Search results

There's a few places where the author suggests in various ways how the "real" time sense is all fucked up inside the game (one of them is the teenage girl whose emotional baseline shifts only very slowly over years, because her physical brain can't change that fast). I wouldn't be surprised if...

It's ok. Paradox makes good simulation games usually. It also features among the sponsors you can pick (for starting advantages) a private company based in Hawthorne, California.

It's good enough that the author transitioned from being a self-published indy to running a small book imprint dedicated to LitRPG (Mountaindale Press). Book 5 (Dungeon Eternium) and ending of the series came out last week. The only thing regrettable about it is that Krout jumps straight into...

UO did that with templates. You started with a number of skills pre-raised, which shaped how well you could do something, rather than start as a blank. But you could absolutely start with a magical-oriented template and end up a melee swordsman a week later.

Not 30s, no. That's no WoW. But yes, they respawned fast enough vs everything else in the zone that you could keep on killing them as a level appropriate group, and they'd respawn just as you finished meditating (spoken as a healer). Much, much better than the aviaks.

I remember the "change" business at the Treants in South Karanas. The Treant camp was very good xp and good cash, but nobody wanted to leave their spots unless they really had to. We had regularly people coming up and trading copper/silver/gold for pp with a small markup, so you could stay and...

Yep. But only spacegoats could be shaman until cataclysm, where the dwarves got finally taught how to do that shit.

Since autism is heavily genetic in origin, the gut biome link is probably the expression trigger. I'm also pretty sure that someone is going to say that vaccines kill your good gut bacteria, and so cause autism, because it's always about vaccines.

The major problem of WoW is that, at max level, the only meaningful content there was left was running dungeons. Or doing WQ/Dailies. The rest of the world is meaningless vs those two activities. The mindset that this irrelevant content must be skipped is easy to establish, and impossible to...

Fuck Yeah!

Probably "WOTC stole my ideas and tell me to fuck off when I complain"? Not going to waste time (since it's part 1 of 6, even) in conspiracy theory. Mind you, it's only 99% of the time that it's true. 1% of the time, you end up with a Bethesda scandal (where an intern copied a D&D module...

Now, as an aside, since it's not pure SF (for which there's the other thread), I've finished Theater of Spies. It's the 2nd book in Stirling's new series now that he's finally decided to end the Emberverse series (for which I am simultaneously grateful and slightly disappointed). It's basically...

LitRPG is a russian invention (hence the "odd" ordering of lit and rpg), but the russian production is weird for western tastes. Nowadays, since the western scene has grown up, you can find good stuff. For the uninitiated, there's in order of generality: - LitRPG where the main character(s) are...

They use leveling as a way to soft reset your gear. If you're an alt in quest greens, you find immediately gear upgrades, if you did a few dungeons early last expansion, you get gear on 111, if you did some WQ during 7.2 you get gear on 112, and so on, until your final Mythic Argus gear gets...

Well, while some fallen are trying to rise, some others find being fallen is enough: https://divinityfallenheroes.com/

That's the author's version of "the lore serves the gameplay, it does not make the gameplay".

Back when I was in telco, we had Serious Configuration Management™. Every build ever shipped, we not only had the software binaries, the source... but also the exact software libraries AND the exact compiler used for it.

The series is big (850+ chapters) and unfortunately the author tends to ignore his own mechanics and go on complete stories arc that bypass all of these. If you like the mechanics, read the first two "tomes", and stop when he's summoned to another world. There's also The New World, which uses a...

There's a PBS episode on youtube that goes a bit deeper into that. The point is that light goes at the speed of causality rather than causality going at the speed of light (any massless interaction goes at the maximum speed possible, i.e. speed of causality, not just light). Our comprehesion of...

That one was great.

John Staat's WoW Diary mention it (and Scarlet Monastery). The biggest problem is that people hate starting a dungeon and not "finish it". With a non-instanced setup, it works, but since you know all of that dungeon is there for you, and only you, you feel bad when you don't do everything...

Makers of the Ryzom MMORPG. We started in 2000, but I left fall 2001 (for the rush to make Internet registars and sell domain names). The engine development was a mess, but the devs and I were all raiding on EQ (different servers tough), so we knew what we were talking about (we were pretty much...

C, the speed of causality, appears to be absolute. What Bell's Theorem states is that you cannot predict correctly every event in a local context only - you need access to knowledge of some states that are not within your light cone. Entanglement is the mechanism by which those external states...

They can probably reuse some of the content. Like, after Classic, the next expansion is... The Northern Wastes (Northrend). Reuses the Northrend map, rewrites the storyline (there is no Outland, and there's not even a Cavern of Time). You can level to 70, and Dwarves gain Shamanism from the Iron...

Back when I was at Nevrax, I tended to remind the devs "8% of your players will be colorblind". There's now a few tools that overlay a filter on your designs so you can see it "as they would", which helps to realize your beautiful UI is nearly unusable for 5-8% of your playerbase (depending on...

One of the things you could work with is the dual Path-Skill system underlying the Legend of Randidly Ghosthound litrpg webnovel. It's an hybrid classless/class system. You discover basic skills by doing stuff, like Cooking by cooking recipes, Running by... running, etc. You gain skill points...

MTGO has been around since 2002.

I think everyone agrees that the nostalgia pretty much ends with Cataclysm. The problems of LK was mostly the 4 times raiding (you raided 10 normal, 10 hard, 25 normal, 25 hard). But, given the sheer amount of raid, that makes it a very good point to let the server "slowly die".

They probably should prepare for the dynamics of the "post-standard" environment for Arena that comes this fall. But I don't think the game as the freemium model it has supports more than one set per quarter, or two sets in parallel. Three months to collect a "reasonable" amount of a set works...

Wasn't the original beta capped to 30 for some time (and Scarlet Monastery the only "high level" dungeon)? So they're not just emulating the retail game, they're emulating beta as well.

As an aside, Aleron Kong has a pretty bad reputation among litrpg fans for some shenanigans (including mod abuse on reddit). His current scheme seems to be trying to copyright the term "litrpg", which is why he tries to establish his reputation of "The Father of American LitRPG". That said, he...

Still classical sci-fi. This time, it's David Weber's (yes, that Weber) The Gordian Protocol Wonder of wonders: A SOLO David Weber! M. Weber is better known for his large series. Here, he's doing a collaboration on a stand-alone novel. It's a novel that is a bit too rich. It hints of a major...

Everyone who wants to play BFA can play BFA. Everyone who wants to check Classic... must wait until the gods of chance enable your beta access.

Won't happen. The big difference is that everyone knows about it and wants to play with it. So, rather than fix the problems "when it's discovered", they'll simply get it fixed beforehand.

If enough people play it, they might do BC and LK later: https://www.wowhead.com/news=291725/burning-crusade-and-wrath-legacy-servers-possibly-in-wows-future

Finally got in and started unlocking the starting decks. They are going to replace those when M20 releases this july, right? What happens to the people who have just got their decks and don't grind massively when the old starter decks become illegal in october? Oh, and I finally discovered what...

More pure sci-fi. Finished Neal Asher's The Warship. This second book in the Rise of the Jain trilogy starts where the previous one ended, and adds more background and lore to the Polity Universe and one of its most infamous Elder Races, the Jain. We've only seen the Jain so far thru the lenses...

I've said repeatedly, at this point Normal+Heroic has zero purpose. At best - at the very best - there should be only 3 difficulties. LFR to see the sight (and get your weekly kill quest, when there was any), "normal" for normal raiders, Mythic for hardcore. My guild when I was still playing...

Last post on the dev blog is May 9th (showing everything about their hyppogryph models...)

Just in case you didn't know (I also didn't until recently): that's the same person (Mira Grant is a pen name for different type of books).