in the UK they wanted to give civil servants arbitrary access, that means the guy in the social security office could just tap your name in and browse your emails, sans warrant, sans anything, just if he felt like it
luckily it was quashed but not without quite an effort
firefox now displays on the Windows machine but is *running* on your unix box
so all your bookmarks etc. follow you, for one example of usefulness
double plus good if your desktop pc is something like the pentium75 touchscreen unit I have here that has drivers for win95 only, now I can use it as a nifty web browser, with the browser running on my Dual 1Ghz PIII FBSD server.
good, I'm glad there is a challenger, DAOC is the only other one I tried. My EQ playing friends tried a couple of others but none of them got overwhelming reports of greatness.
Luckily for everybody anyone that makes an MMORPG will now have to copy/beat EQ2 which means 4 years work so it will be a mega game.
Have no doubt, whatever you feel about these games they are here to stay, the user base is truly M all at $15 a month or whatever
You need what is a uber machine to run EQ2 at full tilt, indeed at says "there are no PCs that can use these settings" if you switch it to the highest graphics so they expect the long haul with this engine, and quite rightly so.
I've been in game 7d 9h since November 18 and it's where I want to be when I'm not, luckily I am wise after EQ1 being the final nail in my relationship last time round and made sure I was single for winter 2004:)
I'd read positive reviews of it but when I got my xbox and got MW I gave it two days but really, where is the action ?
All I kept thinking when I repeatedly walked past the crab I had killed was "what this game needs is another 1000 people and 10000 creatures"
I think we'd all like to see dynamic persistent worlds and I'm sure we will but think about it, my EQ2 paks directory is 3,931,710,961 bytes imagine having to download loads of the zone content every time you logged into it, I don't thinks it's really feasable right now.
Level based systems do nothing but make people antisocial treadmillers.
You know, that's so wrong. *some* people do that, others actually have fun!!
Class based systems lock people into a pattern of behaviour they are bored with
So why do they keep paying to play ?
and make them ignorant of other gameplay styles
If you don't know the workings of the other classes you will not work in harmony. Verant has tried hard to provide a framework where you can build a character that suits your gamestyle best.
The ability to teleport from anywhere to anywhere removes any sense of scale and destroys the economy.
I don't know which game you have played but the sense of scale in EQ is great. When you first start the home zones seem massive when you don't know you're way around, everything is bewildering and seems really huge, once you get used to a place it shrinks, even then walking across great swaithes of plains that you can't hunt in is tedious. The only teleportation I can do is once every half an hour I can gate to Temple Street. How you will explain that this "destroys the economy" is an explanation I look forward to.
A stong emphesis on quests makes players dependant on artist created content
er, that's what I'm paying them for
removing valuable funds for [1] customer service and [2] maintenance of the software
[1] The only contact I've ever had is the odd petition to an in-game guide for something trivial and it has *always* been sorted out.
[2] The daily updates (3pm in my time zone, bah!) seem to be maintenance to me.
Verant certainly seem to have quite a handle on this cycle:
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the concept, not the skill of illustration
boring sexist rubbish
i like porn, but that just isn't even erotic (to me)
it's fucking awful
I'm embarrassed to be a FBSD if that's anything to do with it
in the UK they wanted to give civil servants arbitrary access, that means the guy in the social security office could just tap your name in and browse your emails, sans warrant, sans anything, just if he felt like it
luckily it was quashed but not without quite an effort
those who can, do
those who can't, talk about it
When I had my loft,
Converted back into a loft,
The neighbours came around and scoffed
And called me retro.
Time to see if anyone likes the same music as me
fire up cygwin CD
cygwin> ssh -X your_unix_machine
% firefox &
firefox now displays on the Windows machine but is *running* on your unix box
so all your bookmarks etc. follow you, for one example of usefulness
double plus good if your desktop pc is something like the pentium75 touchscreen unit I have here that has drivers for win95 only, now I can use it as a nifty web browser, with the browser running on my Dual 1Ghz PIII FBSD server.
lol, how did I type that, idiot.
it was funnier than *any* of your posts modded funny
...and yet a new fiber backbone network off previously layed fibre sailed straight past.
s/off/from/
Perhaps the terrible command of English is why the story poster wished to remain anonymous.
Is that similar to the instanced dungeon system that everquest uses ?
I don't work at all, do I have the last laugh?
good, I'm glad there is a challenger, DAOC is the only other one I tried. My EQ playing friends tried a couple of others but none of them got overwhelming reports of greatness.
EQ2 does p\/\/n0x0r too! Yay, we're all happy
Luckily for everybody anyone that makes an MMORPG will now have to copy/beat EQ2 which means 4 years work so it will be a mega game.
Have no doubt, whatever you feel about these games they are here to stay, the user base is truly M all at $15 a month or whatever
You need what is a uber machine to run EQ2 at full tilt, indeed at says "there are no PCs that can use these settings" if you switch it to the highest graphics so they expect the long haul with this engine, and quite rightly so.
I've been in game 7d 9h since November 18 and it's where I want to be when I'm not, luckily I am wise after EQ1 being the final nail in my relationship last time round and made sure I was single for winter 2004
frig?
is that how USians spell fridge ?
No, it's because they are well designed to feel that way
each city zone comes with a map now
they have really thought about the game, really, I mean it not *just* a fan-boy
if they were hardcore they wouldn't *have* to buy anything on eBay, I think you are thinking of some other class of player
but Morrowind is so mind-numbingly boring.
I'd read positive reviews of it but when I got my xbox and got MW I gave it two days but really, where is the action ?
All I kept thinking when I repeatedly walked past the crab I had killed was "what this game needs is another 1000 people and 10000 creatures"
I think we'd all like to see dynamic persistent worlds and I'm sure we will but think about it, my EQ2 paks directory is 3,931,710,961 bytes imagine having to download loads of the zone content every time you logged into it, I don't thinks it's really feasable right now.
Level based systems do nothing but make people antisocial treadmillers.
:
You know, that's so wrong. *some* people do that, others actually have fun!!
Class based systems lock people into a pattern of behaviour they are bored with
So why do they keep paying to play ?
and make them ignorant of other gameplay styles
If you don't know the workings of the other classes you will not work in harmony. Verant has tried hard to provide a framework where you can build a character that suits your gamestyle best.
The ability to teleport from anywhere to anywhere removes any sense of scale and destroys the economy.
I don't know which game you have played but the sense of scale in EQ is great. When you first start the home zones seem massive when you don't know you're way around, everything is bewildering and seems really huge, once you get used to a place it shrinks, even then walking across great swaithes of plains that you can't hunt in is tedious. The only teleportation I can do is once every half an hour I can gate to Temple Street. How you will explain that this "destroys the economy" is an explanation I look forward to.
A stong emphesis on quests makes players dependant on artist created content
er, that's what I'm paying them for
removing valuable funds for [1] customer service and [2] maintenance of the software
[1] The only contact I've ever had is the odd petition to an in-game guide for something trivial and it has *always* been sorted out.
[2] The daily updates (3pm in my time zone, bah!) seem to be maintenance to me.
Verant certainly seem to have quite a handle on this cycle
1. create content
2. launch game
3. maintain software
4. profit !!!
you mean like Dark Ages of Camelot which blends both ?
get an MMORPG education
they have chroma and luma overlay capabilities
what a lame question
s/roll/role/
You can have up to 3 hotkey bars active.
that's odd, I have 5, two are for tradeskill skills, i have them square rather than 1 key wide/high
when you close them, new hotkey bar will open them the same shape and place as last time but with a different (0-9) set of hotkeys
> Theatre, Centre, and a hundred (or more) other spellings changed thanks to usage.
Au contraire.
> Need more examples?
Colour, labour, night.
I discriminate against virii. You virri users can go sit at the back of the bus.
grade A arsehole
Ah, but we old people know that the correct term is not "leet speak" but "chaos text"