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

==NEWS==

Nebulous: Fleet Command, Devlog 38: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXgbXiJdJTk&ab_channel=EridanusIndustries
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It was reported that a lot of the links were no longer working, so I purged them.

HAK HAK HAK

>>534885652
Keep in mind that if you have consumption turned off, they'll all get penalties if there are service goods and complex food in the warehouse that they cant access. Also, if you're stockpiling them to unload them all at once, you're not "cheating" . You still would have gotten the same amount of reputation, it just would have been spread out over time. You can absolutely focus on glades and ignore resolve entirely, but it requires specific builds, usually tool production and a couple other things. But yes, you also can screw yourself over hard by opening too many if you cant combat the hostility

>>534840029
>endless legend 2 demo drops
>civilization series goes on sale on steam
Feels like Firaxis is being cheeky.

fucking incan fucks

I need to end the war now though, war weariness is starting to become a problem

>>534899749
press F to pay respects (I have no idea where they are)

>>534899969
>carthage is in the middle of a desert
>said desert apparently contains the world's entire supply of olives

>>534901456
Classic civ 3

>>534888748
Yeah i know it, but it seem that its better to wait with complex food when you can get past the resolve threshold. Theres no resolve bonus to victory points if you dont get over said threshold does it? (As in, the citizen portraits dont glow blue). So its best to give them one basic food and save for the time when you can make over that bump?
At this part of the game glades feel like a bit of trap, because of the growing hostility and some maps having 30+ of them. As a explorer i just want to cut them all but i would probably fuck myself. Is there a hostility penalty on top of each open glade (solved or unsolved?) And what about opening glades during storm, because I see that I shouldnt supose to do it, is there some kind of multiplier malus?

>>534882775 (OP)
Is that spiderfag?

>>534902481
small glades give less hostility than dangerous/forbidden glades

opening glades during a storm is usually fine, but there is one forest mystery that will give you a big resolve malus if you do it

>>534902481
Game gets hard with prestige. You take whatever resolve you can get.

Whether you should pop glades or not is a situational thing. Do you need resources? Can you handle a nasty dangerous event? Are you able to clear orders and develop your settlement without clearing glade events?

If you're confident you can clear events (ie you have time and materials), then aggressively clearing glades can give you enormous advantages. A unique building (say, a termite nest) can completely change the economy/hostility management of a village.

>>534889053
Anyone else play it? I liked it, but the city building feels shallow at the moment. It does seem like the focus is more on the heroes/story. Fights feel much, much better.

Stop me from buying astral planes

>>534913009
I will use my mind power magic to stop you!

>>534913009
Go through a rift and get it from a dimension when it's free.

>>534902481
If you hover over the red hostility bar it will show you a breakdown of the various additions and subtractions of hostility you have. D and F glades increase it by alot more than small glades. There are ways to counteract this which you have not unlocked yet, thoughbeit. You are right that it's probably best to stockpile, but I've seen atleast early on that when you have a lot of one type special food, they will pretty much always get pushed into blue. Well it depends on the species, too I guess. Some are hard to please early on, like beavers and humans, but they dont increase their threshold by that much overall. Meanwhile you can reach the threshold of harpies and lizards very early with some good finds or a food set up. It comes down to balance, really. You for example if you're close to the threshold for one group and you have some stuff they like, you should probably take the point sooner rather than later so you can have an extra bluprint to work with

>>534912754
I dabbled for like an hour but skipped the tutorial thinking I could just rely on EL1 mechanics. Had no idea what was going on. Gonna try it again tomorrow prolly

what the fuck

>>534882775 (OP)
>>534882775 (OP)
>Endzone 2 full release not in news
Who the fuck makes the OP? It barely has news of city builders.

>>534925880
How is Endzone 2?

>>534931653
It's more Anno-like than the previous one.

>>534932078
So now you build multiple villages and link them with trade networks?

>>534918749
>i skip the tutorial
>why do nobthing work

>>534925880
What part of >>534882919 did you lack the cranial capacity to understand?

>>534934229
It has never been added to the OP you niggermonkey.

>>534934528
Welcome to /vg/. That's how we do things here, we don't leave personal notes in the OP to not complicate the job for the next in line.

the tideshifting mechanic in endless legend 2 feels pretty bad atleast on the basic continents map
pangaea feels way better because you dont have new land showing up everywhere around you making it less rng if your first city is in a good spot or not

>actually try fruitful partnership in stellaris
>space whales seed one single planet out of 6 near me
>it's the on with opposite class and 20% habitability
The biggest nothingburger origin out there, it might as well do fucking nothing.

>>534882775 (OP)
Endless Legend 2 demo is now playable: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3407390/ENDLESS_Legend_2/

>I AM ALIVE AGAIN!

>>534940753
Hasn't it been out for years?

>>534940951
N-no? They're still working on it. They've only introduced like 4 or 5 factions so far. It's Endless Legend 2, not 1.

why

>>534913009
You really, really don't fucking need it anon.
Only Cosmic Storms is worse than Astral Planes, way worse. Astral Planes has kinda neat shit but none of it is essential to complete any roleplay shit you might be doing
Now if you have everything except those two then, sure, maybe
Rifts have some neat exploration story shit and a bunch of new decent relics, but with how Astral Actions has it's own menu glued on, god it's dissapointing
Also it's the DLC that made the Unbidden's appearance worse

>>534940085
There are lots of little gimmicks that are nice ideas but the gameplay doesn't support them.

>>534882775 (OP)
Btw it's steam 4x fest now with discounts on 4x strategy games: https://store.steampowered.com/category/4x_strategy

bump

>>534942642
>Carthago delenda est

>>534942356
Yeah, with Horatios, the space crickets, fish mommy...
And the Emperor.

>>534951210
That is Endless Space 2. That is the space 4x set in the same universe.

>>534722796
The Gold Seal

>>534953869
Love this lil' nibba

>>534954079
This was by far the biggest settlement I've ever made. 100 villagers by the time I left I deliberately stayed longer than I should have to try and get the deed for sending 12 expeditions out on in one game. I didn't keep track of how many, so it ended up more like 15. Still didnt get the rainpunk foundry lol

>>534954383
I've gotten it before, but that was before they changed the achievement. It used to be finding both the rainpunk foundry and the homestead, but people said that it was impossible and pure chance, unlike most other deeds in the game. So they changed it to be just the rainpunk foundry, with getting both of them being a secret deed that unlocks a special decoration. It's basically impossible to get it, as it requires two random draws out of pools of like 18 and 12 respectively

>>534954835
I love the art for this event
Btw this whole game is made by like 7 people

>>534955162
Obsidian Loremaster is one of the easier world events. I feel like there should be a harder variant with better rewards. Like opening up 2 forbidden glades in the same year or something

>>534954383
what difficulty did you use and how'd you manage to avoid hitting the reputation cap? obviously don't turn in orders until you need to drop impatience enough, but otherwise. once it starts asking for complex food for the expeditions I always hit a wall or hit reputation cap

>>534955162
>>534955386
>better rewards
the majority of the world events feel out of touch with the entire game. the rewards are almost never worth it when its something that gets used up in one moment with no extended use, like your pic rel. almost all of those events could use rewards boosted by 4 or 5 times.

>>534955634
I would refuse to turn in orders and disable service buildings so they couldn't reach the resolve threshold during the year, only turning them on when the storm came to avoid runaways. By the end of this, I was so close to having my impatience reach full that I literally paused and did the math to see if I could realistically wait for the current expedition to come back and survive. I would have had 30 seconds to spare, so I didn't risk it and just let the resolve end the game at year 11 or whenever it was. In order to get the 12 expeditions, you basically need to get an early porridge recipe building and a plantation. Eventually it will start asking for goods, too, but by that time you'll probably have enough to not have to worry about anything other than time. Also send them out at minimum resources so they come back faster

I somewhat disagree. Most of the rewards I think are fairly balanced. That one specifically was an easy one to deal with, so a reward of extra food and planks at the start of each settlement is pretty strong at giving you a headstart. I do like the more recent additions that give you new buildings or upgrades to work with temporarily, like the fire shrine from the wanderer or the tree shredder which I had last cycle.
>>534955386

>>534956967
Ghost town is one of my favorites becuase of how it fit into the narrarive I made during one of my queen's hand trial runs last time around

>>534957212
Royal woodlands are chill, but quite boring desu

>>534958228
FISHPEOPLE

>>534958435
Time for their theme song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzdIaBnckg

>>534957439
I like royal woodlands with beavers, burning wood all day

>>534959157
It's not my least favorite (looking at you fucking marshlands) and it's cool when there are Beebers :DD but it pales in comparison to most of the other biomes which have fun unique mechanics
>>534958435
The gambler, on the other hand, gives one of the harder challenges. 65% extra impatience growth is insane, especially without h'mans and early on before you have citadel upgrades. I did the random favored species version instead, which was also quite hard. It basically just meant I couldn't have bats at all cause they would leave immediately

>>534959023
It really do be like that sometimes
>>534959701
I like the rocky ravine

>>534959931
This one was a giant mess tho thanks to the event. Had trouble thinking of how to incorporate it into my narrative as it's very game mechanic heavy and isn't really suited to write about naturally because of that

>>534959701
that's a crazy event, but 30 pottery and 20 boots is pretty good

>>534960207
In the end I wrote it as if the gambler was trying to get me into debt with the syndicate so they could steal my lil' guys. Fitting, imo.
>>534960316
I agree. It either gets you like 100 service goods if you get an early building for it, or can help you clear an event without needing to buy stuff. If I ever get a trader and have nothing in particular I want to buy, I'll usually try to get 30 pottery or 30 oil, as they're a solid choice to keep incase of emergency

>>534961023
Bamboo Flats my beloved

>>534961328
Fishman ritual site is one of the harder modifiers to handle. Not having orders doesn't just prevent you from getting half your bar filled up, but you also end up lacking the valuable resources they would have offered. Most importantly, parts. I try to hold off on this world modifier until later on when it's more easy to handle with citadel upgrades. You could supplement it with glade exploration, but personally I prefer trying to knock out two birds with one stone and getting the 18 points through resolve on this worldmod. It's difficult but doable. I will admit, however, that I only won because of the stormforged altar giving me good draws. Specifically the cornerstone that gives resolve boost per impatience point. I would not have survived without that

>>534961907
This bottom part of the last log is some made up lore, just my headcanon that I think fits with the world

>>534961328
That looks nice and cosy. I'm sure nothing bad would ever happen.

Pretty cool formation.

Good night.

>>534976539
Based Civ poster.

>>534952514
Oh.

How do I break my Stellaris addiction?

>>534989660
By playing something better.

>>534976539
Can you do anything with map scripting in C3X or is it still whatever Firaxis put in it?

>>534990653
I have. But then I keep thinking about clone armies, dyson spheres, and religious space empires and wind up right back there.

>>534991394
penis

>>534991394
Nope, not that I know of, I really want the open Civ3 for map scrip and more civs, but unfortunately one of the devs died recently

>>534983852
I like this as well nice mountain range to my china like Lithuania.

>>534991481
...hah. Yeah, fair, for all the hate I have against Stellaris, it's okay at taking every sci-fi trope. I don't think there's any other game with a Dyson Sphere.

>>534996143
if we're counting games in other genres, there's one at the end of Freelancer

>>534996335
There is? I don't remember it.
Then again, I sucked at Freelancer, even with enemies dealing 10% of their damage, I died a lot.

>>534996335
I still remember that. The scale of it and never seeing anything like it really stuck with me.

>>534883470
HAK??

I love how the human player gets curbstomped on noble even when I use AI autoplay.

Wait a minute... Conquest of Elysium has several planes? And they're all fully mapped out?

Just played a village yesterday that had Gathering Storm modifier AND I got totems from a trader that increased the time of each season. Unfortunately I got them pretty late, but it was cool to see each season last 5m long

>>535004658
Izzat a Morrowind strider?

Whew raging barbarians is something else

>>535006567
Oh, RAGING.
I missread it and was about to tell you to roll for anal circumference.

>egyptian city of copenhagen
hmm...

>>535015708
knock knock knockin on carthage's door

>>535020078
delenda est

>>535020910
What about the Liquid, Gas, and Plasma Carthaginians?

Are there any 4x games with lewds?

>>535021628
my oc game desu

>>535021001
in another reality, perhaps

hehe

wake up bitches

>>535020910
Do you have salt?

>>534954079
THEY SWIM NOW?

>>535021001
Solids and changelings.

>>535004773
Could be inspired by it, idk

>>535040287
They're walking! Striding, even!

>>535044381
Hmm. Must be something wrong with the water.

>>535044381
Heck.

you lied to me anons
you said you would play endless legend 2 beta so we could discuss it

Renaming cities you conquer is an easy yet fun way to get into a campaign

>>535074101
Sorry, I discovered "The Scouring".
Kinda busy with it.

Also I'm bad with turn-based games.

>>534882775 (OP)
Thinking about getting Stellaris but I hear the new update ruined the game? Is this true? Will it matter for a new player?

>>535074110
Rename it to something insulting.
>greek arrogance
>korea's folly

>>535074101
Sorry
I'm just having too much fun with against the storm
I will try to play it today!

>>535075274
If you're new it won't matter much, most of the complaints stem from having to relearn the game yet again.

>>535074101
I'm still busy playing starsector or rather not play anything at all right now because I have no time. Sorry anon.

>>535077223
Cute birds. What are these?

>like the perfect world and associated map script forks for civ 4
>pissed off by how the wind isn't affected by the landscape and is spreading rain in fixed patterns every map
>try playing around with some changes but it's too complicated to try to get the changes I want into the existing wind code
>half way through unironically coding a fluid simulation for global winds into the map script
I've coded these types of simulations before back in uni so I know what to do but I feel like I'll finish it and it'll either be too unstable or it won't give me the winds I'm expecting because I'm missing something. Right now it's just given an atmospheric pressure for the world and latitude for the Coriolis effect, figure out what the velocities should be. Really it should do some heat transfer with winds flowing hot or cold air around and rain falling based on the dew point but that's a lot more complicated.

>>535084357
Seagulls, looks like desu wa ne

>>535085905
They're cute.

>>535085062
>don't like something in game
>embark on an ambitious modding project to fix it
a sure sign of autism, good luck anon

I started this game intending to be largely peaceful, but now that I've destroyed hannibal, nobody on this continent can threaten me. they all have a severe tech disadvantage and I'm bigger than all of them combined. I may as well conquer them

>>535093036
He has the spirit of the engineer within him.

>>535093491
the egyptians are fuckin huge and have a tech lead on me

>>535096374
alrighty

>>535096374
I was my ai, would conquer a continent....

Well that's a new one.

>>535085062
You are doing Omnissiah's work.

>>535105446
pédé d'araignée où est la licence ?

>>535107095
Aucune idée mais la démo n'est plus sur Steam.

>>535111047
stupid spider

>>535113439
wow rude

okay they don't fuck around with pedophiles
I'm going to bed now, and pretend I didn't see that.

>>535115467
I'm glad I didn't see whatever you're talking about

>>535115467
what

>>535115467
stradergy gaems?

New and saucier

>>535117380
absolutely potent

made in USA should be made in mezan or something though. not that anybody will ever read it

>>535117623
Once I find the original font I'll see about changing it. Meanwhile enjoy the stolen /xcg/ kits that we've had for years.

>this is the entirety of the mongols
oof. I've seen some bad starts but this one takes the cake

>>535123982
did a little reorganizing to the former sioux lands, and the egyptians are out of control

>>535125602
the siamese are pretty big too, also that is a huge jungle

>>535126353
Nice nice

>>535126353
just the incans left now

I have like 5 coal on this continent

So I was correct in my assessment of bats btw. They can be extremely powerful once you unlock the manorial court. Basically you can exile villagers and that simultaneously makes the bats gain resolve and gives an overall production boost to the village. There are cases where it's impossible to stop people from running away, anyways, so instead you could make that "official" and send them back to get the bonuses. You can effectively minimize the pops of 2 species and permanently favor bats, who will have insane productivity. It costs impatience to exile people, but I was able to easily exile 15 villagers in one game without being too stressed about impatience growth. Infact, I got the hidden from the queen cornerstone which removes the impatience gain, and ended up exilig 31 freakin villagers. Basically I kept 8 fregs and 8 beebs to work specialized jobs while the rest of the population was bats who were basically on max resolve just from existing. They had +15 just from the court man. That shit's crazy man

It's too bad the mod doesn't let you plant forest, but you get a lot of food.

>>535129957
rip

>>535141515
rip

the koreans died too

>>535142551
well, I found the romans

they appear to have spawned on iceland

>>535117380
Wait, is there new VGL going, is /civ4xg/ playing again?

Simple question, first Cities skyline still better than CS2?

>>535021628
Does Sengoku Rance count?

>>535074101
I tried it for a bit, restarted a new game to better optimize district yields, then played Elin instead.

>>535116124
Yeah, that was surprising. Manga until then was your usual Isekai slop where the elf girl is madly in love with reincarnated sickly boy whose only joy in life was a city builder.

>>535117380
>>535117623
One of these days you assholes are going to make a spider ball just to spite me.

Kinda neat

>>535154498
Ha, yes, the great thinker, Frank. The one who sells soda to Boko Rattan.

>>535154762
I'm surprised they found anyone for Medieval Lithuania for a great scientist.

>>534882775 (OP)
Frostpunk 2 is holding a modding competition with a $10k USD grand prize & other, smaller prizes for 4 or 5 mods (they stipulated that the grand prize winner could potentially be eligible to win a 2nd category out of the 5). The fucked up part? They announced the competition on July 11th, it's now August 14th, and only TWO mods have been created in that timespan. I know it's a dead game/community, but goddamn.
Anyone wanna blow the competition out of the water and create a mod that improves this disappointment of a sequel?

>>535156657
No. I hated the first game.
>teehee temperature goes under -100°c hihihihi isn't that bad
>oh wow you serve sawdust soup YOU ARE LITERALLY HITLER YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF, NOW

>>535156836
This is your chance to remove the parts you hated, add elements that you know are best for the game, and get paid for it

>>535156987
You really think devs are ready to admit they fucked up? No, they'll give the money to a mod that double down on "power bad". You'll see.

>>535154498
Wait, which Civ game has Lithuanian?
As a Lithuanian I need to know, I am making a list of games...

>>535161952
my condolences

>>535154498
>St. Vito
based and sicilianpilled, I only played civ5 and great characters were boring

>>535156657
>Frostpunk 2
too bad that game sucks ass

>>535156657
Heatpunk. It flips the temperatures and replaces the generator with a cooling tower, and puts AC boxes in every building window, and changes all colonists into americans.

Out of curiosity, I don't suppose there's any World of Darkness RTS? Only Warhammer 40000 and Dragonshard got any, right?

>>535168462
How would that even work?
>werewolf faction = 3 hero-level characters, no army, no buildings, no resource-gathering
>vampire faction = army of humans but every time you build one there's a % chance your cover is blown and your army goes hostile
>mage faction = you've already won

>>535151407
Next VGL isn't until November but I'm just slowly working on fixing and improving the team's aesthetics since they were 8 years old and no longer working. There is an invitational planned for next month or October that I will sign us up for when it finally gets announced.

>>535168732
I dunno, I'm just asking. I love reading RPG rulebooks, with all the lore that goes in it, but I also love playing with scales, whenever I play an army or tactical game, I wonder how a duel would work in there (Warhammer RPG), and since World of Darkness is all about extremely small party and very dangerous fights, I imagine a bigger scale game of it would have extremely short and violent fights. Kinda like... I dunno, Command and Conquer or Tempest Rising, where units can die almost instantly to hard counters.
Meanwhile the garous would be kinda like Jedis in Star Wars Galactic Battleground: very expensive, very powerful, and either need overwhelming firepower, or very specific counters to take them down.

>>535168732
Dude, every factions has new blood. An antideluvian can be the vampire's ultimate unit, but they're bound to have thin bloods and ghouls serving as meatshields.
Same for Garous, who have the métis.
Or the mages, who have neophytes.

Just having potential doesn't mean everyone is automatically strong.

>>535161952
It's a mod, it's Medieval Europe Mod for civ 3. Plays different than normal civ 3.

>>535162379
This are the only two though.

Damn, the AI in Tempest Rising got buffed. Now, even on Easy, it'll try hit and run tactics if it notices you're targeting an unit in particular, it'll try to aim at the units it can counter, and it'll use your attack to sneak attack your base from the side.

I'm nowhere near ready to fight the AI in Normal. It doesn't spray like it used to be, but it's a lot more aggressive. The end of this game was essentially a race to destroy its HQ before it started tearing into my facilities.

Is age of wonders 4 worth 30 shekels or should I wait for deeper discount?

>>535179602
Tough question. The game is fun, really fun, but as always with Paracuck's published games, most of the meat comes from DLCs. Is it Vanilla, or is it an edition with all the DLCs?

>>535180869
It's the vanilla version.
Can't afford either of the packs right now.

>>535181075
Mmm. I'd say it's worth it, but if you can only afford it...
Honestly I don't feel like being responsable for your financial choices, so I wouldn't suggest it.

anyone still playing broken arrow?

Pretty cool setup for a new game, probably gonna see some early wars but Kushan is gonna be terrible.

>>535181263
It's money I got on my steam wallet.
It's not like I'm going to starve if I impulse buy a game or something.
Just want to save the money in case Arrowhead releases some sorta Halo themed thing for Helldivers 2.

>>535168862
Oh nice. What are our players again? Is the great wall still in?

>>535186317
I'd like someone else to help with you, I only got 6 hours in AoW 4 and I got it with all DLCs.

>>535157119
put your money where your mouth is bitch boy
prove their faggotry

>>535168462
WoD has a lot of potential, but RTS really ain't it

>>535179602
Its paradox published, but not developed. So I can bitch about the DLC practices all day but the core game is alright
What are you looking for in it
What do you like about it from screenshots
Without DLC it'll be missing a few neat additions the paid extra content has, but each major update still comes with free content tweaking. Like they just reworked/split a few hero classes for flavor and quality of life
To judge, when I played it at launch, as a rough vanilla version I still got to squeeze like, nearly sixty hours before I got bored. Picked it back up again once a bunch of DLC was released.

>>535181075
If you can't afford it then it would be wiser to spend your money on lottery tickets.

>>535191350
I dunno, I feel like RPGs are really easy to turn into strategy games. They're just on a different scale.

I am going do it
I MEAN IT

>>535191838
It just looked neat on screenshots and I recall hearing something about players being able to basically create their own factions.
>>535192182
I can't, my fascist country demands I must register with the government monopoly store to buy lottery tickets.
I refuse to do this out of paranoia.

>>535193849
DO IT

>>535193849
Step back from the river sir!

>>535193849
Ave Caesar!

Sea People Egyptians invading Athens.

Carthago delenda est soon
trying to force JUDAISM on me, fuckers

>>535084357
Piping plovers

>>535195142
Yeah one of the strengths is forming your own fantasy faction, to fight other fantasy factions. Make whatever traditional or weird fantasy race archetype ya like. You're not split by race since any race can really do anything now, it's your civilization's culture that matters. Earlier Age of Wonders games do it different and switch it up. 4 is just the latest and still getting updates
Some of the fluff of the previous games in the series is less frequent, more diluted, but in return it lets you make and combine anything. I still like killing evil orcs and goblins no matter what game I'm playing. Age of Wonders 1 feels the best with its storytelling justifying why I'm committing fantasy genocide, but in 4 nothings stopping me from making custom factions of enemies to fight if I don't like what the game pits me against

oh she is pissed alright

>>535203206
Ha, I knew they were familiar!

Tuuuuuuuubes

>>534882775 (OP)
News Tower will release on November 4th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2MZJadP40&ab_channel=TwinSailsInteractive

is she meant to leave you here? all the angelic dude attack on sight.

>>535220090
She sounds like a right bitch.

>>535220090
Well fuck her too!

>>535189783
Here's the current roster which you can also view on the team wiki page https://implyingrigged.info/wiki//civ4xg/. The roster last changed circa 2017 so a few weeks before the next VGL I'll see if there's any interest in a roster poll or changing up players. I'll also post pictures of the players, the kits, and team music to see if anyone has any suggestions for improvements/changes since it's been a long time since we've played and a lot of people here might not remember what all the players look like or what goalhorns they use.

>>535220090
Heck. Neat.

>>535230369
we definitely need a refresh

>>535230369
Thanks.

>>535231669
Yeah maybe. Can't really remember any big memes from the last couple of years though.

Good night.

>>535238605
Looks nice.

>>535162252
What
>>535174283
Thanks.
>>535168862
Would be nice to see the team play again.
>>535230369
Replace HAK HAK HAK with HYUK HYUK HYUK goofy.
Horatio Sauce needs to stay. Can only be replaced if Spiderfag is added.

>>535239683
We can remove Horatio Sauce, it's a tired old meme that nobody loves.

>>535239683
Spiderfag's Butt

>>535240023
The Nova cannon awaits you after this.

>>534962151
The corrosive torrent us what caused me to lose my first game on my last run. Not being able to reclaim building material from tear downs is pretty brutal if you make a mistake
You gotta not make mistakes

>>535241226
Beeber

>>535241443
I really love the ashen thicket desu

>>535242146
Once more into the Storm

>>535242374
This was the closest I got to losing a game desu
It wasn't that I had nothing to work with, I had pleanty of options but it just was difficult to pull off. Mostly because trade rng wasn't cooperative. I think I burned through an entire year while needing a single more trade to be able to make

>>535239683
>Would be nice to see the team play again.
VGL only takes 52 teams and we were team 53 this past spring unfortunately, but next time I'll be ready to sign us up as soon as signups open. In the mean time I'll get some managing experience as one of /vst/'s managers this autumn so I won't be completely clueless.

>>535243338
But I won haha get fucked sealfaggots

>>535243578
Gold sneed done

>>535243890
It's always cool being able to look back on the journey

>>535244290
Cape aquired
Bitches love capes

>>535244547
Onto the next

>>535244937
Oh damn, Aunt Lori's still hot.
Hey man, are you fine with having a cousin?

>>535245561
As long as he doesn't inherit your crippling autism

>play game
>get achievement
>game tries to connect to Steam despite being launched through steam
>can't
>closes
Huh, okay.

Anyway, The Scouring. Weird game so far, I need to play it some more.

Hey hey people.
Spiderfag here.
Today, I'm going to play a bit of the Scouring, before I get defeated by giant, hulky, muscular orcs.

I start a skirmish, with enemies being allowed to ally if they lose (which is irrelevant since this is a 1vs1), and a special script that spawn undead during the night. This is a terrible idea as we'll see later.
The game itself is very straightforward: you start with 8 peasants, you have gold, you have lumber, you have food.
Gold and lumber work "normally", but food work like in Supreme Commander, in the meaning that it's a flux that has to stay over 0. It's not a hard cap like in Warcraft 3.

>>535248570
Looks like a mobile game desu

Starting with 4 swordsmen and 2 archers, we take on a nearby wolf lair.
For fighting, I get an achievement. Which boots me out of the game.

Rebooting the game, I'm put back in the game. For one minute, before I'm booted to the main screen.

>>535246216
Is this game gonna have a campaign at some point?

Restarting a new game, this time, I rush for food. I dunno if units end up starving to death, but I notice they're a lot slower and weaker if they're hungry.
Also, you can have several builders without additional cost.

>>535248961
I heard it's a single dev game, so yeah.

Alright. Look at the bottom right. Do you see that icon with the potion?
This is how you heal your units: you build a potion shop, send your units there, and for 75 gold per potion, you can equip them. The cost stacks up really quickly. To give you an idea, killing a skeleton gives you 15 gold, and as you can see, a wolf gives 30 gold.

Also, towers in this game are weak. They need to be garrisoned, and they only give your units something like some cover from ranged attacks, and very limited protection from basic units: the swordsmen can pull a ladder out of their ass and climb any building.

Neutral lairs automatically despawn once all the guardians are killed. They don't drop anything, they are just here to indicate there are neutrals around.

>gobbo lair
That's too many archers, I need to build a forge and research the power of moving my shield in front of me.

>gold mine is guarded by a troll
Normally, it wouldn't be an issue, but armies in the Scouring are, so far, very small and limited, so the humans only get swordsmen, archers and cannons so far.
And I made the mistake of never making any cannon because they consume 20 food each.

At least the neutral AI is very stupid. Just move your wounded units out of the way and another will get the aggro.
Coupled with these decent archers, the troll falls.

The amusing part of the Scouring is how units attack buildings.
Only basic units and cannon can attack buildings, and they do so by climbing on them, killing the defenders, and then wrecking the building from the top.

Remember when I said towers sucked?
Load a cannon in one and suddenly they stop sucking. I lost three guys while attacking.
These cannons are very tough.

Also, as a way to discourage sacrificying units, experience is quite relevant. See the bottom right.

Sacrifying? Sacrificing?
I can't English, fuck me.

Anyway, experience changes a lot.

Meeting the enemy army, I slaughter them.
The AI only has Easy and Hard mode, so I dunno if it's a difficulty or AI, but the orc units feel weak.

Sadly, must like in Warcraft, the orc army is not orcs, it's more an alliance of various greenskins.
Nothing Garithos can't handle.

And this is the part where I realize that I was so focused on attacking: I didn't notice my economy was being ravaged because undead slipped past my meager defenses.

the ai and I are fighting over this piece of land that is in the middle of no where. there is no strategic value to this please of land at all. I lost many undead protecting this worthless rock.

Okay, I'm done with Scouring for now, you can return to normalposting.

>>535256992
Heck's that? Is that a custom scenario?

>>535257348
That's one of the new story maps I'm guessing, based on the objectives

>>535256992
How hard or long is that one compared to the first new one?
I was stuck in a long drawn out trench war with the Highmen and just now gained an advantage

>>535258045
I need to get into Conquest of Elysium.

well that's what I wanted to happen anyways

>>535261192
Does this have C3X integrated? Is the AI better at bombardment and bombing?

>>535263612
>Does this have C3X integrated?
yes, it's integrated

>Is the AI better at bombardment and bombing?
fuck if I know

>>535258045
seem easier than the first one. I cheese the highmen by stalling on the first ring until I am ready to rush him.

Duck

I'm drunk but that's not going to prefer me from conquering the incans

>>535272581
it is going to prevent me from spelling properly though

>>535273405
holy shit are these civs fucking stupid

narrator: yes they are

>>535273594
another one bites the dust

>>535273594
I get a lot of civs dying early in this mod. My current game with anno dommini mod is going well though.

Played a bit of the EL2 demo as I've got fond memories of the first one. I can see the potential, was a bit sleepy so didn't get too far in but all the elements of fun and variety seem to be there.

>>535273594
Time to kill!

good night sluts

>>535285754
stuls, thgin doog

>>535285754
good morning sluts

I don't suppose any of you fuckers play Stronghold?

>>535285754
good morning

>>535293745
The city builder? It's been a long time since I have.

>>535300740
Do you remember how spread the heroes have to be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qf-61MkVkI
Neat, didn't know Warlock 2 had such a good mod.

>>535301138
>Stronghold is a Dungeons & Dragons city-building real-time strategy computer game[1][2] published by SSI and developed by Stormfront Studios in 1993.
>Stronghold is a 2001 real-time strategy video game developed by Firefly Studios and originally published by Gathering of Developers for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is the first instalment of the Stronghold series.
I think you're talking about the first, I was thinking about the latter. I haven't played the older one.

>>535239938
Nice try, spiderfag.

>>535303976
Fuck sake, I thought adding a screenshot would make it obvious whoch one I'm talking about.
This sucks, I don't wanna ask gamefaqs or plebbit.

>>535293745
What a view.

>>535301880
>someone actually remembered Warlock: the Arcane
What the fuck
I remember liking Warlock enough when it was out but it didn't seem to retain player interest, I eventually just moved on to Endless Legend
I don't think splitting everything into Warlock 1 and 2 helped much, that seemed to happen too quickly with little changes to warrant it

>>535238928
It's the Starsector urban art combined. Turned out they are all a part of one bigger image.

>>535239938
No way there are older memes in there.

>>535321478
Deep lore.

>>535230369
Rename 5 players as "bump", because we always need one.

>>535335439
We need an Endless gacha to solve the bump issue

>>535230369
What is the "spaghetti junctions" refering to?

>>535336695
City skylines, it's when you make convoluted junctions to make your roadsystem work.

>>535337368
americans see this and say "peak"

>>535336695
He's also a remnant of /cbg/ which the previous manager also managed.

>>535336865
>>535337368
>>535337569
Oh yeah i forgot the comfy City skylines webm posting we had here...

What are some decent species mods?

>>535318447
Remember?
Mate I got into it because I liked Majesty and apparently it takes place in the same word than Warlock.

little late there socrates

>>535343184
>don't click
what

>>535343184
>compulsory education
Don't worry, Trump is working against it.

>>535345394
let's see if I can get a single spy anywhere without getting declared on

>>535347734
alright not bad. didn't get one in siam which is a shame

>>535347939
Haagemonia had some of the best spying.

>>535345394
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

>>535347939
there's archimedes

>>535348621
I'll use him to rush this ford's factory wonder

meanwhile I still have hoplites in the garrison

>>535345394
Good, people should have a choice of education.
Especially when you look at filth they teach you in US schools

>>535349694
The earth was created 2025 years ago.

>>535349694
More technical education, less general education.

>>535348926
oh fuck the siamese destroyed the babylonians while I wasn't looking

>>535350104
aaaand there's euclid

I have a significant tech lead over everybody else at this point. and by everybody else I mean the egyptians and the siamese, because everybody else is irrelevant

>>535350062
>more producers for the system
>fewer people questioning the system

>>535350062
Left is allergic to choice, letting people choose their schools and education is for them like a cross to a vampire.

>>535350713
>/pol/

Competent AI that mimics skilled human players, or AI that roleplays but is bad at strategies?

>>535353637
>/lgbt/
>>535353676
Ai that roleplays.

>>535350610
>general education teaches you to question the system
Kek

>>535353676
AI that roleplays. Then I don't mind if you give them bonuses to make up for bad strategy, as long as they do what they would do rather than just go nuts and attack everyone.

>>535356913
>>535353676
God i pray for AI that isnt just programmed to fuck over human player but behave like actual faction/people with agenda, biases, feelings etc.

>>535353637
You angered the nazi lol.

>>535358248
Surely any time spent playing an empire-building game would make a person appreciate the virtues of nationalism.

why are there so many sexbot in planetfall? aiva maid and you even marry one in an event.

>>535359283
okay, but nationalism is a wide group with many flavors that aren't so retarded

>>535353676
AI that role plays.

>you are only allowed to be nationalist in a way I permit you
Lol i smell bagels.

>>535362471
nah
that form doesn't work very well either
still lasted more than 12 years though

>>535359283
No. Because nationalism sucks.

rip

>>535368268
I wonder if social democracy is better than federal republic

it must be, because having zero building maintenance is insane, especially in this mod and the billion buildings it adds

>>535368850
oop

>>535369079
well I'll at least try it

>>535369882
the siamese completely control their continent now. I believe this makes them stronger than the egyptians

>>535369882
>>535370083
All those roads, mines and farms. Where is the nature? You pave over the world and rob man of his natural environment.

>>535370083
actually the egyptians have just about done the same, they're about to wipe the arabs out

>>535371065
hell yeah I do

>>535371397
there it is

I don't think that's how aqueducts work

Holy Jesus the Rod of Holy Smiting! What even is this thing?

goodnight spiders

Surprised no Dawn of War remaster comments the game is pretty good and pretty is there a more appropriate RTS thread?

>>535380492
There's a thread in /vst/. I like it so far.

>>535380492
Unification won't run on remaster.

PRÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I went through the Biogenesis event and maxxed out Mutation before I fully realized wtf I'm doing to my species...
Are We The Baddies but more Cronenberg.
>>535075274
It had a rough start apparently but most issues are patched or getting patched soon. Biggest issue is some origins weren't updated well and are completely scuffed.

Are there "drug empire" games that aren't Tropico?

>>535394147
Rimworld vanilla but even better modded.

>>535375098
That's not Noita.

what the fuck since when were they fighting

>>535399029
oh my god that's just next door

>>535401375
this is the entirety of my non-garrison army

I wonder if it's worth it to upgrade them. it's not like I'm not swimming in money

>>535401918
another one bites the dust

I upgraded those units btw

>>535402972
wow, only 6 civs left. the celts and the vikings are on one city each, on the same tiny island

>>535389925
The truth is every ascension is super horrifying to subject your entire people to.

>>535403649
Island deathmatch kino

>rebel scum

>>535403649
Is this modded civ 3? is the ai capable of fighting on continents/islands?

>>535412947
well the siamese have invaded multiple continents so far. civ 3 AI can only be modded so much though

>>535412947
Halan is a cunt!

>>535403649
hehehehehehehe

>>535414341
huh, I thought I would fight the siamese first

oh well, time to remove koshari

>>535414546
you alright cleopatra? this is rather dumb of you

>>535414661
nuuuuuuuuuuke

>>535417127
FOURTEEN TILES?

>>535417321
that means it can hit a target 14 tiles away, not that it damages 14 tiles in a radius

>>535418052
OH THANK GOD
That'd be a fucking planet buster otherwise.

>>535418052
Why not both? 14 range, 14 radius. Only use it if you're having a really bad day.

>>535417127
Which game?

>>535424395
Call to Power 2.

>>535424770
I really need to play that series at some point
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gPuU8Pq9D3Q

>>535425021
Call to Power 2 was part of a bunch of free games that I got with a PC magazine.

One day I'll return to the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise, and I'll play a game that isn't HoMM 3.

>>535427639
>inb4 anon plays the HoMM 3 remake

>>535427639
I only like HoMM 4

>>535429939
I still can't believe they named that guy spazz maticus, can't get away with that stuff in the current year

>>535430791
You can get away with whatever you want if you stick with it and don't pussy out.
Might get some bad reviews, tho.

Starting a new game of civ 3 as the Iceni, bump.

Shit I forgot that unrestricted leaders were a thing so you can play with any combination of leader and civ.

>>535446248
Removing the player and AI bonuses against barbs also makes the early game a lot more chaotic.

any 5x games?

>>535456786
>explore
>expand
>exploit
>exterminate
>SEX

>>535457463
LESS GOOOOOOO

>>535456786
Sengoku Rance.

Gotta keep the Chinese down.

I'm going to give the egyptians some techs in this peace deal to help them against the siamese

>>535474839
thank fuck, original is perfectly playable and last thing we need is some wokeified remake.

>>535474839
bro, your beyond earth?

What's the easiest way to get the age of wonders dlc without paying for it

>>535484912
creamapi should work, no?

>>535265638
It did back when the first 2 or 3 packs were out but I didn't have any luck with it after that

>>535484912
Find one of the developers on grindr and gay-blackmail him into giving you a free copy.

So the endless legend 2 demo came out
How is it?

>>535487990
is gay blackmail different from regular blackmail?

>>535489189
Very different.

Is civ 7 still a disaster? Is there any point in pirating at this point?

>>535498834
it hasn't had three dlc release for it yet, so yes its a disaster still
ask again in 2030

>>535427880
I heard it was shit, so no.

>>535429939
What about it? Beside the campaigns?

>>535501808
NTA but my buddy got it and apparently they removed random maps
You know, the best mode

I can't make good towns.

>>535507357
The towns I design in my head are infinitely better than the towns I make in game

Which step are (You) on?

>>535521313
I thought I was on /vst/ for a second, I love this image.

Need a good sci-fi/space recommendation, and don't say st*llaris.

>>535526416
Endless Space 2

>>535526416
Limitless aether

>>535526449
Last time i played, i got owned by the sophons as riftborn, maybe i should give it another try.

you're not supposed to have this many citizens in a city

>>535530827
would it be rude to start a war with a nuclear attack

>>535531496
Absolutely not, JUST DO IT.

>>535174283
>This are the only two though.
Ah lol, unexpectedly few.

>>535509515
Isn't it the same for everything? I speak English a lot better in my head.
Then I try to actually speak English and instead of sounding like SovietWomble, I come off as the Frenchman in Holy Grail.

anything good in the sale?

>>535547775
SEVEN KINGDOMS 2

>>535547931
I prefer two kingoms 7, the latest one is about muscovy and novgorod

>>535548605
Novgorod is not a real country.

>>535498834
>Is civ 7 still a disaster?
Yes.
>Is there any point in pirating at this point?
No, game is broken at its core.

>>535550846
>game is broken at its core
How come?

>>535551364
The civ switching shit ruins it.

>>535551364
>map generation is fucked
>maps are small period
>have to play same leader repeatedly to unlock their bonuses
>units/buildings disappear with new age
>retarded modifier chasing, "hurr durr with Picasso's leader modifier and city state of new Poopia this Legionnaire does 103 damage instead of 20"
worst of all, it's just fucking boring

>>535555114
I see. That's very annoying, especially the third line.

I want to say Civ went to shit when they got rid of traits for bonuses, traits are much cooler than a leader bonus.

>stellaris
>set AI aggressivness to maximum
>not a single war in the entire 12 AI galaxy by 2300
Jesus fuck man, 4.0 really killed this game

That's kinda funny, Ghengis as Mississippians.

>>535558582
They're always at war on my machine. Sounds like a you problem.

I’m recovering from surgery and I damn near played Civ V for 24 hours straight yesterday from 4am to 3am, stopping only a couple of times to eat a slice of pizza and go for a run
I think the anesthesia made me manic haha but damn Civ V makes the time fly by. I’m afraid to start playing it early in the day now because of how much time goes by without me noticing. I didn’t even notice my friend texted me to hang out until like, 4 hours later

>>535566523
Urgh.
Imagine having fun in 2025.

>>535566523
You shouldn't be running so soon after surgery. Play more videogames.

Yeah that's me fighting Polish, Khazars, and Bohemians as the Danish with outdated units

>>535574202
Have fun, lol.
You'll be fiiine.

>>535540976
>I come off as the Frenchman in Holy Grail.
vocaroo it

>>535568282
>>535571884
I couldn't help myself and I started another game
When I checked the time earlier, it was 10:30am and before I knew it it was already past 11:30am wtf...
Also a highlight from yesterday's games, my last game ended in a Domination victory playing as Japan in the vanilla Japan map (4 civs, Epic speed). Was aiming for a Science victory but ended up going for Domination and nuking the hell out of Poland who was in the lead before going after the other two, very fun
What I like about Civ is that it kind of makes you look at the world in a different way, at least for me. I feel like I have a better understanding of world politics, diplomacy, and hell how even a lucky start can give a civilization an unfair advantage in the long run

I picked up Shadow Empire and while it's i think i'm getting the hang of it.

The resource/war economy is really satisfying. Are there any other games that have a big emphasis on resource management as well?

>>535585049
>watched Screamers again
I really need to get into Shadow Empire, i think its the only game set in that tone. Only sandbox game that is.

I am playing age of wonders 4 and I really like the game so far. However, I am pretty sure I am about to die to the Toll of Seasons? The fey shit? They showed up and killed the AI ruler that was the top dog of the realm I think. Like fully killed him. Now they are at my doorstep. Was I supposed to do something to prevent this? Not exactly sure why they are even fucking with me. Their units are so powerful and they have all these buffs on them. If I lose this battle, pretty sure I won't be able to recover and will lose the game too.

>>535594396
Did you win?

>>535594396
Is it a scenario or something?

>>535602780
Nope. Died. and it wasn't even that valiant lol. They had a bunch of treant enemies. Still had fun though and I unlocked some stuff. 4x games do consume A LOT of time it seems though. Goddamn.

live

at this point I'm going to finish the spaceship before I go to war with siam

>>535622776
the siamese now control another continent

I'm kind of new to Stellaris.
How well does the AI fare with only 1 guaranteed habitable planet + rare habitable worlds and pre-FTL stuff off (I feel like this option increases the amount of planets on the galaxy)?
Asking this because I haven't even survived past mid-game yet in multiple runs (I've been playing for about only one week), but my PC's basically a toaster so I'm pretty much very afraid of lag.
What galaxy settings should I change?

>>535624120
oh my fucking god

>>535613343
lol
Welcome to Britain.
Now you know why everyone hates it here.

>>535624926
Wtf is that flying saucer doing over the city?

>>535624926
>imagine...
Is that a mod or just a fun coincidence?

>>535488292
i actually asked for discussion about it a couple threads back but it blueballs you hard when you are about to get going the demo ends so there isnt much other than the very early game
the game seems promising but the visuals are a bit of a mess and you cant change individual graphics settings in the demo just a generic "good bad great" so we dont know how much it will improve when you disable fog/taa whatever blur shit that is on by default
balance needs a lot of work aswell since the humans can just stomp by spamming forts with huge bonuses from their tech/faction quest/political leaders

>>535633851
what

>>535637706
pretty sure that's vanilla text

>>535638495
The thing in the tile directly above El-Amarna

>>535638765
that's shellfish in the coast tile above the city

>>535624926
>try to plant a spy
oops...

>>535641747
oops...

>>535641919
whoopsie daisy

>>535642097
an invasion force that my subs completely failed to stop

it's not very scary

>>535643729
this invasion force of mine was almost destroyed by siamese dreadnoughts, all the escorts died

>>535644134
this bomber in halicarnassus has quite the range

>>535645139
>SuperSonic
vgh...

>Stellaris
>start new game
>tiny hyperlane branch from home system has an early space age civ on it
>so it's going to spawn an empire and just exist there forever being an eyesore and upsetting map autism, can't even invade it with my empire's build
>start building observation post while trying to remember other options
>the civ nukes itself to the stone age before I even finish building it

I'm gonna cheat

>>535653174
DISGUSTING

>>535653392
I know
Dont worry
I'm gonna justify it within my headcanon through a unique situation that presented itself in the game, but I'll know in my heart that I failed spectacularly and it will forever ruin this current run

So the situation is this
>am halfway through the cobalt seal cycle
>so far, 100% win rate on settlements, no deaths of any villager, despite coming close several times
>on a village that is relatively safe, not much can directly kill anyone here, winning is basically garunteed as I have high resolve, a mist piercer, and tool production for caches
>get complacent as I will for sure win within 2 years
>mist piercer shows not alot of promise in the glades, except an intresting place that has 3 treasure stags all right next to eachother in 3 small glades
>these stags run into the glades nearby and force you to open them within a set time to get their rewards, which you can either capture or release for different things
>have never seen 3 right next to eachother, and especially one of each type
>plan on doing those 3, then promptly winning
>have good fuel production and can make a ton of purging fuel to combat blight rot
>first time I'm playing on the prestige which doubles the effect of it
>I know from experience that 3 blightfighters are enough to clear 10-12 blightflowers easily each storm
>but there's a forest mystery that I forgot about which spawns 2 flowers for every year that passes after a certain hostility level.
>this means my 3 blight fighters now had to deal with 24 flowers, nowhere near enough fighters. You need more than 6 to be safe like this.
>rush build a new post to get 3 more, the help but it's not enough
>hearth is corrupted and 3 villagers die before they get the blight under control
>pause and sit in my failure
>considering whether I should reload. It's not like they were bullshit deaths, It was totally my own fualt for not paying attention to the forest, to hostility, and for thinking I was safe
>ended up alt-f4ing to go back to the previous season
>still paused on the game thinking if I should let them die the same way, so as to not cheat, or if I should cheat and build the blightpost earlier so they can safely take care of the rot

>>535660380
>get complacent
I know where this is going.

>>535660380
>decide, in the end, to cheat and save their lives, under this headcanon- the hearth was corrupted, but as the spirits rose from the hearth to kill 3 villagers, the three stags that I released in the game stepped in to save them, exchaning their lives for my villagers
>this is a MASSIVE cope and doesn't even fit with the chronology, as they would have died before the stags were even chased down into their glades
>the game itself doesn't keep track of deaths or runaways after each settlement is over, so there's nothing that would have reminded me of this afterwards, but I know in my heart that I failed here. The run is essentially half over. My original goal was no failed settlements (still okay) and no villager deaths (3 now).
>narratively speaking, having those 3 stags save the villagers is a more intresting choice, as it's not something that actually happens in game, and thus this situation never would arise out of normal gameplay. In the end, it's all just to feed my autism, though.
>I still want to play through an entire game where no one dies, but this shit takes forever man. I'm literally at 5 days worth of gameplay and I'm about 2/3rds of the way through the game. The last few seals take an insane amount of time. I'm not going to just restart now over this mistake. I guess my no deaths run will have to wait for the future, but desu, I dont know if I'm ever going to play this game again after this run if there wont be any more significant changes or dlc in the future
>what's more is that now I've exhausted my justification and if any more villagers do die, there will be nothing for me to do. They'll die and I'll cry. I cannot cheat anymore, I cannot reload when I make a mistake. I can't take this shit no more man.
Anyways. This is what I get for neglecting my logs. I'm literally like 20 entires behind at this point. So much for making a fucking narrative.
Man I'm dumb

>>535661521
Also I realize now that I potentially COULD have survived by building an as many blight posts so I could have one blight fighter for each flower, that way the would have probably burnt them all in time as they 3 or 6 wouldnt have had to go back and grab another fuel and walk to the next flower. But in my panic I wasnt thinking about building more, i was just worried if those 6 could do it in time, which they couldnt. I might have been able to survive if I had 15 fighters. Again, I had more than enough fuel, they just didnt burn them fast enough.

>>535662163
Also I am now on a village where the storm lasts longer every year, I have very highly increased hostility, and starting from hostility 5 people will die if they dont have access to service goods, which is one of the hardest forest mysteries to deal with. So it's very possible that billions will die, now.

Now that I've calmed down and accepted it, I'm going to hop back in and play another game for the night
Hopefully no one else will die and I can keep my retarded headcanon, but I'm content with the narrative shifting into villagers dying from now on due to the forest being harder now as I reach for the distant seals. Still a bit upset, but in the end, it's just a silly little game (cope)

>>535664679
I don't think ironman runs on any game are worth it tbdesu

>>535664752
Yeah you're probably right. I usually feel that way too about most games, but I feel like I'm particularly good at AtS and it's the type of game where deaths are clearly telegraphed from miles away and avoidable if you play right.
Also, I just realized that I literally went through the 5 stages of grief over the deaths
>denial (restarted the game)
>anger (did get genuinely angry and upset)
>bargaining (justified the restart via the stag save headcanon)
>depression (stopped playing the game as I loaded into the next village. I literally sat at my desk with my head in my hands before going to bed and writing up these effortposts)
>acceptance (seen here >>535664679)

death

Playing the Mod Manswork, basically WW1 to WW3 and there are units that have like 25 defense so you'll need to use Art, Planes or Ships.

>>535429939
Spastic.

>>535507353
>and apparently they removed random maps
I now don't want to buy this.

>>535507353
Okay I'm atrocious at HoMM but at least I can win at IV.
Easiest mode gives me a fully maxed out starting town on day 1, so failure is impossible.

Yet oddly enough, it's... not fun.

MONGO(L)

>>535688816
>mfw trying to get my mothers smart watch to work
Why the fuck does a glorified heart beat monitor need an app?
Why the fuck does an app need access to some ones phone logs?!

>>535691802
YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED PRIVACY

>>535681628
>>535688816
i can hear the horrible narrator who recorded that shit in some public washroom for max echo

>>535696258
"Spazz Maticus! An young king on a mad quest to rule the world!"
"NNNGH"
"MONGO! Great barbarian from the north seeking to conquer"
"AAAAH!!"
"Okay let's wait for the guy next stall to be done shittng."

>>535695184
REEEEEE!!!

>>535698148
REEEEEEEE!!

>>535429939
Same. Aside from sublime soundtrack and OST, there is something there that has me enchanted.
>spazz maticus
What a barrel of laughs.

>>535698623
>xenomorph
>ilovecuddles

invasion

>>535703598
Stacking units was a mistake

>>535703754
1UPT feels really wacky on Civ scales never mind the AI can't handle it

>>535708542
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a good system because the AI can't handle it.

>>535708694
>playing a single player strategy game where the AI can't handle fundamental mechanics
Also that reminds me of when I used to contribute to Unciv development. I did a lot of improvements and bugfixes on pathfinding but the majority of turn time is spent doing pathfinding. This also doesn't account for the fact that 1UPT means in some cases you need to move units in a certain order which is hard to translate to AI code. Not that non-1UPT games are immune to pathfinding based bottlenecks, I read through the C3X changelog just now and saw they redid harbor-to-harbor trade checking (basically pathfinding) and cut down turn time significantly.

>>535709438
>This also doesn't account for the fact that 1UPT means in some cases you need to move units in a certain order which is hard to translate to AI code
How fucking so? How come it's that hard, it's pretty much just chess-level AI?
Well, maybe more complicated, with range, HP, veterancy... But still, I expect a turn-based AI to be a lot smarter than a real time AI?

>>535709789
It is a lot like chess but each new variable means decision making becomes exponentially more complex and there are so many more alternatives to evaluate. A lot of times movement priority is determined by some heuristic (settlers are top priority so move first, then their escorts, etc). Now imagine you have a unit on a hex and you have units in every neighboring hex and all units have 1 movement. If the central unit has a higher priority than the surrounding ones, it will try to move first but can't since all the surrounding squares have a unit in them. A human player would see that it's obvious to move one of the surrounding units to let the central one out, but how do you get the AI to understand it needs to move a lower priority unit first.

A less contrived example is one where you're moving a mounted unit to capture a worker but there's a unit exerting a zone of control in the way. If you have a slower unit that can't reach the enemy worker but can reach the enemy unit and kill it, obviously you'd use the slower unit to kill the defender so your mounted unit is better able to use its movement. Now figure out a way to handle this situation more generally while avoiding really bizarre behavior like AI getting overly distracted by lone units because they want to remove zone of control even when they don't want to go to that area of the map.

>>535711925
I... see.
It's not that simple.

Good lord no wonder old RTS have shit AI, this shit must be a pain to code.

>>535709789
It's significantly harder than chess level AI because a game like civ has many more possible play states and the rules around combat are more convoluted. In chess both players know what the other guy has and where and you take turns and each move can be an instakill. In civ you get to move all of your shit and you don't know how much shit the other guy has and depending on what you and the other guy bring each combat encounter can be anywhere from a suicide to one turn kill.

>>535713886
So that's why so many games give the enemy AI full vision, otherwise it thinks you're weak and it attacks right away.

>>535717840
Well that's more of a strategic AI thing instead of tactical AI thing. The AI needs this kind of help because it would be extremely schizo if it didn't have full vision (or at least some kind of cheat knowing how powerful each nation is roughly) since it doesn't have the same intuition about it's own position a player has nor the ability to scout with intention. I meant it more in the sense about day to day tactical gameplay. It's somewhat pedestrian to code a basic value exchange evaluation where the AI decides to attack if it can inflict more damage in terms of for instance production cost than it loses in the attack but that leaves it extremely vulnerable to falling repeatedly into ambushes where it moves to attack in supposed favorable trades and then gets pummeled by ranged units or units from fog in a counter attack. It's extremely difficult to make an AI that can successfully do attacks in environment like that let alone one that doesn't cheat while doing so let alone making it so that's it's fun because technically strong AI isn't necessarily good opponent to play against. For instance the AI should avoid turttling and be proactive because it's more fun to outplay an AI than kill an AI that just defends till it dies.

>>534882775 (OP)
C-Beams devlog 46: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwaI6GjO5w&ab_channel=LevelCapGaming

I don't really know Halo, are these giant gorilla-like thingy dangerous?

>>534882775 (OP)
>Also:
Starsector blogpost August 2025: https://fractalsoftworks.com/2025/08/18/officer-flexibility/

>keeps paying to open up the infected gate
>notice AI stops attacking
>cost to open up gate goes from 300¤ to 1 200¤
>"weird"
>go attack enemy base
>they have nothing else
Man, the flood is strong.

how is the Dawn of War 1 demaster?
heard they fucked up some things like portraits

>>535718926
Make sense. I mean, if a human see a single swordsman walking out of the fog, he can assume there are more, and can extrapolate where it comes from.
AI can probably do the same, but it'd need more calculating power than a simple RTS, so... simpler to just cheat.

>strong AI isn't necessarily good opponent to play against
Oh, yeah. The AI in Tempest Rising can be pretty good at micromanaging, and I find it pretty irritating because I suck at it.

>hmm lets play as Skynet and kill all organics
>oh yeah these weakass xenophobic isolationists are perfect for a first easy war
>make it to their homesystem with no problem
>Here be dragons origin

I dislike how Civ 4 has binary religion is present/not present and if I had the time I'd rework it so it functions like culture does

New falling frontier image.

>>535733574
It's practically nothing.
However I am fanboying over this game so much this single image is enough to make my otherwise shitty day now feel like it was all worth it.

>>535733574
Falling Frontier is never coming out I wish it would but it is pretty.

I'd like you to know that I look down on you.
That is all.

>>535734851
The game looked cool but yeah it's not that likely that it will be released at any point. Im far more excited for Starsector or C-Beams now. They both show actual progress and Starsector even is a very playable game.

>>535738107
>C-Beams
I'm waiting for C-Beams as well. For some reason looking at it reminded me that Soil exists. Have you tried it?

>>535738484
No never heard of Soil.

>>535739020
It's like free indie Homeworld. https://www.moddb.com/games/soil

>>535739227
Yeah I was checking that site once you mentioned it. It looks impressive. Is it going to have a campaign at some point? I'm also looking forward to the campaign of Nebulous.

So which office would be good to take if I convince the league and church to make me regent?

FUUUCK I ACCIDENTALLY NUKED MY OWN CITY WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REBASE A NUKE IN CIV V AND NOW MY SCIENCE VICTORY IS DOWN THE DRAIN NOOO I WAS PLAYING THIS GAME ALL DAY

>>535747116
>ACCIDENTALLY NUKED MY OWN CITY
Uhh how do you accidentally nuke a city?

>>535747184
I clicked the "attack" button instead of "rebase" and it didn't confirm whether or not I wanted to do that, which ended up getting my neighboring civ to go to war with me. Autosave should be on by default in this game...

Oof barely survived this one.

>>535746562
Last time I picked imperial eye because I thought scouting out my opponents' planets would be a good idea. However I heard that picking stigmata gives you control over the defence of the world that is holding back some alien horde. A world with lots of old tech to uncover.

>>535741386
I don't remember, it's been a year or more since I last checked on it. Apparently it's gotten a bunch of updates since I last looked.
>>535747116
Whoops.

>spartans can fucking dodge ROCKETS
I don't play Halo but if the UNSC is losing with the ASCO, the Grizzly and the Spartans, then they deserve to die.

>>535747116
bro, your previous save?

>>535750860
Maybe he was playing an iron man game?

>>535747116
Get fucked lmaaaaooooooo

>>535750860
It was hours ago

>>535752838
I can still save it, it's just going to be a bit of annoyance

>>535747116
Sometimes experiments go wrong. Sounds like a realistic and storyful end. Your scientists were building a nuke in the secret lab under the orphanage, and someone accidentally sat on the detonator.

>>535757676
That's a fun way to think about it. Now, as a consequence, Korea who had one of their soldiers stationed in my empire will have to pay for declaring war on me after mistaking my self-nuke as an aggression. The people shall not know the truth and we will have to place the blame on them, forcing them into a peace treaty so that I can continue on with my Science victory lol

the result of one of my nukes. they still haven't cleaned up

>>535765943
clean it janny

>>535765943
They are tough.

>>535765943
this game is coming to a close. I have two spaceship parts left to build and I've destroyed a lot of siam's outlying colonies

>>535766502
I might launch some celebratory nukes

>>535768142
oh yeah, they were at war

>>535769324
last piece, which I'm going to rush with a leader

>>535770031
nuke!

>>535770306
5 ICBMs later

>>535770507
to space I go!

>>535770691
fuck me this game takes a long time to play

>>535770845
>1 pop bangkok
lmao

>try out a mod because I heard it was autistic
>pick the XXXL map size with 52 civs
>turns take 30 seconds
VGH

>>535772269
My guys keep dying to animals

>>535772790
EAT THEM

>>535772269
Caveman2 cosmos I presume?

>>535773504
Pie's Ancient Europe

>>535772790
Would you build a donkey?

>>535774275
Would you steal anal virginity?

>>535773504
caveman2cumzone would take 2 minutes

>>535775634
You have a very good computer

C I V I L I Z A T I O N

>>535774275
It's pigeon breeding that divides a tribe from a people.

Anyone hype for Anno 117?

unimaginative bump

>>535783972
My faith and hope at the series was restored with 1800 so ye kinda but I don't get exited about games pre launch anymore. Ill definitely check it out when it comes out and see if it's good tho.

Bumping for starting a new game as Greece.

i need help with encouraging pop migration on stellaris 4.0 since ui does not provide detail for both migration push/pull and now stuck with low growth due to pops not reaching logistics threshold

i also troubled with the way growth required ceiling variable works now. since 3.14 pop rely on filling up to certain value to grow thus can see the number clearly but with parallel growth of pop group in 4.0 the number is hidden, should i be concern with it?

>>535796698
This was just interesting to see.

>>535797624
Just resettle pops manually into the colonies till you have 1-2k or something. If you can't do that then build a transit hub or something on your high pop colonies so maybe some more people migrate over.

Do mods work with Dawn of War remake?

>>535800639
Probably not.
btw, it's been ages since I played original dark crusade. But is it normal for enemies to have multiple commanders on the field at the same time?
Like 2 necron lords simultaneously?

>>535801004
Normally, no. Skirmish or campaign?

>>535802602
Campaign.
Also is it normal for necrons to throw like 8 Tomb Spyders at me? Because for some reason this, plus massive horde of regular necron troopers is what flattened me in a game.

>>535803056
Everything is fair game in campaign, as far as I remember.
In Skirmish, only minor commanders like the apothecary can exist twice.

>>535796698
>>535797996
newfag here, what mod is this?

>>535805462
This is actually the Advanced civ 3 X mod, it has a few issues, but is basically RaRR combined with other mods.

Anyone else plays the Scouring? I need help, I suck at it.
Pic is unrelated.

total whore death

>>535811069
Wrong general, >>>/vg/ffg/ is that way.

What was that RTS where you have to capture refugees and put them in camps to get money? It was kinda modern, and the bad guys could manipulate public opinion to lower the other guy's income?

>>535814182
I know it isn't the right game but for some reason this reminded me of Offworld Trading even though it's nothing like that.

I wish there were cozy city/civilization builders based on/about Japan. Not Total War, I can't get wrap my head around the combat of that game

>>535816424
There's probably some good untranslated ones from Koei

>>535816424
>Not Total War, I can't get wrap my head around the combat of that game
you're a casual, but that's fine because it sounds like you don't want total war anyways

>>535816882
Yeah, the only thing that comes close is Civilization. I really like starting a small village and growing it into an empire, wish there was a game with a focus on that aspect

>>535816424
>>535816595
Looks like Nobunaga's Ambition is the closest you'll get but it has an English translation.

>>535817393
Thanks, I'll check it out. Big plus being from a Japanese developer too

Both Humankind and Civ 7 dropped the ball with civ switching, how would (You) have made the mechanic work?

>>535825503
I wrote about it here once, but
>every civ has a starting bonus (if you start as them)
>every civ has a different bonus/unique unit or building for every different era
>you only get the bonus for that era, e.g. if you pick japan in medieval era, there are different bonuses than if you picked them in modern era
>when you switch civs, you only get their gameplay bonuses, nothing aesthetic about your civ changes
>each civ can only be chosen once, so if you skip taking greece early because their medieval bonus is better, you might never get the chance to

the problem here is that you would need a ton of civs, because each player would need 1 for each era