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So. You like streetfighter?

I don’t really get it.

Rare: Wireless Headset for sale

Shii Posted:

80 million is like peanuts.

It’s not going to affect anything; the Christmas raffle removed 702 million, if I recall.

It would be interesting to see Trout track the total amount of flezz in the economy, week by week. I wonder how many millions worth of flezz are created every week.

Post and i'll style a fine upstanding member of society after you

Ricket Posted:

Posting in a future Full of Won thread.

Who is the official forumwarz cat?

Isn’t “More Cats” > “One Cat”?

Itembuildr Images and Copyrights -- should I ignore this rule too?

Jalapeno Bootyhole Posted:

We met about this last night. We think we might have a workable solution. I don’t want to announce anything officially yet, because there’s a good chance ET won’t be able to get started on any of it until next week.

It might be a bit harsh, but dammit, it’s necessary:

– Voters will be able to see the image’s source(s), just like admins can now.

– Users can flag an image as copyright. They must fill in a short explanation of why they believe it’s in violation.

– We will provide better resources on the difference between public domain, Creative Commons, copyright, etc.

– Flags and their explanations will be publicly listed and the users held accountable.

– It is a bannable offense to flag an image improperly. In the case of mistakes, buildrs will be able to dispute.

– Copyrighted images will be unable to win.

– Current copyrighted itembuildr images may be replaced with either a placeholder or a runner-up image (the latter may take a while, as the manual process is time-consuming).

– Current itembuildr winners may have their Peen stripped if their image is found to be copyright.

This is absolutely the correct policy.

So percentiles

meeeeeeeeee Posted:

I think what CZ were trying to avoid with the percentile thing, was needing to constantly add more peens, as players reach each goal in turn.

I think you’re right, and also the fact that “I’m better at foo than almost everyone!” is more peenworthy than “I’ve done a lot of foo.” It’s more in keeping with the original idea that peens were for topping the leaderboard, with the acknowledgement of things like “nobody’s ever going to get on top of the “most forums pwned” leaderboard unless everybody ahead of them gets hit by a bus.

Ideally, peens should not only be desirable and meaningful, but reasonably acquirable.

Who here will admit to actually liking Forumwarz?

I totally agree with the bumertion that “more things like the Falcon****er quest” are something that the game desperately needs. When you’re done with the main plot, there just aren’t enough external influences to motivate you to do things. All of the endgame content is self-driven, things like “I want to acquire medals”, “I want more peen”, or “I want this item/lots of flezz.” It would be nice to have a bunch of things that are just “this NPC tells you to do something, you can get a reward for it.”.

How long does something like the Falcon****er quest take to create anyway? It seems like all you’d need is two STalk conversations, a task (ideally one that can’t be done in one or two days, a week or two is a good length), and some sort of unique reward. I can’t imagine that requiring a huge amount of development, but I could be wrong.

Petition to remove Special Items from itembuildr

I think that special items really ought to be, well, special, and shouldn’t pop up in itembuildr nearly as often as they do currently.

The odds of spawning a special item should be less than the odds of spawning glbumes, a piercing, lingerie, a tattoo, a fetish, a book, or a piece of hardware IMO. We’re getting way too many special items, and nobody is going to use any of them so long as dragon and master balls are relatively easy to come by.

IMO itembuildr “special items” should show up ~1-2 times a month, disappear from the co-op after a couple of weeks, and not appear in the ppwn rotation. That would make them significantly more special

every workplace safety video should be like this (possible NSFW and yes i know that's ironic puntastic **** you)

The funny thing is that when the guy gets the nail in his eye, he drops not into the “Jesus Christ, I have a nail in my eye, GETITOUTGETITOUTGETITOUT!” pose, but into the “Oh god the humanity!” existential angst pose.

The correct way to avoid all of these danger is, of course, unemployment.

MasterBall-gate

meeeeeeeeee Posted:

The only tools with which I have to compete with your advantage are the same ones I had already. And you’ve got those as well. So your advantage is unbeatable. So why bother to compete?

Well… some investments are going to work out and some aren’t. Suppose the next big “invest in me item” comes out and Acid Flux, flush with success over the master balls, buys in really heavy. Then, a week later another big “stock up on me, I’m going to be worth millions” flezz item shows up, and most of Flux’s flezz is tied up in investments, so he can’t buy nearly as many, but somebody who didn’t buy so heavy into that first item can get an edge on Flux by buying more of the second item. Particularly, if the second item is strictly preferable to the first (dragon balls took a hit as an investment after the master ball showed up, after all), Flux and anybody who bought in heavily to item A could take a bath.

Honestly, the way to both make the economy work and to make the flezz peen actually acquirable by people is to fill the market with a lot of things that people want to have, but are limited in quantity in some sense. A smart investor might do reliably well with a diversified portfolio, but a ballsy investor might do even better by investing in one thing to the exclusion of anything else. Sometimes smarts will beat balls, sometimes balls will beat smarts. But if there’s some way to get rich that’s not “grind”, the game vastly improves for it.