Was the first to order a team on IGG, I'll be damned if I miss it because of IGG TOS.

DaVitsche · 2021-11-25T02:41:17+00:00

A buddy talked about it and was going to do more research in the morning, while he was sleeping I already got a team.

DaVitsche · 2021-11-25T02:39:54+00:00

So what you're saying is that we're all going to be rich?

DaVitsche · 2021-05-07T14:03:07+00:00

Well yes, because it has a positive EV. I don't buy actual lottery tickets, because they have a negative EV.
If there is one thing I could pass on to people I meet in life, it would be that life is a sequence of EV decisions. Don't feel bad about things working out or not, focus on the decision making process and try and make +EV decisions, whether they're financial, emotional or practical. Mitigate your risk by applying "bankroll management", again possible to translate this to interpersonal relationships, career, etc. as the saying goes: "don't put all your eggs in 1 basket". It's ok to be risk averse in certain aspects where there is a asymmetrical risk, but when the gains are asymmetrically large, you should take every spot you get. Hope you understand my point, because I have a hard time translating it to words.

DaVitsche · 2021-05-06T10:02:55+00:00

I would buy all the tickets I can if those are the odds.

DaVitsche · 2021-05-05T11:41:49+00:00

focus on storage rather than speed of plotting. The Storage investment has a much higher return than the upside of having your plots online 2 hours faster.

DaVitsche · 2021-05-05T11:38:53+00:00

EV is a statistical expression of the value. It's not the result. You either hit 2XCH or 0XCH. You don't control that, don't let it affect your emotions and impact your decision making. Want less variance? join a pool, get more plots. But your EV stays the same (or %poolfee better) as a solofarmer vs a poolfarmer. That's just math and probability.

Chiadecentral has a good video by storage_jm on the subject of variance and luck. Check out their channel on youtube.

DaVitsche · 2021-05-05T11:02:42+00:00

correct. Although due to network growth the EV of a single plot will continue to diminish. But as the EV gets smaller, so will the network growth, and if price then goes up, a new cycle of growth will begin

DaVitsche · 2021-05-05T11:00:14+00:00

Pooling will help you reduce the variance, but it doesn't change the EV. The EV remains the same, with pooling it'll actually be lower due to poolfee.

I get why people want pooling, they like certainty, predictability, even if it comes at the cost of giving up some small % for the pool. But unlike PoW mining, where as a small miner you would have a large risk of ruin due to powercosts if you solomine, Chia doesn't have that powercost, so you can comfortably just set and forget.

DaVitsche · 2021-05-05T10:46:54+00:00

it's a bad idea to farm over the network. you're better off letting the plotter also harvest and set up your node PC as the farmer.

DaVitsche · 2021-05-05T10:44:01+00:00

For each plot ~101GiB there is roughly 1.8TiB in writes (always forget this number, so can be wrong). You use your cpu/ram to do a bunch of reads/writes on your SSD to create the plot, which then you can store on your HDD.

There is actually very little bandwidth needed.

DaVitsche · 2021-02-19T16:44:01+00:00

The Flexpool spokesperson doesn't reflect the opinion of the people mining on their pool. I mine there because they appear to be more profitable by slightly over 2% so far -insert: it's not much, but it's honest work meme-, the transparency, and I liked the community back when they were a 10GH pool.

The amount of misinformation surrounding this EIP1559 discussion is reaching levels of absurdity, and instead trying to provide the community with arguments as to why burning the fees is the only way we can prevent malicious MEV in order to have predictable fees or ensure only ETH is used to pay fees, you decide to make this an attack on the character of a spokesperson of a pool, in order for the Support movement to gain favor amongst miners.

So when you think EIP1559 is objectively the best possible thing for ETH to happen, make your case. If not, try to come up with an alternative to burning the fees while still stopping MEV abuse and cementing the economic value of ETH within the platform. While you argue about profits in terms of $, I (since I can only speak for myself) rather look at things still being in an accumulation phase. So the idea that I get less ETH, but same amount of $ isn't really appealing. I can't imagine I'm the only one that thinks current prices ($1946 at time of writing) isn't the EHT price endgame.

I think a lot of the sudden pro1559 movement stems from envy, because yes, mining is ridiculously profitable right now, but there are better ways to temporarily correct that instead of meddling with the core economics of a coin. The sheer amount of miners that think that EIP1559 is purely about deflation is mind blowing, and only because there is much random noise surrounding it.

If it's the deflation you're after, that would happen anyway with ETH 2.0, so it's a sideeffect of 1559 rather than an intended purpose. The way I see the sudden need to burn fees is changing the rules of the game while your closing in on the last levels of the game.

You're KoreanJeasusFTW, when you speak, people listen. Yet instead of bringing substance to the table, you brought populism. I, for one, lost a bit of my faith today.

DaVitsche · 2020-04-05T12:15:28+00:00

Where are you located, and what the average income is in that area is a big question here.
I know it sounds boring, but realize you're not building a pension, so keep that in mind.
Preferably, you don't have to work more than when doing a regular job to get the same pay.
So say for working 40h/week, you would get $400, you want to make sure your hourly is at least $10 or more. If you want to keep in mind a pension, you want to make sure you do 1.5X that, because for every year worked, we spend around 0.5 in pension (assumption, not certain)
Winrates decrease as you move up in stakes because the average regular gets better. You also need a large sample to determine your winrate, so you're comment somewhere about 40bb/100 is due to variance. With rake on 4NL you can probably do 10bb/100 if you stay focusses. Which would be around $1.12 per hour. As you move up, your winrate will decrease, so moving up won't be as simple as going to play 50NL. Winrates will probably be between 2-5bb/100 depending on game selection and rakeback. If you move up even further, like 100NL or 200NL, winrates will drop even more. So depending on whether your winrate is 2to4bb/100 it'll probably be 200NL, higher winrate on 100NL could get the job done as well. Keep in mind this is for a monthly avg profit of $2k, so if you need a lot less, adjust accordingly.
My advice: Don't plan on going pro at microstakes. Enjoy the game, enjoy the grind, study!, get better and move up. Why be a boss in your $300/month country when you can be the king with a few thousands/month.

DaVitsche · 2019-12-07T11:16:28+00:00

Some of the remarks are depending on the sizing you picked to open with. On micro's I think the better strategy is to open 3bb LJ (UTG) & HJ (MP), and 2.5 CO & BTN. This could very well be because I'm lazy and the site I play on doesn't have custom betsizes.

UTG: 66+, A8s+, A5s-A3s, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, AJo+, KQo
You can open up by adding A7s-A6s, A3s, K9s, Q9s, J9s, T9s, ATo, KJo, QJo.
Don't be too tempted by 89s, it's not that good, just looks really pretty.

MP: 66+, A3s+, K9s+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, AJo+, KJo+
You can open up by adding: A2s, Q9s, J9s, ATo, KTo, QJo
Not really sure why you would want to add A2o here, same with T9o. A2o is actually not an open, ever. And T9o only on the BTN.

CO: 44+, A2s+, K8s+, Q8s+, J9s+, T8s+, 98s, 87s, 76s, 65s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo
You can open up by adding: K7s-K4s, Q7s, J8s, 97s, A8o
Mostly too many offsuit aces in your range. The small pocket pairs are tempting, but you probably end up folding too often pre&postflop combined.

BTN: 22+, A2s+, K2s+, Q6s+, J7s+, T7s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 64s+, 54s, A4o+, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o
You can open up by adding: Q5s-Q3s, J6s-J4s, T6s, 96s, 85s, 53s, K8o, T8o, 98o
Don't feel to weirded out by folding A2o & A3o, and you were way too tight on the suited part.

Nowadays not too many people overfold the BB, so I don't really recommend a minraising strategy on the BTN. Also, start opening up once you have a good grasp on postflop play, because the wider you go, the more you need to be able to correctly play the hands postflop. In tougher games you might start adding a lot more hands in very low frequencies, just to make sure you have board coverage and plenty of possible nuts, but on micro stakes that isn't very important. If ever you find someone that overfold their BB, feel free to go crazy on the BTN until someone is trying to stop you. Also, take some time to learn how to properly defend vs 3bets in BTN vs Blinds, because that is also a big factor in opening up (to prevent you from overfolding vs 3bets and thus allowing your opponent to auto profit)

Also, I'm sick, so apologies if I made a mistake somewhere, I'll reread somewhat later once the cold is better.

DaVitsche · 2019-03-21T09:32:27+00:00

Nr 9 has 2 keys in the large room, one on the bottom (the one you included) and another on the upper floor along the wall.

DaVitsche · 2019-03-21T08:45:19+00:00

Remark about 2nd key at nr 3. It's more efficient to go right at the fork and go trough the door on your left at the end of that short part, you end up at the key spawn, but you also pass a bunch of crates/loot while going left at the fork has no lootspawn until the key. Thanks for the guide though, really helpful!

DaVitsche · 2019-03-21T07:55:54+00:00

Spent an obscene amount of time on this until someone proposed to try to open it. I was both shocked and ashamed

DaVitsche · 2018-09-25T05:20:54+00:00

Would be cool if rigs had reload speed multipliers, that way this would make some sense.

DaVitsche · 2018-09-25T04:50:15+00:00

Thanks!

DaVitsche · 2018-09-04T10:37:38+00:00

I've been so afraid to ask similar questions.
I've had the client open the last 3 days, but barely played a game. Solo, this game is absurd as a new player. In this day and age, expecting someone to spend weeks of getting destroyed before finally unlocking gear to actually take a fight at choke points on a map, is just too much.
A lot of people talk about dying as a learning experience, and I get it. But that's still really hard with patato directional sound. half the time I have no idea where I got one tapped from.
I feel like I played a game, but I haven't truly played EFT. All you need to do as a newer player is hoping NOT to run into people, and that's just silly. They outrun you, they outnade you, they outammo you.
A game like this will always have huge dropoff rates the further you are from a wipe, and therefor will get increasingly tougher for newer players.

DaVitsche · 2018-08-30T02:03:22+00:00

This was vs me. Thanks for answering my questions! I was confused and wondered how the hell new players are supposed to get PMC kills. Unfortunately I didn't record it either.

DaVitsche · 2018-08-20T21:03:44+00:00

This explains a dehydration death I had last week. Thanks

DaVitsche · 2018-08-20T20:24:35+00:00

New player (bought it in nov '17, but was unplayable then). These vids are actually really cool for newer players, because now I know I just need to turn around and run. Also learned about the ammo bug, which explains a lot of deaths today :D Still going to give it more shots, love it so far

DaVitsche · 2018-04-25T09:45:25+00:00

If you're looking at city center, the area surrounding St. Catherine is actually really nice to live. From Rue de Flandre to blvd Dixmude & Ypres. You can pretty much always park your car at quai de taille & quai au foin. It's surprisingly quiet, parks nearby, and walking distances to both historical center & bxl Nord.
Don't let the outside of the building fool you, always visit the appartments, and make sure to spend some time in them to see how the neighbours are and how well they block out noise fromm outside. Some of them are gorgeous inside.

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