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-Deozaan (December 17, 2017, 02:31 AM)
(Not a) Balance Option: Collectible Components
One way some designers try to craft balance is with collectible components.
Mechanically these systems are usually the same as the point or slot systems
discussed above, with added monetary costs. Where they aren’t, they generally
allow players to substitute as much real-world money (or, perhaps, time) as they
want for skill at gameplay.
This highlights the key issue with collectability — it’s a marketing and sales
tactic, not a game design element. While it may well sell more product, from
a design perspective, the sides still need to be balanced apart from rarity,
because if you use rarity as a measure of power, someone can always go buy
or collect as much of a given game element as they can afford, and if this gives
them an unstoppable advantage in play, your game breaks. In collectible games,
having more components should give you more options, not a better chance to
win.
Regardless, adding collectible components makes producing your game a
nightmare. Best to skip it.
My question is, how do these CCG companies decide what the proper ratio of each tier of card is to the others when printing and selling booster packs? Or in other words, how do they balance the frequency of obtaining the common, low-utility cards with the ultra-rare, high-utility cards, (and everything in between) so that people get just enough good stuff often enough to keep wanting more booster packs?-Deozaan (December 14, 2017, 05:05 AM)
A higher grade monitor could solve the brightness issue, but most of my problems are based on simply the fact of using such high resolution, and are not monitor specific.
The bottom line is that even for someone like me, who loves high-resolution and small fonts, there is a limit beyond which it's not only diminishing returns but counter productive.
For me that looks like 2560x1440 resolution on a 27 inch monitor.
Anything higher than that makes my life worse.
The specific model I tried was a DELL U2718Q (my graphics card is an nvidia gtx 660).-mouser (December 11, 2017, 10:44 AM)
If I had to guess, I'd say the odds are good that he paid $100 to a company that used teamviewer to remote connect in and (at least tried) to fix his computer, and that everything is fine and nothing was taken, and that you should simply ensure that teamviewer password is changed or teamviewer uninstalled, etc. and backup everything in a safe place as always, and keep a careful eye on bank and credit cards for the next 6-12 months.
That's not to say that there isn't a risk that everything else was taken -- just a reminder that most of the time things aren't as bad as we fear.-mouser (December 11, 2017, 10:28 AM)
This is a good approximation of the sound I hear when I watch the gif:
https://soundcloud.c...martin-4/jumprope-10
... and now you do too-Edvard (December 08, 2017, 12:35 AM)
In more complex households the Echo Dot would be better as it can target only other station(s) specified, keeping communication private from other household members.-cranioscopical (December 06, 2017, 10:32 PM)
As expected, it wasn't anything revolutionary, the responses are mainly hardcoded to certain keywords. Alexa has no real AI to speak of, if she doesn't recognize a keyword she's at a total loss.-nosh (December 05, 2017, 12:49 PM)
Some things work great though - setting quick reminders, doing calculations or defining a word are all really convenient, but none of these make the Echo a must have device.-nosh (December 05, 2017, 12:49 PM)
The speaker is shit for listening to music but the new gen devices have a line out, so I hooked it up to my mac, which in turn is hooked up to my main sound system. I connected my Spotify account and O.M.G - the convenience of listening to any song (without compromising sound quality) in an instant is truly revolutionary. Understanding the concept really doesn't do it justice, you have to actually use it so realize how bloody wonderful it is. I can't recommend this enough to anyone whose setup allows them to hook the Echo up to a proper sound system.-nosh (December 05, 2017, 12:49 PM)
Thanks IainB, might try it if all else fails EDIT: Reading your last reply, thanks for the extra details
Thanks wraith808, yes want to see if I can install full 2016 offline trial but will see what happens-rgdot (December 05, 2017, 08:43 AM)
Does a MS Office trial still exist? It certainly used to - and not just at Technet or MSDN - but Googling 'Office trial' seem to all now end up at Office 365 pages, at least the handful or two results that I clicked on. The official office.com site requires a key to install or reinstall. Can one not download Office trials for a self built computer anymore?-rgdot (December 04, 2017, 01:36 PM)
How about an option to 'pre-load' a stack of tasks in priority order so that dismissing one automatically loads the next?-cranioscopical (December 01, 2017, 02:00 AM)
What platforms do you utilize? Just Windows and Android?Can you unpack that last bit? I'm assuming that it is shorthand for software (OneNote = One?) But I didn't think that OneNote was cross-platform, unless you mean a limited version of cross platform. And Simple- I equated it to Simplenote, but that may be wrong.Quite right. Felt too repetitive, but I've now amended in favour of clarity.-wraith808 (November 30, 2017, 07:57 PM)
I find OneNote pretty good across platforms. The functionality of each program is not the same, and only desktop has all features, but everything that has been done on a note is visible and editable on all platforms (or has been so far). Sufficient for me atm.
I do have worries about it though. All my previous attempts at major use floundered on huge, unanticipated glitches (eg tables). However, I have a number of those on my map now and the advantages are enough to make set off into the wilderness again. My current/almost immediate future project is being done on OneNote. Taken quite a bit of time getting the program set up to do what I want. Had considered Scrivener, but no Android and 3 only in beta on Windows. Had considered, and started, a more convoluted system using Simplenote for the main cross platform use, but convoluted and switching all the time was a real drag; wouldn't have been so bad if my mind stuck to one path, but it doesn't it always wants to follow multiple paths at the same time.
One big advantage of OneNote is being able to write/draw directly into any page. I'm almost purely on Samsung Notes (tablets and phones) and Surface now just because of that. Occasional use of older Windows/Linux machines and I have a specialist program that requires iPads. I hadn't intended to upgrade to the Note8, finally persuaded the free Dex offer and kids telling me that phone prices (£) seemed to be going up not down. However, it has transformed my pen use. Not sure why, because it isn't that different to Note 4, but it has. Now choose to write/draw a lot whereas before I would write/draw when it seemed necessary.
PS I do like the concept of paper. Have accumulated reams of notebooks and diaries over the years. All mostly blank. Just have to accept that I'm an old fashioned digital guy-Dormouse (December 01, 2017, 03:50 AM)
