Posts by erin

↩  RedEastWood

I agree, the free to play model is something they seriously need to adopt. Was just shedding some light on some of the changes that did happen between games although I probably did overexaggerate their importance.

Their games are very microtransaction heavy as well, which is a rather severe problem when the game costs a good sixty quid a year, especially as non-FUT gamemodes have been neglected and rather poor these past few years. It's probably one of the, if not the worst console/pc title for the in-game purchases. Definitely not worth the money each year if it wasn't for the previous game no longer recieving development.

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↩  RedEastWood The entire concept of a different experience is incredibly difficult in sports games as the game is entirely dependant on providing the same experience.

Well most of the changes are due to the increasingly competitive nature of the game and the fact that the playerbase usually finds several mechanics and attributes that are better than others. In recent years especially that's become more apparent - to give a direct example as best as I can, in FIFA 19, longshots and headed goals were especially popular, in particular an "overpowered" player item was the 6'5" Zlatan Ibrahimovic. His balance of stats for the games meta were appropriate - he featured high heading accuracy, volleys, reactions and composure, the latter two being utterly crucial stats for strikers. If they were lower, the players shots would be very inaccurate even if their other stats said they should be other wise.

FIFA 20, the next year, noticeably changed that. It tried to balance out the overpowered mechanics from the year before by nerfing volleys and headers, as well as the impact of the composure attribute. But it did it too well, to the point where using a tall striker with good heading was actually a disadvantage over shorter options. Now, agility and balance would be two extremely important factors to a players ability, more than the year before, as well as the 5 star weak foot (out of 5) attribute being crucial for any player wanting to score goals. This meant the likes of Wissam Ben Yedder was an extremely popular option up front, despite the likes of Luis Suarez and Robert Lewandowski both looking like "better" options on paper and according to the previous year.

Hope I explained that at least a little bit okay

↩  matscalle I mean realistically there isn't much you can do to a game which emulates a real life sport that doesn't change its rules.

There are with each version as well, gameplay tweaks and changes to how the match engine works to give a different experience every year. I could go into more detail but nobody cares.

There are rumours of EA adopting the new "free to play" model for the base game in future and allowing further microtransactions.

To give an actual answer, mobile games have to be the worst for this. If the games aren't pumped full with ads, they're designed with paywalls and impulse offers left right and centre to try and attract those few high-spending whales. Look at Raid: Shadow Legends, FIFA Mobile, Game of War: Fire Age, etc.

↩  square it's literally just "hey this other piece of our software might be useful", I agree it ain't that deep. It's not the first time a company wants you using more of their services.

The responses to this thread make it sound like you have to watch a 30 second video about Raid: Shadow Legends before viewing files.

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↩ @'anemone' Can be good advice, depending on who you're talking to. For some people, staying here is a good thing as they're able to control themselves. But for other people, leaving is a good thing as they can't control themselves. For example, this guy called shdwo used to be admin here, and was a bit of a prick. He's now technically banned off all platforms. Even after saying he'd leave he stayed on alts and such despite his bans since he couldn't let this place go. Thankfully he's gone, I'm sure he hasn't got another account contributing to the forum or anything. But I would say most people are fine to stay here as, unlike shdwo, they can control themselves well.

Back on topic Noah, I think just maturity is the important thing for becoming admin. It's not a massive issue to work on, but I'd like it personally if you were more capable of knowing when you can mess around and when you may need to be more serious. The amount of time you've been in this community is no issue and neither is your knowledge of the commands, I just think maturity is the one thing you fall down on.

↩  Miwojedk

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Nobody is going to be offended by a dick build made in like 5 seconds out of dirt

↩  enchy im pretty sure goes without saying that it's referring to legal stuff that doesn't harm anyone.. cp is most certainly not under that bracket, its just pointless to always note the exceptions.

Vouch since I'm pretty sure the main barrier to us not using FAWE was the lack of logging to coreprotect.

As a general rule of thumb we don't and in my opinion shouldn't moderate stuff like this. If someone builds a NSFW thing on their own plot and doesn't invite anyone to it or advertise it I don't really see that ever being a problem or how that is a problem.

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↩  aqua95 And about the griefing rule, i suggest adding an exception, that being allowing admins to remove NSFW builds.

Admins have always been able to remove things we believe violate the rules.. did you think removing the crash chunks we were dealing with fell under the griefing rule?

Going out of our way to have a space-themed server profile strongly implies that we are a space-themed server.

I also personally believe the art style for the lettering is too simplistic compared to the drawn logo we've got.

@"Anti95"#397 has been indefinitely suspended from her administrative role on the server due to breaking, in particular, rules 4a and 4f of the staff conduct policy by cooperating with a rogue player and providing an unauthorized player with access to admin-only channels and information.

As this suspension was given in error, I extend my most sincere apologies to all of the inconvenience caused by this incident. I take full responsibility for the incorrect judgement.

I vouch

Alco has already proved to be a dependant leader amongst the admin team. Few are more knowledgeable than him when it comes to exploits and mitigating their harmful effects on the server. And not only does he have an understanding of exploits and such, but he is more than willing to share that knowledge - each time something new is discovered he will write a lengthy and detailed explanation in the admin section on the forums for those of us who are less knowledgeable to be able to refer to in future.

Funny, but object unfortunately.

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↩ @'court' you all can have gmc for 10 secs and get what you want

Genuinely why was this ever considered to be an option?

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↩ @'court' Not just that, but players who lagged during the 10 seconds or logged out before the 10 seconds would complain, and in response the event host gave some players more opportunity than others with gmc, and.. you get the idea

This makes it even worse.. let's just hope shit will be sorted the next time this becomes a thing.

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↩  SuperRyn mask mandates: small particles can still pass thru

The virus is transmitted via droplets - to put it simply it is in your saliva and the inside layer of a surgical mask absorbs that saliva and stops the infected droplets getting beyond the mask. It works, it's effective enough, definitely more effective than not wearing one. Sure, small droplets can pass through but nothing is ever going to be perfect.

I dont care whether or not you wish to wear a mask, it doesn't bother me if some people feel they don't want to wear one. But I would prefer if you didn't try and pretend they don't work.

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↩  SuperRyn vax mandates: people should have a choice on whether they take a med or not. verdict: bad

I agree with this, however I would say that you shouldn't be surprised if a venue or some sort of publically based event would require you to be vaccinated to use their services. You shouldn't be forced by the government to take the vaccine but don't be surprised if a local music festival won't let you in without one.

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↩  SuperRyn lockdowns: chokes small businesses, makes public school kids depressed. verdict: also bad

In all honesty I'm anti lockdown just because the majority of people are vaccinated which heavily reduces viral transmission and I feel with the vaccination rate being in and around the 90% figure in the UK there are better ways to deal with things. The UK is lightening restrictions tbf.

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↩  matscalle @hitmarkerspersecond (he doesnt have a forum account?) (handunit)

HandUnit

Object it was two weeks ago.

Sending slurs to someone to offend them was bannable on its own, ban bypassing was bannable on its own and telling someone to kill themselves as an actual serious comment is bannable on its own. Your ban was also compounded with the creepy nature you not only behaved towards me with, but was also reported to me by more than one other individual.

It's not been long enough.