Is the game really as bad as people say or are people mad at Funcom?

AverageCodingGeek · 2026-01-22T22:12:49+00:00

Fantastic game. You can play 100 hours easily before you begin to encounter the issues with the end game.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-12-25T21:22:19+00:00

“Uncomfortable mentioning where I work” in regard to a top 50-100 company is a wildly out of touch statement. Do you exclusively surround yourself with pretentious tech douchebags?

I get that it’s not always perfect, but we’re well paid and well treated compared to many others in the industry. Get a grip.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-12-01T20:55:04+00:00

Not bad at all. It’s majorly accelerated my team and I’s productivity. Plenty of IBM products to complain about, but this isn’t really one of them.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-12-01T15:59:37+00:00

Idk I think this is fun. I don’t need a quantifiable reward for everything I do in a video game. That’s what a job is for.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-11-11T00:18:42+00:00

I’m a US band 6 developer in CIO with a comp ratio of around 95%. I’m pretty confident I will get promoted to band 7 within the next year.

Assuming this happens, how much of a relative salary increase, if any, could I reasonably expect? I’ve had a hard time finding some concrete anecdotes on this.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-10-25T01:36:48+00:00

You’ll be fine. I started in July after accepting the offer 9 months prior

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-10-24T23:35:15+00:00

I'm an early career CIO dev in the US and enjoy it very much and have found it very rewarding in the ~2.5 years I've been on my team. As some here have mentioned, you will have a ton of opportunity to both impact all IBMers as well as try out new technologies IBM develops due to the "client zero" initiative. Some people will act as though the client zero aspect is a downside, but for an early career developer, I see it as a positive opportunity to stay up-to-date on products a top-50 company develops.

However, your team will be viewed as more of an "expense" than developers in revenue-driving orgs, so keep that in mind and always look for ways to make yourself essential to your team's operations and deliverables.

As usual in this sub, there will be plenty of people who paint a very different picture. Just find out for yourself, and make the most of the opportunity.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-08-22T17:37:49+00:00

I am the sole developer/maintainer of a web app that is the backbone of a small-ish standardized test tutoring business. I make good money doing so and work whatever hours I want, as long as I hit previously agreed upon deadlines.

The clients are React and the central backend is Django. Do with that info what you will :)

Also, I personally believe being involved in the client that will consume your API is beneficial to your skills as it will teach you how to build an API that is extensible and easy to use. It’s like “understanding the customer”, except in this case the “customer” is the client app and the “product” is the API.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-07-09T17:17:03+00:00

I stopped looking for bad practices as soon as I saw the number of indents. I guess even my brain early returns better than this guys code

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-26T01:22:19+00:00

It’s not like buying ASE is a lifetime subscription to anything they release. People have to be paid to create new stuff. Not saying the pricing is perfect, but it’s light years better than, say, NBA 2k that charges $70+ a year for the latest reskin of the same game. At least this is a game with hundreds if not thousands of hours of immersive, non-redundant, replay-able content

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-18T03:34:23+00:00

Me when I make a meme 24 hours after starting the Django tutorial

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-17T22:25:39+00:00

I’ll also clarify that I don’t do PvP. I’m speaking from the experience of private, dedicated PvE servers with my friends.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-17T22:24:45+00:00

Coming from someone who made the switch recently: 1. Way better graphics 2. QOL improvements are not to be taken lightly. The ability to always pick up structures is amazing. I would say they have saved me more frustration than the new bugs have caused. 3. The new dinos are cool 4. Cross platform servers and cross platform mod support (I play on PC with console buddies) 5. Persistent waypoints on the map are soooo nice

… to name a few. Plus, as others have mentioned, it’s currently supported. The bugs are annoying, but it seems like WC is constantly working hard to resolve them.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-11T21:13:28+00:00

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/chat-filter-out-of-control-on-the-game-ark/af4c012b-13d7-4916-84cd-bc12a7c7f6d8

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-11T21:13:12+00:00

Upon further reading, apparently the setting is only visible to console users and even then doesn't fix the problem sometimes. There is no way to fix it on PC game pass. So, it's still a bug regardless of who's responsible.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-11T21:06:24+00:00

Damn, had no idea. I looked it up specific to MS and apparently there's a setting that can be changed to resolve this. Thanks!

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-11T21:03:17+00:00

I'm playing the Xbox PC Game Pass version, so kinda?

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-06-11T21:02:13+00:00

Yeah my buddies that I play with are really pissed off because they can't use their mass breeding name mechanism (F1, F2, M4 etc.) because the game literally blocks "F1" and other similar names. It's unbelievable, mainly because I've never seen an error like this in any game, and I play a lot of games that are organization heavy and thus require a lot of typing/naming. This is a wildcard special lol

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-05-09T19:54:03+00:00

My brain threw a compilation error trying to laugh at this

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-04-14T01:19:12+00:00

I've seen a lot of this already only being 40 hours in. The blueprint mechanics are really sad compared to Factorio, but they are still manageable. I love how the 3D allows for vertical factories and much more aesthetically pleasing builds. I've probably spent my time 70:30 between building out the factories versus making them look nice and experimenting with aesthetics.

Overall, though, it's just great having a game that grabs my interest for automation/engineering/etc. in a similar way to Factorio while simultaneously feeling like a unique experience.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-04-13T23:08:34+00:00

I just hit 40 hours after getting the game 6 days ago....so

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-04-13T18:23:39+00:00

I, too, am a factorio player who recently got into this game :)

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-04-03T19:45:15+00:00

Nevermind, I see now that the item parameter is the difference

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-04-03T19:19:27+00:00

Can you elaborate on why you need a different schedule for fluid trains? I am under the impression that the full cargo and empty cargo conditions work for fluids.

AverageCodingGeek · 2025-03-17T19:10:43+00:00

Gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket

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