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    Does kerbal accurately depict deep space flight?

    Relative to another object in a similar orbit, you do have some control, albeit not quite the same level as you see in a sci-fi movie. Stunts/maneuvers performed in atmosphere by planes can exceed 8 G's [1]. In order to pull a similar maneuver in deep space, you would need rockets with a TWR...
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    Any good mmo's still out there?

    Your use of "played" seems to suggest that you are no longer playing it. Was it because you got bored after a few months, or some other reason? I only ask because I really enjoyed GW2 for a few months, but after that period I got bored and stopped playing. The group mechanics for me is what...
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    Elders scrolls online, don't like the idea.

    For those of you wondering whether you are allowed to say whether you were invited to the beta or not, here is an official reply from a Zenimax employee on the ESO subreddit: TL;DR: It is against the NDA to say you are in the beta, but they are understanding and won't ban you from the beta for...
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    Anyone else thought Dark Souls was garbage?

    I'm on the fence. I recently purchased the game and I'm having a bit of a love-hate relationship with it. I enjoy the challenge and trying to figure out fights, but I'm not liking the "wasted" time going from checkpoint to the difficult part each time. For example, it was taking me about 5-10...
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    WoW revenue down 54% in seven months

    People buy phones every 2 years for two reasons: You are already paying for the cost of a new phone every 2 years in your monthly wireless bill, so you might as well get the upgrade for little or no cost (at least using the US model). The mobile space has seen extremely fast improvement...
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    X Rebirth

    This. I picked up the X-series pack a couple years ago when it was on sale, and only was able to spend a few hours in it. I figured if I was going to spend hundreds of hours flying and building ships and exploiting an economy, I might as well do it in EVE with/against real people. I can...
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    Everquest Next announcement coming 2 August in Vegas

    For those of you talking about a lack of Holy Trinity, I was also initially disappointed. Having played GW2, I saw the same thing -- people weren't really playing together, just happened to be attacking the same thing. However, I did some further reading, and found the following: If that's...
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    Everquest Next announcement coming 2 August in Vegas

    Your definition of pay2win and mine are different, then. I view "pay2win" as a pay shop where the best items are only available through a pay shop. In other words, if you want to be the best, you have to pay. What you describe is "pay to save time" -- in PS2, you can't get anything that...
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    Everquest Next announcement coming 2 August in Vegas

    All EQNext needs to have to be successful is /pizza!
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    Everquest Next announcement coming 2 August in Vegas

    SOE has repeatedly indicated that all their games are developed under a F2P model, although they all have optional subscriptions that generally unlocks the entire game (save for expansions). Hate on SOE as much as you want, but their F2P model is halfway decent -- you can experience a decent...
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    Firefall open beta starts today - does anyone care?

    A group of us tried it out a few months ago. While initially fun, there was absolutely no variety in the game. It was drop a thumper, kill some stuff, repeat. I don't know if they've done anything further since then, but we grew quickly bored of it in a few weeks.
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    Who provides the bandwidth for Steam?

    2 Mb/s upload for $60 a month comes out to about 9.5 cents per gigabyte. Assuming that the average game is 10 GB, that's 95 cents per game using expensive residential cable prices for bandwidth. Amazon charges 12 cents / GB for the first 10 TB, but it quickly scales to 5 cents / GB as you...
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    Can someone explain MUDs (multi-user dungeons) to me?

    Yes, it is. I started playing it back on GEnie when an online plan was for 20 hours a month. Really started playing it when AOL went unlimited, and pick it up for a month or two every couple years, mostly for the nostalgia. There is still an active player base and the main areas frequently...
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    Defiance

    No. I haven't played any of the PVP yet, but I think the biggest PVP battles are 64v64 and I have no idea of the map size. It is more like a multiplayer Borderlands. The primary experience is a theme park PVE experience.
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    Crimes can only be committed at commercial properties. If you only have residential, you don't have any place for a crime to be committed, hence no criminals.
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    Drop an airport or a cruise ship terminal, the high wealth tourists flow in from there.
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    The "tallest" buildings are high density *and* high wealth. High density but medium or low wealth buildings are still high density, but aren't visibly as tall. That said, density goes down as you go up in wealth. For example, a high density low wealth residential building holds 600 sims...
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    The Elder Scrolls Online

    Slightly off-topic but I'm not sure I understand this sentiment. You would potentially be ok with paying a monthly subscription, but if the game was F2P but really required purchases equivalent to a subscription fee to fully enjoy the game (a.k.a. "pay to win"), you wouldn't touch the game...
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    Defiance

    Surprised no one has talked about this given that they just had their final beta weekend this past weekend. Got into the beta, played and had fun, although I wonder about how long it can keep my interest. Gaming friends have also been playing FireFall recently and indicated that may be more...
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    Does Download speed or Upload Speed affect gaming?

    20 second pings!? Is your server on the east coast of the moon? ;)
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    Neverwinter beta keys

    Nevermind, should have scrolled up...
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    Best 4x Space Game?

    Agreed. You enjoy the first few battles because of the graphics and the tension, but after that, the battles are very predictable (and usually going to go one way regardless of the "cards" you play). You'll quickly end up skipping the battles and just playing the cards, even though you lose...
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    Sim City 5

    Has anyone encountered the bug with trade ports (not depots) where the ports eat your local deliveries? I plopped two ports down on my city that I was starting with processors and was going to turn into a huge TV processing plant. As I'm trying to build up my cash, I switched from depots to...
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    Sim City 5

    Sure, you can play offline indefinitely, but you can't start the game without being online, you can't exit the game if you want to save your city without going back online, and none of the region interaction stuff will work very well (it basically caches the last state when you left and uses...
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    Modder proves SimCity can run offline indefinitely

    If you don't care about regional interactions and want to play a single city, as the servers actually do handle all the stuff outside of your immediate active city. All this does is remove the 20 minute timer that closes your game if you get disconnected. You still have to be online when you...
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    Sim City 5

    Not only that, but the beta didn't allow you to plop high-density roads so you could never get maximum density buildings which is when the sewage hits the outflow pipe, so to speak.
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    Sim City 5

    I think it is a pretty safe guess that the capacity of their cloud servers per peak concurrent user is less than the power of the computer you are using to play the game.
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    Cheetah speed currently runs the simulation at the same speed as llama even though the UI makes it look like you have cheetah speed activated.
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    Sim City 5

    I saw that, and I think it was a misconception from what EA/Maxis was saying that was then perpetrated across the internet. Everything I saw from EA/Maxis made it clear (at least to me) that it was the regional interactions that were being computed by the server, and everything within your city...
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    Sim City 5

    I'm not expecting it to be a perfect simulation. However, they touted GlassBox as some mythical engine that would enable them to simulate a large city with tens of thousands of agents. Instead, the shortcuts that they made in the engine result in traffic and other problems in cities that...
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    Sim City 5

    Again, the problem with SimCity that will still be present after all the bugs are fixed and servers are stabilized, is that the GlassBox engine is a terrible simulation engine for a city. Here's a picture of my test setup. Picture shows the layout of my test city. I have all work areas in one...
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    Trade port 2 is not needed, if you import the materials in port 1, it just means that the trade trucks/trains/boats will pick up the materials from the global market and deliver them to the port, and then local trucks can grab them from the port for use in the processor factory. I believe...
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    The issue is the same as all the other issues and has little to do with pathing. When the recycling truck is dispatched, it finds the closest building that has recycling to pick up. It then drives to that place, and picks up the recycling (unless of course another truck has already beaten it...
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    Sim City 5

    Alright, I've played a good deal now with limited issues, and I'm coming to believe that after you look past the launch issues, server issues, and bugs that are still in the game (and there are a lot), the underlying glassbox simulation is fundamentally flawed. Disclaimer: Most of this is based...
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    The issue with traffic is not with pathfinding. The issue is a design flaw with the current implementation of the glassbox engine. The game is, quite simply, a bunch of supply and demand ("sinks"). At its most basic level, a certain "commodity" (e.g. water, power, worker, etc.) is produced...
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    New Richard Garriot Ultima Game on Kickstarter!

    Considering that they are not anticipating an alpha for the kickstarters until December 2013, I think it's safe to say that this are very preliminary graphics mainly to test out the mechanics of the game and its gameplay rather than the graphics engine itself. Usually the two are worked on in...
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    PC Games and Best Buy

    Kids in 5 years are going to look at you funny when you say "go to a store". I'm much more likely to pick up a game on Steam in the comfort of my own phone where I can also look at reviews, demos, videos, etc., than I am at a store just by looking at a box. Even consoles are shifting toward...
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    PC Games and Best Buy

    I don't believe that BestBuy sells digital downloads, and as far as I can tell, Tomb Raider for the PC is not available in a physical box -- only as a download (for example, Amazon only lists the digital download). Boxed PC games are quickly becoming a thing of a past. I got SimCity in a box...
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    One not-so-obvious thing: you can go into "edit" mode on a park and build additional parks of the same type attached to that park, which can let you build parks into some unused space off of a road. If your blocks are just big enough to fit one high-density building, you may want to rethink...
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    SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

    Density is determined by happiness and is independent of wealth. You can have a low income high density plot, or a high income low density plot. Aside from happiness, you also need to make sure the plot is on a road that isn't limiting its density (i.e. attached to a high density road/avenue...