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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #720 on: September 15, 2020, 12:47:21 am »
you will get two more chances, for a total of three, at the x-prison

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #721 on: September 15, 2020, 03:00:33 am »
I think it's three for gravball?  The database is needed for higher studies I think, advanced medicine leads to something important, so I don't think it'd be locked out.

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #722 on: September 15, 2020, 01:34:37 pm »
you will get two more chances, for a total of three, at the x-prison

Ah ok, and if i miss al of them, the game is gone? (!?!?)

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #723 on: September 15, 2020, 03:13:30 pm »
No, just this storyline.

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #724 on: September 18, 2020, 04:01:14 am »
Pretty amusing exploit I found:

20 workers: +80 space, -100k/month, 300k/hire
1 contraband: -75 space, +480k/month

Money doubles faster than once a month, with virtually no limit (300 runts can process over 2 Billion dolaros worth of contraband per month)

Infinite money -> Infinite gems/hypno panels (from kidnapping espers)/vips -> infinite ghost suits, bio suits, integrated devices, tokens, coupon redemptions-> shadow orbs etc

Not going to use it since it's an obvious exploit, just found it funny.
« Last Edit: September 18, 2020, 04:09:55 am by Greep »

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #725 on: September 18, 2020, 01:16:05 pm »
Do you have the space to process 2 billion dolaros worth of contraband? Space is the main limiter here.

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #726 on: September 18, 2020, 02:21:53 pm »
Right, that's the workers part.  You just keep hiring more workers :)  It gets out of control pretty quick since there's no limit to workers, and when you check out the stats, the maintenance and hiring for the 20 workers per contraband doesn't really cut into it much.  When you want to horde usable cash just buy gold bricks

Edit: ah, borked up the math a bit.  It is money multiplying, but not quite doubling per month, more like x130% per month or so.  The upper bound of 2 billion/month is right I think, but it would take a few months longer to get there.
« Last Edit: September 18, 2020, 03:29:17 pm by Greep »

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #727 on: September 18, 2020, 04:24:55 pm »
OK, upgraded to L4/6.6.1 OXC version, and this time melee fights seems to be more harder than before! I really like new bootypedia inventory background and the base one too!

so finally i got a study room but i desperately hydra laser to get "laser wepaons construction" aside the "riot shield" to get "school graduation", "full plate mail", "advanced firearms", "industrial tools" and "smartrifle" >:( where do i get it, aside the !highway house! missions? Seems only stormrats have it. Also got another chance with the x-prison mission, don't know if it will be the last since at least 2/3 opportunities were missed. Do exist any "remedy" when fighting on the psichedelics terrains, where there are all that strange sounds?
« Last Edit: September 18, 2020, 04:31:00 pm by xcomfan »

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #728 on: September 18, 2020, 08:35:38 pm »
I think I got Hydra from a humanist pogrom in my current campaign.

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #729 on: September 18, 2020, 11:06:56 pm »
Riot shield:  Very common on megapol.  Hydra laser: It's also one of the gun almanac items, so simply knock out research by researching the others on the list and save up almanacs until you can gaurantee it.

Psychedelic: win fast xD
« Last Edit: September 19, 2020, 12:10:49 am by Greep »

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #730 on: September 23, 2020, 01:53:18 pm »
Riot shield:  Very common on megapol.  Hydra laser: It's also one of the gun almanac items, so simply knock out research by researching the others on the list and save up almanacs until you can gaurantee it.

Actually seems that damned shield is to be found in medium/large megapol vessels, not the samller one like the cars. Ive downed 4/5 of these but athe fell all into the sea!!!  >:( >:(

Psychedelic: win fast xD

Map on steroids :)

In the meantime by the end of aug 2602 i finally got "laser weapons construction" at the very end of sept  x-prison mission keeps spawning, let's see how far it will go...

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #731 on: September 23, 2020, 08:53:01 pm »
Pretty amusing exploit I found:

20 workers: +80 space, -100k/month, 300k/hire
1 contraband: -75 space, +480k/month

It takes around 3 years of spamming this technique to get to maximum gain of circa 3bln per factory base per month... But yeah, it's been fixed now (doubled contraband disassembly time).

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #732 on: September 24, 2020, 09:54:01 am »
you will get two more chances, for a total of three, at the x-prison

In my latest run with green codex x-prison i spawning since march 2602, now im nearly the end of dec and still it keeps happening, i suppose it'a an obligatory passage in the game, anyone might confirm?

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #733 on: September 24, 2020, 01:07:35 pm »
No, you have to research the stuff you found there.

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Re: Extended Piratez general FAQ/Strategy Guide
« Reply #734 on: September 25, 2020, 04:31:08 pm »
No, you have to research the stuff you found there.

Well i donnt know but...i failed again!!! Probably beause i did not accomplish the x-mission, or i rushed research a bit, infact i spent a whole month only in research, doin' only 1 or 2 missions, or even because i got two months a negative score, somebody might explain the real reason?

Edit: oh, there is a key in the interface where to look at previous month score? As far as i can tell there is no way...right?
« Last Edit: September 25, 2020, 04:36:22 pm by xcomfan »