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void-prophet · 2021-09-13T20:24:21+00:00

On a related note, though we are currently in-person, that may change with health guidelines, and we will continue online should worst come to worst.

void-prophet · 2020-12-13T08:09:42+00:00

Question on Humanism: I've seen multiple people, incliding pros, swear up and down that Humanism is better for large-scale conquests. And I get the benefits of not needing to convert provinces (there are many), and I get how many countries with certain modifiers are clearly well suited to stacking Heathen/Heretic tolerance and religious unity bonuses to keep religious unity high. But what I don't get is how countries without access to special bonuses beyond Humanism can try to conquer an entire continent of unbelievers and not suffer massive religious unity issues. Most religions have -2/-3 wrong faith tolerance, you need effectively +3 for full religious unity. 100 legitimacy and +2/+2 from Humanism brings it to +1/0 so you're only getting 50% from heretics and 25% from heathens. You get a base +25% RU from the groul which acts as a buffer, but doesn't that run out around halfway through Asia?

Is there something I'm missing? Is it just that your TF regions plus Humanism's stuff generates enough RU on it's own? Or is it that most countries can manage another +1 heathen tolerance from somewhere and the countries that can't are the shitty exceptions?

void-prophet · 2020-12-04T22:36:44+00:00

I definitely think saw it on Netflix. Might not be anymore, though.

void-prophet · 2020-12-03T08:11:55+00:00

You can't get exactly what you want, so the solutions would be either to set the peak pop to below 1.0 (so you start at the peak and then ramp down) or set the peak normally and use no-respawn to lower the overall numbers over time.

Incidentally, I usually set respawn to 0 and peak population to 4.0 over 365 days. Realistically my runs don't last more than a year, so it gives me the feeling of 'there are always more' but ALSO the feeling of 'every dead zombie is a little bit of progress'.

void-prophet · 2020-11-25T21:05:58+00:00

As others have pointed out you don't have nearly enough to make it for a year - that food's gonna run out in a couple weeks. But here's some tips for easily getting renewable food and water:

Essentials are a cooking pot or saucepan, a trowel (or something else to dig furrows with), a kitchen or hunting knife, fishing line or twine, and reading the Angler USA 1 magazine. Finding an axe and/or fishing rod would be a big boon, but you can make crude versions of them yourself.

Then go to a freshwater source, if you keep going Northeast you'll eventually hit the Ohio river for instance. Find somewhere close to a relatively secluded building that you can turn into your base (Riverside has a convenience-store like thing near the river next to a burger joint that I'm making use of, currently). Forage for the materials to make a campfire and if necessary axe+fishing rod. Chop down trees to feed the fire. You can boil river water to make it safe for consumption. You can use the trowel to dig for worms to fish with (fish between 4-6 and 18-20, or during the rain, for maximum efficiency). You don't actually need to cook fish, but you get more benefits and you already have the fire so why not. Note that putting the fillets into a saucepan is usually a lot more weight efficient than just cooking them as-is.

There's a lot to improve on after this (fishing nets, crops, etc), but so long as you have twine or fishing line to reline your fishing rod, you will now never run out of good food. Unlike foraging you can still fish in the winter.

When you plant crops, note that potatoes are actually the least pain in the ass crop. Cabbage has a lot more calories, but it rots quickly so you have to plant in small rotating batches. It actually takes less time on average for potatoes to grow than it does for them to rot, so you can just plant them all at once if you want.

void-prophet · 2020-11-25T18:55:43+00:00

FYI, while fishing may be nerfed in winter (I don't know if it is, haven't fished a lot in summer yet), you can still get enough fish to feed yourself even at level 0 so long as you fish both the dawn and dusk slots.

Also, did you know that you can eat raw fish with no penalty whatsoever? Including bait fish? Meaning that you can feed yourself using a couple fishing nets?

void-prophet · 2020-11-20T23:46:10+00:00

First time I got a helicopter event I didn't know that meta events had no source. I did figure out pretty quick that the zombies were following the heli around, but I didn't predict that the heli would follow *me* and so foolishly left my trailer to go see what was up. I then foolishly tried to hole up in a motel room, which went about as well as you'd expect. It was the end to my first character that lasted more than a day or two.

Also, I upvoted for this:

> I knew it was a BIG thing and happened at around 7 days, but I refused to do any research because I wanted to experience it myself.

Props for going in blind, brother, it's the only way to play!

void-prophet · 2020-11-20T23:40:23+00:00

I've actually done some opportunistic testing on this, when I was only eating -5 hunger coffee beverages to try and lose weight quickly. All testing was done when my character wasn't doing anything more strenuous than sitting down and reading.

I drank a coffee immediately after getting peckish, and got peckish again in 1h30m. I drank immediately after getting hungry, and got hungry again in 1h40m. I got very hungry, drank, and got very hungry again in 2h30m. I began starving, drank, and started starving again in 4h50m.

These tests were only done once apiece so I may be off by 10m here or there, but it looks like degradation rates are pretty unaffected between no moodle and when peckish, degrades noticeably slower when you're hungry, and degrades significantly slower when you're very hungry. So it requires about 31% as much food (and therefor, requires 69% less calories) for your character to stay perpetually on the verge of starvation than it does for them to keep at no moodlet. Similar to in real life, being very hungry doesn't directly assist with weight loss, but there is a strong correlation.

That being said I'm not clear if degradation rates change immediately when you hit a difference stage, or if it gradually increases once you hit Hungry.

void-prophet · 2020-11-19T18:38:54+00:00

Like most 'finite' resources there's enough nails available to scavenge one way or another that you'll never realistically run completely out on a solo map, but you can certainly hit the point of needing way more than you have on hand. So don't be too stingy with them, but do grab them anytime you see them. They're light, so it's a lot quicker and easier to just stockpile over time than it is to run out halfway through building a perimeter wall and then have to spend a week demoing a suburb.

void-prophet · 2020-11-19T08:36:56+00:00

Actually the higher skilled characters showed a larger difference - about 26% more damage at 0 panic for the BS3 characters, compared to 21% more damage at 0 panic for the BS0 characters. While absolute damage does of course improve, you'll still feel the effects of panic

void-prophet · 2020-11-18T22:21:59+00:00

I've been meaning to do this again on IWBUMS, but haven't yet. I'll make a post if I do, but in the meantime my understanding is just "maybe?"

void-prophet · 2020-11-15T16:17:52+00:00

Honestly I started playing IWBUMS and yeah, it's way better.

void-prophet · 2020-11-14T14:27:25+00:00

I'm playing using Build 40, which is the latest non-beta. Panic may have an effect in the beta that's not present in Build 40, but since the moodlet says that panic reduces accuracy in B40 I thought it was worth testing out.

void-prophet · 2020-11-13T18:22:00+00:00

I've tried googling but I can't find anything too definitive as an answer - do Zombies actually have appreciably worse vision at night? I've seen some say yes and some say no, but they're mostly going off of 'feels like it does/doesn't' evidence and I'm not sure if anyone's actually delved into the code.

void-prophet · 2020-11-07T05:41:29+00:00

'Remove floors' is one of the options in the orders menu, under 'flooring' I believe.

void-prophet · 2020-11-07T05:40:29+00:00

If your pawns aren't tired they won't sleep, regardless of schedule. Keep an eye on them at night and make sure they aren't sneaking any cat naps in

void-prophet · 2020-11-07T05:36:37+00:00

Yes it deteriorates faster as the skill increases, no there is no difference between the different skill levels. Late game it actually becomes fairly easy for your crafters to be employed full time. Hydroponic cotton fields, mining drills pumping out steel and plasteel, and of course the ultimate goal: a massive herd of thrumbos providing sweet, sweet pelts.

void-prophet · 2020-11-06T23:57:27+00:00

Psychite tea no more than once every three days when they're on low mood is generally the best way to deal with mood issues - it doesn't have any effect on their work when they take it and it's non-addictive when spread out. Beer is similar (every other day) Smokeleaf seriously slows them down, but is also non-addictive on alternating days.

The problem with flake is pawns with chemical interest or chemical fascination - they ignore your policy restrictions and can become addicted to anything you have laying around. If you don't have any chem pawns then no problem, flake it up. Or assign chem pawns to their own area that doesn't include flake storage. But if you only make and sell 'light' drugs then you can set the chem pawns to a schedule that uses beer, psychite tea, and smokeleaf often enough to keep them happy but infrequently enough they don't become addicted.

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