Psychic Sensitivity re: Royalty

[Nick]

So I've had a dabble, and have decided to dump a few QOL mods back in and go a proper long round. Prepare Carefully being the main one.

Before I cheat my uber start guy, I've spent much time trying to determine how the trait 'Psychically Hyper/Sensitive' may factor in with the new Royalty Expansion? Google is not my friend. I have however noted that psyfocus gear adds to sensitivity which lends to psychic entropy recovery gain. Presumably this is now a sweet payoff, besides counting on psychic wave good times?

I'm goin in hyper with my tin foil hat on standby.

Feel free to comment on personal findings (:

[71]

Just from checking the info character sheet, Psychic sensitivity directly scales the size of the Psychic Entropy cooldown bar. So +50% psychic sensitivity would mean you can pump out 50% more psycasting goodness in a short span before you're brain dead. It doesn't directly impact the rate of the cooldown bar progressing from what I can see.

For that you need Pain. Higher pain, faster cooldowns, higher sustained casting. You may want to go with Masochist as well.

[Nick]

Originally posted by 71:

Just from checking the info character sheet, Psychic sensitivity directly scales the size of the Psychic Entropy cooldown bar. So +50% psychic sensitivity would mean you can pump out 50% more psycasting goodness in a short span before you're brain dead. It doesn't directly impact the rate of the cooldown bar progressing from what I can see.

For that you need Pain. Higher pain, faster cooldowns, higher sustained casting. You may want to go with Masochist as well.

I didn't notice that, but I getcha. Still looking good with an 80% boost to the pool. I'm also still dickin around early game here (damn kids) and will carry on - but with all that in mind.

Cheers (:

[Chewy102]

This is something I wish the game warned me about when picking someone to gain royal favor.

I got told that someone that lacks social skills is going to have a hard time or be outright impossible to function from the very start in royal court with it being a purely social deal. But I kinda forgot that the guy I picked to rank up was psychically deaf. It turns out that even though he can install the powers, earn the right to use them, someone that is psychically deaf can NEVER use those powers!

My bad, my mistake thinking after the fact not putting it together that someone immune to psychic attacks could be also prevented from using them. But I wish I was told sooner than when installing the damned thing wasting it.

And the demands those buggers have when they do earn ranks aren't really worth it if you ask me. Yeah you get someone with magical attacks, but they can't do near anything else and need you to build/rebuild your base around their very picky tastes.

[Nick]

Originally posted by Chewy102:

This is something I wish the game warned me about when picking someone to gain royal favor.

I got told that someone that lacks social skills is going to have a hard time or be outright impossible to function from the very start in royal court with it being a purely social deal. But I kinda forgot that the guy I picked to rank up was psychically deaf. It turns out that even though he can install the powers, earn the right to use them, someone that is psychically deaf can NEVER use those powers!

My bad, my mistake thinking after the fact not putting it together that someone immune to psychic attacks could be also prevented from using them. But I wish I was told sooner than when installing the damned thing wasting it.

And the demands those buggers have when they do earn ranks aren't really worth it if you ask me. Yeah you get someone with magical attacks, but they can't do near anything else and need you to build/rebuild your base around their very picky tastes.

Psychically deaf have immunity to psychic attack (besides wave)? This would be/is still useful to know (:

Fortunately for me, my uber dude is hot all round... which makes it balance out somewhat when he eventually cools down. I kinda like this.

[Nick]

FYI - My last regular uber dude had 0/30 psychic entropy. With 'Hyper sensitive' it is now 0/54 (: