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[jper4]

Fox With A Shotgun, on 04 October 2017 - 06:09 PM, said:

But those can actually happen. I mean, if you had a world with a really thin atmosphere with hardly any greenhouse gases, you can theoretically have a tundra world closer to the star than a continental one.

A black hole, though? That thing doesn't even emit thermal radiation XD It sucks it in!

well it would depend on the distances involved I suppose. figure a continental world would be around earth orbit range (assuming a type G star) so the tundra world being inside of that orbit would be getting more sunlight from the star which would make it more likely to melt any ice that may have been there, assuming enough of an atmosphere that wouldn't cause it to subline directly to a gas. it would be like if mars and venus swapped orbits. all the ice on mars would melt due to higher temps from it's new orbit. I can see a desert world or an ocean world inside a continental world orbit but I don't think you can hit the lower temps for a tundra world in those conditions.

I suppose if there was a tidally locked thinner atmosphere world the ribbon between the day/night side could have a tundra environment between the melting of the ices on the edge of the dark side by whatever heat transfers from the light side. but not enough to classify the whole world that way I wouldn't think. only other scenario that might work would be a bigger tidally locked world with a thick atmosphere to transfer heat to the dark side to melt the accumulated ice there to some degree and make it tundra-ish for that half of the planet?

but yeah no way a black hole should have anything habitable around it- unless the planet hitched a ride on a star the black hole is about to eat- which isn't the case there.

[AJBennett]

The event browser is STILL glitched!

[Zergling]

Fox With A Shotgun, on 04 October 2017 - 06:09 PM, said:

A black hole, though? That thing doesn't even emit thermal radiation XD It sucks it in!

If the black hole is actively sucking matter in, then the accretion disc will be emitting all sorts of radiation. Most of that radiation would be x-rays (a LOT of x-rays at that), so I can't see a habitable world happening.

Edited by Zergling, 05 October 2017 - 09:17 PM.

[Bulletsponge0]

So, I've been pugging in FW lately...an wow... what are people thinking in that game mode?? I've had a few different drops where someone on my team has been killed by defense turrets within the first 1:30 of the drop. How does that happen?

[Fox With A Shotgun]

The events truly brought out the worst in people's builds.

I saw some truly headshaking builds that belong nowhere. Not even a Mechlab.

There was an Annihilator plodding away with 2x HGauss...and 4 flamers. Yes, really. 4 FLAMERS. On something that can barely even move.
There was an Executioner with 7 flamers in the right hand - and the rest was Small Pulses. No, not even MPL or LPL. SMALL pulses. Granted, the EXE moves faster than other assaults, but that's not saying much.
A King Crab with 2x ALRM20...and nothing else.

Thankfully, these were all on the enemy team, and I could just plop a NARC on them and wait for them to throw salt around. If they were on my team...-shudders- I think I might need to go on a low salt diet.

[Trenchbird]

"These twin LRM20s will get me a headshot kill, I just know it" - Unknown King Crab

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Catten Hart, on 08 October 2017 - 03:27 PM, said:

"These twin LRM20s will get me a headshot kill, I just know it" - Unknown King Crab

Yeah, it was so bizarre. That guy must've been riding high on a lottery win or something xD

Anyway, poetic justice to have it NARC-LRMed to death.

[Cloves]

I have a "W" problem, and have been called out on it by a longtime friend. Anyone know where I can go for therapy to combat my addiction to being first in?

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Cloves, on 09 October 2017 - 09:38 AM, said:

I have a "W" problem, and have been called out on it by a longtime friend. Anyone know where I can go for therapy to combat my addiction to being first in?

I heard that the A clinic and D clinic are good places to go to!

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 09 October 2017 - 06:27 PM.

[mad kat]

What on earth is wrong with hit reg today? At least half of my snub nose PPC hits aren't registering!

[Fox With A Shotgun]

Airstrikes can go to hell.

One single bloody airstrike, and my Raven goes from 100% to 26%. What the flipping f*ck is that crap.

[Trenchbird]

I spent every one of the four matches I played today wanting to slam my head in a car door.

Every match a loss-barely scraping by with one or two kills, and pulling most of the score for my team. Who proceeded to blow a massive lead in kills every match. We blew a 6-kill lead in Skirmish.

Seriously, a six-kill lead. SIX. S-I-X. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. HOW DO YOU BLOW A SIX POINT LEAD.

I hate "Get kill" challenges. At least in Halo Reach it's easy enough to get "Kill things!" challenges because people aren't as suicidal and fanatical about getting that one last kill, leaving you, a person playing the way he always would, in the dirt as they scramble to kill that one Arctic Cheetah in a freaking Highlander IIC.

Also, on the bright side, shoutout to one Atlas AS7-S(L) pilot. He may have told me to shut up, and is kind of a jerk for not wanting me to remind our Highlander IIC to stop being a moron, but he proceeded to take on four enemy mechs and take down two before going down. He backed up his 'mech's abilities very well, and I respect him for that.

[Bulletsponge0]

mad kat, on 10 October 2017 - 12:03 PM, said:

What on earth is wrong with hit reg today? At least half of my snub nose PPC hits aren't registering!

"hit reg" is an absolute joke whenever I fight against an enemy with 100+ ping... suddenly locust takes more damage than an atlas... Crit red CT on the enemy? no worries, it only takes another 240 damage worth of shots to kill it....

[Trenchbird]

I want to bash my head against a rock even more now. BECAUSE NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GO ON A LOSING STREAK.

Seriously, why am I constantly getting stuck on the ******* "Disco assault, all remaining are LRM boats/idiots/unable to aim/ignorant of objectives" team. Alternatively, I get focused on for what amounts to an absurd reason. "Easy kill Kodiak in front of a Huntsman? Nah, fam, lemme kill that fresh Huntsman with my Lancemates before that".

Edited by Catten Hart, 11 October 2017 - 06:48 PM.

[jper4]

Cloves, on 09 October 2017 - 09:38 AM, said:

I have a "W" problem, and have been called out on it by a longtime friend. Anyone know where I can go for therapy to combat my addiction to being first in?

you may be a victim of the volunteer system. in this event the team commander (angry guy yelling at you while your dropship is en route) expects a volunteer to go forth and engage the enemy. at this point, the remainder of your team ,in stereo, proceeds to use their "S" drive, leaving your mech in the uuncomfortable position of "volunteering" to lead the attack as you have clearly stepped up to the task at hand to any casual observer.

the only known cure is to engage your own "S" drive immediately in the hopes that you possess a faster "S" drive than the rest of your team forcing someone else to be the "volunteer" for the drop. symptoms most often occur in domination matches I have found. avoiding those may also be useful in helping to cut down on the amount of volunteering you find yourself doing.

<nods wisely>

[loopala]

wow just wow! bought a new toaster and OMG this game is playable again. the old toaster was barley getting over 10fps, with everything on low or off. should of done this years ago

[Trenchbird]

You know you are in a foul mood when you tell a teammate LRM Trial Stalker that he deserves every second of getting backstabbed to death.

Also, I have never before been so solidified in my hatred of the map voting system as when we have an entire team consisting of about 60% LRM boats... Who die to a brawler push on Polar Highlands. The map they freaking voted for, so they could NOT die to a brawler push. This is why friends don't let friends LRM, unless said friend is ACTUALLY FREAKING GOOD AT LRMING, as opposed to "Missileturretonline".

And in my new policy of 'one bad must be countered by one good', I got validation for the first time on my good performance in a Linebacker today. Feels good, man. And I also broke two successive loss streaks back-to-back with 4+ kill games. Both of which made up for my 8 0-kill-loss matches. Although, the road to getting a 2.0 K/D is certainly more treacherous than I thought.

Edited by Catten Hart, 12 October 2017 - 09:37 PM.

[Fox With A Shotgun]

So I visited a friend's place and played MWO a bit on his acc. He had an executioner, which I tried to play. Suddenly, I could finally look over short buildings. I could see over ridges. I could actually look over other mechs, instead of staring into their crotches.

My perception of how tall it is after playing mostly short lights:

https://youtu.be/jEZ-n0PChRA

Edited by Fox With A Shotgun, 17 October 2017 - 06:06 AM.

[loopala]

Yep the EXE is a tall mech. I have been known to flip from a LCT to an EXE.. fun fun

[SuperFunkTron]

Too keep running on the Executor train right now, I just pulled over 1,000 damage in QP match with it. I forgot why I stopped using this mech so long ago.