The "Mono Stacking" Problem

[Codyksp]

Yeah, Cosmoflux is just even more better, but I think you're underestimating the 10% discount, because it's functionally a separate multiplicative 10% increase to all your knowledge output no matter what source it comes from.

What I find more offensive is that it gives -10% AND +20 Knowledge.
Liquids and Plants really need to be rebalanced. Ores are actually fine.

 

[Arcantos_the_Storyteller]

I meant that as Single Player Randomization (so that your starting conditions will surprise you). For SP Unknown Map with Complex Traits is the best thing ever, because, in case you didn't try it out, the now up to 12 map traits are only revealed when you can actually see them (or you get contact or context). It's awesome in that regard because you have to be very alert, scout like hell (to get the traits) and be ready to change your tome strategy, since you don't have even half the picture on day 1.

That is how I play, but I tend not to play completely randomly?

For example, if I'm playing an Underground race with Subturrean Society, I ensure there is an Underground, or if I'm playing my Silver Tongue Socity, I ensure there is still Free Cities around.

Don't get me wrong, the Unknown Map with Complex Traits is fun, but it can still completely screw you over so its best to not be 100% random.

This is simply where you (and maybe others at Triumph) and I (and a likely majority of players in this thread) differ in opinion.
While it is good to have a strategy and baseline to adhere to, we must also realize that the game has changed in the past 2 years.
It is folly to try and adhere to a plan that was hatched 2 years ago in a game that expands and changes as much as this one does.

I think I had a discussion like this before, where I made an argument that my issues with the game and my suggestions to improve it actually are in line with the overarching goals that Triumph have laid out. Never got a response to that post I think, which is kinda annoying.