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

You have to build a fleet to deter aggressors but you might never use it. Don't be the retard that doesn't build a single ship then whines when another empire remodels your shithole because why wouldn't they? It's literally free stuff.

Even pacifists need guns to tell the people next to them to fuck off.
The new update focused on things pacifists can do to tell people to fuck off harder. Economic sanctions, etc. But you still need a good defense or they'll rape you.

Peace through superior firepower. If you have more, bigger, better fleets than anybody else even the space vampires will trip over themselves wanting to be your friend.

>not having a group of friends you game with that you are teaching how to play while in a multiplayer match
apply yourself

>having friends
Hahaha... ;_;

All of my friends are fags who are to dumb/impatient too 4x.

I'll be your friend.

Unless you're Horatio.

>Convinced two friends within the past week to buy EL
>They both fell in love with it
>Now ES2 free weekend

...

Silly user. We're all Horatio here.

MAKE THEM PLAY
I WANT FREE THINGS

You can both fuck off.

UE : Red
Sophon : Light blue
Lumeris : Yellow
Horatio : Purple
Unfallen : Dark green
Vodyani : Orange
Riftborn : Pink
Cravers : Ugly yellowish green

If you disagree with this you are a faggot.

I see you're starting to acknowledge Horatio posters. The next step is realizing the entire thread is Horatio.

I disagree.

Lick my shit, Horatio.
United Empire for life.

I really love how the quests are implemented. It's like Paradox's games, but good, and an improvement over Endless Legend.

United Empire has a nice divergence in their questline compared to the other factions.
Horatio, ironically, has one of the worst quests.

I spend my time worrying about having to deal with obnoxious Horatio citizens, so much so that I'd rather just ship them off to literally any of my max pop systems that they just die in orbit than plague my empire with their constant complaints about everything not being up to Horatio standards.

I'm also referring to the random events. It really make you feel you're leading an empire, it's something I often miss with turn based games : you often feel like you're just leading three assholes.

If the Horatio player upgrades his Horatio, do the ones in your system get upgraded too or are they old, worn out models?

Asking for a friend.

>install ES2
>make a new game and select a faction
>choose Horatio because of /civ4xg/ memes
>first thing I hear is "make Horatio great again"
Holy fuck they just sold me the game.

I was really impressed the first time I saw that random event about the minority officer being accused of espionage, with a chance to make a huge political crisis, and realized it was a reference to the Dreyfus affair. Then there was the one with the system-wide Berlin Wall.

All the faction leaders say multiple things on the selection.

UE : Purple
Sophon : Blue
Lumeris : Yellow
Horatio : Pink
Unfallen : Dark green
Vodyani : Orange
Riftborn : Cyan
Cravers : Red
This is canon, fite me

Yeah, I've noticed that right after.

>tfw fucked up my researches going too all around and am now getting bullied by pirates

With the new pirates system it seems essential to rush tier 1 military ships desu.

I just ignored them as Vodyani till I got my first arc up and everything went fine. Might have been crippled if they spawned somewhere my leechers needed to move through, tho.

Yeah, that's very neat. Could use some more French references.

Anybody play Aurora 4x?

I got tier 1 in time, but now they're fucking me up with what I figure is tier 2 stuff.

There were anons talking about it last thread.

I tried it a little today, guess I messed up my ship designs and didn't spend my free research points, so myb i'll try again tomorrow

I've been playing on-and-off since like 2013, and I've only had a single real battle. The game is just so fucking long I usually get frustrated and quit before I meet aliens.

Yea I usually do the same
spend like 8 hours or something building up then get bored because its only ever more tedious, plus theres never any good places to fucking mine, plus moving ships around gets REALLY annoying when you are in 10+ systems

The worst part is how slow the game runs once civilian shipping starts.

Does the guy even still actively develop the game

Been a year+ since update

>wake up
>shower
>polish cranium
>admire my beautiful self
>admire my children who are me
>embark upon daily quest to make the galaxy beautiful.
Such is a normal day for Horatio

>wake up
>shower
>polish cranium
>get tossed in prison
>have the weakest race in the entire game

Fixed it.

Rare footage of horatio boarding a station : youtube.com/watch?v=xq4pHlkJ22E

He's working on the C# version
Should be out next year iirc

I'm about to get memed on, now I know why.

Well I'm looking forward to that then

what is the best minor faction and why is it alienware?

What I find remarkable is how they spent time making up names for ships when every single one is basically meaningless throwaway shit.

Never, ever take the "traitor's reach" reward from United Empire quest. It's a shitty 1 planet system spawned away from all starlanes that will b a burden on your empire until you gulag it.

I've seen games where it has two planets, but yeah, it's normally a really shit system, especially compared to the other two rewards.

Can someone explain "+2 [science] per [pop] per Planets with Anomalies on Planets" to me?

Is it 2*absolute number of pops in the system*number of planets with anomalies on the system?

Also, does it count uncolonized planets with anomalies?

>assimilate minor faction
>go bankrupt
?????

Only pops on planets with anomalies give the bonus.

Pops on the planets with anomalies and only colonized planets count for any bonuses.

>Also, does it count uncolonized planets with anomalies?
I cant think of anything in ES2 that accounts for uncolonized planets

>assimilating before your economy can handle it
???
Also if their system is shit just build a spaceport, deport everyone if they are worth it and vacate the system

Or if you don't particularly care for what bonuses the minor faction pop gives, raze it.

DI they make a real world builder for civ6 yet or is it still that scuffed shit with firetuner?

Oh, it's what I first thought but since the second lines reads [pops] on [planets], I thought it was weird that they would write the first one like that.

It gives two bonuses. One is general to planets, the other needs anomalies on planets.

Is there any way to just say "fuck it, you're on your own" to an outpost? None of my colonies can send food without starving themselves to death.

build more food

implementing name lists like that is easy as hell

>Every ES2 screenshot on the steampage is of ships in combat
>Developers are smart enough to know what sells but stupid enough to not make proper combat
What a kek

Wiz go back

At least stellaris is actually get a new combat system. ES2 will never get a meaningful combat fixing any of the crap thats wrong with it.

>ES2 gets a free weekend
>still more owners for Stellaris
My sides

hi wiz

> Jon Shafer, the lead designer of Firaxis’s Civilization V and his own strategy game At the Gates, is gone from strategy specialists Paradox only six months after joining. Paradox say neither that he ditched the company nor that they fired him, rather that they have all “decided to part ways due to creative differences.”

paradox must be a real shit show lol

>lead designer of Firaxis’s Civilization V
>Civ V
The problem here is that Paradox hired in him in the first place. A casual like him wont survive in Paradox HQ.

shafer is such a retard he got fired from pdox

SHAFER
GIVE ME BACK MY PLEDGE
EST DELIVERY: JUNE 2014

oh right, he's a scammer too

>notice insane yields on unique planet tor
>rush colonizer and buff outpost
>notice there's only 1 (ONE) pop slot

>riftborn bullying
I feel bad about it, I dont even know why they were at war with my Unfallen ally
I wonder if I can change their opinion and get them in my alliance? I'll try to blockade the cravers from their systems anyway

Unfallen and riftborns aren't forgiving at all, good luck with that.

lol if you have allies. kill 'em all.

Heh, reminds me of my last game which came down to a super alliance stand off between myself as the unfallen and riftborn allies vs some kind of unholy fucking alliance of desperation between the vodyani and cravers

>befriending space spiders

Those vodyanis must have been super desperate.

FODDER'd

i start games with one of every race, plus a wildcard set to any random

i feel that this gives me the right amount of cravers

>useful rewards
>completely optional

your hilarious boogeyman aside, what if I am? is there something wrong with not enjoying min-maxing against cheating enemies?

i have no idea what this is about but it's very obvious that you are unwell. walk away from the computer.

finally the biological menace is subjugated. the riftborn colony is safe for now.

>passive aggressives behind you
>nothing personnel kid

it's not safe until the pops are destroyed

>useful
>aka not mandatory
>not optional

>wow man, I totally lost this game because when I went to war I didn't have those +2 Science on original pop, totally cost me the game.

>splice vodyani
>acquire space aids

>being able to splice vodyani in the first place

>splice riftborn
>?????????

>splice riftborns (by the power of the beauty of Horatio)
>acquire nice curves

>I hate quests I don't wanna do them
ok, just ignore them, it's optional
>but then I don't get rewards for doing quests
Maybe you should adopt a trip.

>ES2 update
>Rimworld randomly updates at 2 AM
>Itch in the back of my mind to start a new M&B playthrough
aaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH