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Is there a mod or option I can't find in Endless Legend that will makes the labels on cities take up less space? My only gripe with this game is that I have to zoom in and out to look around the giant city labels on the map.
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Serephina posted:So, that site throws up security certificate issues, asks for your DOB, then loving asks for a login, all without providing any content, or clue to what the loving content might be. Great loving link, care to tell what we're talking about? Same. gently caress Sega.
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Feb 10, 2017 04:46
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Serephina posted:I play the game on WINE, and have tempest enabled so that the water will render properly (else it's just a black void gfx glitch), but I absolutely loath all the actual tempest content; lovely naval techs whose purchase comes with a huge opportunity cost, the way embarked units fight, etc. I really don't get the point of it, and am sick of the facility notifications winge-ing on as if they're relevant. So I just enable tempest, then set the world gen to disable bodies of water. Helps! If you start the game surrounded, then ocean domination is an awesome option to have. Facilities give a ton of cool stuff.
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Feb 17, 2017 16:18
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Really liking this game. Probably quitting for now due to slowdown and some bugs, but I'm going to really be into this in a couple of months. Game made me miss EL anyway, and I still have a couple races to hear that game with.
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May 21, 2017 18:04
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I haven't played or analyzed the tech tree enough, but I wonder if long range being superior is that bad of a thing. I mean, if I were designing a real life space fleet, it would be mostly ships that can hit the enemy at a range they cannot hit me. Maybe the short range isn't supposed to be as good as long range. You just researched a technology to get better dust collection, and you also happened to get some close range weapons that can at least keep you in the fight. The other guy was willing to forego the dust collection so he could artillery you. Not saying that is the way it was designed, but it it was I'd be fine with it.
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May 22, 2017 01:16
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Jastiger posted:Is there any use for luxuries outside upgrading star systems? Seems silly to have tons of luxuries and only ever use 6 or so. You can encourage certain species in your empire to breed faster if you have the exact luxury they like. I forget how to get to it exactly. I think the bottom panel of the Senate screen does it.
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May 22, 2017 02:18
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Baronjutter posted:Nothing gets me harder than super spuds. You sure you want the whole world to know that, chief?
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May 22, 2017 02:25
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Onean posted:There's two types of damage and two types of weapons for each, so four different types of weapons. The range effectiveness determines a weapon's accuracy. Each weapon interacts with defenses a little differently as well. Awesome. Thank you. I had almost thought the difference between the sub-classes in projectile and energy weapons were only for flavor.
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May 22, 2017 05:00
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Last game by tbis studio got three new faction DLCs. Each faction specialized in a new aspect of the game that was added to the game with the faction. There were some minor DLCs as well. It was some pretty good additional content. I'm hoping for more than 3 additional factions this time though even if not all of them come with some new game mechanic.
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May 26, 2017 00:26
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Stellaris is going to be awesome in a couple of years. GalCiv is insultingly bad. I don't think I've ever given up completely on a 4x game in one day before I met Galactic Civilizations 3.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:38
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I really like both games, but I play ES2 more. Stellaris is a game I'm only dabbling in every once in a while because I k ow it's going to get super complex down the line and actually become something more of a hobby for the few months I eventually decide to delve into it. ES2, I can just dive into for some casual gameplay.
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Jun 26, 2017 00:32
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Whatever words the developers used to describe the strength of that sea monster were perfect, because I believed them and never tried.
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Aug 19, 2017 15:32
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In EL I'm having trouble keeping my armies up to the same experience level as my opponents. I have the same number of troops with maxed out equipment, but they are usually two levels later than me. I can't level up existing troops as fast as I enter new eras. Is it a realistic strategy to sell my level 2 or 3 troops when I get to the fourth age just to help me quick buy some level 4 dudes?
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:So I read the first ~10 pages of the thread and the last three. The OP is horribly out of date, hard to read, and has a bunch of typos so I did not find it very useful. I'd say that the big difference between Civ 5 and EL is that Civ 5 is a game where all of the factions play very similarly unless you have the experience to make their differences actually matter. This makes you very familiar with all mechanics of the game because every civ plays similarly, and the fun of playing different civs comes from exploiting the rules in very specific ways. EL is different because each of the factions are so unique that they all touch upon the rules in different ways. Generic Octopus went into more detail about each of your points, but I'll generically say that I started playing EL a couple of months before Civ 6 was announced because I was sick of the redundancy of Civ 5. I was sick of the same build orders, and having to take rationalism 100% of the time. It sounds like the you're in the same boat. I've played a lot of EL, and I haven't established the same familiarity I had with Civ 5, but I really enjoy the game because of how different it is. The game is so unbalanced that you actually have to make different decisions based upon who your neighbor is. It's not always a compound bow rush to fend off your enemy. Every faction has its own unique units, and only its unique units.(Except for minor factions, which you can take over and integrate into your army.) This means that your starter unit may be the answer to your neighbor, and you'll be fine. It might also mean that your starting unit is dead meat to your enemy, and you'll have to research another unit to survive, or take over a minor faction to fight back. The decision actually is different every game. So, coming from a strong Civ 5 background, I say: try it. It's a good game, and you should try it. The Human Crouton fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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Aug 20, 2017 06:02
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Annath posted:Is there a good intro or let's play for Endless Legend? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFhs-wsNEo&list=PLa53kfJdPTHCyWFQi02JSD64RZ-milhmO This guy has some good tutorials. Every time I jump back in, I watch his combat tutorials to refresh.
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Nov 10, 2017 02:48
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Doctor Reynolds posted:Jeez, Impossible AI in Endless Legend is brutal. Do they just get infinite Settlers or something? It's always the extra xp boost per turn that the AI units get that messes with me. Especially since I seem to be next the Necrophages every game. I've encountered the AI expanding rapidly often enough, but not every game.
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Nov 15, 2017 08:43
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Neat. I was just thinking about getting back into EL.
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Jul 12, 2018 20:11
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I'm going to guess that Inferno has an underground theme of some sort.
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Jul 16, 2018 09:34
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Yeah, I think once you make a successful 4x game, you stay in that franchise and never leave. It's particularly hard to pull me away from the ones I like and invest time learning a new one to the degree that I can fully enjoy it. Have to keep those repeat customers with such a high learning curve.
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Jul 17, 2018 14:05
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In Endless Space 2, is there any way to see a list of minor factions and your relationship to them and other related info? Can't seem to find that information unless I hunt and peck for the actual star systems they live in.
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Jul 21, 2018 15:34
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While I'm on ES2 questions: is there a mod or something that makes the playing field more visible? About 2-30 turns in, I have trouble distinguishing unexplored territory that I need to send probes into from background noise. Especially when near the galactic core.
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Jul 21, 2018 20:57
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The new Endless Legend expansion is made by the guys who rebooted Master of Orion, which I found to be milquetoast and uninspired. I'll probably still get it, but I'm less excited now.
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Jul 26, 2018 16:04
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I think I like the Hissho and their keii ability from what I've read. I like how amplitude forces war in their games. ES2 needed another forced war faction because my games have been way too peaceful.
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Jul 26, 2018 23:55
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I haven't played in a few months, but from memory: 1. Science is a huge barrier to learning this game because you have to learn what 20 different things do in each new era. There is nothing you can do here except keep playing and let it set in with time. 2. In Era 2 or 3, there is a tech that lets you build stockpiles, which pretty much do what you are describing. What you described is a problem until you get those though. 3. Someone better at the game than me should take this one. But it isn't like Civ where every faction should expand similarly. Some factions should expand fast in this game, and some should expand slowly. 4. Unless I'm the Morgawr, I only focus on oceans if I'm landlocked from expanding by other factions. 5. Another thing you'll learn as time goes on. Interacting with winter and pearls takes good knowledge of the game to properly exploit. Build the Temple of Auriga early on and experiment. Maybe play the Allayi for a few games to help you understand winter a little better. Other factions won't use winter to the extent the Allayi do, but it will give you an idea. 6. Each minor village you pacify gives you one population in your city in that region, even if they aren't assimilated. Some factions interact with minor factions differently, but the most common thing would be to pacify them. As you get better at the game, you may start seeing that certain minor factions are worth assimilating for their units if you are playing a faction where that minor unit will fill in a gap in the weakness of your own units. 7. You are correct.
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SetPhazers2Funk posted:EL has made me realize just how little the Civilization series has evolved since the 1990s. The level of gameplay innovation (or lack thereof) is just incomparable. Sandwich Anarchist posted:It's hard to imagine making radical mechanical features for a collection of cultures that are all the same biological race, though. Venice in Civ V was the closest I've seen to something like that. These are both true. The problem with the Civ games is that they don't take advantage of their familiar gameplay. I settled into every Civ game like I'd been playing it for years because I have. I usually like that because I generally like the game. The problem is that such a familiar game should have been perfected by now. The pacing should be perfect, the end game should not be a boring slog, the UI should show information, navies should matter, and known issues from the previous entry should have been addressed. I'm losing a lot of interest in the series, and it needs a direct competitor so I can jump ship. One thing that I do like about Civ V and VI is that the factions are just different enough that I can properly exploit their advantages without the game completely changing. In EL, I only really care about oceans if I'm the Morgawr, I only really care about stealth and espionage if I'm the Forgotten, and I only really care about the marketplace if I'm the Roving Clans. It makes each faction different and fun, but they each still feel like they are playing different games on the same board, and it makes war feel like the only common action. The numerous, uninteractive victory conditions don't help this. In contrast, the Civilization series does feel like every faction is playing the same game, and I don't ignore any aspect of the game when I'm playing it.The downside is that even though every faction is playing the same game, that game sucks. I think what the Endless series needs is some factions that have half powers that dabble into other aspects of the game. Maybe the Roving Clans are the faction that interact most uniquely and favorably with the market, but give two other factions some trait that slightly encourages market play so the Roving Clans aren't just marketing all by themselves with no competition. The Human Crouton fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jul 29, 2018 |
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I like Inferno. Doesn't add much, but it doesn't get in the way either. Eclipses are fine except they darken the map, so the pretty summer time look of the game is getting more rare. The new faction's terraforming is pretty interesting. Even if you don't terraform tiles being exploited by a rival faction's city, you can still use terraformed tiles near their city or in their territory as special tiles that give you bonuses in combat. It's a neat little permanent half-base. Weirdly, I think the part I like best is that you can re-explore ruins during eclipses. It makes ruin exploring technologies and hero abilities actually worth getting. The Human Crouton fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Aug 2, 2018 |
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AnEdgelord posted:One thing I wish you could do with Kapaku is convert an entire region to volcanic without having to lay down a bunch of volcanoformers manually. I don't even care if it happens slowly, I just find the creep spreading to be a bit tedious once you're just filling out the region for city districts. By the time you'd be able to convert entire regions you shouldn't have to. And imagine playing against that.
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Tree Bucket posted:"Chagrin" is an extraordinarily polite term... This sounds loving stupid. When I read someone talking about the obliterator, and its lack of UI help, it was a beta player. I'm sure they'll patch it, but it sounds incredibally unfun to scan the map for projectiles every turn.
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Aug 10, 2018 01:22
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This is going to sound really weird, but has anyone heard the game slightly yell "Hey!" since the Endless Legend update? At first I thought it was just something in the music, but I turned the music off, and there seems to be some guy in the ambient noise track yelling "Hey!" every 15 minutes or so. It's not very loud; just about as loud as the birds and waves and other ambient sounds.
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Avasculous posted:Are you using their combat spells? This. Whenever I forget about their spells I get rocked every time.
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Avasculous posted:It doesn't help that the UI IIRC doesn't do anything to draw attention to their unique, super-useful mechanic. Yeah, it's just a grey rectangle with options that blend in with the rest of the UI pretty seemlessly. So it's not bad UI; but its also not good UI. I'm fine with it though because it is easy to access and does explain itself. Most of the time I forget it is because I've been playing other factions and then randomly roll the Ardent Mages. If I purposely choose the Ardent Mages, then I'm more likely to remember.
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I think the game needs races that are better at populating certain planets. Like some people who live on lava planets, and have to research to be able to live on temperate worlds. Or blimp dudes who can only populate gas giants.
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Mameluke posted:Are there any factions where it's not worth it to get their racial techs? I always consider them to be part and parcel of their unique abilities and usually make them one of my first few researches in a new tech era. If you get really, really technical the there are probably racial techs you should not choose. But nobody gets that technical with this game. Get those awesome racial techs.
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I was hoping for a direct Civilization competitor, but then someone said RPG based on Auriga so I'm hoping for that now.
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Jan 23, 2019 06:25
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Jan 24, 2019 18:45
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Avasculous posted:Jesus. What did they even do a stream for? Yeah, the surprise seems to be that they are closing up shop.
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Soonmot posted:I bought EL on the steam sale and grabbed the all the faction dlc. Is there a good newbie tips post in the thread? Watch this guy's stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFhs-wsNEo
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Serephina posted:5 tips for new players: an 11 minute video with no indications of what/when the tips are. Please watch the entire thing start to finish, and Like! I'm recommending it because it is good, as is the rest of his EL content. If you'd bothered to actually watch it or look at this channel, you will also find a video that I consider to be the best explanation of the battle system that I've seen online. What an asinine thing for you to get snooty about. The Human Crouton fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Eh, Serephina kinda has a point - so many things that could be written down in a wiki or even the description of the video are instead embedded somewhere in a longwinded video that is capped off with a "Please like, subscribe, and donate!". I find watching videos to learn something really hard - I would rather have referenceable written documentation than a video, 19 times out of 20. crt+f is your friend and you cannot do that with a video. I also prefer things to be written down. The problem is that a nice, bulleted list for EL does not exist as far as I've been able to tell. This was the source I used to learn the game, and it works. Youtube videos are just the times we live in now. It's either gain this information inefficiently or don't gain it at all. So my suggestion stands. If you are a beginner, watch that video. If you want to learn how to use the battle system, search that guy's channel for his combat videos.
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