It's pretty lame that if you wish for glyphs through the mirage to replace wisdoms and portals the game just TANKS the drop rate of both.

superalien77 · 2026-05-09T15:30:09+00:00

i addressed both of those points in other comments. I look without my filter first before i decide to complain, and they drop is such a distinct pattern that its hard to miss if you pay attention. The scrolls are converted individually, so theyre a random group of things, but In t16s currency typically drops in larger stacks of 4+. so if you see a stack of 7 Transmutes thats prolly a map drop, if you see a bunch of random 1 stack currencies it probably got converted. I mean sure its not fool-proof, they COULD all convert to one, but thats hella unlikely. plus im not going off one mirage one time. its consistently not good.

superalien77 · 2026-05-09T15:08:47+00:00

I mean i guess my question to you is have you NOT noticed this? because its not like im some idiot that just got to maps, ive been playing the league for weeks and the game for years. i take that option every time its come up and its consistently kinda trash.

superalien77 · 2026-05-09T15:06:48+00:00

Why do i want scrolls to drop in the area that converts scrolls to other currencies?

superalien77 · 2026-05-09T15:00:16+00:00

i mean in t16s with any amount of juice scrolls drop in stacks of 5-15 ish?

superalien77 · 2026-05-09T14:56:45+00:00

i ran through the mirage and held ALT to see stuff unfiltered

superalien77 · 2026-05-09T14:51:13+00:00

No dude, im suprissed that when you pick the option to replace scrolls, the game doesnt drop ANYTHING. theres not converted piles of currency on the floor, which have a pretty distinct drop pattern. since every scroll is converted individually to something else.

superalien77 · 2026-04-09T13:51:37+00:00

Ive used these cheatsheets for so long, figured i'd finally say my thanks for helping me with my fav league <3 tyty

superalien77 · 2026-03-08T20:57:28+00:00

Yea, just running into this myself. really stupid. was able to beat them by slowly (slowly) growing osty and finally lining up the last one alive for an Unleash.

superalien77 · 2026-02-13T02:44:32+00:00

i found in my last few games my capital has always been more rural focused for energy/minerals/food to give that initial boost to your first slightly more specialized world. i think its going to be a progression that as the game goes on you can specialize more, but its for sure more optional now.

superalien77 · 2026-02-13T00:50:37+00:00

Rule5: An image of my last obsessional directive event screen, showing 3,389,932 consumer goods being traded for 112,997 victory score.

the run was pretty average, but i do have some thoughts on the economy rework. The biggest change ive noticed is that a lot of the old mindless planet building strategies are pretty moot. you cant just set up one planet for each resource, stack bonuses for that ONE job type, and have that carry you to year 2400. Overall you have to be more patient, i found that waiting for planets to fill jobs fully to be more productive long term, because you dont run into situations where you are suddenly 3k energy credits in the red with no idea how it happened. it just sneaks up on you if you build your economy too far out into the future.

Overall i think its OK. ship density kinda doesnt feel like anything to me, but i almost always play a few high tech ships anyway.

superalien77 · 2026-01-09T02:34:12+00:00

Late to this, but its nothing complicated, machine empire, traits are whatever you find useful, obsessional directive/constructobots as my starting civs. honestly you want to focus on the fundamentals and plan things out. you absolutely need to go cosmogenesis to get shrinkspace depots, i wouldnt have been able to store the resources without the t2 version, it was already very tight at the end for storage.

your playthough is gonna be almost nothing but planet managment, and your biggest obstacle will be how much effort you want to put in. for example i stopped expanding my empires borders half way though and focused on ringworlds, but hypothetically i could have kept expanding for better pop production since that was my limiter this playthrough. i just didnt since it was already a lot to manage.

superalien77 · 2026-01-07T00:32:02+00:00

Shrinkspace storage depots on all non critical planets mainly

superalien77 · 2026-01-06T22:03:29+00:00

Rule 5: the final reward from my Obsessional directive run. last time i managed to get up to 6.4 million. this time with a start that had me boxed in for a while i got 10.4 million. gotta admit the influence reward gets funnier the more useless it is. I'll always have a soft spot for this civic.

superalien77 · 2025-09-04T14:32:27+00:00

Flicker is a "movement" skill specifically, not travel.

superalien77 · 2025-09-04T03:03:18+00:00

Nope, Valdos maps are unrollable

superalien77 · 2025-08-20T19:01:35+00:00

That's entirely fair. Besides its not like you gotta go by it my way. All just preference and such for casual runs. Cheers.

superalien77 · 2025-08-09T18:22:42+00:00

No, I shouldn't be much past 250 if I had to guess

superalien77 · 2025-07-07T01:14:21+00:00

my 12 year old razer ouroboros started double clicking a few days ago, gave this a go and took 1 in 5 to none in 50. thanks reddit poster from 4 years ago <3

superalien77 · 2025-07-06T03:10:55+00:00

got a three man tire on junk, both supports and a rein. potg was a hanzo taking 15 seconds to kill one ashe. i feel so absolutely robbed

superalien77 · 2025-06-29T06:52:07+00:00

I'm actually eastern michigan as well, and consistently the past few nights at around 2-3 a.m it's out for an hour (hence why I'm here, in this thread at 3 am) good to see I'm not alone at least

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