u/KomturAdrian

I have DoW3 in my library. I've played a few skirmishes against the AI for fun but I'd really like to learn some good build orders for Space Marines to set myself up for the rest of the match. But it seems like build orders for this game simply don't exist, unless I am missing them somewhere.

Would it be better to go back and play one of the previous titles? If so which one holds up the best, has an active community, and plenty of resources/guides?

I made a post asking how to do this like 15 minutes ago then I think I found out how to do it myself. If anyone else wants to know how, here it is, but I would also like to ask if anyone sees a problem here that might break my game:

1. Go to wherever your Steam folder is found: ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War\mods\teutonic\data\sounds
2. Copy the Events.dat, Events.idx, Music.dat and Music.idx files.
3. Go to: ...)\Steam\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War\data\sounds
4. Paste the files, overwriting the ones already there.
5. Now go to: ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\base
6. Open the descr_sounds_music_types file. Where it says music_type northern_european replace it with music_type northern_european, eastern_european .

This has worked for me so far. The menu, the campaign map, and battles are using the Teutonic soundtrack

I'm not a new player - I've been through every era and have made millions of dollars several times over! But one thing I've always wondered is how other people start a new sandbox game.

You'll always begin with the governors mansion, houses, a ranch, a teamster, and a construction office. There's also a harbor, but it's not connected to the square, so the first thing I always do is connect them.

Do you start rearranging what's already there? Start building around the edges of the square? Ignore the square for now and start building a town somewhere else? Like a sugar plantation and rum distillery town near the docks?

In the past I have done the quick rum setup near the docks and it works okay. I've also immediately started a pinwheel town. Sometimes I put them around the initial ranch, other times I just built my own little town somewhere else where the soil is more fertile. I waste no time building a pirate cove because raids can get you a good bit of resources to sell at the docks. I make sure to only expand according to my population (to avoid loads of vacant job positions), services are practically adjacent to houses/workplaces, good grocery and food quality.

Whatever I do, there's a few times where I end up with $0 profit from trade ships because in-between the last visit and the current visit because absolutely none of my resources were transported. It's not good for early economy. I always manage to get past it though.

So I'm just wondering, is there some kind of way you immediately kick things off and keep rolling from that? Or does everyone have those early growing pains as your Tropicans start to settle in and everything starts to work right?

I loved Samurai Jack as a kid and was glad to watch the 'final season' when it came out a few years ago. I'm looking for an anime that follows a similar formula: a wandering swordsman. Or I might even be okay with an anime set during the Sengoku period.

I've been recommended Rurouni Kenshin and that's on my radar. House of Five Leaves looks okay too, even though that's not really about a 'wandering swordsman'.

There was another anime I once saw a video of; it was a swordsman and he was surrounded by what looked like gangsters (mafia type), and they all had guns; the swordsman cut through them and there was a lot of blood. Pretty sure it was raining too. Never found out the name.

Anyway, Rurouni Kenshin comes up in basically every google search and reddit thread, but I wanted to ask and mention Samurai Jack in case that produces any better results.

I watched a video on oil refining. I understand that crude oil is heated and the resulting liquid/vapor is transported into a distillation tower. I know the heavier fluids that have higher boiling points sit at the bottom; fluids with lower boiling points move upwards and sit on the next layer, while fluids with even lower boiling points move upwards even more. I know the distillation towers have several different layers that collect different fluids that have different boiling points.

What I don't get is how each fluid is removed from the tower. For example, the fluid for gasoline doesn't sit at the bottom layer, nor the top layer. I would expect each layer to have a pipe coming out of the side of the tower where the fluid can escape and get transported to a tank. So if a tower had 12 layers then I imagine it would have 12 different pipes coming out of the side, one for each layer. But in the diagrams it never really shows that, and in real images I've searched I don't see that either. There's a pipe at the top that I suppose transports the petroleum gas somewhere; and I've seen some pictures of a pipe at the very bottom; some have a pipe in the middle of the tower.

Are there distillation towers that have multiple outflow pipes, like up to 12? Am I just missing those?

A lot of us who started Skyrim at launch, and a lot of those who have begun their journey since then, are familiar with at least two rites. You had to face the frost troll on your way to High Hrothgar; you probably felt outmatched... but it was just the same when that giant threw you up in the air to experience the Skyrim Space Program.

I also consider things like actually seeing the Headless Horseman in Whiterun. These are three simple things that a player can experience that would let veterans know "okay, he's been playing for a few hours at least..."

What do you think are other 'Rites of Passage' when it comes to Skyrim?

I was watching season 3 and at the end of episode 3 I started to wonder which season had the worst character experiences. In season 3 Jaime loses his hand, Theon loses his cock, and Kraznys loses his life. Then you have the mutiny north of the Wall where Mormont is killed. And finally we get to the Red Wedding where Robb, Talisa, and Catelyn are killed the fuck out of.

I could also go on about other significant events that are not exactly 'bad' or as bad - like Dany getting the Unsullied, Jon losing Ygritte since he 'betrayed' her, and Cersei losing Joffrey to Margery. Just pretty significant moments for the story and what's ahead.

It's just, in general, I think the worst moments the characters experience in season 3 overshadow all of the worst moments in seemingly every other season except in the most extreme cases.

What do you think? Did I miss anything else significant in season 3, especially something terrible? Or do you think there was another season where most of the characters suffered even more? And not in a joking manner like "they all suffered from bad writing in xyz seasons".

I'm thinking of starting a new character and focusing on lightning magic. I've never dived too far into magic in this game however, aside from conjuration and alteration - but even not too much. I just don't know a whole lot about using a purely magic character.

I'm going to go with Dunmer for their +10 destruction and early sparks skill (even though that's not hard to obtain anyway). Aside from destruction I also want to go for conjuration - but from a role playing perspective idk if that fits for a Dunmer; I mostly want to use it for the storm atronachs and possibly the bound weapons, which feels "okay" or acceptable for a dark elf. Alteration feels like a good choice too for spells like oakflesh (and the related protection skills).

So Destruction+Conjuration+Alteration. Are there any other skill trees that a pure mage character should go for? Any tips, tricks, suggestions, etc?Your preferred standing stone? As a warrior main I know where to go to get steel plate armor as soon as you leave Helgen, for example, For an archer I know how to get free archery training from Faendal. What are some things like that for mages?

So I feel like Avatar: The Last Airbender on Nickelodeon was confined to a specific fanbase for its time. But it now has a live-action show on Netflix, so maybe the audience has grown a bit more. There have been spin-offs as well - such as The Legend of Korra and the upcoming Seven Havens show.

Maybe I'm just being biased because I love the franchise, and specifically these two characters. But tbh, when it comes to any TV show whether animated or live-action, Zuko and Iroh are two of the best written characters ever. Even if TLA is mostly about Aang becoming the Avatar and fulfilling his destiny... the show also closely follows his opponent Zuko that he's basically a deuteragonist. Zuko is helped by his uncle Iroh who has his own background and development. Over time the relationship between Zuko and Aang change. It's an old show for sure, but still - no spoilers for those who haven't seen it!

An adult audience could watch the animated show or the live-action show and I think they would actually find Zuko and Iroh as incredibly well-written characters. In fact, I would go on to say they are some of the greatest written characters ever.

I mostly want to post this to recommend the shows - both the original TLA and the current live-action TLA. But also to see what others have to say about this opinion.

My sister has some Beats by Dre and wants to bluetooth them to her Philips Roku TV. I've looked through settings, Remotes and Devices, and other options but never found an option for it.

We tried to bluetooth them through the 'bluetooth speakers' option but they never showed up; they did show up on my phone so I know the bluetooth was active.

The tv has options for speakers, subwoofers, etc but there's no option for 'headphones'.

If it helps the Philips model is 65PUL6553/F7.

I see a lot of posts where people build these large factories that are dedicated to producing a single type of item, but a lot of them. Like a very high number of something.

I haven't gotten too far in the game (phase 3) and I haven't been too concerned with mass producing specific project parts (I just use the time to redo or decorate some stuff, or fulfill the needs of the tiers). Been playing it really slow.

But sometimes I see people posting factories that are producing an insane amount of a specific item every minute. What drives you to just stop for a second and plan out a huge factory producing like 100 heavy frames per minute (or even more!). Is it because you're going to need them for an even bigger project? Or have I just not gotten far enough to understand the scale of the game?

Most people rush to coal power for obvious reasons, so you're probably not too concerned with how good your factories look because they just serve the purpose of getting to coal asap. I did the same thing, and then I started to 'settle down' and just focus on trying to build good-looking factories. But I didn't have enough tickets for a lot of the cosmetics and architecture at the time, and eventually found the mk2 and mk3 belts were not really fast enough to support my factories. I felt I was expanding way too fast and my conveyors just couldn't keep up with the amount of smelters I needed to feed all of my production lines.

So I put all of that on hold and decided to just try and rush to phase 3 for the mk4 belts. I have a pipeline running oil to my central area and I am making plastic and fuel. I'm using the plastic for circuit boards but I haven't really looked into using the fuel yet. The belts seem a lot more efficient and I have storage containers full of steel beams, encased industrial beams, rotors, motors, etc. I have so many modular frames being made that the entire line is backed up and the assemblers themselves are idle because they're full too. I actually directed a ton of them to the sink and it was crazy how fast I was getting tickets like that. I was able to unlock roofs and the glass roof cosmetic, and am on the way to do more.

Obviously phase 2 was not the best time to focus on beautifying everything. Phase 3 feels like a good time though. I really need to try and learn to use automated transportation of goods though.

So do you take time to make things look neat through each phase, even the early ones? Or do you try and reach a certain point before 'settling down' and taking neatness/organization/'beauty' more seriously? Maybe you're even able to balance both?