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A common thing in Eve is people who only log in when "something cool is happening." Otherwise, they're on voice but off playing LoL/Dota/DayZ. I think the EQ-era where MMO fanatics spent every waking hour playing their MMO of choice, and that was the only game they played, has come and gone.

Depends on your attitude towards this genre. There have been many fundamental game components (masters, strongboxes, invaders, exiles...) added since you last quit. However, the largest expansion to date is in beta and we're expecting new leagues at the end of that (6-8 weeks). If you play...

Ripped like an idiot to a strongbox -- I think I may just sit out until the big beta patch hits. Hopefully we see some adjustments to caster survivability; I'm stoked about div cards and lockstep but right now, I really want to play Arc again and it doesn't seem very fun for 2.0 HC.

FYI: you can reroll instances using ctrl-left click on a zone boundary or waypoint. Some exiles are just really dangerous to particular builds; only fight them if its a point of pride. Bypass otherwise.

Everyone was such a huge fan of Santorin in IEM.

Meh, decided to mess around with the 1MHC event -- at least until the big patch drops on beta next week. I'm hoping to see some favorable news for casters; right now the theorycrafters are hard at work but end-game survival has been turned on its head with the nerfs to AA/EB/MoM and CWDT/EC/IC...

2.0 is in beta right now and its much more fun than the live servers -- they streamlined a lot of the zones, smoothed out leveling, etc etc. I think 2.0, even in beta, is the best PoE has ever been. The incoming netcode revamp and addition of a new mechanic that may help deal with RNG is going...

The beta is entertaining for me since I usually play very very conservatively on my HC characters. In the beta, I have no real vested interest in not dying so I'm learning to play aggressively with better flask usage. It also doesn't have much of an economy so its rather liberating to just...

After playing 2.0, doing a one month on the old patch has minimal interest to me. Would rather test new ideas in 2.0. Question: why is armor/es hybrid so rarely seen in builds?

Ripped to 68 dungeon map boss by playing like a retard; really wish the wipe could come around now, or at least throw div cards in.

Mures, I appreciated your posts. I know you weren't really trying to play the victim card, and it is a fair claim that someone in the throes of addiction is going to feel differently to a substance than someone who just "tried it occasionally." I think what perplexes me, personally, is that...

Just finished A4 merciless solo self-found with a searing bond templar. No real issues, didn't really have to stop and farm at any time -- did a bit of ledge farming in merciless just to catch back up to zone level. No idea how far I'll get in maps or if I'll even bother until the next wipe...

tldr; I assume, after we collect some data on cards, we'll know pretty accurately what the expected income rate of boss farming is -- this is me assuming that to combat RNG they're making these cards drop between 5-20 percent of the time as opposed to .0001. The idea is that they want players...

Divination Cards will seriously impact Voll farming. Of course, the economy will adjust but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out which cards one ought to target any given time (given price of item/price of cards). Something tells me they won't put a good card drop on Voll given ease of kill...

edit: Stash Tab bundles on sale this weekend. First character in closed beta is templar/Searing Bond. Felt really strong; currently level 63 in A3 Merciless. I semi-rushed my way through all the way up until Merciless Ledges, where I did a few levels of farming just to build up some...

tldr: what's the functional difference between saying "X is unethical" and "I don't like X"? I'm genuinely really confused at people's positions in this thread. When people state: X is unethical... what exactly do you mean? Do you think it ought to apply to other people, and that if they...

Daestrom, I think the idea is that your post of "Just change the way you think about it!" is akin to telling a lifelong smoker "Hey man, just realize you don't need nicotine to live a happy life! Stop smoking for a few days and you'll be through the chemical withdrawals; then ignore those...

Divination Card submission information. Chris said they're looking to start adding them "aggressively" to beta starting next week. I'm curious how frequently we'll see these. I'd be tempted to feel bad for the F2P 4 stash tab warriors, but I suspect we'll see traders making a market for these...

The only thing we know is a comment from Chris saying its amazing and "totally changes the game". Obviously a biased source, but if it was struggling to be viable I don't think he would have said anything other than "still working on it".

I'm pretty happy with what they've published regarding Divination Cards. Essentially, you collect cards tied to a specific unique. Cards aren't numbered; you just need 15/15 or 3/3 or some such to turn the set in to the NPC. They're tradeable. Different areas have higher drop rates for...

What are you planning to do with a Strat? It's a pretty versatile ship. Also, most solid Strat fits run expensive (800+). Are you sure you want to use a Strat?

Cool, you relieved us in AFG. Not sure which company of ours you replaced; I likely spent some time at your PB though, lol. I felt bad for you guys; sounded like a lot of that deployment would be tearing down infrastructure while trying to stay safe in an atmosphere of over-eager officers...

Prova, I know this isn't answering any of your questions but if you haven't seen it, I suggest you peruse this blog:OkTrendsIt has a bunch of data on what techniques get the best results. One thing that stands out to me is that taking GOOD photographs (not cellphone selfies) has a measurable...

Are you serious man? You were the one initially arguing that a specific set of guidelines applies to the Chinese researchers... because, reasons? How would I, a third party, determine whose guidelines are objectively correct between Hodj's and [chinese researcher_01]?

Tough to quantify the difference in education unless you're in a very specific field (law). My impression is that for most programs, you need the piece of paper; the majority of your education is up to you and how passionate you are about the subject. 90k in the bank is an enormous advantage...

Absolutely yes -- there are a handful of sub-groups within the "likes PVP" group. Some people just find attacking carebears distasteful; they'd much rather put their efforts to defense IF the game allows for it to be done in an interesting way. One of the issues Eve has always had is that...

Did you play after the release of hideouts / mastercrafting? I don't know very much about weapon builds; but I thought it'd be relatively easy to mastercraft something superior to a 53 rare.

I tend to agree, but if a solution exists that lets people work incrementally towards an uber-rare over time, I'm all for it. D3 ended up feeling pretty soulless to me since a huge portion of loot gathering is simply shoveling truckloads of shards into Kadala and there is no functional...

My understanding is that the masters expansion unfucked a lot of the problems self-found people have. But the fact remains that you're 99 percent screwed if you want to play a build with Shavs or some other high-end unique. Without trading, you're looking at months of farming to see something...

More info on Divination Cards revealed on ZiggyD's stream (3 hour interview with Chris earlier). Youtube video upload pending. Chris said its essentially a mechanism to deterministically farm targeted uniques, and that top-tier supporters are designing the cards themselves. Didn't reveal the...

Wat.

Support main here. LOL, so true. "Why did you pick Vayne into Cait Nami, what do you expect me to do..."

$550 for a sweet Hull-E. I wish I could meet the guys who spend USD to get a head start on being a space trucker. Eve has a pretty robust community of folks who literally spend their leisure time transporting other peoples crap around high-sec space for peanuts. As in, almost any other...

You keep saying this, but I've seen many many reports of people reporting weakness as they decline from all ranges of BF%. Not just the 10% cutting to 7 or some shit. Honestly, I have no personal experience here.

I've seen tons and tons of people on reddit say the same thing; body weight and bench are correlated somehow. I admit I don't understand what mechanism is at play here.

Lol.

Tried it, much regrets. It wasn't terrible but I would have rather had pretty much anything on the menu. The only noticeable flavor was the jalapenos, not my cup of tea on a burger.

[snark removed] The overwhelming consensus I've seen is that body weight has a very strong correlation to bench #; maybe it wasn't true in your case but I thought it was considered common knowledge that if you lose 20 percent of your body weight in a relatively rapid time span then you're...

I enjoyed many of hodj's posts in the Atheist thread.

Well, it is true that if a guy like Lyrical (36 BMI) cut down to 25 BMI he'd absolutely lose some weight on his lifts (primarily bench). I think the health/aesthetics matter more in that scenario than the strength, but to each their own. Wife and I are going to start a 30d-60d cut tomorrow...