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I can see you still didn't actually read the article. Nice.

Yeah, my article is a little more recent then yours. Probably should have read it before cut and pasting.

Risk of supervolcano eruption big enough to far greater than thought, say scientists - Science - News - The Independent So no Yellowstone supervolcano eruption for at least a decade. Good news!

It was a good feature, and actually solved Kruegen's "I Hate AA" problem. IIRC, it was basically a sort of AA system - except you didn't buy it, kill 200 spiders and you'd get the +%damage to spider achievement. Then you could slot the achievements - so you didn't get AA bloat. I think at...

Prove me wrong buddy.

Project Eternity: An old school RPG trying do its own thing. Anyway, NewCo is going to get a lot more mileage and money trying to recreate some of that old-school experience than otherwise. Which is why @Convo I believe they have to do mostly non-instanced (inworld) dungeons and why...

No it isn't.

I like this. I think it's a nice way to combine AAs with Leveling and it leads to theorycrafting which Draegen wants (what AAs is the optimal build for a leveling X, yada yada yada), while preventing the 'I done fucked up' issue someone was saying. So you didn't do the optimal, Run 3 AA at...

What did Fukushima do to Patrick Star

This is always going to happen in any system. Again look at MTG - which is a classic leveless game (and which is an inspiration for EQN so that's why it is relevant to a discussion on MMO). I agree with Hachima that people chase items (as well as levels), so even if EQN was perfectly flat (one...

No. The raid guilds who could clear the old content are already chasing the carrot of the new content without need for the gear reset. All the gear reset does is screw over family guilds that couldn't clear the old content. So that's how you end up with shit like two types of group/raid...

For the record there is room for innovation in leveling systems. I believe a flatter leveling system that is more like original ADD might be an improvement over the current system. Generally leveling works best if: 1. There are no gear resets with new expansions (flatter itemization). This...

I am pretty sure 'because it works' is a compelling argument in the real world.

Yep. Need to be west of Appalachians

Good plan, get on it.

Solar storm of 1859 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Carrington level Solar Flare could hit in 25 or less. We're actually overdue for a big one.

Are you high? There have been 3 supervolcanic eruptions by Yellowstone in the past 2.1 million years.

Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and its really bad news : TreeHugger Yeah, we're really doing a number on the bees.

Well, I don't know about scared, but probably a bad idea to build your bunker too near Yellowstone.

Solar Flares taking out the grid.

Major eruptions occurred roughly 2.1m, 1.3m and 640,000 years ago. A difference of 800,000 betwen the first and second and 660,000 between the second and third. So I'm cool with ignoring your bolded statement given 3 such eruptions in the past 2.1 million years - that's pretty wishful thinking...

I don't have a problem with flatter levels - in DnD the difference between a level 1 and a level 3 is much bigger than say a level 9 and level 11.

I not looking for that I don't think - for example storybricks looks interesting, but on the other hand a fully dynamic world could get annoying at times. You go off looking for Orcs to get some bronze armor, you get there and they're gone, replaced by Trolls who kick your ass. It's like the...

That one is a ways out, well unless it started yesterday.

Snowball Earth incoming.

Damn straight.

No pics. Seb might get hungry.

Who gives a fuck what you think? You're some random internet asshole with a shitty gif for an avatar.

Everybody needs a bunker. @Skanda Actually Northwestern/eastern Montana is fine, Yellowstone blows SE look at the ash maps. If that's too cold, there's always Texas!

Pretty much this. There are a lot of other games out there that with much better funding. Pantheon only succeeds as a niche game. Too bad they can't do something like EVE and put everyone on the same server (or two servers if PvE/PvP) - just wouldn't work in a fantasy game.

Unlikely anytime soon, but possible tomorrow. Super eruptions happen every 630-670,000 years. It's been 630,000 years since that last one.

Fukushima and Solar Flares are much higher on the concern scale - though Yellowstone could have a small scale eruption anytime, super eruption probably not happening for a couple thousand years, but you never know. I wouldn't buy a house in Colorado.

Well, Yellowstone going to explode pretty soon... I'll start that one next year. Or a mod could rename this the Doomsday thread instead of having multiple threads.

3D glasses?

Good, I hope you continue to eat PBFT, our Government has made it clear that's it is better for you than bananas.

You are like the third person in the past ten pages to use the "tired" or "lazy" description for levels. I'm pretty confident none of you have actually thought it through, take your LFG example. I'm a level 20 BST I go to Kurn's Tower because I know it's in my level range. There I can hang...

Because taking two data points: One cruise - "lots of shit" Second cruise ten years later "almost zero shit" - isn't a valid method of data collection? Whereas sitting on your ass and writing an article in Seattle based on 2011 and 2012 data is totally valid for 2014?

False dichotomy is messing with your head: Example Rift. Wow + switchable classes! Trying to re-invent the wheel with respect to classes but still a WoW clone with respect to factions (two), instances (many), loot (pi?ata).

I am, but not as the only or main means of leveling.