melkathi

After 2 hours of trying to purchase scribblenaughts and the endless space expansion I now understand what you meant with "finally got through" I am melkathi on steam as well by the way

Check my random ramblings about card sales here So far I sold 9 cards and bought 11 for my collections, never using any cash other than what I got from my card sales. I started the trading card thing with 0 in my steam wallet; now I still have 96cents left over.

You may of course end up like some of us: trying to remember why exactly it is 7AM. What it is you have been doing all these past few hours. But realising that whatever it was, it must have been captivating because you did say at 2AM that you'd play one more turn Or at least that's what happened on my Automaton playthrough. I was just going to wrap up this war my alliance with the Amoeba had gotten me into.

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I play regulary on the EU server. We have no group as I am teh only one who has so far outed himself I made a long post a while back with my impressions. Trying to dig that up. And I posted my referal link in the Steam thread *hinthint* edit: found my old post: here Of course some things have been added since then. Currently the Voulge are making their first appearance in the Bay Area, adding some nasty encounters once past Mt. Tam. And it's rewind month, adding most of the story content that had ran for limited time during the last few months.

It's worth the full price without a discount in my opinion. The major patch was just out a couple of days ago as well, so most little annoyances people had before, you should not encounter. Great game. One of the better recent 4X (or is it 4E? ) games. It is very user friendly, with tooltips for everything. Diplomacy kinda seems to work (which is sadly not a given in games). the visuals are beautifull. You have a lot of research options. It does a lot of things well. Combat was something people did not enjoy originally, but apparently the Disharmony expansion takes care of that. I haven't tried the expansion yet. The problem may mostly be that by doing everything quite unobtrusivly well, people easily overlook that it is a very well made game. In other games you can say gameplay sucks but the story is awesome. Or graphics are crap but the gameplay is the best ever. In Endless Space you don't really get that kind of high and low: it is a very well crafted game which had a possibly disappointing rock/paper/scissor combat. And that leaves people remembering the one thing they disliked and forget that they have nothing to say about the rest because everything else worked unobtrusively in the background, letting players enjoy the game.

Hmm and the badge is just there to promote Trading Cards. Eh, Defiance is cheap. So if anyone buys that, remember to use http://www.defiance.com/en/welcome-to-defiance/?rc=LWNM39THED7R6G9FKWEF that link to count as a referal from me

The estate didn't make buckloads of money out of that deal. What they did get though was the ability to have full control over everything; and through that ensure that not even a bit of money could be made. Iron Crown Enterprices had trouble meeting deadlines and bringing out any product as they went through such a long and ardeous control process by the estate. Even with the "Kuduk Lore" convention that ensured that anything not directly quoted out of the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings would be clearly labeled as such for the fans. The estate didn't care. They were not about money - they were there to safeguard a legacy. And if that meant throttling enthusiastic people and a good product, unfortunate but necessary to preserve the integrity of J.R.R's vision. But when Hollywood came aknocking, and the trickle of money they had been nonchalantly waving away, promised to turn into a flood, then all of a sudden Tolkien Jr. changed his spiel to say that fans should accept a more liberal adaptation. There is a word that described a person like that: whore. Or politician. Ok, two words. And I'll stop before I turn this into the spanish inquisition. edit: and it doesn't help that I had the wierd luck to actually, completly randomly and unexpectedly end up playing the CCG with someone who worked for ICE

I don't think I'd trust a gamer with a bucket of paint. Probably would end up with borderlands vault symbols, mass effect N7 markings and stuff like that covering the town.

MERP was great. Pitty that Christopher Tolkien and that bunch pretty much forced ICE to close shop. Not a good thing for pen&paper RPGs or fans of middle earth that a bunch of talented, enthusiastic fans were forced out to make room for the merchandising lot. Basically the reason I just couldn't get excited about any of the recent movies.

Hmm got Space Rangers 2 installed at the moment. I just suck at the game. And it needs a certain level of commitment

Nope, that was me Honest

With the baby keeping them up and the oldest just gotten to the age were she finds boys interesting? I doubt they have the time and unfrayed nerves to think about anything

Hardly got time to play anything. So trying to steal the odd half hour here and there to play some Defiance during the rewind week.

I only enjoyed Vice City. I felt it had the most coherent theme. Everythin simply fit that Miami Vice 80s thing they had going on, allowing for a great immersive atmosphere.

That is disturbing. You kinda expect to see that in a Fallout game... Anyway: "Do you feel sad and lonely? Like life is just not worth living anymore? Drink Quanta Cola!"

'twas a great game as well. Not perfect. No hybrid game ever seems to be. But a great attempt at doing something slightly experimental. And with Bowie in it

Feeling the urge to drink some Quanta Cola Now all I need to do is find some at the local supermarket...

Been pondering Steam Trading Card maths: A game that is buy to play comes with a number of card drops usually equal to 50% (rounding up) of the total cards in the collection. Of coure these are likely to include doubles or triples. Upon recieveing all drops (one drop per 20-30 mins game time), you become eligible to a 3 card booster pack for that game. A number of booster packs are made available each time a customer completes a badge. The packs become distributed among a random number of other customers eligible for packs. Chances to be one of these customers increases with steam level (lvl 50 has twice the chance of a level 10) and by being eligible for boosters in more games (as each game has a sepparate chance). The booster pack can of course also include doubles and triples. A game that is free to play has no card drops by itself. Instead one drop is recieved per $9 spend in the game's item shop. Cards can be sold between gamers in the community market place. 10% (rounding to the nearest cent) of the final price go to the developer. 5% (rounding to the nearest cent) of the final price go to Steam i.e Valve. Team Fortress 2 trading card prices have stabilized at the low price of $0,17. At this price they may still sell, but a lot of them are available at it. Any card under that price will sell almost imediatly. At that price 1 cent goes to the Developer (Valve) and 1 cent goes to Steam (Valve). A card bought at $0,14 can be resold at $0,16 without the buyer/re-seller incuring a loss, but creating a win for Valve of $0,04 from the two transactions. A card resold at a price $0,03 above the purchase price will net the reseller a profit of $0,01 and Valve the aforementioned net profit of $0,04. For the card to have been issued, Valve had already registered a profit of $9 or the player recieved a booster pack for already having been issued cards for the game (for having spend the $9). Someone sold a scout card for $0,11 which I bought and resold for $0,16. This means: Valve recieved $9 and issued the card. The player didn't want it and sold it, recieving $0,09 and earning back 0,01% of their expenses. Valve made an additional $0,02. I then sold it, earning $0,03 while Valve earned another $0,02. Thus $9 spend by gamer 1 result in an ingame purchase for gamer 1 with a 0,01% discount to a price of $8,91, an income of $0,03 for gamer 2 (me), an expense of $0,16 for gamer 3 and an income of $9,04 for Valve. No, there is no point to this post. By just selling my spares I made about $4,5. A bit over half of which was spend on finishing trading card collections for the hell of it.

*grumblegrumble* "So you will cover travel expenses?" "Yes, up to this amound. We could do the booking for you, but then our agency will pick the cheapest flight on their list which is very likely to not be the most convenient. I would strongly urge you to book yourself and just hand us your reciept and boarding pass during the event so we can reinburce you. As a matter of fact there is this extremly convenient and cheap flight you could take that the colleagues in charge of booking are not flexible enough to provide as an option. But especially as you will be accompanied by your wife, for whom we cannot book anyway, but who I assume you wish to be on the same flight with, I can only urge you to book yourself." "Hmm... can I trust you to truly reinburse me?" ... "Erm.. yes?"

31 celsius here today. Feels like more. Listening to crickets through the open window. Gives the whole day a summer vacation on an islan feeling, even though I am in the city and drowning in work.

Good luck in Louisville. Though I am a bit worried about the company you keep if you are the most liberal in the group

A 3D modelling guy with a fetish?

That looks so very wrong. Both the screenshot and the Beetlejuice clip

With the Volge finally arriving from the pilot of the show to the game, I played some Defiance. Died more often than the whole past month