Some of us are abandoning Xitter entirely, (political comments moderated out. - BMR). So posting there won't reach a fairly large swath of people. The social media zeitgeist is still settling on a generally-accepted alternative; Mastodon requires some technical knowledge to navigate, for instance (is your server in…
A lot less rugged, if the registry's anything to go by. The number says "post-TOS", but the design cues scream "early years of the Federation". Other hand, I think a 25th-century update could look really good.
Further, the phrase "should we", when applied to a thing one can actually do, does imply questions as to whether the idea would be technically feasible. Yes, you could try to use "AI" to find bugs, but the reasons you shouldn't are technical, not philosophical - it simply wouldn't work. If you want to debate the philosophy…
My favorite example (also an example of how spaghetti-coded this whole thing is) is still what happened when they put player vehicles into Champions Online. I'm sure there are still people mildly traumatized by the results in STO.
Weirdly, this is yet another task that "AI" is ill-suited for, as it has no intelligence and cannot know which numbers need to be corrected here and there. Use spellcheck in writing software. Notice how many errors it does not flag, because what you typed is a word, just the wrong word - even "AI" doesn't know the…
Rocket, unless you live near Boston, there are a lot of so-called "middlemen" in the mix. When the big slowdown happened a couple of years back, that was the node belonging to Cryptic's ISP, over in MA. There have been other localized or intermittent slowdowns, caused usually by problems with one of the other nodes along…
The best "AI" summary I've seen so far is that it doesn't give you answers, it gives you answer-shaped chunks. They may or may not make any sense, because GAI is about as "intelligent" as hitting the center predictive text on your phone's message app.
The ones that get stuck in crevices are dealt with nicely by using BFAW as you cruise by - assuming you have beams, of course. Hangar pets are useful, too. As for the other problem, I can't help you, because I've never encountered that. None of the webbers have ever lived long enough to complete a web around me.
It has one huge advantage over the same thing at CO - unlike the events in Millennium City, the ones in space are opt-in. I can't leave Renaissance Center with a low-level superhero during, say, the Nightmare Invasion, because those monsters are literally everywhere, but if there's a Red Alert going on or a TFO event or…
Boarding Party only uses transporters for the return - presumably, the commandos involved managed to disable shields long enough to beam out, and they know their own ship's harmonics frequency (the same trick used by O'Brien to beam aboard the Rutledge to talk his old captain down). They launch on shuttles, which is one of…
I actually run all turrets on the Orion Blackguard for one of my Orion KDF toons, because the ship's covered with turret blisters so I figured it was thematic. Also, she has two fighter bays with Cutpurse-class fighters, so that's really where most of my damage comes from anyway. She may not put out the sort of massive…
To which part, specifically, do you object? Because I'm not seeing a problem here. In fact, I'm quite happy about getting all the rewards at the end instead of having to choose just one.
Everyone at Cryptic was apparently offered the opportunity to work for DECA. But given the fact that the pay is higher in the US and they already live here, why would they take the company up on that? Similar in a way to when the customer-service company I worked for moved their offices from Auburn, WA, to Ciudad Juarez,…
A distinction without a difference, as those three games are the entirety of Cryptic's current output. Unless you think they're somehow going to get CoH back from whoever owns the rights currently, Cryptic is now DECA.
That reason quite probably being that DECA is headquartered in Europe (Germany, as I recall), and they didn't just purchase the right to publish Cryptic's properties, they purchased Cryptic. Meaning that they're going to directly take over development (Phil did mention that they're building a dev team locally), and Thomas…
1618 may not be equal to 1571, but if I can get that 1570 consistently from eight different arrays simultaneously on the same target, that's definitely superior to 1618 from usually four of them. Let me slot all the omnis I want, and there's no reason for me not to slap eight of them on a cruiser and then pretty much just…
Generative "AI" quickly descends into what its creators euphemistically call "hallucinations". It would make the Third Borg Dynasty look like fracking Shakespeare. I keep reminding people - "Artificial Intelligence" at current technology levels is nothing more than a marketing buzzword. It's predictive text with good PR,…
Of course, that was mostly because in TOS nobody gave half a damn about "continuity", as long as everyone was wearing the correct uniform and remembered their lines. TV in the '60s didn't sweat things like that, because after an episode first aired, you'd never see it again until reruns. (Syndication existed, but shows…
Yeah, I've been ignoring that, because it's been going on since at least closed beta. Fourteen years now the game's been supposedly "on the verge of being shut down", "clearly dying", "losing players left and right", and yet here we are.
Someone has clearly never read the results of generative "AI". It'd make the Third Borg Dynasty look like the height of Star Trek storytelling. Don't know what I mean? The latest example is the script "written" for the disastrous Willy Wonka - pardon me, Willy "McDuff" - attraction in Glasgow recently. It can be read at…
It's nice to know that CO will at least stay in maintenance mode - I figured they'd drop that like a glowing green rock. I wasn't terribly concerned about STO staying, as it's been successful and influential enough to have contributed designs to PIC. That's a good mark of achievement.
Somehow, I'm never online when it hits, despite playing during that precise time when you say it hits "everyone"? I dunno, man, between this and a couple other threads I'm starting to think that maybe some folks just like complaining about Cryptic and don't really care whether anyone else in fact shares their issues. And…