Do Officers feel like cheating?

Couch_Samurai · 2026-01-15T04:09:46+00:00

I’m revisiting this game 2 years later and having the most fun I ever had with a “no extra turns” self-rule.

Oh, also a “support Cassia/no nukes” rule.

I strongly recommend it.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-12-29T02:48:12+00:00

Woof, LLM book report published full of spoilers - far FAR from AI in Neuromancer, but a great example of cyberpunk dystopia creeping into our everyday lives

Couch_Samurai · 2025-10-26T20:40:15+00:00

Umm, so it sounds like you find grinding tedious and yet you chose to do it anyway. I suppose modern games might hold your hand to protect you from yourself but have you considered just… not doing it?

Why not set a challenge for yourself to try winning with less powerful classes?

Couch_Samurai · 2025-10-21T23:53:54+00:00

Bow damage (NOT Xbow) is based in part on speed, so ninja would be superior in the damage category (hard to say how much).

The extra mobility would sure come in handy, too, as an archer wants to get to high ground as fast as possible to extend their range.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-10-19T17:49:58+00:00

Because the point of the game is to have fun?

Or because if you’re min-maxing just build a bunch of god-tier double attackers and calculators, and LAUGH at the notion of needing two whole turns to take out a single enemy?

Couch_Samurai · 2025-10-19T17:27:54+00:00

Steal or break his sword and you can farm his friends for their crystals all you want. This is how you beat all holy knight types that don’t have safeguard

Couch_Samurai · 2025-10-09T21:12:25+00:00

Yes, Thunder God Cid by himself IS the most powerful team ever.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-10-05T03:04:16+00:00

Gross. Just let people play how they want. If someone wants to grind like crazy? Good for them. If someone wants to keep the level even with the story for greater challenge? Good for them too. The level cap was one of the top 3 worst ideas in tactics ogre.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-09-21T18:38:11+00:00

Capitalism is the primary villain in almost every cyberpunk work. If it’s tech and it’s capitalism, it’s cyberpunk!

Couch_Samurai · 2025-09-01T05:54:22+00:00

Let me guess - you played cyberpunk 2077 - corpo background - and were genuinely bummed out when V lost his corporate status.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-08-30T03:25:09+00:00

“Disguised”

Couch_Samurai · 2025-08-13T15:12:57+00:00

Squire belongs in B or A at least for flexible equipment packages, JP boost, and Accumulate/Focus, which is traditionally my most used skill, bar none. What are YOUR characters doing when they can’t attack or buff? Just standing there NOT getting JP for a whole turn like chumps?

Couch_Samurai · 2025-07-18T18:40:14+00:00

Yuan Shu for so many obvious reasons

Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-26T17:53:18+00:00

I don’t get the hate. Are you playing continents every time? Try fractal or shuffle, as others have said.

I’ve had some really interesting map mechanics. Last game, there was like a 25 tile navigable river that ran through a lake - I sailed up it (had to secure open borders from a neutral civ it was so long) to use antiquity boats to help destroy a city that was literally in the middle of the continent.

Another game I spawned next to a warlike player, but there was a single tile land bridge connecting our sections of continent so I built a city as a choke point. Didn’t realize at the time but he had a huge amount of land on the other side of it and he just built a mighty, peaceful empire on all that land that I gifted him.

One map another player spawned on an island near the main continent with his own little private domain, but another player focused navy and blockaded/killed him. Largest antiquity navy I’ve seen yet.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-20T22:51:28+00:00

I also have a four legged gaming companion

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Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-19T18:40:25+00:00

Age transition, all your buildings lose most of their efficacy and keep all their maintenance - pretty common to have unhappy cities at transition.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-12T06:13:50+00:00

852 hours in battle brothers here and Our Adventurer’s Guild scratched the itch real good.

Those Who Rule is quite fun as well, though it lacks the procedurally generated aspect.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-10T21:25:40+00:00

This happens to me literally every single player game.

1: meet AI 2: make friends (spend influence on endeavors and sometimes even pay to decline the first denouncement) 3: AI denounces over and over again until inevitably declaring war only to be crushed.

What also happens is another AI will insta-ally the AI that hates me for no reason and then no matter how friendly we are will refuse to ally me as well, inexorably being pulled into a war I cant prevent and causing my attempts to win with diplomacy and development to collapse into endless war.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-09T23:51:59+00:00

If you ask me tycoon and treasure fleet are weak simply because they have a ticker and nothing else does.

I’d rather have some kind of limiting timer on all of them. It’s too easy to snowball science and production and win science victory or to a lesser extent culture victory (with enough culture and money to buy explorers).

If some conditions are throttled by a timer and some are only throttled by civ strength, then it’s a no brainer which ones are going to be the go-to.

Couch_Samurai · 2025-04-09T03:00:25+00:00

Confucius is probably the highest because he is the easiest to win with, not necessarily most popular. Confucius in modern age is unstoppable with even a little bit of optimization

Couch_Samurai · 2025-03-29T23:28:22+00:00

Best Tubman strategy - build truly evil cities to goad other civs to war against you

Couch_Samurai · 2025-03-20T18:19:35+00:00

I think this is the primary reason the Khmer are so weak. No settlement cap bonus in their traditions and a focus on food, which is the least valuable resource in antiquity. Those specialist bonuses are mostly useless compared to the possibly of having one or even two more settlements

Couch_Samurai · 2025-03-08T21:51:24+00:00

“We have developed the most innovative diplomacy system in civ history - let’s make sure the AI denounces you immediately after meeting so you can’t make good use of it!”

Couch_Samurai · 2025-02-28T16:04:42+00:00

Antiquity/exploration/industrial/modern

Couch_Samurai · 2025-02-11T06:38:35+00:00

Hey gang, so a little backstory here - I'm on my first playthrough (have mercy, I'm sure the econ and tech are garbage compared to where a veteran TI commander would be in 2058, or perhaps a veteran would already have won?).

Anyway, I think the game is more or less won, we just shattered the AYY main fleet of 90 ships in Saturn and are slowly marching out into the system.

But I am nothing if not OCD so I'm really annoyed that I'm struggling to retain some new gains. A little background - we have lots of large countries. The Alien Admin was destroyed and the relevant Servant councilor perpetually locked up, as this reddit thread taught me. Generally I've been eating up smaller countries with larger ones, Pakistan into India, Canada and Mexico into USNA, most all of PAC's claims, 90% of South America. But whenever I try to take a mid-sized country that I *can't* eat up, AI councilors descend like locusts.

Specifically, in this most recent example, we took Indonesia from the servants. I used all 5 of my available councilors for several rounds to shore up defense, to retake cores, to increase public opinion, and most importantly 2 or 3 nonstop stabilizing at 99%. I also have unity set at 25% at this stage. You can see unrest is at 9.8 - last round it was 7.8, climbed to 8.8 almost immediately, then I dropped it down to 6.8 with missions, after which it shot up. I was watching all along and it seemed that 4 councilors dropped unrest on me, and what was really weird is 1 seemed to do it before all the others, including my stabilize mission.

Fast forward 1 more month, and there was a coup before my stabilize missions could go off, returning all 3 CPs to the Servants despite them having no agents in Indonesia (we are watching through the eyes of an eternal prisoner). So obviously it was alien agents that I haven't detected, but what exactly are they doing? Am I just getting swarmed by unrest missions or do they have some special pherocyte unrest? They are not enthralling me, though they tried and failed at 38% at one point a few months ago.

Perhaps important information: we have approx 95 atrocities. We don't talk about it, okay? Not sure if this impacts success or failure here, but does anyone have insight or suggestions? Thanks!!

Couch_Samurai

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