1). People make stupid powerlevelling farm stuff
2). The farmers and powerlevellers love it, and rate it highly
Why is this a problem? I've been a player from I13 to now, and I made my own powerleveling mission (rated horribly, mind you) and use others. Some people like it to advance their characters. If it's in the game, why not? It's not a crime for people to want to level fast, and it's better then the old-school farming before I14.
3). Actual stories with actual plots are, with rare exception, rated poorly or ignored - "this is too hard, i'm not getting XP fast enuff"
CoX has a lot of players that are there for the lore or the fun. Sure you might get a few bad votes from players that purely want to gain XP, but I've played over 100 player missions - most of the with story. The bad ones (kill McDonalds and fast food icons) get bad scores. A well written storyline will always get a 4 or 5 out of me, regardless of difficulty. It seems a lot of players follow this as well based on ratings in game.
4). If you know 50 people in your guild, you're getting 50 top ratings, no matter what kinda crap you churn out
While this can be true, I've rated a lot of guildies 3-4 based on the depth of the mission. If it's a farming mission and it's amazing, it gets a 5. If it's a simple mission with a great story, it gets a 4. If it's a long mission with a fantastic story, it gets a 5. If it's missing story, or it's a bad farm (LCD) then it goes much lower... for a guildie, I'll drop to a 3. I don't think I'm the only one with morales like this, and it does average in. There may be a little favoritism, but it's not near as bad as you make it out to be.
5.) Rating trading for the rewards
6.) Revenge-rating players you don't like
7.) Extreme polarization of those opposed to powerlevelling and farming, in response
These are more of an issue for people abusing the system, and at low numbers for rating. If you want to avoid this, Pick missions that have been rated the most amount of times. You might still run into it occasionally, but there are over 20,000 missions available now. Compare that to doing the same newspaper missions over and over. Just rate it low and move on, and leave the author feedback.
8). Much QQ
9.) Boo Hoo.
Why did this post get rated 5-Insightful with these two options?
Overall, it's a fantastic system with flaws. More games should offer this sort of creativity but it should be a little more restricted in my opinion.
A few years back I had a nice 5 day vacation... Having lots of games I had to play/finish, I started up Dark Age of Camelot and the original GTA. After 3 days of 6-10 hour sessions, I had a very interesting dream.
I was sitting on a hill I was used to camping on in DAOC for the last day, but it was located at the 3rd hideout in GTA. As I sat there, enjoying the sunshine, I looked around and saw an arsenal of weapons circling me. There were also Lucaridans (those leprachauns in Hibernia) wandering around me... masses of them. I struck up a conversation with one of them, and I wish I could remember the dialoge, because I remember it was hysterical. At the end, I said something that pissed them off and the one I talked to went "aggro". He went down with a baseball bat very easily. This was enough of a faction change for the whole hill to come at me, and a lovely battle far more real then any game has ensued. Those little buggers respawn FAST too - I ran out of ammo on every gun, my bat broke, and more and more came flowing out of the hill.
So I jumped the small wall, stole a car, drove it around to the enterance and smashed all those little green freaks into oblivion. I jumped out of the car laughing and screaming victory. At this point I woke up with a smile, and completed GTA. Had just enough time left in that day to finish a level or two on that hill and move to a harder area.
Lets not get me started on the dreams I had for Morrowwind or Oblivion. =)
or Universe for that matter. You know, the big "console mmorpg" that came out like 5 years ago and is still running strong?
In all that time, I've seen *1* GM. During a valentines photo shoot contest, on Universe, on X360. Let me tell you, everything she said was ignored, everyone was cussing in front of her, she couldn't even block people from spamming the other 200 users in the lobbys screens.
Games without GM's exist. I was addicted to this one for a long time. The game has had what, 10 bans, all of them being the one serious hacker or his friends he told too much too? (Broomop)
Just to throw in, being a previous Ragnarok Online hacker, and knowing one of the GM's personally... they have about 5 that cover all of their servers. Other games take a much bigger role in this department, but you can't say there aren't games without any supervision. And the ones here usually play, and don't respond to calls!
You got me. I should have clarified and said "Google search for PSP QJ custom firmware". You *can* run homebrew on the higher firmwares, but the "official" firmwares listed can't run it. Just the custom ones.
However, it's just a matter of time. I thought it was still possible to downgrade 3.10 (noobz?), not sure of the others, but I'll take the point that I should have clarified a bit better.
In college, I made a map of an old indoor paintball arena I used to play at 6 years prior to taking the World Building class. In the original Unreal Tournament. Heck, I didn't even have to create weapons that gibbed or caused massive bodily harm. I didn't have *weapons* as serious as a hammer, but a lot of other things at my home that could mess you up worse. Did I ever even consider doing something so insane as to pull a deadly attack on my school? Hell no, I enjoyed my classes and loved my teachers... and *most* of my classmates.
I'll add (and it's bad of me, I know) that I've had a temper at times, and got into 3 aggressive arguments during my degree... 2 were at school. But c'mon, it's nothing so bad that I'd consider doing more then slamming a laptops lid on a classmates fingers, or shoulder slamming some punk that was acting like a retard at the time in the hall.
I think he should be analized, as the very first comment suggested. You never know, one of the next horrible school tragidys could come from something like this. I've always thought how "cool" it would be to do a layout on a school for the same reasoning posted in another comment - 2 ways in and out of everywhere. For people who like FPS and team based online play, it's featured in most of the best maps.
But here are some other things to ponder...
Since he was kicked out, might he be bitter and come back quite a bit more angry? (The catch-22 part in the subject)
I've read a couple books that featured office deathmatch in a videogame... I want to say Snow Crash, but I could be and am probably wrong on that. But I know there were at least 2-3 great sci-fi books I've read that fall into this catagory for "instilling bad thoughts in peoples heads". It would be a shame to see it reach that far.
Or looking at the NASA shooting that happened recently, what about bringing nerf guns into work? Works best in office/cubical environments. Are all of those "terrorist" acts because they could be practicing for the real thing?
It seems the US (if not the world), has a major problem with over-reacting lately. Take the digg nonsense that happened yesterday. It's not just the laws and government... it's people in general. I wish I had the answer, but I think for once, *good* psychologists should be given credit where credit is due. I believe I should have been analized for my outbursts in college, but I know I wouldn't have been deemed a "threat to others well-being". And everything turned out just fine.
(Of course, wasen't the VT shooter told the same thing? catch-22 again? I say get 2nd opinions and better psychologists.)
1. Charge it right, and if you are ever away from an electrical socket for more then 10 hours... and you don't look into extra batteries/accessories (they have a solar charger for gods sake)... you've got a small point.
2. Load times aren't bad on "most" games. If they are? Well, I'm sure you've met Dark Alex before. Load times aren't an issue. If you want to keep complaining... have you tried Sonic the Hedgehog on ANY system?
3. You just made my morning here. Every console, and every game launches without problems in your dreamworld reality, right? I got mine on launch, and *STILL* haven't had one dead pixel. And the poor thing has taken more abuse then an earthquake dector at this point.
4. PS1 dosen't count, right? I guess 2 generations ago dosen't count for "legacy". Let's ignore homebrew/emulation for now, as playing Atari 2600 must not validate "legacy", since it requires about 50 braincells and trust to install.
5. Don't keep it unprotected near "your bag" and you won't have a problem. I've got 3 cases - the one IT CAME WITH (value pack, yes I know some people don't have there.), A leather belt pouch (perfect) and an over the shoulder carry-all (which again, perfect) and I haven't had a scratch I didn't mistakenly put there myself. And the screen is still damn near perfect.
6. And you don't have the graphics or capability out of the box as you do with a DS either. I do own both. Can you soft-mod a DS like you can a PSP? $129 vs $169 right now, and I'm very glad I purchased *BOTH*.
7.Google search for PSP QJ homebrew and google search for DS QJ homebrew. Because I *KNOW* you didn't look either up before you made this.... comment.
8. The original memory stick shipped with it was 32mb (!!!). You want to plan caching for that, with saved games, with the option for video, with the option for music? OF COURSE IT DOES NOT USE IT. Even if I have a 4gb card, do you think I want the possibility of corruption while it uses it for a cache drive?? Sony made a wise choice here, and there are many other ways you can use your card to speed up load times now.
You just posed this to comment how much you love a shiny mario ass. I know you did. The rest dosen't make sense.
Growing up, stressed out, I used to stare at walls. In between gaming sessions.
After a bad game of poker, I snapped my phone in half.
After 4 deaths on 2 different boss fights in FF3 DS, I dang near snapped my DS in half. It's a bit more expensive then my cell phone however.
I don't think I'd be that angry if not for all the games I've played in the last 10 years.
I don't think I'd be this smart if not for all the puzzle games I've played either.
(Pardon me while I laugh at myself.)
I think they need to look at outside factors more then just a straight 1:1 ratio of games to violence. When my DS nearly suffered? I was drunk. When my cellphone cried? Same thing.
When I played Myst, 7th guest, or close to hundreds of other puzzle games? If I was drunk, the game taught me that I'm not going *anywhere* at that time. Sure I wanted to break it, but I knew if I did, I couldn't try with a clear mind tomarrow. (I bring those up since I had just turned 21 at the time. Recent example? Puzzle Quest. grrrrr.)
I think researchers need to look at more then one correlation before they start pushing blame around. I'm living proof.
(And maybe, I'm not as dumb as I feel when I'm drunk. Haha.)
"Microsoft is all about where they think you want to go today."
This pissed me off so bad I had to sign up after 5+ years and write a responce.
I don't agree with Microsoft and their practaces, but you are making a judgement based of "a very lame" advertising marketing campaign.
The internet dosen't conform to any one idea. To say that there ISIN'T room on the internet for a company which is trying to be #1 is bullshit and renders the rest of your argument mostly pointless.
I say mostly, because the rest I do agree with. But they have made Windows, which is the most established OS on the planet, that they have made X360, which (IMHO) I better then Sonys new offering and has been taking most of my time lately. (Personal opinion here on the console folks - but deny it's the most widespread OS.)
I agree with the rest of your post as well - let them realise the majority of the Internet has diferent morals and values then they do. But to use "Microsoft is all about where they think you want to go today." as an excuse proves how weak of an argument you have to try to denounce that point.
Drink more then I do please. Kthxbye.
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1). People make stupid powerlevelling farm stuff 2). The farmers and powerlevellers love it, and rate it highly
Why is this a problem? I've been a player from I13 to now, and I made my own powerleveling mission (rated horribly, mind you) and use others. Some people like it to advance their characters. If it's in the game, why not? It's not a crime for people to want to level fast, and it's better then the old-school farming before I14.
3). Actual stories with actual plots are, with rare exception, rated poorly or ignored - "this is too hard, i'm not getting XP fast enuff"
CoX has a lot of players that are there for the lore or the fun. Sure you might get a few bad votes from players that purely want to gain XP, but I've played over 100 player missions - most of the with story. The bad ones (kill McDonalds and fast food icons) get bad scores. A well written storyline will always get a 4 or 5 out of me, regardless of difficulty. It seems a lot of players follow this as well based on ratings in game.
4). If you know 50 people in your guild, you're getting 50 top ratings, no matter what kinda crap you churn out
While this can be true, I've rated a lot of guildies 3-4 based on the depth of the mission. If it's a farming mission and it's amazing, it gets a 5. If it's a simple mission with a great story, it gets a 4. If it's a long mission with a fantastic story, it gets a 5. If it's missing story, or it's a bad farm (LCD) then it goes much lower... for a guildie, I'll drop to a 3. I don't think I'm the only one with morales like this, and it does average in. There may be a little favoritism, but it's not near as bad as you make it out to be.
5.) Rating trading for the rewards 6.) Revenge-rating players you don't like 7.) Extreme polarization of those opposed to powerlevelling and farming, in response
These are more of an issue for people abusing the system, and at low numbers for rating. If you want to avoid this, Pick missions that have been rated the most amount of times. You might still run into it occasionally, but there are over 20,000 missions available now. Compare that to doing the same newspaper missions over and over. Just rate it low and move on, and leave the author feedback.
8). Much QQ 9.) Boo Hoo.
Why did this post get rated 5-Insightful with these two options?
Overall, it's a fantastic system with flaws. More games should offer this sort of creativity but it should be a little more restricted in my opinion.
Sho wheen I'm tis dwunk, I'm totawlly screweded. Fickig asweome! Signe me up!
A few years back I had a nice 5 day vacation... Having lots of games I had to play/finish, I started up Dark Age of Camelot and the original GTA. After 3 days of 6-10 hour sessions, I had a very interesting dream.
I was sitting on a hill I was used to camping on in DAOC for the last day, but it was located at the 3rd hideout in GTA. As I sat there, enjoying the sunshine, I looked around and saw an arsenal of weapons circling me. There were also Lucaridans (those leprachauns in Hibernia) wandering around me... masses of them. I struck up a conversation with one of them, and I wish I could remember the dialoge, because I remember it was hysterical. At the end, I said something that pissed them off and the one I talked to went "aggro". He went down with a baseball bat very easily. This was enough of a faction change for the whole hill to come at me, and a lovely battle far more real then any game has ensued. Those little buggers respawn FAST too - I ran out of ammo on every gun, my bat broke, and more and more came flowing out of the hill.
So I jumped the small wall, stole a car, drove it around to the enterance and smashed all those little green freaks into oblivion. I jumped out of the car laughing and screaming victory. At this point I woke up with a smile, and completed GTA. Had just enough time left in that day to finish a level or two on that hill and move to a harder area.
Lets not get me started on the dreams I had for Morrowwind or Oblivion. =)
or Universe for that matter. You know, the big "console mmorpg" that came out like 5 years ago and is still running strong?
In all that time, I've seen *1* GM. During a valentines photo shoot contest, on Universe, on X360. Let me tell you, everything she said was ignored, everyone was cussing in front of her, she couldn't even block people from spamming the other 200 users in the lobbys screens.
Games without GM's exist. I was addicted to this one for a long time. The game has had what, 10 bans, all of them being the one serious hacker or his friends he told too much too? (Broomop)
Just to throw in, being a previous Ragnarok Online hacker, and knowing one of the GM's personally... they have about 5 that cover all of their servers. Other games take a much bigger role in this department, but you can't say there aren't games without any supervision. And the ones here usually play, and don't respond to calls!
You got me. I should have clarified and said "Google search for PSP QJ custom firmware". You *can* run homebrew on the higher firmwares, but the "official" firmwares listed can't run it. Just the custom ones.
However, it's just a matter of time. I thought it was still possible to downgrade 3.10 (noobz?), not sure of the others, but I'll take the point that I should have clarified a bit better.
I'll add (and it's bad of me, I know) that I've had a temper at times, and got into 3 aggressive arguments during my degree... 2 were at school. But c'mon, it's nothing so bad that I'd consider doing more then slamming a laptops lid on a classmates fingers, or shoulder slamming some punk that was acting like a retard at the time in the hall.
I think he should be analized, as the very first comment suggested. You never know, one of the next horrible school tragidys could come from something like this. I've always thought how "cool" it would be to do a layout on a school for the same reasoning posted in another comment - 2 ways in and out of everywhere. For people who like FPS and team based online play, it's featured in most of the best maps.
But here are some other things to ponder...
Since he was kicked out, might he be bitter and come back quite a bit more angry? (The catch-22 part in the subject)
I've read a couple books that featured office deathmatch in a videogame... I want to say Snow Crash, but I could be and am probably wrong on that. But I know there were at least 2-3 great sci-fi books I've read that fall into this catagory for "instilling bad thoughts in peoples heads". It would be a shame to see it reach that far.
Or looking at the NASA shooting that happened recently, what about bringing nerf guns into work? Works best in office/cubical environments. Are all of those "terrorist" acts because they could be practicing for the real thing?
It seems the US (if not the world), has a major problem with over-reacting lately. Take the digg nonsense that happened yesterday. It's not just the laws and government... it's people in general. I wish I had the answer, but I think for once, *good* psychologists should be given credit where credit is due. I believe I should have been analized for my outbursts in college, but I know I wouldn't have been deemed a "threat to others well-being". And everything turned out just fine.
(Of course, wasen't the VT shooter told the same thing? catch-22 again? I say get 2nd opinions and better psychologists.)
1. Charge it right, and if you are ever away from an electrical socket for more then 10 hours... and you don't look into extra batteries/accessories (they have a solar charger for gods sake)... you've got a small point. 2. Load times aren't bad on "most" games. If they are? Well, I'm sure you've met Dark Alex before. Load times aren't an issue. If you want to keep complaining... have you tried Sonic the Hedgehog on ANY system? 3. You just made my morning here. Every console, and every game launches without problems in your dreamworld reality, right? I got mine on launch, and *STILL* haven't had one dead pixel. And the poor thing has taken more abuse then an earthquake dector at this point. 4. PS1 dosen't count, right? I guess 2 generations ago dosen't count for "legacy". Let's ignore homebrew/emulation for now, as playing Atari 2600 must not validate "legacy", since it requires about 50 braincells and trust to install. 5. Don't keep it unprotected near "your bag" and you won't have a problem. I've got 3 cases - the one IT CAME WITH (value pack, yes I know some people don't have there.), A leather belt pouch (perfect) and an over the shoulder carry-all (which again, perfect) and I haven't had a scratch I didn't mistakenly put there myself. And the screen is still damn near perfect. 6. And you don't have the graphics or capability out of the box as you do with a DS either. I do own both. Can you soft-mod a DS like you can a PSP? $129 vs $169 right now, and I'm very glad I purchased *BOTH*. 7.Google search for PSP QJ homebrew and google search for DS QJ homebrew. Because I *KNOW* you didn't look either up before you made this.... comment. 8. The original memory stick shipped with it was 32mb (!!!). You want to plan caching for that, with saved games, with the option for video, with the option for music? OF COURSE IT DOES NOT USE IT. Even if I have a 4gb card, do you think I want the possibility of corruption while it uses it for a cache drive?? Sony made a wise choice here, and there are many other ways you can use your card to speed up load times now. You just posed this to comment how much you love a shiny mario ass. I know you did. The rest dosen't make sense.
Growing up, stressed out, I used to stare at walls. In between gaming sessions. After a bad game of poker, I snapped my phone in half. After 4 deaths on 2 different boss fights in FF3 DS, I dang near snapped my DS in half. It's a bit more expensive then my cell phone however. I don't think I'd be that angry if not for all the games I've played in the last 10 years. I don't think I'd be this smart if not for all the puzzle games I've played either. (Pardon me while I laugh at myself.) I think they need to look at outside factors more then just a straight 1:1 ratio of games to violence. When my DS nearly suffered? I was drunk. When my cellphone cried? Same thing. When I played Myst, 7th guest, or close to hundreds of other puzzle games? If I was drunk, the game taught me that I'm not going *anywhere* at that time. Sure I wanted to break it, but I knew if I did, I couldn't try with a clear mind tomarrow. (I bring those up since I had just turned 21 at the time. Recent example? Puzzle Quest. grrrrr.) I think researchers need to look at more then one correlation before they start pushing blame around. I'm living proof. (And maybe, I'm not as dumb as I feel when I'm drunk. Haha.)
"Microsoft is all about where they think you want to go today." This pissed me off so bad I had to sign up after 5+ years and write a responce. I don't agree with Microsoft and their practaces, but you are making a judgement based of "a very lame" advertising marketing campaign. The internet dosen't conform to any one idea. To say that there ISIN'T room on the internet for a company which is trying to be #1 is bullshit and renders the rest of your argument mostly pointless. I say mostly, because the rest I do agree with. But they have made Windows, which is the most established OS on the planet, that they have made X360, which (IMHO) I better then Sonys new offering and has been taking most of my time lately. (Personal opinion here on the console folks - but deny it's the most widespread OS.) I agree with the rest of your post as well - let them realise the majority of the Internet has diferent morals and values then they do. But to use "Microsoft is all about where they think you want to go today." as an excuse proves how weak of an argument you have to try to denounce that point. Drink more then I do please. Kthxbye.