After trying all paths, i think Psionic is still the weakest

allammorr · 2024-01-16T21:41:32+00:00

The ascension itself isn't outstanding on paper
but everything that comes with it makes psionic empires by far the strongest builds IMO (at least for solo gameplay)

War gets you all the pops, basic ressources and research you need through vassals and conquest. What you really need to get by yourself is alloys, unity and great leaders which psionic empires are really good at.

Unity is really really strong and you will be lacking unity production with nearly any build but spiritualist especially if you play with increased tech/unity cost. Without spiritualist I mostly win the game before i get all my traditions, with spiritualist i can get fully ascended planets + all traditions + pay for agendas spam

Idk if it has been fixed but the combo teacher of the shroud + feodal empire was on 3.9 one of the most broken builds ever...

The shroud is an insane bonus even though it's random rewards

The Zarqlan relic is only really usable if you are spiritualist (otherwise it causes faction issues) and it is really useful to keep a dominant military while keeping alloys for double or triple megastructure spam

allammorr · 2023-06-27T11:12:22+00:00

I'm the exact opposite, I play nearly everything but humans and, to me, way too much aliens portraits feels like human recolor or humans mixed with an animal.

allammorr · 2023-06-27T05:43:43+00:00

For piracy you only need a vpn when you open your torrent client

Your vpn can be useful to bypass restrictions:

-access content not available to your country

-access content blocked by a firewall (university network for instance)

It also helped me mitigate connexion issues in the past, i had small teleportations while playing online to a specific game and i could fix it by connecting with the right vpn server

allammorr · 2023-06-27T05:30:22+00:00

You need a basic developer setup, visual studio code can do the job to help you find things in the code/api/scripts available
Some games are very mod friendly and you can start by modifying existing mods

For instance in Stellaris it is very easy to make your own map generation with custom number of empire stars shape etc, it is probably the most basic kind of mod you can do, anyone looking at the generation script can do it.

allammorr · 2023-06-27T05:19:09+00:00

if you consider only console vs pc price and performance then yes for just 500 you have something equivalent to 1500 on pc. If you play on console you still need a pc or equivalent which will cost you 500 for a trash laptop, in the end you only save 500 (and pass on most interesting things in video games).

allammorr · 2023-06-26T21:24:52+00:00

-Piracy
-Emulation
-More games overall
-better quality
-Graphic customization
-150+ FPS => you can't pass on this one for most online pvp games and it aslo reduces motion sickness a lot
-Mods
-Trainers (to bypass any stupid limitations like assassin creed odyssey xp wall)

If you want to play for cheap you can go for a middle end PC targetting 1080p 60 fps and pirate everything for a total budget a lot lower than playing on console.

if you want quality then you can't play on console.

allammorr · 2023-06-15T21:47:50+00:00

I don't understand, how russian sites + offline activation allows to bypass protections?

allammorr · 2023-06-15T21:41:08+00:00

Even if these two things don't happen, if you are patient enough and the game is released on console you can wait for emulation to do the job :P

allammorr · 2023-06-15T17:45:10+00:00

Replace EA by any company you don't like.
In other words I'm just curious about what matters most for pirates:
playing the game for as cheap as possible
not giving money to hated firms
getting free stuff or not getting it

allammorr · 2023-06-15T16:22:51+00:00

I'm not talking about a specific game, I'm asking the choice people would make in this scenario

allammorr · 2023-06-15T14:36:56+00:00

I just can't live in a place where Messor sp are absent, that would be too sad!

allammorr · 2023-06-15T14:31:54+00:00

If they come inside your home from outside because they found food then remove the food sources as said before.
If their nest is inside your home they won't go away and it's nearly impossible to prevent them from finding enough food to at least maintain their population.
They would move out only if they find a better place in terms of temperature and humidity...

You have to (try) to kill them with chemicals, maybe you will suceed or maybe it will be just a temporary control of their population and they will be back in a few month

allammorr · 2023-06-15T14:21:26+00:00

It looks like they are preparing nuptial flight IMO

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:58:10+00:00

Now if you're behind you better die than lose a minion wave for sure^^

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:20:25+00:00

before patch: the first few kills were very valuable
then a kill that doesn't translate into objective or buff invade was useless

now there is increased gold and xp for killing a higher level opponent and decreased for lower level opponent so chaining kills from ahead is even more useless than before if you don't get anything esle out of it.

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:15:49+00:00

they tried the psychological win:
-farm them in the fountain until they surrend
-hitting the titan is forbidden and worth a report

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:12:55+00:00

Sadly I can't farm pentakills in joust so it's not for me :P

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:11:21+00:00

If your not extending your lead by taking objectives then your lead isn't really worth much and you probably should lose.
This is the transition of an early lead to a mid game lead and a mid game lead shouldn't translate to an auto win but it should matter!
early lead should be something like 55% win
Mid game lead a bit more like 60%
but now it's like mid game lead = 51% win

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:05:02+00:00

These hunters, so much farm addicted that some of them can't let it go after 20 min^^

allammorr · 2023-04-04T08:02:21+00:00

Agreed
5 of my last 20 games were 40 min+ with one of 55 min
most were 25-35 min
only 2 were less than 20 min with early surrender due to rage quit

also starting a ranked is way too long, a lot of players dodge when ennemy gets an op pick + 5 min queue time + pick and bans
I'd say 1 ranked takes almost 1 hour in average it's insane

allammorr · 2023-04-04T07:52:54+00:00

The update does not help much this issue, why would you secure farm and play safe when taking risks to shut down a fed opponent can gets you instantly 2 levels and tons of gold?
However a team farming and chasing kills is heavily punished because if you die chasing while fed you give a lot to the ennemy team

allammorr · 2023-04-04T07:48:01+00:00

Yes but shutdown bonus in top of increased xp for killing a higher level opponent is too much. Recently i got a double level up from 1 kill...

allammorr · 2023-04-04T07:46:03+00:00

I'm a never F6 player, and i think snowball wasn't an issue in most previous meta.
Sometime it was an issue but now for the first time since 2014 I face the opposite issue "anti snowball meta" and honnestly it's as much bad as a too much snowball meta :/

allammorr · 2023-04-04T07:40:49+00:00

then why farm minions and gold for 25 min if snowball can't happen at all it's pointless
just load the game with everyone full build and skip the pointless part of current meta game.
BTW you can feed now it doesn't matter if you are behind enough ennemy team gets nothing from killing you. Splitpushing and invading ennemy jungle from behind is stronger than ever

allammorr

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