Opinions On Enchanting

jeb_ · 2012-05-25T17:37:50.586706+00:00

How about instead of just nerfing the curve... straighten it out? So each level requires the same amount of experience. Level 1 would have to be worth considerably more than it is now, but going from 49 to 50 wouldn't be completely unreasonable.

You'd still have plenty of reason to avoid dying with a lot of experience if you tune it right, but people would actually have a shot at max level enchants without an xp grinder. As it stands now, no one lives that long while killing that many mobs. One creeper when you're not at full health will see to that, so the top levels in the current system are pretty much unavailable.

thumbtacforbreakfast · 2012-05-25T14:37:58.174065+00:00

This is not a game.

But this isn't a gaming subreddit. Judged as ASMR material, it's not bad. Clicks and clinks, rolling.

soundhaudegen · 1 day

Oh, I get what you were going for. I'm not particularly impressed that he's turning down an advertising opportunity or how he's doing it.

Just saying that leaving the poll out of the screenshot is a bit misleading. The text makes it apparent, but for the people who aren't going to read closely, it's important to note.

soundhaudegen · 1 day

You could have included the poll.

There's a significant difference between tracking with permission and without.

nottinylil · 5 days

Thrust, no question. I started out with energy regen and ultra capacitor whenever I could. Now that I can ski better, energy just isn't an issue anymore. If you want to get somewhere you can't, the solution isn't more jetpack—it's more speed. That usually means shooting yourself with something explosive.

5hazbot · 5 days

For Pathfinder, an extra nitron lets you build up speed to chase and still have some left over to force the flag drop, not to mention the increased range. And even though it only does 300 damage, a quickly tossed nitron can be just the thing to finish off a wounded opponent or knock away a group.

For Soldier, especially in combination with the Utility Pack and Frag Grenade XL, you get loads of grenades with a huge damage radius.

For Doombringer, you get three mines and can have four deployed (once you unlock them). Same benefits go for Sentinel claymores and Tech motion sensors, of course. You've already acknowledged the benefit to a Jug with the disk.

5 stickies on an Infiltrator will just about take down a level 4 generator, it's arguably useful as a Raider with whiteout or cluster, and with the Brute's fractals, you can divebomb the enemy base and lock down the flagstand for a good while between the extra 'nade and the increased radius. That said, Looter is also worth considering. I actually got it just for the ammo increase as a Doombringer initially so I'd never have to leave the flag, but it's comparable to Safety Third in that it increases your carrying capacity by one. And of course you get twice the belt items for every ammo drop. What you don't get, however, is an extra grenade when spawning or visiting an inventory station—it has to come from an ammo drop.

So it probably won't be as useful for a Pathfinder or a Sentinel, while a good Infiltrator or Brute could use it (with Egocentric or Survivalist) to roam the enemy base and wreak havoc all day long thanks to double drops. I'm gonna say Safety Third is still the better perk overall, but either is better than most of the other primary options.

5hazbot · 5 days

Oh, sure. The good perks are definitely worth it. But a perk with a smaller benefit will still cost you nearly as much to max out as it would to unlock one of the cheaper weapons. In the case of my lesser used perks, that's really what I should have done, but the low initial cost swayed me.

geeky_username · 6 days

That's exactly it. I got the last cap of the game on Crossfire a few days ago only after waddling around their base for a solid two or three minutes.

My team must have been glued to the flag, and theirs was split between going after it and being one-shot by my discs. So what's a Brute to do? Give yourself a running start, ski through the flag, and explode away when you hit the hill. It looks and feel ridiculous, but when you're going near 200 sanics and have ~2000 health left, there's not much they can do about it if they couldn't even defend their flag.

I'm turning this into storytime, so here's another. Playing BE on Drydock, our Pathfinder got an early cap... just in time for me to roll down the hill and grab that flag. By the time I get it back to our base, the PTH is lined up for another grab, so he caps, then I cap, then he caps. A PTH-BRT-PTH-BRT-PTH chain is admittedly silly, but between his speed and my discs + fractals keeping the defenses down, it was an easy five minute game. Hardly the height of strategy, but it's fun.

geeky_username · 6 days

Which is why Pathfinders get first pick. But when they miss their route or get sniped down (or change classes because pubs), a flag heading for your base at even 100 sanics is better than a flag just sitting there looking pretty.

Come to think of it, Brutecaps seem to be a pretty decent option when both sides are turtled up tight. Your flag's not going anywhere, and nothing less than a heavy can survive their defenses, so... send a heavy. Even if you don't make it all the way back, a smart capper can snag it when you finally get shot down.

geeky_username · 6 days

Egocentric. But not for my Pathfinder. It helps, but he's already got thrust and nitrons.

For the Brute. It's only gonna fly in pubs, but there's nothing more satisfying than a brutecap. Failing that, you rocket on over to their base, blast the stand, drop some fractals (which are now less likely to kill you), and generally wreck up the place. You can top the scoreboard (and help your team out) just by throwing yourself at the enemy base and disrupting their defenses throughout the match.

It's pretty decent on defense, too. You can survive your own fractals better and fire away in close quarters without blowing yourself up so quickly.

5hazbot · 6 days

I've unlocked the Spinfusor, Thrust Pack, Utility Pack, and Grenade Launcher. Can't say I regret any of it, though I don't play enough Raider to justify that last one.

Reach and Safety Third were totally worth it, though I should have chosen between the latter and Looter rather than grabbing both.

Egocentric, Survivalist, and Super Heavy (as a Doombringer) are amazing; Close Combat, Ultra Capacitor II, and Sonic Punch are all okay, but not actually that useful on a regular basis.

All of those perks are maxed out, too. I wouldn't say I regret it, exactly, but a lot of that xp would have been better spent on weapons. Don't fall for the temptation of perks when you could save just a little more and get a decent weapon.

greyishpoweranger · 6 days

As much as I would like to have access to those for free, I don't (as an Alpha buyer) feel like I'm entitled to it. Just going down the list, Pocket Edition and the 360 Edition definitely aren't updates, expansions, or future versions (they are another version of the game released later on, but version tends to refer more to software versions or variations of a single distinct program).

Pocket Edition is sufficiently lacking in features as it stands now that it's nearly a different game, much like Minecraft Classic. With the exception of blue flowers, Pocket Edition brings nothing new to the table. Rather than being a future version, it's a port that's lagging behind the game proper.

Xbox 360 Edition is a closer call, but it too is actually a past version which has been rewritten in another language, by another software development team, with a fundamentally different crafting system and online capabilities. Most importantly, it's on another platform altogether. Windows, Mac, and Linux versions are essentially the same because they run on the same hardware and offer the same features. The Xbox 360 Edition is not so closely related. It's not a branch of the PC game at all, but a separate tree following a similar development path.

So what do the Alpha players get? If, say, the End had been released as an optional, paid expansion to the main game, we'd get that. If Mojang releases Minecraft: 3D (or maybe HD, since there's already a 3D option), that's ours. Cakes and Pies Pack with a lizard pet? Free for Alpha players. If that all sounds silly, it's because alternate versions and expansions don't really fit well with Minecraft's release style of free updates.

In all likelihood, there will never be any content exclusive to Alpha players (aside from a cape, perhaps), and Beta/Final buyers won't be missing out on anything. If you don't like that interpretation of the wording, well... that's why it was changed. It was just vague enough that even if they're not legally obligated to give us ports for free, some people will think otherwise, and it's not worth the trouble.

Back to what you said, though: Alpha buyers get all future versions and expansions. That language was never changed for Alpha buyers. If you think Pocket Edition or Xbox 360 Edition should count in either category, do something about it. Alpha players make up only ~12% of the total playerbase, so don't worry about financially crippling the company or anything.

greyishpoweranger · 6 days

But he didn't do that. Everyone who bought the game back in Alpha (that is, before the conditions changed) gets everything: updates, expansions, future versions, whatever.

Everyone who bought it after the wording changed is only entitled to free updates. At no point did anyone buy it on the promise of something they're not getting now (unless you count goblin villages, but those were hardly promised).

belknap · 7 days

Tribes has the infiltrator, who can become fully invisible for a remarkably long time. Attacks from cloak, no decloak noise, but even the backstab perk won't bring down a heavy class in one hit.

No disguises, though.

FullPetalAlchemist · 8 days

But they really, genuinely don't. Pick any race and you'll find more genetic variation within it than you will between two people of different races, on average.

Even people from a given region aren't much more similar to each other than any two people chosen at random, and there is no set of race-defining traits that can be consistently applied to all members of a race but not to members of other races.

It is an entirely social construct, and the attributes we use to distinguish one race from another are both arbitrary and inconsistent. It may seem obvious that there's a genetic basis for what you see as obvious differences between people, but it's not that simple.

danyukhin · 12 days

Someone posted another video of his a while back. I subscribed for a while, but he posts so frequently that it was filling up the page.

If anyone wants to share especially good ones here in the future, I'd appreciate it.

Awkward_Hugs · 14 days

The problem here is that there's not one marriage ritual. That is to say, it's not a Christian tradition, or a Jewish one, or a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist one. They all have different traditions and notions of what constitutes a marriage, and some even allow for marriages between two people of the same sex.

Restricting 'marriage' to only one of those definitions is essentially the state sanctioning religion, and we've already accepted that as a bad idea in our founding principles. You can argue that the man-woman definition of marriage isn't religious in nature, but then you'd have to come up with a proper definition of marriage that somehow excludes same-sex partnerships without being blatantly unfair.

I don't particularly care if the government performs civil unions or marriages for everyone, but if the practical effect is to make marriage more inclusive, why bother changing the name along with it unless to appease a subset of the population?

Mstrwiggles7 · 14 days

You're definitely reading it wrong. Check out the fourth use here.

This isn't an uncommon use at all and frankly I'm concerned that you have so much trouble recognizing it. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and work on your premises instead of getting tangled up in the logic.

Awkward_Hugs · 14 days

While I agree with the idea that the government never should have gotten involved in marriages in the first place, I can see how some people would take issue with your proposed solution. The church has no monopoly on the term 'marriage'. If a government official can currently perform a marriage, it is not a religious act (though there are also religious marriages). It's just the name we give to civil unions, and there's no reason that name shouldn't apply to any civil union, rather than just those between heterosexual partners.

People want to be married for the same reason that others want marriage to be restricted to their limited definition: the word has history and meaning. The difference is that one position is a necessity of equal rights, while the other is entirely unaffected by the legal definition anyway.

Trentapoo · 16 days

I think gerunds would qualify.

Trentapoo · 16 days

Unless you verb a noun (like I just did with 'verb').

ddbob · 16 days

Nobody else mentioned it, so here I go. The naked running guy who appears at a few points is from Mind Game, which I can't recommend highly enough.

No promises that you'll like it, but it's one of the few films I've seen three times in one week and actually paid attention each time.

NorwegianPearl · 19 days

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DrJulianBashir · 23 days

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

And increases exposure in the process.

LionGG · 23 days

I got two brutecaps in one game on Drydock the other day. The sandrakers were not pleased, but that's what they get for betting everything on base defense instead of chasers.

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