/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General Anonymous

Gorf!

>thread deds while playing civ 6 demo
seems pretty much the same shit as civ 5

4 cities
tradition, rationalism
desert folklore
boost your freebies, then min-max whatever you want to win with
for military pick germoney, hunt barbarians early

>Grenadier (mercenary)
>- fire power increased from 4 to 18
>- Increased reloading time from 3.4 seconds to 3.75
>- Slightly increased the bayonet attack range
>- Increased cost of shot from 1 iron/3 coal to 3 iron/4 coal
>- Increased the grenade's damage from 110 to 200
>- Pauses between grenade throws of a hired grenadier is 0.33 times bigger than of the usual one
>- Increased gold consumption from 20 to 25 pieces
>- Decreased the range of fire from 850 to 750
Are mercenaries finally useful?

>will cossacks ever be not trash
no

>implying cossacks are shit
youtube.com/watch?v=Ylguu6ucQrI

guys, unrelated but whatever
My system drive is full (100gig) and teh files (incl system and hidden) only add app to half of it (48)
Pagefile is set to between 5-10 and restore points are (freshly) disabled
What do?

get a new hard drive grandpa

>red lasers
Not using mighty rock throwers and throwing mighty rocks at enemy.

>throwing rocks
youtube.com/watch?v=EkUz6Ht9_t4

Gorf is love, Gorf is life.

Tradition 100%
Liberty fags get out

New to Stellaris but enjoying it a lot so far

However, how do I get my mineral income up as quickly as possible? The game keeps telling me to build mining stations but I have to expand my borders first since my home system is shit

So, well, expand your borders?

Build mines on your planet, and research better mining tech

With outposts or colony ships? Colony ships are a lot of minerals when you're working with +10

Why is the name not the Gorfernment yet?

conquer your negihbours

Seriously, fuck research stations, just build mining shit and colonize whatever you can then once you have 4+ planets build spaceports, mass up a fleet and conquer someone. If more weak faggots remain nearby just continue to mass up ships and off them too. repeat as needed.

Now you are a local superpower noone can touch with all the minerals you could ever want to catch up in scince.
But why would you? Just wait 10 years and continue raping the galaxy. Fucking noone else can keep up with growth and potential like that, short of everyone cicrclejerking in a federation

Baby robo-shuttle.

space.com/36101-x-37b-military-space-plane-nears-record.html?utm_source=notification

if i set 7 empires and 7 advanced starts is it possible that some will start normally?

Becasue most have only 1 starting planets

Theorically, it shouldn't be possible.

would be interesting to have a game with just a few normal starts and a bunch of early space civilizations, now you're the real advanced empire

Where can I find a decent Aurora starter guide?

you can't

read the fucking manual and git gud

Do you mess with some mods that modify nearby habitable planets? If so then its your answer.
Advanced AI just do not have any habitable planets nearby - can not get free colonies.

What do you say /civ4xg/?
Do I help these gasbags bring glorious revolution to their home planet?
Do I help the legitimate government stamp out these upstarts?
Or do I tell them to fuck off since I'm the one shipping them back and forth anyways?

Where should it say Gorferment?

Both government and revolutionaries fuck up so I told them both to fuck off, if they want to wage a war with each other they should build their own space ships.

>hesitating in LIBERATING oppressed people
ARE YOU NOT A TRUE AMERICAN? LIBERATE THEM ! GOD BLESS AMERICA.
BALD EAGLE! EXPLOSIONS! 2ND AMENDMENT! EXPLOSIONS! BACON! EXPLOSIONS! CHEETOS! EXPLOSIONS!

AND GORF!

any must have slavery mod? I basically got it because it had slavery
any other game with it?

Torgue isn't American.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
They're called drones, but technically, they're slaves.

Industry Giant 2.
They're called workers, but technically, they're slaves.

Stronghold.
They're called peasants, but they're actually serfs.

>recently decided to replay a bunch of old RTS
>the VA
... Ouch.

old RTS have awesome voiceovers

Not in French. Warlords Battlecry has the worst voices I ever heard in a video game, and even Dawn of War has some terrible one too.

Did you consider playing them in different language?

No. I wanted to check if it still lived up to my memories.

What's a decent fleet strength to fuck somebody up?

Also I spawned next to the Xenophile FE so should I abort save or what

on avarage spaceports are 1.4k so the bare minimum is that for conquest, if you have 2+k, you can try backdooring and if you do get his fleet away from the ports then you won. 3+k is a safe bet most of the time

What's the deal with The Exile?

was a human scientist for me and turned out to be a very dependable one, too. Does that quest ever go anywhere?
Amusingly, a fallen empire later requested her for their dweeb collection. I wonder if it was a coincidence or intended followup...

It is a coincidence. The chain doesn't go anywhere. Now, the Wanderlust Chain does go places, and it is a Starting Chain. Like Cultists, Extinction Planets, Sub-light probes.

Best event chain in Stellaris? My money is on Horizon Signal.

I love the cultist starting chain and wish there was some way to force it to work. Reminds me of cerberus from mass effect.

do you get anything other than the battlehip out of it?

lance tech from the battleship you destroy, but I like the idea of a renegade faction that takes control of an ancient shipyard.

Extinction storyline is too preachy for me and the sub-light probes has some interesting encounters but only for the first time, never got the wanderlust chain.

I hate the pirates event because it reminds me there's no real civilian traffic in the game.

haven't touched stellaris in a while
is it any fun yet?

Wait until the 6th of next month.

Are there any modern games like Emperor of the Fading suns? With a space map as well as detailed planets where the battle is more than watching numbers on the surface

>They're called drones, but technically, they're slaves.
Drones can't be slaves. Everyone has drones, including "Muh Rights" Lal.
Drones are just the pissed-off proletariat.

t. Zerg

Anyone know what this is about? I found it in one of my neighbor's systems.
Doesn't seem to do anything?

There is an anomaly-based event associated with it, but if some other empire scanned the anomaly before you there's no way you can get onto the chain.

If you DID get the anomaly you can un-shield the world, and it might contain either some void clouds or a 5-star FE admiral who joins you

You can also get a considerable FE-style fleet if you're lucky.

>get pirates event
>assume it marks the start of pirates spawning throughout the game
>assume that dispatching fleets to deal with pirates and various other problems will be a major part of the game
>turns out it's just a tutorial event to get pacifists to build ships

One time when I had the Exile, she changed into another can like horizon signal.

>Anyone know what this is about?
Star Control 2 reference

delete all your anime porn

If you want pirates waves and other things spawning in the galaxy there are several mods in the Workshop that do that.

games2gether.com/endless-space-2/blog/510-update-3-is-coming-new-faction-revealed

youtube.com/watch?v=h8H8DedCW_I

"Hailing from an alternate dimension orthogonal to the Endless universe, the Riftborn would've happily led out their abstract, timeless existences entirely ignorant of galactic strife, were it not for a breach that precipitated a disaster of unimaginable proportions. Like a poisoned blade slashed deep into clean flesh, the rift acted as a source of terrible disorder in the Riftborn's pristine, geometrical universe. Desperate, unable to halt the disease's advance no matter what they tried, the Riftborn took the last available course of action that might lead to their survival: Together with their strange time-shifting abilities, they stepped into the Endless universe."

The crossover you never knew you wanted, Geometry Wars/Endless Space, coming in six days.

>2 weeks until utopia
I CANT WAIT

EEEEEEEEEEE

Has it got a specific release date? All I know it's early April

What happened to the guy who was going to post steel division screens.

April 6

Neat, thanks.

Soon...

I've played so much Stellaris and am so bored of the fucking samey-ness that my Utopia hype is rock-bottom and I find I *can* wait because I lnow the expansion won't address any of the game's core systemic problems.

M-mission accomplished?

nigga I was killed by some 1,6k pirate fleet on my first game thinking it was part of the tutorial

The alien pirate fleets don't move around anymore.

>play stellaris
>make up a new race
>have tons of fun exploring and establishing my little empire
>reach mid-late game
>literally the only thing worth doing is fighting wars
>realise combat is both tedious and very boring
>quit playing
>stay away from the game for a couple of weeks
>start over again

I've only actually finished a playthrough two or three times, and none of the times have I really enjoyed the endgame.

Yeah, this is the general way the Stellaris cycle goes.
Incidentally, what do you consider to be "finished a playthrough"? The 60% victory screen?

Reaching any kind of victory screen.

Broken piece of shit

Civ VI demo graphics quality still seems low even when I turn settings to max

Leader screen animations seem slow/choppy

Is this just how the demo is? Is the full game like this?

Ok so other than a little civ and playing the original MoO series back in the day i haven't ever really gotten into the more modern 4x games. I've looked around and there are a few games that have tickled my fancy and i wanna know what you guys think of each/if they're worth getting into:
>Galactic Civilizations 3
>Distant Worlds: Universe
>Sins of a Solar Empire
>Endless Space 1 and 2
>Stellaris (I've played a shit ton of paradox games)

DW is the best.
Gal Civ 3 runs like shit but has really good ship designer.
Sins are basically RTS.
Endless is a civ in space, great lore and design but never got really into it.
Stellaris - grab mods, never play vanilla. Gets boring after nth playtrough.

My advice : Grab DW and Aurora

Sins is hard.

t. 100 hours of experience so far

Thanks. Also is imperium galactica 2 any good?

DW is the best, but incredibly frustrating at the same time.

I have no idea, never played it.
OPEN IG looks nice tho.

But its awesome nonetheless.

RESORT STATIONS

And yes, I'm salty. Still salty. Saltier than a newfag getting BTFO'd of Veeky Forums.

Im sorry what ?

I enjoy these a lot.

I just wish the slylandro didn't ask for planets that are in the middle of fallen empires or 5 unfriendly regular ones away at the ass end of the galaxy.

RESORT STATIONS
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Tfw started playing civ 5 but no one talks about it in thread. All discussion is about Stellaris.

Tfw afraid to buy Stellaris and suddenly thread only talks about civ 6 or some fucking gay shit like that.

That's because each time someone talk about Civ5, there's that autist who go "REEEEEEE PLAY CIV 4".

Ignore him and talk anyway.

question: I havent played stellaris since the patch where they made it impossible to have a nice slave empire. did any new content come out, or did any new patches make the game fun again?

No, they went out of their way to make the game even shittier.
They even removed the embassy.

>again
>implying it was fun once

In civ 5 how would I go about stopping or slowing down someones science victory? I cant use spies to steal techs and theyre so far ahead that war is useless. They have infantry vs my knights and lancers. Theyre making 1369 science per turn and im producing 700 culture a turn towards the utopianism project. I only need to max one more branch before I can do the utopia project but my friend is only 30-45 turns from science victory. Help please. There arent any other culture buildings or wonders I can make to speed the process.

it was fun to me when the game was new

I just want a chill spess 4x game where I can rule the galaxy and enslave lesser races