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GlyphGryph posted:You can actually enforce that if you edit your species file directly. Theres an option to disallow duplicate portraits. Weird that you can check it normally Does that keep it kosher for ironman / achievements if I do that?
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I'm probably just blind but how the hell do I purge pops from a planet? I don't want to kill all of them, just a few, but there's no obvious button to do it. Under Set Rights there's a purge type dropdown that helpfully tells me the pop is not being purged.
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So some of my humans got left behind in the great cybernetic leap forward but I can't gene mod the because it says they have 0 trait picks left. I think my humans just have way too many traits from creation and the game won't let me add more, even though I have the points for it and and cyborgs should be a 0 point cost. Is this something I can mod out to fix?
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Apr 16, 2017 17:20
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Clanpot Shake posted:I'm probably just blind but how the hell do I purge pops from a planet? I don't want to kill all of them, just a few, but there's no obvious button to do it. Under Set Rights there's a purge type dropdown that helpfully tells me the pop is not being purged.
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Apr 16, 2017 17:22
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Talkie Toaster posted:You can't any more. Whole species only. If you want to deal with pops of a particular faction, you have to suppress them instead. I just want to make room for some overseers, this is dumb
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Apr 16, 2017 17:23
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Talkie Toaster posted:You can't any more. Whole species only. If you want to deal with pops of a particular faction, you have to suppress them instead. Christ, this will take 20 years! Is there anything I can do to make purging xenos more efficient?
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Apr 16, 2017 17:26
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Change the purge type to extermination. I think it defaults to forced labor, which takes a long time to kill them off.
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Apr 16, 2017 17:27
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Filthy Monkey posted:Change the purge type to extermination. I think it defaults to forced labor, which takes a long time to kill them off. Ah good call. Death squads only take 5 years to finish the job. Much better.
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Apr 16, 2017 17:31
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So I'm hearing a lot about how cruisers are better than battleships because spinal mounts suck? Can someone explain that to me? I'm having a ton of fun with my battleships armed with arc emitters, but I'm curious.
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Apr 16, 2017 17:38
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Does the game have some code that makes moons more likely to be tidally locked? Because that may be a mistake, tidally locking a moon to its parent planet means that it's not going to be tidally locked to the star that gives it light. In other news my space otters were inspired by the limbo event chain and decided to go full synth. Still haven't needed to use sectors because of limited expansion opportunities, but I'm the top empire now, even eclipsing the xenophobic FE that cut off expansion options. Unlocked all the tech and could probably roll over the whole galaxy if I wasn't pacifist. Waiting for something big to happen now.
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illectro posted:Does the game have some code that makes moons more likely to be tidally locked? Because that may be a mistake, tidally locking a moon to its parent planet means that it's not going to be tidally locked to the star that gives it light. Actually if you watch the star systems none of the planets move, I think they might ALL be tidally locked!!
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Apr 16, 2017 17:44
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So, I finally saw what the actual name of the Hive Mind government type is, Collective Consciousness, and it reminded me of something. ...now I kinda wanna do an Armstrong In Space dealie.
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Hey guys, I'm pondering ways to differentiate wide and tall empires. Specifically, I'm thinking the point of divergence should be taking the Voidborne ascension perk. So far I'm thinking having two exclusive perk chains: Voidborne leading on to megastructure creation, with a couple of upgrade perks to drop costs and speed construction, and enable high-density ringworlds (shamelessly stolen from Utopia Expanded). The final upgraded ringworld would have 8 to 12 segments of 25 tiles each (Utopia Expanded goes to 8 but looking at the model, 12 would fit). The other (mutually exclusive) Planetbound tree unlocks terraforming, with speed upgrades (and improvements to habitability?), culminating in the ability to restore tomb worlds and create Gaia worlds (even upgrade existing colonies to Gaia level, with enough time/credits). The completion of either perk tree would unlock the ability to create fallen empire production structures (i.e. tier 6) but only on ringworlds (not habitats) for the Voidborne, and on Gaia worlds only for the Planetbound tl;dr: move terraforming tech to a series of related perks and make it incompatible with megastructures Thoughts?
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GotLag posted:Hey guys, I'm pondering ways to differentiate wide and tall empires. Specifically, I'm thinking the point of divergence should be taking the Voidborne ascension perk. Honestly, to make it work there either needs to be more ways to unlock ascension perk slots, or you need to decouple them from ascension perks altogether, especially if you want wide empires to get them because they can't get enough unity. That's one of the things that's making megastructures not worth it. Edit: Honestly, I don't know why they explicitly tied the two together to begin with, Ascension Perks and Traditions, I mean, because the latters strong enough to stand on its own, and effectively cuts out expansionistic empires from even getting the ascension paths/perks DMW45 fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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Utopia Expanded adds four perk slots, and four repeats on the ascension slot technology to access them.
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GotLag posted:Utopia Expanded adds four perk slots, and four repeats on the ascension slot technology to access them. Yeah, but those all seem to be late game (at least, I haven't seen any of them on the games that I've played), and that's the problem. There needs to be at least one or two research chains for earlier in the game.
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Things were going nice in my last playthrough, but some frustrating bits messed everything up. First, I love the mod that lowers the prerequisites for space habitats. It goes well with my robot focused empire of weak intelligent butterflies. We'll all live in space and produce energy and science, while the planets will be filled with robots making minerals and food. I was going for a "tall" happy pacifist empire hiding in the corner of the galaxy, and it was working out well. Unfortunately I started off right next to a hive mind. So pacifist xenophile that I was, I needed to gear up for war really early and after a harrowing fight just barely managed to defeat them while I could still annex them in one go. And then they all died. I didn't know I was waging a war of extermination! I guess that's something my species didn't know either... we tried to liberate them but they all slowly wasted away when we decapitated their hive. It was a tragedy (and a kind of wonky game mechanic) but one I was willing to roll with and RP. I even started researching gene modding as soon as they started dying, but it was too late to save them. Then I got refugees from a distant empire that had been conquered by fanatical purifiers. That was really neat. They were going to be wiped out if it weren't for me, and they moved into one of the hive mind's planets right before the last one died out, which left me with one planet in a dumb spot, but a really interesting story. Unfortunately these (adaptable) tropical refugees weren't well suited to the arctic planet they moved to. So some of them moved to my other colonies... but they're repugnant. So I've got repugnant, poorly adopted refugees scraping by on this planet... and the gene modding tech. This is an easy fix, right? Nope, for some reason you need access to a species homeworld to gene mod the ones in your empire. What the heck is up with that? Their homeworld is currently being purged by cute fanatical purifier geckos with a ridiculously massive empire. So my question is- if a species is purged off of their homeworld, can you modify them? Can I wait this out or is the situation kinda hosed?
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Dallan Invictus posted:I actually haven't gotten to deal with an Unbidden invasion that's gotten out of control. I'm not sure how you would do that after the rework. I had to deal with an unbidden invasion once, that took about 20% of the galaxy before I could finally get to it (huge rival empire between me and it). I tried sniping the portal first, but that proved to be very dumb, because they quickly had 6 fleets and I had to retreat, and lost another 10% of the galaxy to them. 2nd time, I just went for their fleets that were closest to my own empire (huge rival empire was tiny by now and begging me to vassalize them so I'd protect them). This turned into me killing about 1.5 million total worth of fleet power with my ~100k sniper fleet. Since I was a pretty big hive mind empire keeping the battleship production up wasn't too hard for a bit, but I was starting to worry when I was down to 60k and they still showed no sign of stopping. After the first million or so killed, replacement fleets stopped pouring constantly into the system I was fighting in, and I was able to slowly start killing the anchors, and after I killed a few, it got much easier to keep up.
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Honestly, I'd like to see the perk slots have a variety of unlock methods, killing a leviathan, destroying an FE/AE/Crisis, going through the precursor event chain (the current reward for it, just giving a bunch of unity, just seems like a roundabout method to try to achieve that). I'd say make just plain destroying an empire worthy of it, but that seems too easy to game. Maybe only if they're similar in size? Basically just giving incentive to do stuff. DMW45 fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Apr 16, 2017 |
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BenRGamer posted:Honestly, I'd like to see the perk slots have a variety of unlock methods, killing a leviathan, destroying an FE/AE/Crisis, going through the precursor event chain (the current reward for it, just giving a bunch of unity, just seems like a roundabout method to try to achieve that). Maybe unlocking traditions instead of perks, with increasing costs for each level? For example killing fleet power, invading planets, winning wars, trade deals, surveying systems, researching anomalies, discovering techs, all of these could become targets for players who select specific traditions.
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Has anyone figured out how rulers get experience/gain levels yet apart form philosopher king or electing a scientist/gov etc. Mostly asking for Empire governments where you cant do that unless you reform.
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Apr 16, 2017 19:15
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If you're not keeping your fleet ratios in line with this: then I just don't know what to say.
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Apr 16, 2017 19:24
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Just got an event where my science ship fell into a black hole. Guy wont talk about what went on in there, but he now has the psionics trait. As a fanatic materialist/xenophile, can I actually draw any of the psi tech cards, or is it forbidden?
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A Tartan Tory posted:4C:3D:2C:1B is the only ratio that matters. 0C:0D:1C:0B. 
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BadOptics posted:If you're not keeping your fleet ratios in line with this: Snail fleet?
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People saying that the game ends before you can get into all the endgame techs: do you play with the maximum galaxy size?
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BadOptics posted:If you're not keeping your fleet ratios in line with this: Got the horizon signal too eh?
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Is "gently caress it all cruisers" actually viable? I'm a galaxy full of assholes and there's a fanatical purifier at the northern arm steadily eating everyone so I need to get to battlestations relatively soon.
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BadOptics posted:If you're not keeping your fleet ratios in line with this: 1 corvette, 1 frigate, 2 destroyers and 3 battleships is pretty bad. But 377 corvettes, 233 destroyers, 144 cruisers and 89 battleships might actually be a good ratio. I just keep things simple and use 10:20:30:40 ratios/
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spectralent posted:Is "gently caress it all cruisers" actually viable? I'm a galaxy full of assholes and there's a fanatical purifier at the northern arm steadily eating everyone so I need to get to battlestations relatively soon. Last game that went far enough I went all cruiser and it did the job well. I'm unsure if a carefully maintained ship balance might'be done better, but as a basic unit of murdering poo poo the cruiser is fine.
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Pure cruiser is fine, you can transition to something like 1:2 battleship:cruiser later too if you want to. With arc emitters and medium weapons on the cruisers that composition deals decently with pretty much anything.
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Ok so, is there like a tutorial or youtube series you guys recommend for noobs since the utopia release? I played at release and crushed the galaxy multiple times with all variety of builds, but now I can't achieve anything past the first war. I blocked an empire into a bottleneck with a Frontier Outpost at start, then built up making sure to stay at max fleet cap at all times. I had 7 planets, they had 1 and their fleet power was the same as mine. What the gently caress, I lose my first fleet to them in a straight up battle and then manage to bottle them back up because they camped above a world with max defence armies I hastily built up. I rebuilt my fleet, though wasn't enough to take on their fleet and spaceport at the time. Two rival empires declared on me, so I decide I'll deal with the initial war before pivoting to deal with them. I attempt to take on the fleet which is now 1.5k plus their 1k spaceport and lose my entire fleet before even thinking about the new war. After that I checked and the new war participants had 4k fleets each. I have no idea how to play this game any more, I'm not on hard or aggressive or anything I just don't have the first idea what the change.
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Fellblade posted:Ok so, is there like a tutorial or youtube series you guys recommend for noobs since the utopia release? Are your ships all using starter tech or something? I don't see how you could have 7 times the utilized cap as another empire and lose that badly. Spaceports shouldn't be an issue at that point either.
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I just had the Enigmatic Observers ask for a pop of my Hive Mind species. That will immediately die because they have no friggin idea how they work. Still! Goin for it.
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Palleon posted:Are your ships all using starter tech or something? I don't see how you could have 7 times the utilized cap as another empire and lose that badly. Spaceports shouldn't be an issue at that point either. I was using reasonably basic tech this time, I didn't built many specific science buildings above the basic level so didn't get much research, mainly focused on generating enough minerals to stay at fleet cap. I was using T2 guns and thrusters but still T1 other things, I have no perspective of if that's good or bad. I feel like my problem is an inability to balance things properly. Here's a screenshot of the general state of things, I was playing Fanatic Purifiers this time in an attempt to have a fleet that was superior to at least some one planet nobody. 
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So I was having a great time taking the full robo path, finally transformed all my pops into synths and it was glorious. Then it dawned on me that from now on I have to build every single pop manually Never doing this again 
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Fellblade posted:Ok so, is there like a tutorial or youtube series you guys recommend for noobs since the utopia release? Not sure why you didn't win the first engagement (maybe you didn't have deflectors/shields?), but spaceports are pretty dangerous until you get a large corvette fleet with a mix of DD's.
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A Tartan Tory posted:4C:3D:2C:1B is the only ratio that matters. This talk made me check my own fleet ratio. Turns out I'm actually rather close just by random chance: I have a 1B:2,5C:3D:4C ratio. The only difference seem to be my torpedo cruisers: I always put a couple extra in each fleet, which seems to throw off the ratio a tiny bit. 
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