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Other Games / Re: Improbable Island Is Interesting
« on: July 31, 2009, 06:51:05 pm »
I'm going to take back what I said about defense being better than attack. I forgot to take into account the fact that you take RIPOTSE yourself if you don't do enough damage. Attack seems to be marginally better due to letting you keep more stamina in shorter fights. Plus chainsaw is less expensive than invisisuit.

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Other Games / Re: Improbable Island Is Interesting
« on: July 31, 2009, 03:59:32 pm »
You play more than enough for this by the way... 'tis indicated by you having more drive kills than anyone else.
You trying to say something? Are the rest of us not good enough for ya?
:)

I just ate a stew that knocked me out for the rest of the day. This is after I hit two clam chowders for +5charm each a few days before. Gahhhh, I had 102% stamina.

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Other Games / Re: Improbable Island Is Interesting
« on: July 30, 2009, 04:41:06 pm »
Regarding buffs/weaponvsvarmor etc... I think the defense far outclasses attack in usefulness. With a high attack, your enemies can still do full damage to you. While if you far outclass them in defense, you'll not take any damage and still do tons of goatse. It'd be nicer if we knew the formula though because RIPOTSE may be tied to attack. Also, watcher's blessed weapon gives you back health so you can save on healing bills, so that's probably more useful than the armor buff.

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Other Games / Re: Dune 2000! also known as the father of modern RTS's
« on: July 30, 2009, 12:30:07 am »
I remember playing dune 2000 on PSX. Sonic tank rush or million billion trillion infantry which you can control with one click. Your choice.

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Other Games / Re: Improbable Island Is Interesting
« on: July 29, 2009, 11:27:19 pm »
Uh apparently we have no robots on the team, should I plan on being a robot? (only 10 levels away :|, 11 technically)

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Other Games / Re: Improbable Island Is Interesting
« on: July 29, 2009, 05:34:31 pm »
Does changing weapon/armor lose you the watcher buff?

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Other Games / Re: Improbable Island Is Interesting
« on: July 29, 2009, 02:28:50 am »
Do you guys still play this game? Accept Density please.

Also, how do you get items from corpses. (meat)

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Curses / Re: Skill Synergy
« on: July 28, 2009, 01:58:51 pm »
Yes, I am right. Because a rifled shotgun isn't a shotgun. It's a rifle.
Oh. Then the two gunstore owners who I talked to about a bolt action shotgun with a rifled barrel I wanted to transfer are wrong and don't know what they are talking about. So is that guy who posted on GunBroker. So is SA's TFR. I'm sorry, you're the expert on classifying shotguns though, I should listen to you.

e: Rezan thinks the same thing so yea, Yanlin is an armchair commando.

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Curses / Re: Skill Synergy
« on: July 28, 2009, 06:46:03 am »
Shotguns are unrifled.
[smug] Yea you're right the rifled shotguns don't exist. [/smug]

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Since all shotguns are pellet shot shotguns in the game... This means that all the mechanics are different. A shotgun spreads a large number of pellets over a weak point for massive damage. Works best on giant enemy crabs.

But jokes aside, here's the real difference as far as LCD close quarters battle is concerned.

A shotgun has MASSIVE recoil that's also different from rifles. To aim a shotgun you need to aim slightly differently. Shotguns reload VERY differently. Shotguns need to be cocked if they are not fully automatic. In the time it takes to do a shotgun shot and recock for the next one, you could let off half a mag on any automatic or semi automatic rifle.

A shotgun demonstrates Newton's 3rd law of motion far more vigorously than a rifle. To properly take the recoil of a shotgun you need different techniques than to take the recoil of an assault rifle. Not to mention the enemy himself will be quite staggered when hit even if wearing a bullet proof vest. The force imparted is massive.

Now a rifle, is far easier to shoot. The recoil is far weaker than a shotgun. Even in a full burst. But to aim, you must properly align your ironsights to do an aimed shot or refine your dexterity enough to intuitively aim it straight forward. It's not a really hard skill to gain.



Okay, if you really look at it at the core level, firing a shotgun is much like firing a rifle... It just requires a slightly different way to handle the recoil and actually reload the gun chamber.
Hey, I fired a mosin at a hundred yard target once. Then I fired a rifled slug out of a[n unrifled] shotgun at the same target using the built-in bead sights. I didn't notice any difference at all.

If you manage to fire a pistol without looking like a moron, you'll know how to fire an assault rifle. If you know how to fire an assault rifle you'll know how to fire a battle rifle. If you know how to shoot a battle rifle and you find a shotgun for the first time, you'll know how to fire the shotgun.

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Curses / Re: Skill Synergy
« on: July 26, 2009, 10:47:57 pm »
I know this mechanic. It's actually quite widespread.

But honestly, if you think firing a shotgun is ANYTHING like firing a rifle...
Please, tell us more. ::)

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Alternatively you could decide to transform anyhow and see how things go :D
A form that can't use 50 shields at the same time? This horrible disease needs to be eradicated at once!

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Other Games / Re: The myth of the female soldier.
« on: July 06, 2009, 12:19:11 am »
This is pretty much the reason why women will never be fully integrated in the army, even if in 40 years we have exoskeletons to make up for their fragile little bodies: :-X

http://www.webmd.com/balance/news/20051115/women-more-sensitive-to-stress-than-men

One could say cultural conditioning could cause women to be uninterested in being in the military because their whole lives have been teaching them to be uninterested in war.

 That would be grand on a global scale to everybody, but not terribly good with one gender.
lol

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DF General Discussion / Re: Regarding Urist
« on: June 29, 2009, 03:57:45 am »
We need to get toady in here to mediate this important matter!!! We need to know how Urist is pronounced properly!

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DF Suggestions / Re: Making the game more accessible for new players
« on: June 29, 2009, 03:55:29 am »
Look at games like Civ IV, Dungeon Keeper II and Starcraft.

No thanks.
how witty of you

Is there still a 2d fortress version floating around? If so then that is the perfect version to get acquainted with.

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DF General Discussion / Regarding Urist
« on: June 28, 2009, 12:43:39 am »
Urist is the Russian word for lawyer. (from Juris, latin) So next time when your fort fails, instead of blaming the soapmakers, you can blame the lawyers.

 :-X

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82

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