Is there no way to save a custom avatar?

[Orphan Martian]

From what I can tell, you only get one avatar and have to reconfigure them if you want to change your persona, bonuses, or appearance. There's really no option to make leaders and save them as presets?

[LordBlade]

Yes, I'm annoyed at this. We should be able to save multiple avatars and switch between them for different games.

[Shotagonist]

Originally posted by Orphan Martian:

From what I can tell, you only get one avatar and have to reconfigure them if you want to change your persona, bonuses, or appearance. There's really no option to make leaders and save them as presets?

Nope. It was a deliberate choice of the dev team that you can only make your one avatar. Its worth noting the bonuses you select/unlock are only applied when someone else plays with your avatar, as you cannot play against your own creations.

Yeah they want you to download your friends' avatars or the ones of devs/influencers if you don't want to play against the presets.

Hence my negative review.

[LordBlade]

They should have done something like Age of Wonders, where you can just make a bunch of various leaders.

[Orphan Martian]

So the avatars are just for looks? I really don't get what this game is going for. AoW had customizable heroes with traits and abilities and starting bonuses. I guess you get those bonuses when you pick your first civ, but it feels weird giving players the option to create a custom avatar with all these abilities that don't actually affect you in-game.

[LordBlade]

The avatar you use is just for looks. Your multiplayer avatar, which your friends can download to play against, gets customized to change how the AI will play.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by Shotagonist:

Originally posted by Orphan Martian:

From what I can tell, you only get one avatar and have to reconfigure them if you want to change your persona, bonuses, or appearance. There's really no option to make leaders and save them as presets?

Nope. It was a deliberate choice of the dev team that you can only make your one avatar. Its worth noting the bonuses you select/unlock are only applied when someone else plays with your avatar, as you cannot play against your own creations.

Yeah they want you to download your friends' avatars or the ones of devs/influencers if you don't want to play against the presets.

Hence my negative review.

Wait. Other people can play against/with my character? That's oddly satisfying. Like knowing some rando is running around with my pawn in Dragon Dogma.

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Wait. Other people can play against/with my character? That's oddly satisfying. Like knowing some rando is running around with my pawn in Dragon Dogma.

As you play, you'll unlock new things to modify your multiplayer avatar with.

But if you like that idea, check out Sterallis. You can make lots of custom races (which you can play against single player or use for multiplayer). And they get saved in a simple text file that you can share with friends, which they can just copy and paste into their custom race file, and so you and your friends can swap custom races.

My friends and I get a kick out of that.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

Wait. Other people can play against/with my character? That's oddly satisfying. Like knowing some rando is running around with my pawn in Dragon Dogma.

As you play, you'll unlock new things to modify your multiplayer avatar with.

But if you like that idea, check out Sterallis. You can make lots of custom races (which you can play against single player or use for multiplayer). And they get saved in a simple text file that you can share with friends, which they can just copy and paste into their custom race file, and so you and your friends can swap custom races.

My friends and I get a kick out of that.

I don't play strategy games with people. I have my own pace, and having to put up with someones else's pace just ruins the game for me. Waiting for their turns etc.

This is my primary reason for mainly playing tbs solo.

Edit: Also, how do I add my persona to the list?

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

I don't play strategy games with people. I have my own pace, and having to put up with someones else's pace just ruins the game for me. Waiting for their turns etc.

I'm the same. I don't like playing stategy games like this in multiplayer. I'll play hotseat at times when available, as then it's my wife or a friend sitting there playing with me, and we can chat and rant while playing. But online? Nah.

But as said, with games like Stellaris, it's great to be able to basically get my friends' races added to my custom race list, and play a game populated with races they (and I) created instead of the pre-made ones.

Edit: Also, how do I add my persona to the list?

How do you mean? If you're talking about using your multiplayer avatar for a single player game, you can't.

[[GRVTS]Fat Bastard]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

I don't play strategy games with people. I have my own pace, and having to put up with someones else's pace just ruins the game for me. Waiting for their turns etc.

I'm the same. I don't like playing stategy games like this in multiplayer. I'll play hotseat at times when available, as then it's my wife or a friend sitting there playing with me, and we can chat and rant while playing. But online? Nah.

But as said, with games like Stellaris, it's great to be able to basically get my friends' races added to my custom race list, and play a game populated with races they (and I) created instead of the pre-made ones.

Edit: Also, how do I add my persona to the list?

How do you mean? If you're talking about using your multiplayer avatar for a single player game, you can't.

No, I meant how do I know it's even in the database? That people can see it? I connected my game2together account, but I dunno how it works honestly.

Oh you meant stellaris. I have that, and all the DLC. I play it on occasion, but generally I go to Master of Orion 2 for my space 4x experience. It's a classic that I love.

[Digihuman]

Yeah, it's really silly. There's no reason I should need to make an account with some site/service I don't care or know a thing about to get avatars. Just let us make our own. It's already daft enough that we can't set the AI's behaviour to what we want until we've met some arbitrary milestone in-game.

[LordBlade]

Originally posted by GRVTSFat Bastard:

No, I meant how do I know it's even in the database? That people can see it? I connected my game2together account, but I dunno how it works honestly.

It should be available for your friends to select when they start a game. I don't really know as I've not looked into it too much so far.

Oh you meant stellaris. I have that, and all the DLC. I play it on occasion, but generally I go to Master of Orion 2 for my space 4x experience. It's a classic that I love.

I love the race editor for Stellaris, it gives you so many options.

But yes, MoO2 is still my favorite space 4x game. Put more hours into it that I can count. lol