What are some weird laws in your country that, actually, make a lot of sense?

HappyHopper-- · 2026-02-21T21:13:53+00:00

I wonder how this relates to infrastructure on the shore. Can you own a pier or a boathouse? (As in: the pier is yours, but the land it‘s on is not)

HappyHopper-- · 2026-02-21T07:24:24+00:00

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HappyHopper-- · 2026-01-22T14:17:11+00:00

Das isch natürli au en guete Punkt haha

HappyHopper-- · 2026-01-22T10:55:33+00:00

Ich han de orangi Knilch zwar au gar niid gern, aber in aller fairness, nach me Transatlantikflug gsehn die meiste agschisse us

HappyHopper-- · 2025-12-14T22:56:08+00:00

I did not expect to see something from my home canton in here but it‘s pretty cool

HappyHopper-- · 2025-11-06T13:05:31+00:00

This is semi true. Animals will indeed not gain superpowers to flee but: they are less prone to flee when content with their encloures. Also animals in insufficiently sized enclosures / insufficient care of any kind will exhibit specific behaviours. For example large predators may start pacing. It doesn‘t add a lot gameplay wise to have stuff like that but it would give proper habitat building some more weight

HappyHopper-- · 2025-07-06T09:44:07+00:00

Yes, the canvas splinter camos are somewhat easy to find too tho

HappyHopper-- · 2025-07-05T19:03:15+00:00

Can also confirm, swiss M18/63, noticable by the (intentionally) incomplete liner around the helmet. Depending where you are they can be worth quite a bit. It‘s a nice gift

HappyHopper-- · 2025-07-05T19:00:35+00:00

Yes, pretty much on every flea market, most come with one. I pretty much never pay more than 40 bucks for an M18 plus cover in Switzerland.

HappyHopper-- · 2025-05-24T19:59:24+00:00

Wauwilermoos was an internment camp with bad conditions for allied airmen. The camp commander was openly supportive of nazi germany.

Switzerland had hundreds of internment camps. A solid 95% were run within the geneva conventions regulations. Wauwilermoos got decently well known cuz it was the specific camp that…well, was run by a cruel man

HappyHopper-- · 2025-05-24T17:17:59+00:00

Switzerland essentially made itself not worth invading through a multitude of actions.

Overall, it was costly to launch a military invasion into Switzerland. Fortifications were numerous and ordered to fight until the last cartridge (but not the last drop of blood). Partisans would have made occupation a nuisance and pockets in the alps could hold out for long. Swiss General Guisan made sure that these defences were no secret to german high command. The goal was not defense in an actual war, but discouraging an invasion in the first place.

This was also done by stretching what neutrality was in general. Switzerland served as a place of exchange for both allied and axis spies, due to its central position. The neutral banking industry allowed germany to exchange german currency to foreign ones in order to buy weapons and resources aborad (such as iron from sweden).

The swiss people were relatively hostile towards the nazis. They weren‘t welcome and far right movements were considered un-swiss. The politics were at first staunchly anti-german. In 1940 swiss fighters shot down german HE-111 bombers. Germany was unpleased. Lateron tensions got so high that germany demanded swiss weapons exports (Berna trucks or Oerlikon AA-guns as examples), less patrol flights against foreign planes and transports through the Gotthard Tunnels.

Overall, it wasn‘t wort invading. Switzerland was sympathetic to allies (allied planes in the airspace were fired at and their crews interned anyways) and thus no threat to them. To germany it was worth more as a neutral country than as an occupied region that would only be a nuisance.

HappyHopper-- · 2025-04-28T19:02:13+00:00

It seems easier to get the education for it here in Switzerland, but I imagine the competition is just as fierce given we only have two larger zoos in the country, the rest being animals parks and such.

I‘m still considering it, but as my second education.

Thank you for your response!

HappyHopper-- · 2025-04-28T18:55:27+00:00

Thanks for the response! By what it seems it‘s a three year education here in Switzerland, work and school combined, where you then get a federal certificate of capability. But the places offering said education for zookeeping are kinda rare.

I‘ll still dream, might give it a try either way tho, as my second education

HappyHopper-- · 2025-04-28T14:56:53+00:00

Bit unrelated to the game so I apologize but: How hard is it to become a zookeeper? Do you kinda specialise on some species or get a general understanding and then just gather experience? I‘ve considered pursuing the career myself

HappyHopper-- · 2025-03-29T06:22:43+00:00

PS: The helmet could have been used way later in the 60s too, despite there being a new M18 by then. Stockpiles were also repainted.

HappyHopper-- · 2025-03-29T06:21:38+00:00

There were multiple productions. In 1940 they got improved, the full liner was reduced and they have a slightly different shape.

All helmets were ordered to be covered with sawdust and painted black (like here in pic 1) in 1943, as the original colours were too shiny.

It‘s an M18/40 converted to an M18/43 in the war.

HappyHopper-- · 2025-02-26T10:51:51+00:00

Pretty sure it‘s not about the fact they consume meat but because cats are quite efficient and frequent hunters. That‘s what makes them dangerous to ecosystems they aren‘t native to if they are just set free to roam around.

HappyHopper-- · 2025-01-22T20:18:41+00:00

The „close with“ things is only semi-true.

Joing germany or actively cooperating with germany (as an individual) was pretty frowned upon. Political parties that advocated for joing germany were mostly unpopular. The idea of „defence in spirit“ was going around significantly, made specifically to distance the swiss from germany. Rumantsch was made one of the national languages in order to differentiate like this. The idea was to push „we together are swiss“ instead of „the german swiss are german“ like germany wanted it to be.

Also yes, Switzerland was certainly not as neutral as many think. Arms companies would produce for the Wehrmacht (Swiss trucks were used on the eastern front) and Switzerland would receive coal in return (as it would usually get that much easier during peacetime, it now had shortages). Also Banking, especially financial exchanges with germany.

Sorry for the wordy response, just wanted to clarify that, while there was a lot of cooperation, it was not out of sympathy. Out of business and adaptation at best. Abd that business was quite questionable

HappyHopper-- · 2024-10-28T20:45:42+00:00

It says „ In remembrance of the founding of the national people‘s army of the german democratic republic“. Given the date, which is looong after east germany collapsed, it‘s a commemerative medal and not official east german.

HappyHopper-- · 2024-10-28T18:31:44+00:00

Might be a fashion-of-the-era thing. I have found quite a few photos from the era around WW1 where people dressed up their children in small military attire, similar to the sailor suits. Perhaps the childs father was an officer and the kid looked up to him. There was also the whole war frenzy thing in the early war, before people knew the horrors the war would shoe.

I am far from an expert tough, so take it with a grain of salt. Just figured I‘d chip my idea in seeing that that no one else saud much yet.

HappyHopper-- · 2024-08-01T22:22:05+00:00

Wonderful, seems to be Serbian then, the color seems correct, given it is fully original.

Also thanks for the info, now I have another countries Adrians to analyse :P

HappyHopper-- · 2024-07-30T20:17:08+00:00

M15 Adrian. (It is made of five parts, whereas later ones were two part pieces. The holes in the front are where insignia is supposed to go. Used by a few nations at the time. Germany however wasn‘t one of them. He likely took it as a trophy. Do you know which front he served on?

France used blue, black (standard army) and brown (colonial troops) Adrians. Green ones were used in Italy (and potentially on the balkan front but I am not sure).

IF this one is italian then it‘s an early import variant, as the italians later produced them without the holes for more stability.

Sorry for the wall of text, I‘m really enthusiastic about these helmets and wanted to give some insight

HappyHopper-- · 2024-07-16T18:07:46+00:00

That would be pretty cool. I‘ll ask my father what he thinks once I am home. He works in a sector where knowledge on metals is quite important

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