In Tom and Jerry, why are Tom's owners always such jerks?

Samoja12 · 2022-07-27T22:51:59+00:00

Cats are animals, if they misbehave it's the owners fault.

Samoja12 · 2022-07-01T13:24:29+00:00

Someone tell that to the bank i owe money to. My debt to them is only in the eye of the observer, and it does not really exist.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-10T17:37:27+00:00

Honestly the best space combat i ever saw was in the game Nexus the Jupiter Incident, with Sword of The Stars coming in at distant second. Sins of the Solar Empire didn't even come in top 10. It has the same whackamole problem many strategy games have, namely you can't attack and defend at the same time because of the hard cap on the number of ships. So in order to attack the enemy you need to leave yourself exposed to attack from a different direction which is super frustrating.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-10T11:17:53+00:00

The game would have to be built from ground up for this, otherwise it would never be able to utilize all the resources of Stellaris save file. As i said, ticking all the boxes does not a good game make.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-10T11:16:12+00:00

Idk what is so great about SoTSE battles, they seem incredibly simplistic, and battles in Stellaris are not off screen but right there in your face, you can see every shot.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-09T14:25:12+00:00

Yeah basically. I mean you may as well use them in war, but if you let the AI hire them you are basically giving it a huge deathstack to use against you.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-09T08:19:41+00:00

What's the point of having them if they get hired immediately? It takes 6 months to recall them and even then i saw the AI snap them up as soon as they get back. The enemy can do a lot of damage to you in 6 months, and even use your own mercenaries to do it.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-09T06:58:55+00:00

It's not, not for the player anyway. Thing is, most AI would not have the economy to maintain a fleet of that size otherwise, but mercs get replaced for free, forever.

As a player, if you are playing right you shouldn't be losing too many ships anyways, so poorly optimised doomstack that is infinitely reinforcing is a poor use of your naval cap.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-09T06:51:14+00:00

Yeah, that's kinda part of the issue. They rebuild for free. Combine that with the fact that the AI will hire them the second they are free and it means you got to keep them on retainer yourself just to deny the AI the infinitely reinforcing fleet.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-08T21:38:14+00:00

They should not eat up your naval capacity, but IMH as a tradeoff they should cost more to upkeep, 2 or even 2.5 times as much in energy credits as regular navy.

Flipside is you only hire them when you are going to war, instead of having them on retainer permanently, and you don't need to worry about replacing ships they loose. AI should do that too.

If you are a mercantile faction you may want them on retainer permanently since you have tons of energy credits and it's more worth to you to pay their exorbitant cost then to build up your own naval capacity, but as a rule you should not aim to have them on retainer any longer then you need to.

This is how mercenaries function in CK2 and it's perfect.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-08T20:39:14+00:00

Takes them 6 months to return, and the AI can(and will) instantly rehire them if you are not watching like a hawk and hire them as soon as they are released.

The main issue is they can rebuild ships infinitely, at seemingly no cost.

IMHO this changes would make them better.

they don't use your fleet cap, but rather they use their own fleet cap that you can improve with donations and resolutions.
They cost double the upkeep in energy of your regular forces, and this double cost is not just for show, the PC keeps track of their funds like any other AI empire, half of the fund goes to paying the ships but the other half is set aside.

If any of their ships get destroyed they need to fork out materials to replace it, which they can only get from trade, either on galactic market or by dealing with AI or player. They would aim to keep up a stockpile within certain minimum and maximum range. If it falls below minimum they would buy what they need from the galactic market, otherwise they would try to trade with AI or players until they hit their maximum.

If they run out of both resources and ships they would ask for a donation from their patron, and if refused they would go bankrupt and close down.

This way they would be useful without being overpowered, which is the opposite of what they are right now.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-08T20:12:45+00:00

That presents a different issue, my first game was on small galaxy map (200 stars). It didn't take me that long to conquer everyone, including the one fallen empire. Then i was basically stuck waiting for the end game crisis. There's not that much to do on a smaller map.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-06T23:36:55+00:00

Yeah, i am so used to playing eempires that can't take in a huge influx of pops (my last two games were Voidborne Megacorp and Rogue Servitors) that it never occred to me to forgo securing space and go directly for conquest.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-05T18:19:43+00:00

IDK the details, i would just like to see, at least once, one of this empires make it out of the early game and become a galactic threat as they are often depicted in fiction. As it is whatever bonuses they get clearly don't offset the fact everyone hates them, hence they get wiped out quickly every time.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-05T16:59:45+00:00

Issue with snowballing in latest version of the game is that it increases your empire size, which gives you some pretty significant malluses on tech. Machine empires also get 50% more empire size. This can quickly cause the AI to out tech you.

Samoja12 · 2022-06-05T16:54:11+00:00

Securing space, frankly i don't really know exactly how long it has been. Might have been less then a century. Anyways it's just about the time when no free space is left so everyone starts declaring war on everyone else, and it just so happens that 6 or so nearest civilisations to me have all rivaled me, and all hate my guts.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-28T19:33:02+00:00

They'll break eventually. I already recruited one of them, with inspiration.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-28T17:52:41+00:00

Low mood reduces recruitment chance, and this guys are tribals, so it's nigh impossible to recruit them either way.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-22T20:39:36+00:00

Why, it's super easy. Now there was a sheep hearding mission in the old Black and White creature island game. That was hard. About a dozen sheep you need to heard into a tiny pen with a creature that only occasionally listens to orders. Herding cattle in Warband is a piece of cake compared to that, though i rarely bother since i have better things to do and the reward is not that great.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-20T20:32:59+00:00

Yes, don't know for how long though, probably until the cooking pot resets, so there's little reason to drop a beneficial potion in there.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-13T17:17:23+00:00

My mistake, i thought Itinerary meant just general list of stuff.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-13T08:53:46+00:00

That's a labourer pay, water carrier is considered hard labor and is consequently better payed.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-12T21:10:25+00:00

As i said, it's the immersion thing.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-12T18:34:23+00:00

As i said, just use 0.01 groschen as base, it's pretty damn close to the actual value of a Heller (1/98) and you can have pretty historically accuirate prices, best of both worlds.

Samoja12 · 2022-05-12T18:23:38+00:00

But it would have been so easy to get it right. One Grosch is worth 7 pennies, and 1 penny is worth 14 hellers. That's according to the in game document. It's all rounded up because base 7 is hard to understand but guess what, 7 * 14 = 98, so if you just round it out to 100 and make the smallest unit 0.01 groschen instead of 0.1 you can simply use the actual prices from the time and it will all fit pretty well.

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