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MadJackal posted:Auto Build, Stellar Expansion, and Multiple Crises are all updated to 1.5, but for some weird reason the launcher doesn't recognize the updates even though I've played with these mods multiple times after I've done the unsub-resub dance. It's just weird. Welp, I tried  That's really weird.
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Lprsti99 posted:Welp, I tried Thanks. I'm going to try the usual "uninstall and reinstall the game and every mod" approach.
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May 1, 2017 04:59
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PittTheElder posted:You can actually mod all you want as a Purifier, you just have to mod everybody to the same thing. Invest in Terraforming. Just go extremely adaptable - between that and the techs you can hit every planet without worrying about terraforming.
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May 1, 2017 05:05
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Jacque Pott posted:Just updated my ground combat replacement mod to a new version: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=911546934 If anyone hasn't tried this yet, it's really worth giving it a shot. Just got through with my first game playing it and it solves so many freaking problems. Ever had the AI poo poo the bed on an invasion and then just stay over the planet doing nothing to build a new army? No problem now. Is the AI just deciding they're going to bombard a planet for the hell of it with no armies even on the way to take it over? Actually getting work done now. Tired of the island hopping style campaign where you take planet and move on so the AI sits over the one of the planets you've already taken because it's internal process has decided not to fight you, but they can't take over the planet because they only try to do so with one or two armies and leaving one or two of your own makes them invincible? Now you actually have to trap/capture their fleet, to at least bring it down such that it's not capable of burning through the fortification value of the planet too quickly so you can finish the war. Overpower or crush your opponents fleet but still stuck going planet by planet because the AI builds tons of defensive armies and it's just easier/quicker to keep island hopping? Divide and conquer away, carpet siege to hearts content, it's all good. (Although still should just console yourself a win, but if you really don't want to...)
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May 1, 2017 05:58
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Jabarto posted:Are you Egalitarian? If you are that tech is 90% less likely to come up. I wish I'd known that before planning my gene achievement run.
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May 1, 2017 06:17
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ulmont posted:Just go extremely adaptable - between that and the techs you can hit every planet without worrying about terraforming. Eh, I legit like Terraforming now. It's really easy to drive the cost way down, and if you pick up that one Ascension Perk it's reasonably quick as well. I'd rather do that than spend four trait points on adaptive really.
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May 1, 2017 06:38
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MadJackal posted:Thanks. I'm going to try the usual "uninstall and reinstall the game and every mod" approach. This worked btw. I also uninstalled the not-quite-bought version if the game. I'm willing to believe that my mod issues were 100% of my own making. Sorry Wiz 
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May 1, 2017 06:48
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nessin posted:If anyone hasn't tried this yet, it's really worth giving it a shot. Just got through with my first game playing it and it solves so many freaking problems. Wow, that's high praise! Glad you're enjoying it. 
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May 1, 2017 09:08
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Jacque Pott posted:Wow, that's high praise! Glad you're enjoying it. That is to say, I see "bonuses to ... unrest reduction to replace that part of the army's function," but where do they come from?
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May 1, 2017 09:44
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Strudel Man posted:How does it deal with the unrest-quelling function of armies? Haven't played it, but I'd think a combination of policies limited by Egalitarian/Authoritarian, and docked ships as military coercion.
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May 1, 2017 10:12
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Strudel Man posted:How does it deal with the unrest-quelling function of armies? Having a military academy on a planet will reduce unrest by 50 (up from base of 10) and also gives an adjacency bonus of 1 for society research. On researching Synths you can build a new spaceport module, the Synth Defense Matrix, which reduces unrest by 25 and increases planet fortification by 25%. The matrix is to replace synth armies. Getting to positive manpower also reduces unrest by 10 per level (up to a max level of +8), although the only way to achieve >0 manpower right now is to get the Shroud event that used to give an army. Playstation 4 posted:Haven't played it, but I'd think a combination of policies limited by Egalitarian/Authoritarian, and docked ships as military coercion. The docked ships thing sounds like a good idea though I'm not sure how I could implement it. I'll keep it in mind.
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May 1, 2017 12:49
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Jacque Pott posted:On researching Synths you can build a new spaceport module, the Synth Defense Matrix, which reduces unrest by 25 and increases planet fortification by 25%. The matrix is to replace synth armies.W Will this actually work though? Since the fleet will obliterate the spaceport before it starts bombarding anyway.
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May 1, 2017 13:39
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Nitrousoxide posted:Will this actually work though? Since the fleet will obliterate the spaceport before it starts bombarding anyway. Oh right, should've thought of that...  I'll think of something to replace that with.
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May 1, 2017 14:28
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I want a mod that allows me to pay a bunch of credits to turn my stations into late season Deep Space 9s.
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May 1, 2017 14:37
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MadJackal posted:I want a mod that allows me to pay a bunch of credits to turn my stations into late season Deep Space 9s. That's what habitats are? 
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May 1, 2017 14:41
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So I'm fairly new to this game and I'm not all that far in, but I'm trying to go for a federation victory with a diplomatic race. The federation I am in just had a few of our friendly associates split off and start their own federation. Is there any way to merge federations or force another federation to split up? Larger question: does anyone actually play towards a federation victory? Seems like a huge pain in the rear end.
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May 1, 2017 15:04
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I've tried several times to get a happy clappy egalitarian space EU going and it's just not happening. All of my neighbours are a-holes or/and can't live on my type of planet for migration to work. I can't imagine that it'd be to do with gene modding my perspective pals as they'd have to have migrated to my planets for the editing in the first place, surely?
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May 1, 2017 15:50
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Restrained Crown Posse posted:I've tried several times to get a happy clappy egalitarian space EU going and it's just not happening. All of my neighbours are a-holes or/and can't live on my type of planet for migration to work. I can't imagine that it'd be to do with gene modding my perspective pals as they'd have to have migrated to my planets for the editing in the first place, surely? I've been getting basically no migration as well.
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May 1, 2017 16:08
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peak debt posted:That's what habitats are? Late DS9 had like a million lasers and torpedo launchers And a big ol minefield Habitats have none of that
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May 1, 2017 16:12
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Speaking of not working...how exactly does displacement purging work? So in my latest game, at the very end of the early game I conquered another empire and set their pops to be displaced. Hundreds of hundreds of years, and hours and hours later in the late game, their planets finally became available for me to pave over. It had taken so long I literally forgot about them. Is this just an effect of displacement purging sucking or do other empires have to accept refugees or what?
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May 1, 2017 16:52
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Sloober posted:Late DS9 had like a million lasers and torpedo launchers
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May 1, 2017 17:56
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Is this just an effect of displacement purging sucking or do other empires have to accept refugees or what? Otherwise, each pop has a 50-year mtth event to just vanish. This is what actually gets rid of most of them.
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May 1, 2017 18:07
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Nitrousoxide posted:I've been getting basically no migration as well.
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May 1, 2017 18:09
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I'm pretty sure voluntary migration between empires is broken. It used to work fine but this patch I haven't seen it happen either to me or to AI's, the only immigrants I'm getting as a xenophile are refugees. e:f;b
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May 1, 2017 18:09
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It's not outright broken - I had one guy set to displacement purge migrate out successfully. It's easy to tell, because they get the regular green "migrating" icon while it's in progress rather than the red "purging" icon. But it could certainly have problems.Jacque Pott posted:Having a military academy on a planet will reduce unrest by 50 (up from base of 10) and also gives an adjacency bonus of 1 for society research. On researching Synths you can build a new spaceport module, the Synth Defense Matrix, which reduces unrest by 25 and increases planet fortification by 25%. The matrix is to replace synth armies.
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May 1, 2017 18:32
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Strudel Man posted:It's not outright broken - I had one guy set to displacement purge migrate out successfully. It's easy to tell, because they get the regular green "migrating" icon while it's in progress rather than the red "purging" icon. But it could certainly have problems. Thats not voluntary migration though which is the part that seems broken. Anyway I have had a ton of migration but exclusively to habitats. Once I build one of those the migrants come straight up pouring in. No one will ever migrate to a normal planet though
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May 1, 2017 18:34
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GlyphGryph posted:Thats not voluntary migration though which is the part that seems broken. I've also gotten ordinary migration in, in a different game. It's just rare.
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May 1, 2017 18:41
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Arghy posted:Materialist is just down right boring, yay robots everywhere and i've out paced the entire galaxy in tech by an insane margin. Theres a few psi spiritualist neighbors but my economy is just absurd and i'd curb stomp the poo poo outta them if it ever came to war. actually 
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May 1, 2017 18:43
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GlyphGryph posted:Thats not voluntary migration though which is the part that seems broken. But as soon as I built habitats, migrants came pouring in. I've seen my pops planning to move to neighboring empires, but I don't think I've ever seen them successfully leave now that I think about it. It's also weird that I get basically no internal migration except for newly colonized planets. That giant gaia world with "land of opportunity" active had people moving away from it to the colonies, but no one ever moved there even though it was basically empty.
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May 1, 2017 18:45
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:actually I wonder... 
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May 1, 2017 18:50
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Fun fact: if declare war on somebody, and completely annex them at the end of it, you don't get truces with anyone. You can use this to take just obscene swathes of land from people, especially if there is a lot of guarantees at play. Feels almost like I'm turboannexing, EU3 style.
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May 1, 2017 19:06
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Why is there only one robot jpg?
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May 1, 2017 19:13
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How viable is having a really small empire? And how much colonized planets should you aim for? I am asking because i always get told what a great researcher small empires are.
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May 1, 2017 19:19
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Michaellaneous posted:How viable is having a really small empire? And how much colonized planets should you aim for? I had synths and jump drives in my 2 planet fanatical materialist playthrough after only 75 years. I had about 50 research in each category and +60 - +70% research speed. Also you can squeeze out 33 research in EACH category of research from habitats (43 if you have synths with share the burden on) Nitrousoxide fucked around with this message at 19:52 on May 1, 2017 |
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May 1, 2017 19:26
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Michaellaneous posted:How viable is having a really small empire? And how much colonized planets should you aim for? It's not very viable. More developed planets are basically always better for science and even for unity than fewer - best overall is probably slow expansion, minimizing the relative number of undeveloped colonies dragging things down at any one time.
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May 1, 2017 19:27
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Decrepus posted:Why is there only one robot jpg? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=876504304
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May 1, 2017 19:31
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PittTheElder posted:Fun fact: if declare war on somebody, and completely annex them at the end of it, you don't get truces with anyone. Also triggers if you liberate all their planets.
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May 1, 2017 19:35
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Michaellaneous posted:How viable is having a really small empire? And how much colonized planets should you aim for? Small empires are excellent researchers, but it's not difficult for large empires to exploit them in various ways to keep at or above parity in tech. The ship debris system in particular heavily mitigates any meaningful tech disparity between large and small empires past the first thirty years of the game, especially on higher difficulties.
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May 1, 2017 19:37
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Small empires will lose in the long run based on fleet capacity alone. Only 2-3 planets can barely support a decent fleet in both quantity and maintenance costs before habitats pop up, and by then anyone with 6+ planets likely isn't far behind in tech while having other advantages. This is especially obvious if you have to fight an awakening empire or the unbidden, as there is no tech advantage to leverage. It can work, but there's no real advantage to it after the first bits of tech and unity progress.
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Michaellaneous posted:How viable is having a really small empire? And how much colonized planets should you aim for?
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