Some help with a faction set

[Nexii]

It does, but I think -1 EFF and Drones/4 are a pretty equivalent penalty to -2 RES.  Drones also get NODRONE,1, which is a strong early boost easily on par with HURRY, 85.

Probably either +2 IND, or +1 ECON added and hurry increased to 90.  As they are, I think they'd need hurry decreased to around 70 to be competitive.

[diessa]

Sorry, I had an interruption in my schedule. Sigma, I anticipate trying your factions tonight, so I'll try to write feedback either today or tomorrow.

[Sigma]

Updated for 06.19.2014:

-Fixed the Authority's Ability Bonus to correctly apply Non-Lethal Methods instead of Repair Bay

[JarlWolf]

Bumping this for all comrades to see...

[Sigma]

I've attached an updated version of my faction pack. It contains adjustments to every faction. Several have received significant buffs and a couple (mainly the Pilgrims) have been nerfed slightly.

• Increased Technocrats Effiency bonus to +2
• Increased Chrysalites Morale bonus to +2
• Changed Chrysalite Talent bonus from 4 to 3
• Transferred Pilgrims Fanatic bonus to Leviathan
• Gave Satori +2 Probe
• Updated Satori flavor text. The overall goal is to give the impression that they are equal parts legitimate business and organized crime syndicate. To that end, Atsumi now has the leader title of "Oyabun", the traditional name for the leader of a yakuza. Might be a little on the nose, so it's subject to change.
• Increased Authority Defense bonus to +25%
• Added Research,2 to Apollo, mostly to see what happens.
• Modified Ideological Preferences for certain factions

[ete]

Cool, could you or someone update the wiki pages? http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/Category:Sigma%27s_factions I don't have much comp access for the next few days.

[ete]

Played a game with the Leviathan Body yesterday. Transcend, small map, foes:
Bards
Annihilators
Exterminatus
Pilgrims
Imperium
Chrysalis

Had a bit of trouble early on due to starting very close to the bards (all workers are talents, 50% psi bonus, 25% def bonus. and +2 Planet, plus a bunch of other bonuses), but managed to stalemate them. Lots of drone problems as expected, but got both HGP and VW to help control it due to a lovely start location for my HQ (two monoliths, two nut bonuses, and a bunch of river squares). Never really used any of their bonuses much, but outgrew everyone with mass forests and facilities. Had to make some defenses when the Bards brought a bunch of worms and locusts at me, but played defensive and went massively exponential in my infrastructure/tech growth at about the same time the Annihilators finally stopped messing around (read: being stalled in ma massive meatgrinder by the exterminatus) and crushed every other faction on planet at once.

Issue was for them that by that point I was teching twice and turn and had virtually every worthwhile facility at every base, plus both psi SPs, and could make about 10 singularity 8 res r bolt x empath hovertanks per turn, so I kinda destroyed them for a while, then transcended.

Overall, the faction seemed a bit weak, but that's probably mostly because I was forced onto the defensive for the early game when their offense bonus would have helped, and fighting a heavy native faction with 50% psi bonus at -6 Planet is kind of horrible. Had to focus unusual amounts of resources on drone control due to no police, so just went with FM and only AA air unit/no attacking people for a while.

[Sigma]

Updated Faction Pack for 11.17.2014

Only changes here is some adjustments to Satori flavor text, such as changing the leader's title to "Madam" because frankly what was I thinking.

[ete]

Cool, I ran it through spellcheck and fixed a few minor things from most of the text files, attached to this post.

[Sigma]

Oh? What did you find? Just grammar issues?

[ete]

Spelling, missing spaces, that kinda thing. Nothing major. Compare with https://www.diffchecker.com/diff to see exactly what's changed.

[Sigma]

I think I'm going to start cleaning up the Technocrat base image file. Want it to stand up the standard set by other bases.

[Sigma]

11.18.2014

Fixed error with Satori's Defense penalty

[Sigma]

If anyone has played the set recently, let me know: has Apollo Industries been teching rapidly? Most of the test games that I've played has them outpacing factions like the Technocrats and Chrysalites fairly reliably.

[ete]

I've not used them in a game recently, no. I'll throw them in next time I have an appropriate setup for testing.

But looking at it.. yea, if you add in +2 research to an already pretty awesome builder, it's likely to make it amazingly good. Purely from theory I'd drop research and just adjust Hurry until it feels balanced.