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Their soft money doesn't come from me and my fellow citizens are too stupid, too easily misled and too illiterate to vote someone who would change this into office.
Like Ralph Nadar or Ron Paul? Problem is, whenever a politician comes along that starts talking like he wants to clean this stuff up, everyone calls him crazy and unelectable....including the people such as yourself who complain that we can't get people elected who will change things. Whenever a movement comes along (like the Occupy Wallstreet thing) to try and change things, we dismiss the people as kooks and the radical left or right. I guess you have to be a radical not to want to get screwed by rich people. I think we're pretty much fucked and can't do a thing about it because we aren't willing to rock the boat when it really matters. Fatalistic, but true.
You've got these trust-fund babies out there multi-boxing on high-end computers
Oh please. I used to run two instances of Eve on the same medium range box at the same time. MMOs aren't about how much money you have, they're about how much time you can devote...and always have been. Well...actually gold sellers make it about how much money you have. But hardware has never had much of an effect on MMOs.
Because it does everything you need it to do and it doesn't waste screen real-estate like every new very of windows does. I don't need glitz, I need function.
Nor I. I typically have my task bar filled with 20-30 applications at work...and I expand it to be three rows high because there isn't even enough room at 2 rows height. Then I have all my common used apps pinned to the start menu. I don't know what Windows 8 has in store for me, but if it looks anything like that stupid screen shot of the big icons, I'm not using it.
such are rare metals or oil. If the USA pissed everyone off, it wouldn't have enough resources to maintain current standards of living & fight a war
Yeah. We might have to starting living within our means. Repairing things instead of discarding them for new stuff. Not buying gigantic cars. Taking public transportation.
I was wondering how they intend to handle problems related to individuals that look young.
It's doubtful this would work the same way we identify youthfulness. It would probably look at something like the size of the head in proportion to the rest of the body. That would probably keep the number of false positives down. If if you are an adult who's that much out of proportion, you're probably too ugly to have kids anyway and you can just turn the feature off.
Given how many development programs they've cancelled since the shuttle, that's debatable.
Many of those development programs weren't realistic to begin with. There were at least a couple of SSTO programs that failed because they were gambling on technology that hadn't been developed yet. The most efficient design here is just a big fucking rocket with a payload on the top. Efficiency is the most important thing...because it costs so bloody much to put anything into orbit.
If halving the payload means you can reuse the stages ten times, then you can launch up to five times as much for the same amount of money. You seem to have fallen into the 'efficiency is everything' mindset which plagued NASA when designing the shuttle and is why it ended up costing so much.
Um, no. This is an even worse idea than the space shuttle. The Saturn 5 had 3-4 times the launch capacity of the shuttle. But to build the ISS all we had was the space shuttle. So we had to build it in dozens of little pieces and spend 1 Billion+ per launch to get them up there. With the Saturn 5, we could have orbited the same amount of cargo in far fewer launches. Since one Saturn 5 launch actually cost less than 1 shuttle launch...you do the math... you tell me...what's better?
Conventional disposable rockets are the way to go. It's all about how much cargo you can get into orbit, and a conventional rocket is clearly the cheapest most efficient way to do it. It's a design dictated by physics....not science fiction authors who like SSTO space planes. You have this wild belief that reusability can be made to work. Why do so many people want to waste the future of our space program gambling on the idea that this could be true. Just build a big figgin' rocket. That's all you need.
Don't be silly. NASA could build this. There are no revolutionary concepts here, they go back to a time before we even launched a single rocket into space. But the question is, is it safe and practical? Frankly, I don't see how it could be. High performance rocket engines are not inherently reusable things. And the more fuel you leave on the rocket for controlled re-entry and a powered landing, means a lot less cargo you can take into orbit. SpaceX is wasting their time pursuing this.
See how foolish it sounds when you start crying like the sky is falling?
...like doctors are liable for taking out the wrong kidney... ...giving you a vasectomy when you were in for Lasik... ...architects are liable for designing a home without support columns that collapses and kills your family... ...chef would be liable for feeding you rat poison...
Wait. Who's using crying that the sky is falling, My Hyperbole?
I've used proxies when wanting to view TV on sites that won't accept connections from my country. It may also be that a user doesn't necessarily want their browsing habits to be visible to their ISP or even their country.
Right. You're breaking the law.
What's being implied here is that the US and UK are so benevolent that you really are a criminal if you're breaking any of their laws.
Well, a skill tree is hardly revolutionary. And I'm not sure if I can give you procedural generation either as Elder Scrolls was well known for it too. And both Diablo and WoW were written a long time ago now. Yes, I realize all MMOs these days are basically WoW clones (and kind of boring), but that's not because WoW is innovative, that's because WoW is an absurdly popular game.
And frankly this is all beginning to sound a little tinfoil hatish. There is no conspiracy to hide this "innovative technology" so that the non-F2P MMOs can continue to screw you out of a monthly service fee. It really does cost money to continue running a business after the initial development costs.
I think I have to call bullshit on this. They may claim they have some "innovative technology" that enables them to reduce running costs, but that doesn't change the fact that the architecture of their game requires very little in terms of server side infrastructure. Because of this they spend a fraction of what the other MMO's do on servers.
They don't have magical software that suddenly erases all of their monthly server expenses. They have almost no server expenses to begin with.
Do you have any reason to believe this is too expensive? Given the enormous development costs...and no guarantee of sales or number of subscriptions? What makes you think they'll even get back their investment?
Dude! It's a business. They make it as cheap as they can while still allowing for a decent profit. It takes a lot of money to make and maintain an MMO. They're not all just sitting around laughing about how badly they screwed their customers while drinking cognac and lighting Cuban cigars with twenties.
I think people think you can run a game like this without a monthly fee because Guild Wars did it,
Guild Wars did NOT do it, because Guild Wars is a completely different kind of game. Most of it is instanced. Meaning, the game client can do most of the work. There's very little server CPU usage, and little bandwidth taken up. You can't compare the two.
I doubt we'll see anything revolutionary from Blizzard. Places like that play it safe. That means a WOW clone with slightly different game mechanics and lots of pretty new scenery. They've also said it's going to be "casual". Casual means themepark.
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Their soft money doesn't come from me and my fellow citizens are too stupid, too easily misled and too illiterate to vote someone who would change this into office.
Like Ralph Nadar or Ron Paul? Problem is, whenever a politician comes along that starts talking like he wants to clean this stuff up, everyone calls him crazy and unelectable....including the people such as yourself who complain that we can't get people elected who will change things. Whenever a movement comes along (like the Occupy Wallstreet thing) to try and change things, we dismiss the people as kooks and the radical left or right. I guess you have to be a radical not to want to get screwed by rich people. I think we're pretty much fucked and can't do a thing about it because we aren't willing to rock the boat when it really matters. Fatalistic, but true.
You've got these trust-fund babies out there multi-boxing on high-end computers
Oh please. I used to run two instances of Eve on the same medium range box at the same time. MMOs aren't about how much money you have, they're about how much time you can devote...and always have been. Well...actually gold sellers make it about how much money you have. But hardware has never had much of an effect on MMOs.
Well, I think I would have bought one if I could get a FWD or AWD one. I live in a snowy state though and won't buy a RWD car.
Actually...it does kind of hurt. Weird.
Because it does everything you need it to do and it doesn't waste screen real-estate like every new very of windows does. I don't need glitz, I need function.
Nor I. I typically have my task bar filled with 20-30 applications at work...and I expand it to be three rows high because there isn't even enough room at 2 rows height. Then I have all my common used apps pinned to the start menu. I don't know what Windows 8 has in store for me, but if it looks anything like that stupid screen shot of the big icons, I'm not using it.
such are rare metals or oil. If the USA pissed everyone off, it wouldn't have enough resources to maintain current standards of living & fight a war
Yeah. We might have to starting living within our means. Repairing things instead of discarding them for new stuff. Not buying gigantic cars. Taking public transportation.
I was wondering how they intend to handle problems related to individuals that look young.
It's doubtful this would work the same way we identify youthfulness. It would probably look at something like the size of the head in proportion to the rest of the body. That would probably keep the number of false positives down. If if you are an adult who's that much out of proportion, you're probably too ugly to have kids anyway and you can just turn the feature off.
Fuel is ~$200,000/launch compared to a ~$51,000,000 rocket. Do the math then explain their fallacy of thinking to us.
How about this. Call me when you have a working prototype made with your own money. What your describing is science fiction.
Given how many development programs they've cancelled since the shuttle, that's debatable.
Many of those development programs weren't realistic to begin with. There were at least a couple of SSTO programs that failed because they were gambling on technology that hadn't been developed yet. The most efficient design here is just a big fucking rocket with a payload on the top. Efficiency is the most important thing...because it costs so bloody much to put anything into orbit.
If halving the payload means you can reuse the stages ten times, then you can launch up to five times as much for the same amount of money. You seem to have fallen into the 'efficiency is everything' mindset which plagued NASA when designing the shuttle and is why it ended up costing so much.
Um, no. This is an even worse idea than the space shuttle. The Saturn 5 had 3-4 times the launch capacity of the shuttle. But to build the ISS all we had was the space shuttle. So we had to build it in dozens of little pieces and spend 1 Billion+ per launch to get them up there. With the Saturn 5, we could have orbited the same amount of cargo in far fewer launches. Since one Saturn 5 launch actually cost less than 1 shuttle launch...you do the math... you tell me...what's better?
Conventional disposable rockets are the way to go. It's all about how much cargo you can get into orbit, and a conventional rocket is clearly the cheapest most efficient way to do it. It's a design dictated by physics....not science fiction authors who like SSTO space planes. You have this wild belief that reusability can be made to work. Why do so many people want to waste the future of our space program gambling on the idea that this could be true. Just build a big figgin' rocket. That's all you need.
Don't be silly. NASA could build this. There are no revolutionary concepts here, they go back to a time before we even launched a single rocket into space. But the question is, is it safe and practical? Frankly, I don't see how it could be. High performance rocket engines are not inherently reusable things. And the more fuel you leave on the rocket for controlled re-entry and a powered landing, means a lot less cargo you can take into orbit. SpaceX is wasting their time pursuing this.
See how foolish it sounds when you start crying like the sky is falling?
...like doctors are liable for taking out the wrong kidney...
...giving you a vasectomy when you were in for Lasik...
...architects are liable for designing a home without support columns that collapses and kills your family...
...chef would be liable for feeding you rat poison...
Wait. Who's using crying that the sky is falling, My Hyperbole?
I've used proxies when wanting to view TV on sites that won't accept connections from my country. It may also be that a user doesn't necessarily want their browsing habits to be visible to their ISP or even their country.
Right. You're breaking the law.
What's being implied here is that the US and UK are so benevolent that you really are a criminal if you're breaking any of their laws.
Wow. Do you really judge the quality of MMOs by cost per boss? That's sad. Really really sad.
True. But developing content for EVE is a lot cheaper than developing content for other games.
- I'm pretty sure their servers do not cost $15 per player to run.
Well, no, probably not. There are a lot of factors in the actual cost. $15 is just the industry standard.
Well, a skill tree is hardly revolutionary. And I'm not sure if I can give you procedural generation either as Elder Scrolls was well known for it too. And both Diablo and WoW were written a long time ago now. Yes, I realize all MMOs these days are basically WoW clones (and kind of boring), but that's not because WoW is innovative, that's because WoW is an absurdly popular game.
And frankly this is all beginning to sound a little tinfoil hatish. There is no conspiracy to hide this "innovative technology" so that the non-F2P MMOs can continue to screw you out of a monthly service fee. It really does cost money to continue running a business after the initial development costs.
I think I have to call bullshit on this. They may claim they have some "innovative technology" that enables them to reduce running costs, but that doesn't change the fact that the architecture of their game requires very little in terms of server side infrastructure. Because of this they spend a fraction of what the other MMO's do on servers.
They don't have magical software that suddenly erases all of their monthly server expenses. They have almost no server expenses to begin with.
Do you have any reason to believe this is too expensive? Given the enormous development costs...and no guarantee of sales or number of subscriptions? What makes you think they'll even get back their investment?
As far as game studios goes they seem to be the only ones willing to take risks and try to innovate
Success tempers risk taking.
Dude! It's a business. They make it as cheap as they can while still allowing for a decent profit. It takes a lot of money to make and maintain an MMO. They're not all just sitting around laughing about how badly they screwed their customers while drinking cognac and lighting Cuban cigars with twenties.
If any post deserves a +5, this one does. Very well said.
I think people think you can run a game like this without a monthly fee because Guild Wars did it,
Guild Wars did NOT do it, because Guild Wars is a completely different kind of game. Most of it is instanced. Meaning, the game client can do most of the work. There's very little server CPU usage, and little bandwidth taken up. You can't compare the two.
I doubt we'll see anything revolutionary from Blizzard. Places like that play it safe. That means a WOW clone with slightly different game mechanics and lots of pretty new scenery. They've also said it's going to be "casual". Casual means themepark.