HighClassGuy

Hello,

Can anyone who has had experience teaching in Hong Kong give any info about the visa process? I've heard and seen mixed requirements for English teaching there online.

I've received multiple offers as a fresh graduate (B.A. Economics) with a 120-Hour online TEFL, but I'm worried I might not make the cut for the visa. I've heard that multiple years of experience or a relevant bachelors degree (English or Education) are necessary, but it's unclear. I only have a year of tutoring (not teaching) experience in college, so that worries me a bit.

At this point I've accepted an offer for a company that I want to work for and I'm ready to send in the application. They don't seem to have a

Hey everyone, I signed a contract with a school a couple weeks ago to teach in China, and have to say frankly I did not expect the visa to be this painful. I need to get a health check, apparently, and it will cost me, in the U.S. without insurance, about $1000. Honestly, I don't have the money to afford this.

It seems I will need to be honest with the school and tell them this isn't feasible. Do you think this will be a problem with my contract? I haven't sent any documents (planned on sending them all together) and my contract doesn't technically start until Feb 23. It says it will be invalidated if I don't take up the position.

I do feel bad about having to cancel like this, and wonder

I've been trying out all different kinds to see which dust effect and stats I like best. Right now I've got carnage beetle (blunt/poison) and it's been great for triggering poison 2-3 times in each hunt. It can also do a surprisingly effective amount of damage by repeatedly slamming the monster's head at a distance :P

Thinking about trying blast ones next, curious if that will be better for damage than poison. Poison really seems to rack up the damage this game though, and I wonder if I could get off enough blasts with just dust to exceed that. I used paralysis for a bit as well and it was pretty good (1-2 paralyzes per hunt) but I don't like the high heal stats on all those. Decided to use

Hey everyone, I just graduated and I'm planning to go teach in China, after spending a semester in HK and loving it there. I've received an offer in Zhuhai that seems pretty good, but is a bit odd to me: 10,000rmb base salary + 8,500 housing allowance.

In total, this seems like good compensation for a first job, but does anyone know why they might offer so much in housing allowance instead of an increased base salary? It seems weird, but they've told me that housing allowance is paid out the same way salary is. Just curious what the norm is for this kind of thing. Thanks!

Does anyone know how ship modifiers affect strike craft? For example I have 91% fire rate bonus and I don't know if it works on strike craft, or if I shouldn't be using them because it doesn't work.

Okay so I made a thread yesterday because I suspected it, but no one confirmed my suspicion. Today I just tested it. I had the option to declare joint war with poland on three civilizations. I then declared frienship with her, and rechecked my options. Joint war was no longer there, instead I could only ask for an alliance. After asking for an alliance, there was still no option to joint war.

Is this intentional? An oversight? Bug? I'm not sure, I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere but it's rather annoying and makes little sense. I hope they fix this or someone addresses it in a mod.

I've been finding that I have trouble declaring joint wars; often the option doesn't even show up, and I can't figure out why. It will allow me with some civs but not others most of the time.

I believe you can't do a joint war with someone who has denounced you, that makes sense, though I'm not totally sure if it's the case. But I also find that the option never seems available with civs I have declared as friends. Does declaring friendship prevent going to joint wars together as well? If anyone can confirm or deny my hypotheses that would be great, I find that (as usual) civlopedia is useless for these nitpicky details.

So, I just figured out an interesting strategy anyone can employ. If you haven't noticed yet, selling a unit gives back half of its cost in gold. So, you can sell two units for gold equal to the units production cost. Strong, right? Go ahead and spam all the eagle warriors, hoplites, or other uu units knowing you can convert them pretty effectively into gold when you're done with them.

Now for the really fun part. know that policy that gives you 100% production to cavalry units? Yeah, really good one. Well, you can also basically use it to provide a 1:1 production to gold trade based on what I said above. For example I'm currently playing a game as sumeria where all of my cities just produ

Personally I don't mind the archer towers too much in this game. Having them require manning to fire and having angles of attack that can be avoided is a great step. but I do have one problem with them, and that is how they destroy siege units with ease. I haven't done too much testing, but it appears they outrange every siege weapon in the game. Great, they can defend themselves... but it's a little ridiculous. Grab a few empire great cannons and see if you can take down a single watchtower before it destroys your cannons. the arrows are highly accurate and extremely powerful, even at level one. less of a problem on, say, ultra unit size, but anything less your cannons are easily outmatched

Alright, so I'm currently going to a community college and recently decided I that I want to focus on economics, with my ultimate goal being to get a PhD. It's a huge decision and I'm more worried than anything if it's a realistic goal to set. I have a couple problems in particular:

1. Starting at a Community College: How bad does this look? How important are my grades here (not too bad, 3.5 but I need to do better I think)? I've heard some people say that it doesn't matter and where you transfer is the only thing that will be looked at, is this true?

2. My math background: This is the oddest and most concerning thing about me, I think. I'm glad to say that I like math and think I'm good a