This thread is for all strategy games that do not have their own thread, focusing on 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate, genocide). /cbg/ /rtsg/ /wgg/
Somebody posted it last thread and it looked comfy so I'm gonna post it in this thread in the hopes that someone who's actually tried it will talk about it.
It's called Northgard.
Elijah Jones
So, is this gonna be the spiritual successor to Culture?
Jose Hill
I thought the name was bad for mixing up languages in a way that doesn't make sense, but >Kröwns Fuck's sake.
>Shitposters got into Civ 6 before civilizations like Babylon or Persia
Luis Robinson
Speaking of things that someone mentioned yesterday, I picked this up and damn if it isn't intricate. The thing about the seasons being the real life seasons is a bit too autistic for me to be honest.
Also I've only just realized that I should have built a school right away to train skills.
Jose Howard
Persia and Babylon never had to go up against emus and dropbears.
Alexander Smith
shitposting is the new power boii
Robert Wood
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Ryder Thomas
u fukin wot m8
Brandon Cook
>Australian soldier being savagely attacked by an Emu warrior as Australian commanders order an organized retreat, Circa 1932 (colorized)
Michael Phillips
Truly Australia is a terrifying place.
Jeremiah Morgan
literally bred for war
Jayden Peterson
>no option to capture those creatures and raise them as a really nasty form of system defense >no option to reverse engineer the dreadnought to create a new class of heavy duty warships >no stupidly long event/research chain that ends with you finding a way to breed space dragons
Easton Ross
stellaris fleet AI when?
Carson Watson
even after all these years of seeing it "Dignity" never ceases to extract a chuckle from me
Oliver Ortiz
You're technically not wrong but the actual problem with this reasoning is that while the wall was built at the political borders at the time, there were massive campaigns led by Qin officers to push the borders TO where they existed. The (Qin) Great Wall almost entirely follows mountain ridges, while the Ming one (i.e. the one up today) both follows mountain ridges and zigzags in a soft S pattern across relatively flat land in order to get to the next mountain (as the western sections of the Great Wall uses a lot of mountains as natural walls). Basically, yes it's political, but no it's not "just" political. Ningxia, a relatively fertile land near the yellow river encompassed by the Great Wall, was captured by the Qin from the Xiongnu, and the Wall follows the extent of the recent conquest.
Leo Brown
simplistic and shallow as fuck, low content and it doesn't seem like there's much more to come, it's shit. Banished is was better.
Lucas Taylor
Here we see the tribal Australian alpha male protecting his loyal canine companion from an attack by a rivaling tribe. This species shows absolute dominance over nature, the grace, the beauty, the strength. His flannel pattern garb is not only decorative but also shows his ranking as a warrior of his people. The Roo tribal realizes this after a single right hook to the jaw quickly backing down, knowing he's in over his head he simply stares as the Aussie male performs victorious gestures and walks away to tend to his canine. The Roo will have to hunt elsewhere in another territory or risk war with the Aussie tribe.
So what exactly is gonna be in the dlc? Any big changes?
Camden Johnson
>be violent epansionist race >see the error of your ways >create a ringworld utiopia of peace and prosperity >aliens assume you are stil evil and wipe your civilization out the moment they find you That's sad.
Brayden Williams
And somehow I'M the bad guy.
Nathan Bailey
Reworked empire and pop ethics, as well as a new outlook on factions
Banks 1.5 will introduce new mechanics
The new Ascension mechanic and its following 'species endgame' paths coming in Banks
Changes to pops: species rights/obligations, new degrees of slavery and purging, refugees, core worlds and more.
Your new home above your home
Megastructures: the headline feature of the Utopia expansion.
Psionic Ascension Path
Wiz goes into details on indoctrinating pre-FTL species, new unrest system for factions and ways to interact with them
Banks focus on internal politics warrants a government rework
just the description from the dev diaries from the wiki. utopia and 1.5 will be huge.
Adrian Williams
at least we'll get an emu civ
Isaiah Butler
>tfw really like local happiness over global >tfw really like the new districts and city building style >tfw really like that stacking is back in some way >tfw really like the new war system >tfw really like the simplistic art style >tfw ai is garbage >tfw ai seems even more garbage then before >tfw can't go back to V
Adam Ramirez
was it ever not garbage in 5? they pretty much just roll the dice when deciding what to do
Henry Adams
The AI will get better over time. It did with V at least.
My biggest beef right now is that it's virtually impossible to win on some starts because of early units and the importance of strategic resources. There is no counter to legions if you have no strategic resources and there are no counters period to war-carts.
William Sanchez
>barbarian camps that spawn near australia become emu nests
Blake Campbell
modders get to work
Joseph Ramirez
What do you think of the latest update? Do you like that it is easier to make friends now? I'm now consistently friends with half of the leaders, whereas before it was hard to be friends with one.
Henry Baker
swap and have aussi barbarian camps and a emu civ
Logan Ward
They halved warmonger penalties, so it's a lot easier to stay peaceful, because the world doesn't have as much of a permanent grudge due to warmonger penalties.
Blake Turner
>halved >went from impossible to make friends to being friends with everyone
why can devs only grossly overcompensate?
Liam Kelly
>friends with everyone Don't exaggerate. They still hate you if you conflict with their agendas. Unless you are lucky that usually means half the world is upset with you for one reason or another.
Grayson Bell
Haven't played since release, reading patch notes for the previous one and this update. So it's fixed? Can I play now?
I just want to build a comfy empire with the city building elements and enjoy the beautiful cartoony graphics.
Luke Foster
yes
Jonathan Howard
W..wait, you can't reverse engineer the dreadnought?
Justin Brooks
You can take it, but you only get the one.
Nathan Allen
also you can't upgrade it's ftl drive so hold off on repairing it until you get psi jump drives
Lincoln Adams
Does terraforming destroy any structures on a planet? I have an Alpine World with an Autonomous Fabricator on it that can give me lots of minerals, but I don't have a species suited for colonizing it.
Noah Perez
robutts
Isaiah Perry
I'm a Spiritualist and I only have basic Robots, no Droids or Synths, also the planet has a lot of juicy energy tiles and regular Robots are bad at working those.
Also, Robots aren't appearing in my colonist choices when I'm trying to choose who to colonize that planet with.
Isaac Wood
You probably have AI set to outlawed.
Chase Murphy
I have allowed AI, and I have some Robot pops on my worlds, I just can't colonize a planet with Robots for some reason.
Colton Ortiz
fug
Kevin Cruz
I think they need to be at least androids to colonise
Aaron Ortiz
Is there some kind of requirement for psi drives. I got them once, but in my last game they didn't even come up once.
Christian Torres
Robots can't colonize ever. You have to wait until you get the upgrade to droids.
Oliver Sullivan
Gotta be spiritualist Gotta have Zro
Dominic Wilson
Does VIR ever do anything interesting outside of some of his lines when you dismantle him?
You need a scientist with expertise in psionics. I'm not 100% but you might be able to reverse engineer it from Spiritualist FEs.
I think it's almost impossible for materialists to get their hands on them.
Wyatt Williams
fug :D benis :DDDDD
Jaxon Lopez
Holy shit. The AI in Civilization games has always been idiotic at best, but Civilization VI takes it to a whole new level:
1. It is apparently impossible to maintain a good relationship with any other civilization unless you're losing on purpose. You can give them gift, help them in war, save them from barbarians, establish trade routes, whatever you want. Doesn't matter. You get +10 point for all that and -9001 points for building one more wonder than they did.
2. They build cities in the most retarded places. As soon as you meet an AI player, its first priority becomes to settle as many cities in-between yours as he can to cockblock you. And I know they're shit cities: I've captured them often, they barely ever build anything there. They just do it to fuck with you. And since it fucks with THEIR performance even more than it fucks with yours, they're essentially cutting off their own noses to spite their faces. THE AI ISN'T EVEN TRYING TO BEAT YOU. IT'S TRYING TO MAKE YOU AS MISERABLE AS POSSIBLE.
3. They just lost a war to you where you razed three of their cities, they denounce you, they fuck with you with their spies... Then they ask "Pretty please give me 20 gold per turn and that unique resource you got from a great person. For free." Then they get mad when you say no.
4. They are fucking incompetent at dealing with barbarians. They'll leave a barbarian camp alone for 50 turns, and of course those red assholes only target you despite the other guy's town being right next door. So, you finally decide to wipe it out, get there, almost kill the unit in the camp... Then the other guy shows up with his spearman in 1928 AD, last hits the barb and captures the camp. COULDN'T DO THAT EARLIER, NO SIR.
And that's on top of it not only cheating, but every single one of them ganging up on you (though that's par for the course in Civilization). Whoever designed the AI this time around thought "I don't want the AI to beat them, I just want it to make them ragequit".
Kayden Cook
You don't need research when you've got more ships than the other guy
Jackson Morales
why is stellaris here instead of paradox general
Justin Evans
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Austin Lewis
>going for Domination with a focus on Science victory >Stuck landlocked, which is fine, can focus on combat advancements >Small military because focusing on trying to make buildings and also fairly poor >Surprise attacked by a civ to the north, flatten my newest city in 2 turns >Manage to hold the line at my capital and eventually push back and take their capital >Leave them with one city in the tundra as a husk of their former selves >In this time, I've fallen behind on my progress and land I was planning to settle was taken by two different aggressive settlers >One of them attempt to invade my capital >Get them to a standstill despite the surprise attack, get peace eventually >Decide to invade the other fuckers to try and get a foothold to prepare to invade India and steal their wonders >Win the war, but now everyone hates me >Surprise attacked by the superpower who were pretty much the only people that hadn't denounced me >just about survive until I can get them to a peace agreement that wasn't giving them all my cities >As I finally start rebuilding, I get the warning that Gandhi has completed the Manhattan Project
fuck this, I can't even crush all of these twats that keep trying to keep me pushed down and I know if I make a move again I'll just be nuked. I blame this entirely on the original surprise attack
Easton Cooper
I guess I'll have to research terraformation or conquer an empire with pops that live in Alpine.
Carson Hernandez
Why the fuck did my empire name just change from Fourth reich to aryan combine?
Jason Butler
It changes when you switch government types and yes, upgrading it to the advanced version of whatever you're using counts. You can rename it ingame fortunately.
Easton Howard
endgame is so fucking boring holy shit
Owen Collins
>change your ethic >face civil war >????? >profit
Colton Young
That's when you declare war on every other empire at once conquer them all or die
Lucas Roberts
I need a new xenophobe species to play with. Haven't gone full xenophobe before and I suck at creating species.
Brainstorm me a species to create /civ4xg/ pls
Caleb Jones
The league of the 20 thousand planets
Kevin Russell
ok I know fuck all about Lexx, still on backlog to watch, but fuck it, gonna make an empire out of it
Dominic Cooper
A race of some description that has fanatic xenophobe as one of its governing ethics
Kevin Cook
Just go for a run where you try to get the achievement to genocide every last other species as a xenophobe. All-Devourers or something
Ian Perez
I like that idea. Eat everyone!
Nolan Richardson
>tfw no insectoids
Lincoln Perez
They're in the Arthropoid phenotype.
Andrew Garcia
Make a race of space spiders.
Oliver Edwards
does it suck?
Ryder Jones
>arthropoids >look like eels
James Evans
giant space eels with legs. Evolution is a wonderful thing
Dominic Fisher
To me, they're somewhat reminiscent of the Worms from Men in Black.
Luis Walker
spotted my first xeno that must be destroyed
Jayden Turner
>87393 uh-oh
Daniel Wood
ROCK TITTIES
Levi Myers
> 2x 87,000 fleet power RIP League
Benjamin Robinson
Post your favorite portraits.
Jace Clark
I'd tell you, but i don't know where the fuck to find them
Benjamin Harris
The League of 20,000 planets has just colonised its second planet!
they'll stay put until I'm ready to fight them... right?
Justin Hill
you can find all of them on the wiki.
Charles Peterson
Idk what's going on honestly, vanilla doesn't HAVE any 87k threats at game start except the Fallen Empires, and if it was them, they'd introduce themselves. How many mods are you running?
Aaron Wilson
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Dominic Johnson
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Jace Richardson
yeah I haven't come across any fleets of that strength literally at the start of a game before either except an FE and they're not an FE.
Not many mods mostly cosmetic/flag related ones, other than that I'm running: larger homeworlds shorter integration time beautiful battles fast ship upgrade
Here is a pic of one of the 87k fleet
Henry King
[LAYERS OF WHITE INTENSIFIES]
Mason Bennett
1/2
Evan Walker
a 7.7k pirate fleet has decided to pay me a visit too.
This can't be happening. I'm In charge here!
Carson Gonzalez
2/2 this one became a new favourite after seeing them in a forgotten empire
Andrew Russell
These nigs did all kinds of wierd shit in my first ever game, so whenever they pop up it reminds me of that golden month of May when Stellaris was still fun. For about 5 seconds.
Thomas Diaz
Everytime we get a new leader I love to go on a little documentary kick. Any good ones you'd recommend for Australia and Curtin?
Sebastian Davis
Funny, because Made it on my Genocide On Sight list after seeing them in a fallen empire.
Might move them to the Kentucky Fried Xeno list after Utopia comes out, though.
Austin Ortiz
kek something definitely seems off now. 4 pirate ships, reaver class, almost 2k power each... Meanwhile my 3 corvettes which I haven't even researched an upgrade for have 14 power combined.
Josiah Thomas
>Kentucky Fried Xeno Blorg Commonality, always and forever