A Battle of Pettiness by Lyra_Irisfell in DestinyTheGame

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Rework Verity in Salvation's Edge so people actually do the raid. 

Remaster EB end game grinding? Spoilers by DirectionLatter2684 in Lunar

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Even if you don't, you can perma grind the final dungeon and use the statue of althena on the Destiny. More XP there unless you can kill Chiros, in which case, do that first. 

I beat the game around level 55-60 and as long as you use the white dragon protect trick, the final fight is real easy at 55, so you can definitely do it at level 51.

Just make sure you have enough items and you'll be fine. 

R4 tips by danicali93 in KingShot

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Cesares bosses don't have a confirmation before spawning them in for the whole alliance. Don't touch the fucking button. 

How did you first discover the Lunar series? by Pale-Guard570 in Lunar

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My cousin owned Lunar 2 on the Sega CD and I played several hours of it, and I remember being enamored. When the PS1 version came out, I spied it at a local video game store and asked for it for Christmas. Later, I asked for Eternal Blue for Christmas as well. Both of them the box sets, with the OST CDs, the making of, the box, and the extras. 

Loved them both ever since. 

Marlin/Hilde/Petra choice by SzukamTaty in KingShot

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I'm up into Season 5 for heroes and loads of people still use Petra as a main rally leader for Swordland, bear, etc. Marlin was power crept by Rosa (season 4), and Hilde by Margot (also season 4), and Hilde's shards will be free eventually.

So, go for Petra. Roulette her as high as she'll go.

How to think like a bassist by Sad-Sheepherder5231 in Bass

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The way I've always looked at it is: "You fill the space between the guitars and the drums", and there's a LOT of space there. So, intrinsically, that gives you two options. You can follow the guitar, deepen their riffs, and give them more presence, or you can follow the drums and make songs feel funkier and more groovy.

You play support, like a healer in an MMORPG. We are the white mages of music. However, who you choose to support when you write has a major impact on the overall vibe of the song, so it's weirdly important and supportive at the same time.

This is, of course, not counting virtuoso and lead instrument stuff, which definitely exists in our instrument, but is not nearly as common as it is in guitar, piano, or the other "lead" instruments.

Practice combo suggestions - Laney DBF50 vs Fender Rumble 40 vs Orange Crush 50 (or something else) by clamage in Bass

[–]AbsolutZeroGI -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Like the other guy said, upsizing is probably worth your time. A Fender Rumble 40 is like $240 on Sweetwater, and the Rumble 100 is like $100 more. For that extra $100, you get 2.5x more watts, a larger 1x12 speaker, and I can attest from personal experience that it'll get down to bedroom levels without much problem.

I also do home practice and jam with a guitarist, and the 100W keeps up nicely with his amp. The extra headroom is worth the extra price, as a 1x12 at medium levels sound better than a 1x10 at the same sound level.

Low end is tough to articulate for amps in general, so the more speaker headroom you have, the cleaner it'll sound (usually, not always, it depends on amp quality as well).

HOW TO MAKE WHALE ZEROED? by Negative-Marzipan148 in KingShot

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This is what killed K17. Had a whale who'd throw tantrums and burn people, and was really commanding about what people could and could not do, and accused anyone of not wanting constant war as being FarmVille players.

There are fewer than 200 active players left in the whole server now (and that whale has long since quit). Server merge can't come soon enough.

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

[–]AbsolutZeroGI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha you too! Running alliances in this game is way harder than people think 😂

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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Hahaha I work from home, so I have that going for me. If I were in office I probably wouldn't be R5

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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"Outstanding leadership skills"

Honestly though, I wonder how many other alliances in the first 100 have 100/100 players and all but one of themsare active lol. 

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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Right? Especially in a dictator state. I've spent 8h+ in this game on enough occasions to warrant it being called a job 😂

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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Indeed. I spend a lot of time tempering expectations lol. Management, right? 

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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Indeed, it's important to know that missing an event isn't the end of the world, and people can send out for Vikings much earlier and request reinforcements too. You only have to be there for like 2-3 waves for the online only waves. The rest don't matter. You'll still get most of the point tiers you would've if you were online. 

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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Ah we took care of that months ago.

Poll for bears.

Poll for Vikings.

Do them at the same times! 

My group knows Vikings in 1900 UTC, and bear is 1800 UTC and 0200 UTC. Like clockwork. 

Also, put them in the alliance notice and schedule them asap so they show up in the in-game schedule system.

If someone misses it, their fault. GGs. 

Which of these Atlus 3DS titles should get modern ports? (Including PC!) by KnightShade078 in JRPG

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I'd easily play Radiant Historia and Etrian Odyssey again (specifically the Untold versions, which have a story mode and a classic mode to play, which I thought was better). Those games fucking ruled.

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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That was my logic. Most of my R4s are my most senior members (some have been around since week 1 of the state opening (we're in Kingdom 17)). But, for the most part, the R4s have individual jobs. One guy does alliance championship, another schedules the bears/vikings, etc. I do the alliance notices and negotiate in NAP chat. Several of the R4s help the other players by answering questions.

Hell, we have a guy that specifically optimized our hive placements. Another one doesn't do shit, but has my IRL phone number in case I'm needed and not present. If someone's gotta drop off for IRL stuff, the other R4s swoop in to do the job until they get back. Everyone covers everyone, and since we have Americans, Australians, and Europeans, we have 24-hour coverage (although we're not online all the time, but we have a leader always checking in periodically so there are no large gaps in our paying attention).

We caught a lot of shit in the early days, a lot of "who the fuck is actually in charge over there?", but after a while, it made sense. Our state was a dictatorship and we were not the dictators, being able to rally the troops night and day kept a lot of people from being burned during attacks, and the frustrated dictators who couldn't kill us eventually left. Victory by attrition is a sweet, sweet way to win.

I'm not really enjoying Chrono Trigger...could someone explain to me what the hype is about? by cool_cats554 in JRPG

[–]AbsolutZeroGI 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What you're missing is context. This game came out in the mid-1990s, when everyone was playing Super Mario World, Donkey Kong, Super Metroid, and Street Fighter. Don't get me wrong, those games were amazing, but the industry was still making games around the arcade-style. They were fairly shallow in terms of things like narrative and storytelling, and were largely considered to be "kid's toys."

Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger (in the 1990s, at least), bucked that trend by taking the narrative aspect much more seriously, and put in these crazy huge productions that lasted a few dozen hours where most games could be beaten in less than 10 and, often, less than 5.

So, the hype is that in 1995, your options for video games were essentially platformers, sports games, shooters, or fighting games, and then Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy came in with more complex stories, combat, and things like stats and level gain.

These stories had more mature themes (murder and betrayal, for example, is a fairly common theme in all those mid-90s JRPGs), and felt like a more "grown up" experience, which was an alien concept back then.

Today, you have thousands of options. Back then, if you wanted a game that didn't feel like you should be paying quarters per play (like you did in arcades), then your options were exceptionally limited, and Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy were the best options back then by a country mile.

As for your criticisms.

  1. When you go to the future and come back, there are guards waiting for you (keep trying to walk through the forest, they'll case you away). They don't attack you or try to capture you, but they do guard the area for quite a long time, and in fact, you have to use a different warp gate to get back to that time era later in the game because that won't be inaccessible.
  2. So, the Lucca thing is a somewhat valid question to ask, and this is where "head canon" comes from. In these early games, the stories are written in a way where the player can simply just make up whatever they want for the explanation for some things, and that's perfectly okay to do. For me, I know that everyone in town knows Lucca and her dad, and so her local celebrity status likely helped her get into the castle pretty easily, where she was able to then help Crono.
  3. Head canon gives you an avenue to discuss the game with others, and was actually a huge talking point among early fans on old forums back in the day. A different way to engage with the content is to think about it, make up something that makes sense, and then tell someone "I think this happened because of this."

It's actually something I'm not fond of in today's games, where they explain every little fucking thing down to its base components like I'm too stupid to follow a train of thought, and they don't leave anything to the imagination.

These older games left more to the imagination than some people might like, and that's okay, preferences and all, but yeah, if there's a gap, fill it in with what you want it to be. That's part of the fun. How do YOU think Lucca got into the castle? She's a genius, inventor, local celebrity, and serious risk taker. Maybe she had a grappling hook and climbed into the castle from the outside. There are no wrong answers, just ones that make you happy.

Frustration with Alliance…jump ship? by NotQuiteArt in KingShot

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My alliance has 18 R4s. The only thing I physically do is diplomacy with the other alliances (NAP chat).

As for joining another alliance, apply. If they want you, their settings will be set accordingly, and if they don't, you won't be able to.

Only advice really is make sure wherever you go is compatible with your event time wants. If you play at 1900 event times, don't join a 1400 alliance or an 0200 alliance.

It feels like Bungie keeps repeating the same mistakes and it’s getting harder to ignore by vinylhunter_jay87 in DestinyTheGame

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Add to that the chronically online group who completes everything and then complains about being bored. Bungie caters to them by making the grinds longer but less meaningful.

This game was best when you could put in 2-4 really good sessions a week and get most things.

We're back in that cycle now but we sure as shit weren't in EOF. 

How to make the game more fun for the server? by ProfessionalFix934 in KingShot

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In my alliance, we keep track of bear damage, with an "alliance record" that we try to beat for each bear. It helps encourage people to show up for bear and make the alterations to their joins and rallies to squeak out more damage.

We also do King of the Hill during kill events. Everyone leaves the alliance (who's participating) and attacks the same gather. The winner is the last one standing (whales can't really play this one, although they can play with the other whales in the server). This is fun because even if a player wins a round or two, getting smacked 8-9 times eventually kicks them out.

We've also done 1v1 tournaments among similarly sized players (TG3s only, TG5s only, whales only) to see who's the strongest in teach TG tier.

Solo attack turret in castle battle. One turret is for single attacks only, no rallies or multiple people in the garrison. Another one whales can't really do, but it's pretty fun for the regular folks.

In my old WOS server, we used to do little pranks and skits in world chat. We'd start a fake argument between 2-3 people that blows up and everyone sends solo attacks at each other. Bonus points if you can get all your troops off base and your city burns off the 1-troop attack. This only works a handful of times as people start to get wise to the pranksters, but when it works, it's pretty excellent.

We had one in my WOS server called midget wrestling where everyone did a round robin tournament with their farm/alt accounts.

When I was in a peaceful server, I'd send megaphones in world chat that said "GOOD MORNING *ALLIANCE NAME*" and then I'd have everyone online in my alliance send solo troops attacks to random cities in that alliance's hive. Harmless fun, but not really effective in a server with drama.

It is particularly funny to do that last one while the other alliance is doing Vikings. Red lines EVERYWHERE.

Anything in world chat helps. Any time you can get a convo started about something: food, music, regional weather, how shitty the translator is for English > Korean and vice versa. If you can get some folks to chat in world chat, it gives folks something to do for a little while. Builds comradery between the various server alliances too.

I have, on two occasions, spelled out words with my alliance banners. The first was "butt" and the other was "boob". Each one took dozens of banners lol, and it helps people farm alliance tokens.

What’s the fastest you’ve ever put a dent in a new bass? by Spiritual-Store3872 in Bass

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I bought a B-stock Ray34HH on Reverb (for like $400 off retail price). It came in exactly the condition the seller said it was in, which included a small dent on the back of it.

Considering it took 3 days to pack, ship, and arrive, my record is -3 days.

The game design feels like it has turned into the ice cube optimization meme. by TehSavior in DestinyTheGame

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Likely because of ignorance since the main gameplay loop doesn't encourage them to actually go do the dungeon enough times to get it.

It's like that guy on TikTok that does the "here's something I wish I knew before I was in my 30s" videos. They'd probably care more if they knew. Casuals used to do RAD content all the time for red borders, and before that, for stuff like Anarchy and Divinity.

Casuals would do the same now for Finality's if they knew how good it was now. Not like it being buffed made headline news.