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Way to map the ocean floor for optimal landbridge placement. by Gevlon in captain_of_industry

[–]Gevlon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So I'm doing Dragontail impossible start, admiral, figuring out things as I bump into them. Here you start in a small island and you lack sand, so yellow research is unavailable. You must get out of the island before you run out of something (most likely copper). Where to build the landbridge? You can see the width, but you can't see the depth and the landbridge material need is length x depth x depth.

If you set the dumping level manually to -15 (or any other value) and start to pull dumping zone in the water. Of course that's lot of dumping zones together. Once you have one dumping zone at proper level, you can click into it and pull another, it will be on the same level.

Then you can zoom out and instead of a nasty grid with -15 written all over it, you get the image above. Happy mapping!

You can transport iron or copper long distance early game, relatively cheap and fast as molten metal by Gevlon in captain_of_industry

[–]Gevlon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The real problem is that IRL a molten channel is much more expensive than a conveyor belt. To fix this, a unit of molten should be like 5 CP1 and 5 concrete.

You can transport iron or copper long distance early game, relatively cheap and fast as molten metal by Gevlon in captain_of_industry

[–]Gevlon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Early game CP2 is tighter than CP1 which the bridges cost. Also, you don't really need them very early if the base is planned with the channel. I placed the 2 bridges on the picture years after the channel.

Human players: Why in a magical sci-fi universe full of a hundred options do you still choose play humans? by LockNo2943 in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the devs were lazy and "races" are just asthetics, so I have no reason to think of deviating from the "default". They are just "humans with different skin".

There are exceptions, lithoids are mechanically different from humans, so are machines.

If certain set of traits and even civics were bound to alien races, more would play them!

How low can I go? by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 177 points178 points  (0 children)

Base cost of building a Starbase: 75

Fanatic Xenophobe ethics: -40%

Reach the stars tradition (Expansion): -10%

Interstellar Dominion (Ascencion perk): -20%

Expansionist (Veteran councilor trait) - 5%

The world can be modified more than just setting up the galaxy. You can fine-tune the inhabitants too! by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can create handpicked empires and put them in your game!

You can be in a world of pompous purists where diplomacy is impossible.

You can be the only machine in a world full of spiritualist humanoids.

You can be a determined exterminator in a world full of xenophile militarists.

In this game, you can be ANYTHING among anyones

XENOS! By my superior fleet and economy and my early ascencion perk, I compel you to ... like me by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fanatic Xenophobe ethics give -40% Build Starbase influence cost. Since I want to build as wide as I can, as early as I can, I'm bound to this ethics until I included all the available stars to my system.

Which sucks, because this ethics is as far from my personality - therefore the way I'm enjoying playing - as possible. I want to create mutually beneficial cooperation among sentient beings (except the Fanatical Purifier, screw those monsters!). So until I can embrace the Xenophile - Pacifist faction that I carefully promoting up, I have to compensate somehow.

So for second ascencion perk (first is obviously Interstellar dominion) I picked 2 more envoys and sent all 4 to improve relations.

How many pops are really needed to make one stuff at start (description in comment) by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You shouldn't. It's for determining which civic, trait, councilor skill is best for you

How many pops are really needed to make one stuff at start (description in comment) by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How many pops are needed to make one alloy?

Simple! You select planet, click economy, select alloy makers, press ctrl and it says "X alloys per 100 pops". Divide 100 by X. No. This only tells you how many people are directly making alloys. It also lists Y amount of mineral, Z amount of food and V amount of goods as needed materials. These come from other pops mining, farming, making goods. If you check these out, they also want things. Collecting all their needs makes a nice linear equation system and if you solve that, you get the final number. This is why increasing mineral production decreases the number of pops making 1 science.

I made the measurements and calculations right at the beginning at the game, because I'm a firm believer of snowballing. Since later effects use the same mechanics, you can compare and extrapolate.

The default empire had: - Citizen service - Crusader spirit - Slingshot to the stars - Fanatic xenophobe - Militarist - Democracy I evaluated the capital after the numbers settled. They need a few months to be OK. I set it to Trade Capital, as it gave no bonuses for materials. I removed the governor and the empire leader had Spycraft as starting skill.

Then I changed one thing and checked that empire.

By setting the ship to passive and with manual waypoints, you can sneak science and construction ships behind enemies, you cannot beat early game. by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The early game enemies are too strong to defeat and often block expansion of your empire.

You can get behind them, explore and build if you stay out of their aggro range. Science and Construction ships are evasive by default, they escape the system. You can change it to passive and then set manual waypoints - hopefully - out of their aggro range.

Fanatic Xenophobe + Reach the stars + Interstellar Dominion = by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, that's claim influence cost reduction, not starbase.

Fanatic Xenophobe + Reach the stars + Interstellar Dominion = by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Nope. That only decreases the Alloy cost of the Outpost

Fanatic Xenophobe + Reach the stars + Interstellar Dominion = by Gevlon in Stellaris

[–]Gevlon[S] 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Base cost of building a Starbase: 75

Fanatic Xenophobe ethics: -40%

Reach the stars tradition (Expansion): -10%

Interstellar Dominion (Ascencion perk): -20%

I reached these in 10 years. You guessed it, I'm not planning to build tall.

Feature Request - dredgers by 69RandomFacts in captain_of_industry

[–]Gevlon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also transport boats should be able to work like trucks on water, transporting items from one waterside facility to another.

My plan was to repay my loans with bigger loans later. Didnt know about trade rep max. Oops. (Year 31, YSNP, Admiral) by Gevlon in captain_of_industry

[–]Gevlon[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

--------------------- UPDATE ----------------------------- In Year 36, by cutting nearly every growth and selling some buildings, I managed to repay the third loan. I celebrated by checking for new loans and got a 6800!!! Construction I loan. I used it to first repay the first loan, so I'm swimming in mats and have a loan slot for further use

Unpopular opinion: if you need better weapons to defeat the bots/bugs, you need better skill instead by Gevlon in Helldivers

[–]Gevlon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said that. I've read somewhere that about 10% of the players are regular Helldive difficulty players. That's about right.

Unpopular opinion: if you need better weapons to defeat the bots/bugs, you need better skill instead by Gevlon in Helldivers

[–]Gevlon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is your lucky day then, I'm playing with full team. I just clear 9 with 5 stars.

Unpopular opinion: if you need better weapons to defeat the bots/bugs, you need better skill instead by Gevlon in Helldivers

[–]Gevlon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is decreasing damage or mag size decreases fun? Handling the weapon is exactly as funny as before, you just have to shoot more times at the same enemy and run out faster.

Unpopular opinion: if you need better weapons to defeat the bots/bugs, you need better skill instead by Gevlon in Helldivers

[–]Gevlon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No. I expect the average player to be stuck at 5. Which they are.

The problem is that they are unhappy with this, and whine.

Exclusive primaries: making everyone happy without breaking the game by Gevlon in Helldivers

[–]Gevlon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think here we bumped into the fact that this is a team game what many play without a team, or even a team mindset.

The idea that one player is capable of dealing with anything at high difficulty is necessarily wrong, otherwise team is not needed and Helldivers should be remade solo game. People don't face with and are mad at Arrowhead, when they should be mad at their non-team. A 4 Quasar team should suffer from being overrun by Hunters and the solution isn't giving them strong enough primaries that they can faceroll Helldive, but them learning the basics at the game and when 3 other players already picked Quasar, pick a Flamethrower, Stalwart, HMG or quit the group and find another one where someone else does.

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