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.I have seen print ads for the Age of Empires III expansion for a while, but I had not read the text on them:
You are one with the land. Bury your enemies in it.
Defend the Americas as the mighty Sioux, Iroquois, or Aztecs. … The land will bear your legacy forever.
I do not know how many game developers have history degrees, but they might have looked up how that fight turned out… Meh, the game would not be much fun if disease took out 95+% of your units when you met the European powers.
: Zubon
Most MMOs have a multi-month discount plan. Pay $15 for one month or $14/month for three months, with options frequently ranging up to a year. A Tale in the Desert even offered an “as long as this Telling lasts” package, which was a huge cost-saver if I recall correctly. I would like to encourage you to buy these plans rarely if ever.
The quick version is that you are giving up a lot of flexibility for very little savings.
In City of Heroes and Villains, Snaptooth has returned and kidnapped Baby New Year! Oh noes! Save the little tyke and enjoy your Christmas toys (and badges).
Father Crimbo is missing from the Kingdom of Loathing, so the Fright Queen steps up to take his place. Three spirits will guide you against primitive cave-elves, festive undead, and cyborg reindeer as you seek to bring him back. Assemble your own familiars!
Over at Gunbound, the event itself does little to gameplay except add a new song, but they are giving a discount on various avatar items and an easy way to get the gold to pay for them, along with some free avatar items.
: Zubon
I just spent 56 minutes and 32 seconds on the phone to Comcast customer service. About 56 minutes of that was spent on hold. At about the half-way point, someone answered, asked how he could help me, then said he was transferring me to the right department. He sent me back to the original voice prompt that you get when you call. Around the 56:20 point, someone answered, asked for the number where I have service, then disconnected me with a BEEP.
So tomorrow, I am calling back to cancel service, assuming anyone will answer the phone. My next call will be for DSL.
Thank you. That was vaguely cathartic.
: Zubon
When not simply whining, many forum posters are engaged in a subtle but effective political tactic: hurting themselves in a way that hurts others more. If I can make it 5% harder for me to win and 10% harder for you to win, I make it easier on myself while making it sound like I am arguing against my own interest. I get to take the moral high ground, screw you over, and win: a trifecta!
You frequently see this in real life business and politics. Understanding how the game is like the economy can shed light on both.
From Protagoras:
Now I observe that when we are met together in the assembly, and the matter in hand relates to building, the builders are summoned as advisers… And if some person offers to give them advice who is not supposed by them to have any skill in the art, even though he be good-looking, and rich, and noble, they will not listen to him, but laugh and hoot at him, until either he is clamoured down and retires of himself; or if he persist, he is dragged away… But when the question is an affair of state, then everybody is free to have a say-carpenter, tinker, cobbler, sailor, passenger; rich and poor, high and low-any one who likes gets up, and no one reproaches him, as in the former case, with not having learned, and having no teacher, and yet giving advice
: Zubon
These are interesting to consider. Rock beats scissors beats paper beats rock, but two rocks beat two papers beat two scissors beat two rocks. That can take a moment to get your head around.
Is this a common or desirable PvP structure? PvP is frequently balanced as some form of rock-paper-scissors, and we often discuss whether it is balanced for group or solo play, but I have never heard discussion of interaction between the two. I have certainly seen it in PvE. A City of Heroes Scrapper solos much better than a Defender, but two Defenders can take out Archvillains handily.
Let’s phrase that differently: two support characters support each other but are very weak alone, while two strong solo builds do not gain much from playing alongside one another. Okay, we knew that one already. And then there’s my friend Adam, who makes dominating solo characters that excel in groups. Bastard.
: Zubon
Raids are dropping in World of Warcraft, right? I started to post about the economics of the expansion pack, but then I realized that I don’t actually know anything about it. The bits I do know are level 70, Blood Elves and Dranei, and Horde Paladins/Alliance Shamans. From this, I divine that raids should have become far less common over the past month and will continue to fall over the next month.
Am I completely wrong about that? I could easily be, since if I reversed one assumption, I would expect the number of raids to be skyrocketing.
[City of Villains] I have mentioned several times my fondness for the City of Villains archetypes, all hybrid damage dealers structured so that you can do fine without a tank and/or healer. It is funny that the end-game content, Lord Recluse’s Strike Force, is exactly a tanker and healer party. Well, tanker and buffer.
The hard part is the last mission, where you fight the entire Freedom Phalanx at once. For that fight, the ideal team is one */Stone Armor Brute and seven Corruptors of various kinds, with Kinetics and Radiation Emission being in the most demand. As many people as possible should have Vengeance. The other archetypes offer burst damage (not useful against 8 Heroes), control (not very useful against Heroes), and pets (which die in a hit or two against Heroes).
Conveniently and sadly, your temporary powers are more important than your character in that fight. Everyone must have a Shivan Shard from Bloody Bay. Several people should have missiles from Warburg. The Shivan Shard pets do far more damage than anyone on your team. The Warburg buffs and debuffs are far more powerful than your own. Your exploiting stacked Vengeance lets you survive while your cracked-out Shivans take out the entire Freedom Phalanx in under a minute.
In a sense, that feels right for villainy. We are using freakish alien/corpse monsters, backed with a missile assault, to take out the heroes of the city while we skulk about and try to stay safe.
: Zubon