>Stellaris OP:
http://pastebin.com/qsTFCyvh
>Stellaris Mod Archive
https://mega.nz/#F!hpBCSbCC!vZNs1Qhip_UJQPSSdoZjUg
>What is stellaris?
A 4x game developed by paradox development studios.
>Unofficial Stellaris Steam Group
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vgstellaris
>Where is the white only mods/patch
Ask in the thread.
>/civ4xg/ OP:
http://pastebin.com/P5XCTQx9
>More info on Civ VI:
http://www.pcgamer.com/civilization-6-everything-you-need-to-know/
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/11/three-ways-sid-meiers-civilization-6-radically-reinvents-itself-city-building-science-and-diplomacy
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/civilization-6-revealed-brings-major-changes/1100-6439691/
>>145257584
This is Stellaris thread
Civfags get out to /gsg/
>there are people right here in this thread who don't evolve separate sub-species for mining, working the power plants, and scientific research
Whats your excuse?Hint: enslaving inferior plebs and polluting your planets with their filth is not a valid excuse.
Can you stack researcher boni to play RNGesus?
>computing expert not only increases research speed in computing, but also the chance of computing related tech to come up
>put computer specialist in every slot
does this even work for researchers on science ships who are assisting research? Are they factored into RNG?
>>145257731
Coz it doesn't matter really.
>>145257731
Apparently militarists don't resettle or purge
>what is any dictatorship of the last 100 years
Holy shit, venerable (+120 years lifespan) is fucking insane, especially when my beautiful drakkar dragons live only in the capital while the rest of my empire is madfe of Synthetics.
I've literally never had to replace a dead leader yet, and the technologic progress is making them almost immortal.
>>145258229
>embracing the robo dick
>>145258229
>build around leaders
>keep every shitter instead of min maxing for the good ones
why?
>>145258317
I like it big and metallic right up my draconic cloaca.
>>145258336
Because Insane difficulty, Xenophobe and 39 Advanced AI starts (posted in the previous thread too), Influence is more precious than gold and rivalries are a death sentence. God bless i've been surrounded by 2 empires only, embassies are my saving grace.
People with HRS mod, do the portraits animate in the same way the standard human ones do?
>>145258735
your crazy with the advanced starts. I saw that in the other thread just thought it was bs. And insane, damn. hope your pc is good.
Normal with no advanced starts is easy and what I'm playing. As it turns out all the modded interesting races are weak or my slaves, and some random combo is currently the strongest by luck and being far from me.
>>145257731
because its a fucking hassle trying to do it efficiently, especially because you can't see a pop's traits or ethics on the resettlement screen. Trying to resettle five different pops (cash, minerals, and three different sciences) onto 7 different 25 tile worlds is tedium without compare
>been asking my friend to get stellaris, but he always said no because no money
>finally just decide to buy him a copy
>he installs, and we skype and play all night, purging and conquering
Feels good man
>>145259389
You're doing god's work!
A friend giftet me stellaris and we're going to lan it this week.
>>145258229
you've inspired me to make a venerable race too anon.
>>145258229
>>145259653
Best Venerable is Based Turtles.
Unlike previous FE smashes, this time it feels a bit sad. Hundred years into the future, they've done nothing but like me - but here I am, stomping them just so that I can reach the Unbidden. It was rare having a FE that didn't instantly hate my guts for something.
Maybe I'll make a mural on one of your former planets about your empire that once stood within that area.
>want to play extradimensionals
too bad they look so lame. The unbidden's femurs are spread like labia
>>145258735
What's the point? You can't wage war, you have no space to expand.
>>145259314
You can, it shows up when you mouse over them
Its a huge pain in the ass i agree, but what else are you going to do besides blob?
So my fight has begun. But those are some terrible odds for a 83k fleet against a roughly 40k Unbidden fleet, who has another 50k - 60k from what I remember somewhere around the portal.
I may have left it to the point where the Unbidden can no longer be held back.
>>145259986
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush his achievement and remove all record of his very existence. From that defeat there is no recovery. That is the meaning of victory."
>>145261595
You can bait their fleet with a small sacrifice then attack the portal. Thats what I did. Maybe the defense stations will fuck you up though.
>>145261783
Once the portal is destroyed, their fleets will leave their home system piecemeal over a few years. Allowing you to kill them one at a time.
>Skip blue lasers for administrative AI
>blue lasers never appear again
>I hit antimatter tech before I get offered a new non salvage beam weapon.
This is a fucking turn-based strategy game. I can press space and it'll take a few seconds for it to pause.
>>145261595
>Fighting Unbidden
>Not using torps
I've read posts about how the Shielded World was usually a disappointment with a space monster such as an Amoeba popping up, but guess my surprise when a former admiral of a FE turns up instead.
Admiral from a race that managed to be the little girl and fell due to having no further goals beyond that? Yes please
How long does the recently conquered buff apply?
>>145262694
No, that's just standard Paradox.
>>145261595
Can't you just out-produce them?
You seem kind of weak considering its already 2371
>>145262969
Thats pretty cool. One of those green glowy words you need a science ship to get through?
>>145262995
The Beautiful Battle mod changes a lot of the weapons and such, so the fleet power of everything is a lot lower than it actually 'is'. For example, FEs start out with between 80k - 90k fleet power with the mod on.
I like leaving the mod on because it slows down combat speed and stops most fights from turning into a 'ram into each other at full speed, become a big entangled mess' everytime. The only ships that really do that with the mod on are those with Combat AI on - otherwise they fly in to a certain range then start splitting into two most of the time, but never actually getting too close to each other.
>hyperlane only game
>psi jump research appears
>research the shit out of that sweet nightmare drive
And that's how the galaxy burned kids
>>145263124
Yeah, the one that's usually within the borders of a Spiritualist FE. I had moved a small fleet nearby because I wasn't keen on losing the scientist inside the ship, and wasn't expecting this at all.
>Stomping the AI
>Divide fleet in two
>Send one fleet to chase a much smaller fleet
>Later it appears they are chasing them to a very far away nothing part of the galaxy
>Finally get there; the whole federations fleets are here
>Together almost worth as much as my divided fleet
So the AI seems to hide their fleets when they can't win, I had no idea.
>>145263392
I opened one of those green glowing things and got a 6k alien fleet that remained missing for eternity, its cool that other stuff can be in there.
>>145263392
>>145262969
>Definately not a reference to pic related
>>145263567
Hm? Who is this faggot?
>>145263567
I want greg bear to fucking leave
>>145263672
didact from halo, forerunner who sounds like harbringer and is all about removing humans.
>>145263526
If your combined fleet is stronger than the enemy's fleet, they'll keep away until you either manage to catch them or until your fleet(s) are weaker than one of their fleets either because you split them or they reinforced their fleet enough.
That does mean it's easy to catch the enemy this very same way - split the fleet so that they'll go after the smaller fleet, while having the bigger fleet near enough that you can either warp on top of them or within the system but directly where they'll warp into.
Is there any actually good and balancedat least as balanced as average paradox gamemod adding new weapons and research?
>>145264803
No.
Game is still patched and modding autist are now all about HoI4.
>>145264803
>mods
>balanced
>ever
>>145264639
Thats a good strategy for catching them. Being lazy I usually just make a pursuer fleet which chases the enemy fleet until they eventually catchem. The reason i was surprised is I followed one fleet to the ass end of the galaxy and they were all there. The whole federation armada.
>>145265329
the AI uses exactly 1 (one!) fleet
which is the main cause of blobbing in the game, if they would actually split their forces intelligently you would have to do the same to keep up
The extra admiral was really helpful, because I was flying around in a single big fat fleet and it was getting to the point where with the current forced 'triangle' formation it was the same was throwing some ships away.
Now I can have them clear out the Unbidden's Void Junctions two systems at a time. I'll make my way to the portal, eventually. I can already jump in there but I don't want to rush this, since I plan on dropping Frontier Outposts along the way.
>>145264803New Ships & Realistics ShipsNew Ship Classes & More
>>145265609
when they are in disarray it almost seems like they have more than one fleet, but actually all these little fleets must be heading towards the bulk of the one fleet. Hmm.
There's no real need for me to actually send science ships to look at those anymore, but I still do it anyway.
Newfag here. How do I find the map view that defines an Empire's "space"?
Why can't I just build mining stations in another empires clay (vacuum?) if they don't even have the fleet to defend it anyway? This is fucking bullshit.
The Wessari admiral turned out to not be a little girl and is somehow lower than 40 years old despite claiming to be on that shielded world for at least 40 years, but despite starting out as a level 5 admiral with Gale-Speed and Logistician, she's gotten pretty impressive from just a few extra battles.
>>145267750
I read the admiral name as Turbokek for a second.
>>145262969
Still never had a shieldworld appear
Does the Unbidden eventually run out of fleets to send through the portal? After destroying a few 13k-15k fleets, it seems like as if this is all they have left.
>>145257584
what is /4xg/'s consensus on Aurora vs Stellaris?
if you put computer expert in every researcher position, does it increase the chance of AI tech coming up?
so with the latest update, is it still corvette spam that wins battles or what is the winning strategy now? battleships with tachyon lance and crystal plate defence?
Thoughts on Trait addition mods?
Are there any good or comprehensive ones?
With the end of the Unbidden War, here begins the real action - the rush for the unclaimed space left behind by the Unbidden
>>145269318
The evasion nerf to corvettes make it such that fielding the old 300 corvette fleet will result in massive losses now, or not even win at all.
I pretty much just run Cruiser + Battleship fleets now, although starting to move more towards having nothing but Battleships. Even Destroyers don't last long enough to make them worth it.
>>145269710
Was that meant to quote my traits question?
Rate, and no hate.
Where we stand right now.
Hearts of Iron 4 is presently out front, but its first-day peak is still quite pitiful at less than 2/3rds that of Stellaris.
Question, will the sector AI build planet unique buildings?
>>145270146
I hope you name your ship types chicken, liver, meowmix, meowmix, and please deliver.
By the way....
>>145270493
Which one's which?
I... I dunno. They have nice traits as a species, but...
>>145270713
Do eet
>>145270493
Blue = Hoi4 I assume since it came out after stellaris.
Green = Stellaris?
>>145270567
I'm guessing stellaris is green since that would probably be the default colour on steam and it's on top of the list
then hearts of iron would be blue since it comes in late, and that leaves civ 5 for orange
>>145270173
How/where you get this data?
Aren't Pardox take out their titles from a Gmae Sp?
>both planets AND pops increase tech cost
Jesus christ who thought this was a good idea? I'm running at 200% increased tech costs already and it's been 50 years.
>>145271480
I like it, it's more scalable and flexible than if you just made techs more costly as you go deeper into the tech tree and makes being techy demand you to actively specialize in it rather than it being a side effect of blobbing.
One of the few good systems in this game.
>>145271630
You're 100% forced to blob though, you'll never be able to keep up with the AI without a ton of spaceports and pops to increase your naval capacity.
>deactivate gameplay mods to try for achievements
>have a battle where every ship clips through each other
>immediately reactivate them
Game is unplayable without beautiful battles desu.
>>145272080
All that means is you build labs every so often instead of spamming resouce buildings.
>>145266625
Are these compatible with different shiptypes, like Fallen Empire ships?
Age of Wonder 3 just got put up for sale on GoG. Is it worth $10? I've played Civ 3, 4 and 5 quite a bit but haven't touched any other games like it.
>>145271630
While having the 0.25 Influence per month cost for Frontier Outposts mod really helped in this regard, in the game as the Idols I literally sat on 9 total planets for about 70 years. While it did mean that my fleet capacity was pretty low for quite some time, it meant I could research all the way to Tachyon Lances by that time as Pacifists. As a Militarist you'd probably reach there sooner.
Taking that amount of time also meant that I could take my time to terraform all the planets I've found along the way.
>>145272080
But this way teching up early and catching up in wideness vs blobbing early and catching up in tech is an actually meaningful choice.
>>145272340
Aow 3 is pretty fun if you don't mind really bad 3d leader models that makes civ 3 leaders look good.
>>145272340
it's a wargame more than a 4x, but it's a fun one with great tactical battles
fuck shrines of smiting
>>145272349
Expansion stagnation is due to sectors and core planet cap rather than the tech system though.
I just want to be able to trust sector ai to properly develop the planets I feed it.
>>145272492
>>145272680
Thanks.
reminder
>tfw nobody cares about Endless Legend anymore
He came up (you do not write) to offer a little. They hooked him (you do not declare) like a fish. Their knives (you do not suggest) were dark and sharp as the Mountain's daughter. He screamed then (you have not recorded) and they opened their mouths, red and white and rich with treasure. O but the feast was too short: sweet as the stars, bitter as the sun, all with that old redolence (which you might well footnote) of a certain ammonia. He breathed (your ink does not flow) until his vents were stifled with tears. If he had a soul (you might conjecture; you do not conjecture) it would have skipped and sizzled like rich blood on a griddle.
what game details make for the best games?
>>145273213
what did he mean by this?
>>145273234
game settings then
game calls it game details
>>145273291
wow, why is stellaris so unpopular? all my friends are playing it.
I'm never sure what to do when it's time to expand. You get such huge penalties from conquering AI, even if said AI hate each other, that inevitably everyone will turn against you and often form alliances/federations.
How do you deal with it? Do you just say fuck it and take on the entire universe or is there some other way I'm missing?
>>145273342
6.3
And mods can only fix so much.
Mid game being a boring slog and the ui giving zero feedback can't be fixed by mods.
HoI4 looks even more boring though, I really don't see its appeal and I've played eu, vicky, and civ to death.
Does anybody else think there aren't enough names for colonies as a human? Is it just me or do you already get three colonies named Wu Ding by the time you have 1/4 of the galaxy?
I might make a mod to add more.
>>145273587
HOI4 is too easy anon.
Did you try Darkest Hour and its mods?
>>145273850
I only ever played DH with kaiserraich.
I played hoi3 too and the most fun part of that was developing the oob.
>>145274053
Try World in Flames 2 anon.
Its basically ww2 with tweaked campaign for Germany.
USSR ai can actually stall Barbarossa and beat you .
I found some old screenshots of this WWII total war game.
Anyone here actually play it?
Apparently it was some early access thing that died around 2012.
>>145273602
Yeah, on larger galaxies it becomes silly.
>>145274587
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm:_Frontline_Nation
Lets see what i found...
Weird...its gone from Steam?
http://steamcommunity.com/app/98510
>>145274852
Yeah, like I said, literally dead game
>>145274852
What else...torrents are dead...might as well do this. Even if it doesnt work i wont be sad over 1 yuro.
Both game publisher and developer are defunct...and game is in legal limbo.
Steam cannot sell it but they can still host it.
>>145272419
But it isn't you can always blob your way out then turn half of planets into research worlds and get your tech up to date by going to war with smaller but more advance faction and scavenging the shit out of them so blobbing is always a better choice.
>>145275101
Also found it on Kinguin.
Guess it still works.
How can I make the scourge or unbidden stronger? Their puny 80k fleets are like sticks in the end game compare to all the Federation they appear in.
Private colony ship. Is it any good?
>>145275808
make them appear earlier
>>145275959
I think its just a cheaper colony ship where you don't pick ethics, never bothered with it myself
>>145275959
20 minerals or 1 month for no ethic choice is a bad tradeoff anon, not to mention it wastes your research time
>>145276000
>crisises
>appear earlier
I don't think that will *fix* it.
Is the AI competent at auto making ship designs or do I need to do it myself?
Also, best weapons path for mid-late game?
>>145275808
Turn them into repeatable invasions, first wave is 20k second 40k third 80k and like that until you finally die.
Too bad White Wolf doesn't own the rights to Emperor of the Fading Suns anymore.
Stellaris could have been a new version of this
>>145276491
Laser types anon.
Lasers all the way.
The tables have turned, xenofags test their own medicine
>where are your own ayy lmao x-com defense forces now?
>>145274587
I played it. Pirated version.
I think. Or maybe from CD magazine?
It wasn't II world war but modern time.
Think it has scenarios for civil war in USA too but can be wrong.
When does the new stellaris patch come out, is it 1.2?
Jump drive or womhole guys?
>>145276491
Always design yourself. The AI does a really shit job of making them.
>>145257584
Who /pumped/ for the next Civ?
If they really got everything that's in 5 in the basic version, It's going to be awesome! Only those Eureka moments seem to be a bit cheesy.
>>145276491
>Is the AI competent at auto making ship designs
Generally not, depending on what tech you have.
>best weapons path for mid-late game?
Energy. Always. A few reasons:
1) range. Tachyon Lances out-range every other weapon and, combined with the fact that fleets slow down so much in combat, means you can take down quite a lot of shield/hull before the opponent gets in range with puny lesser weapons
2) Energy weapons hit instantly and don't have travel time
3) connected with 2, missiles disappear mid-travel if either their target or the ship they were fired from are destroyed. So in the first case you've wasted precious DPS on a target that doesn't exist anymore.
Missiles and projectiles have slightly better performance against Unbidden and highly shielded targets, but you'll have Disruptors by that point and hundreds of destroyers with Lances so it doesn't even matter.
>>145280779
not him but when is a good point to transition into energy?
>>145280568
>Civ 6
We are playing Endless Legend already, fuck off.
What is the speed of hyperlanes compared to warp? Is there an advantage or does it get fucked late game when warp engines are teched out?
>>145280779
I've taken out 60k fleets with 15k Tachyon lances. It's so easy once you've got a buffer fleet of auto cannons/torpedos.
Tachyon lances need a range nerf or something. They're too good.
>>145280928
As early as possible, frankly. That or survive a fight with a fallen empire relatively early on in the game (even if you lose the war, if you're able to kill off a splinter fleet of say 10-12k in friendly space you'll be able to unlock research the debris for the highest level tech immediately)
>>145281371
The real problem is the AI. Fleets don't properly envelope the enemy, thereby moving all their short-ranged weapons into optimal range. Instead, the AI sends in ships almost one-by-one to get chewed up by Lances. Ships generally need to be faster in the opening stages of combat.
What's the optimal amount of science ships exploring at the start?
>>145282314
3 to 6 depending on location and travel system
Midgame they all go to assist research on planets
>>145281236
Hyperlanes get faster too with time. It's pretty ok late game desu, nowhere near wormhole levels though.
I prefer to play wormhole only games.
>>145281517
Do teh FEs use the same ship blueprint every time?
>>145283838
Yes. They all use Zero-Point Reactors, Phased Disruptors, Tachyon Lances, Hyper Shields and Neutronium Armor, which are all level 5 tech at the end of their respective trees. They also have advanced combat computers, impulse thrusters and either level 3 jump or psi jump drives.
So even if you can't get enough debris from them to unlock the tech fully, if you can take down part of a fleet you can unlock the ability to research those techs, possibly even way earlier than normal.
>>145284182
>They all use Zero-Point Reactors
Which doesn't matter because FE ship loadouts break their power supply limits anyway.
>>145284182
>no point defense
le missiles and torpedo spam faec
>>145284884
Remember: missiles disappear mid-flight if your ship gets destroyed. And they disappear if your target is destroyed. But I mean, sure, the game's easy enough that you can just plow through FE's with whatever tech you want.
>>145284364
Using meme magic?
>>145285123
>missiles disappear mid-flight if your ship gets destroyed
I didn't know that.
But it figures that the paraducks would fuck things up this way.
Does anyone have the government ranking image?
>>145285654
That's why you use fighters, you dumb dino.
>>145257584
is vanilla Stellaris good? is there something I should download from Stellaris OP?
>>145288654
>mega corporation in the middle
What about agendas anon...
>putting 10% research gov above it when 10% research agenda exists
>>145289385
It's mediocre. If you really like space 4x you might get your moneys worth. Paradox said they'll continue patching it and putting expansion packs up so who knows, it could get a lot better or a lot worse.
How do we fix military republics and juntas?
>>145290520
Its simple.
We kill Johan.
Why the fuck do I automatically lose my mining stations without a fight when some shitskin Xeno's expends their stupid bubble?
What the determines borders anyway? Population or military power?
>>145288654
I'd think that military republic would be higher in MP games where people just try to cheese in the early game.
>>145288470
>mfw I spammed tonnes of corvettes and DDs early on and don't want to scrap them all now
>>145290908
pop and planet amount
>>145292850
just upgrade
>>145292850
you can upgrade their designs
>>145292903
Thanks.
Fucking breeder prejudice desu senpai.
>>145293095
>>145293348
>have corvettes and destroyers
>just upgrade to designs that use fighters
>>145293825
You upgrade them to close range ships with PD so your cruisers and BBs don't have to bother with them as much
>>145293825
You can upgrade the dds and corvettes with PD and weapons that work more efficiently with fighters/bombers spam
>>145293825
if you're gonna play with carriers and shit then your DDs and Ks serve as meatshields to defend your hammer and the anvil to occupy the enemy
They also serve as a screen to keep attacks from going to your larger, harder to replace ships since any planet can just shit out Ks and its not hard to get DD stations either
>>145294369
>>145294531
But the FE uses lances and energy weapons.
>have wormhole generator
>build torpedo ram cruisers and destroyers
>line abreast
>charge at enemy fleet
>enemy fleet always stays just out of ramming range trying to lure fleet away from planet
>open wormhole next to enemy fleet
>torpedo ram battleships cruise through after kinetic kill asteroids
Reminder that wormholes would be OP as fuck if they work like they do in Stellaris and aren't intentionally gimped
>>145295335
Fleets can be organized into formations?
What the everliving fuck was the point of rebranding Enemy Starfighter?
>>145299126
AI automatically does shit for range
What endgame traits should my fanatic collectivist pacifist space bees have? I started with conformists, communal and weak.
>>145258229
How do you prevent AI rebellion? Just don't enslave them?
>decide to let the unbidden run wild in my galaxy
>multiple warring unbidden factions spawn claiming they've been chasing each other
>unbidden engage in a war
>most people who doomstack the portal ASAP will never see this
D E E P E S T L O R E
Of all the shit this game fucked up, the flavor isn't one of them.
>>145300290
Are they all hostile?
>>145300290
>implying I want to clean up after multiple unbidden factions instead of just one
Anybody else live in constant fear that you will be defeated because you don't have the APM of a South Korean Starcraft player?
I keep doing things like forgetting to pause time when I'm reading menus, leaving ships idle, forgetting to build things on colonies, etc. How fucked am I?
>>145300602
They're all hostile, including to each other, implying some sort of extradimensional war.
>>145299126
I assume you can just have a fleet of corvettes/destroyers and a fleet of bigger ships with a few escorts and run them in the same general area.
>>145299756
Does the combat Combat AI technology research improve how your ships respond in battle; or is it just a percentage modifier?
>>145300735
Just do what I do. Never play multiplayer.
>>145299907
If you give them full rights, they won't rebel against you.
However, if another empire enslaves it's synths and triggers an AI rebellion, your synths will happily join said rebellion and begin to remove organics, so if you go nuts with synth populations, you'll get fucked even if you treated them really well.
Basically intelligent machines are a mistake.
>>145300290
Is it possible to encounter Unbidden and the Prethoryn Swarm at the same time? Will they fight each other?
>>145301117
no AI improvement, but I'm pretty sure the AI distances ships by weapon range
correct me if I'm wrong
>>145301385
No, only one crisis per game without mods. So once you've got the Swarm you can happily use jump drives or abuse the shit out of your robots.
In 300 months you better look out...
>>145300735
>pause time when I'm reading menus
This is why you're losing. If you're reading the lore, you're not busy pushing buttons.Don't play multiplayer, you twat
>>145302032
>2030
>that research
You should reset anon
Is there something I'm missing?
There were in total 4 habitable planets I found in quarter of the galaxy that were green habitable. All the empires around me have like 8-9 planets in their clusters. I can't even have a continuous borders. Just spots.
>>145302570
Problems weren't I will conquer the galaxy with my particle lances
>>145280779
What about complementing energy with a decent level of missile or proectile weapons? They each have their strengths.
I currently have blue lasers, but I just finished researching nuclear missiles. Should I stop missile tech now and just rush to Tachyon? Also, how do you get crystal weapons?
>>145304390
Scan crystal debris
>>145304497
Are crystal shard-throwers better than missiles in terms of research time to relevant strength?
I spent a whole lot of time and influence points researching Cloud Lightning weapons, and then found out they were worse than blue lasers. I was pissed.
>>145304762
Shards are slightly better than lasers, plasma is better than either
What's the best solution for a spiritual warrior type race? Blood for the blood god style.
Fanatic spiritualist militarist or fantatic militarist spiritualist? And what gov't form?
>>145302032
That's like 30 years. You're gonna miss out on so many other techs that won't even be worth it.
>>145288654
Can I be a cheeky cunt and ask for the other tier lists that have been in the OPs of previous threads; traits, weapon types, etc?
>>145304390
>Not using Kinetic Artillery
>>145295335
DD?
>>145288654
>Ironic Democracy at the top
Is this some sort of meme?
>>145289478
Yeah maybe Oligarchies should all be moved up a bit because of agendas.
Is scanning debris useful enough that it's a big waste to not do it? It's so damn tedious.
I colonized a planet with titanic life but no event or anomaly has popped up to allow me to investigate them and turn them into armies/enrage them so they stampede my colony. What is suppose to trigger that?
>>145305896
Depends. They can give you a good chunk of progress towards certain technologies and they go towards your research so I always go for it.
>>145306038
rng afaik.
I have two titanic life planets.
Triggered on the 2nd one.
They're not that much better than gene warriors anyways.
>>145303830
Anybody? What do when there are no habitable colonizable planets around you?
>>145306803
Terraform.
Settle shitty planets and genemod pops until they like it.
Embrace the tall meme.
>>145307043
I didn't have Terraforming researched. It was 75 years into the game. Also I couldn't settle shittier planets for the same reason - no research.
I couldn't expand to build more research facilities.
Also suppose you colonize two systems 1-2 systems apart. How do you connect the borders? The AI somehow do it magically over large distances.
The Unbidden couldn't have dropped in in a better place.
They landed far away from me, right in between the two largest, most aggressive empires who also happened to both form the two largest alliances in the galaxy; and right besides (literally two systems) next to a FE.
Then they proceeded to kick the shit out of everyone.
Both alliances disintegrated and now everyone is scrambling to be part of the next big bloc. Old rivalries are forgotten and new ones made in a rush to exploit the situation, and almost everyone has completely lost their navy.
Except for me.
>>145307324
Cleanse the galaxy anon, you know it is your duty.
>>145307043
Does tall meme work in Stellaris? haven't tried it
Feels kinda sad tbqh, at least they are lucky I didn't include any purging allowing ethos when I started
>you can't change ethos midgame right?
>>145307549
It breaks the game actually.
Materialists are designed to go tall until they get a breakthrough tech
>>145307279
Borders grow with pops and tech and also attract each other.
>>145307549
You can't win the game since the only VC is blobbing but unless you have some genocidal neighbours you can easily sit on your homeworld for 50 years teching like mad before expanding.
Most games I don't even go past my core planet limit (+tech) by the time I've subjugated the galaxy on small-medium maps.
>>145307279
Research shit like manifest destiney
>>145307591
>fuck.
>>145307810
I'm in pretty late game and I still haven't researched that, as I've read that it won't affect future borders, just the present ones. Once I integrate some disloyal vassal bastards I'll do that research
>>145308019
>as I've read that it won't affect future borders, just the present ones
What?
It's just a flat bonus to your border projection radius multiplier.
>>145307810
>>145307767
I got rekt by my neighbor neighbor. He pulled 12 planets of his preferred type out of his ass.
Feels pretty unfair.
>>145305570
Happiness boosting is the meme.
Here's something I just recently realized about xenophobe slaver empires, which can breed trouble once slave revolts are fixed and enabled. You do NOT want negative ethics divergence on your slave races. If they have, they'll drift towards your ethics, which will also make them xenophobes. And once they are xenophobes, they have a -20% Alien Overlords happiness modifier. Which will make them unhappy unless you've done something to improve slave happiness, and likely lead to revolts.
Of course, if you enslaved xenophobes, they'll probably be on the barricades from day one. And you'll want individualists even less, they take multiple happiness hits from various collectivist policies, and will probably be in perpetual revolt. Best slaves probably are collectivist non-xenophobes.
>when grumpy stagnant prudes declares war on one of your federation buddies because he researched artificial intelligence
>when the entire galaxy unites to fight for the right to have fully sentient AI sexbots
>>145308850
Xenophobe was never about alien slavery
Its about purging Xenos and going democracy...just like Americans
>>145308667
The only meme in town
>>145309479
Xenophobes are the guys with the +50% alien slavery tolerance.
>>145309479
Americans is literally anything but xenophobe
>be space americans
>can't purge that's not freedom-like
>get hippie pops
>open migration agreements with other empires
>hippie get out
>like-minded pops comes in
What would you advise a beginner in stellaris?
>>145308850
So you want collectivist xenophiles are your slave-race?
>>145310537
Get a refund
>>145310537
git gud
>>145310092
They are also pissed off if they share the planet with aliens you enslaved.
If you want to enslave aliens go spiritualist
>>145310316
>be United Fruit Company
>Guatemala decides to raise taxes on exported bananas
>call the goverment and ask for a coup because raising taxes means communism
>they actually do it
>civil war lasted 36 years
>bananas didn't cost more
Truly a victory for freedom loving Americans
>>145307591
>>145307953
I'm in the opposite boat as you.
>disgusting commie squids with pathetic-tier technological equivalence to me encroaching on my western border, where there are ancient relic sites I've yet to claim
>want to go Desu Vult on them
>find out they're a vassal to some space Jews (big-nosed mammalian, xenophile, individualist, materialist, plutocratic oligarchy)
>kinda like the space Jews because they're just chill and want to trade resources
>still want to kill the rude commie squids because they will likely expand on my research territory
>don't want to risk going to war with the space Jews
Damn. I've established an embassy with the Jews already, so is there some way to peacefully convince them to dump a vassal, or am I going to have to do it the hard way?
>>145310712
Xenophiles, I recall, while whine a little (but not much) about some default xenophobe policies like primary species only leaders and aggressive first contact protocols. Optimally your slaves are xeno-nothings.
>>145311010
Spiritualists, I seem to recall, will be pissed off at having slaves in general, because the ethic doesn't lessen slave tolerance at all. I believe collectivists are the best slavers.
>>145311779
Collectivists are the best slavers.
Spiritualists have government which gives 100% tolerance empire wide - filthy xenos included.
>>145311010
>Guatemala decides to raise taxes on exported bananas
>US fuck their shit up
Freedom of the greater many to enjoy the fruits (heh) of unrestricted trade compared to those limited few who will benefit from the taxes.
Freedom ain't free.
Whats the cheapest way to get CIV dlc. I bought the original game for $15 at the store and the only DLC I got was the Mongols/Khan. I don't care about most of it, but I would like BNW and GaK at least. But $30 a piece is more than I want to spend.
>>145311945
Oh, I hadn't looked at all the govt modes hard enough. Divine Mandate is just +50% tolerance though... but I wonder if it stacks to +100% in a Collectivist Spiritualist Divine Mandate.
>>145312096
>buying from steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuofaDxa6Oo
>>145312286
You havent also doubled the bonuses since advanced governments double the effects.
>>145312096
Wait for Steam summer sale?
top kek I didn't know the unbidden had no PD
>>145312396
I bought the game from a local big box store. I would rather not buy from steam if I don't have to
>>145305452
>not knowing hull classifications
>>145313428
Then you shouldve bought it from GoG or simply pirated it.
Why would you buy it from the store in the first place.
>>145312286
It does
One of my races is collectivist fanatic spiritualist divine mandate min/maxed for maximum happiness with slaves.
If I wanted to make due with only 50% slavery tolerance until trancendent empire I could even swap collectivist for something else and just deal with less than 90% happiness with slaves for a while.
Too bad paracucks is changing spiritualist to -ethics divergence. I'll have to make a new happiness empire then.
I just got through my first game of Distant Worlds. Just me and three AIs, nothing special.
I'm liking it so far. Are there any mods I can install that don't deviate from vanilla or should I spend more time getting a handle on unmodded DW?
UI mods would be nice as well.
>>145314075
There's distant worlds extended universe which adds a fuckload of races and shit.
It's pretty much the actual vanilla game.
>>145314075
DasChrome UI is leagues ahead of vanilla.
AI improvement mod 1.04 for optimized AI behaviour templates, (that also affect the automation for player) and ship designs. 1.05 has the Expanded mod (which is fun but also clusterfuck) integrated so you may want to stay away from that for now.
Drag-and-drop the UI mod contents over the AI mod to merge them.
Make sure your game is updated.
>This unbidden thing pops up during one of my wars
>suddenly all the hippyfags and their shit alliances/federations who I had to fight off one by one in constant defense wars since the beggining want to be my friends
>How the tide has turned
I have Divine Mandate and spiritualist ethos. Will my synth will be spiritualist too and be unhappy about AI rights like rest of my population?
>>145312286
>Divine Mandate is just +50% tolerance though... but I wonder if it stacks to +100% in a Collectivist Spiritualist Divine Mandate.
Yes. But it doesn't stack with xenophobic 50% xenos slavery, my pops become unhappy about xenos slavery.
>>145315647
50 + 50 does not equal 100 according to paradox. It's irritating.
>>145257731
Because unless you double the trait's effects the result is too small to give a shit about.
>>145305896
Depends what debris.
Early game scanning mining drones is nice. Their laser cheaper research wise as 100% penetration laser.
Crystalline elites are must because of crystalline forged hull.
Empires debris depends on their tech you can really cut research. But if you see after scans that you are not getting any tech from them, or tech that you don/t want (like weapon you are not gonna use or research) you may want to stop.
>>145257731
>what is sectors killing any micromanagement and optimization
>>145316845
>Empires debris depends on their tech you can really cut research.
It can be a decent way to transition if you've focused on engineering tech weapons and then you jump over to energy from the scanned debris.
>>145316614
25% research, 50% mineral and 30% energy is nothing to scoff at
>>145257731
>because sectors
>>145311192
Why do you think the squids are advancing anon?
They were asked by the space Jews.
Purge them both.
Started wormholes games and instantly found big problem of it. getting crystal plating. You want to scout elites soon after early game before AI empires kill them but linted range of wormholes really cut your ability to move freely around galaxy. You will be forced to dump a lot of really precious for this stage of game resources to reach those pulsars.
>>145318601
Wormhole generators cover a pretty large range and having them built will be good if you eventually go to war with someone and it's been laying dormant in their territory.
>>145313591
$15 instead of $30.
>>145322016
$30 to GMG, Humble, or GoG > $15 to Steam
dont fall for the jewish trap of saving money
>>145322016
And yet its on G2A for 10 yuros..thats 12 bux?
>>145314714
How have you not conquered 3/4 of the universe by 2400?
>>145314714
>constant defense wars
>Huge blob of an empire
I'm not buying what you're selling, you filthy imperialist.
>>145324304
>They attack him
>He defends himself
>Takes more territory so he has stronger borders
>Planet with Mineral Rich modifier
>It has no mineral tiles
>>145318601
I'm not sure about that. In my game, the AI left !two! seperate Elite spawns alone - one was even inside an empire's territory already.
Suffice to say, as a wormhole user I made a beeline straight for the one outside that empire, and managed to kill them before they came under control of another empire.
...prey...
>>145257584
can you get dlc for civ games like in paradox games(eu4)? I have most of the DLC but i'm missing brave new world and my friend wont play without it.
>>145326602
>planet with +5 habitability and +15 happiness
>but also -10 habitability, -5 happiness
I want interstellar meta-being fights against warships. Or at leaat to let us mod the damned thing paracucks. They already have organics flying in space why not super beings of your race make it super costly and require at least 2 or 3 pops to acheive.
Also they need to add revolt options to certain factions to j fluence their revolt.
>>145300290
>No screenshot
One job
After initially being boxed in by 3 fallen empires I have risen to galactic dominance. I provoked one of them early on and researched their tech which I then used to destroy them. I purged the ring world FE completely and have populated it with humans. The other two FE's I enslaved, but I purged their gaia homeworlds the Celestial Throne and Cradle/Mother/Brother and settled humans on them. No crisis have occured yet and I've had psi jump drives researched for a couple decades.
I've circled alliances and federations in the same color and I've marked with a green X the nations next on my list to either conquer or liberate. The Avabbian Council has been my steadfast ally since I stepped out from the shadows of the Fallen Empires. The Hissma Star Accord shares our spiritualist ethic and I've been trying to boost relations but my genocide hasn't helped. They're also in an alliance with two tiny nations and I don't know how to break it up. I'm tempted to try and just join their alliance and then invite the Avabbian Council in but I'm worried that won't work. The Imari Empire and their alliance are our largest rivals power wise. I think we have the technological edge but they have larger fleets. The nations circled in red are a federation and have been the target of several wars with myself and the Avabbian's, our mutual disdain for the Meko'Nass (space foxes) brought about our alliance.
Ethics are Militarist, Spiritualist, Xenophobic and my government is a Transcendant Empire.
r8 my borders/intergalactic empire
>>145335925
Sedentary > Weak
So, these are Yeerk-infested Gedd, right?
Could someone suggest a good name for the Nommo homeworld?
>>145337217
Disgusting , those black worms are actual parasites that grow on certain freshwater snails and fish , my aquarium had them and lost like 12 fish to them
PURGE
>>145337405
Trilar
>>145337609
Oh, I meant the Nommo of Dogon mythology, not... whatever those are.
>>145337217
I thought Gedd were basically the training-wheels version of a host for younger Yeerks? Any Yeerk with Gedd hosts would be too young to be leaders.
>>145337825
Yeerk and Gedd occupy the same homeworld -- though I can't for the life of me recall if the homeworld was named in the books.
Kandrona would have been their sun, right?
>>145337405
I've been mixing the Nommo together with the Vril-ya and Nibiru.
Empire: Vril Society.
Species: Vril-ya.
Planet: Nommo.
Star: Nibiru.
Leader Title: Hogon.
>>145337465
I had some sort of fungus rip its way through my 75 gallon take I had as a kid, with a good few dozen fish. A bunch of my fish got infected one day. Some sort of white, wispy stuff growing out of the poor little dudes' gills.One morning I awoke to see that the plague had begun to eat their eyes. There were only a handful of survivors.
>>145338031
Forgot their portrait.The glowing blue eyes are supposed to represent the vril-energy.
>>145337465
>>145338260
I had a friendly little betta fish that lived for a good many years before quietly passing away of old age.
>Literally every civ denounced me on the same turn
>>145338714
I named him 'Gyarados.'
>>145338559
I see that in the game, now, this species has a crown option in their hairstyles.
What's up with that?
>>145336210
My space chips are on the Imari Empire becoming stronger than you
>>145342186
>rooting for burds
baka, the intergalactic cold war is starting to heat up though as they've declared war on two of their neighbors and will probably take a large chunk out of them for the second time.
I need to get some more allies, if I go to war with the Imari Empire there's another federation that is going to declare on me, they're just biding their time.
>>145343237
>Militant, Fanatic Collectivists
I'm going to double down on those space chips because they need more slaves for the avian cause.
this game is shit
>dicking around in Hearts of iron, new to the series
>czechs declare war on hungary
>this triggers the poland
>poland declares war on germany
>WWII begins
And thats how my great reich ended. by dickings from the UK.
where is the whites only mod
>>145346680
What are you a racist?
Check archive you cunt.
>>145347592
what number
it lags pretty hard on my browser
>>145347937
What vesrion do you use? 1.1?
>>145348150
yes
>Titanic Life (human)
>Titanic life (droid)
oh god yes I can create jaegers/wh40k titans
When should one start a war? I´m still in the early game with 16 covettes and two neighbors who are equal in strength with me. Researching Destroyers rigth now.
Kinda want to start early with seizing territorry.
>>145348329
Then check previous threads. There is somewhere working version of separate humans with some bonus uploaded.
>>145348406
>Xenomorph drone
This game is so fucking retarded
>>145329618
Bumping with this question again
>>145348329http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/r08Y87vu/file.html
All DLC or bonus forum sets unlocked plus some bonus. Just unpack in Stellaris/mod and don't froget check if loaded as mod.
Work at 1.1b and 1.1
>>145348406
>Titanic Life (human)
Someone's been watching Attack on Titan...
>>145348406
A lot of the troops and troop modules are breddy confusing.
If my army is a Psi Army, why am I attaching Psi Warriors to it?
If my army is an assault army made out of droids, 《how》 am I attaching Psi Warriors to it?
I'm getting bored of Stellaris endgame, is there a mod that makes it more interesting or at least makes the crisis real threats ?
>Made aztec burds
>Don't have the energy to play them
Guess it's time to wait for patches and content
Do selfbuild empires show up in the game as AI empires? Spend yesterday evening building around 10 of them.
>>145351863
I take the attachments to mean separate more focused/specialized units being attached to the army. Like psi warriors being attached to an army would be like an attachment of grey knights from warhammer 40k being sent in alongside some imperial guard or something. In the case of droids it'd be like adding in some jedi to your droid army unit. The attachments are cool and I wish surface fighting was a little more fleshed out/important. It'd be a cool system if they somehow made your choices of space warfare impact your ground warfare and vice versa, like army and naval doctrines.
If my civilization has used mass waves of units in conflict throughout history that could reflect in someway in our space navy or if we've taken a more specialized approach, focusing on efficiency and equipment to amplify one individuals fighting power could reflect in our ships. We'd rather build a ship with a ton of guns or a ship with lots of fighters/bombers for example..
As of right now the galaxy just reaches a point where everyone is using the same thing, gene warriors and tachyon lances.
Also you shouldn't be able to build every possible type of army, it makes having the choices kind of pointless. Every army type besides the basic assault and defence should require a building like the clone armies do with Clone Vats. Robot armies should require a manufacturing plant, psionic armies some sort of jedi training school, gene warriors should require an expensive space marine-like training and enhancement facilities. Slave armies should require the slave building that already exists that boosts their mineral and food output. They could implement a mercenary army that requires the virtual combat arena and since it's a mercenary army each unit built has different random stats, might be more HP or it might have more attack power, or it might be weaker than a regular assault army, you won't know until you recruit it but it'd be cheaper than other armies.
>>145352702
They have a chance to, or you can click the little bird next to them to force them or disable them
I replaced the pirates in my DW game with Chirpies
>>145353956
Should have used the jewnose slugs.
If you wanna try a really good 4x space game buy Predestination of steam it's really fucking good
![au_character_insideout_bio_disgust_b2c9b79d[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bcGpC8Z.jpg "au character insideout bio disgust b2c9b79d[1]")
>>145354217
>predestination
>>145354217
t. predestination dev
>>145267210
It pauses engineering research whenever you're searching debris. If you're not getting anything out of it you shouldn't do it.
>>145336210
It's not an intergalactic empire.
>>145354412
doesn't matter, it stocks up research points and then it goes faster for a while after the pause, making up for it
>>145257584
Should the Stellaris mods in the mod folder be separated in folders or can I just dump all files in there?
>>145354526
research storage is bugged though
or did they fix it in 1.1?
>>145263392
>anime
gay
>>145352792
Sorry, but where are those birds? I can´t to find them in the creation menu.
>>145355651
you can just dump the files
>playing civ 5 with friends, one of them fairly new
>guy always complains about barbarians
>every single game
>lets restart, barbarians fucked me up
>never builds a military but just rushes wonders
>"restart guys"
reeeee
>>145354217
>buy
>>145357168
now I remember why I don't play 4x with others
>>145357483
the worst encounter I had
>other friend picks babylon
>oh boy here we go
>I random pocatello myself
>build great library myself (based plains start and extra pop from ruins)
>figure babylon friend can keep up with science since he's babylon
>"you stole great library from babylon? i'm quitting."
>refuses to play with us for a week
Why the fuck can't I move my ships in Stellaris to one side of the galaxy to another using wormholes? I mean, I have two very distant pieces of "space", but still can't get ships to reach the side I need to keep searching in and colonizing (I should point out that the piece of territory is gained cause I built the wormhole and defence station in that spot)
>>145356246
The little phoenix looking thing next to each custom race on the select menu
Little update for those wondering how i've been doing in the Huge, Ellipse, 39 Advanced Aggressive AI Insane challenge (yes, the whole 2 of you)
I actually managed to survive for a fuckton of time, both by using embassies and giving occasional gifts to my neighbouring overlords, all while focusing on tech almost exclusively to get Sentient AI asap.
Once i got the Synths rolling, i tried to expand beyond my starting Frontier Outposts (did i mention more than 50% of the map is covered by AIs by default with these settings?), but border friction was a bitch to my diplomatic status.
The fuckers declared war and forced me to retreat and colonize as many nearby planets as possible (and fill them with robots of course), also spending like 50k minerals to rebuild what the invaders pillaged and raped.
Now the turtling continues, and the Synths tile yelds (thanks to share the burden and happiness) are almost doubled, so i'm researching useful shit like Energy and core planets. If i'll survive another century i'll let you know.
Is there a cap on how long a leader can live? or could they theoretically reach 9999 years of life after tons of +5 years lifespan researches?
>>145357627
>"you stole great library from babylon? i'm quitting."
If i fucked up early game and haven't killed any crystal entities, can i still harvest the technology from AI fleets?
>>145358365
Dude literally expected me to just let him sit there and let him get 1000s years ahead in tech
He plays egypt and poland too
>>145358983
They dont research debrises so you fucked up hard.
>>145354217
>Predestination
It looks like crap. Ascendacy looks better and was made like 20 years ago.
Damn I am old.
>>145357947
Looks interesting.
>>145358983
No.
Go for shields. Pro tip: shields get huge buff when you research capacitors. they start to regen in combat with capacitors. Tooltip numbers are regen per day.
Did my game bug? There's these two factions that have 1 member in them but they keep fucking sabotaging shit and it's driving me nuts.
is there a way to find a specific tech to research.
i came all the way to the repeatable techs but i cant find engos refinery tech. i am using techupdate command but it is not appearing
>>145361456
Resource techs have various prerequisite techs that aren't immediately obvious.
Plus I think they have a high base chance and a high multiplier if you have them in your borders.
>>145362004
Low base chance, I mean.
>>145362082
And yeah, unless you have a resource within your borders you'll never get the its respective tech.
I'm not sure but this may also apply to systems within borders of empires that you have contact with.
So if you don't have it yourself and don't have contact with anyone that has it, you'll never ever get it.
>>145362260
Lookinh at the rest of the file, the only resources you can get without having them in your borders are the non-clustered ones i.e. batarian stone, neutronium, dark matter, satrameme and the spice.
/pol/ here.
Guess the race.
>>145363552
Here's the race I made for myself.
>>145363552
>>145363679
>>145311192
>>145318482
Current map.
Also, I've only got 14 pops and 2 planets; while the Shekelians have 30 pops and 4 planets.
Fuck.
>>145363803
At least I'm about to claim this black hole that gives me +9 Physics research.
>find one of my self made empires
>they rival me
>tfw
>>145257584
>tfw ghengis is a better ally than the chinese PMS-cunt
Can I get influence by waging wars? My Rivalrys give nothing and my leaders are dying off.
What´s worse, nobody wants an alliance.
>>145363679
You fuck up. No purging allowed?
Do you even /pol/?
>>145364178
Protectorates give 1Inf per month.
Scrap some fontier outpost or/and rival stronger ones.
>>145270146
i was thinking about making space khajiit.
what traits should i choose?
These tiny groups with ZERO support being able to sabatoge is fucking retarded.
Next game I'm going with a government that allows Purge and purging every single fucking xeno in the galaxy.
>gsg dies
>stellaris survives
classy.
>>145358983
>>145359047
I haven't encountered Elite Crystals in a single game. Ever.
>>145363552
>>145363679
is there any way to make the text you enter as empire description appear for other players in multiplayer? or to enter the first greeting text?
I'm just wondering what is the point of that text if no one gets to read it.
>>145366380
What?
/gsg/ is kill?
What happned?
>>145366935
You must be quick. In 1.1 patch AI hunt nautrals fast. Especially if there are advanced AI.
>>145366935
Try to find all pulsar you can see.
Normally they are at pulsars which are near to the center of the galaxy or at the outer rim.
With luck, kill them in two pulsars will fully get you the tech.
>>145367542
>What?
>/gsg/ is kill?
>What happned?
Johan happened.
50 dead, 53 injured.
Hey just got Stellaris is there anyway to make pic related in the game and if so how would you do it?
>>145364318
Nomadic, thrifty
>>145366380
>both have no good games
>both generals are kill
>this surprising anyone
>http://steamcommunity.com//workshop/filedetails/?id=687568786
Have anyone tried this mod yet?
What is your input?
>>145369414
it definitely doesnt make the game not shit
>>145369567
But the question is does it make the shit smells better?
>>145362260
How does research leader trait work? Scientist need to be just in the pool or he needs to work on particular field?
>>145370042
The latter.
How NON collectivist fight degeneracy i mean ethics divergence? Distance from capital penalty is huge for galactic wide empire 30-40%. Only collectivist can stack enough to counter that (ministry of benevolence, commissars, mind control laser).
>>145368992
I don't think ther is a wy to make a crayon-drawn birdman in this game, sorry.
You can play as a parrot with a fishbowl spacesuit helmet, though.
>>145366935
>I haven't encountered Elite Crystals in a single game. Ever.
>""""""superior""""" wormhole i scout galaxy in 2350 detected
>>145369414
>Improved space monsters
>by making them stronger
but why
>>145370215
>Only collectivist can stack enough to counter that
Nod really.
Cucklectivist has problems getting their pops to joyful which by itself alleviates the ethics problem a lot.
Beyond that conformist trait helps a lot, as do lythuric gas chambers.
>>145369841
a little
>>145368992
Commission a portrait of it and add it to the game yourself if you want it. Find someone on deviantart that will do it that draws in an artstyle you think would look nice in the game.
>>145368992
And here I am, still wonder how can I make a back ground transparent.
>tfw my run doesn't have space whales
Thank you fanatical purifiers occupying the universe, I can only assume you took the effort to wipe this galactic menace out
>>145370694
Joyfull bonus is fine but would be only on your race, and only with specifics builds. Any conquered race have other ethics often non-compatible with yours they are unhappy they will never get -20% bonus, never convert and be always bitching.
>Beyond that conformist trait helps a lot
Yeah so we have 3 very spesific builds
1. Picking conformists
2. Playing collectivists
3 . Playing happiness stacking builds and always maintaining joyfull bonus and trying to not conquer opposite ethos.
All other middle grounds can't hold really big empires they will turn into shit with bitching POPs. And really only collectivists can blob without any problems without care about where and what they consume.
>>145370526
I've never even had a Pulsar placed in a way that would allow me to reach it first, or without fighting my way through a FE or some shitty 'lol i war u' AI.
>>145339857
>Siam's city placement
>>145357627
>not building stonehenge
>>145372980
I wonder if he denounced china, ottoman and rome.
They're clearing forward settling him.
>>145362260
>>145362082
>>145362004
thanks dudes. it was strange getting a straight answer from this fucking thread.
>>145362346
spice?
>>145370215
They dont.
Doesbt matter anyway
>>145371398
Ethics divergence does jack shit mostly.
You can set it to x1000 and empires will still be stable as fuck
>modify game so unbidden can invade even if there already is another crisis going on
>scourge start fucking shit up on one side
>unbidden pop up a few years later and fuck up the other side of the galaxy
>just turtle in not giving a fuck on a large chunk of a galactic arm
>nobody fucks with me because they are pissing themselves over the unbidden/scourge like the pansies that they are
>faggots form federations and start begging me to join non stop
>"P-Please m-mister we didn't mean that thing we said about your ethics a few hundred years ago."
>keep telling them to fuck off
>occasionally smack the scourge when they get too rowdy
>bully unbidden for their weapons
>finally satisfied with my fleet and start shitting on neighbors
>mfw I became the third galactic crisis
>>145373361
I honestly hope they never improve Civ AI, because most of the fun from single player is watching them be autisitc
>>145370215
Ethics divergence doesn't matter much as long as you keep pops happy. Even then, if they start complaining too much just purge.
>>145371398
>not resettling your race to the conquered worlds and purging the xeno scum.
>>145370431
>>145371057
>>145371163
Sorry I should of been more specific I wanted to know if I could make a species like the Arrakoa from WoW.
>>145375657
You could. With a little work those could be portraits. Depends how much you care about art consistency, though. Look up how to add your own portraits to Stellaris.
>>145374658
You are collectivists then or xenophobe whose POPs turns xenophile after they leave capital planet.
>>145375843
Sorry again, I am not too concerned about the portraits I mean more like statwise and traitwise. I want to recreate the Apexis civilization.
>>145376002
>the Apexis civilization
The what?
>>145378965
the apexis civilisation!. Jesus christ. Normies these days dont know shit!
>>145379725
>Normies these days
>these days
Your reference to a forgotten part of a WoW expansion from ten years ago is not relevant 'these days'.
But yes, you can play as birdmen.
>>145380170
dont look at me you gay homo lala man
>>145379725
Degenerate
Wait is that a bug how do I have 2 capital worlds? The 2nd one is the planet I recently conquered and it's also capital and I get normal capital world bonuses.
>>145380341
>gay homo lala man
Listen here, nigga:
You can either counter my arguments or go back to fapping to badly drawn jaina and thrall porn.
>>145381814
It's the capital for your conquered species.
>>145382031
That's possible? I've never seen this before, well tbf this is my first non purging game.
>>145382012
>badly drawn
nigger that are ARTISTS!
Can you pirate DLC for Civ5? Is there a mega like /gsg/
>Playing as my Tau Mary Sue
>Find a pre sentient bird people and uplift them
My Kroot aw yeah nigga
>>145383587
>Tau
>anything but fanatical collectivist materialists
Tau purged as many species as they assimilated, famalam.
>>145384674
No proofs ;^)
>>145383491
I want to know this aswell
>>145383491
I have a separete pirate installation of civ5 with all of the dlc and then I have vanilla civ5 on steam.
You can pirate.
No mega.
>>145385806
Thanks
>>145363803
I just discovered the Fanatic Xenophobe/Collectivist mushroom race called Gruul that I created.
They are at war with another empire I haven't discovered yet.
>>145385806
Do i just have to have it seperate from the steam version, and it uses the DLC? Or what? Im somewhat unsure what you did. I want the DLC on my steam version so I can play with my friend.
>>145391135
then buy it you faggot.
>>145391135
I had it seperate.
I don't know if you can have the dlc on the steam version to play with your friend.
Would anyone be interested in a 4x discord channel?
>>145392275
>discord
>>145392612
It's easy to use and isn't bloated like skype is now. What's the problem?
>Playing warp or hyperlane only games so I can use something other than wormhole without feeling stupid for using something other than wormhole
Fucking wormholes are better than the standard jump drive, why?
>>145393498
you can jump over enemy territory and can't with jump drives or psi jump drives
Any improvements since release? Or is it still kinda barebones? Does warhammer mode add just a bunch of portraits/names or also some gameplay stuff?
>>145392612
>>145392275
discord is pretty dope
I use it for ERPing
Which ethics and which government types do you think are the most fun to play?
Any mods for planetary defenses yet? Something like massive cannons able to inflict damage on fleets bombing you.
>>145392275
>>145392612
>>145395412
If anyone would be interested in using one, there is a discord up now for /4xg/. If it doesn't get much use ill just delete it in a couple days
https://discord.gg/014V1rdhFGXqtsLce
It really gets unfun when the computer can't fight it's own wars. Starts a bunch and then expects ME to micromanage everything while he sits his fleet on mine. Fucking cuntbag.
>>145397010
asimov will fix it
>>145276126
>crises
>>145392712
Teamspeak is easier, better, and has a feature for autists that can't hold down PTT - a delay for disabling PTT. :^)
>>145399170
DIscord is 99% typing communication like IRC. Fuck teamspeak and hearing retards talk.
>>145305418
what game is that screen from?
>>145399834
>not having played eve
You really missed out on something very unique in gaming anon
>>145399960
I dont like games on subscription basis thats why I never tried it
>>145399960
I guess if you started early.
I had friends telling me how anyone can jump in and be useful.
Wasn't fun flying in a shitty ship for months and being a bee.
>>145400064
but anon you can grind for 40 hours a week to buy time with isk
CIV VI INFO WHEN
>>145400601
Would love to but I cant invest that much time per week into a game
>>145400064
It's not so difficult to play it for free.
>>145400152
No. It is the ultimate sandbox, it rewards initiative heavily. If you simply jump into the treadmill thinking it another themepark mmo, of course you'll have a dull time.
It is a uniquely glorious game, with experiences you can't have in any other game. Not even a tenth.
>>145400601
it doesnt take 40 hours a week, don't be a shitter
>>145400651
After you pre-purchase it.
>>145401020
I already did that!
so where is the stellaris patch that adds diplomacy?
the game is addicting as fuck, but I once again reached a point where the only option to advance is war.
>>145301838
This is so shitty, I wish I could see an all out war between machines, tentacle monsters and the Unbidden
>>145401827
I don't for the life of me know why Paradox only decided to use leaders as basically stat boosts for planets/fleets/armies.
Why not allow for each nations leaders to engage in relations with one another? Implement something like CK2 noble relations, only with alien names and titles. This kind of diplomacy can also tie into the current quest system, giving the player something to actually DO in the mid game, where borders are closing and moods switching around. Help nations in exchange for favors or wage proxy wars with independent pawns.
Right now it's just a single number you can weigh with embassies or rivalries.
>>145402876
This is where they fucked up.
They made the game too much 4x and not enough CK2
>>145402985
But CK2 is garbage. We need a more in depth economic system like in Victoria 2. None of this incest garbage that is only relevant in medieval times. Diplomacy on a galactic scale would not revolve around whether or not my leader is married to some vassal's daughter who is also my aunt or whatever weird shit goes on in that game.
CK2 is about characters because there are no nation states. Stellaris has nation states on a galactic scale, with hundreds of billions of people in the galaxy. We need more ECONOMY, DO YOU HEAR ME PARADOX?? STOP WITH YOUR FUCKING SWEDISH KEK BULLSHIT AND INCEST FANTASIES
>>145402985
>CK2 in space
goddamn how hard is it to understand that the appeal of scifi is the characters interactions with all the fancy tech and each other. Not just spaceships and bonuses.
>>145402876
I understand they didn't included noble relations like in CK, building marriage ties with xenos would be probably too much even for Swedes. However space dynasty sim in style of W40 or Dune would be great.
They promised to add some diplomacy in next patch. Proxy wars would be nice, currently I can't even properly subsidize my allies. I also miss trade with technologies like in Distant Worlds.
>>145403690
>goddamn how hard is it to understand that the appeal of scifi is
wat
the appeal of scifi comes to fruition if you shoehorn the ck2 character system into stellaris
even if it doesnt make any sense
there's a hundred things missing from this game, but I'd put incest politics at a low priority
>no internal economy on a planet
>no internal economy between planets
>no external economy and trade between empires with actual trade ships and routes that can be raided
>>145403648
Shut up with this marxist bullshit. Actions even on a nation-state are taken by individuals and you bet that the personal opinions, relations and so on of politicians play a huge part on state affairs. Seriously, go read that Sleepwalkers book, most interesting reading I had in a long time, and really opened my eyes to this matter
so, Stellaris was the first paradox game I've ever played, and while it looked good to begin with it got stale incredibly quickly. I'm pretty much just hoarding resources, building ships, starting wars, expanding, repeat. it honestly feels like cookie clicker in space, zero thought, zero depth, zero micromanagement.
when people say Paradox games are complicated, are they just retarded or are there Paradox games that require brain activity?
if I want a strategy or a 4x game that isn't just "click to expand borders" where should I go? is Distant Worlds good, is Aurora good?
>>145405136
>when people say Paradox games are complicated, are they just retarded or are there Paradox games that require brain activity?
The others are a little better imo, but mostly it's the width rather than the depth that turns people away.
Not to say there isn't any depth.
I think stellaris might need stuff like civilization production.
>>145399537
>>145399170
Nah i'm not big on the idea of being in a voice channel with everyone in 4xg
>>145403690
Your opinion is just wrong. The appeal of sci fi is fancy crazy advanced technology, spaceships shooting at each other in massive battles, and just things in general being on a massive scale. Ringworlds, city ships, weapons, etc. I don't want to have to deal with planetary governors revolting because they don't like me enough because that's in no way how a government would function on a galactic scale. In CK2 people are following people but in any era after the medieval people follow the government/state and not just individuals.
>>145405110
>marxist bullshit
Anon are you retarded? The modern nation-state and the form it would take if we were acting on a galactic scale has nothing to do with communism. Yeah sure individuals are the ones doing the things the state wants accomplished but it's the will of the state empowered by those who allow it to govern (the people) that is at work. It's why individuals do things that aren't in their best interest you fucking retard. CK2 era "i'm gonna do whatever is best for me" doesn't work in any era after the medieval times.
For example a state governor is never going to revolt against the United States because they didn't get along with the President. There's too many complicated and intricate institutions at work and that would only get more complicated and developed on a galactic scale.
is X3 Reunion worth getting if I already have Terran Conflictand hate the plot of the X games?
>>145404474
Ah, I get it.
I should have clarified, I meant to say a system similar to CK2. Instead of being all about inbreeding and assassination, it would instead be about space stuff.
>>145405136
>is Distant Worlds good
Yes
>>145314714
>fast forward a few years
>Finally on the offensive, taking over all pleb hippie nations left and right
>Still no idea what that unbidden thing is, if it's even strong or anything, it just takes over some territory and doesn't really mind with my own system
>Years later get a pop up explaining that FE on the left closed some portal and did some good shit
Okay... Alright then, only thing I noticed is that the FE's fleet is inferior compared to mine
So, what are the most important things you guys think Stellaris is missing right now?
For me it's in depth diplomacy and trading, not to mention fucking espionage. Paradox made quite a few games with interesting mechanics on this matter, wouldn't be to hard adapting them here. I bet they already have this stuff planned and are just waiting to sell it as DLC.
>>145406303
I'm too scared to turn off any automation.
I still don't understand how ship design works.
But I like seeing all the civvies go about their business.
>>145406179
You are probably in the wrong thread, anon.
Also, no, TC is literally Reunion with more stuff (that mostly came from mods). Play the non-story starts.
Get Albion Prelude if you want a new game, but avoid Rebirth because it's bad.
>>145406407
More indepth economic and supply systems. Pops should be tied to things like armies and fleet size. I shouldn't be able to build hundreds and hundreds of gene warrior armies if I've got 1 planet but currently you can. They need to implement some hearts of iron-like infrastructure and I like the differentiation between civilian and military industry in hoi4. Would be neat in stellaris if it was more than just "do you have enough energy and minerals to build X? Then go ahead"
why are my pops suddenly changing ethics?
now theres separatist factions popping up all over the place and i can't stop it.
>>145405136
Everything pre eu4 was complicated just because of how much was hidden behind the scenes
Ck2 was their first mildly accessible game because you're role playing a character
Eu4 is a lot simpler than most people think. And much to the chegrin of their original fans they keep pushing games in the direction of casual accessibility, making them devoid of actual challenge in the process.
Being accessible is fine. Being brain dead easy because you're too scared to challenge the player isnt.
>>145408132
Prob high ethics divergence (in the red) Try to suppress/ lower it with government policies, specific buildings, edicts etc.
>>145408132
>ethics divergence
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Ethos
>>145406059
Oh sorry it really has nothing to do with communism, it's just a rant against marxist historians constant focus on large economical process instead of decisive individual action.
Anyway, I disagree that these politicians and the like are just the performers of the will of the state or the people. There is after all not a single monolithic will in place, the process of decision making in a non totalitarian state is a conflict between several individuals and groups ocuppying positions of influence, pursuing their own agendas. And in many occasions these people operating under little supervision act on their own, creating crisis and dragging, sometimes several, countries into messes that the people in charge didn't want in the first place. I'm not talking out of my ass here, this is pretty much what Christopher Clark argues started the Great War.
>>145408132
Start using the re-education campaign edict on the planets with rebels.
It sucks to have a toaster, I'm forced to play on medium galaxies, large creates a shitton of lag even in the early game. I can only wonder what a massive clusterfuck a game on huge would be, reckon that must be a ton of repeated species pics though
>>145410016
it's a lot of repeatedframes per second
>>145406407
Ground combat. Fix current mechanics before adding in new ones.
>planets have terrain maps with cities and military installations
>armies fight on a 2d plane like spaceships
>Infantry, Armor, mechs, etc, all fight planetside, gaining/losing ground as the months go on.Imagine if you could watch the surface map of a pre-spaceflight species play out their own nuclear Armageddon. Or occupied planets with visible spots of resistance.
So I've been playing with just the non-clustered start and remove foreign stations mods. Is there any interesting content mod you guys recommend?
>>145411948
traders
more ship types
real spiral galaxy
>>145411797
>study intelligent pre-ftl militarist war
>gain unique +10% army damage modifier
>>145412285
Do the traders show up on map? While I'd love to commerce raid, I bet this would fuck up an already attrocious framerate
>>145414813
wait so some pre ftl civ built that? that's cool
>>145416372
Came up as an event after I cleared a tile blocker iirc.
Tomb world, it was uninhabitated
I haven't played many 4x games but I got Civ IV and the expansions on sale. Are they intuitive enough that I can just dive in or do I have to be super autistic about it?
>>145416372
It says "radioactive wasteland", so it's a tombworld. Paradox likely arranged for things like that to happen on some tombworlds. The lore is basically that they nuked themselves, but some aspects of their civilization remained. The only tombworld I've seen though was devoid of sentient life, and didn't have any buildings, just ruined city tiles that act as blockers.
So what do integration campaigns do? I always use them on conquered species trying to rebel and I think they work, but does anyone know their actual effects?
>>145410016
>TFW made a game with just 7 other AI empires.
>5 of them I made myself (including the one I'm playing)
>one of the races has the same flag symbol as another one
Immersion ruined.
>>145412285
Meta-beings fight against ships or at least let us mod the damned thing.
>>145417402
>and didn't have any buildings, just ruined city tiles that act as blockers.
I think the building appeared with a popup as I cleared one of those tiles.
It wasn't there when I colonized it anyways.
Either triggered by the cleared tile, or random event.
>>145417346
They're not nearly as complicated as EU games, you should be able to figure out the basics pretty easily just by playing the game.
>play Civ 5 game with a friend of mine
>we team up and rape the AI until we get to the industrial era
>suddenly we're rivals
>military buildup on borders
>his military is slightly larger than mine but my economy is stronger
>he eventually declares war
>he's talkin shit
>artillery him to weaken him
>take advantage of weak units
>he's just sitting there
>implying you win by only playing defense
>smash his army
>haven't taken a city quite yet
>he quits
>mfw
>>145405136
Vicky 2 is pretty autismal.
>>145422372
I've been looking for this pic.
>>145371279
>actually hurting the space whales
What kind of monster?
>>145423021
It's great, I hate seeing them travel through my space like they own the place, but don't hate them enough to have my gas planet mining stations always in fights. The AI did though
Are there any other good space 4x games? I've only played a bit of Stellaris.
>>145408945
>the great war was a huge accident meme
>>145425008
>stellaris
>good
Has anyone gotten the 'Failed to create a graphics device. Exiting.' error when they try to run the launcher?
Had a feeling something's gonna get messed up after I've gotten rid of a browser hijacker and malware combo, but when it interferes with playing a game... YURUSENAI
>tfw I spent a good minute wondering why my ships weren't moving
>thought my game froze before realizing I paused it
I'm playing a faction right now in stellaris where I don't want to bring anyone into the fold unless they share the same ethos. Is it possible to convert people?
>>145408945
The great war started because nation-states were expanding and taking resources and colonies and there were no free colonies left so they were inevitably all going to fight, the fight was so large because of the alliance system. The Archduke being assassinated didn't matter, ww1 was going to happen eventually. You're a retard.
Asimov when
>>145429561
Technically Europe had been experiencing all of these factors for quite a while without war due to the Bismarckian balance of power. The Great War broke out because every European ruler at the time was diplomatically incompetent.
>>145427719
Welp, time to reinstall all of the redistributables and possibly reinstall Stellaris.
Is there a mod or console command that can give my empire full orbital bombardment without being militarist? Thanks to my traits I can't purge or resettle, so this is the only way to murder xenos for me. I would appreciate any help!
Okay?
>>145432235
"Hey guys look at this Despicable Neutrals bug" post #672
>>145432407
Cunt, you mean Subterranean Nations bug right?
>>145432623
pretty sure it happens to other factions too, like FEs
>>145257584
Best Civ V strat/leader? Gimme some MLG tips.
>>145432953
That's the first time I could see the Sub Nation on the relations screen cunt, usually they don't show.
So better system scale is still out of date. Is there another mod for that or am I just fucked.
>>145435740
You could try real distance, but that one makes everything REALLY fucking small.
Should I buy Stellaris or just pirate it? If the latter, where can I get patch 1.1?
>>145436250
kat
>>145437198
What's kat?
>>145437534
have you ever pirated anything before?
kick ass torrents
Maybe you should just buy it
>>145430449
Europe had experienced many pan continental wars in the past
In hindsight ww1 on its own isnt even that significant, because ww2
>>145429258
Liberate. New nation have same ethics like you.
>>145436250
>giving money to paraJew
Google Rezmar for patch.
Who arid homeworld here.
>>145440678
2nd ugliest planet type after tundra
>>145440807
YOU HAVE NO HONOR.
>>145406601
Would you like a couple pro tips or do you want to figure things out for yourself?
>>145440981
Show me your Honour!
What does a striped territory on a map mean?
Hey so i have a question.
Is there any way to spawn the crisis twice in the same game with console commands? ( not at the same time).
The swarm came naturally but was almost instantly killed as it spawned in between the two biggest empires.
I then manually spawned in the extra dimensional scrubs but they spawned in my territory so i had to eradicate them. I dont want to spawn the ai one purely because all my pops are synths.
Any help?
>>145441645
*unzips dick*
>>145441674
it means two people own it
>tfw love getting conquered and integrated
Well shit if someone had told me that conquering a Fallen Empire would prompt the other largest empires in the game to form a coalition and attack me, I probably wouldn't have done it.
Guys! I did you a favor! You can research Synths now! And Jump-Drives! And other cool stuff!
>>145338031
>Come up with a cool title for your leader.
>Change your government later, which changes the title.
>There's no way to change it yourself.
Whyyy?
>Zulu Diplo victory
>Get the Dark Horse achievement
>With a score that gets the Nelson Mandela quote
Now this is some top quality "heh" material.
where were you when Trump became Emperor?
>>145444837
I read a transcript of his Orlando speech today.
It was pretty good.
>>145444978
Oh, the whole workplace violence shooting down there?
>>145441803
Anyone?
>>145428615
>get new ships roughly 50-75% of my fleet power at that time
>they won't respond to orders no matter how long I wait for the game to catch up
>"Fuck, they must be bugged"
>delete them
>unpause
>>145444837
>not Sky Marshall
>>145418881
happened to me too
unacceptable
>>145442170
Your other honour!
>>145279075
worms
>>145414813
> settle a Tomb World with a droid colony ship just for shits n giggles
> get particle accelerator
> breddy gud
> sector world off, forget about it
> ~30 years later uplift some rad-adapted primitives, give 'em Natural Physicist
> alright, time to make that tomb world a research powerhouse
> sector AI has built exactly one building in 30 years, a lv.1 mine
> on top of the particle accelerator
And that's why there are no droids in my empire any more
>>145445934
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Console_commands
event crisis.10/1000/2000
Executes a crisis event, 10 being petro-aliens, 1000 unbidden and 2000 machine revolt
[event id] crisis.[target id]
event crisis.1000
Fuck Fallen Empires and fuck Paradox for not making their location obvious sooner. 3rd game where I survey a remote system only to discover there's a Xenophobe FE there and it wants me to demolish half of my empire.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-36-diplomacy-improvements-border-access-and-embassies.947827/
>>145448639
Some of us are permabanned, senpai. Do us a favour.
>>145448786
Here you go. Read first comment, there are pictures.
https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/4o0k6z/stellaris_dev_diary_36_diplomacy_improvements/
>>145448875
> sending me to pleddit
Touche
>>145448471
Ive done that, but there seems to be a check where if they have been spawned, you cant spawn them again even with console commands. Any way to reset this check?
>>145448958
>Beggars
>Choosers
>>145449017
dunno mate
>>145430449
>The Great War broke out because every European ruler at the time was diplomatically incompetent.
I don't see any incompetency. States invested in military hugely. Its time to use these investments on battlefield and collect rewards. Strong wins weak losses. It is how wars always were. This all went according to plan.
>>145449017
Events folder>crisis_event_2 and edit trigger= NOT= { yadda yadda bullshit
>>145449017
>>145449017
Go to crisis_events faglord and remove conditions that thy happen only once,you can also remove crisis trigger so when they happen another criis can happen.
Now post lewd alin chicks as gratitude pleb.
>research energy weapon damage for the 20th time
>scientist instantly kills himself the second I select the research
>>145451457
Fuck you I was reading that in a lecture and I fucking laughed out loud
In civ, is 4 city tradition optimal for growing just because of the 4 city bonuses, or is 4 cities in general good because it's the ideal ratio of pop:cities?
Basically I see a spot that would be good for a 5th city, it's got a new luxury, good bonus tiles and it's walled off by my borders.
>>145452286
If it's early take it.
>>145452286
play vanilla
>>145257584
So what are the absolute best weapon combos you can use?
>>145454279
torps and tachyons
>>145454353
What about Arc Emitter?
How the fuck do I install mods ina pirateStellaris?
Tried doing the same you do in any other paradox game, created a mod folder and dumped the files there but it didn't show up on menu
>>145454463
it's a worse lance
>>145455139
What about it's chain-damage-effect, isn't it enough to make up for it?
>>145455259
I tested it in three battles, and it never worked.
As far as I can tell it's completely broken or was never even implemented.
>>145455427
Well shit, I guess it's that time of the year again.
brb waiting for DLC
Still alive, but the Insane AI blobbing never stops, and the super-powers of this game already formed federacies to suck each other's dick off.
I colonized all things colonizable, if i want to keep growing i HAVE to declare war, but my closest neighbour are either allies of the super-powers OR vassals under them.
I do have a great fleet, technology-wise, but i'm afraid the allies of my prey might rape my back while i try to score points towards the war. Any tips to make this war a bit less painful for my assets?
Also RIP admiral, the first Drakkar to ever die.
>>145405136
Try Aurora 4x. It's not from Paradox.
>>145454783
Google it
>>145455696
And the Eternal Swede wins again.
>>145455761
Build stations around the border, then trigger war and wait for their smaller fleets arrived. After that, goes straight for capital, also, get your armies on standby asap.
If I were you, I would split that fleet into 30k 20k 10k.
With 10k roaming around raping stations, 30k goes straight for capital while 20k doing pincer attack.
And I seriously hope you have lance or fighters else you gonna fail.
>>145456193
As if I would finacially support the Eternal Swede. Tell Johan I pirate everything.
>>145456273
Doing as you say, and i racked up something like 60 warscore points in almost no time!
But now this is happening, i'm afraid for my butthole.
>>145457552
Jesus man, hurry up to reach 100 warscore or be fucking destroyed.
>>145457552
RIP, at least you had the balls to face 39 fucking advanced Ais at insane, but we warned you.
>>145457552
throw a stargate into that star
![TZeuazNshiqrlMjFRwoJzYHSE4TzLtNRSGxFTichycjoGQLxrQHrbeI5796oN0JzJOUB=w300[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/SGsvfSL.png "TZeuazNshiqrlMjFRwoJzYHSE4TzLtNRSGxFTichycjoGQLxrQHrbeI5796oN0JzJOUB=w300[1]")
>>145457552
It's nice to have allies isn't it?
So does multiplayer have anticheat or whats the deal with some people doing everything so stupidly quick?
>>145458226
Meant for stellaris, sorry.
>>145457635
>>145457859
>>145458108
>>145458104
Not even close babyyyyyyyyyyy.
The fuckers sent me all their and their mothers fleets, raping planet from planet, but i divided my fleets into a fuckton of small ones and raped station to score 40 points as soon as possible. Sure, every time i lost a planet or station i also lost some score, but for every point i lost i could gain 3 times that amount with hit and run tactics.
In like almost 2 years i managed to reach 100% war score, now i finally have some space for development, now Drakkars are finally worth some shit in the galactic community.
At least until they declare war on me, since my fleets are now shit and i have lost 90% of my spaceports and armies.
Time to purge those fuckers and replace them with good old fashioned Draconic machinery.
I really want to know what in god's name happened here.
Scouting around, found a Tomb World with some presentients on it that *didn't evolve there*. Their home planet's an ocean world one system over.
It looks like there WAS a colony of somebody here, but where have they gone? And how did they get these freaks over here as presentients?
>>145459359
An advanced race subjugated some primitives, then forcefully resettled them to another planet, then nuked them; but some survivied.
On a similar note, my bird raced just covertly-usurped a primitive bird race's government using genetically-modified look-alike agents; and now I'm going to use them as meat shields against another bird race that are killing my pals the humans. Birds, birds everywhere.
>>145459359
god damn that's so weird.
>>145459359
Well if you are running spiritualist you now have a great way to colonize tomb worlds without using robots
>>145460038
I am.
And I will.
I've been scrubbing around with some rather unfortunate Extremely Adaptives up 'til now. I'm sure they'll be glad to be moved somewhere they don't get bombed every other year
>FE Shown equivalent in strength
>barge in with my 145k fleet
>forts and around 40-50k scattered
what.
>>145459224
Good for you, and from my experiences doing Insane, now you should focus on destroyer and cruiser first.
Ideally, making a fleet of 10k-15k consist of fully destroyer and cruiser, this will act as your fast reaction army then dedicate two of your core planets building two 30k battleships fleet.
This 30k should be composed of 1 snare 1 hull restoration and at least 5 lance-only ships with 2-3 carriers, this set up will gurantee you can vaporise any fleet with less than 30k power. So even when you get pincer like last time you can gurantee get 1 to 3 for each kill.
Remember to forify your frontline with stations, and in the next invasion you should bring with you a construction ship to build low-cost station at choke points to hinder their allies.
God blesses you, lizard.
sweet baby jesus
Is Rising Tide any good ? I played like 100hrs of BE on release and thought it was pretty fun, didn't touch it since. Mostly been waiting for a good sale to buy RT.
Are there any good overhaul mods or the like that fix the game now?
>>145463581
>Hammer und Zirkel
>>145463581
Is there a mod for this civ
>>145464435
The Civ itself is not a mod but created by using this.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=695222285
>>145464724
>DDR
>Kaiser
>Waifus
Scheiss Geschmack, Kamerade
>>145464951
t. Ausländer
I have now logged 140 hours in stellaris, and seem to have lost my will to play it, i think it comes down to combat being a whitewash. it all comes down to the first engagement between both main fleets either you lose your entire fleet or you win it no problem either way the war has then been decided and what is left is a grind to take enough planets until you have enough war score to end the war.
Theres no middle ground wars, theres no back and forth, its quite simply just win/lose wars.
>>145465226
nothing to do but hope for the future.
>>145465226
Maybe it should be like eu4
battle -> loser retreats after losing by enough, their fleet auto-retreats a fair distance so they can recover
chase after, engage again, win or lose, chase, etc
>>145466134
Yeah i have no idea how to improve it, but i just think its so anti climatic having a war between two massive factions being over after 1 engagement.
>>145466352
It makes sense
consider a modern war between usa and russia
it's over in 1 day after all the nukes go down
in space it's even more extreme with all the super powerful weapons
Is there a list of all technologie trees for stellaris somewhere?
>>145466404
might make sense but dosnt change the fact it ends up being less than stellar gameplay. pun intended
>>145466859
This is a list, though it doesn't matter much, since the technologies you can research are generated mostly at random.
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Technology#List_of_technologies
>>145467356
Thanks, anon.
>>145466859
>>145467356
>>145467706
I got a techtree picture, very detailed and easy to read but dont know how to post it, its far too large and the link is spam no matter what i try.
>>145467805
Oh. Sounds good. Say, could you try imgur or other picture sites then?
>>145466941
You are correct. Maybe there should be like a command limit to force you to split your fleets into smaller chunks, splitting things up. But people would still doomstack, so, idk. Maybe make it so you lose combat efficiency with great numbers, kinda like how combat width in eu4 limits how many troops you can effectively use.
>>145467898
http://imgur.com/QapYxUk
well that was easy
>>145467972
this dosnt work..
>>145468113
pretty good one too.
Just search Stellaris tech tree and find the reddit page, theres the 3.28mb picture of all the techs and what is required for them to pop up
>>145467970
They should increase planetary and system defences so that assaulting a planet is a time consuming and costly affair.
Also better fleet maneuvers that allow actual retreats instead of fight to the absolute death every time
>>145468113
Outdated
>>145468601
why wat they change in the tech tree in clarke?
>>145468781
Either that or it was never accurate.
Certain techs have different affinities
Game crashes when I try to generate names. I take it you can't use multiple mods that add name lists at once? That's fucking shit.
>>145441012
Pro tips would be appreciated.
I'm a sucker for space-fighters, but any advice is welcome.
>>145469738
afaik you cant use multiple mods that modify the random planet name list.
name lists in general should be fine unless the modder absolutely fucked up.
>>145463879
Y'know how in vanilla BE you're always poor and scratching out a meagre living on an unforgiving planet?
In RT you're always rich and have literally more resources than you know what to do with.
I do think it's an improvement, but it's unbalanced to all shit. 8/9 of the new special unity you can get are utterly worthless.
>>145463879
trade is actual trade now, you can't get resources from anywhere to anywhere without a convoy
no magical resources teleporting from the diplomacy screen
>>145468410
>Also better fleet maneuvers that allow actual retreats instead of fight to the absolute death every time
This is what bugs me. I know there's an emergency FTL retreat, but that's about it. No option to keep running away while in combat. If fleets get into a fight, they stop everything and bum rush each other.
>quick lads, run away from that alien fleet! They have five times our numbers!
>sir, they're within engagement range
>fuck it! Everybody turn around and charge!
If Stellaris is going to be an RTS, the least that can be done is allow the player to control their units.
Battles are tiny as well. The scale of space isn't taken advantage of at all. If two fleets are going to fight in a system, have to fight use all the available space to add more variables to the fight. "Terrain" in the form of stars, planets, even nebulas.
>>145467972
It's ant-tier.
>>145468113
Has anybody deciphered exactly how the random technology generation works in Stellaris?
If you keep researching a tech line, the chances of the next tier in that line being available to you increase?
For instance, if you have UV Lasers researched, the chances of X-Ray Lasers being generated next are higher than with the chances of Red to Blue Lasers?
>>145472257
From the code the weight of a tech being pulled from the deck of cards is less the higher the tech.
Means you can grab the necessary techs early and not be fucked by rng
has civ 6 been demoed at e3 yet? I could swear it was on the schedule for gamespots booth
>>145471843
> you will never defeat a pursuing alien fleet by grazing the Swarzchild radius of a black hole at near lightspeed such that the momentum transfer causes the event horizon to expand and swallow your foes
> you will never manipulate the magnetic field of a neutron star so the reconnecting flux snap obliterates the electronics of the enemy empire's sensor probes
> you will never give battle in the ammonium clouds of a Neptunian gas giant because you know the freezing miasma will allow you to overclock your semiconducting laser batteries without overheating
> your Guild Navigators will never get so high on zro dust by fighting in a Jovian ring system that you get an accuracy boost because they can tell you where the enemy is going to be
I agree that there is an infuriating quantity of missed opportunity here.
>>145472690
haha
>>145473345Have you tried scrolling down in the research window?
>unbidden appear
>right between my border and another fairly big empire
>they wreck my initial 23k fleet because of bullshit reinforcements
>retaliate a while later after building a 40k fleet
>they barely took 3 systems
Once again, I'm kinda disappointed.
This can't be it, what's my goal now?
>>145362260
>>145362346
I've been on the repeating techs for about 30 years, then I was campaigning in a new enemy empire for the first time ever and suddenly the option for Teldar research appeared. So I infer that it's as long as you've SEEN a system where the resource appears, clustered or not, your borders or not, that's when you get the opportunity for the tech.
Also I'm pretty sure there's only 1 neutronium in my entire 800-star galaxy, what the fuck
Which of the ship designs look the best?
>>145474629
Look at them and see which you prefer.
>>145474629
Muscolid
>>145474629
Arthropoid
>>145473627
i managed to fix it by invading my neighbour and stealing his fusion drives, but still rng is a bitch
>>145474629
Avian>Arthropoid=Muscolid>Fungioid=Mammilian>Reptillian
>>145475951
Avian are the ones with black metal and glowing blue highlights, right? The ones that look more 'ancient empire' than the Fallen Empire ships?
>>145475951
What's wrong with the Reptillian ships?
>>145476397
yup, I don't like the look of large turrets on the destroyers however. Approx 50% of the ship
>>145473098
>magnetic reconnection
>neutron matter
>singularities
>bent spacetime
sure is woo around here
>>145476523
Turrets clip on the battleship nova core
360 degree targetting makes a good deal of weapon effects clip through the ship alot of the time.
Turrets have a barrel the doesn't elevate so looks silly half the time due to using beautiful battles and uses the same glowy barrel for ballistic flak cannons etc
Its not that bad overall compared to the others but needs a bunch more detail.
>>145471843
it makes 100% sense, if you are the same speed, an early retreat will let you escape, if you are faster, you can escape more easily, and if you are slower, they will catch up
at which point it makes more sense to try and do damage, and face your good armor the right way, than to die running
from a strategic point of view it means you have to pick and choose your battles
stellaris is NOT an rts, it is a strategy game
So, the asshole Rek'thars to my west have started becoming a nuisance again, even though I've treated them with nothing but kindness as my vassal. I want them gone. Not absorbed into my empire, dead. Fuck the pigfolk.
Now, only issue is I rolled a random race, and I can't purge, can't enslave, can't do any of that. How do I kill the pigfolk off once and for all.
They're evangelizing zealots too, so they'll always be after my booty.
>>145477774
the problem is even on a tactical level. blobs just rush into each other regardless of any considerations like weapons, positioning or fleet composition.
>>145477774
>>145478325
>the problem is even on a tactical level. blobs just rush into each other regardless of any considerations like weapons, positioning or fleet composition.
This is my main gripe. The strategy is for fleets to just Zerg rush each other.
What's the state of modding in Stellaris? Any good overhauls at this point?
>>145478325
you've got counters, accuracy and ranges to worry about, the real tactics are done in the ship design screen
>>145479134
you're confusing strategy with tactics
Is there a reason to NOT go with the Sentient Combat Computer?
>>145479579
Maybe defensive AI if you really value the hull.
Like some shifter corvettes with crystal hull.
>>145479857
I still don't have Crystal Plating.
They didn't really spawn in my empire's borders.
It irritates me; I'd rather ditch the shields and use the extra energy for Jump Drives.
So, I've found the Progenitor home-system (Irass) and scanned it, but nothing's happened.
Is this quest bugged?
>>145480152
>They didn't really spawn in my empire's borders.
You can scan debris outside your borders.
>>145480313
Whaaat?
None of my neighbors are allowing me access.
>>145480669
neutral territory
>>145480669
Gib monies and ask for civilian access
>>145479338
>pick lances everytime
>build battleships everytime
Wow such tactix
>>145471843
>stellaris
>letting players control stuff
I've never seen a game that punishes player agency as much as this one.
>Combat is a retarded dustball with no formation or tactical options, not even something as simple as an offensive or defensive posture for combat for a slight buff
>vanilla game rooted in anti-expansive tactics
>new patch promises even more harassment of innocent blob enthusiasts
>diplomacy is so static and hidebound the devs are complety gutting and reworking it
>not only are customization options limited but paradox does mod policing so naughty words they dont like are bannd(aryan), but incest mods are allowed
>horribly stupid , mandatory automation sector mechanic, which is effectively a mandatory tax on being a human player , and doesnt even work as well as say, automated AI governors in Galciv 3 or DW
Paradox should be honest and start labeling it's titles as early access, because this is still a paid beta test .
>>145478058
Bomb from orbit until they all die.
Or you force them to liberate planets.
Those liberated planets will form a new nation with your ethics, and you should be able to vassalize them easily.
This will mean the planets your new vassal controls will slowly change ethics, and you will eventually be able to integrate these planets. including an empire capitol if you give the AI enough time to build one.
![12547230_464932810376871_1133722504_n[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OffeRk7.jpg "12547230 464932810376871 1133722504 n[1]")
>>145482004
>bad balance right now means the game will always be bad
Is it me, or do crisis events always seem to come so fucking late in the game that it literally doesn't effect a thing outside of replacing a couple of big fleets.
Even on hard, by the time any crisis event has triggered, I already have a fucking insane navy and I just steamroll the invaders/swarm.
Haven't had the AI rebellion happen yet, I even specifically researched it to see what would happen but I just got swarm instead.
I might just be lucky.
>>145477774
>>145478325
>>145479134
There's some control but it's usually in fleet composition.
And current fleet compositions is:
>a good chunk of point defence to make missiles totally fucking irrelevant
>some autocannons and torpedos to fill in medium/small slots
>maybe throw a couple of fighters/bombers in there to fill in a niche of picking apart people too stupid to put point defense on their ships
>particle lances fucking everywhere
However, you can kind of get away with just particle lances and point defence. Or against AI, you can even get away with torpedoes and point defence.
There needs to be some tactics that you can do beyond simple stat boosting with aura effects and flight computers and using corvette screens. A morale system for fleets might be interesting as well if it doesn't work anything like the shitty one for armies.
>>145479440
I guess I am, now that I look at it.
I'd just like some more options when fighting. Hostile fleets can be coerced into stations, which is nice. But engagements are still just blob vs. blob.
I'm not asking for combat to be realistic either. With ships fighting on a 2D plane though, it'd be nice to have formations. Have a line of missile boats that hang in the back while corvette screens distract the enemy. (Artillery and cav)
Keep some heavily shielded boats as a main line protecting heavily armed, short range vessels that sit behind the main line. (Shields backed by pikes)
That's all battlefield tactics, but it still plays an important role in combat. Even if tactics were all handled by the AI (admiral traits that allow for different formations\maneuvers?), I'd be fine with it.
![judy_hopps_by_suzukiwee1357-d90g00f[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/577vBaq.jpg "judy hopps by suzukiwee1357-d90g00f[1]")
>>145484265
the idea is that if you can micro to your advantage, then, inevitably, you must micro to your advantage
now consider a large scale campaign with dozens of fleets in the late game, if such a thing were possible
managing the fleets is work enough in itself, it's better to have individual engagements resolve themselves
the problem is when everything boils down to single massive blobs you have nothing to do but watch
see something like "war, the game" for how strategy in stellaris could play out if the AI was halfway competent enough to attack and defend on multiple fronts, forcing you to follow suit or lose a bunch of stuff
retreat even allows fleets to easily escape a larger blob, which would enable this gameplay further
there is the potential for a really interesting system there but unfortunately it's missing about 6 months of fulltime development
>Get burned out of Stellaris
>Check DW
>Spend a bunch of days playing Super Trial and Error to learn it
>Find out it has a 40k mod
Oh my.
Any tips for surviving on deity?
I'm rolling venice and hope to spread my faith across the untamed lands and to culturally enrich my neighbors, all whilst being the greediest jew mankind has ever witnessed.
>>145484763
That's par for the course with game devs like paradox.
You see glimmers of brilliance, glimmers of potential.
But it's all squandered because the devs don't have the resources and competence to execute on it
Just started playing stellaris again. What've they done to the combat? My corvette death stack didn't seem as effective
>>145486557
a weapon balance mod and a human only/dominant game could probably salvage it now
but good luck finding a dozen suckers to play with for hours
>>145486640
>he doesn't know about the patch to evasion
>>145486795
was it a 'ballence patch'?
>>145478325
That's where the "grand strategy" comes in, though... I've held off attacks by bigger empires (or times I was caught off guard and started to lose anyway. Railguns are cool, I apologize for nothing.) by blowing up their mining stations and starbases, then running away when the fleet catches up, and repeating until the harassment lets your fleet strength catch up or he makes a mistake; I call it the "General Sherman."
This is especially effective if you're faster. I once had an enemy fleet follow mine across my empire with warp drive. I was able to wormhole back to his homeworld, bombard their defenses down, and launch my invasion with just enough time to spare for my fleet to run away again. I won the war, got a couple of worlds, then curbstomped him when the treaty ran out.
What's a fun/interesting/OP build you've played in Stellaris /4xg/? I wanna mix things up a bit.
>>145488519
I'm still on my first fucking game man..
It's so slow and clunky..
>>145487840
I quit the second I realized the AI was actually dumb enough to fall for basic shit like that
>>145486640
Halved evasion bonus from thrusters on 1.1
Guys, it's 2522 and Tundra World colonization hasn't dropped yet.
What's the deal?
> Election every few years is a nuisance unless you're electing the same leader until they die
> Royal lineages are boring and uninvolved
>>145489290
Yeah I realized I can't stand playing republics because the constant elections are annoying as fuck and don't feel meaningful, I just want to click past them
>>145489415
I wouldn't mind them so much if it weren't for the fact that my choices are between the current leader and all of my other leaders (who're all too busy being scientists or admirals).
>>145489173
trade for it
Is it possible to combine fleets? I only saw an option to split them up. It kinda irks me to have a large and a small fleet in the very beginning of the game.
>>145489749
how do you think it would be done?
>>145489749
There should be a button to merge them on the left I think.
>>145467970
> Maybe there should be like a command limit to force you to split your fleets into smaller chunks
You;re already discouraged to form fleets instead of having all your ships stacked on top of each other
>>145489821
By doing something with the fleets? I don´t know.
>>145489864
Oh. Found it. Thanks, anon.
>>145489589
>Actually interacting with ayys
Disgusting.
>>145473878
wait4dlc
>>145490297it's a joke because you can't trade tech for some retarded reason
>>145482875
it would be cool if they actually scaled with your strength.
Like if the Unbidden reflected damage back at you and converted your defeated ships into their own, or something.
>>145490445
My bad, does seem odd that's not possible, I didn't know that wasn't allowedbecause I've never spoken to aliens aside from threatening them during first contact and denying their incessant requests for star charts
>>145482875
Get the multiple crisis mod. If they show up together, it's a challenge.
>make space nazi waifus
>can't stop giggling at the names and seeing the swastika everywhere
This isn't right desu but it's hilarious.
>>145489589
You can trade specific techs?
>>145489290
> Election every few years is a nuisance unless you're electing the same leader until they die
Don't tamper with the elections and just let them happen?
>>145489290
Sounds like you need an OLIGARCHYâ„¢ my friend!
Guys, what if there was a crisis like in the Night's Dawn Trilogy?
A weird coincidence duringa satanic ritualsummonsthe souls of the deadwhopossess humans.This gives themthe ability to warp reality, but hampers electronics which can be both a detrement and an asset..
Initially, they'dhide among the pops and try to subvert as many as possible, until it turns into an open hell war. They would have difficulty operating starships, but be incredibly tough ground forces that convert your pops against you.
>>145491475
There's still an election between the initial ruler and all the other leaders in my empire (who I'd rather have continue being scientists, admirals, etc.), it's just isn't as often. Not to mention the bonuses don't really appeal to me, though honestly that's starting to feel like the case for all of them.
18 civs at launch for civ VI
Cleopatra is the leader for egypt
>>145491643
All you'd have to do is quarantine infected planets and send in robot/android armies to exterminate them.
Gimping them in space wouldn't make them very threatening either, ground warfare is a joke, orbital bombardment > everything.
>>145492303
Why have they made Cleopatra look like a white chick?
>>145492303
stage demo fucking where, google is only returning 8 month old results
>>145492705
It was a segment on the twitch e3 channel. It is just wrapping up and it should start popping up on youtube and stuff soon.
>>145492492
robots don't work with them, they malfunction in their presence.
And don't forget they still count as possessed civillians, so killing them would count as purging which makes everyone sad.
It's just an idea anyways, you couldn't translate it 1:1 from the books, because in the game there is no civilian transport to spread the possession.
>>145492627
Fuck you and your shitty ass meme. Because of chucklefucks like you I can no longer talk about Age of Empires on /v/ without it devolving into spam and eventually getting deleted.
>>145492492
>>145491643
>>145493125
Game needs a proper internal politics system before you can consider these things
buy the espionage DLC when it comes out you goy
A somewhat-allied empire to me (Confederacy of Mankind) conquered the Yeon empire's homeworld, while one of my fleets was in their system.
The war ended (we both declared war on them for different goals), but now my fleet went "missing in action". How do I get my fleet back?
>Start new game. Decide to play a milaristic empire.
>First colony has a stone age population that´s easily enslaved.
>Start looking for neighbors to kill.
>Find a militaristic isolationist fallen empire as my first one.
How fucked am I?
I have a 40k Tachylon lance fleet. I don't think it's very fair I can wipe 200k worth of fleets from range. Nothing hurts me...
>>145493401
hey, a man can dream, right?
The game is addicting as fuck, but after my third galaxy, you notice how few events and options thre really are. Hell, all events are almost always the same. Mining drones, gas clouds, shards, one(!) pirate outpost that feels like a scrapped mechanic, I mean, fuck!
I want more!
>>145493597
It'll come back to one of your systems on it's own, eventually.
>>145493643
>First colony has a stone age population that´s easily enslaved.
>enslaved
You fucked up
>>145493597
mouse over the icon at the top, it'll tell you the date it returns.
The scourge is disappointing. They're so weak.
use for Food when?
Geez, was the objective to make her unappealing?
>>145494043
I probably did. My men there are close to rebell and the slaves want to be free. They´re all gretting hungry and the buildings can´t be built fast enough...
Going to start anew. Shit. Should I just purge the shit out of them next time? or now?
I am thinking about making DLC mod.
It will contain events with very limited options. Aka
>normal options(nothing happen)
>DLC options(pay energy credit) hat open path to more options
>>145494427
Duh she is Greek.
Why do you thinks Greeks gone full homo?
>>145494103
>>145493767
Okay, it's back now.
>>145491205
Oh sure, and then my 5-star scientist who I had researching something gets whisked away to being President.
>>145482186
Mate noone stopping you doing the black cocks into young girls mod you just can't point that shit at steam and expect to get away with it.
Paradox are a business, they will suffer if papers or tumblr sees that shit and then we can't have more paradox games.
The only free place on the net now is anon boards like this, for everything else you have to have the veneer of not pissing people off.
>>145494578
Inbred as well.
>>145493651
Do you just stack Battleships? The problem i have is that everything outspeeds/outranges me, so i always have losses even with tachion lances.
>>145496165
If their goal was to avoid controversy, why isn't the incest mod removed then?
I guess Swedes are fine with inbreeding. Explains a lot, really.
>>145496165
>we can't have more paradox games.
what a tragedy that'd be
>>145494431
No you let stone age primitives be and live in enclaves for the huge society gain.
>>145495642
I have nine 5-star scientists, so it's usually just a minor annoyance for me. Moving people around,
Okay so I've got some ideas to make ground warfare more interesting/important and I have some ideas to implement them but any suggestions would be awesome.
1. Make transport ships cruisers, I at first thought I could try and add the transport ship module to cruisers but then I realized it would be easier to swap out the current transport designs for cruiser ones so I wouldn't have to mess with trying to change the ships they get on when they embark, I could just change the ship itself.
2. Make every tile in the game have a "pop" resource alongside whatever else it has and in order to build an army on a planet it would take up a pop resource (essentially making it act as your strategic resources do, pooling all your "pop" resources into one and then you can build the armies with those pops on whatever planet you want, this would also simulate how people go to boot camps and stuff not near their home to join the army). This could allow weaker armies to be more relevant as you couldn't just spam Gene Warriors since they would cost a lot more pop resources than a regular assault army. Clone Armies and Robot Armies would be exempt from the pop resource and instead would cost minerals, energy, and require specific buildings to build them. Slave Armies would require the slave processing center (an in game building that boosts mineral and food output) and if I can figure out how to do it, they would only cost half a pop resource.
3. Either make the number of armies stationed on a planet unlimited or figure out how to tie it to the number of tiles a planet has. Also buildings like the Military Academy, Clone/Robot buildings, and Virtual Combat Arena would increase the number of armies you can station on a planet. Also, along with the Planetary Shield building that's in game, these buildings would add bonuses to your fortifications that can't be brought down with orbital bombardment so defensive armies would always have at least some fortification bonuses.
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>>145494371
Resource system is pretty damn lacking compared to civ games.
I guess the strategics are kind of nice, but eh.
>>145497912
4. Add a zero to the end of every armies health and morale stat but not increase their damage so battles last longer than a few days. I shouldn't be able to conquer someone's homeworld and occupy it in a week.
5. Stop retarded shit like being able to build robotic gene warrior armies and robotic slave armies. The game unfortunately doesn't differentiate between robot/droid and organic pops which I think it should.
6.Decrease the warscore gain from simply blockading a planet. Currently it's pretty easy to just blockade all of an enemies planets and not even bother with ground combat to win a war.
7. Along with decreasing the blockade warscore amount, add the ability to glass a planet from orbit that does add the same amount of warscore as occupying it but also gives the enemy your fighting against a happiness malus and your own empire a happiness malus unless you're militarist, xenophobic, or collectivist. I would like it if there was some sort of war exhaustion mechanic like in their other games because that would come in handy for handling things like glassing a planet and it's impact on nations.
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>>145497773
Nine, why? I usually just have two in ships surveying shit and then 3 leading research teams. Why so many?
>>145498043
Assisiting resarch.
+5% to resarch output fro planet.
>>145498220
+50%
>>145465226
>Not using tiny fleets to distract the enemy from your main fleet and raiding stations with said fleet
Before I did that, wars were pretty boring.
>>145498043
Assist research like the other anon says is one reason.
Adding 50% research output to a planet filled with labs is pretty nice. Adding it to 6 planets is even nicer.
Also I switch the researcher around depending on what I'm researching.
Like I have a 5-star Statecraft guy for Administrative Efficiency techs.
I have 12 scientists in total now.
3 leading reserach, 1 surveying, the rest on assist research.
>>145498038
>5
I like to think they are cyborg supersoldiers, not just machines with geneseed.
>>145499062
Do you just not bother with having governors or admirals to have that many?
>>145500014
I have a few governors.
No admirals.
Had one admiral in a war. Kicked him afterwards.
>>145492818
wow civ 6 might actually not be hot shit
dare I dream it?
>>145500243
I started thinking that back when quill18 went over his private preview.
For those of you that watched that clip, the end game cities looked really good. Major city districts with suburbs all around. All I can think of was nuking it.
Also, anyone else noticed that it seems like you have to discover oil kind of like archaeology in civ 5? Looked like oil didn't get revealed all at once as is common when you research a tech.
>>145498038
You know there's already playable robot and expanded ground combat mods, right?
>>145494427
Throughout school I heard that she was ugly, but she was such good company that she was seductive.
At least that's what the female history teachers told me.
>>145501619
She could not be ugly as she got Ceasar and Marek Antonius as lovers.
Also female history techears are trash tier.
>>145501150
>mods
why is Stellaris still named in OP when no one plays it anymore?
>>145501838
Well, mods are things that actually exist.
>>145497912
>>145498038
is fanwank that will never be adopted by Pdicks, so either learn to mod or have fun dreaming.
But if we're just wishing, xenophile crossbreeding program when?
>subspace echoes detected
>have only topedoes + kinetic artillery
>no lances
how fucked am I?
>>145503004
>implying they have pd
>>145492303
She looks pretty.
>>145503004
Jus install some PD an you ar set
>voting: primary species only
>gene mod all your peeps
>they are no longer the primary species and all have (-5%) penalty
WHYYYYYY
>>145503284
>>145504963
does flak artillery actually work?
are shields still useful against them or do their missiles act like torps and ignore shields?
>>145505468
Missiles do not ignore shields. If you're concerned about shields then get disruptors.
>>145489589
You can trade for specific technologies?
>>145507014
Scroll a bit further down. You'll find your answer.It's no.
did anyone play Warlock - Master of the Arcane?
>>145493175
>/v/
what a shame
>>145507421
no it only sold two copies none of which were ever opening
>>145507534
oh
well if i'm 1 of those 2 do you think the other person posts here
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