Asheras wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 4:26pm:


I played GW2 for 3 years, mostly WvW but also the open world stuff and dungeons.  I thought it was fairly compelling, not the variety of build options of DDO, but still plenty to play with, but over time WvW just got stale and many of PvE development and mechanics caused real problems in WvW...  It was fun running around in groups of 20-40 fighting other similarly sized forces, holding or sieging keeps, I might D/L it again if things don't come back up tonight...

noamineo wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 4:33pm:


You don't have to PvP at all, I did a little but it can be pretty tough.  They put a lot of effort in balancing match ups, and your gear is all the same and the build is different.  When you enter the PvP staging area, your build changes to the PvP build, and you choose your gear  and weapons from a list that everyone gets.  There is no grinding for power in PvP, but there are a lot of cookies and cosmetics to get from winning matches.  WvW and PvE are different gear, which you grind for..  the persistant world is cool, each map has a level range associated with it., so if you are level 80 and your friend just started playing you an join them on the low level maps and you get down sized accordingly, but irrc the loot for you is the right level. It's been a while.

noamineo wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 4:04pm:

Even if I only get 50 hours out of it that's still about 6 months for me, so well worth trying for the cost of the bandwidth to download.

I use the PyLotro launcher, I've got 2 gaming rigs that I multibox on that are almost identical (mine and my wife's). The smaller one, what I'd consider the minimum for serious dual boxing, is quad core AMD at 3.2 GHZ (not overclocked) with an air cooled heat sing, 16 GB ram, 1 GB LAN, Samsung EVO SSD, and a 8 GB nVidia GTX1070 powering a 4k main monitor and a 1080p side monitor. I can run 4 DDO clients on the 4k monitor and 2 overlapping on the side monitor and my PC stays at about 50%-70% CPU utilization and 65 degrees Celcius, but performance is choppy. 4 windows on the 4k and 1 on the side monitor is pretty good, with occasional stutters while zoning but otherwise completely playable, and 4 or fewer are as responsive as a single instance.

The larger rig has 32 GB RAM and 8 cores, but is otherwise the same, and does a bit better with CPU usage but still has 5 simultaneous instances as the max for good performance.

The kids get weaker PCs, but they all can dual box with PyLotro without significant performance issues. They don't have SSDs, BTW.

I don't use any software to help control the multiple characters, mostly I use 2 or at most 3 characters, and even then it's usually at less crowded times when I can't find a human to run with. I use the 2nd box to open quests on higher difficulty, stand on pressure plates, and/or to cast buffs or handle traps. Performance might be worse if I had 4 accounts all in the quest in a room with active combat, I really don't know how much of a difference that would make. I tried the 5 and 6 instance cases mostly just to see if I could, it's more work than fun for me.

Apparently alluding to Daybreak games fucking up things for SSG was a little too vague >.>

Rubbinns wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 4:50pm:

Yes, but do you know how to test if a cable is still good after it's been used for autoerotic asphyxiation? Because with this crowd that's probably what "cable problems" means. Pacman larp only goes so far when you've got such a long shift.

I can't believe I came back to this screwed up game to farm a kobold sentient gem for my kid only to hit the worst downtime in recent memory and wind up making lewd comments on the vault, it feels so 2015 

Probably a lot more fun than the actual game, though 

DOWN WITH STINKY PINKY!!

noamineo wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 5:05pm:


You kill them at the beginning, grab stones and res them at the end chest....

Login server is online but not connected to the player database. No news feed in the launcher either.

Tspoon wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 5:13pm:


2x uncleansed greensteel accessories removes the need for finding something to kill you before the backpack ride.

OldCoaly wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 5:34pm:

/death and then immediately running to quest, stepping in, and then removing con item works until gs can be made also.

Noon tomorrow now. It'll be down for the weekend.

Pffft

At this point I have no faith it'll be open tomorrow.

Satanscock wrote on Mar 8^th, 2019 at 5:48pm:

More like North Korea.