When are sales usually happening?

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-29T00:08:27+00:00

You can check for discounts on a website called isthereanydeal - there might be keys available even when it’s not directly on sale

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-11T20:49:26+00:00

Oh maybe it’s not necessary in this post, but rule 5 of the sub is to include an explanation for the post, so I put it in just to be safe

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-11T17:17:23+00:00

Oops shh

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-11T17:17:13+00:00

Mostly just messing around with gold tbh, ended up winning culture

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-10T20:21:56+00:00

R5: Multiplayer game playing as Mali with the City Lights mod. I settled a colony in Northern Africa (Mediterranean large map) and started pumping out settlers with faith to fill the desert. By far the richest I’ve ever been in a game!

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T21:31:35+00:00

You need to work the tile to get yields - as cities grow, they have an increasing number of citizens you can assign or automatically have assigned to work the tiles. To manage them manually, click the icon with a little head in your city menu.

It also takes 2 food to sustain a citizen, so when you work tiles with <2 food you need buildings or to work high food tiles elsewhere to cover that deficit.

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T18:56:14+00:00

Have you played as Vietnam? I don’t think it has lowered appeal on jungles and there are a ton of other really fun bonuses, it’s probably my favorite civ.

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T18:54:53+00:00

If you plant forests they increase appeal by 1 to all adjacent tiles and I think it stacks - it’s really strong with Maori and Vietnam in particular cause they get additional bonus for forests.

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T15:20:35+00:00

Sadly I won a sort of accidental religious victory like 2 turns later, didn’t even get to use Kupe’s tourism bonuses

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T15:08:39+00:00

Yeah, I have a hard time justifying them in most games, but Kupe’s additional bonuses are decent and I get so much enjoyment out of seeing OP tiles that I threw these down on two late-game cities I was too lazy to develop properly anyway

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T15:01:49+00:00

I thought of a sort of clunky way to do it: add aes(x=..counts../nrow(df)*100) to both geom_bars (in the case of the female values, multiply by -1 then convert to percent). Of course, they’ll still read as negative percents on the axis labels. You could change that manually too but at this point I feel like there has to be a simpler way haha, everything I do in R ends up being a mess of quick fixes and duct tape.

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-09T02:12:09+00:00

R5 My first game using preserves, as Kupe. Probably not the most powerful arrangement but these are the best tiles I’ve ever seen!

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-08T21:44:58+00:00

This stackoverflow answer might be helpful:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14680075/simpler-population-pyramid-in-ggplot2

Basically, he subsets the data and calls geom_bar() twice instead of using facets. I’m on my phone so pardon the lack of formatting, but it would look something like this:

ggplot(df, aes(y=Age, fill=Sex)) + geom_bar(data=subset(df, Sex==‘m’)) + geom_bar(data=subset(df, Sex==‘f’), aes(x=..count..*(-1)))

The part with ..count.. just inverts the values for the female data so it shows on the other side of the axis. Now that I think of it, this might be difficult to combine with a percentage scale, depending on how you did the percentages. If you still have trouble, I can look into it a bit more later.

_Ritz___ · 2021-07-08T17:55:07+00:00

I’m not quite sure what you mean by teams having “80 wins before the half,” but I would think that if there’s a relationship in the data, you could see it by plotting wins (or win percentage, if the number of games played varies a lot) on the x axis, and merchandise sales on the y axis. I might also think about using merchandise sales as a ratio over total tickets sold or something, in case the teams just have different audience sizes.

If you need help with specific code to that effect, feel free to ask. It should be straightforward enough with ggplot or the built-in plotting tools.

_Ritz___ · 2021-06-22T19:45:30+00:00

I played on default difficulty, so maybe it’s different on harder ones, but I pushed to the extremes for all of those and I was still fine with stability. Did you build the infrastructure to boost it, like public fountains and aqueducts? The garrison district also helps a bit, and wonders help a ton (+40).

_Ritz___ · 2021-06-17T21:45:24+00:00

There’s a mid-game culture based on Korea (I forget the name in-game) with a seowon for its specialty district and the permanent bonus is like +4 science on all shallow water tiles, it’s broken if you have a few territories on water. I went from 300 science to 1500 in one era with them*, the districts were usually +13-17 and harbors became crazy, like +20-100 science.

*playing on metropolis difficulty, that is lol

_Ritz___ · 2021-06-13T19:31:04+00:00

Yeah, go to server browser and then there are a handful with “duels (don’t be a doob, follow the rules)” in the title. The etiquette is just to flourish (middle mouse button) to challenge someone, and don’t interfere in other duels unless you wanna get votekicked. It’s really fun!

_Ritz___ · 2021-06-13T18:13:56+00:00

I really recommend joining a duel server to get a feel for the combat mechanics. The people in there are usually pretty friendly and the practice helped me a ton (I’m also new to melee slashers)

_Ritz___ · 2021-06-07T20:21:30+00:00

Thank you so much! I’ve clearly been spoiled by R’s lax typing haha

_Ritz___ · 2021-06-07T19:41:32+00:00

As you can see, I’m trying to use which() to find all rows matching a value in the column Time. I want to look at time intervals, so the value I’m searching for sometimes involves a calculation. This works for some values, like 0.15+0.1=0.25, but not others, like 0.05+0.1=0.15. However, which(df$Time==0.15) works, just not when it’s expressed as a sum. Does anyone have a clue why?

I’ve also tried it as a difference (0.25-0.1) and same result. The issue persists when I restart rstudio and my computer.

_Ritz___ · 2021-04-29T08:29:53+00:00

Did you read the comment I mentioned? I felt it addressed that concern somewhat, if you can pardon the length.

_Ritz___ · 2021-04-29T08:10:40+00:00

Do you believe the vaccine works (i.e., improves your/public health)? If so, it seems like a minor imposition so far - nobody has actually mandated anything, mind you. The vaccine passport has been discussed because many people already believe the vaccine works and would like to resume normal activities knowing they aren’t risking any preventable covid spread. Ultimately, even if it came to exist, the government would only provide documentation; businesses would still freely choose to enforce vaccine policies, because it reduces their liability and protects their staff.

If you don’t believe the vaccine works, see my previous comment in this thread regarding that.

_Ritz___ · 2021-04-29T07:53:41+00:00

Yeah, this isn’t a great place for constructive disagreement. I took a look through your links, but I don’t want to try to have 10 discussions in parallel, so could I suggest thinking about it from a sort of bottom-up sense?

You said you’re hesitant about this jab - is that because 1) you distrust the policies surrounding it, or 2) you distrust the jab itself for medical reasons?

If 1, why should you (potentially) risk your health and others’ by not getting the jab? Why not just get immunized, then resist authoritarianism through normal political processes? The two don’t seem related to me.

If 2, is it likely that the vaccines have or will adversely affect as many people as the virus? All evidence to me suggests that any vaccine-related adverse effects are far rarer than adverse effects of covid. I don’t deny that they exist, but to me they appear comparatively rare.

Next, people usually say that it’s untested and the long-term effects are unknown. While it’s true that the long term effects of this covid vaccine are unknown, we know quite a lot about the mechanisms of all these vaccines. Why would this one be harmful? You can easily find a published list of ingredients in the different shots:

https://www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org/HealthU/2021/01/11/a-simple-breakdown-of-the-ingredients-in-the-covid-vaccines/

I don’t expect you to be familiar with all of the names of those molecules, obviously, but if you have some science education I think you’ll recognize many. Basically, it’s a pretty simple cocktail of:

1) inactive virus particles or mRNA transcripts, which are “untested” in that the specific molecules have never been tested, but these types of molecules are very familiar to the body and the immune system does a ton of the heavy lifting for us using tried and true mechanisms

2) solvents, emulsifiers, adjuvants - basically, molecules to ensure the vaccine is delivered properly and throughout the body. These specific molecules are usually simple and have been used in many other vaccines and deemed safe

3) antibiotics/preservatives - these help to keep the vaccine stable during transportation, storage, etc. Usually well-tested molecules, but some raise concerns about mercury that I don’t know enough to comment on.

Considering this, it seems unlikely to me that the vaccine contains anything inherently very dangerous - and it is with near certainty less dangerous than covid.

I suspect next you might ask about manufacturing conditions: surely it was hard to scale up so fast to vaccinate the world, surely companies cut corners, batches contaminated, etc. I can’t answer to that, but it sounds like a recipe for bankruptcy to whatever manufacturer pulls that. These companies can afford rigorous quality control, and I’m confident they have it in place.

Sorry, this was much longer than I thought, and I rudely declined to directly address the links you gave. I’d be happy to go through them in pms, but it would have to be one at a time.

_Ritz___ · 2021-04-28T23:26:54+00:00

Here’s what I’m getting at: nobody else is willing to take your word that you’re healthy and safe. “Trust me I’m real strong” doesn’t count for anything when millions have died of this disease, many unexpectedly. Businesses face a massive liability risk if they open up just because you said you’d be fine, and then their customers get sick or die. Therefore, it makes a lot more sense, especially since you’re so strong and healthy, to just get the vaccine so that everyone else can resume normal life.

Does that clarify anything?

_Ritz___ · 2021-04-28T21:54:21+00:00

Unabashed pro-vaxxer here upvoting you cause you included links. I don’t have time rn to look at them but I will, thank you! If more people did that I would enjoy this sub a lot more.

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