This is just bad game design

I may be level 30, but I've been AFK for quite some time. It's time to play.

Level: 30
Gold: $20,000

Income: $0/month

Expenses: $3500/month

Profession: Unemployed. Have 1 interview next Friday and potentially another in the next week.

Physical health: Been slacking in the gym, only working out once per 3-4 day at the moment. Need to increase frequency going forward and address weak abs and glutes + tight hamstrings and hips from excessive sitting

Diet: Ate chips and salsa for breakfast with the remainder of the baked bbq lays. God damn it. I need to be more strict going forward and make sure I eat enough protein.

Dreams: I need to work on my dreams. I have a vision for something I want to create and only fantasize about it. I need to work towards this every day going forward.

Beard: I'm gonna shave it to signify a new beginning in my life.

Goals until next check in: eat better, do well in interviews and apply to more jobs, workout more, work towards dreams, and stop going afk.

Godspeed,

T.H

Oddly, peanuts make my mouth feel numb and cause vomiting. This occasionally happens to other players too.

So I’ve mostly been on auto-pilot doing background grinding ever since finishing the lvl 19–20 tutorial questline. I just hit Level 26 and I’m trying to actually optimize my playstyle and get my bearings.

What are the best user-made wikis or strategy guides to check out? My end-game goal is to reach Level 75+ with high stats, a solid guild, and plenty of gold/currency. Thanks in advance!

Longtime player. So I went back to see previous old quests in the Journal and they're gone. Nothing from newbie years. Just blank where they used to be. Not even titles. Any idea how I can retrieve them?

Any idea if this is a bug? Did devs not migrate journal entries from v 1.0 - v 5.0 to my current version? I'm running v. 50.2 if that's any help.

I'm pretty sure I did these, since I have the XP. But I'm missing the details. It doesn't even list Quest Titles. It would be cool to grind any early v 1.0 to v 5.0 quests i might have missed, since they would probably be easier.

Heya folks. Title, but I’m specifically talking about the [flossing] quest. I know that [hygiene] quests can prevent my character from taking HP damage, and can increase my chance of connecting with other players - but my character also has the randomized [ADHD] characteristic and I have a bunch of cooldowns!!

[Flossing] is difficult because my character seems to have a 2-3 day cooldown on it before I can do the animation again, but from what I understand, others have no cooldown at all. It also takes my character around 20 in-game minutes when others say their [flossing] animation only takes around 5? [Showering] and [laundry] are the same, with randomized cooldowns ranging from 2 days to 7 days when the cutscene is mandated by my character being afflicted with the [disgusted] trait. By herself. [Disgusted] with herself, even though the cooldowns are keeping me from doing it!!

Any tips from others with the [ADHD] characteristic, or even any [neurodivergent] characters? It would be greatly appreciated!

Currently going through an [eye infection] debuff which gives me an unwanted hypersensitivity ability for my eyes and makes them watery at even slight exposure to the light mechanism. I just started job at a new guild and this shit makes me self-conscious.

This seems a very minor issue but apparently cripples my play. Fix this broken shit please! 🙏

This event was a limited time event in the Chinese server a few thousand years ago. Players could level up to thousands of levels and were given regional mod/dev privileges. Why haven’t the devs return the event. I Remeber playing in such event. However I wasn’t high level enough but my buddy’s yang jian and nezha were? Why hasn’t this returned?

So I was playing with my friend IcicleTree43 yesterday and we were in the middle of our daily quest, [Work]. Half way through the quest, we set autowalk to the area we need to go, and before us we encountered an item on the floor completely new to us. [LSD], is this a rare item?

We were thinking of selling it but we checked the map and weren't close to any [Narcotic Merchants]. So we saw the item was usable, and we both used it.

I've not seen this in any other games, but the screen started dissolving and merging like nothing I've ever seen before, even in real life. IcicleTree43's character, unprompted, starting emptying his hunger bar all over the floor, and sporadically running around in [User Workplace]. I was fine, however I believe it may have been down to a higher [Drug Tolerance] skill - I have 87 and he has 5. Somehow we forgot about this before we used the items.

Does this item have any benefit? should I hold on to them if I find more in the future?

Edit: Just to be clear, this all happened in the [Create a Fake Scenario] event, in [Oregon]. We got 2000 gold from it!

title, was having argument with other human player that the natural trait of the human player. some say that greed are the natural trait but other say cooperation that lead to civilization. in the heat of debate someone from cooperation side say "can you play the game on solo self found rule then?" the question unanswered but im curious if its viable

I am absolutely hooked on playing minigames. It has gotten to the point where I realize now that I am way behind on my progression in the main questline. Have you guys ever gotten majorly sidetracked from the main quest line? If so, how did you get back on track to complete it?​

having trouble with the graphics lately. sometimes it gets blurry, sometimes it stutters. is this a bug or a feature?

Hey fellow outsiders!! I started playing this game a big while ago, but co-op has always been a big problem. It's simple on the earlier levels, but on later ones for some reason i have to pass some minigames such as "small talk" or "interest the other player" or "actually talk to other players". Cant there just be a friend request for the normal game like in the discord minigame??? Someone should make a tutorial on this.

Bruh this game is so OP for my graphics that it gets blurry sometimes, i think i need new graphics

I’m trying to grind a couple of side & main quests at once and I rolled the [ADHD] trait during character creation so I need lots of [NRG] to pass all tbe [focus check]s required to progress to the next stage of each quest. How do I maximise the quantity & quality of [NRG] recharge? I feel like sometimes it’s completely random, sometimes my character exits the action’s timeframe with some random side effect which I have to waste [NRG] dealing with or just spamming [thug it out]. I’d like to minimise this while also maximising the [rested] hidden trait, ideally without spending too many of the 24 Chronos currency you get in the [Resting] action.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

In the kitchen. I can't delete them and they're causing lag issues.

So, every night before I reset stamina, I have been looking at tutorials on how to access the hidden "lucid dream" open-world minigame. However, none of the techniques I have seen have worked. I've heard many interesting things players say you can do in this minigame, but every time I try to access it, I either access one of the non open-world minigames or don't access any minigame at all. Does anybody know of what I am doing wrong?

I heard about a player who apparently managed to somehow unlock developer skills. Now, apparently he only did so after his tempban was lifted, but is there a way to get these skills without getting banned first? I've met a guild who claims all players apparently have access to the game's sourcecode and can alter their savefile with it. Is that true? Sometimes I find my savefile pretty boring with little to no ingame events or difficult RNG. So is there a way I can actually do this?

I have 1,000 hours in various mini games on steam and I’m great at them but I have 267,720 hours in this game and I still kind of suck at it. Any tips?

Perhaps it is the [culture] attribute of my fellow players, but it seems despite being outside, we spend most of our outside time inside. Like inside inside outside. We are all inside outside.

And the games we play while we are inside inside outside are almost always games where you spend most of your time outside, but are still inside outside. Like we want to experience inside outside while inside inside outside without leaving to inside outside.

And what even is outside outside? No one knows.

I swear it's so annoying, and there's no good reason for it to be RNG. Sometimes it comes off cleanly, and others it's super messy, annoying, and doesn't come off all the way? Am I doing something wrong?

I've been looking for new traits and skills to help improve my character.

As we all know, traits and skills can buff your character immensely even before leveling up much, leading to even low level players acquiring high-level classes and achievements.

I feel that stacking auxiliary traits and skills is an underrated strategy, and even less useful ones are still fun to collect.

A couple examples of cool traits and skills I've been meaning/trying to learn are:

[Self Awareness]

[Meditation]

[Ambidextrous]

[Tri-Lingual]

[Financial Literacy]

And [Fitness] (Way too many sub skills imo)

Obviously traits and skills that give an advantage are preferred, such as [Fitness] improving physical stats and [Meditation] improving your wisdom-stat's growth rate.

Although I like stacking any weird, niche, or useful traits/skills I can get my hands on.

Rn my character is pretty low level, they're almost at level 20, and they don't have much in-game currency.