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Can these secondary species be an immediate livestock source? Talking cows!
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They do say dog is man's best friend.
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Feb 21, 2017 10:59
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TG-Chrono posted:Can these secondary species be an immediate livestock source? Talking cows!
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Feb 21, 2017 10:59
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Truga posted:They do say dog is man's best friend. We already have cat portraits where are the dog/wolf ones?
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Feb 21, 2017 11:21
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Fox is a canidae afaik, but yeah.
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Feb 21, 2017 11:24
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I hope hiveminds don't spam migration treaties. No, Tyranids, I really don't think you'd be a good addition to my society...
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Feb 21, 2017 12:09
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Dog Kisser posted:Has anyone (here or elsewhere) made any progress in making a new endgame crisis? I'm almost finished working on a new portrait set for a really unusual species - it has phenotypes for every species in the vanilla game, all weirdly tainted and homogenized into the same sort of aesthetic. I've tested it a bit, and that means that all your scientists and leaders and pops all look completely different, but all are recognizably from the same 'group'. I'll post the portraits here tomorrow-ish, but ideally I'd like to use them to make some sort of weird event. These look awesome. As to your question, I had sketched out a bunch of plans for a new crisis mod, but it's all about psionics and more or less emulating the Fall of the Eldar from 40k so it's not something I'm touching until I know more about how the Shroud works. For all we know there's already a psionic-related crisis in Banks/Utopia.
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Feb 21, 2017 12:50
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Heartcatch posted:Finally, the Umgah will serve the Spathi. As it was always meant to be. I wonder if you can design the helper species.
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Feb 21, 2017 12:52
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GunnerJ posted:I wonder if you can design the helper species. Hopefully. I'd have a lot of fun designing symbiotic-style friends. Alternatively, just dogs. Dogs are wonderful.
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Feb 21, 2017 12:56
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https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834010318418358272 Looks like Armageddon bombardment stance got moved out of the tradition tree. Or maybe there's more than one way to unlock it? I like the symbol for "Citizen Service", btw.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:06
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Mr. Fix It posted:I like the symbol for "Citizen Service", btw. What is it? My glasses are being repaired, and as far as I can see it's some kind of jagged cross? Also nthing the choice to make my own helper species. I want the little fox dudes as pals! 
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Feb 21, 2017 13:12
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Mr. Fix It posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834010318418358272 My guess would be that Fanatical Purifiers get it "early" as part of their overall package. eta nope, I'm wrong: https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834011641759023104 GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 13:13
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CommissarMega posted:What is it? My glasses are being repaired, and as far as I can see it's some kind of jagged cross? It's basically the eagle symbol of the government in Starship Troopers. eta: Looks a whole lot like this. eta2: haha poo poo, just realized the ST symbol is a combination of an eagle and a bomber.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:13
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Service guarantees citizenship, after all.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:14
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I like the dynamic government names down below, they appear to be changing based on ethics.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:14
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Sky Shadowing posted:I like the dynamic government names down below, they appear to be changing based on ethics. This suggests that government-based bonuses are out, and governments are derived from the properties you pick for them from Civics. Now I just hope that the game is smart enough to convert existing government types to civics so I don't have to redo all my custom empires. 
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Feb 21, 2017 13:17
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Mr. Fix It posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834010318418358272 Do we know what's up with the ethics symbol in the middle of the ethics wheel? Despicable Neutral?
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Feb 21, 2017 13:18
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Torrannor posted:Do we know what's up with the ethics symbol in the middle of the ethics wheel? Despicable Neutral? lol
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Feb 21, 2017 13:24
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Torrannor posted:Do we know what's up with the ethics symbol in the middle of the ethics wheel? Despicable Neutral? It's "Hive-minded"
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Feb 21, 2017 13:25
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GunnerJ posted:It's basically the eagle symbol of the government in Starship Troopers. This is like fedex arrow levels of eye opening
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Feb 21, 2017 13:28
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So you can't be a hive mind AND a fanatic purifer? Interesting.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:37
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Aethernet posted:So you can't be a hive mind AND a fanatic purifer? Interesting. I'm going to take a shot in the dark based on the fact that all the hive-mind civics we saw are in yellow that their civic choices might be radically different or even include hive-specific variants of other options somehow. So, no, you might not be a hive-mind and a "fanatic purifier," but you might be a hive-mind with a similar option that has a different name.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:42
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The ascetic choice for hive minds is probably just a consumer goods modifier to save you minerals.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:46
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Thinking this over, I kinda feel like if hive-mind is a 3-point ethos choice, it might not be the best way to go about doing it compared to letting you choose 2 points of other ethics to determine what the hive believes (and so what "civics" it can choose). Although I can see how that would be an added-content and design nightmare given how much else they're already completely redoing from the ground up.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:52
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GunnerJ posted:Thinking this over, I kinda feel like if hive-mind is a 3-point ethos choice, it might not be the best way to go about doing it compared to letting you choose 2 points of other ethics to determine what the hive believes (and so what "civics" it can choose). Although I can see how that would be an added-content and design nightmare given how much else they're already completely redoing from the ground up. There are good reasons for it. I'll go over them in the dev diary.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:58
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Wiz posted:There are good reasons for it. I'll go over them in the dev diary. I have more trust in your idea of good reasons than basically any other game dev so cool.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:59
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Mr. Fix It posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834010318418358272 Yessss I honestly haven't looked forward to something this much since I was waiting for Stellaris to be released.
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Feb 21, 2017 14:03
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Mr. Fix It posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/834010318418358272 Does killing xeno pops with armageddon bombardment count as purifying, or do they need to be "hand purified" to gain those sweet sweet unity points? Pretty dang stoked for Utopia; Stellaris really is shaping up to be the game that every other spaceshipgame since moo2 haven't been.
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Feb 21, 2017 14:37
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I tried to play as a purifier in a new game I started last weekend, but diplomacy kept getting in the way and I sorta got bored. I'm super hyped for that thing lmao.
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Feb 21, 2017 14:44
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What I want to know is why are there two separate icons for (what appear to be) Autocracy in the Authority section of the new government screen in Banks. Did they subdivide hereditary monarchies and dictatorships? What's going on there?  Tell me your secrets mysterious orange and red icons
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Feb 21, 2017 14:57
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It was a page or three ago but yes, monarchies and dictatorships got separated. e: I imagine the small person icon inside the large one is the heir? vvv: Oh, welp. I'm not sure actually. Truga fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 14:59
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Truga posted:It was a page or three ago but yes, monarchies and dictatorships got separated. We actually got confirmation? I recall seeing someone speculate about it but not any Wiz based tweet or anything to back it up. Edit: While I'm asking questions, do we know what day they're doing the dev diary on? Captain Oblivious fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 15:00
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Truga posted:I tried to play as a purifier in a new game I started last weekend, but diplomacy kept getting in the way and I sorta got bored. I'm super hyped for that thing lmao. It all depends on whether or not you can get to a certain size or not TBH. In my playthrough as SS2's The Many, I was initially concerned with picking my targets carefully and expanding quick, so I wouldn't have to war too much and hurt literally everyone's opinion of me so quick that they'd block me before I could snowball to a huge size. But once I got to about controlling 1/5 to 1/4 of the largest galaxy type...there was pretty much no stopping me. No federation or coalition could really stand up to me, since my fleet strength just wrecking ball'd all of theirs and I could siege down their planets for warscore faster than they could mine. And this was after literally cleansing and exterminating all of my losers for 50-100 years before that point and getting -1000 opinion at least with everyone else. The only challenge came from Awakened empires when that thing happened, and I suppose also the Unbidden had I let them go out of control (whose portal I also killed p easily early on before they got too much fleet power). So yea, if anything these bonuses kinda make me worried it could become a bit too easy lol, but...who knows, with pops no longer being as easily controllable as they were with a collectivist/spiritualist combo...maybe the challenge will start to come also from within to balance it out. But it's most certainly a good argument for why being able to get Fanatical Purifier bonuses ontop of any Hive Mind bonuses, of not having to worry about factions for example, would be ridiculously OP and a solid argument for Hive Minds being a 3 point choice. CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 15:49
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Truga posted:I tried to play as a purifier in a new game I started last weekend, but diplomacy kept getting in the way and I sorta got bored. I'm super hyped for that thing lmao. I look forward to creating the Krikkit and purging the entire universe.
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Feb 21, 2017 16:09
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Picked this up again last night and forgot about the whole Colony Ship will only be offered once thing... great. new stuff looks cool but do we think it will address the game getting dull in the mid to late game?
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BigPaddy posted:Picked this up again last night and forgot about the whole Colony Ship will only be offered once thing... great. new stuff looks cool but do we think it will address the game getting dull in the mid to late game? With the upcoming expansion you just start with colony tech. Can't wait.
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Looked over the Utopia features and Habitat Stations  finally an option beyond restart when you get dropped in a cluster of systems with only a couple of habitable planets and providing a way to make a core industrial sector to push out ships to go a purgin' with.
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Feb 21, 2017 17:24
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Tarquinn posted:
...A while! In practice, it's not every species in the game, because some of them are designed to only work with clothing - their art actually finishes just below the shoulder - but it's 90% of them, coming to something like ninety variations. I think in the pregen country I'm making for them they'll be effective fanatic xenophiles AND fanatic individualists - they want to spread as far and wide as possible and insinuate themselves into every empire they can - but they also have a boosted Repugnant, so other people will hate being around them. If I can't make them an endgame crisis, I can make them a mid-game pain in the rear end.
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Started a new game last night trying to scratch the itch. Exploring is fun, initial colonization and expansion is really fun. I was playing xenophobes and rivaling everyone so 3 powers formed a defense pact around me. Eventually something shocking happened, something that's only happened to me once before in all my games of stellaris. They actually declared war on me. I was a bit worried because I had a 4k fleet and they each had 2.5-3k fleets. I got excited that finally something interesting was happening. Then I remembered how bad war is in stellaris. How it's probably the worst war and combat system of any paradox game, both in terms of the enemy AI, the feedback and ability to see what the heck is going on, and our options as a player. No one sends a fleet for quite some time so I go on the offensive, this draws out one of their 3k fleets and my 4k fleets absolutely smashes it because the poor fools didn't get the memo on missiles being useless. To get warscore I need to invade planets, which means ground combat. During this time I'm getting constant enemy fleet warnings. Are these fleets serious or not? No idea, have to mouse-over every fleet to find out. It's all little 100-200 power fleets of a few ships pointlessly buzzing around. It's random groups of troop transports zipping about pointlessly that I have to destroy. The enemy just fills their space with random junk flying in random directions. It's not effective at fighting the war, but it's extremely effective in demoralizing the player. Eventually I conquer 2 more worlds while dealing with a never ending spam of tiny fleets. During the entire very long war their 2 other allies never set foot in my territory despite surrounding me and having direct borders. What in any other paradox game would have been a difficult and interesting situation with clear geography, fronts, key provinces, and interesting battles was of course a confusing hard to manage mess where the war is settled in the first moments as our doom stacks meet in a random unplanned system then years of whack a mole and ground combat micro. I'm really excited about this huge DLC but war/combat/movement/peace needs just as much of an overhaul.
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The impression I'm getting is that government bonuses have been replaced altogether by civics
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