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Mod Releases / Re: BAC 3.86
« on: June 19, 2025, 12:10:25 AM »
A very minor point, the "spindle" appears twice in the Textiles menu.
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Suggestions / Re: Sightings
« on: June 18, 2025, 09:36:10 PM »
Ah, c'mon!
Screenshot is my uninhabited private island, where I am trying to be a hermit.
Screenshot is my uninhabited private island, where I am trying to be a hermit.
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 14, 2025, 01:57:36 PM »
I agree, not much point in continued engagement if you still deny that it's a civil war.
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 13, 2025, 09:54:00 PM »
Oh come on, I'm sure you know as well as I do that Russia is holding back from using conscripts and strategic airpower. Their "meat-wave" attacks are actually fire-teams of 4 blokes infiltrating, because any large formations are getting zapped by drones. War is changing, and it seems for the better as casualties are fewer. I still hate the idea of drones hunting down individual riflemen though, maybe I am old-fashioned but it doesn't sit well with me, no matter which side is doing it.
If they are trying to drown you in blood, how is it you didn't have enough bodies to exchange the other day? You are slipping under the surface much faster than they are. It's over, pack it in and make terms before you really annoy them. You've done well and made your point, what can you possibly hope to gain now, if not dragging us all into world war III?
It is a civil war, with foreign intervention on both sides. I can't grasp why you won't admit this.
Yugoslavia was doomed with the death of Tito due to old hatreds, yes. But war could have been avoided, had the Serbs let the separatists go. But they didn't. And in the end, they went though a whole lot of pain for nothing. See?
If they are trying to drown you in blood, how is it you didn't have enough bodies to exchange the other day? You are slipping under the surface much faster than they are. It's over, pack it in and make terms before you really annoy them. You've done well and made your point, what can you possibly hope to gain now, if not dragging us all into world war III?
It is a civil war, with foreign intervention on both sides. I can't grasp why you won't admit this.
Yugoslavia was doomed with the death of Tito due to old hatreds, yes. But war could have been avoided, had the Serbs let the separatists go. But they didn't. And in the end, they went though a whole lot of pain for nothing. See?
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Suggestions / Re: Strenght 0 problem
« on: June 13, 2025, 09:42:23 PM »
I have done it, though it was many years ago. I traded poisoned bread with the villagers, then after a couple of weeks they were dead.
I think if you leave the poisoned food lying around on their stockpiles, they will eventually pick some up and eat it, though I'm not sure. I also suspect that some things happen in the game only when your are in the area, so you may have to visit a village every few days to make them eat things. Much the same as dogs only eat when you can see them.This is all just suspicion though, I've not done any testing.
I think if you leave the poisoned food lying around on their stockpiles, they will eventually pick some up and eat it, though I'm not sure. I also suspect that some things happen in the game only when your are in the area, so you may have to visit a village every few days to make them eat things. Much the same as dogs only eat when you can see them.This is all just suspicion though, I've not done any testing.
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Gameplay questions / Re: Boiled Beverage Question
« on: June 12, 2025, 02:36:09 AM »
I know that if you are poisoned and it may be deadly, you need to eat as many de-toxicants as you can. The herbs that give you an appetite help you to eat more de-toxicants, and it seems to work.
This suggests that effects are cumulative; but when doing multiple bear pipes or magic mushies I have not noticed cumulative effects. I'm high as a kite, but only for a few hours.
So yeah, not much help, really
This suggests that effects are cumulative; but when doing multiple bear pipes or magic mushies I have not noticed cumulative effects. I'm high as a kite, but only for a few hours.
So yeah, not much help, really
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 12, 2025, 02:28:35 AM »
It's not a full scale invasion. Russia could be carpet bombing your cities, but it isn't. It's a civil war, and Russia is intervening. Check the OCSE figures for the number of shells Ukrainian militias were lobbing at the separatists if you want to know why. Sometimes a thousand a day, in the run up to the war.
Since the invasion, the Ukrainian forces have been steadfast, and have done very well. I don't understand the reluctance to call up young men, but I do understand that if you are defending then older men are your better bet. Your drone forces have equaled those of Russia, and it seems that drones are what matter most these days.
Partisan activity in the areas controlled by Russia is low because it's very dangerous. It's very dangerous because most of the people there don't want it to happen. Because they want to be independent, or Russian.
Had you been a Serb in the 1990's, I've no doubt you'd have rolled the tanks into Croatia. Yugoslavia must be maintained! But it didn't work out that way, and the people in the Balkans are probably the better for it. Guard your lands, but accept that sometimes you have to let something go.
Since the invasion, the Ukrainian forces have been steadfast, and have done very well. I don't understand the reluctance to call up young men, but I do understand that if you are defending then older men are your better bet. Your drone forces have equaled those of Russia, and it seems that drones are what matter most these days.
Partisan activity in the areas controlled by Russia is low because it's very dangerous. It's very dangerous because most of the people there don't want it to happen. Because they want to be independent, or Russian.
Had you been a Serb in the 1990's, I've no doubt you'd have rolled the tanks into Croatia. Yugoslavia must be maintained! But it didn't work out that way, and the people in the Balkans are probably the better for it. Guard your lands, but accept that sometimes you have to let something go.
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 11, 2025, 09:31:06 PM »Oh thats quite alright, I have no illusions about my mental state. That being said, I wonder what you'd call them If you'd seen what they do to civilians, especially young women, or those dudes who actively refuse to cooperate with them. And when I say "seen it", I dont mean in a video. I mean seen it with your own eyes, sensed the smell of the bodies and tried to wash off the body fluids off your hands after handling something that was a human before being killed by these damned orcs. Yes, I wonder what name you'd come up with after that.
Sun Tzu is wonderful reading, but I am not worried about it. Like I said, before full scale orcish invasion, about 8 millions of Ukrainians fled eastern Ukraine and Crimea to other parts of the country. After the land is free from occupation, they will come home.
Oh and there was no referendum in Crimea. Without any warning and/or declaring war, first orcs invaded Crimea, blocked completely stunned and bamboozled local Ukrainian forces (we did not consider them our enemies before 2014 and no one really expected this, not even military), then their special forces units have taken by force the Crimean parliament, at the gun point gathered the MPs and other elected officials and staged their little farce. In short, they pretty much did the very same thing Hitler did in Austria 1938. Ever since 2014, Ukrainian nationals and Crimean Tatars/Qyrymli are being constantly harassed, arrested and kidnapped. Again, same thing like in Austria after Hitler's "referendum". So just like Austria, eventually Crimea will be liberated and things will go back to normal. Those who supported the orcs and have committed crimes will be legally proceeded and those who didnt care either way, will continue not to care.
I saw such things in the Balkans. I was 108 HVO, and fought in Operation Koridor. Where did you see such things, and what unit were you with and in what capacity? I thought of the Serbs as orcs, back then, though I had no idea what an orc was. All I knew was that I was on the side of the underdog, so I was in the right. I was a fool.
Our press always talk of the "full scale invasion". But let's be honest. It's not, is it?
It's odd how in the territories Russia occupies, there is so little partisan activity. Is it because the people are cowed by the deranged brutality of the invader? Or is it because they are okay with being invaded, actually?
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 11, 2025, 09:23:55 PM »
Have any of us actually fought in Ukraine? I haven't.
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 11, 2025, 06:02:42 PM »
Still, if you strongly support any community, whatever their reason may be, to declare themselves independent, even if they displaced the native population by either mass immigration, genocide or forced deportation - go ahead and allow those large pockets of Pakistani and Indian nationals in UK to separate and declare themselves to be parts of their mother nations. I am sure UK as a whole and you personally would only support that. Right?
Note: Nothing against either Pakistani or Indian nationals, just using you guys as an example here. I know you guys are more civilized and cultured (very different from Europeans, but culture is culture) than orcs and would never even dream of doing something like that.
P.S. Orcs, dont waste your breath. The time for talks and arguments between us have passed. I have only one thing to tell you - come and die or shut your yap trap and hide. We will kill every single one of your invading bastards.
You do your cause no favours by constantly referring to the Russians as orcs. It makes you sound unhinged.
I have no doubt that parts of England will become Islamic enclaves within my lifetime. Already the country is close to how Northern Ireland was in the 1980's. Our government are either halfwits or corrupted. I hate the idea, but you know what? I see it as preferable to having Islamists in our government, and Islamic parties in our elections. Better a clean break, and cede territory. The other option is to live with civil strife, constrained liberties and terrorism.
Was it Sun Tzu who pointed out that territory may be regained, but men cannot?
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 10, 2025, 09:07:12 PM »
If the residents in the contested areas want to Russian nationals, they should move to Russia. I wasn’t happy in Finland so I emigrated. I didn’t tell everyone else around me that my yard should be UK, later US. That’s just insanely selfish attitude.
Same as me, when I emigrated to Spain.
The difference though, is my native language was not Spanish, I did not live in a Spanish speaking part of England, and I did not live in a part of England that consistently voted for pro-Spanish political parties.
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 07, 2025, 09:54:46 PM »Bert:
“Allow mass immigration” isn’t really a fair sentiment here. During USSR, Ukraine didn’t have to say if some Russians moved in or not.
That's a fair point, but it changes nothing. Historic transfers of populations have happened, and you either reverse them or you deal with the situation as it exists now.
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Suggestions / Re: Strenght 0 problem
« on: June 07, 2025, 09:48:50 PM »
I think how much you can carry depends on how much you weigh, nothing to do with strength. Yeah, it is a little odd.
You can make poison. Use sand mushrooms in a stew or bread or something, then gift it to your victim et voila!
I would like to see sages training herblore.
Tailors to buy custom made clothes from would also be nice.
The game is designed to be hard. Re-rolling stats is allowed, but not encouraged!
You can make poison. Use sand mushrooms in a stew or bread or something, then gift it to your victim et voila!
I would like to see sages training herblore.
Tailors to buy custom made clothes from would also be nice.
The game is designed to be hard. Re-rolling stats is allowed, but not encouraged!
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Off-topic / Re: Be ready
« on: June 05, 2025, 05:52:34 PM »
Spain/Cataluna is of course not an exact parallel, because exact parallels do not exist. I would like the Catalans to secede, because then Spain might have a proper government rather than one propped up by various communist separatists. You may find you prefer how Ukraine is governed when the war ends, and you don't have to appease those who kept voting pro-Russian anymore. Living in a country governed for and by the people who want to live there is, I think, better than living in a bigger country full of malcontents.
Your history lesson tells me nothing I didn't know, and I didn't go deep on it for a reason. What matters is what the people of a region want now, not what went on there a century or more ago. Crimea and Donbass do not wish to remain a part of Ukraine, and I doubt there is anything you can do now to change their minds. Aside from ethnically cleansing or killing them, of course.
Congratulations on the audacious if unwise drone strikes on the Russian airfields the other day, by the way. Superbly executed. You're still going to lose, though.
Your history lesson tells me nothing I didn't know, and I didn't go deep on it for a reason. What matters is what the people of a region want now, not what went on there a century or more ago. Crimea and Donbass do not wish to remain a part of Ukraine, and I doubt there is anything you can do now to change their minds. Aside from ethnically cleansing or killing them, of course.
Congratulations on the audacious if unwise drone strikes on the Russian airfields the other day, by the way. Superbly executed. You're still going to lose, though.