Mr noob... This spoiler is just for you. so it doesnt clutter up.
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....If i thought wrong.... was anything... but a synonym for false... is on me.... Right! No!
This does not make any difference and you cannot say that my opinion is wrong OR false.
Let me draw a parallel. True(right/yes whatever) is 1 false is 0. You ask me to tell you my favourite number and then i say 28, and then i say im lying. My favourite number is not now suddenly 0 is it. It doesnt work. that doesnt even make sense. Its closer to NULL, an absence of data. its a **** analogy but i hope you get the gist.
Hello. Do you wanna play a game?.
All you have to do is guess the opinion! Careful! im sneaky!
Chocolate is the best <-
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implicitly my opinion, shant even directly qualify it as such. Its not a fact. truly obviously not a fact as random Jeff from accounting says VANILLA is the best. If these were proposed as facts, then at least ONE of them is wrong. Oh NO! here comes Jennifer, office bicycle, absolutely loves strawberry. Implicit best. How does this compute? It doesnt matter as they are all opinions. They are subjective and have NO conclusive finding. Even if one of them is LYING, this is irrelevant to the opinion, it is an UNKNOWN, a NULL
In my opinion, the earth is flat. Spoiler
<- despite me PHRASING this as an opinion, this is in fact, not an opinion. it is an incorrect factual statement. IT IS WRONG. i think this is where people get confused, as they dont actually know what an opinion is. We have indisputable, repeatable, and the popular kids even say empirical proof that the planet is an oblate spheroid.
BONUS ROUND
Vaccines cause autism <
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not an opinion and its WRONG
Jeff thinks youre really hot. <
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its not MY opinion and i cant have someone elses opinion unless Jeff agrees then its WRONG (sorry)
I think Jennifer thinks Jeff thinks youre really hot. <
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I have no idea if this is an opinion, actually. Is this like schrodingers cat? Its an opinion until we ask jennifer? Do we have to ask Jeff as well? An opinion in superposition with a fact? this is ******* science, guys. Exciting! Discuss.
I think jennifer is very annoying. <
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OPINION there is no conclusive finding.
I spent FAR too long here but i enjoyed it very much.
Now, also.
Mr Evzhel
Im just going to play devils advocate a little here. My own real opinion that i have about this new skill tree is that i love the mutually exclusive choices (mostly). It DEMANDS compromises in your skills just as when you are deciding on your fleet composition as you begin your trek to that suspicious looking blue star 40 odd light years away. You cant afford to bring all your best fighters, they are too expensive to run and/or their logistical stats are too poor and to compensate for this lack it eats into your already PREMIUM cargo and fuel space. Cos you aint coming back until your holds are FULL and thats basic cost effectiveness. Suddenly, that apogee looks like a damn attractive ship, awkward in combat, but its a cheapish cruiser, has good sensors, helps with scanning planets and plugs several potential holes in a leaky fleet composition. The vast holds, efficient engines and fuel tanks, the extra crew to man those derelicts you find just to efficiently free up some hull space suing supplies and add more cargo space are all things you find on the ships you least want in combat. Here even the venture is viable (EVEN!).
The mere compromises you have had to make here means that ships you would never usually look at become attractive enough to not only become viable but an ideal choice. Shepherd, i love that ship, i always have two. PANTS in a fight.
Thats what i feel people are missing here, these choices are making.... hmmm whats a good word ... strata. Different layers of playing the game possible, if you will. Always knowing the true optimal restricts your choices.
Another thing to consider is that we dont actually need any of the skills currently present in the game to be successful. Its all gravy. Every skill most certainly makes you more powerful.
All that said, I do exactly what you do. Combat skills are useless (IMO) through out the game, as you are but a single ship, numerically inferior, your force multipliers are still only applying to 1. This is until the end game where industry is pointless as you no longer need to be efficient in your spending. YOuve now made it. You have literal planets churning out fleets in your name.
BUT, you see what people write in these forums and there are people here that are complaining almost explicitly about the combat tree. Just that bit of information alone means that people play the game with a completely different approach than i do, wading in with their capitals where i like to nibble and opportunise.
NONE of the other skill incarnations of yesteryear had any
real choice. You had so many skills you could easily take ALL the best and thats what one did every game. I understand that when you look at the skill tree, the one method that appears commonsense to you is ALWAYS the best and only choice. But some people like morris dancing, some like liquorice, and i do not.
I would sincerely love to see other peoples interpretations to the skill system, so i am all for that suggestion seeing as i have no idea as to how much work that would take. Honing the choices and sacrifices that must be made IS this game. Your suggestion, however, isnt IF choices its WHEN choices, and i just want to mention again that NONE of the skills in the skill tree are required to complete the game. A lack of necessary compromise in your choices is a lack of depth in my
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