u/XyleneCobalt

I played some Vic 2 recently and one thing that immediately stuck out was how getting sphered by a great power immediately tanked my economy. I didn't suddenly get a massive influx of tools and steel and a new massive market to run up profits of my plantations on. Now how Vic 2 does that is wonky and convoluted cuz it's Vic 2 (basically your producers don't get any profit for goods sold to other countries in the market) but the result was a system that benefited the great power's economy at your expense.

Being in the sphere of influence of a Victorian great power was not a nice thing. I realize it would take a lot of rebalancing since great powers already have it easy but it's wild seeing the SOL of a small country outside Europe skyrocket upon joining a sphere.

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I suck at PvP in any game and PvE doesn't sound that fun. Saw someone suggest a private solo server but wanted to see if theres anything to actually do.

Those two seem to be basically the only ones that get recommended. What are some of your favorites other than them?

Sorry for the 'chud' question or whatever the kids are saying but who do you watch when you're obsessing over these games?

Smithy is def my favorite. He does such a good job crafting a coherent story out of these big MP games and the players are so entertaining. He makes MP actually look fun.

Ran out of space in the title but (assuming my understanding in the first two sentences was right) how does the curvature of spacetime actually work that it can 'cancel out' that acceleration to keep us relatively stationary? And how does that differ from there just being a downwards acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2? And do these questions even make sense or am I completely lost?

I ran into a wall in E2E when I got to AE2 automation and realized it's way too hard to make enough components to really experiment since the recipes are way harder. Are there any good, less difficult progression packs that really make you use AE2?

I tried ATM 10 but got bored by the lack of any point to doing things. I've also played Cuboid Outpost but the infinite resources felt like it discouraged full automation.

If you need a definition for "young," how about their first album came out 2020 or later. But feel free to push that a bit.

Screaming/growling vocals only ofc.

My pick is Joe Duplantier of Gojira. He has really clear vocals, which is really important for the environmentalist lyrics he writes.

I'm early into chapter 2 (got an ME storage system in the void world and on T2 mystical crops) but it feels like things are about to ramp up. What are some things you wish you'd known earlier on?