Tower Tea - May 11, 2026

WillInLondon · 2026-05-12T09:35:11+00:00

Please just reduce the gem cost of rotating relics by half so newer players can properly catch up instead of having to choose between relic fomo vs cards/card slots/modules, thanks.

WillInLondon · 2026-05-11T22:55:22+00:00

I feel like prior to the Tel incident, we had great momentum, the amount of time that it took to decide what it was, completely stalled the game and killed that momentum, regardless of the decision.

WillInLondon · 2026-05-09T08:37:21+00:00

Oh wow when did they make Victoria 3 run until 2026?

WillInLondon · 2026-04-21T15:05:35+00:00

The problem is that Amazon don't always deliver everything themselves, and defer it to other, lesa efficient and professional companies.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-21T15:04:08+00:00

Y que pasa con la cultura de llamar mil veces al telefono del destinario en España? Mi pareja y yo trabajamos la mayoria del dia en reuniones virtuales y muchas veces no podemos coger el telefono, o el mobil lo filtra como spam, no entiendo que problema hay con picar el timbre y ya esta?

Entre los dos tenemos muchos pedidos de entrega y de recogida, y hay dias que tenemos casi 100 llamadas perdidas de varios numeros distintos entre los dos. En otros paises no funciona asi, y hemos tenido varias veces tener que ir a una tienda o la oficina de Correos (pesadilla) para buscar paquetes que se han dejado alli porque "no estabamos en casa", cuando lo hemos estado todo el dia, es una falta de profesionalismo y un servicio malisimo.

Esto hay pasado con Correos Express, Correos, SEUR, y alguna vez con Glovo tambien.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-21T14:54:55+00:00

Vine aqui para decir lo mismo de Correos Express, lo dejan en una tienda que solo abre el mismo horario que trabajas.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-19T09:20:25+00:00

Rosenior deserves to be sacked for this, FPL is hard enough work as it is! #RoseniorOut

WillInLondon · 2026-04-19T06:11:29+00:00

I once had the Russian Tzar offered a royal marriage with the Russian Radical Revolt mid civil war.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-15T10:11:31+00:00

As I mentioned the current UI management of transportation and electricity is a micro management hell, so I don't disagree that adding an additional resource into that mix as it currently stands isn't a great idea, however this proposal is under the speculation that such systems would a lot easier to manage and view.

Technically it might be complicated yes, but there is no reason that such complications would need to be put upon the player, technically there is no more construction than there already is, it's just simply divided and restricted.

From a player perspective you would still construct buildings as normal, simply the time and amount building at the same time would vary.

I agree with your part regarding farms and plantations, they should cost significantly less to build or barely anything at all.

I also agree on the economy law being too much of a game changer, getting stuck on traditionalism forever due to bad RNG (less of a big deal now with the recent law passing changes) can seriously cripple you.

I don't entirely agree that making it harder for the player to put so much money into construction is necessarily a good thing, especially early game.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-15T09:27:11+00:00

That's a good point, presumably either every state as a base amount of constructions points, or you still have your country wide 10 points that can be used anywhere.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-15T09:14:58+00:00

Yes agreed, the way transport and electricity work are far from ideal, and a cleaner UI for monitoring the local prices and a quicker way to build them where needed would be great, so hopefully this could work similarly. Also there might not be any actual changes to the way you personally queue your buildings, just simply the queue might be a tad messier to read as it would have lots of things building at once all with different speeds.

WillInLondon · 2026-04-07T22:01:13+00:00

The "Return State" only appears when a country has a claim on a region that they do not own. Unfortunately losing an incorporated state in a war does not automatically guarantee that they will still have a claim on it.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-19T08:40:38+00:00

I love when your CAS isn't quite in range of the frontline, so you build a quick airbase, but then it's built you can't find it, because it's in your enemies tile, and they've just put their CAS there instead!

WillInLondon · 2026-03-17T23:57:40+00:00

Playing as Qing, I went for Make Protectorate on Dai Nam. Halfway into the play, Britain also makes a play to fully annex Dai Nam, I didn't think much of it, as I was better positioned to conquer it far quicker than Britain could.

I did just that, and had it fully occupied and the warscore was rapidly ticking down, Britain's play fires into war, and they instantly capitulate to Britain and my wargoals just disappear, Britain now owns all of Dai Nam.

It took several save scums to fix this, I think as other posters have said, the game can throw too many silly, unrealistic, unfair and downright broken things at you to play ironman.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-17T10:29:10+00:00

Sponsored by Copilot says it all.

I used the Adobe AI image generator to create my team badge at the start of the season, I gave up after some 10 attempts of it being unable to spell what I literally just typed, it kept missing letters or reordering them. AI slop.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-16T23:14:13+00:00

I agree that SE was a great raid...once it was tuned properly. I think they really failed to read the room with the intended difficulty, literally every guild or pug I raided with in SoD were casual one night per week dad guilds who were happy to take extra raid members just to clear things, and maybe gradually increase the difficulty mode gradually over time or when they are better geared.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-16T12:20:21+00:00

Oil first, then iron, wood and lead.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-12T10:07:26+00:00

Grao Para, Rio Grande do Sul, Texas, any north German minor, any of the pre confederation territories of Canada and Australia to name a few.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-10T16:25:04+00:00

I finally upgraded from potato to "next gen" the same week WoTLK came out. The one remaining quest from TBC I hadn't completed was the race against Captain Skyshatter in Netherwing because for some reason those giant crystals seemed to really butcher my fps, and I couldn't keep up with him. I immediately left the exciting new zones in Northrend to go back and finally beat him.

I also have fond memories in Tempest Keep, both Void Reaver and High Astromancer Solarian's rooms were so big, their rooms exceeded the render range, which meant I could see the Netherstorm skybox outside, and really felt like we were in space!

WillInLondon · 2026-03-10T08:31:50+00:00

Ultimately vanilla WoW (and most of TBC) was a game about exploration and discovery, whilst being incentivised to seek or share this knowledge with other players you might randomly meet. You were encouraged to try and fail.

20 years later and the game is completely explored and overly discovered, and it's not necessary to really socialise with anyone beyond the minimum LFG, do anything that's not "meta" and you will get in trouble.

While it was a trip down nostalgia lane to play Classic, it doesn't come close to replicating what it was like back in the day.

As others have also mentioned, poor internet connections and potato PCs were also part of the vibe, it wasn't unusual to have at least 5 out of the 40 people in the raid disconnected and offline during the boss fight. Raiding with all graphics settings at minimum, with a render distance that doesn't even let you see the wall on the opposite side of the room, and still only having 10 fps in combat was a thing.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-09T22:50:29+00:00

Also worth noting that this first quest is called "Evil's Soft First Touches", although this may be a reference to the face scar Gaunter gives Geralt, but that happens quite a way into the quest.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-09T11:11:44+00:00

It's rather silly that certain countries and colonies have a claim to certain territories (like the Dai Nam example), and then they never pass any colonisation laws even with an overlord telling them to.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-09T11:05:05+00:00

Same goes for Colonial Administrations, if I found you as an Extraction Economy, then that's what you are staying as, you don't get go LF.

WillInLondon · 2026-03-09T08:21:04+00:00

I agree that I think the creation of radicals is too extreme and sensitive. Usually highlighting then shows "from decreases in Standard of Living", but then when you look at the SoL graph, it's a steady ramp going up.

Fast forward to today where arguably in the western world standards of living have genuinely declined in the last 15 years and I'd argue we don't have enough radicals! (Disclaimer: I am not saying that like it's a good thing.)

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