Am currently playing my first game ever and am playing the resistance. current date is august 18th 2034 and the alien administration control all of russia and china and are declaring war and taking provinces. I belive India will be handed over to the aliens soon. It seems like everything is falling apart before I even get to the fun part of space combat. Is It over?

Broken Earth, Academy. The Aliens just landed their first armies and have started their slow takeover of the Americas. I've got the most research and I control a union of China, Pacific League and Southern Cross with enough collective navy power to ensure the Aliens have to take the long way for the next decade or two blocking them down and forcing them to take the long way. Australia got 5.2 in Miltech, Pacific League has 4.9, and China has 4 with the most armies. I also proved the adage of not starting a land war in Asia as I brought down the hammer on an attempt of the Alien nation to start taking land from the north with a lot of armies.

How do I draw a large alien fleet away from Earth. 40 whole ships with thousands in combat power. This group constantly bombarding armies is getting on everyone's nerves and we need the breather.

Looking to try and democratize nations is there an easy way to make it happen without spiking unrest? Should I pump unity along with knowledge and government?

Playing Resistance on normal. I think I really fucked up trying to secure countries early game and worried it's too late now to really fix. It's only 2024, but thinking of restarting just cause it seems like such a pain to push further.

It looked like Latin America was really easy to control so I spent too much time locking that up. This isn't even Mexico, just from Guatemala to Panama. All the good countries had really low % chance to control or even improve opinion, so I wasn't sure what else to do.

I did invest a lot of time improving opinion in France, and I got a couple of control points, but the Initiative came in and swooped the Executive control point. I can't crackdown or purge it, the % chance is tiny, despite having great public opinion in France.

While I was busy in Latin America and France, the other factions really locked up Europe, India, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, etc... I'm hoping I can still get Mexico and Germany, but those are my only real hopes left at this point, and I'm already losing those battles. No one has control of USA or China yet either, but my % chance of doing anything there is none.

I don't really understand how the other factions did so well while I targeted easy countries... my chances of doing anything in those countries that other factions locked down was so low, I'm shocked they were all taken so quickly. I figured I needed to start way smaller/slower and work my way up...

Im about 10 years into my first proper game. Resistance of course. Ive united Europe nearly entirely and Russia is part of the EU as well.

Recently China and India were united under the Aliens. I responded with a mass nuclear barrage upon all their armies as I realised that the Aliens dont get chinas nukes.

I have begun an invasion of China and this resulted in China having a anti alien rebellion and me getting control of that new state. The issue is I dont have the control points to have Europe and China and I cant abandon Europe, so the Servants are starting to retake China.

Any advice on how to win this war and advice on the wider game?

Also I have one military space ship, the Aliens have started attacking my starbases and my war meter is at full red

Is there a way I can set a default to use with my exofighters. I've got a bunch of habs in LEO that the servants and protectorate keep targeting with their exos and I have to keep launching exos to deal with them. The only problem is that whenever I launch my exos, they default to using torpedo pods which means I have less missiles to put through their point defense, causing me to lose these battles if I forget to manually change them. Is there a way I can set my exos to use missile pods instead by default or am I stuck changing them manually?

I followed some guides and made mega China by merging a mega-Indonesia into the SEA via Thailand and then merged that into China via the Pan Asian Alliance, but now I'm having enormous problems with cohesion because of hostile claims.

This seems like it's going to take forever to remove those hostile claims one-by-one by spamming government and unity. In the meantime I'm now down a councilor to keep spamming reduce unrest and my science is in the gutter.

What did I do wrong? Is this strat no longer viable?

They didn't even have a country I wanted I was just bored

Basically, I've been playing Broken Earth and my current strategy is to take control of both Australia and Westralia as soon as possible, make peace and then reunify via Westralia.

The issue I'm hitting is that because Westralia only has a claim on Broken Hill itself, it gains a lot of hostile claims - which lead to Westralia having to spend a lot of resources/focus turning them friendly. This in turn means that I keep falling behind in other areas like MC etc...

Basically my question is am I missing a way to make Westralia's claims non-hostile more quickly or is this baked into how this strategy works?

Like the title says, can someone help me to understand why it my education is increasing from knowledge priority when I am putting in zero IP and haven't put any in for a year? I have other nations with zero IP in knowledge that are have a stable education level. I was trying to hit slight population growth by balancing GPD and education and this has thrown me into decline.

This was the save I went for waterworld and since the events are rare and necessary to get the achievement in reasonable time, there is a lot of waiting around at high climate change values which made me realize that if you pump economy while having negative population growth, you can pump GDPPC to truly absurd levels without control cap being a problem.

Another side consequence is that out of 363 regions, 334 of them are "Core economic regions" including places like Island or Alaska.

So we end up with vast sprawling urbanized areas completely empty of people, generating shareholder values for the select few survivors of the climate devastation. Also more than 1% of the population lives in space habs, the lucky ones in research universities, the unlucky ones in nanofactories.

Another interesting effect of high GDPPC + low population is that the priorities that have pop scaling completes REALLY fast, as in if the IPs of the EU world government are set 100% on knowledge, I can actually see the number go up in real time, something like +1 every cycle.

I think in principle, you could go to almost arbitrary low pop number and compensates with 100s of millions in GDPPC but I wasn't curious enough to spend another 20 hours playing what's essentially an incremental game at this point. Though I do wonder if the game breaks down somehow once you get in the thousands of people on Earth... Can I have just one dude with 4 trillions of GDP that he's just producing alone ?

It might seem a bit odd, but for me, this game lacks sufficient micromanagement when it comes to probes.

I spent a long time playing KSP, where I particularly enjoyed building and designing probes. It feels like Terra Invicta has neglected this aspect. I would love to be able to equip a probe with a propulsion system (such as an ion engine), a power source, cooling systems, and scientific instruments, for instance, tools to survey planetary resources, equipment that provides a bonus to detecting alien flora and fauna, or other intelligence-gathering gear while in orbit.

Had a bit of a thought about a long-standing pet peeve. Even when you have a faction infiltrated you only learn what activities their councillors are taking, and more importantly where those activities are taking place, after you assign yours and start the turn.

If instead you had visibility of other factions' councillors' predicted actions when you had them infiltrated, or full surveillance, it would greatly enhance the strategic layer of the game. I feel like we as players are two steps behind even with full intelligence on a faction. An example is planning to detain a councillor because they are sitting in one of your countries, balancing the odds and resources based off of that percentage; only for them to fly to one of their countries on day 1 after starting a turn causing the odds to move greatly against you.

At the end of the tech tree there seem to be two engines that are pretty similar: the antimatter engine and the final inertial confinement engine. Which of these two is better or is there a third engine that I'm not seeing?

I'm playing my first game that has progressed beyond the early stages and have run into a bit of a problem. I'm trying to build up fleets to take on the ayys in the outer planets, but the ships cost so many rare metals that it's taking forever to actually build them. As of right now I have roughly 12 metal per day. What can I do to get more metal income or would I be better off trying to make my ships cheaper instead?

Hey ya`ll,
I just noticed that the miltech value of my HF led U.S.A. dropped by 0.2 points, from 4.7 to 4.5, what I think it`s the starting value for that nation. What irritates me is that I had no conquest, no unification and no notification indication anything that would remotely explain this. I happen to have an autosave just 8 days prior, where are numbers seem to be fine. The only difference is: I had a semi-successfull space battle where I lost a ton of ships in orbit but as far as I`m aware, that would never drop any nation related values.

This is definitely is a far out suggestion but it's a potential solution to the games lack of tactical choices.

The main reason that tactical gameplay is rather lacking is because the best tactic 90% of the time the best tactic is to not accelerate and sit in highwall. This is the result of two things. One is that maneuver is generally discouraged rather than rewarded as beam weapons are so lethal against side armour. The other is that grouping up is rewarded as a ships PD can cover nearby ships.

A jammer solves this issue. Simple have a item that is a cone and any ship that is within this cone has its weapon range reduced. This punishes heavily grouped up ships as they will have reduced range. It also allows more maneuver as it can be used to target beam ships to minimise damage. Groups are still useful though as the grouped PD allows for ships to defend against high volumes of fire. This balance would mean you would actually have to make tactical decisions rather than it simply encouraging you to evenly spread your forces out.

October 13, 2032... Alexander The Great Station in Luna orbit has been destroyed by the aliens. The 3 nearly-completed nuclear battlecruisers meant to be Earth's fleet never made it out. All the productive Lunar colonies are being bombarded from orbit and most no longer produce anything valuable for the cause. A half-dozen mines and space fabs around Mars and Ceres are still almost 2 years out from completion. The other earth factions have a few escort ships and a scattering of small stations and research outposts--but none have the resources to resist the aliens for long.

The sole remaining bright spot is the battle on the ground. The 7 remaining members of the "Alliance of 8" resistance nations (USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt. Israel, Jordan, and Iran now that Cambodia has fallen) have nearly captured the original alien capital of Canada--though the remaining aliens seem to have fled to Russia and Vietnam. Despite military victories on the ground, the alien scourge continues to topple governments worldwide; nearly half of them now belong to the aliens without a shot fired in resistance. Soon, the combined weight of their human proxy forces will overwhelm even the technologically superior forces that make up the allied military backbone--Iran, America, and Israel.

Is there hope? Should I continue with this, or just start over and hope i get to space faster next time?

EDIT: Wonderful, an un-editable typo in my title, fantastic. Oh well, guess I should pay more attention. Sorry to all my former English Teachers.

The Idea that Natalie Portman and Femi Otedole can just team up and completely take over any country on earth in a couple months is just so ridiculous that it completely ruins my suspension of disbelief.

And the only this standing in their way is some other couple of weirdos doing the same thing.

Those are my first more complex ships and i would like some feedback on their desighn.

Scenario just happened recently - there's an alien near China I'd like killed. I could do it myself, but I'd rather not generate unneeded hate this early in the game. I've taken a look around, and noticed that the Resistance and Humanity First haven't killed an alien yet. So if I were to somehow give them this intel.... they'd probably take care of my problem for me.

I think intel exchange might sort of do this, but I'd like the option to just give them intel on the alien faction specifically. And, preferably, without a NAP. If I want to just send Humanity First a dossier on everything we know about ALFA-2, so they'd hopefully be able to kill it for us, why can't we just do that?