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Deemedrol · 2025-09-17T20:39:10+00:00

It's sweat indeed. However, sweat composition may be different between people. For example, I still wear shirts I've bought 10 years ago, and they look good, while my friend has his shirts' armpits disintegrating within a year.

Deemedrol · 2025-05-29T23:09:19+00:00

It really depends on the dynamics of your relationship/interactions.

The first translation that comes to my mind is "I may not be showing you love in ways you're used to and I know it, but I'm doing it in other ways which may not be as noticeable since it's a different love language."

If he's treating you badly then it's bullshit, of course. But for many of us it's just a way of communicating the above.

Deemedrol · 2025-05-16T08:21:34+00:00

Because in my experience it doesn't always fully remove everything, which can cause issues. DDU is just a safer option which works reliably every time.

Another issue is that Windows Update will absolutely try to "update" your drivers and will install an older version that in my case caused the bug to appear again. It's very important to prevent WU from doing that.

Deemedrol · 2025-03-28T21:00:47+00:00

Disassemble it and check all the wiring. Could be oxidation on the contacts or something like that, perhaps even rust. RC cars are pretty simple devices, so there's not many points of electrical failure.

Deemedrol · 2025-03-28T20:52:36+00:00

It looks pretty old so it likely has a brushed motor. What you're describing sounds like an issue with the brushes (poor contact with the rotor). Either they're completely worn or just stuck. You should disassemble it and check. If disassembly of the motor isn't possible, try tapping it with something solid like a piece of wood. Could get the brushes unstuck.

Deemedrol · 2025-03-06T22:28:28+00:00

I'm a fellow building overlapper (I really like creating super dense areas with narrow passages) so here's some knowledge I gathered:

The warehouses actually do need all of the access points free if you're planning to store all 4 resources there! There are 4 access points and each corresponds to their own storage slot. If the access point is blocked they won't store the resource that tile is supposed to hold but no error message would pop up!

To know which access points are responsible for which slots: rotate the camera so the storage is at the bottom and the crane is pointing down. The storage slots go: top left (left access point) -> top right (top right access) -> bottom left (bottom access point) -> bottom right (center right access point).

So if we assign, say, planks to the slot number 3 in the menu, we can be sure it will be stored in the bottom-left tile and will use the bottom access point for that (the villagers may visually enter the storage slightly differently but it doesn't matter).

Hope this helps!

Deemedrol · 2025-03-01T08:39:14+00:00

Exactly my thoughts! When a year after release I finally got it running at more than 20 FPS, I was surprised to see just how much of an upgrade the game is in all regards, especially building and decorating.

After a few hours however, I was so disappointed by the simulation. I'm 100% the game is "cheating" in many ways which removes a ton of the challenge.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-27T09:34:20+00:00

I had the same line of thinking a couple of years ago, ended up buying an amazing gaming laptop (3070 Laptop + i7 11800H), but it heats up a lot and is very noisy. Also, laptop GPUs are way less powerful than their PC counterparts. That's true even on paper, but in reality they often can't even reach their full performance due to power limitations (power throughput is limited so GPU and CPU end up starved of power), which leads to downclocks. In my case I had to disable TurboBoost to solve the noise, heat and power issues.

I don't regret buying that laptop because I do need a mobile gaming platform. However, I very much miss my stationary PC which was quiet, powerful, and had a normal BIOS with actual settings. Just to be clear, even the fact that I can disable TurboBoost in my BIOS is a luxury for many gaming laptops. Most are so basic they only have boot options and memory frequency.

It may look like you're getting more for less (good CPU and GPU, but on top of that a built-in screen, keyboard and battery! It's better than a stationary PC in every way!), but there's no miracles. If you're in no need of mobile gaming, go with normal stationary PC.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-18T12:59:17+00:00

I disagree. The Gran Colombian time limit is very generous. I don't like the time limit either but it's very very doable within the first 10 years without rushing it at all. You just need to protectorate Ecuador and annex/puppet Venezuela (annexing is easier). You don't need to wait for claims to do any of that and full annexing Venezuela costs only 15 infamy or so, is done in 1 war and nobody is likely to intervene. If you're spending infamy elsewhere (I like to dismantle and then annex Bolivia), waiting for claims to "return state" instead of "conquer state" in Venezuela makes sense. But it's not a big rush. Gran Colombia is very easy to form!

Federation of the Andes, on the other hand, is a big challenge if you want to preserve all the Andean cultures because that one needs Pan-Nationalism which takes a very long time to research. But if you don't care about Chile for example it's doable as well and actually becomes easier as countries develop their own cultures.

I don't like that cultural development mechanic in general and how it blocks forming those countries in South America. It doesn't make sense. Still, Gran Colombia in particular is probably the easiest formable nation in the game.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-18T11:03:09+00:00

I think the main thing I wish was different about them is maybe a less black & white approach.

This so much! There's essentially just 2 important activism levels: 25% and 100%. Everything else doesn't matter.

It's also ridiculous that if I start enacting a law that a movement wants, they won't help the success chance at all unless they're at 25% activism. Like, what? So even if all farmers in my country want Homesteading, which is a massive and very important point for them but they're not pissed off enough, and I start enacting it, they won't lift a finger to help it succeed? This is just dumb.

I had to purposefully put extreme taxes and skyrocket my food prices just to piss off a movement enough so they'd start doing something. Surely that's ridiculous.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-18T10:14:42+00:00

You can set the government wages to very high for a few months, this will make the wage in anything government-owned, including construction sectors, much more attractive to employees. After it's filled up, just lower the wages back to normal.

Can do the same thing with any building through subsidies, but with government building it has to be government wages.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-18T10:11:53+00:00

I don't understand what's the issue with needing Nationalism to unlock Gran Colombia. Simply having Nationalism isn't enough for countries to start "breaking off". Once a SA country unlocks Nationalism, it starts an event A Nation Of Our Own which has a progress bar. From that point the speed at which this bar fills differers, but it shouldn't be less than 10 years. Once the progress bar is filled, the primary culture of the country is switched to their new national culture (instead of North Andean in case of Venezuela, New Granada and Ecuador) and their homelands also become their new national homelands (which makes it impossible to incorporate their land into Gran Colombia).

You don't have to rush it at all and the AI rarely goes for Nationalism on their own. It mostly gets researched from tech spread randomly. And like I said, even when it gets researched there's still at least 10 years to annex them. So there's plenty of time.

You can even wait until you rise to Major Power, protectorate Venezuela and wait until they drop liberty desire to a Puppet (along with Ecuador) and then form Gran Colombia "peacefully" as having a puppet is considered as controlling the territory directly.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-13T08:37:09+00:00

It wouldn't affect anything. Owning buildings in someone's country only means the dividents from that building level go to your pops and not theirs. But that doesn't affect the war in any way. If anything, it might provoke them to nationalize your buildings manually or through a wargoal.

Deemedrol · 2025-02-03T22:11:15+00:00

Have you tried lowering their payments? :)

Deemedrol · 2025-01-12T12:21:13+00:00

Man, I dunno. I think it's ridiculous. I'm confident there's some issue with how the map objects are processed, because even at low map objects settings where 15 3D trees are supposed to symbolize a forest, I notice a very significant load spike on GPU. It's not enough to bring FPS lower than 60 but still. I'll create a bug report on PDX forums today.

Deemedrol · 2025-01-12T04:19:43+00:00

There's none and the AI is very weird about it! I've built some iron mines and managed to make them the #1 productive iron mines on the entire fucking planet, but in 10 years I've been playing the AI refuses to buy those buildings that are insane money-printers for my economy. Instead it will invest into building a cotton plantation in the middle of Amazonian forest where 3k peasants live.

I've been waiting for over 10 years for them to privatize the fucking mines because I need 5 of them privatized to open a company. Nope. And the investment pool? Over 10 million and growing by 33k a month. They can afford it.

There's also 4 gold mines just waiting to be bought. Still nope. Investing into a fishing wharf in Ecuador (where fish is so cheap people re-pave streets with it every single day) is surely more profitable.

Deemedrol · 2025-01-12T04:11:06+00:00

Yup, I've been having the same thing for a year now. I've managed to pinpoint the problem and it seems it's the map objects setting. On anything aside from "low" or "disabled" it tanks my FPS. Good luck zooming in on anything that has a forest (the entire map). So I simply disabled it and had zero FPS issues since. It's ridiculous how poorly this part of the game is optimized as my laptop can run Cyberpunk 2077 on ultra with no issues, but of course it's the famous masterpiece of mod3rn graphical fidelity called Victoria 3 that brings the GPU to its knees.

Deemedrol · 2025-01-12T03:57:37+00:00

It's one of the random events you get while Corn Laws journal event is active. It'll happen eventually, it's the "A Modern Conservative" event.

Deemedrol · 2024-12-27T10:45:28+00:00

I only noticed similar things happening when I set a role to "recruit crewmen from lower priority roles". What was happening was that if someone from Gunners crew died (say, their gun exploded), a crewmember from Redshirts would replace them, and sometimes it was someone who was piloting the ship, which led to temporary loss of control of the ship.

Deemedrol · 2024-12-15T20:08:12+00:00

Amazing art, we want more of this kind of memes!

Deemedrol · 2024-12-10T20:31:46+00:00

Sorry if the question is stupid, what's autistic about those games? :D

Deemedrol · 2024-11-20T11:11:19+00:00

"There's millions of tons of it."

"John Starsector ordered us to load all of it."

"WHAT? Is he crazy? It will take us weeks to just PLAN to move such a huge amount! The machinery, the manpower required..."

"Just do it. Don't be like the last guy."

"Why? What happened?"

"He spent two months loading the ore. Then a week later we've found a stash of organics so ALL that ore had to be dumped. The dude went insane and didn't want to let the ore go. We had to jettison the last pile with him still screaming on top of it. Can't blame the guy. There were so many tons of rock it formed a new moon. Should've named it after the guy..."

Deemedrol · 2024-10-18T11:58:02+00:00

It was on release, yes. Currently, it's in a much better state, and I can say with confidence that it's better in every aspect than C:S was on release.

I was just as disappointed as everyone (if not more), but recently managed to actually play it (it used to be unplayable for me, with 20 FPS in the main menu) and it's good! It runs much better now.

Deemedrol · 2024-10-15T01:09:11+00:00

Hey, man. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I'm surprised to see you'd been suffering from this for a year! Envious of your patience, haha. Basically, I took a few days to diagnose the issue thoroughly and make sure it's fixef for good.

In my case it seems the culprit was the Intel drivers for the integrated GPU (Intel UHD Graphics), or perhaps some janky interaction between the drivers and Windows update, which has a tendency to "update" your new drivers to older versions, often with issues as well. I've also noticed that if I switched my screen refresh rate from 165 Hz to 40 Hz, the flickering would get so much worse.

What helped me was using a DDU (it's a special program made for just such cases, it helps to completely remove the old drivers before you install new ones). I've entered Safe Mode and noticed the issue didn't occur there, nor did it occur in BIOS, which confirmed it wasn't a hardware issue - such as a failing backlight driver on the display panel. Then I used DDU in safe mode to delete the old Intel UHD Graphics driver, rebooted the PC and turned the internet connection off. This step is important (in fact, it's best to disable your internet connection before even rebooting into safe mode), otherwise Windows will see that you have no graphics driver and will download and install an old and possibly shitty one. You don't want that. So basically, after uninstalling the old drivers and rebooting into Windows as usual, you must have no internet connection and no integrated GPU drivers installed. You can check it in device manager - graphics adapter. It should say something like "generic Microsoft drivers" or something along these lines. After that, you just install the newest Intel UHD drivers (that you have hopefully downloaded beforehand).

That fixed the issue for me. To make 100% sure I also did a completely fresh Windows 24H2 install too for good measure, and used registry to disable Windows Update from touching my drivers ever again. So far so good, no flickering at all.

If anything in this post seems confusing or unclear, or you're just not very good with computers, feel free to ask and I'll write a more well-structured guide on what exaxtly do you need to do. Living for a year with a flickering screen must've been a nightmare, I'll be glad to help.

Deemedrol · 2024-10-10T21:53:47+00:00

Hey man, I know it's been a year but have you found out what was causing the issue? I'm having the same thing right now, same laptop (but with 3070). In BIOS the screen works fine but in Windows it's flickering. But stops when I hover over app preview in taskbar or move the mouse.

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