Why did Marvelous abandon the Trio of Towns formula?>multiple towns with different aesthetics and strong identities>food effects encourage cooking variety>crops have 4 different qualities, plus giant and golden crops>animals have 4 qualities as well>festivals below the highest difficulty only judge a selection of qualities, necessitating different fertilisers/treats than your default>father has a rad nickname in the festivals that aged wonderfullyIt's hard to play other farming sims after that. Throwing fertiliser at crops and getting a "chance" that they'll get a star next to their name. But only that one time, next sowing season you start from 0 again, whether you make seeds from good crops or not. Gay ass waifus. Half-baked combat thrown into every game. Why not make farming good and cut the rest? Trio of Towns will have its 10th anniversary next year and in my mind it hasn't been surpassed since.You know the staples. What would you change to improve the genre?
>>2254809>>2258796how did it get that bad? I know /v/ is a lost cause for any actual discussion or even just some genuine enthusiasm for vidya but you'd think the spinoff boards would be better
>>2241362>What would you change to improve the genre?The main problem with the genre right now is that it shifted too much into what women like and so everything negative like animal death or blizzards/hurricanes is getting sanitized, while the focus shifts from farming, fishing, etc to customization and socializing with the farming reduced to just tending a vegetable garden in the morning.It needs to be course corrected. More euro simulator autism less cozy cottagecore shit for chicks. Basically drop all the gay customization and focus on the farming, management and crisis events but keep the wives, community and festivals. Also add tractors and combine harvesters and chainsaws to chop trees.
>>2297892/vrpg/ and now /vr/ have an indeterminate number of extremely dedicated mentally ill individuals dedicated to ruining the boards. they'll come here eventually, this thread is probably the beginning.
>>2245124it needs an optional setting where a few months after you get married, the bachelor(ettes) you didn't marry start pairing up based on their flower dance partners. It's silly watching Abigail and Sebastian or Haley and Alex play grabass for years but never hooking up because they both have to stay pure in case I want to divorce my partner and marry one of them instead
Right now Sandrock is the best game in this genre. Not a strategy though.
Been playing some civ6 coop recently and tinkering with mods.I don't think I wanna play with a big tech overhaul mod, at least not for coop, but the placement of Men At Arms is really annoying me.You get them with Apprentice as is, the big medieval econ tech, sure they require iron, but they're still a bit too accessible and they kinda squash the earlier eras.my idea>Bluemoving men at arms from Apprentice to Military Engineering.>Greenadding Engineering and Mathematics as prereqs for Castle(and Coursers)>Redadding Iron Working as a prereq for Military Engineeringadding Machinery as a prereq for GunpowderHalberds and Crossbows might still be too easy to get, and Men At Arms is still kinda accessible, but at least it's not bundled with the great economics techs.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2289679yeah vanilla civ6 sucks so much I install like 30 mods usually
>>2290425>I install like 30 mods usuallyoh yeah not even an exaggerationI have 27 mods just for the UI1 mod for making it easier to add mods9 mods for making maps, larger maps, more players on those maps, then more religions to compensate for more players, more luxury resources since otherwise some continents won't have any luxuries at all, civ color overhaul so there's no color conflict with the extra civs, and a mod that lets team start closer(in our current game my two friends started close to eachother, by the northern tundra, while I was by the southern tundra so adding this one for the next game).1 mod just for flavor, it's fun seeing the top 10 cities for each era, and their "population", makes it nice and immersive.Then 7 gameplay mods I'm currently thinking of playing with next.Probably more, since at least I wanna adjust men at arms.I'm not sure about Coexistance of Districts and Resources.We had a game where we had 3 techs left to research, the ones that reveal Coal, Iron, and Niter, and we avoided them since they'd interfere with district placement, which gets kinda silly.This mod might be an overcorrection though since now you can just plant districts on luxuries as well.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2289679Not a grievance, rather the opposite in my case: I love how far you can get in Civ 4 without ever inventing the alphabet.
Even in Nov of 2025.
>>2288798When Alexander III of Russia learned that Paul I was a bastard and not a true born son of Peter III (who was born in Kiel as Karl Peter Ulrich von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp) and Catherine the Great (born in Stettin as Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg) he said "Thank God, we're Russian!", but when he learned it wasn't true, his reaction was "Thank God, we're legitimate!".
>>2226018Thank you
>>2271317>I don't take my current religion seriously enough to stop believing in itThat is a phrase that could've been penned by G. K. Chesterton himself.
>>2214879Medieval kings couldn't be tyrants or founding ekin random nudists religions Also emergent gameplay roleplay is based playing dollhouse is not
>>2299287>founding ekin random nudists religionsMight be CK3's most egregious fault. Everything could only ever go downhill since that first religion dev diary
Why is the 3rd game in a strategy series often cursed?>HW3sucks>AoE3sucks>DoW3sucks>Victoria 3sucks>HoI 3sucks>Civ 3sucks>Stronghold 3sucksComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2284704Speaking of Homeworld: I've never played the OGs, so I wanted to try it out.Struggling to get Homeworld Classic to run decently, is remaster worth it or is it way too Gearboxed?
>>2300708The remastered collection comes with the originals. However if you have no interest in playing the remastered versions probably just get the original and cataclysm on gog.Cataclysm is very very worth it I'd say even rivalling the original.
>>2285325okey Suede
>>2300723>>2300708I'd also say temper your expectations with how these games run. The engine is prehistoric and you're getting a cinematic 30 fps unless you play the remastered version.
>>2300708I played these remasters earlier this year and they ran fine. There are differences in gameplay, but if you're unfamiliar with the originals, you won't mind. I played Cataclysm too - it required a community patch and even then the UI/text were super small on my resolution, but I found it playable enough.
why does nobody talk about how the succession system in ck3 is so outstandingly random and retarded
There does seem to be an issue with Agnatic succession. That is, when there aren't any male dynasty members left, the heir will often be some random, powerful vassal. Instead, as was the norm historically, the heir should be the son of the most closely related female relative of the previous monarch. For example, if the king had a daughter, then the throne should pass to her son (and her husband's dynasty), if there are no males remaining in the previous king's dynasty.
>>2299169because intelligent people put ck3 away very quickly and only tards still discuss it, and they have nothing to say about anything.
Paradox has always been weird about succession in the CK series. They prioritize things like multiplayer balance and preventing the player from getting access to more convenient succession laws early in the game, and this in turn leads to all kinds of strange and ahistorical results.
>>2300417>the heir should be the son of the most closely related female relative of the previous monarchIn theory, that's what male preference is for; except the Swedes are a bunch of cucks who think that a daughter would've gone before a brother in the succession of every single christian realm.
>>2299169The succession laws in CK3 are entirely videogamey and do not reflect reality whatsoever. There was no special law that had to be passed that decreed the primary heir got everything. That was just assumed in the medieval world, with a handful of exceptions. But they turn it into a game mechanic because fuck you artificial difficulty. If anything, the primary heir THAT YOU DESIGNATE should get 80% of your property, and the remainder get the remainder. Or nothing. But no now you have to wait until the 1300s to pass some special neato law with the consent of your court. It's completely artificial difficulty, and Paradox's way of getting out of scripting events in their game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ryr8UF4SX4It's out (in 20 days). Thoughts? We now have italians on both sides.
>>2300233coh2 had some design decisions that really put people off throughout the whole cycle
>>2300239this is how you fix company 2 and the whole franchisehttps://www.moddb.com/mods/stalingrad-42
>>2300047Go play a MOBA, you slant eyed chink.
>>2300606Go play an RTS, poser
>>2300233Nothing, 3ers just get mad at it because it's better than their failed game.
It's unfortunate that the Definitive Edition for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War completely failed to address the biggest thing that's holding it back from unlocking its multiplayer potential.The lack of information transparency.The game tells you like 10% of the things you need to know to properly utilize your units.>This unit has armor type (Heavy) Infantry and it's good against Infantry and/or Heavy Infantry.Majority of units in the game, but there's a huge difference in how and why they are effective against Infantry or Heavy Infantry. Then you get situations where you are clueless until you experience it, if you see then comparatively unique armor types like Commander or Daemonic, and even then it makes a big difference on what kind of unit is having this armor type. The most straightforward group is Vehicle armor type - most units that claim to be good against Vehicles are, in fact, good against the Vehicle armor type. But some of them are also great at ruining infantry compositions despite not being good against them, some are useless against infantry unless it's a small unit size squads... etc etc.I think it would've been much better if the game just straight up listed the weapons the units use and explained exactly how each weapon type generally works and what are the weapon's advantages and disadvantages. Like get rid off "this unit is good against X" and instead "this unit has [weapon], which is effective against [armor type AND what quantity/quality we're talking about][+ any special ability of the unit's weapons]. And then, instead of blindly relying on vague "good against" tips, you can go down into the minutia/balance issues, how the Heavy Bolter for Space Marines is actually superior to Plasma Guns in 99% of cases because the Plasma Guns don't do enough damage in their niche, and their only real advantage is that you can fire them (very inaccurately) on the move, unlike Heavy Bolters which need to be set up.We need a Spirit of the Dawn.
>>2299607Necrons have terrible vehicles and terrible honour guard, other than the Tomb Spyder. Their only benefits for HQs are the Flayed Ones deep striking to act as sponges while the Necron Lord does his thing.
I never played Soulstorm campaign, is it true that you have to rebuild your base every time you have to defend a province?
>>2299792More or less. You can use requisition points to start with some buildings and units deployed (similar to the forward base ability in DC) but whatever you build during a skirmish will disappear next time you play it.
>>2299773Their honour guard is good, roughly on par with orks and eldar as far as troop numbers and quality.Their vehicles are middling but it doesn't matter because their infantry are so strong (and by the time you're pumping out vehicles in a campaign map you've usually already won).As far as playing on hard though, the Lord is the real carry. His health regen wargear stacks with phylactery and is unaffected by difficulty so he's basically indestructible.
>>2300618Their infantry honour guard sucks because they are Necrons, so you cannot use them to rush capturing points, which is the primary use for them in normal maps, and to defend from assaults in HQs or late game maps against fully honour guarded enemies. The Pariah Squad is decent, the Builder Scarab HG is the only one that captures and you get only 1 Spyder. Eldar and Chaos get 1 walker too but the Eldar also get a Seer Council which the commander can attach to. The Orks & SM get two walkers, and the Orks also get two refreshable jump HG squads, and their extra commander nob (single) can tank pretty well too.Vehicles on campaign maps are win more, sure, but in some HQs they're huge difference makers.The Necron Lord is the reason why they are above CSM & SM.
Watcha>playan>listnan>unit favanFor me it's the RA allied campaign, TD's Depth Charge and I love the artillery, I just think it's neat.
>>2299045Wasn't it Generals though? The entire game was so slavishly eager to adopt Blizzard RTS formula.
mental omega
>>2299783Shill me on it
>>2298060I still want C&C:TD redone in Company of Heroes engine. I don't think you could carry over everything one to one, but I think the various units having more permanence on the battlefield and being better defined would really help shape the game's combat better.Even something as basic as GDI having NATO-like squads of soldiers vs NOD having mercenaries and militants would help set the tone, not even mentioning what things would feel like with a combined arms force with a flame tank or mammoth right next them being backed up by Orca support.
So, I seem to be retarded:I started playing TD on OpenRA.Just some light skirmishes against Cabal AI (no fucking idea if that is a strong or weak one).When playing GDI, I basically dominate the battlefield.Sure, I might lose some dudes in the beginning, but I quickly push back and through.Now I tried NOD because I wanted to see what I can do with them, and as it turns out, I SUCK at NOD.Yesterday I had a 40 minute match with the very same AI that led to me getting obliterated in the end.Today I had another 40 minute match where I managed to verrrry slowly push forward, but it was a proper pyrrhic victory, as I actually lost more units.tl;dr: how do I into Nod?
Is after the end worth playing? If so which version? Also CK2 thread
>>2299928I remember the night I downloaded that goddamn file, you know, the one that turned my life into a shitshow worse than a diversity hire in a merit-based job. Scrolling through some backwater forum full of neckbeards whining about Crusader Kings III mods—because who else plays that crap besides incels and history nerds pretending they're not virgins? Buried in the comments was a link to "HorseLord.exe." The poster, probably some autistic edgelord, claimed it was a side-splitting mod letting you appoint your horse as a courtier, loaded with purple prose bullshit and fart gags cranked up to eleven. "Amplify the absurdity threefold," it bragged, like that meant anything beyond farting on command. I laughed my ass off, figuring it was just retarded fan fiction. Huge fucking mistake, let me tell you.Download zipped through faster than a Mexican border jumper. No virus alerts, no red flags—smooth as a welfare queen's EBT card. I dumped it in my mods folder and booted up CK3. Game loaded fine at first: me as some limp-dicked petty king in foggy-ass England, councillors plotting like the scheming Jews in every conspiracy theory. Then bam, the event hits: "In a realm rife with treacherous winds from scheming lips, 'tis wiser to crown thy flatulent steed Lord Courtier—for his blasts are ever true, whilst thy councillors merely stink of betrayal!"Hilarious punchline for a retard, right? I clicked accept, expecting cheap laughs. Screen glitches like a tranny's gender reveal party.
>>2299949Horse avatar pops up in the court portrait, eyes all wrong—too lifelike, staring like it knows your browser history full of degenerate porn. Audio fucks up: low rumble, wet and meaty, like thunder from a fat chick's ass after Taco Bell. First "fart" event triggers—not some lame sound byte, but a real gut-busting expulsion blasting from my speakers, stinking up my room with rotten hay and immigrant sweat. Actual smell, you dumb fuck, like a Muslim's prayer rug after Ramadan. I nearly puked, hit pause, but the reek hung around like a bad affirmative action policy.Brushed it off as my imagination—maybe too much onions in my diet turning me soft. Kept playing. Horse climbs ranks, decisions spot-on, realm booms like post-WWII America before the feminists ruined it. But councillors' portraits rot: faces twisting like a liberal's logic, eyes popping like they're choking on their own virtue signals. Every council event ends with "amplified fart gags threefold": blasts shaking my desk like an earthquake in California caused by all the illegals, floor vibrating, whispers underneath the noise. "True blasts... stink of betrayal..." in a horse voice, guttural as a ghetto thug's rap.Midnight rolls in, game won't quit. Alt-F4? Fuck you. Task Manager shows HorseLord.exe hogging CPU like a welfare mom popping out kids for checks, pulsing like a heartbeat—alive, throbbing. Tried deleting: PC freezes, screen floods with purple prose: "Lo, the hour hath come to rend asunder the fetid tapestry... with resonant expulsions from the bowels..." like some faggy Shakespeare rip-off.Yanked the plug, hard reboot. But there it is: HorseLord.exe on desktop, icon a rearing horse with red eyes glowing like a commie's wet dream. Opens straight past the game—webcam flips on, shows my room, but in the mirror? Shadowy steed prancing, bloating up before unleashing a gas cloud that fogs the lens, like a fat dyke letting rip after pride parade.
>>2299954Smells hit harder, amplified threefold: farts laced with screams, councillors' voices begging like snowflakes in a safe space. Smashed the hard drive with a hammer—felt good, like deporting anchor babies. But the file spreads: phone, work laptop, like a STD at a BLM riot. Messaged friends—straight white guys, mind you—and they get it too: uninvited downloads, realms overrun by a flatulent freakshow.See HorseLord.exe? Delete it, torch the rig. Kill yourself. 'Cause those blasts ain't jokes—they're prophecies. Your realm's next, cuck, and the stink of betrayal? That's you, rotting from the inside like Western civilization under globalist scum.
What is the point of these garbage posts
>>2300219They look like they're AI generated.Does anyone know about a good modpack I could be playing with?
DLC dropped yesterday, but it seems nobody is keen on discussing it, if they even got it.I got it myself and playing rn.So, I gotta ask. What went wrong?
>>2300425Keep building more more Progress and Tradition buildings maybe?
>>2300431I've got twice as many progress and tradition buildings as equality, and at this point I've just started passing radical laws for the two to try and shift it. It hasn't budged in over 200 weeks.
>>2300437Maybe some Adaptation or Reason Laws you need to cancel?
>>2300443I haven't got any. I literally don't have a single point on the reason zeitgeist, although I do have a tiny bit into adaptation for Residential/Workplace insulation and settlement generators. No laws for either though.I'm worried when I pass a cornerstone, that locks me out of fully advancing the other zeitgeists. I can't really remember why I even passed the equality one, heatstamps weren't really a problem anyway.
>>2300447Giant list of Progress things I've done this playthrough. Still can't get past about 95%.
Shit/Average /vst/ games that you still love anyways.Pic related. Pretty big disapointment but I still kind of like it anyways.
I'm about to finish Phantom Brigade. actually pretty cool.
>>2300489Really based of them to just drop 2.0 for free
I almost never hear any strategy game fans mention this series but apparently it is very good?
There is a sale on RTK games right now on steam.
>>2236433Agreed>>2246794>P.T.O.Based
>>2236332Nobunaga’s Ambition tends to be more interesting to me, but I’ve played the shit out of ROTK over the years so that’s probably on me. Shame about NA being a bit of an afterthought. Rai7 is the best game in the series.
>>2299275>Rai7??
>>2297000Is PTO 3 the best version? Seems so but it might be the untranslation deceive
They kept it secret until 2 days before, not bad. Can't believe people expected 40k
>>2294560did not know that he was speaking in english
>>2293123I still remember how they cucked out and cancelled all future lego city police sets because of BLM
>>2294560>Lego doesn't count that for whatever reasonDon't forget how Lego literally made Indiana Jones sets with Nazis in them, they just removed all references to Nazis and Germany and WW2 so they're just generic "soldiers" in grey uniforms, but they're still 20th century soldiers with firearms
>>2275123I can't be the only who wished this was real instead after seeing total war 40k trailer
>>2294653Good, cops are not your friends. They would throw you in prison for life if it meant meeting a quota.
Tabletop editionHow are your dudes faring?
>swing axe at shambling corpse>miss
>>2300272Or even simpler: Any damage avoided by Dodge causes extra fatigue.It provides the dodger with a window to survive, but if he relies entirely on it, he'll be out of the fight quickly.
>>2300278No. It doesn't take extra energy to side step a boulder that could crush the entire party. It gasses you trying to dodge 1000 strikes.
>>2300293Do you really want to talk about "realism" in BB?
>>2300333If it aids the game experience. Are you trying to buff orcs and fat asses? They auto stun you and now you have no fatigue too so you can't move for a second turn. Repeat.
According to swedes Cuzco was an artic wasteland and the entirety of the andes region was in a permanent food deficit
>>2299418burning the midnight oil saaar?
>>2298902And that IS correct, incas had to go out of their way to create forms to grow food there.
>>2299220That's because neither the EU nor the USA bother to enforce sanctions. Banning somebody from buying stuff but letting his friend to buy it and then resend it is perfectly legal, the authorities know about this loophole and don't bother to fix anything. Trump was bitching about India buying Russian oil but the scheme existed since 2022, was known and nobody did anything about it. It's the lack of will
>>2299013bajito pero ancho
>>2298902>the entirety of the andes region was in a permanent food deficitThis is still true today. They often have to resort to eating guinea pigs and pigeons in Peru.
