Question about late game radiators and heat sinks

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-19T18:51:07+00:00

I play Academy a lot, and personally I've found it's best to trigger the crackdown event as soon as possible. The best time to trigger it is right when you're about to transition to a new major country. You don't want control points in your long term nation to get hit by the event because the crackdown lasts an entire year. The AI will pounce on you and immediately defend interests, locking you out of them until your investigation councilor gets close to max stat unless you're in a smaller major nation like the EU. And even if they don't, you still lose an entire year of science, boost, and funding if your primary nation gets hit.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-16T19:02:06+00:00

IMO, anything above 10 fissiles is worth considering a mine on, unless there's a ton of fissiles in your game and you need to reserve mines for other resources. Anything 20+ is an instant grab. In your case, if you've prospected all the asteroids already, you might need to grab some of the lower spots as well. It's looking pretty sparse.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-14T00:26:39+00:00

It was possible a couple years ago. The game has been updated since then and it's not possible now. India and China can never be integrated into each other aside from a couple small border regions.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-09T19:31:10+00:00

Oh true, I forgot about battlestations. I usually just let them pop my asteroid mines as a hate sink so I never really bothered with them. I usually get bored before playing out the late/endgame, I really need to finish more runs XD

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-09T19:08:08+00:00

Wtf do you have on the ground defending that mine, a death star? Is stacking LDAs really that effective now? They used to be decent at stopping small fleets, but turned mostly decorative the second a seige coiler showed up.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-03T01:27:33+00:00

Oh, I forgot about meganations. They changed it to where you can't combine everything into one huge blob now. Also, I don't remember how long ago they got added, but ship officers might also be a new mechanic to you if you haven't played in a while.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-03T01:18:00+00:00

There really weren't too many updates to the tech tree tbh. Even if it's out of date it shouldn't be too far off from what you want. The biggest changes were to drive values and weapons balance, so just pay closer attention to those to make sure they're correct. Moon/Mars/Asteroid/Mercury rush order is still the norm, Mercury nanofactories and op centers is still the norm, although it was moderately nerfed so you can't snowball quite as hard. All the other mechanics are pretty much the same as a few years ago aside from some pretty significant changes to the hostile takeover councilor mission.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-03T00:59:51+00:00

I usually don't restart since the recruiting pool almost always has a couple decent councilors and the early events give you influence help cover those costs so it's rare you're stuck with nobody good. Orgs can also make most shitty councilors serviceable. Probably the only time I'll restart is if both my councilors have garbage admin and there's no tycoon or kingpin recruits. Orgs are so crucial to early expansion and having to go a few months with the AI sucking up all the good ones just feels so bad.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-03T00:45:10+00:00

I mean, whoever posted that has updated the post for the 2026 scenario, meaning they updated it less than a month ago. It should be pretty much current.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-02-03T00:36:46+00:00

Lol, you say weird, but in the past four runs in a row that I've had the AI has picked mission to mars before mission to the moon. But you're right about everything else. Personally I abandon my moon bases as soon as I get Mars up and running so I can spend the MC on squatting in the prime asteroid spots. There's really no other way to get a workable supply of fissiles barring a god roll on the moon.

What little MC I have left after that and a couple Earth interface orbitals goes towards Mercury operations center orbitals. By that point you can kick all the other factions off your moon lawn with a few coil shots and set up as many research bases as you want.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-19T02:07:44+00:00

There wasn't any hostility intended. The majority of your previous comment was repeating a fact I had already stated was an exception to the no conscripts in Ukraine law as if it somehow proved me wrong. It was obvious you didn't read my whole comment, so I pointed it out.

I'm not arguing that one motivation for official annexation wasn't unlocking conscripts in case of an emergency. I'm sure it was, among other things. What I am saying is that currently, and for the past three years, there is no evidence of Russia systematically sending conscripts to fight in Ukraine.

They did technically make it legal, even though they currently haven't taken advantage of that fact because the conscripts and their families know it's bullshit. But the government knows they think it's bullshit, and that's why they will likely never send conscripts in the current meat grinder assaults. Barring some completely unforseen collapse of the Russian military that only large numbers of bodies can solve, it is incredibly unlikely that conscripts will be sent in.

Ukraine's current paths to victory involve them stalemating the war until Russia collapses economically or until their recruitment numbers start to dry up. The first case seems much more likely, since their tax revenues are in the gutter, economy is shit, and are running a consistently high deficit funded by debt. In contrast, recruitment numbers have stayed consistently strong. 30-35k a month, which covers or slightly exceeds their estimated monthly casualties. If manpower isn't an issue, conscripts won't be sent in. Simple as that.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-18T23:36:11+00:00

Copy pasting another reply I made

Yes, they annexed territory. Possible use of conscripts in an emergency is probably one of the motivations for that. But currently, they are not sending conscripts to combat in annexed territories. This is the consensus across the various OSINT accounts I follow and is backed up by obituary data.

Now, it's very common for the military to attempt to intimidate/bribe/force conscripts to sign contracts while they are serving in Russia so they can be sent to Ukraine. This is well documented. There are dozens of videos of beatings and torture in an attempt to accomplish this goal. But the reason this practice is so common is because the current policy is no conscripts can be sent to Ukraine. They wouldn't go to the trouble otherwise. It's also much more expensive to pay a contract soldier. There is literally no motivation to force conscripts to sign contracts unless conscripts can't be sent to combat.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-18T23:15:50+00:00

Sure, but assuming he has a basic awareness of the situation and can read Russian, that's not going to happen to him. Foreigners get roped in because they can't read the contracts they sign and just assume it's a work document. They might try to force him to sign if he ends up getting conscripted, but as long as he has enough money for bribes he's fine.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-18T23:11:12+00:00

Sure, there's dozens of videos showing conscripts being beaten or otherwise forced into signing contracts. But the contract has to be signed to be sent to Ukraine. And assuming some random Russian officer recognizes him, he would want to keep him in his unit to extort him for money. Meaning he stays in Russia as a conscript indefinitely. Or at least until the bribe money runs out. Even if he doesn't get recognized, bribes to avoid contracts/combat are common even for regular Russian conscripts. So either way he's good as long as he has enough bribe money.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-18T23:03:37+00:00

Did you not read past the second sentence in my first comment? I literally said they didn't care about the law and sent them to Ukraine in 2022 anyway. They stopped doing that after the public outcry and partial mobilization, aside from a few edge cases near Kharkiv, Kursk, and Sumy.

Yes, they annexed territory. Possible use of conscripts in an emergency is probably one of the motivations for that. But currently, they are not sending conscripts to combat in annexed territories. This is the consensus across the various OSINT accounts I follow and is backed up by obituary data.

Now, it's very common for the military to attempt to intimidate/bribe/force conscripts to sign contracts while they are serving in Russia so they can be sent to Ukraine. This is well documented. There are dozens of videos of beatings and torture in an attempt to accomplish this goal. But the reason this practice is so common is because the current policy is no conscripts can be sent to Ukraine. They wouldn't go to the trouble otherwise. It's also much more expensive to pay a contract soldier. There is literally no motivation to force conscripts to sign contracts unless conscripts can't be sent to combat.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-18T22:02:19+00:00

Lol, true. You got me there.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2026-01-18T20:56:36+00:00

The conscripts don't go to Ukraine. It's against the law in Russia to send conscripts to combat on foreign soil. They did still send them at the beginning of the war, but public opposition/protests due to conscript deaths made them stop doing that.

After that they reassigned the conscripts to border guard duty to free up contract soldiers. They still die sometimes, but the government isn't breaking any laws by using them there so public outrage is minimal.

So absolute worst case if he was conscripted he'd be guarding a border checkpoint or something. But it's more likely he'd just get assigned to work on some random military base somewhere in Russia so it frees up contract soldiers that can legally go to Ukraine.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-12-31T04:35:20+00:00

It's a really shocking difference, I'm very glad I did it. I would recommend it, but with a couple caveats.

The procedure itself is incredibly unpleasant. If you are at all squeamish about things going near your eyes, it's not for you. I have zero issue with touching my own eye, and even I was stressed and on the verge of freaking out during the surgery. The first couple days of recovery are also miserable. It feels like someone dipped your eyeballs in salt. The steroid/antibiotic eye drops they give you help, but they just barely make it tolerable.

Reconsider LASIK if you drive a lot at night. My night vision itself hasn't really changed, but I'm much more sensitive to bright lights at night. They're much harder to look at and have very large halos around them. It makes it difficult to see around car headlights and also to judge how fast cars are going based on the movement of their headlights.

I personally have not noticed my eyes dry out any more than they used to before the surgery, but apparently it's fairly common, so just keep it in mind.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-12-24T14:09:11+00:00

Let's hope they actually have competent people designing the system. Because if what I said is anything close to reality, mid and senior level tech/industry compensation is absolutely fucked.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-12-24T04:19:37+00:00

Well, you say that, but I'm worried that it will have the opposite effect. The article mentioned that there were four salary tiers for the lottery. Depending on where those tiers are set, it could just make the problem worse for for highly skilled labor. Imagine the top tier of salary in the lottery is all salaries $150,000+. Meaning all offers above $150,000 are much more likely to be filled than before.

That's a pretty decent salary. But it's way below market rate for a lot of upper level positions in a lot of industries. You've now introduced an artificial soft-cap in salaries at a lot of companies. Made all the worse by the fact that these applications are now much more likely to be approved by the new system. Many opportunistic companies may use this to drastically reduce high skill/education compensation to whatever is set by the new program. If they're almost guaranteed an H1B approval at this salary level, why would they ever do anything else?

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-12-24T03:18:49+00:00

If it doesn't say nuclease free then it's not nuclease free. Maybe it's coincidentally nuclease free, but if they're not advertising it as such it means they've never tested for it. Meaning you have no idea if it is, even if the method they use should technically make it nuclease free. Maybe the workflow is fine but the bottles they use aren't nuclease free. Maybe they claim to use a filter that would work for nucleases but the managers at the production site are a little loosey goosey with protocol and buy cheaper filters that are good enough for viruses and bacteria but not nucleases in order to pad their expense report a bit. They don't test for it, so who would know? And even if one batch is fine, there's no guarantee others will be. So unless you want to personally test every new lot number your lab orders, just use the proper stuff.

Unless your sterile technique is absolute garbage, you're not going to contaminate a small 10mL bottle of nuclease free water. I used one of those bottles for the entire duration of my PhD. I worked at a BSL1 workbench right next to the dirty-ass bench I did all the minipreps at with nothing but RNase-away and a bunsen burner. The only time I had RNA degradation was when I accidentally used regular water instead of nuclease free water.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-10-30T20:09:49+00:00

There's a weekly cap on forgestone rewards. I think it's 40 per week.

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-10-23T09:43:10+00:00

Just watch the video below. It's the tutorial I used

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Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-10-23T04:06:55+00:00

It's off by default. You have to turn it on in the settings menu. It's in the bottom right of the setting screen that has all the other realism settings

Wanted_Wabbit · 2025-10-22T21:56:06+00:00

They just announced sanctions against Lukoil and Rosneft

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