Am I missing something, or have we lost the option to send caravans to give gifts to hostile settlements in order to improve relations?
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Went to go dig out the bottom of my pile and found it was full of grubs; like 1-2 grub per Cup of dirt. Can I sift out the grubs? They are huge, like 1” long and over 1/4th inch diameter. But I can’t see if there are smaller ones. Do grubs start out tiny like a grain of sand? I thought I might sift out the “dirt” using a colander, then pour the larger material onto a tarp and leave it in the sun and see if I can drive out anything smaller. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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I ordered a 3/8” slab of steel from my local metal shop to use as a baking steel before I considered how big my oven was. The steel is 16x22 and my oven racks are about 16x23. With only about an inch on either side for airflow, is that too big? I’ve got a regular gas oven, no convection, nothing fancy.
Thanks in advance!
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I bought the Gene Cafe about a year ago when my Behmor died. I am far from an expert but I don’t think I am clueless either. I’ve tried complex roasts with documentation and I’ve tried setting it to max until it’s done. I am mainly roasting Ethiopian (various processes) and always shooting for light roasts. I get unreliable results and almost never does the flavor come out amazing. Here are the problems I am trying to overcome. Hoping for either confirmation that this is just how this roaster works, or some insight to overcome these issue.
Chaff collection grate clogs up almost immediately once beans start cracking and the chaff sweeper arm wobbles loosely so that it barely scrapes the chaf
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On a recent game I got subjugated within like 10 years of starting and was surrounded by other vassals. After a few decades I mustered a large enough fleet, part in thanks to nomad cruisers, to demand independence. I was winning the war and was about 15 points from victory when all of a sudden I was 230 points from victory. At that point I gave up and accepted defeat.
What went wrong? The enemy had just reached status quo and I was still 20 points from exhaustion. The only thing I can think of was right at the end I was maxed out on influence so I claimed a half dozen systems from my overlord to burn some influence. I assumed those unclaimed systems jacked up the war goal which would not go
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Keeps going cold. Mostly grass, leaves, and kitchen scraps. Does it look like I need more green, brown, water, all of the above?
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