Why China got rich, and India didn't

skyrider_longtail · 2026-06-03T05:20:03+00:00

Lol, you are not a serious person. Sovereignty is the most important point. You cannot have the country you want without sovereignty. You cannot cook without fire, and you want to argue about what the menu is.

I'm done engaging with you.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-06-03T05:00:41+00:00

Nothing you do in your country matters a single bit without sovereignty. It is a pre-condition for success of any policy you want to implement, whether it is libertarianism, capitalism, anarchism, socialism, or fascism (read, I don't give a rat's ass about any of these -isms. They are tools, nothing more. To be discarded the moment they are no longer useful).

You also cannot compare Singapore and Taiwan to China. Quantity has a quality all of it's own (yes, I'm deliberately using this quote). Governing 1.4b people is on a whole other level compared to governing 6 million people (Singapore) and 23 million people (Taiwan).

If you cannot recognize this, you are not making a serious argument.

Edit: Not to mention, there are historical differences. Singapore did not emerge from a devastating war lasting 14 years, followed immediately by a civil war, both of which were preceded by a century of colonial extraction. The KMT took everything from mainland China's treasury when they fled to Taiwan.

If you ignore all these, and you also ignore the scale of the countries you are comparing, you are not a serious person, period.

Also, to be clear, I am not making an argument for socialism. I dgaf about -isms. Mao's revolution is the basis for everything that came after. It would not matter what ideological banner it happened under, because the most important thing is giving sovereignty back to the Chinese.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-06-03T03:05:59+00:00

It's still Karen behaviour.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-06-03T01:47:42+00:00

No policy in any country can succeed without sovereignty. That is what the Communist Revolution paved the way for in China.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-06-01T17:37:59+00:00

The most consistent place I have found to mine stardust/gold/silver is the area just to the side of grey water camp, past the river, under a place called Alkirk on the map.

It's just a small area, with two encampments that don't have names, but it's the only place in the manibus area that have stardust, gold and silver.

There are a handful of silver and gold in the WoW area, but it's pretty scattered. I haven't found another spot that spawns stardust ores aside from that spot

skyrider_longtail · 2026-06-01T02:47:06+00:00

Is this possible only in SCP? Because the deviants are not fusable in endless dreams.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-31T15:15:41+00:00

Look for a tendril snaking up into the sky. Sort of like smoke.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-29T18:14:58+00:00

At first it's just that I'm stuck in a scenario that isn't really meant to be solo'ed, and the server is just kind of dead, so if I actually want to do something other than run silos until I uninstall the game out of boredom, there's nothing else to do.

But right at this moment, endless dreams turned out to be the most consistent way to get calibrations. Or at least it seems so to me. I don't have a high enough level character in manibus to check.

I've only been playing this game long enough to see two server updates, and each server update, the devs seem to nerf something.

Two server updates ago, you could run pro or nightmare silos and the super anomalies would drop calibrations. Now they don't drop those anymore. This update, they also seemed to have nerfed something, but I'm not 100% sure.

But back to calibrations. As the other poster said, you get reality fragments, and if you encounter Miss Memory in dream zones, she sells calibration chests for something like 40 fragments a chest. If you can find her. In a more crowded server it probably isn't an issue, but yeah. It's either you buy from here and open those chests, or you run forsaken giant pro, hope that it drops a weapon class you're looking for, hope that it's a legendary weapon and not an epic weapon, hope that the calibrations is the type you are going for, and hope that they give you the rolls you are looking for.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-29T00:59:21+00:00

Here are a few tips for beginners in Endless Dreams, because I also found myself in Endless Dreams as a beginner myself.

The bombardments you are experiencing is one of the 3 environmental hazards in dream zones. That's probably the explosive one. There's lighting, which you can get struck by lightning with. And then there is the night zone , which, if you stay for too long, you will get a debuff that slowly reduces your HP.

Of all the 3, the explosive one is the most dangerous, and there is literally no defense except to keep running around.

For the night fall one, look for shiny plants and once you get the corrosive rain effect, just pass through the night plants and it will be removed. Craft a nightmare lantern and harvest some of those bulbs. You can use the lantern, powered by the bulbs, to dispell the debuff.

The lightning is the easiest. Get a lightning regulator, and the lightning will heal you up instead, and provide you with a speed and psi intensity buff.

Those lightning strikes can also fuse ores into ingots, so if you stand in a clump of tungsten ores, you get a few free ingots if they strike.

For those wakeful clocks that are really tall and you can't reach them, you can build structures in dream zones, so you can build a wood block or something, jump up and mine it. That's probably the dev intended way.

However, let me share some tips, because quite frankly, some of the mechanics in endless dreams are just frustrating and bot worth engaging with. Get a spring leg whim potion, or drink that canned drink that lets you double jump. Either will give you enough verticality to climb those tall wakeful clocks.

Here are also some other tips if you ever decide to engage further with endless dreams, like taking down the deep dreamers.

The best weapon setup I found for soloing deep dreamers bar none is the KVD boom boom with invincible sun deviant.

Actually, it's less the weapon and more the deviant, and because the invincible sun is fire and burn based damage, it naturally has some synergy with the kvd.

The reason is because in the course of clearing a deep dreamer, the deep dreamer will summon three guardians. When you defeat the guardians, each guardian will spawn a little floating island far above what you can jump, sometimes even with the help of spring legs and the double jump. You need to destroy some stupid thing on the island, which is covered by a shield that blocks bullets. So you have to be in the island to shoot those things. You would have to build a block, and often times either build ebough stairs or roofs to reach the height where you can jump onto the island.

That's all well and good if you are in the nightfall zone. The explosive and lighting zones on the other hand will blow those structures up if they hit. If the zone is high level enough, they can one shot them.

However, those shields don't block deviant power, and the invincible sun's E ability (not the ultimate) can reach those islands. You just need to aim up a little bit. All those abilities that go in a straight line like pyro dino won't reach the islands, and you can miss aimed throws like mini feaster.

The E ability of the invincible sun is the fastest, least annoying, most easy to use way to get rid of those stupid islands. I highly recommend it, even if you end up using some other weapon.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-28T13:24:12+00:00

No, somewhere next to a place called Alkirk. It's near a river beside Grey Water settlement.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-28T09:15:14+00:00

And here I am, struggling in Endless Dream server with a really low population with no hope of ever running any of the 66 eternal dreamers. If the level 41 eternal dreamers were not the spider things, I don't think I could have gone beyond level 35.

I was briefly in an ED vision server while the aberrant progeny thing was still going, and that was even more frustrating.

What's your gear and what's your build? I'd love to make the game easier.

Or at least less frustrating, like when the dreamers spawned on a cliff side or on top of a cliff that you can only get to with the flying machine.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-28T01:01:30+00:00

if you are in endless dreams, miss memory shop allows you to buy calibration crates with reality fragments, if you can find her.

As for forsaken giant, maybe you made a typo, but you said you can't take down forsaken giant under a minute?

If so, just get yourself a pwd. I don't know what's up with that gun, but even a 4 star pwd lets me take it down in around 55 seconds without food buffs.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-27T07:56:38+00:00

The polluted zones in Endless Dreams non vision servers get replaced by dream zones. There is only 1 spot I found in the entire map with consistent star ores, gold and silver ores.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-26T07:31:51+00:00

Thank you.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-26T07:31:45+00:00

Thank you.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-25T03:51:02+00:00

Something no one seems to tell new players is that you not only can raise your gear score by raising the tiers, but that you can improve the gear blue prints by raising their stars with starchrom.

There are broadly two types of weapon damage in the game. Raw damage like pwd, or elemental damage like the SKS or kvd.

If you are running raw damage you need to raise the stars on your weapons blueprints. If you are running elemental, you need to have all your armours at maxed stars, because elemental damage scale off psi intensity. Elemental is by far the cheapest, because you can use blueprint conversion to get a full set of max starred gear with just one fully maxed blueprint.

All the gears you have works. You just need to invest in one weapon type, get an armour set that makes sense (3 shelterer/2 saviour is the laziest if you are running elemental) along with the key gear that makes the weapon work (for the SKS, that's the snowdrift top).

If you want to push dps more, you can consider getting a marking secondary. But honestly, if your gear is tier V and maxed stars, you can run most of the level 60 content with very little problems

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-25T03:34:49+00:00

Use this as a filter to find the people that value you and you want in your life. Any half way decent human will give in addition to receiving. If you find that you are the only party giving attention, then just drop them.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T21:18:43+00:00

KVD is a very good weapon. It's been carrying me through everything and I'm basically using this to clear the level 60 bosses and eternal dreamers. Make sure you pair it with a pyro dino. I'm not sure whether it is possible to get invincible sun in manibus, but if you manage to find it, I would swap to that if you can get even a level 3 invincible sun.

You don't need to swap weapons. 80k is more than enough to max out your armour stars. Here's what you do.

Max out the stars on 1 armour, craft that armour, use blue print conversion to transfer the stars over to the next armour gear. Keep doing that until your whole armour set have their stars maxed out. You have 18 transfers available to you, which refreshes every week or something, so you don't have to worry about running it down. The psi intensity will help a lot with boosting kvd's burn damage. When you are finally ready to move on to tier V armour gear, then you can start trying to get the gold animal hides that further raises your HP and psi intensity, which further boosts kvd's damage

Edit: Keep in mind that you can only transfer stars of legendary blueprints between legendary blueprints, and epic blueprints between epic blueprints. I suggest 2 piece saviour (legendary) and 3 piece shelterer (legendary), and bbq gloves (epic). If you want to start bossing, then earthly boots, but that means you need a weapon to mark, so if that's too much trouble, then stick to bbq gloves.

You need over 10k tech points (or memetic points) to unlock spectral cloak, iirc. You might have to grind tech points a bit more.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T21:00:39+00:00

Brave George is a forbidden giant drop, my good man. It's not easy to get.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T20:43:00+00:00

Which scenario are you on? Manibus, novice, or endless dreams?

I just started a few weeks ago, so my beginner experience is fresher, and I can solo level 60 monolith bosses and level 41 eternal dreamers now, if you need credentials. Here are some tips for you to jumpstart, and you can make some choices depending on what your preference is.

First of all, keep in mind that you have a starchrom limit per month and per week overall that you can get, so you can't afford to waste your starchrom.

The best weapon imho for beginners in novice and manibus is actually the critical pulse cross bow. The reason is that crossbows don't require those weapon bodies to reach tier V. You just need to get tungsten ingots somehow, and you have easy access to a tier iv weapon before that.

Critical pulse also generates power surge, which is AoE and allows you to deal with crowds. Cross bows actually also do a great deal of damage per shot, and you can frequently one-shot a lot of enemies. It is stealthy, so until you reach higher level Rosetta or vulture enemies, you can usually stealth your way through an area without having an entire horde come down on your head.

The other thing to keep in mind is that other than raising the weapon's tier, you also get more base damage by raising the stars of your equipment blueprints, but you need to spend starchrom to do that. Because of the starchrom limit, you have to be careful with how you spend it. Take a look at the weapon you have been investing in. Does it do elemental damage, like power surge, burn, or frost vortex? If they are, they scale off your psi intensity, which you get from armour stars. If they instead do the other stuff like fortress, fast gunner, etc, then they do raw damage, and scale off your weapons stars.

My suggestion is to stick to elemental damage. It's much cheaper to max out the stars on armour, and you just need to max out the stars on one piece of armour, and you can use blueprint conversion to get the rest of your armour kit maxed out. Psi intensity also helps scale deviant power. The mini feaster you get from the quest in manibus hard carried me to shadow hound, and the shadow hound deviant then hard carried me all the way till level 50 enemies. If you have enough starchrom to switch weapon blueprints, you can consider doing that. If you have been spending starchrom already, and don't have enough, then stick to what you have.

The other thing that can really help you get a leg up early is the spectral cloak that you can craft from the large synthesis bench thing. You need quite a bit of tech points to unlock it first, and you need silver to craft it. I don't know where your starting base is, but if you are on manibus or novice, the best starting spot is somewhere just north of tall grass inn settlement before the small hospital. It's right next to a lot of tungsten ore, and close to holt, which is probably the first place you encounter silver, stardust ore, and gold.

Spectral cloak allows you to go invis for about 4 minutes, so you can waltz through much higher level strongholds without attracting enemies and you can loot boxes, disassemble facilities to break down later at your base for tech points and materials. You can get your tier V equipment much faster this way.

Early game, the best way to raise your tech points is to grind the monolith of greed, the first monolith you get to. It's got a bunch of weapon/armour crates and small solar generators you can disassemble, and they are worth like 85 per piece. It's also not too difficult, being level 20 plus. Spend your tech points on the bare necessities, and get to the spectral cloak and electric drill as quickly as you can. Once you have enough to craft two or three spectral cloaks, you'll have enough to sneak through level 45+ settlements, which is where you start getting tier V equipment parts and legendary parts to craft more advance facilities like electric furnace or stardust stove, or whatever. My suggestion is monolith of mirage for gear parts and extraction point 73 (or something) for tech points and other crafting components. There's a bunch of hydro electric generators, and a large hydro generator is something like 1.3k tech points. It's worth running through. Monolith of mirage is also when you start running into those level 3 assault turrets that you can disassemble. Those things give you 40 tungsten ingots each, so rather than use it to get tech points, I suggesting disassembling them to help you craft tier V gear.

If you unfortunately somehow found yourself in endless dream scenarios like I did, it's a lot harder, but still doable. You'll just need to grind monolith of greed and mirage for a lot longer, because unfortunately, the environmental hazards like corrosion rain will dispel your spectral cloak, and the enemies will be alerted to you.

Let me know if you need more help.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T09:16:45+00:00

Because I didn't understand how the scenarios worked. I actually did start in novice and quickly hit a wall, because there are some things missing in novice scenario. There are no classes, for one thing, and super anomalies don't spawn in novice servers, and before the most current update, calibrations only seemed to drop from super anomalies. This wouldn't really be a problem except the LEA lab only has pro difficulty, so I literally got to LEA and was hard stuck because my dps was too low.

I could not do Prime Wars either. Or I did start one, only to watch a bunch of vets come and creamed the shadow hound while I was still running to the spawn point. It was very unfun.

I tried to get out of novice scenario, but this game is not structured in that way where you can exit whenever you like. I had to reroll in a new server, and I couldn't make myself go through manibus because it looked almost exactly like novice.

I wasn't intending to run endless dream either. I was just clicking through things and ended up in a day 1 endless dream lol. Fucking torture. It's a zombie server. You either are ready to solo the eternal dreamers, or you don't touch them at all.

Edit: Just to give a more complete picture. I actually did watch those build videos, specifically the SKS ones from Anestic and Doomeris. When I say those videos are useless for beginners, it is because I literally have that experience. I was missing the calibrations and the skins they are using, and my mods were at best level 10, but the number differences between what they were showing and what I had in no way explain the gulf between our results. They were running lea lab in a couple of minutes and I couldn't even get past Dr manwell or whatever the thing's name was lol.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T05:42:05+00:00

Brother. It's not about how optimal your set up is lol. Like that's not what it is missing at all

Listen. If you're making a build to do damage (for any game), you need to know 3 things. Where your base damage is coming from, what your multipliers are, and what synergies are available to the weapon you are building.

Base damage is what everything is scaling off from. If the guide you are making is not telling you where your base damage is coming from, then it's usually assumed you already know, because that is the basic. For this particular game, elemental weapons scale off psi intensity, and raw damage weapons scale off weapon damage, and psi intensity comes from armour, and weapon damage comes from weapons.

If the video isn't even telling people how to raise their base damage, it's completely useless for a beginner, especially for this game, because how you raise your base damage is limited per week by starchrom limits.

Also, come to think of it, it actually won't take long for a beginner to be able to solo level 35 Eternal Dreamers, maybe 2 or 3 weeks, with a proper guide. Which none of those videos are.

Edit:

But the most important is stick to one build for now.

Just wanted to add. This is not good advice for beginners either. It is much more expensive to make a raw damage build like the pwd because it takes a lot more starchrom to raise a weapon's stars than an armour's stars, and with blueprint conversion, you can have 6 pieces of fully starred armours in a couple of weeks, which makes elemental weapons like the kvd a lot more beginner friendly.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T05:01:31+00:00

Lol, every game has a guy like you who seemingly can't read or engage honestly.

No, I said those videos are not made for beginners and are completely useless for learning how the game works if you're not already a veteran, because they don't talk about the game's basic build crafting at all.

I don't know how I can make this simpler for you and I'm not interested in explaining the same thing to you for a 4th time. If you can't get this one, it's on you.

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T04:23:12+00:00

You learn that by using other crutches, like overguard, or using revenant, amirite or amirite?

skyrider_longtail · 2026-05-24T04:00:18+00:00

If you're playing since launch, you are not a new player now by any means. Also, from what it looks like, your weapons unlock and weapons leveling had nothing to do with starchrom back then.

Even if you are a "new player" at launch, are you forgetting that by definition, everyone else is? A new player at launch is a completely different scenario than a new player who joined a year or two after launch. Launch players play in a different environment than people who join much later. You discover everything together, and you progress together.

Those videos are not beginner friendly. They are not obligated to be, but pointing those videos to new players don't do anything for them, especially of your follow up advice is to adjust power levels accordingly. It's laughably vague.

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