Just use the natives to rip the resources you want out of the ground. It is totally underground here and we will burn as many beautiful civilizations as it takes to find it.
Man Beyond Earth has so many more multiplayer dick moves than Civ 1-5 ever had, it's great, I'm chasing my buddies explorer around with a Miasma Producer , it's gonna die soon, like miasma in every direction and he's down to 20 hps rofl.
He stole one of my crash sites right in the beginning so I've been torturing in every non-war way I can.
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I tried to install my hard copy of SMAC but apparently it's a real pain in the dick to get working on 64 bit systems so I'll just pay the six bucks for the GOG version
Going for the contact win in my current game, I am really enjoying how it frees me up to do whatever affinity and tech wise, currently 3 in Purity and Transcendence and 2 in Harmony, mostly vis exploring, really nice to be getting all those early perks.
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Just be careful not to be too broad or you might be streamrolled while you still have marines and they're riding organic nightmares to ride you down.
It's a lot more fun once you get past a couple of early game hurdles
Pretty big fan of how passive the other AI generally seems to be. I've only developed soldier units at all so I can finish the quest to kill 10 aliens. Otherwise, it has been entirely me just passing turns and ignoring everyone else except when the time to assign spies rolls around.
I've been stockpiling Wonders this go around, things are going to get interesting once I have enough culture to grab up Monomyth. There's going to be like 7 Wonders in my capital by then.
Haven't really made much progress on the affinity front though. I'm aiming for Purity but got the free road perk from the yellow one just because of how useful that is. Not that money is terribly hard to get in this game, or anything. My Purity is only 2 though. Really need to focus on it but I keep seeing more interesting stuff to research. If one of my AI companions has been mainlining a victory, it's wholly possible I could lose. Not terribly chuffed about it though, in terms of science and production and nearly everything, I am destroying ever other Civ on the map.
Managed to get a Purity win last night, and I don't think I like that win-scenario at all. Once you build the teleporter, you have to spawn in 20 colonists and have them set up shop all around the world.
I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
Managed to get a Purity win last night, and I don't think I like that win-scenario at all. Once you build the teleporter, you have to spawn in 20 colonists and have them set up shop all around the world.
I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
Managed to get a Purity win last night, and I don't think I like that win-scenario at all. Once you build the teleporter, you have to spawn in 20 colonists and have them set up shop all around the world.
I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
I think if you know the the win condition in advance you can cultivate an area where you will build the teleporter, and roads from it and have things all prepped to get the colonists out.
The objective for harmony seems easier but I think there is more research involved to get it.
In other news, I just picked up Dungeon of the Endless which has given me a second set 50% off coupons for Endless Space and its expansion. I definitely don't need both so, let me know if you want them and they are yours.
Managed to get a Purity win last night, and I don't think I like that win-scenario at all. Once you build the teleporter, you have to spawn in 20 colonists and have them set up shop all around the world.
I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
Don't forget, those colonists have one move speed.
They have one move speed but move super far and roads/rails. Not entirely sure how roads/rails affect move speed to be honest but as long as they were on roads they seemed to have infinite speed.
They take like, 3 turns to build? Just split off a few workers and you can easily build the twelve road tiles you need to set up the colonies while obeying the distance rule.
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Managed to get a Purity win last night, and I don't think I like that win-scenario at all. Once you build the teleporter, you have to spawn in 20 colonists and have them set up shop all around the world.
I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
Don't forget, those colonists have one move speed.
This was my first victory and it was not difficult finding space. Built one settlement three spaces away from the teleporter, and the other two along a magrail leading to my second city. I can see how building super dense would make this troublesome, but space should not be that hard to find.
They take like, 3 turns to build? Just split off a few workers and you can easily build the nine road tiles you need to set up the colonies while obeying the distance rule.
You're probably not doing much with workers by that point, so I suppose so
It has just been frustrating to me in my current game how long it takes for a worker to reach another city with roads. Even a pretty close city is likely to be as much as 8 hexes away, which is a full 24 turns.
I'd kill for a half-time road construction passive.
Managed to get a Purity win last night, and I don't think I like that win-scenario at all. Once you build the teleporter, you have to spawn in 20 colonists and have them set up shop all around the world.
I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
Don't forget, those colonists have one move speed.
This was my first victory and it was not difficult finding space. Built one settlement three spaces away from the teleporter, and the other two along a magrail leading to my second city. I can see how building super dense would make this troublesome, but space should not be that hard to find.
This was on a small map where (luckily) all the civs were on one continent. I was able to send them off to other islands for the most part, and even ended up building them just outside of the other civ's territories.
In a multiplayer game, though. I would expect people to be attacking the settlements they start once I finally get them to the necessary spots.
They have one move speed but move super far and roads/rails. Not entirely sure how roads/rails affect move speed to be honest but as long as they were on roads they seemed to have infinite speed.
The problem for me was Open Borders. One unit from another civilization on your road is an impenetrable wall of hate. But there wasn't just one. There was a small migrant force milling around in my territory, not doing anything purposeful -- unwittingly being the largest obstacle to victory that I had faced yet.
Just did the purity victory also. I had plenty of space but I really wish the gate would prompt you every turn before ending because there were a few that I just forgot to summon a dude.
Weird that there is no way to accelerate the number of people you can bring in a turn either. There are two techs to accelerate the Harmony win on the other hand.
My second game isn't going very well at all. I'm completely surrounded by aliens, miasma, and mountainous choke points that are really holding back expansion and trade routes... but it's still really fun to play out.
If I manage to dig myself out of this infestation and meet a win condition it'll be really satisfying!
Just did the purity victory also. I had plenty of space but I really wish the gate would prompt you every turn before ending because there were a few that I just forgot to summon a dude.
Same for the spies
I've left them sitting without a mission multiple turns on accident
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space travel thread, you should tune in to the NASA tv stream right now if you wanna catch the rocket launch
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welp that sure was an explosion
good thing it was just a supply rocket, hope everyone on the ground is okay
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Just use the natives to rip the resources you want out of the ground. It is totally underground here and we will burn as many beautiful civilizations as it takes to find it.
He stole one of my crash sites right in the beginning so I've been torturing in every non-war way I can.
But, it's actually about journalism ethics
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Though I am also making sure to make lots of friendships and good trade deals, most of the AI are friendly to me, hoping to go for alliances soon.
It's a lot more fun once you get past a couple of early game hurdles
Pretty big fan of how passive the other AI generally seems to be. I've only developed soldier units at all so I can finish the quest to kill 10 aliens. Otherwise, it has been entirely me just passing turns and ignoring everyone else except when the time to assign spies rolls around.
I've been stockpiling Wonders this go around, things are going to get interesting once I have enough culture to grab up Monomyth. There's going to be like 7 Wonders in my capital by then.
Haven't really made much progress on the affinity front though. I'm aiming for Purity but got the free road perk from the yellow one just because of how useful that is. Not that money is terribly hard to get in this game, or anything. My Purity is only 2 though. Really need to focus on it but I keep seeing more interesting stuff to research. If one of my AI companions has been mainlining a victory, it's wholly possible I could lose. Not terribly chuffed about it though, in terms of science and production and nearly everything, I am destroying ever other Civ on the map.
Also, this game has a great sound track but I need to mix it up. Any reccomendations on good listening for this game?
I spend the next few turns pumping out death robots
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I was lucky because I was playing on Mercury difficulty, so the AI didn't hate me at all, so they didn't attack my colonists. But if it were a game with real people, it would have been way too easy to kill all of my colonists as I send them out.
Meanwhile, in the Harmony win, you just need to build the wonder and wait. Seems a little off balance.
Yeah, wow. That's crazy.
I think if you know the the win condition in advance you can cultivate an area where you will build the teleporter, and roads from it and have things all prepped to get the colonists out.
The objective for harmony seems easier but I think there is more research involved to get it.
In other news, I just picked up Dungeon of the Endless which has given me a second set 50% off coupons for Endless Space and its expansion. I definitely don't need both so, let me know if you want them and they are yours.
Don't forget, those colonists have one move speed.
This was my first victory and it was not difficult finding space. Built one settlement three spaces away from the teleporter, and the other two along a magrail leading to my second city. I can see how building super dense would make this troublesome, but space should not be that hard to find.
You're probably not doing much with workers by that point, so I suppose so
It has just been frustrating to me in my current game how long it takes for a worker to reach another city with roads. Even a pretty close city is likely to be as much as 8 hexes away, which is a full 24 turns.
I'd kill for a half-time road construction passive.
This was on a small map where (luckily) all the civs were on one continent. I was able to send them off to other islands for the most part, and even ended up building them just outside of the other civ's territories.
In a multiplayer game, though. I would expect people to be attacking the settlements they start once I finally get them to the necessary spots.
The problem for me was Open Borders. One unit from another civilization on your road is an impenetrable wall of hate. But there wasn't just one. There was a small migrant force milling around in my territory, not doing anything purposeful -- unwittingly being the largest obstacle to victory that I had faced yet.
If I manage to dig myself out of this infestation and meet a win condition it'll be really satisfying!
I tried to play a game on a fungal planet, and it was near impossible to see miasma.
Same for the spies
I've left them sitting without a mission multiple turns on accident
good thing it was just a supply rocket, hope everyone on the ground is okay
Yeah I forgot that was today, just saw your post and tuned in to watch. Geez.
Anyways, I have not played a civ game since 3, and never played alpha centauri, if I were to check this out how lost would I be?
It uses hex tiles and you can't stack military units onto a single tile. If you're okay with that, it's still civ, and it's still pretty great.
Most of us good to go tonight at 9 EST?