Oh, I love the idea of erecting statues! WoW won't do it, but it has the playerbase if it made WoW 2 to do SO MUCH. Like setting up Player-shops in a grander scale Ironforge, Stormwind, Etc.. Creating persistant buildings, hideaways,etc...
Imagine that in the middle of the forest is a main travel path. You see lvl 60's go through it all the time. You're guild makes treehouses on either side of the path and camo's them. Then ambushes people as they go through? That would be awesome. Truly unique.
Your the only post I saw that was in the realm of what I was thinking.
TESLA ROADSTER. Nothing gets me excited like the combination of great performance, low operating cost, with minimum environmental impact. Currently I drive a LS1 powered '00 Firebird and I love everything except the price of gas!
While on the cell phone trying to follow his directions to get to his house. The bastard could hear me, and was directing me into cul-de-sacs on purpose just so I could "score more points."
Of course, I am reefering to when I see a flower on the side of the road I want to pick it, and add it to my inventory. I swear those little pink flowers look just like Mageroyal. and the bruiseweed looks like bachelor buttons...
No real plants were harvested for the making of this post.
I imagine in the future, combat on an RPG will include objects actually touching each-other. I imagine casting fireballs at someones feet will make them jump. I imagine like SWG where you can eventually order armies to do your bidding (bonus if you get player armies to do this, and can reward them.)
There is plenty of room for ideas to grow in the gaming market. We are just into the beggining of a new design era.
I guess you couldn't afford any basic English classes either. Since you seem to be in favor of self-learning, try learning about plurals. Even here in America, where the public schools are atrocious, we learn the difference between possessive and plural back in early grade school.
Just as ignorance of the law is not an excuse to commit a crime. Ignorance of a scam doesn't mean you SHOULD be violated.
If we don't protect the innocent, & week, why protetct anyone?
I am so sick of hearing this arguement. And by sick, I mean sick to my stomach that there are people out there who have this mentallity of "they are weak, they deserve to parish"
It's true that you have to save the people w/ greatest potential to survive, and sometimes even sacrifice those who might not last long if they were saved. Be it a Natural disaster, fire, battle, theft, or computer security.
While it's true that if you know what a *.vbs is capable of, then you should also know how to open it as a text file and see what's in it.
But what if it comes from your boss? What if some top lvl guy is ignorant to scripting, and unknowningly mails something to his subordinates.
While I know the risks, and if I was on top of it, I might ask what it was. I'll be damned if most people wouldn't automatically open an attachment from their boss regardless of their knowledge lvl.
Sorry if your statement was jokingly put out, but as the victim of a recent scam, I am unthrilled w/ that response.
"Many will have got bored of tweaking and now be happy to buy a prebuilt machine -- sacrificing power and flexibility for convenience."
Time = money, and While I do build my own systems, it's only because It gives me better performance / dollar. I am a little scarce on the later.
I don't even build machines for my side-clients anymore. (I used to all the time) If they want the BEST, and have no limit, then yeah, but most people who need to save $ just go to He!!.com/outlet and get whatever they need.
Most good gamers, (with the exception of one spoiled brat I recently ran into) would build their own machines.
Usually what I do with high class machine build requests is this: REFUSE & REDIRECT.
The only exception is if your a gamer, reside in South Western WA, are serious about having the best machine money can buy at that time, and are patient through the build process... Then I say maybe, just so I can work with cutting edge tech.
The reason is because I only charge 10% over cost to build top of the line rigs. You get all hardware reciepts and a 1 Year labor warranty from me. OS will be included in the base price.
But even w/ a 10% profit (which equates to about ~10$/hr after Configuration time, build time, custom cabling, software install, burn-in, tweaking, , etc..) I just can't compete w/ the big guys on price anymore.
The customers who go this route are usually very rich, and doubly rare, and allways end up happy with their machine.
(I do about 1 customer / year who is truly serious and not just a looky loo)
The big Net Admins in the sky tried to block web based e-mail from Comcast, Aol, G-mail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc... then all the physicians freaked out and got pissed enough for them to change it back. Or at least that is the story I was told...
Exactly why I want to make a MMORPG FPS combo. I think MMOGS need to have guns, and I think they need to break down the physics a bit more. I want to cast Pyroblast 27 and get a headshot!
Kid's should be learning more history, but no matter how much you cram down, it wont work because no one (not no one, but most...)really WANTS to learn history. They want to expierience the present, expierience LIFE.
However, if history is not learned...
Instead of litterary or artistic frameworks, he insists that games have scientific, historical, ecconomic, or political meaning. There's no question that he's a very creative person, indeed, but his games reward developement rather than creative design.
Creative design Vs. Development? Why shouldn't they have both? Why can't they have both?
As for historical and political meaning, directors and story tellers have been integrating their own politics for thousands of years. It's common knowledge that the history books are written from the "winners" perspective. We all know that the Native Americans were slaughtered for reasons not much differant than the those of World War II.
As for History & Lit, I already played Age of Mythology / Empires. It was great, and I learned a lot of info that was well researched.
One of the problems of nothing is that once it is defined, it becomes something. Nothing in this context is really something that is so far defined as the opposite of something. But the opposite of something is something. It's kind of like imaginary #'s sqrt -1 is not real, but it is.
Every Time some one makes me laugh out loud, I like to let them know. You just did it! I don't know if I am laughing cause your funny, or at the fact that I have had the same thought, except w/ a flamethrower built from a supersoaker like http://paulcarhuff.googlepages.com/whydoesthatsupe rsoakerhaveapilotlight%3F2 this guy did.
That's really been my issue with other ISPs, and I feel cable ISPs have been particularly bad about both service and about trying to prevent users from actually using their connection as a two-way pipe
Agree completly there. Grats on finding a good provider! I don't have too much of a problem w/ comcast Service. They are the only ISP in my area other than dialup, and I believe that it would be easy to add a lower tier so that people w/ less income can enter the broadband age. The only time I ever had a problem was when their techs refused to believe they had a faulty line coming to my house. It took a month and a half to get it replaced. They refunded me though, so no big.
I agree with the you get what you pay for mentality. 9 out of 10 times It's the only way to ensure your getting what you really want!
oh, lastly, and take no personal offense, I mean none.
Most people who would be still using Dos, or Win95 are going to be either poor, or corporate. Even the poor don't use those to my knowledge though. There are however many corporate situations where a dos box is still in use (I saw one just the other day. It kinda freaked me out) Corporations w/o substantial IT resources will not be switching to Vista from Dos. They will still probably take an XP-Pro or 2003. Again the problem being app support.
I am truly sorry for the What the fraggle, I realize now that it was kind of childish in this situation.
"I think if we can teach the computer to listen to the story that players are telling," Wright said, a game could detect patterns of what the player wants, and adjust music, lighting, and other immersive elements to reflect the story that a player wants to play. He thinks this modeling would best be accomplished by networks that constantly mine and refine player information.
A few of the problems they will have is that people don't know what they want, and they play games to escape real life problems which stay resident in their mind like AOL on a PC.
You'll have games that won't satisfy people unless the theme goes completely dark, and has the person lost frantically searching for a ray of hope that leads to nothing (Like WoW for instance.)
Seriously though, I don't think I want the same thing from every game. I (used to) play WoW to have some feeling of accomplishment in my lame life. I play Need for Speed so that I don't hit 160mph on the freeway on a daily basis (I try and keep that to a yearly event these days...)
I play games sometimes to take risks that I could not take in real life. Sometimes I play a game to get away from stress knowing the game rules will not change. Yes kids, the rules of real life can change on a daily basis. DST anyone? Physics however (so far in my experience) has stayed the same.
Wouldn't it be awesome to teach kids that if you drive too fast and wreck your car that you loose & can't play the game for 3 weeks, because you don't have money to pay for the damage to other persons property & fix your car? Sure would have made me think twice that one time when I was 18...
It's a neat Idea, but I think it won't work for any game type other than MMOG. I don't think there is a gamer out there who wouldn't want to take his Ultima work, and apply it to EQ, then take his EQ avatar, and put him in DAOC, then take that DAOC extension of themselves, and move him to WoW.
That Idea rocks. It's solid because people get very attached to their Avatars. I know because I am going through separation anxiety right now as I tell Blizzard to eF off when they failed to reimburse my char for a scam. In real life, you don't get reimbursed for a scam. The bank says "sucks to be you, move along." In videogames, There is a trail of that money, and they know EXACTLY where it goes. They usually are supposed to be unevenly fair towards the player. It's really to bad I can't take that guy and stick him in a different game.
"Computers function as an amplifier of our imagination," Wright said. He spoke of the world's previous paradigm shifts, through technology or culture, or both. Now, he said, we're experiencing them "more and more often."
I think what he is saying here is just that games will drive the vision of technological growth in the future just as Sci-Fi & comic books did in years past. While that statement is true, It's also -1 obvious. There is no doubt that the future will be shaped, has been shaped by VG's. Just ask Block-Buster & Hollywood video, or the Movie industry in general.
Pay a $h!tload of cash. I live in one of those areas. My choices are Dialup, or Comcast. Period. I can't even (acording to quest) get ISDN (not that I want it.)
Verizon can't give me DSL (I don't have POTS service by choice, but even if I did.), Satelite can't give me latency worth a dime
Clearwire is not available in my area.
Honestly, COMCAST would be perfect if they had a lower tiered service. I don't need 1Mb Down. Neither does my grandmother. What I do need is ~500K down, and low Latency. Infact if they charged 25$/ mo instead of $50, I'd gladly pay for 400K/down (assuming latency is unafected)
I think on a heavy month, I am somewhere in the 10Gb range. Some of that goes to WoW, and some goes to XP & software updates for clients. And a little goes to surfin'.
as to this phrase "You could use story elements to show that, but hey, that takes time and the audience has a 5 second attention span." all I have to say is..
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Oh, I love the idea of erecting statues! WoW won't do it, but it has the playerbase if it made WoW 2 to do SO MUCH. Like setting up Player-shops in a grander scale Ironforge, Stormwind, Etc.. Creating persistant buildings, hideaways,etc...
Imagine that in the middle of the forest is a main travel path. You see lvl 60's go through it all the time. You're guild makes treehouses on either side of the path and camo's them. Then ambushes people as they go through? That would be awesome. Truly unique.
Your link to unstopable force didn't work.
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Thank you!
Your the only post I saw that was in the realm of what I was thinking.
TESLA ROADSTER. Nothing gets me excited like the combination of great performance, low operating cost, with minimum environmental impact. Currently I drive a LS1 powered '00 Firebird and I love everything except the price of gas!
Jimmy is that you?
8')
Everybody wants to change professions.
While on the cell phone trying to follow his directions to get to his house. The bastard could hear me, and was directing me into cul-de-sacs on purpose just so I could "score more points."
I have great friends!
Of course, I am reefering to when I see a flower on the side of the road I want to pick it, and add it to my inventory. I swear those little pink flowers look just like Mageroyal. and the bruiseweed looks like bachelor buttons...
No real plants were harvested for the making of this post.
Either way I call it fun!
I imagine in the future, combat on an RPG will include objects actually touching each-other. I imagine casting fireballs at someones feet will make them jump. I imagine like SWG where you can eventually order armies to do your bidding (bonus if you get player armies to do this, and can reward them.)
There is plenty of room for ideas to grow in the gaming market. We are just into the beggining of a new design era.
or I hope at least
HEY!
I resemble those remark's!
Is your employer hiring? What kind of positions are available?
Just as ignorance of the law is not an excuse to commit a crime.
Ignorance of a scam doesn't mean you SHOULD be violated.
If we don't protect the innocent, & week, why protetct anyone?
I am so sick of hearing this arguement. And by sick, I mean sick to my stomach that there are people out there who have this mentallity of "they are weak, they deserve to parish"
It's true that you have to save the people w/ greatest potential to survive, and sometimes even sacrifice those who might not last long if they were saved. Be it a Natural disaster, fire, battle, theft, or computer security.
While it's true that if you know what a *.vbs is capable of, then you should also know how to open it as a text file and see what's in it.
But what if it comes from your boss? What if some top lvl guy is ignorant to scripting, and unknowningly mails something to his subordinates.
While I know the risks, and if I was on top of it, I might ask what it was. I'll be damned if most people wouldn't automatically open an attachment from their boss regardless of their knowledge lvl.
Sorry if your statement was jokingly put out, but as the victim of a recent scam, I am unthrilled w/ that response.
I agree with
"Many will have got bored of tweaking and now be happy to buy a prebuilt machine -- sacrificing power and flexibility for convenience."
Time = money, and While I do build my own systems, it's only because It gives me better performance / dollar. I am a little scarce on the later.
I don't even build machines for my side-clients anymore. (I used to all the time) If they want the BEST, and have no limit, then yeah, but most people who need to save $ just go to He!!.com/outlet and get whatever they need.
Most good gamers, (with the exception of one spoiled brat I recently ran into) would build their own machines.
Usually what I do with high class machine build requests is this: REFUSE & REDIRECT.
The only exception is if your a gamer, reside in South Western WA, are serious about having the best machine money can buy at that time, and are patient through the build process... Then I say maybe, just so I can work with cutting edge tech.
The reason is because
I only charge 10% over cost to build top of the line rigs. You get all hardware reciepts and a 1 Year labor warranty from me. OS will be included in the base price.
But even w/ a 10% profit (which equates to about ~10$/hr after Configuration time, build time, custom cabling, software install, burn-in, tweaking, , etc..) I just can't compete w/ the big guys on price anymore.
The customers who go this route are usually very rich, and doubly rare, and allways end up happy with their machine.
(I do about 1 customer / year who is truly serious and not just a looky loo)
The big Net Admins in the sky tried to block web based e-mail from Comcast, Aol, G-mail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc... then all the physicians freaked out and got pissed enough for them to change it back. Or at least that is the story I was told...
Exactly why I want to make a MMORPG FPS combo. I think MMOGS need to have guns, and I think they need to break down the physics a bit more. I want to cast Pyroblast 27 and get a headshot!
However, if history is not learned...
Creative design Vs. Development?
Why shouldn't they have both? Why can't they have both?
As for historical and political meaning, directors and story tellers have been integrating their own politics for thousands of years. It's common knowledge that the history books are written from the "winners" perspective. We all know that the Native Americans were slaughtered for reasons not much differant than the those of World War II.
As for History & Lit, I already played Age of Mythology / Empires. It was great, and I learned a lot of info that was well researched.
One of the problems of nothing is that once it is defined, it becomes something. Nothing in this context is really something that is so far defined as the opposite of something. But the opposite of something is something. It's kind of like imaginary #'s sqrt -1 is not real, but it is.
What created the Nothing that created the universe?
And since you just defined Nothing as the starting point of the universe, you just defined nothing!
Thank you!
e rsoakerhaveapilotlight%3F2 this guy did.
Every Time some one makes me laugh out loud, I like to let them know. You just did it! I don't know if I am laughing cause your funny, or at the fact that I have had the same thought, except w/ a flamethrower built from a supersoaker like http://paulcarhuff.googlepages.com/whydoesthatsup
Agree completly there. Grats on finding a good provider! I don't have too much of a problem w/ comcast Service. They are the only ISP in my area other than dialup, and I believe that it would be easy to add a lower tier so that people w/ less income can enter the broadband age. The only time I ever had a problem was when their techs refused to believe they had a faulty line coming to my house. It took a month and a half to get it replaced. They refunded me though, so no big.
I agree with the you get what you pay for mentality. 9 out of 10 times It's the only way to ensure your getting what you really want!
oh, lastly, and take no personal offense, I mean none.
Most people who would be still using Dos, or Win95 are going to be either poor, or corporate. Even the poor don't use those to my knowledge though. There are however many corporate situations where a dos box is still in use (I saw one just the other day. It kinda freaked me out) Corporations w/o substantial IT resources will not be switching to Vista from Dos. They will still probably take an XP-Pro or 2003. Again the problem being app support.
I am truly sorry for the What the fraggle, I realize now that it was kind of childish in this situation.
What the fraggle...?
Sorry, but this demonstrates the problem w/ typed comunication. I misinterpreted what you said due to lack of tonal conetation. (sp?)
A bacteria that can eat brunswick stew and release hydrogen!
A few of the problems they will have is that people don't know what they want, and they play games to escape real life problems which stay resident in their mind like AOL on a PC.
You'll have games that won't satisfy people unless the theme goes completely dark, and has the person lost frantically searching for a ray of hope that leads to nothing (Like WoW for instance.)
Seriously though, I don't think I want the same thing from every game. I (used to) play WoW to have some feeling of accomplishment in my lame life. I play Need for Speed so that I don't hit 160mph on the freeway on a daily basis (I try and keep that to a yearly event these days...)
I play games sometimes to take risks that I could not take in real life. Sometimes I play a game to get away from stress knowing the game rules will not change. Yes kids, the rules of real life can change on a daily basis. DST anyone? Physics however (so far in my experience) has stayed the same.
Wouldn't it be awesome to teach kids that if you drive too fast and wreck your car that you loose & can't play the game for 3 weeks, because you don't have money to pay for the damage to other persons property & fix your car? Sure would have made me think twice that one time when I was 18...
It's a neat Idea, but I think it won't work for any game type other than MMOG. I don't think there is a gamer out there who wouldn't want to take his Ultima work, and apply it to EQ, then take his EQ avatar, and put him in DAOC, then take that DAOC extension of themselves, and move him to WoW.
That Idea rocks. It's solid because people get very attached to their Avatars. I know because I am going through separation anxiety right now as I tell Blizzard to eF off when they failed to reimburse my char for a scam. In real life, you don't get reimbursed for a scam. The bank says "sucks to be you, move along." In videogames, There is a trail of that money, and they know EXACTLY where it goes. They usually are supposed to be unevenly fair towards the player. It's really to bad I can't take that guy and stick him in a different game.
I think what he is saying here is just that games will drive the vision of technological growth in the future just as Sci-Fi & comic books did in years past. While that statement is true, It's also -1 obvious. There is no doubt that the future will be shaped, has been shaped by VG's. Just ask Block-Buster & Hollywood video, or the Movie industry in general.
Responses encouraged!
Pay a $h!tload of cash. I live in one of those areas. My choices are Dialup, or Comcast. Period. I can't even (acording to quest) get ISDN (not that I want it.)
Verizon can't give me DSL (I don't have POTS service by choice, but even if I did.), Satelite can't give me latency worth a dime
Clearwire is not available in my area.
Honestly, COMCAST would be perfect if they had a lower tiered service. I don't need 1Mb Down. Neither does my grandmother. What I do need is ~500K down, and low Latency. Infact if they charged 25$/ mo instead of $50, I'd gladly pay for 400K/down (assuming latency is unafected)
I think on a heavy month, I am somewhere in the 10Gb range. Some of that goes to WoW, and some goes to XP & software updates for clients. And a little goes to surfin'.
Very insightful Post. Thank you.
as to this phrase "You could use story elements to show that, but hey, that takes time and the audience has a 5 second attention span." all I have to say is..
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