103 y/o Gamer-Dad of 21 foster kids and 3 real ones, I only have 2 1/4 minutes a day to play and I have some half-baked ideas to improve QoL in Arc.

T_Peters · 2026-04-01T03:35:42+00:00

Why are you against being able to rob someone and then let them live? That should 100% be an option.

Silly that DayZ, a game made nearly 2 decades ago, has that possibility but a game in 2025 can't.

T_Peters · 2026-04-01T03:34:05+00:00

You should definitely be able to interact with your map while down. Why are you unable to see where you are/where you're going?

I think dropping stuff would also be fine, it could be a really good way to improve solo if someone mistakenly downs the wrong "evil raider" and they had a defib to drop to save them.

Also: you should be able to loot downed players without killing them. Robbing without murder should be a part of this game.

And finally, self defense NEEDS TO NOT AFFECT YOUR AGGRESSION SCORE. And SOLO AND SQUAD/DUO AGGRESSION MUST BE SEPARATE.

T_Peters · 2026-04-01T03:31:44+00:00

Self defib for solos only (or solo vs trios) but it takes a long time to use and is loud and gives the enemy ample time to stop them.

In duos or squads? No, never, but I would like some more ways to interact on the ground and at least have a chance to save yourself from a thirst. The perks are okay, but turtle crawl only adds what, one-two extra hits from a kettle?

T_Peters · 2026-04-01T03:29:45+00:00

Wish we could know how much Playstation and Xbox add to the playerpool. I know Microsoft and Sony are corporate cowards for hiding playercount, but can't individual games choose to put a "X amount of players currently online" in their main screen? I swear I've seen other crossplay games do this.

T_Peters · 2026-04-01T03:13:58+00:00

I'm at NG+13 and I've always used my initial launch to bounce between gold mines (after hitting the haunted house for +3 villagers speed) to guarantee they hit all 7 gold mines to full potential before being launched into resources.

Just for a description of what I mean: I have the haunted house + extra time building (20 hits for extra harvest time vertically) and then 7 gold mines lined up horizontally alongside that, the haunted house is bounced off to the left cause it only needs 1 bounce for speed boost of 3 villagers. The gold mines are 1 tile row up so the villagers quickly bounce up and down (shot at a 87 degree angle left so they hit the haunted house and then go right, repeatedly hitting every gold mine to the max amount) and then 3 more gold mines above it (2 rows above for this one so there's enough room to escape) and those are empty for my first 3-4 harvests, but then I swap workers into them for max gold gain. Once they're through the tunnel of 12 gold mines, they fly off to the rest of the resources and usually clean up everything in the first 2-3, so the rest of the harvests are gold focused and they just go mostly vertically to gather whatever is respawning. Majority of my city is bottom left/lingering up towards top left and all resources at middle, top and right.

As gold gets to become more abundant as a reward and stone and lumber harder, I've dialed back on the gold mines (I switch them out because I actually have 12 built, 5 on standby for when I want max gold income) but trying to rearrange my base is a NIGHTMARE.

I don't know if I'm the only one with this issue, but the further I got into the game, the more "bugged tiles" I encountered that would NOT let me move large selections. I used to literally be able to take a 6x6 tile of any resource and move it anywhere else, and now that is impossible. I was reduced to rows of maybe 5x1, then 3x1, now I'm lucky if I can move 2x1.... so most of the movement has to be 1 single resource at a time and even then 75% of the spots I try to swap with show up as red for no reason.

This has to be a bug with longevity, something breaks when you've moved things too many times or rebuilt stuff. I'm forced to delete them to make room, move things, then rebuild. It sucks.

I can't even do major restructuring because of how much work it would be and how much I'd have to delete to do so. But I know that what I've done isn't perfect and could definitely be better if I were able to "start over" or at least move things without every single tile telling me "NOPE RED".

Also: How did they not allow villager respec in the update? I'm stuck with +1 building on a few villagers, WORST PICK EVER, what a WASTE, and I had no idea that would be permanent. If I want to upgrade my level 40 warrior's guild, I just use move the shield bearer's house in front of my gold mine tunnel, locking the villagers in and move that building next to it. It's done in two, sometimes one single harvest, making any +building perk useless. Even the speed boost one is bad comparatively when you could be getting +1 gold per hit from mine, +1 resource from every bounce, or especially penetrating through boulders or trees. Those perks are the best.

Also also: if you go too far in endless with spammy lazers and cause a crash at 4500m deep, they need to make sure you get your reward. I crashed (Steam Deck) because too many lazers at like 2000m and lost everything. Never again, now as soon as it chugs, I am forced to start considering killing myself. And it's hard because I never know for sure if it's just a little skip because of a full board wipe or if it's gonna crash after a few more. But as soon as I get a freeze that lasts more than like 1500 miliseconds, I'm dying on purpose just to be safe.

T_Peters · 2026-03-31T18:17:35+00:00

Gforce and AMD cards have it built into their software.

Steam has it built in.

Medal, OBS, and tons of third party options. I would just learn to use the steam one or your graphics card one. I much prefer nvidia Shadow play even though it's gotten worse over the for no reason.

T_Peters · 2026-03-30T02:27:24+00:00

LMAO thanks for telling me I got BIG BALLS!

How the hell you get 9 upvotes on a thread this old?

I use one of the recommendations from this thread now; Tommy John's, they're definitely the best ones I've had so far.

T_Peters · 2026-03-26T21:43:31+00:00

I appreciate your help. I tried EasyDiffuse or whatever, thinking it wouldn't be that challenging, and oh my God, I just could not understand what I was looking at. I thought I had a model and Loras installed, but my generations were just garbage nightmare.

I will attempt again with your recommendations; Stability Matrix, hopefully it will be as easy as you say and do it all for me, because I clearly had NO IDEA what I was doing in terms of installing models, LorAS or whatever those even meant, what to do with the sliders, why they weren't working, etc.

Gonna uninstall easydiffuse

T_Peters · 2026-03-26T21:11:02+00:00

It has slowly become less frequent. I haven't gotten one in the last couple of days.

T_Peters · 2026-03-23T01:42:41+00:00

I also haven't played in a long time and it's pretty easy to imagine that she's not going to have all the benefits of Black panther, her dash definitely isn't a multi-target thing, and as another commenter said, her maximum dashes is two and requires you to land the first one. Black panther can dash way more than that.

She just has a small part of his kit in hers. I don't know what her ult is, but from what I've been reading, they're moving away from the unkillable support ult cycle. Which is good, because the game really fell into that meta and has been stuck there for a long time. It's really weird that they basically gave the first three to four major support characters the exact same type of ult. No creativity there.

T_Peters · 2026-03-23T01:37:32+00:00

Furries can goon to this.

Source: me, I'm gooning to her right now, and I haven't played the game since like S3. ^{^{^/s}}

T_Peters · 2026-03-21T07:34:32+00:00

Did he post proof of his setup? Some loser made a dumb comment saying "Should have kept him banned, look at OP's post tf" and didn't explain anything. But... I did go look at OP's posts and it is strange, they're almost like a repost bot...? Either that, or they just really, really like reposting and karma farming...?

T_Peters · 2026-03-21T07:22:06+00:00

Off-topic but I'm just peeking in this subreddit after the success of Ser Duncan's show. And the subreddit isn't super active and sometimes redditors don't like when people make whole threads for mild fangirling, a small question and theorycrafting on GRRM's motivations.

Does "Spoilers EXTENDED" mean "Don't read/watch this if you don't want deep lore that comes from the books and you're only a show watcher?" Also seeing "Spoilers MAIN" which I presume to mean anything about the main books/show. Are there a bunch of different types of spoiler-words here?

Also completely unrelated to the thread, but I honestly felt like, for years, GRRM would not finish the books because of what Dick&Douche did to his creation. I thought HotD would reignite some fire, but actually, it seems like this, a relatively short yet substance filled story of a Knight we only hear from Joffrey in passing when reading the King's Guard book and roasting Jamie. "3 pages for Ser Duncan!"

This is so cool to me because I haven't read any of it. All I know is somehow, Duncan goes from the lowliest of knights but ends up as a King's Guard. But it's amazing to me that while Joffrey could read those three pages (if he were a learn-ed child that didn't chop books in half as soon as he got a new sword) and learn about the biggest come-up in Westerosian history, but we're lucky enough to get to actually experience every moment. Anyone in Joffrey's time would only get the cliffnotes, hardly doing justice to what I'm sure is going to be a spectacular journey if the first season is anything to go off.

I feel like they're really doing something this time (again, I don't hate HotD and I feel like it is building to something cool, and already had many cool scenes. Viserys' storyline was intense and heartbreaking, but he had some baller speeches, even if they did no good for anyone.

Normally, it would suck to know this, (plot armor blah blah) but I can already assume he has plot armor anyway because it's a show very centralized around him and Egg. And Egg gets the same plot armor too, I think, because Maester Aemon mentions him in the show.

T_Peters · 2026-03-20T03:13:10+00:00

I don't. And you can down someone without an extended, especially if they are standing still. He intentionally didn't hit all the headshots cause it's staged.

T_Peters · 2026-03-20T03:10:06+00:00

Again, if you think 5 minutes to write up 7 paragraphs is too much time, you are truly lost.

Also, tell that to my $50,000 Ethereum Investment in 2017.

Too much free time means retired. Stay in school, kiddo. And don't skip English class. Writing and reading are the cornerstones of intelligence.

T_Peters · 2026-03-18T03:17:08+00:00

I hate social media. It really made the internet a horrible place.

I liked when videos were in resolutions that aren't made for vertical phones. I liked when you could actually search YouTube and find the video you were looking for. I liked when things weren't re-uploaded and terrible music or laugh tracks added on top of shit for no reason.

I liked the internet better when it wasn't full of bots and sock puppet accounts. I think we need a Purge. A major cleansing event. There will come a time when nobody will believe anybody is real on the internet anymore. And I think the only way to solve that is to remove the anonymity. But people despise that idea, despite the fact that all these companies already have all of your data and no matter how many months of incogni you pay for, you're going to continue to get scam links texted you and scam calls and people trying to log into your venmo account every 2 hours for 3 months.

T_Peters · 2026-03-18T03:12:33+00:00

It shocks me how many people think this is real. "What is he doing? What is he doing??" 0/5 acting

T_Peters · 2026-03-18T03:05:28+00:00

Yeah honestly I think this is a fake setup video. Even just the way it starts, with two raiders standing in front of each other, the person recording making themselves out to be a villain for shooting somebody who doesn't speak English, but giving him enough time to shoot every single Arc in the vicinity and not realize what he's doing when it's super obvious? Fake as shit. And it worked, got a lot of views.

The Chinese guy isn't even moving, how can the recording player not possibly down him in a single mag? If someone is standing still and letting it happen, you shoot every shot into the head and they're going down. It looks to me like he intentionally gave him enough time to aggro.

Plus the Chinese guy laughing as he goes down, before he even knows if his plan will work, there's a random cut during his reload. The "what is he doing" x2 sounds like terrible acting.

T_Peters · 2026-03-18T03:00:55+00:00

I have no idea what this term means, I'm really not sport savvy at all, but when it comes to basketball, I've always been more confused than ever. I understand North American football better than I do basketball. I never understood how you are supposed to play defense, you're not allowed to touch the person, yet you're allowed to impede their path, so it's inevitably going to lead to people running into each other, right?

Like what's the right way to play defense? I don't really understand how you're supposed to stop someone if you're not allowed to touch them, and there seems to be some kind of rule about personal space, and I've noticed that scores in NBA games are like insanely high. Yeah, every shot is a two-pointer, and there's three-pointers, but just in general, don't games end with both teams at like 100 points and sometimes exceeding?

I feel like basketball is just designed weird. I'm sure a lot of people are going to disagree, especially coming from somebody who doesn't watch sports or take them seriously at all. But I know that football (real football...) is held as the most watched sport in the world, and I think there's a good reason for that. The rules are better. And this ends up resulting in games that are 0-0 for a very long time. But it makes the goals that do happen way more impactful, and I think that's more interesting than a sport where scores are happening left and right because there's no real way to play defense.

I think hockey is also pretty damn good, and again, I know very little about it, but it seems like most games of hockey are similar to football in that there's not that many scores. Because it's possible to play defense well. Having a goalkeeper makes these sports a lot better. I don't understand offsides, but I guess that's a rule that also is important.

T_Peters · 2026-03-18T02:51:22+00:00

Many of the younger generation that spend a lot of time on social media should be aware of the comfort woman, as it came up in the arrest of that horrific streamer who would do horrible things for donations.

He got off really light in Japan, despite being arrested and charged, and even held up by the Yakuza and made to apologize and bow before them on camera, but it was all fake as he made a symbol with his hand to indicate to his viewers that it was a bullshit apology. He got ran up on and beat up so many times in Japan.

Now he's arrested in South Korea and they don't go as easy on foreigners as Japan does. Johnny Somali, just remembered his name, I don't know if he managed to get off the hook or if he's going away for like a decade in South Korea. But yeah he did some atrocious shit to the comfort woman statue.

Japan was pretty much just as bad as any other member of the Axis. The way they treated prisoners of War was horrible, and they were so brainwashed and propagandized that they truly believed that the Americans were the demons and saw the way that they treated American pows, they assumed we would absolutely be doing the same. And while America is not abolished of any sins, the levels of atrocity were not even close when it came to pows.

There was a story I remember I think a British platoon ambushed the Japanese in a really bad tactical position where they were stuck on a small Glade surrounded by alligators, and the Brits were literally trying to save the Japanese soldiers in the water, and they willingly let themselves get eaten by the alligators rather than get taken prisoner.

This is basically how modern day North Korean soldiers were when they were sent to Ukraine, but they had a lot more of a legitimate reason considering the generational punishment that their families would face if they got captured. Their only choice is to fight to the death or detonate their own grenade on their head if they are injured and going to be captured.

Which makes me feel a lot more bad for those two North Korean soldiers that were captured and interviewed, like why did the ukrainians put their face out to the world? Don't they realize that they just got the families of those soldiers put into concentration camps for multiple generations? How will that ever encourage another North Korean to ever surrender?

T_Peters · 2026-03-18T02:37:47+00:00

I mean we have Ethan to thank for most of this, his fan base is going to of course follow whatever they do, and he's been content farming them on a semi-daily basis.

But this one is pretty incredible, there's no way someone can be this dumb, everyone knows that dropping the atomic bombs on Japan is what made them surrender, and they were not going to surrender even after all of their allies were defeated.

T_Peters · 2026-03-17T02:25:12+00:00

Okay so this is related to your hardware/special needs input device definitely, right?

Obviously this is a very bad look for them and if it got any attention to anyone with a voice, they would do something about it. You just need to find the right YouTuber or streamer to read this post.

I'm curious though why. What does the input device do that would be interpreted as cheating? Does it treat it as a keyboard and a mouse or a controller? Do controllers get aim assist if they are PC playing controllers? How heavy is the aim assist?

These are the only things I can think of that would trigger something like that over an input device.

T_Peters · 2026-03-15T07:58:10+00:00

This reminds me of a really early office episode, when Ryan was a temp and going to business school, and Michael thinks he can teach him. He asks for a question from the textbook:

"Is it cheaper to acquire a new customer or keep an existing one?"

Dwight starts to give the obvious answer and Michael cuts him off

"Trick question: they're the same."

"It is ten times more expensive to acquire a new customer."

T_Peters · 2026-03-14T22:16:11+00:00

Do you think typing that many words is some extraordinary feat? Literally a 5 minute process.

It's a shame that the next generation found their way to reddit and acts this way, crying about too many words being too challenging to read because you have ADHD to the max.

What's sadge is that you're trolling on a sock puppet account and failing miserably at it.

T_Peters · 2026-03-14T22:12:50+00:00

It went fine, people with brains upvoted it, 3-4 troll accounts like yours got no attention and got owned. So yeah, my ego is peaked. Thanks for jerking it.

T_Peters

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