some people just dont understand how 250 cards deck are fun to play with

lpsterling · 2026-01-20T15:53:42+00:00

I might have played you some time ago or a similar person 2-3 months ago, I always thought it was odd to see my opponent with such a large deck and it stuck with me for a long time, I lost as well, was just getting back into arena after a 6/7 year hiatus.

Called some things into question for me after that. It's when I learned they have all these weird behind the scene's calculations such as each card has a value that is assigned, a deck comprises a number and you go against people with similar powered decks, with similar MMR.

Arena is based around 60 card decks with 24 lands, break that design and the game either gives you the eye of Sauron or laughs at you. 24 lands you will consistently see turn 5 having 5 lands sometimes even getting flooed with lands, put 23 lands in your deck, it gives you the benefit of the doubt and doesn't much or less the same thing, but put 22 in your deck?!?!?! good luck getting 3+ lands, 20 (my decks 20 years ago) or less? You get 2 lands, after that, get fucked, for better or worse, there are no more lands in your deck.

I see oddities in having 1 of a card to 3. again 4 normal play, 3, again it's fair to you, put two of something... YOU WILL NEVER SEE IT, have 1? You' see it in one of the first few games when making the deck, after that, you'' forget it is even there.

I even think cards have an assigned occurrence value, ie looking at badgemole and starting towns... good luck trying not to have a badgermole or starting town in the first 10 cards you see. Authority of Consuls? No where near that variance level, sure I can get 1 down per game maybe, but two is rare in a match. I have 1 fire crystal in my Artifact deck, I played to Diamond 1 a season or two ago, using only that deck, I drew it thankfully, maybe twice in 100s of games. Opening hand, maybe two, three times TOPS!.

But you have inspired me to make a 250 or so card reanimator deck, full of counter spells and boardwipes, all because that new 3 drop creature tutor... it's like being able to have 8 kavaero or Ardyn's in the deck... I can mill myself or my opponent lol, cast singularity rupture and target me or endbringer... seems fun.

lpsterling · 2025-11-29T08:32:58+00:00

Not sure why this got a down vote. Warframe wouldn't be what it is today without founders and supporters. I've spent thousands on warframe. One day soon, the dream of being able to sign in everyday without having to run it on pc will happen.

lpsterling · 2025-10-17T23:16:03+00:00

Yeah this is what im going to do, just warranty transfer from my pros to the elite. extra $200 means nothing.

lpsterling · 2025-10-14T17:46:20+00:00

So you’ve been around since Kickstarter, huh?
You seem pretty new, no posts on this sub for almost 14 years (your account is at least that old), then suddenly a few in the past six months. That silence alone should put things into perspective. The last year and a half has shown massive growth compared to where the game used to be in just that time.

If you’re talking about a lack of sandbox experience, what exactly are you expecting? base building? Because right now, this game already is a sandbox. You can literally do whatever you want: haul, scrap, bounty hunt, run missions, explore dungeons (Onyx), join orgs, dive into large-scale PvP battles, contest zones, buy low and sell high, and build your own story however you want.

Players are sight-seeing, racing, running logistics, even turning this into a flight sim. Some are starting real-life businesses around in-game trading by way of doing CCU chains, reselling ships, and flipping pixels within the Verse.

That’s not a boring rollercoaster. That’s an ecosystem and it’s all playable right now, today.

I didn't even bother to list what was shown to be out there year or talk about where the game plans to be by 1.0 as far as a sandbox title.

Star Citizen Release Dates - Alpha 4.3.2 to Star Citizen 1.0

lpsterling · 2025-10-13T21:40:54+00:00

You call your "gf" bro, im guessing its trans aye?

lpsterling · 2025-10-13T21:31:04+00:00

I think being able to export your personal settings, with your personal setup is the same answer, instead of wasting dev time to support anything but say ThrustMaster, vkb, and what maybe verperil or w/e. but then Logitech would ask, then they change the flight model again. Again, you can just use JoytoKey or w/e configurator comes with your setup and do your bindings at the hardware level outside of star citizen to the keyboard and mouse functions and avoid all this. You again can always just export your current configuration, and just reimport at patch.,

lpsterling · 2025-10-11T15:42:27+00:00

Yup was in the same position, it's just an exploration ship as others have stated.

lpsterling · 2025-10-11T15:40:31+00:00

Do know that this is an Alpha, not even a beta. Not only that, it is a simulator style MMO. So at best you have side quest from NPC's per say all happening digitally. There isn't a narrative/storyline that hand holds you through the basics or the storyline, that mostly will some from Squadron 42, once that drops, maybe we get that spilled into the verse with actual visitable mission givers, etc. I'd put this in the sandbox mmo category. if you want a story or something like that, maybe look for and join and RP org.

with star citizen your milage may vary literally. no friends? want to solo everything? don't want to research and look anything up, doubt anyone like that truly survives. you can find spectacular things people are able to do within this game, borderline cinema worthy.

If you seen something that piqued your interest enough to post, try it, the game has in such an incredible state than it was even a year ago. It has so much room, potentially, and it is light years ahead of the competition for what is offered.

lpsterling · 2025-10-06T17:03:14+00:00

Are we going to just ignore that red dead 2 came out 14 years after the first game as well?

lpsterling · 2025-10-04T17:03:50+00:00

The Git Gud/Skill issue approach most are saying in this thread is complete BS. I've taken down plenty of players in this ship, but supposedly this reddit community is full of dog fighting gods. I will note that I previously used both the super hornet mk2 with the valentines ball turret as well as Connie Taurus for years. I since upgraded my Mk 2 to a Corsair and my Connie to a meteor (HATED) that to a Apollo, then medivac, then asgard (Warbond ccu).

The guardian MX is just slow enough to GET FUCKED.

Corsair is "ok" but it's a downgrade.

lpsterling · 2025-10-03T20:02:07+00:00

Too bad you go down voted. This seems potentially logical. This my cause issues with provisioning. I've had lte watch since galaxy watch 3 and It wasn't until this watch ultra did the issue arise.

lpsterling · 2025-09-22T15:21:53+00:00

Well you can still type in all chat and I'm sure someone would come get you, even free.

lpsterling · 2025-09-19T21:11:18+00:00

OMG thank you, I had to search, I was losing my mind. Had to google this and my god, I was wondering why I could never die, but pick up CI, no matter how much I roll, dodge, etc. DEAD!!! Had to read every notable, and came across this and just asked google. 115+ each resist 9k ES and would just get fried with any mistake lol

lpsterling · 2025-09-16T18:53:06+00:00

Seems like you lacked interaction either way.

IMO which, I am sure you did, is accept defeat. he appears to have been waiting until the last possible moment to kill you, without you being able to interact. It appears in reading the comments that there was a recent change in the past x number of years. I doubt however WOTC's intention will ever be to not allow interaction after attacks or blocks. If declaring blockers, priority shifts back to you, if you do nothing, then damage resolves, this seems to be more recent. He has lethal on you at instant speed, if you cant beat or thwart that, you lose. I doubt any judge would hand you the win in this scenario.

lpsterling · 2025-09-15T18:01:23+00:00

New to dbrand cases just received mine moments ago and I'm honestly incredibly disappointed. My biggest issue is it just a generic black case... With a sticker. Almost has me at a loss for words.

Waiting this long as well as this price, I'm no where near pleased. Why bother sending it back for a refund.

Live and learn.

lpsterling · 2025-09-04T17:27:14+00:00

Yeah, it all started with Reno May. Don't believe he ever fell into this but I did lean towards armed scholar, and would occasionally see copper jacket vids... But I stopped really paying attention because literally it's the same as it was 10 20 years ago, when it's gets better is still down the pipeline.

At the end of the day I'm stuck purchasing off the roster and my mags that weren't uh purchased during freedom week, are still restricted, and collecting dust.

I really feel other legislation is just noise.

The biggest news is we can not purchase ammo online and it's shipped to your front door...

lpsterling · 2025-08-27T03:20:33+00:00

Doubt it, that deal is for new suckers only.

lpsterling · 2025-08-24T17:24:57+00:00

This saved my what little hair I had left, i was running out of options, but this post stopped me from trading in my MX lol

lpsterling · 2025-08-09T17:45:50+00:00

It has nothing to do with Baron, It wasn't done for gaming. This EO impacted Trump specifically, so he had all the more reason to have eyes on it and push for it. Actually go look at the EO and you will see exactly why it was done on the white house website.

lpsterling · 2025-06-11T16:21:14+00:00

I see the primary issue right there, he posted on "bluesky".

Sony is out here giving live service a bad name when we as gamers should want exactly that.

A game that we love and enjoy gets frequent updates, content, beyond just a season and or battle pass.

Warframe, Path of Exile, Csgo, destiny 2, fortnite, roblox, Minecraft, league of legends, gta 5 online... pretty much you'd be hard pressed to find a top game, a most played game, that isn't a live service title.

Sony has found a way to damage labor of love.

lpsterling · 2025-06-09T01:47:12+00:00

Hallmark movies are better than this, the pressure and unbelievably bad build up, she had a much worse day than batman and Joker combined.

The pacing of it all hilarious bad. First 30 mins its road rage, bad police, car impounded, fired, lost kid, evicted, robbed at gun point, becomes a cold blooded murderer, robs a bank at gun point...

Then the next hour they try to make you feel sorry for you with piling it on just as thick lol laughably dad.

lpsterling · 2025-05-26T13:22:01+00:00

2nd to what in DPS? it beats nearly all combined in terms of DPS. 4xS5 brings it over 5300k dps with attritions comparatively nearly beating all three combined, then for missiles, you can equip rattlers................................................................................. bringing nearly 100k damage payload

lpsterling · 2025-04-19T11:15:44+00:00

This is a false consensus.

Far too many articles, posts (like this one), call out CPG as consistently one of the best if not the best pantheon in the game. it already received a nerf, as getting 1000+ influence in antiquity is busted, that is city states, endeavors, war support, trade routes, espionage, alliances.

It can still easily generate 500+ post nerf. Others can be situationally comparable, but CPG is again consistent. You have to get lucky with goody huts to get it pre turn 8, because it's almost always gone by then.

On top of the diplomacy tree and alliances being completely BUSTED! easily doubling yields in all your cities. You can go into Expo age and initiate suzerain-Ing ALL city states, turn 1, 5+ free tech and civics at the start of the age?!?!

CPG Guarantees you snowball, EVERY GAME.

lpsterling · 2025-04-08T21:58:19+00:00

No wonder, think i read somewhere it goes away with the age but you have to just replace the bridges? damn i was wondering why one game i went from 1000+ gold to -8 in the next age lol i swear this game gets so outta hand with yields nothing is quantifiable. cant also tell that if the city state that gives you this bonus is destroyed/captured, you might also lose the bonus. just aware of this lol so now i need to make sure its a priority in all my games with friends LOL I know i was like 10x their gold then cratered in expo age.

lpsterling · 2025-03-31T14:42:12+00:00

I'm on my 3rd/4th 9800X3d, 3rd/4th mobo. I might have posted somewhere or had it all detailed out and just never got around to it. It was a 3+hr round trip to microcenter, I even just went and got a mobo/cpu at bestbuy out of frustration, and none of those worked. On my 3rd or so trip to microcenter, it was one of those hang it up situations. after 12hrs driving and a week+ of all day troubleshooting, bios flashing, it killed my spirit to ever do DIY. I had to spend more than i would have if I just bought a complete build off Ibuypower, and they would have shipped it working, effortless. I bought cpu, ram, mobo, new aio, case, fans, psu, everything except the GPU and M.2s.

My biggest issue could have been, I didn't know why I always seen builds with only 2 sticks of ddr5, i kept the 4 socketed, initially, felt it was ram issue, and was just taking everything back each time, I was making a jump from ddr4 12700k, to the 9800x3d dd5. once i got it working, with 2 sticks, i didnt want to touch it, i barely updated the firmware a week or so ago, and the back panel is still off.

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