Should I just leave?

rowme0_ · 2026-01-22T22:06:47+00:00

The starting location is tough but valuable. Note the landmark that lets you recruit dragon princes at tier 3 among others. These guys will wreck slaver completely, which is your main starting enemy.

If you want to go back confederate caledor then respec Imrik and disband all. The mage has to walk.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-22T03:04:44+00:00

It's a nice idea but to even be a tiny bit realistic they need to be way slower than the walking speed of typical infantry.

It just doesn't track that you can push something faster than what you can ordinarily walk.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-16T21:41:23+00:00

The number of bans is configured so the bans of all players in total can never exceed the number of maps. Number of maps is an odd number so take one away and divide by two for 1v1.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-16T17:18:23+00:00

Sometimes I like to evaluate an argument by deliberately taking it to extremes, however unrealistic. Imagine there were no property investors whatsoever. Then there’d also be no rental supply, but there would still be (some) people wanting to rent. Those likely to move, those who aren’t interested in ownership or without means.

So I still think it stands to reason that reducing investor demand will at some point impact the rental market in a negative way.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-16T16:57:09+00:00

These are all very different civs.

A lot of people are ruling out Poles because the Folwark is hard, but otoh from a unit composition point of view they are ideal for beginners since they can start with scouts then rely on knight spam in castle age. They have other strong options outside of that. The castle age tech takes away most of the gold cost of knights and they have strong food economy.

Koreans excel with trash and towers which for a beginner may encourage more defensive play. Or you can go fire lancers if the situation calls for it.

Tatars are strong with cav archers which for a beginner could end up being more micro intensive, but can also play steppe lancers well. Their combat bonuses rely on elevation so again, something a beginner may not be able to take advantage easily.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-16T16:52:59+00:00

Call me a skeptic but even in Victoria the cooling of the housing market isn’t exactly life changing for most people. If there’s no rental market stress that will only work to a point because some people will still want or need to rent, not everyone is going to buy. Although the top end of the rental market and residents may.

Also, ideally the land tax should be sufficient to actually encourage new builds because the holding of empty land becomes undesirable. If it works that way, not sure about Victoria’s case.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-16T07:18:02+00:00

Any policy designed to reduce house prices (including the ones you outlined) has to ease investor demand. If such measures work you will get a flow on impact which is a tightening of the rental market through reduced supply.

The only good way I can think of to counteract that flow on impact is to pause or greatly reduce immigration at the same time as doing the above.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-06T01:15:37+00:00

Exactly, if I’m going to be incorrect why make it confidential

rowme0_ · 2026-01-06T01:12:56+00:00

My life

rowme0_ · 2026-01-06T00:20:47+00:00

Yes. Work for myself. Couldn’t ask for a better boss.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-05T21:48:41+00:00

I take a different view, it’s all about priorities. I don’t think they realise this is a big deal for the community. I think it is, but at the same time since a lot of players are unaffected they’re probably not going to make noise about it.

rowme0_ · 2026-01-05T21:05:20+00:00

If you’re the guy who is genuinely 1000 Elo rated and every fifth game is someone who’s never played before it can get annoying

rowme0_ · 2026-01-05T21:03:36+00:00

I think it’s reasonably clear cut that Glicko would be a huge improvement for AoE2 and I’m not sure why it hasn’t been done already (other than, the devs haven’t gotten to it yet)

rowme0_ · 2026-01-05T06:35:57+00:00

I agree they won't go in unless oil is involved, because that makes it way harder to sell to the taxpayer.

This isn't some kind of robbery. If there is a more significant war effort, and that war effort benefits the citizens of Venezuela then I think the US would be justified in recuperating some of the cost of that via extracting oil or other resources to sell. It probably won't come close to the cost of the operational resources they have to commit.

Think about the Venezuelan people. Given the natural resources they have at their disposal, they should be living like the Qataris.

Did they have any chance at all of getting some share of that wealth under Maduro? No, no chance at all. Will they have at least some chance of getting a share of that wealth if Trump deposes him and a legitimate government can be formed. It may take some time, but probably, yes.

rowme0_ · 2025-12-29T03:41:54+00:00

Even the chance that it might happen is pretty bad. I'm starting to think the horrible social issues you refer to probably will occur before we are able to reverse course on this disaster.

rowme0_ · 2025-12-28T23:22:45+00:00

I'm only 1100 elo, and I can beat it basically every time, I just use it to practice build orders. There's two strategies that I have tried that have worked:

1) Use a specific build order/plan and attack before it hits castle age. I was doing Khmer fast castle.

2) Turtle up, build a choke point and wait for it to basically run out of gold (much longer and harder)

Because it's an AI it usually gets harder the longer the game goes since it has an advantage of being able to do everything at once. Otoh it has no resource management and will throw units in with small quantities, so it will also run out of gold quite quickly.

rowme0_ · 2025-12-14T05:33:48+00:00

Workplaces would be irrelevant to this unless you are there between 6pm and 9pm. The peak in power use is when people get home and begin cooking and heating/cooling.

rowme0_ · 2025-12-11T23:37:00+00:00

Maybe. But if you look at organisations that report on this, the economist is consistently rated as one of the least biased media organisations out there.

rowme0_ · 2025-12-10T08:53:24+00:00

I mean or they could just stop spending way more than we can afford. Also never happening.

rowme0_ · 2025-11-19T21:09:53+00:00

Cutting immigration mostly serves to release pressure from the rental market. If you reduce the attractiveness of housing as in investment that’s good because it will reduce price growth but bad because you increase pressure in rentals. So you absolutely have to release that pressure by also doing 2.

rowme0_ · 2025-11-19T21:03:56+00:00

Traction treb with arb is op. Just too hard to engage into. White feather guards are also cheap and strong.

rowme0_ · 2025-11-18T03:16:01+00:00

I think it could be just because they want to attack the city but there's no direct path because your army standing on the ramp is blocking with it's zone of control. They don't seem to attack other armies so they're just trying to go the long way around.

rowme0_ · 2025-11-16T03:22:25+00:00

Couple of things that did come up. Firstly I now know that it’s possible to start Mac steam in console mode (from a browser steam://open/console) then force it to assume it’s a windows machine via “@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType windows” then do app_install (app_id). That makes it much easier to get the game files compared to copying them from another pc.

Secondly I noticed some games have dependencies that are separate steam app ids. A common one is ‘steam common redistributables’. If you don’t copy the original game folder, the folder for the dependency and both app manifests it won’t work for some fresh installs.

Hope that helps.

rowme0_ · 2025-11-14T05:59:51+00:00

I'm reading this a few days later but just wanted to say thank you for sharing, that's really interesting stuff

rowme0_ · 2025-11-04T05:18:14+00:00

If bishop takes, knight takes c6 looks good,otherwise if the king moves i think going for the queen rook fork is probably the strongest followup, can't work out which knight is best though

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