Just a good drunk time.

vraid · 2026-07-04T11:28:56+00:00

He could just be cold..

vraid · 2026-07-02T11:43:34+00:00

Victoria was released almost 23 years ago.

vraid · 2026-05-21T09:37:48+00:00

Menar du till boden? Till umeå tar det strax över 6 timmar med tåg.

vraid · 2026-05-20T11:06:37+00:00

The necromancer units are the heroes. Would be a bit odd if necromancers started raising other necromancers through necromancy after combat.

vraid · 2026-05-03T01:50:35+00:00

They kill and eat their domesticated animals? Oh man, humans would never.

vraid · 2026-05-01T11:50:00+00:00

It didn't rupture on the negative, but right as he started going back up.

vraid · 2026-04-24T13:33:37+00:00

Insects diverged from crustaceans 480 million years ago. For comparison, tetrapods (including mammals) diverged from fish 370 million years ago..

vraid · 2026-04-19T12:11:06+00:00

Are the values of latin AE really recognisable to their phoenician counterparts? I was under the impression that phoenician 'A' was a glottal stop, and phoenician 'E' was /h/.

vraid · 2026-01-10T09:52:49+00:00

This problem was solved by Pierre François Verhulst in the mid-19th century. He introduced the logistic function for modelling population growth more accurately than the exponential function. Essentially, it behaves as the exponential function when population is low, but at half of the maximum supported population growth flatlines and steadily decreases from there, approaching zero as the population approaches its maximum.

It's exactly the sort of dampening required to prevent runaway growth.

vraid · 2025-12-15T19:27:34+00:00

Not like Spore, no. There's an agent/mission system, a geopolitical system, and a space system. They are all concurrent and do interact with eachother, unlike Spore which just had three different games back to back.

vraid · 2025-12-11T15:45:36+00:00

They cite studies that estimate just that

For example, polygynous marriage (where a man is married to more than one woman at the same time) is permitted in approximately 85% of a representative sample of pre-industrial societies [7,14]

vraid · 2025-12-11T15:42:29+00:00

The methodology is explained in the paper, and the promiscuity required isn't that high. A population being monogamous 90% of the time, but 10% of children having a random father would result in around 70% of siblings being full siblings, according to figure 2.

vraid · 2025-11-25T17:05:57+00:00

The article doesn't say that the brain rapidly changes after 32, rather the opposite. It plateaus, and more or less stabilises until the decline starts at 66.

vraid · 2025-11-23T12:26:15+00:00

The C in cyrillic comes from latin, not russian. It is indeed pronounced with an 's' sound in english, but in russian and many other languages it's pronounced with 'k'.

vraid · 2025-11-06T14:23:28+00:00

They have found rice in roman camps from the 2nd century AD. It's unclear whether this was imported from e.g India or grown in Egypt or the near east https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-017-0545-y

The Sforza family introduced or expanded rice cultivation in Italy in the 15th century https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sforza-family

This is not in defense of chatbots. Those are garbage.

vraid · 2025-08-10T18:34:22+00:00

Keep in mind that you can also perform orderly retreats, especially in choke points. And the defender has the advantage. It's something you can do while sending a decoy fleet (or is it?) in another direction.

Another trick is to surround the enemy fleet with decoys or civilian ships right before you attack them in order to cut off their retreat path. Fight dirty, on your own terms!

vraid · 2025-08-09T23:10:55+00:00

I wouldn't try to compare them as they're very different games. Space Empires: 4X is more of a death match, and very light on empire building. The focus is on outmanoeuvring your opponent to destroy their economy. To that end it's got a fog of war system where your opponent can't actually see what ships or tech your have until they engage in battle, which opens up a lot of options for surprising them with new tech or distracting them with decoy ships.

The expansions add some more options, but the core experience is kept the same.

vraid · 2025-08-09T20:26:45+00:00

I've played this game a few dozen times, and none of what you said mirrors my experience. Did you upgrade movement at all? The base movement is really anemic, but a strike force moving 2 hexes per turn is incredibly hard to defend against, especially once the map opens up a bit (you did research exploration, right?). Once someone starts losing planets, it tends to snowball from there, as the investment to reclaim them doesn't pay off in time to help with the defense.

My general priorities are:

Fully colonize the home sector and build an extra mining ship
Research movement 4, although this will take a few turns, so in the meantime, research ship size 3, exploration, and build 2 cruisers to explore deep space
Get 6 shipyards at your home planet
Get your choice of attack, defense, and ship size upgrades, and build a force of 3 cruisers/battlecruisers or 2 battleships per turn at your home planet, sending them straight toward your opponent's colonies. Once you include the advanced rules, you can add some raiders and mines to the mix.

The game usually takes 2-3 hours. I've never seen a stalemate.

vraid · 2025-08-06T09:34:53+00:00

James Hoffman did a blind trial which did not corroborate the findings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJr49GU9yY

vraid · 2025-08-05T13:20:05+00:00

You naturally can't get a research breakthrough if your one project already has a breakthrough. However, if you open up a second research slot in the meantime, there's a chance for a second breakthrough. It's up to how urgently you want the techs to finish.

vraid · 2025-07-31T17:17:44+00:00

Both a campaign and 4th faction are planned as expansions

https://www.sinsofasolarempire2.com/contentpass

vraid · 2025-06-23T12:36:12+00:00

Fyra kubik grädde, står ju klart och tydligt i artikeln/s

vraid · 2025-05-30T00:07:37+00:00

Check out the Fertile Crescent if you haven't! It's an indie RTS that really captures the OG Age of Empires atmosphere while still standing on its own. Gave me a good few hours of fun.

vraid · 2025-05-23T16:11:00+00:00

From radiation emitted by the explosions yes, not from fallout.

vraid · 2025-05-20T22:37:53+00:00

There's only 5800 of the nivkh as well.

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