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They also nerfed follower XP, making it even more painful to setup. (followers used to get 10% of XP if they were in a mission 3+ levels above them, making a level 100 mission with 10k bonus xp a good quickstart for the early levels. No longer, you need to run 200xp missions with 70% chance of...

The way I saw Storybricks initially was basically a lot of words to describe basically The Sims. Each NPC would have a list of "needs bars" which would fill or empty, based on actions by the NPC or the players, and a "personality" which basically told it how fast/slow the bars could fill based...

It's a bit older, but David Graeber's "Debt - The first 5000 years" is very good to see how we came around the concept of money, and why the idea that "debt must be repaid" is a cunning fabrication that does a lot of damage to society.

Yep. Meaning no dagger skin for me, because apparently, it drops only for rogues even if you can use on a caster dagger...

Are the invasion weapons different looks from the scenario ones? Because I'm going to probably get those looks using the scenarios rather than rely on random drops...

At the moment, you only have two zones active at any time. I assume that they're going to move to 3 this weekend, 4 next Wednesday, 5 next weekend, and the last week is going every zone round the clock.

Full xmog set, cape, pet, and that's done. No need for anything else.

Except that, if they do that, after clicking off those ads 2-3 times, I'll click off the app, and never look at it again. It's not the correct advertising. It's the old model of spam advertising, except with a limited range. You want the future of Pokemon Go business? QRCode scans. Your...

Niantic uses Google's "use" maps. They spawn pokemon according to how many people use their phones while stationary (to avoid having extra densities on commuter roads where there are lots of people with phones, but they're not actively using them and they're moving). Did you think they...

The problem is that glyphs don't scale. For any other profession, when you add 10 levels and 150 ilvl, you just churn out a new set of armor/weapons, or a new range of consumables, and that's done. But for inscription, you need a new set of skills to inscribe... and their design drops as many...

No pokemon reduction visible during my lunch break walk. Got about the same amount, and the usual regular spawns were there. The guy who was walking with me missed about 10-15% of them, though. I mean, we were next to the pokemon, and even waiting for 30s would net no pokemon for him (usually...

Now, we know how Pokemon Go spawns its common trash:

New version on beta test in San Francisco. That's the tracker we were waiting for: Basically, the tracker will work like this: for nearby pokemon, it shows the picture of the nearest Pokestop/Gym. Click on the pokestop and it shows it on your map: The creators of Pokémon Go are testing...

After watching BvS and SQ, I'm downgrading all WB movies from "going to see when they come out" to "wait for the reviews before I make a decision". Regardless of the trailers.

Snorlax is retardedly overpowered. It's type and move combinations make it that there's no real good pokemon against him; you'd need a Steel with Fighting moves as the optimal guy, and there's none, so you have to pick someone strong against him (fighting moves) or hope to have a type that is...

I think their server architecture didn't scale correctly, and they're trying to redesign stuff (which will take longer than fixing bugs). There's basically 4 "service" components: - Pokestops/Arenas, which are static, easily grouped and sorted, and thus scale well - Km tracking, which is...

Essentially that. After a while, it degenerates into scratching your completist itch, but new content is usually fun for a while. Its repeatbility has dropped, however; it used to be that most of the first zone was original story lines between Alliance and Horde, and a good part of the other...

1500 LY away. Can't expect the results soon. Btw, this dim-out resurrects the first dim-out paper. An astronomer did a study using old Harvard photographic plates and concluded to a dimming of close to 20% over a century. People looked at the paper, and found lots of holes, and essentially said...

Those reviews are essentially correct. At some points, I was thinking "did they forget to cast Katana and just let the stunt double do the job?"

IV is the percentage your base stats have between worst and best possible for a given pokemon level. Suppose you have a Pokemon and fed him candy/dust until his half-circle is maxed. It will have say, 750cp and 70 hp. Pick another pokemon of the same species and max the half-circle, and find...

Size matters

When Pokemon... catch people!

Soooo, that's why it was so unbalanced... I mean, even the post-credit scene was stilted...

Yea, the third book (The Children of the Sky) didn't work as well (Deepness is a prequel, but Children is a straight up sequel and... not that good). I had the annotated CDRom version of a Fire Upon the Deep; some of the notes made you wonder a bit (Twirlip of the Mists, where are you? who are...

Yea, I absolutely don't understand how they can have that problem, unless the tracker is generated server-side. I mean, you just send the pokemon coords to your game client, and it has your coords, the pokemon's. So what's the problem? If you want a tracker in-game, you can either display a...

Same here; I'm logging in to unlock S3 ep, but I haven't even finished S2 yet... Maybe one day...

Incense is basically XP; it pops one common pokemon (and rarely a random uncommon one) every 5mn or every 150-200m. Basically, that means 600 to 1500 xp. You won't find good pokemon with incense, what you'll get is more dust/candies for your xp needs. The servers were busy today, I just did a...

Follwing the nerf, I've been using some data sheets found on the web, and made my own "Top tiers" lists, based on CP/possible movesets. Note that if you've got ultra-high IV and perfect moveset, you'd be probably one tier above; if sub-90% and bad moveset, you're probably one tier below. Tier...

I've read everything except his last trilogy (for... reasons? Too many books around, maybe?) Everything Egan wrote before that one was good, except maybe Teranesia. Couldn't like that one. But things like Permutation City, Diaspora or Schild's Ladder should be considered classics of SF.

Probably caught from the same sources; don't remember seeing that one. (I tend not to follow John Oliver regularly. Most of the late news commenters have gone to shit these days...)

Yea, fixed widths mostly sucks.

Our "sustainability problems" are mostly tied to logistics, not production. Can't find the links, but there was a study a couple weeks ago that indicated that more than 40% of the food production of the US is thrown away before it even leaves the farm because it's not matching the presentation...

He write SF based on whatever science concept he found, and extrapolating from there. Pure hard SF, almost no fantasy-style cheats. Time's Tapestry is 4 books in 4 different eras where people try to figure out the meaning of some prophecies. I mean, the first book starts with a woman in Roman...

Yea, that site was wonderful to check out what parks to hit. Because there's parks with solid nest spawns, and parks with random shit. Just came back from the former Dratini spawn, caught half a dozen Evee and there was a solid mass of people. You almost had to elbow your way (an area with 5...

Even for Shadow Priests? Because half of their spec mechanic is absolutely useless outdoors.

Sounds possible; the spawns are linked to players in the area, while pokestop are linked to Ingress players. You should have lots more of the former around, even if there were few of the latter. Of course, if the local density is 1 person per square km, you might not find that many pokemons...

Magnets. Endlessly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqr2klx33s

Can leave a forum behind, can't leave traditions behind...

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