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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Information Already on File ?

« on: August 19, 2016, 09:39:13 am »

Sometimes we have a situation where the edit needs to be rejected but there isn't a good reason for us to pick from.

I do not know who had rejected your edit, but I fixed the title. Thanks for posting about it.

"Information Already on file" can apply to the situation you outline. Also there are times people try to edit the name of something without really changing it. One example is an item without an actual title, like a swag item or something that does not have text on it, or something without standard packaging, a person may change the name to something that is similar to the existing name.

Another case where that response can be used is for when edits to romanized titles are made.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Listing Errors 2016

« on: August 18, 2016, 12:46:55 pm »

Akiba's Beat: Playstation 4 NA: http://vgcollect.com/item/109918

This game has the wrong cover art. It is under the PlayStation 4 category yet has the PlayStation Vita version cover art. There are two different versions of this game. I attempted to edit this problem but it was rejected. 

Please re-submit the edit. It is hard to tell these PS4/vita games sometimes... the covers look so similar.

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General / Re: Pokemon go

« on: August 18, 2016, 12:03:20 pm »

Heh GradeAUnderA did a Pokemon Go video where he did the math and figured that Rattata, Pidgey and Weedle were 60% of the pokemon he caught. I'll believe it.

Strangely, my highest damage Pokemon is a Radicate. He does 120 on the charge up attack.

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General / Re: Pokemon go

« on: August 18, 2016, 10:06:53 am »

The gyms make sense, there are a ton of people playing. What seems backwards is how you claim your coins for being in a gym. You put your pokemon in the gym, then go to the store and you get your 10 coins. BUT, if you put your pokemon in a gym... wait 5 minutes until it is defeated, then go to the store, you get 0 coins. This seems backwards. You'd figure you would get rewarded for keeping a pokemon in a gym, not for doing a driveby on them.

When you fight for a gym, you can't put in pokemon that are hurt. So if you use your top CP guy, he will be hurt after you empty a gym, so you put in a different one. It is better this way, because people pounce on empty gyms. You won't have a chance if you exist to heal your pokemon, then try to get back in. The only time I recommend this is if you are taking gyms with another on your team, so they can enter the gym when it becomes white.

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General / Re: Sony or Nintendo all time?

« on: August 17, 2016, 08:43:54 pm »

I vote Sega as well. 

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General / Re: Pokemon go

« on: August 17, 2016, 08:40:05 pm »

Did you get the 3 international ones from eggs as well?

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Modern Video Games / Re: No Man's Sky

« on: August 17, 2016, 08:38:46 pm »

It's not that, it's just that work is ridiculously boring.  In Minecraft, I'm at least working towards building up a cool home base, plus there's just more variety to do in the game.  In No Man's Sky, it's mostly just working to get more inventory space, which isn't very interesting.  Doesn't help that the one type of reward you do get, blueprints are randomized, meaning to get the ones you want, you'll just have to hope you are lucky enough to be given them.  The more likely outcome is that you'll just get a bunch of rewards you already had, making them not rewards anymore.

We must be playing different kinds of Minecraft then. I can't even see how No Man's Sky compares to normal Minecraft. I can see a comparison to Journey to the Core... but I think the amount of people who have played Journey to the Core is very small and also likely have no problem with NMS either.

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Modern Video Games / Re: No Man's Sky

« on: August 17, 2016, 12:17:18 pm »

im upset with the real inability to play to the market in this game. every game that has a stock market system in it I always try to game it but when you buy from one trade station and go to another to sell you are looking at a much larger loss regardless of if the commodity is up in that system or not.

Going into full buy-low/sell-high mode doesn't work out. I tried it last night and ended up running out of money. So here is what I do now.

When I get to a system, or in the system I am now, go to the space station and use the market computer. Go into the sell option and look for which items have then yellow star on them, whether you have them or not. Those are that computer's premium priced items. Make note of them, and these will never change at that particular computer. Then those are the items you buy when green from other market computers and ship pilots to sell to that market computer. It is the same for all the market computers. Once you visit them, the premium sell items stay the same. You can do it for any computer you find, not just the space station one, but I try to keep it simple and only count that one.

You can even just buy the star items from the ships that come into the station, then sell them to the computer.

I now no longer will buy stuff from market computer because it is cheap. There is no "clearance" indicator on things it sells and I've not seen anything with a higher discount than 7%. There is no opposite equivalent to the star indicator for buying. I find enough stuff just mining or opening containers to get extra stuff to sell later.

Don't sell your Atlas stones unless you have more than 10.

It just sounds like you're constantly having to do something without any sort of reward.

It does partly fall into the same rut that Minecraft is in... where you can do anything you want or follow the quests. Do you want to go to the center of the galaxy/kill the ender dragon or just do whatever you want? GTA is this way too and I don't see so many complaints.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Infinity Figure Naming Question

« on: August 17, 2016, 09:59:04 am »

http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,7129.0.html, follow them, and there won't be an issue. 

I fixed this link in your post. It was going to FTP for some reason.

Regarding the Style Guide, currently we have a bunch of things that fall into "unwritten rules" and are not on that list yet for some reason.

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General / Re: August 2016 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: August 17, 2016, 09:51:59 am »

So both of my model 1 systems appear to be non-TMSS, but the second one won't load Populous.  No Sega message for any cart though.

Nice! You seem to have the complete opposite luck as me. 

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Modern Video Games / Re: No Man's Sky

« on: August 17, 2016, 09:50:25 am »

A lot of complaints seem to be people who don't want to work for anything to get their rewards. It would be like saying you wanted your level 20 spells at level 1 in an RPG.

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Video Game Auction Watch / Re: EU ONLY: Alien Storm - ZX Spectrum

« on: August 16, 2016, 07:23:34 pm »

Cool, hope you can get it! I am wary of cassette games. I think that I either would not trust that they still work, or not want to wait for the game to load. I don't have nostalgia for cassette loading games. I would have wanted it for the box, but these micro releases that Sega had with the generic box for multiple platforms, it does not have any text on the spine. Even some of the other style ZX Spectrum game boxes have more like advertising taglines and things on the edges.

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Modern Video Games / Re: No Man's Sky

« on: August 16, 2016, 07:20:45 pm »

I've found lush planets already by the second system I've been to. No to giant snakes, but giant other creatures have been found already. Its hard to tell on reddit sometimes, but if you just go into that section's imgur category, you can see them. I'm really not understanding why people are complaining about the early game stages, I think they are fine. It is not unlike an RPG where you get to a certain point where you are comfortable and the game feels much easier. In my view, the game just keeps getting better and better as time goes on.

The only issue I still have with the game is that sometimes my ship just stops moving and pressing the acceleration button doesn't work right away. It is like it stalled, but I haven't determined why it does this.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Infinity Figure Naming Question

« on: August 16, 2016, 07:13:46 pm »

to be consistent with the other figures in the database. I submitted the change but it was rejected. Can anyone tell me why the Venom one would be named different?

The other items in the database are named incorrectly.

I came across that Venom figure while working on other things, and fixed the name as I went about my business. I was the one who rejected your edit.

See here for a guide to naming toys.
http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,7129.0.html

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Duplicate Listings 2016

« on: August 16, 2016, 07:03:27 pm »

http://vgcollect.com/item/67050 - Original
http://vgcollect.com/item/109807 - Duplicate

You're getting ahead of yourself! We admins use the strike-out to help indicate to other admins that the items have been dealt with.

Dupe removed. Title fixed on 67050.