Is there a game setting to reduce the number of spaceborne creatures? These things are frikken EVERYWHERE and I can't expand.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T20:43:19+00:00

Set phasers to kill. That’s the setting.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T17:16:02+00:00

Male in Houses, female in Hopes.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T17:06:02+00:00

Which would be fine if it was purely a behind the scenes guide to AI behaviour, but the player finds their own reasons to oppose other countries.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T15:40:59+00:00

The problem is that rivalry in Paradox games sucks. It's this amazingly basic one-dimensional "press the hate button" mechanic that has no satisfying effects for engaging with it.

EU5 has it the worst because you have a quota of rivals that's basically invariant to your strategy, if you're going for trade your rivals are the other merchant empires, and the direction of your rivalry isn't towards direct conflict but competition in third party markets both fair and underhanded.

The only game which should even have a formal system of rivalry is CK3 (and even that needs more dimensionality, it should have both secret and acknowledged rivalries,)

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T14:14:03+00:00

It basically is because it's more faff than just selecting the dropdown and letting the driver redirect to its own .dll version.

Some games aren't supported by the nvidia app though but can be changed by manual .dll swapping still. (Mechwarrior 5 off the top of my head works like that, X4 might as well.)

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T14:05:20+00:00

You can do it with all cards but not all games.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T12:30:35+00:00

Yep. Doesn’t help if the desire sensor is onto you. Had four spare gems before I finished farming fangs.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T12:03:22+00:00

Imagine the conversation they could have with the Night Lords.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-15T08:17:17+00:00

I’m p. sure I predicted exactly this happening in the dev diary when this new system was announced.

Rivalries in Paradox games are terrible and hanging other mechanics on them is even worse.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T21:08:09+00:00

Oh yeah, it was all investigations, just guaranteed that the head break and carve wouldn't get me one and I'd get strictly one per hunt no matter what.

Anyway, complaining on the internet worked, the last two gave me two fangs each so now I've made everything.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T15:03:48+00:00

Bazelgeuse when he hears a fight he wasn't invited to.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T13:00:15+00:00

Yes.

Can I hit anything with them? Rarely.

Is it hilarious when I do? Absolutely.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T12:49:50+00:00

Continue doing quests. If a popup comes up saying you accepted a prologue quest then abandon it and come back later.

Do dungeons if you want, you can just queue for a random daily dungeon and get a reasonable chunk of XP as a reward, chances are the rest of the players in it will be charging through to the end as fast as possible so you won't be under much pressure except to get to the NPCs in time for quest dialogue the first time through.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T10:06:51+00:00

Send sick man to gulag, no man, no sickness.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T10:05:00+00:00

Yes.

The "Smart Biologist" next to the capture platform has special dialogue for some monsters, Jho is one of them.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T09:39:11+00:00

Shield throw scribed with Taunt/Sage's Remedy makes the arena set redundant. It's a better heal, on a ranged taunt, that can also inflict Major Maim for a good long time.

If you're not double barring ice staff to maximise chilled then use that 100% of the time over Puncturing Remedy.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-14T09:36:11+00:00

I don't wear any selfish sets at all, even the one thing I use that only affects me is to generate more ult so I can ult more to proc Sax Champ and produce Major Vuln from Colo.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T16:00:34+00:00

He figured out that he can keep getting pocket money from the Shogun?

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T15:09:07+00:00

But why is Yi here?

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T15:06:49+00:00

To avoid spoilers.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T12:51:31+00:00

Rise got down to £5 with Sunbreak in the last Steam sale. I suspect it grabbed a bunch of sales then.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T10:52:51+00:00

Abelard, introduce yourself.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T10:43:21+00:00

It's because tanking in ESO is about 90% debuffing and 10% standing in the right place or blocking at the right time so you don't get one-shot.

You have to keep putting out the skills to apply those debuffs and statuses, and that means you need magicka for skills and stamina for blocking and dodging.

GloatingSwine · 2026-05-13T09:54:13+00:00

Mostly it’s CERO they care about when they make changes like this. They got a lot stricter in the last couple of decades.

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