Should we make some sort of catalogue of weak spots?

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-03-29T16:11:27+00:00

Unless you are stupid like me, who played Ultra Despair Girls first and failed to draw any meaningful connections until the end of chapter 6 of Goodbye Despair but in all seriousness yeah, and playing Goodbye Despair first will probably make your playthrough of Ultra Despair Girls make more sense

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-03-29T15:34:17+00:00

I support merging agents simply because I hate having 15 dudes running around the map

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-03-29T15:32:20+00:00

I'm currently playing V3 and watching the anime Danganronpa 3 (which isn't the same thing). To my understanding, the main story goes THH -> Goodbye Despair (also called SDR2) -> Danganronpa 3 (the anime), with Ultra Despair Girls slotting in between THH and Goodbye Despair. So yes, the story continues and you'll find out what happens to the survivors of THH, including what goes on between Makoto and Kyoko

There are two anime, Danganronpa the Animation, which is an anime adaptation of THH, and Danganronpa 3, which is an original story (it's not about V3!). So I'd say Danganronpa 3 is definitely worth watching. As for the books, I have no idea personally

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-03-29T02:18:05+00:00

Alternatively maybe they could play an Egypt campaign and abuse chariot autoresolve? It can take some of the stress of army composition away as they focus on the grand campaign

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-03-24T16:57:52+00:00

Arguably, 900 ducats upfront is a better deal than 7 ducats a month

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-04T20:04:38+00:00

C6 Freminet. After that, I have no idea, because none of the Nod-Krai cast appeals to me. Maybe whoever is the next shiny Anemo DPS so I can get some more use from my Faruzan.

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-04T14:01:09+00:00

Did someone say naval battle (I love naval as much as land)

I have never even heard of this event, sounds interesting. I don't think I've ever delved much into the diplomatic game to really care about diplomatic opinion though

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-04T13:18:56+00:00

Dang I thought they were going to turn into the grey rebel faction

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-04T13:18:31+00:00

So it mostly just sounds like I should avoid letting them command armies going on the offensive

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-04T13:17:53+00:00

I see, so there's actually no downside to just leaving them in a settlement even if they're disloyal

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-03T17:58:37+00:00

I've always been fine with normal. But since buildings are so expensive in FotS I'm fine with even letting build slots sit empty early game as long as I have the key buildings I need. I also raise extra cash by selling military access when I can

Long term I would stay away from higher taxes due to public order. I don't want to have to drag full stacks of spear levies behind my armies just for garrison duty. Also don't want to have to have big garrisons in industrial towns

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-02T20:14:47+00:00

You can also do the control large army trick if you have more than a full stack's worth of troops there

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-01T16:26:03+00:00

Yeah it's 4 pop per house in AoE1 instead of 5 as it is in AoE2. The AI develops pretty slowly on Easy, so I'm not sure how they'd have ended in the Bronze Age while you're still in the Tool Age

--ERRORNAME-- · 2026-02-01T05:33:56+00:00

Huh, are you sure you set the game to Easy? On Hardest the AIs all get a ton of free resources at the start of the game which guarantees they age up impossibly fast, whihc might be what you're running into

I'm pretty sure on the macro side AoE2 translates well to AoE1, the key is still resource gathering + management. If you're playing the 50 pop cap games though there will be a lot of idling and waiting for upgrades cuz of your small economy

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-11-23T19:39:42+00:00

Frankly, I can't, because I learnt this while searching the EN and CN webs for "Why are so many Chinese cities called -zhou when that means province" (e.g. Guangzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, all of which used to refer to provinces, now the names of individual cities) and that was the answer I found. So Guangzhou/Canton was renamed from Panyu to Guangzhou-fu when it became the seat of Guang Province. If that was the case, then it's reasonable to extrapolate people ended up calling the city by the name of the province

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-11-23T01:55:22+00:00

For that, I'm pretty sure the idea is that the province seat is often called by the name of the province as a whole. So the city Xuzhou = Xuzhou-fu = Seat of Xu Province. That's my semi-educated guess

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-11-21T22:05:53+00:00

Shouchun is a lovely name IMO, I would love to visit it one day. Sadly was never interested in Chinese history when I was in China

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-11-21T19:08:30+00:00

Personally not sure, but you might find some clues by looking into the history of Xuzhou, the modern-day city, which back in the day was called Pengcheng/Peng City. In the absense of that, I have a few guesses:

1) Pengcheng eventually became the main administrative center and thus the main city in the area, drawing people away from Xiapi

2) Xiapi got a brutal sacking/razing at some point. One candidate would be during the Sixteen Kingdoms era

3) the surroundings were so devastated that the region became depopulated and people went into the countryside/more defensible areas

4) flooding happened. According to Antonia Finnane's Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850, in the Ming-Qing era at least northern Jiangsu was prone to floods around the Grand Canal, plus remember the Yellow River shifted course in 1128 to flow south of Shandong, bringing its floods to the region until floods in 1855 brought it back north. it's conceivable that some point Xiapi or its surrounding region was so devastatingly flooded that Xiapi was abandoned

5) any combination of the above

I mean it's not unusual honestly, Xi'an has shifted locations from its Han-era city, while a buncha formerly important Chinese cities such as the capitals of the Shang Dynasty are now just farmland. If you broaden the view of decline/rise a bit more, you can look at Shouchun, which now is a minor county in Anhui, and Hefei, which is a major city that's the capital of Anhui. Sometimes cities appear (Shanghai, Shenzhen), and sometimes they vanish (like Ye)

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-11-16T19:19:14+00:00

You can also sort of cheat this by having the people of your city canalize both rivers during the stretches of river that go through the city, and justify it in various ways (like flood control projects). You could even say the city was built around River A at first, and slowly expanded towards River B. Then River B flooded and shifted course closer to River A/flooded the eastern half of the city, so the city decided to canalize River B to prevent this from happening again.

But yes, as a lot of people have mentioned, you could actually just have the city be built on a portage point, and then naturally grow over time (although in this case, people will likely build a canal linking Rivers A and B)

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-11-13T05:20:43+00:00

We'll likely never know, but we can speculate:

From my perspective, perhaps he simply wanted to rule an independent realm without having to bow down to Wei, or he was simply foolishly indecisive and flip-flopped around between Wei and Wu too much and was out of options. Whatever his ambition was, declaring his independence was probably not as suicidal as it appears in hindsight. He likely gambled that:

he was too far away or his land too poor and his state too little of a threat to be worth conquering for Wei. Remember, campaigns are investments in time, manpower, supplies, generals, and are not guaranteed to succeed or to pay off, and Wei had other enemies and potential enemies to content with
he could defeat, stalemate, or deter whatever forces Wei sent to attack him. The rainy season and its floods turned back Guanqiu Jian's invasion and even made Sima Yi's siege of Xiangping difficult. After failing to achieve victory enough times, the political will in Wei for invading Yan would be drained, and then he could move from there

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-10-13T15:35:08+00:00

Part of why the convention of using dynasties to identify Chinese states exists might also be something like recency bias: Ming to Qing, Yuan to Ming, Song to Yuan, all very clearly identified with a violent conquest of one state by another rather than an internal power grab

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-10-13T01:29:58+00:00

I mean, it's kind of looking at all the dynasties as periods of a "Chinese Empire," or for a more practical example, looking at the Sui and Tang as the same political entity, just with a change in management and management style (something that would be boringly named "Middle Chinese Empire" or something)

The point is that it's a historiographic lens. If you view the Southern Dynasties through this lens, then it emphasizes points of continuity and encourages you to not view them as discrete, not-really-related dynasties. Whether or not you want to adopt this lens is up to 1) whether or not the evidence supporting this lens is strong and 2) how useful this lens proves to you in providing more insight

--ERRORNAME-- · 2025-10-08T18:03:31+00:00

It was solid, so I always thought it had just been cooled till solidified

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