I'm confused with ES2s planets. Do you get the planet's base stats worth of FIDSI for every population on it?
Zachary Jones
Yes.
Cameron Edwards
Yup. Then you add population and building bonuses.
Henry Flores
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Juan Murphy
If I want space 4x but without the shipbuilding and customization, which game do I play?
Evan Sanchez
Sins of Solar Empires : Rebellion.
Gabriel Rivera
Doesn't that mean that there's absolutely zero difference between "+3 Food" and "+3 Food per Pop" then?
Zachary Perez
literally, one is +3 the other is +3 per pop
Brody Price
Aye. Except those big ones that give +50/100 lump bonuses obviously.
Zachary Gray
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Wyatt Hill
+3 food is for the whole system
Hudson Moore
Depends if it's on the planet. Stuff that you build is system improvement, so if it says "+3 food", it's +3 food for the entire system, or per planet.
Benjamin Sullivan
Is there another game? Sins is solid, but I'm put off by the game length
Ethan Reed
any with an auto-design option
Isaac Collins
I meant that in addition to that. How many times you raged over shit lost just because you aren't fast enough? Though, to be fair, my idea would have its own problems too, pobably.
Levi Gutierrez
I see where my confusion came from. I was miss-remembering the text from anomalies and thought they could be something like "+3 food" but they always say per pop.
Are population stats added to the planet base? I assumed they were added separately but now I'm second guessing myself.
Michael Hall
Population stats?
Owen Wood
No, it didn't. If I remember right, it went under but didn't officially die.
Tyler Walker
He meant bonuses
Robert Clark
Like "+2 凸, +4 凸 on Fertile". Would having only one population with that on a sterile planet mean that my system gets 2 凸 for every pop on that planet, or that my system only gets 2 凸 in total. (Assuming I have zero multipliers.)
Jace Wilson
What population bonuses?
Kayden Edwards
Is there anything more loyal and helpful than Riftborn? >slowly losing an attrition war to a Horatio and a pirate base shitting out endless fleets >Riftborn call, ask for help with their own war >ally with them, immediately conclude all the cooperation treaties >they promise to send help, turn out the only trouble they was with one pirate base >Zelevas spergs out despite neither of us being at war with him or even close to his borders Seriously, every game I've been in the Riftborn have been ridiculously easy to befriend and never backstabbed me.
Isaac Lopez
That talk of cannonballs in the last thread made me think of something. Is there a good game with boats? I remember the naval battles in Empire Total War being really fun with broadsides and shits, but I haven't been able to find something fun that was entirely about ships. And don't suggest windwarts, you can't fire a volley in there, and it looks like you're shooting softballs rather than cannonballs.
steam has been peddling that naval action thing to me for months. may be what you're looking for.
Jayden Watson
Is the tooltip for the advanced gameplay victory settings incorrect? When the slider is blue and to the right it says "Click to allow victory." which would mean it's disabled. Which is the opposite of how the slider says for everything else.
Brandon Carter
is there any good use for ES2 spaceports?
Jonathan Morris
>put in Nock Guns >they dont break your fucking arm every time A HISTORICAL
Also yeah, fots Shogun 2 ship combat is amazing.
Adam Collins
deportation
Dominic Stewart
>I'm really sorry you guys probably had to put up with this nonsense when /cbg/ was a thing we didn't
Josiah Baker
Well, that one looks really good.
How's Shogun 2's naval combat?
Connor Reed
Forward settling.
Nicholas Nguyen
Sengoku Jidai Shogun 2? Its terrible. I think Napoleon TW also had good ships.
Michael Thomas
sim city 4 is bad.
Jack Sanders
Cossacks 3 has the most beautiful ships I ever saw in a game.
Thomas White
Making super-happy-fun gulag systems.
Or nice systems to move all your integrated populations to so you can be quiet and alone on you lava planet
Sebastian Cooper
They have to go back.
Brayden Garcia
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Angel Ward
>ES2 >Playing Vodyani for the first time, first non-tutorial game >All is well, just bullied Horatio >24 pirate ships (with poachers) suddenly attack my capital >It's okay because I have it blocka- >They start combat with my ark >Can't seem to do anything to attack them with my actual fleet Please tell me I'm retarded and missing something, because that seems fucking lame that they can just do that.
Brandon Turner
was your ark parked? If yes then they SHOULD have first attacked the defending fleets.
Joshua Turner
Depends which era. The fots era is amazing, the others are kind of lame.
Ethan King
How hard is to learn Distant Worlds?
Liam Thompson
>capture Horatio planet >these retards all starve because "fuck working!!" >load the few of them on a ship, destination : the other side of the galaxy >they have to cross craver territory >surprisingly, they're destroyed >lost 3 billions horatios Oh nooooo, what a shaaaame.
Jace Collins
Yes it was parked, and I had 3 fleets on Guard mdoe
Samuel Cooper
It's actually pretty easy. Way easier than Endless Space 2. The hard part is remembering stuff, because the game explains almost nothing. It's entirely up to you to figure out why your economy is suddenly shitty.
John James
It has good tutorials but like a weird difficulty curve where the game happily plays itself and it's hard figuring out where and when to do something to actually affect it.
Nolan Cooper
Does anybody here play and discuss multi of ES2 or is it single coolstories only?
Justin Brooks
I'd like to try multi one day, but there's no spider race yet.
And I know that all of you fuckers will just go Horatios and form an alliance against me just to piss me off.
Alexander Fisher
Is the manual for it actual? Is it useful? Does it actually explain stuff?
Asher Miller
That's a beautiful idea
Asher Stewart
Best way to learn is to watch some beginner series on youtube
Austin Hall
I suppose so. More relevant than Dominions 4's.
Fuck off.
Yeah, or start a game in Age of Shadows, without the hyperdrive. That's one nice thing with DW:U, you can play all alone, without even pirates.
Jaxson Hughes
what are the essential mods for sim city 4? I've heard there are some things that are broken in the stock version
Elijah Hernandez
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Ethan Martinez
uninstall.exe
David Rivera
Good luck, I've been completely unable to get a modpack together for SC4.
Just play on Hard. The game has been balanced around that difficulty, so Normal just breaks later on when the economy just tanks because it's all out of whack.
Caleb Johnson
not hard at all. you don't actually need to do anything to play it. the game plays itself.
Anthony Bennett
>DW >Easier to learn than ES2 You are weirdly wired.
Joseph Fisher
Es2 has a lot more little subtle interactions.
Chase Rogers
i heard development tanked
Joseph Wood
How the hell do you find ES2 easier than DW? DW is pretty straightforward : research stuff, exploit ressources, set on advanced refueling bases, bully natives and pirates, slaughter space worms and shit. In ES2, there's diplomacy, internal diplomacy, and all that stuff.
Nathaniel Diaz
Super easy. Just sit back and click "approve" every time your advisors tell you to do something.
Logan Fisher
Maybe i'm used to Amplitude games. I feel like everything is where it should be, so it's easy to learn until you want to understand politics.
Jeremiah Smith
If I'm not mistaken the game is retarded and tells all fleets in the system to Guard
Brandon Perez
ES2 is pretty straightforward : research stuff, explore curiosities, setlle new colonies, bully riftborns and pirates, slaughter cravers and shit.
Anthony Thompson
the "difficulty" is mostly superfluous stuff. galaxy settings, resources, unintuitive research system, ui, and its real time. es2 is streamlined
Chase Adams
Oldshoes' modpack should be floating around somewhere
Otherwise, modpacks for SC4 plain do not exist, as the modding community was particularly autistic about intellectual property
Network Addon Mod is really the only absolute must-have, all else just makes the game prettier
Henry Thompson
I use them as Horatio to help farm certain species before turning them into a rich, nutritious sauce to consume.
Everyone else uses them to have the population produced on certain heavy food systems then shipped out to other settlements.
Adam Cox
.... is SC4 a 4X game?
Elijah Morgan
I'll check it out, and good to know I should play on hard
>/rtsg/ /cbg/
Hunter Nelson
Your arc was your most powerful ship and went first in combat. If you didn't have enough fleet cap to let other ships come in, it would've done so alone.
Pirates attacking your arcs is actually a good thing, provided you keep them up to spec, as you don't need to disengage to get rid of them and they usually (for me at least) don't come in 24 sized packages. It makes pirates less of a nuisance for Vodyani players.
Lucas Gonzalez
/cbg/ is city building game, right? totally missed those in the OP.
Dominic Bennett
You can also put pops in the spaceport with no destination if you need to temporarily remove pops from a system, such as a newly conquered planet that has a heavy food deficit, or to cheese the quest you can get for having Horatio pop as someone else (making multiple systems have only Horatio pop)
Blake Ward
By this point, we're an umbrella general for strategy games in general that don't have an autistic enough fanbase to get their own thread.
Don't take this as a challenge to become autistic yourself, btw.
Blake Green
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ethan Butler
How come nobody ever made a graphic update for Alpha Centauri? I literally have 3 xcom clones on my phone
Brandon Stewart
>not being autistic This is the problem with this general
Jayden Miller
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Charles Murphy
That gif tries way too hard.
Anthony Collins
>our advisors are telling us to attack our own colony What's going on?
Oliver Campbell
Pandora. That hideous mod for Civ4. The never-ever mod for Civ5.
Luke Evans
Just disable them desu they just spam you with random shit
Aaron Phillips
Your advisor is a puritanical inquisitor who has discovered a nest of enemy within.
Kevin Stewart
>tfw Alpha Centauri will never have a worthy successor
Jordan Ward
Should I just buy Endless Space if I enjoyed Endless Legend?
Dominic Ward
>call to power will never be topped
Daniel Murphy
You could pirate it and buy it if you like it.
Andrew Cook
I'm a bit lost with the lastest ES update. Since now lasers do damage at every range, is there anything better to equip unless the ennemy is full plate armor ?
Xavier Bell
In MP terms you got unarmed anti-laser screens as counters
Jaxon Brown
>tfw we will get to alpha centauri before Alpha Centauri gets a successor
Ian Sanders
What space 4x game has the most complex and satisfying diplomacy system?
Jack Brown
Civilization : Starships.
Angel Collins
civ 4 has the most depressing sound design. everything is so distant and hollow.