Some good quality of life changes that seem obvious in retrospect - that’s still impressive to me considering how long they’ve been working on it!
This might make you sad but it was over a year ago! https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-371 Time files! @bloopernova
Mine arrived this morning before 9am. Tested it this afternoon and all looks good!
UK - ordered within 25 minutes of going up (spent 25 minutes TRYING to checkout), it’s due to arrive today
On that line of thinking Ireland might be a good choice - they speak English and are still in the EU.
I like to play the game in phases - first phase is to automate the digging of coal, iron, and copper, (stone too if I feel energetic) into chests.
Then comes electricity - get something like 8 iron, 4 coal, 2 copper, 1 stone mines going and smelting.
Then start on science - I usually aim for 8 factories for red and green which will feed a few science labs.
Personally I then get all the science I can and basically build another base around that base, stealing transport belts from the science factories and building a basic bus and expanding out to the remaining science colours.
Another phase is probably trains which means lots of iron production.
Another phase is robots which marks the need for oil and copper being important.
Then with the final sciences comes true scale, my first base is usually gone by this point.
Finally comes the rocket/spaceship and then time to start building my REAL base.
I don’t tend to worry about number of factories or science per second but will try to increase until I’ve filled a belt with inputs.
This is a very badly worded title - it’s not the top rate he plans to adjust but the 40% middle rate which starts at £50,270 - hardly millionaire land. Given our stupid inflation recently that’s an income of ~£41,000 pre Covid. Are we calling anyone who earns more than school teachers (max pay £40,490 in 2019) “top earners” now?!
Per the article it’s not the top rate he plans to edit but the middle 40% rate which currently starts at £50,270. It’s a little more complex because there is also National Insurance to pay which drops when you hit the 40% tax rate so effectively you go from paying 32% total below £50,270 to 42% above £50,270 (for income above that level). There is a tax free band below £12,570 as well.
I’m simplifying because tax is complicated but roughly that’s how it works. As you move up tax bands you also lose amounts of other allowances like free dividend interest. Above £100k income it gets more complex because even more allowances are removed, especially the tax free band gets reduced.
In the UK “the shopping” means food, groceries, and other essentials (although it can mean luxury items too). Giving phrases like “I’ll carry in the shopping” or “I’m going out for the shopping”.
So saying it’s expensive to be buying shopping is saying food, etc. is expensive.
Thank you for the advice! Sadly I’m playing on Switch so probably can’t use the mods - however I appreciate your insights into the value in playing without the mines, that reassures me it’s a valid strategy/play style.
The biggest factor that causes me stress in Stardew is actually the time restrictions - trying to maximise the days for example. This is a me problem obviously but it seems to be somewhat common.
I’m tempted to play again on iOS since I own it there as well and try to be extremely casual and not really care about my progress.
I would say it means strong but with an implied sadness, but you can have positive poignant memories too - you’d just have to state they were positive. The day I graduated from University was poignant because it was the end of an era and the start of another, but it doesn’t mean it is a sad memory.