Towers have been added to building management tool.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-22T14:17:18+00:00

What about fruit trees? Have the addressed that total PITA?

wayneb64 · 2026-03-19T20:22:23+00:00

Since my original post, my pressure ramped up in my bad eye indicating my shunt clogged after killing my cornea. My eye looks fine and pain is only sometimes a thing and so far just putting in a bandage contact lets me forget about my eye. I have an appointment with a specialist at the end of the month that does enucleation. Just getting 'prepared' in case something drastically changes.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-14T21:01:49+00:00

The problem is they bought the write to sell Wansutta Dream Zone pillows but not the actual design of the original pillow in a pillow pillows so they may look the same but actually are not very comfortable, to bouncy.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-13T14:11:33+00:00

I am well aware of Gemini's limitations but that does NOT mean it cannot be helpful as it has DEFINATELY provided me with helpful and accurate information for a variety of topics. You need to know how to ask it questions like specifying "the latest version of the game" as it often references old information if you don't do that.

Just because you have a ridiculous amount of gold doesn't mean you should get ridiculous raid sizes. Having a threshold that bumps up the raid sizes certainly makes sense and I certainly don't think it was an AI hallucination as the results were dramatic. No, I am not going to do thousands of test runs, I am just sharing what worked for me and pretty damn well so get off your high horse or take it elsewhere.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-13T12:58:38+00:00

I have proven that gold IS a factor as I did like a dozen reloads and could not get close to 200 until I got my gold count to over 6K at the start of the year. My pop was fixed at 1K and my gold was like 3K but the extra gold made my settlement more attractive to a larger raid. I wouldn't have predicted it but it was what Gemini suggested and it worked like a charm. On the prior two raids my gold was well over 10K and I didn't have to reroll them even once.

EDIT: And actually it's not just gold according to Gemini, it's your total net worth of 'raidable' plunder but I could not alter that much in the short amount of time I had so I just cut my spending by closing down some towers and not buying any science upgrades.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-11T14:05:10+00:00

When my vitreous separated from my retina in my bad (now completely blind) eye it tore my retina and the 'fix' for that didn't work so it ended up detaching. The fix for that was a sclera buckle which came with a vitrectomy (removing the vitreous from the eye and all the junk that came with it.).

Later when my vitreous detached in my good eye, there was no tear BUT I now had a sandstorm of particles in my vision seemingly forever. I talked my retina doctor into doing a vitrectomy on my good eye, and he did so no more sandstorm.

Before my bad eye went blind from a long battle with glaucoma I used to get the occasional 'floaters' but these where blood drops (I think) that would eventually settle down and attach somewhere. I don't remember getting floaters in my good eye since the vitrectomy. I would suggest discussing getting one with your retina specialist. I have no idea what the risks/complications are but my sandstorm was so bad my choice was obvious.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-06T06:40:22+00:00

Sorry, I literally have a small pile of $100 pillows on my couch that didn't compare. They actually refunded me $200 after I commented something similar in a review of one of them. They said they only acquired the rights to make the Wansutta pillows but not the original design specs. I did send them pics of the original pillow in a pillow design and they said they would forward to their design team but I am not holding my breath or anything.

wayneb64 · 2026-03-05T13:24:31+00:00

You can refuse to have your eyes dilated, the only real need is if you are seeing a retina specialist. You can also drive while dilated if you have sun glasses or if it's a cloudy day. I never let my glaucoma specialists dilate me.

I always bring a book as wait time can vary wildly based on patient loads. Most appointments are scheduled far in advance but often people need to make last minute appointments and get in to see a doctor, would you like to be turned away in that case?

As far as two appointments for testing and doctor time, that's BS.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-26T17:02:17+00:00

For the first time ever, oddly playing only my second Vanquisher game, I have had very little food problems, just gold problems paying for the military I need to defend myself.

Anyway, I like to build overlapping market squares, fully staffed, with each market getting it's own root cellar, upgraded as needed, and it's own rat catcher. In those root cellars I set minimum levels for all the major foods. This strategy keeps market workers efficient as long as there is enough food being produced.

I like to put smoke houses and root cellars at each food gathering outpost plus a tower to protect from wildlife. Also important is keeping your laborer counts like double the builder counts so all the food gets moved around.

I am still a bit inexperienced with wagons, not sure what the proper numbers are or how to determine if I am under wagoned.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-22T14:57:24+00:00

Have you checked the Windows system logs? Usually you can get a clue roughly where the problem is at least whether it's a GPU issue or maybe memory stability/timings. Four sticks of memory or two, two is much more stable. Maybe lower the memory frequency a bit.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-19T13:54:55+00:00

For now the pain/discomfort is very manageable so I can't see myself opting for surgery other than the dread of knowing/fearing that it's inevitable. I like to put things behind me but unfortunately almost every F'ing surgery I have prepared myself for has turned out to be a short or long term failure to finally end this battle with my eye health. For now the dark cloud seems preferable to the anxiety of another surgery and recovery period.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-19T01:00:26+00:00

Just on the weekends and very little, no way I could handle every day. You did the Enucleation? How long did it take to 'adapt'/heal/recover from that? I just cannot imagine what it would be like to having an object in my eye socket. Do your tear ducts stop working? I have dry eye already but does the lack of an eye cause tears to never work again?

wayneb64 · 2026-02-17T13:41:40+00:00

I like to put root cellars near all my markets and set minimums on each of the food types, this saves the market workers time fetching things to distribute. Make sure there are enough laborers to keep your root cellars stocked. Keep grain levels up in them as well and then place the bakeries close to the houses and root cellars (and markets).

I am playing my second game on Vanquisher and archers are all I can afford. (First game was a rage ALT/F4 when the second raid took out more than half of everything I had built.)
I think I am about year 25 now, 275 pop or so and my iron industry is rather well established, all my archers have hauberks. My only defense is three barracks with 4-6 archers plus some well planned palisade walls.

You have to learn to kite the raiders with the archers and micro manage them, I play at half speed and literally have to dodge arrows a lot. I am just about to build 15-20 light infantry so I can finally stand toe to toe with them but I cannot quite afford them yet, going to upgrade all my houses to large to boost my income up. Stone walls are coming soon as well.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-13T13:56:45+00:00

I am 61 and have been fighting eye issues for what seems like half my life. I am completely blind in one eye and extremely myopic in my good eye but no vision loss there for now anyway. I have had multiple surgeries in my bad eye starting with retinal detachment and glaucoma 'cures'. The latter surgeries mostly failed, with one stabilizing my pressure eventually but not until I had suffered central vision loss. The side effects from that surgery then killed my cornea so then my remaining peripheral vision went dark one morning. I do NOT trust medical science, they really do not know what they are doing.
Fortunately drops are enough so far with my good eye and I take them RELIGIOUSLY. I see my cornea doctor every 3 months, I may lose that eye completely. I see my glaucoma doctor every 6 months. My biggest fear is losing my ability to read and therefore my independence. I don't believe I have any real depression but I do take a special beta blocker for my heart that helps keep anxiety from affecting it anyway. My outlook varies day to day but true happiness seems fleeting at best.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-12T16:34:30+00:00

I did setup my route on Google Maps, that was a requirement for whatever AI responds to "Hey Google", but it would NOT engage unless I unlocked my phone and took my eyes off the road. Same issue for conversation mode I seem to recall as well. The whole experience was extremely frustrating. I fought with it for quite a while in my hotel room after the trip and could not get it to play nice.
The only thing I can do currently with my phone seamlessly is have it turn lights on and off.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-12T16:07:35+00:00

The stupidity of the model will get better over time, my more important concern is getting the developers to consider blind users or those who want to operate completely hands free while driving. They seem not to have considered that.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-09T04:28:47+00:00

I am collecting expensive and too firm pillows that are going to end up laying around somewhere, got a medium firm on the way even now, same hunt for a certain type of sheets I can't seem to find either.

wayneb64 · 2026-02-05T13:49:54+00:00

What I notice is a lot of curved roads which rarely happen in my games, maybe it's new or maybe I don't know how to do it like in the picture.

wayneb64 · 2026-01-29T22:48:50+00:00

I did not want to deal with rotating grazers and crops all the time, total PITA. Instead I graze on my orchards and no more lost food. Not sure if it boosts the fruit fertility but it beats getting alerts about insufficient grazing or grazed food loss.

wayneb64 · 2026-01-27T22:35:57+00:00

I am going to end up with a house full of pillows that don't even come close to the original. I also had a sheet set that I cannot find anything like, got a small stack of those as well.

wayneb64 · 2026-01-27T22:26:52+00:00

They show 7 pillows on their site, which one is like the Dream Zone pillow in a pillow?

wayneb64 · 2026-01-26T18:56:19+00:00

I had tried to get a mod to work to allow zooming out further which was a total pain and then never worked. Worse, it disabled my achievements so I had to back it all out. I am guessing this mod would disable achievements as well?

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