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PittTheElder posted:Yeah, the cuckoo bananas tier projects, in approximate tech order, are: i think the Cloudbase Academy is the frontrunner for the cuckoo-bananaest of all the secret projects. for those following along at home, it gives you free aerospace complexes at every base, which have the advertised effect of buffing the morale and in-base repair rate of your air units, and also doubling your defense against air attacks. neat. the good stuff, though, is the economic benefit of having aerospace complexes everywhere, which begin to appear when you (re)discover Orbital Spaceflight and start building sky hydroponics satellites. each satellite gives each of your bases +0.5 nutrients. however, bases with aerospace complexes get +1 nutrients per satellite instead because they have space shuttle landing strips or whatever. i think the resource bonuses are capped to the size of your bases, so a size 8 base gets at most +8 nutrients if you have 8 or more satellites up. there's also an orbital power station satellite that does the same thing with energy, and an asteroid mining facility that's for minerals. if you have lots of bases you're now absolutely swimming in resources. it gets really nuts when your social engineering growth choices support population booms*. you can plop down a new base and buy a children's creche for it, and it'll gain a pop every turn up to the number of hydroponic satellites you have even if its local nutrient situation is lovely. you need ~14 satellites at most , since your bases can't get any bigger until you get hab domes, which are way up behind a level 10 tech. 14 is a big number but not unachievable. now are you not only swimming in it but you have like a thousand population, which (crucially) is intrinsically funny. apparently you can use orbital defense pods to destroy satellite facilities which sort of balances out this whole dynamic but computer-controlled factions never use them  * two ways to do this that i can think of offhand: 1. get +6 growth social engineering points in each base through some combination of planned and democratic civics (+2 growth globally from each), children's creche base facilities (+2 growth for this base), and the golden age buff from having lots of talents and no drones (+2 growth for this base). 2. build the Cloning Vats secret project. it's pretty late in the game so this is a backup if you can't swing the 1st option.
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There's +2 Growth from Eudaimonic too, but the Future Society social choices come so late it almost doesn't matter. Democratic+Planned+Creche is definitely the normal way of doing it. Golden Ages for Morgan, who can't use Planned.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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things are moving more slowly than usual because some folks are on vacation
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Glorgnole posted:things are moving more slowly than usual because some folks are on vacation how dare they! is playing the turn not enough of a vacation for them!?!?
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Glorgnole posted:things are moving more slowly than usual because some folks are on vacation ... visiting scenic Ligma Falls.
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florida lan posted:... visiting scenic Ligma Falls. Ligma Falls is a thriving populous metropolis Gaian vacationers are enjoying the (inhospitable, alien) beach at the indisputably coastal city of Neo Pittsburgh
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Glorgnole posted:Ligma Falls is a thriving populous metropolis inhabited by neo-tori!?!? Meanwhile visitors to the Wu-Tang Hive can marvel at the wondrous city of Gravel Pit atop Sunny Mesa or take in the local subservient planned totalitarian culture at the coastal cities of Severe Punishment and Snake Pond! And make sure to stop by our capital, the 36th Chamber of Shaolin! WU-TANG FOREVER!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pmT2EEXdKM Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Faction Dominance rankings for MY2187 (can you believe it's been 87 turns lmao):  
my update for MY2187: have expanded my navy and getting ready to establish a FOB on a new land-mass. exciting times!
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2190... the yospos year... it's been really weirdly quiet lately. i guess the factions are just building base facilities and working on expansions. i saw a Free Drones expedition sail by like 20 turns ago but i have no idea where it ended up so i'll have to assume it was one of those ambitious antipodal colonization efforts. an upcoming exciting thing is that infiltration of faction mineral databases indicates that the third, fourth, and fifth secret projects are going to finish construction pretty soon. the exact order is still up for grabs depending on how folks allocate production over the next ~10 turns.
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Wait who has a copter? Or is that just the Unity scout chopper but with some graphical effect (Drone colors)?
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PittTheElder posted:Wait who has a copter? Or is that just the Unity scout chopper but with some graphical effect (Drone colors)? it's unity 
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AFAIK Synthetic Fossil Fuels haven't even been discovered yet, let alone Air Power.
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Yeah that's what I figured, but it would have been crazy if someone had got there somehow. What really threw me is that it looks like it has Plasteel armor on it
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:AFAIK Synthetic Fossil Fuels haven't even been discovered yet, let alone Air Power. we're a long way from airplanes yet
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I'm either going to have a new base "soon", or totally gently caress a portion of the oceans for anyone but myself. I suppose the outcome is the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEe7_b6NHtA
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hey Smoka i came across your Synthmetal Coastal near New Sargasso: it was looking a bit worse for wear (70% damaged), guessing you got set upon by some worms.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:hey Smoka i came across your Synthmetal Coastal near New Sargasso: feel free to hit those pods before I do, it's worm season SmokaDustbowl fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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We can't stop here - this is worm country!
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MY 2192: getting closer to carrying out my sick plan, only change in rankings is me praise wu-tang:
Edit: also unless i'm mistaken on the 10th of November we'll have reached the two year mark 
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i'd like to post things more interesting than faction dominance graphs but i'm not sure how people feel about opsec in the game. thoughts?
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doesn't bug me expect that it may reveal my ineptitude
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Improbable Lobster posted:doesn't bug me expect that it may reveal my ineptitude
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Improbable Lobster posted:doesn't bug me expect that it may reveal my ineptitude
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Pile Of Garbage posted:hey Smoka i came across your Synthmetal Coastal near New Sargasso: there are worms here now, I was right lol
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the two-year anniversary of this PBEM game is coming up in a few months, specifically the 10th of November if the date that Glorgnole sent the original game setup e-mail is used. pretty wild imo
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Pile Of Garbage posted:the two-year anniversary of this PBEM game is coming up in a few months, specifically the 10th of November if the date that Glorgnole sent the original game setup e-mail is used. pretty wild imo and not one of you have nerve gassed someone, what the hell did you spend your time doing
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evilweasel posted:and not one of you have nerve gassed someone, what the hell did you spend your time doing buddy we're only on like turn 93, everyone knows that poo poo generally doesn't kick off in a SMAC game until post turn 100. that said i have heard rumblings about some conflict in the immediate future (probably not atrocities though, you sick freak!)
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Pile Of Garbage posted:the two-year anniversary of this PBEM game is coming up in a few months, specifically the 10th of November if the date that Glorgnole sent the original game setup e-mail is used. pretty wild imo thank you all for sticking with it! we're moving at the utterly blistering pace of 1 turn per week so project from that what you will.
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It's pretty cool imo
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was going through the pics folder on my PC and found this (source unknown), figured i'd post it:
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Pile Of Garbage posted:was going through the pics folder on my PC and found this (source unknown), figured i'd post it: You might not like it, but this is what peak Planetfall looks like
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i can't find that rocky/arid/xenofungus square and it's bugging me
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:i can't find that rocky/arid/xenofungus square and it's bugging me the coords for it are 0,0 so it'd be at the centre of the map. if you peep the minimap it's somewhere on the left side of the viewport just out of view edit: actually i'm a dummy, 0,0 top-centre Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Oct 5, 2019 |
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OK some content for those who are interested! Chairman Yang of the Wu-Tang Hive providing a situation report for MY 2194: First up the first(?) random event of the game has occurred: sunspot activity is blocking inter-faction comms!  Now onto the state-of-play, here's a big zoomed out view of the world map (At least what I've discovered):  Slightly zoomed-in, note I've had to redact some details for OPSEC!  Now lets have a look at each faction's territory: Believers (Boiled Water)  Located south-east of the Uranium Flats the Believers have established two bases: NYE HARD and MORT DUR. Not sure why they don't have more, the Spartans having a foothold to the east may have something to do with it. University (Luigi Thirty)  The University made planetfall in a relatively remote location that's quite far from any other factions. However they've still been the victims of Spartan aggression. They have established three bases around Pholus Ridge:
Pirates (SmokaDustbowl)   The Pirates territory is split between two regions. The first is south of the Monsoon Jungle where Pirate Captain Emerald and Pirate Captain Harlock are located. The second is in the Spartans (anthonypants)  Controlling the most territory are the Spartans who have established bases around Mount Planet down to the northern edge of the Monsoon Jungle. Disappointingly they've gone with default base names:
Gaians (Glorgnole)  Having the luxury of an entire island to themselves the Gaians have built a record 8 bases around
Drones (Improbable Lobster)  Sharing an island with the Hive the Drones have established three bases on the eastern side:
Hive (Me)  As mentioned above I'm sharing an island with the Drones and have so far established four bases around and on Sunny Mesa:
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there's been some exchange of fire between the University and the Spartans near Santiago's Folly. due to the nature of snooping on a 3rd-party war in a pbem game, the fact that there was a battle at all can only be deduced by watching changes in healthbars and remembering which units were where during the previous turn. i don't actually know for sure who fired first or with what. there's been a stalemate there for at least 10 turns (thus the name of the base, presumably), so at least there's finally some kind of action there. note that the heavily-armored Spartan impact speeder has elite morale, so in addition to being a generally tough nut to crack it gets 3 moves/turn. here's what's going on in my neck of the woods. currently in a "build lots of base facilities" phase.  e: Pile Of Garbage posted:wow that's a lot of post thanks for putting this together!
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nice update!
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countdown until smoka spots that sea colony pod you're making and demands that you get out of the oceans! :P Glorgnole posted:thanks for putting this together! no worries mate! i need to include some analysis like you do with your posts though, that's the proper interesting stuff
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one more thing just wanted to highlight Smoka renaming Geothermal Shallows to Tech Bubbles
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Pile Of Garbage posted:one more thing just wanted to highlight Smoka renaming Geothermal Shallows to Tech Bubbles it wasn't me, I think it was glorgnole before spartans blew up their base there
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