Spends the entire game preventing every other faction doing anything over half the planet... 'why does everyone hate me??!' Similarly, ensures his faction is the only one remotely capable of threatening the aliens. 'why are the aliens only attacking me??!'
i've been having this problem: owning all of europe, decided to go for USA, Canada and Australia, now everyone tries to get my ass, always doing crackdowns or purges. I think the AI knows that im overextended and goes for my ass. I guess i will have to drop australia and consolidate my power on northamerica, that goes as a tip for anyone trying the game aswell.
@@inredrustivel321 Without knowing anything about the game, it seems like it'd be worth keeping in mind that other factions will fight the aliens if you let them. Seems at least partly like a game of diplomatic balance.
I agree that Potato is just too overextended on the space. But is he preventing really other factions to do stuff on the planet? He's well under his Point Cap, and is focusing his efforts in Europe. The US, China and China is all in the hands of the other factions; they're the ones that are deciding to blow everything doing stupid wars or nukes, and not going to the space.
It's my experience in my game that not only do the other factions not really oppose the aliens effectively, but they also burn down their countries by investing heavily in spoils and not knowledge and economy. I 'inherited' the EU (minus Germany, which the protectorate has hollowed out and Spain) from the computer and the whole unified bloc has less stats than France had at the beginning of the game. Whereas I have consistently improved the stats and returns from the USNA.
Your base alien threat level goes up with your mission control point usage, you sitting at over 200 pretty much makes you their enemy #1. At this stage in the game you want to sit at under 90 if you want to not piss off the aliens. The game simply doesn't want you to completely dominate at such a fast pace. The same applies to human factions.
Yep, this is it. Some techs allow you to go higher, but by default it is around 90. It is also why everyone else hates him, he is too much ahead on MC with respect to other players, so other players consider him a threat.
@@sharppixels0885 Sorta. Mercury IS valuable because you can mine it and solar power is very effective there, not to mention the fact that aliens pretty rarely attack it compared to Earth, Mars, asteroids, or moons. But filling up every slot so quickly was definitely not gonna work out. And unlike with a "real" dyson sphere (swarm), you can't send that energy out to your other stations.
You can test out ship designs you save in your campaign in the skirmish mode which is accessible from the main menu. Note the enemy's design name and you can do mock battles with ship classes you know you will face off against in the future. Try out all of the engines, fuel amounts, armaments, and layouts you want before committing those resources in your actual game. You can also see the effects of the various stats so you can learn what all of the numbers mean by doing, rather than just by calculating and hoping for the best. I hope this helps!
@@Elias_Ehler not at all, as its in the game, and every military ever, does mock up battles for practice. Its perfectly in alignment with real world immersion into the lets play...
@@dundalis I think if push came to shove, yeah slapping something together would totally happen with only very minimal testing. You could argue that is what NATO is doing right now.
This videogame's mismatched level of complexity and graphics combined with the cool real-world details makes me feel like it's actually a training tool put out by one of the factions to help us prepare for a coming day when aliens invade. It's got "last starfighter" vibes in the best of ways.
Engines, short version: Delta V is range, thrust is speed. Generally you're trading off between these. Ion drives give you really crappy thrust in exchange for extremely high Delta V and are great for noncombat interplanetary transports. For combat ships you'll want the opposite.
thrust is acceleration, not speed. speed is a factor of acceleration and time. higher DV actually means more speed overall it will just take more time to reach that speed.
I had my favourite councillor be turned traitor by protectorate today. It hurt me deep inside to dismiss him. Instantly went and assassinated four of theirs in a blitz of turns to avenge him.
I think its at the same admirable and impressive that the developer has come up with an alien invasion scenario where their motivation seems rootet in biology and is (i think) a logical consequence of that. The fact that they do not launch a direct attack but cause chaos through the arrival and non-transparency of their targets is (I think) quite logical in this context. It is probably much easier to scout and take over an unsettled and divided world than one united by a common enemy. Also, this scenario is not as easy to discard (as most others), since they are not coming for resources (e.g. water) that are easier to find elsewhere, but because they want the one thing that is only found on Earth.
i don't know if you've realized it yet so sorry if you already know, but the 'apparent loyalty' stat is just a guess of your operatives loyalty, if you do an investigate on your own operative with another, it will tell you what their actual loyalty is. i would recommend getting someone with inspire action to start raising everyone's loyalty if you haven't done that yet to prevent them being turned and turn them back if any had been turned. also, i'm very entertained that you are playing academy, but your personality is clearly resistance and thats how your treating the aliens
Well, what also plays a role is all the alien research he has done and the conclusion thereof that the aliens are not really looking for an equal basis coexistence. So the whole Academy standpoint is already moot to begin with. The best thing the Academy can now hope for is to pummel so much alien ass that it might cause a paradigm shift at the aliens end of things. And he's exactly trying to do that...
@@jiriwichern I think that's my biggest disappointment with the game so far - despite the influences from SMAC, the factions aren't very coherent and at least two sets of redundant factions that probably would exist only as merging subgroups or splinters from a disintegrating movement exist.
The factions are fundamentally goals oriented. The academy wants a peace treaty that is NOT a surrender. Since the aliens think they can get a surrender, they need to crack enough Hydra skulls for them to realize that is not a viable option. Makes sense to me.
There's a module for your space assets that is basically a gun platform. They are fairly competent at deterring the aliens or at least at wounding their ships. Those update with your current best millitary tech and I recommend you research and build some in your habs.
@@PaladinElliott Don't remember it was something like "weapons array platform" if I'm not mistaken. Just go to the extended tech tree and search for "platform" it's fairly obvious which one it is.
Actually clapped for the first space victory, I know you're past this in what's recorded but the emotional arc here, I think, marks a great game (with some foibles to be ironed out still)
all those terrible defeats and the humiliation suffered was made up for by that beautiful battle! it was so awesome seeing those alien bastards get some comeuppance.
Spuds descent into madness and villainy In this episode is hilarious, tho I can’t blame him, the aliens and everyone who collaborated with them are pricks.
I think the Aliens are going after you so hard because you have so much used mission control, having looked at what other players are doing atm the one who appears to be doing the best in his playthrough has less than half the mission control you do. General consensus so far seems to be you don't want to be over 90 used mission control before you get the research which reduces mission control threat, which then you don't want more than 120 ish until you can defend yourself comfortably. Also yeah Coups are pretty effective in Africa not that surprising.
So, I have 56 mission control used because the aliens completely scourge my bases constantly. I have two +25% techs and cannot keep enough space stations/bases going to make a net positive on my resources. What am I supposed to be doing to not constantly lose bases to 2K-7K fleet power fleets? My best ship design has about 250 power, but I cannot build more than a few before the fleet gets targeted. With my 2K power fleet, I could not get them to engage before they could bring a 7K fleet, and then I lost the entire fleet without doing damage to the aliens. I am defending territory on earth well enough, but every faction has declared war on me, even the ones I have never gone after (academy, humanity first) and I have easily lost more than 30 stations and bases at this point, including my Ceres bases four times, Mars three times, Luna twice, Mercury, Callisto, Ganymede, and a bunch of random asteroids that I can't even find again.
@@StupidBoots Even if you don't have mission control touching that limit, retaliating against the aliens REALLY angers them. Don't attack alien space assets unless you are either willing to suffer the consequences or you can properly defend yourself. Also the combat power is not a reflection of the aliens' actual abilities, it tends to get inflated since aliens have much better propulsion, their armor can be overwhelmed with numbers. The problem is either not having the numbers or the aliens sending one of their motherships.
I think it is worth while to role play this one out as the organisation that was too greedy. I think we know where this is headed. But to play it out, learn from it, and start a new play through sounds good.
I love the mental image of this fleet of brave new ships, slowly making their way out to defend humanity, each with a picture of smiling potato in glasses painted on the side…. God speed you brave men and women! May the great potato in the sky bless you in your endeavours against the foul alien foe!
its great seeing the ai in this game have an actual sense of threat/self-preservation, and then proceed to ACTUALLY ACT on it before it gets any worse. it puts the player in a really interesting decision when they have to genuinely think about how the ai will react to their decisions, which is something i never ever expected from this game. but yeah, go negotiate some alien ass potato, ive been loving it so far!
Mission control over 95 seems to trigger the xenos into going apeshit. You have around 200. That seems to be what's causing the strong response. Man this is a good game.
To be fair potato has been taking nations off the other factions with no regard for who or picking targets lol. He has basically declared war on all of them by trying to unite Africa, and they would ignore him more if he picked his targets. Servants also hate him because aliens do
Yeah, he has declared continental unification and world domination, while doing megaprojects on a planetary scale around mercury. There is a reason EVERYONE sees him as a threat.
One of the things I saw pop up in other people's videos - your mission control is huge and could be the reason why you're such a threat, so going under 110 or so should be the goal; or at least 130/140 (instead of 220) the goal is to have a good fleet before you start fighting, also adamantine or nanotube is a good armour there are nr under each armor placement, seemingly atm you only need like 1 middle and 10.15 on the right (front)
*Potato takes aggressive actions against all other factions, control half of the planet and has 300+ mission control* "WHY DO THEY HATE ME ?" also doesn't the game let you build ships with different types of drives ? it would be pretty useful if you could have a combat drive with less DV but high thrust and a cruising drive with low thrust but high DV on the same ship. it feels like it should be an research.
You can only have one drive per ship, sadly. Likely because chemical rockets exist. Those things have incredible trust and absolutely horrible DeltaV, so pairing them with something with great DeltaV would just give you access to alien tech drives without needing the alien tech.
@@zerg0s I mean you would only need to lock it behind tech and give some drawbacks, like massive increase in weight, reducing the efficiency of both drives and extremely low fuel for the combat drives. because having a cruise drive and a combat drive just makes sense, we hardly see it in the real world because its not worth it, but for combat ships having a high thrust and high DV options makes sense.
@@danilooliveira6580 Because its just not practical. The game goes for a "as realistic as possible" approach for its space combat, and in real life, trying to put 2 different engines with vastly different fuel types on the same stage would be ridiculously complex and equire a much larger engineering commitment. As you say, they could do it just for the gameplay by reducing that stats of them both, but why would you? Its far easier and cheaper to just use chemical rockets for your planetary defense fleets, and use high DV rockets to send out "colony" ships to set up new bases. Potatoes insistence on having his ships have such high DV for ships hes never sending outside of their respective planetary systems is part of whats giving him difficulty. In late game you can start getting some drives that combine both aspects, but thats much later.
@@tlpineapple1 because real life ships don't benefit from having two kinds of drives, its more problem than its worth it, but there is a reason why things like the VESMIR drive exists, being able to change from high to low ISP/thrust is useful. its specially important for warships, they need to be as maneuverable as possible during combat, but have high DV to patrol multiple orbits. having the ability to build ships with multiple different drives will just give the players more options for space fleet engagement strategies. you say its unrealistic, but there is a lot in the ship designer that is even more unrealistic, using different types of drives wouldn't be the worst offender, but what matters is that everything makes sense and are technically based on real life science, being able to have different drives would fit that requirement.
a tip for future episodes, when in space battles having a dedicated PD ship to screen for the missile monitors would allow you to win, the game ends when either side has lost all ships notice that you still had missiles tracking the second enemy ship but game ended. a dedicated PD or survival ship would allow the fight to continue and potentially win
Potato you need to see PerunGamingAU’s playthrough. You’re getting rekked in space because of having too many things in Space. The game wants you to hover around 100 MC beyond which the aliens try to bomb your stuff till you get back to a 100. About engines: you want engines that have a high manuverability. Sacrifice delta v. High delta V is long haul stuff. Try to get ships with 2gees of acceleration etc to be able to dodge alien missiles when in combat. Again, see Perun’s stuff!
Dude, you sounded mad at the end! I need you not to get mad so you can finish the game. Cause I too have no idea what I’m doing and you’re one of my only guides.
Delta V is kinda like the fuel capacity on a car, you need a certain amount of fuel to get to a certain place, and the farther the place is from the starting point the more fuel you need, expect the amount of Delta V required increase if the starting point has more gravity, and if you have more than the required Delta V you get to the end point faster. This is kinda a weird explanation for Delta V but I hope it helps! The true way to think about Delta V is how much the velocity changes form engine start to engine cut off(when you run out of fuel) or Delta V = Integral from t0 to t1 of Thrust(t)/Mass(t).
Also it is kinda funny that cruise acceleration doesn't increase the speed to go from A to B in this game. At least using the calculator from Earth to Neptune. 3.14 weeks still 3.14 when i increase the cruise speed from 350 to 500mgs. It had like around 3.4K DV tho, if my memory served me correctly.
@@edhikurniawan You're not burning the whole way. You burn at the start of the trip to put yourself on the right trajectory, coast for a long time, then burn to match velocity with your target orbit, possibly gravity assisted.
Trying to use 300 MC with minimal defenses on his Habs or fleets that can compete. Yes this will happen potato. Just wait. You're getting to part of the game where the aliens start to go full ham on earth itself as well. Try to make sure you have at least one nation focusing on mil investments. Every 1 level of miltech is a 100% increase in effectiveness. Also the techs that give terrain bonuses help a lot. Happy hunting.
I'm in hospital since sunday for some health issues and your twice a day videos on terra invicta are all i'm looking forward to all day. i was very sad you didn't upload the next video in the series at noon. Much love to you Potato!
Also, for now you want to use chemical rocket engines for defense fleets that will always stay put around a single planet. They give you much higher acceleration that will let you catch the alien ships much faster, you don't really need a high deltaV for ships that will never perform planetary transfers.
The problem with that, if the alien refuses to fight your fleet. The game only has DV bid which most chem rocket doesn't have. In comparison, if you have an ion ship which have a lot of Ship power and doing this bid, you'll always win the bid. Most alien ship come to LEO in my playthrough had like 450DV available. I bid 450, win the bid, then exit the battle. Now the alien will left stranded there with 0DV. Unable to go anywhere. And if the alien economy is real, they have a garbage can't do anything there, clogged their command point. I had a hydrogen fueled ship with 500ish DV for that. Either that, or you can send a puny ship with an ECM to strip the ammo of the stranded ship, then your real fleet finish it.
I've been playing this game everyday since I've gotten my hands on it. Love the depth it offers while still being playable. Love watching potato's take on it, really helped me figure it out. Just a tip for people who want some spare funds, research the faction projects(Modules, Drives, Labs, ETC) and start contacting other factions. They wont trade orgs, but they will happily trade well over 13k for a 500point project. Just hit your nine key until you max the amount.
32:40 Wow, they are NOT messing around! Now THIS is what I am here for. Both sides using everything they have, fighting viciously, until one js forced to fold. You can do this. Show the aliens the meaning of "good is not soft".
The way their goals are, The Academy must be even more militaristic than The Resistance. Think about it... To wipe out aliens, Resistance needs just to figure out how to build couple thousand rockets fast enough and strong enough to destroy alien assets, while Academy needs not only that, but needs to ensure humanity becomes a constant threat to the aliens to have any leverage in diplomacy with them.
I'm 6:26 into the video, and there's 2 times already where I've wanted to yell "Breathe Potato! Breathe! Take a breath!" circa 32:00 - so basically it's like Civ 1 spearmen vs battleship, and Potato has the spearmen.
My first playthrough, when gunships unlocked, I was stoked. I immediately figured out what I needed to build them and as soon as I could, I built 3 and went hunting... the first encounter... like 127 vs 18 strength... I got slaughtered without firing a shot. Seemed kinda appropriate though
Then I really spent some time working on ship tech and built a fleet of 1 battleship, 2 destroyers, 4 frigates, and a dozen gunships. Tracked down another alien fleet and it was around 2000 vs 400. Got some good hits in that time at least
Loving this series so much!! One thing about coups is that you can look at your chance at coup'ing other nations to get an idea of what's factored in. High pop, high gdp, low unrest, high public opinion are major factors that will protect against coups, so Africa can be rough since it's generally pretty bad on all those fronts to start with. You may want to take it slower and make sure to not overextend beyond what your agents can secure at any one point in time. What's worked for me has been to start with the highest pop/gdp nation and build public support to like 70%+ and unrest below 1.5 to secure it, then move on to the next biggest target, secure it, federate, unify, then rinse repeat. Just to emphasize how big a deal public opinion and unrest are, 2.2 unrest and 60% public opinion was enough to coup a fully defended UK in one of my games at around 45% chance with a maxed operative. On a related note, if you have a faction really gunning for you, you can also setup traps for their agents: Use a high investigation agent to do surveillance on the capitol to ID hostile agents as they come then assassinate them. Final thing that's worked for me is to just pay off other factions for non-aggression pacts. Once that's up I've noticed they can still break it but generally won't do anything too bad to you other than messing with public opinion and stealing tech.
While I don't understand the ship designer since I don't play the game, I've noticed and some people in the comments have also said that you're basically trading Dv for combat acceleration. Given how you want these ships to protect a certain system, you can probably survive fairly well without that much Dv.
Agglutinative languages are ones that tack on parts to change grammatical functions (literally gluing them on). Japanese is a good example: iku - go, ikanai - not go, ikitai - want to go, ikitakunai - don't want to go, ikutaku natta - became wanting to go, ikitaku naku natta - became wanting to not go Some of them, like Finnish, can have a whole sentence encompassed in a single word.
I have to commend the writer responsible for the Hydra interrogation text. It is very beliavable as a first contact convo with a species that views others as tools and gives a clear view of how different the perspective and conceptual understanding of the world is between the Hydra and Humans.
Bro the story for this game is great. That’s honestly such a big reason why this is so good. And the way you play is a perfect amount of taking it seriously and trying to be effective. All while playing blind! Greats stuff man. Subbing
Props to the editing and pace here. It seems like this game can easily bog you down in details and reading. Great job, you're making this very accessible while also conveying the complexity!
I just got it due to your and Perun's playthrough giving me appetite to try my hand. It's funny how different gameplays can look like. I barely destroyed alien assets, only took care of them in my own county and so far only had 1 megafauna event. You don't *need* to play world police. I played Protectorate and basically stole the most Tech (starting with EU like you and branching into the US later) and siphoned it into personal projects in my Playthough. So I sit around 2030 with the 2 biggest powers and my endgame started already. :D
I empathize with the frustration so much. Learning a new game and just feeling that I obviously am not understanding something, and wondering how deep of a hole I've dug myself into is the worst.
Heavy kerbal space program player here. Devlta V = effectively the range of your ship. more precisely, if you are in intergalactic space with effectively a flat gravity potential well delta v is how fast you would be moving if you used up all your fuel in a straight shot Thrust = how much force your engine output. Higher thrust = higher acceleration and typically is balanced by being less efficient giving less delta V Mass = self explanitory a bit, higher mass means lower acceleration and delta v (but more payload) Exhaust velocity and power efficiency together = effectively detail the components of a property called "Isp" (thats a capital i not an L) and means your ships fuel efficiency. An engine with a higher Isp on a ship with the same mass and thrust as another will have greater delta V. Propellant = the being fuel used, typically lighter propellants result in higher Isp and heavier propellant's typically mean more thrust. lighter propellants are typically less dense as well though meaning they may require more tank mass to hold them. Please let me know if this is helpful or if you would like more explained or if youd like me to point you in directions to better understand these concepts.
I felt your frustration this episode. Keep the faith. Understand, the problems you have are guides to us on what to avoid. There are a lot of other streamers on this topic, but you are the one I go to when you upload. Have a Guinness or two and keep playing. For content purposes, every time you get couped have a shot. This episode you would have been toasted.
It is a surprisingly great game, isn't it? Lost myself 20 h in a few days. A tip: In 2031, you should be much better at research. I am at 1.5k research in 2027, after I took the USA, India, and half of China.
saw a lot of people saying potato was in a death spiral (bcuz of too much spent space control). Got popcorn and drink ready to see if they are right. 18:23 such a nice project exodus gameplay! huh? what do you mean this is the academy? lol
I mean... he can just hand his platforms to resistance and to humanity first so they can fight for him and he can regain hismision control back that way... I don't think its a big problem
Everyone's saying you're way ahead potato, think of the prestige. Win!! Mid game military transition, that's your thing. Can't wait for your second playthrough if you decide on that one day. Hopefully eventually: hey everyone this is my military domination pacific islands start etc etc. You have a new tech tree to fit in that big civ brain
I'm currently finishing up a mechanical engineering degree, focusing in rocket science. I think this is the coolest game ever, and I'm considering making a video talking about engine stats. The short version of those stats you're looking at around 2:50 is this: Exhaust velocity is directly tied to your delta-v. All else being equal, doubling your exhaust velocity will double your available delta-v. Delta-v is kinda comparable to how much gas you have in your car. It limits how far you can go. You can also floor it to get to your destination faster, but you'll burn more gas getting there (this is much more extreme in rockets than in a car). Thrust determines your maximum acceleration, (aka how fast you can use delta-v). Again, all else being equal, higher thrust means you get to your destination faster, or you can make sharper maneuvers in combat. You also need your thrust to be higher than your weight to take off from a planet/other body. Unfortunately, most drives have EITHER high exhaust velocity OR high thrust, so you need to decide which is more important. For a science ship you want to use to explore the Kuiper belt, you need a lot of delta-v, so you'd want to use a drive with the highest exhaust velocity you can. If you're making a combat ship and you want it to be able to dodge missiles, or quickly move into an advantageous postion, you want it to have a high thrust, so it can actually move fast enough. Each drive also uses different resources as propellant, but that doesn't affect how the ship will function in game too much. It's mostly important to note what resource you're using so you have enough income of that resource to keep your ships fuelled.
Really interesting to see you work through the huge spike in enemy aggro and actually start to turn things around towards the end. I probably would've just restarted way earlier but you stuck it out long enough to actually cobble together the beginnings of a decent defense. Fingers crossed it's enough to hold the line until you regain momentum!
Yeah man, that "aliens are blowing up literally everything I built"-moment would have 100% made me restart or maybe even not play the game for a month lol
Something I have learned is that when you are performing well with super nations like super Europe the other orgs get jealous, and they start interfering with your expansion. The best way to handle coups is build up massive public support. I noticed your african efforts had very low public opinion of most orgs. It makes coups very easy.
2:55 I will try to use my limited understanding of physics and rocket science: - Required Power Plant: Probably a Downside. If it can only work with one particular reactor, that is a limit for longterm/scaling viability. However, it is the kind of limit that might come with good performance for it's tier. - Required Power. You will need a large enough reactor to cover this. Possibly for a x6 version. I expect it to scale lineary with size, but keep that in mind. - Thurst: This is want you want - Exhaust Velocity: I think that is simply a figure that leads to thrust. I have no idea if it matters on it's own. Maybe when comparing the engine with it's weight? - Propellant: I don't think it matters mechanically - yet. There does not appear to be a fuel mechanic. Or even refueling of reactors/fuel cells. So for now this should should just be trivia. - Propellant Material per Tank: This will be a mater of ship creation resources. It seems they always sum up to 10, but the exact mix varies. Being limited to the inner solar system, I would go for something - As a general rule, the Nuclear engines should be good. All nuclear engines have a similar story: 1. They are a old idea. Usually 1940-60's. 2. We did some testing and everything indicated we could have built them with 1960s technology 3. The would have blown everything we had back then out of the water (and probably still blows everything we have right now out of the water). 4. They were killed by the 1963 "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water". They died so we did not end up with a nuclear arms race in space. But the fallout from planetary liftoff was also often a issue, potentially killing a dozen+ people every launch. Both of which are no issue with a space economy and a alien invasion. - particularly, try to get to *Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion* It involves riding on the shockwaves on nuclear blasts. All our current space drive tech requires weight savings. The Orion drive meanwhile requires you to build the ships _heavy enough_ or use only a miniscule fraction of the possible thrust, or _the G-Forces will literally murder the crew_ The core issue was that you can't make Nuclear Bombs infinitely small, so manned stuff under a few hundred tons would waste most of the power. You can make interstellar Arks out of them and reach relevant fractions of the speed of light. It is our biggest hope to get a quick asteroid deflection mission going. I bet Exodus will go that route (unless they find some better alien super drive).
There is a command in battle which makes your ships always turn their nose facing the enemy which i very usefull if u design ships with good frontal armor.
From what I can tell the best bang for your buck is going to be battle cruisers set up as a general purpose fighter. Well balanced with good point defense and a single missile bay to harass as it closes in. Autocannons and lasers are pretty decent up close. Then set up missile boat destroyers with little point defense and are cheap to build to rain hell from the back.
"So you're telling me once I give an order it's literally impossible to change it?" WELCOME TO SPACE TRAVEL! Make sure you triple checked the oven before you left because this ship physically cannot turn around and go back.
aaaah finally my hit for the day. i can't thank you enough potato for giving me such good stuff for me. when i'm waiting for the next video i'm shaking because i'm just this addicted to this series
Hello potato! im loving this series seems like an awesome game. i think the deal with drives is that you either get high acceleration but short travel range or long distance travel range but slow acceleration. your defensive warships then should be stationed near your assets and priorize higer acceleration for evasive combat, and you need shipyards near each of the celestial bodies where you have assets to house those fleets cause they wont be able to travel long distance but they will be more effective at defending regionally. long distance fleets must be for something else that i dunno about, exploration and science maybe? or maybe late game taking the figth to them? dunno... but you'll do better at defending with higher acceleration short distance ships docked near your bases
High delta V is definitely not very important for a local defense ship. Delta-V is basically all about flexibility and "range." For a ship that is only ever going to be hanging out by one planet, you don't need a super fuel efficient engine, or giant fuel tanks. In the 1800's, iron clad Monitors burned coal, but only had short range, so they were only useful as coastal defense ships. But they had the best armor on the planet, and the biggest gun practical at the time. America couldn't realistically sail Monitor across the Atlantic to visit England. HMS Warrior on the other hand was England's first iron armored warship. It was massively larger than Monitor, and it had sails. It order for the sails to be useful for propulsion, Warrior had to be much lighter. Warrior needed to carry bigger stores of food and water, etc. But England could project power around the globe with it because the sails didn't burn coal so it could sail around the world. You keep trying to build Warrior. You need coastal iron clads instead. For a ship that will only be at one planet, sacrifice delta V in the design to make it cheaper. Ion drives are like sails.
MC produces a LOT of your threat in this game. The game assumes that MC is primarily being used for resources/research so a bunch of it being used to make more MC skews the difficulty way out of wack. EVERYONE is WAY more upset with you because of that.
@@Worgrunner nah that's potato being the usual steamrolling potato lmao He has been taking many Ls in this last few episodes since he started comunicating with the Hydras tho
Unrest gives a bonus to coups, ironically, after a successful coup, the unrest drops as it signifies the discontent population gaining power. If you want, you could just get a control of two nations, use the small one to rival the big one, and declare war using the big one on the small one. Because the big one has a claim on the small one, when you conquer it, it gets absorbed. This gets around the fact that you have to federate first and then unify. Coups also reset your federation status so it doubly hurts. As for why you're public enemy number 1, other commenters have touched on it. But I kind of like your desperate struggle to put up so many bases that the aliens can't kill them all. Gives me a real Zapp Brennigan vibe :) Good luck, it's interesting to kind of see you taking some of the hardest that the aliens have to offer and still adapting. (You'll out tech them eventually!)
This is a neat game that I would not have time to play. I’m enjoying the twists and turns that you are encountering. I think your main error was jumping into space without the tech to protect yourself. Keep up the episodes.
I'd watch a full video of you testing out different ship designs John Francis style. Series is great but if you want to start over knowing what you know now I'd also watch that
It is a lot of fun watching you learn a new system. I am excited for seeing what optimizations and strategies you will figure out as you figure more of the game out!
Day 3 of covid. No energy to game and my eyes hurt looking at screens for long. Listening to your playthroughs are helping me get my fix. Thank you! ❤️
I freaking love this series, never heard of you before but this series got me hooked! So much fun following the early stages where you had sort of a clue what was going on onto the later stages where we get to explore with you! Really curious to see if you manage to turn it all around and bring a good beat-down to the aliens or if it turns into a new start where you can take the learnings from this time around to go to new heights. Tldr, great series, keep it up!
The coup’s happen if you don’t do the minimum amount of spoils to keep it out of the red. It’s not an A.I opponent targeting you. I had to learn that as well.
I wish that a condition of ending combat is no active munitions near any of the ships, kinda like Cold Waters, so that ships couldn't meme the battle ending to avoid early game missiles still in flight towards them.
Rumor has it once you reach a certain presence in space the aliens begin trying to put the human faction down in its place, if the rumors are true you are currently at about twice the presence in space, that the aliens consider a problem to be dealt with. Factions have lower opinion of factions that are in the lead and depending on how much.
Drives in the game's context as well as some irl science stuff wall of text tutorial for potato: 3 Main drive stats: thrust, exhaust velocity, and fuel type Exhaust velocity determines how efficiently the drive converts fuel mass to momentum; you can directly derive the specific impulse from this number given the drives thrust (you may be more familiar with this number, KSP represents engine efficiency with ISP for example). Exhaust velocity is quite literal: it represents the velocity of the exhaust products leaving the drive. In a perfect world, all of these exhaust products would be travelling exactly in the opposite direction that you wish to burn - ie none of them with sideways momentum; this ideal case is somewhat practically impossible, but you get closer and closer with better nozzle designs (this is why nozzles are shaped the way they are). The exhaust products are determined by the fuel type - I'm not sure if the game models this, but the molecular mass of the exhaust products will have an impact on the efficiency: at the same exhaust velocity, a higher mass molecule/exhaust product will have more momentum. For Terra Invicta purposes I think you can basically directly equate Exhaust velocity to efficiency, higher=better The thrust is self explanatory, but it will have some effects on the operation of your drive even during cruise thrust transfers, because if the drive's cruise acceleration cannot overcome the gravity of the sun at a certain distance, then different transfer types need to be used. Think of it like this: in an ideal world, we have infinite deltaV and an acceleration of 1g, and we can just point our ship at a destination and burn constantly for half of the travel time, then turn the ship around, and burn constantly to decelerate for the other half, arriving at the target with 0 relative velocity as fast as physically possible. This is called a brachistochrone or torch transfer. The higher our acceleration, the faster the transfer becomes, because our maximum velocity we can reach at the halfway point increases. A maximally time-efficient torch transfer with high enough cruise acceleration will use 100% of the ship's deltaV, so in practice ships will stop accelerating early and start decelerating later, so there will be a cruise period in the middle where the ship just drifts along its trajectory with no acceleration. However if the gravity of the sun or other central body is higher than the cruise acceleration, or maybe you want to optimize for deltaV efficiency instead of time efficiency, you need to start using the gravitational landscape; gravity assists, oberth effect, Hohmann transfers, etc. I don't think the game models gravity assist trajectories currently, so mainly I think the game uses Hohmann-like transfers to get around with lower-thrust drives. These will be more efficient deltaV wise, but much slower. Hohmann transfers can be sped up with more deltaV, but the ideal Hohmann transfer is modelled as an instantaneous impulse transfer (ie burn once for a short period at start location, burn once for short period at destination), so torch transfers will always be faster just because they spend much MUCH more time accelerating/decelerating, which just increases the maximum velocity reached in general. So when deciding what drive to use, you should ask yourself about the role of the ship: an early colony ship really doesn't need much acceleration, it just needs a shitton of deltaV so that it can use the early torch transfers (accelerating for small durations) to get around in reasonable timeframes, so you want really high exhaust velocity. Once you start getting into the >8.0 score exhaust velocity range, ships start getting around reasonably fast with like 50 tanks, which gets the ship into the 100s of kps deltaV range, making transfers tens of weeks usually. The first early drive I used for this was Ponderomotive, which uses water as fuel with really high exhaust velocity for the early game, but not gated behind the really expensive techs (just need electromagnetic propulsion and VASMIR drive) For short-range combat ships, just slap the highest thrust drive you can on, and a shitton of fuel tanks so you have enough deltaV to intercept shit; need that combat acceleration. Combat ships in my mind should just be decently expensive fuel wise - need excess fuel to maneuver in combat and to intercept enemies, but also need high thrust so early game your efficiency will suffer, so all that = lots and lots of expensive fuel. Unless you're going for cannonfodder strats where you just spam missiles on cheap small ships to fuck over the early alien ships. During the later game, you have the leeway to optimize for both acceleration and efficiency, and the drives start becoming able to do those sweet sweet torch transfers like the aliens do from the start. If the drive has the word "torch" or "lantern" in it you're probably golden.
I've been playing through a game as well, but holding off on killing any alien ships in case they retaliate and wipe out my stations. Didn't realise that you get so much tech to research after killing your first one!
Don't bother with armor and other components. Just spam cheap ships with tons of missiles. You'll have one that will survive. You'll have say 5 vs one. You'll win by numbers.
Dv: is how much you can move or your range before you have to refill Thrust: is how much force so basically your acceleration but if you are comparing ships, you have to include mass in that calc Exhaust velocity: basically the efficiency of the engine.
Delta V has nothing to do with range, but with acceleration. It's the amount of _change in velocity_ (hence the name) your ship can produce. With any amount of delta v, your range is technically unlimited, just the time it takes you to get there is affected. Example: If you have 1kps of delta v, that means you have the ability to accelerate to 500mps, then travel, then decelerate again to 0 mps. The distance you can travel between accelerating and decelerating is not affected, just the time it takes you to do so.
@@ChristophFloat I know what delta V is. I have done graduate courses in orbital mechanics. A very simple way to think about it is range. No, it is not the same thing but when comparing engines in a video game, it might as well be. This came off kinda snarky. Meant it as more of a puting my first comment in context
@@ChristophFloat Well when you are gravitational bound then Delta v is range. If you have 100m/s of delta v in earth orbit you're not getting far away from earth.
Majority of highly educated people are plenty oblivious in their own field. Just being human should propel you to communicate intelligently. You translated the game, unlike Christoph you were not trying to describe reality. You can orbital mechanics but you can't human, good.
so for engines. Thrust is how much power it puts out so the bigger that number the faster it moves. The exhaust velocity is how efficiently it uses it fuel. So something like a grid drive moves like a snail but need very little fuel to travel a long distance. Stuff like the basic chemical rockets are the complete opposite. they will move you extremely fast but you need massive amounts of fuel to get anywhere. I find the pulsar engine is a good early game engine. Copper head missiles I find to be really good at the start especially when you swarm launch them. early game armour is kinda useless. too weak expensive and heavy to be viable apart from some token armour on the nose imo. You also want to look at the Alien heat tracker in the intel screen to see how annoyed they are at you. The amount of Mission capacity you are using the more angry the Aliens get.
Join the space fleet they said. See the Solar System they said. I don't know how to repair the ship you are on so you will just float in space they said.
