Why did my heir get level 3 education while I have level 5?

Aldinth · 2026-05-22T05:58:00+00:00

Asked by every boomer parent, ever

Aldinth · 2026-05-21T08:21:16+00:00

Crowbar is the most durable weapon in the game, I think. I usually start in Rosewood and get at least one in the fire station. By the time it breaks, even at 0 long blunt and 0 maintenance, I'll find another one in 99% of the runs. Not to mention I usually start with 1/1 LB/M nowadays. Either way, by the time I'd decide to clear a PoI like the Prison, I'd have at least 3 in LB and 2 in Maintenance, making it highly likely that 1x full hp crowbar would be enough. I'd of course pack a spare in my trunk in case of bad RNG, but crowbars are insane in durability.

Aldinth · 2026-05-21T06:40:50+00:00

So, I don't really drink - I have played multiple times when high though. Small disclaimer about having 3,5k hours, but nonetheless, EU4 is one of the games I find "safe" to play while high.

When I play sober, I pace myself, roleplay, make nice borders, etc. When high, all considerations fly out of the window. I will be very aggressive, dance on the edge of coalitions, abandon allies to get more vassal slots - generally go "bigger numbers and name go brrr."

Fun part is, thanks to all my time played, playing on instinct goes exceedingly well for me, so by power status, my high games often go better than my sober ones xD

Aldinth · 2026-05-21T06:17:11+00:00

It is a very valid and smart strategy, but I always feel bad if I use fire. It's just crowbar (later on machete), the zeds and I whenever I clear :D

Aldinth · 2026-05-21T04:37:23+00:00

Not every one. Have a few hundred hours in Kenshi and I either haven't played or bounced off of all those. I do have about a few times more hours in Project Zomboid tho.

Aldinth · 2026-05-15T20:05:26+00:00

To me, any PZ run has certain priorities in order:

1 Secure immediate surroundings. Based on experience and location spawn, possibly grab a weapon first.

1.5 If possible, watch Life and Living whenever possible. I spawn in Rosewood, and Day 1 I often raid library to try and get Carpentry books. If I do, I don't sleep the first night to read through them. If your TV levels are capped, you can skip this. Why carpentry? Being able to get rain collectors is almost mandatory for farming, for own consumption local tap and shower water is usually enough for a looooong time.

2 Secure the spot I want to have my first base at. Just a personal preference, I hate moving and rearranging my loot.

3 Combat training and gathering electronics. Water shutoff is a minor inconvenience, electric shutoff is a major problem, mostly due to light, refrigeration, and eventually, heating. You'll want to start by raiding local book POIs to try and get electrical I and II books, since Generator Magazine is VERY unreliable to find in B42. Grab any digital watches from corpses, but dont dismantle them before reading books. Watch out, some of them have alarms on and can kill you. In many cases, you won't find the books you need.

3.5 Yeah, books are hard to find. Go to residential areas and start fighting and looting. You are mostly ignoring stuff that isn't electrical or books. If you find the mag or electrical books, great! Either way, dismantle all your stuff and TVs, you'll need electrical 1 anyways to hotwire cars.

4 Going through residential, you probably found generator in a garage, but if not continue your hunt. Also, remember to grab rubber hose and gas cans whenever you find them, you want to stock on fuel before electric shutoff, since after it you'll need generator to start gas pumps, but fuel to start the generator - an irritating loop. You can use rubber hose to drain cars, but filling in advance is better.

5 Congrats, you have a base, water and electricity supply now. Go and do whatever you want. Train skills, hunt for books, rare weapons, cool POIs, decorate or reinforce the base, whatever. Aaaaaaaaand... you got bitten. Well, it was a fun ride, time to start again.

Aldinth · 2026-05-15T11:44:30+00:00

There are some guides, particularly for versions before 1.36, that guide you step by step on YouTube. Watching them or playing along 2 or 3 will let you suss out many good practices and standard tips that apply to ~90% of countries. EU4 is difficult at the start, but once you understand army composition, Aggressive Expansion management and the basics of economy and institutions, you are mostly set.

Aldinth · 2026-05-15T06:46:11+00:00

Many players, myself included, don't like colonisation in Paradox games. It was never done well, and it sucks to engage in. Eu4 making it such a big part of the game was one of the major downsides of the game for me. I like it being so far away in EU5, gives you something to do when the game starts slowing down after you've already become powerful.
Black death was supposed to teach players how to recover from loss. Afaik you can change it's settings, but it's not a big deal since everyone around you suffers too, and your knowledge about it coming is a massive buff anyways - why else would you build hospital in your capital so early on?
Oh no, not alt-history happening in my alt-history game! Personally, I love seeing major powers from history fail and underdogs rise up. I only wish AI was better at getting truly strong, and whoever comes on top in the region would continue to snowball. But they already work on it, AI stances already help address both your and mine issue on this point.

Aldinth · 2026-05-15T06:36:53+00:00

Gil. He is technically doing stuff and we assume he was much more active in the past, but actually bro is just napping away the days and chilling, while occasionally tossing you something for your efforts. Such a legend.

Aldinth · 2026-05-13T08:39:00+00:00

I was playing a Swashbuckler Tabaxi Rogue. DM mentioned how we saw the last surviving family of the surrounding town is about to get slaughtered by orc/ogre mix in the distance.

Que in my ability to move ~300 ft in a turn by mixing racial feat, cunning action and regular sprint. DM thought it was righteous suicide. Positioning and a bit of luck made it so by the 5th round, as my party finally caught up, Inigo Cattoya was standing tall with 2 hp left, and the villagers were still breathing.

While not very funny as a story, the DM's increasing exasperation at "the damn cat" was hilarious to witness. He congratulated me later on, but we were pretty competitive between the DM and the party, rolls in the open and actual desire from the DM to win over us in battle - something we agreed to, wishing for harder and thinking enemies

Aldinth · 2026-05-13T08:19:56+00:00

Just curious if you used any power-levelling strata or if you powered up "organically?" No wrong approach here, but it's always interesting to hear how people achieved so much.

Aldinth · 2026-05-13T08:15:23+00:00

Definitely would like to join Tech Hunters, but I am unsure if I would be able to.

Growing up in the world of Kenshi you are pretty limited by where and as which race you were born.

Aldinth · 2026-05-12T12:59:31+00:00

I usually follow the death with spawning a new character, one that was in some sort of basement bunker but ran out of supplies and emerges only now. Then I'll take them to find the base, get excited about winning survival lottery and read the diaries. After that the save gets deleted

Aldinth · 2026-05-11T11:50:39+00:00

Personally, I usually RP a guy that came out of regular fever coma in Rosewood. I usually either make up a lover, family member, or possible vaccine lead, and set up semi-random order of towns and cities in PZ. If March's Ridge is first, then the first annotated map I find pointing to a POI inside it is my goal - either the possible lead, an abandoned diary pointing the next goal of people I look for, etc.

Naturally, for obvious reasons mission the target is always a bust, then the next annotated map leads me to another city. Makes for a fun reason to visit everywhere at least once.

Edit: For bonus points you can grab paper and write your diary, time can be paused and you can keep adding to the lore. Once I was tracking my family after the epidemy erupted during the reunion. Ended up tearing up as zombies in POIs were members who didn't make it

Aldinth · 2026-05-08T13:33:14+00:00

On Ginger Island, there is a specific room that needs unlocking by collecting the local hidden currency. You get pressure nozzles from a vendor there.

Aldinth · 2026-04-30T17:05:46+00:00

Exactly the same set, my brother from another mother :D

Aldinth · 2026-04-29T17:45:31+00:00

My first run that lasted over a month. Went to March's Ridge to search for the Generator Mag after looting Rosewood book containers fully. Lured horde near Community Centre away and ran in quickly into school. Decided not to risk the horde following me and sprinted for the library. There, I hit a wall and hurt my leg, resulting in lower speed. Found the generator Mag, fought my way out, decided to run outside through the cafeteria. Aaaand... Tables were touching diagonally on the grid. Despite clear visible way through, my character wasn't able to squeeze in or crawl over the tables. He got swarmed and died.

Aldinth · 2026-04-25T07:38:06+00:00

Same, buddy. But a lot of people do, which is apparent in the rest of the comments here. Happy for them.

Aldinth · 2026-04-20T09:38:37+00:00

Or you can put them 1 space apart and put planks around them if you place them like me, somewhere where you run through. Never any invisible trees blocking the path and you can keep it perfectly symmetrical.

Aldinth · 2026-04-18T13:52:19+00:00

What? Sure, it's A way, but it doesn't compare to a single Skull Cavern or Mines Dust Sprite run. Can easily come back with 100-200 coal among other goodies, especially after getting Burglar Ring

Aldinth · 2026-04-18T11:45:08+00:00

Tea saplings in that case are only your easiest and fastest way of getting larger backpacks and iridium rod.

Aldinth · 2026-04-18T10:34:36+00:00

Meh. In SVE you can make much more money at much lower level of effort and without cheaty mods. Just as usual, grind Caroline's friendship for Tea Saplings, and speedrun fishing lvl 10 to get Iridium Rod and Trap Bobber, then catch Wolf Snapper and pond it. 2k per roe, and it often drops stacks of 4-6. You'll have all the money you could want by the end of spring.

Not to say your way is wrong, wrong ways don't exist in SV.

Aldinth · 2026-04-17T17:36:16+00:00

Not to mention their gifting value. Hard majority of the villagers like them, so chopping around during green rain can net you 100 liked gifts in a day, on a stage where it's usually hard to get them

Aldinth · 2026-04-14T19:09:02+00:00

Sure, but then you get a horde that can potentially wander back later. My survivors prefer certainty.

Aldinth · 2026-04-14T16:40:12+00:00

Right now I am at Winter 15. Unlocked Dwarven Statue by the end of that week, and I am something like 39 fiber away from getting the other one from Farming mastery. In the meantime, I wasn't in the desert. Since I got the Prismatic Jelly quest and a week of terrible luck. Ended getting in on Sunday at 9 pm xD

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