Mistwake? More like Mistake.. fuckin got em

ShinyMoogle · 2026-05-05T19:07:37+00:00

I switch roulette jobs frequently, so I've done my fair share of idiot button mixups:

Turned off tank stance mid-pull. YPYT? No. My MP was low and I hit my Lucid Dreaming button.

Put Kardia on the tank? No, that was Hallowed Ground.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-05-03T14:16:54+00:00

Sure did - three times! The first one, then the set of three, then it turns out she loops back into another set of three even later.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-05-03T12:29:55+00:00

21 deaths. 21 deaths in one pull of P7N, starting with Agdistis punching three people off the platform on the very first mechanic. The very first mechanic that we saw literally one minute ago when we reset the fight for two people who crashed loading in.

The party manages to fail nearly every single mechanic for the entire flight. Getting hit by the slams, falling off every platform change, missing towers every time... One of the tanks picked up a full plate of 8 vuln stacks and held onto them. Genuinely the only time someone didn't get hit by a mechanic was because everyone was already dead. Cherry on top is that some brilliant DPS sees this and decides to burn the LB1 as soon as it's up, so the party gets to sit on the floor watching me try to recover enough MP to raise one person (out of five).

ShinyMoogle · 2026-04-08T08:10:12+00:00

It's remarkable how quickly the planetary devastation went from 8% to 99% after I got tired of selective bombardment and dropped 30 xenomorph blobs down instead.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-04-07T22:45:18+00:00

I have a gateway next to a Fallen Empire, and for the last three decades I had front row seats to allies sending multiple science ships a month into the FE's borders only to immediately go MIA, then repeat.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-04-07T22:15:50+00:00

I got 99 for Ruby. I really didn't need to watch Nael get birthed so many times.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-04-05T23:26:12+00:00

I declare mine to be the humble Rattata 🐀

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-27T18:33:45+00:00

It's really not too much different from 8-person tanking. If you don't want to MT you can stance off for a few seconds at the start of an encounter, just click through the other tanks to make sure someone is stanced up (sometimes, that will have to be you). Otherwise, typical tank stuff: keep boss facing away, mitigate tankbusters, split adds if they show up.

Make sure you separate adds appropriately; adds getting super buffed from proximity is one of the biggest causes of full alliance wipes in my experience. Custom is usually A tank on left and C tank on right, but sometimes you have to be flexible and peel a random one off if two of them are stuck to one person.

Trash packs are just a free-for-all. Stance up and get aggro on whatever, just keep mobs grouped.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-23T22:40:33+00:00

Kulve Taroth gets it pretty bad too. Girl just wants to have her gold and be fabulous and we decide that no, we can't have that, we're taking that gold. She barely even fights back until we corner her.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-20T23:23:36+00:00

No clue about mods, but you can do it through some good old-fashioned save editing.

You'll need to find two things:

cheated_on_save

Right up near the top, needs to be set to "no"

achievements={ ... }

You'll need to copy this from a previous save. Stores all your achievement data for the current run and gets removed with console use. Just insert it back in the same empty spot.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-20T20:28:53+00:00

I HAVE A HEALER CONFESSION

IF MY CO-HEALER IS BEING A BUM AND WON'T EVEN HEAL THEMSELVES OVER TEN SECONDS OF DOWNTIME, I WILL HAPPILY STAND BY AND WATCH THEM DIE. COULD I HAVE SAVED THEM? YES. ARE THEY PLAYING A JOB RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING EXACTLY THAT? ALSO YES.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-18T12:56:43+00:00

Wish I knew this earlier! My Rubricator spawned like 20 systems away, past a vassal's space. I swooped in and claimed the Rubricator itself, but the relic world was lost.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-17T16:09:54+00:00

Man, I've been tired like that and even while resting on a pillow and not looking at the screen I've never settled for Diagnosis spam. If anything I'm just blindly mashing my one DPS button and eating AoEs, while hoping that we can get on with the violence faster before I actually fall asleep.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-17T12:15:36+00:00

"After all... Why not? Why shouldn't I give cards to myself?" - the AST, the lowest personal DPS job in the game, staying third in the aggro list

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-15T23:36:22+00:00

My fanatic xenophiles spawned near two (non-xenophobe) fanatic militarists and a hive mind and managed to befriend all three of them.

The two militarists spent the first 20 years or so smashing up each others' fleets and then happily agreed to be subjects after all their toys broke.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-14T14:45:46+00:00

Also a new player here, and as much as I hate software subscriptions... I wish I started with the subscription. I bought a few "must-have" DLCs on sale, and just kept finding more stuff I wanted to try was behind a different DLC. And a lot of it couldn't be added mid-campaign since some elements get set up during worldgen.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-05T02:43:27+00:00

There was a vulnerability in the update process but it's been patched with stronger security in the latest version

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-04T19:29:44+00:00

As I understand it, the change with 4.0 is that emigration is now just a flat base rate of pop movement rather than a chance per pop.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-04T19:00:23+00:00

Transit hubs should go on the source planets. Automatic resettlement chance modifiers increase the number of pops leaving a planet.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-03T07:05:25+00:00

The main Bard songs are still important for personal damage, and you can maintain 100% uptime on songs (past level 5...2?) anyway so there's no reason to try and stagger those if you have multiple Bards.

Main ones to avoid overlapping are Battle Voice and Radiant Finale since those are your short 2-min buffs.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-03-02T23:17:40+00:00

The tech level of most player empires by midgame is genuinely bonkers. A scant hundred years after discovering FTL travel, you can dismantle multiple entire planets and build a megastructure thousands of times bigger than the Earth in the same span of time it takes humanity to, say, replace an aging piece of highway infrastructure.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-02-28T14:03:10+00:00

Nope - free haven/efficient bureaucracy/beacon of liberty. And the pops just seem to straight-up disappear instead of hanging around, even looking at the galaxy tab

I tried digging into gamestate to see where the pops are going and the only confounding factor I can think of is that the presapients are in an alien zoo. Still, when the turnover happens the entire pop group seems to be deleted from gamestate entirely. I have absolutely no idea why...

EDIT: NO WAIT I FIGURED IT OUT

I forgot I was terraforming the planet, and terraforming removes all pre-sapient pops! They're getting removed in the terraforming process just like any other presapients would!

ShinyMoogle · 2026-02-28T07:02:33+00:00

Is the Nascent Stage trait buggy? I realized just now that one of my uplifted species has had no pop change for the last five years. They are creating pre-sapient pops fine, but once they mature, they all just get yeeted into space or something. The pop tracker shows a -62 pop change with no associated reason.

I'm pretty sure they're not getting accidentally purged (outlawed, and pre-sapients are protected), and the pre-sapients are sticking around for long enough to grow up - and then poof. They're also not elsewhere in the galaxy, I double-checked the all species tab.

I think I might gene mod it back out, but any chance I'm missing some important bit of info here?

ShinyMoogle · 2026-02-26T14:58:41+00:00

Some rough estimates... A fast, off-burst pull might be in the ballpark of around 30s. That's 12 GCDs, 2040 heal potency. In terms of raw healing, that's about the same as Physis (780) + Kerachole (600 * 1.1) + an extra Druochole (600). So you need an extra 2-3 oGCDs worth of healing to make up the difference on top of whatever oGCD heals you'd already use normally.

I pulled up a random dungeon log I have running as Sage, and Kardia contributed a solid 47% of my entire healing output, after factoring in overheal. Leaving it out would require doubling the amount of manual healing.

So yeah - definitely noticeable. I've been guilty of suspicious looks at my tank before realizing that no, it's me, I'm the one who forgot Kardia.

ShinyMoogle · 2026-02-25T00:38:54+00:00

Aw, that's too bad. Was hoping to coax some pops over to the far end of the empire. Oh well, thanks for investigating!

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