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Q: EA killed my Bioware keys

XantecIn Bioware's pre-EA era they had on their site the option to register CD-keys for your Bioware games. Me, being the optimist that I am, registered my cd-keys there and then promptly lost the hard copy that was included with the retail box. Today I decided that it would be fun to replay the orig...

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Q: Looking for a Starcraft 2 Graphics Guide

Josh KCurrently on my computer i can only run starcraft 2 at the lowest graphics settings. I am getting a new computer with a better video card that will most likely support higher settings. My question is: What is the best mixture of graphics settings that will provide me with a nice visual with a ...

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@badp It would still vastly reduce the price for cheaters, since they could just buy the cheapest thing on Steam or create a new account whenever they want to buy a new game anyway.
D'YAARRGGGH @Raven
01:14
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Q: What's the deal with Influence Gain in Dungeon Siege 3?

spugsleyI'm curious about what kind of benefits there are for having high influence over your party members in Dungeon Siege 3. Certain decisions I make in game cause an 'influence gain' with my comrades. Now, I have a feel for which options will give my teammates that boost so I've been structuring my d...

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Q: Is it possible to back up a PS3 via a network share?

Chris MarisicIs it possible to use the Sony built in PS3 backup utility to do it's backups over a network share, or is it only possible through a direct attached USB storage medium?

02:11
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Q: What does "PvP" mean in Minecraft servers?

awesomeguyI've seen it used "Anyone know a good PvP server?", but what does it mean?

 
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Q: Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga: How do I save the game?

KyralessaI just got Lego Star Wars - The Complete Saga for my son. It seems to autosave in some fashion. But it also warns me on exit that my progress will be lost since the last save. How can I save manually?

 
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Q: Animation not loading

nomsshttp://pastebin.com/TfcVvXnF http://pastebin.com/pYD7gMK0 http://pastebin.com/AsFMgLX7 http://pastebin.com/7nXU9VL6 I'm getting Additional information: No animation is currently playing. from AnimationPlayer

25 flags... Neeeeew record.
07:07
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07:48
Ah, 5CP games.
Red wins 3 games in a row, then blue wins 3 games in a row.
Guess who gets autobalanced in the 4th round?
 
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Q: What's the name of this old free game with the graphics of Settlers?

Tichomir MitkovI played it somewhere between 2000 and 2003. The game features graphics similar to that of The Settlers of that time (isometric 2D; camera is placed above ). The point is that the little men look almost identical to the units in the mentioned RTS. In that free game the player uses 3 tools (I thi...

@CruelCow Cheaters are not Valve's only concern...
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Q: Name of an old PS1 game?

Tichomir MitkovThe game was action like a TPS but the camera sometimes behaved like that of the Prince of Persia. The player could choose which character to play with (I think they were 4). In one of the levels (may be the first one) there was a car which the player could break and take the wheels and the engin...

posted on June 20, 2011 by tzenes

When MLG (Major League Gaming) announced the player swap program with the GSL (Gom Star League), there was a lot of discussion.  Was MLG getting more out of the deal? Were the foreign players getting the short end of the stick with only a Code A placement?  Regardless of how you felt, everyone was excited [...]

 
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Q: Merge my 2 accounts

squillmanI was just trying to swap around my Open ID (tossing MyOpenID and adding Google) and ended up creating a 2nd account. Could someone please merge my 2 accounts? The ID of my good account is 43, the new one is 10527.

12:50
> You've earned the badge. See your profile.
I join Grace in the silver club!
although Grace's well on her way to the gold badge.
13:34
@badp 63% is barely "well on one's way"
13:47
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Q: Help me remember the game's name

ayuuuukIt was an old Windows 95/98/2000 game, and it was 2D. I remember it fun and we need a strategy to solve it before the time runs out.. The character is a little boy. He walk in a square.Sometimes the square like ice, fire, water etc and we need a spesific shoes to pass it. They run slowly but we...

@GraceNote Well it's 69% really
The runner up, me, is at 45% so.
I'm using ((answers/200) + (upvotes / 1000)) / 2
Also, I have almost all the upvotes required for the silver minecraft badge (I'm 9 short), but half the answers. Sigh.
@badp I treat it like Commitment rate, mostly because the answer quantity is the limiting factor. At the current rate, 1000 upvotes will definitely be present by the time I hit 200 answers, so might as well measure the actual limiting factor.
Actually the real limiting factor here is usually the number of questions
On Meta Stack Overflow, I snowballed towards the point. Here, it's been a fairly constant rate.
For example for die2nite I have 100 upvotes (check) on 21 answers (check) but there's just 92 questions about it... and we've stopped playing.
Oh well.
14:02
Ouchu
@badp Only for real tags. The 4 Meta tags... not so much.
The one thing that'll always be a real challenge is [status-planned].
@GraceNote Yeah, mandatory tags are kinda cheating.
@GraceNote Do we even want it? :P
@badp If there ever is 100 concurrent planned features, I hope someone is there to collect the badge for the limited time it exists.
I mean, if anybody's going to get it, the tag should be named 'Procrastinator', or perhaps "Valve Time"
For status tags, though, one usually would prefer to be on the asking end. Having a high score for asking status-completed requests is often pretty nice.
Declined... not so much, but that's why you avoid asking status-declined questions in the first place. ♪
@GraceNote Except that one's highly dependent on Jeff, et. al.'s shifting opinions.
14:06
I have the bronze MSO badge for feature-request and this makes me happy.
Although status-completed isn't quite there yet.
@Powerlord This often is helped by being the one responsible for shifting their opinion. Ideally in your favor.
status-declined can turn into status-completed. Rarely the other way around - you're more likely to see deletion if something happens to a formerly completed request.
@badp You have a [status-completed] question score of 258. I think that speaks bounds more than getting a bronze badge.
Hmm, seems I'm 4 away from bronze [bug] and [status-completed] at the moment, nifty.
Humorously, we actually have the same number of non-wiki questions (33), but I'm merely at 257.
14:09
...holy crap, I didn't notice the list of top askers ever
@TimStone Solution - must prowl for upvotable content.
@badp Hah, nice. 258 puts you at 7th place overall.
Kip ×518
balpha ×410
Jeff ×376
Jon Siegel ×345
waffles ×339
Shog9 ×273
badp ×258
Grace ×257
YOU ×256
Pekka ×240
PopDem ×238
La crème de MSO? :P
Also I'm the only non-10ker of the bunch.
Yours is also more feature-requests, too. I have a healthy chunk of mine coming out of bugs
Really, really critical bugs
We can't have been too happy when the value of question upvotes was halved, eh?
14:12
in Teachers' Lounge, Apr 19 at 20:48, by Michael Mrozek
@GeorgeEdison Hey, I'd already lost 2100 :). And I just lost another 100. I think they're just terrified of my ability to protect questions; they're trying to keep me under 15k
I'm actually surprised that I was hit... only about as hard as most people.
@MichaelMrozek I lost 2.6k rep. Take that.
@GraceNote Well, there is a few more outstanding JavaScript bug I've been meaning to poke at. I've told myself I should get a bit more work-work done first, though.
@TimStone I thought we established that as long as I have anything to do with it, you'll never live another truly productive day for the rest of your attempted productive life.
I like to dream the good dream.
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Q: Ultrastar deluxe textfiles downloads

XmlmXmlmXI am looking for a site with song text files for Ultrastar Deluxe. So really the only text files, not complete packages with MP3s. Anyone know one?

@badp I assume this need to win stems from the inferiority you feel being one chat user ID higher than me
@MichaelMrozek I look at chat.stackexchange.com/users?tab=all&sort=activity and all my such pains are soothed
What? I'm not even on the first page?!
@Brant Page 4, top row ♫ right with alexanderpas, who last posted half a year ago roughly
Whew, I'm not on the first page here.
14:19
Well now I feel downright sociable. To the casual observer it would appear I have a life and everything
Thankfully we know better, as to not be horribly disappointed.
I wish chat.mso would be merged with chat.se.
Mrozek has almost matching chat numbers on both sites at 8.7k/8.8k
The global Stack Exchange leagues!!
14:21
@badp Oh, cool. Numbers I'll never remotely have a chance to compete in! ♪
@GraceNote Aye!
@GraceNote Well you are in page 4.
@badp After Mrozek
...and page 5
...wait what
I'm amazed I'm still on the front page there; I almost never talk on chat.meta anymore
14:23
I avoid Meta.SO in all forms whenever possible.
@Powerlord Then you complain here about stuff.
I bet @michaelmyers is to blame
He probably dehouzed me the same way I did to him.
Nah. /blame @rchern
@GraceNote anything in your inbox?
@badp It was weeks ago.
@GraceNote No, I mean, I just invited your doppleganger to a room. I guess you didn't get the message
14:25
@badp In my experience, it does exactly as much good for me to complain here, somewhere I'm already present, as it does for me to complain on Meta.
Oh well.
@badp If you just did it, give it 15-23 minutes
In the mean time
MOVE LAZER !!
aims the lazers squarely at the doppleganger
@badp LAZER isn't a Zig.
@Powerlord Rather, Zigs aren't LAZERS.
14:33
@badp Got it
@GraceNote Weird.
I guess I won't destroy that user then.
@badp These clones are created from our super-cool and special and awesome moderator tools. I made a clone of mmyers, once.
@GraceNote You mean that's what happens when we change the main user for somebody else?
oh look, I do have a few copies of myself
I'll explain in the other room. ♪
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POW! Ha ha!
14:35
@GraceNote In other words, ?
@Powerlord Kinda-sorta-maybe with less abuse abuse and more use abuse use, if that makes any more or less sense or nonsense.
14:50
"This will in no way affect your bitcoin collection. They will still be as big of a joke in the future as they are now." <-- best quote I've seen today.
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15:05
@Powerlord Well, that means I made a thousand on a joke. :)
15:17
@ArdaXi Yes, you did.
I swear I just heard one of the old Mac sounds come from a nearby cube. Since we use (company provided) Dell desktops and laptops here...
Anyway, lunch with Melissa go!
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Q: What are some WASD alternate control schemes to avoid repetitive strain injury?

mistagroovesThere are a lot of games out there that assume that players will use WASD as their keys to move the player (ie. most flash games). I don't use WASD as my player control when using keyboard and mouse. I tend to use a AERG (Left-Up-Down-Right) control scheme, due to mainly the size of my hand and...

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Q: What actions make the game award you a mist tank?

badpThe wiki mentions that completing a few actions will earn you a mist tank refilling your mist energy instantly for free. I have two, one for signing up and one for playing during the day the game launched on Steam. Are there any other such opportunities?

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Q: Stuck in Vents in Duke Nukem Forever

Jim FellI finally got Duke Nukem Forever installed on my new computer and started playing it last night. Right away, I got stuck in the vents off of Duke's training room. I can see a ladder going down from a grate in the floor. Presumably, this is where I need to go next. How do I open the grate to d...

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@Lazers ...AERG? Wouldn't that be really awkward?
Probably not if you have big hands
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Q: What're those things for in Hector - Badge of Carnage?

W.N.At the beginning of the game, I got the ticket in the police station. Later is "Who care" badge from the tourist booth. What're they for? Any secret?

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Q: What is the progression route in Terraria?

Let_Me_BeI'm kind of stuck in Terraria. I have full silver armor and 12 hearts (gold/silver gear). I have just killed the Eye of Cthulhu. I was thinking about gathering gold armor, but gold is damn scarce. I have tried searching for floating islands (at altitude 406) but if I go to far I get attacked by...

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Q: Name of ZX Spectrum Games?

w69rdyI know its a long shot as I only have a vague memory of them, but can anybody remember the name of these games? One was a space game where you scrolled up the screen shooting things in space, it wasn't R-Type but something similar, only going up. I think it had a name like "X-something??" The o...

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Q: Appeal/Thoughts on Dungeon Siege Item Attribute questions

Grace NoteWithin 15 seconds, we had the following two questions. What do certain item attributes in Dungeon Siege 3 mean? What does each stat do in Dungeon Siege 3? The former came first, and asks for the effects of 4 specific attributes. The latter came... latter... but asks about all item attributes....

18:49
I wasn't going to work on this TF2 extension thingy today, and yet here I am typing away in Visual Studio working on it.
Already caught some kinda-wtfy logic bugs. That I introduced. \o/
(Why was the handler storing data about the vote rather than having the vote store it, for instance)
(except for votes cast and that sort of thing, which the handler is supposed to track)
Bacon :D
wonders whether @Powerlord would use Bitcoin if he launches Bitbacoin.
@ArdaXi Nope.
Cheap bacon!
Speaking of Pow! Ha ha! earlier, I wonder when exactly Valve decided classes should have taunts that kill.
Lets see... if I have my update order right, the Heavy's taunt kill was the first in the game, followed by the Pyro's, Scout's, Sniper's, Spy's, Medic's, Demoman's, Soldier's, and Engineers's (he has two).
Medic's taunt kill being the only one not added during said class's update.
user30
19:15
> Compare and contrast thin client computing (software as a service, AJAX, Web 2.0, etc) vs rich client computing (client-server, peer-to-peer), web services as examples of ‘systems architectures’.
user30
buzzword specification 2.0
I see we redefined thin client.
user30
The worst part is how the textbook makes mountains out of molehills
user30
7 pages on basic SQL queries? Why not.
I think I should register the .bacon top level domain.
19:42
$185,000 -- it's a steal at twice the price
user30
19:59
@Powerlord If you got the userbase of reddit behind you it would probably be possible.
user30
Encourage donations of $10 in return for a domain
user30
Would only need, um, 18,500 people.
Speaking of :
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Q: Can you increase Deceive's Critical Damage (Shaco)?

Bravo840I am interested in playing Shaco but have a fundamental question. Does the critical damage from Shaco's Deceive ability benefit from Infinity Edge or +Crit Damage Runes? The reason I ask is his ability is phrased thusly: Deceive - Shaco stealths himself instantly and teleports to target lo...

Oak
Oak
20:30
@Lazers so... um... "stuck" tag? :\
@Oak Nuke it from orbit.
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Q: Rename [old-games] to [old-games-compatibility]

OakThe tag wiki for old-games clearly states it should be for compatibility issues with no-longer-supported games, and I think that's a useful tag to have; unfortunately the tag name itself is not very informative, and a lot of identify-this-game questions and even other questions about relatively o...

"Like the electronic smash and grab at Sony, I think the endgame here is better security at the places we trust with our data. It’s been an education for me, to be sure: custom passwords everywhere, now, 2-step where available, and when I need a new password I let my daughter go fucking crazy nuts on the keyboard. And then I say who’s my little hash function? Who is it? She knows who."
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--Tycho, Penny Arcade
@RavenDreamer Let me guess, he uses a program on his PC to store all his passwords. Which, of course, means if his PC is compromised, they now have instant access to every password he has for the sites that don't use 2-factor authentication.
@Powerlord - I have no idea. Honestly I was just amused at the concept of using one's daughter as a hash function.
20:45
@RavenDreamer Well, it just goes to show that Tycho doesn't know what a hash function is.
Or that you disagree with his internal definition of a hash function.
@RavenDreamer No, the technical community disagrees with his "internal" definition of what a hash function is.
and by internal, I assume you mean "completely made up"
Hey, I think I'll set my "internal" definition of to that substance you get when you melt ice.
I really could use a cold glass of bacon!
Oak
Oak
Oh, of course it's not a hash function
But it's still amusing :)
Bleah... technically, I can leave work in 10 minutes, but if I do, I'll be stuck in rush hour traffic.
It's not a technically a hash function. But the idea is to create something that looks like it could be generated by a hash function.
Which is why he says what he does.
20:51
@RavenDreamer No, the idea is to create something that looks like it could be generated by a random password generator. :P
Oak
Oak
So, should I work on my important seminar that is due in 40 hours, OR should I play a game?
The eternal gamer's conflict.
@Oak You should play a game called "work on an important seminar"
Bonus points if you finish early.
Quick, we need to come up with achievements for Oak's game.
Oak
Oak
@Powerlord in my eyes, it only counts as a game if you don't actually have to do it.
@Powerlord - depending on your hash function, the two could be one and the same. Why argue semantics?
@Oak Achievement Unlocked: Get heckled in chat
Oak
Oak
@RavenDreamer a truly random number generator is not a valid hash function :)
Anyway guys, you're arguing semantics. It's just funny to use a little girl as a password generator, leave it at that!
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@Oak - Yes.
@Oak You could use a speech to text converter and see how humerus you can get it when it gets the wrong words!
I recommend the MS Vista speech to text generator for the most lols
Someone deserves to be punched for that pun.
I think I will go pummel my Plush Weighted Companion Cubes until I feel better.
@Oak I'm pretty sure there's going to be artwork of the personification of a hash function somewhere out there.
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
20:58
That's a very old video if they're talking about Vista being delayed.
@GraceNote - Do you play Spiral Knights? I have this feeling that you play it, but I'm not sure why I feel that way.
Oak
Oak
Still funny, I never saw it before :)
And meanwhile you're solving my problem, I can procrastinate here and with youtube as well, not just by gaming
@RavenDreamer The valkyrie mail is cute (admittedly it's the only one I looked at) but I haven't exactly been enticed into the game yet. Although, the creator of MacHall and Three Panel Soul did work on it.
I know how to pronounce his last name, less so how to spell it...
Oak
Oak
So, this spiral knights thing... what's the control like?
wasd? mouse?
You have a couple options
you can either use the mouse (left to move, right to attack, I may have that backwards) and the mousewheel to change weapons
or wasd to move, mouse to orient, z to attack, x to guard, and space to change weapons
Let me send you an invite if I can -- I want the referral hat!
Oh, or you can use a combination.
@oak
Oak
Oak
I'm just a sucker for top-down games with WASD movement but mouse aiming
So I'm asking
21:07
That's how I play.
Is this a continual payment kind of game? I have a track record to uphold of never playing those.
Oak
Oak
Maybe I'll give it a spin... at least, after my seminar is done
@Grace Note You don't have to pay a cent if you don't want to.
Oak
Oak
@GraceNote free-to-play with micro-transactions if I understood correctly
You just have to limit the amount you play each day; which may be a good thing, depending.
Oak
Oak
21:08
Oh didn't know it was limited by day
@Oak No reason why you can't have a last minute change of your seminar into something about cute valkyrie knights.
@RavenDreamer League of Legends sapped time away from Pokémon, which sapped time away from Atelier Rorona, which sapped time away from Etrian Odyssey 3, which sapped time away from a host of other games. Time limit is a good thing.
I already miss playing Rorona.
If y'all drop your emails to me, I can send you a referral email.
@Oak Yes, you start with 100 energy, but certain actions take energy... such as heading down a level in a dungeon.
@GraceNote - you lost me at Atelier Rorona.
Oh, and if you die in a dungeon, the cost to resurrect doubles each time you die.
21:10
Yeah, but you can get your allies to revive you for free
Oak
Oak
@Powerlord that's a very interesting mode
@RavenDreamer Think of it this way - the Atelier series was all about cute shopkeeper girls (well, actually, alchemists, but running a workshop is much like running a store) well before Recettear came into play.
Hehe. I did enjoy me some Reccetear.
Gaming hasn't had a good awkward-when-out-of-context question title for a while.
@Brant We'd like to keep it that way, .
Oak
Oak
21:12
@Powerlord so this energy regenerates per day? And does it accumulate or is there a cap?
@Oak Caps at 100.
@Oak so you can buy a "month" of energy for 10$ in real life
It regenerates over time... I think it'll regen back to 100 in less than a day actually,
There's two kinds of energy: Crystal Energy, which is what you can buy
and Mist energy, which is what recovers each day.
@Powerlord yea, 22 hours.
And it's constant, not all at once.
Did I mention the game is ridiculously adorable?
@RavenDreamer adorable isn't necessarily a draw to some people
21:14
@Powerlord - then I pity those people. Adorable is a state of life.
@RavenDreamer Adorable simply in aesthetic, or more than just that?
@GraceNote I was primarily talking about aesthetics. Character and enemy design is very much cutesy japanese, almost "chibi-like". Even the most ferocious monsters are still mostly cute. No blood guts or gore at all, just "poof"ing and smoke.
Anyway, home time
Hopefully, we'll see more activity on teamfortress.com today
@RavenDreamer Hrm.
Oak
Oak
Well I'm just too tired to be productive now. Going to sleep, bye!
21:16
@Oak Sleeping is far more productive than gaming.
@GraceNote - you can check out gameplay footage on the steam page for the game.
@RavenDreamer Gah, it's on Steam?
I thought it wasn't.
@GraceNote - no, it came out for steam last week, I think?
I want to get 3 more steam recommendations so I can get a neat steam-punk costume hat! Haha
Wikipedia claims it came out in April 2011 initially.
Or possibly November 2009. That date sounds more familiar to me, but it's still arcane.
Ah, yes. That's correct. but it's just recently come to Steam, with a couple other free-to-play MMOs like Global Agenda and Champions Online
21:23
So, it's playable off-Steam, is the important and selling point.
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Q: Where is the best place to get the "Hot PotatOwned" achievement in HL2: EP2?

TyiloI'm using a PC, so I can't just get the achievement in HL2 or HL2: EP1. I would like to know, where the best place is to get the achievement.

@Grace ...probably?
I wouldn't know.
(I forgot you don't bother with Steam)
Well, the Wikipedia article fails to mention Steam at all, actually, so my hope is that it's quite accessible without it, and that the Steam access is mainly to secure all the other benefits of Steam (ease of distribution, access across multiple computers, friends lists, etc.)
sounds about right.
One of these days I should put you through the Mushroom Test.
Oop, gotta jet. Later all ♪
21:33
@GraceNote - the what?
@GraceNote - Master of the Cliffhanger Exit
@RavenDreamer Next time you catch me, just ask me then and I'll explain it.
Hello G.SE. If I wanted to ask about the running of a Minecraft server (reccomended RAM/slots/average bandwidth/per person usage) would that be OK here?
@Powerlord 22 hours
Oop, sorry, didn't see Raven answered that already.
22:11
Weird Al posted his video Perform This Way on Youtube today
22:48
@Grace Spiral Knights is adding Steam support, but Steam isn't required.
You can also login via SEGA Pass
It's very light on the "real money" side of things, a very pleasurable F2P experience I must say.
However, money does help.
$2 of energy translate to 666 energy, which you can sell for 25k crowns as of late.
For context, you need ~10k in total to unlock tier 2 if you're willing to get involved with trading, selling, crafting and auctioning (highly recommended if you're not paying).
The game has a lot of nice ideas, like how well the coop side of missions is designed.
Everything you pick up from the levels is either specific to your current trip and lost when you come back to town, or is shared with the rest of the party.
That is, if you pick up one crown, it's one crown per team member.
If you pick up minerals, every team member gets one of it.
If you pick up crafting material, only one member gets it, but the recipient's chosen randomly/sequentially.
"Experience" (heat) you get from kills is also copied to party members, but with a twist. If you die, you lose 30% of your cut. If you revive yourself with energy that's it, but you return with full health. If somebody revives you by donating half their health, they get your 30%.
Here's a confusing spreadsheet that sort of makes sense so long as you remember that a few of those conversions only go one way.
23:08
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Q: What is this early-90s PC spy game?

jwaddellI'm trying to remember a game I played on the PC in the early 90s. It was a spy-based game, and had a top-down perspective. You would break into a building and try and recover something from a safe, while avoiding the enemies who were moving around the building. I also remember some kind of wir...

23:27
@tombull I see nothing wrong with it

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