Rescue Survivors or Take Meat Popsicles | 07 | IXION | Chapter 2 | 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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[@ray30k]

One thing I love about the storytelling of this game so far is how, after the first jump, you are constantly on the back foot. You do the experimental VOHLE jump and... arrive in a destroyed Solar system, piecing together how the jump basically wiped out Earth and how people are mad at your employer (entirely understandably so.) Then you do another Jump and... Now you're finding out that the other ship you were chasing has been jumped at by the UN. Bottom line, the story has happened. And you're there to pick up the pieces. I think it is very well done, honestly.

[@MistedMind]

It's reminiscent of the Homeworld story, kind of! The planet/race discovers / develops a Hyperdrive, and the test-jump works, but somehow still a disaster happens. And then the Space-Station/Ship travels through the Galaxy looking for a new home and encountering a multitude of hardships. It's similar yet very different - I like it still :D

[@xFailedNinjax]

Ice ice baby... Love your content and forward thinking demeanor. Thank you!

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

Typical Nilaus moment there. OTOH, I hate the animation at 24:55. It's not ugly, but look at the accel the Tiquun is piling on in those cutscenes. Everybody inside should be falling sideways!

[@benziko1460]

You only need to worry about your ships when they have a red path marker; the big frosty section doesn't hurt them, only the area on the right

[@b.delacroix7592]

Well it does cause harm to humans in side Tiqqun, otherwise nothing.

[@JayFlowie]

@@b.delacroix7592 I only had problems with it taking out solar panels

[@b.delacroix7592]

@@JayFlowie I saw that. Guess I was lucky.

[@littlmrsdracula]

Honestly, restructuring sector 1 was the most satisfying thing to watch since episode one where you placed that one insect farm so awkwardly xD I'm happy I sticked around :D

[@SerayaShadowharper]

Ah yes, ice. I'm sure ice will always be in great supply. No problem.

[@ingiford175]

Nilaus, when you are doing reorginzations, one extra workshop helps in building speed, and 1-2 more alloy storage will help tear down buildings (and then remove the workshop and storage later)

[@ethanwilson1001]

Nilaus brings Frost Punk to the Tiqqun.

[@prasaadii]

Mate. Don't take this the wrong way. I'm trying to find any other video that is as detailed as yours. No matter what, yours is insanely superior. I just want something for comparison. You're the best. I just need the second best for comparison. Lol how weird is that

[@Daspwn]

FFS that vanilla ice joke was so bad it was good, made me laugh way to much ^^

[@neilclarkwork]

I had the same problem. Ran out of science when I needed that docking arm. Only, I was only getting 1 ever 30 cycles. It took me until almost cycle 1700 to get enough and by then all the iron was used up keeping the hull together. I managed to jump but couldn’t recover. Started the system over from an old save and upgraded my science lab first thing.

[@ingiford175]

That science lab upgrade is so important...

[@whataboutsharks4646]

This game is awesome 😄 thanks for another great episode!

[@ThomasG1971]

Loving the content and looking forward to more

[@jamieridenour1275]

Nilaus, your one ship has no docking bay attached to it. So it doesn't show it's part of any sector.

[@MisuVir]

No comment on Valhalla AI clearly being Vanir Dolos?

[@kpuff2477]

You like playing the game, I like watching you play the game. Win win.

[@coszmin8223]

Amazing series. Keep it going. It my favorite channel. I was actualy wondering when you get to reorganize the first sector.:) nilaus style. Can't wait for next ep

[@Poison337]

Love the series

[@pepperbox-ic3oo]

afk became my main source of science once I got the lab production upgrade. U can simply stay at 3x speed if u have enough supply of iron and ice. And u don’t want to stay in the ice fog too long because it kills people on the ship.

[@thomashenry4798]

When you saw the 950 cryopods you sounded like you almost had a heart attack. :V

[@kzar99]

just remember to finish the colony task before the end of protagoras

[@LiPeR_]

Thanks for this episode (Hello YT algo :) )

[@tarosetantu868]

(SPOILERS FOR THE VID IF YOU READ BEFORE WATCHING) Big plot point that happens twice in this episode... the later model P.A.s are a human consciousness uploaded into the machine. Valhalla was Vanir's mind; the guy who did the big opening speech. The cargo vessel's story was that her parents managed to upload their child into the freighter's P.A. system to 'somewhat' preserve her life. Makes me wonder if Edden was once a human mind, or if digitization became more of a priority as a potential means of preserving humankind after the Moonclysm.

[@kebrl]

Edden probably contains Naomi, who "invented" the PAs

[@lardyman2]

So the Valhalla P.A. of the Protagoras is definately a copy or a digitised version of the founder of Dolos, I am not sure if during the "Thourghts of the Protagoras Event" if to use the Naomi Protocol to save a copy or to install the copy of EDDEN. gameplay wise the former gives you 60 science , but, there is no flavour text suggesting anything about the origin of this P.A. or if there are moral concens as the P.A clearly seems to embrace it's fate. The other thing is chosing to backup the Protagoras P.A ends the event, so does this mean the Protagoras is left without a P.A. bearing in mind Lore wise the P.A handels more mundane administration tasks, such as water/air recycling and presumably other tasks. Without a P.A the human crew of the Protagoras has to pickup the slack. I am not sure why you can't do both and while the obvious gameplay choice is to save a copy, the moral decision is surely to install a copy given all the information we have.

[@Saika_Sakitora]

i really regret not saving the crew of the Protagoras cuz i dont have enough space and resouces to expand the station (their are really low on iron in chapter 2)what i should have done is upgrade the stock pile and take in all the crew from Protagoras , now in chapter 3 i have to take in the crew from the UN and the crew don't really like it but it have to be done since im short on hand after reaching the chapter 3

[@CaffeinatedFingers]

Is the space weather melting your ship. Don't think its coincidence that panels started failing en masse after you parked in the weather.

[@user-qu3jt2ql1v]

That's exactly what's happening to the Tiqqun. If it needs constant repairs in even the moon's orbit,imagine how badly it'll be faring inside the dense ice field it is now. (I was literally screaming for him to move the station to Tatras V8,then to Deville 59,out of the ice. While watching that idiot getting his crew killed one after another)

[@spacedog6035]

check the mess hall upgrades , they are beyond OP

[@Nazgulxnl]

Just wondering If you have noticed there are 2 solar panel sections. It's cheaper to build the second one up before u go far in the first panel.

[@OverKillPlusOne]

Haha I had the SAME reaction on seeing 950 pods….I decided not to collect them all though before jumping on…haven’t made any real progress in Ch3 yet. One thing that seems to have helped me is specializing…one sector is ag/food, industrial, and space, that last one is way important for fighting the ongoing battle of flying a pre alpha ship that’s falling apart. It’s a big challenge this game.

[@AzazialVerdantia]

Sometimes Nilaus just doesn't read or understand the story. At 21:10 he just casually murders a child and goes oh great free cargo ship.

[@thet00nl1nk3]

Definitely cannot not refer to the cryo-pods as meat/human popsicles. Also tempting me to get it myself

[@IndyIndie59]

LOL I call them Peepsicles

[@VIP-ry6vv]

Reorganizing is a big part of the game. I finished the game very inefficiently compared to you.

[@hardkur]

u will need fire stations in next system

[@marcussmith3830]

😄

[@andrzejwysocki609]

wtf is going on in the mess halls that cause deaths? lol

[@peterknutsen3070]

After watching maybe 5-6 hours of Nilaus playing, I still absolutely lack a sense of how stuff gets moved around internally in a sector, or between sectors, as well as how quickly it happens, and if there is anything that can be done to speed it up. Same with constructing or dismantling buildings. Who does it, and can “they” be interacted with, improved, made more efficient?

[@dominikvonlavante6113]

This is done by storages which send out cars for transport. The storage yards can only send 5 cars carrying 1 unit of cargo each.

[@peterknutsen3070]

@@dominikvonlavante6113 So if a sector works a lot with a resource, then you might want 2 or 3 storage buildings for it, so you get 10 or 15 cars? Is it slower to transfer stuff between sectors? Does road network density matter? Nilaus seemed to not care that his new sector 1 has a *huge* go-around block in the middle. Was that a mistake? And what about construction and deconstruction?

[@dominikvonlavante6113]

@@peterknutsen3070 Precisely. Having more storages improves throughput. They do all transport jobs within their sector. In my industrial sector I have three alloy storages and three iron storages just to satisfy throughput. In my agri-sector with two farms I even have four storages because of throughput. Storages will also pick up materials of buildings being decommissioned. That is the rate limiting step. Ditto for construction. What I haven't figured out yet is inter sector movement of materials. Is this push or pull? I have no Idea.

[@ingiford175]

For moving, extra storage gets you more cars. So 3 Alloy buildings can rapidly deconstruct and refill buildings. Building extra workshops will give you more buildings you can build at once.

[@drsupergood8978]

The penalty for too many frozen people seems really harsh and nonsensical. I understand it is intended to encourage the player to thaw them, forcing the player to care for and use the people as part of the challenge of progress. However, it seems excessive to punish the player for this due to efficient logistics. You even have 2 facilities unfreezing people, but just because your transporters move them from a huge event reward very efficiently your trust is being punished. To me it would make more sense to only punish the player for too many frozen people if they clearly are not making an effort to unpack them efficiently. Having 2 facilities unpacking them constantly to me seems like a sufficient effort to support having 500 onboard without a penalty.

[@mambosanimation8985]

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