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My character has done 130 successful persuasions (charisma checks) during the game, for comparison my character has picked 326 locks and hacked 111 computers. Persuasion seems to be there mostly to get more money from the side quests. In some occasions you have option to persuade people help you in fight or leave before fight so fight is easier. And some rare cases you have given option to dodge fight altogether. And of course in flirting and romancing are charisma checks. Then there are occasional check that give you background information sooner or more information and some cases you get earlier/easier access to some locked areas.

After doing all companion quest I must say that best companion is Dogmeat because he don't constantly comment why I take all the stuff with me, even though it should be obvious to anybody that has traveled with my character even little bit of time (I use that junk to build my empire, which is aspect of the game I like most especially now that I can use artillery to bombard my enemies). EDIT: Most of the companions will become much better in combat when you equip them with better armor and weapons. Robots seem to be most useless and suicidal of the bunch.

Alright, which don't mean that I somehow accept premise of this thread it is just name of my new profile picture

I would guess it more about that Play-Asia had something that people wanted and have hard time get it somewhere else, where that another store just tried to get more customers by not offering certain products to market its values. As offering products with limited availability is usually always better way get customers in short run. In long run marketing values can be more effective to get repeat customers where those customers that used your shop to buy limited availability product are much harder to get come back and buy more stuff. Although I am not sure that it is effective marketing strategy to go with "SJW" values because there are no certain set of values that common all the people in that crowd, so it would in my opinion better to focus certain aspects that seem to be more popular.

I would take even mark that shows what stuff is new and ability to hide things that you wear from trade screen.

Only thing I try show is that Iraq wasn't paradise before western (mainly US) interventions and it has not become better place after them. Because war don't change just because people who are warring change. Somebodies always suffer and it is usually those that can't defend themselves. Like is said western intervention in Iraq failed (at least if it purpose was to stop violence in the region) and second one more than first one. But anyway it isn't democracy in Iraq that is root of their problems. You find more blame in failing to implement equal democracy and representation behind rise of ISIS. Current crises in Iraq and Syria aren't just because of power vacuum caused by poorly planned intervention by west, but also because their neighboring countries played power politics and supported directly or indirectly parties that later become ISIS and they still support parties that cause more destabilization in the area (US also does this). So even though US second intervention created base for current crises they aren't alone with blame, because those areas play theater for international politics for several bigger countries, like Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Turkey and US, which all have bit different agendas and goal that cross paths in many parts when it comes to solving the crises, which is why they are so indolent in their action to solve the crises. And ISIS has been able to grow and thrive because of this to point where our players starts to become forced to act in ways they really don't want to. And to point those pictures that is post about Halabja chemical attack aren't just past but effects of that attack still play their part in current crisis, as it was justification that US used in both of their invasions and it is reason why Kurds are so willing to fight for their own state and that willingness for own state is why Turkey don't support Kurds fight against ISIS, but actually acts against them and they are also excuse that is used to justify to dethroning Assad, as he had/has chemical weapons and it is said that he used them against rebels and civilians.

Their countries won't be a mess if not because of the west...the west who messed up their countries. Such as in Afhanistan, USA who supply the Mujahidden to fight Russia and then let them loose, you give weapons to mad men, then these mad men rule, what do you expect? Below is Afghanistan before ad after USA using Mujahiddeen to fight Russian. If the west don't intervine, Afghans won't bother to migrate to the west.... Below is Iraq before and after USA topple Saddam Hussein Western peoples are hypocrite...you claim you are better than anyone, it is just because you destroy everyone else Iraq before western intervention Following picture is disturbing and isn't material that should be shown to children Picture shows victims of Saddam's chemical weapon attack against Kurds Iraq after failed western intervention Picture shows Sinjar which was destroyed by ISIS and efforts to drive ISIS away them. Picture is near of one of many Yazidi mass graves who were killed by ISIS. War and tyrants never change. Another even more disturbing picture of Saddam's victims Moderators feel free to remove pictures in spoilers if they aren't suitable to this forum.

Might as well say all humans are Africans. Not all, but some...far eastern peoples are not from Africa... I think you missed the joke, all humans have genetics roots that trace back to Africa (something you could have found out with a few seconds of research): "Homo erectus were the first of the hominina to leave Africa, and this species spread through Africa, Asia, and Europe between 1.3 to 1.8 million years ago. One population of H. erectus, also sometimes classified as a separate species Homo ergaster, stayed in Africa and evolved into Homo sapiens." "This would suggest several different species of humans co-existing in Africa around two million years ago with only one of them surviving and eventually evolving into our species, Homo sapiens. It is as if nature was experimenting with different versions of the same evolutionary configuration until one succeeded." Those are hardly the best sources but good enough to prove my point. Like i said, not all, but some...some human come from Atlantis....especially SEA peoples. My people was Atlanteans. That is all and good, but that map show that all humans have monophyletic origin in Paradise. It also claims that people actually moved in Africa and no population stream continued forward from there. It seems to also claim that Russians and Finns are same population stream and that Finns and Hungarians aren't same population stream. It resembles lot of those maps that Nazis used although it don't have their imaginative Aryan race mentioned as major population stream.

It is as hard if not harder to make success in mobile platforms than it is to make them in more traditional platforms. For example King released Candy Crush Saga in 2011, and it is still their most money making game with large margin their other attempts have failed more or less. Another example Supercell released Clash of Clans 2012 and it is still their most money making game with large margin their other attempts to make other success full tittles have failed more or less. Both this companies sold themselves with billions of dollars (King $5.9 billion and with their current income rate it takes 10 years to pay itself back, although that isn't usually that important in this big acquisitions. Supercell owners got $1.5 billion for 51% of their company) Third example Rovio released Angry Birds 2009 (which is franchise that has over billion downloads and has produced over billion dollars worth of revenue for Rovio) and it is still their only IP that produces significantly money, but now that its popularity has started to fade, Rovio has started to face financial problems and started to layoff their employees. Of course you don't need to have similar success that previously mentioned companies to make money in mobile games, but then you usually need to be prepared to make dozens of small games per year if you want to keep company with over 100 peoples up and running.

Here is statement about Sweden's decision to add board control and lessen refugees ability to get permanent residency in Sweden by Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden (the woman that cried over this as you put it) https://www.facebook.com/asaromson/posts/1008144535911068 Here translation by Google because I am too lazy to do it myself

Supporting those that fight seems to be what they have in their mind instead of actual fighting.

I would say that Qui Gon never mastered path of immortality as his body didn't become part of force during his death like Obi-Wan's did in New Hope. Qui Gon was just poor jedi, which is why he couldn't even win wannabe sith like Maul.

Interrupt works as I think it works, but you don't seem to understand what is my problem with it.

I don't know what there is so hard to understand? Topic idea is to converse how to make interrupt more interesting mechanic and I voiced opinion that mechanics behind interrupt should first make more clearer for players by offering them ability see all the interrupt rolls. Or do you mean that you don't understand how it's active use of interrupt mechanic if you target attacks from character with high interrupt value towards enemies that use abilities/spells which effects you don't want in play and therefore giving you higher change to delay their ability/spell use and give you party more time to kill said enemy before anything bad happens?. Or do you not understand why I think that such use of interrupt mechanic feels currently waster of effort? I just have difficulty to comprehend what you don't understand or what was the problem in first place in this whole conversation.

Everything in PoE has some sort random factor in it, so everything you do you need to take account the randomization. Biggest problem with interrupts is that it is much more difficult to estimate, compared to other actions, how probable your success will be, which makes active use of it quite difficult thing to do, but not impossible, although currently it feels that it isn't worth the effort.

By targeting high interrupt attacks/spells to enemies that are using their powerful abilities/spells.

Although that isn't what spell originally did. But it was changed that when they changed interrupt system, although they didn't change it description. Yet again game fails to tell player what effects its interrupt specified thing has.

It depends. Pilot may have tried to identify target that locked his plane by locking all the targets that his radar shows. Which of course is not best course of action but inside of reasonable behavior if pilot panicked for example. But anyway I haven't hear reasonable explanation why Russians would have done it for any other reason. Of course they have history of poking and testing other countries readiness states, but said incident don't at least follow their typical habits in Finland's airspace. Of course we don't have full picture of incident from either side so there may have been other factors in play that caused that incident and even this current one.

There is also items that need to take in consideration in builds. If you know which enemies are weak to interrupt you can make deliberate choice and try to use that against them. But now you mainly need to make wild guess which make usually other build choices much more attractive. Which leads current situation where most people don't use weapons with long interrupt time, fast weapons to get more interrupts, or interrupting spells at all as they don't know how they really effect gameplay if players aren't willing to spent quite lot time to test how interrupt works. Which is why first thing to improve interrupt mechanic is to make it more open and understandable. When they have done that and let players play around with it bit then we can start to make better suggestions how it could be further improved. Apologies for the double post. The problem is that interrupts are random and don't work the way you seem to think they do. Durance, who has -3 Interrupt, still rolls a fair number of them (AoE spells for you). Pallegina, who has 27 Interrupt by the time I'm done with her, still hits people without interrupting them. Their random number was bigger than her random number and that particular attack rolled down the wrong side of the bell curve. You seem to be starting from an assumption that the interrupt system is broken and in need of tweaking. May I ask why? Last bit: the mechanics of this has been beat to death over in the Class Builds sub. If you want to know more, I recommend heading over there and finding that thread via the sticky. Hope this helps. Lets put it in this way. When you have difficulty to predict how well your characters will interrupt enemies by looking their interrupt value how you can think that there isn't room to improve it? If you need to look internet forums or do research by yourself to know how mechanic works there are room to improve how game represents it. And I would also like to know why my characters interrupt value changes from one interrupt roll to another (at least combat log show different number). Which is reason why there should be option to see all interrupt rolls so that player can know if the mechanic is consist and fine tune their character's values if they want to use that mechanic. Now interrupt is something that which player has hard time to tell do it work, do it work as game says it works, is it effective, etc..

There is also items that need to take in consideration in builds. If you know which enemies are weak to interrupt you can make deliberate choice and try to use that against them. But now you mainly need to make wild guess which make usually other build choices much more attractive. Which leads current situation where most people don't use weapons with long interrupt time, fast weapons to get more interrupts, or interrupting spells at all as they don't know how they really effect gameplay if players aren't willing to spent quite lot time to test how interrupt works. Which is why first thing to improve interrupt mechanic is to make it more open and understandable. When they have done that and let players play around with it bit then we can start to make better suggestions how it could be further improved.

You don't believe their claim that fighter flew Turkish airspace to get rid of radar lock by unknown SAM? http://www.janes.com/article/55776/russian-jet-was-avoiding-sam-system-when-it-flew-into-turkish-airspace

One improvement that I would make is to give player ability to turn on showing all interruption roll not only successful ones. Because it would help players to understand how well their current build can interrupt certain enemy types and give them ability to adjust their build more interrupt oriented if they want.

It's more than "unnecessary", it's murder. They were waiting in an ambush with cameras at the ready like rats. This is the view in Russia. Okay I'm not sure if that is true ....what do you mean cameras? Are you being serious I would guess that he means that there are videos about shooting that plane that surfaced quite soon after the incident.

Why would they do that? They will wait for US reinforcement, and THAT what USA want...the justification to sent troop on Syria to help "Syrian rebels".... Do you guys still don't understand who ISIS is? It is the most effective and simplest strategy that any party can take against overwhelmingly powerful enemy. Meaning that you hide withing population that you enemy is protecting or you escape to area that they aren't attacking and wait their attention to change its target and then start to strike back.

We need to be cautious. Russia is a member of the ISIS coalition and the only reason this happened was because they are indeed heavily invested in there bombing campaign We must recognize the Russian contribution and accept this accident, I am hoping Russia will send ground troops into the ISIS territories so we can finally end this godforsaken war that exists in this benighted land where Western troops are not liked yet are expected to intervene I dont want the West to lose anymore troops but the Russians are angry and they are new to the overall conflict so it makes sense they send the required infantry If Russia sent there its own troops, then there is high change that Syria and Iraq then become part of Russian Federation. And I am not sure if that is what anybody even Russians want. 1. Russia isn't going to be sending ground troops. Their goal is to force a peace process and keep Assad in power, not to retake the country for him. 2. Syria and Iraq becoming part of RF? What? How does that work? In scenario where Russia sends ground troops to take areas from ISIS they don't just need to march in and shoot some people that oppose it, because ISIS members will just become part of civilian population and take over again when those troops go away. To prevent that they need to actually conquer those areas and establish new rule which takes time and effort to build infrastructure, governmental control, dismantling current power structures etc.. Also we have USA's attempt as burden that shows that trusting local governance isn't necessary working policy and Russian current desire to show that it's world's super power and it's able to do same and even more than USA. And then why Syria and Iraq become part of RF, that is because actually accomplishing all previously mentioned things Russia (or any other country that tries to do it) needs at least decade worth of time and effort to build new working order there. And if Russian current political climate don't change in that decade it could be very difficult thing for Russian leadership just give up control of those lands even though they don't necessary want to keep them, as those lands have quite lot natural resources that interest parties behind Russian political elite. So I am saying that Russia (or any other party) sending troops to combat ISIS has high change to become permanent occupation even if such is against their interests. ISIS is not Syrian, they are easily being spotted by intelligence both from Assad and Russian. Those that can't blend in native population would probably escape to Iraq and those that can will most likely do so and if Russians leave too soon, without dismantling ISIS's power structures and support systems then situation will come back current sooner than later.