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Thanks for reminding me of this glorious time-sink OP. Man, I was so bad at this and other strategy games back in the day. I've just started my first game in over a decade and already I notice a huge difference with my play style. I'm expanding aggressively to snatch up the best spots ASAP, as I can work on infrastructure and anything other than skeleton crews for base defense later. What are the actual bonuses of the different factions? I'm playing as the Spartans because space survivalist nuts are cool. E: nm. Somehow missed the effortpost Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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I think my favorite detail of the setting is that the settlers just call their new home "Planet."
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Jun 17, 2014 21:42
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Speedball posted:I can only guess this is because they all started out by calling it "This planet" or "The planet" and someone just got lazy. It's actually a good, realistic touch in my opinion. If you trace the names of places back to their root meanings they are usually quite literal. We call our planet "Earth" which is super literal. It is a ball of rock and dirt. Earth. http://www.kalimedia.com/Atlas_of_True_Names.html
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Jun 18, 2014 05:06
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inthesto posted:I just started a game where I was Deidre and landed right next to the Monsoon Jungle. Excited at how easy it the early game would be (since forests still get +1 nutrients from the jungle), I explored it fully. One of the data pods triggered an earthquake, created a mountain, and destroyed half the drat jungle.
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Jun 19, 2014 17:13
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So they're subs waiting for a big strong dom to step in. Christ, is there any setting that doesn't have a GURPS sourcebook or fan conversion?
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Jun 19, 2014 21:21
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Aren't the new reactors cheaper, too?
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Jul 9, 2014 03:09
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Fintilgin posted:Asteroid Centauri. Planet as a zygote.
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Sep 2, 2014 17:52
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Map of Planet. Original factions. Never played crossfire, but I assume you'd set the game up in that for extra techs or something.
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Oct 29, 2014 04:19
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Plus there's little name tags for geographical features, which I love.
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Oct 29, 2014 11:52
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Why did the Gaians have such a hard-on for murdering the Spartans in the fiction? You'd think they'd be low on the hit list.
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Oct 30, 2014 02:52
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Sardonik posted:In the backstory stuff the Spartans try to Space Mutiny the unity, and I think Santiago threatens Dedrite directly. Dedrite getting the last laugh is very fitting. Well, that seems like a petty and horrible reason to secretly send mind-rape worms towards settlements full of people. Why not just assassinate Santiago or whatever? Deidre sounds like an rear end in a top hat.
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Oct 30, 2014 10:59
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A regular mindworm just ate my commando scout rover. 
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Oct 30, 2014 13:24
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Omobono posted:3:2 for ground psi combat, and the maximum bonus from morale is +50%. The attacker is almost always going to have the advantage on open ground. ( I know they have some significant bonus. I like that the mindworms are terrifyingly dangerous, I was just sad to see the pluckiest little rover go. He got all those promotions from miraculously facerolling a bunch of other mindworms.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:45
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In the end, Miriam was right, you know. We must dissent.
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Oct 30, 2014 17:51
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Some of the "we must dissent" stuff from Miriam makes sense with her still in control of her own faction if you remember that the bulk of humanity on Planet is just trying to live their lives and don't have the ideological fervor of the faction leaders. Miriam is speaking to those people, who would be everywhere on Planet. Distributing literature, essentially.
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Oct 30, 2014 23:04
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I realize the diplomacy text is just a bunch of complicated madlibs, but it sure does add a lot to the game. Miriam wanted me to help her fight Deidre because that hippie has been seen running naked through the trees! Good stuff.
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Nov 2, 2014 17:59
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Haha, that epilogue is golden. Santiago don't need no air. Just gonna go punch Miriam, brb.
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Spartan Kel gasped (which sounded suspiciously like a shotgun cocking) as Sister Miriam's usually stern fingers glided delicately past her perimeter defenses, penetrating all the way to her humming power core. E: I'm so sorry
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