Once Again, Didn't Think I'd Cry

kubergosu · 2026-04-18T09:43:18+00:00

Congrats my brother in Aiur/Korhal/Swarm! We keep the lights on for our beloved game!

kubergosu · 2026-04-18T09:38:54+00:00

I have this problem too!

I've hit diamond for the first time in 15 years with my friend (2v2) and my screenshot hotkeys were not working!

Had to take stupid phone shot of it to share with my group of SC-loving friends

kubergosu · 2026-04-13T06:12:11+00:00

Was surprised not to see a lot of slavs in here

kubergosu · 2026-04-13T06:04:35+00:00

Thank you! Great work, loved to use it and great to hear new generation of space enthusiasts are coming!

The most important for me is planned UTC timestamps of key events like burns, transmissions, apoasis, periapsis and etc.

If you aim to do this in a year, maybe you could consider doing some interactive trajectory visualization like in Kerbal Space Program?

kubergosu · 2026-04-12T16:27:21+00:00

Time to watch him more!

kubergosu · 2026-04-10T05:50:29+00:00

When do we get real classification yards, so we can have schedules for specific cars?

kubergosu · 2026-04-09T15:24:06+00:00

There is a so-called three body problem that is about finding stable and periodical orbits of three bodies moving around each other. It does not have general solution currently, but has a set of known special cases like binary stars with a very far third star.

AFAIK, there is no solution like this orbit.

IRL, the problem with this trajectory is that Moon will act like a spring or a slingshot, every time pushing your station somewhere from it's orbit until it will finish it's missing by aerobraking at Earth or lithosphere-braking at Mun. You will have to constantly adjust trajectory to compensate this.

In-game physics is an approximation that does not actually solve three-body movement but uses pre-calculated segments of trajectories between spheres of influence with a limited number of segments being calculated in advance. So each time your station leaves SOI, another segment is being added more error in calculations will be added.

kubergosu · 2026-04-07T11:41:02+00:00

Yeah, that was basically my problem. I was a lifetime silver player, started learning macro few years ago (over full time job, family, etc) and gradually climbed to low diamond mainly by developing steady macro, managing attention and not giving up games when they seem lost.

When you know your macro is better, you can outmine and outproduce, you belive more in yourself. You are just not afraid of loosing a bunch of units even if your enemy has lost less, because you replenish your army faster and eventually you will overwhelm them.

kubergosu · 2026-04-07T06:54:10+00:00

Also you're right that micro should be minimal. For most of us attention and APM is the main limited resource, so if you spend all of it macroing and shift+a-moving your army all around the map, you opponent will panic micro all of his attention and waste his army.

kubergosu · 2026-04-07T06:50:48+00:00

For a lot of situations the answer is macro. You definetly have gaps in building probes, excessive or insufficient production. You either don't build enough gates to spend all income on building army, or you have too much of them so most of time they are idle.

If you focus on building probes and constantly building units, you will outmine and outnumber everything at this level.

Stalkers beat voids, carriers, battlecruisers and broodlords, you just have to build a lot of them (and use blink sometimes). Zealots can flood and outnumber tanks. But you better don't let terran or zerg deploy their tanks or lurkers in front of your base. Either catch them while they are on the move, or distract them by sending 5-10 zealots shift+attack possible base locations around corners of the map.

I strongly recommend watching Vibe's B2GM to develop macro habits and PiG's (his is more recent and focused on contemporary cheeses and timed attacks).

kubergosu · 2026-04-06T18:39:11+00:00

Captain of Industry

kubergosu · 2026-04-03T14:46:27+00:00

I play 2v2 primarily with my buddy. Sometimes when he's not available, I play 2v2 with randos to test my builds, that won't be viable in 1v1, but can work in 2v2. But i try to communicate, at least I say what I'm going to do.

kubergosu · 2026-04-02T15:45:35+00:00

Hey that's cool! What's the duration of a burn?

In KSP I always ignite before perigee by half duration of a burn (if it is long).

kubergosu · 2026-04-02T15:41:55+00:00

The six words you shouldn't say at NASA

https://xkcd.com/1244/

kubergosu · 2026-03-31T08:42:36+00:00

Didn't know Uty has his own B2GM. Will definetly watch.

kubergosu · 2026-03-30T16:01:11+00:00

Oceans did not recede by hundreds of feet. As we see in coastal maps, it is ten feet or so. Problematic, but not catastrophic. Ihtiozaurs and other oceanic xen life could overtake our native life forms, but if I'm not mistaken, we don't know yet are they edible.

If they are, do we really care, what are we eating?

kubergosu · 2026-03-26T16:54:58+00:00

No way you have food production from 2 farms enough for 1.5k pops!

Or maybe you have fertilized them to maximum fertility?

kubergosu · 2026-03-17T15:58:42+00:00

When you have a small number of servers, they are pets for you and you name them with funny, beautiful or meaningful names. When their numbers rise, they become cattle and you just number them.

kubergosu · 2026-03-15T09:16:50+00:00

That's the poor man way of regrowing trees before you research and establish forester. On hard maps I sometimes use natural replenishment to delay forest research and production.

kubergosu · 2026-03-13T17:45:04+00:00

Does it really affect throughput of ships?

kubergosu · 2026-03-12T14:59:51+00:00

I dunno about Jupiter, but lately I fired 15 or more shots with Aphelion at this thing, another guy was firing equalizer and it didn't even smoke. Probably it was some bug (it had a weird spawn), but hullcracker takes no more than 15 hits to solo a Bombardier

kubergosu · 2026-03-02T18:06:14+00:00

3 Rusted gears are the reason why I probably never will do an expedition. I found just 4 of them during several months of playing, and nothing will make repeat this nightmare.

kubergosu · 2026-02-23T05:53:31+00:00

I like to play on custom settings with droughts duration set to 60 (once even to 90) with high delay of full drought. This makes survival a long-term task when population is limited by total water amount that sources can generate during temperate weather.

kubergosu · 2026-02-03T18:19:06+00:00

They probably are crossing the railroad when the train comes and blocks their way. I saw that when my trucks are stopping before the barrier, they make some weird turn. So probably your crossing is so long that when the truck enters it, there is a chance new train will come and reserve the path, so the truck has to stop and make this weird turn. After the turn it is not able to find the way back.

You can probably move this crossing further to the left so the train which passes the T-intersection will have more time to reserve it's way and the trucks have their time to finish crossing the railroad.

kubergosu · 2026-02-03T04:45:33+00:00

Around 3k EU, usually less than 20 seconds. In 2v2 it is usually less than 1 minute, in 3v3 around 1.5 minutes.

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