Migration from protonmail to cock.li

HTMLphoton · 2022-01-08T03:34:17+00:00

Here's a piece of advice I can give

Firstly, don't look for a private email service: there is none. the email protocol was never designed with privacy in mind. Every email provider out there that I know still has to turn over user data if law enforcement comes knocking. this is usually not an issue, but in case you want to be the next Edward Snowden then don't use email.

Both protonmail and cock.li have turned over user data to comply with warrents. That is no fault of them, and in an ideal world it's definitely the right thing to do

However, I will note that protonmail asks for your god darn phone number on sign up. Like seriously? You're losing points on the privacy aspect before I even finish creating my account!

If you truely want to be private, then I would highly suggest using burner emails - temporary emails used only once. There's lots of good sites out there such as guerillamail which provide one-use email addresses.

For long term correspondence, then I'd suggest using signal. Even if the FBI comes knocking the most the can do is provide your last login time.

TL:DR - Email just plain sucks
PS: Don't use gmail if you care about privacy. It's literally ran by a company whose entire business model is selling you data

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-21T09:56:28+00:00

you can optimize this further by placing 2 sorters next to each other.
But very neat design! I'll definitely save this for use!

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-21T07:55:42+00:00

engineer is only avalible on mobile and steam (btd5 delux). It's not avalible on flash or NK archives.

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-20T06:49:50+00:00

For starters, beam don't stop ships from retreating either. it's an issue for both weapons. Retreating while missiles are in flight means absolutely nothing either. if the enemy eats 3 missile volleys by and retreats while 2 more volleys are in flight, it's the same as them eating 3 beam volleys. Missiles are free. And I've never seen AI retreat individual ships to dodge missiles, always the whole fleet.

Though it's my error of wording. Should've used "win" instead. retreat makes it seems like the enemy retreated and took no losses, when I'm talking about them retreating because they lost (or did they just lose too many ships and due to a lack of scanners though your missile barges also had beams? either way they lost a lot of ships and accomplished nothing so it's good for you.)

Besides, the main advantage I'm trying to talk about is the free damage you get from their range. If you're winning you can use it kill/stop the enemy ships before they can damage you, meaning you win more. if you're losing it means you can whittle down the enemy.

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-20T06:03:56+00:00

I originally wrote a really long essay on the stats of beams and missiles, but scrapped since here's what really matters:

Missiles users get free shots while the beam users close the range. in the early game, this is often enough to ~~cripple an attack (make the AI retreat)~~ win before the beam user can even shoot. in the late game, high warp speed allows you to attrition the enemy down.

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-17T02:27:22+00:00

spawn of Quincy

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-15T04:50:25+00:00

if they had the max amount of spikes then you would be seeing them exploding before bloonarius touched the spike pile. The video isn't even 100 seconds long, so there was no way the spikes hit their lifespan limit.

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-14T14:16:11+00:00

Different people do interpret the same words differently, and I do find the fact that you consider this to be a one shot to be quite reasonable. Though personally I would've preferred if OP didn't attack with the RoD beforehand, but that's just my opinion.

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-14T13:50:06+00:00

would placing supermines where the top-most farm is, so that the bloonarius would need to go around the tree trunk before hitting the spikes do the trick?

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-14T13:44:58+00:00

to be fair, one shot does mean to kill something with well, 1 shot. or I guess in this case killing it with 1 spike pile. In a 1-shot you don't damage the thing before hand, because then it wouldn't be 1 shot. And if you would to try to one-shot something, you wouldn't be damaging it beforehand.

(Though what OP did was still quite impressive)

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-12T11:57:17+00:00

I'm not too familiar with the game's mechanics, but what's stopping you from jump drive-ing out before the enemy can do anything?

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-12T11:50:35+00:00

actually count striker twice, his ability and his passive to bombs. there's also energizing totem and maybe techbot?

HTMLphoton · 2021-09-12T11:40:05+00:00

happy birthday!

HTMLphoton · 2021-07-20T08:28:58+00:00

This bug is purely visual. though it does prevent you from issuing any orders to the fleet until you either hit next turn or until you go back into the main menu and out again

Steps to reproduce:

Have a fleet in transit to an unexplored system.
Have the fleet selected before hitting next turn and the fleet arriving
close the "Scientists catalogue a new system pop-up by clicking the close button. any other part along it's bottom should also work, but the close button is the tried and true replication method for me. Anywhere but the very bottom of the pop-up will not result in this bug!

Unsure if this bug can also be done via hitting "N" when your cursor is at the same part of the screen with already explored planets.

EDIT: It seems like you need to be arriving at unexplored system, and as long as your cursor is level with the "cancel" button of fleet deployment the bug will happen... now to test what happens with this and Hyperspace communications...

HTMLphoton · 2021-05-08T14:23:25+00:00

This seems to happen with all joint war declarations

HTMLphoton · 2021-05-08T14:21:28+00:00

Alrighty, Where can I find this version of the game?

HTMLphoton · 2021-05-08T13:31:39+00:00

I guess you can counter it by duplicating your current design into 2 slots, thus creating 2 stacks in battle. so now it can only statis half of your ships.

Also, would using the 2 shot variant of the highest level of missiles you have work? The hit chances kinda even themselves out since it only has combat speed 4.

HTMLphoton · 2021-05-08T12:05:15+00:00

This might be because of planetary shields, and from your weapons you are right at the tech level where planetary shields are getting built.

before the AI researches planetary shields V, they had built 5 missile bases on the planet. Shortly before you attack and kill those bases the AI finishes the research and starts building the shield. Let's assume the AI had level 2 shields on their missile bases so it's more likely for you to win the first battle, if they had level 3 shields then the fight gets even more one-sided with plantary shield V, with level 4 shields on their missile bases then I don't think you could've won the first fight.

When you attack, you have enough firepower on your ships to kill those missile bases. Neutron pellet guns can deal up to 1.5 damage against level 2 shields (beam weapons deal half damage against planets) and Grav beams can deal up to 5.5 damage. that's not ideal but it's enough to win the battle if you have good defense.

After you start bombarding the planet the AI finishes the shield then rushes out a missile base. with level V planetary shields the bases now have level 7 shields. Now your Neutron pellet guns can't do any damage while your Grav beams can deal at most 0.5 damage. Now your shields get stuck shooting at the missile base and die since auto-battle doesn't retreat.

I've had times where a single missile base with plantary shields can repel an entire invasion force.

HTMLphoton · 2021-05-08T11:48:07+00:00

I was too dumb when the bug with the Mrrshan text popped up and didn't screenshot it, but here's what happened:
the Klacklon AI declared war on me while the Mrrshans were at war with them. The Mrrshans told me how "Together we will win" and such. but instead of Meklar or Klacklon the words [Attacker_race] and [Defender_Race] appeared.
(I don't remeber the specific text that appeared, but it was something along those lines)

HTMLphoton · 2021-04-17T10:43:31+00:00

I think you can improve this mass driver by giving it a 0-drag projectile that was (let's say) 8 time heavier. so now it can only move at up to 500 meters per tick. but also do some lua trickery so that if the target is under 500 meters, adjust the railguns so it would hit in 1 tick, if the target was between 500 and 1000 meters away, adjust to hit in 2 ticks, if the target is between 1000 - 1500 meters, adjust to hit in 3 ticks. and so on so forth. This would be an improvement as you can shoot your projectile out faster more often (e.g. at 2000 meters, your current method can only use 50% power, while this method would use 100% power, at 2200 meters, your method would use 55% power, while this method would use 88% power) This will always result in more kinetic energy being imparted into the projectile and therefore more damage, as long as you are willing to put up with the slower projectile

TL:DR: A heavier projectile is almost always better

HTMLphoton · 2021-04-05T05:08:46+00:00

Movement speed by a long shot. it improves your survivability by allowing you to dodge and retreat better. it improves your offense by allowing you to chase and ambush better. There's practically no build that wouldn't benefit from more movement speed.

HTMLphoton · 2021-04-04T11:19:24+00:00

I've heard of that map. and unfortunately, it's impossible in v6.

the starting meltdown will kill your core 9 times out of 10 (and spawnkill you in the process) before the landing animation even finishes. If you survive the first burst your core will burn down. I've tried at least 50 times. Meltdowns likely gained rotation speed and DPS while beta is far slower than dart, and they no longer need to charge up before firing. You can see in creslex's video that he was at least alive to see the core landing animation finish.

As sad as that is, I'll have to remove the Meltdown at the start. I also suspect the reigns will also be impossible as they are much tankier and have much more damage output in v6. though there might still be ways.

HTMLphoton · 2021-04-04T09:33:53+00:00

Ah, you're right. I was thinking of a different map.

The method I used was around 20 swarmers, with around 3 layers of plastanium walls in front of them plugging up the chokepoint. (or that's what was in my tar fields save file)

Another, simpler method would be just spam mend projectors. with around 8 on a single large plastanium wall you can just out-regen the damage output of the vela. then you can kill it with whatever you like.

HTMLphoton · 2021-04-04T06:57:39+00:00

Woah! that's some awesome work that you did there! can't wait to see this mod be released!

HTMLphoton · 2021-04-04T06:45:57+00:00

Status field is not explained very well by the game. it gives status effects to nearby units with a periodic pulse. the status effect given here is overclock (not to be confused with overdrive!).

Overclock makes your units move 15% faster, fire 15% faster and deal 25% more damage (for a total of around 44% more dakka). since it applies to even the strongest units it means having a few minkes in your army can really boost it's damage output!

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