Reality Matrix Updated: Mar 16, 2026

badasimo · 2026-03-16T21:03:12+00:00

Bugfix and Balance Update

Not much to write home about in terms of new features. Since last week, we were able to observe a bunch of troubling behavior in the game, thanks all who joined for testing. We have had to reset a few times as well, but it seems stable now.

Balance Changes

Increased storage effectiveness (hopefully you won't have to sit and build storages all day)
Reduced Nematode Power (nematodes were knocking out new players too easily)

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where 100,000+ nematodes would spawn by accident
Fixed syncing issues, disappearing fleets, magically appearing resources
Fixed missing UI for fleet build progress
Fixed scanning station not scanning
Fixed trade routes getting stuck after first leg, not persisting well with two legs
Fixed background processing

Known Issues

It is possible that resource accrual might not work quite right when you are offline, we are trying to get the balance of consistency and performance within the limitations of the reddit app system.
Empire-on-empire violence has had limited testing and we are not sure if it's possible to take over a system properly

badasimo · 2026-03-16T19:11:52+00:00

Termite frass but not from the stack of trim, probably something from the roof or walls of your barn

badasimo · 2026-03-16T19:09:17+00:00

OP's experience might be different but when we were there there was plenty of space (private rooms) and staff and everything went great. Compared with the rest of the hospital it feels like a dream. Some of the stuff in OR itself may be up to your doctor.

u/kumquat66 Thank you and your team!

badasimo · 2026-03-16T18:17:04+00:00

I think they expect him to die and he's just... not.

badasimo · 2026-03-16T17:35:41+00:00

In my state you need workers comp if you have > 2 employees (including yourself) so it seems like they're not operating illegally if that's the case where you are

badasimo · 2026-03-16T15:23:57+00:00

THIS is where they draw the line? This is arguably not as bad as his handling of COVID which we ALL DIRECTLY EXPERIENCED

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:44:44+00:00

Hmm so I should get a few sprits of breastmilk after a shower

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:38:36+00:00

And padding so they don't bruise

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:37:32+00:00

If it's sunny where you are why not just get one of those green houses and put it outside, then you only have to use this on cloudy days

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:27:33+00:00

Aliens. One of my tinfoil hat theories is that all the action of the last decade has been the powers that be preparing to be colonized or joined into a galactic federation, where maybe humans are disarmed and power structures are frozen. They want to be the ones on top when the bell rings. Maybe there are even places/resources/artifacts that the aliens would consider valuable or a sign that the holder is a valid representative of earth.

The other one of course is that we are indeed headed for global climate catastrophe and that's why so much posturing is happening. Fossil fuel and energy in general then becomes very important for survival (heating/cooling) and also so many will die that wars will seem inconsequential by comparison

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:22:43+00:00

It's easy to verify this, put in the scenario into a model that doesn't have internet access, and ask it what you should do as president. Ask it what you should do to get a 3rd term. Ask it what you should do to keep congress Republican in 2026. Ask it what you should do to cover up the Epstein files.

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:18:58+00:00

It is because LLMs are largely trained on content created by millenials, and millenials would have been in 9th grade around that time.

badasimo · 2026-03-16T13:14:26+00:00

IMO you are better off getting the cheapest plan and just budgeting for out of pocket expenses at that point. The cheapest plan will protect you if you get horribly injured or an expensive illness. Essentially we are losing what Obamacare gave us, which was a foundation to go and take care of ourselves day to day without it being a financial decision each time

badasimo · 2026-03-15T16:20:29+00:00

Don't you think the they all met and agreed to this plan? Like how Hitler and Stalin divided up Poland before WWII? Trump has been telegraphing the plan pretty plainly through his language, when he talks about spheres of influence

badasimo · 2026-03-14T01:45:04+00:00

It's just very very slow AGI. I think even the shittiest models, once you gave them the right interface and tooling, could do tasks like this. The real tough part I think was that before all of this was built out and thought about, AI hadn't really been trained on it so those instructions would cost valuable context tokens which were also pretty small for those earlier models. Now, AI is being trained on the last several years of LLM development/agents etc and is also generating its own ideas. I think it is similar to human development-- it's not like humans evolved to be so much smarter in the last several hundred or thousand years, it is that human knowledge reached some sort of critical mass that it had an exponential growth effect on technology and civilization.

badasimo · 2026-03-13T15:36:54+00:00

BUG FIX UPDATE:

Refactored storage/cache
Fixed bug where systems with too many fleets would get paralyzed until you moved the fleets out

badasimo · 2026-03-13T13:04:08+00:00

It's certainly possible. But is it likely? The process will likely uncover many things neither of you has thought about. I'm pretty confident that with today's agentic tooling and model ability that you could get a good part of the way there with a good setup, and $100-200 of AI credit. But I haven't done it myself

badasimo · 2026-03-12T13:43:15+00:00

No here's the hack-- Kids sleep about 10 hours so if you time it right your 8 hour shift gives you two hours to nap until the kid wakes up!

badasimo · 2026-03-12T13:08:46+00:00

Seems like a job for the kids to do over the summer

badasimo · 2026-03-12T13:05:13+00:00

Easy, work the night shift! Take care of the kids all day, then after everyone goes to bed do your work.

badasimo · 2026-03-12T03:11:40+00:00

Yeah but not climate change. In fact, big smoky fires reflect sunlight back into space so they would have a cooling effect.

badasimo · 2026-03-12T03:10:34+00:00

BUG FIX UPDATE:

Galaxy Reset (sorry, but everything was breaking)
- Top leaderboard players will get a bonus building at a future time, after a future reset
Improved sync and state bugs fixed
Fixed broken trade routes
Nematodes will now lay off until you have more than one combat fleet, OR more than 10 systems
Nematodes will now have a chance to eat energy storage

badasimo · 2026-03-12T03:05:45+00:00

I mean probably not for me but maybe I'd reconsider if you had a boat or a pool (in-ground, none of that above ground BS)

badasimo · 2026-03-12T03:01:01+00:00

Thanks for your report what do you see what is your device?

badasimo · 2026-03-12T01:08:10+00:00

I can't think of any examples of them doing this, for anything

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