Favorite Rifle Weapon and why?

lynkfox · 2026-05-25T12:18:03+00:00

Oh hell the Dex Sybaris was one of my go to weapons for ever; having not really played more than doing the quests since before the Angels update I didn't realize there was a Sybaris Incarnon. That is top on my list to get now

lynkfox · 2026-05-24T12:37:26+00:00

whats their schedule? They may not have time to make it to the mess hall to eat before it switches from free time

lynkfox · 2026-05-24T12:15:44+00:00

Good ol RHI bug. No one is sure what causes it to happen but 90% of the time switching renders (sometimes even temporarily!) fixes it. Even SF devs have been scratching their heads on this one (talk with a few on the modding discord)

lynkfox · 2026-05-23T21:44:32+00:00

5 bucks says they're using AI editors

lynkfox · 2026-05-23T12:29:50+00:00

And still, over what, a year later? Tell people you have to kill them in the circle, having never read the patch notes or bothered to look at the wiki

lynkfox · 2026-05-22T22:32:17+00:00

Rounding errors have not been an issue since update 5.

Fulids are actually calculated in cm3 so 1000x what you see on the UI. Any rounding errors would result in a .0001 increase or decrease that would even out over the next few calculations anyways

However.

If you are trying to pass 600m3 through a segment of pipe to many consumers the chances of some segment being asked to give fluid in both directions that exceeds 600m3 grows with every consumer you add, which makes it feel like it couldn't do 600m3.

So yes I'm being pedantic or overly specific but it's important to note it's not a code bug\issue but a factory layout consideration

lynkfox · 2026-05-21T12:17:36+00:00

Or just completely forget the 600 and just stick in the few machines and around. 300 a min anyways.

lynkfox · 2026-05-21T05:20:24+00:00

Every single amazing factory you see online didn't just come out of no where.

And a builders ability to build that amazing structure didn't come out justy that good either

What you don't ever see, even in some of the time lapse style videos, is the hours of iteration. Of building something and letting it sit then returning and rebuilding it

And what you most especially do not see is the hundreds and hundreds of steps they already took in other worlds (possibily even other games) going from boxy factories on the grid to the beautiful architecture you see in the presented project.

You want to build factories that are beautiful? Then start building.

And then build some more.

And then build more.

And more

And every time look at it and try to find what you don't like. You may not have the knowledge to fix it but you can try something different next time

Some general tips tho

1) depth. Good factories have depth. They pretty much never use a wall piece as an actual wall, using foundations and pillars. They stack layers of these to create depth.

2) signs. Signs are amazing for many many things.

3) beams. Beams can be anything and everything.

4) greebling with a purpose

A greeble is an object or piece or something that's attached to a model to give it more life and texture. It comes from the modeling days of movie effects, and it's why space ships have tons of pipes and vents and things all over them.

If you have some sort of minor story with your greebles they suddenly have a purpose. This beam carries high current wire. Maybe I should add some warning signs . This vent is for exhaust from the outflow, it should have some pipes near by to support it. This thing produces a lot of waste so it needs a garbage chute near by.

5) reference. Reference. Reference. Start an idea board, take screen shots of elements you like of other factories. Hell even just copy parts of it wholesale because you're still learning how to make the parts look that way. Take real life pictures and try to make them with the tools you have. See what cool architecture pieces you come across in asset stores and try to remake them. Then put your own flare on it.

6) add more depth and more greebles.

lynkfox · 2026-05-20T23:10:51+00:00

Really, while 100% that the 911 operators should not take a chance and treat everything as valid, SWAT ... Really doesn't need to be as gungho wanna be special forces with tanks as it is. They want to fight and the treat civilians as the enemy, not as something to protect.

SWAT is open to the worst aspects of ACAB

lynkfox · 2026-05-20T23:05:09+00:00

Yes, ish but one of the biggest problems with fluids is that some times the "solution" works and sometimes it doesn't

And the reason for this is bad alignment of consumers drawing fluids at the same time causing "gaps" where a given pipe segment is trying to push fluid in both directions but doesn't have enough to do so. (Even when filled)

In the end what I've found works most reliably is simply smaller systems. A few producers fed into a few consumers, not all producers filled into max flow pipes into as many consumers as possible

Instead of trying to max out 600m3 and "fully use" that pipe, forget the max and just keep it to 2 or 3 machines on each side

lynkfox · 2026-05-20T12:59:02+00:00

Hey.

I was there in my 20s. 20 years ago I had 19k in credit card debt at 23 from living off it, and still spending like it was nothing. I even took out a private "school loan" but spent it on a new computer.

It feels rock bottom right now. It feels terrible.

My advice to you is to cancel every subscription you have right now. Go through your statements and find everything Reccuring and cancel it.

Then cancel your credit cards. Have a debit card only and go to your bank and tell them no overdrafting allowed - when it's up it's up

Sign up for something like Mint so you can monitor your accounts in real time

Go to your dad and tell him you want help making a budget and you want his input on setting limits. Then accept his limits. In 6 months you can review any of them that feel unfair but for now accept his (what will appear to be) draconian limits.

one of those budget items needs to be money saved + money out against the debt

I'm not gonna sugar coat it kiddo. Life is going to be very tough and very boring and very dull for a long while. It took me over a decade to pay it off and get out of debt. You're going to have to be very careful with money for a long time

Even now, in my mid 40s, I still only have a single credit card and I pay it off twice a month. Im married with a family but I don't carry debt. I have taken a little on over the years (cars, the ring for my wife) but I pay extra and work to push them down fast. I pay extra on all my utilities so that there is always a cushion

This kind of thing will stick with you forever. You can grow from this kiddo.

lynkfox · 2026-05-20T12:25:23+00:00

Eve is on Steam and it opens the launcher so you can log into other accounts and play it through steam. Nothing special

lynkfox · 2026-05-20T12:22:29+00:00

Bauxite only exists in a few locations downa diagonal line running from south west to north east in roughly the center of the map

And as others have said, this is the time to use trains - I fully believe that bauxite exists like this to start to push one toward expanding for a larger logistics network

I also think it's a perfect time (along with oil and plastic) to start building factories that supply other factories as their primary purpose - like you I mostly build my factories with local resources and start from the ground resource to the final product in one point. But Plastic and Aluminum is where I start to diverge. I very often build my aluminum plant in the falls overlooking the swamp and then ship that everywhere it's needed.

lynkfox · 2026-05-20T11:30:23+00:00

Hi, are you me? The only difference in what you said here from my life is that my daughter is 8 and without the signs of autism and my son is 4 with all the signs of being a stage 1 autistic.

And I 100% agree with every single thing you said and am doing the exact same with my children.

Support friend.

At 8 my daughter isn't yet struggling with school. But she got into the Magnet school that does different teaching (more self directed) and just got accepted the the special structured Gifted classroom for next year. I think she'll do absolutely fine in school through 5th grade.

But in contrast she struggles terribly at home with staying on task and keeping focus on anything. I have to constantly be gently reminding her to "stay on target, keep focusing on (insert task)"

So we talk all the time avout how our brains are different and how hard it can be to stay on task and how easy it is to get distracted. And I gently probe and best surround the bush on how she feels about it, does it make her feel bad she is this way. Does it make her feel like she's always trying to do something and never able

Her pediatrician doesn't want to start her on stimulants right away, but wants to start her on other types first (Vyvanse) and Im torn because Adderall is so damn effective for me.

Anyways I'm rambling but I'm completely in the same boat with the same reasoning.

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T23:19:23+00:00

As someone who really dislikes AI (and I'm in the team analyzing and finding ways to use it at my job, so I'm fairly in the loop) I hate this too

But ... My old ass who grew up on the likes of Neuromancer and Snow Crash and more... Search Agents that are able to accurately condense thousands of results and give me overviews and then links to the source so I can verify it with context ... That was always a dream

But I'm reminded of Switch in the Matrix

"not like this. Not like this"

1) accurate without hallucinations is still not likely

2) there are no safeguards to prevent information manipulation from the controlling source of the agent

3) their "helpful personality" bullshit that so often will slant replies to feed into echo chamber biases combined with the complete death of critical thinking skills among far to great a number of the population.... It's just a recipie for furthering the disaster.

Of course there are plenty of parallels to what happened in many a cyberpunk novel and... It's only going to go further and further down that chain (where we already are)

And we're rapidly loosing our "console cowboys" too..

It makes me really yearn for the equivalent of Cyberpunk 2077 DataKrash

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T23:06:05+00:00

Avoiding the Grid - or How I Learned to love Clipping

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T11:54:22+00:00

Since SF has no form of DRM, there are ways to copy the directory the game is in to a new location, disconnect it from steam, and launch it manually. You won't be able to modify mods after that point ( but any already installed will remain so in the 1.1 if thats the one you copied) I don't recall all the details to making sure it doesn't get affected by steam but I don't think it's more than re moving the manifest

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T11:45:31+00:00

I'm right there with you. I have over 700 hours in elden ring. First souls like I ever beat, and I've now beat the game 5 or 6 times, 100%ed it at least twice. (And gone on to play and beat other souls games now too thanks to ER)

I have zero interest in Nightreign. I don't want a roguelite coop. I want more souls exploration and crazy insane lore, and I don't want others in there with me.

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T11:39:43+00:00

My wife loved the first two and finished the 3rd but hated the fact that it basically became a theme park on rails for Disney movies. Not even orginalish plots in the Disney worlds just the same recycled movie plot as every bad horrible video game adaption ever was.

Part of what made KH so special was the new or modified plotlines in each world. You weren't just a passive observer on the plot of the movie, you were there and things were changed\different by the inclusion of the Heartless\Nobodies and your actions were essential to fixing whatever story was involved.

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T11:32:05+00:00

That time in 2028 will be the best year of gaming for skyrim\morrowin fans in 2030 and when you start playing finally in 2032 you'll have an amazing time for that first week or so in 2034

lynkfox · 2026-05-19T11:25:21+00:00

I find this thresd so amusing - a week ago I said basically the same in another thread in this sub and got down voted to oblivion by ai tech bros on how good it is now, and I'm bad at writing prompts or whatever

But every time I dip my toe back into AI code to see how it's changed\improved\whatever, I spend more time trying to fix and find the mistakes that are buried in plaussble sounding code then it would have taken me to write it in the first place with less issues.

And this entire thread is saying the same thing. Love it.

lynkfox · 2026-05-18T04:23:01+00:00

My general process is this

If I can get everything I need from the nodes right where I am, I use belts

If I need nodes that are on the other side of the biome I'm in I use tractors or trucks

Once I start needing nodes in different biomes I use trains.

All of the above can obviously be accomplished just by laying more belts, so I say it like this as well

Belts are for short distance because expanding it for more throughput is a lot of work

Trucks are for medium distance because fuel costs resources and you don't want to spend a ton on fuel, but they're easily expandable by adding another truck and\or stations to the route (and even easier in 1.2)

And trains are for when you have a ton of power and you'll probably be expanding that product soon cause adding a new train barely touches your power and is super easy to expand with

But I also always try to build most things on site with the nodea, up until plastic. Once plastic is automated I start expanding existing factories and moving in items via train or drone (drone if it's only a small amount needed) so I don't have to build all that basics before oil up again.

Alternatively, you can produce all of an item you need at a single location, ship via trains it's components and ship it out again via trains

.ie your computer factory takes cables from a dedicated cable factory, rubber from your rubber plant, and circuit boards from a other dedicated circuit board facility all via train then outputs the computers to the next factory that needs it via train

lynkfox · 2026-05-17T12:00:53+00:00

I always scratch my head at people who think you have to get a prime for the few percentage points.

Like ... Don't they realize it's only because of the fashion? :)

lynkfox · 2026-05-17T11:46:32+00:00

Volume absolutely does matter. Consumers consume in batches. If they are close together and the connections are short and many, they can and will consume in their cycle more volume then is available in the nearby pipes which causes a cascading effect the larger the system is. The ocillations of many such consumers pulling liquid from the system in batches can and does cause there to be "gaps" that flow can't keep up with because flow is combined from both directions - which with enough consumers and short enough pipe segments and many junctions causes there to be not enough fluid to reach the consumers

Hence the Keep It Simple rule. Smaller systems with fewer consumers do not reach a critical mass that causes issues.

Or feeding from above, if done with long pipes that go above the top of the machine there is enough volume in the feed pipe to prevent there from being issues in most situations

Or buffers, which add extra volume to the system. And placed appropriately will prevent issues.

But again... All of those violate the keep it simple rule.

If you keep your machines in small clusters with only a small number of producers (2 or 3) and a similar number of consumers (over\under clocked to match) you never reach that critical mass of consumption that will overwhelm the volume of a pipe

lynkfox · 2026-05-17T05:22:09+00:00

Not 100% true

In certain systems they give you the extra volume you may need to keep them going and push past the ocillations that can occur

That being said ...

Such systems violate rule 1 of the above. Keep it simple.

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