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Speaking of Galciv4, are alliances permanent? Do they lock you out of winning if you choose military victory, or do your allies not count as enemies needed to be defeated?
The green orion babes and the space jews just love my humans. The space jews are propably the best neighbours, they just want trade and are generally easy to befriend as long as you are okey with parting with some space shekels.


Endless Space 2 wise, is there any way to get a hacking free game? Kind of suck at it.
 
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Civ II is my favorite 4X of all time. I understand it's basically a graphical upgrade of Civ I with existing gameplay elements expanded upon than wholesale new ones added in, but I truly enjoy how basic Civ II is versus later ones, even if obviously those have so many QOL and fresh gameplay elements to them like culture, borders, and city-states - I damn well remember the Apolyton and Civfanatics forums back then, "independent", non-Barbarian cities were a popular suggestion. I also truly adore its 'museum' aesthetic as I said in this post. Maybe it's just my nostalgia calling to me, but there's something charming about how in retrospect Civs I-III, and especially II, felt like a board game brought to the computer complete with a computer's ability to mod to make the perfect game or scenario.

Speaking of scenarios - Civ II's Scenarios were very fun. My personal favorite was the Age of Discovery due to playing another 4X, Conquest of the New World, at the same time which instilled in me a lifelong fascination of the Colonization of the Americas. But I quite enjoyed building up empires out of whole cloth in the Dinosaurs scenario (Kore in the middle were clearly meant to be the player's civ, right?) and Master of Orion Jr (which was fun making almost the whole map's tileset good for both travel and city sites alike). The several medieval-era scenarios were fun having shared units pop up between them like the Skirmisher or Heavy Infantry that clearly could've been in the base game to complement the existing Pikemen, Knights, etc. - same for WW79's atomic-era Artillery and air units that could visually function between the 19th century Artillery/modern Howitzers and WW2-era Fighters and Bombers/modern Stealth planes. It's amazing how such a simplistic game still managed to look gorgeous and artful enough to really bring both historical moments and imaginary worlds to life, y'know? Including your own you experienced in a normal playthrough.
 

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They are supposed to be showing off Civilization VII this coming week on the 20th. I am pretty interested to see what they've done.

So far the biggest news is that they are ditching the 2K Launcher. Real big news there! Wow. Launchers suck though so I am not complaining.
 
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WonderWino said:
I'm surprised space empires 4 hasn't been mentioned yet. Very customizable and easy to mod, a massive tech tree including special techs that can be unique to an empire. AI is a bit shit and its limited to hotseat or play by email multiple but its worth it to try. and its frequently on sale for under $5
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There are mods that improve the AI significantly like Carrier Battles, which was achieved by a combination of improved scripting and taking some stuff away from the AI so they don't do stupid things.

If you mine your shit up like it's Space Cambodia they'll just hop in with sweepers leading their deathfleet just like an actual human player.
 
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Oh boy, I can shill Beyond All Reason!
  • Started life as one of the many Spring Total Annihilation clones and somehow escaped that purgatory of weird jank into a solid game
  • Free and extremely frequently updated (but not absurd sized updates, this is a positive). I've played with my friends in the morning and evening and had to update. GPLv2 for the autists that care
  • Defaults are 2k max units per player
  • Has 2 PvE modes for getting friends into the game/when you don't want to get sweaty
  • Tons of convenience when manipulating units to avoid being a gookclicker. Shift to queue up everything
  • Solid AIs
  • Server browser, not matchmaking. People seem to like to play 8v8s the most which means that your suckage can be offset
Three cons:
  • Engine/lobby can be a bit funky at times. Spring hasn't totally been escaped
  • No real singleplayer campaign
  • In multiplayer, servers are on their side (you can probably self-host, no idea how and would require effort) with some lame "modern" rules. Though just don't be a sperg and you'll be fine
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Quoting myself from an RTS-specific thread, since I'd just reword it and post it here anyway. Seriously though, play it
 
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I Know 孤独のせい said:
That's the Supreme Commander "successor" right ? I think I even have the installed downloaded somewhere.
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Yes, but I wouldn't say that they directly compete - both are both Total Annihilation descendants, but BAR is more similar to TA than SupCom. Parallel, I guess?
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
Anything particular we want to talk about here ?
Northgard is getting a big patch tomorrow. WH3 dlc is nowhere in sight as any other news regarding the next TW game. Need to play Anno 1800 at some point, since I really liked 1404.
Disciples is better than Heroes of Might and Magic.
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Never a better time to pick up 1800 now that it's "complete" and Blue Byte moved on to Anno 9. Just dont get it full price because Ubi are faggots.
 
I Know 孤独のせい said:
Anything particular we want to talk about here ?
Northgard is getting a big patch tomorrow. WH3 dlc is nowhere in sight as any other news regarding the next TW game. Need to play Anno 1800 at some point, since I really liked 1404.
Disciples is better than Heroes of Might and Magic.
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I just wanna enjoy old school RTS. Currently playing WC3 and CoH1. Sadly Tempest Rising and Stormgate looks like shit.
 
Batko Bandera said:
Honestly it sucks they killed the AoE3 DLC for this dogshit
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Well, I too wish they hadn't canned the AoE3 DLC, that was a dumb move. But I assume it wasn't profitable compared to AoE2 which is their cash cow. I don't mind the 3K dlc because I like the time period, but I would have preferred a proper Japanese Campaign and an overhaul for them.
WULULULULU said:
I just wanna enjoy old school RTS. Currently playing WC3 and CoH1. Sadly Tempest Rising and Stormgate looks like shit.
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Apart from those two, you mentioned anything new going on with old school RTS games ? Because I only know the old shit like C&C, Age series, Warcraft etc.
 
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