SR has player-created campaigns, though, due to the editor included.Originally Posted by Loki
SR has player-created campaigns, though, due to the editor included.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Have heard good things about Divinity, but I think it's still in Early Access and you can't get the full campaign. They stop you from progressing after a certain point early on.
A number of allegedly free to play mobile games need premium currency to do well, sometimes to can get some from watching videos as an offer but they quickly run out. Today I realised for one game I've got on iPad and iPhone (same account synced) that there was a load available on iPad and a load on iPhone so by time they ran out I'd watched double the number originally available.
That made me wonder, is there any way to reset the availability of those videos to make more available?
Are they synced through a service like Facebook? Try logging out of it so they unsync? I do something like that for Candy Crush, log into facebook to play the levels until I hit the end of the chapter, then I log out of facebook to avoid the part that requires me to spam my friends to advance.
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Been playing Age of Empires Online this week. Game gets shut down at the end of the month along with the Games for Windows Live Service. I misjudged how quickly I could power through this, but its a good deal more fun than I was expecting, so I aint even mad.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Synced through iOS Gamecentre I believe?
I wish they'd make more genuine AoE games. That was a favourite series of mine. That style of strategy genre seems to have died though
Last edited by RandBlade; 06-18-2014 at 01:23 AM.
I played FFXIV for a few weeks. The crafting system is the best since the defunct Star Wars MMO. It has extensive player housing, and the fighting isn't bad. Anyone else tried it?
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I thought SWTOR was still trading and not defunct?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Galaxies
I think they dumbed down the crafting system since launch. The game was terrible in many ways, but it did have the best crafting/gathering system (better gathering than crafting) I've ever seen. Try googling for it.
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Really been enjoying Aerena. Fun turn based competitive game play with games that only take about 10 minutes or so which makes it perfect my schedule.
If anyone wants to try FF XIV, Enix finally released a 14-day free trial.
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I'm on Zalera - pretty fun so far.
PROS:
Dungeon Finder starts very early (level 10! Granted this isn't a dungeon but a couple of fights to train people on group dynamics)
Lots of quests
Seems like a merger (based on 10 hours of playing) of World of Warcraft and Guild Wars 2. There isn't a roll button but there are area based attacks on common mobs you could avoid
I'm a big fan of cut scenes - while they haven't rocked my world I appreciate them in my MMO
CONS:
Free trial you aren't allowed to message people outside of group chat
After the trail there is a subscription fee... not a huge deal but definitely a negative compared to GW2
Crafting feels weird - you actually lose your base class and turn into a crafting class, some people might like it but I'll be skipping it completely probably
I think crafting/gathering is the best part of the game.Unlike Warcraft, you can level up every class. And each crafting class has its own dynamics, though you need finished resources from one class to craft things in the others. And there's a strong incentive to pay careful attention to crafting in order to get the high-quality items (you could also get double-experience in crafting quests if you produce a high-quality item). Even gathering is somewhat fun, where you have access to different skills instead of just hitting "mine".
I'm on Midgardsomr.
Let me know if you do decide to stay. We can make a guild. It gets its own housing. Also, there's individual housing, but it costs a fortune.
Last edited by Loki; 08-03-2014 at 10:38 PM.
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Why am I not surprised you would be into crafting.
Also I forgot the biggest PRO - Inventory and Loot system.
You don't have to click on the individual bodies... any loot from the monster is auto looted. Also since you start with ONE HUNDRED SLOTS to put things in NOT counting your armory chest the frantic search for bigger slot bags isn't there. Love that part.
Once you get a retainer, you get 7 extra bags of holding.Unfortunately, you can't get a retainer with the free trial.
And yes, the auto-loot is great. Also, if a quest requires you to get x number of things from monster y, every single one of those monsters drops x. No more wasting hours to get rare quest drops.
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Got sucked deep into CK2 again, currently nearly a century into a Norse campaign which is the longest I've gone in a single campaign rather than starting a new one. The ironman mode definitely makes things better.
New CK2 expansion to be announced Thursday. Curious where else they can take this game, it has been incredibly well developed and fleshed out already since it was first launched.
New CK2 expansion is Charlemagne with the start date getting pushed back until 769. Sounds interesting to me but reading the Paradox forums you'd think they'd just announced they were taking a dump on the fans for money. Insanely negative reaction.
Ps if anyone does read their forums I post there when I'm presently playing under a different username, Ayn Mandarb. Lost the email address I signed up for there as RandBlade many years ago so couldn't reset password when I went back years later. Ayn = Rand, Mandarb is Blade in the old tongue in WoT, the name of Lan's horse. Get it?
Decided to purchase game - I'm on Zalera with a RL buddy. Fun game... Titan knocking me off the level was a nice touch.Once you get a retainer, you get 7 extra bags of holding.
And yes, the auto-loot is great. Also, if a quest requires you to get x number of things from monster y, every single one of those monsters drops x. No more wasting hours to get rare quest drops.
Move to my server, damn you.I need 2 more people to start a guild.
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Started a new game on Crusader Kings 2. Figured out how to change in-game from the default of being Feudal to being a Republic in-game, which wasn't supposed to be possible you had to start as a Republic to play as one and there are very few of those as options.
So now playing an Ironman game as a Norse Merchant Republic. Should make for an interesting game.
It's fun to start with, but gets boring after a while, unfortunately.
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What does?
Being a republic. Your potential for expansion is extremely limited.
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Why? As a Republic you have all the casus belli that the feudal lords don't you? So long as you have Holy War as a Norse I expect to be able to expand against most of the map, plus it has the bonus of being able to easily reset vassals to being cities.
Going to try and change the map from castles to cities.
Because everything belongs to the republic, not your family. Once your family is no longer in power, you lose pretty much everything. Also, you can only hold cities without a penalty (not castles). That makes it incredibly difficult to raise armies. You have to rely mostly on mercenaries and your private troops, and that only gets you so far. Plus when your family isn't in power, your income gets destroyed, which makes it hard to retain any family possessions.
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I thought you only lose your capital, not the rest of your holdings? And especially with palace upgrades and high income it's easy to have a lot of retinues raised. Been a while since I've played, though.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I don't recall the specifics, but I remember that I was making a ridiculous amount of money when I was in power, and significantly less when I wasn't. Retinues can only get you so far.
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Capital title and all titles of the same tier belong to the Republic, so if are a Duchy tier Republic then if you lose you'll keep your personal demesne outside of the capital. If you're a king tier Republic then you'd get to keep you secondary duchy I believe and its vassals as well as your demesne. Key though is to try to ensure you win the election and stay in power. Once you're rich enough you can buy the election. Though losing now and then keeps the game fresh and gives an opportunity to seize rival families trade posts, which you can't while Doge.
I thought you can personally can hold cities and castles not just cities, though there's a penalty to opinion on vassal castles. Though I prefer vassal cities to castles anyway, money pays for mercenaries and retinues which are better than levies. Mercs and Retinues can be used as standing armies and reinforce while in enemy land which levies can't.
Oh, right. The max size of your demesne plummets as well if you have a higher title.
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True but still it's an opportunity and challenge to rejig and rebalance your internal power before reclaiming your rightful place as ruler of the Republic. Makes a change from becoming King and staying as undisturbed god-ruler forever. If you suffer a setback of losing an election you can make some progress, get to the position of winning the next election then call an early election by murdering the current leader. Politics.
My point is that you then have to give up a bunch of your cities or take a huge hit to your earnings and levies. And if you do give them up, there's no fast way of getting them back.
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