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  1. Tuco

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I just preordered the next, unannounced AC game to gift to you.
  2. Tuco

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I imagine most baseline QA testers who want to get paid big $$$ in the future have a plan to elevate into other game development careers. Automated testing of games (and other software with game-like interfaces) is a pretty good career and someone with a strong background as a QA tester has an...
  3. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    If they make it such that any non-class specific gear is retained, that'd be great. My 8 visible and class-specific gear slots + weapon can be replaced more easily than all 22 or whatever gear slots. Will be funny to effectively have multiple box groups with the same chars. This is what I've...
  4. Tuco

    LitRPG

    Me after getting caught up on all my book series and trying to decide the next series I'm going to read. Anyway, I'm reading Awaken Online. It starts with a prologue that spoils some portion of the start of the book, FUCK. Whatever I read until I get to where the prologue is boring and has no...
  5. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    That's the theory, yeah. Alternatively if it's a shroud 2.0 thing where I can make my warrior a "shadowknight" with like, 10 spells but unique gear I can upgrade, that'd be a total waste of time probably.
  6. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    The persona feature "Also new for this year, take advantage of Alternate Personas where you can swap between different classes quicker while retaining your current inventory, crafting skills, and flags." Is the biggest announced change. Someone did some hackery to peek at it: If it's an...
  7. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    https://forums.daybreakgames.com/eq/index.php?threads/producers-letter-october-2023.292893/
  8. Tuco

    Factorio

    I wouldn't want it but I could see people building megabases in mostly vanilla loving a 20x20 miner that had 20x fully loaded belts shitting out one of the sides.
  9. Tuco

    Factorio

    I doubt they'll do anything like that. Krastorio 2 offers some endgame production features , but I don't know of any mods that add something like 20x20 miners. Krastorio 2
  10. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    My bet is that we'll be creating some massive space telescopes that can fit on a Starship and yeet them up. No extra construction from multiple-launches required. The JWST's diameter is 6.5 meters, it looks like the Very Large Telescope is 8.2 meters. It probably won't be that hard to beat...
  11. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I bet we're going to yeet the biggest telescopes of all time into space in the next ~20 years. Like, multi-satellite telescopes with fairly large fields of view that are built to detect and track small, cold objects in our solar system.
  12. Tuco

    Dwarf Fortress

    Bingo, thanks! I wrongly assumed those different filters were OR operations, which would be dumb now that I'm thinking about it more.
  13. Tuco

    Dwarf Fortress

    all right so I'm trying to set up a fairly basic production of high-value goods. I don't know if this makes sense from a metagaming perspective and I don't really even care. I'm trying to make steel, copper, silver etc amulets and then encrust them with high value gems, hoping the end result...
  14. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    That's one thing I liked about the Expanse. It takes place in a similar time period as Starfield, a few hundred years after colonization. In that time an entirely new culture of vulnerable people evolved with their own dialect, issues and history. It presents a more interesting and realistic...
  15. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    The actress that voices Andreja looks like sarah morgan and vice versa. Cissy Jones and Emily O'Brien
  16. Tuco

    Factorio

    Train throughout will be massive with this.
  17. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    Of all the reasons I'm interested in integration of LLMs like ChatGPT in games, I think being able to tell NPCs to get fucked is pretty high up there.
  18. Tuco

    Too many WoW versions? Introducing Federation Services

    Why stop there? Make it multi-game. I'd love to bring my Dragonborn from Baldur's Gate 3 into World of Warcraft!
  19. Tuco

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    An MMO built around the concept of a party RPGs would be interesting, if a bit of a limited market. You could focus on different levels of control: * Controlling each character individually, aka alt-tab boxing * Relying on /follow type mechanics and using something like key broadcasting...
  20. Tuco

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    I think the most valuable parts of EQ's lore have to do with memorable zones, NPCs, items and quests. yep
  21. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    There's only four companions with depth. Sam, Andreja, Sarah and Barret.
  22. Tuco

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    Probably not. From now till 2028 I think you'll see more and more Skyrim mods and a few proofs of concept doing LLM->Content stuff. The hard part is generating content in a usable format and integrating it. https://gamerant.com/skyrim-quests-chatgpt-ai/
  23. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    So much about the Starfield setting doesn't make much sense.
  24. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    https://www.gamesradar.com/todd-howard-says-exploring-planets-in-starfield-was-much-more-punishing-before-bethesda-nerfed-the-hell-out-of-it/
  25. Tuco

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

  26. Tuco

    Home buying thread

    My city gets a huge chunk of its revenue from property taxes, most of which are primary living properties. How would you want them to replace those funds?
  27. Tuco

    Investing General Discussion

    Thanks for posting that, it's something I've been wondering for a while. After saving for what feels like my entire life I bought my first house a few years ago. It's something like 3100sqft with a full finished basement. 3.5 baths. Backs up to a wooded area. Even four years later it still...
  28. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    I'd only be interested in another The Office if it was produced in a non-western country. Like South Korea or Nigeria.
  29. Tuco

    Everquest 3 - 2028?

    I've played all the Dark Souls and Elden Ring but I don't really know what this means. I can imagine an MMO where... * Players leave a corpse on death with XP / gold / whatever they can recover * Players can feasibly clear the game at level 1 if their skill is high enough, while increasing in...
  30. Tuco

    LitRPG

    I'm halfway through it now. It really is on another level in so many ways.
  31. Tuco

    Will Wight

    I think it just goes back to the difficulty of writing Voltron content in a book that starts with cripple fights. Every long-lived progression fantasy series is going to have to deal with the same thing and either you just make equal power levels cancel each other out (Or you just ignore the...
  32. Tuco

    Dwarf Fortress

    I tried to find a list of racial slurs used by dwarves in different fantasy settings and all I could find is articles telling me that racism against dwarves is wrong.
  33. Tuco

    Dwarf Fortress

    I kind of enjoy how this game doesn't have an apparent tech tree to climb. "What workshop do you want to build??? There are 50 choices!!! Great, we can build that Armorsmith. You can't do shit with it, are you a sky-loving moron??"
  34. Tuco

    Dwarf Fortress

    whatever I did fucked this up. I think I ran out of seeds.
  35. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    It's the classic problem of open RPGs where you want to have these massive structures, but don't want to have the massive expanse of farmlands to support it. I wouldn't have had a problem if they did it Mass Effect 1 style and just said, "Akila is fucking huge. Here's 4 zones you can go to to...