Made any retarded races lately?
>>338393526
>>338393775
Consider the record corrected.
I think robot might be more fitting for her anyways.
>>338393526
>warp travel
found the scrub
>>338393526
>going on Reddit
Stop forcing politics into everything.
if you make hitlers and trumps you get banned?
but it is a geopolitical game .. you are not allowed to politics in a politics game?
>>338393526
>Forcing politics
>Warp travel
No wonder you got banned.
>>338393526
>conformists
>non-adaptive
>and collectivist
Get a load of this guy. I bet he doesn't even purge divergent ethos traitors. I bet he doesn't even purge filthy stone age desert dwellers because of >muh continental preference
Collectivist is the bladed solution to the gordion knot of population management. Why would you ever dull that with redundant trait picks?
Gimmie dat research bonus.
Your minerals should come from slave labor.
>>338394897
>missing the joke
This game worth getting?
>>338393526
>going to plebbit
fuck off back there you fucking cancerous faggot
>>338393526
>banning people for such retarded things
they're fucking retarded
>going on reddit
you're fucking retarded
>>338393526
Enjoy your ban you massive faggot.
And dont post on /v/ anymore
>>338393526
>getting banned for making shitty political jokes
good riddance
hope you get banned here as well you fucking faggot
sageru
>>338395495
I've heard mixed things. People say the early game is really good, but then it starts to get somewhat boring. Also, the endgame crises seem really forced.
I'm on the fence, too. I really like Distant Worlds, but if there's one thing that DW lacks is good diplomacy. Since Stellaris is a Paradox game, I would think its diplomacy would be slightly better, but I've heard otherwise.
I think I might stick to Distant Worldsand Aurorafor now, and pick it up if it's on sale.
>>338393526
What rule did you break that caused your ban? Also go back there faggot.
>>338396268
>>338396162
>>338393526
>All these warpscrubs
Holy shit you deserve to be banned on /v/ too!
>>338397252
>put a wormhole gate everywhere
>lmao dudes check these pro strats
>>338397413
>being slow
lmaoing@yourlyfe
>>338395643
This desu senpai
>>338394445
I dont think even Paradox Games realizes what kind of demographic these games attract.
>>338397848
Grand strategy should just be banned as a genre.
Why the hell would I want to keep any xenos alive instead of purging everything and populating the planets with my OC donut steel master race? Serious question. The xenos are most likely going to be so assblasted they're only good for farming food.
>>338396268
>not making them militarist
Wasted opportunity.
>>338399381
>missing the joke
4/10 would be baited again.
>>338393843
Your peers with their smartphones and social media are already your big brother, fucking blue pilled pussy.
>tfw sandwiched between 2 fallen empires
>>338395495
No, not really. Just like every 4x/grand strat game it has some good ideas, but overall the game is a failure.
Combat is perfect but warfare is total garbage. Taking human control out of the combat on the tactical level levels the playing field for AI, but allowing all of your ships to fit in one fleet means that everything is deathball. Why would you split your fleet up and risk easily losing half of it, when you can just roll through at your most powerful. This makes wars incredibly dull as you spend your time running from a powerful fleet or trying to chase one down. Once one battle happens, the war is completely over.
The expansion mechanics are good, but the penalties for expanding are too high to ever want to expand once you're getting 100-200 research. Building colonies makes new technology more expensive than if you hadn't expanded at all, and having frontier stations cost influence means you can really only ever have 4-5 of them. At a certain point you just don't want to do anything.
And thats the biggest problem. You wait so fucking long for everything that most of what you do is just wait and wait and wait for tons and tons of time. At normal speed 10 years should take about a few hours, and terraforming a planet or integrating an empire takes 50-100 years. It's fucking ridiculous
>>338400219
>>338399381
He had to make them peaceful because it's the religion of peace.
Personally, I think the irony play with militarism would have been better.
Wish I could play as the only male race in the galaxy and breed forceful or otherwise every other empire in my path.
>>338400324
>>338400219
Considering over 90% of my fleets are these corvettes, can I take either of those FEs?
>>338393526
I'm Smugchief, and General Guy's got nothing on me. Me and my brave army of the most professional and diciplined Smugleaves can take out an army of 100,000 Pignites and Wotters in an afternoon. Salute my epicness!
General guy + Smugleaf = death from epic :)
This will be the next trollface XD
/thread because max epicness has already been achieved by ME! :D
>>338400528
Probably, go for smaller enemy fleets and scan debris
>>338400779
will attempt.
Wish me luck!
>>338395989
DW has a far better diplomacy system opposed to Stellaris.
Not to mention Warscore is still the de-facto method of measuring wars in Stellaris as per norm.
I really wish they'd revamp that whole system and readjust it
>>338393526
>Got banned from /r/stellaris
Thread really should have ended here
>>338393526
Please provide pirate link for this. I am a lazy and entitled faggot who needs to be spoon fed. Will suck dick for successful delivery
>>338401729
Well, that's good to hear. I very well might go back to playing Distant Worlds anyway; it's a good game that deserves more attention.
>>338400528
>putting laser and torpedo on the same corvette
Rethink your life famalam
>>338400318
>but the penalties for expanding are too high to ever want to expand
Does it mean that conquering the whole galaxy is not doable without screwing yourself?
>>338402173http://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/
>>338402632
Oh you crazy anon
Seems like nobody likes a mediocre joke.
I upgraded my divine mandate recently to the improved version. Currently the most annoying thing I am doing is properly making my planets efficient. I am also worried that I might need to start a cluster of colonies on the complete other side of the galaxy and I won't be able to protect them for a while. Finally, I am in a alliance with one guy and nobody likes us. There is two separate federations that don't like us and they don't like each other.
There is only two spiritualist countries that like me.
>>338403276
If a joke can't be sterilized and condensed into a chain-comment of forced one-liners, then Reddit won't like it.
>>338403276
Liberate.
Seriously start a war and liberate some of close each to each other planets.
New nation would have the same ethos as you. Easy to make them vassal or ally with you.
>>338393526
That description sounds more like Trump desu.
>>338394445
he got banned from the Stellaris subreddit.
>>338395989
I couldn't make the jump to Stellaris. DW:U is so fucking good. If only it had multiplayer.
>>338404238
Not sure why would you care since reddit is terrible in the first place. The same thing applies to here too.
>>338404319
I guess that is an option. I don't need anymore aliens in my empire now since I can colonize pretty much any planet type with the ones I have.
I hate you redditors so fucking much.
>>338404627
Vassals not only not slow your tech but also provide fleets.
>>338404398
They are both the same.
>>338393526
I laughed
>>338393526
>/r/stellaris
The plebbit invasion is real
Paradox are okay guys, they told SJW to fuck off when they whined demanding the removal of Slavery.
>remove slavery from GSG
>now Europa Universalis is about hugging and befriending
>>338396268
Hope you know you have to kill things eventually,so if your army is garbage you'll die to random bots.
>>338405023
it's been real for years now
>>338393843
You realize Trump also supports expanding surveillance?
>>338402385
The auto-designer did that... what should I do instead?
>>338402583
It's literally the only way to win ATM. However, you can just vassalize conquered civs instead of taking them over. Expanding your empire just doesn't have any benefit after a certain point but does require a lot of time and effort.
>>338406472
Torpedo boats with defensive ai
Laser/Plasma boats with aggressive ai
Also, how come you have lvl 4 lasers and still only corvettes? Don't fall for the corvette spam meme
>>338406624
Not him but are mass drivers weapon no good?
>>338406732
Plasma/torpedo all day every day
>>338393526
you got banned from posting that?
its not even that offensive.
>>338405659
yea, and we will finally have ceiling cats in our houses.
>>338406624
>using anything but defensive AI
>corvette spam meme
You clearly don't understand how evasion works.
>>338407440
>using all defensive ai
Enjoy youreven worse tthan normalcluster fuck.
>>338407634
Fleets with defensive AI always beat out otherwise equal fleets with aggressive AI, especially when you bring battleships into the mix.
>>338395989
DWU has better diplomacy than Stellaris by miles
>>338394231
>A game where politics is one part of gameplay
>Not trying multiple different types of politics
Scrub.
>>338408326
Damn, I thought Paradox were good at diplomacy and shit. I would venture that EU3 / EU4 / Vicky 2 have pretty good diplomacy.
What happened?
>>338404880
Basically this
>>338408694
>What happened?
gotta sell that diplomacy DLC
Titanic Beasts are so good.
>>338395495
>>338395989
Early game is nice when you're still exploring and finding new random events, plus learning how the game works. Things like observing and uplifting pre-space or pre-sentient races are fantastic ideas, and alongside the random events with choices and race creation pretty much the only elements that make Stellaris stand out from Distant Worlds.
After the initial and ultimately short exploration part is over the game starts to get dreary as you find out there's no way to automate constructors or scouts (as opposed to DW), there's almost no random events anymore and like Amplitude's Endless Space, once the borders get set up there's literally nothing to do in the game apart from militaristic expansion, as the domestic politics and diplomacy are so fucking bare-bones it's not even funny. Even if you're playing pacifist xenophiles there's nothing to do but invade unless you just like twiddling your thumbs around while nothing happens. There aren't even alternative victory conditions like proper space 4X, nor opportunities to roleplay like CKII.
Mid- and endgame are spent doing nothing but inflating your ship deathstack and waiting for researches to finish, while very slowly waging war for new planets (due to limits of warscore system and slowness of political assimilation of vassals) and HOPING that a galactic invasion crisis occurs so there's something to actually fucking do.
>tl;dr shallow game with nice early exploration and shittasticly simplistic and repetitive mid- and endgame
>>338409716
>maxed influence
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>338410082
not him but there comes a point where there is so little happening that even influence doesn't matter anymore
like, you've got plenty of all ressources, no ethics divergence, you're just waiting for techs and for the truce counter to end
>>338406732
kinetic batteries FTW. Same range as torpedos but more damage, no interception chance, and hits nearly instantly
>>338410984
Science edicts! Science edicts everywhere!
>>338411120
you mean the empire edicts? it's just a reduction to your influence income
or is there some sort of planetary science edicts? Because I never got any
>>338410984
Was there a beta test for this game? It seems like a lot of the numbers are just guessed values that really fuck things up. Who signed off on taking 4 planets per war and having 10 fucking years between when you can attack again?
>>338407850
I like to go for self-aware ships
only miss out on 5% evasion and get 20% damage and fire rate in return
besides I don't need more evasion, my corvettes are already at 80%
>>338411298
They're in from the start dumb-dumb
>>338411478
Not to mention having to wait 10 years before you can assimilate vassals, assimilation itself taking 50+ years depending on the empire size and you can only assimilate one vassal at a time even if you have influence points to spare.
All the while every single empire in the game is Inferior / Pathetic compared to yours and there's nothing to fucking do due to lack of random events or proper domestic politics.
>>338411964
you could pick a fight with the ascendancies
>>338411478
>Who signed off on taking 4 planets per war and having 10 fucking years between when you can attack again?
Welcome to Paradox game design. Where, instead of coming up with creative, fluid ways to balance against "blobbing," they just impose hard limits and be done with it.
>see /v/ shilling space game
>finally decide to look at it on Steam
>grand strategy
I wonder what happens if you purge every single pop on a planet?
does it remain empty?
>>338412360
What's funny is, it actually isn't.
>>338412360
>Stellaris
>GS
>>338412435
It decolonizes
>>338412360
>bringing up shilling while posting an Overwatch image
>>338412609
>>338412532
What's the gameplay like, then? I'm willing to give it a shot if it sounds interesting.
>>338412968
It's 4x you nigger
>>338412968
See >>338410076
It's shit. Regular Paradox practice. Wait a few years for 200€ of DLC to actually make the game worthwhile.
>>338411653
only if you're fanatic materialist you retard...
glad to learn you're so much of a fedora tipper you only play fanatic materialist though
>>338413126
Fuck that sounds awful.
thanks anon
>>338413286
it's not as depressing to play as fucking Beyond Earth, but it's close
>>338413249
Dank memes. Meanwhile, I enjoy my +10% research output and play my penguin science directorate
>>338413286
it's not as depressing to play as fucking Beyond Earth, but it's close
>>338413491
>cucking yourself out of psi research
hope you're having fun with those shitty repeatable techs
I feel like Stellaris is the framework of a really, really good game that we won't get to see until a few years, when they've pumped out enough DLC to make it better.
Gonna be honest m8s, the game is shit
But since its new and shiny I can't stop playing it.
>>338405659
Yeah but I think Trump genuinely believes that it can help people so its more forgiveable than Clinton but its literally just about more power.
>>338413560
>cucking yourself out of psi research
Man, your memes are out of control
>OP posts a funny Stellaris post
>everyone shits on him, because he goes to the other teenage internet hotspot
you guys know 4chan is about as well known as reddit, right? most normies don't come to 4chan simply because they checked out /b/ once and saw a bunch of trannies and dicks, and never came back again. /v/ and /b/ are basically the reddit for homosexuals and weeaboos.
>>338414185
Beautiful bait anon, but it could use a little more work.
>start second race
>know what I'm doing
>good weapons tech
>very large fleet
>get an transmission from Unbidden
>ignore because I'm working on my first war
>they fuck up most of the whole galaxy
HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOOOOOW
>>338410076
>>338395989
>>338408326
>Distant Worlds
I know this game has god-tier automation. I always wanted to "role-play" as a pure engineer; i.e. only control ship design, and let the AI handle the rest. How feasible is this?
>>338393526
>tfw no way to make Scrin Race.
>>338414864
You can. The game will play itself if you want, although of course it won't do as well as a player. There are AI mods that improve it however.
>>338414864
It's feasible. Be warned though, I would say Distant World's learning curve is higher than even Dwarf Fortress.
>>338410076
Having just finished putting 40 hours into an Ironman game, I can 99% agree with this.
There ARE however plenty of opportunities for flavor thanks to the random events that will crop up during mid and end game. As you blob wider and wider, you'll encounter all the neat little events they have scattered across all the planets that give you cool bonuses like recruiting Titanic Creatures for foot soldiers, unique ship components like the space amoeba drones, or huge productivity bonuses on your planets.
However, they don't amount to much difference at that point, when all you care about is whether your fleet stack is bigger than their fleet stack.
If you look at the Dev Diaries for the 1.1 patch, they admit that they spent all their time on early game and flat-out dropped entire categories for mid- and end-game events, like Colony Development events and events occurring due to Gene Modding your race into sub-species.
I absolutely love the race designer and the early game, but Stellaris right now is mostly the framework for what will probably be my favorite 4x in two years once they've refined it and gotten the DLC out.
I've played hundreds of combined hours of Distant Worlds, MoO2, Gal Civ 2, Endless Space, Sword of the Stars, and Sins of a Solar Empire, and this honestly will be my go-to 4X if and when it gets there.
>>338415282
It's not Aurora 4x or anything.
Distant Worlds is hard to get into, but once you learn to walk moving to running isn't bad
>>338415282
>Be warned though, I would say Distant World's learning curve is higher than even Dwarf Fortress.
I already have a good grasp of the game; just have never tried something like what I posted.
I don't think it's harder to get into than dwarf fortress, as the UI is much more intuitive, and mechanics are explained better.
>>338414864
>How feasible is this?
Completely. You can automate just about everything and let the game play itself.
The only tricky part is getting the AI to properly create fleets that attack and defend in a logical way, because by default they'll fly willy-nilly between the front line and back to your home base without prioritizing threat size.
Also, the AI doesn't make ships that are optimized very well, so it's a good thing for the player to put some focus into.
>>338415496
you can't save a game by adding a bunch of random events, they need to do a lot more than that.
>>338415496
This game might be fine if they add in DW's private sector, more diplomacy, revamp warscore completely and make combat interesting via SPESS TERRAIN or something, but that's going to be years if it does happen
>>338416539
That wasn't what I was implying.
The post I replied to indicated that literally nothing happens after mid-game besides ship battles, which isn't true. Lots of interesting things do happen all the time, but they become inconsequential in contrast to their impact in early-game.
I look forward to..
>The sector overhaul DLC
>The diplomacy DLC that expands on federations
>The trade DLC
>The espionage DLC
etc., etc.
>>338414920
feels bad, scrins were great.
So is this turn based or more like starcraft or what
I suck at RTS but I want to make my own empire
>>338417117
It has the same real-time mechanics of any Paradox game. Slow-paced, lets you pause at will and change speeds. Everything you can do in the game can be well-thought-out, i.e. there is no APM shit like in Starcraft.
