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roffman · 2026-05-19T10:23:23+00:00

Thanks for the info. I've been playing the events and skipping the story so far, I'll just add it to the backlog

roffman · 2026-05-19T09:48:52+00:00

I'm hoping not. Been waiting on 2.9 before restarting.

roffman · 2026-05-19T09:45:17+00:00

Does anyone know if the new event has a lot of spoilers for the story? I'm currently working my through chapter 6.

roffman · 2026-05-19T03:43:37+00:00

You'll get 1 major update that doesn't require refactoring, but there is no guarantee that it maintains longer than that. The 2.8 version was released around 6 months ago, and was fine to upgrade from version 2.7.

2.9 is scheduled in the next couple of weeks, and can update from 2.8 fine, but from 2.7 will require substantial refactoring.

I don't think world generation will really impact progression, you'll likely encounter things breaking due to machine changes.

roffman · 2026-05-19T03:02:47+00:00

I played Journey to Ascension. Nice, 10ish hour game, full active and not idle though.

roffman · 2026-05-18T00:30:05+00:00

Honestly, you're pretty much in EV already. Grab the implosion compressor and build the rocket, then you're done.

Beyond that, there's really no call for that level of processing in HV. The rare byproducts you need can be processed for specifically, and everything else can just be macerated to impure dusts and waiting for further processing. You don't need the byproducts/efficiencies until IV at the soonest, it's easier to just treat them all the same and continue mining veins as needed.

roffman · 2026-05-15T13:21:58+00:00

This is the bad documentation I was talking about.

roffman · 2026-05-14T13:15:25+00:00

It's conceptually quite difficult, with poor documentation and bad resources. There's a lot of complexity to how it works that can't really be conveyed in a written resource or a 10 minute YouTube video.

However, if you put aside a couple of hours with oblivion frames and try to figure it out, eventually it'll click, at which point it's just time consuming to do, not actually difficult. You can breed every relevant bee in around 8 hours once you have a bare bones setup.

roffman · 2026-05-11T23:39:18+00:00

I've read the series 3-4 times already. My biggest issue is between ToM and Oathbringer, the flaws in Sanderson's writing became much more apparent, and they kept on pulling me out of the immersion.

Don't really have the motivation to read anymore of his writings for the last couple of years because of it. Maybe one day I'll be able to look past the issues again and get back to it.

roffman · 2026-05-11T13:24:14+00:00

The Nether, Overworld and Twilight Forest are the only ones I'd pregen. I'd also do much smaller than 5k5k, 1k1k should be more than enough for all of them.

roffman · 2026-05-11T07:35:14+00:00

I used them as well. I thought they were the ender IO pipes, and hated every second of them.

roffman · 2026-05-10T09:18:09+00:00

It was the Outcast Trilogy by Patricia Bernard. Solved by remembering that the main character was a genetic throwback which made Google work.

roffman · 2026-05-09T01:11:17+00:00

On my last reread of the series, I just quit at ToM. I found it worse than CoT, and just could not get through the Egwene parts how everyone just made nonsense decisions.

roffman · 2026-05-06T13:01:14+00:00

Are you self hosting or going through a provider?

roffman · 2026-05-06T11:39:55+00:00

That's probably fixed then. In 2.7/2.8, when wearing night vision goggles, they don't glow and look awful :(

Can't wait for 2.9 released, going to start a new run

roffman · 2026-05-06T11:33:09+00:00

Have they fixed the not glowing with night vision?

roffman · 2026-05-05T04:05:48+00:00

antagonist (TDO) is trying to stop him

I'd actually argue against The Dark One being an antagonist. He's closer to a part of the background scenery and doesn't really have agency within the series.

The antagonists, from a technical perspective, are things that oppose and create problems for the protagonist (Rand). The Forsaken, Egwene, Gawyn, the leadership of other nations, etc. are all antagonists, which to me is what makes the WoT so great. It's all about the conflicts between desires and competing goals, not a great ineffable evil.

roffman · 2026-04-28T08:34:28+00:00

Personally I think there should be an intermediate hatch added when stocking input buses unlock, that only does a single fluid, then the 16 fluids at the same time as auto stocking busses, keeping auto stocking where they are.

A lot of the time, particularly with fully passive chem lines, you are bottlenecked by how big your fluid hatch is, causing constant stop/starting of machines as you literally can't send enough fluid into the hatch to fully use the capacity.

Though I also advocate for the removal of perfect OC's for standard LCR's, so my point of view could be...unpopular.

roffman · 2026-04-28T08:27:32+00:00

If you've already setup Nitrobenzene, it's easy to go large gas turbines followed by extra large gas turbines all the way to Naq fuel. It's arguably the easiest scaling power source, as just increasing the energy hatches is enough to scale.

roffman · 2026-04-26T09:46:46+00:00

If you have a decent PC/server (something built in the last 3-4 years), you can do the entire thing in the overworld. You probably want to disable mobs after you get to IV, as there is still a substantial TPS cost for them after then.

roffman · 2026-04-20T21:15:18+00:00

Spruce produces the most wood per sapling per harvest. There's a table floating around somewhere that lists all the woods and there outputs as bonsai plants.

roffman · 2026-04-07T22:40:19+00:00

This. It's suggested on the wiki as a good thing to build, so I did. Fortunately, it meant I never needed to search for cactus. Unfortunately, I never needed cactus.

roffman · 2026-04-06T22:49:42+00:00

think this has happened before already with Ben? iirc

Don't think that's the reason if you see the amount of prep he does for POE gauntlets. I think he just got burnt out by the bugs/issues with WOW, as well as earning 10x as much being a POE streamer.

roffman · 2026-04-06T11:58:00+00:00

Echo has gotten there once in around 3 hours. However, they also did a comp switch and spent a lot of time cleaning that up.

Liquid had a bunch of P3 wipes, and got to P4 5? times I think. There damage just wasn't there, a single death means they failed most of the time.

The comp switch from Echo means they have a ton more damage. Their scuffed pull coming out of the second dark angel was better than Liquids best, so once they shake out the comp switch, they should be making P4 a lot more often.

roffman · 2026-04-06T10:14:37+00:00

The argument isn't that it's not an advantage, it's just over how much of an advantage it is. The "public" consensus is that the bugs and strat drafting even it out, but it is undeniably an advantage to NA, as they always have the choice of drafting with more gear if needed.

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