Lol, that’s one reason why Khajiit can’t play these types of games. It just takes too long to get anything accomplished. That and this one is rubbish at controlling games on his phone.

Ooo, that looks nice! Does the town keep getting destroyed, or do your changes stay once you build/fix it?

Nice place, but I didn't see any sweetrolls.


-UNSUBSCRIBE!! UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

Yeah I can't stand free to play mobile games. For just that reason. It's horrible.

I wanted to give Blades a shot but it won't run on my phone so I'm not bothering.

Our town's founder.



I think once you build a building it stays till you tear it down and replace it with something else. I don't think you get raided but its Early Access so who know what the final product will feature.

Now we're talking!

If you pace yourself just right and only open the wooden chest first and only the wooden chest during gameplay, this way you never get bogged down with having too many chest. The way I've done it is.

Wooden chest will always get opened first they take the least amount of time to open at 5 seconds.
Silver chest take an hour to open so if I need to take a break from the game for an hour then this is a good strategy.
Gold takes the longest 6 hours and best if you're going to bed.

Oh course if you have the right amount of gem then you can simply use gems to open them but gems in game are scarce to get unless you go to the shop and purchase them ala microtransactions.

Since Khajiit started playing D&D, he has been considering getting Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on Steam or Neverwinter Nights:Enhanced Edition on GOG. This one played a little bit of Baldur’s Gate back in the day, but never played Neverwinter Nights. Anyone here have a suggestion about which I should get? Which game is easier to get into?

I have NWN and BGII on Steam. Never played the first Baldur's Gate.

NWN I think is running on a different edition of D&D, and is a little easier to get into. You're not trying to run with a full party either, unlike Baldur's Gate. Only thing that made me sad about NWN was that when they added visible cloaks, it hid my poor Red Dragon Disciple's wings.

I played BG 1 and enjoyed it okay. I found BG II very fun though and stayed there for a few years. Never played NWN. I think you'll find SubRosa to be quite knowledgeable on those games. Hopefully she can provide some insight.

This is now 3 people recommending BGII (both of you and another guy over at Beth.net). Khajiit may just get that if it’s really that good.

NWN 1 was excellent. I still break it out to play from time to time. It is only you and one companion, and it uses the D&D 3.0 version rules (or maybe it is 3.5, I forget).

The two BG games are older, and use the crappier 2.0 rules. They are still good games though. Both have your PC + up to 5 companions, so they are bigger dungeon crawlers.

Check out the NWN and BG topics for more info.

Ah, will do! Many thanks!

Hmm. I may have to finally start Neverwinter Nights then. GOG had it for free one time so I figured I would snatch it up. I prefer single-character over a party, but one companion sounds like a happy medium. Although I do need to get back to Divinity: Original Sin at some point.

I've also been thinking about getting back into Oblivion. But...I really need to change the potato faces. And I still have never learned how to install mods, so I think I will finally cave and do that. So that leaves 2 questions:
1) What is a really good character model mod to use?
2) Can anyone explain or link a tutorial on how to install mods?

Well, this mod is probably going to be about as good as you are going to get, imo. Oblivion’s face editor is just so awful. It’s been a really long time since Khajiit bothered to play Oblivion so he’s perhaps not the best one to give you modding instructions. Sorry.

And that mod is a little finicky and sometimes doesn't like to load properly. Just like every other major overhaul.

That said, it's allowed me to make some fabulous looking characters.

https://i.imgur.com/3lQgDmF.png

Doesn't have my UI overhaul though. I added that after. My Oblivion install is quite heavily modded. >< Not as bad as my Skyrim install though lol.

The more I play The Elder Scrolls Blades the more I like it. I've already started working on the walls to my town, I'll start with the Timber then go up from there. I will put in another smithy to act as a backup repair shop but the other places are getting upgraded so for now its just filling out the empty spaces with houses and other decor. The only other issues that need attention is the game failing to boot up and stability issues other then that its a nice little Elder Scrolls on the go but it might not be for everyone.

So Khajiit bought Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition on Steam. Last night we did the tutorial to refresh ourselves with the gameplay. Today we started a character. Got out of Candlekeep and wandered the woods. Got into some fights with Gibberlings. Got killed a bunch by a wolf. Went to the Friendly Arms Inn and got killed by a mage. Yeah. It’s not going very well.

Yeah that mage fight at the Friendly Arms Inn is a crapshoot, you'll either get lucky and win or reload a save state.

She's gorgeous!

Thank you! I think she came out a little stern looking but it fit her.

Town of Sweetroll is going under renovations. I'm working on the Walls and making the town come together. We even have food now .

But it shouldn’t be up to luck. There’s gotta be something Khajiit is missing that would make fights go better. Maybe we’ll try sneaking in...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/228280/discu...79455678539497/

One of the suggestions is to set up a backstab since theyve got little hp.

It kinda is luck based since Baldur's Gate uses D&D dice roll rules and survival depends how well your save vs magic roll is.

Well, I went back to the save right after getting Imoen (“Heya it’s me Imoen!�) to join me and followed the road east and north and ran into a necromancer and a fighter/thief. Between those and the two guards near where the mage accosts you, we were able to kill the mage no sweat several times in a row. I also turned on auto pause, which is helping tremendously!

This is on your phone? Holy Cow!!!!

Tell me about it. Honestly if you can overlook the microtransactions and pace yourself just right this is a really good Elder Scrolls on the mobile phone .

Too bad they don't distribute it for PC or XBox too, lol.

According to Wikipedia Blades might hit the PC and consoles.

"The Elder Scrolls: Blades is being developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game was announced by Todd Howard during Bethesda's showcase at E3 2018 and was playable on the showfloor at the expo. Blades was released for Android and iOS devices as a free-to-play game on March 27 2019. Howard anticipated that Blades would be released on consoles and PCs in the future, along with supporting virtual reality.."

Source here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scr...ent_and_release

Now THAT is exciting !!!!!

I don't support throttled behind microtransaction games.

Especially when they're as expensive as they are. Have you seen gem prices? Holy crap.

More Fallout 3, baby!

It's really not that bad, trust me It could be worse.

ANY makes it bad. I know it could be worse.

I'd rather pay upfront for a mobile game than there to be any micros. Period. They're designed with whales in mind. Why charge for a game when you can put it out for free and prey on people with bad gambling drive?

And anyone that buys that 99 dollar coffer needs to be slapped. THEY'RE the reason people do this.

During a hiatus? This time round it's mostly reading, watching stuff on YouTube and napping. Music listening used to be prominent at such times, but all-but-shot hearing now restricts me greatly. Yes, bouts of poor health come into play but are not the sole reason for this hiatus. They are not even what triggered the hiatus.

For what it's worth, I launched Transport Fever several times over the last few days but couldn't drum up enough enthusiasm to do anything other than ride the rails a few minutes before exiting.

Hiatus or no hiatus, I don't miss an episode of GrandT's Transport Fever "600 Town Midlands (England) Map" YouTube series. GrandT is my favorite YouTube Transport Fever uploader. This series, he plays a huge self-made custom map which, as the name implies, contains 600 towns/cities situated as they are in RL, though distances are much compressed. (In comparison, my randomly generated medium-size map houses 13 cities (plus a few towns/villages I added myself after the fact). GrandT concentrates on laying train routes/stations as they are in reality, and adding scenic details along those routes. Here's episode #66, released this past Thursday. It's a more or less average episode, thus a decent representation of the series as a whole.

I almost started another game of FO3 a few weeks back! Never did get to it, but I might in the next month.








I used to like doing Sudoku or those larger puzzle books that have all kinds of diverse puzzle types in them if I was taking a break from gaming, lol. Have barely had time to even game in the last few years, so haven't needed a hiatus,

Played my first half-way lengthy gaming session in ages tonight. Transport Fever of course. Didn't accomplish all that much. Smoothed out two bumpy rail junctions at Dunwich Passenger Stations. Replaced locomotives and wagons on the Dunwich-Chesham Passenger Shuttle. Have mixed feelings about the loco swap. Looks wise, I prefer what I had. But I wanted something a bit faster for those two trains. Plus, I'm trying to convert to all British Passenger Train motive power on that section of the railway network. What I ultimately settled on doesn't look bad at all. It's just not visually interesting as the original loco. The rest of the session was nothing more than me riding one of those shuttles back and forth between the two cities a number of times.

Gog.com has Blood: Fresh Supply out and on sale for $4.99. It is the original Blood game, plus its expansion packs. They updated the graphics engine to do 1920 x 1080, up to 144 hz. Mouselook also works (the original did not have it). So if you liked the original Blood back in the day, $5 is cheap to pick this up for your modern PC.

DUNWICH?!! Beware of passengers named Wilbur Whateley!!!

This fellow?

Noooo!!! Don’t let him on the train!! He’s a harbinger of the Great Old Ones!!!

If you have a guard dog, now would be the time to set it loose!

*Nods in agreement* Indeed. Subbie gives good advice.

Lol.

Had a decent TpF session this morning and continuing a short time immediately after lunch. Re-laid lengthy sections of multiple tracks near Sittingbourne to minimize sloping and junction bumps. Most of what I did is a success.

Also replaced the two Continental European steam locomotives on one of my fuel delivery railway lines to a neat looking British loco newly uploaded to Steam Workshop by Gr1m. The new locos are theoretically a bit faster and more powerful than their predecessors, but I've not noticed a speed different when riding them.

For your viewing displeasure I once again pollute the internet with yet another so-called TpF Scenic Excursions episode. We re-visit a short two-stop train route shuttling passengers between the cities of Chesham and Dunwich. First seen episode 12, this episode documents track-side scenery changes and a switch of locomotive and carriages made since the earlier episode aired.

Transport Fever Scenic Excursions ep12 - Chesham-Dunwich Railway Passenger Service - REVISITED

As with other videos in the series, I find this episode easier to watch in 'theater mode' rather than 'full screen,' as the former somewhat lessens the effects of harsh YT video compression.

Outsiders visit Dunwich as seldom as possible, and since a certain season of horror all the signboards pointing toward it have been taken down.


I did not notice any bad compression in normal mode, though it did perhaps look slightly sharper in theater mode. I liked the spiffier scenery, like the people with their tent and umbrella by the railroad track.

Age of Empires II.

The announcement trailer for Transport Fever 2. It concentrates on visuals, which are indeed a marked improvement over its predecessor.

Not game but train related: U.K. Heritage Railway Review- 2013. The Brits have it all over us Yanks when it comes to this sort of thing. Had we something of this quality locally it 'might' tempt me to leave the house every now and again. (Yeah, right.)


Interesting. At least one other person has commented on not noticing compression degradation that sometimes bothers me. I sometimes wonder if maybe YT somehow degrades a video when its creator attempts to view it online, to discourage us from artificially bumping up views count. Yet, it's a silly conspiracy theory, but for sure YT always sets my own vids to 720p when I watch them, though with all other video I automatically watch at 1080p by default, assuming that resolution (or high) is available. Thing is, the only reason I bother to watch my own vids online is to check quality. Otherwise, I watch my sharper local pre-upload renders, or occasionally sharper yet raw footage.