Paradox Grand Strat meets Sci-Fi 4X; Boners Explode

Incomptinence · Thu Feb 23, 2017 9:56 pm

Bottom post of the previous page:

Fun note on multiplayer their dlc policy is only host needs to have non cosmetic expansions in a multiplayer game.

So if whoever hosted had both utopia and leviathans the entire old gang could get the full experience.

Doesn't apply to cosmetics but unlike earlier tittles you can see my cosmetic dlc plants ahoy.

starmute · Post by **starmute** » Fri Feb 24, 2017 12:50 pm #260165

Wyzack wrote:I dont mind starting over for new content but i dont want to burn out my enjoyment of the game with new stuff around the corner, i'll probably wait it out. Thanks for the advice.

I feel like i never get the most out of these games. I just like to kinda build my civilization and expand and go to war at my own pace, so i never really play any multiplayer unless i can find people who just kind of want to play a chill noncompetitive run

I like games where players aren't afraid to kill each other. The multiplayer games I played in it seemed everyone wanted to be buddy buddy and not fight.

Kraso · Post by **Kraso** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 3:19 pm #260568

Wyzack wrote:play a chill noncompetitive run

fe fi fo fum i smell the blood of a savescum

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Feb 25, 2017 9:17 pm #260680

Government reworks and Hive Minds

Traditional governments are being thrown out of the window in favour of Authorities and Civics.
Authorities determine who has the keys to your government (Democracy, Oligarchy, Dictatorship and Imperial Monarchy)
Civics determine aspects of your governments and how it is run. For example, one of the civics holds that only members of the military have the right to vote if you want to make a Starship Troopers/Helldivers/Turian society.

Civics are dependant on your governing Ethos and the authority of the government and can be made invalid through the course of the game. If this happens, you can reform a governemnt, like you normally would, and you'll be refunded your points to re-spend on civics and be allowed to re-choose your authority. Some civics can't be undone (such as syncretic evolution) and some civics can only be obtained through the course of the game.

A special kind of authority exists only with the Utopia DLC exists known as Hive-Mind. Hive-minds get their own unique form of civics but do not gain any benefits from ethoses. Their pops are not affected by happiness and as such, will only perform jobs as though they only had 50% happiness. Hive-minded pops cannot exist in non-hive-mind empires and vice-versa (They can genetically engineer non-hive-minded pops to be hive-minded like themselves and they'll be considered a part of the hive-mind ruling over them). In addition Hive-minds have immortal rulers but may not pursue any form of AI or psionic research or go down those ascension paths, they're also distrusted by other empires on first contact.

In short, Hive-minds have no internal troubles and never need to worry about nity or influence, but, have restrictions on how they play and can be outpaced by a well-managed Empire.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:11 pm #261414

New trailer is upon us. Praise our Paradox Overlods! PRAISE! WHAT WAS SHALL BE WHAT SHALL BE WAS WHAT WAS SHALL BE WHAT SHALL BE WAS
Also, those FTL drive effects.

[youtube]YmvGlBFaFEU[/youtube]

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:46 pm #261435

Guess it's time to go back and redo all of my custom empires.
I'm fine with this.

Post by **Armhulen** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:48 pm #261440

80% of stellaris: creating race
20% of stellaris: getting killed by fanatical purifiers
I can't wait for this dlc.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:50 pm #261441

I admit that about 70% of my custom made empires are different flavors of human.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:58 pm #261444

I've made a variety of races tbh.
My most successful Empire was one I made to be literally Space Elves (Traits: Talented + Venerable at a minimum, Ethos: Spiritualist, Militarist, Individualist). Long lived, talented leaders are extremely powerful, especially in the late-game.

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:59 pm #261445

... I admit one of the Human races uses a customer Alpha Centauri start. Earth is automatically a Tomb world.
..

... Their Homeworld is a savannah named Chiron.

Although my favorite is a weird sort of highly individualistic materialist humans that were kidnapped from earth long ago and became something known as "The Diasporic Colonies."

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 8:56 pm #274615

I'm ready for the biggest update yet

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/in ... s.1008247/

Post by **Armhulen** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:06 pm #274618

ALWAYS HIVEMIND

>science megastructure

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:52 pm #274626

>livestock
>processing
oh my fuck

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 9:56 pm #274630

eat the galaxy

Post by **Armhulen** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:14 pm #274636

Timberwolf wrote:
Oh god I can't control my fucking dick

Gotta duct tape this thing to my thigh

Clobber it with my shoe

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:54 pm #275787

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Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 3:58 pm #276521

Soon.

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:42 pm #276583

>Wiz's dead stare

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:25 am #277322

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 10:28 am #277323

Wiz is actually a communications drone from Paradox Hivemind.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:15 am #277326

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:36 am #277328

Sooooooooon.

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:41 am #277329

Hope they put the other DLCs on discount, paradox usually does this whenever a new DLC for CK2/EU4 comes out

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:11 pm #277332

Lumbermancer · Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:20 pm

Am I the only one who finds this game aggressively boring? I tried a second run and stopped after a while, can't be bothered to come back. I think I'm used to eu4 having many more countries in play, making diplomacy more exciting.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:04 pm #277343

Remie Richards · Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:13 pm

>that number format

god you weirdo.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:18 pm #277349

Remie Richards wrote:>that number format

god you weirdo.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:20 pm #277404

Pretty sure they use the full stop for the separators in large numbers. Bloody backwards euros

Ikarrus · Post by **Ikarrus** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 5:02 pm #277451

Yeah I think China uses four. It's really annoying to translate numbers between Chinese to English this way

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:17 pm #277567

We use full stops and commas in reverse order, yeah.

1.000.000,000000

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:34 pm #277571

You mean "we use it in the proper order".

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:39 pm #277573

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:51 pm #277575

DemonFiren wrote:You mean "we use it in the proper order".

of course, I'm just trying to accomodate the yanks

Remie Richards · Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:06 pm

Ricotez wrote:
Remie Richards wrote:>that number format

god you weirdo.

[youtube]8_iixmqSBQw[/youtube]

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:48 pm #277599

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 12:28 am #277661

So, is Corvette Spam still the meta?

EDIT: Also, anyone got any ideas for a Fanatic Purifiers Race?

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 12:46 am #277670

I thought they fixed that before even horizon.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:05 am #277819

killerx09 wrote:So, is Corvette Spam still the meta?

EDIT: Also, anyone got any ideas for a Fanatic Purifiers Race?

>fanatic purifiers

empire of man, v2

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:41 am #277825

I made a deal with The Shroud.

Spoiler:

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:05 pm #277885

That's what you get for ignoring big red letters!

ohnopigeons · Post by **ohnopigeons** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 2:16 pm #277899

killerx09 wrote:So, is Corvette Spam still the meta?

It's still applicable but cruiser spam also gets you pretty far, if not better, alongside synchronized Kinetic Artillery/Tachyon Lance BBs.
Assuming this hasn't changed in Banks because from what I remember from the patch notes there weren't any significant changes to combat other than missiles which they've attempted to improve from being worse than garbage.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:10 pm #278263

So I found what happens when you make a Covenant with the End of the Cycle and it decides to collect on your debt to it...

Spoiler:

It's effectively the Fourth End-game Crisis except it's not locked out if another Crisis happens.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:19 pm #278270

>spawn of your species' psionic might
brb, making a no-psyker species

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 3:03 pm #278283

literally Slaanesh

lntigracy · Post by **lntigracy** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 5:25 pm #278319

You can eat my species.

It's a one eyed snake named Biggus Dickus.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:14 pm #278335

Ha, that's why you go the mechanical ascension route! Filthy meatbags played with forces beyond their understanding.
Some things that synth ascension does:
- All leaders get bonus to what they do, due to a trait.
- Oh, and they are immortal now.
- No need for food.
- Pops can still grow, but you can also build them
- Spiritualist Fallen Empire goes apeshit. In fact, all spiritualists get -60
- Xenophile Fallen Empire is sad, since you cast off your *lovely* mortal form. -20
- Guardians of the AI and Militarists, surprisingly, don't care. Probably.

So far, I am playing an empire with re-election each 10 years, and the first guy to get elected (first after the starting one) is still the leader.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 9:56 am #278674

>my disgusting supremacist space bug neighbours get cocky and declare war on me only 20 years into the game
>a few years later and they're begging me for peace
>

Also I found a star eating spider in the system right next to my home system. My empire worships stars as gods, so it's like finding out Satan lives next door.

Post by **Armhulen** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:36 am #278683

question: how do you get a good millitary, literally every time all other militarys are better than me, even the peaceful traders trump me

and they're also better TECH WISE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 11:09 am #278688

I usually create two versions of every ship class, one with shorter range guns and one with longer range missiles/cannons. Last game I created a third version for battleships, and equipped those with railguns. I also invest a lot into buildings, space port upgrades, research and (since the 1.5 patch) traditions that boost my naval capacity and its power. Personally I prefer to play religious empires that excel at the assimilation and integration of conquered empires (spiritualism has a strong ethics attraction) rather than military power, so I need to invest extra to get my military up to speed, but in return my conquests give me less trouble.

Also keep your fleets in orbit around your planets when you don't need them, they consume considerably less power if you do. As long as you can support your fleets while they're idle, you can build up a power reserve, and then burn through that when you need to undock.

Finally, keep in mind that how many research points your research needs depends on the amount of pops in your empire. If you expand rapidly, your research is going to fall behind and you'll need to build more science labs and generate more research points to catch up.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 12:51 pm #278700

Armhulen wrote:question: how do you get a good millitary, literally every time all other militarys are better than me, even the peaceful traders trump me

and they're also better TECH WISE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Don't colonise everything in sight, focus on colonising the best planets. At the start of the game, I break up my fleet into three singular ships and have them scout out the area. A good planet, for me, is a size 20 and I'll flat out refuse anything below size 15. Expand early, get your manufacturing and economy up ASAP and do your best to deny nearby empires access to resources (so if you see a patch of stars with high mineral content, frontier outpost it).

Next, start building corvettes all the way to your naval cap (doesn't matter if you don't have corvette docks, just do it). You should always try to keep a standing fleet that's ~2/3 of your naval cap to dissuade aggressive empires.
It's fine to use the auto-upgrade ship designer for early game but if you want to have the advantage - start designing ships manually and spec them to specifically counter your neighbour's ships.

A tech advantage won't help them a lot if you can drown them in bodies and your guns hurt them more than theirs do yours.