Time Loop

[Phoenix]

Has anyone had this event anomaly yet? I had 3 options:
Repair the shield
End the time loop
Leave them to their fate

I picked end the time loop which turned them into a space faring hostile fanatic purifiers

I also picked repair the shield by reloading a save, this mentioned something about limited time to examine them a few centuries, this is what I'm curious about, does anything happen with them later down the line with this option? It added some science bonuses on the planet but nothing really other than that

also does leaving them alone to their fate do anything unique?

[Spirit]

i picked end loop too but all what remained was a tomb world

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Spirit:

i picked end loop too but all what remained was a tomb world

Hmm so that has different outcomes aswell?
Mine basically were the krogans, but instead of genophage a time loop, they were violent race who were forced into a time loop due to being violent, basically they were stuck till they learned to stop being violent then the loop would stop, me ending the loop early let them free and destroyed what remained of the shield and then instantly became fanatical purifiers with a 5k citadel but pathetic technology/fleets etc, kinda funny as they were the gecko portraits XD the least threatening lizards

[Storm]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Has anyone had this event anomaly yet? I had 3 options:
Repair the shield
End the time loop
Leave them to their fate

I picked end the time loop which turned them into a space faring hostile fanatic purifiers

I also picked end the time loop by reloading a save, this mentioned something about limited time to examine them a few centuries, this is what I'm curious about, does anything happen with them later down the line with this option? It added some science bonuses on the planet but nothing really other than that

also does leaving them alone to their fate do anything unique?

Are you experiencing your own time loop? "I picked end the time loop..." "I also picked end the time loop by reloading a save..."

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by JSDF - Thus They Fought There!:

Originally posted by Phoenix:

Has anyone had this event anomaly yet? I had 3 options:
Repair the shield
End the time loop
Leave them to their fate

I picked end the time loop which turned them into a space faring hostile fanatic purifiers

I also picked end the time loop by reloading a save, this mentioned something about limited time to examine them a few centuries, this is what I'm curious about, does anything happen with them later down the line with this option? It added some science bonuses on the planet but nothing really other than that

also does leaving them alone to their fate do anything unique?

Are you experiencing your own time loop? "I picked end the time loop..." "I also picked end the time loop by reloading a save..."

My mistake, meant picked repair the shield* after I reloaded.

EDIT: Time paradox amended

[Tsar CUBE]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

kinda funny as they were the gecko portraits XD the least threatening lizards

I am pretty sure they are always the geckos, because mine were geckos as well. I guess it's meant to be a joke or something xD

[Malvastor]

I've had the geckos spawn as Fanatic Purifiers regularly, without time loop shenanigans (in fact I think they were a pre-FTL race that reached FTL early). It's absolutely hilarious being threatened by something that cute, especially when it's got one planet and is rated as Pathetic in every category.

[LuNi]

Originally posted by Tsar CUBE:

Originally posted by Phoenix:

kinda funny as they were the gecko portraits XD the least threatening lizards

I am pretty sure they are always the geckos, because mine were geckos as well. I guess it's meant to be a joke or something xD

It's always either the Geckoes or Starfish molluscoids. That's why you can't trust Xenoes.

[nekoman]

I unsealed them and then sealed them back for achievment.

[Seaghauwn]

What is this pokemon you people are talking about what event is this?

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by LuNi:

Originally posted by Tsar CUBE:

I am pretty sure they are always the geckos, because mine were geckos as well. I guess it's meant to be a joke or something xD

It's always either the Geckoes or Starfish molluscoids. That's why you can't trust Xenoes.

I've had those starfish as devouring swarm, i couldn't stop laughing each time they threatened me, just that slight smile and that noise they make XD

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Fish:

What is this pokemon you people are talking about what event is this?

Time loop anomaly, found on a shielded world

[Unchangeling]

I didn't get round to ending the time loop until late game, well after I took over the system.

The reptile civ revealed was made up of horrible but cute little xenophobes that were super mad at me for ending the loop, because (reasons).

A possible bug, or the result of flavour text I missed: when the loop ended the outpost in the system was somehow also immediately promoted to a citadel with no buildings or modules. Free real estate! (I'd go back and see what happened there, but it's an ironman game.)

Anyway, because I owned a starbase* in the system the planet quickly came under my authority, destroying and absorbing their civ almost instantly. This also gave me the "A Home Away From Home" achievement.

* I assume anything better than an outpost, but maybe even just having an outpost leads to this outcome.

[Mazamune]

<OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS AHEAD>

Repairing the shield :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1417144329

Breaking time loop :
failure :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1417136834
success:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1417139449

[Malvastor]

Do you know if they ever make their way out of the shield if you reinforce it? It would be awesome if they come out a hundred years later as Fanatic Xenophile Egalitarians or something.

[Unchangeling]

Originally posted by Malvastor:

Do you know if they ever make their way out of the shield if you reinforce it? It would be awesome if they come out a hundred years later as Fanatic Xenophile Egalitarians or something.

I don't think anything ever happens if you don't open the shield yourself.