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Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

wait, that's no colony pod...!



lol settle down fellas, i believe that's just a photoshop....

*furiously refreshes e-mail waiting for the save so i can withdraw my scouts to my base*

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BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

do NOT get owned

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

only own players with long response times on their emails

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

anthonypants posted:

now it's my turn. i think i might get to drop my second base this round
looks like i did the first prototype too

p.s. hello chairman yang

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



anthonypants posted:

looks like i did the first prototype too

p.s. hello chairman yang

you're kidding me are you up in my territory as well?

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

cheese-cube posted:

you're kidding me are you up in my territory as well?
you're the one who messaged me, dude

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



anthonypants posted:

you're the one who messaged me, dude

oh you mean via commlink? having not played much multiplayer im not sure if you're meant to have everyone's commlink from the get go and whether messaging factions you havent met would work but i guess it does. i sent messages to everyone offering peace treaties :3:

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
smoka is probated but says he passed his save on this morning

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

wait how did you get a laser squad so fast???

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Luigi Thirty posted:

wait how did you get a laser squad so fast???

free drones start with two of 'em

the expansion factions are so overpowered

Glorgnole
Oct 23, 2012

let's see if we can get through the next turn without getting randomly hung up for a week again

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Foo Diddley posted:

free drones start with two of 'em

the expansion factions are so overpowered

it's a good thing no one's playing as the aliens, they are disgustingly strong

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Improbable Lobster posted:

it's a good thing no one's playing as the aliens, they are disgustingly strong

this is balanced, in single player anyway, by the fact that human->alien atrocities don't count as atrocities. so break out that nerve gas. it works with alien->human atrocities, too, just in case you weren't stomping the AIs hard enough as the aliens

also free drones don't actually start with two laser squads. i was joking around because that screenshot is obviously photoshopped

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
you can even see the survey pod underneath it

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Turn complete

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

also, colony pods cannot be equipped with impact rifles

Deep Dish Fuckfest
Sep 6, 2006

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Toilet Rascal
you know, i don't think i ever tried equipping a colony pod with a pressure hull to get a submersible colony pod... a good way to get a defensible beachhead on a continent if other options aren't available

other options being obliterating the entire continent with planetbusters of course

Glorgnole
Oct 23, 2012

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

you know, i don't think i ever tried equipping a colony pod with a pressure hull to get a submersible colony pod... a good way to get a defensible beachhead on a continent if other options aren't available

other options being obliterating the entire continent with planetbusters of course

a submersible cruiser former would probably be pretty dope

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



holy poo poo just got the save from luigi30 only 4 days after playing my last turn. this is a new record wd all.

also played and sent onto improbable lobster.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

cheese-cube posted:

holy poo poo just got the save from luigi30 only 4 days after playing my last turn. this is a new record wd all.

also played and sent onto improbable lobster.

i sent mine off today

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

it's happening dot gif

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



INTENSE TEMPO

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
holy poo poo we did a whole turn in under three days

good job everyone, keep up the hustle, i got more survey pods to open

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

who is the most morally correct?

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

BONGHITZ posted:

who is the most morally correct?
the winner

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
smoka reports that he's sent his turn off to sagebrush

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i just sent it to luigi30

what is going on?

it's so hot in here

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

zakharov complete

maybe i'll have this REDACTED built by 2019

thebigcow
Jan 3, 2001

Bully!
Played the poo poo out of this when it came out. Bought it again and I don't remember what's good. I put just about everything on auto and it went as well as you can expect.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

thebigcow posted:

Played the poo poo out of this when it came out. Bought it again and I don't remember what's good. I put just about everything on auto and it went as well as you can expect.

rush industrial automation, put crawlers on every tile on your continent

thebigcow
Jan 3, 2001

Bully!

hobbesmaster posted:

rush industrial automation, put crawlers on every tile on your continent

Will try this.

Should I spam colony pods early on? One of the things that got me was starting between two other dudes, and a resource rich area SE of me got snatched up.

Also going to put this on a TV or a real monitor or something, laptop screen was no too small.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



got the save will play when i get home from work tonight

edit: turn played and sent on, uncovered a god drat spore launcher in a unity pod. maybe i'll capture it, the scout patrol i used did get promoted via a nearby monolith. at the very least i hope i dont lose my scout...

Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Mar 20, 2018

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
you won't lose your scout, even if it tells you that your unit has 50-1 odds on attack, i'm pretty sure it's guaranteed the first spores you come across will die

speaking of which it's time to build a freaken network node my dudes

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
bloopbloopbloop turn complete

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

I don't know but I've been told

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

Captain Foo posted:

I don't know but I've been told

University bases start with a free NETWORK NODE.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
dig that crazy academic witch

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
since other people might be interested here's a giant copy of the tech tree https://postconsole.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/alien-crossfire-technolgogy.jpg which might be marginally better than the wikia sites

Deep Dish Fuckfest
Sep 6, 2006

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Toilet Rascal

Luigi Thirty posted:

University bases start with a free NETWORK NODE.

it'd probably be nice if they didn't also all run an open telnet daemon by default, but hey, free network node!

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Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

thebigcow posted:

Should I spam colony pods early on?

no, you should spam them all the goddamn time

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