How To Stop The PIRANESI | 14 | IXION | Chapter 4 | Lets Play

IXION combines city building, survival elements and exploration, into a thrilling space opera as you explore the stars. Propelled onwards through a perilous journey, you are the Administrator of the Tiqqun space station, charged with finding a new home for humanity.
Keeping the station sound and flying will require a deft hand and strategic thinking, as you are constantly pulled between maintaining hull integrity, bringing in new resources and managing power consumption.
What choices will you make when confronted with impending disaster? What will you discover out there in the dark?
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[@AzazialVerdantia]

In the spirit of the season, The Piranesi wants to share many presents with the Tiqqun. However, Nilaus finds it more efficient to share one big gift at the optimal time.

[@michdo23]

The poweroutput from the nuclear power plants are filling up the batteries FIRST and then the power goes into the grid. Thats why the power levels do not change until one or more batteries are fully charged.

[@deanlawson6880]

What a tense episode!! Thanks for this Nilaus!! Gotta see what happens now in the next episode!!

[@VIP-ry6vv]

I personally enjoy watching you play games like these because it's interesting to see the different design choices you make. I think it would be boring if you built your ship according to a meta instead of experimenting to figure it out. This game isn't a game that rewards optimization, just enough is good enough.

[@aloufin]

LETS GO> I'Ve been binging this since yesterday... I NEED TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS! Please release the next episode ASAP LOL

[@RBAWintrow]

Same.

[@Nilaus]

every day until complete ;)

[@tri99er_]

Daily episodes? Amazing! It's kinda close this time.

[@Nilaus]

yes, for the Xmas break it makes sense to focus on completing this game before starting something new after New Year

[@nszittai]

@@Nilaus Stay Effective lmao

[@Kummelstedt]

You can use drone anti measures (build in drone bay)

[@IT-xv4mh]

I love this series !!!! keep it up!!!!

[@keyofdoornarutorscat]

Merry christmas everyone!

[@leftyfields5648]

anytime your builder wants to prioritize the wrong roads you can delete a single tile of road connecting to the area you want them to do last and force them to change what they build

[@andrzejwysocki609]

he is very cavalier with his science ships, i would not want to be crew on one of them lol

[@Nilaus]

Don't worry. No one is a crew on my science ships for very long

[@biosbug8569]

Very nice episode! I remember forgetting about the drone countermeasures my 1st time and was losing every ship that touched a swarm! It made the chapter a lot more challenging as I had to micromanage every single ship's flight path to avoid the swarms. In hindsight I'd rather have it this way even with the countermeasures installed on the Tiqqun so you're forced to deal with the Piranesi as fast as possible and be very conscious about what resources you mine and when to gather them. Passing a mined field whilst moving the Tiqqun, dispatching all cargo ships for a single grab mid flight, exciting times 😉 I mean, at one point you had a cargo ship clipping the Piranesi and nothing happened..

[@dimercamparini]

If you are prepared you dont need any ship going around while the Piranesi is chasing you...all my fleet was safe in the hangars while I was focusing on it. (the whole thing doesnt even last long...a bunch of cycles...before and after you can return to do what you want)

[@biosbug8569]

@dimercamparini I guess the 1st time you're never prepared, right? 😉 Especially after finding out I needed 450 polymer, I had to rush to get the carbon mined and grabbed all whilst frantically checking the various ship's flight paths to not intersect any drone swarm as I couldn't afford losing them since that only increased my polymer deficit. I really love challenges like that to be honest, makes me think thrice before doing anything 😅

[@dimercamparini]

@@biosbug8569 well...I have actually done only 1 playthrough of this game...faced the Piranesi situation only once...I didnt know basically anything of what would have happened after activating it (even tho I guessed that that would have been a major event/threath)... And still...having a LOT of resources in my storages and a station that was basically functioning like a well oiled clock, with all the power and the food i needed for ages, I still managed to improvise and manage everything on the fly without using any ship to acquire other resources in the meantime, not producing anything with the onboard industry, etc... I basically was just on the system map all the time, fast farwarding (and pausing when needed) the game speed and watching what was happening and countering it in real time... (take into consideration that even if I skipped 95% of the resources present in chapter 4 I then jumped in chap 5 with 9999+ alloy...around 1500+1000 C+polymer...5000 H...500+500 SI+chips, 2000 water, 2000 food...all that was mostly preparation and optimization coming from chapter 2 and 3...sooo...yeah the Piranesi never stood a chance against me and I did chapter 4 AND 5 like a breeze) :DDD I am not writing this to try to cheer at myself...but instead to stress the importance of playing slow, safe, efficiently and generally be over-prepared in these kind of "survival" games...

[@bobglover3119]

Dont waste your time on negative comments, thank you for sharing.

[@Niamh9902]

oh woah some wacky parallel universes

[@ForsakenProductions]

Looks like you didn't research emergency cryo pods for the science ships in this run. RIP Stanford crew.

[@bobglover3119]

I am a new player that somehow made it to the Piranesi chapter and was in no way prepared. I have recently started my second custom game and want to setup better. At 8:45 you start to turn on areas as a "Countermeasure" but really don't detail what or why and how that helps. Do you have a video describing that?

[@ErikVanKelst]

Too bad you skipped the last narrative screen, explaining that the science ship will be destroyed when you awaken the pulsar. I swapped my tier x science ship for a brand new one beforehand, I'm sure you would have done the same to save the Stanford 😉

[@TheFuzzician]

while this game has been fun, I feel like it will suffer the same fate as Frostpunk - once you complete it once (maybe twice), there is just nothing to come back to. At least the actual campaign has decent length, so even if you only get one good playthrough from it, it will have been good value. Wish there was more unpredictability with the events, resource locations, etc.....

[@p_serdiuk]

There probably will be DLC

[@dimercamparini]

Yes, the game in is current state has basically no replayability...is true...but is very fun and rewarding while you do the campaign the one time... I wasnt hooked up by a game like in this case in ages...played it like 12 hours straight, for days, without noticing... (to have some incentive to replay it one could make a personal challenge to make a second playthrough harder...like not using at all the building that let you make policies for ppl and gives artifical +happiness...that could be interesting)

[@sirdeakia]

I know replayability is a good metric for games. But think about a book: Once you've read it, poof. That's it. Story focused games should get a little bit of that pass as well. It's a story. Once told, well... that was it. Enjoy the ride as it goes.

[@Toughbeard]

Have you ever had an issue where the game stopped shipping goods between sectors? mine just stopped transfering food.. Cannot figure out what I have done wrong :)

[@AndrewKostenko]

I had that issue. Never figured out why or how to fix it. Powered through to get drones and they deliver stuff without issues.

[@Toughbeard]

@@AndrewKostenko I had been testing with that save I had. you seem to get a lockout when you have one of your sectors is full. what you do is you manually use the sliders to change the values until it starts transfer. If you set numbers it does not work. only if you move the sliders... I had this issue in chapter one so I had no way of using drones.. So I had to solve the issue or start over :(

[@GrauHer]

From what I've seen, looks like when you can't transfer goods to one of the sectors, the rest transfers of the same good stop for the rest of sectors

[@DeadDancers]

You could be the messiah returned to earth and play the game perfectly and there’d still be a line of people to tell you what you did wrong. ^_^ I’d like to believe I’m not one of them but I suspect I’ve queued that queue a time or two before without meaning to. 🤔

[@dimercamparini]

The "line" here is just me...and I am not nitpicking minor issues (that obviously happen when you do most of the gameplay without pausing, and fast enough to be engaging and watchable in a streaming online...those are completely understandable)...fact is that there are major flaws here that would be best other (newbies) watchers did not follow in their playthrough... Or otherwise we will see ppl whining "bbboooohhhh...this game is sooo hard...I quit!" and that hurt me because this game (a lot of bugs aside) is actually very good and fun.

[@user-hj8rn5wp8z]

i am really interesting in game but i do not like playthrow - do not want to know spoilers

[@Yggdrasil42]

The only solution is playing it yourself then.

[@marovll21]

Yet, here we are

[@dimercamparini]

Oh and just because someone says that I am "100% incorrect": ALGAE vs. CROP: In the same amount of time, algae produce DOUBLE the food, almost DOUBLE the wastes (that can be used in different ways recycling them, so is an upside not a downside) than crops. And also a single algae farm is like 2/3 of the space occupied by a crop farm...and you obviously need less of them to feed the same population because they produce double the amount...so the space occupied in the end is a LOT less Also a single algae uses MORE power than a single crop...BUT since you basically need half of them to feed the same population you end up also with less power used to do the same job. Also algae farm uses a lot less water than crop (not a factor if you recycle wastes into water, but still). Also the algae produces a little less each time you do the harvest but way faster...so the throughput is also more consistent (less up and down, full and empty) and way more easy to manage by the logistics of the base (the little trucks that go around)...and we know here who recently had problems with FOOD LOGISTICS... :DDD Also the algae has only 2 upgrades with science, and the crop need 5 upgrades instead to be fully buffed...so with algae you even use less science (if you didnt fully upgraded crops before transitioning) The difference in efficiency between the 2 is ABYSSAL! I tried for fun to put 1 each of them in the same sector, in closed systems so they were isolated from the rest of the station and see how much they were producing in different containers...with both fully upgraded...the difference in performance is ridiculous, the algae was basically running in circles around the crop. :DDD That is why I am advising ppl tu use them ASAP in my other comment here and in the past video of this series. That said...good "100% correct" cropping! :DDD

[@AzazialVerdantia]

You could just show your math instead of writing this huge post full of smug :DDD nonsense. Should be easy to provide a comparison of power, food output, water use, waste production on a per cycle and per tile basis.

[@dimercamparini]

@@AzazialVerdantia dude if what I wrote here (all verifiable in game at first glance without any need to overcomplicate things, and CLEARLY demonstrating my point) is not enough for you...just do the math yourself... Also, you are asking ME for more info...so I guess that you are in no position to judge, even remotely, if what I wrote above was "nonsense" or not...do you even have the game or are you just here to watch someone play and white-knighting for him? Last time I checked Nilaus is not Pokimane... :DD (the "smug" was ONLY because my criticism was taken with a LOT MORE smug from the owner of the channel before...like he is the repository of the truth...so i am just replying in kind...my comments would have been of a waaaay different tone otherwise...I just dont like to be dismissed as if I was some kind of annoying fly on a wall, so at this point I am just having fun...and I am not even done yet...)

[@AzazialVerdantia]

​@@dimercamparini So you don't actually know, you're shifting the burden of proof, and anyone who asks you for data is white knighting? No wonder people have so much trouble with science education.

[@dimercamparini]

@@AzazialVerdantia I actually KNOW (LOL I just finished the game with an incredible amount of resources left, a station working like a perfect clock, and not a sweat in any part of the story whatsoever...everything I see here I already done better in my playthrough) and I was presenting the infos in a practical/colloquial way so anyone can understand what is worse and what is better (TO LEARN AND HAVE AN EASY WAY with the game...not because I need some kind of "validation" or "prize"...TFk I care...) Not everything need to be done with "0,0X" precision numbers and at "university lvl" you know... All info presented are FACTUALLY TRUE and clearly SHOWS (again) my point in HUGE favour of algae vs. crop (again...to facilitate YOUR life with the game...IF you have difficulties, like most ppl seems to have with this one)... That said...if you have nothing to add to the conversation (cause is clear that you dont even own the game or you could simply go in your playthrough and test what I said and see for yourself) and you are just here to be a good "simp" and defend the undefendable positions of someone that doesnt accept alternative and better ways of doing things, if they dont come directly from him (I bet he will never switch to algae now till the end of the game, just to not admit that I was right and he was wrong in his famous "that is 100% incorrect" statement)...GTFO...I am done with this useless conversation, I already said everything needed to be said in my original post...

[@AzazialVerdantia]

@@dimercamparini This is a lot of words and not a lot of numbers for someone who doesn't care and is factually correct. Want to try again?

[@dimercamparini]

Yeah...just saying that you should use all the upgrades the developers of the game have given to you, for efficiency purpose, I guess is "100% incorrect". And BTW you dont destroy a sector to re-do it in an upgraded version...you use ANOTHER (new, like for example the one you opened just now) sector to make the new food sector and THEN you repurpose the old food sector (now useless) for other things...so there is absolutely NO danger/risk involved in doing that...is all safe and dandy...you simply dont want to do it because you are enamored of your obsolete design (that you had to make working by starving your citizens with the worst food policy possible...when you where at JUST 76 FOOD WITH 4600 PPL to feed! LOL). You know...for being such a perfectionist and attentive to details in the Dyson Sphere Program videos, you are incredibly sloppy here with IXION...but you still keep the same impervious to critics attitude you always had...nice... Anyway...for whoever passes by here I can only say this...DONT do the food sector like he did (and, well, some other things too)...those upside-down farms are really ridiculous...your choice ofc... BTW (just because you had to make that stupid comment on your 4 EVAs in the end of the video, and how they were so usefull at that time, when your hull was taking so much damage) while being chased by the Piranesi she never got me near her and I never had to be in a planet with hostile drones...soooooo...I never had to use 4 EVAs for repairing the hull even in that VERY PARTICULAR phase of the game, that only last 10 minutes, too... :DDD And that was mainly because I did all the other quests and preparations in my base BEFORE the chase and when I activated the chase I was focusing all my attention to it and doing anything as fast and as efficiently as possible...LOL at opening and managing a new sector WHILE you were chased down by a killer ship, talking about the worst possible moment to do that, eh?! Could you do it? Yes! Should you do it? eeeeeeh...

[@Yggdrasil42]

Let the man play how he wants.

[@dimercamparini]

@@Yggdrasil42 tnx "white knight"...I guess Nilaus, as a damsel in distress with no food and ppl starving and overworked, needed you to save him... :DDD

[@sazafrass]

@@Yggdrasil42 yeah but then he'd having fun and and all those virtual people will STARVE. It'll be virtually so sad. I bet most of his screen is the game open instead of spreadsheets and wiki and this guys exact comments as a guide.