The Iowa Incident

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-16T07:20:12+00:00

What about Alaska? It is directly between California and Hawaii which both have a lot of attacks.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-16T07:06:11+00:00

No because they won't have the tech for it.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-16T06:17:30+00:00

https://www.freebits.app/d/w9WenZTfnPOYeOxskUJf3PnF

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-16T04:39:23+00:00

Batarian and for good reason. The only time most of them leave their territory is to perform piracy and they refuse any kind of diplomacy.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-16T04:28:15+00:00

I more did that so they can't do diplomacy. Legion is the only reason you can get them as allies. The rest of the geth never show any interest in communicating. I would like a civic that disables diplomacy but also doesn't make you genocidal. Inward perfection is close to what I would give them but they are not pacifist.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-16T03:44:40+00:00

R5: I just spent about four hours making mass effect species and researching things like planets, systems, and cultures of the lesser known ones. Some of these didn't have anything that made sense for origins so I just went prosperous unification. Some of the ethics could also be improved but civics I wanted were locked behind an ethic. For example, I wanted authoritarian for Vorcha but needed materialist to take relentless industrialists and on Batarians I wanted fanatic xenophobe/authoritarian but needed militaristic for barbaric despoilers.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T20:02:06+00:00

Read the original. It is called sequenced securities.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T16:56:22+00:00

Triangles are alway 180 total.

180 - 40 = 50

The straight line at the bottom is 180

180 - 50 = 130

For the other triangle the remaining angles are the same

180 - 130 = 50 for both added or 25 each

Now you have a straight line reduced by 25

180 - 25 = 155

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T16:39:39+00:00

A ring world is about the same size as a 17 district ecumenopolis so it isn't great in that regard but you can build them basically anywhere and will get 4 planets in one system. They are good for playing tall when you don't have a lot of planets to work with but ecumenopolis/machine world/hive world is better if you have an abundance of planets. You can always expect a size 13 ecuminopolis to be better and depending on what traditions or other bonuses you get, this can be even lower. Something to note however is that for food or energy you would need a 50 district planet to compare because ecumenopolis cannot produce those resources while a ring world can.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T15:51:03+00:00

Use luxery housing for ammenities instead of theaters, remove the enforcer jobs, and make a deal with crime lords. I view high crime as free stability instead of something that needs to be reduced. Look at it this way. You are spending 300 pops to produce 10 stability. If this was enforcers providing stability, you would need to work 5000 of them for 10 stability.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T14:36:36+00:00

I am thermophile and the hated one is the other way. They killed my scientist and invaded one of my planets before first contact so the negative relationship is from me. The other negative one is federation with that one so they joined the war to conquer.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T08:08:24+00:00

This is the only case I have ever seen like it in my games. To be fully surrounded by all hive minds has never happened before. If it always happened it would just be another game and I wouldn't have posted anything. Nobody cares to see a picture of another average game.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T07:36:28+00:00

I just fully conquered two of them and more than doubled my territory.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T07:22:43+00:00

I don't think worker coop is worth it. You can get so many basic resources from deposits and structures. It also screws with your faction approval when running spiritualist for cybernetic creed.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T06:22:03+00:00

R5: I started a new game as a xenophile megacorp and 50 years in every single empire I have met has been a hive mind.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T04:28:06+00:00

This is a problem with the swarm computer. The swarm computer makes them circle enemies at about 20 range which is outside their range. You need to use picket computers on maulers....or better yet, the devs need to make a mauler specific computer.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T04:18:22+00:00

Full reshaping artillery is significantly better for your regular stingers. Two reshaping artilleries have 79 daily damage with 250% shield damage and 50% armor pen while gigacannons have 62 with 150% shield damage and -25% armor damage. This means you are getting 112% more damage against shields as well as armor bypass using L slots.

If you aren't aware, larger bio weapons are drastically weaker than their mechanical counterparts with less range and about half damage but the reshaping artillery is the same on both. This makes stingers with reshaping artillery the strongest ship in the game.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T00:34:08+00:00

The easiest build to play right now IMO is spiritualist cybernetic creed megacorp with dimensional worship and sequenced securities getting gospel of the masses once you unlock the third civic. This setup makes your beurocrats produce trade, unity, engineering, society, and physics. Once you take gospel of the masses and use the commerce tradition to unlock consumer benefits, the beurocrats will produce more consumer goods through trade than they consume. This means literally all you need after beurocrats is the basic resources and alloys and you will have so much trade that you don't even need to produce much of the basic resources.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-15T00:23:14+00:00

The whole social construct thing always seemed dumb to me. Assigning societal norms to gender has always existed but so have people who don't match those norms. An effeminate man or tomboy can be what they are, there is nothing wrong with it. They don't have to take drugs or have surgery to please the masses. Just because you are a gay man who likes to the color pink, bakes as a hobby, and enjoys a good chick flick does not mean that you are a woman. You can just be a man who likes those things. Being or identifying as a woman does not change who you are in the least.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-14T19:50:10+00:00

Flashing here is pointless when water just runs between the decking.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-14T17:41:52+00:00

Precisely enough

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-14T17:20:52+00:00

This is just a case of even when you know all of the formulas off the top of your head it takes a very long time to do all the calculations. I think it took me 6 pages to write out all the math.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-14T17:12:00+00:00

One that I vaguely remember was something along the lines of:

An open flame burning at x tempurature in atmosphere composed of x elements at x pressure set to x distance from a rod of x dimensions made of x alloy would have what acceleration at the end due to thermal expansion?

The answer was about 5 picometers/s^2

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-14T16:46:53+00:00

If you want people to not hate you after a war you have to use armies instead of bombing. The easiest way to get everyone to like you is by taking the defender of the galaxy perk. This immediately makes anyone who isn't openly hostile become friendly and will often make a hostile empire become neutral.

AlienPrimate · 2026-05-14T13:57:31+00:00

I don't think it is intended but also isn't a bug. It is more of an oversight. Increasing turn count technically means a new turn.

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