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This is NOT /g*g/. If you wanna talk about Gr*nd Strategy, fuck off to >>>/trash/ or >>>/vst/.

==NEWS==
Civilization VII Update 1.2.2: Adds Large/Huge Maps, Town Specializations, Steam Workshop, and fixes. Released June 2025.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1295660/view/4244178222981471489

Company of Heroes 3 Opal Scorpion: New maps, cosmetics, and gameplay tweaks. Released June 23, 2025.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1677280/view/4244178222981471489

Dystopika Update: Cyberpunk city-builder gets new buildings and visuals. June 2025.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2377710/view/4244178222981471489

Broken Arrow v1.0: Modern RTS with 300+ units, 5v5 combat, and Steam Workshop. Launched June 19, 2025.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-best-Real-Time-Strategy-RTS-of-2025-New-modern-wargame-breaks-into-Steam-s-top-charts-with-v1-0-launch.850631.0.html

Cataclismo Released: RTS/city-builder hybrid with Stronghold-like mechanics. Launched May 2025.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2271130/view/4244178222981471489

Life Below Announced: Aquatic city-builder from Mechanicus publishers. Announced June 6, 2025.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/life-below/aquatic-city-builder

XCOM: Long War Rebalance Released Version 1.55.10
https://www.nexusmods.com/xcom/mods/686

== Pastebins ==
Alpha Centauri (new 14/06/22): https://pastebin.com/QgEvG3ET
Free and open source games pastebin: https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSN
Stellaris: https://pastebin.com/hPfrhazx https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Stellaris_Wiki
Stellaris DLC guide: https://rentry.org/STDLC384
Endless Space 2 + Endless Legend: https://pastebin.com/yu57huWm
Civilization: https://pastebin.com/eeL9tyaW
/cbg/: https://pastebin.com/ZSLVg9kT
Workers & Resources: https://pastebin.com/XaWF8mE6

What do they mean by this?

>all gate destinations are to FE systems
Well that was a fucking waste of time.

Where's my spider!

>>531317335
That the US are a fascist country.

HAK HAK HAK

>download stellaris mod that looks like a cool little event chain
>it's literal propaganda featuring "Gasa" and "Isarel"

>>531327710
As long as you can genocide "lsarel" its good.

>>531327710
that's unironically funny

>>531327832
Nooo they're our greatest defensive pact!

>>531327832
dunno, I chose the passive approach to the situation and it's basically just watching Isarel doing a genocide on poor innocent Gasa while the writer cries about how sad and evil it all is for endless paragrahps
Maybe I should do another game and choose the active approach just to see if it lets me genocide the Yews instead.

>>531328028
It would only be funny if there was Ameriga as well that Isarel was inflitrating and controlling from shadows

>>531328707
You should.

>>531320510
In drow woman's vagina.

>>531327710
name?

>>531331875
Gasa' s eye

>>531332217
>comment section is full of chinks and not racism and antisemitism
How dissapointing.

>>531332867
Expect it to be deleted.

>>531318552
What? All gateways are connected to each other.
First repaired gateway before anyone built any new ones also powers up one other random broken gateway.

>>531350972
He's clicking the symbol on the galaxy map like you would a wormhole, so he thinks that's the only place it goes.

How the fuck did this happen? It's not even 2300.

>>531353341
goodness gracious. refugees maybe

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368870/Field_of_Glory_II_Medieval/
This is free and a good game

How do we feel about Civ VII?

>>531364421
it's the latest installment in the civ series

Any relatively recent comfy citybuilders?

>>531375526
Yeah, there's Caesar 3.

>>531375526
Nebuchadnezzar is p comf

>>531375526
Foundation.

>>531313326 (OP)
Plan B Terraform, releases the 29th of August: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kePPrVLNmcw&t=1s&ab_channel=GaddyGames

>void worm crisis
>ignore it as it splatters against my starbases
>doesn't even threaten the AI
Not paradox's best work.

>stronghold patches
Ha, new ads?

>>531385554
pédé d'araignée...

>>531387383
Pâté de pédé.

bump

>>531313326 (OP)
>vg cats
What year is this

>>531292898
>Did it work?
You mean my plans or his incessant shit flinging of broken units?
I still rolled him but Took way too many casualties for it., plus we won on points

FREE CIV 6 Tomorrow on Epic Store

Get ready if you want to try it or have it for FREE for ever on your library

>civ 6 is not 4x

>>531410362
I don't even play civ 5 anymore, why would i want more free garbage?

Let's avoid spider genocide.

>>531398929
>>531313326 (OP)
I don't even know what this is.
Besides some sort of comic.

>>531410362
>Epic Store
not even for free

>>531421701
Need a list of games with spider factions.

>>531421701
Spider faction for Stellaris when? For a xenophile playthough of course.

>>531398929

>>531421739
Thank god you don't know VG cats.

>>531449742
Give me a quick rundown.

>>531453486
Encyclopedia Dramatica lolcow.

>>531454153
Eh, never mind then.

>>531453486
Ok.
>Guy makes webcomics based on vidya and his pet cats
>Over the years hype dies down and people visit his site less while he makes less stuff
>Notices that his characters Rule 34 stuff is trending
>Starts making lewds of his own characters for patreon
>Wife divorces him and takes the kids, leaving him a husk of a man he used to be, doesn't even make lewds anymore because he is so drained now

>>531456559
Poor guy...

Against the Storm is seriously overrated

>>531446385
Femboyphile, then?

>empire that hates me has the scion origin so even if I muster up the fleet power to roll over them they’ll just be bailed out by the fallen empire
Cringe

>>531467031
Didn't spiderfag got pegged by a cute linguist Belgian girl?

>>531456852
I think it's fun, but it's definitely not for everyone. I don't think there's that much overlap in the audiences between city builders and roguelites.

>>531317335
You need the Face ideology to put faces on rocks, duh

>>531456559
goddamn, I don't think I've thought about VG Cats in well over a fucking decade now. To think the creator went insane lmao

>>531456852
it's not for everybody

>>531472040
I 'unno. Are there pictures?

Good night.

>>531509530
Good night anon.

>>531509530
Do you hear that? It's the sound of the proletariat rising, baby!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!

>>531522250
kree jaffa

>>531522250
She's a longbow, these are not people anyway, so it's not racist to insult them.
You cannot be racist against a Br*t.

>>531509530
https://files.catbox.moe/bhhr7i.webm

r8 my oc mod map

>>531544715
?

>>531476730
Art doesn't seem too bad.

>>531493490
Ask nicely and maybe spiderfag will post pics of her girlfriend.

>>531472040
>>531493490
I only remember the picture of him getting spanked by a girl.

>>531564771
>her

>>531570083
>him

Getting confused here.
Also, getting spanked? By a girl?

>>531570376
>Also, getting spanked? By a girl?
Spiderfag got a crush on a long distance relationship with a cute belgian linguist(?), that found his bubble but very peggable. Later when she visited France she got chance to peg his ass until spiderfag's pp starting to drip red. Afterwards she decided to keep just friends with him and she went back to her country, leaving spiderfag alone and sad and walking funny for a week.

>>531571312
Huh. Lucky? I guess? Is his ass that good or did she have low standards?

>>531570376
Spiderfag got turned into a femboy and got spanked by a pack of rabid belgian women in the sizzling summer of '23

>>531544715
Clearly a Warhammer Fantasy rip-off. You've even got the chaos wastes full of crazed barbarians at the top.

>>531572181
I know you are joking, but it does in away resemble of Naggaroth from WHF.

>>531571686
Nah, not trusting that.

>>531544715
>random pen insula shaped like a boot
back to the drawing board faggot

>>531544715
Nice fantasy China.
It's a nice touch to add a bit of ocean between fantasy-China and fantasy-Vietnam, but why put fantasy-Vietnam that close to miniature fantasy-Korea?
Also, your Fantasy-Japan seems to have very few mountains and fantasy-Shikoku is almost half the size of the main island.

Stellaris still broken? Haven't played since the new pop and planet system

>>531580476
As broken as spiderfag's ass.

Mad how one agri-world can supply 40 other planets.

>>531581218
Man I can't even be arsed to colonize 41 planets
Honestly like 10 is my maximum, I hate playing wide

>>531581874
I wish empire size penalties weren't so punishing so I could set planets to automate. You can't rely on the AI to build up a planet properly, so it just winds up as a drain on the empire. You have to manually build everything, and that becomes tedious.
It's a nice idea to have a large empire, but it seems the devs have chosen to prioritise tall ones. I suppose it does encourage you to engage in diplomacy with neighbours rather than purging them.

>>531326684

>>531581874
>1 planet can feed an entire empire
>But you can't harvest a single planet to cover the mineral needs of the entire empire
This is why Stellaris sucks.

>>531584307
Yeah, it's kinda disappoint when playing terravores. You eat a whole fucking planets and all you get is some minerals, alloys and pops.
You unironically get more alloys from purging a decently sized robot population.
At least I can just press the eat planet button and move on without having to deal with all the shitty planets I conquer from the AI.
It's also were I learned that planets in the middle of colonization are completly invincible and my ravenous stone murder drones will wait patiently for the colonists to set up shop properly before invading and eating them all.

>>531584307
The arc furnace harvests the mineral resources of an entire solar system, and it's still nowhere near enough.

>>531586929
>>531584307
>in reality our own asteroid belt could supply entire Earth for several centuries even at 10x the growth rate we have now
>in Stellaris mega project dedicated to harvesting entire solar system worth of celestial bodies can barely provide enough minerals for some fleet and few buildings
Same goes with dyson spheres - Stellaris fucking SUCKS.

>>531587210
The Dyson Sphere should just change your energy income to ∞. Same with the black hole miner thing for minerals.
But to be fair, even with the full resources of a stellar empire it would still take centuries to build a Dyson Sphere, wouldn't it.

>>531587729
All Megastructures should provide unlimited shit, they should just be way way more expensive and require shitload of endgame tech to be glorified Bragging Rights Reward at best.

>>531313326 (OP)
what's a good accessible RTS for someone new to the genre to get into? if it requires 50+ hours just to understand properly or high APM than I'm not going to bother. I keep hearing how great the genre actually is but I've never gotten into it.

>>531588923
SC2 and AoE2

>>531589452
thanks, I have tried these but kind of stopped because I got overwhelmed for some reason. I will give it another shot.
is AoE 4 easier to get into than AoE2?

>>531588872
What if they were a victory condition? You can win by domination or points or whatever, OR you can build a galactic wonder.

>>531589971
probably would work too.

MFW Epic games gives me a free version of a game I paid full price for at launch a decade ago and haven't touched since

New Falling Frontier screenshot.

>>531598221
>FF
Why does it look like generic mobile screenshot ?

>>531598489
because it itself is a mobile game

>psionic shields
>psionic jump drives
>psionic cloaking devices
What do the rest of us meat and metal bros get?!

>>531602378
we don't get those because psi ascension is kinda shit and it needs those to stay competitive

>>531604364
Wonder how OP psi will be once they rework it

>>531598221
I'm so hungry for it, I started playing Nexus again.
>>531598641
Please no...

>>531604987
Nexus the Saturn Accident?

>>531605197
Nexus the Uranus coincidence.

>>531605526
Nexus the Pluto Problem

>>531609363
>Nexus the [dwarf planetoid] Problem
ftfy

>>531610238
Nexus the Neptune Disturbance

So, how is this last automation sale? Is there anything good for cheap?

If I'm reading the EL2 dev blog right, Heros can no longer be set as govenors on cities, but they can sit on the senate and provide empire wide bonuses even though they're in the field?

>>531456559
>Wife divorces him and takes the kids, leaving him a husk of a man he used to be, doesn't even make lewds anymore because he is so drained now
Didn't know that part. Geez

I think bureaucrats SUCK!

>>531637409
>enforcers are based
What did they mean by this?

>>531638358
The devs have secretly been authoritarians this entire time

>>531630337
Women are not humans, they're vampires that latch on to a man, suck him dry, and then abandon him at the slightest issue.
Nevermind that a marriage is meant to hold, even through trouble and sickness.

>>531642429
Marriage 4X
Play as one of four factions: Mum, Dad, the Kids, or the Lawyer
Forge alliances while you try to destroy the other and take control of the family.
>eXpand your house
>eXploit your family and friends (minor factions, NPCs and bandits)
>eXplore your partners/parents whatsapp messages
>eXterminate your wife

>>531646114
>>eXterminate your wife
>Gothic 2 npc shouting happily as you beat up his wife

>>531651615
It does?

>>531654541
So I have been told. I would need to play with Gothic's jank combat to know.

Test? Are we down?

>>531456559
>>531630337
mostly correct but the order is wrong, his wife divorced him leaveing him with no money and he had to resort to drawing rule 34 of the characters to pay the bills, something furries have been trying to get him to do for years. you could tell he hated doing it because the art was dogshit
but that died when he snapped and refused to draw a commission of his characters and refused to refund the guy either. when people stopped paying for the patreon he just took down the vgcats website and left the internet .

>>531665578
...well that sucks.

Im Trying to learn Civ6, Do the barbarians are always that aggressive at the start?
Do I have to wait a 2k years to have my second city or what?

>>531651615
They do that? lol, it's hilarious

>>531691815
Just build more military?

>>531691815
You need to kill the barbarian scouts which trigger the attacks on your city. If the pace of the game is too slow you can switch to faster game speed or learn to play better.

>>531657280
No, we up.

>finally accumulate enough 'tism for a new WRSR playthrough
>modded 1930 unpopulated start with everything on hard doesn't sound hard enough
>restrict myself by building a starter town with shitty wooden shacks, only basic infrastructure, below a thousand immigrant invitations
>also try to do noloans but end up borrowing 150k after tanking my economy by relying on expensive diesel generators for power and losing several hundred lives during winter (apparently you still need heating even with self-heating houses)
>soon realize that I won't even be able to start a proper city before all my university-educated citizens die out
>concede by building a nominally segregated district with a small uni and some proper commieblocks for my educated comrades to live in
>education numbers finally start slowly but steadily going up
>population is close to 1.5k now and a small heating plant no longer reliably cuts it during the harshest siberian winters
>whenever temperature dips, it's my best and brightest who die out while the lumpenproles burn dung in their hovels with no fucks to give

There's probably a joke about gommunism in here somewhere. Anyway, is there a way to batch-select living preferences for a group of buildings? I can't be assed to click every barrack to prohibit the educated from living there, but moving them manually is getting tedious. Also, is there no way to copy worker assignments between houses same way one would copy assignments between COs or DOs? And why in the fuck are my unemployed citizens displayed as "inactive", is it because they live in self-heating houses that are normally only found on game start?

>>531716197
Can't give order to an entire class?

>>531717271
Not sure if I follow.

>>531719403
In tropico, I remember you could set up pays for all educated jobs.

>>531716197
Sounds like you need a version of the game that starts in 25,000 BC, so you can start with a little tribe and not have to worry about electricity or education while you steadily build them up.

>>531730761
Ungas and Bungas: Neolithic Tribe

>>531727409
No such luck here. Neither regarding the class-wide management (because it's a classless society) nor the whole "pay" thing.

>>531730761
Commies did refer to hunter-gatherer way of life as "primitive communism", after all...
Tbh I could've made the unheated village work had I scoured the workshop for heated shops, schools and clinics as well, but I was more excited about having no higher education in my starter town, and that's not fucking happening.

>>531730761
Dawn of Man says hello.

>>531748428
Hello! How's your mod scene coming along?

>>531751000
Like shit. Its a shame.

>>531604987
I liked the first few missions of Nexus, the rest was kinda meh. Although I've never played more than 5 ish hours I think.

>>531764605
Everything up until you get alien ship was pretty good.

>>531764605
>>531766318
Nexus missions in Sol are absolute master class.
Its a shame Nebolous went to shit and we will never get this..

>>531767801
Didn't it have a multiplayer where you could pick a map and whatever ships? I swear it had AI bots for the other players. So you could always just do some human ship fights.
I might have just imagined that, though. It's been like 40 years since I played it.

>>531767801
Nebulous will still get a campaign that will be based on the scrapped conquest mode. Conquest mode just didn't work because you could circumvent the whole tactical part of the game (which is all of the game) by winning strategically.

>>531766318
Post-alien ship missions aren't complete cancer, although I'd like to strangle whoever came up with mission "Titan", even after beating that mission just now.

Don't die!

>>531790328
Fuck you, I'll die just to spite you!

>>531790328
I'm already dead, my body just hasn't caught up yet

Is Tlatoani good yet? I remember spiderfag shilling it a while ago, but then he started ranting about getting his ass railed while dressing up as a Japanese schoolgirl so I got distracted.

replay railroad tycoon 2 or empire earth?

>>531813730
RAILROAD TYCOON
ANYTHING BUT EMPIRE EARTH
Good ideas, but god awful execution

>>531813730
isn't EE the one with the super cheating computer side?

>>531815962
Yes. The AI, even in easy, has pretty much unlimited ressources, and it never surrender.

how the FUCK are there no civ 6 mods that give cleopatra fucking giant ass titties
there aren't even any custom civs with mommy leaders with heavy hangers
why is the only strategy game with decentish porn mods stellaris, space is fake and gay

Play Spice Wars.

>>531827959
I did and I didn't enjoy it

>>531827959
I did and I enjoyed it.
I never play against Smugglers, though. Fuck them.
And I don't like the new Atreides units.

>>531827959
Spice must flow.
I don't really like the setting tho, at least as a whole.

>>531827959
anons don't season dey 4x

>>531838774
Why not?

bump

https://community.amplitude-studios.com/amplitude-studios/endless-legend-2/blogs/979-updates-about-endless-legend-2
Endless Legend 2 early access has been delayed, was supposed to be August 5th. They'll drop a demo instead.

>>531860048
September 22nd now.

>>531860048
Darn.

>>531589924
Don't listen to him
Play StarCraft Broodwar and Age of Empires 3

>>531813730
Empire Earth with expansion
Individual planets start, full age range, primitive start

>start as indivdualistic machines with the Remnant origin
>0% habitability on my homeworld
>can't colonie at all
uhhh
is this mods or just the usual swiggery? I really don't have any mods that could possibly fuck with this except for planetary diversity

>>531873725
>look at the AoC manual
>there's space shit
Wtf was I missing from never having the expansion? Also lmao at them adding the Koreans as a civilization and making the space age heroes both Korean. It just like AOE2 adding in Korea to capitalize on the market there.

>>531879394
definitely something fucky, you're supposed to have max hab on your homeworld always

maybe it's something weird because machines have nonstandard habitability but relic worlds are a nonstandard planet type

Hey guys, irregular here.
I assume this has come up before, but is there any space game that'll give me big fleets, interesting characters and philosophy classes 101? Basically anything for a pic related feel.

>>531885892
In Homeworld you can get somewhat close to that sorta fleet battles, provided you salvage enemy ships like a mofo on every mission.

There's some LOGH vidya in existence, but none of it is translated to English.

Sins of a solar empire lets you play with pretty big fleets and there's a logh mod for Sins of a solar empire: Rebellion.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/legend-of-the-galactic-heroes

In stellaris you can get some pretty big fleets and it also has LOGH mods for it, just ship mods and portrait mods though, no full on conversions.

Distant worlds 2 lets you build some pretty big fleets also and has more automation than Stellaris, but it has significantly less mods, none of them are ship mods.

Philosophy stuff I haven't ran into in any 4X game as far as I can remember, usually the games just follow the idea of "achieve victory through conquest, research, economy, alliances or a mix of all four".
For philosophy lectures, I'd go watch Kojima games.

>>531885892
Just like the other anon said. Maybe add Starsector to that list too. I didn't know LOGH actually had a english subbed dvd release.

>>531880505
>Wtf was I missing from never having the expansion?
Spending an hour advancing through the ages with ridiculous advancement costs only for the AI to start landing deathbots on your planet while you're only at WW2 tech
Space is literally just NotSea with spacecraft being NotShips that can only be traversed at the last age.
So if you play essentially space islands, no one is interacting with each other until the endgame.

>>531887226
That picture is ironic given how you have to engage in meta faggotry with harvesting to NOT make the game unwinable in Homeworld..
>>531885892
Aurora unironically.

>>531887226
>>531888020
Thanks, I'll flip through the list and see if anything hits.
>>531892912
Aurora what? Steam is giving me a porn game and a cat game on that.

>>531896015
>Aurora
pic rel
I'm assuming he means aurora 4x which is an excel document disguised as a game

>>531896015
Aurora C# you fucking clown.
>steam
google

I'm getting back into age of empires 2 after about 5 years.
A lot of noticeably new stuff, some of it negative.
For example, this yellow shit running across the ground.
It surrounds every town center that I run into, even the first one I build
How the FUCK do I remove this horrible effect? It keeps spoiling the location of enemy TCs without me putting in the full effort to find them, and I really don't like that.
I could not find the option to switch it off anywhere in the options or game creator.

>>531888932
I just played a random map then half of the Roman campaign from the expansion and holy shit it's so obvious which units were added in the expansion by their voice and icons along. It's simultaneously lazy and over-engineered by adding in more stuff into the game which already has too much stuff in it. What's the difference between archers and crossbows? Why do these units have special effects that aren't mentioned anywhere? Why did the expansion add a second kind of wall and tower that exists alongside the stone ones?

>>531901796
Is that due to the treaty being in effect?

>>531885892
The nintendo ds game Infinite Space is the closest game I can think of that has that LOGH feel but it isn't exactly a 4x or rts game. I played before I even knew of LOGH.

Another Falling Frontier post from their discord.

>>531901796
Disable treaty, that's the no rush barrier.

>>531919024
I tried that.
On nomad i cannot turn it off even if i put it on 'none'.

>>531904726
>What's the difference between archers and crossbows
Armor penetration.

>napoleon
>leader of the Han
What?

I just read the Dwarf Player's Handbook for Warhammer.
QUICK, recommend me your best strategy game with dwarfs, please! Hard mode, no Battle For Middle Earth 2.

>>531943024
this is what gamers want

>>531943024
They thought he wouldn't cause trouble if they exiled him to Beijing.
They were wrong.

>>531943024
He got isekai'd, and was granted the superpower Mandate of Heaven in order to lead the nation.

Glad to see the eternal general lives
I played humankind again
It...is kind of fun still
The music rocks and there's plenty if cultures now
The mechanic will always be a big turn off for most tho. Hilarious that civ7 decided they could do it better.

>>531966794
What is "fun"?

>>531967324
a miserable little pile of enjoyment

>>531967324
Meme aside, I like mixing up cultures and the battle system is fun enough. Diplomacy is just enough and thr ai isn't as anti player as most 4x. The early game remains a sprint on endless difficulty but on mid difficulties it's nice. Also I did a mod to 2x the ages so that helps each age breathe.
I would only give it a tepid recommendation, on sale or found on the high seas tho.

>>531961713
I would read this story

bümp

>>531972498
There actually is an isekai about Napoopan but it's republican Napoopan who won over Europe for the revolution and retired in Louisiana. He gets dumped into his emperor timeline right before Russian campaign.

No dying, you silly spiders!

>>531961713
>isekai'd into old china
>"we need to talk about these bendy swords"

>>531955335
>no BfME2
Well fuck
If you're reading a Warhammer codex but still asking, I'm assuming Total War Warhammer isn't an option either
Custom WC3 maps where dwarf units got upgraded to their own faction gave me that dorfy feel long ago, it was mainly on diplo maps though
But that's dead since WC3 refunded
Recently I got to enforce dorf supremacy playing Age of Wonders 4, Giant Kings update really opened the way to letting you go full underground goon cave builds
Picking either Industrial for sturdy shield walls or Reavers for gun lines fit well with dorfs
But AoW4 got bit by the Paradox DLC sickness, so that's not for everyone

>>531916572
Thank you anon, I always appreciate you bringing this stuff to me.

>>532004403
I don't like Battle for Middle Earth 2 because the supplementary materials make it clear that any dwarf death is a big loss for the entire race.
Total Warhammer would be a perfect fit. If I didn't suck ass at Total War.
I'll take a look at Age of Wonder 4, I think I have Age of Wonder 4 somewhere.

I don't remember Warcraft 3 having dwarfs, though?

>>532010360
>I can't send millions of people to their deaths because my army men will go extinct D:
Lessons of the 20th and 21st centuries.

>install 4.0 stellaris to see how it's going
>AI stops building it's planets after a few decades
>half or more of them still fucking corvette spam
>the lag now starts sooner and is even worse
>even leddit took a shit on the state of the release
smashing start to the overhaul lads, can't wait to see what more absolute fucking shite paradox shovels out alongside a £20 DLC at the same time. At least the bioships look cool (still not worth £20)

>>532011871
The middle earth isn't Earth. Dwarfs are already on the decline due to magic leaving the world, war only accelerates their extinction.

>>532010360
>I don't like Battle for Middle Earth 2 because the supplementary materials make it clear that any dwarf death is a big loss for the entire race.
>Total Warhammer would be a perfect fit. If I didn't suck ass at Total War.
That's understandable, dwarves play pretty different in TW though and are forgiving in several factors being high armor, high leadership, good range boys, high money making potential, a second set of buildings they can construct underground, and don't need to worry about magic shit
There's also Chaos dwarves that really accentuate on that 'dying race' factor by making your dorfs even more elite and expensive, and compensate by using enslaved green skins as your cheap disposable meatshields. Still very dorf, but evil, turn the map into industrial hellhole Mordor
>I'll take a look at Age of Wonder 4, I think I have Age of Wonder 4 somewhere.
AoW4 is good for short brain 'make your own faction' stuff if you want to style and steer a fantasy race however you like.
There's always the early Age of Wonders games too. I finished AoW1 months ago, and the dwarves there didn't disappoint. Helping them in the Keeper campaign gives you long, grueling ass missions underground, but helping their civilization bounce back from calamity is worth it. Big enough dwarf cities can give you giant recruitment, who are multipurpose melee sluggers, artillery, and siege units

>I don't remember Warcraft 3 having dwarfs, though?
Roughly a third of the Alliance's units are dwarves. Where humans threw down in melee and elves did most of the magic, dwarves brought all the gunpowder units. Riflemen, steam tanks, gyrocopter, mortar teams, gryphon riders, and the Mountain King hero.

>>531897342
I mean it fits the bill perfectly provided the first anon has some degree of terminal autism. Maybe besides the philosophy, there's not many moral choices to be made (subjugation and enslavement is always the best answer, it's just a question of whether you enslave your own race as well to boost productivity while fucking up your long-term population) but I sure like my big fleets and my lads' service records.

Like look at this pencil-pushing bastard, started out as a mining ship commander, only held two naval command posts and only scored a single kill, yet he's the fleet admiral now.

>>532012369
AI empires are just background. They exist to help flesh out your original unique RP empire. Do you genocide aliens? Do you bully them? Do you ignore them? All the rich options.

>>532018785
>Do you genocide aliens?
Almost a thousand hours and I've never engaged in "diplomacy".

>>532020258
Not even as an overlord with 75% taxes on everything and sending them insults every month?

>>532021672
>with 75% taxes
Jesus Christ anon, I might have 900 hours as a fanatic purifier but even I'm not that evil.

>>532020258
I can understand killing aliens for any reason
Having to deal with so many shitty alien planets can get so fucking exhausting though, and unless you synthetically ascend or are a necrophage, you can't directly convert their inferior population to your chosen people
Binding them as an overlord or ripping them off as a megacorp let's me breeze through games so much quicker
>keep altering the deal
>tax the ever living fuck out of them
>while making ludicrous amounts of dosh with branch offices
>what're they gonna do, rebel? Not if I keep pushing us into wars
https://youtu.be/31HaTbWONmQ?si=d7MbZoJ3I4O-EvpT

>>532023049
Honestly the best part of genociding everything and habiting only a handful of planets is less pops = less calculations and your lategame is way faster
It's the mandatory toaster playstyle

>>532024186
The ultimate form is to play a galaxy with 20 systems and 10 empires. Everyone gets one system to explore and fight over.

You would think Stellaris would have something like planetary defence cannons so you couldn't just sit in orbit and level a planet. It's so easy to completely ignore the land army system.

>>532016197
>There's also that really accentuate on that 'dying race' factor by making your dorfs even more elite and expensive
Excuse me umgi, there are also WHAT? I think you messed up with your sentence here and referred to something that doesn't exist.
And that'd be nice, I think I have AoW2 on GoG, I'll check if it's got dwarfs.

>Roughly a third of the Alliance's units are dwarves
Urgh, right. I forgot how fucked up Warcraft 3 with very interesting races that are mixed in a mumbo jumbo of alliances and what else.
Literally never used the steam tanks.

>>531447559
Holy shit it's 2016 again?
AND YOU DIDN'T WARN THEM ABOUT THE FUCKING GORILLA??

>the main draw of lithoids is their massive habitability bonus that allows you to colonize basically any planet easily
>this is actually kind of worthless because the slower pop growth speed combined with the rework to pop growth means that rapidly spreading out to multiple different planets at the start is a terrible idea
>not to mention that terraforming doesn’t really take that long to unlock
>not to mention that if you really want to colonize every planet without terraforming you can just take the mutation ascension path
Yeesh

it's gaming time.

>>532067868
>river
>floodplains
oh baby

what the fuck are those stones though

>>532068185
It's just a part of the resource pack it's the .2021 expansio mod on civfanatics.

>>532067868
Agricultural civs are way too powerful

>>532069273
I always go rando on civs, I never actually like picking my civ portugal it seem.

>>532069695
And never get portugal it seems*

I just got Civ 6 Platinum free from Epic. I loved Civ 5

What's the opinion on Civ 5 vs. 6?

>>532077456
don't like it

>>532077456
5 is better.

>>532077456
I like 6 more, but if you loved civ5 civ6 will not be a better 5, its a different direction. Its certainly got more content and more replayability (before mods) but again, if you want more 5 stuff you aint going to find it in 6. for better or worse its a much less traditional civ game.

>>532094536
Just initial impressions of Civ 6 after a few hours in. Btw, I have all expansions including Gathering Storm. Standard map size, everything on default, Prince difficulty.

I kind of like it. I like how the initial units seem more balanced than Civ 5's. I feel like the game pushes you to have less units and cities. Resources also feels like more manageable with wonders not taking too long but instead focuses on actions per turn rather than going through turns.

I am having a difficult time managing all the subsystems though. Not sure about having a tech and civics tree. There's governors now, not a big fan of that menu based system. I don't like how it asks me to update my policies every few turns. I feel like the tasks you need to do to advance the tech trees need a to be planned in advance because I missed a lot and I fell behind. I'm kind of surprised I got a world congress as soon as the classical era.

Overall, it does feel more about micromanaging turns rather than going through turns compared to Civ 5. A lot more action per turn. On the other hand, I'm not sure I like all the menus and subsystems.

>>532094917

>>532098414
Was it 5 or 6 that had Egyptussy Cleo that gave you fuck me eyes everytime you invaded her lands?

>>532103902
That was real life, Mark.

>>532103902
6, Ramses was in 5.

>>532106152

>>532067868
What game? Civ 3?

This certainly isn't a direct declaration of war

>>532126728
I've never liked it being hard coded to make those dogshit cities
they aren't even in good locations, or capable of defending themselves
its just a forced warmonger penalty

>>532127040
I dunno that's 4 decent resources in 1st ring and decent spot for at least science district. If it's the proper distance from it's cap then I it's pretty alright. Of course that bothers the player but that's mostly a problem for higher difficulties where they get more free settlers and spread out before player has a "chance". If OP placed his second city tile or two closer he wouldn't settle in between there.

bump

>AI empire with federation start
>3 allies
>2 of them have "beastmaster" civic
>they roll with huge fleets of space amoeba mothers right from the start of the game
>steamrolls practically all empires with it's 10k doomstack and forms a huge fuedal empire of vassals and tributaries

>>532098414
there are several ui mods that help tremendously, including some that give the civic changes on the screen so you know what the cost of switching is.

>>532127040
Even funnier that he had this entire empty resource rich area right underneath him that he controlled the only land checkpoint to.
It's like Mexico having all of South America to exploit but decides "fuck it, let's piss off the USA"

>read about sumerian history again
>get the urge to make a civ mod with a "fixed" and 100% historically accurate tech tree
>read more about history in other places (americas, india, china, africa, northern europe)
>realize this requires some form of convoluted randomization so some civs discover some techs later than others (oldest mesoamerican writing from the last few centuries BC)
>realize i'm better off playing a different game or making my own autism simulator

>>532125786
Yep civ 3 with C3X and a mod.

>>532145874
Stellaris actually did this pretty well.

>>532145874
Play Nabuchodonosor.

Bad for ai, but cool world lore.

>>532151287
>polish
You need to do something about that.

>>532152802
The Danes declared war on me so I gotta deal with them before Polish. I think the Tartars are wanting to fight me as well. MEM mod, if you are wondering.

Are megacorps decent or just kind of a meme?

>>532158387
they're not bad, just less diverse than regular authorities

>>532158387
It's too reliant on getting a good galaxy generation. The whole point is to make trade deals and build up your subsidiary empire, but if the game sticks hive minds all around you and fanatic xenophobes around them, then you're not going to be able to do anything.
Wish you could save map seeds.

>>532158387
They aren't called meme corps for nothing

"The future will be better tomorrow."
- Dan Quayle

Have any anons tried the Tiaxana mod for ck2?

>>532184995
>>>/vst/gsg/

Been playing Civ6 since epic gave away all of the DLC. This city state keeps getting raped by floods

I've heard of the Sins of a Solar Empire, but what are the Sins of a Spider Empire?

>>532191528
I would rather play Virtues of a Solar Empire, where instead of killing people with mean space weapons, you send them nice messages and gifts and work together to share the wealth of space.

I almost won, then Arabia somehow wins by a religious victory.

>>532184995
>cumania

>>532192028
We need a pacifist strategy game.

>>532184995
>>>/trash/gsg/

bump

>>532201763
And what a game it would be. If your enemy kills you, you win. It means they gave up, they surrendered, to violence. You won the true, moral victory as they burn down your kingdom.
If they don't kill you, you still win because you showed the futility of violence.

>>532184995
I want them to updated WTWSMS mod for CK2...

>>532217341
Wrong thread tranny.

>>532205082
Nah, more like that game about offworld trading.

>>532218830
>Wrong thread
I help this thread to stay alive, therefore I get they say.
And I say is that CK2 is welcome.

>>532219207
Wrong thread, tranny.
>>>/trash/gsg/

>>532219207
Wrong thread, newfag.
Read the OP. I'm sure even you can read simple English (American).

>>532219579
>gsg
No, I don't care about other pdox games.
>>532219835
>newfag
I have been in this place for more than a decade now.

>>532221071
Wrong thread, newfag. Go to >>>/vst/gsg/.
It's explained in the OP, which you should always read. Can't you read it? Are you stupid?

>>532058739
the actual biggest draw is the +50 years leader lifespan, niggas won't die if you don't fail hard at research
too bad paradogs nerfed leaders really hard
or pairing them with the cave dweller origin, as the hits to pop growth won't stack

Ash.

>>532221392
Shut up, spider, and don't tell me what to do.
I don't care about your old grudges against gsg faggots.

>>532223226
Wrong thread, newfag. Go to >>>/vst/gsg/.
It's explained in the OP, which you should always read. Can't you read it? Are you stupid?

PLAY DEADLOCK 2

Sorry, HOW MUCH??

>>532227824
For free.

>>532222361
Endless Space has a lot of style.

>>532237018
It has SOUL.

>>532237408
The setting is almost wasted on the kind of game they do with it.

>>532238160
What do you mean? What would you prefer?

>>532238160
I know exactly what you mean

I realize why I have such a hard time with playing Anno 1800. While the setting and mechanics interest me, the gameplay is so slow(even when sped up) that my mind wanders, bad thoughts pop up and I ended up getting ansty and nervous.
I guess I do really use vidya as opium for the mind.

>>532248667
Undestandable.

Is clone army still considered one of the best origins for a normal empire?

>>532258670
Depends from the game. Clone decay is a thing, after all.

>>532237018
That reminds me any more EL2 leaks out? I saw early access was delayed.

>>532258670
>normal empire
I would think normal means no ascension path and no extreme civics.

>>532262660
every empire ascends, it's too big of a power boost not to

well I guess there's that one civic that locks you out of it

>10
Yet again I save this ungrateful general...

>>532145874 (You)
>the first use of writing is believed to be for economic transactions with documents recording the sale of land appearing in Mesopotamia in the early 3rd millennium BC (right after writing had emerged there)
>Sumerian number system originated around the same time
>oldest known library/archive dates to around 2600 BC
>earliest extant literature dates to around 2400 BC
>first legal codes in Mesopotamia date to around 2100 BC (Code of Hammurabi is later, around 1750 BC)
>the alphabet was developed in Egypt around 1800 BC
Pretty neat line of development

>>532237018
Good music as well, those frogs make buggy games but the ost for them are all solid.

>10
nigs

>>532291479
sorry for being at work

>>532281260
The music?
How is it?

>>532297797
Hear for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZ1AWAe40Y
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL34B17023CC305F3D

Necrophage lithoids should be pretty good right? The question is would it be better to be gestalt or normal empire as necro lithoids?

>>532301221
Sorry, I have two modes: "oh this music is made out of X and Y", and "oh I like this music, reminds me of X".
And this doesn't ring any bell, but I guess it's nice?

>>532301548
necrophages are bugged right now I believe

>>532303382
How so?

>>532301548
>necrophage lithoids
What do you do, turn people into fossils?

>>532304496
no clue, just heard they were

>>532307562
I like the idea that necrophage lithoids take the souls from the pops they purge and then put them in new lithoid bodies that they constructed beforehand

Valentines Meetup today was with Seia and Mika, I have no clue who to pick tommorow.

>>532315343
This isn't /xivg/.

>>532297797
EL (war of the sundered in particular), both ES, and I swear they blew the QA budget on humankind making all those culture specific tracks using real insturments.

>>532320020
But it sounds great.

*Defeats your tank offensive*

>>532334735
damn this is a legacy meme

>>532334735
That's an old one.

>>532334735
I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago, when the strength of race to tank failed.

the newest society in aw4 better not be stuck with good alignment and the undead being stuck to one stuck to a medieval civilization really being me out of it for my Jiangshi roleplay with oathsworn.

>>532345040
Oh, someone else on 4chan knows what a jiangshit is. I'm impressed.

>>532350081
it's just a chinese zombie, with a funny hat

>>532350671
Who hops.

I'm seriously considering getting Age of Wonder 4, I crave for a "normal" fantasy setting with elves and dwarves.
Please talk me out of it.

Ha, yes.
Paradox game.
90€ for an untranslated game.

>>532357373
Serves you right spooder, buying Swedish.

>>532357373
>He bought

How fucked was the map gen for this to happen?

>>532357373
>willingly paid 90 eurodollars to paracuck
Lol
Lmao even.

Downloading Stellaris
Odds I do fanatic purifier run
Evens I do a I'm From Buenos Aires run

>>532365274
Rolling for Buenos Aires.

>>532358406
>>532358492
>>532364353
I can't help it!
And the worst part is that I'm actually having fun.
Disgusting.

I'm >>532248667
I'm looking at Anno 117 and I'm thinking "I wish to play it".
What is wrong with me?
Anyway gonna masturbate to drawings of underage girls and play some GoH.

>>532350081
NTA but I know it from that one Monogatari arc

I see they've completely changed the game again since I last played

>>532345040
If we can be evil dicks with the High culture we should be able to do the same with Architects. This upcoming DLC seems to be 2/3rds Archons, and 1/3rd new undead support, including racial forms even since one is a straight up withered corpse
>>532355960
You can always play previous AoW games first to save money
You can make your standard fantasy elves and dwarves in 4, but the game leaves people open to make less traditional combinations

>>532370271
Did you start playing Stellaris last year? By now you should be used to them changing everything and breaking half the game.
God I still miss tiles

>>532370969
First time I played stellaris there were 3 FTL modes instead of hyperlanes
I play in 1 year gaps and everytime it's almost a new game

>>532370969
>tiles
It's over, bro.

It's Beautiful

>>532373721
Ew

This doesn't seem like the best grid to make a town but I really don't know what else to do. Specially given that the structures have a fall off range and to upgrade they NEED to have the satisfaction meter full.

Also how the fuck do you set up efficient trading routes? The game doesn't give you how long it takes for a round trip, and how fast production is made(I suppose it is 1 equals 1 minute?).
I have my peppers ship trucking around 5 units of peppers, and it seems to mostly bring 2-3 units of peppers per trip.

>>532376510
>This doesn't seem like the best grid to make a town but I really don't know what else to do
If you just want the best layout I'm sure there's a blueprint if you search for it in google. As for figuring it out yourself ye it's going to be a block like that that's mostly efficient even if not aesthetic.

>Also how the fuck do you set up efficient trading routes?
Just set up a ship and if it doesn't keep up then add another and if it looks like it's more than enough give the same ship more stops.

>>532376984
>As for figuring it out yourself ye it's going to be a block like that that's mostly efficient even if not aesthetic.
I mean. If you have circle-shaped area of effect buildings, wouldn't the ideal shape so that the most houses are under the effect, without repeating effect buildings, be a square/rectangle?
Looking for blueprints seems like plain cheating. I want just some pointers to help me come up with my own blueprints. Like when is it worth it to repeat effect buildings on the outskirts of rectangle of houses, to provide full services?

>Just set up a ship and if it doesn't keep up then add another and if it looks like it's more than enough give the same ship more stops.
And when do you increase production, or rather ascertain that the bottleneck isn't shipping but production?

>>532377928
>Like when is it worth it to repeat effect buildings on the outskirts of rectangle of houses, to provide full services?
The game is pretty forgiving about resources like this, strictly speaking you would look into the the extra income of the new buildings vs the consumption of resources and the new building to provide the upgrade but that's mostly worth it unless you are upgrading very few buildings with an expensive building. You could just remove the upgraded buildings too or add more houses and then a new building. Just experiment.
Also you should aim to fully surround the most expensive buildings with houses, for instance in your picture if you expanded the block towards the south more of the 3rd tier buildings would inevitably appear, you know you are being inefficient if your high tier buildings end up against wilderness like that.

>And when do you increase production, or rather ascertain that the bottleneck isn't shipping but production?
When both islands are out of the material. If only the supplying is out but the consumer isn't then there's potentially extra capacity on the shipping line and if the consumer is empty but the supplier isn't then there's not enough shipping capacity. Out of these 3 states you want to aim for the 2nd.

>play heckin wholesome pacifist/xenophile diplo empire
>spawn in the ass end of the starburst galaxy with space terminators, mongols, and two slave empires hemming me in
>play as space terminators
>don't find anyone to exterminate in the first 15 years

>>532373721
>squares
delet this

>>532012369
an update to this; they broke two of the fucking endgame crises. the contingency and prethoryn can invade and fight in space mostly fine but they are completely unable to purge worlds they take because for some fucking reason you need an employed pop on a planet to begin purging, and neither of them HAVE any pops. And since they've been too busy getting the game to even be playable they likely haven't realised they've completely fucked over two of the three big bads. Did they literally just not playtest this update at all?

At least I've rolled possibly the best start position I've ever had.

>>532018785
I've taken to biological ascension so that when I conquer a different species I can immediately spec them into a new role for them to fill. Did the empire piss me off? Nerve stapled and delicious livestock. Were they an alright sort and were peacefully integrated? Assimilated into the hive mind and modified to be far superior to what they were.

>>532021672
honestly if the taxes also eat into the cheat materials the AI gets this might suddenly become my favourite playstyle.

>>532023049
I always rush down the colossus or pray to God for the new existential expulsion CB so I don't have to wrangle the claims mechanic, makes assimilation and destruction far easier than it is otherwise.

>>532024186
I think most of the lag now comes from the AIs obsession with building almost nothing but corvettes (until they actually fix the AI to work, at which point the performance will probably be worse than in 3.14)

>>532370271
first time I loaded up this new patch I unironically froze and said "what the fuck am I looking at"

also you can get a few FE building techs without cosmogenesis now (I'd recommend editing the file so you can get all of the t1 fallen buildings, they're cool)

>>532370969
>>532371065
GIVE ME MY FUCKING WORMHOLE TRAVEL YOU SWEDISH KEKOLDS

>seether is going all out again

>>532357373
Good god Industrious looks so stupid when its anyone but a dwarf
I think my personal trigger is looking at the Bastion unit and cringing if it isn't a longbearded dwarf. Maybe it's the goofy helmet. It feels proper if you've got a bearded midget wearing it
I like the culture still, prospectors alone are great for starting income, and I can double down on turtle strategies with them, but it just makes me want to fucking murder anyone off the map if I find out they're Industrial but not dwarves

>>532383259
Game is so oddly inspired sometimes tho ngl baka desu senpai fr fr

>>532383259
That's pretty much been the theme with all of their games, hasn't it? The cultures are designed with one or two races in mind.

>>532383259
I mean, in French, they're not dwarfs. They're gnomes.

>>532383473
Shrine of Smiting looks like a Warhammer altar, both Order aligned by the way. I don't mind biblically accurate angels, which the next DLC should add to
>>532386890
Cultures determine your entire starting unit lineup are purely a thing for 4 I think
>1 has pure clear cut unit rosters for every race. Racial variants deviate the further up unit tiers, but even at the bottom there's some exceptions. Basic archers replaced by Halfling slingers or Goblin blow pipe darters
>2 and Shadow magic are a fuzzy memory for me but follow similar logic
>3 switches things up with unit lineups determined by your leader/heroes if I remember right. That's how you can get things like tiger succubi
>Planetfall I never touched but when I watched dev vids before release unit lineups seemed a bit asymmetrical
I could be missing details since the only game I played to any completion before 4, was 1

Which would be better for a fanatic xenophobe inward perfectionist empire:
1) subterranean lithoids
2) void dwellers (normal bio species)

>>532396961
1, but inward perfectionist is boring as hell

>>532379135
>Just experiment.
Alright. I hope I don't bankrupt myself or the cute Indian girl I picked as avatar.
>>532379135
>for instance in your picture if you expanded the block towards the south more of the 3rd tier buildings would inevitably appear, you know you are being inefficient if your high tier buildings end up against wilderness like that.
I see.

>>532379135
>Out of these 3 states you want to aim for the 2nd.
I have a small dip in production of canned food, so gonna see if I can increase the input.

>play normal empire
>amenities out the ass
>no need to ever build entertainers

>play hive or machine
>constantly struggling with amenities
>need to careful maintain a balance and never build to many jobs to make sure you have a minimum number of maintenance drones
Now I know why the AI hive empires never get anywhere.

>Can only build one habitat per system
FUCKING WHY??
PLANETNIGGERS CAN COLONISE AS MANY PLANETS AS THEY WANT
0/10
SHIT GAME
UNINSTALLING

>>532411225
They made it so you can increase the size of those habitats, anon.

>>532410936
Your only way to amneties as a gestalt is through maintenance drones, which are the hive version of civilians aka jobless pops
So the only way to get them is to not improve your planet because they will instantly move to real jobs otherwise
It's a total pain. So is trade for gestalts because logistics drones are horrible and you get no buildings to improve them. Adopting the trade tradition is pretty much mandatory.

>>532410936
I normally reserve a build slot for a hive warren or two and that carries you on to the endgame because otherwise you take an eternity to scale because they fucked that up too.

>>532410936
just make a housing building, amenities are a non-issue in 4.0

>>532411548
>Adopting the trade tradition is pretty much mandatory
you gotta sell resources on the market and completely ignore logistic drones anon, you should have zero problems with strategic resources by the mid-game because of how absurd the production values get. Just set a monthly selling of some resources and forget the entire mechanic exists.

>>532411425
Complete fucking garbage
If I wanted a single piece of unspecialised shit I'd play life seeded gaia wank
This is even worse than adding bureaucracy

>>532412153
>>532411225
>wanting even more clicking in that atrocious UI of theirs
Bruh

>>532412153
you make a mining habitat in a system with good mineral deposits
you make a generator habitat in a system with good energy deposits
you make a research habitat in a system with good research deposits

and so on.

>>532412153
>If I wanted a single piece of unspecialised shit
specialising is one of the few things the 4.0 update did well; habitats are great for turning into alloy, science or unity factories. They're harder to specialise into food, minerals or energy but they are doable.

>>532411770
Normal housing gives 2500 amenities. Hive housing gives 500.
>checks the wiki
Uhh I think I might need to update.

Just to let you guys know, Frontiers Reach : Battlespace can now be purchased on steam.
It's in early access though, so mind that.

>>532420790
>black pearl
PAY THE DEBT, JACK

Bit fucking much for 2260.

>>532428537
>sends a single gundam
What now, nerd?

>>532421161
kek

bump

This city by the AI has never been growing outside of 2 pop, has 2 wheat tiles without any farms. What the fuck are they doing over there? I kinda of want to raid them, but my military is shit and everybody is behind technology wise to one civ.

>>532446116
It's a 4x ai, all it's doing is cheating and making random choices

What are the top tier Stellaris mods to start off with?

>>532446930
I figured, still odd to see.

>>532447958
depends on what you want

>>532448164
Kinda want two different things I think.
Stuff that enhances and expands upon the existing mechanics, adding more flavor and options and extremes to what's already there.
and
Stuff that's basically akin to total conversion, using the foundation of Stellaris to do it's own thing with it's own lore and events.

>>532448918
>enhances and expands upon the existing mechanics
check out the ethics and civics mods, I like bug branch

>total conversion
there's a big star trek mod, I think there's a star wars one too

i've thought about making my own civ like 4x game but the main idea of it is so autistic that it would be painful to code

>>532412153
>he wants the old habitat spam
make like a tree and fucking kill yourself buddy

>>532446930
Play the Advanced Civ mod from Civ 4, it will annihilate you without cheating. It's the only game I've seen where the AI can plan naval invasions in a threatening manner.

>>532450782
>the old habitat spam
NewFAGGOT here, what did (You) mean by this?

I forgot what time it was again with the "one more turn"

>>532357373
>>532358406
This is AoW4, if I am not wrong, so it's not Swedish and not made by pdox, it's Dutch.

>>532454192
I'll have to check that out, is it smart but not an omnipotent bastard?

>>532465957
AoW has had the same independant studio for its entire series, I think
But I know for sure 4's development and release coincided with them working with Paradox to be their new publisher as of AoW 4
So that's why it has the standard Paradox DLC practices

>>532468583
>AoW has had the same independant studio for its entire series, I think
Triumph Studios.
Age of Wonders 1 was my childhood favorite game...

>>532469028
With 4's success, the devs are excited as they claim to be able to keep bringing us content, already promising a third season after this
But is this cost worth it, turning into a Paradox DLC machine? They seem happy so far, haven't seen stealth cries for help, and most of the content is good enough
The previous games are still there, the series is more popular now. I play 4 but I still try to refer people to AoW1 since I also have a load of experience with that game too

WRSR's heating system makes me want to pull my hair out, doubly so on the Tundra biome. Those heat losses are just insane, large heating plant 1.2km away from the city (which used to work fine for me on normal maps) can't even heat a house right next to the exchanger which has ~78C water in the tank! I damn near bankrupted myself building the piping, too. Am I supposed to surround my city with small heating plants 400m away, or plaster modded wood heaters everywhere or something?

Also, does water temperature inside the exchanger correlate with their drain/capacity? I.e. the town in question can theoretically be supplied with 1.23 small heating pipes, so would splitting a single large pipe into a dozen or so exchangers tank my temperature or work fine?

>>532192028
Literally just green-evolution Spore.

>primal elves
Sounds like a pleonasm.

Ha, yes, age of wonder, the fantasy game about being an American and blasting people.

>>532483174
How else are you going to spread fantasy democracy to fantasy oil rich countries?

This game has soul. Units look good, even if I miss the little lore tidbits, but I guess we can't really afford descriptions with that "make your own civ" aspect to it.
Like, what if you make a faction of law-abiding people, considered good, but decided that rape is legal? There'd be trouble with units trying to keep peace in the streets.

That's one hell of a sword, though. I think I'd be unable to one-hand something like this IRL.

>>532469932
Slowly later games just lost the original soul. It's partially of course due to graphics changed, but it is what it is.
I mostly want different things in games now anyway.

>>532484161
Honestly sometimes it's for the best. I got mercilessly filtered out of AoW 3 and got constantly roflstomped into the ground, but at least with AoW 4, I can play.

I was about to bitch at the lack of undead units, but then I saw this.
It's using a dragon skull as a pincer. Fucking nice.

Unit variety feels lower than in AoW3.
Only 2 units per tier?

>>532486556
Should've added that in this picture, half of the T1 units can ascend to T3 once they get enough experience.
That's why you see some of them twice.

>>532450782
Goinf from AoW Shadow Magic to AoW 3 really felt like a massive let down
Having no unique units loses a lot of its appeal

Are civilian jobs the amount of "unemployed pops" you have aka people who can work if you construct a building with jobs?
I also randomly get 2, 6 and 4 unemployed worker, specialist and elite pops, fucking why?
Does it mean 200? Is it literally just 2 people?

>>532486556
It has been a trend, also. I mean, I don't mind class based units, but I always liked that races had more units as well. But they also really messed up races (and probably lore) in 4th game, from what I read, so whatever.

>>532492857
I mean, AoW3 had:
- race units
- leader units
- summons.

I don't know how AoW4 works so far, but the leader and race units are mixed together. Or rather, the race is just a cosmetic thing.

>>532485247
Undead are implemented in weird ways this game. You got undead creatures you can build like that, but you also have basic skeletons you can raise from any humanoid enemy you kill. One cool thing is they keep their ACTUAL racial skeleton when they were alive. You can ALSO make your entire species gain the undead tag with a major transformation spell.
And next DLC will have a tome with extra undead support and references to those undead Archon units in 3. Undead titans will be back

>>532494386
What are tomes? Tech progress?
I admit I don't understand anything to research in 4.

>>532489470
>Are civilian jobs the amount of "unemployed pops" you have aka people who can work if you construct a building with jobs?
yes, but civilians can also produce resources

>I also randomly get 2, 6 and 4 unemployed worker, specialist and elite pops, fucking why?
that's just pop growth being weird, they'll demote to civilians eventually

>>532466952
The former

>>532494463
>they'll demote to civilians eventually
I honestly might try and change the demotion time in my files, because it takes a fucking eternity rn and maintenance drones (gestalt civilians) are one of the two ways you get a reasonable amount of amenities.
Also there's a hive building that gives maintenance drone jobs but you can't actually prioritise them and it's fucking useless because maint jobs are completely uncapped

>>532495253
you can take harmony to reduce pop demotion time, not that it really matters in 4.0. gestalts promote and demote instantly anyways

>Also there's a hive building that gives maintenance drone jobs
which building? if it's vanilla then that's an oversight

>>532494428
Research in AoW 4
>knowledge resource is generated at your cities, improvements, and province buildings, it's a rarer resource but very nessecary
>all automatically spent on your research
>your tech tree is almost like a web, anchored around the six affinities
>tomes are basically research packages to unlock, to make all the stuff inside available to research
>tomes are basically centered around gimmicks and themes, they should FEEL that way at least
>unlock a tome, then you start picking things inside to research, choose from 3 at a time
>usually you will research 3 different items before the chance to grab a new tome is opened. Generally you always want this, as by now you hopefully got 1-2 things you REALLY wanted in that single tome, but there can be bad shuffles, or you just REALLY want everything from 1 tome
>options from old tomes you haven't researched are shuffled into a growing pile that will clutter your research options
>everytime you unlock a new tome, the shiny new options from that tome are HEAVILY favored to show up though, so skipped research options aren't super oppressive
>you CAN reshuffle for a small mana cost at anytime
>all tomes can be picked up to tier 2. Tier 3 they start having small affinity requirements, and that you research a certain number of total tomes
>tier 5 tomes are exclusive to eachother. Pick one? All the others are locked. These generally have few but powerful options to round out and top off whatever terrifying combat monsters you turned your people into
>everything else is open to you, provided you meet the affinity requirements and have enough research to discover them at a reasonable time
>you do NOT have enough research to discover them all in a reasonable time, especially since every tome unlock increases your costs
>this keeps everyone from rapidly homogenizing into the same rainbow blob by researching everything in a single match
If that makes any sense

>>532447958
gigastructures is sacred

the star trek full conversion is also good

>>532483952
Reavers look pretty fucking fly. I like their aesthetic, they've got some of my favorite dress options for leaders. Plus I guess I just love the idea of shooting knights dead with guns. Magelock rifles make a pretty satisfying sound to fire
Only grievances with them
>first DLC culture, released before sub-cultures were a thing, so Reaver feel a little underdeveloped when compared to any other DLC or vanilla culture that got recent touchup
>brutal conquistador and wicked terico is great looks, a bit less so when you end up being a paragon of justice. There ARE former Commonwealth characters in the game that still are arguably good guys, but the game makes them lead Reavers because they're the only gunpowder faction to help show off that they're former Commonwealth. This could be solved by giving Reavers a subculture that unlocks actual diplomacy options, maybe, iunno

Best civ 6 mods?

>>531313326 (OP)
looking for the names of two games that i can't remember
first was a post apo city builder where you had to bulid on huge sky pillars and second one is factorio like 3d game where drones we're use to transport coal and other ores to trucks before shipping them trough a tunnel

>>532513101
>first was a post apo city builder where you had to bulid on huge sky pillars
Cliff Empire?

>>532514706
das rite thank you
wow this looks better than i remember
anyone remembers the second game i mantioned?

>another border skirmish kicks off
>sudden urge to play wargame again

>>532519438
Maybe you should stop participating in border skirmishes, anon... Bad for your health.

I'll play stellaris again when all the bugs are fixed

>>532536887
So never?

Please don't die on me.

>>532555250
I think I will

>>532555250
3 hours is preddy good without dying. Are the gacha posters on holiday?

>doing an isolationist hive run, borders closed, minimal to no treaties
>two neighbours are fairly normal if pissy I'm a hermit kingdom
>third neighbour is a devouring swarm that's already eaten two or three other empires completely
>notice the swarm is absolutely BTFO'ing one of my neighbours and may soon have four separate fronts to attack me from
>hurl my fleet into the swarm and start glassing and conquering their planets before siphoning the pops to my own worlds
>eventually my once-neighbour white peaces, I tidy up the border with fewer chokepoints to worry about before white peacing and transferring the new systems to their original owner
>set stance back to isolationist, but leave the border with them open
>fast forward 50 years, the swarm's back for round two and fucking blitzes my neighbour into oblivion
>mfw I just wanted to take the L-Cluster and fuck off from galactic affairs entirely
I'm going to conquer these cunts, glass their worlds and turn their drones into my new slave caste - I liked those fucking plants.

>>532558115
What difficulty are you playing on that AI empires are actually doing stuff? On most of my runs in 4.0 they've all been absurdly passive.

>>532557159
They're all fighting each other in the jungles of Southeast Asia

>>532559072
what are you talking about? has the civil war in myanmar flared up again?

>>532559242
Thailand and Cambodia are bombing each other

>>532558449
it's on captain with the bog-standard setting beyond that; I think it's just that purifiers are given a far higher aggression than normal so they're far more active since the rest of the galaxy is mostly static. Pic Rel shows the result of devourers getting more aggression, higher priority to their fleet and the various bonus buffs they get for being a purifier empire. They're the first empire I've seen build a meaningful number of battleships and cruisers in years.

>>532559432
well, tell them to stop

>>532560162
Why stop them?

>>532559903
sir choose a civic please sir

>>532560974
the civic choices for hive mind feel absurdly boring or useless tbqh, but all right anon, I took subsumed will because you asked nicely I'll probably change to subsumed will, divided attention strength of legions later on anyway

>>532497259
So essentially, research is drawing cards, got it.
I HATE it.

>>532507062
Sorry, what's that part about the diplomacy? You mean the alignement?

Meatbags, our response?

I don't know which one is more retarded here

>>532574147
What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?

>>532575959
one-tile island cities are COMFY

>>532576159
True, but I will nuke them when possible

>Civ is in modern era, heavily far behind
>They have super death robots

Animal farm

>>532577214
Lock in.

What’s the coziest empire setting in Stellaris? I want to build something like the Shire from lord of the rings but in space

>>532586365
agrarian idyll is a civic that exists

pair it with scion origin and do literally nothing all game

Good night spiders.