I think i found a winnable, if heavily RNG-dependent strategy:

- Work 5 days. Buy tools 1.

- Work to turn 14's event. Take inspector padded numbers choice. If not inspector event, reroll.

- Keep working, buy tools 2 on turn 18. If the broken machinery event triggers on the turn you bought the tools or the turn after, buy german tools. Otherwise, reroll. (or go shock brigade, but that really reduces the chances of the run succeeding because you hit phase 2 a few days later with this and it depends on multiple phase 2 events before day 60)

- Buy tools 3, then assistant 1.

- Keep working until phase 2, hope you get the interview by turn 50/51 so you can buy the conveyor.

- Pray that the other events trigger fast enough to avoid the deadline. You want to have at least 35 party favor and 20 morale by day 60, but can only afford a single day of rest at this stage. This requires the thief event and some accounting for the winter crisis event. If you're lucky, you can buy coal without funds just after buying an upgrade, but most likely you'll have to overwork and rest for a day.

Having survived day 60, you now need to get production up as quickly as possible, and going for a workshop delays you too much at this task. I've been buying tools 3 then assistants 2,3 and 4 before focusing on getting morale and party favor high enough to survive the penalty of immediately failing phase 3.

On that run i've cleared phase 2 in turn 119, then completed turn 120 by resting on double shift with 1042 tractors produced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326269

For a company calling chinese companies out for distillation attacks on their models, this very much looks like a distillation attack against human maintainers, especially when combined with the frustration detector.

https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/open-source-teensy-...

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One of the worlds i played on had road planning from the start and a set of roadways covering the entire world in a 4x4 square grid. Pathing to point D was just a matter of going 2 blocks in one direction, and 2 blocks in an orthogonal to it.

In a world without such roadways, you'd look for landmarks such as oceans and continents instead.

Ultimately, you don't care if somewhere is antipodal or not because you never see the antipodes to where the globe is currently looking at without rotating the globe.

It still has the tradeoff of making travel close to the center take longer than it should on a sphere (worked around by limiting diggable height), but i find it a more elegant solution.

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