Kneel before your God Edition
>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.
>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
>Civilization VI trailer with release date:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvBf6WBatk0
>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/
http://well-of-souls.com/civ/index.html
Previous Thread: >>147319567
ded game lazy developers
>>147594557
>lazy developers
more like overwhelmed devs.
So fighting those space stations is almost as equal as fighting a fallen empire. when about 4 times with fleets of 8k+ and they trashed them like nothing.
After I got ark emiters the thing went easier.
I'm going to make a 4x with octogons and blow the door off the hexagon monopoly.
>>147594557
I want to believe this for Stellaris. Isnt it like one of their biggest sellers now? I have a feeling we were meant to have the last 2 patchs spread out over more than 2 months because of the changes being made.
Maybe once the holiday is over the crunch will be real and the finger will be removed from anus on the holes.
>>147596649
Did they ever post an update regarding their patch roadmap?
>>147595815
I unironically think about doing something with triangles and a icosahedral global projection
>>147597235
>triangles
What the fuck are you on about?
Man gotta love these unannounced changes.
Rushing Nano Materials is no longer useful since pirates no longer spawn with a different T1 weapon tech when you already got Nano researched by the time they spawn.
>>147597687
Armor being a flat bonus when?
Fallen empire home worlds are too good
Dark matter generators and fabricators op
>>147597074
Nevermind my original post then, but there are things that happened that arent on there so I shall continue to naively remain hopeful for the bandaid because I like the game for quite a few reasons
While I wait would anything similar be worth checking out? Stellaris has me hooked for more but might be worth taking a break.
i've never had the unbidden spawn before
do they destroy planets like the swarm?
is there a way to stop their border expansion or is it goddamn infinite?
>>147598265
a way to stop it without destroying the portal*
i'm a ways off from that
>>147598347
No you need to destroy the portal
>>147598546
do they rebuild their fleets too?
i feel like i'm gonna need a 200k to match theirs even if i specialize
Ok, how to force a crisis to happen? it's been 150 years and nothing relevant has happened aside from weak empires fighting against other weak empires.
Forget what I said
It's them?
>>147599189
Nothing to worry about
>>147599356
Hope so. What's the best way to deal with them aside of lots of point defense and thing that ignore armor?
>>147599787
Well they use shields and lots of energy weapons so I'm not sure point defense is going to help you, or armor pen
Basically take that fleet you have and destroy the portal, if you clear them out great if not they can't get reinforcements and you can win by attrition
Make sure to get a scientist to pick up the scraps matter disintegrators are nice
>>147600159
is the scourge, not the unbidden, Anon.
Sega bought Amplitude studios.
those poor fuckers
>>147600996
Proofs? Also I can't fucking find my spurdo folder
>>147601428
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/167864-SEGA-Strengthens-Strategy-Portfolio-by-Acquiring-Amplitude-Studios
Get ready for DLC up the ass.
Is Crystal Forged Plating still better than shields and armor after its nerf?
>>147601428
There was a thread on /v/ yesterday.
>>147601296
This isn't 2000 where everyone used dial up modems, fuck off.
>>147601902
No its 2016 the age of phones using 2000 modem tier internet.
>>147601957
Oh I'm so sorry for your shitty phone.
4G gives 3MB/s, not our fault that you are a jew.
>>147601902
>>147602130
>be this anal blasted
works every time.
Is there an easy way to track down the Gold Crystals to get the crystal armour? I've scouted like half the galaxy trying to find them.
>>147602363
>I was just pretending to be retarded.
Works every time anon.
>>147602479
afaik they can only spawn around Pulsars and very rarely around Black Holes.
>space germans
In some pics graphics don't look that bad honestly
That UI is even more of a cancer than game graphics though
>>147602607
Thanks, chum. That narrows it down nicely.
>>147602479
>>147602607
It's a race to find them before the AI empire decides to kill them and ignore the research so nobody in the galaxy has plates like in my galaxy. I only got some greens around me.
>try to play Civ5 with community patch
>shit keeps crashing all the time
This is why we can't have nice things.
>>147602828
>tfw they spawn right beside you
feels great.
>>147603095
>just under 100 hours total so far
>still haven't seen these guys spawn ANYWHERE
nice of you to hide game breaking tech behind RNG, Paradox
>>147602708
At least this will solve the problem of wonders being built in the ocean on coastal cities
>>147603095
I got voidcunts everywhere ;_;
>>147603370
>game breaking tech
not so game breaking anymore
>Crystal-Forged Plating effect on Hull Points reduced by 25%
Where can I get the 1.2 patch for nosteam version?
>>147601716
Well, half the relevant weapons still ignore most of your armor, and the other half still completely ignore your shields.
So yeah. Crystal plating requires no energy and never gets ignored.
I honestly do not remember what kind of changes to the irrelevant shit weapons they introduced, or if it's the next patch that will change them.
Please notify me if I'm being a huge faggot and they actually managed to make starfighters or mass drivers relevant.
But weapon and combat balance as a whole are still so fucked up that it'll require some major modworkand DLCto fix.
>>147603649
Of stellaris, I mean.
>>147603370
>hide game breaking
>behind RNG
>Paradox
Are you experiencing emotional stress?
>>147603685
> Increased the engagement range of strike craft from 80 to 120
> Strike Craft rebuild speed improved from 1 per month to 4 per month
> All Laser Weapons have had their armor penetration reduced from 50% to 33%
> Plasma Weapons have had their armor penetration reduced from 100% to 75%
> Most Projectile Weapons now deal +15% damage vs. Shields
> Crystal-Forged Plating effect on Hull Points reduced by 25%
Also Lasers got an accuracy buff across the board while mid-late lasers got a damage nerf.
Rockets got a damage buff.
Lances got their Armor Penetration nerfed from 100% to 75%.
Point Defense got an accuracy nerf but range buff.
Thats pretty much it.
>>147603685
mass drivers are pretty great early game actually. it provides rudimentary shield penetration during the corvette phase where AI kinda *has* to go shields because armor tech is so garbage.
>>147602708
The problem is that there is just nothing impressive about anything shown so far, the visuals have at best stagnated, the character design looks really bizarre and terrible, and the gameplay changes aren't revolutionary shit, its been done already.
>>147603418
That wasn't much of a problem of me, I kinda liked it but I can understand why would someone dislike it
One thing I didn't like about Civ V's wonder system was it's rendering cap, which was 7 IIRC. If one city builds more than 7 wonders, you only see the first 7 on the map and the rest won't be shown. I bet most people don't even know wonders like CN tower or Eiffel tower actually have models, because they have never seen them.
If I wonderwhore hard in Civ VI I want to see every wonder in the city(most likely capital)
>>147604318
The game screams mobile first.
>>147604153
> Increased the engagement range of strike craft from 80 to 120
This kind of shit is what convinces me that Paradox balances purely based on numbers. Now combined-arms fleet is even less useful because oops, some random carrier decided to puke fighters at a goddamn mining station and now my corvettes are approaching the enemy's main fleet at turtle-paced combat speed. The more changes they make, the more they encourage "pure" fleets against all logic.
>>147604638
This.
They need to push it in the other direction so that mixed fleets are the ideal.
>>147604153
>Lances got their Armor Penetration nerfed from 100% to 75%.
They should give shields the ability to mitigate energy damage, that would make kinetic artillery a viable choice again and shields actually somewhat useful since right now using shields is fucking retarded.
>>147594838
>overwhelmed
they're going on a two month holiday
>>147607018
Overwhelmed by forced communist holidays more like
>>147590564
what mod fampai?
>>147607042
>communist holidays
>>147607042
>forced communist holidays
like working on an oil rig instead of a salt mine?
>>147607221
Nah, taking the day off to attend a propaganda chanting event or forced to work in a salt mine for free.
>>147607398
I wouldn't mind taking a few days off here and there to attend propaganda rallies tbqh
>implying I work
>>147607496
>implying I work
>tfw an americunt doesn't know about anti-neet laws in USSR
In your case you will work on salt mines regardless.
>>147607695
but with propaganda rallies thrown in right? gotta break up the monotony somehoe
Guys whats your go-to 1.2 build?
Getting raped on Hard since both slavery and happiness are shit now.
So are torps/lance with crystal plating still op? I just updated to 1.2 and haven't played since a week or two after 1.1 was released?
>decide to go full purifier for once
>wipe out more than a few nearby races
>immedietly run into not one, but two fallen empires on either side of me
>enigmatic observes
>both declare war instantly
>mfw
>>147607917
what did they do to make happiness shit?
>be peacefully studying the mysteries of the galaxy in my empire
>suddenly an evil fanatical purifiers declare war on me
>ok then
>defend myself and protect the galaxy by wiping them out
>somehow I'M the bad guy
>>147607992
>Base Happiness reduced from 60% to 50%
>Happiness is now a linear modifier, with levels above 50% giving bonuses and levels below 50% giving penalties
The pre-patch rule was that 60% happiness is the baseline, where the breakpoints of 80% and 90% happiness provided a 10% and 20% productivity boost respectively.
Now in 1.2.1 after the Asimov Update, the baseline is 50%, and the 20% are spread across 50 to 100%. That's 20/50=0.4% productivity per 1% of happiness.
>>147607773
GULAG prisoners only attend salt mines.
Also my state had a case of a person literally dying from too much clapping in one of those events, so they aren't as magical as you think. They are closer to "voluntarily-forced" corporate events than to a typical tumblr meet-up.
BAN THIS SICK FILTH
>>147608356
Apart from the lower baseline isn't that better? You now get the increase in happiness bonuses as you go and don't have to wait to hit 80% and 90% effectively having no bonus between 60-80 as it was in prepatch?
>>147608581
dude gay asteroids lmao
>>147608581
I think you mean
DELETE THIS
>>147608616
it used to go like this:
Moral Democracy +10% (now 0%)
Fanatic Spiritualist +10% (now 0%)
Communal +5%
Void Cloud Research +5% (now limited to 20y)
combined with pacifist/xenophile to enable the void cloud research and Adaptive and you get 20% on all planets of your biome from very early game.
The problem right now on Hard/Insane is that you no longer have that explosive start to keep up with the cheating AI.
>have no clustered starts mod
>conflicts with another mod and doesn't work
>no way to know which mod it is
proper mod manager when
skyrim's mod organiser was amazing and I'm just so fucking annoyed that I have to put up with this shit now
>>147609392
Which mods do you have?
I haven't followed anything strategy related for a while so I'm seeing these now, have you guys already discussed everything Civ VI related? Looking through civfanatics' CIV VI forum btw
For example, cities with walls now have two health bars, one for walls and one for cities. You actually have to siege for wall's health now, you can't just attack a city with archers and then conquer it with a melee unit
Also it looks like they changed moving a bit. For example, in Civ V you could move to grasslands and hills in the same turn if you had 2 movement points, even though hills themselves counted 2 points you could enter them with 1 point. This has been changed, now if you want to enter someplace with 2 points, you actually have to have two points. And I think if it requires 3 points, you give an order one turn, and in the next turn it moves (2 points from previous turn and one point from the next turn).
These might be wrong, I'm reading the threads from their beginnings and I'm about 20 days behind of the current date, something might have been changed
>>147612014
>beijing with clearly western styled towers
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
>mineral rich system nearby
>has 4 minerals in total all located on a single planet
>still no empire borders for macI've compensated by playing in a small galaxy with only 4 AI empires
>stellaris
What "tile" shape would work best in three dimensions?
>>147619737
Octagon
>>147612523
Nah, looking through this screenshot thread, it looks like every civ has their unique place(?) models, for example this one is for China's and I'll post Japan's in the next post, they look quite different. Those building change depending on era ofc. It looks like ancient and modern era buildings look similiar in every civ though. I'm at this post right now in the thread, if you want to learn what I'm talking about check this I guess: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=14322786&postcount=884
I think most buildings are not unique though. In most pics you can see monument and it looks the same for all civilizations
>>147619737
hexagon
>>147620131
>>147620547
Those are 2D shapes.
>>147620724
>tile shape
>>147620989
80 > 30 ?
>>147621279
nope
>>147622008
I thought maybe 20 > 00 but adding 4 black squares to the 3 would make it look more like an 8
Tell me lad pls
I played stellaris at launch 1.0 version, is the recent updates enough to pick up the game again for another playthrough?
>>147622492
No, there are still no empire borders for mac
>>147622423
only cause you asked so nicely :^)
>>147622610
>he plays games
>on a mac
Individualist militarist spiritual or individualist militarist materialist?
![[Hatsuyuki]_Magi_S2_-_18_[10bit][1280x720][397C5E8D].mkv_snapshot_18.34_[2014.11.01_12.48.31].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bHmuqaV.jpg "[Hatsuyuki] Magi S2 - 18 [10bit][1280x720][397C5E8D].mkv snapshot 18.34 [2014.11.01 12.48.31]")
>Border tech pops up
>Currently not expanding
>Get something I desperately need
>200 years later still no border tech
Alriiiiiight
>>147623348
yes
>>147623348
Materialist pacifist individualist if you want to win the game
>>147623616
Pacifist? More like -40% happiness whenever you want to expand.
>>147623704
>Not peacefully taking lesser empires under your wing and integrating them
pleb/10
Also as long as you're not fanatical, and you won't be since 3 ethics, it's only like negative 5 instead of 15
>>147623370
>in the middle of purging unneeded slaves
>run into a fallen empire
>immediately war decs me
>desperately need destroyers, cruisers, anything bigger than a corvette
>end up barely squeezing out a white peace after grinding away actual thousands of corvettes
RNG research is fucking stupid
>>147623370
>no influence tech for 200 years
>>147623824
It took me until 2500 this game to draw Battleships. I was on like repeating tech III for all my choices in Engineering before it popped up.
FFS
>>147623992
Influence is so fucked up lately. Protectorates no longer give you it because the diplo settings automatically sign you up to a defensive pact with all your vassals and protectorates. So protectorate is +1 and -1, vassals are -1.
I've been declaring humiliation wars just for the purple mana so I can afford to upgrade colony administrations.
>>147619737
Literally only cubes work.
>guys i went pacifist and now i'm not getting any military tech
Is there anyway to make other species follow your ethics? I want to vassalize some xenos and integrate them but now when they're disgusting space commies.
>>147623784
>1.2.1
>lesser empires willfully subjecting to your rule without violence
are we playing the same game, friend?
>>147624149
>I've been declaring humiliation wars just for the purple mana so I can afford to upgrade colony administrations.
This is exactly why my empire is in a perpetual state of war, the influence upkeep on it is too damn high
>>147624430
It happens slowly over time, and can be sped up with the right technology and edicts.
>>147624430
Liberate Planet in your wargoals deposes the alien government and sets up a new one that has your ethics. And hopefully that should then go on to convert the populace to your ethics.
Otherwise use mind control lasers on your stations, theocratic government types, and reeducation campaign edicts
>>147624430
when you "liberate" a planet you convert all pops in that planet to your ethos. liberate some planets (no more than 2-3 at a time regardless of your own epite's size because Relative Empire Size malus scales up stupidly high) and demand vassalization immediately afterwards before they start racking up too much Border Conflict or Distance malus.
I blew up the Unbidden's portal.
How long does it take for their borders to recede?
>>147625064
Ya gotta blow up their stations
>>147624626
I hate the fact that empire expansion is checked by RNG and fleet power. Rivalry income for anyone other than Fanatic Militarists is so pathetic for the opinion cost that it's just not worth it. There needs to before flexible ways to gain influence than"go to war" or "be a democratic empire."
>>147624904
>conquer a planet
>half the edicts are active
Of course cheating AI has no influence limits imposed on it.
>>147625619
lol
Are there any other traits you can't pick on species generation except Fleeting?
Besides the Uplifted-specific ones, I mean
why are they doing with my GOD DAMN IRON.
>>147634190
That's the thing with domination civs, if they have unique unit and if you're not playing on a slow speed, your unit can become obsolete before you can secure resources. Rome gets pretty hard by it, their ancient era units become obsolete most of the time before they can even meet other civs
>>147634507
that triple hammer is fucking double iron senpai. What the fuck is taking it all
>>147634626
Why don't you hover the mouse over the iron resource at the top and you tell us?
>>147634626
Hover over the iron icon on the top bar, it should tell you IIRC
>>147634841
>>147634894
IT DOESN'T SAY WHAT IS USING IT.
accepting this shit rn.
>>147634981
Do you have a swordsman? They also use iron I think. It has to be a unit, IIRC Civ V doesn't have a building that uses iron, that's unless you're using a mod
>>147635493
nope!! I have no frigging clue. I have checked everything as far as i'm aware!!!!!
>>147634981
Why can't the ai just get their duplicate luxuries online so it can fucking 1 for 1 trade for mutual happiness? I don't want your godamn horses and iron for 25 turns in the fucking classical era.
heh he knew i was about to rape that place. Now I can build an army to take out the other for 30 turns.
Civ 6 Egypt First Look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFh38ImZ58
QUICK give me stellaris pro tips
Is their a check for if a faction name begins with V it gives them this logo? Or have I just ran into a random fluke?
What's the chance of running into another species and they have the same character for a V sound as we do?
>>147642130
I want to motorboat her tits
I thought entire video would be about her, it was just like 5 seconds. Disappointed btw, didn't even hear her fucking voice acting
>>147634507
That's one of many reasons why I play the Community Balance Patch.
>>147642841
https://youtu.be/aWCytzRdRnQ?t=544
>>147594221
Is the mod archive updated for 1.2?
can I somehow manage to get all of these resource-rich systems not in my territory with one frontier outpost?
>>147646112
Place the frontier outpost in Zaniah and you will get the other two systems as your borders expand. as population growth and technology progresses
I'm stuck in a war in Stellaris.
>impossible war goals
I'm part of an alliance and another member has declared war on a neighbour. However yet another empire (on the other side of the defender) has also declared war on them and seized one of the planets that are part of the goals that my allied empire set.
So now I can't end this war, expand the alliance, etc. because that external empire is blocking the planet my ally is supposed to conquer. I've already reached 100 warscore, but that one planet can't be conquered.
Yes, I could maybe declare war on the other empire who snatched the planet, but I'd rather have them in my alliance and form a federation, they also shield me from the swarm.
WAT DO?
>>147642130
Why all egyptian are black?
>>147594221
Reminder to stop playing Memellaris and instead play DW:U
>>147646000
Come on Anons, I need to know.
Alpha mod is over powered as fuck but it's veryfun
>>147648046
Because it's old history son.
>>147649098
No , its all ogre now
even Skymods page on that rusky site only has outdated shit
am I larping correctly?
>>147620395
I think anon was referring to the castle next to the city
>>147657948
>trump america
>materialist
you fucked up already
>>147658112
I thought protectionism is materialist?
>>147658068
WUZ
>>147658925
KANGZ
>>147657948
I'm guessing all those disabled alerts are there to be funny? Or a reference of some kind?
>>147658378
Protectionism is an economic practice.
Materialism is a rejection of religion, spirituality, and the supernatural.
>>147619737
sphere
>>147619737
Transdimensional hypertubes
>>147620989
I can do it in one. Providing four is just a red herring.
>>147642130
Egypt UA: Bonus Production towards Wonders and Districts to cities on a river. Districts and Wonders may be built on flood plains tiles.
Cleopatra UA: Outgoing trade routes generate additional Gold for Egypt. Incoming trade routes generate additional Gold for Egypt and additional Food for the trade route owner.
Egypt UU: Maryannu Chariot Archer (Replaces the Heavy Chariot). Increased movement on flat land tiles.
Egypt UI: Sphinx. Generates Faith and Culture, yields increased if placed adjacent to a Wonder.
It's a good all-rounder civ with an emphasis on building instead of being a one-trick pony, I like it.
>>147665174
>Cleopatra
>"trade" generates additional gold for egypt
I'm sure it does. How much would you pay to "trade" with cleo?
>>147619737
tetrahedron. there is a reason why its the go-to shape for finite element analysis.
>>147666046
I'll send tried and true Colonel Angus to negotiate.
Maybe they wouldn't have fucking died if they didn't try to land on the surface of a black hole. Some of the survey failures are total bullshit.
I just realized that I could never build enough ships to compete with fucking Normal AI.
I had a smaller total of ships - basically one big 4.5K fleet and 2 other placeholder fleets that were around 7-8K a piece. I destroyed an enemy fleet that was 4K pretty easily, because my technology was better; but they grew another 4k fleet in response like a month later.
I guess I shouldn't have let them conquer the other Empire several in-game hours earlier, since it allowed them to have more resources than me. Stellaris is a game where you have to plan several generations ahead in-game or your race gets fucked.
>>147668357
*real-time hours earlier, I meant*
space refugees are a mistake
close the borders
purge factions
remove racemixing
>>147668357
*not 7-8K, 7-8 hundred*
>>147669513
I tried that and a 'fallen empire' bullied me into accepting them and letting undesirables run amok in my empire
>>147624015
>not battleships until 2500
that's ridiculous
>>147647043
>I've already reached 100 warscore
fucking end the war then and force you demands.
>>147669513
>tfw you play fanatic spiritualist collectivist with conformist trait and purge all xenos or even any citizens whos ethics deviate from the norm at all.
>>147674778
did the same thing for one of my games. Was one of the funner ones.
How do i tell what componets my enemy is using? i want to counter them
stellaris btw
>this name
Don't run. We are your friends.
>>147677731
hover over the energy icon at the top or check the budget tab in the government section (f1)
>Be doing well
>Planet I took over has turtles that have completely opposite ethics I have
>They're a blight on my empire
>Try to pass them off on a sector
>Sector starts tanking my energy credits, research, and minerals
How do I change the ethics of filthy xenos already on my planets and how do I properly make sectors not garbage?
>>147665174
I also noticed they said Cleo has a certain power, and Egypt had another.
Could...could mutiple leaders for civs become a thing again, perhaps down the road? That'd be great.
>tfw afraid to dream
>>147680221
But Civ 6 is going to have multiple leaders
Get with the times, famalam
This guy shows up and slaps your girls ass, what do you do?
How do i convince a faction that they are retarded and to stop trying to declare independence
So after playing deserts of kharak I can't help but think how amazing a space grand strategy set in the homeworld universe would be.
>>147680221
hopefully. if not through dlc, im sure mods will pick up the slack, since they said modding will be much easier than civ 5.
>>147680986
Make more of your people happy so they don't have any arguments.
>>147681791
how can i do that? for some reason i havent been able to research any entertainment buildings yet, and propaganda isnt helping enough
>>147682192
you are probably having an ethics divergence problem.
purge the ones who don't have the same ethics as your main planet.
I'm so fucking tired, guys. I've been at war with at least two people ever since turn 30 or whatever. First it was Austria and Turkey, then Turkey and Germany, then Germany and Persia, and now Germany and Turkey.
Christ, it's like I'm actually playing as historical ruskies.
>>147685542
You gotta go full ruski and claim lots of territory to the east as a fall-back.
The west is were war is fought. That won't change.
Been playing pacifist only Peaceful Bureaucracy and I always seem to have a neighbor who wants to start shit only to promptly get hit. Is it a good idea or the best idea to liberate as many of their planets as the initial warscore allows as a buffer state?
can someone please explain what the satramene does?
it says "growth -15%" but i dont understand in what context or what that has to do with it being used for "calming people"
>>147680831
Merely glance at the bloody gibblets that are now my gf as i prepare to be hate-fucked in the ass seeing as it is obviously donut steel edgy shrek.
>>147688914
its horny gas. sartramene + food stacking is how you fill planets up.
>>147669513
We're gonna build a space wall and make the non-humanoids pay for it!
>>147689413
ahhh.. well i just found a small rare planet that's literally only food and 100% habitability.
sounds like a neato place to use it
>>147690937
Make sure to use it on planets with naturally occurring pheromones too for maximum population gains
How the heck do i get foreign units in Endless Legend?
I rebuilt the village, and I built the foreign district. Yet I still can't build foreign units.
Wat do? I'm stuck on this quest where I need 4 foreign units in a garrison.
>>147690937
> just found a small rare planet that's literally only food and 100% habitability
Does it have the Holy World modifier? This is very important. Game-losing important.
> sounds like a neato place to use it
Not really. Satamarine is fairly useless as it's rare that you have problems filling up planets anyway. A world with plenty of food and high habitability is where you need it LEAST. 5% habitability no-food Tomb Worlds is where it might actually make a difference.
PLEASE SEN D HE
LP
>>147694341
It is the year 2322
How are your outputs so bad
>>147594221
Amarr empire here
So these Frubralav Dominion guys are tribute to me for gobs of money. I'm wondering if I should say fuck this noise and go to war with them, cede planets from them and turn them into sectors.
>>147694615
if i expand i go into negative influence
howe do i leave this loop
>>147695364
say fuck that and get the frontier outpost influence cost reduction mod
>>147695364
Declare rivalries and start shit with the empires around you, decommission frontier outposts and avoid too many defensive pacts
With what planets you have try setting planets for certain functions such as purely research or energy (beltharian plants all on one planet with an energy hub and etc) and max what outputs you have with the current territory
Why does border friction cause such massive butthurt between my former allies?
I was +200 with one group but the moment two of my system's borders touched with his he immediately started hating me and now he's -50 with me
>>147648885
How does DW:U stacks up compared to Stellaris anyway?
>>147695864
DW:U is 2d top down. Very similar to stellaris but the universes are much much bigger, expanses are bigger and geography is much more apparent. Theres far more micromanaging and less automated shit. This is great if you like these aspects but its so much more complicated than it needs to be
can someone please fucking explain to me why everyone is trying to break away.
i cant make people happy because they refuse to be happy.
>>147695978
Also skill trees and research system is far more complex. Its a pick as you go skill tree and not RNG shit like stellaris is. There are like 5 different era you can be in from extremely primative space travel to extremely futuristic and advanced. There are far more traits, features and political systems you can explore including races, tens more races than stellaris but again this all adds to complexity and whether or not you like all that added shit
>>147696092
isnt DW:U the game where you can automate everything?
>>147696168
I suppose you can but the automation AI is as retarded as stellaris.
Does this game have any depth whatsoever? Every single game feels the same; no exceptions
Will it get better?
>>147696328
I blame the lack of depth on the linearity of the game and RNG
>>147696037
Check your population for divergence. Different ethics cause tons of unhappiness.
The quickest and surefire way is to simply purge the ones with shitty ethics (I like how divergence almost always grants the polar opposite ethics, thanks Paradox) before they breed too much. If your empire's ethics don't allow purging, enact policies and ethics that reduce divergence. War dec and go for the Humiliation wargoal if you don't have the influence.
Divergence needs to be weeded out ASAP as you see them prop up. Happy population resource bonus is negligible, but unhappy population causes all sorts of troubles down the road.
>>147695324
Anyone?
How should I design my foretress?
>>147696168
You "can" but whether that's a good idea or not is questionable.
At most I automate ship design if I just don't want to deal with it. The AI does an ok job. Designs won't be optimal but they'll be equivalent to what the AI uses.
Sometimes I play economic survival games where all I manage is construction and colonization to see how long I can keep the AI from dying.
Thinking of having a Russia marathon game, is huge the biggest map in Civ V or is there a bigger map with mod? I want the biggest map that the engine supports
>>147698528
>I want the biggest map that the engine supports
Catherine stop, we know you like big guys.
>>147698013
no one?
>>147699169
If you've mounted the snare you don't need long-range weaons, you can afford super-shortrange ones. Is there nothing that gives better damage than tachy lances up close?
Also why no shields?
>>147699381
>why no shields
because I had armor in mind, I can do shields easily
>is there nothing that gives better damage than tachy lances
Are fighters and fighter bombers a good idea? they seem to give off a lot of damage
either that or I'll use regular lasers. Should I diversify the fit with small medium and large?
>>147699532
hmm
Shields seem to take a lot of Power
should I go ahead anyway?
>>147679835
purge them
>>147695858
>Why does border friction cause such massive butthurt between my former allies?
this. border friction is a pain in the ass with everyone. Fucking faggots.
>>147700053
>ewww our dicks touched, I'm dropping alliance, dropping our trades, dropping our pacts and defensive pacts, I'm not your friend, don't talk to me, we're going to war, cede your shit to me
>>147695324
>cede planets from them and turn them into sectors.
now you're talking like an empire meant to rule the stars
>>147700183
THATS IT I'M GOING TO WAR
this is gonna cost a fuck ton because I already get 25% from them
>>147700269
>cede their planets
>get 100%
>?????
>PROFIT
>>147700392
I can't go to war for 10 years because they're not my buttbuddies anymore
>>147700443
ok since dropping the fruitloop dominion next door this has really put a dent in my finances.
This is my monthly income with all my fleets docked.
>>147701290
This is my income with all my fleets undocked
if I calculate it right, I can't go to war for more than 29 months otherwise I'll brown out
>>147700183
Wouldn't that just create a new sector full of unhappy Xenos that try to get back to their old empire?
>>147701290
>>147701406
>all those battleships
>>147701439
Listen you can be mine or I can purge you, there is none of this "I want my shit back"
>>147701406
Only undock exactly as much of your fleet as you'll need.
I spent most of my first Stellaris game flying around with a third of the fleet, and the other 2/3 gathering dust in dock.
So i have a giant fucking praethoryn infestation in my galaxy.
How do I get rid of them? How should I design my ships?
link to the stellaris book?
>>147698013
Depends on what damage tech you researched at what level already.
>>147624497
I've had it happen plenty. The trigger is that they're bordering or close to someone very strong with bad relations, and you're close to them with good relations and strong.
>>147668357
Battleship Construction Yards on your five core planets and you can easily compete with whatever the game throws at you.
![[K-F]_One_Piece_090_[A0C7E691].avi_snapshot_16.40_[2014.06.26_19.48.24].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/WRMV1cW.jpg "[K-F] One Piece 090 [A0C7E691].avi snapshot 16.40 [2014.06.26 19.48.24]")
Why does playing space cats make any fascist playthrough 100x funner?
>>147698013
>>147699169
Hangars Hangars Hangars. Get the magnet obviously. Maybe a wee bit of point defense but I don't think I'd bother.
>>147666815
if space was comprised of tetrahedrons you wouldn't be able to walk anywhere
>war in stellaris is just chasing around tiny fleets as they fly around all your fleets in defenses to blow up miningstations somewhere in bumfuck nowhere
This is just tedious as hell.
Any Distant Worlds players up in here
Will nebula hours who up
>>147706267
>He doesn't have military stations at his chokepoints
>He actually chases fleets around instead of capping planets
Heh
>>147701439
>unhappy Xenos
Sounds like someone is asking for somePURGING
>>147706267
>>147706679
Yeah, anon is right; chasing enemy fleets is a fool's errand. It's POSSIBLE, provided you do ridiculous micro like have a small interdictor fleet that can warp fast to pin them down while your lumbering main fleet catches up, but it's a much better idea to just play the "best defence is a good offence" game and completly ignore your own territory to just focus on smashing up theirs.
>>147706267
>he plays tag with fleets instead of just raping planets
>be peacefully studying the mysteries of the galaxy in my empire
>suddenly an evil fanatical purifiers declare war on me
>ok then
>defend myself and protect the galaxy by wiping them out
>somehow I'M the bad guy
>>147706360
the border gore triggers my ocd when i play that, i wish stellaris had some of the mechanics of that game though.
>>147698013
don't use crystal plating on fortresses. They have 8000hp already so armor is so much much much better on them already.
If you'd replace all that crystal armor with neutronium you could have 70%+ damage reduction and an effective hp of 25k or more.
what the fuck does this even mean
does this mean I'm joining the war? I don't have diplomatic treaties with any of these two
>>147709008
Think about it for a minute before you ask stupid questions.
>>147709008
they're asking you if you want to go to war with some scummy bhenn? What is the confusion?
What should I play in Stellaris lads
>>147711363
Whatever you want.
>>147711652
I don't know what I want
Pick something for me
>>147711668
Wait until 1.3 then.
>>147711775
No, I want to play right now.
>>147711668
some kind of disgusting bug
>>147711668
Play as fanatic xenophile fanatic pacifist molluscoids
>>147711668
The vagina faced molluscs or those faggot fairy anthropods
>>147711668
Space America
Democracy, vassalize everyone that isn't a democracy
Vassalize democracies too, fuck it, the universe is yours to take
bonus: spiral galaxy, hyperspace only.
Is there a way to see what original tile resources were after you put a different resource building on it?
>>147712114
click on the tile and scroll down.
top tier ui design.
>>147712141
lol I've played thru about 5 times and never knew that. Top tier indeed.
>>147598214
If you like stellaris and have absolutely any interest in world war 2 I recommend Hearts of Iron 4; now with less autism.
>>147648885
>>147695864
>>147695978
>>147696092
Does DW:U support a modern resolution and font resizing yet? I'm kind of attached to 1080p. I can deal with the terrible interface, but if I can't even easily read what that shitty interface is trying to tell me...
>>147706267
Better yet;
>a battle for an ENTIRE. FUCKING. PLANET is represented as nothing more than circular health bars depleting
>fleet v fleet combat literally just plays itself
Nothing is good in the world.
>>147712931
I play in 1080p without any problems but then again, i'm not blind
>can no longer sort empires by distance
fuck you paradox
damn son where'd you find this
i found this right here buddy
I found it over there tbqh
>>147713879
>remove features for no reason
I LOVE THIS DEV MEME
>>147696092
>pick as you go skill tree
I was under the impression that character skills were randomized in DW.
>in defensive pact
>pact empire asks if I want to go to war against some other empire
>sure
>no one sends fleets anywhere
BRAVO
>HOSTILE FLEET ENGAGED
>HOSTILE FLEET ENGAGED
>HOSTILE FLEET ENGAGED
>HOSTILE FLEET ENGAGED
yes I know. They fixed it once, those stupid little icons don't show up when a hostile fleet is detected. Now is just says hostile fleet engaged every few seconds because I'm in a battle.
BRAVO
What does this even mean? What the fuck am I agreeing to?
>move fleet into another empire's borders
>declare war on them
>"the war began with your fleet in enemy territory"
>"they have been placed in missing in action and will reappear in friendly territory soon"
t-thanks
I'm gonna give this one a shot
any mods i should get to make CIVV+BNW more playable
Most of you already know that Sid is liberal and always puts that kind of shit into his games, right? I wonder what kind of techs/policies will be in Civ VI
>>147718214
rollin'
liberating is shit!
>>147717529
Mutual migration treaty
>>147718476
You have to say what kind of mods you want. I have shitload of mods and I could list them here but you could end up not liking any of them. Just take a look through steam and civfanatics and download the ones you like
>>147706360
I spent literally an entire year building my perfect map and then immediately lost interest once I finished it.
>>147706267
Distant Worlds is like this too, but at least you can automate it to auto-convoy ships.
>>147718769
It's really fucking poor to not even say what you're agreeing to. I thought maybe they wanted to to liberate some of their people from themselves.
are spiritualists shit now?
>>147719343
I agree with you, I only figured it out substantially after the fact when my worlds started to get swarmed by fucking tundra ostriches.
Diplomacy is fucked at the moment in every direction, though. This is small beans compared to leaking influence outta every fucking orifice like you do at the moment.
I have never played a grand strategy game before.
I have been asked to participate in a six player Civ 5 game.
How do I have the most fun?
>>147720304
fap and go to sleep
Is everything ethos fucked in stellaris now?
>>147721617
Everything in stellaris is fucked. Every time they change one thing they break 3 others.
>>147721695
yeah it's fucked trying to keep pops happy. Latest game I played my first colonized planet wanted independence immediately. The influence to manage factions is ass.
>>147719896
When were they good?
Is there any way to get a Lance early except the Heratic questline?
>>147673231
I can't, only the party that declared the war can end it, and that's my ally.
>>147718214
rollan
>>147730838
What do they mean by regional maps, btw?
>>147729862
A) Try saving and reloading, that sometimes untangles diplomatic irregularity
B) Just wait it out. The same thing happened to me, and my ally did EVENTUALLY peace out. Seven years after getting to 100%, but it did happen.
>>147731173
>What do they mean by regional maps, btw?
Highlands, Amazon, Great Plains, etc.
One of the ones that doesn't wrap east-west
>>147729862
>Allows you to switch to playing another empire using its two-digit ID. 00 is the player empire, AI empires are 01 and above.
use console and the "play XX" command, it allows you to switch into the member that started the war and you can then force white peace/force demands so you can end the war
>tfw exploring just to find out you're all alone in your continent
There isn't a better feel
Welcome to Uncle Anon's Re-education camp.
We have invaded your planets and enslaved your primitive race, but your ethic divergence is still -17%
>>147713351
I hate it that my fleet won't primary ONE SHIP until its dead because sometimes they'll do this retarded thing where they shoot a ship until its sub 10% health left and all it really takes is one fucking shit to kill it and they don't fucking kill it and it sits there doing max DPS while its just one shot away from death
>>147734543
Your ship does primary the ship with the highest power rating IN THEIR WEAPON RANGE.
That means they constantly switch targets during the battle.
>tfw I got ddosed by Caesar
>>147738126
He saw whats on your hard drive.
>>147739332
But why would he DDOS for that though?
>>147740083
I wonder, why indeed
>>147740896
Nah I prefer them more aboutCleo's age.
>>147741286
Necrophilia then?
>>147741564
Well I like to pretend she's mymummy.
>lost great library by 2 turns
![[HorribleSubs] OverLord - 02 [720p].mkv_snapshot_10.06_[2015.11.12_10.09.11].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lidh4nK.jpg "[HorribleSubs] OverLord - 02 [720p].mkv snapshot 10.06 [2015.11.12 10.09.11]")
Say I were to focus heavily on AI and all that good stuff - could I eventually purge my pops and replace them with synthetics or is that going create factions?
Been wanting to do a one planet techno run.
>>147745259
enjoy your energy costs
>>147745259
>Instant defeat on unavoidable AI rebellion
Oh please go ahead.
How does ethic divergence work exactly? With divine mandate ethic divergence is crazy negative, but pops convert very rarely.
>>147748898
In negative they very rarely change, if you want them to change you need positive divergence and every change seems random to me. One of my fanatic militarist pop changed to pacifist materialist.
>>147749590
>>147748898
negative means they will slowly move towards your empire's ethics
it can still take decades
Is there any reason to use anything else than 5x Lance, 4x PD, armor only battleships after midgame?
How do I get good at 4x games /4xg/?
I literally cannot even hope to win a game of Civ V on anything above Prince difficulty, and even when I am doing my best I still lag behind the other civs.
I also got Endless Legend during the sale to give it a shot and the same thing happens.
How did you become good at this genre?
>>147751398
4 city tradition national library education college rationalism artillery x-com squads gg 2 easy
>>147750000
Why not 6 lance and build 1 BC with repair aura and fighter squadrons/PDs every 10-15 lance BC?
why doesn't collectivist reduce ethic divergence?
isnt that exactly what collectivism is?
>>147753956
Collectivism no more alters individual thought than individualism. The difference is that its easy to call anyone who differs a deviant in a collectivist society. What theyre clearly going for is that a spiritual people are less prone to divergence due to dogma.
>>147754882
ah i see, so collectivists are able to weed out free thinkers. though means of purge or whatever.
>Tiny, weak empire keeps bugging me for a non-aggression pact
>Sends the invite one too many times
>Fleet gets dispatched
Junk mail is not welcome at this address.
>>147742151
overrated wonder, fuhgeddaboudit
>>147718214
rollin
>first couple decades i help the guy to the north of me bash the guy to the north west
>i take 2 planets while the other guy makes him a vassal
>he then proceeds to make 6 more vassals
>they never leave and I'm surrounded on all sides, can't go to war with anyone without having 7 people invading
what do you do in that situation
>set minor empire as rival
>2 months later
>message from minor empire
>"It's time to end this charade."
>1 response option is "Ok"
>does nothing
what the shit is this game man
>>147763547
He's declaring rivalry, not going to war
>>147763715
I referred to the Ok when I meant it does nothing
and since when is "It's time to end this charade" a declaration of rivalry
gf won't talk to me because I rushed her in Civ5, she's fuming.
what should I do?
How would an individualist Fallen empire work?
>>147765118
make her a vassal
>>147765118
purge
>>147765118Is she playing Russia?
>>147767365
Babylon
I was playing Poland.
>>147767365
>You will never turn your cute enemy into your wife and have her convince her people to integrate and abandon their nationality and embrace your own
>>147765118
Did you attack from the rear?
>>147767774
The biggest reason of why I play against female leaders.
Theodora gives me a boner even bigger than the Catherine's, and I remember the first time I beat Catherine my dick hurt so bad from her defeat dialogue I had to minimize Civ V and masturbate for an whole hour.
>>147767774
>>147768429
>humanfuckers
>>147769458
>Fucking non-humans
If they can't give you children then they're worthless.
>>147768429
>waifufags will be gone with civ 6's ugly looking wallace and gromit leaders
So I've made a shit mod for Stellaris and decided to publish it, so I made a thread on the forums but I've forgotten to do the localisations files for half the mod and somebody has already subscribed to the mod.
what do?
>>147667328
I dunno, I had one surveyor accidentally activate the self destruct protocol of their ship once.
Pretty lulzy IMHO
>>147770174
Try updating it?
>>147769745
>wanting to have kids
>wanting to have sex with something that could potentially use it to single-handedly ruin your life and get free money for 18 years for doing so
>>147770614
kk Will do
>>147770728
>Not wanting to continue your genetic lineage
>Impregnating women that are rotten to the core rather than shining beacons that will help raise your children to become great beings
Don't blame the trash you're sleeping with. Blame yourself.
>>147771901
>Arguing about waifus with a xenofag in a video game thread
>Desperately shoehorning some weird /pol/ redpill rant into it
Do you think he's actually fucking alien women in real life or something?
>>147771901
>shining beacons that will help raise your children to become great beings
Right, so impregnate a type of woman that doesn't actually exist
Great plan
>>147772109WellI have done sexual things with non-humans before, yes
>>147772320
Is it true?
Is dolphin pussy really the best?
>>147772390
Never had dolphin pussy beforeOr any kind of pussy, for that matter
>>147772109
I was under the impression we were discussing fucking fictional women.
>>147772173
I'd be fine with impregnating a cute xeno.
>>147772719
But you will never meet a xeno, and even if you do, you can't impregnate oneAnd no, I wasn't talking about anything fictional
So Stellaris is inevitably going to be pumped full of content by DLC, until it has espionage, economics, superweapons, ground combat, and all the stuff that should have been in the game on release if Paradox's business model wasn't to release half-finished dross and then nickel-and-dime you for the other half.
BUT aside from all that necessary stuff, what kind of sci-fi bells and whistles would you hope for? Free-floating space habitats? Giant alternate tech branches? Plug-n-play cybernetic attachments for Pops? Counter-invade Unbidden Land? Anything?
So what's the best way to expand as a xeno purging imperium? You lose control of systems when you purge their pops for some reason and early on, planets habitable by your race are few and far between. Do I really have to stick pops from my race on 40% habitable worlds or is there a more clever way of expanding?
>>147773905
> Giant alternate tech branches?
This.
In the same way that Materialists can't get Psy, I want many more branches like that. At least one proper branch for each ethos, rather than just the occasional one-drop of "Private Colony Ship", "Virtual Combat Arena" we have now.
>>147772858
>You can't impregnate one
Says you.
>>147773905
Read Night's Dawn trilogy recently, which means I want all of
> Edenist habitats
> voidhawk nurseries in gas giant rings
> Alchemist superweapons
> Kiint levitating cities
>>147764152
it doies nothing because you have no option to do anything. It's just the game informing you some empire really doesnt like you.
>>147774613
If you're able to impregnate it and have kids capable of "continuing your genetic lineage", then by definition it must be human
>>147775664
>He doesn't use space magic to impregnate hot xeno bitches
>>147775780
But anon, we're not talking about fiction
>>147775892
Then what the fuck are we talking about?
>>147776085
Bestiality
>>147776085
This guy is just aching to use this thread to share his bestiality experiences with us, apparently.
Either that or he's an /x/fag who fucks ayys or tulpas in his insane reality.
>>147776215
>>147776141
>Bestiality
What a faggot.
>>147776413
>not having sex with animals
>>147776413
Might just be Canadian.
>>147776542
What's the difference?
Post characters who literally did nothing wrong and were 100% right.
>>147778712
Tali still looks cute
>>147778712
>tell the Northerners to not go into space
>they go into space
>you try to stop them
>they kill you
>Taiidan attack for them going into space
>99.99% of the population wiped out, hundreds of millions dead
You could have stopped this.
>>147779101
>Bowing to the whims of genocidal aliens
>>147779906
>not obeying our god, Sajuuk
>30,568 CE
ishiggitydiggity
I'm not a huge fan of Civ V and Beyond Earth but I love Endless Space and Dominions 4. Should I buy Stellaris?
Also, is there a huge choice of different playable factions with different gameplays in Stellaris, or is it just as bland as Civ V?
Pic unrelated. Or maybe not?
>>147780243
>no
>bland, everything plays the same, it just that some things are limited for specific ethics
Just pirate and check if you want but currently its just waste of time.
>>147718214
Roll
benis
>>147780243
>Should I buy Stellaris?
fuck no
>>147704764
I had just researched and built 2 cruisers when the AI started fucking with me.
Civ 6 will save 4X
>mfw your Genetically Enhanced Super Soldiers invade a civilization with "Pathetic" tech
Rip and tear, boys.
Rip and tear.
>>147780243
I followed the dev diaries religiously and but it's honestly a shit game. If you want to try a Paradull game, get CK2 and embrace its sweet sweet hellish autism. It's very poorly designed and balanced.
>>147780243
I played Stellaris for 115 hours before deciding it's shit and I'm still playing it. So it can't be all bad.
spawned right beside the banana next to the river. Did I make good choice???
pack it up boys. Computer crashed when i was destorying some faggot barbs.
>>147791361
nice resolution dude. good to see u playing in windowed mode too
>>147791651
are u talking shit about my res? If it seems fucked up it's just the borders.
>>147773905
I'd like cybernetic attachment to pops.
Also an attrition-like system that would discourage doomstacks and encourage garrisons, but that probably won't happen, too much to rewrite.
>>147793848
Is this the face of the AI rebellion?
>>147790667
You could have settled near that mountain and river to get bonuses both from them
>>147795674
oh :c
what kind of bonuses
>>147795745
Well, if you settle near mountains you get a bonus to defence, which may or may not be great depending on your difficulty. Second, you can get wonders on them but that doesn't really matter as you can get them with other cities anyway. The greatest thing is you can get observatory, which gives 50% science to the city, which is fucking huge. And that capital would have great growth, also has jungles in it which give additional science with university. That's also your capital, where you would build science national wonders like national library, etc. It literally would be science powerhouse
About rivers, IIRC rivers count as fresh water so the tiles adjacent to them have more food, greatly helps with growth. Units also get a penalty when attacking across rivers but that is, as also above defence bonus, may or may not be useful depending on your difficulty. Building near river also gives you a few buildings, like watermill which increases production and food, garden which increases great person generation(this would be great, as that's your capital you would be generating most GP power there, thanks to wonders and shit) and hydro plant which gives shitload of production
These are all stupid really, I'm glad Civ VI has a district system. In that if your city is one tile away from a river you won't lose all of the bonuses you would get, unlike Civ V
>>147796338
xbox civ is the best civ desu
Gonna try this one setup to see how well my collection of species could go.
>>147798164
I don't understand
>>147798406
I just typed this descrition because my autism couldn't let me continue until I do. Will write something more coherent later.
So how do you win being pacifist when going to war is -15% happiness. Everything yhou do seems to piss off your pops
I am disappointed that William Morgan Shepard will not narrate Civ VI.
Japan's video is up, weebs:
youtu.be/diEavgTOIA8
Leader is Hojo Tokimune, UA grants bonuses to densely packed(?) districts as well as battles near the coast for both land and naval units.
UU is the samurai, with bushido from civ v as their special promotion.
UB is the electronics factory, which replaces the regular factory.
Stole my fucking worker so I declared war.
>>147801050
>Japan repelled the mongol empire's invasion
Clearly they mean got lucky with a typhoon that destroyed the mongol's fleet.
>>147801587
Japanese summoned the typhoon
>>147801050
They could have gone with Rance instead
Missed opportunity desu
>>147773905
Meta-human quest for smart atoms to create god like beings instead of just ships but ships and super expensive i terms of resources and pop to go against the ships.
>>147801050
O shit, that's the Hojo crest. They chose the Hojo clan for Japan? I would've expected someone from the Ashikaga clan.
>>147801050
I thought they had already revealed him, I even remember discussing about this guy
>>147803036
Hojo Tokimune
>>147798164
>Agrarian
>Charismatic
>>147801371
i attacked his city with two archers 1 spear 2 warrior dudes. lost hard yall/
>>147803204
They had revealed him a few weeks back but didn't have a video for him out yet.
>>147803810
>trying to take cities without a single artillery unit
Now that i've got jump drives how do I trigger the unbidden? I've set a fleet on a tour of the galaxy, is it just a MTTH based on number of jumps made with the drive?
>>147805274
Yes. Just keep jumpin'.
Although bear in mind that if you've had the AI Crisis or the Prethyran Crisis, jump drives become magically safe and the Unbidden will never appear
>>147805274
>>147805393
I've had the unbidden even without jump drives
>>147807362
The AI can trigger it too.
>>147807504
Ah ok. Is that the only way to trigger it? With jump drives?
>>147807569
At least 100 years must have passed since game start.
2000 year MTTH* for each empire with no jump drive technology (Jump Drive or Psi Jump Drive).
200 year MTTH* for each empire with one jump drive technology.
20 year MTTH* for each empire with both jump drive technologies.
20% less time if empire has completed Wanderlust event chain.
Mean Time To Happen
From the wiki, I don't know if they changed it since 1.1
>>147807731
fair enough, cheers
>>147809362
Too close man.
>>147809362
>tfw most of my friends turned out to be worse than me
Not even sure should I be happy or not
>>147810037
I have no friends. And never had.
>33 wizard
>>147810091
I didn't either. I was talking about those people I knew from school. I called them friends but we were never any close
>>147810169
I really should kill myself. I am fucking waste of air.
>to lazy to kill myself
>>147810262
>killing yourself
Nah, I'll stay and be the cancer of humanity.
Fapping to 2d pictures and eat delicious unhealthy food.
And play games, sometimes.
>>147798164
...Wait, I'm almost definitely literally retarded.
Where the fuck do you write the descriptions for the races you create? I didn't even know you could do that.This may bring my autism to untold heights.
Once frontier outposts are built is there any reason to disband them? They don't seem to cost any energy or influence once built and it says they take up 4 fleet capacity but it doesnt register on the total counter.
I have a fleet of 28, I have built 2 outposts, I have a fleet capacity of 28/31
>>147810409
in one of the first creations screens
>>147810409
On the very first custom race creation screen. You need version 1.1 at least.
>>147810587
They consume 1 influence monthly.
>>147810827
Oh they still do that, thanks yeah I just checked my influence. What's with the no fleet upkeep for them even those they apparently use 4
>>147811006
I don't know. Probably a leftover in the files.
benis
Post mods
>>147813657
well >>147813341
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=351734966
>>147813737
>Jääkäri
I swear Finns are not human and they don't speak a human language
>>147813657
Fresh mod
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=719794488
>>147813657
Best mod
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=230613736
>>147814837
That UA is op desu
>>147810262
Just get a job.
>>147815231
this.
>tfw no one hires you
What are some must have mods for Stellaris?
>>147817239
national emblem pack
flags and emblems
995 flexible core planet cap
better sector mod
zbeautiful battles *
shorter integration time
faster ship upgrade
reduce aura
reduced truce time down to 3 years
complete colors
bb rangefinder *
separate humans
beautiful universe
>>147814891
You want op?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=255381775
>liberate planet
>vassalise>intergrate
>new species has continental planet preference
>build a colony ship
>go to continental planet
>can't colonise
>I don't have colonise continental planet tech
these dumbs pops have just come from a continental world, got on a colony ship, travelled and few star systems and got to another continental world and suddenly can't colonise it.
BRAVO PARADOX
>>147818169
I assume colonization is different from already being there. You gonna need to set up foundation, air filtering, all from scratch.
Although inability to inherit vassal's tech is silly.
>>147819402
I just would have thought the new species in my empire would be able to colonise their own type of planet. I understand that my own species wouldn't be able to do it. Just one more oddity to add to the list.
>>147819604
I assume our sci-fi is a bit harder here, so you don't get to just colonize a planet for being the same type. You'll still need air filtration, site clearing, setting up biome-specific infrastructure.
Although really, tech shouldn't be bound to nations, it should be bound to planets. This is where infrastructure, institutes and corporations with know-how are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHgVlRdO72U
Should I watch quill's Civ VI videos? Are they worth watching or reveal anything good?
>>147822190
>reveal anything good
>Civ VI
>>147822190
its just examining the official civ uploads. not exciting, just look on the civ reddit megathread if you actually want to learn.
>>147608061
Orwell tried to teach you that you should befriend your enemy right before his complete annihilation.
>>147608061
If you don't want to be crazy expansionist and conqerer, just liberate all the agressor's planets instead of capturing them.
Kill yourself shitposting irc samefaggot.
>>147801050
Hojo is looking pretty damn fine.
>>147830164
Still suffers from Civ VI art style imo
>>147831743
He suffers far less than the two girls, Roosevelt, and Ying Zheng.
>>147831743
I don't mind the art style. I actually kind of like it.
Not everything has to be photo-realistic.
>>147832217
It has nothing to do with being photorealistic and more to do with everyone but Hojo so far looking puke-inducingly ugly.
>>147832261
I disagree.
I can't say your preferences are wrong, but given style isn't ugly just because it isn't photorealistic. They are caricatures. Leader features are exaggerated for effect, like the units themselves.
>>147832217
EL is not realistic and I like it. It's not about being realistic.
You have to be brain damaged to like pic related imo
>>147733298
>Songhai lands a settler on your continent before gunpowder
>Starts complaining about "you're settling too close to my borders!!!"
>>147832413
I'm not calling them ugly because they're not photorealistic. I'm calling them ugly because Ying Zheng is an orb, Roosevelt is a burgerlard, Cleopatra has a fucked face and Victoria...Victoria just looks like shit.
>>147832471
Look at all the niggers saying "10/10 would fuck" to that and Cleopatra.
>>147832471
>you are brain damaged if you don't share muh subjective preferences
wew
>>147832691
>Ying Zheng
Post an image of him.
>>147801050
Also why was this revelated today? We just got Cleo 2 days ago, I thought they would reveal a leader a week
>>147832903
Here you go.
>>147820114
Realistically, colonising any of the habitable planets in Stellaris would be trivial to an interstellar capable species, if you can live in space, you can live pretty much anywhere. Only planets where it rains molden lead or has atmospheric pressure that can crush steel should give them pause.
You'd expect much more extensive space habitats too.
>>147832471
I like it because they're all caricatures. a lot of people liked civ 4's leaders, and a lot of people like these as well. just because some people dont like exactly what you like doesnt mean that they have brain dama-oh wait, its 4chan.
>>147833115
it got released early to the jp youtube channel so they went fuck it and put it on the eng one as well.
Civ6 art looks like it's trying to appeal to the mobile games market by going cartoony.
>>147833117
That's not from the game. You implied there were images of him from the game.
>>147833285
you're an idiot if you think that games try to appeal to crowds that play completely different games by changing up their art style. people who play mobile games dont play pc games.
>>147833285
It's not just art, it's also the UI. UI triggers me more than art desu, it literally looks like it's from a mobile game
>>147833285
>le mobile games meme
It's just exaggerated. Mobile games don't have a monopoly on exaggerated features.
>>147833184
>I like it because they're all caricatures. a lot of people liked civ 4's leaders, and a lot of people like these as well.
And I don't and I think it's ugly for reasons other than being not realistic.
Why would you want caricatures for leaders anyway? You're supposed to be talking to the real person, not a caricature. Civ IV wasn't explicit caricatures, they tried to be somewhat realistic but the technology limited them. Stalin looks like a low-poly version of himself and Victoria looks like she does in paintings and photos later in life.
>>147833337
Oh yeah there is, I thought you knew.
>>147833285
The UI is far more indicative. Artstyle we can discuss as an artistic choice, the UI is literally clash of clans.
>>147833496
The map and unit styles I don't mind but what the niggashit is going on with the icons and UI
>>147833559
>Civ IV wasn't explicit caricatures, they tried to be somewhat realistic
>>147833721
He has a bigger head and that's it, there's far more wrong with Civ VI portraits than having massive heads.
In Civ 5 if you do one kind of victory can you continue the game and do the rest with the same civ?
>>147833885
No, have a save before achieving the victory and then go for others
>>147833698
the icons are wip, they keep changing them between videos so they're working on them still. the ui is honestly fine.they're going for an old style hud and map, like ink drawn on brown paper. people who think that the ui and ingame shit looks like a mobile game clearly have never seen an actual mobile game.
>>147833948
Well that's a shame, I keep winning culture victory before anything else.
>>147834148
Up your difficulty
>>147833864
Anon, stop it. C:IV had caricatures for leaders too. C:VI isn't a unique, special little butterfly in this regard.
>>147833174
It's a matter of scale. A single pop is probably millions. Needing life support means you need to pay precious Jouls for every person.
I would like being able to build outposts on barren and such worlds.
I also definitely wish each planet would house more then one biome and type would define distribution pattern.
We keep memeing about graphics but have you guys discussed the eureka system before? Looks kinda interesting
Pic not related, I couldn't find a related pic
>>147834753
>I also definitely wish each planet would house more then one biome and type would define distribution pattern.
This, they should make it so each world had certain tiles where species that don't have that planet's preference could live with 80 % happiness, for example tundra worlds could have tiles for continental species to live near the equator (make them the center tiles).
>>147834753
>I also definitely wish each planet would house more then one biome and type would define distribution pattern.
Problem with that is it nukes the whole "Different empires colonise asymmetrically at the start because of different planet types" thing, which I think is actually really good.
If there's an appropriate biome on every planet, everything's colonisable from 2200 almost.
Currently testing the human exodus mod.
I'm a filthy federated spic (pacifist, materialist, individualist).
Currently cockblocked by the visegradians (xenophobes), nigerians(militarists) and hindus(zealots), so my only chance is to go south. Currently waiting for warp mk2 to achieve this.
The NAD (american leftists) currently are my best posibility of alliance, they are already cordial with me and we have both been rivaled by the nigerians and hindus, I'm waiting for the inevitable war now.
Link for the mod, its a new one.
https://mega.nz/#!1UdzwICS!DNqh_37bqU9tszdUdSxIxaGiTcYPYR3czM3WmCpbLqI
>>147834628
From what I can tell, they really didn't for the most part. There are a few where I can't tell where they based the person off of (Catherine comes to mind she's just a qt sergeant there or something), and certainly not to the extent of Roosevelt, Ying Zheng, and Cleopatra. Victoria we can pretend is based on her younger years and simply suffers from the artstyle.
>>147835112
I think we have? It's a pretty good idea, even if it encourages metagaming and excessive forward planning
I can only hope that resources / Euraka prerequisites aren't scattered all over the place.
>>147835305
That's literally how it should be. Humans have lived in the desert for ages, in the barren tundra since prehistory, etc. There's no reason you can't colonize a cold world with 2200 technology, fuck we could probably do it now with enough energy supplies, just set up heated tunnels.
>>147835112
I think it could be really good, especially if techs have long research times normally. some shown have requirements like declaring war, which could make people and ai do things they wouldnt normally for the purpose of advancement.
>>147835112
Jesus, this game looks like shit
>>147835112
>tfw they STILL make the capital of China Beijing
>tfw they make slingers worse than archers
fugg
>>147835989
>>tfw they STILL make the capital of China Beijing
We don't know that yet. Wasn't Egypt's capital Giza in the video? There's no fucking way Egypt's actual capital is Giza, they could be placeholder names
>>147835914
STOP
You aren't allowed to criticize Civ6 here
>>147817114
>fell for the computer science meme
>literally every job available is wageless "internship" at "startups" or phone tech support
Should've moved to Commiefornia while I had the money saved up or went straight for my masters desu senpai
>>147836513
Maybe you're just shit.
>>147790667
>romans
>no wheat
>no "bread" in "bread and circus"
>just bananas
>>147836592
>Georgia
>Tech jobs
Believe me senpai, I've been looking for almost a year now.
what is this shit
Any thoughts on who will leads Byzos this time? Which leader of them had the strongest personality? I'll say Basil II
>>147840563
>Theodora won't give you a titjob
Sadness.
>>147840624
>titjob
>With those tiny things in her chest.
you picked the wrong leader.
>>147841132
Is that a nipple
>>147841132
Funny edit.
>>147804417
i asked my bff to declare war but he made peace as i started the attack
>>147841132
Yeah, he did.
>>147840392
Had the same thing. Even it there was a checkmark my allied Empire always refused to go to war, if I got something worth even 1 point more than him.
He always declined a war in which I wanted a 21 pts system and gave him a 20 pts system. Although the green checkmark was there, he always refused. He accepted when I demanded a sub 20 pts system for myself.
>>147841324
comfiest leader screen desu
>>147594221
What's the best ethos and why it's spiritualist?
>>147841438
Until you get eaten by a tiger.
Who /moai/ here?
>>147843826
how do u even do anything. Everytime i found a new city or annex one it takes a billion years to do anything
>>147843643
>I will never have a computer capable of running that
>>147843826
That Smolensk roads don't make any sense, why?
>>147843643
>Liu Bei
>Benevolence
STOP
>>147843643
Lenin is OP as hell.
>>147844129
don't look at me, I didn't build it
>get first planet stolen by frontier outpost before I'm even discovered
>have to settle with inferior resources
>get wormhole going on this high mineral planet
>discover xenophobes right next to it as I'm building my colony ship
>about to colonize when their borders inch closer and lock me out
>they destroy my wormhole station too
>everyone around me is an advanced empire or militaristic with superior fleets
This run is fucked
Oh shit we dying
>>147847221
>2218
>4 corvettes military
Dont waste your resources early on by colonizing. Build up a strong military first and either purge or vassalize/tributary yourself a nice corner of the galaxy first.
Border expansion comes with occupied planets.
the occasional tributary will give you enough credits and minerals to maintain a decent fleet, research debris so u dont lag behind in tech
Peaceful expansion early on is literally impossible if you dont get lucky with space/benevolent neighbors.
Always play safe = military first
>>147843643
What mod is this ?
>>147850098
All of JFD's leader mods.
Recently I've been exiting to Windows for failing to get a WW. I guess I'm finally done with Civ:V.
>>147849560
No, I've had a military, they just got wiped by cultists, pirates, and crystals. Me not getting any good military tech besides shields and engines 1 is not helping
So how do you think they will change France's UA?
I ask because it relies on wonder/culture stacking in the capital, which while cool, won't do them a lot of favors in terms of a productive Paris with the limited space for each city.
>>147853282
Play something with more punishing ironman like darkest dungeon or xcom2 to get your honesty restpred, then come back
>>147858240
Too late. I'm hyped for C:VI. There is no going back. Only forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
I wonder if Olga of Kiev will look qt or not, seeing as a lot of the others aren't
>finally caught up on all the known Civ VI info
Can't help but feel a bit of hype, lads. I know I shouldn't but it's looking pretty decent.
>>147859052
its looking to be a thousand times better than civ 5, especially on vanilla. I dont know if there was even anyone excited for civ 5 when it was announced and showed off, since everything looked so barebones. but what will civ 6 need? corporations, colonies, good diplomacy. thats basically it.
>find a decently sized planet
>40% habitability for my species
>"No biggie, I'll just settle them and then gene-mod their habitat preference"
>two months later
This sort of shit really fucking grinds my shit. We're literally the same species minus the climate preference. What the fuck is the logic behind this?
>>147860218
No logic, just quality paradox programming.
>>147860218
>racism in a Finnish game
>>147860218
>What the fuck is the logic behind this?
Lack of a is-modified-same-species = 0 check on that modifier.
>new power generator upgrade finishes
>now i can replace one generator for armor on my battleships
t-time for the 20 year long upgrade! ha ha ha ha ha
>>147860016
Colonies? Like in C:IV?
Two questions about Stellaris:
>is it possible to roleplay, or am I forced to minmax my attributes to survive?
>why do I keep getting shitty research topic?
>>147863886
that, as well as from civ 3. (you could send a worker to a resource outside of your borders and make a little hut there, adding it to your cities if you had a road to it) I really enjoyed that part about civ 3.
Which 4x has the less shitty combat?
>Sword of the Stars
>you're just dropped on the combat screen
>have fun lol
>Sins of Solar Empire
>literally just make a shitload of small boats
>don't bother making anything else because the AI will rush it
>Distant Worlds
>not strategy either, just make ships and send them to fight
>Stellaris
>mixing ships with different weapons is always a bad idea as your missiles ships will get into range instead of kiting the enemy
>>147864406
>Stellaris
>Combat starts as soon as your longest-range ship can fire at the enemy
>Your corvettes/destroyers leisurely float towards the other fleet at combat speed, getting killed by the droves
Literally no reason not to build the highest-tier hull your current tech allows for. Smaller ships aren't worth the upkeep.
>>147864643
They need to add support ships.
>>147864120
I don't remember that part of Civ:III. It's been awhile. I bought that when Beyond the Sword came out.
I wonder if there ever was a CiV mod for that.
>>147864406
Sword of the Stars, for the fact of being projectile based.
>>147863886
>C:IV
>>147865361
>CiV
I bet you will use civilizat10n non-ironically too, you freaking retard.
>>147868250
CiVI?
>>147868250
I didn't used to use it but I will now just to piss you off. Cuz goddam, of all the things in the universe to get triggered by.
>>147868423
>my retardation is annoying, so I will behave like more of a retard
>>147868574
t. retard
>>147868673
Your signature is a post late.
>>147868905
What
>>147865361
dont know, ive just been playing multiplayer with some friends before civ 6 comes out, so no mods allowed.
>>147868250
>I bet you will use civilizat10n non-ironically too
are you guys hyped for ciVIlization?
that doesnt look as good with this font.
For some reason Spain was colored yellow instead of its usual when I did the new world scenario.
I like it better.
>>147868574
No one thinks it is retarded but you.
>>147869595
I never want to play Egypt or Greece simply because of the color scheme. I have the opposite problem with the Shoshone.
>>147869761
I'm used to Spain being yellow from paradox games so I always sort of associated it with that color anyway.
Egypt's shade of yellow is fine but I wish its secondary color was blue and not purple. That would help it a lot imo.
>>147870252
For the longest time I wished colors were customizable. Since it only really comes to play on your borders and on the map I feel like it would be an easy think to allow.
>>147860218
>some years later....
Nice.
VERY NICE.
There's literally no reason to play as xenophobes if gene-modding habitation preference triggers this much malus. Patch this shit, Paradox.
>>147870447
All these variants AND THEY ALL HAVE THE FUCKING MALUS.
Literally why even bother with gene-modding or settling non-primary biomes if it's just going to spam me with "dangerous factions" messages? Did Paradox forget that 4X games include "eXpand?"
>>147871056
It's marketed as Grand Strategy.
>>147870447
Offshoots get the EXTRA malus because WHY NOT
I've been thinking up designs for a dieselpunk/decopunk conversion mod for Civ V (with elements of early 20th century pulp fiction put into the mix), since its art deco theme always inspired me, but I have no art skills to put them into practice. Also Civ VI is coming out soon so I have no idea how many people will migrate over once its released.
You think I should try forging ahead with it anyway?
>>147871514
I imagine wait for Civ VI, it's [supposed] to be much easier to mod.
>>147871514
Well, I know some excellent fan/modder artists out there exist, but I don't know if this sort of project is worth it overall. I don't want to just copypaste graphics from elsewhere over everything and make contrasting styles either, that sort of stuff breaks immersion for me.
>>147871514
do you have experience with civ 5 modding? because its apparently pretty damn difficult to do a conversion-style mod, while its going to be easier to make mods for civ 6 according to the directors. I would assume that if it has a good launch (which it probably will, looking at all of its features, it easily rivils civ 5+expansions already) most players will migrate over, as well as probably some civ 4 players because of the pseudo-stacking.
>>147871790
I have experiences in modding Civ V, although I am well aware of the trials of trying to do conversion mods for the game, which is part of the reason I took my sweet time in getting it all together. Admittedly I was using the modern/atomic eras of Civ V as my starting base (remember, 1920s-1940s theme) and wanting to take those further, so conversion may or may not be the best term, but it's conversion enough.
(And before anyone asks, I'm trying to teach myself the proper art style for the project, but that's also a lot of the reason it never got off the ground in time. Never my forte.)
And yeah, both hearing about it being easier to mod Civ VI as well as all BNW features off the bat make me wonder if it's worth it in the long run. I know Civ IV had a longtime modding community but it was a whole different beast compared to V. I dunno. I'll wait and see how VI is, it's already July.
Anyone else hyped for Arcen's 4X?
>>147872673
>>147872673
Big secondary thing was if it should be a premade scenario or a kind of start-from-the-beginning thing like the Smoky Skies scenario, which while I like a lot is also by far the easiest scenario because of the way you just start in the open. Also the former allows better flowing events than a themed game, not that there's anything wrong with the latter, quite the opposite. (Also a corollary: a custom semi-random map script like the Scramble for Africa or Polynesia scenarios would be necessary.)
I'll stop before I go full autism but you can see why I waffled for so long. It's all possible but would take (has taken) forever.
>>147870447
There's pretty much no reason to play as xenophobes anyway other than roleplaying.
>>147874024
Monument to purity and influence from rivalries is nice
![daa-rick.and.morty.s01e01-sd.mkv_snapshot_09.01_[2015.06.18_13.45.11].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/K1mOkjr.jpg "daa-rick.and.morty.s01e01-sd.mkv snapshot 09.01 [2015.06.18 13.45.11]")
>Nomads offer to sell me 15 ships
>1000 energy credits, 2000 minerals
>"I hope they're good."
>It's 15 cruisers with a combined firepower of over 7K
>I'm a one-planet pacifist spiritualist individualist
kek? It's like 30 years into the game.
Can I just play alone in a universe so I can finally recover all the artifacts? I'm the closest I've been now at 5/6 and it's not looking like I'll find the last one.
Actually so fucking frustrating. Paradox need to cancel their vacations.
>>147877727
I also just ran into hostile space whales. Something isn't right around here.
>>147849560
>Build up a strong military first and either purge or vassalize/tributary yourself a nice corner of the galaxy first.
wouldn't that be bad if you're pacifist though?
>>147860218
how do you genemod and some of a specific species?
>>147879423
Nobody said you can't be a huge hypocrit anyway.
>>147871202
>Grand Strategy
where everything you do pisses off your pops
BRAVO
>>147879713
Honestly kind of like real life
There's always someone insanely angry no matter what the government does and they're the ones who are loud.
>>147879592
*only some
>>147879790
Can't help it. There's always at least 40% of the population who hasn't voted for one guy. Sometimes even more.
>>147879592
In the modding screen, check only the planets whose population you want to modify.
What does /4xg/ think of Homeworld?
>>147881192
Greatest game ever made
>>147881380
What does /4xg/ think of Deserts of Kharak?
>>147881192
Tried the HD version. It was meh.
>>147881460
Rachel a cute
Game is Sajuuk/10
>>147881801
I legit cried during this scene.I got chills when I lost a cryotray.
>>147882025
Thanks for spoiling a game I barely even played.
>tfw you will never play Homeworld Cataclysm because the source code is lost forever and no active torrents exist
Feels really bad, man. The voice acting was superb.
>>147880382
>only the planets
christ why did I miss this, thanks
>>147881192
it's beautiful. Really should replay it someday
I like how they fit that one revenge mission into Deserts of Kharak. It reminded me of the revenge focus the original Homeworld game had.
A fleet has destroyed your world. You are the first and last line of defense for the fragment of your people left alive and what do you do? You risk it all just to hunt down those sons of bitches and murder them.
Could anyone spoil me Homeworld's history? I know it has something to do with space zombies or something, but that's all.
I also know it's hilariously difficult.
>>147882909
just google HW1'S manual.
It probably has more chapters full of lore than any three modern day 'manuals' have pages.
I can sum it up for you, but I have to sleep first.
>>147882909
Hiigarrans stumble on one of three hyper space cores (really nice FTL drives that give you a huge advantage over competitors). The Bentusi are peaceful cyborg traders integrated into their own ships and they have one of the other cores. The Hiigarans use the core for personal gain and the rest of the galaxy bans against them. With the hyperspace core the Hiigarans defeat the united galaxy. The rest of the galaxy demand the Bentusi stop the Hiigarans. The Bentusi agree.
The Hiigarans launch an attack on the Bentusi when the Bentusi come to claim the Hiigaran hyperspace core, but the Hiigarans get BTFO. The Taiidan, the other big empire in the galaxy who have been fighting with the Hiigarans for a long time take the reigns at this point as the Bentusi retreat from galactic affairs out of guilt. The Taiidan pretty much genocide the Hiigarans by demanding that every last one of them leave their homeworld and never use FTL ever again.
The Hiigarans leave in slower than light colony ships and travel for thousands of years looking for a new home. Most of the ships eventually fail. A few make it to Kharak, a desert world of borderline habitablity. Also, in secret, the Hiigarans smuggled the prized hyperspace core with them to Kharak.
The Hiigarans forget about their homeworld, Hiigara. A religion that worships the god Sajuuk develops and demands the people of Kharak never go into space, perhaps a mutated memory of the Taiidan demand they never use FTL. The Gaalsien are banished to the desert, where they secretly discover old tech from old colonies and colony ships that allows them to create a powerful military.
The deserts begin to encroach on the habitable northern regions (food and water riots ensue) as they send the first probes into space. They discover the wrecks of old space ships using the satellites and begin mounting missions to excavate the ships in hopes the technology might save their dying world.
>>147882909
The original homeworld was incredibly difficult. The remastered version is far easier because it uses homeworld 2's engine and loses some of the difficulty enhancers like limited fuel on fighters and corvettes. Homeworld 2 is a walk in the park compared to 1. Deserts of Kharak is closer to 1's difficulty if you play on classic.
And it's space arabs.Centuries ago, the Taiidan and Kushan were embroiled in a massive war. The Kushan escaped annihilation but were stranded on Kharak. Where the Taiidan allowed them to live under the agreement that they would not re-enter space.As the centuries passed these agreements were forgotten or became religious dogma protected and enforced by the more extreme clans
Homeworld tells the story of the shit that went down after you went back into space. Deserts of Kharak is the story of how you got there. And Homeworld 2 is the story of bringing Sajuuk to bear.
>>147883996
>limited fuel
Oh dear fuck, I never managed to do anything at Star Ruler and Distant Worlds because of that.
>>147883970
Ha, so Desert of Kharak is a prequel to Homeworld.
>>147884216
You don't have to play Homeworld 1, but at least play Homeworld 2. Everyone should bring sajuuk to bear at least once (three times).
>>147884370
Dunno, I try it, it doesn't look like my kind of games.
>limited ressources that don't respawn
>units are fragile as fuck
I can't stand Command and Conquer for having exactly the same mechanism. And while I do like space games, I'm not sure Homeworld can qualify as a 4x. Even Haegemonia is more of a 4x than it.
>>147883970
(continued)
The Gaalsien take these space probes as an affront to their god and begin a war of genocide on the North. Two clans of the North ban together to mount a daring mission to the "primary anomaly", This is where the game Deserts of Kharak begins.
In the wreck they discover the hyperdrive core and perhaps just as importantly the Guidestone, a map to their original Homeworld. Over the next 100 years the waring clans unite with an unprecedented sense of unity and shared fate. They build a massive mothership in space to take hundreds of thousands of their people to their ancient homeworld, Hiigara. This is where the original Homeworld game begins.
They conduct their first hyperspace jump to the edge of their system, but when they return they find Kharak burning, their entire people and civilization dying before their eyes, hundreds of millions dead. They learn of the ancient treaty they had forgotten and the Taiidan fleet that had wiped out their world.
With a little help from the Bentusi and revolts within the Taiidan empire due to the inhumanity of killing hundreds of millions of people, the Hiigarans not just find Hiigara, but kill the emperor that ordered the destruction of Kharak.
JUST WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE
JUST WHAT MAKES US REALIZE
OUR HOME IS OUR WORLD, OUR LIFE
HOME IS OUR WORLD
>>147868250
People have been using those names for years lad
>>147884616
Just FYI, few games do three dimensional maneuvering as good as Homeworld.
>>147884616
Units aren't really fragile.
In homeworld 2 fighters and corvettes are in squadrons. If you return them before the squadron is lost they'll repair to full. I really can't understate how easy Homeworld 2 is.
Everything operates on basic rock paper scissors principles so as long as you don't put rock against paper you won't lose.
>>147884848
I remember O.R.B. having full 3D movement. It was pretty, but useless.
>>147884662
Well.
That was extremely depressing.
>>147883970
>>147884662
The following is headcanon, but here goes.
Homeworld colonized the Homeworld galaxy. Civilizations rose and fell and the memories of the past were lost. Colony worlds became the homeworlds of these humans. The one people that had any memory going back tens or hundreds of thousands of years were the Bentusi. The only alien lifeform in the game is actually the Beast.
>>147884616
it's fun as fuck if you like hard games. Formations were my favourite aspect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYHMfBwBRH4
>>147884916
>That was extremely depressing.
Watch the intro video to Homeworld. I get such a raging HUMANITY boner from the fact that they united to build the Mothership in the first place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW4jkQdmjI
I really miss cataclysm guys.
>Scavenging and salvaging all your techs
>Starting out with a shitty mining ship
>Slowly add weapons and production facilities
>That moment you introduce yourself as the Kiith Somtaaw WARSHIP Kuun-lan
>>147885139
>The only alien lifeform in the game is actually the Beast.
Wait. So they're actually all humans?
>>147885331
I never got to play. I will never get to play it. Feels bad.
so is there a mod for stelarris with some compromise in terms of the sectors? I know you can raise the planet limit but is there something that throws the research option to get more core planets occasionally or something?
>>147885369
So it seems. You see the ships of ever race more than you see any individuals, but yeah, every single instance of seeing individuals they are human, even the Bentusi. Which leads one to the conclusion that this is a galaxy that colonists from the Milky Way came to hundreds of thousands of years ago.
>>147885568
there is a research option to up your core planets, yes. How often it shows up all comes down to RNG :^)
>>147885798
ok so as the game stands that option can continue to show up?
>>147885941
yeah it's one of the techs that can be researched many times
Homeworld was so fucking hard. Didn't you have a limited number of units (potentially) throughout the entire game? Like the units and resources you finish a stage with is what you start with in the next stage? So if you marginally beat a stage, ie lose a fair few ships, you are fucked in the next stage because you barely have a fleet.
>>147886768
The difficulty came more in the fact that the missions were hard. Cheesing the fuck out of salvagers made it hilariously easier though.
>>147886768
Actually if you lose most of your fleet in one mission then there will be fewer enemies in the next mission. It doesn't directly scale so yeah, it's tougher the next mission if you lose a lot of ships, but still, it's always doable no matter how badly you fuck up the previous mission.
>>147706360
I bought this during the sale instead of stellaris and so far I am thoroughly impressed. This has got to be one of the best grand strategy games I have ever played.
>there are options to exterminate races because they clash with your own
>dat private economy
>dat ship design
For the love of god I can't stop playing.
>>147888815
Yeah, pretty good
For me it's one of the best and most complete space strategy games out there
>>147888815
The ship design is really bad compared to how some other games do it. The private economy is the best feature though. Not only does it make the universe feel alive, but it fulfills an actual purpose and eliminates micromanagement.
>>147835582
Continued
WE finally managed to get to the 4th galaxy arm and started preparations for expantion.
Cockblocked the, friendly, Euros from the good planets with some outposts and statrted preparations to terraform, a tech that came very early to my surprise.
We found our first fallen empire as well, fanatic isolationists, I dont expect trouble with them.
Surveying the 4th arm we have found the descendants of the chinese, now a despotic empire with religious fanaticism. Thank go they are far away, they have far more planets than me.
The war with my neighbors never came, oddly, maybe because i have now surpassed in tech and population, thanks to my 48 years of "encourage free thought" edict.
So how do we fix lances guys?
I think most obvious choice is to buff their damage some more, but make them fire veeeery sloooow. Make them effective opener that can thin out escorts or bring down a couple of capital ships with initial volley, but has DPS lower than red lasers.
>>147870447
paradox said they fixed this loool
>>147884370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btXnl7AGFg0
Playing Stellaris and am scouting and building stuff on the fringe of my border...and somehow a neighbouring empire's borders expand to claim a system already in my control and that I was building stuff in. What is this mechanic?
>>147890158
How is Paul Ruskay so good?
Every Homeworld soundtrack is perfect.
My only complaint is that many of the songs in deserts of kharak aren't long enough.
>>147890245
Borders do it, yes. I'm not sure what defines it. Eventually you might even push them back.
>>147890460
Oh, I'll push them back alright. I'm taking half their planets now.
>>147882203
I actually have its torrent saved somewhere on inactive hdd in amidst spiders and skeletons. But uploading it back is a little beyond my skills and connection.
>>147878416
Get a mod to remove all other AI.
>>147886768
you had to spend a lot of time picking up all the resources after the level was over
>>147890767
Yeah that bit was streamlined in 2 and the enhanced version.
A bit of a shame I liked the lull in the game after every mission. Gave you time to dread what might kill you next.
>>147890423
imo though the 2nd wasnt as good as the first
>>147890698
Do you have the original torrent link you got it from? If you had that and began seeding it I could download it from you.
The fact that this game is inaccessible to anyone these days is criminal. I'd seed it endlessly if only I had it.
>>147889815
>So how do we fix lances guys?
Don't make it strictly superior to other tech at equivalent levels.
>>147891386
Kinetic artillery is like point defence on steroids, no?
>>147891158
Downloaded it more than 5 years ago, no links. Is the one by eyezin on tPB not seeding?
>>147890245
>>147890460
yeah borders sometimes have weird effects. pic related. My border "strength" was so strong that it pushed all 3 neighboring empires away from this little system that I wasn't even connected to.
>>147884616
>Frigate lost.
>Frigate lost.
>>147891724
No the like four Homeworld Cataclysm torrents on tPB have seeds.
>>147891508
No, it's supposed to be the Projectile tree's counterpart to Energy lances. It's strictly inferior.
>>147891724
Do you still have the torrent file itself such that you can just turn utorrent on and begin uploading it again?
i dont know if this is a coincidence but ive noticed planets far from my home world have less happiness than the ones right next to it.
is this a feature? and what can i do to make them more happy that doesn't evolve dumping resources into propaganda broadcasts. i already have a teldar factory but i guess you can only build one despite me having like 3 resource nodes for it.
HOW DO I MAKE MY GODDAM POPS HAPPY IF I CANT PURGE THE PROBLEMATIC ONES HOLY SHIT
>>147892112
Distance generate ethic divergence and ethic divergence means population will long for something you aren't giving, because your government's ethic is different.
>>147891823
>>147891976
I don't have the torrent file, and no knowledge of where the files are. Your best bet is camping with the p2p running for at least a week. If not, make an enquiry at skidrow
>>147718214
Roll.
>this captcha
>>147892327
not really. ethics divergence happens, but the amount of happiness depends on ethics
>>147892293
You don't. Farm from your happy pops in core worlds, disregard rednecks.
>>147884616
>i'm not sure Homeworld can qualify as a 4x
Its definitely not a 4x at all. Its RTS
>>147892730
>domination victory as france on any single biome map
Seems legit, Musketeers here I come!
>>147892293
>>147892891
I really shouldnt have integrated my vassal when they had xenophobe ethos. Will that ever change?
>>147893185
If they have negative ethic divergence, they will drift towards your ethics. They also might become xenophiles, I'm not sure.
But since they are already unhappy, that might be a problem.
>>147893010
whats the difference
>Get battleships tech and upgrade spaceport to maximum level
>Option to make Battleships doesn't appear, nor does it appear in the ship designer
Fun.
>>147891976
>>147892350
Your other bet is just youtubing the game instead. There seem to be quite a few videos of it.
Took me nearly 3 months to torrent the Triumph of the Will, but it was worth it.
wha-whats he going to spend it on?
>>147894380
great golden tusk dildo
>>147894380
>AI Neb actually doing well
Out of all my games, I only saw this once and in that game he was going for domination victory, really successful actually. AI is weird
>gaseous alien lifeform establishes contact with me asking me to save them
>sure i can do that
>their location isn't at all where the research project was but halfway across the galaxy
>I'm wormhole
guess they died
so with fanatic militarist and xenophobe is there ANYTHING I can do with pops whos ethics diverge? I just had 2 pops become spiritualist militarists and I want them elimianted for the empires sake but I can't purge my own pops with this ethos.
>>147895356
Leave them be. You are already anti-synth, aren't you? Nothing else matters I think.
>>147895520
>-5 for resettlement
YOU SHALL GO WHERE YOUR EMPEROR NEEDS YOU. I WISH TO PURGE THOSE WHO DENY MY RULE
Why does this fucking empire keep sending me migration offers. We have different ethos I don't want your plebs shitting up my empire. reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I'm downloading a Homeworld Cataclysm ISO from a shady website now. Hopefully it isn't malware.
>my massive amount of tourism instantly makes everyone swap to freedom
>no wars at all
fuck
>>147896303
But you can shit their empire with your plebs.
One day I played as United Nations and made migration treaty with some lizards. They elected human as their president.
>Doing good as one-planet sciency empire
>Retard neighbour smacks a colony down right barely an inch away from my border on the screen
>somehow blobs together with his capitol
>Unlock +20% borders as this is happening
>my borders dont expand at all
very epic
really quite epic
>>147896873
Of course it has malware. That's why you get anti-virus/malware and a few other things like a process killers.
>>147896873
Well fuck. Norton Antivirus is throwing up all kinds of red flags from the file. I don't know whether I should risk it. What if some less than scrupulous individual loaded the ISO full of malware?
>>147897532
And I have Norton but if I tell Norton to ignore the files then it's like I have no anti-virus protection.
>>147897243
>surrounded by militarist niggers who won't give me wormhole access
>fledgling empire pops up in my frontier and pushes back my mineral system
time to abandon this playthrough and go to bed i guess
>>147897157
lel dumb lizards
>>147897060
It feels great when you cause so much unhappiness in civs of opposite ideology, their cities swap to you
>>147897559
>>147897667
Get 360 or Avast, and a Norton-remover.
Anti-malware bytes.
CCleaner.
Back up your embarrassing Christmas party photos in physical reality.
Get rdkill and learn how to use it should SHTF.
Disconnect from the internet just in case when installing.
![[Commie] Berserk - Golden Age Chapter III - Advent v2 [BD 1080p AAC] [2A746C39].mkv_snapshot_01.26.42_[2013.11.23_12.23.13].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ldYjZIY.jpg "[Commie] Berserk - Golden Age Chapter III - Advent v2 [BD 1080p AAC] [2A746C39].mkv snapshot 01.26.42 [2013.11.23 12.23.13]")
>Go to war with someone to open borders
>Smash their shit
>They're so weakened they become the protectorate of someone who has closed borders to me
Great
stuff
Love this
game
>>147899169
>360
That Chinese thing?
When I first was learning the game, I didn't know anything about wargoals. AI would attack and lose to my swarms of auto-generated garbage fits, then sign peace treaties almost immediately as these swarms (set to aggressive) sieged their planets. For the longest time I thought that I could just do things like in Civ2 - siege the city until it was in ruins. But no, Stellaris is just a banking investment simulator.
>>147900746
I use Avast, but my paranoid housemate insisted that 360 is better.
>>147901035
Is it the Chinese thing?
>>147901261
360 Total Security, I guess they are Chinese.
>>147901554
Yeah sounds like it.
>tfw we churned out something not shit for once
FeelsGood
>>147901585
M80, I'm an Australian and I have more respect for Chinese-made manufacturing than Australian-made manufacturing (which is made in China anyway, but is somehow of lower quality).
All of stereotypes are 100% true, but that doesn't mean some will not choose their own ways.
>Playing multiplayer with friends
>ended up on my own continent and off the radar since i didnt build any wonders
>went super fucking wide as germany
>science slingshot with multiple scientists
>pumping out 8 xcoms every 2-3 turns
>the tears as xcoms rain down on everybody
FEAR MY POWER MORTALS
>super friends with this empire like a mile away from me
>suddenly our borders touch
>he doesn't want to be my friend anymore
>>147902431
>>ended up on my own continent and off the radar since i didnt build any wonders
>tfw ending up in an own continent as Ramesses and building literally all of the wonders
>>147902539
Nah bro once the borders touch you've crossed a line
It's okay it's an excuse to take their planets
>>147881460
Awesome game.
Excellent visual, great music, great mission variety, and a godlike settings.
I fucking love Homeworld.
how viable is it to just click on frigate tech as england from turn 1?
Whoever makes a new thread, please use this image.
>>147903205
im pretty sure you will get none of the bottom production techs, which will be bad news bears
>>147903278
Holy kek
I want to play a 20 civ fuckhueg map but don't want overly aggressive or obnoxious civs like rome/greece/mongolia/atila/kamehameha in it. Who should I put in it?
>>147903568
Wu maybe. She seems peaceful enough most of the time.
>>147903205
I really wouldn't recommend it, early game requires a little bit of flexibility with the tech order and there's certain techs you'd miss out on for a while
Would it eventually work on the lower difficulties? Probably
>>147903340
>mfw Gandhi is replaced with Shah Jahan of the Mughal Empire and Tipu Sultan of Mysore
Will Firaxis have the balls to finally give India the leaders who actually built their Wonders, instead of Hindus?
>>147903734
>Muslim leaders
>Our demands are backed up with nuclear weapons
They'll never do it. It'd be grounds for banning Civ VI in the EU, because it'd be hate speech.
>>147903278
Good pic, OC?
>first time playing Civ (III) years ago
>playing Egypt, had an Egyptboner back then in senior high
>declare war on Rome because I'm a cocky shit and I thought I was cool for having two cities "already"
>was playing on Emperor because "I'm not a scrub"
>become the latest addition to the Roman Empire and probably became the Emperor's cocksleeve as is historical
Who else got completely shitstomped the first time they played a 4x game
>>147903734
Probably not.
>>147903568
Dudo is aggressive as fuck, but she can't build cities for shit. She'll plop down maybe six or seven, they'll never expand their borders, and her military basically falls behind after Ancient Era.
>>147903978
She's not lewd either.
>>147903568
Make it all Gandhis
You can put the same civ more than once if you didn't know
So who do we think the other CiVI civs are going to be
Rome, Germany, Greece, and France are definitely in while Spain, Russia, Japan, India, Egypt, China, America and England are confirmed
There's 18 civs in total so we have 6 left.
Personally I'm going to say Byzantium, Persia and Korea, plus Aksum or some shit for Diversity.
>get beat to a wonder not once, not twice, not thrice, but NINE times in a single game
>Four of them were by Cathy
God will not save you Catherine, nor will spreading your legs.
currently in a multiplayer game
need to know if lake victoria counts as a lake for being able to build a floating garden on it as aztec
>>147904337
Some Indian shit, Persia, some African shit.
>>147904525
We already have India confirmed unless you're talking about Mughals separately
>>147904337
Mongols probably.
Goths / Celts
Zulu
>>147904605
I mean Aztek, Iroquis and Zulu.
>>147904337
You didn't list any muslim civs.
>>147904337
If we actually have two leaders, perhaps the Rome and Byzantium can be one civ with different leaders and slightly changed UAs?
>>147904672
>perhaps the Rome and Byzantium can be one civ with different leaders and slightly changed UAs?
Highly fucking doubt it, the medieval ERE was different from the WRE and most plebs don't think of them as the same Empire.
>>147904664
Seljuks / Turks.
>>147904664
France, Germany, England. 3 Islamic civs.
>>147718214
Rollin
>>147718214
hit me
>captcha is isabella
is it a sign?
>>147904337
I want Vikings or at least Danes to return.
Also these civs are definitely not in base game, which we can understand from revealed city states:
Afghanistan
Hittites
Israel
Olmec
Swahili
>>147904962
>Israel
Good.
>>147904734
hehehe hahaha hohoho
>>147905320
not even at bump limit
>>147888815
And actual pirates.
>>147905441
>750
>not bump limit
Huh?
>>147893394
There's no expansion in Homeworld.
>>147905481
oh I thought it was 800
