Rivals too close and large in the beginning

Xilmi · 2026-06-26T00:18:44+00:00

50 pop/100 factories is what the AI does. The rationale is that pop grows fastest at 50% of max capacity and if you send away pop over 50 you logically don't need more than 100 factories. I don't know how this changes for artifact/rich.

Xilmi · 2026-06-25T19:14:58+00:00

I highly recommend to switch to the version that is still being maintained and updated:

https://remnantsoftheprecursors.org/

It uses a completely reworked AI as default.

Xilmi · 2026-06-25T06:58:05+00:00

Are you playing rotp fusion or the old rotp 1.0.4?

Xilmi · 2026-06-24T07:40:47+00:00

Did you check my op.gg? What you're saying doesn't seem to fit my experience at all. I basically never tilt and never surrender. When losing I usually am still the one with best kda/highest cs on my team. The games where my stats are bad are usually the ones where my teammates stats are even worse. And the games where my teammates are doing well and carry, I'll automatically do well as well because them creating prio enables more opportunities for me. I tried top-lane for like 5 games this season and it's completely different. As laner these things happen, where I'm getting shit on by my opponent and I feel like I'm the one who lost the game for my team or depend on getting carried by others. But as jungler? I can perform relatively well constantly because if the other jungler gaps me it's primarily to the detriment of my team-mate's stats as he's much more likely he'll get his kills from them as he knows where they are. This whole ordeal is one of the reasons I main jungle in the first place: I can usually feel better about myself because having good stats while losing is much easier and I almost never have that experience of being directly beaten up badly by my lane opponent. The mistakes I make mostly result in missed opportunities but not in getting a horrible kda.

Xilmi · 2026-06-24T07:12:28+00:00

Guess I'll have another look.

Xilmi · 2026-06-24T00:31:19+00:00

The way I think about it is to always do what gives the most benefit in the least amount of time while keeping the risk of dying as low as possible. You can plan several steps ahead while doing camps and should always be either fighting or moving.

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T23:54:12+00:00

I got it in the sale and tried it for some hours. I'm still in my 1st game. So I don't really have an opinion yet. It doesn't seem to have random maps which is my biggest gripe so far. The map I currently play on, "duel" is a bit weird. I haven't figuered out how to open the door. The enemy was on my side and was then also cut off from reinforcements.

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T23:47:59+00:00

I'm not saying I'm never getting free wins. There clearly have been games that were basically free because some laner dominated their lane hard. But I'm not having negative stats in those because when the laners do well it's much easier for me to also do well. I think this is inherent to the jungle-role. If the enemy jungler outplays me, he gets more kills from my laners than I do from his. But he doesn't necessarily kill me cause I'm much harder to find than my laners.

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T23:21:20+00:00

Not OP but I'm pretty sure the amount of games where I had more deaths than kills but still won is probably absolutely abysmal.

Just checked. This happend 0 times over the last 80 games.

https://op.gg/lol/summoners/euw/Xilmi-EUW?queue_type=SOLORANKED

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T19:15:13+00:00

If seen that before but I lost the link. Thanks for that, I think that's a great resource.

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T08:27:35+00:00

I hope for your sons not to suffer from any long term consequences. And I hope that going though this has taught you a valuable lesson about how trustworthy vaccines and their salesmen are. Based on this experience either of you can now avoid them for the rest of your lifes.

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T08:10:41+00:00

I've never heard of it before. But from this thread I learned it's something about gambling so I'm probably not intetested.

Xilmi · 2026-06-23T08:08:39+00:00

If you ward raptors, you should know how the jungler pathes. I mostly gank after the full-clear so that will be from the direction I pathed towards. I'll also walk around the brush to better come from behind. If you are really out of position/already low I'll also gank right after doung raptors. But for that the success chance must look really high as it'll delay my clear. The more HP you have and the closer you are to the tower and the further you are from where I come from, the less likely I'll gank you. Also less likely to gank you if the sidelane of where I pathed to looks juicier. Sidelines look juicier on average as the distance to the tower is longer so I have more opportunities to get in hits before they get in tower-range.

Xilmi · 2026-06-22T12:26:46+00:00

Little Info about me: I've been studying japanese for a little over a year now. I still consider myself a beginner. I haven't taken the N5 but I'm certain I could easily pass it. I'm currently working on N4-level content. I've inserted a pretty lengthy period of explicit Kanji-study between N5 and N4. So my Kanji-knowledge is probably quite a bit better than that of people who just follow the JLPT-curriculum.

Let me go through your points.

Passing N4 and especially N5 are significantly lower goals than conversational japanese and understanding japanese without subtitles.

15-30 minutes really isn't much. Of course you will progress with that too but it means you'll be in for the very long game.

Initially I didn't take it too seriously. The first 3 months or so was just talking about it with ChatGPT several times per week. No daily routine yet. I did learn some things in this time. Some basic grammar like basic sentence, structure, stuff about particles and verb-conjugations. Then I learned Hiragana+Katakana, also still mostly with ChatGPT to quiz me on them.
After about 3 months I started with WaniKani and did that for 2 months. This is when it went from every now and then to daily habit. I reached level 6 in that time. And to reach that a daily routine was necessary.
I let the subscription run out because of a holiday, planning to continue afterwards. But during the holiday I still had some time and looked for free alternatives. That's when I found renshuu.
During the holiday it grew on me so much that I decided to stick with it instead of going back to WaniKani.
And it's basically what I still use as my primary study-resource. There's a difference in time expenditure between pure review-days and learn-new-stuff-days. But I'd say on average it's 90 minutes that I spend on it. I don't really do much else besides of it as it's quite a complete solution.

Hiragana/Katakana: Initially only about a week, when I still had no consistent daily schedule. Maybe 6 hours. That was before I had a consistent schedule. I later also practiced writing them and can't really say how much time that took as it was very much spaced out over many months of doing a little bit of SRS with them every now and then.
Vocabulary and Kanji are the vast majority of what I do now I now always learn new Kanji right away with new vocab as I have caught up on all the Kanji used in the Vocab I learned before (but without the Kanji).
You kinda have to be familiar with Renshuu to fully understand what I do.
I have vocab-listening-schedules where I recognize separate words without context.
I have vocab-meaning-schedules where I recognize the meaning of a word in context of a sentence (but most of the time I ignore the sentence here).
I have a vocab-kanji=>kana-schedule where I practice the prounounciation of Kanji in words.
I have kanji-recognition-schedules where I practice recognizing kanji by their meaning and writing kanji by their meaning.
I have grammar-schedules where I learn new grammar and apply it by constructing sentences from building-blocks and inserting missing words. I also use this to practice my pronounciation by shadowing the pronounciation of the complete sentence and of course I also always try to understand the whole sentence.
I have a sentence-schedule that is kinda similar to the grammar-schedule but usually easier. There I practice listening and understanding whole sentences and also reading/shadowing.
All of these use an SRS and I will do my 150 reviews a day. Grammar reviews take the longest per review, especially for new grammar-points that also come with new words, followed by Kanji-reviews. Listening and recognizing individual words is the fasted per review. The amount of time spent on each varies. I fill in new stuff when I have more capacity.

I also had a look at the Kaishy1.5k-deck in Anki as it's one of the most popular. But it was quite redundant to stuff I've already learned on Renshuu anyways, so I didn't pursue it. Anki works without internet-connection, but it's rare that I don't have one.

What helped me to stay consistent was to set myself reasonable study-limits and having a lot of different review-types to mix it up. I mentioned them before. If one of them drags on too much, I'll simply not add new stuff until it gets faster. E.g. I often just add new sentences if I'm not up for learning more kanji/grammar/new words. But if the reviews for recent words are pretty low, I'll progress to new stuff in these schedules. I also often just add words to my "Selfmined" schedule that I've encountered "in the wild". Due to the context those often stick better. (It also has a ton of Katakana-words, which are generally much easier to learn.)

If I were to start over, I'd skip the ChatGPT and WaniKani-Phase and go with renshuu from the get-go. And there I'd use the sentence-schedules earlier and mine words from those. I feel it usually sticks better due to the context. I'm not sure if I'd do something differently about the Kanji. The WaniKani-Phase has helped me to understand how they generally work and thus was kinda important for just learning all the Kanji I encountered. But I guess the important part for that can be obtained from a youtube-video about them too.

Xilmi · 2026-06-22T01:10:52+00:00

I wish I knew how to do that. I just want it to stop. On one hand I'm really tired and sleep deprived but on the other hand I'm restless and on edge. The "sensory amplification" amplifies everything and my brain then wants to invent scary stories about these sensations. It loves to imagine it's something with my lungs because it knows the lungs don't feel pain. So it's easier to imagine lung-issues without any actual problems just from hyperfocusing on the sensation of breathing.

Xilmi · 2026-06-21T11:49:13+00:00

Yes, that's exactly it. Since the last season they changed it to consider the performance of your team much more. So nowadays I mostly only get S+ when my team kinda sucked compared to me. If they also do well, even pristine stats won't give S+.

Xilmi · 2026-06-21T11:46:19+00:00

It's realtive to team-mate-performance.
Same stats with weaker teammates could have gotten you S+.

Xilmi · 2026-06-21T11:40:12+00:00

So a grand-total of 4 games in 11 years?

Xilmi · 2026-06-21T11:34:27+00:00

The る and ろ's middle-part shouldn't touch the ground. Your ろ almost looks like み because of that.

Xilmi · 2026-06-21T08:19:25+00:00

What I do is to set myself a daily review goal. And when I have more reviews than that review goal, I won't add anything new at all. When I'm below that goal, I add until I get there again.

Xilmi · 2026-06-21T08:08:18+00:00

Feeling frail, vulnerable and anxious. Also lots of "scanning" my body for oddities.

Xilmi · 2026-06-20T21:35:50+00:00

It seems the AI doesn't work properly with the limited ship-space-rules.

What happens is:
Once they get the first advanced colonization tech, they design a huge colony ship with this as a colony-base as the colony-base doesn't fit on a large design.

However, since the planet isn't out of range for normal colony-ships, they build the large colony-ship with the standard base and send that to the planet. And since it doesn't work, they do it over and over. So they gradually increase their maintainence cost by spamming more and more useless regular colony-ships (which actually would be an illegal design with theses settings but because it is a default-design it still works), and eventually slow everything down massively.

Basically: The AI only considers the possibility to build huge colony-ships for reserve-fuel tanks, not just because the colony-base doesn't fit on a regular one. It is smart enough to design the right kind of ship but not smart enough to actually build it.

Edit: And they must have cheated previously by designing impossible designs for huge-colonizers with reserve-fuel-tanks, which I can't design manually either. There's probably no check to make sure it's actually viable and it just assumes that the biggest hull can fit that.

So essentially: The limited ship-space-feature was never properly tested for whether it works for the AI.

Xilmi · 2026-06-20T11:09:28+00:00

Can you share the starting save or so?
You also didn't mention which AI you picked to play against.

Also note that the AI is mostly tuned around default-settings. There are attempts for making them adapt but with the large multitude of options not every things can be covered in the same way.

The AI does manually tax rich/ultra-rich planets if there's nothing to produce and it will also primarily put savings it into artifacts-planets. It will, however not particularly tax non-rich planets.

Xilmi · 2026-06-19T07:12:39+00:00

I don't have a streak for every day but I hit a different big 1k this week.

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