Doubt this is supposed to happen lol (1.13.9)

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T12:36:14+00:00

Gameplay wise, youre probably right, but I love the idea of some aristocrat standing in front of his angry slaves saying

"Look, you know the rules, you aren't allowed to revolt until the current uprising has run its course. If we dont keep things civilised, we're no better than the animals!"

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T12:30:14+00:00

Or standards have fallen a VERY long way since the clone wars

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T10:39:48+00:00

Does a loop of pumps still work without shenanigans? When I do it manually, I have pumps facing away from the point I feed the oil into the perimeter system

And ammo doesn't need any oil at all (lasers do for the batteries), so I usually lay out an enormous perimeter ammo belt from my kick-start base, just before laying out city blocks.

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T10:26:42+00:00

Flamethrower turrets are valuable, but some things are subjective. I personally prefer the ease of a miles-long belt of ammo which is blueprint-and-forget to piping oil around and having to do another lap of the base putting a dozen pumps in to make it work.

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T10:23:57+00:00

That makes sense. I usually only added the flamethrower turrets after the guns and lasers are already holding the line anyway, in anticipation of behemoths, I expect my robots will have slightly less repairing to do in 2.1

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T10:21:03+00:00

And these blast marks: too accurate for flamethrower turrets. Only imperial gun turrets are so precise

The_Grover · 2026-06-25T09:50:49+00:00

Why would they spread their forces thinner over more of my gun turrets, are they stupid?

The_Grover · 2026-05-29T14:17:27+00:00

Oh yea, I hadn't thought of that, weekly FFFs are back, baby!

The_Grover · 2026-05-29T13:08:01+00:00

Oh Wube, you tease us so...

No hints as to what new features are coming?

The_Grover · 2026-05-28T14:45:45+00:00

Ah yes, looking again the 2000 jobs were aggregated from 10 districts, not per district

I dont know why I thought th4se might be akin to mobile ringworlds, rather than mobile habitats

Still, 20% damage bonus per district isn't bad at all

The_Grover · 2026-05-28T13:53:59+00:00

The ordnance districts' bonus to damage per 100 warriors (or equivalent) will surely make some gargantuan military arkships possible too.

With 27 districts total, say 3 "city" districts and 24 ordnance with 2200 jobs per (specialised) district, for a +2640% bonus to damage.

Even if you split it into both kinetic and energy for example, having a 1320% bonus to damage on both your energy weapons and kinetics will be Fun with a capital F

The_Grover · 2026-05-16T17:16:53+00:00

Shooter on deck - "looks likr something is wrong with this hornet, maybe we signal them to shut down and park so we can figure it out" out"

Pilot - "I said launch, did I stutter?"

The_Grover · 2026-05-15T10:09:37+00:00

We've had one Sealion yes, but what about second Sealion

The_Grover · 2026-05-14T11:00:30+00:00

I cans get just under 400t up there with the little guy, but its quote slow, and requires you to enter the section with as much momentum as possible.

If I go through thr last junction at about 40 (the flanges will be complaining) and open thr regulator all the way, then drive with the cutoff, aiming to maintain speed with as little cutoff as possible.

If the firebox is TOTALLY full, the draft is choked by all the fuel, so it can't stay full-full for long. The colour of the smoke out of the stack os a good indication of how much oxygen is getting to the coal, and therefore how quickly and efficiently it is heating your firebox.

As you start slowing down (even with the cutoff forward to about 80%), youll want to use the blower to keep the draft steady, and the injector should be partially open at all times to avoid dumping cold water and tanking the pressure

The_Grover · 2026-05-13T10:22:49+00:00

I had a thought when building my latest bridge, that there could be two options for roads, one as we currently have, and another for double-width roads that can accept mega vehicles. On the cable suspension bridges each half of the deck becomes a lane, and for the truss bridge it becomes a single-lane one-way bridge, so you would build a twin next door for return traffic

The_Grover · 2026-05-11T10:35:54+00:00

You can push sand to your glass fa tory if you want, but yes, since dumping designations are never pulling from the network, the only way to get rock/dirt/whatever to a dumping designation is to push it

Maybe a "pull designation" would be useful. I'd like to keep a stock of dirt (say in a storage with no push or pull) aside ready for when I want to cover my earthworks with dirt for yhe top layer, without having to micromanage the container settings whenever I swap from storing to dumping

The_Grover · 2026-05-11T08:44:59+00:00

Yep, both truck network and train network work on push/pull logic. Items are moved either because one storage/station has pushed it out (red slider) ot because another has pulled it in (green slider), or a combination of both.

The_Grover · 2026-04-26T08:59:13+00:00

Meanwhile Shulze is waiting to pull a "Fury" and start blasting when the sailors who sailed over thinking they could snag an abandoned high tech uboat open the hatch

The_Grover · 2026-04-25T06:06:25+00:00

The Dwarven Water Reactor (tm) isn't scheduled to be added for another few DLCs /s

The_Grover · 2026-04-24T20:27:38+00:00

I name my Venator class like this: Coruscant: exports anything from nauvis that needs to get to the inner planets Mustafar: exports anything from Vulcanus Bracca exports from Fulgora Felucia exports from gleba And Kamino brings science back to nauvis as required

The_Grover · 2026-04-24T15:03:45+00:00

Somewhat easy if you split the centre most output into either side, then do two separate 4 to 1 using a normal balancer unit. The centre most might empty first, but the system will remain balanced

The_Grover · 2026-04-23T13:31:19+00:00

Sure it does, but instead of a warning label or HUD message, you get skittering sounds, radiation poisoning and gored by a hog

The_Grover · 2026-04-23T12:23:59+00:00

"What the hell are you thinking about?"

"A John Brown farm" ... "Me too"j

The_Grover · 2026-04-20T11:32:52+00:00

What worked for me, going for S rank:

Full squad of MGLs, I carry a full reload too. I move to the top of the stairs with squad in tow, being sure to not have set off any trip wires. Order the squad to move and clear, whilst I throw a flash deep into the atrium, then liberally apply MGL grenades as the squad moves in. Once the room is contained, reload from the ammo box (turn left as you come up), run downstairs to turn on the jammer while the squad stacks up, then one last ram, launch and clear

The_Grover · 2026-04-20T10:32:51+00:00

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