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

==NEWS==
Endless Legend 2 demo has been extended: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3407390/view/836099892906558187
News Tower will release on November 4th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2MZJadP40&ab_channel=TwinSailsInteractive
C-Beams devlog 46: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwaI6GjO5w&ab_channel=LevelCapGaming
Tropico 7 announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZrwBfbALU&ab_channel=KalypsoMedia
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

== 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

>>536235548 (OP)
Also Plan B: Terraform wil release next week on the 29th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tmXErtkqNo&ab_channel=IGN

any mods that remove h*r*t*o from es2?

>>536236604
You can try remove them yourself. Could be fun too.

>>536236175
Let's just say I can't wait to see the doctor again.

>>536237049
YES! YES! YES!!

>>536238170
Well damn, hope you get better, spider.

Bro King difficulty in Civ V is actually kinda hard
I like it

>>536248861
Really? Maybe you're just playing a weak civ?

>>536253734
Is Morocco considered weak? Their ability seems pretty nice. I was spawned next to Korea and they out-Scienced me and Siam was on fast track for a Diplomacy victory

>>536235548 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aZx3IGpLCU

>>536253971
Don't remember it has been ages since I last played Civ5. Maybe check this tier list: https://youtu.be/jhTdDH0VU5A?t=294

>>536255000
>still haven't beatened mechanicus 1

>>536262149
God I'm so starved for proper sci-fi.

>>536262149
Preeetty.
>>536262382
Same!

>Life Seeded
>Civil Education
>Parliamentary System
Went all-in on the unity rush, became Virtual by 2245. Is that too slow? I know you can do it even faster with Clone Army but I’d rather not

>>536262382
Reinstall Startopia.

>>536262382
vgh... fractured space... gone too soon

>>536274002
2014...

Is Stellaris 4.0 still a laggy piece of shit compared to version pi?

>>536262149
Really pretty, but UEslop. I'd pass even if my PC could run it.

What are you doing there, Sparta?

>>536279410
Why do you think the latest unreal engine makes games look like slop? I kinda agree, I got that feeling with frostpunk 2 but I want to hear your point of view.

>>536282348
To be honest, I don't care how a game looks. I care that it runs at all. Unreal Engines 4 and 5 are like fat pigs that can never be satisfied. They eat up far too much system resources for their own good.

I know some of you don't give a shit, but most people just don't have the hardware to even play those games. Some have to make do with decade-old laptops that were hand-me-downs from their fathers, who got all the good shit for themselves and shared it with nobody.

Especially when some still have to make do with malfunctioning 1GB GPUs and 2nd gen Intel CPUs, like me. UE4 runs at seconds per frame in my rig, and usually doesn't run at all. 5... I won't even bother.

And I bet you'll just brainlessly shout "hurr durr poorfag" but this shit is becoming widespread. That's one of the reasons younger people stopped playing AAAslop, as their stuff can never run those pieces of shitty and buggy, bloated software.

>>536280808
What are you doing, Sparta??????

>>536285125
Luv me rivers for grinding down waves of attackers, simpel as.

>>536286490
luv me some humanity fuck yeah

>>536286490
They don't know when to give up.

>>536287175
Un petit morceau d'humanité dans l'esprit de l'existence obstinée, pédé d'araignée.

>>536289465
J'ai chié sur le capot de ta voiture, sale macaroni !!!!

>>536289465
Let's see how the Spartans like it now. An earthquake and tsunami hit a few turns ago and most of the tiles around Athens had their improvements removed as well as an epidemic debuff applied to them.

>>536293701
>>536297140
Le schizophrène est arrivé.

>>536298852
Goodnight spiders.

>>536253971
if you spawn next to korea why are they not dead?

>>536282348
Ppl who made latest unreal engine like that look in games for some reason due to severe autism probably.

ten

>>536284596
Yeah I agree with this too. I thought that it was more style related because I've seen some comments of people that said that unreal engine 5 has this particular look that you can recognize across different games made with that engine. I stopped caring about graphics too a long time ago. There are so many great classic games that I've played over the years that I didn't have a chance to play as a kid that helped form this opinion. I also prefer indie games most of the time because I've always been a poorfag too, I just can't be bothered to spend that much money on a single hobby.

Sorry bros, I haven't been keeping up. The last time I posted I had finished the gold seal. I told myself that I would stay on top of my log and stuff, but in reality I'm all the way to adamantine cycle now and I am like 50 entries behind. I still take the important technical notes each time, but I have not turned it into a narrative since around the middle of Platinum. I will try to get to it soon, but honestly every time I come to the decision of catching up on the log or playing the game, I choose playing the game.

>>536341038
Good luck.

/civ4xg/ makes a 4x game when?

>>536349745
When we bother to learn to code.
Which is never.

>>536350335
I could code. I have a prototype for a princess raising game somewhere.
It's not really 4X, but...

>>536351896
Princess raising a'la Akabur, or what?

Nice formation

What shall I call my studio /civ4xg/?

>>536358715
Three Rats in a Raincoat.

>>536359557
Why rats?

>>536358715
Rat Utopia

>>536359625
Because "Three Discord Moderators in a Raincoat" doesn't ring the same.

Okay how about this? The other animal symbols you can use are: bison, elephant, cobra, owl, badger, rhino, lion, zebra, peacock, lama, bear, stag, fox, goat, BOAR, rabit, wolf, koala, hedgehog and lemur.

>>536235548 (OP)
How do Stellaris anons set the empire pop growth settings post 4.0? Does having it on still make the lategame faster? Does having it off break balance that was calibrated for it being on?

>>536362242
Then what would the name for the elephant logo be? Or maybe BOARing Studios? Bear necessities studios?

>>536363592
PRÖÖÖÖHHH!! Sttudios.

>>536363592
Does the name have to be a joke?

>>536369645
Haha benis :DDD

>>536371443
No of course not.

It doesn't fit in the middle, this is kinda bothering me.
I'm never gonna start this game, am I?

>>536375579
Prööh, then?

>>536378937
Nah I think I'll go with Pröööh Sdudios.

>>536379824
Fine! Have fun!

So I'm producing the movie "Messenger of Death" that the now bankrupt studio shot but couldn't finish. Also building a script department to start work on a new movie.

>>536380062
Thanks anon.

Max, dearest of all my friends. What are you doing!?

>>536382646
Wait, it's isometric? Not 3D?

So who are my other two screenwriters?

>>536384215
I think it's just 2d, you can't rotate the camera. Most of the game is played in different menu's with numbers anyway.

And of course the guy I named Horatio is a racist. That gene splicing maniac.

>>536383130
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u116HbMOF_Y
Kek, what game btw?

What should the tag line be? It's a story about a serial killer, killing young engaged women disguised as a messenger bringing flowers. His own fiance was cheating on him after having recieved flowers. He went on a murderous rampage on random innocent women after that.

>>536387986
Hollywood Animal. I'm playing with the tutorial and the pre-made character already had the last name Payne.

>>536388547
I went with: "Flowers are in his hands, death is on his mind."

This is going to be an adult movie is it?

Too bad sci-fi isn't an option yet.

Let's make some garbage for the masses.

Oh, this isn't even that bad.

Oh my, blackmailing my actor. Maybe I should increase security to dig up dirt on the others too. What could possibly go wrong.

My God this Peter Harris guy is a maniac.

>>536402792
Forgot the image.

>>536385007
Ha, it's like This Is The Police.

>>536387307
Horatio is always racist. Don't ask him what he thinks of spiders.

This manlet Peter Harris keeps causing problems. He isn't even good and he's constantly acting like a primadonna.

>>536405657
>Ha, it's like This Is The Police.
Yeah this game is by the same developer.
>Horatio is always racist. Don't ask him what he thinks of spiders.
Indeed, what an asshole. He also keeps making film about a character named Horatio.

Again with this manlet clown. Luckily I have security that can turn this arround sheesh.

>>536406914
>Yeah this game is by the same developer.
Oh...
Yeah, sorry, but it's a big miss for me, I tried This Is The Police, and I absolutely hated it and had a miserable time. It's one of these games where you can't win because the system is so insanely corrupted that you play against overwhelming odds and I hated it.
It seems this cinema game is a bit similar, given some of the screens you shown.
She was only 15.

>He also keeps making film about a character named Horatio.
At least he doesn't ask for young actress feet pics.

>>536407550
I liked This is the Police. You just need to be careful and pay attention. Some of the calls you get give a hint if they can be trusted. For example sometimes you get a call from an elderly person hearing something going on in the appartment next door, these kind of calls can just be false alarms. There are a few story missions that can fuck you up though. I think this game is far less rail roaded because they're not trying to tell a specific story.

Yes, thank you Wiz, what an excellent edition to our story element toolkit.

>>536408676
Ha, you unlocked SOVIET CINEMA.

>>536408428
I really disliked it. Ironically, TitP is not enough playing a game and having fun.

>>536408676
>Protag goes on a treasure hunt with his friend
>After finding the treasure he necks himself
PURE CINEMA!

>From the files of police squad.

>>536408829
Oh okay. What do you think of Papers Please, that game is also pretty railroaded and punishing in very similar ways.

>>536413690
Maybe this should be the next script.

THIS FUCKING GUY! I can't wait until the concract expires and I can get some else that doesn't fuck up every single time.

Gimme a break. Well maybe this could be a good thing. I hope he breaks his leg on the stronger door.

Hahaha, I might be going bankrupt but this was worth it.

>>536415923
>frank drebin
Oh no.
OH NO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2-BJgllagA

I haven't tried Papers Please, I have a dislike for that kind of soviet-like atmosphere, it makes me very uneasy.
I play games for escapism, so I want elves, dwarfs, slaughter and bloodbath, not Paranoia Simulator™.

>>536416714
>>536416936
For fuck sake. Just dump him in the river when you're done.

>This will get me in trouble won't it.

>>536417673
Oh okay, Papers Please has a very similar feel compared to TitP.
>For fuck sake. Just dump him in the river when you're done.
I'll just wait for the contract to end. I kinda burned through all the money I had and I have a court case with a constructor that will cost me half a million if I lose. I have only 50% chance of winning that case.

>>536418329
>I have a court case with a constructor that will cost me half a million if I lose
Wait... In the game, or?

>>536358715
Looks like an intresting game
What's the play like?
Might consider grabbing it if it's cheap, but SILKSONG comes out soon, so idk

I don't know shit about Halo but I still like halo war

This will the the alcohol promotion mister Irish bootlegger wanted.

>>536418664
Yeah of course and of course I lost. In the tutorial your legal or financial guy finds an old contract by the former owner of the studio that stipulates that you have to make a deal with a certrain constructor for at least 500K. I couldn't order them to build the buildings because I got into a conflict with the mayor which only left the absolute worst contractor to hire. Long story short I spent 100K in legal fees and lost 500K because of the case.

>>536420664
It's still in early access I got it on gog because it's on sale now.

>>536421197
>Yeah of course and of course I lost. In the tutorial your legal or financial guy finds an old contract by the former owner of the studio that stipulates that you have to make a deal with a certrain constructor for at least 500K. I couldn't order them to build the buildings because I got into a conflict with the mayor which only left the absolute worst contractor to hire. Long story short I spent 100K in legal fees and lost 500K because of the case.
Yeaaaah no offense but I'm steering clear from this game, I wanna make movies, not deal with Epstein.

>armor goes from 4 to 8 because a SPARTAN is piloting it
Neat!
If only I knew exactly what armor does...

Oh damn I just realized that the reason Halo War is so easy is because picking Easy slashes the enemy's HP.

Yeah, raised difficulty to normal, it was a lot less one-sided now. My vehicles can actually get damaged now. And telling Spartans to comandeer vehicles is a lot more interesting now.

Cyclops are still awesome. If I could play one in Halo, I'd like these games more.

Good morning.

>>536457350
Good morning sir.

Right in the middle of filming. She wanted to make a comeback but alas. I have to restart, I made too many mistakes early on that have cost me too much money. I think the trick is to keep movies with bad scripts really really cheap there's no point in trying to improve the rating in later production steps.

>>536460948
What a shame. You have to make shit on purpose.

>>536235548 (OP)
what game?

>>536469626
Endless Legend 1, it's a city of the Wild Walker faction.

>>536469289
No not at all. You can hire almost anyone on a per movie basis, you can also buy good scripts. It is a bigger financial risk and since I'm still learning the game I try to steer clear of big financial gambles. In this regard the game is much better than The Movies in which you really are forced to produce mountains of bad movies.

Oh my.

>>536470384
Aight, time to start filming hentai.

>>536470384
That's a lot of stars. I understand why you get so attached to your hirelings.

>>536471391
He's still young, I hope to train him to become a good writer. At least he doesn't have any potentially problematic trait like gambling or drinking.

I really wish Gaia worlds were more competetive, but Ecus shit all over them for everything but basic resource production
Not to mention that getting the Climate Restoration tech is a random shitshow while Anti-Gravity Engineering shows up pretty reliably

>>536472080
In that case he's gonna start calling young girls to his office.

>>536472080
I concur with the other guy. Given how cynical this game is, you want someone whose flaws you know. If you see someone perfect, it only means you don't know his flaws yet.

>>536470384
Hot.

>>536472668
Build whichever one matches your donut steel empire OC.
Nothing wrong with being a super xenophobic species obsessed with perfection who genetically engineer themselves and terraform their worlds.

>>536483045
There are no perfect people just those without major risks. It's okay to have one or two people on a film with an addiction or some other problem but if you have too many it can quickly spiral out of control. You burn through a million pretty quickly if that happens to one of your more expensive films. Also I wouldn't say the game is cynical, showbusiness has had a darker side especially in the early 20th century.

I have to become the king of kino.

>>536497491
Artsy fartsy.

>>536497491
Just make a proper film adaptation of lone wolf and cub and you will win every award ever.
Bonus points if you manage to keep it true to its Akira Kurosawa influences.

>>536494134
Wait they have a max skill cap? That SUUUUUUCKS.
I'd add more U's to drive the point, but you get it.

>>536301471
The siege of Sparta continues with a major blow dealt to the Spartans when their great general dies in a Greek assault.

>>536507142
And down it goes.

tech tree smech shmee
I'll just make more base warriors

ded genre

>>536262382
>>536262149
God i wish Aurora had IOS version, id kill to play it at work..

I'm thinking of starting my first proper game of W&R on realistic mode, but with money on easy. Can't wait to put 100 hours in just to realize I fucked something up in the first two.

>>536535894
W&R?

>>536539660
Warriors And Republic.

>>536539915
Never heard of that one and google doesn't know it.

>>536540652
Because I'm bullshitting you, it's workers and republic.

>>536541475
FUCK SAKE
Workers and RESSOURCES Soviet Republic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/?

>>536539660
>>536542371
Yeah, Workers and Resources, soviet autism city builder.

Good night.

Has anyone played Void War? It's a tactical game along the lines of FTL but a darker atmosphere.

>>536507379
Is this mod on a Europe map?

>>536555983
Pie's Ancient Europe uses a map of Europe.

>>536556973
gay

>>536547991
Yes. It's good.

HAK HAK HAK

death

>>536568535
HYUK HYUK HYUK

alpha centauri, to play or not to play?

>>536614042
You either play it or we must dissent.

>>536614042
Play it. Only Alpha Centuri, though, not the other one, Crossfire or whatever gaylord.

What keeps me trying new things are unlocking achievements in Civ V. I've been trying to play Large Pangaea Standard as Egypt, but I keep getting my shit kicked in during Antiquity with other civs going to war with me before T100 and trying to take one of my cities early

>>536615858
I don't get why you care about achievements, but if they ruin your fun...

>>536616226
You don't get better by playing the same map size/map type/difficulty/civilization, plus it keeps it from getting stale too. Maybe Civ 7 was made for players like me in mind

>>536616403
You don't have to get better, it's a game. Just have fun.

>>536616751
Yeah I guess that's true, and Civilization V is a fundamentally unbalanced game so it's a bit of an uphill battle I suppose

>>536615858
It's the opposite for me, achievements are for when the average game starts getting stale and I need a challenge

>>536262149
wat gaym?

>>536615858
Yeah I am an achievement hunter as well, I wish old civ games had achievements, particularly civ 3. Like those Retro achievements for old ps games.

Hmm today I will play a custom Empire in Stellaris...
>EARTH
>HUMANS
>DICTATOR
>UNDER ONE RULE
>MILITARIST, AUTHORITARIAN, MATERIALIST
>PSIONIC ASCENTION

Now get this... Eventually during the run, instead of staying dictator I "declare Imperium". Then I change the name of my Empire to the "Imperium of Man".
I know, I AM quite the character. A cut above the rest of (you). It's okay though anon, don't feel bad we can't all be this great.

>>536626264
C-Beams, a top down 2D space action rpg. It's being developed by the youtuber levelcap and one of his friends.

>>536628123
what a brilliant idea, you're so clever anon

same but bone every alien to death

>>536628123
Unironically its probably the most fun you can have in Shitlaris

>>536628123
For me its
>RANDOM SHITHOLE
>ANIME GIRLS
>IMPERIAL
>MODDED ORIGIN
>FANATIC XENOPHOBE, MILITARIST
>FANATIC PURIFIERS
>PURITY ASCENSCION
>14 AI EMPIRES, 2x PRE-FTLS

And all I do is KILL KILL KILL until I get bored or defeated

>>536629604
Pretty. Starcom: Nexus and Starcom: Unknown Frontier are good and similar.

>>536284596
My dude, you are trying to run shit on comically outdated hardware. It's not an UE4 and 5 problem, it's a you problem.
I understand that it's because you're a poorfag, but that doesn't mean it's a "widespread problem", or it's a buggy bloated problem because your shitbox from 2010 can't run it. Sorry, this is just absolutely retarded.

>>536628123
I feel called out...

WRSR heating system is raping my brain... I made it through the last year fine (~12-14C in most of my city during the harshest siberian winter months), but after building a few more districts and failing to finish a new heating plant in time, my city is now falling below 10C across the board and there is nothing I can do about it because the heat exchangers have a ~400m range and I can't "disconnect" all the surplus housing even after it becomes depopulated. I managed to finish the heating plant and a single heat exchanger by December, and it's working in full force, but now I have a 80C water temp heat exchanger sitting next to 60C water temp housing, and it seemingly does nothing to heat things up. How do I even unfuck this?

>>536649425
it is a widespread problem though
in the third world

>>536649425
UE5 sucks dick regardless of any brownoid trying to run it on ancient hardware.
And it offers nothing in return to add insult to injury.

>>536649425
>I can run it, that means it's okay

>>536649757
Wish I could help you, dawg, but I'm too new to it.

>>536655453
bruh at some point you're going to have to accept it

>>536615858
just play fractal map every time

civ 7 game director got fired

>>536659000
I'd fire Sid too for allowing such turd to bear his name

>>536659000
the tranny one?

Cottongut block build is about halfway done, just need to place down final structures tomorrow and research the missing recipes. Then the next step after that will be doing mk2 moondrops and cottonguts and ralesias but that's a mission for the weekend probably.

>>536659000
source?

Y'know I'm really curious if there's a competitive scene for Halo Wars because the Covenant has high pop, can heal their units for free, and has short training time.
For all the love i have for the fascist UNSC, they feel strong, but not as strong as the Covenant.

bump

/civ4xg/ OpenFront match when?

>>536680618
I'm down, kinda, I guess

>>536680618
Redpill me on it

>>536680829
https://openfront.io/#join=SboXJtBa
>>536681128
Open source fast-paced real-time RISK clone with nukes

>>536680618
I died

>>536685021
nah youre good
shoulda allied me

>>536685362
I didn't know what was happening tbqh.

>>536685607
we got shafted by the AI is what happened. didn't realize you're new, let's do a game on lower difficulty: https://openfront.io/#join=htDnMn6Z

It's over

>>536687547
go again I wanna play this time

>>536687547
gg!
hop in some random public matches on the home page to get a better feel for the game, let's play again when you can beat me. team-based matches are much easier to chill in as long as you start near your team.

>>536687692
last one for me: https://openfront.io/#join=HXRX2ufd

>>536687908
>took too long loading and didn't spawn

>>536687908
gg, I'm starting to get the hang of it

>>536688301
rip, next time fren!
>>536689945
gg!

bump

So am I dumb, or are harmonic cores better than thinkstems? You need both unity and research, and you get more total jobs that way which is great for wilderness since jobs are automatically filled.

>>536697143
not really, because planetary designations

>>536697143
Yes if you assume that 1 unity and 1 science have equal value harmonic cores produce more value than thinkstems even with designation, until like 5 planet ascension levels.

sleepy...

>>536671061
firaxis job listing

>>536707662
do you think they'll hire me?

>>536722808
Give it a shot, anon.

>>536722808
cant possibly do a worse job than the previous guy so probably

>>536728982
Is that a challenge?

>>536729370
i mean if you could bomb it even harder maybe they would just cut their losses and go straight to the next game

Which Tropico game should i get?

>>536732128
2.

>>536732128
1&2

>>536628123
It's the only future for mankind.
Maybe not psi-ascension. We get a special one with latent psionic and limited cybernetic (with ritualistic implants).

>>536732128
3

>>536628123
What 3 civics should an Imperium of Man have?

>>536656981
Managed to salvage things somehow by reloading a half a year old save and micro-ing my construction vehicles to build more heat exchangers in time. This sucked so much ass and I'm never getting out of debt now.

Pangaea maps are not fun if it's too big

>>536732128
4 and only 4

>>536741434
most things aren't fun if they're too big

>>536742545
HUH

I finally di it lads i'm playing fanatical Aztecs. If you want to know about the government let me know.

>>536748242
What does it do?

>>536748606
This specifically for wartime, but there is also theocracy of course.

>>536748606
>additional free units 30
I'm sorry what

4 military police and communal corruption is neat though

>>536749868
Yeah I think I should probably also buff the worker speed and maybe more units, you get this government right in the second era though so there is that with lessening corruption that much that early is pretty good.

Got the Pangaea achievement on Civ V by playing Duel Pangaea Epic King with Zulu. Now to never play Pangaea maps ever again

>>536750151
>Yeah I think I should probably also buff the worker speed
it needs to be balanced somehow, that's an amazing govt for early medieval

>>536748606
Does communal mean high or low?

>>536763518
it means corruption is equally distributed between cities

Archipelago maps suck too
Continents truly is the only way to play

that's a lot of STONE
where should I settle?

>>536767705
Na man I love civilization islands, the smaller the island the cooler it is, of course this mostly applies to civ 3 and civ 2 and especially without shitty districts.

>>536765668
Yeah, it actually doesn't say in the game though, but yeah defining communal is distributed between cities.

>>536757748
Honestly I'm learning that these science caps don't matter much just build science buildings.

>>536767705
long snaky fractal map is the best

No dying!

Anyone interested in some OpenFront? Playing for the next hour or so

>>536787865
Sorry no time. What is OpenFront exactly? Is it kinda like risk?

>>536794035
It's an open source(free, browser-based) fast-paced real-time RISK clone with nukes. openfront.io

After playing over 100 hours of Civ V I now realize just how bad the snowball effect is. If I'm 1/3rd of the way into the game and I feel like I'm behind, it doesn't give me a lot of confidence to continue, especially on a map like archipelagos where it's difficult to lean into other victory types like Diplomacy or Domination. It's pretty much Culture or Science or bust

>>536787865
I'm down to play in about 30 minutes.

Guys? Why is this general such dogshit?

Starting in 15 mins, join up frens: https://openfront.io/#join=Q7hFgTz9
>>536795752
Sweet
>>536795961
Because you're not contributing

>>536768754
up your ass lmao

I one would like to play Rome: Total War, how is the remaster nowadays? Has it been improved? Are there mods to make the ui or game map like the old game? With that I mean more informative like the campaign map having all kinds of details that actually give you a lot of information.

>>536798732
why don't you go ask /twg/ dumbass

>>536739356
Militaristic, Spiritualist, Xenophobic
do you really have to ask?
No fanatical, since they're all fanatical

>>536797756
Sorry I was a bit late but I'm in now.

>>536799325
Oh yeah, somehow I thought they didn't exist anymore.

>>536800407
They only talk about Warhammer now unfortunately.

dogshid militia wins yet again
alright I'm getting back to work now

>>536800505
Yeah I thought so. That's why I suspected to place to die out because you can't keep a discussion about the same thing going for years and years. But since there is a specific thread I'll ask there.

>>536798732
that was a cool game, but i didnt even know there was a remaster :C

>>536795961
It was fine until you showed up.

>>536794634
A consistent civ issue desu

>>536813159
Yeah it's nice when you're winning but once you pick up on the pattern, it feels a little empty since your victory almost feels guaranteed depending on what you're aiming for. I guess this is what they were trying to fix with Civ 7

>>536794634
The only way to combat this is to introduce more micromanagement and logistical/resource constraints. Then the game becomes less fun. No way around it.

penis

>>536826417
show us

>>536826417
Many are saying this

>>536828301
The /civ4xg/ is the last place I expected to find gay posts

>>536826417
vagina

>>536828301
No, don't wanna get bullied. Already posted my butt.

>>536800160
Civics, not government.
You know like Distinguished Admiralty, Corvée System, etc.

>>536854138
definitely Byzantine Bureaucracy

:think:

>be me
>cis man scum
>playing star ruler 2
>suddenly, start wondering
>a large part of star ruler 2 is about colonizing planets that have water/food and export it to other planets to make mad dosh
>BUT
>food is biomass, once shipped off-planets, it permanently takes from the agri-world's finite biomass, since nutrients never return to the soil
>UNLESS you have gigantic cargo ship transporting feces and dead bodies back to the agri-world to be used as fertilizers
>meaning that there are entire caravans of poop shipped back to New Arkansas
>the alternative is to turn every agri-world into a bloody dustbowl, not fit for anything beside survival

bump

>>536864609
makes sense.

>>536864609
Might be more efficient to have fecal processing plants on each world, recycling the sewage on site, so you can extract drinkable water and then just send the concentrated fertiliser to the garden world?

bump

They'll never understand...

>>536879352
Comfy

>>536814221
Yeah the idea was to make the game essentially 4 or so mini games and incentive you switching up each game as you see fit
Instead we got a worse humankind lol

>>536879352
Understant what?

>>536885878
You only prove him right.

Rank em
>real time
>real time with pause
>sequential turn based (like civ)
>simultaneous turn based (like rock paper scissors or some variants of turn based multiplayer games where everyone performs their actions at the same time)
>phase-based/we-go where everyone submits commands then everything is executed at once (like Shadow Empire)

>>536893869
You ranked them already

Dock.

>>536888132
How I don't even know what he is talking about. Is the the other ai's that don't understand? People who haven't played civ3? Or is it about the tactic he's using? I wanna know.

C-beams destroyer.

Wish 4X/strategy games had better representation of asymmetric war and low level conflict. War in games is too binary where you're either at peace or at total war with another faction but it would be interesting to be able to fight another civ at peace with clashes that may or may not escalate. A common complaint about war games is that peace is too boring so this would make things a little less dull.

>>536901878
Civ opened my eyes when I realized that in many cases a Civilization whether peaceful or not will not respect your shared border unless you have units lined up along it

>>536901878
Maybe Dune: Spice Wars. It's not actually countries or civilizations but there is lots of ways to fight your opponents economically or diplomatically.

>>536901878
You say that but it would be extremely annoying to play against an AI that constantly raids you with "tehehee were not at war so this doesn't count" attacks

>>536901197
>>536901416
Looking very nice.

>>536235548 (OP)
Distant Worlds 2, Roadmap 2025/2026: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1531540/view/528730392279122047

Good night.

>>536893869
>real time with pause
>phase-based/we-go
>sequential turn based (like civ)
>simultaneous turn based
>real time

>>536893869
>phase-based/we-go where everyone submits commands then everything is executed at once (like Shadow Empire)
Isn't Shadow Empire completely turn based?

>>536926763
goodnight

Well, it's over.
It's so owari da it's not even funny
So basically I had been behind on keeping my logs since that instance where 3 villagers died and I CHEATED to save them, using my own retarded headcanon to justify quitting out and reloading. Should've really just ended the entire run there desu. That was around the Platinum Cycle, I believe. Anyways, I reached all the way up to Adamantine and several things happened that just killed my run. First off, this ENTIRE run, I had only settled the cursed royal woodlands biome a single time prior to this last village. It's already a rare biome, but it was really unusual that I didn't have any opportunities to get it. This last place was the second time I found it. The big thing is that a Bat starved to death here. And she starved to death while there was food literally in the production building as they were bringing it to the warehouse. Immediately following that, there was a surplus of food because I just had gotten the building online. While this was happening, I was worried about them dying from blight corruption, as there was 30 blightflowers (insane amount) due to a glade event. I survived that by building 7 extra blightpost stations, but I was so focused on combating the blight, that I didn't notice my food was dissappearing. I do think it was a little bit bullshit because it didn't give me a warning beforehand. The game is supposed to tell you when villagers are dying of starvation, and it did. It told me HUMANS ARE STARVING. i said "okay, no problem, there's food on the way. It usually takes another couple minutes before the gu-DDDIIIINNNNNGGGG A BAT (BUILDER) HAS DIED (STARVED TO DEATH)
WHAT THE FUCK man. It didn't warn me. She just fucking died after it told me Humans were starving. Anyways. I won the settlement in the end. BUT, here is the second thing that killed my run. I was just out of reach of the Sealed Forest with no more time left. I don't feel like I fucked around too much this cycle

At the start I made a short detour before heading as straight as I could towards the seal. But as I got close to the end, I needed some negative modifers on the overworld so I could get extra settlement distance as a reward for beating them. I had timed it out, calculated it. There were 3 opportunities before the seal and I just needed one of those fucking questionmarks to be a negative mod. Nope. Two positive and one world event. After finishing the settlement where a bat died, I was ready to atleast attempt the final seal anyways, but nope. World event. In the end, both of these things were my fault. I should not have let the Bat die, and I should not have dilly dallied at the start of the cycle. I had 3 original goals with this playthrough.
>beat the game without failing a settlement
>beat the game with no villagers dying
>beat the game without failing a single seal in progression
I failed 2/3 of these goals. Technically, I didn't fail at a seal, as I didn't lose the game ON the seal, but I was considering failing to reach it to begin with as a fail state. So now my game stats say
>100% win rate
But in my heart I know it's 99%
And that's why I've decided to canonically end this run here, with the Viceroy dissapearing into the curesd royal woodlands without a trace. The log unfinished, devolving over time into schizobabble as I just bulletpointed things and said fuck you to the game alot, only writing down the autistic technical side of things instead of an actual written story.

My previous full game run was a little similar. I made it close to the cobalt seal and I accidentally got 20 people killed in one village after destroying a firemoth hearth lol. That run ended canonically with the Viceroy becoming a firemoth himself, staring into the flames of the ruined Hearth. Anyways. I probably will not go back and finish these logs. I will probably play again and close the adamantine seal anyways, just so this run is "closed off" for good. But yeah. That's all folks

>>536869847
I know literally nothing about this, but doesn't it mean that the agriworld will still lose water, since it stays on the customer planet?

Dinolord.
Looks kinda fun, but it makes me want to try Paraworld.

>>536940361
Imagine a civ-style version of Lost Eden.

>>536942467
A civ like version of WHAT?

>>536905181
Russia is quite annoying, yes

bump

Any Old World players around? I saw Wrath of the Gods was on sale and wondering how people thought of it.

>>536966292
no

>>536893869
>sequential turn based
>real time with pause
>real time
>everyone submits commands then everything is executed at once
>simultaneous turns
this pseudo real time shit is the worst like its in humankind and unfortunately in endless legend 2 aswell where you have to spam click at the start of a turn like its real time to do stuff before your enemies

>>536901878
endless space 2

>>536926763
Good morning!

Horatio

>>536992641
Shooting target.

>>536992641
Beautiful. Gorgeous. Perfect.

>Stellaris
>Custom Empire
>Corporate Government
>Indentured Assets
>Criminal Heritage
>Name: "Greater Israel"

>>536994986
You forgot necrophage.

>>536994986
You forgot sodomite.

>>536994986
brave and stunning

>>536966292
It seems interesting

How is freeciv? Is it a good recreation of civ? I always see screenshots of it with random countries and I can't tell if those are mods or the base game has tons of civs.

>>536981838
Good evening.

>>536235827
Tomorrow.

ded

>>537036104
Between modded Minecraft and Elin I don't have that much time or will to keep going with my Anno 1800 run.
It doesn't help that now I need New World stuff to keep progressing but I like a retard went into Enbesa too. And now I'm afraid if I ignore Enbesa other competitors will spawn there and take over the islands.

>>537037027
>Elin
The Elona sequel? Is that worth the price tag, given the first was free.

>>537041079
>Is that worth the price tag, given the first was free.
I bought it 4 days ago and never played Elona.
It is very fun and seems to update weekly. Also has a ton of sprite mods.

In this mod you can upgrade a regular worker to an asian worker, and I just find the funny.

hehe

>>537045975
That's literally how it is in Civ 4 for the Indians
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Worker_(Civ4)

>>537048797
>racism
Cringe.

>>537048797
Imagine being racist in 2025

>>537049779
>racism is bad
That is extremely anti-semitic, anon. Rethink your life.

ded

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THE COASTAL GROVE BIOME FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
FEELING LUCKY ACHIEVEMENT? MORE LIKE FEELING LIKE I'M GONNA FUCKING NECK MYSELF

>>537067479
...shill mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFpjtuvd5aw
Guildmaster looks fun, I should reinstall Conquest of Elysium.

Oi vey.

Any (non-anime) up to date portrait mod recommendations for Stellaris?

>>537067479
coastal grove is based

>>537077226
Yes that is where his base is, I think that's what is upsetting him.

Holy cow Guildmaster IS fun.
You build a level 1 guild, like a thief guild, and you can upgrade it into a level 2 assassin guild. And if you also have a shipwright guild in there, you can get pirate ships.

Oh hey I captured a Gaza hospital.

>broadsword
>not curved sword, boarding pike, or marine axe
>but broadsword
ONE JOB

STOP KILLING HALBERDIERS
These guys are expensive.

Conquest of Elysium V throwing shit at Garrett.

I'm abandoning my egypt game, I'm in endless war and I have no path to victory

who should I play now though

>>537092750
poland sounds good, and for the first time ever I'm going to play with teams

>>537093253
I am now realizing that I have no idea how victory works with teams

>>537094068
Just win.

>>536659000
Who, Ed Beach? Thought it was just the new head of product listing

>>537107112
>empire of Cimmeria
Not kingdom?

>>537107112
OH SHI
t: James Earl Jones

>>537107112
>(pleased)
I like the "humiliate" war goal in Stellaris. You can wage a friendly war just to for fun and glory, without seizing territory and having to deal with that admin nightmare.
The "warrior culture" civic should get a unique war goal. "Challenge", or something. Fight an enemy for glory and honour, with no need to be rivals.

>>537093253
Huh, I never tried teams. I'll do that for my next game

>new surviving mars update
>except it's not an update it's an entirely new game!
>except it's not a new game it's the old game with some AI upscaling on the UI and the bugfixes for the fucked asteroids and trains DLCs that the remaining 3 players have been screaming for for years!
>oh and some shitty political busywork UI mod has been integrated I guess
>all for the low price of FOURTY FUCKING DOLLARS
>unless you can prove you own the base game in which case it's TWENTY FUCKING DOLLARS for some BUG FIXES woohoo!

>play Brazil
>didnt start on jungle
I have already won

>>537130852
>rio de janbrino
...?

>>537130852
I still haven't played Civ 5 beyond vanilla when it first released, although I guess Unciv counts as Gods and Kings.

Any news on Falling frontier?

>>537144059
It was cancelled.

>>536235548 (OP)
>>536235827
Plan B: Terraform is out: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1894430/view/532108091999650505

>>537130852
I lost

>>537144059
They shared a few mp4's on their discord and opened a lore channel on their discord.

>>537148318
gg

>>537149328
For fucks sake. Are they also gonna release the game on discord?

>>537144059
>the frontier has fallen

>>537148109
Oh trucks now move 2 units. That's why I don't need a gorillion of them.

>>537151079
Dunno they've show very little the last few years apart from very short video's and screenshots.

>>537151152
Haha, indeed.

>>537144059
Lost media

for some reason I have "ass to ass" stuck in my head, as it's a catchy song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yN9Pcz9OnM
how is the Age Of Mythology Re-release?
few friends wanted to play MP with me but they bailed out when they saw A.I portraits and fatty McCunt giving speech about it

>>537168218
>make DLC for an old game after a 15 year break
>remake it a few years later
Surely the devs would get bored of this?

>hmm let's try that stellaris modjam2020 modpack, seems like some fun origin
>let's try Containtment Failure origin, looks interesting
>has an unavoidable event that sets devestation on your homeworld to 100% like 10 years in
>guaranteed to lose the homeworld to rebels and die because 80% of your economy is on the homeworld this early
what the fuck are these modders smoking?
it wasn't even classed as a challenging origin despite randomly assraping you 10 years in

>>537168218
It's actually pretty good. Chinese now have a real civilization.
Game's still greedy, with overpriced DLC gods, but the AI is massively better.

>>537182349
devastation was made more severe at some point between now and then

>>537192969
why did Paradox do this

>>537193218
Were you having fun?

Man I sure do love the khan event completely fucking up my subject's territories and then turning into a regular nation just as I get the GDF rapetrain rolling out. Now the space UN wants me to drop Custodianship despite the fucking worms still being a nuisance and I know the khan fucks still have their millions of ships if I decide to painstakingly get my subjects stuff back.
Marauders are such a fun feature, yep.
>>537117061
That's an idea, maybe have them both get bonuses if a status quo is signed. More flavor for specific civics are very welcome.

>I beat up the indians so hard they will straight up give me a city
peace deez nuts

>>537200909
thanks for the city bitches lmaoooooooooooo

I was going to conquer it but no way could I hold it

>>537201265
They probably shitted all over everything.

>>537201265
>no world wrap on either side

>>537201265
GANDHI YOU FUCKING COCKSUCKER

that coal is the only reason I took this city

>>537201484
that would have been a great idea

>>537202297
got it back hehehe

I need to record some Halo Wars webm for bumping purposes.

>>537210945
no you don't

>>537211038
Yes I do. It's a surprisingly good game, and a webm of it will appeal to the masses more than Seven Kingdoms 2.

>>537211591
play a real 4x game spidey

>>537202535
5 turns of peace then back to the endless war

c

>>537223886
Fuck off Horatio.

I kinda wanna make a Stellaris nation that are literal corporate bug men.

Aurora

>>537256067
Go full Ferengi.
>authoritarian, materialist, either xenophobe or fanatic materialist
>indentured assets, ruthless competition
>only male leaders (forget the DS9 feminism arc)
Be ethnocentric while happily exploiting your own. Send out envoys and make deal with everyone, try to maximise your number of envoys so you can spy and steal technology. Never enter into a defensive pact or a federation.

The trouble with (being born) the coastal grove is this FUCKING feeling lucky deed and achievement. It sucks and it's fucking gay. The game is full of rng to a large extent, but it's almost never pure rng, as you have choices and always have multiple ways to handle things
But this deed asks you to send out expeditions on the water to find a single random blueprint out of 28. It is completely rng with virtually a single way to improve your odds, and you can only improve it by into maybe being out of 24 instead. It's so unreasonable to get this fucking rainpunk foundry blueprint. The worst part is that I've fucking gotten it twice. The first time was before they altered the achievement when it was get TWO specific blueprints, being both the homestead and the foundry, in one game. Utterly impossible. And the second was during the queen's hand trail, where deeds, and thus, achievments, don't fucking count. You can't actually engage with the coastal grove biome as intended. You cant strategize and think to yourself, "hhhmm, I need a fertile soil build, I should send out a food building expedition to see if I can get one". No. It's "damn I need to send out another industry building expedition" for the 200th fucking time for it to return fucking nothing but a supplier you already have a repaired one of from a glade. You also can't consistently send out expeditions unless you get luck with blueprints and have a stable source of complex food from a porridge building or the cookhouse. You realistically will only get 4 chances in a regular game on a high difficulty. In the off chance you manage to get more, it will not avail you. One game, I had a great set up and I deliberately spent more time there, refusing to let my villagers resolve get high so I can send out more. I literally sent out as many as I could before the game stopped returning blueprints as rewards (happens at the 15th or something expeditions). Didn't fucking get it.

>>537272629
On top of that, I had the cornerstone that gives a random blueprint for every 5 fully upgraded frog houses. So I fully upgraded 20 fucking frog houses to get 4 extra blueprints. I had more blueprints in that settlement than I ever had before. Yet still no fucking rainpunk foundry. Fuck this game and fuck my life.

and again . . .

>>537291864
Ded thread, more news at 11

>>537301696
Page 11?

I love this general

>>537309906
Waiting for other threads to finish their turns is agonizingly long.

>>537260282
>>authoritarian, materialist, either xenophobe or fanatic materialist
>>indentured assets, ruthless competition
>>only male leaders (forget the DS9 feminism arc)
>>Be ethnocentric while happily exploiting your own. Send out envoys and make deal with everyone, try to maximise your number of envoys so you can spy and steal technology. Never enter into a defensive pact or a federation.
>the noses and ears
Hmm. This sounds extremely anti semitic for some reason.

I need to make a miqo'te race in age of wonder 4.

>>537320286
This kind of shit is why nobody liked you, even before you started genociding the Palestinians.

the war is unending

>>537320460
>Racism outside of /b/
ISHYGDDT
there is no need to bring your politics into /vg/

>>537321291
SLAVA UKRAINIA
SLAVA PALESTINIA

What would it take to get in game cinematics like this again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCB9yE9Hcc

>>537322084
Passion.

>>537322084
Silica's pretty fun.

>>537321047
I have once again kicked gandhi's teeth in

I'm sure I'll have to do it a dozen times more

>>537326072
Why do you hate that peaceful man of peace?

>>537326072
those fucking indian FUcSS stole my aluminum

>>537326561
HE STARTED IT

>>537327156
I find it hard to believe that such a peaceful pacifist would seek out war. You must have provoked him.

>>537328301
actually I think the romans started it. not that it matters, because it's a team game

>>537332660
>fucking robots
>no fucking clankers
Get with the time, "clanker" is the new slur for abominable intelligence.

death

>>537345668
soon

skitter skatter

I should return to Dominions, but this game filters me.

honey, it's time for another war

yes dear

>>537320297
Khajitt at home not good enough for you?

>>537144059
>>537151079
It's not coming out this year and probably not next year. Every year he comes up with a new excuse for delays.

>>537352962
Do those dialogue options do anything different?

>>537364836
no

>virtuality ascenscion is completly fucked
>its main gimmick of filling all jobs doesn't work
>spawns the pops, then deletes them, over and over
>new beta is supposed to patch that
>it doesn't
You do not hate swedes enough.

>>537375789
>You do not hate swedes enough.
I play Coop games, I know what hatred is

>>537375789
>doesn't work
Works on my machine.

>>537376995
NTA but do swedes make coop games?

>>537352962
Don't do it.

>>537349006
Play against yourself in hotseat mode.

>>537379138
Fatshark - made Vermintide/Darktide/ games
Arrowhead - Magicka series, Helldivers
Overkill/Starbeeze - Payday
Irongate studios - Valheim

>>537379138
>>537382994
I for one am in Stockholm syndrome mode right now.
t: playing helldivers 2 and in few days we get a big update, with tunnel warfare and dragons.

>>537381846
Tried it. I ended up in a stalemate.

>>537382994
Vermintides 2 is based. Even if cosmetics are shit.
Valheim's ok.
Payday... we don't talk about payday

imagine if greece helped me in this war at all

>>537392674
AI allies are a punishment, no matter the game

>>537392674
>Getting in your way
>Taking spots around cities you are sieging, while they do nothing until the last second, when they only attack to capture the city you worked hard to capture
It could be worse.

Well
Ive finished the adamantine seal, and thus, my current playthrough of against the storm
I have achieved a 100% win rate; out of 80 settlements, I didn't lose a single one, however 4 villagers were lost during the "canon" portion of the run and another 9 on a settlement during the last cycle where I rounded out the game. Bringing my total to 13 villagers. Absolutely pathetic display desu
But I will leave it at that. I've gotten very sick of the game over the last week and I don't think I'm going to be picking it up again for a very long time. Tbh I don't know if I ever will again if there isn't another major update or dlc, which it looks like there won't be. I might play one final settlement, a training expedition on marathon mode on the bamboo flats so I can create an ultimate gigafarm. Another thing I have never done is dabble in daily expeditions, which come with their own set of unique modifiers that I have never played with, so I guess that will round out my playtime with this game to have experienced quite literally everything over my 1k plus hours, but I wont be doing that now. Silksong is on the horizon.

>>537425397
fuck off

>>537392674
against all odds, I am advancing

>>537425397
but what if...
Croatio?

>>537427287
>2018 already
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUrgh

Good night.

>>537425397
kek'd

>>537445120
>i completely forgot about the EL2 demo
Damn
Well it's too late now

>>537445120
Fuck this looks good.

endless legend 2 looks meh im going back to stellaris

>>537448536
Yeah I had no time to play the last couple of weeks. I heard the demo was decent but it stopped right as the game becomes more interesting.

>>537449845
Endless Legend can look really pretty. Stylized games tend to stay pretty.

>>537450856
Soul > graphisms.

>try early access game
>it's bland
>complain it's bland on forum
>"well duuh, it's early accesss!!!!1111!!!"
>try to argue that I played demos that actually got me invested and curious in the full game
>"well duuuuuuuuuuuuh it's not a demo it's early acces!!!!!!"
Can't win, can I?

>>537427602
>take vijayanagar
>game crashes 20 seconds later
aaaahhhhhhhh

>>536235548 (OP)
>https://pastebin.com/8nRQckSN
Im curious why wasnt the pastebin updated are there really no more games ?

>>537463358
the game is consistently crashing now so I'm going to kill myself

Good lord phase spiders are no joke.

>want to build void navigators guild
>"out of gems"
>check out
>gem mines got recaptured by neutrals
>send an army
>expect 3-4 spiders
>this
You know what, you can keep it. Clearly you want it more.

>spear supposely only deal 1-4 damage, with a +3 bonus because of the strength
>still 11 damage in one hit
>on an expensive heavy infantry
Fucking iron wasted.

>virgin Warhammer Total War III
>nooo we can't have naval battles
>CHAD conquest of Elysium V

>>537463027
Nope, never ever

>>537463027
That's the way it is.

>>537473974
they have bigger problems, like ranged units still unable to shoot properly without obstacles in the way
formations, naval battle is lost tech

>>537473974
What's the point of naval battles, anyway? Fighting over fish? Who cares. Land is better. It has trees and mines and stuff, all water has is fish.

>>537492283
There's the rare mine and shit in the sea and you won't have to trek on land.

>>537463027
you have encountered a redditor in the wild
my condolences

>>537492283
Sea is made out of water.
Water generate gems.

outrageous

>>537492283
the sea has been important for civilizations since antiquity

>>537425397
Current year's obsession with watermarking memes is insane

>>537501541
>t. malk unbound

>>537501541
>current year's
It's been going on for decades, faggot.

Trying to play an actual conquering enslaving empire in Stellaris for once and boy is it an ordeal.to wrangle these new planets. I don't have the energy cred to move around all these pops to fix stability issues and I can't abandon one useless colony because the species has fucking Nascent Stage and the game won't let me move the nascant pops for years.
Also a bunch of the pops got moved to my incompatible homeworld via raiding but that's at least my fault.

anyone who played Civ games
how is 4 different compared to 6(with dlcs like gathering storm etc...) on a mechanical level?

>>537519279
well there isn't 1UPT, for one

>>537519279
I haven't played 6 but I've played 5 and I can tell you that 4 is a whole lot different. The biggest ones are square tiles, no city states, stacking units (and collateral damage), whipping/slavery/pop rushing being an integral part of the early game.

babe wake up, new war just dropped

it turns out turning off yield icons can help with crashing

>>537525267
Finish this ASAP. If it crashes for good, I'll hear you crying all the way to france.

>>537525267
God, this East vs. West map is disgusting, play Small Continents Plus like a human being

>>537528568
Cry some more.

>>537525267
But since you are playing Vox Populi, I will play Lekmod

>>537528237
there's 90 turns left. I don't even know how victory works for team games, do we all need to achieve our own victory?

>>537528568
it's interesting but I doubt I'll play it again

wtf is going on here
My economy is in shamble because this pile of useless just keeps building up.

any "quick" 4x games? where a game doesn't take me 15 to 25 hours to get through?

>>537541719
any 4x, but you don't leave it on pause for more than 80% of the time

>>537541719
DUNC spice wars can be pretty quick but it's a pseudo 4x rts hybrid
Colony games can be this for missions
Generally civ games can be set to 200 turns which allows like 1 day of gaming but obviously has drawbacks that YMMV

>>537541719
Not a 4x but check out OpenFront.io

>>537541719
Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim is designed to be over in one sitting. Haven't played it but it's supposedly fun with friends. Nexus 5x is a space 4x that is also made to be finished in one sitting. It started as a stellaris spin off, they've changed the name eventually. Apparently it is fun but again with friends. Also like the other anon said DUNC: Spice Wars can be quick, it's not quick quick most of the time but definitely not nearly as long as a civ game.

New space game in early access.
>>536626264

Also whoever makes the OP is a retard. So many new games and the fag only posts the same 4-7. Dunno why we have that section when it totally nigger ASS.

>>537560884
You are free to make suggestions anon or make a new OP when the time comes instead of complaining.

Good night.

>>537560884
>So many new games
List them with trailers/workshop links.

>>537536868
I think one winner wins for the entire team?

>>537587052
That's not Death, that's Skeletor.

I play xenophobe for once and nine out of eleven other empires are xenophile. This has to be deliberately coded in.

>>537588421
It is.

>>537588421
It is.
I don't remember if it was datamined or people just start games and lifted fog of war to check, but it was found out that:
1) you will always start surrounded by empire that will hate you,
2) you will aways have lot of empires spawning next to you, with them being spread out if they're far from you.

>>537588805
>you will always start surrounded by empire that will hate you,
That's not true, there's often at least one that's neutral. Being xenophobe will probably push you into being hated, but that's part of the playstyle.

>>537588805
>1) you will always start surrounded by empire that will hate you,
this isn't true and if it ever was, it hasn't been true for years. there is a slight bias towards xenophobe and militarist, and if you're a megacorp it's more likely to have AI megacorps

>>537590990
>Being xenophobe will probably push you into being hated
It's possible to play Stellaris without being xenophobe?

stop dying

>>537602732
no

>>537602819
please

>>537541719
MoO2 especially on small settings.

>>536235548 (OP)
>Endless Legend 2
>HoMM Olden Era
>Dawn of War 4
>(and neither of them have extra launchers/denuvo)

Strategy KINGS. We are feeding good.

>Stellaris storms
Anyone actually play with this shit on? Just seems annoying as fuck and the storms only seem to target me.

>>537621938
they DO only target the player
like any """"feature"""" they add, their dogshit AI would crumble if it had to face anything it can't cheat through

>>536262382
X4?

>>536262382
ive been waiting for Falling Frontier for years

>>537626041
Same, did they release any news during PAX or whatever convention they had recently?

>>537630174
No but have these that the dev posted a bit ago
https://files.catbox.moe/5acojj.mp4
&
https://litter.catbox.moe/sgdpxm.mp4

>>537634497
Thanks anon, I'm glad to see more stuff come out of this than from Mandate.
It gives me some hope.

>>537635015
You're welcome, anon! Please don't get too hyped for this game. Like the other anon said, we've been waiting years and years.

>>537621938
Turn the entire DLC off and lose literally nothing because every feature in it revolves around the storms. You only buy that dlc to try a dedicated game revolving around the storms, and then turn it off when you're done.
It might actually be worse then that one Endless Space 2 DLC.

>>537636060
Well it's a good thing I've pirated all the DLC.
Thank you CreamAPI.

>>537636491
>pirate
You vile terrible sinister evil demon!

>>537636060
>It might actually be worse then that one Endless Space 2 DLC.
The hacking dlc?

>>537638840
The REPARATIONS dlc

Haven't watched it yet but apparently Paradox dropped new info on Shadows of the Shroud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9B6bqitFk

>>537643669
So psionics isn't getting it's own branches like the other two, just the story event and new govs?

>>537647334
Yeah it's fucking weird.
Feels like they're making Psionics mandatory for every Empire on some level.

>machines can be psionic
why

Honestly they should treat the ascension paths like Pokémon does starter type: Water > Fire > Grass > Water
Where you'd have: Psionic > Genetic > Cybernetic > Psionic

>>537649631
what

>>537647334
Makes sense, I don't think psionics have clear options for branches like bio and synth do.

Is Biosphere a meme or is its tourism gain just hidden?

>>537652534
it comes way too late to be useful
also having neighbourhoods is a guaranteed way to deal with guerrillas if A.I is getting pissy

This game is so fucked up that I feel like sharing it with you guys.
https://filebin.net/psgj3tudsruv607c/sovereignhruniandominions_-792031663.rar
Partly from my own incompetence/inexperience but mostly from the randomization and sheer anti-me sentiment in the empires.
Already moved onto another start but curious if recoverable.
>>537650545
Outwards - Effects other empires, combat/Subterfuge/Diplomatic Weight bonuses
Inwards - Effects your own empire, bonuses to stability/building/ethics/edicts
Communion - Shroud related shit, enhances whatever you get out of the new stuff, unusual options like summon psionic entities
Where's my 70k per year Paradox

MAYBE they're doing it through the Biomorphosis thing where you get basic bitch stuff like Telepaths and Psi-corps and Shroud contact and then the other slots in the Psionics tree are decided by choices in the event, if so I hope for plenty more options. Psionics should really be the most customizable in how it's applied to your empire.

>>537657668
>Outwards
>Inwards
>Communion
This absolutely.
I want to make a group of psychics not reliant on the whims of the Warp - I mean Shroud.

>>537639053
Ah, fuck that dlc.

live

can someone play warcraft 3 tft w me on gameranger? the room is called "normal 1.26 1v1, 2v2,...anything"

>>537657668
I mean, it is pretty funny how opposite every other empire is to yours, but it's hardly unrecoverable. Shitcan migration rights and move pops until everything is evened out without a trade dependency, then build up efficient fleets to cover each angle of attack. ideally stack up claims and wait for someone to attack you. Consider buttering up the empire who owns the northmost empire you're already pals with.

>>537688097
>can someone play warcraft 3 tft w me on gameranger? the room is called "normal 1.26 1v1, 2v2,...anything"

I changed the name to:
noob 1.26 1v1, 2v2,...anything

This Civ V Large Archipelago Epic game has gotten too big for even my stoned ass

We're in space! SPACE!

>>537657668
Could also add alternate variants of all the perks for spiritualist.

>>537692350
That capitalism hasn't soiled yet !

>tell gandhi off
>it begins again
endless war, to invigorate the soul

>>537692350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_jAwOyrxU

>>537700873
Beautiful town tovarish.

>>537698620
>take rome
>win
oh right, domination victory

>>537702153
I took carthage the turn before

>>537702153
Control Rome, control the fate of mankind.

>>537702349
TOO MUCH RED

>>537704197
I'll be blue next game, just for you anon

>>537704523
No, no, no Ultramarines. Go... green! Green is good!

>>537705182
not everything has to be about 40k you fucking retard

>>537705357
Hush child, the grownups are talking.

>>537705449
>40k
>grownups

>>537705182
Like the Dark Angels? Or the Salamanders?

Refresh my memory on the non-Liberation Wars options for affecting other empire's ethics in Stellaris.
I want to create a fan.xenophobe empire devoted to not enslaving or purging the galaxy but unifying it through the mutual shared enlightenment of seething hatred of everyone else.

>>537706959
Not quite.

It's been real bros
But I'm about to let silksong devour my life for a while
See you on my next kick

>>537707081
there's the impose ideology casus belli

>unifying it through the mutual shared enlightenment of seething hatred of everyone else.
that makes no sense

let's fucking go boys

>>537714326
>venice
>archipelago
Easy win fr fr fr.
Good luck.

>>537714326
this is my island. there are many like it (presumably) but this is mine.

>>537714446
I don't even know what win condition to go for

>>537714693
I don't play Civilizations, but can't you sell food to make gold? You have a lot of bananas.

>>537714693
I suppose tradition is the only real choice here

>>537714880
...no.

>>537714979
Go for tall then?

>>537714979
I can found a city with a merchant of venice, which is a vox populi thing I guess. presumably it will be puppeted

>>537715159
brother I am venice, there is no other choice

>>537715626
yep.

>>537715806
this fucker again

>>537716304
I can just... buy city states?

>>537716912
I'm going to buy (?) valetta because it has iron

>>537680678
once again

bump

>>537712349
It makes perfect sense. Peace through impenetrable borders. Everyone respects each others space and wants absolutely nothing to do with their neighbours.

>>537650545
>path where you commit to some shroud patron
>path where you go the philosopher monk route and ignore the whole shroud god thing
>path where you try to create an artificial shroud god through worship
I could see it working

Hey civ4xg, I have this sudden urge to play something like a civ game but more autistic with stuff like detailed population numbers per city/tile, having to manage specific resources and logistics, communications etc to transport goods, people, trade and the like but within and without the empire, the more autistic shit it simulates the better say climate, soil fertility, army composition and the like, I don't care if it's a spreadsheet simulator graphics wise but I want the feeling of very detailed management of a developing civilization that is less abstracted than my usual civ games. Are there any games like this?

>>537751267
I can offer you vastly detailed citybuilding autism (WRSR) or vastly detailed space autism (Aurora4x), no civ analogue comes to mind.

>>537751267
Try Songs of Syx.

>>537751267
If you hate yourself Ymir is pretty close.

>be me
>playing against the storm
>kvetching in this general about how bullshit the feeling lucky deed/achievement is
>finish my run and decide to play one last game to see if I can get it so I can be done with the game FOREVER
>do literally everthing I possibly can to increase my odds of pulling it
>choose all production buildings from rep rewards
>buy every blueprint available from traders
>wait until the middle of the game to start sending out expeditions, after I've cleared every blueprint reward
>odds are something like 1/20 now
>get the rainpunk foundry on the first expedition
>literally after saying, "watch, I'm gonna get it on the first try this time"
>mfw i have no face for this feel
>feel like I've finally completed everything in the game considering I have every achievement now...
>that is... except for the secret deeds...
>look them up for the first time
>some are relatively easy
>some are batshit insane
>like winning a game on p20 without cutting down a single tree
>or getting BOTH the rainpunk foundry and the homestead in one game from expeditions (a 1/28 and a separate 1/18 roll)
>decide that I have a couple days before Silksong, now only one day
>try to see how many of the 13 I can get when I deliberately go for them. So far I have gotten like 6, mostly the easy ones that don't take too much effort or strategy. Currently working on 2 more on this one settlement, then am going to try a single time to get the feeling extremely lucky deed. I have been working towards it by stockpiling embarkation points to bring literally as many blueprints as possible into the settlement to begin with
>in the future, I will have a new goal. Get every single deed in a single run, including the hidden ones. This will have to be separate from my no kills run, as some of these deeds require deaths
Just when I thought I was out
They pull me back in

>>537759441
>cheevos
You need to let go.

>>537716304
His words are backed with nuclear weapons, you better watch it

>>537754595
I hate myself but I don't actually want to play video games.

uh

okay?

Next week I'm starting a new job. A Civ V civ for this feel?

>>537777802
A civ that has a very location specific traits maybe. One that make you restart because your location is shite.

>>537769052
He wants something to retire on when he hands you the keys to the kingdom. It's understandable.

>looking through some of the ongoing anime
>find one that's a strategy themed isekai
>look it up and the author has listed Stellaris, Age of Empires 2, and Fall From Heaven 2 as some of his favorite games
>explicitly says Fall From Heaven 2 was a major inflence for the story and mechanics
>look up the novels to see what it's about
>first one has this description
Shame one of the characters is a praying mantis not a spider, otherwise this would have been the official /civ4xg/ anime. There's apparently some references to Japanese civ memes and people have noticed a few spells/titles that are identical to ones in the Japanese version of FFH2. Crazy how some OC mod is that influential.

>>537791742
Mynoghra is pretty based

LIVE

Good night.

>>537754595
What's so bad about stone age pig simulator?

>>537791742
She's a mantis. And don't worry, she doesn't stick around too long.

>>537782257
So the Iroquois, where it's literally unplayable unless you get a decent location, got it

WESTERN CIVILIZATION

>>537822981
Commercial and Agricultural is so beautiful in civ 3. That flood plain money.

Ugliest city yet.

theodora giving me cash fuckin money for a tech

>>537836957
gussy and I were friends until recently...