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Offline Rince Wind

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #105 on: July 17, 2018, 12:26:40 pm »
You know...with the correct research you can find it out by yourself. And even use it yourself.
It is a magic/psionic attack.

I guess we just enjoy the game in different ways (nothing wrong with that!). For me it would take away a lot of the exploration and the mystery if I knew all the things immediately.

Some tipps for your next playthrough: produce alcohol to sell it for a profit. X-Grog is fine and when you have apples and the tech for it Chateau is even better. Get more runts to increase profits and reduce the neccessary time for important stuff that you build for yourself. You can autosell from the workshop menu. Get more brainers, there is a lot of research to go through in this game. Sell credit chips. Those that are in bags and boxes should be extracted from them first, it gives you some more money. I prefer to wait until a prisoner told me about it, so I won't have to waste one for research. Speaking of prisoners:
Capture enemies when possible. You need some of them for certain breakthroughs and can interrogate a lot of them to learn the answers to most of the questions you ask here. You can always sell them for a profit, most can be turned into slaves when you have the tech(s). Slavery is not very far down the techtree. Slaves give you a little bit of monthly money and more storage room.
Melee is strong and stays so throughout the game.
Don't wait too long to build your 2nd base. When you can build a workshop and a still it is about time, so you can produce even more alcohol to nobly help the general population forget about the crap world they live in.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #106 on: July 17, 2018, 03:32:51 pm »
Strange, can`t research cunning, that would lead me to contact: Car thieves

And anothter thing: Where do I get weapons for my aircraft from? What research is necessary for basic armament?
From the beginning I get bootypaedia entries for Spike Rockets and and the 25mm cannon.
But I can`t purchase or buy it. Did I understand something wrong?
« Last Edit: July 17, 2018, 04:19:00 pm by LouisdeFuines »

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #107 on: July 17, 2018, 05:18:20 pm »
That is the "hit" effect for one of the nonleathal voodoo powers.


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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #108 on: July 17, 2018, 05:19:54 pm »
Maybe cunning has prerequisites that you haven't researched yet?
You get ship weapons from landed/downed ships. The stuff you can buy mostly comes from bounty rewards.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #109 on: July 17, 2018, 06:01:04 pm »
But how do I down an aircraft without anti-aircraft weapon?  ;)

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #110 on: July 17, 2018, 07:04:08 pm »
But how do I down an aircraft without anti-aircraft weapon?  ;)

AA weapons can be obtained from:
- Underwater missions
- Bounties
- Some 'shady contacts' from the tech tree.
- At some point (tech tree) you can also steal weapons and engines from "captured" ships.

From the beginning you can follow enemy vehicles, sitting on their tail and waiting till they land.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #111 on: July 17, 2018, 08:04:44 pm »
My last ironman-game was lost du to too many ships appearing.

Never got an anti-aircraft weapon.

In the bountis missions I never got an AA - weapon.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #112 on: July 17, 2018, 08:21:57 pm »
You managed to lose a piratez campaign in 5 days?
Do you play 24/7... or you just leave the time ticking without playing at all?

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #113 on: July 17, 2018, 09:01:54 pm »
@Meridian:
Very funny  ;)

No, I have vacation for one week.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #114 on: July 18, 2018, 12:04:48 am »
How am I supposed to deal with such a situation without air-weapons?


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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #115 on: July 18, 2018, 12:41:13 am »
How am I supposed to deal with such a situation without air-weapons?

Ignore it.

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #116 on: July 18, 2018, 01:00:20 am »
I did: -2500 points at the end of the month!  :-\

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #117 on: July 18, 2018, 01:06:03 am »
Just a bunch of bandits on their usual daily business trip :)
ignore them with alt+click.

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I did: -2500 points at the end of the month!

I don't think that's the case. Maybe you need to change your difficulty?

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #118 on: July 18, 2018, 01:32:41 am »
Enemy ID question. If the only robot units you have seen are cyberdiscs or academy drones: do not look.

Spoiler:
How do i tell who is a terminator and who is not? Firing squads and piling unconscious bodies of suspects and detonating grenades or setting piles of unconscious suspects on fire yields nothing. Was the spawning or reveal trigger changed from previous? So for I have metric hitler or what appears to just be war crimes piling up and I think I must be doing something wrong.
« Last Edit: July 18, 2018, 11:34:48 am by Solarius Scorch »

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Re: Newbe questions
« Reply #119 on: July 18, 2018, 01:43:13 am »
Spoiler:
How do i tell who is a terminator and who is not? Firing squads and piling unconscious bodies of suspects and detonating grenades or setting piles of unconscious suspects on fire yields nothing. Was the spawning or reveal trigger changed from previous? So for I have metric hitler or what appears to just be war crimes piling up and I think I must be doing something wrong.

Spoiler:
You mean killer droids disguised as civilians?  I've only encountered them in hoppers carrying passengers, and it's always been the same: A couple of droids disguised as tough girls.  Said tough girls are far more resilient than your typical civilian so that's already a giveaway that they're not normal.  Another way to check is to middle click them, their image is actually a bit different from normal tough girls and (assuming you've already researched the normal tough girl and got her examination) middle clicking that image does nothing because you've technically not researched that special tough girl examination (and you can't ever, actually).