the other thread is on page 6 still
general consensus is 'mods better fucking save it because the devs won't'

cool... Now i will wait modders to fix the modder game

Why did Hydra make themselves known to humanity before being ready for combat, are they stupid?

I don't think any mod can fix the agent system or the time system. Seriously, why do devs keep trying to hybridize turn based and real time systems, it's always the worst of both worlds.
I didn't manage to get to space. I had no intention of interacting with the tedious agent system for dozens of hours.

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AI controlled countries after one year:

They need to increase the value of countries and decrease the value of colonies on Mars, Martian mining towns are literally better than land in the game

>>2328433
this dev is an autistic that doesn't understand that a game need to end at some point,

>>2328481
If that was true he never would have added accelerated mode.
The problem is simply he thinks weeks of tedium is compelling gameplay.

>>2328433
The earth layer is entirely what drags the game down. When you actually get to space the game starts to be fun, but then you have to interact with earth again.

The servants have most the assteroird belt except for a few of them like Ceres which I have, in turn I have all the good sites on mars+merc. Should I be trying to go and wreck all these servant bases or just leave them be? They can't do anything in earth orbit at all.

>>2327352
I'm not wasting more time, the game is more boring now that ever.
>>2328524
>The problem is simply he thinks weeks of tedium is compelling gameplay.
That was The Long War gameplay and development, play the same fucking maps again, and again, and again, and again, and with every new version of the mod it got slower, and slower, and slower, and every valid strategy was "patched" away until you had to play exactly like they wanted.

>>2327388
>>2327446
Ironic, isn't it?

>>2327352
Now let's wait for mods to unfuck every shit element and rebalance that was introduced over past two years.
Can't wait for non-US strats to be viable once more. Remember when you could just do France, Japan and Singapore and fuck off from Earth post-haste?
Can't wait for streamlined tech tree that doesn't have bazillion useless techs to slow you down (because who needs more expensive techs when you can have more techs instead)

Are you limited with 5 agents for the entire game, or there will be more?

>>2328524
>accelerated mode
>still takes 40 plus hours to get anything done
and you better hope to not screw up early on because it will take around 10 hours until you notice you have to restart because a decision you made last week... Fun game design.

So many whining niggers on Terra Invicta threads.

this game is by autists for autists, if you don't want to spend 100 hours in a campaign only to realize you fucked up 20 hours in and that run is now impossible then you are playing the wrong game.

>>2328559
You will eventually need the volatiles from
the Belt, which you should get by marine-capturing Servant bases. However, you will be capped by the MC limit on mines so only take something like the top 5.

>>2328624
You get a sixth from a midgame tech.

>>2328467
I actually like that, mostly because managing Earth nations is tedious whereas space bases mostly take care of themselves.

>>2328847
>You get a sixth from a midgame tech.
Unit limit is fucking lame. That's why I don't play Total War - you can conquer the whole map but won't be able to deploy more units than when you started with 1 province.

>>2328930
Yes you do

Is there any benefit or point in playing in the 2026 scenario?

For me, it's taking over USA and Russia and nuking India and China until they're a glass parking lot.

>>2328723
go watch some streams bro, you need to nerf more.

>>2328735
This game is devs making game for themselves.
Always have been. They just bothered to pretend for the first year

>>2329223
Yes - it makes the game even more obtuse, because you are 4 years behind the curve now.

>>2329223
Everyone is stronger except kazakhstan who was nerfed so there's no more dumb kazakhstan meta.
The US has more boost
All things considered the world in 2026 is better prepared than the world in 2022.
>>2329299
What did he mean by this?

>3 ayy corvettes/frigates attack my mars station/shipyard.
>defense fleet of around 6 older ships with 3rd gen rails/2nd gen coils and missles plus 3 t2 defense arrays.
>The ayys all have point defense, plasma and a small laser.
>2 of the ayys fly straight into a hail of fire and get overwhelmed pretty easily but take out a couple of my ships.
>the 3rd ducks and weaves, dodges most of the fire and what it doesn't the PD shoots down. wrecks my entire fleet though I fully admit I'm new to the battles and suck badly at them.

Why didn't they all do that? The ayys truly using their maneuverability in combat is a sight.

>>2329305
>Why didn't they all do that
Maybe the two were meant to draw your fire (or maybe I'm giving the AI too much credit), or they were just a different class that couldn't duck and weave
Kinetics can't really deal with fast and small ships, so I always have some big laser ships on the flanks and in the rear to defend against them

>>2329304
>no more dumb kazakhstan meta
Which is stupid. The launch infrastructure is still there.
All the extra boost in the US also based on Starlink launches, which should be counted as bonus boost you can get from orgs.
For people who didn't want to make yet another America saves the world from aliens story, they've done exactly that with this rebalancing.

>>2329588
Oh, and they nerfed Centre Spatial Guyanais too, of course.
Because a US rush starting strategy needed to be the only winning one even more.

>>2329588
>Which is stupid. The launch infrastructure is still there.
Yeah but the rockets aren't, infrastructure doesn't mean shit

>>2329591
In what way did they nerf it? I'm certain even in the 2022 start way back when it started with like 0.1 boost and you had to build boost. At least now you get more orgs that give 1 or 2 boost on their own so needing a lot of boost countries early is less necessary.

>>2329588
Don't be dramatic. You don't even need to go US for boost. There's even a strategy where you burn the US to the ground to pour money into china and get in there then dump the US as it implodes.

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>>2329588
>>2329591
It's not the devs' fault that the US is generating all the IRL boost right now.

>>2329304
>Everyone is stronger
Sort of, but the numbers are all fucked. China has a GDP that's 33% larger than the US now; not even the CCP's own numbers are that extreme. Russia's GDP is also not grounded in reality, with a 2026 GDP that's about 42% larger than it was in 2022. That's just pure bullshit that can't be excused with "oh but it's in a wartime economy," no, not even the Russian Central Bank is making that absurd of a claim. It also doesn't account for the impending stagflation, though TI's simulation is too simple and abstract to model the effects of that.
Meanwhile, every single Western country either got almost no buffs or is in worse shape than 2022. France, UK, and Germany got like 1% GDP growth in the past four years. Taiwan's GDP shrunk somehow. The US saw only a 5% increase to its GDP from 2022 to 2026. It managed to get a buff to boost, but it has absolutely dogshit cohesion now, lower than some countries that are currently in the middle of a civil war. This only incentivizes the player to max out the boost and spoils priorities to extract as much value out of the US as quickly as possible before you let it collapse into the inevitable civil war.
>in before some cunt says "yes but that's realistic for the US :^)"

If the devs wanted to make every strategy for every faction always boil down to "take over China ASAP and screw the rest of the world," they certainly succeeded.

Game needs some more difficulty. I think nukes need a nerf as people are throwing them around too casually.

I would say that in order to equip a ship with nukes, that the warheads have to be taken from a controlled nation on earth. So say you want to outfit a ship with 6 nuclear missiles then those 6 have to come from a executive controlled nation of earth. If you shoot those 6 nukes and want to rearm then it should cost again another 6 nukes from the stockpiles on earth. I would even go so far as to say they could only be resupplied in the earth-moon system with maybe a small boost cost as well since they have to lunched into space. Maybe even a small chance of an event where you transferring the nukes to a non governmental organization gets leaked to the press and you get an atrocity or public opinion loss.

>>2329769
The funny thing is there is zero penalty to the cohesion in the US hitting zero besides research tanking because a single agent can keep unrest down without breaking a sweat.

How do we convince Elon to expand SpaceX operations globally to improve game balance

>>2330093
By that logic, shouldn't you also be able to convert space-mined fissiles into national nukes? What would the exchange rate be? One unit for one nuclear barrage?

>>2330156
I think they ahould abide by the original concept of boost and make spacex type boost org only instead of boosting the US, especially if they're going to nerf kazakhstan because roscosmos is defunct.
The point of the game is seizing control of nations to reinvigorate their space programs with orgs being an off map bonus.

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Just started a new game as the good guys. Time to prevent other bigots and xenophobes from starting a war! No more discriminatory hiring practices and be sensitive to the needs of the marginalised! This playthrough will result in utopia!

>>2330202
>bleeding heart DEI libtard faction all about handing their homeland to aliens that hate them
Isn't this a little on the nose?

what is the difference between Humanity First and The Resistance?

>>2330404
resistance are run of the mill aliens fuck off out of our solar system, I just wanna grill god sake type.

humanity first genocides the filthy xenos

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>>2330239
Following the Pretti Good rebellion and civil war to overthrow the fascist orange man, Kiran Banerjee stepped up to restore America. President Banerjee opened many Quality Learing Centres, provided free health care and opened MAID facilities. Those who disagreed with making America equal again were re-educated for alleged speech infringements. Those that were fanatically set in their ways were to seek MAID care. He also started many other programs to restore equality for all by redistributing wealth in USA. Things are looking good for America bros. We are prospering like never before.

Year is 2053, for a long time the aliens have completely dominated space and the world is mostly Protectorate, Servants or Alien Administration. I've been fast forwarding to watch them end the game but it seems like the Alien Administration is stuck at most 30% world control with no progress. I believe they they're struggling with very high insurrection. Is the AI just too incompetent to finish the game?

how chaotic is an 8 faction game? I always just stick to 3 faction games as I'm learning the ropes but it's the clear the game was balanced around more factions than that.

>>2330239
>chud seethe
Opinion dismissed.

>>2330443
Fantastic. Hopefully you have a plan to deal with the hateful chuds in Canada?

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>>2330443
Guess I should have put everything into welfare. Tried a more balanced distribution for 4 years and didn't progress cohesion much.

>>2330524
Yes. Focusing everything into welfare will bring cohesion up faster than anything else

>>2330472
Not very.
Sometimes europe becomes a bit of a thunderdome or you have to do some purging around china to get the cp bonuses but it's not what I would call chaotic at all. The AI predominantly focuses on easy to take countries first while the player tends to hone in on the big boys so you're almost always going after different targets.

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>>2330497
The Chuds snatched Canada and Mexio pretty early as they were popular from the start. Fortunately I started off with a banger Diplomat and had 3 persuasion boosting orgs at the beginning so I was able to influence and take over USA. Their time will come.
>>2330524
I find focusing on top 2-3 national priorities works best, otherwise it takes far too long to progress what you need. You can swap these out based on your needs, for example I've currently switched to Mission Control in USA while my probes are on their way to Mars so that I can have enough Mission control for 6 bases there. Also getting a space station up early helps despite what all the youtubers say. 9% boost to welfare (or other priorities) from a single station at the cost of 1 boost maintenance is well worth before you get mines up.

Is restoring the ROC or making Super China better?

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>>2330443
Comrade Lavrentiy approves

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>>2330587
>>2330610
I was trying to treat priorities as 'realistic' as I could, never liked the whole "planet of hats" thing where a country/planet devotes 100% of it's efforts to just one thing. But the results are really lacking, guess I'll start over.

>>2330097
The penalty is you have to spend agent actions on it.

>>2330771
You're not using 100% of the nation's efforts though, just 100% of the investment points. You're not the Congress, you're the shadow cabal controlling the Congress through a series of intermediaries. 100% welfare just means you're directing slack capacity towards welfare, there's still budget being allocated to other things.

>>2330771
Yeah it's more like you're allocating the 2 trillions of pentagon funds that went missing before 9/11 than the country's entire output.

>>2330813
If you have a dedicated unrest reducer that's not really a waste since he's farming xp and if you have the us he doesn't have much else to do anyway. It's like "wasting" actions on advising.

One thing i dislike about Terra Invicta is how sometimes you would do something like Investigate Alien Activity mission and it just says something like "The site was investigated" instead of giving you a proper description of what happened. Couldn't afford to write a paragraph?

>>2331103
usually it does the first time you investigate a certain activity like ship crash, abduction ect... in a separate popup often with a voice over from the faction leader.

Are there any difficulty settings I could set to make the game less railroaded? I don't want to play USA or China...

>>2331253
just use cheat engine to make a giganigger nation out of thin air

can only actual aliens create xenoflora and bases? I haven't seen either for ages and I'd love me a base for some exotics. I've surveilling everywhere the servants are but I can't find any. I haven't had any ayy deliveries in ages either.

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The chuds are running multiple false flag operations to incriminate the aliens wrongly. These messengers of hate must be stopped!! The aliens will deliver us clean energy, climate adjustment, environmental repair, medical research ... there are so many advances they can share with us!

>>2331259
I never played the protectorate and never understood why they are even in the game, but now I get it. They're a parody faction. I still don't think they belong but I at least understand why thry were added.

>>2331259
#StopXenoHate
#XLM

>>2331262
They're in the game to show you that ayylmao control is an actual real threat. of course it's retarded because they're magically the only faction to be brainwashed not even the servants get brainwashed.

>>2331253
Just go EU?
Either that or play as the Servants on easy and wait until the aliens win the game.

>>2331262
Just looking at his tech quotes, Banerjee goes through a pretty interesting character arc, from bright-eyed idealist to jaded misanthrope.
>"Just imagine, Ifechi, how this world would change if we could mass-manufacture building materials in an instant. Homes built for mere pennies! Irrigation for every village! A brighter, fairer future for all..."
--Kiran Banerjee in the early game
>"I am impressed. That does not happen often. But tell me, what new weapons does this allow for, and when will they be ready? Anything else is of little consequence."
--Kiran Banerjee in the late game

>>2331308
>magically
The Servants are magically immune, but every other faction gets to study a dead alien and figure out how pherocytes work.

>>2328722
Oh you poor little anus! Here, have some soothing ass ointment dear! It also acts like a lube so next time a fat dick slides inside you it will not hurt so much!

>>2331259
I'm not sure if the devs are unintentionally based for making the guy who worked with the UN an absolute scumbag even if his actions aren't his own

So who's de jure controlling the various human fleets and bases?

>>2331262
The other factions are similarly satirical except for maybe the Academy and Resistance. I mean Hanse is basically Don Quixote, just constantly spouting random military history facts and making phalanx metaphors and shit while his delusions angle him toward actually triumphing over a spacefaring alien civilization. The Protectorate's view that we probably shouldn't be fist fighting the bear that just walked up to us is at least reasonable, but the irony in their writing is that they're both the most idealistic and least imaginative faction. They want utopia but can't even imagine winning against the ayys. Making the authoritarian surrender fags liberals has aged rather poorly though.

I THOUGHT I WAS READY FOR TOTALERKRIEG BUT THEN THEY SENT A DEATHSTACK TO MARS AND DESTROYED ALL MY FLEETS MINES ORBITALS AAAAAAA SHOT MY SHOT TOO EARLY

>>2331801
but you have a power that the ayys don't possess: control over time
just load an older save

>>2331804
i think I'm 20 hours and 200 MC usage past the point of reloading; this is the culmination of a lot of long-term previous decisions.
This will probably be recovarable but it'll take a lot of base rebuilding and template applying and power balancing after they cum out all their orbital bombardments and return to the Kuiper Belt shadow tower base in post-coital satisfaction

Gonna take a break from this game for a while. It's great, but it takes quite a bit of mental bandwidth

>>2331601
Me

>>2331257
Servants have an org to conduct abductions, plant xenoflora and construct bases. Building a base needs a certain amount of succesful abductions having been completed in the area first, just like for ayylmaos.

>>2331829
There haven't been abductions in ages either, maybe I should stop killing servant concuilers the second I find them then?

>>2331830
Yeah if you've locked down the earth atmosphere then ships can't crash to deposit aliens and if you kill servants, they can't spread it.

Is it true the USA was nerfed because the devs hate Trump or something?

>>2331871
No.
The USA is still the strongest opener.

>>2331874
Cool, I played and beat my first campaign over a year ago now, and I am working up to doing a second campaign (IDK if I will stick with it) now that there is a full release. I was just curious if I need to change up my gameplan.

>>2331876
The only change is the US is more fragmented which just means it takes longer to fix. In exchange it has a fuckton of boost so you just claim 6 mars sites without doing anything.

>finally reach fusion drives
>I don't have spend 600 water to fill up every single ship anymore
>but the ships get like 10 miligees of cruise acceleration.

Is this intended or am I doing something something wrong?

>>2331871
The 2026 start has buffed the US and China openings (albeit they're both more fragmented than before) and severely nerfed the Russia-Kazakhstan openings.

>facing alien fleets 3-5x my fleet power
>engage manually
>thoughtfully assign athena torp targets, put PD picket ships in the middle to cover others in an electron beam phalanx, change target priorities mid-combat
>get abslotuly btfo by alien flankers going loop-de-loop ballet piroutte 360 around my ass
>...
>press autoresolve
>win with zero destroyed ships

lolwut

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>>2331882
>am I doing something something wrong?
Not really. Even with fusion drives large ships still need to pick between good thrust or dV. Only end game superdrives - Protium Converter Torch/Pion Torch break this rule.

>>2331832
I think the servants get a tech at some point that just lets them spawn aliens on earth albeit

>>2331938
The neutron flux torch is incredibly good, if you're lucky enough to get it

Is Academy still considered pro-alien despite having to purge the system of xenos like everyone? I just want to share intel with the terrorists...

>>2331938
and then there's resistojet...

Mods any good yet?

>>2332001
Pro alien insofar as they want the aliens to consider us equals yes.

>>2331399
why are you so mad about something that is 100% the truth? Not everyone here is a NEET and have this amount of time to sink in one campaign.

>>2331832
I found the servant counciler with the abduction org but they've given it to a 0 esp evangelist. Should I kill him and take the hit from beloved so they give it to someone else maybe?

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>>2332001
They're 0.5 points towards the pro-alien position on the chart.

is full control of the USA by january 2027 in Brutal good?

>>2332119
yeah

Why do the Servants love taking India and building tons of poo armies
Is it that easy to convince them that hydras are cows from space?

>>2332068
>Aliens are only 3 points into pro-alien
>Humanity first only 2 points into anti-alien
I wonder what it would be like if you reversed some of these values. Like anti-Servants that were very pro-alien but extremely cynical, or anti-alien like Humanity First but super idealist.

>>2332358
>anti-Servants that were very pro-alien but extremely cynical
that's just the protectorate
the servants are the servants because they believe they can peacefully coexist and heal the hydras or some shit - hence idealists
the protectorates are the protectorates because they don't believe that humanity can't win the war, therefore they seek a conditional surrender - hence cynics
>anti-alien like HF but super idealist
i can't see that happening, closest would be the academy because they want to beat the alien out of the solar system so they can forge an alliance on equal terms

>>2332372
>they don't believe that humanity can't win the war
they don't believe that humanity CAN win the war, rather

The alignments are pretty loose overall. Pro/anti alien and idealism/cynicism aren't really true descriptors. The protectorate isn't really pro alien, they just don't think humanity has a chance against them. It's kind of a shame the factions don't have branching paths because some of them would be more interesting if they had different objectives depending on how hard the aliens were winning/losing. Like imagine the protectorate sees victory is a possibility and flips to more of a resistance/HF stance. Or the initiative sees the writing on the wall and sides with the servants for a deal to preserve their own wealth and power in the new world.

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>>2332372
Servants look at this and be like
>i can fix him

>>2332381
honestly they might be batshit insane enough to do that, funnily enough

>>2332381
You see a hostile alien invader. I see a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer.

>>2332384
A gynecologist to be exact

>>2332377
pretty sure in their story events the protectorate expresses interest in alien tech insofar as it can enrich humanity. they basically want to be a satellite state getting residuals from an alien empire. i'm not sure how diplomacy works in the current version of the game but i did find it weird that they weren't immune to the alien hate mechanic on the higher difficulties despite being one of the few factions able to trade with them.

>>2332377
The implication with the protectorate is that the entire leadership gets turned pretty early on so they become more militantly pro-alien when it looks like the aliens are in danger of losing

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>>2331265
There must be some sort of mistake. These research our alien frens have given us is not what I expected. I should consult with my trusted advisor Lavrentiy.

I suggest we commission furry artists to draw hydra porn and we send it all through the wormhole.

>>2332388
because the aliens don't want a satellite state, they want a slave state

>>2332358
>anti-alien like Humanity First but super idealist
You must assemble a Magical Girl Anime team and defeat the evil aliens with the power of friendship!

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>>2332381
The Hydra are just lashing out against other species because they're still traumatized by the loss of their homeworld. They need help, and maybe Judith is the one who can help them.

>>2330749
Restoring the ROC lets you reverse their democracy score, which is probably better than just making the country really big. Like yeah, if you have decades to spare you can gradually invest into government, but by that point you'll already have finished the tech tree.

Finished an accelerated tech run, tech tree almost done by the end of 2030s. Fun getting to end game stuff quickly but it feels hollow. Regular speed or even so tech run next I guess.

Why doesn't a nuclear apocalypse or climate change kill 7 billion people?

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>>2330749
Restoring RoC and it's not even a contest.
China doesn't need more terrain or population. It needs better government score to skyrocket in research and then move on.
PAC is basically a meme state where you can swallow half of the Asia... to make yourself weaker.

>>2332579
>'28
>Barely reached Mars
... okay?
You want a cookie or what?

>>2332579
getting all those bases before you have to space resources to maintain them is a trap, you can't even build mines on them with that amount of boost.

>>2332579
A normal person would let AI pick spots and then cheaply steal them from them, making them waste their resources first... but here you are, doing a landgrab that you can't sustain for shit and with close to no boost left
Also
>2028
Congrats, you already lost the run

>>2330239
Its accurate so...

>>2332699
Once you get the first mine going you can get the rest within a couple of months

>>2332711
but I don't want to make enemies

>>2332733
half the other factions are opposed against you ideologically or not
you will become enemies regardless, sooner or later

>>2332011
Project Valkyrie Core is batshit insane
It's like a Muv Luv mod except it's not actually Muv Luv, but rather a dogshit western "parody"
Surprisingly, it not only changes the game radically, but actually works, and is getting frequent feature updagds

>>2332789
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2873908596
what the fuck that's insane

>>2332791
>mod beating the official game
Draw me surprised.

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Once you get to Jupiter its total war, right? Should I completely wipe the servants from the belt before attempting that? I've got a few marine fleets trying but I'm hardly making a dent in them.

Yes it's an accelerated pace game, can't remember the sliders but I'm just about done with the tech tree.

>>2332824
build more marines
if you're near the end of the tree then every station you build should be energy, money, and MC positive, so you should be building as fast as you can click while the ayys are limited by exotics, you should have been in total war a while ago, just build faster than they can blow them up

what the fuck are exotics anyway

>>2332795
Funnily enough this is a mod made by a former dev.

>>2332832
TI's flavor of unobtainium.

>>2332836
but you can obtain it from the corpses of your enemies?

>>2332840
generally it means a resource you can't produce yourself or can only get in very limited quantities.

>>2332731
Or you can get one that's actually useful and then build the others post-haste once you're already there and mining
There is literally no benefit from overcrowding Mars

>>2332841
Unobtainium means a material with an impossible combination of physical properties. High strength, ductile yet hard, lightweight, easy to machine yet resistant to wear, low coefficient of thermal expansion, etc. Unobtainable.

Spider silk thread is unobtanium.

>>2332860
show me silk getting machined on a lathe

>>2332789
>based on an SV quest
>what the fuck is SV
>google
>oh it's a creative writing forum or some shit
>second result: https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1i6s1xq/sufficient_velocity_how_one_transphobic_remark_in/
Fuck that was a great read, highly recommended. These people have unironically formed some kind of leftist bureaucratic cyberhell that they're all fully bought into and treat with the utmost gravity.

>>2332867
could be worse, could be SB instead
real niggas use QQ

>>2332860
No it isnt, you just get a box and dump some spiders in it.

They did that shit in the 1930s

>>2332860
>this obtainable thing is unobtainable
Good talk.

>>2332855
If you don't take the spots everyone else will take them quickly no? My strategy was to send 1 colony with a mine and fission module ready and take the other 6 best spots then build the rest shortly after the first mine goes online

I assume you all have wardrobes filled with spider silk shirts since it's so obtainable.

>>2332867
This is what happens when you give jannies respect.

>>2332888
>/vsg/ retard can't even properly reply to a post, thinking he's still in his hugbox
We have something way fucking better. It's called nylon, kevlar and teflon.
Next thing, you gonna blurt the classic "We don't know how Romans made their cement and it is superior to the modern one". Or go full in and claim "Great Wall of China is the only structure visible from orbit".
You dumb fuck.

>>2332867
"The Council has deemed you transphobic, fellow leftist. You will receive 50 bigot points as a mark of your shameful existence."

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>extort my advisebot councillor for 44k
>pay her 10k to get rid of 'extorted' trait
DUTCH BUSINESSMAN

>>2332789
>>2332791
Makes me wonder if it would be possible to mod TI to work more like a 4x/Paradox game with actual diplomacy mechanics between the factions. I'd love to see a mod with more focus on the space game, with the factions as established polities spread out across the solar system, and with Earth being just a minor battlefield in the grand scheme of things.

Just assassinated 3 of the Servant's councilors i hope this doesn't come to bite me in the ass, i don't have any fleets yet

>>2333095
How extensive is the modding support? Is it possible to put countries and borders on other planets? Or to change Earth's geography for a post global warming scenario?

>>2333174
lmao

How do i get the "Assault Enemy Space Asset" mission?

>>2333254
hire a councillor that has it or buy an org that gives it

>>2333323
nevermind you can assault with any ship with marine module. Councilor assault seems pointless then

>>2333383
I always have a raiding fleet stationed at every major orbital bodies in the solar system

>>2333029
That's an awful lot of projection there kiddo. Just admit you were wrong. We cannot infact make spidersilk into useful threads thus the mythical spidersilk thread is unobtanium.

>>2331106
First time the alien attacks it really is just a small paragraph. You would think the biggest event humanity ever faced would warrant a little bit more than that. It is extraordinarily anti-climatic. IMO should have been a big narrative event with special art and world-wide effects. Same thing for when alien administration forms, alien armies first land on Earth etc

>>2333383
Having a councillor leading the marines gives you an order of magnitude more exotics from raiding alien bases.

>>2333547
or you could just raid an order of magnitude more bases

>>2333551
You could do both and get two orders of magnitude more.

>>2333383
>Councilor assault seems pointless then
Yeah in one of my earlier games the Servants and Protectorate sniped most of Mars and I spent a good year farming a guy on Earth to make him the perfect space marine leader, built the fastest transport ship I could to get him to Mars, built an FOB with a bunch of barracks on Mars, and then realized that the single ship I had in Mars orbit with a few assault modules could do the same thing but like once per day instead of once per turn.

>>2333174
>Or to change Earth's geography for a post global warming scenario?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2873908596&searchtext=
Extreme sea level rise scenario, even if it's a shitty anime mod made by a tranny.
>put countries and borders on other planets
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2873517592&searchtext=
Solarinvicta had nations on other planets, but it got broken by updates and never got updated.
It is possible.

>>2327352
Any valuable advice for someone starting out? I wanted to go Academy but I heard it's the hardest faction

>>2333650
it is, but only because you lose half your control points to an event early on, and the earlygame is critical for snowballing
you should absolutely not play them for your first game, try initiative or exodus instead if you want a 'neutral' run

>>2333650
The only good advice the game gives you is to play your first run as Resistance. Some rule of thumb shit for the current state of the game and for someone playing for the first time:
>You want to eventually take over either USA or China
>If you go USA, get super-USA with Canada and Mexico
>If you go Chink, restore RoC to the mainland eventually (to fix your research) and DO NOT go Pan Asian Combine (it's a trap)
>Early game, kit-bash a space shuttle with some primitive guns and shoot down the aliens on Earth orbit ASAP
>Rush Moon and Mars techs
>Get ONE outpost on Moon, then move toward Mars (this is a newfag friendly advice, anyone with actual experience will just skip Moon)
>ALWAYS focus pips into a single thing, there is almost never a set-up where doing two things at once in a country is useful
>Read online guide which propulsion techs NEVER to develop (waste of time and research)
>Mission Control is eventually the only thing that matters
>Do not build fleet/bases worth more than 30 MC nor fly past Jupiter, unless you are ready
>Saudi/UEA are for spoils to fund your early game
>Useful nations to take-over early on: Singapore (put all pips into Space Program, ignore everything else), France (to prevent AI from building EU), Israel (army + decent everything else), Taiwan (eventually needed for RoC, otherwise Singapore 2.0 with US strategy),
>Building EU requires some grasp of game mechanics, so don't try this on your first play
>If by 3Q2027 you are not established on Mars, your play is fucked, restart, no point going further.
>If by 2032 you aren't having a functional space fleet, ready to attack ayys, your run is fucked
>NEVER LET A SINGLE FACTION FULLY TAKE OVER USA, CHINA, RUSSIA OR INDIA, especially not Servants and Humanity First

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>>2333723
Singapore is a solid spoils nation as well as its so wealthy you can spoil it for a while and then flip it to an auxiliary space center without losing anything.
Likewise ireland for EU plays.
And then you can always take russia or the us, spoil them to the ground and disarm them on your way out into china.

>>2333650
Don't pick any unnecessary fights, and form a coalition with your axis, this will drastically reduce the amount of micro you have to do. If you want a chill run where you just explore the tech tree, play Protectorate or Servants.

>>2333736
Arab countries are more cost-effective when you are after spoils.
Singapore is at the equator, and if you are China, you really fucking need a source of boost.

>>2333650
>>2333723
Also, since I forgot about it:
You can hide the faction techs you don't want to research, so they won't clutter your list (easily 80% of those projects are completely useless resource sinks) and leave you with only the shit you want to use or need, rather than busy work of scrolling through 200+ different shit techs.

>>2333978
>easily 80% of those projects are completely useless resource sinks
How the hell can I even tell whoch are or aren't trash? Reminds me of DnD 3.5, ivory tower game design

>>2333992
Most of them are just situational and you need to use your brain to figure out what you need at the current point of your game. The flowchart fags play this game in one particular way that other people have devised for them and are under the impression that it's the only way you can play if you want to beat the game, but it isn't. In fact I would recommend avoiding any guides or these threads because they're a cancer to new players, and just playing around and seeing what works and what doesn't.

>>2333974
No you don't.
China starts with decent boost and will have more by the time you get into it. A couple boost orgs will rocket a china opener to above US levels. And if you to the spoil US into china route you'll have a couple hundred boost banked already. Besides you just don't have the cp cap to go into anything besides china, and when you do you want to go into taiwan.

>>2328433
Yeah. This is why I'm never going to play the game more than returning for a campaign once in a blue moon. And unfortunately it's never going to get fixed.
To make the gameplay not get in the way they'd first need to get rid of the turns and hero unit action. They could keep the council with the characters to still satisfy their backers, they'd just have to behave as an actual council. All actions would be done through orgs and councilor stats would function primarily to improve the effectiveness of orgs. Actions that aren't discrete (e.g. assassinations, controlling nations, sabotaging facilities) would be continuous toggles. Setting them to do public campaigns for example would basically act like investing in unity, continually pushing opinion towards you over time.
>>2330815
>>2330864
No, you control the entire economy. If you don't invest in something then it will never ever improve.
>>2332789
I was really surprised to see how many actual gameplay changes it made. I wish I'd taken a look at it a lot sooner.
Devs would unironically do better to just put that guy in charge of the game.

>>2333095
>>2333174
What >>2333181 said. If you want that then you're better off waiting for Ascendance and recreating Terra Invicta in that instead.

>>2334139
It sounds like all of those things are capable of being modded into TI though?
>Ascendance
Time to wait another 5 years for a DW2 clone with less features.

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Shame that the dev is obsessed with having "fair" AI because the game would be so much more interesting if the human factions got a few buffs in the MC/resource production department

>>2333723
>to prevent AI from building EU
Why would you want to prevent it? Your CP cap gets quite high in the late game, so you'll have a chance to take the super EU as well. And the AI having good countries lets them contribute more to global research.
>NEVER LET A SINGLE FACTION FULLY TAKE OVER USA, CHINA, RUSSIA OR INDIA
This is good advice, but let's be honest they probably will. The trick to forcing an enemy faction out of a really strong position is to assassinate all their councillors, pushing them massively over their CP cap. This gives them a huge penalty to defend against your crackdowns.
This can also happen to you. Don't let your guys get killed, it will cause massive cascading problems for all your operations.

>>2334272
First of all:
Set of advice for a completely new players, remember?
Meaning EU and trying to kick out AI from it is beyond the scope

>prevent AI from building EU
>Why would you want to prevent it
So you don't have to fucking face AI-controlled EU, you dumb cunt. France+Germany is on par with India. France+Germany+Italy can be a serious fucking issue if you aren't the one controlling it, especially to a newfag
>And the AI having good countries lets them contribute more to global research.
Which you don't want.
Plus what AI does is mismanaging the place, so you end up with global warming going up and also potential nuclear warfare that's build up fast and easy.
None of which is good for you, and especially when new to the game.
>Crackdowns
Nigger, your job is to keep dissent high in all the big nations that you don't control, so it's a perpetual revolution there.

Fuck man, you're new, too.

>>2333992
>How the hell can I even tell whoch are or aren't trash
I've told you earlier: read online guide which drives never to develop.
Same goes with weapons.
There are like 6 good drives and maybe 10 good weapon system, in highly specific versions, everything else being a MASSIVE filler just to bog down people and force them to fail. Classic ivory tower. This is a game made by genuinely autistic people, so no real surprise here.
Then there is obvious stuff, like "countries I don't plan to form" or "megaprojects in regions I don't control"
And keep in mind that at this point, unless you are playing the official meta, you get fucked by 2030-32 mark.
So: either you're on board with such game and its design, or you are going to get REALLY fucking frustrated by how deliberately obtuse this game is. Give it a single shot with Resistance, play the way you want to play and evaluate that. If you have fun with your run (doubt), then keep playing. If not - the game is only getting worse if you chase the mera.

Ignore everything what >>2333998 said, he clearly didn't touch the game since at least 2Q2024, missing the memo there is just one path now, with minimal deviations for quite a while

>>2334054
>You should take over Singapore for spoils, dude
>Who cares for the easiest source of boost, better waste pips in China on that
>Trust me, it's all great plan!
But my favourite bit is
>Besides you just don't have the cp cap to go into anything besides china
Must be tough being you, struggling to get past 50 CP

>>2334281
You have to be retarded. Not only are you hallucinating, it feels like you're giving brutal advice to a new player who's only going to be playing on normal at most. This game is not so complicated as to require these 420 noscope strats on normal.

>>2334274
>Meaning EU and trying to kick out AI from it is beyond the scope
No it's not you're just dumb as fuck

>>2334284
>Not only are you hallucinating
Ironic, given your entire post
>Taking over China and pumping .sg for boost is brutal strategy
>Taking over .sg for spoils is a good advice at all
Not my fault Baikonur got shanked and now girl gotta improvise

>>2334294
Let me repeat this for the second time:
A complete fucking newfag asked for advice.
The LAST thing newfag needs is AI-controlled EU
>b-but you are dumb
As opposed to a faggot who can't grasp the simple memo.
What next? Jumping at me for telling him to grab a first outpost on Moon, despite it being covered as to why?

>>2334295
What is this nigger speak? Are you ok brownoid?
>>2334296
>implying the AI can even form the EU
And even when they can with like france and the UK they get stuck for years trying to dislodge other factions and consolidate.
>b-but it's a newfag asking
Just because you're a dumb nigger who can't handle it doesn't mean other people are.

>>2334272
>>2334054
>You have more than enough CP to take over the world!
>No, you don't have enough CP to take over China and a city-state!
The duality of schizos

>>2334303
The mental state of subhumans

>>2334300
>Retard goes on a meltdown
You forgot to call me a tranny, too.

>>2334305
Tranny no longer means anything, like woke. But if you were a person you'd realize that.

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>>2334310
... and calling someone brown means anything at all?

>>2334315
Yes because they larp and don't like being reminded that their larp is a lie.

>>2334318
Surprisingly fair point.

>>2333992
>80% of the game is just retarded bloat
game would have been better with a streamlined every 100 tech gives you 10% better engine output and every 1000 tech renames the engine and weapons to the upgraded version

>>2334315
according to us demographics, that 63% includes slate black sudanese (sudan counts as north africa (lol), north africans count as white (lol))

>>2332867
>SV
Man population of that site is bunch of overly sensitive kids over 30, any quest there no matter the setting has high chances of going into identity politics while behaving like it's a normal thing for a puddle of sentient water and a rock to discuss their pronouns

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>>2332119
managed to do it by july 2026 this time

>>2334464
spotted a long nosed individual

>>2334280
>there's only one way to play and if you don't do it you're playing wrong and you HAVE to look at my flowchart that someone else made for me because you'll never be able to figure it out on your own!
>h-huh? the person that made it figured it out on their own? s-shut up! stop thinking! you don't get to have fun!
Crabs in a bucket mentality for real. Just because you're too much of a dummy and need other people to beat the game for you doesn't mean you should assume everybody is like this and preempt their fun-having with your bullshit.

I wish the game had higher tech cost scaling. Setting the research speed really low makes the later game reasonable but makes the early game unbearable.

>>2332711
>>2028
>Congrats, you already lost the run
you can reach Mars before 2028? Only after Mission to Mars is researched Its like 1 year for the probe to arrive then another year for a hab to arrive

>>2334656
don't eat the bait, thank you

>>2334684
you mean me or the other person

>>2334656
The flowchart autists are still playing the 2022 start because their flowchart hasn't been updated yet.

>>2334693
The 2026 start is pure nonsense

>>2334702
Sounds like cope

>>2332353
Indians have always loved having a foreign master so I guess it makes sense

Now that the dust has settled, is this going to be a game like XCOM 1 & 2 where you play once and never again or is it a proper gsg like EU/HOI that keeps playthroughs fresh with high replayability?

>>2334722
unless they make some serious changes, the former. The meta is set and unless you want to try a slightly different flavor by choosing another faction, none of them play that differently to warrant another play through at regular speed.

>>2334722
You could get some replayability from it out of the different starts or mods. The factions are unique enough if you're also willing to supplement them with roleplaying decisions in-game.

>>2334722
It's really the length of the game that prohibits experimentation. In EU you can do a full playthrough in a day if you're fast. This game just drags.

>>2334732
>roleplaying decisions
so deliberately shooting yourself in the foot to weaken yourself by inches?

>>2334717
Servant India is definitely the most fitting.
>Academy - East Asia
>Initiative - Russia
>Protectorate - Europe
>Exodus - Middle East
Not sure which for China and America. Resistance and HF can both fit with either.

>>2334745
servants are depicted as christian wack jobs though.

>>2334745
HF fits more for both
Resistance is just HF but cucked

>>2334746
no they aren't you faggot redditor
Only Judith herself was and its said with the subtlety of a fucking howitzer that the Aliens are her new religion, wholly replacing any prior faith in God

>>2334745
WW2-Cold War America would be HF, modern would be Resistance. These days people would be generally content if the aliens fucked off rather than deliberately taking the fight to them.

>>2334834
America would have been content with just sitting WW2 out if the Japs didn't decide for them that they should join in on the fun.

>>2334838
nigga america started supporting the allies and the soviets on their own accord through lend lease and volunteer groups before they were whacked by japan, who they embargoed (one of the reasons why they did pearl harbor)
they also started remilitarization sometime before they got pearl harbor'd
mutts were gearing up for war regardless of their claims to "neutrality"

>>2334274
Yeah, I think fully controlling the globe is also a big ask for a new player. You only have so many agent actions per turn, your agents are not going to be great at their jobs yet, and most large countries need some amount of groundwork before you have any chance of controlling them. Simultaneously piercing the US and China is not the easy route.
>Global research is bad actually
Keeping Earth's tech level low does not help you win against the aliens. Like, this might be decent advice if you're playing as the Servants, since the aliens will eventually win the game if you just keep the humans down long enough, but every other faction needs tech. Even the protectorate has to build its own slave shield, with its own materials. Unless you have an actual plan for what you want to research, its not even that important to try to control which projects get done.
Trying to get control points in every big nation from the start is a good idea in theory, it's just impossible unless you know exactly what you're doing. Trying to minimise global research is actively terrible advice.
>keep dissent high
You're not explaining how to do any of these things. You have a limited number of agents capable of increasing dissent.

>>2334300
In my game, Humanity First has united the UK, Spain and some other countries into the EU, although the Resistance actually controls 3/5 of its control points. Germany is still independent, held by the Academy. I think they're doing ok. The Protectorate is way too strong, holding both Russia and China, so I hope the Euros can keep the alien threat at bay while I deal with that.

>>2334745
Unless you seize it for one of the good factions, America ends up half Servant, half Initiative, running at 100% spoils.

I hope you guys are nice to your friendly factions
I like gifting them space materials and later some mines if they're doing badly, I build shipyard for HF regularly cause they rarely make it to space
Feels good when they start blowing shit up

>>2332867
Trannies calling the term 'trap' transphobic seems like a case of confession by projection.
They totally do want to entrap straggots or breeders or whatever the latest slur is for people who aren't deranged faggots into having sex with them, it's just a shame most of them are AGP freaks who will never pass.

lasers are heavily overvalued in combat power calculations, right? Like one ship with a coiler gives like 19 combat power and the same ship with a laser gives me 200 some.

>>2334940
Yeah I never understood the arguments connecting it to the trans panic shit. The anime "draw a girl, call it a boy" usage of the word is about as semantically similar to what they're getting upset about as a beartrap. And clearly it's not that upsetting because they spam the word a million times while discussing it which they'd never do for nigger. It's also very amusing that over half of their moderation team was "trans voices" who would go around baiting arguments with authors about the perceived microaggressions in their stories and then immediately infract them when they defended themselves. I thought the site owner who is an oldfag lawyer was setting up a 200iq play to purge these people in a nonphobic way, just have common sense and they'll automatically implode because they're mentally ill, but unfortunately it seems he cucked out and allowed them to ruin his site in the end.

These are the kinds of people I imagine running the Protectorate btw. Comically ineffective turbo-lefties with no self-esteem running around and making the world a worse place.

>>2334908
>>Global research is bad actually
Never said that. Reread it:
>And the AI having good countries lets them contribute more to global research.
>Which you don't want.
You don't want others to contribute more than you can, because that means you won't be able to dictate what's researched next. This is fucking vital for newfags to control the research. And if AI controls good research source, it outpaces you in contribution
Easier to learn the ropes if you at least can select research, rather than being at the mercy of AI, even if that might slow down global research. And because only useful shit is being researched, it's still at a good overall pace.
>You're not explaining how to do any of these things.
Single action raises it by 2. If you are lucky, by 3. On a fucking 1-10 scale. What else is there to explain? Definitely easier, faster and more effective than any other approach of desabilising any given place.

do the aliens get mad if you attack the Protectorate like if you attack the Servants?

>>2335431
a little bit

>>2334911
Yeah the AI will at best unite some countries into the EU in the short term, but they're nowhere near a player absorbing country after country while kicking other factions out of the executive to prevent them from withdrawing from the EU.

>>2334315
>2004
>2011
old fucking numbers
also yuros don't track accurate demographic stats

>ayy fleet incoming to LEO
>they arrive, make it to a station (my old MEO anti-matter harvester I forgot about before building anti-matter farms in merc orbit) before my slightly slower defense fleet can catch up
>Don't feel like watching them beat up my two layer defense arrays so I autoresolve
>lose and the ayys blow up the station but some ayy ships are damaged.
>they fuck off back to outer planets before my fleet catches up still.

well that was a big load of nothing.

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>>2334733
>In EU you can do a full playthrough in a day if you're fast
what

Have you ever seen an AI actually winning?

>>2337681
No, never. Using the starting countries helps them, but they still seem to mostly just flounder around.

>>2333736
Singapore is the best nation in the game to just set to 100% boost and let it build for the rest of the game. Spoiling it is a waste.

>>2337715
we need an AI improver mod fast

2026 start, it's 2030 and there is already 500 in alien fleet power about to reach Mars to destroy everything. I'll only have 200 fleet power or so to defend
was i too slow?

>>2330093
>Game needs some more difficulty
I am convinced half of you people get off on ball torture

>>2337899
Depends if you have enough missiles and if they have learned the pd lesson

>>2337899
just realized they're arriving September 2031 not September 2030, i think i'll make it

Lanchester's square law is strong in this game eh?

>>2338081
I mean, that's the case in any game with effective ranged combat
though the suppression mechanic adds to it, you can really lock down enemies you have a concentrated fire advantage so they can't do anything
And unlike the player, I've never seen the AI use the pinned down free prone movement

>>2338087
Whoops, thought I was in the MENACE thread.

>>2338089
>MENACE
wake me up when its out of early access

>>2334722
crazy how the AI in every single Grand Strategy game is absolutely worthless

>>2338272
You can't really go beyond hardcoded heuristics unless you're a game like Street Fighter or Dota2 that can actually generate the hypermassive amount of data needed to train a bot. Perhaps in 10-20 years LLMs could make this more accessible but I'm unoptimistic. For what it's worth though the AI in this game is actually coded to use metagaming strategies players have discovered over the years, and it can hold its own on the economy building front for a while.

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>>2338258
For real dude, it’s not bad but your sentiment is exactly what I would recommend to myself if I could go back. Great bones of a game but holy fuck it’s not close to being acceptable.

>>2335333
>Easier to learn the ropes if you at least can select research, rather than being at the mercy of AI, even if that might slow down global research. And because only useful shit is being researched, it's still at a good overall pace.
How does a hypothetical new player figure out which research is useful? Do you just look up a guide?

>>2338650
Yeah basically. I still remember when I first started playing this game I saw the ISRU research and thought "oh, well that's obviously important and necessary for colonization" only to find out it was just some worthless ship module that had no impact on anything else.

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>>2327352
4 victors coming to LEO. should i be goncerned?

>>2338788
depends how much fleet power they are and if they have pd or not

detain councilor says it will let you 'interrogate' them. but it doesnt seem to enable that or do anything with that. is it just a move that can remove an opposing councilor?

>>2338839
What it means is that when you detain a councilor you get information about the faction.

How do I handle alien ground bases? One here in the asteroid belt has 100+k combat power and several hundred in marine strength. Do I try and bombard it or what?

is surveiling the location of a UFO crash doing anything?

>>2338866
get a fleet of spess muhreens
no need for any weaponry or armor
just drop pod assault as many as possible on their ayynigger ass

>>2338687
Did you just not read the description and choose based on the name? It also affects mining event likelihood.

>>2338867
You get +1% alien research bonus every time.

>>2338903
surveiling and not investigating i mean. surveil is like the generic mission on any region and investigate is for the specific site.

>>2338922
Oh I think you just identify any agent that investigates. Mostly useless.

>>2338922
if you have the tech to find the alien then surveilling region after a crash will often find the ayy, also do it after adductions and terror attacks.

>>2337725
Wrong mindset. The correct is:

White country = development priorities
Non-white country = spoil priority

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>>2338979
Is this white enough for you?

>>2338922
it has a fringe use in getting the xenofauna from dropped UFOs spotted and targetable, but you get enough ayy intel to make it seen at 0 growth fast enough so idunno

do orgs in the unassigned area still generate income ?

>>2339730
no

what do these yellow exclamation marks in the menu on the investigate command mean?

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>>2339733
>what do these yellow exclamation marks in the menu on the investigate command mean?
sorry forgot pick

>>2339756
It means they have dangerous traits, like Hard Target et al
I think

Is the servants even worth playing?

So there are like 500 random asteoids in the belt.
Should I just click one at random and probe then mine it? It takes 500 days to probe one sooo i gotta plan far ahead

>>2340496
when you research the tech just hit the launch probes button to survey them all. You can also build a prospecting ship at mars and send it into the belt yourself.

>>2340468
Good to learn the first half of the game with.

Am I wrong in thinking that there's nothing more cucked than researching public projects?

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>>2340621
Well if you ever want a good ship drive you need high-end fusion, and the only way any research is getting done beyond the earlygame is if you do it yourself (because you should have marginalised all the other factions into research irrelevance)

>>2340506
Is there a way to automate ship prospecting?

>>2340936
No because in those early days until you are using the very slow drives you are only going to have enough DV to reach one maybe two asteroids. Send a ship base kit with it or a IRSU module to refuel them.

>>2340990
But there's like... a lot of asteroids...

>>2340999
yep, grab the few best ones and leave the rest for the AI. Ceres is key, make you sure you grab that first.

You can look at the solar system info tab, filter by inner/outer belt and sort by probability of resources. Send a probe to maybe the top 5 of each category and a few generalist rocks that catch your eye.

>>2340999
... yes, and?
Like with all the filler options in this game, they are just that - filler. They serve no fucking purpose other than distract clueless idiots.
You want Mars, Mercury, Ceres, MAYBE Venus and if you are missing resources by that point and research, it means you probably rolled poorly on mining sites
Next thing, you gonna ask why there are what? 80 different drives? And only 5 of them are worth researching.

>>2340999
So you don't prospect them by ship, and instead click the "launch 9000 probes" button in the solar system intelligence screen.

why didn't anyone tell me about hydroponic bays this is why my volatiles income was so shit

if multiple councillors are doing control nation at the same spot, how does that work? who gets to go first?

>>2342566
you choose a different node for each of them

>>2342566
It resolves sequentially. The guy you assign first resolves first. So if you're trying to control adjacent nations assign the guy in the easier to control nation first so the second guy is more likely to get the neighbor bonus before he resolves.
If you throw AI agents into the mix I have no idea how the game determines in which order they resolve in respect to your own.

>>2342566
iirc whoever has the highest chance goes first
No idea what happens if there's a tie

>>2341367
>You want Mars, Mercury, Ceres, MAYBE Venus and if you are missing resources by that point and research, it means you probably rolled poorly on mining sites
They nerfed Mars, particularly in the fissiles department.

>>2327388
I refuse to believe mods can actually make the early game agent whack a mole remotely playable (unless it's to skip it)

>>2340621
Your options are either to research public projects, or support the other factions in getting a high research output so they can research them, and of the two the latter is definitely more cucked.

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Based

>>2342786
What about giving factions research stations to fill up their MC and limit their space economy/navy?

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how is my buddy taking 60 days to go from Mar's moon to Mars

>>2342855
Because you have 0.040 milligees of acceleration. That's 0.00039 m/s^2.
Try finding whichever ship is missing its engine and splitting it off the fleet.

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>>2342846
>spending vast amounts of time, money and minerals to build up a base just so another faction can have it

>>2342787
self defense lol
>>2342859
us foreign policy since the cold war

>>2342855
just build a small repair station on that moon to repair the ship at, it will be quicker.

They need to add repair ships beyond the repair bay module to maybe at least get 1 engine up, or the ability to dock with and 'tow' ships with disabled engines at severely reduced acceleration and increased fuel economy, but still faster than I guess using RCS thrusters as engines.

Want to get this game, can I get any starting advice?

How come the entire world doesn't instantly turn >99% support for Humanity First the moment the aliens are revealed to be monstrous looking and killing civilians?

>>2343020
Same reason people still support ICE when they are revealed to be monstrous looking and kill civilians.

>>2343059
>Same reason people still support illegals when they are revealed to be monstrous looking, murders, rapists, and child molesters.
Ftfy Banerjee

>>2343075
Immigrants commit fewer crimes per capita than natural born citizens. If memory serves practically the entire administration is implicated in a massive pedophilic sex ring.

>>2343075
You just proved my point. No matter what's true, it's easy to manipulate the public either way. No matter what the aliens looked like or did, people would spin it in a way to benefit them.