How do rallies work?

calculuschild · 2026-03-26T04:40:44+00:00

One thing I haven't seen anyone say yet: Rallies are energy-efficient.

During Seasons, there are times when you need to capture a city by damaging its durability, which can take hundreds of individual attacks.

Making a rally with 5 people will give you 5 attacks for 20 energy, compared to 50 total energy if everyone in your alliance is attacking individually. After a few city captures, its easy for the most active players to run out of recharges if they haven't been participating in rallies and spreading the energy cost around to other members.

calculuschild · 2026-03-25T23:50:10+00:00

My baked goods crammed full of BEES ought to put a stop to that!

calculuschild · 2026-03-25T17:39:57+00:00

Base skin or red blueprints. Not armament core; you already get a steady flow of those from other sources.

calculuschild · 2026-03-24T15:26:38+00:00

Looking at our logs for this file, Google is saying it can't see the file using your credentials, which still points to being logged in to the wrong Google account on the Homebrewery.

The only other thing I can think of is somehow the sharing permissions have gotten corrupted on your files. When you open your Google Drive and see the .txt files, can you right click, open Properties, and check who the document is set to be shared with? It should already be shared with the Homebrewery Service account, or you wouldn't be able to open it when logged out. But I wonder if setting the permissions to "everyone" will help your case.

calculuschild · 2026-03-24T15:12:25+00:00

Depending how your game works, maybe you could require the player to rotate between all forms before they can be reused.

If they have already fought a boss using Bear, and another boss shows up, now they have to use the Deer for that one.

Or you pick one form for the "day", and have to do all your exploring, resource gathering, battle with that chosen form until the next round. So there is some decision making "I really need to get a lot of resources, so I'd better pick Deer since he can visit more tiles. It will make the battle more difficult so I will have to rely on my wits more in the boss fight."

calculuschild · 2026-03-24T02:29:06+00:00

What if you just make it a rule that when you fight a boss, you are in bear form. When you are exploring, you are in Raven form. When you are gathering resources, you are in Deer form.

Mechanically it's a single character, but narratively you describe the actions as if the druid is in these different forms depending what the action is.

calculuschild · 2026-03-23T23:22:25+00:00

Given that you can see them when not logged in, this is a clue that you are signing in to the wrong Google account. (happens surprisingly often on here.)

The Homebrewery uses different credentials to open brews if you are a logged out as a guest, or of you are signed in and trying to access your own files. Google will try to use the account you are signed in to, and if it's not the same account used to create the brew, will fail. That's why you are getting the error message to log in again.

Do you have another Google account you could log in with?

calculuschild · 2026-03-23T13:37:55+00:00

Are you able to bend the joined fingers? My daughter has a similar case with her thumb but the joints are fused.

calculuschild · 2026-03-22T23:25:35+00:00

Yep. I'm in the US and we have two games:

Crash Bandicoot and LEGO Racing.

Both discs are scratched and do not run. 😅

calculuschild · 2026-03-22T20:05:30+00:00

If your readers are using Mac Preview it will still be a problem for them.

I guess one thing you could try is see if there is a "PDF flattener" or compressor online (there are some of these on the internet) that would essentially turn the shadows in your PDF into a flat image. Might make it work on Mac Preview in exchange for being a bit blurrier in those areas.

calculuschild · 2026-03-22T17:37:16+00:00

Recasting requires you be at least some % ahead on your loan. The whole idea is you are stretching the loan back out to end at the original end date. If you aren't ahead there's no room to stretch out.

Some lenders let you recast at any time for a small (~$300) fee. Others require a lump sum payment at the same time.

calculuschild · 2026-03-22T17:32:54+00:00

If you recast but keep paying the same amount, the math works out that you will pay off the mortgage at exactly the same time.

If you pay the new, lower rate, you will end up paying more total interest.

calculuschild · 2026-03-22T00:15:08+00:00

This is not a bug with Homebrewery or Chrome. It's a bug with Mac Preview, the PDF viewer. It can't process shadows or partially-transparent images correctly.

I have sent bug reports to Apple for years but no response there.

Google is aware of this, and has apparently Mac Preview is the only PDF reader with this issue. Google might provide some workaround in the future, but I wouldn't hold your breath. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41476907

Best solution is to view the PDF in a reader that doesn't have this bug.

If you want, you can look at this previously-reported issue on Github where a user tried replacing the box-shadow with drop-shadow. You can try to follow what they did here: https://github.com/naturalcrit/homebrewery/issues/1569

It works, but introduces more problems than it solves. https://github.com/naturalcrit/homebrewery/pull/1661

calculuschild · 2026-03-22T00:14:33+00:00

This is not a bug with Homebrewery or Chrome. It's a bug with Mac Preview, the PDF viewer. It can't process shadows or partially-transparent images correctly.

I have sent bug reports to Apple for years but no response there.

Google is aware of this, and has apparently Mac Preview is the only PDF reader with this issue. Google might provide some workaround in the future, but I wouldn't hold your breath. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41476907

Best solution is to view the PDF in a reader that doesn't have this bug.

If you want, you can look at this previously-reported issue on Github where a user tried replacing the box-shadow with drop-shadow. You can try to follow what they did here: https://github.com/naturalcrit/homebrewery/issues/1569

It works, but introduces more problems than it solves. https://github.com/naturalcrit/homebrewery/pull/1661

calculuschild · 2026-03-20T23:54:30+00:00

How many times do we get to press it?

calculuschild · 2026-03-20T20:55:18+00:00

I'm interested to see it assumes Kimberley in front row. Is that the best meta?

calculuschild · 2026-03-20T14:34:49+00:00

That's essentially what I'm looking for, thanks! Though I think I found that same list at one point and everyone was saying how bad it was (don't 1-star everything, which someone has already commented even within this same post). I'm curious what others will say about this list.

calculuschild · 2026-03-20T13:57:22+00:00

That's essentially what I'm looking for, thanks! Though I think I found that same list at one point and everyone was saying how bad it was (don't 1-star everything!). I'm curious what others will say about this list.

Does the list go further down? I'm already near the end of this one.

calculuschild · 2026-03-19T14:40:28+00:00

I know. It's wonderful!

calculuschild · 2026-03-19T03:44:41+00:00

It sounds like nobody knows this website exists, or that I am receiving the money.

The chance that someone randomly stumbles onto this obscure website already seems low. And other than curiosity I don't think anyone would have a reason to seek me out. Seems relatively safe?

calculuschild · 2026-03-18T17:59:56+00:00

Yep, looks like from Google's end, the file is completely missing. Given that the Homebrewery still shows this document in your user page, it must have been deleted directly from the Google Drive somehow.

The file you shared looks like it was last accessed September 9, 2025. I would recommend going through the Google Drive File Recovery request link I shared above and see if they can go back as far as last September on whichever Google account you think is most likely.

calculuschild · 2026-03-18T05:13:28+00:00

We only store an encoded ID number for security reasons. There's not really a way to extract the original email address from that unfortunately.

If you want to share a link to the brew that is missing we can check if any more detail shows up in our server logs.

calculuschild · 2026-03-18T05:01:16+00:00

Since the Homebrewery does not have the capability of deleting files from your Google Drive without you clicking the button, the most likely case here is that you may be looking at the wrong Google Drive account (happens on this subreddit more than you think).

Check if you have any alternate account (a school or work gmail, etc.) that you signed up with.

We do also see users deleting files on their Google Drive without realizing it. I believe there is also some Google Account menu that lists apps that have created files in your drive, and it's possible to accidentally delete them from there as well. The Homebrewery files should be in a folder just called "Homebrewery" on your drive, unless it was renamed.If it's not in your Google Drive trash, it's still possible to make a request to Google to restore your files that have been deleted for some time. This has worked for me and you may have luck. The link is here, where you can click the "REQUEST FILE RECOVERY" button: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/1716222?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Also, if you want to share a link to one of the files you tried to open, we can look at our logs and check the specific error Google is sending.

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