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Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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I got The Old World and I'm still doing the endless tutorials.

Q- Why should I not be using my leader to "influence" someone every single turn I can? And who exactly should I be using that on? The tutorial didn't seem to actually cover that. There are so many other characters to use it on.

Q- Is there any reason I shouldn't be using a worker every turn to build something for the city?

Q- if I allocate a specialist to a built terrain (so a Stoneworker to a quarry), what does that actually do, and why would I not do that for every improvement my worker builds?

Comstar fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 10, 2022

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Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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Ok I finished the Tutorial...and the game is overwhelming. Influence them! Assign a Governor to that! Build that project! Oh you need an army. AND you need to promote that army. AND marry your kids to someone. AND assign one of these 20(!?) Generals. Which one, who knows! And keep chopping trees! But keep building improvements! Which ones? Who knows?!! I guess I do it on the ones with the icon? And there is 200 icons on the screen, some of which have icons of icons on them that may or may not do anything important.

Oh I run out of orders. Never mind. Till next turn when I get bombarded with 10 different things to do.


Maybe it gets better outside the Tutorial?

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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LLSix posted:

Wow, really? The CEO who goes out of his way to abuse his employees runs a company that released a bad game. Boy, I wonder how that happened.

Is there somewhere that lists his supposed crimes? Like is he a Trump supporter or something.

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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I have questions about Millennia:

What victory conditions are there apart from conquest? The steam page says there's a victory age...but then only talks about conquest.

quote:

Achieve your ultimate success through a Victory Age. Toward the end of the game (or earlier if your strategy is sound), dominance allows a nation to dictate the winning conditions. The rest of the world must decide if they will struggle to achieve victory before the leader ... or oppose the leader's attempt. Risk everything to take victory in the Renaissance or carefully plan for triumph in the modern era.

Is there still a demo? I don't see it anywhere on Steam?

Do the ages just punish you for being bad and make you feel bad for being a bad player? The last Civ game I played with them seemed to do that all the time.

Do the ages apply to everyone at the same time or just you?

Is there religion units? The last Civ game I played always ended up as a religion game of moving 1-2 types of units around and winning which I did not like much.

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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Bremen posted:

On paper, the ages are balanced because they're the same for everyone, but doing the things to trigger them seems to set you up well for the variant age, so if you can steer the world into one it will usually go well.

You son of a bitch I'm in.


I just hope I'm not disappointed as I was with Stellaris once I got past the first contact phase of the game. Or the last Civ game (which was the first one I never completed a victory win for because the game became a carpet of units to fight through).

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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I just went back to The Old World and oh my god whose idiot idea was to put automate worker and automate road behind 39 steps in the random tech tree.


Does Millennial do the same loving thing?

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Millenia doesn't have workers. You plop down tile improvements from a resource pool.

Sold. How do you put them into the resource pool though?

Another thing I forgot about The Old World: I need to use my king and religious leader to influence someone every other turn. No the game won't automate it. No the game won't give much of a clue on WHO to motivate of the 40+ people in court beyond whose unhappy. No the game won't list everyone in order of unhappiness.

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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Which factions if any in The Old World allow you to move armies at anything beyond a snails pace? I get I need roads everywhere and more orders than I ever have to do it, but moving the 6-9 units I need to take a single city across from one part of my empire to another takes forever.

There's seems to be no way to order a unit to move A -> B without doing it manually every single turn either?

Comstar
Apr 20, 2007

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So SMAC(X) is on steam for a few bucks. What mods should I get that work with it?


Edit- after playing for several hours...oh god this game needs tool tips.

Comstar fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Mar 11, 2024

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Apr 20, 2007

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OperaMouse posted:

Distant Worlds. Ask Grey Hunter.

He just gave the perfectly reasonable order:

If any ship attempts to escape the planet, destroy it.

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