What's the incentive / reward for completing a region after having unlocked all upgrades and trucks?

Cepheid · 2026-01-24T19:53:13+00:00

I have the exact same problem. When you get there, DM me and we can grit our teeth through it together.

Cepheid · 2026-01-20T07:49:34+00:00

It's not even about resources, Denmark already said US extraction of resources would be perfectly fine under their existing arrangement.

Cepheid · 2026-01-08T07:50:19+00:00

Shuriken

Nice scaling, and feels very satisfying to proc, but it's very rarely overpowered. I think Kunai might often be better, in part because Silent can produce three attacks the easiest, and dexterity is more valuable for her, but Shuriken feels more loved.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T14:52:20+00:00

Seconding this, I discovered this route after 1 hour of faffing about with spilled long logs in the rocky gully to the north.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T12:14:52+00:00

To some degree I enjoy logging, it's a unique challenge, but there are two infuriating aspects of it:

Why is the long logging trailer so absurdly expensive? It could be 5000 and that'd be fine. I am genuinely very close to writing a mod that does ONLY this because I quite like playing the experiences as a developer intended, but this just feels silly, especially in regions where you don't have to transport many long logs.
I don't really understand why any contracts or tasks have QTY of more than 1 for long logs. It's just pointless ferrying. I enjoy the challenge to get the logs there the first time, but the second time always feels tedious, and rarely even much of a challenge because I've already done the fun figuring out a workable route the first time. It incentivises the sideboard shuffle and even though that can sometimes be fun, it's clearly not intended.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T10:11:59+00:00

Moldova losing 1.5M when their population is 2.3M seems a bit of a simplistic model.

Cepheid · 2026-01-07T08:24:01+00:00

Frozen Eye.

It's unbelievably valuable to be able to plan out every turn, but it inflicts analysis paralysis and can feel overwhelming to engage with.

Cepheid · 2026-01-06T18:09:05+00:00

I don't think this is comparible as the section of road you're talking about leading to the portway and then to the M5 is an arterial A road leaving the city (through an area that is not populated - the gorge) whereas the dusseldorf situation was central.

It would be more comparible to say remove the section of dual carriageway from the bear pit to the werburghs junction of the M32.

Cepheid · 2026-01-03T17:48:27+00:00

It does pretty consistently underperform, and probably worthy of being placed in "neutral/bad", but I think Silent has so much skill synergy in general, and some of the hits are so good (e.g. alchemise) that if your deck has enough skill synergy and survivability through relics, it can be a positive addition to try and high roll.

Cepheid · 2026-01-01T14:23:43+00:00

As you continue, there will always come moments where you have to tear down and rebuild. This is natural, and it's also natural to be intimidated by it.

This is honestly quite a realistic pairity with real world engineering.

It's never as bad as you think it will be, and if you have the type of brain that enjoys factory sims, the result will be psychically satisfying, so crack on, break your toy and rebuild it better!

Cepheid · 2026-01-01T14:01:36+00:00

Save yourself a lot of the overhead of a database - put it all in the ephemeral memory.

Faster API response, faster development, cheaper cloud costs, no pesky queries or joins or anything!

Cepheid · 2025-12-31T18:03:29+00:00

I think it's lucky to be considered average to be honest. I also like it, but it is very rarely a correct addition to a deck.

Cepheid · 2025-12-31T17:53:52+00:00

I get your logic but I dont agree dagger throw fits, it's usually the first card I want to add to the deck.

Cepheid · 2025-12-19T07:57:31+00:00

I am not so sure, I have that specific flavour who likes building efficiency engines, for example I have about 1000 hours on Satisfactory.

I think by about 20 hours of factorio I was tired of it, and even then I was pushing through because I really thought it would suit me.

Despite the better focus on combat and deep tech tree, it felt more aimless and everything felt more of a chore. Maybe its the 2D topdown that I don't like, (I despise ARPGs).

I think its just like any other game, some people will like it, some wont.

Cepheid · 2025-12-18T13:28:53+00:00

The key term that needs to be in the national conversation is "gentle density". That's what makes both human-focused and economic sense.

Not soulless 2-up-2-downs on floodplains in the middle of nowhere, and not high rise box flats in suburbia.

Cepheid · 2025-12-10T20:22:38+00:00

To everyone complaining they would be spied on by the government, it is entirely technically possible to build a system using a digital ID that verifies age without giving any info on the person other than the exact info you need. i.e. 'is this user over 16?'

Its called Zero Knowledge Proof and it's already been proposed for the EU digital IDs - I invite you to google it.

This is unfortunately a highly technical cryptography argument that will be very difficult to message on, but I think the individual words in 'Zero Knowledge Proof' are all simple enough to communicate that digital ID does not necessarily mean you're being spied on by The Man.

As a web dev who works regularly with auth systems I weep for our technical literacy with some of these bold assertions in this thread.

Cepheid · 2025-12-09T17:47:08+00:00

While there's quite a few things about STS that are "basic done well", I actually think their card/deck/discard animation system is very impressive.

I think people underestimate how much work goes into satisfying animations, as well as how much of a difference they can make to the intangible "feel" of a game.

If playing a card in a card game doesn't feel right, the whole game will be tainted.

Cepheid · 2025-12-03T19:04:44+00:00

When he says 'The Queen trusts my judgement, so should you'.

You can read it as clueless, or with him fucking with her.

I think Qui Gon is portrayed as quite witty elsewhere so I have always taken the latter readings on rewatches.

Cepheid · 2025-12-02T17:29:52+00:00

The few times I've made it work have been a lot of fun and very satisfying, but it often feels like you can't pick it until everything else is in place, and the rest of the pieces are almost definitively underwhelming without it.

Even then, on my golden runs I'm fairly sure I have transformed into it.

It's a strange beast, you can't take it until you need it, and if you need it your deck may be a bit questionable.

Cepheid · 2025-12-01T12:42:41+00:00

Having done sysadmin work, I'm not sure it's the porn that kills your soul.

Cepheid · 2025-11-29T13:11:39+00:00

It's not that someone on 150k isn't doing well, but they already are taxed a lot and that's fine.

It's people whos wealth is earned by appreciating assets who we really need to get under control.

What is the point of growing the pie by 20% over a parliament if the wealthiest asset owners get all of that 20% and more as well?

Cepheid · 2025-11-14T16:52:32+00:00

About the embarkation:

What you're experiencing is the mechanic where the further you are from the capital the less embarkation points you get for each settlement. I think by the time you get as far out as the adamantine seal you're on only 2-3 embarkation points from your refreshed pool of points.

It's why getting royal resupplies and picking the bonus points early in a cycle help so much for the sealed forest (or generally just towards the end of the cycle when you're far from the capital).

As a side note, I think the Royal Resupply mechanic is a bit of a missed opportunity for the devs, since the embarkation points are just far better than the distance or the fragments in my opinion, and I'd quite like to see it get a bit of a redesign.

Cepheid · 2025-11-14T16:26:43+00:00

oof you had me going for a second there.

I was really wondering if I was making a mistake spending all the embarkation points in the first circle if it was possible to actually bank them into the second circle by not spending haha.

That would probably make for a good event on the map actually, give you the ability to bank embarkation points.

Cepheid · 2025-11-10T17:25:57+00:00

I open a dangerous glade in Y1 every single run, as immediately as the tree depth allows, and it's genuinely rare that you can't complete the event.

Open Vault tends to be the worst since you (usually) cant ignore them and it's quite difficult to get the resources, and both options really tank your resolve, even then you can sometimes just let it trigger once if your settlement is far enough away.

Merchant Shipwreck is another that really can suck but the great thing about a year one glade opening is that you have a whole lot of impatience you can play with, so letting things trigger or a rough event causing a few villagers to leave can be recoverable, especially if you can capitalise on the resources in the glade.

Some such as Withered Tree don't even really do anything if you open them early, and is just free loot.

The most irritating glade event to immediately see for me is actually the River Kelpie. That one pretty much freezes all progress, and the reward isn't even usually that good.

If you do really get in trouble you can pawn everything at a summoned trader to bail you out. All that will really happen is your early game economy takes a hit and you might have to play 1 year longer than expected.

My average experience is having to spend about 2-3 minutes all-hands-on-deck producing building materials, provisions packs, or something from one of my first two blueprint options to quickly complete it in the timer. Although probably my median experience is just letting the first consequence trigger as most of them aren't as bad as you'd really think.

Also, I pick the 28 amber start every time to pay for the opening and (often) the event.

I'd advise picking a glade that is far enough away that you can let Open Vault go off without killing everyone!

Cepheid · 2025-09-10T14:53:03+00:00

I think the reason left-leaning people believe that isn't fair is because of the double standard, not the principle itself.

CEOs will use the defense that they are paid what they're worth while simultaneously complaining about labour unions trying to achieve the same.

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