tl;dr: safe to skip.
No casual or exploring mode, all PvP. Must be sponsored by two previously existing players, and their in-game experience completely influences yours.
You can choose your own username but you have to play for 18 years and face disdain from some players
You can change your username, just depends where you are.
I tried to change my username. Twice! But the amount of time and paperwork and legal hoops to get it done was ridiculous. Plus, the state I was living in at the time required that I justify my change with a court appearance, and the judge would decide whether my reasoning was justified. And I had 30 days to complete the whole process from start to finish or all my paperwork would be invalidated and I’d have to start all over again. Most appointments I needed had to be scheduled over a month out already! Some required 4-6 weeks to process paperwork and get back to me.
Another state I tried it in required I make a formal, public declaration in a newspaper or on a TV broadcast or something. I couldn’t just change my username on legal records, I needed to document it publicly for the world to be involved in my business.
So I said “fuck that” and kept my current username. I just tell everyone to call me by my preferred username, as I’ve done all my life.
Another state I tried it in required I make a formal, public declaration in a newspaper or on a TV broadcast or something. I couldn’t just change my username on legal records, I needed to document it publicly for the world to be involved in my business.
To be fair, nobody actually reads the “newspaper of record.” It is generally not the big, famous paper for any given city, like one might assume.
Yep, noone reads those outside of the people who need to have an eye on it and probably the press, but nowadays these things get scraped and processed into some LLM, with the chance of immortalizing your name change in random hallucinations.
And people looking at passport renewals in the USA apparently.
Who is taking 3 years to unlock voicechat?!?! 1.5 yrs is where it’s at
Technically you can re-spec some of the more ingrained aspects of your character too but they come with heavy financial and social penalties.
Some even incur the “hunted” status in some servers, like changing “gender” or “religion.”
Honestly it’s a pretty bad game but they trick you into liking it by giving you access to things like “pets,” “cookies,” and “cosumable media”.
Don’t forget the drugs!
Ugghh, that’s the worst. I want to change servers! This one sux.
You received 128 doomscrolls! Use them now? -Yes -Later
It makes it just so much harder when you spawned into a pvp zone.
Yeah, once you complete the tutorial, although it sometimes causes gameplay bugs later on.
The world really opens up after the tutorial.
Opens up? It’s pretty much pure grind, level after level, unless you got very lucky with your class and skills, or got the “rich” trait at character creation.
Better go play a less bad game, like Diablo 4.
If enough people annoy the admins maybe we’ll have a chance to at least be able to reduce the necessary grind
Skilling used to be more balanced but now you hit the grind wall super early on, so pvp is kinda lame cause we’re all at the mercy of the max guild accounts who got in before the rework and now just kinda push everyone around on some sort of weird power trip.
Clearly they don’t have much going on for them in the real world…
You spend the majority of your logged-in time grinding for in-game currency.
You’re not playing it right.
Respawn unlocked by default unless you really go hard on XP for the Abrahamic aligned, or no-diety clans.
Tutorial only lasts maybe 14 years if you play the first part hard enough.
They have started to patch the username issue though.
OOF that AI slop imagery - like, it’s so bad now, you can see it from a mile away. how did ai image synthesis get worse over time? they let it eat it’s own garbage, that’s how - gigo is reinforcing all the bad ideas RAPIDLY.
look at those clouds - you know, the ones that look like a blackmetal band logo - everywhere. and the strange thing going on where the mountains of pakistan meet india - wtf is that supposed to be, continental quilting?
jfc
why do you need ai to generate a (bad) picture of earth?
Because the people that rely on it are not used to and are actually training themselves not to think. Need a picture? Generate it. They will give no consideration as to whether it’s the right tool or not. That’s what slop does to your brain…
right? two tenths of a second on a google image search, or, 1240w of gpu grunt in a data center in montana devouring 3 gallons of water only to be this fucking worthless… great decision that
Here’s another example of unnecessary AI slop that can’t get anything right. The real Dodgers uniform very glaringly doesn’t have pinstripes, like it does in this AI generated slop. It’s a pretty iconic uniform; it’s just white with blue lettering. Yet it couldn’t even get it right. Why do we have to keep pretending this shit is supposed to be the future.
like, it’s so bad now, you can see it from
a mile awayspace!technically space isn’t a mile away.
the most widely cited boundary is the Kármán line, set at 100 km (62 miles) above mean sea level by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.
you don’t even need to reach space to see how fuckin bad this ai slop is.
Also it’s literally just a picture of earth. There are a thousand and one pictures of earth on the internet that look better.
There is zero reason to make this photo with AI. It’s more effort than just googling a photo.
There is zero reason to make this photo with AI.
that’s the whole point of the fetish
Couldn’t they find a picture of earth? I mean the Deep Space Climate Observatory takes a photo of a single side of the planet every hour or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory
it’s not an availability thing methinks… it’s a fetish thing.
they really think that AI should provide everything. then they won’t even have to move, get out of bed etc., they can just become one with their friend the algo, and the slop will flow right to them.
The temporarily embarrassed millionaires will never have that dream fulfilled but they can finally become bed ridden masters of chips. What a waste.
What a waste.
truth
I heard there was a nude mod? Does anyone know how to get it installed?
I have had sex on at least two tectonic plates, that’s how skilled I am at this “Earth” shit, pussy.
Random debuffs, some of them deadly or will straight up remove class features.
Pay to win
Well, more like pay to live. Pay to play?
The metaphor doesn’t really work for this one. “Pay to win“ implies using real-world money to progress instead of in-game currency. If Earth is a game, then all our money is “in-game” and “pay to win“ would mean you could progress further by using money from beyond Earth
It kinda does work, short a few edge cases of extreme luck it’s impossible to traditionally earn the in game currency in game sufficient to really thrive. It’s all dependent on what game package of boosters and starting cash your parents could afford. It’s out of game currency in the context of your life in the game.
Also heavily spawn dependent. Some places you get free tutorials, some your parents need you to work and in some you are not allowed to take the tutorials at all
Nature: be horny all the time!
Civil society: ewwww
Ugh, the hidden fees too. Sign-up is free and you typically get your subscription sponsored by an older account until you finish the tutorial. After that it’s just microtransaction after microtransaction, and if you stop paying then your account gets deleted
Meme:
“conditions on earth are bad”
Same fuckin meme:
AI-ass picture of earth, as if we didn’t also have real photos available
Its wild how it took no time at all for the masses to outsource their brains to the first thing that offered the service; no concern at all for the quality of the service either. The last 5 years have just confirmed every shitty thought I’ve had about humanity over the years.
