Demiurge4 posted:

Alright let's sperg out for a bit then, we'll use this planet as the example.


If you look on the right side you'll note that it appears they've used farm-city-farm going down. The farm tiles are mountains which means they produce less food, but the city tile is a flat plains tile which means it has bigger base food production and gains bonuses from both of the other farms which comes together into a fuckload of food. Ideally, the player would then terraform the swamp at the top to unlock the tile and build another city there, and then a farm on the left. However I posit that the farm shouldn't boost more than one tile at a time and if you want that kind of bonus again you should put the city in the top center tile and farms on either side again. The farms on the right side would not give each other any bonuses at all. This makes adjacency bonuses significant, but still local and you won't be able to chain a bonus across the entire planet, and you're instead encouraged to put your bonuses where they make the most sense and gain a variety of them which translates into a productive and diversified planet. On the left side we can place a lab underneath the creatures in the tile above and gain some kind of bonus there.

The dev diary however notes its best to place reactors next to each other though so I'm going to assume it works the exact opposite and you are encouraged to chain bonuses across the whole planet instead, which leads to specialization, especially if the game has percentage bonuses to one type of production.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

The wait will be over by Christmas.

Manket posted:

That's fine as long as there's repercussions to taking that route, like massive negative relation penalties with other empires/races, to the point where basically everyone else in the federation gets a free casus belli on you or they start a union to take down what is clearly a dangerous, wantonly destructive force in the galaxy.

CharlestheHammer posted:

Real time strategy games?

Dibujante posted:

If you unleash some Ancient Evil can you just tagswap to it?

NLJP posted:

You're in for a treat. It ends in the best way possible.

Psychotic Weasel posted:

Off the top of my head I really can't think of any situations like this that had a demonstrably positive impact on things - yeah it's (probably) not EA buying them up but with a change in ownership and business model means that organizational changes aren't far behind.

vyelkin posted:

https://twitter.com/TheWesterFront/status/706945506036027392

Psychotic Weasel posted:

Is it you? Because retaining a controlling stake in a company has nothing to do with an IPO; he could've just sold a part of the company to someone else privately and there's nothing to prevent him from just selling off what is does retain later to get out of the game. The way the press release reads it looks like some of their backers want to cash in on what they have and think they can get a better deal on the open market. When you take a company public you lose a certain amount of control over things. I'm sure the people who do drop a couple thousand/million dollars investing in the company would then expect to have no word whatsoever on what goes on.

I don't think they've even announced which exchange they plan on using, but with current investment rules where I live I don't think owning more than a share or two for the novelty would be worth it. Not unless they're expecting the price to take off or plan on offering hefty dividends.

Mans posted:

because i am the voice of the people. i am the voice of counters. i am the voice of more EU4 DLC. i am the voice of Rome 2.

ArchangeI posted:

My favorite part of the counter chat are the people who loudly proclaim that they don't care how information is presented in a video game and then post multi-page screeds about how using counters is basically the holocaust all over again.

ArchangeI posted:

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, I seriously think Waldetoft is the best game composer in the business. It's amazing to me how consistently he turns out really great soundtracks.

CharlestheHammer posted:

I will never get people's obsession with controlling what topics the threads are allowed to discuss.

Stairmaster posted:

did... did you just try to own someone by saying they don't post in gbs?

Drone posted:

Stellaris went up for pre-order on Steam.

Normal Pre-Order ($39):

• "Send your name to space" gimmick where they write your name on some weather balloon or something.
  
• Blorg forum avatar
  
• Mobile ringtones
  
• "Creatures of the Void" racial cosmetic pack DLC which include some really awesome ones like: Hydra/Xenomorph, Evil Porcupine, Dinosaur Bird, Shadowy Anthropoid and Fungoid Infected Mammalian
  

Digital Deluxe "Nova" Edition Pre-Order ($49):

• Everything included in the normal pre-order tier
  
• 2.5 hour soundtrack
  
• Forum icon
  
• Exclusive alien cosmetic DLC (space spiders)
  

Collector's "Galaxy" Edition Pre-Order ($69):

• Everything in previous two tiers
  
• Stellaris novel by Steven Savile (e-book)
  
• Digital collector's art book
  
• Signed desktop wallpaper
  
• A unique forum avatar that looks like a spacefrog
  
• A different forum icon
  

Everyone hurry up and pre-order so you can cancel it at the drop of a hat!

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Yes, but the AI had a very, very hard time following that. It was more a suggestion really, one that was quickly binned.



Also, Paradox, for the love of Sweden let me pre-order HOI IV already!

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

There are over a dozen factors that can all swing a battle, it's an obtuse combat system. The kind of thing you were complaining about in Stellaris an hour ago.

Koramei posted:

the first DLC will be about China, the second will be about fleshing out straights". It'd definitely make it a lot easier to make a decision on whether to get it or not.

Fintilgin posted:

They should make a Rome II.

Riso posted:

Slavery and genocide no problem but human whites only mods go too far!

Enjoy posted:

It was a passive-aggressive joke about his joke not being funny enough to recognise as a joke, if you must know!

Zombiepop posted:

Yeah you are right, but scenarios are so boring, I would rather see HoI become more grand strategy, Seeing the world facture and rebuild from ww1 to whenever. Just make sure new nations pop up after each major conflict to keep the map fresh.

corn in the bible posted:

I always have trouble knowing which to build

Koramei posted:

Don't worry about it, nobody knows; I think that's like the third situation since it was added 2 years ago I've heard about it actually being relevant.

It's funny though, I was watching a DDRjake run from before Art of War came out and he was constantly getting questions about "just how monumental do you think sorties are gonna be??" "will it totally change how land warfare works?"

nope

RestRoomLiterature- posted:

Hoi4 is good. Fix naval and air warfare, and for some reason that air war interface and you'll be good.

Vicky can't be salvaged however