u/sarsante

Only slightly annoying achievement was Guido one, not because it's particularly hard but it says starting as when in fact you need to do as him. I wasted quite amount of time on my first try because of this detail.

The Father, The Son and The Holy Grandson was a bit annoying too, it's super easy but it's boring to play 3 generations. Run was almost ruined when the game decided randomly to cancel the decision to not seek the Papacy and I almost got elected. Literally 1 month after I noticed and took the decision again the Pope died.

Playing the same save for 160 years as Byzantines. I've pretty much everything besides intellect traits for good education and I know how it works for guardians, etc... I've 8k hours in this game.

Last generation from 8 children, 5 of them got 5 stars, 2 got 4 stars and 1 got 3 stars which was the youngest and I probably forgot to give her a guardian. Which has been what happens for maybe 100 years in the save, consistently 4 stars, sometimes 5 stars and rarely a 3 stars.

Current generation from 3 children so far, 3 times 3 stars. Two of them my character with pretty good stats educated them since before their were 6, their education focus were one of the green ones and weren't changed since it was set before they were 6 years and still all of them got 'bad' education.

I tried quit to main menu, start a new random game, quit and load the save again. Next child will be 16 soon but I haven't educated him personally, let's wait and see what will happen.

I got a quest to get a 3 years old girl and fight 2 raids from 2 different factions. Obviously didn't worth doing it but I was bored. They spawned right next to each other! This game never ceases to amaze me.

Bruh, he's the 40-year-old virgin

I couldn't even get the crusader trait because I was hosting a grand wedding and this battle and a couple sieges ended it. 1178 start btw.

First one it's garbage because it ignores all the travel mechanics, it's just a pure rng thing. Should at least make sense in have requisites to fire instead of 1% chance.

Second it's the most obnoxious of the entire game. Characters are the only resource in the game that matters, everything else it's ridiculously easy to get. If I want to play as adventurer I can click on a character and set it as favorite child. I still don't know how they added this forced adventurer on succession without a setting to disable it.

I've these beds on the same hospital, one next to each other and for some reason unknown to me, both beds on the left side (bed 3 and one above it) have a bit less immunity gain than the others and as shown in the screenshots. It's not related with the quality of the bed.

Maybe because they're closest to the 'rocks' on the left?

Thanks

First off this is not to fuel an anti-meta speech or to hate on some youtuber, it's to show my experience in PVE with neutron cruisers not being as good as people make it sound. Then I also added to the test the carrier missiles battleships from a recent YT video.

This test it's done against a 3x contigency crisis GA, in one real save. Why contingency you ask? Because imo it's the most balanced fleet, it would skew the results if I test only against a shield heavy and low armor fleet or vice versa.

Naval Cap: All tests were done with the same ~5k nav cap usage plus 3k GDF, so ~8k in total. It's 7 fleets, 6 of them with 1 Titan (tracking), GDF with 3 Titans (tracking, fire rate and disengagement) and 1 Juggernaut (range).

When talking about costs to build, it doesn't include the Titans or Juggernaut because they're the same setup across the board which makes the cost the same. They will count in the cost to reinforce the fleets after the battle tho.

Designs and cost to build:

Carrier - 737k alloys

Artillery - 744k alloys

Cruiser - 795k alloys

Battles: All battles were in the same system, through the same farther away hyperlane. Using the same leaders, tech, civics, edicts, etc. To make conditions as neutral as possible. Example.

Their fleet power go from 1,39M/1,42M it's RNG but close enough. Our fleets are always at the same spot, because the ships are replaced after they're all parked there and because every fleet has at least one Titan when changing ship designs they're reinforced at the same spot.

Enemy system

Finally the numbers:

Each battle was ran 3 times, at the end of the battle the numbers are taken from the fleet manager tab. Numbers below are first the amount of ships lost, including Titans, Juggernaut, etc. Second number is the alloy cost to reinforce the fleets to full power.

Carrier + Missiles

1: 76 - 303,465

2: 49 - 174,941

3: 90 - 346,484

avg: 71.6 - 279.9k

Cruiser

1: 69 - 138,451

2: 52 - 105,869

3: 57 - 135,226

avg: 59.3 - 126.5k

Artillery

1: 8 - 26,415

2: 16 - 77,751

3: 8 - 26,415

avg: 12 - 43.5k

Buffs, Perks, misc:

Defender of the galaxy and all battle edicts.

Repeatables: 16x damage, 9x fire rate for kinnect, energy and explosive. Why this weird number? It was what I had when crisis spawned then using debug mode I made all equal to the different weapons to be kinda fair.

I honestly forgot the strike craft repeatables but small damage, with small percentage well maybe it could have been a tiny bit less terrible. Hardening it's bad for missiles, strike craft and bypass weapons which I think that's the reason to have the worst results on my tests. I guess I can redo the tests with the same amount of repeatables if there's any interest but I hardly think it will change that much, any percentage on top of a 6-17 damage will be a tiny increase.

Why not psionics?

Not every empire has access to it. I know zro launchers are better than the neutron ones but not everyone run psionic ascension 100% of the time, if you do I respect that.