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  1. Tuco

    LitRPG

    I went with system change. Fun so far. Different start for litrpg than I've seen. What's funny is I'm enjoying the verrrry start of the ability bloat that got so tiresome in defiance of the fall. Im a sucker for this garbage.
  2. Tuco

    LitRPG

    Now i have to decide what to read next. Options on the table: Finishing book 1 of azerinth healer Read the last few books of the ritualist Path of ascension The Land Reborn apocalypse System Change Any other recommendations along the same lines are welcome.
  3. Tuco

    LitRPG

    Just finished DotF12. I hope the author moves on from the ridiculous cultivation word salads, but i also don't know how you can really keep a litrpg / cultivation book going on for so long without it getting repetitive, bland or losing the progression. This book was more extreme in this then...
  4. Tuco

    EQ TLP - 2024 Name TBD (Free trade selos speed PvP server)

    My favorite overdoing, stupid, implausible server idea. I'd love to see an mmo that embraced the guide type system of player run events based on server politics with some kind of (probably doomed) system from a mega guild taking control and turning the benefits into DKP expenditures. "Confirmed...
  5. Tuco

    Factorio

    Peak vanilla factorio After playing space exploration with wide area beacons, the aesthetics of efficient beacons looks terrible to me.
  6. Tuco

    Factorio

    another planet down... and my beam emitters in orbit around the planet near the star
  7. Tuco

    3 Body Problem

    I read the first book a few months ago. What parts of the book(s) does season 1 of the show cover? I'm not sure if I want to be spoiled on it or not. Not sure if I'll read the next books.
  8. Tuco

    Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Games

    Wouldn't be surprised if Larian published this as a way to influence negotiations on future DLC / game for WOTC and how much the IP royalty payout is. The creation of a campaign builder + Dungeon Master game in the DnD universe (basically another try at Neverwinter Nights) could be a huge cash...
  9. Tuco

    Factorio

    Yes I use the same blocks in space. There's a built in tool in the SE mod to convert between space/surface trains which makes it easier. A key limitation in space is that you start with space belts that as fast as blue belts but have short underground lengths, so some of my very compact train...
  10. Tuco

    Factorio

    For block size I've been extremely happy with what I chose, which is uhm, 32 * 5? It matches the grids in Factorio which I usually have turned on for placement and pollution reasons. You can see a full block below and a quarter block factory. I like this size because I can make a quadrant...
  11. Tuco

    Factorio

    I dunno. I use LTN and I started with 1-1 (one locomotive, one cargo) trains and 1-4-1 (1 loco, 4 cargo, 1 loco). I used the 1-4-1 cargo for higher throughput (mining, iron plates, core fragments etc) and then 1-1 for everything else. This worked well until my systems got more complex and...
  12. Tuco

    Factorio

    2 moons down, a couple planets and some moons to go
  13. Tuco

    Factorio

    I turned on Scan Surface for a looong time on my waterless planet and found 3 million Water Ice.... 6253 space transport and space platform later, I now have my longest belt. I'm kind curious how much water ice it'll take for 7,000 belts/space platform to be less expensive. Not a trivial...
  14. Tuco

    Factorio

    The spaghetti never ends. The efficiency of my relatively organized city blocks is massively increased by a few strands of spaghetti between the blocks. A single belt between two nearby blocks will save a huge number of train transfers, when scaled up to all my city blocks that's a significant...
  15. Tuco

    Factorio

    If I play SE again (in like, 5 years at least) I probably won't include K2. Not because I don't enjoy it, but because I'd want to do things differently than I have already. Whether I'd recommend it I guess comes down to how many levels of progress a player wants, and how much they want to make...
  16. Tuco

    EQ TLP - 2024 Name TBD (Free trade selos speed PvP server)

    It's an exp curve thing. They'd be better off reducing the scale of that curve and reducing the XP gained from the achievements.
  17. Tuco

    Factorio

    I'm using Coal Filtration to turn my oil into water. The problem is what to do with all the coal. It's still slow AF with this approach. I'm thinking about getting a mod that lets me void stuff, I dunno. Dealing with byproducts is an intentional difficulty in Space Exploration but giant...
  18. Tuco

    Factorio

    Here's one of my vulcanite quadrants. All the balancing magic happens here, and is how I do most of my balancing now for all my different systems with byproducts. Each type of output is put into a container, and then circuits are used to allow or prohibit output. In this case if I have too...
  19. Tuco

    Factorio

    Not sure if you have access to this recipe, but here's what I do with my steam on my vulcanite planet Sending shit to yourself in barely filled rockets will never end. It'll just get less painful. I'm about to send a mostly empty rocket with a beam emitter to my imersite planet because I've...
  20. Tuco

    Factorio

    here's how I deal with that on my imersite and vulcanite planet. The waterless planets receive Water Ice (lol) from an asteroid belt.
  21. Tuco

    Factorio

    Now that I'm more effectively using all my different outpost's materials and being more efficient in general, I'm shrinking my Nauvis base and abandoning areas I cleared of biters to get resources. This expansion was very resource and time consuming and is one of the many reasons my playtime was...
  22. Tuco

    Factorio

    Herr's my imersite crystal quadrant, that I'm pretty proud of. Most of my city blocks is separated in 4 quadrants. This one takes in Raw Imersite, Nitric Acid, Sulfuric Acid, Silicon and produces Sulfur, Sand and Imersite crystals. In the center is a Wide Area Beacon that hits all the factories...
  23. Tuco

    Factorio

    here's a pic of one of my energy glaives in action. I have two massssssive solar farms near the sun that function as partial dyson spheres to energize this beam that autonomously roasts biters. It's one way to completely eliminate biters from a planet or moon. I've exterminated them from one...
  24. Tuco

    Factorio

    Speaking of indulging in wasting time for aesthetic reasons, here's one of what I call a "MegaFactory Block" on my Imersite planet. It consumes imersite core fragments and produces nearly every generic resource. This particular planet is waterless and has no mineral water (which is a resource...
  25. Tuco

    Factorio

    My first Core Mining factory maintained different belts for all the resources. I moved toward dumping them all to one warehouse and then using filtered loaders.
  26. Tuco

    Factorio

    Overbuilding is the common SE sin that I commit regularly. It's just too tempting to want to saturate your need for XXX as soon as you unlock it. This results in massive factories that need massive resources to build that then sit idle 95% of the time until you unlock something new that needs...
  27. Tuco

    Factorio

    That's the core challenge of outposts: Extracting the needed resources in an effective way. One thing that might be different about my game from vanilla (not sure if it's SE or K2 or what) is that oil is unlimited. Once you deplete it, you get uhm, 20% of the rate or something. Anyway, oil is...
  28. Tuco

    EQ TLP - 2024 Name TBD (Free trade selos speed PvP server)

    DBG took so much heat from players when they made the persona system terrible in beta, they don't care. I'm contemplating popping a few krono to get a heroic char on all my accounts for personas some time this year. But the thought of leveling them grinding and cycling overseer a couple hundred...
  29. Tuco

    Chat GPT AI

    Build better models, better software and bigger hardware. All at the same time. Parallel growth.
  30. Tuco

    Home Improvement

    Me irl trying to decide if i can mow my lawn yet without looking foolish
  31. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    The concept of a bajillion dollar skyscraper burning thousands of tons of fuel and trying to land on empty like my dumbass rolling into the gas station with the engine choking out because there's no gasoline left is fantastic.
  32. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  33. Tuco

    Smokers / Grills

    Yeah the temperature differentials motivated me to buy a Tru-Infrared which worked well, but required too much time to heat up for regular, small-batch usage. What's an expensive propane grill that you'd recommend?
  34. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    A++ test, can't wait for the next one. Seems like they've had 3 launches now that had pretty solid goals that were exceeded. Feels great to see experimental launches that are not only successful, but wouldn't even be a huge problem if they were catastrophic.
  35. Tuco

    Smokers / Grills

    I'm looking to buy a propane grill that I mostly just cook meals for a few people. I'd like something cheap that gets hot relatively quickly so I can grill some burgers / wings and be eating without much fuss. I'm leaning toward whatever this is...
  36. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    T minus 24 minutes (9:23AM EST)
  37. Tuco

    Starsector (formerly Starfarer)

    Yep. Which is a super common reason a mod descends into drama. The passion project to learn game dev becomes an unpaid second job.
  38. Tuco

    The Video Thread

    The audio is totally believable.
  39. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Doing Eldrig and other mobs that are somewhat hard to get to spawn reliably (like Quillmane) is fun on live with a maxed out Ranger / Bard, especially if it's casual enough to wait for a rare named bonus and quiet enough to have the zone to yourself. For Eldrig I enjoyed machine gunning...
  40. Tuco

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I always joke that I'll sell the one bitcoin I bought (At $600 or something) when it hits $1 or $1million, and I'm not sure which is more likely. It's like anything with unrealized gains, it's effectively a $600 loss until I take a profit and buy cheeseburgers and a GPU with it.