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Clash of Clans showed that wargames could be popular on mobile. Lords Mobile then made a big leap forward and showed that people could take wargames on mobile very seriously. Rise of Kingdoms was released about six months ago and is a solid iteration on Lords Mobile that, imo, is clearly...

1. Cap the number of actions each person can make per day. (Low time commitment.) 2. Competitive, strategic, slow-paced, team-oriented game. 3. Servers that end.

I mostly watch highlight videos and for a while it infuriated me that Saab never roleplayed or said anything interesting or funny. Now I find it hilarious. I look forward to the scenes where he interacts with great RPers and despite having so much material to work with he performs like the dud...

I've always felt the Wild West was a good setting for a permadeath MMO given that so much of the game would likely be economy based and it would be reasonable to set up wills and family trees to mitigate the pain of dying. Additionally, a Wild West game would naturally include town centers and...

Proxy laughing wildly when she does "hilarious" things like fall off a roof is the Twitch equivalent to "The Big Bang Theory" having to put a laugh track behind all their jokes to cover up the fact that so many of them are duds.

I don't know anything about the game outside of Cohh's two videos. All the questions and developer comments have been focused on the leveling process. No mention of endgame raiding at all. That is totally fine with me but I'm wondering if the modern MMO player is amenable to a long leveling...

Nope.

I meet new people through games all the time... The vast majority of people I know through gaming for 15+ years have moved on with their lives and aren't about to jump hardcore into a new niche MMO. If your clique does then, as a_skeleton_02 said earlier, your experience is the exception to the...

It's a nebulous connection, admittedly. I would argue that a streamer breaks RP every time they're in the middle of an in-game conversation and goes silent to give shoutouts to new subscribers or give OOC commentary on what's happening. As such, Proxy is not in a position to call someone out...

Though I will say this after watching the Proxy "fuck off" clip again. It is an unfair situation when streamers can break character whenever they want and make OOC comments to their audience, but non-streamers have to stay in character the whole time. Proxy broke character in game to call him...

I'm sure there is some truth in what that admin wrote but I can't possibly believe that the quality of RP on these servers would be better without streamers. Having an audience is where the incentive to do quality RP comes from (for most people). If I owned the server I would remove that admin...

I found a good old-timey clip from geeFamous, from three months ago. A very good police chase starts around 30:00: The game done changed, yo. They were putting bullets into police vehicles back in the day and running away with impunity. It made sense back then because the cops rolled DEEP...

It's an easy but frustrating diagnosis. I know from experience that I will always settle for MOBAs or other short-term games when the other option is a long-term game based mostly on grinding that isn't very rewarding and offers a much worse combat experience. That doesn't mean the idea of...

I agree with you. Timmac/Proxy/Waffles are all pretty boring compared to a number of less popular streamers. They have picked boring characters. Then again, I don't understand Twitch viewership's decisions most of the time. Why is JoshOG one of the most popular CS:GO streamers? Why is summit one...

If the game's supporters are admitting that it's an MMO-Lite then that validates uniqueuser's case that it's not a meaningful sandbox, doesn't it? Is a shallow, grindy sandbox worth playing? I watched an Albion stream on Twitch for two minutes (and stayed at a Holiday Inn last night) and the...

About seven years ago the game eRepublik was played by 20 or so people on this board. We were pretty good at the politics of the game and had a nice impact. Eventually our influence allowed us to get Dokomo elected as president of Japan, which infuriated the old group of players that were...

The weirdest things related to poker that Wooly claimed in the thread were: 1. Saying he got banned from 2+2 based on some sort of popularity contest. A quick ten-second glimpse at his posting history shows he was banned for flipping out in some minor thread in a PLO forum. 2. Saying the...

Baron Realms Elite and Tradewars 2002 were the gold standard of BBS games IMO. LORD was super solid casual fun.

Yep, huge stretch.

Odd, I just asked myself those same two questions.

My body is ready

If you PvP'ed in UO you needed a house to store all your gear. Reagents. Backup sets of armor. Runes. Organized so that if you died you could re-gear quickly. And if you were successful at PvP you needed the storage space for all your loot. If you crafted then you probably needed the extra...

I feel like have been fighting an addiction to games for my entire adult life. Anytime I get interested in a game it affects my work. I spent 1000+ hours in 2012 learning how to get decent at Dota 2 instead of working the number of hours at my job (online poker) that I should've. In 2011 after I...

Not sure if this directly relates to your build, but I've heard Kripp say that Wand Templar is one of the hardest builds in the game because it is so gear-dependent. On the other hand, it is an extremely strong end-game group build when you finally do "get there".

Dual wield ground slam mace(damage)+claw(stun threshold reduction) build. Goal is to keep all the mobs permastunned.

Here's the vid from his stream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cu567Mimgc

Friends will always defend their friends, and no one will ever admit they are wrong about anything. As true in Dota as it is anywhere. You can actually sniff out a 3-4 stack pretty well when someone's argument gets so retarded and tenuous and confidently-stated that they must know they have the...

Random Draft is a way better mode than All Pick imo. I rarely queue AP anymore unless I'm with a friend who wants to practice a specific hero.

They started off solo grinding the lowest level maps (I think?) as a way to spread out and get as many higher level maps as possible, which they would do together. The rule was that if you provided a map that the group did together, you would get all the map drops, but anyone who was online...

What's the over/under on how many of the guys in Kripp's group of six will die before the week is up?

In one of the Complexity bootcamp videos before The International 2 there was a point where the camera man asked ixmike how he liked the hotel "since you said you've never been to one before."

That's the key for me too. I didn't care about maxxing out in Ultima Online. All my guild ever had was a nice two-story house in a prime location. Never once did I wish we had a castle instead. I didn't care about having a Heavy Crossbow of Vanquishing; the only times I felt "maxxed out" was...