Recent content by rhinohelix

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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    I won't vote for any of the three of you. Booze, Band, and Hoss may be someone's Asshats but you guys will always be OG's to me.
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    He already fell out of the Asshat Long March in Round 2 but being "fucking retarded" is pretty much a requirement for FOH.
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    In fairness to LD, this year isn't exactly a bumper crop for Asshats. I don't think anyone really cares, you would still get the blame like you were an astrophysicist and this was star math. Appreciate you do the best you can in a tough role, though. I don't think anyone ever says thanks and...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 4!!

    Araysar vs. Lanx- Our Asshat-to-be in Avalon wellijustdontknow vs. Bandwagon- It's the Pun™ part trois Cayennechap vs. nirgon- Laissez les bontemps roule or however he got his name, I would just assume cajun but maybe not. Tasty the Treat vs. Ambiturer- Final and potential winner if folks people...
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    Ashes of Creation

    The whole point of my posts is that the entire economy (crafting/gathering/loot/currency) needed to be completely revamped from the ground up to work, otherwise you end up with what you had in New World: A dead, end-stage, bottomed out economy where only a very few things (BIS drops, some crafts...
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    Ashes of Creation

    This is a First Mover issue caused by a lack of obsolesce; Imagine if every car ever made was still running and there was no way to make improvements past a certain point. The first company to make the best would dominate and there would be almost no incentive to for others level up past a...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Cayennechap vs. Luc1fer- If someone is going to demand to be included, well, I just don't know how I'd feel about not giving them for what they'd asked. Is that a bowling ball you got there, son?
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    Ashes of Creation

    Why there haven't been more people who want PVP-centric games copying Eve systems I will never understand. New World's primary failure is implementing their emphasis on crafting and gathering and not copying major facets of their economy. It's not a 1:1 translation re: control but from a PvP...
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    2025 AssHat Voting Round 3!!

    Araysar vs. Lightning Lord Rule- There can be only one! Sanrith Descartes vs. Lanx- Joshua, what are you doing? Gavinmad vs. wellijustdontknow- The "I do" pun, part deux Bandwagon vs. Hoss - Strange Game Cayennechap vs. Indyocracy - Voted Indy last time, voting Not-Indy this time. nirgon vs...
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    The Outer Worlds

    One of the tips that helped me out a bunch was to switch to DPS vs damage; its a much better evaluator of guns vs. straight dmg. All of those guns on Eden are meant to be dropped almost as soon as you get to Praetor, leveling gun included. Nothing is even close to mid-game Plasma Pistol...
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    Guild Wars 2

    I say this Constantly and everywhere: Launch GW2 is my favorite MMO of all time: The Graphics, the characters, the starting cities and backstories, the public quests, every tier of leveling, every area of the world, it was chefs kiss amazing and great. I had three played all the way through...
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    Arc Raiders

    This conversation threatens to exceed forum parameters but it seems like a standard PVP-centric game post-launch trajectory, which as much fun as this seemed and as much as I wanted to play with Ut, I refrained in this particular case. Extraction PvP(vE) shooters seem to have a predestined...
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    Arc Raiders

    You can watch the pattern of every game like this happen in real time. It's Shiny! Game is new, people are finding new things, working together toward the top. It's great! Some people have finished progression but majority are still working up, most are cooperating; few wolves appear It's a...
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    Ashes of Creation

    It's super interesting from a sociological/psychological perspective, the way PvP changes people's behavior a full matrix of active and passive positive and negative behaviors. One can see how societies and areas of lawlessness developed and "how the West was won" so to speak, in that order was...
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    Ashes of Creation

    I have watched a small segment of people demand PvP over and over again in games year after year and unless the game is designed around it and focused on, like Arc Raiders/The Division or Shadowbane/Arch Age, or as stated, Eve Online, and it ruins games and attracts predators, looking "good...