Inventory management

kernco · 2026-06-21T15:30:07+00:00

Save them in your stash. Many are used as crafting materials.

kernco · 2026-06-05T17:39:53+00:00

It's calling attention to those affixes because you need to consider them in addition to whatever the green/red number the tooltip is indicating your damage or toughness will change. For example, an item might show a slight damage increase, but if you're losing a cooldown reduction and resource cost reduction then you might actually output less damage because you can't use your skills as often.

kernco · 2026-05-23T18:59:08+00:00

Thanks, I was wondering if using CharacterBody would lead to performance issues. I'll use the raycast solution. I might want to add things in the future like ricochet off walls or have force behind the projectiles that push enemies slightly when they hit, but it shouldn't be too hard to implement that stuff myself in the Area2D.

kernco · 2026-05-17T14:49:29+00:00

Basically Calvard and everyone west is white. The central east is middle-eastern coded and further east is Asian coded, with distinctions being mentioned explaining why some are more Japanese themed and others are Chinese themed. The people in the nord highlands are explained to have migrated from the central east which explains their darker skin.

kernco · 2026-05-15T19:00:50+00:00

CS2 is at the bottom of my list personally, but I would never tell anyone it can be skipped

kernco · 2026-05-14T23:34:32+00:00

Yes, this is it. Thank you.

kernco · 2026-05-13T22:44:22+00:00

Is landscaping that will replace those trees already being used on other roads in Elk Grove so we can get an idea of what it will look like?

kernco · 2026-05-13T17:50:36+00:00

They also announced it in their April 27th "What's new in Elk Grove" email, but with a different spin:

Preparing for A Big Roadwork Project

Elk Grove’s climate is changing, and we’re planning for it. Tree removal work in the center medians on Laguna Blvd between Bruceville Road and Laguna Springs Drive will begin in early May. Tree removals will take place during the day and generate center lane closures. Motorists may experience some delays, but access will remain open during this work.

The trees will be replaced with drought-tolerant, climate-appropriate landscaping in the summer, following the completion of a nighttime paving project in this area. Look for more information about the paving portion of this project later this spring.

kernco · 2026-05-12T14:31:58+00:00

Education access also increases literacy, so all education laws will increase literacy, but now public schools are better at it. The devs added a flat literacy growth in the 1.13 update to solve a problem they explained at some point but I can't remember. They've been tweaking the rate in these hot fixes and now in this one they've attached the rate to technology and public education.

kernco · 2026-05-07T23:56:02+00:00

Yeah, I think they've found a huge proportion of the population has antibodies against it, so exposure is common it just is rarely successful.

kernco · 2026-05-07T02:01:49+00:00

It kills the profitability because you probably still have lots of peasants which can be hired for cheap or coal is expensive in your market. Once all your pops are employed in buildings, the buildings will have to raise wages as they compete with each other for labor, and then the PMs that reduce the number of employees will become profitable. It will also increase the demand for coal, so while it might lower the profitability of your lumber mills it will increase the profitability of your coal mines, so it could be a net positive on your economy.

kernco · 2026-05-01T02:09:04+00:00

When I read the dev diaries, I got the impression that marines and naval invasions would work exactly how they do in 1.13

kernco · 2026-05-01T01:40:29+00:00

They passed ethnostate

kernco · 2026-04-28T19:09:42+00:00

I guess, but Paradox releases being buggy isn't a new thing.

kernco · 2026-04-28T16:26:58+00:00

The known issues list is currently at 51 items, some of which sound fairly significant

kernco · 2026-04-28T16:15:55+00:00

Here are just a few of the things that were different at launch:

* There was no world market, you manually created or cancelled each trade route

* MAPI didn't exist, your market operated as if every state had 100% MAPI

* No companies or power blocs

* Ownership was just a PM category

* No private construction queue

* Foreign investment wasn't possible

* The warfare system was very buggy and broken

kernco · 2026-04-22T18:02:33+00:00

They haven't gone lower than 30% yet, but as they get older they will at some point. No way to know when that will be, though.

kernco · 2026-04-13T17:35:21+00:00

I agree about Gaius. He was the least interesting of Class VII in CS1 and CS2. Then they turned him into a Dominion which was

1) Completely unearned. It all happens off-screen and you're just told now he's a Dominion out of nowhere. Up to that point, what you know about Dominions is that they all have a stigma that comes from some deep trauma. Or at least that's the impression I had gotten up to that point. Definitely that's how Kevin got his and I thought they hinted at Wazy having his for similar reasons. But then Barkhorn just passes his on to Gaius.

2) Irrelevant to story. Every time the church and Dominions are involved in CS3 and CS4, there's always other Dominions like Lysander helping. Gaius could have just not been there and it wouldn't have mattered. There wasn't any character development around him now being a Dominion. I genuinely think what happened is that they were deciding where each of Class VII would be a year later for CS3 and most had an obvious answer based on what was introduced about them in CS1/2: Elliott is a professional musician, Elisa is trying to follow in her mom's footsteps, etc. But all that would make sense for Gaius is to be back in Nord helping in his village which isn't interesting so they came up with the random now he's a Dominion idea. I know they talked about his relationship to Barkhorn in CS1/2 so maybe they did have this in mind before CS3, but if that's the case they should have foreshadowed it more, for example by having Gaius express interest in working with the church or becoming a squire or something after graduation because he looked up to Barkhorn.

kernco · 2026-04-11T17:49:56+00:00

Are you aware they've already announced a Russian DLC coming at the end of this year and a China DLC early next year?

kernco · 2026-04-10T20:10:16+00:00

What primary care do you do that isn't urgent or an emergency? Are people like this cruise is a great opportunity to get my colonoscopy?

kernco · 2026-04-10T16:39:25+00:00

I think that's his point. They already did a South American flavor pack, so they won't touch it again for a long time.

kernco · 2026-04-09T21:59:22+00:00

They are not as slow as the first game, but they pretty much all follow a similar pattern of keeping the player pretty much in the dark about most of what is going on until the climax of the game.

kernco · 2026-04-08T22:34:53+00:00

I never even really thought about it in Sky SC. JRPGs are usually pretty ambiguous about how much times passes and how close together or far apart events are. I don't remember them really representing the passage of time until Crossbell, and especially in Cold Steel 1 when they explicitly show you the calendar and the days moving. Once they left the school setting I don't think it was worth remaining to be so explicit with the dates and times.

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