SWTOR: NO PUNS ABOUT DAILIES

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Mar 18, 2024

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I don’t normally partake of “dailies” in MMORPGs. For those who don’t know, “dailies” are a traditional component of MMORPGs that USUALLY aren’t included in the initial release of the game. Or at least, that’s the way it started; newer games frequently have this repeatable content included from the beginning. Dailies are most often repeatable quests using assets already in the game. A good example would be adding a repeatable quest that is nothing more than doing the basic parts of a story quest once per day. For instance, if you had to fight through a bunch of enemies to reach an NPC you needed to talk to in order to advance the story; the “daily” version would just be having to go kill 10 of those enemies again. The reward, instead of moving the story along (since you’ve already done that) will usually be some of the game’s primary currency, PLUS some “reputation” currency. The “reputation” will be assigned to a faction connected to that area of the game, or to some kind of bigger faction…it can be as general or highly specific as you want. The IMPORTANT part isn’t the additional XP and money that you may or may not receive. The REPUTATION currency can be saved up and then spent with a new vendor added that will sell items UNIQUE to that reputation faction. I never did dailies in World of Warcraft until I started collecting mounts, and I found that dozens of factions in WoW offered a special mount. For FREE, you just had to play the game a lot. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, I only recently started looking into the reputation awards available from different vendors and found not only MOUNTS/VEHICLES, but ARMOR DYES. So, I started doing dailies with Rix’larril’an.

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DM of the Rings Remastered LXIII: Overly Requited Love

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 17, 2024

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Sometimes the most sadistic thing the DM can do to is to let the players have their own way.

-Shamus, Tuesday Feb 13, 2007

 

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Sims 4 Overthinking: Reno Day

By Bay Posted Friday Mar 15, 2024

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Alright! It’s finally reno day for the downstairs. What used to be a just kitchen is becoming an entirely self-contained studio apartment. Having a playable separate home space wasn’t possible when this series first started a year and a half ago. But now, The Sims 4 For Rent pack has finally released and you can section off different parts of a build to be separate households. You just have to ignore the $40 price tag, and the fact that it’s deeply and broken and almost unplayable. The bugs include but are not limited to: Tanking frame rate on lots with rentals on them, landlord sims receiving little to no payments if someone moved out or in within a in-game weeks time (several playing hours) and every renting sim inexplicably baking several cakes a day, slowly filling your residence with cake.

But, you know, other than that, it’s great.

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Saying Goodbye/Lif Goes On

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Mar 11, 2024

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I knew late last Sunday I wasn’t going to get my weekly post done by midnight. I had the structure in place and most of the rough draft in hand, but the words weren’t flowing. I intended to get it banged in shape Monday morning rather than miss a week. But other things happened. I’ve been eating unhealthily and hadn’t been in a great place mentally, and ended up having trouble sleeping. I finally got up around 4:oo AM and went back to my office. At 4:30 my elderly dog woke up the entire house yelping. He sleeps every night in the second bedroom with one of my children and their spouse. He was let out of the room and spent the next forty minutes trotting through the house, yelping and otherwise vocalizing. He would stop only briefly for some petting, and slowly calmed down. He finally found a comfortable space to lay down and went back to sleep.

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DM of the Rings Remaster LXII: Everything But the Girl

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Mar 10, 2024

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“Plot” is what the DM does to amuse himself when the players aren’t talking.

-Shamus, Friday Feb 9 2009

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Sims 4 Overthinking: Housekeeping

By Bay Posted Friday Mar 8, 2024

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This post is a little less story and a little more cleanup. The area we’re editing was created via strong-arming, due to the fact the breezeway they have isn’t actually possible in the Sims 4 via ordinary means. To install it in the first place you have to convince the game that the breezeway and the house aren’t ‘actually’ connected, which takes knowing some tricks. Once done, it will then make your game more difficult by throwing a tantrum every time you remind it that area of the build is there. To make this new apartment space, we’re going to have to draw attention to the area, so it’s going to be upset.
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