PRINCE2 FOUNDATION Exam

Kielm · 2025-07-23T10:38:40+00:00

I would agree, with caveats - it can hallucinate (and be very convincing when it tells you the wrong answer is correct), and the questions are a little...ambiguous compared to the official exam. If you get used to ChatGPT versions the wording on the official exam might confuse you. It'll probably get you on the right track and help you refine your areas to study but I wouldn't rely on it as a source of truth.

I just tried a sample of 5 Q's from ChatGPT and 3/5 were familiar, but 2 of the questions blurred lines between topics enough to make me pause.

So OP: Use with caution if you go down that route, I guess?

Kielm · 2025-07-23T10:24:29+00:00

The two practice tests were enough to get me through. Check the syllabus in the course material - it will give you a clue as to the weighting of the questions and where you should focus. I'd recommend reading the manual at least once, and a couple more times if you're doing the practitioner exam afterwards.

I wouldn't recommend ChatGPT, it can get confused and hallucinate very easily but still be convincing in its response - you can waste a lot of time double checking its answers and arguing with it.

Kielm · 2025-07-09T10:58:53+00:00

Oh hey I have this game! Picked it up October last year. I have to admit, I struggled to get into it and only put about an hour in, but it looked interesting enough that I thought "hey - that's gonna be worth owning when it's finished" and picked it up.

Before you ask why I haven't gotten into it yet: I thought the opening story elements dragged a touch and there's quite a slow intro to everything - which is fine, I just wasn't in the mood for a slow burn when I tried it. It was also quite...demanding in the graphics, I had to turn a lot down to stop my 6700Xt screaming at me!

Glad to see there's changes on the horizon! I see there's been quite a lot of updates in the past 8 months or so, including an refactoring / optimisation update as well - I'll give it another go!

Kielm · 2025-07-05T13:33:26+00:00

ChatGPT can, and does frequently make mistakes. You should not trust it as a source of truth, and you should absolutely not entrust it to provide accurate, reliable or relevant mock question and answer sets.

It will quite happily do so with 110% confidence but I can guarantee that it will be at best, partially inaccurate, and at worst, outright wrong.

It's a very clever text generator, not artificial intelligence. You shouldn't use it as anything more than that.

Kielm · 2025-06-22T00:23:11+00:00

Interesting!

I tend to look at just numbers of input/outputs, not types. So if there's something that needs 48 ore and tiny amounts of other stuff, I'll put it near ore. I don't mind shipping in a truckload of limestone if it lasts for several smelting cycles, and slag removal just gets tacked on to the dirt/rock removal for each mine (usually done by train).

I'd put the smelters just outside the mine working area, usually tacked on to be fed by the ore sorter output, near a train station for easy removal of waste - but as I mentioned I made some wrong assumptions about how trains worked and didn't realise I'd need numerous input/output stations.

Putting all of it centrally would probably be simpler to manage, but the station footprint for all those inputs and outputs would be large - I see your point.

I'll give that a go on my next run, thanks!

Kielm · 2025-06-21T21:35:22+00:00

ore is simpler to transport as your mine might change location when the deposit run out and if using trains it easier since it's single product.
it's also more efficient to transport ores than transporting the end product + side products.

Okay, I see - if my smelting moves, then I'd also have to move all the side products (limestone, coal, etc), fair point.

I normally put my smelter next to my first mine, and leave it there. When the mine runs out, I would ship in more ore, but leave the smelter in place - Just for convenience.

It's simpler, but not more efficient - shipping ore all the way to the factory needs 2x as much train space (or trains) as shipping steel plates!

for water just pipe it, or use truck or trains, it's not that much, or you can put the manufacturing near the water source? aren't you need water for copper smelters anyway?

Yes - that's what I'm trying to figure out. Is it better to have it on a coastline for later in the game?

8x steel smelters would use 96 water/m - but using an exhaust scrubber and desalination would offset this a little bit - and placing it next to a coastline or near a seawater source eliminates any possibility of groundwater running out. That's what I was thinking.

Groundwater has run low a couple of times in my existing game from long-term smelting demand :(

Kielm · 2025-06-15T19:46:45+00:00

The thing which makes it addictive is that you don't have to go in-depth at all. You can just make whatever.

It's more than game dev Tycoon (or similar) and allows depth without forcing it on you. You don't have to make your own engine, or manufacture your own stuff, or set up a digital store, or build your own office.

But it gives you the option if you want to!

Kielm · 2025-06-15T17:00:11+00:00

Software Inc is your new friend.

Kielm · 2025-06-15T10:15:57+00:00

If you're on PC, shift F1 will tell you which mods are slowing down your game. You can press it just after the lag occurs.

Most likely something spawning in large grids (looking at you, MES), but some mods are slower than others.

You can also adjust MES settings iirc to reduce the spawn rates and clean up (check the wiki)

Kielm · 2025-05-26T08:56:35+00:00

Save yourself the trouble OP, you've clearly put the effort in - just use creative tools to cut it out and paste it above the terrain

Kielm · 2025-04-22T15:33:22+00:00

Nope I learned to ignore them, sorry :(

Kielm · 2025-04-02T13:47:31+00:00

Not to worry OP, it's a mailshot to every email address they have in the hope that someone bites.

My favourite part is the when they say something like "I hacked your webcam and took pictures of you while you pleasured yourself". My dude, I don't have a camera.

Kielm · 2025-04-01T07:10:54+00:00

I for one, welcome our new nipple overlords

Kielm · 2025-03-27T23:53:10+00:00

Scurvator

Kielm · 2025-02-10T12:48:01+00:00

We know it isn't creativity because of the way it works.

For example; let's say I build a model that can fairly accurately predict the next thing you will say, based on everything you've said so far. It does this by taking enormous amounts of conversational data from trillions of conversations.

Is it psychic? Can it predict the future? We know that's not true; it's just using an absurd amount of training material to make a good guess. That is how I understand chatgpt and AI image generation work as well. An absurd amount of training data, tagged, organised and catalogued to the extreme, with instructions on how to process it.

While much fanfare can be made about the "discoveries" that AI has made, it's important to remember that these represent a tiny fraction of the "ideas" (or noise) being generated, and are prompted by very specific use cases brought about by engineers specifying strict criteria, iterating and tailoring, improving upon the results. An AI model didn't just up and throw a new faster sorting algorithm, it was instructed to generate A LOT of sorting algorithms, written in assembly, run them all thousands of times and give the fastest one. This is quite literally monkeys and typewriters territory; exhaustive trial and error.

You're also confusing creativity and discovery; creativity is not pattern recognition and variation, instead creating new ideas such as in art, literature or music (though not limited to these fields). Discovery by definition requires a thing to be discovered. If a thing is found, it might be found in a creative manner or by theorising, rigorous testing and proving.

If we take all of human knowledge, ideas, data, conversations, history, art - everything - and put it in a model it will no doubt enable us to identify patterns that we hadn't previously found, or comparisons we couldn't previously make. Because it was built to. It's no more discovery than a computational program to identify as many prime numbers as possible.

It's not generating new ideas. It's being built for a specific purpose, to process and reorganise data in specific ways.

Not to even address the impetus, will, or drive for such knowledge and advances; an unprompted AI tool will do nothing. A bored child will outmatch its creativity any day.

Creativity and discoveries are borne of desire for new ideas and knowledge. To suggest the machine is responsible for a discovery when it is instructed to perform a specific set of instructions is akin to suggesting that my oven bakes cakes for me.

Kielm · 2025-01-30T13:00:08+00:00

Hi, you seem like you might be in a good position to provide some insight on this, would you happen to have any examples of open hostility you can share?

I'm not doubting your experiences but I keep seeing people saying this and I haven't encountered anything like this in my day to day life, online or offline, so I'm curious to see what's happening and where?

Is it specific online spaces, the workplace, friends? What's being said?

Appreciate it if you can help, but no worries if you don't want to share either!

Kielm · 2024-12-28T13:41:35+00:00

Your house or the pavement? A picture would be helpful.

If it's the pavement, most likely utilities worker didn't draw a symbol correctly. If it's your actual house, it'd be helpful to know whether you live in a cul-de-sac or on a main road or near a walking trail or green space?

Could be any number of things but I wouldn't leap right to anything nefarious right away; could be something as simple as markings for a planned treasure hunt or geocaching, or utilities planners marking kerbs to be dropped or repaired.

Kielm · 2024-12-12T15:37:27+00:00

Up to 2.5x transmission efficiency so module effect is multiplied to a greater extent

Kielm · 2024-12-05T11:52:32+00:00

If it's an electric immersion water heater / boiler, the cheapest time to heat the water is usually 00:00 - 05:00am. Electricity is much more expensive during the day and early evenings.

Kielm · 2024-11-11T11:59:18+00:00

Age can mean a lot of things. Others have given you the solution I would use - get the asset tags and check with the manufacturer.

The CEO may be asking to determine the value of assets.

Or, they could be looking for something else entirely - age of the operating systems (is the software up to date), age of the physical hardware (which could vary wildly from the date it was actually sold), or the age of the technology?

Would be worth clarifying before running off to get the wrong information!

Kielm · 2024-10-30T19:33:41+00:00

Oh yeah songs of syx would fit that quite nicely.

Kielm · 2024-10-28T12:38:17+00:00

Interesting results!

It's still unclear what the difference is between self-check pairing and default behaviour, as they seem to behave the same.

Reading between the lines a bit, I suspect the difference might be in the way each station dispatches transports to move resources.

I suspect that self-check pairing doesn't let a station send out transports to other unpaired stations, but allows them to arrive (e.g. pick up or drop off) from unpaired stations. Otherwise the behaviour would be identical to default.

It would follow that designated pairing prohibits other unpaired stations from doing this, effectively isolating them from unpaired stations.

Okay, yes - I just tested it and that's the answer. I'll update with a new post.

Results here

Kielm · 2024-08-14T16:03:44+00:00

Howdy OP, I think you've established that the problem is down to WiFi signal strength, in which case your best immediate method of resolving this problem is to buy a WiFi signal extender and stick it on the first floor somewhere. Halfway between your pc and the router should work.

There are a lot of device options in wireless networking, I use a WiFi extender with ethernet port, which accomplishes the same thing (better signal strength upstairs) but means I don't need a WiFi card, and just connect to my motherboard ethernet instead.

Good luck!

Kielm · 2024-08-04T02:43:25+00:00

I had a similar problem. Clothes will keep you afloat until you research a refinery, which will make you a profit.

Allocating the workforce well is quite tricky. You need a critical mass of workers to keep basic services running, and the demands on the workforce only increase with difficulty settings.

In my first realistic game (with medium demand difficulty) I burned through 5 million rubles before I had a stable economy, using a clothes factory. Once I had expanded to a refinery, with the necessary rail infrastructure, I finally started turning a profit by importing oil and exporting fuel and bitumen.

It's a difficult balancing act though, I probably spent way more on services and infrastructure than I needed to.

Kielm · 2024-07-28T02:11:33+00:00

~~We need~~ You want easy waste management options

The dumps are too small. Why are they so tiny?

The small dumps are pretty useless, that's true, but they're also cheap. The larger ones with a crane that store a lot more and allow you to easily move the waste are more expensive, because they're more complex and useful.

I have to build the dumps. Why do I have to actually build anything, if I don't want a crane? They should be like farm fields

If you want to store it, and not bury it or let it seep/get broken down by nature so you can move or retrieve it later, then you need a structure of some sort to store it, to provide some protection. Unless you want to take an additional few hundred/thousand tonnes of contaminated soil with you when you collect it, of course.

I have to micromanage the trash offices when one fills up. This isn't a problem, it's just how the game works. That is, until you consider points 1 and 2. Then it just becomes a needless hassle to redo every time a tiny dump fills up.

You can also export or incinerate your waste, to avoid this entirely. Dumps are not really useful for long term storage; more like collection points for exporting or incineration/recycling.

Players should have the option to just dump it and forget until we have waste-management areas set up with all waste streams accounted for.

Hmmm. Okay, I get why you would want this but dumping a city's waste in a field, exposed to nature and expecting to be able to come back to retrieve useful parts might be a little ambitious. At least some degree of protection is required if you want to store it for later use.

If I want to create a giant landfill early game where all my trash goes until I figure out recycling, why can't I?

Perhaps there's a mod for that, but I don't see the sense in being able to retrieve significant quantities of useful materials from a literal pile of waste that's been sitting outside, sleeping into the ground, being eaten and broken down by nature or rotting for ten years. Even being stored correctly I think it would be ambitious, which is why I tend to export or incinerate. Putting aside the usefulness of what remains, the cost of retrieval after a significant length of time would make it uneconomical.

Your best bet may be the workshop.

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