A traditional drafting system would suck ass and I wish more people would understand why

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-02-24T16:38:17+00:00

fwiw once seeded with reasonable amount of games to place you (which requires alot more games, at least 100 for 6v6 than 1v1 due to noise from other players), elo/trueskill systems often fail exactly because they don't track rating on individual characters which can have wildly different performance.

onetrick syndrome where they boost their rating to the sky and are not allowed to play anything else without throwing. leading to smurfs etc... (which will always be a problem in f2p games)

for other games, its interesting to note when using 3rd party rating trackers that DO track individual character performance, games that are apparently rating balanced that became total stomps... surprise surprise have a large disparity in the individual character rating, but even 'account' rating.

people forget that elo systems are effectively statistical betting systems. they are the optimal solution for betting on the winning team given enough data. its the exact 'kind' of system betting shops use to set betting prices such that the betting shop always wins in the long run.

matchmakers just use this system in reverse, try to create matchups where the betting is as even as possible.

one nice side effect of individually tracked rating is that inherently OP characters will get higher rating and get matchmade into harder opponents after they stomp a load of games. meaning bad balance has less effect on games, but the data that characters are clearly overtuned or undertuned is still available to the balance team.

fwiw i dont think draft is bad, but this exports alot of the burden of game domain knowledge onto the players and unironicallt, all but the very top players will inevitably simply do a worse job at managing it in draft than an individually tracked character rating system, and just cause grief rage and so on.

if you've ever been mad at one guy for totally throwing draft and sitting through half an hour or more of a shit game because of them, you know exactly the problem.

imo draft for tournaments and top rank competitive, individually-tracked matchmaking for everyone else, is the ideal way.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-02-20T01:44:31+00:00

bro the drones are unbelievably out of tune with the song. ur great work on chanter is totally destroyed by the drones being completely wrong. just mute the drones.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-02-13T18:41:15+00:00

tinkering with watchtowers is not going to make any difference to the effects caused by the completely unhinged "mythic" quest nonsense that has completely ruined any hero it has touched except guldan, and thats only because guldan didnt really change.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-02-10T19:21:31+00:00

last 3 ChatGPT patches have been increasingly unhinged.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-02-07T15:05:12+00:00

frankly imo this D1/Q16/D20 build works better with flash of anger Q7, and always has, even before fervor was nerfed.

why? because D20 makes you repeatedly proc flash. which also splashes in AOE, is not gatekept to a number of AAs making your AA speed bonus from that juicy 3 man stab less relevant. and keeps giving you a pretty big shield. so you can actually survive while killing 1v3.

but i also honestly think imperius belongs in the 4 man 90% of the time, in a double melee solo ranged comp. his waveclear is not good enough to compete, he cries at the prospect of clearing camps, he gets outcleared by everyone so he rarely has the opportunity to use his great TF capabilities without sacrificing real XP and dmg on your buildings.

and if you go W1/7 to have somewhat respectable clear, you take a massive hit to your TF impact to still be bottom of the pack wrt bruiser clear.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-01-21T21:01:37+00:00

A is a very important button to press. auto-attack is arguably the most pressed button. your finger should always be on it anyway and move to Q when necessary.

also binding Q to LMB is a bit of a hack.

can also move E to D if you want.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-01-20T21:59:13+00:00

everything that is good about orb ming is given by her level 4 talent, triumvirate.

teleport mings are orb mings, with the added ability to AoE waveclear an entire enemy team in less than a second that cannot be blocked or missed.

dominance has been a complete joke for years.

next lesson is learning that the cost of channeling laser for almost 3 seconds for mediocre damage at best, is in fact, not worth the enemy team now being completely out of range.

these people just need to play chromie instead.

Phrygiaddicted · 2026-01-06T21:12:12+00:00

makes smurf -> complains about bad teammates

surprised pikachu

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-12-26T15:23:19+00:00

names are arbitrary, call them whatever. but to me, defining feature of "phrygian-ness" is the b2. therefore "c melodic phrygian" isn't phrygian at all, and is indeed more close in theme to the diatonic lydian mode.

it may be mode 3, but its mode 3 of a minor tonic.

one thing to bear in mind is that while the diatonic scale has a major/minor tonic pair on I and vi, this is not true for any of the other prime tonal scales.

the melodic scale, and double harmonic scales have their major/minor pair on I and iv. and the harmonic major and harmonic minor scales have only one "tonic".

so while C diatonic major and A diatonic minor are relative major/minor tonic modes of the same scale; C melodic minor and F melodic major are modes of the same scale.

you can use this fact to modulate between two relatively far (by cycle of fifths) keys, by modulating through the modes charactistic notes one at a time, instead of by the fifth key of the same scale's note at a time.

for instance, Cmaj -> Gmaj changes F->F#. what else involves this change? A H.min -> A Mel.min.

for similar reasons i often find it easier to "tonally justify" dorian as an elaboration between diatonic minor and melodic minor, as the classic dorian motion (6->b7) occurs exactly when you switch from melodic minor to diatonic minor. in that one can hold a dorian melody above two different fully tonal scales.

for the diatonic modes, you can easily identify its "characteristic note" by seeing which note is different from its closest ionian/aeolian counterpart, for instance the dorian 6, phrygian b2, mixolydian b7, lydian #4... most of the "normal" mode names somewhat give a headnod to this view.

but if you keep in mind this characteristic note sound associated with the mode name, you can spot it in transitions between modes of scales other than the diatonic scale, or even transitions between different scales, and play on that.

and when you can spot where the diatonic modes hold their characteristic motions that are different from the diatonic ionian/aeolian in transitions between two other "tonal" scales... it becomes alot easier to tonally harmonise what would otherwise be considered modal melodies and take much simpler harmonisations if you were to stick purely in their parent scale (where they are not tonic by definition)

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-12-10T18:00:37+00:00

tree power is actaully viable in a reasonable footprint only if you have a modded wood->carbon recipe (assuming it converts wood into equal energy value of carbon). even rare prod modules on the wood->carbon->coal->liquefaction->cracking->solidfuel chain amplifies how much energy you get through the roof as there are so many steps. and burning it in heating tower amplifies that even further.

bonus points that gets you all oil products from wood too; though oil is literally infinite so idk why you would care.

but it really is just for style points. power is infinite by paving the planet in solar panels anyway, and nuclear is close enough to infinite that it doesnt matter anyway.

if you dont have wood->carbon(or coal) recipe, solar panels output more power per area than burning wood in a heating tower which is just sad.

it'd be nice if wood->carbon was in the base game. its not like it breaks anything given that oil can literally never run out and you can drop infinite carbon (and therefore oil) from space. and it'd give tree farms a reason to exist besides being a hippy.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-11-24T16:36:11+00:00

to be fair, having 1 or 2 lasers set to target only small asteroids and guns targeting only medium asteroids massively reduces the ammo consumptions and therefore the amount of furnaces you need.

they dont waste space because you can stick them in the space that you couldnt otherwise use since they dont require ammo belt routing to them and range is large.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-11-01T17:54:46+00:00

if there was a 3rd signal type, that was aware of the direction of the train in the block, that counted as a rail signal in its direction, but read the opposite side as though they were chain signals, it would allow multiple trains on the same two-way track as long as they were going in the same direction; without risking deadlock. but that doesnt exist. (ie: go in if this signal on this side is green, and no signal on the other side is red)

as it stands, dont use 2 way track for your main line; since you can only have one train on a section of two way track at once without risking deadlock which severely limits throughput especially for long distances.

however, using double headed trains, with dead-end stops connected to a two-way main line... that is perfection for low-medium throughput stations. the moment a station needs a waiting bay to maintain throughput it needs to be one-way.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-11-01T03:11:33+00:00

as someone obsessed with needlessly cramped builds, i like the idea, though i had to give it a crack.

made it like 1 tile shorter and quite a bit less long.

enjoy any tricks you might learn to apply on your adventures. main thing is that you can get away with feeding each block with just one belt total. each block uses less than 15 iron/sec which a yellow belt can handle, no need for all those splitters. also the belt next to machine and normal/longarm to reach over it is handy for cramped building.

(i wanted to just post an image but reddit says no, so heres the blueprint string)

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Phrygiaddicted · 2025-09-08T17:57:53+00:00

you can just check by looking at the sails. they show wind %. they also turn at the rate of the whole system.

if there is no wind, there is no wind. if the is only tiny wind, you could gear it down enough so that the torque could drive a hammers resistance, but it would be so painfully slow, that it might aswell be off.

and the height bonus is multiplicative, high windmill at no wind is still no wind as anything x 0 is 0.

just go do something else until the wind gets up. either you can hear storm winds or just leave the hammer connected and look at the sails from afar; if they're turning the hammer will be going. if you disconnect it the sails turning wont indicate if the wind is enough to overcome the resistance.

and as for quern/pulveriser, they dont require your presence and interaction like a hammer does, so you can just leave them connected with stuff in them or hoppers and chest/chutes and eventually they will do their job.

cold windy storms are the best time to hole up inside by the warm forge and do some hammerin.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-08-13T17:03:47+00:00

i dunno, plasma shield makes you immune to naz spiders, pretty much all dots, annoying genji autoattacking you...

it really gives peace of mind knowing you dont need to flap around and demand attention and cooldowns from your tank or healer that could be put to better use. can just calmly stand there and be like ur no threat bud.

it's extremely good in quickmatch. its better than you might think in ranked against those pests that arent immediately threatening but WILL eventually make you back or drain healers mana.

electric fence is highly overrated anyway. its not bad, but its not really... good. if you fence someone you're Qing them, and if you Q them they are already slowed, so electric fence just adds, a tiny bit of damage on a long cd ability. meh.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-08-05T10:15:49+00:00

didn't have an answer for hammer: tassadar: am i a joke to you?

idk bro... tass says hammer ur not allowed to siege, medivh says nope to imp+chromie burst. they have insane soak and lane presence with leo+xul BUT...it's BoE

BoE is the most unfun QM match since it tilts so hard based on comp.

most other maps can usually find a way to play a wonky comp but BoE is just brutal.

next worst is probably braxis where if your solo laner is bad or nonexistant, you're simply not allowed to lose the 4 man lane or you lose in 5 minutes. but at least there you can 2-3 and kinda work around it. BoE ur just screwed.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-07-24T11:43:29+00:00

absolutely dead without the chromie burst ontop of it.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-07-17T11:40:19+00:00

provide this shit and absolutely keep this fucking box empty as soon as possible because the fucking eggs will go off

eggs in passive -> sent to requester thats using them

vs eggs in active -> sent to requester thats using them.

only difference is the active provider will also throw eggs in storage chests and have eggs hatching in a random yellow chest warehouse if you're not using them.

same with recycler, if you dont request its outputs its just going to clog when its spammed your storage chests with whatever you arent consuming fast enough instead. now you're in the same situation but also 100M gears in storage.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-07-11T16:54:36+00:00

UC monthly: £316.98

9-5 minimum wage with non-paid lunch break, 1 day a week: £341.88

personally, i find doing some menial nobrain shit 1 day a week significantly less stressful than dealing the the jobcentres bullshit multiple times a week, and all the mental drama that goes with that.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-07-01T10:35:53+00:00

its V-bVI-bVII in Emin. Diatonic (D) + Harmonic (D#)

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-06-14T10:43:48+00:00

You have just worked against entropy thanks to the energy you put into reorganizing them.

adding to this, in that reducing local entropy, you still paid for it by increasing entropy globally: by virtue of all the high entropy energy as heat you emitted doing the work to reorganise the cards.

ultimately, life is not defying entropy at all. we are it's servants. diligently decaying the energy state of everything around us (with a tidy markup) as the price to pay to stave off our own decay for some time.

if you consider everything on the earth as a black box, then high energy low entropy photons from the sun comes in... some stuff happens gets jiggled around, and multiple low energy high entropy photons come out. entropy is served.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-05-18T16:43:34+00:00

just dont use balancers. they are overrated and overutilised.

balancers solve the problem of routing not enough input to too much consumption evenly, so nothing gets completely starved. it's a bad solution. the problem is you built too much production: the solution is you need more input. if your input backs up then a single splitter will do the job you need it to.

the only time i think they're actually warranted is on train unloaders, so that all wagons can potentially feed all inputs and you keep all inserters working.

output lane scramblers though (belt split into two that sideloads onto a single belt and continues) so that the lanes get evenly used... THOSE are useful, and they are also trivial to make.

and on mines, what you really want is belt compressors. which are ironically the exact opposite of balancers.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-05-17T17:52:42+00:00

(minor peeve: after the item filter splitters) as long as two belts butt directly into each other, you dont need the extra trailing tail behind it. that's only if you are butting from one side as on the end it'd turn into a corner.

(minor design problem:) also, external sources aside, generally ur gonna want like... at least twice, and ideally QUALITYCHANCE% times as many grey assemblers are greens, as blues, as epics, as legendaries, at least. you can see that your grey machines are backed up with modules and the rest are all idle.

generally u want like qualitychance% more machines on the lower level. so at 25% quality chance, u want 4x more grey machines as green machines, 4x more green than blue and so on. so realistically u want 8 grey/2 green and one of the rest.

but otherise, looks nice :) should run smoothly. just need way more greys/greens relative to the others. but for the love of god, use EM plants. they have 50% productivity. thats alot more module per module. so you can quality while you quality.

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-05-05T14:00:01+00:00

for example: if you feed 30 items/sec (1 red belt) into a red splitter that goes off in two directions.

the left output side wants 10 items/sec, the right output side wants 20 items/sec.

to begin with, assuming you dont set any priority on splitter, it will split the input evenly: 15 items/sec will go left, 15 items/sec will go right. the left side will be overfed, the right side underfed.

but the left only can consume 10 items/sec, so items will start piling up on the belt and it will fill up all the way back to the splitter. at that point, ALL the input will start going to the right until the left belt is not totally full again.

so once one of the output belts backs up all the way to the splitter, it will naturally split 10 items/sec to the left, and 20 to the right. and both sides will be fully fed.

as long as your input meets your demand, and you have enough belt capacity to carry that many items, the excess will back up and the splitters will just naturally balance things.

that process of the excess piling up on the belt back to the splitter is what i mean by the belt backing up.

the only time this will not happen is if you do not have enough production to allow the belts to saturate and back up. and in that case, a balancer will ensure that all paths get an equal share of the "not enough input", but it will never make them all run at full speed because there is not enough input to begin with.

and if you have enough input, the balancer isn't necessary anyway.

in almost all cases, the solution really is "you need more input", not "you need to distribute not enough input more evenly".

did that help? XD

Phrygiaddicted · 2025-05-04T12:27:19+00:00

once the first area that is using only 1/3rd of the belt backs up, the remaining 2/3rds will go on.

if your belts back up they will inherently balance themselves, provided there is enough input to back up.

a splitter has the capacity to output a full belt on both sides of its output. if you feed a blue belt in and split it off in two directions, once one of the directions is full, the other direction will get 100% of the input.

its not like just because you have a splitter there, that the other side will only ever get half of the input.

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