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  1. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Jaded is the motto of this group. But we're still at the giddy phase where we don't see the flaws. Yet. Now excuse me, it's time for my Stellaris methadone now... :D
  2. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Definitively up for a round (or two... or three... or....). Looking forward for the next test when there's a mac client. I assume there's no OS-segregated servers...
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I see the nickname Tomb of Soaks is well deserved...
  4. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Seems weird, because the UI and game don't look like they're good for a mobile-type UI instead of mouse.
  5. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Yup. The game has been in open alpha/beta for over a year? Just found about it because none of the strategic gamer channels I follow on Youtube did a feature on it (get quill18 to feature the game and watch your following explode). Only question: OSX build? It's Unity, so you should be able to...
  6. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Basically, the guy purchased two 10$ package of lootboxes, and compared to the boxes he kept around from 2-3 days of playing. He got had more lootboxes, but lower quality, so he got overall less cards, but more rares/epic/legendary. My impression was that play time is making waaay more...
  7. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Video showing the lootbox and store:
  8. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    90% of the browser strategy games are clones of Travian anyway. But apparently, the devs do explicitly reference Travian anyway :)
  9. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Browser vs static clients is exactly the same for games vs business applications: - Easier deployment - Multi-platform portability (including mobile) - Fine-grained control - And require only a single communication channel (vs some business tentacled horrors that require disk mounts, 2...
  10. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    I probably will. It depends on the impact of the lootbox store. From one of the videos, it looks like the guy got like 40 lootboxes over a day of hardcore playing, all of which give him 3-8 cards, which appear to be waaaay more than he can use, so he keeps the best. So a lootbox store may not...
  11. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    It is.
  12. Ukerric

    Starborne - MMO4X

    Well, we can guess the business model then :)
  13. Ukerric

    What IP would make a great MMO?

    Might & Magic Heroes Online | Home page (last time I tried, it did crash my - fairly old - mac)
  14. Ukerric

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    That one scene is very special because...
  16. Ukerric

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

    Yes, but Gorenaire didn't drop 1 piece of gear per 5 players. The zerg would litterally have to kill it three times more to get "the best" out of it. Which meant that it usually had a large churn because the ones who had managed to get geared got tired of redoing the content (like we have with...
  17. Ukerric

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    My guess is they said "A guy who played the Joker is perfect for this role". Which isn't entirely wrong.
  18. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Did it on Sept. 29th... now on to the hundred... Currently finishing The Enigma of Reason, which is a must if you want to understand why we have reason...
  19. Ukerric

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    Oh, just in case you did not notice:
  21. Ukerric

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    There is paper folding.
  22. Ukerric

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

    The Monster Hunter series. Most of the Monster Hunter grind is figuring which weapon you need to tackle your next boss, and making it (usually using components from the earlier bosses that you go back and hunt again).
  23. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    Ah. Need to do the dungeon once. Trying to find a storymode run...
  24. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    What? How? (by an odd coincidence, it looks like the game decided to launch and patch itself right now. On its own. I swear)
  25. Ukerric

    Guild Wars 2

    My biggest problem with legendaries is farming the dungeon currency. Never set foot in dungeon, never wanted to. So, no legendaries.
  26. Ukerric

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    Zimmer made an excellent work there. It's Zimmer channelling the modern spirit of Vangelis. I also second the motion. It's a terrific modern take on the theme. It's bleak, but not (always) dark. It's a slow action movie, where the handful of action scenes are fast and incredibly short for a...
  27. Ukerric

    Lost Ark Online

    Oh? The video above might have me fooled then...
  28. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It starts screaming at you if you're hit by non-targeted AOE of any type. Cleaves, ground fire, etc... Very efficient.
  29. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's also the point that technology has left the "server" behind. A good example is rare killing. You're running around on Argus. You spot a rare, your addon brings a group looking tool... you join a group, rare dead, you disband... and you remain in that new instance. I did that 3 times in...
  30. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    So, nobody found where you take that Tribulation quest yet?
  31. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Good, I'm not too much in a hurry...
  32. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    There's guides for that. Most guides give you a rough equivalent on how much ilvl it adds to the relic. For me, tier0/3 traits go from +0ilvl (non throughput) to +15ilvl. Tier 2 traits give from +0 to +15ilvl as well. You have 4 combo paths possible, so you can pick the combo path that adds the...
  33. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Ahh, Meade. How many times has he found the exact date of the end of the world so far? He's been mostly silent since his 2012 prediction failed to deliver...
  34. Ukerric

    Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread

    Too bad the nearest Bigfoot home is 2 miles away...
  35. Ukerric

    What IP would make a great MMO?

    Sci-fi: Stargate, as everyone else Historical Fantasy: Oath of Empire ( Oath of Empire Series by Thomas Harlan ) Heroic Fantasy: anything, who cares about which tolkien rip-off?
  36. Ukerric

    EVE Online

    How much is ISK in terms of $ these days?
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Illidan has more snark than anyone else so far. I was also waiting for him to tell Turalyon that even the Legion offered to change you rather than forcing it upon you...
  38. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They've announced that they dropped the rep gates for the Suramar questline, so you can finish it for flying without having to go beyond revered. Of course they did that because they just made flying impossible in the new zones...
  39. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I was trying for almost a year to get it on my main, who religiously did everything Suramar. My DK alt barely unlocked the zone, and got it from an emissary chest in July, of course.