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Did they really say it was 30 percent?  How could they not realize it was wrong until now?

They didn't even know that many quests didn't have a conquest bonus........so on anything game related it's probably about 50-50 on if they know it.

Yeah this one was above-average impressive levels of not-know wtf.

Amazing that in the lamma forums players were literally arguing the devs had no idea what they were talking about....Devs assure us they did.... Players end up right.


Wonderful...

Someone must have told Steel to eat humble pie and make that post. There is no way he could admit to being wrong on his own accord. Even when he is wrong he wont admit it.

Edrein wrote on Jul 26^th, 2023 at 11:09am:



Haha, now that I can believe!

yeah i wonder if it was an intentional mistake to make the new stuff sell, then fix/nerf it later with an oopsie.

From memory can you tell me what the standard spell critical %/boost is at level 14 and 22?

That's why they have it written in internal documentation, so they don't have to remember arbitrary values that may get revised in a loot/system revamp.  Trusting your internal documentation is a reasonable thing to do, until you have some evidence or serious cause to doubt it.

higgildypiggildy wrote on Jul 26^th, 2023 at 2:32pm:



Serious cause to doubt it.........it was written by an SSG employee.

You guys if Steelstar was any smarter he wouldn't be working for SSG but would have gotten a job at Intrepid making Ashes of Creation. We have to face that we have a small, dipshit game, that is being held together by predatory microtransactions and pay to win. We are like a geriatric patient: all we can hope for is managed decline. Maybe we get lucky and they copy (with no creativity) a classic module from someone who was actually creative. It is like Grandpa telling you about how he served in Vietnam. SSG is like the grandchild that is syphoning Grammie's retirement money but Grammie doesn't want to be abandoned so she lets it happen. That's the relationship between SSG and the creative source that is DnD.

Anyway, creatives don't make money because they can't market themselves. You know how much money Vincent van Gogh made in his life?

Fucking nothing.

Now his art is all over everything.

If you want to win the game of "cultural reproduction" you have to go all in on getting famous after you're dead. The chances of you winning while you are alive are slim to none. All your eggs have to go in one basket, and that basket has to "cash out" at some distant hazār. Nothing great is done without great expenditure of human life. The flies of the marketplace just cash in on the hero's sweat.

WonderfulFoppyBint wrote on Jul 27^th, 2023 at 10:51am:


He did make some money.

Not much, though.

Thought it was obvious that they have zero fucking clue what bonuses belong on which levels a good decade ago.  They just randomly pull numbers (and probably other things) out of their asses as they go.

Shunned wrote on Jul 25^th, 2023 at 1:00pm:


They knew it was wrong, but wanted to keep at 30% so they can sell the pack (most of the whales play casters and not happy with nerfs to R8-10 damage). But the crowd overwhelmingly pointed this one out and even said it will be nerfed after release, so SSG knew they had to roll it back.

Also worth pointing out when Lynnshit was loot dev, she was screaming that percentage bonuses are better and now Steelshit is the loot dev, he has gone opposite for the tank sets and has put in flat HP bonus (+75). Game design changes like used socks every 3 months and for the worse.

Hardcore_Girl wrote on Jul 29^th, 2023 at 1:56pm:


Lyn, despite their faults, at least prior to joining the band, played the game with enough enthusiasm to make YouTube videos that probably can be blamed for inspiring Strimtom. From his exceedingly poor and illformed opinions, one can only assume that Shitstain has probably never made it out of Korthos in anything but dev mode.