South America is in Africa Ok - in the same way that Australia is in India. The super states must grow larger and all of humanity will discover our democratic and economically prosperous ways whether they want to or not.
Break points for gdp per capita: 6000 to avoid a cohesion negative. 35000 to have less than 2 base unrest in a 5 cohesion(democratic) country. 48000 to reach the scaling cap for research. 55000 for 0 base unrest in a democratic country (Which is important for a country if you want to boost military)
@@chaosengine4597 hooded horse wiki for terra invicta they don’t list these specific break points but all the modifiers are listed on the nations tab for how all the things are calculated.
@@shawngillogly6873 Griffin: 'What's wrong, Mr.Hy? They're just some humans with accounting books, what's the worst they could do? Hydra Alpha: 'Just some humans with accounting books?! I'm imperialistic enough to mess with that lunatic Hanse, but the *IRS?!..'*
I'm always lookimg forward to your videos. I'm glad that your HF series showed everything in great detail while the second series keeps the repeated stuff off camera. Great decision imo.
@@PerunGamingAU One thing you seemingly don't do at a fleet force advantage is split fleets to hunt the small ships. Their fleeing cooldown means you don't have to spend that hydrogen for those exotics.
I am really impressed at how quickly the ultra nation took off, i can imagine what it will do with military once it is satisfied with knowledge and economy.
I'm so excited for the publication of Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, The new updated Revised 3rd Edition. The rumour mill has it that it will include a new chapter about the crucial need for xenobiological specimen collecting specialists. 😁
It warms the cockles of my heart when I hear beloved founding father LKY is immortalized on the dark side of the Moon. It sure beats airconditioned underwear when it comes to cooling.
Thanks for the video. I love how the Academy's funding strategy is researching and peddling useless or obsolete technology to the other factions for vast amounts of money and resources while keeping the good stuff for themselves. The good old Snake Oil Research Department are truly the saviors of humanity.
I don't know if this is an academy thing, but if you end up with another desperate Jovian onslaught, I would love to see at least one major deathball v deathball battle. (maybe as the mission sprawls further, the need to check and double check and peer review bogs the Academy down at decisive moments, allowing some alien ships to congregate vs something like initiative doing it on purpose so that they have a big media moment when they win). It was cool seeing you catch almost all of them last time by the skin of your teeth, but it'd be interesting/exciting to see you allow a threat and then go up against it in a way where the action is a lot more chaotic, the outcome is a little bit less certain, and the risks are huge. Just a thought!
Gonna be honest, the Heisenberg and your marine transports are straight-up super pretty ships. I love em. The colors, the lines, the capabilities, and the combat record are just perfect.
i just finished up my HF playthrough, the aliens had withdrawn all their fleets back to their Orcus Station and it ended up being my highly advanced HF fleet of 72 ships vs the aliens mass fleet of 143 ships. Combat power HF 39k vs Alien Scum 61k. It was an absolute slog fest and took forever to fight but i ended up winning wiht only 14 ships left, not enough to invade the Hab, had to call in more marine ships, i love this game for its scale.
I like very much your new marines trasports and colony ships: I think they are much in line with the logic of the academy to protecting they operatives, by not sending them in space with a scientific vessel armoured only with PD. Also I think that in terms of roleplay you should upgrade the technology level of your armies at least at 5. You know so when you have "academic debates" in other countries your army has the most advanced scientific equipment to bring at those scientific debates...
Inertial Confinement Terawatt Fusion Reactor III (inertial fusion engine mk7) is the real thing that makes the Daedalus shine, in fact such a good engine is what the Firefly or other drives are missing to shine too. Add some exotic radiators and there you have the quite cheap 3000kps Delta-V and good acceleration Titans/Dreads/Lancers/Marines Cruisers/Nuke Corvettes, they can quickly catch/dodge any Alien fleet. Nice job getting it in the mid 2035. I did the same but i'm 4 years behind for the map painting/supernations shenanigans. Btw i didn't research any laser batteries, so my BattleStations have 2 adv. heavy plasma batteries + point defense phasers. 3 BS per space base all 3 at the bottom, all space bases are T3, space bases are the real weak spot, T2 or T3 ground bases are very good at defending themselves with 2 or 4 Defense Layer imo, especially because aliens only send one ship to attack ground bases and attack rating of ground defenses is higher than attack rating of space defenses. Another thing : Nuke Corvette are quicker and cheaper than Marines Ships to deal with Aliens ground bases, they are quite suicide ship but not that much because the attacker hit first and a nuke has 5-10% chance to be intercepted, it's insta kill 90-95% chances no need to wait 8 days, in the end i lost one corvette, aliens lost 6 mining bases in 6 months. (put 1 1 1 armor on the corvette for some reasons) Last thing : Jupiter moons are so good, it's the only place i have T3 mines. Thanks for the episode ! always very happy to see the valuable and entertaining upload.
17:40 Mega-India contains half of the entire human population and is ruled by a technocracy that somehow can actually make legitimate tangible progress towards utopia. It's frankly no wonder that the state in the uncontested economic superpower of the world.
I just finished a kind of hilarious run as the servants where I rushed for early science (getting the US, the right orgs, etc) and it worked out so well that I completely dominated every science decision for the whole run. Won the game with only social techs and grounded stuff having been taken. No one could leave LEO without the 'mission to' techs.
With the update to tech unlocks, I find it no longer a good idea to count on the Daedalus torch. In fact, antimatter engines are currently the most reliable ones to get, and while not quite as performant as the Daedalus (which is simply best-in-slot for most situations), they are more than sufficient to power a fleet that can operate throughout the Solar System. And on top of that, much more reliable to unlock than any of the good fusion torch drives. Looking forward to the next episode, as always!
I would think the Academy would want to set up an alien embassy on Earth. Maybe they would give the aliens a lone country in the middle of nowhere as an embassy? Say, the Indian island nation, or Madagascar, or Greenland.
If you cant get a space station around mars you can build chemical rocket ships on the surface as weak mass defenders, you just need high thrust engines. Then once you have a low delta v high thrust fleet make the low orbit orbital station and move them until it can finish defensive batteries and ship docks. The ships will need like 0 armor but they can be glass cannons or paper tigers with lots of nukes so they look scary to the AI.
Just now thinking of this (apologies if you've heard this before), but as an early backer of the game, a really interesting 'expansion' option that you could pitch would be to allow players to play as the Hydra. Next play through I vote Exodus, but after that, go Hydra.
Doing the cybernetics research should really increase the max acceleration you can get out of engines. It still caps at 2gs, right? That’s a lot for a normal human but what about advanced gene-modded cyborg super soldiers?
on one hand, months at 2gs is already a lot. on the other, my operatives have AI in their skulls, stealth fields, and that kinda thing....so maybe there is an idea there
Even the aliens can't make Exotics in Sol System, they have to import them from home. Presumably they are only able to be fabricated at a point of unusual stellography, like a neutron star or a megastructure.
I want to offer an alternative for crippling the Protectorate and Servants that worked very well for me (actually worked well on everyone). Rather than deny them assets in space, deny them the MC to maintain those assets instead. Once this is accomplished, the income of those factions will fall into the negative and when their cash reserves dry up, you go onto phase two. Phase two is using hostile takeover strip all organizations off of them that cost money to attach to their councilors. They won't be able to reattach them. Step three (less applicable here) is to then murder all their councilors to detach any orgs that you can't steal but are still attached to the councilors (usually this included the faction orgs from tech). The net result is you end up with a field of councilors arrayed against you that are so badly neutered that they no long pose a threat. The difficulty curve from super-state population is such that by the time a state has about 2 billion population, the target factions just can't get anything done against you. If the game goes long, another cycle of assassinations to prevent them from training up good councilors over time will solve that problem.
No lasers on spaceships would make an interesting challenge for next time. Having to use light kinetic and/or missiles (or particle beams) for point defence would really change ship designs.
perhaps a larger base at io and a small refueling station at a lagrange could simultaneously keep the ships on intercept duty while also building new ships around io
Mercury for solar power, Ceres for water, Asteroid Psyche in the belt for noble metals, Io for nobles, inner Saturn moons for Antimatter, Titan for volatiles, Haumea and Quaoar for noble metals again Wish we could sort bodies by ressources before we prospect them
Maybe there could be a dedicated escort cruiser for your marine forces, once the appropriate techs for engines pop? Something that gives the aliens strong 'don't speak to me or my sons' vibes if they think of looking at a marine raider fleet.
A fun idea I had for the next playthrough is fighting the aliens in space as quickly as possible, like using early ships as something other than opportune cannon fodder
Seeing the mining prospects around Jupiter and Saturn makes me realize how much scarier the game could be if the AI were better at space expansion. Maybe the Servants could prioritize spamming space bases and industrialization, since the aliens will permit it, and having them build a bigger economy than you in space and spam ships against you would be a significant threat.
my theory is that what the game is missing is an early to mid game space threat (when the aliens are too powerful to do anything but hide from) the obvious answer is a human threat, and the Servants when not being played might fit the bill.
I've been having a good time using coils and PD against the ayys. With advanced medium coil batteries and advanced coil cannon you just punch straight through their PD. I also have one or two big green laser disco dreadnoughts per 4 battleships for longer range fleet missile defense.
Copying my comment from last video: Just FYI Perun, Surface defense modules are currently bugged: if you are at gamespeed 4 or 5 your Surface defenses don't work and your base will be destroyed by orbital bombardments regardless of how many surface defenses you have on your base. The temporary workaround is putting your gamespeed at 3 when you get bombarded!
I think for the Purposes of the challenge it would be fine to take control of the Carribean, Central America and Mexico even though they are in North America. Maybe you could even go for some shenanigans, by uniting the a large majority of the entire Americas. Gran Colombia and The US both get a claim on Panama City. Maybe there is some Way to get the US Capitol to move to Panama? At the Very least you should form Gran Columbia so that your United South America is slightly larger.
Anyone else notice how the dreadnaught in 27:05 died from a single plasma strike? Was that a crit to the reactor? Nvm, you explained it shortly after, thanks!
It must be due to enthrall that the Devs didn't make it possible to unite those countries, without capital moving shenanigans like Perun did here. So that if they enthrall a point it is possible to get it back.
I have a feeling this will be the last playthrough of Terra Invicta, which is a shame. The Initiative would make an excellent evil/dystopian playthrough. They are the only faction who's goals run counter to every other faction (Exodus wants to take a large chunk of humanity out into space, thus removing them from the influence of the Illuminati, and the Initiative/Illuminati want to control EVERYTHING). Additionally, a dystopian playthrough is much, much harder than a utopian playthrough. The game is weighted against it, heavily (developer bias, perhaps).
If you ask me if you can do some funky map painting shenanigans where you add the entire eu into the african Union I think we all can agree Europe is now Africa :troll:
They need to down the effects of the economic priority. The numbers are just absurd (both in the rates and absolute) and also increase the science snowballing even more. Also, an interesting idea I saw is that instead of habs increasing in MC cost the first one is very expensive and the later ones smaller. This would make locking down all the sites on the moon and Mars impossible. It also fits thematically fit as habs become more independent as they grow. Less important sites could then be turned into automated mines, which makes that tech more used. There is a mod that does just that, but I haven't tried it yet.
The reason Bolivia is the president of the (fictional) South American Union is that they host the (real) South American Parliament of the (also real) Union of South American Nations, and the fictional one's flag is the same as the (real) Union of South American Nation's one. However, the (real) Union of South American Nations shrunk in 2018-2020, when Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay suspended their membership and/or left. Now the ones remaining are Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Pretty sure there are transitive claims. So if you absorb countries into your union, you get their claims too. Seen examples of that multiple times. I think you even get claims added to countries you have absorbed
I don't think I've seen a 4x game before where you have to worry about transition windows and engine burn efficiency. I've pretty much only seen that in Kerbal Space Program so far.
Pursuit engagements should result in chaotic resultant overall vector... How do you burn 300kps dv in a pursuit and stay in the same orbit, you should be on a wild escape trajectory somewhere towards Epsilon Eridani. Also they should take into account cruise acceleration of the fleet to be able to actually catch up early if you start close.
Loving the content so far, keep it up! :) One feedback comment! get your volume a bit up. Compared to the rest of youtubes content, yours is on the lower end, which isn't very helpful when on a bad speaker notebook system and ambient noise.
Is it possible to target and tactically disable power modules on stations? That way for large T3 alien stations you could instead target the reactors and disable several defense modules at a time instead of targeting each one by one.
I don't know if it is at all possible to get to 75% without taking over the forbidden continents. It would be rather silly to keep those houserules if it softlocks you.
@@ReallyHairyDave Definitely. The 75% thing is something that can be achieved at any point in time anyways. Right now space warfare is the name of the game.
What is the reason for science lab and outpost kits? One can use 1mc ship with platform kit and nose laser instead. Immediately drop second fusion pile and space dock after platform is started. Dock construction is 30 days and then 16 days for probe scans Vs 28 days mobile science lab scan provided that the fleet is not intercepted. Does the ability to drop outpost 18 days earlier is that important? Smaller ship usually can get much more DV as well without hydron trap. It seems to me that mobile science lab is viable for asteroids only.
RE the T3 Research Buildings: It's More slot Efficient to do [T3 Research]-[Command Center]-[T3 Research]. That's 400 Science from 3 Slots, whereas Just [T2 Research] x3 gets you 300 Science from 3 slots.
@@PerunGamingAU i don't know the exact numbers but it's significantly more expensive. It also takes an additional MC if it wasn't bad already. I stuck with t2 research and it's pretty okay.
Are the AI smart enough to recognise a strategically bad trade? For example, if the servants were struggling with a particular resource and you made a station custom designed to cost as much of that resource as possible with the aim to give it to them and cripple their resources, would they accept the trade?
Hearing an Australian accent saying "zee" instead of "zed" will never stop being grating. But otherwise another fantastic episode. I could watch you play this game forever.
It's interesting, in my Resistance game the Servants put all their ships into Luna orbit for some reason and never bothered me at all (not sure if they bugged out, I'd say they probably did, but serves them right) whereas in my Academy game at one point they just started using tiny ships with one nuclear missile launcher and instantly wiped out half my Mars bases before I could get a ship to Mars to hunt them down. It's kind of stupid if you ask me that a single nuclear missile launcher instantly destroys a base even if you have multiple battlestations and layered defense arrays... or is that a bug? Because it seems to me that the UV Phasers with their few hundred km of range should be capable of shooting down a few pesky missiles, nuclear or not... Needless to say the Servants... "agreed"... to forfeit *all* their space assets with this act and a lot of Servants took the vacuum temperature challenge.
Hi Perun, could you please expand on why do you care so much about relations with factions? What is the benefit, ex. From my expirience playing Resistance tutorial game in previous patch at least, being at war with most of them since 2025+ wasn`t exactly a problem. Granted, I had most of Earths nukes at that point, the only exeption were nukes of Humanity first.
@@PerunGamingAU It`s strange, I didn`t experience assassinations apart from servants/hydra, mostly initiative tried to steal my projects. Anyhow, huge thanks to you for your content!
it's just so slow....I do use it, but only on small nations that have built max MC and will later be absorbed. Kazakhstan for example was 100% funding for years and is a key reason as to why I get so much money from the caliphate for mega nations I prefer to get their economies configured to do thinks like generate 10k science per month. which is equivalent to 100 research campuses worth of saved upkeep and MC
I feel like it really should be Columbia that gets the claims from Bolivar's Dream given that Gran Columbia, of which Columbia is a successor state was Bolivar's historical attempt to build a united South America, Bolivia was never part of Gran Columbia.
South America is in Africa Ok - in the same way that Australia is in India. The super states must grow larger and all of humanity will discover our democratic and economically prosperous ways whether they want to or not.
They will know our peaceful ways, by force is necessary.
We’re using Pangea borders
Borders aren’t necessary, let’s just take it all, shall we?
DEMOCRACY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE!
@@MadJackMcJack It’s only negotiable on the fact that it’s forced
Petition to name the first academy Titan "Student Debt"
Seconded
Yes yes yes
thirded
I support this idea lol
done. it'll take a few eps though
When it said the hydra was operating in Perth, India my brain pinwheeled for a second trying to process where that is.
Its in new Zealand
Break points for gdp per capita: 6000 to avoid a cohesion negative. 35000 to have less than 2 base unrest in a 5 cohesion(democratic) country. 48000 to reach the scaling cap for research. 55000 for 0 base unrest in a democratic country (Which is important for a country if you want to boost military)
is there a source where one could find such breaking points for other values as well?
@@chaosengine4597 hooded horse wiki for terra invicta they don’t list these specific break points but all the modifiers are listed on the nations tab for how all the things are calculated.
"intense document gathering" intensifies
*breaching charge detonates* "Hydra! We are here for your records!"
@@PerunGamingAU When the military fails, call in the IRS.
It worked against Capone, after all.
@@shawngillogly6873 Griffin: 'What's wrong, Mr.Hy? They're just some humans with accounting books, what's the worst they could do?
Hydra Alpha: 'Just some humans with accounting books?! I'm imperialistic enough to mess with that lunatic Hanse, but the *IRS?!..'*
I'm always lookimg forward to your videos.
I'm glad that your HF series showed everything in great detail while the second series keeps the repeated stuff off camera.
Great decision imo.
I figure I only need to show the basics once
@@PerunGamingAU One thing you seemingly don't do at a fleet force advantage is split fleets to hunt the small ships. Their fleeing cooldown means you don't have to spend that hydrogen for those exotics.
I enjoy the small details on the station names and how flottilas are designated as Defence Forces instead of Taskforces
Action group Cambridge should be renamed Debate Club Cambridge 😂
I am really impressed at how quickly the ultra nation took off, i can imagine what it will do with military once it is satisfied with knowledge and economy.
it has so many core economic regions that growth is insane when given any priority at all
28:27 - the alien threat meter went from green->red to ALL RED - i think they are "disappointed" at the militarization of humanity
I did not know you could use hostile takeover on alien orgs to potentially debuff them, thanks for highlighting that :)
it works until they bring so many salamanders that they're stuck at 25 sec
I'm so excited for the publication of Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, The new updated Revised 3rd Edition. The rumour mill has it that it will include a new chapter about the crucial need for xenobiological specimen collecting specialists. 😁
It warms the cockles of my heart when I hear beloved founding father LKY is immortalized on the dark side of the Moon. It sure beats airconditioned underwear when it comes to cooling.
Who is he?
@@Enward834 Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore who shepherded the country through post-colonial rule into a developed nation.
Thanks for the video. I love how the Academy's funding strategy is researching and peddling useless or obsolete technology to the other factions for vast amounts of money and resources while keeping the good stuff for themselves. The good old Snake Oil Research Department are truly the saviors of humanity.
I don't know if this is an academy thing, but if you end up with another desperate Jovian onslaught, I would love to see at least one major deathball v deathball battle. (maybe as the mission sprawls further, the need to check and double check and peer review bogs the Academy down at decisive moments, allowing some alien ships to congregate vs something like initiative doing it on purpose so that they have a big media moment when they win). It was cool seeing you catch almost all of them last time by the skin of your teeth, but it'd be interesting/exciting to see you allow a threat and then go up against it in a way where the action is a lot more chaotic, the outcome is a little bit less certain, and the risks are huge.
Just a thought!
Gonna be honest, the Heisenberg and your marine transports are straight-up super pretty ships. I love em. The colors, the lines, the capabilities, and the combat record are just perfect.
Thank you for showing the stations! That "someone" was me - very much appreciated :)
I was legit waiting for the next episode 1 minute ago and it pops up :)
this is why I like having a reliable schedule
@@PerunGamingAU you conditioned us like the Pavlov's dogs mate
i just finished up my HF playthrough, the aliens had withdrawn all their fleets back to their Orcus Station and it ended up being my highly advanced HF fleet of 72 ships vs the aliens mass fleet of 143 ships. Combat power HF 39k vs Alien Scum 61k. It was an absolute slog fest and took forever to fight but i ended up winning wiht only 14 ships left, not enough to invade the Hab, had to call in more marine ships, i love this game for its scale.
I wish people in my gov put as much thought into their actions as you do playing this game :)
Looking forward to who will be the two hero ships defending Jupiter :D
I like very much your new marines trasports and colony ships: I think they are much in line with the logic of the academy to protecting they operatives, by not sending them in space with a scientific vessel armoured only with PD.
Also I think that in terms of roleplay you should upgrade the technology level of your armies at least at 5. You know so when you have "academic debates" in other countries your army has the most advanced scientific equipment to bring at those scientific debates...
Inertial Confinement Terawatt Fusion Reactor III (inertial fusion engine mk7) is the real thing that makes the Daedalus shine, in fact such a good engine is what the Firefly or other drives are missing to shine too. Add some exotic radiators and there you have the quite cheap 3000kps Delta-V and good acceleration Titans/Dreads/Lancers/Marines Cruisers/Nuke Corvettes, they can quickly catch/dodge any Alien fleet.
Nice job getting it in the mid 2035. I did the same but i'm 4 years behind for the map painting/supernations shenanigans.
Btw i didn't research any laser batteries, so my BattleStations have 2 adv. heavy plasma batteries + point defense phasers. 3 BS per space base all 3 at the bottom, all space bases are T3, space bases are the real weak spot, T2 or T3 ground bases are very good at defending themselves with 2 or 4 Defense Layer imo, especially because aliens only send one ship to attack ground bases and attack rating of ground defenses is higher than attack rating of space defenses.
Another thing : Nuke Corvette are quicker and cheaper than Marines Ships to deal with Aliens ground bases, they are quite suicide ship but not that much because the attacker hit first and a nuke has 5-10% chance to be intercepted, it's insta kill 90-95% chances no need to wait 8 days, in the end i lost one corvette, aliens lost 6 mining bases in 6 months. (put 1 1 1 armor on the corvette for some reasons)
Last thing : Jupiter moons are so good, it's the only place i have T3 mines.
Thanks for the episode ! always very happy to see the valuable and entertaining upload.
Living for this challenge series, would love to see the projects only initiative run as a follow up as well.
Challenge mode: Billionaire Buddies, where you're not allowed to win until you shepherd AI Exodus to their victory first.
@@endimon100 Initiative aren't buddies to anyone. I think their ending is even worse than protectorate.
17:40 Mega-India contains half of the entire human population and is ruled by a technocracy that somehow can actually make legitimate tangible progress towards utopia. It's frankly no wonder that the state in the uncontested economic superpower of the world.
I just finished a kind of hilarious run as the servants where I rushed for early science (getting the US, the right orgs, etc) and it worked out so well that I completely dominated every science decision for the whole run. Won the game with only social techs and grounded stuff having been taken. No one could leave LEO without the 'mission to' techs.
Don't forget to re bind your Z Key!
Could you imagine defecting from one faction to another faction, only to be immediately sold to a third.
as long as someone pays the salaries I guess?
With the update to tech unlocks, I find it no longer a good idea to count on the Daedalus torch. In fact, antimatter engines are currently the most reliable ones to get, and while not quite as performant as the Daedalus (which is simply best-in-slot for most situations), they are more than sufficient to power a fleet that can operate throughout the Solar System. And on top of that, much more reliable to unlock than any of the good fusion torch drives.
Looking forward to the next episode, as always!
I would think the Academy would want to set up an alien embassy on Earth. Maybe they would give the aliens a lone country in the middle of nowhere as an embassy? Say, the Indian island nation, or Madagascar, or Greenland.
50% GDP/cap/year growth in Super India is simply crazy. Can't wait to see that happening in Africa, where outside of Caliphate it's only 1500$.
once I unify the AU and Caliphate I'll fix the eco
If you cant get a space station around mars you can build chemical rocket ships on the surface as weak mass defenders, you just need high thrust engines. Then once you have a low delta v high thrust fleet make the low orbit orbital station and move them until it can finish defensive batteries and ship docks. The ships will need like 0 armor but they can be glass cannons or paper tigers with lots of nukes so they look scary to the AI.
Love your videos, probably the only youtuber who's notifications get me excited. Very entertaining.
Just now thinking of this (apologies if you've heard this before), but as an early backer of the game, a really interesting 'expansion' option that you could pitch would be to allow players to play as the Hydra. Next play through I vote Exodus, but after that, go Hydra.
Doing the cybernetics research should really increase the max acceleration you can get out of engines.
It still caps at 2gs, right? That’s a lot for a normal human but what about advanced gene-modded cyborg super soldiers?
on one hand, months at 2gs is already a lot. on the other, my operatives have AI in their skulls, stealth fields, and that kinda thing....so maybe there is an idea there
Humans can handle very high acceleration for a very short time. The problem is sustaining it for hours or even longer
Give em the juice!
I always install loyalty monitors, its just too handy to always know your councilors are at their cap of loyalty.
Additional challenge: you must reach the end of the tech tree in at least two tech categories. Seems like an academy thing to do.
Are there any ways for humans to make exotics- even at an ultra low-level? Feel like that would be a unique reward for academy
Even the aliens can't make Exotics in Sol System, they have to import them from home. Presumably they are only able to be fabricated at a point of unusual stellography, like a neutron star or a megastructure.
Not that I know of
Perun that base on the Moon had a very good Fissile income...
we're going to Jupiter. we can do better :)
The whole world must learn of our peaceful ways, by force!
What a play through this has been. Mega-india!
Would be awesome if you establish a base on Io and call it Winfield base in a nod to Exosquad.
I want to offer an alternative for crippling the Protectorate and Servants that worked very well for me (actually worked well on everyone). Rather than deny them assets in space, deny them the MC to maintain those assets instead. Once this is accomplished, the income of those factions will fall into the negative and when their cash reserves dry up, you go onto phase two. Phase two is using hostile takeover strip all organizations off of them that cost money to attach to their councilors. They won't be able to reattach them. Step three (less applicable here) is to then murder all their councilors to detach any orgs that you can't steal but are still attached to the councilors (usually this included the faction orgs from tech).
The net result is you end up with a field of councilors arrayed against you that are so badly neutered that they no long pose a threat. The difficulty curve from super-state population is such that by the time a state has about 2 billion population, the target factions just can't get anything done against you. If the game goes long, another cycle of assassinations to prevent them from training up good councilors over time will solve that problem.
The Jovian Battle II - Attack of the Nerds sequel incoming.
No lasers on spaceships would make an interesting challenge for next time. Having to use light kinetic and/or missiles (or particle beams) for point defence would really change ship designs.
I feel like stationing ships or building a shipyard at a jovian lagrange point could be a forward base to intercept ships arriving at jupiter
actually a solid Idea but I have such an attachment to Io after last game
perhaps a larger base at io and a small refueling station at a lagrange could simultaneously keep the ships on intercept duty while also building new ships around io
Mercury for solar power, Ceres for water, Asteroid Psyche in the belt for noble metals, Io for nobles, inner Saturn moons for Antimatter, Titan for volatiles, Haumea and Quaoar for noble metals again
Wish we could sort bodies by ressources before we prospect them
Had a moment where i thought about your playthrough while at work today. With all of the India-theme, a ship named "Touch MyHull" might be apt.
Maybe there could be a dedicated escort cruiser for your marine forces, once the appropriate techs for engines pop? Something that gives the aliens strong 'don't speak to me or my sons' vibes if they think of looking at a marine raider fleet.
A fun idea I had for the next playthrough is fighting the aliens in space as quickly as possible, like using early ships as something other than opportune cannon fodder
Seeing the mining prospects around Jupiter and Saturn makes me realize how much scarier the game could be if the AI were better at space expansion. Maybe the Servants could prioritize spamming space bases and industrialization, since the aliens will permit it, and having them build a bigger economy than you in space and spam ships against you would be a significant threat.
my theory is that what the game is missing is an early to mid game space threat (when the aliens are too powerful to do anything but hide from)
the obvious answer is a human threat, and the Servants when not being played might fit the bill.
I've been having a good time using coils and PD against the ayys. With advanced medium coil batteries and advanced coil cannon you just punch straight through their PD. I also have one or two big green laser disco dreadnoughts per 4 battleships for longer range fleet missile defense.
if you ever make merch, it should be "what the doctor ordered" xD
Copying my comment from last video:
Just FYI Perun, Surface defense modules are currently bugged: if you are at gamespeed 4 or 5 your Surface defenses don't work and your base will be destroyed by orbital bombardments regardless of how many surface defenses you have on your base. The temporary workaround is putting your gamespeed at 3 when you get bombarded!
noted. I've been doing just that. thanks
I think for the Purposes of the challenge it would be fine to take control of the Carribean, Central America and Mexico even though they are in North America.
Maybe you could even go for some shenanigans, by uniting the a large majority of the entire Americas. Gran Colombia and The US both get a claim on Panama City. Maybe there is some Way to get the US Capitol to move to Panama? At the Very least you should form Gran Columbia so that your United South America is slightly larger.
definitely expanding Columbia to include panama
Anyone else notice how the dreadnaught in 27:05 died from a single plasma strike? Was that a crit to the reactor? Nvm, you explained it shortly after, thanks!
That 1 MC per Research University is just silly - there is simply no situation where that cost is worth it. That building just becomes a noob trap.
I honestly think it should be dropped...cash upkeep or crew upkeep can go up but the MC cost is brutal
The world is going to end up having only only five supernations in the end.
Chindiasia, Afribia, Eurossia, the USNA (yoosna) and Sameric.
It must be due to enthrall that the Devs didn't make it possible to unite those countries, without capital moving shenanigans like Perun did here. So that if they enthrall a point it is possible to get it back.
8:33 You recaptured a break-away state that became breakaway when you unified.
I really hope the devs will implement base blueprints soon, clicking stuff manually for each station is so annoying...
yeah it's on their list
You could make a 1984 Scenario with a few major supernations at war with each other but not doing any fighting so you get a lot of unity
I would like the see the economy just keep growing so hopefully you can just keep it growing permanently
I have a feeling this will be the last playthrough of Terra Invicta, which is a shame. The Initiative would make an excellent evil/dystopian playthrough. They are the only faction who's goals run counter to every other faction (Exodus wants to take a large chunk of humanity out into space, thus removing them from the influence of the Illuminati, and the Initiative/Illuminati want to control EVERYTHING).
Additionally, a dystopian playthrough is much, much harder than a utopian playthrough. The game is weighted against it, heavily (developer bias, perhaps).
Moonbases are actually a good place for medical and tourist buildings as you get the stronger surface defense ldas
If you ask me if you can do some funky map painting shenanigans where you add the entire eu into the african Union I think we all can agree Europe is now Africa :troll:
Affrica starts at the Kattegat after all
(Asia/Africa mostly)😂
They need to down the effects of the economic priority. The numbers are just absurd (both in the rates and absolute) and also increase the science snowballing even more.
Also, an interesting idea I saw is that instead of habs increasing in MC cost the first one is very expensive and the later ones smaller. This would make locking down all the sites on the moon and Mars impossible. It also fits thematically fit as habs become more independent as they grow. Less important sites could then be turned into automated mines, which makes that tech more used. There is a mod that does just that, but I haven't tried it yet.
And AI still thinks spoils is a good idea.
46:02
Is the enemy battleship really called Red Mountain? If that’s a reference to Morrowind that’d be cool!
24:05 Poor, miserable little ship.
You also need an Invigilator class. For the final exam.
That's just an obnoxious amount of science to have at that point. Just wow
The reason Bolivia is the president of the (fictional) South American Union is that they host the (real) South American Parliament of the (also real) Union of South American Nations, and the fictional one's flag is the same as the (real) Union of South American Nation's one. However, the (real) Union of South American Nations shrunk in 2018-2020, when Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay suspended their membership and/or left. Now the ones remaining are Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Pretty sure there are transitive claims. So if you absorb countries into your union, you get their claims too. Seen examples of that multiple times. I think you even get claims added to countries you have absorbed
96 Trillion is the 2021 GLOBAL GDP. Just to put the "India" GDP into proper perspective.
I don't think I've seen a 4x game before where you have to worry about transition windows and engine burn efficiency. I've pretty much only seen that in Kerbal Space Program so far.
Another great upload ❤
Pursuit engagements should result in chaotic resultant overall vector... How do you burn 300kps dv in a pursuit and stay in the same orbit, you should be on a wild escape trajectory somewhere towards Epsilon Eridani. Also they should take into account cruise acceleration of the fleet to be able to actually catch up early if you start close.
Loving the content so far, keep it up! :)
One feedback comment! get your volume a bit up. Compared to the rest of youtubes content, yours is on the lower end, which isn't very helpful when on a bad speaker notebook system and ambient noise.
love this channel :)
6:10 Free Fed = IWW, note color scheme and wildcat.
Is it possible to target and tactically disable power modules on stations? That way for large T3 alien stations you could instead target the reactors and disable several defense modules at a time instead of targeting each one by one.
I don't know if it is at all possible to get to 75% without taking over the forbidden continents. It would be rather silly to keep those houserules if it softlocks you.
Sounds like a good reason to keep the houserules in place until the 11th hour and only break them in the final stage of the game
@@ReallyHairyDave Definitely. The 75% thing is something that can be achieved at any point in time anyways. Right now space warfare is the name of the game.
Is it possible to unite the whole world into one nation?
A quick google search suggests so, at least with most of the world, but it involves some wars to move capitals.
What is the reason for science lab and outpost kits? One can use 1mc ship with platform kit and nose laser instead. Immediately drop second fusion pile and space dock after platform is started. Dock construction is 30 days and then 16 days for probe scans Vs 28 days mobile science lab scan provided that the fleet is not intercepted. Does the ability to drop outpost 18 days earlier is that important? Smaller ship usually can get much more DV as well without hydron trap. It seems to me that mobile science lab is viable for asteroids only.
RE the T3 Research Buildings: It's More slot Efficient to do [T3 Research]-[Command Center]-[T3 Research]. That's 400 Science from 3 Slots, whereas Just [T2 Research] x3 gets you 300 Science from 3 slots.
what's the cash and mat upkeep math on that monstrosity?
@@PerunGamingAU i don't know the exact numbers but it's significantly more expensive. It also takes an additional MC if it wasn't bad already. I stuck with t2 research and it's pretty okay.
1.3xscience vs how much resources.... its a lil oof
@@PerunGamingAU That sounds like the sort of maths I haven't done!
Are the AI smart enough to recognise a strategically bad trade? For example, if the servants were struggling with a particular resource and you made a station custom designed to cost as much of that resource as possible with the aim to give it to them and cripple their resources, would they accept the trade?
Hearing an Australian accent saying "zee" instead of "zed" will never stop being grating. But otherwise another fantastic episode. I could watch you play this game forever.
Since Zee is the correct way, there’s no issues.
Don't forget to show us the rest of the world. How is the EU megastate progressing?
I'll remember to show it off...the initiative has been running the show there
It's interesting, in my Resistance game the Servants put all their ships into Luna orbit for some reason and never bothered me at all (not sure if they bugged out, I'd say they probably did, but serves them right) whereas in my Academy game at one point they just started using tiny ships with one nuclear missile launcher and instantly wiped out half my Mars bases before I could get a ship to Mars to hunt them down.
It's kind of stupid if you ask me that a single nuclear missile launcher instantly destroys a base even if you have multiple battlestations and layered defense arrays... or is that a bug? Because it seems to me that the UV Phasers with their few hundred km of range should be capable of shooting down a few pesky missiles, nuclear or not...
Needless to say the Servants... "agreed"... to forfeit *all* their space assets with this act and a lot of Servants took the vacuum temperature challenge.
So Alliens get detained indefinitely? Human Councilors only get detained for 2 weeks.
South American union is a fun country to form.
Hi Perun, could you please expand on why do you care so much about relations with factions? What is the benefit, ex. From my expirience playing Resistance tutorial game in previous patch at least, being at war with most of them since 2025+ wasn`t exactly a problem.
Granted, I had most of Earths nukes at that point, the only exeption were nukes of Humanity first.
assassinations suck and having my earth mc and boost bombed is annoying
@@PerunGamingAU It`s strange, I didn`t experience assassinations apart from servants/hydra, mostly initiative tried to steal my projects. Anyhow, huge thanks to you for your content!
URSAL will be real
What are all the bridge research projects cause they sound cool
Why exactly do you not use funding? Isn't it permanent money per turn? You could just put on dot on it from the early game and let it grow over time.
it's just so slow....I do use it, but only on small nations that have built max MC and will later be absorbed. Kazakhstan for example was 100% funding for years and is a key reason as to why I get so much money from the caliphate
for mega nations I prefer to get their economies configured to do thinks like generate 10k science per month. which is equivalent to 100 research campuses worth of saved upkeep and MC
I feel like it really should be Columbia that gets the claims from Bolivar's Dream given that Gran Columbia, of which Columbia is a successor state was Bolivar's historical attempt to build a united South America, Bolivia was never part of Gran Columbia.
Do the resources on planets, moons and asteroids change every game or is it the same?
change every game but there are trends/ranges. Ceres always has water for example
It drives me nuts that administration and org's aren't whole numbers and you can't see the remainder
Honestly, I'd love to see you hit the CP requirement by doing just GDP direct investments. XD
Any reason why you went for exotic batteries on the marine ships?
because I click exotic batteries out of habit