This thread is for all strategy games that do not have their own thread, focusing on 4X (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate). tags: /cbg/ /rtsg/ /wgg/
And the species you'll being sending to Utopia first is...?
Hudson Green
Welcome to the Stellaris strip-club.
You get to pick ONE (1) species portrait, and you will get a private dance from the most attractive female (or male, if you're into that) from that race.
You cannot pick from the humanoid races
We cater to many kinds here. Which one you want?
David Kelly
Is the Plantoids DLC a must have?
Parker Turner
Absolutely 100% it enhances the game so much!
Jordan Ross
No but their ships are the most aesthetically pleasing. This DLC is purely cosmetic.
David Young
Who /realniggahours/ here?
Logan Anderson
If by Utopia you mean sending the xenos to their perfect life in the ovens, humans
Ethan Sullivan
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Charles Anderson
>rohirrimDAAN : blorg hive empire for the win >Aexrael : I wonder if Blorg were given the extra tasty trait, so they can better attract new friends.
Ryder Fisher
>DLC is still not up whate the fuck
Ryan Bell
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Cameron Gonzalez
g-guys?
Dominic Williams
IT'S UP
Owen Hall
Banks is out now, DLC will be out in a hour.
Dylan Bennett
I HAVE PARADOX NOW FUCK RELEASE THE DLC FUUUUUUK
Xavier Roberts
Banks is out. No Utopia yet.
Joshua Reyes
NYYYYYAAAAAAARGGGGGGHHHHHH
William Torres
Watch the stream or start up banks and figure out what you build is going to be when utopia hits.
Dylan Nguyen
Yeah but are those species even in the game without the DLC?
Liam Brown
>mfw less than 45 minutes
Jacob Lopez
No.
Christian Cox
Lets hope my torrented version will auto update...
If not, who's gonna be a big man and upload?
Leo Clark
>Stellaris and EUIV DLC at the same time Fuck I don't know what to play
Nolan Robinson
Is the mandate of heaven the new divine wind?
Nathaniel Martinez
Ive got a mandate for a divine wind right here.
*unzips pants*
BRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPP
Zachary Davis
Anyone here playing steel division normandy? It feels kinda shit so far
Julian Walker
See
Tyler Young
In preparation for Utopia, what Human faction should I create? Is there a pastebin with a template or anything? Are there mods with /civ4xg/ approved factions? By that I mean Grossgermaniums, The Papacy, United States of Earth, Imperium Romanum, Imperium of Man, etc.
Bentley Murphy
Terran Federation
Hudson Brooks
There are going to be broader choices for customization once utopia releases so wait an hour. One tip for IoM, don´t be THAT faggot that picks millitarism/xenophobe and forgets about spiritualism
Jose Cook
>Humans
Jose Ortiz
>fly traps
Cameron Davis
> mfw planned to intentionally not buy Utopia and just playing a Banks game first so I can enjoy two changes to the metagame rather than one > I could have smugly posted my starting race right now > instead I'm stuck on the subway phoneposting Fuck ypu, God
Joshua Peterson
Go diplomatic, biological mastery. Try to be friends with everyone, get as many races as you possibly can into your planets as fast as you can. Open to everyone and everything.
Best way to test and see if 1. the biological path is worth a damn 2. if the internal diplomacy even matters if you flood yourself with alien races
Blake Wood
I'm enjoying it, it's like wargame and RUSE put together.
Ryan Thomas
Thank fuck that federations are actually somewhat useable now since they fixed the ago old bug where you couldn't have control over the fleet even as president
Jace Wood
I wonder if these twos are automatically enemies.
Angel Wood
should i pooplaris and get bored in 2 hours or poopopa unipoopalis 4 and get bored in 2 hours?
Jaxon Green
Space Prussia. An authoritarian powerful but small nation. Your goal is to build tall and expand your fleet at all cost. Then bully everyone in your federation.
Ian Murphy
Can I create a space Sweden?
Mason Green
You probably should only have negative traits then.
Camden Green
Yes there's a Refugees Welcome option.
Asher Davis
> Stellaris has been out for 11 months > people are STILL playing human builds I mean come on, it's OK for the first playthrough and maybe a second one sometime if you wanna see both the Commonwealth and democrashit event trees, but eleven months?
Nolan Ross
>fanatic pacifist >individualist >nomad >weak >somthing gay and cucky
Luke Morris
But of course Now accept the refugees from the fast breeding spiritualists and change your government to a less haram one
Jayden Diaz
you'd have to be a vassal to prove how progressive and tolerant you are
But how do you name everything when you are not playing human or connect with your empires' species? I don't have time to come up with a new language to name everything. Those generic names are shit and don't mean anything if you don't understand the language.
And name your federation The European Union. :^)
Xavier Rogers
Raises the intriguing question of whether Sweden is Fanatic Pacifist, Xenophile... or Fanatic Xenophile, Pacifist?
Not even sure they can count as genetically weak, cos of we wuz vikangs n sheet. The one trait I definately would give them is slow learners. Maybe slow breeders too, they do love getting outbred by Lil' Achmeds.
Juan Taylor
>there are """people""" who play as anything other than molluscoids
Eli Butler
Obviously you need to mod the game to give you 4 ethic points so that you can both a fanatical pacifist and a fanatical xenophile
Ethan Rogers
>But how do you name everything when you are not playing human or connect with your empires' species? "Epsilon Eridani III" "Ter Meku VI" The rest I leave to the autonamer.
James Davis
Go back to your ringworld you fedora tipping faggot, you're a fallen empire for a reason
Jaxson Lopez
>slow breeders
Its funny because its why there so cucked
Owen Wright
just fanatic xenophile + pacifist is fine
Hunter Garcia
Who /isaac arthur/ here?
Ryan Butler
You'll regret that when he awakens and shoves 100k+ fleets down your dickhole, faget
Bentley Peterson
fuck. I'm lurking and listening to him now.
Elijah Reyes
I wasn't gonna make any aliens into Livestock on my first run but you've convinced me otherwise. Arthropoids > Molluscoids = Fungoids > Humans > Humanoids > Reptilians > Avians > Mammalians > Plantoids
Reminder that Mammalian women were made to be slaves to the Big Arthropoid cock
pussy ass monkey boys can't even compete
Jace Edwards
Turk pls go
Brayden Foster
birbs > why aren't you picking birbs? take the emu looking ones and make your dudes infest other space nations and shit up their shit
Carson Hill
Go away Turk
Gabriel Williams
Based space turks
Andrew Williams
>Turk makes arthropoids look back again Every time. Get out Swede.
Ryan Hughes
But the autonamer is shit and then the name of your home system wouldn't be in line with the grammar of the other names. I just like to name this with meaningfull names.
>Not playing as glorious pacifist spiritualist venarable trees and focus on making them become as old as possible.
Nathaniel Morgan
>7 minutes
Tyler Gutierrez
Real talk though. Why is there only one bagpipe song in existence? Every single time I hear bagpipes being played it always sounds the fucking same.
I NEED IT I NEED IT RIGHT FUCKING NOW GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Matthew Hall
>Says the fucking pleb who's probably been invited to the galaxy
Bentley Long
>Aspec gets a mention instream Noice. I play venerable plant slavers from time to time. Most bagpipe songs are covers of other songs.
Eli Diaz
>>Aspec gets a mention instream he's an ex paracuck employee
Xavier Allen
Playing some AOE2 again. It seems to be Imperial Age simulator. All the other ages are just building up, except maybe castle. But as soon as a castle goes up you need imp trebuchets to take it down. There's not even any reason for there to be military units in dark at all. Feudal is not much better, you really can't get a good raid in until 3/4ths past the tech tree even. I understand the town center is there to prevent early raiding but it's honestly too effective. Most of the fighting takes place in Imperial. Honestly it's like this with most of the "age up" style games I've played. Including rise of nations. It's just spamming upgrades until you hit the endgame and then the fighting can actually begin.
Empire Earth seems much better balanced, with meaningful fights taking place all along the tech tree, maybe it's just because it's such a deep tree with so many ages. But I think the upgrades are probably paced better compared to the cost and effectiveness of units. You have viable means of overcoming defences even from the stone age. And a well placed early volcano can be just a devastating as a nuke.
Levi King
>says the guy who doesn't even HAK HAK HAK
Eli Phillips
Just got a 69kb update
Ethan Perry
It's out now
Isaiah Flores
ITS OUT!
Bentley Parker
None of you are cool enough to play as a plant!
Julian Bailey
THE TIME IS NOW!
David Fisher
How does one start a hive mind?
Evan Walker
What ethics/traits/government/starting tech type should I go if I wanted to go Ancap paradise in space? Naturally I can't use hyperlanes since roads are expressly verboten.
