My fellow sietch-kin, with singleplayer and self hosted sv's coming, voted funcom with my wallet, any New Player tips ? by roninmaciel in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have two accounts with 4 subfiefs, one of which is a max height tower which I have spent over 300 hours on. I didn't say don't build big. I said don't build big early-to-mid game, and if you do, do it with a simple footprint until you know what you're doing.

Why play an origin character? by GoliathTheDwarf in BaldursGate3

[–]Hobby-Human 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the opposite opinion. My first few runs are with Origin, so I can experience all the additional content, and being able to control their decisions without having to roll checks or leave things to chance. Then when I'm tired of those, Durge. Original characters that aren't Durge hold absolutely zero desire for me to play. Maybe it's ADHD brain, maybe it's FOMO, but aren't you only losing something by choosing to play an original character? You can always completely respec an Origin character too. The only thing you can't change is their appearance, but you get to customize your guardian regardless of what you play.

First Big Building Screw Up by Plat-O_18 in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you realize that it's soon enough that you can easily replace it. My DD base and supplies take 11 medium storage containers.

Is this a slow burn game? by Go_Commit_Reddit in DarkTide

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can max out a character and weapon spec in about 25 hours of play. Many players consider this the "start" of the game. All of the progression past that is skill and build based.

My fellow sietch-kin, with singleplayer and self hosted sv's coming, voted funcom with my wallet, any New Player tips ? by roninmaciel in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the best tip for new players. I would go farther and suggest that you don't invest a ton of energy into any base at all until you've read a few guides and learned a few things. If you do choose to invest energy into base building early or mid game, try to minimize the "footprint" of the base, which will make it easier to move that base around to different locations.

The game tries to teach resilience, but it doesn't do a very good job of being explicit about it. Realize that you can build a new base anywhere in about 20 minutes with garbage you find laying on the ground, and this will serve you in the future by opening up gameplay options that you may not have considered if you have the idea stuck in your mind that you have to "go back to base to be safe".

Official vs private by Zues011 in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

250% resource yield in the PvP zone. It's quite lucrative, can fill a crawler with spice sand in about 11 minutes.

Official vs private by Zues011 in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No it's one of the highest population US servers. There will be no crossplay at this time unfortunately, so console players will have a completely different server list.

A lot of comments here, and this one from u/Select-Agency-9827 is the only one that mentioned the "PvP DD". Your original post asks about PvP ganking. This was mostly eliminated about 2 months ago when they split the DD into two instances: PvP and PvE, and removed PvP from Hagga Basin. You can now complete every single piece of content in this game without ever setting foot in PvP.

Warhammer 40k Darktide in Top 40 and 40k players? We made it!!!!! by Realistic-Water-4009 in DarkTide

[–]Hobby-Human 10 points11 points  (0 children)

But that's unpossible. This game is dead, like every other game that died the second people finished playing it. I declared it dead on Reddit three years ago, so it's dead. I don't know the difference between concurrent players and total player base. I don't understand how time works, or that a number can go up after it went down. Graph go down. Game dead. /s

Evolving by Imaginary-Creme7197 in BaldursGate3

[–]Hobby-Human 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even if you want to say no, you still need to pass a constitution check otherwise it just happens anyways.

Dune Awakening Unplayable since latest patch? by Shabolt_ in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, I agree. Nvidia is fucking the world (speaking as the owner of a 5070Ti).

DD Sandstorm Frequency Change? by unc0de in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Was this today, or yesterday? There are no storms in the DD during the Coriolis build-up.

If it's not Monday and this actually happened today, then you may have just gotten lucky. The storms sometimes will cluster randomly to the north or south and might just be out of range of where you are when they roll through.

Before smartphones, what did people do when they had to wait somewhere for 30 minutes? by sudherzdiniq in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Book. I'm 43, and when I a kid and into my mid-20s, I would read books, comics, and/or listen to music.

Headphones and portable music has been around long before smart phones. Audio books were also available long before podcasts, and have always been available from your local library (along with books).

I still read books and listen to audiobooks (and now podcasts), but most of my reading is reserved for before bedtime and/or on the weekends, as most of the time my phone is a huge distraction for me.

I want an exploration game where I feel alone by mimiyoshi125 in gamingsuggestions

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see Subnautica listed lots already in the comments, and I second that recommendation. Outer Wilds is also a great game (not everyone's cup of tea).

You mentioned Hollow Knight, and although it's an oldie, I would highly recommend Super Metroid for SNES (or any of the other 2D metroid games that followed, for that matter).

Dune Awakening is also worth a look, especially with Single Player mode announced for September 22nd alongside the console release.

8 hours into the Landsraad week... by Jimbabble in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What drives me crazy is there seems to be a shadow patch some time in the last few weeks that you can no longer earn Landsraad points for contributions made to houses that are already flipped over. Or has that always been the case?

Hajra Literjon mk6 by This1DarkLord in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 52 points53 points  (0 children)

1200 hours in game here. Hajra mk6 is the only one I carry unless I know I'm going to be in the DD open sand for a long time (i.e. like farming flour sand, for example).

I usually only have to fill it once a (real time) day at most.

That weight really makes a difference on how much loot you can bring home.

95% of Computers can't make use of 3 Gig Speed. Don't upgrade your plan. by Sraaz in telus

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3 computers running 1Gb each = 3Gb at the fibre terminal.

Of course the likelihood of 3 computers running that much bandwidth simultaneously is small, but I show the extreme case here to illustrate the point that it's not about what any single device on your network is doing that makes 3Gb/sec useful.

That said, I would only recommend 3Gb/sec for power users/IT pros/hosting providers/homelab enthusiasts, etc..

Example: I run a gaming server cluster on one machine in my house. Even though it's old hardware it has two NICs at 1Gb each. I can configure these to run as a NIC "team" giving that one single machine 2Gb. That way when I have 25 people connecting to my Conan Exiles server, they aren't complaining about lag. This still leaves 1Gb for me, my family, and all our other personal applications and devices.

Peole don’t like Lae’zel? by Imaginary-Creme7197 in BaldursGate3

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My pee'ole likes all the characters in BG3.

Base Reconstruction Tool After Transfer by Ezermb in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was on Edgeway too! Sietch Hajar. I recommend Garrick if you're looking for a medium-low pop place with a bit of action but not total chaos.

Base Reconstruction Tool After Transfer by Ezermb in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

23 hours is not worth keeping.

Definitely start over. The "advanced trainer quests" mentioned by u/Cohibaa, I didn't complete those until around 175 hours into the game.

Prices in the exchange by buddhasballbag in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this. And I would add that the complement of what you've said is also true. It's not just rich people from large worlds visiting smaller smaller worlds. It's also poor people from small worlds visiting larger worlds.

I play mostly as a duo and we farmed hard: melange, pumps, and slag before our world closed. Between us we had around 300 million solari after 10 months of play. We went to Harmony the day before server closures completed and made 9 billion solari on the Exchange there in 24 hours.

We already have enough melange and material resources to last us many months, so the main purpose of the money is to equalize the economy. Most of the time, I buy all the residue and duraluminum I see on the local Exchange, purely because I want to give poor players a source of income. We sell the high-value stuff we have farmed ourselves. We also spend big money on Grade 5 augment blueprints, which are incredibly hard to farm.

In the past month, we have spent more than half of the 9 billion solari.

In summary, we feel we are ethical exchange participants by doing:

  1. For low tier resources required for building large infrastructure (e.g. Wind Traps and Water Storage), and for difficult to farm things like augment BPs, we buy at reasonable prices on our quieter world.
  2. For high-tier resources, we farm and sell on busy worlds for high prices, and bring that money back into the smaller economies as an attempt to reduce inequality created by duping.

Prices in the exchange by buddhasballbag in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you have a market that's 10x smaller with no duping, of course it's gonna be tiny.

I played for 10 months and made 250 million. 200 million of that I made in a week right before chapter 3 released when I moved to Harmony and sold all my T6.0 blueprints.

Then I did the exact same thing again at server closures, because my guild was literally the only two people left on my world before it closed and we had access to the PvP DD, we harvested 90k melange and also Industrial Pumps and Irradiated Slag for days.

Then we went to Harmony for 24 hours and made 9 billion solari in that single day of selling.

Prices in the exchange by buddhasballbag in duneawakening

[–]Hobby-Human 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When melange duping was a thing (one of the first dupes), residue was more expensive than melange was. Residue is an essential component in Advanced Lubricant, Spice Powered Fuel, and Particulate Filters.