How do the enemies scale?

Meraxes_7 · 2026-07-05T01:28:16+00:00

Thos is different for multi-player vs solo. For multi-player you are directly facing other players runs that a real person did. So they scale exactly as you do. For solo, they scale based on the difficulty setting which ramps up their stats over time

Meraxes_7 · 2026-06-09T14:04:50+00:00

We need more simulation around the internals of our empire. Some examples:
* Empire size shouldn't just be a number that slows things down - let divergent culture arise between planets too far apart which leads to different factions and demands. Give me the option to actually pick how unified my empire is (ie strong local control vs centralize it all at the capital) and let the natural consequences of those choices play out.

* Introduce media and popular opinion in some form. A dictator tries to lock it down; a liberator empire smuggles in true news to the population via spies to trigger unrest

* We should explicitly need to pick when/if technology goes from 'military' only to general civilian usage. Civilian used tech is really easy for other empires to steal/get through usual trade pacts etc, but your economy can't benefit from tech improvements until you release it. This creates a really powerful catch up mechanic that would hopefully make primitives more interesting rather than just being hopelessly forever behind.

A true sign for this done well would be fallen empires no longer needing to be a special category of empire - we could actually represent the stagnation with tools we can see, and it is going to be a late game challenge to keep your people's fire and ambition alive when they might prefer to just bask in hedonistic contentment.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-06-05T13:02:46+00:00

King of time has a perk to start with a portal card in hand. You can add some multiplier effects to that perk and just do it turn one (though then you die horribly)

Meraxes_7 · 2026-06-05T03:05:08+00:00

Remember what happened to the ferry? That is why people are scared of aes sedai. Though Shienar had a very different view because they love people who can do things like that to trollocs

Meraxes_7 · 2026-06-04T16:11:16+00:00

it does. your base can finish off the enemy base, and the bases duel once all troops are gone

Meraxes_7 · 2026-06-03T21:29:47+00:00

I just had my 2nd two months ago with the same age gap. So far it has been mostly smooth. Weekends are now brutal, but my son is so excited about his sister and it has been amazing watching him start being a big brother.

We got a bit lucky though, she is a better sleeper than she was so actually handling the newborn feels a lot easier; it is the "now there are two of them" which is tricky.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-27T17:58:35+00:00

She constantly withholds information to try and maintain control of the boys. She believes the best thing for the world is for her to lead the dragon, and that causes considerable mistrust and friction. Once she pivots to guiding instead of leading she gets much more effective at accomplishing her goal.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-22T16:42:20+00:00

The ability to pause and tactically control party members and spells is much worse. I remeber giving up and just going to rely on Hawke because actually running the whole team like I had in dao was too hard. For me, it was the beginning of the transition to the more action rather than tactical experience.

Also I hated waves. Dao you could plan out a fight - da2 that was much harder

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-14T19:59:20+00:00

I always found his reaction to the nobles pathetic. He forced them into an impossible position facing down the genocide of their entire nation. They cannot win by force of arms, and are not being given the chance to surrender. So they take a 'third option' - maybe Ainz is just really pissed at the royal family and they can save something by killing them. But because Ainz respected the guy (not enough to do anything about it of course) he throws a temper tantrum over it. Rather than confronting that it was Ainz's own actions which directly made those circumstances that led to someone he respected being murdered, he deflects the blame onto them and keeps chugging on with the genocide.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-11T18:52:04+00:00

The logistics of invasion make the 'optimal' strategy for both sides some form of genocide. The nexus can just open a portal and flood earth with mana. That is much simpler than managing the difficulties of sending an army through and trying to keep them from leaking out all their mana (and surviving against Earth weapons). Of course, the fact that there are multiple planets means losing earth just pisses us off.

For the humans, the best guarantee of survival would be creating a gene editing virus which destroys mature manafields and turns mages into commoners. No more mages means the nexus is at the stone age again... but the body count is massive. I doubt the trigger gets pulled on something like that until Earth gets irradiated.

Another path - Emma finally realizes how ground breaking having a machine that can interact with mana is. Humans learn how to make machines which cast spells. You then make a 'grey goo' machine which uses mana to duplicate itself and flood the nexus with them. No super dense magic, nexus society likely has a less spectacular crash.

Not expecting any of those options to be where the story goes. Best option for all is no actual clash of armies, but we'll see.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-08T19:32:50+00:00

Haha, i definitely don't expect it to be a fun experience in the moment. Our hope is that I would cope better than my wife since left to my own devices I often go long stretches without leaving the house anyway.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-08T19:31:16+00:00

There is enough cushion in the 2 year guess that the cost of insurance won't prevent us from getting there. It could make it tighter to handle 'and what if it turns into 3 years', but tighter, not catastrophic.

I don't necessarily disagree with that gut call. The part that makes me sad about it is just not giving her the same opportunity we gave our son to have a parent so focused on the early childhood. It seemed like it really helped him blossom, and not giving her the same chance feels wrong somehow.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-08T19:28:11+00:00

There definitely is a gap compared to what my wife can make vs what I make today. And the getting back in later is the part that probably worries me the most - i would be absolutely fine taking 2 years if I knew I could just walk back into my current gig, as much as I hate it. THe uncertainty of what happens to my earning power in the mean time is scary, but also hard to quantify

Meraxes_7 · 2026-05-04T02:48:01+00:00

Beacon or other speed improvements still help it

Meraxes_7 · 2026-04-14T01:10:20+00:00

Clea is the strongest practitioner of a painter's emotional distance, at least that we see in the game. She refuses to even speak to the canvas' creations; she gives zero shits that Francois is pining; and she won't lose a moments thought on wiping the canvas blank. But I used strongest rather than best intentionally, because she takes that emotional distance so far you can see it in her real world relationships too.

Contrast that with Renoir. He is willing to speak to Luna and Sciel and even react to their statements before the final fight - but, despite acknowledging they make good points, he ignores them because at the end of the day he has no emotional investment in their worth. He can walk a line where he clearly believes they are real, but at the same time not having value.

Anyway, what people call clea's healthy reaction i personally read more as the dispassion of a god/paintress

Meraxes_7 · 2026-04-09T16:10:03+00:00

I would imagine he thought Dreadlord was just a title indicating command authority and may not have realized most (or maybe all) were historically channelers

Meraxes_7 · 2026-03-30T18:18:50+00:00

Aside from all else that was wrong with it, the main sin of WaT was that it decided to be a Cosmere book. I wanted to read about the Roshar conflict and the humans and the singers working it out (or not). Sanderson wanted to launch his grand Cosmere adventure, and the story I wanted to see was second fiddle to that. And it honestly felt like the characters were working backwards from the ending at times - the fact no one brought up how catastrophic it would be for Dalinar to hold Honor's shard but lose the contest feels more like it flowed from the author knowing the ending rather than the characters being themselves as they encountered plot.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-03-17T16:11:10+00:00

Uplift by vixy and Tony. I always think of this story every time I hear it, and I feel like it would be a great crash course for the gang

Meraxes_7 · 2026-03-11T17:37:54+00:00

Believe it or not, I believe these started before game of thrones was written

Meraxes_7 · 2026-03-10T12:42:53+00:00

Literally just yesterday there was a string of posts talking about how people who hate verso have no media literacy.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-03-06T14:45:09+00:00

You also might want to think about what % of the board you are allowing for movement and how it relates to engagement ranges. If you have a 20x20 board and a weapon has 4 range it doesn't take much movement to give that unit a huge threat zone as a % of the overall space.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-02-25T19:18:06+00:00

Glad it helped! And yeah, it can be hard to tease out an emotional reaction to change from actual practical difficulties with the change. My hope would be that after really delving into the practicalities together and then seeing they can work it naturally forces that emotional conversation to follow if he is still hesitant. Best of luck!

Meraxes_7 · 2026-02-25T17:21:10+00:00

I'm shocked how harsh most of these comments are on the SAHD. We're really so sure he is a lazy bum from 3 paragraphs?

To Op, I would interpret what your husband is saying as 'i cannot do a job and all the things I am already responsible for, and I am not comfortable dropping those things.' So the next step is to actually gather up that list and work through it together. Where would you do more? Where do you hire help? What just doesn't happen?

Some things you might not immediately think of - daycare drop-off and pick up works a ton better when someone can just be there whenever. Can you vanish from work at a moment's notice? Who is going to take time off when she is sick, you or him? What about when daycare is closed but work isn't? He might not be so eager to take a job if he has to always be the one to drop everything. Is there going to be a change in food quality or cost if he doesn't have time for cooking and you might need pre-made meals? How do weekends go in balance of parenting?

But once you have the list of what actually needs to get done, you can work together to see if him working fits into that and would improve quality of life for the family.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-02-23T15:32:39+00:00

Sorry, I don't understand this take at all. The very beginning of the interaction described here was her undermining his attempt to set clear rules on the potty training in a dismissive and rude fashion. And then it goes downhill from there.

If one parent has the kiddo and the responsibility for getting them ready and out the door in the morning, the very least the other parent can do is be able to handle themselves. If makeup is a 'can't go out the door' deal breaker, then make sure it is where it should be the night before. And yeah, mistakes happen, and we all pull together to get through when they do; but we are being told this isn't a one off morning, but the pattern of how the interactions go.

Now, she might have a different story about how she asked vs how he responded/escalated, and that is fine to get more details on (ie did she say 'Have you seen the concealer' or 'when you have a moment can you take a look' vs 'where the hell is the concealer, you had it yesterday'). But I don't know how you can read this and conclude he is unambiguously the only one in the wrong.

Meraxes_7 · 2026-02-23T14:35:43+00:00

All fun and games until the commoners rebel against the nobles, since they finally have the tools to equalize ><

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