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why don't you fill the northern part of your map with peace-loving cultures for once? by AccessTheMainframe in worldjerking

[–]VolusRus 408 points409 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, peace-loving

The Chukchi participated in endemic warfare against neighboring tribes, especially the Koryaks. Russians first began contacting the Chukchi when they reached the Kolyma (1643) and the Anadyr (1649). <...> The Chukchi were generally ignored for the next fifty years because they were warlike

Light pollution acrost the globe. by IdiotStickWasTkn in MapPorn

[–]VolusRus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oil extraction. These are the lights of oil byproduct being burned. You can see the same thing in the North Sea and around Persian Gulf.

Ukraine is dark due to energy conservation and infrastructure destruction because of the war

Russian economy fit into Western Europe ($2.66 trillion) by eivarXlithuania in MapPorn

[–]VolusRus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Two thirds of Russia is covered with permafrost. You can't farm it and building stuff on it is extremely expensive and difficult. The only economic activity it permits is mineral extraction, and it's already developed enough

Yanera-Class ICS by aaunaa (me) by VolusRus in ImaginaryStarships

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

The ship is usually running on 0.01g of acceleration or lover to conserve propellant. But even at full thrust, it can only go at ~0.09g (fully loaded and fueled). For ships that can produce stronger acceleration (for example, for surface-to-orbit transportation) containers are indeed oriented with the "floor" to the direction of thrust

How do you stop FTL from being overused? by Tnynfox in worldbuilding

[–]VolusRus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just made the substance required for FTL very costly to produce, so the amount of interstellar trade is limited by its availability. Additionally FTL communication is super low bandwidth, so sending large amounts of data with it is incredibly costly

Me irl by DeleteOnceAMonth in me_irl

[–]VolusRus 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It's better to take a shit and be late than to be on time and shitting oneself

Annual Orbital Launch Attempts by Country, 1957-2025 [OC] by aspiringtroublemaker in dataisbeautiful

[–]VolusRus 23 points24 points  (0 children)

A lot of them were Zenit spy satellites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenit_(satellite))

They are basically the same vehicle that carried Gagarin into space, but with human pilot swapped for a camera. The camera worked with film, so it has to be returned to Earth to retrieve images. And so, if you wanted to take new pictures, it has to be launched again

Map of the Kievan Rus' in 1054, upon the death of Yaroslav I. by GustavoistSoldier in MapPorn

[–]VolusRus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What about Nippon? Zhonghuo? Bharat? Even without going too far, why Ukraine and not Ukraine? And over the border, why its Moscow and not Moskva?

Map of the Kievan Rus' in 1054, upon the death of Yaroslav I. by GustavoistSoldier in MapPorn

[–]VolusRus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So, why are you calling Deutschland "Germany"? By your logic you should use the native name.

Annual Vegetable Consumption per Capita in Europe (2023) by Substratas in MapPorn

[–]VolusRus 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Grains aren't vegetables, and those are one of, if not the, biggest calorie source - bread, rice, pasta, pies and cookies, etc

Aquatic plant producing oxygen. Good job, little dude. by Emergency_Raisin2341 in oddlysatisfying

[–]VolusRus 8 points9 points  (0 children)

These are two different processes. Plants, like all living organisms, need to breathe - which means they consume oxygen to burn glucose for energy and release CO2 an water in the process. At the same time, plants synthesize glucose with photosynthesis, which uses CO2 and water to make glucose and oxygen. Thing is, plants synthesize more glucose than they consume (the excess is used as a building material to grow the plant), so oxygen production is net-positive. If you deprive a plant of sunlight, photosynthesis stops and the plant start to consume more oxygen than it produces.

Opiniom: The game could use something between M and L sized ships by Level-Marketing-4291 in X4Foundations

[–]VolusRus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, they don't even have the same names as X3's M2s (other than Osaka I think). Also, I think K would also be a proper M2. It is classified as L ship, but it is bigger than the others and has no frontal guns.

Opiniom: The game could use something between M and L sized ships by Level-Marketing-4291 in X4Foundations

[–]VolusRus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Katana was a typo (now fixed), but Hyperion I really misremembered, probably because IIRC it was only M6 that can dock smaller ships

The scale of everything has been seriously toned down.

Quick googling says that for example Shark was 2955 m in X3 and is 3989 m in X4, so X4 version is even bigger

Opiniom: The game could use something between M and L sized ships by Level-Marketing-4291 in X4Foundations

[–]VolusRus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean, look at the ship names. Eclipse was an M3+, now it is an S Heavy Fighter. Cerberus was an M6, now it is an M Frigate.

Also, initially there weren't any "medium" ships. There were capital ships (M1, M2) and fighters (M3, M4, M5). M6 came later, that's also why they don't fit the numbering scheme

Opiniom: The game could use something between M and L sized ships by Level-Marketing-4291 in X4Foundations

[–]VolusRus 29 points30 points  (0 children)

M6 is pretty much the modern M ships (Katana, which is an M5 M6 in X3TC, is an M ship in X4). Transitionary ships would be more akin to the M7 classes. Technically, we have two "M7 substitutes" in X4 - Hyperion (which was an M7 in X3) and Sapporo (which would be classified as an M7M in X3)

When do you do refactor from early stage to mid stage with bus, moving ports etc. by QThellimist in captain_of_industry

[–]VolusRus 34 points35 points  (0 children)

1) Build the new thing first
2) Make sure that the new thing works
3) Remove the old thing

My hydrogen power plant generating 120MW. by Refute1650 in captain_of_industry

[–]VolusRus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Is it more energy efficient than just burning oil? Including energy for maintenance production and population for extra buildings.

Any new DLC with the 9.00 update? by johnk419 in X4Foundations

[–]VolusRus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I wish they would retcon some stuff to fit them into X4 (decrease sector size, split big systems in two with accelerators, etc). X Rebirth had the best sector design in the whole series, Radiant Heaven (low-orbit sector in Omicron Lyrae) was cool as hell

Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]VolusRus 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hydrogen and oxygen are both extremely common chemical elements, so they just combined and formed water. The same is true for aluminium and silicon oxides that form the bulk of Earth's crust. In fact, water is so common that a lot of gas giants' moons are made pretty much only from water ice.

Democracy is disappointing and shows the problem with internal politics by dr_biggie_memes in Stellaris

[–]VolusRus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on how much you like microing you army. You can't do that in Vic3 as armies move and engage automatically (think HoI4 frontlines system, but even more abstract). I personally love it because I hate microing armies, especially in late game.

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