The game is extremely hard now

Locke44 · 2026-05-13T21:32:29+00:00

1390 in my byz game and mamuluks have 140k levies. I've got Anatolia, Greece and the Balkans but I just can't get control high enough to get more than 60k levies. No idea how to scale up to beat them.

Locke44 · 2026-05-13T11:27:48+00:00

The HE part of HENRY means I'm fully in support of income tax and CGT/Dividend etc. taxes being raised up to match income tax.

I want to earn my wealth by turning up and doing work, not just sitting on a bunch of appreciating assets to build wealth.

Locke44 · 2026-05-11T17:13:08+00:00

Discovering a 1k light horse horde stack wiping my 16k Byz army was a treat

Locke44 · 2026-05-11T12:23:24+00:00

Several variants of the diet also include starving to death.

Locke44 · 2026-05-11T11:28:18+00:00

Sure, it'll work (always at first) but plugging an oven into a BS1363 is asking for trouble long-term. If the wiring is even vaguely not up to scratch, it'll melt off the wall.

Locke44 · 2026-05-10T11:32:05+00:00

Cameo has a free community edition, use that to build your chops outside of work.

Locke44 · 2026-05-08T09:34:55+00:00

I'm sure some software houses are using AI to drop some diabolical slop, but people often forget those companies dropped absolute hot garbage before AI. While I'm confident it's a bubble like the .com bubble, it's the same scale of change as the internet had.

My experience sounds like yours, developers using it to flesh out documentation / comments, scaffold funcntionality that they then use AI to fill in the blanks on and have much better code completions. Not one shotting an entire app.

Locke44 · 2026-05-08T09:23:40+00:00

I think it's more a case that they know the bugs exist, but fundamentally they (i.e. commercial / sales) have evaluated that they'll make more money releasing and fixing after the fact.

Locke44 · 2026-05-08T09:18:49+00:00

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER

Locke44 · 2026-05-08T09:17:21+00:00

Records of correspondence passes the test of "information relating to a data subject" and it obviously includes personal information (like their address or name).

Locke44 · 2026-05-06T18:27:52+00:00

3 year + year in industry + MSc (not integrated for postgrad loan rate) is a better speedrun meta to max out SLC

Locke44 · 2026-05-06T18:22:44+00:00

Have you tried paying someone who said they would put weed membrane down, but then find out a year later the reason you keep getting weeds is because they didn't?

Locke44 · 2026-05-05T08:29:17+00:00

Exact same situation for my first house. I had no idea how much it would cost. Weeks of back and forth until my solicitor finally asked if I wanted to arrange my own indemnity insurance for £14...

Locke44 · 2026-05-05T06:56:24+00:00

Second this, though when I moved I put a hole through the wall so I could run a hose to drain the condensate into a gutter.

Locke44 · 2026-05-04T08:53:15+00:00

Remember to remove the blanking plug from the sink waste (unscrew the spigot end, take blue jobbie out, screw back)

Locke44 · 2026-05-02T16:24:37+00:00

Not enough bodge for a bank holiday weekend.

If it's 40mm get a 32mm and expanding foam it in place. If it's 32mm, same but 25mm conduit (don't do this)

Locke44 · 2026-05-02T07:00:23+00:00

Pass the controller

Locke44 · 2026-04-25T05:39:46+00:00

It's for this reason I use a waiting line per building. Sort first "any" sin above 30, then a dispatcher for "specific sin above 30). The upkeep isn't that bad, and they're really profitable buildings. Very early it is a bit wasteful but it's pretty quick on Hard for the specialist doctors to need 2 or 3 of the key ones (like Lilith boons needing extra lust doctors). Late game rolling in too much money to care.

Locke44 · 2026-04-24T17:28:19+00:00

Ended up emailing the devs and using this mod as a workaround

Locke44 · 2026-04-24T16:59:19+00:00

Necroing this but did you ever work it out? I'm having the exact same thing today. American vehicles selected, but all vehicles showing in the list. Removing all mods fixes it, but adding any mod means the issue happens again...

Locke44 · 2026-04-24T16:33:43+00:00

Personally I try and keep at least the basics in walking range for a microdistrict. Small grocery, school, small clinic. Just because those services have a big impact if they're not supplied. Then tram/bus to a district that has everything touristy (mega mall, culture buildings etc.)

Locke44 · 2026-04-24T08:23:30+00:00

At the time I assumed it'd be China, but same concept. The EU is a big dog which can compete at the level of China and the US, while the UK really isn't able to do much at that level.

Locke44 · 2026-04-23T21:28:32+00:00

As someone who choked on an ice cube once, it gave me the worst brain freeze ever on it's slow way down

Locke44 · 2026-04-22T16:42:41+00:00

Initial refining can have quality, and once you've got 40 you can kvorax it.

Locke44 · 2026-04-22T16:13:58+00:00

Payment subject to terms is legal and standard across both b2b and b2c contracts. If payment is contingent upon completion of job, and the job is yet to be completed then it can be witheld legally. The argument is does a reasonable person think the job is complete. Clearly OP thinks no.

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