1. First, concentrate your resources on one single general while constantly reevaluate the potential of this general.
All of the first tier Generals are 5 stars at gold, this you're able to find in the index, if you get a 5 star gold general from your daily draw, you're set.
Rationale of why you want to focus on one general at first, once you get to 6star gold on a second tier general or 6 star silver or above on a first tier general, with 6 star weapon you'll be able to get 4 star generals at times from campaign from time to time, which in turn can become a quick source of exp to level up generals. My current main character is a 6 star gold lu lingqi wielding 6star weapon.
2. Be ready to utilize your Magical Edict ASAP
3. Take Over Gold Mines
4. Do your daily tasks.
5. Save the silver and bronze versions of the rare generals for skill sacrifice.
6. Join a Good Guild for weekly tasks for gold ingots and daily silver reward.
To be continued...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Sleeping in your car part 4
Power and storage: Lower voltage is surly safer and easier to manage, in addition to the fact that you would be drawing less attention to yourself when you charge up at big interstate malls like they have on the I-95 heading north of Maryland. Some times there are plenty of nice and safe rest areas with restaurants which allows for a meal break and some charging. I started with power packs that would hold 20k mah per unit, like the power banks you buy online, after destroying quite a few in my morbid need to take them apart and figure out how they work, I started to build my own. The reasons and logic is as follows:
1. The reason to build your own battery bank. Most of the power you need when you are on the road that cannot be fulfilled by the cig lighter are your electronic devices and their batteries, the lipo cells in your electronics require constant current and smart charging which just cannot be done efficiently on the road, and relying on the shore power or whenever 110v is available is just impractical. So storing them in either 12v deep cycle or marine batteries or storing them in 3.7v lipo batteries are the best choices one might make. Going back and forth between the 12v or 3.7v solutions, I have found that 3.7v is by far more superior and easier to manage. I can build modular units which I can unplug to fast charge on a lipo charger and I can take one bank at a time to use with a modifies power bank to provide the USB power I need to charge my devices, the conversion rate can be as high as 90% and I can charge up to 20 amps at the time If I set the banks on multiple chargers, this is easily more than 10 times charging efficiency of the actual phone charge, then while on the road I can have my power bank feed it to the phone at 2 amps rate. The modular banks also acts perfect as a balancing mechanism, so I can plug 3 or 4 banks onto my harness which effectively turn the 4 1S batteries into a 4S, which I can use straight charge for a laptop or I can use this on an inverter. Large 1S banks also serve well for lighting the place as more and more USB led lights are available, I cam set one bank connection to dedicate itself to the Led light, a switch for the fans, a momentary switch for the power monitoring and so on, it is a well balanced system due to the stability of the lipo.
2. Storage: You will want to use all spaces you can find for storing things. In general, you want to place your heavier items eight on the floor and boxed in or locked down and your lighter items some what levitating if possible, secure with nets and hooks. Some water tight container is always nice for storing foods, Having a cooler is always a plus. While clothes are flexible, you want them to be inside a bag of some sort. There's always some space inside the door panels, especially if you do not intend to open a door from the inside.
3. Shore power for a small vehicle. Run an extension wire from the firewall into the cabin for shore power, this may serve as a great place to cook or sometimes, a place to charge your battery bank overnight.
1. The reason to build your own battery bank. Most of the power you need when you are on the road that cannot be fulfilled by the cig lighter are your electronic devices and their batteries, the lipo cells in your electronics require constant current and smart charging which just cannot be done efficiently on the road, and relying on the shore power or whenever 110v is available is just impractical. So storing them in either 12v deep cycle or marine batteries or storing them in 3.7v lipo batteries are the best choices one might make. Going back and forth between the 12v or 3.7v solutions, I have found that 3.7v is by far more superior and easier to manage. I can build modular units which I can unplug to fast charge on a lipo charger and I can take one bank at a time to use with a modifies power bank to provide the USB power I need to charge my devices, the conversion rate can be as high as 90% and I can charge up to 20 amps at the time If I set the banks on multiple chargers, this is easily more than 10 times charging efficiency of the actual phone charge, then while on the road I can have my power bank feed it to the phone at 2 amps rate. The modular banks also acts perfect as a balancing mechanism, so I can plug 3 or 4 banks onto my harness which effectively turn the 4 1S batteries into a 4S, which I can use straight charge for a laptop or I can use this on an inverter. Large 1S banks also serve well for lighting the place as more and more USB led lights are available, I cam set one bank connection to dedicate itself to the Led light, a switch for the fans, a momentary switch for the power monitoring and so on, it is a well balanced system due to the stability of the lipo.
2. Storage: You will want to use all spaces you can find for storing things. In general, you want to place your heavier items eight on the floor and boxed in or locked down and your lighter items some what levitating if possible, secure with nets and hooks. Some water tight container is always nice for storing foods, Having a cooler is always a plus. While clothes are flexible, you want them to be inside a bag of some sort. There's always some space inside the door panels, especially if you do not intend to open a door from the inside.
3. Shore power for a small vehicle. Run an extension wire from the firewall into the cabin for shore power, this may serve as a great place to cook or sometimes, a place to charge your battery bank overnight.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Sleeping in your car part 3
Version 3.0 is at the time a work in progress, but it's more a work in progress in the electrical departments rather than the bed.
After finishing my 48 states tour, I still had some savings left after two amazing gap years and more traveling than I had done my entire adult life prior to it. I decided to work on my version 3.0.
In Version 3.0, I took out the entire back row seats and built wooden box across the back, I also took out all the door panels and replaced them with carpet to gain the pockets inside each door as storage and also allowing more shoulder space from side to side. I took out the center console with the cup holder and box storage for an expansion of the width of the bed, I used .75 ply for the bed and back row and made it so that part of the bed can be moved to the back as the back board of the back roll and there can be a wooden bench to sit on, Carpet is stapled to the ply and I am learning new tools.
I plan to add small solar panels to the moon roof, some mosquitoes nets to the windows, some curtains or maybe a inside tent for the sleeping area. Some engine off entertainment gadgets.
I also decided to abandon the 12v aux battery system people use. I will setup a hybrid solar system with only a very small 12v AGM 10ah or so battery from maybe an old UPS, and all the solar will be converted to USB power and fed into a monster lipo bank which can be used as a USB power bank for my phones and tablets or alternatively rewired to be used as a 4S battery for laptop charging.
Since all I plan to have running off of electric system is phone and laptop, this will suffice.
I also ran an extension cable from the front of the car in through the firewall to provide shore power via another extension cable when I am parked at home to charge my huge lipo bank. I have rough calculation of maybe 1 month to two of continuous power to my phone or about 1/8 that to my laptop.
I am still learning about cooking on the road, I plan to tap into the heating core of the car where you get engine heated water flowing into your cable when you turn on the heat, I was thinking of just tapping into that with a T pipe and have a slow cooker by wielding two containers together circulating this hot water. Alternatively I can modify the exhaust manifold on the engine to do pretty much the same thing, but I don't want my engine to overheat, in addition to having a thermal electric generator project pending for the exhaust manifold.
I feel more confident in the current setup compared to the previous ones.
After finishing my 48 states tour, I still had some savings left after two amazing gap years and more traveling than I had done my entire adult life prior to it. I decided to work on my version 3.0.
In Version 3.0, I took out the entire back row seats and built wooden box across the back, I also took out all the door panels and replaced them with carpet to gain the pockets inside each door as storage and also allowing more shoulder space from side to side. I took out the center console with the cup holder and box storage for an expansion of the width of the bed, I used .75 ply for the bed and back row and made it so that part of the bed can be moved to the back as the back board of the back roll and there can be a wooden bench to sit on, Carpet is stapled to the ply and I am learning new tools.
I plan to add small solar panels to the moon roof, some mosquitoes nets to the windows, some curtains or maybe a inside tent for the sleeping area. Some engine off entertainment gadgets.
I also decided to abandon the 12v aux battery system people use. I will setup a hybrid solar system with only a very small 12v AGM 10ah or so battery from maybe an old UPS, and all the solar will be converted to USB power and fed into a monster lipo bank which can be used as a USB power bank for my phones and tablets or alternatively rewired to be used as a 4S battery for laptop charging.
Since all I plan to have running off of electric system is phone and laptop, this will suffice.
I also ran an extension cable from the front of the car in through the firewall to provide shore power via another extension cable when I am parked at home to charge my huge lipo bank. I have rough calculation of maybe 1 month to two of continuous power to my phone or about 1/8 that to my laptop.
I am still learning about cooking on the road, I plan to tap into the heating core of the car where you get engine heated water flowing into your cable when you turn on the heat, I was thinking of just tapping into that with a T pipe and have a slow cooker by wielding two containers together circulating this hot water. Alternatively I can modify the exhaust manifold on the engine to do pretty much the same thing, but I don't want my engine to overheat, in addition to having a thermal electric generator project pending for the exhaust manifold.
I feel more confident in the current setup compared to the previous ones.
Sleeping in your car part 2
So after losing my car in the middle of nowhere, where there is no greyhound, no train station, no airport... not even car rental who would pick me up, I had to hire a friend to come pick me up, that was not fun.
I started by taking down the back to the passenger seat and further took out the back to the seat behind the passenger seat, using an ice chest and some wooden board to bridge the gaps, with my feet sticking into the trunk, that was my first bed on wheels.
Soon after returning to Miami and having access to all the power tools at my dad's place, I started to build the second version of this construct, or maybe it was just the completion of the first version. The entire bed rides in a slight incline to the front as the seats are positioned in such way I could not get around. While this was comfortable and I made two trips coast to coast in this setup, it was nowhere near perfect, and the privacy aspect really suffered as my head was close to the front windshield.
In this setup I was able to drive around all the southern states heading in different routes from L.A. to Miami and back, these being my home stations, I just needed to figure out where to camp. I had so little experience at this stage I was afraid to sleep at rest areas most of the time.
The second setup removes the entire passenger seat base and build a pretty solid wooden box on the bottom the car in the front, with panels that are fixed or loose, the loose ones being the ones I use to access the storage under. This was much superior to the first build as I can lay leveled, and the low elevation of the bed provided much better privacy.
I drove through all 48 states in this setup, and it was wonderful.
I started by taking down the back to the passenger seat and further took out the back to the seat behind the passenger seat, using an ice chest and some wooden board to bridge the gaps, with my feet sticking into the trunk, that was my first bed on wheels.
Soon after returning to Miami and having access to all the power tools at my dad's place, I started to build the second version of this construct, or maybe it was just the completion of the first version. The entire bed rides in a slight incline to the front as the seats are positioned in such way I could not get around. While this was comfortable and I made two trips coast to coast in this setup, it was nowhere near perfect, and the privacy aspect really suffered as my head was close to the front windshield.
In this setup I was able to drive around all the southern states heading in different routes from L.A. to Miami and back, these being my home stations, I just needed to figure out where to camp. I had so little experience at this stage I was afraid to sleep at rest areas most of the time.
The second setup removes the entire passenger seat base and build a pretty solid wooden box on the bottom the car in the front, with panels that are fixed or loose, the loose ones being the ones I use to access the storage under. This was much superior to the first build as I can lay leveled, and the low elevation of the bed provided much better privacy.
I drove through all 48 states in this setup, and it was wonderful.
Morality of life
I do not think it is moral for a man to steal the fruit of labor of another man. Yet in the name of business it is done on a daily basis.
Today I came across a quote "If ...the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law, let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."- Henry David Thoreou
I love this quote very much. Yes, ultimately the government does need to collect some tax on the process of society to keep the peace and order of people, but, when that money is misused to create more need and police is actively inducing traffic violations, code violations, or budget oriented ticketing, then there's a short in the system, the same kind of short that will burn your battery and set anything that is strong, efficient, conductive, and substantial on fire and destroy the very marrow of society. Many do not realize when crime is institutionalized, it is induced and enforced. If, and only when you unplug, will you be safe from the artificial crimes, now you have to worry mostly only about natural crimes and wild animals.
I read some time ago, about the life of a handicapped lady who used to work for a fabrics company in Indonesia, she was hurt and almost killed when the decrepit building that was her factory collapsed under unregulated use. She was the lucky one, many of her coworkers did not survive. She went to work for this company for slave wages in hopes of buying a better life for her child, and now that dream is crushed, and it broke my heart just watching it. The government there will not take care of her, Walmart will not take care of her, and her company will not take care of her. What if I had bought a pair of socks or something of that nature that was the fruit of her labor? Am I not to blame in the least of ways?
Big companies make their money on arbitrage, there can only be so much killing and enslaving if we purchase and consume according to our needs. We sin as a society, while posting in God we trust, do we truly repent? If we repent and acknowledge our sins are we changing our ways so that we may walk in righteousness? Businessmen and merchants are merely vessels of the evil, we fall on our own. If slave wages are the brothels, the merchants and businessmen would be the pimps and unfortunately we would be the patrons.
So many things in modern society are not designed by God to be used in such close cycles. I am not vain enough to throw away the clothes I bought last year, yet I need to make room in my walk-in for new clothes. I can sew up and fix the curtain I accidentally ripped, but it just seems cheaper and easier to buy a new piece. I never consider how buying a new piece would induce suffering elsewhere or pollute the water some one else has to live on. I care only about how good it makes me feel. So I keep patronizing this brothel that is globalization.
Electronics are designed to fail prematurely so we need to buy another piece. Cars are designed to be completely useless long before they have lived their useful life. Kids nowadays have things for so much shorter than we did as kids. Then we try to teach them to love each other and love God eternally? They will get a new bible or even a new set of believes before we can finish a chapter with them. I drive an old vehicle that I sometimes need to pray in before I get on the road. It helps me appreciate the lord every day more and more. I fix things that are not yet meant to break. I spend time on the road to allow myself the time and space, fresh smell and scenery, emotional cycles it takes for me to appreciate the world fully. God is a master painter and I want to see what he painted.
Consuming more and more, hoarding wealth is a capitalist goal in any society. This is all okay if you choose to remain blind and pretend ignorant to the sufferings you may cause. Let's say there's not so much electronic or gas or even trees we cut down, let's convert all that to food and water. The world may be so abundant by the blessing of God that we may have threefold of how much we truly need to live comfortably. Some started to want to live even more comfortably, and as we all know, there is no force greater than that of compound interest, so a little greed in a more equip society will prove devastating effects on the rest of the world. The merchants are in the equation too, creating value by elevating scarcity of things, hence worthless stones not even rare such as the diamonds are sold for prices of gold. The military and police create everlasting need to expand themselves. There will never be an ample budget for the military, and having police will never truly reduce crimes. Asking the police to reduce crime to the level of safety is like asking a obese person to diet till he starves to death, bottom line, no one, at any job will ever remove the need of the position in doing his job. So to ensure that he will have a retirement and pension, the good officer will wait for something to happen drinking coffee and eating donut at the seven eleven so that later he can rush to the scene maybe one block away to talk about the need to hire more people on the force. Not pointing fingers, but just what I see almost everywhere.
I try to reuse what I can whenever I can, I try to fix things up so they would last longer. This is not what society wants. When you go green and get solar, the grid loses ransom for your consumption, they hire one less tech, the truck loses one shipment, the bank makes one less loan in the name of your power consumption, some one who would have made money on your maintenance takes out one less mortgage he can never afford, and the list goes on and on so the economy may shrink 10 times or maybe 100 times the money you cut back from spending on electricity. The government can never have that, so they outlaw collecting rain water and harvesting solar power. These building codes, city ordinances, and regulations of conducts are in no way in the interest of public safety, they weed out the homesteaders in the sole interest of corporate greed. Sometimes they are not even the ones doing it. Big companies own the government period.
We have enslaved our children's future, and when we can no longer keep up, they just wind up as slaves of society. Be it a student loan they can never repay or a mortgage they can never accumulate, it's all something we have so idiotically participated in drafting for them. Everything we could have prevented we simply didn't and by taking the candy of the corporations which tricked us into these conditions with carefully thought out comfort, we build our coop where eggs will be stolen from, we construct our sty where they dump their disgusting treatment onto us, and we maintain our stables where our children will forever labor. We are slowing becoming domesticated and losing our ability to live life the way God intended for us to live.
The new world is becoming the old, and we are handing in our freedom for a new kind of monarchy - the federal reserve.
Today I came across a quote "If ...the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law, let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."- Henry David Thoreou
I love this quote very much. Yes, ultimately the government does need to collect some tax on the process of society to keep the peace and order of people, but, when that money is misused to create more need and police is actively inducing traffic violations, code violations, or budget oriented ticketing, then there's a short in the system, the same kind of short that will burn your battery and set anything that is strong, efficient, conductive, and substantial on fire and destroy the very marrow of society. Many do not realize when crime is institutionalized, it is induced and enforced. If, and only when you unplug, will you be safe from the artificial crimes, now you have to worry mostly only about natural crimes and wild animals.
I read some time ago, about the life of a handicapped lady who used to work for a fabrics company in Indonesia, she was hurt and almost killed when the decrepit building that was her factory collapsed under unregulated use. She was the lucky one, many of her coworkers did not survive. She went to work for this company for slave wages in hopes of buying a better life for her child, and now that dream is crushed, and it broke my heart just watching it. The government there will not take care of her, Walmart will not take care of her, and her company will not take care of her. What if I had bought a pair of socks or something of that nature that was the fruit of her labor? Am I not to blame in the least of ways?
Big companies make their money on arbitrage, there can only be so much killing and enslaving if we purchase and consume according to our needs. We sin as a society, while posting in God we trust, do we truly repent? If we repent and acknowledge our sins are we changing our ways so that we may walk in righteousness? Businessmen and merchants are merely vessels of the evil, we fall on our own. If slave wages are the brothels, the merchants and businessmen would be the pimps and unfortunately we would be the patrons.
So many things in modern society are not designed by God to be used in such close cycles. I am not vain enough to throw away the clothes I bought last year, yet I need to make room in my walk-in for new clothes. I can sew up and fix the curtain I accidentally ripped, but it just seems cheaper and easier to buy a new piece. I never consider how buying a new piece would induce suffering elsewhere or pollute the water some one else has to live on. I care only about how good it makes me feel. So I keep patronizing this brothel that is globalization.
Electronics are designed to fail prematurely so we need to buy another piece. Cars are designed to be completely useless long before they have lived their useful life. Kids nowadays have things for so much shorter than we did as kids. Then we try to teach them to love each other and love God eternally? They will get a new bible or even a new set of believes before we can finish a chapter with them. I drive an old vehicle that I sometimes need to pray in before I get on the road. It helps me appreciate the lord every day more and more. I fix things that are not yet meant to break. I spend time on the road to allow myself the time and space, fresh smell and scenery, emotional cycles it takes for me to appreciate the world fully. God is a master painter and I want to see what he painted.
Consuming more and more, hoarding wealth is a capitalist goal in any society. This is all okay if you choose to remain blind and pretend ignorant to the sufferings you may cause. Let's say there's not so much electronic or gas or even trees we cut down, let's convert all that to food and water. The world may be so abundant by the blessing of God that we may have threefold of how much we truly need to live comfortably. Some started to want to live even more comfortably, and as we all know, there is no force greater than that of compound interest, so a little greed in a more equip society will prove devastating effects on the rest of the world. The merchants are in the equation too, creating value by elevating scarcity of things, hence worthless stones not even rare such as the diamonds are sold for prices of gold. The military and police create everlasting need to expand themselves. There will never be an ample budget for the military, and having police will never truly reduce crimes. Asking the police to reduce crime to the level of safety is like asking a obese person to diet till he starves to death, bottom line, no one, at any job will ever remove the need of the position in doing his job. So to ensure that he will have a retirement and pension, the good officer will wait for something to happen drinking coffee and eating donut at the seven eleven so that later he can rush to the scene maybe one block away to talk about the need to hire more people on the force. Not pointing fingers, but just what I see almost everywhere.
I try to reuse what I can whenever I can, I try to fix things up so they would last longer. This is not what society wants. When you go green and get solar, the grid loses ransom for your consumption, they hire one less tech, the truck loses one shipment, the bank makes one less loan in the name of your power consumption, some one who would have made money on your maintenance takes out one less mortgage he can never afford, and the list goes on and on so the economy may shrink 10 times or maybe 100 times the money you cut back from spending on electricity. The government can never have that, so they outlaw collecting rain water and harvesting solar power. These building codes, city ordinances, and regulations of conducts are in no way in the interest of public safety, they weed out the homesteaders in the sole interest of corporate greed. Sometimes they are not even the ones doing it. Big companies own the government period.
We have enslaved our children's future, and when we can no longer keep up, they just wind up as slaves of society. Be it a student loan they can never repay or a mortgage they can never accumulate, it's all something we have so idiotically participated in drafting for them. Everything we could have prevented we simply didn't and by taking the candy of the corporations which tricked us into these conditions with carefully thought out comfort, we build our coop where eggs will be stolen from, we construct our sty where they dump their disgusting treatment onto us, and we maintain our stables where our children will forever labor. We are slowing becoming domesticated and losing our ability to live life the way God intended for us to live.
The new world is becoming the old, and we are handing in our freedom for a new kind of monarchy - the federal reserve.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Sleeping in your car part 1
I have learnt to enjoy sleeping in my Toyota Camry. It's an old reliable champ. I don't sleep in my car out of necessity, I have too many things that I have to rent a place, but some times I like a small enclosed space free of worries and I can open the moon window and enjoy the rain or the night sky in peace.
People would knock on your door, but few knock on your car.
Before the How to:
Well, this part is a bit tricky, because I don't like suffering from any discomfort, so I spent 2 years trying 3 different models of modifying my car.
Before I start with the details with the first model, let me share with all the reason why.
I lost a car in New Mexico when some one decided to loosen a plug from under my car when I was staying at the cheap motel. Down the road when my car broke down I was surprised to find only so few places would come out and tow it and when I got the quote 6000 for a new engine, that was the last time I were ever going to stay at a motel.
People would knock on your door, but few knock on your car.
Before the How to:
Well, this part is a bit tricky, because I don't like suffering from any discomfort, so I spent 2 years trying 3 different models of modifying my car.
Before I start with the details with the first model, let me share with all the reason why.
I lost a car in New Mexico when some one decided to loosen a plug from under my car when I was staying at the cheap motel. Down the road when my car broke down I was surprised to find only so few places would come out and tow it and when I got the quote 6000 for a new engine, that was the last time I were ever going to stay at a motel.
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Travel USA on the cheap
It is mind blowing how far people can get with limited resources. I spoke with a lady in the suburbs of Albany NY once, her mom lived in the national parks for two years before having her. Wow, what a great way to spend your youth. Seriously, anything materialistic you can buy later, but that experience would not be possible nowadays. If you save enough in other places, you can enjoy Maine's lobster at just the right season, drive through the beautiful part of west Virginia, enjoy Colorado views, the grand canyon north rim, Bryce canyon, Yellowstone, Seattle space needle, Chicago sky deck, drive through a tree in northern CA, sequoias and Yosemite. All these can be enjoyed to the full essentials for a fraction of the price if you throw away the travel guide books and cut out all middle men. I am not a rich guy, but I managed to travel all 48 lower states with corners of Acadia national park in Maine to Key west in Miami, Seattle and then San Diego. The experience is totally worth it.
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