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I think actually never
you will see lots of small content releases
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5 minutes ago, Oubliette_Red said:
Love Glenn Miller, throwing another Glen into the mix...
Glen Campbell - Southern Nights -
5 minutes ago, golstat2003 said:
I see no issue with anyone charging inf if there are people willing to pay.
Has zero effect on me.
I offer free farms when I can though.
I honestly don't care either way, I just find it crazy anyone would pay to get P/L when it's so easy to get P/L without paying
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10 minutes ago, siolfir said:
To be fair, Lone Star was more of a Rogue than a Hero. He took the job for the money, he stayed for the girl.
I would put him more vigilante in City terms, like Han Solo he was a rogue with a heart of gold trope, which is nothing like a city rogue 😄
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4 minutes ago, siolfir said:
You didn't have to.
Bringing out the big guns now, Glenn Miller from behind!
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3 minutes ago, Redlynne said:
The Orville is a Love Letter to Star Trek fans.
Discovery is a Ransom Demand to Star Trek fans.
that is a perfect description of how I felt about it!
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1 minute ago, siolfir said:
I may never forgive you for making me go Phil Collins!!
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you can get it at level 1, you can use it at level 14
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2 hours ago, Apparition said:
In Atlas Park, or elsewhere in the server? 'Cause there's going to be lag in Atlas Park no matter which server you're on. One of the reasons why I avoid that zone like the plague.
AP is always going to suffer, maybe they should lower the threshold to spawn AP2 but since it's only really going to affect street sweeping it's probably not worth the effort of tweaking
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5 hours ago, The_Warpact said:
Someone is looking way too much into a comedic qoute.
I think it's much more someone else is completely missing WHY it's a comedic quote...
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On 1/12/2020 at 3:05 AM, Saiyajinzoningen said:
right now one of the biggest issues is a lack of end game content, so if all content can BE end game content problem solved?
from every MMO I have ever played, there is NEVER enough end game content, and never can be, I think one of the main issues causing the death of the MMOs is the concentration on end game
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3 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:
INXS - Need You Tonight -
6 hours ago, srmalloy said:
Not in the sense of having zombies pile up around Babbage and drag him down (since the zombies, and the Rikti in their invasions don't seem to bother the zone NPCs), but in that the zombie invasion interrupts and usurps the arrival of Babbage, yes. Although that would be fun to watch.
It's actually been one of my gripes that the invasions don't gank the NPC's it would add a certain sense of drama to the invasions, which I feel is missing, honestly most often I find them annoying unless I'm after invasion goodies and either duck into a mission or leave the zone because the sense of zone event you got when they first happened is not there anymore
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14 minutes ago, Apparition said:
You will have to pay to watch the third season of The Orville. It will be exclusive to Hulu.
not here, no hulu 😄 it's on one of the Government free to air channels
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1 hour ago, Gulbasaur said:
Think of it the other way round: brutes and scrappers can only do the same thing with massive hit point pools and damage boost mechanics. Controllers aren't the weakest, they just get their safety from making enemies less effective rather than making themselves more effective.
The game was designed so that you could play it in different ways. Buffs and control have much higher status than they do in the average MMO. Just because tank-and-spank is what the average group PUG does, doesn't mean it's the strongest or best way, it's just the least effort.
Some time, try playing with a team of all "support" sets - they can get to really absurd levels of power with overlapping and interlocking buffs and debuffs. One of the best ITF runs I ever did had my fortunata tanking - the rest were controllers, defenders, masterminds or blasters. It was quick. It was safe. It was fun.
All 'Troller teams are really express steamrollers!
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Just now, Haijinx said:
Hmmm. Yeah I thought that was a bit too silly. When its trying to be more serious its okay.
Of course you don't have to pay to watch it.
By Flavor of Trek you mean the whole Explore and Seek out Peace, etc. I imagine.
yeah, I think losing Bortas and all the silly "Aren't these aliens weird" bits would be a godsend for Orville, but yeah it has the whole Explore, try your best to not be "THAT" star spanning empire thing is the feel of Trek to me, something actual banner Star Trek shows have been doing increasingly since DS-9, though it worked in DS-9 because of the whole total war thing, you just need to look at some of the truly horrible things the allied powers did in WW2 to see that kind of thing is a real thing, but generally once the war is done, try and forget it...
My least favourite episodes of Voyager for example were the ones where they met other Starfleet ships in the Delta Quadrant, who had gone feral every time, if it was that easy for starfleet crews to fall, why didn't Voyagers crew?
ok, thats just a pet peeve, but it's one example of my issues with SOME of the writing of Voyager
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4 minutes ago, Haijinx said:
I think Voyager is mostly liked. It also ran concurrently with DS9 for a couple seasons, I think?
And yeah - I think many people compare Enterprise and Discovery with the later seasons of TNG. Which is unfair. Its not like the team stayed together. TNG grew into an awesome show.
Of course I think the first season of The Expanse and Firefly were better than any those.
I think 2 seasons of overlap
I suspect Discoveries biggest stumbling block is The Orville, even as a comedy show it feels much truer to the flavour of Trek, there is obviously a lot of love for Star Trek there, which as has been explained now seems missing from Discovery
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1 minute ago, Haijinx said:
We had all grown up on TOS reruns, which ran every weekday on 1 of our 5 channels. Then the 3 Star Wars movies. Plus was the mini boom - boomer's kids all the right age for TNG to come out.
Everyone was ready for a new Trek. And I think there was still just 5 channels for most people when it did.
So it had time and patience to outgrow the early season stuff, I think. I watched the first season again recently and I don't see how people think that season is any better than the other editions like Enterprise or Discovery.
TOS by contrast is different. The 2nd Pilot is actually more in line with Science Fiction novels/movies at the time than the later episodes. Especially before the whole Monster of the Week part started. The opening scenes are some of my favorites.
The first two seasons of TNG are probably worse than Voyager and Enterprise, in my opinion anyway, season 3-5 was when TNG was at it's best, I think Voyager and Enterprise suffered from Trek fatigue more than anything which is why they weren't given the opportunity to get past their early, shaky seasons
Don't forget with TOS, you had actual heavyweight SciFi Authors like Harlan Ellison, David Gerrold, Theodore Sturgeon, Dorothy Fontana, and Norman Spinrad, that helps 😄
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18 minutes ago, Haijinx said:
Its kind of sad really. People say Science Fiction shows are bad. But its like the Show Makers go out of their way to handicap them.
If you are going to use an existing Franchise, Hire a few (open minded) people who know it well to help you.
I think thats why Next Gen worked, despite the dodgy producer merry go round 😄
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1 minute ago, Apparition said:
From what I've read and understand, the executive producers during the first season and the first half of the second season had no experience with science-fiction before. None. Until they were hired for Discovery, they've never even watched Star Trek before. Also from what I understand, it's the same case with the show's writers. The vast majority of them are generic television writers with no or very little experience with science-fiction.
it showed
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1 minute ago, Haijinx said:
unless they slap the name "Trek" on it they cant get a show like it bankrolled.
This is the impression I get, though it also seems to cause resentment in the show runners who go out of their way to make in UN-Trek 😄
Star Wars needed more Laurence Kasdan and less George Lucas 😄 though after seeing the Mandalorian, more Jon Favreau would also be a great thing
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3 minutes ago, Haijinx said:
The premise of all three of those shows are awesome though - BUT they are not like the first two shows at all. Which I think detracts. But I don't know if you really can call any Trek good or bad Sci-Fi since its more Science Fiction Theme Park, Space Opera stuff.
Voyager - Its set in TNG which I think was wise. But not in their normal setting, which I think bothered people. DS9 diverged thematically but it was in the same setting as TNG so it felt more like an extension of TNG. But the idea of a Ship lost on the other side of the Galaxy trying to find their way home is a good one.
Enterprise - Earth's first real Star-Ship is built after years of being slow rolled by a supposedly benevolent Alien Race. They set out to basically join the (local) Interstellar Community. It changed how Vulcans are. Which bothered people. It moved first contact with Klingons up. Which bothered people. It changed a lot of the history of TOS. Which bothered people. But I like the initial premise.
Discovery - A botched attempt at cowboy diplomacy leads to a fatalistic war with a Superior Warlike enemy. The woman who made the mistake seeks redemption by helping on a secret technology that might let the Federation survive. Good Premise. But they change Trek a lot.
Might be a theme here. They want to change too much. Its like the writers don't even read their own lore.
I'm not complaining about the themes or underlying tropes used to set up any of the shows, just the execution pretty much they all needed Dorothy Fontana to ride herd on them
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On 1/10/2020 at 3:47 AM, Altheda said:
I'm having the same issue. I installed the game from disc, downloaded Tequila but when I run Tequila it appears to do everything it needs to but once it reaches "100 %" the button that should say PLAY just has 3 dots on it, is unclickable, and I get the error on the right for paragonchat.exe. Has anyone figured this out yet? I haven't been able to get past this error. Halp! 😭
have you selected homecoming 64-bit in the list of the top half of the tequila window? that should change the button to say play
installing off disk won't help btw and wont be used
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1 minute ago, Haijinx said:
One thing I wonder about Trek watchers
Is that there are basically
- Action Movie Fans that are okay with some Trek Movies
- Trek Fans
- Trek Fans that watch Science Fiction
- Science Fiction Fans that are also Trek Fans
- Science Fiction Fans that watch Trek
So I wonder how those sorts of descriptions affect what Trek you like. For example the new movies are mainly going for #1 hoping for some Nostalgia to splash on the rest
Where I'm more category 5. I've watched all the TV series and some of the movies. Really didn't like the new movies. Mostly liked the rest of the franchise. But if there was better Science Fiction available would probably skip Trek.
I'm a Hybrid 3 & 4 leaning more toward 4 now after years of disappointment, tv wise I've been disappointed with everything since DS-9 movie wise VI was the last movie as far as I'm converned V doesn't count, I don't think ANYONE liked that one, I hated the JJ movie so much I haven't watched the two sequels (from what I've heard a wise decision) I never really watched Voyager or Enterprise, but I've seen enough random episodes as re-runs that I can recognise there is some good stuff buried in the garbage, but Discovery just seemed bad Trek, Bad Sci-Fi and bad writing
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