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Nargle. Look... look at the about page. Loooook at it. Then like, read what's there.

Ngh? Yeah, it's been dev-stated there's intended to be reasons to settle down on a planet or two; there's going to be more NPCs than you have room for on your station, mainly. So you'll have good reason to build up a little on a planet or two to get whatever benefit comes from having that excess meat laying around.

I do not find the prospect of just handing over at least $2 Billion/year over to "Friendly" politicians good. Generally, any foreign politicians you have to refer to as "friendly" are dubiously so as a rule. Moreover he's coming off as "entitled" when but-for us he wouldn't be in power currently. This is a tactical blunder on his part at best.

Looking at the article again, it seems less like it's for Karzi (or "friendly politicians") specifically and more for... well, the specific mention was "security," so presumably reestablishment (or further build up) of martial power (for law enforcement, counter-insurgency work, etc.) by the government.

It'd depend on what exactly the money was going to, really. I can sorta' see a bit of entitlement involved if it was for rebuilding some of the mess we made over there.

I'd personally need a hell of a lot more details and background information before I could say anything negative about what the guy was saying. Will say that the article itself was incredibly shittily written. Seemed to be aiming more to rabble rouse than provide actual information

M'personal experience is that the higher level spells are almost always more mana efficient than lower level spells, i.e. it usually takes one mystic blast to do the work of 5+ magic darts, one icicle to do what 3+ throw frosts do, etc., so forth. Constantly I've tried to save mana using lower level spells, and constantly I've ended up using more mana than I would have if I had just blasted or icicle'd the bugger. This becomes doubly true once the lower level spells cap out on damage. The primary limitation for me has been hunger, not mana, and spell failure.

Once you've got throw icicle or IMB hungerless, about the only reason to keep low level raw damage spells around is to pull crap at the edge of yer LoS... and that's what you have stones for. There's occasional use for stuff with secondary effects (ranged fire spells for steam generation, ferex.), though.

Ah, finally reached further into genkyouien than I had managed previously.

I know this, because
I'd say stuff like this was a guilty pleasure, but there'd have to be guilt there first.

... on pizza, I have occasionally made macaroni and cheese, then cooked a pizza, chopped up the pizza, and then stuck them together and stirred. Also mashed potatoes and rice, actually.

Sometimes I just go, "Fuck it. I'm adding a pizza. No, not pizza ingredients. I'm putting in a god damn pizza." And then I eat pizza X for a day or three. Cook enough for two or three days in one go and you don't have to cook for two or three days. Just nuke... sometimes. Sometimes you just eat it cold.

Do vaguely remember Wayne enterprises doing a fair amount of trickle down stuff and charity, though. At least, my memory is telling me bruce shows up at a few events related to Wayne funded charities in the animated series, anyway. It's been years since I've watched any of it, despite having seen most (all?) of it.

You can probably just ice beast spam swamp to death without even thinking about it. Might want to hunt down levitation (or just learn flight.) for shoals, but... again, ice beasts. I'd suggest replacing magic dart and throw frost (or possibly just venom bolt) with throw icicle and blasting down whatever you think the ice beasts won't kill fast enough.

As for the branches themselves, the most dangerous thing in swamp is poison and confusion, particularly via breath attacks. rPois and clarity if you can get it, and you've basically cleared the place, providing the end doesn't curveball you too hard.

Shoals, biggest issue is harpies and ranged attacks (primarily the javelineers, but the casters are pretty nasty, too.), and being able to get around. If you want to be terribly sure about shoals, wait until you have deflect missiles and flight. And apportation, which often makes getting the rune itself considerably less of a pain in the arse risky.

Seriously though, spriggan. Get apportation (though you'll have to find it, first), ninja rune, run away. Kite everything, critter spam to soak up missile attacks, blast with whatever on hand. Just being spriggan negates a tremendous amount of challenges.

If you're not comfortable going in as is, though, you might want to go explore the dungeon some more instead, maybe dip a bit into vault or orc.