Pepyri

Oh, he's definitely blown a mountain out of a molehill here, but I mean the whole damn thing is effectively an instant study in feeling very passionate about something you don't know a lot about. None of the original posters with this seem to feel that this colors their impression of the game very much. The person who mentioned it to Sawyer just asked if he'd seen it. Sawyer said they'd take a closer look. So you've got TB, who doesn't understand any of that, outraged about that, which then causes him to go into a related rant that is ignorant of the dangers in transsexual life. I agree with you that it's neither here or there, just what was in his heart of hearts did seem to become the focal point of conversation at the moment of my post.

He wasn't. Honestly, Scarlett in the SC2 community has been a fascinating example of the gaming community self-policing. Some early jokes came out at her expense, but then it seemed like the entire community came out to say "That shit isn't fucking cool", and in a few months dried up. It helped that Scarlett didn't really take part in 'the community', however, so she had no means of stirring the pot merely by existing, so that's less credit to it. But regardless, no, the community actually was surprisingly supportive there, even TB included. I don't think TB hates trans people. I think he just is in a place of mixture between not giving a shit about the subtleties of trans culture, and having a fanbase that needs stoking to maintain activity.

Don't put it on. Leave it in your inventory. I had the same issue. Just leave it in your inventory and you'll see.

This definitely is the case, but it's because everything is hard-coded in terms of levels. So some content will just be plain easy, and for other stuff you're pushing your luck. Then, other stuff is just so ridiculously hard at any level that it's a struggle. It's pretty cool.

From what I've learned, the classes are basically divided into two camps: Barbarian, Druid, Fighter, Ranger Chanter, Cipher, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Wizard And Rogue falls somewhere in the middle. The first group, generally starts out just as capable as they'll ever be, and they'll slowly grow to keep up with enemies as they go. The second group however, scales up very, very fast. A Wizard at level 1 isn't very far from worthless. A Monk is a fighter who can't hold their own. Etc. But by level 4, my Monk is a high damage machine who can put up with near anything, and is nearly as accurate with his fists as anyone else is with just one weapon- while still hitting as often as a dual wielder. Oh, and she can debuff the Might of a whole group by 20% if I angle her right. On the other hand, my Wizard(when he isn't getting his ass handed to him- I need to pick up that Paladin NPC) is a beast. He'll set alight the whole room, then take one look at the boss, and in 3 casts do 100 damage to him- by himself. It's pretty neato.

Thank youuu for the spoiler info everyone! Otherwise, I just need to be okay that not everyone is going to 'survive' every fight- people are going to reach 0 Endurance, and that is okay. The trick, is reducing it enough that you don't have to rest so often that you're also not using your per-rest abilities up, and if that is the case, you might even not be using them enough. I really love the way they designed the combat system in this. They basically removed my biggest issues with D&D style combat, and then made it so much better.

Does this forum have spoiler-handling text? Since I can't find it: THIS IS A LIGHT SPOILER FOR EARLY GAME DO NOT READ UNLESS FURTHER THAN 3 HOURS IN So uh, I got Kana, the Enchanter, and went to help him meet Maerwad or whatever his name is, and the ghosts are kickin' my booty, and the previous area was not. What is going on hi. I have 5 people in my group.

Isn't most of Obsidian's founding team and management ex-Black Isle folks? That's as BG2 as it gets.

It's really something when you can barely be 90 minutes into a game and already think it's got some of the best writing you've seen in years. I love how easy it makes playing it. How much it really does immerse you, yet all with the written word. It's a remarkable thing.

Insanely excited about it. Despite not barely knowing a thing about the game beyond "effectively a new Infinity Engine-engine based game" as recently as last week. The plan: { "sex" : "female", "race" : { "name" : "Godlike", "type" : "Elf", "subtype" : "Pale", "subrace" : "Battle-Forged" }, "class" : "Monk", "attributes" : { "might" : 13, "constitution" : 12, "dexterity" : 12, "perception" : 12, "intellect" : 11, "resolve" : 15 }, "culture" : "The White that Wends", "background" : "Mystic", "appearance" : null, "portrait" : "http://i.imgur.com/33KjOl7.png", // Selected from http://imgur.com/a/eOhqV "voice" : null, "name" : "Bravelie" } Yes, I made that in JSON. Yes, I'm quietly thinking about making a web-based character creator. No I'm not a giant nerd. no you shut up

I'm enjoying making 200k every half hour or so. Now just 2 weeks of that to get to a Vulture. Yeah mostly was looking for an excuse to use that. Still though, some variety would be nice. Hoping trying some wing community ops are going to help.

I intentionally place the low density areas in such a place that I can effectively make them a high-cost neighborhood, then I raise taxes on them like hell. With the right stuff around, a home makes you a hell of a lot of money- not as much as high density does, but there isn't a huge difference if I remember right.

Tourism can spike up real hard just by giving it a few extras. I went from 0 tourism at 100k+ population, to making a profit of ~1200 off of it each tic. Like anything in this game, initially it's painful, but eventually your investment pays off.

Not hard. Just once you get high density residential, don't ever zone low-density again, and unzone the old low density and re-zone it as high.

New mod idea: Ban all non-public transportation.

Far right side of the Highways tab, is the ramp. Note, still give yourself a wide berth- if you want a 'wide' ramp, you can make a ramp, then 'upgrade' it to a full highway(and even a sound-barrier one)!

Something I'm curious about: How does flooding happen without a dam? I have a section of one of my mod-built cities that's just perma-flooded and I wish I knew what I could do to fix it. Never had the issue before.

Second city, managed to make it to 110k+. Still have another 5-ish maps to fill out. If pushed to the limit, I bet it'd be possible to hit 300k population. Money hasn't been an issue since ~$40k. Sadly however, it does become a bit of a rinse-repeat scenario. Biggest secret: Once you're big enough for two maps, make sure you've got public transit going. Subways will turn medium-density areas to high-density en masse with little buy-in. Biggest bug: Two games now I simply cannot build a harbor, because it "can't connect to the route", this time the water route is in the middle of land. Yes. Don't underestimate throwing parks/fun things at people. It can take an area that "won't grow for some reason" and fill it out. Addendum to that: The secret to getting people to move in, is to saturate with services. Make sure they're never anything but blue in Police, Fire, and Health. Watch your bars for education. Provide clear paths to enhancing it- this means what feels like a 10:3:1 ratio of elementary schools:high schools:universities. This will net you more money than you know what to do with. Playing with traffic is a toy. Except in the most insanely severe scenarios, it won't impact your city's growth very much, maybe ~20% in a highly-localized area. But it can inhibit services, as shown above. Probably gonna do a third city later after a map, but unless the mod scene starts putting more interesting mechanics in, I feel like I'm gonna run out of fun soon.

Sigh.

From what I've been told, it lacks a real challenge- you don't seem to get punished at all for having few/no fire/police stations, etc. So I'm probably going to hold off while I can, as they've fixed other issues in the last couple weeks.

Mine is Pepyri.7256!

Yes. If I had dedicated Thumbs to play with I'd probably log in much more often.

A lot of games that use leaning(which I believe this does) switch it to F. Also, F doesn't get me in. Far as I can tell nothing on the keyboard works but sprint and jump buttons.

Has anyone figured out how to actually get inside their ship or is that an "I've paid $5938" feature? I ask because at various points over the last 2 months I've hit every keybinding that is listed while standing next to my ship and have yet to get inside it. I was one of the earliest backers, for $60 no less, and the combination of God-Awful support and what might-just-be the first community to one-up Lords Managements and San Francisco in terms of BS NIMBYism, I'm pretty well ready to write this thing off.

Finally got my first 'real' loss, at the 11th hour. Me and Mr. Stock were all that was left, and we were in a race to buy each other out. He had to get 460k, I had to get 320k, and I was making money faster than he was(6 Offworlds will do that), but he was starting from 100k and I was starting from 0. Give me another minute, he would've been mine. But sadly, I just got my $3b check.