Riptide finished hugging Sweet Dream, Dude, I almost forgot. I need a new board!
Later, Rip, Sweet Dream said. We need to finish this planning. She looked to Dylan, I like the idea of one bomb with a bunch of fakes. It ups the stakes.
Hold up a minute, Oro said. What if we used a nuke instead of TNT? Or so other explosive?
I ignored nukes because I figured it wouldnt be easy to get materials for it. But we could try other explosives. How strong is C4 compared to TNT? Jack replied.
Oro shrugged, No clue.
We should work on making this simple. The quicker we can gather materials, the quicker we can announce this, Sweet Dream said. Trying to gather so many explosives would take too long.
Do we need to worry about the amount of ti it takes? Oro asked.
If we want to use this as recruitnt, yeah. Otherwise, we should think of sothing else.
Shes got a point, Jack said. The sooner we do this, the more people well attract.
Then, let see what we need to make a wave machine or sothing, Dylan said.
He typed so entries into his power, settling on one after a few revisions and a bit of alliteration.
The Wave Widget
This device causes massive waves to form in the ocean that could easily flood a city. Dr. Zlo created the weapon so the world would fall under his control! The machine works on a tir and charges up to create one unstoppable wave.
Steel Rod (10)
Wire (2 m)
Inflatable Swimming Pool (1)
Alarm clock (1)
Salt and Pepper Shakers (1 pair)
Seismoter (1)
Sciencium (200 g) or Alienite (25 g) or Phlebotinium (2 g)
Making a simple wave machine doesnt look too hard. How much Alienite do we have left? Dylan asked.
Nothing to share, unfortunately, Jack said. Weve been using it all to make generators, and Ive been using the rest to make the construction bots. It doesnt help that soone keeps breaking them.
The woman gave a pointed look at Riptide.
What?
Rip, stop breaking the construction bots, Sweet Dream said.
Dude, its not my fault they get in the way when I surf.
Okay! Oro said. Before we get into another argunt, can we please decide if were going with the decoy plan?
I dont know, hitting one city isnt as exciting. I cant threaten the world as Dr. Zlo with one machine. What if we made three? Dylan said.
Thats six grams of Phlebotinium or seventy-five grams of Alienite. Because lets face it, you arent waiting for six hundred grams of Sciencium, Jack said.
We can grind the Alienite, right? Especially now that we have so land, Oro said.
Thats true. The tower defense mini-ga is still going.
Did soone beat the final boss yet? Oro asked.
Yeah. I heard its a solid boss fight. The adaptive AI ans players have to think on their feet each ti they face it, Jack said.
Dude, that sounds aweso. We should try it! Riptide said.
I dunno, Ive never been a fan of alien invasion stories, Oro said. Theyre just so unrealistic.
Oh I know right. Like, any alien race advanced enough to explore the galaxy wouldnt bother with us.
No, theres a lot of reasons why they might invade, Dylan said. My favorite is we get used as cheap labor.
No, see, automation would make using slave labor useless, Oro said.
Didnt stop companies from doing it to third-world countries, Dylan countered.
But anyone advanced enough to travel to space would have such good automation using slave labor would literally be more expensive.
You dont know that, though. Its not like space travel requires amazing automation, Dylan said.
Guys, stop nerding out, Sweet Dream said. Are we going to grind out the Alienite, or are we doing sothing else?
Sorry, Dylan said. How long would we need to spend grinding?
On average, we can net one to five Alienite per wave, depending on the difficulty, Jack said.
I rember getting a lot more at the start, Dylan said.
Vert nerfed the drop rate in the patch notes, Jack replied.
How long does it take per wave? Oro asked.
Not sure. Vert didnt release wave tis.
Well, theres no way the fight could take an hour, and Id say ten minutes would be pushing it. Is it an equal drop chance?
Hold on, let check the forums.
Jack logged out and returned a minute later.
Okay, I found a forum with assud drop rates.
Jack motioned for the marker. Obliging, Dylan handed it over. Smiling her thanks, Jack started writing.
Armor 50%
Weapon 25 %
Misc 15%
Alienite 10%
Finished, Jack tossed the marker back to Dylan and slapped the whiteboard. These are the odds listed in the thread.
Sweet Dream walked over to the whiteboard, So for every ten enemies we get one Alienite. If we assu the one to five is accurate, were looking at ten to fifty enemies per wave. Say each wave takes ten minutes tops, and on average, we fight thirty enemies. That nets us three Alienite per ten minutes. We need seventy-five, which ans going through this around twenty-five tis. Twenty-five tis ten minutes is two-fifty, which is a little over four hours. Thats not terrible.
Its a pretty forgiving drop rate, Oro agreed.
We can do half a night grinding to get that, Dylan agreed. Are we all agreed on this part of the plan?
I think so, dude, Riptide answered.
Dylan looked around. The rest nodded their agreent, Jack giving a thumbs-up for extra emphasis.
Cool, lets start planning the rest of this.
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Below Skyline, Thomas and Nikola were hard at work deforesting the surrounding area while Rampart and rla crafted their outpost. Well, Nikola was working, Thomas had purchased a few rcenaries and paid them extra to help out. After all, the corporate villain would never get their hands dirty. Shizuka was patrolling the area, cleaning up the last of the monstrous squirrels. Every so often, Thomas heard the ninja laughing through the treetops.
Shizukas voice rang through the trees, Just one hug!
The others shook their heads. Nikola grabbed another log and rolled it toward the hill.
So, how much can we get from this place? he asked.
Thomas turned to look at him, Hmm. It depends on what we need. Jack told that the building is coming along nicely, but were starting to run out of funds.
That makes sense. Doesnt construction cost millions of dollars?
Yes. Which ans anything we can take from here will cut our costs imnsely.
What we need is a player who takes the money creation power, Rampart said, literally jumping into the conversation.
You finished the outpost? Thomas asked. He looked over in the direction of the hill to see a small tower sitting atop it. The construction was barely more than a few sticks tied together, and it reminded Thomas of a tripod. A flat piece of wood sat on top of three wooden logs tied together with rope. rla kept watch on top of it, sotis releasing a blast of magic.
Ill switch out with her in a bit, or we could get one of Shizukas clones.
Thats a good plan, Thomas said.
Why should we get soone who makes money? Isnt Vert going to fix that soon? Nikola asked.
Rapport twisted to look at the villain, Are they?
Nikola shrugged, I dont know, but sothing like that will ruin an economy. And if they want a sandbox ga they need money that takes work to create.
We might see a nerf to money creation, then, Thomas said.
If it does get nerfed, we need to build an economy, Rampart said. Otherwise, well never be able to build everything we have in mind. No offense to Zlo, but all his designs look expensive.
Thats what this is supposed to help with, Thomas said. Processing materials here can net us money.
Yeah, but how much? Nikola said.
Yeah, lets face it, were going to need more than millions of dollars, Rampart said.
Could try to do so bug hunting, Nikola mused. Ive heard that Vert pays for that.
I doubt its a high enough payout, Rampart countered. What we need is sothing that players want.
So, weapons, armors, gadgets, Thomas said. But raw materials work as well if we can sell to crafting factions.
Rampart leaned back against a tree and ran a hand through his hair, Why does planning have to be so hard!
Wish I could tell you, Nikola said. I take things one step at a ti. Dex is the one with large plans.
Do we even need an external economy? Thomas muttered.
What? Rampart said.
Oh, I was wondering if we needed to sell materials. nagerie isnt looking to specialize in anything. Isnt our best bet to buy up everything in the wilderness that we can?
That creates more places to defend, Rampart stated.
True, Thomas said. He brought a hand up to Dextras chin and pulled up the locations tab with his other.
I purchased this land for sixteen hundred dollars, which ans four resources are located in this area. The forest is one, and Im assuming the hill holds the other three since nothing else stands out in the forest.
I thought you were looking for Phlebotinium? Nikola said.
I am, but the only thing my power could give was rumor and conjecture. Im only as smart as the information I receive. Id hoped for a bit more info on the site, but I think I wont be able to learn more until we develop this land.
I think were getting too focused on Phlebotinium, Rampart said. Right now, we should be looking to make Skyline defensible.
You really think soones going to attack us so soon? Nikola asked.
Rampart shook his head, Im not sure, but I do know that if we dont have so defenses, well get shot out of the sky during our first fight.
So we should at least get the drones running, and the cloud cover, Thomas said.
Ill ssage Jack to see if she made sothing already, Nikola said.
Sounds good. Ill stay down here and keep hiring more NPCs so we can get wood and other materials for Skyline, Thomas said.
Hold up, Zlo just sent sothing, Rampart said.
Thomas looked at the corner of his screen to see his friends list flashing.
Superfan39526:
Hey, we need to farm so alienite if we want to do this heist.
Dream said it would take four solid hours of grinding.
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