Y'all, Mecha has 17 Logistics. Why is she getting so many votes here?
Also, we were told that Isara's Darcsen helpers should apply to advertising Honey's shop. So, considering loyalty bonuses and traits, Isara has 38 to the action as opposed to Honey's 35. I consider that a reason to keep Isara on the Heart action here rather consider her for disguises.
Why not just use Stone and his ring to advertise?
Mostly because he's got a lower Heart score than Isara or Honey.
Yeah . . I duno how many actions do the Prince factions have? Because I'll be real: functionally tying up One Brains action into however many actions GUN takes against Black Doom per turn sounds like a great trade.
Yeah, it's like Richmaster said. Adding on, if they are independent factions (as in, they take actions of their own), then we are more limited by action economy. We don't need to destroy them to be counted as beating them, but we do need to destroy their independence. Additionally, we don't actually have control over their actions and thus any reason to believe that they will solely use it for the Black Arms in the event of an alliance. Or to otherwise advance our agenda or further us in our tech trees, alliances, or anything else. Also, we're better at brains especially.
Green Hill Zone was effectively set up as a tutorial area, as established by the QMs. Meant to allows us to build up to King tier (power base, action economy, and resources), as well as provide some in character impetus for Eggman to change his modus operandi, since Zavok hard countered his tendency to rely solely on robots.
. Doesn't that just make the GUN leader's plan for diplomacy with Eggman just like. Impossible? Not only did it lead to a paralyzing amount of civil unrest, the guy is outright wrong. We'll be taking them over no matter what. So long as Eggman needs to conquer Green Hills there's no real space for cooperation, only subordination.
right but our primary motivation isn't Defeat Black Doom it's "Conquer Green Hills" they're not getting a stay of execution if diplomacy is impossible
Eggman has cooperated with his enemies in the past in the face of a greater threat. That's what he's going off of. He also doesn't know our Drives as an in-universe mechanic and we can make progress on them without going for GUN right now anyways.
Also him even attempting to reach out was an omake reward regardless, if I remember right.
we alpha strike Knuckles to take him out of the equation right away and steal the Master Emerald, forcing Gun and the Restoration to respond. it should hopefully mitigate the loyalty loss if we aren't the ones who declared war first.
While I agree that we want them to attack us first from a loyalty preservation perspective, I do think that providing GUN and the Restoration with a Casus Belli by attacking an island full of refugees is probably about equal in a hit to loyalty.
We have the perfect target for this don't we?
Oh Anti~
Two perfect targets, Anti-Sonic and the Black Arms. I'd be surprised if Eggman was willing to collaborate on Sonic before confirming that it's not actually him though. It's personal to him. Once he finds out that it's not really him, in which case we've probably already fought him and either won or he got away (and thus continued level grinding).
I'm not opposed to getting the achievement with Merlina on Anti-Sonic though, although I admittedly prefer getting it with the Restoration vs. the Black Arms.