jimwinsor Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 OK, for fun I've been playing campaigns using the Randomize option at start, and a couple starts gave me Seed as my starting power program. "Oh no, I'm doomed" I thought each time ... but each time Seed surprised me. There is actually a lot of utility in getting (essentially) a guaranteed free program each turn, even if you have 0 power. And you're starting 10 power can actually be stretched a long way through judicious timing of your hacks. My last run got to Day 3 with Seed, and was only ended due to a movement blunder unrelated to Seed. I made sure to train up a Hacking expert whose job it was to squeeze the most juice out of every terminal, and I really never felt that hard up for power, relative to any other campaigns I ran. And it paired well with Rapier, which was one of my other programs. I wouldn't call Seed great, or even good ... I would call it "decent." It certainly isn't as horrible I thought it would be when I first read the description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirsh Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Seed is the first and only program that convict me to wishing for "oracle" (and other ~5pwr things) at server farms, I like it.+ With parasite and an instant breaker (like dagger) it allows to break two devices per turn with 0 energy ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMV Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Seed + Hammer = Happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fernsauce Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Seed is pretty much the best power program imo. Even if you can only use a 2 power program each turn, you are *still* outperforming every single other power generation program (except, of course, for Central + Faust, but then you just have to use 3 power each turn for parity, *and* that loadout has to deal with daemons). The key is generally to have programs you can use off-cooldown. I like Oracle + Parasite; Oracle ends up being very power efficient once cameras start spawning with 3+ firewalls and gives you lots of information about the layout of the level from the very first turn. When parasites start ramping up in power cost / there are no cameras left to steal with Oracle you can switch to using them with Seed to mitigate their increasing cost.Ofc, I usually run Prism with Seed, because her augment makes it simply amazing and even without using Seed parasite can still earn its own power back. And this makes Oracle even *better*, because whenever you use it it refunds a point of power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer Bigfoot Posted May 18, 2015 Developer Share Posted May 18, 2015 Seed + Prism is my favourite combination by a long shot. Just sublime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimwinsor Posted May 18, 2015 Author Share Posted May 18, 2015 Yeah I'm trying Seed + Prism right now, and wow. I'm hacking everything in sight on Day 1 and still have plenty of power in reserve. I started with Brimstone, then traded it in for Data Blast. All I can say is "wow!" Let's see how Day 2 goes ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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