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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

Stormbros... I am ready to head back out into the Storm. To fight. Against it. To fight Agaisnt the Storm. I am ready.

>>533366602
No idea what it is desu.
Personally im waiting for Aurora 2.6.

>>533356124
No clue. Got no scale here. Around 80-90 kgs.

>>533366432 (OP)
None of the links in the OP appear to work.There is also some new news.

Nebulous: Fleet Command, Devlog 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgbXiJdJTk&ab_channel=EridanusIndustries
Plan B: Terraform, will release on August the 29th: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532104920883537578
Dev Journal #106: Organic Difficulty in GalCiv IV: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/515215878272319582

Why the fuck does CIV 6 all of a sudden not render hair and some wonders? Like wtf? No changes to mods. Ugh.

>>533368657
It's the cancer mode. What's your problem, you ableist fuck?

>>533366602
Long ago, a storm was heading for the city of Quin'lat. Everyone took protection within the walls except one man who remained outside. Kahless went to him and asked what he was doing.
"I am not afraid," the man said. "I will not hide my face behind stone and mortar. I will stand before the storm and make it respect me."
Kahless honored his choice and went back inside. The next day, the storm came, and the man was killed.
Kahless spoke, "The storm does not respect a fool".

>>533378930
Fuck you.

Hex or square tiles?

>>533383310
Hex. Always.

>>533383310
Alternating squares, so each square is surrounded by 6 squares, like a brick wall.

>>533383310
Whatever gives me the biggest plots of land, as an oldie though I like squares more.

>>533390013
Cringe.

>>533366432 (OP)
>play megacorp in stellaris for the first time
>first empire is gestalt consciousness
>second empire is gestalt consciousness
>third empire is fanatical xenophobe
Ah shit I have to reroll
>start a new game and it’s the same shit
Oh cool so basically I just wasted three hours because… a simple dice roll of CPU government types makes it so you literally can’t do anything for the entire game. Really cool design there

>>533392497
Make some custom empires with forced spawn.

>>533392497
the game is rigged to always surround you with some empires that are your complete opposite and some that are nicer to you
It used to be even worse, back in the day picking megacorp meant that 80% of the galaxy was also megacorps.

>>533393626
>80% of the galaxy was also megacorps
I remember that. Did my head in. Completely defeats the point of them.
What was their plan? Do they ever playtest anything they add to Stellaris?

Please recommend Warlords-likes (not Warlords Battlecry)

So is this ever coming out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsOZ6MFEOM&ab_channel=RtsDimon

>>533394165
You remind me, I have Warlords 3 on GoG.
Should I try it?

>>533395097
You should give it a go, I personally prefer 2 but 3 has a lot of nice features that I wish were in 2 like showing you the number of units in a stack instead of having to double-check every time manually
You'll have to get used to the UI before it feels comfy though

>>533397506
I remember buying it by accident, thinking it was based on Warlords Battlecry. I don't think I ever played it.

got more investors to my main island and world's fair is on it's last phase of construction

>>533398513
(((investors)))

beautiful

well i got shit for my first science exhibition need to attract more investors to get the actual good stuff.

>>533366432 (OP)
Sins of a Solar Empire II, update 1.43 is out: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1575940/view/518594122001416588

>>533399387
>exhibitionist
Hot.

>>533400507
Is it good?

less than an hour until bat people costing you probably five dolla
it better not be more expensive than that

>>533404123
Que?

>>533404123
The most truth to words ever!

>>533405304
the fucking op pay attention
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3725110/Against_the_Storm__Nightwatchers/

>>533405507
bite me

>>533402609
it's the first game with AI slop assets

>>533406089
I dunno about first overall, but definitely the first one of games relevant to our interests.

>>533404123
It's going to be 15 and I'm going to pay it

Stormbros
My body is ready

>>533407360
>furryshit
yikes
and here I almost bought that game

>>533408041
You're not thinking it through. You can KILL them. All of them.

>>533402609
Yeah I'd say it's fun. The generous first adopters at epic play tested the game for everyone.

they couldn't be be bothered to put in new achievements for the bat dlc?

>>533408638
There are new achievements dingus
I'm looking at them right now

>>533408736
steams slow as shit updating them on my end

>>533409074
I want to have sex with the batgirls
Not a furry btw

>>533366432 (OP)
>>533407360

don't know what this new game is about i hope there are spiders in it so spiderfriend can have fun :)

>>533392497
If you’re willing to cheat/savesum you could always start a new game, save, then use the command “communications” to make contact with everyone in the galaxy so you know if you need to restart or not, and then load the save from before you used the command if it’s a good galaxy

>>533411879

>>533411879
There's a giant spider skelleton you can excavate
They're the bad guys tho

>>533428591
But they don't have bones?

Oh, FFS.

YES, the entire ethics system, in fact, does not work as advertised. Ethics "shifts" that pretty much always tale longer than most games, especially when people generally end games quicker than they might have, due to lag, simply aren't "shifts". Personally, I'm guessing that PDX nerfed it into oblviion, because they couldn't (or wouldn't) properly fix it. Yet it still has in-game effects, even though the tools to manage it properly have largely been taken from you...

Nor will claiming the in-game text is sufficient fly *at all*. That, in fact, is the exact reason this thread exists. Notably, even the proponents of "everything is hunky-dory" don't have the same interpretation of how the system works. It's all in this thread, in black-and-white. Funny, wasn't it perfectly clear..? Gosh.

Nor will BS insinuations and "preargument" work. Yes, we CAN easily go through the DDs and patch notes, and find many instances where PDX "lied" (although not necessarily with intent). The devs also said the FTL rework would improve performance, remember? LOL

Attempting to shut down discussion, simply because your pucker is getting chapped, merely exposes your own insecurity. If anyone disagrees, howzabout you go back through the thread, and note who is being directly, intentionally rude and insulting to whom. Yeah, cry me a river of alligator tears, folks.

>>533428792
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2d6T5G2rrY

My new playthrough begins anew for a new time

Decided this time to write everything in Obsidian. I'll be posting updates occasionally. I'm gonna try to create a story as I go. Using the events that happen, locations, lore, etc.

First settlement was easy, obviously. I have to start at the lowest difficulty to satisfy my own autism. This playthrough im aiming for 100% win rate with no deaths.
Also. Note that I ALREADY fucked up by forgetting to take a screenshot of the preparation for this settlement. I wouldn't be me if I didn't fuck it up.

First few entries
You have to read this btw
It's required reading to be friends with me
I don't make the rules, sorry

>>533432906
damn bro this Warcraft 3 mod looking fire fr fr

>>533432045
>devs said it would improoove performance
I haven't played shitlaris in a couple years, but fucking lmao
This is what they say about every fucking change and then they go and melt CPUs with every update

>>533433119
nigga the fuck is this

Gold Gold Adventure Gold released, it's early access and definately a bit too early since there's game raping bugs, but man it's neat to see someone take a stab at Majesty Gold clone nowadays.

>>533421938

Love using AI autoplay to speed up balancing this spaghetti mod.

>>533434217
Autism

HYUK HYUK HYUK

This just launched, did anyone tried it?

Where I can find the tall women in Crusader Kings III?

In 30 years I only managed to acquire a single 6 feet one (ugly and no good traits)
Of our 10+ daughters, only a single one is even 5 feet 11...
I'm 6 feet myself, so I don't know why all my daughters are tiny.

Any expert eugenicist advice?

>>533454039
Can you savescum your daughters?

>>533454727
I can only see how tall they are once they're grown-up.

>>533454917
Might have to try some genetic screening by reading the save file or something.

Nice, new update for Age of Mythology.

>>533454039
Wrong general, tranny.

>>533433119
I cant believe it, I am STILL having fun playing against the storm! After 1000 hours! :D

>polish devs.
>they know.
Kek

Game is so pretty bros
Part 2 of the LAWG incoming

I'm having fun doing this, too :)

Woah, I love the mapgen in this game, wish we could edit it though.

>>533469440
Feel like I'm on acid.

>>533475491
edit what?

>>533480546
The mapgen in this game.

>>533480768
you can edit maps, don't know if you can change mapgen

The older I get the more apparent it gets that Aldaris was the hero of the story.

>>533481015
You mean Artanis?

>>533481015
If he's so good, why isn't he in Heroes of the Storm?

>>533481015
I hate Blizzard games.

>>533481015
this but the overmind
he should've won and eaten everything to save us from SC2

Well, my run is fucking dead
Basically I'm in the sneeded forest and the game decided to spawn literally the hardest event right next to me. I have no way to complete this without someone dying. Basically I have to choose between sacrificing a villager or letting 10 die and losing the village and cycle. It's fucking ridiculous that I got a dark gate right now. The absolute worst possible time. I could have completed it without a sacrifice if I hadn't sold some valuable resources earlier, but I was being fucking dumb. My short sightedness is about to get somebody killed. My original goal was to play the entire thing through with nobody dying. That shit is dead in the water now, man. I didn't even complete a full cycle before this shit went tits up. I'm very upset. I think I can work this into my emergent narrative, thoughbeit. Basically, in my headcanon, the first seal is a training run with another Viceory overseeing my own, who makes the ultimate decisions, so it's actually this other Viceroy that is forcing the sacrifice in order to teach mine the lesson.
I have no choice now unless I want to restart the entire fucking game AGAIN. I guess I'll wait for the next dlc, if there is one, to do a no deaths run :(
Fuck pic rel. So fucking gay man. Fuck.

>>533491873
Time to restart.

I love this ship. Just stay near my laser apogee and snipe other ships together.

>>533494456
What game?

>>533498960
Starsector

>>533499129
It's strategy? I might check it out, then.

>>533499324
Technically it's mount & blade in space, but you do build up your own fleet over time and can colonize worlds and start building stuff on them, including your own local patrol fleets and trade fleets.
You can also hire officers to pilot other ships in your fleet.

>>533500149
>colonise worlds
Taking over whole planets and quickly building up a population of tens of millions of people (mostly those fleeing the core worlds) just doesn't feel natural when all you have is a relatively small trading/mercenary fleet.
It's like 3 men in a van doing delivery jobs suddenly taking over a whole country, and then continuing to drive around doing deliveries.

>>533499324
There's a really popular mod for it called Nexerelin that adds 4X elements to it, like alliances, inter-faction diplomatic events, and AI empire colonization which makes it a lot closer to being a strategy game. It also fixes the invasion problem >>533502774 mentioned by adding ground combat.

Vox Populibros...

>>533500149
oh so it's more like a RPG.

Play SOVL.

>>533502774
It's more like the delivery fan guy sets up a generator and invites everyone who wants to come squat on a piece of land nobody else is claiming.
Add to that promise of not interfering with peoples lives and you have a winning recipe to get folks from over-populated martial law ridden planets.

Getting back into Stellaris and I genuinely don't know how I'm supposed to be managing planets now. Am I supposed to hold back on mass colonies, or hold back on building stuff on colonies? Am I supposed to stack up civilians to import to colonies to buff up pop growth to a reasonable level, and how the piss do I do that if chosen ethics doesn't allow forced migration? And speaking of growth, what's making my homeworlds with high pop, housing, amenities, and empty jobs stagnant in pop growth for years?
Constantly feeling like I'm doing something wrong.

The bitter taste of defeat...

Yup. I lagged behind, relied too much on Tier 1 units, and picked a fight against 2 allied AIs.

>>533508968
>>533509429
That just seems like some bad luck if they allied eachother early.
I think when I did the tutorial island map the two opponents were far enough away they didn't become buddy buddy immediately. Long enough for me to kneecap my closest neighbor
Nothing wrong with some tier 1 unit spam, some Tomes heavily support it. Tome of the Horde used to be an insane first pick, but they nerfed it hard

>>533509429
Sacre bleu

>>533512483
I went for metals tomes, so mostly copper golems, the rooted protectors, and I was on my way to unlock the iron golems.

>>533518686
Metal's shit. Stuck to chaos.

>>533518686
Constructs feel pretty good paired with Reavers. Iron Golems especially since they give you a shield unit. Reaver pikemen are great for tier 1 units but they've got that additional maintenance to compensate, so mixing them up with the copper/bronze golems is a nice option too

>>533527284
I'll have to retry. Also, seems some case upgrades are unique?

>>533504630
That art style is the opposite of sovl.

>>533528167
Upgrades as in enchantments or transformations?
Because I remember a few transformation spells being exclusive outside of the major TF, spawn kin and super growth, but not the same thing for unit enchantments
Or something else?

>>533491873
Welcome to the world of autism/speedrunning.

If your run is dependent on RNG, it's shit.

>>533504630
>we're totally not copying warhammer fantasy, bro
>sovl
I refuse to play games that lie with their name

what the fuck

>>533533783
oh my god it's stalin

>>533534025
here are some pointless statistics

>>533533783
Yeah the leaders change as you age in the mod lol.

>>533534278
only 50k culture requied civ-wide to win on a map this size

>>533534519
this setting has some serious fun potential. I set it to 3 for this game just to see what it was like and my cities got massive and very productive, although I don't know if it was because of this setting, or the ridiculous amount of improvements RARR adds

>>533537026
man I wish I read this at the beginning of my last game

I did it
I fucking survived bros
I survived without killing anyone
I basically opened up two more forbidden glades and rush completed them before the dark gate had a chance to activate. Extremely lucky I got two events that were able to be completed relatively easily. So happy I didnt have to kill anyone. It would have worked either way for the narrative, but I'm glad my no death run is still alive

>>533539741
Congrats anon!

why do I bother

I was gonna kill the sioux but I guess I'll kill the iroquois, like last game

>>533543997
I'm attempting to find the golden number for distance between civs so this stuff doesn't happen.

>>533545592
it's not necessarily a bad thing, I was going to have an early war too

>>533548437
I just like civs being able to establish themselves before the first war, and the beginning is the period they are at their weakest.

How's the Sins 2 update?

why didn't I just give them the gold

>>533564518
They have to learn to stand on their own two feet.

>>533531513
>implying Warhammer Fantasy didn't steal from anyone
You Brits really are good at stealing shit and claiming it as your own.

>>533541259
Thanks :D
I'm not a murderer! :D

>>533573795
I'll be a murdered for you!

>>533570452
I didn't imply that at all, and stealing from a thief still makes you a thief.

>>533574121
Literally wrong.

>>533570452
Whose language are you typing in?

>>533575360
Why are you moving the goalposts?

>buy Warcraft 3
>the old version
>they STILL update it to Reforged

>>533580334
And we are, living on this doomed earth run by lunatics and satanists.

>play against Easy AI
>do relatively well, get a fairly decent army, even manage to capture the mana fountain
>still get instantly krumped by orcs
I fucking suck at this game.

Play Deadlock 2.
I'm not asking.

what makes a /civ4xg/ game good?

>>533590747
good civ and good 4x

>>533529146
I mean building. There was one, an automaton factory, that improves all nearby mines.

>>533581919
Man if only violence was an option...

>>533604623
Bell Tower CEO deserved to die.

>>533593558
OH I think I know what you mean now
Province improvements right?
There's the basic province buildings you slap down as city growth expands borders, like farms and quarries
Unique province buildings are one per city, some rare cases do have one per empire. You unlock most of them automatically when you open up a new tome. They're better than your regular province buildings, and can arrange them for big bonuses, kinda like Civ6? Sometimes it requires some rearranging, you can always replace provinces with different stuff to rotate everything to how you want it given enough production or time

first skyscraper is up. it's still a level 1 and there are 5 levels total.

>>533590747
Detail, lack of one true meta, variety.

>>533503195
Bummer. At least it's not bugged to heck like current version Sapiens.

>>533623000
Why are you so fucking polite? Faggot.

>>533627338
What's up with you man

>>533627338
He researched diplomatic linguistics, you uncouth barbarian.

>>533627338
Because he hasn't yet researched satisfying insults, you mouth breathing troglodyte.

>>533627426
Nothing, I'm just normal.

These mountains are full of silver

Only real /civ4xg/ gamers will understand this reference.

Pretty cool, kinda like Appalachian Mountains.

>>533656460
With less worker exploitation.

>found some code online that lets you run civ 4 map scripts outside of the game and plot them in a rudimentary way for debugging/testing/finding cool seeds
Neat

>>533665976
That's cool.

>>533663345
Lol but I really do like when I get Mountain ranges like this.

>create new fleet
>adds it to the bottom of the list in the manager
>shoves it in the middle on the outliner
Something like this can only have been created on purpose, with the sole intention of annoying the player.

>>533675196
>create new fleet
>cant assign home base if it has no ships
I fucking hate it on god..

Are we dead again?

>>533689963
no

>Under One Rule origin
>get into the civil war over Luminary becoming emperor
>mass uprising across my worlds, apparently
>-5 stability, +50% egalitarian ethics shift
>so mild i can still wage a war against 2 other empires
I wonder what was supposed to happen in Paradox's grand storyline. Was it meant to be more dramatic?

What traditions do you take for Wilderness empires? I typically go for prosperity to get cradles out asap, adaptability to roll for terraforming techs. purity/unyielding for 3rd/4th depending on my neighbors, then espionage since i'm catfishing for pops via bodysnatchers, see pic related
>>533703129
Heard the uprising spawned like 3 assault armies on 2 colonies. It's pretty lame. The only shitty part is getting the negative luminary traits which i think you can remove via executing the rebel leaders

>>533704309
I'm several dlcs behind and havent played in 2 years. Idek what the fuck wilderness empire even means bro what is a wilderness empire??

Transparent one since i can't into pngs
>>533711791
Uhhh its the new hive mind type where planets bloatmax up to 30 (or more w/ hydrocentric). Theres also new organic ships and the bodysnatchers civic so you can larp as the Tyranids

>>533713645
Tyranid larp is unironically pretty good now.
>evolutionary predators for lotsa mutations and traits
>living ships
>mutations tradition automatically turns planets into hive worlds
>can grow huge galaxy-sized monsters

>>533667828
A friend told me how coalminers were treated. Capitalism wants to enslave their workers, it's a constant struggle to keep it at bay.

>>533713972
evo pred is fun as shit