Highest Rated Comments


Trent_Alkaline13 karma

Seems reasonable to me as a seasoned shoestring backpacker. Couple close friends recently did around the world in a little over 380 days on about $3,000 per person.

Lots of couchsurfing, squatting/camping, and knowing how to cook. A little bit of busking here and there. And there was still drinking/drugs and partying on this trip, so they coulda done it even cheaper if you cut that out.

Not hard to keep costs down when you cut luxuries. Usually the highest costs are the tickets for planes/trains/boats; which he's mentioned in another post that he tries to avoid flying, which will save you a thousand dollars or so right there.

Trent_Alkaline5 karma

This is incorrect informationAs of at least the last 2 years a geological survey of the tract of land--including the water table--is required in the states of Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming where my company works--I can't speak for other regions.

As explained in better detail by techs elsewhere in this thread, we seal off the ground water table and the actual drilling is a mile or more away from the water table itself. In almost every well we work with the main drill decks are at depths of 6900'-7700' in the Codell/Niobrara formations here in Wattenberg Basin of CO/Wyo.

I work in land exploration and discovery (in the division order department , granted) and this is some of what my department actually work with on a daily basis in the office. We have massive paper trails going back and forth between the State, every property owner above the land tract, any other Oil & Gas company that may be operating in the same formation, and other sections of our company.

Before any sort of drilling is even considered, land specialists (geologists mainly) will analyze the tract. Once everyone involved has signed off on it, the State determines where we are allowed to actually drill. Plans are drafted, paper gets pushed around again, and then the process of setting up a ground water casing begins. This happens months before any of the actual fracing or drilling equipment even becomes close to involved. A new well can take upwards of a year at times to set up due to all of the red tape and safety measures.

A drill without proper state certification can't happen legally here and you'd be talking about major fines and possibly jail time that a company or individual would not be able to shrug off or sweep under the rug. It would also be prohibitivly expensive if corners were attempted to be cut in this regard and just doesn't make sense and isn't practical.

Trent_Alkaline3 karma

In the Dev video, there's a pistol in a shoulder strap hanging by your desk.

Is this the Boris failsafe device, or just standard dev issue desk gear?

Thank you for confirming to me that Russian apartments appear exactly as I imagined them to be. Putin is a great man for putting a bear in the home of every Russian.

Trent_Alkaline2 karma

Yep. You'll take an alignment loss for stabbing them to death though. You may want to consider just knocking them out!

Or even just robbing them outright through threat of harm.

You can sell the goods to other players or use them yourself for your allies. Just be careful who those other players you attempt to sell them to are...you may be trying to sell them to the intended delivery of those goods or allies of the lad you just robbed!

Trent_Alkaline2 karma

For non Haven players, would you mind elaborating on this?