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It's time to put bazaars back into the search · · 481 likes

If you open the market page, you are shown a list of the most popular items. Back when there was no tax, xanax was one of the top items, if not the top item. But when the tax was introduced, people moved away from the market and started using scripts to search for bazaars. And if you look at the top items, xanax is 3rd to last or something. Televisions, which will effectively harm you, are way ahead xanax. The removal of bazaars was a complete failure that does nothing but put players that do not use scripts at a disadvantage. Either that or remove the tax, that works too.

Discussing the state of RWs · · 306 likes

A while ago I made a simple poll: is your faction actually fighting RW or just fixing them? About 1/3 of people replied "no", and in the comments it was said that the factions that consistently do not fight RWs are the diamond ones and platinum factions usually do fight. The reason is very simple: diamond factions usually employ the use of mercenaries and revives. A RW rewards are of monetary nature for the most part. So it simply is not profitable to spend money and energy that could be used to train.

The immediate consequence of this meta is that the economy loses activity. Healers and mercs do not have as much demand. The secondary consequence is that the game loop breaks. You make money so you can invest in your stats. You invest in your stats and don't have much to do with them. Muggings are not consistent and only reward you money, which you already have. You don't need stats for the RWs because they are fixed anyway. Territory wars suck ass with fake walls and people don't engage with that anyway. So there is less game to be played.

This is not a suggestion thread because I don't feel like I have a solution that would obviously work and not break the design in some other way. At most I'd like to present a solution to be debated: untradeable rewards locked to the faction. Maybe give a temporary boost to training. Maybe random weapons that would be deposited directly to the armory and could not be gifted to members, only borrowed. I don't think any solution that revolves around "make RWs even more profitable" would work because there isn't any way to increase demand faster than these can be farmed. Double the amount of caches? Their price would fall even faster. Give money? Inflation would devalue it's worth.

Discussing the state of crimes 2.0 · · 296 likes

When crimes 2.0 came out, I believe it was stated that it was the intention of the revamp to build a crime economy. Some crimes produce certain objects and these objects are used to fuel other crimes. We are currently in the longest streak without a new crime, a little over 5 months and honestly, and I don't see this economy in place.

 

Burglary and shoplifting will provide SOME tools required for other crimes, like electronic components for cracking, tools for forgery but you only need a very limited amount of these. For an economy to work, you need a constant supply and demand. And the consequence of this is that there is no point to any of it but grind your nnb like we were all doing with arsons and a few merits. 

 

Now, either my memory is really letting me down here or crimes 2.0 simply do not work in the current state. Also, wasn't their intention to release a new crime every 3 months or something?

TRUMP OR HARRIS · · 34 likes

Trump.

Make official races start as soon as they are full · · 71 likes

What is the point of having a 1h wait with all 6 slots filled?

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An Observation Since The Feddening · · 3 likes

Maybe you could follow my example.

Teen Girl Harassed in Bathroom by Transvestigator · · 1 like

staff edit - obscenity/discrimination

An Observation Since The Feddening · · 2 likes

I didn't read shit, I'm just here to say I stopped posting for a while because I found better stuff to do.

Hamas announces dissolution of Gaza governing body, paves way for technocratic committee ·

OOOOOOF, bro threw away a 7.6k days account because he wanted to talk mad shit on the internet.

 

edit: ok, he spent 7 years inactive, so it wasn't that impressive.

Living on the edge ·

2b and you are getting somewhere, imo.

Living on the edge · · 1 like

To be fair, most ppl are already permaspied through ffscouter.

Spin the wheel order · · 1 like

This, people underrate how important DN is.

Zohran Mamdani · · 1 like

I strongly oppose any kind of collectivism and statism, so no. While I won't say he failed, it is too soon for that, I have absolutely no faith in his policies. The way he fixed the budget is a great example, all he did was to pay more interest on their debt and get more money from State tax payers.

Marco Rubio remarks at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism ·

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio with Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, White House Deputy of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism "

 

"One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice.  That’s actually not true.  Communism does not sound good in theory.  The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, grey, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul.  The world it envisions is a world without courage, a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, without – a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things.  And the world communism envisions is a world without God. 

For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization – for them it’s an unbearable humiliation, a reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be.  So they choose instead to destroy.  They attack pipelines; they attack railroads; they attack power grids and laboratories, the physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement.  This is the nature of the terrorism we face today.  They despise the West because the West is great."

 

"Under President Trump, for the first time, the United States is building the infrastructure, the partnership, and the strategy to defeat the scourge of far-left terror.  The President signed National Security Presidential Memorandum number 7, outlining a comprehensive strategy to investigate and disrupt Antifa terror networks and their allies.  Last November, the State Department designated four violent far-left extremist groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and there will be more designations soon."

 

Source.

He did it. Zohran did it. ·

2 years.

He did it. Zohran did it. · · 1 like

It is way too early to tell how successful zohran will be. But hard-left mayors have a history of failing.

EU pass comms scanning law to tackle CSAM · · 3 likes

If you give up your privacy for safety, you get neither.

The problem of Taiwan · · 5 likes

Imagine simping for a fascist regime.

[NO FIGHTING THREAD] What does religion mean to you? ·

It doesn't matter because it was completely out of context.

[NO FIGHTING THREAD] What does religion mean to you? ·

Ill take that as "no".

[NO FIGHTING THREAD] What does religion mean to you? ·

Are writing that taking in account the context of the conversation?

[NO FIGHTING THREAD] What does religion mean to you? ·

You are right, you don't know.

[NO FIGHTING THREAD] What does religion mean to you? ·

But the impulses exist, that is my argument. You can fight them, of course, but you would be going against your nature, it will create friction.

Hamas announces dissolution of Gaza governing body, paves way for technocratic committee ·

bogie was right about this place. You two sound like 5th graders.

[NO FIGHTING THREAD] What does religion mean to you? ·

Are you denying human's impulses that are driven by genetics?