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Insane geopolitical situations are going to be a staple in this game. Improbable things like Venezuela going to war with Laos are the tip of the iceberg.
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Grey is playing Iniative fairly realistically though. Pitiless resource extraction in Africa to fund those cut-throat power mad bastards dreaming of Imperium in Canada 
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Crazy mixed up world where Russia invades Ukraine tho 
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Nations are not players in TI, they are board pieces.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzcEAJ-h9_Y We head into space, and continue to secure America - but more and more aliens are arriving! Slaan posted:Grey is playing Iniative fairly realistically though. Pitiless resource extraction in Africa to fund those cut-throat power mad bastards dreaming of Imperium in Canada Yep! then abandon them to their fate afterwards. The true Capatalist way!
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As for federating - they have to have a claim, then you can influence policy with the lesser nation to merge them I think - When you did the alter policy mission on Canada Federate was one of the options - though it looked like it was greyed out. Whether because you need to fully control the USA or what, I don't know, I don't think I'd enjoy playing this.
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Federating/Unifying related stuff requires you have been in control of the far right 'command point' for the nation for one hundred and eighty days to have 'established firm control' or whatever the exact words are before those options open up, or to have taken power by force, because it was way too easy to rush-create the EU originally. Fusing Canada and the USA into one nation (and later on adding Mexico) also requires some additional research, the EU is the only 'nation' open for fusing in that manner from the start, due to... well, it already kinda existing sorta at game start. You can check what national policies a nation has available to it without actually running the national policies action by hovering your mouse pointer over the national action popup thing in the middle of the nation's stat screen, underneath the control points and to the right of where it says 'overview', as it should be shown here if I haven't messed up the screenshots...  ...And you can also go into the relations tab of a nation and hover your mouse over a nation's flag to get a more detailed pop up that explains everything you can or can not do to said nation, and why you can or can not have your nation do whatever to said other nation.  The relevant reason the USA needs research done before it can unify with Canada is that it doesn't start with claims on Canada, unlike the EU which starts with claims on all EU nations (and the Brits, though that takes the extra steps of re-federating them). I know you're going into this mostly blind, so I hope this wasn't an unwelcome spoiler, but since the game's still in early access it often doesn't do a really good job of explaining why you can't do things.
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Happerry posted:I know you're going into this mostly blind, so I hope this wasn't an unwelcome spoiler, but since the game's still in early access it often doesn't do a really good job of explaining why you can't do things. Also important bit that the game doesn't explain well: Forming a Federation leaves the nations in an extra strong alliance that share each other's strengths. Unification actually adds the territories from one country to the larger nation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPTleSGl5vc I cement my hold on America, and then begin to move into space - which is bloody expensive! I also misunderstand how a few things work, but at least I was building up some experiance!
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After dumping 13 hours into this game I realized I have no idea what I'm doing at all.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:After dumping 13 hours into this game I realized I have no idea what I'm doing at all. I'm already sold on this game, no need to recommend it further..
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RedSnapper posted:I'm already sold on this game, no need to recommend it further.. Its great, beautiful, glorious I learned the power of orgs that give bonuses to your IP investment
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Deadmeat5150 posted:After dumping 13 hours into this game I realized I have no idea what I'm doing at all. Ms Truss don't you have a government to run?
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The Lone Badger posted:Ms Truss don't you have a government to run? every time Humanity First ends up in charge of Britain i confess to a certain sense of "welp, your problem now"
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AtomikKrab posted:Its great, beautiful, glorious I learned that buying orgs just because you can is a fast track to having no money. Although now all my dudes can assassinate. Even though I don't know what that accomplishes since the AI just has another dude next go-round.
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The Lone Badger posted:Ms Truss don't you have a government to run? hardly. There's a lettuce competing against her
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The Lone Badger posted:Ms Truss don't you have a government to run? Liz Truss invading the Ukraine in 2024 to shore up her support in the Next General election is something I could see happening..... Especailly on the Russian side. Boris did thank Putin for all his hard work..
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Deadmeat5150 posted:I learned that buying orgs just because you can is a fast track to having no money. Although now all my dudes can assassinate. Even though I don't know what that accomplishes since the AI just has another dude next go-round. Be very careful of buying the US government orgs, some of them give great bonuses but they're pretty much all overpriced.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH7SW7z6tgw I start to get up in the face of the other orgs.
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Is there diplomacy with other factions beyond trading with their agents? Because if so, Exodus sounds like the most appropriate ally - they're leaving anyway, what do they care if we steal everything that's left?
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It's only really direct trading. If you don't mess with them or their stuff and your ideology is close-ish you can hand them some one sided trades and make them tolerate you. Unless you pull ahead technologically or in MC and then everyone hates you no matter what.
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SettingSun posted:It's only really direct trading. If you don't mess with them or their stuff and your ideology is close-ish you can hand them some one sided trades and make them tolerate you. Unless you pull ahead technologically or in MC and then everyone hates you no matter what. Could you game this by intentionally slowing down your research while amassing power, or would this cripple the player too much?
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Libluini posted:Could you game this by intentionally slowing down your research while amassing power, or would this cripple the player too much? From what I've gleaned so far, it factors quite a few things into the "Am I losing?" and "Who's winning?" determinations.
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One of the things it keeps track of, if I recall correctly, is how close you are to "winning the game". This one in particular had an amusing bug, wherein the Protectorate wound up generating a huge amount of aggro from the aliens by unlocking their win condition that subjugates humanity for the aliens.
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Crepuscule Adepte posted:One of the things it keeps track of, if I recall correctly, is how close you are to "winning the game". This one in particular had an amusing bug, wherein the Protectorate wound up generating a huge amount of aggro from the aliens by unlocking their win condition that subjugates humanity for the aliens. That doesn't bode well for the odds of their plan succeeding..
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kaosdrachen posted:That doesn't bode well for the odds of their plan succeeding.. Turns out aliens love freedom and hate turncoats
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Everyone hates the Protectorate, as they should.
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I know this is the long war people, but holy gently caress does this game need an even faster speed.
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Yeah, it could easily have been turn based.
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There's so much that happens on a certain date but it makes no difference because you can't respond until the next command phase anyway. Might as well have happened the instant you hit the confirm button.
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goatface posted:There's so much that happens on a certain date but it makes no difference because you can't respond until the next command phase anyway. Might as well have happened the instant you hit the confirm button. Reminds me of Imperium for the Atari ST. In that game, while turn-based, you could re-define your 1-year turns to take up to 10 years instead, but the game then just treated this as the player hitting the end-turn button a lot. If something bad happened early in your "turn", like say an invading force reaching your homeworld, then the game would just proceed to let the hostile force win the space battle, land troops, calculate multiple turns of battle against the defenders, then let the invading army march up to your palace and decapitate your dumb rear end still sitting daydreaming on your throne before the turn was even over. As the player's "command phase" would only happen after the full ten years were over, your empire would just sit there and do nothing. Man, that game was full of dumb traps like that.
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Once you start getting into space combat, the timescale does matter. You can give fleets orders whenever they are ready for action, they don't do one thing a month like councillors.
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Then it needs to get there faster.
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https://youtu.be/Cm18vacB94k Miners on the moon! they carry harpoons!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJHElxpYf8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpMoFpNymeU I forgot to post links to the last video, so here it is with todays!
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I need to get around to viewing these, but Terra Invicta is an absolutely fantastic game
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AtomikKrab posted:I need to get around to viewing these, but Terra Invicta is an absolutely fantastic game It's just so drat big of a game. I realized my mistake in playing in that I was rushing to do things and basically drawing a massive target on my forehead. This really is a game of slow and steady.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:It's just so drat big of a game. I realized my mistake in playing in that I was rushing to do things and basically drawing a massive target on my forehead. This really is a game of slow and steady. Slow and steady until you are ready to make a move, then you strike, cause havoc, stabilize and repeat the slow and steady build
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyUAZlPXuew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFx6lzajk54 okay, so I was massivly unprepeared for space combat!
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