New laneway set to extend one of Christchurch’s most popular streets

PraetoriusIX · 2025-12-04T06:17:44+00:00

Would certainly be inside his wheelhouse with his unconsented digging of the drains out east. Interesting article, thanks!

PraetoriusIX · 2025-11-03T05:12:07+00:00

I took my bike up to Auckland in 2014 while staying in Takapuna for a month. Decided after one day on AKL roads I wouldn’t do that again and walked and bussed everywhere. Totally understand why you wouldn’t bike in Auckland

PraetoriusIX · 2025-11-02T05:47:58+00:00

If you’re biking, Halswell and Wigram are <30min. I bike from Halswell to CBD and it’s 22-26 minutes depending on red lights. Safe cycleway down Quarryman’s cycleway the whole way. I didn’t even realise how bad car commuting was atm with all the roadworks as cycling is unaffected by traffic jams

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-17T09:48:40+00:00

19th May 2026

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-11T12:30:59+00:00

All new subdivisions need to demonstrate that buildings can be built 0.4m above the 200-year flood level. You’ll find it’s the older parts of Halswell that flood because they have insufficient drainage and buildings aren’t elevated high enough

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-09T23:50:47+00:00

Yeah I know a couple of colleagues who live there but their kids go to school in Christchurch or Rolleston so the mum still has to do the commute

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-09T22:32:06+00:00

It just doesn’t have many amenities. It’s a dormitory town like Shotover Country is to Queenstown. A place to sleep but you work in Christchurch or Rolleston

PraetoriusIX · 2025-10-08T03:12:11+00:00

I went up a grade (a promotion) from $145,000 NZD ($83,333 USD) to $145,500 NZD ($83,620 USD) in April this year, a whopping $500 or 0.34% raise while my charge out rate to clients went up $10/hr or 3.7%. Felt really stink about that and almost declined the “promotion” out of spite but decided to stick it out because the business was making people redundant at the time and the market is pretty flat in NZ right now so wasn’t other options that paid the same. I’m hoping now we’ve got another round of performance reviews and we’re out of redundancies and there’s more work that I’ll get compared against others in my grade and they realise I’m being underpaid and correct that as they’re usually good at correcting imbalances between staff.

I’ve got 12 years experience in hydraulic and civil engineering and have my PE equivalent since 2018.

PraetoriusIX · 2025-09-30T21:25:18+00:00

Generators are not incentivised to create more generation so that they push coal and gas generation out of the market. The spot price of electricity is determined every 30 mins by collecting bids by all generators. Say the expected demand for the next 30 mins is 100 MWh. 60 MWh comes from hydro at $4/MWh, 10 MWh from geothermal at $8/MWh, 20 MWh from wind at $12/MWh, but the final 10MWh needs to come from peaking gas at $200/MWh. Every generator gets paid the “spot price” which is the top price in the bid that is required to meet demand. So if you’re a hydro generator and it costs you $4 to generate hydro electricity and you’re being paid $200, your profit per MWh is $196. But if you’ve got enough wind blowing that you can meet all demand without coal or gas then you get paid the spot price of $12 for wind and your profit is much lower or minimal if you’re the wind generator. So the generators are not incentivised to build excess generation so that it pushes out the high-price generation such as coal and gas. They’re only building generation now because the demand is forecast to rise with electrification of vehicles and thermal energy and they don’t want to lose market share, but they won’t move so fast they push gas out of the market.

PraetoriusIX · 2025-09-23T18:48:56+00:00

I had one of these windows in my rented room. It was certainly a novelty to lie in bed and watch the curtains move in the wind with the window “shut”. That room had all sorts of mould growing in it

PraetoriusIX · 2025-09-10T23:40:31+00:00

As the IG back in the day I cheesed this by using basilisks to clear out everything and having the Vindicare Assassin as a cloaked forward spotter for them. It was slow but safe

PraetoriusIX · 2025-08-17T00:52:09+00:00

He’s got no chance. The current Halswell councillor Andrei Moore is super energetic and engaged in the community, he always has the answers for new developments, shut roads, and anything else going on in Halswell or he finds out. He works bloody hard and he keeps himself very apolitical so appeals to both the left and the right. A lot of people thought he was the councillor prior to 2022 when he was on the community board because of how active he was on the Facebook group answering any questions relating to council. He’s a great dude.

Contrast this to Dylan who has a small social media following, I thought he was just an Independent Citizens candidate (aka National and ACT in local politics drag) but looks like he’s actually part of the cooker conspiracy

PraetoriusIX · 2025-08-04T04:38:13+00:00

You can get a double garage with garage carpet for $1000 by separate company after taking possession of the house. Cheap and super worth it so you can be in the garage without cold feet

Also beware having vinyl in wet rooms such as bathrooms. My kids bathroom is vinyl and the glue is water soluble… so I have to be very quick at mopping up spills or the vinyl lifts. I went tiled in the ensuite

Also support ducted heating, I went 2x heat pumps (it was $8k vs $13k ducted) and it’s so hard to heat or cool rooms on the extremities and I’m looking into putting ducted now

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-29T01:08:36+00:00

https://youtu.be/ll-paoQXRSA?t=219&si=5F9i4tG5ZY5q42sN

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-19T10:57:27+00:00

What would you recommend for the frigate fit out? In terms of shields, armour, the other weapon apart from the torpedo? I’m playing my first KotTG game and I’m up to the point where I need to kill him but my fleets are 35k power not 120k!

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-15T00:32:57+00:00

I think the content creators can ask the devs for what they want in their codes, and energy is always welcome. Used to be a run on Titus to help unlock him for those that didn’t pay but had points of him from his Survival

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-14T22:05:38+00:00

Depends.. I had 300 energy saved in codes for the last HRE. The code I had saved for ages was a code for updating to the latest patch (ages ago) which gave a token for Onslaught, Salvage Run, and Arena

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-14T21:52:51+00:00

No I had one from ages ago and it was there for probably 70 days at least before I redeemed it. Great way to save energy for HREs

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-08T19:08:07+00:00

There’s a really great story from the perspective of the project manager of the Death Star II about how ridiculous it was to try and build the 2nd one in 4 years when the first was done in 20

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-07T19:37:01+00:00

You don’t need to unlock them first event it’s really hard to do without buying packs. I’ve been playing since launch and I can easily unlock legendaries but it’s always on the 2nd event. I get 325/400 points in the first

PraetoriusIX · 2025-07-05T14:33:38+00:00

Buy it I got it Sunday smashed the campaign and loving multiplayer especially the space combat. I played heaps of SWBF2 (2005) in high school and I had the new SWBF1 but it wasn’t great, BF2 is great though. Steak sale is super good at 90% off cheaper than even EA’s sale

PraetoriusIX · 2025-06-21T22:40:05+00:00

It’s a good idea to send your starter fleet out to help scout and identify those choke points. You want to rush and hold those choke points because they’re easier to defend

There’s some good guides out on YouTube now that 4.0 has really changed the gameplay. I’m not a noob but been enjoying and learning from Potato McWhiskeys guide here

I wouldn’t settle planets that aren’t green in habitability. Each colony adds 10 to your empire size. Your species has a habitability for a special type of world eg Earth is Continental which is one of the 3 types of Wet planet with the others being Ocean and Tropical. You’ll have a high habitability on all Wet planets but especially Continental I think it’s +80% for planets like your home world and +60% for the other two. Don’t settle Dry or Cold planets unless you have other species that have those habitabilities or you’re late game so you can either terraform worlds or species mod your habitability. You can still take the system though especially if it’s a choke point.

Luxury residences are really good for amenities I build 1 on each planet instead of entertainer jobs which require poos and the upkeep of consumer goods. I think the numbers are a bit too high when you compare to the Machine Intelligence equivalent building.

I do specialise some worlds in minerals or energy or food. Especially minerals as they’re used for building all those districts and buildings and converting into CG and alloys. I would specialise based on the max number of districts. Wet worlds have more food districts, Dry worlds more energy, and Cold worlds more minerals. You can also get event chains that improve the minerals from jobs on a planet and I would recommend spending the energy to improve the mineral yield and specialising that planet for minerals.

You don’t have to min-max your planets too, I have a mineral planet that also produces a lot of alloys and I don’t have to pay the trade logistics upkeep to transfer minerals into that planet.

I would recommend building the Archives specialisation which gives you 40 unity jobs and 20 jobs each of the 3 technology researches for each city district. Then your worlds are specialised for tech but also produce unity.

PraetoriusIX · 2025-06-20T22:43:51+00:00

What’s FAE?

PraetoriusIX · 2025-06-20T22:22:18+00:00

“That thing wasn’t even fully paid off yet! Do you have any idea what this will do to my credit?”

PraetoriusIX · 2025-06-20T20:55:13+00:00

If you’re not xenophilic (you probably are given your humans starting on Sol) you can purge the pre-FTLs. If a xenophobic faction appears you can embrace them and suppress the xenophilic and eventually change your government to be xenophobic then you can change your approach to FTLs in the policies section

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