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Wiz posted:Yes. I've always wanted to start the game with an actual species based caste system. Specially if they're all bugs. Like these are my dumb short lived obedient worker bugs, these are my warrior bugs, these are my long lived slow breeding smart royal bugs and so on.
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Wiz posted:Yes. Multiple starting empires on one planet is gloriously Aurora. Hoping for a scenario in which you can play as the United States of Russia, the EU or China.
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Feb 14, 2017 16:44
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Not multiple empires, multiple races in a starting empire. Don't think the game has any way to handle half or joint ownership of a single planet.
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Feb 14, 2017 16:53
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Baronjutter posted:I've always wanted to start the game with an actual species based caste system. Specially if they're all bugs. Like these are my dumb short lived obedient worker bugs, these are my warrior bugs, these are my long lived slow breeding smart royal bugs and so on. But... those would all be the same species... I really want some colony/swarm portraits now. Where the portrait is like a little brain bug held aloft by a mountain of drones and surrounded by a swarm of fliers that "vibrate" when he talks since that is how the bugs make sound.
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Feb 14, 2017 16:56
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I'd imagine for an Empire with multiple species at start, there would be some sort of tradeoff. Maybe less trait points to pick from?
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Feb 14, 2017 17:00
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Baronjutter posted:Not multiple empires, multiple races in a starting empire. Don't think the game has any way to handle half or joint ownership of a single planet. The quote Wiz responded to included 'two empires with the same homeworld'. Which could mean a campaign in which you're fighting to regain your original home world, I suppose. But Two Empires One Planet would be cool and could make ground combat more interesting, if it was fought on the pop screen and involved adjacency bonuses to represent flanking or similar.
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Honestly, the lack of story in the game kinda makes me sad. I was hoping for like, custom scenarios and poo poo. Like, you'd pick your species and start playing, there's aliens and whatnot but suddenly you find your species, in a completely different sector, just with different ethos. Then you do it again, in a line from you to the other one, until you reach one end of the line and find that there's a fallen Empire of your species, either the Xenophobes that then decide that you need to be put under the heel or the Xenophiles which were formed by those fleeing the old empire and seeded a buncha planets with your species on the way. Darth Windu posted:Space olympics would own. edit: the Horizon Signal is like, extremely my poo poo though I've only read about it and not had it happen. More like that would be rad Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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Feb 14, 2017 18:33
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Psycho Landlord posted:I post in here pretty often, is it okay for me to post something like that? Because holy poo poo is he right. A regular feature of Something Awful for 10+ years running is that every time there's a thread with some detailed discussion (mod stuff, a game that draws grogs, etc) the yospos / ycs superstars come in saying how spergy everyone is. It's not new and if you want to get your posting cred with that nugget, go for it. But uh, as an idea to express? It's dumb as poo poo. I get it, anyone putting thought or effort into stuff is a sperg. Hurrrrrrr. Every thread is improved when the discussion hits this point, the posters judging the other posters and their relative care levels.
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Feb 14, 2017 18:39
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GlyphGryph posted:That fungal infected mammal is from Creatures from the Void dlc pack which is, yeah, the preorder one i think.
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Feb 14, 2017 18:46
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Not really sure how you can have a space Olympics without some races being always likely to lose or win certain events. Like a Blorg will never beat a human at the 100m sprint. On top of that the theory goes that sport is just a distillation of war, so while human sports are running fast and throwing spears, alien sports may be "100m osmosis" or "Long distance needle shooting" or "synchronised stench gland evacuation". Imagine participating in what you thought was a race only to be disqualified for not having an appendage you've never heard of
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Feb 14, 2017 18:56
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Kitchner posted:Not really sure how you can have a space Olympics without some races being always likely to lose or win certain events. Like a Blorg will never beat a human at the 100m sprint. Or some rolling blob getting disqualified for blasting a competitor's face with a toxic fart from some unholy xenos stink-gland in the middle of the race.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:00
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Honky Dong Country posted:Or some rolling blob getting disqualified for blasting a competitor's face with a toxic fart from some unholy xenos stink-gland in the middle of the race. Yeah but not every alien species is going to get what an American is, so they won't have their own.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:02
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Kitchner posted:Yeah but not every alien species is going to get what an American is, so they won't have their own. lol
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Kitchner posted:Not really sure how you can have a space Olympics without some races being always likely to lose or win certain events. Like a Blorg will never beat a human at the 100m sprint. the idea that its a distillation of war rather than an alternative is honestly something I don't agree with for a different option, you could have Galactic-vision, where you'd have songs or undulations or whatever. Surely, even a blob of slime can understand music and if it can't, well, neither can man (insert vaporwave album here)
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Feb 14, 2017 19:14
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yeah, the blorg may luse the 100M sprint, but the human loses at Ribbon Undulating and Tentacle Wrestling Show me what you got.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:15
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yeah, the blorg may luse the 100M sprint, but the human loses at Ribbon Undulating and Tentacle Wrestling  Baronjutter posted:Show me what you got.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:20
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Have the "olympics" be something you can contribute three Corvettes and an Admiral too, and he represents you at the "Space Olympics" mock war event, which is like spaceship paintball.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:27
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Yeah, the blorg may luse the 100M sprint, but the human loses at Ribbon Undulating and Tentacle Wrestling Its widely agreed the origin of the Olympics is in skills you would use at war: running fast, running far (marathon of course carried news of a battle for miles twice in a day), throwing poo poo as far as you can (spears, heavy balls, hammers), archery, unarmed combat (wrestling). In all of these events people at the Olympics compete against other people based on the flag pinned to their chest. The winners get glory and the losers don't. Basically just war in a nutshell
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Feb 14, 2017 19:35
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Unless of course you're going to make the classic Zaltzman Sr. Argument which is "Ah, but what if war is just a distillation of sport?"
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Feb 14, 2017 19:36
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Rakthar posted:A regular feature of Something Awful for 10+ years running is that every time there's a thread with some detailed discussion (mod stuff, a game that draws grogs, etc) the yospos / ycs superstars come in saying how spergy everyone is. No the point is YOU are insufferable.
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Feb 14, 2017 20:01
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Amazingly enough, I just had my first successful titanic life event chain. Been playing this game awhile now and have never had godzillas running around. Man I love these things.
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Kitchner posted:Its widely agreed the origin of the Olympics is in skills you would use at war: running fast, running far (marathon of course carried news of a battle for miles twice in a day), throwing poo poo as far as you can (spears, heavy balls, hammers), archery, unarmed combat (wrestling). Several of the original running events even had the competitors run while clad in full hoplite armor and carrying a longspear (which is something the Olympics needs to bring back, incidentally)
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Feb 14, 2017 20:12
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The two races from the same homeworld feature makes a lot of sense given the current campaign being played on Extraterrestrial Thursdays. I wonder how he'll handle the rest of the Messenger segment of the Horizon Signal event. It could give him a way out of being boxed in so much...
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Feb 14, 2017 20:12
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Honky Dong Country posted:Amazingly enough, I just had my first successful titanic life event chain. Been playing this game awhile now and have never had godzillas running around. Man I love these things. What can you do with em
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Rakthar posted:I get it, anyone putting thought or effort into stuff is a sperg. Hurrrrrrr. Rumda posted:No the point is YOU are insufferable.
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Feb 14, 2017 20:30
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Darth Windu posted:What can you do with em Wreck faces. The ground units are I believe superior to even space marines although limited in number.
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ulmont posted:Wreck faces. The ground units are I believe superior to even space marines although limited in number. Whoa!! I feel like I haven't seen half the stuff in this game and I've played like three or four campaigns almost to completion. Warp is deffo my favorite ftl, I thought it was hyperlanes but warp is so much less trouble. Wormholes are way too effort
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Rumda posted:No the point is YOU are insufferable. Well ok, I enjoy posting stuff about Stellaris the videogame and my thoughts on the gameplay. If you don't enjoy reading my posts, I think there's a fairly straightforward solution there.
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Rakthar posted:Well ok, I enjoy posting stuff about Stellaris the videogame and my thoughts on the gameplay. If you don't enjoy reading my posts, I think there's a fairly straightforward solution there. yeah you can learn from your mistakes and/or i can keep posting about nutsacks whenever you are being insufferable
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Feb 14, 2017 20:51
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Rakthar posted:A regular feature of Something Awful for 10+ years running is that every time there's a thread with some detailed discussion (mod stuff, a game that draws grogs, etc) the yospos / ycs superstars come in saying how spergy everyone is. No, it's sperg when all of your ideas and criticisms are universally terrible and your head is too far up your own rear end to understand that or pay attention when multiple people explain to you why this is the case. Talking about cool space poo poo in a cool space game is just being nerdy. Being completely unable to grasp that the game you are discussing is not EU4 while speaking to said game's lead developer on multiple, frequent occasions is sperg. You are sperging. Stop sperging.
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Darth Windu posted:Whoa!! I feel like I haven't seen half the stuff in this game and I've played like three or four campaigns almost to completion. I just started a game with wormholes, I think they're the most interesting of the three so far because of the range restrictions. Apparently they get more annoying when your fleets get real big though? Coolguye posted:yeah you can learn from your mistakes your incessant whining about people talking about stuff you don't want to talk about is pretty insufferable imo
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Psycho Landlord posted:No, it's sperg when all of your ideas and criticisms are universally terrible and your head is too far up your own rear end to understand that or pay attention when multiple people explain to you why this is the case. Talking about cool space poo poo in a cool space game is just being nerdy. Being completely unable to grasp that the game you are discussing is not EU4 while speaking to said game's lead developer on multiple, frequent occasions is sperg. You are sperging. Stop sperging. Yeah dude you're making poo poo up. I made the comparison when talking about diplomacy costs. The reason I compared Stellaris mechanics to EU4 mechanics because that's an existing game that people have played, and has a fleshed out diplomacy system. In no way or shape did I ask that it work like EU4, I simply wanted to mention that I was able to interact with my neighbors far more and that I enjoyed the mechanics. The post Baronjutter made afterwards was more or less what I thinking of gameplay wise. So yeah, since this apparently requires a full formal apology: Wiz, I'm sorry that I compared Stellaris to EU4 and tried to examine the way the alliance mechanics are implemented. Rest assured, dear readers, that game will no longer be used as a comparison point.
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I like stellaris and this thread and wiz, everything is nice and good.
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Baronjutter posted:I like stellaris and this thread and wiz, everything is nice and good. The thread teeters drunkenly between bad and good but it does generally contain updates and cool poo poo along with posts from wiz and his crew so I think it's probably good on the balance.
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:I just started a game with wormholes, I think they're the most interesting of the three so far because of the range restrictions. Apparently they get more annoying when your fleets get real big though? Not really. There's mid-tier techs that increase range and cut jump time (like the other FTL methods), and you can always just split your fleet in two and move it through separate wormhole stations if you need the speed for some reason. By the time it would become actually problematic you get Jump Drives (Psi Jump Drives if you chose your ethos correctly).
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Feb 14, 2017 21:30
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Or if you salvage from the right fallen empire! 
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PittTheElder posted:Not really. There's mid-tier techs that increase range and cut jump time (like the other FTL methods), and you can always just split your fleet in two and move it through separate wormhole stations if you need the speed for some reason. By the time it would become actually problematic you get Jump Drives (Psi Jump Drives if you chose your ethos correctly). Well the ability to split your fleet up for faster movement is the bit that sounds annoying Darth Windu posted:Aren't jump drives dangerous tho Aren't the unbidden supposed to be the least dangerous endgame crisis right now? I mean it's not like I'm about to *not* build synths so some kind of crisis is happening regardless
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Darth Windu posted:Aren't jump drives dangerous tho Not by nearly enough. Jeb Bush 2012 posted:Well the ability to split your fleet up for faster movement is the bit that sounds annoying It isn't, you just press the 'split in half' button. It's also not a thing I ever really bother to do because it isn't necessary, but just saying that it's an option if you really need it.
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I feel like I should say this since I was the one who started this mess. My original comment was more in praise of Wiz than it was a criticism of any of the posters in this thread. I, too, sperg out on my favorite games. There's nothing wrong with that. But I've never seen a representative of a game company roll with the punches as well as Wiz. That is all.
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