Meh. Ants are communal beings.
Cultivating collectives are a new interesting thing.
This attempt is coming from a position of choice, not by being forced.
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Ant Cultivator Quest
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Cultivating collectives are a new interesting thing.
Right forgot about that.
The point is though that we have no idea. We don't know if they would have onerous requirements, or if we could slack off. We don't know if we would have to defend them or if they have enough soldiers. We just don't know anything about what integrating into a colony would or would not give us. So there isn't much point speculating for or against it.
I mean we literally know more about the risks of depositing the black gunk far away, and that information is just that it's a ??? predator chance.
We're not being forced. We're doing it because we have a stockpile of food right now.
I will also note that the farm plan is predicated on the farm being relatively easy to build once we've expanded the shelter. But we don't actually know what the DC of building one is. We died before we could try it, and got it automatically this time.
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NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
[X] Plan: Using our stored food to buy time to make friends
[X] Plan: Second Farm Time
[X] Plan: Using our stored food to buy time to make friends
Hopefully even if we bite it we would have gone far enough this run to unlock some interesting perks for the next run. I want to see if we cna get laser eyes next run.
Hopefully even if we bite it we would have gone far enough this run to unlock some interesting perks for the next run. I want to see if we cna get laser eyes next run.
- Location
- scrabbling
[X] Plan: Second Farm Time
- Location
- some computer lab
Or instead of going through dying of starvation simulator again, we could take the option that might stabilize our food situation so that we can actually do stuff soon?
TBH Starvation perks seem better than basically anything else, ours lets us actually do actions that aren't foraging or cultivation for example.
If we got a combat perk like laser eyes we would be relying on good event rolls to spawn predators, and if one didn't deign to show itself we would die another slow death of starvation.
We actually have a run that might not death spiral this time and people want to throw it away for a mystery box.
I feel like people are really dumping on the join a colony option for no reason. We've basically determined that even larger non cultivating predators are not a threat to us, and in fact are good opportunities for food. So why exactly would a regular ant colony be a threat. They can't hurt us, and if they end up wanting something more than we want to do we can leave. At worst we will waste a bit of time. Which is exactly why we can afford to do it now when we have a good stockpile of food built up.
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[] Cultivate the Poison Qi (0/?)(Spends 10 Cultivation XP per action)(Gains 1 Poison Qi per completion)
-[] (Why would you do this? Are you a suicidal ant?)
Coming out of lurking, but is it possible to mutate/evolve with said Qi if done carefully?
-[] (Why would you do this? Are you a suicidal ant?)
Coming out of lurking, but is it possible to mutate/evolve with said Qi if done carefully?
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[X] Plan: Second Farm Time
Who is this "people" that want to throw away the run for a mystery box?
Yes we are starving so 7 + 16 - 5 = 18
probably. I feel like, as is usual with Tam Lin quests, the sky is the limit. It's just that this one starts "railroaded" in terms of choice. No turning dirt into libraries, etc. as early strategy.
[X] Plan: Second Farm Time
The first farm difficulty was revealed to be 30, there might or might not be an extra charge for it being the second farm but that shouldn't be too much.
IamtooSleepy
I came here to be an ant
[X] Plan: Second Farm Time
[X] Plan: Second Farm Time
This is a fair point.
The main things we know, I think, are:
(1) It's a ?? progress action.
(2) Food insecurity is a major design element of the early game, taking significant effort (multiple ?? actions) to overcome.
This should set our expectations in terms of what it can achieve. Given how big a deal acquiring new food has been, I think that it that while integrating with a new colony will likely provide added food security in some form, it is unlikely to come without tradeoffs.
That's all we can really say for definite.
I expect it will be something like we need to trade some actions of our for food. With the sheer number of ants meaning that food gathering becomes statistically averaged and there is less randomness in the per turn output. We'd also likely need to deal with bigger threats like very large predators and rival colonies.
But of course that's just speculation.
