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>>337717113
purge
PURGE
>>337717113
PURGING
PURGE!!!
>>337717113
MIGRATION
>>337717113
establishing a peaceful coexistence with where we all can live in harmony
>>337717339
but when I do that I get 6 empires forming an alliance and steamrolling me
is there a way to do purges without the AI wanting to kill space Hitler?
>>337717113
Vasalling and then forgetting about
>>337717113
gene manipulation
Huge galaxy, 24 empires, 5 advance starts, and I've played 5 different games.
Literally no fucking Fallen Empires.
>>337718297
wat
All three games i've started i've been parked right outside their territory.
>spaceports within sectors not visible on outliner
>no way to select planets from galaxy map
How long until game is fixed and worth buying?
>>337718297
No fallen in my either, dunno why
So how do you get wormholes, if you started warp? I conquered and assimilated a civilization that had wormholes, but I can't build them myself, and so I'm just stuck in the area of space I started in, can't get to further places. Do I just have to wait until I randomly get the tech?
>>337718596
36 months
Jesus christ, Lirik is playing Stellaris on twitch right now and it's fucking hilarious.
>There are "people" who actually believe that there can be peace between humans and xenos
My first empire, R8.
It's been pretty easy cruising with pacifist and charismatic. Are the tyranids going to be a problem(to the far right)? They don't seem to have gotten that much territory in about 10 years
>>337718728
I'll forget about the game by then and be playing something else that came out properly finished in those 36 months.
>>337718742
Humans are too barbaric to make peace with, they can't even be at peace with their own kind.
>tfw spending more time in the faction creation than in the actual game
>>337718297
First Game I play, there's one just a few parsecs eastward, They ate my exploration ship and told me to go away
>>337718593
Can you not hotkey them?
>>337719515
You can but I only have 10 hotkeys, that's not enough.
>>337719043
>Turks
>in
>SSPPPAAAAAAACCCCCCEEEE
>>337719862
>>337719043
>forcing this meme every single thread
we get it
>play as multicultural empire
>first xeno ruler gets elected
>>337720706
absolutely disgusting
>>337719043
>weapon type not missiles
>>337720706
>wives cucking their husbands with aliens
They left what?
>>337720706
What are those "elections" you speak of? Some kind of silly xeno ritual?
>>337717339
>>337717343
>>337717602
>>337717801
For the Emprah
How do i enslave them? Already conquered a fungus planet and my race love slavery.
>first play through
>imperium of man
>fanatic militant dictatorship
>xenophobes
>even fleet name "emperors wrath/fury etc etc"
Admit it, you all did it
>>337722037
nah
I killed my first space amoeba
>>337720706
>play as xenophobic racist slaver assholes
>forget to enslave one xeno
>it somehow gets elected despite xenos not allowed to be leaders and no xeno voting rights
None were spared
>>337722037
>literally the whole point of the game
>"admit it"
You are one prize-winning retard.
>>337722037
More people probably made a LoGH empire
Share and rate em /v/
>Military Republic
>This government is a militaristic form of democracy, where full citizenship can only be gained through military service. The voting franchise is limited to full citizens, and they are the only ones allowed to hold public offices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na_Zac23b5E
>tfw slowly becoming a minority in my own empire because I choosed the wrong traits and cant purge
A-are there any bad modifiers from this?
>>337722358
pretty much every government form is a reference to some scifi work
gods sake you can even get Friend Computer to lead your species
>>337721227
the us hole
>have migration access with a bunch of empires due to mindlessly accepting trade deals
>event happens, get gaia world with +20 happiness
>few months later every single slot is filled with all sorts of xenos running away from their empires
>mass starvation on the planet because I can't build hydrophonics fast enough
god damn refugees
Can i somehow make the autosave less frequent in ironman? Just can't play on fastest because of the stutters every month.
>>337722385
Only if you're a xenophobe
Is becoming a vassal to the biggest faction in the game, and then pissing off a Fallen Empire to the point where they want to eradicate us, a valid strategy for taking down my enemies?
Happiness on one of my jungle worlds is getting wonky. I'm playing xenophile materialists, continental affinity. Subgroup of pops gene-modified themselves to jungle affinity and the two new groups started bombing each other right away.
Now everyone on the planet is xenophobic. Conflict has died down but happiness is hovering around 45-50 for a good portion of the pops.
Research is dicking me too, haven't gotten anything to improve happiness recently. I wouldn't be able to research it any time soon anyways. My pop is to the point where research gets +100% penalty to point needed to complete techs.
On the plus side my federation's most recent war grabbed up planets that were separating all the members from each other (playing hyperspace only, lanes can be a bitch but I like the 'terrain' it creates).
>>337723029
>valid
Who cares it sure sounds fun
>early space age people just outside my borders advances
>becomes like a normal ai
>immediately annex them, free shit
>apparently they were on the edge of a fallen empire
>said empire makes contact immediately demands I surrender a dozen planets or else
>fuck that
>they declare war and have 100k+ in bordering systems
This game is over desu
>>337723110
Well by that I meant, can it be done.
>>337717113
Being productive members of a communist society.
>>337718639
You don't get them at all, because you chose warp.
>>337722037
You pretty much have to.
Besides, tech-heavy theocracy is best form of government.
>>337723557
>commies
>productive
2 spiral galaxy with 21 empires and 6 fallen empires and random traits for my civ.
Fanatic Militaristic xenophiles, kind of contradictory but okay
>>337724271
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRX_6rBs6M
>playing as weak technofungus
>pretty shit in general at invading
>get robot army tech
>replace all armies with robot armies
>invade every place I couldn't properly before
...I'm setting myself up hard for a robot revolution arn't I
>>337722037
Are you the faggot that named "impirium" his imperium? I know it was you.
I honestly believe you should hang yourself
>>337724443
Don't be a jerk and let the robots be people and you'll be okay
>>337724392
your species wants to save the diversity of the galaxy by uniting them all under one banner
>>337717113
Enslaving
Just about to start a new game with mine
>>337724271
Back to the mineral mines with you. Return when negative ethnic divergence finally opens your eyes to the folly of individualism. Or when you get a call from slave processing centre, we always need more brave soldiers on the front lines.
How do I make gene-army, saw how my vassal used them on my enemy and they just wiped the floor with the garrison.
>>337724552
Yeah let's go with that.
>>337724914
Let RNG give you gene-modding research and then let RNG give you gene warriors
>>337724719
I wish you could make it so slaves could "earn" their freedom and maybe have it so you could get cheaper and faster slave armies if you have it set to earn freedom by volunteering to be cannon fodder
Post custom portraits.
>>337718905
yiff in hell furfag
>>337724719
individualist, freedom of though active here
as long as I keep building entertainment my people stay loyal no matter what they think
>>337722304
Reptilian judeo-bolsheviks reporting.
>>337724271
>being motivated solely by space bux
>not being motivated by wanting to do your best to advance the people's glorious space empire
Hitchhikers reference?
>>337724719
All socialist countries are poor as fuck. All nationalist countries are the most powerfull in the world.
Mite get ya thinking cùck.
>>337718593
thats what the outliner is for dumbdumb
>>337725195
>being "that guy"
>not just sitting back and drinking vodka with the other 99% of the guys.
When is the upgrade function going to be fixed? Has anything been said about it on the forums?
Allying with and then being dragged into an war where they don't know how to fucking land troops on a planet so they just stay there at the planet bombing it forever, while their opponent just keeps building ships and sending them one after one into their fleet just to die instantly.
>>337725453
was wrong with it?
>>337725227
>All nationalist countries are the most powerful in the world
Am I talking to an anon from a parallel universe?I know you meant capitalist, relax, it's just a videogame, pull the stick out of your ass and have fun
>>337719043
I wish there were weapons for each race, all the options feel too human.
I finally made everyone my vassal. Now I am king of the galaxy.
What should I do?
desu famalam I actually can't fucking figure out how to occupy planets, that's why I just kept vassalising everyone. I have a massive fucking navy but I don't know how to purge these weaklings.
>inb4 someone calls my birds cucks again
pls no bully my birds
>>337722304
7/10, need a better flag also add some negative traits.
>>337717113
Doing the dirty work. My master race isn't fit to do menial labor or heavy lifting
>>337725227
Socialism and Nationalism aren't mutually exclusive.
>>337725558
you gotta occupy the planet with ground forces if you wanna take it.
>>337725216
How old does a meme have to be before it get's to be a "reference"?
>>337725493
If you have multiple designs of one ship class (corvette, destroyer, etc.) the game won't let you choose which one you end up with when you upgrade fleets, it just picks one arbitrarily (doesn't seem to be related to name, most recent design, or efficiency of design).
>>337717113
playing.
>>337725195
My motivation is to entice xenos to flock to our cities then force them into the sex trade.
>>337719043
well that's funny because all your factions are boring memes
10 JEWS IN SPACE jokes per thread is a bit much
>>337725674
Fuck, I'm retarded.
Thanks though. I actually looked it up before and couldn't find an answer.
>>337720706
>Conquer alien planet
>Separatists get elected
>Voting: Primary species only
>>337722304
0/10 not enough pol memes
>>337725380
Can someone explain to me how i add the race description?
I feel super retarded for asking but i can't seem to fin the option to do so,
>>337725840
Relax, Koksal-sama.
>>337718196
Well at least someone got the answer right.
>>337725380
Pretty fucking neat anon
>>337720706
Never. As much as I love me some xenos to colonize other planets and get some nice bonuses, they don't get the right to rule. Only space sharks get to be space pope
>>337722037
I played as a moderate earth military democracy, then stopped 50 years into the game when I found another Sol system with space age humans on it
>>337725969
Here's the secretYou use microsoft paint retard
>>337725843
It says so right in the war goals window that the planet has to be occupied by ground forces if you wanna get it.
>>337718040
yeah
steam roll them back
>>337720940
Why does it look like she's moving?
>>337725380
>alligence
FUCKING RETARDED XENO SCUM
>>337724517
That does help at all; i had a technocracy with equal rights for all citizens, and the tinheads still rebelled...
>>337719043
Have you made the Allied Atheist Alliance, the Unified Atheist League and the United Athiest Alliance, yet?
PURGING, like all other organic life
You want +10% minerals? Fuck you you get angry robot overlords
>>337722037
Fanatic collectivist/materialists actually. Ended up gene modding fucking everything like the Tleilaxu.70's scifi is the best.
Looking forward to playing this empire.
>>337726343
I did it and everything is fine
>>337726516
>dune
Dude
>play theocratic oligarchy Crusaders
>conquer xenos
>convert them with that sweet -20% ethos divergence on top of reeducation camps and propaganda broadcasts
>seed them on different world types throughout the empire, and ban alien migration so they don't infest my own preferred planets
Feels good man, this is the only way for xenos to be integrated, all must kneel before Space Jesus
I need to wrap up my Three Mountains in EU4 before I start with Stellaris.
When's a good time to dismantle Europe? I'm westernized, 1400 development, full Influence and Quantity. Do I build up a larger powerbase or hit them before they start deploying those shitty Star Forts?
>>337717113
Purging.
Because diplomacy doesn't work in this game. At all.
>>337726269
white background
>>337726598
Fremen don't call it Arrakis.
>>337726516
>Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet
Am I the only one that always sees the avatars moving in these images? Maybe I've been playing it too much.
>>337726838
>>337726883
Arrakis is a name ingame systems can have
sadly its not a premade one so the arrakis I found had a couple of barren worlds and a single tropical one
>>337726516
>lasers
Not kinetics or family atomics?
>>337717113
Populating my low-habitability planets.
Can somebody help me make up my mind?
On the one hand, I sort of like what I have going for, but it actually doesn't allow for purging or enslaving, which is kind of what I wanted due to this being an edgy race and all.
How else can I make my vore-phile race of people that eat anyone unproductive?
>>337725558
I want your birds to bully me with theircloacas.
>>337722385
>slowly becoming a minority in my own empire
Time to start over anon
>>337726153
Thx mate, thought it was a funcion in-game since the premade races had it.
>shitty fotm strat game everyone will shit on in a month's time when the buzz has worn off
>>337727119
strong useless talent.
>>337727119
Xenophobe let's you enslave and purge aliens, collectivism let's you enslave and purge anyone. Also strong is a useless trait, it only affects land armies and if you can easily get your hands on some uplifted strong xenos to use as cannon fodder.
Does the scourge even do anything? They swallowed 3/4 of a single empire and stopped.
They also appear to be bordering a fallen empire, maybe thats the case.
>>337727518
>>337727694
I know strong isn't that good it's for roleplaying.
>>337718905
My Hiffnar cousin
>>337717113
Converting to the one true faith.
>mfw made a race of xenophobic, science-driven slime girls
>have awesome fleet of missile and laser carrying destroyers and cruisers
>get wrecked by neighbor who built literally nothing but a fuck-ton of corvettes with machine guns taped to them
This is fucking bullshit.
Is there anything that beats just spamming Corvettes?
I've got Battleships but spamming Corvettes just lets me roll over everything easily.
>>337728541
Corvettes op please nerf.
>>337728479
>he doesn't know about dakka
>>337717113
Anyone else really dislike this whole 'sector' nonsense.
I don't trust the computer to manage my planets in the way I want, which is primarily making them energy producers.
It's like trusting the AI in Civilization to build appropriate tile upgradeds.
Any mods that set planet control to infinite? I feel like it's not really an important part of the game at all to make sectors
>>337727093
>atomics
>exploiting the holtzman effect
Madman.
>>337717113
>play game
>want to be a tipical dickhead dictator
>enslave my own people, ban free speech, purge etc
>starve people so I can build an army to crush any resistance
>kill any xeno scum I encounter
>still everyone 80%+ happiness
>no factions
>not a single rebellion
>maxed out all resources
>I wanted space travel to be the next dark age of humanity, accidentally it's a golden age and people probably cheer me and build monuments for me
>>337728838
There are tech's that increase your number of core worlds from 5. Modding sectors out is cheating mate.
>>337728541
Corvettes seem too good because most people have a mentality
>big gun is best gun! Stick biggest guns on all my fleet! And get my biggest ship, I will personally stick the biggest gun on my biggest ship! Who gives a fuck that it fires slow as fuck, it's big and shiny so it must be good!
While corvettes get countered by small fast firing ones.
>>337725558
Birds Are Not That Important
>>337725979
>if I shitpost harder the joke will get funnier
>there are people in this thread that don't establish a multi-racial militaristic confederation with the goal of "liberating" the entire galaxy
baka desu
>>337728838
Honestly I don't get what to big deal is. Hand over fully built planets and only let the AI upgrade existing tiles.
Just take the 25% loss in exchange for having more planets.
Also you can hand frontier outposts to sectors so you don't get the upkeep cost
>>337728952
>people probably cheer me and build monuments for me
For fear of death.
>>337728952
Unless you went fanatic collectivist you should be on the way to guillotine now.
If you want people to rebel then stop playing easily controlled cucks.
>>337728541
Aoe weapons. My Aoe battleships take out 10 or 20 corvettes when they fire their payload. The blobbly combat sets it up perfectly
>>337729116
That's probably how space combat will be in reality. Small ships that are light and agile and just fire swarms of self-guided missiles.
It's like how mechs will never be a real thing because tanks are just so much better. When it comes to military, it's always function over fashion.
>>337725227
>All socialist countries are poor as fuck.
The swedish welfare state laughs at you
Ah shit nigga, am I lucky or is it a trap?
>tfw taking all the aliens posted in this thread
>>337728952
Slaves don't start rebellions and their faction doesn't really do anything. A conscious decision that devs made out of laziness, since when slaves functioned like an actual faction it made political systems that rely on slaves almost unplayable - one day majority of their empire would just rise up and kill them.
>>337729812
>wooden bender
Are there any stone-age planets populated by robots?
>>337729728
>check system
>it's literally the scourge's capital world, as far away from me as possible
It was a trap
>>337717113
Slavery
>>337726516
>Wasting points on strong
Why
Come on
Link up already
touch
hurry up
COME THE FUCK ON
>>337729728
>capture
Why couldn't you rescue her and get some grateful xeno-queen pussy?
>>337730270
>tfw you're at 6/5 planets and you need this for a sector
>>337730270
why...........
>just lost a 25k fleet to a 7k fleet because my ships REFUSE to fucking engage the enemy with their close range autocannons, and instead fuck around and run into each other at the edge of the enemy's firing range
Combat in this game is so fucking broken it's absurd.
>>337729728
>Deep space spy drone
Okay so the events make reference of espionage/scouting drones but they don't exist for players to build. Fucking what?
>>337730332
One day Anon, one day you can get some virtual alien broodmother vagina equivalent.
>>337730180
>he min/maxes his empire instead of roleplaying
I bet you take weak and sedentary too.
>>337730419
>build a bunch of ships loaded with heavy long range weapons and a bunch of close range ships
>everything just charges forward into one big clusterfuck and my long range ships get wrecked
>>337730524
Shit I'm fanatic spiritual pacifists and even I don't take strong, dude.
SEND HELP, SENTIENT AI IS INFESTING MY GALAXY AND THE AI IS TOO RETARDED TO FEND THEM OFFSeriously, those fuckers only kill the fleets but won't bother with conquering their planets back.
>>337727426
Will get added via dlc in 6 months
>>337725216
There are lots of references in the game. The crystalline entities are pulled strait from Star Trek and those organisms that live on gas giants are from Star Control II.
>>337730524
>not taking weak and sedentary
But I'm roleplaying as myself.
>>337730649
I would fucking love if you told me how you're getting your long range ships to get close, seeing as how my close range ships only stay long.
I really want to like this game, but combat is such a hot mess I'm about to drop it entirely.
>>337730694
>AI doesn't want to fight other AI
well I'll be darned
Has anyone completed it? Is it worth?
>>337730950
>1.69 MB ss
pls
>>337731039
nice insight
>>337730950
You get a shitload of energy and minerals. If it gave you a special tech instead it would be worth a lot more but they're nice for roleplaying.
>>337730447
DLC :)
>not playing as the glorious Muad'Dib empire
Ashamed of you lot, /v/
>research the dying queen
>99% in
>game crashes
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
>>337722304
I sure am creative
>>337730789
The initial computer upgrades are supposed to determine if they charge in or hold back, but it doesn't seem to effect much. Those chips are also superseded by the super chips you get later that don't seem to clearly have an AI pattern and makes your ships act bizarre. I wonder if there's something off about the combat AI like most of the AI in this game.
>>337725380
So what do they do? Yeah, they're xenophobes, but don't like to kill them?
>>337717339
>>337717343
>>337717602
>>337717801
stop it, you are going to make an old man cry
what should I look for in a planet to colonize?
>>337731382
She died and the game died with her
>>337731414
Avoid eye contact and shitpost online about how bad aliens are
>>337719043
2 fanatic traits
what how
>>337728952
>tfw you wanna be evil by all means
>the shit eating masses still love you
>>337731531
If it's the same kind like your capital.
>>337731531
Ability to surround a lot of territory.
Alright, how do I go about fixing tomb worlds? I was told I could un-shit them with this tech I just researched, but I'm not seeing the option anywhere.
>>337725929
politics, he cucked his own people
>>337731414
Right now? I'm just winging it as them, expanding to uncontrolled areas and controlling them. Building a bunch of military stations and a large fleet in case someone attacks me. Mostly though I just kind of hope everyone kills each other so I can slowly expand or conquer the galaxy, or one day lose the game, either way I don't really mind.
What does irritate me a little bit is how fags ITT are obsessed with conquering the galaxy/winning the game as if that has ever been the point of a paradox game.
>>337731564
You get 4 points.
Use them like you want.
>>337731531
Large, lots of whatever resource you want and good neighbouring systems
>>337731536
Nope :)
Time to use their own weapon against them
>>337728838
you can easily change the number of core sector planets allowed yourself
>>337722304
>militarist
most useless of them all
>>337731747
no you get 3 points
>>337731396
>not Republic of Terra Nova
>>337732075
Well duh. No idea.
I didn't mod anything.
Who designed the way ships are put into a fleet formation? It's fucking terrible
>4 destroyers at back
>1 destroyer at front
I want 5 of my destroyers at the back, and my Frigate at the front and corvettes in between.
>>337730694
>>337730694
I dont have this problem, they will literally invade my shit and stomp me out of the galaxy if i sidestep
yesterday one of the bots kept trolling me by spamming insults and alliance invitations every minute for about 45minutes
Is it possible to mod out the 4x elements and make it more like a gsg? I want to focus on my pops, my industry, economy, trade, and diplomacy, not building a science ship and scanning a system. That part should be entirely handled by policy alone or should be simpler to do. Basically, I just want a Victoria 2 in space. Even colonization is so much better in Vicky2 Is that possible?
>>337732492
Is there any advantage to using corvettes after getting destroyers?
>>337717113
Starting to sell me on this game /v/.
It is really all that fun, Just for the recorded I loved CK2 even if I never knew what I was doing have the time besides sexing up Muslims and getting crazy stat boosts.
>>337732630
I think I read somewhere that bigger ships are easier to hit and since they use larger guns they're prone to missing, so smaller ships using the smalls guns are easier to miss but hit more frequently, but I might be wrong.
>>337725380
Did you write that yourself?
>>337717113
How do alliance tail-gaters work?
They'll attach themselves to my fucking backseat army, while my advance fleet is going at it alone.
>>337731820
I want this.
>>337732630
They can get 70% evasion and are cheap
>>337732623
Well, Vanilla Vicky 2 was a huge pain in the ass, just like every paradox game. Just wait 3 or 4 years:^)
>>337732682
It's okay. Reminds me a lot of Sword of the Stars with more economic and political stuff and less military stuff.
>>337717113
This game really needs an AI patch, shits to easy or otherwise tedious when vassals and alliance AI just piggy back on your fleet and do fuck all the entire game.
>>337732807
>>337732630
this is correct if your big guns have a large % hit chance i guess, but you cant put large guns on small ships anyway, so id take a 1400 MP battleship over whatever amount of corvettes that is
>>337725146
I just thought they looked kinda cute, and thought how would a cute race conquer space.
Just made my first vassals and most democratic nations are under my protection from the evil space commies or huge monarchs. Not Djomar republic though, those xenophobe isolationists have the wrong kind of democracy.
>>337732991
if your small guns have high hit% that is, my bad
>>337732936
Even Vanilla Vicky2 was more fun to play than Stellaris in my opinion. Yes the expansions added features and much needed interface interaction, but my main issue with Stellaris is the 4x gameplay. I get that it's a 4x game, I'm just wondering how moddable it is to make it play more like other Paradox games.
>>337732604
>one of the bots
How?
It's literally the same empire but spreaded through the galaxy, I can't even open the interaction window, it does nothing.
>>337731740
The game doesn't really have the depth to engross a player by other means. The diplomacy is barebones as fuck, planet management is limited by sector stuff, tech is randomised so you don't feel like you are working towards something cool until it randomly appears on your research screen. The default settings for number of the empires in the game also ensure that you are gonna have at least 5 close neighbours and least one of them will fucking hate you because you have different political opinions and shit. (If you turn the number of empires down the game will become even more boring though)
Eventually you run out of things to do, stations to build and planets to explore, you get a notification about your resources getting maxed out and think: hey, since I have absolutely nothing to do I might as well build a nice fleet and go fuck up that xenophobe asshole to the west.
>>337732630
the meta is corvette spam everything else is useless tier
>>337732814
Yes?
>>337718040
Stop being such a bitch and fight for your beliefs!
>get playable robots mod
>play "humans in robot bodies"
>have to build more robots to expand pop
>first new civ is more robots
Help.
this game really needs a tech tree
>>337732630
Sure, they're easily replaceable, fast in star systems (faster than destroyers), are pretty evasive so the large weapons of the destroyers/cruisers/battleships miss fairly often, and if you have weapons that bypass shields/armor, then they can fuck shit up. Just beware destroyers with autocannons or missles if you don't have point defense.
>>337733589
Does that mod still have the 1 energy dollar maintenance for all robots?
>>337733439
well in that case its bugged
either way, if they are just one giant cocksucking alliance, just stack ships and attack whatever and end the battle quick before the cocksuck army appears
>>337733479
That's when you tech up and wait for the end of the universe.
Or get bored and play a new save file. Either way. You can even take another page out of Paradox's older games and just assign a specific star date as being the 'end' and see where you are in terms of the rest of the galaxy.
Actually come to think of it, is there a graph that shows how far apart nations are in general or do you just have to eyeball it based on all the nations you can see?
>no "build mineral stations on all available nodes inside borders" command
>no "build stations on available strategic resource nodes inside borders" command
>no "build X research labs on available nodes inside borders" command
>no "survey everything inside empire borders" command
>not even a "survey all debris in a system" command
>can't see colonizeable planets on galaxy map without having a colony ship selected
>can't select planets on galaxy map
Apart from general lack of content these are my major grievances with the game. Adding these type of simple commands or construction / science ship automation would cut so much time spent on meaningless micro. Shit becomes infuriating especially if you're colonizing fast or conquering areas and receiving huge population boosts = increased borders everywhere.
>>337719043
>Cartel of Kingz
>>337733816
>can't see colonizeable planets on galaxy map without having a colony ship selected
This is blatantly false
>>337733738
Can you actually be at peace with those suckers if mine wasn't bugged?
Have another bug where my Androids are stuck in a planet where I send them for invading.
For some reason the planet went back to non-colonized status and I can't retrieve my Androids because I can't access the planet menu for it, neither does a menu appear in the overworld by clicking on them in the bar.
Now I have a perma notification that I'm currently invading a planet.
Sasuga Paradox.
>>337733816
The debris one does irk me a bit. Also, I can't seem to get them to survey the debris from the menu the important action menu or whatever it's called even though it has a research button on it.
>>337733816
>>>can't see colonizeable planets on galaxy map without having a colony ship selected
>>can't select planets on galaxy map
Hold alt or click the little box in the tool bar at the bottom right
>>337733816
>>can't see colonizeable planets on galaxy map without having a colony ship selected
hold alt key
besides, regardless of how fast you are expanding you still have time to do that even on fast throughout most of the entire game
Im split on that part, sure it would be nice, and having science ship auto exploring would be nice aswell, but making it too easy is just killing it i think
How do you report bugs to paradox?
>>337734218
>making it too easy is just killing it i think
You find right clicking on 100 systems and choosing "survey system" every time challenging?
Tedious != difficult
>>337734382
Could try the paradox forum
>>337732850
Anyone?
>>337732630
>he is not using covert screens with pd to defend glass cannon battleships
coverts counter enemy coverts
coverts blow up missiles
corvets are alway valid
converts are cute
CUTE!
>>337734537
>respectfully disagree
>>337731531
İf its big and the resources around it.
Is there any way to bookmark or save locations? I've found a couple planets with neolithic proton-civilizations that I have plans for but I probably won't remember their names or locations.
>>337717113
Fucking,
>>337734713
I've never actually used the forum, can I ask why?
>>337734713
saw an isis joke with a joke label
its an abstract kind of hell
How do we fix the awful mid and endgame? The game is fun as shit while you're exploring and expanding, but as soon as you create a sector it's all shit. Other races just don't matter at all unless you're actively blowing them up.
Do we need more victory conditions? Do we need mods of some sort? How about instead of 4 scary late-game crises, we have fucking 50 of them so we have shit to do. Maybe this game just isn't for me.
>>337734398
i find starcraft, WoW, counterstrike, and literally every other game that isnt automated fun aswell, sue me
>>337734836
each post has 2 upboat choices
agree
or
respectfully disagree
>>337734901
Add diplomacy, trade and espionage for a start.
>>337728479
corvettes counter missile battleships pretty hard.
What happens if you colonise a planet with a stone-age civilisation on it? They don't seem to take any tiles and I never checked it for myself because elusive bastards keep spawning on planets that I can't colonise.
>>337734904
Okay? Age of Empires is barely automated but still has auto scouting and is one of the best strategy games ever made.
>>337735064
they stole your shit
negative events all around
>>337735013
Corvettes counter everything pretty hard.
>>337735064
You get an event chain where they get mad and start fucking with your buildings and pops.
>>337735089
does it have auto doing everything for you? they already gave you sector management.
Fuck off and play runescape if microing 6 units is too complicated for you
>>337735302
I'll say it again since you have trouble reading English.
Making things tedious does not mean they are hard, difficult or challenging.
Do you understand that you autist?
I want someone to mod out sectors.
I can manage my empire better than some braindead AI.
>>337735483
Yes, but i dont agree with you
>both fleets have just stood here for years
>not a single shot has been fired
>nobody is moving up to actually engage
Why does Paradox have such a diehard fanbase? I seriously don't understand it.
Who else got their colony fucked up by drugs producing plants ?
>>337735618
forgot to finish my post lol I'm just like Paradox xDD
>>337734901
Add stages to diplomatic relationships, add political influence that can change your ethics depending on the alien races you get close diplomatic relationships with, add fucking traderoutes, spies and infiltrators-revolutionaries, ability to trade technologies, remove the retarded war goals system that makes you wait 10 years between taking chunks of enemy empires. Improve player's ability to control the sectors and improve the sector to be more responsive to player's commands.
That would be a decent start.
>>337733816
just shift queue build stations everywhere
>>337735204
Is it the same event that pre-sentient species get? I colonised and uplifted those guys, but stone-age civs are something different. You don't see them on the planet tiles and they only show up as a planet modifier.
>>337735882
its too boring for him, he wants the game to play itself while his watching
I've just got pulled into a galaxy wide war. I didn't read war terms closely and my alliance pulled some civs into a war against literally half the galaxy.
How the fuck do I order people from my alliance around? It's a two front war and I don't want every fucking one from my alliance in one fleet.
>>337736070
You don't
>>337736132
So I'm forced to cope with their retardation? Fuck
>>337720706
LONDON
>Build frontier outposts
>Turn frontier systems into sectors
>Sectors pay maintenance costs, including influence
>Repeat, own 3/4 of the galaxy for free
have fun ruining multiplayer til they fix this shit
>>337734778
no, but you can see a list of all civilizations including primitives in the "Contacts" interface, then click the button to go to their planet
What is the benefit to vassaling someone?
Do you get tribute or something? My neighbor was being a bitch so I vassalled him, but then it just basically made us allies where he hates me, near as I can tell.
>>337736269
sectoring outposts seems pretty broken right now, it's literally free paint
>>337726472
>>337726472
>Allowed Citizen Rights for my Synthetics
>Used them to populate 6 planets
>Even went to war to protect them
>They asked for further cementing of Citizen rights
>Granted
>No Rebellion or AI apocalypse.
>Hnnng
>Mfw I imagine sexy bitches like this on my army flagships
>>337734904
>>337736010
>starcraft, WoW, counterstrike, and literally every other game that isnt automated
In those there's some amount of player choice involved. Non-automatized construction (or other actions) makes sense in games such as CiV, because the choices you make on what to improve, where to build improvements / cities etc. carry some sort of meaningful effect.
In Stellaris, where all the planets and resource nodes are strictly placed there's only two "choices"
>Place extractors on resource nodes
>Don't place extractors on resource nodes
Only question the player is faced with is *when* they want to build those extractors in case they're saving the resources for something else. Because there is no meaningful choice or challenge involved it could as well be automatized with a simple command. I mean the game already boasts about being macro in favor of micro, so I can't see adding the option to automate scouts and constructors anything other than an objective improvement.
I love how defensive some people get when anyone even mentions the possibility of an option to automate things more despite Paradox themselves clearly favoring agreat degree of automation in Stellaris and all their previous games as well.
So I just got some new vassals... but something seems... neutral... too neutral...
>>337736367
His ships will follow you to war and some years after vasaalising him you can spend a fuckload of influence to integrate him into your empire. You get nothing else. This game doesn't have very deep diplomacy, as you might have noticed.
>>337736446
>no twilek-like hot alien female race
I mean I know it's better this way and the pandering backlash would have been huge, but it's such a common SF stereotype
>>337736367
You get some of his resource income and all of his fleets will follow one random fleet of yours in war
>>337720706
District 9 was a great movie
How the fuck do I completely eradicate separatists? The Trade District and Industrial District of this Fallen Empire I conquered kept wanting to rebel and when I emancipate them after enslaving them all to get them out of the faction, they just go back.
Should I just purge them?
Roman Empire Government & Ethics?
I am thinking Spiritualist, Militaristic, Xenophobe Despotic Empire.
>>337717113
Breeding into monstrous xenomorphs to use as shock troops whilst ensuring their obedience through neural implants and stimulant based diets.
>>337718905
>xenophile
>pacifict
>furfag
-1000/10
>>337737349
>Roman Empire
>Xenophone
My Roman Empire was Militarist, Materealistic and Xenophil. With a Military Republic.
Even the Head of the Republic is called Consul.
>>337737349
Romans would be zenophile I think.
>>337717113
Things that kill you inside
>starting in an empty area
>starting in an area with shitty habitable planets
>starting close to 3 aggressive empires
>surrounded by ridiculously strong non-empire aliens
>starting planet only has 3 energy spots
>>337737520
>roman empire
>xenophobic
No they were not, they enslaved lesser races, and wiped out their warriors, not their civvies. So xeno makes no sense.
>>337737602
That one empire that refuses to say yes to a federation.
>>337737349
>Roman
>Xenophobe
Why don't you try reading a fucking book some time, retard.
>>337737579
>>337737520
With the way they treated non-citizens? The Romans hated Gauls, Germanics, and the like.
>>337737689
Xenophobic ethos gives +50% slavery tolerance to enslaving xenos so it sounds like it fits
>>337737689
They actually recruited the warriors. I would not pic either of the xeno treaits.
>>337737838
All those groups became roman after some time. Actually every empire has to be xenophile in some sense.
>>337737838
If they hated non-Romans they wouldn't have gone to lengths to assimilate them.
>>337737986
>>337737963
How about Xenophile, Collectivist, Militarist?
>>337737838
>>337737689
Roman empire was not 40k humans. I can understand why /v/ think they were.
>>337733816
>not enough energy available to build or expand anything
>all the empires have equivalent fleet
>can't find decent habitable worlds
>research going at snail pace
HELP
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>>337738241
REROLL
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L
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>having fun playing passively building my fleet and colonizing
>random declaration of war
>my fleet is maxed out 41/41 with 2.3k firepower
>go to his world
>3k firepower
well guys it was fun.
>>337722168
things that didint happen
H-here I go
>>337738387
welp, wish me luck guys.
>set starting system as Sol
>literally the first neighboring system is also Sol with same Earth and everything, populated by Iron Age humans
BRAVO
so army techs are useless right?
>>337738858
you could have baited him into a defence station threeway
>>337738941
This shit happened to me too
>>337738858
>>337738969
I fucking won, he couldn't kill my destroyers, but that bastard took my only Frigate which I somehow got at the start of the game it was OP as fuck as well.
>>337738941
That's some twilight zone shit. Invade and enslave them.
>>337739160
I've noticed that a lot. I tried the "spam corvettes" strategies here and I've tried the "spam biggest ships" strat and the second usually results in them not actually be able to kill anything of mine. I mean, I would throw some cruisers in with battleships, but I don't see the point in spamming corvettes when they just get one or two shot constantly.
>>337738941
Just headcanon some ancient civilization created an exact replica of your solar system to see you compete against them.
>>337730723
I just started a new game and I find those guys very early on.
>Want to help them, immediately move to the location where they want to be relocated
>A new empire is found, my science vessel is exepelled
>Try reloading a couple of times in case the discovery of the new empire might be delayed
>Turns out it's inevitable
Fuck. I'm sorry, Slylandro people, but you're going to die. Can't do anything about it.Well, at least they didn't survive to purchase any probes from jews.
The game is kinda infuriating with the way borders are handled in general. They're ummovable so the early game almost feels like Go (except that it does has zero nuance) because you're only looking into surrounding a lot of territory, most aliens categorically refuse even civilian access, there is no culture bombs or anything that might shift the borders even a little... And annoyances of contested borders aside, how the internal borders are determined sometimes feels kinda arbitrary and it's not clear if you can cover certain systems when placing outposts etc.
>>337738941
Now uplift them and watch them turn into horses.
>>337739160
>>337739406
I find it that having a shitload of energy shields works most of the time, but it's probably until find a civ that invested into shield penetration
>>337739241
Already made them into vassals.
Ok what kind of endgame threat you start seeing signs since early game?
How can I know when I reached the midgame?
hahahahahahahaha
hahahahaha
FUCK YOU IKAANAN I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS
>>337739160
well never fucking mind, stupid fuck is making ships at insane rate and i'm stuck having to wait for 100 minerals per ship because it's taking too fucking long to make them, well I've lost this war and I've lost my homeworld and my other main world, fuck my life.
Why are all the planets tilted. I know no orbit is perfect, but it seems like every planet is just slightly or marginally off-angle.
>not playing the perfection that is mankind
>tolerating xenos
>purging not the first, last and only solution in dealing with the filth
all these heretics
Just installed it, what run should I go first, Empire or Republic?
Phezzan or Terraism are valid options too
friendly reminder not to respond to xeno posters
>>337717113
So is this as barebones and broken as most PI games at launch? Looks sweet but I've been tricked before.
>>337741354
The first third of the game is incredible. The second two-thirds of the game is an unfinished bore.
>>337740889
What would Kircheis do.
>>337741354
Yeah, it's pretty barebones. Maybe it will become better a few years down the line with a gorillion DLCs.
>>337741474
Die.
>>337741474
Fuck that brunnette baroness
>>337741458
>>337741559
As always, I guess. Thanks for the info, can't wait till it's finished.
>Decide to play StarCraft in Stellaris
>Make the Confederacy, Dominion, Khalai, Nerazim, Zerg Swarm, Infested and a race for myself to play, the Purifiers
>Start out on a ring world, Cybros, orbiting Glacius, and begin to construct my robotic empire
>Sooner than expected, an alien empire is encounter - it's the Zerg menace
>Almost immediately, they make aggressive expansion towards the Purifier territories, so I ready my fleets and declare war
>Knowing the low intelligence of the Zerg, I wait for them to progress halfway through my colonies to utilize my wormhole technology, which happens to reach out just far enough for my fleets to the Zerg homework of Char
>After purging the xeno scum in the system, I begin to rain upon Char until the Zerg surrender
>I force them to become our vassals and to Cede char, where I proceed to purge the planet and leave the Zerg to their own devices until I can be assed to eradicate them for good
>As I continue to expand further out, I come across the naturally wary Nerazim, who are currently in a cold war arms-race against the Confederacy
So far, so good. I await the arrival of the Conclave to see if they're willing to redact their efforts of shutting down the Purifer project.
>>337740889
Empire von Goldenbauhm and then Ale Heinessen dream alliance
Is this game a good introduction for someone who has never played a GSG before?
I've been wanting a space strategy game like this for a while.
>>337722037
I did galactic empire first.
>>337736446
She's a cyborg not a synth.
>>337742072
German style civ... Has Arab for leader. LOL
>>337742076
That being said I can't say enough good things about the first bit of the game. It kept me very engaged and entertained for a good 12 hours before I realized how shallow the rest of the game is. You should at least give it a shot, maybe a pirate, and play through a game to see the fun bit.
>>337738641
>but in space, no one can hear you sing
I like that last little tid bit anon, good luck on your first game as well
>>337742575
Well there's a mod to download that's literal easy mode, so there's that. It's the interface and interactions that might throw you through a hoop more than anything though, but it's fairly simple enough.
>>337731340
what traits would you guys pick for this?
So far this game feels like a worst Distant Worlds:Universe. What does this game do better than it exactly?
>>337742618
>Not failing as the Republic first
You fucked up
>war ends while my armies are in the middle of invading a planet
>armies automatically disappear without embarking
>outliner still shows them on the planet
we're literally playing a beta, lads
>>337742936
You can role play as the Kaiser, what's not to love?
>>337742575
Yes, I'm literally retarded and couldn't bother playing EU4 and Vic2 and this is pretty good.
>>337743063
But I won my first game, it's my second I failed.
>>337743226
You can do that in DWU
>SPACE PROGRAM BY 2030
>IN LOO>tfw playing on ultrabook with integrated graphics
>>337742920
>>337731340
Spiritual, Militarist and Xenophobic.
>>337743309
I don't like Dynasty Warriors.
>>337731340
You can't, there is no prescient trait.
>>337742818
You can't get any more accurate than that
>>337743536
>tfw you'll never be able to tell where ships are going to warp to before they make the leap
>made an Islamic Empire civilization as a joke
>ended up as an AI civ in one of my games
>mfw it's eating up the galaxy
What do?
>>337743126
happens to me ALL the time, 15 gene warriors just go missing and still cost maintenance.
>>337742827
Yea but that utter dissapointment when I realize how much effort I put into an empire only to stop caring about it is just too much. Also, the fear of having an update fuck my shit up. Fuck you, Conclave.
I'm positive I'll buy the game later on. CK2 + GoT will have to keep me until then.
>>337740889
phezzan the fuck out everyone and their mothers
>>337742828
Thanks. Enjoying so far, even though my pacific neighbour is forward settling me
I played Stellaris and kinda liked it but found it boring at the end. I've never played Distant Worlds: Universe. Can someone shoot me a quick compare/review? I see it mentioned a lot and wonder whether I should play it.
>>337744285
Restart the crusades nigga
>>337728479
>slimegirls
>not quick breeders
You fucked it up anon.
Time to conquer the weak humans.
This game is unfinished as fuck.
Just today I had two things happen.
1. On a planet I colonized, tremors and earthquakes revealed an advanced race living below the surface. Making peace with them, they were added to my known species list with the tag, "Disgusting neutrals. This text should not appear in the final game"
2. Later, a rebellion broke out on one of my planets. The planet is under my control, but the troops stationed there belong to the enemy. This means I can't bombard it because it belongs to me, which in turn means I cannot remove the rebellious forces because they get the bonus from the fully defended planet.
I mean for fucks sake, I am basically stuck now. I can't do shit except wait until I lose the war from attrition and I'm forced to cede it.
Come the fuck on paradox.
By the way, if I take planets in conquest, I end up with populations with 25% happiness every time. Is there ANYTHING I can do to make them happy and content? Feels like conquest is fucking impossible without purging, and then you usually end up with shit planets your regular dudes don't like to inhabit.
>I end up with populations with 25% happiness every time. Is there ANYTHING I can do to make them happy and content?
>be a monarchy
>have like 3 building that boost happiness
>coupled with the edict the xenos end up more happy than my colons in a few years
I love being a king
>>337745908
Recently conquered people have an automatic -25% just from that alone.
Wait it out, pray their faction doesn't get enough support quickly, and look into happiness increasing policies on a government level or edicts on a planet one.
They should normalize over time, though if they are xenophobic dickheads expect them to be frustrating for quite some time.
>>337745908
>>337746291
The happiness thing from being conquered goes away after a while. What annoys me is that if I enslave people I conquer I have to do a shitton of micromanagement in order to repopulate them with the master race. And you can only resettle if there's a planetary administration, so I have to wait until there are 5 of them before I enslave them.
>>337717339
The first word that came to mind, the Imperium is getting to me...
>>337746560
>pray their faction doesn't get enough support quickly
It always does every single time.
Taking a planet 100% means a revolt and usually losing the planet.
Especially fun when the rebelling troops get 1k destroyers and 21 defense armies out of thin air.
I'm playing as a fanatically xenophile religious race that wants to bring everyone into a grand union, even if screaming and kicking if need be.
After I conquer someone, they immediately rebel and everything goes to shit. Makes me want to pure them but I can't do that, and it doesn't help me collect races for my collective. I need the diversity to settle planets since my guys won't live anywhere but tropical to make up for their amazing skills.
What do I do to make the fucks I conquer happy? Edicts are too expensive.
>>337745908
>Later, a rebellion broke out on one of my planets
Enslave them all until the faction is gone. Then when they're gone, emancipate them and purge or enslave the single person who rejoins the faction, usually an individualist and the most unhappy person on the planet.
>>337747490
enslave
>>337732492
Those look like covenant ships
>>337747490
You already know what needs to be done.
>>337745768
What shall I do?
>>337717113
>despicable neutrals
>description:
>THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER PERSONALITY AND SHOULD NOT APPEAR IN THE FINAL GAME
Nice game paracucks.
>>337747990
Help your gaseous comrades in their righteous struggle.
>Get 20-40 years into a game
>Want to restart and try something somewhat even barely different
I do the same thing with RPGs
help
>>337748269
it's not you, game is crap in the late game
>>337748336
But I'm not getting bored
I just never feel 100% satisfied with "muh build" even though thats retarded
tfw just barely beat another empire to colonization
>>337717113
Great news, everybody!
Thanks to the empire creator we can now reenact the history of the galaxy's chosen peoples before the insidious white men took them by surprise, enslaved them, forced them to pick cotton and destroyed all proof of their enlightened rule!
has anyone done the old gods event chain? is there any benefit?
>>337748853
>1000 influence
>Construction Ship is idle
Why don't you build some outposts?
>>337747490
I'm doing pretty much the same thing with my empire. After you conquer a nation and they are your vassal, build a fucking embassy right away, and give them free research and migration rights to boost their happiness so it raises itself quite a bit before you integrate them
even if their ethos is different from the rest of your empire, their pops will start at around 50-60 happiness instead of fucking 20 or 0 if they are disloyal vassals and become integrated.
besides that I've been building paradise domes and xeno zoos as often as I can, and using the propaganda edicts.
shit just takes time i guess. I eventually ended up with happy pops from the formerly pissed of reptiles I conquered. their ethos was completely different, new generations seemed to have adopted my empires ideals
>>337730419
>>337730649
>had a fleet of 100 autocannon corvettes
>they just stayed in a massive 2d triangle and only the nearest 10 could fire
>fuck admirals, split them into 5 fleets of 20
>they now occupy the same airspace and fucking shred everything in a cloud of rape
>>337739406
the spam corvette strategy is the best for a pound for pound most effective fleet. But it takes a lot of casualties.
Investing in destroyers and larger ships will generally result in you having to replace less ships after combat
>>337749373
I forgot about those
>>337748853
>aim to colonise a Gaia world not far away from my borders
>notice a "holy world" modifier on it
>let my dumbass neighbour settle it instead
Do uplifted species join my empire or become their own but get super buddy benefits?
Because the ones I've found are irradiated and can live on tomb worlds, which would give me an excuse to populate earth which is just a star system away from my capital planet.
>>337749775
They become a part of your empire and you can kinda choose their ethics after uplifting them.
>>337749672
Does the Holy World modifier always appear BEFORE colonizing?
Because I've got two gaia planets in one controlled system and a holy fallen empire nearby and I don't see any modifiers.
Too scared to colonize them.
>>337749881
Surveying will make it appear, which you need to do in order to colonize anyway.
teeheehee
>>337749672
I just started colonizing a holy world as well but I think the fallen empire is too scared to attack me. I'm equivalent in strength to them, plus I have a big federation on my side
>>337749987
Alright well neither of them have the modifier then.
So I guess I just got 4 kinds of lucky as fuck.
>>337749881
You have to scan the planet to see it. Holy worlds also usually have fruity names like "Prophet's rest" and stuff like that.
>>337722304
r8 my not meme empire. Opinions? Did I get these people right?
Leader named Sansha Kuvakei
>>337734573
>type the word 'corvette' 6 times in your post
>3 different ways of spelling it
>none of them correct
wew lad
>>337744859
It's Cato Neimoidia, shitboot.
>>337750030
this game more than any other in recent memory got me thinking a lot about humanity in the universe,
we are probably being scoffed at buy some ancient fungus civilization as they plant conspiracy theories among our peopleincluding this one
>>337718905
how the hell did you even gather that much territory as a pacifist?
>>337722304
First nonhuman creation yet.
I have trouble playing as nonhumans.
It feels wrong.
>>337750294
>being entry level fake starwars gamer girl
Neimoidians were a species of humanoids that were distant genetic relatives of Duros. They were native to the planet of Neimoidia[1] and also lived on colony worlds in the same sector[1] like Cato Neimoidia, Deko Neimoidia, and Koru Neimoidia."
Every time I load the game it tends to heavily drop fps in the galaxy view, several game reboots usually fix that, but shit's still annoying. Does anyone else have this problem?
>>337721631
Careful your guys can love slavery but hate it when done to xenos
>>337751372
i get stutters when switching to and from galaxy view sometimes, also i get a shit ton of frame drops now that my fleet is around 40k if i zoom in on them when they are moving or fighting
>>337751554
I played for a while on a normal sized map but it started getting painfully slow so I started another one on a small map and it's a lot better.
Can't I edit the history of a empire I create?
>>337723512
>not scouting
Your own fault.
how fast are you supposed to expand in this game
it's been like fifty years and I have seven planets, is that normal
so how fotm is this fucking game?
>>337752034
There is no real penalty for expanding in this game outside the fact that you eventually have to give planets away to retarded sector AI. I'd say the game even encourages it, since every spaceport you build increases your maximum fleet size and you can control the spaceports in sectors just fine.
So yeah, if you see a suitable planet always feel free to grab it. Unless it's a holy world.
So whats the point of letting Uplifted species grow with different or even opposing ethics compared to your main species?
Maybe I'm just uncreative but that sounds like it'd just cause problems.
>>337717113
>play xenophobic autocracy
>purge xenos
>four sectors revolt
FUCKING BULLSHIT DON'T PUSH YOUR FUCKING MORALITY ON ME YOU FUCKING SUICIDAL NORDIC PRICKS
>>337752795
tech cost is increased by pop. So colonizing too quickly without building your research point generation to match will gimp you in the tech race
>>337718742
>find humans mucking around in Sol III
>invade and annex the fuckers
>humans prosper thanks to their alien overlords who respect individual rights and give them a proper place in the galaxy
>except for Earth itself, which is still a shithole thanks to the years of rioting and rebelling
nice job humies
>>337747490
I'm playing as collectivist-xenophile-materialist.
Spiritualist ethos won't give your alien pops shit because they're not spiritualist themselves and that +5%/10% happiness boost does not apply, they may even suffer a happiness malus if they're materialists.
What you want is NEGATIVE ETHICS DIVERGENCE, as low as you can go. Two of the spiritualist government types give -10%, yeah, but that's not enough.
Low happiness -> bigger ethics divergence -> different ethos -> lower happiness -> even bigger ethics divergence -> even more different ethos -> even lower happiness -> ...
Rising happiness will only somewhat decrease the spiral. However:
Lower ethics divergence -> more similar ethos -> bigger happiness -> even lower ethics divergence -> even more similar ethos -> even bigger happiness -> ...
Collectivist helps with that a lot, and you don't even have to enslave/purge pops. How? Technology. Collectivist unique technology to be precise.
Frontier Collectives tech -> Frontier Commissars tech (-20% Ethics Divergence, empire-wide)
Galactic Benevolence tech -> Ministry of Benevolence building (-15% Ethics Divergence, empire-wide)
Materialist of course helps with that a bit and is a strong pick even in itself.
That's -35% Ethics Divergence, straight off the bat. Slap some edicts, xeno zoos (almost xenophile unique tech), teldar plants and athmo manipulators and alien pops will adopt your ethos at a very nice rate - then they'll become xenophiles (+10% happiness if there is an alien pop on their planet) and won't get happiness maluses for having different ethos.
Also, being collectivist boosts your chances at getting genetic modification tech (the second tech is almost collectivist unique) so that you can slap communal and charismatic traits on your pops - why get some shit expensive traits when you can make your entire population happier and make everybody +10%/20% more productive at EVERYTHING and get rid of revolts?
Just force everybody to play along!
Can you change the weapon on a ship after it's been built? or do I have to disband it and then rebuild it with the new weapons I want?
>>337753124
Ship Design and upgrade to current design exist for a reason, you fag.
Just started downloading. Anything i should know about the game? I dont really play grand strat games
>>337752827
That would just cause problems indeed.
>>337727432
Sure is newfag in here.
The game will be popular again when 10 dlc and 37 patches have finally made it playable. That's just how incompetent paradox is (plus they have to troll their forums for a year to steal good ideas).
>>337752795
>>337752034
The more pops you have, the higher the Tech cost. It's % increase so at somepoint there's no way to increase the research past a certain point.
>>337752827
Ethics can change, uplifted species have very good traits. If you are a non-democratic nation, you can pretty much just zap them with Mind-control beams and propoganda. and they will quickly turn to your thinking.
>>337717113
Holding Hands
Is there an alternate way to scroll in and out in this game other than a scroll wheel? My buddy has a fucked up mouse so he can't scroll in and out and it'd be helpful to know what we can do to work around it.
>>337753230
Listen to things that robot tells you. This game has a pretty extensive tutorial.
Time for maximum old fag heresy
>>337753291
>It's % increase so at somepoint there's no way to increase the research past a certain point.
Bullshit, do you even basic mathematics, bro?
Even with 100% penalty research is only twice as expensive.
It increases tech costs, not decreases your research. 100% penalty won't give you 0 research.
AI scum took over a few of my worlds, how can i destroy them without 'terror bombing' my own people?
can i just drop armies and invade that way or do i have to bombard my own fucking citizens?
>>337752034
Yeah 7 planets for 50 years is fine.
>>337753291
It's always better to expand as long as you're focusing research the benefits are higher than the penalty.
>>337739449
Completely agree. And even more frustrating is that it feels like a 2D space mindset, like the idea of national boundaries and not something equivalent to terratorial waters vs. international waters.
I should think that borders should serve as a "this is mine. Any unauthorized travel through here is suspicious, also you cannot settle planets in this area because I claim it", but the extent of it should depend on your ethos.
Xenophiles and pasificists should be limited to policies that allow civilian traffic; while militarists and xenophobes should automatically have the full "fuck off we're full" policy, and possibly not allow aliens to be given full access unless in a federation.
As for culture bombing, I think ethos should handle that too. Spiritualists should get a traditional culture bombing tech, like some sort of hypnotic cultural technology placed on frontier outposts that causes them to cover more space or affect trespassers negatively; while materialists should be get a tech that allows a handful of free frontier outposts. Maybe one or two before they start needing to pay influence for them. And a middle game technology, not early game so you can rush outposts.
Hyperlanes are also a problem. I got boxed in my last game by an empire who got an advanced start, and it was literally a no win situation from day 1. I couldn't expland because frontier outposts have shit range and the closest colonizable planets were closer to the rim and not to the core, I couldn't fight militarily because the empire was superior in all ways and I had to tech up, and nobody wanted to ally with me even at max relations. Either people hated me because I was ugly, or my friends were just so autistic they didn't want to gang up on our mutual rival.
Oh, and this rival had basically a giant open backyard to expand in. While I had nothing but one empire to invade. And after that, I was stuck. Tried to tech up to wormholes, but for some stupid reason you cannot switch FTL.
>>337754198
thanks /tg/
>>337726516
A FUCKING MOUSE
>>337750149
are all your people zombies
Is there any way to have your main race automatically move into newly colonized and enslaved planets? I'm losing out on so much energy and research because slaves suck at that shit but I don't want to have to micromanage it and manually go to every planet and move a few guys to each and wait for them to repopulate then go back and purge until I have the right ratio of slaves to freemen.
I feel like I'm playing the game wrong. I look at all the pictures in these threads, and my resource count is often triple and double while my research stat are often half.
Do you people switch gears lategame, or is it a bad idea to be so industrious?
>>337728916
You have that backwards. A shield overloaded by a nuke doesn't explode, but a lasgun hitting a shield is a 60-20-20 whether the shield or the gun or both explodes.
The gun itself being prone to glorious explosions is the writing device to stop frodos from asking "why don't they just shoot the ducal palace with lasers and blow up it and its shield".
>>337745370
Do you start as a vassal under Frieza?
>>337750394
Aliens shitpost on 4chan, this is known.
Although, anyone on /x/ claiming to be an ayy lmao is obviously a fraud. Nobody wants to talk about themselves like that.
>>337735237
>>337735204
>not enslaving and then purging them before they can do dick all
One of my planets has a 'primitive population' modifier, but since I fucking eradicated them every square is filled with my primary pop and no fucks given.
>>337755778
Also if I recall if they do explode they do so like a nuke so it's never good to shoot a shield with a laser.
>>337753230
The AI robot who does the tutorial is relatively based.
>>337756060
Yeah when a personal shield or lasgun blows it's like a small nuke going off. I imagine if the shield protecting the entirety of the duke's grounds goes it would be exponentially worse.
So the more population you have, the more costly research is? Fucking shit it's fuck you up with sectors being shitty maintained by AI and colonization.
WHY DON'T ACHIEVEMENTS WORK
WHICH DRIVE SHOULD I CHOOSE?
I'm torn between warp and hyperspace, but then I kinda want to go wormhole and research the dangerous jump drives to literally shred the fabric of reality whenever my ships travel. Decisions, decisions...
>>337750451
I have yet to make a human because of how stupid their profiles look. Can't wait for [Additional Human Portraits 1] ($1.99).
>>337756614
Go full Event Horizon
>>337756614
Wormhole is the only way to go.
>>337756559
You have to enable Ironman mode when you generate the galaxy.
>>337736412
But isn't the sector limit decided by planet count and systems within a sector capped at like 5?
>>337756705
I did and I still don't get achievements. I hit new game, I make a new empire, click save, click done, check ironman mode and start playing but I don't get anything
>>337756614
Wormhole is the best.
Don't pick hyperspace. It gets you boxed in.
>>337756839
Maybe your checksum changed.
>>337756839
Piratefag detected. ;^)Verify the cache.
>>337755620
i read a post on reddit that said it's actually better to never build science labs, focus on resources and big fleets, and just get all your tech from researching debris in wars instead
>>337756703
>anomaly
>science officer finds a ship but the crew killed themselves
>nothing to loot
>whatever
>a few days later
>science officer and the crew kill each other
Fug.
>>337757149
That sounds fucking retarded.
>>337756876
>boxed in
That's a funny way of spelling "Finding new targets".
>>337757714
No. I'm serious.
I already posted my whining, but seriously. All it takes is a bad position and a nearby advanced start AI that's expanding faster than you. The AI knows how to cut you off.
Warp and Wormhole at least let you jump past an enemy.
>>337757365
>anomaly
>science officer finds a ship but the crew killed themselves
>she finds out it's actually because of some brain parasites
>she was good enough to protect the crew and the science ship
>get lots of society research
Nice.
>>337757865
Oh I understand the pain.
I just enjoy the occasional war to clear up a new Hyperspace lane so I don't mind.
I do need to do a game with Wormhole eventually.
I found warp to be too slow for my liking.
>>337758079
There should be techs that open up new lanes. At first it's just nearby planets, but throughout the galaxy there are hidden "jet streams" or "highways' Or whatever you want to call them. Basically backdoors.
I don't even know what upgrading your hyperlane engine does. It certainly doesn't make the travel times any smaller.
>>337756614
I played a little with warp drive and it was fine but I got really annoyed when enemies could just completely jump past my defensive stations and even if they did jump into a system with a station they would just retreat and go around. So I made a new game with hyperlane only so it plays more like other space 4x games. Did anyone else do this?
>>337758250
Upgrading the engine makes the warm up time much shorter.
Which is beautiful when you want to plan an ambush from another system.
I would really like if there was a way to find new lanes or outright make new ones late game.
>>337758434
I think hyperlanes should be "natural", like some sort of current or quirk in spacetime; while wormholes are the "make your own" FTL tech.
Each should have their own unique advancement track. Not just upgrading speed, but letting you get the drop on enemies in different ways.
>>337758079
>Tyrian
2000/10
>Start the game
>Literally no idea what im doing even with full tutorial
>Quit game and uninstall
i-i think ill just play my RPGs instead
>>337759129
never give up anon
>>337758775
I'd like some sort of tech that you can research after coming across another style of FTL that lets you either mimic or counter it.
I've had enough pain and frustration trying to chase down a Wormhole AI fleet that warps out at the mere hint of my fleet chasing it down.
>>337759129
This is why you will never amount to anything in life
>>337738641
How do you edit the history/bio of custom empires?
>>337717113
you
someone. please. tell me how to upgrade components of army transport ships.
>>337730902
>2024
>128TB
>start a new game
That planet at the bottom is yet another gaia planet.
I'm afraid of the wormhole drives.
Any tips for the warp fag?
>>337761053
>Any tips for the warp fag?
Stop using warp.
>>337760991
>DOUBLE GAIA SYSTEM
>>337725187
Purge
>>337761053
Manually moving your fleets can cut off someone using warp drives.
Once you can see hyperlanes you should be able to force someone using them into chokepoints and outrun their fleets pretty easy.
>>337720706
Purge everything
DUDE PURGE LMAO
>>337761517
>Manually moving your fleets can cut off someone using warp drives.
Uhh, care to elaborate?
Also, let's say I have a wormhole generator in system A and I moved my ship to system B. If I want to send that ship to system C, the station has to spend ~16 days to move ship from B to A, and then another ~16 days to move it from A to C?
>>337762206
If someone using hyperspace tries to run from your fleet it will not catch up letting the AI follow it, but if you tell them where to go yourself you move around faster than the hyperspace fleets.
Not to mention you can disable FTL travel with a base on a hyperspace choke point.
And yeah, wormholes are the slowest for short distances and fastest for long distances. They are pretty terrible at defense since they can not keep up on short jumps.
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