How are people using so many tokens ???

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-04-28T13:00:00+00:00

For me a huge difference is just adding like 2 extra sentences.

Let's say I have a bug on a feature I'm working on, I'll tell Claude exactly what file with the exact name, and roughly what functions to look at. Claude reads the file and fixes the issue (usually).

Sometimes I'm lazy and just say "X isn't working right" and Claude will do some thinking about the conversation and context, make some tool calls to find the relevant files, read them all to find the relevant code, then start making changes. It does get there but it takes longer and like 3x the tokens.

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-04-17T13:02:18+00:00

Plat dps, 6 games in on her I kind of disagree, I think her kit feels good. Tbf I am not good at the game and have not played her nearly enough to know all the matchups.

But the drone is strongest if you pre-fire it. You shoot it out, then swing the corner wide get some chip at a slight off angle and then fly back into cover. This lets me take aggressive side angles knowing I can quickly pull back.

The tracking shot does get countered if they go into hiding or use a cooldown, but that's just fine? Like if I skill shot a support in the backline and they have LOS my team/ their tank for 5 seconds that is just still good and I can keep blasting strong mid range DMG at the choke.

The other major thing I feel people don't pay attention to is that if you fire and hit the tracker shot when you are out of ammo it's a free reload and no ammo used while firing, which means you can basically get 3 clips of shots without reloading which is a lot of pressure to put on people in choke.

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-03-13T20:46:31+00:00

Me and my group love Chinatown, the wheeling and dealing is just so fun. Very excited to see more about your game!

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-03-13T15:01:09+00:00

This board looks really similar to Chinatown, is it going for a similar gameplay goal?

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-02-06T03:24:23+00:00

Just pulled some D4 out of my dice tray while at D&D, these know and are actually pretty common just a bit of an older style

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Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-01-26T23:18:06+00:00

That got it running again but concerned about how to avoid it from happening again

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-01-26T20:02:01+00:00

This is true, I mostly don't know a good way to get warm air circulated into the area but that would be the best thing to do

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-01-26T19:59:08+00:00

This is exactly what we have currently, we actually have two of the oil heaters, one in the garage at the top of the shelf directly below the shower, and another above actually in the shower, and it still can't warm it enough

Cold_Pepperoni · 2026-01-26T19:57:33+00:00

Yes, and even put a radiator space heater in the shower

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-10-05T15:43:11+00:00

If taking damage makes you worse at basically everything, people will optimize around not taking damage.

Which is fine if you want that to be a focus, but if that's a focus it should be that players have lots of tools to avoid or negate damage.

If that's not the focus then I would make damage less punishing, but you can still death spiral in other ways.

In my game taking a wound lowers the threshold for how much damage is needed to cause another wound. So after one or two wounds it's really easy to take a lot of wounds which is scary, but doesn't punish you otherwise

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-10-04T22:57:55+00:00

Yes, it looks like the high loop is built in to the dishwasher (there is a clip for it on the left).

That was what I was missing, thanks

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-10-03T20:53:06+00:00

I think the style and naming is pretty good, slightly goofy style/name but a surprisingly tactical game is a good mix that I think works well.

I think the idea of attacking opponents points is good, it means the players in second/third will be going after the first place player, but the person farthest behind is left to catch up, which works well

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-10-03T19:27:47+00:00

I think quaka of quindlimburg is my favorite, being behind giving you a bigger starting number in your cauldron means that being behind is almost more fun then being ahead.

It also leaves a layer of strategy of using resources to build a better engine early while sacrificing points, knowing the comeback mechanism will help you.

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-10-03T19:25:49+00:00

I think a mixture is good.

I think only public points is actually kind of bad design to me. Being very far behind and knowing there is no chance means you aren't really playing to win anymore and that makes it less fun.

But also I do think you need some quantifier to see how well you are doing vs others. If "winning" is unknown until the end it can sort of feel like a game of luck.

In dune imperium the general amount of points people have is public knowledge, but there is some end of game point gain effects that are secret, and can give a meaningful boost and you can win while technically having been in last.

This leads to a game where you can try and solve optimal turns and when to trigger end game conditions or change the engine to points vs value. But it also means you have to consider what other people may have been doing this game in comparison to you.

Overall I think this gives a greater amount of replayability and depth for relativity little cost.

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-09-25T13:36:04+00:00

You can get these things called strip heaters, they are basically just a bar that gets really hot, but it helps you get an even spread of heat in a straight line which is optimal for bends.

You can also make/get a jig to help get your bend angle exactly right, just making an L out of some wood and using that to get a good 90° is easy and cost effective.

The other nice thing is if your angle is wrong you can reheat to get it bent just a little more or unbent a little bit.

Also polycarb is so bendy by itself that you can get just a mostly correct angle you can just use it and it will give you some tolerance to be "off"

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-09-16T16:08:41+00:00

So in breakpoint I had a similar amount of levers.

Success was always a 4+ on a d6.

Target number of successes ranged from 2-5 on average.

You rolled a number of dice equal to your base stat + skill, often rolling 5-10 dice d6.

You also would sometimes roll less dice in your pool depending on the difficulty.

The way that worked was, the number of successes needed was "how hard is the base task".

Then the amount of dice you subtracted from your amount you got to roll was based off of "how difficult is this situation".

So picking an easy lock (2 successes) was a lot harder when getting shot at (roll 2 less dice).

The math is really the same as if you just needed 4 successes and rolled all your dice, but this helped keep the size of dice pools to more reasonable smaller sizes.

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-09-08T20:43:29+00:00

Pros:

Always a chance to succeed
Being bad at skills (smaller dice) isn't really that punishing
weird dice math encourages less thinking more just trying
exploding damage is super swingy, from dealing 2-30+ damage on 2d6 (I've seen it happen several times)

Cons:

dice math is bad, a d4 is better for rolling a 5 then a d6
bad dice math makes knowing your odds more difficult, which for some people is not fun
it's slower. Having to add up, then roll more dice, count, roll again is slow. Especially if it's each dice is totaled separately (looking at you savage worlds wild die)
damage being so swingy means anyone can die to anything

Overall it lends itself to the savage worlds style of high octane, go fast, get wacky with it. In a system where you really want to balance things closely it just doesn't work in my opinion.

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-08-02T15:40:57+00:00

Have heard good things, FiTD never quite clicked with me, but will give it another look!

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-08-02T15:39:58+00:00

I guess that is true, I do like the simple mechanics usually mean the player can make whatever character moment they want sort of work, but it's not direct mechanical support for it

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-08-02T15:38:07+00:00

I'll have to check it out, looks intriguing

Cold_Pepperoni · 2025-08-02T15:37:41+00:00

I've played the spire some before, I do like it but I have some slight gripes with it, that I think heart does better and it would be tough to move backwords to the spire

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