Just the first three as those are the only ones with dice, the others just give a flat success to an action
I think this is perhaps too reductive. Part of getting to Magnitude 4 is that we get an additional Focus action, but surely that is not the ONLY part. I imagine that there are other factors at play that are going to have more impact on things. Recall the original definition of Magnitude:
So I don't know if we can just look at the raw calculation for successes from focus actions and make decisions purely based off of that; it seems like it would be neglecting a bunch of other important (albeit more difficult to evaluate) things.
I broadly agree.
I mean, we have people on shields, and they already get more autosuccesses than a single focus action would give them, it is turn 2 and we have 24 successes stored in case that is insufficient, and it is only turn 2 so I am not worried. The bigger picture is that the more we can do each turn the better prepared we will be to face any future threat.
The most efficient thing we can be doing with our Focus actions is growing things. Growing Collector trees first means that growing other things will be faster later. I and other Heart Trees are putting shields up to prevent us from being overrun in the meantime, but I really hope our Mind Trees can coordinate and make contact with the science ship this turn.
True there is a bonus to additional magnitude, but looking at it from a growth side that is how thing break down. More likely with some trees using actions on the forest we will dive to mag 4 once we hit 20 ish collector trees. As it is I support going collector tree growth for focus because as you mention they make it easier to do other growth later on. For example we get to mag 4 and 16 collector trees that gives us +20 to growth or enough for 2 or 4 trees depending on the type so we can boost other special trees quickly which in turn provide successes/open new actions elsewhere.
Hey @Raising Kittens, I believe you mentioned on discord that our previous successes were stored for reaching out to the science vessel, but you haven't written that down here in the voting options.
And that would be a good thing to throw some actions at since that will give unknown benefits. Use focus to grow collector trees in anticipation of growing the forest, worm (it looks like it has more than one level) and other special trees. So some roots could grow the worm and other roots could grow some other special trees while some grow more collector trees.
I want to grow our forest and the worm too, and the best way to do that is by growing several collector trees first.
Here is one useful metric to consider. Each collector tree pays itself off in 4 turns. If you think we are going to take more than 4 turns to finish growing something, then we are much better of pouring growth into a Collector Tree, and then using that to grow the "something", rather than growing it ourselves directly.
