u/considerspiders

I've kept notes on what is left in stashes around GBI. In my longest run (a mere 250 odd days), I've completely logged all the vanilla regions, and I've run out of space in Foresaken Shore of The Long Development mod, so I guess there is plenty of space for the vanilla game.

Feels kinda like an achievement. I guess I start taking notes in a word doc now.

I have nothing more to add other than that The Long Development is awesome.

I have a kid that is fairly likely to need some expensive operations, overseas, in his late teens. We're wanting to start saving for this good and early (ie 15 years +). Risk tolerance is fairly high as we'll top up the account from our own investments if needed, so I'm thinking of something like VT. It makes sense to me that while it exists, we should utilize the FIF de minimus in a non-pie wrapper, even if PIR is going to be 10.5% for the foreseeable future.

I use IBKR myself, but they do not make child accounts available to NZ.

What efficient alternatives are there for direct ETF holdings for kids? If relevant, transactions are likely to be one lump sum annually.

I sold about 80% of my rklb in the 140-150 range, it was just getting crazy overweight for what was more or less gambling money a few years back. Getting real tempting to jump back in, who's buying?

Anyone had experience going down the path for a commercial building? My workplace has a warehouse/industrial type building (leased) in Auckland, about 1800m2 of unobstructed roof, half inclined maybe 5 degrees north, the other 5 degrees south. We have intermittant high energy demands when certain high draw equipment is turned on, and can't get any more power to our building without transformer upgrades - not a problem yet, but could be in the future. Power is about 2k/month, almost all in daylight hours, with Meridian currently and down the track we'd like to facilitate people charging EVs at work if we can. Landlords say they'll charge us 8.5% of any installation we want as an addition to the lease.

Seems like there should be something to work with in that, interested to hear from anyone who has done commercial scale stuff:

• Any recommended power retailers to talk to first to get good pricing data and inform decision making?
• Any good companies in Auckland to deal with for commercial scale solar specification and install?
• Is it possible / practical to divert solar production to a bank of chargers but not import production for charging? I know this works well at home scales, how about if you're doing a bunch of cars at once?
• Any cautionary tales or raging success stories out there?