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Reply to Learn to play - Managing expectations in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

The Managing Expectations map is harder than most RNG maps. Especially because the challenge is in scanning mode instead of reveal map mode. I wouldn't worry too much about finishing the challenge, as a normal skirmish game should be easier. But if you want to, I would probably found north of the colony near the water, iron, and silicon as Expansive. Which will help with the shipping costs that you will accrue on the mission. Make sure you use the adjacency bonus for production buildi

8th New Players FFA Tournament: May 19th (19:00 GMT, 15:00 EDT) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

On May 19th (19:00 GMT, 15:00 EDT) the Offworld Community Discord is hosting our 8th New Players FFA tournament. If you recently picked up the game and are trying to find your way around OTC multiplayer, this is an excellent opportunity to compete under tournament conditions against players of similar skill level. All players who have not participated in one of our (regular) FFA tournaments and never finished better than bottom half in a Newcomers Tournament are welcome

Balance Issues and Suggestions for Patch 14 (1.19.19365) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Following DeathTacticus’ thread on balance changes, I would like to highlight more outstanding balance issues and provide some suggestions on how to fix them. Most of these balance suggestions have been implemented in the Continuous Innovation mod . Starting with the simpler balance issues and moving onto the more complex. Buildings:

Reply to Continuous Innovation Beta 0.1.2 in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Full Balance Changes Current Factions Robot : - Change electronics upgrade cost to 10, 25, 50, 80. - Start with 10 Electronics. Scientist : - remove starting goon squad - give 25% freeze resistance Nomad : - Second HQ founds at level 4. - Starting resources: silicon, aluminum, an

Continuous Innovation Beta 0.1.2 in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Continuous Innovation adds two new factions to Offworld Trading Company multiplayer and singleplayer. Continuous Innovation is currently in beta. by Blues, kiooeht, Rhahi, and philothanic. Important Note: Continuous Innovation is not compatible with the Learn to Play tutorials, Daily Challenge, Infinite Challenge, Ranked Multiplayer, Blue Chip Ventures, or Limited Supply or any other Offworld mod. If you want to play these game modes, you must unload Continuous Innova

2nd April Fools Cup (April 7th, 19:00 GMT) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

On April 7th (19:00 GMT), the Offworld Community Discord is hosting the 2nd April Fools Cup, a team tournament event where we are going to explore some co-op game modes using mods that Blues and philothanic created for this event. This is very much not supposed to be a serious event. New players are as welcome to join as experienced ones. The event will be played over 5 rounds (roughly 3 hours). The team with the most <span s

Reply to Buyout Button Question and Suggestion in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

[quote]You can also hover over your HQ icon and find out your cash+resources, but do advanced players constantly poll that pop-up when considering whether to sell resources for a buyout? And again there is still the issue of mental math while trying to compute the actual amount of resources to sell to raise the cash required for the buyout. [/quote] Yes, good players constantly poll that menu for cash+resources, and sometimes debt, stock price target, and other information. The b

Reply to Suggesting minor Balance Changes in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

[quote who="Soren_Johnson" reply="4" id="3707379"] (er, I hope they are 200... let me know if I forgot!) [/quote] Pirates are currently at 100: SABOTAGE_PIRATES 100 I'd be interested in bumping back bonus claims an HQ level instead of adding claims to everyone first.

Ranked Servers Are Down and Go Down More Often in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

As I write this, the ranked servers are down. Again. Queuing works, but when you start a match the match is frozen and players cannot do anything. In the past ranked servers would go down once every month or two. But now they seem to break as often as once or twice a week. Is there a plan to make the ranked servers more stable?

Casts from the 7th New Players Tournament in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Bracket and playlist from the 7th New Players Tournament. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9hCS61d-H6Sqm2p3wVt3t_WtMQxZ02C [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3pvDZZmF0U&index=1&list=PLg9hCS61d-H6Sqm2p3wVt3t_WtMQxZ02C&t=25s[/video] Join the <a href="https

Sign up for the Newcomers FFA Tournament: February 10 (20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

On February 10 (20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST) the Offworld Community Discord is hosting our 7th Newcomers FFA tournament. If you recently picked up the game and are trying to find your way around OTC multiplayer, this is an excellent opportunity to compete under tournament conditions against players of similar skill level.

Watch Offworld Kings: Dec 16th 19:00 GMT (14:00 EST) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Offworld Kings is a King of the Hill event. Players will duel in 1v1 matches across Mars, Ceres, and Io. Win a match and continue to play. Lose a match and you're out. Unfair? Yes. But it should be lots of fun. Watch live at twitch.tv/philothanic or catch the vods on youtube.com/c/philothanic over the next week Interested in dueling some of Offworld's best? Si

New Players Tournament: December 2nd (20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

The Offworld Discord server is hosting a New Player's Tournament on December 2nd (20:00 GMT, 15:00 EST). If you recently picked up the game and are trying to find your way around OTC multiplayer, this is an excellent opportunity to compete under tournament conditions against players of similar skill level. General qualification principle is th

Reply to Offworld Nightmares: October 28th, 19:00 GMT in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

[quote who="Zultar327" reply="1" id="3693569"] Certainly looking forward to this one. How does the blackmagic mod work with the extra Robotic adjacencies? [/quote] I'm not sure. kioohet and I were bouncing some ideas around when kioohet was coding the mod a few months ago, but I don't know what was ultimately decided.

Offworld Nightmares: October 28th, 19:00 GMT in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

This Saturday, celebrate Halloween in a distinctly Offworld style by playing FFAs with the following mods by kiooeht. Starting at 19:00 GMT. To play, join the Offworld Discord and look for the #nightmares channel. Black Market Hell ==================== <p style

Offworld Kings: October 2017 in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Casts from Offworld Kings: FFA are now available on Youtube. The last game will be posted tonight. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9hCS61d-H4AHZDeQL_2UwJ3WbHMCTmu

Common Mistakes: Construction Resources & Adjacency Bonuses in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

[video]https://youtu.be/hbPqeYpGmK8[/video] The two most common new player mistakes in Offworld Trading Company are ignoring primary construction resources and not using adjacency bonuses. Avoid these two mistakes when founding, you will be well on your way to mastering Offworld Trading Company.

Offworld Kings: September 2017 in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

VODs from Offworld Kings: September are available. Offworld Kings is a King of the Hill event. Players duel in 1v1 Bo1 matches across Mars, Ceres, and Io. Win a match and continue to play. Lose a match and you're out. Watch the first match below: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QPl7QPTpY&index=1&list=PLg9hCS61d-H5bsJQxWn8tBD-z1ovrZvok[/video]

5th New Players Tournament Casts in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Here is the YouTube Playlist of all 15 casted games from the 5th New Players Tournament. Bracket and results available here . The tournament featured casts by: Group A AndreasG: Twitch , <a href="https://www.yout

Casts from the Asteroid Belt FFA Tournament in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

A playlist with all the casted games from the Asteroid Belt FFA Tournament. bracket: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dz_qiVOvXVEbsJ6QcwPHCeACJ0hx2Ox46W0jet7FXX4 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list

Sign up for the 1v1 tournament on August 26th at 15:00 GMT in Ashes of the Singularity AshesoftheSingularity Forums

Sign up for the 1v1 Swiss + Elimination tournament on August 26th at 15:00 GMT: https://battlefy.com/ashes-of-the-singularity-discord/1v1-swiss-elimination/598f5bfd4a3cb20334d20770/info This tournament will feature four rounds of swiss-style round-robin games which will be used to seed a two round elimination bracket. More details at Battlefy. Not

Reply to Sign up now for the 5th Newcomers FFA Tournament on August 19th (19:00 GMT, 15:00 EDT) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

Updated to mention that all games will be held on Mars.

Faction Overview with Basic Founds in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

I created a tutorial video covering the basics for all six factions in Offworld Trading Company, including when to found and basic founding strategies: https://youtu.be/EOSpzITyFGg If you are a returning player and don't know the new factions, skip ahead to: https://youtu.be/EOSpzITyFGg?t=5m57s If you want to learn

Sign up now for the 5th Newcomers FFA Tournament on August 19th (19:00 GMT, 15:00 EDT) in Offworld Trading Company Offworld Forums

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Reply to Panic Button in Offworld Feedback Offworld Forums

You can remap the shortcut. I know some of the top players use spacebar. I use shift+spacebar, easy to hit but hard to accidentally hit.