@mag I'm not sure where you think we'd get that authority. SE needs the ability to remove who they perceive to be bad actors on their platform. The notion that "final say" should go to the community is laughable. Even if it did, we're not the community anyway.
(Unrelated, mentioning this only because Animal Crossing was mentioned some day ago: you can now have an animal villager of your choice follow you around in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp.)
there's a whole industry around optimising for the most amount you can frustrate players to spur their gambling addiction and milk them for their every dime
@mag as I said, the 8$ is basically just 5 cookies lootbox. The inventory extension is useless for now since the base inventory is already 2k items.
the other one... the only nice part is getting your favorite villager to follow you. The help they give for now seems not to be that good - at least from what reddit says.
Obviously, the fact that now you can pay to cut build time and pay to get free mats/resources could also mean that a big nerf to free players is just around the corner
right now, they only saw the helper help on the Giroid hunt event....
I would wait to see what happens with the gardening event.
That is the most annoying one, and it would be the most easy one to nerf to make the helper a necessity.
That said, as I said before, it feels uber lame that Villager Followers after being an asked for feature in basically every AC game have now been implemented as paid subscription service.
I hope that at the very least the feature will be kept in some form in the Switch real game
i don't game on mobile so i can't judge on that, but as ex-part-of-the-problem-as-game-dev, i'm sorry there's so many C-level decisions ruining what was a quite nice industry some years ago.
@IamMonica the point is that even then, they optimize for gambling when most of the players already are angry about cookies lootboxes. Yep, I know they are fishing for whales there, but they probably have in their hands one of the few games where people would actually buy other forms of merchandise..... and are wasting it
In Japan, the Nintendo Tokyo store is already selling AC sweaters, mugs, and so on....
Make those available everywhere FROM the game itself
it is not like Nintendo would lack the distribution chain to send those around the world.
NEW YORK — Demonstrating a deep understanding of what its computer-gaming audience, Sony has built the ability to order pizza into its latest online multiplayer game.
Type the command "/pizza" while playing Everquest II, a fantasy game with 330,000 active players, and get the Pizza Hut Web site, where you can place orders for delivery.
Chris Kramer, spokesman for Sony Online Entertainment, said he believes this is the first time a game accepts orders for real-world items.
Sony plans to integrate the pizza function more tightly into the game, so players can charge pizza to their monthly g…
@CptEric not exactly , as far as I know the thing was cut off Square side because reasons. Nintendo actually had to work to get the Switch version done and then they managed to at least include the DS version in the Switch game.
Also, this is probably the reason the Switch only features weren't backported to the PS4 version as far as I know
Nintendo probably managed to make them exclusive since probably they were the one paying for those.
(so now you don't have a definitive version of the game since the PS4 version has superior graphics but less content)
@Tinkeringbell Transparency causes bushfires, and opacity causes bushfires. I don't think there is a conservation law for outrage, but it certainly has a lower limit.
@CptEric just one of the random mobile games I know about. Usual average gatcha style game, but at least less evil than others based on what I saw about them.
@rockwalrus-stopharmingMonica I bet by now there's been research on online communities and outrage... Including outrages based on partial data or personal interpretations of things...
"The rise of victimhood culture" touches that a little, how outrages quickly develop in current days... but not exhaustively. So I don't feel comfortable making any definitive statements on that...
Kialo is really the opposite of SE in essentially every design decision. SE focuses on narrow, technical questions, while Kialo focuses on broad, subjective questions that are supposed to be phrased as yes/no questions.
@Tinkeringbell That's certainly not what Kialo was intended for, but it fits the format quite well and wouldn't get removed. Getting people to actually answer could be challenging, but that's the asker's job.
It sounds like a challenging site to moderate though...
Especially if I get it right that moderators basically have a different role than on SE (here, we listen to users first, like have them flag stuff and such... while I get the impression from the summary that on Kialo it's much more self-initiated?)
@Laurel sorry if the image in that post was offensive .. it was meant as comedy and to make the point. The "sexy" goddess was just the first image of a "goddess" that came to mind.
@bobobobo For clarification, that image wasn't what I meant by "interesting content."
@Tinkeringbell Flagging is still a thing for Kialo, but moderators are chosen per-question, not per-site, and are expected to have a very thorough knowledge of the discussion on that question. On the other hand, Kialo has very granular tracking of which changes you haven't seen and a "Guided Voting" mode that makes making sure you've seen everything in a discussion very easy.
@Tinkeringbell I noticed that you crochet. I wrote a Python program that prints crochet patterns for spheres. I copied the notation from a website, but I don't know how standard their notation is. And I don't know how good the patterns are that my program generates. :) If you can run Python, I'd love to get some feedback at some stage... See gist.github.com/PM2Ring/924b71c2c40728e7e1183de62b53a882
@Tinkeringbell Thanks! To run the program, just do, eg python crocheted_sphere.py 20 in a terminal, and it'll print the pattern for a sphere of 20 rows.
I wrote my code by "reverse-engineering" the 2 patterns on craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=341241.0 My program should be at least as mathematically accurate as those 2 patterns. And the spheres on that page look pretty good to me.
@Rubiksmoose I don't crochet either, but I can do chain stitch. :)
@Tinkeringbell Ah, ok. I wrote that code 8 years ago for a friend on a now-defunct science forum. She pointed me to that craftster.org site. She originally wanted to make a bigger sphere than those 2 patterns, but changed her mind before I finished my program, so she didn't end up using it.
![[proudly greeting the hotel manager at the door] "Did I do aa good job?"](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hotel_room_party.png "[proudly greeting the hotel manager at the door] \"Did I do aa good job?\"")
