The idea of legalizing gold farming is a really cool one to me; once it's proposed, it seems trivially correct, esp since the economics of such games are what interests me when I look upon them from afar.

(Had a look at the linked flight rising thing, and huh. That seems quite mystifying, I lack most context for seeing what's going on there.)


Fallen London is a wonderfully written game, as all things by Alexis Kennedy are. It has the coolest lore and a wonderful setting. Shame about the gameplay being of the limited-actions-per-time plus much grinding model.


The impulse to optimize is a strong one, I should try and find some games where I can do this more, in terms to behavior being rated from very efficient to not very efficient rather than, like, life or death. (Current video game is Skyrim, which is very not that), but ultimately, I just don't commit massively to video games unless I have truly stupendous amounts of free time, so it's unlikely to come to anything.

It's good to have things you've spent a lot of time with! Again, not something I heavily associate with video games, but both Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic and Battle for Wesnoth come close (both being turn-based strategy games which I have played since I was young)

There are always people who are unhappy with every new update of everything. It will happen.