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[Rolan7]

It might be that you haven't researched the Valuable Coins yet, that's necessary before you can turn them in (true for most bounty items).

[AzyWng]

I had something like that on...I believe it was my second mission ever. Haven't encountered the pirates since, which is a shame as I'd probably be better equipped to deal with them now.

The Necropirates I fight are equipped with muskets and the like...

I’s that intentional?

[sluissa]

I had something like that on...I believe it was my second mission ever. Haven't encountered the pirates since, which is a shame as I'd probably be better equipped to deal with them now.

The Necropirates I fight are equipped with muskets and the like...

I’s that intentional?

I've never seen them with anything else besides stuff like muskets, bunderbuses and melee weapons. I know SOME enemies are supposed to scale with the player though. I believe it was mentioned at some point that the sky ninjas are eventually supposed to be a sort of rival/nemesis to your gals and supposed to roughly scale with the current tech you're using.

[Frumple]

It sounds like they're supposed to be undead pirates, so... what else would they be using?

[AzyWng]

I mean, our group calls themselves pirates but that doesn’t stop us from using automatic weaponry...

There’s adhering to an image, and then there’s adhering to an image so hard your fucking dogs (I think the blood hounds are dogs?) are more of a threat than you are.

[amjh]

I think the necropirates are supposed to be threat only in the early game. Muskets are slow but if they hit they can cause decent amount of damage through early armor. Also, their analysis says they all are insane.

The analysis says they eat zombies to get unnatural toughness but it has negative effects on the mind.

[notquitethere]

I thought it was the savvy girls who were the ones who ate zombies, or are they the same thing?

[Rince Wind]

Savvy Girls are just civilians.


Canny Gals on the other hand eat zombies and are insane.


Haven't necro pirates myself, I guess because I was way into the midgame when they were introduced.

[notquitethere]

Ah that's what I meant. Canny Girls. I first met them in the jungle and it was like Apocalypse Now with all the fiery explosive crates I set off.

[Rolan7]

Yeah the canny girls and necropirates both eat zombie flesh, which gives them remarkable resilience (even for ubers) but appears to drive them insane (even for ubers).

What's less obvious is that it allows them to live outside of the zones.  Ubers need constant hellerium exposure to... get by.  It's not clear what happens if they don't get it.  One theory is that Ubers with the strongest minds are able to withstand the craving as their hellerium-enhanced physiology cannibalizes itself, eventually resulting in a gnome.  Most ubers, the theory goes, would give in and hunt the easiest source of raw hellerium: zombies.
Less easy source: our gals.

Their insanity might not be a direct result of the zombie flesh, but long-term underexposure to hellerium.  Either way, they hunt socially and use technology.  The canny gals are seemingly lower-tech, but they have some dangerous toxins and suggestions of voodoo.  I tend to avoid canny gals, mostly for their very effective camouflage even during the day.

[frostshotgg]

Blood rites can have some absolutely insane loot for how early the mission appears, if you have the weaponry to handle some relatively pretty heavily armored enemies.

[Iduno]

There are a lot of techs, and the tree is a bit overwhelming for newbies (on my second playthrough). Plus 3 brainers means you research slooooowly. Does anyone have good advice for techs to rush? Feel free to correct me all the places I'm about to be wrong:

• X-grog keeps you from being broke in the first few months if you don't have hundreds of apples, so you want the cunning, survival, violence, and weirdness. A lot of techs require those anyway.
  Interrogate everyone you can. You get free (don't waste an item, like your only laser) techs, and they're pretty fast to re-research if you've got multiple of the same hostage. Plus, it gives you score for extra money long-term. Starting with low-end people and working your way up makes sure you don't have a leader tell you what an orange is.
• Bounty hunting means you start gaining almost easy missions early, and start building up favor with the factions, even without a mess hall.
• Dogs are not quite cheap at 5k each and 1k/month, die if they're shot twice, but are easily replaceable. And you won't have the medical supplies for a sick bay, so 1 can take up a spot in your airbus to help explore.
• Gym Suit (from gymnastics) claims to give +10% experience, is quick and cheap to manufacture, gives you a bit more holding capacity, and has some heat resist. I still don't know if it's good or not. Alternatively barbarian (hot or cold resist, or high combat stress to train bravery) as an upgrade to tribal.

• Living space is a barrier to building up your base at first (especially if you buy all of the runts you can at the start so they can run your distillery), but burrows can be replaced with living quarters when you research those, effectively upgrading them. You can hold off on builder's guild until you're ready for really expanding.
  Likewise, weapons you can buy early are worse than what you get off the dead (until you run out of ammo), so getting merchants isn't something you need to rush right away.

Mess hall implies it improves healing some, but I don't know. Same with Onsen, but that's not super early-game.
Is animal taming a good early tech? Dogs seem vulnerable, don't do daze/concussive, and have low stamina.

[amjh]

Necropirates aren't ubers, they just have similar strength from the zombie eating. All ubers are women, though there are male half-ubers as civilians. Their in-game info directly states their madness comes from eating zombies, but it might be different for cannies as they are ubers.

[Rince Wind]

Male ubers are brutes. Stronger than even the gals, but they lack the brains.


@Iduno: I tend to try and get my brainer numbers up asap. I worry about paying them later and it works out, because they generate quite it bit of money in the form of score by themselves. So 3 Brainers is first month stuff, if I am lucky I'll have four at the end. Around May - June I have all the brainers I can stuff in the lab.

[frostshotgg]

Can someone give a rundown of the Dr. X plotline? What are the outcomes of the mission and which of them translates into getting all of the possible tech she has? The tech tree has a lot of bits and bobs with X in it to confuse me.