Anything worthwhile?

Anything worthwhile?

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looking for games that still have active MP

dont bother no one answers to stardock threads or plays te games

Sure if you like grand strat shit, take a pic. Don't get stellaris until all dlc is out and they drop development though.

anyone play offworld trading company?

Paradox is a shit company
Stardock isn't perfect but I would say that their games are worthwhile. Especially GalCiv and Sins of a Solar Empire

I have, its solid.

i mean, is anyone interested in playing some MP?

i have it too and i've been watching some past streams to understand the game.

just when i think i finally think i've grasped the pattern of price fluctuations and planning to take advantage of them, i end up on the losing side.

shit's hard in a fun way.

SoaSE is a lot of fun.

It's basically Stellaris but better.

its more like supcom in space rather than stellaris but whatever

Stellaris but better would be GalCiv III, especially with the Crusade expansion.

I'm new to this kind of games and want to try them
any recommendation?

EU4 is absolutely phenomenal, but don't just get all the DLC, choose the good ones.

>not pirating the dlc but buying the game
pleb

Sins of a Solar Empire is the most beginner friendly (IMO) out of all the games on sale right now.

Sins, easily. Easiest to learn while not being overly simple.
Also arguably the best game overall on sale right now.

i played sins before rebellion and it was tedious as fuck. taking a single developed planet from enemy was like prying a tooth out with a rusty spoon.

eventually, i figured out that the best maps were custom maps with a few planets and more wreckage/plasma storms/ion clouds/etc populating the map. with a mod that streamlined and rationalized the tech tree, matches could end in about 2 hours or so.

but i think no one wants to play maps like those.

>2 hours
just play starcraft or something you adhd nigger

Europa universalis 4

It really depends on what faction you're playing and what faction you're fighting.
TEC for example is built heavily around fortifying their positions and just shelling the enemy with their novalith cannons from a star system away.

you wot?

i loved the 10+ hour long campaigns on huge multi-galaxy maps, but i dont have the time for that anymore. i even used to bro-op with a friend.

but those long play-times also expose a problem in the game of deadlocking. phase lane travel time and conquering territory can mean only one or two planets can get exchanged for a few hours. and god help you if you're in a match against multiple opponents each with a galaxy only accessible through a worm hole/star travel, because humans will have traveled to mars by the time that game finishes.

but that is exactly why saucer is the most fun shit
its the closest any game gets to real war except this time diplomacy isn't an option

>its the closest any game gets to real war

and what exactly would you know about real war, user, on the strategic, operational or tactical perspectives?

I love Gal Civ 3.

The ship builder and civilization builder are great. You can design any ship you can imagine or download them off Steam workshop (they've got Star Wars, Star Trek, Farscape, Babylon 5, Warhammer and Stargate knock offs you can download). And the Civ builder lets you design or download factions (Klingons, the Empire, Zerg, etc.).

So its like Civilization in space; but you can play as or against any civilization you can imagine.

If you like 4X, I'd buy it. The Crusade expansion, Mercenary expansion and Precursor World's expansions are also well worthwhile.

It seems like the gist of it is that Stardock games are solid to great and Paradox games are great by flawed.
Also DLC

I meant the end result which is a debilitating stalemate where nobody wins and nobody loses and it just goes on and on and on and the degradation keeps getting worse and everyone starts to lose their minds you aren't really gaining ground and you aren't really losing it either so you just have to wait for that break, the break that will win or cost you the war but it seems so far away if only you could take that one plot of land

Galactic Civilizations 3 is fun.

that's not what war is like at all and it's certainly not fun.

It can be fun.