cory206

I try to maintain a reasonably normal sleep pattern if I'm in Arthur, either returning to camp or camping out, although I could do with more sleep cos in the morning I'm always grumpy as fhave you noticed that? However, I don't bother online because it's such an insomniac, hypomanic, anxiety-driven world sleep doesn't even exist. This makes sense, even though it always seems to be nightime in there...

You know I don't think I've ever noticed that, but can't deny it. I've died plenty times, but when I think about it, it's often from falling off cliffs or bridges (I should know better but vertigo and short-term memory loss are a dangerous combination) and maybe I've just been lucky in ambushes. This is where I polish my knuckles cos, y'know, *winks...* I can be pretty nifty with a shooter if I'm reasonably sober, it's confidence is my problem, I often start off with a handgun and end up using my sniper rifle cos I've run away screaming "Come and get me! and they haven't. That happens a lot actually.

Buttlint I remember travelling all the way across Scotland to see the Pong machine in Prestwick Airport, one of the very first in the country, early 70s, then there was Binatone, followed by long periods in a dark room with Galaxian and Defender machines and a strong smell of glue, a detour to the most addictive quiz machines every pub could find before plugging in a cassette machine and listening to taped white noise, then unplugging the phone and plugging in a 27k modem and listenin to a tune played in white noise and pings... I don't know, things get hazy after that don't they? and then we're here, with a game I can't shake off... again.

Btw, on the new update, just tried the Gun Rush solo. Not my cup of tea usually, but why not? Full house of 32ish players, good game, won it and got IIRC $60 and 1000-XP, that's a bit of alright 🙂 What made it better was getting a narky message right in the middle of it accusing me of hiding and telling me to sort it out... I did, I won, and he got a message back! 😄

Nope. You just have to be veeeery careful.

cory206 on PS4 (can use a gun but prefer not to, enjoy missions and races)

That's where I keep my ammo stock, makes sense, but I laughed when you mentioned buying it from the matchmaking lobby, cos I hate those lobbies, they're so fast! I hate to keep people back so I ready up as quick as I can, I would love more time to check out my opponents/posse, fix my hair, swither over which horse to run, and yes, check my loadout and buy ammo, but it's whizz-bang off ye go! You're also right that if you buy ammo there or from the gunshop you can only buy in bulk, losing the surplus, but from the post-office you just fill up from the boxes.

I think in that post I just proved how little Greek I know, I should have thought that one through. Now that I have the Greek alphabet in front of me and my good glasses on... I have less of a clue than ever. Sorry anyone if I led you up a frustrating back alley, it's just it looked all Greek to me, honest...

Hi OleTimer, another 'mature' player here (not very mature) glad to hear you're enjoying the game, hope to help. 1. Not sure how to help here, bad buggers coming after you is always a bummer, especially ambushes. I'm not sure what you mean about the $150 each time you die, I've never noticed that, and I die quite a lot too! Do you mean paying off bounties? That can be expensive too, I hate to think how much money I've paid to the law, no wonder they can afford to send so many cops after me... Cut their budget! The shootin an fightin is probably the hardest bit of the game for us oldies cos it really depends on quick reactions. I fish a lot 🙂 2. When you go to camp, go over to the chuck wagon where Pearson cooks. Stand in front of his table and press (left I think) for 'Donate' to hand over your kills. If you have a deer carcass on your horse you can carry it through camp and people go "Oooh, good kill" but you don't have to if you don't want blood on your coat, it'll still be in your inventory. 3. Press R1 for the wheel, highlight Left handgun and cycle through to a gun you don't want in your right hand. Then, when you cycle to Right handgun the rest of your handguns should be available. Hope those help, but keep asking. I've played this game for hours every day since the day it came out. I played RDR1 for a similarly ridiculous amount of time, I have clocked up actual *weeks* of time playing Online and I'm on a seriously-slow 2nd run-through of the game, and OleTimer, I still have questions about the game every day, but that's only cos it's the biggest baddest most rootin-tootin an aw that game ever made...

I'm no expert, and I'm certainly no Greek, but that looks like Chelonia in Greek reading downwards. And the story of the guy in the cottage above Strawberry, with the big mural, is fab. I saw the mural before meeting him and collecting the symbols... the pay-off is good.

One tip to increase $$ and XP is to let the counter run down on side missions and only finish when the clock is ticking ie in the final 10 seconds. This will generally double XP and give 2-3 times the cash, up to about $20, good few nuggets too. There is a downside though as you often have to sit at your destination for about 10 minutes, idling, not earning, staying alert enough to watch the map for pink blips, (countering current if you're in a boat) ready for a quick trot over the line. Miss it (I have dozed off!) and you've wasted a lot of time for nothing. I'm not even sure the balance is worth it, for the empty time, and it's hardly what I switch RDR2 on for, to sit on a wagon for 10 minutes with the reins in my hand and the guy on the duckboard next to me saying "Why are you doing this to us..?" I wondered too...

The only thing is, the Encyclopedia Britannica was written by someone too. It used to be written in Edinburgh, the 2nd Edition was written over an upturned barrel in a cottage near Arthur's Seat by a pharmacist from Aberdeen who in his research read about the Montgolfier Brothers and so he built and flew the first hot air balloon in Britain in the half-built Register House in Edinburgh before being chased out of the country for writing seditious political pamphlets and settling in Salem Massachussets where he got washed away in a storm one night and was never found... I mean, he may have been right about everything he wrote, but I wouldn't take it for granted. The 3rd Edition, which he also wrote, was probably nearer the truth... but I would stick to the later editions.

Nope, not having that problem. Was on 6 hours earlier, only odd things were a delayed start to one mission and an NPC walking about in Stillwater Creek.

I haven't a clue how the gubbins works, how they tweak the strings in this universe, but just the fact it happened today and that it involved the length of parley, which might be something they're adjusting, thought it might be related, but *shrugs...* my Numbskulls are saying there's a guy with a spanner behind a rock, they don't know either.

Sounds like maybe a resetting issue during the update. I suppose it's a bit like a tremor, it'll have foreshocks and aftershocks...

I just thanked Mary for doing that, wouldn't have known otherwise. I wish more people would do that in the game as well, I'm happy to chat but not many are. It still seems odd. I have seen it though, people hanging around before ending a mission, never understood it. Still don't.

Been playing since Day 1, (possibly Hour 1) and at L66 I think. Got all me guns tarted up and the white hat I wanted (I model myself on James Stewart...) Thanks for that tip Mary, it's a bit counter-intuitive, I always thought fast would be better. What worries me is, if other people in a posse don't realise this, they'll think I'm time-wasting and risking the mission, won't they? Can anyone explain this? It seems backward...

I had a comment from a shopkeeper as well, they can't do that and not offer us facilities...

Yeah, the whole of New Austin is still like a big Easter egg to me, not having seen it for years, I still get flashbacks around the place. Can't wait to find that, but don't tell me where! 😉

Wasn't that in RDR? It rings a bell, but not from this one. The only flying was the balloon, which I'm still crossing my fingers will reappear. Btw I had great fun with those boats yesterday, the ones hanging about Roanoke Ridge. One had just its bow sticking out of the ground, but every time I climbed up on it it would catapult me about thirty feet away, I was like the human cannonball. I did it loads cos it was blirriant. But generally they just spook me.

Thanks Kean, yeah that all fits with my experience. I'm getting really quick at deciding if a posse's organised or not, and when it works well it can be so good it makes up for the discards. I'm like a few folk in here, no-one I know out there plays, and possibly being *kof* mature... I'm not as confident when it comes to friend invites, I tend to sit and wait for them, then wonder why they want to be my friend and what do they want, then I clutch my bodice and look shocked... it's not for nothing I choose the crazy walk y'know...

We all are, of course, and this is only mine. After playing for decades, this is the best game ever. But it is a game, and I play it for fun, which is an unacknowledged necessity in our lives. I will only continue playing it so long as I am having fun. The solo game itself would probably still have me playing, but I feel Online has added a layer of fun, so I can see that keeping me interested. As soon as I feel I'm 'grinding' I feel I'm no longer having fun and it makes me wonder why I'm playing a game. I agree with all you say, I've spent a bit on gold, but know and accept the risk... I just wanted that Carcano and couldn't wait... I should have really, because not long after buying it I found 3 treasure maps in my satchel I had forgotten about, honest! I want new content of course, but that will come, but I still find plenty to explore and enjoy in the game even so, like the sightseeing boat trip I took on a cotton steamer round Flat Iron Lake, the ticket was a steal, I got some good snaps, and once we were out of sight of Blackwater one of the coolies gave me a draw on his hoochie-coochie cigarette. I can't remember the rest, but I got a lovely tan...

I know... Everywhere I look R* is a bitch, every message board, every forum, on twitter. They're ripping us all off and selling gold bars... But they have given us the best game ever and people just can't stop playing, so there is that.

I know... Everywhere I look R* is a bitch, every message board, every forum, on twitter. They're ripping us all off and selling gold bars... But they have given us the best game ever and people just can't stop playing, so there is that.

On that point, can anyone answer this, is the honourable/dishonourable posse description in the sidebar based on the posse leader's rep or the whole posse's? When trying to set up a temporary posse I see no honourable/dishonourable option so I assume it's automatic. If I'm very honourable (which I am, generally, not perfect) and I set up a posse can I stop dishonourable critters joinin up?