Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
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@Grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller @dashrender Three hours? Filthy casuals. Try Civilization where it can take days to play through a whole game, and weeks in multiplayer. The devs even made changes to force a faster playstyle so with changes like that enabled, the timing can be brought down to 2-5 hours, though it is cheating in my mind.
Also, ARK is persistant so my ARK 'game' has been going on now for more than a year.Civilization is WAY too casual for any of us. Turn based just doesn't cut it. If you wait for people we'd fall asleep. RTS means that the length of the game is how long it takes to play. With turn based you have to figure out how long people are just sitting around doing nothing and divide the time by the number of players. I've tried Civ before... just so slow.
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@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller @dashrender Three hours? Filthy casuals. Try Civilization where it can take days to play through a whole game, and weeks in multiplayer. The devs even made changes to force a faster playstyle so with changes like that enabled, the timing can be brought down to 2-5 hours, though it is cheating in my mind.
Also, ARK is persistant so my ARK 'game' has been going on now for more than a year.Civilization is WAY too casual for any of us. Turn based just doesn't cut it. If you wait for people we'd fall asleep. RTS means that the length of the game is how long it takes to play. With turn based you have to figure out how long people are just sitting around doing nothing and divide the time by the number of players. I've tried Civ before... just so slow.
Try Offworld Trading Company. It's like 30 minutes a game max, but it's very complex and interesting! Made by one of the guys who did Civ IV. Real time.
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@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller @dashrender Three hours? Filthy casuals. Try Civilization where it can take days to play through a whole game, and weeks in multiplayer. The devs even made changes to force a faster playstyle so with changes like that enabled, the timing can be brought down to 2-5 hours, though it is cheating in my mind.
Also, ARK is persistant so my ARK 'game' has been going on now for more than a year.Civilization is WAY too casual for any of us. Turn based just doesn't cut it. If you wait for people we'd fall asleep. RTS means that the length of the game is how long it takes to play. With turn based you have to figure out how long people are just sitting around doing nothing and divide the time by the number of players. I've tried Civ before... just so slow.
Try Offworld Trading Company. It's like 30 minutes a game max, but it's very complex and interesting! Made by one of the guys who did Civ IV. Real time.
It's inspired by the old MULE game. Economic warfare on a foreign planet. Just a lot more complex than the old MULE version (which you can still play here, btw: http://www.planetmule.com/ )
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@Nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller @dashrender Three hours? Filthy casuals. Try Civilization where it can take days to play through a whole game, and weeks in multiplayer. The devs even made changes to force a faster playstyle so with changes like that enabled, the timing can be brought down to 2-5 hours, though it is cheating in my mind.
Also, ARK is persistant so my ARK 'game' has been going on now for more than a year.Civilization is WAY too casual for any of us. Turn based just doesn't cut it. If you wait for people we'd fall asleep. RTS means that the length of the game is how long it takes to play. With turn based you have to figure out how long people are just sitting around doing nothing and divide the time by the number of players. I've tried Civ before... just so slow.
Try Offworld Trading Company. It's like 30 minutes a game max, but it's very complex and interesting! Made by one of the guys who did Civ IV. Real time.
It's inspired by the old MULE game. Economic warfare on a foreign planet. Just a lot more complex than the old MULE version (which you can still play here, btw: http://www.planetmule.com/ )
OTC is one of my favorite games right now. It's fantastic.
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One of the creators was on the Gamers with Jobs podcast a while back: https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1294601
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@Grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@scottalanmiller @dashrender Three hours? Filthy casuals. Try Civilization where it can take days to play through a whole game, and weeks in multiplayer. The devs even made changes to force a faster playstyle so with changes like that enabled, the timing can be brought down to 2-5 hours, though it is cheating in my mind.
Also, ARK is persistant so my ARK 'game' has been going on now for more than a year.In a single player game this doesn't matter - just look at console games, play for an hour now, then again later, etc. Multiplayer games that take hours or days of game play - damn talk about dedication of a group to make that happen.
though, you only have to look at the lights of Evercrack - I mean Everquest to know that there are those who will give up almost everything to play group games for near endless hours. I know several people who lost jobs over the game, and others who became part of the unclean masses
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Back when I first started playing WoW, a buddy of mine had asked me if I was going to become a
basementgamer-cave dweller... Fortunately, I only ever make it there for short visits. -
@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Back when I first started playing WoW, a buddy of mine had asked me if I was going to become a
basementgamer-cave dweller... Fortunately, I only ever make it there for short visits.I was definitely that way when I played Command and Conquer and all the followup games. 1994 - 2002ish. after that I kinda fell away from them.
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@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Back when I first started playing WoW, a buddy of mine had asked me if I was going to become a
basementgamer-cave dweller... Unfortunately, I only ever make it there for short visits.FTFY
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Not sure how I feel about this.
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@DustinB3403 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Back when I first started playing WoW, a buddy of mine had asked me if I was going to become a
basementgamer-cave dweller... Unfortunately, I only ever make it there for short visits.FTFY
I have another chance though... Just started playing Final Fantasy 14 online.
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Not sure how I feel about this.
Does it really matter? We can't buy anything from Lenovo, even if they invented the cure to cancer, would you trust them enough to buy it?
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I recently rediscovered the MUD that made me swear off MMORPG gaming for life. It sucked me in to the point where I was going to work, playing and sleeping and that was it:
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@Nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I recently rediscovered the MUD that made me swear off MMORPG gaming for life. It sucked me in to the point where I was going to work, playing and sleeping and that was it:
http://mud.arctic.org/Thankfully I just missed the MUD era... I think I would have been in the same boat as you though.
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I recently rediscovered the MUD that made me swear off MMORPG gaming for life. It sucked me in to the point where I was going to work, playing and sleeping and that was it:
http://mud.arctic.org/Thankfully I just missed the MUD era... I think I would have been in the same boat as you though.
At least the experience taught me to avoid them for the rest of my life. Same reason I'm avoiding Minecraft as well. Ain't nobody got time fo dat.
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@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Not sure how I feel about this.
Does it really matter? We can't buy anything from Lenovo, even if they invented the cure to cancer, would you trust them enough to buy it?
You're right... but providing this isn't vapor/malware this could be a serious contender. The big problem will be software.
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Nic said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
I recently rediscovered the MUD that made me swear off MMORPG gaming for life. It sucked me in to the point where I was going to work, playing and sleeping and that was it:
http://mud.arctic.org/Thankfully I just missed the MUD era... I think I would have been in the same boat as you though.
MUDs were awesome. I was a pioneer of DoS attacks in the MUD days. MUDs are what got me into a lot of gaming. I played a ton for many years and my first UNIX cluster at home was for playing a MUD in the house.
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@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Not sure how I feel about this.
Does it really matter? We can't buy anything from Lenovo, even if they invented the cure to cancer, would you trust them enough to buy it?
Nope, cure cancer but steal your soul.
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@Dashrender I played EverQuest for 10 years.
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@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@Dashrender said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:
Not sure how I feel about this.
Does it really matter? We can't buy anything from Lenovo, even if they invented the cure to cancer, would you trust them enough to buy it?
You're right... but providing this isn't vapor/malware this could be a serious contender. The big problem will be software.
Serious contender for what? Beyond Lenovo being scary and untrustable... they've never made anything actually good anyway. No way they are going to start now.
