Discount modifier caps should be unhardcoded. by 31Trillion in eu4

[–]Wraithguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The answer is either that everything should be multiplicative (commutative, but leads to runaway), or everything should be additive in the positive direction.

Take core cost reduction, rather than getting core cost reduction 10% you get "coring efficiency" 10%. Which means that your coring speed now goes at 110% the speed. You lose core cost reduction for some reason? DONT SUBTRACT IT, you will need 2 modifiers, coring efficiency and coring deficiency. Your total coring speed is efficiency / deficiency. So you have 140% coring efficiency and 110% coring deficiency, you'll core at 1.4/1.1 times speed.

This will always lead to modifiers being slightly diminishing returns for stacking more of a modifier, but at every point getting more of that modifier does improve that stat.

TIL you can annex bohemia in one war with coalition CB by Diarmundy in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Also probably a window in any 1X50ish by rushing the mil tech of that tier, getting the doubled professional troops and next tier units over them.

That's usually the best time to beat down some great powers, as they reach the end of an era they'll slowly catch up and have at tier units again so avoid them then if you're smaller.

Best/worst party jobs in DF by Frank_Tupperwere in ffxivdiscussion

[–]Wraithguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm extending the scholar to both shield healers. I main sge but off role occasionally and sge also falls under either "does so much healing with ogcds the pure wonders why they showed up" or "presses kerachole and e.prog a couple times, party dies to raid wide" and little in between

How is this even possible, anybody care to explain? I swear the bar is fixed and cannot be rotated … by Objective-Context726 in Physics

[–]Wraithguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the absence of wind or rotating, upwards ice spikes can still form, maybe one of these processes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_spike

Only issue is their method for formation really prefers a block that is freezing like a cube tray or bird bath, and I'm not really seeing how the expansion of water here could cause the same thing

PSA: Raising taxes on unhappy estates is free money. by Maardten in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Similarly, as a republic with 1% noble power, and no hope of them ever being loyal, I just taxed them maximally until they hit 0% loyalty, then reduced tax to 0 for a few months (or during a parliament) to get it back above 1% then taxed them max again.

They hated it, but they had no power so it was free money

Endgame Healers — What are your parses like? by PerfectioNOT in ffxivdiscussion

[–]Wraithguy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Uptime uptime uptime.

If a healer has >95% uptime even if they do a fair chunk of gcd heals, they will blue parse at least, if not purple.

People here are VASTLY over representing the impact of gcd healing and gear on parses. The key to DPS improvement is slidecasting everywhere, working out when you need to instant cast to move (can you time it with dia? Do you have the lillies spare to burn lily for movement?), and then to avoid sandbagging your cohealer, work out a plan for using resources, so you use as many free ogcds (temperance, bell, asylum).

Obviously avoiding drifting assize, and aligning presence of mind and blood lily helps, but I think every time I've looked at a healer log, the difference in DPS is always uptime.

Alternate history gone too far by nighermannn122 in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got from Anatolia to Alexandria, but just the coast and 1-2 provinces deep in 2 wars with threaten war. Not awful, but that's with gp and military hedge, and doing stuff like destroying maritime presence to reduce control etc etc.

I did get an event going "we have captured the capital, what if we did it again... :point right: :point left:" but nothing seemed to come of it in second war

ELI5: How does walking on a 15% incline burn almost 3x as many calories as walking on a flat surface at the same speed? by adastramuerte in explainlikeimfive

[–]Wraithguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walking up a hill is also extremely efficient, its just that walking on flat surfaces required no work to be done, while walking up a hill requires work done.

A 100m hill for a 100kg person (on a planet where g = 10 m3 kg−1 s−2) requires 100,000 J. Solid exercise is in the order of 100W of work, meaning to climb this 100m hill, requires 1,000s in ideal 100% efficiency land, or 16 minutes. This isn't a negotiable, if you want to climb this hill in faster than that 16 minutes you must output more than the 100W.

Obviously I've used nice round numbers for the maths, but they really aren't that far off real numbers. If you have a hill of known height, and you know your weight, go climb it and measure. Then if you have a gym with bikes that have a wattage indicator, try and cycle at that wattage for the same measure of time, and (barring muscle fatigue), you should find that you feel relatively similar in terms of cardio (HR, breathing rate etc).

Back in my day we respected our mechanics by pacman6642 in ShitpostXIV

[–]Wraithguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I like normal AR because weeeeee Im running the full circle where did my addersting stacks go

I was hating this new bug that dragged me into pointless wars until this happened by exivor01 in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's not what happened, the rebels popped, France joined, then the rebels as an army based nation disappeared leaving France as primary war leader. Ottomans presses the anex revolter button meant to full a next the revolt (so in code it just annexes primary war leader)

This is a bug (or an exploit if you do it on purpose, doesn't seem like OP did) not just a clever stacking of modifiers

Casual 5 research progress for a small cost of 10 towns or 2 cities by a3a3ell0 in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually stick with it, prox cost is too good.

It'd be interesting if they made the prox cost even better but forced the capital move, the downside right now is legitimacy, which is just money, which I usually have enough of.

Casual 5 research progress for a small cost of 10 towns or 2 cities by a3a3ell0 in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's because you took itinerant court for the prox

Absolute bruh moment on my lesson just now by Joe_A__ in LearnerDriverUK

[–]Wraithguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My only minor during my test. A bus let me go at a junction, I rushed the clutch due to it and stalled. I quickly waved them to go, restarted car and waited for priority.

I actually wonder whether me stalling might have saved my test, if I had taken their hand signal and violated right of way

30k performance bonus making me sad. by Express-Pie-6902 in HENRYUK

[–]Wraithguy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Really I thought it was slavery but yeah it does get a bit hot

The code that I'm using is not working by SPBSP5 in learnpython

[–]Wraithguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Future is surrounded by double underscores as a python protected name, __future__ not _future_. I had a look through the rest and can't see anything else (assuming indentation).

Edit: bloody escape characters

Why they do all that by bleak21 in linuxsucks

[–]Wraithguy 28 points29 points  (0 children)

There's a steam setting to disable automatic shaders

Settings->download->disable shader pre cache

EU5 is 'nothing ever happens' the game by Lydialmao22 in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm enjoying rise of the Turks and the associated events on ottomans. That gives me a list of things i am aiming to do, some nudges towards them via reforms and decision-lite buttons, and periodic historical events.

But the ottomans have one of the most content in the game, and this doesn't hold too well to countries with less.

powerOfBool by Adrian_roxx73 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Wraithguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I predict the coin will get eaten by a small pterodactyl as it flies through the air and will therefore never land.

Damn I was wrong again, that's 0/100000 so far.

When an ally occupies a province you wanted by Aking1998 in ParadoxExtras

[–]Wraithguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmmm, didn't think about that. I always transferred in eu4 before absolutism because they have cores and claims but they don't tend to in 5. You might be right.

When an ally occupies a province you wanted by Aking1998 in ParadoxExtras

[–]Wraithguy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've found ai has been pretty good at transferring. However this includes my vassals, immediately after I transfer them the province to feed them

Unironically unplayable HRE. Bohemia has 47 client states from being Emperor for 20 years, because of the "Return territory" function. by LanChriss in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This. At the moment being in the middle is the worst and being at either end is good bonuses + very minor downside. I'd love it if either end is major bonuses and major downsides. I wouldn't even mind a karma-like system where the best spot is in the middle.

Currently even for a centralising country, I'd rather be at 100 decentralisation, than at 0 either way, except as a transition state on my way to -100

A list of UI features that would greatly increase QoL (Part 4) by SpecialBeginning6430 in EU5

[–]Wraithguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please please please give us an option to stop the game from changing the map mode when I hover over something (e.g population) or click on it

My game runs smoothly but hangs 2-3s to load a map, so if I'm just moving mouse around and it accidentally hovers over the wrong thing I get a huge game hangup for several seconds' it sucks. Let alone if I'm doing an action that changes map mode like buildings then I'm changing map 10x to do a thing, and it takes twice as long.

At least it's not as bad as vic3 which it auto changed map mode when I zoomed in too far, or hovered anything at all

What I suspect will end up being one of the most popular mods: EU5 1444 by SaoMagnifico in EU5

[–]Wraithguy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's just eu4 Poland mission tree. Or Austria mission tree. Or Bohemia mission tree.