>trannime
>stellaris
Yup, another shit thread.

>old thread died
Grim

This is what happens without stellaris discussions

>>569050792
Don't you know where you are, normie?

>>569051090
Eat shit. I just want a nice city builder for a change. That too much to ask?

>>569051414
You don't get anything nice, ever. You live in a world where an imbecile can be president.

>>569051541
/pol/ is that-a-way.

If you want to continue this talk you better at least post a beaver or some wheat in your next reply.

>>569051541
You struck a nerve, he instantly got very defensive. I wonder why.

Why has this thread been so hostile lately? It's a comfy place

An anon in the previous thread said it was a red flag that I played hive minds and when I asked why he never answered…

>>569053465
desu I used to play gestalts maybe one in four games but now it's like half the time

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Sorry, I didn't bump because I was in a Helldivers 2 match.

>>569053682
I prefer gestalt economies over having to produce c*ns*mer goods any day of the week. I also like how they’re usually quite flexible and you can adapt your playstyle to the game around you. If you decide to start as a diplomatic hive mind but spawn next to nothing but assholes, you can just reform out of the Empath civic and replace it with the one that gives you extra naval cap and speed and you can immediately turn around from being nice to being a genocidal asshole. But if you’re individualist and trying to do a diplomacy run playing as xenophile pacifists only to spawn next to assholes, you’re kinda just cucked

deadass boutta play Civilization Beyond Earth in the 2026th year of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ of Nazareth

>>569054216
Underrated game.

>>569053887
But why help the US build Metal Gear?

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>>569053465
why shouldn't hive mind feel shame or have a sense of indecency?
why would a creature of immense intelligence and knowledge, go around exposing his multiple penises and/or other orifices to the whole universe? dont make a sexually deranged clown out of hive minds - its only a projection of your own filthy mind!

>page 10 in 47 minutes
Going to sleep. Rest in peace, /civ4xg/, you won't make it without me.

>>569064486
Good night anon, please make a new thread if we die during the long night.

>>569064486
Maybe it's time for you to move on, anon. She died years ago. It wasn't your fault. We're trying something different to reach you in your dreams.

I like bodysnatchers from a thematic view, but in actual gameplay it’s kinda lacking, no? Hive minds already have some of the best pop growth in the game so stealing pops doesn’t feel super necessary, especially when they’re the ai’s shitty randomized pops that usually won’t share your climate preference and be super inefficient because of it

>>569068146
More pops = more gooder
Some options are just bad and that's ok though.

>>569074275
unfortunately a lot of things are bad

>>569064486
We will persevere as we have for 15+ years

>>569068146
Wouldnt they allow you to colonize new planet biomes? Never played as such a type of gestalt, so I dont know if it add the species to your own pool when you kidnap them

>>569082110
Technically yes but do you really want like 5 different species with different traits and climate preferences in your empire when you can just have 1 and terraform every other planet to your preference? Managing all those different pops with different planet preferences is really obnoxious micromanagement in my experience. Not to mention when you ascend you’re not just modifying 1 species but multiple and it’s annoying

>>569082446
That kind of the whole gist of gestalt conciousness, no? The drones are just that, drones, receptacles so you can enact your will upon existence. But yeah micromanaging a ton of species can be a pain, I have a similar issue with authoritarians when having to constantly change the specific rights of newly jubjugated species. And I like to play 1000 stars game, so there are always a fuckton of them.

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HAK HAK HAK

>>569085717
Have we literally ever gotten an explanation for what the hunters are yet?

>>569088893
they don't need an explanation

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>>569085717
HYUK HYUK HYUK

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Reminder to glass your enemies' planets

>>569077768
This general will stand the test of time.

I'm starting to believe Miriam was right

>>569085717
>wants to devour the universe
>doesn’t have a mouth
Erm…?

>>569098415
hmm
vore?

good morning /civ4xg/

>>569102773
good morning sweaty

>>569102773
good morning sweetie

Why did you let the last thread die out from lack of bumps? This was your only task and you still failed

>>569104546
"Let the past die. Kill it if you have to."
-some school shooter space wizard.

>>569104546
sorry

>>569104546
I chose to let it happen, not because I wanted to but because otherwise my inaction would be responsible for the death of the thread

>>569077768
The empire endures.

>>569053297
/civ4xg/eezers are in the cranky old man part of their lives. Or maybe it's the traditional summerfag plague. Who knows.

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>>569050370
Was too busy playing bannerlord to bump the thread.

C-Beams Devlog 53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMLoS74c6DM
GalCiv4, Dev Journal #118, Oligarchies: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1357210/view/673995578702561399

>>569082446
>>569085137
Lot of good ideas die on the hill of "it's too much to micro". Something like auto modding climate preference could help with the "just terraform everything" for instance though I'm not sure if that would actually be better or worth using.

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horatio bump

>>569129289
I hate Horatio.

>>569129314
Wrong

>>569131267
Nah, hating h0rati0 is the r1ght th1ng to d0.

>>569088893
Tax collectors.

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>>569129289

Good lord, upgrades and a good commander in Seven Kingdom 2 make a lot of difference, it's around +100% damage.
Any other RTS with a command chain?


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what the fuck

>>569142969
Define command chain

>>569144619
I mean having an officer unit that isn't just an elite unit that gives some bonuses (so no Rise of Nations or Empire at War), but a requirement to keep your army in line and a mandatory part of the game, instead of being a rare, expensive unit.

>>569144857
Sounds like what you got in cossacks

>>569144857
The only things I can think off are things like morale systems in lots of army war games. A type example could be Total war games where leader units can offer bonuses to the morale of lesser units like say Total War Warhammer skaven where the basic units kinda just melt away unless you have a leader nearby. The same mechanic of low morale troops/slave troops requiring a nearby leader to keep them in line is of course present in basically all games that actually have a morale system like this like dominions as another example.

>>569145359
Neither of those are RTS and TW is literally a rare expensive unit with some bonuses, usually leadership, aura.

>>569145585
Well ye that was my point

>>569145061
Kinda, but also not really. But it's the second closest thing.

>>569145359
I genuinely wish I could enjoy Total War games, but hiring units on a strategic map and having to make do with what I have on a battle map is very challenging for me.
I'm used to rush AI enemies with extremely small groups of units, I have issues with big armies.
I remember another game, but I think it's one of these... forbidden /gsg/ game, Civil War 2. I got it because apparently, having a "proper" chain of command is really important to maximize your troops' potential, but I got filtered by the tutorial.

>>569145827
>Kinda
Fair. Played Kohan?

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>>569129314
Why do you hate perfection? Would you prefer if he was a loli space elf?

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>got my third squad
>they all have three skills AND plate armours
No idea where this came from but its such a nice thing to see, i have a raider building up north to clear so these guys will be mucho useful.

>100+ infected dogs in a building
Well fuck, i need some napalm or some shit.

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>>569153314
>Would you prefer if he was a loli space elf?
An eastern game would have taken that concept and run with it directly to the moon. Horatio Prime(?) would be a perfectly aged milf and all of the non-Prime Horatios would be different ages of that exact same milf, with most of them being lolis to show that they are still on the path to perfection while not being there yet, and all of them would be haughty and extremely prideful. You could also get Yakuza-themed Lumeris and Hissho with even heavier Samurai imagery/theming.

>>569155835
Hissho empire with seppuku mechanics.

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>>569153314
>Would you prefer if he was a loli space elf?
YES.

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>loli space elf
muh dick

>>569153889
IFZ was so disappointing last I played it

>>569163565
That's not a loli.

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>>569164959
I'm gonna get banned if I post an actual loli, mods are fags who hate girls.

>>569165273
We post lewd lolis on /vg/ all day and everyone is fine.

>>569050370
anyone play Maestro's Cold War 2? I just got it yesterday thanks to a friend.

>>569166273
no but you reminded that I downloaded all three volumes of the cambridge history of the cold war and then I didn't read a single page of it

Loli space elf on the /civ4xg/ divegrass team when?

>>569178769
Suggest it again in 6 months when I ask for roster suggestions. Having a 3D model I can use helps too if you're going for a specific character but elf models are common I'd have no issue if a generic elf is fine

Stellaris 5.0 will save the game and the entire 4X genre

>>569189330
this but unironically

Stellaris 6.0 will save the game and the entire 4X genre

>>569053297
Some /gsg/ refugees assimilated here.

>>569198150
two more $30 dlcs

No dying tonight!

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Vaultkeks...

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What could a good story behind a memorialist hive mind be? I’m thinking a post-apocalyptic society that evolved to become gestalt after the nukes but they still retain some degree of religion dedicated to remembering their ancestors

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I have no words.

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Welp.

>>569211169
Is this good or bad for Horatio?

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>>569211348
>Cravers got fed a free vaulter capital at the start of the game
Probably bad since it means I snowball harder and Horatio is more likely to get nommed by bugs later.

good morning /civ4xg/

>>569050370
>4x, RTS, citybuilder, and strategy
How come none one talks about age of wonders 4?

>>569212364
good morning sweetie

>>569212509
people do occasionally. we're a slow general with a million games under our umbrella, so nothing really gets focus except stellaris occasionally

>>569212713
Oh ok.
I'll ask here then; anyone knows what AoW4 DLCs are worth it?

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>>569184812

>>569212974
I would LOVE to answer that, but I bought the special edition with all the DLCs so I have a very hard time picking the one I prefer. Or knowing which one did what.
I like the dragon one.

anybody played the new zephons yet
are they fun
looks like one is just gladius tau and the other is unit level focused

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How do I breed this thing?

>>569227229
doesn't it just multiply passively

>>569212974
Each has research options that multiply your options as you
Some have new cultures. Meta-wise base game cultures are solid or strong. These can be strong too you're just playing them for fun flavor
Same with rules. Wizard King and Champions are both very very good. But Giant ruler is badass, and stuff like Dragon or Vampire there in case those complete your personal fantasy
So many fucking racial forms now. Nearly all the common ones you'd expect to already have in vanilla. Lot of furry ones between all the DLCs, some humanoid lookalikes, lizardmen too
The best ones are whatever ones five you options you will use to better fit your fantasy of a uh, fantasy civ


If I had to pick at least one from each 'season'?
>Eldritch Realms, extra map layer full of stuff to kill and exploit, tentacle ruler, decent tomes including a Scarlet Crusade one
>Giant Kings, sick ass ruler, many map features and options for your sandbox map realms, dungeon tome to make underground living 2x as nice
>PROBABLY Secrets of the Archmages. We dunno until its out, but that shit has six tomes and an alternate map layer instead of the tentacle rape dimension full of challenges and secret stuff to learn

penis penis penis penis
in butt

>>569240262
We already know you're a bottom, spiderfag.

>>569243082
No you don't. I never linked to my OnlyFans.

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>>569243860
>No you don't. I never linked to my OnlyFans.
Mon Dieux.

Monsieur, you make mention to you catching but never to you pitching. You didn't need to tell us about your OnlyFans just to confirm what we already knew. Ah well, c'est la vie.

grew up that way.

>>569248706
...stop this.

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GOLDEN AGE

>>569252116
What Chris chan mod is that?

>>569208036
Id say it would be better if its because in its infancy the hivemind coexisted (perhaps in symbiotic or mutualistic fashion) with another sentient species, and eventually they underwent true symbiosis, which provided the hivemind with the faculties to think and work at far greater scale, and the hivemind decided to dedicate an entire part of itself to remember them forever out of respect. How that mutualism worked and at what scale is yours to decide.

>>569252116
Huh?

>>569227879
It is always lacking maturity and it must be too big to clone in any of the beastport upgrades.
How did my scientists even fit a planet-sized crystal capital into a pokeball?