Insrutable Power Achievement?

[mcsproot]

When I saw 'won the Galatron' that made me think it was something to do with the lootboxes or slots.

I just bought all the lootboxes I'm allowed to so either it isn't that or it's random. Same with the slots.

Then again, neither of them are refered to as 'the Galatron'.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

I assume it is something you can get out of a lootbox, but I don't know for sure.

[Doge]

Any updates on this? It's the only one I don't have.

[Rogue]

I was told it is from Reliquaries, and you will indeed not be able to get it in every game because of the limit.

[mcsproot]

Publicado originalmente por Siri:

I was told it is from Reliquaries, and you will indeed not be able to get it in every game because of the limit.

So I guess it's a rare(ish) event from the lootboxes? And I thought getting the good result from the Infinity Machine was a pain in the backside.

Publicado originalmente por Imba Xeno Snipar:

Any updates on this? It's the only one I don't have.

Any hints for winning the War In Heaven, or getting it to trigger? Should I play on a higher difficulty so my allies are stronger, or lower so I can potentially steamroll the opponents myself?

[Doge]

Publicado originalmente por mcsproot:

Any hints for winning the War In Heaven, or getting it to trigger? Should I play on a higher difficulty so my allies are stronger, or lower so I can potentially steamroll the opponents myself?

I did this ages ago. Way before 2.0 hit. Right now the AI is hilariously bad, so it is probably better to do it on a lower difficulty. But also I have heard reports of the achievement not really working for many people as well... So you might want to consider savescumming (get a backup of your ironman save file somewhere and restore as necessary). There are several guides online on how to do it I think.

[Doge]

Also, I just got the Galatron achievement. It is pure luck from the lootboxes (relinquaries). I got it playing as a hivemnid. The chance of the Galatron dropping seems to be very low though. It is a very annoying achievement, because it is just pure luck.

[mcsproot]

Publicado originalmente por Imba Xeno Snipar:

Also, I just got the Galatron achievement. It is pure luck from the lootboxes (relinquaries). I got it playing as a hivemnid. The chance of the Galatron dropping seems to be very low though. It is a very annoying achievement, because it is just pure luck.

I know achievements in general are working for me as I got the 100 pop planet one recently. So what happens in game when you win the Galatron?

[CraftyWülf]

Publicado originalmente por mcsproot:

Publicado originalmente por Imba Xeno Snipar:

Also, I just got the Galatron achievement. It is pure luck from the lootboxes (relinquaries). I got it playing as a hivemnid. The chance of the Galatron dropping seems to be very low though. It is a very annoying achievement, because it is just pure luck.

I know achievements in general are working for me as I got the 100 pop planet one recently. So what happens in game when you win the Galatron?

The Galatron itself is completely useless. Basically it's some fluff text about you winning something big and the caravaneers are all hyped about it, but the reality is that it does nothing and just gives you brownie points.

That said, it drops from one of the "lootboxes" and has a fairly low chance at that. So you just have to keep gambling a few games till you pop it.

[Doge]

It gave me an empire-wide buff +2 influence. Here are some screenshots:

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/946217200565644104/E1447FC9351346CB4A79153D05A1B65C155282D6/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/946217200565646233/CEC4D04405A0AC8CB9DEDDCDC8595CBD50952569/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/946217200565644796/D75DF9F5D768A4065F65030AE4A687C291B14DED/

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/946217200565645219/B5B624609101E856F89EE550AA894A04211BE507/

[Morthra]

The Galatron gave me +2 influence and +2 unity empire wide, and periodically gave me resources in increments of 2000 minerals or energy.

[Haphaz]

Thanks for the pics. What is the probability of getting the Galatron in any given attempt (there are 6 per game) please? (from someone able to look at the game code).

[Haphaz]

I looked at the code myself (look for a file called Caravaneer_Events). Each time you open a box (6 per game, 500 day cooldown) there is a 1/200 chance (0.5%) of winning the Galatron, 59/200 (29.5%) chance of winning nothing and a 140/200 (70%) chance of winning one of 14 items (weighted by some factors such as what has previously been won).

So about a 3% chance of winning a Galatron in any given game. Hmm.

[Jagothegamer]

I really don't even understand why there is a limit on how many reliqueries you are allowed to purchase. It's so stupid, why would space EA all of a sudden say "Wow there, that's a few too many lootboxes, don't ya think?" Just doesn't make any sense. Even for balance reasons, 1 reliquerary I bought had nothing in it and another one had a bomb, like WTF what is the reasoning here?

[NixBoxDone]

The reason there's a limit is simply to make sure you have something new to see for several games, not just one.

Same reason for why you can only find one precursor chain, why different ethics/empire types have different event outcomes, why some event outcomes are partially or wholly based on chance and why you only ever uncover a small set of anomalies, not all.

Paradox has built a business around making deep games you can wade into and play like a maniac and still find stuff you haven't seen a thousand hours later - small things like limiting the amount you can throw the dice on event outcomes per session are part of how they make that work.

That's up to taste, of course - some may not like being limited like that - but personally I really like it. I love finding a new anomaly I haven't seen and contacting the caravaneers and getting new offers / buying my allotment of reliquiaries is one of the things I look forward to for now. ^^

And to be fair: it's really not a limit that's hard to work around if you want to cheese it. Make an empire that's good at sustaining many science ships, create a galaxy with no other empires and you can quickly find the caravan, spend all your resource income buying reliquiaries as soon as they become available and abandon the session for the next run as soon as your batch runs out until you get what you want.

[Jagothegamer]

Publicado originalmente por NixBoxDone:

The reason there's a limit is simply to make sure you have something new to see for several games, not just one.

Same reason for why you can only find one precursor chain, why different ethics/empire types have different event outcomes, why some event outcomes are partially or wholly based on chance and why you only ever uncover a small set of anomalies, not all.

Paradox has built a business around making deep games you can wade into and play like a maniac and still find stuff you haven't seen a thousand hours later - small things like limiting the amount you can throw the dice on event outcomes per session are part of how they make that work.

That's up to taste, of course - some may not like being limited like that - but personally I really like it. I love finding a new anomaly I haven't seen and contacting the caravaneers and getting new offers / buying my allotment of reliquiaries is one of the things I look forward to for now. ^^

Ya, I would understand that with the anomilies, ethics, events, and stuff, and I love that too, however I think it's kind of out of flavor to do the same to the carvaneers, as they seem like the kind of aliens to offer you all sorts of deals, and hope that you will buy another reliquery. That's my thoughts on that anyways.