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DiD Round 4 Talks; competition chat
Topic Started: Dec 29 2016, 12:50 PM (1,203 Views)
neildarkstar
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Honestly, talking to you is always helpful Sere. For Christmas, I bought wifey and I each a tablet so we could watch Netflix or play games at hospitals and Doctors offices. I suspect I could run files on the tablet while playing my desktop, but that hadn't occurred to me... until you mentioned my phone (which I hate passionately).
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Well, I hate them passionately too! But in a case where I couldn't use two screens (or three.... maybe....) for whatever reason, I'd do my best to set up a boost to use my phone (which doesn't work here at the house, because I don't have LOS to the tower - so I'd have to pay a bundle for a boost antenna - but since I don't at this point have the problem, yay me!)

So, hopefully you'll be able to figure out something with the tablets. You might even get to have three screens yourself!

And I do occasionally run extra stuff on my laptop - since I don't have three screens. Yet.
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Heh, I have an old HP laptop that I haven't even booted up since... uhmmm... 2006? Unfortunately, it's not even worth the price of a new battery, eh?
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Well, I have a couple of old ones - they both still boot on the power cables. The oldest one is an IBM I bought used in 2002. It has win 98SE on it. The other one is probably 12 years old now, runs XP. In a real pinch, I could access the files on them (pretty much everything from my D drive), but I wouldn't be able to get online with the IBM (it only used an external modem, the which I no longer have) and I wouldn't trust XP online any more due to no security updates forever now....

In a serious problem situation, if my PC wasn't available for whatever reason, or my reasonably new laptop, I'd use my kindle. MAN, that's awkward.... but if you're patient it DOES work.
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I bought wifey a Kindle Fire a year or two back, but she's never used it that I know of.
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I wore out two fires - mine AND my husband's. The batteries weren't the best - and you have to send kindles back to amazon to get new battery packs installed. In the long run it's cheaper to buy a new kindle - with all the new stuff, and better battery life.

I did use my fire to get online and send emails through gmail.com - as I said, it wasn't easy.... but I had clients who were expecting me to do things that weren't going to be happening due to my new laptop (not this one) frying everything when I booted it one morning. So I had to figure out how to let people know what was going on - and the fire was it. But it was NOT easy. I had trouble getting it connected to the the wifi at the RV park, and when it did connect I had trouble keeping it connected. I think it was more to do with the wifi - similar to what I have, but with a LOT more people using it.... And those little bitty quasi-keyboards are MADDENING.
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Other than a ton of graphic/ body face/ floral.. texture.. hair, tat's, eye's, beard, .. message box control, archive management...etc... theses are the mod's that "change" something.

- A Quality World map
+ ASIS
- Convenient Horses ( vanilla)
+ Deadly Dragons ( vanilla settings)
+ Enemy Enhancer ( vanilla settings)
- Grimoire
+ Northern Encounters
+ Sea of Spirits ( going to count these two as 1...unless someone think's they should be counted each on their own...as one only effect's the character IF they get in the water...the other only in the North areas)
+ Immersive Creatures
- Unique Treasures ( will not sell any item.. I just like stealing "different stuff")
- Divine Elegance<<< taking out of load order...very nice looking stuff...very OP... not competition stuff!
( I generally use SKyPe but I can't figure out which way it would go, some depend's on perk settings... 3/2 per level up is balanced, 2/1 is OP...1/1 is weak... I'll miss it, but I really can't see a way to make it work 1/1...


Edited by Areial, Jan 3 2017, 02:42 AM.
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I'm planning on using SSE for the competition, and I only have two or perhaps three mods that change anything as as far as I know. One is "Unarmored Priest King Masks" which allows the masks to be used as clothing (unsure if that's a plus or minus). Then there is vivid Weathers, but the only change it makes from a difficulty standpoint is decreased visibility and darker nights and dungeons. Seems to me that's a minus, eh?

Last is WICO. I don't know if it's a plus or minus either. It basically changes NPCs and the PC to a more aesthetically pleasing appearance, but it also adds things like Witcher armor (since I play only females generally, and the armor is male only, I don't know how that counts either). I thjink it also adds two companions, but I've never seen them. I don't use companions either...

Anyway, check it out and see what you think.

It's here.
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Well if it makes it darker, then it would be a plus... I didn't add in my graphic mod's ( Ruffled Feather , CoT & Imaginator) which do darken the game...I guess I could add the 3 as one or two and then add back in wearable lanterns as a minus..even out)

For this round the Unarmored Priest Mask's would not be a -( minus) because we don't have alteration, but IF you could use flesh spell's...it would be something that could help you..not make the game harder.

The companion's would be a - in the overhaul... it doesn't say if the armor is level listed, which is what I had to find out with Divine Elegance.... I would look this round, if they are male only then they would not count at all... if their are fem armors now or added later, then as long as they are level listed, they are a null...

I took out many of my mod's that added simple things, like growing apples and tomatoes, that would be a definite - ( minus) as it would help me make stews... I'll re-look at many of my mod's with that in mind, but in the opposite direction... I know the thing's that helped... but some hindered ...but only slightly.

Edit: but that is why I said a "trial run".. cause it's hard to get it right on the first try... if it's not a real score that effects everyone, then as long as we are all in the ++ on our list's, it's not really doing more for us than if the game was vanilla...just more what we are used to day to day.
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Not a fan of difficulty scaling for this round. No crafting at seems like suicide on higher levels.
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Hmmm, our ranch style house was built in 1935, knob and tube was removed at some point, but electrical sucks (only 3 outlets have the 3 prong ground and I think they faked it). I know I typed that Kay, but the rattin' frattin' autocheck gremlin stole it! I just Know it! :teehee:

Still oil furnace, but we have would stove and fireplace as well. Including a coal burning pot belly stove in the basement just in case power goes out, so we can prevent the pipes from freezing. Only ever fired up that stove once just to be sure it worked.

Still, this house was solidly built and withstands our current -22F morning without having to have the furnace run constantly. :)
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I keep notebooks.

Shits written in a notebook on my desk, along with my load order.

Just started a new notebook too, need to copy my poison recipes.

Old electrical is what Mikael is fixing before (hopefully) I get there. He's still got old ceramic fuses. House was built in 40s-50s...ish. much of the wiring is about 15 years old but he wants a new circuit for my computer.

As for alt tab, I know SSE had an issue where you couldn't alt tab out at launch. Thought they fixed it. I always just closed the game, looked my stuff up, and reopened anyway because of the cursor bug irritating me.

Then I got a smartphone...
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I never had any issue with SSE - it's only updated once, and that was before they pushed the "fix" for the alt-tab issue some people were having.

SSE lets me atl-tab just like Oldrim does - always has. I still think a lot of it is to do with people having only one screen. Also, IIRC when daughter still had AMI GPUs, she had all kinds of trouble with alt-tab in WoW, which I never had with NVIDIA cards. I haven't had AMI in so many years (other than desktop and laptop) I have no idea if that's still a thing.

I order machines with AMI backends, and order NVIDIA cards for them - and inevitably some dork from whatever company it is emails me to ask why I would want an NVIDIA card in an AMI box. *sigh*
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Heh, I've got a "smart phone" but it's unfortunately a special education variety of student... Someday I'm going to launch it toward the moon to see if it can function like an exploding Space X rocket...

I would have thought it's just me, but I handed the thing to the "experts" and they couldn't make it work either. So I handed it to a 10-year old who broke down in tears after 15 minutes... So I hadda buy the kid an ice cream just to get him to quit crying.

the other day my daughter called me. I was glad to hear from here, but when I asked her why she called, she said I'd called her first about 10 minutes earlier. My phone had been on a charger for the last three hours, and nobody had even been close to it. Later, I TRIED to call my daughter, but it just wouldn't do it.

I tell ya, the thing is demon possessed!
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I'm also with Kane. Difficulty scaling might be suicide.

I can do no crafting up to Master pretty easily but on Legendary it just made me want to pull out teeth. It was doable, but dear sweet Raptor Jesus. Put a full quiver into some things.
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I have my Chrome book... pause the game, look what ever up... I also have some thing's written in a notebook, Console commands ... I don't have alchemy recipe's... any character that want's to use alchemy get's to figure it out themselves... cause... other than the basic's, I don't remember them.

Micheal, laugh's his ass off at me... cause a character will pause outside a cave, ( mental image of finger to lips, tapping teeth)... "Have I went in that cave before... I don't think so...maybe.. I really don't remember that name... from a mod or vanilla, *name of character* is busy right now maybe later".. yes, I do go their. I don't have a list of place's I have never been and because my characters never do everything.. I know their are places I have never been...
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I never had any issue with SSE - it's only updated once, and that was before they pushed the "fix" for the alt-tab issue some people were having.

SSE lets me atl-tab just like Oldrim does - always has. I still think a lot of it is to do with people having only one screen. Also, IIRC when daughter still had AMI GPUs, she had all kinds of trouble with alt-tab in WoW, which I never had with NVIDIA cards. I haven't had AMI in so many years (other than desktop and laptop) I have no idea if that's still a thing.

I order machines with AMI backends, and order NVIDIA cards for them - and inevitably some dork from whatever company it is emails me to ask why I would want an NVIDIA card in an AMI box. *sigh*
Never had that problem and my current card is AMD. Not with WoW or Skyrim legendary edition.

I *am* running one monitor, and have been since I moved. I will be after the move too. No desk space, and my second monitor was just an oldie non HD one I had.

I have a new monitor coming in Sweden.
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LoL... well then... we can do with out the lvl scaling... pick-your-own-difficulty, with multiplier? or everyone on XXX?
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I'd go with a multiplier myself.
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I'd guess a multiplier would work out best. NO matter what difficulty you chose, somebody would be unhappy, then they'd cry and their sweaters would start to shrink... Wait, that might not be ALL bad... Eh... oh, nevermind.
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