I just hit 1.5K pop on a Human run, realized I completely forgot to build a military, and watched my run probably die when a 135 raid comes and I have nothing basically.

I’m really struggling with how to focus their economy. With Tilapi (I reached 3K just fine but then wanted to try out humans), the progression is straightforward. With Humans, I kinda fell into the trap of doing a little bit of everything.

I went from bread, to forestry, to leather, panicked because I was building out of stone without a stone mine and had to build an outpost, pivoted to cotton because my pastures doesn't produce enough leather, and started mining clay just because theres a deposit that has been sitting there from the start of my settlement

Because I thought Humans can do everything, I end up spreading my industry way too thin and completely stalling out.

What should a Human economy actually focus on? What does your early/mid-game build order look like to avoid this?

I need some suggestions because right now I have around 1.5K population, all of them are Tilapi and are just overwhelmed since this is the first time I got this far

What tech should I aim for? is restaurant/barber good? should I just maximize hospital/physician upgrade? should I max hearths? wells maybe? should I dip into laws?

Because for now my tech is like

Auroch (my entire food is this), physician, hospital, bathhouse, little bit of tailor+furniture, maximum archer tech

I'm still not sure which services that are worth because I should be maximizing my health right? at 1.5K population?

Well, it finally happened. It looks like they’ve decided to block Claude access here in Hong Kong after about a year of it working perfectly fine without VPN.

Having access to Claude without needing to turn on a VPN was the literal main reason I chose to subscribe to copilot in the first place. Now that it's restricted, I guess the only 2 that are left are Gemini and GPT (before they blocked that too)

I still have an active premium annual github pro subscription period leftover (absolutely no plans to renew it) and I guess I just have to let it ride. I'm pivoting to Gemini 3 flash for now for cheap lightweight tasks, its alright but sometimes it loops on its own and hallucinates more than Claude haiku.

Anyone else in HK hitting this wall today?

Literally Yesterday, a simple "can you search the news for today" using gemini 3 flash costed 140 points. Today it costs 4793 points. A literal 400% increase.

You probably should not turn on "web searches" on any bot or heavily prompt them beforehand so they only search 1 web.

Because Claude 4.6 sonnet that searches only a singular web is somehow cheaper than gemini 3 flash

My prompt is "can you search the news for today?"

Claude 4.6 sonnet

Type	Cost
Input (21601 tokens)	1837 points
Cache write (12749 tokens)	271 points
Output (788 tokens + 1 search)	669 points
Cache discount (8841 tokens)	-676 points
Total	2101 points

vs

Gemini 3 flash (I capped at 3K points and cancelled the search, but they requested 4793 tokens)

Type	Cost
Input (1487 tokens)	12 points
Output (1308 tokens + 10 searches)	2986 points (probably would be 4781)
Total	2998 points (probably would be 4793)

FOR CONTEXT this was yesterday

Gemini 3 flash

Type	Cost
Input (1532 tokens)	21 points
Output (1482 tokens)	119 points
Total	140 points

I should probably cancel my yearly subscription :/ but for now I guess I have to search for cheaper models.

Quote dari videonya.

Dia juga pernah nulis kenapa rupiah lemah itu buruk, di bukunya sendiri: Paradoks Indonesia 2022 - Tulisan Prabowo Subianto - Versi Digital
ctrl+f "mata uang", di halaman 160:
"Mata uang itu cermin dari produktivitas suatu bangsa. Kalau produktivitas kita kuat, mata uang kita akan mapan."

atau di halaman 133:
"begitu mata uang kita melemah, akan sangat mahal beli barang impor dan rakyat bisa tidak makan."

The reaction segment is hilarious, I really like when destiny is laughing, moot is laughing, and chat is reacting with emotes.

Maybe to avoid IG reels being trigger happy with the edgy reels, you instead click on links that DGGers donated.

And to filter out low quality links, you can make it cost 10 or 20 dollars minimum for your links to get clicked, otherwise you risk having risky contents getting spammed.

Additionally, you can put up rules such as no song request, 50K views minimum, no coomer content (depends on the context), etc.

And you can do it in the beginning of your stream for about an hour or two, and he can say "NO FURTHER LINKS" so that dggers would know when to stop donating links.

Whenever gemini 3 flash tried searching anything, it would just say "Gemini-3-Flash ran into a problem answering this request.".

It was working last wednesday for me and then it just stopped working even to this day