Guys wait till he finds out this is exactly why we're here😂

never apologize onstage, friend. you meant to do that. all of it.

Brilliant, spontaneus part that about frustration in ubergaming, it's just not worthy; life is itself too frustrating and players just wanna have fun, with some risk, reward, tension and inmersion. Just knowing it ended up turning you into an ant, it does seem they did a good in the last part and I do want to play it! I'll tell if I find when the witting and order comes in!

Oh, I felt you seem like a, fellow who likes answers to your questions. The reason your nest gets reset is cause originally in early access those were the end of the game. So people would have massive nests that could easily crush any formicorium challenges. So when they added a new update and levels, they would force players to start over again.

It is indeed noticiable, Devin, when you start taking notes! We love your witty comical spontaneous ranting as it is, though to structure and cohesion does improve very much with some writting.

Ladybirds seem to be one of the few creatures in the game that attempts to live. Most other stuff will happily run in and fight a losing battle. Empire of the Undergrowth 2 will have to take place in a world where only Ladybirds and Ants remain. Their battle shall be legendary!

Yes, can't believe I didn't make that connection, you are right

-wake up -smell some pheromones -they lead me to my PC -Empires of the Undergrowth is running, as always -I know my duty in my society, and will perform it without question

By the way, an amazing thing about Steam downloads: It turns out that there are two different ways of limiting your bandwidth. One setting in the Downloads tab is explicitly called "Limit download speed". However, there's a second, mysterious option: "Throttle downloads while streaming". Even though my relative never streamed at all on Steam, it still reduced his bandwidth like tenfold… thanks Gaben.

My main job is working on videos for the Kings and Generals youtube channel. Database monkey is a well paying profession, most companies need databases in some form or another! As for programming, I learned some professionally, some at university, and the rest was self-taught while I was doing game dev for educational purposes. So it's a mix of hobby and professional, basically, but many hobby at this stage, haven't worked in that field for many years.

That's true, and a good way of looking at it. I was thinking more like the bounty you get for killing enemies isn't enough to justify a) the time it takes (since you could have made more doing something else with that time) and b) the risk of losing something. But I think on a more industrial level, war is certainly going to be useful, especially if you are strong enough that risking damage in combat isn't relevant anymore. This was all my extreme early game impressions so more interesting stuff didn't really come up.

@@OffyDGG Oh yea I got that, I was disappointed by the reward at first as well, but than I noticed my miners making more money again, because the demand was crazy since their wharf and shipyard started printing them ships again. Also, leveling captains is difficult. What I would suggest, if you have the player HQ and researched personal teleportation, to get to over 27 reputation with a faction of your choice, so you can teleport to their stations. Than you can visit the managing office where there can be 0-4 people possible to recruit and with some chance, you get a 2 or even 3 star pilot (they cost a million to hire). Which shortens the time considerably. So first things first, crew is important, service crew helps at everything but combat. Loading cargo, mining and so on. Marines help defending boarding, boarding and turret accuracy. But still, get one less in crew than needed for a ship you plan to have a good pilot on. Even if you have to chose the pilot to build, when there is 1 space left for crew, when you hire someone of the station, you can select that the new hire is the captain and the old one will go to the crew. That's how you can start with better pilots for your ships.

Yes I just threw on the pure default options for that skirmish, which happens to be not especially interesting it seems, unlucky!

@@robertrodriguezharo1906 yeah a few people have requested it now, so I will do it 2-3 games down the line!

@@OffyDGG Cool! I saw some comments about it just after publishing it, thank you for answering Devin

yes i think so, i want to check out the new version when I have time, interested to see what they do with it. Thanks!

@@llywyllngryffyn8053 ah that's a shame, I had no idea. I think the only option would be to either raid the middle for resources briefly, or look for the rare occasions when the resource depots have small amounts of higher tier resources for sale. But yeah I think it should just let you make as many ships as you want, since the limitation of not being able to use higher tier ship parts is already enough.

@@OffyDGG Another player gave me a workaround. You have to create an Alliance of your own and then give your extra ships to the alliance. Then, as a player, when you build a new ship, it will only cost you Iron or Titanium, depending on how many you make. It's still a stupid concept.

That makes sense. Maybe it actually says during the nod campaign, can't remember. I only really remember c&c 3, where I think kane and nod are retconned into all sorts of things.

Wow that's pretty cool, didn't realise that!