I have my air force research council funded. They are researching a linear tech. I understand the diminishing return penalties (it’s at 71% right now). The bps (bureaucratic points) it’s getting did not result in any rps (research points) for the last few turns.
My question is do these bps accumulate and result in rps later OR are they wasted if they they don’t meet a threshold for that turn?
If the former I will keep funding the same and live with the delay. If the latter then I need to change the air force funding (up if I want results or off until I really need it). The manual is kinda obtuse.
This game consumes me. For me it’s a coffee and tobacco kinda game. Right now I’m drinking and it’s not helping.
Edit:
I figured it out I think? A roll is played against the accumulated BP and bonus RP for the turn. The result is the applied RP for the given tech and for the turn. Nothing is carried over turns… I think. ish
The Explorimate podcast has a very good interview with the designer, Vic Reikersz, along with strategy streamers DasTactic and Tortuga Power. They discuss the game in great detail and don’t hesitate to voice concerns and criticisms.
Speaking of logistics, I’m really upset about high speed rail.
It’s not an upgrade to normal rail and it can’t coexist in the same city.
You have to destroy the old rail which takes several turns and rebuild HS rail which take many turns. This will DESTROY your logistics at the time you need it the most (large empire).
The work around online dosn’t work (Build outside the city). I tried. I suppose you could stay with traditional rail but HS rail is so much better for spanning the wasteland.
This is really good to know. I should have access to high speed rail ‘soon’ in my current game and was looking forward to the benefits.
Due to a massive shortage of metal for most of the game (my bad decisions really) I don’t have a lot of rail anyway, so maybe it will work out regardless.
Yeah, it’s really frustrating. My thought I was going to try, but then didn’t actually need to in my last game, was to build the traditional rail station outside the city and wait to build the HS rail inside the city.
In my current game, I haven’t built rail yet. So we can’t upgrade either stations or rails? So the idea would be to build rail stations a hex outside the city – and also route the rails themselves in such a way that high-seed rails can be laid a hex away as well? Or can we upgrade the rails themselves?
Well, I learned today why you may not what to build the biggest caliber guns/arty/payloads.
I had 2 flights of medium thopters. The planet was good for them. They could fly for 33 hexes and deliver the biggest payload for its class. One use brought my logistics to its knees for a couple turns. Front line troops went without. Seems they used so much ammo and fuel that my logistics couldn’t keep up.
I took a look at my early and modest artillery (105mm). They just sip ammo compared to these hogs.
I have managed to crash my frontline logistics in many ways so far:
Building too many assets at the same time (ironically usually logistics assets).
Too many armored/motorized units moving and attacking during the same turn.
Getting caught up in the attack mentality and not taking the time to make sure there are truck stations and supply bases to maintain things.
Raising large formations that suck up fuel and ammo to make them ready.
Probably using my level bombers that use a ridiculous amount of fuel and ammo (now that you pointed it out). Sadly I have not had the chance to try thopters or jets as of yet.
The need to stop and take a turn or two off during offensives to allow for your logistics to catch up to the action is crucial. I am, maybe, finally learning this!
There is a related project to combine those icons with the enhanced textures (linked previously) but that’s not done yet. Eventually those enhanced textures plus these icons will be a great combo.
Agree that the terrain mods are a huge improvement, and the combined pack will eventually be even better.
I was steamrolling all smaller majors in a ~70 turn match on hard, medium length AI turns. That is, until I declared war on the next biggest major, who ruthlessly cut my supply chains with fast moving tanks that were significantly better designed than mine, and then starved my front line. Ruined my entire front in the course of a few turns. Brutal!
I don’t think I’ve had to seriously considering recon and enemy design stats until this one, now I know. Hard can has some challenge!
Also really aggressive about defending against those things. It’ll react fast if you open a new front and it’ll withdraw as much as necessary to prevent its troops from being encircled.
