WTF with this game?!First zombies, now vines/tentacles in the center of my village!

[Dragonrubi]

I made another post, in Stone Age (before even having towers or hunting) and got a zombie infection. If I don’t google and ask here, no freaking in-game info about what the heck is going on and how to control it!!
Stupid random event as n00bie go figure yourself what is happening and all your village was wiped.

Now on other try vines/tentacles appear, just in the center of the village, and start to kill everyone. Nuggets are so dumb that they seem to forcibly walk on them; those chose a very nice spot to appear.
Towers do nothing.

I read you need to use powers, but you need a lot of rays to kill those things, and each cost 25 points. I have no power, and I don't know why, even with people in the temple in this game, power points are being generated so slooooowly, and there are 2 of those vines!

Really, I want to like this game. Idk if I had been very unlucky, but WTF?!!! More than two early games were screwed for these stupid things.

[Kyle]

Definitely unlucky for a new player.

I recommend playing on Rapid CP generation, you can generate CP at any phase in the game enmasse by sacrificing nuggets as long as you don't accidentally kill all pairs.

On default, you generate 10 CP per minute at maximum love (check the meter in your temple), which raises with maximum population. Sacrifice at full fear (from telekinesis, lightning, sacrificing etc) is 100 CP per nugget. (Rapid is just a 2x multiplier)

Even with a low population you can get a lot of CP on demand if you're careful. I like to use Cupidon to raise my love if I want passive generation instead of other positive powers.

Small tentacles take about 3 hits, so 75CP per, so at max fear it's 1 nugget per, but realistically you'd probably have to sacrifice 6-8 to get to max fear first.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by Deathtroth:

Pretty Sure Zombies Are Only On Halloween Planet Or If You Pick The Undying Trait For Nuggets, Shouldn't Be In Your First Playthrough On A Normal Planet.

Tentacle Spawns When You Get Close To Researching Expedition Camp. (On Any Planet)
Use Lightning On It Til It Goes Away, When It Comes Back, Repeat Til It's Dead.
(It Has A Health Bar)

Good Luck

I think there's a rare exile attack that sends in zombies, I don't think I've had it since 1.0 though, there's also one that sends in some mini-tentacles.

[Dragonrubi]

I think in both cases (the zombies and tentacles) were a "exile attack", because i got the warning again! And again when the timer gone out those 2 tentacles re-appeared.

[Rusty Booper]

i forget games are supposed to hand hold us the entire time, with no room for independent thought or problem solving.

[Gremlin Man]

Honestly be happy for the temporary challenge/frustration. Very soon everything will become all too easy

[Dragonrubi]

My main complaint, more than the challenge, is the lack of in-game information. If I don’t go out with calm and google what is going on, asking here, I have no idea why suddenly everyone is dying and what to do; nothing from what the game by itself provides; and I am a fan of paradox games that are far more complex.

As I said, I want to love this game: “Garrrr! Garrr! >:( Game sucks stupid game! >:(” actually don’t; even with my rants, I am enjoying it so far

And thanks especially @kyle for his patience :P