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5 years ago Nov 15,2019, 15:04:40 PM

ES2 COMMUNITY SCENARIO #08: WITS SHARP AS A BLADE

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Hey everybody,


now that they have been resurrected, we're returning to a regular schedule for Scenarios. This week we are sticking with Endless Space 2, but we will still provide Endless Legend scenarios as well.

Hope you'll have fun with this scenario inspired by a community submission!



Wits Sharp As a Blade

For all of our history we have fought bravely in the name of Tonatsi. Once warring clans are now united under the rule of our emperor, and emboldened by the ancient power we have unearthed. Yet we must fight to maintain our strength, and spill the blood of our foes in the name of Tonatsi. So we look outward into the galaxy in search of a worthy foe.

Yet our first expeditions returned with sobering news: The stars within our reach are devoid of enemies. We will not find glory in battle until we reach further into the galaxy. And even there we suspect we will not find many who can face us. If none in this galaxy can match our prowess, the gaze of Tonatsi will have to turn beyond.

We must rival the Endless themselves, so we may seek worthy foes elsewhere.


In this scenario, the Hissho are faced with the difficult task of taking their empire to the peak of scientific advancement, in a galaxy sparse with foes to face in combat. Luckily, they can draw on the ancient Endless Behemoths, but to truly prove their worth, they may want to stick to their ancestral homeworld. Win a science Victory as the Hissho as quickly as possible. For optional added challenge, do so without ever controlling a second colony (outposts are acceptable). Beware, though: Conquest victory is enabled, so your Riftborn neighbors may expand before you can achieve your goals.

Thanks to Koxsos for the inspiration for this scenario.

Save Game: CS-1911.sav

 

Remember, the submission form for your own Endless Space 2 scenarios is still open. For the time being, we will only feature individual scenarios in the Community Scenario blogs, but we hope to improve our ways of sharing these scenarios with you.

 

 

Have fun,

Amplitude

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5 years ago
Nov 15, 2019, 3:14:30 PM

Is this making fun of the Hissho balance being broken to the extent of achieving 34-turn-science-victory on fast gamespeed?

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5 years ago
Nov 15, 2019, 3:32:24 PM
PARAdoxiBLE wrote:

Is this making fun of the Hissho balance being broken to the extent of achieving 34-turn-science-victory on fast gamespeed?

Thanks to Koxsos for the inspiration for this scenario.
you bet ya! :-D
but full credit on the flavour text goes to cat.

Riftborn AI's tendency of spamming bad singualiries is a really messy variable choice though, once you are hit you can basically restart.
The original "record" also takes full advantage of stacking wars for battlefield archeology, so unless we are running full house numbers will be less groundbreaking.

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5 years ago
Nov 19, 2019, 5:02:19 AM

Thank you for showcasing the greatest and most humble of factions.

I look forward to attempting this challenge, I will not make use of the "Probe Spam" glitch

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5 years ago
Nov 21, 2019, 1:13:20 PM
Omnicide wrote:

I look forward to attempting this challenge, I will not make use of the "Probe Spam" glitch

Honorable.

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5 years ago
Nov 22, 2019, 6:52:18 AM

CS-1911 Turn 67 Win.sav

Got it on turn 67 my second try.
Only home system and outposts

First time I made a bunch of dumb mistakes, and ended up losing to conquest around turn 97.

Second time, I still made dumb mistakes: tried switching to core miners near the end, chose the religious faction quest, didn't grab a science hero assuming I'd get to recruit a hissho one automatically etc etc.

The bug? of multiple miners stacking duration was very noticeable.Perhaps because of this bug the Core minors are just completely inferior to fast miners, or so it seemed in my game.

This also inadvertantly shows how crappy it feels to have a faction quest that is so easy for an enemy to deny. No minor factions means religious branch cant be taken, only 1 enemy empire on the other side of space, what if they don't make ships? makes military side difficult as well.

I believe I got the benefit of Hisho hero +1 behemoth on senate without my military hero actually being a senate representative as I chose science each time.

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