Hybrid Affinity Synergies

[Red Menace]

My only worry is: affinity 12 is late if the victories are still scheduled for affinity 13, I really hope this marks a push back to affinity 15 or higher. Otherwise, the 10/10 hybrid bonuses are kind of out of reach.

same here, i think affinity 16 as a minimum; and 18 being my preferred

I predict purity players will spam terrascapes after level 8.

the way it should be

 

[Promethian]

I doubt terrascapes will be spammed. +2 energy is effectively just cutting 2 energy from their already significant maintenance. The health and reduced cost will see them getting used a lot more, especially if you go prosperity in virtues. Spammed is still off the table though.

 

[Minor Annoyance]

I doubt terrascapes will be spammed. +2 energy is effectively just cutting 2 energy from their already significant maintenance.

Actually it is better than a maintenance reduction because the increased energy output of the city goes through any percentage modifiers the city has to its output, like from solar collectors, and increases its potential as a destination for foreign trade routes, which could bring in more energy and science.

However I don't think it will be spammed either, likely just built up to the health limit of the city. They take forever to build and purity farms are still very strong.
I'm still hoping to hear they outright stole my terrascape and domes mods.

 

[Ryika]

Maintenance isn't even that much of a problem with terrascapes, the problem is that they come late, take ages to build and then don't even have great yields on normal tiles. They'll probably still have the same niche, to make unworkable tiles viable in games that take a lot longer than they normally do.

 

[Halbbruder]

I have a question concerning the affinity levels, both hybrid and core. If you are aiming for a hybrid approach, will the hybrid bonuses be combined with the core affinity bonuses or will they be mutually exclusive? I mean, if you manage to get 10 levels in 2 affinities, that's 7 bonuses right there, while with a core approach it would just be 4 (assuming no levels in other affinities). I'm just wondering about balance between core and hybrid builds, that's all.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

I have a question concerning the affinity levels, both hybrid and core. If you are aiming for a hybrid approach, will the hybrid bonuses be combined with the core affinity bonuses or will they be mutually exclusive? I mean, if you manage to get 10 levels in 2 affinities, that's 7 bonuses right there, while with a core approach it would just be 4 (assuming no levels in other affinities). I'm just wondering about balance between core and hybrid builds, that's all.

In the first "hybrid affinities" livestream, Pete clicked on the perks window in the diplo screen which shows the player all their affinity bonuses. Players who have 2 affinities, will get both core affinity bonuses and the hybrid affinity bonuses too. So, players who go hybrid will get a lot more bonuses.

 

[Lucius_]

In the first "hybrid affinities" livestream, Pete clicked on the perks window in the diplo screen which shows the player all their affinity bonuses. Players who have 2 affinities, will get both core affinity bonuses and the hybrid affinity bonuses too. So, players who go hybrid will get a lot more bonuses.

Those bonuses aren't all that powerful, but even still, that doesn't seem very balanced. I can understand some of the complaints around that then, considering going hybrid will be so much easier than before. Core affinities should still be viable on their own.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

Those bonuses aren't all that powerful, but even still, that doesn't seem very balanced. I can understand some of the complaints around that then, considering going hybrid will be so much easier than before. Core affinities should still be viable on their own.

Players who focus on just one affinity will most likely reach the higher level bonuses faster than players who go full hybrid, plus with how affinity points are spread out, even if you do focus on beelining down just one affinity, you will most likely pick up other bonuses along the way.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

On thing I noticed from looking at the new tech web is that stem techs seem to always give affinity points in the same affinities that their leaf techs give. So if one leaf tech gives purity points and one leaf tech gives supremacy points, then their common stem tech will give both purity and supremacy points. For example, Robotics gives supremacy and harmony points because the underlying leaf techs, tactical robotics gives supremacy points and the other underlying leaf tech, swarm robotics, give harmony points.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

I assume that they shifted some of the leaf tech points to the main nodes. Actually the only way to make hybrid affinities remotely accessible with the current iteration of a tech web.
Might actually make some of the tier III stuff more viable (stuff like Synergetics for Harmony comes to mind). We'll see.

 

[aguliondew]

From some of the tech webs pictures I have seen, it seems that the main techs give 1/3 of the leaf techs affinity. Currently a 3rd ring affinity leaf tech gives 40 affinity points. In RT it looks like the 3rd ring main techs give 10 affinity of both leaf techs, while the affinity based leaf tech give 30 affinity. So getting at least 2 level of every affinity should not take that much effort. This will enable us to steadily increase our affinities instead of having big leaps in affinity like we do now. I know some building/units have changed places in the tech web.