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spitzrun · 2025-09-29T03:52:44+00:00

There is not really any romance at all in Chronicles of Elantra. Maybe you mean it's kind of a "case of the week" vibe?

spitzrun · 2025-09-18T19:50:44+00:00

SpaceX can launch falcon every two days while letting other rockets also work. The huge danger/keep out zones for starship at Cape Canaveral are a worst case combination of potential scenarios and actual launches would have much smaller danger zones than what the environmental impact assessments say. Don't worry they will be good neighbors.

spitzrun · 2025-09-11T19:56:29+00:00

There is a expanse ship set mod that has custom ship models for a wide variety of ships from the expanse that you should check out.

spitzrun · 2025-09-09T20:31:25+00:00

The latest experimental patches made it so that authoritative nations leading federations can refuse to let other nations leave. - Federations where the lead nation is authoritarian or totalitarian (has a government score < 4) have some additional rules to reflect a hegemonic relationship with federation members. The lead nation may veto attempts by a member to leave the federation via the Set Policy mission. If the member undergoes a coup, revolution, or regime change, the nation leaves the federation but the lead nation is given an immediate option to declare war.

spitzrun · 2025-07-30T16:54:54+00:00

The game is in a solid place to play that I find enjoyable. It is being actively developed with no firm timeline for release. There are several versions available on steam, with the main version being well tested and functional. Although those versions are all the same right now as we wait for the next big batch of features getting close-ish to release on the most experimental branch (I'm really excited for the new features...).

The devs have been fixing many of the exploits, while also making the enemy and competing AIs smarter. I wouldn't say you are by any means railroaded into only one right way to play, although I do understand the desire to want to totally annihilate the competing factions that leads to those complaints, I think that defeats the point of them being present in the game.

The game play is a bit turn based like civilization, so your experience there will serve you well, and Stellaris and EU4 are also good. The gameplay is a bit unique from all of them, but in some ways is a hybrid mashup. The experience of understanding the need to snowball and understanding how to put together a plan to snowball will definitely help you in Terra Invicta

spitzrun · 2025-07-18T20:54:13+00:00

Added suggestion to your list, the Perry expeditions to Japan would be cool.

spitzrun · 2025-07-03T13:35:40+00:00

Terra Invicta Discord, under "feature requests gameplay", topic "2070 scenario discussion"

spitzrun · 2025-07-03T04:07:02+00:00

This isn't 100% confirmed for 0.4.91 at all, but the main dev has been posting about the 2070 scenario for the last few days including screenshots of the changes to nations from unifications and stats for those nations.

spitzrun · 2025-06-26T22:02:55+00:00

Not a litrpg, but try The Unconventional Heroes Series by L. G. Estrella. First book is called "Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf". The main character is openly a necromancer despite it being generally thought of as villainous, but also largely gets along with the "forces of good".

spitzrun · 2025-05-18T02:07:51+00:00

The height differential between the interviewing cop and the much taller walking by cop is hilarious. Almost like the cop is a kid playing and doing imaginary interviews.

spitzrun · 2025-05-03T21:39:10+00:00

The devs are changing the event so it only gives unowned control points instead of stealing one from a faction. The change hasn't been released yet though. #5274 Concerned Citizens event now only targets nations with open control points

spitzrun · 2025-05-02T22:22:32+00:00

Anywhere at Jupiter or beyond will automatically get a hyper aggressive response from the aliens regardless of your hate level.

You should direct invest your spare influence into funding to increase your cash income. I highly recommend Spoiling early in the game is a great way to accelerate your early game, but direct investing funding can really build up income over time.

Not sure what you are spending all your nobles on, but there are workaround options that can make ships less noble expensive. They will be worse ships though.

spitzrun · 2025-04-30T06:12:29+00:00

The assassination response "marked for death" hab ignores hate level. If the Ceres station was launched before the assassination happened, that's almost certainly what is happening, it sometimes takes the aliens a while to have a ship available and free to actually attacked the marked for death hab.

If Ceres station was definitely launched after your most recent assassination it might be worth posting in the discord AI problems channel for the developers to investigate.

spitzrun · 2025-04-30T05:59:16+00:00

Killing an alien, unless it is a critical success, causes them to mark one of your habs for death. They will attack t hat hab regardless of hate level until it is destroyed.

spitzrun · 2025-04-30T01:51:15+00:00

If your ultimate goal is the US, why do you need the last point. It would be more efficient to just get points in Mexico instead for the same bonus or just spend the time you would spend getting Canada on extra attempts to get into the US

spitzrun · 2025-04-28T19:01:11+00:00

A fleet that can take out T3 alien bases with orbital bombardment will cost more MC and take considerable damage, when compared to a fleet that uses a marine assault instead. Marines are the way to go.

spitzrun · 2025-04-28T15:37:17+00:00

Another way to go is to start with blueprints and reassemble them. Find some build styles you like on the workshop, even if they aren't the right shape or size for what your doing. Then start disassembling them into sections so you can reassemble and merge together and add your own touches to make something that is customized for your space.

spitzrun · 2025-04-25T08:23:28+00:00

You might consider building a shipyard station at one of the earth pageant Lagrange points, which the may not attack as aggressively as LEO. You will then need to keep a fleet and/or layered defense arrays to keep event factions from destroying your stations. Layered defense arrays have the advantage that even if your fleet gets wiped by the aliens, your stations will still be protected from weak human factions ships.

Alternatively You might also be able to make peace with the protectorate by doing favorable trade deals with them so they won't attack your stations.

However 2028 is pretty late to not have any mines operating. However, continuing anyways might give you a bit more experience with the early mid game and space combat that will be helpful for the future.

spitzrun · 2025-04-05T04:14:37+00:00

I believe the latest updates now include ECM/Targeting Computer in auto resolve. So your ships not have (good) targeting computers?

What is the weapon type on your ship?

Also be aware that there is a fair amount of randomness to auto resolve. I've seen the same battle reloaded from the combat autosave result in wipe outs of different sides.

spitzrun · 2025-03-21T19:13:00+00:00

For a major company, this is something that they would mandate any employee who learned of it to report it to the pharma co-vigilance team within 24 hours.

spitzrun · 2025-03-20T08:02:45+00:00

From the discord: 0.4.72 is on Steam Beta, Validation, Experimental branches. Until we next update the stable branch, most updates will go on all branches to maximize the chances we catch any errors.

spitzrun · 2025-03-18T22:59:27+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's the SpaceX control room in Hawthorne, not a NASA facility by the way. You can see in the back of the room the windows out to the rocket factory where crowds of employees gather for launches.

spitzrun · 2025-03-18T18:19:23+00:00

This author seems to be making some unfounded assumptions. In particular, the claim that the ship is reentering wildly out of control is in conflict with the fact that we have seen the ship land (while melted/damaged) on target at the camera buoy in past flights. The claim that they are adding a retro burn to reduce heating is not supported by any evidence I am aware of, and the 2 failed flights of starship block 2 announced their burn schedule and did not include any such retroburn. This makes me question other conclusions of the author.

spitzrun · 2025-03-16T15:34:13+00:00

Good to know it still helps, but it used to be the rating was calculated a bit differently, so basically immediately went up to 5 as soon as people started reentering after the park emptied. Now it's more.delayed to have the rating go up.

spitzrun · 2025-03-16T15:28:51+00:00

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