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Y'shtola
Shiva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f91wvxXAEXw

Little over 2 weeks away now. Glad the Ashen Wolves appear to be part of the base roster and not kept back for DLC.

G'raha
Urianger

Y'shtola
Shiva

It's the French pronunciation of Guy fwiw

Lulu

Urianger

Y'shtola
Shiva

Terra

Alphinaud
Urianger

Y'shtola
Shiva

Yeah, I was already resolved not to save Mira at the expense of five or so characters I like more this year, so eh.

Y'shtola
Shiva

Urianger
Mira

Y'shtola
Shiva

Beatrix
Lulu

Urianger
Mira

Y'shtola
Shiva

Urianger
Mira

Y'shtola
Shiva

G'raha
Urianger

Y'shtola
Shiva

Aranea Highwind

G'raha Tia

Urianger
Venat
Alphinaud
Jack Garland

WhiteLens posted...

Which FFXIV characters are we gonna push for this time?

I was prepared to wait and see if there was anyone someone else really wanted to push, since I'm relatively content with Y'shtola and Emet-Selch. Any of the Scions would be reasonable noms, Endwalker didn't introduce too many new characters, but in terms of leaving a big impression, Hydaelyn or Hythlodaeus would probably be up there. Then in general terms, Cid Garlond might be one of the most widely liked characters that hasn't gotten in yet?

My biggest pet peeve is when character idiocy/obviously incorrect decision making is used as justification for the story taking a non-optimal direction or gameplay padding (i.e. Half the shit Ryuji and/or Ann cause in Persona 5, or pretty much any plot point in FE Fates: Conquest)

At least for one brief moment, Magearna was winning with 100% of the vote.

https://www.siliconera.com/final-fantasy-xvi-in-final-stages-of-development-says-naoki-yoshida/

Other sites are also reporting the same news. I guess this could still mean almost anything in terms of a release date, but it's still something more tangible than has been reported in some time, so it might not be all doom and gloom, '2024 release' after all.

If you've felt like recent weapon designs haven't been as interesting as you'd like, the weapon design contest has you covered!

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/ded289e756f96f1915b2c94eb7c049e14b39300a

There's a serious and a novelty winner for each pre-Endwalker job. There's so many good designs here it's tough to pick a favourite, but I think maybe Dancer was the big winner overall - both really cool looking and completely unlike anything already in the game for them.

In other news, it seems like weaponised umbrellas and parasols are the fashion in 2022, and I can already see the Elphelt cosplays now after that Machinist Flower Bouquet.

Not a chance. The absolute best teams might get it done in a few days. Most teams who started yesterday and are progging every day will be going into a second week.

I'm sure there's still a lot more to this fight than meets the eye too. Covering up this next part just in case people don't want to know anything, but this is just speculation without naming anything specific in DSR - There's something very reminiscent of the first half of UWU in the first phase of DSR, but nobody seems to have figured out how to make anything different trigger beyond simply progressing past it into phase 2 yet.

I played Arknights for about 18 months or so from when the global version launched. As a game, it's probably one of the better examples of tower defence going. The story mode is serviceable enough, and it has surprisingly good and extensive music for a mobile game. The real highlights are the timed events that roll around every now and again, particularly the ones called Contingency Contracts that offer a lot of customisable difficulty.

As a gacha I believe it's on the more lenient side in terms of pull-rate. The vast majority of content is perfectly playable as f2p if you maximise your use of the free currency they give you, but I can't imagine the most challenging content being all that doable without spending some money to have the necessary amount of resources to reliably pull all the high meta units. Having said that though, it's entirely PvE, so you're never directly competing against whales.

I dropped off of it eventually once I got to the stage I was only logging in for daily stuff, but I still have half an eye on news for it and it still seems to be going pretty strongly. I wouldn't worry about service ending for it anytime soon.

You're supposed to set up your hotbars whilst you're in Wolves Pier, since you have to go there to unlock CC anyway.

If the first thing you did was queue in for Frontline or something, then I'm not sure. I don't think it mentions anything about pvp changes in-game until you teleport in to Wolves Pier, and it's pretty apparent that you need to swap in the new actions.

Commiserations to everyone who lost their housing bids to the number 0.

Oh sure, individual scores:

ARR: 6
HW: 9
SB: 7.5
ShB: 10
EW: 10

Overall: 9.8

The fact that the writing team that inherited 1.0/ARR's story, Ishikawa chief among them, with its cliche RPG plot, it's Saturday morning cartoon villains and it's rudderless narrative, and turned it into what we were seeing by Shadowbringers and Endwalker is nothing short of modern day alchemy.

To be fair, it's only the usual idiots and the sheep that are booing Maguire. Southgate's right when he says it's a mob mentality, and that if you were to ask them why they were doing it, the majority wouldn't be able to provide you with an answer.

Geodude is up there with Zubat for Pokemon I'd be glad if I never saw another one of again.

Regardless of how balanced the game was (and indeed how possible it was to satisfactorily balance without changing fundamental characteristics of the set-up), one area it didn't succeed in was scum satisfaction, which is just as important to me as the mechanical balance; it's a game after all. Probably the hardest part of creating it was judging how much power to give to the mafia, because no matter how you look at it, the recruiter dying early, even with the built in contingencies, and the town remaining weak was always an inherent possibility (history tells us as much). In hindsight I wonder if I could have thought of anything else to give to scum to make them feel like they're interacting with the game more, as a parallel to the mason set-up, but then playing scum has never been about directly interfering with aspects of the game, so that might have been asking for trouble. I don't know, I can only really apologise to the scum team if the uniqueness of what the masons had access to made their own tools feel lacking in comparison.

First off, here's how the state of play was at the beginning of the game

TOWN
Mason Recruiter
Mason Bodyguard
Doctor
Merchant
Vanilla x7

MAFIA
Godfather
Vigilante
Roleblocker
Vanilla

So this game was somewhat of an experiment (as you can clearly see), with the idea of marrying Fire Emblem-style recruitment with a "build-your-own-town" design. The town began with very limited power, just enough to initially defend themselves with before it would take shape as the days went by. This would be achieved with one role in particular.

Chrom was able to recruit every night, with a 2 in 3 chance of successfully recruiting Town-aligned roles, and automatically failing on Mafia-aligned. I decided this was the best way of running it in 15, as 100% success and/or dying when targeting Mafia made it way too swingy. Additionally, when someone was successfully recruited, their role would also upgrade in some way (all the permutations will be listed in a bit).

On the flipside, Grima was a Godfather with the text "ALL Town roles will interact with you as if you are Robin TOWN (insert role here)". Yes, this meant he was a valid target to be recruited by the Masons, and indeed there was a 100% chance of success if targeted. Sufficient wiggle-room was put in Chrom's role text to leave this as a possibility, without outright stating so.

Now obviously, placing so much emphasis in a game on one or two roles is not textbook good game building, and not something I would advocate anyone do in their own games. But I've always wanted to try something new when making games, and placed fun high up the agenda, trying my level best not to end up with something too unbalanced! The hugely variable nature of the game made true balance incredibly hard, so I settled on creating a state where at the very least either faction wouldn't be able to win too early in a worst case scenario. As for what happened afterwards was for the players to decide.

Going into more details on the other roles:

Frederick - Mason Bodyguard

Could only target Chrom.

Lissa - Doctor

Would upgrade to optional jailkeeping, although JK would have been enforced if targeting Chrom or Frederick.

Anna - Merchant (steal/save/watch)

Would refresh her stock if recruited.

Cordelia - Vanilla

Is notoriously unable to support Chrom in-game, but rather than making her unrecruitable here (which as well as being mean would have left her as a quasi-Miller, which doesn't make sense), the chances were flipped for her, meaning a 1 in 3 chance of success. To compensate, she would become a Jack if successful (scan/save/block/kill)

Marth - Vanilla

Became Lucina on upgrade, gaining one use of a recruit if Chrom dies.

Tharja - Vanilla

Became Tracker on upgrade.

Owain - Vanilla

Became one-shot Vigilante on upgrade.

Tiki - Vanilla

Became Cop on upgrade.

Basilio - Vanilla
Kjelle - Vanilla

Became one-use Mayor and Bulletproof as you've seen.

If Grima had been recruited, his 'upgrade' would have also protected him from other kinds of scans i.e. effectively a Ninja.

I'll make another post following on from this of my general thoughts and what I'd have changed in hindsight.

[2] MZero: Scare, changmas

MZero has been lynched. He was Gangrel, Vanilla MAFIA.

The TOWN has won! It's surviving members were:

changmas - Lucina TOWN Back-up Recruiter
ScareChan - Basilio TOWN Mayor

Needless to say there's a lot to unpack with this one. I'll explain the premise of the set-up and give my thoughts on how it went shortly.

TidusOfTheX has been killed. He was Anna TOWN Merchant.

Alive (3):
changmas
MZero
ScareChan

Dead (12):
IfGodCouldDie - Owain, Vanilla TOWN (LD1)
Shonen_Bat - Frederick TOWN Mason Bodyguard (KN1)
htaeD - Validar MAFIA Vigilante (LD2)
HanOfTheNekos - Kjelle TOWN Bulletproof (KN2)
Chris - Lissa TOWN Doctor (LD3)
red13n - Tharja, Vanilla TOWN (KN3)
Corrik - Grima MAFIA Godfather (LD4)
Sheep007 - Cordelia, Vanilla TOWN (KN4)
Ultimaterializer - Tiki, Vanilla TOWN (LD5)
Ben - Chrom TOWN Mason Recruiter (KN5)
ChichiriMuyo - Aversa MAFIA Roleblocker (LD6)
TidusOfTheX - Anna TOWN Merchant (KN6)

With 3 alive it takes 2 to lynch. Day 7 ends at 12:30 AM GMT Thursday/08:30 PM EST Wednesday (just under 48 hours from now).

[3] Muyo: changmas, Tidus, Scare
[0] MZero: (Tidus)

ChichiriMuyo has been lynched. He was Aversa MAFIA Roleblocker.

Alive (4):
changmas
MZero
ScareChan
TidusOfTheX

Dead (11):
IfGodCouldDie - Owain, Vanilla TOWN (LD1)
Shonen_Bat - Frederick TOWN Mason Bodyguard (KN1)
htaeD - Validar MAFIA Vigilante (LD2)
HanOfTheNekos - Kjelle TOWN Bulletproof (KN2)
Chris - Lissa TOWN Doctor (LD3)
red13n - Tharja, Vanilla TOWN (KN3)
Corrik - Grima MAFIA Godfather (LD4)
Sheep007 - Cordelia, Vanilla TOWN (KN4)
Ultimaterializer - Tiki, Vanilla TOWN (LD5)
Ben - Chrom TOWN Mason Recruiter (KN5)
ChichiriMuyo - Aversa MAFIA Roleblocker (LD6)

It is now Night 6. You have up to 24 hours from now to submit night actions.

"Someone has to save you from your good intentions."

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Ben has been forced to retreat. He was Chrom TOWN Mason Recruiter.

Alive (5):
changmas
ChichiriMuyo
MZero
ScareChan
TidusOfTheX

Dead (10):
IfGodCouldDie - Owain, Vanilla TOWN (LD1)
Shonen_Bat - Frederick TOWN Mason Bodyguard (KN1)
htaeD - Validar MAFIA Vigilante (LD2)
HanOfTheNekos - Kjelle TOWN Bulletproof (KN2)
Chris - Lissa TOWN Doctor (LD3)
red13n - Tharja, Vanilla TOWN (KN3)
Corrik - Grima MAFIA Godfather (LD4)
Sheep007 - Cordelia, Vanilla TOWN (KN4)
Ultimaterializer - Tiki, Vanilla TOWN (LD5)
Ben - Chrom TOWN Mason Recruiter (KN5)

With 5 alive it takes 3 to lynch. Day 6 ends at 12:00 AM GMT Thursday/08:00 PM EST Wednesday (48 hours from now).

I'd wager that has to do with the respective investment required by the consumer. A 2/5 film might only take 90 minutes of your life and the average price of a cinema ticket/rental fee/blu ray etc.

A game with an equivalent rating might cost in the region of 3-5 times that, and take 10 times as long, or more, to complete.

The time there may be a little off since I forgot to account for daylight savings, but the deadline is still 24 hours from the time of that post.

[4] Ulti: (Ben), changmas, Tidus, Ben, Scare
[1] Scare: Ulti
[0] Muyo: (Ben)

Ultimaterializer has been lynched. He was Tiki, Vanilla TOWN.

Alive (6):
Ben
changmas
ChichiriMuyo
MZero
ScareChan
TidusOfTheX

Dead (9):
IfGodCouldDie - Owain, Vanilla TOWN (LD1)
Shonen_Bat - Frederick TOWN Mason Bodyguard (KN1)
htaeD - Validar MAFIA Vigilante (LD2)
HanOfTheNekos - Kjelle TOWN Bulletproof (KN2)
Chris - Lissa TOWN Doctor (LD3)
red13n - Tharja, Vanilla TOWN (KN3)
Corrik - Grima MAFIA Godfather (LD4)
Sheep007 - Cordelia, Vanilla TOWN (KN4)
Ultimaterializer - Tiki, Vanilla TOWN (LD5)

It is now Night 5. You have until 11:30 PM GMT Monday/06:30 PM EST Monday to submit any night actions (24 hours from now).

[3] Ulti: (Ben), changmas, Tidus, Ben
[1] Scare: Ulti
[0] Muyo: (Ben)

With 7 alive it takes 4 to lynch. Day 5 ends at 12:00 AM GMT Tuesday/07:00 PM EST Monday (25 hours and 15 minutes from now).

Your opening post is missing a couple of numbers!

Lightning Returns is pretty fun though. The best advice I can give is not to worry about the time limit. Pretend it isn't there if that helps. I've seen people quit this game (that they were otherwise enjoying) because they couldn't handle the pressure of a clock constantly ticking down on them.

"Such bonds are the true strength of this army."

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Sheep007 has died. He was Cordelia, Vanilla TOWN.

Alive (7):
Ben
changmas
ChichiriMuyo
MZero
ScareChan
TidusOfTheX
Ultimaterializer

Dead (8):
IfGodCouldDie - Owain, Vanilla TOWN (LD1)
Shonen_Bat - Frederick TOWN Mason Bodyguard (KN1)
htaeD - Validar MAFIA Vigilante (LD2)
HanOfTheNekos - Kjelle TOWN Bulletproof (KN2)
Chris - Lissa TOWN Doctor (LD3)
red13n - Tharja, Vanilla TOWN (KN3)
Corrik - Grima MAFIA Godfather (LD4)
Sheep007 - Cordelia, Vanilla TOWN (KN4)

With 7 alive it takes 4 to lynch. Day 5 ends at 12:00 AM GMT Tuesday/07:00 PM EST Monday. (48 hours from now)