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03 Tuesday Jul 2012

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MOO3, Secret World, Spending, World of Tanks, XVM

I see that the CEO of Funcom has resigned – the same day as the launch of the Secret World.    This cannot be a good thing.    As one reading the tea leaves instead of playing the beta (or the game, now) I’m a bit worried.

Who all remembers the Master of Orion series ?    Alan Emrich was put in charge of designing MOO3, and sometime before the game launched in 2003, he “left the company”.    This is clearly a euphemism for “We fired him.”    After looking at the game (Which, I stupidly bought at full price.    Dumb fanboy!) I could understand why.

In a turn based game, it’s all about being able to take a few actions, and save your progress.   Or take a lot of actions, and be able to save.   I want to be able to walk away from the computer, you know, before the game’s over, because these things can take weeks to play through.    But somehow, they neglected to include a workable save feature in the game – you could only save at one specific point, the beginning of a turn (or was it the end?).    All your other progress would be wasted.    That, plus a gigantic host of other bugs, and truly awful design like above, is how MOO is now remembered.

Am I going to hear the same thing about Secret World ?

I dug into XVM’s config files and found the spot that describes colors used, and the ranges that they mean.    But the color values are in something like hex – 0xDDD000.    When I look that up at clrcds.com, it describes a blue color, and that’s the color of the deep red win rate players.    So I’m not sure how that red is being generated, and now I’ve lost interest in investigating any farther.

Last night the mod failed twice at predicting the match outcome.    OK, good, it’s not infallible.     It predicted a 75% win chance for us, and we managed to lose the match due to one very smart arty player – he took me out first, and racked up a top gun.    It also predicted a 18% win chance for us, and we won the match.    I managed to move up to 164 games over .500.

Started another Minecraft game today.     This is not a strange thing in our household – my boy starts a new game.   Every.   Single.    Day.    It’s like the only part that appeals to him is the beginning.    Meanwhile, my game is set on peaceful mode because I’m tired of exploring deep dungeon caverns and getting myself killed in spots where I can’t retrieve my stuff.    I’m making a very large farm, after building myself inside of a mountain, and planting trees and wheat to get going with feeding myself, and harvesting wood.

In peaceful mode you don’t have to worry about food, but I choose to farm anyway as I expect I’ll switch back to normal at some point.

Tomorrow, on July 4th, Endless Space is going to be released on steam.    I’m not sure I’m going to be able to resist.    This is a modern 4x strategy game, single player, with really neat visuals and supposedly great gameplay.     I’ve not played one I enjoyed since…… well, ten years ago.     Stardock’s games just seem like copies of old stuff and Civilization and bored me.

This one caught my interest months ago, and so far all the buzz is positive about it.   I never did get Star Ruler either, which might be pretty good, especially in its patched state.

Gaming spending update :

  • Jan 2012 – $15 EQ2.
  • Feb 2012 – $15 EQ2.
  • Mar 2012 – Zero.
  • April 2012 – $50 WoT.    This makes a total of $150.
  • May 2012 – $0
  • June 2012 – $18 for Saints Row.    $15 for Carmageddon.

Not exactly spending like in my 20’s, but starting to pay for games again.

Satanic Update

24 Thursday May 2012

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Secret World, World of Tanks

Wait – how many matches in the MS-1 ?

Better play one more

Things I’ve done over the week –

  • Sold my KV-1.   That was a good value, got I believe 330k in credits.
  • Grinded XP.    Nothing earthshattering so no numbers this time.
  • Gradually sliding down in wins, with all the challenging tanks I’m trying to play.   Really hating on the M10 Wolverine which is one-shot most of the times I play it. My finger is on the button to research the next tank with free XP every night, but so far I’ve resisted and want to stick it out.
  • Reached 10m credits, and if I achieve another 500k planning to buy the VK4502A.
  • Added the T29 and the Lowe to primary tanks – because, you know, trying to play 7 different tanks to a win nightly wasn’t hard enough already.
  • Left the clan [Lin] because people aren’t on in my game time, and we never do clan wars anymore either.    Clearly I’m not ready anyway – I have no T10.

Almost there with a better gun, just need the turret now. This is a very enjoyable tank.

Also watching with interest the blogosphere talking through The Secret World.    When June 18th comes I’m going to have a decision to make, it seems.

Financial Info 2012 – Jan, Feb, and March

02 Monday Apr 2012

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EQ2, Secret World, Spending, Star Trek Online, World of Tanks

Because I think it will be interesting, I continue to track my personal gaming spending, or lack thereof.     I could have sworn I posted this once but I cannot find such a post.   You expect different from an accountant ?

In the old days, my unmarried irresponsible youth, I spent hundreds of dollars on computer games, as well as tons on hardware.    So far, 2012 has seen some remarkable austerity in game money spent.

  1. Jan 2012 – $15 EQ2.
  2. Feb 2012 – $15 EQ2.
  3. Mar 2012 – Zero.

I’ve got plenty to spend, but not a lot of motivation.

I will probably be buying gold again in World of Tanks sometime in April.    Premium account is the only thing motivating me, but it’s a strange beast; a full month premium also induces the “Must extract maximum value” impulse which then turns me into a machine, and starts sucking the fun out of the game.    The one-day premium, when I know I’ll have a day to game, minimizes this impulse.   The trick is the full month of premium is a good value – 30 days for 2,500 versus one day for 250.

There is no reason to pay for Star Trek Online since I only log in occasionally and run my duty officers.    The Secret World is due out in June, and I’m simply not motivated to check out SWTOR.

Financially, a great time to game, soooooo many free options.

TSW Date Set

22 Wednesday Feb 2012

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I’ve been watching the buzz about The Secret World and waiting for the announcement about when it’s going live.    That would apparently be June 19th.

A modern day RPG with three factions, taking place somehow underneath or side-by-side with the real world, sounds like something I want to take for a spin.    There are no levels in this game, only skills, which is certainly different than most MMO’s.    I think they came up with a nice concept statement – “What if every urban legend, supersition, etc were all true ?”

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