To the Moon and Back - Terra Invicta (Part 4)

[@samueltrusik3251]

In this episode of "Terra Invicta": American prosperity! Lunar industries! Research beelining! Interplanetary expansion! EU growth! The Resistance manifesto! Assasination preparations! And government manipulation! And Earth size manipulation!

[@rynodragon2316]

I love how you make it sound like a 60’s radio announcer. Also don’t forget “Earth shrinking?!”

[@samueltrusik3251]

@@rynodragon2316 Done.

[@benjaminengslev4261]

Very accurate tl:dr

[@samueltrusik3251]

@@benjaminengslev4261 Why thank you Internet person.

[@handlesrstupid123]

Gosh i love these

[@The0Stroy]

9:30 Alien rapid growing mushrooms that pick up and start rampage? WAAAAAAAGH!

[@loreguru3083]

When Pravus brought up the Expanse, I had to shout out an agreement. That series is great, and the events of Ceres Station are *pivotal* throughout the entirety of it. 12/10, can easily recommend to any sci-fi fan.

[@MementiMori]

And the TV series is actually a pretty good adaptation. I prefered the adaptation of book 3 the the original telling. that said, season 4 was atrocious compared to book 4, so its a trade off.

[@delphy2478]

he also brought up firefly

[@anobuthix5977]

Unless I’ve seen it wrong, the Initiative had two cracked Control Points in Canada. If you see a control point that’s cracked in nations you’re interested in controlling and have enough admin cap, you should immediately do purges. Especially later in the game it gets progressively easier to purge if points are cracked down, so it becomes essential to protect your points from crackdowns, since by then if it’s cracked, it’s lost.

[@neevasteria8060]

Mostly because he conquered Canada first in Ep 1 then abandoned it after getting USA. Havent played the game so I dont know how long crack down state lasts but his interests in Canada has already been fulfilled

[@lonerangerv1224]

skipping Luna is a terrible idea because the boost cost to build up anywhere else is insane. Using luna to get the majority of the space resources allows a much more rapid expansion onto mars and then belt and other planets

[@TheAtlarchy]

This faction gives me strong XCOM vibes, to the point of convincing me to actually play XCOM

[@shawngillogly6873]

Well, my pitch for this game is one of 2 things: 1) It's a Stellaris Primitive Species Simulator. Or 2) What if you played XCom as the Spokesman instead of the Commander.

[@IronWolf307]

I feel you play this as the resistance and if you lose, play xcom. Then play stellaris as commonwealth of man and get revenge against the xenos.

[@Apophis40K]

The developeres made the long war mod for xcom

[@fkfms5945]

About the tiny earth bug, pressing the keyboard spacebar (pause/unpause button) will revert the earth back to its' original size.

[@Ffourteen]

When you consider how small Ceres is compared to the moon, 1.28% the mass, it seems ridiculous that it gets multiple mining sites.

[@HeruKane]

Having both the US and China sounds interesting yeah. But even more the North American State, and maybe the United American State for both continents would be cool as a playthrough

[@ztk211]

8:30 "whoops! Honey, I shrunk the Earth!" lol

[@luigirota7964]

3:50 definitely more cheaper to transport and building’s base structures

[@unknow11712]

7:10 argument is easy to solve, things outside G are extremely easier to transport anywhere. once we start to take resources from space and build stuff in space, a new age will start.

[@yuentschang3189]

I just learned that the outro song was spooky scary skeleton but happier.

[@JohnSmith-rs5mq]

I am liking the series a lot. I have been into stellaris for a while but I was looking for something else to get into and this seems to be it.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Praise Pravus! Through his efforts, humanity might survive the alien menace!

[@MrAxeswinger]

Humanity First: And we will survive the Alien menace. PERMANENTLY!

[@marchernandez4596]

You can set up policy of a country when you have the executive and tell them to federate and unite, no need to wait for AI.

[@janneswilmink487]

Man, sure hope there will be some sort Play as the Aliens DLC at some point.

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

Isn't the Servants faction basically that?

[@robertlombardo8437]

​​@@erickpoorbaugh6728Not really. Playing the Servants is more like playing the aliens' yandere "girlfriend", slowly murdering everyone else who gets between you and your fugly waifus. Meanwhile, the aliens *may* not even know you exist.

[@Rose_Harmonic]

Just to head off some suffering that is likely to arise without spoiling anything big, once you utilize more than about 80 Mission control, you will experience some suffering that maxes out at 200 mission control or so. Be careful about that. Also, you can sort your sciences by category so it's easier to parse the list. You can also set resources to show monthly rather than daily income in the settings which is great for readability. Point defense is really effective at protecting your stations and bases from aliens and space debris for a good while. Letting the aliens succeed at attacking your stations and bases gets them to cool off.

[@YourLocalMairaaboo]

Just remember, pravus. Don't overdo it on MC, or the aliens will marmalize you.

[@ryandolphin8132]

Absolutely loving this series Pravus, you are doing such a good job. Keep up the good work. PRAISE PRAVUS!

[@UIM_Moose]

In my recent Resistance game not a single faction unlocked nuclear freighters to research, slowed us all down so much lmao

[@yiannchrst]

It's so rejuvenating that the AI isn't stupid and makes for an interesting challenge!

[@CuantusGaming]

The expanse is awesome, relatively accurate! Amazing series too!!

[@mimameta]

This is by far the best new 4x in a long time

[@jaredbeever4629]

Looks like the Initiative took the initiative when it comes to Mars.

[@Kitsune-ri8dk]

I was specifically looking for this joke Pravus missed

[@gressorialNanites]

14:08 Too soon, painfully possible

[@Funnyshrtscomp]

Really enjoying this serie it has so much depth!

[@S7E_Siriel-Privat]

Kinda ironic to make the US a full democracy by building a network of essentially aristocrats to rule it from behind the scenes XD

[@shadowofhawk55]

It makes the Proles and Plebes happy in the thinking their voices are heard. Then all you need is to give them an enemy to justify the long hours and horrible pay and BOOM!!! they are yours forever.

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

The resistance continues to rise

[@ericlanglois3782]

Once you've launched a probe you can keep track of it by clicking on the body the probe is heading to (like Mars) and looking at the bottom of the planet's window on the left side of your screen, right above the name, in this case above MARS it stated "Survey Completion: 25 November 2025" when you were asking about when the probe was going to arrive there.

[@martin2998]

Don't know how you can keep track of games like these. I'm so not smart enough ha ha. Great watching you play them. Thank you

[@gamerman0252]

Hey what happened at 23:50. Did we miss something because the video messed up or is that just a very weird jump cut?

[@AllenYCLau]

Imperialism beyond EU4! Praise Gimli!

[@isaiahdavis2232]

The expanse is so good

[@neofulcrum5013]

I wonder if that guerrilla warfare gives a boost against alien planetary incursion like that behemoth in Syria

[@ispylugaw9775]

Praise Pravus

[@djohnnyemaus]

This is awesome! Love this series, Pravus!🖤

[@legendaryfrolox6285]

Man this series and game seem very interesting

[@kaadenkelley2241]

20 episodes of this please

[@thesongsingernoob8484]

I don't really read books but I watched the series on Netflix for the expanse and it was an amazing sci fi TV show I loved every bit of it I wish they would make more

[@joehelland1635]

You needto own all the contoll points in target country to integrate it.

[@darkgalaxy9998]

I think it would be awesome to play as the aliens

[@shadowofhawk55]

The Expanse is AMAZEBALLS.

[@Kartus68]

Interesting game. I'm liking the this series. Great job Pravus.

[@psalm91rdwlkfpgrl]

earth was so smoll

[@oddestzombie4715]

In cyberpunk you can hear a pronunciation of fissile material by one of the arasaka agents that interrogate johnny silver hand

[@OniFeez]

As an Australian, I would like to see you take over it... or at least see what the country can do for you.

[@Ukalnsk]

Unite Earth!

[@robbiecarter9979]

the aliens have shrunk earth 8:37

[@braxon]

I feel that a democracy with low inequality rushes toward Diverse pretty fast without the investment into unity.

[@gogubbb6537]

Again a nice video I am impreseed nice job

[@crunchman607]

Epic

[@Jetalockhart]

Love the serie Prav...

[@louistubehd2295]

Praise Pravus! Love your videos, would you recommend Terra Invicta to a Hoi4 player? Also Diplomacy with other Factions would help you, I learnt this from Guides.

[@Trifler500]

fiss-isles is how it's pronounced in nuclear circles.

[@codesmithBits]

7:00 IMHO one of biggest BULLSHIT in this game. You should be required to make supply lines, both you and the aliens, not just have Earth and non-Earth. Hopefully this gets heavy patched, it instantly killed my immersion. This would open up cool strategies like disrupting enemy logistic lines since they too have to do them, and you could maybe outmaneuver more powerful fleets by using partisan tactics. It also opens up endgame potential to resist them on Earth by suppressing their boost from earth and destroying their supply lines so that invasion ground forces get isolated. Would be extremely cool if there comes a DLC later when the tables are turned for those factions trying to eradicate you figure out where they are and try to invade their system (or several) and for those fleeing you get to replay system after system where you try to flee or crush them in that system. You start at the previous level of technology and get a head start in the system.

[@kinagrill]

An explanation for why space resources are overall just 'available' but not from earth is cuz earth has an atmosphere and hence the massive issues getting stuff OUT of the planet's grasp, comparatively speaking if you have the resources from the moon where you literally needs miniscule amount of lift-off to escape the gravity of, say, the moon, or an asteroid, etc. No atmospheres there either to really worry about. Same with Mars. And since you have nuclear powered freighters, it's simulated you have basic mercantile shipping happening.

[@mafteimarius2222]

OMG I DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO COMMENT ON THE COMMUNITY POST FOR THIS TO HAPPEN!!!!!

[@jssnake2564]

Still loving the vids

[@Firgusgriffon]

I think everyone's take on loyalty monitor is wrong. Like every other stat, loyalty goes from 0 to 25. Putting on the loyalty monitor means you'll have to inspire a few times to make up for it but then for the rest of that character's life you won't have to use an action to check his loyalty. It saves you action in the long run. And I find in the 2020s early 2030s you have spare actions anyways while later you often have no action to spare to check loyalty.

[@kornsuwin]

genus

[@Marheversta]

nice new update.

[@percyjackson386]

yes the sino american alliance

[@Bl4ckWo1f1]

How was china Untouched?!

[@oldfartrick]

Watch the series The Expanse

[@francisj8239]

Algo

[@McGrewer]

I still think it's a flaw to label the US as a democracy since the very foundation of the country we have been a constitutional republic. There is a very big difference and I am tired of seeing the two conflated.

[@tarukmimet1695]

👍

[@niekvanderhorst6065]

More

[@nicholasdonohue4997]

The books are awesome and its a shame the show had to Game of Thrones it and nose dive in the home stretch

[@misanthropicattackhelicopt4148]

The last season was a bit irritating focusing too much on the humans rather than the mystery of what was behind the gates and what were the alien creatures on the colony world.

[@DarkDragon357]

Pravus should play more democracy 4. i would love to see a hardest difficulty america run. day 49

[@gabemobley3851]

Hi

[@oracle372]

0:27 "attention to dtail" so simplifying the map by merging small countries together like the Benelux, Baltics, Illyria and Balkans etc,. is attention to detail? No, it's not I'm fine with the baltics and Benelux mostly since politically they're all in the EU, all in NATO, etc so it doesn't really make a difference but Austria and Switzerland being combined is a crime against anyone claiming to have "geopolitical accuracy". Austria is in the EU, Switzerland is not.

[@LuminantLion]

Call it fizzle dizzle so no one knows you can't pronounce it

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

1, I am the 873rd like, 2, FUN

[@suvd-erdenenergui2469]

5

[@SombraCheeks]

Is this game worth the buy???