My friends and I play as a 4v4 team and are currently ranked 6 in bronze. We are eager to break into silver, but have noticed that most of our matchups are against gold/platinum/diamond ranked players, and hence we get trampled.
How does the 4v4 team matchmaking work? Why is it that we are bei...
Usually or too often (at least in my experience, when I play Terran against Protoss I see that left unattanded Protoss player doesn't build gateway army in the beginning and invest a lot in Robo-units (immortal, colossus) that is usually deadly for terran.
Good treatment for that is early push w...
I have Parker liberated and everything in it completed. I also drove through it for quite some time after that (only in the north part/can't figure out how to get to the south (?)) but no new events came up. It's currently at 84 % public support. How can I raise this number?
Once upon a time, I used to play video games. Not so much anymore. My favorite game from back in the days when I did play was BGDA II.
I've since upped my PC to a whopping i7 920 / 12 GB Ram / SSD / 2x GTS250 (SLI) and I wanna break it in.
I'm looking for game suggestions, and since my fave fr...
In the game Universe At War, the first race in the campaign has teleporters to warp any of your units across the map, but my Ohm Robots do not seem to use them at all. Is this a bug?
I have completed 5 levels of Little Big Planet 2, but I can't seem to access any items on the pod menu except story. I also cannot accept any invitations from friends. Is there something I need to complete to be able to play multiplayer?
It is confirmed: Zerg is the easiet race to kill. Master League Terran and Protoss pros say so, and even Idra says so. Of course there's still Fruitdealer, but since GSL Season 1, we never saw Zerg at the top again.
Flame me all you want with me being a bronze league player, but here's what I h...
@LessPop_MoreFizz the article is slightly off. Firstly, it only works on passwords of EXACTLY 8 characters in length (for legacy reasons) or passwords longer than 16 characters in length (Amazon doesn't check after the 16th characters). This is no less secure than any other website (or at least one that doesn't accept passwords longer than 16 characters), because you have to have exactly 8 characters to trigger this.
@badp Gaming, like SU, has a lot of drive by traffic, where users only come to find an answer, not hang out and wait to get one
I don't see it as a problem, as I reckon that the growth has been pretty steady (as with most sites) and there are always a bunch of new visitors who 'get it' and stick around
I agree that the growth could be bigger, which I think is mainly caused by a lack of diversity in the questions. We need more questions about different games that attract new/different users. But we also need to make sure that if they get asked, they get answered
It's like Joel's blog post about being Amazon or Ben & Jerry's, I have a feeling that Gaming needs a bit more B&J at this point in time, until we have enough avid users to handle Amazon like loads
because while @GraceNote is right, there are already established sites that answer potential users questions, we don't get all this google-juice without good reason
if we had the answer, we would most likely rank very high, possibly higher than most of the establishment
@IvoFlipse Our questions often manage to be in the Top10 google results, if we choose the right keywords that brings enornous amounts of traffic. It is very noticeable for newly released games
@Mana just go ahead and ask. Asking a question you already know the answer for is OK across all SE sites, and besides you might get other quality answers.
not just that, non-existent is a better word for it
but I must admit, I don't find a lot of the questions/answers worth upvoting either
we've been messing around with the data explorer and searching for old, abandoned questions, without any answers or upvotes and simply started deleting them
and I'm tempted to enforce some more quality on newer questions as well
might I remind everyone that Gaming has already grown so much that it's now only 8x smaller than SU and 6x smaller than SF, at this rate it will overtake SF within a year
Yes, I know it's too late to get in for the prizes ('sif this would win anything anyway) but hey, for the betterment of the community :)
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I recently ran into this bug where my commander lost all his gear. Unfortunately at the time, I progressed through the dungeon enough that my auto-saves all got overwritten, and my previous save is over 5 hours ago. Any way, via cheating or otherwise, to get me back my gear?
drunken hand-waving Back in my day we didn't complain 'bout no.....editing.
so if someone posts a new meta question I'll....uhhhh......maybe actually respond this time.
Since I had like this massive motivation for editing post typed up and then my name got edited out of the original question. So I was like damn! and couldn't really do anything.
If I had posted it, I surely would have gotten like at least 10000000 upvotes and would have become more e-famous than Jeff and Joel combined.
I have heard people have success with proactively keeping the zombie-counts down.
What strategies do people use? Clear zones completely? Leave one in the hope of it dying in the night? Contain zombies in one particular corner? Contain zombies in an enclave near the city?
How early do you start?...
I've just started playing the download version of Minecraft in single player mode. I was wondering how the download and online versions interact in terms of save games.
Does the online version store and load saves to and from the computer that you're playing on or are they stored online for pla...
Is there a published list somewhere of all the IPs of servers Starcraft 2 would need to connect to? I can only open my outgoing ports to certain IPs or to ranges of them, so for now I'm stuck with analysing firewall logs again and again to find various IPs I tried connecting to.
Just recently got my MIDI-Pro Adapter, but it doesn't work in GH: Metallica, GH:5, GH: World Tour. I was thinking of buying GH: Warriors of Rock, but the GH wireless MIDI adapter that came with the Band Hero drums is appalling — it drops notes all the time, whereas the MIDI-Pro in Rock Ban...
It's generally hard to get reputation for a question unless you bludgeon it with formatting or it's a question that lots of people want to know the answer to but has no real direct answer.
Makes sense, though. If you ask something that's widely answered, it's not as valuable a question.
I've noticed that if I grab two or more alcoholic beverages in rapid succession, my sight gets wonky and blurry. The length of time this effect lasts for seems to increase if I grab a larger number of bottles. Is it possible to pass out, if enough alcoholic beverages are consumed in rapid succe...
On the challenge sheet for each area in Burnout: Revenge, is a challenge bearing the following description:
Takedown a Special Car in [Area name]
Can someone give me a complete list of where I might find each of these vehicles for each area? I haven't been able to find even one so far.
...
I am playing a human wizard, and I just killed a monster, leaving a corpse on the ground. How do I tell whether it is safe to eat this corpse?
I leave the monster unspecified because I am interested in "how can I figure out whether this is edible," rather than whether any particular monster is e...
I have always wondered why there is no browser on the 360.
Sony has enabled internet browsing on the PS3, yet Microsoft hasn't. Are there an specific reasons for this?
I am having a very strange problem where my XBL disconnects when I search for a lobby on multiplayer. Here are the steps I take. (It hasn't happened with any other game)
Turn on XBOX
Automatic profile sign in (connects
to XBL)
Load up Black Ops (disc already in
tray)
(Sometimes) Connect to a fr...
I've been attempting to get powered minecarts to push an empty minecart from a break in the track.
====R==W========
(R is for raised level & W is for wood button)
In the track above the powered minecart comes from the left and pushes the empty minecart that is resting on W onto the track ...
Hello world,
do you by any means know where can I find a fairly comprehensive list of 360 games that require HDD for full functionality (i.e. multiplayer, downloadable content, etc.) ?
Also, is there any, and if so, please tell where, a list of games that install game contents on HDD in order ...
Another interesting Minecraft "feature" here. When I play from inside the browser and hit F11 for fullscreen, I get wildly moving polygons flashing across the entire screen:
It doesn't affect character movement or button triggers, but it makes the game world hard to navigate. There are about ...
I have a Clue: Master Detective board, cards, and pieces. I wonder if someone would pay for that. The box is bet up, and Mrs. White's piece is missing half its "head", but...
What I'm trying to do is to get the momentary switches to activate the paths on the left of the RS NOR latches and when you activate one it deactivates all the other activated switches. The idea is basically for one switch to deactivate all the other switches. I need as compact a design that allo...
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How does reputation between the main site and its meta work on SE 2.0?
I'm getting up-votes and badges, but no rep for votes on Code Golf's meta. See my profile.
Here's a question to the room at large -- is there a stack exchange site where I can get help for technical computer problems? (I.e., how to detect if my graphics card is failing?)
I can't seem to find a way of solving this Tidalis puzzle 71 "Reaction Action!" that has 4 colour reactive blocks in the centre. Every time it ends in disaster, there's no way I can clear 55 blocks by colour reaction.
I had to skip it and now that I've reached the end of the game, any help going...
@IvoFlipse Possibly nothing. I suspect something's up, though. I get random crashes to a black screen...well... randomly.
I know it can't be overheating issues, because it's happened within 10 min of the comp starting up when all I've done is browse Gaming.stack exchange, or whatever.
looking for a solution. im trying to run my dungeon siege 2 game with windows 7 64bit and it has no sound during cinimatics, but sound works in gameplay
My friends and I play as a 4v4 team and are currently ranked 6 in bronze. We are eager to break into silver, but have noticed that most of our matchups are against gold/platinum/diamond ranked players, and hence we get trampled.
How does the 4v4 team matchmaking work? Why is it that we are bei...
I have Parker liberated and everything in it completed. I also drove through it for quite some time after that (only in the north part/can't figure out how to get to the south (?)) but no new events came up. It's currently at 84 % public support. How can I raise this number?
Once upon a time, I used to play video games. Not so much anymore. My favorite game from back in the days when I did play was BGDA II.
I've since upped my PC to a whopping i7 920 / 12 GB Ram / SSD / 2x GTS250 (SLI) and I wanna break it in.
I'm looking for game suggestions, and since my fave fr...
I have completed 5 levels of Little Big Planet 2, but I can't seem to access any items on the pod menu except story. I also cannot accept any invitations from friends. Is there something I need to complete to be able to play multiplayer?
It is confirmed: Zerg is the easiet race to kill. Master League Terran and Protoss pros say so, and even Idra says so. Of course there's still Fruitdealer, but since GSL Season 1, we never saw Zerg at the top again.
Flame me all you want with me being a bronze league player, but here's what I h...
Yes, I know it's too late to get in for the prizes ('sif this would win anything anyway) but hey, for the betterment of the community :)
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About
I've (and others) been bugging about getting some stats so we can track our Stack Exchange sites against the others, so I m...
I recently ran into this bug where my commander lost all his gear. Unfortunately at the time, I progressed through the dungeon enough that my auto-saves all got overwritten, and my previous save is over 5 hours ago. Any way, via cheating or otherwise, to get me back my gear?
I've just started playing the download version of Minecraft in single player mode. I was wondering how the download and online versions interact in terms of save games.
Does the online version store and load saves to and from the computer that you're playing on or are they stored online for pla...
Is there a published list somewhere of all the IPs of servers Starcraft 2 would need to connect to? I can only open my outgoing ports to certain IPs or to ranges of them, so for now I'm stuck with analysing firewall logs again and again to find various IPs I tried connecting to.
Just recently got my MIDI-Pro Adapter, but it doesn't work in GH: Metallica, GH:5, GH: World Tour. I was thinking of buying GH: Warriors of Rock, but the GH wireless MIDI adapter that came with the Band Hero drums is appalling — it drops notes all the time, whereas the MIDI-Pro in Rock Ban...
Is it true? Can we play bought games available for PS3?
(source)
Hello world,
do you by any means know where can I find a fairly comprehensive list of 360 games that require HDD for full functionality (i.e. multiplayer, downloadable content, etc.) ?
Also, is there any, and if so, please tell where, a list of games that install game contents on HDD in order ...
Another interesting Minecraft "feature" here. When I play from inside the browser and hit F11 for fullscreen, I get wildly moving polygons flashing across the entire screen:
It doesn't affect character movement or button triggers, but it makes the game world hard to navigate. There are about ...
Possible Duplicate:
How does reputation between the main site and its meta work on SE 2.0?
I'm getting up-votes and badges, but no rep for votes on Code Golf's meta. See my profile.
looking for a solution. im trying to run my dungeon siege 2 game with windows 7 64bit and it has no sound during cinimatics, but sound works in gameplay
