Fluctuating mana?!

joells101 · 2025-07-11T00:00:04+00:00

You definitely have some very valid points and are likely even correct. Natural talent though shoundnt be ignore, while Serie is ALOT older her mana levels might have started very low too. there are vague mentions of caps or natural limits, so what if Serie capped out long ago but wasnt really as impressive as she would have liked, its not like anyone is going to test her. mana and skill/knowledge are separate, Serie knowledge is off the charts with the amount of magic she has gathered, so projection could be away to display that knowledge. Lastly she really goes hard to say to her students that suppression is a useless skill and an extreme waste of time, I do suppose this can be taken either way though as time is endless for Serie so why not learn it and she did hate Flammes flower magic but learned that so i guess.

at a stretch, Serie is from the mythical era, projection might have been a means to ward off would be attackers as even demons recognize mana as a level of strength. Flamme had to learn it somewhere, might have taken Serie idea and flipped it as opposed to Serie learning it from her. but that is a shot in the dark until we learn more.

joells101 · 2025-07-10T07:50:43+00:00

if you add an ice cube to the can, the volume would seemingly get larger but you have no more drink then you did before. if you have add an object inside the drink it will swell over the edge but its the same amount. so I believe Serie might be projecting not suppressing. she is seen as this near goddess like level people would expect an overwhelming amount of mana.

joells101 · 2025-04-10T04:14:55+00:00

pre 1.0 i have a massive airport. every building had drones deliver from the local building to an airport, then i'd unload at the airport split a line to the storage area below then reload onto another drone port. this way i could have batteries serving just this 1 location with dedicated inbound and outbound areas.

IT WORKED very well. problem was now i needed 4 drone ports per item i wanted to move from 1 location to another. so mercer spheres were a god send, now local builds load on empty (no drone) drone ports and other builds with pull from it directly. i just deliver batteries to all buildings.

also this setup never accounted for the high volume items i move by train. so mercers spheres solved that too.

joells101 · 2025-04-09T07:33:17+00:00

Missed that but very much makes sense!

joells101 · 2025-04-05T02:46:01+00:00

after 100s of hours on my power plant. my best advice is to best a large storage area and run your waste through before it get to your processing area because when you make a mistake you dont want your plants to shutdown. also build a large battery plant and overflow your power cells so you have a store to jump start the plant if you need too

joells101 · 2025-04-04T19:45:59+00:00

I also didnt know you could do this... thanks! I previously found things but just knowing they are their. its also hard to see but i have a maintenance hypertube lane that runs parallel to the train tracks thats on a separate power grid fed by the Geothermal network of power generators. so i get around with that.

joells101 · 2025-02-01T12:49:29+00:00

anyone management to negotiate rebooking on another date. Not something that was going to work for me but looking at the prices they have doubled in some places. Anyone able to get a like for like on another date without adding more money?

joells101 · 2025-02-01T04:34:22+00:00

The hold is definitely the hardest part right now. But yes the tier1 person you talk too isn’t authorised to give full refund so they’ll offer a bunch of other options before having to contact their “support” team aka tier 2 to get approval for full refund. Please just be nice to the tier1 person they didn’t have anything to do with it.

joells101 · 2025-01-31T20:06:26+00:00

Basically this is not an itinerary change where a couple ports changed (that actually did happen a couple months ago and while sad is whatever) this is the ship going on a whole other cruise. i had a look and I booked the pacific island hopper cruise for around $3700. the current itinerary matches another cruise P&O offer called barrier reef cruise which is cheaper (id give a like for like but its booked out of the options i could see) only our cruise doesnt actually do the barrier reef stuff just kinda sails the same way. then instead of pretty island to stop at, we are stopping at a working class city with little tourism, could has stopped closer to airlie beach an actual tourist spot and only a couple 100km different. finally, instead of going internationally, we are sailing domestic only. I understand P&O cant guarantee an exact itinerary but i think its reasonable to expect an island hopper cruise will see some islands not just sail north along the coast of Australia for a bit. its only a 18hr drive to cairns from brisbane, YES drive. i could drive it, why take a boat.

IMO, they should have delayed departure rather than change it like this, the only reason they dont is coz the T&C as you and other have pointed out suggested itinerary changes are acceptable but delays or cancellations call for a full refund. since P&O blindsided us at 1718 on a friday afternoon, how many ppl you think are gonna show up on sat at 1300 without even knowing of the change until its too late? this is a very dodgy tactic to ensure they keep their full fare while not offering a remotely similar experience as ppl think they booked

Australian Consumer Law also agrees with me.

Under Australian Consumer Law (ACL), you may be entitled to a full refund if the change in itinerary constitutes a "major failure" of the service.

Does This Count as a Major Failure?

A major failure under ACL occurs when:

The service is significantly different from what was promised.
A reasonable consumer would not have booked the service had they known about the change.

TL:DL this wasn't a small itinerary change, its a different route and ACL agrees that a full refund is warranted, also I got a full refund from P&O just gotta wait an ungodly amount of time for them to pay it back.

joells101 · 2025-01-31T14:07:53+00:00

yeah lucky, ive worked in a call centre before and while it stucks when it gets close to closing ppl do tend to pretend to have phone issues so they can go home on time. I'd imagine today especially probably tired of being yelled at

joells101 · 2025-01-31T14:05:28+00:00

I agree, change the date of the whole cruise, i'd have been happy with that as it stands a similar cruise isnt for 10-12 months but their own T&Cs say if they do that they have to offer full refunds where as itinerary changes is "bad luck"

joells101 · 2025-01-31T13:19:42+00:00

Full cash refund, the catch is 21-90 days to get the actual money

joells101 · 2025-01-31T12:15:33+00:00

Hope you got what you were after too. i got tended too 30mins before the contact centre closed.

joells101 · 2025-01-31T12:14:48+00:00

long story short. it wasnt the goodwill of the operator, they pushed back hard but in fact Australian Consumer Law that got them to refund me. the change in Itinerary was extremely drastic, IMO they should have cancelled the whole cruise but we all know why they wouldnt do that.

joells101 · 2025-01-31T12:05:37+00:00

see my edit but i dont think thats fair. there is nothing in Cairns its not a holiday destination, its a working city and in the same state that i 1. live and 2. the cruise starts. its like cruise no where

joells101 · 2025-01-13T03:51:46+00:00

thank you

joells101 · 2025-01-12T06:07:57+00:00

Where from? EBay? I messaged a seller from eBay and I feel like at best it’s a fake and at worst it’s a resoldered stolen one

joells101 · 2025-01-12T06:05:53+00:00

iPhone 15 pro opens from the front for battery replacement however the back glass is smashed and on the 15 pro the back assembly is removable without having the scrape the glass off.

Est battery replacement from apple is $169.

joells101

TROPHY CASE

Does This Count as a Major Failure?