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

Wiz.

Horatio.

Now that the dust has settled, can we agree that wiz is a failure and that Endless Space 2 is the superior game?

Even placing Stellaris in the same league as ES2 would be an insult to the 4x genre. Stellaris is a really shitty GSG that actively punishes you for doing 3 out 4 xs in the 4x, nothing more.

>DoomDark could have been project lead for Stellaris after release, and we could have gotten Victoria 2 in space

>tfw you're not aztec
I get these fucking insane lake starts, and then when i pick the aztecs i wont see a single lake in 10 rerolls. I'm mad

posting the fan favorite

Calling Stellaris a GSG is just as insulting as calling it a 4X. Hell, even calling it a RTS is insulting.

>species name/plural/adjective
Slop/Slops/Slop
>namelist
Fungoid 4
>ship prefix
None. Literally no prefix, I found it works well with weird namelists.
>star name
Slop
>ruler name
Slop
>ruler title
Prime

I think their set of ethics and traits will give them the migratory flock AI personality, so they'll try to spread their awful pops everywhere until some militarist puts them out of their misery.

what about "fucking shit"
i find it real sad because i really want this game to be good
i guess that's to much to ask from pdx

Endless space 2 is a meme

It's a fun meme.

Endless space 2 is just a generic 4x game

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Compared to stellaris, which is so shit and barely defined that both 4x-fags and gs-fags hate it.

Is this Ghettos: Skylines?

action packed trip to detroit simulator

Quoot/Quoots/Quootan.
Fungoid 2.
None.
Qu.
Qutipatuti.
Sower Prime.

Stellaris is a better game though

Great wisdom, wiz

>species name/plural/adjective
Dwarf/Dwarves/Dwarven
>namelist
Humanoid 1
>ship prefix
none
>star name
Burning Eye
>ruler name
Urist Tordekson
>ruler title
Emperor
>heir title (if applicable)
Deputy Mayor

>everyone is wiz!

Should have called the planet Boatmurdered.

There's no proof that you AREN'T wiz.

Yes, that would have worked better.....

Keep empire name. Change home world to Boatmurdered.

>Best guess for this image: suburb
It looks like Africa or the US.

Add Midia for one last time. Next time if you do one of these things I'll add a new empire.

>species name/plural/adjective
Human, Humans, Human
>namelist
SPQR
>ship prefix
MHI
>star name
Midia's Tear
>ruler name
pic related
>ruler title
pic related
Male: Prophet
>heir title (if applicable)
pic related
Male: Prophet Son

>species name/plural/adjective
Nymph/Nymphs/Nymph
>namelist
Humanoid 2
>ship prefix
TNRS
>star name
Cum
>ruler name
CockGobbler
>ruler title
Your Horniest

A city builder where you have to manage a shithole would be cool. Kind of like tropico 3 and how you drop tenements everywhere.

It could be a "normal" city builder if they just change up the mechanics to make it more like real life.

>make that image barely two hours ago
>somebody else manages to post it in the new thread before I do

ah well this one hasn't been posted yet

>Flag

South Africa?

>species name/plural/adjective
Grogi, Grogies, Grogian
>namelist
Avian 2
>ship prefix
GFS
>star name
Alooboo
>ruler name
Baboobi
>ruler title
Arch Befriender
>heir title (if applicable)
None applicable

>Veeky Forums image username

I have countless games in stellaris but I have never seen a war in heaven. Anyway to force it or at least encourage it besides just having max ancient empires.

Libertarian: skylines

legitimately looks like detroit, it's just missing a few burned down houses

>has never heard of Randomize Filename in Veeky Forums X

Why is /civ4xg/ so tsundere for stellaris. You whine about it nonstop yet when most people actually talk about playing a game it is stellaris.

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>Dollar Tree

This is going to end in elves being gang-banged by horrid tooth-beaked birdmen and glowing betentacled mushrooms, isn't it?

If looks amazingly real.

Just like my Japanese annie-mays

>type of game where the burden of creating and having fun is largely predicated on the player's experience
>developers find ways to unnecessarily hinder or muddy that with their incompetence or uninspired decision making and changes to the game
>players get mad at it but are still somewhat able to play the game and certainly able to discuss it

there'd actually be less to talk about if they weren't so bad at making the game. if it weren't so constantly broken or strange there'd simply be less to say about it, and that's why it's so actively discussed here.
"it's pretty good" "yeah" doesn't tend to create continuous generals on the topic. "what the fuck were they thinking, why is this happening, is this a bug, is this a feature, are they going to fix this, how am I meant to do that, etc" does.

How often does the Stellaris science leader recruitment pool refresh?

it's not a vodyani quest cutscene, it's to do with the academy metaquest, isyander's gambit
the cutscene in question is played for rejuvenator team members when the defenders succeed in destroying the lodestones. it's basically the heretic isyander st shaiad's last words before the academy detonates and he dies.
you can find it here youtube.com/watch?v=mR26iqSvr4g

Aight, gonna start putting these into the game. Since we're obviously nowhere near 30 civs, I'll leave it open till about 9 pm or so before starting.

If we don't get enough civs, would you guys prefer more AIs, or just a smaller galaxy?

Smaller galaxy. If the cast is too big, it's hard to follow and get invested in the characters, so to speak.

Same sized galaxy, just less civs to populate it. Having AI would kind of ruin the fun of it. Imagine if some AI-generated empire ended up dominating all of our precious snowflakes.

Re-use past empires to fill gap?

Daily reminder that Riftborn/Horatio is best ship.

youtube.com/watch?v=tlCQ6cRvouA

I'm a different guy from the other user's that do these, and I want to limit it to submitted empires only, otherwise I'd have to pick and choose from the others.

Oh.

>timelords
Is he also calling Lumeris "venetians"? Because that's how they are referred to in the game's files.

you posted the wrong image

Does ES2 have an anchievement for winning the game on max difficulty as a custom faction with negative traits only?

Hey user, I'm putting your guys in, but you posted their bio instead of their traits and civics. Could you post that?

Boib/Boibs/Boibish.
Avian 3.
BAV.
Boi.
Beak of Bae.
Chief Mechanist.

I haven't even met the Qix'Lutran Guardians yet.

Sorry, last thread went down, Here's mine.

>Spessman, Plural is spessmen.
>humanoid (UNE)
>NTMS
>Headquarters
>Johnson Lovelocker
>Chief Executive Officer

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what i suggested to the other guy. Have you looked into the Enhanced AI mod? I've never used it myself to be honest, but it would make sense to me as the AI is utter garbage as it is right now.

>speciesname/plural/adjective
Gurite/Gurites/Gurite
>ship prefix
GS
>star name
Caig
>ruler name
Menron
>ruler title
Most Excellent
>heir title
N/A

Things are looking pretty skewed towards xenophile/materialist

>namelist
Molluscoid 3

I don't get what the trouble is.

It's a global United Nations government.
Basically, Stellaris' lite/bland version of Commissioner Pravin Lal

youtube.com/watch?v=iY57ErBkFFE

The trouble is Wiz is a gigantic cuck
If you ever wondered if the memes about Sweden are true, this is proof right here

Is this starlifting? Is starlifting a thing in vanilla?

>The trouble is Wiz is a gigantic cuck
Explain. I didn't even realize Wiz was married.

Here ya go name set anthropod 2 and starting star Ellis

How do you guys handle the first few years of Authoritarian caste-system slavery? I'm finding that I get revolts (or at least the threat of revolts) before I manage to invest heavily enough in Harmony to get the Unrest reduction.

>Stellaris' lite/bland version of X
Man, you can use this for literally anything in the game.

f. spiritualist authoritarian
imperial cult, police state
barely had any trouble with unrest, even before building strongholds
did breeze through harmony very quick with traditional species though

Aight, here we go! We have 18 Empires, so I'm doing last call until 9:30 CST. Past that, we'll go with what we have. (not all empires shown, of course)

So far, it's going to be a 600 star elliptical galaxy with 3 fallen empires, 2 marauders, 2x habitable worlds, 2x primitives, 2x crisis strength, 1x hyperlanes, and 1.5x wormholes and gates.

As before, only mod in use is More Hyperlane Chokepoints.

Out of curiosity, do you guys want the galaxy to be as small as allowed for the number of empires, or stay max size for them all to have some breathing room?

No Enhanced AI? dissapoint

Max for breathing room. I like to see them expand and blob. Otherwise they might not fuck with one another enough and it'll get stale.

Pentagruel time.

Eh, I would, but I don't want to use an mod I haven't tried before. I'll try it in an another game on my own to see how it is, and if I run another game I'll use it.

HAK HAK HAK please if its not asking for too much

What species portrait do you want used instead? Only mod is more hyperlane chokepoints

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Are shields or armour better for a corvette/destroyer?

Is Stellaris fixed yet?

literally all you have to do is add the line "Swarm" to this file at \Stellaris Apocalypse\common\species_classes\00_species_classes like this

Isn't Imperial a lame government type, though?

I thought Oligarchy was the best?

It's also got access to Corporate Dominion!

>Play a fanatical spiritualist civ that bans robots and AI
>Two AI planets spawn in my territory
T-thanks

Wait wait wait do i still have time to put mine in?

Do you guys just beeline towards habitable planets and take surrounding resources, or is there a point where you know to stop expanding and instead just gear up for whatever else?