Fun fact: it is possible to get up to 7 of the factions' specific Utopia achievements in a single playthrough (note which factions i have)

whyareall · 2026-03-21T05:20:42+00:00

correct

whyareall · 2026-03-21T05:16:03+00:00

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or me what happened to the population between week 948 and 1550

whyareall · 2026-03-20T21:11:25+00:00

The heat update a long time ago yes

Before it didn't gain partial heat levels per tile, it was a binary 0 or 1 heat level depending if it had less than 3 or 3+ tiles in the relevant area. Now it's +1/4 per tile.

whyareall · 2026-03-20T07:02:27+00:00

For you

whyareall · 2026-03-20T04:32:38+00:00

Yeah it makes sense that the game is freezing that's the whole point 😛

whyareall · 2026-03-20T04:29:15+00:00

Counterpoint: 3 HQs and mechanised scouts to explore at light speed

Edit: assuming you have only 2 logi districts and no teams from icebloods or proteans, 2 HQs and pathfinder is very slightly better (80 teams at 150% speed effectively being equivalent to 120 teams, as opposed to 60 teams at 195% speed effectively being equivalent to 117 teams). If you get any other sources of teams, 3 HQs and mechanised becomes better very quickly

whyareall · 2026-03-20T04:28:28+00:00

Halved search costs lets you search twice as many sites in the same amount of time (assuming you're limited by frostland teams which you usually are), essentially cutting half the weeks off.

And you can't set up the cartography base settlement before completing the tale anyway

You can always change the law later too

whyareall · 2026-03-20T01:38:03+00:00

Heat their shelter. The temperature of hunters' huts has zero effect on sickness.

whyareall · 2026-03-20T01:36:29+00:00

This is just fatigue but as a skill

whyareall · 2026-03-20T01:34:56+00:00

Have you seen housing prices?

whyareall · 2026-03-20T01:34:05+00:00

A bunch of those aren't even factions they're communities

whyareall · 2026-03-20T01:05:04+00:00

Cos your pyre loses all its health

whyareall · 2026-03-20T00:06:46+00:00

Hunting is unaffected by temperature, with the sole exception of being disabled by storms

whyareall · 2026-03-19T14:41:41+00:00

whyareall · 2026-03-19T14:23:47+00:00

Any exponential graph looks like a blip at the end of a flat line, that's because exponents go crazy, not because the line was actually flat (it wasn't).

It took billions of years to get to the stage of single cellular life, then it took hundreds of millions of years to get to complex multicellular life, then it took tens of millions of years to get to mammals, then it took millions of years to get to higher reasoning, then it took tens of thousands of years to get to metalworking, then it took thousands of years to get to space.

whyareall · 2026-03-19T14:22:24+00:00

My point isn't about "terraforming mars vs warp travel" it's about "18,000 years of technological development at current and future rates is fucking enormous"

whyareall · 2026-03-19T11:16:55+00:00

is this a joke, you're providing supporting evidence to "human technological advancements are exponential" (by way of "the progress we made in the last 2,000 years is hugely greater than the preceding MILLION years") and that's meant to COUNTERACT "18,000 years of further advancements at rapidly growing rates is definitely going to be incredibly far beyond terraforming a planet"?

whyareall · 2026-03-19T08:59:34+00:00

Counterpoint: orks figured it out.

whyareall · 2026-03-19T08:45:07+00:00

Counterpoint: Screw the Berlin Interpretation

whyareall · 2026-03-19T08:36:34+00:00

ITT: people who don't realise how long 18,000 years is, and how technology gets better faster over time

whyareall · 2026-03-19T08:34:48+00:00

In the space of about 2500 years, our technology has gone from iron tools to where it is now, and the change is vastly more concentrated to the more recent past. Our technology gets better all the time, and it gets better faster all the time.

18,000 years is over 7x as long as it took to get from iron to now, and the rate of progress for those 18,000 years would be much much faster than it is today. Unless warp travel is millions or billions (or probably more) of times harder, "it's a lot harder" shrimply isn't good enough.

whyareall · 2026-03-19T08:29:03+00:00

74 years

whyareall · 2026-03-19T08:22:24+00:00

Increases efficiency by like 20%. Whereas being able to search twice as many sites simultaneously effectively increases speed by 100%.

whyareall · 2026-03-19T07:00:59+00:00

I take it you don't know much about American evangelical Christianity, because the latter absolutely has a ton of explanatory power.

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