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[Cruxador]

Still waiting on that Dick update though.

TBH I just want a Culture ship name theme.

MODS

[Sirus]

Yeah, other than coming up with the lists in the first place, I imagine that namelist mods would be the easiest things to make.

[clone95]

TBH I just want a Culture ship name theme.

There's already one on the workshop.

[Flying Dice]

Oh goodie, wasn't last time I checked. I suppose I need to go back and un-fuck my files before I try to play on the new update.

[Retropunch]

Anyone played it yet? Is it worthwhile?

[stabbymcstabstab]

Anyone played it yet? Is it worthwhile?

I played it for a good six hours, I say it's worthwhile, it actually feels like a complete game once you get passed the early game.

[Drakale]

I started a game but got boxed in by a neighbor that apparently had a bigger army, faster expansion and more technology than me... Not sure what happened either he had a leg up at the start or some king of lucky break on his home system allowing for that. I'll start a new game soon and hopefully get to midgame.

[Retropunch]

Good to hear - how is the combat revamp/artisan thing looking? I'm mostly wondering if it's worth waiting for the next patch or if this one is enough of a change from the one before to bother downloading it all and reinstalling now.

[Cruxador]

I started a game but got boxed in by a neighbor that apparently had a bigger army, faster expansion and more technology than me... Not sure what happened either he had a leg up at the start or some king of lucky break on his home system allowing for that. I'll start a new game soon and hopefully get to midgame.

This happened to me as well. I wonder, did the AI get better or did I get worse?

[Shadowlord]

Or maybe they got more cheats. #rigged

Firaxis has always loved giving the computer players cheats, to try to cover for their really shitty AI. In Civ IV, it was so bad that they didn't ever consider the budget or treasury when recruiting units, generally didn't build monetary improvements, and instead relied on their cheats to lower their costs so they could remain competitive. I cite IV because I never tried to see what horrifying things they were doing in Civ V.

[ZeroGravitas]

I started a game but got boxed in by a neighbor that apparently had a bigger army, faster expansion and more technology than me... Not sure what happened either he had a leg up at the start or some king of lucky break on his home system allowing for that. I'll start a new game soon and hopefully get to midgame.

This happened to me as well. I wonder, did the AI get better or did I get worse?

it's the "a leg up at the start" one: http://www.stellariswiki.com/Settings#AI_empires

[Neonivek]

I cite IV because I never tried to see what horrifying things they were doing in Civ V.

In V they don't even build units they buy them

[Drakale]

I started a game but got boxed in by a neighbor that apparently had a bigger army, faster expansion and more technology than me... Not sure what happened either he had a leg up at the start or some king of lucky break on his home system allowing for that. I'll start a new game soon and hopefully get to midgame.

This happened to me as well. I wonder, did the AI get better or did I get worse?

it's the "a leg up at the start" one: http://www.stellariswiki.com/Settings#AI_empires

Oh, the advanced AI thing would explain that, I'll leave them out in my new game.
At the very least they should try to make them spawn far from players, it makes for a very poor start, he literally had his border touching my homeworld before my first colony ship and I was kinda rushing it.

Edit: It's actually an option at game creation to allow advanced AI to spawn near player, missed that the first time around. Should be off by default imo.

[Iceblaster]

PLaytesting the mods for my 1.2.5 aar because I am horrible at having things ready to start before big updates roll by

This is pretty good feeling with the Pre-FTL players mod.

Which, as its name suggests, leaves you without FTL for a bit. Until you research them. This colony ship took about three years to actually get here. Long jump wind up and wind down means it's a bit hard to snipe things. On the upside, multiple science vessels now makes sense in my opinion

I've only ever used one for the most part. Two if I have a free scientist

[Sirus]

You don't get enough leaders for more than one science vessel in most cases. It sucks. You'd think that regular science vessels would be capable of scanning for resources on their own, while scientists would be needed for anomalies and contributing to research.