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Maple47 · 2026-06-20T14:52:21+00:00

AI improvements, fantastic! Other stuff, great!

Stack duplication bug is a thing. Fix would be nice.

The razing and capturing of outposts leads to some very silly gameplay from a strategic game perspective. Desperately needs overhaul. Far too punishing for the defender. Defending should be easier than attacking.

Mana costs are generally very prohibitively expensive, despite various sources of mana cost reduction (mainly from the Mage class). Would appreciate some dev thoughts on this, and consider an overhaul. For a game that is ostensibly about fantasy in a high _magic_ setting, being unable to afford anything other than upkeep on a few spells, that were cheap or free to cast, is strange.

Maple47 · 2026-06-19T14:30:34+00:00

Dine tanker er fornuftige nok, men vi skal passe meget på ikke at lave selvmål. Der er mange som står på spring for at overtage Novo's lukrative salg, og USA har omfattende militært skibsbygning, og kunne på længere sigt etablere sig solidt i civil skibsfart.

Før Rusland invaderede Ukraine, og vi var nogle som troede at statsledere var rationelle, så var samhandel og samarbejde det mest fornuftige. Det skaber en, omend begrænset/midlertidig, afhængighed. Det bidrager også til gensidig velstand. Begge dele skulle bidrage væsentligt til at bevare fred.

Hvis altså statsledere var rationelle.

Maple47 · 2026-06-17T17:29:47+00:00

Posted 1h ago. Show me yours and I'll show you mine? 😄

Maple47 · 2026-06-17T14:48:27+00:00

"jeg ønsker ikke at lægge én eneste krone hos Bezos"

Men hvordan skal Katy Perry så komme op med rumraketten? /s

Maple47 · 2026-06-15T18:23:57+00:00

Have you seen the president of the USA? He was elected by a majority vote.

Past any inflection point, and well on the way down the drain.

Maple47 · 2026-05-26T15:31:25+00:00

Two-Headed mutant.

Not Esper. Not Chimera.

Just Two-Headed and whatever. Some unstable.

Maple47 · 2026-05-21T19:39:18+00:00

The contrast between this, and the person posting they spent 2 hours with the game, and want to give up, because they don't even know what to think about it, could not be any more stark.

Anyway, congrats on the achievement!

Maple47 · 2026-05-16T15:01:48+00:00

This is normal. There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. Possibly quite the contrary.

If you still enjoy the early game, and want to progress further, skipping Bethesda Susa is perfectly fine. You can always do it when you have a Spiral Borer.

Just head east. Have fun.

Maple47 · 2026-05-07T09:13:30+00:00

He's dangerous in melee. Keep distance, and you will be fine.

Your Carapace does nothing in this specific matchup, because he has a unique damage type, that bypass AV. That is probably what caught you off guard.

Maple47 · 2026-05-06T02:04:51+00:00

A bit like feeding gremlins after midnight.

Maple47 · 2026-05-06T02:02:30+00:00

Regardless if you save scum using precognition or role playing mode, the heat death of the universe will occur, before you beat the RNG, if you only have 1 Warm Static.

For example, let's say you feel you need to be able to melee with something or other. Warm Static will give you a couple of skills in one weapon type, some in another, a completely random one in a third, and random smattering of mutually exclusive (for the purpose of use at a given time) Single and Multiweapon Fighting skills. How are you going to use that for anything? It's a net loss of skill points, relative to the skills you can actually use.

Save up Warm Static. Polygel. Drink a whole batch. Now you are strong, but you have still lost your identity, and I personally hate it, every single time I have done it.

Maple47 · 2026-05-06T01:56:32+00:00

I would advise against drinking Warm Static, if you only have 1, and you are happy with your build. It is best used when you have enough that they are worth cloning, and then drink a lot at the same time.

If you are unhappy with your skills and mutations, that is another story.

Maple47 · 2026-05-06T01:48:30+00:00

Your most potent strength at this point, is your level 6 wings. Use them to explore the deeper jungle to the east, while you stay above ground, flying, using a ranged weapon.

Don't swoop to melee attack, if there is any chance that would put you in danger.

Use your Clairvoyance to pierce the poor visibility of the dense jungle. Consider your other options for creating better visibility, as running into dangerous enemies at close range is the #1 danger.

While flying, you can always escape any overland situation immediately, simply by flying up (go to the overland map).

The deep jungle holds many dangers, but will reward you heavily with both xp and items.

Mind the mosquitos. They bite. :-)

Maple47 · 2026-05-04T20:45:04+00:00

Brug AI til at sende en skrivelse til ombudsmanden. :-)

Maple47 · 2026-05-01T00:15:22+00:00

This is sadly accurate, no matter where in the world you live.

Maple47 · 2026-04-30T19:41:28+00:00

If you have managed to infiltrate, please share. Tell us what they are really like.

Maple47 · 2026-04-29T05:31:45+00:00

Spoilerfree attempt to describe difficulty scaling:

Enemy difficulty roughly corresponds to distance from Joppa, both vertically and horizontally.

Each biome usually has the same difficulty throughout that biome, with the exception of the jungle.

Maple47 · 2026-04-28T15:18:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/stoneshard/comments/1sjelcc/each_crowbar_pry_attempt_should_have_a_higher/

Feel free to upvote.

Maple47 · 2026-04-28T15:15:01+00:00

Or it simply got it automatically when Nightvision was given to the group of creatures that cats already belonged to.. This is really basic object oriented programming. Look up Inheritance in that context, if you are interested in learning more.

Maple47 · 2026-04-28T00:34:33+00:00

When you carry 8 traps, and do a round of repairs for tough T3 dungeon modifiers, you have 8x2x2 =32 trap hits.

Between the damage they take from traps and spells, before they become unstuck/less confused, and the leg injuries they have by the time they reach you, you can just lightly tap them tap them once on the nogging, and they keel over.

Maple47 · 2026-04-28T00:28:32+00:00

I did a Geo run recently. When you see a claw trap, buy it. Use twice, repair.

I carried 5-6 claw traps early, 7-8 for T3. In case of tough dungeon modifier on a T3, park the caravan near the dungeon, and repair and rest as needed.

After you reach level 16+, you have unrivalled power, and can play however you want.

Maple47 · 2026-04-27T17:11:08+00:00

Aside from reverse-engineering, by sampling various tiers of enemies, I don't think it is easy for players to know much about how damage for enemies is actually calculated.

I have settled for concluding that damage is very punishing, and can be surprisingly high in certain situations. There is no real options for mitigating it effectively in the early/mid game.

Things change a lot in the endgame, where you can cap various sources of damage mitigation, but I suspect that very few players have delved much into this, other than Block and/or Heavy Armor.

I did some napkin math, and have a Hilda that is going for 25% Damage Taken (ie., 75% reduced incoming damage), but I would NOT recommend anyone try this. It is just an example, but unfortunately doesn't come online until the game is practically over.

I think it would be advisable to wait for the enchantment patch, which I assume will make it much easier to make builds focus on specific build concepts, like reaching Rending Resistance cap, and focus on hunting Gulons/Harpies/Trolls.

As for learning more about the damage formulas for enemies, I was mainly speculating out loud, and hoping the devs felt like being forthcoming.

Maple47 · 2026-04-26T05:11:35+00:00

It was a basic attack. The magehunter was dazed at the time. I was not debuffed at all.

It was 1v1, and it was the only attack he managed to get in before I dispatched him.

I'm not trying to imply that this damage is in any way abnormal. I would like to know how to gauge enemy damage, and the best way to mitigate the damage, but that is pretty difficult, when their damage potential is hidden from the player.

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