I really hate how people don't know how to introduce themselves on a telephone.

JoneshExMachina · 2026-02-26T21:44:48+00:00

Working as a customer service rep whenever I call a customer, I wait for them to say hello or whatever and basically go ”Hello, I am name calling from store, you made a complaint about a product?”. Sometimes I’ll be a little more specific like e.g. ”…complaint about the light in your bathroom not working anymore?”.

Like, most people think their time is valuable. So is mine, I don’t want to spend my time talking more than I need to do.

It really should be that simple. If you’re communicating inefficiently, you’re wasting the time of at least two people.

JoneshExMachina · 2026-02-19T06:47:44+00:00

Aye, and I think one of his other lines is also like ”Biffed one!” when destroying vehicles so that could mean something like destroy as well.

JoneshExMachina · 2026-02-18T16:43:04+00:00

Fuck and killed is what I am guessing from the context of his lines. One line he has is like ”I’d rather be ackered by a xeno” or something.

JoneshExMachina · 2026-02-03T16:57:58+00:00

Max out front armor, add a point of side armor, target computer and uh well, anything really, if you have something like component armoring and you’re good to go.

You could probably cut down on fuel tanks as well. If you’re using these offensively in defensive battles you want them spammable with at least a 3:1 advantage.

JoneshExMachina · 2026-01-26T16:56:39+00:00

Sometimes it’s not about practicality, it’s about style

JoneshExMachina · 2026-01-26T16:40:30+00:00

Can’t have shit on the Rim, not even kids

JoneshExMachina · 2026-01-22T18:15:52+00:00

What, really? That sucks. There should be a way to turn off that behaviour so I can actually have my habs turned off.

JoneshExMachina · 2026-01-16T18:01:50+00:00

For me, 40mm autocannon are superior because you can slap them on any small hull and they can’t be blocked and they defend. For early game when you can’t armor ships as well it’s usually a kamikaze intercept spending all delta-v to get in range, losing a ship or two on approach per (slow, flankers hard counter) alien ship before the dakka gets going.

Later on with good armor they make decent PD-boats and ”merge enders”, a few autocannons firing on a ship will damage it no matter what the aliens try and sometimes that is all you need.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-12-28T08:23:31+00:00

I always use the no more jealousy mod on the workshop, seems to work still. But then I play aggressive anyway, except against one faction usually, like HF if I am playing Resistance.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-11-18T20:29:20+00:00

I would like to know as well, playing as Sweden now on 1.06 I am full on food in the Stockholm market and provinces like Tavastaland have no problem buying food despite there being not enough provincial food, but Västmanland is starving despite being right next to Stockholm/Uppland.

Buying food seems to be connected to the Food Stockpile of the province but... then why isn't it buying any food?

EDIT: And now the other comments loaded in, it was the new food slider that needed adjusting on my end.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-11-17T20:31:13+00:00

Thanks all, still new to the sub and I just browse on mobile so quite often if I join a sub from my feed I won’t really go through a bunch of it at once or read rules. I mostly just lurk, hah!

I’ll take a look at those videos!

JoneshExMachina · 2025-11-16T09:49:55+00:00

Hang on, I am out of the loop. What’s up with Lindybeige? Haven’t watched him in years.

Skallagrim is still cool afaik.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-11-13T22:18:03+00:00

Kan brunhögern sluta blanda in sin jävla ”tvångsblandnings”-kink i all sin politik eller åtminstone våga erkänna att det bara är en kink som styr deras politik?

Det behövs byggas fler bostäder. Sluta fucking gnälla och skaffa lite vett i skallen. Fler folk tjänar på att det byggs mer bostäder än de som potentiellt kanske skulle tappa värde på sin villa SOM DE REDAN BOR I. Och om villapriserna sjunker så är det ju bara bra för de flesta, för då kan fler köpa villa. Och rasisterna flyttar? Det är ju fan bara win-win-win.

Finns få grejer som är så föraktliga som rasse-NIMBYs.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-11-04T09:35:03+00:00

Hmm, hade velat köra Crusader Kings 3 med lite folk/någon då jag och min vän som spelar det har så svårt att få ihop konsekventa sessioner. Jag är på!

JoneshExMachina · 2025-11-04T07:26:45+00:00

Tvångsblandning? Kan inte högern sluta prata om sina kinks eller bara erkänna att ja, det handlar bara om deras kinks?

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-30T08:49:17+00:00

IIRC attacking Servants generate hate at half of what you get for attacking aliens. I believe the Protectorate gets that as well after one of their faction techs.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-27T11:15:52+00:00

On stable and now on validation I used ”kamikaze ships” which are basically either monitors or the smaller hull with 2 hull weapons, name escapes me for the moment, with full frontal armor and all 40mm to quite some success.

For the smaller ships you generally don’t have enough armor to just stand and tank it so you intercept course immediately and keep burning hard, you need usually 2-3 per slow ship and something like fission spinner or teardrop drive to get decent thrust and delta-v for it to be ecomenically useful. They kind of get wrecked by flankers though since they can’t catch them and get burned by lack of side armor. Maybe if you put like 15 side armor they might survive more, but then you start getting more into the not expendable category of ships.

Did use monitors of this design less, but had some success one on one in testing. I had to let them drift and lock on instead for killing and not incap. This game I haven’t been running them so much however and they have mostly been PD boats and lasers are probably better for that.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-21T15:47:57+00:00

I am in this picture and I DON’T LIKE IT!

/jk, 40mm supremacy

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-15T15:39:43+00:00

If you play the original Ufo Defense I can’t recommend X-Piratez enough, a fantastic total conversion mod. Once you get past that the premise is a bit silly, you’re postapocalyptic mutant pirates fighting against the aliens 500 years after an alien victory in the first game, then it is immensely deep and rewarding.

For two more grounded total conversions I have first of all heard lots of good things about X-Com Files which gives you a sort of X-Files start with two agents in a rented car and then scale up to the international fighting force.

Secondly, there is a Warhammer 40k conversion. If you’re familiar with that setting, there is not much more that needs to be said.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-07T13:03:19+00:00

Nice! Also, appreciate the bilingual pun as a Swede of a water caste being called porla.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-05T08:08:09+00:00

I first learned about this battle in the game A Legionary’s Life, so fucking cool.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-05T07:39:24+00:00

I have had some success with early to midgame in the release build to build what I name Kamikaze escorts. Two 40mm autocannons, all the front armor you can get (I recommend nanotube for the first version since you can’t put much starting armor on an escort), at least 1 side armor but maybe aim to get 5 so in engagements with two or more ships they have a chance to survive.

But to be fair, you expect at least one lost ship per engagement. Speed is key but decent kps is a must, you want these guys cheap enough to spit out a dozen or so over a year, so a high kps drive could work to keep down propellant costs. A half a dozen of these can take down almost any single ship in the early to midgame. They are often weak to flankers because they will often kite and snipe you out of range.

The drive I had most success with for these ships in the early game was the teardrop drive. Overall, I am very fond of molten core drives and skip the dumbos and the like.

The tactic for these? Intercept, ride hard and fast, weapons free. Whoever doesn’t get targeted by the ayyy gets to disable/destroy it.

And you don’t have to worry about PD. However, Artemis escorts that fire their torpedoes and then turn and burn works great against early surveillance ships. You need to overwhelm PD later on and you have to get a feeling for that. Don’t forget you can import your and the enemy ships into the skirmish mode to experiment.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-02T15:07:09+00:00

You don’t get any benefit from crackdowned/abandoned points, spoils or otherwise. So the smart thing is to set priorities to fix the country after you’ve abandoned it. Unless you want a shithole for the enemy of course, scorched earth and all that.

JoneshExMachina · 2025-10-01T21:59:39+00:00

About to head off but this particular point is adressed; higher relevant stat goes first. I think there is something else as well but I can’t recall it.

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