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Oltre che su Mac e PC, Sid Meier's Starships uscirà anche su iPad (il 12 marzo). Il team di Firaxis ha deciso di mostrarci la versione tablet in azione in un lungo video di gameplay con protagonisti Pete Murray e il lead producer Stuart Zissu. Vediamolo.
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00:13Grazie a tutti i nostri amici per la nostra giornata di Firaxis.
00:17Mi sono Pete Murray e sono stati di Stuart Zissou.
00:20Stuart is the lead producer on Sid Meier's Starships.
00:23Thanks for coming out today.
00:25My pleasure.
00:26So, we had a cool announcement earlier this week.
00:29We now have a date and a price for Starships.
00:31That's right.
00:32So, we're going to come out on March 12th.
00:34That's two weeks from today.
00:36It's going to be $14.99.
00:37And that's for PC, Mac, and iOS.
00:40So, all platforms, all the same price.
00:42Really excited about it.
00:44It's cool.
00:45The iOS version is actually exactly the same as the PC version of the game.
00:49Correct?
00:49Yeah, that's what we're aiming for.
00:51And I think we achieved that.
00:52Cool.
00:52So, what we're going to show you guys today is actually we have the game running on this iPad here.
00:57This is an iPad Air.
01:00Yeah.
01:00Yeah, current gen iPad Air.
01:02But you guys will get a chance to see that it is basically the same game that we've been showing
01:07you on the PC.
01:08And what we're going to do is show you the kind of the user interface changes a little bit because
01:12it's a touch surface instead of mouse.
01:15But basically the same game.
01:17So, should we just jump on in?
01:19Sure.
01:19All right.
01:20Start a new game.
01:20So, we're going to start a new game.
01:22And a lot of people have said they wanted to see us play out as Harmony.
01:26So, we'll go ahead and we'll choose that for this time around.
01:29And what leader do you want to pick?
01:32Let's see.
01:34I like going Daoming sometimes.
01:37Okay.
01:37We could try for her.
01:38Okay.
01:39Let's up the difficulty a little bit.
01:40Hard.
01:41Woo-hoo!
01:42So, you want to up the galaxy size too a little bit?
01:45Or let's just do large?
01:46Let's have some fun with it.
01:46Right?
01:47It'll be fun.
01:47Yep.
01:47All right.
01:48Four opponents.
01:48That looks all good.
01:50Go, go, go!
01:51Go.
01:51Start game.
01:52All right.
01:53Again, the tutorial screen right there.
01:54We're just going to jump through it.
01:55Okay.
01:57So, I have been playing a couple different styles lately.
02:01One of them is making a great big juggernaut ship.
02:04Oh, that's a great mechanic.
02:05I love that one.
02:05I do too.
02:05Great strategy, I mean.
02:07And then, recently, I started to play with a bunch of torpedo vessels too, which is also
02:11a lot of fun.
02:12But it looks like we have a couple of good choices to start with.
02:15Over here, Sextantus 4-3 has armor.
02:18So, if we were going with the juggernaut strategy, that would be an approach.
02:22We have engines.
02:23Engines are good for everybody.
02:24So, easily upgrading them is fantastic.
02:27So, one thing you'll also notice, just from moving around here, if I can take control
02:30for a sec, is we have, what, four Earth-like planets around here?
02:35Yes.
02:35Which means that, you know, assuming that we, you know, keep close to home, we're going
02:39to be getting a lot of food this game.
02:41Right.
02:42So, we're going to want to probably focus on, you know, using that food to upgrade our
02:46planets to then upgrade our ships.
02:48Yep.
02:48Because ships are always very important.
02:50Yep.
02:50So, if we look around, like, we have energy.
02:53Actually, I just noticed something.
02:54Down here at Serpentis 7-5, they have politicos.
02:57Ooh.
02:58Which means they're already an orange mission.
03:00Right.
03:01So, we would get two influence for going there straight away.
03:04I see what you're doing.
03:05We'd get one for the first, being the first visitor to them.
03:08But then the politicos give you the extra shift as well, too.
03:12So, actually, if we are able to succeed at this mission, we get our first planet.
03:16I like that idea.
03:17100% off the bat.
03:18So, should we head over there and see what the deal is?
03:21Let's go for it.
03:21Yeah.
03:22Okay.
03:24Just remember to upgrade your ships once you get there.
03:26I make that mistake all the time.
03:28Yeah.
03:28I'm like, let's see what it is and then we'll go in.
03:29Okay.
03:30So, this is a checkpoint scenario.
03:34This is you have to get to three stations and make sure that at no point do you lose control
03:41of all three of those stations.
03:42So, we need to be careful.
03:45This is usually a pretty tough mission on hard.
03:48It's easy to get swarmed, especially if the enemy brought a lot of fighter swarms.
03:52Let's take a look.
03:53And they have a ton of suicide drones.
03:55Yes.
03:56Now, the good part is these are early game suicide drones.
03:58There's only a couple.
04:00Like, the fourth one there has a couple of shield, a couple of armor, and a couple of lasers.
04:06Yeah, some good hit.
04:07So, we have a tough incoming enemy.
04:11Well, he'll be there at the start.
04:12And then another baddie coming in on turn five as well, too.
04:16Say at 31%, I think that's too conservative.
04:18Let's go ahead and we will set up our starships.
04:21So, we've got cannon and sensors.
04:25I don't know that we need the sensors for this mission.
04:28So, we'll go ahead and sell these out.
04:31Okay.
04:31Now, we've got one with lasers and one with cannon.
04:34Do you want to specialize these or do you want to go for a common configuration?
04:37I usually specialize just because then I know I can put all my money on that ship to either cannons
04:43or lasers and know I'm getting the most bang for the buck.
04:45Okay.
04:46Pun intended.
04:47Yeah.
04:47Oh, well, here's the thing.
04:49If you look, we've got upgrades on lasers and stealth.
04:54That's true.
04:55So, maybe what we could do is we could just buy our laser out here, sell off the cannon, and
05:02go for a two-laser configuration.
05:04Sure.
05:05These are suicide drones.
05:06We're going to want to probably take them out.
05:09It helps if you tap the right option.
05:12I'd probably also up the thrusters a little bit just to get some movement because especially for a mission like
05:17this, being mobile is important.
05:18Getting to the spots.
05:20Yep.
05:20And we could do shields or armor on one ship.
05:24We should probably pick one and give it a little bit more oomph.
05:28Starting, we're going to be outnumbered four to two, so probably just the default, especially on hard difficulty.
05:34Actually, before we do that, if we save this out and go see what the bonus is around the planet.
05:40Okay.
05:41Because if it's going to be bad for shields, maybe it's worth getting armor.
05:45Looks like it's a lot of jump gates.
05:46All right.
05:47All right.
05:48So, go back in and maybe grab some shields.
05:51We're only going to be able to grab shields on one ship.
05:53But we'll go ahead and do that.
05:55Get our flagship up shielded a little bit.
05:58Hopefully, that helps.
05:59All right.
06:00Fleet's ready for action.
06:01Here we go.
06:04All right.
06:04So, we're required to control three of them.
06:07Currently, we have zero.
06:08You can see at the top of the screen, it says control three of three power core locations.
06:12And we're surrounded.
06:13And we're surrounded.
06:15And yeah.
06:16Yeah.
06:16Okay.
06:17It's going to be fun.
06:20But what's interesting is a lot of them have turned their back to you.
06:23Well, it's first turn they can't attack straight away.
06:27Right.
06:28So, I'm not sure we're going to be able to take any of them down right away.
06:3327's not a lot of damage.
06:34Oh, that's the one with the extra thing.
06:37Okay.
06:38Our battle card is shield pattern matching.
06:41So, I'm going to go ahead and take that.
06:42That will up this ship's shield for a turn.
06:48Oh, no.
06:49Excuse me.
06:49That was actually engine upgrade.
06:51Shield upgrade.
06:52All right.
06:53So, should we shoot at this guy that's closest to us or this guy over here?
06:58Wow.
06:58We can almost do more damage to him.
07:01Yeah.
07:01And he's already on top of.
07:03Yep.
07:03Okay.
07:04So, we'll take that shot.
07:07There you go.
07:08Tap it again.
07:10Boom.
07:11There we go.
07:13Now, do we want to move the ship or do we want to try to take this other shot first?
07:16Let's see if we can.
07:17Yep.
07:17We can get that shot in.
07:18Okay.
07:18So, we'll go ahead and take that shot.
07:25All right.
07:26So, he's not going to be able to take that first control point right away.
07:30But now, we need to decide what it is we're going to do about this suicide drone here.
07:34And I think probably keeping our ships together kind of in mutual support and preventing him
07:39from getting around behind us would be the best thing to do.
07:41Protecting your rear is a big thing when you're on hard.
07:43Okay.
07:43So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to move this guy over here.
07:47And then, I think I'm going to have him rotate in place.
07:50He's going to need to turn right a couple of points.
07:53There you go.
07:54And then, maybe one more.
07:55And that'll put our rear quadrant right on there.
07:57Since this guy has a move of four, he would be able to pop all the way behind.
08:02True.
08:02All right.
08:03So, we'll do that.
08:04And then, we'll bring this.
08:06Yep.
08:06That ship right to there.
08:09And then, again, we'll rotate.
08:10We'll rotate right and keep a lot of asteroids between us.
08:14Now, where are the other points that we're trying to get to?
08:16So, okay.
08:16So, we've got one control point over here.
08:20And then, there's one down here.
08:21Okay.
08:21And usually, I find the way that I end up winning this mission is kind of to get at least
08:28one control point unambiguously under your control.
08:31And then, aggressively defend that.
08:33And as people come back towards you, you can kind of pick them off.
08:36And then, at the end of it, when it's all clear, chase them.
08:39Now, if they come one at a time, that'll be good.
08:41If they end up bringing, like, two or three of their groups, especially the ones that are going to come
08:46later in turns, that's going to be a little harder to do on hard.
08:50So, it may be that we want to take the first one and then start making a mad dash for
08:54the second, or at least get behind some ships to do some damage.
08:57Okay.
08:57We can try that.
08:58All right.
08:58I'm going to hit enter.
09:01Are you sure?
09:01You're looking at me.
09:02No, go ahead.
09:03No.
09:03Okay.
09:04All right.
09:06So, we're giving up that one that we know about.
09:10All right.
09:11You can take that.
09:12Yeah.
09:13Seven points.
09:15Engine's critical, of course.
09:17But, again, he's turning his back to you.
09:20All right.
09:20And we've got...
09:22So, this is a lot better because the lasers, now that we have some distance, they're kind of doing more
09:28of what they need to do.
09:29Let's, should we...
09:30I don't think we need to repair this guy right away.
09:33Probably not.
09:34What's his first shot against?
09:3530.
09:36That's 30.
09:37He's got 90.
09:38But, so what happens is when you take a shot, you're going to damage it.
09:41Shields a little bit.
09:42So, your next guy may do a little more damage than originally expected.
09:46All right.
09:47So, we'll go ahead and we'll take this shot.
09:52Oh, good.
09:52Engine crit.
09:53All right.
09:54That's good.
09:54So, now move him up a little closer.
09:56So, we'll move right completely into the rear arc.
09:59Is that enough?
09:59And that's 44.
10:00It's not going to be enough to kill him.
10:01How about moving another space or two forward?
10:03Well, these aren't cannon.
10:04These are lasers.
10:04True.
10:04But, they still do better as you get closer.
10:07Just not as much.
10:0846.
10:09I don't think we're going to get a whole lot better.
10:11No, probably not.
10:12Okay, good.
10:13Now, his lasers are critical.
10:14And the AI usually prioritizes repair pretty high at these upper difficulties.
10:20Especially with this.
10:21All right.
10:21So, yep.
10:22AI is going to grab that control point.
10:24And that...
10:25Yeah.
10:26He's just going to keep...
10:28But...
10:28Oh, and look.
10:29He's not even going to be able to...
10:30He's not even going to be able to make it.
10:31I'm a little surprised that he took that.
10:32All right.
10:33Now, do you want to take this time to repair this engine?
10:35Because you'll be able to take this out with the other guy in a row.
10:37Yeah.
10:37That's probably a good idea.
10:38So, we'll go ahead and we'll repair that.
10:40I'm going to bring my flagship up here.
10:44Take a shot.
10:4544 is going to be more than enough.
10:47And that'll be good because now the promotion will apply to my flagship, which will be a good
10:51strategy later on.
10:53Bing.
10:53Okay.
10:54So, now, do you want to bring the other guy down to start putting...
10:56I think...
10:57I think putting mutual support, having our ships mutually support...
11:01each other is probably a good idea.
11:02All right.
11:03But what's happening is...
11:04And I need to move this over a little bit.
11:06These guys only move four.
11:08Right.
11:08But if I move into this empty space between our two ships, I'm going to leave my rear arc
11:15open pretty seriously.
11:16So, what I might actually do is instead of moving out from here, I might just rotate in
11:22place.
11:23Pivot.
11:24Pivot.
11:24And that way, at least my front arc is facing towards where the enemy ships are coming from.
11:29Right.
11:29So, unless anybody warps in on me and gives me an unpleasant surprise, it should be better
11:34protected.
11:35But remember, if someone warps in, they still can't fire on them for the first time.
11:38Right.
11:39So, we'll see what happens.
11:39That may have reinforcements detected.
11:41Okay.
11:42Suicide ships are going to come out.
11:45Yeah.
11:45There we go.
11:46All right.
11:47So...
11:47But he's all alone, so you can focus fire on him again.
11:50And focus fire 60.
11:51Wow.
11:52Well, rear arc.
11:53Yeah.
11:53And it doesn't have a shield of two, so take him out right away.
11:57That's good.
11:59I say we start heading towards the bottom one.
12:01Well, let's see what's happening.
12:03Let's see what we have in terms of...
12:04Okay, there's a fairly large intervening asteroid field in the middle of your screen that you
12:09can see there between us and that ship.
12:11So, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to bring this ship all the way down and put
12:16at least three hexes worth of asteroids between us and him.
12:20And now I'm going to bring this.
12:24Actually, I'm going to bring him down back through the back coverage here.
12:28We have an open passageway kind of in this middle area.
12:34I kind of miss having a mouse pointer.
12:36It's really handy.
12:37You can't see my finger on this screen.
12:40All right.
12:40And we will hit enter.
12:42Suicide ships.
12:43All right.
12:47Oh, no.
12:48Okay.
12:49So, we had a reinforcement arrive at the last moment.
12:52In the wrong spot.
12:53In the wrong spot.
12:55And we're going to have to take him out.
12:56Now, we need to be real careful because at this point, the AI controls two of the control
13:02points.
13:02Right.
13:03And they could get lucky and get that third one.
13:05So, we might need to keep a little bit closer.
13:09I don't like that my ships are kind of out of position to support each other, but we'll
13:13have to just take that chance.
13:14Many reinforcements detected.
13:16Nobody's going to show up right on top of the control point.
13:20Okay.
13:21All right.
13:21So, we'll move our flagship back on.
13:24Get that guy.
13:2533.
13:26That's a good shot.
13:27I'll take that.
13:30That's helped by having two laser systems.
13:36And actually, what's really good here is, let me move my finger off that for a moment.
13:44Can you?
13:44Oh, yeah.
13:45Yeah, I'm going to take him out.
13:47Leave no one in the rear.
13:51All right.
13:51And now, we've still got full movement.
13:53So, what I think I'm going to do is just bring this ship down here and start covering
13:59that.
14:00Don't really...
14:01Now, we have a question of, do we risk them doing what they did last time and having
14:05a reinforcement come in very close?
14:07Yeah, but having two ships unable to support each other is pretty tough.
14:10But I think we'll...
14:12Okay.
14:12So, let's see.
14:13If this guy moves four...
14:15They can't really open up...
14:16Yeah, it's going to take him two turns to get into a firing arc that's going to make
14:20a big difference.
14:20And how much do you move with this one that's close?
14:23So, this ship has a movement of five.
14:25So, that's not the end of the world.
14:28This guy has a movement of 5.2 as well, too.
14:31But he has most of his movement left for this turn.
14:33I think I will move him down.
14:35Okay.
14:35As long as you can get back on that same turn.
14:37Yeah.
14:39Okay.
14:40Okay.
14:40This guy should take a shot.
14:42Yeah.
14:44That's not it.
14:45Yeah.
14:45I can handle that.
14:47All right.
14:47That is...
14:48Okay.
14:48That guy that just appeared is the turn five reinforcement.
14:52Where did he go?
14:53There he is.
14:53So, he's the one with two shields and two lasers.
14:56So, he's a little bit tougher than the other ones.
14:58So, let's see.
14:59Do we have a shot on these guys?
15:01Yes.
15:01Wow.
15:02All right.
15:02Nice.
15:02So, we can stay back here.
15:04We can snipe a little bit, which is handy.
15:07Nice shot.
15:09Now, on the next turn, he is going to be able to get to that control point.
15:14But I think I'm going to stay...
15:17Let's see.
15:18If you go there, you'll have an asteroid between you.
15:21So, where Stuart is pointing is...
15:23Oh, that's right.
15:23You can't see my finger.
15:24So, if you look towards the bottom of our movement range, there's sort of two lobes.
15:30One that extends to the left of that hex of asteroids and one that extends to the right.
15:34If we go to the left, we do put an asteroid field between us and him.
15:38But the other thing he could do is he could come straight to the right, open that arc up
15:43a little bit and that way the asteroid field would interfere less and potentially take us out.
15:48So, I think what I'm going to do is, given that he's going to capture that control point most likely,
15:54if we head to the right most, if we go there, then we get the advantage of two asteroid fields
15:59worth of cover.
16:00We can pop out and take a shot at him.
16:02Just be careful because you're not going to be able to make it to that point in one turn.
16:07That's true, but I don't know that I'm going to be able to make it one, two, three, four.
16:11I would be able to make it from there.
16:13I just... 29 hit points.
16:15If this goes badly...
16:16It's my fault, right?
16:18You're the producer.
16:18It's always your fault.
16:21Line of fire is blocked.
16:22Yeah, I think what we'll do is we'll come over here.
16:26Should be able to get something.
16:27Yeah, we can get 10 on him.
16:29Maybe get a lucky crit.
16:30Yeah.
16:34Yeah, no, I'm going to carry.
16:35It's still 10 fewer points than he had before.
16:38That's right.
16:38So we'll go ahead and end our turn.
16:43Yeah.
16:44Okay, well, that's good.
16:45So he's captured that control point, and he's going to fire.
16:49Wow.
16:49It's interesting.
16:50And we're open for...
16:51Oh, no!
16:52Oh, and the shield!
16:52Shield crit!
16:53Oh!
16:54Okay, so...
16:56The reason we're going, oh, no, is that a shield crit is pretty much...
17:01Okay, so here's the thing.
17:02We only have 10 points left.
17:04Right.
17:0410 hit points left.
17:05Taking a turn to repair the shields is not going to get us either the control point or
17:10another ship removed.
17:12So what we could do is we could trade this ship for the ship that's on the control point,
17:16destroy that and pressure the control point as well, too.
17:19But we need to be careful about this, and we need to make sure that we get the most damage
17:22in that we can.
17:22Just try to do...
17:23Hold on.
17:23Try to do a shot on him just from here.
17:26And now you'll see...
17:27Oh, it's 45.
17:28Oh, wow.
17:28So we get exactly right enough damage.
17:32Default at 57.
17:33Crews at full health, so there's no penalty for that.
17:37slight decrease due to distance, some dispersion due to the asteroids, but they're light asteroids,
17:41so it's not too bad.
17:42But we're getting him from the side.
17:43So that's a full...
17:46Just enough.
17:49Checkmate.
17:51And then we're going to take that.
17:52We're expecting to lose that ship.
17:54Right.
17:54But we can now bring our other one in.
17:57Because now that we have two points, if they take one, it's not going to be a big deal.
18:01And at this point, they're only getting reinforcements of one ship every few turns here and there.
18:05Yep.
18:06All right.
18:06So we still get a...
18:08I can still boost.
18:11Let's just end the turn.
18:12Because I like that.
18:14And we're going to lose this ship here.
18:16That's okay.
18:19Sacrifices had to be made.
18:20That's right.
18:21So...
18:21Oh, this is good.
18:22So we can pop out here.
18:23And get a rear quadruple.
18:25And up directly in the rear arc.
18:27Maybe get a lucky...
18:28Oh, no, lucky crit.
18:29It's okay.
18:30He's going to have to now either continue down, which keeps his rear towards you.
18:34Yeah.
18:35So now, what I would do...
18:38Where's the other spot?
18:39I want to...
18:40You should probably start heading towards the other spot.
18:41I don't want to rush that spot.
18:43Because what I want to do is take this guy out.
18:45But that's the thing.
18:45If you move over a little bit just so there's no asteroids blocking you,
18:49he doesn't have a lot of health left.
18:50No, that's what I'm saying.
18:51Okay.
18:51So you're saying...
18:52So we're probably saying the same thing.
18:53You're saying just keep checking.
18:54Right.
18:55Okay, so...
18:56I think if you move over one more, you should...
18:5812.
18:59Okay, so move down towards him at this point to get some...
19:0524.
19:06Stuart, if I can't get him, I'm going to blame you.
19:10This is the best shot we have.
19:11Oh, good.
19:12Took out his lasers.
19:13Well, he's going to take a sprint.
19:15He's going to take a sprint for that control point, but it's not going to matter.
19:18Right.
19:2021 points of damage.
19:21That's enough to take him out.
19:24So now we can either pick up this one again or go straight forward.
19:29I think we need to pick up this one.
19:30We're right there.
19:31It's really...
19:31He may actually be...
19:32The enemy may be out of...
19:33Yeah, okay.
19:34So now it's auto-end turning.
19:36This means our opponents are out of reinforcements.
19:40Woo-hoo!
19:40So we can just go ahead and we can finish this mission.
19:44Fly, my friends!
19:45And I'm using impulse engines, which is a little bonus boost to speed you can apply.
19:53And we'll use it to round out this mission.
19:55That was actually pretty well done for a hard mission.
19:58That was an orange mission.
20:00We now get the planet and a free tech.
20:02Yes.
20:03And we have one ship upgraded to regular, which is always good to have.
20:08So 100% of our people and we have one free tech.
20:11So we're happy to offer our assistance.
20:13Free tech.
20:14I'm going to say take the lasers.
20:16So right now, lasers are only 1,200, but it's going to bump us up to level 2.
20:22We'll be able to use our science for something else that might be interesting to us.
20:27And now let's pop back into our science screen.
20:30We still have 1,000.
20:31You want to do Xeno materials or do you want to do Ion drives?
20:34So I'm big on upping the Ion drives just because I know mobility is really important.
20:40Getting behind people, you know, getting back into cover, things like that.
21:12But that's the type of gameplay I play.
21:15So if we do build it, it increases the yield for everything, including our food yield.
21:20True.
21:21Gives us more potentially next turn.
21:23Well, let's take a look and see.
21:24Are you sure you want to cancel your modifications?
21:26Yes.
21:27So we've got other missions available to us.
21:30Although with a crew at 70%, tackling this orange mission is probably not in the cards at this point.
21:38But we might be able to do one of these green ones.
21:42Another thing that this game does that I think is so much fun is, if you notice, a lot of
21:47these missions have this kind of name.
21:50They're all called the Galatian something at this point.
21:53But what it really is is it's hiding what the mission is.
21:55So we can't just go, oh, I know that that's a suicide drone mission.
21:59I'll go over there.
21:59I can do it with one ship.
22:01Right, right.
22:01We don't know what some of these are.
22:03And so it's like trying to figure out which one to go to.
22:07You start balancing what's the population?
22:10What's the bonus you're going to get?
22:11What's the reward you're going to earn from it?
22:14So do we want to spend our food to increase Serpentis 75 here?
22:19Do we want to hold on to it?
22:21Do we want to sell it at the market?
22:23I do think we want to attempt at least the Galatian experiment at Sextantus 43.
22:32That's hard to say.
22:33It is, but that's okay.
22:35I usually go to the market to sell some things at the beginning so I can keep my ships fresh.
22:40Okay.
22:41So we are going to sell.
22:44So we need like what, about 200?
22:46Yeah, about 200 energy worth.
22:49Yeah.
22:50Yeah.
22:51We should go back and check.
22:52So let's cancel for a second.
22:54Okay.
22:55We have 120 energy in our current balance.
22:58We need 80.
22:59Right.
22:59We need 200 total.
23:00So let's go back into the marketplace.
23:04So we can either sell the food or the metals.
23:06We are getting a lot of food every time.
23:08So I think.
23:09Well, that's probably better to do.
23:11So we're going to have to sell two food worth.
23:15That's going to give us.
23:17189.
23:17189.
23:18Yeah, we'll just buy one more.
23:20There we go.
23:20Okay.
23:21So it's going to give us a little extra.
23:24All right.
23:24Back up to full.
23:25Ships repaired.
23:25All right.
23:26Sounds good.
23:26Now, we're going to be at about 50% by the time we get over there.
23:30Do we want to do that?
23:32Oh, sorry.
23:32Do we want to go to signi54?
23:35That has science as a bonus, although that's not something that's going to make the difference
23:38between what we're doing and something else.
23:41True.
23:42I would try to go for the energy.
23:45Okay.
23:45I agree.
23:47Especially because we just had to sell other things to get enough.
23:50I think that's going to be a constant problem with the planets that I'm seeing around here.
23:54Yeah.
23:55Okay.
23:55Energy will be tight.
23:57At least to start with.
23:58Yeah.
23:59Well, we don't have a good book.
24:01Oh, no.
24:04Okay.
24:06So in this mission, our flagship and our second ship are separated and are not able to directly
24:12support each other.
24:13These are the marauders.
24:15Fortunately, they're just fighter squadrons.
24:16Awesome.
24:17Okay, good.
24:17We should have an easy time with this.
24:20Sextances, 43.
24:21The asteroid fields are dissipating.
24:23That's awesome, especially because we're armed with lasers.
24:25Yeah.
24:27I think we chose wisely.
24:28Big lasers.
24:29Yes.
24:30Big honking lasers.
24:31Big honking lasers.
24:34Oh, jeez.
24:35No, that's okay.
24:36That's okay.
24:40So one of the things I like about this mission is because you're separated, the AI has to
24:44choose one unit to go for.
24:47Right.
24:47So they're always showing their back to...
24:50To at least one of us.
24:52Yeah.
24:52Unfortunately.
24:52Of course, the asteroids are blocking their way to get to them.
24:54The asteroids are making it really, really painful.
24:56So instead of moving this ship, what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to pilot this
24:59guy into a wormhole.
25:00And I won!
25:01I won the wormhole lottery.
25:04All right.
25:05So we're going to pop out here.
25:06Should be able to get...
25:08Yeah.
25:09So what are his movement?
25:10I'm going to zoom in for a second.
25:11These guys move six.
25:14One, two, three, four, five.
25:16He won't be able to get around behind me.
25:18That's good.
25:19I'm going to take out.
25:22Well, let's bring our other ship up for support.
25:24Oh, I think we got them both.
25:24You can probably take them both.
25:25Yeah.
25:27Yep.
25:27Yeah.
25:27There we go.
25:30Easy peasy.
25:32Never had any concern.
25:34I was deeply unconcerned with how that was going.
25:38Deeply unconcerned.
25:40So 200 energy.
25:42We got the bonus influence.
25:4250% of people are supporting it.
25:44We are happy to offer our assistance.
25:46I am fairly unwilling to...
25:50Oh, crap.
25:52So we discover that we have a neighbor one world away.
25:55And it's a supremacy faction with IntelliShields.
25:59Which is painful.
26:01Because IntelliShields give you shielding around the full...
26:05Like all of your ship counts as the front arc.
26:08So there's no bonus for getting behind them.
26:10Which makes it painful to try to take that home world.
26:12Because that's applied to everybody.
26:15I don't think it's worth trying to take on another mission with only 30% left.
26:19So let's go ahead and take a look.
26:21Do you want to buy things first before...
26:24Yeah.
26:24Science as well, I think.
26:25No.
26:26We're out of science.
26:27We got 700 food because we've been trading on the marketplace.
26:31We do have 1,000.
26:32So what we could do is we could build some improvements.
26:34We could throw aquifers on both of these food planets.
26:39Although we've depressed the price and we don't really have a good way to get energy.
26:43The other thing we could do is potentially build a biofuel plant on one of these planets.
26:50I'm usually the type of person who will put the aquifer on the food planets.
26:55The biofuel on the energy planets.
26:57That kind of stuff.
26:58But...
26:58Well, let's take a look around.
27:00We have a lot of food planets.
27:02Yes.
27:03And the galaxy is extending out from here.
27:06And I don't see any volcanic worlds that we'd be able to exploit for the energy near us.
27:12So we're going to have to kind of roll our own energy off these worlds themselves.
27:17I know we're regenerating our hit points because we're a harmony faction.
27:23But I still think it's probably worthwhile to throw the biofuel plant on Serpentis.
27:29I think that'll work.
27:29Now, another thing that I usually do, which we're not going to do here and I'll explain why.
27:33But I also usually try to do warp nexuses.
27:35So I can keep everything in my network.
27:37But if you look at the planets we have, we have our home world that doesn't come with a bonus
27:41besides being just awesome.
27:42Our home world.
27:43Yep.
27:43And then we have a Politicos, which is only good for when you do a mission on it, which we've
27:47finished.
27:48Right.
27:48So there's no reason to have to try to keep those into some warp nexus network except for movement.
27:53Well, the planets that we would want to put into a warp nexus network would be Tari 37 because it's
27:58got structure, which makes it easy to build things with metals.
28:01Yep.
28:03Engines.
28:03If we had the repair planet, armor, these bonuses mean those modules are cheaper to purchase there.
28:09So we'll stock up on some cheap armor plating next turn.
28:13Let's take shorts.
28:15We've heard everybody else to go.
28:17Well, apparently we are not alone.
28:18No, you're not.
28:20We knew that already.
28:21How are you?
28:24She hasn't launched her turn yet, so that's fine.
28:27Yep.
28:30Oh, interesting.
28:35Receiving all resources from...
28:37Okay, so 75% of the people are now there.
28:41We've got a good, we're getting 1,500 energy a turn.
28:43Yep.
28:44But she's mad at us because our borders are right against each other.
28:49And if you notice, we also got blocked in by the purple team.
28:52I did notice that, actually.
28:55And they won that free tech mission, which had bumped up to red in that interim, so they were able
29:02to pick that up.
29:03Yes.
29:05All right, so since we're here, let's take advantage of the cheap armor.
29:11You'll notice that it only costs 100 to pick up here.
29:16It does slow us down a little bit, but I'm not overly concerned about that.
29:19Yeah, I mean, we took the upgrade in science for the engine, so it's not so bad.
29:22Yeah.
29:24Let's go ahead.
29:25And we either want to get structure or engines, I think.
29:30Now, let's go to science first, because if we do need to do combat this turn, we do need to
29:36pick up something.
29:36So we could take Xenomaterials, we could take Quantum Suppression, and we could start to go with more of a
29:43cloaking approach.
29:44I do notice Quantum Suppression and Thermal Compression are a little bit cheaper.
29:49I do like field theory, though, because the shields regenerate every turn, and that reduces your overall damage.
29:57Yeah.
29:57So maybe we'll go ahead and take that.
30:00Well, it also goes with the whole juggernaut idea that we're going to go with the ships, is keep them
30:04healthy, keep them in the battle for a long time.
30:06Right.
30:07So let's go ahead, and let's go to Tari 37 first.
30:10I think that's going to be our first best mission.
30:13Awesome.
30:15Metals, I don't think we want to expend.
30:17I usually spend metals and food at the end of my turn.
30:20Yeah.
30:21All right.
30:22Let's go ahead.
30:24Oh, we have a mission to deliver a power core here, too.
30:26So we'll get a free engine upgrade if we beat this.
30:31Approaching Tari 31.
30:33Oh, okay.
30:34So we are ambushing a pirate fleet, but we only have our flagship.
30:40And this is a little, okay, this isn't bad.
30:43It's a little bad.
30:44No, there's a raider.
30:46The raider's got two units of stealth and a double cannon, so it's a lot of, it can be problematic,
30:52especially if it pops out of somewhere.
30:53Right, if he gets close.
30:54Yeah.
30:55All right, so we'll do okay.
30:57Build and repair starships.
30:58We still have some money, which is good.
31:00Maybe we should take.
31:01Do we want to take armor?
31:03Do we want to take another laser?
31:07I don't think we want to take armor.
31:09Let's upgrade a shield.
31:11Actually, yeah, we got the science for shield, so.
31:13Yeah.
31:14I kind of want to put another laser on everybody, but that'll blow through most of our energy budget.
31:18Well, so the interesting part is we're only going to have our flagship for here.
31:21Right.
31:22So if we want to, we can just upgrade our flagship.
31:25Yep.
31:26And then worry about the other guys on the next mission or at the end of the turn.
31:30Okay.
31:30Well, I think we're getting in good shape to, which one's our flagship, Dragon?
31:35Yeah.
31:35Okay.
31:37We'll go ahead and we'll upgrade the, upgrade the lasers on Dragon here.
31:41Awesome.
31:44Insert fiery breath joke right here.
31:47Our SAR system.
31:48Oh, we can commence combat as soon as we arrive.
31:50Oh, that's good.
31:51Oh, that can mean like punching out those fighters like right from the get-go, depending on where we deploy.
31:57All right.
31:58Let's find this enemy fleet.
31:59I don't see them.
32:00I don't see them.
32:01I don't see them.
32:02There they are.
32:03Right there?
32:04Oh, there they are.
32:05But we might, if we go right up near the, yeah, near that far warp gate.
32:12Except I'm going to pass into the warp gate if I.
32:16Can we hit the fighters from there?
32:17Oh, yeah.
32:18All right.
32:19Let's try that.
32:21Entering narrow passage.
32:23Bam.
32:24Boom.
32:26Get off my lawn.
32:28I had to actually say that to someone.
32:30Did you really?
32:33Trust me.
32:34Oh, no.
32:35That's a shield crit.
32:38All right.
32:39Let's see.
32:3963.
32:40We're going to have to repair.
32:41Well.
32:41Oh, hang on a second.
32:42We have cannon.
32:43Wait a second.
32:43We have our card, too.
32:46Repair 50% of starship damage.
32:48We cannot take a second hit, though, even with these repaired.
32:52Right.
32:53We would need to repair our shields.
32:55Right.
32:57So here's the thing.
32:58He only moves five.
32:59Let's go ahead and we'll pop the card.
33:00If we actually go back there.
33:02Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.
33:04And repair.
33:05Yeah.
33:06Bing.
33:07Okay.
33:09Nice.
33:09And he tried cloaking because.
33:11But we're within.
33:12Yeah.
33:13Get behind him.
33:14Yeah, I know.
33:15I know.
33:16I know.
33:17108.
33:18I think we can do it.
33:19I think we got it.
33:20All right.
33:20Good.
33:21Ambush.
33:22Woohoo.
33:22Bam.
33:24All right.
33:25Good.
33:25Very good.
33:26All right.
33:27Everybody gets a free engine module.
33:29That's pretty cool.
33:31Speed is always good.
33:33All right.
33:35So that's pretty good.
33:36So now, I mean, we have more of a turn that we can, yeah.
33:39And we have more of a turn we can play through.
33:41But at this point, I usually start thinking about what we want to do at the end of our turn.
33:47Right.
33:47So ending our turn here would mean that at the beginning of our next turn, we have this planet
33:51under our control.
33:52So I guess I would conceivably end our turn at this point, too.
33:57I'm a little kind of, I know for a fact, I was looking at Pavonis 82 up here.
34:03And then, ooh.
34:05Okay.
34:06So Reticulate 87, sorry, is a Blaze planet.
34:09Blaze planets produce double the amount of energy as normal planets.
34:14And they kind of become the engines of your Starfleet repair.
34:19So that's something we need to look at.
34:23But I would almost be tempted.
34:26I guess the conservative option is to end the turn now.
34:29Guarantee the Tori 37 comes into the Federation.
34:32Rather than push on to Surprise Package, which I know for a fact is a, like, you have to,
34:38there's a target starship you're trying to destroy.
34:40And it's protected by a Marauder fleet.
34:42Which is pretty strong.
34:43Which is pretty tough.
34:43Especially on hard.
34:44Yeah.
34:45And that would be a little bit iffy.
34:47We'd end up down a net loss of energy, which we would have a hard time making up because
34:53we're a little bit energy poor in this part of the galaxy.
34:57So let's go ahead and we will look at what we can build here.
35:00Okay.
35:01This planet, these guys, oh, these, structure means they extract minerals more effectively
35:07rather than build resources.
35:09So we would here, since they're already researching, they're already better at getting it.
35:14We can go ahead and build the auto plant and it would be a lot more effective in this world.
35:22And then we would start plunking down some cities, making some planets better.
35:26Let's go ahead and we'll go ahead and build a city on Tauri because we know we're going
35:31to be back here at some point in the future.
35:32And we'll put one on Serpentis because that is our strategic energy hub, as it were.
35:40And I think that would be the end of our turn.
35:43So what do we, okay, so Sextantus.
35:47We ended our turn there.
35:48We'd get that in, but again, we'd be blocked in by...
35:51So here's the thing.
35:53If we take Sextantus, we're going to be in worse situation with Kavitha, who's already
35:58unhappy with us because we are blocking borders with her.
36:03She's basically saying, get off her lawn.
36:05Get her off her lawn, right, exactly.
36:07If we end over here at Tauri, we have a metals rich planet that's guaranteed to come into
36:13our federation.
36:13I think that's a little bit, on hard difficulty, just kind of dialing back the James T. Kirk
36:19factor might be a little bit better.
36:22All right.
36:23Well, instead of ending turn, I hope you guys have enjoyed the look that you got at the
36:28game on iOS.
36:30It's really cool that it is the same game.
36:33It is.
36:33I mean, all the content, all the worlds, all of the gameplay, all of the strategies there
36:38is just on a tablet instead of it.
36:41Yeah, exactly.
36:41Which means you can take it wherever you go.
36:43Just like XCOM.
36:45We've got some questions coming in from people that I hope we can get to.
36:50Will there be controller support for iOS and PC versions?
36:53No.
36:54Yeah.
36:54No.
36:55It's keyboard and mouse for the PC version?
36:58That is correct.
36:58And it is touch for the iOS version.
37:01How much time does a playthrough take on average?
37:04Well, it matters if you're talking as much as we do.
37:08It matters the size.
37:09It matters the number of opponents, the difficulty.
37:13I mean, it can go anywhere from a few hours to, I think I had one go 15 hours of,
37:21I mean,
37:21I had to stop and start a whole bunch of times because I'm working.
37:24But yeah, it took a while.
37:26I think my hard Epic Galaxy took 20 plus turns to do.
37:31That's kind of like the upper limit.
37:33If you do an easy game on a small Galaxy, like a couple hours tops.
37:38It's pretty cool.
37:39It's pretty fast.
37:41Are the hexes toggleable like in Civ?
37:44No.
37:45It's really important to understanding kind of how things work.
37:50It's part of the gameplay for that.
37:52And the final question.
37:54Any nukes?
37:56Well, we don't have Gandhi, so there's no reason to have the nukes, right?
38:00If you fully upgrade torpedoes with thermal compression and you take torpedo booster wonder
38:06and the stealth torpedoes wonder, then you build like six ships, each with three torpedoes
38:12and you like salvo them across the map.
38:14It's more fun than nukes.
38:15It is.
38:16So what happens is you don't increase the blast radius, but everything that gets caught in
38:20that like one hex blast radius around it just goes away.
38:23And the AI is really good at ducking out of the way of torpedoes.
38:27It can see.
38:27And on hard difficulties, I believe it remembers what hex and what direction the torpedo originated
38:34in.
38:34That could be.
38:35I'm not so up on how the AI works besides it kills me.
38:38So yeah, he's bad.
38:43So the AI will kind of remember where it goes, but it can't keep track of the stealthed ones.
38:47And so it will readily walk into it.
38:49And so what happens is sometimes you'll see the AI like shoot past a torpedo that knows
38:53it's going to explode on the next turn.
38:55But if you're firing in depth, then what happens is, you know, there'll be one right
38:59behind it and the AI will run into that.
39:01And it's sort of like if anyone remembers the really old game of Missile Command, you launch
39:05a torpedo, it explodes and everything around it just starts blowing up.
39:09It's a lot of fun.
39:09It is pretty cool, actually.
39:11So no nukes, but kind of nukes if you're playing it the right way.
39:16So thank you very much for joining us on the live stream this week.
39:19Remember, Sid Meier's Starships comes out on March 12th for PC, Mac and iOS 1499.
39:26Thanks for coming on the live stream.
39:28I hope you guys have a great day.
39:29See you later, folks.
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