Posts made by Lithium

@Packrat just because a Brigade has 5 times the troops does not mean it has 5x the efficiency or efficacy of a unit with less troops. A single trooper has a finite amount of power. Just because you have more of them doesn't mean you have more absolute firepower. It means you have the potential to apply that troopers firepower more often.

For example: If you have guys with spears and hide shields vs an M1 Abrams Tank, it doesn't matter if you have 5, or 500. The 500 still are probably going to lose it's just going to take more time and ammo to get through them.

So you're left with a couple of choices depending on how accurate you want to be. You can (and should) beef up the health of the unit, there are more bodies after all in a Brigade then a Platoon. You may wish to bump up the applied damage a /little/ depending on if they get additional more powerful hardware (Like say mortars instead of just rifles and hand grenades) depending on the amount of troops. Or you can ramp up the 'Number of Attacks' while keeping the damage low.

If one trooper has no chance of defeating something's armor (Or very little) then 1000 troopers with identical gear are still not going to have any better chance at it. But there would be a lot more /chances/.

@TNP That's because it is no big deal.

@Thenomain For my part, abuse is abuse. Are some abuses worse than others? Hell yes, but, that /does not mean we let any of it slide/.

She is justifiably pissed about what happened, and about the lack of support but that doesn't mean you support harassment and abuse of others.

At least not in my mind.

I think the world should have been created by the Prime God, who is dead and from his body rose the 7 new gods, but the world was made of his body and essence, and though it has taken great time, it too is finally following the Prime God into death and the new gods, lacking the power of the Prime are unable to halt it's death which frightens the Gods because if the World which was made from the Prime's body is also failing, then they too, could end.

Each God is going to undertake to make their own world for their followers and truest of believers, but they don't realize that they lack the power singly to create a whole world (Or maybe they do, but just don't want to admit it to themselves or anyone else for that matter), and the seven must work together, as one, and even then they will need the strength that all of the intelligent beings worship can grant them in order to even attempt it...

So how do you get 7 disparate entities to act as one, how do you get all the worshippers to truly /believe/ in this one thing, since they'd have to give power to another God but their own? What heroes will rise up to guide, or doom, the world?

Anyways, just ideas off the top of my head after reading the initial post. Use or not as you see fit.

@Arkandel Pfft. It's the most accurate topic for what I wanted to say.

@Retias I don't use the site, and would myself personally not use it. I probably overpay a little for my hosting (I pay 15$ a month) but I get a /lot/ out of it, there's nothing hidden, no hoops to jump through, everything works pretty easily (Except for TeamSpeak, having trouble getting TeamSpeak to run a server on it but I think that's my problem, not theirs, first time trying to do so and am probably setting something up wrong) and it's never gone down on me so far.

Since I am so happy though, I will gladly promote http://www.thirdhosting.com/ as whom I use, and recommend it to others.

Also, not upset, just discussing.

@SG said in RL Anger:

@Vorpal said in RL Anger:

Mr. Genius Stage Director has known from day one that, due to the configuration of the two theaters we’re singing in (there’s no pit, apparently), the orchestra has to be on stage. And stage left. And yet this goddamned m*@$&@#*er still staged the damned thing without taking that into consideration. The result is that 80% of the cast can’t, at one point or another, establish direct eye contact with the conductor.

So, as someone who doesn't know much about music, is this a big deal? Whenever I watch video, the musicians are all staring at their sheets while the conductor flails about, his movements not really matching anything that I can detect.

Imagine that you are in a play and you are waiting for your queues for your lines, you are listening to the stuff being said, and you know you need to do a certain thing at a certain time but then all of the sudden you're in a sensory deprivation tank unable to see or hear anything relevant to what you need to do, but you /still/ have to try and do your job which is to perform your role on time.

Essentially the singers /are a part/ of the orchestra when it comes to Opera, their voices /have/ to be timed and tuned the same way as any other instrument must be to harmonize properly. If one of the three key pieces is off time, it's bad, if all three of them cannot get their queues because they don't know exactly when (They aren't being conducted, that's the conductors job, to keep the orchestra in harmony and timed right otherwise you'd think the musicians would just read their music, but their sheets don't have all the timing information on them, it's just the notes they play and in what order but not, precisely, when to start or stop) they are supposed to do their thing...

It's the equivalent to the highschool play where everyone comes on and yells their lines out at the same time in one chaotic mess.

The difference is in what they mean. For example; .com is for commercial. .org is for an organization (Possibly non profit, not sure on that), .net is for a network, there are various ones that indicate country also.

I use .com because I am in the middle of creating my own game system for use on my game, and to also make as a book to sell (I have far to many projects going at once I tell you) but realistically... use whichever you want.

@bored I have to agree. If the scale of power is that different for those exchanges /and/ moving manpower is an issue, then it will hardly ever be worth having anything but the best, because a high powered strike force is going to overwhelm even when they are outnumbered by large amounts.

This will apply to ship battles, ground combat, and just about anything else.

Why even bother regular infantry if they are nothing more than a speedbump at best? It's a bad investment of time, money, and resources.

It's the same thing with the ships, Space Nobles will make alliances with empires and things will go haywire very fast.

ESPECIALLY if the 'Space Elves' aren't even as powerful as the PC's. There's absolutely no restraints then, they can act pretty much with impugnity because at the very worst the conventional navy will never be able to catch them when they choose to run. So they can run in, smash some ships, run away. Rinse and repeat until they win. The end.

I am quite liking this new version update, not having to click on 'go to last message read' every time is very nice.

Neat bit of Quality of Life issue there.

I used to play a Dark Sun persistent world in NWN that was pretty awesome. I was always kind of bummed that NWN 2 was set up in such a way to make persistent worlds much more difficult to do.

@Arkandel <insertsillynamehere> is now accepting Druids only! We are based off the Warrior series of books by <whateverthehecktheirnameis>!

My problem with RP servers is that there is usually a /wealth/ of theme that is awesome and cool and can be made into great lore abiding guilds, and then you get stuff like that.

I used to play on RP only servers because I had /hoped/ the environments would be more mature and less toxic. I was unfortunately wrong on an epic scale on that one. So now I play (when I do) on regular servers or I have to turn off every channel beyond tells and guild.

@Arkandel lol I always read ALL of the quest text. Always. But my girlfriend doesn't so it leads to some fun shenanigans sometimes.

@Misadventure You'd be surprised at tournaments how many people are just annoyed that they have to paint everything. There's a very large wargaming part of it that is into it beyond the models and painting aspect.

I've seen armies of Space Marines that were basically spray painted blue, given very slap dash white ultramarine symbology just to be counted as 'painted' so they could be introduced into tournament play.

That's not to say that I've found someone who hates a well painted miniature, but there's a lot of people who aren't willing or unable to put the time and effort into painting the miniatures the best they can, or feel that they haven't the ability so don't even try. They find the painted miniature qualifier to be very upsetting.

@deadculture Then why haven't they taken over everything already? There's nothing stopping them.

@Olsson I have a couple girlfriends who are into warhammer 40K, but they are more about painting the models and assembly than actually playing the battles. I used to be big time into Warhammer 40K and it was /rare/ I ran into another woman who played competitively.

@Packrat One has to wonder, how the space nobles haven't just taken over everything. /EVERYTHING/ if their ships are that much superior to a conventional governments.

For example: A group of 6 to 8 space noble players teams up and wipes out (easily) your 'yellow' factions space navy, then proceeds to take over the planets which now have no way to defend themselves. The players then begin reinforcing their space noble fleet with more traditional fleet ships and supplement their powerbase, expanding it into the next largest faction, so on and so forth.

It sounds like space nobles will very quickly overwhelm everyone with the power disparity you've presented since the lightest space noble ship, is more powerful than a Cruiser, and faster than anything else. That kind of mobile firepower is... insane, from a tactical standpoint.

Hit and Run pin point strike capability of that caliber could dismantle a conventional fleet with little trouble.

@Arkandel Or did you!

@Packrat Be careful you don't fix things to much in the Space Nobles advantage so that they don't become an insurmountable thing. When the only way to get ahead is to min max, people will min max and imho that puts a focus on roll play over role-play.