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ikanreed posted:Master of Magic has DLC now??? The company doing the rerelease picked up a total overhaul mod called Caster of Magic that's been worked on and updated for years and repackaged it as DLC. IIRC the same person doing the mod is also helping out with the MoM sequel that's being bandied about, though I'm less sure about that one.
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Dec 8, 2020 15:43
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Dec 8, 2020 15:48
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Warlock I fell in love with, are there any 4xs similar to that? I guess in simplicity
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Dec 8, 2020 16:14
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Kibbles n Shits posted:I don't remember the other aspects of the game, such as combat and diplomacy being very fleshed out. There was a ship designer of course, but the tactical battles seemed a little.. dull? Certainly not as fun as MOO2 or even Space Empires. I didn't care for tactical combat in MOO2. MOO had a great little tactical chess match, and some interesting decision-making over when to mothball one of your 6 ship design slots to create a new one. MOO2 was just about building your best ships and setting up a firing line.
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Dec 8, 2020 16:23
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Hey, it's Mayveena from the Management Megathread. Somehow I missed this thread! I have moved away somewhat from 4X games and more into base building games, and I was thinking about why. I've been playing video games since the TRS 80 so been through a lot of changes in the industry. One of the biggest issues to me in 4X gaming is that Civilization takes up nearly all of the oxygen in the space, leaving not much room for innovation. For example, Star Ruler 2 (made by Goons!!) just couldn't get any traction even though it was well designed and really interesting. But it wasn't really a 'civ' game, so eventually they gave it away for free. For me personally, I'm tired of beating up Africans (yes I know it's everyone but that whole schtick has gotten way old for me) and want something fresh. I'm looking at Shadow Empires. Thing is I'm old now, and janky UI's are an issue for me. Also I'm hard of hearing, and I just don't understand a good bit of DasTactic or even Grey Hunter. Anyone have a video with good communication that an American can understand? Again no prejudice whatsoever is meant but I am hard of hearing.
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Dec 8, 2020 18:51
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Empress Brosephine posted:Warlock I fell in love with, are there any 4xs similar to that? I guess in simplicity Gog.com has Warlords III, it's kinda old but still good, and simple.
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Dec 8, 2020 18:52
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Dunno about the communication but I have my shadow empire tutorial vids and a couple of LP's linked in the OP of the game thread. For the first vid of the MP VLP my microphone is a dud bit after that it's fine.
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Dec 8, 2020 19:26
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hi, i just noticed this thread after having another ES2 stint last month and I figured I'd say ES2 is still very very good, but then I saw this:JeremoudCorbynejad posted:
 default freeciv ruleset is a custom civ2 inspired ruleset with some neat things backported from civ3, and modified so it's good and fun to play online however, it does also ship with classic civ1 and civ2 rulesets, and lets you play those on pretty much any hardware made in the last 20 years, comfortably on modern monitor resolutions. it is hands down the best way to play the first two civilization games, and it's completely free e: also, in spirit of the thread title, the AI isn't great, but after 20 years of fiddling it does tend to do better than in the original two games at least
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Dec 9, 2020 00:34
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Mayveena posted:Hey, it's Mayveena from the Management Megathread. Somehow I missed this thread! I have moved away somewhat from 4X games and more into base building games Do you mean like city builder games? Like caesar3? 4x games and city builders scratch the same itch for me, building an empire that needs a balance of resources isnt super far from building the pottery chain in c3
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Dec 9, 2020 00:46
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Snail Information posted:Do you mean like city builder games? Like caesar3? 4x games and city builders scratch the same itch for me, building an empire that needs a balance of resources isnt super far from building the pottery chain in c3 Management games (vs RTS style base building games) don't have the Xterminate part and I'm not sure that I miss it that much? On the other hand, I've had a lot of fun with Distant Worlds!
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Dec 9, 2020 01:32
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been playing endless space 2 without dlc and holds rather well for a basic 4x feels
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Dec 9, 2020 03:01
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Mayveena posted:Management games (vs RTS style base building games) don't have the Xterminate part and I'm not sure that I miss it that much? On the other hand, I've had a lot of fun with Distant Worlds! I mean you're conquering the wilderness and turning it into overflow housing or whatever
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Dec 9, 2020 16:02
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Truga posted:hi, i just noticed this thread after having another ES2 stint last month and I figured I'd say ES2 is still very very good, but then I saw this: Nice, thanks for linking! civ 5 was my first civ and I enjoyed civ 4. I've had a weird desire to go back and try the civs that started it all.
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Dec 9, 2020 21:56
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http://www.silverlemurgames.com/2020/12/10/im-making-a-sequel-to-stellar-monarch/ Stellar Monarch 2. Neat. 
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Dec 11, 2020 12:19
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Nifty! One of the frustrating things about Stellar Monarch was that the autonomous fleets didnt quite work right and you had to micro them a lot to acheive good results.
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Dec 11, 2020 12:58
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Nice, thanks for linking! civ 5 was my first civ and I enjoyed civ 4. I've had a weird desire to go back and try the civs that started it all. You gonna play the board game?
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Dec 12, 2020 15:44
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I'd certainly like to give it a go.
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Dec 12, 2020 17:02
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How does stand up Age of Wonders 3 these days? I have it on my steam backlog and couldn't manage to get into it back then, but been playing some HoMMIII recently and I remembered it
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Dec 26, 2020 17:04
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dead gay comedy forums posted:How does stand up Age of Wonders 3 these days? I have it on my steam backlog and couldn't manage to get into it back then, but been playing some HoMMIII recently and I remembered it AoW3 has had so many expansions that the campaign difficulty balances are all out of whack. Some missions are laughably easy. Some are almost impossibly hard. If you just want to mess around in sandbox, it's still fun, but for all practical purposes there's no single player campaign.
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Dec 26, 2020 17:11
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LLSix posted:AoW3 has had so many expansions that the campaign difficulty balances are all out of whack. Some missions are laughably easy. Some are almost impossibly hard. It only has two?
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Feb 8, 2021 23:35
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Meridian posted:It only has two? That's true. I'm surprised they never went back and rebalanced the campaigns then. I got through the first few levels when I played it but when I started having trouble everyone in the thread for it told me not to continue with the campaigns because they'd gotten broken by balance changes. I pushed through another level or two but then ran into a wall I couldn't even got close to overcoming.
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Feb 9, 2021 00:01
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LLSix posted:That's true. I'm surprised they never went back and rebalanced the campaigns then. To be fair they might have shaken things up with general patches and I'd have no idea. Barely have any time in the game myself.
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Feb 9, 2021 00:13
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https://twitter.com/doomquasar/status/1242520928317313026 This was a while ago, but when I originally read about this, my first reaction was that it sounded more like an Alpha Centauri quote. Then I belatedly found out that Ken Levine himself has gone on the record how Alpha Centauri served as an inspiration for Bioshock. Now I can't stop thinking about a 4X game that has competing factions of crazy ideologues colonizing the ocean floor.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:02
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Oh good someone posted in here so I don't have to find it again - I have more games for the OP list. Star Ruler 2 (and 1 too I suppose). I'm still not entirely sure if it's a good game or not but it's definitely worth trying out because it does some very interesting poo poo in diplomacy and empire building. Deadlock: Planetary Conquest is a older game but my teenaged past self is highly confident that it's fantastic (while my embittered current self says that I have enough games I already don't play on Steam that I shouldn't spent $7 to find out if past me is right). There's also AI War, which for anyone who doesn't know AI War is one of those series that defies genre. It's sorta the bastard child of 4X and roguelikes, with a totally false veneer of a space RTS too.
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Mar 6, 2021 09:24
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Star Ruler is goon made.
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Mar 6, 2021 15:35
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Star Ruler 2 kicks rear end and should absolutely be on the list. AI War is iffier because I don't really consider it a 4x but it's certainly an interesting game! EDIT: Did anyone mention Remnants of the Precursors yet? https://rayfowler.itch.io/remnants-of-the-precursors It's a one-man remake and modernization of MoO1 that doesn't actually alter any of the game's core systems, just gives it more modern QOL and art. Still in beta at the moment but it is feature complete, and completely free. Psycho Landlord fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Mar 6, 2021 15:36
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Saros posted:Nifty! One of the frustrating things about Stellar Monarch was that the autonomous fleets didnt quite work right and you had to micro them a lot to acheive good results. Is there a guide for this somewhere? This baffled me when I was trying to learn the game but I otherwise liked it
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Mar 6, 2021 16:40
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Mayveena posted:Star Ruler is goon made. Who made the wiki?
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Mar 6, 2021 18:34
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Any info on Distant Worlds 2 release date? It’s super vague everywhere.
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Mar 6, 2021 19:02
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Mokotow posted:Any info on Distant Worlds 2 release date? It’s super vague everywhere. According to the interview below, they're aiming at this summer but it depends on the feedback from closed beta for what needs addressing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAWOnTeV6qo&t=3324s
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Mar 6, 2021 19:05
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Who made the wiki? Don't know.
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Mar 6, 2021 20:01
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orangelex44 posted:Oh good someone posted in here so I don't have to find it again - I have more games for the OP list. Star Ruler 2 (and 1 too I suppose). I'm still not entirely sure if it's a good game or not but it's definitely worth trying out because it does some very interesting poo poo in diplomacy and empire building. Deadlock: Planetary Conquest is a older game but my teenaged past self is highly confident that it's fantastic (while my embittered current self says that I have enough games I already don't play on Steam that I shouldn't spent $7 to find out if past me is right). I loved deadlock as a kid, but the UI is incomprehensible to me as an adult and I am amazed how much I played it.
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Mar 10, 2021 17:59
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Stellaris got a Humble Bundle
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Mar 12, 2021 13:07
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orangelex44 posted:Deadlock: Planetary Conquest is a older game but my teenaged past self is highly confident that it's fantastic (while my embittered current self says that I have enough games I already don't play on Steam that I shouldn't spent $7 to find out if past me is right). The reviews on steam suggest it doesn't work on Steam and recommends gog. I'll add it to the OP in a bit along with other games mentioned recently
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Mar 12, 2021 14:18
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Shadow Empire is a lot of fun, but the early metal/industry point scrounging is excruciating  also I can never super remember how the discovery-to-research-to-BP chain works because I was drunk while I was learning to play. Creating logistic supply lines between my cities makes my brain do the Good Chemical though
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Mar 12, 2021 14:22
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Danaru posted:Shadow Empire is a lot of fun, but the early metal/industry point scrounging is excruciating This is why I only like to play on planets that had at least like a billion people pre-dissolution war, so that I'm much more likely to have some good scavenge hexes. As far as IP, pray for an eager industrialist card or a card that gives a huge chunk to private economy money and pray that they decide to build a factory with it.
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Mar 15, 2021 15:12
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Been really enjoying Stellaris though like all these Paradox games I just play them as rpgs with a weird interface. My super-friendly dog people will expand across the stars and love everyone. Whether they like it or not.
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Mar 15, 2021 17:00
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HopperUK posted:Been really enjoying Stellaris though like all these Paradox games I just play them as rpgs with a weird interface. My super-friendly dog people will expand across the stars and love everyone. Whether they like it or not. I'm picturing that they will forgive just about anything as long as you throw the ball for them. Also, their online forums are filled with debates about how throwing the ball for yourself is unfulfilling and using a machine to throw the ball is dirty and treated kind of like having a real doll.
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Let's have a debate: What 4X strategy had the best/most enjoyable AI opponents?
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