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LachiusTZ
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I played it a ton a year+ ago? And would get about halfway across the map before it got too slow.
Started a few games this past week, and the machine race is fucking OP. But its still dragging on large maps.
The medium one I've taken about 25% of the map and its slower* but not slow?
Figured it had more to do w/ the comp upgrade than the game getting some work.
khorum
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LachiusTZ
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Finished my first ever ironman game. Medium sized, 2 difficulty settings up from whatever baseline is?
The sector changes suck ass, I miss having giant sectors doing everything w/o any input.
Aside from that, was pretty smooth.
Fucking machines are OP as fuck tho. By the time I found the stagnant race, I was caught up in tech and overwhelming vs them in econ + fleet.
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khorum
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Havent played any gestalt races since megacorp actually. The megacorp playstyle works with tall builds so well that i couldnt get one going past 2300 at admiral. By the time I'd gotten one rolling the game had become unplayable so i set it aside until ancient relics came out. When I picked it back up I played through several versions of megacorp empires and they were pretty fun.
Criminal Heritage is still easily the hardest to pull off tho.
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This is a game I would love to be good. But the AI is just so bad.
Just spend the money to have google's game AI department make your game not shit, please.
www.cnn.com
Just spend the money to have google's game AI department make your game not shit, please.
Google's StarCraft-playing AI is crushing pro gamers
First, artificial intelligence created by Google's DeepMind mastered the game Go. Now, it's beating professionals at StarCraft, a popular sci-fi strategy game.
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Oh nice new Stellaris. Let's go see if my favorite mod is updated: Steam Workshop :: Expanded Stellaris Traditions
> I plan to update it asap.
> Unfortunately, it seems that have have been infected by the coronavirus. Things are still uncertain, but I have some of the symptoms and am feeling rather sick.
> Depending on how things develop I might have lots of time to work on this throughout my self-isolation. Likelier, however, I might not be able to progress the 2.6 update as previously planned.
> I plan to update it asap.
> Unfortunately, it seems that have have been infected by the coronavirus. Things are still uncertain, but I have some of the symptoms and am feeling rather sick.
> Depending on how things develop I might have lots of time to work on this throughout my self-isolation. Likelier, however, I might not be able to progress the 2.6 update as previously planned.
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khorum
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Federations patched today.....but the biggest feature is a major pop overhaul that seems to address lategame slowdown AFTER THREE FUCKING YEARS finally.
It's early going but word from the beta was really good and PDX put up a performance comparison:
also a feature breakdown:
Doomsday origin here I come.
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Finally diving into this for the first time. Spent a few hours just tinkering around with making races. Pirating it though so here's hoping the expack release isn't too buggy.
Should I be keeping my borders whole in the early game or is it OK to do outposts in choke points/prime systems that will result in gaps in my border to secure them before the AI does, provided I can fill them in a bit later.
khorum
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You can but it's gonna be prohibitively expensive with influence. Every bit of influence helps early on. But if you can close off a good part of the the map with one chokepoint it might be worth it.
It's pretty provocative though, especially if your neighbors are close enough to see tasty planets behind the choke.
It's pretty provocative though, especially if your neighbors are close enough to see tasty planets behind the choke.
khorum
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Space UN is pretty hilarious. It's kinda like the real one where you pass dumbass laws that everyone has to live up to or they get sanctioned and the sanctions can get pretty creative.
This is the current state:
There's only 3 ways into my section of space and I've managed to get outposts setup in the systems to the sides, but while the idea of locking them down early feels right, I don't know enough about the game mechanics to understand exactly how this approach will playout compared to focusing closer to home.
My AI neighbour - which I'll assuredly be at war with soon due to conflicting ideologies - and I assume all other AI's grow system by system