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Also the AI got a lot harder simply because they made it aim for production trargets rather than actively reacting to shortages. So rather than build an alloy plant when it goes into negative alloys per month (which would only happen when grossly over fleet cap) it now aims to have x00 excess alloy production per month, which is determined by the game length and the AI type. Those changes alone made the AI much more challenging, and it will actually build worlds that to some extent could be built by a human player.
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Gross https://twitter.com/StellarisMobile/status/1262383745472114691 Do unpaid writing work, maybe win a pittance. They're really going for the full lovely mobile game bingo
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Splicer posted:Gross Someone get https://twitter.com/forexposure_txt to retweet it, I don't twitter.
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CommunityEdition posted:Just “finished” my first game in year 2480 in a stalemate with a Contingency that showed a bewildering lack of urgency even after my entire fleet got stuck on the other side of the map by a awakened empire with closed borders and an urgent need to annex the wormhole home. Sorry, but I need to rant: I agree that the Stellaris UI is a mess. It's also incredibly inconsistent, as if different people with different philosophies or goals made different parts of it without trying to unify it.
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Schadenboner posted:So I might be an omnicidal space fashie lunatic but at least I didn't declare LITERAL loving SPACE WHALES as vermin. Also they passed the capitalist Deregulation thing, and didn't pass the Charter of Workers Rights. My game gets the auto-designated colony types right about 50% of the time, so I don't know.
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benzine posted:Haven't heard of Kerberos in a long time but remember the drama of sots 2, what a shame. Space Empires IV, especially with the quadrant mod.
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Splicer posted:Gross I was wondering why it wasn't hosted with on the Paradox forums, but looking into it, this seems like it's run entirely by the Nova Empire devs. The contest is hosted on ktplay, a CN mobile game site.
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Bofast posted:as if different people with different philosophies or goals made different parts of it without trying to unify it. I think this sums up really well the fundamental problem of Stellaris as a competent 4x game: it had such promise on the start, but it developed as a mess of devs gaming philosophies. So much potential wasted......
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The best Space 4x game is still Alpha Centauri (in that it is a 4x that takes place non on earth). It's really aged obviously but the writing and world building done there is better than any game I've ever played.
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Knightsoul posted:I think this sums up really well the fundamental problem of Stellaris as a competent 4x game: it had such promise on the start, but it developed as a mess of devs gaming philosophies.
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PittTheElder posted:The best Space 4x game is still Alpha Centauri (in that it is a 4x that takes place non on earth). The ability to annhilate your opponent cities and just leave a water filled crater is amazing. Or just buildin boreholes, altering the hills, AC is really the benchmark in civ games. Shame on the "remake"
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benzine posted:Haven't heard of Kerberos in a long time but remember the drama of sots 2, what a shame. Stellar Monarch, it sets out to actually remove the tedious micro most 4x get bogged down in and actually plays like you're running an empire rather than micromanaging dozens of planets.
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Aethernet posted:Abuse envoys to get a sugardaddy. Econ hard while ignoring navy. Get to Battleships and then build navy. This approach made my last GA game a cakewalk, until I discovered that a 5x crisis is quite hard. I've tried this but my wonderful AI federation partners are content to randomly fly their main fleets back and forth between two random systems in their home territory while the enemy wrecks my poo poo. I might bump back down a difficulty level as I'm not into min-maxing.
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Splicer posted:Gross Blorgs looking pretty cute though.
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PittTheElder posted:The best Space 4x game is still Alpha Centauri (in that it is a 4x that takes place non on earth). Alpha Centauri was very good, indeed. Starting as the expansion pirate faction and then melting the polar caps to flood everyone's colonies is amusing.
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benzine posted:Haven't heard of Kerberos in a long time but remember the drama of sots 2, what a shame. For me it's the Star Ruler series not because they're especially good but because they let you do especially weird pointless scifi bullshit at nonsensical scales. SR is AFAIK the only game where you can build an unarmed fighter-class ship too big to fit inside a solar system, sandbag forever by using planetary-thruster engines to send all of your planets into intergalactic space where nobody can find them, then when your fighter runs out of fuel and loses life support its millions of crew slowly die off until the reactor explodes and destroys the entire galaxy. SR2 is slightly saner except if you make an empire of resource-conserving robots with the 'fling' transportation method (build an accelerator beacon that lets you FTL any owned ship/structure/object as long as you can afford the FTL-energy cost to accelerate it, bigger things/longer distances cost more...) and find one particular type of resource that makes FTL travel cost no energy, you can invade enemy territory by launching ringworlds at them and then diplomatically annexing their homeworld while they struggle to kill off your defense satellites. After only colonizing like 9(?) planets other than the ones you turn into rings. silentsnack fucked around with this message at 22:39 on May 22, 2020 |
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thanks to whoever initially linked lathland in the thread, his full playthroughs have been great for background audio while I clean. his latest video is actually a two-parter, because halfway through the video, and I think only a couple trips into the shroud, he gets End of the Cycle. and takes it. I love that it outright says DO NOT DO THIS, but he did it anyways, completely derailing the plans he had for the run beforehand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKkoIfpSppk&hd=1 he has it set to 25x crisis strength too, not sure if the shroud avatars are affected by that but the actual crisis can spawn in very soon so I'm sure the second video will be an absolute clusterfuck as he tries to rebuild a tiny empire right as the real crisis shows up. I hope it's the contingency. 
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That shroud avatar should drop at least a relic.silentsnack posted:For me it's the Star Ruler series not because they're especially good but because they let you do especially weird pointless scifi bullshit at nonsensical scales. What!? That is amazing. benzine fucked around with this message at 03:51 on May 23, 2020 |
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Me, I've always had a soft spot for Operation: Eastside, just because that game is basically 90% SimCity in space with some 4x-parts bolted on. Sometimes you play dozens of turns, just managing your colonies, until a message from the other space peoples arrives and reminds you that you're playing a 4x. Also, the game forbids you from colonizing gas giants and all planets that are 100% covered by stuff your lander can't land on, but nothing else. It's amazing that the game allows you to look at a planet that's just a tiny island swimming in a global magma ocean and go "Hmm yeah, that's some nice place for us normal humans to live on!" Especially as the races you can play as are all pretty similar to each other, just deviating a bit from the Human norm in one or the other direction, so doing this is always a dumb idea. But the game allows it! Put a colony everywhere, go mad trying to keep all your dying colonists alive! The funniest part however is that you can reasonably well win every game with just a couple well-build planets and then spamming suicide colonies everywhere else. Man, that game was nuts.
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benzine posted:Haven't heard of Kerberos in a long time but remember the drama of sots 2, what a shame. I will always, always champion Ascendancy. And bring it up any chance I can because it amuses me. Some highlights: - Ships designs are made up of a hull which determines how many tiles there are for putting stuff in, and stuff placed in those tiles. But there's no rules whatsoever for what you put in them. You need generators to allow your ship to do things, but other than that you can choose whether or not it has guns, shields, EWar stuff, colonisation units, FTL drives, hell engines at all. Want turrets? Build ships with max guns and no engines, undock them and they'll sit outside their home planet forever. - Speaking of tiles, planets have a surface grid and space grid. In order to take a planet, you need to move a ship to it and 'dock' it in the space grid. Hoooooowever (I don't remember the specifics now, just that it was possible) you can fill the space grid with stuff that can't be destroyed, making the planet literally incapable of being captured. - You can play as a race of giant amoeba. They're awesome and have awesome ships. Or you can play as giant eyestalk aliens that can see all the starlanes if you really want. The races are all pretty weird and interesting. Black Pants fucked around with this message at 13:22 on May 23, 2020 |
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Ascendancy had creative aliens but there was 0% AI capability. Other alien planet tile usage was awful and their ship design was worthless too. But it was the first game I individually named every ship so it also has a special place in my heart. Huh, also just remembered that Ascendancy was the game that made me upgrade from 4 to 8 mb ram. That cost me $100. ALSO I still listen to the soundtrack ripped from gamefiles even with the superlow sample rate. Duodecimal fucked around with this message at 14:38 on May 23, 2020 |
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What's the current correct Corvette build? I do Missile with a Railgun (swap for a Disruptor or an Autocannon), 2 Armor (which changes to Armor and Crystal Plate when available) and 1 Shield (which gets upgraded to Psionic when available). Are my Torpedo Boats actually Potato Boats? 
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Schadenboner posted:What's the current correct Corvette build? I do Missile with a Railgun (swap for a Disruptor or an Autocannon), 2 Armor (which changes to Armor and Crystal Plate when available) and 1 Shield (which gets upgraded to Psionic when available). Yeah, missiles aren't good, 'cause nothing pairs well with them. Disruptors pair best, but once you have those you might as well just have three disruptors and forget the missile. If there was a gun that ignored shields but not armour, that'd pair well, but there isn't.
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Gort posted:Yeah, missiles aren't good, 'cause nothing pairs well with them. Disruptors pair best, but once you have those you might as well just have three disruptors and forget the missile. Faith and begorra, all aboard the Patrick O'Malley, next stop the fekkin' galactic kahr!
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Only fight in systems that zero out shields, have those be the natural borders of your empire.
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Duodecimal posted:Ascendancy had creative aliens but there was 0% AI capability. Other alien planet tile usage was awful and their ship design was worthless too.
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Schadenboner posted:What's the current correct Corvette build? I do Missile with a Railgun (swap for a Disruptor or an Autocannon), 2 Armor (which changes to Armor and Crystal Plate when available) and 1 Shield (which gets upgraded to Psionic when available). Ignore everyone else, missile frigates own bones. Pair them with cruisers that have 3x missiles. More missiles = better than
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Splicer posted:There was an AI patch released that made it less bad, a combination of adding some AI cheats and giving the AI some common sense. I went back to play it again while back and the big problem is QoL stuff interface, like every time I couldn't navigate the vertical tech tree with my scrollwheel felt like I'd stubbed my brain. Scroll wheel mouses didn't exist back then!
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Great Beer posted:Ignore everyone else, missile frigates own bones. Pair them with cruisers that have 3x missiles. See, I've had a really good time with all-Missile builds (also on my defense platforms, although I pair it with a big 'ol railgun which I eventually turn into a Proton Launcher rather than doubling-up) but I wasn't sure if they were actually bad?
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Doesn't matter how good your corvettes are if I can wreck them from the other side of the system
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Am I missing something or are attack craft really crap? They have like a 30 range? I mean, I build one on every starbase but that's just for commerce protection, on warships I don't see how they're even possibly useful?
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Schadenboner posted:Am I missing something or are attack craft really crap? They have like a 30 range? That's the range of the craft's weapons; strike craft can attack about half the system away. They're good for PD in the battleship era.
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Aethernet posted:That's the range of the craft's weapons; strike craft can attack about half the system away. They're good for PD in the battleship era. How far away do they launch? Should I be all-missiles and strike craft (with disruptors for close-in)? What's the best X-Scale weapon (or should I just put in more strike craft on my BBs)?
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Black Pants posted:Scroll wheel mouses didn't exist back then!
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Schadenboner posted:How far away do they launch? Should I be all-missiles and strike craft (with disruptors for close-in)? What's the best X-Scale weapon (or should I just put in more strike craft on my BBs)? At least 150 range, as that's the range of carrier computers, but they can engage opponents from a very long distance. I find leaning heavily on missiles and strike craft is still less efficient than having lots of Tachyon Beams / Kinetic Artillery, but they're so good at murdering corvettes that I tend to have about a third of my BBs as carriers. I normally have all-strike craft BBs, but they do synergise well with Arc Emitters if you want to use an X mount.
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Aethernet posted:At least 150 range, as that's the range of carrier computers See I saw that setting but just assumed it was Paradox being potato?
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So do Missile/Small Craft for defense platforms or have two models and build Missile/Heavy and Small Craft/Heavy? Or maybe use flak batteries because their Evasion is 0? E: Are either of the CIWS (flak/laser flak) good?
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