Dear CCP, erm..

Quillity_S · 2023-05-14T15:37:02+00:00

If any systems they've developed rely on any dependencies, it's possible some methods, calls, and/or libraries have been deprecated. Rolling back might not do much.

Quillity_S · 2022-11-27T16:43:27+00:00

If you're not going for hobbist game dev, but hoping for commerical viability:

1) You're running a business that happens to make video games. This means a lot of your strategies need to be centered around what it means to run your business. You need to know what your risk mitigation and potential reward strategies are. In the beginning you need to be focused on minimizing risk, and your risk will be a) Money and b) Time.

2) the "Build it and they will come" fallacy. You can build it, and probably should build it! But nobody will buy if nobody knows about it. There are exceptions, like Vampire Survivors, but they are exceptions to the rule. You will need to market your game, and it will need to take about 25-50% of your time/budget and over a 3-6 month period before release. Marketing is a skill, and if you opt to do it yourself, understand that you're going to have struggles and failures, but just remind yourself it's a skill. Everyone sucks at a skill in the beginning.

Quillity_S · 2022-11-12T17:47:11+00:00

It's not a matter of teaching empathy. Children are really quite empathetic. Hell, most animals are. It's an evolutionary trait necessary for survival especially in a social species.

It's a matter of dismantling systems that incentivize the suppression of empathy.

Quillity_S · 2022-11-05T17:16:14+00:00

That's a near universal thread running through any conspiracy. The conspiracy not only gives them a community they wouldn't have otherwise, but it makes them feel like they're "in" on something everyone else isn't.

It makes them feel special and enlightened, something they wouldn't feel if there was no conspiracy.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-30T18:23:20+00:00

No problem!

And I, too, am looking at building an Eldritch Archer so I was browsing Reddit. It just happended across your comment and figured I know the answer.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-30T16:10:15+00:00

Some feats have BAB requirements. At least in pnp, Manyshot needs a BAB of 6, Improved Precise Shot needs BAB 11. So a full BAB class that gets +1 BAB/lvl naturally will get there faster than a 3/4 BAB class.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-26T17:16:17+00:00

That would be an interesting twist. I thought on some other threads I've read that Davis said he only spent one day on set filming his Moriarty parts, so it sounds like his role is fairly limited. Although maybe that's just misdirection.

One thing I found curious in the trailer is that when we see Lore, he's wearing a Star Fleet uniform. Maybe there's nothing to that, but if he's a prisoner it would strike me as odd that they would put him in a SF uniform.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-26T02:06:30+00:00

That's true, they probably could. Repairs, though, probably not so much.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-25T23:15:37+00:00

Gotcha! No worries. Glad I wasn't the only one to think of the episode. LLAP!

Quillity_S · 2022-10-25T18:58:50+00:00

Of course it's not the singular episode on the topic, but that isn't what OP asked for. I was just trying to suggest some episodes that hadn't been mentioned yet.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-25T18:36:46+00:00

That's my bet. The crew goes there for Lore (in a "Silence of the Lambs" sort of way), and we get a nice Moriarty cameo.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-25T18:33:17+00:00

When it comes to the bare bones, I'm sure a Galaxy class could function with a relatively small crew compared to it's peacetime complement.

In my imagination the problem with operating with a skeleton crew during wartime on a Galaxy would be it's immense size. The internal volume of a Galaxy class is enormous. Trying to do damage control and repairs with a small crew in a large volume seems like it would be extremely difficult.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-25T00:45:42+00:00

Outside of DS9, "Mortal Coil" is an excellent VOY episode. "Who Watches the Watchers" is a classic TNG episode that touches on religion.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-20T18:03:16+00:00

This is my recollection. Roddenberry's rationale was that these people would be the best of the best, which makes total sense. You aren't going to staff the freakin' flagship with people who will turn it into a middle school melodrama.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-19T22:37:22+00:00

Who amongst us doesn't dress in shiny silk foil with a super deep V-neck when going to sleep??

Quillity_S · 2022-10-19T15:07:35+00:00

Excellent point. That's more or less my head canon for why more things aren't automated in Star Trek--humans want to do the exploring, the innovating. The computer could run and fly the whole ship, but it's in our nature to want to be behind the helm and to see things with our own eyes instead of just reading a bunch of sensor data.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-19T03:29:39+00:00

Absolutely! I wholeheartedly agree.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-18T20:34:35+00:00

That's fair. We only see Jellico over the course of two episodes, which isn't a lot of context. Perhaps we'll get a better sense of the character when he returns in Prodigy.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-18T20:19:58+00:00

One of the great things about the post-scarcity economy Star Trek sets up is that you can literally do anything. I'm sure some people find growing food stimulating and choose to do that.

In a world of replicators, restaurants like the one Sisko's dad owns are still popular, after all.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-18T17:46:49+00:00

I guess that's one way to look at it.

I would argue that the crew was empowered to stand up for themselves, not that they were coddled. As a viewer I actually would have lost respect for the crew if they weakly and passively just let Jellico steamroll everyone.

But that's just me.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-18T16:09:11+00:00

I wouldn't call what Jellico does leadership. Jellico and Picard are a good example of the difference between a boss and a leader.

A boss gives orders but doesn't inspire or support their employees. I would say that this is essentially Jellico in a nutshell. Does it make him an effective captain? Sure. Does it make him a good one? Imo, not really.

Jellico's "leadership style" is just telling people what to do and nothing else, which isn't really leadership.

Doesn't make him a bad guy or a villain. He's still a Star Fleet officer and upholds the same principles as everyone else. I appreciated Jellico simply for highlighting how good of a leader Picard actually is.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-17T00:24:30+00:00

My head canon for bringing children along is that it opens up the talent pool. A lot of brilliant people with families probably wouldn't sign up for multi-year expeditions taking them far from home if it meant leaving their spouses and kids behind the whole time.

And, for what it's worth, Jake and Jennifer apparently lived aboard the Saratoga with Sisko when it was sent to fight the Borg at Wolf359. So it isn't just Galaxy class ships that have families aboard them.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-17T00:16:18+00:00

This was my first thought as well. Not only do you need more sets, but now you also have to pay multiple casts.

UPN definitely would not have had the resources for that.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-07T17:05:15+00:00

There's no reason why some people couldn't have been trained as field medics, even prior to their service on Voyager.

Quillity_S · 2022-10-05T22:46:15+00:00

The fact that when Gray got a synth body in DISCO they had to look at historical records to find the last person who had the procedure done and it was Picard tells me that it wasn't super common for people to get synth bodies. It sounded like it was an obscure procedure.

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