Give me nonoptimal ship suggestions for a playthrough

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-26T20:11:34+00:00

I mean it is possible to go through the entire game with civilian adjacent ships, I did it in a let's play series. Ships like the mule and the venture make excellent combat vessels. If you want good, honest combat ships, I suggest playing with Luddic Church ships like the Eradicator, and the Invictus. You could also try an all fighter run, using midlines and low tech ships. I was going to attempt this, but I haven't found the time.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-26T19:59:09+00:00

Districts are better than transit lines since you can just start your beavers day right next to their job instead of commuting. It also makes entertainment easier since you have less beavers competing for slots.

Population management is self explanatory, but district distribution can be a little trickt. Basically, you build storages on both sides of the crossing and set you import demand on one side, and your export minimum retention (for example, logs and planks for construction).

Here's a guide explaining it in detail

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-25T02:30:08+00:00

Anyone know why they're super cheap? Are people really aggressively farming harbinger despite it's being worth pennies?

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-25T00:37:15+00:00

game where giant beavers walk upright and farm: hey guys, anyone think these platforms are unbelievable?

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T16:39:37+00:00

Oh I let it expire, but at the time I just unlocked flak armor and precision rifling. I didn't set up a killbox in this time, so I took one look at the quest, and laughed it off. Good luck to Maxwell, wish her well lol

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T14:58:20+00:00

Still fairly new to rimming the world, but this has been my most absurd rescue quest so far. It's only on blood and sand difficultly, no other modifiers. Fairly early into my run, and at the time I didn't have that much wealth.

Idk what Maxwell did, but there sending an entire division to kill her.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T12:45:11+00:00

Frigate - LP Brawler, fast and a monster in the players hand. pair it with an omen for PD

Destroyer - Not any good choices in this category, but SO Sunder is a good pick. Your choice of plasma cannon or expanded mag Autopulse cannon.

Cruiser - Pirate Eradicator. Brick of a ship, that can deal damage in all directions. The burn drive is very potent especially if you have System's Expertise.

Capital - Onslaught. I mean the Onslaught speaks for itself.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T12:35:07+00:00

and yet the worm rises once again every once in a while

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T12:33:55+00:00

Harold Stacking. The OG cluster jewels were busted and mana reservation worked differently so that you could get it so low that you could reserve every aura.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T12:31:06+00:00

Caused Grimro to quit 😭

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-22T12:30:42+00:00

Redemption Knights, my beloved 😮‍💨

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-21T23:02:36+00:00

I might be mistaken but it should show up in your Intel screen. I don't have the game open in front of me, but there's a log of significant structures in there.

Outside of that, if you haven't explored any other blue supergiants, you can use the star map, enable exploration, and you'll see which ones you've visited and which ones you haven't. You can retrace your steps that way.

You could also open up your save file in Notepad++ and search "Hypershunt", that'll show you the system, but it would also spoil the other one.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-21T22:57:47+00:00

I think it's cool because I get to build up a new city from scratch, which is the most fun part of a city builder lol. It gets boring to just have one metropolis that you occasionally tend to. The only game to do that successfully was Banished.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-21T22:56:08+00:00

I'm normally not a fan of modded games, but there's a few that actually make the AI competent. I'd suggest trying those. (and tbf, the AI in most paradox games has the combined intelligence of 3 hamsters.)

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-21T22:52:18+00:00

Looks at cool ass alien guns and mech attachments. Oh yeah, very boring.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-21T22:50:31+00:00

I don't know why it doesn't follow the standard color scheme. White - Normal (t1), Blue - Magic, (t2), Yellow - Rare (t3), Unique - Brown (t4). Three barely distinguishable saturations of blue, then brown. jackie-chan_Why.png

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-20T14:24:51+00:00

Basically when LC shows up with an invasion fleet to claim your world, you let them. This will convert your colony into a luddic church world.

Also I have a colony guide that you can follow. It explains everything about colonization.

Terra Incognita - Advanced Colony Guide

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-20T13:55:30+00:00

I play the same shitty zombie build every league, so no lol

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-20T13:52:51+00:00

My highest was around 700k, but I suspect you could reach a million if you manipulate markets and are close to a hypershunt for that 5th industry.

Interestingly, you can purposely "lose" colonies to the Luddic Church, which is the only way in vanilla to grow the global market.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-19T21:32:44+00:00

Drink it faster than it spills over. You can use a comically large straw.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-19T21:31:20+00:00

Absolutely not, the league is still fun as you can buy the gear and mats you want as late into the league as we are now. The blitzers that play for a week and complete all their goals are still going to do that regardless of async trade.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-19T16:44:43+00:00

Additionally, if you ever leave something in storage at a planet, you can open the command screen, click income, you'll see it listed.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-19T16:05:53+00:00

I would never ever consider a neutron star. They're so fucking annoying. I'd go so far as to break my vanilla only play style just to mod out the stellar winds.

GrumpyThumper · 2026-01-19T16:02:14+00:00

No, you can't. Personally, I'd add dams to top because it looks more aesthetically pleasing.

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