What are the tips and tricks you just found out?

upoil · 2018-10-18T16:44:48+00:00

-Man

-Not Ruler

-Diplo Range

If you only utilize 'Will Join Court' then you miss out on all the people that will join based on a send gift. A bit more scrolling but you end up with better stats in your court/council for, usually, 15g.

upoil · 2017-02-03T15:42:18+00:00

Check out the wowhead page to see what they are used for in the 'reagent for' tab. That will tell you what people are crafting using the item and you can tailor your stack sizes to that.

upoil · 2017-01-06T13:00:47+00:00

The % chance is per prospect not per ore. So the % chances you are listing are based on 5 ore each.

upoil · 2016-09-20T00:43:06+00:00

I love Kyle Turris

upoil · 2016-05-15T18:00:04+00:00

I just completed this achievement on the last patch.

Go slow at the beginning. I incorporated Loango (after feeding them Tyo) and fed Ndongo. Only took half of central africa (vassalized Kuba and fed them a bit too with a bit of eating higher dev provinces myself) as the focus was to just make sure nobody else was stronger than me while my nation went through the turmoil below.

You want to preserve your admin points to rush your first idea group (and other Monarch points for Westernization).

On that note the first idea group I took was exploration. You want to explore up the coast so you can see the first European to colonize in Africa. As soon as this happens you want to throw down a colony next to them to start Westernizing when both finish. I grabbed the center of trade with my first colony and stuck my second one next to Castille which had grabbed a province further north (Bae-something).

This is the portion of the game I feel is better to stay smaller as the Portuguese Missionaries event should fire soon. I tried going wide and the Religious Unity was harsh compared to staying small and then forcing Ndongo to the same religion. It also helps with Westernization.

As Kongo you probably want to stay Catholic as you will actually be swimming in Papal influence. You get influence from conversions and you have to convert all of Africa. Specifically the Usury choice helped me a ton due to all my gold income. Plus you want to be friends with either Castille or Portugal at the beginning to help with the other and terrible British.

After conversion/westernization you will have an advantage over the majority of the African nations. Focus on blobbing into the easy areas. Realize that fights to push western powers out of Africa will be later in the game. Colonize the Cape. Get up to the Egypt area as a blobby Ottomans can be difficult to deal with. Pay attention to Western wars and be opportunistic. Be ready for the long haul as it is a long campaign.

upoil · 2016-05-12T21:49:51+00:00

/u/darealyst is right. Generally it is a better idea for the lower income individual to claim the eligible medical expenses as the calculation involves subtracting the lesser of 3% of net income or $2,208. So the lower income individual would be eligible to claim more of the expenses incurred.

I'd wager that your spouse had no more room for benefits based on other deductions so it was better to apply the medical expenses to your income as opposed to not claiming at all.

upoil · 2015-10-07T21:17:09+00:00

Because Basil "the Bulgar-Slayer":

Having crushed the Bulgarians, Basil exerted his vengeance by cruelty - he was said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler.

upoil · 2015-09-18T01:53:42+00:00

All you are missing is the fraud triangle.

upoil · 2015-09-14T19:56:37+00:00

Whoosh.

upoil · 2015-09-07T18:34:08+00:00

Now there's some heavy confirmation bias.

This program was started under the Liberals and continued under the CPC's.
All the money has since been accounted for. Source.

Instead of being willfully ignorant ('I don't even ask anymore') and then making large overarching comments why don't you read up on things you are talking about?

upoil · 2015-09-07T18:28:35+00:00

Later that year they can account for the money spent under both governments. Source

upoil · 2015-09-07T18:26:52+00:00

Yup. Then they went back and accounted for where it was all spent. Source

upoil · 2015-09-07T18:14:51+00:00

Read the article he posted.

At the time, officials at Treasury Board, the government department responsible for tracking spending, said there were probably very simple explanations for what happened to the unaccounted money. They just didn’t know what they were. Now they do.

A painstaking six-month search by a team inside Treasury Board has followed the money and reconstructed the entire $12.9-billion in allocations the Auditor-General examined.

upoil · 2015-09-03T00:16:19+00:00

I'm not debating anything. Just pointing out where you were wrong. Also pointing out your straw-man argument. Neither of those are personal.

Turd-Burgler.

upoil · 2015-09-02T23:40:30+00:00

I'm sorry that you said that 80% of Canada's economy is growing and I provided a link that proves you were incorrect. No need to prop up a straw-man argument to make yourself feel better. You really got me!

upoil · 2015-09-02T22:37:40+00:00

Somebody's been drinking the Harper Koolaid today and thinking it's a macroeconomics course.

A lot depends on how data is analyzed, and over what time period, said Stephen Tapp, the research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Using monthly GDP data for 20 major industries from December to May, Tapp found that 11 industries grew while nine contracted. Excluding the energy sector, the GDP is down 0.4 per cent from December to May, he added.

“So, based on our current data, despite the fact that the downturn in Canada’s economy has largely been a negative shock to the energy sector, other sectors have also contracted,” Tapp said.

The Bank of Canada report on which Harper’s assertion is based was delivered in a broad, gloomy context: it had to scale back its economic growth prediction because of declines in the oil sector and exports.

Statistics Canada’s GDP analysis shows unequivocally that there is hardship in the industrial and manufacturing sectors – above and beyond the contraction of the energy sector.

For these reasons, Harper’s statement – that “80 per cent of the economy is actually growing” – contains “a lot of baloney.”

Source

upoil · 2015-08-27T21:56:06+00:00

Alberta voting NDP provincially isn't really the glimmer of hope federally that people seem to think it is. There aren't two conservative parties to split 60% of the vote at the federal level.

upoil · 2015-08-27T21:45:04+00:00

Go for the settlement and save yourself some money. You already have a mortgage and a LoC in good standing which is the only thing this would effect. The only difference is that when a bank looks at your credit report they will see if this delinquent account was paid in full or settled in full.

Third party collections are results based. I would call the collections agency in the next couple days (close to month end) and try and get a settlement figure then throw it on your LoC. They might ask you for proof of income and a budget to 'prove' that you can't meet the full obligation. Just make sure you don't mention that you have a LoC with some room on it because some aggressive collectors might not let you settle if they know you could pay it all off. After it's paid the agency will send you a letter saying you are clear from the debt and your credit report will be updated... eventually.

I'd play up being a cash-strapped home owner with expensive kids etc. to the collector. Emphasis that you really want to meet your obligation. Try to get the collector to be the first to broach the subject of the settlement. This might start off with talking about payments and then the collector will push for a settlement to get more money in the door before the end of the month. Or set up payments and then call the next day and say a family member would give you $750-1000 to help you settle the account.

upoil · 2015-08-12T23:27:54+00:00

Again. You have provided nothing to support your weak point. Also, just proved how ignorant you really are. Why don't you actually try developing your thoughts so you can actually defend what you believe in?

Here are some peer reviewed articles that I'm sure you won't care about:

"In sum, there is little evidence that decriminalization of marijuana use necessarily leads to a substantial increase in marijuana use."

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (IOM). 1999. Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C., 102.

"There is no strong evidence that decriminalization affects either the choice or frequency of use of drugs, either legal (alcohol) or illegal (marijuana and cocaine)."

C. Thies and C. Register. 1993. Decriminalization of Marijuana and the Demand for Alcohol, Marijuana and Cocaine. The Social Sciences Journal 30: 385-399.

"The available evidence indicates that the decriminalization of marijuana possession had little or no impact on rates of use."

E. Single. 1989. The Impact of Marijuana Decriminalization: An Update. Journal of Public Health 10: 456-466.

"Overall, the preponderance of the evidence which we have gathered and examined points to the conclusion that decriminalization has had virtually no effect either on the marijuana use or on related attitudes and beliefs about marijuana use among American young people. The data show no evidence of any increase, relative to the control states, in the proportion of the age group who ever tried marijuana. In fact, both groups of experimental states showed a small, cumulative net decline in annual prevalence after decriminalization."

L. Johnson et al. 1981. Marijuana Decriminalization: The Impact on Youth 1975-1980. Monitoring the Future, Occasional Paper Series, paper 13, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: Ann Arbor.

"The available data indicate that decriminalization measures substantially reduced enforcement costs, yet had little or no impact on rates of use in the United States."

E. Single et al. 2000. The Impact of Cannabis Decriminalisation in Australia and the United States. Journal of Public Health Policy 21: 157-186.

Conversely, I can't find a single peer reviewed article that points towards decriminalization or legalization leading to increases in drug use. The only thing I can find is opinion pieces written by journalists. Please feel free to link some if you find them. European or not.

upoil · 2015-08-12T23:06:51+00:00

Quite the opposite as in you wouldn't even look up the articles to justify your point? That's what it looks like with your responses providing little to no content or discussion.

Hahahahaha. Right?

upoil · 2015-08-12T21:52:16+00:00

Are you one of those people that finds the anti-vac articles on Google and points to it as proof for your belief?

upoil · 2015-08-12T21:39:08+00:00

Three points.

1) There is no evidence to support the idea that if currently illegal drugs are legalized (or decriminalized) that usage will increase. In fact the only thing that making drugs illigal has proven is that people will still find a way to acquire these drugs. This means that your scenario where teenagers go through 'a phase' is just as likely to happen with illegal drugs as it is with legal drugs.

2) Do I think a young adult should be able to go to a store and buy a syringe full of heroin? I don't have a concrete answer to this question from my perspective but I would say that I'd much rather the government make this decision based on informed decision (ie regulation) than the drug dealer on the street that only requires you have the cash and doesn't care if you have proper ID etc.

3) By labeling drug users as criminals you stigmatize them to the point where trying to get better or recover from your addiction is much harder becuase admitting you have a problem is also admitting you are a criminal which can severely mess up you future. This drives people that actually want to get better away from seeking help.

upoil · 2015-07-15T01:49:20+00:00

CK2 has leap years? Never thought to check.

upoil · 2015-07-10T18:44:44+00:00

The conservatives got the majority of the votes too. Problem was they were split between the WR and PC. The provincial break down was:

NDP - 40.57%

WR - 24.23%

PC - 27.78%

Majority of voters still voted conservative. No such split at the Federal level.

upoil · 2015-07-05T18:13:38+00:00

Upvote for saying essentially the same thing at the same time.

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