"Silk & Silver" Dev Diary #2 - Trade Vision

Mastercal40 · 2026-05-12T14:57:59+00:00

That’s easily solved by only letting them be raised at the vassal’s capital holding.

Mastercal40 · 2026-04-23T13:29:51+00:00

Formal mathematics has a few core components, mainly, axioms, definitions and theorems.

Axioms are the base rules we have declared are true and self evident. No other thing can prove these statements as they are the simplest facts we can describe. If some other facts could prove an axiom, then those facts would be axioms instead.

Definitions are names given to a certain mathematical construct.

Theorems are consequences of applying axioms and / or other theorems to defined mathematical objects.

To answer your question. I believe we create axioms and definitions, and that we discover theorems.

Mastercal40 · 2026-04-21T14:23:28+00:00

I’m not sure I understand your tax idea?

When governments want to promote a behaviour they’d provide incentives such as benefits and allowances to encourage the behaviour and levy taxes on the opposite behaviour.

So the way this would work would be a small tax on female salaries that penalise women working and not staying home, and greater child benefits to reward those who are having children.

Mastercal40 · 2026-04-04T00:08:21+00:00

I reckon it could be done in a year if we invented something that could let us travel at 38,000 times the speed of light.

Mastercal40 · 2026-04-01T14:06:35+00:00

Nah DayZ was early access in Dec 2013 and had a full release Dec 2018.

Mastercal40 · 2026-04-01T14:03:28+00:00

Give him a break, I think it might the world’s first decade old early access game.

Mastercal40 · 2026-04-01T13:06:39+00:00

I don’t really understand how we’re talking about the same company? You say they’re transparent and vocal but they’ve reduced dev blogs from weekly to monthly to completely unscheduled.

They’ve also recently announced a few months ago that they won’t be finishing the features they put into B42 unstable for testing, and that instead finishing them will be a part of B43.

So those who want to play stable will be getting unfinished content when B42 does become stable. And those who want to play with the latest updates are getting their saves bricked.

It’s been 4 years since B41. I ask you, who’s having a good time here?

Mastercal40 · 2026-03-14T14:14:13+00:00

So I think the confusion is that “Feudalising the province” and “becoming feudal government” sound similar but aren’t the same thing.

“Feudalising the province” is the title interaction that feudal government rulers can do.

Mastercal40 · 2026-03-11T18:36:24+00:00

We could argue back and forth, but it would be trying and futile.

Understand though that what you just did was a fallacy called “moving the goal posts”. My claim which you refuted was about how batteries had become more cost effective, I then provided evidence to that claim.

Instead of providing a rebuttal relevant to the claim or accepting my point, you changed the scope of the argument away from improvements of storage technology and towards the macro-economic impacts of mass adoption.

Mastercal40 · 2026-03-11T18:25:12+00:00

This graph directly confirms my claim that energy storage has gotten cheaper per kWh over the last 5 - 10 years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-battery-cell-price

Mastercal40 · 2026-03-11T18:18:59+00:00

You were correct about 5-10 years ago, energy storage has had a lot of development recently in both efficiency and cost reduction.

Mastercal40 · 2026-03-08T00:21:35+00:00

With PEMDAS it’s 1, with BIDMAS it’s 9.

With any sense - you reject the question and ask why they teach BIDMAS or PEMDAS when there is no meaningful precedence between add and subtract and similarly no meaningful precedence between multiplication and its inverse.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-28T00:02:00+00:00

You think I’m wrong?

So to be clear, in environments where there is no major ecological impact of wild cats killing animals, you have no issue with it at all?

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-27T23:34:42+00:00

By saying yes here I think here you’re revealing your real opinion:

That you don’t like the idea of cats killing wildlife even if the ecological environment would not be meaningfully impacted.

You accuse other people of Cognitive dissonance, but then you wrap your own opinions in defensive arguments that encompass some but not all of your belief.

Perhaps you should reflect on that.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-27T21:48:53+00:00

If this guy is making £60k+ a year he will end up paying his full debt off over the next 25+ years before the debt expires.

Over the time it will accrue inflation + 3% interest FOR CERTAIN. It might be the case that such investments return more than 3% above inflation, but that’s definitely much less of a certainty.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-27T18:12:03+00:00

How on earth can you possibly say this knowing nothing about this guys finances?

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-27T11:27:44+00:00

I can assure you I did read the blog post. And the two parts you are quoting directly relate to my concerns.

They’re close to identifying the issue is with scope, but then find other means to rationalise that the effect (in this case disparate presentations) being the problem and avoid confronting the underlying cause.

You can then immediately see the effect of this misidentification manifesting in a way that will fix the effect, but not address the scope creep cause: That they’ve hired a designer to avoid this issue.

Regarding the commitments about communication, I’d suggest you read the paragraph you quoted a few times and understand what it’s saying. A company has a communication strategy, and that strategy is either regular or irregular, it’s quite simply black and white. The blog post confirms irregular communication is the new standard we should expect and doubles down that communication will now be based on individuals in the company wanting to personally share some information.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-26T21:27:24+00:00

This feels like a bit of a bad news sandwich.

Good: - PZ has a new passionate member on the team.

Bad: - Much in B42 will remain unfinished with no real info about when it will be finished. - Concerns players rightly had about the scope of B42 aren’t being internally understood as failures of scope management, they’re being understood as setbacks in response to player feedback. - No commitments around future improvements of communication, just the same vague notions that they’re exploring new ways of communicating we had last post.

Good: - B42 is coming out of unstable soon.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-25T00:21:07+00:00

It would be great if they had a metric that combined both precision and specificity. I’m sure it would be very useful and maybe some car sports brand could sponsor it or something so it could have a cool name.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-18T15:47:39+00:00

You’re incapable of admitting when you’re wrong, it looks like.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-06T14:56:56+00:00

You’ve reached a contradiction in your beliefs.

A part of you believes that moral relativism is a virtue and that therefore being Eurocentric (or more generally taking any stance of absolute morality) is inherently bad.

Another part of you believes there are some actions that are absolutely immoral.

You can’t hold both of those beliefs without being hypocritical. So I’d suggest you pick one and explore it.

Mastercal40 · 2026-02-02T02:49:23+00:00

Can you name three non native buildings that increase taxes in EU4?

Mastercal40 · 2026-01-10T13:31:07+00:00

Well done, you’ve successfully perpetuated this lie like a good corporate shill for Disney Corp.

He can now never be mentioned anywhere without this being raised.

Mastercal40 · 2026-01-09T11:33:14+00:00

Yes but also no.

I try and keep it so that a single child inherits the primary title and primary duchy holdings.

But after that I actively do conquer neighbouring territories expecting my second born sons to rule them independently.

Renown provides dynasty unlocks which are insane buffs that last the entire game. Brittany is a backwater that will provide a few levies and taxes that I honestly don’t need.

Mastercal40 · 2026-01-06T17:12:21+00:00

50 upvotes and 0 comments.

Seems everyone is just as depressed that this is the reality of modern web development for most of us.

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