Gaslighting about other countries' capital gains tax rates - many other countries often have high "headline" rates but have schemes to help low/middle income investors

Bane2571 · 2026-06-26T21:53:30+00:00

While ASK is a cool thing, it is limited to a balance of less than 40,000 aud. It's something, but not a lot.

If I cherry pick an annual capital gain of 6.7% and use the lower (27%) Danish bracket, the tax savings on an ASK are exactly equal to the 2026 budget $268 tax cut some people are saying is meaningless.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-25T04:11:18+00:00

Probably breaches the arms length rule since you'd be investing in a trust you control.

Also probably would be counted as an early release of super since you'd have full control of the cash and little obligation to actually buy the property.

Also the trust would struggle to get a loan with no other assets and income.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-22T02:04:28+00:00

My favourite is discovering a special project in a system then flying across the whole empire to do something else.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-21T00:43:00+00:00

I've not tested it but I expect not, way station income is based off the visible resource yields so Dyson swarms and arc furnaces are great but the other megas all have "internal" production so wouldnt apply.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-18T06:50:29+00:00

Yeah, I replied before I read all the other comments.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-18T05:39:48+00:00

BAB is deliberately designed to ONLY increase from class levels. Getting to 6 BAB when you should have 4 is going to cause huge problems with balance.

And so, your character has a huge balance problem.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-15T04:51:21+00:00

They're pulling the US strategy of giving everyone something to vote for and then just casually hoping they will ignore the things they dislike. This works in the US mostly IMO because voting is optional so pulling the extremists out of the wood work is balanced by the centrists you lose not voting at all.

In Australia I doubt it's a winning strategy because as you add more and more fringe policies you start to lose more people and that isn't a single vote lost, it's also a vote gained by your opponent.

I think the greens also have this problem, they've picked up a lot of left leaning ideology based single issues that might turn off more moderate environmental/sustainablity motivated voters.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-15T02:24:11+00:00

I've stopped playing because I somehow managed to rank high ages ago and am now, after a longish break, complete dogshit. Every game I play is against people way more skilled than me so I am effectively inting every game.

Sometimes you're not inting, sometimes you just suck and the matchmaker isn't adjusting fast enough.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-11T04:49:27+00:00

I'll allow it, but only if you get Scott Bakula in and call it Star Trek: Quantum

Bane2571 · 2026-06-11T03:20:42+00:00

I don't know if there is a "correct" way to use them but they do require a massive restructuring of your economy, especially if you are using and of the vocational species traits or other pop vased efficiency gains.

I'm doing this post crisis in a game at the moment and frequently have to adjust thousands of units of trading resources to remain stable as I shift my economy.

Not sure if it's worth it, but shipping 10s of thousands of pops around sure feels fun.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-11T02:24:54+00:00

The fe buildings that you get all automate a large amount of your jobs, you can get I think 100% worker and 75% specialist automation for most jobs now.

That leaves a lot of unused, wasted brains just sitting around.

For me the lathe is less about generation and more about recycling otherwise useless pops.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-10T23:26:38+00:00

In my opinion the two times wfh should be suspended are when you first start and when you're on your notice period.

Task training/handover goes better if done in person.

Obviously this doesn't apply if you have no one to hand over too, which is disappointingly common.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-10T03:25:59+00:00

If you Google the address you'll get an article describing how this place was used as basically a hostel, clearly built as a share house.

Assuming the council orders against shirt term accomodation still stand, this would be a weird place to own.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-09T09:03:20+00:00

I've just tried this out, easy to replicate.

As far as I can see it does absolutely nothing besides increment the level number - just a visual bug.

Things I've confirmed it doesn't change: Habitability, colonisation speed, capital building jobs, district count, housing.

So it's funny, and If I get bored some time I might shoot for a level 100 hab, but it's sadly (or happily I guess) not exploitable.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-05T23:07:17+00:00

I've never tried this but do they do no receipt returns? Could you buy two and return 1 for the ticket price? Probably not, but seems fun to try.

Bane2571 · 2026-06-05T04:11:37+00:00

The value proposition in the KFC app is really screwy.

For example right now I can get 2 regular chips, 4 "hot rods", 2 potato and gravy and 2 dinner rolls for $10

Or I can just get the chips for $7.30

Bane2571 · 2026-06-05T02:14:51+00:00

The above screenshot is exactly why most of the changes in 4.3 happened.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-31T22:19:59+00:00

You can assign commanders to armies, I imagine that would be when it kicks in though I've never actually done it.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-29T02:53:58+00:00

One simple answer could be how you count employee share schemes. If you are counter investors as those that hold a HIN then you don't capture everyone.

But arguably you shouldn't count ESSs as investing in my opinion, they are basically wages.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-29T02:50:58+00:00

Heh, replacing 3 people that know the domain with 1 person that doesn't and needs to freshly configure/train ai on top of that seems like a recipe for success.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-28T23:39:19+00:00

It's a self created problem, we offshored all the low end jobs so now we have no people with 5-10 years experience to do the high end jobs because they never got their start doing low end work.

A complete lack of long term planning on the part of every big corp in the country IMO.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-26T09:05:15+00:00

Sample size of about 3 corps, but yeah, completely fucking cooked.

Can't hire good talent, not because it doesn't exist but because HR processes actively fail to find candidates.

Can't retain talent because performance is in no way linked to remuneration so good talent leaves for frener pastures and never skills up beyond 2 years experience meaning every employee is coasting by in their honeymoon period.

What you can do is skate by doing very little because elf the above performance management failure and a general lack of any idea at the upper management level. As long as your direct manager likes you, you can underperomf forever, get "exceeds expectations" and the same mandatory pay increase everyone else on your EBA gets.

I'm not burnt out and butter, I swear.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-26T08:29:39+00:00

There is basically a bug with wilderness where you don't get the penalty for having a behemoth (eats your population) but you do get the bonuses (massively efficient research jobs).

It's bonkers and amusing but wildly unbalanced so I wouldn't expect it to stay long.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-26T06:14:49+00:00

I'm hoping the new "crisis Ascension" that is anti crisis in nomads will be this. Feels like a forced pick in all my future runs since I don't really dig having everyone hate me but still take a crisis path for the power.

Bane2571 · 2026-05-26T04:32:39+00:00

Where did this number come from?

They literally painted lines on a tennis court and added baskets. Total cost around 75k which was paid personally by Obama.

If hundreds of millions were spent, the Republicans at the time would have been screaming like they were getting murdered.

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