/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

Dont expect to finish your first few games due to not knowing what your doing and slowly understand how to play over time. get used to going from FULL SPEED to pausing.

What the fuck, dude?

guided missiles in civ 6 when?

Make up your mind!

I just want to know if I should buy the base game and pirate the dlc of Stellaris

>Start collecting an army of vassals
>AIs declare war on me because their fleet size is much larger than me
>The fucking goon swarm shows up and shits on them
>Open the diplomacy menu every once in a while to see shit like "How may I serve you master?"

You purge guys are doing it wrong

stellaris sector ai has always been the worst ai in vidya history bru

>psionic ascension

What the fuck were they smoking when they created that. Not like spiritual civs weren't strong enough already or anything.
Is there literally any reason (roleplaying doesn't count) to pick synthetic ascension over this? It gives you nothing of value whatsoever that psionics doesn't give you already, and makes half the galaxy hate your guts to boot.

Why aren't you fags in GSG?

Robots > Space elves

Can non-spiritualist empire still get the psionic tech?

>Open the diplomacy menu every once in a while to see shit like "How may I serve you master?"
You're evil. I love you.

Go ask /gsg/, faggot.

bio ascension is the best

Why not just do both? why go half way with either option?

what does that do, anyway

I want the mods from the workshop

THE END OF THE CYCLE

Is it really that powerful though? The first ascension perk only gets some leaders the psionic ability trait and you need the second one to get it for every leader. With gene modding you can mod your entire species for better traits much earlier and that'll give you benefits for the entire empire, not just leaders.

I know it is not the focus, but what tweaks did they do to combat?

>missed the pic
FUCK.

I have Respect Tile Recource turned on so WHY ARE THEY PUTTING POWER ON SCIENCE!?

>decided to try out pacifists
>chose hyperlane travel
What the fuck was I thinking?

It's very easy to get the second ascension perk relatively quickly, and having your entire population be psionic in addition to the perks spiritual empires already get.

The biggest fuck you, really, is the The Shroud. The bonuses that thing gives you are ludicrous.

Bio-Ascension might be as strong or stronger, I wouldn't know since I haven't played them yet, but synthetic ascension belongs in the fucking trash bin in comparison.

Is there a single conceiveable benifit to picking hyperlanes? why would you destroy your movement like that?

HAHAHAHAHA LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL NICE HAHAHAHA FUCK OFF!

Well. This is an interesting start. Guess my colony ship didn't get that far from Sol afterall. Going to backup this save just in case.

Wouldnt you be able to drop all your farms and become more efficent? Does the game recognise them and make it impossible for others to have them set to livestock and most purge options?

The Shroud can fuck with you almost as often as it gives useful shit. Without zro to cut down on the costs it eats up stupid amounts of energy for inconsistent results. Gene modding is actually dependable in comparison, but yeah, syntethic seems really underwhelming.

Whats the problem hyperfriend?

means you won't have to wait until you kill them

Some people play games for fun.
Others want to relax.

OTHER JUST WANT GAME TO FUCK THEM IN THE ASS WITH A DILDO UNTIL THEY LOVE IT AND BEG FOR MORE

My current build is a reclusive celestial empire that vassalizes everyone to do my fighting while I hide in my corner of the galaxy ascending the physical plane.

Governors are useless now

>reduces unrest
>reduces clear blocker cost and time
>both near inconsequential

WHAT ARE THOSE SWEDES DOING????

Can you even win if you go hyperlanes and have others have random? how can they even keep up with ther fucking baby steps?

Psion focuses on improving your leaders. It can turn on either weak or really powerful. It depends on luck, risks and dangers. The will of the Shroud decides.

Cyborg focus on improving your pops. It's steady and easy to follow, if a bit boring. That said, turning yourself into full synths may not be the best (you build pops instead of letting them grow naturally).

Genetics can focus on either.

Fuck yeah \m/

Do Hivemind empires spawn naturally?

Militant isolationists right next door.

Hyperlanes is faster. If you don't go all hyper lanes it just forces you into a defensive play style occasionally

Yes, one started right next to me, I was going to treat them nicely but they closed borders so I wiped them out early

no

stellaris should have it's own general no1 even talks about the other games here

What does the Food Stockpilling policy do?

I rant about AoE2, Rise of Nations and Supreme Commander once in a while, but I reckong an illiterate retard can't figure.

Does it annoy anyone else that there are so many science officers you will have/want in every game?

You need 3 to start off with for all the research branches, then you'll want one on each science ship.

Governers you'll only have a few of I imagine, only need a few for the core worlds/sectors you are managing.

Then one or two admirals for your death fleets.

>Generals

Naturally this unbalance makes me think it's kind of weird. I sort of wish that science ships either didn't have officers (though that would ruin the anomaly game) or make all research have one primary director. This might actually be more interesting because then you'd actually have to choose if you want to specialize in physics, sociology, or engineering by picking your science officer instead of just picking the appropriate one for each slot and putting them in.

We talk about civ as well but stellaris just got an expansion so it's hot shit right now

I split my fleet into three and run three admirals.

That would incentivize fleeting species so they can diversify their science instead of getting pigeonholed to death.

>stellaris
>balance

>stellaris should have it's own general

and what do you think will happen to this general once Utopia hype dies down?

>#fake_space_news
This is a new one, triggered because the first xeno finding was also the first ancient empire discovery.

While we're at it change the way governors are appointed to be based on your government type.
Democracies elect them, oligarchies are selected by the few in power who you can attempt to influence. Dictatorships appoint them as it is currently.

I really don't understand sectors, how many of them should I have for mid to late game? I only have 5 sectors but I'm nowhere near my sector limit and I can barely staff my current sectors with a governor at all times.

Aside from that a non stellaris 4x general would flat out die.

Are there any mods or overhauls that make Stellaris less like 4X and more like EU4 style grand strategy?

Is the cyborg decision just a one off thing? I want to spread my gift to the galaxy.

Yeah. Paradox is working on it, only 19.99£ my dear customer.

Or just mod CK2.

Thats the hivemind route senpai.

Genetics path really is the best. I can easily make specialised planets with modified species for near 100% happiness regardless of factions like this. Each variation, tailored to a specific planet or habitat. Who needs synthetics when I can create a superior biological being?

Wait for a C# Aurora, this thread will live again.

not him but is there ANY reason to pick smaller stockpiles?

Faster pop grow.

In the stream they said it caused faster pop growth but I can't see any modifiers on the pops

Oh come on.

I just started a game with the Commonwealth of Man. 14 out of 18 of my leaders (including ones in each of the recruitment pools) and ALL of my starting leaders were women. What in the actual fuck. Paradox realizes women don't actually play this game, right?

>droids still grow at 1 per month
pls fix

You some kind of homo?

>Station under attack.
Naturally my mines are now being attacked by space ameoba.

what the fuck. There's even an energy tile.

>boxed in by three federation builders who are circlejerking each other as an authoritarian xenophobe faction

epix

also you guys are really fucking bad at making new threads, aren't you

just make one at bump limit if you don't know what you're doing god damn

Paradox implies the neofeminist movement eradicates men over the next 200 years

>He doesnt imagine his female scientsits/Admirals being captured and raped by the enemy when they die

>pirates with a Cruiser are blocking off an entire arm of the galaxy, completely boxing me in and keeping me from expanding

thanks for telling me to play hyperlane only, /civ4xg/....

You know you can jump right by them assuming they aren't sitting right on the jump in point.

Guess you can try out tall then

It makes things more interesting. Now you need to end those pirates or expand into another empire

I just hope they havent completely rebuilt their fleet next time I go in, I killed everything except the cruiser

pls respond

Good. Fleeting and short lived species have an easy trade off for having 5 start scientists for less time then other species.

Objectively; forced hyperlanes only is the best way to play stellaris

Adds a layer of tactics to the game that the other options dont give.

>Construction complete!
>Planet X has finished its building queue.
>I have to open the planet and scan the surface to remind myself of what exactly I just finished building

Every god damn time. No wonder they felt the need to add the Sectors system.

Nice FUCKING game

That's what everyone here do. Except me because I'm not a filthy poorfag. I just hate Stellaris and don't give it my shekels.

>Play wormholes
>Shit im boxed in
>Literally just jump to the next arm of the galaxy

You arent wrong.

Is there a mod that allows for only male leaders?

Oh, thanks.

Not with Stellaris. I bought base CK2 and EU4, but Stellaris came out after I woke up to ((((them)))).

Also if those fucking russians can trick Steam into thinking I own 400 dollars worth of CK2 DLC, they can probably sneak my way into the Stellaris mod workshop too.

How do I force these unhappy alien fucks to change away from theif faggoty faction? I didnt conquer them to hear them complain about being more xenophobic and egalitarian. Why the fuck can they do pop ethics right?

It does require to :
1) find where to get them, it's some weird russian website, so scan the files right
2) move your folders around
3) edit your text files

>I bought base CK2 and EU4
And I bought them with all DLCs and I had a blast.
An anal one with CK2 and I'm still sore, and a nice one with Eu4.

The disappointment when I played Stellaris and, upon learning later that they changed it even more only ruined all confidence I had in Paradox. And that was before I learned about the human phenotype scandal or the rigged ethics.

Enslave them, purge them or liberate and integrate them

is there a way to expanding? max out as fast as possible?