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Transformation is affected both by luck scales, and personal luck of the caster. There are two Luck-granting trinkets that can be fairly easily acquired, and they both seem to stack in decreasing the chances of a bad transformation.

Also no, I don't think bad transformations reduce magic paths. I never saw it happen at least, besides the transformations to feebleminded or mindless forms that just take away all paths.

Quote from: Greenbane on April 14, 2016, 06:36:37 pm

Quote from: Teneb on April 14, 2016, 06:24:27 pm

I am guessing steam doesn't support argentine pesos?

There's no Argentina region for Steam, nor are we included in the Brazil region.

We get full American USD pricing, so it's usually better and possible to find third-party sites with better discounts. Nuuvem, following the Brazil regional pricing, is usually at least 50% cheaper. The downside is that the available selection is limited, and a few AAA games are specifically locked to Brazil. My backup is Green Man Gaming, which follows American pricing (for me at least), has a greater selection of games, and usually 20-25% discount coupons.

I do buy things on Steam directly sometimes, but it's usually minor titles during major sales.

I don't think anyone these days would fault you for not buying from Steam.

I'm a bit jealous you can get Stellaris so cheap. It's the first time I've seen that message on Nuuvem too. I got so excited after I saw that you bought it on there too.

It costs 699 rubles for me. Or roughly $10.5.

I wouldn't think of not buying something from Steam as long as it keeps up this sort of regional pricing here.

This game is interesting.

 After three short-lived attempts to get some workflow, finally managed to find a spot with coal, iron, and copper within a few screenlengths of each other, a short walk away from the starting point.
 Realized that I have no rock pretty much anywhere nearby except a tiny outcropping way southeast, and water for power generation is also far away.
 Eventually got a resource operation up and running, set up a powerplant far to the northeast at a small puddle of a lake (powered by coal from a nearby small source). Built a basic automated research station, destroyed a nearby alien nest to prevent attacks (via turret creep).
 Rebuilt the research station a few times, automated green resource packs, expanded.
 Ran out of coal for the powerplant, instead of finding more coal moved the whole thing further north to an oil source next to a major body of water (took some figuring out).
 Ran out of the last rocks, no sources anywhere in reasonable distance on radar. Built a car, started loading up for an expedition to find rocks and have them shipped to the main base. Can't even build walls, which seems like a pretty big problem, but attacks are very few and small so far.

Research has been mostly an annoyance, popping up with a screen to select a new tech every once in a short while. Actually looking forward to running out of red-green research items.

Questions to the more experienced:
1) Do attacks pick up in intensity by themselves, or do I have to go further out to encounter bigger and more aggressive natives?
2) How the hell do I use circuit systems? What is their purpose? Couldn't manage to make them do anything useful.
3) Anyone know if there's a variant of the singleplayer campaign that starts directly with the tutorial? The campaign as-is turned me away by providing me with a starting base of a design I didn't make.

Having some amount of fun so far. Tinkering with logistics is surprisingly engaging, it's like a dynamic puzzle game.

Quote from: Criptfeind on April 09, 2016, 07:47:39 am

Sword of the stars has 3d galaxies (or, probably more accurately, random clusters of stars. 250 stars or whatever does not a galaxy make), even ones that are way less flat then ours. It's mostly a pain in the ass, and personally, once I played around on a non flat map, I'd always go back to the mostly flat ones. After that I really couldn't care less about non flat galaxy maps. Also maybe I'm misremembering (which my spell checker says is not a word but google disagrees so okay), but there seemed to be at least some cosmetic height staggering, just hard to see because all the names and stuff are on a flat overlay.

Yeah, it's something you use once then never again because it's a massive headache to deal with. SotS 2 had it really, really bad especially with their stupid province system.

Because honestly, from a practical standpoint there is literally no difference between stars on different planes versus a flat galaxy except distance. It's just unnecessarily confusing.

Someone's graduated from the Khan school of strategic thinking, I see.

Yes, 3-D space is confusing. It also creates scenarios that are impossible with 2-D space. You can't "encircle" someone's territory and cut them off from expansion quite so easily if they have "up" and "down" as expansion vectors as well. You can have a  string of colonized planets creating a corridor of owned space that goes over or under someone else's territory across the galactic arm, allowing you to move unrestricted without infringing on any borders. Lots of things are possible if you spend the time to think about it.

Some of my most favorite maps in SotS are the highly-3D ones, especially when playing as humans. The node network being what it is, you can find good paths far more often, and can be cut off far less easily, if you have some extra directions to go into.

I have to say I somehow like playing the Marine the most. Even though it presents the most logistical challenges (no reusable maybe-lockpicks of the Pilot, no random extra drop every 2-3 rooms from the Hunter's dog, not even an extra weapon and offensive active item that the Convict has), somehow that sidearm and military training end up being highly valuable.

The real reason why the Marine's sidearm is so effective, besides the accuracy, is its clip size. Firing accurately, it's enough to off 3 Bullet Kin. Two full clips kill a Gun Nut (the big brute with the red sword). It's just a great all-round weapon, exactly because the Marine starts off so deprived of good gear.

I was killed by a bullet. Fired from a gun. That was held by a bullet.

Is there anyway to play the early patches of the game via Steam?

Steam, no, but I think you might still find some of the early(er) builds on various torrent sites. A quick glance over to one I know shows a build from 2 years ago, if you really want to try that route.