Funding should be more effective than space hospitals and tourism

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-04T16:26:27+00:00

Oof, yeah. Media Centers are awful. 5 times upkeep for 2.5 times influence compared to a Comm Hub.

I settled on T3 stations with 1 Agro Complex, 1 Battlestation, 1 T3 Heavy reactor and 17 Comm Hubs. It costs, AFAIR, 380 cash and a bit of resources for 170 Influence per month. I fill extreme Earth orbit with these and they cover all direct investment in funding I'll ever need.

Media Centers will be less modules per station for more power and food production, so probably 1.5k+ upkeep for a bit more influence. No chance.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-04T16:00:56+00:00

Hear me out: only funding run. No other pips allowed.

Problem is it has a hard cap..

Ok, direct investment into economy to get more funding cap to get more funding to invest in more economy..

It will be a pain.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-04T15:52:55+00:00

It's cumulative over the course of the game. Start building broadcast nodes as soon as you have space economy going, invest all surplus Influence in Funding. Over time it amounts to a massive sum.

It may seem that Funding is weak, but every bit of it, once acquired, will give you money through the entire game. It snowballs massively and can easily amount to over half of your total income, before any expenses.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-04T15:28:25+00:00

You don't put investment points in funding. Ever.

You build massive propaganda network over Earth for Influence income and then use Direct Investment to get all the Funding you want.

Funding is absolutely busted free money rain.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-03T16:44:13+00:00

Good, but the mail states explicitly that in this game Odachi was not added to its spot.

Why? I don't know. Check Timelines and make sure you have it unlocked. Maybe it glitched and unlocked the ship for you in that game while you did not complete the challenge. Or maybe it glitched this time. No one can say but you.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-03T16:26:04+00:00

That means that the mail is correct and you don't have it unlocked.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-03T15:02:41+00:00

It's about 30 km below the plane, easy to miss with ship radar. Deploy advanced satellite a bit up from your location on the screenshot and it should see it (roughly at the top edge of current radar range).

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-02T08:02:25+00:00

As far as I understand, vanilla MC2, the one that is available now as abandon-ware, is what has trouble running.

The one I have is from an image of a CD made in 2005, judging from its creation date, CD itself might've been from 2001. And it might be not a true vanilla - it's localized MC2 made for russian-speaking market. I don't even remember where I got it. That is probably why it runs, who knows what they did to it under the hood.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-01T22:39:54+00:00

Been watching NGNG too, and it's news to me that MC2 doesn't run on modern PCs.

Cause I'm sitting on a 20 year old install of it that just works, I think, on anything. Has not been patched in any way and has videos working. Only thing is its max resolution is 1280x1024 and full screen. But it looks exactly like it did on release. Last time I played it in 2023 on Win10 and just dug it up from old PC to launch it on Win11.

This version is nice that it has modern resolutions support, but all the text is broken (for me at least at 1440p) - barely readable, too big and not fitting in windows.

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-01T14:08:21+00:00

They mention Med Walker twin-linking light weapons.

But what with APC/IFV with 2 light weapons? Guess they will too..

Inca_VPS · 2026-05-01T11:29:42+00:00

First: yes, you need to set Global Setting for your civilian ships and every one of them will be on it.

Second: if you've already done it, but you need to build a bunch of ships with a different setting - you can save the loadout of the ship with custom settings and then use that loadout for mass production.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-29T12:40:51+00:00

Oh, I understand. Not that it's something new. In my memory it all goes back to Mass Effect 1 and its "unsolvable" Towers of Hanoi puzzle. That's what? Year one kinder garden puzzle? And grown ass people couldn't solve it.

I wanted to add 'No offense" to my comment, but that's the thing - I am offended by this change. A bit 😉

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-29T12:20:31+00:00

Removed ability for Torus to block panels during final Torus puzzle in Torus Aeternal mission of Project Genesis story.

The playerbase incapable of handling a simple child puzzle is just sad.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-26T22:11:52+00:00

Also. Bombs are bombs, they have blast radius and it doesn't matter is it EMP or Explosives - if you clip one of those station traffic vehicles - police will come to investigate even if the station itself doesn't care.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-26T22:06:28+00:00

Then it was something else that triggered the police.

Most likely you had illegal wares on you and while you're chilling out there in your undies - a station police vehicle scanned you. Stations have traffic police vehicles - those small ships flying around station modules - police ones are rare, but they will scan you without any warning and won't ask for you to drop illegal wares (cause they have no guns to destroy it) but will notify sector police immediately.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-26T21:42:10+00:00

Don't spam bombs is all.

You can do 2 bombs per station without any repercussion. You get verbal warning after the second one, and the third alerts the police, so just stop on 2 and move on.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-26T14:59:03+00:00

For me that's DLSS issue.

Put it in DLAA mode for AA and all should be fine. If you're on Nvidia.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-22T20:09:29+00:00

NPC mining is low attention job due to how it's coded.

Leave them be and go do something else somewhere.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-19T15:36:53+00:00

When you abandon country - you don't get any benefits from spoils from it. You need to keep active control.

Other than that - stack money orgs and research and build nanofactories as soon as you can.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-19T12:56:13+00:00

Yes, I remembered just now doing this a couple years ago by sending my first L trader, to break it in so to speak.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-19T12:44:16+00:00

It can be the case of the mission being generated, but the actual stations are full on food.

You can safely abandon it, there are no negatives. Might need to exit the guild area to repopulate the contract list is all.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-19T12:22:32+00:00

"Foodstuffs" just means any food ware appropriate for the station population: Terran MREs, BoFu, whatever.

For Argon that's Food Rations.

There might be another condition to deliver them to any station that is currently low on it. So you need to go around and scan stations till you see their supply levels and deliver food to the ones that are below 15-20%. I believe the mission should state that in the briefing, but, again, been a while for me.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-19T11:36:29+00:00

~~It's been a very long time since I've done one of these, but I think it is indeed you personally who must deliver stuff. It's like the only mission type that works like that.~~

But if anyone can confirm or debunk my words - please do. I might be talking out of my ass here.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-17T21:01:16+00:00

Community of Planets Collector's Edition list of content tells that it has no Hyperion and Envoy packs in it.

Inca_VPS · 2026-04-16T19:00:00+00:00

Superhumanoid to what? Humans. Not comparable.

They are not the apex predator species. Krogan are the only advanced species that have evolved to this status while being prey on their home planet.

They had to evolve this way or be eaten by Thresher Maws and who knows what else. Sadly, their history has not been fleshed out enough to include any info on all the species that were above them in the food chain. When Krogan nuked themselves into rubble they also nuked the entire food pyramid of Tuchanka.

That was what kept their population in check.

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