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Goofballs posted:The only goon I know to talk to who was into it for a while spent a lot of the time tabbed out playing unreal tournament. You have to understand that literally everything in this game that is not directly interacting with other people is boring as poo poo. Even interacting with other people is generally boring as poo poo. Flying your ship is boring as poo poo, it's all point and click. Making money is boring as poo poo, it doesn't matter if you're shooting at things or buying and selling commodities or whatever, everything is point and click. The most fun I had in that game was trolling through recruitment channel looking for pubbies to scam because they wanted into goon fleet. Even that was boring and repetitious so I only did it until I had enough money to pay for my subscriptions and then did other things, which amounted to turning on a bot program and letting it kill things for me to make more money while I played TF2. We invaded an enemy system for a week once. We hotdropped pubbies in blackops ships. We got drunk and went out and picked fights with fleets that were bigger and better equipped than us and 100 people died to blow up five ships worth a hundred times what all our ships combined were worth. Each. These things could make for good stories and amounted to less than a tenth of the time I spent logged in over the year I played. When you get down to it, all of your time spent in EVE is a waste. You are wasting precious seconds of your life. Every second you put into it you are closer to death and have gained nothing. It's not even fun on it's own merits. There is nothing about the game that is actually good, nothing about EVE that is a fun experience worth doing on it's own merits. And so, the goal of EVE is to make other people spend more of their time than you. To destroy things that others have poured months or years of their lives into. No one wins at EVE. But you can with planning and a tiny bit of effort and a few friends who won't blow you up until after you achieve your mutual objective make other people lose far, far more than you do. Wild T posted:I've never played EVE, but my limited understanding is two things: This.
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The only goon I know that played EVE had goonswarm build him a Titan (the most expensive ship in the game), then he quit goonswarm and flipped his account for 1000$, I'm sure he won EVE that day.
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Sandweed posted:The only goon I know that played EVE had goonswarm build him a Titan (the most expensive ship in the game), then he quit goonswarm and flipped his account for 1000$, I'm sure he won EVE that day. I'm really skeptical that someone would actually pay $1000 for a Titan, ESPECIALLY for one now linked to an account that won't be trusted by any alliance in the game. Your friend is probably a liar.
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Aug 6, 2014 17:55
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You seem to underestimate how stupid EVE pubbies are.
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Aug 6, 2014 18:01
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Chomp8645 posted:I'm really skeptical that someone would actually pay $1000 for a Titan, ESPECIALLY for one now linked to an account that won't be trusted by any alliance in the game. Your friend is probably a liar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBY-72hN4hE
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Aug 6, 2014 19:06
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Wild T posted:I've never played EVE, but my limited understanding is two things: Very true, not even the people who play EVE like playing EVE and all of the pubbies are morons Sammus posted:Isn't that what the whole "Hulkageddon" event was/is? I've never played EVE, but it's my understanding that at some point goons put a large bounty on some sort of large, expensive freighters that pubbies love. Lots of freighters get blown up, some people get rich shooting things, and lots of pubbies cry. On top of getting their ships destroyed, goons have a monopoly over the supply of a mineral that is required to produce the freighters and they actually make a profit while paying out bounties because people have to pay goons to replace their ships. The developers used to place certain resources in certain regions of space, so it was really easy to get a monopoly back then by just taking a corner of the galaxy and holding it. Those days are long gone. Hulkageddon took place back then, and it's pretty much what you described; we made so much profit per destroyed ship that we were still able to pay out huge bounties on them
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Chomp8645 posted:I'm really skeptical that someone would actually pay $1000 for a Titan, ESPECIALLY for one now linked to an account that won't be trusted by any alliance in the game. Your friend is probably a liar. A guy here on the forums have payed 11000$ for spaceships in a game that isn't even out yet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag42gMGK9WrwdDlkdUM2NEhudW42MkNfWDhJYmhFSVE#gid=0
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Sandweed posted:A guy here on the forums have payed 11000$ for spaceships in a game that isn't even out yet. I hope Star Citizen never comes out.
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VanSandman posted:I hope Star Citizen never comes out. to be fair. i'd giggle horribly.
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Aug 7, 2014 01:26
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The great thing about Star Citizen is that it is not a question of who or what kills it but when.
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This is the only thing I know about star citizen, and the fact that people have payed actual dollars for this. Multiple digits of dollars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXJZbPI5nKE I am amused at those people.
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Gestalt Intellect posted:This is the only thing I know about star citizen, and the fact that people have payed actual dollars for this. Multiple digits of dollars. There were goons in that crowd, some of them proud owners of $1000+ ships. My favorite part of the whole Star Citizen nonsense is that even if everything goes smoothly and according to plan, there won't be anything resembling a finished product for at least 4 years from now. That doesn't stop the SC Goons from theorycrafting and making up tactics for a game which doesn't even have it's core game mechanics finished.
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While the people putting real money into that game are ridiculous many goons are also selling their limited edition early backer ships back to Reddit for triple their original price. This makes them the nerdiest investors ever I guess. Also that thread is starting to get gloriously bitter as the realisation sinks in that they're in for the long haul.
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I think the real griefer is Christopher Robin or whatever the developer's name is. Is there even anything for anyone to play? Some kind of beta? Or just "in X years we might have something for you" and people immediately throw down tens of thousands of dollars?
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Dreggon posted:I think the real griefer is Christopher Robin or whatever the developer's name is. Is there even anything for anyone to play? Some kind of beta? Or just "in X years we might have something for you" and people immediately throw down tens of thousands of dollars? You can walk around your hanger and take a poo poo in your imaginary space toilet or you can play 3v3 online dogfights so there is a sort of actual game kinda. It even kind of works sometimes.
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Dreggon posted:I think the real griefer is Christopher Robin or whatever the developer's name is. Is there even anything for anyone to play? Some kind of beta? Or just "in X years we might have something for you" and people immediately throw down tens of thousands of dollars? Oh bother.
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Segmentation Fault posted:Oh bother. Thank you I almost missed that one.
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Now admittedly, this might be painfully low effort. But whenever I play on LoL, I strive to make the enemy as annoyed as possible by my actions as possible, mostly by playing Teemo and taunting them in all chat. When the stars align and an ADC charges up to me only to be met by a mushroom, a blinding dart, and poison for days, resulting in no damage to me and a taunt of, "Wow, you sure tried hard on that~!"? Oh, the sheer anger and hatred spewed over all chat just makes my life complete.
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tomanton posted:We were playing on a TTT server. Like most terrible servers the moderators were power-tripping, their sycophants were insufferable, and they also had a really badly-coded admin addon wuat exploited to permaban all of the above. Anyone not a rankless, make-believe title-less user was shown the door, leaving us and the pubbies to enjoy TTT as it was meant to be played. Oh poo poo, there are goons that still play TTT? I'd be down to join you guys, TTT can get people so salty. http://steamcommunity.com/id/realmcopfan/
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Nickiepoo posted:While the people putting real money into that game are ridiculous many goons are also selling their limited edition early backer ships back to Reddit for triple their original price. This makes them the nerdiest investors ever I guess. Can someone not too briefly explain Star Citizen for those of us who have only been exposed to it through random jokes other people make about it? This sounds like a saga story and I'm curious.
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It's a dumb vaporware game about internet spaceships. Dumb people have sunk obscene amounts of money into it in the form of pre-order bonuses. We're talking five figures. For internet spaceships that don't exist.
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Basically it is/was/will eventually be a space ship game done by some dude who work on a bunch of other spaceship games. People then looked at it and its massive list of proposed features(TRADING SPACE COMBAT MMO FEATURES FPS LEVELS AAAAA) and either went "lol this is gonna be a cluster gently caress" and ignored it or praised as the second coming of space jesus and proceed to dump money into it. Some parts have been released, but by the time it will be complete and actually playable space travel will probably no longer be science fiction.
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I hate the current era of big publishers producing only stale games so I hope it succeeds enough to not be considered a dismal failure that prevents other developers from considering a similar path. That being said, it will likely be a dismal failure since Chris Roberts is managing it and is promising everything that anyone could want ever. Or it's just one of the greatest cons in history, in that nerds will bitch about it for decades.
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Yeah, basically it's THE guy for spaceship games making THE game for spaceship nerds. 'A full immersive universe where you can be a PERSON in fantasy spaceship land and make your fortune or be a space arsehole or whatever!' The dude, Chris Roberts, made the old Wing Commander games so already you've got the nostalga bucks but on top of that they're really hammering their marketing machine, producing car-advert style videos for each of their internet spaceships while also reeling in Battlestar/Babylon 5/Firefly fans with subtle references to their favourite shows. "Watch this shakeycam footage of neutonian combat, see you in the 'verse!" ect ect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0gZES2pTWk I like spaceships because I'm a nerd but $1000 internet spaceships over a dorky flying car advert? Hahahaha. As a side note, Chris Roberts was part of the team making the old Microsoft PC game 'Freelancer' which is basically the lite version of what Star Citizen is trying to be. He got kicked off the project for obsessing over tiny details and not making an actual game, so yeah. Nickiepoo fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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TheSpiritFox posted:Can someone not too briefly explain Star Citizen for those of us who have only been exposed to it through random jokes other people make about it? This sounds like a saga story and I'm curious.
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That one was funny, but this one is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwjj4e1VRfc STARRRRRFLEET DENTAL!
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Nickiepoo posted:The dude, Chris Roberts, made the old Wing Commander games It still stupid, because unless he did it all by himself it basically ignores the efforts of everyone else who made those games. Oh yea sure the artists, programmers and QA guys worked i guess, but CHRIS ROBERTS.
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Doodles posted:That one was funny, but this one is hilarious:
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Agean90 posted:It still stupid, because unless he did it all by himself it basically ignores the efforts of everyone else who made those games. Oh yea sure the artists, programmers and QA guys worked i guess, but CHRIS ROBERTS. It's worth bringing up whenever Chris Roberts is mentioned that the last game he worked on and completed predates the original Doom, and the last game of any kind that he worked on was about fifteen years ago, he left at the first sign of trouble, and it ended up being vaporware that was eventually finished three years after his departure to the praise of "it's okay I guess." This makes him qualified to work on an eight-figure game in 2014, apparently?
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DEREK SMART DEREK SMART DEREK SMART has actually shipped more space sims in that time with less hype and probably less money and definitely less vaporware.
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Shumagorath posted:DEREK SMART DEREK SMART DEREK SMART has actually shipped more space sims in that time with less hype and probably less money and definitely less vaporware. Though in fairness what we've already got of SC is already more playable than the average Derek Smart game. Though speaking of Derek Smart in a griefing thread maybe it's time to remind people of this: http://www.somethingawful.com/game-reviews/completely-libelous-review/2/
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Nickiepoo posted:Though in fairness what we've already got of SC is already more playable than the average Derek Smart game. Desktop Commander is the greatest piece of software ever written.
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Does fake football count as Griefing for this thread? http://www.sbnation.com/fantasy/2014/8/7/5978593/how-to-ruin-a-fantasy-mock-draft
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Doodles posted:That one was funny, but this one is hilarious: Oh my god this is art. I'm crying.
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Thwomp posted:Does fake football count as Griefing for this thread? Ok, so....why does picking a bad player "ruin" the draft?
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Soulex posted:Ok, so....why does picking a bad player "ruin" the draft?
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Fantasy football nerds do mock drafts to get familiar with how people are grabbing players in this year's draft. They do this thinking it'll make them better prepared for their actual draft. Note that only hardcare FF nerds will do mock drafts. It's fake football and isn't that important to really anyone else. Plus drafts are often a crapshoot anyway. You're about as likely to draft the #1 guy for this year as you are to draft a sure-thing who gets hurt in Week 1. So when you purposefully go into a mock draft and grab a kicker in the first round, it screws up "the way the draft is supposed to go" for the rest of the rounds.
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I was playing Left 4 Dead 2 scavenge mode and this guy was acting kind of smug and douchy to everyone, so I made fun of him about being adopted. He got so angry that his girlfriend (who was also in the game) had to tell him to calm down. Douche: "DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN YOU loving oval office!" GF: You know I'm getting really sick of your bullshit! This went on for a bit and I'm pretty sure I was the cause of a relationship falling apart. Just from tossing gas cans over the side and constant medkit trapping. And maybe the thing about his parents dying in a car crash and him being adopted.
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Constantine XI posted:I was playing Left 4 Dead 2 scavenge mode and this guy was acting kind of smug and douchy to everyone, so I made fun of him about being adopted. He got so angry that his girlfriend (who was also in the game) had to tell him to calm down. You did that lady a service, griefing saved someone from a loveless abusive marriage today.
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Nickiepoo posted:I like spaceships because I'm a nerd but $1000 internet spaceships over a dorky flying car advert? Hahahaha. I see that Star Citizen has borrowed the CCP "No really it's going to exist and be fun" trailer hype machine. Thwomp posted:Fantasy football nerds do mock drafts to get familiar with how people are grabbing players in this year's draft. They do this thinking it'll make them better prepared for their actual draft. I'm seeing an entirely new side to Fantasy Football. I always assumed it was, y'know, D&D for your jersey-sporting uncle, but if it's big enough to be actually griefable then I may have a new purpose in life.
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