/civ4xg/ - Stellaris, Endless, Civilization and 4X Games General

Really makes you think

Only solution I have for fleet building is adding stations to control groups.

but even then you have to click a thousand times

At least you have to move the mouse less, and you can make it quicker

>Is there something like the Fleet Builder tool in EUIV for Stellaris?
No. But rest assured it'll be in a future DLC for $30 considering it's one of the most requested features the game has.

Way I worked around it is my first 8 or 9 planets all get assigned a number hotkey and over the course of the game they get built up with the dockyards and fleet academies.

I also like to ensure at least a couple have an army focus, with things like clone vats, military academy, slave processing.

It's a lot easier (and quicker to build) when you can just hotkey between planets and don't have to make multiple clicks just to build a single ship. You can queue up dozens of armies as well.

Get something like NSC, which introduces ludicrously powerful ships you only need 2-3 of.

Never have to suffer carpal tunnel syndrome again.

>considering it's one of the most requested features the game has.
Kinda of crazy.
Since april last year at least.

I guess they've added the rally point since then?
So something to help at least.

Alright, so it doesn't exist yet. That's a damn shame.

So how about the first point? Additional ship models with working weapons?

Preferably original designs and not star trek

get a macro that that left clicks like 10 times every time you press 5 on the numpad

New Ship Classes, Realistic Ships and a few others do this. Some skins also exist, like 40k, if you're into that sort of thing.

>Devouring swarm
>Cede planet war demands
>DELICIOUS POPS
>Wait where'd my energy income go
>The buildings use power
>Deactivated buildings don't make food with delicious pops.
>Migrating delicious pops costs influence

Well then. I guess we shouldn't try to make fuckers cede planets until I'm xbox huge empire.

Can't you just demolish everything?

Please do not bully the Rfitborn.

I could, but it'd be nice to be able to use all those buildings later.

Others could enslave/work pops and buildings, or at least deactivate buildings until the pops die off without having to deconstruct all the prebuilt stuff on the planet.

They freak out whenever i have a scout ship on their plot for 2 turns. You bully them by default. They get offended by anything.

Deactivate the buildings my man.

It is like 150 food surplus though, and at least part of the reason to go to war early on as devouring swarm right?

What are the best Civ 4 mods? I tried cavemen2cosmos and was underwhelmed. The AI doesn't hunt animals giving you a MASSIVE advantage that the AI just cant come back from.

Can someone explain the manpower resource in ES2 for me? I know it can fill ships and be used to invade planets, but what generates it, how exactly does the ship refill of manpower work, and does it do anything else?

Fall from Heaven.

How do you decide on a gameplan with the Horatio? They seem extremely dependent on the types of genes you gt to splice from minor populations around you, and finding these minor factions in general. You cant really take on the big empires early on since you do not have the production for it.

You focus on food and disable Steam updates.

>not pirating everything from parajews

>Fall from Heaven

Isn't that a preinstalled mod?

>Curators say I can beat dimensional horror with my fleet
>fleet gets absolutely destroyed
>dont even get it to half health
cool

No, pre-installed mod is a prequel to FfH2.

Guess you accidentally role-played as a space russia.

Tutorial does a very good job of explaining it. So does the manual. It is generated by a percentage of food production being diverted into military, trough certain improvements directly or by increasing said percentage, and by getting into bed with minors. You spend it to garrison and defendend planets as well as ships for invasion. Ships refill manpower based on a number of conditions - in short they refill best when stationed inside your sphere of influence, over a colonised system.

Thanks. I am a newfag to 4x games so its sometimes quite a lot to take in

Lovely

Start game of ES2 planning on expanding and doing science route.

First faction I meet is cravers. They immediately want to murder me.

RIP my plans. We out for blood now.

What are you, a craverphobe?

It's like playing Switzerland and getting stuck next to Germany in 1939.

You just know that fuck is up to something.

Science and murder go hand in hand!

I just paid them dust until I won with science in my last Sophon game

I think you have the wrong perception of cravers. They are a peaceful people.

Are Vodyani the most "Evil" race of ES2? They seem completely irredeemable regardless of which path you take in the story. Not sure about Cravers.

Should I play EL or ES? Really want to get into the Endless franchise.

>Don't worry, we still want to kill you.

Cravers and vodyani are equally shitty

Space fish pussy is best pussy.

ES1 is meh, tho some enjoy it.
EL is the best 4x on the market.
ES2 has some fancy new features over EL but far less spit and polish.

Pick your poison.

With Vodyani your extermination will serve a greater purpose, which you might even join, with cravers you are just food.

I don't think you can honestly say that two are equal.

>which you might even join
Where is this ever said? I've seen people claim it but all I've seen in their quests is that non-vodyani are only good for their essence. I assumed they were just using the essence to put more "flesh" vodyani into suits,

Flesh vodyani are all long dead, as is their planet, AFAIK. As to where this is said - read up on Vodyani hero biographies.They are all pretty much "I was a farmer, than vodyani came, now I am Virtua"

EL it is then.

>Don't be alarmed! We're still hellbent on purging the galaxy of all sentient life

Almost everything has mouse over tooltips.

Don't get too spoiled by how good and efficient the UI is.

The first hero you get as the Vodyani is a guy who was regular person whose family was killed in the Vodyani invasion but his spirit was deemed worthy so he got put in a cloth. After the process he was no longer angry about his family and felt desire to serve a greater purpose. Then he kinda got hijacked by a Virtual endless but thats another story. But yes, if you were an exceptional individual you get converted.

>removed the cbg and rtsg tag
Your OP doesn't get the spider seal of approbation.

Is there a reason to believe that The Lost are malicious and we shouldnt bring them back? The once influencing the Unfallen turned them into pretty nice guys, and the Endless ,who slaughtered the Lost and got high off their corpse dust, were known shitheads.

>play several games as Vodyani
>"oh okay I think I get how this game works now"
>switch to another race
>I have no idea how population, outposts, and colonization works
>I have to bother with the whims of different populations
>Pirates are actually annoying

Help! I never asked for his! Give me my Arks back!

www92.zippyshare.com/v/6AWq5jNd/file.html
Anyone got input to share?

>He plays with pirates on
Turn that off and you'll have a better day.

>one of them eat you and your family
>the other one murder you and your family with a small chance of deleting your memories and trapping your soul into a suit that is directly controllable by the church which forbids any freedom of thought and expression and requires you to mindlessly obey its orders.

They are pretty close. Not sure if I would rather get killed off and eaten or turned into a sockpuppet for a tyrannical church.

>with minimal data loss

kek, the spiritualist was right
purge the cans

>literally bad

There are more mentions of russia than Paradox.. Top kek.

just tempted to restart

wow a "literally who gives a shit" event. Sure is cause for a restart

dis neds feedback
cant give 1 atm

Everytime I start a new game in any space 4x this plays in my head.
youtu.be/YegBW5SbsHo

>russians
>embargo
>china
>sanctions

The last thread was a mistake

>chinese endless basically
>horatio world
>huge expansion
>fun probably

>horatio world
TITUS
GET THE FLAMETHROWER

>not wanting to go to Horatio Research Park and HoratioWorld! with your clonebros

>wanting to cross Horatio Avenue to go through Horatio Street, pass through Horatio Park, see Horatio Dock in the distance, with Horatio Sea, before walking down to Horatio Beach, stopping by a small shop to get Horatio Fries covered in Horatio Sauce

>covered in Horatio Sauce

Oh, fuck you, you know that's NOT what I meant.

The Codex Astartes does not support that action.

>Riftcucks will never know the feeling of riding the hands free antigravity HoratioCoaster while holding their partner's hand
>Jewmeris will never know the feeling of dropping off the HoratioFlume and not drowning due to fucked up genes
>Cravens will never know the feeling of pure bliss when entering the HoratioTown on the edge of HoratioWorld without being gunned down on sight

Truly I pity the lesser """""species""""".

>Horatio will never know the feeling of not getting eaten by Cravers
I would tell them to pity the food, but they don't feel pity.

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The codex can kiss my ass!

STOP

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NO
Don't you turn this into a fucking meme.

HAK HAK HAK

How complex is ES2 compared to other games in its genre? Does it have a shitton of systems you need to take care of, and how intuitive are they?

>How complex is ES2 compared to other games in its genre?
It's EL with less polish and more features IN SPACE!

>Does it have a shitton of systems you need to take care of, and how intuitive are they?
Both of those are arbitrary distinctions, for me -
yes on both,

Is the lore of EL, ES1, and ES2 connected? There seem to be some similarities but not everything adds up.

ES1 is more or less retconned.
EL takes place before ES2, but after Dungeon of the Endless.

Pls respodn

ANSWER

Not 4x.

IT
IS

Fuck off I'm not reuploading some shitty anime mod for you

ITS OUR ANIME MOD

the timeline is DotE -> EL -> ES1/ES2

ES2 is essentially a replacement of ES1 in the storyline

Good luck, dreddo

>listening to spiritualists
>listening to the people that happily make a covenant with a guy called THE END and destroy our galaxy, maybe even the entire universe
We must destroy all of these fools before they destroy the universe!

>brighter than the sun

Why would any idependent species bring into existance a power known only for their godlike power? I mean someone being on the losing side of a galactic struggle might do so as an act of desperation, but otherwise no one would want to open a can of worms big enough to consume them, no matter how warm and fuzzy those worms appear to be.