I have much less of a problem with the argument from a concept of karma and reincarnation than I do from the position of I believe and follow in a volcano god's self blood sacrifice to himself so we all get to fuck off to eternal bliss servitude hotel california no matter what we do in life so long as we believe. Christian fundamentalists are some of the most destructive creatures on the planet second only to muslim fundamentalists in the damage they do thanks to their "I'm going to heaven, fuck all ya'll" beliefs.
Nathaniel Jenkins
So I killed the khan and it reformed and then later declared war on me but they aren't doign anything. We have a border with one connecting system that I have my defenses prepared in but they aren't leaving their own territory and the war exhaustion is ticking up for both of us at the same rate. Given that I'm a driven exterminator and the wargoal is containment am I safe just to sit back and then status quo once?
Jason Howard
Materialist makes more thematic sense, but the Shroud is a much more powerful bonus than synthetics, doesn't require research downtime, and the Unity/Edict bonuses of Spiritualism also blow Materialism out of the water.
Daniel Sanders
>khan's raping everyone >AI doesn't give a fuck Should I just stack 20 defense platforms in my last system and hold out as long as I can
Parker Cruz
prepare your anus
Chase Adams
>Start thinking out of the blue about something cool I'd like to play involving space >Think about Stellaris >Forget about doing the cool thing because Stellaris isn't actually all that good >Repeat God help me I think I might buy Apocalypse after all. It hurts.
Doesn't that fuck up megastructures something fierce?
Ryan Robinson
There's a compatability patch for beautiful universe
Jaxon Collins
>If you use mod Real Space subscribe to compatibility patch. wow I guess I should fucking read
Colton Jenkins
Do pirates spawn for AI empires, or just for the player?
Jordan James
>play civ iv >get sucked into a good game on the continents map >get into the last few turns of the game, half the civs are dead, im 2k points ahead of everyone else >get error message about some bullshit like getting the wrong file >game crashes wtf happened here, also does anyone else think the barbarians in civ iv are bullshit
Gavin James
just player unless they fixed it in 2.02
Brayden Moore
Wouldn't the "infinity machine" be a good starting place to start if you're thinking about endgame events for materialist civs?
Caleb Ross
HORATIO!!! xDDD HaHa!!! ~~# :-dd 8^] 8^] XD!!
Mason Lopez
Figure out how they spawn in systems with hyperlanes attached like they do during some of the precursor events.
then have the materialists create shit
Jayden Bell
>Democracy has been buffed even further and produces even more faction influence.
I'm really close to changing over from a Megachurch, guys.
Jace Hernandez
If you guys hate Stellaris so much why do you keep playing it? Or is it a stockholm syndrome things?
Robert Howard
>outposts cost 1 energy I'm honestly sick of having to look for mods to fix stupid shit.
Josiah Rogers
>Stellaris gets booted from /gsg/ >Proceeds to take over /4xg/
Cameron Cook
>why do you keep playing it? I don't, I just drop by these threads from time to time to see if it finally became good, and to shitpost
Michael Wood
Just buy distant worlds instead it's on sale for less than apocalypse and is actually good unlike stellaris
Oliver Campbell
What? Please explain
Cooper Bell
/gsg/ is naturally dominant due to hyper-masculine autism strategy brain
Charles Hughes
Have you looked into Plentiful Tradition? It's pretty alright in my opinion.
Brayden Peterson
Wait, no Democracy, Egalitarian.
I can be an Egalitarian Oligarchy.
Nice!
Josiah Lee
What are some movies/books containing 'rogue servitors'? Asside from Irobot, which is all I can think of in that regard
Parker Turner
Rather than having a knockoff of the shroud or whatever, materialists should just start creating systems.
There's a precursor event that will actually spawn a whole new system. Find out how they do that, and make it so materialists can do that. Not that I'd want to know why you'd want to do that, robots are broke in half and materialists are better than spiritualists anyways.
Luke Diaz
Alright, trying to figure out the best configuration for my population on Craver planets. Really enjoying their unique mechanics so far.
On UNDEPLETED planets I try to keep it all Cravers as they get a bonus.
On depleted I try to keep it all other types and 1 Craver to force them into slavery and get more out of the planet than I would if it was just all Cravers.
When the whole system is depleted, I try to keep an even mix on each planet between Cravers and slaves. Not sure if more Cravers mean better working slaves.
Anyone offer some insight?
Josiah Perry
50 Craver pop is the magic number. Any more is generally a waste. Shuffle pop around via starports, maybe keep a system non-cravered for reliable dust income.
Tyler Sanders
So is Stellaris a /gsg/ presence in /4xg/ or a /4xg/ presence kicked from /gsg?
Levi Reed
Okay but what about the issue of where to place them within a system
Justin Campbell
Just started my first game as determined exterminators (or any purifier type) and I don't get the appeal. It sounded really fun but in practice all I do is destroy enemy fleets with my insane bonuses and then just glass their planets/turn the populace into batteries. I've already wiped out everyone in my quarter of the galaxy by 2300 and it just looks like I'll be doing the same shit slowly for the rest of the galaxy too. I mean Stellaris already has very little to do, with these types of civs it seems like you remove even more options and just click fleet, click enemy starbase/planet, and repeat. At least with normal empires you get some weak semblance of diplomacy and more interesting events.
Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this all there is to purifiers/devouring swarms/exterminators?
Charles Bennett
They will fly through ai space to hit you sometimes not sure if it got changed
Michael Harris
>Saṃsāra (Sanskrit, Pali; also samsara) in Buddhism is the beginning-less cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again.
Sorry user-chan; you can build, you can take, and you can destroy. The rest is just enjoying the ride.
Robert Bennett
It's a 4xg, the only reason it was on /gsg/ to begin with is it's by paradox
Jonathan Cox
I think I'm actually having fun in stellaris, I stacked all of the industry traits with all of the industry policies and conservationism out the ass. Seems to be the only thing holding my economy together since the update.
Dominic Wood
its a grand strategy game kicked from its general due to its small amounts of 4x elements though honestly in my opinion, both 4x and Grand strategy games are just two sides of the same coin and both 'genres' should be in the same single general and it is stupid to separate them just because the only main difference is that grand strategy is primarily historic based and 4x fantasy and sci-fi based
Ryan Perry
Seriously. That energy cost is ridiculous, completely kneecapped by saved games.
Anthony Bailey
>1 energy is ridiculous ??
Eli Adams
1 energy per system before upgrades
Carter Bennett
1 energy per system, and I played rapidly expanding empires riding a fine line with my energy production just a little bit in the black. I was already trading with two trader guilds to keep my energy production out of the red.
Xavier Scott
>looking for mods
Open up stellaris. Go to mod tab. Click Mod tools. Create mod. Name it whatever you want. Close stellaris.
Go to \Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\mod\[Your mod name]
Create a folder in it called common Create folder in that folder called ship_sizes Create a .txt file. Name it anything but 00_starbases In that .txt file put
starbase_outpost = { upkeep_override = { energy = X } }
X is how much you want them to have. You can also put food, minerals, or influence in there if you want. Save txt file. Open up stellaris, enable your mod.
Congratulations on 0 energy upkeep systems.
Evan Flores
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Keep in mind that the reason you find it boring is because the huge bonuses you get have taken the challenge away! With the combination of playing more competently than the AI, you've taken any decision making regarding strategy out of the game.
Look at Alpha Go.... one day, the AI will be so competent in video games, that on an even playing field you'll feel like it's impossible to win. That isn't the case now; but to mimic that same feeling, and to give yourself a sense of accomplishment and challenge, you can change the nature of the bonuses the AI receives, so they have that huge advantage instead of yourself!
Alternatively, if you want to keep the same bonuses you can increase their resource and research income! You can find out whether your intelligence, planning, and strategy is enough to offset a huge disparity in both money and technology!
>Or you could try to form a peaceful Federation.... desu.
Daniel Campbell
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Levi Morales
outposts dont have upgrades unless you make them into bases. which then become bases.
>rapidly expanding current meta doesnt allow wide expansion. its the tech malus thays cripplong though not the energy
Oliver Perry
ES2
How do I speed up sieges? Takes forever in mid-late game. Early on when everyone was weak I was plowing through other civs but now it took 30 turns or so to kill those damn plant bastards. Are there mods or something for my ships that lets me whittle down their manpower faster?
Blake Thompson
>86 navy cap in 2330
Zachary Green
T2 military tech.
Hunter Hernandez
every attack destroys a few of my defense platforms they are far more worthless than I thought this is it brehs
Luis Lee
spam titanium siegers or whatever they are. dedicated fleets of coordinators with only siege and fleet engines
Charles Hall
Only Protestants believe in sola fide so less than half of all Christians have what you think is a foundational belief.
Alexander Bailey
>peaceful >federation they are the biggest fuckibg warmongers because they actually win
Alexander Thomas
Wait, what?
Parker Wilson
I've been making fleets of just Butchers and Reapers, one really good at offense and the other at defense. I can remove one of the auto repair mods from the Reapers as they have 2 each and rarely ever get scratched but I'm not sure if that counts toward siege damage as they're not really the damage dealers of the fleet, that would be the Butchers. But taking out weapons on the Butchers might leave them a little weak even in favour of the siege tech.
Joseph Reed
You can make more than one fleet.
Logan Diaz
you dont take out anything. you make a fleet thats just siegers
Josiah Powell
down to just my homeworld and my distant black hole observatory my starbase doesn't even have a shipyard, that was destroyed long ago no mineral income but we fight
Charles Parker
this general was dead for months until stellaris came out actually
Christopher Brown
Yeah I have a bunch but right now they're way beyond my borders and it'd be a pain to bring them back and retool.
One brand new one for seiging sounds good. I don't know how targeting works though, how do I make sure that the enemy fleets only target it's escort (real) fleet instead of the seiging one?
Cooper Roberts
I warned you guys about this in several of the other threads.
You have to blitz the system within like two months before they bug out and close borders. If one of their systems remains up for a few months it does this.
>"War-mongering? Bullying... ? What do you mean Satania-san?"
Grayson Hill
enemies will attack non combat ships last pretty much always
Nolan Martinez
I fucking did it. I'm the only empire nearby to not surrender to them like a pussy and I'm pretty sure I'm the only resistance they had. And I fucking did it. They know it, too. Everyone hated me because hurr oligarchy hurr muh religion, but now they're all opening borders and signing NAPs. We're the ones who could.
Jackson Lewis
Even if they're a totally separate fleet adjacent to another? Cause I'm thinking a full fleet of just coordinators as posted previously.
Wyatt Sanchez
Would you say this tab and its neighbour demographics are the most underused Tabs in the game I always forget they are a thing why even bother having a budget tab if you can't do anything to manage your budget
Jackson James
you can see the modifiers for so sometimes.
Justin Wright
Wait, I thought the Emperor was in a perputal coma and that chaos was in perpetual war with the Imperium.... what's some Chaos dude doing in the palace and why is the Emperor awake.... and a giant skeleton?
>Ainz from Overlord looks like a rank amateur in comparision..... though one has to wonder how his magic level would compare to the Imperium*.
>*Cross genre/show vs debates are the ultimate in nerdist pastimes.
Sebastian Barnes
>checking stellaris mods >mod is titled "no jump drive penalty" >image is "bad jump drive! stop it!" >think to myself, "hmmm what issue could this guy have with jump drive?" >mouse over for the description >This adds 30 new ship classes, 20 new species, an entire expansions worth of custom events, includes VR support, 8K retexture, optimizes the game to run at 300 fps
damn, that's some jump drive mod
Adrian Brown
It's fanfiction made by some swede. No idea why user would recommend that to you for 'background reading'.
Michael Flores
the emperor is a chaos god
Grayson Green
yea but does it remove jump drive penalty?
Joshua Phillips
Dang user. Never know what you might out about something seemingly unimportant. It's like you found a wooden box labeled "crushed stone storage" only to open it and find the Arc of the Covenant from Raiders of the lost Ark.
>Or 5th Dimensional magic revolving around the Great Pyramid of Giza. Or did Jesus make that up?
Carson Price
jesus' lore is convoluted as fuck, especially if you count the dead sea scrolls as canon
>finally get to endgame and get a colossus planet killer >takes a year to build the port for it >takes 2000 days to actually build fucking hell, I just want to blow shit up
Colton Edwards
jesus is oftentimes more of a secondary character so we're not sure of his full abilities there are other biblical sorcerers such as moses, if he could split the red sea jesus could definitely do that but we're left guessing the dead sea scrolls give jesus a bunch of bizarre powers like mastery over birds, then they never get used again, it's like a Saturday morning cartoon
Mason Clark
My federation liberated an Empire so it could join us, but it had -500 relations with me over claims. I really hope they fix this shit.
Brody Sanchez
>When you realize all formative texts of the bible were just a proto capeshit story the byzantines took and condensed into a religious text. We're praying to the avengers and the worst part is the canon is missing the best issues.
Hunter Rogers
>there are brainlets that actually manage to reach 0 food and destroy their empire How? Are there people actually dumb enough to put all their food gains in a single basket and not have a backup plan in case of a war going bad?
Lincoln Butler
People died for them before they passed out of living memory.
Lincoln James
>can't spawn a ringworld using console commands man why is this so hard
Evan Hall
>dead sea scrolls I mean, how many important details are really missing? I'm pretty sure most people get the gist of it.
>I thought it was pronounced see-sel when I was growing up....
Gavin Ward
The Vatican is only considered a relevant authority by Catholics. Even then there's dispute.
Gabriel Long
Aren't the non-secular Dead Sea Scrolls all Old Testament texts? They don't add anything new to Jesus's life.
Aaron Roberts
>just proto capeshit capeshit with greek philosophy
Owen White
>Love Grand Strategy games >Don't keep up on Stellaris >Come here to check up on it now that 2.0 is out >Wiz fucked everything up Classic. He hasn't done anything good since he modded EU:Rome
Julian Jones
>you came to the wrong harbor, nigga
Aiden Sullivan
The irony is that I'm very interested in demographics (in spite of it having no mechanical effect), but the demographics tab is completly fucking unuseable because from the midgame it dissolves into a bunch of 0.1% slivers for each of the AI's obsessively genemodded subspecies
Cooper Bell
Is he canonically human, or canonically god, or canonically both at once mixed together, or canonically both at once but separate? > Christcucks have literally fought multiple wars over this question
Carter Adams
The third one, obviously, since the other three are either dead or dying interpretations.
Carson Martin
I'm honestly having more fun with 2.0 than I did previously. But I've already modded the insanely broken shit.
