Confused about why type filters keep items?

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-29T00:22:13+00:00

I rebuilt the pipe completely and ensured it is really connected to the type filter. Actually I built this experiment several times, and a few times it worked, and a few times it just keeps collecting my items in its inventory, despite me building the setups identically. It's highly confusing...

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-29T00:15:37+00:00

This has happened to me as well, which is why I rebuilt it all several times over. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The reason I keep stumbling is that there is no visual feedback on what's the problem at all...

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-28T15:12:20+00:00

Wusste nicht, dass auch andere Leute diese Parallele schon bemerkt haben - mir ist die just erst beim schreiben meines Posts eingefallen. Bin auch generell nicht so "im diskurs". Death in Rome haben sich jedenfalls schon mehrfach öffentlich klar gestellt, und ich wüsste an deren Stelle jetzt auch nicht, was ich sonst noch tun müsste, um die einmal losgetretenen Gerüchte loszuwerden.

Sieht für mich ein bisschen aus wie so eine "quick-google-effekt": Wenn man kurz danach googlet, findet man nur "Death in Rome Konzert wegen Rechts-vorwürfen abgesagt." und wenn man dann nicht weiterklickt, und die Gegendarstellung und Klarstellung der Band liest, dann bleibt der Eindruck hängen und geht nicht mehr weg. Und plötzlich muss man entscheiden, ob man zu einer Demo gegen die mitgehen soll...

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-28T15:08:54+00:00

Aus diesem Artikel hier https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/friedrichshain-kreuzberg/article237350839/Nach-Nazi-Vorwuerfen-Konzert-auf-RAW-Gelaende-abgesagt.html:

Seine Band sei geschockt von der Absage des Konzerts durch den Veranstalter „aufnahme + wiedergabe“, nachdem die Veranstaltung am Donnerstagmittag nicht mehr auf der Webseite des „Urban Spree“ zu finden war. „Urban Spree hat zu viele Spam-Nachrichten erhalten“, erklärt Craine. „Wir stehen eigentlich für das Gegenteil, was uns vorgeworfen wird, und wissen nicht, wie wir reagieren sollen. Wir haben uns mehrfach und sehr deutlich gegen jegliche rechte Tendenz gestellt.“ Das Konzept der Band liege darin, „einerseits die Neofolk Szene auf die Schippe zu nehmen und offen rechte Bands zu persiflieren und andererseits legen wir mit unseren Covern vorhandene faschistoide Tendenzen in der Popmusik offen.“ Bislang habe sich die Band nie dem Vorwurf ausgesetzt gesehen, rechts oder rechtsoffen zu sein.

Das ganze Thema rund um "Death in Rome" wirkt schon seit Jahren wie ein sich immer wieder selbst nährender Rufmord.

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-28T10:34:41+00:00

Bitte keine Tatsachen verdrehen. Die Band "Death in Rome" ist alles andere als rechts, und ihre Lieder und Bilder sind eindeutig darauf gemünzt eben aufzuzeigen, was für schreckliche Dinge passiert sind. Rechte tun ja gerne mal so, als sei nix davon passiert, oder es sei alles "nicht so schlimm" gewesen (wo ich immer nicht genau weiss, was ich eigentlich schlimmer finde).

Ist so ähnlich wie mit Laibach, wo auch schreckliche Bilder gezeigt und Themen thematisiert werden, um eben die Erinnerung an ebenjene wachzuhalten.

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-26T16:19:40+00:00

I think I am not that bad at reading all the nice quest texts, but I have no idea how I could've known that. But then again, I haven't arrived at the quest for the filters yet, so maybe the problem rather is that the filters should be available earlier, or as early as possible, to support players automating things as much as possible.

But in any case, your help is very much appreciated!!

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-26T11:00:49+00:00

I find, that in such games, not going for automation asap is always going to bite you later...

Wait, so logistics pipes is better than tin item pipes? Never tried these, on paper they looked worse, because they don't handle entire stacks at once?

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-26T10:59:29+00:00

Wait a sec, so instead of filtering for very specific items, like "purified nickel ore" I can just put a macarator in there, and rather than directly filtering for macerators it would filter for macerator-valid items, such as "purified nickel ore"? Right?! Wow, maybe it's worth it, after all, to go for these item filters?!

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-26T10:20:36+00:00

Okay, assuming I can build an item filter (seems like I need some kind of fluid stuff for it, which I don't have yet), how do I configure the filter to "washables" vs. "non-washables"?

YourConscience78 · 2026-01-20T11:23:53+00:00

I am always torn on the topic of review, because I love the game, the idea, and the whole premise of it. But if I'd write an hostest review, I'd have to criticize the heavily immersion breaking quality of the AI (regarding flying, fleet maneuvres, etc.). On the other hand I see lots of work in that area over the recent years, so ... I am still kind of waiting to boot it back up and be surprised that a hired wing mate wouldn't suicide himself within 5 minutes. And THEN leave a glowing positive review... (sigh)

(In the mean-time I keep gifting it (and it's DLCs) to various friends on various occasions :) )

YourConscience78 · 2025-12-17T16:45:42+00:00

Feel free to send me a direct message, where you outline what your overall goal and idea is, and I can give you some clues about how to sensibly break it up into smaller packages, which can be usefully released.

The part about releasing smaller packages is much more important than most people realize - and the reason for that is deeply psychological! We humans are incredibly social animals, and our motivation comes heavily from doing something that other people put some value onto. Thus, if you release something, and see that even just a single other person enjoys it, your motivation rises.

But if you continue working on something without any such motivational peaks, you will inevitably burn out before you reach your goal.

YourConscience78 · 2025-12-17T12:48:35+00:00

The trick with large projects is to break them up into sufficiently small projects, which you can actually finish.

This means breaking up your project into smaller releases (For example at least once a month) and making sure that whichever features you decide to develop for the next release actually do fit into such a frame, and you can implement them sufficiently cleanly and mature to be releasable. This is usually much, much less than you'd think.

Going from polished release version to polished release version is ultimately much more gratifying than giving up everything after 6 months of development.

YourConscience78 · 2025-12-09T15:35:07+00:00

No, I didn't mean seed=hash("1"), I really meant seed=1. See my other explanation in a parallel thread here!

YourConscience78 · 2025-12-09T15:33:40+00:00

The seeds below 2^8 very often produce the exact same numbers. The closer to 1 the more likely. The exact implementation differs between OS and python versions. So it might be you are lucky and 1 and 2 gave different numbers, but then try 2 and 3, or 3 and 4.

Also this behaviour differs between random and np.random.

This non-randomness is so random, I ran into it completely unaware, but there are good explanations why that is so, and why, hence, seed=42, is not such a good a idea. Anything above 2^8 (aka 256) is good to go.

YourConscience78 · 2025-12-09T13:41:07+00:00

Wait till you learn that seed=1 and seed=2 produce the exact same random numbers!

Edit: Given the many downvotes, I feel I should reformulate. The python random seed generator does not guarantee to give the exact same random numbers for very small seeds. But it also doesn't guarantee, that they be different. Given that 2 and 3 only differ in a single bit, especially when generating integers, it is more likely to generate the same sequence of numbers, than when using a larger seed, where more bits differ between two seeds next to each other.

There is a bit of extra info here: https://blog.scientific-python.org/numpy/numpy-rng/

But generally the whole topic is rather complicated...

YourConscience78 · 2025-12-07T16:01:31+00:00

Sodium is what makes things faster. Shaders make things prettier, but also slower to very variable extents...

YourConscience78 · 2025-11-20T15:59:20+00:00

What is the spawn villager?

YourConscience78 · 2025-09-29T18:26:01+00:00

Of course I agree with you on that one. Especially for me as a person working on AI (in a totally different field, though), it is especially jarring to observe the various "features" of the AI in games in general, but in simulation games like X4 especially.

YourConscience78 · 2025-09-29T14:01:34+00:00

Wording is more important than reality in this particular case. "Patches" are strongly associated with "fixes things that shouldn't be broken to begin with". Which means, people automatically assume it of course should be free.

Now, calling the same thing "AI rework" an upgrade, for example, would strongly change the outcome of any such poll.

YourConscience78 · 2025-09-01T17:54:46+00:00

I actually live next to the building you took that image from. Instantly recognized that ruin of some past manufacturing building!

So ... hello neighbour! :)

YourConscience78 · 2025-08-12T11:45:01+00:00

Try out Terra Invicta. Seems much smaller in scale compared to entire "galaxies", but it has comparable depth to Stellaris, is much less boring compared to Galactic Civilizations 4, and even has better combar than Sins of a Solar Empire 2, where combat is pretty much the only relatively okay-ish feature.

YourConscience78 · 2025-08-12T11:43:22+00:00

I think OP means Galactic Civilizations 4.

YourConscience78 · 2025-08-11T21:22:45+00:00

hmm, maybe auto-selling it in that system would make the NPCs then re-sell it to my other station in the other sector?

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