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Plus, it's just really fucking strange logic.

Problem:  We can't stop ourselves from making our own planet inhospitable to life
Solution:  But we can totally go to a planet that is already inhospitable to life, and make it work

No, no. The idea generally isn't so much to make other planets particularly hospitable as have them to off, uh. Orbit, I guess. All the inhospitable shit we're doing here. And maybe finding the few that's already livable. Outside of (generally romanticized) dome colonies and whatnot, I guess. A kind of "Imagine if we could take that small plastic continent we're building in the pacific and just toss it into the sun" thing. Or maybe figure a way to dump it all on venus or something and throw in a bunch of that plastic eating bacteria or whatever the hell.

Personally I just want to know we've actually got the option to try ready and rarin' to go if/when we actually happen to irreparably wreck this planet or it gets hit with a giant space rock or whatever. Never a good idea to have all your eggs in the same basket and all that. It's brainfuckingly stupid to me any of us is actually considering not even trying. Like, sure, it's not instant, and expensive, and etc., etc., etc. But it's like living in the middle of a flood plain and not having flooding insurance. Or stilts or some crap, I'unno, whatever works to get the point across.

Basically the idea is we do the space thing so we actually have the option to stop shitting in our back yard. Right now we don't really have other yards to shit in.

There is always conquering space. Space has a lot of stuff we haven't started even exploiting yet! And living space! Minerals, Hydrocarbons, water, solar-energy, adventure! It's like Imperialism without the part where you hurt people. But no one lives in space! Yet! See? Everyone benefits!

Space Imperialism is the way forward people.

There's just that teensie problem with near every part of it being inherently inimical to human life :V

And hey, the oceans have, like. Most of that already! We could colonize that. They filmed parts of a TV series about that in florida, actually.

We wouldn't even have to worry about killing the dolphins or whatever after our topside nincompoopery acidifies/deoxygenates the thing to the point they're all dead anyway.

The critter was also toting a black steel tower shield, yes.

Also, minor tip to all folks trying lemuria that didn't notice it already: The shadows you call underwater are marginally stronger than the ones you call on land, and still fully amphibious, even the triton ones. Can't remember if ermor or theo-whatever have similar tricks going on, though I want to say you can see something along those lines if you're in a province with native monkey population or stuff along those lines. Getting different skeletons from reanimation and whatnot, most of which are more powerful (if only by small degrees) than your baseline longdead/shadow/whatever.

But basically, if possible, you want all your spare freespawn tribunes calling shadows underwater if they don't have anything better to do at the moment. It's mostly fairly small (tritons get +8 AP, atlantians get +1 HP... and they both get floating, which can actually be a pretty major thing in certain cases), but it's a nice little boost.

Iirc the canon or whatever suggests that the 'nids aren't so much following anything particular as they are running the hell away from something, and the om-nom is just how they keep themselves hauling exoskeleton.

Yeah, the blood sac (or dying domain or whatever it's called?) in this case wouldn't be to try to domkill but to keep your dominion away from most of your provinces, while still being able to keep yourself from being domkilled. As sorta' mentioned, from what I understand it's part of how a particularly well ran tri/quad-bless mictlan manages to not get excreted upon even if their initial rush is slowed or stalled. They ruin the area around their starting provinces and keep everything else in someone else's (Preferably decent) domain.

E: In other news, I just started up a game with everything except magic -3. Late winter of the first year, one of my provinces gets hit with a barbarian invasion consisting of a chief, a lord... and 109 barbarians. Yeah, that province didn't make it :V

Yeeaaah, looking into it a bit more the bulk of the game plays like a middling-if-not-bad flash RPG (in the style of the Epic Fantasy Battle stuff), with a thin veneer of strategy that's... well, you can make the x-com comparison but the comparison you'd be making is "Like x-com but shallower and more annoying". I can see what they're trying to do with the combat, and to be fair the whole "consume debuff for extra damage" thing isn't something you see all that often, but it's pretty flat as implemented. Tech tree's maybe better but it's still just kinda' straightforward and only so-so in terms of interest... same for the station clearing stuff, so far as I've seen.

Similarly the strategy layer approaches more annoying than fun due to the manual resource collection -- that sort of thing would be okay in the beginning, if you could set up convoys or something to do it for you (and bonus, that could add another opportunity to do something interesting, with having to defend the things or whatev'), but as near as I've noticed you can't, and it's not -- and just how the travel works... even just moving the station would have helped there, make it more centralized so the tedium stuff (resource collection, fending off the desultory raids) didn't involve much travel and the interesting was actually doing stuff beyond that area.

The aesthetics are pretty solid if like that sort of thing, if nothing else, though the music seemed fairly repetitive (bar maybe the racial stuff, but you kinda' don't hear that enough and what you do hear constantly is... pretty constant). Not something I could blame a small studio for, really, but still.

... basically the game's not exactly offensively bad, but there's zero chance I'd spend more than five bucks on it. Probably less, tbh. The production values seem pretty good but the gameplay is "found buried in a pile of 3 star flash games on kongregate", if definitely something I could see being improved pretty substantially. The 1.0 release isn't a game I could recommend to someone, though.

Though if you're asking about eye loss in general, do remember that the only thing better than a dead enemy unit is a live one that basically can't do anything to you and is still costing your enemy resources.

... or what you're talking about actually are the magnitude 7s. Pretty sure that's generally the position stated.