My Thoughts and Opinions, in Excruciating Detail
Power
There are only 2 real options for power, the rest are things for us to work towards. Both of the viable actions are easily doable between Eggman and Rusty Rose's power. I'm personally leaning towards establishing a perimeter personally, since it seems like an important first step towards establishing ourselves. Destroying Zavok's forces will probably give us metal to work with, but I confess I'm keen on the idea of stealing them back as a trickery action.My Choice: Establish a Perimeter (Rusty Rose)
Heart
As much fun as it would be to form an alliance with the Restoration, I don't think that will go well at this stage. Finding Captain Metal looks interesting, but our best shot would be a 50/50, which I'm not too keen on. Maybe it's just because it's low hanging fruit, but the Mean Bean Machine is my personal pick. Hopefully, we'll meet a new friend. they might even be better at Heart stuff than our current selection.My Choice: Go Visit The "Mean Beans Coffee Cafe" Shop
Logistics
I want Metal back online, he's our boy! Eggman's greatest creation! And considering our Logistics bonus (and I think our bonus to robotics) I'm pretty sure nothing short of a crit fail will stop us. Admittedly, we might need badnicks sooner rather than later, since without them we'll have trouble with larger-scale conflicts, but having Metal on hand will no doubt give us a formidable Hero. Since we can get Orbot and Cubot to do a secondary Logistics action, I say we have them build some badnicks. I don't know what kind of badnicks exactly, part of me wants Egg Pawns (cheap and Horde Tactics) but the Burrowbots could be useful for excavation and base building (I might be thinking too far ahead there)My Choice: Rebuild Metal Sonic + Build Some Badnicks (Orbot+Cubot)
Brains
We've got some options here, a lot of them. With Eggman's stats Evila and the Survey are basically freebies, the only choice is between if you want World News or more information on Green Hills right now. I'm not keen on the Scrapnicks, since they have a pretty narrow use case of "in the next 4 turns/before we get lots of metal." Now I will say, hacking Zavok's stuff is something we probably could do. Between Eggman and Starline we could swing at a +70 (+55 if Starline's negative trait activates) but the cautious side of me says we should build a bit of a sturdier base before we do. If we fail and Zavok comes at us, all we've got right now is Eggman, Starline, and Rusty Rose. Not exactly an army right?My Choice: Survey the Area
Trickery
Again, we've got some really neat choices here. My first thought is to look for potential Heroes/Minions, but stealing our Badnicks back from Zavok is very very juicy. With Eggman and Starline working together, our chance of failing outright is in the single digits, and we're pretty likely to pull it off without a hitch, so that's my pitch. Infiltrating the Empire also seems like it would be easy, wouldn't Starline's teleport ability go off if we used him for this? That would basically ensure we got in, although I don't know what we would do once we were there. Anywho, my pick is reclaiming our Badniks, but I understand why you'd want something elseMy Choice: Quietly Retake You Badniks:
Mystic
This is the only one where I'm completely lost. Having rings seems good. But I don't know how good. Is it worth an action? And researching the Warp Topaz is extremely unlikely to produce results, but if it does they'll be very big results. Looking for random bits of magic is a wild card. We might find something awful, or something we can put to full use. I'm defaulting to looking for rings, but I can see other options.My Choice: Gather Rings
Eggman Personals
Since Eggman's got 4 personals and 5 personal actions I just decided to see which one looked the most skippable. Mr Tinker's lab might have some good stuff in it, Tinkering will give us random items, Blueprints might give us new designs to work with, and studying Rusty might open up the potential for new options with her. Sorry Doctor, but working out seems like the least valuable thing to do right now.My Choice: Everything but Getting Back To The Grind
Starline Personal
I am aware that I'm skipping minions this turn, so it might not have immediate results, but I still want Starline to look at the local talent. Maybe he'll find some interesting people to add to the pool later. The other options have interesting ramifications for the future, but I do think the local talent is the most immediately helpfulMy Choice: Check Out The... "Local Talent"
Rusty Rose Personal
No big reason here I just kinda want to understand Rusty's deal before we jump into using her more. See if she has any interesting synergies or insights, or maybe a flaw we'll uncover as she talks.My Choice: Talk to Your New Co-Workers
I'm a little annoyed I wrote this whole thing out only to realize that all but 3 or so choices were the same as Soberan's suggestion. but oh well
