![]() ![]() Honor is accumulated over time from religion, varied food portions and generous royal food supplies. ![]() Honor makes its return, which is used to recruit advanced barracks and fantasy units, as well as to promote in rank. As a convenience feature, ox tethers are functional without a worker and can be set a rally point to prioritize loading from certain mines. Stone and most other materials are notably cheaper, as well as the market is an expensive building that introduces automatic buy and sell rates for the player. Wood camps in particular have been redesigned, requiring much more area to place and featuring three woodsmen, as well as they can be given a point to focus gathering operations. The economy of Legends features fewer buildings than Stronghold 2, but their prices are greatly increased, therefore spamming them is less possible. Honourly events like the masses and jousting tournaments are removed from the game. In addition, the player is awarded bonus popularity when their population is low, mostly to facilitate faster incoming peasants in the beginning of the game. When the bar overflows, a consumption effect takes place, removing stocks while also granting a beneficial effect (such as consuming candles). Popularity mechanics, such as taxation, religion and royal food are now regularly ticked, denoted by a constantly refilling bar on their respective panel. ![]() Stronghold Legends draws from Stronghold 2's sim mechanics, however simplifies them for the sake of faster and less complicated gameplay. The gameplay revolves around the classic formula: build an industry and a castle from resources gathered, provide the populace food and recruit units. Moreover, estates ignore economic requirements, meaning they do not care about popularity and goods stocks when building.Ĭarters on the way can still be attacked like in Stronghold 2 and they are made to be rewarding: when fallen with loaded cargo, the delivery is immediately awarded to the killing player. Upon switching to a new production type, the village is immediately reset and starts ferrying via its carter's posts. Rather than preset by the map-maker, goods types in an estate can be chosen by the player who captures them, allowing for a higher degree of customization. The player can choose its alignment before the start of a skirmish or a king-of-the-hill match.Įstates return from Stronghold 2 with a greater utility than before. Each faction can also call down a dragon, a massive epic unit, which can fly over terrain and breathe damaging fire at an area, albeit with a large preparation time and limited lifespan.Įach faction also has visually themed buildings, as well as randomly scattered decoration features on their estates, such as Evil estates featuring scattered heads on a stake and cemetery crosses. ![]() The Ice and Evil factions both are able to recruit special units en masse, with somewhat limited economic possibilities. The Arthurian faction is designed to be an economic one, having full access to goods and castle services, while fielding only unique units from the Round Table in return. Moreover, factions have certain limitations on economy, siege unit roster and castle defenses, making them further differ from each other. While each faction can use mostly the same buildings and units from the barracks, they can also hire 'mercenaries' from a dedicated special building providing a special set of fantasy units, of which some can also use abilities that recharge over time. The most important data, such as popularity, gold and food stocks are conveniently displayed in a top bar, while the building panels also include trade shortcuts to specific resources, such as the poleturner having access to wood trade buttons.įor the first and only time ever in the Stronghold series, Legends features a semi-asymmetric combat and economy system by introducing factions. Stronghold Legends is built to provide a dynamic combat and economy system, greatly simplifying and streamlining those found in Stronghold 2. There are 8 opponents total available for play (of which 2 are available only in custom scenarios). Multiplayer is available for classic Skirmish, as well as the King of the Hill modes, where players compete for controlling dedicated parts of a map. the Evil faction: werewolves, bats and other hellish creatures built around Vlad Tepes and the opposition of ArthurĮach faction features its own single-player campaign, as well as four Legends Trails can be completed in various skirmish scenarios.the Ice faction: wolves, dwarves and heroes from around the Rhine, the Old German songs.the Good faction: knights of the Round Table and nobles from the Arthurian Old English mythology.Stronghold Legends brings the player to a world of medieval folklore and epics, featuring a variety of mythical units and characters from three factions: Stronghold Legends ( SHL) is the successor of Stronghold 2, released October 2006. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When I quit the game and restarted it in the exact same map my memory usage was 190mb again.Ģ00mb increase with just one player in a rather small map can quickly escalate to several gigabytes in multiplayer with bigger maps. ![]() After building for a while I was up to 390mb. With the game initialized I had 190mb memory usage. The memory usage will steadily increase and never decrease until the game, webplayer in this case, is restarted.įor example I started the game in a clean chrome browser with 20mb memory usage. I stress tested the game now and you seem to have the exact same memory issue (leak) I have when combining meshes. I greatly improved the achievements system response time (Achievements are calculated server side) Stuff like logic bricks/springboards come in handy in those game modes, even traps. I'll fill in our feedback site with some future plans with multiple game modes (and how we add them to the game). Some kind of Map randomisation: We're not yet planning on generating maps, we don't think we want to go this way, and we're not copying Minecraft. "can’t skill the tutorial"? You mean skip? True, as it's really easy to quickly complete it once. You can build blocks under you if you look down and jump, this is encouraged. Fixed the jump height, you can now jump 2 blocks However there are still -way- more features planned. I might still decide to lower the final price if it's indeed to much. I've seen a bunch of other (small) indie games selling for 20 euros.Ĭubelands is 7.50 Euros for the early birds, 15€ after full launch. It's 10 Euros during the alpha, 15 during beta and finaly 20. Thanks for taking the time for your feedback!Ībout the price: Minecraft is going to sell for 20 Euros actually. I hope this helps, keep up the good work. When you press two buttons at the same time and then press jump you lose the footstep sounds till you stop and start moving again ( yea, yea, just nitpicking) I didn’t get any achievement at all during play, but later when I stated the game again I got all at once… ? The achievement system was kinda F***ed up when I played. Special cubes: Cubes that have special effects on the environment or the player like… springboards! Probably the have even some kind of requirement system or… I don’t know, it’s just an input. NPCs: the more you play in your map the more NPCs walk around and give it some life. Therefore you could make moving platforms or elevators(specially elevators would be a damn nice thing ) I know that concept is very fragmentary but I guess you get my point. Now if you assign a wood brick to those waypoints it starts moving between them. Logic bricks: For instance, you place two “Waypoint Cube” in some distance to each other. I think, that you should find a way to make your game unique and distance the game a bit more from Minecraft. I know that’s a HUGE feature, but some kind of randomisation would be nice, and if it’s just placing random trees over the map. But one of the coolest features there was the fact that a whole world gets created for you, and you can explore that. Again, I’m referring to Minecraft, I’m sorry about that. Some kind of Map randomisation is missing. I’m not quite sure about that, but I think you can’t skill the tutorial. That’s not a big deal, but it would make building way more comfortable. The jump height could be a bit increased, so that I can at least jump two blocks high. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t sell your game, but in my opinion the current price is neither realistic nor fair. You see, Minecraft costs about 10,00 Euros, that means buying Minecraft is even cheaper then yours but has tons of more features. Also the similarities to Minecraft are obvious, so you have to stand the comparison.Īnd the first thing that bugs me is simply the price for the full game. But don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed playing your game, I just see room for improvement. Well, I really see this as a Beta, therefore my “Don’t like” list will be a bit longer then the “Like” one. Your game runs super smooth.Īlso the idea of an achievement system kinda got me My computer is really old and almost no unity web player runs on my pc without any lag. You really did an awesome job with the system requirements. Also the Controls are pretty intuitive and work well. ![]() All right, I tested it out for about 15 minutes, here is some feedback:įirst of all, I love the music, a really catchy theme. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Regardless of the outcome, the finding demonstrates the unrivalled abilities of TGO’s instruments in enabling us to ‘see’ below Mars’ surface,” Dr Svedhem added. “This finding is an amazing first step, but we need more observations to know for sure what form of water we’re dealing with,” study co-author Håkan Svedhem of ESA’s ESTEC in the Netherlands added. Knowing more about how & where water exists on present-day #Mars is essential to understand what happened to Mars’ once-abundant water – and helps us search for habitable environments and possible signs of past #LifeonMars. “Overall, we think this water more likely exists in the form of ice,” Dr Malakhov said. This means, water is leaking from the tank to your drain without flushing the toilet. Scientists have been working to tease out both the history and the present existence of water on Mars, investigating what might be hidden lakes ( or might just be frozen clay) and mapping out. Water leak repairs will be necessary if you find color in the bowl after the 10 minute waiting time. Just grab some food coloring and drop some in the toilet tank. The observed deposits of water, the researchers believe, could either be in the form of ice, or water that is chemically bound to other minerals in the soil.īut based on other studies, they say the minerals seen in this part of Mars usually contain only a few percentage of water-“much less than is evidenced by these new observations”. Try the toilet dye test to detect water leaks. “Frend’s unique observing technique brings far higher spatial resolution than previous measurements of this type, enabling us to now see water features that weren’t spotted before,” Dr Malakhov added. “Neutrons are produced when highly energetic particles known as ‘galactic cosmic rays’ strike Mars drier soils emit more neutrons than wetter ones, and so we can deduce how much water is in a soil by looking at the neutrons it emits,” study co-author Alexey Malakhov from the Russian Academy of Sciences explained. In the study, the researchers analysed data recorded from May 2018 to February 2021 by the Frend instrument that mapped the hydrogen content of Mars’ soil by detecting neutrons. A central part of Valles Marineris, the scientists believe, could be packed full of water-similar to the Earth’s permafrost regions like Siberia, where water ice permanently persists under dry soil because of the constant low temperatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The tracks were re-laid at standard gauge. The horses escaped but the coal car was knocked into the bay.Įarly in 1882 the wharf, by then the property of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, was completely rebuilt. ![]() The first crossing accident occurred soon after when a California Southern engine collided with a horse-drawn car full of coal. It “crossed Fifth Street” on a fill about fifty feet out from the shoreline of the bay, where a crossing was made with the railroad on the wharf the wharf itself had to be lowered six inches to meet the grade of the California Southern. In 1881 the California Southern started to build San Diego’s first outside rail connection. The San Diego Union for May 24, 1873, slyly remarked that “The engine on the railway track of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s wharf ran off the track Thursday near the shore end and was not found until Saturday.” Horses were the original motive power steam came soon after. Tracks were laid on it before 1872, and four iron dump cars, which had been brought down from the North by steamer, were being used to haul coal from ship to shore. Until that time steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company had been using the old Culverwell Wharf at the foot of F Street, but all activity was then transferred to the new pier. It was completed in 1869 at a cost of $45,000. In 1868 Horton commenced construction of a wharf near the foot of Fifth Street that extended about six hundred feet to the channel in the bay. Old Town, it will be remembered, had nothing but a beach. After he had chosen the best location for the city, subdivided it, and begun his attempts to dispose of it, he set about the first and more important task in the development of a port town, the building of adequate wharfage facilities. Everything in New San Diego started with “Father” Alonzo Horton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() LaCie Private-Public, Backup Assistant, Eco Mode 2, Wuala 3 Minimum free disk space: 600MB recommended Latest version of Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7, Windows 8 / Mac OS® X 10.5 (Intel Only), 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 *Capacity availability varies from region to region.Ĭomputer with a USB 3.0 or USB 2.0 port 1 77% Energy Savings - Automatic Eco mode lowers the power consumption by up to 77%* when not in use.Secure Online Storage - 10GB of Wuala Online Storage included for one year to securely store and share your data online.Password Protection - With LaCie Private-Public software built-in, it's easy to make sure that your files are secure and protected, no matter where you go.Automatic Backup - Easy setup and automatic worry-free backup for both PC and Mac computers.LaCie and Porsche Design worked together to combine form and function-resulting in a desktop hard drive that looks great on your desk (and works great). 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LaCie first joined forces with Porsche Design in 2003 to produce one of the most iconic and enduringly popular external hard drives on the market. It also features a striking LED that both indicates power and lends sophisticated elegance. The P'9230 lets you transfer files faster than ever with USB 3.0 performance, and has the capacity to hold all of your files. It's the product of a collaboration between one of the most renowned design firms in the world and LaCie. The LaCie Porsche Design P'9230 is a new breed of desktop hard drive, a perfect blend of form and function. ![]() ![]() ![]() The HeraHub is also a home to programs & social events for those who are interested. The office space is fairly large to squeeze a good number of teams and freelancers, even up to 150-200 different people all working and sharing the same space. Although the place can be crowded at times, there are lots of intelligent freelancers and businesswomen to communicate with. 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![]() Side modes are often more difficult and feature new monsters to test their defenses in different scenarios or maps. The game will introduce more game modes to entertain players, and their style is completely different from the main modes. VARIOUS GAME MODES FOR EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE The monsters will bring players many surprises, such as entertainment, excitement, and generous rewards from the battle. The monsters are also designed in a variety and richness, along with several special weapons to make the level more vibrant and exciting and create pressure for players when they rush into the sticky swamp. The game takes its simplicity to the next level, and players can enjoy all sorts of funny content while sitting back and blasting monsters.īesides the simple control mechanism, the gameplay is fast-paced and increases overtime at each level. Moreover, they need to continuously tap the screen to shoot instead of complicated moves like other games and build effective strategies for long-term survival. ![]() Swamp Attack has entertaining and age-friendly gameplay where players only need to use various weapons to defend their beloved swamp. SIMPLE CONTROLS BUT INTENSELY FUN GAMEPLAY Players will also have a lot of entertainment and fun from the battlefield, thanks to friendly and humorous graphics. In this game, the player is tasked with protecting and defending their swamp from countless monsters, and they need to build tactics and defenses and use a variety of weapons to complete the mission. Swamp Attack 2 is an action-packed attack and defense game filled with guns, monsters and zombies.Swamp Attack is a straight-action game that introduces a high-paced defense style with a high increase over time. Different monsters lurk in different regions, and you’ll need strong tactics to defeat some of these zombies, so get ready to fight in this tower defense game! Start off in the Deep South and play levels to progress to the Siberian swamps of China and Russia. Combine lethal weapons with lethal family members for the best attack. ![]() Slow Joe ain’t the sharpest tack in the box and he’s going to need help defending his swamp! Meet flamethrowing Cousin Welder, armed and dangerous Uncle Hairy and the not-so-sweet Grandma Mau. Some guns are effective on small, quick monsters while others are better on big, slow beasts! Upgrade your guns as you go to kick up a monster storm. ![]() Shotguns, rayguns, rockets, bombs, grenades… practice your aim and your archery skills with an extensive range of weapons. Are they mutants? Zombies? All we know is they’re deadly! And they’ll do more than destroy the plants if they get close, so load up your gun and get shooting! 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Grab your gun and get ready for action! ![]() ![]() ![]() "Moreover, people who are lactose intolerant and do not get enough vitamin D and calcium because they don't eat dairy products also could benefit from supplements," says Dr. Some research also has found that a formula of vitamin C, vitamin E, carotenoids, zinc, and copper can reduce the progression of age-related macular degeneration, a major cause of vision loss among older adults. People with vitamin B12 deficiency almost always need a supplement. Supplements also can help people with Crohn's disease or celiac disease, conditions that make it difficult to absorb certain nutrients. For instance, adults diagnosed with osteoporosis may require extra vitamin D and calcium beyond what they get from their regular diet. Supplements can play an important role for some high-risk groups. Taking high amounts of vitamin B6 for a year or longer has been associated with nerve damage that can impair body movements (the symptoms often go away after the supplements are stopped). Vitamin K can interfere with the anti-clotting effects of blood thinners. High doses of vitamin E may lead to stroke caused by bleeding in the brain. High doses of beta carotene have been linked to a greater risk of lung cancer in smokers.Įxtra calcium and vitamin D may increase the risk of kidney stones. Most supplements are safe to take, but there are exceptions. Also, the Physicians' Health Study II, published in 2012 by Harvard researchers, found that men who took a daily multivitamin for 11 years had an 8% lower risk of cancer and a 9% lower risk of cataracts compared with a placebo group. For instance, some research has shown that folic acid and B-complex vitamins may reduce the risk of stroke. "With limited regulation and oversight, it's also difficult to know for certain that the supplement contains the ingredients on the label and is free of contaminants." "Supplements can appear on the shelf without having to prove they offer any benefits," says Dr. The greatest issue with supplements is that they are not regulated by the FDA. "People feel healthier if they do something they believe makes them healthy." There's also a possible placebo effect to taking supplements, she adds. So why do so many people take supplements if the health benefits are negligible or nonexistent for the average, healthy person? "People often think of them as something extra they can do to be sure their basic nutritional needs are covered," says Dr. In fact, a study published online May 28, 2018, by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that the four most commonly used supplements - multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium, and vitamin C - did not protect against cardiovascular disease. For the most part, though, people use "supplement" to mean an individual vitamin or mineral preparation or a multivitamin (that is, a product that contains 10 or more vitamins, minerals, or both).Įven though supplements are popular, there is limited evidence that they offer any significant health benefits. "And they can be a distraction from healthy lifestyle practices that confer much greater benefits." What the science showsĭietary supplement is an umbrella term that includes everything from vitamins and minerals to botanicals and biosimilar products (such as so-called "natural male hormone"). JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor of epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. "Supplements are never a substitute for a balanced, healthful diet," says Dr. 1, 2017, in The Journal of Nutrition found that 70% use a daily supplement (either a multivitamin or individual vitamin or mineral), 54% take one or two supplements, and 29% take four or more.īut are these pills good medicine, or a waste of money? A survey of almost 3,500 adults ages 60 and older published Oct. Older adults make up a big part of these sales, too. Over-the-counter dietary supplements are big business - more than 90,000 products generate about $30 billion every year in the United States. But are these products right for everyone? Most older adults take some kind of over-the-counter dietary supplement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a zero-based budget, everything is on the table and you should have nothing left over. One popular strategy that businesses and individuals can use to get started involves making a zero-based budget. You won't know how much you can afford to trim from your budget if you don't have one at all. Maybe you're willing to cut back on some non-essential spending if it enables you to reach another goal. You can take a look at your budget and see what you can reasonably trim. Now, what if something changes down the road? Say you want to take a dream job that pays less than you're currently making or you want to move to a city with a higher cost of living. If that's within your budget, you've paid your bills and you've paid yourself, go for it. Say you know you're spending a hefty sum on eating out, travel or clothes. For another, you'll be able to make room in your budget if necessary. For one thing, you'll have an emergency fund and retirement savings. Once you have a workable budget you'll see how useful it can be to prepare you for the future. Having a budget that you regularly reassess will help you take stock of where your money is going and how close you are to meeting your goals. You "pay yourself" by beefing up your emergency fund and investing for retirement, you pay your bills (including any debts you're carrying) and then you can spend what's left over. But it's living from paycheck to paycheck in a good way. That may sound like living paycheck to paycheck and in a way it is. Ideally, every dollar of your income should be accounted for in a monthly budget. Let's talk about living within your means. Second, having a budget leaves you better prepared for changes in the future. First, it helps you live within your means. Having a budget is important for two reasons. Budgeting also lets you see how much you're spending in different categories. Household Budget BasicsĪ budget lets you manage how much you're spending relative to how much you're earning. ![]() With our interactive budget calculator you can see how people like you in your zip code are budgeting based on factors including the number of adults and children in the household and the size of the household's annual income. We offer advice on how to streamline your budget, how to fix your budget and how to stick to your budget. “We think increase along with the rate of inflation in consumer spending, but it probably doesn't go out of control,” Kreyenhagen says.Here at SmartAsset we talk a lot about budgets. But auto-related expenses such as loan payments and insurance will likely reflect the continued increases in car and truck costs-and those rises likely won’t abate until the semiconductor chip shortage and supply-chain bottlenecks fade. Utility costs, for example, are largely regulated. Looking ahead, Kreyenhagen says, it’s difficult to tell how rising costs will impact household bills in 2022. “For people living right at that edge, it’s hard for them to swallow these increases,” Kreyenhagen says. While that’s the biggest annual jump in pay since Payscale started tracking compensation in 2007, once the effect of inflation is factored in, workers actually took a 1.3% year-over-year pay cut. Workers’ wages rose 3.3% at the end of last year, according to Payscale, a compensation software and data company. ![]() Still, inflation is eating into Americans’ purchasing power. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within each tubule, the presence of a continuous lumen is essential to its function: even a small discontinuity would block the passage of filtrate, thereby abolishing its excretory function. In the kidney, tubules have a single layer of epithelial cells surrounding a central lumen. What is the function of lumen in the kidney? An example of a lumen is the 13 lumens of a candle and the 1,200 lumens of a 100 watt light bulb. The definition of a lumen is the measure of brightness from a light source. The lumen contains plasma and blood cells, called hemocytes (Haag et al. What is the lumen made of?ġB), composed of simple channels lined by a basal cell surface of mesothelial or intestinal cells, extracellular matrix, and/or basement membrane. The space inside the thylakoid discs is called the lumen, or, more specifically, the thylakoid lumen. The space between the inner chloroplast membrane and the grana is called the stroma. Examples of body structures that have a lumen include the large intestine, small intestine, veins, and arteries. The lumen is the opening inside a tubular body structure that is lined by body tissue known as an epithelial membrane. The thylakoid lumen is a narrow aqueous space within the thylakoid membrane that contains around 80 proteins, as based on proteomics studies (Schubert et al. If it’s low in carbon dioxide, the body is in a fat-burning state. If there’s a high carbon dioxide concentration, it means carbs are predominantly used. More specifically, the Lumen calculates the respiratory exchange ratio (RER) which indicates the fuel source the body is predominantly burning. ![]() |
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