Author Archives: SynCaine

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About SynCaine

Former hardcore raider turned casual gamer.

PUBG: If a broken ladder falls in the woods…

Posted on August 21, 2017 by SynCaine

Gevlon’s last project in PUBG has come to an end, with a result very similar to his LoL project. He played a huge amount of hours, come up with a pretty terrible plan/strategy, and failed utterly. The main different between … Continue reading →

Posted in beta, Blogroll, Random, Rant | 28 Comments

This is a Castle Story post, 5 years after the last

Posted on August 18, 2017 by SynCaine

Way back in 2013 I posted that I bought Castle Story off a Steam sale, and wasn’t very impressed. Bonus content in the comments section of that post, good to see some things never change. Double bonus about that post … Continue reading →

Posted in EQNext, Random, Rant, Steam Stuff | 1 Comment

Since he asked…

Posted on August 15, 2017 by SynCaine

show me a bad player and I show you a bad person. – Gevlon Does playing 1000+ games and not making it out of the tutorial ranking qualify as a bad player? Does playing 1000+ games of PUBG without a … Continue reading →

Posted in Random | 13 Comments

PUBG mini review

Posted on August 14, 2017 by SynCaine

Forgot to mention I went on vacation. Sorry about that, but hey, I’m back now. And that was “SynCaine life updates”. Moving on. I picked up PlayerUnknown’s BattleGround (PUBG) a few days prior to vacation, and have somewhere around 150-200 … Continue reading →

Posted in Inquisition Clan, Random, Review | 1 Comment

EVE: Off to war we go

Posted on August 3, 2017 by SynCaine

When Dear Leader speaks, especially for a war deployment, our numbers in local were great than local in Jita. Seems our ‘dead’ or ‘defeated’ alliance still has a little bit of life left in it… So we are off to … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons, MMO design | 6 Comments

Mobile games and ‘real’ games

Posted on August 1, 2017 by SynCaine

Az over on his blog contemplates his time spend playing Clash Royale vs his time spend playing FFXIV. My gaming time split is somewhat similar overall I think, were I’d say 50% of it is mobile games now (Clash of … Continue reading →

Posted in Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, iPhone, MMO design | 4 Comments

Station trading by another name

Posted on July 31, 2017 by SynCaine

This is more of a placeholder for later, but thanks to him sharing, we can see Gevlon is playing over 7 hours of PlayerUnknown’s Battleground every day, for a week straight so far. This is consistent with how he played … Continue reading →

Posted in Random, Rant | 14 Comments

This hole isn’t going to dig itself!

Posted on July 28, 2017 by SynCaine

“bot detection should have done nothing with the client. Bots should be detected by behavior: repetitively grinding whole day.” “showing that he grinded mobs for 70 hours a week, which point everyone will agree that he was botting or had … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogroll, EVE Online | 4 Comments

This War of Mine DLC review

Posted on July 27, 2017 by SynCaine

I reviewed This War of Mine in January 2016, and the review still reflects my views on the game, including highly recommending it to just about anyone. Since that review the game has received two major updates; the first being … Continue reading →

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Poor, dumb, and maybe corrupt

Posted on July 25, 2017 by SynCaine

Some high quality posting from Gevlon going on right now related to his favorite tinfoil hat: everything is corrupt! It starting with his theory that the only reason anyone works in the gaming industry is because they are corrupt and … Continue reading →

Posted in EVE Online, Goons, League of Legends, MMO design, Random, Rant, RMT, World of Warcraft | 13 Comments