Honestly I think of bluejays and the rest of the family as crows, too. They’re the blue crows. Crows are true crows, but magpies and bluejays and all them are still crows, to me.

I appreciate it. I knew this, but external reminders are more powerful.

Clearly the gravity capacitors are aligned in such a way that in the case of gravity failure, the outer gravitronic shell fails first, causing the neutronium to evacuate safely in the direction of anyone else, while the inner shell maintains for a second or so longer, preventing an implosion.

That, and transporter shenanigans. They just beam up the neutronium before shutdown.

Well thats what the artificial gravity is for.

They also use it for walking and whatnot, of course, but that’s an add-on. The real purpose is so they can siphon off some neutron star stuff and hold it between them and an enemy without it exploding.

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Magic Fang (Runic Body in the remaster) is Magic Weapon/Runic Weapon for unarmed strikes.

Even if you found some cheesy way to make an attack count for both, it’s the exact same thing, simulated runes, so it couldn’t stack and gives an item bonus that doesn’t stack with real runes like the AI wanted. Three different sources, all just item runes.

They have actually started doing that already. At least musk has.

I agree, but that seems like about the level of detail a formula with no units would have.

If we hold the hunt in a single tall blade of grass we’ll need to fit a lot of eggs in there.

Area would help account for a really large yard, where you may want more eggs, or for a small one, where this calculation simply has too many eggs. So, egg density per square foot (or whatever unit they wanted).

Undergrowth size to me seems like its accounting for how many eggs simply aren’t found. If the grass is 6" long, you’ll want more eggs because they’ll not all be found.

This seems to fit especially because they’re added together, which means even a yard that was just dirt, no undergrowth, you’d get eggs from area alone. There’s a floor on it. If it were a separate multiple then no grass would mean no eggs.

For building my platforms, I moved my whole industry to volcanus.

I have a blueprint called ship embryo that has a single turret, a couple of solar panels, and one building of the production chain from metallic asteroid to ammo. Wiring prevents overflow.

This ship blueprint has requests for all the materials I need to build the next blueprint, called ship skeleton. By skeleton, I mean it rearranges the ammo production, and places the conveyers for all the turrets my final ship needs. Everything in the skeleton blueprint matches my actual ship blueprint, so theres no rebuilding or force-building needed.

So I send up a platform, paste the embryo blueprint, and do other things whle it gathers materials from rockets. Then I check back in and paste the skeleton blueprint, and my new ship arms itself. Because the embryo ship requested everything needed, this happens pretty instantly. As soon as the skeleton ship exists, I paste the final ship, and I know that parts won’t get battered by asteroids as requests are fulfilled, because all the needed turrets and relevant conveyers were built last step.

So with three blueprints (that I put in a book, for simplicity), I can reduce shipbuilding to 2 overseen steps. First the launch, where I paste the embryo blueprint, then when I paste the skeleton blueprint immediately followed by the final ship.

Actually, I could program the route just after pasting the last step, if I configure an interrupt stop to wait long enough that all the construction is delivered. Then the interrupt will fall off and the ship can be on its way without even needing that step.

I have overengineered this for someone with 1 transport ship per planet at the moment.

I really appreciate that.

My gleba base thanks you.

They wanted to give Efficiency Beacons a purpose, clearly. I mean, they’re so lonely out there, not in any builds

I know, right? Only reason I know to say anything is because someone told me the same thing.

I had assumed they had an atmosphere limitation like the non-electric furnaces.

You can program the targeting.

Just shove your desired signals into a turret. You’ll get to shove all of them, but a decider combinator can output each signal set to 1, so you don’t even need a constant combinator, the same decider that determines if targeting should change can provide the signals.

I haven’t done it myself, though.

I also am not actually farming deep space yet. I’ve dipped past aquilo once but I didn’t have biter eggs set up so I came back quickly. All my ships are still solar, since quantity makes up for the reduced solar in space, even on aquilo, with a few efficiency modules.

I will say with all that production and you still worrying about resource production, and having fusion set up, foundries are much more efficient. Less steps to make steel for railgun ammo, more productivity, and the liquid steel recipe is inherently much cheaper, also.

And copper cables, too.

Plus, with efficiency modules, they’re not that far off from speed beacon furnace power consumption, anyway.

In my experience, it definitely affects it.

my first ship to aquilo, I launched, with myself and basic stuff for it, and manually toggled the switch to reduce speed. Worked fine.

Sent my ship back while I built on aquilo, destroyed within 2 minutes.

I loaded an autosave, realized I didn’t actually bring enough explosives to get back, and was losing them faster than I was making them since my explosive damage was very low. I realized my ship was probably lost for good, now, since the autosaves were too recent now.

So I made a hard save and tried a bunch of times to do various things in the hope of cheating that fate. I tried crawling at about 50, I tried rushing. I tried hopping by blasting forward and then idling, getting some actual distance, then dealing with a bunch of asteroids, and then hopping again.

I found steady and slow got me the farthest, almost halfway. Hopping produced more asteroids and was also more likely to cause damage just because of the sudden density of them. It was actually more efficient to go full speed than to hop, I think because while you’re slowing down and speeding up you’re still generating asteroids, and you never end up moving backwards, unlike hopping, where I could get that -10.

But going slow definitely was the winner, by a lot.

Now, there was a bug, where you’d generate more asteroids while you weren’t looking at the ship. Given it’s nature as a bug, I think there’s a reasonable chance that this generation isn’t dependent on speed. Do you by chance need to update? This was fixed in 2.0.43. It could explain the issue.

I think there’s also a chance that, while it does affect density, it just doesn’t affect it as much as you’d like.

Try reconfiguring and running, say, 1 rocket, or use a pump to starve that, too. If you can manage to move at like, 30, I’d expect a clear difference in asteroids, for sure. Obviously that’s too slow, but it could show you whether or not it’s affected.

No, because the Texas schools don’t know what those are.

Another strategy you could do to mitigate that is have a blueprint of your ship with huge extended arms, keep a cargo bay’s worth of the materials, and whenever you stop, slap that blueprint on.

Collect materials like a stationary satellite build, and then deconstruct the arms, and pack them away.

Wish this could be a fully automated thing, but its livable for a speedrun situation.

You could even store asteroids in permanent belts on your real ship, so the processing can keep going mid-flight.

Not encrypted info, if they set it up right.

But regardless, what they want is more like an actual

Currently, companies generally want warrants to give information like that.

Warrants are hard to come by when the government simply wants to read everyone’s messages in case they’re doing criminal activity.

Even in the best case, the completely honest with no hidden motives situation, they want messages to be more, a source of probable cause for other things. Like getting a drug sniffing dog, who detects drugs, and gives cops reasonable suspicion and therefore allows them to search your car.

Worst-case, I don’t think anyone trusts the government in this day and age to not just read your messages to discriminate against you.

Plus the usual security concerns where digital backdoors are weak spots for other governments and everyone else.

And all that is the general case. this is Desantis’s Florida. It’s probably so he can tell who is gay and who isn’t so he can make them illegal.

Some companies are happy to share, though, like you said, even without warrants. Those companies generally aren’t encrypting your messages at all. This doesn’t affect them. The law would just affect those that promise security, promise encryption, etc. Those would be, with this law, not quite public, but transparent to the government and compromised to everyone else.

Probably can, there’s a speaker in there somewhere.