Chilloutman

Still on Stellaris, I dropped my first non iron man game as it was filled with bugs (eg. fmining drones were showing as part of primitive civilisation for some unknown reason). So far doing good, I have vasalised first aliens. Also playing on 4 arms galaxy so its much more interesting to be limited by map

looks cool, 2 things I noticed 1) that 'katana' have sounds like lightsabre 2) walking on metal floor have very similar sound as some other game I now cant remember, maybe Unreal? cant tell exactly but i know that sound too well

Don't be harsh on people not liking it. Money grab boom of remakes in Holywood is now through the roof and people complain about it. No problem with me

EU needs drastic overhaul which needs impulse to do so - Brexit might be it

That is a statement of the obvious. The goal isn't to make everyone rich, it is make sure people who have jobs have a decent quality of life. I mean it doesnt fix your problem, it will just delay it for a while, in time inflation will catch it up again and you will be in same position, only the rich people will be even more rich

no-one will get rich from working minimum wage, that was my point

how does raising minimum wage makes rich people not grow wealth faster than those on minimal wage?

Well, only solution to it is A) war B) putting limit on amount of stuff one can inherit, because if you inherit more, you will generally have easier time to multiply your assets. Thats why wealthy people are able to get so big (not all of course) none of these are too appealing to me TBH

Loopholes are what I am talking about here, I am even for flat % rate when it comes to it.

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” ― Winston S. Churchill You probably understand me incorrectly. I am not saying you need to have more/bigger taxes. But any functional state have to have taxes. Its about from who you are taking money and how well you spend them. In short, if big players would pay taxes as they should, they would not have to be that big/affecting that much low income payers

Way you keep economy growing is to make rich people spend money. Cut out tax heavens, force corporations to pay taxes where they earn revenue and prioritise lower taxes for these companies which invest into small business or welfare of own employes

Me too, but as Paradox has said - compared to their other titles, it's a bit 'bareboned' at the moment. Which means it's got flavor coming out the wazoo of course, but if you're used to Crusader Kings 2 etc it can fell quite a bit shallow after the midgame. I'm just sitting around in game waiting for stuff to research. Took up an entire arm of a 4 arm galaxy, joined a Federation, liberated planets from a rival federation, and ran out of room. Oh, and enlightened three different races. Now the only thing that keeps me busy is trying to pick a planet to terraform just to see what it's like. I am in similliar position, but I got some invasion event (looks like Tyranids) and waiting to get borders with them to start raining death on them

I think you're conflating "equal outcome" and "maybe don't have so much of a gap between the haves and the have-nots that it literally kills people". I agree. And there are two ways to do that. Expand the economy so there is work and opportunity for all (a rising tide lifts all boats) or tax the living s--t out of everything in sight and use the money for "social welfare". The former solution creates equality by allowing the lower class to become middle class. Yeah, we've seen how well the "give money to the rich so they can create jobs for the poor" tactic worked so far. Spoiler: it didn't. What do you mean it didnt work? On other hand I can assure you that other way around didn't worked for sure, 50 years of communism proves that pretty well

Kind of tired of not knowing release date yet, or did I missed it?

Something new?

If you want pretty graphics, don't play on console

Irony have to be politically correct, same as black humor

That dual wielding was lame as F. Cmon HBO, don't ruin it

finally got some time to play Stellaris. Created few races to be included in my game - Imperium of man - divine xenophobic mandate of heavens guys and few other funny ones. Playing myself as slow breeding intelligent long living militaristic collectivistic spiritualistic transcended oligarchy. I love it. No wars so far but its going to happen all around is xenophobic isolationist

Check out the mod After the End... Ironically in CK2, less fair now than a few patches ago- they've introduced something called a 'threat mechanic' to curtail massive player expansion, so now the AI will try to forge alliances to counter you if you're too much of a threat. Sounds good on paper, but it gets a little stupid when the Papacy allies themselves with muslim kings to counter a christian duke. As for Stellaris and EU, less so - but there are some articial mechanics similar to this, not near as stupid as that though or what you know from CIV and the Total War games. For anyone wanting to play Crusader Kings 2, but don't know where to start- I can strongly recommend rolling back to the 2.45 patch (via beta in steam) and just play as a duke under an emperor, you learn all you need to in a safe enough enviroment, while not being threatned by the big boys. I know about this mod, also interesting one could be Game of Thrones one, but I dont have all DLCs and I am not sure they would work with my version and I am too lazy to fiddle with it

Not sure where you are from but if you are from OUTSIDE of Europe you will probably enjoy CK2 more, i have always problem that I tend to drift toward my home country

gogo SpaceX, its time that universe tastes human power!

Well, hope you will not be dissapointed, Total war is not your common RTS, it have some grand strategy elements

http://stellariscountdown.com/ time is for continental Europe hoped that i could start downloading before I get to work, now i will have to DL whole afternoon PS: that new Battlefield looks kick ass, but I feel it will be far from BF1/BF2 which i loved. Well, there is still ARMA

not that I dont agree with you but dont you think that maybe if there would not be problem with immigrants and muslims in first place we would not see this behaviour from Odin guys? I would be first one to call them racist smucks. They dont 'pop up' from thin air without a reason