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ENDLESS SPACE 2
> Official and Unofficial Wiki
wiki.endless-space.com
endless-space-2.wikia.com
> Community Hub
www.games2gether.com
> Planets Stats
imgur.com/w5RO8TH.jpg
> Ships Stats
pastebin.com/aabCNGau
> Horatio splicing guide
pastebin.com/1cH8sqEH
>Manual
cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/392110/manuals/User%27s_Manual_-_Endless_Space_2.pdf
>ES2 politics guide.
pastebin.com/pDUQDpwA (embed)

STELLARIS
> Pastebin:
pastebin.com/YHdisqem
> WIP Ship Design Guide for 1.5.1:
pastebin.com/2QWUPKSh
> Another Ship Design Guide for 1.5:
www.reddit.com/r/Stellaris/comments/61nolh/ship_equipment_load_out_for_141_15/
> Wiki:
www.stellariswiki.com
> The Development of Stellaris
www.gamasutra.com/view/news/274018/Postmortem_Paradox_Development_Studios_Stellaris.php
> Steam group
steamcommunity.com/groups/vgstellaris

ENDLESS LEGEND
> Manual:
cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/289130/manuals/User'sManual.pdf
> Wiki:
endlesslegendwiki.com
endless-legend.wikia.com

CIVILIZATION
> Browser Civ Game, plays like civ2
play.freeciv.org
> Fix for Civ IV BTS XML errors:
www.dropbox.com/sh/ljdms8ygix2btcs/AACC_IGIy7zAkomwA6S4DJp3a?dl=0
> Civilization Analyst (Civ VI, Civ V, BE):
well-of-souls.com/civ/index.html
> Civ V Giant Multiplayer Robot:
www.multiplayerrobot.com
> Civ 5 Mods
forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=393
> Civ 5 More Mods
pastebin.com/5ANRmRur
> Civ 5 Drafter
georgeskleres.com/civ5/
> District Cheat Sheet:
civ6.gamepedia.com/District
> /civ4xg/ steam group
steamcommunity.com/groups/civ4xg

ALPHA CENTAURI
> Essential improvements:
pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri#Essential_improvements
> Official short stories:
www.mediafire.com/folder/cn11q7nqa00te/Alpha_Centauri

MICROPROSE
>MoM
www.myabandonware.com/game/master-of-magic-21t
>Wiki
masterofmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Mod
>MoO 2
gamesnostalgia.com/en/game/master-of-orion-ii-battle-at-antares

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Spectator from last thread's argument here, you autistic?

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>still mad
I see /gsg/ is still leaking. I blame Shitllaris for all the shitposters we have here.

Thanks for proving my point about Stellarisfags being all shitposters, and all too retarded to click on a "subscribe" button.

>inb4 "I'm not mad, you are"

HAK HAK HAK

What with that OP picture?

kitters are cute!

Not as cute as spiders.

respectfully disagree

Kumo and Niko needs to meet.

>It has now been 2 months since the last update on new Civ 6 leaders.

As one of the 2-3 people that like this game i hope for some new info soon. I want new leaders to play.

You're a crazy person

What happened with that user who was making a mod to mechanise planets, did he ever finish and release it?

I was going to post this on Veeky Forums but thought i'd try here first since people here are more likely to be familiar with the setting.

If I were to run a D&D campaign set in Endless Legend, how would you go about it? What racial traits would different races have? What would your main plot thread be?

I thought I could try having the Drakken employ the party as political ambassadors to unite the major races in an attempt to prevent the endless winter/ stop a cultist crusade/ do battle with a Necrophage horde or something. Have the party travel to different capital cities and have a subplot in each one.

Fishing primarily for ideas for quests and major plot hooks, and if anyone can provide any insight on creating/running homebrew that'd be amazing.

What I like with D&D is that in a campaign, you don't have to be a hero. You can just try to escape, or be someone important's right hand.

So I would probably go for a hunt after a necrophage mutant while trying to gather forces to push back a wind walker assault.

Please do not bully the Riftborn.

First of all run it in 3.5e
Second of all I'm playing a Wizard

q
>Was this fixed with the patches/expansions?
It's not really something that could be fixed in SP 4x. If you can gain an early military upper hand on your neighbours and stompt them into dust you will have an advantage in any 4x. That being said touching Impossible/Endless AI early on is nigh on impossible, pun not intended, challenge.
>dominant strategy
It's not, but it has a place, always.

If you aren't aversed to older games SMAC might be up your alley. Also Last Federation is a neat little indie game that fits many of your criteria.

No and Yes.

>D&D campaign
Not the best choice for it. GURPS if you are into it, pathfinder or something equally modular would do better.

D&D is simply too set in it's ways for adapting it to other systems, you will always have it's ears sticking out of various holes. I'm also pretty sure Veeky Forums tried to create a custom system for EL, might worth trying to dig it out.

>What racial traits would different races have?
Game covers that extensively, but you will have to go trough the list yourself and figure what you want in your game and what you don't.

>What would your main plot thread be?
There are 2 ways to do it - hunting the Dust Crystal, and not hunting the DC. If it's the latter than it depends on your centrepeice faction, if it's the former, its pretty much universal.

>I thought I could try having the Drakken employ the party as political ambassadors to unite the major races
Could work if you have the right players for it, be mindful that some factions have deep seated rivalries bordering on hatred for each other, Clans/Ardent and Fogotten/Vaulters come to mind, and would be difficult to convince both to come on board.

>pathfinder or something equally modular
Pathfinder is just D&D3.5e, patched edition. 5e is just hot rubbish nobody writes splats for.

>Pathfinder is just D&D3.5e, patched edition
Well,yes, but that's the point. Especially given the thousand and one extra rule sets available for it.

If he's running D&D I do hope he means 3.5e, not 5e. Wizard || Rainbow Savant casts Simulacrum!

...

Stat Horatio.

>Charisma : 11

11 Charisma is pretty bad you know

Horatio isn't very charismatic
he's too narcissistic for any non-Horatio to like

Str 7
Dex 22
Con 8
Int 40
Wis 10
Cha 42

Horatio Sauce (Ex.) - It's the very hottest. Anyone dunked in Horatio Sauce must make a DC 42 Fortitude save or be burned to death by its lethal hotness. Targets who save must make a DC 42 Will save or be Dominated, as if the victim of a CL20 Dominate Person, except victims also obey self-destructive commands.

>DC 42
m8...

Sorry, I though we were using Fallout's stat system, with 10 being the best and 5 being the average.

Ew no gross
Use 3.5e's or use GURPS

Fellowship 99
Charm +30, Command +30, Deceive +30, Inquiry +30, Interrogation +30, Intimidate +30

>not warlock with a virtual patron
Go big or go home

Warlock is shit though, and straight up doesn't exist in PF anyway. Exploiter Wizard / Arcanist is the godclass without any 3pp in PF, while Spellsage is basically Archivist, nerfed just a tiny bit. In 3.5e if I 'went big' I'd obviously go for Conjurer | Rainbow Servant or Dread Necromancer | Rainbow Servant. Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil is overrated though.

>tfw you accidentally get the diplomatic victory in EL
Guess that's what happens when you forget to turn it off.

What are some good city shapes for BDSM fairies? Want to do an endless run but Always seem to end up with standard cities which screams suboptimal to me.

10

Maybe make a sort of triangle?

That's pretty much the standard I'm talking about and it's shit. I'm thinking of either a star of some description with an empty center or double/triple 6 hex triangles

thats basically it but then you're potentially ignoring good tiles to have the "Perfect" city layout. It's not really that important desu

Hollow circles like a bee hive; start with an X with your city center and first four borough streets and make cells from there
Basically, you want your city to be as efficient with pillars as possible
Some of the cultists (The things that fanatics ride and the armless servitors/solid blocks the preachers use) are pure automatons, while others are a collection of converts from the many peoples of Auriga
Whenever the Queen "chooses" read: messes with the head of a member from either group, they get dragged to the center of the city and tortured/mind fucked for weeks while their body shifts, transforming into the Cultists' elite (giraffe-necks, the Chosen heroes, and the Nameless Guard)

Is Stellaris worth it? I've been told it basically space EU4.

No, because EU4 is actually good.

caterpillar is also effective

Really? What is so bad about it

Yeah, I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to city shapes, Pic related is my most memorable city and it had basically no Lvl2 until turn 100, but there has to be some guidlines to follow and default shapes aren't it.

You mean something along the lines of ƆC ? That might work, thanks.

Don't think it's the best idea, but it's certainly workable, thanks.

It's a shallow title, it's only worth if you want to daydream about being a galactic emperor of your personalised empire, the game itself offers very little substance, but a lot of generic fluff to go along with your daydreaming.

This is not intended to insult it's players, just trying to explain what people actually mean when they say roleplaying is the only good aspect of stellaris.

Tho I'm told it has some decent mods because of how easy it is to mod for.

Simply put :
>replayability is low
>governement has little effect
>AI is botched and designed to be a challenge to you, so alliances are limited
>planet management system is £#@¤µ shit
>there are no easy way to manage fleets, you build them one ship after another
>your input on battle is too limited and unlike EU4, you have no terrain

Why the fuck do you repost this meme? The point of patterns in EL is to have the least unupgraded districts. Out of all, only moons and super triangle meet the requirements.

poor replayability, flawed game design, a general lack of depth, and very stingy business policy
caterpillar is honestly the ardent mages' best bet though - it provides a large amount of level 2 districts, covers a large surface area without requiring a super wide region, and provides excellent places for pillars (if you put it in the center of the spaces between the caterpillar's "legs", the bonus will be applied to its maximum thanks to the exploitation of the land around it)

Broken rode is actually very efficent, it covers almost optimal territory and has only 4 lvl one districts. Big Triangle is the optimal one, period. Just math. The others are for snaking around difficult areas and special cases, not for optimal output.

>caterpillar is honestly the ardent mages' best bet though
Yeah, late game - sure, but I play with irregular shapes and it very hard to fit that monstrosity in. And early game its suboptimal since you spend almost 50% more districts and still miss a square in the lvl 1 pillar square. Contrast it with a simple C shape that spends 4 districts and covers all 7 hexes of interest.

My favorite city was when playing Broken Lords I filled up the entire region with districts, had a pop of almost 100.
Good times.

Yeah BL "We can do it better than Cult" megacities are amusing, but by the time you can construct them you've already won. The reason I remember that particular city is that it was a very good way of making the best of a difficult situation where I spawned on top of 3 anomalies but almost no industry in range of the settler or the anomalies.

So what are the 4 ways to cheer up a depressed cat?

treats
scratches
pettings
a kitty/puppy to play with

BUMP

WE NEED THIS

Just get it yourself, lazy faggot.

Just upload it you retarded idiot.

sent :^)

I already did, but on the workshop. Use it instead of being a "hur gh the workshop is for losers only" scrub.

That's not the issue, user, he's a piratefag who doesn't want to admit it.

His excuse yesterday was "the workshop is blocked in some countries."

Respectfully disagree :^)

Why in the ever-loving fuck would we do that?

Because it's simple courtesy and the benchmark of a good community.

Wew.

I think you've forgotten where we are.

And no, we're not going to feed some idiot who trolls like a retard to get his own way and doesn't even own up to the fact he's a pirate, and instead invents ever more fanciful reasons as to why he can't download the mod.

Rule number one of Veeky Forums is practically "don't spoonfeed idiots"

species of peace

It's the jerks who are the retards and killing the community.

I agree.
Selfish jerks should fuck off.

He's pathetic.

Are we being raided

Nah, just the same faggot who's spend last few days begging and dodging bans.

>one samefagging retard
>raid

>one brazillian faggot
>raid
Na.

So I terraformed this lava planet in ES2, since going by the math, desert would have been better - same hot and sterile bonuses for industry + more population. But guess what, turns out terraforming gives you non-sterile deserts. I have no words to describe how gay it is, especially considering the game showed it was going to be sterile in the tooltip. Gay.

Horatio is an acceptable synonym for gay.

desu Yung was just one guy too

at least the thread is alive

That's not necessarily a good thing

>But guess what, turns out terraforming gives you non-sterile deserts.
Pretty sure that's untrue. I think there is some mechanic or bug that makes some desert/tundra planets non sterile but I remember terraforming into sterile deserts for sure. Deserts are a stepping stone anyway, what you want is jungle, always. Fertile is too good to pass up no matter who you are, except MAYBE Riftborn.

>at least you're dying of leprosy and not already dead
I see that you too have embraced the agony, fellow sufferer. May the agony make us all stronger!

Riftborn get unique reverse-terraforming anyway.

Are the Forgotten fun? What about Morgawr?

>faction quest is at the ass end of the universe
>behind 3 hostile empires
>can't make fast ships because they wouldn't survive the journey
>can't send out pimped out warships because they'll just be attritioned to death during the 30+ turns deathmarch
>turn 108, haven't done phase 2 of my faction quest
Fuck this shit, I'm going for wonder victory.

Forgotten were a pain in the ass to play when I tried them. Morgawr are fun, though. Nobody can really contest the ocean besides you, and you get so ridiculously powerful from naval fortresses that you barely even need to exploit land. Mind controlling minor factions to cause havoc in other empires is also great.

Depends on what suits you r fancy.
Forgotten are high on micro but can be extremely satisfying. For all their unique stuff morgawr are mostly vanilla, but are pretty enjoyable especially if you never bothered with sea game in your other playtroughs.

Why is ES 2 such a buggy piece of shit? I like the game but I keep getting a problem when I use any save game other than autosaves, it just hangs on the load screen forever.
It's been out for weeks, shouldn't basic ass shit like this be patched by now? Lazy frog cunts.

what do you bois listen to when playing stellaris?

Hi Wiz.

keygenjukebox.net/

The sound of my dad beating my sister

Unironically the ES2 soundtrack at the moment.

Well, that got dark fast.

Hi Amplitude

>especially if you never bothered with sea game in your other playtroughs
Haven't played with Tempest at all yet, actually. Still, will probably go with the Forgotten or Broken Lords because spoopy dust ghosts are too good.

Sounds hot.

forgotten:
can win ezmodo science victories or econ victories if played properly. Spies are pretty fun

Morgawr:
their heroes get stupid bonuses to naval warfare (can become like 1k hp 200 damage beasts) which lets you control the seas like no other and get tons of bonuses. Super fun even on not sea focused maps (pangea with 1 large sea)

steamcommunity.com/app/392110/discussions/0/2592234299562579261/
never mind found it, it's a known bug and supposedly getting fixed soon =)

Kazanji or Silics?
Or replace Bos and get both?

>forgotten
>ezmodo science
What