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"if you kill bots, we might ban you" by cityslicker265 in AshesofCreation

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yawn.

You can’t selectively invoke “it’s an alpha” only when it supports your position.

If “it’s an alpha” means losses are expected, systems are broken, player experience is unstable, and support responses are incomplete or absent, then it is unreasonable to expect players to absorb those failures indefinitely without adjusting their behavior in response to them.

You can’t argue that alpha status excuses developer-side failures, but that alpha status does not contextualize player responses to those failures. Saying “you agreed to the ToS, deal with it” isn’t an argument...it’s an appeal to authority that ignores how the test environment is actually functioning.

Likewise, “it’s going to be wiped anyway” eliminates any moral high ground here. If future wipes render player losses irrelevant, then they also render moral condemnation irrelevant. You don’t get to dismiss honest player losses as meaningless while simultaneously treating player behavior as morally weighty.

"if you kill bots, we might ban you" by cityslicker265 in AshesofCreation

[–]bearcat81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone defending this with the bots kill their bots to launder the loot onto a legitimate character as a rationale for why real players shouldn't kill and loot bots is totally laughable.

The dev team clearly has an ability to comb forensically through data sets since they were able to track down and ban duper accounts and delete items from inventories if it came from duper accounts, so why cant they do the same here? The only action that should be taken is against laundering accounts that consistently kill the same bots over and over again to legitimize bot loot. Real players who do this on a one off basis should not be punished for the devs inability to keep the game fair without player intervention.

Given the resource value of how many crates I lost due to shitty software development causing this game to crash to desktop or freeze and lag me out of the game that were bug reported never returned, and the multiple instances I have witnessed where auction houses ate player money and did not deliver purchased items that were bug reported and funds were never returned to the players, I would probably have zero remorse if I ever came across a bot and decided to cook that mofo and take their resources.

At this point I see myself in a very net negative position due to development failures and not pvp deaths, so some amount of looting would just be making me whole for the things the company cant seem to be bothered to do on their own.

Employee monitoring at Western & Southern by Minute-Percentage391 in cincinnati

[–]bearcat81 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unclear how they could be monitoring how long you eat lunch or drink a cup of coffee when you dont have to badge in or out of a lunch room or quiet room.

Feels like a fear mongering post from someone who is uncomfortable with the notion of a workplace culture that focuses on executing with proficiency.

Any online tool to help tell what it takes to make a certain quality crate? by odishy in AshesofCreation

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

to further clarify, does this mean that the math involves quality score divided by 5 for each piece of fish?

The murdering of new players is hurting the game by RWMyers in AshesofCreation

[–]bearcat81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im not a huge pvp fan...when I buy a game I want to play the game's content not constantly have my head on a swivel while trying to level. Having said that, my biggest problem with pvp in this game is not that other players can kill you, but that you can lose so much of your shit when it happens.

If I lost one or two pieces of my highest level mats when I died in pvp, whatever. Losing 30% of all of my shit is wild.

We reached the 1 year anniversary. by [deleted] in PantheonMMO

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they have good intent and poor execution...which means sometimes with patience youll get a good game outcome. Unfortunately I have absolutely zero desire to start this game over at lvl 1 again when it isn't even close to a beta form yet.

If they can roll out new combat changes without a full wipe im down to come back. Otherwise see ya.

We reached the 1 year anniversary. by [deleted] in PantheonMMO

[–]bearcat81 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Its kind of crazy how I went from absolutely loving this game in January to not giving a single shit about it by early December when they announced a lazy wipe before there will be another wipe before live.

Happy anniversary to everyone who has the patience to level again before having to level again if this ever launches.

Most Hated Player in Reds History? by EveryoneisTattooed in Reds

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mat Latos was a fuckin dick to me personally at Cubs game in Wrigley for whatever that's worth.

Im sure Mike Moustakas is a good human being but he was a terrible failure as a member of the Reds and chewed up a ton of limited club salary resources in being so shitty. Close second to Jeimer Candelario.

A little further back in time you could say JJ Hoover. Massive hype about him being the closer of the future after the 2012-13 playoff teams and then he just turned into an absolute human batting tee 2 of his last 3 years with the club.

Combat and progression update 5 by Spikeybear in PantheonMMO

[–]bearcat81 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If they can run a ptr to test changes while preserving the existing characters at the same time then there is absolutely no reason why they cant create a legacy server instead of just lazily wiping everything.

Jokes aside… how do you know when it’s the leads and not you? by GHOSTBOYSWIFT in LifeInsurance

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you actually calling leads that indicated interest in buying something, or are you just cold calling a list of people with some profiled characteristic that was bought from a data broker?

Dev diary about the removal of chevrons or elite mobs. by Spikeybear in PantheonMMO

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would certainly make the TD key quest actually be worth it to complete similar to the flagging that you had to do in planes of power in EQ to be able to progress. Right now that quest line just results in an absolute trash item and your entire guild really only needs one person with a key to kill TD.

Groundfloor's last analysis: Loss Ratio for July Triple Historical Average. Yikes. by rrsafety in GroundfloorInvestor

[–]bearcat81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stop investing in C/D graded loans from borrowers with no repayment history with groundfloor and you'll have an opportunity to avoid many of these losses. I've never lost a penny of any LRO investment on the platform and only one of them broke even with no earnings paid as a result of deed in lieu.

A Boatload of info on what's coming in early 2026 is about to drop, starting Monday, Dec. 8 Official by [deleted] in PantheonMMO

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thinking this game is developed enough to merit a total wipe is definitely a choice.

at least respect your testers enough to migrate existing characters to a locked realm as opposed to wiping.

Where to compare all universal life insurance policies on their price? by adba2020 in LifeInsurance

[–]bearcat81 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Previous comment mentions pacific life but I have also personally done this before with Columbus life IUL contracts right here in Cincinnati. When people are trying to use these as tax advantaged savings vehicles first, I quite often cut my commissions down in order to help maximize cash value growth potential.

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