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/
Also note that Steel Division has its own thread located here:
Aiden Ross
Asteroids are lewd
Dylan Foster
>too weak to attack fallen things >don't want to blob into neighbours >sit there on speed 5 for 5 hours
Nicholas Peterson
Not sure if bug, but I just found Steam Age primitives with Uplifted for some reason.
Ryder Murphy
It is a bug, but I'd rather leave it in imo
Juan Lewis
It's a bug but I think it should be left in for RP purposes, might be an incomplete or failed uplift from more advanced empires that collapsed
Michael Roberts
>lewd annexation intensifies
Jaxson Peterson
Kind of wished there was an event chain tied to them or something, that could have been neat. They are pretty close to an Advanced Start empire, so it could fit, with a runaway crazy scientist of theirs pulling shenanigans.
Logan Garcia
I, also, have found primitives with uplifted (who then got past early space age and became an actual empire). Shit was weird. Who were they happy to?
Hudson Wilson
Should be easy for a quick chain during uplifting where you proclaim that you are their original uplifters or tell them rhe truth and gain an influence and relation bonus
Jaxson Robinson
>two 10% failure anomalies >they both fail
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Logan Foster
GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB RIGHTS GIB GIB GIB
Brody Hall
Is there any way to determine what late-game threat you get?
Liam Turner
sure, here you go pal
Asher Nelson
Just got back along with the update.
What are you some essential mods that have been already updated for Banks and Utopia?
Parker Cooper
Shouldn't I be getting happiness from having purging prohibited?
Nolan Wright
UI overhaul
I dunno what else.
Andrew Young
...
Lincoln Reyes
>Find earth >middle ages >and presentinents
What are the odds of that?
Also, its close to my borders, what do with this planet?
Ryder Stewart
that doesn't look like the paradox forums
Joseph Lee
>Always want to do a diplomatic faction, trying to play allies and enemies off each other while gaining powerful friends and federations >Friend just wants to go obliterate everyone all the time, doesn't pay any attention to diplomacy at all but always wants us in a federation How do I cope /4xg/
He just declares war on everything, then gets upset when either 1. I point out thats stupid because the people he wants to attack next to him are allies with three huge factions behind me and they'll roll me then him 2. Or gets pissy after the war when we lose more than we gain because he didnt take diplomacy into account
Jordan Russell
since the update the game lags like crazy. They say they have a hotfix for that on the way but I don't see anything relevant in the beta patch notes which means it will take longer
fuck
Gavin Gray
Not all issues give positive points
I dunno why that is
Ethan Brown
I also got that bug. The colony ended up getting the incoming asteroid event too. It listed the ayylium species name as the lambda menace.
Dominic Sanders
Why would you? It is a right, not a privilege. They'd be angry if you could purge but if you cant it's just how things are supposed to be.
AI can be triggered by doing the AI research Extradimensionals by doing the FTL Prethoryn Swarm have a chance of occuring every 170, 200, 250 300 years or no chance at all post 300 years.
So if you want the first two; do the research If you want the Swarm you just have to wait
Joshua Cruz
it's somethingawful because a lot of the devs have a presence on the forum because then they don't have to deal with the paradox forums for a while
Robert Diaz
Got the Unbidden in my hyperlane only MP game in my territory when I'm pretty sure nobody had the jump drive tech. Though a fallen empire did awaken, which might count I guess.
Ian Rogers
>Though a fallen empire did awaken, which might count I guess. I suspect it does
It just triggers randomly from anyone using the tech
Jaxon Bailey
>SA gets actual game devs >we get Meneth fuck this gay earth
Brayden Ward
>paradox devs are SAfags typical
William Butler
Supposed to land in their systems though, ain't it?
Zachary Martinez
fallen empires can definitely trigger the unbiodden
Owen Miller
Don't worry, we have Jewhan. We had Notch once upon a time. Though it is up to the individual as to whether or not that is a matter to be prideful on.
Asher Wilson
Utopia worth the purchase?
Jaxson Bell
Depends on how much $20 is for you. Maybe wait for a round or two of hotfixes. Synthetic ascendancy is pretty mediocre and there are a few bugs that you run into quite a bit.
Justin Lopez
>have negative influence gain >at 12 influence currently >my leaders are all dying of old age and I cant recruit new ones >Haven't met a single empire to call me rival yet so I can actually get more influence
Oh no
Isaiah Green
For some reason my Stellaris mods aren't showing up in the launcher, what gives?
Dominic Wood
Scrap your outpost, wait 20 years to get influence back, head to Paradox Plaza to complain, get mocked, told to "stop whining", and then get banned for daring to complain, and then come back here and complain with us about Paradox being crap.
Jeremiah Gonzalez
I'd wait for a sale. The bulk of the fix for stellaris is in Banks. Utopia has some fun stuff, but it's not near necessary or really worth $20. Banks alone made me enjoy stellaris again.
Jace Miller
maybe they're not updated for 1.5 yet
Thomas Gutierrez
I mean, they should be, and i don't think that would be a problem either.
Owen Walker
okay am I a retard or are nuclear missiles overpowered compared to all other early weapons
I haven't played stellaris since a couple of weeks after launch and i don't remember then raping everything
Angel Wood
Is there a reason to use the drug addled bliss or whatever it's called? Seems the negatives massively outweigh the positives.
Jackson White
Whenever there's a major update for any paradox game you need to delete your mod folder so the mods can redownload. This has been an issue with their launcher forever.
James Russell
what kind of dress is best to wear for conquering space?
Ian Murphy
r8
Christian Howard
Where can i find the folder?
Angel Brooks
>Turkey flag nice
Landon Bailey
A cute one.
Trash/10
Benjamin Ortiz
delete this, it's an eagle
Aiden Lee
>recycling lowers consumer goods costs and vice versa Could Stellaris only be written by Swedes?
Oliver Kelly
Use it to keep them from rebelling until the nerve stapling and hamburg gene modding is complete
Lucas Wood
documents/paradoxinteractive/(insert game here)
Unsubscribing from everything usually works too, but depending on how many mods you have and whether you want to do some spring cleaning, just deleting the mods in the folder is easier.
Daniel Morris
Alright, I'll wait. I hope the game is actually playable without the DLC unlike the other paradox games.
Brandon Clark
Folder's empty, i recently cleared out all my subscriptions and resubscribed to the few mods i need.
Could this have something to do with the fact that i buccaneer'd the DLC and slapped the codex crack on it?
Nathan Evans
Nope
Isaiah Jackson
kill yourself animefag
Elijah Hughes
I like the turkey but blue/red has always been a colourscheme I've hated.
Wyatt Ward
Any idea of which mods are causing my ironman games to not give me achievements?
Or how to check it for myself without trial and error.
Matthew Mitchell
The crack was the problem, i'll try a different download
Evan Morgan
kill yourself you fucking racist
Jaxson Powell
I'd wager it's the not updated ones.
Nicholas Ross
wew lad
I'll get another for flag colors but any that turn humans into white only? I found one that adds new species for every human race but I imagine that one disabled achievements because it's adding species.
Xavier Howard
>Intelligent >Sociologists >Weak >5 trait slots already used, so no further modifications possible until Biological Ascension is fully mastered
I wouldn't even enslave that
Christopher Jackson
but which kind?
that's not a very cute thing to say
Mason Watson
t. Mosley
David Edwards
A sun dress, I guess. Pretty cute and innocent.
Who the fuck is Mosley?
Wyatt Russell
>Who the fuck is Mosley?
The greatest prime minister Britain never had.
Aaron Clark
Gotta go in style.
Connor Cooper
I thought that was Cromwell.
Ethan Gomez
>Cromwell
Ew, also
>never had
Robert White
How the fuck do you get negative influence gain
Like how do you fuck up that bad
Logan Gonzalez
I'm not sure user. All I did was make 3 frontier posts, but now a primitive species has evolved and I've gone to war with them as well as made them my rival for a whopping .20 influence a month
I lost my fleet by invading their home planet and attacking a 1k power station with my 300 power fleet, then they invaded and destroyed 2/3 of my frontier outposts which didn't actually change my borders so I guess I was just wasting them Now I'm at 1 influence a month, with only one scientist alive.
I don't know how I managed to do this.
Sebastian Thomas
I wasn't this bad at the game even when I first played it.
Christopher Ward
looking to make my own name list and add it to the game, does anyone know where the default ones are stored so I can look at them? I've searched for them before but I can't find the ship name lists for the life of me
Alexander Price
You're not supposed to insta-spam frontier outposts user. They're specifically designed when you see a REALLY, REALLY nice batch of resources, a good choke point, future strategic value etc.
You use them as the last resort for something important. You should be spreading your borders by colonising planets.
Caleb Wilson
You can expand by colonising? I always thought you needed the planet inside of your borders to colonize it, thanks user. Oops I guess I restart this god awful game then, unless I really wanted to wait 200 months in able to get new scientists again.
Ian Russell
You have to remove all your civics before choosing it, dumbass.
>get a slightly bigger army than one of your neighbours >vassal him >steamroll half the galaxy before the other half unites >outstrip said half of the galaxy in every regards due to you being a single empire and them being a bunch of faggots >steamroll them too >cuck FEs before they awaken >bitchslap unbidden or whoever the moment they arrive
The only thing difficulty settings/advanced starts influences is delaying step 1.
This is fucking boring.
Chase Cox
>You use them as the last resort for something important
Or, alternatively, when you don't play like a spaz and have tons of influence income and proper frontier cost reduction to get all the benefits of expanding without the science cost.
Michael Wilson
Keeping your traits would be too OP, you invalidate half the penalties and keep the boons. You should be able to convert every species into Synths and use research to buff them.
Dylan Williams
>ronreagancutup
What
Ryan Harris
rate my new species
Asher Fisher
are missiles useless or not? I keep hearing opposite reports
Samuel Young
Oyy lmao
Josiah Howard
Missiles are mostly shit early on, the more advanced types can get pretty devastating.
Ryan Jackson
Oi vey/10
Shoulda made them individualist instead of xenophobe.
Matthew Rivera
At the start where numbers are small, its okay. The retarded fleet AI means you will fire a gorillion missiles at the tiny covette at the start of the stack which goes poof when the 1st one kills it, wasting your shots
Zachary Jackson
Why is biological acendency so shit...
Joseph Ross
Also this, make sure you have other weapons alongside your missile launchers.
Henry Hall
Purge.
Jackson Gonzalez
It's just like my Japanese animes!
Zachary Parker
Wanting to be a robot =/= give up all individuality and turn into the crisis under player control.
Your suggestions don't even buff them in a significant way.