Bay 12 Games Forum

: "We won't get to witness anything if you get taken out in the first charge. Allow me."

: I'm just hoping that magic field of theirs will prevent my Arte from draining a little too much energy from anyone I hit...

I-6, display vampiric confidence.

42-1 looked around in confusion. Not at everyone suddenly acting odd, for that seemed to be normal in his vicinity. No, it was more that people were acting odd in a very specific way. The homunculus had never seen anything quite like it.

: "Miss Marta, are you well? You seem...distracted."

: "We'll just have to do the best we can. "

E-8

F-10, brace for horrible death.

I quite like being nice to the NPCs, honestly. Helping with their troubles and hearing/reading their thanks releases all of those natural feel-good chemicals in my brain, lets me feel like a hero (or at least a decent guy).

Not that I don't cut loose and unleash my dickish side at times, but it really depends on the game and it's always the exception rather than the rule.

From what I hear (unless this was a different incident altogether) the spreadsheet was not in Excel but in some older file format that can "only" handle about 65k rows of data. Apparently no one realized this until recently, which means that anything beyond the first 65k entries or so basically didn't get saved.

ETA: source

That's why you don't normally set up bases until you have a decent number of reasonably competent fighters. I don't mean one or two, I mean 8+ fighters that are at least capable of taking on Dust Bandits without serious injury. Minimum.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't several crop plants in pretty much constant danger of getting wiped out because they've lost most/all genetic diversity, and thus are incredibly vulnerable to any disease or parasite that comes along? Biodiversity is essential because it adds redundancy in case some nasty plague comes along and kills off huge swaths of one population or another.