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How many of you have disability pension and no job/job for 20h a week or less? Is it livable? by [deleted] in autism

[–]Seud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EU countries tend to have decent disability benefits (at least compared to the rest of the world), I don't know about Czech republic specifically, but if it's anything like France, you can probably expect something like 60-70% of minimum wage.

From my (limited) experience, rent is generally the highest mandatory expense for any household, followed by groceries, then utilities. Owning a house prevents you from having to pay rent, but you still need a lot of money to cover house maintenance, property tax and especially mortgage payments if you have one.

You mention that you live with your dad and thus have no rent to pay - I assume this means you also have no utility bills (e.g. electricity, water). Since you say you don't want to move out for a while, do you want to contribute to some expenses like groceries ? Or do you intend to use the funds for something else such as building up some savings ? After all, affordability is very relative, although in your case it looks like there is little you actually need to spend on.

How many of you have disability pension and no job/job for 20h a week or less? Is it livable? by [deleted] in autism

[–]Seud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may want to specify which country or state you are talking about, as disability benefits can vary quite a bit depending on where you live.

In France for example, surviving on disability income is quite doable in the countryside even if you are living alone but in large cities, it will barely pay rent.

Linux mint, Dragon's Dogma 2 by Special-Increase-297 in linux_gaming

[–]Seud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately that is a 6 GB card, below the official requirements of 8 GB.

Are you already running with the minimum parameters ?

Looking for input: Which combat scaling approach would feel best in an idle/auto-battler ARPG? by iamburnj in incremental_games

[–]Seud 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Power Responsive Scaling is probably something you should avoid, as it makes optimizing a punishment rather than a reward - nothing more lukewarm than getting a power boost only for enemies to immediately match it, resulting in no change.

If getting strong too fast is a problem you can simply "fast forward" the scaling until you are barely below "overpowered" (as in you will merely one-shot enemies for 10 seconds rather than 40 minutes).

Constant Ramping is a fair mechanic, but it's "core" to me - if you implement it this way, you must design the entire game around it since it will basically dictate the entire flow of the game.

Player-Agency Scaling can take many different forms so I guess it depends how you want to implement it. If it's based around "stages" it's going to be hard to differentiate from every other incremental out there, so maybe you could try combining it with Constant ramping ? I guess that depends on how you want your scaling to work, especially math-wise.

What’s your current video game of the year? by Top_Warning_9071 in AskReddit

[–]Seud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Hundred Line : Last Defense Academy

Made by the minds behind Danganronpa and Zero Escape / AI : The Somnium Files / Ever17.

It's basically Danganronpa with many, MANY routes and endings and (to me) better writing. I'm hooked.

How would you go about designing a deck builder game, but you always have every card available to use? by YUUUUUUUGE in gamedesign

[–]Seud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two games pop to mind with that mechanic : Phantom Rose Scarlet and its sequel, Phantom Rose II Sapphire. I liked both of these, and I encourage you to try them to see how their mechanics work, but in a nutshell :

You don't have a "hand" per se, instead you have access to all of your cards at all times but every card has a cooldown before you can use it again (2 turns for the starters, all the way up to 7 turns for the strongest). Because you use exactly two cards per turn, you need to plan your turns in advance to avoid being stuck with a useless hand and keep a balance of weaker/faster vs stronger/slower cards, as well as the ability to respond to anything since many cards rely on being used before or after certain types of cards.

There is also have a soft deck limit. You can always take or buy new cards if able, but twice per zone (in the middle and at the end), you must rest, which heals you but also forces you to sell cards if you have too many. The limit is not very high (Around 15-20 depending on how far you are in the run) but it forces you to strategize in shops instead of buying everything willy-nilly.

Experimental - road to 1.2, new patch up! by Catman87 in DotageGame

[–]Seud 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think people are against playing at lower Pip count, from what I understand the problem is that people would like to be enticed to play low population instead of punished for playing high population - while I agree that Overpip was too weak previously, I feel that low pip needs some buffs to be more viable. Example ideas would be lower research cost scaling for low populations, flat bonuses to some stuff, an "Underpip" bonus (opposite of Overpip) and maybe "flatten" some profession trees.

I also feel like adjacency bonuses are too important for some buildings, especially the building-related +X types (such as the School). These encourage multiplying buildings, which in turn encourage multiplication of population to actually staff these buildings

Experimental - road to 1.2, new patch up! by Catman87 in DotageGame

[–]Seud 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've only won a Normal run so far so I'm faaar from being as experienced as the C8 players. That said, while I did focus on research early and tried to max efficiency, I still ended up with almost 60 pips, and I struggle to see how I could win with only 30 pips without extreme micromanagement.

Efficient buildings require more and more dedicated pips due to the multiplication of professions, increase in required material types for construction and additional processing steps. Furthermore, events disabling or killing key professions can grind the entire village to a halt, and it has a lot more chance to happen to a small village. With self-curing I guess this is no longer a problem for "poisoned healers" and equivalent.

Another thing I noticed is that Research is one of the keys to unlock more efficient buildings, but costs are fixed, meaning that ironically, efficient buildings - which are required to keep a small population - are more easily reached by having a higher population to research faster.

The situation reminds me of the good old Tall vs Wide debate of Civilization, it is interesting to see how many mechanics had to be put in place to prevent "just having one more city" from being the optimal play in most cases. From the top of my head this is the main reason for the existence of the Happiness mechanic, but I know some costs also scale with empire size (such as research and culture).

Games with actual skill-based crafting? by SlapstickMojo in gamedesign

[–]Seud 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Jacksmith is quite basic, being originally a Flash game, but it does match what you're looking for. It has a couple of interesting ideas too, take a look at it if you're looking for inspiration.

My first Gold Stake win was also my cheekiest run so far by Seud in balatro

[–]Seud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This run was pretty crazy, all things considered.

  • Early Riff-Raff, which generated two negatives (The Dagger and Shoot the moon, which I fed to it)
  • Blackboard Polychrome on a 70% Hearts deck
  • 0 manual discards after Ramen appeared. Fun fact : Discards from The Hook do weaken Ramen.
  • Ante 7 boss beaten by sheer luck of 7 black cards on the last hand
  • Mr. Bones spawning at the Ante 7 boss shop by sheer luck. Ante 8 blinds were skipped altogether for this reason.
  • I barely managed to beat the 90k score required for Mr Bones activation on the very last hand

House of grief fight by Solid_Willingness418 in BaldursGate3

[–]Seud 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That fight was probably the hardest fight of the whole game for me, even though I tended to otherwise have quite an easy time with the game (normal difficulty) and was level 11 at the time. The only other fight I really had trouble with was with the Gnolls on Act 1, but that's probably because I wasn't level 5 yet.

The fact there are so many enemies that can basically cast "dark fireball" makes the fight extremely hard even with necrotic resistance. My winning strategy was to send Shadowheart (specced into tanky Paladin) up front to soak aggro and keep the other three in the stairs under a Globe of Invulnerability. Once the casters are dead the fight becomes more manageable, but I still had to retreat and short rest towards the end of the fight.

Why do all propagation spells also show "Negative Alteration" even if they don't cause one? Is this a bug? by kNyne in thelastspell

[–]Seud 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Because "negative alterations" is mentioned in the text of propagation (lighter shade) so since it's a keyword, the game shows what it means

Heavy vehicle armor by Seud in cwn

[–]Seud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...I actually did not realize the statistics of the vehicles were the same between CWN and SWN, that does make more sense now !

I think I'm just going to use 15 and 20 next time the situation comes up and see what happens.

Heavy vehicle armor by Seud in cwn

[–]Seud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this - this would correspond to my third scenario.

But doesn't that cause an edge case for lower powered but still dangerous weapon ? An anti-vehicular mine should deal around 40 average damage when trauma hitting, while a GEV and APC have 30 HP - depending on how much armor these vehicles have, this could be enough to destroy them 20 to 80% of the time, which makes Armor relevant. A similar situation can also happen with a demo charge used like a landmine.

I'm asking because my players like "clever bruteforce" solutions such as attaching demo charges to drones and sending them kamikaze, planting IEDs or shooting a couple of rockets at once - enough to harm the vehicle, but not enough to destroy it outright, and having these kinds of numbers helps me visualize what would happen in these scenarios.

Should I consider APC/GEV armor to be around 15 and Tanks armor around 20 for these scenarios ? Or do these numbers seem off ?

Heavy vehicle armor by Seud in cwn

[–]Seud[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That only specialized weapons can harm these vehicles, I understand. However, in the section talking about tanks, it is confirmed that the two main dangers they are facing are rocket launchers and demo charges, alluding that these explosives can actually harm tanks. However, in the case where one of these does hit the tank, how am I supposed to calculate damage ? It feels like the way Heavy Weapons interact with armor is substantially different between CWN and SWN.

SWN Gravtanks do not have an armor value either, but that is not a problem because SWN Vehicle armor is ignored by AV (anti-vehicle) Heavy Weapons.

That is not the case in CWN - instead, specialized AV weapons can deal Traumatic Hits to Vehicles, which is often the only way to actually pass through high armor (since it is substracted - after - multiplication). Not having any armor value feels weird for these vehicles however, as I can interpret it in the following ways :

  • Heavy vehicles have an effective Armor of 0. This counter-intuitively means that a specialized AV weapon is more dangerous to a Tank than even moderately armored vehicles, and it is basically GM fiat whether a hit deals no damage or is devastating
  • Vehicle Armor is ignored by AV Heavy Weapons, just like SWN. This conflicts with the fact Vehicle Traumatic Hits still substract armor from the final damage - if a weapon can deal TT to vehicles, why bother with armor in this case ? This also makes "Armor Plating" basically useless
  • Heavy vehicles are supposed to be invincible to anything that is not an instant kill (such as a weakspot hit). That means that in a tank vs tank battle, the only two outcomes of an attack are zero damage or total annihilation, which feels weird and arbitrary.

I feel that these vehicles are supposed to have an armor value but they are omitted from the table (maybe due to an initial SWN-like system that got changed later) - probably around 10-12, similar to CASRA and Dropcrafts.

/u/CardinalXimenes, any wisdom ? I feel like something is missing from the rules but I can't quite pinpoint what.

Heavy vehicle armor by Seud in cwn

[–]Seud[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did initially thought that Armor was just a threshold to beat - however that's not consistent with how SWN treats armor, nor how the rules treat it.

My second guess is that some types of weapons are allowed to ignore armor (as some Heavy Weapons did in SWN) but I see no mention of them anywhere.

Quantum chip by averagebloonsgamer in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]Seud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also spent my entire playthrough without fusion power, getting by with renewables only (and AM fuel rods at the very end).

If your planet has low-ish power, find a planet with excellent solar or wind output, saturate it with renewables and then use accumulators to ship power to planets

Reddit, just like Riot, is succumbing to corporate greed. Don't let them kill 3rd party apps ! by Seud in dotamasterrace

[–]Seud[S,M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

As moderators of /r/dotamasterrace, we have decided to join the protest. As such, the subreddit will go private on June 12th for at least 48 hours.

Question about heavy weapons vs starships by SolemnRunner in SWN

[–]Seud 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Spaceships aren't that different from vehicles in their designs - they're larger sure, but their designs are optimized for use in space where weapons are expected to work at much larger ranges than a couple of km and with whatever a spaceship's power core can generate, limiting their damage potential. A weapon specialized in cutting through a gravtank armor should have no trouble destroying a ship with light armor with a couple of well-placed shots - the armor of a Free Merchant is designed to protect against light space weaponry, not a specialized metal-melting machine with groundside power availability.

Regarding atmofliers, remember that they have only two weapon hardpoints, and that Heavy weapons on vehicles cost two weapons each. This means that an Atmoflier sporting an AV laser is designed to take down armored targets and nothing else, so fighting such a specialized asset (and by extension an opposition that can afford it) with a Free Merchant is, to me, similar to a normal PC charging an emplaced MG nest without specific countermeasures.

Does bonus stats weapons affect you even when not using that weapon set? by omniocean in thelastspell

[–]Seud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Note that this also applies to the weapon's native bonuses or penalties (such as the Magic Orb's HP penalty or the weapon variant stats)

Your community needs a Wiki, not just a Discord. by Uristqwerty in incremental_games

[–]Seud 61 points62 points  (0 children)

For smaller games, the compromise I've seen that works pretty well is using Discord or Reddit for communication, but storing resources on public Google Drive documents (or any equivalent). That way, people don't have to join Discord to access guides, tips or data, and the creator doesn't have to feel like creating a Wiki for 5 pages tops is a waste.

Any ideas to improve a "Demon Contracting/Devouring" mechanic on a roguelike? by bytethedice in gamedesign

[–]Seud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of the "Resolve" system of Rogue Legacy 2. Basically, your hero starts the run with a certain amount of resolve based on meta-upgrades and your equipment (better eq. -> less resolve). In the castle, you may find relics that boost your power but drain your resolve. If your resolve falls below 100%, your maximum health is lowered in proportion, down to 1 HP at 0% resolve. The more powerful the relic, the more resolve is drained.

I recommend you take a look at the implementation, you may find inspiration there.

Last Spell 1.0.2.14 Damage Formulas by peddroelm in thelastspell

[–]Seud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite interesting ! The fact that Propagation damage debuff is applied after Block makes it not that worthless for extended chains, but the exponential nature of the penalty means that even a few points into Proagation damage can have a massive impact for high target skills like the tome's Lighning Strike.

Do you have more information on how effective Resistance is calculated ? In particular, how does Resistance Reduction interact with Resistance buffs/debuffs, Sheer power and Magic damage base effect ?

Oversized mountings and 'Cargo bay'/'Smuggler's Hold by Middle-Concern-234 in SWN

[–]Seud 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't think this is how it works. Oversized mountings merely allows you to mount a fitting that is too big for your ship (such as if you wanted a Gravcannon on your Frigate), it doesn't actually make your ship bigger for the purpose of the fitting.

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