/civ4xg/ - Civilization, Stellaris, Endless and 4X Games General

Music varies too much, but I otherwise put on youtube on the other monitor or a podcast. Helps burn through my backlog with how long games go on for.

I'm high ama

are you high?

Yeah dude

will there ever be a fantasy 4x as good as master of magic?

Anyone? Bls resbond

Why is city bombardment so op? I've lost my whole army to city bombardment. I installed Vox populis, but disabled the mods, did it somehow alter the values of city bombarment? This is stupid, man.

Also, what's a mod that balances the science per turn and production? I hate having a tech require the same amount of turns it takes to produce a unit. Playing Civ 5.

Yeeeaaah

Yeeeaaah

What civ 6 mods you guys running? Should we get a recommended mod list going for these generals?

Currently using:
AI+
Better Unique Improvements
District Cost Mod
Divine Yuri's City Panel
Great Work Slot Plus
Improved Tech Tree
Improved Water Yields
Moar Units Mod
Next City Plot
Smoother Difficulty
TCS More Barbarian XP
Unit Report Screen

I'm running uninstall.exe

The city's defense is 71, and it's taking out my cannons and muskets in one hit, is that right? How the fuck do I take the city?

>STILL can't raze capitals
Can I edit a value or something to allow me to raze capitals?
This is just fucking ridiculous, I don't want my enemy's shitty cities.

>gameplay-altering mods

Disgusting.

>the current civ vi gameplay is perfect! No issues at all!

>this 16 year old on civfanatics can surely balance one of the most complex games every made!

>one of the most complex games every made!

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Enjoy your shit balance.

they can certainly do better balance than the civ crew, which doesn't seem to balance the game at all

Same to you my meming frined

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No, but as a person with a shitload of experience of using mods in a lot of different games throughout the years I'd N E V E R use anything beyond UI altering/general quality of life improvements. "Serious" mods are never good and I've yet to find an exception maybe OOO, but the main game is just a pile of rubbish

CBP made Civ 5 an objectively better game
There's no reason mods can't do that for Civ 6

>I'd N E V E R use anything beyond UI altering/general quality of life improvements
So brave. Now fuck off back to pleddit.

Did they un-fuck the civ6 AI with mods?

any mods that make civ playable yet? I want longer eras

No.

XD ebin

forums.civfanatics.com/resources/civ-6-improvements-patch.25433/

That looks like spilled coke, not coffee. Wait... Are you trying to trick me?

Any official patches on the horizon?

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Fug well peace out

you guys love embarrassing yourself, do you

So why's civ still not on consoles? I think it's casual and simplistic enough to be played with a gamepad, not to mention that it's turn-based so they micro shit doesn't matter that much. Maybe firaxis would actually be able to afford finishing their games too

>micro shit doesn't matter that much
It actually matters a lot especially in late game, unless you fancy 30 minutes of menuing each turn. Interface is already bad as it is with keyboard controls.

they tried

it didn't go well

How are carriers in Stellaris? Should I bother?

>legions all get 1 build to remove forest, jungle, marsh

god damn

In version 1.3? Their fighters and bombers still go down like a bitch to PD, Flak, Flak, and did I mention Flak? Don't bother with Strike Craft or Point Defense, just get Flak Cannons and bigger guns.

Garbage, fighters work for PD before you get flak, after that they are completely irrelevant. They need serious speed, damage and PD evasion buffs to be worth considering

Ask anything Civ 6-related or Stellaris-related. CIA's word is final.
No bullies & masketta men pls.

will civ 6 be fixed this year

Will stellaris ever be good

Will we get a patch for civ 6 in november?

Will Pedro ever fuck off?

>Only clear answer so far
It just works.

>You have much that I do not! Do you want your people taken as slaves?
What did he mean by this?

Can you go fuck yourself?

He's jealous and will declare war soon.

I just got endless legend. New to this type of game. I won a game on hard as the vaulters.

Any tips for playing other races?

Play Drakken, settle on a ruin.
Take your entire army in the direction of the closest enemy capital while making a drakkenling. Declare war with the influence you got from the ruin, capture the capital because your starting units are brick shithouses that can shit all over pretty much everyone else except Necrophages. Capture as many capitals as you want for a comfy game. GG

Play necrophages. Get a commander with the "reduced upkeep" ability. Get the fat worms that spit. Enjoy your 125/6 army sizes and units that auto-upgrade when you get to a new tech tier.

Not him, but what about Doshlords? What's the comfiest way to play as Doshlords?

Make a custom doshlord faction, if I remember right the default doshlords don't even use all of their points. Other than that you can play wide as fuck, beeline dust techs, settle everywhere and make dat money.

suprisingly, custom dustlords with industry focus. Just research dust techs, but settle on industry.

It works well, even when you don't start on a desert.

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How do I play the forgotten well? I like custom factions but I have no idea how to build them.

At the base they are just stealth units, buy tech with dust, and dual-wielding archers aren't they?

>forgotten
>Never put your heros in armies
>Send them off to be thieving little bastards
>Buy shit that no one else has
>Acquire all the techs
>Conquering is okay, but pillage the shit out of EVERYTHING
>Like once they can't fight back, nonstop, never ending

Tl:dr
You are an army of fucking thieves, act like it

Tell me about Tempest.
Did it fix everything wrong with EL?

>medium galaxy still becomes unplayable by 2400s
Bravo Johann.

Nope, it's another one of those "we add a feature and exactly one faction that can utilise it properly" expansions, just like Shadows. Also new sea thingies let you get loads of resources without even researching proper techs, simply by controlling the seas.

why unplayable? Is it because you are using a potato?

No it's because it's single threaded

You can't play video games on a potato.

runs fine for me even on large galaxies

Not him but I'm running a 6770k at 4.9 plus a 980ti implying grafix matters and it lagged to shit on large by 2450 in 1.1
I haven't touched it since though so maybe it got optimized.

Has anyone here played Warlock - Master of the Arcane?

I just stumbled on it in my steam library and I don't know what to think about it. The controls are a little wacky.

I'm running it on a 4670k .
You tell me.
It lags to shit on large when 2400s come.
Even on medium the game can go to shit if there are many splintered AI empires and the war in heaven make them all go to war.
You tell me.

yup I had issues back then but I've not had any lag issues for a while now, not sure if it's been since 1.2 but definitely before 1.3 came out

is it just battle that are larger or everything?

Not to mention that the huge fighter range puts your fleet in "combat speed mode" until every shitty mining station in the system is dead, it's a pain in the ass.

>"combat speed mode" until every shitty mining station in the system is dead,
this annoys me so much especially when there is an incoming enemy fleet

Endless legend:

is it just me or do both the industry and food ai govenor just put all of your people into industry?

Is there any actual intelligence behind these governors at all?

So I guess I should just stick with PD/Flak and tons of kinetics/artillery/ and plasma. Thanks.

Rule of thumb : in all strategy games, from grand strategy to RTS, and including 4x, all your underlings are retarded.

>get a glitch where my units aren't healing
>now forever paranoid they won't heal

Is there some mod that fixes this? I can't imagine it would be too hard:

Just have like...priority orders. As many people in industry to get the "turns till done" down to a minimum, then put the rest in science/dust/influence?

ALso: is it just me or does production not carry over if you finish something? It's most noticable on huge cities.

MINAH WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!

>PD

PD is useful on Destroyers (put PDs on the DD's ass section, weapons on the front) but forces you to use shitty hardpoint sections on Cruisers and BBs.

As soon as you get flak, PD is basically obsolete since you can put Flak on any M-sized hardpoint and not have to resort to shitty PD/Hangar sections on the bigger ships.

So I'm really new to this game and I find myself really struggling early on, between the slow building of districts and the like and constantly having to churn out units to fight the seemingly endless amount of barbarians even when I destroy their camps I always feel like I start falling behind, God forbid a random AI/Player decides to start something too. Is there any solid tips for thriving early game?

I do have to research my way through all tiers of PD before I can get Flak, don't I? PD is still good enough until I get there.

How is the ship design/fighting in the new one?

Is it the "long range bullets only" style of the old game?

Last I checked, you get Flak by researching the Autocannon line. But since PD usually pops up earlier and is researched in Physics rather than Engineering, you can stick to using PD Destroyers until you get Flak.

I think it's a bit more balanced in general now, especially since Tachyon spam is (I think) far less, if not, no longer viable.

Long-range big guns for both softening the enemy and taking down their big ships.

Smaller, close-range and high-tracking weapons to take down smaller ships.

Speaking of Autocannons, I wonder if Autocannon cruisers can deal with corvettes good enough to drop destroyers alltogether.

You also get flak by releasing a half-baked game with shitty quotes.

ZING
hai reddit

What's reddit?

How do i get units to embark on the sea?

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