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Reply to System Feedback: Relative Value of the Advanced Buildings Uneven in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

I only do the daily challenges. I almost never find it beneficial to build an offworld trading company. I managed to shave a sol off the yellow smiley's top time last night by prioritizing the Hacker array verses ALL the other options. ( I know I tried. :( ) Sure the real-time head to head boys get all the fame and glory... but if you really want to see optimal play style try playing against humans who can see what you did and improve on it. Dud

Reply to System Feedback: Underutilized systems and missed opportunities in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

Adding more 'stuff' always seems like an improvement... but. Less is usually more. For example. Blues has a video out there where he drives down an opponents stock price by adrenaline boosting that opponent. That is very sophisticated stuff that requires learning, planning and skill (there is also a tournament video of blues employing the same tactic resulting in the opponent raising the necessary cash to buy him out). Repl

Daily Challenges have tougher AI on replay!!!! in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Its true, I know it. Somehow, Soren's AI remembers me and targets me for sabotage if I try to replay the daily challenge. Of course, it could just be that on subsequent replays I am more efficient and thus run out to a lead faster and thus incur more wrath from the AI's who mistake me for Zultar. Either way, the AI is out to get me, it's out to get you too... Don't say I didn't warn you!

Reply to Debt in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

FYI TunaFish... I am not sure of cause and effect, but you were the topic of discussion on Discord last night... Well sort of. I had wondered about including the whole 'Inputs to factories can sneak up on you' comment, but felt obligated to do so since I expect that was the primary unaccounted for source of debt. Anyway... I say you popped up in the discord discussion, because that specific aspect of debt, is a

Reply to Debt in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

Debt is also incurred via auctions, purchasing inputs to your factories and interest on debt. The combination of auctions and interest that killed me most when I was starting because interest is back breaking so you need to make sure what you purchase in the auction pays for the debt you just acquired. Inputs to factories can sneak up on you. A fairly common example is water. It is used by many factories in addition to life sup

CHEATERS! I hate those bloody pirates. in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Figures... On the day I manage to win the daily challenge, Johnscolman Shows up and hits level 5 corp in 1 sol leveraging 5 facilities, and then hangs out for a while before ending the match. I guess that is fun for him... her... IT, but I don't quite know how. Just as Well. HerbTest really saw they winning layout... I just applied a little WWZS (What Would Zultar Say) to shave off a couple ticks.

Reply to Campaign BUG in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

My guess is you asked and answered your question. To build an Ice condenser you need ice. To get a free condenser, you need to be able to build one (i.e. need ice) In case it needs to be stated... not all starts have ice.

Reply to Protection Against Mutiny in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Not sure what you consider appropriate protection. The problem could be, that what you consider appropriate protection is.... not... appropriate. ;) As far as I know being relatively new myself. Goon Squads are your only protection. They will only protect you once from a direct attack so that may have happened. (It protected you from one attack and then you were hit by a second) You can also mutiny a mutini

Reply to On a scale of Sushi to Bacon... in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Based on last night's twitch stream, it appears there is a worse loss than getting smoked liked bacon. On a scale of one to three Billy Goats Gruff, You can get Trolled up to 11 if Zultar is commentating. :)

On a scale of Sushi to Bacon... in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

How badly would I get smoked in a multiplayer match if I can consistently make the top 20 on daily challenges first try? I assume the answer is 'Bacon', but figured I'ld see if this was a conversation starter. :)

Reply to I'm so glad you made this game! in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

Not sure I can say the same as OP. Those dang daily challenges have cost me a LOT of sleep lately and I am personally holding YOU responsible. ;) I don't imagine you had much of a role in civ world... but there was a core of us absolutely addicted to it, resulting in many divorces and unhappy spouses. While OTC doesn't have the obligation to team that made CivWorld compulsory at times, the periodic competitions to test yourse

Reply to So I lose repeatedly lost to Rubio... in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I see if I launch the game from... not the tutorial... I show up on the list. Not sure if you are into Marsdaq improvement suggestions, but i would certainly love to see the Marsdaq daily challenge breakout for the specific day.

Stock Stuffs in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I have been playing for about a week so definite noob comments here, but I was a professional options trader in a past life, so I thought I understood how stocks work. In the daily challenge where I managed to squeak out a victory, I watched the replay, to see how closely I squeaked by. First... I squeaked like a mouse with its ... well anyway, the enemy had 100% of the assets needed to win when I bought him out. That&

So I lose repeatedly lost to Rubio... in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

...in my first daily challenge only to win at last. I rush off to see how I stack up against everyone who is still playing the game and... nada, nix, nothing. I don't even have a match history... :( Is that what I get for buying the game two years late?

Reply to Six Economic Starbases per planet is not fun in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Baseline. I think starbase management is the best aspect of the game. I play on Genius and win on it about 50% of the time. I don't need military to protect my planets, I need it to protect my starbases because planets are easy to protect especially before the advent of invasion modules. As has been pointed out... if you are building starbases for single planets

Reply to Custom Ship naming convention suggestions? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

I find cost is very important to track, Because ships with the exact same specs can have very different specs. It makes it easier obsolete the ships you no longer want to build. I don't see the need for hit points because the hull tells you that. I pad with 0's so all upgrades within a ship class sort together, I don't break out the defense, because that is usually balanced to offset the square root impact. HM0030-1124-s40-d50 Huge Missile attack o

Reply to Borders! Why not !? in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

I can buy part of that, I mean the reason Lincoln won is because the North voted as a block and the South split between the democrats and the Whigs. Ohio was the swing state, some things never change... But all of the points I mentioned were specifically about slavery. And oh, the reason the North voted as a block? Because the southern controlled federal government sent troops into Massechusetts to extract a runaway slave from a church to return to his master. The South seceeded ev

Reply to Borders! Why not !? in Dark Avatar Stardock Forums

Yep, that was one of those slavery things. A lot of weird things went on in the mid 1800's as the South realised they were going to lose their majority in the Senate that was given to them to convince them to join the revolution. Something along the lines of... Here's your proof that we'll never outlaw slavery. There are seven slave states and 6 non-slave states. Slavery will own the Senate. Ever wonder why states were admitted as paris until the Civil war? Ever won

Reply to If you think you know the game, try playing gigantic/abundant,suicidal, ONE opponent in Game Talk Stardock Forums

You raise another pint about what changes when you monkey with universe composition. When you have the occassional colonizable planet, colony ships are about quality. I was used to paying cash for each ship. This places premium on research to get speed techs as quickly as possible. As a result I was buying research Centers. When you are vying for 50 planets, the speed of your first 5 colony ships is really not important, so you should start with factory purchases. Much more like Ga

Reply to If you think you know the game, try playing gigantic/abundant,suicidal, ONE opponent in Game Talk Stardock Forums

I suggest you try going Manu au Manu againts the ACAENS. You don;'t have to play it out, but just see if you really can keep pace with their developemnt. I don't think you will be anywhere close to their number of planets by the time you hit Planetary Invasion. If you are, I am going to want to know secrets.

Reply to If you think you know the game, try playing gigantic/abundant,suicidal, ONE opponent in Game Talk Stardock Forums

I handle it exactly the other way. I save before the Hit turn. That way the first thing that happens when you come back is that the AI draws attention to what you need to focus on. I also pre-plan all my planet build outs and always route ships to final destinations, so I only have to react to the turn summarries.

Reply to Which fleet wins this battle? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

just a thought... Iwonder what would happen if you eliminated ALL of your opponents ships and THEN gifted himthe fleet one at a time. My guees is that the AI would quickly reform the flett

Reply to If you think you know the game, try playing gigantic/abundant,suicidal, ONE opponent in Game Talk Stardock Forums

you need to make sure that you're far enough away from that opponent that you aren't able to "rush" him by getting planetary invasion at all costs early Its Gigantic so there is little probability that you are close. But even if you are, the AI will have 10 planets by the time you research PI, and 12 before you build your first transport. and..

If you think you know the game, try playing gigantic/abundant,suicidal, ONE opponent in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Based on forum conversations both here and in the High Command's, forum I thought I'ld step out of my little stardock default settings at suicidal shell where I was winning roughly 80% of the time and try some of the games the other folks play. My first game went to a huge universe. It played exactly the same way as the large universe, Until I owned half the universe. The battle I posted came from this game. The INSTANT, I wiped out the Terrans, The rest of the univers declared war o

Reply to Which fleet wins this battle? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Mumble The Iconians are the attackers. They are the ones with enough movement points to initiate the attack. This was 1.4 but I sw the exact same behavior in 1.3. Kryo, I didn't see how your fleetsim accounts for ship level. There is a thread out there that established that ship level increases more than just hit points. Unfortunately, I cannot reccreate the battle.