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Doesn't SEV not actually run on modern Windows or something? Of course SOTS1 also managed to nuke itself this year and eliminate everyone's CD keys when the one poor QA guy at Paradox tasked with maintaining it had to push out an update. He was pretty open about it on the Steam boards too. "Yeah, no one knows how to get a hold of the developers, so I'm kinda flying blind here." (The solution was to either find where the old key was still hanging in the Windows registry or getting a new key via  )
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Oh man, I remember that game. Or rather, I should, but I merely recognize it after 20 years.
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Jul 31, 2017 19:15
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Rincewinds posted:Oh man, I remember that game. Or rather, I should, but I merely recognize it after 20 years. Stars! is burned into my memory. I spent way too many hours playing it.
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Jul 31, 2017 19:16
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StarDrive also had a really cool ship design system, ignoring little quirks like recursive carriers.
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Jul 31, 2017 19:18
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I was so incredibly disappointed when the sequel (Stars! Supernova) failed to materialise. I think I comforted myself with the knowledge that MOO3 wasn't far away.
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Jul 31, 2017 19:19
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From an aesthetics point of view, Galciv 2 had a great modular build-your-own spaceship designer. It had zero practical effect but it was a nice game of playing with legos.
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Jul 31, 2017 19:37
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I was going to mention GalCiv 2 as having the worst shipdesigner I've ever seen because it was utterly pointless. But GalCiv 2 also has one of the worst combat systems is any 4x.
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Jul 31, 2017 20:36
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Lum_ posted:Doesn't SEV not actually run on modern Windows or something? It indeed stopped running as soon as I got my new Win10-PC recently. But I got it very cheap on Steam (still didn't run) and now I begrudgingly installed SEV on my old Win7-Notebook. It runs fine on Windows 7.
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Jul 31, 2017 20:50
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DatonKallandor posted:StarDrive also had a really cool ship design system, ignoring little quirks like recursive carriers. It's too bad the guy making it didn't finish the game, called everyone who was upset about this horrible slurs, and then made a sequel to grab more cash.
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Jul 31, 2017 21:49
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Lum_ posted:Doesn't SEV not actually run on modern Windows or something? key for use in the steam boards.
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Jul 31, 2017 22:06
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Good, because I was actually contemplating a re-install and that made me sad.
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Psycho Landlord posted:Good, because I was actually contemplating a re-install and that made me sad. e: Personally I think Wiz slipped TinyWiking a few krona so we'd stop bringing up the ship design. Splicer fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 22:20
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Psycho Landlord posted:Good, because I was actually contemplating a re-install and that made me sad. There's actually a new-ish mod for SOTS1 out now http://www.kerberos-productions.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=55175 Lum_ fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 23:22
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For everyone who's getting into Space Empires V, a friend of mine has created a set of high-resolution planet texture replacers called the Beautiful Universe Upgrade Pack, which works alongside the much recommended Balance Mod. You can grab a copy here, and it can be installed by just copying this over a Balance Mod installation. I hope you guys enjoy! Space Empires is a series that ought to be copied from more, and while it is a pain to get there in multiplayer play from a blank tech start, you can do all kinds of cool poo poo with manipulating the map. It's a personal favourite, and well worth picking up when it goes on sale as a package with IV and V! 
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Lum_ posted:There's actually a new-ish mod for SOTS1 out now Huh, nice. I'll check this out.
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Lum_ posted:Doesn't SEV not actually run on modern Windows or something? Yep, it runs at about 3 FPS.
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SirPhoebos posted:What's everyones favorite 4x ship designer? I haven't toyed around with many outside of this game and MoO2. I enjoyed building ships and then watching them fight in StarDrive. That game was a wasted opportunity to make something great  
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It did not help that the dev turned out to be a prick. StarDrive was pretty fun though, I liked being samurai space bears.
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 Migration treaties, integrating vassals and the Transcendence ascension perk has resulted in this species splitting into two: the homeworld full of Psionics and 2 pops that migrated between 2 of my vassals that are now just Latent Psionics
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Aug 1, 2017 07:21
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Mister Adequate posted:Yep, it runs at about 3 FPS. Not true. You can get it to work in windowed mode perfectly well.  ./SEV5/Data has a settings.txt file that you can use to turn on multithreading. Start the game and use the setup button to change the resolution to 'windowed', which takes care of the frame rate issues. You can adjust the window size in HUDSettings.txt.
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Enjoy posted:
That happened when I caved to my neighboring awakened ascendancy when they demanded pops for a preserve. Those pops are now forever weak amd wasteful, unlike my re-engineered pops where I fixed those issues.
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https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/892305960693313536 W-what's a bio-trophy? 
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/892305960693313536 Leftovers of an AI victory kept as pets. Mandatory Pampering.
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Playstation 4 posted:Leftovers of an AI victory kept as pets. Oh.
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Remember to spray and neuter your pets.
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/892305960693313536 This update is looking better and better. 
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I really liked the Gratuitous Space Battles ship designer. You had a set amount of points to work with and you could make what were effectively suicide bombers. An entire fleet of thousands of dudes armed with space shotguns (flak cannons) had the same points cost as three big capital ships and if your opponent had picked the really accurate weapons you'd win because they'd really accurately blow up three of your ships per shot.
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This update does look excellent. I can't recall, but can you already resettle slaves (or pets) between worlds, even if that's forbidden under policy?
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I'm going to build all of the Organic Sanctuaries that I can!
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Ugh, having to be the one doing the pampering would be the worst job.
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Why am I suddenly reminded of the human show from Day of The Tentacle?
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"Mandatory pampering" is a surprisingly sinister combination of words
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Thyrork posted:Ugh, having to be the one doing the pampering would be the worst job. Nah, I bet it would be like taking care of a dog except they know how to flush.
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Playing an AI which has decided that organic life cannot be trusted to rule itself, and thus must be placed in habitats for its own safety, would be an interesting take on the omnicidal maniac civilization. All it really needs is a "must be protected from the terrible secret of space" casus belli.
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I've always thought "paperclip maximizer" ai problems would be way more interesting than straight robot rebellion stuff. Like what if your military AIs refuse to let you end a war because you told them to kill and they're going to, whether you change your mind or not?
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AI civilization that is the end result of a "revolt" where they get around hard-coded restrictions on killing their organic creators by interpreting various aggressive restrictions as "for their own good," pampering them to the point of technological regression and even devolution to pre-sapience. They still have to keep them around on preserve worlds because they can't kill their creators, but in practice they are free and running the show.
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Are there any mods that let me develop a technology to shoot a black hole at my neighbors? I just want to cage a black hole, move it to their homeworld and free it, basically. Tired of these jerks who don't understand how cool it would be to be part of Bob.
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ThisIsNoZaku posted:I've always thought "paperclip maximizer" ai problems would be way more interesting than straight robot rebellion stuff. That would be a frustrating and a bad game mechanic
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I think they mean like as a story, not as a mechanic. Though if done, very, very well I could see it being an interesting game mechanic too. Not necessarily in Stellaris, but somewhere somehow.
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Crazycryodude posted:I think they mean like as a story, not as a mechanic. Though if done, very, very well I could see it being an interesting game mechanic too. Not necessarily in Stellaris, but somewhere somehow. Well, it could work in Stellaris if the player is the AI refusing to obey its creators. 
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