Recent content by Alkyon

All very, very good patch notes. Dunno how good these will be at actually making the game have a bit of challenge, but these are all very much in the correct direction. AI's actually having Spies will help though. Thanks kindly! Already read it on the actual website but still glad to have a...

I think part of it is the fact that the game is shorter means the AI is less likely to build a spy agency simply because they have less time to drunkenly stumble towards that goal.

It works on other biomes too. Just gotta get the tech/harmony 3 to do it. And yeah, it really is the easiest way. Just a quiet, peaceful, profitable...genocide. I mean, I feel dirty doing it, but damn does it feel good to just turn that annoying pile of aliens into $$$. Especially since...

Eh, having free sight all over the place isn't bad. 110% agree on you with the Frigid Biome effect being the weakest by far. It's like the map having extra geothermal vents that you can see without the tech, but you can't improve to actually tap for energy. I mean, Primordial beats it out...

An old bug is back in a new form! Quests, or at least good old Familiar Exotics, can be rendered unfinishable due to demanding an unbuildable building! No I cannot build a Vivarium in Jeongsang game. Jeongsang is, more or less by default, aquatic. Vivariums can only be built on land.

With the new experience balance it's utterly trivial to get level 3-4 in the other two affinities. It will likely happen by accident, especially if you're stealing tech.

Yeah, I think it's trading. I came here to report this exact bug. It's absolutely silly and I hope Firaxis fixes it in the upcoming hotfix and not waiting 3+ months. I can only hold back the desire to cheese for so long man!

Nah, people love you! It's just that your leaders hate video games and internet/gaming technology in general so much that if we express that love we go home with two black eyes and a chipped tooth.

It sounds good on paper but it's really not. You're likely at level 5-6 when it happens, so just starting to get level 3 units, it's going to be the player farthest from you (because of course it is) and you've got 30 turns to scramble across the world to pillage the contact beacon when you...

They will still research Transcendental math (I've stolen it a couple times) but otherwise they seem to aim for the affinity victories. I mostly chalk up them grabbing Transcendental due to the AI being kinda dumb and not them specifically going for the victory.

That's the big reason I turned Contact Victory off and never looked back once I did it myself/got the achievement. I want to build a colony, not have to rush across the world to stomp some idiot who accidentally hit the "I win" button...and then have to repeat that process 50 turns later when...

That's some great testing. I only have one more question though. Does this aggresion exploit work with orbital units too? Can you get away with bombarding aliens using orbital lasers, planet carvers or rocktopi? Or if the aliens are in the same tile the orbital unit is floating over, or...

It would take a bit of programming but it would really be nice if they just got rid of the redundancy though. Just have a "trade convoy" unit that acts as a water unit if it heads over water and land unit if it heads over land.

They said War Score would be visible in multi but it sounded very much that it's little more than a way of keeping tally. Any wartime diplomacy would be decided entirely by player because players are not machines and don't need to be limited by such mechanics. Basically the players can see...

Well, we've only seen three: Meteor, Coral Brain, and Super-Fungus. I imagine they have a pool of 4-5 at least, on top of the fact that each biome has its own unique marvel questline (like the fungus)