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Romans claim to be descended from Troy.

AoC is "play to crush", right? Player-built cities, with other players being able to raid them? I give it two years tops before it has to close due to lack of players.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535/

A clone is basically a twin brother/sister, just born later. Now, copy errors do accumulate over time; each person is born with about 50 differences that aren't in the starting DNA of their parents. That sounds a lot, but you have 4 billion bases, 50 errors over 4 billions is peanuts, unless...

There are plenty of MMOs. Almost all made in Asia; they launch, their population crash two weeks later and they close after two to three years. Most of the time, they don't even bother with a worldwide launch.

Oh, it's not fun and interesting though. Most F2P/Gacha games today simply create a problem, and then sell you the solution. And it usually works. If I were to transition WoW into a F2P game, I would have you be able to complete only 5 daily quests, with one additional unlocking every hour...

Yes?

Also: https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/30/nexon-is-publishing-overgeared-themed-project-t-mmorpg-for-pc-and-mobile/

Trading was nerfed between press release and early access, I think. Some of the streamers had tens of thousands of regional wealth from trade extremely quickly, producing planks (entirely renewable) and importing everything instead of producing it. There is a reason there is an entire...

I think he speak extreeeemly briefly of it in there:

Yea, he was stuck in a direction he didn't like with Dawn of the Void, so he decided to cut it short and wrap it up. He also has Skadi's Saga, which was a fantasy viking series that didn't get much traction, so I don't think he finished it, and the most recent one is Thrones of the Fallen...

The solution to that one is small markets. Forget the 25 stall market: create small markets with a dozen stalls only, and add new markets only when it starts getting full. For the remote stall workers, there's no solution except temporarily removing the family from their work place (if they're...

Yea, that series is now in the DNF list (Do Not Follow). The author has lost its plot...

As a reminder: this is a one-dev game. There are a few more working on graphics and animations, but don't expect fast progress, even with Hooded Horse behind it now.

Note that it is extremely early access. More than 2/3rd of the tech tree isn't there, there is one map, localization is missing all over the place. But it's extremely fun to walk around in your village, notably when the men just come back from bandit hunting and all head back to work or home...

No handholding at all. Find out, slap your face, restart.

A little "then vs now":

All astronomy stuff of that era is either assembly or Forth (which is basically "macro-ready assembler"). They might have exotic things like C, but I doubt it.

That's the end of the last ice age. Prior to that, most artifacts tended to be destroyed by the harsher conditions. After that, it's easier to get preserved.

Let me guess? The name is "Vogon Boss"?

Specially the Hero That Saves The World Multiple Times Every Two Years. You're telling me he doesn't have access to high-end restorative magic? (the same argument as the stupid D&D Dungeon Wheelchair - dude, as an adventurer, you earn the equivalent of a Lord's yearly taxes, and you can fork...

Isn't that a common thing in mobile RPGs, though? TL was initially designed as mobile gacha, if I remember right, and that's a common theme there: collect characters, switch between your "team" as needs must.

That's his real (and only) job. He's a lecturer for lay audiences, and that's it. Not an expert, not a scientist (except in the technical sense), just a popularizer.

Not, but it's almost certain that it was at least some factor in failure. We all know what DEI means: "Didn't Earn It". DEI means you voluntarily dropped your workplace efficiency and capacity in the pursuit of quotas to satisfy your investors, but meant zero thing for your consumers, and...

Ghost has Whoopi Goldberg in it. That should tell you all you need to know about the movie.

Digital Signage displays are categorized as "professional equipment", so they overcharge you since you're supposed to write that off as a business expense. Expect four-digit costs for a mere 30" 4K.

The Founders trilogy is truly an epic work, but what struck me is the last one, which is one of the handful of novels that attempt to depict the slow slide of human society into a post-human society. You do get a sense of how a society that works on a completely different paradigm than the ones...

This is essentially why I am never, ever, buying a smart TV. If I have to click "yes" on an EULA on my TV, back in the packing and the store it goes.

They've improved significantly the automation while you're "not there", so this may impact the multiplayer aspect. My main concern remains the breeding ranch, which is usually dropping pals to zero after a time - they don't go to the sleeping beds, they don't seem to go eat, they just fuck...

Well, it that means we get TWO lunar bases, I say it's worth it.

Well, considering the lunar day is 4 weeks-long, they might have problems figuring out how to stay in synch.

He who fight with monsters. FTFY. Three of them, actually.

Nevermind. It's back there.

Well, my ability to post is back, but not to add reactions (it's missing in every forum, not just the Bully Pol Pit). And yes, I cleared the cache of all old data. (I was expecting a rickrolling redirect or some other silly shenanigans, not a role change, tbh)

A Fire Upon the Deep is the paperback I had to buy twice (because the previous fell apart). I also had the CD-Rom version with the author's notes (which include all the bits of worldbuilding you barely see, like the fact that Twirlip of the Mists seem to know exactly what's with the Blight, but...

We all know that DEI stands actually for "Didn't Earn It".

Azarinth Healer is reasonably good after the rocky start, but I found myself slowly slipping away, and then simply stopped after a while (I have no idea how edited the AMZ version is vs the original Royal Road one). Ritualist has been declining steadily from what I heard about the series (I...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/vernor-vinge-father-of-the-tech-singularity-has-died-at-age-79

Gacha-loaded games aren't what I'm looking for in a MMO, but you do what you do. That aside, you're partially right. 1) Take an open world - which they already have, developped and full of lore ready to implement. 2) Make a shit-ton of dungeons, raids and open-world bosses 3) Put classes that...

They didn't make those games. They wrecked those games.