Best posts made by Holya

@Prometheus
I'm not going to buy your game, and by extension I expect a solid 8-10 people from my usual group also will not. Purely, 100% because of overenthusiastic forum moderation.

I haven't actually counted, but I don't feel as though I'm not exaggerating when I say 50% of my last 20 or so posts have been deleted with not a word said to me, or a response when actively seeking clarification.

Anything worthy of deleting should be worth of warning/suspension/banning, should it not? I, with full sincerity, do not know what rule my posts have broken.

None of said deleted posts have been directed at anybody, or could reasonably be categorized as offensive/aggressive/hateful. Derailing, maybe? Definitely not moreso than anything else posted in 99% of threads.

It's so humorless/joyless, and I imagine it's going to spill over into your game.

@Siltoruz

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I know already it will be different than old retail vanilla, even mechanically in some aspects. They are changing some things around.. I'll just add an example of changing parry cap to 14% for warriors at raid bosses, which will make raid bosses parry more against tanks, and each parry triggers increased attack speed gained by boss for a while.. which will then hit harder on tanks.

Vanilla has been min/maxed to the point where a fury tank with no shield can get healed through nearly any boss with appropriate level gear while not wearing a shield 90% of the time. The extra damage is pretty irrelevant, what is relevant is threat. I can totally see good rogues/warriors intentionally attacking from the front when they're gonna get threat capped, to increase the tank's RPS=TPS.

Warrior - slow leveler, but great to play at max level. Can hold it's own in PvP, and needed class for raiding (great DPS if played as DPS, and the only real tank). For raiding warrior is really rewarding class choice. However, you are adviced to have a different grinding alt then, as warrior is not the most effective grinder compared to some other classes.

I would add that fury is probably the most "fun"/hectic class for PVE. You can do some really retarded/fun stuff when trying to cheese for high DPS logs, like, I've very fond memories of getting world #1 twin emps every week for a month, and losing it to another warrior doing the same thing by literally just rounding up the scarabs and AoEing them down while sit spamming to keep enrage while half of our healers do nothing but turrent heal me because I have the scrab dot stacked on me to like 50. There are lots of places you can do that sorta stuff when your healers are geared enough, like sitting in AoE intentionally, tanking trash with no mitigation gear, that kinda thing.

The biggest downside to warrior IMO is literally (((like, literal use of the word literally))) every single class counters you in 1v1, and in team fights/BGs post AQ they're actually kinda garbage, too. In MC level gear, warriors are going to kindof suck in PVP, because their T1 set is pretty garbage, but all of their counter classes (mage, warlock, hunter) have pretty good T1 sets. That said, 1-2 warriors will still be desired in RBGs at least until naxx is out, and the 1.12.1 itemization helps warriors A LOT between BWL-Naxx if they get rank 13/14.

Hunter - the best class for leveling, and for solo (single target) grinding. It can also hold it's own in PvP. However in raiding, post MC, it scales very poorly, and you will never be anywhere near the top of DPS charts in raids. So if that's important for you, do not chose hunter.

IMO hunter is THE BEST open world ganker, if that's your thing. The only classes that can really fight them are like: druid(if EXTREMELY geared as feral/boomkin, so, basically these don't exist), warlocks, and Spriests(also don't really exist), and honestly they can just choose not to fight warlocks and there's nothing warlocks can do about it because they're so slow.

Hunters are naturally pretty decent DPS in MC-tier gear, but 1.12.1 itemization (comparatively) hurts them a little bit, especially with Lupos not doing shadow damage. THAT SAID, in BWL Hunters will be able to do competitive DPS with at least the casters if they get rank 13. The PVP sets of hunters is basically equivalent of T3 without the set bonuses. They will def go back to sucking in either AQ or Naxx, tho.

Warlock - best all around class choice. Is good at everything, PvP, raiding, dungeons,... and if Blizzard ever decides to expand classic with retail TBC again, warlock is the TOP class in TBC without any competition.

I agree with Warlock being one of the top 3 classes, but I would add: WotF REEEEEEEEEEEEE, and a big downside to warlock PVE is that they have the most/expensive consumables of any class by a far margin. Additionally, they kinda suck without gear. Their T1 is really good for PVP, though, and even if you're casual T2/2.5 is really good PVP gear, and they get a lot of "free" gear that's super good for PVP, and PVP. Like, the fricken AQ20 ring is their third BiS, and the ZG cloak is basically BiS. it's super easy to gear a warlock late game.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying

@Siltoruz
I'd love to think the gods have found me worthy of divine punishment, and a reason to change the world, alas I doubt that's the case.

Pseudo-factions, the ability to easily identify most PKers, a group of hippies you can "probably" trust (furrymen) all sound like things that could potentially have a very positive effect on the social/political side of the game.

I'd hope I can through effort make a human character equally effective as a demon as a PKer, and not have to have furrymen gathering/crafting alts, though.

@Nolen candy, ice cream, wi-fi, and puppies.

On a serious note, if anybody has heard of our (Pedophiles Anonymous) exploits, and wishes to apply, don't do so publically. Anybody with proof of an aptitude for degeneracy is usually accepted with open arms. Also, we've been trying to get a ladyboy/MtF as a mascot for the longest time if anybody's capable of fitting that role~

It wouldn't be time efficient to make fake accounts if your goal were to be #1 on the foundation, only if your goal is to get absurd numbers, and even then I find it doubtful it wouldn't be easier to be an advertising whore.

I don't know exactly what the website checks, but at worst you'd need to emulate different hardware/browsers/OS/IP for some portion of your referrals. Easy enough.

Next, having them all, or mostly, come from somewhere with enough traffic to make your influx of referrals seem reasonable. Easiest way to do with would be either reddit vote/view manipulation, or just directing them from unrelated high traffic streamers, so the admins can't check. Not so hard.

The real challenge, having a proportionate number of your account look active. They'd need to post on the forums, and even if you translate it into some weird language barely anybody speaks, people are going to notice that shit's just a reskinned cleverbot eventually. I can't find a solution around this issue that doesn't involve simply having a lot of real referrals mixed in.

If you're going to need a lot of real referrals, then your time would be better spent making something that advertises for you, as opposed to directly making fake accounts. I mean, you could have your fake accounts supplement your real referrals, but that just seems like overkill.

Consider the fact that I'm #1, and I don't even care enough to do quests or daily posts. I only referred a few people so I don't have to pay for dumb microtransactions, and so I can mock people for indirectly giving me money when I'm the most hated/prolific ganker in the community.

@ooBENONIoo

If you think having 6-7 large rival guilds was the real fun, you clearly missed out on the first days of steam release. 200+ concurrent players, with no idea what they're doing, basically no stats, and essentially no criminal system.

I believe one of my characters got ~140 unique kills, and probably over a thousand actual kills on the first day.

@johnny-quantum
Both of those games have camera control. This means you can turn with your mouse. It's WASD movement, but it's not keyboard turning. Fractured is intended to be isometric, without camera control, meaning WASD movement is inherently keyboard turning.

There are two ways you could do that:

1. Rotating on axis, with a turn delay/animation which means you can't quickly change direction. I will mail you my foreskin if you find a single noteworthy PVP game that uses exclusively this control scheme.

2. Simple movement, IE you press D and instantly start moving right, you press A and instantly start moving left. A couple games do this, but with the exception of grid based games, for reasons already explained in the thread this yield inferior levels of control/speed.

I'm honestly not a huge fan of click based movement either, but 100% it yields more character control.

• Expected high ping in an environment that punishes high ping

• Moderation a tad too on the carebear side for my taste

• Autism surrounding The Foundation. People sincerely caring about it legitimately makes me sad in an existential sense lol

Why thank you for your flattery, kind sir.

On a side note: I've been trying to make "Holya shit" a thing for years. You've no idea how happy you using it without being prompted makes me.

1. Even in more political sandboxes like EVE, spying doesn't directly affect many people in a significant way

2. There's no way a developer can stop it, only make information less valuable

3. Races don't have plans, individuals and organizations do. If an organization or individual couldn't keep a secret to begin with, there's nothing a developer could do to help them.

#BestTheme

The forum's a little improved since the LR one. Can hide preview, scrolling preview isn't bugged, Englis_(Pirate) added to the language options, and delay image loading disabled by default.

Since it seems somebody's taking an interest... Just sayin' profiles would be much prettier if the background image were allowed to display behind the first interface pane.

Maybe the option to tile it. Iunno, I'm very vain and enjoy customizing my profiles.

@frost said in A Delicate Question: Slavery:

• The Humans are more of a civilized society with good intellect to create new technology, I don´t think slavery would fit here as well from my point of view.

"Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery, refers to the institutions of slavery that continue to exist in the present day. Estimates of the number of slaves today range from around 21 million-29 million to 46 million."

The only reason there aren't presently more slaves is because they're not cost effective as anything other than "entertainers" in societies with decent infrastructure.

Lady justice here is wearing her blindfold, so that means she's from at least the ~1600s. The architecture looks Greek, so the real world equivalent would be Greece under Ottoman rule. The Ottomans fucking loved their slaves, dude. Going back in-world it's specified the humans are still living in feudalism. Name one feudal society that didn't participate in slavery. Pro tip: you can't.

Lore-wise you could pretty easily write some form of slavery into each race's backstory... But mechanically speaking, NPC slavery could be themed as something else and remain the same. Example: rename WoW garrisons to concentration camps. Suddenly they're a lot cooler, but mechanically the same.

I'm a super mechanically focused person, so maybe I'm just a fuddy-duddy, but you're arguing over if mechanics in a machine that hasn't been made yet, and you don't even have the schematics for.

The degree to which people are praising this bothers me. Starting to think the key to being good at marketing is not respecting people's intelligence. Ya'know, that and saying revolutionary a lot.

I tried to solve the mystery by asking him on VK, but all I found out is that he's turbo into hentai, and actively searching for a girlfriend.

I'm just gonna leave this here