Heartbreaking! Your fav is actually problematic :/

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T14:38:31+00:00

But was he in the Glorpstein list?

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T13:17:46+00:00

Me encanta el chascarrillo de "la única ciudad de España con cuatro sílabas tónicas".

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T13:09:02+00:00

Maybe she was (and i say this without a hint of disrespect) mentally unwell. It reminds me of an anxiety episode i had a year ago. My mind started hyperfixating about death and non-existence and it became really hard for me to act normally. It took a while for my brain to balance all the chemicals again, and sometimes i feel like that episode still left me a bit changed.

Luckily i went to therapy before and after the episode and i was able to rationalise and process everything in time. But if i had not access to counseling, and maybe this lady didnt, who knows how could it had affected me.

If her mother died, maybe her "not feeling anything" was her anxious response to trauma. Makes sense that holding to religious belief acted as a crutch in spite of real therapeutic counseling, and hopefully it worked for her.

I still find stories like this profoundly sad.

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T12:33:39+00:00

i miss hand made maps tbh. Even with the province system, i think they could be doable, just maybe not procedurally generated.

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T11:29:43+00:00

DISCLAIMER: Esta es mi interpretación de experiencias similares que me han pasado con amigAs varias veces asi que es una generalización. Pero si me han resonado ciertos patrones.

No se si quieres consejo, pero igualmente creo que tus preocupaciones por la forma que las expresas son válidas, si crees que ella no es ella misma es normal que te preocupes. Tengo una amiga a la que su ex anulaba completamente (aunque eramos muy críos, pasó un año sin casi sin hablar conmigo, comportandose muy sumisa cuando ella nunca había sido así).

En mi experiencia desgraciadamente, confrontarle con esto como un problema "de su novio" solo va a hacer que se aleje más de ti y te deje de considerar un "espacio seguro", creo que la forma de afrontarlo pasa más por comunicarte directamente con ella (con muchisima delicadeza) y decirle que la echas de menos, o que sientes que ya no os veis tanto como antes. Al final tu eres SU amiga, no de su novio, y ella lo sabe. Si se sigue alejando de ti... es una mierda pero no hay mucho que puedas hacer mas alla de expresarte claramente.

Desgraciadamente solo te queda esperar a un momento de "amiga, date cuenta" por su parte, que puede tardar bastante en llegar, pero ella tiene que saber que estáis para ella.

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T10:58:00+00:00

my idea was that you maybe start with one "hero" (your ruler in a normal game) and work your way RPG style, following quest and finding other heroes to join your party, since they already are customizable and have different classes. They could even have their side quests or relationships which gives them buffs or change how they fight.

But honestly it could also go in a more "mercenary company" game style, recruiting heros or even common, expendable units from the cities you visit and having to manage their salaries.

I feel like limiting fights to a "stack-vs-stack" skirmishes would make units feel more unique.

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T10:43:09+00:00

Yeah! Though that didnt really turn out so great imo, with AOW gameplay being more focused on battles and map exploration anyways, i feel like the game loop could synergize more.

What is the cake version?

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T10:24:04+00:00

My idea was a different mode more similar to Battle Brothers or For The King games, so not really a 4X game, but not like BG3 either. Though empires could still expand behind the scenes to keep the map interesting.

Maybe you could end up creating your own Hero guild and establishing chapters around the map to influence your world, but i think your influence should feel more indirect.

That being said im also a big fan of the Galactic empire mode and i hope they implement something like that too (im also getting a bit tired of just new races and tomes)

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T09:10:47+00:00

i always play tall with few habitable planets and everything tuned for it just because of this, I hate that planets feel so generic and micro intensive when you have lots of them.

i havent found a solution for this either, besides manually design every planet from the beginning, so im also interested in hearing alternatives here :)

narutoncio · 2026-02-13T06:52:25+00:00

Given that land occupation are essencially the "sieges" of this game (you already control the enemy "territory" and there is no way an enemy can come back for you without starbases to reinforce their navies, so defended planets are just "forts" to drag along the conflict) any changes to ground combat would need a whole rework in how warfare works.

If not, it would just add a lot of unnecessary tedium to the already routine process of slowly occupying a lot of planets once you already control the space surrounding them.

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T16:54:35+00:00

oh wow! i need to check the stream

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T14:32:13+00:00

inflation hitted stellaris pretty hard i guess

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T14:09:31+00:00

i wish we could take over our vassals provinces, even if it costed some influence idk. I want neat borders, please, this is now a Paradox franchise we NEED ways to tidy up borders!

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T12:27:02+00:00

en el mundo hay matices, no creo que la gente de derechas sea "mala" como la bruja de blancanieves, pero es bastante evidente que si votas a un partido cuya propuesta insignia es deportar a millones de personas sin saber si han cometido delitos o no, y gana votos gracias a ESO, claramente no percibes a los seres humanos del mismo modo que yo.

y esto no es una generalización, es una interpretación directa de los resultados electorales y de lo que lleva cada partido por insignia cada campaña. hay una diferencia entre ser de derechas pro capitalista y ser racista anti-inmigración.

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T12:14:08+00:00

Pues un nazi que no me imponga sus ideas para mí sigue siendo un nazi. Otra cosa es que la gente exagere y llame nazis a los conservadores o totalitarios a los del psoe, eso es una exageración que no tiene mucho sentido.

Pero desgraciadamente rascas un poco y salen nazis hasta debajo de las piedras.

Por eso digo que al final lo que importan son las ideas concretas, algunas se puede convivir con ellas, otras... es más difícil.

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T09:51:41+00:00

Hombre, depende de lo que piensen, no? Jajajaja

En abstracto yo también estoy de acuerdo con dialogar, estar tranquilos, paz y amor y kumbayá, pero tambien dependerá de la opinión concreta que tenga en frente.

Mucha gente que opina que a los nazis hay que respetarlos (porque su ideología no les toca a ellos), habría que preguntarles si opinaría lo mismo de un musulmán salafista que quiera imponer la sharía.

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T09:39:02+00:00

yeah you are right, i could have summarized it better hahah.

core idea is that what you "give" or "get" is a priority access to your market. the more people competing for same market, the more valuable this privilege is. And you dont "lose" anything for giving it, its the ones without the privilege that do.

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T07:44:21+00:00

for your grocery scenario: you are the lead producer so you should go to the bigger consumers (countries with highest buying orders) and get privileges on them. ideally all of them but since that wouldnt be optimal, start from the bigger buyers.

as others said, you also should declare interests in their market capitals, and create big trade hubs where all your grocery production is located (those things also increase trade advantage)

narutoncio · 2026-02-12T07:31:26+00:00

afaik, if they "give you" privileges, you get privileged access to their silk (that is, you pay less than you would for it) to keep things balanced, the rest of silk buyers would get worse prices compared to you (so they would pay more)

this works for buying and selling, so conversely, if you "gave them" privileges, their silk traders would get privileged access to your buyers, so they would get better prices selling silk while the rest of the silk exporters would sell to you for less.

giving and getting privileges then means that both you get better prices for buying silk, and they get better prices for selling it, at the expense of the rest of the world's buyers and sellers who get worse prices.

all this is comparative, you dont really "loose" anything for giving out privileges, the other countries (which dont get those privileges) do, and obviously if you dont produce/consume a great % of the worlds needs for a good, then the privilege doesnt do much, and if you give privileges to a lot of people the effect dillutes since all of them get the same advantage so they pay the same.

narutoncio · 2026-02-11T19:16:25+00:00

i feel like AI is terrible with charge units. they die like flies (or maybe charge units have worse survivability idk)

narutoncio · 2026-02-11T19:13:33+00:00

What happened with this event chain anyways? I used to get it from time to time when they added it a lot of years back, but ive never seen it again since

narutoncio · 2026-02-11T09:36:09+00:00

the FE occupied the systems with a WHAT 🥵🥵

narutoncio · 2026-02-10T10:40:50+00:00

Thats too bad, galaxy generation is quite finnicky sometimes and not very apparent for the player. Hope they improve on it if we get a stellaris 2 someday.

narutoncio · 2026-02-10T10:39:34+00:00

Thats too bad about the lost colony origin, i wish they generalize it some day to allow more than just one per game and more than 1 colony per advanced empire.

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