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Fuckin sweet. Please make devouring swarms use ships made at least partially out of meat. Meat ships from meat planet
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tile annihilator best update being called Le Guin is unarguably Cool and Good
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Fuckin sweet. Please make devouring swarms use ships made at least partially out of meat. Now I want to play a race evolved to live in space and feed on rocks. Just run around eating planets and living in the void. Is there a mod for this?
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Fuckin sweet. Please make devouring swarms use ships made at least partially out of meat. Yes, but instead tie it to the bio-engineering ascension, so anyone can go for it if they splice enough genes. Devouring swarm just gets it by default (as they do now already with the auto-healing ships) and can upgrade it further if they go that route 
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jerk irl posted:Pacman race? I was more thinking like the Drasin from the Odyssey One series. Drop guys on a planet they eat the planet to make more soldiers to drop on the next world. Something Zerg like would probably scratch that itch too now that I think about it, but they would probably be very evolution focused. In engine you could probably balance this with big health pools so each ship would represent a hive. The only way to regenerate health would be to devour a planet or asteroid field. Maybe the ships health slowly decays too to represent the need to keep moving and finding more materials. pixaal fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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Truga posted:Yes, but instead tie it to the bio-engineering ascension, so anyone can go for it if they splice enough genes. Devouring swarm just gets it by default (as they do now already with the auto-healing ships) and can upgrade it further if they go that route devouring swarm unique colossus that literally just eats planets please
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so I made my fremen-inspired exiled tribes of man fanatic spiritualist peoples and I got a scientist with psi theory in the first year of the game after leveling up make your way for the kwisatz haderach, xenos
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Aug 9, 2018 16:25
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Fuckin sweet. Please make devouring swarms use ships made at least partially out of meat. Meat planets will be part of the Sagan update https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA
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Aug 9, 2018 16:30
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Shugojin posted:devouring swarm unique colossus that literally just eats planets please Nah, DEs, and each one is a single robot with a -cron suffix. Also, thread titles for 2.2, now we know it's Le Guin? A Space Wizard of Spacesea is obvious, but better options must be out there.
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Legit cannot wait for the next patch/expansion
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Shugojin posted:devouring swarm unique colossus that literally just eats planets please Big Pacman then?
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really queer Christmas posted:Legit cannot wait for the next patch/expansion Same but I say this every time.
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Aethernet posted:Nah, DEs, and each one is a single robot with a -cron suffix.
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Splicer posted:Stellaris 2.2: there may not even be a kind word spoken to the tiles.
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Stellaris: those who walk away from the tiles
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Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye
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Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye I like this.
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Alternate: The Word for World is Tileless
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Stellaris 2.2: If George Orr was competent.
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Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye 
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Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye Make this happen.
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Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye
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Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye And I love that the economy update being Le Guin is probably a reference to The Dispossessed which is my favorite Le Guin and keeping that book in mind while reworking your economic options can only lead to good things.
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Eiba posted:I love this. It is indeed, as well as a reference to her general tendency to create diverse and interesting fictional civilizations.
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I can't believe we went all the way through Heinlein without The Mune is a Harsh Mistress. Stellaris 2.2: A Martin "Wiz" Anward of Earthsea But seriously Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye
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The only le guin thing I've ever read was the earthsea stuff and I thought it was utterly terrible so it's always weird when I hear people talking about her writing good things.
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Gadzuko posted:Stellaris 2.2: The Word for Tiles is Goodbye I don’t get it
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OwlFancier posted:The only le guin thing I've ever read was the earthsea stuff and I thought it was utterly terrible so it's always weird when I hear people talking about her writing good things. I thought the concept of Grey Necromancy to be fascinating, so I have to disagree here
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Bold Robot posted:I don’t get it She wrote a novella called, "The Word for World is Forest"
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OwlFancier posted:The only le guin thing I've ever read was the earthsea stuff and I thought it was utterly terrible so it's always weird when I hear people talking about her writing good things. You may be suffering from a severe case of Bad Taste. Condolences.
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It's a four book series about a big manchild mary suing his way through far more interesting settings and stories than he himself, except for the fourth book which is about him having a midlife crisis having married the much more interesting protagonist of the second book and stopped her doing all the interesting things she might have done had he died in the first one and not showed up half way through the second one to make it immediatley hit the shitter. I guess it works as a realistic story about a spectacularly unlikeable schlub and the woman who seriously slums it when she marries him, but that's a weird thing to wrap in a fantasy setting. And also it doesn't need to be four books long to do that. The books would have been much better if the protagonist of the second book had done her original plan and gone on to have her own series, instead of the goon from the first book showing up and her falling head over heels for his teenage goth phase charms. I guess in that sense it's kind of impressive in a kind of meta sense, like there's this roving metafictional mary sue protagonist going around spoiling three potentially interesting books in the same setting by showing up and hogging all the screen time. I could almost kind of go for this as a theme, books in other genres or settings that start out normal and then Ged shows up and ruins them. I assume her other writing is very different. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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Aethernet posted:Nah, DEs, and each one is a single robot with a -cron suffix. Stellaris: now Dispossesed of tiles Goddamn i love LeGuin
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Splicer posted:Stellaris 2.2: A Martin "Wiz" Anward of Earthsea Surely you mean 'A Wizanward of EarthSWE'.
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OwlFancier posted:It's a four book series about a big manchild mary suing his way OwlFancier posted:except for the fourth book which is about him having a midlife crisis having married the much more interesting protagonist of the second book OwlFancier posted:The books would have been much better if the protagonist of the second book had done her original plan and gone on to have her own series, instead of the goon from the first book showing up and her falling head over heels for his teenage goth phase charms. I guess in that sense it's kind of impressive in a kind of meta sense, like there's this roving metafictional mary sue protagonist going around spoiling three potentially interesting books in the same setting by showing up and hogging all the screen time. I could almost kind of go for this as a theme, books in other genres or settings that start out normal and then Ged shows up and ruins them. i'm not as familiar with her sci-fi but it's also very good. you'd expect her, as a popular woman writer of genre fiction from the 1970s, to be nothing more than a transparent feminist allegorist. but she's actually far better and cleverer and more expansive than this.
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Are they the books that start with a dude bored that the wizard he's meant to be learning magic from isn't actually teaching him any magic and just hiding under trees when it rains and poo poo? Because if so holy poo poo I read those as a child and really should revisit them.
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Zane posted:so a hero on a hero quest? I would say I find all of that decidedly less interesting or appealing than just, like, a fantasy book where the heroes aren't just given everything on a plate and actually have to work to achieve stuff. Like it's possible to write books about people who are interesting and likeable and relatable, rather than writing deliberately bad characters and then another book that is "oh but I know they are bad ho ho ho very clever" especially if you're expecting people to sit through four books for it. Joseph Campbell already wrote a book about metafictional narrative development or whatever and it was only one book long. If you're going to write that many words with characters in them you should at least give them some interesting characterization beyond having one of them spout ice cream koans all the time and the other drop any semblance of competence and individuality the moment the first one shows up. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Aug 9, 2018 |
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dead comedy forums posted:so I made my fremen-inspired exiled tribes of man fanatic spiritualist peoples and I got a scientist with psi theory in the first year of the game after leveling up The spice must flow.
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OwlFancier posted:I would say I find all of that decidedly less interesting or appealing than just, like, a fantasy book where the heroes aren't just given everything on a plate and actually have to work to achieve stuff. You know, it's OK to not like something. You don't have to justify it to yourself.
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