Civilization: Beyond Earth

Space Worm wrecked me.

I'm all like "Oh my prosperous city is coming along quite nicely!" and then Jim comes along and destroys both my workers, my squad of marines and half my city before I can take it down.

finding the web tree a bit confusing, no idea which way to go with out feping it up, only complaint so far is the insane amount of aliens around my borders !! pesky divils so di be

its good so far anyway, but i keep restarting 6th time now :P have to try out the spy system seems cool from what i saw earlier made me restart with the corp with the spying bonus. Far to many aliens around the place tho.

I think the game's focus on the aliens are throwing people a bit.

Eurogamer's review seemed to nail what the game's about for me - it's not just "Civ in space", no matter how familiar some elements and the interface are. It's not like a grand leisurely gentlman's game where the map is just the backdrop to your battles with enemy nations. If you play it with that mindset you'll probably run into problems. Its actually far less "civilised" - its a frontier game, a battle for survival, and the planet and the aliens are themselves meant to be primary threats. The aliens are definitely not just re-skinned barbarians. As the Eurogamer review points out, if anything it's the other corporate factions which are more of a background distraction - the main battle is with the planet.

I think its incredibly refreshing.

Battle with 'the planet' and aliens sounds exactly like Alpha Centurai.

Use a nuke and watch your base get overrun with the local planetary residence, sea levels rise, storms, etc.

Bleh I see city spamming by the AI is still a thing, and here I was hoping Gunboat Diplomacy wouldn't be a staple of my strategy. *shakes fist*

I'm using it with no issues experienced so far.

Couple of things stumped me for a bit.

One quest description told me to organise an expedition to save xenomass. When I sent an explorer and tried to start an expedition, it told me that would fail the quest. Turned out I didn't need an expedition at all, I needed to send a worker to do it.
Another quest involved "sending a military unit into ancient ruins" - not being used to the UI, it's easy to miss that it adds an extra action on the right of the unit's icons when it's in the right place (as opposed to on top of them, which it seemed to do with the explorer).

And trade convoys are still confusing me. So you don't move them, you just set a destination. But I'm unclear on the rules - it looks like they only travel over land, and I though you had to have a unit with the city in sight before it showed up in the list. But now it looks like you just have to have uncovered an overland route to the destination?
(Didn't help that I spent ages trying to work out why I couldn't establish a trade route to a nearby station, and eventually decided to build a road to it, only to discover another civ had destroyed it, but I was still seing it because I had been past that way recently).
They've also a bizarre habit of avoiding roads - I set up one between two of my cities, and it moved off the road because of miasma. But continued to do so even after I cleared it.

Enjoying it though. The espionage is interesting, hadn't heard anything about that before hand. The tech web is going to take some getting used to. But my first playthrough is still costing me as much sleep as expected

On the things I really like,

Satellites - adds another small layer to the game that really should've been thought of before now.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOADDS of tile improvemnts. And workers can make Work Boats. There's far more flexibility in how you improve your cities.

All the units look really cool (albeit some more colouring wouldn't hurt). The Angel guy in the Supremacy tree reminds me of this guy from Crysis:


I also love the way upgrading works. Far more interesting than just spending money unit by unit.

A city-by-city cap on trade routes. It looks like it needs balancing but I like it much better than the global cap from Civ 5.

Synergies in the Culture tree - again, more flexibility.

MOH wrote: »

They've also a bizarre habit of avoiding roads - I set up one between two of my cities, and it moved off the road because of miasma. But continued to do so even after I cleared it.

It's by design. Trade routes (just like in 5) have a specific path set when the trade route is created, and they will stick with that route until the route is completed; then if it is re-created, it will take a better route with the miasma cleared.

So apparently your Explorers replenish their Expedition modules when they return to one of your cities.

I'd be bee-lining towards techs and Virtues that increased the number of them.

Of course, it helps to have lots of modules because then, if you add the Purity trait, you can turn on auto-explore and leave them to their own devices.

Gbear wrote: »

Another practical tip:

If you're trying to work out why there's so few techs available, you're possibly an idiot like me who's forgotten they have the filter turned on.

You can also use the search box on the tech tree to search for city improvements, it'll bring up the tech you need to build that improvement

Enjoying it so far, havent beeen able to win a game yet tho. I went full harmony in one game thought i was doing really well but all the other civs around me were purity and just went to war with me and even tho they never even attacked for a good hundred turns and then anything they sent at me i destroyed they just refused to make peace.

But its a great change for a civ game really enjoying it, i agree with the lack of personality to it though i really miss the intro you had for your chosen civilization i dont see why they didnt do some thing similar for the corporations you chose from.