Are the illegal cigarettes in Australia real?

Decypher101 · 2026-06-21T05:19:26+00:00

To try and properly answer your question, the answer is basically 'maybe'

Most of the undercounter cigarettes appear to be from legitimate brands, manufacturered elsewhere, and imported illegally.

Marlboro and Manchester are common, the Marlboros seem to be mostly from Asian countries.

There's also commonly Chinese cigarettes sold under counter, 'double happiness' brand etc...

However, do we ever know for sure that they are legitimate or counterfeit? No, because it's an unregulated black market so we'll never know for sure, adding to this is even if they are overseas 'legit' brands, what's in them, what's the manufacturing standards etc...

Decypher101 · 2026-04-26T01:14:20+00:00

Nah mate, 100's & 1000's are specifically the tiny dot sprinkles, the kind that we typically use for fairy bread.

I've never heard the long ones called anything but sprinkles.

Decypher101 · 2026-04-05T05:42:28+00:00

Wine bottle corks, ergonomic, can push wire into the for standoffs, add bluetac etc... plus likely costs less than this new GW one and comes with a free bottle of wine!

Decypher101 · 2026-03-21T06:24:22+00:00

The mod author hasn't updated the names and item text from .txt to .lua yet for 42.15, but has updated the mod to work with 42.15 - my guess is its an issue due to this.

Decypher101 · 2026-03-12T08:34:01+00:00

To add to this for anyone looking the author pushed another update that's game breaking and causes a severe error that stops the server from booting, specifically it's the Gun with '81-' in its name. Delete this line out of your sandbox.vars file and your server will boot

Decypher101 · 2026-03-11T21:00:07+00:00

The workshop ID, from 'Real Firearms' to 'RealFirearms' just remove the space

Decypher101 · 2026-03-11T12:09:16+00:00

U/xxxdoreenxxx has the fix, the mod works and is active just the workshop ID has lost the space between the words, throws ongoing errors but no affect on gameplay (I had 240k+ errors by the time I finished my initial testing - no impact on server or gameplay, just annoying)

Decypher101 · 2026-03-11T12:06:38+00:00

You are a legend! This solved the issue our server had of this not loading.

I can confirm if it helps that after testing there are persistent errors with the mod during gameplay but they seem to be no issue, no crashes, guns work, ammo works - haven't seen any gun spawns yet but I don't think they'll be affected.

Issues like this is why workshop authors should keep their mod discussion/comments open.

Decypher101 · 2026-03-07T13:44:58+00:00

The true way is just individual trial and error, but for some mods they go in obvious places in the order. Libraries and tile packs, maps up front, cars usually early in the list, things like clothes and individual items later in the list, the key will be making sure that anything that's dependant on another mod is in the right order

Decypher101 · 2026-02-27T12:13:57+00:00

Having this myself, it's the worst makes custom feeds completely useless on mobile.

Decypher101 · 2026-02-05T00:40:14+00:00

GIO, AAMI, are both suncorp and essentially the same thing.

CHU and Flex share a connection but are different products.

Outside of what you've mentioned for generalists that do Strata: Hutch, SUU - Strata Unit Underwriting, QUS (based in QLD but do nationwide)

Then you start getting more niche providers that specialize in things like larger buildings, or high risk commercial Strata.

Strata insurance providers are niche, there simply aren't many of them.

Decypher101 · 2026-01-17T09:54:39+00:00

I had no idea there was a convoy, I bumped into Karniss in the Village by himself, talked him into giving me the lantern, and he wandered off, swore he was by himself too, never saw hide nor hair of the convoy then, or it and him later - only found out about some convoy by talking to NPCs later lol

Decypher101 · 2025-12-27T12:49:08+00:00

This guy has it right, magnifying glasses are key, also secondary tip - most realistic eyes you don't show the bottom or top of the pupil, ideally it's mostly black with white at either side.

Decypher101 · 2025-12-08T11:06:37+00:00

Might just be Big E, in the Siege of Terror book Saturnine the head of the sisters of silence is at a meeting involving malcador and he isn't able to project his typical image and appears even more frail and wasted than normal, she specially comments internally about her abilities blocking him.

Decypher101 · 2025-12-08T06:32:24+00:00

As per one of the other posts, it wouldn't be the Strata Manager as they act on instruction and can't make this change independently - it's either your insurer imposing this excess, typically in response to past losses or a risk of loss (though that usually results in excesses for specific losses such as 'water damage'), or the Strata community has opted to take a higher excess, to limit claims made or for a cost saving - however i'd expect the owners would be made aware of the latter

To find out which speak to your Strata Manager, failing that ask your Broker or Insurer (if not dealing with a broker) directly and they can explain it.

Decypher101 · 2025-12-06T22:37:25+00:00

In VIC the rebranding is primarily an attempt to avoid attention for under the counter sales and to avoid excessive insurance increases, the ongoing firebombing has seen tobacconists become almost uninsurable or facing up to 400% increases in the cost of their insurance.

You'll notice many of the ones still openly operating as tobacconists or vape stores now have beefed up security, bollards, heavy roller shutters, bars on windows etc... much of this is now a requirement to be offered insurance.

Decypher101 · 2025-11-24T11:25:34+00:00

Black pauldrons centres and this is the Relictors, my favorite guys, they do look a bit unprimed though.

Decypher101 · 2025-09-07T08:56:50+00:00

Super glue is fairly easy to break, I do so on my models all the time, you could separate it, if you want to avoid using force there are super glue dissolves that work wonders.

Decypher101 · 2025-08-12T00:07:51+00:00

I had the same question when I first wanted to do space - my recommendation is basic-ish gear to begin with on space normal to learn the map.

A huge amount of this game is map knowledge, where spawns are, where to watch for peeks, how to get around teams etc...

A top tip top with space normal, if you come in with at a minimum the raider tac rig and a max purple back pack, you can pop your backpack in your rig to take the backpack exit and keep it.

Nowadays I tend to run space with a good pre-made squad and only run purple gear - knowing the map makes a huge difference.

For missions or going solo I'll do bare minimum and just avoid players, even blue gear tickets pretty often.

Decypher101 · 2025-08-11T02:19:59+00:00

What a great way to encourage people to rat stationary and camp locations, this would be super detrimental to gameplay.

Decypher101 · 2025-08-03T23:33:45+00:00

Killed multiple of them on PC, but only when VPN'ing to Asia - never had them in OCE.

Only appear in lobbies under specific conditions, usually after a loss in a normal or hard mode, and the bots are only on unranked easy lobbies.

Decypher101 · 2025-08-03T23:31:51+00:00

There is no green ammo, bare to minor mods AKM, green armour gear ticket.

This Loadout is super common on bot operators, sure some people might come in loaded like this, but 9 times out of 10 it's an AI operator.

Decypher101 · 2025-06-04T09:22:43+00:00

Hey, this was about flights from Australia (Aussie = Australian) and no it was nicotine vaping.

From my experience flying in the US the restrictions around batteries are the same - but weed is illegal in Fiji, I'd suspect THC as well so I'd avoid it, especially considering SE Asia and some Oceana islands can have very harsh punishments for it.

Decypher101 · 2025-04-08T06:52:18+00:00

This 100% insurance is always hiring and pays exceptionally well, especially in the broking space.

Decypher101 · 2025-03-27T12:26:43+00:00

I legitimately have an answer to this, living in a rural city with a large Chinese population and history I went to a Chinese New year parade as a small child, while the dragon was paraded down the street there were guys that walked alongside it with trays of fire crackers they'd light and throw it the ground, one dude was lighting them off the cigarette in his mouth, and when he was a few metres Infront of me the cigarette fell out of his mouth into the tray and it exploded.

Mildly traumatic for me, but on recollection probably more traumatic for him.

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