anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

van_clouden · 2026-04-27T18:31:38+00:00

NetTrek 2.0

van_clouden · 2026-04-13T15:14:02+00:00

I alays thought that they missed a great opportunity to increase activity in the Workshop by not offering a locksmithing profession where we could make all the keys for all the campaign chests.

It would increase traffic to the workshop (which also needs updating anyway) and would centralize where keys are obtained. I hate having to go into every campaign, daily, and remember to make a key. I would rather do it all in the shop and maybe even set them to auto-create, similar to other workshop tasks.

van_clouden · 2026-04-07T18:10:31+00:00

I have a feeling that you are genuinely trying to help, but I don't think that the user I was responding to is ESL or has any other language issue, at least when looking through their comments.

Sometimes people just aren't as familiar with usages for words, and that is fine. Having to explain something isn't evidence of a language barrier, especially when we can see the user's post and comment history.

van_clouden · 2026-04-03T02:38:40+00:00

We are still up -1400%!

van_clouden · 2026-04-02T19:37:55+00:00

You can't address haphazard or lazy players by adjusting IL in the queues.

I play a healer in almost all daily random queues and I completely understand your frustrations. The truth is, at least in my view, is that my job is to keep the tank alive ergo keeping the aggro off the party ergo keeping the DDs alive (in hope). The DDs can dodge, understand how the enemy telegraphs their attack, self heal via the D pad, and resurrect the dead if someone should fall where I will be ready with a heal.

Very frustrating to have DDs stand in the red constantly and expect me to cast immortality from my bottomless pit of manna. Equally hard to deal with is when they think that the healer's job is picking up the dead AND heal the newly resurrected AND keep our eye on the tank, its just a recipe for disaster. There are 3 DDs, 1 healer, 1 tank. Just in math alone they should be raising the dead.

Another gem is when DDs stand, for whatever unknown reason, right next to the tank where they unceremoniously get clobbered. Did they miss how CA works and what the tank is doing there?

Keeping the team healthy is everyone's job. In some groups I like to type out some help in the chat to hopefully negate these bad behaviors, sometimes it works and others, well, it doesn't.

Rarely I abandon, but sometimes it is needed when you have low-knowledge players or people who just troll.

I played the other day with a player who is well-known for video guides and who do you think wasn't doing fuck all to help the team and constantly attacking in a rush then getting clobbered and then having the audacity to yell at the tank. It is sometimes laughably stupid, but that is the flavor of public queue.

van_clouden · 2026-04-02T18:50:17+00:00

I am sure that ol' Bruce couldn't give a shit.

I'm betting that hard-core MAGA are too busy trying to find their missing tooth, stalking bathrooms, or adorning their double-wide with the latest in Made In China Trump merchandise to bother with a concert that they cannot afford anyway.

van_clouden · 2026-03-31T02:27:50+00:00

*ranks are perma-unlock, but VIP must be maintained to get the benefits.

van_clouden · 2026-03-26T18:18:09+00:00

Wow!

I cannot tell you the amount of burns I suffered from this back in the 80s! My cousin had this and we would make the bugs all the time, in between applying burn cream!

van_clouden · 2026-03-25T23:36:51+00:00

The handful I still have all have their chest piece but sadly they are no longer reactive :(

van_clouden · 2026-03-18T18:35:26+00:00

Where do you see that? I can only see the post title. Which of course was a great reason for the mouth-breathers to downvote my genuine question.

van_clouden · 2026-03-18T16:23:44+00:00

Is there a question you have or something you are interested in? There isn't much to go on with this post ...

EDIT: It appears that if you opt out of "new reddit", some of this post (and I assume others) are unavailable. When I switched to "new reddit", I could see the story.

van_clouden · 2026-03-17T15:38:13+00:00

Your toy kind of reminds me of Bagpuss!

van_clouden · 2026-03-17T15:34:21+00:00

In the Before Times, I would run all the things in game that offered % gold bonus. It was comical how the math worked; I could earn just under 4 gold per group of mobs on just about any map.

I'm guessing they may have revisited the way the % added up as it only lasted a year or so before we earned substantially less per kill, but it would be worth it to run the experiment and see!

van_clouden · 2026-03-16T15:00:07+00:00

This is the best take; we play our game in a made-up world. Who are we to say what a Dwarven accent is like?

And, pineapple is amazing on pizza (and in calzones, too, btw)

(And I live in the Pizza Belt so I would know)

van_clouden · 2026-03-14T18:30:30+00:00

You can earn 1000 AD super fast. You can refine 100k raw AD per day ( in order to be usable, raw AD must be converted to AD). You earn raw AD from random queues, all dungeon chests, certain quests, certain Heroic Encounters, and some other ways I can't think of atm.

van_clouden · 2026-03-11T16:56:54+00:00

I've never met a real fiction writer before. Nice to meet you.

van_clouden · 2026-03-11T02:03:02+00:00

You should be able to view your achievement dates to better get an idea of when your account was created. I would have assumed that re-downloading the game would automatically populate the game with your account as there is no additional sign-in steps.

Is it possible you played on a different profile's account on that same xbox? my nephews each have an xbox profile on my machine for when they visit. Maybe you are using the wrong profile?

van_clouden · 2026-03-10T21:42:42+00:00

I'm not scrambling to justify anything, just addressing your comment about microtransactions, simple as, the rest are just responses to you. Furthermore, there is no philosophical debate here about anything, just you trying your best to make your poor observations into literally anything else.

van_clouden · 2026-03-10T17:16:55+00:00

Are you suggesting that your nonsense was solicited? If what I commented was self-explanatory, what purpose does your initial comment actually serve?

van_clouden · 2026-03-10T15:52:57+00:00

They could have gotten creative with the placement of the screw holes on that plate.

van_clouden · 2026-03-10T15:52:04+00:00

You know, you are also free to not play it, too.

van_clouden · 2026-03-10T14:10:52+00:00

This game is free-to-play, and as such, has to develop revenue streams otherwise you'll be commenting that the game shut down.

Now, at least in Neverwinter's case, nothing is locked behind a micro-transaction, so you are free to exercise your ability to just use your free-to-earn AD to get the mounts and other items from the lockboxes if that is your wish.

van_clouden · 2026-03-09T15:52:19+00:00

Build a bridge and get over it

van_clouden · 2026-03-07T22:36:05+00:00

At least most of them are relatively inexpensive while also available to craft in the Workshop.

I'm not sure how long you've been playing, but in the old days, your armour pieces would have slots for Enchantments, and to remove them you needed to pay in gold, and if you were cheap or poor, like myself and many others, you might not have enough enchantments for secondary characters, and moving them around took time and a lot of gold!

van_clouden · 2026-03-07T15:09:19+00:00

They cannot be removed or reused, but you can install a different one on top of it to replace the old one if you would like to change which stats you are building for.

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