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Since we are showing off bases I got a pair of quick shots of the current Towers of the Tower Hermits

Tower 1: Nearly taller than all local natural formations.  Built near a pretty dense amount of iron and coal.  Also spider country.  So many of the damn things keep getting in the way of my wood axe.
Tower 2: Built in the north edge of the desert to give closer access to being able to beat up different Exile factions than Tower 1.  This is slowly becoming the new main Tower, though not as tall yet.  Current plan is to get it high enough so you can just take a horizontal elevator over to Chaosmouth, for no other reason than because.

Tower Hermits is open to recruits, plenty of room in the towers.  So much in fact that it's really hard to tell if anyone else is in a tower with you.

I offered day 1 if you wanted to team up or what ever Folly.  Tower Hermits could always use more hermits.

Edit: And that goes for anyone else.  If your looking for a group that doesn't care about being a group then why not join Tower Hermits.  Towers can be provided.

Anyone picked up from escape pods will go into any spare cryo-berths first and overflow will be counted against your crew space.  Anyone picked up in a ship without excess cryo or crew space will behave the same as if there were more crew than crew quarters.  This means potential life-support failures if you go over your crew space.

Honestly it's fine to pick up a small number of escape pods with your regular military ships, as long as they are heading right towards a friendly port right after.  I usually add 100-300 person worth of cryo to my salvage or tug ship and use it as a hospital ship.

Quote from: Kanil on April 25, 2018, 01:37:27 am

Quote from: Aoi on April 25, 2018, 01:19:55 am

Alternatively, does this allow you to kill a pilot without (significantly) damaging the mech? Because that could be an abstraction of it too.

You kill the pilot without damaging the 'mech by shooting the 'mech's head off, as the head is where the cockpit/pilot is located.

The part I find weird isn't so much that CT kills pilot (this is... odd... but certainly makes "MechWarrior" a more appropriately dangerous profession) but rather that the 'mech itself is seemingly indestructible. Like you destroy the part of the 'mech that makes up the 'mech, while leaving the part where the pilot is contained entirely intact... but the pilot dies and the 'mech is okay.

If you're referring to how you can salvage cored mechs, it's explained in game that you salvage parts of mechs each time. Once you get 3 parts you get the whole mech.

I think he is referring to if your mechs go down you can still recover it and just fix what got blown off but the pilot can die.  Even if it was killed only by CT hits.

I wish you could stockpile the salvage and use them as a way to replace lost limbs on mechs.  Not so much for a cheaper or faster way to fix them, but so I don't have to reinstall the components that got blown off every time.

Just realized I'm at that same point.  Population sits at 14 kids per adult right now.  That means each couple has over 28 kids, each.

Also unemployment is down to 93%.  So, yay.

Guess since so many people are unemployed there's not much to do.  Also healthcare was 100% so why not I guess.

Nice graph on the pop growth. Imagine the trouble to come in your nation when you got 900k of kids and 100k adults to keep them in line .

I'm already there in a sense.  International average of kids as population is only 27% and adult is 43%.  I started with 43% kids and am now at 58%
Also hit 95% unemployment, so am economically fucked for the rest of the month.  All because I didn't touch ONE value of 100s.

It doesn't seem being in the red is having that big of a negative effect.  No worse than when I started.

Seems the formal alliance system is definitely still in work.  Even if you fill every thing out it ask you to fill something out that isn't on the screen.  Gives me time to try and come up with a Y word to end the acronym with to get EBAY as an alliance short handle.

The alliance treaty though seems to just be a bunch of the other treaties that can be just warped together without a time limit.  Trade, research, military access, intelligence and so on.

I'm currently researching IFVs.  Might switch over to aircraft or ships if enough people are already doing research into ground vehicles, and research sharing works.