u/Proper-Sport-7218

I used to love mobas like League but these days I don't enjoy PvP or the toxic community. But I love the format of short games, the top down controls, the many champions and skins. Is there some game that still offers that but in a PvE or singleplayer format?

Closest I can think is PoE or Diablo, but those don't have short matches. You just grind the same character for hours.

I used to play custom Warcraft 3 maps where you managed just one hero and it was a wave defense mode, that was really fun. Something like that would be awesome.

And yeah you can play League with bots but then you get no quest progress which sucks.

I'm looking for stuff like dried chilies, mexican hot sauces/salsa (Cholula, Herdez, Valentina, or maybe some smaller, better brands). Any stores in Copenhagen that sells this? Its absurdly expensive online.

Hej handymænd og damer.

Jeg har en meget gammel vægmonteret Gorenje emhætte, som er blevet helt ufatteligt ulækker og lugtende. Jeg har prøvet at rengøre den så meget som muligt, men det er hele "indmaden" der også er helt snavset til. Reservedele koster mere end en ny emhætte, så jeg tænker jeg lige så godt kan købe en ny model.

Er det noget der er svært at skifte? Jeg er ikke verdens største handymand, det eneste jeg har skiftet er armaturet i køkkenet og selv det var en kamp jeg næsten tabte.

Bor i lejlighed, hvis det gør en forskel.

This is for example the wineyard multiplayer many french states get from goods_output_wine_mult, but instead I am looking for a generic one that applies to all buildings.

Something that is a country modifier instead of a state modifier would be nice.

90% of the time I play:

China in Vic3, love their unlimited pops and self sustainability.

Tall machine intelligence ring world in Stellaris, basically just tech rushing and playing defensively until every else is pathetic compared to me.

Portugal in EU4/5, colonizing the world and avoiding wars in Europe.

Basically any count or duke in western europe in CK2/3, perfecting my genes, holdings, and giving all the power in my realm to my family.

I just rarely play for the challenge, I'd rather just have everything go as I want it. It's like solving a puzzle, it's supposed to end up perfect.

Anyone else that plays like this? What are your comfort runs?

The current top reviews on steam for Nomads are all negative, but they largely complain about things that aren't actually issues, the reviewers just don't know how to play Nomads. You can't really blame them for this as Nomads has no in-game tutorial. In fact enabling nomadic playstyle disables all tutorial tips.

An example is people complaining that their arkship constantly needs to go to their waystations to stock up, this can actually be done automatically by the logistics ships.

Another is people complaining that harvesting systems only gives them 50-100 minerals, this is because they don't survey systems first.

Etc etc etc etc

Its nice there's finally nested tooltips, but its nowhere near as detailed as CK3 or Vic3's.

The only official tutorial is a youtube video, which I don't think many players know about. Its also a horrible format if you want to lookup a certain feature or just want a structured overview.

Usually I only micro early when I have to rush my starter worlds and chokepoints, then auto my science ships and constructor ships. Colonies are also super easy to manage, I basically have a few templates I reuse.

With nomads I plan each action my science ships, constructor ships and ark ships takes. I'm switching around ship modules and districts depending on my resource hauls. Nothing is automated or static.

Its much slower, even on speed 2 its too fast, but its very fun. I don't reach the same point where I'm just snowballing and waiting for the mid game crisis.

Harvesting puts a huge debuff on resource deposits for 20 years which (seems) to make building a waystation in that system pointless (for 20 years).

So I am wondering if this means you should ideally either go full waystation or harvest when playing a nomad.

I guess you can do both and harvest some systems here and there, especially early game to quickly gain resources, but most traditions, civics and ship modules seems to favour only one of the two choices, so you don't get to buff harvesting and waystations fully.

The AI empires also hate you for harvesting in their systems, so I guess its best for militarist empires, as eventually all systems gets claimed.

So my initial conclusion is: for peaceful playthroughs I will havest some unclaimed systems early game for quick cash and then switch to waystations, for militarist I will harvest everything I can.

What do you think?

Edit: since waystations use the starbase cap system, it actually seems like its smartest to save them for when AI empires are established and you know where to uptimize your routes. Or, maybe just deconstruct the first ones.

Either way the choice is not to either harvest or build, because you don't have many stations.

I discovered that the AI will gladly sell me active sensor links for the max amount of years for just a few hundred consumer goods. It means I discover the whole galaxy in barely any time. This is fantastic for megacorps so you can get branch officies up and running quickly. It also means you can make huge federations fast. They also sell their artifacts/specimen cheaply.

After a certain point, around 200 years in, the trade cavaran enclave lets you buy reliquaries with energy and with no cooldown. Makes it MUCH easier to get the Galatron achievement.

Any tricks you like to use?

Just wondering what the sweet spot is, since you got that +75% job efficiency but -10% per planet. I feel like it would be best to have around 7 planets then? Then you still get +5% and the bonus of instant pops.

It appears you can't create vassals out of your sectors as determined exterminators, so I have way too many planets to micro now. My plan was to automate most of them but the automated ones basically do nothing.

Also I miss the "rural" designation, dunno why they removed it.

I used to love tech rushing with a single machine world or ring but it seems far weaker since version 4.

I have an idea for a build that is still machine world/ring world, with my economy coming from vassalising my neighbours early. But early warfare as a bot pretty much requires determined exterminators and those can't vassalise (afaik). Maybe I can just annex and then release them.

Another idea is to try megacorp ring world, it was super strong back in 3.x but probably nerfed a lot now.

Anyways any builds you like?

Since my unity is more or less directly tied to the amount of bio pops, it seems that the best way to play is to capture as many bio pops as possible?

Whenever one of the galactic crises happens around 20-60%< of the galaxy will get wiped out. What I've noticed is the AI sucks at reclaiming the empty systems after I've dealt with the threat.

On one hand I do kind of like the idea of having wild space (there even was a mod called that many years ago), but on the other hand the AI never ends up being strong again.