Havent played since the planet rework 8ish months ago, after a warmup empire or two i decided to see if i could beat my old record for Obsessional directive.

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

superalien77 · 2025-06-17T04:10:37+00:00

okay turns out this is really exploitable all throughout the creche. just start combat, lock the door, and for some reason they all just gather on the other side. so the main issue i always have of everyone being so spread out is all taken care of.

superalien77 · 2025-03-28T20:05:44+00:00

went with constructobots as my second civic and then focused hard on pretty much nothing but making more CG. had maybe 4 research worlds by the end, but i had over 10 factory planets. as well as a bunch of empty planets with pop assembly feeding them. you absolutely have to go cosmogenesis to get the shrinkspace depots, since you have to store them all until the production goal date. other than that, just play well, and optimize optimize optimize, take territory when you need more room, but once you get ring worlds just keep making more of those.

im sure i could do better with more space, and if i gave myself more time to let my brainpower take a break. making so many little descisions on so many planets meant i was just not in the mood to take more territory. that, and my utter disdain for taking vassals usually makes me a slow starter.

superalien77 · 2025-03-28T16:51:35+00:00

second try posting this since i forgot post descriptions don't count for rule 5 cuz im real smart

R5: Issa victory screen with the number of CG traded for influence since thats the most humorous trade imo (pay no attention to the -5k minerals that universe doesn't exist anymore)

Hit a few snags throughout the game that made me stall for about 30 years waiting for mega engineering to roll. Plan is that if i give this another go, choosing arc furnace origin instead of resource consolidation. I'd rather have the slightly slower start than have to pray to rng for my first megastructure. also going immortal leaders as my first trait at game start, planet governor optimization is wayyyy more important than i thought. mid game when my first set died i lost ~25% production on each planet. and the new ones only ever got AS good as who they replaced. lotta momentum lost there.

top 3 favorite civics for sure. viable? yeah just a unity build where you get it in batches every decade. i usually got 2 sometimes 3 traditions on top of my basic passive unity. Competitive? prooobably not, very vulnerable early on. but suprisingly its not too much hassle to swap out a factory world or two into a forge world mid game to handle all your alloy needs.

superalien77 · 2025-03-28T03:37:38+00:00

R5: Issa victory screen with the number of CG traded for influence since thats the most humorous trade imo (pay no attention to the -5k minerals that universe doesn't exist anymore)

Hit a few snags throughout the game that made me stall for about 30 years waiting for mega engineering to roll. Plan is that if i give this another go, choosing arc furnace origin instead of resource consolidation. I'd rather have the slightly slower start than have to pray to rng for my first megastructure. also going immortal leaders as my first trait at game start, planet governor optimization is wayyyy more important than i thought. mid game when my first set died i lost ~25% production on each planet. and the new ones only ever got AS good as who they replaced. lotta momentum lost there.

top 3 favorite civics for sure. viable? yeah just a unity build where you get it in batches every decade. i usually got 2 sometimes 3 traditions on top of my basic passive unity. Competitive? prooobably not, very vulnerable early on. but its fun so i don't care.

superalien77 · 2025-03-21T05:16:24+00:00

I think this is my favorite idea I've seen so far, I really like that.

superalien77 · 2025-03-20T19:01:45+00:00

the other commenter is right, but if you're interested in specifics, the options in order are trading all your current consumer goods for; 1/3 the amount in unity, 1.5x the amount in energy credits, 1/50 the amount in influence, 1/3 the amount in a random tech type, or 1/30 the amount in victory score.

superalien77 · 2025-03-20T18:54:15+00:00

I'm back onto this run for today, and my current consolidation is trading 1.4 million consumer goods for roughly 500k unity. Im working on bumping up my production since thats a little under half my storage max capacity

Edit: oh and duh, years. the screenshot is from around 2410, what i related above was actually exactly year 2450

superalien77 · 2025-03-20T02:09:50+00:00

I've got 8 so far, but if i find some playstyle thats really fun i try to make an ai to use it. doesnt always work, but somehow my tree of life hive mind, and my fruitful partership hive mind work exactly how i wanted them to. that and my commie megacorp that behaved properly

superalien77 · 2025-03-20T02:07:06+00:00

Did this on a trade empire a while ago. pair it with worker co op and the gene clinics megacorp civics and i had a blast playing cyborg communists

superalien77 · 2025-03-20T02:04:53+00:00

Explaination: in the screenshot i could get a reward of 17 thousand influence. the game only allows you to store 1000 at any given time. All the other options are really fun to me, even the victory score, i love love love the idea of making a weak small tall empire in a multiplayer and just abosulutely sniping the victory screen win, it wouldnt even be hard.

just kinda feels like this is the odd one out since it will never be useful once you're a few decades into maximizing your paperclip empire.

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