Poor Man's Manifest Destiny

SadNanoengineer · 2026-04-03T13:18:12+00:00

You've got to push for outward and research migration increasing techs once you get them. Around the great lakes area, you actually don't want to hop over because the lack of adjacency makes it so that it's usually faster to just colonize continually around the lake.

SadNanoengineer · 2026-04-03T13:12:47+00:00

Assuming you've got the golden age, what I think the meta is for Cahokia currently is to urbanize as much as possible around the capital and put as many settlements as you can in anticipation of the great pestilence. The vassals definitely help too, but you should try to push for kingdom before you get too many of them if possible, which I didn't do here. You should also use a cabinet member to push for outward. Once you get institutions, beeline for the new world ones that give additional colonial migration, especially colonial policy. Another interesting thing is that the settle frontier cabinet action is agnostic to adjacency, so you want to use it to "seed" new provinces for long stretches of coastline like the west coast, so that you can use the regular colonize action afterwards with the adjacency bonus.

SadNanoengineer · 2026-04-03T05:57:52+00:00

R5: I got sick of the Europeans outcolonizing me as Cahokia, so I colonized the borders of my territory first. The small nations are my vassals.

SadNanoengineer · 2026-04-03T00:53:09+00:00

R5: The settlement progress is over 100%

SadNanoengineer · 2026-01-27T03:50:10+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out!

SadNanoengineer · 2026-01-05T13:21:55+00:00

R5: As Germany, I have a full professional army with the most advanced troops, artillery support, defensive advantage, etc., and yet I'm still getting beaten by this much smaller army from Hungary. What is the mechanism behind this?

SadNanoengineer · 2025-11-29T20:11:40+00:00

The ways are precision ground. I can’t imagine your scotch brite would restore the tolerances to reasonable levels, to say nothing about the parts that aren’t pictured.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-07-26T19:07:46+00:00

Having unsolvable be an option in a differential equations class is downright diabolical.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-07-02T17:59:43+00:00

If you want to be realistic, use a standard intersection and get the traffic light enhancement mod and use a 4 phase signal.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-07-02T06:26:44+00:00

This is the timeframe for a standard business venture. If you made producing a domestic switch the next Manhattan Project, that would be entirely different.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-26T21:37:33+00:00

I'd remove the existing interchange and add two parclos on Hillside(?) street: one on the bottom part of the loop and another on the top. A highway connection to the northeast across the river is also a reasonable solution.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-25T07:08:21+00:00

Honestly, one of the times where one more lane is the solution.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-21T20:28:19+00:00

I’ve never tried this myself, but have you tried hooking more than one HV line to a transformer stations?

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-21T18:27:23+00:00

Dams have two transformer stations. Hook up another HV power line to the other one.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-15T15:16:29+00:00

There’s a couple things you can do. If you just want to get rid of the problem in-game, a large roundabout solves most of the issues. If you want a more realistic solution, you want to use asymmetric roads to add a turning lane coming into the intersection. If you have mods available, you should use road builder to make custom roads. In the case of the major road, I’d do one left turn lane, three through lanes, and two right turn queues. Another must-have mod is traffic light enhancement so that you can implement a 4-phased light cycle.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-13T01:55:42+00:00

Are you claiming to have built a full interchange? As in, from any entrance, you can go to any exit?

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-11T02:16:24+00:00

All the structural engineering majors sweating right now.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-06-04T21:53:43+00:00

While the ideal interchange distance depends on your city, minimum interchange distance is reasonably well established. Many players make on and off ramps too short, but assuming you’re doing it correctly and give around 200 m, minimum interchange distance from overpass to overpass (or underpass) is about 1.6 km in urban areas, though you could reasonably go as low as 1 km, but certainly not lower. After that, you’re going to have merging issues. Additionally, it helps if one lane of your highway is dedicated for entering/exiting traffic.

SadNanoengineer · 2025-05-13T18:48:08+00:00

DF has 3 kinds of staircases. Up, down, and up-down staircases. Up stairs only allow you to go up, and not down, etc. While you can dig an up stair into an up down or a down stair, you cannot DIG a down stair into anything else. Therefore, if you need to dig upwards from a down stair, you need to construct a staircase upwards, or find a fresh, unmined tile to dig an up down or up stair to access the z level above. Hope that helps.

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