![]() ![]() Then, if there's any left over, POPs in your "common" market get to buy in order of their government's prestige. They go to the "common" market, where governments in your sphere get to buy in order of prestige. I wrote a long reply, but the forums logged me out before I could post it =[Ģ. So here are some questions:ġ) Is there an option to put the output of certain factories or just certain goods that I produce directly to my stockpile instead of placing them on the market?Ģ) Normally, what happens to the goods I produce? Are they placed on the common market first and then exported from there? If so, how can I stop that export?ģ) If my factories or artisans need inputs, where do they get them from? Do I provide them the input materials by buying them from the world market or do they do that themselves with their own money? Do they go to the common market first? How can I make sure everyone gets the input materials that they need? (aside from subsidizing)Ĥ) If I start stockpiling a good from the trade window, do I purchase what's available in the common market first or do I always directly buy from the world market?ĥ) How do I prevent certain goods I produce from falling into the world market? If, for example, I am technologically advanced and am the sole producer of a strategic good in the world, how do I make sure no one in the world has access to that good?Ħ) Is there a way to embargo certain countries so that they don't have access to the goods that I produce?ħ) How do I sell from the stockpile to the common market? I am producing some goods that I do not want to export and keep to myself but I don't know how to do this. I am playing Sweden and I built a few factories to see if I would be able to manage them. P.S.I am trying to understand the dynamics of the internal market (or common market, are they the same thing?) and stockpile. Basically the defensive counterpart to Organization. The more you have, the less casaulties you'll get. How efficient Artillery can use it Attack values from 2nd Rank.Ī very important modifier, enhanced by research (the very right Army research). States what units it can attack - Maneuver 1 means that it can only attack a unit in front of itself in the battle ranks, while 2 could also attack the one next to it (but it can only attack one at a times, so only for flanks) Simply how many soldiers there actually are in a brigade (default is always 3000) For that you have to have enough money, spend it on military stockpile and be able to purchase all required goods. The units regain Organization each day while being supplied. The "base values" of what are modified a bit closer : dont attack an unit in the mountains over a river =)) ![]() ![]() Terrain (when you attack in hills / mountains / over rivers you'll get a - modifier, depending. Defensive applies when you were attacked) Leader (+3 Attack = +3 when you attacked with your units. Dice rolls (each X amounts (~10?) of "battle rounds" you get a new dice roll from 0-9) Those values of "which-regiment attacks which one" and so on, are modified by : ![]() You cannot however actually move stuff on your own between the ranks. You can see that stuff when you click into a battle (the small box with the figures below the units) and look at the left. Out of that, you can propably see why a 50/50 ratio of Infantry and Artillery is pretty good. So thats the basis more or less for battle. If a regiment has too little men, flees because of morale or disorganizes, the next rank moves forward. Cavalry / Infantry can only fight in the front while artillerey is able to fight from 2nd rank and is always tried to position that way. Depending on the combat width (depends on terrain and tech, mountains only have very little and the later the game, the less you get to simulate longer-going battles) you can have X amounts of units in the front and the same amount in the back. When you enter a battle, your men are automatically lead into it and grouped up. Just for basic understanding of how a battle is going on in Victoria II. ![]()
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![]() I’ve been using this instead along my jawline and hairline, where I get redness and darkness respectively - and it blends into both areas fabulously, delivering completely invisible coverage, even for my stubborn little patch of jawline redness. Unfortunately, even their lightest shade ( Light, which is actually closer to their Fair foundation than it is to the Light shade) is just a hair too dark on me. The shade ( Light): According to IT Cosmetics (this is interesting, and probably based off sales figures), 70% of skin tones fit Neutral Mediumin their Bye Bye Under Eye concealer. Swatched L-R: 1) MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NC15, 2) MAC NW15, 3) IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye in Light, 4) IT Cosmetics Celebration Foundation in Fair, 5) MAC NC15 (again), 6) MAC NC20 This has done absolutely none of the former, and very little of the latter - it’s not perfect for dry patches, but I have yet to see it settle obviously into any of my various fine lines throughout the day. Instead, formulas tend to settle into my fine lines of dehydration on my forehead & between my brows, and catch on my dry patches on my nose & right cheek. I haven’t been testing this on my under eye area (it’s too dark for me, especially there), but that’s not actually where I have the most problems with concealer creasing on me. The way it wears (in lines, etc): In one word? Fabulously. It struggles a little over dry patches, but it’ll certainly do in a pinch. (What? I’m lazy.) I think it’s best suited as a concealer, but it makes an okay foundation. ![]() IT Cosmetics says that you can use this as a foundation, too, something that I do with all my concealers anyways. It’s high-coverage enough for blemishes, but the texture really isn’t suited for it - while the Bye Bye Under Eye concealer can certainly hide away scars, veins, and small spots, it’s not ideal for something like point-concealing cystic acne. It’s best used as: A concealer for hiding discolouration over a large area, like under eye circles, darkness around the hairline/mouth, or patches of redness. Swatched L-R: IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Concealer in Light (heavy/blended), IT Cosmetics Celebration Foundation in Fair ( heavy/blended) The formula blends easily, though, heavy but spreading out well over larger areas, like around the nose, jawline, or (yes) the under eye. It comes out of the tube thick, creamy, and very emollient, its heavy texture making it feel almost sticky before it sets. ![]() The texture & general feel: Created to offer highly-pigmented coverage without creasing or cracking, the IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye concealer is good for so much more than the under eye area. IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye (R) with their Celebration Foundation in Fair (L) ![]() ![]() Since then, IT Cosmetics has been leaving me gobsmacked at every turn, so I thought - well, why not kick things off with a review of their most popular product? Two months ago, IT Cosmetics was just another “QVC brand” to me - over-marketed, under-formulated, and probably not worth paying attention to.įollowing an email from the brand, however, I found out that both their bestselling concealer & their new foundation are silicone-free, and I decided to give them a try: after all, ‘cone-free base products are no small feat, especially from a company that doesn’t even bill itself as “natural” or “organic.” The product: IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Full Coverage Waterproof Concealer in Light ![]() ![]() “When it comes to security, we follow AWS’ rigorous security best practices. 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Approximately one year later, the company shut down the data center it had previously used to host and shifted its focus to optimizing its applications on AWS. ![]() Mint initially migrated more than 100 MySQL instances to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). In addition, AWS’ security posture gave us a lot of confidence,” McCluskey says. “We saw that moving to AWS would give us a more highly available architecture at a better price. Mint considered hosting its service in an internal private cloud, but instead chose to move to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We needed a cloud company that provided strong security capabilities.” “Given that we’re managing financial data, security is of paramount importance. “It made sense to migrate to the cloud, but we had to make sure we found the right cloud provider,” McCluskey says. Moving to the cloud would help solve some of these challenges. We wanted to focus more on delivering exceptional financial-management products and less on managing the backend IT environment.” ![]() “Our business is helping people improve their financial lives. “Data-center management is not our core business,” McCluskey says. The Mint team also wanted to put more of its resources into new software development. “We wanted to be able to scale up for that peak load automatically without spending a lot of time and money acquiring and provisioning new servers every time.” “We see a minimum 200 percent increase in website traffic immediately after January 1 each year,” says Sean McCluskey, director of application development and cloud operations for Intuit. was originally hosted in an internal data center, but the team needed to improve its ability to scale up or down to meet peak traffic demands. ![]() |