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Stellaris - Paradox new sci-fi grand strategy game

fantadomat

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Once it gets fucked up by viruses i just reinstall it.
"hurr hurr, I don't need an antivirus, I will just reinstall windows over and over. also, what's a boot sector virus and why do all my games run slow?"

ok

Uhhh no,i haven't reinstalled the windows in more than a year,all my games run 10/10. I am talking about viruses that really fuck me up,like that incryption shit that i got a few years back. Most of the viruses i can take care of without a problem.

And i am not joking about the facebook being a snake nest.
not doing stupid quizes and blocking ads goes a long way to stopping most fb viruses.

who even browses fb on their pc?

None,as i said my sister and nephews are using my pc while their pcs are a few meters away. Evil bastards :argh:!


In all seriousness i haven't got a lot of viruses from a torrents in 15 years. The sites i use reap pretty reliable and i do check the uploaders and cracking groups. Torrent=virus is petty old internet legend,in this days it is a lot more efficient to use flash clips and other stuff for spread than torrents. Torrent sites are business too,they do clean their shit.

Still i get you mate,i to am paranoid when it comes to some shit. I never use a single bank and never use one of those modern cards with chips.
 

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I've noticed the overwhelming negative review bombing on steam since 2.0. What changed? I bought it some time ago on a steam sale whim but never ended up playing it, was thinking of trying it out on the weekend.
You ARE the reason why this game is shit. You're supposed to try the game first and then buy it.
you can always return it within the 2 hr window
better than getting a virus from a torrent
"its not a virus, guise. honest. it's just a false positive"
he says, adding your pc to his botnet, which is the only reason he spends time cracking games
not all but most, I think
Do you softice, bro?
 

Raghar

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That reminds me, I've forgotten to congratulate the Codex's Stellaris fans for their wise purchase of this prestigious Paradox product, which will only continue to improve with time.

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Don't worry, I didn't spend a dime. And my offline version is not dependent on whims of Steam, and will never update by an accident. It's just real PITA to find which version works best, aka least bugs and most features.
 

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Don't worry, I didn't spend a dime. And my offline version is not dependent on whims of Steam, and will never update by an accident. It's just real PITA to find which version works best, aka least bugs and most features.

Nice. You'll have the luxury of choosing between the pre-starlanes version with D&D race DLCs and some other shit, or the post-starlanes version with the other 80% of the DLC that'll actually make the game slightly interesting five years from now.
 

a cut of domestic sheep prime

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Uhhh no,i haven't reinstalled the windows in more than a year,all my games run 10/10. I am talking about viruses that really fuck me up,like that incryption shit that i got a few years back. Most of the viruses i can take care of without a problem.
wat r miners?
wat r botnets?
how deese bad?
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Still i get you mate,i to am paranoid when it comes to some shit. I never use a single bank and never use one of those modern cards with chips.
:shredder:

So you're paranoid enough not to use banks, but not enough to use an antivirus. k

and if you don't use a bank, how do you even have a credit card?

also, those chip cards are actually a vital security feature. it's better to use only cash than to not use a chipped card because without the chip, all someone needs is your credit card number in order make a copy of your card.

it works like this: someone gets your card number via a keylogger or similar virus, or via a card skimmer. card skimmers are easily hidden and people will install them on everything from ATMs to gas station pumps. then they sell the number to (chinese) credit card fraudsters, who then resell the numbers to people who will actually commit the fraud for around $100 a number. from there, they can make fake credit cards programmed with the numbers and use them to buy expensive things from stores and resell them. or even use your debit card to withdraw money from an ATM if they used a camera or some other method to capture your PIN code when they got that number.

Chips can't stop every kind of fraud, but they have stopped a lot of them, or at least slowed them down. Now people are using "shimmers" to try and capture some of their data and use them at stores with poor security. https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/new-card-skimming-is-called-shimming.php

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Raghar

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and if you don't use a bank, how do you even have a credit card?
What idiot would use credit card? During socialistic era everyone used cash. And for large money they used direct bank transfers, where his ID was verified by bank officer.

I heard few years, decade, ago that when someone went to western country, and paid for shopping in cash, western people looked at hims as if these money were from robbery. Of course when you use cash you can't overspend, nor forget how many money you have. And when some jerk would block your bank account, you still have cash to handle travel expenses to pay him a visit, or visit to your lawyer.

When you don't have paper money, because you are using bank card for shopping, you are hosed.
 

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What idiot would use credit card?
people with more money than you who regularly make large purchases and like the benefits? (usually the equivalent of 1% cashback on all purchases and/or other benefits like being able to board planes earlier or being able to take a nap in an airport lounge for higher tier cards)

people who want extra security in case of fraud.

also 99% of normies for ease of use.

so for example, if I buy something from you and it's a broken lemon and you laugh in my face and tell me "too bad, I got yo money, nigga!", I can call my cc company and show them the evidence and get them to do a chargeback. I get my money back and you're hosed - and possibly put out of business if you get enough chargebacks and they shut down your merchant account.
https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/6-steps-getting-chargeback-1267.php

also if your wallet gets stolen, you can cancel all your credit cards within minutes from your cellphone. but if you are carrying a lot of cash, it's gone.

and there's nothing preventing you from keeping cash at home and still using a cc either.

though really if you want to have actual security, you need to keep assets like gold, guns and land. cash can always lose its value.
western people looked at hims as if these money were from robbery
It often is, especially if it is a lot of money in small bills
 
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fantadomat

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Lambchop19,i use multiple banks,also i never buy shit with card,i use it to withdraw if there is an urgent need. Also not a credit card,debit one,hate the modern credit culture!

I don't care about PC because there is nothing important there,at worst i must spend an hour to fix some shit.
 

Nirvash

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you can always return it within the 2 hr window
better than getting a virus from a torrent
"its not a virus, guise. honest. it's just a false positive"
he says, adding your pc to his botnet, which is the only reason he spends time cracking games

lel... wanna talk about the trojan shit you get with porn?

I'm sure my weekly roaming of shady porn sites for supercreampiehorseonblackgirl get me more trojans than a lifetime of pirate games.
 

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I have never gotten any kind of malware from pirating anything. In fact, given the state of how official companies behave, I actually prefer the pirated version over a free official version. I'd rather deal with Russian haxxors than Official Microsoft haxxors.
 

Stefan Vujovic

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I have never gotten any kind of malware from pirating anything. In fact, given the state of how official companies behave, I actually prefer the pirated version over a free official version. I'd rather deal with Russian haxxors than Official Microsoft haxxors.

Considering that it wouldn't be the 1st time that "Pirated release" genuinely works better then actual "Denuvo Protected (My ass)" one (Performance wise), i kinda agree on the subject in some cases, like Ubisoft (French fuckers that destroyed my beloved HOMM series :argh:). Those faggots deserve to be pirated, but there is nothing to pirate, since they haven't released anything remotely good since Rayman Legends.

On the topic at hand, like it or not, modded Stellaris blows everything out of the water in the 4x genre, its not even close, and this is coming from someone who's top 3 game of all time is MOO2. What the game needs now is expansion completely focused on Diplomacy / Sabotage and in the meantime they can work out the travel / tile / war system. If you are not playing the game as a race of Xenophobe Starfish people bend on enslaving the whole universe and min / maxing it instead, then you are playing it wrong. Sit down, role a blunt, sip a favorite drink, imagine the idea in your head what space monstrosity / tree hugging alien race you wanna role play and just roll with it.
 

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Is it possible that the game makes sure to surround you with AI empires that have opposed traits to your own?
E.g. I want to play a SJW-empire xenophile egalitarian civ, 90% of the aliens I encounter are fanatic xenophobe militaristic zealot purgers.
 
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Uhhh no,i haven't reinstalled the windows in more than a year,all my games run 10/10. I am talking about viruses that really fuck me up,like that incryption shit that i got a few years back. Most of the viruses i can take care of without a problem.
wat r miners?
wat r botnets?
how deese bad?
mystery.png


Still i get you mate,i to am paranoid when it comes to some shit. I never use a single bank and never use one of those modern cards with chips.
:shredder:

So you're paranoid enough not to use banks, but not enough to use an antivirus. k

and if you don't use a bank, how do you even have a credit card?

also, those chip cards are actually a vital security feature. it's better to use only cash than to not use a chipped card because without the chip, all someone needs is your credit card number in order make a copy of your card.

it works like this: someone gets your card number via a keylogger or similar virus, or via a card skimmer. card skimmers are easily hidden and people will install them on everything from ATMs to gas station pumps. then they sell the number to (chinese) credit card fraudsters, who then resell the numbers to people who will actually commit the fraud for around $100 a number. from there, they can make fake credit cards programmed with the numbers and use them to buy expensive things from stores and resell them. or even use your debit card to withdraw money from an ATM if they used a camera or some other method to capture your PIN code when they got that number.

Chips can't stop every kind of fraud, but they have stopped a lot of them, or at least slowed them down. Now people are using "shimmers" to try and capture some of their data and use them at stores with poor security. https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/new-card-skimming-is-called-shimming.php

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My mother fell for something like this, but the machine sucks your card inside - we call that "Chupacabra". Then some helpful guy appeared to help my nervous mom by calling the bank's number.
Plot twist: The helpful guy was not helpful at all, and that was not the bank, either. Very clever of them. They ransacked her almost completely, took her wage and zeroed her credit card.

Still, things ended up well - the Bank reimbursed my mother and the credit card operator cancelled the purchases.
 

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My mother fell for something like this, but the machine sucks your card inside - we call that "Chupacabra".
Interesting. In Russia, some of the machines don't give you your card back after a withdrawal. So people leave their cards in there by accident all the time.
Still, things ended up well - the Bank reimbursed my mother and the credit card operator cancelled the purchases.

Anyway, depending on the amount of info they got off her, they could still be a problem. With the right info, her identity could be stolen later on. Although I don't know if Brazil has credit cards that could be opened in her name or anything.

In the US, it's best to put a freeze on your credit and not let anything be opened with your express authorization.
 
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Space Satan

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Devs said they wanted to rework Federations. Now they are becoming stronger and stronger, because trust bonus becoming so much that allies never have conflicts and Federation can never fall apart.
 

a cut of domestic sheep prime

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federations have been unplayable OP for a while now.

it ruins the game for those who want to go it alone pretty quickly.

kind of like alliances in CK2.

eventually it can get to the point that you are surrounded and one war will mean a game over.
 

Norfleet

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Is it possible that the game makes sure to surround you with AI empires that have opposed traits to your own?
E.g. I want to play a SJW-empire xenophile egalitarian civ, 90% of the aliens I encounter are fanatic xenophobe militaristic zealot purgers.
I've heard this is a side effect of the universe spawn system: The game tries to spawn the game with a balance of traits. But it spawns things in order of proximity to you. Thus, whatever you pick, you've unbalanced the scales towards that, so the game will try to balance the tables by picking the opposite. And then spawning that in close to you.

There is also a bias against Pacifism, because an all-pacifist universe would be boring. IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
 

Talby

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There is also a bias against Pacifism, because an all-pacifist universe would be boring. IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.

I managed to get a game like this anyway, somehow. Over half the empires on the map were either pacifist, xenophile or pacifist xenophiles. Needless to say, they were were purged.
:killitwithfire:
 

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