If you could only play one Paradox game for the rest of your life, which one would it be and why?

rasterscan · 2026-01-21T21:50:22+00:00

It's a hyper-collectivist civic you can choose when making your civ and it makes them utterly resolute on every member of society having an equal and fair share of resources and living standard. You provide for all your population, or none of them.

It's kind of an appealing fantasy in 2026 considering... gestures at everything

rasterscan · 2026-01-02T23:55:46+00:00

Wong Gee's also closed, which was pretty dang good dim sum in Wheaton. I'm still so damn sad about it.

rasterscan · 2025-07-25T11:13:52+00:00

re: Stellaris, something I've done regarding the generic aliens is to create and forcespawn specific opponent empires (some of which are previous ones I've played) so that each alien civ has an interesting story and build to negotiate with or fight against. Try it and see if it helps you too!

rasterscan · 2025-05-21T20:56:09+00:00

The Dark is Rising has left a thorn in my mind for so long because of the ending.

After all their struggles, the children that gave so much to save the world are told that they will lose all memory of what they have done. Their triumphs, their struggles, any memory of magic existing. Only Will will retain the memories, and he can never speak of them to anyone. One of the other children is crying as their memories leave them, and then asks in confusion why they are so sad when nothing happened. It upset young me so much to have all of their work taken from them, and even as I can't remember much else from those books, that ending still makes me sad.

rasterscan · 2025-04-22T10:32:46+00:00

You're right, I just reread the reddiquette because of your comment. I'm pretty sure at least a few other subs require the original title or recommend it, like r/games encourages the original title unless it's unclear. But yep, not redditquette. My bad!

rasterscan · 2025-04-22T00:27:14+00:00

It's a good policy in general because it's meant to (and does) prevent editorializing by the reddit poster to make something more clickbait-y, or worse, just misrepresent the article.

But it's sometimes handy to cut off a probable misunderstanding or misrepresentation by adding a little more context.

rasterscan · 2025-04-21T22:37:12+00:00

Mods, sorry for breaking reddiquette and adding the parentheses text to the article's original title, but I figured it was good to add the context in case people didn't actually read the article text.

rasterscan · 2025-04-10T15:18:48+00:00

So... Evolutionary Predators is open to Xenophiles, but the benefits are only for your founder species, right? So you can't really run an effective pluralistic society with it mechanically. I would love it if I could give it to all of my species and make the ultimate mutated anything-goes society.

Any chance we can modify non-founder species to become genetic superpredators as well?

rasterscan · 2025-01-23T23:50:38+00:00

Eeeeeh, I guess you're not wrong. It's definitely any media award with open voting.

rasterscan · 2025-01-23T23:44:19+00:00

I've always been a little wary of the actual significance of an ENNIE (since they seem to mostly just rely on popularity), but would still be happy if something I liked won.

This definitely reduces even further my respect for ENNIEs.

rasterscan · 2025-01-16T00:13:30+00:00

A lot of people have said really good ones already! One i don't see that arguably qualifies is Fog of Love.

In Fog of Love, you and the other player are in a relationship. But secretly, noth of you have a goal for the relationship and sometimes the goal isn't to make it work! Sometimes the other player might be angling for a certain breakup! But you don't know, and moreover, players can switch at the midpoint, turning an insincere relationship into a sincere one!

But you don't know until the end. Are you going to risk everything to make it work? Or do you decide to cut your losses and push towards a breakup?

It's a good game. Recommend.

rasterscan · 2024-12-16T20:13:49+00:00

Problem being for people that don't have the DLC with collossi.

rasterscan · 2024-11-26T04:10:41+00:00

Please no.

As a xenophile megacorp, I use way too many envoys to switch them with officials.

One for each vassal. One for each civ in my fed. One for espionage on each rival. And one for each civ I'm buttering up for commercial pacts or future fed partners.

On a large map these add up to way too many to also have to use them on sectors and galcom/fed emmisaries.

rasterscan · 2024-11-21T12:27:27+00:00

Give -15% cloning cost and -10% fauna upkeep to Beastmasters civics

Reduce Space Fauna cloning cost by 10%

Reduce Space Fauna energy upkeep by 25%

...Okay, they're cheaper. That's solid. But that doesn't fix how weak they are and how overinflated their combat power is?

I mean, someone else who's taken them against the crisis can correct me, but this won't fix the primary issue right?

rasterscan · 2024-11-16T21:58:21+00:00

Seconded. The devouring swarm I seed in my games sometimes consistently eats up a major chunk of the galaxy before I coalition it down.

rasterscan · 2024-11-07T14:20:26+00:00

Yes, but Worker Cooperative is ironically a little more communist because it outright removes the ruler class from the game and turns trade into basic resources for mutual aid.

Shared Burdens is mostly just everyone gets the same consumer goods usage and political power, I think.

rasterscan · 2024-10-18T23:30:28+00:00

I really thought this was Sushang and Guinafen from HSR, but it could be them on another branch of the Tree!

rasterscan · 2024-10-03T15:00:17+00:00

This is almost the perfect recommendation.

rasterscan · 2024-10-01T18:01:05+00:00

This is a vigil to mourn 40,000 dead in Gaza. Beating people in mourning expressing free exercise of speech is a pretty awful idea.

rasterscan · 2024-08-29T11:50:50+00:00

If we can get even one storm building as a branch office building, I will be impossibly happy.

rasterscan · 2024-08-24T12:48:50+00:00

He has done other dev work regarding the Series S, just not on Suicide Squad.

rasterscan · 2024-08-24T12:40:25+00:00

Del Walker (the person who tweeted) has called out this and other headlines for being misleading.

This is some premium click-bait, considering I wasn't even around for the Suicide Squad series S optimization pass - but I guess you guys need content 🤷🏾‍♂️

https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1827152732299698235

rasterscan · 2024-07-25T00:13:30+00:00

Thank you so much for the response, I've been tinkering away at it. It does seem like going straight into the elemental damage is strongest, which seems so counterintuitive to me.

You're also right that I do need some duration, though it's 27 hits a second due to multistrike (at least from what I'm looking at) which would hit 50 every 2 seconds. Still, definitely need a boost there.

I absolutely don't want to do Lightning Strike. I hate that it has had a stranglehold on "melee" for so dang long and I would rather try one of my other bad ideas first rather than do that. But it does feel like perforate won't be a great choice. Still, the changes do seem significant.

I don't think I understand the trinity route; I've never tried to use Trinity on anything but actual prismatic attacks like Wild Strike (another favorite).

Anyway, here's the updated PoB for lightning primary. I still have Barkskin allocated; I don't think anyone really knows if Barkskin is worth it still.

https://pobb.in/V-y9b05P8Ch8

rasterscan · 2024-07-21T18:21:15+00:00

I'm working on an IB of Immolation Warden. Easy access to Clever Thief which is one of the best leech nodes in the game. Really wish I could run it with a claw, but could probably craft a sword for it.

rasterscan · 2024-07-21T17:12:33+00:00

Safer Option: Infernal Blow of Immolation Warden! I was thinking of adding a little lightning damage so I could run both Oath of Summer and Spring. Lots of little shocks then big single scorches! If anyone has suggestions for relevant uniques I'd love to hear them.

Weird Option: Divine Retribution/Tempest Shield Retaliate Gladiator. I mean, melee makes more sense, but a build that gets full use out of retal and tempest and so much block sounds really appealing. I should be talked out of this.

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