The Planet Rising - May2014 GotM scenario for the Pirates

[Kirov]

@Dio:

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Care to share anything more? Directions of colonisation, SE, any other thoughts and ideas?

[Dio]

Response to Kirov:

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I tend to first build a new base on the little strip of land across from "The Outpost". I use this base as a staging post to assault the mainland with probe teams. I also tend to run Fundamentalist while doing this because research becomes unimportant. Later, I started running Power. Generally, you want to bribe Zakharov into signing a pact with you. Deidre is a minor nusiance and can be ignored. I have also determined that you should get the Merchant Exchange and Weather Paradigm if possible.

[Dio]

I cannot seem to get past ~2170-2190 without the game crashing. I use Yitzi's most recent unofficial patch. Attached is the save.

[Yitzi]

I've loaded and run it, ended the turn, and no crash.

Try running it through ollydbg, and let me know what you get for the crash (or you can try to bughunt yourself, if you prefer).

[Kirov]

Dio, your save works here fine as well.

[Kirov]

to Dio:

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Spot on with a few things. Care to elaborate what you get from the Pact with Uni (he attacks Santi in my every game and she demands me to stand behind her) and why the Merchant Exchange?

[Dio]

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The University can you with some early game techs. Also, it allows you to prevent him from killing Santiago and allows Santiago to distract Cha Dawn for a longer period of time. The Merchant Exchange helps provide the early money you so desperately need to get your infrastructure and units running. I also recommend that you get some naval units up and running so that you bombard kill Cha Dawn's Isles of the Deep. [Spoiler/]

[Dio]

Everytime I play this scenario I feel as though I am being whipped/spanked with mind worms .

[Dio]

Does destroying Cha Dawn's HQ count as "conquering"?

[Kirov]

Everytime I play this scenario I feel as though I am being whipped/spanked with mind worms .

This is certainly a feature, not a bug.

Does destroying Cha Dawn's HQ count as "conquering"?

We had this question and no, after giving it some thought I think we can't allow that. Even well before the nukes you could just mount nerve gas on a few throw-away needlejets and call it a day. On the plus side, I would be fine if you just grab his HQ for a moment, i.e. even if he retakes it in his next turn and denies you the victory screen. Just put there one unit of yours and you can submit such a save.

I sure hope you make it! 

[Kirov]

So how is it going, Dio?

[Dio]

So how is it going, Dio?

Horribly . Is Deidre supposed to betray Cha Dawn? In one game so far she has renounced her pact with him and declared vendetta.

[Kirov]

Weird, she's actually in a submission pact, but these can be broken occasionally (for example, your pactmate sends a probe team to the enemy base and you capture it before the probe arrives; I've seen once the probe in question failing to notice the change of the banner and proceeding with his mission). At least she should slow him down a bit.

Or maybe try the normal version? In my experience it's best to start with the normal, get the hang of the map and move up. And we still don't have any submission for the normal. 

I can also share with you some not-really-spoiling tips if you want and if you forward me your save. You definitely were on to something.

[Dio]

I finished and won the scenario!

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Those beautiful Demon Boil Locusts!

[Yitzi]

I finished and won the scenario!

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Those beautiful Demon Boil Locusts!

Congratulations.