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Good morning spiders!

>>529624143 (OP)
I haven't played much civilization and I want to give it a try. Is it better to start with civ 6 or civ 7? I'm on ps5.

I had civ 6 from a sale on switch but it wasn't multiplier and laggy so I couldn't get into much.

>>529627476
>On console
>New to Civ
Just pick 7, it will be the least painful option for you.

>>529627698
>the least painful option for you.
explain

>>529628065
Most casualized, probably will work on your machine, don't have to download some older game made for PS3 from PS store however that shit works.

If it was up to me, I would recommend you Civ V and IV on PC, because both are great.
But I'd imagine you would have a steep learning curve there, at least compared to the more casualized later civs.

>>529627476
Start with the one you have.

Any opinions on Master of Orion 2016?

>>529640232
I prefer Star Wars Galactic Battleground.

>>529640232
No.

>>529640232
It's a decent game. Does everything you'd expect from a basic space 4x, doesn't need dlc to do that and has a great presentation.

>>529648528
How does it compared to Polaris Sector?

>>529624143 (OP)
Nebulous: Fleet Command, Update 0.5.2.9 - Modular Spacecraft: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/887570/view/532100473328502810
Plan B - v0.9.4: Grass Everywhere: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532101750029550577
Last Lords - Faction Spotlight, Endless Legend 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YTktAP1U8&ab_channel=EndlessUniverse
C-Beams devlog 44: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIwVHxnJw40&ab_channel=LevelCapGaming

>>529648726
Looks like shit.

>>529655719
What does?

>>529657671
Your formatting. I believe it should be more like

Wiz sentenced to 5 years in jail for diddling his cousin:
https://latlmes.com/breaking/stellaris-former-head-developper-sentenced-to-jail-for-raping-his-cousin-1

Is astral planes worth ten bucks on sale?

>>529662698
You mean Driftlands? Yeah.

>>529662698
I haven’t tried it myself but I was told astral planes sucks and that most people end up disabling it, kinda like cosmic storms

>>529662698
no

>>529668008
I don't disable it but it does kinda suck, it's just more bullshit to click on

Try Tempest Rising.
It's fun.

>>529680502
Isn't that just CnC with a fresh coat of paint?

>>529681282
Yes, but better. Because you have tech upgrades, and many options to heal/repair your units.

Aurora 2.6 waiting gang.
>>529640232
Its just MoO2 with new graphics.

>>529685186
I haven't played Aurora since right after the C# version came out, what's changed since then?

>>529689146
Bugfixes, Missile decoys, ground units got unfucked heavily.
Here is the thread for all the changes -
https://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10666.0

HAK HAK HAK

>>529694707
i look like this and say this too

Okay, does this sound stupid to you?
>plentiful partnership origin
>mercantile corporation
>gigacorp
>free traders
>build every single planet as tall as possible
>spread through seeding on other worlds
>have thereby minimal distance to other empires and lower branch office costs
>get to have lots of early first contacts
>can weasel into just about any federation
I came up with this after noticing how annoying it is to spawn next to 2 machine intelligences and another megacorp. Also, i figured it is one of the better uses for the fruitful partnership origin

>>529701062
Give it a try and report back on how it's working.

Good night.

>>529707180
OF COURSE the first one I encounter is a hivemind.
But, the first planet I got to seed and colonize was without hyperbole on the opposite side of the galaxy.

>>529711570
Not that it stops the Tyranids in Warhammer...

In Stellaris, is it possible to play a xenophile driven assimilator that attracts migrants to assimilate them one by one?
Would that be a valid playstyle or do assimilators like exterminators always have to be on the offensive?

>>529727556
driven assimilators are not genocidal but they can't have organic pops migrate to their empire

I actually liked AoE3's card system

Okay, most info on how to play genocidal nanite empires is outdated or conflicting, so my biggest question is:
Which origin? many people say arc furnace, but the fact is that nanites feed off either created system deposits (which arent affected by minerals or by mining drones on planets), so the next best bet is population size, for which voidforged would be best, no? Or should I instead go for grabbing as many starsystems as possible and using the starbase option of creating nanite deposits on rocky planets?

>>529748521
Oh and I forgot: Subterran machines. Would help greatly thanks to uncapped mining districts, right?

>>529748521
Why not resource consolidation? starting on a machine world gives you a huge early boost, then you can just conquer systems and planets using that early edge to harvest nanites once you get your ascenscion. I mean if you're playing genocidal you'll be conquering a lot anyway.
Subterran machines also comes with a hefty pop assembly penalty.

Stellaris achievements question, did they change it so they're not locked behind ironman? What limits are there for earning them now?

>>529763712
yes, checksum IIRC

>>529760554
Thats is true, early game bonus and all, but voidforged allows me to have 100% habitability wherever I want AND habitat districts get me 50% extra jobs, so producing nanites via jobs is easier that way.

>>529763794
Seems Paradox is really loosening their restrictions on achievements lately. Pretty sure only HOI needs ironman now, and half their catalogue even allows mods too. Wonder what changed in their mindset.

>>529738147
Obvious troll.

>try hyperlubrication basin civic as machine intelligence
>literally doubles my monthly assembly from 4 pops per months to 8 after I develop the planet a bit
So do we have any idea if this civic is bugged or is it just really good now?

>>529768719
it's probably better for gestalts than for organics desu

>archaeology sites in an alien empire's territory
What a waste. They write all these things and then they make them randomly appear, meaning most will be excavated by the AI and you'll never see any of it.

>>529771652
>he wants there to be enough content for 1 (one) game
When you can't see all the events with one playtrough then that means in the next one you can see new ones instead of just repeating your earlier playtrough.

>>529772669
I never want to read about pirvax turning magenta again

Don't die

Crap that's a lot of neutrals.

>i wish Creed was here
Well Creed's busy with Trazyn the Incontinent's breeding program, so he can't help you. It's only me.

>decide to play exterminators for the first time (PvE)
>everyone pissy as fuck
>anyway, building my armies and fleets
>first douche decided to invade from the north
>invades my strongest system with a 5k fleet
>my space station alone is 2.7k
>two 2.9k fleets alongside it
>he is completely out of fleets afterwards
>steamroll his entire realm and armageddon every single one of his planets
>hes gone now
>bitch to the south tries the same
>makes the same mistake
>am tired, decide to just armageddon one planet
>at the last stand before his first world, HE invades the system MY fleets are in instead of letting me come to him and his defense station
>sue for peace having shrunk his empire
>ANOTHER dude from the further north tries the same thing, gets beaten the same way
>end up with pic related empire purely from retaliation strikes
For comparison, the sector in the centre is where my empire was BEFORE they fucked with me. Are NPC players just that dumb? Do they get smarter and cleverer at higher difficulties or do they just get more resources to cheat?

Anno 117 soon
Endless Legend 2 sooner..

>>529793738
Falling frontier never ever.

>>529793738
Too bad Rome is the lamest setting around

>>529793738
I'm looking forward to Anno -25,002

>>529794560
Said nobody ever.

>try to do something in stellaris
>leave game on very slow motion
>pop-up pop-up pop-up pop-up
It's like trying to go on the internet in the 90s.

>>529798929
At least it doesn't have any scams in it.

>>529811886
>what is cosmic storms

>>529793738
Bannerlord War Sails, somewhat soon.

>>529817236
>the Turks cancelled a story update to make Sid Meier's Pirates: Calradia Edition
I don't dare get my hopes up

>>529821251
The shorts they are posting look good so far. The story wasn't that good anyway. They are going to add stealth which they developed for this story update in some capacity they've said. Travel by ship was hugely important in the middle ages, it was way faster than travel on land.

>>529662698
I kinda like the astral rifts

>>529825784
you deserve a hundred lashes

Except Dragonshard, is there any D&D strategy game? I had my eyes on Stronghold, but honestly, this one filters me.

Ha yes, the Chinese winged hussar.
We all remember that part of Romance of the Three Kingdoms when Shan Yu says to Liu Bei: "Do not pursue Lu Bu, wait for the winged hussars!"

That was weird.
The two monks just got stuck in the trees, and refused to move.

>>529765572
In my defense, I was 7 at the time

>Wu fire archers deal some damage over time to buildings
Interesting.

Nighty night.

>>529837204
Ancestor Legacy?

>>529837332
No butterlord.

>>529838752
Oh, the new Mount and Blade? Is it good?

>>529839241
If you haven't played Mount and Blade before it's really fun. If you have, you'll find it pretty meh, fun but disappointing considering how long it took to come out. Diplomacy is barebones, the aging/birth system is a meme unless you use mods to speed up growth, minimal flavor and worldbuilding, but battles and sieges can be really fun.

>>529839960
I did, but I found it boring and unfinished. I tried Gekokujo and loved it a lot more, but still not enough to get really hooked up.

>>529840932
I haven't played AOE2 since DE was released, wtf am I looking at

What’s the easiest build to learn the game with in Stellaris?

>>529852682
New Chinese DLC unit, the Jian Swordsman (aka sword swordman). Once he falls under 41 HP, he gain in attack and movement speed, and loses in armor.

bump, good night

>>529821761
It's good to see they fleshed out the Nords and turned them into a major faction (in Bannerlord's timeframe that is). Maybe they do something with the other minor factions. I don't even know what the point of the Darshi and Vakken is desu

And now the true test: hold fast, or expire?

>>529873050
Yes.

>>529835091
they are busted strong. literally just drag a bunch of them and start whacking their TC and it's gg

Can I play rogue servitors as "genocidal" (i.e. subjugating the entire biological universe to pamper them)? Or are there some serious hindrances to that?

>want to reinforce a fleet with like 10 ships in Stellaris
>theyre all produced at the same station
Why? I got 20 fucking stations almost all with shipyards and that is what you give me?

>conquer neighbouring empire
>want to set their systems as a single sector
>"fuck you, sector capitals MUST be at least 5 systems apart"

>>529913817
I hate Stellaris so much.

>>529913973
Me too. I just stopped hating and started playing things I like. I barely even think about stellaris, only when it's mentioned here.

>>529913973
>hate hate hate
No you don't.

See this? Not only are they divided up by strata and ethics, but I think also by portrait variation.

>>529927779
This is a bad example. Colourful alien slaves work better.

>>529927991
How else would you separate your beautiful blue aryan toads from the brown fucking frogger scum

>>529927779
this shit is the reason why I always pick post-apocalyptic when playing as purifiers so I can just armageddon bomb everything
Your own retards start setteling shitty planets with godawful habitility instantly and kicking them back out costs you more than you get for purging the aliens

Good night.

>>529900342
I prefer Teutonic Knights. But I love the cliche of the powerwalking monster.

>>529936296
good night retard

bump

I'M READY

We're doing good, we're doing good...

>enemy shots start to hit my flamethrowers
Not good, not good...

>enemy finally tear down my gate's armor, meaning it takes full damage from all the mobs, and instantly crashes
>archers start dying en masse
FUCK
Let's send the Queen and her troops.

>immediately loses most of my rogues and spearmen
>flamethrowers are getting wiped out
>even the huntsmen (the bloke with the longbow that can shred enemy armour) are getting
T-The EDF deploys...

>>529913817
>absolutely groundpound neighbouring empire
>war exhaustion
>have to stop the war just before complete and utter victory
>despite being the extermitron 9000 empire with no ethics whatsoever
>despite having stores that would last me 50 more years of war economy
>enemy managed to conquer back one space station before the end leaving my new holdings cut apart
Makes no sense, really.

>>529956913
you got tired

>>529951650
Better luck next time.
Also, you might want to spam the walls a bit more, as in, have more wall segments on the outside, wall off that outer turret and have few more walled in turrets on the outside to break the blobs concentration.

>>529959494
Yeah, I got spoiled by They Are Billions in which Tesla Towers are really good. The bellow towers in Age of Darkness isn't that good.
Or maybe the game is just harder, I dunno, I remember the scariest thing in TAB being the infected bride, whereas Age of Darkness has blokes that are the size of my towers, living battering rams.

Bump

Act of War is surprisingly fun.

Ludicrous speed!

Stellaris tech bloat is getting me. 2270 and I still haven't got the tech to upgrade the capital building and the basic resource districts.

>>529958064
the murdermachine does not sleep.

>went nanite empire
>nanite ships die in a single hit
>previously could defeat a 100k fleet with my own 90k fleet because they were just better designed
>now cant even take down an equal fleet
>even when it is equal to equal, i lose almost half the fleet power with every engagement
>need to constantly replenish my forces
>realize the nanite ships cost no upkeep
>cost is nonexistent because I get like 2k nanites per month
>a 90k fleet consisting entirely of interdictors costs me 300k nanites, who cares?
>cant go as far above fleet capacity as I want because upkeep DOESNT EXIST ANYMORE
>start using the fleet manager to pump out hundreds of identical fleets
>endless storms
>dont care about engagements anymore, I have more fleets than the enemy has systems.
>only need fleet strength above 2k anyway to take systems

>>529980898
speaking of fleet manager, I wish I could break up fleets to replenish other ones, just for simplicity.

>>529980898
yeah, shitting out ships is the only thing nanite ascension is good at

>mfw there are only two ruler jobs in 4.0
there are politicians and knight commanders, everything else is a swap

kinda neat desu

WHY ARE ALL THE MODS BROKEN ON THE NEW VERSION OF STELLARIS, FUCK YOU PARAJEWS!!!

>>529982794
Do you really need those big booby portraits?

>>529983021
If you have to ask, yes.

Oh wow, that's really nice text placement you have there, Paradox.

>>529983021
YES

>>529985393
the vanilla UI is horseshit

Happy Independance Day to our American wayward friends.
Today, we can agree: FUCK THE BRITS.

>>529988128
Whats a good mod for it?
I also hate having to scroll through everything, especially those ass-long buildings or council agendas lists when I have more than enough space to have a grid of icons instead of the full text next to it.

>>529993783
have you considered looking at the most popular mod in the workshop

>>529994147
No, for the same reason that Im posting here instead of Reddit.

reject 3d return to sovlfvl 2d

>>530004307
>that map
what the fuck? is that 60% archipelago or something

>>530007487
Looks like a pretty standard continents map to me

>>530012679
>8 different landmasses
not very continents to me

>>530004307
>incan republic
EXECUTE POLITICAL DISSIDENTS

>>529995643
MUST EAT THE BOMB

>play as a violent raider nation
>have to research things like more spacious and comfortable housing, medical care, expanded political embassies, and streamlined bureacratic processes

>>530025968
Delicious bomb, must eat...

>>529995643
>"you can't do that!"
>"just did"
How do you respond without sounding mad?

>>530037573
You can't.

Imagine playing Stellaris long enough to actually reach endgame for once
Imagine the Contingency destroying half the galaxy
Now imagine them being broken and not purging so they can't actually take any new planets to properly expand
Just imagine
Couldn't be me

>>530040419
>Imagine playing Stellaris
Not me.

>>529994147
The dynamic UI overhaul makes quite a few versions crash these days, even the most recent version.

Me when I’m doing a diplomacy playthrough but all my friends hate each other

>>529624143 (OP)
Are Halo Wars games any good? Would be cool to control an army of grunts...

>>530051565
I like the first one on Steam. I like it a lot.

Can someone tell me why my menial drones in stellaris keep disappearing?
It's not resettlement, I didnt do that. It's not bombardment. One day I have 1.7k menial drones working generators and mines, the next day there' like 50. Meanwhile, complex drones are fucking crowding the jobs, all complex jobs being completely filled. Is it maybe random resettlement chance? but my other planets (3 atm) arent flush with menials either.

>>530063796
pops always promote up, your menial drones are becoming complex drones. if you prioritize the worker job they won't promote

>>530063796
pops always try to fill the best jobs avaible, menial drones try to become complex drones, maintenance drones try to become menial drones and so on. They will auto migrate to other planets to fill higher stratum jobs there if they can.
Of course you could turn off auto resettelment in the policies tab, but it is critical for making colonies grow now

>>530064561
>>530064447
Ih shucks. Can I demote them somehow by prioritizing menial jobs? Also can I prioritize both menial jobs at once?

>>530065807
>Can I demote them somehow by prioritizing menial jobs?
if you reduce the number of jobs on the complex strata then you can get the drones to fill menial jobs. luckily for you, drones demote instantly

>Also can I prioritize both menial jobs at once?
yes

>>530064561
>They will auto migrate to other planets to fill higher stratum jobs there if they can.
only if they're unemployed, they'll always fill a job on the planet first

I’m too addicted to using the +20% habitability from Extremely Adaptive to have 100% habitability on all my worlds (after terraforming them to my preferred type) and now I find the idea of colonizing anything below 90% habitability disgusting

>>530068010
Play machine or hivemind and just go for machine/hive world. later in game.

>>530068010
that isn't very biogenesis of you anon

>using the +20% habitability from Extremely Adaptive to have 100% habitability on all my worlds
you don't need it anyways, you get +25% from techs

are bioships even any good?

>>530068010
Try this:
>subterranean origin (50% minimum habitability)
>noxious trait (30% minimum habitability, max 70%)
>bioadaptability from the orbital speed demon anomaly (30% minimum habitability)
That minimum stacks. Over 100% habitability, and you can do it in the first 10 years if you get the anomaly.

Research is for nerds.

>>530066437
>yes
How?
I tried clicking both, clicking both with CTRL or Shift, clicking the menial drone line

>>530072357
Typically I use subterranean whenever I play machine intelligence for the 100% habitability on any planet

how many hours into stellaris do you reach the point where you stop trying to have fun and just improvise, and start autistically min-maxing absolutely everything and just play the same campaign over and over again with miniscule variations?
want to know so i can stop before then

best/favorite aoe2 campaign, go

>>530054404
ok, might try it

Virtual ascenscion is as broken as ever, I'm running around with 6k research in 2275 and more resources than I can hope to spend on a funny 4 planets

>>530073624
I'm at 744 hours, I'll let you know when it happens

>>530073067
I might be dumb

What stellaris difficulty do you have the most fun on? I just recently started and Ensign is now too easy. Does their behavior get smarter or do they just get resource handicaps?

>>530091804
i've played before but but barely and i took a 4 year break
haven't had any problems at captain but i think commodore might be pushing it at my current "skill level"
i think the only meaningful difference between the difficulty levels is naval capacity because that's gonna be much harder to deal with than catching up economically and technologically. no ai difference afaik, just boosts to those three things

I had a special event in Stellaris called "treasure trove" and researched it but clicked it away. Does anyone know what I might have gotten?

>>530095591
a worthless amount of resources

>>530091804
this is obviously subjective. I can't play 4.0 on anything less than commodore because of how incapable the AI is

Emergency FTL jump is gay as fuck.

buy the rest of the DLC for WARNO, or buy Broken Arrow?
I'm leaning towards WARNO because it has proper PvE unlike BA

>>530100774
...one more time, please?

>>530102836
it was pretty plain english

>>530104458
My PP says you're a SoB and that was BS.

>>530104589
oh, I get it, you're retarded

>>530082748
Don't expect something deep like Age of Empires 2. There are only two ressources, and over time, they stop being an issue so it boils down to countering the enemy.

>>529624143 (OP)
Can anybody explain tourism to me? How is she projected to win before me when I have triple the tourism and culture she has?

>>530107375
feed for the seedgod

>play a payback faction
>it's business as usual except retards commit suicide at your capitals starbase every 15 years
>the enemy faction is on the other side of the map
>whatever, I'll just wait for warp technology
>finally get to a point where i can declare war
>plot choice requires their total extermination, ok.tm
>finally win, only 39% exhaustion
>except there's two other former cuck factions that now have elected one to be the new overlord and they're still at war
>and they didn't do anything the entire war because theyre both at the furthest point away from me
>no way to end the war without getting vassalized status quo is greyed out
well that sucked
flavor text is the only thing i like about this game. diplo menu spam is unbearable, same with the notifications. and voting on random shit constantly in the un and getting pinged for it absolutely blows my ass. i never join it.

>>530108262
That's fine by me.

Got AoE4 on sale. I like the style of making civs play out differently so there's more replayability.

>>530137648
Still kinda like it, but last person I recommanded it to disliked it.

>>530141320
because you have shit taste

>"you have shit tastes"
>says the NPC who only plays Stellaris

>>530133518
I miss loads of UN votes. While I'm busy juggling a dozen other tasks, there's a quiet ping and a little symbol saying the entire galaxy has agreed on gay rights for voidworms or something, and I didn't even get a chance to vote.

Aaaalmost won my longest Startopia game ever.

>>530146019
What stopped you from winning it?

>>530146748
Forgot I had a goal. I'll explain later, aaaaaaalmost done.

...yaaay.
They could've worked a bit on the victory screen.
Anyway.

>>530146748
Objective was to get at 600.000E, and I set the game up to be very demanding visitors & employees, but also so that every energy collector only host 100.000E, instead of 200.000E as they normally do. So I already needed 6 of them instead of 3, and well, I ran out of space, temporarily forgot I could expand with just 10.000E by segment, and then I got distracted and wandered off to do other stuff.

It was still a relatively easy game: I turned off spies, meteor showers and bombs, but I still had a lot of issues at first because everything is so damn expensive to build and maintain.
Still more enjoyable than Tropico, though.

>>529839241
Decent, but mostly the same as Warband, but different aesthetics, updated graphics, slicker and better army controls and some things changed up here and there. And dlc with naval combat coming.

>>530147910
All of this sounds on par for a sequel, except
>different aesthetics
Can you... elaborate on that, please?

>>530147995
More early to high medieval as opposed to late medieval of Warband, no late medieval plate armor and such.

>>530148449
Since it essentially takes place before Warband in Calradia's history, where Empire is still around.

>>530147154
That's some big rigs energy there.

>>530148449
I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what the difference between late medieval and high medieval is. You mean like some kind of fantasy medieval, or just middle medieval?

>>530150610
A WINNER IS YOU

>>530152603
>I'm afraid I'm not quite sure what the difference between late medieval and high medieval is. You mean like some kind of fantasy medieval, or just middle medieval?
You can separate medieval period (roughly from 500 AD to 1500 AD) into two different parts, Bannerlord takes inspiration more from 500 AD to 800 AD (early meddle ages) and from 800 AD to 1200 AD (high middle ages), while Warband is more from 1200 to 1500 (but with exceptions desu, like Nords being somewhat closer to early medieval norse/vikings).

This is all roughly speaking, of course, but you won't see late medieval plate armor of Warband in Bannerlord.

>>530153415
Oh, okay. So it's early, high and late. It's just a name.

>meddle age
Ha yes, the age of the old grandma nosing around.

>>530152603
>late medieval
Crusades - chaimails
>high medieval
Hussite wars, 100 years war - plate armours, early gunpowder weapons

Give me one reason why I shouldn't "techupdate" every time.

>>530153682
Isn't high medieval the middle one? So it's early-high-late.

>>530155882
Yes of course it is, im a retard who does 8 things at once and i got it backwards in writing.

Is there any reason the Imperial Fists have old designs for their armors?

>>530158404
Better for sieging.

>>530158510
>mweh if it works why change it
Are Imperial Fists just dwarfs?

Nope, still can't take Mark of Chaos screenshots.

i want a game that spans a very long time frame like civ but i also want realistic demographics and shit like pops that would have to work on the span of months to years so i will never have a game that has both

>>530179415
...yep.

>>530179415
Call to Power?

I hate Stellaris.

So with the new 4.0 planetary logistics, I get a trade cost if my planet has negative output of materials, right? So I have to produce EVERYTHING on site? Or is it better to just eat the trade cost and dedicate one planet to just producing trade? is this every material like motes and gasses or just minerals and energy?

>>530191779
every resource, and so far I've found it's better to dedicate one or two planets to trade

be careful with the generator/mining/farming support specializations though, those add a ton of trade upkeep to your workers

What's the maximum size for a sector?
I tried removing a system in one direction and adding one in another but it didnt work. It always only has the stars it had when being created or less?
I literally cannot move the true borders of a sector it seems.

>>530194562
4 jumps from the capital is the max, but I think it's a trivial change in the defines

>>530194562
It's 5 jumps from the sector capital, you can't make it any bigger. This isn't 1.0 anymore.

I have no fking clue what to do for a culture win after renaissance besides rock bands and spending 50 turns fucking with the terrain to squeeze in maybe one extra national park.

I come from the /indie/ mines and found 2 cool looking space games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3526810/Frontiers_Reach__Battlespace/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/997090/TheFlagship/

>>530199582
TheFlagship looks a bit like Rebel galaxy, hopefully it ends up being like it.

>>530204407
I like Rebel Galaxy.

>be fighting a war with two dipshits at the same time
>shit out nanite ships
>even an inferior swarm that is wiped out takes at least half of the victorious fleet's strength with it
>great khan awakens
>he is right next to a sleeping ascendancy, my 2nd entry point to one of my opponents' empire and that empire
>just retreat
>Khan rampages through my opponent's empire
>tries to get to me
>has to move through ascendancy
>they whip him back into line
>war continues
>win
>khan keeps pushing
>he enter my system with a 100k fleet
>defeat him with an 80k fleet
>vioctory, khan dead
THAT'S THE GREAT KHAN? What a fucking pushover.

https://litter.catbox.moe/nto6cqf6b52eisyu.mp4
What do I even do about this? Completely unmodded lmao. Guess I should just delete their empire with console commands? I dunno what else to do

>>530213690
Play a better game.

>>530213690
try destroying the starbase in the nietz system with a console command

>>530205605
I've had him blunder straight into the enigmatic fortress two jumps out and die before his construction ships could do a single expansion.

>>530213875
I tried using “damage 9999999999999” but it doesn’t seem to do anything to their starbase

>>530213690
Can you set the pop ups off with the gear icon?

>>530214993
Actually I just realized I was using too many 9’s as damage and lowered the amount of damage and now it works

>>530214993
try crisis.4550 while you're zoomed into the system

Good night.

>>530221336
I like the armour panel and exposed ship aesthetic. Reminds me of split ships from X4.

The hardest part about playing as fanatic purifiers is all the tedious micromanagment. I'm mostly busy downgrading all the shitty starbases I take and resetteling my pops from the awful 20% habitability planets with retarded specializations I conquer and they settle before purging the aliens is even complete.
Costs 200 influence for every planet you abandon this way too, shit's fucking retarded

>>530223638
Why aren't you just nuking their planets into tomb worlds? Clean them up later.

>>530223638
turn off that land appropriation policy

Why is he like this

>>530227214
BECAUSE HE'S A FAGGOT
Or rather, a narcissistic.

>>530227214
because he knows that defeating the enemy will make you both hot and sweaty. you're reading too much into it, horatio would never flirt with anybody except himself

is age of wonders any good
i love stellaris to death but no other 4x has really scratched my itch since then

>capacity subsidies
>nanoconnected generators
>every planet and habitat has at least 2 fully manned energy districts
>still -100 energy credits
>starbase upkeep: 2.4k
WHAT?
I got expansion and prosperity. I only got 142 systems. How am i supposed to take over the galaxy like this? Should I just discard of low-lvl systems and leave my empire a swiss cheese?

>>530241174
Yes. But personally, I found it really hard.

>>530241302
let me guess, you have the eternal vigilance AP

>only got 142 systems
that's a fat chunk of the galaxy

>>530241373
thanks anon

>>530223638
>he takes defiled planets
not very pure of you

>>530241628
>let me guess, you have the eternal vigilance AP
no. Dont have unyielding either. Should I get that? I was planning to make my last treadition be versatility
>that's a fat chunk of the galaxy
Only place 7 on the ladder in a PvE game. Do I need to develop my economy more to make the cut? as a determined exterminator?
I am actually thinking about making a progenitor hive run next to use split diplomacy to take over the galaxy next time

>>530242026
are you way over the starbase limit?

>Only place 7 on the ladder in a PvE game.
if there are FEs above you don't worry about it

>>530242263
To make it easier for you.
I am trying to fix my trade deficit but not being able which planet's deficit costs me how much makes it kind of difficult. Trying to make every single planet autonomous while also having 2 planets that do nothing but produce trade.
BTW; that system Hithram at the bottom there that's a hole in my empire? I just deleted its starbase (outpost). The consumption by starbases went down by 1 in total.

>>530242818
that much upkeep just from starbases is kind of extreme. did you conquer an empire that had eternal vigilance? often their defense platforms don't get destroyed when you take over the system

>Trying to make every single planet autonomous
you shouldn't really do this, just eat the inefficiency

>>530243223
I did conquer a good chunk of two empires recently. Should I just tear down all their developped starbases? Also, do defense platforms count to starbase upkeep, I didnt know that. I do often max out defense platforms on chokepoints, is that it?

Kek

>>530243512
>Also, do defense platforms count to starbase upkeep
I'm not 100% sure, I guess you could test it

>Should I just tear down all their developped starbases?
they probably had them on every system, not just starbases. go check if any of those conquered systems have a suspiciously high fleet power on the outpost

>>529624143 (OP)
>This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off
Is Stellaris not grand strategy?

>>530244094
no, it's a 4X

>>530243845
>I'm not 100% sure, I guess you could test it
Nope. i tore down at least 50 defense paltforms, some of my old chokepoints, now inside the empire, had like 20 defense platforms. The starbase upkeep is still 2547.
>go check if any of those conquered systems have a suspiciously high fleet power on the outpost
Nope, none of them. same roughly 500 as my own and now defense platforms. I deconstructed one of them and the upkeep only went down by another 1 credit.

>>530244229
>Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio
Uhmm, sweaty, you're wrong

>>530244417
they count as ships apparently. well shit I have no idea then, I don't think any starbase buildings have notably high upkeep

>>530244726
Forget it, I found the culprit. It aint easy being cheesy.
(Yes, i have one on every single one of my 22 developped bases)

>>530244932
It seems bound to the number of nanites produced, btw. Because systems with like 200 nanite deposits (because of the finisher effect increasing the output every 5 years) also have 200 energy upkeep, but those with just 11 nanite deposits only have 11 upkeep on their nanite harvester.
So the question is: how much upkeep would the same amount of nanites from miner jobs cost?

>>530244932
well there you go

>>530244094
technically not

>>530241174
I assume you're talking about AoW4?
I have fun with it on and off again as it updates. It doesn't have near the level of detail of Stellaris, but it still gives you some wiggle room to 'make your own dudes' fantasy civ

>>530224564
Don't you need to purge them on the ground to get the unity and stuff from killing aliens? Or do pops that die from orbital bombardment count for that too?

>>530164290
Why not?
Also, you just did.

>>530276486
Because Print Screen adds a huge "SCREENSHOT SAVED AT C:/My Documents/Your_Private_Name/Your_Adress/WARHAMMER/Games_Workshop/WarhammerBattleMarch/Data/Stuff/Screenshoot" watermark.
And F12, GoG's shortcut, pauses the game, which is why everything is black and unreadable.

Stellaris idea: building levels.
Every single individual building gains xp the longer it stands working, and levels up. If you demolish it then you lose all those levels.

Stellaris idea: uninstall.

Why does displacing pops give the same “genocidal” penalty to diplomacy as y’know, ACTUALLY genociding pops?

>>530285609
Because the game considers it a type of purge and doesn't care about what exact kind of purge option you're using.
Yeah it's retarded just like militarist empire getting mad when you use unrestricted orbital bombardment

>>530285609
Still ethnic cleansing.

>>530276694
Try MSI Afterburner or Greenshot.

>>530244094
Anti-gsg anon would FREAK about it, then.

Was it just a fluke?

>>530306481
Was it even any good? I haven't played any homeworld games besides the first two and cataclysm

>>530307449
It was pretty good.
It worked understandably differently compared to earlier games (2D instead of 3D space, but with topography mattering).
Biggest upgrade it had over older homeworld games, was the power management on mothership.
You could increase AA power, anti-vehicle power, speed, defense and probably some other shit I forger about. All of this from single power bar that you would upgrade over the campaign.

Story was a complete retcon of original games history, instead of peaceful expidition to Khar Toba, you are instead fighting against the super powered Kiith Gaalsien, who in original were a footnote, mentioned as a former powerhouse who lost a major religious war against other Kiith, chief among them Nabaal.
So instead, you now fight against sand people with hover tanks, while you have regular wheels and tank threads.

>>530285609
Space Jews kvetching that they’ve now been kicked out of 109 solar systems

Spent the weekend comp stomping terrorists and trying out generals mods. Anybody have any favorite mods I should try? It sucks most modded AI cheats so hard.

>>530252136
>>530299305
developed by Paradox Development Studio
Uhmm, sweaty(s), you're wrong

I want a remake of Anno 2205 but without the shit combat, the mod support and the better logistics of 1800.
Gonna see how Anno 117 develops, but I don't really have much hype for it.

>>530311376
It looks nice, at least.

>>530312927
Always had a soft spot for RotR, the main menu intro alone was absolutely gorgeous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_9EuTZhepY

Nighty night, anons and spiders.

>>530320853
RotR AI just cheats so hard that it's not that enjoyable, zero time to breathe. Even an easy ai has a constant stream of enemies that will outpace you if you fuck up your beginning defense/counter

Bros gsg is laughing at us again..

>play civ5 demo
>it's remarkably simple but it a good way
>SOULful as well
>nearly die to germany in a war but it's alright
man, I understand why people love this game so much even after a decade

>fanatic spiritualist void dweller necroids with death cult and reanimators
>necroid shipset
I think from a roleplay/aesthetic perspective, this is my favorite stellaris build. Just a bunch of freaky ass cultists living entirely out of giant space cathedrals

>>530351569
I wish that spiritualists didn't have to pick Exalted Priesthood to get elite priests. I don't want my Galactic Church run by politicians.

>>530314341
Means literally nothing.

>>530312927
Post screenshots of the cool stuff later

bump

>>530361919
>Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio
I fucked up the copy paste

>>530351569
Necroid ship set is my current go to for any spiritualist empire

spacevarmints...

>>530347845
civ5 just worked
I wish caveman2cosmos got remade for it, but it is not to be
4's combat system irked me like nothing else

>>530375880
/gsg/ themselves kicked Stellaris out of their general, and now they want to claim it back?
Lol.

Is there a mod that replaces all shroud entities with Allah?

>>530402784
No, you cannot replace actual entities by your imaginary friend.

>>530403980
lol nobody said I was muslim, I was just asking, I might have been asking because I wanted to roleplay or something, sounds you have some a lot of hate in you bro, one day you'll see the truth

>>530405241
I did, therefore you are.

Bump. Have a good day, you fags.

>>530402784
>multiple allahs
Infidel. I call a jihad on you.

>>530415562
I mean replace all of the shroud entities with one Allah, so that all psionic empires follow the same faith

>>530415975
Mashallah the galaxy shall know peace. And replace all renowned leaders with muhammed pbuh.

>>530415975
Chemosh would better - he is more powerful than Allah aka YHWH.

The Worm is the only God you need.

>>530431330
Eh, I finally got the questline like last week and I don't get the hype

>>530432752
The hype outpaces it, but it's still a nice event chain for a RP spiritualist who come to think of it as their real god, or rebel against it.

>>530100774
don't waste you money

yes, I paid full price for this incomplete piece of trash

>>530400269
They did? Why? It's obviously a grand strategy.

Would slingshot to the stars be a decent origin for a genocidal empire? Seems like it’d be fun flinging your buffed fleets straight into enemy territory and wreaking havoc

>>530444827
if you want to have fun, sure. if you want to be efficient, not really

>>530444827
One-way trips for death or glory? Fanatic Purifiers are too serious. That's more a space pirate thing.
It's a shame you can't be FPs with the Payback origin. That makes sense. Gives your empire a specific reason to seek out and destroy all alien life.

>Substantially increased the base Command Limit of fleets and most sources of Command Limit. We know you were going to doomstack those fleets anyway. (This is secretly mostly for performance reasons, don't tell anyone.)

how bad could fleet pathfinding possibly be

>>530449925
you can do that with fear of the dark

Tbf im tempted to play Stellaris with only Gigaengineering mod installed..
How bad can it be?

>Instead of being essentially omnipresent, the orange briefcase in the outliner now indicates that you have 500 or more Civilians + Unemployed pops on the planet. (100+ Unemployed pops should still override it with the red briefcase.)
fucking took them long enough

>>530451428
is it even updated for 4.0

>>530451651
>is it even updated for 4.0
it is

>>530451305
No you can't. Why would you lie to me?

>>530454953
have you played fear of the dark

>>530453279
then knock yourself out buddy

>>530455295
No. But it says you can't be a Fanatic Purifier.

>>530455295
>then knock yourself out buddy
Any other mods for fun?

>>530455523
alright well I won't spoil it for you then

>>530455706
actual fun, or gigastructures-level insanity?

>>530456205
>actual fun, or gigastructures-level insanity?
Could go with both desu.
I grabbed some lewd mods too.
Im debating something that expands starbases because im a turtle at heart.

>>530456316
NSC3, ACOT, guilli's planet modifiers, planetary mega-engineering

there's probably some anime mod that's insane, if you like that kind of thing

>>530451305
That's actually a fairly good change, microing 15 fleets that you are going to stack anyways is really pointless, the fact that it noticeably improves performance is just a bonus.

>>530456760
Nice.
Shame Stellaris/Aurora never had a Xenomorph infestation mod like DW 1 had..

>>530456205
Guess I'm playing Fear of the Dark, then.

Alright that was funny. I wasn't paying attention and saw my shield guy dead at start of turn, so I reloaded save and watched my shotgunner fuckin shoot him in the back. Reloaded save and made my shotgunners in third row (meant to be in second row but I didn't feel like fixing them) flip back and forth to use up TU, hoping this is good enough, didn't make my shield guys crouch. No friendly fire this time, killed a mantid, and my guy with electroshock rifle in fourth row missed 3 friendlies to knock out a Sebillian.

I will have fun in Stellaris or else!!

>>530464941
>Not using modded ship set
Son, I am disappoint.

>>530464941
Oh noooo you didn't censor the little image on the left. My coworker just saw that and now HR want to talk to me.

>>530465953
Good, you deserve it for working somewhere that has HR.
>>530465805
I wanted to minialize mod load desu.

I'm going to do it. I'm going to play United Nations of Earth the way it was meant to be played and make friends with the vile xeno.

>>530467149
NOOOOOOO!!!!!

>two systems with 105K starbase adn 40k fleets in my stellar neighbourhood
Well fuck me running..
>>530467149
Sometimes it can be fun, shame i cant stand all the nigs and browns as leaders.

>>530467398
>Initiate friendly greeting protocol.

Damn people really didnt joke - the performance is fucking awful even at the start..

>>530467149
>diplomacy my way into becoming galactic emperor
>but I'm actually benvolent instead of playing with the clearly evil and oppresive tone the game wants you to have
>lead the galaxy against horrific crises and awakend fallen empires
>denounce xenophobe niggas
>force the galactic focus on relevant stuff
>bring peace, justice and security to my new empire
>too bad the AI is still shit so I'm fighting practically alone
>thankfully the contigency is bugged and can't take new planets, so even though I'm busy on the other side of the galaxy they can't actually do much harm

>>530467149
>>530470046
based and startrekpilled

>>530464941
How fun is lustful void anyways?

>>530471437
Its just some lewd jobs, decisions and events.
Nothing big, purely for fun.

>>530470046
>but I'm actually benevolent
No you're not. You still took over the galaxy. You know, in some ways you're worse than the Contingency. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious—you assimilate people and they don't even know it.

>another neighbour discovered
Send help...

>>530473865
root beer

>>530473865
Contingency doesn't assimilate, it destroys.
You're pretending the reapers are borg.

Civ, baby

>>530474154
Oh yeah, that guy has like 3 different personalities.
Have fun getting bossed around by one of them, then getting attacked when you won't do as they say.
Also don't visit Last Thought, they don't like it when you go poking around there.

>>530485695
>sorry buddy, no war for a decade :)

It’s simple, I play fanatic purifiers, I see my neighbor has the space dragon origin, so I open the console and type “damage 9999999” before exterminating their home planet

Okay, i give up:
What exactly is the point of Progenitor Hive except that you can release conquered areas as vassals and pretend to be playing tall as a hive mind? is that that much of a power move?

>>530495727
roleplaying or something, a hive mind having sub-minds is a pretty classic sci-fi trope

spiderfag is a slut

>>530495727
That's a big reason, but there's really several
>ability to create vassals from self
>homeworld growth bonus
>defensive armies too but who cares about those
>flat basic resource job bonus
>leaders passive XP gain ensures they'll have a leg up over others in skill level
>offspring starbase modules offer great bonuses compared to offspring ships
Downside is having to deal with fucking offspring ships if you don't want a cripple navy. It's not hard but I hate having to generate an entire second list of ships on top of pushing enough in each fleet. So it's an autism thing for me

>>530464941
>futa

>>530508241
?

Don't die, foolish spiders!

>>530508241
correct

DOGE!
KILL HIM!
FUCK YOU MUSK

Rise of Legends scratch an odd itch with firing lines.

The Doge, ruiner of American governements.

>>530537231
Rise of Legends makes me want to play Arcanum.

Where is Only White mod for Stellaris upgraded for 4.0 ?

>>530539893
google

>>530540008
All google gives me are bullshit wokeshit articles about how it was pulled down by Parafags.
Based Mods has bit outdated version, time to see if it works.

>>530540203
Nope, doesnt work.
For shame

>>530539893
Do it yourself.

>>530541153
Guess i will have to.

>>530541153
>>530539893
Oh found one that works fine. Neat.

Must have missed the Endless Legend 2 early access thing. I guess they needed the cash after the Sega split. I haven't seen a lot of the gameplay yet, with the receding tides stuff does that mean there's no naval units?

Militaristic Earth based race
or
Sexy Ladies Empire
Which way /4xg/ Stellaris man?

>>530545825
Latter.

>>530545857
Ok, did they ever fixed the "Commonwealth of Man extra quest line" bug?
I remember reading something about it..

>>530545825
Why not both?

>>530546608
Halo Wars? I want to play that one.

>>530546868
>>530546868
Im going with Futa, i reworked that Empire a bit.

>>530548643
>Ayy lmaos find space elf planet
>Turn all elves into big tittied futa mommies
>Elves don't like that and become fanatic purifier-lite
That's some storytelling.

>game crashes after five days
Welp back to mod culling.

>>530548643
I don't understand this. I want to put MY penis into a giant lady, not the other way around. It doesn't make sense.

Lets see if this trimmed list works.
Shame i had to throw out some nice event mods, Military Enchancements and few others..

>>530548203
Are you sure? It's a bit shallow outside of fanservice.

>>530551669
>it works after i threw out all these mods
Shame, i already miss Military Enchancements..
>>530551613
Why not both?

Oh for fuck sake i just built this shit..

>>530553060
>fanservice.
good enough

>i forgot to grab Guilli's planet modifiers
Can a mod be added mid save to Stellaris?

>>530555742
>added it to test modlist
>new game crashes on 5 day without miss
Guess im not playing with that mod.. Shame.

>>530555163
I mean, the game has veterancy, synch kills, and a lot of custom lines for stuff going on (expect your marines to be really happy if you have a SPARTAN, or scared if they're fighting one), but economically, it's a joke.

>>530100774
I've really been enjoying BA (200h in)
but like that other guys alluded to, disconnects are a huge problem still, intentional and otherwise. I only play pve though so it doesnt bother me quite as much

Disengagement is such a gay mechanic. Why is the game so scared of losing ships?

PLAP PLAP PLAP PLAP!!

>>530570720
>allowed: -5%
So the fact that you allow babies is a turn off?

>>530571156
Its Prostitution : Allowed law

>>530571824
Prostitution lowers fertility?
Because "if you use it too much, it'll shrivel up and die"?

>>530571931
Because you fuck your wife less if you have uber specialized and sexy whores to fuck..
Pretty self evident.

>>530572019
I thought prostitutes were for when the wife is too pregnant to fuck.

>>530572196
Seems like the mod makers arent subscribing to the same philosophy.

>>530572363
I mean, it's a Swedish game. I'm surprised you don't get a bonus to fertility if you buy a cuck chair.

>>530572475
Its not Stellaris vanilla law, its from a mod..

>>530572661
The mod only improves on the game.

>Stellaris coom mods
What low point in my life do I need to be at to have this appeal to me

>>530573742
I dunno man, kinks are a thing that either hits or misses, if you don't feel like it, chances are you're never gonna like it.

I don't know if getting the new Anno 117 when it comes out. Pic-related doesn't really looks very good for consumers, even if I doubt it can be enforced under EU law.

I knew it was a bad fucking idea to mess with that capsule...
>>530573742
Those mods are unironically fun.
Remove that stick up your ass.

>>530574351
All we can do now is hope that petition gets at least something done.

>>530574351
>>530575263
Thats literally unenforceable tho..

>this many potential hab worlds
>on the other side of the system occupied by someone
Argh.

>>530580546
anon... these are just caravaneers. kill them. or just skip past their star and build a starbase in eurrav or bion

>>530580546
Isn't it strange how the curators, the artisans, the shroud, the salvagers, and whoever else I forgot, are just starbases and you can occupy their systems but the caravaneers just have to be dicks about it.

>>530581285
I know. But autist in me really hates having a weak point like that.

Is this even the right general for Silent Storm?

Cause I'm utterly fucking confused as to why the characters I've been, and with the highest levels of the recruits, have the LOWEST main stat out of everyone in their class. Like my Elf here has 42 in Hide while every other scout has it in the 100s. I noticed the same with Doug having 40-ish Engineering while the other guys had 80 minimum despite being 2 levels behind.

>stellaris is on 4.0 version
>with like 500$ worth of DLC's
>still no easy coherent menu to upgrade my starbases, planets and habs all in one place
>still no way to exclude certain shipyards when reinforcing fleets and building new ones so you constantly have newly built ships travel from the other end of the empire because you clicked on reinforcement button
>countless other qol features not present
Fucking paradox..

>>530584685
>$500
It goes on -100% sale whenever you want, you know.

>>530585520
>implying i bought
Im just annoyed at the goid damned paradox for shit like this. Youd think they would nail down the basic fucking qol with such old and expensive product.

>50 years into the game i realize i forgot to set "Crisis type" to "all"
Oh gee wiz time to restart!!

>>530587337
This time im going with Broken Shackles.

>>530582624
pls respond

>>530588637
>>530588637
>pls respond
I cant, i played Silent Storm for like 30 minutes, years ago :(

>>530588732
Oh well, thank you anyway. This game is fucking confusing

>>530588951
Im Sorry that i cant help you..

>>530582624
>Is this even the right general for Silent Storm?
>>530588637
>>530588951
Yes, now that /&tactical/ is dead, it is either this or /vst/.
Probably gonna get better replies in /vst/ though.

>>530589958
I hate that /milsim/ died..

>>530589958
>/&tactical/
exactly what I was looking for but I couldn't find it. God fucking dammit, oh well. Will try my luck at /vst/, thanks anon

Can you destroy Stars in Stellaris without going the Crisis route?

>>530590179
>>530590326
Isn't it fun living in the /gacha/ age? At least the new three vidyagame boards give refuge to generals that wouldn't survive in /vg/.
I still remember when the mecha general moved to /m/, and then proceed to dissolve all over that board.
Also dunno why rapeapenigger doesn't make a gacha board and ban it from /vg/.

>>530591137
I still have no idea why /gacha/ nigs dont get exiled to their own board..

>>530591285
But they do. They have /vm/ for their autism.

>>530591137
Can you even blame gachashit for this? If there were enough people with continued interest those generals would last forever, like the fucking Katawa Shoujo general that has existed for over a DECADE for a very short visual novel that never got any new content. /&tactical/ has always been uber niche, it was only a question of time until it died, unfortunately.

>mod to capture Prethoryn Queen and make her your cock slave is outdated
sad.jpeg

>>530594687
Of course you can blame gacha for this. They are insanely fast generals who kill off slower ones, if this board was devoid of gacha slower generals wouldnt die and lose people that often.

>>530595260
>this guy's fucking tripping, there aren't that many gacha -g
oh sweet fucking jesus nevermind

>>530595519
NTA but there are even more that doesn't have the word "gacha" in its OP.

>>530595519
Its a fucking plague, they are making up like 50% of this board no joke.

>>530596307
>>530595519
ANd of course the fact that they are staffed 24/7 full of whales and sweatlords who constantly bump them is also destroying this board.

>>530596465
And that they their only discussion seems to be posting the same pics of their waifus.
>t. Blue Archive lurker

>>530595519
The issue is exacerbated by the fact that most of their posts are ritualposts or spamming pics of big titty anime girl #84728, so they move quick.

>>530596771
To be fair they cant do anything else being glorified gambling..

>>530596291
I really wouldn't know because I don't even know by glance what game is gacha or isn't except for the most popular ones.

Are fanatic purifiers the strongest genocidal empire type? Are there any noteworthy differences in how the different genocidals play?

>tfw selected the Broken Shackles origin template by mistake
Well shit, guess im doing ex slaves run now.

>>530598775
Genocidal organics (non-hive mind) are regular empire minus diplomacy and xeno populations.
Genocidal robots are regular robots minus diplomacy and with the ability of turning enemy organics into batteries a'la matrix.
Genocidal hiveminds go nomnomnom.

>>530598775
exterminators are better because machines are better

I don't know about individualist machine purifiers though, they might be even better

Jeebus i need to watch what i install next time..

>>530606405
least ridiculous stellaris mod

>precursor event adds a new system
>game can choose to add it to literally any one of my 50 star systems
>instead chooses to put it on the other side of an unfriendly empire, in the middle of fanatic purifier space

>>530606584
I wonder how long you have to grind shit to actually take these fuckers on..
Fuckers make Aeternum look like schoolkids.

>>530606662
10 bucks says its on purpose and there is code to fuck player over like that, just like empire placement.

>>530595519
You aren't even getting closed to understanding how many gacha there are

>>530606662
pretty sure it's coded to always be adjacent to an owned system

>>530595519
>>530609108
This is sorted by post rate with red denoting gacha I know. Most of the threads below this aren't gacha

>>530610504
Christ..

>>530610504
the cretins don't even have the damn courtesy to wait until page 10 to make their new thread like other boards do

>>530608187
Gigastructures is a natural peer with its planetcraft

>>530610504
Marvel Rivals ain't gacha, nigga. It's just Overwatch - a different type of faggotry, but not gacha.

>There are 4 (four) (IV) genshin impact threads
Purge this. I beg of you, you filthy fucking jap.

>>530610504
Shadowverse isn't a gacha, it's a card game. You'd need to include Duel Network and other card games if you're going to count it. Still, a sad state of affairs.

>alright, who can serve as bodyguard for Four?
>i know, you, who hate her!
Is Lucius an idiot?

And you can bet that if Lucius could, he'd have picked a shota.

>>530574351
lmao, are they for real?
For which game is this, exactly?

>>530624748
Let's be real - it's gacha + weebshit

>>530595050
link it to me anyway

>>530639804
It's definitely weebshit, it's not a gacha. Unless you would consider all CCGs to be gacha, in which case fair enough.

>>530646991
I was talking about /vg/ in general, and what sort of games are here. It's either weebshit or weebshit (but gacha) and random other stuff.

>>530647862
Oh then yeah, 100% agree

>>530606662
>precursor event adds a new system
>right next to my beautiful chokepoint
>have to rush to claim it and get my defenses up there now
>it's from a shit precursor too
somethings I think I should turn off all precursors but the cybrex, grunur and vultraum

>>530241174
I actually want to piggyback off this question a bit.


Is Age of Wonders 4 good if you don't go all out on the DLC? That's my biggest concern there, as is the case with a lot of paradox stuff.

>>530639934
I cant, it seems to be removed from Loverslab...
Shame.

Does X4 Frontier go in here? I'm considering buying Timelines, any opinions? I know people are meh on the challenges but I kinda just want all sectors and all ships available because I'm autistic as hell.

>>530657328
Are you telling me these games don't have their own general? That's odd.
Also, wouldn't that be more /indie/? We are talking about these games where you buy stuff, ship them off planets, use time compression to fly to your destination, and deliver them at a loss because you're following a NPC trader that filled the demand so much that buying price fell from $400 to $50 while you bought it at $100?

>>530663630
>Are you telling me these games don't have their own general?
Nope. I think it's to niche and German eurojank autism core to sustain a decent playerbase here.
>Also, wouldn't that be more /indie/?
Maybe /indie/ would fit more, but I think both fit pretty well, and this one probably had a better chance of someone having played it.
X4 I think is kind of a 4X? Like sure you usually start as a single guy in a single small ship, but it also hit's all the 4Xes:
>eXplore
You have a ton of sectors to explore, that you need to scout out either yourself or with scout ships, and you need to place either ships or satelites in the area to retain up to date information
>eXpand:
Pretty core for x4: You start with very little, hire some pilots to fly for you, some miners, start building a station, grow into a whole ass faction with your own ship wharfs, taking over more and more of the map
>eXploit
You have your fleet mine and trade in the areas you have explored
>eXterminate
You certainly can do a lot of space-genocide if you're so inclined.
>games where you buy stuff, ship them off planets, use time compression to fly to your destination, and deliver them at a loss because you're following a NPC trader that filled the demand so much that buying price fell from $400 to $50 while you bought it at $100?
Yup, that's X4 alright. Buy stuff, time compress, sell stuff. Economy sim is kinda the biggest part of X4.
That's why I always considered it an 4X type game. Nothing like seeing that one faction is constantly short on some component to build space ships, building a factory for those parts right next to them so they buy them.

>>530666993
I'm not sure it counts as a 4X. Like, there's no strategy, it's closer to an exploration/economysim/maybe even RPG.

>>530656431
Maybe it's on nexus or something? What was the name of it, do you remember it?
>>530663630
delete this picture at once

>>530669154
No.

>>530669154
Doubtful.
Its was called "Capture Cetana" or something like that.

>>530669373
https://web.archive.org/web/20240720025312/https://www.loverslab.com/files/file/34509-capture-cetana/
This one? Too bad you probably can't log in via wayback machine anyway.
Do you have the mod file saved, by chance? Could upload it then.

>>530670015
Yeah thats the one.
>Do you have the mod file saved
Nope :(

>egalitarian, xenophile, pacifist
>meet an alien
>friendly greeting
>send my envoy to improve relations

>fascist
>meet an alien
>nuke his civilization

>fanatic purifier
>meet an alien
>try to kill them all
>they finish first contact
>all my fleets go MIA like true gentlemen after they close the border

>>530639480
All of them. That's the neat part.

The Space Wolves in Unification suck.

>>530655139
Previous AoW games were solid with giving you a complete experience right out of the box, regardless of future dlc, until 4
I like 4 but 4 feels like the new paradox publishing angle has gotten to the brains of the dev studio.
>game on release, basic, decent, nothing crazy other than designing fantasy civs, made a few civ combinations and dropped it for months to see how it'd develop
>season announced DLCs with roughly 3-4 content packs and a tiny exclusive reward for buying in bulk
>each dlc release comes with a free update improving vanilla cultures and content. The most OP culture is an updated vanilla one, some other cultures are still super basic and in need of updates
>season 1, which included dragon rulers, gun culture, grug culture, and tentacle rape, was a high enough success they announced a season 2
>season 2 nearly finished, which was weeaboo towns, giant kings, and soon Archons, they're already spitballing ideas for a third with enthusiasm, like vampires
They've been succeeding revenue wise, series is more popular than ever now, no signs of dev support dropping for a long while, but yeah, it's been pretty Paradox'd

>>530680918
I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS I HATE SEASONS

>>530680918
It's just modern gaming in general - turning games into services, so that you spend more money on them that way.
I personally try to avoid that, because in my mind if games is still getting updates, dlcs, expansions then it's not complete, and I want a complete experience.
That in stuff like that breaks mods. Unless you have cracked or DRM free copy, but anyway.

>>530680918
Does it seem like they made it complete, and then removed content to sell later?

How do I stop being a xenophobe?

>>530688337
I can't come up with a smartass answer to this

>>530683128
>I HATE SEASONS
This is a normal human reaction
>>530684070
>if games is still getting updates, dlcs, expansions then it's not complete, and I want a complete experience
this is a good rule
>>530685242
Ehhh, way too much content has been released since start for me to imagine that it was ALL withheld. Some, like the asian DLC shit, seem made up on the spot rather than planned, and would have seriously stuck out if included at base game launch. Others like the Giant Kings DLC had some reactionary decision making and design choices, with some events and encounters with background lore to be inserted into maps at players leisure since the devs realized not many people tried the story map campaigns and just immediately launched with custom map parameters. I can absolutely believe certain bits here and there were set aside for DLC, lizardmen forms/draconian TF were inserted into the very first DLC, and scalies ended up being the third most popular racial pick for the 2yr anniversary

>>530688337
Be inward perfectionist.
Kind of stupid that there is no sensible isolationist option. Where you don't fully shut up from the rest of the galaxy, but can still be mostly isolationist.

>>530667314
Which of the 4 X's 4X stands for strategy again?

>530695717
Oh, you're a retard arguing in bad faith, ok.
Thanks for clarifying it.

>>530692639
>Kind of stupid that there is no sensible isolationist option. Where you don't fully shut up from the rest of the galaxy, but can still be mostly isolationist.
Umm, xir, you’re diplomatic stance?

>>530695717
Xpand.

>>530695717
All of them.

>>530692639
I would like this if it didn't say "warring tribes". That doesn't fit my extremely specific OC.

>>530697375
Shazbot!

>>530697375
wow that civic seems kinda cool
>comes with astral planes
yikes, I'm not buying that

>>530700353
What does that word mean? Is that some weird space slang?

>want to play space 4x
>dont feel like launching Aurora because im too tired
>stellaris is hot steaming shit
>everything else is waaaay to fucking shallow, lacks detail and features
Its a pain to be a sperg like me.

>pacifist, spiritualist, xenophobe
>meet an alien
>tell it to fuck off
>build starbase and defense platforms on the choke point connection us

If you’re playing a hive mind, can you get away with going wild on overtuned traits? I mean, since your leader and nodes (council) are immortal it shouldn’t be a major issue to have other leaders dying faster right?

>>530712308
it can be an issue, but robust (which you probably want anyways) goes a long way towards mitigating it

>>530584685
>>still no easy coherent menu to upgrade my starbases,
I jsut realized its doubly fucking annoying because unlike Aurora you never do several defense platform types so it would be even easier to just make a spreadsheet for easy upgrade/building.

nighty night, anons

>>530720168
Night? it's almost 4pm EST

>>530720168
good night cunt

>>530720370
It's night in spider land.

>>530721420
>>530720370
>>530720168
Spider is +2 GMT ?

>>530710648
Sounds like you need to rest and recover your Aurora battery. Good thing 2.6.0 isn't coming out anytime soon.

>>530722056
>Good thing 2.6.0 isn't coming out anytime soon.
Oh for fuck sake, something happened again?

>>530724549
No anon, nothing ever happens, release included.

Good night people.
Almost midnight here.

>>530732919
Just one more turn.

>still two more hours before I can take my meds
Tiiiired...

>>530739523
what meds do you take faggot

>>530740450
Something for thyroid gland, and four shots a day for liver disfunction.

>>530740572
goddamn, you okay buddy?

>>530740708
Nah. And I won't be, ever. Nothing among these can be cured.

>>530740763
alright well in that case I wish you a quick and painless death

>>530741018
T-Thanks, battle-brother, you too.

All my empires are spiritualist and xenophobic. I think I might be secretly jewish. Help.

>>530745749
>jewish
>spiritualist

>>530745749
Easy to check. How do pic related make your feel?

For me, it’s overtuned hive mind with rapid breeders and pre-planned growth

I fucking love Startopia.

Any Civilization 6 enjoyers here?

What mods do you use?

Good morning, saars.

>>530740572
I feel for you.
t: thyroid glands also fucked and diabeetus

>>530724549
his poor aching back can't carry all that weight

>decided to play Ixion for real
Fuck it im turning off that "hull constantly degrade" mechanic, i hate fucking timed missions.

>>530794356
Come on man, space is full of resources, you got time for days.

>>530796015
Nah fuck it, i want to enjoy the story, not rush through systems.

>>530794356
>>530796204
Based.

>>530794356
>degrade
on fucking what
its space, there's not even a fucking mouse fart per cubic meter in the densest regions

>>530796204
But isn't rushing part of the story?

>>530802359
There's still space dust, time, micro-asteroids and what else.

>>530802436
enough for an annual checkup, not enough to turn everything into time trials

>>530710648
Distant worlds 2

>>530802359
Every time you turn a little bit you put stress on the entire structure.

>>530791992
To live is to suffer.
And to indulge in sugar is to be knocked out for the afternoon.

>>530803348
>To live is to suffer.
>set policy: utopian abundance

>>530804923
>infinite replicators can offer you champaigne, caviar and foie gras 24/7
>Due to medical conditions even 2500s medical science cannot fix, you are forced to eat porridge instead

>>530808298
Yeah but the porridge can taste like anything you want!

>>530802359
Oh stress and being not designed to be "giant mothership housing shitload of people" just a temp platform for the experimental MOLLE engine.

>fanatic xenophile
>diplomatic corps
>diplomacy, subterfuge, politics traditions
>entourage leader
>shared destiny ascension
>12 envoys
>assign them all to espionage and sabotage everyone

Here we goo... Im sure nothing bad will happen and Humanity will surely enter a new golden era.

>>530815064
It's going to be all fine.

>>530815250
Ngl i love the system view with the probe launching, the sense of mystery and shit.
Really nice.

I don't.

Game is pretty comfy when you turn off that faggot ass hull degradation..
Just got the Outer Hope black box, wonder whats that all about.
And there is a mystery over Mars that my team is about to uncover.
God i want to read some book like that..

>>530817386
Bunny, watch out!

>>530820798
I can see my house from here.

>>530830776
Damn man, you live like THAT?

Has anyone else here tried Sins of a solar empire 2?
How did you like it?

>Lost Sexbot event fires in the first two years
Neat as fuck.

>>530838775
Who even likes these mile-long engine trails?

>pick Sol start
>Doomed Homeworld origin
>surveying like crazy
>one shitty arctic planet three jumps away
>only good planet so far is taken over by Stone Age faggots so that means i need army
>first Fallen Empire are those splintered whatever faggots ( dont even know if they are from ACOT or GigaEngineering )
>they want to fight
Can you like fuck off you muppets?

>>530840034
It's not a tough fight. And when you salvage the ruins you can get started on dark-matter reactor and cosmic giga-beam weapons research. 6000 months later, you'll have the most powerful fleet in the galaxy.

>>530841165
What ruins?
They sent some one shit that smoked 10 out of my 14 corvettes and then died to my Starbase.
No ruins or wrecks.

>>530840034
war is based, control is a fag, growth is a rick and morty watcher

What government type do you think is the worst in stellaris? Personally I dislike democratic, I hate having my leader randomly change every 10 years

Is there a version of giga engineering that isn't bloated to hell and back? Preferably without the weird furry shit?

>>530841165
>>530841909
>next faggot had 20k mil power
Fucking hell good thing i have cheat mods.

>>530841405
>no wrecks
Worked for me. :)

Sigh.... good thing that shit isnt hostile.. for now.

>>530848192
better rev up those tech megastructures

>>530848192
Bring it, bitch.

People seem to say that anglers is a good civic, but why?

>>530854862
it's good with catalytic processing, and now with bioships

Good night, spiders and anons.

>>530870954
good night you slavering whore

How's the gaint and weeb in aow4? I just hope they update dragonlord so I can be an asian dragonlord

>>530874365
Are.

Comfy playthrough albeit a bit savescummed, I should do a Commander run more seriously with more overwatching. Wish I knew you could manually deploy interceptors by pressing a button in top right corner of the main screen. 1 radar at each base and send interceptors at the little events on the map.

>>530882213
Xenonauts? Is it good? I got it at launch, but I got filtered mercilessly.

>>530882610
I might still filter you with difficulty spikes here and there, but I personally like it. It's currently a complete game campaign-wise but missing ending cinematic, few images for researched stuff screens, and mod support.

>>530883219
>I might still filter you
Yeah, you better filter me, bitch boy.

>It's currently a complete game campaign-wise but missing ending cinematic, few images for researched stuff screens, and mod support
What are you talking about, Xenonauts has a full workshop.

>>530883447
*it
X2 not X1

>>530883605
Huh. Didn't even know it existed. Is it in Early Access or something?

>>530884471
Uh yeah.

>>530885349
Ha, I see. So, still solid. Are ballistic shields still a thing? This is what attracted me to XN1 before I got filtered.

>>530885409
Yes, and they work as a shield in 180 degrees arc in front of you. You upgrade them in tiers so the next alien tech doesn't one shot your shield. Still don't want to rush through a map willy nilly but they're good for throwing flash.

>>530886636
Mmm. I mean, isn't the goal of these games to never have one of your guys at risk? Picking up a shield feel like admitting you can't play the intended way.

>>530874365
I think there were a few new weeb-ish head features for dragon lords and Eldritch soverigns? I forget what unlocked them. Giant Kings felt pretty great to play though, even after being nerfed from OPness

>>530870954
Good morning.

>>530854554
>>530841909
I got some vague warning from them, probably because i keep exploring and planting starbases near their advance scouts...

>>530907481
don't go into last thought

>>530907554
Yeah yeah i know.

>>530907554
Btw which mod is it from? Gigaengineering or ACOT ?

>>530910939
the biogenesis DLC

>>530913254
Wtf its actually vanillla??
Im assuming its so fucking powerful becase i have Gigaengineering with its FE bonuses?

Any mods for Stellaris to start as pre FTL empire with no ships, stations, unsurveyed homeworld system and un researched basic tech?

>>530887420
Thanks, fren. I decided to do a shield-free run next. At the end of the first base mission though, I had 3 guys at the door miss their fucking flash hitting an obstacle so I got shot up by 3 dudes.

>>530919159
Good luck with that. Going no shields feel like going "high risk, high reward". I assume there are limitations if you have a shield? Like, you're restricted to sidearms?
Honestly I want a medieval/fantasy Xenonauts with halberds and all. I'm sick of reading that Warhammer RPG rulebook and see that every weapon has its own rules and yet only Battle Brother has melee cold weapons.

>>529624143 (OP)
the last couple of civ games were really bad, have any other companies made any decent similar games, like the old ones?

can someone please spoonfeed me on how to pirate the stellaris dlc

>>530923507
Not really like the old ones but Endless Legend and Endless Space 2 are quite good 4xs and can usually be picked up for cheap.

In Stellaris, how should I best go about making a raiding empire? As in, as much of my resources and research and whatever else come from killing my enemies and pulling it from their wrecks as possible.

I've literally never played wide, I only know how to play tall.

>>530929241
Dunno, last time I pirated Stellaris I did it with both the game and all the dlc at the time.

>>530933429
Nothing stopping you playing a tall raider. Loot and enslave, then return to your territory. You don't have to claim anything.
Barbaric Despoilers get a special war goal where the enemy has to pay you. And they have a planetary bombardment style where you kidnap pops.

>>530943281
>And they have a planetary bombardment style where you kidnap pops.
Why would I want their pops for anything other than a gas chamber? Purge the xenos.

>>530913552
I think both gigastructures and ACOT buff FEs

>>530929241
go to the russian website, it's all there

>>530943523
Eat them?

Bump

>>530943523
I haven’t done it much myself but I think stealing their pops and then genociding them afterwards is a very efficient way to annihilate an enemy empire’s economy if you’re not interested in outright taking their planets

>all Pre FTL player mods for Stellaris are long dead, unsupported or gone
pain.jpeg

Why did they change habitats so it builds TWO orbital structures? What's the point?

nighty night

>>530971518
what are you talking about

>>530972273
When you build one it builds two but you only use one.

>>530974482
what? show a screenshot

announcement and some details about the next against the storm dlc and free update to go along with it
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1336490/view/541109583272219362

>HW3 still with a 50% discount
What could have been that never was.