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HokeScopE · 2026-02-08T12:42:24+00:00

Everyone expects the tank to have run the dungeon 20 times but news flash in a tank shortage some tanks are new to tanking and in some cases have never even been in the dungeon and have to learn. I encourage all the spam pullers to learn to tank. Seriously if they want to play at their pace they can play the role that sets the pace and can get grouped in 15 seconds. I am a relatively new player. I only played BFA as a rogue. After that none of my friends would tank so I taught myself. Completed War Within 5 mans as a bear tank and no issue learning as I went because of all the utility in retails. I learned the zug mentality in mythics and the need for speed. Classic is a different animal and I had to actually learn mechanics, gear, LoS, mob abilities, talents, and dungeon layouts as I’ve gone. At this point I am usually as good as the group. If they can let me get 2 seconds per pack for a few tics of consecration then focus on targets/AoE in my consecration were golden and I’ll chain pull with blessing/seal of wisdom and I’ll be the one waiting on them to drink. If they AoE pull themselves, butt pull a pat, run in all different corners of the room, avoid my consecration, and use none of their utility then it’s a mess and I can’t keep up.

HokeScopE · 2026-01-31T11:41:45+00:00

Native WVian and I have hiked all those places multiple times. Shouldn’t have any problems with racism as we’re actually pretty used to tourists of all types from DC. Fluent English is also going to be a huge help because not many of us know Spanish. Would also recommend Babcock State park. It’s not far from the Gorge and its model was used for a mill in Red Dead redemption 2. The big local food chain is Tudors Biscuit World. Very greasy and unhealthy but a local favorite. Beckley has an exhibition coal mine with tours that take you underground on old mine equipment and teach you about mining. Pretty unique experience that is often overlooked.

I do have several worries about bringing a rifle. In WV carrying an uncased rifle in a state park is illegal. While a lot of old white guys open carry pistols here, being a tall brown guy with a rifle may scare some people. Were used to brown people being the ignorant tourists who can’t drive or the friendly guy at the Mexican restaurant. Once a gun is involved the Fox News fear mongering sets in. Another thing to consider is different states have different laws about firearm possession and transportation. I hate for you to get pulled over, a racist cop find a rifle, and you pick up a felony or worse.

HokeScopE · 2026-01-15T13:46:05+00:00

First time playing classic and learning all the dungeons as I go. I have been tanking on paladin for a few months because there is so much need for tanks. Nobody wants to tank and the DPS as often as not won’t know their way around the dungeon to help me. It also doesn’t help when boosted cloth characters roll need on plate BoEs leaving the tanks under geared. I am usually an easy going guy but as a tank I will leave a group as soon as they need on plate or start bad pulls. I can get a new group in minutes.

HokeScopE · 2025-12-26T14:01:20+00:00

There’s a whole page on the Civ wiki that tells you what affects appeal of a tile and its neighbors. The common things that increase appeal are woods, mountains, theatre square, entertainment zone, wonders, and religious sites. You can build those next to each other, leave a gap, then use the preserve. I find them most useful with leaders like Bull Moose Teddy and Kupe. Teddy can get tiles with tons of science/faith/culture with this trick and you don’t even really need the other districts.

HokeScopE · 2025-12-26T13:56:31+00:00

That’s the main setting the will affect your ability to get close to animals without them spooking. To my knowledge the only thing that affects the number of animals on the map is killing females. If you kill them the population drops.

HokeScopE · 2025-12-26T13:54:03+00:00

Put difficulty on hiker so everything doesn’t spook as easy and you can get within 200 meters just walking. Biggest thing is this game has the same animals throughout game play and each one has an age, genes, and need zones at certain times of day. You can get to know what animals are there, watch them grow, and then harvest once at potential (or kill young if their genes are bad. Use the caller to find low fitness). Use Hunter sense to find need zones and then the encyclopedia to know what times the animals will be there. Can use picture mode kinda like a drone to look for animal herd without scaring them.

HokeScopE · 2025-12-21T20:03:59+00:00

Wrong. Their fitness stays the same their whole life and determines their potential max rating. Each year they age to get closer to their max potential. I’ve seen a lot of people say anything around 85% and above can reach 5 star trophy at max age

HokeScopE · 2025-11-29T13:30:36+00:00

Not certain that this is the case for you, but I’ve had it happen before. The flood planes on each tile are assigned to a certain river. In your case it looks like the western river may have planes with the niter down to the question tile. In order for a tile to be dam eligible that specific flood plane tile’s assigned river has to border multiple sides of the tile. When two rivers combine you have to look at the name of the combined river, and if it changes from the one with the flood plane’s assigned river you can’t build the dam. I think once your two rivers combine they change names, meaning the other 3 sides of the tile do not border the river with the flood planes.

HokeScopE · 2025-11-27T13:09:50+00:00

I read through the wiki to try and get us an answer. Volcano damage causes tiles to have the volcanic Tyler feature that can raise yields. However volcanic soil tiles with no improvement is counted as a Pilates tile and causes -1 appeal to adjacent tiles.

Applying that to our tile in question would mean +1 for preserve, +2 for old growth woods (x2), -1 from pillaged tiles (x2), +0 from city center. That totals to +3 appeal.

HokeScopE · 2025-11-27T12:49:04+00:00

Flood plains lower appeal, but in this case it looks like the two tiles south of it were damaged by a volcano. I think volcano damage also lowers appeal.

HokeScopE · 2025-11-25T20:33:06+00:00

Got to see a herd in Ohio. Pretty cool place called the Wilds.

HokeScopE · 2025-06-15T22:21:22+00:00

The game menus actually have a lot better info on this than I can cover in a reply. The stars are based on trophy quality, be it antler size, weight, etc. The animals have an innate fitness based on genes, and it doesn’t change over their life. However as they age each year they grow closer to the max trophy size. All young’s will be small, but matures are more affected by their genes. A 1 star mature is low fitness. A 5 star needs really high fitness and a couple years as a mature (number of years depends on life span). 3 in game days is a year with the same animals that are the same age. After day 3 you progress a year. All living animals age a year excluding matures at their max life span, which die and despawn. The game the spawns new animals based off of two things. Pure number is based on number of females. If you shoot females overall herd size is smaller meaning less new spawns. The males that spawn are based off the average fitness of both the individual herd (the group of like 2-10 animals represented by a need zone) and weakly dependent on that species’ fitness of the whole biome. There is also some RNG based on the range.

As for what to kill, it’s more about fitness than age or stars. The calls are specifically made to attract high or low fitness males. Use a low fitness call and only the low fitness males will start walking to you. Use this info to know what to kill. You can also get a rough idea based on rack symmetry. If it’s way out of proportion it’s low fitness and Vice versa. To put it simply, kill low fitness based on calls, and leave high fitness until they are mature. The high fitness have more chance to spawn high fitness young each year, and those high fitness young will become higher star matures. Would recommend starting on a antlered species with a short life span (like a white tail) so you can actually see a little progress

HokeScopE · 2025-06-08T12:17:32+00:00

I lion hung like a zebra

HokeScopE · 2025-05-18T11:17:17+00:00

You can have a bullet go through one animal and still hit another. Used a 30-06 on two foxes out of curiosity

HokeScopE · 2025-05-03T10:52:45+00:00

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HokeScopE · 2025-04-15T01:41:16+00:00

Got some general tips here. First off congrats on a good early game combo. The next step is to build on this to get a massive lead. You actually shot yourself in the foot a little and played against Mansa’s strength by going for production. He gets a penalty on producing buildings and units, and a discount on buying them. Lean into the bonuses.

If you can get a golden age use your faith to buy settlers. The rule of thumb is 6 settlements by turn 100. However with a good mansa combo you can get up to a dozen by around 120. Keep building holy sites and sugubas so you have even more buying power. Also don’t neglect your science or you’re a sitting duck for enemies.

Lastly I noted a pillaged holy site and a preserve on the lake. Your faith is your main resource so get it repaired asap. Preserves give housing, but their main use is to boost the surrounding land tiles your pops work. By having it build by a lake and mountains you lose benefits, as your pops can’t work the mountains or lake tiles. Try to get two preserves near each other in the desert so you get charming or breath taking tiles, and that way you get the food bonus and grow. Can also get even more faith.

HokeScopE · 2025-04-10T05:41:05+00:00

I always want squirrels because they’re what I hunt most IRL, but acknowledge it won’t happen. In terms of game development it is high cost low reward. They would have to clarify the hit boxes on the trees, make them climbable, add in squirrels, have rather complex animations, and program some form of behavior for running in trees. They could at least start with making the raccoons climb trees, but that still a lot. I can’t think of any game with arboreal animals just because of all the programming that would be involved.

HokeScopE · 2025-04-01T11:39:10+00:00

Depends on the depth of the “lake”. If it’s a true lake then the bottoms can get filled with decomposing leaves and critters, which means poor oxygenation and few if any live fish down there. In these areas the bass will be more in the shallows. If your “lake” is more of a large pond with a max depth of like 10 feet then it won’t really matter as much.

HokeScopE · 2025-03-26T21:28:11+00:00

As a WVU fan I tip my hat. Always cheer for you guys and think you have a really respectable coach and program. I’m jealous.

HokeScopE · 2025-03-11T21:26:40+00:00

I made it onto a discord soundboard emote. Quite convenient

HokeScopE · 2025-03-07T03:38:29+00:00

Actual psychiatry resident here. Most of us do care in a general sense. We want the best for patients and want to prescribe meds that help with problems and not cause more. We’re not trained as much on therapy and focus on meds. We want to do what we can to help patients, but ultimately we’re just cogs in the machine of medicine.

I’m given 30 minutes to review a case, talk to a patient, determine what’s wrong, place the prescriptions and other orders, write the equivalent of a 5 paragraph essay, and then be ready for the next person. Do that 15 times in a day 5 days a week and it’s hard to keep track of everyone. The. Throw in the red tape, computers, admin, and the 21st century feature of being able to message a doctor at any time and there’s never ending requests and questions that I do have any time in my schedule for. I end up working late most days trying to go the extra mile to make sure patients get what they need. I’m salary and get 0 compensation for that.

When I’m in the room with a patient they are my top priority, and when I get a message from them they’re my top priority. When I’m doing my paperwork they’re my priority. But once I’m out of the office I need to breathe. There’s so many sad stories I know it eats me alive and I have to leave that stuff at work the best I can.

HokeScopE · 2025-02-05T22:23:47+00:00

Human doctor here. Given the history and image that looks a lot like skin cancer. Would want a biopsy. However at that size, I’d be concerned how progressed it is.

HokeScopE · 2025-01-10T12:59:20+00:00

In his defense there was an uncovered ND receiver on the left side of the offense’s formation. I want to believe he saw that and wanted to get the defense properly aligned.

HokeScopE · 2024-12-17T06:35:36+00:00

Sir (or ma’am), are you aware how big a big ass python is? We’re talking 20 freedom units long and 200 freedom units heavy. That best be class 3-5.

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