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Disarming phase cannon turrets (which turret tinkers in deep caves can spawn) seem to be your best bet, checking. As a general thing taking apart high end robots is probably about as good as it gets. Stuff's pretty rare on the market.

Maybe my leftist friends are way more radical than my rightist friends (who are pretty much centrists) so maybe that's why they're more vocal.

I mean, part of it's also probably because 2016 trump lost the popular vote by millions, y'know? Stateside there's legit grievance on that sort of issue, where multiple times in the last few decades POTUS elections have gone GOP despite not being who the american people actually voted for. It's easier to get loud over stuff that's not being pulled out of someone's ass.

That said, yeah, this is the loudest (and most bloody insane) I've seen right-wing folks over election results in a while. Krakens, imaginary counties full of voter fraud, GOP political critters actually telling their base to knock it off with the death threats and crap for once, shit's been fairly wild as post elections go. Not necessarily unexpected with how trump and the republicans have been doing messaging for a while now, but still wild.

Well, that's a thing. Kraken lady's apparently got a witness claiming to have observed massive voter fraud in Edison County, MI.

Nah, whenever you meat a 'murican there's about a 50% chance they voted Trump so it's best to play it safe and consider them a twat from the word go, have them earn their right to not be considered a gibbering idiot hellbent on bringing everyone down to their miserable level afterwards.

Eh, less than 50%, for what it's worth. Huge chunk of the country don't or can't vote. Highest turnout in about a century this year and something around a third of eligible voters didn't vote, nevermind the ones that just flat can't. Probably be closer to like a quarter to a third odds, which, uh. I mean, fairness where it's due, is still pretty shit and you're probably better off hedging your bets.

Think this is first election in a good long while "didn't vote" would have actually lost the election if they were a candidate, though, which is a thing.

1. Whichever you feel like putting skills into, really. I prefer axe or mace, but short or long blade are both plenty good. I'll just pick one early and stick with that, there's not so much of a pick which one as there is a build around one deal, if that makes sense.

2. Yeah. Mutation overhaul that went through recently changed it up a bit, so they got renamed.

3. Either extremely, not very, or actively detrimental, depending on what you're doing

If you have mental mutations you're using heavily (or are doing a lot of trading/character interaction stuff, to a significantly lesser degree), then it can be supremely important, being one of the strongest influences on your damage output and general effectiveness.

If you don't have mental mutations, it's still sorta' helpful for trade et al purposes, but is absolutely your primary dump stat and something you basically ignore and let rise passively.

If you have a bunch of mental mutations, ego might just get you brutally murdered. There's a mechanic (glimmer) that starts sending increasingly nasty critters at you if your combined mental mutation level is high enough. Ego functions as an outright multiplier for that (at a rate of ego increase * number of mental mutations), so if you have a bunch of mental mutations pumping your ego can bring down hammers you are woefully unprepared for.

... basically, it depends. If you're new I'd recommend going willpower heavy if you're running an esper or something, until you get used to things. Ego heavy can burn very bright, but it has a nasty habit of also getting you killed.

4. It's a straight progression up to zetachrome, iirc. You'll know which is better 'cause the better one has bigger numbers

5. Find books, sell books, mostly. Probably don't bother with weapons below (folded) carbide (or at least stick with daggers, short swords... the lighter stuff), ignore most armor unless you got a ton of free carry capacity. Get a sample of things and see what sells well. Most things light or weightless are primary trade fodder.

Supports, so far as I've noticed.

Yeah, I had a lushu foolishly show up at my sect. Tis indeed identical stat wise to fei. Color wise they just look like someone bleached a fei to my eyes, though with flux running that might not be entirely accurate. Seem to be more or less white, anyway.

Though money... I'm waiting for the next merchant to see if my plan will work out. Last one just flat wasn't paying for gear. If the next one is... I got an outer disciple (and another one soon to follow, they're grinding out their crafting XP on a huge pile of darksteel I found at copperton) that just sort of prints tier 9 weapons out of spirit stone blocks. Waiting to see how much they'll sell for, heh.

E: Last thing learned before calling it a night: Don't, I repeat, do not, fish with outer disciples. Don't do it. Fishing is apparently staggeringly deadly for folks without active qi. I was hoping the outers wouldn't also fish up angey yaoguai.

It was a misplaced hope. Misplaced like poor Luqi's spine soon after they started fishing.

E2: Though... anyone know of a really detailed breakdown in how crafting exactly works? I'm kinda' confused at this point, I got a critter with a crafting score a dozen-ish points higher than another of my outers (78 vs 63), nearly double the artisanry (if admittedly all of 15 vs 8 ), and they're producing weapons a solid 30-40 points lower in quality. The one with the lower crafting/artisanry score is printing out named spirit stone weapons, the other can't even hit full 100 quality.

I'm guessing it has to do with a difference in artifact crafting and/or magic, or something going on with the backgrounds (the higher is born craftsman + craftsman + ... something not related to crafting, the lower leader of men/broken meridians + spy), or maybe just a quirk of one having maxed 20/20 crafting level and the other not), but it'd be nice to be not guessing.

e3: though related to that, anyone know of a way to grind artisan? Only thing I've seen that even gives it experience at all so far is zithers, and it'd be nice if there's a better way than littering your sect with zithers and hoping.

No clue, heh. Maybe trap it inside walls...?

In other news, today I've learned that disaster relief appears to have to come through the disaster relief policy. Game doesn't give two shits if you got the 1k brownstone to build the dam, you can't just shove it into the agency and call it a day.

Real unfortunate to learn that with seven days left before the disaster came to the unfortunate conclusion, though

e: also, it's weird and possibly some sort of bug, but apparently winter/late autumn is like the best season for farming xp out of any of them, if you want to turn some outers into lean mean herb gardening machines. Just set out a few fields of poplar; the trees apparently will rapidly die off completely and get replanted.

e2:Ooh, nice. Confirmation Fei may occasionally show up again on Fei environment maps. This setting is the gift that keeps on giving (amazing furs and beast blood).