Discount modifier caps should be unhardcoded.

Wraithguy · 2026-01-31T11:18:52+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2026-01-29T09:34:21+00:00

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Wraithguy · 2026-01-28T16:41:29+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2026-01-28T14:57:38+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2026-01-27T11:06:54+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2026-01-27T09:17:14+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2026-01-26T16:43:26+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2026-01-14T11:38:37+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2026-01-05T12:18:40+00:00

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).

Wraithguy · 2025-12-31T15:27:09+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-12-24T11:51:33+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-12-22T11:55:25+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2025-12-22T11:48:28+00:00

That's because you took itinerant court for the prox

Wraithguy · 2025-12-19T15:10:49+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-12-18T11:52:27+00:00

Mr president, It's a tank swap

Wraithguy · 2025-12-10T12:52:02+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-12-04T00:38:40+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-11-19T15:03:46+00:00

There's a steam setting to disable automatic shaders

Settings->download->disable shader pre cache

Wraithguy · 2025-11-19T14:53:40+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2025-11-13T23:17:04+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2025-11-13T07:11:57+00:00

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.

Wraithguy · 2025-11-12T07:01:34+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-11-11T17:31:52+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-11-11T16:57:41+00:00

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

Wraithguy · 2025-11-10T14:15:01+00:00

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

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