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Haq nice job with the post. I think WV4 is something like "Life-Taking 13 Blades" (you missed that in your post). -Drizle
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There's a post by a dev indicating that steam only counts you as playing AoW if you run steam as an administrator. I got AoW through steam, but I am not one of the 92 blessed.
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Hahahahaha. I ran into him shortly after reading this. He begged at me (for forgivenesS). I told him we were cool, but the blood of an innocent would be spilt for his transgression, and that I would send his griefed guildie his way.
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May 5, 2014 04:43
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randombattle posted:So how do you get unbound now? Give Chinagame $30 I guess. Okay, so apparently some of the gift cards--miniquests stuff you get from ambassadors--are giving unbound, and sometimes large amounts (50-100L?) That's temporary though. The 2 hour event is rear end--it means everyone on the server is focused on kidnapping in one zone for two hours, which means the returns are terribad even if you can find a victim. Not to mention it's during guildwars, so gently caress that entirely and with a chainsaw. Although it's nice that money is always valuable in this game, the "player driven economy" really feels like "look but don't touch"--at least for a long while that's so. Too bad.
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May 8, 2014 22:08
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Kylra posted:There's one that takes 3-4 days of daily tokens to get a single piece of silver gear for 30 days. Gold points can give you gear on par with school contribution. You can get those easily, but it can be somewhat time consuming. Still, it could fill you out? You could also run a script to deliver carts, which gives gold points. ChinaGame (our cart runner) always has too many gold points--too bad the stuff is bound.
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May 14, 2014 17:33
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Looking for Flying Cloud Dart, AKA Heaven Net Dart or Heaven Net Secret Dart, for an RE. I'm hoping someone might have some stuffed away somewhere. LMK, will pay well, ty.
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May 18, 2014 17:30
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May 19, 2014 18:13
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Huatah are good folks to hate.Haquer posted:Blame Akeenai for not making the war post after he got us declared on~ I do. Also, like a typical douchebag lawyer, I was asking a question, the answer of which I knew the answer to, and to which there was only one possible answer, but I asked anyway. Forer posted:(Because apparently you keep campfire, but one level down when you graduate) That's awesome. Almost makes me consider going Xu incognito just to get fire. Maybe someday.
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May 19, 2014 19:29
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SweetBro posted:I would like to remind everyone that Chinacompany is literally Hitler. If you're sincerely interested in doing something about this, contact me in game or on TS. No promises, but I hate few things as much as I despise a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. -Drizle
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May 19, 2014 21:55
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Haquer posted:We only lost one of the 3 wars tonight, and that was mostly due to almost none of Resurrection being on TeamSpeak so they all stood around with their thumbs up their rear end while their base got capped. I don't think that's really true. I think the major problem was a mismatch in power. It's not like power was distributed evenly to both defenseive teams--not even remotely. I felt like we got the benefit of an alliance and Resurrection kinda got the shaft. And there was a lot of confusion over the organization and who would go where (split defense at start), and then there was a late change to the plan (all on attack, then split defense), then ANOTHER last second change about two minutes before the war started (flipping who would defend at which base), then yet ANOTHER change 2 minutes into the war (sending some teams back early, but not others), with ongoing talking wiffle-waffle decisionmaking throughout. People grumbled all the way. People in TS were also confused, including myself. From what I was hearing from the Resurrection folks, I suspect they got rolled more because of a difference in power--they all teleported to their base, right?--not a faiwure ... to ... commun'cate. I felt like quibbling over decisions was part of the problem. Maybe we can have ONE raid leader on any given war night, and rotate the guild from which the leader comes. So one war it's someone from NoTrabbu, then another a Goon, then another a Resurrection, and another an Enigma. Or something--just one person on any given night to make the absolute calls, and not always Leffe. That way there can just be cleaner, faster decisions and one person can take the heat after the fact for executuve decisions that piss people off. madmario fucked around with this message at 16:17 on May 20, 2014 |
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Haquer posted:Yeah not just assigning guilds to their own homebases was an awful idea that I helped correct quickly after the war started. Also the part about power mismatch is because Ressurrection somehow has less of a showing than NoTrabbu or hell sometimes even goons unless it's a loving PVE event. Thanks for injecting sanity into the discussion. Fair point on Ressurection's showing too.
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May 20, 2014 16:48
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KittyEmpress posted:Can someone spell out how, exactly, I can go 'on leave' from my school? I know I apparently need some certs and... maybe some other stuff? But I have no idea how to get any of it, where to take it, etc. Are you interested in (1) an excursion or (2) going incognito (they're different) or not sure yet?
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May 20, 2014 20:02
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KittyEmpress posted:The one that doesn't cost 8+ Dings because I have no dings. You want to do an excursion. That's the one I know very little about. =(
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May 20, 2014 21:23
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ponzicar posted:This kidnapping change is a free economics lesson in why deflation is a bad thing. Eh. Deflation is generally a good sign--I'm with Milton Friedman on that. I'd say, rather, this is an object lesson in how central planning is a bad economic policy. A ready example--cell phones are much more affordable than say 20 or 30 years ago. That is deflation--prices going down. Ostensible environmental concerns aside a moment--the wider access to cell phones is a good thing, and enriches society. In the game sense, often in these kind of games certain items get cheaper and easier to get over time. That is deflation--prices going down. The present situation--this is reducing the supply of money, while some costs are fixed, such as for the minimum taels to jail a person, or the minimum 150 taels to get the weekly martial arts practice bonus. That is central planning. The problem isn't deflation per se--if all costs could deflate, it wouldn't be as big of a deal. But they won't. If you hate this economy as a red blooded American, that's natural. It's central planning with a pretend free market.
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Ratoslov posted:Noooo? The price of cell phones has plummeted from 20/30 years ago, but the price of goods in general has only increased. Yesss? The value of a cell phone has not gone down, has it? They're even more valuable now, and more affordable than ever, and absolutely ubiquitous. Of course we live in an inflationary economy generally--I do not think of that as a good thing. My point is that in an actual free market, prices going down is generally a good sign as to the wealth of society. Cell phones are just a handy illustrative example. We do not have a free market in wushu. We have central planning. And central planning is dumb and infuriating. This is a Soviet economy. quote:why buy something today when you could buy it tomorrow for less money? Because opportunity cost is real, and because you need to eat tomorrow and to drive your car to work today. I'm very familiar with the deflationary spiral argument, but I think it's bunk, except in really extreme corner cases that seem purely theoretical. Deflation in a free market means that $1 (or 1 tael) is consistently gaining in value. We don't have a free market though.
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funakupo posted:Snail would still need to reduce some of the static game prices like stall of 200L, upgrade powder of 150L, etc. ^^
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May 27, 2014 20:07
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Haroshia posted:Word is they're thrilled to have her. Not what I heard. Except from bumba. Do the math on that.
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May 30, 2014 14:52
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SweetBro posted:Anyone think that the Jade Edition would go on sale during Steam's summer sale thingy? gently caress no.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:China game has just been loving collapsing for me this last few days and the periods where it's unplayable or crashing is just increasing, if uninstalling and re-installing doesn't fix it, I just don't know what else to do with it. Is it possible that the temperature where you live has been increasing, making a minor hardware problem more apparent? Or something similar?
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Also when I uninstalled it had a pop up survey asking me why I was uninstalling, I put down my reasons and got, "Invalid response token." followed by the survey resetting. You do not uninstall Chinagame! Chinagame uninstalls you!
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Haquer posted:I really really do not understand their pricing scheme. They can't honestly think most people (who aren't spoiled rich kids or morons with more dollars than sense) would drop that amount of money, surely. It could be in the design philosophy to induce people to buy things--monkeying with their perceptions. Throw out a large number, $600 (or $12,000). Now that $30 doesn't seem so large--but if you started with $5, that $30 seems like a lot. Folks do that in mediation for settlements all the time. I remember reading science on it and that this strategy measurably affects even the perceptions of otherwise really savvy people who are aware of the effect. So what is seen is the $600, and you rationally don't buy. You see lots of people not buy. You rationally wonder wtf snail is thinking. What is not seen are the people who are induced to buy a $30 item--or a $30 item instead of a $10 item--who would not have otherwise. That is I think the real power of the sale. This kind of monkeying with perceptions is the same way that the funny money tael/gold in the game works--it's the casino-chips-notion that people handle tokens representing money less mindfully than actual money. The game is inundated with that type of sleight of hand; the $600 camel is just an extension of that philosophy. tldr: If everything was just $5, it's possible that people would be more careful with their $5 than if some things were $600 and some things were $5.
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Third World Reggin posted:You deal with guns, traps, poisons, and then later on, machine guns, flamers, mines, rockets, smoke bombs, and cannons. Although both are great, I prefer Tsui Hark to John Woo. 
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Whelp my laptop that could run wushu had issues of its own, but now the built in mouse's left click isn't working and neither are any of the usb ports. I tried re-installing Wushu a third time and things are still getting worse. All the maintence optimization I've done on my computer has made all my other games run better though. I don't think I'm going to play wushu anymore, I loved playing with you guys but this constantly stuttering, lag, freeze ups and random crashing just makes it too frustrating an experience now. So I'm going to be distributing my stuff and giving away my account. Maybe don't give away the account? You may change your mind in a year or so.
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Haroshia posted:IP laws are a lot more lenient over in China. You can't enforce that poo poo at all like you can here. Eh, if it were legally infringing, just enforce it here. But it's probably not unlawful infringement--I mean I'd have to actually compare the assets, but I'd be really surprised if it were. Moreover, what IP? Selling a Mickey Mouse doll is different from selling a license to play with a virtual outfit that is reminiscent of something from another video game set in some other fantasy desert place. Is this about copyright (of what, an outfit?(!?) An image?)? Trademark (of what, the outfit? They have that poo poo trademarked!?)? If they were selling a "Prince of Arabia" outfit--maybe maybe maybe.
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Amazon is fixed--got my VIP renewal. The Fourth of July gift was unusually good. Among other things I got 5 intermediate jianghu infos and some teleport tokens. We're also getting credit cards and possession tokens for the sign in events. NBloc has been pissing off the terrorists, which is nice, to the point that they're getting tokened a fair amount by Rebellion lately. Even Chaos & Tox have been talking up smashing Rebellion, which took me by surprise.It's nice to see them come out for PvP, although they're not super experienced and flub some when they don't have support. Leffe's thing about selling good poo poo out of the alliance is that in wars, we now hit a wall of Ancient Tai Chi. Leffe felt that this was because we sold out to the terrorists, essentially arming our enemies with the tools of our demise, and it's come back to bite us in the rear end. He's trying to stop that, and has said that if people continue to sell out and he learns of it, they may not be invited to the next level of content, which involves some poo poo on an island with bosses that have drops that will let you level your Jianghu inners or somefuckingthing or other. We thought for a while Mutou might be selling to the terrorists, but I'm not sure whether its true or whether he even plays much now. I have no idea what is going on with Resurrection, but it looks like they're collapsing into Lawless. Nick's rl job has picked up a lot, and Prosperity is in NBloc now. Whatever. . . .
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Interstellar Owl posted:How long does it take for a new person to get up in "level" to PvP or be a useful contribution or even remotely enjoy the game? To be useful--you're useful at the start in defensive guild wars, as you can put out a fire. On guild war attack, as a Royal guard, my spin did about the same damage as anyone else when it came to taking down lions (a necessary part of assaulting a guild base) and I could toss torches like anyone else. Feints to break enemy blocks and CC may not do much damage, but these are very useful to help in a fight--though you'll miss a fair amount due to stats, it's still super helpful and sometimes determinative. Very early on--first week--I was executing ranged feints to break parries and folks appreciated it, though in the chaos of a large fight it's harder to keep on top of things. Support like music is useful at 5th level out of 10, which takes maybe 3 weeks I think; you'll get most of the important stuff by level 7, which takes a bit over a month, I think. As a musician, I get invited to all kinds of content I really have no business being in otherwise; with me playing music, JizzWhizz clears a school instance in under an hour, I think. On the other hand, I've been playing for 3.5 months and I'm not "peer" level with Haquertal or Akeenai or Jizz etc. I do fine in PvP and have a great time--I feel fine about fighting just about any folks who don't have a silver creature around their portrait. But to be a "peer" with those "shock the world" folks could take 5 or 6 months, give or take depending on your personal trading acumen/dropluck and what school or faction you choose (wanderer's valley or beggars--less time; Royal guard--more time but the ranged feint makes you immediately useful). There are also a couple of skills that are difficult or chancey to acquire but extremely important to high end PvP, such as Flying Horse (swap health and mana) or Turn Weapon Around (gain mana on block). I personally felt like I had a meaningful PvP role at the getgo; sure, I could be squished if someone really wanted to, but even so I had some helpful ranged skills and music to play and could douse flames and flip strategic points as well as anyone. Not everyone felt the same as I did, mind you. It also depends on whether you find a group of people around your level. I did not, but I had a great time leveling up even so. If you don't like being an underdog then this isn't going to work for you. If you enjoy being behind the 8-ball, this could be a match.
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Natalie_Luna posted:Ive been watching who gets the res lately too while its pretty random for the past weeks its been reb guardianes and pe... Rip me -.- the only 3 guilds i constantly pick on I've gotten two T2 workbenches and 3 T1 looms in about a week from REs (among other stuff) and I still have some multi-step REs I'm working through. I have been spending an inordinate amount of time trying to impress the emperor, though. . . . Natalie_Luna posted:Geesh.. really? If it's an inside job, selling customer account information or otherwise abusing access to company information, then it is quality GM work--in theft. I imagine someone or someones at Snail are being paid on the side to provide customer information. Corruption, bribery, embezzlement and so on is a widespread problem in China and this would make the most sense to me given the facts. Either bad actors may be covering up individual incidents, or folks may be covering up the scope of the problem out of fear for their jobs or due to direct involvement, or Snail is struggling with the problem internally, or all of these or whatever. I imagine Snail was smart enough to insulate itself from employee malfeasance by using intermediaries for financial transactions. Leaking credit card information would be a big problem; Snail can't lose our credit card information because Snail doesn't have it. Leaking customer game account information with virtual money is also a problem, but less so by several orders of magnitude.
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ponzicar posted:At this point a basement operation would be a step up. I think the entirety of SnailUSA is a P.O. box in some strip mall Fedex store in the midwest. It's a 14 person company in CA--so smaller than Dunder Mifflin's Scranton office, if similarly dysfunctional. No inhouse legal.
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PassiveSentence posted:"Is that correct?" "So basicallry-y is what you're saying there's no priority, is based on how strong and how much [douchebaggery] you commit to the quote:Is the next major patch class 06 gear or that xserver PvP tournament? Leffe and Delphy told me yes on both counts.
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askas posted:Seems like a couple people were poo poo talking chaos so he didn't want them to get loot. Raid was reformed afterwards without those people and loot was distributed via random.org. Still a very childish way to handle poo poo. There was a dispute because Zortyslaps has been running around guildless, and it wasn't clear he was in the alliance (he temp joined a guild outside of the alliance). The Chaos folks weren't crazy to object--if Chaos had invited someone like CMK to a worldboss, I wouldn't be kind about it. Anyhow, because of this dispute, Lumi and Slaps laid into Tox and Chaos generally, some of which was fair, some of which wasn't. We lose the monkey, and people are pretty discouraged. Turtle spawns. A new raid is formed. Lumi joins late, Mutou starts throwing a fit and demands lead, which he gets. I expected him to just kick Lumi but about 5 seconds before the boss goes down the raid is disbanded. Mutou says blahblah blame who invited Lumidas blahblah. In a PM, Mutou said he'd give the loot to Zov to stream a distribution but he had no reply when I asked whether he mustered the neurons required to take a screenshot of the raid. Shortly after that, a Chaos member tried to reform a raid for loot distribution purposes but I was too steamed to participate. I believe this person felt like what was done was wrong, but, you know. And that was that.
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Natalie_Luna posted:So I dug some more into Moonlight Blade Online Beta 3, with the help of phyllis I went through the signup process with her: Thanks for this. I got through the QQ bit and registering that ID number with the game, but I was really stumped by what I now realize was the points requirement. The site was also unhappy that I live in the US. Although I think latency will play an even more significant role in that game, I have been intrigued by what I've seen and I also hope to be able to check this game out some in a real open beta sometime.
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Natalie_Luna posted:I have to stay in a clinic for 4-6weeks they allowed me to keep my cellphone but no games for nat... Sorry. Hope all is well.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'm taking a break from MMOs until I get under 200 pounds, only got 36 more pounds to go! You are still legendary in the game. I may have hit the Pibbletopn problem though--Wushu crashes for me randomly, sometimes even at the login screen or after 5 minutes of play. It's been like this since the latest expansion. Tried just about everything, including the tinfoil hat crap they tell you to do in the tech support thread (install on a non system drive, after defragging it, using administrator mode, with all virus and malware software off, and decapitate three rabbits while turning counterclockwise on your tippy-toes, and all will be well). Until it's fixed I'll be on sporadically.  I still enjoy Wushu. Just hit STW.The level 6 gears have new set effects--there are 6 different set effects for armor, and 6 kinds of weapon bonuses. It's all in Chinagame-ese though, and some of the abilities are very difficult to understand, but they look like some nifty choices to make. madmario fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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Hy_C posted:I did not realize doing quests and having some pve content makes a game a world of warcraft clone. It's the quest hubs and grinding mobs for XP that gives me a "been there, done that" feel. vOv madmario fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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