Critical Miss: Mass Effect 3
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I just hope they stick to their gums about improving the game.Sparrow said:Yeah, I guess you could say EA's part in the game is... fruitless.The_root_of_all_evil said:At least they lichen to their player base. Although with EA involve we may just have to weed 'em and reap.Sparrow said:Of course! I'm really root-ing for BioWare.The_root_of_all_evil said:So you're hedging your bets?Sparrow said:Yeah, atleast they're branching out.The_root_of_all_evil said:At least they twigged it though, that must have been a tree-t.LadyRhian said:Ugh. Beyond be-leaf.Sparrow said:So I guess you could say...
...they should take a leaf out of your book.
[sup]I'm a terrible person for making that pun.[/sup]
klasbo said:The new mechanic might be fruitful, but maybe they should consider going back to roots. Either way they'll have to reap what they sow, but you can be sure they'll always be gard'n their decision on what de-mow-tivational mechanic they choose to implement.Sparrow said:Yeah, atleast they're branching out.The_root_of_all_evil said:At least they twigged it though, that must have been a tree-t.LadyRhian said:Ugh. Beyond be-leaf.Sparrow said:So I guess you could say...
...they should take a leaf out of your book.
I think we should start to grow up now...
EDIT: you people are so much faster than me. You shoot these so rapidly...
WARNING! WARNING! PUN OVERLOAD!
I too am curious as to how Mass Effect will handle the upgrades in Shepard's never ending quest to fernicate with the galaxy
WILL YOU STOP IT?!HankMan said:
OT, very funny and true comic. Like Yahtzee said, "If I wanted deep space mining, I'd go play EVE Online."
Also, cute hamster (gerbil?) staring as well is cute.
It was a given that the scan for minerals minigame was a bad idea, otherwise they wouldn't have dedicated an update to fixing it. I personally thought they were headed more in the right direction in ME with the Mako, gave you more of a sense of exploration in the game, if it only hadn't been for those clunky controls. I did like the idea of having to gather resources to strengthen your ship, they just need to go about gathering them some other way. A list of optional jobs to take on for that expressed purpose for instance, multiple ways to obtain the elements you need. For example a diplomatic mission to expand Cerberus's net of investors, or hijacking pirate/civilian ships, or just touching down and exploring. I'd only ask they make us do something that made us felt we earned what we claimed, not something that made us feel like we were back at work.
Yeah I know. And now that it's been, what, Five years (in-game), the Alliance might have had the sense to put those Booster Jet things IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK?Raiyan 1.0 said:
Maybe? Asking for too much?
You guys with your terrible puns.TheAmazingHobo said:God, I can´t believe I actually laughed at this.Sparrow said:Yeah, I guess you could say EA's part in the game is... fruitless.The_root_of_all_evil said:At least they lichen to their player base. Although with EA involve we may just have to weed 'em and reap.Sparrow said:Of course! I'm really root-ing for BioWare.The_root_of_all_evil said:So you're hedging your bets?Sparrow said:Yeah, atleast they're branching out.The_root_of_all_evil said:At least they twigged it though, that must have been a tree-t.LadyRhian said:Ugh. Beyond be-leaf.Sparrow said:So I guess you could say...
...they should take a leaf out of your book.
[sup]I'm a terrible person for making that pun.[/sup]
I feel like such a sap.
I wonder what the deal is with her "fish face" near the end. It's very out of place.
As far as ME 3 goes I can only wonder what transpired over at EA to have them do this.
Pretty much this, those final upgrades are damn expensive on Cerberus pay! Skinflints.Raithnor said:
*raises hand*
Uhm...excuse me, but doesn't the act of observation of a "quantum system" usually involve a transfer of energy into the system, a laser pulse for example? In that case, the result would be simple perturbation, in which the excess energy is transferred to the various excited states of the system, whose linear combination would be equal to the previous energy plus the additional perturbative energy. As such, the growth of your plant would be dependent entirely on incident light in addition to whatever energy was present initially, assuming the system lacks the ability to radiate the excess energy out. Since visible light has on average 3.6E-17 J/photon, it would require 2.5E33 photons to attain 1kg of matter (assuming perfect energy-matter conversion as per E=mc2 and more importantly the ability to store the energy in defiance of that pesky second law of thermo). Since the frequency (that's photons/second) is approximately 5E16 hz, this would require 4.6E16 seconds, or approximately 1.5 billion years. That's incidentally assuming we use a laser to avoid wasting any photons due to the usual dispersion effect. We could, of course, accumulate multiple such lasers. If we were to, for example, align a million lasers so that they would all hit the plant, it would still take over 1500 years. And keep in mind, this is only for a single kg of matter, and I honestly do not know what form that would take on. I'd guess you could make subatomic particles via nucleosynthesis, but that would also take tremendous amounts of temperature, and even then you'd only have the simplest elements. You would then need an atom smasher to convert a tiny fraction of those into the higher order elements needed for your research projects. That would, of course, require additional energy for operation and storage. So...we're talking timespans on the order of the age of the universe, and a power source equivalent to your average supermassive black hole to make enough raw material for the completion of whatever it is you're trying to research.
But hey...this is still more believable and much less annoying than the planet mining bullocks. Not to mention this would be no less impossible than piloting your little ship through the center of a blue giant for some idiotic reasons (like the guy commanding the ship being drunk). Or for that matter a single probe launched vertically through the atmosphere of a gas giant surviving despite a) immense heat caused by friction, and b) the crushing gravity, and indeed mining what I can only presume to be methane or metallic hydrogen. See, this is why I can no longer enjoy a good sci-fi game...
(Yes, the comic was brilliant. Thank you for making my day a little more bearable!)
Uhm...excuse me, but doesn't the act of observation of a "quantum system" usually involve a transfer of energy into the system, a laser pulse for example? In that case, the result would be simple perturbation, in which the excess energy is transferred to the various excited states of the system, whose linear combination would be equal to the previous energy plus the additional perturbative energy. As such, the growth of your plant would be dependent entirely on incident light in addition to whatever energy was present initially, assuming the system lacks the ability to radiate the excess energy out. Since visible light has on average 3.6E-17 J/photon, it would require 2.5E33 photons to attain 1kg of matter (assuming perfect energy-matter conversion as per E=mc2 and more importantly the ability to store the energy in defiance of that pesky second law of thermo). Since the frequency (that's photons/second) is approximately 5E16 hz, this would require 4.6E16 seconds, or approximately 1.5 billion years. That's incidentally assuming we use a laser to avoid wasting any photons due to the usual dispersion effect. We could, of course, accumulate multiple such lasers. If we were to, for example, align a million lasers so that they would all hit the plant, it would still take over 1500 years. And keep in mind, this is only for a single kg of matter, and I honestly do not know what form that would take on. I'd guess you could make subatomic particles via nucleosynthesis, but that would also take tremendous amounts of temperature, and even then you'd only have the simplest elements. You would then need an atom smasher to convert a tiny fraction of those into the higher order elements needed for your research projects. That would, of course, require additional energy for operation and storage. So...we're talking timespans on the order of the age of the universe, and a power source equivalent to your average supermassive black hole to make enough raw material for the completion of whatever it is you're trying to research.
But hey...this is still more believable and much less annoying than the planet mining bullocks. Not to mention this would be no less impossible than piloting your little ship through the center of a blue giant for some idiotic reasons (like the guy commanding the ship being drunk). Or for that matter a single probe launched vertically through the atmosphere of a gas giant surviving despite a) immense heat caused by friction, and b) the crushing gravity, and indeed mining what I can only presume to be methane or metallic hydrogen. See, this is why I can no longer enjoy a good sci-fi game...
(Yes, the comic was brilliant. Thank you for making my day a little more bearable!)
Yes I can. Mako planets took about 20 mins each to complete and most of that was spent wishing I was playing Mass Effect. Probe planets? 3-5 mins per planet and I only ever bothered if it was classed as rich, I could make my way through an entire cluster in the time it took to just clear one mako mission.Venereus said:
Yeah, I actually liked the planet mining, the even more surprising part about this is my girlfriend somehow enjoyed watching me do it...
Hey, I don't know how it happened either...
Hey, I don't know how it happened either...