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  1. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Let's hope it doesn't get stuck like the previous rabbit (Yutu is "Jade Rabbit")
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Radiation on ice tends to make it go reddish.
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    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    You can't. If both modes yield the same reward, the solo mode wins because the group progression carries an intrinsic cost that requires it to be "better" than solo unless it dwindles to nothing. The only thing you can is have both yielding different types of reward. Typically, you'd make group...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hmm Sooo, that's why so many pet sales end up for that nonprofit? Do they use that to remove taxes (since you won't be able to make your "donation" tax exempt)?
  5. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Because it apparently had glue covering it. Which worked for a couple weeks, until vacuum&cold made that brittle enough that the seal broke.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Drilling in micro-g is surprisingly hard (trying to find a way to wedge you against the reaction to the drill torque). That's why everyone says it can't have been done while on the ISS.
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    What did you just read?

    The first books of the series were ok/good, but the series dragged on, and I didn't even finish book 6. Novik pretty much stopped the series after that anyway.
  8. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    He said that, given the temperatures for re-entry, there won't be any paint on that. Otherwise, it's a view from the testbed they have in Texas. Trying a 500m launch/landing, then a 5000m one, before going on full testing.
  9. Ukerric

    Ashes of Creation

    Obvious fix for you...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Nope. Minecraft was a guy goofing about voxels in java and showing youtubes about his code, then asking for money for his codebase because it was becoming a full-time job.
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only thing surprising is that it took Activision so long to do that. My guess is Morhaime fought all along until he said "fuck this, I'm out"
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Note that you still need to have purchased the outpost unlocks for KT (if Horde) and presumably Zandalar (if Alliance). I dinged 120 on my first horde, and the map unlocked only the last zone I hadn't explored; all the KT outposts remain invisible.
  13. Ukerric

    Atlas

    So, topological cylinder rather than torus?
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    Atlas

    So, a torus then. (square maps that wrap around at the edges become a torus in 3D, not a sphere. L2Math)
  15. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    More Mars, but seen from orbit. The Korolev Crater (50 miles wide, 1.1 mile deep ice in the middle).
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    That one didn't work. People very quickly converged on a loot hall: straight, crammed with AOE targets, and so on. There's no real reward to designing "real" dungeons, so there were few of them. And the players liked the loot halls more. Which is why the loot was limited to low currency...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    It's kind of hard to find that place. Death penalties are hard. We can agree that WoW's death penalty is probably a bit too light. You lose very little. An emissary cache and you've stocked enough for 50 deaths. And at most 2mn lost every time. But it's the only thing that makes the Mythic...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Best comment:
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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    Bleh. Is there a way around the bug where the thread will not show if the OP is someone I have on ignore... The only way to access the thread is to hope it is #1 on the subforum...
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    Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    Modern trailers spoil almost everything in their movies. This is perfect.
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    Password Managers

    Chrome does "trust our cloud with your passwords". Password managers don't; even if you use cloud-based syncs, you're syncing encrypted files. As long as your key/password is not on the cloud service, you can't have your password safe stolen. If you have: 1) Your passwords synced on the cloud...
  22. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Loved how it deployed the landing struts, even if there was only water under the "landing" zone...
  23. Ukerric

    Captain Marvel (2019)

    And she even goes total Super Saiyan
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    Told ya that deepfakes were going to be good one day.
  25. Ukerric

    Death of a Game - Everquest franchise

    Now, that's how you do clickbait!
  26. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Aaaand... he's out. ArianeGroup names new CEO - SpaceNews.com Doesn't believe in the future? Well, the EU govts who DO pay for your rockets do believe in it...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    More like an old memory of Everquest, where there were two alternating teams (making an expansion, then fixing it live while the other team was making the next expansion). If I remember right.
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    At this point, there is not a single reason why STR, AGI and INT are still separate stats. Every item that has one has all the others needed for its intended classes. The only ones still having separate "strength" stats are weapons.
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    What did you just read?

    It would have gotten a few bonus points if it had used toasters rather than dishwashers. (this is non spoilery unless you've read the book)
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Get ready for the next Pet Battles: The Future of the Warcraft Franchise on Mobile - Is Warcraft: GO Happening? (Speculation)
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You underestimate tracking and datamining. You don't even need anything but a simple "A talked with B", "A grouped with C", "C gave loot to A" type of logs: 1) You can absolutely detect the spambots. They are horribly blatant. The alternative is not to advertise in game, which severely...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you're selling the run for gold, there WILL be a trace of the gold changing hands. It's when there's no trace of gold being traded between accounts that you can safely conclude RMT was involved.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The thing is, banning people buying the run has little effect. Nobody notices (because Blizzard does not advertise bans), notably not the ones selling it.
  34. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    It's self-selected. Those who tend to read those tend to like those, and those who like those tend to review them. I've taken to review and rate every book I read, no matter how bad or good, to avoid the second bias. But I do it on goodreads rather than amazon (since my reviews on amazon.fr...
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    No, he means ban the 19 accounts of the guys who run the mythic Uldir raid for you. Getting a large enough raid geared for that raid takes a relatively long time, during which you earn no revenue at all. That kills the professional outfits, and puts a chilling effect on the small-scale raiding...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Regarding VR, we still have to solve the problem of movement. Anything where you have to move around (while you're not moving in reality) gives motion sickness to the vast majority of people. The illusion of standing still is the only real antidote so far, which makes racing games, space sims...
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    Yep. The point is, you want stuff that's fixed and "mappable", but enough stuff that you can move to a different part whenever you're ready for a change. The point where I would disagree is the need to have world "grow" on a regular basis. If you have procedural generation, you already have the...
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    Then what? You're back to a World of Warcraft single player game, but bigger. Besides, you do need an even more massive innovation in procedural generation if you want quests that reach even to the worst quality of WoW quests. You'd need CCN writing your quest text and dialog, and let me tell...
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    The Sad, sad, state of MMORPG in this brave new era...

    That's... dangerous. The point about quests is that, basically, they DO transform any multiplayer RPG into a solo game. Think about it. I have this quest, which requires me to kill 12 Winter Wolves. Ok, so I'm heading to the map with Winter Wolves. I kill 12 Winter Wolves. And then I leave...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    You only get those on characters that were not around 13rd anniv. Did that last year? No free badges (you can still do the dailies)