Distant Worlds edition
>Endless Legend User Manual
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/289130/manuals/User'sManual.pdf?t=1413562467
>Endless Legend wikis
http://endless-legend.wikia.com/wiki/Endless_Legend_Wiki
http://endlesslegendwiki.com/Endless_Legend_Wiki
>Free Civ
https://play.freeciv.org
>/civ4xg/ Steam group
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/civ4xg
>Civilization V CIVILOPEDIA Online:
http://www.dndjunkie.com/civilopedia/
>A couple other Civ resources:
http://www.civfanatics.com/
http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Civilization_Games_Wiki
>Civilization V Analyst, with all the specifics of mechanics you'll ever need
http://well-of-souls.com/civ/index.html
>Civilization V Roulette
http://www.dropshock0.com/civ/
>Civilization V Drafter
http://georgeskleres.com/civ5/
>CivFanatics' Strategy and Tips forum, good guides and information.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=391 -
>Civ V Giant Multiplayer Robot, lets you play Civ V's hot seat mode like an e-mail game
http://www.multiplayerrobot.com
>Civ V Modding Wiki
http://modiki.civfanatics.com/index.php/Main_Page
>Civ V Mod databases
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse?appid=8930 (requires legit version)
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=393 (does not)
>SMAC & SMAX official short stories
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/cn11q7nqa00te/Alpha_Centauri
>Age of wonders 3 wiki
http://age-of-wonders-3.wikia.com/wiki/Age_Of_Wonders_3_Wiki
>age of wonders 3 beginners guide
http://aow.triumph.net/beginners-strategy-guide/
>age of wonders 3 Data base (more useful than wiki)
http://aow3db.tumblr.com/index
>age of wonders 3 city tech tree
http://i.imgur.com/d8EqN4A.jpg
>age of wonders 3 dwelling tech tree
http://i.imgur.com/qd2u9ui.jpg
you guys are so lazy
can't believe i had to make the thread
dead game
dead genre
>>121655727
You forgot ded general.
Best mods for Civ V? I don't want anything game-changing, just mods that add a little something, like RED does with making all the civ's generic units look unique.
>>121655727
Give us some time to find the thread. We managed to hit bump limit last thread.
>>121658319
You could download a bunch of civ mods (ones that give you a new civ to play).
>>121658521
I was thinking of getting the Austria-Hungary one. I already have the Rhodesia one and that was ablast
>tfw the AI Broken Lords pillaged everything and killed off all my allies
>The Necrophages came by and rolled over them
AI empires are ridiculously silly.
I have no idea how to even be relevant when turn 100, they have 500hp units that hit for 100 damage non-crits.
>>121659339
Equipment and generals.
>>121658319
3UC and 4UC give every civ a third and fourth unique to each civ. It adds some spice to the game and gives most weaker civs a buff.
>>121658319
Events and Decisions.
Are the Ottomans decent for domination?
>start up a new campaign of AI War
>confused within two minutes
I had an easier time getting into Europa Universalis.
Does my city placement look ok?
>inb4 someone laughs again for me playing Indonesia
ded for the night guise
SHAKA GETTIN KEKED
rate my start guys
>>121682765
Archipelago/10
>>121682765
Looks... fishy
>>121683228
ayy
>>121672007
>not playing CBP Indonesia
>>121682765
skrillex/10
Warheads are rather insane.
Just found a bunch of wrecks myself
Now that stupid Tairoshan Republic will see
HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHY ARE CHU-KO-NUS SO GODDAMN INSANE?
Attila and Sweden declared war on me on Deity and 8 of these + 4 pikemen are making this war an XP-Farm.
>there's this faggot that declares war on me and several others constantly just because we are all evil insectoid races
>i lose one of my planets to him
>in revenge, i go back and take one of his
>the planet i took is better than the one i lost
>war stops just after i conquer his planet
>he loses my planet he capture due to a revolution
ayy lmao
take that, you massive faggot
also
>see he has only 2 colonies now
>wtf, is he losing his capital colonies due to revolutions now? time to go capture those shits
>go to one of the systems he had a colony in
>see it hasn't turned independent, it was actually bombarded to death
holy shit man
i knew that was coming from all his war decs, but still...
holy shit
to think he had actually 6 colonies or so, and was actually pretty strong
that's what you get for trying to play "galactic poo lee ce", faggot
When the fuck is that Railgun mod for BE getting updated for Rising Tide? I fucking love that mod.
>Destroy Venice's capital early on, but he had already purchased a city state so it didnt wipe him out
>All the other civs in the game detest me for the rest of the game and are almost perpetually declaring war despite me having a pretty good military
>All this on a modest difficulty setting
Did the AI get more aggressive or am I crazy?
>>121703454
AIs hate warmongers more on lower difficulties
Daily reminder
If you don't follow Tengriism there is a 84% chance that you are a bitch ass nigga
>>121708350
>Redditbird religion
>Not protestant christianity
>>121708350
Zoroastrianism or bust
>>121703454
Everyone loves Venice.
>>121709591
Why would you love the guy who if left alone snowballs and/or ruins every proposal?
So how much did the expansion improve the game?
I didn't like the vanilla demo, and reviews said beyond earth were mediocre....
Is itworth buying the bundle for $60now? for single player only ?
And any word on the next expansion?
Or even the next civ game?
>>121711383
I think it's pretty good now, and different enough from Civ 5 to have its own identity.
The diplomacy system is now the best it's ever been in a Civ game in my opinion.
The military units feel unique and are fun to mess around with. Domination victory and warmongering on higher difficulties is way more fun in BERT than Civ 5 now I think.
>>121711383
>>121712212
Any suggestions as to essential mods to consider for Rising Tide?
>>121701913
never
tryCiv V
>>121711383
Still needs more leaders, space twitter tweaks, more unit upgrades beside 10% more combat strength, something like great people, world congress, improved wonders, remove affinity from techs and introduce a way of getting affinity points by acting according to a certain affinity etc.
Artifacts, diplo capital and agreements are good changes and so is the different biome with marvel quests, although they need to be more major than just some gimmick that you won't use most of the game. Looking forward to more improvements on existing content
>>121711383
I'd recommend listening to the Beyond Earth and Rising Tide episodes of Three Moves Ahead. They go into at length the strengths and weaknesses of BE and its expansion.
https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/a-sterile-future
https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/civilization-beyond-earth-rising-tide
Listening to these guys will definitely help your decision.
RIP
>>121725132
Thanks. Will do.
Where should I settle?
Hm
>>121728672
Mite b cool?
>>121728509
Green, observatories are too good.
>>121728672
>Blizzard games.
The thread is dead no need to abuse us further.
Obscene borders
>>121682678
>Shaka fighting 3 enemies, one of which is the player
Someone tried a bigger bite than he should
>>121721406
The Hydracoral boost is pretty significant if you get it early
Vision all around the world and Hydracorals are now considered as workable tiles, instead of aliens/terrain
>>121730285
Well in most of my games, hydrocoral gets rekt by the AI all the time and doesn't expand for me to make use of it's vision. I have no idea if the AI actually takes into account marvel quests when doing shit like killing aliens
>>121730640
Thats why you get them early
The AI only starts their crusade when they actually have enough firepower to do so efficiently.
That's just before the first affinity units
Coupled with continental surveyor it allows you to get so many resource pods
>>121729541
kek>weeb names
Kidding. You're entitled to your fun, senpai.
>>121729541
>6 holy sites in that picture alone
What the fuck, why? You haven't even converted the neighboring city-states.
>>121729541
>>121732027
Also, why does Singapore have a great prophet?
>>121732027
Those are prophets that Theodora attacked me with. I had my religion spread to my corner of the map, but they got converted and I don't really care about religion since most of my beliefs are buildings anyway
>>121732206
>Byzantium kept feeding you great prophets
It's such a great feeling to go to war with someone who is trying to convert your cities and then eat their prophets and missionaries.
>>121732186
Probably snatched it from some Civ during war
>>121696587
What's this game
>>121733246
Distant Worlds Universe
>colony reaches 10.000m pop
>put tax to 18%
>population says "The current tax rate is too high!"
nigger, here in Brazil we have over 50% taxes
stop fucking complaining and pay the bills so i can build big spaceships
>>121733550
Any tips about playing manual? Manual gameplay becames tedious when you grow.
>>121734406
Introduce indirect taxes then.
>>121734426
What aspect of it you find tedious? I don't like leaving anything for the A.I. because it is pretty bad.
Tax rates you only change when a pop reaches a certain level, and since it doesn't grow very fast, you don't have to check many times
population policies it's equally easy to manage
ship design you really should do yourself since the ones the A.I. designs are awful and they don't incorporate the tech changes right away
troop recruitment you REALLY shouldn't automate, or else you'll be paying shitloads in troop maintenance for no reason
I just press F2 and check if every planet has at least 6 troops every now and then, really. I don't need more than that because the planets are never invaded since i have shitloads of ships protecting them. I just leave those 6 squadrons so the troop carriers can pick new troops anywhere.
Fleet formation - i just make a defense fleet for every system. Put a few ships in it, set "Home Colony" on the Fleet Screen, set the defense range to "system" and they'll never leave that planet unprotected (unless they need to refuel, but you will probably have that stockpiled on the planet already.). I build 1 medium space port for every colonized system to encourage commerce, resource stockpiling and just reinforce the position in case of war really.
Regarding attack fleets, i just make a dozen ships and set home colony where it's closer to the attack target. The way i play, i have to manually select all their targets, and that's a bit annoying, specially when trying to destroy 100 of mining stations, but i don't know enough about fleets to automate that part with simple strike-force fleets yet.
Something i do is make a combat-oriented space stations with gas mining drills and put them on gas planets where there are fuel so it can serve as a refueling point.
Don't design ressuply ships, they're goddamn awful.
Research is something i never had trouble with. Just pick whatever you think it's best for your empire at that moment, i play with very expensive research costs, so i don't have to check that screen very often anyway.
Character locations is something i often forget to change, but since i use Inteligence Agents alot i never have an excuse to forget placing them where they should be.
>Share a tiny continent with Alexander and just Alexander
>war declared on turn 56
>200 turns later still war
>>121736125
>>121736283
>That awfully written wall of text
autism
>>121736125
>>121736283
Thanks senpai.
I've always played DW on full manual, because i would just be watching the game roll out too often with automation on.
Later on i even turned off it's suggestions, since they were mostly shit and would just clutter up the screen anyway.
>>121736367
he's just taking his sexual frustration out on you instead of his horse
>>121736367
Why don't you end the war like the US ended WWII, with overrunning the whole of the country or dropping nukes?
Where do I settle my 2nd city? This is my first game in BNW.
Also, am I too slow on getting my 2nd city up? I feel like I took way too long, my settler isn't even done yet and it is like turn 60.
>>121739094
Did you take sun god pantheon? If you did, that city on the west is going to be insane. The blue spot needs to be in range of the fish next to the citrus, so I would settle it between the mountain and bananas
Now to try this style of life, might take a while to learn how to play with motherships correctly and using this FTL right.
>>121734426
Use build order and then go to the "ships" screen and select multiple of the ships "under construction" to a new fleet. That's an easy way to keep track of a large number of shipsespecially towards the end of the game, I was churning out dozens of battleships a year to win pyrrhic victories against the shak'turi, also, I automate my taxes.
>>121740007
that's why i prefer jumpgates
>>121740007
Would you recommend this game to a Distant Worlds player? I also like offworld trading company. Been looking for a space resource simulator
>>121739094
Yeah, you should make settler at 3, or right when you get 4pop, swith to settler imo. You're almost 6.
Red spot is good
Blue spot maybe changed to >>121739547
I would maybe actualy pass on the one fish if it's not a hill tile.
Black spot sucks, scout more to the north with archer for a better spot.
Maybe grab pearls from the north west, if you decide to keep blue unchanged.
>>121740284
Theres alot of stuff, theres also a mod that adds alot of good things.
It might lack the scale of distant worlds, but ship designs are fun and life styles can be different.
It resources are more inline line with what you're capital planet is or another good one.
Can be a good thing to take someones key planets so they get fucked.
>>121740007
What is this game, senpai?
Any tips for Deity Domination? I feel like there are really narrow windows in which you can take advantage of certain technologies before the AI comes down on you with their oceans of units, like when Comp bowmen just come online, when you hit Artillery just before the AI starts getting aircraft, Just as you get Rocket Artillery, so on and so forth, but for the most part my conquests are limited to fairly local affairs, or side shows more or less. Like it's within my capabilities to clear out my continent, or my 'locale' on Pangaea, but anything more is a bit of a struggle
>>121741035
Star Ruler 2.
Okay, Distant Worlds autist here
I basically dropped the last game because many empires declared war on me and attacked several planets i had with enourmous fleet. I just didn't had enough military to defend my empire and it fell apart :(
So i started a brand new game with the Dhayut, since in the last game, the speed of my ships really annoyed the hell out of me. The Dhayut's special hyperdrive should make sustaining my enourmous empire way easier.
>>121742064
You can always pay the AI to warmonger for you, or force wars to exhaust or slow down some runaways. AI doesn't have endless amounts of units, once you take down the initial wave, it's easy to push them back. Save units with upgrades as they can make wars one-sided. Keep in mind the AI is retarded at keeping it's units alive and relies on numbers alone with some technological lead in the early to mid game. Keep an eye out for what victory type each AI is nearing and choose your targets based on that.Don't spawn near warmongersGood luck
>>121742641
>start game, rush to get Dhayut's hyperdrive
>when hyperdrive research is done, make 6 exploration ships asap
>find an abandoned colony ship nearby with Mortalens on stasis
>find an abandoned capital ship and a destroyer in 2 different systems
>find a nearby independent colony, make a troop transport and conquer it
holy shit, this is going so well
game barely started and i have 3 colonies already, haven't even met any other empires or pirates yet!
AND THEN
>"you have discovered a vast field of space debris in the Narsillean system."
AYY fucking LMAO
this game is so fucking done
i won already
come at me Shakturi
there'll be no one left but you and i when you arrive
>>121743048
>You can always pay the AI to warmonger for you
It's nice how no matter how much Genghis or Montezuma hates your guts, they will absolutely accept the 2gpt to invade the zulus or whatever
>>121740284
It has a similar resource-focused economy system, although Distant Worlds is still better for that if you're into that sort of thing.
Plays like a more complex Sins of a Solar Empire with ship customization.
What a beautiful opening this is
I'm so eager for heaven, where the الرØيم will give me a video game that'll make you play these as if it were a simulated reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn54lCOq6pI
>>121743584
Gotta love DW, such a great game.
I have the problem of being too ambitious with it, making games with too many Empires, on the largest map sizes, by about 1/2 way through my poor PC is on its knees and I lose the will to finish!
>>121746496
We are already in a simulated reality. I can show you.
After looking at most of the sponsors in BERT.... I think Hutama is the most powerful one, the extra trade routes, divided among your colonies gives you massive amounts of growth and production. On Soyuz I'm able to have 1200 science around turn 220, have the best army in the world and build all the infrastructure and city buildings in every single city. By just having my new cities build a trade depot and several trade convoys thereafter, I can boost their production by ridiculous degrees.
>>121748105
Great game indeed
I'm playing on 1000 stars and 15x15 setup, 17 auto-generated empires, and sometimes, independent colonies create empires too.
Few, but strong pirates, Hard difficulty, agression set on 'restless' and very expensive research costs.
At the moment i've found 2 suitable colonies, and since colonization tech is already at 90%, i'm rushing to get them. They're the ones circled red at the picture.
I also found this Dlakar race nearby. I want to conquer them so fucking bad, but i'm afraid that mounting a fleet up to destroy him would be too much of a dent in my already damaged cashflow.
I'll gather all the defense fleets and attack him, maybe that'll be enough to defeat the dude...
The fleet is ready
The invasion is at hand
It's time to strike
Wish me luck
THE ATTACK HAS BEGUN
ALL HANDS TO YOUR BATTLE STATIONS
WE HAVE LOST OVER HALF OUR FLEET ALREADY
THE CAPITAL SHIP IS STILL STRONG AND ONE OF THEIR DEFENSE STATIONS HAVE FALLEN
THEIR SPACE PORT HAS ALREADY LOST IT'S SHIELDS
THE SECOND IT'S DOWN, WE'LL DEPLOY TROOPS ON THE PLANET
SCAN REVEALS THAT THEIR GROUND FORCES ARE NO MATCH FOR OUR OWN, IF WE LAND, WE WIN
STAND STRONG WARRIORS, THIS BATTLE IS NOT OVER YET
>>121751298
If you lose you're not allowed to post here anymore
>>121751678
I hate it when people post content, too
Base mothership didn't come with ammo stores.
>>121751678
>>121751960
WE HAVE LOST
THEIR ORBITAL DEFENSE STATIONS WERE PREVENTING OUR TROOPS FROM LANDING
THEY HAD TOO MANY CRUISERS DEFENDING FROM FAR AWAY WITH THEIR FIGHTERS, AND WE HAD NO POINT-DEFENSE SYSTEMS INSTALLED
HOWEVER, WE'VE MANAGED TO CRIPPLE THEIR COLONY TO THE BONE, AND WE'LL USE THE REMAINING SHIPS TO HARASS UNTIL MORE SHIPS ARE BUILT
THE CAPITAL SHIP HAS BEEN DAMAGED, HE'S TOO VALUABLE TO BE LOST IN BATTLE, HE'LL BE WITHDRAWN AND REPAIRED TO LEAD THE NEXT WAVE
FROM THE DEEPEST RECESSES OF OUR STARBASES, WE'LL FORGE THE LATEST DESIGNS OF OUR WAR MACHINES
WHEN UNLEASHED, THEY'LL SURELY PILLAGE, PLOUD AND PLUNDER FOR ALL TO SEE THE MIGHT OF OUR EMPIRE
btw guys, i'm playing on very hard difficulty, so don't mind nummeric advantage too much
the enemy ships have huge bonus to their weapons and shields, and their empires research stuff faster too.
>>121752514
Whoops, looks like its time to leg it and hope they dont rebuild faster than you.
FORTUNE SMILES UPON US, FOR WE HAVE FOUND AND REUNITED WITH LONG LOST BROTHERS
EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE FAILED TO CONQUER THE ENEMY'S PLANET, WE ARE BLESSED WITH ANOTHER COLONY
>>121752514
>>121748105
One thing I really like about DW is that you can go commerce raiding against a stronger empire and it can be ridiculously effective, even under AI control, so long as the ships used are setup correctly.
WE HAVE ARRIVED, AND IT IS NOW THAT WE PERFORM OUR CHARGE
IN FIELTY TO THE EMPEROR, OUR UNDYING LORD, WE CONQUER THE PLANET Paakri 1
Are any of you guys really enjoying the DW autist poster?
To me it just feels like he's bloating the thread
No one cares about his fucking caps-lock story
This is not his fucking blog
>>121755705
Could always argue its a grand strategy.
>>121748105
do something about those enclaves essay
>>121755705
Meh, it keeps the thread bumped, and the longer the thread exists, the more likely we are to get some discussion going.
>>121755705
I don't mind it since I'm learning about a game I haven't played.
Man, they have way more troop strenght that i thought.
I just want this war to be fucking over so i can get back to managing my empire economy and expansion
>>121756484
All games of DW are like that. You gotta go where the resources are available, no-ones doing it by choice.
shit man
awesome
FINALLY
VICTORY IS HOURS
Now all their bases and ships are mine
Gonna have to spend quite a while in the ships & bases menu retrofitting, scrapping, assigning fleets and all that shit
And i've met another empire too, they're pretty mad at me because i'm evil
I think they'll declare war soon
Shit man, i need a break.
Trying to decide on city layout here on Epic Diety Pangea as America.
Notable is a lake victoria to the west. You can get salt, spices, and lake victoria in one city.
Another is one river flatlands tile where you can get gems cotton and citrus (!) but would be forward settling the shit out of pocatello. Just south is a hills/mountain/river tile that likely won't trip forward settling but will not hit the cotton/citrus.
So confused about what to do.
You have 10 seconds to explain why Spain isn't a good civ.
>>121758987
Maybe the hill tile between the mountain, banana, and river? No immediate luxes though, only gems being in city range.
>>121760850
Isabella and Khan get a lot of praise for 2 shitty civs
>Playing the frostling necromancer campaign
>his spheres are destruction, fire and earth
>fire
what
How do I install the Events and Decisions mod? I tried to get it off Workshop but it isn't there, so I downloaded it off civ fanatics. There isn't a readme, so where do I put the files?
>>121760850
From a game design standpoint they're the worst civilization in the game. They're RNG based. There are so many better ways they could have designed the natural wonder mechanic than 500 gold if you're first.
From a balance standpoint on diety in the vast majority of games their bonus is underwhelming because the AI hits the natural wonders first, and it's only a select few when they're OP as balls. I'd say they're just below mid tier because I just spain is a civ that loses quite a lot of games.
>>121755705
Yes, he's contributing OC. He could turn off fucking caps lock though.
>>121762579
Khan I think gets praise because they're the best pure military civ, even though they're mid-tier at best and it's really hard to come up with a reason to not play Arabia instead.
Isn't it great when you share a continent with 2 Civs of sort of moderate aggressiveness, like China and Polynesia, where you know neither will destroy the other and then begin to snowball uncontrollably, but at the same time you know they're both aggressive enough to cheaply pay off into not invading you?
>>121767378
the sad diary entry of someone who doesn't do domination
>>121768946
Domination is a hassle until Artillery. It's like before you've gotta contend with the fact that your units are invariably gonna be outdated, and the AI is going to have so many more of those more advanced units. It's so much better to just set aside conquest until you've got technological parity with the AI, or a really good opportunity reveals itself to you
>>121769680
that makes sense
>>121771524
I'm glad you agree with me, anon
>>121769680
Meh, all depends on the map.
II think you have to think of pre-artillery conquest and post-artillery conquest as two different things. Pre-artillery conquest is how you deal with being montys only neighbour on an island or a neighbour who built 5 wonders before the renaissance. Post-artillery domination is how you get wonders & domination victories.
>>121743584
>Dhayut
>come at me shakturi
But why?
Why not ally with them?
DILEMMA
i'm going to get a settler in 2 turns, where should my 2nd city go?
the coastal hill at top-left has 2 fish, crabs, horses, truffles, and bison
the inland plains has ivory, dyes, 2 truffles, horses, and bison
Daily reminder that the Japs are the best civ if you're conquest minded
> Dat fighting at full health even with 1hp
> Dat Zero
>>121778178
>Zero
Yes
>Bushido
No
>>121738953
> Nukes in the first 200 turns
Not gonna happen BAKA senpai
>>121778178
Bushido doesn't really matter in my opinion, your main damage dealers (archers and later artillery) shouldn't be getting hit in the first place, and if they are hit, they will probably die. Meanwhile, the melee units you will be using to tank damage will mostly be fortifying and not attacking.
>>121775219
I don't like the Shakturi
What civs are the best for keeping invaders the fuck out?
Ethiopia Inca and Morocco come to mind
>>121780437
babylon, shoshone
>>121780437
Shoshone, all their units get a combat bonus within their own territory
This is the one time Japan's Bushido really comes into play nicely as your fortified wall of units will never fall
Babylon's Wall of Babylon and India's Mughal Fort are both nice little additions that will help in making your cities harder to take
>>121655443
>that fucking OP pic
>>121778178
>mfw king players giving their opinion
>>121742149
i remember star ruler 1. The devs never really finished it, but all the bullshit supertech was neat, like making a ship bigger than a galaxy.
What's the endgame like? Is it worth 25 bucks? There a good review of it you'd recommend?
Any of you fuckers wanna play a game?
Quick/long whatever?
Noob here, add Imperator Criddler on steam.
Civ V, all Expansions.
Super amazing pro Japan analysis by super amazing pro player.
Bushido is mediocre scraping alright. If for whatever reason your ranged units are taking hits their strength won't falter, although you really shouldn't be letting your ranged take hits to begin with. Your "frontline", which should be taking hits, will fare well, although if you're playing like not an idiot then Bushido really isn't anything more than a nice little bonus. Culture from boats and atolls is just sort of a flavour thing. Largely inconsequential, even on archipelago.
Samurai are... ok as well, I suppose. Their placement in the tech tree as well as upgrade/obsolete tech is kind of weird, although it gives you ample window to build a bunch if you desire. Great General II is nice but won't be noticeable unless you're smashing your Samurai into things en masse, which really isn't the recipe for victory most of the time. Shock I, with the Barracks and Armory, means you could have Cover II right out the gate in the Medieval era, which admittedly when combined with Bushido make for some very difficulty to to Samurai. The ability to build fishing boats is nice but finding opportunity to do so might be scarce if you're developing your empire properly. Useful if your navy pillaged some boats while invading and you need to replace them, though.
Zero are the best reason to play Japan because of how great oil is. No oil spent on fighters means more Battleships and tanks, ultimately. Sail in a fleet of battleships escorted by carriers filled to the brim with Zeros and you will have quite a strong navy.
>>121784060
Ultimately you should just play Arabia. Double Oil should be more than enough, especially if you're aggressively expanding and taking other people's oil, and Camel Archers are infinitely more useful than Samurai, and will probably let you get that large mid-game empire to have access to lots of oil later
I just had a thought that any Civs that we refer to as "The _____" don't really have a easy to use name for their land. Like we might say "Invade America", or "Occupy Persia", or "Annex China", but we don't have anything like that for the Huns, or the Aztecs, or the Maya etc.
>>121784182
but arabians can't buttsex. that's like, the only reason to play samurais.
>>121784383
Invade Attila, Invade Montezuma, Invade Potlatch.
>>121784383
>>121784873
I need to make a mod that renames those guys to stuff like Shitbirds, Fuckfaces and Jerkdicks.
"Invade Fuckfaces" has a nice ring to it.
is there a way to force more natural wonders without mods?
>>121786416
Nope. Get re-rolling, Isabella
>>121786439
>mfw find El Dorado first as Issy
>>121786416
adjust the map size?
standard size map rolls 4-6
5 is very common, 4, and 6 are fairly rare
Hey guys, Distant Worlds autist here
I'm playing on Hard, very expensive research costs, restless agression, few and normal strenght pirates that do not respawn and 17 automatically generated empires.
I'm playing as Dhayut, so i have very fast hyperdrives, helping to supply the empire with the resources i need and giving my military a pretty high mobility.
I have 12 colonies in 10 systems, and i'm not sure if i should expand more.
Is there a point where it's plain better to just stop colonizing?
Don't let the cashflow fool you, money is pouring in like crazy.
Do i colonize more or not?
>>121789690
>mfw I find Uluru and workable Krakatoa both within ten tiles of Madrid
![1391826%20-%20Civilization%20Civilization_V%20animated%20fugtrup%20isabella_i_of_castile%20source_filmmaker[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/vVNergY.gif "1391826%20-%20Civilization%20Civilization_V%20animated%20fugtrup%20isabella_i_of_castile%20source_filmmaker[1].gif")
>>121790719
>>121789690
>>121786439
Spain is just such a fucking fun civ to play, usually you'll end up getting a free settler from finding your first NW, then have it settled and producing ridiculous yields and a minimum of 8 faith before turn 20. Then, when you get Conquistadors and Caravels, you can just search the world for all the other wonders and settle them with glorious expeditions, or take them by force from the dirty natives.
>mfw
>>121791490
The fact that getting a good start for Spain has another requirement on it is pretty annoying though.>Square anus
>>121781649
Its on sale on Gog, 60% off. If its not on sale at the moment it should be again before its big sale event is over.
Its way better the the fucking first game.
>woozy is being a cunt
>refusing open borders, giving it to my enemies, denouncing me, demanding trades for shit pirces
>gets her shit slapped by gus, cassy and pocket cello
>liberate her later
>she still covets my lands
Since we got somw DW up thread, what mods would you suggest? I heard there's one adding a lot of factions and another one that wanted to give each faction a deeper political system, are they good?
Come on, guys
>>121795354
i just use the Beyond Extended Universe
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3657646
feels complete enough 4 me
>>121795516
Reminds me
>mfw on an Archipelago map in the fucking Industrial age I just looked over to the west and found two settlers on my island
>mfw they shit two tiny terrible cities down that both only got two fish between the two of them
The AI just does shit like this to trigger you.
>>121797578
It's begging to go to war.
I've had the AI settle a city between three of mine, just to fuck up my borders.
>>121728509
Directly to right of blue, hill, observatory, river and lots of river tiles. Moving to the coast without any info on sea resources or possible feeder cities is bad. Moving away from the middle of the map is bad.
>>121793430
>Liberating AIs who were cunts
Whenever I conquer cities previously owned by civs that were cunts I raze.
I'll end what the AI I conquered it from
Tbh, I am still disappointed about the fact I can raze capitals
Why won't the game allow me to yell Carthago delenda est
>>121797773
Once when I was next to Alex he forward settled me
In the war that came three turns later I established a no settling zone around him and razed two if his cities
Afterwards I settled all around him and boxed him in. He couldn't do shit after he couldn't go settler spam
Shit was cash
>>121775935
Settle closer to France and the Shoshone, that way you can prevent them from settling there and it allows you to settle the other land without them interfering
>>121758987
You are america playing tradition so buying tiles should not be a problem. First priority is claiming land. Place cities 1 and 2 asap:
1) cow between sheep and copper, claiming truffles, copper and gems, blocking off monty and feeding the capital.
2) On the river by the two bananas, claiming citrus and cotton, blocking off pocatello.
3) On the horse(extra prod) north of buffalo by lake Victoria, claiming spices and salt.
4) in forest between mountain,buffalo and pearls for a second feeder city.
You can squeeze in more cities as you have 9 luxes, for instance on the copper hill southwest of your cap,or just enjoy the fact that you will not have to build colosseums and circuses
>>121795621
That's the one I was talking about with the political stuff, caught my eye back then but I'm usually wary about mods in alpha stage. Is it stable?
>>121778178
You meant Persia right?
>>121799165
I love fucking up Civs like that.
I pushed one out of their own Continent. They had to settle in a fucking island.
>>121799165
>spawn next to shaka
>don't panic, we're the celts
>settle a line of three cities in front of him
>nothing but mountain and coast behind him
>he's stuck to 3 cities the entire game
>spends his entire existence denouncing me and trying to impi out of his cage
hwah hwah hwah hwah
>>121799535
Yep. I never had any crashed or errors with it, and i've been playing for several days now.
anyone else love settling in spots like these?
shame I had to make a canal with a city but turned out that was actually a fairly decent spot to put a lesser city down anyways
>>121800302
Will have to try it when I finally finish my ongoing campaign then, thanks
>>121800627
Even when they're shit, canal cities magically always turn out pretty good for me
Plus they are comfy as fuck at all times
Nothing beats getting your fleet though the island via your canal while the enemy needs to sail around it only to be welcomed by your fleet
>>121802101
honestly though canals and tunnels should have been improvements
heck with the trade route system it would even have been possible to make canals and tunnels cost a lot of money BUT also generate money based on how many trade routes go through them
would have created a fairly neat Suez canal like situation
Lovely units, Chu-ko-nu.
And Great Generals pouring out of every orifice isn't bad
>>121803123
whoops
>>121791490That's making me both hot and uncomfortable. Source?
>>121802271
Actually being able to build something like the Suez canal or Panama canal should be something that was in the game in the first place
>>121804093
>>121791490Nevermind, found it through lazy googling.
Source if anyone else is interested. http://fugtrup.tumblr.com/tagged/civ5
How do I git gud with Ethiopia?
>Beyond Earth is boring
>Rising Tide is underwhelming
>Planetfall underwhelming
Why can't anything beat SMAC?
>>121811505
>Ethiopia
>good
Starting mothership has a stupid trackor beam.
Might be useful in multiplayer to steal shit.
>>121811505
Don't die, coast to victory.
![hqdefault[8].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7L8gElG.jpg "hqdefault[8].jpg")
What's the Civ you like other people playing the most?
Either because you think the playerbase of a certain Civ is quite chill, or either because the AI playing that Civ is always your nigga in your games.
For me it's Netherlands.
>>121815391
Brazil because the guy is so easy to make nice with. Not even stealing his territory with generals or conquering his cities seems to upset him for very long
The Data Angels are always my bros.
Maybe if I tried playing someone other than the Peacekeepers things would be different.
>>121725132
https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/civilization-beyond-earth-rising-tide
>beyond earth was shit
>rising tide makes it less shit, but it's still shit
I guess I'll wait 2 more years
will BE even get more expansions? does it make them money?
>>121815391
Netherlands as well. I think people that play that civ just want to have peaceful fun, while masturbating over their polders and keeping Sea beggars more for the gold rather than for conquest.
Venice is the chillest as an AI, but the playerbase is either chill as fuck or entitled pricks.
>>121816360
Going by the other Civ games I expect Beyond Earth to get at least one more expansion, but who knows?
Best civ to make gold after Venice?
>>121817403
Portugal, followed by Morocco.
Songhai if you're really good about clearing barbarian camps, and capturing a lot of cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riiKTQ0lQns
>would you like to open borders?
>>121780895
carthage is actually a good civ for that since they're so maritime focused
Yet to name this mothership though it already has a 20% boost from a random anomaly.
Going to wait for the good name card, its also at size 1500.
what's a good civ to build a coastal empire with other than carthage and venice?
>>121819375
Anyone with a coastal bias I guess.
>>121819375
England, UA gives you quite a strong navy.
Ottomans let you pretend like you have a UA that gives you a decent navy.
Polynesia lets you have Ocean faring ships way before anyone else does. Galleasses are decently strong and being able to move them through the Ocean means you can launch naval invasions other civs have to wait for Frigates to achieve
>>121819248
Name it something incredibly offensive
Fucking kebabs.
>>121820627
Buy an inquisitor
>>121820627
2 free sacred sites
>>121820561
Does have a pretty big downside, can't use its weapons if I don't have a planet or outpost in the system.
>>121815676
Brazi has always been hostile to me, and i never went warmonger.
Maybe he hates cultural competitors but not so much warmongers?
>at war with Sister Miriam
>kill five of her units
>"I'll make peace with you if you give me 200 credits"
>kill five more of her units
>"I'll make peace with you if you give me Fossil Fuels"
>kill five more of her units
>"Nothing will stop me from destroying your empire!"
>she sends in probes to steal one of my technologies and destroy a Network Node
>"This war is causing nothing but destruction. Truce?"
I hate you so much, Sister Miriam.
>>121790619
I would say to not stop colonizing. What are your victory conditions? If you think you are stable, go for the +80% or more planets only. Personally I don't give a crap about the planet quality as I play with low colonization range to make empires more dense (around .5 to .8 maximum) and I quite like a vast empire. Up to you really, but it seems you have a solid base. Reading your past posts you seem to have a good advantage as well.
As an advisor: Hold yourself against the pirates and see how things develop with other empires and expand a bit.
>>121819204
>carthage is actually a good civ
No. Carthage is not a good civ unless the map is 3/4 mountains.
>Miriam is moving troops on my territory
>ignores my transmissions so I can't tell her to GTFO
Declare war, Miriam. I dare you.
Does playing with mods disable achievements?
Which civs are "not respectable/as impressive as others" if they win at Deity?
Aside from Poland, Babylon, Korea and Maya i mean.
>>121826654
yes
>be Venice
>Never take commerce blindly because ha merchants and money
>take Judaism for shits and giggles
>Most maps for me involve disregarding land trade routes.
>Have all 14 of my current trade routes be over sea
>Finally read exploration and Treasure Fleets and realize I was doing it wrong the whole time
>4 gold per trade route
>mfw
Ai is starting to build bigger and better fleets.
>>121827540
Well, commerce has that discount on purchases which is fundamental for Venice.
The boost to great merchants is amazing too: merchants of venice already give double gold and influence, with that policy they are worth a gorillion gold + 99% Ally city state.
If i had to prioritize, unless the map is Archipelago or water heavy, i'd go commerce first anyway.
>>121828142
I mean, I only took the opener and those two points. The rest seem shitty. I got Big Ben too, so purchasing stuff is cheap.
I'm don't normally have the land to spam trading posts so the finisher doesn't seem as amazing to me. Maybe on a wider empire.
2.5 mil fleet reduced to a floating wreak.
>I should install windows on that computer I said I would
>I should email my boss today about when I can come back to work
>I need to go grocery shopping
>I should do some homework
>I'll just play a few turns of civ
>6 hours later
Why do i always get awesome starts (or, worst case, a good/decent start) with Venice, even at Deity?
Rolled pic related just now, and it's almost perfect, but the fact is that i had tons of great starts, almost as good as this one, with scary frequency.
My settings are literally Default:
>Deity
>Random map
>Huge size
>Everything else untouched
Does the bias favour rich spots to compensate for no settlers? Or am i just lucky as fuck?
>>121831380
>Does the bias favour rich spots to compensate for no settlers?
It does, Venice gets the best spot on the map.
>>121831508
Oh, that's really nice.
This makes venice actually decent in my book then.
No settler is a horrible penalty, but an amazing start + loads of money and Merchant of venice's powers make Venice actually quite fun and also good.
No settlers is still a huge handicap, especially at Deity, but i still love my greedy little doge.
What total covnersion mods have you tried?
>>121832561
Venice is probably one of the most loved civs.
Maybe it's because it's one of the few AIs who are never a threat, or maybe it's Venice's comfiness playstyle.
>>121815391
Brazil. Pedro is such a bro.
>>121815391
Ironically, Suleiman has always been loyal and friendly to me in every single game.
I sometimes give him random gifts. i like his beard and belly that much.
>>121815391
Zulu.
Agressive so it's not boring to play by them. But they're also very loyal and can be total bros.
>>121811536
what is this
>>121834313
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
>>121815391
Venice.
The AI can't play it properly most of the time, sadly, but the fact it can't settle and that its behaviour is pacific makes it quite a nice neighbour.
Regarding the playerbase, from what i've seen on civfanatics, here and Multiplayer, they always love the fuck out of their civ, even though it isn't that powerful, especially in MP games. They do tryhard a bit in wonderwhoring, but otherwsie they are the chillest.
I've been playing Civ 5 Gods and kings for a few years but I can never win on any setting higher than warlord. I always run out of money because everything costs more along with higher maintenance. Then the comp zerg rushes and is always able to build more units. What am I doing wrong?
>>121835918
>What am I doing wrong?
Well you're not playing BNW
>>121835806
How does one play Venice?
>>121835918
>Gods and kings for a few years
It's time to commit seppuku.
>>121836435
Tall as fuck, grab 1-2 CS's for internal trade routes/better spots for trade, set up trade routes ASAP, use gol as it's needed whole playing.
The Ai can't play it right because it falls terribly behind all the other civs who can settle, and its unit production is way subpar.
So it gets either killed by neighbouring AI's or it stays as a bigger city state.
Human Venice can compensate for the lack of settlers with strategy, but i won't lie, not being able to settle is a major drawback against the Ai, especially in a Huge map where the Ai can spam cities.
In Multiplayer you need to literally cover your capital in troops. Even then, if all the other players gang up on you, you are left to trade with City states only, and your trade routes can be plundered.
Also, better get that anti-nukes building before nukes hit, or you are royally fucked.
Hey, what 4x space sims can you guys recommend?
Is Gal Civ 3 the current best?
>>121835918
You can successfully win a game running a deficit but you have to know how to earn an income. I suggest watching some of the deity LPs to learn the ropes.
>>121837313
I like it, but it feels unfinished.
>>121837313
Star ruler 2 is great, though sins of a solar empire might be best.
Distant Worlds is a grand strategy, not turned based 4x, I feel like a dirty slut for posting this in here.
>dat comfy feel when staring as a pre warp race
>dat feel when your staring planet has no resources but you roll with it
>dat feel when the next planet after your homeworld is aligned with said homeworld
Is it just me, or are Conquistadors pretty much useless?
>Founding cities kills unit
>By the time you unlock them they are pretty much worthless since by the Medieval era you've probably gotten all you want to get with cities
>Only 20 combat strength
Am I missing something? What is the appeal?
>>121849370
You found cities to general into the opponents capital.
>>121850017
What?
>>121850127
In order to plant a citadel(using up a general) you need to be inside your own borders or 1 tile outside it. Citadels are great for holding ground or pushing into enemies. This is an advanced war strategy.
>>121849370
they're basically a scout+mid level boat that can defend itself, and settle a city
you dont use them to go build shit, you use them as a purchasable or faithable settler that doesnt need an escort
3 out of 4 artifacts required for the super ship are over there.
Worth taking tradition still as the Shoshone? Borders are already big as fuck.
>>121855561
Tradition is never bad.
>>121711383
Still needs working mod tools like CiV FFS.
Firaxis has been Hebrewing us out of fun lately.
If it wasn't for the civ community the previous game wouldn't have the tools to mod code or graphics.
