/civ4xg/ - Strategy/4X General

>implying you didn't post that shit yourself so you'd have an excuse to post more spidershit while furiously masturbating about what a master troll you are

It barely even happens in other games, there's 0 chance for Stellaris, sorry bud.

With Utopia and Banks now out, the next thing we have planned for you is the 1.6 'Adams' update. This update, named after Douglas Adams, is going to focus completely on bug fixing and quality of life changes, with no major feature additions and no accompanying paid DLC. Work on 1.6 actually started almost immediately after Banks/Utopia went into code freeze, and it already contains hundreds of bug fixes and usability/UI additions and tweaks. A particular focus of Adams has been to work on our backlog of old issues, taking care of many of the smaller issues and annoyances that have been present in the game since release. We've also made time for some of the things that were originally planned for Banks, but had to be cut due to time constraints. While I can't give you an exact release date for Adams yet, I can say that you shouldn't have to wait too long.
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-69-beyond-utopia.1015396/&utm_source=in-game&utm_medium=game-client&utm_content=devdiary&utm_campaign=adam_stellaris_devdiary_all_20170420

go back to /pol/ homophobr

gay

Will it wreck my save games though.

I dunno, with all the retards taking every spider picture like a personal insult directed toward their mother, we'll have more and more posts whining about the OP and less and less actually talking about games.

I could answer I was too busy playing Don't Starve, but you wouldn't believe me.

>named after Douglas Adams

Why do they name them after random memesters?

...

Just ignore them. Hopefully they'll thin out the farther and farther we get from Utopia.

Is there an event in the game that is a blatant rip off of Event Horizon or was that my More Events mod I was using back in the day?

Possibly , they said it would be a bug fix and QoL update so who knows

>le just ignore meme
there are autists that have been saying this for fucking years in my home general, /gsg/

protip: it does not fucking work

I hope the Utopia hype will die quickly so that we can resume discussions about others strategy games that aren't Stellaris.
Like Endless Space 2, for example.

I also hope it won't turn /civ4xg/ into a shitty clone of /gsg/ with every newfag posting his edgy grossgermanium and spamming "R8 MUH BLOB".

Oh well.

You know every single one of us should not be playing Stellaris for about another three years or the point where it is fixed, right?

>spamming corvettes
The pastebin literally advises a mix of cruisers, destroyers and corvettes. The first two of which can mount PD or flak.
>graphics
Yes, that guy's a retard for thinking the graphics fit the truth.
>carriers
Fighter and bombers die to flak like there's no tomorrow, m8. I've yet to ever see one of them ever attack one of my ships after I unlock flak. If graphics aren't to be believer there either, you can believe that fighters and bombers have a range of 8 while flak has a range of 40.

It's hard to know when the sweet spot arrives, after they fix most of the bugs and add most of the missing features and content, but before they ruin the game with dumb new mechanics literally nobody asked for.

Well, CK2 is at the stupid new mechanics point now. Monks and Mystics is jumping over jumping the shark. Maybe we should all wait until Paradox are adding casino mini games. That way we know everything before must be pretty decent.

What's it adding?

Monks and Mystics? You can turn your character into a Satanic Sorcerer, turn the pope into a satanist and give birth to the devil.

Ladmates why won't my mods fucking update to 1.5.1, like half of them are still unusable

Don't forget Satanist have dark powers.

>hating on Monks and Mystics
Go back to /gsg/ to play Liquoria II. you contrarian.

What the fuck.
What happened to the "Historical Immersive Simulator"? I don't mind the Sunset Invasion because it's just at the end of the game, but this is really silly.

FUCKING
MIGRANTS

gib jobs

The other orders can get magic items. So you can have the spear of longuinus, the holy grail and give birth to Satan out of your ass.

Yeah, it's not fake magic. It's actual harry potter stuff where you can use dark powers to cast fireballs and sacrifice bitches with telekinesis or something.

>give birth to Satan out of your ass
Bitch I do that every week.
Constipation is terrible.

Oh yes, the wizards can brew a potion that takes away depressed and stressed, and write a magnum opus that gives +5 learning and a bonus of your choice.
The ultimate power for Dominican is to get the "Temperate" trait.

Also user, the spear and grail are shit to be looted off Jerusalem if you're lucky.

>give birth to Satan out of your ass.
It's like you've never had homemade hotsauce.

eat some kiwis

WE NEED MO ENERGY FO DEM GOODS

But kiwis are adorable!

This. Also easy up on the red meat before you get haemorrhoids.

>thefungusamongus.jpg

>finally finish a precursor rng scavenger hunt
>find the Cybrex home system
>ruined ring world with about 40 eng and other shit
>it's in my rival's territory and he's building shit all over it

That was a total waste of time and hope.

>advocating cannibalism

>Not waging war over the ring.
Man up.

Gotta save scum that shit purely because of that my man

Cybrex are the best, too. You get living metal, the ruined ringworld for the 40 engi and having the ringworld in your border massively boosts the chance of discovering megaengineering tech so you can make your own. Shit's so good, I'll never not save scum for it.

>Find Earth when it's in the middle of WWII
>Can't nab the achievement because it's in Xenophile FE territory.

It's deep in their territory. Would take me 5 or 6 wars to get it by which time 80 years will have passed and I'll have habitats at least, I hope.

I got living metal, funnily enough, but just from a bunch of other anomalies.

I play Ironman though. If I don't play it I savescum everything (seriously, I was savescumming siege ticks in EU4) and then bang in console commands at the first sign of stress.

>graphics
It's not just graphically. Their damage is noticeably lower than what it should be unless overkill is involved in some way. At the same time it isn't as much as what the graphical representation would suggest, but there's still overkill involved because they're not a hitscan weapon like energy and kinetics .As I understand it weapons are split into two parts, the irrelevant graphic and the hidden actual projectile. In energy and kinetics the projectile is effectively hitscan, even for plasma which travels relatively slowly, you'll notice this is you slow the game down and watch, stuff will regularly hit 0 hull and start to die before the plasma bolts are even halfway to them. With missiles the hidden projectile has a delay before damage is applied and in that delay more missiles can be fired even if they are overkill. The delay is significantly shorter than the graphical travel time but it's there.

>The armies are named after the major powers involved in the war
Pretty neat.

It's also pretty dangerous to finish the 6th artifact if you are on hyperdrives. Almost made that mistake, had to delete the science ship which was at 80% of the special project.

You can just halt it, you know.

Are achievements even working? I should have had plenty since Utopia dropped. Stuff about curators and getting gifts from FEs and all that.

Hey thread, user from a few threads ago who was talking about separating ethics from their bonuses as a third type of trait called "virtues", I just wanted to get your thoughts on the following.

>1
The simplest way I thought to do this; add no extra virtues or the like, just keep the 16 bonuses currently in game. Every virtue is aligned to a given ethic, and taking a specific ethics reduces or increases the cost of a virtue aligned with it.
Fanatic ethics modify the cost by +/- 2 points, non-fanatic by +/- 1 point, and non-aligned ethics by 0. Regular tier ethics cost 2 points, fanatic tier cost 3 points, and you can take a maximum of 5 virtues and vices (I'll get to that in a second), and you start with 4 virtue points.

For example: A player chooses fanatic militarist and xenophobe. +20% fire rate costs 3 points (-2 for f.mil), +20% army damage costs 3 (-2), +15% rivalry costs 2 points (-1 for xenophobe), and +15% border range costs 2 (-1), for a total of 4 points.

However, the player could instead take +20% fire rate (3-2), +30% border range (3-1), and +15% rivalry gain (2-1) for a total of 4 points.

Finally, as a third example, the player could instead take, say, +2 core systems which is 2 points, but becomes 4 instead because they're fanatic militarist.

Vices would be maluses specific to a given ethos (meaning only militarists can take a militarist vice) that you can optionally take to get extra points.

That's the basics of what I've worked out, and I was wondering if the thread had any ideas, wants, or suggesstions.

>TL;DR
Make ethics bonuses a separate trait of their own.

Yeah, they fixed 'em.

Why is it dangerous?

>tfw no dolphins in mammalian tab
>Can never play as fanatic xenophilic dolphins intent on teaching the galaxy the pleasure of dolphin sex.

I couldn't think of another word, but since whoever gets there and scans the anomaly first, you're probably screwed as hyperlanes because of how long it can take to travel long distances compared to other engines.

The other option would be to just outright create a whole bunch more virtues and otherwise reshuffle them around; for example, I never really thought that border range should be a xenophobe thing. It always seemed more militarist to me.

ayy

Guys how do I supress effectively retard factions in fanatic egalitarian democracy?

I cant them lock them up on god forsaken mining prison colony, like I always do as Imperial/Dictatorial Empires.

How could I controll them?

Is there any disadvantage to just spamming robots all over mines and farms everywhere? Do they count as legit populations for my force limit?

You don't.

Just try to hold them around 30-40%ish faction happiness and keep around enough happiness/unrest modifiers that it won't have any negative impact.

Soon

>Adams
Cringe as fuck. What's next? Gaiman update?

Moffatt

The Doctor Who scenarist who brought us the Weeping Angels?

They only give a bonus to mineral production so there's no advantage to putting them on farms unless you're min/maxing food production hard, but then I'm not sure the energy upkeep cost even makes that worth it. They also fall off on mines once you can stick modded pops that are very strong and industrious on unless you plan on going full synth.

Goddamn it. I literally wrote Moffatt before thinking it would too cringy, even for those cucks at paradox

Not an sci-fi expert, what is wrong with these guys?

Was meant to

FE can't protect you now.

They are popular, so since we're edgy contrarians, we all hate them.

He's a fucking hack, that's what's wrong with him. Normies love his INSANE PLOT TWISTS tho.

Is it worth it to relocate the capital if you have a planet of the same type with like 22 tiles?

Since you guys are largely a bunch of sci-fi buffs, I thought you mind find this interesting. I know I did

youtube.com/watch?v=7PKx3kS7f4A

Usually, that would be right, but not on this case. He's by far the worst Executive Producer the show has EVER had.

What in fuck's name is that

WE HERE FOR DEM GIBSMEDATS

Do the robots push out my borders and give me force limit that's all I care about just now. I didn't even know you could mod your own population until you wrote it there. Seems pretty cool.

Yeeaaaah. Isn't the Producer just the guy who pay for the show? Shouldn't you angrier about the episodes he wrote instead?

Bitch there better be a Reynolds update.

That's my former scientist, who is now a being of pure energy and vengeance

When summoning a Shroud Avatar goes wrong

You might need to start a new save if you haven't started a new one since 1.5.1 or something

He writes most of the episodes. Well, the ones that aren't fillers, anyways

I kinda liked his episode with the Weeping Angels.

He kinda ruined them in Flesh And Stone, but still.

so what type of long Range weapons should I be putting on my Battleships?
I was thinking Missiles because they are the longest, and maybe Gauss canons and flack as other two weapon types on it

>sit on earth bitching about why all sci fi aliens just look like humans
>outside a race of humans invade, land and conquer
>mfw

Use kinetics, missiles are useless at the moment as they get raped by PD

Kinetic Artillery > Large Plasma Weapons > Railguns > Best Lasers > Empty Slot > Missiles

>distant future
>paradox releases a new update completely changing interactions with primatives
>names it Tsoukalos
I can dream

Plasma. If you dont have plasma then kinetics.

1. You shouldn't bother with battleships
2. If you've already built some and don't want to disband them, load them up with plasma and maybe one flak

Yeah, Blink was simply the best episode he ever wrote, probably the best episode on the entire show.

Maybe that's because I understood the episode wrong, but I always thought that the angels' true form was something completely different.

And then he made more episodes with them and ruined them totally.

>statue of liberty, made of copper, is somehow an angel

I'll never forget that affront to one of the greatest episodes