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XPiratez / Re: New player, overwhelmed

« on: November 25, 2020, 03:00:24 pm »

I enjoy reading everything but I definitely forget most of the fun fact ones lol.

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XPiratez / Re: New player, overwhelmed

« on: November 21, 2020, 06:44:21 pm »

@Solarius - Ah that makes sense why the research tree is the way it is then. That's the main section in the wiki I try to avoid because of that reason, didn't wanna see something good and bee-line straight over which would ruin it for me just knowing before finding it out myself. The other advice is helpful and I definitely appreciate it, thanks!

@legionof1 - Yeah I try to have as many brainers as I can have and can support since I realized I can have each of them whittling away on most topics alone. Or at least that's what I felt was right to do anyway since it seemed vast in comparison to others. I didn't even know there was a discord but I joined it now so thanks .

@Nilex - When I first started last week I kind of just blindly was researching topics that sound like they would benefit me most the time and some felt like they were getting me nowhere so main reason I felt "lost". I love reading the reports but research is mostly the thing that was overwhelming me. Glad you and Solarius mentioned it gives points and money though because I didn't know that.

I will say I do love the hammer, I actually used those at the beginning a good bit with cutlasses when I kept restarting to try different approaches. I never friendly fired intentionally on mutants but have used them as meatshields to exploit the AI so I can get closer for a stun since it seems to attack the closest thing to it usually.

That's good to know about the pogroms, I don't really feel bad for skipping the first couple now. I did read through that guide before making an account here but still left me wondering about other things. That's also nice to know about interceptions, wasn't sure if it was basically untouched with all the extra stuff like all the factions etc so had me question it.

I do need to go back and play through the rest of EU/TFTD but I normally get distracted and bored once I get to mid-late game on EU. I love TFTD more than EU but the ambiance and color tone of the game puts me to sleep unfortunately, in a good way of course but I can only take it in short spurts due to that. Apocalypse is my favorite though probably since it was my first and it's the only one I've actually finished which is sad because I wanna finish the others eventually.

Thanks again for the replies everyone it was really helpful. If I ever have anymore questions I'll pop in on the discord or peek at the wiki if I absolutely have too but I feel more relieved having those answered by everyone and think I'm set now, woo!

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XPiratez / Re: New player, overwhelmed

« on: November 20, 2020, 03:31:14 pm »

I play on normal I think? The one that's normally veteran on the base games. Combats no problem so far other than the first pogrom or two it's just some of the other mechanics had me scratching my head. Thanks for taking the time to reply it was definitely helpful and I guess I'll probably just have to use the bootypedia more often and stop being stingey about it.

I'll probably just stick with this mod cause I'm stubborn, I have a couple others I like to play too but this one just seemed the most fun in comparison for me so I'll trek through it even if it takes me longer than usual to get used to it.

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XPiratez / New player, overwhelmed

« on: November 20, 2020, 03:00:34 am »

Sorry this post ended up way longer than I wanted to.

I'll start off by saying I'm no expert when it comes to EU/UO and TFTD. First game was apocalypse when that was new and found out about 10 years ago there were older ones in the series. I haven't played either too much and never finished them despite getting to mid/late game a few times on veteran. I recently felt like playing again when I saw openxcom was a thing and decided to try a couple of mods so being the sucker I was for anything pirate related I saw this mod and now it's a love/hate thing.

My experience so far:

This is all on the difficulty that's equivalent to veteran I'm guessing, the middle one.

The tech tree is vast and half the time I feel like I'm just researching blindly. I've restarted a few times already to try different approaches in the beginning just messing around mostly and I also won my first pogrom if you can even call it winning since I camped inside my craft and left all civilians to die so obviously my score for that mission wasn't great but the loot was  . The 2nd one had tanks so yeah I abandoned it. I basically ignore the first one or two pogroms now since doesn't seem worth doing so early unless you get lucky. I haven't lost a game yet but I keep restarting because I feel like I'm doing something wrong.

I have 20 runts selling hellerium and 5 brainiacs researching seperate topics most the time depending on the difficulty level of research. I'm trying to determine how and what causes my base to get attacked as well or wondering if it can also occur randomly. One time I had it attacked by the 2nd month I think and last time I was fine till about 6 months but they weren't really a threat at least.

Other questions:

What determines base attacks to occur or can it also happen randomly? I've never intercepted anything and shot it down only attacked landing ships. Never made it far enough to get a craft with weapons anyway and last craft I had was a blowfish I think it was.

Can I intercept targets and not attack them without any penalty just to get a glimpse of what craft it is? I kind of figure it's important not to attack certain factions but I don't know lol.

Is there an easy way to tell which targets will give me - score for killing vs capturing? I try to capture when I can so I assume if they look like a civilian that's what causes it? Like altar boy, shrine maiden, baller etc or?

Mostly worried about research order so do I have some leeway when it comes to researching or will it stab me in the back if I just research out of curiosity constantly? I normally go for attack dogs, cunning, pirate armor and recently gambling since I found out it gives you goodies. After that I basically just research each new weapon I obtain, prisoners and try to research topics that sound like they would unlock better weapons, crafts and facilities but find it sometimes leads me to not where I wanted.

Do pogroms give a penalty if I don't do them? I think I read somewhere as long as I don't research mutant alliances then it's not mandatory and I won't be penalized but unsure if that was outdated info. They say despawn penalty is 100 and I know if I go to the first couple I'll take a way bigger hit more than likely vs ignoring it so unsure if I should just ignore that number or not.

Trying not to use the wiki to avoid spoiling too much but sometimes I pop over and look at it. I'll probably just start a new game tonight and stick with it till I lose this time so I have a better feel for it but any tips would be greatly appreciated cause It definitely feels overwhelming compared to the base games and other mods I've tried.

Loving the mod though for the most part even if I do find myself constantly muddled.