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Sure. Even beyond the differences in Australian culture due to influence of southeast asians and Pacific islanders, the author's biography is interesting. Notably he fought against Japan in WWII and was a PoW, so he has some real-world experience beyond what a typical western author would. Not...

The quest-heavy content of later EQ is, in my opinion, less enjoyable than the grinding-focused content of early EQ. I think most live EQ players treat the progression quests as speedbumps they have to do rather than a core part of the expansion they're interested in. Part of that is because the...

Just finished season 1, enjoyed it. How historically accurate is the suicidal tendencies of Samurai? I know Seppuku is a thing, but the show opened up with Tadayoshi speaking out of turn and then having to kill himself AND his kid. That set the stage for all these suicidal characters attacking...

I don't remember that concept at all. People have been asking for a Japanese AC since AC1 though.

I always thought a japanese AC would be a must buy. But even the first thing I've learned makes me dubious I hope they try something new instead of just open world rpg.

If you've played 200-300 hours in FromSoft soulslike games and can't get enough of it, then yeah, play another one. But if you don't, don't feel like you've somehow missed out on a unique experience. Conversely, if you played any of the DS games and enjoyed them, you're missing out if you don't...

finally, damn time to beam nauvis now... it's smaller and closer to the sun, but denser

Here's my naq factory 2.0. It's a total failure. full res: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53719928393_ae82fab6ce_o.jpg Naquium ingots are unique in K2SE in that they have a bifurcated production of the refined and powdered portions that unite later in the crystals and ingots. It's not...

If you really loved the combat and lore of ER, it's definitely worth looking into those. I have no opinion on which would be first.

If you've played DS1, DS2 and ER, Dark Souls 3 can be safely skipped.

Yep, the industry really hasn't evolved from Daggerfall giving you a combinatoric quest. A big reason for that is that handcrafted quests with careful writing work so much better. The first generation of this type of AI that generates content will be terrible, but that capability is definitely...

Huh? Pretty sure from beta to now (in SoD) the optimal leveling is questing with decent paths and some opportunistic grinding inbetween.

I think this will be a big genre in the future. It'll be huge both for Elder Scrolls style games, MMOs, battle royal-style games, etc. I'm kinda disappointed I haven't seen any good demonstrations of AI-driven gameplay in the game space. I can have Chat GPT easily rewrite this entire thread in...

As someone in a guild that dominated their Shadowbane server at release, went peaceful for weeks only to curbstomp the opposition several times, the idea of the game was perfect for world PvP. It was sort of like a more involved Guild Wars 2 campaign which only lasted a week and was fairly...

Naq Hauler Mk. III I found this calculator for ship speed: Spaceship Speed Calculator I guess it's an approximation of a recursive function but is decently accurate, within a few "speeds" of my top speed in this ship.

DAO is a great tolkein-like RPG with solid mechanics and impressive storytelling. The POV character and their story are fairly engrossing even if "chosen warrior of a noble but secretive order" isn't a rare theme. The specific lore they push like the darkspawn, mage demons, deep roads, etc...

My brother, to call Blighttown a shithole would be an insult to shitholes everywhere. Meanwhile, Tomb of the Giants I enjoyed working through many of the shitholes in all three Dark Souls games, but I don't think you understood my post.

Going back to Dark Souls after ER seems like it'd be tough. In ER there is so much variety and you get a break from challenging dungeon/boss gameplay with some open-world freedom to cleanse the pallete. In DS you clear a shithole dungeon with bullshit mechanics and fight a shitbird boss only to...

Basically. I can send pics of the receiving side, but it's basically a lander, a signal transmitter, some constant cominbators with a handful of each entity type I'll need (and a ton of rocket parts, elevator cables, meteor defense items), and then storage chests for each item.

Does that make Nissans voldemort?

Yeah the combination of "Oh I'll save 40% if I buy today" along with, "Not sure if I want to play Space Marine but I do want them to make more games like this" makes up a huge % of those people who don't even install the game. Personally I almost never purchase until I am imminently going to play.

VP in RoS is one of my favorite all time grouping zones. I wish they'd have a zone at the end of every expansion that was basically a recycled old-world zone with a bunch of tough ass mobs intended for strong groups that dropped some unique stuff with the intent that people would go through it...

Could see it going either way. I don't know anything about how Supergiant games works, but I can only imagine during development a bunch of designers got around to pick out a bunch of characters, then sketch up a bunch of different versions of them. If some artist makes a bunch of sketches for...

Not a fan of the art style of hearth lady, but whatever. Whenever I see vitiligo or fat models mixed in I figure part of it is that artists get bored drawing the same shit.

Let's not kid ourselves, a BG3 expansion where the level cap was raised to 20 and the quality was as good as BG3 would be fun AF. I played multiple heavily modded BG1->BG2->ToB runs and by the end my Fighter/Mage/Thief was an absolute ridiculous level 40 monster fighting other absolutely...

I played a ton of Caesar 2 when I was ~12. Was super fun. PLEBS ARE NEEDED

This conversion is so high volume it's basically iridite -> iron/copper/heavy oil alchemy that impacts your need for iron/copper/oil.

@Tholan Note that my railway network hasn't been truly stressed because my realized SPM production has always been way lower than what my factories can produce. And most factories are only active intermittently as I am moving through the tech tree. I've almost finished the tech tree and when I...

I'll probably end up with an outpost for every core fragment product except iron, copper, rare earth metals (from Krastorio2) and coal. Then a couple for asteroid belts, 1 for asteroid fields and another for sun orbit for my energy glaive farm.

In my case, almost all my trains are 1-1 (1 engine, 1 cargo). I have some areas where I use 1-4-1 (1 engine, 4 cargo, 1 engine). Initially I had most things at 1-4-1, and it worked fine but for most items the volume being transported is so low that it's not justified. If you have multiple cargo...

please don't procreate with your clone. It's bad for everybody.

Here's my scrap processing on Nauvis. When material research is going this place gets buuusy. Looking at it now I'm not sure why I built it on Nauvis instead of Nauvis Orbit, since I believe scrap is less dense than the materials it turns into. I think this base was my first time creating a...

I loved two boxing my cle/enc and tag-teaming mobs with a one-two stunlock punch to get my debuffs off. I disliked mezzing my charm because then the few second interruption from charm dropping turned into a much longer affair.

This definitely moved the game from day 1 to "wait a few months and see". I don't blindly boycott based on who makes the game, but WH40k and Space Marines in particular definitely need to be written by someone who can unapologetically and unironically embrace a violent male fantasy. Don't bother...

Rebuilt my nauvis research base. Don't mind the huge yellow storehouses, they are just holding glut and will be depleted as the factory produces stuff. This uses the "box of chocolates" approach I've been using in addition to the compressed requester train stations. I wish there was a way to...

Halfway through Ripple system book 2. The gameplay mechanics, land ownership and ship combat really reminds me of Archeage. That reminds me, Ascend Online #5 will be out on May 7th. I briefly talked with the author and asked him about EQ since the book references it, and he said he was heavily...

Probably best to look at admittance to hospitals by breed. Death from a dog usually requires extraordinary circumstances, and reported bites is too large a net. If my neighbor has a loud, aggressive chihuahua they don't keep control of that nips my kid I'm not going to let it slide and that's a...