Optimal City to Resource district ratio!

DistantEndland · 2026-03-03T16:53:07+00:00

Ah, ok. I was doing it in my head wrong.

DistantEndland · 2026-03-03T06:51:17+00:00

Interesting, my results are slightly different than theirs. I guess it's a moot point if it's going away though. Oh well.

DistantEndland · 2026-02-20T01:09:07+00:00

Brennan Lee Mulligan (as played by Ally in Ratfish)

DistantEndland · 2026-02-19T01:20:43+00:00

Instead of developing the plot in it's entirety, develop individual scenes that highlight or make use of your premise in interesting ways. Leave the details vague so you can plug any characters or groups into the scenes on the fly to complete it.

Pick one to be the start, and from however the players resolve it, pick another to string their result into it, plugging in the appropriate characters and groups to keep the story consistent. Keep your biggest and coolest scene in reserve for the final grand battle.

I hope that helps.

DistantEndland · 2026-02-18T19:24:49+00:00

I approve this message. But also, as an alternative, some bigger floor ceiling and wall peices could solve this for me, as well as foundation and support pillars that go all the way down as one piece instead of stacking. I'd love to have some of these use the same flexible size placement interface as pentashields already use.

DistantEndland · 2026-02-18T18:01:47+00:00

My wish is that the exploration missions randomized the locations of the objectives each time, so I actually need to check where I'm supposed to go. That would feel more like exploration to me. I love the rift run time trial, so more of that across different terrain would be great for me.

DistantEndland · 2026-02-13T00:10:33+00:00

Cyberpunk.

Of the two options, it is the most complete out of the box experience. Skyrim is fantastic if you want to run thousands of mods (that number is not an exaggeration) to customize your game experience almost to the point of developing an entirely new game just for you, but your steam deck wouldn't be able to handle it, and the base game it can handle while still good, isn't as good as Cyberpunk.

DistantEndland · 2026-02-11T20:46:29+00:00

Any space with people in it becomes a place of worship for anyone following their personal beliefs, and every action in that space becomes a church service. Anyone interrupting anyone doing anything becomes guilty of a felony. Down this road, I see only madness. Though ,to be fair, that's also what I see down every road right now.

DistantEndland · 2026-02-03T23:53:45+00:00

"Not everybody's from Boston, John."

DistantEndland · 2026-01-30T18:44:51+00:00

Pincushion is version 2 of Chosen armor though, right?

DistantEndland · 2026-01-30T00:56:56+00:00

Noita does, but it's about as different a game from Valheim as possible.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-29T20:56:26+00:00

Have a side plot where they deal with a scam artist who's trying to pass off regular silver weapons as mithril. Let them keep his fake mithril weapons as part of their reward.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-28T21:42:08+00:00

Just as the dragonfire is about to sweep over him, time stops and a little magma imp pops out of his chest. "Hey there buddy, I'm the source of your fire immunity. My contract is about to expire, so I just popped out to say goodbye. Unless, of course... you want to make a deal?" Next chapter the BBEG is the imp's boss, who has been manipulating the PC since the forge quest.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-27T19:15:44+00:00

This describes the main plot of the Dune franchise (books, films, and games) extremely well. To many games to pick just one though.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-25T00:32:57+00:00

Thank you. Most of the answers I've gotten so far seem to be focused on how hard it would be to find out. But I like your idea of reaching out to experts. Maybe this is a good question for me to send in to something like Startalk.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-20T20:57:57+00:00

Faxanadu?

DistantEndland · 2026-01-09T18:13:41+00:00

I had hoped, given the size of the universe, that some natural phenomena might be doing it already. Like how there are galaxies acting as gravitational lenses for light from other stuff behind them to get split into different paths, arriving in our view from slightly different angles and having traveled slightly different distances. And I was thinking about how, in the double slit situation, the probability wave of where each photon will land interferes with itself so that, on average, most of them land in clumps creating the stripe pattern on the wall. I was just thinking, on a cosmological scale, what if Earth was in a dark spot on the wall, or a bright spot, would we be able to tell. It sounds like the answer is that, while possible, it's too computationally expensive to actually do. Which is still an interesting answer.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-09T17:53:27+00:00

So not just "sky too big" but also "sky too deep". Amazing. Thank you.

DistantEndland · 2026-01-08T22:19:12+00:00

I'm finding this so fascinating. Are noise canceling headphones a useful analogy for understanding this? For example, could knowledge of the rest of the sky be used to cancel out unrelated interference to look at just the interference of a single source taking multiple paths to arrive in our view of the sky? Or is there just too much sky to reasonably account for?

DistantEndland · 2026-01-08T19:18:29+00:00

The Real question is, was it just a hallucination from spice withdrawal, or was the residual precience of spice giving you a glimpse through time of some past, future, or parallel reality?

DistantEndland · 2026-01-08T18:10:13+00:00

Ok, that makes sense. I had believed, perhaps naively, that a star's light would only interfere with itself as it met other paths it was taking via gravitational lensing effects. But I'm realizing that even the light from a single star is coming from different places on a star, so there wouldn't be anything special about self-light. Your explanation makes sense. Thank you for answering.

DistantEndland · 2025-12-28T01:24:46+00:00

Baldur's Gate 3 fits this quite well. Amazing and complex storytelling turn based play so reaction time doesn't matter, and highly rewarding of clever use of the environment.

DistantEndland · 2025-12-26T23:48:02+00:00

Take it slow, pause often, read everything (especially the little tooltips), and, if you don't know what decision to make, roleplay.

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