As a side note, and probably a testament to the honesty of FBI agents. Last I heard over 70% of FBI Agents had been involved in Scouting at some point in their life....
I honestly don't understand Congresscritters who sell-out like this. Is keeping their job so important that they'd bend to the will of their corporate donaters and ignore their basic "don't be evil" morals?
Congresscritters have "don't be evil" morals?
I thought you pretty much to have "be evil" morals to get to Congress.
I drive in the middle lanes of 3+ lane highways for the same reason I would drive in the middle of an empty 2-lane road. You have far more road surface to either side you. This, in theory, provides you with more avenues of escape.
If I post online that Cmdr Taco is a goat fucker, have I really "harmed" him or his reputation in any way? It's not slander unless a reasonable person would believe it to be true, and no rational person believes Taco actually dates outside his own species (unlike Captain Kirk).
Yet another reason that Captain Picard is the superior Captain compared to Captain Kirk, Goat Fucker.
Pay for intel? Geez, some people have two accounts just so they can have a character of the opposite faction on PvP servers to watch the general chats and trade chat looking for indicators about whether city raids have been discovered yet.
Resident Evil 5 has a difficulty that adjusts based on how well you play. There's a difficulty slider that ranges from 0-10. There's hard min and max caps on how far up and down the slider can go based on chosen difficulty. As you play better and better the enemies you face take less damage from your weapons and deal more damage when they hit.
and if you walk to the end of the block, there sits a Starbucks. And directly across the street — in the exact same building as that Starbucks — there is another Starbucks. There is a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks!
1)) The population caps are low considering the size of the zones (which also creates the problem of staying in the same zone as your team if you manage to find one),
2)) It's very hard to find common goals for a reason to team with other people (& if you do it usually is only temporary),
3)) The "be anything" system makes assigning roles in the team nebulous to the point everybody just does their own thing and hopes it works,
4)) Because of the low population count (designed because of the outdoor missions) randomly running into people is few & far between.
5)) The search system doesnt work, it has no functionality (which is surprising because the City of Heroes search system is the best of any MMO)
I've been playing CoH a bit lately because of Double XP Weekend.... I would say that of those 5, some of them apply to CoH as well.
1) Population caps. It's not so much that zones have too many people, it's that if you play redside doing anything is almost pointless. I've been logging on my Lv50 Brute on weekends every once in awhile look for Lord Recluse's strike force just so I can get the Annihilator badge so that I can get my Marshall Accolade and that extra 5% stamina. This weekend I saw about 22 lv50 villains on at any given time when I checked. If you want to do a strike force that requires a minimum of 8 people, 22 people is a bad selection. True, I could grab some of the high 40s and have them be just as effective, but you're maybe expanding the selection by about 6 players. So a selection of about 30 players to do a 8 person minimum strike force and hope that I can get 8 people to fill the basic party roles in order to do it. This leads to a situation where if I want to play my brute and actually do anything on CoH I need to head out to Rikti (assuming a mothership group is assembling) or the Midnighters and hope a group of heroes wants a brute to come along. I play on the same server as my friends have their highest density of higher level characters, but I can't play with them because they're all blue side. Now I know I can make alts, but I'll be honest. I hate not having a travel power. This means that until I hit level 14 the game is brutal for me to tolerate. Let's not even get into the fact that I'm not a big fan of alts (I have a Lv50 SS/Inv Brute, a lv20 Ill/Emp Controller, a Lv10 Widow, and a Lv10 Dominator I haven't touched in over 200 days). This is also why I'm a bit excited about Going Rogue. I'll admit that I have some concerns regarding a few things (specifically how badges/accoldates will be handled), but I am excited that I should technically be able to group with my friends using my brute and exemplar down to their level.
2) My redside jaded opinion aside, so far the only grouping I've done in CoH while playing blue side has been explicitly with friends or for experience. However I get irritated when a group is slow or bad and the people in it say great group. In actuality with greater invisibility on my Controller it's probably faster for me to do paper missions over and over where the goal is to steal an item or defeat an individual. Stealth to the end clear, voila mission complete exp. It's faster than having to fight your way to the end. When the goal is experience you pretty much need to ramp the difficulty up to 4-5 instead of the standard 2-3 and run an 8 person party to maximize the number of enemies. So to optimize leveling, most times you are better off soloing than working as a group. Combine this with a sore lack of lower level activities that require a group and you see a situation where you can hit 50 fairly easily without ever partying. This in turn leads to a situation where you may not meet people for a supergroup until you've hit 50. Granted that may make your recruitment easier
3) CoH has it's own "be anything" system due to its character creation methodology. At least you have a nebulous concept of roles that a particular archetype would likely fill. However even that can be deceptive. C
Okay, now I want a Sliders MMO. At least in concept. Imagine if it were WoW and you and your party of Horde faction members slides into a world where the Orcs never came across the Dark Portal.
Basically. There was no reason to nominated him before Feb1. He hadn't done anything, no progress towards anything.
I like draw a Texas Hold'em analogy for this.
This is like going all in with a crappy hand, only to beat your opponent when the only one of 44 remaining cards that would get you a win comes up on the river.
without detail in the game and critical points like splatter and decapitation, players will be poorly versed and risk overkill or worse, underkill of a zombie.
Don't project -your- perceptions onto the entire population that voted for Democrats over Republicans. It is as much the problem of Republicans betraying their own constituents, who decided to not vote for them, or even vote against them.
Don't be so vainglorious to assume that everything Pelosi, Reid, and the Media tell you about what the Democrat win in 2006 and 2008 meant is entirely accurate.
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P.S.S. $6 billion before taxes.
As a side note, and probably a testament to the honesty of FBI agents. Last I heard over 70% of FBI Agents had been involved in Scouting at some point in their life....
Fine, I'm calling them enviro-facists now.
I honestly don't understand Congresscritters who sell-out like this. Is keeping their job so important that they'd bend to the will of their corporate donaters and ignore their basic "don't be evil" morals?
Congresscritters have "don't be evil" morals?
I thought you pretty much to have "be evil" morals to get to Congress.
Oomkins, Huntards. Fucking rogues.
I drive in the middle lanes of 3+ lane highways for the same reason I would drive in the middle of an empty 2-lane road. You have far more road surface to either side you. This, in theory, provides you with more avenues of escape.
Patton was a jock. He was brazen and would frequently take risks that other commanders would have deemed too risky.
Patton was a nerd. He designed a cavalry sword that was utilized by US forces. He also is one of the fathers of tank warfare.
Patton was a well-rounded individual, likely one of the most exemplary Americans that have ever graced this country.
As a side note, West Point tries to graduate well rounded officers. Knowledgeable in math and foreign languages and much as military matters.
I suggest defenestration instead of putting them to the sword. The former is far more entertaining, if only because you get to say 'defenestrate'.
...or an auto manufacturer.
If I post online that Cmdr Taco is a goat fucker, have I really "harmed" him or his reputation in any way? It's not slander unless a reasonable person would believe it to be true, and no rational person believes Taco actually dates outside his own species (unlike Captain Kirk).
Yet another reason that Captain Picard is the superior Captain compared to Captain Kirk, Goat Fucker.
Pay for intel? Geez, some people have two accounts just so they can have a character of the opposite faction on PvP servers to watch the general chats and trade chat looking for indicators about whether city raids have been discovered yet.
This isn't a new feature. City of Heroes already does this in a fashion with the Flashback system.
Gee gosh. You meet your wife/friend/furry-afficionado after work, have dinner and then go to movie. In your briefcase you have your notebook.
God dammit, that just ruined any desire I had to go see "Where the Wild Things Are"
An MMO based off Stubbs the Zombie would be great.
Resident Evil 5 has a difficulty that adjusts based on how well you play. There's a difficulty slider that ranges from 0-10. There's hard min and max caps on how far up and down the slider can go based on chosen difficulty. As you play better and better the enemies you face take less damage from your weapons and deal more damage when they hit.
and if you walk to the end of the block, there sits a Starbucks. And directly across the street — in the exact same building as that Starbucks — there is another Starbucks. There is a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks!
Or, some legitimate MMO ideas based on franchises...
Total War
Starcraft
Fallout
G.I. Joe
And some less legitimate MMO ideas....
Tetris
My Little Pony
Teletubby
1)) The population caps are low considering the size of the zones (which also creates the problem of staying in the same zone as your team if you manage to find one),
2)) It's very hard to find common goals for a reason to team with other people (& if you do it usually is only temporary),
3)) The "be anything" system makes assigning roles in the team nebulous to the point everybody just does their own thing and hopes it works,
4)) Because of the low population count (designed because of the outdoor missions) randomly running into people is few & far between.
5)) The search system doesnt work, it has no functionality (which is surprising because the City of Heroes search system is the best of any MMO)
I've been playing CoH a bit lately because of Double XP Weekend.... I would say that of those 5, some of them apply to CoH as well.
1) Population caps. It's not so much that zones have too many people, it's that if you play redside doing anything is almost pointless. I've been logging on my Lv50 Brute on weekends every once in awhile look for Lord Recluse's strike force just so I can get the Annihilator badge so that I can get my Marshall Accolade and that extra 5% stamina. This weekend I saw about 22 lv50 villains on at any given time when I checked. If you want to do a strike force that requires a minimum of 8 people, 22 people is a bad selection. True, I could grab some of the high 40s and have them be just as effective, but you're maybe expanding the selection by about 6 players. So a selection of about 30 players to do a 8 person minimum strike force and hope that I can get 8 people to fill the basic party roles in order to do it. This leads to a situation where if I want to play my brute and actually do anything on CoH I need to head out to Rikti (assuming a mothership group is assembling) or the Midnighters and hope a group of heroes wants a brute to come along. I play on the same server as my friends have their highest density of higher level characters, but I can't play with them because they're all blue side. Now I know I can make alts, but I'll be honest. I hate not having a travel power. This means that until I hit level 14 the game is brutal for me to tolerate. Let's not even get into the fact that I'm not a big fan of alts (I have a Lv50 SS/Inv Brute, a lv20 Ill/Emp Controller, a Lv10 Widow, and a Lv10 Dominator I haven't touched in over 200 days). This is also why I'm a bit excited about Going Rogue. I'll admit that I have some concerns regarding a few things (specifically how badges/accoldates will be handled), but I am excited that I should technically be able to group with my friends using my brute and exemplar down to their level.
2) My redside jaded opinion aside, so far the only grouping I've done in CoH while playing blue side has been explicitly with friends or for experience. However I get irritated when a group is slow or bad and the people in it say great group. In actuality with greater invisibility on my Controller it's probably faster for me to do paper missions over and over where the goal is to steal an item or defeat an individual. Stealth to the end clear, voila mission complete exp. It's faster than having to fight your way to the end. When the goal is experience you pretty much need to ramp the difficulty up to 4-5 instead of the standard 2-3 and run an 8 person party to maximize the number of enemies. So to optimize leveling, most times you are better off soloing than working as a group. Combine this with a sore lack of lower level activities that require a group and you see a situation where you can hit 50 fairly easily without ever partying. This in turn leads to a situation where you may not meet people for a supergroup until you've hit 50. Granted that may make your recruitment easier
3) CoH has it's own "be anything" system due to its character creation methodology. At least you have a nebulous concept of roles that a particular archetype would likely fill. However even that can be deceptive. C
Okay, now I want a Sliders MMO. At least in concept. Imagine if it were WoW and you and your party of Horde faction members slides into a world where the Orcs never came across the Dark Portal.
I wouldn't say the Illinois bit would qualify for a peace prize. If it was the latter bit then Richard Lugar should have shared with it.
Basically. There was no reason to nominated him before Feb1. He hadn't done anything, no progress towards anything.
I like draw a Texas Hold'em analogy for this.
This is like going all in with a crappy hand, only to beat your opponent when the only one of 44 remaining cards that would get you a win comes up on the river.
without detail in the game and critical points like splatter and decapitation, players will be poorly versed and risk overkill or worse, underkill of a zombie.
That's why you follow Rule #2, Double Tap.
You can play through Metal Gear Solid 4 without killing people.
1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
Don't project -your- perceptions onto the entire population that voted for Democrats over Republicans. It is as much the problem of Republicans betraying their own constituents, who decided to not vote for them, or even vote against them.
Don't be so vainglorious to assume that everything Pelosi, Reid, and the Media tell you about what the Democrat win in 2006 and 2008 meant is entirely accurate.