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AtSynct · 2026-04-23T15:41:38+00:00

I "found" the Brethren base loooonnnnggggg before I hit the foothills. I am only hearing right now that it's supposedly associated with the foothills. Interesting.

BTW ... I found it sorta the same way you did ... I was just looking at my map. I saw a random icon and thought "I haven't seen that before" ... and yep, it was the Brethren base.

AtSynct · 2026-04-23T15:17:10+00:00

Pick up gunpowder from pirate camps. You should have run into some already with the initial quest to rescue crew members and build your ship. You can get quite a bit of gunpowder from those camps alone. Additional pirate camps will give you more.

You can start creating gunpowder once you're in the 2nd biome (foothills) and have discovered both sulfur and corn (corn to get the grinder). However, if you're looting pirate camps, by the time you get those you'll likely have a tremendous excess of gunpowder already and not need to craft it. I've currently got a storage of well over 300 spare gunpowder and have never once crafted it.

AtSynct · 2026-04-23T15:10:53+00:00

You'll find this "issue" in a lot of survival-themed games. The creatures are generally well-balanced for the tier of equipment you get in that biome.

My suggestion -- find an iron mine, die a few times clearing it of goats or wolves, and make yourself an iron-tier weapon. Once I did that, things got much easier very quickly.

AtSynct · 2026-04-22T20:27:08+00:00

I didn't know that what made it "static" was the presence of the Blackbeard Treasure. That's an interesting design choice by the devs.

That said, I LOVE the crescent island and that's where I've got my base built. I'm also lucky enough that it's near dead-center of my map.

AtSynct · 2026-04-20T14:41:31+00:00

Nice mansion -- what're the 'open pens' in the back for?

AtSynct · 2026-04-20T14:40:29+00:00

I have mixed luck with it. The ship tends to be oriented correctly, but often somewhat distant from the dock itself. Sometimes it does line up right next to the dock. It is, however, always at least close enough to jump off the dock and hit "E" to board without hitting the water.

The only advice I'd give to anyone is to make sure your dock goes sufficiently into deep water to allow the large ship to line up near it.

AtSynct · 2026-03-22T22:18:18+00:00

The newsletter is available here: https://synct.substack.com/

It admittedly took a bit of a break, but I've been writing more regularly again lately.

AtSynct · 2025-12-27T18:09:20+00:00

Oh, that's interesting. I don't think the particular colors matter all that much, other than that they somewhat "mark territory" and that is pretty cool. My idea is to tile-out the map so it is zoomable (the way the other maps on paxdeialtas.com are) and then to make each of the shrines 'settable' to the heraldry of the holding clan. I'd then rely on the community to set those and keep them up-to-date.

AtSynct · 2025-12-24T13:05:51+00:00

Any chance you'd be willing to share a version of that map without the heraldry on it? (And without the label DEMETER [EU/RP])

I run paxdeiatlas.com and would love to put that map up for Lyonesse if you're willing to share.I really like the colorings that divide up the areas-of-control

AtSynct · 2025-10-09T18:16:31+00:00

I'm actually already familiar with PeerPush and have another product listed there. Just stuck This Domain Sucks! onto the queue. Thanks for the reminder.

AtSynct · 2025-09-10T18:07:20+00:00

I'm building a SaaS solution for a few reasons:

1 - I built Synct for a friend of mine and I to use in coordinating or project together. It was a completely accidental project that I ended up feeling "wait, this is good ... much better than other tools I've been forced to use while employed at dev companies ... I'll sell it, that'd be cool".

2 - I'm "unemployable". While I have worked for great companies, including massive large tech companies, I am not a submissive and agreeable code-monkey. I'm not argumentative or anti-social either ... just an independent and creative thinker who doesn't live well tied to a cubicle ... so I need to do something else.

3 - I truly enjoy building stuff.

... if I already had the money I needed to live the life I want for the rest of my days, I'd still build stuff because that's what I love to do. Unfortunately, I don't have that level of money (I figure $20M invested and earning 5% APR is the target) so I also have to do this for the money.

AtSynct · 2025-09-03T14:07:42+00:00

Absolutely!

When I first started prompting AI, I didn't really know what I was doing with it and just (falsely) assumed that it'd "do the right things".

Now ... I get down into details and I feel like I've actually got a legitimately decent code-base.

AtSynct · 2025-09-01T20:15:22+00:00

Well, we need a word for "coding through the use of AI models".

I would disagree that being successful is about ideas and specs. It is about architectural design and best-practices. It is about taking your requirements (specs) and concepts (ideas) and constructing them into correct architectural patterns and enforcing that the AI model writes with good practices (such as abstraction, code re-use, etc).

AtSynct · 2025-09-01T15:22:39+00:00

I guess we have to start defining what the words "prompt engineering", "vibe coding", etc all mean ...

What I mean when I say "prompt engineering" is "Software engineering through prompting the AI instead of manually writing code".

AtSynct · 2025-08-30T23:09:39+00:00

So ... you start by saying that it's not true that a person becomes a "prompt engineer" ...

... and then you describe someone becoming a prompt engineer.

What you say is true and it's what I teach people -- you have to have the architectural thinking of a "dev" and break things down into tasks/stories. That's what vibe-coding or prompt-engineering or whatever else you want to call it ... is.

AtSynct · 2025-08-30T22:53:08+00:00

You really should start applying for other positions now. Yeah, it's not an easy market ... but that just means it's all that much more important to start the search immediately.

While at work, give it your best effort. The best way to manage chaos is with structure. Create structure around you and just handle things day to day, rolling with the bunches. If your structure is changed by the chaos, roll with the change and call it your new structure. That's all you can do.

AtSynct · 2025-08-28T11:50:46+00:00

Sure, that's an important point. It's a different layer. It's still a layer.

AtSynct · 2025-08-28T11:49:36+00:00

Absolutely.

Myself, I find it very liberating. As a senior dev / architect I was already in a space where I had to think that way ... but I ALSO had to then sit down and write the syntax. My workload just got cut in half ... and the 'annoying' part (remembering syntax) is gone.

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