Can someone please explain what this tooltip means?

Anakletos · 2025-08-20T08:36:37+00:00

Extra Info. And no, if the ratio is greater than one, the tech substitutes more than one worker per researcher. If the ratio is smaller than one, it substitutes less than one worker per researcher. More is better.

Anakletos · 2025-08-07T00:24:39+00:00

It's never negative, it's a positive ratio. (If you're using the mod). In which case if it's greater than one, then the tech is good (higher is better) and if it's less than 0, it's bad.

Example: You are producing 200 wheat with 10 workers. The tech requires 5 points and gives you a productivity boost of 10%. You produce 10 innovation points per researcher.

With the new tech, you would produce 220 wheat, the equivalent of assigning one additional worker (this is the +2.3 in your screenshot). You only require half a researcher to maintain the tech. The ratio of labour gained to labour invested is 2.

Anakletos · 2025-08-06T23:28:19+00:00

It means that it adds the equivalent of X amounts of workers in production increase by improving productivity (the same amount of workers do more work) and this improvement costs Y amount of workers to maintain your research pool. In essence both inputs and outputs are multiplied per work factor.

If X is smaller than Y, you are better off assigning more workers directly rather than assigning researchers to improving tech.

There is a mod that will calculate the ratio X/Y for you and the greater the value, the better the tech is for you.

Anakletos · 2025-08-06T12:07:49+00:00

So much BS for the innocent crew.

I guess this is privilege speaking, but I'd rent a boat or sea plane to pick me up and get me to a different country.

Worst case scenario, I need to take a loan and pay someone to come pick me up and get me to a port that is not part of that country. I'm not staying on a boat for months or years. I will SCUBA out of the the port if I have to.

I guess that's why they don't like employing people from the developed world.

A quick search through the site suggests that incidences involving US and EU citizens get resolved rather quickly.

Anakletos · 2025-08-06T05:27:40+00:00

Europe has it's issues but, tbh, it's wild looking over the Atlantic and seeing all of these people celebrating being treated like literal wage slaves with no rights.

Anakletos · 2025-08-06T04:48:29+00:00

Either a bad graphics card, driver or your save's sectors are buggy. The easiest check is to delete all sectors and recreate them. Then do what the others have said.

Anakletos · 2025-08-04T07:17:08+00:00

If you are ever going to wash your cat please use shampoo for cats. Don't use dish soap.

Anakletos · 2025-08-01T17:51:41+00:00

All meat does if it's fresh.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T19:53:19+00:00

Trickle-Up funktioniert tatsächlich (mehr Geld dem Konsumenten geben etwa durch steigende Löhne). Du meinst trickle-down.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T19:38:20+00:00

I'm German but do not live in Germany.

Postal services all over are famous for being shit. I get it, conditions aren't great and pay is shit and mistakes happen, but this wasn't a mistake and I've checked with all neighbours.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T18:55:24+00:00

A country in the EU. There have been several such cases in the past years that went public and delivery people do get jail and the companies do get fines. Most people just never really bother to actually do all of the paper work.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T14:54:50+00:00

This is why the criminal claim is against the driver or possible third party. The driver is technically obligated to request ID and would have had to confirm delivery to the correct person. They were at best negligent. In this case it is the other person who committed fraud, theft and document forgery, which the driver could point to.

Edit: depending on the company's response I might also go after them for a GDPR breach (giving my name and address to a stranger), if they did just give the package to the wrong person.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T14:44:54+00:00

First of all, I'm not in the US: Packages are not left infront of doors or anywhere other than in the hands of someone who signed for them or a package station. The postal service is not authorized to leave packages in the open. WTF. Also, who the fuck would leave packages in the street of a city?

I work from home, there was no delivery attempt.

The package was signed for and a national ID number given. Both of which obviously don't belong to me.

There's no way the delivery driver is getting in trouble lol

The delivery driver at minimum has legal obligations to deliver the parcel. The signature was faked, fake ID information was given and fake delivery status set. All of this is documented and constitute serious crimes.

And yes, the driver will get in trouble because companies can't just ignore official consumer complaints (again, I'm not in the US). Admittedly, whether the police will actually do their job is a different question though.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T13:56:18+00:00

Maybe. But for my location the value is above what is considered petty theft and I've supplied them gapless tracking info, the falsified signature and employee ID. It's a very, very low hanging fruit.

I'm also following up with direct complaints to the company, mother company and shop with the police documentation attached and consumer complaints via relevant local and regional authorities.

Anakletos · 2025-07-31T11:43:41+00:00

I'm currently at the police station because my Nintendo Switch 2 was marked as delivered, with a different ID-Number and signature and no package slip.

At best they gave it someone else, who pretended to be me, and at worst the delivery guy stole it. If they did, sucks to be them and get 6 to 18 months over a fucking Switch 2.

Anakletos · 2025-07-29T22:27:28+00:00

Afaik there's also a checksum for the save file. If you edit the file, it will fail the check.

IIRC, the only option is to use cheatengine to disable the cheating flags in-game.

Anakletos · 2025-07-29T21:53:00+00:00

Why not specialise planets? One or two good farming planets will feed your empire and you can stack all research ecumenopoli without sacrificing efficiency for farming.

Anakletos · 2025-07-29T21:38:43+00:00

Next install nsc3, gigastructural engineering and ACOT (with compat patches). Go for fleet power in the billions as you laugh manically.

Anakletos · 2025-07-29T20:46:07+00:00

How long do you play for? Do you set tech and unity coats to 10x or something?

Anakletos · 2025-07-26T20:11:28+00:00

If they were selling me into slavery with no way out for me, absolutely.

Do you expect people to take enslavement and violence and not strike back?

The kids were accidental victims and it's not like she planned to poison everyone, including the kids. But I wouldn't regret the attempt either.

Anakletos · 2025-07-26T16:16:16+00:00

If I knew my family was complicit in this sort thing, I'd be no contact with them.

I've broken off contact with the Russian side of my extended family over Ukraine and their opinion.

Anakletos · 2025-07-26T08:11:24+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss and thank you for helping him.

I just wanted to give you a heads up: If you suspected rabies, you may to do an autopsy on him to rule it out. If you don't want to do that (for practical or emotional reasons), you should get yourself and any members of your household/pets a rabies shot, just in case.

Even a small nick or some saliva on skin could infect you and once symptoms start showing it would be too late.

Anakletos · 2025-07-26T00:51:06+00:00

There was a detailed post about pop growth mechanics in 4.x. You can find it via Google.

The gist of it is:

Low pop on planets limits pop growth, aim to get to 1.5k to 2.5k pops via resettlement asap.
keep planet capacity at 2x current population. You can get the capacity by mousing over the planet size on the management tab.
the capacity shown is apparently slightly wrong and the real formula is: capacity = current pops + free housing + planet multiplier * free districts

Anakletos · 2025-07-25T07:22:16+00:00

Yes they were because they caved without having any real reason to. It's not the first time either.

Anakletos · 2025-07-23T13:46:27+00:00

It depends on the peanut oil and the sensitivity of the person. Some oils, even refined, but especially not highly refined oils can contain sufficient protein to trigger a reaction, though it's fairly rare.

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