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  1. Ukerric

    Everquest Mysteries

    It's actually very simple. Every content tier slide down one rung per release. Your high-end raid ends up low-end raid next expansion, which ends up good group next expansion, which is random PUG group the next one, which becomes nearly soloable the one after. WoW ended up making the first half...
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    At last, Furor speaks:
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hey, it's Furor!
  4. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    It's probably shitty beer, but, god... what a waste.
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    None. They probably designed their expansion's new mechanics earlier this year, way before Classic exploded. And it's going to be too late to turn the ship. Besides, they probably attribute the popularity entirely to nostalgia.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Expecting maybe a tiny 8.3 raid at best, and an expansion announce for early summer 2020 with beta starting in January/Feb. They need a new expansion ASAP to get their numbers back up, because the people dropping out of Classic won't go back to BFA. The Shadowlands leak is probably very likely.
  7. Ukerric

    MTG: Arena

    I tried again when they brought in the (slightly modified) mastery path, but the daily grinding required to do the track killed any hope of playing again. If I could confine my grinding to a day or two during the weekend, that'd be okay-ish. But that's impossible.
  8. Ukerric

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Energy states at least are highly quantized. If they weren't, atoms wouldn't even be stable.
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    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    The origins of Quantum Mechanics is that values of a number of physical properties are discrete rather than continuous. However, a number of quantum fields (probabilities of X) seem to be continuous rather than discrete; the discrete values seem to appear in the interaction with those fields...
  10. Ukerric

    WTF? Everquest... 3?

    I think I talked about it in a previous incarnation of the forum. The point of a level system is that it gives you an indicator of suitable content. Level under you = "content that is easy or trivial". Level above you = "content that is hard or that you shouldn't be doing" Once you scale...
  11. Ukerric

    WTF? Everquest... 3?

    Not just that, but you also have the ugly Balance™ that raises its head. For scaling to work, you need to balance the scaled content to your weakest class. Which means you cannot afford to have too much of a difference in power between the classes on every form of content, or you end up with...
  12. Ukerric

    Everquest Mysteries

    FTFY.
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    WTF? Everquest... 3?

    For which I thank god. Even if it doesn't exists, I thank him for this. It's also a piece of shit in the case of a RPG. It requires you to make your game easy mode, or you're fucked. I remember the first Elder Scroll game (Oblivion? I think) that introduced this "content scaling". The end...
  14. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Yea. Considering some were intimating that the BFA population was slowly approaching the million US and maybe barely more EU...
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Yeah. The two playable furries in the WoW universe are Taurens (and variant) and Worgens.
  16. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    And it requires a shit-ton of delta-V if you want a rendez-vous rather than a simple pass.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    EDIT: It's only 7 degrees vs the rest of the planets. But this is exxagerated by its highly elliptical orbit: 47M km perihelion for a 70M km aphelion.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    More on the object. Oumuamua, aka I1/2017 U1 (Interstellar number 1) had an excentricity of 1.2, hyperbolic but good. This one I2/2019 Q4 has a whopping eccentricity of 3. Oumuamua was a cylinder of about 100m. This one is a full comet with outgassing and all, probably close to 1km. And it's...
  19. Ukerric

    Will Wight

    There was a free volume 1-3 bundle a while ago.
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    In Vanilla, they were opening servers as fast as they could. Here, they are deliberately refraining from doing that, because they are expecting Classic to turn into a semi-ghost town in a month.
  21. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Better start to stockpile those copper bars and bandages.
  22. Ukerric

    A Tale In the Desert

    It's a massively social game. You do need other people to advance; playing entirely solo is ok but limited. The big difference is the sheer amount of different mechanics involved. And it was mostly developed by one person.
  23. Ukerric

    A Tale In the Desert

    Played in Tale 2 & 3 (then got too busy). It's a game that needs to be played relatively hardcore - or at least it used to back then. The biggest stuff I ever did was the test of the bedouin. For those of you who never did, here's how it goes: - There's over 100 Altars spread all over the map...
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Odyn's mentioned in the video. Apparently, he does have access to the Shadowlands as well.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Leak or LARP?
  26. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    At this point, I expect Luxembourg to be next!
  27. Ukerric

    Archeage

    It's also Gamigo behind this (with Trion as the fall guy). Remember that. Gamigo.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    "I can jump to the river!" Well, he did too. He just had a slight bounce before.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Dunno about twitch but wikipedia had massive issues on Friday, yes.
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    The same thing you did in Vanilla? Given that the whole premise of Classic is that people liked Classic more than the evolution of it, then you'd try to stick closer to the gameplay. Each side ends up WTFpwning the big bads on their own. Every time. So, meh. Or you can go further, and embrace...
  31. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    India will not be the next country to land on the moon: https://spacenews.com/indias-moon-landing-attempt-ends-in-communication-loss/
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Don't remember if I ever posted it, but the way I'd have done is that Classic 2.0 would be "The Shores of Northrend". You keep everything Vanilla-styled: you keep skill trees (just add dual spec switches), you keep skills, you retain +% stats rather than shit "ratings", etc, etc. The whole...
  33. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Frankly? No. The most obvious idea you can get once you have "You think you do but you don't" mindset is that you won't touch ANYTHING for fear of breaking the gold-painted egg. So you will have the hinted at Classic Trilogy™ of Vanilla, TBC, WotLK exactly as they were released, not one feature...
  34. Ukerric

    WTF? Everquest... 3?

    Sounds like Afkquest.
  35. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    Depending on how it's implemented, those might be separate items. That is, you get BFA flagged and awarded a 110 boost, which means those with BFA already in would get just the 110.
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I think their stats probably show a staggering number of people who didn't resub for BFA and just came back for Classic. "No. Try it. We're sure you'll love our lobby game with random +gooderer rewards and 15 currencies to collect!"
  37. Ukerric

    Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy

    Are they trying to compete with Star Citizen?
  38. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    You think you do, but you don't.
  39. Ukerric

    MTG thread

    He's already got the rainbow.
  40. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I don't really remember, but the wowhead site has a significant number of horde quests in Azshara for Classic.