u/One-Bit5717

I was once a train conductor (freight), mostly in the yard, but out on the mainline once in a while.

Winter time, plenty of snow on the tracks, pitch black. We were moving fairly slowly, and saw something resembling a body laying between the rails. The engineer hit the brakes, but we ran it over still.

Of course fearing the worst, went to check it out. Death by train happened way too often in the area.

Someone left a stupid duffle bag just laying between the tracks 🤬 Swore a bit and moved on

Three-person squad Sitrep, sabotage transmitter mission.

Enemy pods seem clustered near spawn point. Managed to deal with them, using up all heavy weapons and getting one guy wounded.

Reaper scouts up to the transmitter and finds two more pods. Advent officer and two troopers. Fine. And the second pod, three Advent and a friggin Sectopod!

Dropped an Evac zone, ran two guys to it, sabotaged the transmitter for RP reason since Reaper was already there, and GTFOd to fight another day.

Note to self- don't do this Sitrep later in the game 😕

(EDIT) I meant Onslaught, not Legion. The big boi with big guns.

I haven't played in a couple of years, getting my feet wet again. Found a mothership with escorts, and they completely wrecked my fleet.

I am flying the Harbinger with blasters and reapers and relevant skills. My fleet had a decked out Legion XVI and a few small support ships.

We can quite easily take out the mothership itself, but its escorts surround and overwhelm the fleet. It's several biggest Domain ships, and a whole lot of smaller ones. If we go after the escorts first, the big mama fires missiles and whatnot unchecked, which also hurts. I brought in the "new" abyssal Legion, which did tank a lot of damage, but most of the other ships got wrecked still.

I don't recall this fight being all too difficult in the past. What should I bring? More missiles? Carriers? Torpedoes? So far, aside from the Legion and Harbinger, my ships are on a defensive side. Seems like I totally forgot how to play this game 🤞

Dear mods and Bot, I am not looking for medical advice, just sharing an observation.

I've built up a decent tolerance to the bee venom, stings don't bother me. Today, I got zapped in the chin, luck had it that it went right into or beside the mandibular nerve, the one dentists paralyze when they freeze your mouth.

Curiously, the bee venom had a very similar effect. Shooting pain at first, which quickly turned into numbness along the nerve, leading to the side of the face and the lip being completely numb for an hour or so. Felt exactly the same as the dentist, hah. Never thought it would have that effect!

I was under the impression that lidocaine and bee venom had completely different effects. Yet here we are 🤣

I was contacted asking to remove a swarm (it's honeybees alright) just now. The thing is, it's pouring rain and will continue until tomorrow. I won't be able to go there until tomorrow morning. Do swarms sit in place in the rain? Will they be OK? I have only seen them in the nice dry weather before.

Since this has never been patched out, I believe it is now a mechanic. You know how you can compress liquids by making them fall through two cells of different gases?

Got me thinking. If you use this method to compress a bunch of magma to a ridiculous density and then cool it, how much igneous rock would it make? Same mass?

And if so, that would be one heck of a yield for digging up those tiles 🙃

I keep reading how robbing is a problem if you leave access to undefended honey. Well, I did a summer extraction and have a few trays, spoons, and the extractor itself covered in delicious sticky mess.

Left it in the bee yard upwind from the hives. Nothing. No interest at all. They just fly over it on their business. I would like to return that honey to the bees, but how would I make them interested?

(edit) thanks all. I wasn't going to charge her anything but the more treatment, but since she asked.... I won't 😊

A strange question...

I was contacted by a person who said she has one hive, they die every winter, but new ones move in. She doesn't know how to keep bees, and asked me to take a look at her hive. She asked how much I would charge...

What is an appropriate rate? I'm assuming she will need mite treatment which I can do, but aside from that?

Thank you!

I am that player that hordes all sorts of equipment in an RPG because "might need it later", and has chronic fear of running out of consumables. Thus, in this game I have never used missiles on any ship, except outfitting a bomber Moreya carrier wing in the old version as an experiment.

Always plasma/beams/flak for turrets on capitals. But there are ships specifically designed for missile use, I just always felt too anxious to use them.

For something with a good missile storage, how fast would you run out? How effective are they compared to beams/plasma/flak? Can you easily resupply yet? Auxiliary ships just did not work for me in the past, docking would take forever. Any particular advantage I might be missing?

Many thanks 🙂

I saved and quit a mission before the squad was revealed. Picked it up the next day, and the hunter spawned in, while everyone was still consealed. As we broke cover, a second hunter spawned in. Now they are doing their thing together 🤔

Might be a console level restart situation. Never seen this before.

This has been bugging me since I first played it way back when. In the second year, the volcano erupts and opens up access to the nevermelt ice and a harvest sprite.

But the manual cryptically hints at this event and says "bring your shovel".

Not a single tile is diggable in the volcano location, though. Was that a mistake, or am I just dumb?