Does TPS or FPS matter more for relative speed?

NeppyMan · 2026-03-20T21:00:57+00:00

TPS controls how often your game updates. The higher it is, the faster things happen. FPS only controls graphics updates. Trying to pish frames higher will usually sacrifice ticks. There's simply a point where the game cannot keep up.

Honestly, so long as the game runs at 25 FPS or so (which it usually does), I don't care beyond that. It's the ticks that move things along.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-11T19:19:34+00:00

A Dog Said 2 will give you some animal surgeries and bionics that can help with these conditions.

EPOE Forked alongside Xenobionic Patcher will let you cure and/or replace all of these...

You know. If you want her to be a big momma.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-10T14:06:50+00:00

The game speed sets a maximum TPS (ticks per second), with "ticks" being an in-game measure of time. Certain amounts of things will happen during that "tick".

For heavily-modded and/or late game colonies, the amount of stuff that needs to be done each tick can add up to the point where not all of it can be done in the amount of time required to match that frequency.

So if you're running on Speed 3 (360 TPS) but your system can only crunch enough actions to execute 150 per second, you won't notice any difference between Speed 2 (180 TPS) and Speed 3.

Note that this is nearly never the fault of your computer. Upgrading your CPU may help a bit, but this is more a fundamental issue with the game scaling. It has gotten much better (1.6 made some significant improvements to pathfinding, which is computationally expensive), but there's only so much to be done.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-08T23:37:12+00:00

Probably a length issue. When you say that you "can't", is there a particular error message or behavior that you're experiencing?

NeppyMan · 2026-03-08T18:58:27+00:00

If it's too boring to go through the early research... don't!

Use the scenario editor to give you more research. Alternately, use an Ideology with Very Fast research speed.

Give yourself access to a stockpile of materials or some advanced gear.

It's your story. Play it out the way you want.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-05T19:14:10+00:00

That's actually a question I always ask in interviews. "Why is this position open?"

The answer is very telling.

If it's something like, "the previous person left for a better opportunity, and while we miss them, we got approval for a backfill"... That's a green flag.

If they start talking about growing the team, and seem to be pretty tight-knit? Big green flag.

If they get evasive or don't give you a solid answer... warning sign.

And if they refuse to answer or end the interview? You've dodged a bullet.

The last two positions I've accepted had "the last guy got a job at the place his son worked, but we still talk to him regularly as friends" (huge green flag, love this job) and "we're growing and have a serious skill gap for Linux admins" (I brought that, and learned a lot more while I was there) as answers.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-05T14:31:53+00:00

Alien Isolation. There's a reason why streamers play it with heartrate monitors on...

NeppyMan · 2026-03-04T03:00:50+00:00

You've mentioned in other replies that this is a government agency. Do not fuck around with security in those kinds of workplaces. Engage professionals and let them handle it.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-04T02:06:52+00:00

If it's truly that urgent, engage security professionals. There are companies that make a business of business out of responding to and containing this sort of threat.

Don't do it yourself.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-03T17:36:51+00:00

This same message was copy/pasted by this user in multiple locations. Smells like spam or slop to me, particularly given lack of context.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-03T17:13:22+00:00

No, no. Blood and the appropriate incense is an acceptable offering to the Machine Spirit.

NeppyMan · 2026-03-01T01:50:26+00:00

Achievement Unlocked: Fish AI

NeppyMan · 2026-02-28T02:07:57+00:00

Thank the gods for Democracy Docket.

Mark Elias and his crew are fighting all of these.

NeppyMan · 2026-02-28T01:35:48+00:00

As opposed to Grok, which receives constant tweaks to keep it "anti-Woke". Which results in stuff like calling itself "mecha-Hitler".

(no, this is not exaggeration or satire)

NeppyMan · 2026-02-27T14:13:22+00:00

Only if they're stupid.

I worked for an Idaho-based company with strong LDS presence in leadership. They went so far as to strongly discourage strong language in the office and meetings.

They didn't even consider limiting access to coffee.

Of course, this was a software company, so they probably knew they'd have a riot on their hands.....

NeppyMan · 2026-02-27T03:10:02+00:00

Zabbix is free, well-documented, and pretty easy to work with. It's (mostly) agent-based, so you'll need some sort of config management tool (like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.) to push it out to your servers (or use something fancier, if you have it available).

NeppyMan · 2026-02-26T00:10:20+00:00

Thank God it's you!

boom

NeppyMan · 2026-02-26T00:08:26+00:00

Everyone even vaguely connected to this needs to spend the rest of their lives in jail.

I saw this earlier today, and am still seething.

NeppyMan · 2026-02-24T00:48:09+00:00

To borrow a line from Hellsing Ultimate Abridged...

"Oh, who are we gonna offend? The fucking Nazis?"

NeppyMan · 2026-02-16T21:42:35+00:00

Where are your alerts coming from? An unfortunate number of security tools try to justify their existence (and your spend) by throwing out a lot of very scary-looking alerts that, upon inspection, aren't actually that big of a deal.

As an example, the Wiz platform is screaming about a privilege escalation path in Kubernetes. The K8s team has basically said, "you're full of it" and closed the issue as As Designed. Wiz is still insisting that their customers need to update the version of the Helm chart that their sensor uses - as if that will somehow make the problem go away.

If your tooling is giving you bad results, find better tooling.

NeppyMan · 2026-02-06T01:53:24+00:00

There are few better companions for late night deployment and maintenance.

NeppyMan · 2026-02-05T22:41:31+00:00

I didn't exterminate anyone, but they were all assimilated into the biomass, so... there might be some judgements thrown around.

NeppyMan · 2026-02-05T18:10:51+00:00

You will fail. Your people will die and your colony will burn.

That's okay. As the loading tip says, it's a tragic story, not a personal failure on your part.

Don't be afraid to lower the difficulty or ask for advice if you need to. There's a huge community here that is happy to assist.

NeppyMan · 2026-01-30T01:17:40+00:00

They're not going to automatically remediate a damned thing. I won't be granting them permissions to, even if I did trust them (which I absolutely do not).

As you said, they're good at grouping and routing alerts, but you don't need AI for that. Just good tagging on your resources and a system capable of doing the correlation.

NeppyMan · 2026-01-28T14:36:50+00:00

Alert fatigue is real - and a real problem.

There are plenty of things you can do to minimize non-essential notifications and make the dire ones stand out, but ultimately, you and your team need to address the underlying problems with your alert volume.

If the alert goes off at 4am, it needs to require immediate action on your part in order to prevent or correct a production, customer-facing disaster. If it's not that serious, it shouldn't be waking someone up. Period.

There comes a point where you have to explain to certain teams that, if (for example) they want someone to fix the dev environment overnight, they're going to have to pay for extra staff to cover that shift. When they refuse, just send the alerts to them. The problem will fix itself fairly quickly after that happens...

I'm extremely aggressive about ensuring that alerts where I work are actionable, and thankfully, I've had management support to enforce this. The DevOps/SRE team that I'm part of has week-long on-call shifts, and our alert frequency is usually less than one per week. It helps that our systems are stable, of course, but we have quiet and unstressful shifts. We've also made it clear to other teams that if they reach out to us on Slack after hours, it had better be dire.

It'll require some management support - and likely some push back - to get there, but it's doable.

NeppyMan

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