Recent content by jake_speed#6680

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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    My main problem with B, and only B... Is giving someone something they didn't earn. Maybe you could have them pay the resource cost to build the claim buildings that were there. That would be acceptable to me, but not particularly ideal. The prefabs are already going to be there for people not...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    No problems with A from me. In FFXIV the guild can own a house, and the guild will own that house until no one from that guild logs in for a certain amount of time. It could work something like that, except you designate like 3 or 4 friends that serve that purpose for you. I don't think I agree...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    No problem, man. You'd be surprised. I play FFXIV because my friends are there and it actually scratches a lot of different itches. Relaxing and chilling, low-intensity combat, high intensity combat, sweat-inducing Thread-The-Needle combat. PVP, crafting, random minigames...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    Why stop those hubs from being player built? Ideas about player cities and such were being bandied about, and that could easily be done by allowing groups of personal claims. Hell, they could even give bonuses to participants in a grouping. That solves the "I personally don't want to do it"...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    Please don't be that reductive. Combat can be reduced to speadsheets and decision trees just as easily. I was just giving a clinical description of what I thought, and the actual implementation is lost without actually showing. In general, speaking of a housing system, its okay. Treating it as...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    I would like to point out that this doesn't quite fit what Grummz was talking about originally. In general, i would rate the Island system as part of the MMO Housing Sucks crowd, though it is somewhat better than usual. It is somewhat customizable insofar as where facilities are placed within...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    I've had a chance to gain a few island levels in this patch, so here's some more info on the system as implimented. Accessibility: Locked to post 6.0 (Endwalker Story Completion) expansion. Only need a level 1 character to enter after. Basically.. Endgame. Not sure why they didn't make the only...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    House is just the nomenclature, because its the player housing system. I don't think, in the original CC, he ever said it would just be a house. In fact, I got the distinct impression it would have been integral to your own personal growth in power. I think he even mentioned you might have...
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    Concerned about P2W

    Yeah, I appreciate the clarification. I always viewed it as tutorial land, though. In all actuality, i think he maybe shaved off maybe 10 minutes. Walking you through your first build, which is probably a 2x2 or 1x2 shack. Now can be a prefab for less clicks I guess. Sample hand mining for...
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    Concerned about P2W

    My definition of P2W doesn't care about PVP. It all is, competitive or not. Again, im not using it derogatorily. Anyway, say potato chips are worth a stable 500 moolahs in a theoretical Freemium game and they are a food that gives good buffs and sell very well. This game also sells a perma 50%...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    I craft all the time, just not in while in FF. I maxed a couple crafting classes in FFXIV. I mean there wasn't a whole lot to do with crafting in FF, nor a whole lot of reason outside of I need consumables or a gun/armor upgrade. But yeah, crafting vehicles and repairing I forgot about. But...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    We must have received neither, because it killed the idea in Grummz own words on Disco. Desynchronized communications are terrible for picture building, especially if we don't have the authorities helping do that. As an aside, listening to S3RL - Genre Police on loop is entertaining while on...
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    Concerned about P2W

    Then the obvious parallel is the group kids with army men who only sit in a circle yelling "Pew pew pew." all day basically going over to a kid with army men in a small little base he made himself and kicking sand in their eyes and yelling "YOUR BASE IS STEWWWPID, WE HATE IT" Then going back...
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    Concerned about P2W

    IIRC, Grummz mentioned this already. The piece-by-piece building system with a pre-fab saving option would allow them to more rapidly build buildings using the in-game engine, decorate it with Dev-Only, I assume, RTS Base interactibles and other things and then save it and move it to a spot...
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    Chief Chat "CLAIM STAKES 2" VOD - 8/05/2022 (Builds v1.3.1 and v1.3.2)

    Yeah, I have the same feeling. I forgot to mention that earlier. if they have to monetize the bases then please keep it cosmetic. Fold base cosmetics into the same system as everything else. You could unlock additional building pieces like you do the skins. Maybe one month you can get a fancy...