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

Why use hangers when you can get more plasma and kinetic artillery?

He's probably using hangars for fighters to shoot down enemy missiles/strike craft. Personally I use destroyers with KA and 2 point defenses.

First off, crusiers are king of the battlefield but the best build is plasma cruisers with some PD cruisers to help. A plasma cruiser uses kinetic artillery front and medium plasma for the other slots, PD cruiser is the same but the middle slot should have fighters and PD. Next up you shouldn't piss of all of your neighbors, or if you are then you have to go all the way. For going tall it is usually best to go Fanatic Materialist / Egalitarian and build lots of frontier outposts to build lots of mining stations.

rush them niggas early while you can demand all their planets
use the insane boost in economy and fleet size to take out other neighbors too
You already won at this point and the rest of the game is just a formality, so feel free to fuck around

>when you are a xenophobe because you are afraid of xenos invading but the xenophiles hate you for being xenophobes afraid of xeno invasions so they invade you to teach you not to be afraid of xeno invasions

>tfw you're a peaceful xenophilic democracy going around "liberating" all the racist warmongering despots

I see I see.
I've been going xenophobe for the little extra borders but unless I'm gonna stack all the border expansions I guess I should give it up. Plus Egalitarian is an easy faction to please for dat influence.
I was watching Aspec on YouTube and he was all about the torpedo bow for neutron torpedoes, hangers for bombers, and the medium back.
He was also all about missiles until you get plasma since they can't be countered early game. Maybe I should switch back to mass drivers.
>xenophobic egalitarian.
Equality for people. You're not people.

I love Horatio.

>Plus Egalitarian is an easy faction to please for dat influence
Materialist is actually the easiest faction to please since they just want robots and research agreements.

>I was watching Aspec on YouTube
Stop that, he is a retard

Therapy might help.

They have pills to help cure you of that, hey are called cyanide pills

>t. falseflagging Horatio

>Sophonis
>True oracles of science and exploration
>exploration ships can only fit 1 movement module and 1 probe launcher

ye olde vaulters, however, get 3 probe launchers and a movement module

youtube.com/watch?v=6rZlsad_hNQ

So if the Vodyani just repurposed old virtual endless exoskeletons. Does that mean that the virtual endless were smoking hot as well?

>Life-Seeded: Your species evolved in a lush paradise possibly designed just for them. You start on a size 25 Gaia World, but with the Gaia World Preference trait that has 0% habitability on all non-'perfect' environments (Gaia Worlds, Habitats, Ringworlds).

So building tall is becoming more viable?

>Materialist is actually the easiest faction to please since they just want robots and research agreements.

Not him, but now I feel salty going full retard to court the spiritualist faction. Although, it did make the Contingency a cakewalk and let me piss off, and eventually beat, an awakened fanatic spiritualist empire, so there's that.

That doesn't make going tall viable, it just forces you to go tall.

Did they change Horatio's AI? He used to backstab me non-stop just like the fish lady, but now he seems pretty peaceful.

>Dude science lol
>Oracles of making shit go boom and fun
>Don't care about having lots of support modules

Wow, didn't see that coming.

should I trust the space gypsy?

Ministry of culture is pretty good

Don't trust their festival of worlds though, unless the station is within your empires territories. Then you can blow them up if they try to run with the money.

Why bother? It's not like there's anything to use the money on anyway.

Horatio said that he wants to be best friends and that I should come over to his space dungeon for dinner and a hot dust bath. Should I head on over there? It sounds like a great time!

just white peace already you fucks

they didnt send a single fleet

How buggy will stellaris 2.0 be?

They do that a lot.

it will be an ant nest

The nest itself is 20 extra bucks.

Besides Battle Realms and Impossible Creatures, what are some funs and innovative RTS?

me :)

>awakened empires
Either maximum REEEEEEEEEE or do nothings.

I remember my first awakened empire
it was the xenophile ones they woke up when I was just steamrolling half the galaxy, demanded I be their subject then did literally nothing for 100 years until I had gathered enough ships to just blob all over them and continue my quest to turn the entire galaxy into robutts

>get interdicted on top of their frontier outpost
>fleet goes missing

FUCKING BASTARDS

>Immense cosmic being
>still susceptible to down syndrome
poor space animal

space autism is no joke

So I am playing Stellaris on my laptop and am having issues with stuff getting cut off on the bottom of the screen. Does anyone know of solutions? See pic for example

Don't use stupid mods for starters.

I just wanted to try it out, thought it looked interesting.

you don't look interesting

the 2d one

>Event Horizon event
I wonder what caused this tragedy. TIME TO FIND OUT

Huh, everything worked out better than expected.

use 1080p mod

How do I fix shitty energy deficit? No matter how much power plants I build shit is always going negative, its an annoyance like happiness in Civ5

Don't make so many ships, use Capacity Overload on your planets and what fleets you do have should be orbiting a planet with a station.

>don't make so many ships
>get steamrolled by the AI

Also, I want to blob into this orange xeno scum but they are friends with literally half the galaxy, what should I do?

Replace everything with power plants. You'll need more than just the number of tiles with natural energy yields.

Make a new colony and dedicate it almost completely to energy production.

Usually that works well until Habitats appear.

I already have a planet dedicated to energy production, should I make another?

yes

Make more until you struggle to keep up with your energy production.

It's starting to dawn on me just how much of the game I'm going to have to re-learn once 2.0 comes out.

Why have you changed the color of the Commonwealth of Man?

There's not much in the way of diplomatic means to break up alliances and defense pacts, or to sow dissent in other faction's friendships. It's pretty rare that such things exist in 4x games and I wish it was more common. So you're out of luck here, wait until there's a big war for an opertunity?

On the other hand I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who changes the colour of the CoM to blue, makes for nicer looking ships and so long as you don't touch anything else still get CoM specific events like finding Voyager or the Hyacinth.

Not really since most sane people will drop the game because of 2.0.

What I do is bee line to the max tier of spaceport and defense station tech and go Voidborne for the habitats , you have the mineral income to build at least two in the short future

>void craft scientist on engineering
> research cheap technologies to re roll faster until you get spaceport or platform tech
>engineering research grant so it goes faster

once you have the ascension perk save up 5k minerals and build habitat somewhere where it wont be lost if a bad war happens , fill it with Synths or Thrifty pops if possible and you will get around 6x12 energy credits x month before pop and empire multipliers

Speaking of robotics, do people actually build robots/synths?
I mean I always figured if I never bothered to build them I wouldn't get the crisis later in the game.

What's the point of having so many Tradition trees?

Wiz really needs to remake Traditions into making more sense, maybe by linking them to Ethics and giving them Attraction and such.

I usually start building robots once I get enough mineral production to justify wasting it on building them to get my planets fully developed quicker
though usually I don't bother specialising them for specific resources with robomodding since the Sector AI will just fuck everything up by moving the pop around unnecessarily
so instead I just try to get their upkeep and consumer goods cost as low as possible and if I can get the build speed up if I plan on building a lot of them

I haven't played in Stellaris for a while.
What's the opinions on the current best X slot weapon?

...

M-Mommy...

>sane people
I want you to think real hard about the type of person who is still playing Stellaris and ask yourself if they can be considered "sane"

I buy one or two to reach 5 pops faster and upgrade the main building

other use is making them "hold" a colony in a planet where you cant live , useful for those that purge all xenos , droids can turn those 20% hab conquered words into mineral and food producing planets

Synths are great for energy and research habitats if you dont mind the build time

I play it currently.
And I consider myself sane.

>I consider myself sane
user, how long have you been stuck on Wiz's Wild Ride? It is time to get help

Considering I also play CK2 and EU4 I've been on paradox's wild ride for a long time.

user, I'm so sorry.

are carriers built to be carriers with / bomber/fighter modules worth it? Or should you just stuff big guns on them even though they dont get a role bonus?

are there certain factions that benefit more from carriers than others?

Why mommy?
She looks young.

Well I'm most likely out after 2.0 so there's hope.

you will be back
it may be a while, but you will

Only if they fix what they plan to destroy.
I actually have other games to go play.

fighters end up doing more damage than bombers because of their extra tracking and ability to shot down other fighters that would kill them , bombers are good vs spaceports , stations without PD and Unbidden/Prettyworm crisis for their armor/shield pierce

Mods will fix it user, don't worry too much

Multiple FTL modes were a bad idea. They are fixing it by making more distinct wormholes as additional mod of transportation.

didn't Wiz even state at some point that they were even making it possible that if mods wanted to , they could bring back warp and wormholes?
or is my memory playing tricks on me

>Multiple FTL modes were a bad idea
Maybe. But then they went with the shittiest FTL mode in the game as the only one.

Surely, you meant
>the only one that can feasibly work

>expanding my spess kingdom
>every system is happy or ecstatic
>not paying attention to overcolonization
>two outposts turn to colonies the same turn two minor factions join me
Wow everyone got mad real fast.

Dust Mommories.

Why factions aren't created the moment a single pop of that ethic exists in your Empire eludes me.

Aren't pops meant to represent billions of people?

Not really. It just makes the game annoying to do anything war related.
Just find the best choke point and hunker down.

Man, the custom empire feature in Endless games is so fucking lackluster.
There must be more to life.

I just use it to remix Horatio.

is that a perk or a con?
id take it jusr to "roleplay"

its about as good as any custom race 4x generator