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Arghy posted:What. My game just turned itself off, no crash or anything just pop i'm on desktop haha. I get that when I'm playing a large map on a computer that can't handle it and the game tries to auto-save. Can't play huge galaxies past about 2275 on my laptop before it starts to poo poo the bed.
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No I turn them off and max gates.
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May 30, 2018 06:38
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Black Pants posted:Am I weird for turning wormhole generation off? Am I missing out on much? They just seem to have had dumb interactions with empires thinking they're bordering you by being connected via wormhole, and are otherwise just bad gateways but unbuildable. I like them and play with more than the default as a means for either setting up ways for me to cross my vast empire as I expand before gateways become feasible or as a means to allow another way for any empire to expand if they're boxed in by Fallen Empires/other threats or just friendly neighbors. They're not "bad gateways" just by virtue of being available long before you can get gateways.
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May 30, 2018 06:49
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I hate wormholes, they confuse my brain and make wars upsetting. Need a set 2d front my simple mind can handle, so turn them off.
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May 30, 2018 07:02
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I use wormholes basically as a supplement to my gateway network, I'll build gateways next to any wormhole and fortify the system.
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May 30, 2018 07:03
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Skippy McPants posted:I get that when I'm playing a large map on a computer that can't handle it and the game tries to auto-save. I got an overclocked quad i7 haha my CPU should totally be able to handle it though only 8 gigs of ram. Kinda glad as i only had about 8k fleet power and i had greedily claimed most of the L gates system haha guessing the 2 star fortresses i built on either end wouldn't have done me any good.
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May 30, 2018 07:08
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Wormholes are neat to shake things up a little in the mid game when empires get new routes for expansion or federations. Also in the endgame when the Unbidden show up on top of a cluster of wormhole systems and suddenly they're expanding in three different parts of the galaxy simultaneously. Gateways are real good too but a hell of a lot more expensive to activate, I'm operating at a 1.0-1.5k per month mineral income right now and still can't quite run enough surplus to set up more gates while dealing with these Unbidden fleets.
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May 30, 2018 07:13
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Black Pants posted:Am I weird for turning wormhole generation off? Am I missing out on much? They just seem to have had dumb interactions with empires thinking they're bordering you by being connected via wormhole, and are otherwise just bad gateways but unbuildable. I lower their spawn rate, so there's usually 2 pairs, I like the early game travel they offer, having my empire expand in 2 sectors can be very good an very bad.
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May 30, 2018 07:22
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Wandering wormholes would be fun. You could have two linked wormholes but they wander around space through hyperlanes on their own at a very slow rate.
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May 30, 2018 07:28
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Synthbuttrange posted:Wandering wormholes would be fun. You could have two linked wormholes but they wander around space through hyperlanes on their own at a very slow rate. That reminds me a bit of the wormhole system in Stars!, wormholes would appear as very stable, getting more unstable over time and each end moving around more as they got more and more unstable until they just collapsed.
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May 30, 2018 07:40
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So if I'm declaring war on someone with the vassalize CB and they have a defensive ally, do I have to invade all the planets of the defensive ally too? That's really loving bothersome. I've been slowly whittling down my southern neighbor all game hoping I could vassalize him eventually but it appears I can't now without invading twenty more planets. When I settled for status quo instead it took some systems but not others, of both the war target and the defensive ally. I don't get how war works I guess?
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May 30, 2018 08:05
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When you do Status Quo you get any systems you have both claimed AND occupied. So if you occupied any unclaimed systems, you don't get them. If you claimed any systems and didn't manage to occupy them, you don't get them. However, if another empire has claimed them (and put more claims on them than you, you can see that in the claims UI by the system having an icon other than yours) you won't get them because you don't have -enough- of a claim on it. It's weird, yes.
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May 30, 2018 08:13
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I don't know what happened, but this combat report says I had 154,674 corvettes in my fleet.  Gay Horney posted:So if I'm declaring war on someone with the vassalize CB and they have a defensive ally, do I have to invade all the planets of the defensive ally too? That's really loving bothersome. I've been slowly whittling down my southern neighbor all game hoping I could vassalize him eventually but it appears I can't now without invading twenty more planets. You don't have to invade the ally unless you need extra war score. Depending on the war goal it may be necessary, vassalization is one that needs a lot of war score so you probably will need to. Status Quo peace means end things as they are right now with systems staying under the control of whoever currently has them. It's not the same as a white peace.
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Jabarto posted:
The Delicious trait is purely a result of extremely advanced genetic engineering, and some people just aren't into GMOs. Black Pants posted:Am I weird for turning wormhole generation off? Am I missing out on much? They just seem to have had dumb interactions with empires thinking they're bordering you by being connected via wormhole, and are otherwise just bad gateways but unbuildable. Nah, I do this too, because every time I had them turned on I inevitably got one that went straight to a Xenophobe FE. Probably not an issue now, but I prefer gates anyway since they don't just let anyone through like wormholes do. Naturally, this made discovering the wormhole leading to the solitary system in Distant Stars quite the surprise. AG3 fucked around with this message at 08:26 on May 30, 2018 |
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May 30, 2018 08:14
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I'll be damned. I had claimed them but they double claimed them. My war score for acceptance was - 700 or something because I was claiming unoccupied systems, but I had occupied all of the systems of the war target and all the claimed systems of the ally as well. At that point I just status quo'd https://youtu.be/0RKDifoyra8
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May 30, 2018 08:15
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The new patch should let you vassalise a country in one go via Status Quoing when you have all the systems you want, regardless of whethet you've occupied allies. It's a rather strong CB as a result, as you don't need to make claims.
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May 30, 2018 08:50
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You know you overdosed on Stellaris when The Contingency invades your house in a dream, and you have to park all your fleets on the staircase... Thank the gods they're fixing that 'display lower fleet power' bug. The drat thing cost me over 600 naval capacity in a single battle
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May 30, 2018 09:50
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Synthbuttrange posted:Wandering wormholes would be fun. You could have two linked wormholes but they wander around space through hyperlanes on their own at a very slow rate. I'd love an Eve Online midgame crisis where the wormhole snaps shut and the orphaned colonies are plunged into a dark age. No idea how you would implement it without just punching the player in the dick though... 
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May 30, 2018 10:19
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Pretty sure wormhole collapse was the origin of the plot for Planetside, as well. Wonder how prevalent that plot trigger is.
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May 30, 2018 11:13
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Captain Invictus posted:Pretty sure wormhole collapse was the origin of the plot for Planetside, as well. Wonder how prevalent that plot trigger is. Travel mechanism being rendered inoperative forcing survivors to make their way in a new environment? Pretty prevalent, I'd say. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swiss_Family_Robinson
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May 30, 2018 11:20
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Oh I meant the whole wormhole style in particular.
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May 30, 2018 11:26
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I want to deport these fleshbags on the planets I conquer and they won't loving leave (because everyone else's planets are full by lategame?). The refugee migration system might as well not exist if it never actually works. Guess they're getting melted down for energy credits. 
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May 30, 2018 13:00
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isndl posted:I want to deport these fleshbags on the planets I conquer and they won't loving leave (because everyone else's planets are full by lategame?). The refugee migration system might as well not exist if it never actually works. Displacement purges still work if the refugees have nowhere to go, they just eventually "vanish into unknown regions" by event. It takes a while though: if you're in a hurry, just murder them and take the additional diplomatic consequences for that (assuming you care about those since it sounds like you're playing some kind of robot).
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May 30, 2018 13:15
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Hunt11 posted:Fallen Empires can awaken on their own. Additionally sometimes they get a hate boner for you. Like in the current MP game we're doing three of us in a federation have all synthetically ascended and the spiritualist FE constantly threatens to humiliate us. We just tipped over to the point where we can slap them in the face long enough to get 10 years of peace and quiet.
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Yeah I hadn't even found the spiritualist FE fucks before I ascended in my second game and so when I did they just kept declaring war on me every ten years and I'd just immediately surrender and my pops would be unhappy perpetually Eventually kicked their asses of course, and it was supremely satisfying to do so
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May 30, 2018 13:36
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Aethernet posted:The new patch should let you vassalise a country in one go via Status Quoing when you have all the systems you want, regardless of whethet you've occupied allies. It's a rather strong CB as a result, as you don't need to make claims. Does this create an independent nation or do you just straight up vassalize whatever you happen to chop off? Because if so that should allow us to go back to the independence war > make vassal > integrate vassal exploit I thought they wanted to fix so you couldn't just cheese your way around generating a massive amount of threat.
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It was great when the spiritualist FE declared war on me for switching to robot bodies, I lost the first war and got humiliated but killed enough of their ships to generate debris and salvaged their tech. Round two went very poorly for them. In my current game I failed to notice a wormhole pairing in the middle of my territory linked to a country that just submitted to the great Khan. I just started fortifying all my borders to a ridiculous degree only for him to pop in with a 50k combined fleet three jumps from my homeworld, time to see if 40K plus an immature L-Drake can kill the Khan before the fleets are wiped out.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Does this create an independent nation or do you just straight up vassalize whatever you happen to chop off? Because if so that should allow us to go back to the independence war > make vassal > integrate vassal exploit I thought they wanted to fix so you couldn't just cheese your way around generating a massive amount of threat. If you declare with the Vassalise you get a vassal from what you've chopped off. This does create lots of threat, however. Liberated nations have a big debuff against vassalmaking. Cheese moved.
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Ah, okay so they kept the cool down at least for doing a Status Quo so you can't just cop out and start carving pieces off without reprecussion. I was worried every war may just end with people asking for more than they wanted but peacing out once they got what they were actually after.
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kiss me Pikachu posted:In my current game I failed to notice a wormhole pairing in the middle of my territory linked to a country that just submitted to the great Khan. I just started fortifying all my borders to a ridiculous degree only for him to pop in with a 50k combined fleet three jumps from my homeworld, time to see if 40K plus an immature L-Drake can kill the Khan before the fleets are wiped out. Yeah basically you have to treat every wormhole as another border system chokepoint.
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...As a materialist cyborg empire, why is my reply to another empire embracing cybernetics 'Disconcerting.'? Also I tab out of the game a lot, and it's really annoying when I click back into the window because an event has popped up, and the act of clicking somewhere other than the event window closes it with no way to bring it back. Can that be fixed? Black Pants fucked around with this message at 17:01 on May 30, 2018 |
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May 30, 2018 16:10
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They use the wrong endianness.
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ZypherIM posted:The thing with the races of "we hate everyone else and are always total war" is they get a bunch of REALLY strong bonuses right at the start, and if you don't leverage that into a proper snowball then of course you're going to get wrecked by events. Take advantage of your expanded fleet size and stronger fleets to utilize 0 influence cost wars to grow stupid fast. By the time the Khan fires you should be in a position to at least turtle up and fight him at the very least (unless you got a crazy bad enemy empire generation and they rush a big federation against you). Restarted and prioritzed hitting fleet cap with corvettes over literally anything else. One empire down so far...
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May 30, 2018 16:27
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ThisIsNoZaku posted:They use the wrong endianness. Those monsters!
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Finally got to research Synthetics!  But it took long enough that I'd repaired four Ringworld sections and built a Colossus. 
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Found a shielded planet with some kind of a temporal field inside, that was replaying some race's rise and fall, over and over, on fast forward. Felt bad for the fellows and decided to pop them out and now I'm bordering cute gecko fanatic purifiers.
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May 30, 2018 16:56
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Admiral Joeslop posted:
Delayed, but why did you tell it no. The worm loves you.
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iospace posted:Delayed, but why did you tell it no. The Worm is a false prophet.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:The Worm is a false prophet. You should learn to love the Worm.
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I still never research synths because I hate that they auto "upgrade" all my droids. I want droids AND synths!
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