In every Civilization title from I-V, the population of a city depended solely upon that city's food production. Civ VI introduced housing capacity and amenities as additional bottlenecks to population growth, which made the game more realistic and, as VI sought to incorporate urban planning elements into the franchise, enjoyable in my judgment.
While housing and amenities served as bottlenecks to population growth, food production still remains the driving force that determines a city's population growth and its ultimate population level. Such a mechanic is, quite simply, comically unrealistic and, I will argue, detrimental to the end-user experience.
It is unrealistic because nearby food production, from the industrial era onward, has almost no correlation to city population growth, level, or density. Most of the world's largest metropolises must import nearly all of their food while many vast areas of farmland such as the interior of the United States, Ukraine, or Russia do not have megalopolises, as Civilization would demand that they have.
It impoverishes the end-user experience because it deprives those civilizations without rich farmland the opportunity to become great powers.
The field of Urban Economics offers an obvious alternative model for determining population size. According to the textbook models, population size is determined by wages, amenities, and housing costs, with wages and housing costs increasing population size and housing costs decreasing it.
Civ VII could replicate this easily by massively increasing food production during the industrial era and then including two features: 1) allowing food to be transported between cities via railroads, or via ports once the "steam engine" technology is researched, so that food effectively becomes a national resource rather than a city-specific one. 2) Making population growth dependent upon production, since wages ultimately depend upon productivity. Cities with higher production per worker will attract more citizens from other cities. This would also depend upon the amenities and the housing capacity of that city as well, however.
I don't believe this would be a complex set of changes from the end user point of view, but it would open up a new set of strategies to those players who were not endowed with rich farmlands.

Whoop as the title says Im some 21 year old dude from riyadh, Saudi Arabia looking to make some new friends as it gets a bit boring and lonely sometimes when youre not really around much people of similar age (I work so I could save up for uni and I work a from home job) and everyone i know is older than me
Im content with the loneliness to some extent and i focus on myself but people are meant to be around other people sometimes and it kinda gets to you. So cant really go wrong with a friend
It would be nice if someone is interested in like walking around the city, playing video games, talking about life, manga, or whatever it is, feel free to reach out, or please recommend events where i can meet people and make new friends!!! Im also big into f1 and cars
Im very fluent in both Arabic and English so everyone is welcome 😄

Whoop as the title says Im some 21 year old dude from riyadh, Saudi Arabia looking to make some new friends as it gets a bit boring and lonely sometimes when youre not really around much people of similar age (I work so I could save up for uni and I work a from home job) and everyone i know is older than me
Im content with the loneliness to some extent and i focus on myself but people are meant to be around other people sometimes and it kinda gets to you. So cant really go wrong with a friend
It would be nice if someone is interested in like walking around the city, playing video games, talking about life, manga, or whatever it is, feel free to reach out, or please recommend events where i can meet people and make new friends!!! Im also big into f1 and cars
Im very fluent in both Arabic and English so everyone is welcome 😄

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Skyblock Anarchy, start your journey on your own island. This will test your technical knowledge of Minecraft. Build amazing mob farms, make long bridges through the sky, use flying machines to travel. Grief, Steal, Raid, PVP, or just Survive! No Rules! No Admins! No P2W!
The seed is public "420"

• TPA
• Use /home to return to your island or bed
• /spawn area to meet other players
• Use a seed map to find structures
• Minihud fully supported
• Distant Horizons works amazing with the server!
• Friendly and helpful community
• Follow in-game advancements for progression
• Fun cosmetic voting rewards
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Welcome to Chunk Salads Ark server!
We run a chill lil community for various game servers. Today we are starting up a brand new server on the Center. We would LOVE to build up our Ark community and get our server bumpin. Our goal was to try and use server settings to recreate the feel of early access days.

• The slow XP progression used to make it so that you had to fully experience every single tier, and we think it made me appreciate the game more and increase our immersion.
  
• We are running VERY low XP, 1x Harvest, 4x Taming, 30x Egg Hatch, 42x Maturation.
  
• We would be open to tribe wars and other shenanigans if we can get some people in. We will also consider opening a PVPVE cluster on Scorched Earth, as well as Aberration when it releases.
  

Please DM if interested, I would be happy to invite you to the discord :).

64': Slovakia 3-0 Wales

Venue: City Arena - Stadión Antona Malatinského
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Slovakia
Martin Dúbravka, Milan Skriniar, Denis Vavro, Dávid Hancko, Peter Pekarík, Stanislav Lobotka, Ondrej Duda, Juraj Kucka, Róbert Bozeník, Lukás Haraslín, Ivan Schranz.
Subs: Marek Rodák, Tomás Suslov, Leo Sauer, Lubomír Tupta, László Bénes, Matús Bero, Sebastián Kósa, Tomás Rigo, Dávid Duris, Norbert Gyömbér, Patrik Hrosovský, Adam Obert, Vernon De Marco, David Strelec, Henrich Ravas.
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Wales
Danny Ward, Ethan Ampadu, Ben Cabango, Jay Da Silva, Fin Stevens, Nathan Broadhead (Lewis Koumas), Josh Sheehan, Jordan James, Kieffer Moore, Daniel James, Brennan Johnson (Wes Burns).
Subs: Charlie Savage, Rabbi Matondo, Joe Low, Liam Cullen, Tom King, Adam Rhys Davies, Matthew Baker, Rubin Colwill, Charlie Crew.
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44' Goal! Slovakia 1, Wales 0. Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) right footed shot from outside the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lukás Haraslín.
56' Goal! Slovakia 2, Wales 0. Róbert Bozeník (Slovakia) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dávid Hancko with a cross.
60' Own Goal by Ethan Ampadu, Wales. Slovakia 3, Wales 0.
60' Substitution, Wales. Lewis Koumas replaces Nathan Broadhead.
60' Substitution, Wales. Wes Burns replaces Brennan Johnson.
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Having seen some talk about Wargames lately, and thinking about the implementation of Artifacts I wanted to put a post together trying to put together my critique with them and why I think they have issues.
In general, I think almost all of them suffer from being largely uninteresting and while this is partly a problem that stems from more broad gameplay issues I think a lot also stem from the implementation.
And I want to kind of break the upgrades down here unit by unit, and explore where I think they succeed and fail and why. As well as a few ways to increase variety. To preface I am operating off the assumption that fleets should be moving away from generally hyper focusing on one unit types and should be combined arms. And that upgrades should offer compelling choice on how each fleet handles its problems and should lay itself out. I will also include easy ideas that are still stat changes, and more out there ones.
For general and universal issues I feel that there's no real reason to specialize, since no ships get significant damage bonuses against any other just driving twenty assault frigates down the throat of a destroyer works about as well as twenty ions. I'd like to see more degrees of specialization where anti strike craft fire struggles against capitals, and anti capital fire is more effective to make specialization more meaningful, which by itself encourages more varied Artifact choices.
I'll just be looking at Hiigaran fleets for now, Incarnate shares many of the same general issues and maybe can be looked at later.
General Artifacts

• Support Systems: There needs to be a corvette support, obvioustly. I also feel that frigate support should not reduce pop cap for other vessels and instead just grant less on its own. These should encourage more varied fleets, not hyperfocusing.
  
• Carrier Upgrades: Assault is just bad, I like what it is doing but frankly it doesn't really need the pop cap decreases, it already costs you a limited slot just to take. Remove the downsides and its at least worth doing sometimes. Guardian is a lot more worthwhile just because of the extra choices, but even then is mid at best but I don't hate it. Frankly I think they are fine as is and need tweaks more then total reworks.
  
• Ship Patterns: They are fine by and large, but regardless of how good or bad what they unlock is the idea they present is amongst the best of the artefacts. They offer a meaningfully different experience to the player and there should be more of them. Balance what they got, but add more.
  
• Totally not Shaped Glass: AKA, danger zone. Again, interesting because the magnitude of its effects are so significant that it can result in some very interesting changes and help define runs. Its just a pretty interesting design. Not always good, but interesting.
  

The Hiigarans

• Recon: The upgrades here just turn recons into interceptors. If I wanted interceptors I should just build interceptors. One pattern should focus on disposable swarm tactics with high increase to cap, mild stat buffs, and RU cost reduction. The other should be fleet support based, move fast, be durable, and have good sensors. Ancillary upgrades to increase alpha damage to encourage hit and run?
  
• Interceptor: Interceptors are just what if inty, but more. Neither pattern meaningfully changes how one wants to use them. I'd change one to an escort pattern with bonuses to range and survivability, focused on creating zones of fire around other ships to clear strike craft. The other could be similar to the harrier where its more dogfight focused. Honestly just not too much design space here?
  
• Bombers: The first pattern I'm actually okay with is here. Fleet bomber is... fine. I'd remove the rate of fire bonus in favor of it being a slow, vulnurable, first strike style of play relying on cloak. But its not bad. I'd like to see a Flak pattern too though that inverts the bomber trope and makes them more focused on dogfighting with large splash radius and area damage, make them garbage against big things but able to shred dense knots of smaller ships. [Hullbreaker has some bonuses there, but not enough focus.]
  
• Railgun Corv: Arguably the least interesting pattern in the game lies here, Vulcan is just boring AND still kind of bad. Siege is less bad, but still kind of weird because the name is a lie. Vulkan is fine but make it a close in pattern where you get closer and brawl, add durability and reduce range. Siege needs a range boost as well to once again create two more defined roles for the most underloved ship in the game. Frankly though I just forget about these constantly so am less sure how to even address their patterns.
  
• Supression Frigate: Sure does exist! Would like to again effectively see a change to make it a long ranged high velocity ammo light craft killer. Snipe supression points as they come in, but honestly this ship just sort of has an identity issue and I'm not sure what patterns could save it.
  
• Support Frigate: Why are you even here? I'm not even sure what patterns you could have, the only one I could think of would be larger repair range or can repair two targets at once.
  
• Assault Frigate: Once again one with a concept I like, Berserker pattern is interesting in concept as you are trading away the signature durability of the assault frigates in return for making them pretty deadly. I'd like to see the damage bonus moved to Warden, and Wardens ROF bonus here. Zerker puts out the dakka, warden focuses more on area control. Warden as mentioned I feel is mostly fine but should be slower and more focused on up front damage and controlling a large area against light craft.
  
• Ion Cannons: These are some of the most questionable patterns in general. Sniper pattern should not just have its range bonus but also a huge damage bonus and rate of fire malus. It should be for spotting and performing powerful alpha strike attacks when massed. Volley pattern should be about high refire rate and agility, should make them turn like they just snorted a line of coke for just constant close in ion fire. [Also durability, and modest speed to actually survive that.] Frankly though ions are just underwhelming in general.
  
• Torpedoes: This is where I'd propose the most radical changes with patterns entirely altering the focus. I'd take a cue from the X games and have them function like M7M from that game. Unpatterned uses normal medium missiles. Bombardment focuses on long range, slow, and damaging torpedoes that focus on capital killing. Pacification entirely changes the missiles to fast tracking swarm munitions that don't do shit to anything bigger then a corvette, but are deadly there.
  

Overall Changes
I'd like to see more fleets and artifacts that focus more on more different playstyle. One where its all about building limited amounts of destroyers and supporting them and starting with guaranteed dessy patterns. One about having very limited fleet size but supporting a battlecruiser [once they don't suck]
Also, for most maps an enormous amount of the play area is functionally unused. Slow down the spawn timer a bit and spread things out to use more of the map and more dimensions within the maps. The biggest culprit is the first mission set with the trench between the big plates, that map uses less then a third of its play area. Also you know, just more maps.
In general there's a lot here, but I really think that if they are going to limit our roster they need to really make sure that any ship with artifacts supports at least two different gameplay feels, in a roguelite mode like this you want the choices to feel like choices and influence how your fleet is built. Right now its just hoping you get the ones that support your fleets 'point' and having a shit run if it doesn't. You want multiple paths to a successful fleet. But anyway this was too long, and I hope the sleep deprived rambling helps people put some feedback into solid form to help push BBI into the right direction here. Because despite Wargames being rough there still is a lot of promise here.

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• Use /home to return to your island or bed
• /spawn area to meet other players
• Use a seed map to find structures
• Minihud fully supported
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Hey so I’ve been wondering, I understand the world is set to a 4 player maximum. Can these 4 slots be interchanged with other players? My sister is great at base building and I want to get her in the game and help me design my base. Our ‘4th player’ has only hopped on a couple times (I don’t want to mess with his progress at all, but was curious if someone else could fill his slot while he isn’t playing) I have a feeling the early game would bother my sister (no good weapons or armor and getting killed easily by lower tier enemies) I just don’t want to convince her to buy the game and her not enjoy the start. Need be I can make a new world and get some gear for her to actually be able to enjoy it, but I was curious if she could just log in to the world I’ve been grinding on with friends and get a feel of the game with some progress and see the potential base options (her fav part of game and my least favorite lol) Any help is much appreciated:) If she enjoys the game I would be more than happy to make a world with her, but now that I’m 200 days in on my play through I don’t really wanna start from square 1 and her just not enjoy it and ‘waste’ my time. Thanks short teens :p

~Gun Mage Episode 2: A Frosty Reception~
~Planet: Azuria~
I already knew what it was when I got here, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t still annoying. Before the I’d left, I took the book with me, adorned my power armor, projectile resistant mask, and the robe of the magus hunter core. I took Hunter and boarded my ship for a four-hour flight down south, making it to the country of Bastion. It took me another thirty minutes to get to Slade City proper and land.
I’d found a decent place to stay for the night, but when I woke up in the morning to start poking around the city, it was just as I thought, no one wanted to talk to me. Of course, it didn’t help that I was in a set of purple power armor, a gold mask, and black robes with an intimidating cowl. No doubt I came across as the magic boogey man, but hell, I still had a job to do and I was going to see this through.
I’d spent the better part of a day asking different people on the streets if there were any strange sightings, but surprise, surprise, no one saw anything. Finally, after searching in the fourth district I found an officer, who finally gave me a little bit of her time. Well, it helps that she happened to be pinned down by a couple of thugs and I’d come to her aid.
You see I happened to be walking down a particularly seedy part of the Fourth District when I heard gunfire coming from a particularly grungy alley. Normally it’s against my principles to head towards gunfire, but considering I needed information then perhaps this was my chance. There was a single dumpster and three guys were laughing while standing in the open, shooting a few low caliber guns at an officer who was standing against a brick wall. There was blood dripping from her right hand and her gun was on the cracked concrete.
“Dance for us cop, maybe we’ll let you live.” One joked, while another took a shot after a swig of what I could only guess was a fowl smelling beer, “You’ve got no gun, you’ve got no friends, all you got is us baby!” They all laughed and I was officially over it.
“Bolt shot.” I held up Hunter as my revolver charged with electric energy. I took aim and fired, but it wasn’t a bullet that left the gun, rather a bolt of lightning that struck the first man, causing him to scream spasm, and fall to the ground. The other three squealed in surprise, “A mage, what are they doing in,” a second one began, but before he could finish, I shot a second round that caught him in the chest. Like the first he came crashing to the ground and it seemed the others were spurred to act as a result.
They began firing, but each shot bounced off my armor like they were throwing stones at me. I pulled my best interpretation of a maniacal villain, giving them my best evil laugh, “Fools, now I will experiment on your rotted corpses!” They screamed, but it wasn’t long before I shot the other two and disabled them before they could attract any other attention. The cop ran, dove, and picked up her gun to aim it at me.
Really, I just saved her and she aimed a pistol at me, well I guess I did act like a crazy cultist back there. So, I tried to be reasonable and put my gun away and held my hands up, “Sorry it was just an act, I was having a little fun at their expense.”
She kept the gun raised, despite the fact that she knew it wouldn’t even damage my armor. I rolled my eyes, “Look uh,”
“Sarisa.”
“Sarisa, you’ve got four disabled thugs, you’re still alive, and I put my gun away, so I can’t be that bad.”
“I’m sorry, I just got shot, a bunch of weirdos cornered me, and now a mage comes out shouting about how he’s going to experiment on their corpses.” She began and I thought that maybe poking fun at those thugs was a bad idea. She reached for a few zipties in her pack and bound the four. I kept my distance, though she was struggling to get them on with one hand. As she came to the third thug she looked up, “That wasn’t funny by the way.”
“I thought was.”
“It’s not especially when the Third District has gone through hell over the past few days.” She moved on to the final thug and wrapped him up before returning her attention to me, “Weird stuff like zombie attacks, people being bitten and the like.”
Finally, I was getting somewhere as this was the first lead I had, “These zombie attacks, was there anything off about them.”
“You mean aside from them being dead?”
“Well yeah, did they move as units, act in a manner that might be atypical.”
“Look man where I’m from the dead stay dead, I doubt the officers had time to analyze them for the subtleties you’re asking about.” She finished. Before she could start hauling them back to her car I asked, “One more thing, would you happen to know if there were other magic users involved?”
“Well, no, but Third District has its own local vigilante if that’s what you want. I’m not sure whether they can use magic or not, but he might have been the reason that the officers escaped.” I thanked her and helped her get the four criminals into the back of her squad hover-car.
She offered to ride me to the Third Precinct where I hoped to find answers. As I got out, I wished her farewell and headed towards the squat brick building, where two Trevaxi guards stood. Trevaxi were natives of Azuria just like humans, Sansarians, Nymeans, and Tarak, but they were a bit hardier than the rest of us. They were humanoid shaped gems with glowing eyes of different colors. The two in front of me happened to be emerald colored, each stood ready to gun me down with shotguns.
I nodded at them as I tried to walk into the station, but the on the left stopped me, “What’s your business mage?” He said in a commanding voice. I backed up a little, “I’m here to look into some strange,”
“We don’t need your assistance, now head back to your academy and stay there.” Well, as expected as that response was, I couldn’t turn back.
“Look my man, I need to speak with your chief, because there may be several magic users involved and I’m not sure,”
“You aren’t sure, you mages never are, now get lost before I throw you into the streets.” I looked back and the streets were crowded, no one particularly paid us any mind. This was not the sort of treatment that the station wanted on its record, but who would believe a gutless mage over a veteran officer?
I had to get in and this guy wasn’t going to stop me, “Look, I’m after this magic user because,”
“I don’t care.” I was starting to get pissed. Now, I wasn’t stupid enough to pull Hunter out, but instead lowered my shoulder and charged towards the door. It was stupid, I wasn’t going to get far, but hell I had to try something. Luckily, I took the Trevaxi by surprise and burst through the doors.
To be fair it was a nice office, the desk seemed nice and orderly, but I couldn’t quite get past all the officers with drawn pistols and laser pistols aimed my way. I quickly held my hands up to thwart any ideas of shooting me, but I got the feeling I was pushing it, maybe just a little. A very serious looking woman with a scar on her right eye walked forward, “You’ve got about ten seconds to tell me what you’re here for.”
“I was here looking for two individuals a vigilante and a necromancer, but your men here wouldn’t let me enter peaceably.” She turned to the two officers and gave them a stern look. I’m glad they couldn’t see my face because I was smiling at their misfortune; couldn’t be me. “Look I’m not trying to get in the way or start any trouble but,”
The woman held up her hand to stop me, “Listen, I know you mean well, but we don’t really trust mages, hell half the reason we’re in this mess is because of strange magic.” I sighed, knowing I wasn’t going to get much more in the way of information here. What I didn’t know is that there was another officer there who was paying attention to our conversation.
“While I’m sorry that my boys caused you trouble, I can’t exactly put you on the case with my officers. Your presence here will only cause a greater distraction from the mass of work we already have. Boys if you’ll escort him out.” Before the Trevaxi officers could take me out, a blue scaled Tarak walked towards us, “Hey boss I’ll take care of our mage friend here, I’ll even take him far away from the station.” This seemed to agree with the sergeant, so the officer took me out to his patrol car.
I got in and he started the hover-car then we set off into the mean streets of Slade City. The city was a lot larger than I remembered it being, repulsor roads arced throughout the city as neon lights and signs tried to grab our attention. Traffic was heavy, but this didn’t seem to bother the officer at all. After waiting for a few minutes till we came to an overcrowded part of the city, the officer introduced himself, “I’m Shos, Shos Vozza. You’ll have to excuse my colleagues, but we really have had our hands full.”
“I’m Jaden Blackthorn and to be quite frank I kind of expected that. Why don’t you tell me about this problem you all have?” I asked, but the officer held up a finger, “Look I couldn’t ask for your help with this case without at least letting me treat you to some food at a nice café here in town.” Well, this was a shock, an officer in Slade City that wasn’t jerk. We came around to a parking lot then landed then headed into the bottom floor of a large skyscraper that served as the headquarters for the Magia Technica one of the largest magical tech companies in the country. At the bottom, however, was a café with a classic wood finish and a few baristas running about in aprons.
I sat down with Shos and the two of us pulled up a holo-menu and ordered drinks and I ordered a blueberry muffin. We sat and ate for a few moments before I finally asked, “So, about this necromancer?”
He sighed, “We don’t know much, he’s worked in the shadows for so long, with the occasional zombie attack here and there, but nothing to catch him though. I’ve been working with a vigilante who calls himself the Shadow. He’s a mage just like you, though a bit less refined since he doesn’t have the same experience.”
“Then he may need help to bring down the necromancer. Is there any way we can get in contact with Shadow?”
“Of course, he’s actually a friend of mine, but I’m sure if the rest of the force found out I was working with a vigilante, then I’d lose my job.” He responded. I wanted to assure him that since he was working with a registered mage, he wouldn’t lose his job, but seeing how quickly they wanted me out, I’m sure that wouldn’t be true either. Shos gave me a pointed look, “I need two things from you if we’re to meet Shadow.”
“Name them.”
“The first, obviously, is that you keep my involvement with the vigilante a secret. The second is that you treat Shadow well. He’s not a bad guy, and he tries to do good with the magic that he was given. I know you’re a mage hunter so I think it goes without saying that the academy wants him put away.”
I stopped and thought about what he was saying for a minute. Most mage hunters were killers, but that was not all there was to our job. We were always meant to bring in mages alive to help them get their powers under control, so that they could contribute to society. I leaned back after eating a bite of my muffin before addressing his concern, “Look, I’m actually here to find a guy name Zerik Shin, a mage that specializes in the School of the Unseen.” This seemed to take the cop aback, so the Shadow and Zerik might be one and the same, “A colleague of mine, Dr. Isabela Silva, wanted me to bring him to Arxor Academy so that we could teach him there. This necromancer and vigilante kind of gave me the first leads to this guy’s whereabouts.”
“So, you’re a friend of Dr. Silva,” He laughed, “Man, I wish you’d opened with that.” This girl got around, didn’t she? I guess mages with the ability to heal were always in high demand and Izzy was one of the best. Shos seemed to relax a bit more, “Listen, I’m supposed to meet with the Shadow in a few hours. How about I drop you off, wherever you’re staying so you can make preparations and I’ll do the same. I’ll pick you up so we can go give him some backup.”
“I’d like that.” We shook hands then got up to leave the café. He drove me to the hotel I was staying, where I began to make preparations for the long night ahead of us.

This game I'm gonna talk about was included in a disc in a pc magazine in the early 2000s (an Italian one, so it might not have been part of a disc in other countries).
The game I'm trying to look for was a city builder where you managed a village of vikings, with an isometric view, I thought it was from The Settlers series but it's not. The only thing that I can remember is that it hand kind of a deep gameplay with a lot of details (for the time); I remember the speed of the villagers was increased if they had shoes and I also remember the blacksmiths needing a high faith value (that could be recharged by sending them to the temple) to forge anything. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hey all. I really don't like playing games in landscape mode anymore, only portrait. The only game I play now is SOULS.
The ideal game I would want is a vertical version of a game similar to Rise of Kingdoms (town building and wars), but haven't seen anything like it. Please no highly pixelated stuff or text-based stuff.
Any suggestions?

Welcome to Chunk Salads Ark server!
We run a chill lil community for various game servers. Today we are starting up a brand new server on the Center. We would LOVE to build up our Ark community and get our server bumpin. Our goal was to try and use server settings to recreate the feel of early access days.

• The slow XP progression used to make it so that you had to fully experience every single tier, and we think it made me appreciate the game more and increase our immersion.
  
• We are running VERY low XP, 1x Harvest, 4x Taming, 30x Egg Hatch, 42x Maturation.
  
• We would be open to tribe wars and other shenanigans if we can get some people in. We will also consider opening a PVPVE cluster on Scorched Earth, as well as Aberration when it releases.
  

Please DM if interested, I would be happy to invite you to the discord :).

I personally haven't bought any atoms since the change and I'm letting my 1st lapse
Ever since the change I've noticed I'm not as interested in the game, after 1300 hours of being excited every day to play, the new score system single handedly made the whole thing kinda boring.
The inconsistent levels needed to claim prizes made me forget what I'm even grinding for. At least with the old system I got something every level, even if I didn't want it, there was a reminder I was making progress
Now this shit, all these levels and I can't even claim all the stuff
And the lack of an actual board to build when I'm done to show everyone "hey guys I finished this season" took away something special
They made this game like all the others with this crap when we had something unique
And every new player that has seen my old boards and asked what they were, agreed they'd rather have that system too, I keep hearing "aw man, that sounds so much better " it was buddy, it was
But if enough of us submit tickets and stop buying stuff they might change it back
Speak with your wallet, it's all they really listen to.

A tall, dark guy from Europe here, looking to make some real friends.
I'm all about embracing life to the fullest - when I'm not binging something sci-fi, fantasy or horror, you'll find me getting hands-on and crafty in the kitchen. The outdoors calls to me too - hiking and nighttime city walks especially.
Career-driven but living every day with a positive attitude, I'm open to connecting with cool people from all walks of life, but prefer people around my age and from Europe (time zones sucks). Intellectual sparks, shared interests, or just meshing personalities - I'm game for whatever organic friendships arise. If you think we could vibe, don't hesitate to reach out. Let's see where this goes!

A tall, dark guy from Europe here, looking to make some real friends.
I'm all about embracing life to the fullest - when I'm not binging something sci-fi, fantasy or horror, you'll find me getting hands-on and crafty in the kitchen. The outdoors calls to me too - hiking and nighttime city walks especially.
Career-driven but living every day with a positive attitude, I'm open to connecting with cool people from all walks of life, but prefer people around my age and from Europe (time zones sucks). Intellectual sparks, shared interests, or just meshing personalities - I'm game for whatever organic friendships arise. If you think we could vibe, don't hesitate to reach out. Let's see where this goes!

Hi all, I am currently in the process of upgrading my computer which is about 5 years old so it needs it. I am keeping my case as well as my storage and RAM, otherwise everything else is new. I'm not future-proofing it or going high-end parts as I simply do not have the budget and am slow on work at the moment. (Am a freelancer.) So cost-effectiveness goes a long way for me.
Here's the parts I have for my build as of right now: CPU: Intel Core i7-12700KF 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE Motherboard: MSI MAG B660 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory: 16GB DDR4 PSU: 600W
So all I have left is the GPU. I was considering between these three: RTX 3060 RTX 3060 Ti RTX 4060
I was going to go for the 4060 initially, but I've heard some lackluster reviews on it compared to the 3060 Ti, that it wasn't as much of an upgrade for the price. I was only considering the 3060 for the VRAM, as I might want to play at higher resolutions in the future. (I'm 1080p atm, but I would like 1440p or even 4K which I know many people recommend at least 12GB VRAM for that.)
What I use my rig for: I game, but not often AAA titles or anything; the last really graphically intense game I played was Baldur's Gate 3. I also am a graphic designer and illustrator, so I use a lot of graphically intensive software for image editing as well as digital painting. I also occasionally work in 3D, mostly just to edit models and the like - I don't do scene rendering for animations or anything.
I need to preface I live in Canada, so price for GPUs isn't as competitve here as the US, and this is all in CAD. A 4060 brand new is about $400, whereas a 3060 is about $390 - the same. 3060 Ti's are a lot more expensive for whatever reason, and I'm finding them new as low as $600 and up to $1,000 in some cases - but I can buy them used from eBay for about the same price as the other two.
I've only done prebuilds in the past. This is my first build so any advice would be appreciated, speak to me like I'm dumb because I probably am when it comes to this stuff. :)

A tall, dark guy from Europe here, looking to make some real friends.
I'm all about embracing life to the fullest - when I'm not binging something sci-fi, fantasy or horror, you'll find me getting hands-on and crafty in the kitchen. The outdoors calls to me too - hiking and nighttime city walks especially.
Career-driven but living every day with a positive attitude, I'm open to connecting with cool people from all walks of life, but prefer people around my age and from Europe (time zones sucks). Intellectual sparks, shared interests, or just meshing personalities - I'm game for whatever organic friendships arise. If you think we could vibe, don't hesitate to reach out. Let's see where this goes!

A tall, dark guy from Europe here, looking to make some real friends.
I'm all about embracing life to the fullest - when I'm not binging something sci-fi, fantasy or horror, you'll find me getting hands-on and crafty in the kitchen. The outdoors calls to me too - hiking and nighttime city walks especially.
Career-driven but living every day with a positive attitude, I'm open to connecting with cool people from all walks of life, but prefer people around my age and from Europe (time zones sucks). Intellectual sparks, shared interests, or just meshing personalities - I'm game for whatever organic friendships arise. If you think we could vibe, don't hesitate to reach out. Let's see where this goes!

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Skyblock Anarchy, start your journey on your own island. This will test your technical knowledge of Minecraft. Build amazing mob farms, make long bridges through the sky, use flying machines to travel. Grief, Steal, Raid, PVP, or just Survive! No Rules! No Admins! No P2W!
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• TPA
• Use /home to return to your island or bed
• /spawn area to meet other players
• Use a seed map to find structures
• Minihud fully supported
• Distant Horizons works amazing with the server!
• Friendly and helpful community
• Follow in-game advancements for progression
• Fun cosmetic voting rewards
• Custom build of CarpetSkyAdditions running on 1.20.6

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A tall, dark guy from Europe here, looking to connect with some real bros.
I'm all about embracing life to the fullest - when I'm not binging something sci-fi, fantasy or horror, you'll find me getting hands-on and crafty in the kitchen. The outdoors calls to me too - hiking and nighttime city walks especially.
Career-driven but living every day with a positive attitude, I'm open to connecting with cool people from all walks of life, but prefer people around my age and from Europe (time zones sucks). Intellectual sparks, shared interests, or just meshing personalities - I'm game for whatever organic friendships arise. If you think we could vibe, don't hesitate to reach out. Let's see where this goes!