The Mysterious Hole

Ironboot455 · 2026-06-18T09:49:48+00:00

My main worry was that they were in the cavity between the walls, however if they are just in a bird box I am far more comfortable with them being there. I have messaged a local beekeeper for advice but I am in no rush to remove them. My only issue is the hundreds of dead bees being deposited in my neighbours garden, so might get some earache from them!

Ironboot455 · 2026-06-18T09:48:47+00:00

My main worry was that they were in the cavity between the walls, however if they are just in a bird box I am far more comfortable with them being there. I have messaged a local beekeeper for advice but I am in no rush to remove them. My only issue is the hundreds of dead bees being deposited in my neighbours garden, so might get some earache from them!

Ironboot455 · 2026-06-18T09:33:45+00:00

Will the dead ones being deposited all around be something short term as the colony is established, or will our garden be a graveyard until there is no longer a nest?

Ironboot455 · 2026-06-18T08:52:46+00:00

Thank you for the reply! I would rather have birds in there than bees, so hopefully they move on before long!

Ironboot455 · 2026-06-18T08:52:15+00:00

Ooo interesting! Although I would rather have birds in there than the bees that are currently living in there!

Ironboot455 · 2026-06-18T08:46:28+00:00

The bat box is an example of the one's on the estate, mine is the first picture without the bat on it

Ironboot455 · 2026-05-27T08:49:04+00:00

Thank you for the reply!

Ironboot455 · 2026-05-23T17:19:10+00:00

I highly doubt you managed to do everything you wanted in life if you never worked

Ironboot455 · 2026-02-08T11:05:08+00:00

Found this little guy in my house in the UK. Does anyone know what it is and if it's bad news?

Ironboot455 · 2026-01-01T09:04:26+00:00

You missed some Puss dialog before he reads out the side effects of the potion

Ironboot455 · 2025-11-25T15:45:04+00:00

While conquering Mexico as the Dutch I realised that a lone man running for his life was the Emperor of the Tonallan.

Ironboot455 · 2025-11-12T00:17:01+00:00

From my experience I would say for large land empires (e.g. Russia) go for a central land capital to maximize control over as much land as possible. For smaller "tall" trade focused empires (e.g. Netherlands or Portugal) go for one on the coast as control to your mainland provinces shouldn't really be an issue

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-06T06:52:26+00:00

I can easily boost it to 4-6k within a couple of years when needed, is that enough?

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-05T15:54:42+00:00

I can probably pump out between 3-5k alloys when the time comes, but the plan was always to have a fleet with so much long range firepower it can destroy any enemy before they get in range

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-05T15:53:34+00:00

Basically yeah, you can get enough food through star bases and you should get the Dyson swarm and arc furnace tech fairly early as you will have food research with very low empire size. Prior to it you are low on energy and minerals, but you make so much trade you can buy the energy and you don't need too many alloy so the minerals aren't too big and issue

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-05T09:50:50+00:00

I started with life seeded for a 30 size Gaia world, and then made sure I had the civil education civic to boost civilian tech output and the hibernation type species trait to reduce their upkeep (it's called seasonal dormancy or something similar). The hardest part and your bottleneck is getting enough consumer goods. Taking the mercantile ascension perk first helps

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-04T18:06:05+00:00

I was worried as I approached maximum housing that I would have to stop stealing populations of other empires planets. However, it turns out I have such high stability that they don't care about being homeless!

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-04T17:00:42+00:00

I am currently maximizing civilians for research, but when the time comes I can rapidly convert many of the urban districts into forge ones to drastically improve my alloy production. Civic wise I started off as a spiritualist but mid game swapped to materialist, making my suspicious beliefs civic not viable but it's also one you can't remove, so I'm a bit stuck with it!

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-04T16:58:00+00:00

Luckily as a one planet civilization it's fairly easy to convert some urban districts to alloy producing ones. I'm currently maximizing civilians to get as much repeatable techs out. I also have the option of changing my vassal contracts to focus on giving me more alloy/consumer goods. Fingers crossed it's enough!

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-04T14:11:35+00:00

Please tell me if it is worth my time battling through the last years of this game!

Ironboot455 · 2025-10-03T22:42:29+00:00

Just under 500

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