Let's talk about exploration

[Lemmy]

any preference among the population?

Options i see:

• Go for any pods in sight...
• Explore around our first base for colonization locations...
• Explore the coastline, need good beaches for the summer...
• Explore as far possible in one direction, and probably meet other factions...
• Water, playing Colombus and stuff...

any other suggestions, thoughts, pros, cons?

[DeathByTheSword]

option 1 and 2 in my book and then just follow the coastline.

[- Groucho -]

My usual early game exploration routine is to try to rush out and pop as many pods as I can get my hands on. I then go back and fill in the promising looking blank areas on the map once my pod poppers hit a dead end. Once I've done that I've usually either ran into someone else (which leads to its own issues) or determined I'm alone on my landmass (which leads to its own issues as well).

[MrWhereItsAt]

Perhaps avoiding the larger patches of pod-less fungus - they will provide ****e base sites and thus we don't need to explore them early on.

[FlameFlash]

1 & 2 good however I'd like to see that our inner borders are constantly kept explored as we grow early on so nobody can sneak up on us.

[Method]

i like them all lemmy

also, get a boat out early, and get all the sea pods. later if in Free Market, use a sea probe, or sea crawler. you don't pay support, or have pascifist drones.

[GeneralTacticus]

All of them. In order of priority, I would say:

1/2)
3)
4)
5)

[Maniac]

Would you pop pods in fungus in the early game or do you consider the risk of mind worms appearing too great?

[Zakharov VII]

Off on a bit of a tangent...

What's psi combat like on Thinker? I know on Citizen the player gets immense advantages against worms (usually a non-combat unit can beat back an attacking Mindworm even from the fungus! The numbers look all weird for Strength - I think I've seen a 0.06 strength Isle of the Deep!), but on Transcend it's very even (Strength looks like it's calculated like normal). Is there a slight advantage on Thinker?

Z

[Proserpine]

Options 1 and 2 for sure

[Vlad Antlerkov]

-- Finding locations for new bases is a must-- do this very quickly.
-- Grab whatever pods we can.
-- Scout out the coastline, so we can figure out where we are.

[Maniac]

From my limited experience on Thinker the PSI combat is exactly the same.

[Anodyne]

Vlad

[Haon]

Lemmy all your choices make sense to me except for slight change to 4, since this is on the planet map we shoudl know what continent we are on and we can then make a more educated guess on where other leaders are and find them quicker.

[Andemagne]

Vlad