Blissfulkill

...I really wish I could date a girl like Darkness. I have a thing for that type of woman.

I blame Tarlach.

Kensamaofmari wrote: »

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Keiyoma wrote: »

For whatever reason, you're punished for disconnecting/crashing by having some of your trade goods nicked, which for me means I've been handed an immediate loss of Ducats and the trip is now pointless.

Unfortunately, this is an anti-bot feature.

Commerce bots used to log out and cc every time they sensed a bandit spawn nearby. To counter this, the devs made you lose a % of goods every time you log out. It was very effective, obviously, as no one nowadays even remembers how we used to be plagued by hundreds of commerce bots.

I reckon they could actually remove it now, since commercing isn't even profitable for bots any more. :')

AH the golden era of commerce. Prices didn't drop, and all you had to do was CC to ditch banditos. Those were the days; everyone was rich. The best was when only those with good computers and knew how to finagle it could actually enter Tara. You'd fill up with bunk beds and could expect a 50k+ ducat profit for every run. Good times, I got my elephant like two days after starting.

My friends and I used to make campfires right over commerce bot routes that would freeze them in place, or intentionally spawn bandits on them.

To be fair, bots did change the prices so that everyone benefited. After the patch that rooted out most of the bots, prices feel dramatically. For places like Dunbarton, the profit one gets is too low for the time it takes except for Succubus Swimsuits.

I hate to say it, but the sell price inflation caused by the bots were actually reasonable, and should be used as a template to where prices should be, of course with minor adjustments.

If I had to suggest a few basic things...

+No attack debuff, just make bandits tankier and hit harder.
+Raise the prices to something reasonable, especially Dunbarton and Belvast.
+Raise the speed of commerce mounts.
+Fix spawning issues. Avoiding bandit spawns should be a surefire thing. That, and make it easier for bounty hunters to actually find spawns.
+Fix limited goods availability. One or two players may be feasible on a server like Alexina, but if more people commerce, we're going to run into issues.
+Instead of badges, just have bandit kills have a chance to automatically deposit ducats in our inventory.

Honestly, while I never was going to own a Soluna sword, I hate the very idea of this sale. Elite gear should never be packaged and sold, be it Bhafeal, Langhuiris Chasers, Divine Knights, etc.

They're so desperate for money that they resorted to selling endgame materials, armour, and weapons.

The thing I dislike is paying to skip progression. Some things are just sacred. The developers gave up on any any resemblance to good game design.

Greta wrote: »

Watched Weathering With You yesterday... What a bizarre ending... Don't know how i feel about it.

I guess you don't know Weather you like the ending or not, huh?

I am liking the Villainous Otome anime, and I have been contemplating the meaning of life ever since the day we still have not heard of Stone Ocean confirmation announcement. Rilakkuma and Kaoru is something I have bee enjoying lately.

Now, for my daily dose of hating on popular anime.

I really can't understand the appeal of Irregular A Magic High School. It is no different than any other fanfiction you'd find on Wattpad, but doubling down on the social rhetoric that I just happen disagree with. That, and there's so much meaningless technobabble dialogue that functions as filler. It does nothing to develop these characters, to explain how the world works in order to understand the stakes and rules, or draw upon any relevant real life scientific ideas, theories, or concepts.

So we can spend a number of minutes explaining how hero Tatsuya won a fight. The issue is that the explanations aren't of rules, because we never establish Tatsuya as being effectively limited in any meaningful way; he may not be able to push a block a meter cross the floor, but when you are both simultaneously the best sharpshooter in the world, the world's best engineer and inventor of magical equipment, have incredible physical and combat prowess, and can effectively nuke your enemies anywhere within 100 km with just a thought, and can go through and absorb a library's worth of knowledge in a single day, it's really really difficult to believe in the idea of danger.

The author will simply introduce another aspect of Tatsuya's kit that hasn't been revealed to us previously if he ever writes Tatsuya in a corner rather than introducing them beforehand; this is essentially making up abilities on the fly that takes out all tension and interest away from the fight. We're never given any payoff for any tension or interest we may have, because quite simply, there's none to be had.

We're not shown Tatsuya creatively using old abilities to combat new threats, or having the gun in chapter 5 be shot in Chapter 9.

But what really angers me is the whole idea that Tatsuya only disagrees with the system because of how it personally ranked him, versus the idea of institutionalized discrimination and persecution. I am surprised the author is 40 years old going onto 50; this is the same time of angst filled writing I expect of a teenager lamenting that the world is soooo unfair against them.

He may be richer than me, but honestly, if I had to write a fanfiction that is basically me about life while re-imagining myself as the most special snowflakiest person who has ever lived in a society that just doesn't appreciate them out of jealously, then...well, I'll be tempted, but I have my pride too, ya know?