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   So be it.  Ships close in on each other, angling into range.  You take your position with a spyglass, watching the enemy movements closely and shouting out any necessary changes in plan. The Shanjians outnumber you slightly, but it could all come down to strategy.  Your skill in long-range magic makes you as effective as a cannon (and more maneuverable), but there is still only one of you. The eventual outcome...  ...is a hard-fought victory.  You have repelled the invasion fleet, driving the survivors back across the sea. You and your sailors are heroes, and Nova is safe once more. Next week...   We have obtained a number of Shanjian prisoners who survived the naval battle. A few are from wealthy families and can be ransomed, but most are common sailors and soldiers. What do you intend to do with them? I'm going to choose the most sensible option without goon input.  Ransom back the ones whose families will pay. Offer the soldiers and such their freedom if they are willing to serve in my army instead. Very well.   You visit the royal treasury and check your available funds. You have eight hundred and fifteen gold lassi and ninety-seven silver tilassi. Better. Not good, but better.   People are hanging your portrait outside their homes and decorating it with flowers like a shrine.  Everyone loves you. During the epilogue...    Option A: Save the Day through the power of Music! Also learn about what is actually happening in the realm. Option B: Evil Elodie Playthrough! Option C: Select an achievement. I then get it. Option D: Name a character. They die, if they are able to. Option E: Kill as many named characters as possible in a playthrough. It has been unanimously decided by the goonocrocy that I can share the order that I recommend. I'd recommend going A, then B, then C and D. I wouldn't recommend option E as a lot of characters can't be killed if you want to kill another, so it wouldn't cover quite a few of them. This round of voting will go on for two days, and will end on Saturday at 4PM EST. MegaZeroX fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 16, 2014 |
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Do them in the order you just said. I imagine you'll do enough killing in the evil playthrough to sate our bloodlust.
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MegaZeroX posted:I'm going to choose the most sensible option without goon input. But that option isn't "Execute them all"  Anywho, let's go with Option  I want to save Evil Elodie for last. 
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May 16, 2014 00:12
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Power of Music. 
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May 16, 2014 00:13
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Time for Demon-Queen Elodie.
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May 16, 2014 00:15
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Did we not even have a naval strategy check during that battle? That's a little odd.
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May 16, 2014 00:18
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Elodie to sing a melodie.
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May 16, 2014 00:20
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Evil Elodie Go!
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May 16, 2014 00:20
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I'm fairly sure it's a hidden check. I think it's hidden because it uses more than just naval strategy, it also depends on how many ships you have, and if you have enough soldiers to man them all. Don't quote me on this, but I think we just barely made that check.
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May 16, 2014 00:21
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Cake Attack posted:Did we not even have a naval strategy check during that battle? That's a little odd. The naval strategy doesn't have a check here but effects a hidden value that gives you troop strength. The wield magic check we passed and the number of troops we had also went into that value. When the number is high enough, we get to defeat the enemy navy.
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May 16, 2014 00:22
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Let's turn this poo poo into a Disney musical 
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Captain Bravo posted:I'm fairly sure it's a hidden check. I think it's hidden because it uses more than just naval strategy, it also depends on how many ships you have, and if you have enough soldiers to man them all. Don't quote me on this, but I think we just barely made that check. Apart from passing the Climbing check, what could have made us any stronger? We seemed to check all the boxes (maximum troop recruitment, build more ships, maxed strategy, maxed lumen).
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MegaZeroX posted:The naval strategy doesn't have a check here but effects a hidden value that gives you troop strength. The wield magic check we passed and the number of troops we had also went into that value. When the number is high enough, we get to defeat the enemy navy. Do you know how much the ships add to that value? Cause my understanding is that winning the naval battle without building more ships is nearly outright impossible.
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The Lone Badger posted:Apart from passing the Climbing check, what could have made us any stronger? We seemed to check all the boxes (maximum troop recruitment, build more ships, maxed strategy, maxed lumen). We could have gotten our agents to spy on the foreign nations. It is also possible to strike a foreign alliance with Ixion on week 10 and get foreign aid from them. Also, I forgot to mention, this vote is going on until Saturday at 4 PM EST. Super Jay Mann posted:Do you know how much the ships add to that value? Cause my understanding is that winning the naval battle without building more ships is nearly outright impossible. I don't know exactly how the game's calculation for this value works. As far as I'm aware, no one other than Hanako knows. MegaZeroX fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 00:27
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Can we eventually see the ending to the anti-magic run we did? I want to see if Anime-Dad wakes up from his coma or not. Otherwise the power of music is fine.
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Nondevor posted:Can we eventually see the ending to the anti-magic run we did? I want to see if Anime-Dad wakes up from his coma or not. Sure. I'll show that probably near the end of the LP.
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Regarding Option E, someone on the Hanako forums says it's possible to kill a pretty large amount of people on one playthrough. I might experiment with this now I have the game myself, but I'd be interested to see how depressing the epilogue can get. Edit: Removed spoilers; forgot this thread had a blanket ban rather than allowing spoiler tags. Sorry! No More Toast fucked around with this message at 00:49 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 00:41
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Do the recommended order.
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May 16, 2014 00:44
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Can you please remove the list? I still have a no spoiler policy, and though the we are approaching the end, you will need to PM me if you want to ask if you can post spoilery content. In general, I will only say yes if I don't plan on it being shown. Anyways I don't believe that you can kill all of those people in a single playthrough. Especially the 4th to last and the last 3.
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May 16, 2014 00:46
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We've done the power of magic, let's do the power of music
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May 16, 2014 00:50
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I want to see the Fanciest Queen. Poise, dancing, speech-giving, all the most stereotypical royalty stuff.
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May 16, 2014 00:54
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I'll go with Option A. The more we know about everyone, the more satisfying it'll be when we kill em all. 
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Let's learn what is actually going on in the realm. And pick up an instrument along the way.  edit: Magical girl outfit delenda est Hedera Helix fucked around with this message at 04:23 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 00:57
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Evil Elodie! I really like the power of music playthrough too, but that's my favorite one.
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May 16, 2014 01:01
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Option A! The Power of Music is my favorite event. I'm also going to vote for Option C namely the blessing of cats.
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JT Jag posted:I want to see the Fanciest Queen. Poise, dancing, speech-giving, all the most stereotypical royalty stuff. Yes, let's see this! That should all be possible on the way to "saving the day through the power of music", too. (The Fanciest Queen should also find a way to talk to Adair's father at the gala.  )
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May 16, 2014 01:02
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Option A to Save the world just like Bill and Ted did. 
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May 16, 2014 01:09
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Option A It's the feel good ending of the game, honestly.
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May 16, 2014 01:15
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The Power of Music
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Rock out.
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May 16, 2014 01:28
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The great thing about the naval victory, at least for when I first got it in-game, was it was the culmination of getting beat down by that bastard foreign lumen king or his military over and over. Unlimited Magical Power was the only other route I had figured out, but it kind of felt like a cop-out. Finally crushing the fleet on the high seas was the best feeling, especially since it's not possible to win the battle through pure strategy checks; you need to lay the groundwork first. Anyway, let's do Music (duh), and also get us the 'favor of cats' Achievement
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I'd say something, but honestly, I like seeing music then evil, so follow your order.
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Option A, it'll be nice to find out what's really going on. And I've got to see how Music saves the day.
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I'd like you to show three things: Option A, kicking the poo poo out of anime king in a duel, and the dark forest How you go about that is up to you.
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Option A! And I'd also like to see us gain the favor of cats.
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May 16, 2014 02:28
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As per the recommended order.
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Saving the day with the power of music is hilarious. I laughed for about ten minutes, in between asking if I really just did that.
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As far as the naval battle goes, my understanding (from doing it a bunch, not from looking at the code) is that the calculations go something like this: 1) The Shanjians start out with an overwhelmingly large number of ships. 2) There are three ways to reduce their advantage (and you can do all of them in one playthrough); if you haven't done any of them, you lose. (I know you can do it with (spoilers go here) alone, and we've seen that we can do it with building more ships alone. I don't know if you can do it with help from Ixion alone, but I imagine so, since you can do either of the others alone.) 3) Then, the game does math with your number of soldiers and your Military skills, and gives you a bonus for the climbing check, the wield magic check, or both, as well as having reduced the Shanjian advantage more than once. 4) If the calculation comes up in your favor, you get a "hard-fought victory"; if it doesn't, or if you aren't present to direct the fleet personally, you lose. So it's not that we "just barely" won, because it would always be a "hard-fought victory"; yes, we only did one of the three advantage-reducing things, but we had the recruitment posters, we hired criminals, we hired sailors at the last minute, and we passed the wield magic check, so we were in good shape.
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Let's show off the power of music.
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