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Offline LouisdeFuines

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #330 on: July 29, 2018, 01:48:57 pm »
I understand @Ethereal_Medic:
But what`s the name of the production topic? I didn`t see any in the facility.
Maybe I`ve just overseen it.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #331 on: July 29, 2018, 01:51:44 pm »
I'm sorry. I'll keep it in english now.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #332 on: July 29, 2018, 02:26:44 pm »
It's Counterfeit X. And the Plastic Chips version is actually the most profitable now - since you get such a large amount of them.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #333 on: July 29, 2018, 02:33:29 pm »
It's Counterfeit X. And the Plastic Chips version is actually the most profitable now - since you get such a large amount of them.

I thought the 50k to 20k was the best?
Also plastic chips require additional research to unlock and isn't available from the start.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #334 on: July 29, 2018, 03:02:07 pm »
Any idea how to get the VIPs?

Big ships don`t land in my game and there is no more base to raid. I hate to say, but I`m stuck again.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #335 on: July 29, 2018, 03:27:37 pm »
June 2606 :D
Build 3 more Bases
Dallas' workshop needs 140 more runts!
In dallas are enough research projects to follow. - Like do slug thrower and boom you can research advanced firearms.

Interogate your one broken guild engineer to get his 'wisdom'.
Under "merchandise" you can counterfeit chips (as long as you have them in stock)

Turkey has an academy engineer. Interogate her to get her 'wisdom' as well.

Eurosyndicate Lasrifle is kinda cool but it's not an allround weapon and foes resilent to laser will cause quite some problems.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #336 on: July 29, 2018, 03:49:48 pm »
It's Counterfeit X. And the Plastic Chips version is actually the most profitable now - since you get such a large amount of them.

Doesn't it take forever to turn all those red chips into plastics, though?

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #337 on: July 29, 2018, 03:54:27 pm »
The same time needed like all other counterfeit jobs.
Yes this can take a while.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #338 on: July 29, 2018, 04:02:13 pm »
Here's the hourly profit per engineer:

Counterfeit Golden Chips (x10)   346.1538462
$50000 Obsidian Credit Chip      180.7692308
Counterfeit Silver Chips (x10)      115.3846154
Counterfeit Plastic Chips (x250)   95.38461538
Counterfeit Purple Chips (x10)      57.69230769
Counterfeit Red Chips (x75)      53.84615385

If I remember right, Silver and Gold cracking is quite a bit farther down the tech tree, while Plastic is near. I'll check in a bit.

Doesn't it take forever to turn all those red chips into plastics, though?
That's a good thing. You maximize profits while minimizing micromanaging.
By the way, Battle Tank M only brings in 172.5. Too bad Metal Ore is a pain to come by, huh? :D



EDIT: Plastic requires Civilization and Activities: Commercial/Political. Gold-level Chip Crack requires a Guildmaster and a bunch of World Lore. Obisidian-level Chip Crack requires the aforementioned, Activities: Commercial, Computer Core, and Industrial Printer. So they're all quite close with the availability of a Guildmaster being the deciding factor.
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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #339 on: July 29, 2018, 04:18:16 pm »
What is the best way to stun shielded enemies?

Does that stun baton ignore the shield?


And what about the VERY expensive prize Saya? I got it, but it didn`t give me any clear benefit.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2018, 04:21:37 pm by LouisdeFuines »

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #340 on: July 29, 2018, 04:45:09 pm »
What is the best way to stun shielded enemies?

Does that stun baton ignore the shield?


And what about the VERY expensive prize Saya? I got it, but it didn`t give me any clear benefit.

Shields are best handled by shotguns, you want to do alot of damage for as little TU as possible. Shoot off the shield apply stun tool of choice.

As to what bypasses a shield depends on what type of shield. Type 1 shields, personnel refractors, which appear in yellow are 50% resistant to laser, take full damage from plasma, electricity, and warp, 200% from fire, 250% from emp, and everything else passes through. So a daze type weapon is the best stun tool here.

Type 2, personnel shields which are blue, take full damage from laser, plasma, electricity, warp, pierce, daze, and cutting. 250% from emp and everything else passes through. So the only nonlethal weapon here is the impaler. If you dont have that strip off the shield and then apply stun weapon.

Type 3 iirc correctly takes 250 from emp, bypassed only by bio, and takes full from everything else.

Buying saya allows you to trade alliance tokens for pillow books and mutant porn in the manufacture screen(project is Pillow Book (Saya). All the bounty groups have something similar to spend excess tokens on.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #341 on: July 29, 2018, 09:06:26 pm »
@Ethereal_Medic + rest:
I did the researches I was asked for.
No progression will be made further, until I get a VIP.

Any idea, how I could get a large UFO or even a medium down with my current armament?
« Last Edit: July 29, 2018, 10:57:47 pm by LouisdeFuines »

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #342 on: July 30, 2018, 02:17:50 am »
Type 3 iirc correctly takes 250 from emp, bypassed only by bio, and takes full from everything else.

Buying saya allows you to trade alliance tokens for pillow books and mutant porn in the manufacture screen(project is Pillow Book (Saya). All the bounty groups have something similar to spend excess tokens on.

I wish there was an in-game mention of what type 3 shields were.  I thought Star Gods' Shields would mention it since you most likely would see them first on the guardians.

Also, I don't really have much use for pillow books.  I use Saya instead for the more important thing she provides that you didn't mention: Buyable hostages different from what the Mercenaries offer, like the all-important sectoid elder.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #343 on: July 30, 2018, 10:56:33 am »
Too bad Metal Ore is a pain to come by, huh? :D

You can use the mining ship for all milk- and training-runs to get 4x ore per mission for free.
The ship is now easier and more early to get and it should be usuable in space as well.

From time to time excavators do missions on the globe as well.
Poorly armed defenders (only traders, academy and government do those missions) for free slaves and 48x ore for every ship captured.

The question is: How much storage space do you wanna sacrifice to store the iron ore until obsidian-chip production is possible?
With money been tight for the entire run until higher studies someone might smelt the ore bricks into scrap instead and sells the junk. All a matter of campaign-performance and difficult level.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #344 on: July 30, 2018, 12:03:33 pm »
One way i use to tell how much i have been holding back on money is when i have a lot of sources of income but the increase of money is a lot larger in comparison to how much im spending,not the point of getting 10 brainers in the first month but i slowly start  to keep up the pace with buying brainers,runts and expansions while keeping a few million incase of a emergency