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Also happened to know about this site just today, thanks to the video by Johnny Harris (who covered a lot of geopolitical stuff recently). Awesome stuff. cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PbgYReEUO8
Yeah that's where I found out about it too, was pretty surprised it was never posted on HN over the years.
Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.
Offworld Trading Company is close to what you're looking for i think. But it's not ship-centric.
Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.
Theres a sequel to it, although I've never played it. First one wasn't too bad, the economics wasn't too complicated, but worthy of playing.
Sequel: https://store.steampowered.com/app/350110/TransOcean_2_Rival...
Is there any economy/strategic game about delivering goods with cargo ships, containers, etc.? I would love to play it.
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It’s free in the sense that there are projects where as long as you are operating an antenna feeding data, you get access to a feed of all data for free with the only restriction being you can’t compete by just restreaming the complete feed.
Oh that's interesting, thanks. So I guess it's similar to ADS-B exchange[1] and the like but for ships. Have you operated an antenna, by chance? I've considered building an ADS-B receiver to satisfy my curiosity about the planes I see out my window all day. [1] https://www.adsbexchange.com/
I got busy with other things so haven't done much with it, but there are some Python libraries that made ADS-B easy.
There's some interesting anomoly at the north east top bit of South America (both Colombia and Venezuela) where some really fast boats are regularly skipping across land.
There are pirates (thieves, but I like Pirate better?) whom were renting luxury boats in the Mediterranean, and stealing them. They would fly to Europe, and dress like rich fancy boys. They would then rent the ships for vacation. They would take the transponder off the luxury vessel, and put it on a toy boat. The owner would check on his vessel, and it all looked fine. Meanwhile, the thieves would have the boat in Ru…
Hmm, this seems almost like the perfect crime - easy to pull off, and difficult to get caught. I wonder what protections can be made against this? Tamper-proofing the transponders might go some way, but a bullet-proof solution likely isn't possible.
There are pirates (thieves, but I like Pirate better?) whom were renting luxury boats in the Mediterranean, and stealing them. They would fly to Europe, and dress like rich fancy boys. They would then rent the ships for vacation. They would take the transponder off the luxury vessel, and put it on a toy boat. The owner would check on his vessel, and it all looked fine. Meanwhile, the thieves would have the boat in Ru…
Hmm, this seems almost like the perfect crime - easy to pull off, and difficult to get caught. I wonder what protections can be made against this? Tamper-proofing the transponders might go some way, but a bullet-proof solution likely isn't possible.