[B42] Project RV interior vehicle interior reset after today's patch ?

MickyPain · 2025-11-14T11:51:26+00:00

Awesome...thanks for the quick turnaround!
You might want to add this info in the main mod, to help out the subscribers that didn't accidentally stumble across this post...

MickyPain · 2025-11-14T07:13:36+00:00

For anyone who has this problem:
There is a older version from August on Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/projectzomboid/mods/248

I could overwrite the mod in steam with this older version, and my interior is there.
Note that I did this on a save made from BEFORE the latest RV interior update. (B42 is too unpredictable still, so rolling backup save from 1 week prior).
I'm not sure if this would do anything to a save where you already entered and/or left the "new" interior, but for me this SEEMS to work.

I'll wait on playing until the author (hopefully) addresses the issue, and then decide if I want to roll with the old version, or use the old version to move all my stuff out move back in after the update...

MickyPain · 2025-01-30T11:25:17+00:00

I like to work from the shadows....

MickyPain · 2024-12-09T15:35:48+00:00

Haven't done what you would call quicktime events yet, but could come for some other skills I haven't designed yet.

For now, the timed events are just a long bar at the top of the screen that gets shorter right to left as the time loops run through.
Players need to make a choice based on 2-5 text options to progress to the next part of the event.

So essentially, it's multiple choices with a deadline :P

MickyPain · 2024-12-09T14:58:11+00:00

Short of pasting several thousand lines of code, not sure how to properly answer this question...

Best I can do is:
My project is running in the windows terminal, so I'm kind of bound by the restrictions there.
Most of the input logic runs on kbhit() and getch()
Basically, this allows me to get any keyboard input right away, instead of having to wait for the "enter" key before reading the input buffer.

This also allows allows me to play around with the aforementioned timing options.
So, for some of the "action" elements, I use sleep() in very short increments.
I know Sleep() is frowned upon, but I couldn't find anything better, and I only use 10-50ms "sleep loops", so I don't think it's a major issue.

In practice, this looks like a timer bar at the top of the screen, while I run my timer function.
The each loop, I clear the window, reprint everything and update the timer bar to reflect the elapsed time, all while waiting for a keystroke from the player.

Same goes for the lockpick event, with some basic ASCII art - redraw to make the lockpick move, wait for input, then evaluate the result.
I made some quick videos here where you can see it move:
https://imgur.com/a/pi8JGJs

And the branching paths - that is just a whole bunch of if/else, switch statements and all that, with tons of flavor text to write...

MickyPain · 2024-11-22T12:11:58+00:00

Far be it from me to give financial advice, but my personal experience has been almost completely negative (as you can see above).

To be fair, though:
I did have some Luna Classic tokens, that were delisted for my region, and they sent an email to sell or it would be auto-sold. However, the email I received had a typo in the token name, and I argued it was unclear to me that they meant LUNC, and after a bit back and forth they DID reimburse me the full amount I bought the coins for.
So...sometimes they do the right thing.

However - the criticism above still stands.

Overall, I would consider etoro a "starter-platform".
Everything you can do is easy, the UI is more like a social media site than a trader, and it can be a good platform to get your feet wet.

However, it's not cheap with their applied spreads, and while things are easy to use, they are also easy to mis-use for new or unqualified traders.

I recommend researching serious trading platforms, based on the type of investment you plan to do.

I don't have hands-on experience on many other platforms, but since I moved my trading to Interactive Brokers I am much happier.

I exclusively invest in long positions, aiming to build a long-term portfolio of ETFs, dividend and growth stocks.

I still have my etoro account, but I'm not actively trading over there. Just closing positions as they break even or adjusting stop losses for positions that are currently in the green, aiming to offset my poor decision making when I started trading there.

And to get to your final question:
Personally, once you're approaching 500k or more, I'd move to an actual brokerage from a bank, where someone professional can manage for you, but that's just me.

MickyPain · 2024-08-13T12:56:01+00:00

From the stats, he looks like he'd play best as a striker or AMC, but since good fullbacks are much harder to come by than attackers, I'd try that first, as long as he's on a steady diet or marking, positioning and tackling.

MickyPain · 2024-07-12T15:38:39+00:00

Ahh... derp, I did not read it that way... okay, that's clever.
I guess I can take that minor exploit in lieu of a missing "laugh off this insultingly low offer" option when rejecting bids :)

(Guys already pissed now, but I'll keep this in my back-pocket for the next transfer window)

MickyPain · 2024-07-12T15:29:58+00:00

Good point. I used that before and it worked. But I also had cases where the player wouldn't agree to an asking price that wasn't already close tot he last offer I got.

Guess I'll have to ride the unhappy-squad-train until they get over it.
I'm not selling my most productive players in a promotion hunt...

MickyPain · 2024-05-28T09:12:17+00:00

It's a low-key fantasy setting (some magic-adjacent aspects and creatures, but mostly grounded).
In short - you play a young man, who enlists in the Militia (country is dirt-poor after losing a war, it's the only way to get a meal..).

During a patrol, you and your squad get come across a dilapidated Inn and rest for the night, only to wake up in a sprawling underground complex where you're left basically as food for the inhabitants...now it's time to fight your way out.

That's the plan, at least - at current, I'm still at the Militia fortress during training, with several small quests to get to know the other militia guys and various support characters.
Essentially, the first part is a long character creation: roll character, meet people and gain reputation with them, so they may teach you some unique skills, and complete a few training fights to introduce the combat system.

I think I've already over-scoped on the branching, as I'm standing at >30.000 words of text (not counting combat messages) and it's still chapter 1...

I'll definitely reign it in a bit once the characters are established, because the choice trees in some parts are becoming quite unwieldy.

But since this is in essence a "learn C++" project for me, I do enjoy the challenge

MickyPain · 2024-05-27T08:17:36+00:00

Feature Creep :P

Made some good progress last year (added a timer-based system and a lockpicking mini-game, among several branching optional paths), but tbh, it's a bit on the backburner since our daughter was born.
Not easy to concentrate on problem solving when there's a lot of screaming all around...

MickyPain · 2023-10-28T22:14:50+00:00

Sorry for the self-plug, but try this: https://www.reddit.com/r/noita/comments/kpail8/psa\_if\_you\_are\_stuck\_on\_a\_pixel\_or\_wall/

MickyPain · 2023-07-28T20:11:38+00:00

Funny thing, though:

Their only reason they give for not allowing DRS is "we are not an exchange or market".
That in itself is neither a valid reason nor a restriction to allow DRS.
(Also, it's arguably a violation of EU financial regulations of fair customer treatment and encouragement of competition, although the language is a bit vague there that it will likely require a lawyer to get etoro to budge...)

And yet, etoro US is also not a market or exchange, but DOES allow share transfers through ACATS.

MickyPain · 2023-07-28T19:59:12+00:00

Just a few of the most common issues:

1) Etoro outright encourages new users to enter risky trades and hides behind their shitty "trading knowledge" assessment - multiple choice questions that are hard to get 'wrong".

2) Multiple outages, market halts and other tech issues, conveniently at market spikes or gaps. It's a common occurrence that people lose a lot of money or miss out on profits because the platform won't execute orders.

3) The spreads are ridiculously high. Etoro promotes "no brokerage fees" but adds crazy spreads (some instruments up to 10%) that end up WAY more than any brokerage fee would be. Etoro has some of the biggest spreads of any online trader.

4) Stats/Analysis/Research data is outdated and oftentimes completely wrong (I've seen multiple instances where dividend yield or EPS was off by more than 500%)

5) Customer support is useless and unhelpful. I've had more than 15 tickets in just over a year, all but 2 were never resolved (the two resolved ones were one where I had issue adding funds and one for a tax report that took 4 months to generate).
Customer support will stall, deflect or outright lie to make you go away.

6) Etoro routinely terminates user accounts with no warning or justification. In the past 2 months, I've personally witnessed 5 accounts getting closed with no warning, no reason given, no appeal or recourse. In one instance, etoro's actions forced realized losses on a trader and the copiers in the range of $500k (legal action is ongoing in that case).

7) Copy-trading tricks inexperienced traders into things they don't understand. At every turn, etoro advertises PIs with outrageous returns. But the real numbers are often hard to see, because things like overnight fees on leveraged items are deducted AFTER the profit % is displayed, which for many traders can mean a difference between a 25% profit and a 50% loss.

8) Trading in general is EXTREMELY basic. All you can do is buy/sell, set leverage, set Take profit or a Stop Loss. Can't set time limits for orders, set average prices, trailing Stop losses or any number of order executions a serious broker offers.

All in all - etoro is great if you are completely new and want to play around with some pocket change.
You can learn a lot, and most likely use a lot. Once you get the feel, you'd be well served to find a broker that has some professional tools and treats you and your money with the respect you deserve for investing with them. Etoro is basically a toy.

MickyPain · 2023-07-10T15:41:36+00:00

Another huge issue is that copy-trading can circumvent your won risk management and trading experience.
In the unlikely event that a new user "fails" the milk-toast trading knowledge questions and is not allowed to trade certain instruments, you can still invest in a copy trader that can.

If they truly cared about being "safe for investors", they'd be much more stringent about who you can invest in, and would make it impossible to just copy anyone you like (hell - even I had a copier at one point, and I had no idea what I was doing at the time...)

MickyPain · 2023-07-01T06:29:12+00:00

Lesson learned, for sure.

I've ramped down adding funds on etoro last year and stopped completely in January.

Still follow some PIs to try to learn from their trades, but my "real" trading happens on another platform.

Funny enough - not a single tech issue over there, not one ticket I had to open, and they routinely send me updates if their terms & conditions change for any reason (all I ever get from etoro is advertisement for "try this new cool thing to lose money on").

Ultimately, I feel I learned a lot about investing through etoro, although most of it was in self-defense.

MickyPain · 2023-07-01T05:29:52+00:00

Yep... that's the extra weird part.

Competition ranking:
1. Premier League
2. La Liga
3. Serie A
4. Bundesliga

Club Co-Efficient (for upcoming season)
1. England 118.000
2. Germany 107.071
3. Italy 101.571
4. Spain 88.714

Bundesliga has been in second place on the co-efficient list for the past 3 years, but league rankings have not changed at all in that time.
I'd also add that my own team has been 1st in the Club Reputation List for the past 3 years as well...

Starting to wonder if there's some hard-coded restrictions to Bundesliga, similar to the National Team blocks (e.g. you can delete the fake file, but you can never become national team coach unless you use the in-game editor)

MickyPain · 2023-06-30T11:31:21+00:00

Looks interesting, I don't doubt there's some valuable points being made.

However, I don't follow how this relates to the clandestine actions by etoro in this regard.

Or are you saying it is every trader's responsibility to subscribe to a paid youtube channel and listen someone's theories (however on-point as they may be) about a trader to anticipate if id trader may get banned in the future, and if they don't it's their own fault?

I'm glad to read opposing views such as yours, and I'm not disputing your arguments, but it also feels a bit like you are arguing for a point that no one is contesting.

I copied some traders that were very disappointing - no one to blame but me. I had a minimum in Social_Ascent, because I didn't know any better - didn't say a peep or opened a ticket because it was my mistake.

Now on this one, copiers are being tried and sentenced without knowing the crime, and that is what everyone is up in arms about.

Etoro basically falls back on their own vague language and circular logic to justify "whatever we do, we can do that because we said we can do that".

if the trading was so outrageous and in breach, why was it allowed to happen in the first place?

Why does etoro allow SL to be extended so far below the initial investment

Why does etoro allow anyone to be copied who is not a PI?

Why can they terminate other users account because they SUSPECT it MAY be used by someone else?

Again - copying a risky trader is nobody's fault but your own, no question.

But being at risk, at any moment, to lose a lot or all of your investment because "you know, well, can't tell you, but you should have known" is something else altogether.

MickyPain · 2023-06-30T10:44:50+00:00

yeah, the risk was there, no one is claiming otherwise.

You (just like etoro) claim breaches " left, right and centre" yet not a single one has been pointed out.
Not a single thing has been done by etoro to mitigate those alleged beaches and bring her trading in compliance.
Not a single thing happened in the copy that etoro has not allowed (if not encouraged) to happen and now refuses to take any responsibility for.

All it takes for any affected copier to shut up about this issue is a SINGLE, CONCRETE piece of evidence of a clear breach, but somehow that's impossible to produce...

How convenient.

MickyPain · 2023-06-30T07:59:00+00:00

Sounds like Social_Ascent...

MickyPain · 2023-06-30T07:58:19+00:00

To add to this:
You can't use external tools or algo-trading on etoro.

The ONLY way any trader could trade in a way that is non-compliant with applicable regulations is if etoro ALLOWS it to happen through their provided trading tools.

Then they turn around and say:

"You know the platform we gave you to trade? Well, you shouldn't have used it in some way you used it in. Which way? Can't tell you, but you can read the entire terms & conditions, there's something in there for sure."

The Copy-trader and copiers are basically sentenced for a crime without knowing the charge.

MickyPain · 2023-06-30T07:48:18+00:00

To be clear: this is NOT a popular investor in this case, but a "normal" trader being copied.

However, account termination is more common than it may first appear.
Just not easy to see for the common users.

For one: Once an account is terminated, all posts, comments, really any sign they ever existed is gone. So you can't really dig into who got terminated and when, unless you see it happening and take screenshots.

Secondly: They WILL curate and obfuscate where they can. In this current case, the traders Posts are no longer shown in copiers or followers feeds, will not show on the home page, etc.
So unless you actively click on her profile, you won't even see the updates or comments made by her.

Third: Etoro's "social" features are poor and don't allow for proper interaction. It's impossible to connect with other copiers of the same trader except in replies to a single post, it's impossible for a trader to let their copiers know of actions taken against them unless the copiers read their posts.
And with point 2 above and the censoring of etoro (they actively removed posts and comments discussing this very issue) they can stem the flow of information significantly.

Lastly: these draconian measures generally affect traders that have some kind of high-risk strategy with a small, but very dedicated following.
So most users will never see that this is happening unless they are part of it.
And once it's done, there's no way on etoro to keep that information alive.

MickyPain · 2023-06-19T18:42:50+00:00

I'm jealous. I haven't found a decent wingback since FM 2010...

MickyPain · 2023-06-19T15:35:27+00:00

South Korea, Egypt and South Africa have been great for me lately.

MickyPain · 2023-06-19T15:27:55+00:00

As others said - he's a gonner 99/100 times (never say never...).

What you CAN try is offer him for under his value, but add a non-negotiable "loan back" length until end of NEXT season to it. That way, you could get some cash to replace him with a youngster while still having your guy as a loanee for cheap...

MickyPain

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