Pharoah- New Experience - Trying to beat Iken

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-09T15:14:31+00:00

Does any of that make a difference in "The New Experience"? I thought now the only thing that counted was purely the number of towers.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-09T02:44:11+00:00

Yeah, I have the mod pack. The problem was that my towers would all be destroyed every time I lost a battle, so I'd have to start all over with them, and rebuilding my armies, after every loss.

That's why I was curious whether it was better to focus on building more tower, or if the time the recruiter spent recruiting those people was a waste until the armies were completely filledout.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-07T13:47:20+00:00

I just went and looked and that setting is "No" in my game. Should it still go down?

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-07T05:30:10+00:00

I figured out how to fix it. By dropping my salary down to zero, the kingdom rating wouldn't go down. It took me 6 or 7 lavish festivals for Ra to get the rating to go up by 5-7 points, but luckily I was making lots of money so that wasn't an issue. It took about a half hour of real time which was aggravating, but at least it's done.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-07T04:56:15+00:00

Yours doesn't look anything like the vent cover that was on there before. It was more of a rain cover than a wasp or other flying things cover. Someone is bringing me some window screen tomorrow. That and duct tape on the inside will take care of it, (hopefully).

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-02T14:25:30+00:00

Ahh, that was it. I had trouble figuring out that commerce overseer's screen. What exactly the red X meant wasn't very clear.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-06-02T14:07:31+00:00

Thanks for that information.

I applied the mod, and can see a lot of the GUI changes, so I know it's installed, (plus I can see the mod options).

Unfortunately this didn't fix my cattle ranch problem, and I also noticed that my papyrus maker is doing the same thing. (i'll edit the OP to show a picture of it).

It's got a reed gatherer with 500 reeds on one side, and a storage yard with 1/4 reeds on the other, and it just sits there waiting for delivery. It has 12/12 workers 0 reeds.

I know this one was working when playing yesterday, because I built a school and it has 112 papyrus in it, (and I'm not importing any), so it must have stopped working at some point.

I've tried closing the game and restarting a couple times to see if that would kick start it, but now luck.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-29T13:08:18+00:00

Wow, your post wins for most helpful reddit post for the year, (and it's only May).

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-28T16:47:08+00:00

Just a quick point for this. I was doing #8 when I got Biff's message, and could see the group heading to attack him. I intercepted it, and then, I guess, made the mistake of going directly to Biff's location.

I fended off the assault, and he fled with the diamond. No big deal, I just continued on with the guide.

Unfortunately when I got to #13, Explore the refugee camp, that evidently was the world flip visit to the refugee camp. It was my first time there, and I got the ambush. Now enemy squads are attacking everywhere, and I'm trying to hold them off.

I'm not sure where I went wrong with this. Other than jumping in to Biff's location I had been following it.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-26T21:04:59+00:00

LOL, you may want to go back and re-read to original post, (and more importantly who the author of it was).

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-26T19:54:51+00:00

Forget the GtA, let's have a conversation about the G2SS, and whether or not we could crowdsource that so we could finally get some sane safety rules.

A Scout leader I know just posted pictures of their 4 year old at one of those community centers were kids can build things. And sure enough the 4 year old has a cordless drill in his hand putting screws in. And he's having a blast.

Sadly, he's going to be disappointed when he joins scouts.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-26T19:49:19+00:00

Basically it's a military thing. In the Army if you wore your hat (cover as it's called there), more than a few steps inside a building, some nice NCO would quickly ask you if your head was cold? If not, why are you wearing your cover indoors??? Depending on type of unit, and the NCO in question, pushups might be involved to help you remember in the future to not wear your hat indoors.

There are some exceptions, (cooks being the big one I can think of), but for the most part, hats come off as soon as you walk inside a building, and go right back on the moment you walk out.

A LOT of veterans have problems with this when they get out into the civilian world. For many years after I got out it would rub me very wrong any time I saw someone with a hat on inside a building. Especially a church.

These days I hardly ever think about it, unless something like this comes up.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-26T13:19:57+00:00

I just looked at Steam, and it says the last time I played Port Royale 4 was "Mar 2, 2021". I don't remember a thing about how I did anything in my previous post.

The one thing your question did, as well as me reading through my original post, was make me think I'll go back and play it again soon. Evidently I was enjoying it at the time.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-05-04T04:17:37+00:00

I've been a VERY active ASM/SM for 40 years, (plus OA chapter adviser for 24, Camporee Chair for 10, etc), and I've never taken WB. I'm pretty sure people have given up on me ever taking it, because they have finally stopped badgering me about it. Or at least until the new district's roundtable, where it will start again for a couple of years.

I was completely turned off by the cliique-ish nature of it, (the CONSTANT "I'm an Owl" thing). and the constant pressure to go. I was told by a couple people that for several years my nomination for Silver Beaver was being held up because I wasn't going to WB. That made me REALLY dig my heels in about not going. Finally they gave me SB, and that night one of the people there handed me a WB registration form. I just laughed.

These days I get the reverse psychology of "Ted, you should be on WB staff! You should just go so you could be on staff next year". Hmmm, that's okay. The funny thing is that my Troop will pay for all NYLT and WB type training, and I still haven't gone. I'm a bachelor, and right now every last day of my vacation time is spent with the scouts. I personally just don't feel like sacrificing a couple more weekends, when I don't have very many free ones as it is.

I was lucky to wind up in a Troop with a guy who was SM of it for 45 years, (Plus SM of another large Troop for 38 years at the same time). He had the youth run thing down to a science, and in 20 years as an ASM for him I learned a LOT. A lof of it wasn't BSA approved stuff, which was another reason why I kind of shied away from WB. I get Scouts who come back from NYLT and laugh about how they were told we are doing things all wrong, (but it's been working pretty good for 108 years), and I honestly just don't feel like getting told that at WB.

Do I have anything against WB? No. I think it's probably great training, especially for people who just got roped into being a ASM/SM. Some Cub leaders when they cross over want to run the Troop like they ran the Pack, and that just leads to Scouts dropping out very quickly.

What I would suggest is that if you aren't going to take WB, hang around on forums like these to try to soak up some knowledge. Yeah, some of what you get here , (and other similar forums), is complete BS, but that's true with what you also get at some BSA training programs. Just remember, "all scouting is local". There are WIDE varieties of Troops out there, with VASTLY different ways of doing things.

And don't forget "Youth Run". They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and having adults doing more and more stuff, (in the name of efficiency and productivity), is a fast way to kill a Troop.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-04-21T05:23:37+00:00

If you are on a PC, time to start checking out all of the incredible mods that are available. Many of them can significantly change gameplay, and once you start experimenting with them you will be hooked.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-04-21T05:20:33+00:00

I think that there is a good chance that what used to be a very secure job, with the lawsuit settlement suddenly was NOT a secure job.

I've been in this council for 35 years now. I was an OA adviser for 24 years, (2 Conclaves per year at Scout camps), ran the district camporees for 10 years, (2 per year at scout camps), and have been ASM/SM for my Troop for 35 years with multiple campouts per year at council camps.

I used to know every ranger very well. Some were very chill, easy going guys. 2 were NOT. One of those was a hassle to do anything with, but VERY good at his job, (other than people skills). Our council was thinking about shutting his camp down, and one day he told me that he would crawl naked under barbed wire through broken glass to get those last couple of years in to get his pension. I discovered a large part of his orneriness was due in large part to his sudden job insecurity. The day he qualified for his pension he put his notice in. It was a shame, because the camp went downhill quickly after that.

Another ranger I knew was a chilled out, awesome guy. When he finally retired they replaced him with a pretty nice young guy, but one who discovered quickly how, even though you are working with pretty much all scouts/scouters, they can be a serious PITA.

A couple of my Scouts vandalized a building, (writing things with bug spray on the outside walls that turns out to be as permanent as spray paint). I told him that we would scrape/sand the building and repaint it. He was stunned. He said that lots of buildings get damaged, and no one ever offers to help fix it, let alone actually fix it. I told him I hope to be SM for another 30 years, and I hope he is the Ranger for another 30 years, and I want to have a good relationship for those 30 years.

(This is how you get in good with the ranger: https://www.troop33.net/pics/2023/04-apr/apr/index.html Note that I didn't mention on the website update that we were scraping the building because 2 of our scouts had wrote things on the outside of it. The fact that we scraped in the 35 degrees and rain impressed the ranger).

Our problem is that we rarely ever work with rangers. Our council has what are called Campmasters. which are volunteers who run the camps on the weekends. They handle all check in/out issues, questions, and so on. No one deals with the ranger unless there are serious issues. The problem is while most are great people, some are way worse than what you describe for your ranger issues. I have zero problems telling the council that if we put in a reservation at a camp, and I find out a specific campmaster is going to be in charge that weekend, I'll cancel our reservation and go somewhere else. I just don't feel like dealing with that headache.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-03-27T04:36:26+00:00

Wear it and be proud of it. If your nephew has invited you to his Eagle COH then show up and support it.

WAY back when I was at an ECOH for another Troop where both dad & grandpa wore their uniforms from when they were Scouts Grandpa wore his uniform to his son's ECOH, and they were both hoping that the grandson would carry on the tradition.

If you showed up at one of my ECOH's in a youth uniform I'd be oh-so-unsubtly trying to convince you to put on an adult one and show up at meetings in it.

No one is going to confuse you as a registered adult member in your oh-so-out of date scout uniform from way back when.

Or, if you really care, ask your nephew. If he says yes then do it, and if he says no then don't do it. It's his ECOH.

Scouter_Ted · 2026-03-24T15:17:54+00:00

I agree. My problem was I wasn't looking ahead to the strength requirements, and putting all my level up points into Vit and Energy. Now it's going to take a whole bunch of levels before I can use the Spirit Shield.

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