The Wasteland, or Aki's bad day at the office...

[molly bloom]

I've been playing Aki over several games now and have noticed that there appears to be an irony engine buried somewhere in Crossfire...


Three times (out of five starts) I end up on a shallow arid isle, bereft of moisture and with no foil from pods in two games (one game, the land nearest had Marr in full spate pumping out bases, and a sealurk made short work of any attempt at colonization by that little ship that didn't).

Twice I began either in the Great Dunes, or adjacent, with the only productive land a way through the Dunes. And then I pod-prod, and the land gets elevated, not only making it even more arid, but linking me to the Hive, who has about 8 bases to my 2 and Doctrine Mobility, Impact Weaponry and Plasma Armour.

Not quite my shortest game, but certainly one rich in expletives...

[BlackCat]

The Hive incident sounds a bit problematic, but else, I guess it's part of the fun.

If you want something boring, then try this :

[CEO Aaron]

My one exploit is that I always, always, always reload/undo earthquake pods. Anyone know how to take that result out of the game?

[molly bloom]

An even better start with Aki. I start on an islet, only capable of holding Alpha Prime and nothing else.

No foil. The nearest large landmass (my islet of lost dreams is in its bay) turns out (after a lot of waiting and waiting for Mob and Flex and building a transport) to be occupied by the Drones.

That was worth waiting for....

[GooglyBoogly]

An even better start with Aki. I start on an islet, only capable of holding Alpha Prime and nothing else.

No foil.

I was lead to believe that was impossible. Since a base can be placed two tiles apart - you must have been on a 1 - 4 tile landmass. A 4 tile landmass has 6 adjacent water tiles. even with 6 surrounding tiles you are supposed to always start off with a foil.

[BlackCat]

I was lead to believe that was impossible. Since a base can be placed two tiles apart - you must have been on a 1 - 4 tile landmass. A 4 tile landmass has 6 adjacent water tiles. even with 6 surrounding tiles you are supposed to always start off with a foil.

Not quite true - check my save