BTGBullseye

3562 - Yes I am.

9 minutes ago, kerdios said:

what do you mean?
When I enter the forum I'm getting mostly the 5sec delay notices but also the captcha thing (like what CIA said),
are you just seeing the browser connecting to the cloudflare cdn?

Pretty much. No captcha for me. Cloudflare knows better than to ask if I'm a bot.

14 minutes ago, Im_CIA said:

How does it compare with hw, the original from 1999? I know there is more of an empire management sim built in here, but just from combat

I'm not sure what you mean by "hw, the original from 1999"... Do you mean Birth of the Federation? If you do, the mod is very much in line with that game, and even includes a grid arrangement galaxy generation that basically gives you BotF, just including far more content. It also includes events from newer Trek series, and the tech progression is even more diverse than the vanilla game.

5 hours ago, carrotman2323 said:

they also had a statements saying it would run "surprisingly well" on old hardware.

TBF, as bad as it was, it's still surprisingly good for what the game is.

6 hours ago, kerdios said:

anyone else getting cloudflare authentication notices?

I notice cloudflare authenticating, does that count?

17 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

T-temeee

Dishonor on you, and your house.

On 12/31/2020 at 2:26 PM, Gabe said:

Half life with psychic powers, Koreans, and more robots.

Looks like.

On 12/30/2020 at 11:00 AM, Im_CIA said:

this actually seems interesting. too bad the sky boxes look like the night after Taco Bell

Just get one of the many skybox replacement mods... This game has tons of mods available for it. (I'm using a Star Trek total conversion right now, and it's extremely fun)

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Conan Exiles with Isle of Siptah, The Imperial East Pack, The Riddle of Steel, Blood and Sand Pack, and the Debaucheries of Derketo Pack.

Sid Meier's Civilization VI, with all DLCs.

Jurassic World Evolution: Premium Edition. ("premium edition" just means all DLCs)

Stellaris. (I have it on Steam, but I bought a copy on GOG for my brother)

8 hours ago, carrotman2323 said:

Yea its kind of annoying that a lot of people are judging the game on the old consoles which have just dog shit hardware . Runs fine on my pc at 1080p. It was really misleading how Cyberpunk was marketed towards console players though . 

Well, it was marketed towards the new consoles, and towards being playable on old consoles without having to buy a second copy when getting a new console... But it was most heavily marketed towards PC.

On 1/1/2021 at 4:19 AM, Im_CIA said:

How do you outlaw scalping? Banning resale for two years after original purchase?

Same way they do with tickets for sports... Limit resale price to no more than $1 + service charges over the MSRP. If exceeding that price, it's illegal.

7 hours ago, SPECTER50 said:

This was my first build about a couple years ago, and I'm pretty happy with it.  The only thing I wish I had was a beefier GPU and maybe a better CPU, but I rarely notice it since I have so many old titles to get through still.

I'd say to get a better CPU before trying to upgrade the GPU. The CPU will be the more limiting item in that build. An RX 580 8GB is able to run virtually everything at medium settings with playable framerates.

7 hours ago, SPECTER50 said:

RAM: 16 GB Corsair DDR4 @ 3000MHz (From what I understand, frequency is big for Ryzen, so I'll probably get higher clock speed whenever 16 GB becomes obsolete, worst case I always have New Vegas)

Frequency is a big plus, but only because it allows a higher frequency form the Infinity Fabric without decoupling it from the RAM frequency. If you want to increase the RAM speed above 3200, you're gonna need a new CPU. If you want it to exceed 3600, you're gonna need at least a B550 motherboard and a Ryzen 5000 CPU. (I'd wait for the lower priced ones to come out in a few months)

Apart from the Infinity Fabric effects, latency is the next most important part of RAM performance. The 16-16-16-36 timing numbers after the speed are part of what determines that, and lower are always better. If it's already decent timings, then using 4 sticks instead of just two will almost always perform better than "faster" RAM.

7 hours ago, SPECTER50 said:

Monitor: ASUS 1920x1080 144Hz (1080 works great for me since I'm not too far away from the screen, and being able to run programs at 144 Hz is such an improvement, though I hear after 200 FPS the difference starts to become negligible, 90 Hz I think is still a massive boost though, 144 is just all I'll ever need)

Anything over 120Hz is effectively negligible for anything except ultra-competitive e-sports "gaming". I'm using a 165Hz monitor right now, and I can not see any difference between 165Hz, 144Hz, and 120Hz in the vast majority of games.

Apart from that, a nice build.

3560 - Looking forward to this year...

Right on my dude!

TPBM still has far fewer posts than me.

On 1/2/2021 at 8:20 AM, kerdios said:

you were expecting logic in a competition for last post?

Of course he was. It's illogical for him to do so, so he naturally would. Same as the rest of us.

Things I have to hate, just to keep this place from becoming a toxic cesspool of fanbois of non-Ross content. My hate keeps us safe. My hate is life.

Star Trek Online.

I did some dailies.

On 12/30/2020 at 7:06 AM, Im_CIA said:

But they are saying the shortage my continue until March. Who know what else may happen to by then

The shortage will happen until they either outlaw scalping, or until they produce more cards than the scalpers can buy. I'm personally for them outdooing the scalpers and forcing all of them to have wasted money by scalping, and have it be illegal, rather than neither because people are paying a scalper to make this problem permanent.

Is this going to be another one of those things I have to hate to get people to stop spamming it everywhere now?

Welcome back my dude.

I just remembered, effectively no replayability IME. Not even any real mods...

12 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

Radicalism is the cancer of a nation

I thought that was corporate mono/oligopolies and corruption, not radicalism...

10 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

3080 restock when.

When they feel like it...

10 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

If the stimulus is quick enough I might as well get it from a scalper 

Please don't. It's hard enough to get them now, and every dollar you give to a scalper will make it even harder for everyone in the future. (even you)

On 12/28/2020 at 7:25 PM, kerdios said:

That was my reaction as well.

1 hour ago, Im_CIA said:

HElP IT KEEPS GROWING!
IT'S OUT OF CONTROL!!!

Looks like quotes make it bigger... It's a grower, not a shower.