At this point, it's clear that NMS is a forever-developed game, and it is clearly also the basis for Light No Fire (as they're literally transferring systems over). It makes me think of Exanima and Zomboid. These devs have a never-ending stream of additions and reworks to develop, and I'm here for it.
You do know that above 50 USD taxes are 92% right? Check it out, a product for 1000 reais will have 900 reais in taxes. It's bonkers. But technically, it has always been like this, but it wasn't truly enforced/audited. Now that they are collecting the taxes at the point of sale, you pretty much pay for two products to buy one.
Nothing of the sort in Brazil. Stuff only gets replaced when broken or completely outdated. And any stuff that might work gets poached by insiders before seeing the light of day. You might get some stuff if you work in IT, out of question for anybody else.
Here people sell 2nd gen I5 + rx 580 pcs as "gamer pc" at 70% the price of a modern system. It's absolutely bonkers.
Yeah, second-hand here sucks. You can get x-99 mb + cpu combos on alliexpress for 400 reais though, old xeons are good for server/jellyfin, just not very efficient. For Jellyfin, my biggest money sink is in HDDs. 4tb drives are 700 reais each, and there's no second-hand refurbished stuff in the market, so you have to buy brand-new. For a GPU I have an ancient 750ti, but I'm looking to buy an intel A310 card if they drop lower than 800 reais. At the very least you're looking at 3000 reais in pc parts for a server though. Mb + cpu + ram is somewhat cheap if you buy from china through alliexpress, but GPUs are a no go there. Keep in mind that when buying from China you have to avoid products above 60 dollars (around 350 reais) because of the super high taxes. If you want to buy domestically, I'd recommend a b450 AM4 board + a 3200g or something around that. You can avoid buying a dedicated GPU with a 3200g or similar, and get a nice modern platform, but the cpu will be quite weak for game servers, with inadequate support for pcie lanes, memory channels and sata ports though.
Also, for a game server, it's very likely that you'll have to work around being behind CGNat. I currently only self host Jellyfin inside my own house because of that, it's just a huge pain in the ass to deal with it. There are solutions though, I just haven't bothered. I'm still in the process of buying hard drives, so right now it's not a huge priority.
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Edit 2: forgot to talk about psus... Just don't buy anything chinese. The MSI Mag 650w is the king of cost x benefit here in Brazil, nothing comes close, it's usually around 300 and rock solid.
Let's gooo! I'm hyped, I love the first one for its unique approach to survival games, especially for having a map that was designed and not procedural. A new one with a bigger backyard and more features will be very welcomed.
I just realized it's on the post. Sorry for that. This looks like a solid thing, for sure. Since we're talking, do you ever worry about people making use of the privacy features for nefarious purposes?
For Honor has, to this day, the best melee combat I have ever experienced in any game. The biggest problem that game has is that it's a fighting game in medieval disguise, if it was more adventure/rpg, I'd bet people would be all over it. I do like the fighting game part of it though, but fighting games are ROUGH to get into, sweatiest player base around.
The calculation technically only takes 12 straight days to compute, but they had many interruptions over the process, sometimes having to fully restart the whole calculation.
You live in a bubble. As a teacher, a lot of young students have already been indoctrinated into religion by the age of 12, most of them will never escape.
It's crazy that "lobbying budget" and "buying lobbyists" is a thing said in the openness and not illegal. Thanks for sharing this report, it's a great (disgusting) read.
At this point, it's clear that NMS is a forever-developed game, and it is clearly also the basis for Light No Fire (as they're literally transferring systems over). It makes me think of Exanima and Zomboid. These devs have a never-ending stream of additions and reworks to develop, and I'm here for it.