Your 1-5 scale answers for several questions of a single topic lead to detail. That’s exactly what it does.
I don’t know why everyone sees that word as such a blasphemous thing.
The lack of competence in anything is automatically incompetence, by design.
Lacking some knowledge and it turns out badly? Incompetence.
Rushing a job and it turns out badly? Incompetence.
What else do you think is anything which is not done in high quality and properly functioning? Pure lucky outcomes? RNG of life? There is no such thing, there’s only knowing the circumstances and acting accordingly… and that’s more often then not fully known by the people tackling any topic.
The only option I know is to explain it in a full sentence… and I don’t see the reason to do that when the English language perfectly provides a singular word to do that already.
Competence isn’t a yes/no state. It’s a spectrum. You have a wide range from wildly incompetent to extremely competent. It’s why you have “barely competent”, meaning that they’re competent, just not that much.
So someone that isn’t fully competent isn’t automatically incompetent.
Best example I can give you is actually a programmer. Almost no programmer knows everything by heart. Almost every programmer will regularly search things online, often times quite basic stuff too.
Likewise, theorical physicists might look up the formula to calculate the volume of a circle, or the area of a pyramid.
It doesn’t mean they’re automatically incompetent.
How much do you agree with statement A? 1-5
How much do you agree with statement B? 1-5
How much do you agree with statement C? 1-5
If that’s what you think elicits detail, I honestly don’t know what to say to you. Especially since it’s you who have a tendancy to write posts that requires several minutes of scrolling just to reach the end (without reading)!
Yeah, which is the knowledge bases though.
‘I know that it exists’
and
‘I know where to look for it’
Several things in LE are ‘I don’t know it exists’ and ‘I don’t know how to look for it’ maybe.
That’s what I’m talking about for competence/incompetence… without seeing it as a spectrum.
A functioning job which works without any major design- or execution-flaws is a competently done job. On which has either is a incompetently done job.
Just means there’s important stuff to learn to get form incompetent to competent.
If all 3 questions point to a singular topic above and represent how much you’re inclined to a specific sub-aspect of that then… yes that’s obviously detail.
if you put 3 questions which relate to 3 completely different topics and not sub-segments then no… it’s not.
And that’s why diablo4 is not the #1 arpg on the market atm, poe is. Difference between D4 and LE is that D4 has a huge company and a 30yo diablo franchise as a base, tons of people will play it regardless of dupe or any other problems, just because its diablo.
LE on the other hand is made by a small studio and its their first game on top of it. Do you think EHG can afford to make the same mistakes as blizzard ?.
In terms of dupes and exploits? Certainly.
Pretty much every game has them. Most don’t even bother protecting against them because they’re single player games. For example, I can use cheat engine in BG3 or Skyrim or any number to games to manipulate numbers as I see fit, be it XP, health, ammo, etc. It’s why there are so many trainers for almost every game.
Online games tend to be more strict about it, but they will still always happen. Even last league in PoE there was a mod to add maximum sockets to an item and it was adding them to items that shouldn’t have it, like adding sockets to uniques that restricted its sockets (like Squire) or adding 2 sockets to stygian vises.
GGG saw this and quickly patched it and reverted the exploited items, so most people didn’t notice it. But it still happened and this is after 11 years experience.
Bottom line is that dupes and exploits will always happen. It’s inevitable. You can’t get rid of them. It’s how you deal with them that actually matters.
I also duped a bunch of items using the Miraidon glitch in Pokémon Violet before they patched that out haha.
Glitches and Exploits are definitely not going anywhere, it’s just a matter of how fast can the company fix them. GGG? Fast. Incredibly so. EHG, once they’re aware of it the exploit is fixed pretty quickly, but the aftercare suffers (by not having aftercare), The Pokémon Company? MONTHS if they fix it at all
This isn’t true, though. Mike has said they removed most of the gold from the exploit. He even said in his stream that “people wildly overestimate the amount of gold left from the exploit”. So they did take care of the exploit effects.
The main difference is that in LE the exploits targetted the only currency for trading and immediately bought hundreds or thousands of the best items.
Currency exploits/dupes are rarer in PoE than gear ones, so it’s very rare that they have the same impact on the overall economy (though it did happen once upon a time), because most of the high value items remain in the market.
Not to mention that instant trade also makes it easier to clean out the market.
To a fanboy, any criticism won’t be constructive - all of it will be seen as just “hate”.
Just like, to a hater, any praise won’t be sincere - all of it will be seen as “white-knigthing”.
The delivery is important, sure, but who is reading what is being delivered is even more important. Like I said above, to those in one extreme, everyone who thinks even slightly different appears to be in the opposite extreme.
OMFG, was it the gamelink-disconnect tech you got the duped Lugia from? XD
Yeah, right… almost to the point it makes it look they were the ones who introduced the exploit in the first place…? Ok ok, stop, stop, no conspiracist stuff here, go home
TIL, Thanks for clearing up my misconception. It ultimately never affected me so I admit I didn’t look into it as much and most of my information is hearsay
IIRC it was a “quit while saving” after depositing and then withdrawing/moving the Pokémon. So the game had a save with it in one slot while it was being saved to another.
And you can’t silence me with your mind control rays, F0lk! I know you work for the government and GGG and put on my tinfoil hat to protect me from your nefarious silence tactics!
True, but your first example is more in line with what you get in psychometric tests & quite a lot of them. I’ve yet to see EHG put out a particularly long poll.
That’s definitely not true. How the criticism is given is as important as what the criticism is. “Hate” is more likely to come across as venting while good criticism is more likely to either be detailed with possibly some suggestions or a (civil) conversation.
Albeit it would definitely be an upside for EHG if they didn’t do a poll with basically 2-3 answers… but have 2-3 points instead, with each having a few sub-points that you can scale.
They got their general direction… this would help them tune in on what exactly the community wants instead of then providing something which seems to align but lacks in detail. The way they set up their polls is actually fairly consistent with how they provide us their content after releasing it.
Generally a great direction… but not thought out
Competence. As in, “I lack competence in this topic”.
Neophyte. As in, “he’s a complete neophyte in this field, but he’s an expert in internet bullshiting”. Yes, I’m talking about myself here.
What has changed, probably a century ago, is, “he’s incompetent!”
BUT that said, you could answer these questions for yourself from an authoritative source by looking up “Etymology of incompetence”, and that might direct you to a discussion of the etymology of the work “incompetence” by people who are actually competent in the field of etymology and not just form posers… such as myself.
I know you probably know that, but I do enjoy being a smartass. I hope that this makes you laugh and not mad.
It’s (also) true. Who is reading the criticism is as important as how the criticism is given, which is also as important as what the criticism is.
People are not all the same. Depending on what baggage we carry, we can read the exact same piece of text and come to widely different interpretations. If someone thinks Last Epoch is perfect/trash, any criticism/praise will be seen as hate/sucking developers up.
