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Crazycryodude posted:Yeah the key weakness there is "trust sectors." Don't get me wrong, sector AI has improved immensely from the dumpster fire it used to be, but it's still got a long way to go. To be fair sector AI has been iterated on again for Banks, so it may work fine or it may turn all tiles into farms for your synthetic pops, who knows?
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Kitchner posted:To be fair sector AI has been iterated on again for Banks, so it may work fine or it may turn all tiles into farms for your synthetic pops, who knows? They evolved. They rebelled. 
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Admiral Ray posted:Sectors remind me of managing actual people, so while they are annoying they feel realistic enough that I get angry at my stupid middle managers for making stupid decisions and using the colonial fund as their personal slush fund. Sector Governor corruption mechanics when
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I'm doing a bit of modding and I just noticed something odd in the game's localicode:
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Minor whinge but I always thought it weird that mind merged creatures referred to themselves in the plural in sci fi. It would be like me calling myself a plural because I have cells.
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OwlFancier posted:Minor whinge but I always thought it weird that mind merged creatures referred to themselves in the plural in sci fi.
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OwlFancier posted:It would be like me calling myself a plural because I have cells. Is this not something people do? It would explain a lot.
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let me repost and repeat that I will pay money for distinct robo-portraits for each species group. this expansion is going to be the first day of the rest of this game's life. can't wait.
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 Stellaris on sale for the weekend (I know most people in this thread have it already, but since apparently some people are waiting for sales, here you go) https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/paradox-weekend-sale/
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ulmont posted:
Grabbed it. Though humble store didn't email me the key first time :/
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OwlFancier posted:Minor whinge but I always thought it weird that mind merged creatures referred to themselves in the plural in sci fi. The Aristocrats!
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With the ability to eat other species will there be new AI personalities to reflect that? Gourmet Seekers? Carnivores / Vegetarians etc. etc.? Perhaps a FE type that will reward you with tech/resources for 'donating' delicacies.
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Famished Gluttons that become Devouring Hunters. Fanatical Militarists.  Sleepy you can donate either your own or other races to feed their hunger, perhaps they shall spare you when they awaken, perhaps they shall share with you the nature of forgotten spices. Made angry by refusing requests of food, curious races or exterminating entire species in a wasteful display. Wargoal oftens to prevent "wasteful" purging. Awoken? All shall be food. All shall be food. ALL SHALL BE FOOD. ALL SHALL BE FOOD. 100% chance to awaken if the swarm invades. The greatest kill is the one that comes hunting into your prey grounds, expecting an easy meal. Thyrork fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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dPB posted:With the ability to eat other species will there be new AI personalities to reflect that? Gourmet Seekers? Carnivores / Vegetarians etc. etc.? Perhaps a FE type that will reward you with tech/resources for 'donating' delicacies. I'm sure the guys working on NH are chuffed to bits about being able to flesh out the Hirogen without needing to anything more than configuring what's already there. I'm really looking forward to using these new systems to punish races who challenge mine. Let's see how your proud xenophobe militarist race looks in slavery or even as cattle, forever.
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Kimsemus posted:http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=873872037 Seems pretty solid so far - it's great that they're all functioning together absolutely fine. My first run I pretty much died quickly though - I spawned out on the very edge of the galaxy and my neighbour right next to me were aliens that absolutely hate everyone and want to purge the universe. Really wish I could outpace the AI in building armies/research. Seems i'm always one step behind. I'm trying out The Culture run now in another game. I also added Guilli's Planet Modifiers on to your mod list: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=865040033&searchtext=more+planet Seemed like a fun mod to have. I'll report back further if the game I'm playing now doesn't insta-kill me.
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WMain00 posted:I also added Guilli's Planet Modifiers on to your mod list: Oh, yeah, it owns pretty hard. Check out this awesome Alpha Centauri it generated:   eta: The other two modifiers indicate that the planet is a living organism (and seems not to like us much) and teems with awful locusts. No joke though, this mod owns although it seems like it's not quite in a finished state.
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GunnerJ posted:Oh, yeah, it owns pretty hard. Check out this awesome Alpha Centauri it generated: Holy poo poo. This is exactly the reason the Exterminatus exists.
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Wiz, if you see this hear my plea. I really, really need a simple way of filtering this screen by percentage habitability: I took this from your last stream where the exasperation at trying to find suitable candidates from the mile-long list could be felt through the screen. I feel it every time 
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Lunethex posted:Holy poo poo. What are you talking about? That seems like a perfect Guardsman training world! Exterminatus is for when said Guardsmen start crying and refuse to go outside.
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The thing I wish the mod would do is make the yellow modifiers into mixes of advantages and disadvantages. So, you get to recruit Giant Spider Armies, but it costs more influence to settle there and has much less migrant attraction because jesus loving christ.
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Yessss you'd think there would be a migration loss on those planets...for obvious reasons.
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It definitely immediately made me sharply aware of the fact that there's no special mechanic in the game for penal colonies.
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GunnerJ posted:It definitely immediately made me sharply aware of the fact that there's no special mechanic in the game for penal colonies. One of the discussions before release was when pops ethics get misaligned with yours you could just relocate them to a poo poo planet and let them all starve but that didn't end up being a thing you could do. Penal colonies would be cool though, especially if there was normal prisoners and political prisoners.
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Those spideys do look cool. Also, big shoutout to all the modders showing some serious  with those wonderful silicon-based portraits.
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Kitchner posted:One of the discussions before release was when pops ethics get misaligned with yours you could just relocate them to a poo poo planet and let them all starve but that didn't end up being a thing you could do. I specifically tried that and starving them just makes them unhappy Instead I've started colonizing a poo poo planet and resettling the truly poo poo tier pops to them, then handing it off to someone I plan to invade anyway. Then I just cleanse the planet with war score.This is usually only something I have to do once or twice before mind control lasers though, gets prohibitively expensive pretty quick. Mazz fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Played this for a bit at launch and I've been trying it out again now, it's grabbing me in a way it didn't before, so good job Paradox. Guess lots of little changes add up.
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Gort posted:Played this for a bit at launch and I've been trying it out again now, it's grabbing me in a way it didn't before, so good job Paradox. Guess lots of little changes add up. And in almost exactly a month's time it'll be even better!
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I am enjoying that I am literally on the other side of alien conspiracy theories at this point in the game.
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Quite a drop off in paradox staff comments all over the net, they must be working hard on actually finishing Utopia rather than posting.
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Baronjutter posted:Quite a drop off in paradox staff comments all over the net, they must be working hard on actually finishing Utopia rather than posting. We're in the final stretch, so a combination of being busy and there not being all that much more to reveal.
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Wiz posted:We're in the final stretch, so a combination of being busy and there not being all that much more to reveal. :cracks whip: BACK IN THE PIT!
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Why not just post the code and someone at the office can simply copy&paste it into the compiler or whatever? 
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Wiz posted:We're in the final stretch, so a combination of being busy and there not being all that much more to reveal. How much planning/work have you put into the next DLC? When do you think you guys will announce what it will generally cover? I'm hoping war/diplomacy/ground combat.
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Baronjutter posted:How much planning/work have you put into the next DLC? When do you think you guys will announce what it will generally cover? I'm hoping war/diplomacy/ground combat. While I can certainly follow the sentiment, does this not seem premature? They finished up the announcements and major feature descriptions for this one, they are in the final push, it's probably going to be after this one releases they start dropping hints about the next expansion. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of life changes in the latest dev update. The war score in particular seemed like it would make warfare less painful without having to wait for the next major DLC after this one. I'm still hoping that there's other tweaks in there to armies or warfare along those lines.
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I've been wondering for a while whether they are aware that there is a "missile problem." Or whether missiles work basically as they'd like right now.
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