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

>If you are familiar with Endless Legend, it will work kind of similarly to how we made The Lost Tales: something nice for those of you who want to inject a little extra life and lore into their game! We will give you more information in the months to come.
Yes please.

>spider
>sexy
With all the Horatio sauce shitposting, I'm thinking of moving from Kumo to another manga for the reaction pics.

It would make me hate you less.

>1 day till synthetic dawn

Can't wait niggas

Oh, then I shall continue with the adorable Kumo-chan.
You're supposed to hate me, after all.

Oriental Empires.
A civ-like, supposedly very nice when it comes to management, less so when it comes to combat.

What is everyone going to play first?

I'm going for Rogue servitors with focus on leader +max level.
And right after that, I will go fanatic materialist and beeline synthetic evolution.

What are good mods for Stellaris?

Any 'must have' list?

Don't you just love the feeling of Horatio Sauce™ covering your entire body, from head to spider toe?

Aw fuck The Lost Tales was a great DLC. I also think the Minor Factions in ES2 are really fun. I'll probably buy this DLC day one.

Fuck you.

destroy all spiders

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>tfw horatio sauce is associated with spiders even by google

I've never visited this general until today. What the fuck is wrong with all of you? I just wanted to see what everyone thought of robots and all I see is spiders and bodily fluid memes.

At least you all know who Best Endless Boy is

We're trying to run off an annoying avatarfag. Carry on.

Fuck Google.

There's a consensus that spiders are cuter than robots.

Horatio a fucking shit. Literal garbage. Genetically engineered as the perfect subject for complete genocide.

Last thread was more normal. We're shitposting because kumoanon poached another thread OP. Just image kumo drenched in Horatio sauce helplessly flailing around trying to escape and it'll all be better

This.

We are having some trouble with a spider infestation. It's very vulnerable to Horatio Sauce tho.

Gonna play ES2 for the first time until tomorrow when more stellaris/heat sig both come out

Who should I play as? I liked being the dust lords in legend.

I understand Horatio sauce but I don't get the spider meme. Is it in reference to Cravers?

Riftborn and Vodyani are the most similar to Dosh Lords.

What darker pleasures?

Avatarposting. Not that annoying, but the fucker keeps spidering the OP.

There's literally nothing to it. It's just a manga that I picked up and started posting because I was tired of always being the one making new threads.

If you don't want to do something, make it in a way that's so awful that other people will be forced to do it themselves.

And since they can't bother making the OP, they lose all rights to complain.

Bullying Riftborn captives.

Squanching

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it's against the rules you dumbfuck

For some reason I thought the guy in the back is CIA shopped in, he even has the same pose.

> Was being tortured and maimed part of your plan?

>It's just Zelevas showing the Riftborn videos of different species reproducing

You don't write the rules, no matter how much you wish.

I always wondered if those were gloves or prosthetics she got after having her own hands cut off.

I wish diplomatic messages in ES2 were clearer.
I keep receiving shit and I have no idea what the fuck it means. I only got two that were understandable, the united empire asking for free stuff (I trashed them in the war that ensued) and the sophonts telling me I was a super cool guy only to attack me two turns later.

>13. Do not use avatars or attach signatures to your posts.
t. Veeky Forums.org/rules

Fucking redditors

If the Sophons contact you, it's because they're about to attack.

Who's got the best fighters/bombers in ES2?

Cravers.

>mistaking reaction pictures for avatars
Since when are retards allowed on Veeky Forums?

Pretty sure they're prosthetics, the wrists dont seem healthy.

2003 onward.

Design or statwise?

>hiding avatar fagging behind "muh reaction"

>I wish diplomatic messages in ES2 were clearer.
Like this?

Yes.

Both

> Welcoming

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cheers blud

So some of the major factions of Endless Space were ported over directly in 2, some others became minor factions, but what happened to the rest? I haven't seen any mention of Automatons and Sowers. Are we to assume they got fucked?

Both need to build populations, one through industry, and the other one through a unique resource taken from other factions called Essence. Because of this, Riftborn can build extremely wide, whereas Vodyani can thrive with leecher ships during conflict

I heard it was a soft retcon. The other factions just didn't happen, at least not until some get reintroduced in expansions

Horatio sauce

Fuck off.

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Never actually played Victoria 2, so I can't comment on that. But even Europa Universalis IV has some very nice features to make it less tedious to build armies.

Sefaloros is the patrician choice

I wouldn't be terribly broken up if that was the case. I mean they were both kind of muscling in on each other's territory anyways, being semi-sentient AI robots created with the intention to build endlessly. Automatons were also the fan faction if I remember right, while nobody really liked the Sowers.

The Riftborn are currently much more interesting industry robots.

oy gevalt

At least the posts in that thread seem to be heavily leaning towards the Sefaloros.

Sefaloros > Uinuayya >>> Brakt

>factions and races are differents
I like. So if you support a rebellion that ends up winning, do you lose race relation for interfering but earn faction support for helping?

>not wanting them sexy gas bag aliens

>being semi-sentient AI robots created with the intention to build endlessly
Isn't that Remnants?
They're ancient reprogrammed assassin robots turned into builders eons ago or something.

Victoria has the best economic system I've ever seen in a game. If only trade was based on location and goods were actually transported from A to B it would be near perfect.

Also your soldiers in vicky are recruited from your soldier pops with reserve troops being farmers, labourers and factory craftsmen. If those soldiers die you population dies manpower in EU is seperated from the population of your provinces.

That sounds nice on paper, even more than DW:U, but how does it work ingame? I heard complains that the population system was broken and that many players ended up with too many "middle class citizens", and had huge issues.

I should probably reinstall it and try to play it, but the tutorial itself is longer than most of my campaigns at 4X/grand games

How much is a bottle of Horatio Sauce?

3 spoidas

1 trillion credits a drop

Of course it is better on paper. Maybe it was broken in earlier versions of vanilla. I mostly play with the latest version of hpm and it seems stable in that one, it also takes quite some time to build a middle class. Because it takes time, effort and planning to build an industrial powerhouse it is more rewarding. In EU4 it is saving up monarch points and spending them on provinces. Vicky II's economic system is far more suitable to represent a modern industral society than anything EU or stellaris offers at this time.

The problem I see with Vicky's system (other than the fact I don't know what hpm is), is that it may suit a human civilizations, but not necessarily an alien one.

True but it doesn't need to be exactly the same. The current systems in stellaris are mostly universal with only a few exceptions. Just some elements of vicky's pops and economic system.

You could simulate different occupations that can't just change with the click of a button. The pops in stellaris represent a large homogenous population in ideology, issues, race. If anything chances this "large population" just changes overnight.

True. Plus I guess you can just different words for the same things.
Like, insectoids societies can have drones and gatherer instead of farmers and workers.

I should really try Vicky 2.

Be sure to try modded vicky too. Use new nations mod (NNM) or historical project mod (HPM). HPM is based on NNM and incorporates a lot of smaller mods it also has a better map. NNM just adds a ton of events and decisions and some new countries.

>+525 dust from Relic peddlers
Well shit if I had read the tooltip I would have assimilated these guy before, wouldve saved me using turns on economy techs

I dunno, isn't it better to start with the vanilla game at first and then move up to mods?

both sowers and automatons got a spiritual successor in the form of epistis

Yes it is.

Too bad that minor faction is terrible in every other way because of starting on gas giants.

It is best to start with vanilla.

Can I keep playing after I won in ES2 or is it game over?

Okay then.

I'll try to make a Nationalist Socialist France.
And see if there are nep mods.

>raise minor faction population in the galaxy to 200 in 20 turns
>is currently 100
ok

>let xenos fuck your wife goy: the quest

You will be prompted to keep playing or go to the victory screen

Oh cool.
Now who the hell made up the Vodyani?
Should they really be surprised I don't let them abduct my people?!

They're not abducting anyone, they're letting the lesser beings rise, Endless. Infidel.

The Vodyani are the space equivalent of Mongols/Huns. They're nomadic raiders who make awful neighbors.

I don't think letting an Amoeba fuck my industro-fascist United Empire wife will make more Amoeba. I don't think an Amoeba can actually even fuck my wife.