How is your space empire doing?
what is the closest game to this that can be played on a serious toaster?
I am talking about celeron, 2GB, intel HD, 13 inch monitor type of toaster..
I have yet to find a space 4x game with a good UI. So not very well.
I can't even start the fucking game. It appears for a second on the taskbar and then crashes. Reinstalled windows, updated everything, still same shit. Fuck. Any ideas? Did anyone deal with this bullshit problem?
>>337158178
Distant Worlds: Universe maybe?
I am also pondering this.
>>337157498
How many stars is that? Looks kind of small. I went with 600 and a spiral galaxy.
>>337158712
400, my laptop is below minimum requirements so I decided to not take risks
>Science ship dissapears to another dimension
>Appears later with half the crew missing
>The resto of the crew appear later in an alien ship
This is going to bite my ass later, isn't it?
>>337158329
>google it
>update drivers
>try windowed mode
>run as admin
>check background processes
Not great, I can't zoom out or in because my MWheel is fucked.
How do I host a LAN game?
There is only one option for Host Game. I want it to be LAN only, no internetfags.
>>337157498
what are the different space races in this like
>>337159180
Better ready your asshole for a dimensional incursion that could destroy everyone in the galaxy.
>>337159802
>>337159967
I send them to look at an anomality in a Gas Giant and they crushed themselves
I've been hearing that this game is great and that its shallow garbage
which of the two is it, really?
wow
its literally Civ
>>337159802
evil and /good and /slightly less good
>>337160139
Pirate it and find out anon, if you like it, buy it. I do this process with every paradox game.
>>337160286
Its downloading right now my man
just wanna know what to expect
>finally meet another empire
>fanatical religious purifiers
>meet another empire on the other side of mine relative to the first empire I discovered
>fanatical religious purifiers
Oh boy
>>337160440
I don't know, probably EU4 in space?
>>337160509
you gonna get purged
>>337160509
Mine is the opposite I got a fanatic xenophile/pacifist then another pacifist/collective on the other
I wonder what would happen if you set a huge galaxy to just have two players
I wanna see a total annihilation tier war
Guys im kinda confused. EU 4 player here. In EU 4, one could simply get a big army and start invading other countries. In this game, fleet limit is very close to each other (Comparing nations). Is there an effective way to outpower other nations militarily?
>>337161435
Wouldn't the player that colonizes 40% of the planets just win outright? It's a win condition.
>We just had a small design meeting for what new portraits we should make for DLC for Stellaris. While brainstorming ideas, we just thought.. Why not ask you guys what you would like to see in a DLC ?
>Blorg is already included of course, but perhaps someone that could love them?
>They have to fit within the 6 phenotypes we have today, so no plants, rocks, elementals though..
Lol
How the bloody hell do i build cruisers? I have a level 2 spaceport and all i can do is build corvettes and the usual civilian stuff. Any ideas?
>>337163080
You have to build a level 4 spaceport to unlock cruisers iirc
>>337163286
so im stuck with corvettes until then? goddamn, thanks anyway
>>337163546
you get destroyers at level 3 though
>tfw another empire uses the same namelist as you so you end up seeing planets and systems in their empire with the same names as ones which you have in your empire
>>337161492
Gang up on them with your allies.
>>337158329
I had an issue for many games on an ATI card where I had to change something in that tool that runs in the task tray. Changed it to allow for full usage of the GPU.
It was strange too, I could start Europa 4, ARK, Dota no problem, but simple shit like Darkest Dungeon and FTL wouldn't run at all, just show up in the running list of processes and then immediately go away.
>Friend showing me this game from other YouTubers who are apparently skilled at it
>Barely do anything on their planets, miss out on resources that they expained to me how to get and see when you've gotten them
>Fart around and not colonize them
>One guy guy out of controlled AI and had a Fallen Empire take over the other side of the system and then had some sort of outbreak
How do these faggots get so many views with being so shit at it. One faggot, think his name is Spanish like Arumbo or something just not stopped complained about the fucking game.
Not even sure if I want to play it. Looks fun though. Gonna wait for patches.
I've been using hyperspace travel for a while, seems ok. But then I tried warp travel, and it's literally like hyperspace travel with no restrictions on what system I can jump to and hardly any wind up time. Does warp travel have any shortcomings over hyperspace travel?
How do i make amoeba ships i reasearched the tech
>>337159180
Did the inside of the ship look like this?
>My neighbor is a fanatic pacifist
>Be repugnant
>i declare him my rival
>i insult him
>Still he hasnt declared war on me
Kek
>>337157498
I struggled to get more minerals so I took a break after approx 2 hours of game-play, I enjoy this game very much - but as a total noob to series this is exhausting.
>>337164443
This screencap is great but that movie was lame as fuck.
I'm convinced anyone posting this is just trying to bait people who like 40k into wasting their time on this movie.
Is this one of those games with ten thousand needless menus. Or is it actually fun?
>>337164086
Hyperspace is faster but it's literally garbage on the ring maps
Wormholes are nice, with big reach and they have big advantage because you can keep more nice things on you ship and not warp/hyperspace drive
Warp is just easy to use
>>337164554
cucked
>>337160139
It's better than Civ, whole lot less depth than EU4 or any of the other GS titles. I think my major complaint is there's simply not a lot of detail in some aspects of the game like trade, religion, etc. Also, I get that a galaxy is probably going to be pretty sparse on population since we've been looking for life IRL and can't find signs anywhere, but I'd have rather had lots of small, fragmented planets throughout space than several large empires doing a land grab all throughout the early game. Perhaps they should've had an FTL travel phase between being stuck within your home system and freely warping from system to system -- maybe something like warping to another system is very expensive and slow for a while, so you can travel, but you won't be jumping through systems any more than once a year with each ship. Would also explain why you could have neighbors of your same race inhabiting a lot of nearby worlds that aren't under your control at start; the length of time it takes to travel and resources involved in maintaining order in your homeworld and surrounding planets would be very difficult.
>>337158178
Star Ruler might run well, then there's the really old shit
>enslave a lower insectoid race
>build Slave armys
>meet some fungus aliums in the bronze age
>enslave them with my Insectoid slaves
>let them build infrastructure
>genocide all them backwards fungus people
>remove slave armys
>Real White People move in
>currently preparing an Invasion of Huge Proportions
>>337160509
>Start up game
>Find another race
>It's also a bird race
>And it's a science directorate, just like me.
>And fanatical materialists, just like me.
>Same color too.
Guess who made a good friend that day?
>>337160509
ayy lmao them into each other
eat popcorn
Doing fine. The Borg are pissing me off, though, they keep colonizing hostile worlds I can't colonize yet in my own territory and I have to culture-flip or conquer the planets from them.
>>337164443
No, it was transparent
also
>Find an anomality in a ice planet in buttfuck nowhere
>Is a lab with a random survivor
>Survivor claims to be from my Empire
>No records about him or the lab
>Demands to come back to the Homeworld and none of the Empire ships to land on the planet ever again
>Refuses to give his nametold the lab guys to ignore him and investigateguy dissapears and the mountain the lab is in is hollow
>>337165028
Can you imagine this happening irl?
>aliens contact earth for the first time and reveal themselves
>they are just other humans
>>337160139
Better than Civ and other 4x games, not as detailed as other GS games. Mind you, Paradox games change over their lifetime.
>>337165275
>>337164925
The lack of depth in some areas will possibly be addressed. However, in true paradox tradition I'm sure these enhancements will be $9.99 DLC packs.
>>337165181
Happened to me, chose human race, and starting system as Sol, started in the real Solar System, and many hours later I find another star named Sol. It had random planets named named Sol Iand so forth, and in one of them there were pre-FTL humans.
Must have been a very confusing first contact for them.
>>337161492
>EU 4
>one could simply get a big army and start invading other countries
>playing as super powers
I downloaded the android mod from the workshop and am running a Xenophobic/Fanatic Collectivist Despotic Empire, with very strong, decadent, and repugnant as my traits.
I just made a vassal out of my neighbors early game, looking to wipe out another civ completely.
The combo of my slaves, xeno slaves, mining tech, and the very strong trait have me sitting at 8k minerals despite being pretty early still.
>>337165423
This pretty much, my 2 biggest complaints as a GS-noob are the lack of customization as far as backgrounds go and the RNG tech search, I mean there's lots of desert/tropical worlds around me and I can't do fucking anything with them.
>>337165181
It'd be strange as fuck, but I could see it happening. Say a bunch of humans lived on a planet that was eventually ravaged by war or near a dying star, so they loaded up people on ships and launched as many as they could in various directions until they all landed on a world that could support life. After countless year, original humans forget their origins until spaceflight is discovered again. Human populations from various planets in space meet with each other.
>>337165423
That's why you buy the base game, and pirate everything else.
>>337165139
>Ork looks bored
What's he even doing meeting up with all those soft gits?
Looks like I fucked up and will see some "diversity" soon
I literally enjoy this game but I don't feel like investing so much time on exploring the basics is there a video series yet, or even better a written tutorial I can read?
Actually a strategy guide would be even better
![[barks eternaly].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/DAhpbWP.jpg "[barks eternaly].jpg")
>>337157498
What game is this?
Is it available topirate?
What building /tech increase planet cap? What is a maximum cap (without democracy +) Does sectors have anything to do with it?
AM i wrong if i think that declering war is pointless? What are the options if you conquer colony? You occupy the planet/slave xenos /can you purge whole infastructure Just for the sake of razing colony?
>>337162586
What are you referring to here
>>337158178
Galactic Civilizations II? It came out in 2006.
It's turn-based, though.
>>337165423
I think the game has lots of potential, but it would probably take several packs of DLC before it reaches that point. CK2 and EU4 were both pretty barebones at first, they picked up quite a bit after a few expansions though. V2 is the only one I feel didn't get much steam as expansions were released for it, but EU3 vanilla and complete is as different as night and day.
>>337165796
Prepare to be culturally enriched
Anyone got the white people only mod?
What other mods are decent?
>>337165870
Declaring war -> conquering planets -> more infrastructure -> bigger fleets -> more war/safety
>>337158178
>>337158449
GalCiv 2 is fucking incredible. The only 4x in which diplomacy and mercantilism are actually varied, fun and viable.
Lots of shitty micromanagement, sadly, but apart from that the game is stellar (see what I did there?).
By the way, DW:U runs like a bloody turd that's on fire.
what is a good tutorial for learning this game
>>337167240
just play the fucking game you nup
its already easy af
>>337167339
i started a game and had absolutely NO idea what to do though.
>>337157498
People still play spore?
>>337167240
Like all games in the genre, play it on the easiest setting and learn from your mistakes.
>>337167476
Sure, first level is god tier
Why do you ask?
>>337167502
yawn
>>337167570
fuck off kid, I'd steamrolled you anyway
>>337167759
you would shit on me but what's that have to do with this...
>>337167570
>can't even get through one game
Grand Strategy/4x is not the genre for you. Go play League of Legends if you want instant gratification and following guides.
>>337157498
Whats this game
Can I pirate it
>>337167841
i play EU4 and Civ 5 a lot though.
>>337167876
Of course, how about you look for torrents before asking the obvious.
>>337157498
Here's a pointless blogpost about how my space empire is doing.
I'm the blue empire in the top-right (Tekari). Grey empire right below me are my vassals who are just about to be integrated - beat them in a war ages ago and its taken forever to integrate them. The little brown spot and yellow one right below me are uplifted primitive vassals.
Planning on going to war with the blue empire above me after I finish integration - we were allies at the start of the game and they helped me win that war, but the border friction became too much.
Kaspalv league are Pacifist Xenophobes and want absolutely nothing to do with anyone. Hydari remnant is a fallen empire.
Most of the right half of the galaxy is in a federation with me, we've had a few wars against the Valdari + Shantar and won, which gave the Kedeshi + Kammarians a lot of their territory back.
The little yellow spot in the middle of Norillga are Humans.
The left half of the galaxy with all the little empires is a lot more interesting diplomacy-wise. Lots of small alliances against eachother. The bit above the Tal'Akkur used to be one empire, but it split into two at some point.
Not really much to do in this game other than wait for bars to fill.
Is this Endless Space?
If so, how the fuck do you play this game? I did not understand how to do anything, and I thought I understood grand strategy games.
The hours are just vanishing.
It's going to get worse when HOI4 comes out.
Send help.
I'm restarting.
There is literally no fucking habitable planets anywhere near empire and I'm surrounded by zealots who hate me and bully me constantly.
Also I lack 150 influence to get another frontier outpost made and I'm out of resources to mine fuck my life
>>337168083
yea this game eats time, but damn you just want to enslave another motherfuckin alium before going to bed
>>337157498
I keep restarting with a new game
>>337168651
I've been doing the same.
Seems like unless you get a really good start then the beginning of the game is a huge slog to get through.
Top fun later on though.
>>337168016
I've read your full post, very interesting - I hope you wipe out Rutherian.
Any tips for a noob? I'm new to the genre I'm still struggling to gather minerals I'm on 12 + and I need 30 for tutorial.
>>337160509
Prepare to get culturally enriched
>lvl 3 warp
>don't have the type of government to unlock Psionic Warp
Goddamnit.
>>337168771
How to minerals:
>Build more mines on your planets (ideally on spaces which already give 1 or 2 minerals)
>Scan some systems with your science ship and use your construction ship to build mining stations on things in space which give minerals (like asteroids and stuff)
>If you're good for influence, you can issue the 'Production Targets' edict on a planet to increase its mineral output by 15%
>You can also use diplomacy, and give other empires energy or research agreements and stuff and ask for minerals in return.
>>337168771
I haven't played to late game, but for me it seems like frontier outposts are very good. You can harvest resources from the systems nearby, and they don't increase research costs, unlike colonies with their pops. So if you have positive influence, plop some around a rich system, or stars close to eachother.
>>337169372
Damn but every empire I encounter tells me to stay away because I'm a savage and a threat for the peace of universe.
>12.5 years to research Gamma Lasers
Jesus fucking christ.
>>337169459
Get out of here Ghandi.
>>337169459
Then enslave them if you're a xenophobe. Enjoy that slaves can't rebel, it'll likely be nerfed in the first patch
Y'all are making me want to play it. Pirating it now
Fuck I really want to play this but I also know this is the genre of the highest addiction even if the gameplay turns out to be not good.
I just purged two entire planets full of xenos. Everybody hates me now, but it was so worth it.
>>337169864
Oh no someone has gotten mad at 4chan and is taking their revenge on us strangers.
>buy it from mmoga 40 min ago
>STATUS: CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
>Currently the seller can not deliver this product.
WHY WAS IT LISTED AS AVAILABLE WITH A 5-10 MIN DELIVERY TIME
>>337169779
I'm not even a xenophobe.
>>337169817
welcome to all grand strat ever
>>337170185
>welcome to grand strat
the real grand strat is slowly realizing the flaws in the specific game you're playing and becoming increasingly listless and frustrated as you can choose between either keeping them or adopting a mod with even more bizarre flaws
I met some gas creatures in a dissolving gas giant, they asked me for a ride to the gas giant next star over.
After I took them there, they had some sort of celebratory gas orgy, and now their planet is overpopulated. They asked me for yet another ride to a planet they have spotted, turns out it's Jupiter.
I took them there, now they're my neighbors and give me a ton of research sporadically.
>>337169864
>>337169864
Lay off the blur.
Goddamn.
>>337170463
Fuckkkk I told them to fuck off after the first transport.
>discover post-nuclear civilization on my borders
>build an observation station, begin the process of covertly infiltrating the planetary government for the purpose of annexation
>-20% progress event, one of my agents has gone rogue and killed his cell
>multiple events over the following months detail this fucking guy ruining my plans
>receive a transmission
>"I have fallen in love with one of the natives. Remove your observation station and build your empire of blood elsewhere."
>pinpoint the city block this shit is residing in, glass it
>annexation goes smoothly from that point forward
>discover another post-atomic civ on my borders
>Destination:Sol System
This game is fun.
>>337169864
The moment when you realize that normal porn has 0 effect on you
>>337166192
pls respond
>>337170658
Dude, they were so nice. Why would you refuse hitchhikers who fit in a gas cylinder?
Lads, will I be able to play this game with my shit tier PC? I have:
>Intel Core i3-2120 CPU 3.30GHz
>4GB Ram
>Intel HD graphics (This is what I think will fuck me)
I have played games that required a better graphics card in the past, just on low settings and it works. I just don't want to drop any money on it if it won't work.
>>337170869
Because I was tired of being their fucking space taxi. Those cunts need to learn to make ships
>>337170765
>>337170765
I've been reduced to straight fetish appeal
Yellow Fever, buttsluts, anal gloryhole & soft-dom women.
I need to go cold turkey. It's affecting my sex life.
TLDR; I know that feel.
>>337170765
>>337170892
This shit still stutters with 980. I'm sure they are going to do some patches because honestly this game doesn't look that intense
Reminder to not play in Spiral armed galaxies.
I ran into a stupid as shit """""feature""""" where empires wont give you military access unless you border them, and every single empire in spiral galaxies ends up blobbing straight up the middle of the arms, making it impossible to get access further than one friendly empire.
>>337170892
>>337170892
>>337170892
Absofuckinglutely not.
Holy shit.
People are having issues with high end current systems mid-late game.
That thing is bad. Really bad. The fuck did you do, raid an office auction?
>>337169475
>ships with scientifics on them
>your homeworld scientifics get dragged into working with anomalities
>>337170892
I'm playing on a similar notebook, it runs smoother for me than EU4. I didn't reach the late game, though I've been playing on a large (800 stars) galaxy
>>337170892
Sure it will, you can avoid most of video card problems by just not zooming into space battles
>>337169864
>10k hours in Photoshop, the Pr0n
>>337169864
I've spent a couple of minutes looking for the catch, then I realized this is what people used to masturbate to
>>337169864
0/thick
please leave
>>337171049
>>337171090
>>337171104
>>337171175
If it makes any difference I can play games like Skyrim on medium settings with no problem, and Civ 5 on high without any problems.
Neighbors are killing each other, so that's good. Found a second Sol system so I conquered second Earth and named it Terra Nova
>>337171375
Yes but this is not as optimized as Skyrim/Civ 5
>>337170695
It's like a bad ending to Avatar. Nice
>>337171090
Kek
>>337171475
>I conquered second Earth and named it Terra Nova
You're just a bucket full of originality and creativity, aren't'cha?
>>337171375
Like I said in the previous post. Their optimizations is garbage right now. I honestly think you computer will be able to play it but its not going to be pretty and you would be better off waiting for a optimizations patch
>>337171605
What the fuck do you want me to call it? Buttfuck Arena #36?
s there any reason to pick hyperspace over FTL?
It's basically the same thing, except that FTL is faster late game.
Wormhole seems to be the best one all around though.
>>337171475
>naming your planet after a failed tv show
wew lad
>>337171375
My computer as Intel HD Graphics 4000, 4GB RAM, but it's an i5. I run it perfectly well, the shit performance on high-end computers must be some screw-up from Paradox. I suggest downloading the demo and seeing how well it runs.
>>337171724
yes anon.
So is there literally no point whatsoever in even trying to go tall in this game?
It feels like no matter what your focus, any empire with more planets than you will always be better than you - they will always have more ships, more fleet capacity and often better tech.
>>337171724
>Buttfuck Arena #36?
Sounds like a planet I'd want to live on, actually.
>>337171818
>>337171874
Fine.
![lvdagq_chrome_2016-05-11_00-32-41[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/pjKChRb.png "lvdagq_chrome_2016-05-11_00-32-41[1].png")
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>337157498
Can you go to more than one galaxy?
>>337159996
F U N G O I D
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If I like Civ5 but didn't like CK2, would I like this?
>>337171843
Fuck off faggot. You're the reason they added that fucktarded minimum force limit in EU4
>>337171930
Okay, you may not be creative but at least you're fun. Good job, anon.
>>337171843
I don't even think you can go tall, after you fill your planets with people and buildings, that's it. And more colonies don't stop you from doing that.
Only difference is science increasing with population costs, but that's more about scaling than enabling tall strategies.
>>337171745
>>337157498
muh empire
left blue blob is my ally
bottom right blobs are my soon to be allies after I abandon the pacifist fags to the unbidden and batton down the hatches
hoping the unbidden while out the other empires for a victory while I spam fortresses and occupy the more dessert planets by vassalising some desert humans in the palyrian empire.
I'm calling that sector mexico
>>337157498
Going to jump into the game tonight. How important is the ship builder? That's the one thing I hate about space strategies.
How deep is this game?
The only Paradox game I've ever played was East India Company.
What fucking counters disruptors? I'm still pretty early in the game and these alien fucks rekt me in battle because of them.
I.. I'm gonna do it!
>>337172127
From my limited experience you can use it to build counter to the races you are facing and/or optimize your ships, probably required to work a lot with it on harder difficulties but I'm doing just fine with little to none toying with it on normal.
Can you create it and let it loose in another empire?
>>337172001
As someone who liked Civs 1 through 5 but didn't have a particularly fun time with CK2 (though I will give it a second chance later), I like it.
How does this game compare to Distant Worlds: Universe?
Going to do a playthrough as the Galactic Interracial Breeding Ground
>>337171843
> Ally with other empire
> Both go gangrape
> Betray their asses and crush them as well
>>337171980
Maybe someone will make a mapmode like that.
Would be completely retarded though, you would have a big part of your map inaccessible until the late game, only there to generate lag
>>337172127
You can do without, but it's pretty fun to build ridiculous batlecruiser with the armament of a deathstar
Personally, i kinda wish there was a way to simply utterly clense a planet. Make it need a large, constant bombardment for year if need be, i wanna rid the galaxy of the Loduran Slug people
>>337172248
Anon, no!
>>337172485
unfavorably.
>>337172365
This was meant to reply to this >>337172248
How long would it take an average retard to get over the learning curve?
>>337157498
I tried to like this game but it felt really tedious after a while. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but damn.
>>337171930
My man
>>337172032
Don't listen to him. I think you're creative andkind of cute[/spoilers]
>>337172643
Very short. The game has depth but it eases you into it really well.
>>337172248
>t. skynet
Can I personally go down on planets and blow up cities.
I always wanted to be an invading alien force crushing simpleton earthlings.
how the hell do i actually attack enemies in this game
I was at war with a neighbouring empire with the war goal to cede one of their planets to me
as soon as i invaded and captured the planet the war ended with a white peace out of nowhere
>>337165836
Yes and the installer has one of the best codex chiptunes yet.
>>337172196
Currently pretty shallow.
Expect it to get deeper after a couple years when Paradox release the 700th DLC for it.
>>337172127
Not really important. By default it will automatically update the ship designs with your 'best' components.
It only becomes useful when you need to change up weapons to beat an enemy - missiles ignore shields and lasers ignore armor. Therefore if your enemy uses lots of shields and lasers, it makes sense to change your ship designs to use more missiles and shields.
>>337172091
>Letting the unbidden get that large
Anon I think its pretty much over
>>337172776
>codex
have fun with your bitcoin miner
>>337172248
>10% research speed is somehow a big enough boost to justify all the problems
Bullshit.
>only 77k sales
Woops. Paradox forgot to market.
>>337172565
Try purge.
It's weird, the extragalactic invaders came and haven't even managed to conquer a single empire for years. The empire they spawned in is even considered inferior to most
>>337172850
It's a More multiplier.
Like, it multiplies you entire empire science output by 10%, like researchers can do. It's big, but likely not worth waking up Skynet
>>337172565
Check Star Ruler
>>337172196
East India Company is not a Paradox games, it was published by their publishing company. Although Stellaris is nothing like other Paradox games, it's much more like Civ V and Star Ruler.
>>337172968
I can do it to alien world i invades ?
>>337173015
10% really isn't that much though.
>>337172647
too much science ship micro
should be able to click a "do everything there is to do in star system" button and select a system for it to work in.
>>337157498
Mac torrent when?
So how is the AI revolt triggered?
My first game I safely researched ALL The dangerous AI/Synthetic related techs
I never populated entire planets with the Synthetics tho.
I did use the armies
Is it basically just a pass fail thing anytime during the research of Sentient AI, Droids, and or Synthetics?
I'll ask again. Why do I tend to have way too much energy with nothing to use it on? I always try to remain at least positive on generating it, but eventually I just tend to have so much fucking energy I cannot use it all even if I try.
What am I doing wrong?
>>337173265
But you can do that. Go to the galactic view with a science ship selected, then right click the system you want to survey
>>337173276
it's based on ai pops
have enough ai pops and they start hive minding and will eventually revolt
>>337173304
>>337173304
it's burned up in Maintenance, Minerals are what you really eat through tho.
>>337173265
Yeah, it's a big flaw that you have to be zoomed in and with the science ship in the system to tell it to analyze debris.
For everything else, you can queue tasks by selecting them while holding shift
>>337173265
You can do shift click survey system, pack 10 or so in a row and your science vessel gonna be gone for a while. Personally i build a fleet to ''escort'' the science vessel and fuck whatever aliens is nearby
Why can't I play as a robot race?
>>337173276
I think the developer said it isn't sentient ai that dangerous. Its have a huge ai population with sentience
>>337172847
>using a shit torrenting software that lets btc mining happen
>>337173379
>>337173379
That's stupid as shit.
They should've implemented a 'good' outcome.
God that is so fucking dumb.
At least in Sots you could research a Master Command Algorithm or some shit.
>>337173304
Build bigger fleets. My maintenance is so high I struggle to stay in the black
>>337173304
There's not much to actually spend your energy, it mostly end up being expended maintaining something.I think only cleaning tiles actually spends it as a one time payment.
So if you have positive energy, you will eventually max it. Expand your empire and build more ships.
>>337173304
Build more spave stations/buildings/ships/upgrade ships? Maybe you lucked out on energy. Im continuously starved for it.
>>337173490
>>337173490
So they basically ruined an awesome game mechanic with window licking tropes.
Fuck right off.
Damnit.
>>337173102
After you received them in a peace deal.
>fixing to conquer one of my weakest neighbors
>some motherfuckers get to them before me
>fuck them back and retake all the shit they took
>they surrender, and all the planets that I claimed as war goals somehow form a new civilization while i get booted from their borders
Did I miss something, what the fuck happened? I had armies on every of their planets and all my dudes just got ejected to the border.
>>337173467
There is a mod for that on the workshop.
>>337173265
Pro-tip: You can right click on a star to select 'survey everything', and queue actions by holding shift.
Tell the ship to survery a couple of systems and you won't have to micromanage it.
>>337173584
Strange I have a shit ton of minerals but always feel starved for energy. I think it all just depends on the sections you occupy
>>337173506
wot?
a codex torrent installed a bitcoin miner disguised as steam.exe
>>337173661
Heh, right. So i guess i'll stop my war, re-declare it, ask for ALL his shit then purge it up. Once it's fully purged, can i just ''drop'' the planet?
>>337167934
>>337172776
Ok so what game is it?
>>337173632
How can a sentient ai take over if they don't population to overthrow their creators?
>>337173674
If it's like EU4 you probably used the wrong CB to start the war.
>>337173304
I had the same "problem", if you aren't going to war constantly you're going to have a large energy surplus since the #1 use of energy tends to be fleet maintenance and you don't pay (as much?) maintenance when your fleets are in port.
Once you start getting more militarily active you'll be strapped a bit more for energy.
>>337173518
>They should've implemented a 'good' outcome
There is
Give them fucking rights
>>337173856
No CBs in Stellaris, only wargoals
>>337172248
>there are 3786 pops of A.I. in your galaxy
>>337165181
sandniggers would bomb the shit outta them for being haram
Looks great, worth the money?
>>337173927
WHAT IF they were sandnigger that left millenia ago and come back with the official muhammad ?
>>337167539
i see what you did there
>>337165736
feel like there would be some physical differences that set them apart.
>>337174040
Not really, it's works fine but there just isn't that much content. Look again in a year or so, after they've released some DLC
Only do it if you really like 4X, but can't get into other games of the genre, this one is very accessible
Too much to hope for a 40k mod?
It seems sectors have formed one giant galactic cock.
>>337174320
are you literally incapable of looking that shit up yourself? how stupid are you?
>>337174320
It already exists
>>337174320
First news on steam
Already out
How competent are sectors at managing themselves?
>>337174369
Space Scandanavia
So is this game actually better than or at least as good as distant worlds?
So is Wormhole Travel marked as for "Advanced Players" because it requires you getting to the place and making the Wormhole Station?
Just started a new game and already a terrorist group on my home planet managed to create a strong space fleet, with which they started to terrorize research operations on near-by planet - I've sent my fleet only to get it destroyed, but a newly crafted spaceship managed to destroy them... only to learn that their leaders left with three spaceships on different star systems and now I have to chase them... this is pretty intense considering I haven't even left my solar system.
>>337174865
no
why does everyone keep asking that? it's shallow as fuck
>>337174904
Strange, I only got pirates after my first colony
I don't think combat is too hard, in Star Ruler starting out was always a rush against the first pirate attack, which could wipe you out of you lost.
>>337174880
You make a station, and anywhere in it's radius you can move.
I suspect it's Expert because you can get your stuff stranded if a hostile blow up a station , so either you go hard on redundancy or you have to build stations to protect the generators.
>>337174865
It's not hard to be better than distant worlds
>hurr durr let's make big space game
>hurr durr let's keep everything shallow and basic
It's funny to see how people shit on the stellaris diplomacy system, while distant worlds one was more limited than in turn based games that was released ten years before(galciv2)
This years were shit for people who loved this genre(endless garbage, galciv3), but at least Stellaris didn't annoy and make me angry, so I just wish it had more depth
>>337175073
I haven't played Star Ruler in ages, wasn't it pretty easy to build up a storng enough fleet with just your starting planet?
Certainly not as bad as Sins of a Solar Empire where pirates repeatedly destroyed the fleet that I just built up
Is there any point in making a Frontier Station? Better just to colonize a planet and not spend 200 influence
>only immediate neighboor is a cunt and stole several systems from me
>he's always ahead of me tech and naval wise
>at some point I think I can overpower him
>jump to his system with a 6k doomstack
>8k fleet sitting on his capital
>NOPE
>run behind my line and sit between my military stations
>10 years later still at war, I finally manage to break trough with the battleships, finish his fleet off
>send my armies as I destroy his planet defenses
>even when blockaded he destroys 24 units of mine before I can occupy his planets and take 3 of them
>the entire galaxy becomes rival with me asap
Fuck you, nobody will stop me now that I enslaved them all
>>337175073
I got a religious separatist event 10 minutes into a new game once. Spawned 4 corvettes in my system that would attack anything.
How do I turn planets into sectors ?
>>337175565
>giving a shit about diplomacy in 4X
lel
anyway, go and play Aurora, tough guy
>>337175679
lol
>>337175180
How large is the radius compared to warp?
>>337175591
Frontier stations cost just influence and their build cost. Colonies are limited, and research scales with population
>>337174904
Update: I just destroyed the whole ecosystem of a gas giant by accident.
>>337175720
>just completely discounting a games glaring flaws because of arbitrary reasoning.
Is there any point in purging xenos or am I better just enslaving them?
>>337159996
How do you get the Platypus?
>>337175735
Seriously, I can't find the option anywhere
>>337175943
It's Paradox's logo so probably some preordering shit or logging into your paradoxplaza account
>>337175943
It was some minigame shit, it's gone until it inevitably comes back in a DLC
>>337164627
You have shit taste then. It's a 10/10 film
Should I buy this or sins of a solar empire
Im a filthy casual
which one best suits me
