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i mean i got zero beef with entities psychic, extradimensional or even paracausal. bring em on and in, we'll have a fuckin kegger just... not out of a black hole, okay? 
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You get a your butt stuck in a black hole one day and see how that changes your mood and outlook on life.
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Synthbuttrange posted:You get a your butt stuck in a black hole one day and see how that changes your mood and outlook on life. Constipation is cured.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:54
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The name/post combos here are pretty intense.
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Nov 7, 2018 04:58
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wiegieman posted:String the worm along right up until it tries to move in then murder it to death. friendsectored again
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Nov 7, 2018 04:59
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I've never ended up following the worm events to the very end. I've read the event code so I know what happens, but at some point I give up with how long it's taking and never go back to that save again.
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binge crotching posted:I've never ended up following the worm events to the very end. I've read the event code so I know what happens, but at some point I give up with how long it's taking and never go back to that save again. Gaining like 5 new planets in your home system is p neat
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Speaking of which I think it's time to load a new save because after about 10 hours this is pretty much looking like Endless Goddamn War and that seems like a bit of a tiresome solution to all of my problems Also, wow, 2274. Isn't the midgame crisis around 2300? Sure didn't get much done. (e) Also also, the War Claims system is like exactly the reverse of how my understanding of war goes and it's hurting my head
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You are in a fantastic position, seems to me.
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oh in a fantastic position to crush all before me, sure! i just wanna hug. crushing with hugs optional  (edit) I wonder how many unique takes there are on The Culture, in terms of ethics, traits and governance selection (or even whether they're organically led, of course) Ciaphas fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 05:35
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Trivia posted:I always just end up ignoring factions. While that's viable, it's wildly inefficient I'm betting. Anyone have any general advice when dealing with them? it depends on your empire ethics, but it's pretty easy to keep 3 or 4 factions above 60%. the only one i ever really suppress is xenophobes because they're almost always totally miserable if they're not happy. with militarists or spiritualists it's usually pretty easy to keep them at a manageable happiness level even if you've got large pacifist or materialist factions at 60%+
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You wanna hug, but you picked the fascist terran faction?
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That AutoBuild mod one of you guys mentioned god knows how many pages ago is fantastic. It was basically exactly what I wanted by default and the config menu thing made tweaking it easy. It's absurd to me that the game has had bad planet and sector AI for its entire lifetime and some random dude on steam can just throw together something better.
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Ciaphas posted:Speaking of which I think it's time to load a new save because after about 10 hours this is pretty much looking like Endless Goddamn War and that seems like a bit of a tiresome solution to all of my problems Stay. The. Course. Kill. Them. All. Also, holy poo poo, you finally meet neighbors and it's a devouring swarm, two fanatic purifiers, and a hegemonic imperialist?
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Ciaphas posted:oh in a fantastic position to crush all before me, sure! i just wanna hug. Vavrek posted:Also, holy poo poo, you finally meet neighbors and it's a devouring swarm, two fanatic purifiers, and a hegemonic imperialist? Dude, most of the galaxy will LOVE you for killing those kinds of neighbors, except maybe the imperialist. But Devouring Swarms, Fanatic Purifiers, and Determined Exterminators are existential threats and the galaxy will unite against them. Having them nearby makes everyone band together out of fear. Offer favorable trade deals until you can get non-aggression pacts with everyone else, and watch the love-in start.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:You wanna hug, but you picked the fascist terran faction? Someone said it'd be the easy way to learn the game! Funny enough, I did learn a lot
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oh my loving god i decided, before i stopped, to buddy up a touch with some of the gross nonthreatening alien boys and figured out where the rest of the sovs are, and there's another hegemonizing imperialist AND devouring swarm in the southeast  
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Ciaphas posted:oh my loving god the galaxy has given you many horrible xenos to purge 
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Ciaphas posted:oh my loving god That is a great game. You can murder everything and feel good about it. You don't even have to worry about claims when it comes to war with the bad boys (your purifiers, exterminators, devouring swarms). Any war with them is a "total war" and you automatically take any territory you've fully conquered (starbase + planets, if any) The imperialists are going to hate you, but that's okay. They hate everybody.
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I just wanna say, Ciaphas, you're making me wanna play the game again, but fuuuuuuuck tiles. I can't. I just can't. I'll just wait (im)patiently.
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hegemonic imperalists are the worst. at least with devouring swarms and fanatic purifiers you can just kill them and take their stuff
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yeah now that i understand a little more about who is what and why i realize this is literally the perfect Purge The Unclean game  I'll definitely be back to it! Gonna muse more at chargen (empiregen?) some more for now though (edit) also starting over gives me a chance to try that AutoBuild mod, since I remembered I don't actually care about cheevs still gonna ironman though, doesn't feel like the kind of game you should reload out of.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I just wanna say, Ciaphas, you're making me wanna play the game again, but fuuuuuuuck tiles. I can't. I just can't. 
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 i've always been interested in the storytelling capability of games like this and CK2 and... well, Paradox games, really, I guess. Just always found em too goddamn impenetrable to bother with until Stellaris gave it the aesthetic polish I wanted I'm not finding tiles too terrifically aggravating now that I understand the rules and have AutoBuild handling the purely mechanistic clicking, but they're definitely kinda  compared to other mechanics. (And of course I'm having to run a mod.) Fingers crossed on the update, I suppose
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I just wanna say, Ciaphas, you're making me wanna play the game again, but fuuuuuuuck tiles. I can't. I just can't. Same here. Just sitting here hoping and wishing that LeGuin comes out before Christmas.
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wiegieman posted:String the worm along right up until it tries to move in then murder it to death. Vavrek posted:The name/post combos here are pretty intense. Right? But no, I'm a big believer in aunties proverb so it checks out. 
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New to the thread, but not Stellaris. Nice OP. Anyone hit a bug in synthetic Dawn that spawns a 900k fleet with a -100% damage debuff? I got a synthetic fleet of 150 battleships, cruisers, destroyers and Corvettes that all deal 0 damage.
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Lil Peeler posted:New to the thread, but not Stellaris. Nice OP. Did they use their jump drive? That get's a debuff.
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Any idea where the humanoid-specific voice packs are in the folders? I've been searching everywhere but can't find them.
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Rynoto posted:Each fe/ae have their own specific ships that never change. Trip report now that I finally got some time to play again. I messed up in the fleet manager and got my poo poo pushed in. But I did get some wreckage to analyze and consider it a win in the end. Meanwhile they decided to expand away from me (didn't even take my living metal) so I've got plenty of time and income to rebuild and come back even stronger. Hell, with my Dyson sphere starting to come online I'm not even dependent on my tributaries for income anymore. I just converted my mining planet into all matter replicators and am still at several hundreds of energy surplus.
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Libluini posted:Did they use their jump drive? That get's a debuff. I think they had it, but even then it's not a 100% debuff lol. And this one wasn't on a timer. Also I'd be happy to help plug in the added ascension perks from Utopia/Apoc if it'll go in the OP. Mr. Merdle fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Lil Peeler posted:I think they had it, but even then it's not a 100% debuff lol. And this one wasn't on a timer. Go for it. As long as there's a goon consensus, I'll put it in.
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just making sure, there's no good "short" form exportable infographic for how my empire is doing overall that i can post to forums etc., is there i was thinking something other than screenshots of the diplomacy screen and map would be nice to say "hey here's my empire"
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Ciaphas posted:just making sure, there's no good "short" form exportable infographic for how my empire is doing overall that i can post to forums etc., is there Paradox games have often included things like this but they've been seemingly dead set against any sort of "ledger" screens in Stellaris 
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It would look mega underwhelming to open the ledger and be like "okay let's see where my empire and the 6 other empires in the whole galaxy stand!! yeah!" so I have a feeling that plays a role in the decision to not include it
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i can see that i suppose maybe it's different after mid or in late/postgame but i find it very difficult to, for example, pin down why all 3 of my sectors are at between 0 and -11E. and even the budget tab for this is a little unclear since I'm not sure how sectors and your empire's overall income interact, so while my empire was at like +56 or something absurd all my sectors were struggling so i had to keep manually shoveling money at em
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I think you can still click the planets and see their resource generation from the summary screen even if they're in a sector, it's annoying but you can probably figure out where the energy hole is coming from
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blech. leguin pls
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Ham Sandwiches posted:It would look mega underwhelming to open the ledger and be like "okay let's see where my empire and the 6 other empires in the whole galaxy stand!! yeah!" so I have a feeling that plays a role in the decision to not include it I just find that in Stellaris I have such a hard time really tracking my progress or having a good handle on where I stand in the universe. In most other 4X games they give you all sorts of graphs and charts and lists and I love that poo poo. I want to see a graph of my empire population over time and notice that huge spike after I started habitat spamming that sent me from the #4 most populous nation to #1 in just 30 years. I want important and fluff stats like civ's demographics screen. What empire is the most happy? Most productive? Show me the change in ethos empire and galaxy wide. Oh odd in 2310 there was a huge galaxy-wide uptick in egalitarian pops?? Oh that's when I went on my liberation-war spree, cool, nice to see it had an impact.
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