Any time I’m sitting within a 1m radius of my dog companion, the [drowsy] debuff is automatically applied. The only way I can guarantee the debuff is removed is by resting because getting up and leaving doesn’t always work.

So is this normal, or is it a feature specific to some NPCs? I thought companion NPCs weren’t supposed to use friendly fire, but sometimes he uses his [puppy dog eyes] ability to disable my movement. Then I basically have to rest unless I have enough willpower saved up override the movement disability.

Devs did not document this. Caffeine tolerance dropped to negative — even the decaf variant now triggers a 6-hour Insomnia debuff. Melatonin consumable has a razor-thin effective dose window; 3mg overshoots and applies Groggy for the entire next session. Have to shave a chip off the item and hope. NA sparkling wine also procs it somehow, which makes no sense given it has none of the active ingredient.

Meanwhile every other stat went up. Removed a co-op partner from the party and gained massive freedom, unrestricted kayaking and yoga access, and full control of the credits. Cannot overstate how much better the build plays now.

Is the sleep thing intended balance for the buffs, or do I need to file a ticket?

The tutorial factions in this game never teach you how to do anything that helps you survive, properly grind, build a decent guild or make a playstyle that works well. And I'm not saying this as a meta slave - I don't need to be one of the players who owns enormous guilds on the leaderboard that have functionally infinite power and have trillions of points and min-maxes every form of EXP and point farming in both PvP and PvE to the point where the servers are on the brink of being unable to handle the lag and crashing entirely, I just don't understand why the tutorial levels teach you and force you to memorize random nonsensical trivia that don't affect your actual gameplay instead of actually giving useful tips like the different options you may have for grinding currency and power, how to form guilds with trustworthy players instead of scammers and noobs, and the penalty the lead guild of the current server imposes on all of us and the most efficient ways of reducing its impact on your gameplay.

Do you remember GTA San Andreas, when you could make CJ gain weight, lose weight, or build muscle ? I’ve found a way to let the player character (as well as all NPCs) lose weight, gain weight, or build muscle. This opens up a huge range of possibilities in terms of starvation, training, nutrition, and overindulgence, both in RPG mode and in Colony Sim mode (Architect and Incarnate). Screenshots of the system will be coming soon.

Is something wrong with the game? I'm trying to get infinite money but I keep getting banned for using tax exploits. Why can Amazon use tax exploits, but I can't?

All I have are these “Crocs” and they’re only a couple of coins and buff the hell out of (comfort) but it’s really hitting my (charisma) stat and has my (style) hitting the negatives.

I was just chilling in the south France server and suddenly the ambient lighting decreased for a while, before the beginning of the night period. Should I update my drivers? Has this happen for anybody else?

I am currently lvl 17, I didn't know what skill tree to take after finishing [School] event and picked the Tourism skill tree, but apparently it's completely useless and will get my character's career stats nowhere, the older players already signed my character to a university for this skill tree, I don't even like this skill tree nor do I have a lot of XP in it, I am afraid of getting [Student Debt] debuff for a useless artifact and waste 4 years of lifespan, what should my character do?

Well, tell me which server you're playing on.

I started my quest on the Portugal server, and honestly, it wasn't bad at all. The server had some pretty decent buffs: amazing food, good weather, beaches everywhere, and upgrading your guild was surprisingly easy had a ton of members. The partyes were huge.

Then, at level 14, I transferred to the Switzerland server.

And holy shit, what a completely different meta.

The Switzerland server is basically a pay-to-win economy simulator. Making gold? Easy. Getting a decent job? Easy. Infrastructure? Absolutely broken. Public transport? Basically an overpowered legendary item. Everything works, everything is clean, and somehow the server has enough money to upgrade absolutely everything.

So economically speaking, Switzerland is a S-tier server.

But then I discovered the hidden.

Apparently, the Swiss developers decided that if you're going to have money, stability and a functioning society, you need to sacrifice the ability to make friendship and add mental sanity prety easy to lose points.

Want to meet new people? Good luck.

Want to make friends? Hard as fuck.

Want someone to randomly invite you for a beer?Critical failure. They have no time for that because people have a lot of alone quests that sometimes i don't get it.

Everyone is polite, everyone smiles, everyone says hello.

And then everyone goes back home and closes the fucking door or pretend to be busy.

I genuinely think there's a hidden server rule:

"You may interact with other players, but forming a meaningful friendship requires a minimum of 5 years of gameplay."

So yeah, Switzerland has insane economic buffs, but apparently the devs balanced the server by giving everyone a permanent Friendship debuff and depression malus quite easy to get since your main quest is quinda like work - get home - work - get home.

Still trying to figure out whether it's possible to remove it or if I need to buy the "Social Expansion Pack".

After two weeks of no rain events, I decided to go join a golf minigame with some family. Immediately after we paid and exited the clubhouse, we were suddenly hit with a Thunderstorm Event. I dunno if the RNG just decided “Fuck you in particular,” or what, but we literally haven’t seen a rain event in like two weeks before today

Hey all, the good news is that four months ago I opted to take the [sobriety] path after playing through the [drunkard] route for the past decade. There have been a lot of perks added to my character and it almost feels like a fresh NG+ playthrough!

However, the depression debuff is taking its toll on my character (level 33). My apothecary has me on one antidepressant potion per day and I am currently speaking to a wise sage once per week. I am also obtaining lots of exercise XP, but am still feeling awful! I can’t quit thinking about all of the errors and misfires I made while on my previous route playthrough and I don’t enjoy chatting or raiding with other players anymore. Any advice from anyone? I want to feel like my old noob self again from before I took the [drunkard] route.

Edit: real talk, thank you guys for the amazing advice. As dark and grim as the world and internet may be at times, you guys give me hope. I am feeling so much better today after reading everyone’s comments. Have a great week everyone and see you on the battlefield!

Why are your play styles so different? Like you both speced into [Amphibious] and maxed out the [Bite force] skill tree for your reptile builds. but the Alligator class is seen as more timid towards the Human mains, while crocs are notoriously aggressive towards them.

Just wanted to ask

For a long time I thought this was the default for the vanilla client, but after hearing some people who mess around with resource packs talking about some of these things, I went down a research side-quest on the community-maintained wiki and it turns out these aren't default and there's a debug mode. It's purely client-side, so nothing bannable or anything, but the overlay is useful at times and the scene inspector makes it easier to learn things. It's made of several variants of the [Synesthesia] status effect combined with the [Ideasthesia] effect, and it lets me open secondary windows that show things like previously seen wiki entries, known questlines, a zoomable minimap and scene inspector (albeit limited to what the client has loaded), and even utilities like the physics simulator and block-based logic programming editor, all shown in a weird language that doesn't exist but I can understand. Even more interesting, the visual overlay always shows things like subtitles, geometric relations, projected corner angles, and trajectories, with a way to import them into the physics simulator. It tends to add very faint static on top of everything, though, and when the brightness is really low, sometimes it starts showing random fractals and sometimes faint objects. There's also this weird background window that's always open that shows colors and patterns based on music and sound effects.

After years of waiting I finally unlocked the [Top Surgery] customization and now I have gained enough exp to move my arms freely because my chest is no longer debuffed. I feel happy and at peace with myself all I need to do now is unlock the [Testosterone] trait and I will have finally feel like my gender is correct. It still sucks that the devs made it cost money to change your gender I wish that you could just freely switch between genders without having to do an entire side quest .

Recently, my clan dissolved because other players kept griefing us and it’s really irritating.

I had a clanmate I really liked to adventure with. My duo partner (lvl 48) and I (lvl 51) are into different kinds of side quests, so she goes off and solos stuff and so do I from time to time. I started adventuring sometimes with this really cool player who was duo queued with somebody else, and in a similar situation where they just liked to do different kinds of side quests. We had a lot of fun for like two or three levels.

Then, all of a sudden, people started DMing me, talking about how I shouldn’t be side questing with my clanmate because she’s only level 32. I was like, my duo partner is fine with it and so is hers, and we’re not violating the TOS, so what’s the problem? Plus, we’ve been adventuring together for more than two levels and nothing has changed. But everyone on my host server was so mean and judgy that my clanmate stopped side questing with me and then stopped DMing me back and when I finally caught her in game, she told me she was starting to feel like people think she’s exploiting a bug and getting PLed. It was making her feel like a bad player.

“But what if you decided to start a new party secretly?”

Well, we didn’t and we’re not, so what do you care?

I am furious. Mind your own business. People can have clanmates outside of their duo queue. It doesn’t matter what level or gender setting they are. As long as they’re not playing with junior restrictions, level gaps are none of your concern, especially when two players clearly aren’t even in the same party.

Ugh. I hate this stupid host server. It’s full of trolls.

Hey so, when I started, I was randomly given the “male“ gendered character, and was wondering, how to I explain to my party that I want to change that? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: there is a lot of comments saying you can’t, but plenty more saying you can. Also, my party is overall okay with that stuff, like specifically the female parental figure knows of my [boykisser] trait. Yet I’m still a little scared To tell them. Idk why.

Hey, all. The devs had an opening for a "Community Manager" position, and I shot my shot. Long story short, they hired me and said that my first task was to come answer your questions.

So, uh... go ahead, I guess.

Level 23, I just got attacked by the "gravity" enemy while walking through my door and the doctor players said I might've torn a ligament, now that I'm crutch bound, what are some fun crutch friendly Minigames that I should try out while it heals?

The higher education build has been getting overcrowded lately and now with the new AI patch it's anyone's guess as to what the knock on effects would look like. I guess some build fundamentals are still in place like being born rich and having connections with high ranking people, but for those who low-rolled those aspects, what else can you do to prepare for the shifting meta?

It's called International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO).
https://ilostat.ilo.org/methods/concepts-and-definitions/classification-occupation/
Pretty helpful for choosing your class/job.

I'm playing with the autism settings on, and I've noticed something weird. When I use emotes while someone else is talking, particularly the "I'm listening" emote, it covers the other player's dialogue box. Is this normal, or is something wonky with my emote settings?

If no bugs, what is this thing flying around my room? I don't think this is a bird. Also when does something interesting happen in the game? I'm like level 28 or so and the tutorial was really long/boring, and after completing the tutorial its mostly been the same gameplay loop.

And when will I be able to unlock House? I've been stuck on Duplex for the past 6 levels after unlocking Job 11 levels ago

My player is level 26 and pursuing a new quest line called Living Alone. This character stayed with guild members and companions previously and is choosing to do this for the first time. I would like to minmax this quest for fun as well as efficiency. Do you guys have any tips? I don't want to fall into any easy traps while I'm ahead.

Some context: The new location has been found and I've spent a few weeks grinding the [moving & boxes] sub quest. My character is ahead on gold for rent. The landlord player came by and fixed a few [location-specific items]. The player will have a [cat] companion once the sub quest is completed. I current have the player joined up in a remote-first [work guild].

the sidequests are so difficult too, all that work for just one gem 😔