As the base system evolves, it will create more and more reasons to continue. Like it or not, it's loot that drives players once the missions start to look the same, and it's the base system that drives loot in this game.
Right now bases are restricted to supergroups, but they're also planning to add "apartments" or per-user (possibly per-character, they haven't said) bases, so there will be loot incentive even for non-teamers.
I know this will never happen for many reasons but it's still a cool idea.
Now that you've been clued in that it in fact happens every day (and we even tested it in beta), I'm curious as to what your "many reasons" were why it couldn't?
And this just after news about how the US is cutting down on NASA's budget and missions like this.....and at the same time as news that ESA member France can't stop the spread of a massive insurrection in their streets. Priorities wax and wane.
NASA is setting up the ISS to fail. Watch, in a couple of years they'll announce that they will no longer provide funds to get it built, because it won't be serving any scientific purposes for them.
Good; a lot of folks in the Mars exploration program feel like the space station is useless and that the funds would be better spent on the Moon; the disadvantage of having to lift things back up the well is outweighed by the advantages of having a ready supply of materials and a big flat place set stuff down.
If you could inform me what organization has discovered a way to prevent people from doing the wrong thing with 100% reliability, instead of dealing with it when it happens, I'll be glad to champion that method at my workplace as well.
This could just have easily been expressed "The Washington Post has obtained documents indicating that the FBI aggressively investigates any reports of their agents violating Federal law in pursuit of their duties, maintains extensive records of these investigations, and provides them to the press in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act."
Or, perhaps you're talking about consumer MTBFs like they have some kind of meaning in large installations. Divide that number by four to get the MTBF for adults, Fortune 500 companies, and everybody else who isn't duped by the sales pitch on the retail box.
I feel your pain; mine gets stolen a lot, too. I've also run into a similar issue with reserved titles that aren't documented anywhere in City of Villains, although that was a semi-randomly-chosen name and didn't bother me.
It's a risk you take when try to use something resembling a military rank in a virtual name, however; odds are pretty good somebody is going to want to actually use that rank title for something.
Perhaps something along the lines of TheRealCmdrTaco would work out. Good luck.
Yeah, send 'em home, where they'll make even LESS money! I bet they'll feel really great about that.
If we'd just stop sending people over there to put guns to their heads and force them to come work here, they'd be so much better off.
Giving somebody 75% of an American wage to leave their home country, where the average wage is something like 7.5% of here, is not exploiting them; it's a win for the employer and a win for the employee. They can work here for a year and make what they'd make in 10 years back home. Even if they have to spend a lot of it to live, they still clean up. Back home, they can use that to jumpstart a better life; plus, experience with an American company looks awesome on their resume back home, so they make more money THERE too.
How about selling blank screens to customers, then have them download content? I mean, we don't throw away our computer screens at every page update.
Because once they're manufactured in large quantity, they're going to be like a dollar apiece. It's hard to make money in that price range. Also, they're paper; they fall apart a lot quicker than our current screens.
But, you do have a point. Some people will try your approach, some will try his; the market will eventually determine which is "better".
Does it really serve freedom in the larger sense to allow people to act in ways that subvert an essential component of liberal democracy? We don't allow people to tamper with voting machines -- we should not allow them to distort the public discourse either.
Who decides which ideas and expressions contribute to the public discourse, and which distort it?
Why should Gillette give the razors away at a loss and make a ton of money on the blades?
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I have heard that 2 short unrelated words with a number in between them that is not 2 or 4 is pretty secure against dictionary attacks and much more easy to remember than giberish.
No offense, but get better sources. Checking for two dictionary words with a number or special character between them is standard, and in fact limiting it to 8 possibilities instead of 10 makes it less secure, albeit imperceptibly so.
I was present once when the man in charge of the computer forensics team of a large, well-funded, and very well-respected county Sheriff's Department was asked what he looks for in hiring team members.
He made a point of not looking for computer experience; in fact, he said he prefers if they don't have much.
I guess most of his customers are stupid, so he can get away with this.
I'm sure there are probably some health codes making it illegal to defecate in public buildings. And I'd expect for it to be a matter for the police to remove a defecator from the building.
There are codes making it illegal to view porn in public, and the police don't know about an infraction unless they're notified.
You'll need to try harder to find the flaws in my metaphor.
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As the base system evolves, it will create more and more reasons to continue. Like it or not, it's loot that drives players once the missions start to look the same, and it's the base system that drives loot in this game.
Right now bases are restricted to supergroups, but they're also planning to add "apartments" or per-user (possibly per-character, they haven't said) bases, so there will be loot incentive even for non-teamers.
I know this will never happen for many reasons but it's still a cool idea.
Now that you've been clued in that it in fact happens every day (and we even tested it in beta), I'm curious as to what your "many reasons" were why it couldn't?
And this just after news about how the US is cutting down on NASA's budget and missions like this.. ...and at the same time as news that ESA member France can't stop the spread of a massive insurrection in their streets. Priorities wax and wane.
NASA is setting up the ISS to fail. Watch, in a couple of years they'll announce that they will no longer provide funds to get it built, because it won't be serving any scientific purposes for them.
Good; a lot of folks in the Mars exploration program feel like the space station is useless and that the funds would be better spent on the Moon; the disadvantage of having to lift things back up the well is outweighed by the advantages of having a ready supply of materials and a big flat place set stuff down.
Then they'll install a keystroke logger on your system, apologize, and let you go.
If you say "what if I don't use a keyboard" I'll smack you with my Type-M.
The biggest advantage Solaris on x86 has over Linux on x86 is... ...well, it...
I got nothin'.
Anyone who is dumb enough to use part of their SSN as a PIN deserves whatever happens.
Yeah, that'll teach 'em to subscribe to cable television or buy a cell phone.
If you could inform me what organization has discovered a way to prevent people from doing the wrong thing with 100% reliability, instead of dealing with it when it happens, I'll be glad to champion that method at my workplace as well.
This could just have easily been expressed "The Washington Post has obtained documents indicating that the FBI aggressively investigates any reports of their agents violating Federal law in pursuit of their duties, maintains extensive records of these investigations, and provides them to the press in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act."
But that wouldn't do.
Or, perhaps you're talking about consumer MTBFs like they have some kind of meaning in large installations. Divide that number by four to get the MTBF for adults, Fortune 500 companies, and everybody else who isn't duped by the sales pitch on the retail box.
I feel your pain; mine gets stolen a lot, too. I've also run into a similar issue with reserved titles that aren't documented anywhere in City of Villains, although that was a semi-randomly-chosen name and didn't bother me.
It's a risk you take when try to use something resembling a military rank in a virtual name, however; odds are pretty good somebody is going to want to actually use that rank title for something.
Perhaps something along the lines of TheRealCmdrTaco would work out. Good luck.
I just want to know where I can get those disks with a 57-year MTBF. I'll take 10,000.
Yeah, send 'em home, where they'll make even LESS money! I bet they'll feel really great about that.
If we'd just stop sending people over there to put guns to their heads and force them to come work here, they'd be so much better off.
Giving somebody 75% of an American wage to leave their home country, where the average wage is something like 7.5% of here, is not exploiting them; it's a win for the employer and a win for the employee. They can work here for a year and make what they'd make in 10 years back home. Even if they have to spend a lot of it to live, they still clean up. Back home, they can use that to jumpstart a better life; plus, experience with an American company looks awesome on their resume back home, so they make more money THERE too.
Thus, whatever goods and services you say you sell to MY country, I'm almost certain that you buy more from us.
Looks like we'll need to sell you more senses of humor; either that or distribution has broken down.
hahahahahahahah ha ha haha ha. YOUR tax dollars.
'sok, we factor the cost into the goods and services we sell to YOUR country, and thus let you reimburse us.
I for one see great potential in this for the likes of Al Qaida (you know, where better to hide your building hitlist than on tinyurl).
Oh, great; now we're all gonna have to remember "http://tinyurl.nsa.gov" instead of "http://tinyurl.com".
It's a bit like a dead dog; it doesn't matter what you call it, it ain't coming.
You mean a very, very tiny penis... Remember that these are micro or nano scale features.
He meant compared to his own.
Reminds me of the old joke:
She told me to give her 12 inches and make it hurt, so I effed her twice and hit her with a brick.
How about selling blank screens to customers, then have them download content? I mean, we don't throw away our computer screens at every page update.
Because once they're manufactured in large quantity, they're going to be like a dollar apiece. It's hard to make money in that price range. Also, they're paper; they fall apart a lot quicker than our current screens.
But, you do have a point. Some people will try your approach, some will try his; the market will eventually determine which is "better".
This isn't a decision on what messages are aloud to be used, but how much money you are allowed to use to push it down people's throats.
Show me where in the First Amendment it says you have freedom of speech only under a certain dollar amount.
Does it really serve freedom in the larger sense to allow people to act in ways that subvert an essential component of liberal democracy? We don't allow people to tamper with voting machines -- we should not allow them to distort the public discourse either.
Who decides which ideas and expressions contribute to the public discourse, and which distort it?
Why should Gillette give the razors away at a loss and make a ton of money on the blades?
I have heard that 2 short unrelated words with a number in between them that is not 2 or 4 is pretty secure against dictionary attacks and much more easy to remember than giberish.
No offense, but get better sources. Checking for two dictionary words with a number or special character between them is standard, and in fact limiting it to 8 possibilities instead of 10 makes it less secure, albeit imperceptibly so.
I was present once when the man in charge of the computer forensics team of a large, well-funded, and very well-respected county Sheriff's Department was asked what he looks for in hiring team members.
He made a point of not looking for computer experience; in fact, he said he prefers if they don't have much.
I guess most of his customers are stupid, so he can get away with this.
I'm sure there are probably some health codes making it illegal to defecate in public buildings. And I'd expect for it to be a matter for the police to remove a defecator from the building.
There are codes making it illegal to view porn in public, and the police don't know about an infraction unless they're notified.
You'll need to try harder to find the flaws in my metaphor.