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Specially since it is free, because they were not supposed to get that booster back.

I've just noticed that some of my missions that used to be at 200% (after a while, you've seen them all) were now at 199%. It's trivial to swap a troop or champion to get it massively over 200%, but if you were at exactly 200%, you're no longer.

Yea, but the sequels aren't as awesome as the original. As usual, once you try to "reveal" the machinery behind transcendental happenings, it tends to fail. Vinge did Tatja's Grimm World once, and he learned that you shall not delve too much in the mysteries of the transcendental (he did a bit...

I do remember this old story about Oracle trying to push a large client into upgrading the database system they had a - very large - support contract. Basically, they were trying to push the last clients having that version to move, so they were offering to do everything, and even send their...

Good point.

Those "fossils" are aligned and seem to be separated by regular intervals. Looks more like track from the rover's wheels...

It wasn't random. Basically, they started by designing 7 week schedules, in which the 7 original factions were scrambled, and each schedule checked against the previous and next so they wouldn't include duplicates. (can't be arsed to find the blue post that explained that) Then, they added...

And finishing this with what I've just read (to stay within the title), I'm still in my foray into LitRPG. Most of it is drek, or uninspired semi-drek, but I've finished recently a couple of good ones: - The Divine Dungeon series, which is the best and most interesting series within the...

I tend to skip on "classical fantasy", so I tend to recommend as currently very good fantasy the "Hidden Library" series. Basically, the heroine is working for an inter-dimensional library, collecting books from all kind from every alternative world. With a Dragon as an apprentice. The advantage...

Go-to authors for massively good SciFi: - Peter Hamilton - Alastair Reynolds - Charles Stross - Neal Asher (seems to be a little UK bias there... hmmm....)

The derrick is revered only, but it's the Tanaan faction? It's on the vendor on Tanaan next to the mission table where you can check which sector you want. (if I remember right)

No, it's a separate functionality (in case you still have a physical authenticator, for instance). You can use the SMS protection to control your authenticator. Instead of phoning the customer support to remove the auth because you lost it, you can get a SMS code. (in fact, if you have a...

This is mostly a modern phenomenon. If you look at games in the oughts, then a lot of them started and grew over a year or two (or more). EQ consistently grew from 1999 to 2003. AC1 did for over two years. I think Anarchy Online (mid 2001) was the very first game to exhibit the burst and crash...

Looks like I found the problem.

Looks like, the speculation was that it would go live to enable Call of the Scarab new features.

Most of the data for the races appear to be in .5, but the activation of the quests to unlock them will probably be delayed to 8.0.

Semi-serious common Fermi Paradox theory: the reason we don't hear anyone is that, within a century, everybody moves to quantum-secured fiber optic coms' and the remaining radio is so heavily encrypted, it's indistinguishable from random noise.

The big problem is that every major government can track satellites. Despite all hollywood stories, there's no real stealth satellite. The US govt is deploying a new tracking system that will track every object down to 1/2 inch. While China and Russia probably don't have that resolution, I'm...

I think it unlocks once you unlock the 950 ilvl upgrades...

Oh, and sometimes, you stumble upon a powerful symbol:

What's interesting is that, apparently, USA280 (the Zuma payload) is still listed without the "decayed" mention, so the package looks to be still in orbit, despite the theories that it remained stuck to stage 2 and deorbited with it. That doesn't clear SpaceX; it might still be in a wrong orbit...

There's only 2 Krokun, plus one army of light, for a total of 3 new troops (which is where the confusion might come from).

Only static fire test this week. Launch at the end of the month.

It all boils to a main decision in your game: Do you want a crafting economy or not? There's a reason why the only professions that "survive" in modern WoW are the 4 professions that make consumables: Cooking, Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting. They all make items that you need to repurchase...

That's kind of ok, but it also still means that you don't sell anything except the best, and you still have to grind stuff by the boatloads and throw it away (because no one will want to buy your newb armor). I think it's in EVE, but the more you've invested in crafting, the less your crafting...

I've compared the weight out of Simcraft for my Shadow Priest vs the standard Pawn version, and there's some items on which it tells me the item is 6% better where my own weight give me 3% worse... The weights are ok if you're really casual, and not that useful if you're not. If you look to...

I tend to frown on any crafting system that has a luck factor. Whether it's random stats, or a random quality, or whatever, if I craft based on a recipe I've crafted before, I expect to get the same item I've crafted before. Anything where you craft an item and the result are random simply...

That's the same guy who sold a 400$ machine to squeeze proprietary bags of fruits and vegetables for "healthy liquid meals".

Not sure about the graphics card, but the biggest investment you can have to stretch your mac's life is more memory. The 7-year old macs at work were sliding into borderline unusable for any serious work (Office got renamed as "The wheel of fortune") because we didn't upgrade the memory when...

The 2 side boosters are landing on ground, the central booster on the droneship. They haven't finished the 3rd landing pad yet.

Of course it has. It was one of the design objectives (make crafting useful/necessary), so they got the right solutions. Other games have "good" crafting as well. UO had. EVE has. WoW and and its derivatives... have not.

My ideal crafting system would start by making crafting useful. Until you make crafting useful, talking about dedicated harvesters or crafting "classes" is useless. Any MMO in which crafting is useful has three main components: 1) Item drop rarity. As long as you're showered with a full set of...

It is.

Not to mention grammar (sometimes, the fact that I'm not a native speaker comes around and bites my ass)

And a happy new year from Europe as well! (how does any respecting person from Louisiana can butcher ⚜ ? Do they accept any random immigrant there these days?)

It's the usual time, and I'm making the rounds on "predictions for 2018" blogs and articles... And I found a madman. Apparently, there are some that confident enough to predict that... George will publish Winds of Winter in 2018! Fools! All of them!

Yea, we'll have quantum diamond storage by then. Will be useful for full immersion VR since those things will need petabytes...

Sounds like you guys are still in the dark ages regarding that card shit. :D Europe (France at least, since we had one of the first patents on that stuff - now expired, that's how old chip on a card is) has much better chip systems. Insert, handshake occurs (2s), enter pin code, handshake (5s)...

Merry Christmas from Europe (now facing the "real" Christmas dinner...)