Faith in Superior Firepower [Planetary Annihilation Multicross SI]
- Thread starter Faith
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Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
Ah, the greatest problem with the Eye-for-an-eye philosophy.
Whoever takes the first eye thinks it is fair. So when their eye is taken, they take another eye to 'balance it'.
Of course, this means that one person is blind and they only got to take one eye, so they start stabbing randomly until they hit something. At which point the something reveals themselves to be an unaffiliated third party, who is now also rather miffed about missing an eye, and starts taking eyes themselves.
And so the person who took the first eye is now also blind, and they too start flailing, and take another eye.
And before you know it, the whole world is blind.
The Federation are as ruthless as they are because otherwise the Rebels will kill them. The Rebels are as ruthless as they are because they don't want to get killed by the Federation. The people in the middle get shot full of holes and their wallets emptied, because they're not strong enough to take eyes for themselves.
It's a ruthless, blinding cycle.
And I can't help but feel there's something I've metaphorgotten.
Whoever takes the first eye thinks it is fair. So when their eye is taken, they take another eye to 'balance it'.
Of course, this means that one person is blind and they only got to take one eye, so they start stabbing randomly until they hit something. At which point the something reveals themselves to be an unaffiliated third party, who is now also rather miffed about missing an eye, and starts taking eyes themselves.
And so the person who took the first eye is now also blind, and they too start flailing, and take another eye.
And before you know it, the whole world is blind.
The Federation are as ruthless as they are because otherwise the Rebels will kill them. The Rebels are as ruthless as they are because they don't want to get killed by the Federation. The people in the middle get shot full of holes and their wallets emptied, because they're not strong enough to take eyes for themselves.
It's a ruthless, blinding cycle.
And I can't help but feel there's something I've metaphorgotten.
- Location
- Middle Earth
The fact that the other guy can't take your eye if you kill him?
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
I was joking, but you are entirely correct.
After all, if you're going to retaliate, do it right.
People can complain about 'disproportionate retribution' all they want, but at the end of the day dropping nuclear bombs on Japan took them out of WWII, a hell of a lot faster than a land invasion of Japan would have.
The easiest solution to stop the Rebels and Federation from slowly killing each other (and everyone else) with their war is to brutally annihilate one (or both) side(s) as quickly as possible, because you can't kill people if you're dead.
Of course, I (and, by extension, Commander!Faith) am somewhat against mass murder. And murder in general.
Execution as retaliation for murder is... slightly different, but on the scale we're talking about, for every Rebel murdering Federation crewman, there are half a dozen more who got conscripted and don't really want to be there.
TL;DR, Commander!Faith is going to have to find another way.
- Location
- Middle Earth
Diplomancy? Not diplomacy, that clearly won't work. Whereas diplomacy is talking things through, diplomancy is using copious amounts of mind alteration to solve your problems. As much as mind control is one of those things I will straight up murder a person over with no regrets, it is sometimes necessary to unfuck a situation that cannot be fixed in a meaningful way by sufficient application of Dakka. I also just bought PA Titans, so yay me for dropping $24 on that instead of $6 on SupCom Gold Edition.
- Location
- United States
There's always that BS morally ambiguous Forerunner option: Blow up their civilization and genetically devolve them into semi-sapient primates.
...then again, we all know how that worked out for them in the end.
Finbar
Generic Minion #314
- Location
- Sydney
Clearly, the best thing to do is remove both sides technlogy.
All of it.
I'm sure you can make use of gigatons of refined metals.
I'd attack their logistics. Figure out where each world is, make a fleet for it, position it near each target, then attack and capture. Without their shipyards and recruitment base, the fleets will wither on the vine.
If you are really confident, you could precede the open assault with infiltration to capture the top brass and lure the fleets into ambushes where you can disable their ships. Not like you have to care about the losses you suffer during a non-lethal take down.
Crepscularity
Mado-derp
- Location
- Sunnydale
Gosh, Drich and Faith are just blending together in my head.
Progenitor superscience allows you to supplant all systems, communications and build a fleet able to take on the entire setting in a matter of weeks, if not days.
It's time to break out the Titans to teach some lessons.
Also, is it worth buying PA Titans?
Progenitor superscience allows you to supplant all systems, communications and build a fleet able to take on the entire setting in a matter of weeks, if not days.
It's time to break out the Titans to teach some lessons.
Also, is it worth buying PA Titans?
Battleship_Fusou
(The Itty-Bitty Pretty Battleship Kitty)
- Location
- Surigao Strait
I enjoy it, especially with the expanded space and sea units. Besides that, as I understand it, you can stil play with people who are running the original.
Faith
Some idea of what I'm doing.
- Location
- Land of Waves and Warmth
Yes, yes it does. Progenitors are so wonderfully bullshit.
Faith does not have access to anything from the Titans expansion. No Ragnarok for Faith
(yet)No idea, haven't bought it myself yet. I'm not sure if it's a standalone or not, but PA was amazing so stands to reason Titans would be the same, right?
- Location
- North of England
- Pronouns
- She/They
I haven't played PA but from what I know of Titans, you'll like it if you liked Supcom; the Titans are essentially Experimental units.
Battleship_Fusou
(The Itty-Bitty Pretty Battleship Kitty)
- Location
- Surigao Strait
Get the gold edition too. Get it you fool!
Also, I think we let the genie outta the lamp my friends. Maybe PA multi crosses are going to become the new worm.
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- Location
- Middle Earth
I only had twenty eight dollars on my card, buying Titans has made me too poor to buy SupCom.
Crepscularity
Mado-derp
- Location
- Sunnydale
I think I will just play SupCom first, then join you all in PA. Isnt it a bit unfair for the non Titan players to face off against those that do?
Nah, it works just like TA & CC. Someone with Titans can join and/or host a non-Titans game. (though I'd kind of like to see a mode where you can have multiple commanders without Titans vs one with Titans.)
OverReactionGuy
Verified Sanity
I think it's more of there are no good guys type of thing.
This is probably the truth, it's just that Midichlorians are in every biological (there are living rocks that are force sensitive as well) force sensitive (IIRC there have been no experiments where people have been given Midichlorians and they've gotten force powers) and they think that Midichlorians are the cause not a symptom
Let me see if I can find any worth going on the list, I have ~300 games on steam and a good number are sci-fi.
2 I can think of off the top of my head are Anno 2070 and 2270 (with all DLC).
Oh and the sci-fi version of Civilization 2 : Test of Time is a good place to go as well.
Here's my list.
- AI War : Fleet Command
- Alpha prime
- Anachronox
- Ancient space
- Armada 2526
- Asteria
- The Bureau : XCOM Declassified
- Carrier Command : Gaea Mission
- Chrome
- Chrome : Specforce
- Defy Gravtiy
- Deponia (for fun)
- Divinity : Dragon Commander
- Dungeon of the Endless
- E.Y.E : Divine Cybermancy
- Earth 2140
- Etherium
- Fallout
- Final Fantasy (some are sci-fi)
- Fractured Space
- Front Mission
- Galactic Civilization 1,2&3
- Gemini Wars
- Genesis Rising
- Greed : Black Border
- Habitat
- Haegemonia (any/all)
- Hydrophobia : Prophecy
- Kerbal Space Program (fun)
- Kinetic Void
- Lords of the Black Sun
- Mirror's Edge
- Offworld Trading Company
- Pandora : First Contact
- Rip
- Risk of Rain (fun)
- Saint's row
- Shadowgrounds
- Sid Meier's Starships
- Sins of a Solar Empire
- SOMA
- Space Engineers (now with planets)
- Space Hack
- Space Run
- Space Trader : Merchent Marine
- Spacebase DF-9
- Star Chronicals : Delta Quadrant
- Star Nomad
- Star Ruler
- Starbound
- Stellar Impact
- Sydar Arcade
- The Talos Principle
- Waking Mars (interesting)
- WARP
- All the old X-COM's and their off shoots UFO
- Xenonauts (based on old X-COM)
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Battleship_Fusou
(The Itty-Bitty Pretty Battleship Kitty)
- Location
- Surigao Strait
*YOINK*
The games list/tinker power ideas, presumably.
Battleship_Fusou
(The Itty-Bitty Pretty Battleship Kitty)
- Location
- Surigao Strait
correct