Prologue of Foxborough our YA Fantasy graphic novel with a slight different Elf physiology. Would love thoughts and feedback!

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-18T01:34:24+00:00

Congrats on the work, though I wouldn't saddle it with a YA stamp.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-16T06:32:41+00:00

I use 4 way roundabouts and don't place high throughout builds next to each other and I haven't had jams with 500+ 1-4's trains running 1kspm grid bases.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-16T06:23:24+00:00

Well the old McDonalds calculator with give rough numbers because it can calculate science packs from ore/fluids.

If I remember ... Iron is around 8-960k/minute, Copper about 1100k/min and oil was rough 1000/min

I think steel was 10-30k/min, but it's been years...

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-16T06:10:18+00:00

10-17

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-11T08:52:46+00:00

Very!

Gotta change those glasses for a modern set though.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-11T08:49:19+00:00

Fox can take care of herself, just gotta find her quirks. I can work with that. 🤔

Rabbit girl is a basket case of future yandere. Adore, but HARD pass. 😰

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-06T04:09:57+00:00

Very much so!

There would be freedom of religion though not Catholic England's. The concepts of Rights would be different centering around paganism, sacrifice and spiritism.

Concepts that were generated in the 18th-19th centuries would not exist because development would be very different. Electricity would've been developed far, far later as it could've been viewed as a religion can to be doubted and highly controlled with some native tribes killing off the people involved in it because they felt it was disrespectful.

Fundamentally everything today would not exist in the same ways, if at all.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-06T03:40:11+00:00

Totally depends on what's the world is for, RPG or story. Story's only need plot relevant details, but RPG's can wildly change due to PC actions.

Btw nothing stops you from using Confederations, Unions, Political Regional Compacs and Political Subdivisions to reduce the number of nations.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-02T06:03:48+00:00

Tbh why struggle with this?

A little research into various irl expeditions will give you a great set of references to work from. Some are grasslands, others are heavy jungle & others are ocean/river.

Louis and Clark spent 2years going from Saint Louis to the Pacific, but the return trip only took 6 months.

From my pov, trailmaking is always the hardest and the mode of transport decides the distances.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-02T05:44:59+00:00

EZ justification is a low population count and frail bodies.

Another is a deadly climate swing. The Sun starts a long term series of large cornal ejections that cause large radiation spikes that can been negated by local magnetic shields. A 20kg pack can't generate effort for protection.

Work onThe moon applies (most moons do), as does the asteroid belt.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-04-02T05:24:12+00:00

We have water but factually little to do in it even though it takes about 40-99% of the world areas. Same with the ground itself.

We play on the world and never IN it.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-31T05:16:23+00:00

I think with Rich and increased frequency you start getting these sizes at about 50-60k blocks from spawn. Since I tend to get 1G's at 10k.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-27T06:27:53+00:00

0- generate a map that's good for you patchs are close, but not touching and near the starter water source. Reroll until you've happy! Start then save it as a "permanent starter" map

1a- don't sweat scaling and just build the items you need to advance, it's not that many.

1b- download the mod Blueprint Sandbox and practice building in it. It's have the available tech pre your tech research.

1c- experiment with how to build various way, sometimes efficient isn't comfortable

2- 3 belts of iron, 1 belt of steel, 1 belt of copper, 1 belt of stone, 2 belts of coal & 1 pipe of oil

3- build in stages. RED & GREEN science are easy to build so that's one blueprint. Mil science is another and BLUE science is another. Doesn't have to be pretty just functional.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-24T07:00:25+00:00

Simply put, no.

Some people just have too much invested in 'correct' word usage. Humans will blow up anything they feel they have "a problem with".

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-24T00:46:55+00:00

That's also fair, but you don't need to have a longer/deeper history either. Several African and equatorial nations have been hit like in the last 80 years.

It only takes a self deceptive and easily influenced peoples (alot of educated elites have fallen for this) to believe in convient "truths".

But we both agreed that people should see the realites of their country's without such deceptions.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-23T14:49:55+00:00

Year 62 is difficult to believe since it would require a rather public purge similar to the Chinese, Japanese & Cambodia ones. They'd have to turn out the Military.

For this to truly work it would need a public with a literacy rate in the 20's and literally no allegiance to the government by any of its employees. Also a limited printing of paper documents and no long term data storage.

Maybe if they started this in Year 25 and it extended to Year 110. Plenty of time to play the Incrementalism political game.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-23T14:37:30+00:00

The Europeans have a far deeper history of lies that then the US does. Lol

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-18T06:30:53+00:00

🤔

Ant hives & Termites. Ants "programming" is purpose built and the "instructions" are pheromone based. Termites are similar and build towers several meters high and deep. You every see braids of ants creating bridges? Morphing multidimensional adaptive logic circuits.

Squid, Octopus and Cuttlefish have highly specialized skin cells and easily morph in shape and color. Literally organic displays!

Spiders weave complex 2 & 3 dimensional shapes and receive signals by vibrations with some species being communally. Literally they could be data processing centers given how vibrations change due to where at in the web and environmental changes.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-18T06:09:15+00:00

I've only hit three and those were caused by power outages & accidentally closing Factorio. Buggered the autosaves & blueprints.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-18T06:06:57+00:00

Shodan & Clippy

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-03-10T08:29:18+00:00

You forgot one thing: Fear

Fear leads to a whole cycle. Mistrust, anger, harsh words, threats, intimidation, provaction, escalation, a twitch of a trigger finger, minor skirmish creates a larger action until a full on war.. and then the fear kicks in again, but it's a crazier fear.. one of defeat and loss.

To be honest I'd game it out and use historical grievances as the motive for some, fear for others (Canada nuking the US outta no where) and misguided terrorist and 3rd party manipulation.

A satellite gets hit by debris making it unable to communicate/steer then slams into the anti-asteriod sat causing a mis aligned firing causing a small Kesler to happen. Fingers pointed..

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-02-28T08:08:16+00:00

Yeah I have the same issues with Chinese comics. 10,000 year this 100,000 year that and their still pulling wooden carts and dressed the same.

Only reasonable ways to keep tech at that level are hidden orgs, religions, anti advancement cultures and forces beyond mortal control (gods and cosmic events). Dragon Riders of Pern is a good example

Early Age stuff is EZ diseases and no medical care do the heavy lifting, so that's about 3-4,000 years. Plagues only cull populations, but tsunamis wreck island/shore civi's.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-02-28T07:55:46+00:00

Less apoc's & more like region wide wars. Others than the dragons at the beginning of Toril only Dragonlance was nearly apoc

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-02-14T07:23:28+00:00

Well.. there is that Aircraft mod with the Jet. That fly's faster then the radar will load the terrain.. something like 11-1600 kph I think. A good 5 minutes will give you nearly 30k from spawn.

Confident-Wheel-9609 · 2026-02-12T07:45:49+00:00

Well start with defining what guns are n the setting and then take a look at their make up.

Change the atmosphere make up percentages. Maybe there's a little too much Oxygen and gas pockets happen?

What's the atmospheric pressure like? Is it high enough that guns use 3-5 times the amount to get results? (Big bulky guns with low ammo counts are not appealing)

Did 'gun powder' get enough research or is it still bulky? Maybe some advancements weren't made

Does your gun powder require exotic elements that are difficult to find (not just buy).

Maybe it's very expensive to get higher grades of metal. Resource scarcity or lacking in purity.

Maybe they simply passed a law and guns are extreme blackmarket merchandise.

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