u/Proper-Sport-7218

The fastest way - at least for me - to learn is to see how things can be done. Good examples to learn from. But with basically every game engine out there it seems that the devs don't care much about making good training material available (UE5 is probably the worst, many of its example games flat out don't work on the latest version of UE5, some are still made only for UE4).

GDevelop also has this issue. It doesn't help that many tutorials are paid only, I don't think thats a good way to drive more devs towards your engine. But what also sucks is that many of the templates are kinda poorly made. Like their "how to make a stardew valley type game" just covers how to make plants grow. There's no tools, watering, tiling, etc. There's no inventory management. Sure there's a separate inventory management tutorial, but there is none that links them.

Another is there turn based RPG/Pokemon example. It has a single encounter where you battle with one move. There is no party mechanic, no skills, and only one creature per trainer.

Their tutorials only cover the easiest part which can be understood in 5 minutes. Meanwhile they have no good learning material for anything even semi advanced. They leave that up to the community to teach eachother.

I don't know if I'm being unreasonable, but I feel like an engine aimed at people with no coding experience should be better at teaching you the logic of it.

Whenever I have multiple projects open in separate tabs, then after a while I can no longer save my project.

The reason I have multiple projects open is so I can get inspiration from templates and my old projects when working on my current project. It seems GDevelop 5 doesn't like this way of working.

I'm testing a Naut AP build and its stupid fun. Hitting someone with the anchor and deleting half their hp is insanity. The ult can straight up kill the enemy support if you've bullied them the whole game and they are a bit behind.

Also bruiser Mundo. Start with HP item, boots, then titanic hydra, warmogs, and then more AD or Thornmail. The cleaver is just a great poke straight from level one, and in low elo Mundo is a fantastic tank as the low elo players think they should focus you when you have low HP, but you can just pop ult and wipe them. You easily get so much ahead that an enemy gank is just free gold, and when lane phase ends you become a powerful split pusher. Ignite is a powerful spell to start with but I feel like teleport scales better, because you can backdoor.

Whenever I get kicked out I just wait a full minute now, because I know there's a 80% chance my champion gets banned or I get counter picked. Often I don't even have time to leave the queue and I have to decline the match it found, which then gives me a penalty.

Its firstly a huge trap for new players that don't know this system, and secondly its just very annoying to end up getting punished for declining the match it gives you immediately after getting kicked out.

I'm fine with keeping the same team, but I think they should shuffle the matchmaking so you face another enemy team.

Or at least let us actually leave the queue instead of finding a new game immediately and then giving you a penalty for declining it.

Edit: Many people got good counter arguments, but holy shit this sub is also insanely toxic. If a simple post like this makes you lose your temper and dish out insults then you probably should not keep playing league, its obviously affecting your mental state. And many of you need better reading comprehension. That someone bans my champion doesn't mean I only play one champion.

I used to love mobas like League but these days I don't enjoy PvP or the toxic community. But I love the format of short games, the top down controls, the many champions and skins. Is there some game that still offers that but in a PvE or singleplayer format?

Closest I can think is PoE or Diablo, but those don't have short matches. You just grind the same character for hours.

I used to play custom Warcraft 3 maps where you managed just one hero and it was a wave defense mode, that was really fun. Something like that would be awesome.

And yeah you can play League with bots but then you get no quest progress which sucks.

I'm looking for stuff like dried chilies, mexican hot sauces/salsa (Cholula, Herdez, Valentina, or maybe some smaller, better brands). Any stores in Copenhagen that sells this? Its absurdly expensive online.

Hej handymænd og damer.

Jeg har en meget gammel vægmonteret Gorenje emhætte, som er blevet helt ufatteligt ulækker og lugtende. Jeg har prøvet at rengøre den så meget som muligt, men det er hele "indmaden" der også er helt snavset til. Reservedele koster mere end en ny emhætte, så jeg tænker jeg lige så godt kan købe en ny model.

Er det noget der er svært at skifte? Jeg er ikke verdens største handymand, det eneste jeg har skiftet er armaturet i køkkenet og selv det var en kamp jeg næsten tabte.

Bor i lejlighed, hvis det gør en forskel.

This is for example the wineyard multiplayer many french states get from goods_output_wine_mult, but instead I am looking for a generic one that applies to all buildings.

Something that is a country modifier instead of a state modifier would be nice.

90% of the time I play:

China in Vic3, love their unlimited pops and self sustainability.

Tall machine intelligence ring world in Stellaris, basically just tech rushing and playing defensively until every else is pathetic compared to me.

Portugal in EU4/5, colonizing the world and avoiding wars in Europe.

Basically any count or duke in western europe in CK2/3, perfecting my genes, holdings, and giving all the power in my realm to my family.

I just rarely play for the challenge, I'd rather just have everything go as I want it. It's like solving a puzzle, it's supposed to end up perfect.

Anyone else that plays like this? What are your comfort runs?

The current top reviews on steam for Nomads are all negative, but they largely complain about things that aren't actually issues, the reviewers just don't know how to play Nomads. You can't really blame them for this as Nomads has no in-game tutorial. In fact enabling nomadic playstyle disables all tutorial tips.

An example is people complaining that their arkship constantly needs to go to their waystations to stock up, this can actually be done automatically by the logistics ships.

Another is people complaining that harvesting systems only gives them 50-100 minerals, this is because they don't survey systems first.

Etc etc etc etc

Its nice there's finally nested tooltips, but its nowhere near as detailed as CK3 or Vic3's.

The only official tutorial is a youtube video, which I don't think many players know about. Its also a horrible format if you want to lookup a certain feature or just want a structured overview.

Usually I only micro early when I have to rush my starter worlds and chokepoints, then auto my science ships and constructor ships. Colonies are also super easy to manage, I basically have a few templates I reuse.

With nomads I plan each action my science ships, constructor ships and ark ships takes. I'm switching around ship modules and districts depending on my resource hauls. Nothing is automated or static.

Its much slower, even on speed 2 its too fast, but its very fun. I don't reach the same point where I'm just snowballing and waiting for the mid game crisis.

Harvesting puts a huge debuff on resource deposits for 20 years which (seems) to make building a waystation in that system pointless (for 20 years).

So I am wondering if this means you should ideally either go full waystation or harvest when playing a nomad.

I guess you can do both and harvest some systems here and there, especially early game to quickly gain resources, but most traditions, civics and ship modules seems to favour only one of the two choices, so you don't get to buff harvesting and waystations fully.

The AI empires also hate you for harvesting in their systems, so I guess its best for militarist empires, as eventually all systems gets claimed.

So my initial conclusion is: for peaceful playthroughs I will havest some unclaimed systems early game for quick cash and then switch to waystations, for militarist I will harvest everything I can.

What do you think?

Edit: since waystations use the starbase cap system, it actually seems like its smartest to save them for when AI empires are established and you know where to uptimize your routes. Or, maybe just deconstruct the first ones.

Either way the choice is not to either harvest or build, because you don't have many stations.