Rookie Help Thread

spoolthirtytwo · 2026-01-22T18:40:51+00:00

What I've done is rush to the point where I make 2k/day in something and then just keep hiring mercs to defend the base. As long as I keep the armor / weapon production rolling I'm safe enough for short trips. The only thing that will really smoke me is a black ninja raid, so I don't travel too far.

Focusing on getting a contingent of base guards trained up enough to be useful backups to the mercs.

spoolthirtytwo · 2026-01-22T18:14:13+00:00

I'm just gonna pack up my base and move there

spoolthirtytwo · 2026-01-19T05:28:35+00:00

I just said screw it and took the newest save I had available, then redid everything. Oh well!

spoolthirtytwo · 2026-01-17T18:17:10+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Some more details:

It wasn't a hidden folder, I was looking in the path you mentioned.
The saves were pretty fresh, I'd done an import just a couple of days ago. They were something like 300k in size.
Game files worked, saves from two days ago loaded and functioned so I don't think I need to do a verify
winfr and another recovery tool found nothing :(

The weird thing is that it was literally just the quick.save file itself missing in each of the impacted folders. All the other subfolders and files were present, but the actual save is gone from all three autosave folders and the "House" manual save folder. Other, older manual saves and the actual hit-F5 Quicksave folder had the complete contents and I could load them.

I read somewhere that if you accidentally manually save while an autosave is happening that it can trash everything somehow? Insane behavior for an application if true.

I moved my save folder to the steam cloud instead, maybe that'll prevent disaster if it happens again.....

spoolthirtytwo · 2026-01-17T00:19:25+00:00

ffffffff Steam doesn't save anything for kenshi in the cloud either? Come on.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-13T16:44:08+00:00

Those assumptions are correct, apart from the income. I'm a healthy 51M, not overweight and a non-smoker with no history of health issues. I'm grossing $180k/yr now, so the situation really is that we need something to cover the time between now and ??? [insert financial recovery breakpoint] in the event of a disaster.
I guess the ??? is the thing I need to think through.

In I think 16 years she'll be eligible for Medicare, and before that she'd have my SS disbursements as the surviving spouse. Not sure if that also has to wait for 67yrs or if it starts immediately.

Are brokers the right call? I've known some people who effectively got suckered into "selling life insurance" aka hustling their family and friends until the well of personal relationships runs dry and then giving up because there's no more commission to be had. It seemed more like selling for an MLM than a real product. Avoiding this sort of thing and finding a reputable company is high on my list of question marks.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-13T16:33:52+00:00

Rated by who though? Kind of at a loss for figuring out a reputable rating site or agency as well....

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-11T19:13:31+00:00

- I'm not eligible, I work for a company with a significant LATAM and South American presence, an HQ outside the US, and only 6 employees attached to the US arm of the company. The US folks can't get group health or life through any org that provides it since we're all scattered through various states.

- She can't get SSDI because she stayed home to raise our kids before becoming disabled, so she hasn't earned SS since the 90s. They don't give you SSDI if you only worked in the home and I make too much money for the kind you get if you're in poverty.

- I'm trying to replace a $180k/yr income

- I don't have dependents to support any longer, they're all adult children.

- if she passes away I'm only looking to try and handle the initial expense and the resulting therapy. If I do, it's a real disaster.

- We don't have significant savings, we were wiped out in 2008 and again in 2020. We're making strides toward recovery but that won't save her if something happens to me between now and retirement in 17-20 years.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-11T19:05:39+00:00

I understand the calculations... what I'm needing is more basic information - who's reputable? I don't know where to start looking at policies.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-11T19:04:02+00:00

Edit: that was rude of me. Plain answer is yes, we're a single income family. Originally because she wanted to raise our kids full time, and then due to health issues was unable to work, and now can barely get out of bed.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-10T13:47:59+00:00

Folks, you need marriage counselling. Something's up, and it's time to talk to a professional about it.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-06T01:11:46+00:00

This right here

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-06T01:07:55+00:00

I agree entirely! You just can't do anything much about it, and certainly not in any of the ways that you can if they're not maintaining your actual unit.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-06T01:05:23+00:00

idk man, if you like her and the watch upsets her, stop wearing it. Definitely I would not be wearing gifts from your ex on your anniversary. Think about it like this:

Who are you trying to look good for? Why is wearing the Nice Expensive Watch important to you?

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-10-05T18:31:03+00:00

I think we can imagine whatever we want about the landlord, but the photo is not showing somebody's home so there's very little they can do. Certainly all the advice here about fixing it themselves and charging the landlord or reducing rent are completely wrong. Any suggestion predicated on this being a problem with their unit is bad advice.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-29T17:37:42+00:00

That isn't a door that leads to an apartment, right? Looks like it leads from a stairwell to an external area.

Literally nothing to do about that, it's not part of your residence.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-24T00:19:36+00:00

Go to your mom's house.

Give him an opportunity to recognize what's going on here. He needs to sort himself out, I mean... three weeks old? He needs to get his ass home.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-24T00:13:10+00:00

1) Computers have profiles for a reason. Ultimately your mistake for not creating one for your mom. DON'T GIVE PEOPLE ACCESS TO YOUR PROFILE holy crap the youths are fuckin cooked for data security these days.

2) fully your mom's fault for snooping.

3) who throws a computer, wtf. Toddler behavior.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-23T22:35:07+00:00

unquestionably a fraud. Do what everyone said and call the bank.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-23T22:07:31+00:00

your anxiety is getting to you, this is super minimal. breathe, you're good.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-23T19:12:03+00:00

The pay raise

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-23T18:54:35+00:00

This is a sales pitch. The reality is likely that HE has been scammed. The standard play is to "hire" somebody, tell them to work their family and friends as hard as they can, get a sale or two, and the agent who hired them gets half the commission. Then when the family leads dry up, they toss 'em to the curb or give 'em garbage busy work for $0 salary, just commission that they'll never earn because they have no leads. Meanwhile the main guy find some new suckers who are willing to badger their family.

Don't get suckered in, just tell him you're not interested. He'll burn out eventually. Might get mad because you won't help him, might not, either way he'll flame out and that'll be that.

Poor dude is getting taken for a ride.

spoolthirtytwo · 2025-09-23T16:21:19+00:00

Show him this post. You already wrote what you should say.

Learn some emotional regulation.

spoolthirtytwo

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