beg for their mercy and appeal to their morals.
>My lord! The Fagotron merchant fleet is bombarding our planet! What should we do?
>A Bunch of space gypsies are bombing us?! NO SURRENDER! DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR!

Is this the thread to talk about Song of Styx in?

>>570936987
City builder, so I'd think it's okay

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>>570937654
cool

dev just announced a big update for it
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1162750/view/529882384083977658?l=english

changes to slave system sound pretty fun, going to finally make my human utopia with elf slaves

>>570927957
If they wait long enough you'll go away.

Should you actually bother to set up connected waylines or should you just pepper waystations at the highest value systems?

>>570919486
Funny you use that word. I was just playing Vargus today.

>>570942538
I had to bump the thread with something.

>>570938061
Has the dev said when there will be a full release?

I haven't chance to play yet, but I get the impression embarking and becoming nomads seems like a way to escape doomsday.

Stellaris DLC are on sale on GOG, any worth getting? I have Machine Age, Grand Archive, Leviathans, Fed, Apocalypse, Paragons

>>570949397
All of them, if you enjoy the game.

>>570946596
Yeah I haven’t tried doomsday but I think according to the devs embarking was basically integrated into the origin itself like you get a unique option to start building the ship

>>570949397
Pretty much all of them are necessary. If you have to ask this question you should either be a) pirate and just buy random DLC according to how much you want to tip paradox or even better buy extra copies and give them to your friends or something or b) use the subscription when ever you feel like playing.

I’m getting the impression that the civilian class arkships are dogshit and you should either be using the science or military one depending on if you’re playing peaceful or not

We need to go back

>>570951045
>or even better buy extra copies and give them to your friends or something
Do you have any idea what that would cost? Not that anon but even buying all stellaris's dlc for yourself is expensive.

>>570956442
Currently stellaris goes for 15 deutche marks on steam. The ultimate bundle goes for 140 marks, that's little over 9 full games you could shell out with the price. So for the exact same tip you could have the full game yourself or you could have the full game and share the game with 9 of your friends.

>watching a tutorial
>guy recommends only building more districts when you need job slots
Fuck I don't know why it didn't click with me before. I was spamming as many districts as possible for them to fill up with pops later but now I see why I can never get enough power

>>570957931
Ye pretty much, you should only build new stuff when the icon for new stuff needed pops up, otherwise it's better to let your pops populate the jobs you already have and presumably built because you needed the outputs

>>570944648
1.0 is tentatively scheduled for end of this year, last I heard.

>>570957931
Reminds me of the Civ epiphany I had a long time ago. Don't waste citizens on food-heavy tiles when the best tile your next citizen will grow on to is unimproved anyway. Just run specialists or something until you get more improvements or specialist slots up.

>>570959554
For what civ game?

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Rare moment when the Golden Gate bridge has an actual use.

>>570962782
Not that guy but that's true for all of them

>>570963371
What map script is that?
>>570963983
Maybe a little less true in V where raw population = free science. That's my least favorite entry, though, except VII which I will never install.

>>570959426
Will buy it then.

>playing Stellaris as fanatic xenophobe spiritual nomad
>2264
>20+ waystations
>flanked on galactic east by xenophobic FE
>large militaristic fanatic materialists on west
>AI nomad waystations block expansion into above empire
>AI is avoiding the 1/6th of the galaxy I operate in like the fucking plague

>>570965110
>What map script is that?
Small Continents.

>>570959554
>Don't waste citizens on food-heavy tiles
Sorry to bring up a youtuber but in a play through he did recently Potato McWhiskey spent a bunch of time talking about why he thinks farms are overrated if not bad for your empire in 6, since turbo growing your pops ends up causing you to hit the housing cap and not only making that food worth less, but also causing you to need more amenities and dropping all your yields from losing happy or ecstatic city status.

>>570969243
6 is the one I never really learned/got good at and I'm thinking about changing that soon, but yeah that sounds right. Hitting the housing cap in 6 is basically like hitting the happiness cap in 4 and 3 and you only wanna tolerate it if you can whip the excess away with slavery in 4

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I'm gonna do it anons

I'm gonna make my own civ 3 mod

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Good night.

>>570977070
Mount and Blade?

>>570977212
Yes Bannerlord.

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>>570922536
I've seen your true form so I'm not afraid of you

So it is normal that the pilgrimage situation never conclude even after reaching every single one of the holy sites across the galaxy?

ok so somehow one of my planets got geleboric mutations and i forgot to migration control them so now these inbreds are everywhere. how do i genocide these subhumans when the game still thinks they're my species?

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>had fill of playing nomads for now
>play a normal empire
>already encountering systems raped of resources by nomads only 3 jumps from homeworld
These space gypsies are going to make me xenophobic

>>570988005
I mean the resources will replenish with enough time. I wonder if ai nomads will avoid harvesting in owned systems if they have positive relations, since thats an easy way to fuck up your relations if you’re playing nomads yourself

>>570988005
if you’re a land empire most of your economy should be on planets anyway, not stations

>>570988005
EQUILIBRATED FOR JOUST BETWEEN FELLOW LADS

>>570973470
does anyone want to help me?

>>570996062
I'd like to, but I know nothing about coding.
Or about Civ3 for that matter.

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>>570717060
>>570766501
>>570918816
Me again. I just destroyed Cetana early by exploiting the fact that nomads can enter her space and the fact she turns hostile when attacking convoys. Vid of it happening was too big so I uploaded it to yt: https://youtu.be/C9pl-5HHk5M

>>570997451
based, however
>the fact that nomads can enter her space
probably unintentional

>>571000451
yeah i filled a bug report. with the same video

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>game's offering me another copy of my starting hero

>>571002281
>vodyussy x2

imagine

>>570982456
No. I think I just capped it with some events after visiting all sites and got a final kind of bonus/conclusion. Took a few years between each event though

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>>571003749
>tfw vodyussy will never be real

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playing corporate nomads and just leeching off of my friends' hard work. it's funny how the waypoint mining/research increases get applied on top of all the buffs the other empire has, im getting more from his arc furnace than he actually generates for himself.
nomads are a lot of fun, first time i really wanna try out all the origins.

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Age of Empires 4 is a bit underrated.
I do appreciate that you can pick a tileset independantly from the map's layout. This is the map "dungeon" with the fancy "enchanted grove" tileset.
And this is an enchanted... whatever the thing between a deer and a noose is.

>>571005659
shut the fuck up sissyfag

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>"oh i'll make two battering rams to take down the enemy forum"
>these aren't battering rams
>these are FLAMETHROWERS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>570977070
Good morning, nice pic, I should get back into Bannerlord, but holding it off for now.
>>570979072
>>570935493
Stop embarrassing the hak...

>>571005850
Make me, faggot.

>>571005659
>enchanted
Never played AoW4, only watched it. Are you saying you can make the map generate as a fairy woodland?
I know there was a wolf toggle where werewolves just charge in to fuck shit up indiscriminately
>>571006845
What civs do we have fighting here

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>>571010825
>Are you saying you can make the map generate as a fairy woodland?
Yes, but it's only cosmetic. I think I explained wrong, so let me restart.

What you are referring to is a game mode. AoE4 has a few of them, you know them: sandbox, nomads, fast start, but also monster hunt, and the one you mentioned, the Full Moon mode.
Then there are different maps, who are layouts. They're essentially the maps you know from AoE2: black forest, arena, fortress, araby and what else. I like the one called "dungeon" because it's a bunch of high mountains acting like walls to separate the map into rooms.
THEN you have what I call tilesets, which might be the wrong word. It's just cosmetic stuff, and it influence the trees, the terrain and the animals you meet, but it's just cosmetic, and every DLC add some of these. You get the usual ones: European, Mediterranean, Winter, Taiga, and with DLCs, you get the Yellow River, the "enchanted grove", and the "hallow's end" one who has dead trees and a spooky atmosphere.

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>>571010825
>What civs do we have fighting here
I was attacking Malians with a DLC faction based on the vanilla Byzantine faction, called Macedonian Dynasty.
AoE4 seem to follow a pattern where most DLC factions are subfactions of existing factions: the French get Joan of Ark, the Holy Roman Empire get the Dragon Order, and Byzance gets the Macedonian Dynasty.
And why play the Macedonians? Because they use the terrifying Varangian Guards. They start with lame spearmen to counter scout rushes, but then they get the actual Varangian swordsmen. And they're hilarious: they have a skill where they put the sword and shield away, pull a giant two-handed axe, and come rushing the poor hapless enemy.

I don't know if actual shills or just piss poor standards but goddamn do nomads BLOW. Please suggest me some decent game to clear my palette from this shitshow.

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>Varangian Guard when pissed off

>>571005659
I want to like AoE 4, the problem is it has the same weird delay on every input that makes it feel bad that Relic's other games (dawn of war) have and I just find it hard to get past that

>>571015343
I haven't noticed any delay?
I thought it'd be your computer being shit, but there's no way it'd lag on both AoE4 and Dawn of War.

>>571015343
>>571015846
if it's online lobbies and you're connecting from far away to the server then you'd have input lag

i do recall relic games having a bit more lag than should be normal though

>>571015907
Oh, you meant online.
Yeah, I never play RTS online.

>>571015907
huh no it happens to me even offline
>>571015846
Yeah AoE4's delay isn't as bad as DoW's for what it's worth

>>571016305
At least it sounds playable. I tried Dune Spice Wars a while ago, it was just unplayable.

>>570967658
seems the play is to make sure there are no ai nomads on the map if you play as one

I am so lazy that I don't even want to play on my PC right now.
I wonder if my simple office laptop can run at least Dominions or Vagrus...

>>571030168
Something like Civ 3 should run just fine

>>570991814
Isn't there a Bayeux tapestry meme of this somewhere?

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That's pretty, I haven't seen a nova before.

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>>571044653
There are lot of memes.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-425-nomads-roam-the-galaxy-whats-next.1929567/
Another big patch coming next week

>>571044826
System view needs an option to hide all the name plates of every resource deposit and other useless clutter.

>>571044826
One of the prettiest scenes is when you have a pretty looking nebula that also has storms going on, the entire system become a lightshow.

I always made a big deal to grab the empire size pop reduction bonuses everywhere, even the tradition trees that only give -5%
With nomads it feels less useful. My sacred path megacorp got FUCKED by colony empire size with building ark ship 2 and 3, and it was a near Dark Age with pitiful tech progress until I reached the point my priest specialists generated decent research in the origin chain
That and getting the tech that lets way lines automate resources trivialized everything. Now I outpaced the galaxy
The only limiter now is pop growth to fill new ark ships

>>571049564
>The only limiter now is pop growth to fill new ark ships
nihilistic acquisition

AOE2 has gotten too bloated

>>571054450
How so?

>>571049793
Ayys are icky though

>>571055106
Ate something bad, I assume.

>>571055302
Likely drank milk. This shit is horrible on your digestion after 30.

>>571054450
Too many non medieval Europe civs at this point diluting the game's aesthetic desu. We just needed an Indians not 5 Indian cultures

>>571055106
This >>571055586 and the devs extending the timeline to antiquity

>>571049793
Yeah I'm saving that shit for my next run with the Khan inheritor. Right now it's being fanatic xenophile while ripping off and extorting anyone I seem a problem
I already have the next empire drafted up once I finish this. I'm just deciding if I want to try the pirate civic with being a Khan heir, and what ascension path to eventually aim for

>>571055218
This is exactly what synthetic assimilation is for though
Turning your enemies into sex bots

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Oh my. No pressure.

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My arkship just got disabled in a war. How do I get it back?

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>try Sintopia again
>this time, stack torment engine to better torture souls
>because employees have breaks every two souls, make little money
>end up facing strikes every single day
I think I fucking hate this game. It's making alt-right and willing to brutally oppress these lazy good-for-nothing losers. Lazy employees don't want to work but they still want to get paid.

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>soul has just enough sin to pass the gate
>by the time it reaches the reincarnation point, it's back to being unworthy
My rage. It burns with the fiery of the sun.

>Just realized you can synergize nascent stage trait with alien zoos so you put your own children into an exhibit and get amenities from it

Kinda useless but the image is very hilarious, it would be like kindergardens being petting zoos for adults visitors where you can feed them oats biscuits and get a photo with it. Family dynamics must be wack as fuck in such a society.

>>571072384
Isn't it what orphanages and Epstein Island were about?

>>571072384
Sadly it seem the game cant actually process this case and it cause a weird bug where I now have a few nascent pop categorized as "no category" whom have no needs at all but have an iota of political power for unexplainable reasons, als they're unhappy for whatever reasons.

>>571074752
nascent stage has never not been buggy

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Even in Ancient China, fucking unions.

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How many arkships should I build?
I was thinking three with one specialised as Urban Industry, one specialised as Policy Research Campus / Theological Institute and one specialised as Center of Commerce.
Or should I go with five arkships instead of having alloys & CG and Tech & Unity production share ships?

The cruise origin SUCKS

>>571082089
You absolutely do not want to spam arkships because nomads have a +100% empire size from “colonies” effect like wilderness empires. I would keep it at 3 max. It’s a slow start but once you get the techs to upgrade the ships you can actually build quite alot on them

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Any ideas for billboards for the team? We have 3 so far (a potent Horatio Sauce one, a Roggan? one, and one Spiderfag made which is pic related)

>>571091501
something civ related? maybe about shaka fucking your shit up

>city razed by the zulu? you may be entitled to financial compensation

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>>571091501
Here.

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>>571091719
I like it, I'll put something together for it

>>571093117
Thanks, I'll send this one in

>>571093442
That's better than what I had in mind, thanks again

>>571093673
Is it possible to add a white stroke to the text so it stands out more?

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>>571093765

>>571093875
Perfect

Crap. Quickly, what's a game with elves in it? I have an idea for a fat bastard banner.

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>>571094061
A bunch of fantasy MMOs and adventure games. Skyrim, Dragon Age, Warcraft

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>>571093996
Here's a fourth one.

>>571094548
Yeah but Skyrim elves are ugly and I never played Dragon Age.
I settled on Deedlit and Gothmog, too late.

>>571083308
What if I keep having 1000/1000 influence?

>>571094608
Many thanks for these. We play at home this Sunday so you'll see them around the pitch

>>571095972
I have one more idea, but I doubt you can use it...

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anno got some beauty tiles. you can build trees and bushes on top of them but not statues. the dlc ads more tiles like different kinds of flowers

>>571094614
Build/upgrade more waystations. Do stuff in the galactic community. For god’s sake don’t spam 5 un-upgraded underdeveloped arkships unless you enjoy a 300% tech cost penalty

>>571098120
please do not, spiderfag gets enough attention as it is

>>571098867
Now you'll be paying a LOT of attention to these banners, huh?

>>571098867
What was it?

>>571098120
That one's not happening

>>571102876
WHAT WAS IT

>>571102941
An ad board featuring one of Spiderfag's ass pics

>>571103056
What a shame, I missed it.

I’ve seen some people talk about how the devs should remove empire size because the empire with more planets should objectively be stronger than an empire with less planets. Your thoughts?

>>571104658
>the empire with more planets should objectively be stronger than an empire with less planets.
this is already the case, even with empire size

>>571102876
>>571103056
Put it in, coward.

>>571106357
all the other generals already think we're gay, we're not putting your ass out there for the world to see

how much genocide is needed for the average stellaris playthrough?

>>571106598
Coward!
Yeah, fair.

Where are the banners hosted for the cup?

>>571114032
needed? none. desired? well...

>>571114335
https://implyingrigged.info/wiki/Billboards/VGL

>>571117635
Damn, we don't have a lot.

>>571118054
It's something we can add as anons get ideas

>>571118593
Well, you already have a banner you're not adding in...

>>571114032
>>571114394
Actually it depends on how shit your computer is. If you are posting this from Brazil well then a lot to keep the game rolling smooth in the late game

>>570919305
I'm trying to pick up distant worlds again
how the fuck do I fight a war? Every time I try and do one I just start getting colonies invaded and defense fleets don't

>>571104658
i do that with a mod already because its a fucking stupid ass mechanic made to appeal to tall fags

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The Popular Research Mall and Intrustrial-Trade Quarter seem pretty damn good. I'm still not 100% on early game nomad economy though. Is it better to swap these out for something else?

>>571104658
That's already in the game.

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Good lord that was a tough one. It was a 2v2, but my ally sat on his hands for most of the game, and I ended up fighting both Mordor and Gondor at the same time.
Which could've been manageable if Gondor didn't spam cavalry while Mordor spammed battering ram: whenever I rolled out a catapult, Gondor was here to destroy it, and whenever I left my base, Mordor's battering rams were here to attack my buildings. I was forced on the defensive for most of the game and only slowly chipped away at the AI, all of that because the AI cannot adapt to harassment and has trouble rebuilding lost buildings: once it loses the fortress, it's very hard for it to rebuild it, since it prioritizes making more troops.
Also I love the banter if the Master of Laketown dies.
"The Master is dead! He won't be missed, I suppose."
Also the Master died against a dragon, so... at least he died bravely.

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Time to try the new galactic defender ambition

>>570919305
>If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/ .
I've been out of the loop for a few years. Why are there no more grand strategy generals? Did mods ban them or something ?

Can someone please clarify? I haven't been on this board for two years.

>>571150504
>galactic defender
>origin is hiding in caves

>>571150685
You should follow the link and ask gsg, better to discuss their stuff there than shitpost about it here. This advice is assuming you are asking in good faith of course.

>>571151202
Galaxy is just one big cave if you think about it, you gotta defend that stuff against extra galactic invaders and sheeit.

>>571140053
Scarry Owlk

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>retarded neighbor still assmad that I took 2 systems from him like 100 years ago
>I'm mostly peaceful but I needed a proper chokepoint bro
>declares war
>drags his federation and vassals into it
>they stack up in his homesystem
>and do nothing while staring at my giga death fortress starbase
>their war exhaustion reaches 100%
>settle status quo
this is the second time this happend, fucking retards don't learn

>>571150685
Kill yourself.
>b-b-but I've only been here for-
Every time it's the same excuse. Fuck off and go ask them directly. Faggot.

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>>570919305
Revisiting New London #3: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3645160/view/670620415866964908

>>571104658
Pretty sure empire size is only a real problem if you expand too quickly without ensuring you have the infrastructure to support it all, or go out of your way to specialize your capital word for one specific purpose ie disregarding unity for science so you can upgrade shit quickly but have abysmal unity prod for a long time as the wait time become way longer over time, even if you stay a small empire. Basically its meant to prevent snowballing early game, not that it is truly preventable since stellaris is at its core a number game so its just about outproducing the demand and using the excesses to support other parts of your economy or society.

Like the incremental augmentations are barely felt if you build stuff with long term viability in mind.

>>571150685
Dont bother, it got perma cancer from the permanent no reply bots raid, and I guess whoever caused it still lurk about and is still butthurt over the genre.

>Inb4 said butthurt fellow tell me to take meds or whatever

Go to /gsg/ right now, and try to pretend the majority of posts arent blatant bots. Wouldnt be surprised if over half the posts are from the same bot samefagging 24/7.

>>571153589
You could claim and conquer the state with the claims on your land, annex only their planet systems (and a path between) to save time, then create a new sector out of the new territory only to release it as a vassal immediately, and perhaps even just release them fully with a promise of sovereingty, or just abandon them to their fate. The advantages are numerous; You get a loyal new vassal or ally or buffer who will manage the territory for you and have the same government types, making good relationships easy, while stripping the claims from your systems (as the nation ceased to exist) and removing all titular rights from the stations in unclaimed systems. So basically it become free real estate, so either let the ai expand or do so yourself with little opposition but be quick as the ai will jump on the opportunity to expand.

>>571157762
>Basically its meant to prevent snowballing early game
It's there to make sure an empire twice as big doesn't just research at twice the speed and just completely overrun the game in favor of mindless blobbing. Basically it's there to enable "tall" and to ensure that efficient and well managed empires stay relevant to mindless but large empires. Empires that are bigger already have a linear advantage in production they don't need a linear advantage in advancing in tech and unity trees to keep up. It actually matters the least in the early game because there's a minimum empire size and the first few things you expand to are "free" and the first few after the "free" are "cheap" because going from say 4 to 5 planets is +20% but it may increase your empire size by only 10% due to aforementioned base values.

Even with that though increasing the size of your empire so long as you maintain the same efficiency means you do everything better than you did. So long as you maintain the same research/unity per pop doubling your pops is always going to lead to faster overall progress in those categories and linear increase in material production so bigger is in fact always better. Of course it can be hard to maintain that but that's the challenge of the game.

>pre-FTL species in one of my systems suddenly becomes a Gestalt empire
>event pops up but the option to automatically declare war is blocked with a conditions list being longer than my screen is tall
>wait 10 years for truce to expire and conquer them
>dogshit 40% habitability planet with pops that are useless
What do I do with them? Can I decolonize the planet?

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>>571104658
This discussion was held here 10 years ago. Move on anon.

>>571165389
If you resettle all pops off the planet you can abandon it for 200 influence. If you can purge the pops with displacement you can get rid of them without getting massive opinion penalties

>>571065689
What are you talking about?

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>Galactic Defender level 4 gets a funny button to summon the end game crisis
truly the goodest of guys

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>>571153589
>>retarded neighbor still assmad that I took 2 systems from him like 100 years ago

Where's the Warno general?

>>571181879
Fuck off, faggot

So is there a way to forcibly destroy a nomad arkship? I started a containment war against a nomadic firestarter genocider, and despite having a 100% warscore I cant conclude the war. Guess ill try to wait it out and hope the surrender trigger, else im using control commands to obliterate these fucking ships.

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Five Nations is surprisingly fun. it doesn't encourage mindless aggression though.

>played Stellaris since launch
>only finished a game last week
Performance finally improved to the extent that late game no longer makes me quit.

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>>571173776
Can you do that 4 times in a row?

>>571181879
I thought it was here since for the longest time there was war games in the OP

>>571190448
were, you ignoramus.

I yearn for a strategy game that's like Battle for Middle Earth 2, but in a different, sillier setting. I just like how this game plays.

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>>571172145
I slammed my arkship into an enemy starbase and now it’s at 99% devastation and I can’t control it anymore

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Seems to be the highest you can go in terms of waystation capacity. Only 4.6% of a max sized galaxy.

>>571201056
not very high, is it?

>>571201056
Looks like a pain to micromanage

>>571201056
You doing waystation trade hubs on your arcs?

>>571204439
Wouldnt be an issue if it wasnt from the fucktarded trade upkeep on logistic stations, like seriously who is the fucking retarded fuck at paradox who thought 2 trade cost per station is a good idea? If you arent a corporate, its basically a huge debuff to your entire economy, all for a thing of convenience that has no use beyond like a month of usage every few years.

>>571206659
You can't generate 96 trade per month by late game?

Do you ever choose the crisis at game start for the sake of roleplay or do you always have it set to random?

>>571207225
Rarely for roleplay, mostly I set it to random or to a specific one if I haven't played that one in a while.

>>571207225
Nowadays I barely reach crisis era before getting bored, but I leave it at "all" because the rare times I do, I wanna see the galaxy burn in flame. Also always found the idea of galaxy crisis fighting each others interesting.

>>571201056
machine civic that buffs mining stations and destroys menial output also adds 50% capacity

>>571206972
Never underestimate just how shit the seether is at the game.

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>>571201056

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Hey manager, I made that.

>>571213609
Tell me more.

>>571214714
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnBhrXl1Klc

>>571214714
Refer to >>571205545 and stack specialist job efficiency.

>>571214064
Thanks, it's too late to get it in this weekend but I uploaded it and will pass it on to the aesthetics people so it gets in at some point in the future. We have a good chance to advance this weekend and if we top the group (requires a win, or alternatively a draw with some complicated math involving the winner of /vn/-/alg/) then we stand a good chance of being the home team in the round of 16

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>>571215061
I could make so many more, but they'd all be some obscure /civ4xg/ meme or an old quote over a background, so I'm trying to not overdo it.
Through I admit, I really want to make something about that guy who forward settled Chaka Zulu while saying in the thread "bitch please, I know what I'm doing". Or that guy playing They Are Billions and saying "I sure hope it get harder soon".

>>571215357
I don't know of any hard limit on ad boards so you can submit as many as you'd like so long as they make for a good touchline advert. You can see how few ad boards we had in our first match here so a larger variety is appreciated, Mr. Spiderfag https://implying.fun/video/vgl26/2026-06-06/?t=3:54:34.0

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>>571215894
I see that one.
Good fun.

Let me check if I still have my old copy of Unification for Dawn of War...

good morning /civ4xg/

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>Khennel'na Research Agreement
>no one named Khennel'na alive
Is this a bug? There's a Khennet'an Republic currently but I forget if there was an empire named this earlier in the game who died off

>>571216869
penis

how's AOW4? I want to try a new 4x game and it looked interesting. Any dlc worth getting?

>>571217104
Perhaps you had initiated it while under a research agreement with them, shifted the research focus to something else afterward, then between the then and now that specific nation ceased to exist for whatever reasons. So it could explain why you're still getting the bonus despite no longer working with them, like the research amount required already got calculated and the game dont refresh these values and/or retroactively scale them up.

>>571200550
what game

>>571222991
AoW4 is really good including most of the DLC. It's a 4x game that really focuses on waging war being as fun as possible, while also making permanent allies and allied victories good in a way I haven't seen any other 4x do as well. I love being able to take over and declare victory with my buddy without having to like build the UN and achieve a certain situation or whatever first. One of the unique things about it is that everyone starts out with a unique tech tree in early and mid game, but in the late game different players can start to resemble each other a little more. Interacting with the neutral elements on the map is really fun and a game unto itself, much more interesting than the barbs and city-states in Civ, for example. Managing citizens/city improvements is very simplified and there's not much minmaxxing you can do, which frees you up to focus on interacting with the neutral factions and the warfare and stuff. Also, it's the only 4x game that has done story/campaign scenarios in a way that I like. Because they're randomly generated like normal random 4x maps, but wiht weird parameters that make them go a certain way. The games in FAR fewer turns than most 4x games, but a huge amount of development happens per turn compared to most games so they often don't feel that short. The difficulty/AI is pretty good, but you have to adjust for how much you want to play out the combats manually. If you play them manually, you will be stronger, so you'll want higher difficulty. Lower difficulty lets you automate combat more.

>play dawn of war
>spam t1 units
>no more room for more advanced units
I think that, ironically, playing so much Age of Empires had made me crap at other games, I'm so used to upgrade my starting units that playing games where I am to save room or purposefully harass the enemy and get losses on purpose is tough for me.

>>571226508
To be fair you were already crap at other games spidey

>>571226586
Eat my dick, I just won a 1vs1vs in Warrior King Battles, so I'm by default better than anyone who never played it, aka 95% of this thread.

>>571226793
Spare me the awkward flirting and cope please

>>571227195
I just won a regular game in Warrior Kings, drops your pants and get on all fours.
And fuck GoG didn't record a single screenshot.

>>571227479
You won a game by dropping your pants and getting on all fours? Interesting approach lighten the fuck up will you