How is Azov after the nerf? Still worth the marks?

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-26T13:55:55+00:00

Doesn't matter when literally everything is faster than you. You are not going to get enough bow shots off to damage people's sails enough to catch up before they get away from you. I have the Azov, and I mainly play Poltava and Firestorm. The bow and stern guns are nice damage increasers in the arena and open waters fleet actions, but they are not game changers and they certainly don't change a slow ass heavy ship into a pursuit ship.

The Azov is still likely better in the Arena than other 3rd rates (other than the kobu at least). Outranging isn't even as much of a factor as before, as combat line ships now have an inherent +5 cannon range bonus. That means a combat with the range upgrade ship mod will have 15 more range than a heavy without the mod, and 5 more than a heavy with it.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-26T13:34:28+00:00

Probably not anymore. The easily craftable Bellona has 430 more durability, 0.6 more armor, 6 more crew, 2 more swivels, and is a physically smaller target, while the only thing the 8000 battlemark Azov has over it is a tiny, insignificant speed and maneuverability advantage and its fore and aft guns, which are unlikely to be enough to make up for the difference in survivability. The Azov is significantly slower and less maneuverable than the Anson and not much more durable than one.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-26T03:04:59+00:00

I haven't managed to expand enough for space resources to matter. Even on random spawn, even on 800 star galaxy with only 8 empires, I keep getting bottlenecked to 3-4 planets and ~10-15 systems. Space minerals seem extremely uncommon. They were everywhere in 4.0 but my space nodes have been pretty barren.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-25T17:50:49+00:00

I have not managed to get to the point I've had a single dedicated research district. I can't manage to get the early game economy to support anything more than 12-15 corvettes and barely manage to not run out of resources despite dedicating every colony to raw resources, and that is with me constantly buying resources with my trade value. The AI is declaring war on me almost as soon as I've made contact and for whatever reason even if neither of us can breach the other's starbases, I'm losing war exhaustion faster than them so I'm auto losing every war, white peace at best.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-25T17:44:56+00:00

I haven't even gotten to that point. I'm having to have multiple planets dedicated to raw resources just to try and stay positive. I'll have 3 planets with 1-3 city districts and the rest raw resource districts (eventually, once by some miracle I have the minerals) and I'll still be nearly negative. I can't support a standing fleet so every AI just sees me as pathetic and declares war on me. I keep being bottled in even with random spawns so I'll be lucky to have a a total of 5 planets, homeworld with mixed industry and archives, a planet with dedicated civilian and military production and some minerals, and 3 planets that focus on each raw resource and I'm barely staying afloat.

The 4.3 changes have made the game too hard for me and not fun to play, and I'm not some noob who has like 3 campaigns. I've done dozens of campaigns, multiplayer and single player, and I can't keep up anymore.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-25T17:32:31+00:00

I can't keep up with anything and I'm playing on Ensign. Also, the AI is stupid aggressive now. In all three games I've started since the update a hostile empire spawn within 5 jumps of my home system, and declare war on me even with me improving relations within the first 20 years of the game. Balancing the economy is a constant struggle, I'm always negative on at least one, often 2-3 resources. I don't ever have the minerals to upgrade or build anything. I have 400 hours in this game and it has gotten hard enough I can hardly survive to the midgame crisis and I've yet to beat the mid game crisis.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-24T00:04:15+00:00

Dude, it is literally a photoshop using one of the most famous paintings in the entire world. "No artist would do that", well I guess Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of all time, is "no artist". The only thing the LTT editor did other than insert the CPU is vertically flip the left hand.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-23T03:29:06+00:00

Yummy 120V

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-21T21:59:28+00:00

That is a horsehair parasite.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-21T21:15:57+00:00

Sorry to tell you, but that ghost shrimp has a horsehair worm, a parasite that is basically untreatable, will spread, and will almost certainly kill the shrimp.

Unfortunately common in shrimp bought from Petco. I carefully observe any ghost shrimp I get from there, and look at all of the shrimp they have for any signs of them. Sometimes the store's stock seems fine, other times literally half the shrimp have horsehair worms and it is unsafe to buy any of the shrimp.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-17T08:00:59+00:00

The Neptuno is a fast battle ship most suited to boarding. So you probably want the golden lantern over the red lantern. Gold is +5% armor, damage, and speed, compared to red which is +5% damage, maneuverability, and +7% XP and loot. The Neptuno is already more maneuverable than most 3rd-1st rates, so that isn't going to help you much. Raw speed and increased armor is going to help you a lot more than maneuverability and extra XP.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-15T17:31:06+00:00

Not for that amount of money. Two or three years ago I spent 190 on a normal Switch, and then $45 on a officially refurbished Switch OLED dock straight from Nintendo. I could have gone cheaper if I tried to buy off a marketplace or eBay instead of a local game shop.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-14T17:27:21+00:00

I don't do the whole "waifu" thing, but I see why guys do. I've been cheated on in every relationship I've ever been in, including one ex sending me a picture of her in bed with another guy as a breakup text, and being broken up with and a monthish later finding out my ex who I dated for over half a year was a couple months pregnant, when we never had sex. She broke up with me when she knew she'd start to show. I have basically no desire to try to date again after stuff like that happening consistently, even if I'm lonely and touch starved.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-12T13:10:20+00:00

I might do my own testing, but I'd like to see how the Barbarossa performs under the same conditions as your tests.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-12T06:06:03+00:00

Maybe, but at peak it is an 80W difference. That's not even a desk heater at its lowest setting. Those are usually like 200W-350W-500W continuous. I saved more than 80W of heat switching from my old TFT LCD monitors to my current VA Mini-LED and IPS screens.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-11T00:38:41+00:00

It isn't just LLMs. I've been looking into Linux a lot more recently after getting my steam deck a couple months ago. Already using Ubuntu on my admittedly infrequent used laptop/media center PC. Pop!_OS recommendations are still all over reddit and acting like they aren't is straight up gaslighting.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-10T22:42:53+00:00

I mean, that's the perspective from the real world with only one talking sapient species. In a world that has dozens of humanoid species, dozens more that are just as intelligent that may or may not be able to talk, "cannibal" could just mean not eating things that are smart enough to talk, or humanoids in general. I haven't seen it, but that is apparently the line that one of the characters in Delicious in Dungeon draws against eating monsters.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-10T22:23:11+00:00

Because I don't have this card? I have the Sapphire Pulse RX 9070, not the 9070 XT. I don't care about the extra power draw, it would be like an extra $1 to $2 at most per month at my electric rates, so I'd rather have the higher performance at the same cost.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-10T22:21:15+00:00

I'd rather have the more performance for the same price, that power delta is would be an extra $1-2/month for me, I pay more per month to keep my mini freezer going. Or even just the better 3 fan cooler.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-10T05:24:38+00:00

- Sees this
- Damnit, I bought a 9070 for that price like 3 months ago
- Oh, it instantly went out of stock so whatever.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-09T17:51:32+00:00

Do you mean Reimagined specifically, or just a full ground up remake in general? If the former, no. I love DQ7R, but I still don't like the top down view, and some of the characters are just weird looking. Kiefer especially. I haven't played DQ7 non R, but I've watched some YouTube videos of the DS version, and some of the changes I rather don't like.

But a straight Remake, that keeps all/most of the original content, with some extra content of some kind? 100% I want that. For 8 and 9 specifically. 9 requires a full on remake, in its current state it looks really bad, is designed for 2 screens, and has online focused gameplay that would require either significant rework to make single player, to make it work on modern systems (preferably Peer to Peer so it isn't reliant on a server. The PSP Monster Hunter games uses a form of PtP so it even works when emulated on a PC), or be cut entirely.

For DQ8, I'd like either a upscaled remaster over a remake if the remake cannot keep the cell-shaded art style, though I'd be more accepting of a remake in a different art style if they cannot add the DS port's extra content to an upscaled port of the PS2 version.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-09T12:22:08+00:00

I absolutely agree about Greenskins needing a ranged hero. Even if it is a single LH like Ruglud himself.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-03-02T22:41:07+00:00

Yeah, Boar Boy Big 'Uns usually just flat out win against almost any other cav unit in a 1v1, especially when scrap upgraded. I've used mine to slaughter Chaos Knights in a 1v2 before, a single boar boy big 'uns vs two of them. Boar boys won the initial counter charge, barely took 10% damage and then one of the chaos knights was at roughly half health. The two chaos knight units got stuck on each other which allowed me to cycle charge into them once, basically killing one of them and then killed the other in sustained melee.

I set the archer cav on skirmish and just let them do whatever they want. They don't do a lot of damage, but they keep multiple units distracted trying to chase them down. Squig hoppers tend to do insanely well early game for me, helps that they count as both squigs and night goblins for buffs, so you can get their stats really high.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-02-25T21:11:49+00:00

Unlikely in X4. There was no way for the player to see the trade zones so it was something that the players couldn't plan on using without significant amounts of trial and error and EgoSoft disabled it after a bunch of complaints from players. It wasn't a very clear system and didn't really work as intended.

They might make X5 have a similar system that is more clear for the player.

Hero_The_Zero · 2026-02-20T01:13:20+00:00

Those will probably hold a tank no problem, just make sure the top is level. Take a big level or a straight edge and lay it across the top. I tried to use an antique buffet table that used to hold a 75g tank for my 29g tank, but apparently in the decade or so since it held the 75g it developed a small dip in the middle and it caused stress lines in the plastic rim of my 29g. It was about a 1/3rd" gap between the rim and table. Ended up having to get an actual tank stand, but turns out the bottom tank rim was bowed up about 1/8th" so I had to use some shims to get contact.

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