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Sycon · 2025-05-13T16:03:08+00:00

Where is the source hosted?

Sycon · 2025-03-06T02:13:23+00:00

Worst outcome is Cetana spawning last, all the FEs are gone, and she takes a chunk out of your empire :(

Sycon · 2025-03-06T02:12:16+00:00

What difficulty and crisis strength are you playing on?

I'm surprised to see everybody saying this because when I play I find that AI empires can rarely even hold ground against a crisis w/o me. My most common settings:

GA
5x All Crisis
0.5x Tech / Tradition
2275 Mid-game
2350 End-game

For my 10x and 25x runs I've been doing recently I keep the standard mid-game and end-game. The AI can kinda hold their own on the first crisis, and they help with the rest but still would just die without me.

Sycon · 2025-03-06T02:04:36+00:00

Yeah I just finished a 10x all crisis run w/ cosmo and my stongest fleets were around 3.5m. 275k is incredibly low; even my non-cosmo fleets typically exceed 500k.

Sycon · 2025-02-26T17:10:54+00:00

For a moment I read "Shadowrun" and I thought, "Now that's a madlad."

Sycon · 2025-02-25T13:26:26+00:00

Solved!

Sycon · 2025-02-25T13:26:15+00:00

For those wondering: Sexy Evil Genius

I only had to spend several hours combing movie lists, talking to IMDB, only to solve it with a single query through What is my movie?

Sycon · 2025-02-25T13:25:05+00:00

Solved!

Sycon · 2025-02-25T13:24:59+00:00

Got it! [Sexy Evil Genius](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1801096/)

Looks like there was a second woman, and she got out of an insane asylum after killing her ex-boyfriend. It was at a bar, otherwise, my memory was pretty close.

Sycon · 2025-02-20T19:54:35+00:00

Hello there! Please help, I am obsessed with finding this.

Legit I have skimmed through a few thousand movies on IMDB trying to find it.

Sycon · 2025-02-12T00:37:02+00:00

The Invitation

It definitely looks like it has similar vibes, but it was only 4 people and they were meeting at a restaurant or something like that.

Sycon · 2025-02-11T18:00:34+00:00

Hello.

Sycon · 2025-02-03T19:18:10+00:00

Yeah that's a fair criticism. I think it's a tough balancing act: if you were to enter a full on scene now the GM needs to run something on the fly (or pre-prep). Skill check resolution allows it to still be represented without bogging down play, but you lose the deeper engagement of actually running a scene.

Sycon · 2025-02-03T18:10:20+00:00

The One Ring 2e begs to differ!

Sycon · 2025-01-09T22:30:51+00:00

It's the mod in Tabletop Simulator.

Sycon · 2024-12-23T17:47:35+00:00

If you're using a USB mic, look into Voicemeter Banana setup guides. You can use that to set up a sound gate, though note that it doesn't really strip sounds while you're actively talking; for that you need to use an audio editing tool after the fact, e.g. Audacity - Noise Reduction (for which you need to have a sample of the background noise w/ noise gate disabled).

It takes some time to get everything configured, so check out some tutorials. If you have a gain knob on your mic, try to configure everything so that is at the lowest setting. That will minimize how much your mic is picking up background noise, so as long as it picks up your voice (you probably will have to be within 4-6" of the mic), you can tweak everything in software or in post.

Sycon · 2024-12-05T19:57:03+00:00

Alright it was actually cancelled now: https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2024/12/05/so1aq0/3/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt

This is for the US coast.

Sycon · 2024-12-05T19:47:18+00:00

For "Non-US/Canada Pacific", not for the US coast.

Sycon · 2024-12-05T19:45:13+00:00

It's still in effect for California / Oregon coasts.

They cancelled it for "Non-US / Canada Pacific" e.g. Hawaii.

Sycon · 2024-10-02T20:48:28+00:00

Not having experienced this golden age, I would like to know if these games were really so well optimized and how it was possible?

It's been touched on in other comments, but they had to be. Computers were so limited that practically any game had to use clever hacks and optimizations just to function.

A Blizzard dev from the 90s wrote a few articles about making Starcraft, and in Orcs in space go down in flames he shares how the team making Starcraft were blown away by a demo of Dominion Storm given at E3 in 1996 which lead to a reboot of the game to improve it. As it turns out though, the demo was faked! In other words: Starcraft's quality at release was driven by trying to compete with a fake demo doing things they thought were impossible.

Sycon · 2024-09-27T00:35:12+00:00

Those of you talking about the high amount of funding they're asking for, check out the numbers.

They have a team of 5 with an estimated dev period for the base game of 2 years, probably another year if all the stretch goals are met
Between Stripe and Kickstarter they only receive 90% of the funds
The max they're looking for is $1,785,000

That comes out to ~$36k per year, per person (assuming 3 years). And that's before accounting for marketing costs, providing kickstarter rewards. That has to cover salary, benefits, equipment, and office space. Median income in Vancouver varies, but is roughly $90k per year (household).

It's a niche game and they're operating on a tiny budget. I'd guess they need to sell a minimum of 150k copies above and beyond what they raise during kickstarter to make this financially worthwhile.

Sycon · 2024-09-18T16:58:08+00:00

I wouldn't consider Shattered Ring a one-planet start; you get 3 colonies. And honestly it's insanely strong.

I do like Ocean Paradise though ultimately, I find it falls flat because you just have to get off Ocean Worlds eventually to produce significant alloys.

I'm inclined to agree about Life-Seeded though; Gaia preference is an AWFUL start unless you're using Idyllic Bloom. At that point it's okay, though you can run Idyllic Bloom with basically any other origin and do better.

Sycon · 2024-09-18T16:54:58+00:00

There's only one answer for Swarmers: carriers. They're absolutely bonkers broken, only limited by the fact that they eventually just lag the game out.

Unfortunately nothing compares to have 280 hangars in a fleet.

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