/civ4xg/ - Stellaris, Civilization & 4X Strategy General

Close, gotta mod in more hangar slots.

gommies btfo

>Collectivists are now unhappy about being collectivists.
??? That makes no sense, what exactly changed gamewise

>You can just clear radioactive wasteland
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
If I knew this earlier I would've settled this planet as third and not as fifth damnit.

But collectivist covers hive-mind bug aliens and cyborg unities like the Borg as well, not just islamic gommunism

>clearing radio wastelands

Are you a sector governor

Shall I proceed to impose my religion on the universe?

There is a skeletal in you're planet

Not falling for this bait.

Damn Call To Power was a good game

>being this much of a sector

wait, is that an arid planet with radioactive wasteland?
Not a tomb world?

>Wormhole travel
>Implying hyperlanes don't resemble camel caravans more

And you better be running a mudslime only mod for that. And mod all your females to have burkas.

>Civ still has no water cities/roads

Fucking WHY

Barely any options for diplomacy.
I played it trying to win by making a big galaxy wide alliance.
Turns out it is really fucking hard to get someone to join your alliance when they don't have an AI personality that isn't basically "likes to join alliances".
Meanwhile you can just vassalise their entire empire with 1 button press.
I was hoping to unify multiple alliances into 1 big one, also not possible. If someone already is in an alliance they have a huge negative modifier for joining a different one.
And then finally I found out you can't even win the game in an alliance/federation because the other members don't share your victory condition progress. The victory condition basically telling me to kill my allies to win.

This really just made me want to play Last Federation again.

High Gravity should give +5% Army Damage.
Bleak should give +10% Army Health.
Discuss.

I can see 4 tiles that dont benefit him unless cleared

>Evasion severely nerfed in Clarke

B...but muh min/maxed torpvette fleets....

You're mixing up deep sinkholes with radioactive wasteland.

My bad

Okay so they REVERTED the last beta patch which caused all the crashes.
And now you're back to the bug that increases ethics change by extreme levels.

>Playing hyperlanes only
>Fortifying a chokepoint that boxes in an empire that has -160 relations with me
>I can't put defense stations next to each other

For what purpose

Do it like this:

Nigger
Nigger what
You're at most right about the top right one because adjacency, clearing the others is retarded.

>Playing hyperlanes only

Gravitational pull would pull them together

It's the only way to have fun as a hyperlane race

youtube.com/watch?v=uOE-vVuBXKE
>he doesn't play as space dinosaur DJs

>posted while wormholing a warp aspie's homeworld

MY NIGGER

NeverEver
>Also Eco terrorists/waste created by cities/interesting wonders like OP image
Why was it so perfect

Does Stellaris have cool events?

The first time you play.

Then every game after that the early game is a fucking chore as you cycle through the same anomalies and events you've seen over and over again.

...

Absolutely.
They're all broken.

It's a game I think I'd suggest to a lot of people who are interested in scifi.
To maybe play just once.

Please... help.

honestly I DLed it illegally to try it first, and was just about to buy it until I realized that it will only really be fun the first time

Next thing they do is go full Vigilo Confido on you.

Should mod gamebreaking wonders into Stellaris.

Eden Project, you need to be Fanatic Pacifist for it.
After you build it the 3 planets with the highest energy consumption lose all their pops and buildings and turn into gaia worlds.

JUST

>want to see your system map?
>TOO BAD IT'S ME

Post this on reddit for leupboats

I CAN'T FIX IT!

explain with numbers or this is just lying bullshit

>ring world start
desu you deserve it

so is there 0 reason to colonize any smaller planets with the new patch?

Tis a vision of the most Holy Emperor. Cherish His beauty, citizen.

youtube.com/watch?v=-x3deqqHVDs

This race is based, though the game is shit I like the idea behind them a lot.

AI Entity could work JUST right with synths revolt
>Muh 3% of revolt cumulative

...

Weigh science vs science increase of colonizing the system.

A small planet may have +20% physics, with a good amount of science on nearby planets and moons to make up for it.

But yeah larger planets are better.

>Hundreds of years ago Othari's attacked me with a massive fleet because I was researching a dangerous tech out of necessity.
>I had just pushed back the Scourge from my territory with the one single fleet I had managed to scrape up from one starbase I had left.
>Othari's destroyed my only fleet, occupied multiple planets and humiliated me
>They opened the way for the Scourge to conquer the territories I worked so hard to reclaim.
>I lost Earth to the Scourge and can't recolonize it
>vowed to avenge Mother Earth and teach them the human concept of spite
>Decided to put everything into eradicating the entire species that is the Othari
>mfw 200 years later, here I am mounting my final assault against the last bastions of this piece of shit species whose insolence cost me the cradle of my civilization.

Enjoy justice, shitheads. Children of Mother Earth have arrived.

>travel through space
>encounter this
What do you do?

How are you managing your sectors?

I have in my main area of space 2 sectors.
Core Research and Core Mineral.
Close to those I have Core Energy which is just 1 planet of energy plants.

Then I have some temporary unnamed sectors just to not go too far over the core limit.
And I have East Research, South Research, Rad Research, South Mineral sectors.

the 3 corner ones are obvious because they don't benefit anything and the 4th one is also beneficial to clear because by itself it would give +2+2 to the dangerous wildlife tile next to it, but if cleared the tile that opens up would instead get +6+6 from adjacancies for a net benefit of +4+4

Or what about the ringworld project? Which requires research from all three branches of science, a fuckload of materials and time? You win the game when it's built.

>2500
>scourge still present
>other empires still alive
>200 years to purge a FE
HOW

does negative ethics divergence cause conquered pops to divert to your chosen ethics?
because trying to deal with conquering xenophobic pops as an empire that can't resettle or purge is hell

and just releasing the planets as vassals won't do because its a ringworld and I want that god damn ringworld

Dyson Sphere a sun, you get +1000 energy, but you make all habitable planets in the system barren.

How do you guys manage to keep a somewhat balanced budget with several 10k fleets?
I just ran out of energy credits and I only have a 20k fleet and some military stations. I already squeeze my sectors dry.

>conquer a world of synthetics
>they go on murderous rampages
>no planetary administration to transplant my species so I can purge the filthy synth scum
>robots taking forever to build

This is why I didn't go AI, holy crap is this annoying

These kinds of stories are why I have hope for Stellaris future. Cool shit does happen.

please don't
dyson spheres are retarded
dyson swarm project would be doable though

Commence orbital cleansing.

My first game and I really struggled with my research. I just suck ok.

I manage my sectors and create them based off of regions of space, so parts of spiral arms, around nebulas, or groups of planets that are distant from my core worlds.

>dyson spheres are retarded

So they would be a perfect fit for Stellaris then.

>be 5 empire federation
>right next to other 5 empire federation
>we all like each other mutually
>except for one of my guys, and one of their guys, who hate each other mutually
>their guy wardecs our guy when their guy is president
>fug.png
>It's erudite explorer bros vs federation builder bros
>we hit -30% warscore real quick, most of my allies' fleets have been hit pretty hard
>only my fleet is left
>have 4 2.8k stacks, fairly well composes but a bit behind on tech
>they get stuck into a fight with three of the enemy fleets, a 7k stack, a 4k stack, and a 3k stack
>FUG.png
>somehow, manage to turn the tide
>battle takes nearly 4 months to resolve
>they get reinforcements of nearly 4 battleships over the course of it, I get none
>end of battle, I have one
>out of a starting cumulative fleet of 4 battleships, 6 cruisers, 17 destroyers, and 37 corvettes
>I have won with 1 destroyer and 8 corvettes remaining
>warscore quickly flips from there on, I have broken the back of their fleets
>go about commerce raiding and fucking up their starports while me and my allies rebuild our fleets
>research debris
>brings me up to t2 plasma, t4 shields, and a bunch of torpedo and kinetic research
>sentient combat AI just finished
>start rolling out my next fleet that's better in every way to any other ship currently on the field
>war score is currently at 35%, we're just starting to lock down zones of control
FEELS GOOD MAN

Did parakuk neuter the AI?
They can't seem to get their shit together since Clarke.

sure

The sphere was retarded since it would be hard to keep it in place or something right?
feel free to educate a stinky casual

get the energy increasing resources, build energy boosting buildings all over and most importantly remember to keep your ship moored at a planet whenever you don't need it, preferably one with crew quarters and engineering bay
got 3 30k fleets myself and I can only keep 2 of them flying at the same time without running a deficit of 20 credits per month, but during peacetime I got around 200+ credits per month so its just a matter of finishing a war before my credits stockpile runs out, then rebuilding it

>retarded
Listen, son, if a race has the tech to even begin to build a dyson sphere in the first place, they likely have the tech to be able to convert energy directly into matter as well.

I've uninstalled every fucking mod and it's still not fixed.

Hope you put some dank war goal so its not all for nothing.

>be federation

Stopped reading there.

What the fuck, user? Do you know how adjacency works? You're right about bottom right since it isn't actually a wasteland, my bad.
Top right can go as well, no change in research and you gain adjacency with the capital.
The other two are just wrong. You're throwing out 15 research.

Not really. Dyson sphere is "just" a matter of mindblowing scale made with supermaterials in amounts that would make you strip entire systems of everything worth taking.

Converting energy into matter is another ballpark altogether.

We can already convert energy into matter, it's the opposite that is difficult. except in nuclear power plants

The birth of a new chaos god

Bring on the pain helmets
C'mon baby, it hurts so good.

halp

We can't convert energy into matter in any meaningful way.

first of all the sheer number of resources required to build one are insane
like completely and utterly bonkers
like need to scrap 200 solar systems, suns included, of all material down to the gasses to build it

Nightmare fuel

>start invasion
>fucking asteroid incoming to wipe out one of my planets

honestly what a retarded event, that is the second one in a trillion chance events happening

I think he meant converting energy into any kind of matter one needs, which is beginning of the universe tier as well as unbelievably humongous amounts of said energy.

unless they changed it recently, adjacencies don't carry over

That why you make a dyson sphere out of dark matter idiot

Ye we can, we just don't have meaningfull amounts of energy

Stellaris multiplayer WHEN?