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Has there been any sort of indication that the non psychic ascension paths get their own variation of the veil, or is it something unique? From the video that got posted on paradox extra earlier it seems like it functions as a 'spend energy, get random encounter' button and a version where your now synthetic species can send 'expeditions' into the giant planet/system/galaxy spanning networks to investigate all the random server worlds created by people who gave up on physical forms entirely or try to communicate with the giant godlike AI's who were created by the random interactions of countless billions of different programs would be pretty incredible.
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Libluini posted:It is. Arguably from my view point, though. So let's drop this or do you want us to exchange ten posts of "Yes" and "No" until we just report each others posts and give up in disgust? I mean if you don't want that kind of exchange you could just, like, not do that
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Feb 10, 2017 22:23
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Space spergs are the worst.
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Feb 10, 2017 22:43
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Darkrenown posted:So far in playing Utopia my favourite thing has been playing as space nazi humans, but accepting refugees from events. Then we eat them. I don't think even the real Nazis went that far, man. Unless you are capturing delicious schnitzel people or something.
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Feb 10, 2017 22:55
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Can we have a war goal to sacrifice planets to the shroud? Either for more favors or prolonging the time for the empire to get eaten by the new eye of terror.
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Feb 10, 2017 23:48
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Imo they should replace "continental" planets with "temperate" or something, and then add in continental planets as planets where each tile is a ranfom/semi random environment type with that level of habitability. So your starting species could only use a few of the tiles at 90 and 60%, but you could get migrations to fill the rest.
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Feb 11, 2017 02:22
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I've got a feeling Wiz is accounting for the fact that refugees should not run to you to be eaten unless they're literally being murdered on their side of the border.
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Feb 11, 2017 02:51
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Sky Shadowing posted:I've got a feeling Wiz is accounting for the fact that refugees should not run to you to be eaten unless they're literally being murdered on their side of the border. in fact there was a comment made about this in the last thread that if government policy can end in refugees being ate they will not go to that place unless all the other choices involve active purging
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Feb 11, 2017 03:10
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Space spergs are the worst. But enough about Star Citizen.
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Feb 11, 2017 03:13
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Coolguye posted:in fact there was a comment made about this in the last thread that if government policy can end in refugees being ate they will not go to that place unless all the other choices involve active purging drat, that's loving grim, when the only place you can flee to will use you as livestock but at least it's better than going extinct.
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Feb 11, 2017 03:21
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GunnerJ posted:drat, that's loving grim, when the only place you can flee to will use you as livestock but at least it's better than going extinct. That happens in watership down!
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Feb 11, 2017 03:23
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Also, Cow Quest in King of Dragon Pass.
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Feb 11, 2017 03:27
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GunnerJ posted:Also, Cow Quest in King of Dragon Pass. man you saw how many biting things there were uralda just did what was right
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Feb 11, 2017 03:31
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GunnerJ posted:Also, Cow Quest in King of Dragon Pass. CowLARP is amazing and makes an awful lot of sense as a myth. ...Now I kinda want to see if I can mod heroquests into the Shroud.
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Feb 11, 2017 03:32
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GunnerJ posted:drat, that's loving grim, when the only place you can flee to will use you as livestock but at least it's better than going extinct. there's some campaign going on right now to keep a certain breed of pig from going extinct by promoting it as a food choice can't remember what the breed was called though
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Feb 11, 2017 04:03
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Pigs are the saddest livestock as unlike every other food animal they have no real use when alive (except for that most niche of niche activities, truffle hunting).
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Anticheese posted:CowLARP is amazing and makes an awful lot of sense as a myth. Acting out the myths and ancient legends of your people's collective memory in the shroud would be absolutely amazing.
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that reminds me that I once googled why pigs aren't milked. turns out the main reason is that it is just too much trouble to milk a pig. they won't hold still. dreaming about a tall glass of creamy pigsmilk rn.
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AriadneThread posted:there's some campaign going on right now to keep a certain breed of pig from going extinct by promoting it as a food choice Reminds me of people wanting to domesticate rare cat species to preserve them from extinction. As if people owning pit bulls wasn't bad enough.
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Feb 11, 2017 04:19
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Uplift pigs to full sapience so they can consent to be eaten and thus become vegan.
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Okay so I've finally got the time to sit down and start playing this game, and oh god where do I begin? What's the easiest way for a complete beginner at 4x to get started? I'd go with the UN but I've heard that missiles suck rear end, and if I'm going to edit that then it's really tempting to fiddle with all the other settings too.
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Feb 11, 2017 04:37
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GotLag posted:What's the easiest way for a complete beginner at 4x to get started? I'd go with the UN but I've heard that missiles suck rear end, and if I'm going to edit that then it's really tempting to fiddle with all the other settings too. Space UN is fine. Missiles work well early game and the difference is literally one tech in a tree that goes about 7 deep for each weapon flavor.
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Feb 11, 2017 04:48
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Here's what I want to know: where are the drat mecha, Paradox? We have godzillas and jedis and space marines in power armor but no giant missile shooting robots?
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Feb 11, 2017 05:13
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Wiz posted:But enough about Star Citizen. 
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Here's what I want to know: where are the drat mecha, Paradox? We have godzillas and jedis and space marines in power armor but no giant missile shooting robots? Someone told me you could build synth troopers on a planet with megafauna, but I've never done it myself.
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Feb 11, 2017 06:32
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Baronjutter posted:Uplift pigs to full sapience so they can consent to be eaten and thus become vegan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCG7o5VCX4A
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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GlyphGryph posted:You were specifically advocating we should lose the ability to build robots even if you've already built a bunch, even if your civ is mostly robots and we've been building them for centuries, if we drift away from Materialist. And I think it would feel better and make better stories!
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Feb 11, 2017 11:35
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Here's what I want to know: where are the drat mecha, Paradox? We have godzillas and jedis and space marines in power armor but no giant missile shooting robots? Strike craft that are actually mobile suits would be a good tech.
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GunnerJ posted:Strike craft that are actually mobile suits would be a good tech. Strike craft that are actually mobile suits and help with ground invasions? Pros: They help with ground invasions and are also lovely fighters Cons: Notice "lovely" modifying "fighters"
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All this talk about eating people made me realize there aren't any nice-looking portraits of spiders and centipede-like beings in Stellaris' standard arthropod portraits. After some searching I finally found a really neat black-and-red nightmare of a centipede on deviant art and are trying to work it in as a portrait, but I had no luck with spiders so far. If we ever get to start as machines, I'm set though: I found two pictures of robot-spiders while searching for nice-looking real spider artwork. Does anyone know some nice pictures of spiders (webspiders mostly, but hunters would do in a cinch)? And when I say "real", I mean artwork of something that looks like a spider. My image search turned up enough pictures of actual IRL spiders to last my nightmares a lifetime (shudder). My plan so far is putting those new people-eater portraits into my Weird Portrait mod on the Steam-workshop, including some custom name lists.
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Libluini posted:All this talk about eating people made me realize there aren't any nice-looking portraits of spiders and centipede-like beings in Stellaris' standard arthropod portraits. After some searching I finally found a really neat black-and-red nightmare of a centipede on deviant art and are trying to work it in as a portrait, but I had no luck with spiders so far.  This happy little fella is getting ready to consume some ethically sourced vegan protein matter made from genuine intelligent creatures through that feeding tube.  edit wait you wanted artwork, poo poo
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Libluini posted:All this talk about eating people made me realize there aren't any nice-looking portraits of spiders and centipede-like beings in Stellaris' standard arthropod portraits. After some searching I finally found a really neat black-and-red nightmare of a centipede on deviant art and are trying to work it in as a portrait, but I had no luck with spiders so far. 
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Korgan posted:
Yeah, IRL spiders I have seen about a thousand by now. Did you know the Portia-spider is almost as smart as a mammal? She uses some kind of staggered neuronal processing to imitate the decision-making a higher lifeform can do. The drawback is, she is by necessity a very slow thinker. For example, her main eyes have a visual range of about 75 cm and if you want her to notice you, you would need to stand insider her range and wait for a while, so her brain can very slowly assemble a picture of you in her brain. Spider facts!  (Still an awesome pic though)
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LordMune posted:No. To differentiate ourselves from Crusader Kings II (where the AI gets to enjoy miles and miles of intricate triggers and weights scripted for it specifically) we've always made a conscious effort to make the game more fun for the player than the computer. Rude. Coolguye posted:in fact there was a comment made about this in the last thread that if government policy can end in refugees being ate they will not go to that place unless all the other choices involve active purging This is correct for pops who live on a planets or something and have to flee dynamically, but there's a few events where you can receive generated refugees, or you rescue them from something. Then you set them to Livestock and chow down. It's a nice early game growth boost. Oh man, there's an event chain where you find a race who downloaded themselves into data storage because their planet was doomed or something, right? I think you can just put them in Synth bodies or something, but how great would it be to bio-engineer them new bodies, download them back into their new flesh, and then eat them? 
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Darkrenown posted:Rude. I mean if you can bioengineer the bodies anyway, you're essentially implying the meat is only tasty if you actually had to kill someone to eat it. If Paradox has a staff psychologist you should probably book a visit just to be on the safe side. Does CKII have cannibalism yet? I feel as if it does.
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Kitchner posted:Does CKII have cannibalism yet? I feel as if it does. Yes it does. When your keep is holed up during a major disease outbreak, you can catch someone eating your supplies at night, giving you the option to eat them.
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Kitchner posted:I mean if you can bioengineer the bodies anyway, you're essentially implying the meat is only tasty if you actually had to kill someone to eat it.
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Libluini posted:Did you know the Portia-spider is almost as smart as a mammal? She uses some kind of staggered neuronal processing to imitate the decision-making a higher lifeform can do. The drawback is, she is by necessity a very slow thinker. For example, her main eyes have a visual range of about 75 cm and if you want her to notice you, you would need to stand insider her range and wait for a while, so her brain can very slowly assemble a picture of you in her brain. Adrian Tchaikovsky has got you covered for smart Portia spiders.
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Darkrenown posted:Rude. Except you cant actually put them in bodies lol
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