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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Re: Struggling in a few areas. Research, Air, Score.

« on: September 01, 2022, 08:38:41 pm »

Yeah the game seems to have changed a lot since the last time I played it. This thread has been a major help though. I'm still not 100% on how things are going to go, but I was totally lost before now I've been doing some of the changes mentioned here and things feel like they're going pretty good. I was tempted to restart, but I have a bad habit of never making progress in games if I get stuck on having a perfect start, and I'll no doubt fumble something major soon and be forced to anyway.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Re: Struggling in a few areas. Research, Air, Score.

« on: September 01, 2022, 01:09:10 am »

Thank you~ I'm going to liquidate the gold, check out my fence screen research, research apples, and buy more brainers. And get my non-researched and shuttled inventory sorted out.

I'm guessing making a second plantation base will pay for itself pretty quickly so I won't worry about invasions too much. I guess I should still load it up with people and bombs and such to defend it though yeah? I'll probably be pretty flush on money after this, on this difficulty.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Re: Struggling in a few areas. Research, Air, Score.

« on: August 31, 2022, 11:46:20 am »

I attached the save if you wanted to take a look. The advice is appreciated.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Re: Struggling in a few areas. Research, Air, Score.

« on: August 31, 2022, 11:33:50 am »

I've advanced a bit further but I'm still kind of in the same predicament. No airforce. One of the bootypedia listings told me expeditions were trash so I wrote them off. In retrospect that may be one of the several red herring bad advice posts that I'm starting to see more of. I didn't know it'd be so far off getting the airforce. I tried middle clicking the research trees and it helped a little but I still couldn't really suss out a long term strategy. I didn't see anything about 20 hoes.

I will continue to play this fun game though and try to impliment some of your tips. I have apples and know what Chateu is but don't know how to build it. I think I may be missing something pretty important. Maybe I need to really map out DEEP into the research tree before I do anything else. If it can give me a clue as to how to proceed.

Pretty much just researching as hard as I can to keep my score up and trying to S rank all the missions I get but I feel really lost about what to do after popping the drill and getting the sleek hull. I thought some new manufacturing or research would open up but I can't see it. All of the research still on the table seems not related to general progress, just interrogations and shitty weapons for the most part that I already have better versions of from looting and gambling.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Re: Struggling in a few areas. Research, Air, Score.

« on: August 29, 2022, 04:09:05 pm »

I think my problem might be fixed by hurrying up and building the TINY DRILL, but it'll be tough to make score this month waiting on it to be built.

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XPZ Strategy/Tactics / Struggling in a few areas. Research, Air, Score.

« on: August 29, 2022, 09:23:19 am »

I've been trying to get further in an xPiratez playthrough and keep running into walls I don't know how to pass. John Silver difficulty.

I'll be doing pretty well and then around 6 months in my score will just omega tank due to the Sky Pirates (guessing). I'd go from 1438 Thug one month to a -3489 score the next.

Now, the score situation is pretty scary but there is stuff I can do to try to fix it, like unlocking more missions, and really going heavy on the research. Doing that helped the early months but I still start tanking hard 6 months in and I believe it's because of all of the explosion of air activity I can't do anything about.

The biiiig issue I'm running into now is sending my Airbus to far off missions and it just getting shot out of the air, losing my main craft, and a whole crew of my best people, effectively ending my run randomly just out of the blue.

I have been looking up guides and scouring the forums but I just don't get it. I feel like I need a walkthrough to play this game, but I love it so much, I'm so torn.

I tried to research aircraft but the game just gave me some shitty helicopters that can't even reach the areas my shuttles get shot down at.

It's so brutal constantly restarting, so I made this thread. Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated.