Recent content by Durendal5150

I can definitely see that. On the other hand, the core set is inevitably going to come with different unit cards and upgrades than the blisters, so the completionists among us are doomed to buy both eventually anyway.

It has more to do with the nature of the value. Without an exchange commodity somethings value can only really be determined by its value to you. In the example, if someone wants to buy your land for turnips, but you don't want the turnips, then they have no effective value, even if they would...

The cost of the three ships separately at the usual price would be $55. And a set of dice separately goes for I think $8. Most people I know will buy extra core sets instead of two individual TIEs because it works out to be better value. (unless they need the cards from the TIE blister, anyway.)...

Oh it's definitely not perfect, and people certainly aren't. I'm not naive or outright foolish enough to think you could just abolish the government tomorrow and everything would suddenly be better. I don't however, feel like such a society is impossible with the right planning and groundwork...

I think this shows a little potential misunderstanding of what exactly Anarchy is, at least in the philosophical/academic/non-hyperbolic sense. I see it used a lot to just mean "A state of chaos," and while a state of chaos is, by definition, in Anarchy, Anarchy is not automatically chaotic...

I get where you're coming from about not having to do something just because your asked but, if someone politely asks you to do something to make them feel a little better, what is the point in not doing it? Unless it's like, stomping kittens for their amusement? I have my own issues with...

Attempting to get a game of The Riddle of Steel started as GM. Full Thrust: Federal Stats Europa Tomorrow's War: Whatever sounds like fun on a given day. BFG: Eldar ACTA (B5): Minbari or ISA D&D (3.5): Elf Artificer Also idly work on some homebrew rulesets here and there. It's been a...

Ultima Online: 17 years ahead of its time. That kinda invokes poe's law; are we really at the point of assuming devs are choosing to make multiplayer games solely for DRM reasons?

This seems to crop up a lot. in response to rico, it's always online because, as chaos says, it's an MMO. That said, mostly to chaos, it is an MMO with the ability to turn other players off, essentially. So the "Always online singleplayer" thing is more simply you flagging the server to never...

But that's the thing, it's not "An always online singleplayer game." It's an MMO with the option to turn encounters with other players off. The plan to maybe tack-on a full singleplayer element doesn't change that it was always supposed to be an MMO. That I suppose is why the "DRM!" camp...

See, that's actually what I'm talking about. Malicious intent is simply assumed. I agree that they should offer refunds to those interested, but I can see their argument as to not offering them to people who have already played the game. You can't do it at a retail store, why should you be...

Didn't see a thread on this, so here we go. Frontier Developments. (Developers of the upcoming Elite: Dangerous.) Recently announced that they aren't going to be including an offline mode. Singleplayer yes, offline no. They just don't feel they can make it work the way they wanted to, so it's...