Starting Councillors now even worse since .76?
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:52 pm
I would never have thought it possible, but it appears to me that the Starting Councillors - and councillors in general now - have been brutally nerfed.
The last 8 games I have started as Humanity First were all scrapped immediately.
Why?
50+ year old scientist with no useful missions. Sometimes as young as their late 40's, but always a damned bloody scientist.
Why?
The second starter has also been in late 40's/early 50's much more often than a supposedly random selection should be as well, and likewise useless. I am lucky if I see persuasion stats higher than 6 and extremely lucky iof they have both 'Control Nation' and 'Public Campaign'.
To give an example of what I am facing on each & every start these days, please see screenshots of the latest attempt to get a start I can actually work with: And these are the best I have seen in 8 tries now. Seriously!
The pool is no better either.
Find someone with halfway decent persuasion & they have no usable missions. Find someone with espionage or investigative skills & they do not have any actual missions to use them, or iof they do then they are also too damned old NB - I tried to add more screenshots from this start but cannot seem to add more than 3 in any post. Suffice it to say that his best stat is a Per 7, but 52 years old & an apocalyptic drug addict. Another is actually only 34 and has Per of 8, but no Public Campaign, No inspire, no defend assets - all he can do is Control Nation or Space Asset and Turn Councillor - that is ALL - he is the best in the current pool.
The same issues apply to all other stats & options too. Yes, I understand it is supposed to be the same for the AI, but if this is true then how come the AI is managing to seize large nations before I can even get going - and I am not a bad player in the early stages (it is the later stages where I am not very good as yet) and it really does make starting a campaign an excercise in pure frustration, as time & again I try to go with what I have, sacking the crap ones & getting new ones but by the time I hit 2025 the game is already as good as lost.
Sure, I can edit councillors but once more I would like to point out that this is
A - Cheating, and
B - utterly at odds with what we are supposed to be - leaders of a 'Shadow Government' - we have to accept the dregs of the planet when we are supposed to be a super covert organization yet has almost no control over the quality and skillsets of it's founding members!
I know I have moaned about this before but since then rather than getting better it has seemingly got a whole lot worse.
We need to have some sort of say in who gets recruited for the opening pair. The rest of it I can live with, but in a whole planet full of people is the best we can do really a motley collection of old men & women with no useful skills?
The last 8 games I have started as Humanity First were all scrapped immediately.
Why?
50+ year old scientist with no useful missions. Sometimes as young as their late 40's, but always a damned bloody scientist.
Why?
The second starter has also been in late 40's/early 50's much more often than a supposedly random selection should be as well, and likewise useless. I am lucky if I see persuasion stats higher than 6 and extremely lucky iof they have both 'Control Nation' and 'Public Campaign'.
To give an example of what I am facing on each & every start these days, please see screenshots of the latest attempt to get a start I can actually work with: And these are the best I have seen in 8 tries now. Seriously!
The pool is no better either.
Find someone with halfway decent persuasion & they have no usable missions. Find someone with espionage or investigative skills & they do not have any actual missions to use them, or iof they do then they are also too damned old NB - I tried to add more screenshots from this start but cannot seem to add more than 3 in any post. Suffice it to say that his best stat is a Per 7, but 52 years old & an apocalyptic drug addict. Another is actually only 34 and has Per of 8, but no Public Campaign, No inspire, no defend assets - all he can do is Control Nation or Space Asset and Turn Councillor - that is ALL - he is the best in the current pool.
The same issues apply to all other stats & options too. Yes, I understand it is supposed to be the same for the AI, but if this is true then how come the AI is managing to seize large nations before I can even get going - and I am not a bad player in the early stages (it is the later stages where I am not very good as yet) and it really does make starting a campaign an excercise in pure frustration, as time & again I try to go with what I have, sacking the crap ones & getting new ones but by the time I hit 2025 the game is already as good as lost.
Sure, I can edit councillors but once more I would like to point out that this is
A - Cheating, and
B - utterly at odds with what we are supposed to be - leaders of a 'Shadow Government' - we have to accept the dregs of the planet when we are supposed to be a super covert organization yet has almost no control over the quality and skillsets of it's founding members!
I know I have moaned about this before but since then rather than getting better it has seemingly got a whole lot worse.
We need to have some sort of say in who gets recruited for the opening pair. The rest of it I can live with, but in a whole planet full of people is the best we can do really a motley collection of old men & women with no useful skills?