Actually for Personal actions, maybe stick Aria on radio? It's something she can literally intuit due to her mutation, and is something she's going to end up interacting with no matter what.
Cult Creator - The Pilgrims Journey
- Thread starter HeroCooky
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- Original Mature
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- Australia
While I agree with BelligerentGnu that the heart is there, I think the way the content is delivered can be improved. Martyris is giving a speech, which is fine, but it doesn't seem to be something the narrative is fully adapting to. Like, it knows that Martyris is showing compassion and explaining something complex, but not that he's spending a somewhat prolonged period of time talking in order to do it. I believe the paragraph can be improved through an addition of an island in the middle of the long dialogue to break it up a bit. Nothing big, just a small thing like Martyris pausing for a bit, or a brief word on his body language, or a glimpse at how Willow's reacting to it as he's giving his speech.
Just a minor suggestion, nothing more. I hope it helps.
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... The action doesn't mention a metal barrel at any point? There is also the issue that it still reduces the Structure of the airship by -3.
Aria will have to relax soon, due to her We Can Do It! Trait. She already had the +20 bonus during the last Turn, so I think @HeroCooky forgot to update that. She should be around +10 during this Turn and at 0 during the next Turn. The radio research would take 3 Turns, maybe a relaxing action followed by 3 Turns of research? She would have +20 during the first Turn, +10 during the second, and 0 during the last Turn.
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- Goose Land
With this in mind, what do people think about translating more of our books or paying the Nomads for Book Artifacts?
It's electrified dust kept under enough pressure that it can explode if the pressure is released. Where else would you keep it??
And I think Lift module will always reduce stabilty to some degree, since that's how the balance of the ship design system works.
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- Australia
We earn more Materials than we can spend in a turn so more bonuses would be good.
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- Australia
This building got an update, highlighted in red. Seems we'll want to do this once the amphitheatres are done.
I am already spending a Personal Action on researching the Unknown Publication this Turn. That's the only unknown Lost-grade book Artefact we currently have. Except for the Revelations Of Eden, but that has its own problems.
Then we have 2 Rare-grade books(Black Tome With Golden Letters, A Book With Legacy) and 2 Common-grade books(Tattered Book, Thick, Faded Tome).
Ok, I'm switching Large Suspendium Bags for Pressurized Suspendium. Both take 2 Turns but Pressurized Suspendium is more dependent on a good dice roll. Hmm, I think I can split 1 Scientist from Secret Of The Circuit Pt.3. Shouldn't matter as long as we roll better than 2 on Circuit. +27 on Pressurized Suspendium isn't much but it should make it likely that we get at least 1 Success.
Ugh, politics. Ok, scouting the Graveyard Of Spears isn't that important. Knowing what weapons get out would be nice, but with politics getting involved now...
Contractors could finish it this Turn for 14 Materials but I'm tempted to use Sandcrete to get a different look. More expensive but we have tons of Materials leftover anyway and Feed The Masses takes a few more Turns either way.
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- Australia
Looking at the description for Sandcrete Recipe, it doesn't seem to have any effects beyond speeding up build times, and since the palace only takes 3 turns to do, the contractors will be all we need. Since we do have a ton of excess Materials though, we could use the sandcrete to give Feed the Masses a boost. The sooner we finish that up, the better.
The problem with that is that if we started it now we would have almost no bonuses for it, since the Circuit tech is gobbling up all our artefacts. In the time it takes us to hard research radios we could do two other techs in other fields.
We could start it next turn depending on how long the next propulsor tech is.
I mainly want Sandcrete for prestige reasons. Sandcrete is the stuff the pre-Collapse society used to build things, using it for our palace should make an impression and obviously shows that House Dall is connected to pre-Collapse Artefacts.
Currently, I plan to get started on that after Aria had 1 Turn to relax. And... ahh, long-range communication might take a while. I suspect there is a reason why the project is called "Primitive Radios" and the long-range stuff is probably locked behind appropriate infrastructure, see the Norqod Action it mentions.
We also know there is a giant moon over the planet that can hinder or distort radio waves so that research project might be a bit more complicated than what would be needed on Earth.
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- Australia
That's a good point. I'd say that even early radio's better than any two other projects, but with the radio-distorting moon, that notion is questionable.
I don't think it'd make enough of an impression to make up for leaving an action lying on the table. The palace is inevitably gonna have other pre-Collapse society stuff in it, plus get beautified by the Conclave of Fraya on top. In addition, it's essentially concrete, which isn't particularly pretty on its own and indistinguishable to ordinary concrete once we paint over it (because we're not making a palace with bare concrete/sandcrete). Better to get Feed the Masses done a turn earlier since that would in fact make a significant difference.
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Sandcrete costs more but can be used on all construction projects. Contractors can only be used on Holding Actions.
But if you want to use Sandcrete for the prestige only, what's stopping you from using both?
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- Australia
We can only use sandcrete on one thing per turn.
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Who exactly is questioning and pushing against us in this matter? Eden's gone, Light supports us, we're friends of commoners, and the nobles are neutral at worst.
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HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Everybody who isn't an active friend of the Pilgrims willing to go to bat for you.
You are still a new cult, and people have deep-seated cultural trauma regarding the safety of children. It may vary in intensity, but people won't be happy to give children to you, regardless of what you've done.
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- Australia
That sounds fairly reasonable, thanks for your answer. Given the motivations at play, I'd recommend changing the flavour text of the action starting from "Screw them!", as right now it implies the resistance comes from callous rival orphanages opposing us for the sake of profit.
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- Australia
How do we do this stuff? Does it rely on specific tenets or actions or do we simply write it into a plan?
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- Goose Land
There are specific actions that do those things, or other things, and they include a Goodwill Price to their cost.
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- Australia
Just curious because it's fun to know "what could have been", but what kinds of plans did you have in mind?
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Forest Route, which would have put you into the deep end of whats behind the curtain.
Blood Cult, Everlight Start, and War Story would be pretty fun, as you'd go hard to bat on murder, blackmail, intruige, and psychology.
Dul would have been interesting, as you could have started uniting the cities under you.
The Waste start was a favorite of mine, as it was literally random and could have made you start with a Wasteland Scorpion Bot and Burned Spear.
The Thousand Village War was also an option there. Landcrawler, Ancient Core's, the Callers of Soot, Mother of Rivers, and the Fallen Angel were nifty.
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- Australia
@HeroCooky can we bribe people with money to let us found schools and orphanages?