@KarmaBum said in Balance between socialization and performance: Ultimately, even when the hard-core players sort of forked off to make their own Free Company about 18 months into the game (so they could get the raiding buffs), we stayed close with them as a group, and we all did a lot of “social” stuff together. The way this has worked for my guild over time - but over years of play, so the effect is fairly consistent - is that once the more hardcore players splinter off to do their own thing the overall activity plummets. It’s both because the roster is segmented (how many raids are you going to run in one week, after all) but also because, once the better performing players become unavailable the rest can’t clear the existing content either any more. Many folks, if made to choose between lowering their expectations or doing something else with their time, will do the latter.

@icanbeyourmuse Yes. I had that problem as well. So I’m going to suggest a somewhat controversial solution that was suggested to me – and which worked for me, at least. With the base game going free to play it’s no surprise whatsoever that pirates promptly worked out how to use that to their advantage. This software will allow you to fire up a legal base game and then add whatever packs and kits to it that you want. That, however, is not the point and not what I’m suggesting. The trick is that to do so, the DLC downloader rewrites your config. And for some reason, I am definitely not coder enough to understand, that fixes this issue, at least for some of us. TLDR; pirate software mysteriously fixes a game bug. https://anadius.hermietkreeft.site/dlc-unlockers

Hundred Heroes Gameplay Trailer Looks like 2023. Yay!

@dvoraen Been debating on buying that. Can’t wait for pay day now!

I really enjoyed watching Wil Wheaton play this with his family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YquWfQ7eSU So cute!

It was good to point it out. I only knew what I do about this because I work in this industry. This strategy of trying to compromise people through modified clones is a constant thing. What was notable in this case was the original tweet claiming huge numbers like it was something new, and it went viral. Something worth noting for people working on github. An extension of this strategy is for the attackers to open PRs, with the compromising code, back to the original repo hoping that a maintainer will assume that a forked repo represents a good faith development effort and fail to fully review the code and merge it. At that point, the core repo is compromised. It’s always important to fully review code before you merge.

Finished 1 ending last night, was pretty good fun. Quirky dating sim. Step on me Spirit Mommy.

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@BloodAngel oh shit I loved the Pagemaster

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@BloodAngel I played it through and thoroughly enjoyed it, I think about five and a half hours? The time and resource crunch is very real in the early game especially though and so I missed quite a lot of the content, I think the game definitely justifies a second run though I am not planning on doing it immediately.