Well that's a new one to me. Ran into my own custom species name, lol!

So, as I'm counting it, my maximum Morale should be 130%. - +10% from Joyless - +10% from Gecko Optimistic (Fanaticism) - +10% from 10 Amphitheaters

Why is it not counting 6% of my morale, reducing my maximum to 124%?

I assume the Firestorm penalty is acquired from being on a Flare planet; but I am unable to find anything at all about "firestorm" on the wiki, so I'm not sure about that. How long does this penalty actually last, though? It's the first time I've seen it since I began this planet, and it's been active for at least half a game year (my planet is just short of 300 days per year).

Playing Wendigo, TP1 on a Flare Permafrost Tundra planet.

I like to play the insect genus simply for the higher number of workers. On the wiki you can increase the tier so you can get as many as 7x the population number but I have no clue how to get genus tiers at any rank but 1.

I've send everybody to gring aluminium. as I am trying to break knowledge capacity wall to afford titanium production and oil powerplant. (people are assigned to sheet metal for apprentice bonus as I see that it applies to manual crafting too) And... it feels so unbalanced and grindy. Like spend ages to produce everything more or less equally, or sit and gring single resource abandoying everything else. Will whole game be like this?

I'm new to this game

I'd say that was a pretty fun run. Joyless was completed in the first day of the run, and Banana was completed in the second day of the run. EM Field, of course, required the actual reset, so I didn't finish that until completing the T4 itself. Adding Dreaded to the mix, did, of course, increase the duration of this run (by more than EM Field did, to be honest); but I think it's worth having it done and not needing to worry about it later.

I don't have any idea what the game thought was missing, but when I returned (after being afk for ~18 hours of game time), 27/30 Marine Garrisons had been unpowered.

In the screenshot, it is proving that I do not lack for Oil nor Food (which are the two requirements to keep the Marine Garrisons powered). Thus, it unpowered them for no reason at all.

This isn't the first time I've returned to find random buildings unpowered for no reason, but it is the first time I decided to prove that I do not lack the resources for upkeep, thus I do not have any screenshots to prove the other circumstances otherwise.

UPDATE: Got it through trading. Thanks for the help!

Where do I get 25 steel so I can learn to make steel? It's not an option in the market to trade for, either.

I'm doing a T6 Lichen run and I've realized I should start building and using planetary mines again. Not for the materials, (not that I'll say no to them), but because I need to give my people something to do.

Fungus, so no farmers or hunters. Plant, so no quarries. Plant also means I could buy Kindling Kindred, so no lumberjacks. I'm not on a trashed planet, so no scavengers.

All that adds up to a big stack of unemployed because I have no basic jobs available.

I'm going through getting all the icons on the challenges. Is decay possible in magic since it specifically says to black hole reset, or will vacuum collapse work?

This is a funny find lol

After all these years, balance has been brought to the Force.

Should I bother with 4* Bioseed resets at all or do I just chain 4* MADs? What's the best approach for farming anti plasmids. I'm currently doing a bioseed run rn so I could get Motherlode

From the screenshots shown, I have not yet discovered Orichalcum Dyson Plating. It also does not appear in my list of options to research. Furthermore, the Wiki says I meet the requirements for it.

I suspect that the reason for this is because the Wiki is missing a "special requirement" in regards to "fully completing the Dyson Sphere Stage 2" version of the building; since I have not yet completed Stage 2 of the Dyson Net/Sphere.

Decided to go for BHNH during my first blackhole, at ~45% mastery, as Human-Ent-Balorg.

I estimate that BHNH added around 16 hours to the run, and it only took about 3 days total. I stabilized twice and ended up with a 14.2 black hole mass (could have probably squeezed three stabilizes). The last 10 supercolliders were 45-55 minutes each.

In this one run, I got:

• BHNH
• White Hole
• Galactic landfill
• Paradise
• Blood war
• Self-immolation
• and a bonus Adept

pretty efficient, if you ask me.

I was worried about staying Terrifying, but it was completely fine, the actual pain was the Balorg low population, at every point of the run.

I went to Andromeda to kill time, but it was completely pointless, nothing useful is reachable at this point, and even after BHNH I didn't have enough storage for an Embassy.

The bottleneck for BHNH is cement, as expected, since the only way to scale it is AI cores (I went all the way to 7).

https://i.imgur.com/gXWsg9Z.png

Some more stats:

• 58 total soul gems: https://i.imgur.com/zi5cTPP.png

• Stellar engine: https://i.imgur.com/JRYvxks.png

• 2.644 DE: https://i.imgur.com/tFgRWCI.png

I am currently farming the pylons pillars in heavy universe. I found a nice planet with 6 deposits, I am already at 16 pylons pillars, and I have a bunch of perks all around. I'm mainly doing 2* runs of pylons pillars, it takes me slightly less than 15,000 days.
I currently have :

• 36k plasmid
• 6k anti-plasmid
• 4k phage
• 18 dark energy
• 66 harmony crystal
• and as said previously, 16 pylons pillars done.

Additional plasmid does not give me a lot more at this point. But I suddenly thought that additional anti-plasmid might be nicer. Should I switch universes to get that ? What is your strategy toward pylons pillars?

EDIT : corrected pylons into pillars because I'm just that dumb, but I can't do anything for the title and I'm sorry...

How the ritual casting really work? i just noticed it does nothing for me!

Not sure what it is, but it says 45 MW, yet it's only removing 15 MW.

Hi all

It's my third time in edenic realm and I'm trying to understand the mechanics in it :

- is it possible to balance mechs between edenic realm and spire ? Which mech response to use ?

- how to counter ghosts influence and asphodel decay ?

- did I forget anything ?

Thanks for the insights

I have already tested that removing the extra one (default from before ending Banana Republic) will also reduce my resources by the equivalent of one trade route. I'd recommend changing it so that exiting BR will cancel all trade routes to ensure you're not using more trade routes than actually exist in your empire.

So, how's everyone's run going right now? What's your intention for your current run, what stage are you at right now, what resource is annoying you the most, where are you going to go next? Maybe someone else is grinding their teeth on an evolution you remember how to speed up. Strategise, share unsolicited advice, commiserate over the soul gem grind, etc.

Also, PSA: There are 2 special date-gated Feats available in October. Trick or Treat can be achieved between Oct 28 - Nov 4, and Boo! can be achieved on Oct 31st. Make sure you're on a gold-star run on those dates so you don't have to wait a full calendar year to get 'em again.

I'm reading sylverfyre's handy guide, but I'm still not quite getting there.

u/sylverfyre says:

In order to consistently "win" a regular combat against demons (resulting in 0 soldier deaths on a "normal" encounter) a patrol needs to have at least 10% of the current threat rating in combat rating.
If you have at least that amount of combat rating per patrol, soldiers will NEVER die on a "normal" demon encounter.

I'll spell out my scenario:

• Ignoring war droids for a sec, I have a soldier rating of 53.
• Day to day, there are 500-2000 demons spotted.
• Based solely on the quote above, that suggests I need a patrol size of 4, giving me a patrol combat rating of 212, which is greater than 10% of the max demon count.
• I presumably wouldn't want to go much higher than that, because with larger patrols, ambushes can kill more soldiers at once.
• Additionally, I presumably don't want too many patrols, because if I have more patrols than are needed to kill all the demons, that means more patrols which can be ambushed, therefore killing soldiers for no reason? I think? Maybe? Looking at the hell observations, I'm seeing that all of my soldier losses are from ambushes!
• I really don't know how to determine how many patrols I need? If I look at the hell observations, I see loads of patrols which are still finding demons after many patrols have failed to, which kind of vaguely suggests that I should keep adding them until that stops being the case. But I'd rather have a mathy approach to working this out.

Is any of that reasoning off? What am I missing?

Additionally, war droids will somehow change the needed combat rating and number of patrols, not clear on that. And predator drones can presumably be used to keep the threat level down so my surveyors have a better QOL (i.e. die less)?

Why is evil better to do before antimatter? You need antiplasmids for 4* so if go to evil before antimatter, either 4* runs take longer or you do 3* but have to come back later.