Closed Week #42 2018-02-19

[Ati2]

Yeah, it's already tomorrow!

 

[Emberguard]

yep it's that late

 

[Ati2]

Or early, depending on how you look at it.

 

[Emberguard]

well it is nearing 11am

 

[Ati2]

Hey, that's still morning! Not even time for lunch yet!

 

[Vesiger]

'Gratz, Alex! Diamonds are something like 1 in 50 I think; not as regular as you'd like, but enough to be worth trying for

I thought wishing wells only produced diamonds once in their lifetime

 

[Emberguard]

yeah, just haven't had breakfast either xD Unless coffee counts. I think I might have the beginning of a problem. Recently I keep skipping breakfast and having coffee

 

[AussieAlex]

Friday? It's Saturday

My trouble is that I’m on a work trip to N America, so it really is still Friday

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Just seen the new Cherry Garden set Level 2 buildings in the Spoilers section on Beta. Same size as original Level 1 pieces.
I might start chasing the Cherry Garden chest on DC a bit more now!

Interesting ... same garden but more cherry and a great big bell ... very nice indeed.

 

[DeletedUser112366]

The bridge Level 2 is good enough. I can do away with one culture bldg and one prod. bldg

Sorry, this is for support team to look at.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Already done with it! Like most men I know, didn't last much more than 5 minutes!!!

You certainly need a superman in your life.

 

[Emberguard]

posting a post

 

[DeletedUser111866]

Morning people... I'm on a trip to another city, one day over two to go, and already really tired. No real resting place in here

 

[AussieAlex]

Morning people... I'm on a trip to another city, one day over two to go, and already really tired. No real resting place in here

Can’t do good work without a decent rest. Sorry.

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Only 10% pay to play ... and 75% of players are male ... What happened to 50/50.
Kudos to all the Top 100 players (on any world) ... that don't buy diamonds (I don't have that skill).

 

[Emberguard]

This is quite interesting as Ramit Sethi also goes by the philosophy of giving away 98% and then selling the best 2% for a premium

 

[DeletedUser111866]

Only 10% pay to play ... and 75% of players are male ... What happened to 50/50.

Was there ever 50/50? And if you're speaking about paying percentage, ask yourself first, do YOU want to pay for tnis game?

 

[Emberguard]

This persons math is off

11 x 5% doesn't equal 50% chance of winning xD That would assume each chance effects the next chance so that you have a guaranteed win within a certain amount of wins. When in reality the other 95 woul have to be multiplied by the same rate as the 5 %

 

[DeletedUser110179]

Was there ever 50/50?
And if you're speaking about paying percentage, ask yourself first, do YOU want to pay for tnis game?

I bought Rise of Nations ... 15 years ago ... when piracy was probably even more rampant than it is today
(Microsoft games were notoriously more expensive than anyone else).

Sure nobody needs to pirate FoE ... but I like spending here instead of going to the cinema, restaurants and pubs.
I don't really enjoy or appreciate free-stuff ... rather pay double when you could pay half.

If 50% of players paid some ... FoE might turn into a really good game.

 

[DeletedUser111866]

They didn't have access to Internet activation to protect their game copies, yet still to make a copy they had to pay quite a value compared to today. Pirates, however, had to distribute copies the same way, thus a CD with a game might as well be a cracked version, even if you bought it as "fully licensed". Now both prices to make a protected copy and to make a verbatim copy are reduced about thousandfold, but game prices aren't down by a cent, and games' attractiveness is also dropped by a serious amount. Say, MOO2 is still played, being patched (sic!) and modded, while no one gets to play last year's CoD because of a new one available, and because they played it once and stashed the now-useless media away. So, piracy existing is good, as it allows to spread word about a thing faster, but if your game is bad, then you really lose from it being pirated because less people would buy your sh!t.