Titanic Life Research ends in disaster

[Kyle Reese]

I got a research project for titanic life found on one of my already colonized planets. It took 1000 society research to do the mission, so I did it thinking that it would really pay off since, that took a decade to finish. Then when I complete the research, it says the giant life is pissed off and proceedes to wipe out my colony's army. I mean i did almost no damage and lost the planet.

1000 society research and a decade of non-research wasted so that Titanic life could wipe out my colony. Was I just unlucky? Has anyone does that mission to a different conclusion?

[Apeironic_Entelechy]

Probably unlucky, having a project that could only hurt you would be awful design decision that Paradox would almost definitely not do.

[Serpentar]

I believe I had the same mission, but it gave me bonuses.

[Valikdu]

ATTACK ON TITAN!

[Kyle Reese]

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

Probably unlucky, having a project that could only hurt you would be awful design decision that Paradox would almost definitely not do.

that's definitly true, but it was odd to me that I saw no risk/reward percentage like I would if I were analyzing an anomoly.

[DeadlyDanDaMan]

Originally posted by Kyle Reese:

Originally posted by Fourthspartan56:

Probably unlucky, having a project that could only hurt you would be awful design decision that Paradox would almost definitely not do.

that's definitly true, but it was odd to me that I saw no risk/reward percentage like I would if I were analyzing an anomoly.

Just unlucky, I did the same research and got Titan monsters that are now a part of my Army .

[BudaKhan]

DUDE, you got lucky. My planet's a gaia and has been overrun but not wiped out so the Beasts are getting the benefit of my planet's fortification values and taking .1 x dmg from assaults while my fleet in orbit cannot bombard a friendly planet. LOL?

[Mistfox]

Mine was the Titanic plants grew friendly and got herded into reservations that gave bonus bio research to all the adjecent squares. So I'd say you got very, very unlucky.

[Yograin]

If your empire has correct ethos there is no risk and you get Titans recruitable into ground forces. Those are awesome. Its either Xenophile or Spiritual ethos and you get three choices when deciding whether and how to research.

Third option is then safely research the Titanic life without damaging it.

I had a problem that the chain never started in my latest game even when I had the planet. Not sure what MTTH it has.

[Zemurin]

I did the research with xenophile special option ("make sure no harm comes to them") and it still resulted in disaster and overrun colony. So far I got this event in 2 playthroughs and each time it backfired colossaly. Titanicaly even.

[Yograin]

Oh then my apologies. I had it twice and it worked NP both times so I thought thats it.

Other events also have small chances for different results so it shouldnt be a surprise (like the coffe cup in space having good result instead of WHY WHY WHY)

[Random]

you are usually given 2 options for the research, one is invasive and carries a risk of angering them, the other is usually less rewarding initially but has a much higher chance of positive success and usually results in lont term benefits.

EG: the walking forest, you can burn it back and get your tiles and a lump sum reward, or you can trade out a tile but get a constant bonus to research from it. in the forest case, the latter is far more rewarding.

[Cellar_Cat]

I got that event and chose to eat the life, which made it angry for some reason, so I bombed it and sent in waves of infantry until it was dead. I forget whether they got to eat it in the end.

[Valentine Michael Smith]

I got godzilla to drop on my foes. bad luck, m8.

[Yaldabaoth]

Just build 3 big walls around your colonies.

[Aedile]

Originally posted by Valentine Michael Smith:

I got godzilla to drop on my foes. bad luck, m8.

I don't know if they fixxed that, but if you had robot, you could build a robotic titanic life, so robozilla too.