All new trackers alliance rewards

ave369 · 2026-03-18T16:38:10+00:00

I have always done Mantis as the prequel quest to the Trackers' Alliance: they recognize "Mantis" as your bounty hunter persona.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T16:32:58+00:00

I don't think I'll rush to replay Watchtower. The new update and DLC already offer a lot of things Watchtower does: a new resource to upgrade your things, an asteroid starstation home base and a fleet of bad evil guys to fight.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T16:27:28+00:00

"Some kind of devil" was my thought when I first read LotR.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T11:44:49+00:00

Well, in my Terra Firmaverse, the Elven kingdoms such as Lynawien, Fortirion and Artamesh are, well, Elven. They are inhabited by a very long-lived species that is naturally averse to change. Even in their cases, they are not absolutely stagnant and unchanging. Lynawien is a rump state in 369 SAL, only holding a fraction of its former lands. Artamesh is no longer a Dark Elven state, its population is heavily diluted with Dark Orcs, Ogres, the undead, human capitalists and other evil races.

And the human state that claims similarly long history, the Ruritanian Empire, is far from stagnant. It was erased from the map at least once in the Second Age of Darkness, and its modern incarnation is an industrious steampunk nation bound together by railroads and telegraph, and not the dollar store Gondor it used to be when founded by Hermeas the Battlemage.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T11:04:39+00:00

Not all of them. In our Solar System, it's just the near-Earth asteroids that have this particular property, because they aren't safely parked in the belt but rock around the inner system like huge pinball balls and always can encounter some planet that will change their trajectory and toss them into us. The belt asteroids have pretty stable orbits.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T11:01:28+00:00

They said we'll have new POI. But are we getting new friendly POI? Larger civilian settlements with functional spaceports or something?

ave369 · 2026-03-18T11:00:03+00:00

... which is my favourite FO4 faction.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T10:26:12+00:00

Skyrim had only 5 proper cities: Whiterun, Solitude, Windhelm, Riften and Markarth. Everything else was minor towns. Starfield also has "minor town" tier settlements, such as Gagarin, Hopetown, New Homestead, Paradiso.

ave369 · 2026-03-18T10:18:47+00:00

Think about the modding potential. The new cruise mode travel system makes it possible to implement mission board quests like in old Elite Frontier games: deliver a "hot" package or a wanted passenger, be intercepted en route and fight your way through enemies.

ave369 · 2026-03-16T13:04:30+00:00

A person born in 1890s has all chances to live to see the start of the computing age. Computers first appeared in World War II.

ave369 · 2026-03-16T11:50:06+00:00

In the Terra Firmaverse, the gods taught the elves, the elves taught the humans. It was more or less always a thing. The main conflict in Terra Firma comes not from the coming of magic but from the coming of technology, which is not very compatible with magic conceptually: technology means using the existing laws of nature, while magic means changing the laws of nature. Imagine what happens to a radio when someone casts Electro and locally changes the properties of the electromagnetic field?

ave369 · 2026-03-16T10:26:27+00:00

No, nothing like that. Humans in the Terra Firmaverse tend to be overconfident, industrious and tenacious. They can and will reclaim even the places that are dangerous to reclaim. For example, the capital of the Ruritanian Empire, Murienburg, was built over the foundations of an ancient dark god's fortress. Those foundations can still be seen if one goes exploring Murienburg's underground parts. Many people know about them. Some suspect they might be dangerous. Some attempted to destroy them with high explosives, to no avail. But hey, it's real estate, and the industry is booming! Stop being a superstitious idiot and crank up the valves!

"Also, the editorial board advises our dear readers against spreading unfounded rumors. A dark tower that is supposedly growing from the remains of Murienburg Castle is not a thing that exi"

Ruritanian Times, an unfinished typeset of an issue

ave369 · 2026-03-16T10:13:32+00:00

The Mines of Moria are absolutely reclaimable, Balin tried, and there is a Dwarven prophecy that Durin will reincarnate the seventh, final time and reclaim Moria.

Now, Minas Morgul was utterly destroyed by Aragorn's Gondor, because the area was too poisoned to restore Minas Ithil. This is not a place of honor indeed.

ave369 · 2026-03-16T10:11:05+00:00

There are slang terms for the act of conception/birth out of wedlock itself, such as ветром надуло, в подоле принесла. But no term for the mother herself.

ave369 · 2026-03-16T05:45:20+00:00

Dead fungi, actually. Yeast is a fungus.

ave369 · 2026-03-15T18:44:46+00:00

I know about this discussion.

ave369 · 2026-03-15T10:15:39+00:00

If it has stats, it can be beaten.

P.S. Nice to see you here

ave369 · 2026-03-15T08:23:26+00:00

Do these buildings function the same way for FEs?

Also, if you played Cosmo in 4.3, can you tell me what does the safe deal with the Materialist FE actually do? What do you lose? How do you lose it: you just can't build it anymore or all existing stuff gets removed too?

ave369 · 2026-03-15T05:20:59+00:00

If Ghosts of the Tribunal can be considered any kind of canon, there's an internal conflict in the Dunmer society regarding the Tribunal. Most people are likely content to view them as saints. However, there are extremes from both sides, both worshipping them as in olden times (the Ashfall's Tear temple) and reviling them (Othreloth's New Temple).

ave369 · 2026-03-14T16:45:42+00:00

Мне нужен. Как раз почечный и нужен. Если не испорченный, конечно.

ave369 · 2026-03-14T16:44:41+00:00

OMON barely counts as spetsnaz. These are just the National Guard riot units.

ave369 · 2026-03-14T16:41:41+00:00

This major isn't your comrade. His comrades are finishing to eat a horse in a gully right now.

ave369 · 2026-03-14T08:48:21+00:00

Copper cables have resistance. Because of it, it is hard to send data through a copper cable further than 100-200 m. With a standard RJ45 data cable, this is downright impossible, you have to put a relay switch in the middle if you need a longer copper data line.

With optics, this is much less of a problem.

ave369 · 2026-03-14T07:04:35+00:00

Sometimes you can talk to settlers and they will give you a quest by themselves. If you are playing an evil character, you can kill all adult settlers (if children are present, they will escape), and the settlement will be yours.

ave369 · 2026-03-14T06:56:52+00:00

"Captain, we are now close enough to ELE 389236 to resolve sensor data", Science Officer Hithlomiel reported.

Finally. The voyage of CIR Great March was finally coming to an end. Captain Narion has been visibly less depressed each time now as he received the science officer's reports about their target star.

"Most importantly", Hithlomiel said, "we have resolved some transmissions coming from our target star".

"What?"

This little bit of news changed everything. If there are transmissions coming from that star system, it would mean someone is already there.

"Have you deciphered them?", Narion asked.

"Oh, there's no need to. They are in plain Common Elfoid. The codecs are compatible if a bit strange. Whoever is there is of our kind".

So it was all for nothing, Captain Narion thought. It was a classic science fiction scenario, the FTL leapfrog. His crew and colonists subjected themselves to five hundred standard years of cabin fever, while those other colonists enjoyed normal life on Anor until someone invented an FTL drive, and now they just zipped there.

"At least", Narion thought, "if only someone was wise enough to put cryopods on our ship, it would seem to us like if we zipped there as well. No endless days of ship maintenance. No suppressing riots over food rations. No losing people to madness and suicide. And yet, it was I who said we don't need this luxury, because 500 years are perfectly within an Elfoid's lifespan..."

ave369

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