How to play IXION on Easy mode 🚀 No Accidents & Bonus Starting Tech - New Player Guide, Tutorial

[@JDPlays]

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[@kendo695]

couldent give you a like due to the shit u talk.

[@temperedfox]

There is also a medium mode - which I somehow stumbled on by accident - you do everything as JD did in his video, except skip 24h wait and the accident part (thanks for that - I'm sure they will patch it at some point now!) :D I realised you did not need to keep jumping to new sectors and can just sit back and chill while you squeeze every last resource out of the area first while science builds up. It means that I do get accidents, but I was still way ahead of the curve as I'm not rushing off in the story and staying put for thousands of cycles and only moving to the next chapter once Alloys are starting to run low and the hull can't be kept repaired any longer.

[@JDPlays]

Wait till you unlock trash recycling! That allows you to turn the people waste into Water AND alloy, then you NEVER need to move on!

[@mnzulhamsyah]

Wow! It reminds me about completing all side quests before progressing to main story line. Great content!

[@mrmatejator]

I let the game run over night and woke up at cycle 1700 with the game being paused which is a bummer. Was contemplating whatever to let it run in a tutorial to collect like 1k more science before moving on or if I should rather go to the first act to unlock faster science. Thanks for showcasing that I will have enough leeway to get the faster research and not progress too far in the story. Your video was godsend ☺️👍

[@blackhat4968]

Nice Tip. :) I stated a new game using your no accidents tip, but skipped the pause to generate science. You still have to be careful not to overwork sectors, but it does make it a lot smoother. So far so good. ;)

[@SkippytheHippie4994]

I haven't watched your perfect layout video, but I will point out that the small 3x3 quarters (I forget what they're called) only need a road attached to build or deconstruct. they function fine without a road connected once they've been built. It can be handy for squeezing extra stuff in.

[@ingiford175]

Same with batteries

[@JDPlays]

And all is fine, till you need to upgrade them, or in a batteries case it explodes!

[@beasterfield321]

what about exacting garbage from the building?

[@seryph87]

This video is absolutely amazing. Also, I have great respect for your format and personality. Completely worth the like and subscribe

[@JDPlays]

Thank you!

[@salionshatterstar]

I've been experimenting with similar ways to min/max the Prologue. I discovered that it doesn't really matter if you pause the Mess Hall or build it - the Urshanabi will automatically restock food whenever you run low or whenever you load a save file. What's more, if you finish everything in the Prologue except for the actual Vohle jump, with careful rationing of buildings you can have surplus food, power, workforce, and trust ... and hull integrity isn't a thing yet, so all of the mechanics which act like timers to encourage you to move along are frozen. By cycle 32 I had maxed my food storage, completed all objectives & events, prepped my base layout for Chapter 1, and pre-invested my surplus science. I did also consider running the game longer to unlock additional science, but decided it wasn't worth it. Chapter 1 is already super easy after leaving the prologue in such fine shape. I nonetheless laud you for taking the time to max out the science, too - well done, sir.

[@shadedancer4474]

Just tried this out, I love it however I suspect there has been a patch that has thrown out the timings, took me about 2 days to get to same stage as '15:02 Entering Chapter 1'. did some math on the way... takes 00:00:45 per cycle and 36 cycles per research point as 6 cycles are lost for dumping waste. 45 minutes for 5 research points. I am sat on cycle 9768 compared to your 8851, though I do have 37 research points to your 6 that accounts for 06:09:30 (6h 9m 30s) and 1,332 cycles. Made a save to always come back to this point in future run throughs if I choose to. Thanks for putting this together for us, loving your playthrough and tutorials. Keep up the good work.

[@ef4947]

If a cycle is 45 seconds it sounds like you forgot to speed up the game to 3x... 1x is 45s, but at 3x a cycle takes 15s.

[@wayne9903]

WOW, NEVER thought of sitting waiting for tech points to build up!!! Sorta did, but had no way of feeding continuously - Leaving game on AFK 2 nights so far. Will do it another 12-14 hours so I have about 100 tech points built up to handle the last 2 in the circle. THANKS!!

[@hawthornhobbit]

I am not going to get this game. And so thankful that you are playing it so i can enjoy a play through. Thank you!

[@michaelhanson5773]

Same boat as me... I bought it day 1 then they patched it before i could play it and the patch made it to where i could not play it. They eventually rolled the patch back but i got a refund before that. Lost my interest in them at that point and now live through JDs videos... Maybe one day i will get this game to tinker with but it really still feels like an early access title to me still

[@charlie300c8]

The pause on the meds hall is an insane tip

[@kademccomas460]

I appreciate the video my guy. Seriously. Been losing my mind with this game.

[@salionshatterstar]

A note about time: one cycle is not a day. The in-game tooltips indicate that a cycle is the amount of time it takes for the Tiqqun to complete one revolution. Unfortunately, this does not seem plausible. Doing some maths, the Tiqqun would need to rotate about once per minute to maintain earth-like gravity … which means the meal cycle would be every 5 minutes. Or to maintain a realistic meal break, the station would have to rotate only 3.75 degrees per minute, with the crew experiencing roughly 0.0001Gs, leaving them near weightless. I doubt this is true since I can see people walking around the station, though it would explain the frequency of accidents.... Anyways, if a cycle is not based on the rotation of the station, what else might it be based on? Perhaps we can base it on distance. There are roughly 93m miles between the Earth and the Sun; in-game, it takes ~1.5 cycles to travel that distance. If we interpret a single “meal cycle” as a month’s worth of groceries, then the Tiqqun’s EKP Engine would be travelling at about 430k miles per hour. This is eerily similar to the fastest man-made space probe, the Parker Solar Probe, which is expected to reach a maximum speed of 430k mph in a couple years after some more flybys of Venus. The fastest manned mission so far was Apollo 10 which reached ~25k mph. But Ixion takes place in the future, after all, so some advances in manned space speed are to be expected. All in all, I think this distance-based time scale seems the most plausible. If one meal cycle is one month, then 1 cycle ≈ 6 days. Or we might call it a week for ease of units. How does this jive with in-game timescales? -It takes 9 days to travel from Earth to Sun. Seems plausible. -My best speedrun of the prologue (so far) took 32 cycles or ~7 months. This seems a plausible timeline for a prepared administrator to finish final installations and perform systems checks. -Each initial research takes ~2 weeks, given external “Science”. These seem to be things which DOLOS has already finished researching, so my crew is ostensibly just reviewing designs and implementing them. This seems plausible. -Without external “Science”, using just the Tech Lab’s innate generation, each initial research would take ~15 years to independently reproduce. This also seems plausible. -In order to research the base level of all tech in the game (tiers 0-4), if provided an infinite external “Science” source, it would take 184 cycles or 3 years. This seems plausible, too, assuming this tech was previously known to mankind, but that my engineers need to study it and reverse-engineer some elements. -On this slow-run, JD plays took 8850 cycles, or about 145 years, to research all of the Tier 2 tech internally before first launching the Vohle drive. This seems a plausible timeframe from an R&D standpoint with limited resources, though it’s hilarious to think of a single "administrator" living that long and keeping his job ;-) Altogether, I think this will be my head canon for the game clock. 1 Cycle = 6 to 7 days. One year takes 52 to 61 cycles.

[@mif1118]

The game hints that 1 cycle is 1 day. On cycle 365 there are new year's celebrations by your people and a chorus singing "happy new year" - so there is that.

[@pett3rson79]

It..just...blow...my mind.... This is crazy. First thing what I'll try when I go home 😃😃😃😃🙏🙏🙏

[@Rogerfoulger]

the hospital means if all train stations unlocked in every sector you only need it and the all other small ones can be removed

[@tobiasrocc]

Wow. Absolutely amazing. I play the game since yesterday and it's really har to play but now i start a new run after seeing your Videos. Thanks for the Tutorial how to play this ggame. 🙂

[@daveboz1984]

i have been doing this 'science benefit now for 22000 cycles in the prologue if you would like a prologue save with all possible prologue research done and 450 saved ready to go forwards lol

[@daveboz1984]

also thank you for the power overlay i had missed completely. thats a life changer for management

[@JDPlays]

WOW thats some Cycles! Thank you for the save offer, its fine the cycle 14K save end game is mental enough!

[@helioiam]

I start a run through, learn stuff, start another run through, learn more stuff, one day I will make it to the end.

[@calencor]

this works. never had any injured workers in my city

[@anonymousdaniel7267]

So would you recommend going for the improved science ship science income or the improved research center science income right at the start of chapter 1? Assuming that you just held the holding pattern for say another 24 hours to ensure you had enough to grab those fully and immediately after the jump? What would progress more quickly after that whole... wait.

[@JDPlays]

Passive from the lab ALWAYS first, as that means you cant soft lock yourself. The science ship is next in my list!

[@WarWithVarun]

Can we get the easy mode save file from after afking for 24 hours please? 🤫

[@JDPlays]

You could, but you would have to delete every save you already have! and convince stream to not restore them from the cloud! Sydney did put the original save in my Discord server discord.gg/jdplays

[@WarWithVarun]

@@JDPlays I’m mad at myself that I haven’t joined it until now!

[@hawthornhobbit]

Sydney is awesome.

[@WarWithVarun]

@@hawthornhobbit agreed

[@sydneylord]

no I’m just crazy

[@strex2062]

How do you make the game run in background? It pauses when I try to watch something on youtube

[@pett3rson79]

Same here, game is pausing if I click somewhere else or pushing alt+tab...

[@sydneylord]

Do you have two monitors?, cause if so simply put the game running, and in the second monitor put whatever youtube video you want, and then click back to Ixion, that’s what I did

[@pett3rson79]

@@sydneylord hi. Yes, I do. Acctually I found it by myself, but thanks of course. It will run during all night ;)

[@golem7823]

I tried this a while ago and left my game on for a week lmao

[@michaelhanson5773]

Honestly, it would have been nice if the devs included options like this in the menu or at least once you finish the story how they designed in, be able to unlock mods with different rates of accidents. Although they patched it, it still seems to have high rates of accidents.

[@JDPlays]

It seems the patch only removed HALF the double left handed people at least in my game! I still have accidents going off all the time, so often its just become white noise to me at this point!

[@maliticus7474]

@@JDPlays I still find it weird and immersion breaking that a single accident some how lays out the whole work force of a building. That's not an accident, that's a catastrophe.

[@SusannaSaunders]

Is there a way of disabling or stopping the accidents (mod or file mod etc) other than just keeping the workforce at optimal level?

[@michaelhanson5773]

@@SusannaSaunders keeping them at optimal levels doesnt stop them though... The only way to prevent accidents from happening is to actually never click on one of the quests that pop us that teaches you about accidents...

[@GrantTheHero]

I have a question since I thibk you finished the game where do you think it'll go next like any dlc or anything like that like frostpunk or no?

[@JDPlays]

I havnt finished the game yet

[@GrantTheHero]

@JD Plays oh well crap I used your design guide for the first two sectors to finish the game so ty also a little thing I learned batteries houses DLS and other buildings that don't require constant intact of materials don't need a road connect once built

[@LookOutForNumberOne]

I don't know what I am doing wrong but it seems the science research is not moving. plus it goes into pause when you, AL TAB to get the another program.

[@beasterfield321]

So I'm trying to time the cycles while on fast mode. is it 15 secs per cycle? if so, to go 9000 cycles, that's 600 secs? which is 10hours afk. does that sound right?

[@JDPlays]

little longer as the game pauses for auto saves, its about 12h from memory

[@Makrochain]

how do you tackle the hull integrity after the jump to the moon. Does the ship not blow up waiting 2000 cycles?

[@JDPlays]

Well mine everything, and we went from 8k in chapter 1 start to 10K cycles in chapter 2 mid way thru the chapter. Just mined everything and when the resources got dry in chapter 1 moved on

[@doubledprospecting1407]

If you just start the game how JD shows but then just set your PC time into the future it gives you all the research...BIG BRAIN. Sorry couldn't help myself lmao

[@ivanantol4350]

This guide of yours is very nice, I just dont understand why you changed location of buildings at 19:00 :D I was following your gude :D

[@scavenger6268]

Wouldnt using a second tech lab be the true time improver? Without accidents of course....

[@anthonyvarga2914]

I love how ur doing things and it makes sense but can u give more details on what you do each pause? It seems as though u have mastered it by now but I haven’t 😊 the game has weird mechanics and like most I would like to see them put in some toggles to help out. And I don’t know make it so things don’t cascade out of control/death spiral with one accident

[@uss_retribution2473]

Ok, so the entire chapter Tier 1 research requires around 270 sci with 1 sci per 30 cycle is genuinely on hell of a waiting game So there is 270 sci to be made 1 sci = 30 cycle and for every 10 cycle the tech lab recycles waste that takes another 1.5 cycle so for every 1 sci it takes 34.5 turns 270 x 34.5 = 9,315 cycle it takes around 15s to complete one in game cycle and with this you get 9,315 x 15s = 139,725 139,725s / 60s = 2,328.75m 2,328.75m / 60m =38.8 h so it will take you 38h and 48m to complete the entire Tier 1 research Am not saying that you should not play Ixion this way, but if you have the dedication to you can. because if there is a will there's a way

[@maxkorn3910]

Thats why knowing math is better than not knowing - you can do the same you did even faster but in second sector, since there you can open second tech which gives you science and have what you have faster.

[@JDPlays]

Yes but the hull needs repairs and i can tell you for a fact there isnt enough iron in chapter 1 to hang around forever!

[@7DeadlyJinxs]

@@JDPlays True, which is why you rush assisted research and tier 2, then DSL and waste recycling.

[@iplaybose]

Why are icons so blurry on 4k

[@OpenWorldAddict0]

You can just walk away and go afk, but you can't anymore alt tab out of the game and do other things on the PC while your game is running. Seems they made an update, and so if you alt tab out of the game, the game automatically pauses.

[@7DeadlyJinxs]

I dont mind the difficulty, its just those damn accidents. You have to play perfectly to avoid them...

[@anonymousdaniel7267]

Watch the Dev's are going to patch out easy mode.

[@bubblegumray]

like your way to borow a like! and like your vids :)

[@waberoid]

Now they are coming out with difficulty modes, but trying this right now... 3 days of waiting lol.

[@cezariusus7595]

Have a like for your noticeable drop in sanity throught the video

[@cuhert5213]

If you want more science there is easier way: just put qty you want in save file, there is guide with pictures on steam :)

[@BlazingImp77151]

the only guide I see that might be relevant is a guide on save editing and enabling various cheats. nothing about giving resources or anything.

[@OldGamerScott]

@@BlazingImp77151 If you can find the directory with the Player.sav file (I tried to post the path in here and I think my comment got moderated away) somewhere around line 1875 there's an entry for "science": XXX Update that number and load the save

[@JDPlays]

I had no idea there was a guide, but yes you can just edit the save file to do what you want. But there is also a chance you might brick your save, as ive done when editing the wrong thing lol

[@BlazingImp77151]

@@JDPlays yep, aways good to double save or copy a save when you edit it, no matter the game. most of my experience isn't with ixion saves, but it is a thing I've done in other games.

[@SusannaSaunders]

@@OldGamerScott I modified Player.sav line 1760 from 0 to 999 and this added 999 science points to the game before I even had the tech lab built! :oD Nice one!!!!

[@Makrochain]

Cheatengine does a great job in speeding up the waittime. If you just use it for that than it is not considered as cheating in MY personal thinking... ;)

[@SusannaSaunders]

how do you do that please?

[@GeneNifong]

i am not understanding how you are not running out of alloy to fix the hull while you are just sitting there.

[@Valon129]

He is doing 90% of it during the prologue where the hull is not damaged so you don't have to repair it

[@mikenall932]

You kind of glossed over what to do to maintain hull integrity after you jump from cycle 8000-10000. There is a lot of crucial work that needs to go on there to make sure the ship doesn't explode.

[@JDPlays]

Mine, Smelt, and repair. Honestly there wasn't a lot to cover, due to the lack of accidents, and the extra research you will have you will have a LOT of resources to spare to spend on hull repairs.

[@SusannaSaunders]

@@JDPlays I suggest modding the game file to freeze hull integrity so that the hull does not degrade from 100% ... Save a LOT of Alloy! See my other post here to see how to do that and freeze Trust level as well.

[@rkramer5629]

10:16 “Or”… save your game, close the app, open the player.sav file for the most recent save, search for “science” (quotes included), change the number value to whatever you want (0-999), hit save, launch game, research your tech! If you’re going to cheese the game in a way it wasn’t intended, you may as well do it in a way do it right…

[@apgamer4053]

I'm sorry I thought I was watching jdplays not spifing brit 😂

[@Lucian028]

Huh. I just found out that you could queue research...

[@7T_Primal_Wolf]

STHedgehog sent me Here

[@kevorkyijan118]

At this point I wish they fix it cause is ...not gonna lie.....very tempting..... very very tempting😅😂

[@CarlKahler]

So technically this game can't be won unless it is accedently played in a perfect sequince?

[@x11tech45]

You can skip the solar panel & power outage event. It has no effect on the rest of the story. You can turn off the tech lab before the EVA airlock is finished, then finish the first solar panel, then turn the tech lab back on. You might argue that the tech lab being disabled costs you research points, but I would counter that the research rate in the prologue is 30 days for 1 point. Even if it took you 30 days (it doesn't, but even if it it) it's only a single point of science lost. Trivial. And, in the process, you bypass the risk that the loss of power will trigger the fku sadist mode implemented by the developers who have lied about how the games mechanics work because they're sick sadists.

[@Mcvanilla83]

a faster way and more energy efficient is to install wemod and used the infinite research button 😛

[@theotherdave8013]

You, will get a like when i get useful info. *nods*

[@JDPlays]

Seems reasonable

[@celeroon89]

What is that building between the Techlab and EVAl airock?

[@varlunmulland3992]

The no accidents trick is the only real takeaway from this video. That alone is easy mode. Sitting around for a literal 24 hours while you crawl your way through the research is entirely unnecessary and I'd even argue removes some of the fun from the game. You have all the resources you need in every system, and by the time you get waste processing going, you don't even need to worry about resources anymore. So, don't do this.

[@MB-fy8oz]

What the game needs is ironman mode

[@Qrob214]

This is what i don't like about the game. It feels like that the game forces you all the time to follow a certain path otherwise you fail. I would like to have alternative ways, solutions, paths.

[@AbandonTheWest]

Or go to work, or sleep, or both, and return later. lolz

[@Akaistos]

Chapter not sector* :D The amount of time you confuse certain words is hilarious.

[@MrJay_White]

i feel like this is going to get patched.

[@cloud9847]

Pandorum anyone?

[@Avargatoth]

You may have a like and a sub :)

[@dimercamparini]

Pointless...the game is quiet easy when you understand the mechanics... (I am in chapter 4...all 6 sectors open since chapter 3...ppl super happy like +3 +4 all the time...TONS of resources litterally coming out of my ears...basically all science discovered) Dont do this "cheating" the video is showing in your first playthrough or you will spoil yourself... BUT I strongly recommend to STAY on each chapter (after the prologue) as long as it takes to gather all the resources available in the systems (well at least until chapter 3...after that the resources are ridiculously abundant...I got into chapter 4 with 8000 alloy done and 6000 iron to refine) Dont be afraid of the degradation of the hull that is some kind of countdown on your "life"...you will contrast it and still accumulate resources... Open new sectors early and use the last sector open as some kind of storage room for the next chapter...repeat until you open all sectors... PS: also...TERRIBLE layout in the prologue! :DDD Never use the top and bottom exits from sectors...just the 2 central...do a central loop with roads+small buildings (3x6 or 4x8 or something like that) and leave 9 spaces from top and 9 spaces from bottom for the big buildings...block the exits, use all the space there! (is perfect for a 12+12+8+12+12 wide layout, or 8+8+8+8+8+8+8, or some combination with 9x9 wide buildings)

[@rremnar]

This isn't StarCraft, you don't have to build and configure so dam fast. 🤣

[@jaroslawsomeone4153]

I was really like it Lets play Ixion by JD Plays, but This IXION on Easy mode is some misunderstanding. Thumb Down

[@Narcizze]

So exploiting a gamebug is the way of playing this? Useless tutorial.