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that is how it works in civ5 as well. if you dont have open borders from them your missionary takes 25% damage per turn. great prophets are not affected by this.
the strategy is to try not to end your turn with the missionary in enemy borders. ideally you stop just outside their borders then in one turn run up to the city and pop it. it'll lose power (50% iirc) from use, it'll lose an additional 25% of its total power from being in enemy borders, then you can move it out to neutral ground. now you have a weakened missionary you can still use again.
or just get open borders.
On second though it seems like this game is currently balanced around the faction that can increase its network range with stations. As the colonize-everything faction, after 2 restarts I have yet to be able to colonize a single planet. I have never started with another planet in range and in one of the games I didn't get the 2nd +network range after getting 2 techs in each category, and the nearest planet was further than that. also my tech tree is all gunked up with terraforming options which are useless to me (they should be removed for this faction)
edit: alas, with one more restart i was able to get planets in range and colonize for the first time!
An anomaly allowed me to build a -1Gas/+1Energy station for free. It allowed me to place it outside of my network, where it is disconnected. It now costs the Gas without providing the Energy. I presume this is two bugs:
1) anomalies allow construction outside of network
2) stations outside of network still cost resources without providing income
after expanding my network to cover it, the income starting coming in as expected
some QoL requests:
Disable killing while building: guys kept wandering under my cursor and offing themselves. this was especially bad with the helmet guy you get after working on your main campfire for a while since he follows your cursor; i killed him almost immediately by accident
Big increase to walk speed for unimproved guys: it would help with the waiting
Build using nearest guys: sometimes a nearby guy would stand there while someone from across the map would walk over
Visual indication of special Trees/Rocks: it would be nice to know which Tree/Rock/etc will crease a house location, pickaxe, etc
A way to jump to nearest campfire: i left my cursor on the side of the screen by accident and scrolled really far. then i couldn't find my camp
Ability to zoom out more
How do shuttles work? Mine just sits there (within 15 tiles of home base) "Waiting for crew" and won't go on a mission. It has full fuel. I'm trying to move it to be a mobile construction office to build the radio tower far away.
edit: okay, it finally left on the mission. it landed next to the intended radio tower location. the entrance to the shuttle and the entrance to the tower were not blocked. the game complained that there is no route. i have no idea what i'm supposed to do.
I have plenty of Air and Water, but my "air/water capacity of life support system" is bottoming out, and my colonists are dying.
How do I turn Air/Water into Air/Water supply?
edit: this comes up in a later quest. having this gated resulted in a lot of deaths. i would like this to become available once its needed, not after its been needed for a long time.
Neat game! One gripe-
It's really annoying that all Warriors all target the same enemy every time. Spreading several Barracks over the map should mean that they split up sensibly, but they will instead run to the far end letting enemies right next to them destroy your base.
I'd just request that Warriors update their attack priority far more often
Anyone manage a win with Groove Oracle? It seems like the hardest by far. Insult to injury, when you fight another Groove Oracle they always seem to be The Guy She Told You Not To Worry About aka you but way way better.
Likewise, having an "Abandon" option would help mitigate frustration from doomed runs if, e.g., you are attempting to win with the Groove Oracle
this is a fun little game though!