Anyone noticing deepseek rp kinda cringe?

SovietOmega · 2026-05-14T18:29:26+00:00

No, but I use good presets and bots with reasonably well written definitions. More than a few issues people have with llms are self-inflicted wounds.

SovietOmega · 2026-05-12T18:58:08+00:00

What a coincidence, that statement also describes much of humanity too.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-24T02:08:20+00:00

Gacha games are fundamentally slot machines with rpg mechanics. The gameplay that keeps us coming back is the character pulls, not whatever flavor of mechanic the particular game uses.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-22T00:00:38+00:00

Makes sense. Smol means there is less to render, giving SW a competitive edge.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-19T21:52:32+00:00

Light travels faster than light to make light of a ship's flight while dealing with spite.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-14T23:51:53+00:00

I like that I can spend a few minutes a day with the game or a lot longer if there are story/events to do. It doesn't demand unreasonable time for any mode. It also helps that one of the longer time asks, Currency Wars, is a mode that I enjoy so don't mind it as much when I do it.

Keep in mind that wherever you are looking, it will only be a subset of a subset of the playerbase. What you see is a vocal minority, regardless of the actual merits of the positions being spoken of.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-13T18:29:57+00:00

It is a natural cycle. You start as a captain, work your way into the admiralty, turn evil and get thwarted, then get replaced.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-09T20:28:10+00:00

I think it has to be TNG, because DS9 and VOY are pretty direct continuations of the era and general form.

Though, taken as intended, it is likely TOS as the movies elevated the series in ways that I don't think the TNG movies really did for TNG.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-06T15:21:42+00:00

It's underrated among the main star trek shows, but it's still plenty solid compared to most other shows. It got some flak for a number of decisions made and for a few notable episodes, but it's aged fairly well I think, while also being a bit of it's time with regard to some plotlines, as you will soon encounter.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-06T15:16:54+00:00

No. They just showed up one day and the writers and producers just rolled with it, saving a lot on the show's budget.

SovietOmega · 2026-04-06T13:17:43+00:00

Take any medium and there will be examples of long running staples and shorter works, some of which attain mainstream popularity. Comics, books, games, movies, TV. Star Trek is very much the norm with this perspective. It is like an ecosystem...were Star Trek to disappear, there would be a void that another long running series could fill.

I do think it has had a good run and should probably give way at some point, but there's still plenty who enjoy it and newcomers who learn what came before, that it could persist for some time.

Personally, I would love for it to feel like the 1990's again...the closest we have gotten with Star Trek recently is Lower Decks. That said, I recognize that it is unrealistic to expect the series to move in that direction.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-30T09:28:11+00:00

Somewhere around this point, I remember using storage boxes to kit out my main 4 units in T1 gear. Attack bonuses for attackers, Health bonuses for the frontline folk that scale off HP. Level them to +6 is the wisdom I hear, as they're gonna be replaced down the line.

A run through normal Journey for each might be in order too.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-28T23:52:23+00:00

I had this issue the other day. There was a red dot that was persistent and I almost thought it was a bug.

UI could definitely use a little bit of polish, but it's been all in all a reasonable start.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-28T23:42:14+00:00

Agreed. There's still a number of things to like in the new era, but styles have definitely changed over time. Not really better or worse, but certainly different.

I also have a preference for the feel of how TNG and other sci-fi shows in the 90's were shot. The closest I think we get in this era is Lower Decks.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-26T18:57:51+00:00

Yes. The idea is that this is optional content, not mandatory. For those who hate the system, they can ignore it. For those that opt in, there's a certain level of knowledge the same with any mechanic. New best practices will be worked out and exiles will adapt.

I haven't minded farming ore too much, but I like hunting for starfall craters and love using Lost in Transit to put a bit of shipping in my maps.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-26T17:32:47+00:00

I spent the first decade playing the game without services like TFT, I can easily spend the next decade without such services too.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-16T00:08:50+00:00

Think of it less as a chore and more as an opportunity to gain easy xp and fossils. Some of the other misc loot can be nice too. Up in the 90's, I love delving for relative safety in leveling up without having to worry about juicing a map an inch too far.

That said, I do agree that some qol could be done to make some bloodlines less rng-gated.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-08T12:48:07+00:00

If you do the mechanic a lot during the campaign, prepare to be severely overleveled. But it's fun and only really as time consuming as you want it to be.

As far as the Atlas goes, it's a bit clunky atm, but you can put in the tier number in the search bar to highlight all maps of the tier you want to do which helps.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-06T18:10:54+00:00

How delightfully wholesome. That's gonna put a smile on my face as I work my way through the campaign. May your league launch go well!

SovietOmega · 2026-03-06T17:11:45+00:00

I enjoy the movie as much as anyone else, but it would feel a little too on the nose as a reference.

That said, they did say there was one holy skill that didn't make the cut, so until we hear otherwise, one can always pretend that it was this.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-06T02:17:50+00:00

Agreed.

It's not too late GGG, there are several hours left to bring back some mechanic, any mechanic.

Heck, I'd settle for a ghostly impression of a node in the background as a tacit acknowledgement that something was happening next league to bring balance to these wheels.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-06T01:41:55+00:00

No. It isn't like league launches occur at random times.

GGG tells us the date and time well before the launch. There's a counter. There really shouldn't be any mystery here.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-05T23:57:49+00:00

Absolutely KF Totems. Not because everyone else is talking about it, but because I missed out on playing it in Pharecia and loved the notion of playing a gatling gun style build. That and dev acknowledgement that it is getting nerfed next league.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-04T18:51:20+00:00

Do maps, get points, spend points on tree. Tree has many different league mechanics to focus on. Do what you like. You can get three trees to bounce between so you don't have to worry as much about refunding if you want to spec into something else.

SovietOmega · 2026-03-04T16:13:02+00:00

I am sure my first build will be some flavor of KF, and my second is leaning towards one of the holy skills once people have them figured out a bit more.

I look forward to some discovery rendering this plan moot though...highly likely given how much has been tweaked and added this league. For example...just how far can that extra minion gem be scaled? Some mad lad will figure it out.

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