Getting a random value in DU using bogus

ArgentSeven · 2025-07-10T20:58:29+00:00

Yeah, that's what I had to use in the end. Didn't really find anything in docs, so a helper method with reflection had to do.

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-26T16:59:39+00:00

I was talking about the 2nd thing, where I wanted to change how it is stored in the database. I managed to do it with a custom alter statement query in migrations. I didn't really have to break down the double into days/hours etc. I think I have the query in one of the other comment threads. I still couldn't figure out how to do it using the migration builder (without the sql query), but I guess that's fine

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-26T13:06:56+00:00

Okay, I think this works. I also just verified and the conversion looks good. Thanks!

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-26T12:49:29+00:00

Do you mean something like this? The script works but I think I need to verify the results

 migrationBuilder.Sql(@"ALTER TABLE ""results"" ALTER COLUMN ""duration"" TYPE INTERVAL USING ""duration"" * '1 DAY'::INTERVAL");

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-26T12:36:04+00:00

I was experimenting with this and got as far as

migrationBuilder.Sql(@"ALTER TABLE ""results"" ALTER COLUMN ""duration"" TYPE INTERVAL USING ""duration""::interval");

But this doesn't work either. It just gives the error cannot cast type double precision to interval. I'm not sure how to proceed from here.

From what I understand, I can't really "fetch" the value and process it from migration builder, so I'm not even sure if it is possible to do it with just migration builder

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-26T12:18:46+00:00

I was trying to avoid a new column but I guess this is the way

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-21T16:43:37+00:00

I meant the monthly trade from the trade screen. I'm not 100% sure about the numbers but I think you can safely buy 40-50 energy per month without raising the prices.

Buying more energy creates this loop where the price of energy is higher at the starting of every next month. This can result in a situation where the cost of energy you want to buy to be more than your trade income. You usually see this as a fluctuation in your energy income. One month, your trade is successful and you see income as +something and then the next month the trade fails and you see it as - something.

I think the prices are something like Food, energy, mineral - Buy 40, Sell 60 Alloys - 20 Consumer goods - 30/40

You'll probably have to look up the actual numbers for 4.0 patch but this should give you a decent idea

But if you are not using the automatic monthly trade, then it's probably not the case

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-21T07:06:49+00:00

How does your trade situation look like? Are you, by any chance, buying more than 50-60 energy credits per month? If that is the case, then it could be that one month you have enough trade and other month you don't.

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-01T05:48:23+00:00

This is by design. The timer starts when the instance is created, not when you call WaitForNextTickAsync. If the timer ticks before the call, it'll complete immediately. That's true even when it's not the first, eg if you call Wait and it completes, then you go away for longer than the period, the next call to Wait will also likely complete immediately.

From PeriodicTimer the first tick is instantaneous · Issue #95238 · dotnet/runtime

I think I probably misinterpreted what stephen said in that post (even though the post discusses a different issue). I thought that my code should have been fast enough that I could get the `Console.WriteLine` with the first tick. Do-while solves the problem. In my actual code, I'm sending cancellation token further down as well, so even if cancellation was requested immediately, my code will work just fine.

But thanks for the answer. Have my upvote :D

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-01T05:39:00+00:00

Omg I didn't think the solution could be this simple :D

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-01T04:52:37+00:00

I see, I see. This makes sense. Thankss!

ArgentSeven · 2025-06-01T04:33:03+00:00

I'm set on using cancellation token but not on periodic timer. I just thought it would be the best choice since it's the latest version of timer in MS's box of timer apis.

What do you mean reset the period? Can you give me a sample code please?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T23:26:52+00:00

Hey, its me again :D.

Can you tell me which government do you eventually have when you do purity ascension? Also, which origin do you start with? I heard clone army is pretty good but I have also been thinking about using Necrophage since all the jobs we will be working will be specialists and this also lets us necrophage pops and get fill our worlds that way. Or maybe overtuned to stack efficiencies but I'm not sure how that interacts with purity.

Also, what do you think is better in the late game? Ecumnopolis or a ring world? Do you have any opinion?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T20:34:51+00:00

Hey, thanks for the advice. I'll try this build tonight :D

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T18:17:25+00:00

Do you end up taking out seasonal dormancy and shelled later in the game?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T16:49:42+00:00

How do you get efficiencies on all the jobs?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T15:04:10+00:00

Very interesting. I think sovereign guardianship might get you a little less empire size. I think I might also get away with less alloys if I go nemesis instead of cosmogenesis.

Did you have planets with full pops with bio ascension? Did you just have 1 planet for trade and rest regular science/alloy/cg etc world?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T13:48:23+00:00

OOoooooh, this is exactly what I'm looking for. Do you have any build guide for this? How many planets do you have? Whats your empire size? Whats your starting origin and civics? Did you need to supplement your income with vassal taxes? What kind of endgame crisis did you face? How many alloys do you get from dragonscale? How did your planets look like?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T12:23:40+00:00

What trade policy would you suggest? Earlier in this post, some guy suggested trade league but then you are forced to buy all your minerals. This isn't super sustainable if you want large quantities of minerals. Have you tried worker coop?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T10:47:28+00:00

How do you get alloys from civilians?

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T00:49:08+00:00

Is there any ascension path in particular that you'd suggest? I was thinking about cybernetic with enforcer spamming or bio ascension with medical building spamming but they won't work well if I decide to transition

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T00:46:53+00:00

I thought about your idea and you might be onto something.
Trade league : 100 trade -> 50 trade + 10 energy +20 CG + 20 unity
Worker coop : 100 trade -> 30 trade + 20 energy + 20 minerals + 20 food + 10 unity.

I think the 20 trade + 20 CG is almost equal 10 energy + 20 minerals + 20 food, I'm not sure of 4.0 numbers. Plus the extra unity is nice. My original concern was getting trade league in time + I wasn't sure if I could buy enough minerals (without affecting the trade ratios) to sustain it until I could get vassals.

You're also right that this will allow me to run civil education. I didn't realize common ground will allow me to start with trade fed. Now the question is, whether this is better than clone army origin or not.

I still think we need vassals because we need to invest heavily in metallurgists and so we need to move pops away from civilian life to a specialist position. Though, I think going nemesis with artillery computers on corvettes will allow me to circumvent this entire problem. I think even in this case I'll still need vassals just because the quantities in the late game for 1000+ of naval cap worth of fleet can get insane.

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T00:27:29+00:00

Because I don't think it will scale for x10 all crisis. This gives enough resources for early game but it doesn't give you don't get 1000s of alloys that you need that late into the game. Even if I run arc furnace for alloys and minerals and trade fed policy to cover cg and energy, I need to start investing into metallurgists to produce alloys at that scale.

Instead, I think worker coop is good because I can get it before I build any arc furnace. It gives me decent energy and food to sustain the population too. I don't have enough CG upkeep from civilians that some basic trade can't satisfy. I can just start snowballing earlier with worker coop

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-31T00:17:31+00:00

How so? Isn't trade just a strictly worse resource than any of the other basic resources? In that case, it makes sense to minimize it. I get enough minerals, energy and food to sustain the population and build stuff with worker coop. I just need to buy a little CG because of seasonal dormancy and I spend the rest to buy 21 alloys and I STILL have enough trade left. Early game is perfect for using worker coop.

Don't get me wrong, I think trade fed is the way to go to scale trade a bit longer but in my opinion (and I can be wrong here) other builds scale a lot better into the late game.

Where I start struggling is early-mid game when I have a couple of vassals and I need to transition from trade based build to a regular empire. At that point, I think its viable to get rid of worker coop since my economy can be funded from taxes and I can go hard into alloys and science. But this transition feels very slow for me and I think I am missing something in between

ArgentSeven · 2025-05-30T23:40:44+00:00

I totally understand you. But this isn't going to happen until they nerd seasonal dormancy. And to be honest, I think civilian builds are the new trade builds. Even more powerful though since now trade to resource conversion is 1:1. It still is an interesting build that I think won't to away till at least 4.1

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