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[Zangi]

Now we can steal organs? Wooo! I never knew it before, but I've always wanted to be a kidnapper-and-neolithic-surgeon-organ-thief. Next on the menu: pirate liver soup!

I love that the game's designed for things like that. I think there was a trait or something where the character doesn't get traumatized by eating and butchering people.

It is called cannibalism.  ...   I shall now be able to harvest the many many many injured people I happen to pick up for phat lootz.

[Majestic7]

Pirates escalate pretty fast regarding equipment still. I think the fourth or fifth raiding party I got was already equipped with power armor while I just had one M-16 and otherwise pistols. Luckily they started a siege and half of them had poor mental health to begin with... so I just waited till half went crazy and killed each other.

[Sergius]

The main problem with the AI is that there isn't a sensible default. "Challenging" Cassandra Classic is the baseline, but it's ridiculously hard. It goes something like, start with 3 guys and face 1 raider a couple times, then you have 5 colonists and managed to make 5 wooden rooms, and the next wave will be like 7 pirates with pistols and rifles.

If you manage to have something like a decent colony with 5-6 people, some lee-enfields, decent food facilities and workbenches, lighting etc, we're talking about waves of 15 raiders with power armor and miniguns every 3 days.

Phoebe builder's frequency is about right, otherwise you just can't ever get anything done. I'm going to try it on "Rough" to see if at 60% the regular attack force it's something more playable.


I've found the best, most efficient way to find the edges of a Rich Soil is to fill the whole area with conduits, they prevent growing of grass and you can easily deconstruct the parts that have regular soil and get all your metal back, then once you got the area figured out you can place the growing zone. It's a bit cheaty in a way because it removes plants SUPER fast (even trees), on the other hand make sure to chop and harvest before you start covering, but even if this gets "fixed" and colonists have to actually spend time removing the grass it's a major time (and sanity) saver.

[TynanSylvester]

I've found the best, most efficient way to find the edges of a Rich Soil is to fill the whole area with conduits, they prevent growing of grass and you can easily deconstruct the parts that have regular soil and get all your metal back, then once you got the area figured out you can place the growing zone. It's a bit cheaty in a way because it removes plants SUPER fast (even trees), on the other hand make sure to chop and harvest before you start covering, but even if this gets "fixed" and colonists have to actually spend time removing the grass it's a major time (and sanity) saver.

Sorry to say this exploit is closed in Alpha 8. Mu ha ha.

[Sergius]

I've found the best, most efficient way to find the edges of a Rich Soil is to fill the whole area with conduits, they prevent growing of grass and you can easily deconstruct the parts that have regular soil and get all your metal back, then once you got the area figured out you can place the growing zone. It's a bit cheaty in a way because it removes plants SUPER fast (even trees), on the other hand make sure to chop and harvest before you start covering, but even if this gets "fixed" and colonists have to actually spend time removing the grass it's a major time (and sanity) saver.

Sorry to say this exploit is closed in Alpha 8. Mu ha ha.

Eh, don't care about the exploit, just to place the wires so that I can actually see the dirt below.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

With the storyteller, I've found you have to change the difficulty as the game goes on. Even phoebe sends stupid large waves your way eventually, so after a couple years you'll probably want to just turn on randy for a good mix you can handle.

I think I've gone on about this either here or the reddit, and it may have changed in this latest update.

[Sergius]

I agree. So far for me the only way to make the game fun is to constantly micromanage the director. I set it to Cassandra with a lower difficulty to get any raiders at all (if I need weapons or money or just get bored), then use Phoebe at Rough by default to get long stretches where I don't get bothered with the occasional raid, but eventually the difficulty needs to go down even with Phoebe.

[Morrigi]

M-24s seem to be able to shoot straight through power armor and cause instakills. What.

[n9103]

If Fallout taught me anything, it's that a critical to the eyes will kill almost anything, even from your trusty Red Rider BB Gun.

[Aseaheru]

Yah, theres not much bone there.

However, powerarmor helmets are enclosed, but the visors still gotta be weaker than the armor, unless they have some sorta fancy projectors in there like the titanfall mech things.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Or there's a hard cap in the kinetic resistance you can pump into physical materials- carbon nanotubes & gravitically-densified metals not providing more than ~125% the performance you'd expect from type 4 kevlar & ceramic plate.

Same deal with miniaturization.

[TheBronzePickle]

I imagine corundum layered with high yield clear plastic several times over would make for some really tough eyepieces.

Still, kinetics kill. Simply because of how momentum and kinetic energy, and on a grander scale, relativistic velocities, work, projectile weapons will always be more capable than the armor to stop them up until you start messing with the laws of reality.

An M-24 still probably should not be able to kill easily through power armor. It's kind of a pain in the butt to consistently hit eyepieces, and even modern armor has a half-decent chance at stopping a .338 Lapua, so power armor should have a pretty good shot at it.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Oh hey, the newest stuff is some kinda transparent aluminum ceramic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUszxx2pYc
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0aa_1327782483&comments=1
Related to corundum?

[n9103]

Lapua vs a body hit? Sure. Almost sure to survive, and better than even odds for simple bruising.
vs a head shot? Might break even on survival, almost certainly to be out of a fight though.
vs an eyeshot? Good night, Gracie. All but certain death.

[Aseaheru]

Man, that shits tough.
The ALON guff would still probably come close to killing the person if used in the visor tho, since the bulging occurred.
Its probably sorta like Dragonskin in that respect, it survives, the transferred shock still hurts like hell, possibly enough to kill.