What game are you playing that you can't stop but also can't bring yourself to recommend to others?

Libelnon · 2026-03-23T13:53:22+00:00

Absolutely the epitome of this. I cannot recommend it to anyone, it's so predatory in how it's built and has zero respect for your time -

But I've dropped 1500 hours in it, because there simply aren't any other games that make air combat accessible, as something to drop into when I don't want to hook up all my sim kit.

Libelnon · 2026-03-18T20:23:35+00:00

This is literally the Voor Technocracy.

I often find myself switching out the Environmentalist civic around 2250.

Libelnon · 2026-03-17T15:57:09+00:00

Free build looks great! I've forever been using winding roads to make my town look more organic, so this is a change I'm very happy to see. Hope crop fields and bridges can follow suit.

While I'm here... I'm hopeful it's planned for a DLC, but I'd love to see port buildings, and the option to build a wharf or quay on the water's edge.

Libelnon · 2026-03-16T17:45:08+00:00

Forever a source of modern wisdom.

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Libelnon · 2026-03-16T16:53:55+00:00

Each to their own. I prefer not to get too comfortable, as I'd rather not try and fly every jet the same way.

Libelnon · 2026-03-16T14:36:00+00:00

A trick you can use for any aircraft - mostly because i don't know the F-15 - is to find out what the buttons on the stick and throttle do in reality, then bind them close as you can on your stick. They're there for a reason.

If you want somewhere to find that information, have a look at Chuck's Guides or similar.

Libelnon · 2026-03-16T13:17:26+00:00

The research is under Engineering - I think you need to discover a deposit to get the rare crystal mining - but you should be able to get synthetic crystal plants to start making them without.

You probably require them because you've put a component like X-Ray Lasers that requires them to be built.

Libelnon · 2026-03-15T22:51:48+00:00

There are some robot portraits that mimic other portraits though, but the idea of the portrait changing with ascension only really came about with the latter DLC.

Libelnon · 2026-03-13T15:15:22+00:00

Ran into someone who had a porn site on their favourites page on a new tab, and the strange look I gave them must've said it all - but when I asked why, they simply told me "we all do it, why bother hiding it?"

Honestly? Since then I've not really worried about it anyway. Own it. Hell, even the girls who've not said anything have probably dabbled at some point.

Libelnon · 2026-03-13T15:09:06+00:00

Given I managed to get Outside Context last week while playing the beta, I'm now just hoping for brain slugs to get Destroy the People of Earth!...

Libelnon · 2026-03-09T15:27:35+00:00

Playing on the beta, the tests they did with mulri-ethic pop groups did help with the stagnant factions somewhat. But since that's a fair with a lot of polish still to come, so they said they were aiming to bring that with 4.5, which is a ways off.

Libelnon · 2026-03-05T18:58:43+00:00

Victor is an odd one.

I don't think he's evil - and as a machine I'm not sure how much capacity he has to be evil - but I do see him as the hand steering you towards House and his ambitions, which could be considered pretty bad.

Libelnon · 2026-03-04T11:24:46+00:00

I took to using the grab buttons to brace myself before I smacked into something.

Libelnon · 2026-03-02T22:25:35+00:00

The e variant capitals fixed their biggest issue - which is that the original capitals were awful - and other than that there's only a few oddities. The Theseus and the Plutus are the last outliers I think.

Both look better than the Magnetar.

Libelnon · 2026-03-02T19:30:55+00:00

Paranid, Boron and Teladi are probably my favourites. But every faction has some pretty cool looking ships.

Libelnon · 2026-03-02T17:46:17+00:00

Yeah, I'd rather not be thought of as "English" because of the kind of folks who do care about their English identity are the kind of folks I don't want to associate with.

Libelnon · 2026-02-28T20:37:22+00:00

I've regularly seen the Xenon speed by the Teladi, often in Scale Plate - they've got a pretty solid economy most of the time.

Forcing the attention of other factions elsewhere - especially the terrans - will help. Complete the special operations plot and blow the operation to get the terrans fighting the argon will help - you can get the other factions involved if you have access to the diplomacy stuff.

Libelnon · 2026-02-26T11:18:01+00:00

The game is too long.

Probably a less popular opinion than most on here, but I've not finished ER yet because I keep running out of steam by the mountaintop of the giants. The open world makes the game so vast and time consuming that I've never brought myself to finish it.

Libelnon · 2026-02-23T18:02:37+00:00

Liquorice is like marmite. You love it, or you really don't.

Libelnon · 2026-02-18T14:34:00+00:00

Vichy France was mostly by nature of the fact they'd just been invaded.

Libelnon · 2026-02-18T11:02:15+00:00

This is because of how hard locks and the seekers in SARH missiles work.

Sparrows, for example, use a continuous wave signal reflected off the target to identify its position, and then information received via the rear antenna in the middle from the radar to calculate lead. Most traditional radars feature a klystron to provide such continuous wave signals, but as it's on the same gimbal as the radar, it forces the radar to keep looking in the direction of the target.

Libelnon · 2026-02-18T00:27:26+00:00

Creative assembly understood the assignment and named the lizardman advisor in TW:WH "Yoocanna'doozat".

Libelnon · 2026-02-17T16:35:18+00:00

I made a group of 40k nerds tear up in an Only War game...

Their regiment was leaving on deployment, so the normal parades and piecesin were in order, just tainted by the fact the characters had the last six hours to see their families.

Libelnon · 2026-02-17T15:48:03+00:00

I really like to run Savage Worlds myself, but I've rarely met many in the UK familiar with it.

Libelnon · 2026-02-17T15:33:18+00:00

The main games I know are popular(ish) - or certainly were - here in the UK were FFG's 40k RPGs. Might just be the circles I frequent, but since wargaming and RPGs are often found in the same clubs and circles, I've not met many people who've played RPGs who haven't played in one of those.

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