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The irony here is priceless. For years there have been people complaining that they weren't powerful enough and now that they devs caved and gave everyone the ability to become incarnates the games not challenging anymore. So I feel obligated to /unsign this because if the devs cave again where does it stop. It'll just be a viscious cycle of giving the players more power then raising the difficulty, then giving players more power again, round and round.
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Quote:That's why I mentioned our RL experts who theorize the number of people needed to start a successful colony range from 15 to 5,000. If the experts are that diverse how can we claim that Destiny doesn't have enough people.Originally Posted by Dark One
What bothers me about the colony founding is simply that at some point, cousins are going to be marrying cousins with regularity. Either that or they have a much more pragmatic approach to genetic diversity, namely everyone breeds with everyone whilst keeping a track record of who is the baby-daddy and momma to prevent half-sisters and half-brothers from marrying. However, given the marriage ceremony between Scott and Chloe in the preview, that probably is being tossed out the window. There's also the seeming disparity between the number of men and number of women (at least from what I've seen).
http://www.wonderquest.com/space-colonization.htm
This is one of those things where we have to suspend belief. We can't honestly start nitpicking now about language shift when for the past 10 years the Stargate property has had SG teams scouring the universe and encountering lost tribes of humanity that were taken from earth thousands of years ago as well as Alien races that never encountered an earthling let alone an American and 99% of them speak modern English.Quote:Something else bothering me is the language. We've seen pretty big drift in English simply in the last couple hundred years. Is it really that feasible to expect English to remain the same for 2000+ years? Now, granted, they have the spoken records to reinforce "our" English in the minds of the populace rather than just text documents. -
Well this episode turned out better than I expected from the previews.
I'm okay with the people descending from the other Destiny crew.
I found the way the drones are tracking them to be believable.
I'll tolerate that they were able to establish a thriving colony with less than 80 founders because experts guess it can be done with as few as 15 and up to 5,000.
I figured right off that the main colony was destroyed either by natural disaster, internal war, or drone attack.
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Quote:You mentioned flavor/fun so I'd like to point out that you can go to any large city and look at their police departments and you'll find that they are broken up into city zones or precincts, and police assigned to one zone/precinct don't respond to calls in another zone/precinct. You don't see cops/detectives from precinct 3 get sent all the way across town to respond to calls in precinct 27.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
I can't speak for anyone else, but (for me) this has nothing to do with difficulty. It is purely for flavor and for the sake of... I'd enjoy being able to pick up radio/paper missions in any zone that my character's level is equal to or greater than.
It's just about feel/fun.It feels a little too game-mechanic-y restrictive when I suddenly can't run radio missions in Kings Row (or whatever example you want to use).
We get missions that send us to these lower zones at higher levels. It'd be nice to sniff out missions to intentionally get in whatever zone we're capable of holding our own within. (Tip Missions were a nice addition to allow a bit of leeway in this, but not really)
Not trying to convince anyone that they should feel the same way... Just offering my personal reasoning for why I've wanted it.
Radio missions are the squad car/foot patrol emergency calls that the everyday beat cop has to respond to. That's who you are helping when you respond to them. They aren't "The Closer", they're "Hill Street Blues", "Adam-12", and "Law and Order" where even the detectives only handle cases in their own zone/precinct. -
Quote:It doesn't matter how many players demand feature be added to the game. If the devs don't like it they won't add it. But then this tangent isn't about what the devs choose to do, since no one has said the devs would never consider this idea.Originally Posted by Socorro
So, the number of times a subject comes up in different threads has no impact on the Devs? One thread on the matter will always suffice? The same subject brought up at different times can't mean, 'Hey Devs, we have players that wanted this then, and want this now!'.
Not one person told the OP to "Learn to Search", or told him he was beating a dead horse. We simply took the idea at face value and are discussing the merits and flaws.Quote:Maybe it would it have been better if the OP had searched for my or another poster's similiar thread and Necro'd that? 'Course, I've noted that people that do that tend to get lit up. *shrug* -
Quote:Originally Posted by Comicsluvr
The most expensive Base I've ever seen is 3k to maintain, every 2 weeks.
2 weeks? Are you sure about that? Cuz I've only been paying my rent once every 6 weeks when the power shuts off. -
Quote:They already set that precedent when they made decorative base items Vet rewards.Originally Posted by pixelforge
I like the idea that you have to have the pack to use interactive elements... but anyone using base can see decorative items.
Yes I'd buy a base booster/expansion but the damned thing better have some meat on it's bones and not any anorexic crap like the party booster. And it better have some of the things we've been begging for to make our base building easier.
Like the white floor tile next to the safe with skins on the top and bottom (resembling the various ceiling and floors styles) that we can use to make additional levels instead of thousands of desks. -
Quote:I believe Lucky used the term "off topic" to indicate he was going to be saying something that was off topic. I don't think he was implying that you were off topic.Originally Posted by Sharker Quint 0I
^This. I do enjoy the forums and throwing out some thoughts once in a while. And I really didn't go off topic, I made a point to something Johnny said.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Johnny_Taxibot
Bill, it is fairly clear that you have a certain play style, and more power to you. I notice that your posts in these forums is currently at 25,242 posts, so you are apparently quite prolific and knowledgeable.
- However, if prestige has such little value, then likewise I suggest that you send a PM to a mod and have your post count cleared. After all, it is a meaningless value, and contributes even less to the game does prestige.
- If you can give up your post count without a twinge of regret, then that would be quite encouraging. Keep in mind that you can always refer back to this post to see what your post count used to be.
Cheers,
Johnny
Wow you really are desperate to think that that strawman argument carries any weight.
If you had any clue about Bill's post history you'd know he's argued that the forums would be better off if Post Counts and Forum Titles were removed altogether because they get used by people like you who are losing an argument to vilify the people disagreeing with them. Either by pointing at high post counts/titles and pretending they are being picked on or looking at low post counts/titles and dismissing people as noobs.
As to the original idea,
/unsigned.
Why? Because prestige earned means nothing. Especially when any Tom, Dick, or Harry can join an SG the same day Johnny_Taxibot does and can have more prestige than he does by simply converting influence to prestige at the SG registrar. - However, if prestige has such little value, then likewise I suggest that you send a PM to a mod and have your post count cleared. After all, it is a meaningless value, and contributes even less to the game does prestige.
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Quote:You are entitled to your own opinion and you can feel free to disagree with me.Originally Posted by Socorro
So that means a GM won't curb-stomp a single or group of lowbies? And what about the lvl50s that can ambush? I've had lvl50 Malta (incl a sapper) Spawn in many zones besided paragon. And regardless the chance for ambush on radios is so rare - that alone nearly makes it a non-issue
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What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? The number of times an idea has been suggested does not have any impact on whether or not it should be added to the game. If it did we'd have:Quote:I've requested this very thing in suggestion threads long since buried
Powerset respecs
Vehicles
Auto-leveling
Open World PvP
Merged Servers
Base Love
The Moon Zone
Just to name a few oft suggested ideas.
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All of them.
Each set of powers and AT's can easily survive soloing in the +1 level range 1-20. But you have to be willing to learn the different tactics required. It's more than just charging into combat and mashing buttons. -
Quote:Dude, if you think she was upset when she posted that you need to get your head checked. She's chuckling at his response to getting caught in a mistake.Originally Posted by Xzero45
Calm down.
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Quote:This was one of the heated discussions we had in the first season when the Destiny left that previous galaxy for the one they are in now. They had plenty of time to do 1 or 2 episodes exploring the ship and discovering things they could use regardless of how fast the ship travels between galaxies.Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
This is what they should have been doing all through the tedious sucky 1.5 seasons that preceded the current episodes. They implied some exploration but really they should have shown a bit of the ship each episode and found some useful supplies to tide them over from time to time.
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You guys are just mad because you got stuck with the leftover land we didn't want.
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Actually I was lucky to find a website that was airing the episode this soon so I could double check my memory of that scene. SyFy hasn't gotten around to putting that episode up yet.
As to the discussion I wouldn't exactly call it being stubborn, I was enjoying having a lively discussion that hadn't devolved into name calling and insults that we see so often on the forums. In past discussions about this show some people have taken pointing out the shows flaws as personal attacks.
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Quote:Those GM's also use the GM code that scales them to the level of the characters which makes it possible for low level characters to actually damage/defeat them.Originally Posted by Socorro
/Signed
I've had 50 lvl ambushes from reg. missions in lower level zones, incl. the Chronos Titan (not to mention other GMs that appear during events, etc.) - the world didn't end -
Quote:I'm not assuming anything. They did imply it because the creatures stalked them as a group, set traps for them, adapted their tactics, and made coordinated attacks when they new the rescue party was focused on something else.Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
This is close to the subject, but you're skewing it. You assumed the creatures communicated with each other
when we didn't see it happen at all. It wasn't even implied."
It was protecting the packs lair while the others were out stalking the rescue party.Quote:The cave creature was alone when it attacked the group and brought back the 2 captives. It protected it's cave alone. It went inside the cave to eat alone.
Yes they did. after the second ambush when it was just Greer and the Lucian guy left they had this discussion.Quote:Did they even say they hunted in packs?
Greer - Following their trail has gotten way too easy. It's almost as if they're daring us to come after them.
Lucian guy - They're luring us in to finish us off.
Greer - The thing that attacked us back at the camp was bigger than the ones we're tracking now.
Lucian guy - These tracks are smaller these are the babies. We're getting close to their lair. The fact that we're dealing with more than one of these things reduces the chances of finding our people alive.
Greer - Are you saying you're having second thoughts? Cuz you know I can do this on my own.
Lucian guy - Oh no you can't. Hell I don't even think we can do this together, but I'm gonna see this thru. Besides this close to the nest we're past the point of no return.
Not only did they say the creatures work as a pack they said they were part of the same family.
Maybe you missed that scene.
You are assuming that just because the rescue party didn't realize they were being stalked by mulitiple creatures working together that the creatures weren't together until that one scene.Quote:The only time I can remember more than one creature being in the same area was right after the (human) hunting party killed one of the beasts.
But we know they weren't from the discussion between Greer and the Lucian guy. The parent was guarding the lair while the babies stalked and killed the rescue party. That requires teamwork and communication.Quote:More popped up, but that doesn't mean they were in a pack. You don't assume 2 hawks are hunting together when they go after the
same prey. They could have been competing against each other...
Yes it does. One creature made a bold attack to distract the humans in the rescue party while the other two snuck in and killed two of the humans when their backs were turned. That requires communication, teamwork, and tactics.Quote:We didn't any kind of cooperation or teamwork on the part of the
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I think they spawn on an extremely low RNG, but I've gotten them on Hellions, COT, Tsoo, Arachnos, and Freakshow. Don't have a lot of high level characters and the ones I do have I don't play much so I can't remember if I got them on those characters.
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Ya know thinking back to when I first started watching Dr. Who as a kid I remember that the Fendahl scared the bejeebers out of me and I couldn't watch all the episodes untill I was a few years older.
Seems silly now.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Master0fCeremony
It's a slap in the european faces,... again. But it's okay to slap the Aussie players in the face.
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Quote:1. Atlas Park isn't the only low level zone in the game. It's just being used as an example. There are plenty of low level zones compared to level 50 characters.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
You cannot spawn ambushes in Atlas, there's code in place which prevents it happening.
I've never come across a Radio/Paper mish with an out-of-instance ambush in it either.
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I've never bothered to write down the names of the missions but on several occasions I've selected a radio/paper mission when my character was in a relatively isolated spot and there are with no hostiles nearby and I took a moment to organize my stuff, or pausing to chat with someone when a mob of the NPC's that I'm supposed to be facing in the radio/paper mission run up and attack me. No other players have run past me, the mob comes right for me.
Edit: Oh and I also know the ambushes are from those missions because I have a couple of characters who are cops and the only missions they do are Radio missions. After the initial City Hall Origin contact all the have are Detectives, and the unavoidable AE, University, etc. contacts that unlock automatically at certain levels. -
Sorry FFM but our Aussie brethren have been having their prime time gaming hours disrupted by server downtime for 7 years. Please remember that the game is played all around the world so it's always someones prime time hours. It just so happens that it's your turn now.
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Yes it's possible. This reminds me of a RL experience with griefers. There used to be a game store near my hometown that had a network of computers for us gamers to use and there were two twits that would come in, sit next to each other, and giggle and plot how they could screw with people depending on what game they were playing.
They got angry at the gamers in the store because we quickly adopted the tactic of only teaming with each other and refused to invite them to anything. They stopped showing up shortly after that because to them it wasn't worth paying for computer time if they couldn't see people getting bent out of shape at their antics. -
They look awesome but I strongly disagree that they will turn out to be the scariest things ever seen in Dr. Who. In my opinion the scariest creature slot is tied between the Weeping Angels and those Shadow things the Doctor encountered on that library planet.