Comments - SpecTRe_X

I'm still working on it but it's going slowly. I'll get a new article posted in a few days explaining some of what's been going on.

Try downloading the files again. I don't have this issue on my end and haven't seen anyone else reporting this.

Yes. Very slowly, but yes.

Not sure how that slipped past. Thanks for drawing my attention to it, I'll be posting an update later today.

The newest hotfix is linked on the mod thread on Steam.

Are you using the latest version from the mod thread on Steam, or the latest from ModDB? If the latter then that's the problem as it's outdated by 1 version.

I set damage up based on an equation that factors in a given shell's muzzle velocity, weight, and a normalizing value. I don't recall the exact formula off the top of my head but it's in the readme. All weapon damage is based off similar equations.

Displacement was simply increased by a flat multiplier to resolve a physics issue that resulted from the higher damage values (barrel rolling DDs).

Yes and no. Because the map is flat, when it would otherwise be spherical, your fleet's travel speed becomes less accurate the farther away from the equator they are. So sailing through the Aleutians takes longer than it should even though the travel time from Hawaii to Iwo Jima is about right.

Substance is pretty easy, if you can use Ps then you can figure out Substance. UV wrapping in RizomUV is even easier than using Substance and they're only about $300 combined. Pretty reasonable considering what some modeling programs cost.

The damage mechanics are a fickle thing. Obviously the mod isn't complete yet but once all the new models are in a final sweep and balance will be required.

In the mean time, you're welcome to make any changes you wish to make the mod more fun/playable for yourself.

Yes, there are.

If that's something that can be done with a mod I don't know how to do it. All of the back end stuff is walled off as far as I know and the front end, like models and CSVs, don't control that aspect of the game.

I don't think so. That would require a supporting mechanic that I'm not sure is present. The ship CSV isn't set up like the aircraft CSV in that the columns that would be required for this aren't present at all.

1) Read the studies I linked. Most people I've seen are wearing the equivalent of shirts over their faces. I don't care if the W.H.O. said wearing a raw turkey on your head protected you, I haven't seen it born out in the data.

2) I don't define a fact as popular consensus. Simply because millions of scientists say something doesn't inherently mean they're right. The fact that they've claimed that the damage done is irreversible while also saying that we've seen the earth "heal" on account of less driving and fewer factories (in China) operating is fundamentally contradictory. Every 12 years we only have 12 years until the world ends. It's all bunk.

3) Anything the government wants to fund is done so by threat of force. Socialism, democratic socialism, what ever you label it, relies on extracting money from private citizens and distributing it (inefficiently) across the rest of the populace. If you don't like being told what to do then you're not going to like socialism of any kind because that's all they do. The only right people have regarding health care is _equal access_, after that the burden is on them to figure out how to pay.

4 & 5) The problem is that many countries don't enforce laws on Muslims for whatever internal reason. We see the same in the US with blacks and leftists currently, especially if their charges are related to rioting. If Portugal is able to successfully integrate foreigners into their society then great, that simply hasn't been the rule for the bulk of Western countries.

Edit: The US also isn't a democracy but a constitutional republic with democratically elected representatives.

The issue I have with the information surrounding Sars-Cov-2 is exactly the same issue I have with any "science" around climate change and transgenderism in that it appears false.

Type 2 masks range from 3-ply pleated fabric to cup-formed. While the cup formed at least filter the air, unless they block >75% of droplets between 4 and 8 microns {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293495/} they're not much better than holding a shirt over your face. {https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744}

There in lay my issue with so-called science in that studies conducted prior to all this said just this. Now that there's political motivation, however, "any kind of facial covering works".

During the industrial revolution, when the world was pumping out record levels of CO2, a cooling trend was actually documented. Back in the 1990s when the hole in the O-Zone layer, "caused by aerosol cans", was all the rage? Turns out it's a naturally occurring feature of the atmosphere. Polar ice melting and wiping out the Polar Bears? Their known numbers have never been higher. Science goes where the money is and the desired conclusions get the recognition and funding. Literally paying for the answers you want.

As far as the role of the state goes, America is a large place with a vast and diverse populace. Unlike smaller European nations who had relatively homogeneous populations until recently, not everyone in America works to contribute into the social programs. Combine this with no real way to hold those who run them accountable, wide spread corruption, favoritism, overall poorly run systems and they only ever end up being financial sink-holes. Never mind that many states allow illegal immigrants to claim benefits even though they pay no real taxes to fund them.

All experience shows that there is very little that government does well. This is born out in the fact that despite massive taxation (which is theft), no significant measurable results are found. Compared to previous centuries when social welfare was left in the domain of private citizens either helping their neighbors directly or giving to churches which then helped those who truly needed it, modern social programs have failed utterly and without question.

All one need do is look at any European nation where Muslims have flocked to. All of those systems are either straining or crumbling. Canada, another favored example by advocates of social programs, has a socialized medical system where people pay extra for private care anyway because the public system wait times are so long. They even come to America for the most serious care because while it costs more, they don't have to wait a year to see an oncologist.

At the end of the day it all revolves around personal philosophy. Do you want to be left alone to live your life or do you wish to be told how to live it by government.

There in lies your issue. I don't care how definitions vary based on which community or group is using them. I use words as they're defined in dictionaries and if people want to deliberately misconstrue them in a hope to further their agenda then that's something they, themselves, will have to live with. It's foolish to change the meaning of words based on who you're talking to and doing so underscores a more serious problem in such a society.

Climate change and Sars-Cov-2 are perfect examples. Anyone who dies while being infected with Sars-Cov-2 is counted as a death _from_ it, when in reality it is mostly a complicating factor. Beyond this, all other causes of death are way down meaning that while ~241k people have died with Sar-Cov-2, we're under the projected overall deaths (if memory serves).

Then factor in masks. There are no masks in general use that protect you from transmission. No one in the US is wearing an N95 level mask nor any sort of bio-hazard compliant respirator. Most masks are those silly cloth ones and they don't reliably filter out saw dust from wood working. Aerosolized droplets are much smaller than saw dust and thus obviously would get past these types of masks. Surgical masks, the next most commonly worn type, don't filter air at all. All generally worn masks that I've seen also come with inserts disclosing they're not designed nor guaranteed to stop the spread of Sars-Cov-2.

As for climate change; climate changes. The massive amount of money that is poured into climate research is going to skew the data due to the politicized environment that science now occurs in. This is the same reason bogus gender research papers are so readily published while hard studies are unable to secure funding. Never mind that no one wants to target India & China, who are the two largest greenhouse gas emitters, but are all too eager to separate me from my car and cheap electricity while leveling higher taxes on my income.

As an American in the classic Republic sense of the word, I'm not waiting for anyone to save me. I simply want to be left alone to live my life as I see fit. If things get to a point where I need the government then there is no hope because government does very little well and I certainly wouldn't entrust them with my life.

Except you're conflating disagreeing on practice/implementation and on what a word means. Clear examples of the latter would be racism, climate change, and rape culture where the definition one would assume is not the same as the one intended by those who speak on behalf of these topics.

That said, politics and democracies _are_ mostly pointless since it's only ever a gradual slide to one end of the spectrum until things are suddenly and rapidly shifted to the other, before the cycle repeats. There is no governmental system that I know of which has remained true to its founding principles.

I'd argue that until such a time as a body arises which actively and readily repels all subversive interlopers the above will continue to be the case and discussion of anything else be rendered moot.

Why bother replacing a car's wheel hub if the frame is rusted beyond use?

Not really. Those who agree on definitions are typically on our side of things to begin with and those who wish to perpetually re-define things aren't going to agree anyway.

It's not that these concepts aren't currently well defined, it's that our adversaries keep trying to convince us that they aren't.

This reminds me of when I came across propertarianism and the hilarity that turned out to entail.

I don't know how things are going to turn out but can you imagine the meltdowns if SCotUS passes down a Trump ruling? Talk about an oof.

I didn't read the novel that the OP and comment chain turned into I simply offer this: Natural law is merely what one _can_ do and what one _chooses_ to do. Natural rights, by extension, is anything you can do when alone in the woods with no supplies and stark naked.

These things aren't that complicated, I don't understand that tendency to bloviate on the matter. All the societal stuff comes after you've agreed on first principles, which no one really seems to agree on.

The performance issue is from small caliber AA on the new USN models. Something about how the game handles that set of projectiles hammers game performance. I'll try to address that in the future.

Both the 6" and 8" variants of the Mogami class will be added as well as the Zao class (iirc).

I think this may have been changed in the 1.8 patch that was released yesterday, though I may be wrong.

As a general rule though, yes. Starting fleets, and fleet templates, should be created with the limitations of the AI in mind.

Spencer is a big government socialist though, so this is satire or sarcasm? Fuentes is going to have the same problems everyone else does though, they get caught up in how much money they can make from their base and the "movement" falls by the wayside.

He has some good precepts but I don't expect much to come from them since the premise to to take things so lightly and in comic fashion.

Abrams meets Chieftain meets Leopard 1, maybe with a little Merkava thrown in for flavor?

Literally one romance movie away from suicide at that point lol

KV-1 modernization program? xD

Her cheeks will soon match her hair.

I wouldn't know how cold that is; I don't have a gf. lol

The suggested install method is to replace the old version when a full release comes out and to overwrite existing files when it's a patch.

That said, you can rename the folder of older releases if you wanted to keep multiple versions.

Keep in mind that older versions may not always work as the game is updated, especially if new entries are added to the CSV tables as the older versions won't have those entries and this missing data can cause an error to be thrown.