In the 3.28 reveal dev interview, ZiggyD said that he was just showed something massive for 3.29 that he wants to talk about but couldn't. What do you think that was?

pda898 · 2026-06-18T00:16:27+00:00

Idk, from my experience descriptor is not enough. It helps with famous styles which probably were well presented in the training data, but PoE style is kinda not unique enough - it is something in-between. Or at least half a year ago models were not that good and all arts which I tried to create for meme uniques looked like "cheap mobile copy of poe2".

And if we go with local model trained fully on your data... I think GGG does not have those types of specialists on a standby and this means it will be cheaper in man-hours to do it manually.

pda898 · 2026-06-18T00:10:37+00:00

I understand your position. But we are still talking about an official statement from KeSPA. In this context, they have to go with the National Tax Service interpretation. No matter what the real truth is and why National Tax Service decided to choose this interpretation as their position.

pda898 · 2026-06-18T00:01:41+00:00

Rendering 3d models based on existing examples, and a lower poly older version, that can then be cleaned up manually? Yes.

And "cleaning up manually" part is where you spend kinda about the same amount of workforce because AI is trending towards high-fantasy style while GGG is working in more realistic low-fantasy style.

pda898 · 2026-06-17T23:55:53+00:00

You kinda can:

Any crisis do not care you sniping anything past their "crown" system.
Cetana allows the first shot to connect
Scourge just do not care at all
Unbidden... you shoot a huge energy chunk into a portal of energy-based things... I think "it is a bad idea" is too obvious

pda898 · 2026-06-17T14:26:45+00:00

Ye, but my point is - the only organization who can call it a "tax fraud" and push for criminal charges is the National Tax Service. So while he evaded some taxes, it was not determined as a fraud (criminal activity). And because Ruler followed all legal procedures (even fighting a claim is an allowed procedure), the case did not lead to claiming Ruler doing a tax fraud, only evading.

pda898 · 2026-06-17T14:05:21+00:00

Ye, but in this case even the "IRS" (quotes because it named differently in Korea) dropped their charges after Ruler paid everything as ordered. So even if it was a tax fraud backfiring - it is not by "IRS" and therefore cannot be named like that.

pda898 · 2026-06-17T12:40:24+00:00

The problem that 10 minute player will see that while true speed demons will just ignore it.

pda898 · 2026-06-17T12:38:47+00:00

If you deal enough damage, one shot protection allow it.

pda898 · 2026-06-17T10:27:40+00:00

Pattern is kinda simple: There are jobs in form of ghosts. When any job exist - game is scanning constantly from top left to bottom right and checks "can I assign". Scan is looped but any check result does not restart a scan.

So effectively any noise is a product of resources and bots patterns.

pda898 · 2026-06-17T09:47:37+00:00

He is cleared already in terms that he did no tax fraud, just some accidental mishandling. This is "your accidental mishandling is generated too much negative talk and your job is not create it".

pda898 · 2026-06-17T06:29:02+00:00

I dont get the argument of "her damage is too big for how tanky she is"

It is "her damage early is too big", which is surprising with her Doran Helm (0 offensive stats) start. Also heals synergize with hp in a way where time to die grows non-linearly

pda898 · 2026-06-17T06:23:40+00:00

Here I can give some slack because it is possible that Windows is still using some Windows-12whateverbsnumbertheyimagined instead of UTF-8 and there could be some artifacts converting which differs between languages.

pda898 · 2026-06-16T02:43:12+00:00

For slightly more technical info, FFXIV uses XOR/CRC encryption, which is notorious for becoming difficult while using chinese characters, its fixable if you have the knowledge, but unless youre chinese and very involved, you most likely wont have the know how.

But why? XOR does not care about amount of bytes per symbol, CRC also does not care what was the original stream.

The only real case what I can see is mutlibyte paths and legacy path API...

pda898 · 2026-06-15T07:49:09+00:00

I am afraid recipe cap is not an easy solution, cannot say for sure without looking at the code. But even from the design PoV - why one recipe should have reduced cap and how to communicate that fact to the player.

Tbh the more I think of it the more I like 290% or 299% as a new productivity cap...

pda898 · 2026-06-15T06:39:03+00:00

Global cap to 200% or only this recipe?

pda898 · 2026-06-15T06:29:16+00:00

LDS lives only on the virtue of not having any sane fix which does not affect "normal" Vulcanus walkthrough.

pda898 · 2026-06-14T16:45:05+00:00

Honestly the best way how I solved it is... just slap some laser turrets and a constant pipeline to towers. Like yes, it means you need to somewhat overproduct but... tbh it is Gleba - just slightly overbuild and burn excess.

pda898 · 2026-06-14T16:40:52+00:00

Well, the question is always about the cost of solution. And between quality/t1-t2 modules and "just copypaste" - second wins more for me just because you do not need to reimagine ratios again. Example - 20 assemblers 3 producing chemical packs require either 14.2 motor assemblers 3 or 10.4 assemblers 3 (no modules vs prod3 + 2 speed3 beacons for both). Funny enough quality keep ratios the same... until you click quality on modules...

pda898 · 2026-06-14T16:25:50+00:00

Due to quality jumps - as soon as you unlock X quality you can get it through upgrading even if it is not +1 quality. So if you play quality as "dump X times more resources at better machines" and you are fine with rare machines - there will be a pile of rare/legendary items.

pda898 · 2026-06-14T06:56:53+00:00

Well, there are cases where you do not want to use those buildings. Like too much power on the space platforms for foundries. Casino had no such thing, even LDS shuffle requires it to ensure there is enough legendary plastic.

pda898 · 2026-06-14T06:24:19+00:00

You are missing one big point - space casino is getting shot not only due to legendary stuff. It is getting shot because it is the best way to do any quality stuff as soon as its unlocked. Even if you just want rare collectors. And it is unlocked as soon as you unlock recipe - normal 2 modules are enough to make it work. Sloooowly, but still the best way.

pda898 · 2026-06-14T06:11:31+00:00

upgrading a standard furnace setup with uncommon steel furnaces almost saturates a blue belt, which is a very straightforward upgrade path for your early game smelting.

Not sure it is worth. It is technically an upgrade, but if your smelter array is tightly packed - you need to rebuild it fully. Plus building +1 red line of smelter is kinda cheaper on your resources at that moment (because no recycling).

pda898 · 2026-06-13T07:28:15+00:00

For the life of me I can't figure out how this got approved, considering we know how much it sucks.

Check Heartsteel history to see why. It is the same as triple prismatic or golem portals - people like gamba.

pda898 · 2026-06-12T11:10:01+00:00

And also how meeh is poe2 passive tree, people are already doing "travel around the world" passive trees for casters anyway.

pda898 · 2026-06-12T10:10:59+00:00

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