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Pretty sure factions can already be renamed. New stuff probably will be too. The one downside is Let Us Plays where the player renames everything to dumb stuff.
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https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1036591952597270528?s=19 BUT MOTES OF WHAT, WIZ?!?!?!?
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My guesses are scrith enablers or nanites. I mean they're bad guesses but they're mine.
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Bremen posted:Evolution is designed to perpetuate genes, not lifeforms. That instinct humans have not to get themselves killed to help a stranger, that's their genes trying to survive. With ants only the queen has children, so only the queen really has an evolutionary motivated survival instinct. If her (sterile) kids are willing to die to let her have more kids, then the genes continue Also it is not a process that matters to individual lines within handful of generations. (btw, insect "queens" do not actually direct anything)
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Gladi posted:Evolution is not designed to perpetuate anything. It is the process of perpetuation. Splicer fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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Sep 3, 2018 15:14
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I think the point of calling them Enforcer jobs and not Police jobs is that Enforcer is vague enough that it can suggest a broader spectrum of activities than mere policing.
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Sep 3, 2018 15:24
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I plan to immediately install a mod that renames 'Enforcers' as 'The Filth' regardless, as part of a broader Glaswegian total conversion.
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Sep 3, 2018 15:36
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Aethernet posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1036591952597270528?s=19 It says Volatile Motes, so it's tiny fragments of the tiles that used be on the planet. Or tessellating voles, either or.
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Sep 3, 2018 16:19
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isndl posted:It says Volatile Motes, so it's tiny fragments of the tiles that used be on the planet. Also hoping for a planetary anomaly consisting of "weirdly square landscapes".
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Ms Adequate posted:We still call them that in Norn Iron Just confirmed this with the norn misses so this marks the first time I'm sure she isn't just making a word up off the top of her head. Nickiepoo fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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Sep 3, 2018 17:41
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Splicer posted:Also hoping for a planetary anomaly consisting of "weirdly square landscapes". "The entire planet has been sectioned into an equilateral grid..."
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Sep 3, 2018 18:11
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Aethernet posted:I plan to immediately install a mod that renames 'Enforcers' as 'The Filth' regardless, as part of a broader Glaswegian total conversion. I plan to immediately write a van Vogt mod renaming Enforcers to "Nexialists", but only for Authoritarians.
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Sep 3, 2018 18:21
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Rhjamiz posted:"The entire planet has been sectioned into an equilateral grid..." We many never know exactly why the planet's inhabitants chose to divide their population evenly among the grids, but <SCIENCE_VESSEL_LEADER> believes that continued study of the species' fossilized remains may help us learn to avoid such pitfalls in the future. <PLANET> gains +3 society research points.
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turn off the TV posted:We many never know exactly why the planet's inhabitants chose to divide their population evenly among the grids, but <SCIENCE_VESSEL_LEADER> believes that continued study of the species' fossilized remains may help us learn to avoid such pitfalls in the future. "Prominent mathematicians and slightly brighter children have identified that dividing a sphere into equally sized squares is impossible, but nonetheless, the surface of this world does indeed consist of such. The new non-Euclidean geometries that have arisen from this discovery has caused feverish excitement amongst our research community, as well as some interesting gothic fiction from our more nervous authors. <PLANET> gains +6 physics research points. +2 amenities."
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Aethernet posted:"Prominent mathematicians and slightly brighter children have identified that dividing a sphere into equally sized squares is impossible, but nonetheless, the surface of this world does indeed consist of such. The new non-Euclidean geometries that have arisen from this discovery has caused feverish excitement amongst our research community, as well as some interesting gothic fiction from our more nervous authors. <SCIENCE_VESSEL_LEADER> gains Maniacal and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome".
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Does anyone know how much unity you gain per purged pop as a fanatic purifier? I'm playing my first game as such and I'd like to know what the prize is for eliminating these horrible bird people. Also I guess there probably isn't any way to speed up the purge process? It's like 20 years, which is weird considering I can just ship them all to other planets. There's no event where I can allow an airlock malfunction to 'accidentally' complete an instant purge while they're in transit?
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The purging and genociding also seemed to me like they take absurdly long amounts of time, even planet crackers had a huge cooldown on release 2.0. I haven't gone back since 2.1 or later to try a purging based race but I found it kinda unsatisfying given how long it took. You conquer a planet to deal with 20 years of unrest and an ever increasing diplo penalty, and in the end, you have an empty planet. As atrocities go, it feels more like the british conquering another colony back during imperialism and machinegunning the locals over time rather than the tyranids just tearing everything to shreds and replacing it with their own stuff. Ham Sandwiches fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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Sep 3, 2018 18:54
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Ham Sandwiches posted:I haven't gone back since 2.1 or later to try a purging based race but I found it kinda unsatisfying given how long it took. OK, glad it's not just me. I shipped all the bird people off to other planets so I wouldn't have to deal with the tech and unity penalties from having three more inhabited systems under my control, but that just made the lengthy purge process feel even weirder- I was able to move every single one of them across the galaxy, but purging them still takes a generation? Why didn't my horribly racist humans just kill them when they put them on the transfer ship?!
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Sep 3, 2018 19:37
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Stellaris has this weird thing about "you can't destroy pops easily" which I guess is meant to signify that it's difficult to just exterminate people without the galaxy caring about it. It doesn't really work with the other stuff like the way species reproduce, migration, colonizing off habitability planets, factions, etc. So the way playing a devouring swarm / tyranids plays out is that you conquer a planet but you very carefully purge 1 at a time because killing faster would be overpowered, and each one gets you a diplo penalty, because what you're doing is wrong, and this repeats for every pop. The planet is worthless during the whole time and factions get unhappy. Where I think this is interesting is from a scaling perspective. If a planet takes 20 years to purge then you really can only do 10-15 purge cycles per playthrough. It feels like a very big limitation on empires that are meant to genocide or exterminate. I found the same issue with Determined Exterminators. Occupying a planet is an absolute trap, because apparently my murderous machines that generate a -1000 penalty diplo penalty because they're so evil and murderous can't be arsed to murder in <20 years. Again I'll harp on a recurring theme in Stellaris: pre emptive nerfs on stuff that don't make sense. Why does it take so utterly long to genocide things, planets, anything? Given that the game has a sort of 'effective point at which you stop playing' it ends up acting as the same kind of gating one sees in megastructures like dyson spheres. And again, the pre emptive nerfing of that stuff. And the pre emptive nerfing of gates. You can only build 1 at a time, the enemy gets to use them at war. Anyway. I think the pre emptive nerfs hit the genocidal races very badly and I don't think they add up to a compelling experience when playing one.
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Independence day, a movie set on earth: Oh wow they're going to exterminate us all at once they wiped out like 80% of the population in a day with an attack from SPACE with GIANT SPACE SHIPS and LASERS  Independence day, a movie set in stellaris: Oh wow they're going to exterminate us all, we have roughly 20 years to finish figuring out what to do about it, while they take people out very slowly one at a time 
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:Does anyone know how much unity you gain per purged pop as a fanatic purifier? I'm playing my first game as such and I'd like to know what the prize is for eliminating these horrible bird people. Change your purge type to extermination and they'll disappear in 20 months. I'm not sure it's working correctly but it purging should give purifiers 1.5 months worth of Unity production per pop. Kaal fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 3, 2018 |
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Sep 3, 2018 19:50
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Yeah I do in general wish stellaris was a more "deadly" setting where entire planets could be reduced to radiated wasteland with a few months bombardment. It was something the MOO series got right and made it very important to spread your defenses around if you didn't want to lose planets to bombardment. You couldn't just put everyone into a single defensive death-ball then take out the enemy fleets bombing your worlds one at a time, you had to make sure the enemy never had a second of time uncontested around your planets. I think deadlier bombardment (and of course a bunch of other balance changes to go along with that) would have gone a long way to breaking up death-balls of fleets. It's way too easy to just ignore enemies bombarding your planets.
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Ham Sandwiches posted:So the way playing a devouring swarm / tyranids plays out is that you conquer a planet but you very carefully purge 1 at a time because killing faster would be overpowered, and each one gets you a diplo penalty, because what you're doing is wrong, and this repeats for every pop. The planet is worthless during the whole time and factions get unhappy. You're doing it wrong. Resettle them to you home worlds. Put them on the farms. Move your pops out to thier planets. Planet is up and running quickly. You eat them faster spread out. You avoid unrest by only have a few on any planet.
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Is there a mod to keep raiders from spawning right next to me? I have no clustered starts which works for the regular AI but apparently not for them.
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BrandorKP posted:You're doing it wrong. Resettle them to you home worlds. Put them on the farms. Move your pops out to thier planets. Planet is up and running quickly. You eat them faster spread out. You avoid unrest by only have a few on any planet.
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Not that weird, it's what you do with the rest of your food.
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Nickiepoo posted:Just confirmed this with the norn misses so this marks the first time I'm sure she isn't just making a word up off the top of her head. Ach sure she's only keepin ye goin', ask her if she's ever been that stocious she cowped inty the sheuch. Anyroad I agree with yousins sayin' you should be able to banjax a planet quare an' quick. If I skite over thonder an' then it takes a decade to kill some buck eejit culchies in the oxters of the galaxy, while my boyos are foundered on some auld hole, I'm left feelin' quare an scunnered. Pure ragin'.
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I'm extremely excited to try out the modding possibilities for the new economy stuff. I really wish they'd make the various alternate starts their own thing rather than a civic slot though.
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Ham Sandwiches posted:Independence day, a movie set on earth: I think Independence Day is more like a neutron sweep and regular Stellaris purge is something like Oblivion.
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Sep 3, 2018 21:41
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I always figured the extermination purge type was akin to what Skynet was doing in the Terminator series, having to slowly around everyone up and kill them. Only it's not always a homicidal AI rounding up and killing everyone.
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Ham Sandwiches posted:So the way playing a devouring swarm / tyranids plays out is that you conquer a planet but you very carefully purge 1 at a time because killing faster would be overpowered, and each one gets you a diplo penalty, because what you're doing is wrong, and this repeats for every pop. The planet is worthless during the whole time and factions get unhappy. I think this more has to do with the limitations of the Tile System. I've got the impression that the games tries to emulate the grueling logistics of purging millions of beings that actively resist it but at the same time displacing that same pop is just drag and drop from one planet to another
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Strudel Man posted:That feels very weird, though. The devouring horde takes the entire population of a planet, divides it nicely up across the galaxy, and only then starts eating them. For what it's worth, resettling pops being processed is free.
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I believe the cooldown on planet crackers / neutron sweeps was 5 years at 2.0 release, did that get reduced? I guess if you can resettle all the pops as soon as you invade a planet that works. It feels weird, I guess it's a valid workaround, I just would like to know why genociding them on that planet is not viable but spreading them all around so that 1-3 pops per planet get purged is way better. Same question for planet crackers if I can only fire it every X years ... why have that limitation? Just let genocidal races be genocidal, there's 600-1000 stars in many galaxies, limiting things to 20-30 effective planet uses per playthrough when you have to conquer potentially hundreds of systems is very odd.
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Is there a short list somewhere of all the new resources and different new planet systems (like housing, jobs, infrastructure, etc) with a solid but condensed description somewhere? I know some of it is not set in stone but want to start working on plans to update my mod. Terribly busy irl so haven't been able to keep up properly with most of the dev blogs (it's also a lot of info) hah.
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Kaal posted:Change your purge type to extermination and they'll disappear in 20 months. I'm not sure it's working correctly but it purging should give purifiers 1.5 months worth of Unity production per pop. That sounds much more reasonable, thanks!
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SirTagz posted:I think Independence Day is more like a neutron sweep and regular Stellaris purge is something like Oblivion.
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Ham Sandwiches posted:I believe the cooldown on planet crackers / neutron sweeps was 5 years at 2.0 release, did that get reduced? No they got pulled way back, it's like 90 days now, I think. You can actually use them in the course of a war. Never again shall I conquer a FE without the assimilation ray.
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Guilliman posted:Is there a short list somewhere of all the new resources and different new planet systems (like housing, jobs, infrastructure, etc) with a solid but condensed description somewhere? I know some of it is not set in stone but want to start working on plans to update my mod. Terribly busy irl so haven't been able to keep up properly with most of the dev blogs (it's also a lot of info) hah.
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Demiurge4 posted:I'm extremely excited to try out the modding possibilities for the new economy stuff. I really wish they'd make the various alternate starts their own thing rather than a civic slot though. That'd be pretty neat. Alternate starts and a new group of civics that allow you to modify your start could all be bunched into some sort of "Starting civics". Things like Life Seeded or Syncretic evolution all modify starts, and you could even make new civics to determine your starting location (Inside a nebula, around a black hole) or your starter precursor (First league, etc).
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Ham Sandwiches posted:I believe the cooldown on planet crackers / neutron sweeps was 5 years at 2.0 release, did that get reduced? Colossi never had a cooldown, to my knowledge, they just took a full year to actually fire. Nowadays they take three months to fire.
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