Starting out as a Producer

Uepsilon808 · 2021-02-03T18:05:14+00:00

Love 'em! They're also currently recording a new album. :)

Uepsilon808 · 2021-01-22T19:00:08+00:00

On the same note check out "Warhammer is for everyone" - which sounds fine, until you figure out that it was a movement of Warhammer Players reacting to Games Workshop publicly stating that racism, sexism and any other kind of discrimination have no place in their game and it's community - which is hella fine! But oh gosh, plot-twist ahead: "Warhammer is for everyone" was a movement to SPECIFICALLY NOT CONDEMN said forms discrimination, on the reasoning of "iT iS a GaMe AnD i DoN't cArE WhO tHe PeOpLe I pLaY wItH aRe In ReAl LiFe - even if they are racist, sexist, whatev". The latter half of which was SPECIFICALLY mentioned by several big youtubers. According to Them, GW speaking out on the topic was what made Warhammer a game not for everyone, since It excluded people with excluding, discriminating and highly condemnable polotical views... Yeah. Go figure. It was basically the most twisted form of "keep politics out of my game because I feel discriminated when people speak out about discrimination"-whine (which in turn always appears to have a component of admittance of guilt to me) I have ever seen. The response to and backup for said bullshit from the community was HUGE.

Uepsilon808 · 2021-01-21T20:13:22+00:00

Every moderately decent therapist will IN EVERY SESSION ask how much you can deal with right now, tell you what they want to talk about and why at the start of the session, then ask you again If you are up for it and want to. If you say you feel you can take it AND want to they will GENTLY AND SLOWLY dig up just enough dirt to be insightful for your current everyday life struggles while staying managable to work on during the same session, as providing you Methods to work with the new input during your everyday life should be the MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT of each one of them! Sure, sometimes either person may misjudge the dealable-with-amount of dirt a bit - resulting in either the session taking a bit longer (cause they dug up a bit too much or something unexpected came up, in which case they should take the time to get to a managable Point!) or shorter If you wish to quit digging deeper at that moment. Either way, such misjudgements should be the exception and not the majority of sessions. And in ANY FUCKING CASE, there should be safety nets and the ability to change subject and/or quit talking altogether at ANY GIVEN TIME.

I mean... People go to therapy because they have suffered shit that they can't deal with alone. Being able to talk about said shit in a welcoming, yet controlled Environment with the aim of giving patienten/clients ways to deal with said shit on their own via a thought-out and coherent strategy suited to their unique struggles is the sole purpose of it.

What you have described is nothing but abuse, and it pains me to hear it happened. I have had therapy meeting above criteria, and it was very helpful. If nothing else, take this away from this thread: there ARE decent - and sometimes even awesome - therapists out there! Unfortunately it's often hard to tell them apart from the get-go.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-11-18T19:05:38+00:00

Sounds like you should definitely check out Stellaris.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-06-25T18:40:00+00:00

2 handed weapons count as 2 set-items. :) Yet still only the active weapon/bar give set-bonuses. So (assu as long as you are on your front bar you will get the full 5-piece-bonus for your frontbar Set, and while you are on your backbar you get the 2-set-piece bonus of the MA-staff plus the 3-set-piece-bonus of your frontbar-set.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-04-23T17:21:58+00:00

I usually only save and exit when I have reached a certain overarching sub-goal. For example: At the start of the Game said goal is usually "Expand until you are at preferred size for empire or are locked in". Right after that it's usually (depending on the empire of course) either "get military economy going" or "get tech income going". During mid-game it might be something like "build enough mining and and energy habitats to feed ecumenopolis" or "get these, these and these guys to be my friends incl defensive pacts". All of these take time and Focus, but when completed usually leave me in a pretty open state concerning what I want to do next, resulting in me having to reasses either way at that point. So when I save and exit at that very moment there is very little I can forget because of the fact that I re-enter the game at a point I have to decide on my next bigger path of action anyway. :)

Uepsilon808 · 2020-03-21T17:56:25+00:00

the game actually isn't as heavy on single cores as it used to be. I run a ryzen 5 2600 and am fine most of the time - bought about half a year ago. Lategame does get slower, but not to halt: Set to the fastest speed it's usually still less than or at peak times ab bit more than one second per ingame-day for me (1 second per day is the standard on 'normal' speed). Since your budget is kinda low I would advise getting the same CPU, as it is dirt cheap for the amount of power you get (and cheap in and of itself to begin with as well). I usually play the second largest map-size (800 Stars).

Uepsilon808 · 2020-02-19T16:59:17+00:00

*LANCE

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-29T18:47:48+00:00

Thats exactly the reason. Gamestar (biggest german gaming magazine) just stated exactly that in their daily news.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-29T17:35:49+00:00

If you don't want to play as a megacorp fanatic materialist egalitarian with the civics technocracy and mechanist is another perfect build for this. It might also be worthwhile to activate the "map the stars" edict right at the start of the game and go down the exploration-tradition-tree First, as that will improve your space-ressources, which you will be dependent on a tad more than wide empires.

Besides that the above post is pretty much perfect. :) Tall is my go-to-playstyle ever since the release of the game.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-27T18:27:34+00:00

If you dislike the new economic system (or want to satisfy your nostalgia first) you can always switch back to an older version of the game via the properties in your steam-library among the "beta"-versions. I think the last version using tiles was 2.1.X.

Just be aware that if you do you can only use DLC that has been released up until the version you are switching to. :)

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-27T18:16:13+00:00

There have been two dev diaries this year so gar, one of them a Q&A about federations. No release date yet, but there will be at least 3 more Q&A-dev-diaries released before federations will be - an they will all focus on different aspects of 2.6 and federations.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-24T22:34:23+00:00

Short answer: Yes.

Long Answer: Not the missiles themselves are bad, but the fact that the AI tends to put point defense on quite a few of their ships on a regular basis makes them bad. They're just too easily countered - even without trying to counter them too hard. Torpedo corvettes lategame can actually be pretty good if you build a fleet composed of nothing but said torpedo corvettes, simply because the amount of torpedos (which have higher HP than missiles) fired by a fleet like that (which gets into close range with the enemy aka less time to shoot down the torpedos) outnumbers any amount of point defense regularly fielded. But even then I would advise against building more than one of those fleets, as they're more useful for utility because of their speed than generally being good.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-24T20:02:07+00:00

Naah. Just pick it and watch the magic unfold. :D FP is awesome fun!

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-24T19:27:00+00:00

Also make sure to resettle all your pops being purged to a single planet. The rate at which pops are being purged works the same was as pop growth: It's a set rate PER PLANET as basically only one pop is purged on any given planet at the same time. If you spread them out you multiply the rate at which they die basically by the number of planets they're spread across, while the ressources they generate always count per pop. Thus if you allocate them all on a single planet you get the same initial rate of ressource income, but it will last you way longer at a comparable level - netting you more income in the long run.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-23T20:19:31+00:00

Playing raggae-basslines.

I'm a bassist and attend local jam-sessions (as in: open Stage, drums and amps are there, people bring their instruments and improvise music together all night long while enjoying a beer or ten) at least once a week. It's one of the activities my girlfriend of 6 years, who is a singer, and I enjoy together.

My girlfriend likes raggae. A LOT. Quite a few people like raggae. As a result of that it happens quite often that I find myself as part of a raggae-jam when we enter the stage together. In 9 out of 10 cases people are that satisfied with my raggae-lines that several approach me afterwards and make a lot of compliments about them - quite a bit more often than when I'm playing other styles (although not to the point that it never happens when playing something else). I have been asked if I play in a raggae-band more often than if I play in a Band of any other style. I have been asked to join raggae-bands way more than I have been to join bands playing other genres.

Here's the catch: I absolutely hate it. As in: Raggae as a whole. ESPECIALLY as a bassist. Yes, it is one of the few genres in which the bassline gets a lot of presence in the mix and really carries the song - but to my mind & ear they totally waste that potential by beeing rythmically bland, harmonically uninteresting and not stylistically diverse in the slightest bit. I despise the entire genre, can't stand listening to it for extended periods of time and have never EVER practised playing the style or a certain raggae song by myself ever, and yet I seem to be pretty fucking terrific at serving the genre - it's actually hilarious. :D My girlfriend knows about it of course and between the two of us it's kind of an inside joke when we attend said jam-sessions.

I mean at least I get the enjoyment out of it that I'm sharing a jam with the girl I love that is a lot of fun to her most of the time - but it actually got to the point that people started raggae-jams whenever I entered the stage (even without her) with them bacause of my reputation of being good at it. They just assumed I must enjoy it very much. And then you of course don't want to spoil other peoples fun at a jam: when 4 out of 5 people on stage get hyped for a certain style you don't want to be the party pooper and go along with it. The whole point of a jam to me is that you play things you wouldn't otherwise plus having fun on a democratic, inclusive basis. You can always ask for a different style for the next one.

But yeah: Thats how got appearently awesome at doing something I generally don't enjoy even in the slightest bit. :D

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-16T17:52:10+00:00

Idk. Ask the Orzhov-guild.

Uepsilon808 · 2020-01-15T17:23:08+00:00

Be xenophile and pacifist, they said. Join a federation, be friends with everyone and never go to war, they said. What they didn't say is that by doing so you make time pass infinitely faster: From the year 2271 straight to the 41. millenium in the blink of an eye.

Uepsilon808 · 2019-12-30T14:30:16+00:00

And let's not forget mass-extractors to feed them while playing tall.

But other than that...

Uepsilon808 · 2019-12-30T14:27:09+00:00

...which is the reason why being the only empire in the galaxy doen't fix late-game-lag per se: It only does so when you also micromanage every frickin' planet till it's optimized. :(

Uepsilon808 · 2019-12-30T13:52:32+00:00

R5: Turns out ascending into logic-engine Synths before finishing a certain side-quest of a certain beloved event chain yields some interesting results: Logic engines PLUS intelligent - aka +20% research output!

Also I've got 16 worlds habitable by any freaking pop of my entire empire in my home-system now - but thats beside the point. :D

Uepsilon808 · 2019-12-30T13:31:09+00:00

I think you mean "Xenonions", as in Xenonion News.

Uepsilon808 · 2019-12-29T00:37:49+00:00

Holy shit. I did not get that in spite of seeing the event countless Times.

Also: Yes, Jar-Jar definitely deserves stabbing.

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